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What do you do if you are a global warming alarmist and real-world temperatures do not warm as much as your climate model predicted?,5_1
"(2.) A sun-blocking volcanic aerosols component to explain the sudden but temporary cooling of global sea surface temperatures that are caused by catastrophic volcanic eruptions; and,",0_0
"Now, I am very interested in the AMO, since it strongly influences Atlantic hurricanes, Arctic sea ice, and Greenland climate. We are already seeing a recovery of the Atlantic sector of the Arctic sea ice, and some hints of cooling in Greenland.",1_1
"Dr. Christy addressed recent challenges to the satellite data. One paper claimed to show that the satellite data actually show warming. The author, however, used only 9 percent on the satellite data the data with the least coverage and the greatest error. Each attack of the satellite data has disregarded the fact that this record is independently validated by a 98 percent correspondence with the radiosonde balloon data. These same scientists seem to put a lot of credence in surface temperature data that only cover 10 percent of the globe, nearly all of which is in the Northern Hemisphere.",0_0
"After a brief protest from Massachusetts Republicans in their state Senate, the commonwealth is on the verge of changing its law to allow Gov. Deval Patrick (D) to appoint an interim Senator until the special election to fill the late Sen. Edward Kennedy's seat can be held in January.",0_0
"passedSocial Security, the Wagner labor act, higher taxes on high earners.",0_0
There could also be other unknown mechanisms driven by solar changes that exaggerate the effect of small variations in total solar irradiance. A current possibility being investigated is a suggested link between cosmic ray flux and cloudiness. The flux varies depending on the energy from the sun and may drive cloudiness changes.,2_1
"What Orwell would resent most is their demand that every scientist, scientific organization, and agency speak in unison. Although outrageous, this attempt to collectivize scientific discourse--this campaign to turn climate science into a party line--is hardly surprising or new. In fact, it is the arguably the very purpose for which the IPCC was established in the first place.",0_0
Please buy a copy . (Credit/Debit Card through PayPal. You do NOT need to open a PayPal account .) Simply scroll down to the Dont Have a PayPal Account purchase option. Its only US$8.00.,0_0
"This analysis reveals that businesses and consumers would face higher energy and transportation costs under ACESA, which would lead to increased costs of other goods and services throughout the economy. As the costs of goods and services rise, household disposable income and household consumption would fall. Wages and returns on investment would also fall, resulting in lower productivity growth and reduce employment opportunities.",0_0
"By Michael Bastasch, Daily Caller, Aug 11, 2015",0_0
"PSTheorists say that its not enough that development be sustainable in terms of the environment. They also demand sustainability in three other arenas: social, economic, and cultural sustainability.",0_0
Bastardi: Today's frigid weather similar to 1970s when Ice Age was alarm,0_0
The required national climate policy of preparation and adaptation for natural climate events and change is at the same time precautionary against any human-caused change that may manifest itself in future (but which is absent to date).,0_0
"Exxon calls these claims preposterous and notes that the company openly shared its research findings in peer-reviewed publications and with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The attorneys general also declare that Exxon was deceptive to claim for years that there was no definitive proof of man-caused climate change, even as its business plans took into account oil and gas resources that might be uncovered by melting polar ice caps, and how potential rises in the sea level could affect things like oil rigs. That accusation is a bit like saying a company knew a fire would occur, just because it purchased fire insurance.",0_0
"One key problem is the sheer difficulty in building new power plants in America today. Politically powerful green lobby groups object to the building of any new plant that does not use some form of renewable energy, yet renewable energy cannot meet demand for power on its own.",4_4
"I am sure that we can expect to see similar coverage about the 2nd highest Northern Sea Ice Area minimum, like we saw for the Arctic in 2011, e.g.:",1_1
"According to Donohue and his colleagues, climbing levels of CO2 in the air correlated with an 11 per cent increase in foliage cover from 1982 to 2010 across arid areas in Australia, North America, the Middle East and Africa.",3_3
"In its most recent report, it stated that observed reductions in mountain ice in the Andes, Alps and Africa was being caused by global warming, citing two papers as the source of the information.",0_0
"It happened again. I woke up to find a link from FOIA.org on a thread. Thousands of emails unlocked with 220,000 more hidden behind a password. Despite the smaller size of the Air Vent due to my lack of time, there were twenty five downloads before I saw it once. As before, there are some very nice quotes and clarifications from the consensus. Below is a guest post in the form of a readme file from the FOIA.org group. ? Jeff",0_0
Just finished reading your paper with Mike M in Rev of Geophysics which I,0_0
Moreover the WBDGE site writes that Arctic sea ice has grown strongly over last year and that there has been no melting trend there in almost 10 years.,1_1
"US energy policy is behind much of the price increase, the Obama administration seems intent on doing everything possible to prevent domestic drilling for oil. Last week the EPA blocked Shell from exploiting reserves off the Alaskan coast. Last year the administration imposed a Gulf moratorium on offshore drilling in the wake of the rig disaster.",4_1
"First, the computer climate models on which predictions of rapid warming from enhanced atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration are based ""run hot,"" simulating two to three times the warming actually observed over relevant periodsduring which non-anthropogenic causes probably accounted for some and could have accounted for all the observed warmingand therefore provide no rational basis for predicting future GAT.",5_1
"Worries about the worst drought in more than half a century afflicting the worlds largest grain exporter also deepened overseas, where buyers in China and other hungry nations fret that the expected sharp drop in U.S. harvests will cause shortages and price spikes.",0_0
"If the model-mean had produced the observed differences in the warming rates of the North Atlantic and rest of the global oceans, then we would have to conclude that the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation was a forced component of the models. Because the model mean does not show the great difference in warming rates, the additional variability of the North Atlantic has to be caused by naturally occurring factors that are not used force the operation of the models. Thus the heading for this section: The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation is Not a Forced Component of the Climate Models.",0_0
"Global Warming Causes Less Snow, Except When It Causes More Snow",0_0
"CSIRO have produced the most precise record of greenhouse gas fluctuations in the Southern Hemisphere over the past 2000 years. They add that the greatest increase in greenhouse gas growth has occurred since the 1980s, with carbon dioxide showing accelerating growth. Other CSIRO researchers such as Penny Whetton warned of changes to extreme weather more heatwaves, floods, droughts and more intense tropical cyclones. CSIRO are also investigating how climate change interacts with natural short, medium and longer term cycles.",0_0
"However French President Jacques Chirac said last night that ""we have noticed a shift in the American position The agreement which we are set to reach is an important agreement, even if it doesn't go as far as we would have wanted.""",0_0
"Seventeen States Sue EPA for Mandating SIP Startup, Shutdown, Malfunction Changes",0_0
"Fourth, experience in Europe shows emissions trading markets are unstable, and that a carbon dioxide tax is ineffectual as a tool for reducing emissions at any reasonable price level. Overall, therefore, Mr Rudds planned emissions trading scheme suffers from the double indignity of being a non-solution to a non-problem.",4_2
"Baliunas: The thermometers go back only about 100 years or so over some substantial portion of the Earth. Then we have to rely on other records. . . . For example, growth of tree rings is retarded during cold times usually and then is more advanced during warm times. . . . Glaciers advance and retreat, mountain glaciers, polar glaciers. Coral growth rings tell us about the temperature of the ocean.",0_0
Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab,0_0
"5) The science is not settled, not by a long shot. Last month, scientists at CERN, the prestigious high-energy physics lab in Switzerland, reported that neutrinos might ""repeat, might ""travel faster than the speed of light. If serious scientists can question Einstein's theory of relativity, then there must be room for debate about the workings and complexities of the Earth's atmosphere.",5_1
"UPDATE : Marc at ABC NewsWatch usefully summarises the flood history of SE Queensland here . Guess what, there have been less severe floods and more severe floods and no floods at all and nothing has changed. Did anthropogenic CO2 cause the floods in 1893 perhaps? Hang on, lets get the script right : No direct link between global warming and the 1893 floods, but climate change would lead to heavier, more frequent rain. Unspoken conclusion: leading to more floods like the one we just happen by chance to be talking about right now Thats the sneaky thing about flood plains, they flood duh.",1_7
"has long hung his hat on the proposition the climate has been cooling since 1998. But with 2005 and 2010 being the hottest years on record, he resorts to cherry-picking which dataset to use. Rather than use temperature records that cover the entire globe, he opts for datasets that do not include the Arctic region, where warming is the strongest. These temperature records underestimate recent warming and are the darling of those who wish to deny global warming is happening.",0_0
"Former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a news conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York March 10, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Segar",0_0
"Regardless of any climate model, it is useful to ask the following question first: What is the forcing mechanism to the coupled ocean?atmosphere system that can generate a global cooling in the Holocene? Physically, either rising GHGs or retreating ice sheets will lead to a global warming. Therefore, a global annual cooling, if it had occurred, can only be generated by other forcing, such as the orbital insolation and meltwater; furthermore, the cooling thus generated has to be strong enough to overwhelm the combined warming by the GHGs and ice sheets.",0_0
Lisa Randall's Warped Passages website,0_0
"Besides mere cliquishness, the ""peer review"" process in climate science has, in some cases, been consciously, deliberately subverted to prevent dissenting views from being published. Again, denizens of the climate blogosphere have known about these problems for years, but Climategate revealed some of the gory details for the broader public. And again, this gives the lay public a reason to doubt the consensus.",0_0
"EPA's recent enforcement of policy reinterpretations have forced companies to count imaginary emissions from previously unused capacity in determining whether a repair or other moderation would cause a significant increase in emissions. As a result, under current rules most repair projects would trigger a full New Source Review, even if actual emissions decrease as a result of the modification. Given the cost of complying with the NSR permitting process, many companies choose not to upgrade and modernize plants or even make routine changes and repairs. Efficiency improvements that would have reduced emissions and energy consumption or improved worker or community safety have been foregone.",0_0
"Protagonists on both sides of the Keystone debate have not exactly covered themselves in glory in the past few months. Although concerns regarding the Sand Hills are understandable, many in the environmental community are intent on killing the pipeline no matter what route is chosen. Their primary worry is tar sands development itself, which they object to because of the greenhouse gas emissions.",0_0
"While Oliver Stone shot another pro-conspiracy JFK movie, Bill O'Reilly was the executive producer of a movie whose main point was that there was no conspiracy. So much for the idea that conservatives are the conspiracy theorists. He points out that FBI wanted a conspiracy to exist at some point but they couldn't find it.",0_0
Ken Smith (1957-2001): A Remembrance,0_0
And he has found other ways to skin the cat by imposing regulations that have exactly the same effect of killing coal. I don't have time to go into every action EPA is taking but I would like to highlight a few of their key coal-killing regulations.,0_0
Study: No Increase in Northwest Australian Tropical Cyclones,0_0
"The new research extends Swetnams previous tree-ring fire history for giant sequoias another 1,000 years into the past. In addition, he and his colleagues used tree-ring records from other species of trees to reconstruct the regions past climate.",0_0
"Esso. He continued: I dont see why the environment should suffer every time some bored, obscure academic fancies an ego trip. This book is full of dangerous nonsense.",0_0
"For President Barack Obama and his political allies in particular, Jacksonian America is the father of all evils. Jacksonians are who the then Senator had in mind when, in the campaign of 2008, he spoke of the ""bitter clingers"" holding on to their guns and their Bibles. They are the source of the foreign policy instincts he most deplores, supporting Israel almost reflexively, demanding overwhelming response to terror attacks, agitating for tight immigration controls, resisting diplomacy with Iran and North Korea, supporting Guantanamo, cynical about the UN, skeptical of climate change, and willing to use ""enhanced interrogation"" against terrorists in arms against the United States.",0_0
"""Although the authors have pledged to correct the graph in subsequent editions, the committee recommends that this correction be made to all MPS-owned texts before using it with students in the future,"" Feldhausen wrote.",0_0
"Quoting the five Australian researchers, ""across all treatments there was a highly significant effect of sperm density, but no significant effect of temperature or interaction between factors."" In fact, they state that ""low pH did not reduce the percentage of fertilization even at the lowest sperm densities used, and increased temperature did not enhance fertilization at any sperm density."" In addition, they remark that ""a number of ecotoxicology and climate change studies, where pH was manipulated with CO 2 gas, show that sea urchin fertilization is robust to a broad pH range with impairment only at extreme levels well below projections for ocean acidification by 2100 (pH 7.1-7.4, 2,000-10,000 ppm CO 2 ),"" citing the work of Bay et al . (1993), Carr et al . (2006), and Kurihara and Shirayama (2004). What it means",3_2
The facts don't lie and the empirical evidence is overwhelming - tiny global warming over last 15 years causes James Lovelock to admit he was wrong - extreme climate change not in the cards,1_4
"The market is going in one direction and fuel-economy regulations are going the other direction, said Jeremy Anwyl, vice chairman of the automotive information Web site Edmunds.com. Just because people start building more of something doesnt mean the segment grows.",0_0
"This media reporting has become typical of the bias that many journalists have. Not reported in the media (but wellreportedon ICECAP by Joe DAleo) themedia has ignored in their reportingthe increase in Antarctic sea ice cover in recent years, with, at present, a coverage that is well over 1 million square kilometers above average (see )!",5_2
"In short, according to Bellenger, et al. (2013), the current generation of climate models (CMIP5: used by the IPCC for their 5 th Assessment Report and by Power et al (2013)) still cannot simulate basic coupled ocean-atmosphere processes associated with El Nio and La Nia eventsbasic processes.",5_1
"The economy is such that consulting opportunities are rarer than a conservative at NPR. So in the interest of continuing to finance my daily three, I thought I should turn my ability of wearing suits and liking it into cash by finding a real job. Do any companies still require suits?",0_0
"The same massive state intervention is also called for when it comes to transportation. People need to be herded into public transport systems and other forms of healthy transport modeslike bicycles, buses, or walking. Airport expansions, on the other hand, are to be stopped at any cost. Ackermann writes:",0_0
"Answer: Nearly all the claims of evidence amount to ???effects?? of global warming, and not the cause. (See the missing hot spot.)",2_3
"Fracking could bring new jobs and revenues to depressed areas of Maryland, New York, Ohio and other states. Expanded access to our newfound century's worth of hydrocarbon energy will keep prices low and reverse the flow of manufacturing jobs out of our country providing jobs for millions of American graduates and unemployed workers, and creating a new prosperity for current and future generations.",4_5
"The first thing Democrats should do is develop a basic sensitivity and avoid doing stupid things that gain nothing except additional enmity from their counterparts. A good example was the utterly foolish decision to schedule a revote on SCHIP when many Republicans from California were back home tending to their constituents in the midst of the disastrous fires. There was no good reason for pushing that vote instead of delaying it until Members could be back to participate. It reminded me again of the high-handed and insensitive behavior of Republicans in the 109th Congress, when they would quash debate or screw the Democrats for no good reason other than that they had the power to do so.",0_0
"8 ) Is Atmospheric CO2 Increasing? Yes, and most strongly in the last 50 years?which is why ?most? climate researchers think the CO2 rise is the cause of the warming. Our site measurements of CO2 increase from around the world are possibly the most accurate long-term, climate-related, measurements in existence.",0_0
"4) We have to get better ""and we are ""at turning energy into useful power. In 1882, Thomas Edison's first central power station on Pearl Street in lower Manhattan converted less than 3% of the heat energy of the coal being burned into electricity. Today's best natural-gas-fired turbines have thermal efficiencies of 60%. Nearly all of the things we use on a daily basis ""light bulbs, computers, automobiles ""are vastly more efficient than they were just a few years ago. And over the coming years those devices will get even better at turning energy into useful lighting, computing and motive power.",0_0
"Timothy Pachirat, a comparative political science professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, shares a similar, low drum view of humanity.",0_0
"Congress and the next Administration should open access to America's abundant reserves, reduce the regulatory burden, and let states regulate energy production within their borders.",0_0
"By Anthony Watts, WUWT, Aug 11, 2015",0_0
Reader Grant left this in the comments to the previous post:,0_0
"In reality sea level changes can be measured accurately only to centimetres, and often only to within several centimetres and very often not even that. Munk (3) confirms this writing that:",5_1
"Only when or if politically-influential parties in key emitting countries better perceive the net benefits of international cooperation will political leaders be able to commit to long-lasting mitigation policies. It will also be easier to devise transfer payments to offset differential preferences and perceptions of the problem, internally and across countries. Further, technological innovations (such as satellite monitoring and photography) can make observing and verifying emissions more feasible. Measurement advances also will make identification of carbon content in products easier for enforcing any international agreement. Until the deep uncertainties about the need to take action are resolved and new enforcement technologies are developed, meetings like COP 19 in Warsaw will accomplish little.",0_0
"Their work, published in a recent issue of the journal Energy and Environment, suggests that there really was a ""Little Ice Age"" from 1300 to 1900 when unusually cold global temperatures froze rivers that today remain ice-free year-round. They also found evidence for a medieval warm period from 800 to 1300 when, historical records show, fig trees grew as",2_1
"""Newly appointed gaming regulators will review a loophole in the state's casino-licensing regulation that operators are using to trim their tax bills.""",0_0
"Despite having a Democrat-controlled Congress in his first two years, President Obama failed to push through cap-and-trade legislation that would have adopted a goal of reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions to 83 percent below 2005 levels by the year 2050. The reason for this failure was clear: The proposed law would greatly harm the U.S. economy and undermine job growth. Indeed, The Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis estimated that the cap-and-trade bill proposed by Senators Barbara Boxer (DCA) and newly nominated Secretary of State John Kerry (DMA) would have resulted in income losses of nearly $10 trillion and over 2.5 million lost jobs.",4_1
Here are comparisons of 5 different models over Australia. Is CSIRO Mk 3.6 the right model?,0_0
"While Figures and UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon both attempted to put a brave face on the Bonn talks, they could not succeed in securing more emission reduction pledges. Worse, many existing commitments were thrown into question. The most recent report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that developed nations must make 25-40 percent reductions below the 1990 benchmark by 2020 to stave off the worst effects of climate change. The now-weakened pledges made after Copenhagen were estimated to only amount to a cut of 12 to 19 percent, well short of the safe reduction range. Any climate meeting that does not bring the political promises closer to the scientifically requisite reductions can only be viewed as a failure.",0_0
"The only way to defeat this position in the eyes of people who regard it as a U.S. duty to set a good example to the world is to demonstrate the futility of trying to control Earth?s climate. Accusations that the president wants to ruin the economy, destroy jobs or risk the nation?s energy security have little traction, since most opinion leaders do not believe these charges. Most of those who recognize the enormous costs of the EPA?s plans regard these sacrifices as necessary in order to be responsible environmental stewards.",4_2
"Other subsidies include research and development programs, shipping subsidies, export assistance through the U.S. Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and liability protection. The study can be downloaded at Greenpeace's web site: www.greenpeace.org/~climate/oil/fdsuboil.pdf.",0_0
"There has been, and still is, plenty to talk about. All three North American countries have parallel efforts underway to stimulate the economy. They share an auto industry that is in grave trouble. They share a continental ecosystem where winds and water bring the climate policies of one country across the border to the othersand share a largely-integrated energy market for oil, gas, and electricity. Border and immigration policies have an impact on the competitiveness of firms in these three economies as they confront European and Asian rivals.",0_0
"Now there is a single website that collects dozens of articles, including scholarly research, on how Wikipedia, the ""free encyclopedia,"" is actually the fake encyclopedia. Wikipedia is the first place millions of people go to learn about organizations and individuals they hear about in the news or online, but the profiles posted there are biased, unreliable, and often libelous. The Heartland Institute's Wikipedia profile contains many lies and errors, but we are not alone: thousands of profiles have been similarly hacked by leftist activists. READ MORE",0_0
"Successful geoengineering would permit the Earth's population to make far smaller reductions in carbon use and still achieve a retarding effect on global warming, but at a lower cost to economic activity.",0_0
"China is emerging as a maritime superpower as quickly as America itself (not to mention the UK) is declining as a naval power, to the point where China could become the leading naval power by 2020. The Russian Navy, which until now was a pale shadow of Gorshkov's navy (since 1991, the number of submarines has declined from 317 to 61 and of surface ships from 967 to 186) has announced plans to build a class of four new aircraft carriers in 201314, with initial service to begin in 201732. One would do well to remember that it took hardly more than a decade during the Cold War for Russia, the quintessential land power, to develop a formidable navy. In 20 years, we could realistically see a China/Russia-led SCO that is hegemonic not only on land but at sea. As counterintuitive as it may be at first, NATO would be wise to consider the possibility of making maritime cooperation the centerpiece of NATO-Russia security cooperation.",0_0
It seems that Stonyfield would almost have consumers believe that conventional yogurt makers actually add these substances to their products.,0_0
"By Staff Writers, Press Association, Aug 13, 2015",0_0
"Enormous and expensive policy changes have been based on the flawed work of these scientists. Yet there is apparently to be no investigation, blame, suspension or withdrawal of papers, just a gentle bureaucratic fattening of the organisation with new full-time posts.",0_0
"I do not agree that this was merely a ???slight mis-statement in a single sentence?? as the same argument had been made in their March 1 submission to Muir Russell, a submission which did not include accompanying ???copious?? information evidencing the error to the Muir Russell panel as a ???slight mis-statement??. It also speaks poorly that CRU would make a ???mis-statement?? to Muir Russell on an issue so central to Climategate.",5_2
So when Boko Haram and ISIS and all the other genocidal scum bags are finally brought to justice on trial in the Hague for War Crimes and Crime Against Humanity their defense lawyers can call James Murray as an expert witness and he can give the new Johnny Cochran Rumpole of the Bailey Perry Mason sorry your Honour but it was Climate Change defense that made me decide to slaughter thousands of innocent people and blame it on a routine drought.,0_0
"not worth a whole lot, especially when the benchmarks are FDR and LBJ. The",0_0
"For one thing, wind turbines and solar panels, which only produce energy if massively subsidized by the state, drive up electricity prices, which kills off manufacturing jobs.",4_4
"Whats worse is, in the ice core data (top graph) there are 4 distinct up slopes and 5 peaks. Most of the time we are in a deep temperature valley. Most of the time we are much colder!! Not just a bit but a whole lot colder. And not just colder than the last hundred years but colder than the last 10000.",0_0
"For these reasons, despite an exuberant global investment climate and forgiving discount rates on nearly all types of capital projects, ""you can't cash-flow a nuclear plant because the concept of risk over a period of time is too high.... If we're not seeing expansion of nuclear investment in this environment, with the political desire and the economic capital that are so available right now, then one has to wonder when we're ever going to see it,"" said one attendee at the Manhattan Institute conference.",0_0
"Despite the lack of practical consequences at EU and UN levels, the motion still makes a lot of political sense, especially if it is considered that last year a similar motion was also passed, calling for a more balanced approach to the scientific aspects and uncertainties of climate change. With the exception of the Czech Republic's President, Vaclav Klaus, this is probably the only case of a relevant institution in a European member State that challenges the ""consensus"" on climate policies. Obviously, this is also an important signal about the high discontent of Italian businesses about a package of EU directives that they believe, with good reason, are punitive towards the Italian economy.",0_0
"But in a carbon market, most market participants actually benefit from fraud . The sellers of carbon credits benefit when they sell fraudulent credits, because they are making money for nothing. The buyers of carbon credits benefit from a market flooded with fraudulent carbon credits, because the oversupply caused by fraudulent credits helps to keep prices down. Corrupt officials benefit financially, when they receive bribes to ignore the fraud. The only people who are disadvantaged by carbon fraud, are investors who tried to follow the rules, to produce ???genuine?? carbon credits, and politicians and activists who naively expected the carbon market to deliver emissions reductions.",4_2
"The data include long time period duration (in excess of 30 years) tide gauge station records covering the Hawaiian Islands, Alaska and the Pacific, Gulf Coast and Atlantic coastline regions of the U.S. as well as many other global wide coastal locations. This latest NOAA data shows unchanging linear trends in the rate of sea level rise worldwide with many of these records including 100 year and longer measurement duration periods.",1_6
The Sun's Impact On Earth's Temperature Goes Far Beyond TSI New Paper Shows,2_1
"In truth, the only thing some GOP lawmakers objected to was an unusual last-minute effort to hold the concert on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol, after its organizers discovered that Mall had already been booked for other events. Use of the Mall had been denied to Gore and his colleagues for one reason: they failed to apply for the proper permits before other parties had. And one of the groups ""blocking"" Live Earth's use of the Mall happened to be the Smithsonian Institution itself.",0_0
"But these tactics are not new. Paul Ehrlichs population bomb of the 1960s predicted food riots in the United States and around the world. Today, obesity is a bigger problem.",0_0
"missing long-term declining trends/signals, which were removed (by",0_0
"Murray also has the number of environmentalists who demand higher automobile fuel efficiency mandates. These government standards have meant smaller, lighter, less crashworthy vehicles. ""The tradeoff the liberal environmentalists demand is actually safety for gas mileage. In other words, blood for oil.""",4_1
Only this week Lord Lawson's Global Warming Policy Foundation claimed that the Met Office's computer model for predicting climate change was flawed.,5_1
"At a recent New Hampshire town hall meeting, Romney ""stuck to the position he has held for many years ? that he believes the world is getting warmer and that humans are contributing to it,"" said the Washington Post.",0_0
"After a Year of Setbacks, U.N. Looks to Take Charge of World's Agenda",0_0
"The same is true for natural gas. In 1944, the United states had 147 trillion cubic feet of natural gas reserves, and yet had produced 1,041 trillion cubic feet between 1945 and 20107 times the amount of reserves available in 1944. In this case, however, the U.S. oil and gas industry was able to double the 1944 natural gas reserve level with 318 trillion cubic feet in reserves in 2010.",4_5
"In 1999, NASA showed that the four hottest years in US history were 1934, 1921, 1931 and 1953, and that the US was much hotter in the 1930s.",2_1
"Astrophysicist, Joe Postma - in his momentous paper The Absence of a Measurable Greenhouse Effect - goes on to prove that by treating Earth as a sphere so that night and day exist we can suddenly explain with standard physics how daytime gives us the +30 degrees C worth of added GHE temperature; on average over half of the Earth (reaching a theoretical maximum of up to +121 degrees C under the solar-noon if it was not for the cooling power of the atmosphere).",2_3
"In the 1930s, Franklin Roosevelt asked his administration to undertake a vast exploratory study of future technologies. A group of researchers eventually produced a voluminous report with fascinating insights. There was only one little glitch: the document did not foresee television, plastics, jet planes, organ transplants, laser technology, or even ballpoint pens.",0_0
"These are not choices by officials actually elected by real people, the only legitimate basis for the state's monopoly of coercive power. We are not considering here authoritarian or less-developed countries where free expression and representative government are absent or inadequate. One could argue in such cases that international norm setting might provide standards or models from which emerging free governments could pick and choose. (Of course, one could also argue that the United States provides a perfectly acceptable model all on its own, which emerging democracies can emulate or not, without any need for America to ""multilateralize"" its uniqueness.)",0_0
Atmospheric satellite temperature trend (RSS MSU-LT) = 0.2 F/decade,0_0
"There seems to be much excitment about the discovery of lots and lots of playtpuses at Maleny, 100 odd kms north of Brisbane, where some locals have been trying to stop the building of a Woolies for many, many months.",0_0
"Guest Post by Bob Tisdale, WUWT, Aug 10, 2015",0_0
Gov't tax panel agrees to end tax break for stock investments:,0_0
"Fertilizer runoff does not just pollute local waters; it creates other far-reaching environmental problems. Each summer, the loading of nitrogen fertilizers from the Mississippi via the corn belt hits the Gulf of Mexico, creating a large dead zonea region of oxygen-deprived waters unable to support sea life that extends for more than ten thousand square kilometers. The same phenomenon occurs in the Chesapeake Bay, in some summers affecting most of the waters in the mainstern bay. A recent study by researchers at the University of British Columbia shows that if the United States were to meet its proposed ethanol production goals15-36 billion gallons of corn and cellulosic ethanol by 2022nitrogen flows to the Gulf of Mexico would increase by 10-34 percent.",0_0
"Mr Fisher said ""heat sources such as surface heating and cooling can have an affect on these blocking events"".",0_0
Wednesday CFACT brought COP16 delegates and press to tour a local village without electricity to show the impacts of energy poverty. CFACT is installing electric light in the village school for the first time.,0_0
making America more energy independent has inverted an equation that,0_0
"By hyper-regulating carbon dioxide, soot, mercury, ""cross-state air pollution"" from sources hundreds of miles away, and other air and water emissions, EPA intends to force numerous coal-fired power plants to shut down years before their productive life is over; sharply reduce emissions from cars, factories, refineries and other facilities, regardless of the costs; and block the construction of new coal-fired power plants, because none will be able to slash their carbon dioxide emissions to half of what average coal-fired plants now emit, without employing expensive (and nonexistent) CO2 capture and storage technologies.",4_1
Uprooting State's Crop Bullies Would Benefit S.D. County,0_0
"A visit to IceAgeNow.info yielded headlines of news stories last week that included ""Record ColdMillions of Americans hit by Propane Shortage""; ""Ice and Snow Closed Texas highways This Morning""; ""Ice-cover Shuts Down Work on New Hudson River Bridge"" and so you understand this is a global phenomenon ""KashmirHeaviest January Snowfall in a Decade"";""Heavy Snowfall Sweeps Eastern Turkey""; ""RomaniaHeavy Snowfall and Blizzard""; and ""Bangkok Suffers Coldest Night in Three DecadesDeath Roll Mounts.""",1_3
"Clearly, erosion is a problem here, yet the authors of the paper fail to give it any credence. Of course the fossil record will show sea level rise!",1_6
"The report's authors sagely explain that no one statistical ""holy grail"" can quantify everything meaningful in a single number. They believe a range of new variables should be included in measuring a nation's progress, and they want to broaden indicators to include social capital, education, governance, and health. To this end, the report discusses how existing statistics could be used. So far so good.",0_0
But Gorethodoxy demands blind obedience by its votaries. Discussing the potential benefits of global warming is strictly verboten.,0_0
"5) Vicious personal attacks continue on scientists, businessmen, politicians and others who disagree publicly with the catechism of climate cataclysm. Alarmist pressure groups and Democrat members of Congress are out to destroy the studies, funding, reputations and careers of all who dare challenge climate disaster tautologies. At President Obama's behest, even disaster aid agencies are piling on.",5_2
"Smith and D'Aleo are both interviewed as part of a report on this study on the television special, ""Global Warming: The Other Side,"" which will air at 9 PM on January 14 on KUSI-TV, channel 9/51, San Diego, California. The detailed report is available at http://icecap.us/images/uploads/NOAAroleinclimategate.pdf.",0_0
"A NAAQS is an allowable pollution concentration standard. It determines how many parts per million(or billion) of a targeted pollutant are permissible in the ambient air. Petitioners in Mass v. EPA asserted that current GHG levels already harm public health and welfare. Similarly, a spate of endangerment petitions filed since Mass v. EPA (to regulate GHG emissions from aircraft, marine vessels, off-road engines, etc.) assert that GHG emissions already harm public health and welfare. These allegations raise an obvious policy questionwhat kinds of measures would be required to lower GHG concentrations below current levels?",0_0
Texas Sends Amazon a $269 Million Sales Tax Bill:,0_0
"It will be impossible to meet the consumer demands of a contemporary society without a reliable source of energy like nuclear. Other countries have already acknowledged this. There are 65 reactors under construction around the world (far safer and more advanced than the 30-year-old technology at Fukushima Daiichi), but none in the U.S.",4_5
"The scientists noted that the largest recent period of Antarctic warming occurred during the 1990s as the result of a particularly lengthy and strong set of El Nio conditions in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Many other decades, including pre-industrial times such as the 1830s, also showed marked temperature spikes, according to the latest report.",2_1
"The evidence from AR5 best estimates of forcing, combined with that in solid observational studies cited in AR5, points to a best (median) estimate for TCR of 1.3C if the AR5 aerosol forcing best estimate is scaled to match the satellite-observation-derived best estimate thereof, or 1.4C if not (giving a somewhat less observationally-based TCR estimate). We can compare this with model TCRs. The distribution of CMIP5 model TCRs is shown in Figure 3 below, with a maximally observationally-based TCR estimate of 1.3C for comparison.",0_0
"As the CO 2 content of the air continues to rise, tropical rainforests will likely increase their photosynthetic capacity. This phenomenon may apply a significant ""biological brake"" on the rising CO 2 content of the atmosphere, as tropical rainforests are among the most productive ecosystems on earth, and a large stimulation of their photosynthetic capacity should result in the removal of tremendous amounts of carbon from the atmosphere. Reviewed 15 October 1998",3_3
"1. .. We suggest that the new observational likely range from (ECS) would be 1.25-3.0 C, with a best estimate p 1.75 o C.",0_0
"Carter's ultimate policy recommendation was that climate hazards are overwhelmingly natural problems, and should be dealt with by preparing for them in advance, and adapting to them when they occur.",2_1
The Lord Monckton Foundation?s monthly Global Warming Projection Index number for March 2014 is 0.14 C . That is how much the IPCC?s latest central projection of global warming over the 9 years 2 months January 2005 to February 2014 has overshot the observed temperature trend.,0_0
"Senators Demand that the World's Largest Oil Maker Make Public Its History of Funding Climate Change ""Skeptics""",0_0
"As the CO 2 content of the air rises, it is likely that mango biodiversity will be maintained, as there were no obvious differences in the responses of these two ecotypes to atmospheric CO 2 enrichment. In addition, these cultivars will likely increase their overall size, biomass, and yield as more and more CO 2 enters the air from mankind's activities. Although the instantaneous doubling of the atmospheric CO 2 content in this experiment reduced concentrations of leaf mineral elements, the authors stated that ""given the slow rate at which global atmospheric CO 2 concentration is increasing, it is possible that plants will adapt to elevated ambient CO 2 concentrations over time with respect to mineral nutrition,"" as did sour orange trees after 85 months of exposure to elevated CO 2 (Penuelas et al ., 1997). Reference",3_3
No surprise here. Just more inconvenient results for CO2 broken-record dogmatists.,0_0
"Thus, the drop in annual GDP growth that was so insignificant in Krugman??s mind, when it came to measuring the economic costs of aggressive carbon legislation, is just shy of the drop in annualized GDP growth matching up with the environmental benefits of such legislation, in the worst case scenario. But when we realize that Krugman??s estimate of 2% GDP loss by 2050 is much lower than what the IPCC itself says (as I document in the earlier posts linked above), the answer is a no brainer: The benefits of fighting climate change do not exceed the costs, even using the IPCC??s own models.",4_1
"""The Bingaman bill is like the misleading sales pitches used car salesmen once used. They get you to buy because the first month's payment is only $49. But the next month you notice that all the other payments are $499.""",0_0
There is no getting around it. The models are wrong. The energy balance is so central that none of their other predictions can be relied on.,5_1
"Hybrid cars are not living up to their advertised gas mileage, claimed a recent article from wired.com (May 11).",0_0
"4) Boris Johnson: Why Did Met Office Get It Wrong Yet Again? The Daily Telegraph, 20 December 2010",0_0
Is the Earth warming? Data does suggest the Earth is warming as we come out of the Little Ice Age.,2_1
"Anyone that giggles at 70s British comedy will know that Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor ran a skit show called The Goodies in the 1970s. If you dont know the series but have ever chortled at Monty Python, chances are youll enjoy some of the Goodies too.",0_0
A new briefing paper published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation concludes that the most recent (September 2014) floods in the Kashmir region of India-Pakistan border which killed several dozen of people are a recurring feature of the Indian Monsoon and not linked to climate change.,1_7
"Those reefs have actually been able to take advantage of the warmer conditions, said Janice Lough, a senior AIMS research scientist and one of the studys authors.",3_2
Chinese Famine of 1907-Over 24 million perish from starvation,0_0
"Since the change point in 2007, September 21 Arctic ice (15% concentration) extent has been expanding at a linear rate of 247,875 km / year. Using the standard climate science metric, that is a gain of 4,201 Manhattans per year.",1_1
"As adopted, Agenda 21 was described as a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment. That includes hundreds of specific goals and strategies that national and local governments are encouraged to adopt. And that translates into restrictive zoning policies that are aimed at deterring suburban growth. Ultimately, they suppress housing supply and drive up home prices, in turn imposing unnecessary costs, especially on middle- and lower-income households. These policies contributed to and aggravate the real estate bubble by putting inflationary pressures on housing prices.",4_1
"Then, after studying the ad more closely, I said: Oh my gosh, they even gave me crutches. Come on, people.",0_0
"""Even if every American citizen biked to work, carpooled to school, used only solar panels to power their homes, if we each planted a dozen trees, if we somehow eliminated all of our domestic greenhouse gas emissions, guess what? That still wouldn't be enough to offset the carbon pollution coming from the rest of the world. If all the industrial nations went down to zero emissions it wouldn't be enough, not when more than 65 percent of the world's carbon pollution comes from the developing world.""",4_2
"Tides, in turn, made at least $8.6 million in grants to 44 different organizations, each time specifically mentioning its tar sands campaign. Funds went to Greenpeace, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club, Forest Ethics, the Rainforest Action Network and dozens of others. Fully $2.2 million of that total went to Michael MarxsCorporate Ethics International.",0_0
"Yet I was surprised at how different the situation seemed. And although I returned well versed in the reasons to be skeptical of an agreement, I part company with colleagues who believe that the face-to-face talks will settle nothing.",0_0
"Some days we are told that CO2 is making the weather cold. Other days we are told that CO2 is making the weather warm. Without some actual evidence that the Earth is heating by a dangerous amount, James Whites statement is pointless.",5_1
"By Mari N. Jensen, UA College of Science March 17, 2010",0_0
"EPA's Clean Power Plan (CPP), which imposes carbon dioxide (CO2) emission rate targets and tonnage caps on state electric power sectors, is unlawful in at least half a dozen ways.",0_0
The European Union's top climate official says the EU is pursuing the right renewable energy policieseven if the scientists are wrong about the cause of global warming! Why?,0_0
"Amici believe that no scientists have devised an empirically validated theory proving that higher atmospheric CO2 levels will lead to higher GAST. Moreover, if the causal link between higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations and higher GAST is broken by invalidating each of EPAs three lines of evidence, then EPAs assertions that higher CO2 concentrations also cause sea-level increases and more frequent and severe storms, floods, and droughts are also disproved. Such causality assertions require a validated theory that higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations cause increases in GAST. Lacking such a validated theory, EPAs conclusions cannot stand. In science, credible empirical data always trumps proposed theories, even if those theories are claimed to (or actually do) represent the current consensus.",2_3
"What are the models missing? Obsessed with radiation from greenhouse forcings and questionable temperature feedbacks, they ignore or poorly parameterize many important climate processes and undervalue the net cooling effect of the following events:",5_1
"This video is like the crazy fan mail that singers get, that's supposed to be all lovey-dovey and romantic (to the stalker), but reads like very well-thought out death threats to the entertainer. In the late 80s, our friend Abbey was a teen singer in northeast and central Ohio, doing the mall circuit, belting out covers to old songs as well as her dance hit ""Pancake Emporium"" it was the 80s, she was trying to be New Wave don't ask.",0_0
"About 70 percent of cumulative emissions since the industrial revolution were emitted from developed countries, which are believed to be the reason behind todays global climate change, according to the latest assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.",0_0
"last couple of years. I'm not ""harrumphing"" about sex comedy in the",0_0
"No matter what happens to the climate between now and the publication of the IPCCs 5th Assessment Report, we can be sure that the alarmism will be ratcheted up to ever more preposterous heights to keep the research funds flooding in. Everything will be bigger, faster, badder, worse than we thought, quicker than we thought etc, etc. The IPCC, and thousands of climate scientists, are too dependent on the global warming scare to let it go without a fight. And its started already. The IPCCs AR4 predictions for sea level rise were exaggerated enough, but AR5 will be worse:",5_2
"on Saturday, August 9th, 2014 at 8:00 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
Winter? Teesdale in County Durham blanketed in snow on May 23 in what is likely to be Britains coldest spring since 1962,1_3
Obviously some scientists just arent clever enough to snap out of it.,0_0
"The investigation into the alleged global warming data fraud by Virginias 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 Yales now deceased climate professor, Barry Saltzman.",5_2
"about your paper if you're nice about mine. In this it partly works, though academics often drop private",0_0
"It means that the isolated measurements of the subsystems always eliminate the entanglement; and appropriate measurements of correlated properties of the two subsystems always create the entanglement. The ""existence of entanglement"" isn't really associated with the a priori unknown outcomes of measurements; it is associated with the type of doable meaasurement that we decide to perform.",0_0
A primary motive for writing the book was to refute the then existing regime of pervasive government controls and regulations known as Mercantilism. Adam Smith stated that if government management of the marketplace were to be repealed there would arise in its place what he called a system of natural liberty.,0_0
"Said Briffa, one of their chief practitioners: ""I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards ""apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is not quite so simple. I believe that the recent warmth was probably matched about 1,000 years ago.""",0_0
"This year, the recent 12 Month period temperature is -4.3 F cooler than for example 1932 . And if we compare with 1955 it is ??? 3.7 F cooler.",1_3
"Comment On Ocean Heat Content World Ocean Heat Content And ThermostericSea Level Change (0-2000), 1955-2010 By Levitus Et Al 2012",0_0
"Canadian authorities reduced the quotas on the harp seal hunt by about 20 percent after overflights showed large numbers of seal pups were lost to thin and melting ice in the lower part of the gulf, off Prince Edward Island.",0_0
"First the Obama EPA came for coal mines, coal-fired power plants, miners, workers, investors, and all who depend on reliable, affordable electricity. Then the EPA, Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, and other agencies came after oil and gas drilling and fracking, and the workers, industries, and families that need petroleum. They're also targeting farming, ranching, airlines, and manufacturing.",0_0
"Where are we going? Someone once noted that ""the world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought."" If that means that politicians today are becoming attracted to the ideas we had when we first started, then that's progress of a sort. But it's not enough, and CEI seeks to close that gap.",0_0
"Also not against making things up is the previous president of the Royal Society, Lord May of Oxford. Last year, we caught him making things up about Martin Durkin, director of the Great Global Warming Swindle.",0_0
Elizabeth May and the Fact-challenged Fact Sheet,0_0
Why do the websites of progressive civil society organisations pay virtually no attention to climate change?,0_0
"The proposals are contained in a draft document pieced together for the climate conference in Durban, South Africa. Representatives at the conference are struggling to come up with a compromise that negotiators from 194 nations can agree on.",0_0
"There are really only two reasons to discuss greenhouse gas emissions (primarily carbon dioxide) in the context of dietary guidelines in the U.S., and yet the USDA and HHS did neither in their Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC).",0_0
"Hessell notes that many New Zealand climatological stations were established about 1930, there being only a few with unchanged sites and unbroken records before that date. The clear implication is that data is just too scarce in the pre-1930 period.",0_0
"The very real positive externality of inadvertent atmospheric CO2 enrichment must be considered in all studies examining the SCC; and its observationally-deduced effects must be given premier weighting over the speculative negative externalities presumed to occur in computer model projections of global warming. Until that time, little if any weight should be placed on current SCC calculations.",3_3
"Yes, the winds, they are a-changingand BP decided to get out while the getting is good.",0_0
"On policy, Obama focused on things that could be done quickly in Congress,",0_0
Read here . The global warming alarmists claim that an area such as the Amazon should experience greater frequency of severe droughts and floods. Does any evidence support these claims? A researcher examined the climate history of the Amazon and found no trend of severe events that would support the global warming alarmist predictions.,1_7
"Meanwhile, Germany, Italy and Japan plan to phase out nuclear power, thereby increasing their use of natural gas and coal for electricity while China and India build 900 new coal-fired power plants to electrify their growing economies. All will pump tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere dwarfing any reductions the USA might achieve by closing more power plants and further shackling our economy.",4_2
"The Israelis and the majority Fatah wing of the PLO now share a vital interest in the containment of Hamasthe Iran-backed radical Sunni groupwhich, during the summer of 2007, violently seized control of the Gaza Strip.",0_0
"There must, then, be other factors involved in the rise of growth skepticism. The astonishing relative decline in the importance of industry in Americaand indeed across the developed worldis another. Manufacturing fell from about 30 percent of gross domestic product in 1965 to 12 percent in the most recent figures.",0_0
"However, because they were designed to process heavier crude oils, refineries are limited in how much domestic sweet crude they can handle. Exports would provide an important outlet for excess crude supplies. That in turn would encourage additional exploration and production, protecting jobs, further revitalizing our economy, and multiplying royalty and tax revenues.",0_0
4. Earth Warming According to Berkely Analysis. http://jennifermarohasy.com/2011/10/earth-warming-according-to-new-berkeley-analysis/,0_0
"It is impossible to present reliable future projections from a collection of climate models which generally cannot simulate observed change. As a consequence, we recommend that unless/until the collection of climate models can be demonstrated to accurately capture observed characteristics of known climate changes, policymakers should avoid basing any decisions upon projections made from them. Further, those policies which have already be established using projections from these climate models should be revisited. Assessments which suffer from the inclusion of unreliable climate model projections include those produced by the IPCC and the U.S. Global Climate Change Research Program (including their most recent National Climate Assessment). Policies which are based upon such assessments include those established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pertaining to the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.",5_1
"I want every Indian citizen to know: the United States of America will not simply be cheering you on from the sidelines. We will be right there with you, shoulder to shoulder. Because we believe in the promise of India. And we believe that the future is what we make it. President Obama, Nov. 8, 2010",0_0
"About which Hansen correctly noted: The U.S. has warmed during the past century, but the warming hardly exceeds year-to-year variability. Indeed, in the U.S. the warmest decade was the 1930s and the warmest year was 1934.",2_1
"In fact, one billion signatures would require many billions of visits. With an ad added on that page, this modest goal itself would mean that the owner of the page would quickly become a multimillionaire. Is it this easy to become a multimillionaire? Is it enough to simply write ""We people of the Earth want the comrade in the U.N. to tame the Sun, drink the oceans, and stop the rising seas""? But why would billions of people ever visit the totally useless and idiotic page?",0_0
"Temperatures in Antarctica have hit a balmy -109F over the last two days, which can mean only one thing tropical vacation",1_3
"The Empire BlueCross BlueShield conversion itself ""violated perhaps every civics lesson in how public policy should be made,"" says University of California at Berkeley health-policy analyst James C. Robinson. In other states, the profits from similar conversion deals were used to endow independent charitable foundations that support scientific inquiry and underwrite health care for the indigent. By contrast, New York expropriated the proceeds of one of the most lucrative health-insurance IPOs in American history and then used the money to subsidize hospitals and underwrite worker raisesboth goals of 1199. Health-care advocates rightly questioned how boosting union workers' salaries improved public health, particularly for the poor.",0_0
"Slowing economic growth has human consequences, such as fewer schools, worse health care, and lower environmental quality. That's why human and environmental well being will be highest under the richer-but-warmest scenario and lower for the poorer-but-cooler scenarios, at least through 2100, according to Indur Goklany, author of The Improving State of the World.",0_0
"Why would anyone possibly imagine that the CO 2 which will be pumped into reservoirs to access that oil will remain there for very long? Will all those many, many thousands of depleted oil reservoirs where the gas will need to be sequestered in order to offer any real CCS advantage be suitable for permanent storage? Who will be responsible for constantly monitoring them all for leakage? Even if decades passed before leaking out, would pumping all that money down a hole have accomplished anything, even if that CO 2 capture and sequestration mattered one whit?",4_4
"Noting that their results ""provide a valid mechanism for the conclusion of Berry and Roderick (2002) that evergreen vegetation has increased across Australia over the past 200 years as a result of CO2 enrichment,"" they conclude that "" woody thickening in Australia and probably globally can be explained by the changes in landscape GPP and soil moisture balance arising principally from the increased atmospheric CO2 concentration .""",3_3
"As economists, we are inclined to take the vantage point of the benevolent dictator, that omnific individual with his hands upon all of the policy levers available to the state. When placed in such a position, the question of how to respond to global warming is answered by performing a simple comparison: does x, the cost of optimally mitigating carbon emissions, exceed y, the benefit of that carbon mitigation? Where the answer is yes, the global carbon mitigation effort remains rightfully nascent, where the answer is no, it springs up and becomes law with a just and sudden force.",0_0
"The paper adds to several others invalidating the vast prior literature on the effects of ""acidification"" as overblown due to biased, artificial laboratory conditions that don't correctly simulate the buffering effects of a natural environment.",3_2
"What this means is, if only 50% of GHG emissions are included in the global carbon pricing scheme, the cost penalty for the participants would be 250%. The 50% participation could be achieved by, for example, 100% of countries participating in the scheme but only 50% of the emissions in total from within the countries are included, or 50% of countries participate and 100% of the emissions within those countries are included in the scheme (i.e. taxed or traded).",0_0
"""The U.S. Postal Service more than doubled its losses in fiscal year 2010, despite cutting billions of dollars in expenses and trimming its staff.""",0_0
"Altogether, technology widened the horizons of world oil, bringing on large amounts of new supplies that supported economic growth and expanded mobility around the world. Billions of barrels of oil that could not have been accessed or produced a decade earlier were now within reach. All that proved to be ???just in time?? technological progress. For the world appeared to be on a fast track in terms of economic growth???and, thus, in its need for more oil.",4_5
"In a June 13 email to Gergis et al coauthors and Climate Audit antagonists Schmidt, Mann, Steig, Wahl (see documents obtained by Warwick Hughes here ), Gergis admitted that the paper was not merely on hold (whatever that means), but that they had decided to voluntarily withdraw the paper:",0_0
"NATO was created as the political-military expression of the containment doctrine. While the father of the doctrine was diplomat George Kennan, the godfather of containment was geopolitician Nicholas Spykman. During World War II Spykman had challenged the centrality of the concept of the ""Heartland"" developed a generation earlier by Halford Mackinder (against Mahan's sea power thesis), and focused instead on what he called the ""Rimland,"" by which he meant essentially continental countries with a maritime facade.",0_0
"Environmentalist groups long have produced public service announcements for air on television. For example, most Americans have seen the so-called ""Crying Indian"" commercial depicting a Native American brought to tears by the sight of careless littering along a highway. The advertisement debuted on Earth Day in 1971, and it proved to be immensely effective: It is widely credited with boosting the nascent American environmentalist movement into national prominence.",0_0
"The unvalidated IPCC (and CSIRO) computer climate models that project significant human-caused warming in the future are faulty, with many known inadequacies; not surprisingly, therefore, these models have proved to be incorrect when compared with real-world temperature data;",5_1
"""Dragged before Congress as gas prices explode at the pump, oil executives mounted a vigorous defense of their business practices on Thursday -- pushing back against plans to eliminate tax breaks for the ""big five"" oil and gas companies.""",0_0
I despise a vast majority of the Czech politicians and don't hold respect for them,0_0
"Now, because there never was anyone hollering about peak coal, theres no such thing as unconventional coal, despite huge changes in mining technology. Coal mining has changed as much or more than drilling for oil so why isnt there unconventional coal?",0_0
"All this information will feed into the Delta Plan, which will be written over the next 2.5 years by a DutchBangladeshi consortium of government departments, research organizations and engineering consultants. The Netherlands has pledged an initial 7 million (US$9.7 million) to develop the strategy.",0_0
Last night he recited part of the pledge of allegiance. Maybe he is thinking about becoming a naturalized citizen?,0_0
"Restrictions on oil and natural gas production offshore, in the West, and on Alaskan lands should be lifted and encouragement given the oil and natural gas industry to start production. Professor Timothy Considine wrote in the Denver Post ""Drilling on Federal Lands: How The West Could Be Won Again"" that: if the output on federal lands had matched that on private property, the economic benefits would have been significant. I estimate that over the next decade, the region's seven states Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Montana, Nevada, and Idaho would gain between $9.5 billion and $26 billion in annual gross regional product, between $2.4 billion and $5.1 billion in annual tax revenue, and between 67,000 and 208,000 regional jobs.",0_0
"A few days earlier, February 20, another Daily Express headline addressed the panic the U.K. is facing: ""Cheaper energy is more important than going green."" The ""cheaper energy"" article cites ""rising energy prices"" that have ""gone up 159 per cent since 2004"" and quotes Energy Secretary Ed Davey as saying: ""energy prices are now out of control.""",0_0
"Since 1977, air quality, technology, and regulatory theory have improved dramatically, creating new opportunities to more cost-effectively protect air quality. Investors, too, have also rediscovered the inherent value of companies that manufacture real goods and services, and the negative impact that defective regulations can have on global competitiveness.",0_0
"Perhaps worse is the ACIAs proposed prescription of fixing all the ills of the purported Arctic climate trend by taking steps toward the reduction of anthropogenic greenhouse gases. In the end, that premise is obviously more of a political posture than a legitimate scientific conclusion.",5_2
"Last winter had the largest sea ice extent in the last six years, the largest North American snow extent on record, and the second largest northern hemisphere snow extent on record. On one day in February, at least 49 US states had snow cover. Northern hemisphere albedo was very high last winter.",1_1
"Individual organic growers might promise retailers and consumers that their products will be completely free from all non-organic ""contaminants,"" but that is a commitment they should know is difficult to keep. Tolerances for the presence of various unwanted substances are routinely incorporated into the standards for organic and other foods. Because farming takes place out-of-doors and in dirt, and products must be stored, the presence of actual contaminants like insect parts, rodent hairs and feces, and toxic molds is a fact of life, so federal safety regulations establish maximum limits for these things. The same rationale was at play when the USDA and representatives from the organic food industry jointly developed the standards for organic production.",0_0
"Look for the satellite data to be adjusted to bring it into compliance with the fully fraudulent surface temperatures. The Guardian is now workingtodiscredit UAH, so it seems likely that RSS will soon be making big changes to match the needs of the climate mafia. Bookmark this post.",5_2
"Something else also stands out in the 3 regions where current temperatures are warmest, my Figure 2. Only one of the reconstructions extends back the full 2000 years. Would Asia and Australasia have warmer temperatures than those weve experienced recently if their reconstructions could be extended farther back in time? Dunno.",5_1
"""I believe low energy prices may complicate the transformation, to be very frank,"" Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency, told reporters in Brussels Thursday, ""and this is a very important issue for countries to note; all the strong renewables and energy efficiency policies therefore may be undermined with the low fossil fuel prices.""",0_0
Wind power line proposal irks some Midwest farmers,0_0
"Examples abound. Federal fuel economy mandates force auto makers to produce smaller, lighter, less crash-resistant cars, causing thousands of highway deaths per year.1 FDA regulations delay the availability of life-saving therapies, killing tens of thousands over the past two decades.2 Banning DDT revived malaria epidemics in the developing world, afflicting 2.5 million people in Sri Lanka alone.3 Furthermore, a large body of literature documents that regulation can kill just by misdirecting resources and squandering wealth. Precautionists ignore the obvious connection between livelihoods, living standards, and lives as if jobs and income were not the chief safety nets for most of the world s people. Even in a relatively wealthy country like the United States, every $5 million to $10 million drop in economic output is associated with an additional statistical death.4",4_1
"But for politicians, the worse the mess, the better. And Hurricane Katrina was a blessinga consecrated opportunity to make advocates of small government look small, to enlarge political largess with a public dole of private goods, and to expand the scope of politics to include everything.",0_0
"Maybe the Blowout Prevention Act is simply a product of sloppy drafting. But maybe not.As written, the bill wouldrevive and expandthefederalban on offshore drilling.Indeed, it wouldcripple U.S. domestic petroleum production.Do the sponsors not know that banning offshore drilling wouldincreaseconsumers?? pain at the pump, destroy high-paying American jobs, and make the United States more dependent onOPEC oil? Or do they just not care?",4_1
2. Panama - Agreement Regarding a Debt-for-Nature Swap,0_0
Beyond all those contextual questions lies another reality. A presidency is,0_0
"The argument that it's a different rumor is that he claims that the bottom-Higgs associated production would be linked with a 150 GeV Higgs boson - which would have to be be the heavier one, ""H"", in SUSY, not the lighter one, ""h"", so it couldn't coincide with his ""light Higgs"" observation.",0_0
"The observed response equates to an approximate 480% increase in calcification rate in response to a 9C increase in water temperature or to a 160% increase in calcification rate in response to a 3C increase in temperature, the latter of which temperature increases is somewhere in the low to midrange of global warming that climate alarmists claim will result from a 300 ppm increase in the air's CO 2 concentration.?? As noted in our Editorial of 26 Jan 2005 , this positive effect of rising temperature far outweighs the negative effect of rising CO 2 concentrations on calcification in corals. Reviewed 9 February 2005",3_2
"Glacier Bay was first surveyed in detail in 1794 by a team from the H.M.S. Discovery, captained by George Vancouver. At the time the survey produced showed a mere indentation in the shoreline. That massive glacier was more than 4,000 feet thick in places, up to 20 miles wide, and extended more than 100 miles to the St. Elias mountain range.",0_0
"The Great Barrier Reef is being damaged by global warming in fact, there is no trend in the sea surface temperature of the reef over the last 40 years.",1_4
"There are, of course, other weather elements that are helping Obama, such as his attentive efforts to help the victims of Sandy and his apparent turning of New Jersey Governor Christie into a implicit supporter. But these fade compared to the nationwide effects of benign weather that are predicted by our modeling systems.",0_0
"EPA's rule will force poor and minority families to choose between buying food, putting gas in the car, going to the doctor, buying medicines, giving to their church, saving for retirement, or making mortgage, rent and car payments. Small businesses will have to find thousands more just to keep the heat, lights and air conditioning on, without laying people off or closing their doors. Factories, malls, school districts, hospitals and cities will have to pay millions more for energy.",4_1
"Read here and here . The impressive success of the harmonic astronomical climate model (left chart) is in the realm of spectacular when compared to the robust, abysmal performance of the IPCC's (middle chart) and NASA's (right chart) traditional CO2-based climate models. The failure of the CO2-centric models is due in large part to their inability to reproduce the known decadal and multi-decadal oscillations that are part and parcel to the world's climate.",5_1
"As above a 5,000ppm change in weight of atmosphere equates to 0.1C, so the 100ppm change in CO2 results in an order of magnitude smaller change in temperature. It isnt even worth me calculating as the answer is clearly no.",0_0
"The interesting thing is that the Earth is actually -18 degrees C, as observed from outer space. Given the total energy input from the Sun, the Earth does have the global average temperature of -18 degrees C that is predicted when re-emitting that same energy from the Earth. The global average temperature is -18 degrees C when observed from outer space .",0_0
"So far, Wall Street isn't biting. ""The asymmetry of risk is just too large for Wall Street to finance these projects over time horizons that exceed political and economic cycles.... Utilities willing to make this investment, but I don't see stepping up and funding this program.... The markets aren't going to support it,"" said one veteran from Wall Street who attended a recent Manhattan Institute conference on nuclear power. While the financier characterized the 2005 subsidies as ""helpful,"" he said that it's unlikely the sector will get off the ground without a far more comprehensive ""federally based insurance scheme"" that, in effect, would eliminate virtually every risk except, perhaps, commercial risk.",0_0
"The authors write that ""coral reef recovery from major disturbance is hypothesized to depend on the arrival of propagules from nearby undisturbed reefs,"" and, therefore, they say that ""reefs isolated by distance or current patterns are thought to be highly vulnerable to catastrophic disturbance,"" which could well spell their local extinction. What was done",0_0
Well yesterday I emphasized that Pieresons review and critique of Pikettys book Capital in the Twenty-First Century failed to point some serious faults and weaknesses missed important things.,0_0
"Since the rate of warming from 1976-2001, to which we could in theory have contributed, is statistically indistinguishable in the rates from 1860-1880 and from 1910-1940, to which we could not, Roy Spencer was right to say we cannot easily disentangle the anthropogenic from the natural contributions to warming. Spencer 5, Nuccitelli 0.",2_1
"Swedish Waste Management said the 30 waste-to-energy incinerators in the country currently burn about 6.06 million tons of garbage each year, and planned expansions indicate the country would have to start importing 1.76 million tons of garbage from other countries each year to keep them in operation, The Local.se reported Thursday.",0_0
"(i) Over the last 16 years, global average temperature, as measured by both thermometers and satellite sensors, has displayed no statistically significant warming; over the same period, atmospheric carbon dioxide has increased by 10%.",1_4
Thompson and Gordon Jacoby as most of their series are not on web sites.,0_0
"An economist should look at the costs and benefits. In terms of Climate Change there are two sets of costs. First, those of climate change impacts and second, the costs of the policy to contain the global warming. The Stern Review put argument that the mitigation policy costs were 5 to 20 times less than letting climate change progress unchecked. Therefore there is a clear-cut case for global mitigation policy. But crucially Stern does not look at the consequences of ineffective and over-expensive policy. The Booker article For every new green job, nearly four are lost looks at one aspect of these real policy costs. An economist would also claim that the Greens fail to look at the opportunity costs, claim that the new jobs are a benefit.",4_1
"In this year's campaign, Hillary Clinton repudiated much of the record of her husband's administration and ran on a platform more culturally liberal than ever. For the first time, it had an explicit call to end restrictions on taxpayer funding of abortion.",0_0
Study suggests snowball Earth was real and was reversed by An ultra-high carbon dioxide atmosphere,0_0
One of the biggest risks I see of companies in vertically integrated marketsis what I call disintermediation and what it really means is a Google comes in with an idea about improving the energy use in the home and the next thing you know the demand drops 30%.,0_0
25 Nov: ABC Lateline: $1.5 million Australian expedition to Antarctica Professor Chris Turney from the University of NSW is mounting the largest Australian science expeditions to the Antarctic with an 85-person team to try to answer questions about how climate change in the frozen continent might be already shifting weather patterns in Australia.,0_0
"The latter is closely connected to the issue of free speech. This morning, climatologist Judith Curry published an informative overview of various lawsuits involving another climatologist, Michael Mann.",0_0
"The Pine Lake sediment record convincingly demonstrates the reality of the non-CO 2 -induced millennial-scale climatic oscillation that alternately brings several-century periods of dryness and wetness to the southern Alberta region of North America during concomitant periods of relative hemispheric warmth and coolness, respectively. It also demonstrates there is nothing unusual about the region's current moisture status, which suggests that the planet may still have a bit of warming to do before the Modern Warm Period is fully upon us.",2_1
"This PR from McGill University claims that the ???deep ocean heat has been unable to get out and melt back the wintertime Antarctic ice??. That might be true, but still, there are polynyas present in the location of interest (Weddell Sea) that they don??t mention. In fact, there??s even a large offshore polynya in progress in the Weddell Sea right now according to NSIDC imagery, and the Weddell sea has a lot more ice where it is not supposed to be according to ???normals??. See below ??? Anthony",1_1
Read the State Department document and decide for yourself whether these questions are worth asking.,0_0
Too hot to fly on Antarctic runway | The Courier-Mail,0_0
"How many unquestionable climate activists are there? No, it is not one billion. The number of these particular loons was counted to be twenty-three. It's not hard to memorize them. Sane people just don't care about this dumb propaganda, certainly not to the point that they would actively sign petitions.",0_0
"Most of the 7000 word article is paywalled, but Readfearn also writes at the ABC about it.",0_0
"Do these people have any idea what their fear-mongering is doing to the minds of children - other than making them terrified, anxious, and sleep-deprived?",0_0
"Anecdotally, from my weather station here on the Upper North Shore in Sydney, this has been the Year without a Summer. Mean temperatures for December, January and February were 18.6C, 21.5C and 21.6C, significantly lower than 2010/11 (21.7, 23.9, 24.1) and 2009/10 (22.9, 23.9, 23.4).",1_3
17d. The ability of regional climate models to model temperature values for the next 50 years,0_0
"There is a saying that great minds discuss ideas, broad minds discuss events, and small minds discuss other people. Lets name those types of discussion I, II, and III respectively. Science and mathematics is type I. The subject of climate is definitively science and mathematics, yet for more than 25 years, popular and press discussion has dwelled obsessively on it as a type III discussion instead. Scientifically, climate is a deep, daunting mystery, wrapped in a complexity that tests the limits of what humans know or what they may ever know. Yet somehow the profound human limitations brought out by its scientifically uncompromising, rugged, alpine face gets lost in a socio-political fog rooted in grade school reasoning based on what daddy says and mendacious tattling about what the bad kids did when teacher was not looking.",0_0
"A new report by Greenpeace claims that global warming will destroy the world's great coral reefs by 2100 if something isn't done to stop it. The report states that ""Coral reefs could be eliminated from most areas of the world by 2100,"" and that even the Great Barrier Reef could be dead within 30 years. The report also claims that even if measures to reduce greenhouse gases are taken it may still take 500 years for the reefs to recover (www.greenpeace.org).",0_0
"Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet's recent climate changes have a naturaland not a human-inducedcause, according to one scientist's controversial theory.",2_1
Google Resumes Work on Oklahoma Data Center:,0_0
"Jones even blocked the opinion of the ABC??s own highly-respected conservative voice, Michael Duffy. Duffy could not get a word in, having made it clear that he would not tow the ABC pro-climate change line. Early on in the panel discussion, Duffy had queried why there was such organised criticism and deconstruction of Durkin??s documentary, and no such treatment of Al Gore??s Inconvenient Truth.",5_2
"The EIA estimates that a program similar to the types of plans bipartisan members of Congress are considering to reduce the growth in emissions would force the price of power up 4 to 6 percent over what it otherwise would be by 2010, and by 11 to 13 percent by 2030. But those estimates hinge on another key assumption the EIA makes: that the nation's power producers will boost nuclear generation by 50 percent over today's levels by 2030-five times the growth expected without a cap.",0_0
"Similarly, legislation on energy efficiency standards is moving forward after agreement by Sens. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H. That's not an earthshaking issue, but it's one of those issues on which Congress needs to keep laws up to date in light of experience and technological developments.",0_0
"Land-based thermometers are frequently compromised by the urban heat island effect. The microclimate around a land-based thermometer can change due to urban encroachment, such as nearby asphalt, concrete, buildings, air conditioners, cars, electrical appliances, or changes in vegetation. The annual mean air temperature of a city with 1 million people can be 13C warmer than its surroundings . In the evening, the difference can be as high as 12C.",5_1
"This isn't the first time that NOAA has used dubious data to justify global warming alarmism. In early June, NOAA rewrote the historical climate record by making it ""cooler"" so the present appears warmer. Even climate scientists who believe that man is primarily responsible for the planet warming less than one degree Celsius over the last 100 years rejected NOAA's readjustments to hide the 18-year-and-counting global warming hiatus.",5_2
"Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio . Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Tuesday night vintage music show, here are Harry Reser and his Syncopaters performing Shaking the Blues Away (1927, 2:49). Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.",0_0
"Another impediment to fossil fuel development is the Environmental Protection Agency's designation of carbon dioxide as a pollutant a designation that should be abolished. Carbon dioxide is an airborne fertilizer that increased plant growth over the past 50 years. A recent report shows that the social benefits of carbon dioxide, for agriculture alone, are estimated at $3.2 trillion from 1960 to 2012 and $7.9 trillion from 2012 to 2050.",0_0
The big companies are putting their profits before the lives of people. And your dad is helping them.,0_0
"""Decisions as to whether or not to block these sites would be best done at a local level, where librarians and educators are intimately aware of the needs of their users. More importantly, the law would give the Federal Communications Commission broad power to define what constitutes a social networking site, setting up the likelihood that a vague, overly expansive definition could restrict far more than what is intended.""",0_0
"The EU has earmarked 3 million Euros (approximately INR 19.5 crores) for this 3 years project, bringing together leading research institutions in Europe: Netherlands, UK and Switzerland, and India: TERI, IIT-Delhi & Kharagpur. The participation of Japan in this project is adding an international dimension.",0_0
"""Oh please, Lord - let it happen ..."" Really, I can't believe I'm the only one who can see the possibilities. Think of the headlines - ""After A Divisive Nomination, The Democrats Join Cults""",0_0
"If The Australian wants to control the dialogue instead of responding to the cat calls, there are many simple, probing, unasked questions they could start with in the Corruption series here , with The Skeptics Handbook (and part II ), or the Climate Money paper.",0_0
"""At a candidate forum here last week, Representative Baron P. Hill, a threatened Democratic incumbent in a largely conservative southern Indiana district, was endeavoring to explain his unpopular vote for the House cap-and-trade energy bill.""",0_0
"However, glaciologists find such figures inherently ludicrous, pointing out that most Himalayan glaciers are hundreds of feet thick and could not melt fast enough to vanish by 2035 unless there was a huge global temperature rise. The maximum rate of decline in thickness seen in glaciers at the moment is 2-3 feet a year and most are far lower.",1_1
"The incident shortwave radiation at the top of the atmosphere is based on a climate model forcing. The CMIP5 Modeling Info Forcing Data webpage provides a link to the SOLARIS website for the recommended solar forcing data. The recommendations can be found here . They recommend a total solar irradiance reconstruction by Judith Lean, and provide very clear instructions for solar cycles in the futurerepeat Solar Cycle 23.",0_0
"The Heritage Foundation is the most broadly supported think tank in the United States. During 2013, it had nearly 600,000 individual, foundation, and corporate supporters representing every state in the U.S. Its 2013 income came from the following sources:",0_0
The fact is also: The projections from scientists have failed to forecast the stop in the temperature rise.,5_1
"Gro Harlem Brundtland, Special Envoy on Climate Change, U.N. Skeptics of global warming present the same issues as tobacco companies did. . He then brings up the big, ancient Roman ports, which he says are now 20 kilometers inland]. Peter Brabeck Chairman, Nestl The climate change issue is much more complex than a low carbon economy.",0_0
"Climate Science Destroyed, Online Drug Advertising and Opposing Net Neutrality",0_0
"We calculate that 5 to 10 percent of worldwide air pollution mortalities are due to biomass burning, Jacobson said. That means that it causes the premature deaths of about 250,000 people each year.",0_0
"This is good news for two reasons. First, warmer temperatures increase phytoplankton bioactivity (protein synthesis) all over the globe. Mark 1 Eyeball observations of FLL seasonal reef visibility are true everywhere. It is in the phytoplankton genes. That means more oxygen, more marine food chain food, and more carbon sequestration if waters warm. Second, temperature up-regulated gene expression shifts phytoplankton metabolic pathways away from phosphorus and toward nitrogen. This is a marvelous example of evolutionary adaptation. Phosphorus is a growth-limiting factor in most ocean regions, provided primarily by upwelling deep water. A shift toward N-limitation with more bioactivity avoids the phosphorus growth constraint. Oceans have their own nitrogen fixation mechanisms (e.g. cyanobacteria like Trichodesmium ) that would also get more productive. Less phosphorus consumed by phytoplankton means more is available to N-fixing cyanobacteria. ,",3_2
In the April 14 2009 news there is a well writtenarticle byKen Thomas of the APwhich provides another example of the multi-faceted effects of particular decision with respect to the environment.,0_0
"But even with high estimates of rainforest loss, there are still problems with the ""island biogeography"" theory. To begin with, it requires two highly questionable assumptions. First is that islands and habitats are analogous. But they are quite different. Islands are surrounded by water which is hostile to most land species. Terrestrial habitat surrounded by land, which can be much more accommodating to migrating species.",0_0
"The authors write that ""the ability of coupled climate models to simulate the characteristics of the monsoon in present day climate is an important condition for the use of such models to make future climate projections."" But they say that in the study of Smith et al . (2012), ""the relationship between seasonal winds and rainfall was not always well represented,"" while adding that ""the observed negative correlation between Indian rainfall and El Nio-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events was ... too weak in CMIP5 models,"" citing Sperber et al . (2013). What was done",5_1
"3. The global cooling predictions that I made in 2000, based on recurring patterns of PDO and global climate, have so far proven to be correct.",1_2
"Just think again, before you pour those extra spices in the soup, try to fix the brakes on your bike. Or try to fix international, economic statistics.",0_0
"The authors note that several studies have raised concerns that tropical cyclones, or TCs -- and especially the severe ones -- ""have become more frequent in many places in response to global warming,"" citing Emanuel (2005) and Webster et al . (2005). In addition, Callaghan and Power write that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, highlights several studies that conclude that ""tropical cyclones are likely to become more intense in the future in response to global warming,"" citing Alley et al . (2007); but rather than accepting this set of claims on the basis of the IPCC's ""authority,"" they go on to provide a much more compelling analysis of their own. What was done",0_0
"Yesterday, after a four-month review, a committee of scientists concluded that the Nobel prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has ""assigned high confidence to statements for which there is very little evidence"", has failed to enforce its own guidelines, has been guilty of too little transparency, has ignored critical review comments and has had no policies on conflict of interest"".",5_2
"The civil war over cap and trade is how the political process works; its results are always crooked and counterproductive. In the debate over manmade climate change, the interventionists typically contrast a flawed, real-world market economy with a textbook vision of a benevolent and all-wise global dictator setting emission caps.",4_1
"Many refugees are fleeing Islamist persecution in Libya and the Sahel but as Dr Kandeh Yumkella, UN under-secretary-general, told the BBC , the long-term push factors that are driving people to make the miserable journey include the lack of energy in sub-Saharan Africa.",0_0
"26 Dec: BBC: Andrew Luck-Baker: Science continues for trapped Australasian Antarctic expedition Science reporter Andrew Luck-Baker is on board the Russian research vessel Shokalskiy, covering the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013 for the BBC World Service programme Discovery",0_0
"If the size of the talus area had been modeled as the only predictor of pika vacancies, any large talus area, (areas above the upper red line), would correctly predict full occupancy, accounting for 31% of the sites (20 of 67), regardless of temperature. Small talus area (areas below the lower red line) would correctly account for 70% of the vacancies (7 of 10 vacancies) regardless of temperature. In talus of intermediate areas, only 7% of the sites were vacant (3 of 39) which is close to the overall 6% finding of the USFS surveys. That 7% vacancy rate is easily accounted for by random extinction/colonization events, and the percentage is far better than vacancy rates Dr. Smith reported for Bodies ore piles.",0_0
"A former human resources director at one of Abengoa's subsidiaries, who served as my ""deep throat"" in my earlier reporting, said: ""What I came to realize, and it took me a while because I didn't want to realize it, is that they understood. They knew the law. They didn't care. I really came to believe that they're so politically connected that it's just hubris and arrogance.""",0_0
"""Although various research groups use different techniques to account for this problem, the absence of ground truth (true temperature) makes it impossible to ascertain whose technique is best. Esper uses a method aimed at retaining long-period (greater than a century or so) variations in the tree-ring records, whereas Mann uses a method that virtually eliminates all long-term variation."" Esper concludes, ""Higher-frequency climate variations are generally better understood than lower-frequency variations.""",0_0
The Yale Forum on Climate Change has a good post SCC ? Social Costs of Carbon: Continuing a little told story. This article provides a lot of good background information.,0_0
"The spiritual yet down-to-earth Mr. Modi knows that 300 million Indians still have no electricity. His priority is to turn on the lights all over India. In Bihar, four homes in five are still lit by kerosene.",0_0
"Strike three : Even at the minimum summer ice is two thirds of what it was 30 years ago, not half",0_0
economic problems by advancing these other programs. But the real answer came,0_0
"But he, Osama, has also added some improvements. He claims to have found an Al Gore Rhythm to destroy the U.S. economy even more quickly than the conventional cap-and-trade bills were planning to do. A forced demise of the U.S. dollar is a part of his project to decarbonize the world's economy.",4_1
"NRDC's Heat Advisory report (September 2007) claims that, under a likely global warming scenario, the number of ""bad air"" days"" (days when ozone levels exceed the 8-hour health-based air quality standard set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) would increase by as much as 155% in some of the 10 cities studied. NRDC further states that, ""by mid-century, people living in 50 cities in the eastern United States would see a 68 percent (5.5 day) increase in the average number of days exceeding the health-based 8-hour ozone standard established by EPA."" This means the number of unhealthy (""Red Alert"") days would ""double.""",0_0
"What would be the consequences if the Dow-anti-shale gas coalition should prevail? A decision to cave to political pressures and constrain natural gas exports could rock world trade markets and even damage our green energy aspirations. ""For example,"" wrote Levi, ""the United States has filed with the World Trade Organization a challenge to Chinese restrictions on exports of so-called rare earth minerals, which are crucial for new technologies like wind turbines, missiles and smart phones. If Washington hypocritically limits gas exports, it might as well write the Chinese brief.""",0_0
"Normally, I might not deal with a four year old paper by James Hansen, the NASA doyenne of serial doomcasters. However, I note that this paper has been cited ten times this year alone, so I thought I might comment.",5_2
"He makes yet more appeals to authority, that these poor scientists have such great difficulty in transmitting their superior knowledge to the masses, that the only answer is to say that the majority of scientists agree on the main issues. Of course this is also how they try to stifle dissenting voices from climate scientists who are just as qualified to address the climate issues, if not more so, than the main protagonists.",0_0
"Vecchi and Knutson report that ""the estimated trend for 1900-2006 is highly significant (+~4.2 storms century -1 ),"" but they say that this trend ""is strongly influenced by a minimum in 1910-30, perhaps artificially enhancing significance,"" whereas using their base case adjustment for missed TCs leads to an 1878-2006 trend in the number of TCs that is only ""weakly positive"" and ""not statistically significant."" In addition, they say that ""the trend in average TC duration (1878-2006) is negative and highly significant."" What it means",0_0
"In the words of the authors, ""there has been no significant warming or cooling during the entire period 1876-1993 for the annual data and the seasonal temperature data."" What it means",1_4
"The reason why NASA/NCDC surface data doesnt match satellite data, is because their surface data is fraudulent",5_1
"An MIT study led by ex-CIA director John Deutsch and Ernest J. Moniz, a former undersecretary of energy, recommended expanding the use of nuclear power around the world to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The MIT panel said that it shared ""the scientific consensus that emissions must be reduced and that the US will eventually join with other nations in the effort to do so.""",0_0
"China does not control the agenda of next week's U.N. climate meeting in the northern port city of Tianjin, which runs from October 4-9. Beijing is not expected to announce any new carbon-cutting measures in the talks.",0_0
"officials and public planning experts"" scheduled to meet with Rosenberg will manage to find private transportation and hold their global warming forum today, or whether the record snow and bitter cold will force it to be rescheduled.",1_3
"There is not yet reason to assume, say the scientists, that the mercury in the world??s thermometers will now rise any higher than it would have risen during two or three other unusually warm periods since the beginning of our calendar. These were not years which scorched the globe as fatally as the ice ages had frozen it. But they were years of mild winters and hard summers. In some parts of Central Europe, Africa and the Americas they brought drought.",2_1
"She has seen in the North American trees the feathery but unmistakable signatures of the Medieval Warm Period , a era from 1100 to 1375 A.D. when, according to European writers of the time and other sources, the climate was so balmy that wine grapes flourished in Britain and the Vikings farmed the now-frozen expanse of Greenland; and the Little Ice Age , a stretch of abnormally frigid weather lasting roughly from 1450 to 1850.",2_1
House Republican leaders take issue with the Federal Communications Commission's plan to implement net neutrality regulations.,0_0
Percentage of peak grid power supplied by 7000 wind turbines in Northern Europe in 2004,0_0
"I had personally grown pessimistic about our chances when the panel was appointed, but had thought there were arguments we could win and that we might get a good dissent from Judge Sentelle at least on the authority of EPA to tailor the statutory PSD permitting thresholds. Such a dissent would have enhanced the prospects of a motion for the full court to rehear the case en banc and a petition for certiorari to the Supreme Court.",0_0
I said I dont want you to put polar bears on the Endangered Species list.,3_2
"""The United Nations's Convention on Biological Diversity is expected to either ban outright or limit research into space sunshades. Although NASA and other organizations are looking into these sunshades as a possible way to slow climate change, environmental advocates have criticized this research as providing only a short-term fix that wouldn't affect the underlying issues, like humanity's overuse of fossil fuels. There are also serious questions about how blocking out part of the Sun's rays could affect weather patterns, ecosystems, and agriculture.""",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Technology Analyst Peter Suderman on how video downloads and other new technologies make cable a la carte laws unnecessary.,0_0
"Weve been very clear in our national waste plan. Reuse, materials recycling, and waste reduction are what weve called for, she said.",0_0
"Plus there are these other studies which purported to validate positive water feedback, but which don't. Now what the modelers are more interested in is the cloud feedback and how clouds respond. And I've got some results to show you from that. These are the two main things I want to talk about, is water vapor feedback and cloud feedback and then aerosols is getting interesting. You probably had heard that the excuse for the reason why we haven't seen as much global warming as we should have by now has been that the man-produced aerosols are reflecting sunlight. But now, it is being better understood that, apparently, aerosols don't have as much cooling effect as we had thought and indeed might absorb an awful lot of sunlight. And may not have as much cooling effect on the climate as we thought and if we can't blame it on aerosols, maybe we need to go back to water vapor feedback as the culprit.",0_0
"Unfortunately, it gets worse. In recent months, EPA has issued two regulationsthe Utility Maximum Achievable Control Technology rule and the Carbon Pollution Standard for New Power Plantsthat effectively ban the construction of new coal-fired power plants. Thus, EPA has effectively taken coal, one of America's most abundant and reliable energy sources, off the table.",0_0
"Watts, A. (2009). Is The U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable? Downloaded from http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/surfacestationsreport spring09.pdf .",0_0
"They concluded, ""Forests, farms, and grasslands have the potential to absorb more (greenhouse gases), ameliorating climate change. Properly managed, they could buy time for the world's people to make major reductions in greenhouse emissions."" They admitted that despite the findings, ""There is much we still must discover"" (The Australian, May 11)",0_0
"There are astonishing differences in the modeled estimates of the past, present and future imbalances and the three components that make up the top of the atmosphere (TOA) energy budget. That is, there is no agreement on the magnitude of TOA Earths energy imbalance in the models, and there are even wider disagreements in the calculated components that make up that energy budget, how they evolved in the past, and how they may evolve in the futureall suggesting, among the models, there is little agreement in the modeled processes and physics that contribute to global warming now, contributed to it in the past and might contribute to it in the future.",0_0
"The warming of the 20 th century was not unprecedented. On the evidence of the warming of 1694 to 1733 in central England, it was well within natural variability.",2_1
"And as in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, those least able to defend themselvesminorities, the poor, particularly in the Third Worldwould be the principle victims of ideological pseudo-science.",0_0
"Indeed, there is no evidence that hurricanes are intensifying anyway. For the North Atlantic as a whole, according to the United Nations Environment Programme of the World Meteorological Organization: ""Reliable data since the 1940s indicate that the peak strength of the strongest hurricanes has not changed, and the mean maximum intensity of all hurricanes has decreased.""",0_0
"""As I have said, over and over again, the fundamental point has always been this: Climate change is governed by hundreds of factors, or variables, and the very idea that we can manage climate change predictably by understanding and manipulating at the margins one politically-selected factor (CO2), is as misguided as it gets,"" Stott wrote.",2_3
itself. The study also catalogues a series of errors and distortions in the Stern Review any one of which would have caused it to fail peer review.,0_0
"Three centuries ago, the world ran on green power. Wood was used for heating and cooking, charcoal for smelting and smithing, wind or water-power for pumps mills and ships, and whale oil or tallow for lamps. People and soldiers walked or rode horses, and millions of horses and oxen pulled ploughs, wagons, coaches and artillery.",0_0
One of the 17 attorneys general who vowed last week to target climate change fraud issued a subpoena Thursday to the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute in what its counsel described as an attack on free speech.,0_0
I want to know when global warming will start. Im still freezing my ass off at the end of April.,1_3
"First of all, Im glad that the question of RE significance has been picked up. We raised the issue of spurious RE significance in our GRL article, but the only discussion of it so far has been Huybers 2005 and Wahl and Ammann (in their rejected GRL submission) both of which were critical and sought to restore the old benchmark of 0. Burger and Cubasch, together with the Zorita review, are the second discussion to appreciate that there is a real issue with RE significance.",0_0
"2. Arctic sea ice has been established in peer-reviewed papers to fluctuate dramatically, and was far lower than today 7,000 years ago during the Holocene Climatic Optimum. The papers authors showed that wave patterns on the shores of northern Greenland were one proof of several for the open ocean during the period.",2_1
"The first wake up call came from attorney Peter Glaser in testimony (November 8, 2007) before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The U.S. Chamber reinforced Glaser's message in a December 12, 2007 open letter to Congress. The free market coalition also weighed in via the aforementioned letters to President Bush (Dec. 16, 2007) and Sen. Feinstein (Feb. 20, 2008).",0_0
"friend-soon he'll think the world of you."" I was right.) Dr. Maestripieri's most intriguing chapter is entitled",0_0
"M-type=centroid moment magnitude (Mw), Version=9",0_0
"FRACKING, NOT OBAMA POLICIES, RESPONSIBLE FOR CARBON DIOXIDE DECLINE",0_0
"In May of last year at Georgetown University, Sen. Clinton gave her first major campaign speech on health care in which she expressed concern that Americans are too obese and committed to seeing Americans lose weight when she s elected president. Last September, Senator Clinton gave another major health-care speech, and again she avoided controversial details: in fact, her whole plan totaled only ten pages "" and emphasized consumer choice. Though not quite as innocuous as she claimed, the plan was still a far cry from the HillaryCare of old.",0_0
"During the Second World War Allied airfields brought wonderful treasures to New Guinea, and when the war ended the natives, believing the airplanes were from the gods, built their own airports, hoping to use sympathetic magic to bring back the planes and their wondrous treasures. Richard Feynman coined the phrase ""cargo cult science"" to illustrate a form of pseudo-science, something that looked like science but was not like the ""airports"" of the islanders.",0_0
No secrets surrounding SEIU's political contributions:,0_0
"Yet, we have ample evidence of negative thermometers (actual surface stations measuring air temperature where the resultant data is inverted after processing) in the Steig et al Antarctica is Warming paper, ( Nature, Jan 22, 2009 )thanks to the careful analysis of Jeff Id and RyanO",0_0
"While all this has been going on, CFACT continues to reach out to friends and allies here in Peru. Last night, the organization Tradici n y Acci n por un Per Mayor (Tradition and Action for a Greater Peru), hosted an event featuring CFACT speakers Walt Cunningham, Marc Morano and me. The room was packed and our speakers well received.",0_0
Green Tracking Library Exposes Environmental Activists,0_0
"The real joker in the deck is that a continuing food shortage will not even cause much hunger. If food is in short supply, farmers around the world will simply plow more and poorer land to grow more low-yield crops. The Green Revolution spared about 7 million square miles for wildlife in the 1960s?the land area of South America. That benefit from ?high-yield conservation? could be lost in the coming decades.",0_0
Heat Dome Creates Several Metres Of New Ice,0_0
"In this instance journalist Peter Stanford falls for Pachauri?s claim that he?s being targeted in a shoot-the-messenger scenario. According to this narrative, the public doesn?t want to confront the danger of climate change so the person delivering the unwelcome news gets attacked.",0_0
"PayPal hands over 1,000 IP Addresses to the FBI:",0_0
"So: The worst of these potential extreme events is the possible disappearance of the summer Arctic ice, an outcome that IPCC now views only as ""likely"" with ""medium confidence,"" and only under an RCP8.5 scenario. ""Extreme"" may be in the eye of the beholder; but even in the AR5 there is little confidence in the inevitability of such events, let alone in the broader scientific debate, Sachs's assertions notwithstanding.",0_0
"Finally, we looked at a recent article from the scientific journal entitled Coral Reefs written by ten scientists from French Polynesia, France, Florida, and California. Apparently, doing work on the reefs of Moorea (an island in French Polynesia) attracts a crowd? Adjeroud et al. studied the Tiahura Outer Reef Sector (TORS) in Moorea from 1991-2006 (sign us up for this duty) and they noted that Coral assemblages in Moorea, French Polynesia, have been impacted by multiple disturbances (one cyclone and four bleaching events between 1991 and 2006). Their conclusions include the statement In addition, our results reveal that corals can recover rapidly following a dramatic decline. Such decadal-scale recovery of coral cover has been documented at some locations, but our results are novel in demonstrating rapid recovery against a backdrop of ongoing, high frequency, and large-scale disturbances.",3_2
"CO2 is not a pollutant. When the Dinosaurs roamed, the CO2 content was 6 to 9 times current and the planet was green from pole to pole; almost no deserts. If we doubled the atmospheric content of CO2, young pine trees would grow at twice the rate and nearly every crop yield would go up 30 to 40%. We, the animals and all land plant life would be healthier if CO2 content were to increase.",3_3
"Any true man born on December 5th could get where he did, about 100 km from Spitsbergen, including Pugh, Glashow, Heisenberg, Knut the bear, and your humble correspondent, especially if they had 8 assistants!",0_0
"Truth n1 The Mean Global Temperature has been stable since 1 997, despite a continuous increase of the CO 2 content of the air: how could one say that the increase of the CO 2 content of the air is the cause of the increase of the temperature?",1_4
"Part 2 tomorrow, Why the world will not agree to pricing carbon ,evaluatesthe output from the most widely cited and accepted climate economics model and shows that at realistically likely participation rates, carbon pricing would be economically damaging for all this century.Costs would exceed benefits for all this century and probably forever. Negotiators recognize these facts so they will not sign up .An alternative approach is suggested that may be worth more consideration than it has received to date.",4_1
"""The new capitalism which emerges from the crisis has to be environmental, or it won't be new,"" she said.",0_0
"To clarify the planetary energy balance equation and its (mis) application to interpreting the greenhouse effect, I am posting section 14.3 from my text Thermodynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans. If you have been following the Postma thread, you should be familiar with the starting point in this section.",0_0
Thanks are certainly due to my hosts - Peter Gill and Josh - for their hospitality and to Benny and everyone at the GWPF for inviting me to the Vaclav Klaus talk.,0_0
"Can any of the areas of the science now be considered settled as a result of AR5s publication, if so which? Unfortunately very few things are settled in the global warming debate. There is only one solid fact: the greenhouse gas concentrations are rising and humans are causing this increase. A second fact is that the climate is warmer than a century ago. How much warmer exactly is still a matter of debate. And how much of the warming is attributable to humans is also far from settled.",5_1
"Lets be straight, I dont doubt for a moment that he is acting out of genuine belief. If someone with money was going to pick a front man for the carbon campaign, theyd pick someone with more PR nous and human savvy than Stephan Lewandowsky.",0_0
"Atmospheric physicist S. Fred Singer is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, and former founding Director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service. He is author of Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warmings Unfinished Debate (The Independent Institute).",0_0
"Budziszewski uses three examples abortion, promiscuity, euthanasia to illustrate his central premise: the more radical our attempts to evade the commands of conscience, the harsher the recoil. Our conscience condemns us no matter how fast we run. Indeed, the faster we run, the louder the snap of condemnation.By virtue of this mechanism, we are, in fact, declining at a faster rate socially, which is why I dare to take on Libertarians, or anyone who stands ready with a pattern of excuses. On the other hand, this post is not about Libertarians, or any particular group. It is about the most precious part of YOU: your conscience. St. Paul drove this point home with deadly precision in the second book of Romans, which I reproduce here in its entirety. Read it! See if it does not present you with incontrovertible proof that your actual convenant with the Creator is your conscience.",0_0
"Last fall, Paul Crutzen, a Nobel-prize-winning chemist, confirmed these findings. Crutzen and his coauthors found that",0_0
"/s/ Leroy Day Hdq. Deputy Director, Space Shuttle Program, 19 years",0_0
The Obama administration announced plans yesterday to create a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Service..,0_0
"The programme focuses in on the two Oklahoma tornadoes of May 2013, as an example. They fail to point out though, only one was of the strongest category, an EF-5, of which 59 have occurred since 1953.",1_7
"Surface temperature measurements show an increase of less than 0.2 C per decade since the late 1970s, at the low end of the forecast. However, more precise satellite and balloon measurements find no statistically significant increasing temperature trend.",0_0
a perturbative naturalness argument: having a smaller Planck mass than dictated by the inequality above would be a form of fine-tuning,0_0
2. Are the 80 temperature proxies used in the paper sufficiently accurate to establish a solid global temperature chronology?,5_1
There is medium evidence and high agreement that long-term trends in normalized losses have not been attributed to natural or anthropogenic climate change,0_0
"""The Center for Biological Diversity, one of the nation's most aggressively litigious environmental groups, has not challenged the Ivanpah project. It signed a confidential agreement not to oppose the project in exchange for concessions for the desert tortoise mandating that BrightSource buy land elsewhere for conservation.",0_0
"The NOAA HAS made adjustments to US temperature data over the last few years that has increased the apparent warming trend. These changes in adjustments have not been well-explained. In fact, they have not really be explained at all, and have only been detected by skeptics who happened to archive old NOAA charts and created comparisons like the one below. Here is the before and after animation (pre-2000 NOAA US temperature history vs. post-2000). History has been cooled and modern temperatures have been warmed from where they were being shown previously by the NOAA. This does not mean the current version is wrong, but since the entire US warming signal was effectively created by these changes, it is not unreasonable to act for a detailed reconciliation (particularly when those folks preparing the chart all believe that temperatures are going up, so would be predisposed to treating a flat temperature chart like the earlier version as wrong and in need of correction.",5_1
More evidence if any were needed that winter endangers public health and welfare. Tomatoes are a great source of anti-oxidents and other health-enhancing nutrients. And they are delish!,0_0
"If you're wondering whether to trust the Environmental Protection Agency on mercury, ozone, climate change or other regulatory actions, you need look no further than how it has handled particulates.",0_0
"Tough state laws have induced some illegals to return home, and in Idaho immigrant farm labor is so scarce that the state is hiring out prisoners to harvest crops.",0_0
"Thus, three of the four variations contributing to the composite in the medieval period are dominated by NH proxies. Bristlecones, contaminated sediments and Luterbacher??s European instrumental-using network all contribute in varying degrees to three of the four variations, proving my point.",5_1
"Not sure what I can say about that, except that I dont understand it in the slightest. My guess is that what has happened is that a faulty computer program has been applied to fudge the record of every temperature station on the planet. The results have then been used without the slightest attempt at quality control.",0_0
"None of the IPCC models skillfully predicted the major weather pattern variations (and their observed variations in frequency over time) for the 20 th century. The 1930s and 1950s droughts in the United States , for example, have not been accurately simulated by the IPPC models. The one climate metric that they focus on (the global average surface temperature trend) has been reasonably simulated primarily because they can determine what level of aerosols in the atmosphere over the past decades is required to explain the observed variations of warming and cooling during this time period.",5_1
"This year marks the 10th anniversary of Al Gore's Oscar-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. The documentary was a critical and box-office success here in the U.S., but not so much in the U.K. In 2007 a High Court ruling in Great Britain found that Gore's documentary on climate change contained key scientific errors and breached education law, making it unacceptable for viewing by students. ""Representing partisan political views,"" the film could only legally be shown if accompanied by a warning about political indoctrination.",5_2
"A Dormant Sun: In February, TWTW reported a study from the Pulkovo Observatory in Russia stating that if the current solar cycle pattern continues, with little solar activity, the globe may experience a new Little Ice Age. To the researcher, what is necessary to understanding the influence of the sun is the response of the earth is lagged behind the solar cycles. http://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/apr/article/view/14754/10140",1_2
Whats the most-often-presented falsehood theyve manufactured about El Nio and La Nia?,0_0
"Coming from India where we routinely suffer power cuts due to mixed-market policies of the government, I found this fantastic. Let's use the wavelength of both light and philosophy to keep darkness at bay.",0_0
"Growth rates in the long-term experiment (LTE) did not follow the negative trend with increasing p CO2 observed in the short-term incubation. Instead, growth rate, which was comparable to that of the control treatment in the short-term experiment, stayed high at elevated CO2 levels Although not statistically signicant, a linear regression analysis reveals an increasing trend of coral growth with rising p CO2 concentration . *",3_2
Hans von Storch anvnde hr term with only the occasional grumbling that I have freely Translated by tying nven in a trouser pocket. The whole point p English:,0_0
"With respect to the proposed expansion of renewable energy production: wind and solar power receive subsidies per kilowatt-hour vastly larger than those purportedly received by conventional generation, and it remains the case that renewables simply are uncompetitive, in substantial part because the energy content of wind and sunlight is too diffused to be useful without massive capital investment. For a discussion of the economics of renewable power and the weakness of the arguments in support of policies subsidizing it, see this AEI report.",4_4
"Iremember warm November days at the beach in Bournemouth during the 1960s, but global warming has turned the weather cold.",1_3
"The post-hole syllogism is a clear example of subreption, as are some claims made in the bushfire debate. Some news media reports, or papers in refereed journals of ecology, may mislead public, and hence political opinion. As an example, it may be said that vegetation has been destroyed, without a close definition of that word. Although they may appear to be dead, many Australian plants are well adapted to bushfire, have lignotubers, and resprout readily soon after it. They are no more destroyed, by mild fire, than a garden shrub which is pruned. Other Australian plants need fire, or smoke, in order to flower, or germinate from seed. Words can be deceptive, as philosophers such as Locke, Hobbes and Wittgenstein noted.",0_0
"MOOSE: Ha! He cant even keep his metaphors straight. Cmon, Spunky. Were never going to get through to this guy. So long, Socrates.",0_0
The Met Office figures are generated using historical weather patterns and long-term climate data.,0_0
"In an extraordinary turn of events, on July 31, the Senate ceased debate on the omnibus energy bill, S.14, and instead agreed unanimously to bring last year's energy bill back to the floor. It passed on a vote of 84 to 14. S.14 had seen slow progress, constantly interrupted by other issues such as judicial nominations, and still faced hundreds of potential amendments. The deal surfaced after majority leader Bill Frist (R.-Tenn.) proposed a cloture motion which many thought unlikely to pass. The Senate therefore faced the prospect of a genuine stalemate which would lead to no energy bill passing at all.",0_0
UPDATE: Ive located this photo also. What looked to be a sidewalk turned out to be a big chunk of concrete. Heat sink anyone?,0_0
"During the past year, the wave of bankruptcies in solar has devastated the entire industry, while solar investors have lost almost ?25bn on the stockmarket.",0_0
"Tom Wigley, a senior scientist and Trenberth associate at the National Center for Atmospheric Research suggested in another e-mail to Mann: ?If you think that Saiers is in the greenhouse skeptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of this, we could go through official channels to get him ousted? .",0_0
"Based on the last 25 years, 2013 was the fourth coldest. If we look at the average temperatures for the last 25 years, we see that they have pretty much remained constant.",1_4
"The last thing that I should be doing is working on new proxies without finishing off work in hand, but this new data is interesting and, with it in hand, Thompson et al is even more frustrating. There are some weird splices that you don??t notice at a first read, but start to stick out when you have some data to compare it to. Here??s some more curiosities. See also a previous post here.",5_1
Schellnhuber claims he is not at all surpisedby the 15-year absence of warming. Chart source: www.drroyspencer.com .,1_4
"Let us be clear about what that would mean. The electric power supply will be interrupted when it cannot meet demand. Lights will go out. Offices will cease to function. People will freeze or swelter. Elderly people will die. If sustained, this situation will severely damage the economy. Jobs will be lost. Health will suffer. The poor will get poorer. Flows of money from America to the developing world will shrink.",0_0
* STRONG NORTH WINDS ARE GUSTING TO 55 MPH?? RESULTING IN BLIZZARD CONDITIONS?? INCLUDING CONSIDERABLE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW AND WHITE OUT CONDITIONS. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE THROUGH 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON?? AND WILL SUBSIDE SLOWLY FROM 2 PM THROUGH THIS EVENING.,1_3
Ethanol and Energy Security. The fundamental thermodynamic limitations of biofuels will render them little more than niche sources barring massive technological breakthroughs. These limitations undercut claims that biofuels and renewables will increase America's military or energy security.,0_0
"In popular science journalism thelatestis always the best. With all the explanations for the pause in global surface temperatures since 1997 there are now over 30 of them it is always the most recently published one that is the answer. This time its the Atlantic Ocean thats to blame. A paper published in Science says that a 30-year periodicity warms and cools the world by sequestering heat below the oceans surface and then releasing it. You dont have to look very deeply at the science to realise that, despite the headlines, no one has come up with an answer to the pause. --David Whitehouse, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 26 August 2014",1_4
"Never fear, however, the Met Office has now rushed to the rescue. According to its computer models, any cooling caused by the lack of sunspots will only retard the worlds inexorable warming by two years, implying that by 2100 temperatures could have risen by as much as 6 degrees.",1_2
North America and Mid Atlantic Ridge Quake Map,0_0
"Now predicting the exact date of the next Bond Event could be a bit hard. Some folks count the L.I.A. as the last one, but I think it was a Half Bond event . That would make Bond 1 the start of The Dark Ages in 540 AD and put the Bond Event Zero at 1470+540= 2010 AD or so start date. Just about the time the sun went quiet (or 2040 AD if you use a 1500 year pulse). Or right about now. Do realize that D.O. Events are warming often preceding a cold plunge. A related thing is the Heinrich Event that is similar but shows ice rafted debris when still in a cold phase. Bond Events catch the cold plunge after the warm, during interglacials. So one reasonable surmise is that the recent warming period from 1970 to now was just a D.O. event, before the Bond Event drop.",1_2
"As the repercussions of ClimateGate reverberate around the virtual community of global citizens, we believe it is both important and urgent to reflect on what this moment is telling us about the practice of science in the 21st Century.",0_0
"One slight problem with Serrezes little theory, the ice is growing around pretty much all of the continent, and not just the small area of West Antarctic that he refers to.",1_1
"Christopher Booker, whom I met in Nice a few years ago and whom I like, wrote the most read Earth-category article in the Telegraph over the last 3 days,",0_0
"Held a high-priced, widely publicized, assume-alarmist-science conference in 2008, Beyond Science: The Economics and Politics of Responding to Climate Change , featuring John Kerry and John Holdren on the political side.",5_2
"The Moscow region saw temperatures of -17 to -18 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, and the record cold temperatures are expected to linger for at least three more days. Thermometers in Siberia touched -50 degrees Celsius, which is also abnormal for December.",1_3
"Meanwhile back in the real world, UAH shows that Antarctica is cooling at a rate of almost 1C / century.",1_1
?Every day nearly 16.000 children die from hunger and related causes.?,0_0
"Over the past three decades, fossil fuels enabled 1.3 billion people to escape debilitating energy poverty over 830 million thanks to coal alone and China connected 99% of its population to the grid and increased its steel production eight times over, again mostly with coal. However, 1.3 billion people are still desperate for electricity and modern living standards. In India alone, over 300 million people (the population of the entire United States) remain deprived of electricity.",4_5
"By contrast, the telephone and telegraph had barely changed since he was born; radio and talkies had been around since his youth; only television and (yawn) telex were true novelties. (That the satellite would do more for communication than for transportation in the years ahead was emblematic of what was to come.)An elderly person alive in 1950 would have witnessed extraordinary changes in the mode, speed and availability of transport: cars, motorcycles, powered flight, jet engines, rockets, outboard motors, electric trains, hovercraft, helicopters and supersonic speed.",0_0
"1. US Reigns as World's No. 1 Producer of Petroleum. In March, total US petroleum production exceeded production in Saudi for the 17th straight month (see chart above). By surpassing Saudi Arabia the previous world leader in petroleum output ""Saudi America' has been the world's No. 1 petroleum producer in every month since November 2012 (EIA data here).",0_0
"The significance of these findings with respect to the ongoing rise in the air's CO 2 content is linked to the relationship that exists between atmospheric CO 2 enrichment and AMF growth and development. As may be seen by perusing the materials that are identified when searching for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on our website's search feature (home page upper right-hand corner), as the air's CO 2 content rises, it will likely impact crop-fungal interactions by increasing the percent of the crop's root system colonized by either mycorrhizal fungal hyphae or arbuscular structures, thereby promoting the positive phenomena documented by Rinaudo et al .",3_3
"Before the debate began, however, Pederson went to the front of the classroom and, for 15 minutes, told those attending that they shouldn't believe a word of what Lomborg and Lawson said. The idea that a university audience might listen to a debate with an open mind is apparently beyond Pederson's ability to comprehend because, of course, he believes he is totally right on global warming and any other viewpoint is totally wrong.",0_0
We have at least 25 years to research this issue before CO2 emission cuts need to be considered.,0_0
"11 EPA, National Air Pollutant Trends, 1900-1998, Executive Summary.",0_0
"Note that Schmidt and Sherwood did not dispute the fact that the CMIP5 models performed worse than the earlier generation CMIP3 models at simulating global surface temperatures outside of the Arctic over recent decades. Schmidt and Sherwood simply commented on the practices of modeling groups. Regardless of the practices, in recent decades, the CMIP5 models perform better (but still bad) in the Arctic but worse outside the Arctic than the earlier generation models.",5_1
"""Obama and Leo don't realize the potential for a humanitarian disaster"" under strict carbon restrictions, Lewis said.",4_1
"Ive put up two different metals standard price charts. One for precious metals vs currencies , the other for base metals vs precious metals .",0_0
"Bottom Line: No scientist or team of scientists has come up with an empirically validated theory proving that higher Atmospheric CO2 Levels will lead to higher GASTnot EPAs team and certainly not to the EPAs 90-99% certainty. Moreover, if the causal link between higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations and higher GAST is broken by invalidating EPAs Three LoE, then EPAs claim that higher CO2 concentrations also cause sea level increases and more frequent and severe storms, floods and droughts is also disproved. Such causality claims require a validated theory that higher CO2 concentrations cause increases in GAST. Lacking such a validated theory, EPAs entire house of cards collapses.",2_3
Here??s sorted list of North Atlantic hurricane ACE numbers from 1950-2013 ??? this year tied for 5th lowest on record http://models.weatherbell.com/ace thru dec31 sort.dat,1_7
"This lower limit of instrumental uncertainty implies that Earths fever is indistinguishable from zero Celsius, at the 1 level, across the entire 20th century.",1_4
"I have used the same temperature scale , with a six degree range. Even with this scale, there is very little sign of any hockey stick. Certainly there was a bunch of warm years around the turn of the century, but they were only slightly warmer than earlier periods, notably the 1730s. And in recent years there has been a decline in temperature, which the running five year averages illustrate on the graph below. Indeed the average temperature over the last five years is no higher than several years during the 1730s.",2_1
"""It is inappropriate and hyprocritical for Clinton to now imply that President Bush's policy is irresponsible or blameworthy,"" continued Lewis. ""He can't have it both ways either the lack of meaningful participation by key developing countries justified his no-ratification policy or not. If it did, then Bush's identical policy of not seeking ratification is equally justified. If it did not, then he should apologize today to his fellow Kyoto supporters for not submitting the treaty while it was in his power to do so.""",0_0
this from an argument about the cost of cutting emissions ? bad politics ? to,0_0
"7. Graphic of the Day (above). Partly at least in response to rising labor costs from the ""Fight for $15"" hysteria that is sweeping the nation, some fast food restaurants are responding with increased automation, including the automated ordering kiosks pictured above at Hardee's. Expect more of this type of automation going forward as more cities and states pass higher minimum wage laws (14 states are raising their minimum wages this week). Hey, who said that government policies can't foster innovation?",0_0
"13.	"" scientific answer to the question if and how much international technologies can contribute to the permanent and secure storage of CO2 in order to protect the climate ."" No, that is not working and unnecessary.",0_0
"The Global Warmingists have covered all their bases. No matter what the weather is like, it always turns out to be exactly the kind of weather we should expect if human activity were causing global temperatures to rise.",5_2
Australias antarctic runway melting | Boorowa News,0_0
"North-west Tasmania, Burnie, Devonport News, sport and weather ...",0_0
"Apparently that wasnt enough though. An astute reader (Steve Case) captured the USHCN data in 2008 and again today. Below is a plot of the further adjustments during the last two years. Once again, the present has been artificially made warmer and the past has been made cooler. Temperatures in 2007 were raised by 0.16 degrees, and temperatures were lowered by 0.08 degrees in 1930.",5_1
"Lessee, 484 sites, 71 Luterbacher are actual temperature, so these clearly do not help support the NULL proxy by accident theory and can be subtracted from the 484 and 1209 total series. We cant forget the high end climate scientists who decided the IPCC should hide the decline of the latewood density data (MXD) and simply chop the data off. Yup, chop the offending bit of flacidity off and give it an Enzyte style prosthesis courtesy of RegEM The Mann show. Scientifically speaking, we have now subtracted another 95 series of horsecrap data from the remaining 413 leaving only 318 series (at a maximum) that passed validation presumably using actual data taken from actual proxies. NOPE, not so fast, this is climate science so were not done yet!!",0_0
"In accordance with the disposition of the case, the US subsidiary of Japanese pharmaceutical firm Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd. will pay $39 million to the US federal government and state Medicaid agencies, to settle claims that it paid doctors kickbacks to prescribe certain of its products. Daiichi Sanyo also agreed to adhere to a so-called corporate integrity agreement, whereby a number of compliance programs are instituted to prevent similar abuses from occurring in the future.",0_0
"NASA-funded researchers Maosheng Zhao and Steven Running, of the University of Montana in Missoula, discovered the global shift during an analysis of NASA satellite data. Compared with a six-percent increase spanning two earlier decades, the recent ten-year decline is slight just one percent. The shift, however, could impact food security, biofuels, and the global carbon cycle.",0_0
"The EPA quietly changed how it recommended dealing with a CFL mercury spill because when Americans are given no choice about how to light their homes , its best not to tell them how bad the green option really is.",0_0
"In Climate Hustle renowned Swedish sea level expert and climatologist Nils-Axel M rner concludes: ""Geological facts are on one side, lobbying and models are on the other.""",0_0
Jo Nova ponders whether there is something wrong with the scientific method.,0_0
"There is significant variance in the energy intensiveness of the production of various kinds of meat. In general, processing larger animals is less efficient than processing smaller ones. A study conducted in Sweden found that chicken had the lowest energy consumption of the types of meat studied, at 18,500 calories per pound produced. Pork and lamb had 21,000 calories and 23,000 calories per pound, respectively, and beef had energy inputs of up to 40,000 calories per pound. This is a similar finding to other studies.",0_0
Heres the SST anomaly map she cites as proof in her post about the issue at Climate Central. Note that actual temperatures in the ocean are quite cold.,0_0
"This past week, Heartland held its 7th Climate Conference in Chicago.Ive looked at the program, nothing in particular caught my interest, Ive seen previous presentations from most of the scientific participants. I would much rather glance at ppt files, than take the time to watch a podcast; unfortunately no ppts are available and I didnt go through any of the podcasts. Seems that some of the astronauts were in attendance, they have written a new letter which is highlighted at WUWT .",0_0
Obviously there are others who feel the same way when it comes to the role of the sun on the earths climate. Another paper just published at the same journal shows that other scientists are hot on the sunstrail. Here Magee and Kavic in their paper titled: Probing the climatological impact of a cosmic raycloud connection through low-frequency radio observations suspect a solar mechanism and so propose a method of observation. In the abstract they write:,0_0
"Next month, the United Nations will formally announce the successors to its Millennium Development Goals, the global body's approach to poverty alleviation since the year 2000. These new goals will be touted as ""sustainable."" The event will coincide with a visit by the pope, at which he is expected to concentrate on climate change and materialism as the greatest threats to the welfare of the people of the developing world.",0_0
This immediately involves a distortion of science at a very basic level: namely science becomes a source of authority rather than a mode of inquiry. The real utility of science stems from the latter; the political utility stems from the former.,0_0
""" A paper published ...in the Journal of Geophysical Research finds ""the loss rate in southeast Greenland for the more recent period has become almost negligible, down from 109 28 Gt/yr of just a few years ago. The rapid change in the nature of the regional ice mass in southeast and northwest Greenland, in the course of only several years, further reinforces the idea that the Greenland ice sheet mass balance is very vulnerable to regional climate conditions."" Global warming allegedly due to greenhouse gases would not be expected to cause such regional interannual variability in Greenland ice loss, thus pointing to shifts in weather instead.""",2_1
"Clearly, absorption and re-radiation of the sunshine in the upper atmosphere at this wavelength cools the Earth and is going to cause additional cooling as the concentration of CO2 increases.",2_3
"* In a classroom, a cultist indoctrinates British children, teaching them they are parasites who are killing the Earth Mother Gaia. She tells them they must de-industrialize and ruin the global economy because if not we will all die. HONESTLY, it feels like that movie ""The Village"" by M. Night Shalamar where crazy people teach children there are monsters who are going to get them if they don't stay in the primitive village and not have electricity or modern industry. When some of the children doubt the AGW cult beliefs, the teacher produces a Phillip K. Dick-conceived button and kills the non-believers. They pop like cherry Jell-o filled balloons to the horror of everyone around them.",0_0
14. How adequate is the ability to couple atmospheric and ocean models,0_0
a bank to be prohibited from doing business in America is a severe constraint.,0_0
I pointed out that the rules of the UN's climate panel require openness and transparency. He made it quite clear that he and the other Climategate emailers did not care about openness and transparency. Only one opinion would be permitted: and that would be the most extreme alarmist opinion they could get away with.,5_2
"Global sea ice area, as of Sunday morning, stood at 1.005 million square kilometers above average.",1_1
Now all Uganda needs is extension cords that can reach nations with electricity.,0_0
"Back to School. AEI's Frederick M. Hess testified before the House Committee on Education and Labor on Wednesday. He told the committee: ""Securing effective teaching entails lowering the barriers presented by licensure, encouraging districts to tap the skills of those who are not full-time educators, and using pay and professional opportunities to attract and cultivate talent. Efforts to more evenly distribute effective teachers are laudable, but ought to be pursued in a fashion that will not compromise successful schools or bolder efforts to attract and retain good teachers.""",0_0
"But if all we allow ourselves is just over a century of global temperature measurements, we cannot from the same sample decide how the climate typically behaves over a century and also decide it is behaving abnormally.",5_1
"Several appliance manufacturers also support DOE's new proposed rule, which would give them a guaranteed market for pricey front loaders that would otherwise remain slow sellers. Producers admit that they don't even have to worry about consumer satisfaction with front loaders, since the public would no longer have a choice.",0_0
"Greenwashing is annoying but not often a public safety issue, except in Queensland where the police cannot fit all their gear into tiny hybrid cars .",0_0
"Some tourists only go there to have some fun. But we have visited the place to convince Greenpeace that it was a good idea to host the radar. While some of the local people - e.g. Mr Ji Houka of Trokavec near the Totem here (who votes for the Communists because the Greens became too pro-imperialist) - dislike America and prefer to repeat anti-imperialist slogans, it was more pleasant to deal with Greenpeace. Together with my father , we explained them the importance of America for our national interests, possible threats in the world, and the peaceful, intimidating role of the missile defense system.",0_0
"Accumulations of snow were likely to exceed 50cm above 300m, and 100cm above 500m. Smaller amounts of snow were expected below 300m.",1_3
"Very nearly all of the so-called ""tropical"" diseases that Al Gore and other ""global warming"" profiteers say will spread disastrously if the weather continues to get warmer as it has done for the past 300 years are not tropical at all. The thrive in the tropics simply because the countries of that region do not have sufficient public-health measures to prevent them from breeding. In the contiguous United States, malaria was rife right up to the Canadian border in the 1880s, but widespread use of DDT had eradicated it by 1949.",0_0
"Clive Martin wonders whether the intense, religious need to incorporate a workout regimen so liturgically in our lives is not a symbol and a symptom of the lack of meaning and purpose that the modern world gives off like the odor from a post-workout jock. When love of family, love of country, and love of God have all been mocked and legislated out of public existence, what greater thing than oneself is one supposed to love, sacrifice for, and protect? So our workouts become more grueling and strenuous. Like the despairing adolescent who slashes her wrist to make material and palpable her mental anguish, we flock to tough mudders, Crossfit, and the like to know that we have accomplished something, conquered something.",0_0
35 errors or gross exaggerations are found in Al Gores Oscar winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth.,5_2
Canada's Hudson Bay: Is Earlier Sea-Ice Breakup In Bay An Indication of AGW? Scientists Say No,0_0
"The ETS will hurt everyone. Stifling regulations will hurt everyone. Whos next? You are, we are.",4_1
"Elevated CO 2 suppressed foliar injury caused by elevated O 3 , especially in some of the more O 3 -sensitive cultivars used in this study. In addition, atmospheric CO 2 enrichment to 700 ppm almost completely protected such cultivars from the negative effects of elevated O 3 on seed yield. At ambient CO 2 concentrations, for example, elevated O 3 reduced seed yield by 48% in an O 3 -sensitive cultivar. However, at an atmospheric CO 2 concentration of 700 ppm, yield reductions in this same O 3 -susceptible variety were only 8%. Thus, atmospheric CO 2 enrichment had a strong ameliorating effect on the negative influences of elevated O 3 on growth and yield of O 3 -susceptable winter wheat cultivars.",3_2
"JC comment: I first became aware of the problem two years ago, when Tim Palmer presented (at Fall AGU) a plot of absolute global temperatures simulated by the CMIP3 climate models for the 20th century. The impact of this on the model thermodynamics (notably the sea ice) is profound; model tuning then works around this problem, so that n wrongs make a right, almost certainly torquing feedbacks in unfortunate ways.",5_1
Australias antarctic runway melting | Eyre Peninsula Tribune,0_0
"How to get more of those resources is another major theme of many of the papers. As one of the documents focusing on food security notes, ""development assistance funding is less readily available and the donors are ever more focused on demonstrable results."" One suggestion: tap global philanthropies, as well as link together ""a broad range of public sector, business and civil society partners.""",0_0
"In short, there is potential here for a vital convergence of interests that will promote sound environmental policy, and aid the U.S. and world economies as well. The 'green' potential of tax reform should be placed high on the agenda of the Tax Reform Commission, and should play a major role in the tax reform debate. As pointed out back in 2000 (""Tax Reform is Green"", published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute), ""the greenest tax reform is that which does the most to reduce economic waste, encourage innovation and efficiency, and spur economic growth. From this standpoint, environmental tax reform should be fundamental tax reform.""",0_0
"WUWT has a post on this Workshop, which included presentations by Judith Lean and Leif Svalgaard, and Henrik Svensmark. Ithe following four presentations seem to be the most relevant to climate change:",0_0
"Postscript 2 ??? Ellen Mosley-Thompson has an interesting cameo appearance in the Climategate emails. She was the EOS editor who rushed through the Mann et al 2003 EOS article on Soon and Baliunas 2003. The article took about 10 days from being commissioned to being accepted. They giggled among themselves when Willie Soon inquired about the peer review process. The character assassination of this article has not been fully analysed. In one despicable email, Tom Wigley acknowledged that Soon and Baliunas might have a point that 20th century precipitation was not unusual (a theme revisited in AR5 Zero and First Draft), writing to Mann and others (2003-06-06 682.):",5_2
"Since even immediate and total shutdown of all carbon dioxide-emitting vehicles, power plants, and factories in the U.S. would decrease global warming by only a hypothetical and undetectable two-tenths of a degree Celsius by 2100, it is misleading to imply, as the report does, that the Obama administration's climate policies can provide any measurable protection from extreme weather events.",4_2
Get that? Climate forecasts are warming substantially faster than the actual atmosphere. This is a significant problem for modeling.,5_1
"""An expert panel of the government's Tax Commission agreed Thursday to abolish a reduced tax rate for stock investments from January 2012 as scheduled, participants said.""",0_0
"There are several problems here. First, the authors statistical significance estimates are meaningless, ass they are based on random permutations of subjective flavors that are simply erroneous in the context of the correctly implemented RegEM procedure, as detailed in section 1 above. Mann et al (2005) provide a true rigorous significance estimation procedure and their code is available as supplementary information to that paper.",0_0
Glassman: Has there been solar activity over the last hundred years that would correlate with the temperature on Earth?,0_0
"Also, it's patently false that breathing the ambient air in the United States is like smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, as MoveOn.org implies in the advertisement. According to one peer-reviewed scientific study published by the American Heart Association (Pope et al. ), ""The estimated daily dose of PM2.5 from typical long-term exposure to SHS (second-hand smoke or ETS) or ambient air pollution is extremely small compared with the estimated dose from active cigarette smoking."" Consequently, ""The estimated relative risks from active cigarette smoking, even at relatively light smoking levels, are substantially larger than the relative risks from ambient air pollution or SHS."" As my Competitive Enterprise Institute colleague Marlo Lewis has stated, ""MoveOn is blowing smokenowhere in the United States is breathing the equivalent of a pack a day or even one cigarette a day.""",0_0
I am just a geologist but I truly believe that there was a major glacial period about 400 million years ago when the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere were about 10 times greater than they are today.,2_3
"""High-frequency trading networks, which complete stock market transactions in microseconds, are vulnerable to manipulation by hackers who can inject tiny amounts of latency into them. By doing so, they can subtly change the course of trading and pocket profits of millions of dollars in just a few seconds, says Rony Kay, a former IBM research fellow and founder of cPacket Networks, a Silicon Valley firm that develops chips and technologies for network monitoring and traffic analysis.""",0_0
"24 Fred Crickard, ed., Multinational Naval Cooperation and Foreign Policy in the 21st Century, 1998 (a three-day symposium attended by 200 CNOs, diplomats, and academics from 32 countries). See also Sam Tangredi, ed., Globalization and Maritime Power, National Defense University, 2002.",0_0
"As Ive shown several times already, even the 2009 Black Saturday fires were far from our biggest recorded - in 1851. NSW has had several severe October fires that were bigger and deadlier than this years.",1_7
Liberal AG Claims Global Warming More Important Than Free Speech,0_0
"Positive cloud feedback amplifies global warming in all the climate models now used by the IPCC to forecast global warming. But if cloud feedback is sufficiently negative, then manmade global warming becomes a non-issue.",3_1
"CEI's Lewis prefaced the lecture with a reminder that oceanography, like other scientific fields, casts doubts upon the rationale behind the Kyoto agreement. ""There's hardly anything about the treaty that is not hotly debated: the scientific underpinnings, the economic costs, its feasibility, the implications for American sovereignty and national security,"" Lewis noted. ""Today and in future lectures, we are considering scientific issues connected with the Kyoto Protocol and the larger global warming debate.""",0_0
"At least this fight produced one clear benefitover the course of the two winters since the video aired, OSTP hasn't produced a sequel.",0_0
"Figure 1 is a map of the sea surface temperature anomalies (Reynolds OI.v2) for a portion of the North Atlantic. It captures the data for the week centered on Wednesday January 30, 2013. The map was created at the NOAA NOMADS website, using the Reynolds Optimum Interpolation sea surface temperature data. Ive used the contour levels of 0.5 deg C, with white set at zero, which are settings often used by NOAA. Obviously, last week sea surface temperature anomalies were elevated near the New England coast, but the data, as we will see, reveals that theres nothing unusual about those levels. Well use the coordinates of 35N-45N, 77W-67W for the data in the following graphs.",0_0
"Lets recall our ENSO basics. During an El Nio, the NINO3.4 region is being fed warm water from the west Pacific Warm Pool; that is, the Equatorial Counter Current strengthens and carries warm water eastward. As a result, the normal annual sea surface temperature cycle in the NINO3.4 region is now being influenced by the annual cycle of the sea surface temperatures in the West Pacific Warm Pool. This is easily seen in Figure 4-41. It compares NINO3.4 sea surface temperatures (not anomalies) for the period of January1995 to January 2005 and also the series of base year cycles in the sea surface temperatures for the Western Equatorial Pacific (5S-5N, 120E-165E) and the NINO3.4 region. Also note that the La Nia events reach their lowest temperatures in December-January, which is another example of how a La Nia event is simply an exaggeration of an ENSO-neutral (average) phase.",0_0
"Not only are health-care costs up, but we don t seem to be getting much more in return. Would even the slickest lobbyist claim that American health care is twice as good as it was in 2000? If anything, our health-care woes seem to have worsened. More people go without insurance, total patient satisfaction is down, and the number of medical errors is staggering.",0_0
"Mr. Walker also targeted some 90 think tanks and other groups in an attempt to punish climate dissent. These groups and others, including these columns, pushed back on First Amendment grounds, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute counter-sued Mr. Walker and demanded sanctions. He pulled his subpoena against CEI last month.",0_0
Six energy policy changes to watch for in a Republican-controlled Congress,0_0
"Furthermore, if this hidden costs analysis had been performed by a different set of researchers, a value of $50-100 billion could have been pretty firmly established as a best estimate with a low end that probably would include the possibility of a net positive externality from coal-fired electricity.",0_0
Heartland Institute Conference Shows the Growing Power of Climate Realism,0_0
"Despite the inability of climate models to accurately represent global climate, this hasn't stopped scientists from using these same models to make precise predictions about the ostensible effects of human-induced climate change on relatively small regions of the Earth, such as California. For example, the Union of Concerned Scientists states without qualification ""rising temperatures, possibly exacerbated by declining winter precipitation, will severely reduce snowpack in the Sierra Nevada"" causing a substantial reduction in California's water supplies.",5_1
Dugongs congregate where there are seagrass meadows and there is no evidence that seagrass meadows are generally in decline around the Australian coastline.,3_2
"Heating the cloud reduces the relative humidity in the cloud, Jacobson said.",0_0
Reconstruction of past climate Credit: Institute of Geography Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz,0_0
"In April 2010, at an event hosted by the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, McCarthy stated that best available control technology (BACT) standards for major greenhouse gasemitters would require only efficiency upgrades, not fuel switching from coal to gas. We havent done it in the past, and theres been good reason why we havent done it in the past, she reportedly said.",0_0
"Even so, Friedman declares that ""our one-party democracy is worse"" than the Chinese model. He is upset that the minority party, the Republicans, won't go along with Democrats' plans to raise the price of carbon emissions and pass a government health care planthough, perhaps wisely, he refrains from praising the Chinese health delivery system. But he does get an essential bit wrong: It's our two-party system he's complaining about, and the fact that the current minority party won't act like it's just one wing of the majority.",0_0
"The year The Heartland Institute started promoting education savings accounts, 1992, we also entered the national debate over health care reform by publishing a book titled Why We Spend Too Much on Health Care ... And What We Can Do About It. That book was widely credited with helping defeat ""Hillarycare,"" Hillary Clinton's plan to nationalize the nation's health care system.",0_0
"Despite my efforts to spread the wordwith my second column on the topic being one of my most popular ever I find that the CPP isn't even on the radar of the politically engaged (let alone the average person). Because this is an issue of utmost importance, I am, once again, bringing it to the attention of my readers with the hope that you will share it with everyone you know. At this point, we don't know if the EPA will extend the comment period, so please take time now to get your comments in. The Hill reports: ""Adding 60 days to the comment period could make it harder for the EPA to finalize the rule by June 2015, as President Obama has ordered.""",0_0
Record extreme weather-Viking end of times,0_0
"""Cellular carriers, having spent years trying to blanket the nation with phone service, are now working on ways to stop people from getting calls and texts when they are behind the wheel.""",0_0
"The authors begin their short Brevia report by noting that ""large-scale numerical models that simulate the interactions between changing global climate and terrestrial vegetation predict substantial carbon loss from tropical ecosystems, including the drought-induced collapse of the Amazon forest and conversion to savanna."" What was done",0_0
"The two largest sources of fructose in the human diet are sucrose (containing 50% fructose and 50% glucose) and HFCS which is present in the human diet in two forms: HFCS-55 (which consists of 55% fructose, 42% glucose and 3% other carbohydrates) and HFCS-42 (which consists of 42% fructose and 58% glucose).",0_0
Gender-bias impacts women physicists (Phys Org),0_0
"The results obtained by Menendez et al . ""confirm,"" in their words, ""that the average species richness of British butterflies has increased since 1970-82,"" as our thinking has suggested it should. However, some of the range shifts responsible for the increase in species richness take more time to occur than those of other species; and they say their results imply that ""it may be decades or centuries before the species richness and composition of biological communities adjusts to the current climate."" Reviewed 11 October 2006",3_2
Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) write an op-ed for the New York Times endorsing climate change legislation.,0_0
German weather site www.wetter.net here reports that 2013 in Germany was the second coldest year in a decade.,1_3
"IVRT simple skdningsexempel Rs speeds from net sales between the different reservoirs (arrows in the diagram above) is important for the sakfrgor controversy applies. The same probability laws in other chemical kinetikverkar the bottom, and when it comes to now analyze the consequences of them.",0_0
"Finally, weve got this somewhat hokey but still fun to watch movie of how we are all totally doomed (h/t Caldera Girl).",0_0
"The video is here , with Stringer's questions beginning at 41:55. He starts by asking about the reputation of British science, with discussion covering subjects like the BSE scare, MMR vaccines and the like. At around 46:00 conversation turns to Climategate, with Stringer asking about the impact on the reputation of British science.",0_0
"New Report: 'Extreme Weather Report 2012': 'Latest peer-reviewed studies, data & analyses undermine claims that current weather is 'unprecedented' or a 'new normal' -- Climate Depot's New 35-Page Report: 'Current weather is neither historically unprecedented, nor unusual' -- 'Extreme weather events are ever present, and there is no evidence of systematic increases' -- Presented at UN Climate Conference in Doha, Qatar on Dec. 6, 2012",1_7
"New Zealand Climate Madness: PM John Key says ""our ETS worked""",0_0
"But the wins were illusory in at least two respects. First, the GOP's hold on Congress was tenuous at best. Democrats regained control of both the House and the Senate in the 2006 midterm electionsand did so without losing as single seat, a first since 1938.",0_0
"Rainwater is truly acid, at a pH of 5.4 (7 being neutral). The oceans are alkaline, at a mean pH of 7.9. Yet the corals do not curl up and die when rainwater hits them. They thrive.",3_2
"Check that the red, green, and blue curves agree almost exactly.",0_0
"MOOSE: The hell it aint. I know what youre tryin to do. Youre appealing to Spunkys prejudices and emotions, his special interest in not being pushed around, rather than to his intellect or reason. And youre attacking my character rather than answering my argument. Thats an ad hominem , pal. No gettin around it.",0_0
"Grabherr, G. and Nagy, L. 2003. Alpine vegetation dynamics and climate change: a synthesis of long-term studies and observations. In: Nagy, L., Grabherr, G., Korner, C. and Thompson, D.B.A. (Eds.). Alpine Diversity in Europe , Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, USA, pp. 399-409.",0_0
"Even if we are willing to assume very large multipliers from renewable power, its impact on employment will be trivial, whether taken as a fraction of all energy, clean economy jobs, or the entire labor force.",4_2
Comparing IPCC Projections to Individual Measurement Systems.,0_0
"Melt-glass from 12,900 years ago found in Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Syria",0_0
"The case studies would set the stage for achieving necessary reductions later on, when developing countries will be ready to join an agreement without receiving significant side payments from the developed world.",0_0
"This ugly truth has prompted LOST enthusiasts to go to great lengths to dismiss the plain language of the ""pollution"" provisions, telling us that to take them literally is being overly technical. One of them who testified before a Senate panel this month is also on record in a European journal counseling LOST's Parties and Tribunal to exercise restraint in imposing the pact's authority until the U.S. safely on board as a ratified party..",0_0
Current Snow Conditions: Alpine is Closed ??? Too much snow to safely enjoy. (Extreme Avalanche Danger and High Winds),1_3
"Fear of rapid change: Working-class voters recognize that they are less equipped to handle sudden changes; consequently, they value stability highly. They fear sudden recessions and distrust sudden changes in government programs. Ronald Reagan, the conservative who has best understood the working class, put his finger on it in a prescient 1964 National Review article on why Goldwater lost: ""Human nature resists change and goes over backward to avoid radical change."" Upper-class educated people may embrace risk and change, but working-class voters do not.",0_0
"Well, folks, it's tea-time on Sunday and for anyone involved in keeping people moving it has been a hell of a weekend. Thousands have had their journeys wrecked, tens of thousands have been delayed getting away for Christmas; and for those Londoners who feel aggrieved by the performance of any part of our transport services, I can only say that we are doing our level best.",0_0
"All that is labeled data is not gold Schmidt 2006 Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union Wiley Online Library",0_0
"Global warming, is and has always been, a propaganda campaign with a thin veneer of science. As the evidence against the scam built up year upon year as mother earth steadfastly refused to warm as instructed, it was inevitable the scam would fall apart. This year, when I heard Greenland was refreezing I finally realised that there was not a shred of evidence to support the scam and so it will inevitably die.",5_2
"It's true that in deep-blue states, virtually every Republican who wins statewide is pro-choice and socially moderate although New Jersey's Chris Christie stands out as a counterexample. But it is also true that in the swing ""purple"" states, pro-life Republicans often win for governor. Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania are all currently run by socially conservative GOP governors, and the most recent GOP governors of Colorado, Minnesota, and New Hampshire held similar views. Returns from the last three presidential elections show that it will be much easier to win these purple states than the deep-blue ones. So doesn't it make more sense to copy the winning strategies of their governors?",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Fellow Fran Smith on how the bill got passed:,0_0
"But, of course, they did. Tuesday, Mr. Bush won a second term by four million votes, becoming the first president since Franklin Roosevelt in 1936 to gain re-election while picking up seats in both houses of Congress. In the Senate, the Democratic leader was defeated and Republicans widened their lead to 10 seats from two.",0_0
"McCarthy previously admitted during a U.S. House hearing that anti-coal CO2 regulations attached to EPA's so-called ""Clean Power Plan"" wouldn't have any measurable impact on global warming. She testified, ""We see it as having had enormous benefit in showing sort of domestic leadership as well as garnering support around the country for the agreement we reached in Paris.""",4_2
"???The wind PTC is critical to President Obamas recently finalized carbon regulation. One of the ???building blocks?? used to determine state targets includes significant increased installation of renewable energyespecially wind?? . Without taxpayer subsidies like the PTC, the President will be unable to achieve his arbitrary renewable energy target.??",4_4
"Actually, such an approach is anything but ""consistent."" Companies subject to NSR have little way of knowing what activities will trigger the NSR permitting process and its subsequent costs and delays. In May 2000, for example, in a letter to Detroit Edison, EPA introduced ""an open-ended test involving at least fourteen factors, and perhaps up to twenty-four factors.""20 Such a test provides no guidance at all: Virtually every change to an existing facility is potentially a trigger for NSR permitting.",0_0
"Central Bank of Iran. Other nations' dependence on such imports not only energy-hungry China but close America allies such as Japan and Korea make a total cutoff impractical, but their reduced purchases have shown their",0_0
"The $2.2 billion Ivanpah solar power project in Californias Mojave Desert is supposed to be generating more than a million megawatt-hours of electricity each year. But 15 months after starting up, the plant is producing just 40% of that, according to data from the U.S. Energy Department.",4_4
The UK Met Office says that extreme cold this spring is caused by missing Arctic ice. Only they forgot to checkwhetheror not the ice isactuallymissing.,0_0
"138. Plaintiff?s lawsuit has damaged Defendant Steyn by interfering with his right to express opinions on controversial matters and causing him to expend time, money and effort in having to respond to this lawsuit.",0_0
"Consistent with Congress's intent,18 EPA until 1999 excluded ""routine maintenance, repair and replacement"" (RMR&R;) activities from the NSR permitting process. Starting in 1988, though, EPA began to challenge the meaning of ""routine,"" subjecting or threatening to subject more activities to NSR than before. The definition of ""routine"" has become increasingly subjective over time: In its 2002 Report to the President, EPA says it ""consistently has taken a case-by-case approach, weighing the nature, extent, purpose, frequency and cost of the work, as well as other relevant factors.""19",0_0
Time to repeal America's crude petroleum export ban,0_0
"Which begs other, rather important questions. Could the model, seemingly with an inability to predict colder seasons, have developed a warm bias, after such a long period of milder than average years? Experts I have spoken to tell me that this certainly is possible with such computer models. And if this is the case, what are the implications for the Hadley centres predictions for future global temperatures? Could they be affected by such a warm bias? If global temperatures were to fall in years to come would the computer model be capable of forecasting this???? Paul Hudson, BBC Weather, 9 January 2010",5_1
"CFACT press conference Wednesday 11:30 AM UN climate conference, Bonn",0_0
2) the impact of calibration/verification period on RE statistics.,0_0
"In another November account, Reuters explains: ""Abengoa, an engineering company that expanded massively into renewables, has been struggling with a heavy debt burden since a decade-long economic boom in Spain ended abruptly in 2008."" It must have seen Obama's push for solar as the answer to its problems. It moved into the U.S. with its hand out and high-profile playerssuch as former Vice President Al Gore and former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardsonon its team.",0_0
Duke Energy Received Court Permission To Burn Forests To Meet Renewable Energy Regulations,0_0
"The lazily self-inflating conceptual metastasis may have reached some kind of a nadir in remarks delivered on July 1, 2010, by Susan Rice, President Obama's ambassador to the United Nations, who proclaimed grandly that ""a threat to development anywhere is a threat to security everywhere."" In her description, ""the global gulfs between rich and poor are a security threat"" a looming peril that we must meet by ensuring that no one on the planet lives ""with hunger, oppression, or fear,"" that all have ""access to lifesaving medicines and affordable health care,"" and that everyone can ""send their kids to decent schools."" This is breathtaking stuff: Obama-era solipsistic grandeur at its most entertainingly self-important. With the stroke of a pen and an ego the entire Progressive social agenda is thus elevated to the global stage and magically transformed into a U.S. ""national security"" priority.",0_0
"Electricity generated by US wind farms fell 6 per cent in the first half of the year even as the nation expanded wind generation capacity by 9 per cent, Energy Information Administration records show.",4_4
This also contradicts all other studies that show a far lower sea-level rise.,1_6
"Its official: this March in northeastern Germany is the coldest in 130 years, and could be the coldest since records began.",1_3
<1939> Thorne/MetO:,0_0
The snowfall was short-lived and passed in the rain. But the warning is that during night time the situation will change rapidly due to freezing. The roads turn icy and wind will increase into a hurricane.,0_0
"If growth skepticism is so misguided, it begs the question of why it has become so pervasive. Until the 1970s, there was a broad consensus that greater prosperity should be welcomed. Although growth critics have existed as far back as the 18th century's Industrial Revolution, they have typically been a minority.",0_0
"Synopsis: Oceans provide a negative feedback (automatic global air conditioning) to compensate for higher temperatures. Source here . ""Higher temperatures are known to increase emissions of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) from the worlds oceans, which increases the albedo of marine stratus clouds, which has a cooling effect.""",3_1
"U.S. Energy Information Administration, ""How Much Natural Gas Does the United States Have, and How Long Will it Last?"" November 18, 2015, http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=58&t;=8 (accessed July 6, 2016).",0_0
"Parker mentions three possible driving forces for the seventeenth century collapse: volcanoes, El Nios, and the sun. Theres no cycle in the volcanoes, however, and the El Nios are too short rarely lasting more than a year or two. That leaves the sun, and the powerful influences it has on Earths temperature and climate.",2_1
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Special Projects Counsel Hans Bader on attorneys general who think of themselves as above the law.,0_0
delta H = inflow outflow evaporation seepage,0_0
"""The findings of this year's Index may surprise many environmental activists,"" said Dr. Steven F. Hayward, senior fellow at PRI, F. K. Weyerhaeuser fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and author of the Index of Leading Environmental Indicators. ""The environment is perhaps the most successful public policy story of the last 30 years and the good news is getting noticed by the public.""",0_0
"The intolerance, of course, stems from the realization on the part of those behind the ?global warming? scam that it is entirely false. It is always liars who have to shout loudest in the hope of temporarily prevailing over the truth.",5_2
"For Manne, planetary atmospheric dynamics are so blindingly clear that only un reasonable citizens could question it. And if there is no easier question, then it follows that those who get this question wrong are not just unreasonable but quite possibly, brain dead. Mannes writing is thick with insults, but thin on reasons.",0_0
"Researchers such as Ms Bug lack basic human honesty. And allowing this ideological garbage to be presented as research is a classical case of PC run amok. Shame on you, Scientific American and others.",0_0
There is a perception that the climate change story selects record breaking events to suit its argument and ignores the cold extremes.,5_2
Apparently there was less ice in the Eastern Arctic in 1935 than there was during the all-time-record-lowest-Armageddon-we-are-all-doomed-irreversible-tipping-point summer of 2007.,1_1
"So we should disregard the lessons from past data on hail in China, extreme precipitation events in Hawaii, floods in southern Germany, or the historical occurences of other extreme weather, and instead turn to climate model projections for guidance? We can only hope that he is kidding.",1_7
"I live in Brisbane on high ground. Brisbane is flooding and up to 20,000 properties will be under water by tomorrow. Our major dam is at 190% capacity and they had to release 600,000 megalitres yesterday to just keep it at that. 75% of Queensland has been declared a flood disaster area and that is roughly half a million square kilometres. This is not a disaster anywhere near the order of magnitude of the Boxing Day tsunami or the Haiti earthquake. However people have died and more bodies will be found when search and rescue can find them. They have been swept away.",0_0
It must be said that such an assessment is premature. Eventually lowering tariffs on around 95 per cent of Australian exports to China seems like a big deal. But whether Australian businesses can negotiate the raft of regulatory and other ad hoc barriers periodically placed in front of foreign firms remains to be seen.,0_0
"G lobal warming alarmists nevertheless claim that nearly all climate scientists believe dangerous global warming will occur. This is a strange claim in view of the fact more than 30,000 American scientists signed the Oregon Petition stating that there is no basis for dangerous man-made global warming forecasts, and no convincing evidence that carbon dioxide is dangerously warming the planet or disrupting its climate.",5_1
"However, despite being asked to consider the difference between a flat Earth and a round Earth both of these men have told me in personal correspondence that they simply want to choose to believe that carbon dioxide has some forcing via the greenhouse effect, to quote. They said they WANT this.",5_2
A 2014 report by the Pacific Research Institute found black households in Ohio would spend an extra $408 every year in higher energy costs because of the EPA's plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.,0_0
"The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro became a United States bash-fest. This year's ""Earth Summit Plus-5"" meeting at the United Nations in New York continued that tradition. Britain Prime Minister Tony Blair, in a clear reference to the U.S., stated, ""The biggest responsibility falls on those countries with the biggest emissions . . .",0_0
"Energy touches every aspect of their lives, from providing a daily sense of comfort to powering the global economy. Therefore, having an energy platform that provides choices at competitive prices will only enhance the well-being of families and businesses across the country.",0_0
"However the results of the investigation conducted at the end of 2008 reveal that vast majority of the Earth scientists surveyed agree that in the past 200-plus years, mean global temperatures have been rising and that human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures.",0_0
"On June 10, the Senate will debate and vote on S.J.Res.26, a resolution of disapproval sponsored by Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska to stop EPA from 'enacting' controversial global warming policies through the regulatory back door.",0_0
"Gore, Albert. Earth in the Balance. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992.",0_0
"Major international organizations made the switch to resilience from disaster management some years ago. CARE , Plan, Red Cross, Practical Action, Oxfam, Christian Aid, Action Aid and WWF all have climate smart frameworks, and all are active in Bangladesh.",0_0
"There has been increasing evidence in recent years that global warming is linked with solar activity. In 2009, Professor Henrik Svensmark from the Danish National Space Centre, said that the last time the Earth experienced unusually high temperatures, in the later Medieval period, there had also been an increase in solar activity. When this activity dropped, it led to the ""little ice age"" of the seventeenth century.",2_1
"Even the IPCC admits in the fine print that the models dont work. Water vapor in the tropics is the most important feedback, yet the models get it wrong. See Chapter Nine Evaluation of Climate Models:",5_1
Warning over cheap alcohol: Youngsters can get drunk for half the cost of a chocolate bar:,0_0
DOE wind power 2014 report finds it's dropping dramatically in cost ArsTechnica,0_0
"About 1,600 companies listed on the London Stock Exchange, including some of the biggest corporate names in the world such as BP, Tesco and Tate & Lyle, will have to publish their emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses blamed for climate change from April next year.",0_0
"According to a graph published on the NASA Earth Observatory site , Arctic temperatures were warmer in 1930's than at the end of the 20th century. In addition, the graph shows the Arctic warmed ~1.6C over the 19 year period from ~1918-1937 at a rate of 0.84C/decade, 75% faster than the 0.48C/decade from 1980-2000. Thus, alarmist claims that recent Arctic warming is unprecedented or accelerating are bogus.",2_1
"The five-judge majority notes that 42 USC 7479 defines major source as a facility with the potential to emit 250 tons per year of ?any air pollutant? (emphasis added). But Congress did not employ that language in the provision at issue in the case, CAA 165 ? the provision specifying what facilities must do to obtain a PSD permit.*",0_0
"""loot the intellectual property of the authors whose work they",0_0
"Rainforest Action Network. ""Rates of Rainforest Loss."" Fact Sheet #4B, San Francisco, 1995.",0_0
Even older students are vulnerable to being spoon-fed incorrect information. And student voters who are reluctant or too disinterested to seek truthful information can have a profound impact on U.S. elections and national policy.,0_0
"By 2035, cumulative job losses resulting from the rule will total 7 million for blacks and 12 million for Hispanics. Most of these losses will occur in localities where blacks and Hispanics are most heavily concentrated. The rule will especially harm residents of seven states with the highest concentrations of blacks and Hispanics: Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New York and Texas.",0_0
"Met Office, 1 March 2010: Provisional figures from the Met Office show that the UK winter has been the coldest since 1978/79. The mean UK temperature was 1.5 C, the lowest since 1978/79 when it was 1.2 C.",0_0
"The frequency of failures to replace open access property rights is suggestive. Open access arrangements are notoriously prone to wasteful overuse. If they remain in place, the transaction costs of changing the property rights regime must be quite high relative to the value of the resource.",0_0
"To turn water back into hydrogen fuel again, you have to unburn it--you have to pump energy back into the water, usually in the form of electricity. The greens know this but hope that the electricity will be solar. Perhaps someday, but anyone who does the numbers knows that it won't be anytime soon-solar isn't close to cost-competitive yet, and the panels require ridiculous amounts of real estate. Coal-fired or gas-fired electricity won't do either--that would defeat the whole carbon-reduction objective. Nuclear power plants could be used, but if there's one element that most greens hate even more than carbon, it's uranium.",0_0
"Another problem lies in the nearly-infinite malleability of ""national security"" arguments. If childhood obesity is now a problem affecting our ""national security,"" what is not? Can any socio-economic ill not be defined in some way as to suggest at least some distant impact upon our national security? Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and thus the most senior military officer in the United States, recently declared that ""our national debt is our biggest security threat."" That may well be true on some level and I find it in equal parts amusing, fascinating, and horrifying that he seems to be suggesting that President Obama's deficit-fueled socio-economic dirigisme has become a threat to America but surely this sort of fashionably expansive ""national security"" analysis overreaches because there is essentially nothing it cannot encompass.",0_0
"The emails also describe how the band plotted to rewrite history as well as science, particularly by eliminating the Medieval Warm Period, a 400 year period that began around 1000 AD.",5_2
As you can see from the graph below global sea ice extent is nearly on average since 1979 according to satellite measurement. Arctic sea ice is slightly below average and Antarctic sea ice is above average. The total sea ice extent shows no obvious influence from global warming.,1_1
View CEI's comments to EPA by William Yeatman,0_0
"Crank of the Week - February 28, 2011 - United Church of Christ",0_0
"What is going on is that science is no longer what we thought it was. It is now a tool in the hands of socialists, and the smart money is flowing into the pockets of ?scientists? who will serve their agenda. Follow the money. Whilst traditional physics and chemistry departments are closing in British universities, and there is a shortage of science teachers, there is an abundance of cash being poured into departments that will serve socialist ends, and no shortage of acolytes desirous to use this as a route to power.",0_0
Stale Antarctic melting ice story from last summer suddenly goes viral on Fairfax media all over Australia,0_0
Not in Kansas anymore? EPA's pessimistic wheat forecasts,0_0
Climategate: A Scandal that Won't Go Away,0_0
"The gainfully offended Richard Warman makes an appearance, as might be expected.",0_0
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is designed to catch CO2 from gas and coal-fired power stations before it is released into the atmosphere. The CO2 is liquefied and poured into disused oil wells in the North Sea via existing pipelines.,0_0
"Newsweek s 1975 cover story The Cooling World breathlessly reported that, after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earth??s climate seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists are almost unanimous that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century, it intoned, and the resulting famines could be catastrophic.",5_1
"In some instances these standards may have no effect on emissions. The cap might, by itself, motivate the actions needed to meet the standard. In that case, the standard merely wastes regulatory and compliance costs on purely redundant regulatory mandates.",0_0
"Why does the bank foresee population decline? It can see that people are moving from peasant farms to urban jobs. Kids once earned their keep by weeding fields and herding goats. In the cities, they are an expensive ego investment. Meanwhile, their parents will increasingly earn retirement benefits instead of moving in with their adult children.",0_0
Entrepreneurship and Innovationan environment friendly to new enterprises and the commercialization of new ideas,0_0
He'll Run America Like They Run Their Party,0_0
The following quotations present what Mr. FOIA said in an explanation note:,0_0
"I have sent the first author a copy of our 2012 paper and hope they will move to the complete adoption of the bottom-up, resource-based perspective.",0_0
"1992, I was part of a small panel on ""Good Morning America,"" interacting with",0_0
"So the newcomers to global warming would see that the climate models perform pretty poorly at simulating past global warming. The global temperature anomaly in 2005 from one model is about 1.17 deg C higher than that of another. In other words, theres a 1.17 deg C spread in the change in simulated global surface temperatures from pre-industrial times to 2005, which is greater than the 1.0 deg C observed rise shown in Kevin Cowtans graph (my Figure 1).",5_1
"This years ice on the Hudson Bay is not only doubling and tripling previous years, but quadrupling some years as well,says reader Ralph Fato. Rapid Ice increase in the past week.",1_1
"Take, for example, his attempts to dismiss two of the many recent scandals to have befallen the seemingly accident-prone climate-science establishment:",5_2
"The results of their analysis suggest, as Sears et al . describe it, that well-known relationships in biophysical ecology show that ""no two organisms experience the same climate in the same way,"" and that ""changing climates do not always impact organisms negatively."" Hence, they conclude that ""when coupled with thermoregulatory behavior, variation in topographic features can mask the acute effect of climate change in many cases,"" which renders the climate envelope approach to assessing species responses to climate change rather useless, if not even deceptive. Reference",5_1
"Studies show they turned out fine, and the experiences of some folks makes me wonder if exposure to DDT actually prolongs your life. Joseph Jacobs was a chemist directing the effort to mass-produce DDT to protect World War II soldiers from insect-borne disease. In the rush to get the first shipment out the door, a valve that Jacobs happened to be standing under was accidentally opened, and Jacobs was soon covered with hot DDT. Jacobs did indeed die more than 60 years later at the tender young age of 88. He would go on to build a top engineering firm, write books, and have a family. But he always considered his role in the early production of DDT as one of his greatest accomplishments. The story is same for others, including one man who is still alive at 97.",0_0
"In emerging economies where people do not have access to clean water, adequate food or medical care, the difference is even starker. Using renewables instead of fossil fuels will slow growth, resulting in a higher mortality rate and a lower life expectancy.",4_1
Defenders are making ludicrous and contradictory claims to explain what is happening. They said they were 90+ percent certain warming since 1950 was due to human CO2 with natural causes of little or no consequence. Now theyre saying the lack of warming of the last 17 years is because of natural variability and decreasing solar activity.,5_2
"Heres the full image from Panoramio, the Stevenson Screen is clearly visible. Thank you J. Baines, wherever you are.",0_0
"The article begins with an account of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's visit to the Bush ranch for a meeting with the ""cowboy president."" President Bush's plans to take Blair on a tour of the ranch were ruined by severe thunderstorms and golf-ball-sized hail. The article fingers global warming as the culprit. ""But that possibility apparently seemed as remote to Bush as the likelihood that the storm was a sign from God,"" it said.",0_0
"Despite launching the plan, Romney, a Republican, said that he remained personally agnostic about global warming, which led to attacks from environmental groups for deviating from the party line (Boston Globe, May 7).",0_0
"Now that the government is out of the business of measuring inputs, it will no longer have to make independent judgments about the ""best available technology"" (BAT) for pollution, which typically ""is a case-by-case determination of an emission limit and/or control technique which, taking into account environmental, energy, and economic considerations, represents the maximum emission control achievable by any new or modified source of air pollution."" No one knows how to make these determinations, which require deciding whether a reduction of 90 percent pollution at a cost of $1 million is preferable under the law to a reduction of 99 percent of pollution at the cost of $10 million, when the net profits before regulation are $5 million.",0_0
Jimmy says that the spirit of the proposals for work that lmnades over to Gteborgs City Council is to gteborgarna should stpas about.,0_0
"To this list, SEPP would add that the IPCC and its parent organization, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), have failed make it explicitly clear in every publication that their mission is not to understand all the influences on climate change, but purely the human one, thus ignoring major natural influences on climate change.",5_2
"The Clinton Administration has argued that an international emission trading system would significantly reduce the cost of complying with the Kyoto Protocol. It justifies this claim by pointing to the U.S. acid rain program, which it credits with using emission trading to reduce the cost of lowering the SO2 emissions. A new policy brief by the Competitive Enterprise Institute argues that the acid rain program is not as successful as advertised and does not support the contention that emission trading will reduce the costs of emissions reductions.",0_0
"In my opinion, it is wishful thinking to think that sufficiently sophisticated reverse engineering could have identified the low replication of the Briffa data set. I don??t rely on this point. Maybe someone can demonstrate that reverse engineering was possible in the case at hand and that, with a little more insight and better reverse engineering, I (and others) could have figured out the poor Briffa replication. If so, so be it. Without the actual Briffa data set, I wasn??t able to figure out that Briffa had used the Hantemirov corridor data set for RCS standardization. Nor was anyone else, including any of the authors who used the poorly replicated Briffa data in important multiproxy reconstructions apparently without inquiring into its replication.",5_1
One dimension of American exceptionalism is the claim that its foreign policy is,0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Scholar Doug Bandow enumerates the flaws with the federal government's fuel economy rules:,0_0
"I am sure 99.57% of my non-Christian readers will never believe this, but",0_0
"Mother Earth has an excellent thermostat system. Even if somehow average humidity should increase to 50% and CO2 goes to 1000 ppm, only about 2 Watts/m2 will be added. This is unlikely in the extreme, and would add a small fraction of a degree to warming. No one would notice.",2_3
Photosynthesis and canopy greenness are maintained for longer in elevated CO2. This is because a CO2 rich atmosphere allows the tree to generate carbon rich compounds that are known to prolong the life of leaves. These compounds may have a positive effect for carbon balance and stress tolerance but may also have a negative effect on the control of dormancy.,3_3
"Global warming was also supposed to be killing frogs. But again, new studies indicate that the frogs are being killed by a natural pathogen, the chytrid fungus, and that its spread has been accelerated by the natural weather pattern known as El Nio, and not by some anomalous global warming.",3_2
"In addition, the IWG ignored guidance from OMB regarding appropriate discount rates and did not use the most up to date equilibrium climate sensitivity distributions.",0_0
"The intolerant Left is ""killing free speech,"" says liberal commentator Kirsten Powers. It is committed to tolerance, pluralism and reasoned debate only for itself, and only to advance its agenda. Otherwise, it applies ""authoritarian demands for intellectual conformity,"" and relentlessly vilifies and tries to silence anyone who speaks up, asks inconvenient questions or challenges the ""progressive"" worldview.",0_0
"As far as that goes, I admit Im not a scientist, though I suspect neither are you, and neither are most of the people who participate in this debate on either side. Still, even us lowly citizens can know a few things. For instance, we can know that the climate on this planet has changed wildly over the course of its existence. Its had tropical periods and icy periods and everything in between, and the vast majority of all of that came before the Industrial Age. In fact, human beings have only been industrialized for a tiny fraction of human history, and weve been driving cars for an even tinier fraction. We can know, therefore, that temperatures and weather conditions have swung dramatically from one side of the spectrum to the other and back again, and, from a historical perspective, when comparing 200 years of industrialization to the 4 billion years the Earths been around, almost all of the warming and cooling happened before any factory was ever built.",2_1
"How different it was four years ago. Shortly after Obama's first inauguration, he and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper launched a bilateral Clean Energy Dialogue to promote technology innovation, policy cooperation, and lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in North America. Since then, we've seen two action plans and several announcements from the lead government agencies the U.S. Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Environment Canada and Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) and the lead officials in all four have been changed by cabinet shuffle or resignation.",0_0
Time to Unlock America's Vast Oil and Gas Resources,0_0
"This finding, quoted verbatim, was one of the most critical findings of the Wells Report.",0_0
"There is also fear of the unknown. As one veteran trade policy analyst queried: ""If the WTO talks go into hibernation, there is no telling when, or if, they will wake up."" True: but keeping talks alive with no prospect of success will wreak further incalculable damage on the WTO; and in any case, given the realities of the U.S. election cycle, serious negotiations after December will be off the table until well into 2013 or beyond. Whether at some distant time there are ongoing vestigial negotiations or not, new actors and new issues will have moved to center stage, requiring a wholesale recalibration of priorities and tradeoffs.",0_0
"The third robbery involves Summary claims that computer models are scientifically sound. Media focus on temperature projections invariably putting the highest increase in the headlines. These projections are predetermined, and always wrong. The Science Report explains why they cannot be correct. Here are 17 quotes from Chapter 8 of the 2007 Science Report.",5_1
The atmosphere has not been warming for over 18 years even though atmospheric CO2 content has been increasing.,1_4
"Natural gas is the preferred backup for wind (and solar) energy because, as in the burger example, its production can more easily be increased and decreased to follow the needed outputeven though it operates most efficiently at a consistent level. Coal-fueled electricity generation cannot be simply turned up and down.",0_0
"There are other problems with the ice core record. It takes years for air to be trapped in the ice, so what is actually trapped and measured? Meltwater moving through the ice especially when the ice is close to the surface can contaminate the bubble. Bacteria form in the ice, releasing gases even in 500,000-year-old ice at considerable depth. ( Detection, Recovery, Isolation and Characterization of Bacteria in Glacial Ice and Lake Vostok Accretion Ice. Brent C. Christner, 2002 Dissertation. Ohio State University) . Pressure of overlying ice, causes a change below 50m and brittle ice becomes plastic and begins to flow. The layers formed with each year of snowfall gradually disappear with increasing compression. It requires a considerable depth of ice over a long period to obtain a single reading at depth. Jaworowski identified the problems with contamination and losses during drilling and core recovery process.",5_1
"It is interesting, however, that those who seek an arrest and conviction for criminal negligence, or voluntary manslaughter, want the crime to be charged before the victims are dead. The usual cry from the alarmists uses the future tense, as polar ice caps WILL melt, and sea levels WILL rise. Or, more often, the conditional form is used, saying sea levels COULD rise by 20 feet in 100 years.",5_2
"Then also, why would we want to end a recent lull in harsh weather conditions? Like, for example, the lack of increase in the strength or frequency of landfall hurricanes in the worlds five main hurricane basins during the past 50-70 years; the lack of increase in the strength or frequency in tropical Atlantic hurricane development during the past 370 years; the longest U.S. period ever recorded without intense Category 3-5 hurricane landfall; and no trend since 1950 evidencing any increased frequency of strong (F3-F-5) U.S. tornadoes.",1_7
"For those who don't have the ability or money, government help can transition people away from bad building decisions that those same governments often encouraged in their pursuit of growth. The state's My Safe Florida Home Program, which Gov. Crist, inexplicably, decided not to fund in 2009, helped residents of modest means secure their homes against storms and deserves to have its funding restored. Individual cities, towns and private charities should also see what they can do to help residents secure their homes and reinforce public infrastructure against storms.",0_0
"Despite the supposedly unprecedented warming of the twentieth century, there has been no increase in the intensity or frequency of tropical cyclones globally or in any of the specific ocean basins.",1_7
"A Trump victory, unlikely but far from impossible, would not create a new GOP: The old problems we identified would remain, along with new ones. There is no way to predict how Trump, who has no discernible knowledge of public policy or the governing process but who has made stark pledges on a range of issues, would handle his presidency, but the differences between his stated policy preferences and those of party leaders in Congress are substantial. In any case, Democrats will have enough members in the Senate to filibuster his initiatives.",0_0
Modeling Extreme Precipitation in the Tropics (10 Jul 2013),0_0
"Companies have safely used such processes for decades in the U.S. to extract oil and gas from hundreds of wells across the country. In fact, the technology has improved so dramatically that companies are re-fracking wells to extract even more oil and gas from previously drilled wells.",4_5
My one-time bosses on the U.S. Bureau of the Budget would have called this dominant informationresults so important that they dictate the outcome of an analysis almost regardless of other considerations.,0_0
"The cool conditions experienced in autumn 2011 are largely a result of the strong 2010/11 La Nia event which brought heavy rainfall and cool daytime temperatures to Australia, before decaying in late autumn. Of particular significance was March 2011 Australias coldest and wettest March on record for maximum temperatures and third wettest month on record (for any calendar month).",1_3
it is not known with enough certainty what the impacts will be and urgent action by governments and/or substantial government spending (on all or some aspects of mitigation or adaptation) to counter AGW is not necessary.,5_1
"Nothing is more Orwellian than quoting Orwell to attack freedom of thought and discussion. Today's ClimateWire (subscription required) provides a case in point. ""Scientists need to stop doublespeak on climate, experts say,"" reports Christa Marshall. By doublespeak, Orwell meant a political orthodoxy so pervasively embraced as a party line that everybody sheepishly repeats and even believes manifest falsehoods: Ignorance Is Strength, Freedom Is Slavery, War Is Peace.",0_0
"The UK had its coldest winter for 13 years , bucking a recent trend of mild temperatures, the Met Office has said.",1_3
Homework would not count for more than 20 percent of the quarterly,0_0
"The National Weather Service's primary seasonal prediction system, CFSv2, is based on running weather/ocean forecast models out 9 months. Its forecast is emphatic and confident (see below): a strong El Nino will develop this summer and extend into next winter.",0_0
Note: Assumes IPCC A1B baseline emissions path.,0_0
"""In the last 80 years, as CO2 emissions have most rapidly escalated, the annual rate of climate-related deaths worldwide fell by an incredible rate of 98%. That means the incidence of death from climate is 50 times lower than it was 80 years ago.""",3_1
"But Climate Crisis, Inc. is using our tax and consumer dollars to advance six simultaneous strategies.",0_0
"""Avatar"" director James Cameron double-dared global warming disaster skeptics to debate him then morphed into a chicken and cackled off when they accepted his increasingly ludicrous debate terms, calling his critics ""swine"" as he headed for the hills.",0_0
"Distributed by The Heartland Institute, a nonprofit and nonpartisan public policy research organization. Nothing in this report should be construed as reflecting the views of The Heartland Institute, nor as an attempt to aid or hinder the passage of legislation. Additional copies of this study are available for $10 from The Heartland Institute, 19 South LaSalle Street #903, Chicago, IL 60603; phone 312/377-4000; fax 312/377-5000; email think@heartland.org; Web http://www.heartland.org.",0_0
"Actually, according to a peer-reviewed paper just published in Nature Climate Change, there has been no statistically-significant global warming for the past 20 years .",1_4
"In short: heat flows from hot to cold but there is no physics corresponding to a flow from cold to hot analogous to ""backradiation"". Heat can radiate from a hot to a cold body, but not from a cold to a hot. In other words:",2_3
"This raises some interesting questions. Is there any difference between cap-and-trade and a carbon tax? Is cap-and-trade the only politically viable approach? And would either have a chance against The Status Quo, who is drawing new fans in the midst of the economic downturn?",0_0
There are two obvious problems with the National Climate Assessment. The first is the fact that the global mean temperature has not increased in the past seventeen years. This means that the Assessment is claiming that the effects (disruption) are preceding the cause (warming). I guess the disruption will really be bad if temperatures do actually start to go up.,1_4
"This new wave puts the ""sexual' into metrosexuality. In fact, a new term is needed to describe them, these pumped-up offspring of those Ronaldo and Beckham lunch-box ads, where sport got into bed with porn while Mr. Armani took pictures.",0_0
"The conference, which took place at the Centrum Prasowe Foksal right in the heart of Warsaw, drew a large crowd of grassroots leaders and interested citizens who came from far and wide to hear a point of view that many of them share, but don't often hear from the media or their elected leaders. CFACT, which co-sponsored the event along with the Institute for Globalization, Solidarity, and Polityka Narodowa (among others), made the keynote address a particularly honor for a U.S. NGO to receive on the eve of Poland's National Independence Day.",0_0
"Exhibit A: the Administration's ongoing push to create ""Green Jobs."" The Administration touts environmental initiatives not only as a way to improve quality of life and discourage climate change, but also as a way to employ more Americans. Accordingly, last week's summit included a breakout session called ""The Innovation Agenda and Green Jobs of the Future.""",0_0
"Car Company Gets U.S. Loan, Builds Cars Overseas Watch Video",0_0
"If we can have gas safely in this country that will mean jobs, tax revenue and greater energy security so fracking is not the evil thing that some people try to make it out to be, he said.",4_5
"YouTube - Bravo, Tom Fredriksen: Morning Report - Global Warming Bunk - Old Glory Radio BBC: Earth & Mars both having Global Warming Video",0_0
"Its emissions rose about 9 percent last year, faster than any other major economy. If sustained that rate ""would torpedo efforts for the global 2 degrees target,"" said Malte Meinshausen, from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).",0_0
"But the credibility gap with ClimateCounts doesn't end with Hirshberg. The group's executive vice president is Lisa Witter, who is also chairman of Fenton Communications a name that should be very familiar to aficionados of the history of health and environmental scare-mongering.",0_0
"3) The biggest increases occurred in the Antarctic before 1980, although the amount of missing data there in the 1930s and 1940s must place a question mark over the accuracy of GISS data.",0_0
"Conventional wisdom holds that plants should thrive when temperatures warm and the growing season lengthens under a changing climate. A 2003 study showed that plant growth indeed increased as temperatures warmed between 1982 and 1999. But when researchers at the University of Montana updated the study for the last decade, 20002009, they discovered that even though the decade was the warmest since instrumental recordkeeping began, plant growth slowed.",0_0
The global warming trend since 1900 is equivalent to 0.8 C per century. This is well within natural variability and may not have much to do with us.,2_1
"The situation is deeply frustrating for those who know the shuttle program firsthand, like Apollo 17 commander Eugene Cernan: ""This is the first time in a half century we're going to be sitting on our hands and watching the other guys"" meaning the Russians ""and not being able to get into space. Keeping a shuttle in the garage warm and fueled, and ready to go would be . . . a tremendous signal to the rest of the world that we're still in the ball game.""",0_0
"My argument has always been that I can find no evidence of a contribution from manmade greenhouse gases to the warming of ocean heat content data (depths of 700 meters) since 1955, and that there is no evidence that anthropogenic greenhouse gases contributed to the warming of sea surface temperatures of the global oceans during the satellite era. For an overview of my findings, see my illustrated essay The Manmade Global Warming Challenge . The claim that I reject the greenhouse effect clearly misrepresents my position.",2_3
"""How can you calmly accept a retarted warmongering coporate...whore like Bush?""",0_0
"The Clinton administration, represented by Janet Yellen, chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisors, has provided estimates of the costs of complying with the Kyoto Protocol in several congressional hearings. Though Yellen has not released the analysis she has laid",0_0
"And since there is no fingerprint of human- versus natural-caused warming, we might never know the answer to this central question. We might have to just sit back and watch where global temperature go from now on.",5_1
"Satellite data has shown thatsea ice around Antarctic has increased in size by twenty percent since imaging of the continent began in 1979. According to this study, though, too much ice requires the penguins to travel further to gather food for their chicks. Too little ice means less krill for the penguins to eat.",1_1
But the researchers were surprised when they entered temperatures and other data from the decade 2000-2010 into the model; climate sensitivity was greatly reduced to a mere 1.9C.,3_1
The Virginia Tobacco Indemnification And Community Revitalization Commission:,0_0
Those same companies have given financial backing to Teri through grants or paid-for consultancy work.,0_0
I?d agree probably 10 years away to go from weather forecasting to ~ annual,0_0
Today we know that this claim should have been a very easy-to-detect gross blunder.,0_0
"An important article appeared in the literature recently with some surprising results given the predictions of the climate models. Konstantinos Andreadis and Dennis Lettenmaier of the University of Washington have published a paper in Geophysical Research Letters entitled Trends in 20th century drought over the continental United States, and the results are peculiarin light of climate model projectionsto say the least. In the abstract, they write Droughts have, for the most part, become shorter, less frequent, and cover a small portion of the country over the last century.",1_7
RMS residual error 0.17 0.26 C,0_0
"Drawing on Muttart's insights and my own thinking, I believe there are seven salient values or tendencies that are common to working-class voters across the decades. Call them the Seven Habits of the Working Class. They are:",0_0
"On another question, 15 percent of strong Democrats thought that global warming would cause none of six undesirable consequences identified by the researchers. Eleven percent of strong Republicans shared this view. In the December-February survey, 4 percent of strong Democrats thought global warming would have none of these effects, but many more Republicans (27 percent) felt this way.",0_0
"Mildura News, sport and weather | Sunraysia Daily",0_0
"For certain reasons, they run the argument backwards and choose a basis composed of entangled states. They probably also want to exclude the possibility that \(E\) is an allowed nonlinear operator but I don't understand how a nonlinear operator would be supposed to behave as an observable so I don't see any value in their converse attitude.",0_0
"Laden and al-Qaeda. Later during the presidential primaries, Obama used a",0_0
The Web site will post supporting materials for each segment so viewers who want to learn more will have documents to read and links to other videos and reports posted elsewhere. There will be chat room running during the program on the KUSI page of Facebook.,0_0
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"Additionally, as the New York Times, in a story about corporate tax rates, reported last year: ""Large oil companies typically pay high rates."" It shows that the average tax rate among companies is roughly 29%, while ""large oil companies"" are paying 37% and utility companies that ""benefited from the 2009 stimulus bill, which included tax breaks,"" have an ""overall"" rate of 12%.",0_0
"""Ethanol subsidies damage the environment by wiping out forests, polluting water supplies, and eroding the soil. By converting food into fuel, they cause famines and food riots in the world's poorest countries. That fuels Islamic extremism in Afghanistan and the Middle East.""",4_1
The Coalition is pressing ahead with the CRC despite Conservative pledges to cut red-tape on businesses.,0_0
"When Waxman refers to a tipping point, he means that a positive feedback cycle, much like nuclear fission, is created causing temperatures to accelerate rapidly. As an aside, such runaway positive feedback processes are rare among long-term stable natural systems, as at some point, given 5 billion years of history, they should have already run away by now. Why temperatures would reach a tipping point now when they did not in millennia past when both global temperature and CO2 levels were much higher remains unexplained by Mr. Waxman and other tipping point advocates.",3_1
"Coming to a conclusion that simply could not be avoided, Barkhordarian et al . state that ""the detection of an outright sign mismatch of observed and projected trends in autumn and late summer, leads us to conclude that the recently observed trends cannot be used as an illustration of plausible future expected change in the Mediterranean region,"" once again illustrating the folly of placing too much faith in even the best of climate model projections.",5_1
Follow the money pushing the ideological AGW lie. If one examines climate science funding from 1986 to 1996 and then from 1996 to the present you may find some amazing numbers.,5_2
"""The South Carolina Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday regarding a 2006 case involving a home poker tournament. The discussion centers on whether the state's gaming laws were violated and/or whether poker is a game of skill or chance.""",0_0
The next graph shows how they made the past cooler through the magic of homogenization. The 1940s retroactively dropped a full degree!,5_1
"The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 18 December 2010",0_0
"If Energy Secretary Chris Huhne has his way, Britons will be forced to subsidise renewable energy by approximately 100billion in the next 20 years. Electricity prices are likely to double as a direct result. The Government has to force energy companies to make electricity bills fully transparent so that the ever-increasing level of hidden green taxes are clearly listed for families and households. ??? -Benny Peiser, Daily Mail, 8 July 2011",4_1
"The ""Appeal of the Climate Alliance,"" drafted by the Evangelical Academy of Bad Boll, contains mistakes in logic that cannot remain unchallenged.",0_0
The droughts of the 1930s and 1950s were stronger than those of the 2000s according to the Palmer Drought Severity Index.,1_7
"If one computes the loss in ice volume (the melt) for each individual year from May 1st to August 31st of each year, we get a surprise:",0_0
"I wonder what is the quantity that measures how ""bad"" an impact humans and comets have on Earth so that he concludes that the people are worse. People have disadvantages but any situation with people is better for Earth than the situation without the people because the people are so far the most precious thing that this planet has created.",0_0
It is religion that asks for repentance and offers rituals for atonement;,0_0
"Dr. Christy is distinguished professor of atmospheric science, Alabama's state climatologist, and director of the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. He served as lead author, contributing author, and reviewer of United Nations' IPCC assessments, have been awarded NASA's Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement, and in 2002 was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.",0_0
"Well, what causes chaos? All of this could simply be the characteristics of a nonlinear dynamical ???chaotic?? climate system. While a few people have objected to my use of the term ???chaotic?? in this context, I see no reason why the traditional application of chaos theory to small space and time scales (such as in weather) can not be extended to the larger space and time scales involved in climate. Either way, chaos involves complex nonlinear behavior we do not yet understand, very small changes in which can have profound effects on the system later. It seems to me that such behavior can occur on all kinds of space and time scales.",2_1
"""We are pleased with their decision not to use the politically natured global warming video as a classroom instruction tool and that they have set a standard that information-based texts must be factually correct to be put in front of our children,"" they wrote.",0_0
"She insisted on the word ""World"" in the organisation's name, saying it was an important nuance compared with ""international,"" meaning an exclusive focus on nations.",0_0
Great. But I think it would be worth checking for Dr Horton's views on climate change wouldn't you? Just in case?,0_0
"To study tree rings, researchers generally take a pencil-sized core from a tree. The oldest rings are those closest to the center of the tree. However, ancient giant sequoias can have trunks that are 30 feet in diameter far too big to be sampled using even the longest coring tools, which are only three feet long.",0_0
"Clean Power Now VP Charles Kleekamp argued in favor of the proposed Cape Wind offshore wind project on economic grounds in guest editorials in the March 6 Cape Cod Times and March 15 Cape Cod Today . In letters-to-the-editor to the same papers (not published), Glenn Schleede challenges Kleekamps analysis and describes what information the developer of Cape Wind would need to provide tohelp determine what the ensuing cost of per kilowatt-hour is likely to be.Still, Massachusetts electric users can be expected to be paying more because such power is bring driven bystates Renewable Portfolio Standard and the fact thatelectricity from wind isintermittent.",4_4
"This is not a new problem. The unilateral redrafting of IPCC reports by ""lead authors"" after reviewers had agreed them, and the writing of a sexed-up ""summary for policy makers"" before the report was complete, have discomfited many scientists since the first report. It is no great surprise that the ""experts"" who compiled one part of the 2007 report included three from Greenpeace, two Friends of the Earth representatives, two Climate Action Network representatives, and a person each from the activist organisations WWF, Environmental Defense Fund, and the David Suzuki Foundation.",5_2
"Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course. Human activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the environment and on critical resources. If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plant and animal kingdoms and may so alter the living world that it will be unable to sustain life in the manner that we know. Fundamental changes are urgent if we are to avoid the collision our present course will bring about.",0_0
"Paying homage to their connection to the frozen sea, villagers eat the delicacy to celebrate the moment when the Arctics ice touches shore.",0_0
"""Obama's doing a quickie presser at 4:40 p.m. to talk about the debt ceiling and the evils of corporate jets, etc, but apart from that, it'll be wall-to-wall Caseymania on cable news for the rest of the day. There's no avoiding it so we might as well catch the news wave and surf. How many of you followed the trial? I only watched bits and pieces, but if you need to get up to speed, the Wikipedia article of the case is a solid summary based on what I've read elsewhere. Money quote: ""There is something wrong. I found my daughter's car today and it smells like there's been a dead body in the damn car."" And yet, the party raged on.""",0_0
"Figure 3 also shows a rapid warming from 1935 to 1938, as well as the recent warming from 2004 to 2007, just like the DMI measurements. The same phenomenon is likely the cause of the temperature rises then and now. This reference was found here:",2_1
"After one year of treatment exposure, there were no significant effects of the extra 200 ppm of CO 2 or ozone on apparent tree volume. After two and three years, however, elevated CO 2 increased apparent tree volume by 22 and 28%, respectively, while elevated ozone reduced it by 26% in each of those years. Although elevated CO 2 did not completely alleviate the negative affects of ozone on apparent tree volume, CO 2 -enriched trees that were simultaneously exposed to elevated ozone concentrations exhibited apparent volumes that were still 6 and 19% greater than volumes displayed by trees subjected to ambient CO 2 and elevated ozone concentrations in the second and third years of the study, respectively. What it means",3_3
"Russia, Japan, Canada Say Nyet to Kyoto Follow Up",0_0
be associated either with nitrogen or increasing CO2 or both. Contrast this,0_0
"Longtime MasterResource readers know of Chip Knappenberger??s post on the negligible climatic effects of unilateral adherence to Waxman-Markey. Across the board, the response from supporters of Waxman-Markey was not to deny Knappenberger??s calculations, but rather to insist that the U.S. had to show leadership. The (perhaps unspoken) premise was that if the whole world adopted the steep emission cuts proposed in Waxman-Markey, then the climatic benefits would clearly outweigh the economic costs.",4_2
"Sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached a new record high extent this year, covering more of the southern oceans than it has since scientists began a long-term satellite record to map sea ice extent in the late 1970s. The upward trend in the Antarctic, however, is only about a third of the magnitude of the rapid loss of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean.",1_1
"It's conventional to define the trend by the slope of the trend line, a best-fit straight line through a segment of the data. There's no reason to expect that the Earth is actually warming at a perfectly steady rate, but the slope of the trend line is a convenient measure of the average rate of warming.",0_0
"CFACT Advisor Dr. Hans Penner Challenges Bad Boll Evangelical Academy's ""Mistakes in Logic""",0_0
"So this is not science as we know it. Science has to re-invent itself as a political tool, just as it was under Hitler and Stalin. Scientists must learn ?as quickly as possible? what will please the political elite, and serve it up. As one Richard Fernandez has written:",0_0
"Whats so good about it? Well, for once everybody should join in the celebration of a climate model that is presented for what it is (a policymaking tool for negotiators to assess their national greenhouse-gas commitments ahead of Decembers climate summit in Copenhagen ) rather than for what it is not (a scientific tool used for a variety of purposes from study of the dynamics of the climate system to projections of future climate , as rather naively claimed on Wikipedia).",5_1
"Melting ice has provided us with frozen mammoths and even frozen people, like the famous Oetzi from the Alps, as if they were kept in a fridge. No wonder that melting glaciers in Western Canada, which recently reached a historic minimum, have unveiled 7,000-year-old tree stumps.",0_0
"gluon + bottom bottom + Higgs would be both unexpected and highly consequential. In Five faces of the God particle , I explained why the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) requires two Higgs doublets that produce five physical states. Both Higgs doublets participate in the electroweak symmetry breaking and both of them are needed to produce masses of particles.",0_0
"The new warm anomaly in the western equatorial Pacific is highlighted in Figure 3. It has strengthened in the past few weeks. If the anomaly works its way eastward with the Equatorial Undercurrent in the Pacific (the Cromwell current), as it should, then the anomaly will increase as it works its way to the east, because the subsurface waters in the east are normally cooler than they are in the west. And if more of the warm water thats off the equator (just south of the equator in the western tropical Pacific as highlighted in Figure 4) is drawn into the equatorial undercurrent, there would be more subsurface warm water to help fuel an El Nio later this year. Yup, lots of ifs and shoulds and woulds in that.",0_0
"I'm not sure whether this is a particularly productive discussion as regards the climate debate. If a computer simulation is to be policy-relevant its output must be capable of being an approximation to the real world, and must be validated to show that this is the case. If climate modellers want to make the case that their virtual worlds are neither hypothesis nor experiment, or to use them to address otherwise intractable questions, as Schmidt and Sherwood note happens, then that's fine so long as climate models remain firmly under lock and key in the ivory tower.",5_1
But three years later Pachauri was mired in controversy when errors were found in the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report.,5_2
1. The Price Tag For Uprooting Americas Electric Grid,0_0
"Michael Mann, Pennsylvania State University climate Svengali, a member of the CRU (he figured prominently in the e-mail scandals at East Anglia), and great Pittsburgh Penguins fan (he created the famed ""hockey stick graph"" that was so influential on the 2007 IPCC Climate Change report) has stepped in it again, this time co-authoring a new study (Kemp et. al) that claims to show a massive acceleration in sea level rise in North Carolina that coincides with the industrial era.",0_0
"This figure shows that, per the IPCC, in the absence of climate change, GDP per capita would grow between 11- and 67-fold for developing countries, and between 3- and 8-fold for industrialized countries.",5_2
"Although there is a consistent movement in the region toward earlier tornado activity, it is difficult to pinpoint a cause, said Paul Stoy, assistant professor in the Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences at MSU and co-author of the new study. Records of tornado activity in the U.S. only date back to the 1950s, making it difficult to study changing trends in tornado activity. Furthermore, tornadoes can be influenced by many regional factors, including topography of the land and areas where cooler air meets warm, subtropical air, making it difficult to attribute the shift in the tornado season to any one factor, he said.",1_7
"People will see their choices limited to the few options presented them. The terms ""property rights"" and ""individual liberty"" were nowhere to be heard at Habitat III. Instead, participants were told that ""decarbonization"" is imperative if the planet is to be saved. And if that means packing people into compact housing like so many sardines in a tin can, so be it.",4_1
"IPCC Third Report (2001), Summary for Policy Makers, p.32. Sea levels will rise by 88cm by the year 2100 (99 years-times). This is 8.9mm per year. Error to date is 523%",0_0
"But, as we already know , Katharine is not really a proper climate scientist.",5_2
"Accountability can be hard, global warming muppet Jim Hansen??s predictions from 20 years ago are not even close to observations in today??s climate. Why are we listening to Doctor ???death trains??, exactly?",5_2
"Last year, 130 skeptical German scientists co-signed an Open Letter of protest to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, asserting, among other things, that a ""growing body of evidence shows anthropogenic CO2 plays no measurable role"" in Earth's climate.",2_3
"Command-and-control is the most common form of environmental policy, but it has a lot of problems. Principally, central planners can never get enough information to figure out the least-cost way to achieve a target. In the case of CO2 there are so many millions of emission points, and the costs of abatement at each point can be radically different than at other points, so any attempt at centralized micromanagement of emissions will end up being excessively costly. No matter what emissions reduction is eventually achieved it could have been done more cheaply with one of the other methods.",0_0
"""For the latest example of governmental bait-and-switch, look no further than your ashtray. Attorneys general from 46 states sold the public on the 1998 ""Master Settlement Agreement"" as a way to collect ""damages"" from the major tobacco companies and spend these sums to rescue teenagers from nicotine addiction.""",0_0
"Mr. Markey and his big-D colleagues excoriated the guilty parties they had summoned to their Star Chamber. They then refused to allow testimony by the Republicans' proposed witness. Competitive Enterprise Institute lawyer Chris Horner had intended to discuss a recent hoax by environmentalists, who had impersonated U.S. Chamber of Commerce officials, forged Chamber documents and staged a phony news conference to announce that the Chamber had reversed its position on global warming legislation.",0_0
"Experiments with Zebra Fish show that if their embryos develop in warmer water, they not only are able to swim faster but they cope better in both warmer and colder water. (How catastrophic can that be, I ask you?)",3_2
"Democratic nominees, not just for president but for statewide office, are required not just to tolerate but to celebrate abortion. They must be willing if not eager to raise tax rates. They must back racial quotas and preferences. They must mutter the catechism that global warming is the greatest threat facing mankind.",0_0
"The City will grams Friday in what is called omstllning and which in practice means that gteborgaren be forced to change their lifestyle completely and the hole. Gteborgaren the vision should like to bike or walk, and like kvartersvxthus but not to increase the car to the cottage.",0_0
"While JAXA shows extent now lower than 2009, DMI and NANSEN plots show it to be about even. The differences in observing sensor/platform AMSRE -vs-SSMI and methodologies at agencies are in play.",0_0
"So as is the case with many of the current alleged global environmental ""crises,"" the predictions about species loss are not based on any real-world observations but rather, guesses and speculations that depend on questionable mathematical models.",0_0
"Second, is that fossil fuels are likely to come down in price than go up. In particular in Britain the shale gas revolution will guarantee supplies for a generation and are more likely to see gas prices fall in real terms, than rise.",4_5
Courtesy of the Natural Resources Defense Council and just one day after the National Research Council announces EPA needs more regulatory authority.,0_0
"Unfortunately, GHG control seems to have many of the features that complicate efforts to restrict open access to resources, and these features raise real doubts about when an effective agreement might be expected.",0_0
So the most important questions in the first poll make no sense. They are also leading questions since they imply that the pollster believes that we in a warming phase. This then activates the problem of Expectancy Bias.,0_0
"The simple fact is that heat waves are nothing new. In 1936 a North American heat wave was the most severe in the modern history of the continent. It occurred in the middle of the Great Depression, killing more than 5,000 Americans and desiccating vast amounts of crops. To put it in perspective, there were no home air conditioning appliances at the time. People depended on fans to circulate the air.",1_7
Todays average vehicle sold in North America gets worse gas mileage than a Model T.,0_0
Chutzpah: Treasury Secretary blames GOP for Keystone XL delay,0_0
It would be like asking a person to choose: either eat or love God. I am afraid most would choose the former.,0_0
"Today, the goals of electric utility regulation bear little resemblance to the traditional aim of preventingmonopoly abuse. Public utility regulation is now thevehicle for a host of special interest social experiments at the expense of the diffuse interests of the consumers who will have to pay for any failures in these flights of fancy, both in terms of quality of service and its costs.",4_1
"""House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi called for an ethics investigation following Anthony Weiner's admission Monday that he tweeted a photo of his bulging underpants to a woman and engaged in ""inappropriate"" exchanges with six women before and after getting married.""",0_0
"The rejection of the present paper required some extraordinary violations of accepted practice. We feel that making such procedures public will help clarify the peculiar road blocks that have been created in order to prevent adequate discussion of fundamental issues. It is hoped, moreover, that the material presented here can offer the interested public some insight into what is involved in the somewhat mysterious though widely (if inappropriately) respected process of peer review.",0_0
"Adding the the recent spate of papers showing that - surprise - the Sun has much, much more to do with climate change than previously thought, the respected German Physics Journal Annalyn der Physik recently published a paper analyzing solar irradiance data from 1905 to 2008 which finds cosmic rays modulated by solar activity cause a large portion of atmospheric aerosols (clouds) with profound effects on climate . The paper concludes, "" The contribution of the active sun, indirectly via cosmic rays, to global warming appears to be much stronger than the presently accepted upper limit of 1/3.""",2_1
Talk Show Host Wants Florida To Drown,0_0
Another Govt Climate Change Propaganda Unit,0_0
"The Northern Hemisphere, North Atlantic, North Pacific and East Pacific SST Anomalies are all dropping. It will not be long before the Atlantic Coast and the Arctic regions will show similar cooling as the AMO goes cool or negative. North America is more likely see much cold weather during the next 20-30 years rather than global warming of 3-6C as predicted by the IPCC. The recent severe winter weather along Alaska and the US east coast was just a sample of what may lie ahead. This cooling has been building for a decade now. So how can global warming be causing current and future extreme weather events when global warming as predicted has not been happening for a decade and is unlikely to happen during the next 30 years since the world 60-year climate cycle is heading for colder weather due to changing ocean surface temperatures and changes in deep ocean currents?",1_2
"Hope the cows will like it. Personally, I a fan, especially when I'm eating cows, but I don't want it in my milk.",0_0
"Wind power is not free. All natural energy resources such as coal, wind and sun appear free no one has to incur costs to create them. But turning a free resource into usable electricity costs money for collecting, generating and distributing that energy. To consumers and tax payers, the real cost of wind power is very high, no matter how well it is hidden by politicians.",4_4
"The geologic record does not support dangerous CO 2 -driven planetary warming either. CO 2 has played no role in the dramatic climate change of the ice ages, or at any other time over the past 500 million years, said University of Ottawa Earth Sciences Professor Ian D. Clark. Only in unverified computer models cited by the IPCC does CO 2 drive climate change.",2_3
"Some East African people in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, the Republic of Congo, and other countries around South Sudan received new opportunities and skills. They were able to feed their families, send their children to school, pay medical bills, and cover other expenses.",0_0
"However, he has an interesting inlgg on his blog about something else, nmligen whether the IPCC's forecasts still str itself. He notes that virtually's IPCC has said the same thing angende klimatknsligheten since the first report (FAR) in 1990. It should be between 1.5 and 4.5 degrees at a CO2 doubling. Oskerheten has just fallen to between 2 and 4.5 degrees in the last report from 2007 (AR4).",0_0
"are the big questions that transcend the 100 days issue, questions for more",0_0
"11. Union of Concerned Scientists, ""World Scientists' Warning to Humanity"" (1992), available at http://www.ucsusa.org/ucs/about/page.cfm?pageID=1009.",0_0
"The Air Offices permitting guidance for greenhouse gases, both as proposed in November 2010 and as adopted in March 2011 ,similarly states that the initial list of control options for a BACT analysis does not need to include clean fuel options that would fundamentally redefine the source. In other words, coal power plants would not be lumped together with natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) power plants in the same industrial source category subject to the same emission standards. Accordingly, an applicant would not be required to switch to a primary fuel type other than the type of fuel that an applicant proposes to use for its primary combustion process.",0_0
16j. The ability of global climate models to model extreme events for the next 50 years,0_0
"For the Full Report in PDF Form, please click here.",0_0
More Nations May Pledge Carbon Limits at U.N. Climate Talks,0_0
"The actual texts and implications of these seven recommendations are complex, and not all the consequences can be anticipated. The authors have studied the issue sufficiently closely, however, to conclude the reforms address the biggest concerns about NSR expressed during EPA's hearings, and appear to correct policies that currently lead to economic waste and foregone environmental benefits. Other environmental regulations under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards program remain in place, and some conflicts between NSR and other programs (such as state SIPs) are potentially resolved.",0_0
"So let us examine ""progress"" against two other standards: (1) pollution reductions to date; and (2) the validity of claims used to justify ever more burdensome and expensive environmental regulations.",0_0
"Throughout the wine-producing world, from France to South Africa to California, vintners are in the vanguard of confronting the impact of climate change. Rising temperatures are forcing unprecedented early harvests, changing the tastes of the best-known varieties of wine and threatening the survival of centuries-old wine-growing regions.",0_0
"The study also says that an overestimate of the power of CO2 as a greenhouse gas could be why the models over-predict, but that they do not know why the models are wrong at this point.",5_1
"The researchers goal is to understand what drives the Earths climate system without taking increases in greenhouse gases into account, says Mayewski. There are good reasons to be concerned about greenhouse gases, but we should be looking at the climate system with our eyes open, he adds. Understanding how the system operates in the absence of human impacts is important for responding to climate changes that might occur in the future.",0_0
"KTLAs camera at Snow Summit, a resort in Californias San Bernardino Mountains, caught the snow storm moving in just before 3 p.m.",0_0
"There were at least three major droughts in nineteenth century North America: one from the mid-1850s to the mid-1860s, one in the 1870s, and one in the 1890s. There was also a drought around 1820; the periods from 1816 to 1844 and from 1849 to 1880 were rather dry, and the 19th century overall was a dry century for the Great Plains. While there was little rain-gauge data from the mid-19th century in the middle of the US, there were plenty of trees, and tree-ring data showed evidence of a major drought from around 1856 to around 1865. Native Americans were hard hit, as the bison they depended upon on the Plains moved to river valleys in search of water, and those valleys were full of Natives and settlers alike. The river valleys were also home to the humans grazing animals, which competed against the bison for food. The result was starvation for many of the bison.",1_7
"A new paper published in Biogeosciences finds groundwater and porewater are ""major sources"" of alkalinity to reefs which are not taken into account by computer models of ocean 'acidification'. The authors "" suggest that porewater and groundwater fluxes of TA should be taken into account in ocean acidification models in order to properly address changing carbonate chemistry within coral reef ecosystems."" Note also that studies in the laboratory of the effect of 'acidification' upon various organisms also fail to consider this moderating ""major source"" of alkalinity.",5_1
"Interesting to see the effect of a GOP president who makes climate change an important issue, although approaching it from a more market-oriented, pro-innovation perspective.",0_0
"When I was in medical school, computers were fairly new. They used punchcards and took up all the space in large rooms. Even then people that were enamored with new technology predicted that someday the computer would replace the doctor. Patients would sit down at a keyboard, type in their symptoms, and the computer would spit out a diagnosis. Fortunately that hasnt come to pass but not for lack of trying by those who want to push medicine in that direction.",0_0
South-western Western Australia has an 80 per cent chance of exceeding average temperatures over the next three months.,0_0
"/s/ Dr. Humbolt C. Mandell JSC, Mgr. Shuttle Program Control and Advance Programs, 40 years",0_0
"This low climate sensitivity along with ocean cycles like the AMO, ENSO, and PDO may be the reason for no warming since 1998. See Bob Tisdales post in WUWT here for reinforcement of that idea.",1_4
"After years of decline, glaciers in Norway are again growing, reports the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE). Read more here .",1_1
PHILIP: Who wants to stay? Its clear brawn is no substitute for brains.,0_0
"Averaged across the entire experiment, elevated CO 2 significantly increased rates of net photosynthesis in both mangrove species, but only when grown at the lower salinity level. Interestingly, the percentage CO 2 -induced increase in photosynthesis was greater for R. stylosa , than it was for R. apiculata , which generally is faster growing than R. stylosa . Although elevated CO 2 did not significantly affect the relative growth rate of either species, the average relative growth rates of both species increased with atmospheric CO 2 enrichment in the lower salt environment; and true to its characterization, R. apiculata displayed a greater CO 2 -induced growth stimulation than did R. stylosa , particularly at the lower relative humidity. What it means",3_3
"As youdexpect, petitioners in Mass v. EPA still deny that the public has anything to worry about. CAA provisions are not self-executing, they note. EPA must either initiate action under those provisions, or be compelled to do so by litigation. And according to them,nobodynot industry, not EPA, not the environmental communitywants to apply PSD to thousands of small sources, or promulgate NAAQS for GHGs.",0_0
"""Sen. Cruz promised to withdraw from the Paris Climate Treaty, while Sen. Rubio promised to submit it to the Senate, with the understanding the Senate will defeat ratification,"" said Ebell.",0_0
".: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works :: Minority Page :. WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the United States Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, will be honored tonight by the Americans for Prosperity Foundation with their prestigious ""Washington Award."" Senator Inhofe will join George Will, Ed Meese, Dinesh DSouza and more than 1,800 grassroots free-market advocates from 38 states that are gathering for Americans for Prosperity Foundations (AFPs) 2nd annual Defending the American Dream.",0_0
"New guess: Sea level rise of 1 meter within 100 years New research indicates that the ocean could rise in the next 100 years to a meter higher than the current sea level which is three times higher than predictions from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC.",0_0
"On December 12, 2011 documents purporting to be the ?Zero Order Draft? of the WG1 (Working Group 1) committee was published on the Internet. Less than 48 hours later the site went dead. Fortunately, most of the files were recoverable.",0_0
"Traditional conservatism is a woefully inadequate response to the rule of the progressive aristocracy because conserving the changes of the past few decades would be disastrous: the vast increase in the welfare state, the Sexual Revolution and its antinomian devaluation of all values, the nation's catastrophically bad education system, a culture promoting license and irresponsibility, and other such atrocities are necessary to the maintenance of a corrupt aristocracy which relies on the output of a productive class forced into peasant-like docility so that its goods can be extracted for the benefit of its self-proclaimed betters.",0_0
"Another interesting aspect of these videos is that they show how so many of the ""climate skeptics"" come to the same conclusions, and how different they are from the way the mainstream media portrays them.",0_0
"A new study shows that flying squirrels have been adapting to recent warming since the 1990s by both moving and hybridizing. C.J. Garroway and his research team trapped more than 1600 of the flying squirrels in Ontario and Pennsylvania between 2002 and 2004. The flying squirrels' DNA shows the southern G. volans flying squirrels are increasingly mating with the northern G. sabrinus flying squirrels. The researchers say this is the ""first report of hybrid zone formation following a range expansion induced by contemporary climate change.""",3_2
"Prior to assuming the Florida State presidency, he served as director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. From 2006 to 2008, he was dean of the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin. At Pennsylvania State University, he was professor of geosciences, director of the Earth System Science Center, director of the EMS Environmental Institute and dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.",0_0
Muscle: SEIU's million-dollar ad push for more taxes:,0_0
"Tim Lambert of the University of New South Wales, recently discovered (see his web log at http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/cgi-in/blog/ science/mckitrick6.html ) an error in calculations in a scientific article by Ross McKitrick of the University of Guelph and Patrick Michaels of the University of Virginia. The article (see the June 9 issue of the newsletter), titled A Test of Corrections for Extraneous Signals in Gridded Surface Temperature Data and which appeared in Climate Research , found that recent temperature records were strongly influenced by socio-economic factors.",0_0
Aquatic Ecosystems of Arid and Semi-Arid Regions,0_0
"The government has set a target for installed solar power generating capacity to reach 15 gigawatts by 2015 and wind power capacity to hit 100 GW, China National Radio reported, citing an announcement from the National Energy Administration.",0_0
"Will the American middle and working classes' turn to the GOP end the partisan and philosophical conflict of the last two years, or are there tensions between the conservative movement and those groups of Americans that remain to be worked out before a new, more stable political era is created? This is a topic well beyond the scope of this memo, but I will conclude by offering a sober, yet positive, assessment.",0_0
"Finally, Bush assured us, more ethanol is on the way:",0_0
This post will serve as the model-data comparison for satellite-era sea surface temperature anomalies for this year. This is an expanded version. It provides a couple of answers for why the models perform so poorly when attempting to simulate the surface temperatures of the global oceans.,5_1
"The assaults on Monckton and other high-visibility skeptics (for example, Marc Morano of Climate Depot, Joe D'Aleo of ICECAP, Dr. Willie Soon, Dr. Fred Singer, Anthony Watts and Dr. Ferenc Miskolczi) are further evidence that the global warmists are in full retreat and resorting to slash and burn tactics as they make a desperate last stand to defend their cherished theory from the onslaught of countervailing scientific evidence.",5_2
"Between 2007 and 2014, about 92.5 billion gallons of ethanol were mixed into domestic gasoline supplies. Over that eight-year period, the energy-equivalent cost of ethanol averaged about 90 cents per gallon more than gasoline. Motorists thus incurred about $83 billion roughly $10 billion annually in additional fuel costs over and above what they would have paid for gasoline alone. That means that each of the 200 million licensed drivers in the U.S. are now paying an additional $47 per year in excess fuel costs.",0_0
"He will learn that the temperature increase in these three decades - when the economy was kind of flourishing - is about 0 C or 0.05 C. It is completely indistinguishable from the (much higher) annual variations. Steven Chu talks about 5 C in a few (three) decades which is an estimate that exceeds the reality by two orders of magnitude. That's just like if he is scared to death - and ready to pay $20,000 (or trillions of dollars, in this case) because he has confused a mouse on his garden with a tiger.",0_0
"Financial Review journalist Mark Lawson has had enough of this madness. From the blurb for his new book, A Guide to Climate Change Lunacy:",0_0
"Meanwhile, the EU's Energy Commissioner warned that German electricity prices are already at ""the upper edge"" of what society can accept and businesses can tolerate. Taxes, levies and regulations imposed in the name of reducing carbon dioxide emissions and global warming are forcing companies to relocate to other countries and causing ""a gradual process of de-industrialization"" across Germany.",4_1
Ive taken the discussion farther in the blog post Supplement To ENSO Indices Do Not Represent The Process Of ENSO Or Its Impact On Global Temperature . There I divided the Rest-of-the-World data into two more subsets so that I could show the additional rate of warming and the other impacts of an addition mode of natural variability called the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. It impacts the North Atlantic sea surface temperature data.,0_0
"The devastating Russian heatwave and Pakistan floods are caused by one unusual weather pattern the static jet stream, meteorologists say.",0_0
"According to the authors, the modern-day grounding-line retreat of the WAIS is part of an ongoing recession that has been underway since the early to mid-Holocene. As a result, according to the authors, ""it is not a consequence of anthropogenic warming or recent sea level rise."" Hence, it is clear that climate change advocates who argue that CO 2 -induced global warming is responsible for every iceberg that breaks free of the WAIS, or every inch of WAIS retreat, are unjustified in continuing to make such claims.",1_1
"It is rather difficult to imagine, but approximately 635 million years ago, ice may have covered a vast portion of our planet in an event called Snowball Earth. According to the Snowball Earth hypothesis, the massive ice age that occurred before animal life appeared, when Earths landmasses were most likely clustered near the equator, precipitated relatively rapid changes in atmospheric conditions and a subsequent greenhouse heat wave. This particular period of extensive glaciation and subsequent climate changes might have supplied the cataclysmic event that gave rise to modern levels of atmospheric oxygen, paving the way for the rise of animals and the diversification of life during the later Cambrian explosion.",0_0
Job Announcement Number: NPSWASO-HQ-11-434393,0_0
"As to the last point about utilities shutting off individual appliances, appliance makers and utilities are working on smart appliances that can be controlled through the smart meters and the Internet.",0_0
"The real motive for progressive politics is by no means any sense of altruism, as the aristocracy would have us believe. It is all of the usual selfish stuff: money, power, and ego. Limbaugh observes:",0_0
"There are several ways to ensure access to capital in the developing world, but the most important approach is to unlock the productive potential of the capital already available there.",0_0
Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers.,0_0
Note that level and trend are quite different conceptsand even use different units. Level is measured in degreesC; trend is measured in degC per decade.,0_0
"Despite some discrepancies between various data sets, the global temperature differences between 1942 and 1997 are small to none except for land-based thermometer data outside the U.S. This disparity with your warming premise demands an explanation as do the much larger in trends of the Northern Hemisphere compared to the Southern Hemisphere.",0_0
"McCarthys woes have had a chilling effect on the administrations desire to go forward on bold actions, the Sierra Clubs Melinda Pierce said. They dont want to be lighting a fire out there before Gina is confirmed.",0_0
"With temperatures going down rather than up, the devoted even had to retire the term ???global warming?? altogether.",1_4
TransCanadas revised pipeline plan addresses environmental concerns and should be approved.,0_0
"""A large increase in the supply of energy will be required in coming decades to power economic development, the IAEA recognizes, projecting that to the year 2030 the part nuclear power will play in the global energy supply will first grow and then decrease.",0_0
"It is hard to understand how sensible midwestern people can be so naive as to cooperate with the enemy, but then consider Chuckie Hagel and Bob Kerry wereNebraska US Senators. I also know most would not see the evil smell of the Tri Faith Initiative, but there is a symbolism only muslim jihadis appreciate, a victory mosque on a Jewish Golf Coursethe only thing they would like better is to build on the ruins of a synagogue and church bombing.",0_0
"Gas prices rise, breaking pre-election pattern:",0_0
"Entertainment. Surprisingly, entertainment items such as toys, sports gear, video and audio equipment, computers, radios, and televisions use nearly as much indirect energy as household maintenance does (see table 7). Cinemas, theaters, and opera houses take up less indirect energy than sports and photographic equipment, boats, and the ownership of pleasure aircraft.",0_0
"Natural disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina and, in earlier years, hurricanes in Florida and floods along the Mississippi, have made two things clear: Large numbers of individuals facing large risks have not purchased insurance (for one reason or another); and, when disasters happen, there will be a government bailout. (The recognition of this, in turn, provides one of the reasons individuals limit the purchase of insurance; that is, if it is left as a voluntary matter.) There is clearly a role for government ex ante, but ascertaining what that role should be (requiring the provision of private insurance, providing public insurance, etc.) is not so simple if the private sector has strong incentives to overcharge, the public sector has strong incentives to undercharge.",0_0
Hearing Set for NUHW-SEIU Dispute Over Union Elections:,0_0
"Vehicle makers, together with the government and, more importantly, individually for competitive reasons are hard at work on many different approaches to the ultimate replacement of today's technology.",0_0
"Make sure that the researchers are actual, qualified professionals. You would think you could take this for granted in a study published in a peer-reviewed journal, but sadly this is simply not the case when it comes to climate consensus research. Theyll publish anything with high estimates.",5_2
"Would the great grandsons face a burning house? Steven Chu says that the new temperature would take them into an unknown territory. Well, every newborn baby - including our great grandsons - is taken into a new territory when it is born. The open world is so different from the womb! And the initial conditions for its life are defined by the moment of its birth, not by the moment of his great grandfather's birth, as some of the senile great grandparents incorrectly assume! Great grandparents are pretty much irrelevant, especially when it comes to your feelings about the weather today. Just think about your great grandparents. What would they think about the weather on December 15th, 2008?",0_0
"In another paper, Davi et al . (2006) developed a reconstruction of streamflow that extended from 1637 to 1997, based on absolutely dated tree-ring-width chronologies from five sampling sites in west-central Mongolia, all of which sites were in or near the Selenge River basin, the largest river in Mongolia. Of the ten wettest five-year periods, only two occurred during the 20th century (1990-1994 and 1917-1921, the second and eighth wettest of the ten extreme periods, respectively), once again indicative of a propensity for less flooding during the warmest portion of the 360-year period.",1_7
"He also screened the movie trailer for CFACT's ""Climate Hustle"" film project that brought many laughs and sustained applause from the crowd.",0_0
It hasn't been a good week for America's reputation as a leader in space.,0_0
"Climate ""Consensus"" Opiate: The 97% Solution",0_0
Figure 1 compares the global temperature projections from the business-as-usual (BAU) scenario with the Kerry-Lieberman adjustments. The BAU scenario produces a temperature rise (over the 1990 global average temperature) of 1.584 C by the year 2050 and 2.959 C by 2100. The Kerry-Lieberman adjustments produce a temperature rise of 1.541 C by 2050 and 2.848 C by 2100.,0_0
"If you discover Earths temperature has stabilized at a local high since 1998, you can expect it to begin cooling soon. Maybe -15C. Because a new glacial has begun.",1_2
"What is unconventional oil? Well, we could start by considering the conventions regarding oil. For literally billions of years the convention was that oil was found in small pools and seeps like you see in Figure 1. Indeed, the discovery of oil in Oil Creek, Pennsylvania, the site of the first US oil well, came about because oil had been seeping out there for untold centuries, and had been known and utilized by the Early Asian Immigrants in the area before the later arrival of the melanin-deficient crowd.",0_0
Why I use an ensemble average of multiple GMST data sets.,0_0
"This has always struck me as an incredibly lame argument, as it implies that the models are an accurate representation of nature, which they likely are not. We know that significant natural effects, such as the PDO and AMO are not well modelled or even considered at all in these models.",5_1
"The roots of American liberalism are not compassion but snobbery. That's the thesis of Fred Siegel's revealing new book, The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class.",0_0
"For decades, Americans have slept while their national sovereignty has been threatened, chipped away and eroded by a series of innocuous-sounding and nearly imperceptible decisions. We have been locked in a struggle between our sovereignty and the advocates of ""global governance"" that most of our fellow citizens didn't even know was under way, let alone how disparate were these two worldviews.",0_0
"Figure 1 . The expected probability of negotiation success (solid line), its 95% confidence bound (dashed line) and the annual costs of climate negotiations (triangles).",0_0
"There's one other slight problem with Kagan's call for exhausting agency procedures. The administrative-review scheme in this case and others grants judicial review to appeal a sanction or punishment imposed by the agency. Beckstead & Watts faced onerous compliance costs from regulation but was never actually sanctioned. Hence, it had no penalty to appeal in order to seek judicial review.",0_0
"But the standard is as below, read a system of model describing coupled differential equations numerically. It usually takes less n one second on a standard PC, also for more complex systems.",0_0
Tourists continue to flock to a Great Barrier Reef that (outside of very local resort areas) remains in the same excellent natural health that Captain James Cook observed in 1770.,3_2
"To develop a separate chronology for past fires, co-authors R. Scott Anderson and Douglas J. Hallett looked for charcoal in sediment cores taken from meadows within the sequoia groves.",0_0
"Relevant as well is whether the project will affect the local crime rate, present fire dangers, or otherwise unduly tap police and fire forces in the community, the project's impact on social services, such as the availability of schools, hospitals, businesses, commuter facilities, and parking, harmonization with proximate land uses, and a blending with the aesthetics of the area, consideration of the project's impact on the community's development policy urban blight and decay eighborhood stability and growth .",0_0
"By Dr. Vincent Gray, Jun 5, 2015",0_0
"Federal court decisions in 2006 and 2007 resulted in the revocation of field trial permits to test several different genetically engineered varieties, establishing the precedent that nearly any cultivation of a new genetically engineered plant would require an EIS. Two additional lawsuits filed to stop the approval and commercial sale of genetically engineered alfalfa and sugar beet varieties have been a nightmare for plant breeders, the seed industry, and especially farmers. Ironically, in none of those cases was there any actual environmental harm; quite the opposite, in fact.",0_0
"It is also evident from the sea-level reconstruction that, notwithstanding the changes in temperature over the past millennium, sea level has varied by only 20 cm (8 in) either side of the millennial mean.",1_6
"Instead, the band members turned to their friends in the media and to the blogosphere, creating a website called RealClimate.org. ""The idea is that we working climate scientists should have a place where we can mount a rapid response to supposedly ""bombshell' papers that are doing the rounds"" in aid of ""combating dis-information,"" one email explained, referring to criticisms of the hockey stick and anything else suggesting that temperatures today were not the hottest in recorded time. One person in the nine-member Realclimate.org team U.K. scientist and Green Party activist William Connolley would take on particularly crucial duties.",0_0
"Although we have been enmeshed in a long debate over global warming and climate change, there has been no warming for over 16 years. (1)",1_4
"Riffing on CEI's skeptical stance on global warming, he said, ""It takes guts, amid all the hysteria, to admit that polar bears love to swim.""",0_0
"Even if a major IT company such as Google helped this loser to collect the signatures, and it's a big question why would any powerful company team up with a completely cheap as well as useless project such as this one, it couldn't possibly collect one billion signatures by April 2014. I am willing to bet 10-to-1 that this loser will lose. Well, I would be even willing to bet, 1-to-1, that he won't even collect one million signatures. And yes, I would probably be willing to go to much smaller numbers than a million.",0_0
What they say : Surface temperature reconstructions show multi-decadal intervals during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (950-1250) that were in some regions as warm as in the late 20th Century.,2_1
The Met Office now confirms on its climate blog that no significant warming has occurred recently: We agree with Mr Rose that there has only been a very small amount of warming in the 21st Century.,1_4
NREL initiated the report on their own as part of their on-going analytical role to assess emerging issues and monitor external studies and develop internal memos or external documents to address research that is at odds with DOE/EERE scientific understanding.,0_0
Also consider the Validity of Climate Change Forecasting for Public Policy Decision Making International Journal of Forecasting 25 (2009) 826832by the same authors with astrophysicist Willie Soon. They found that errors in the projections of the IPCCs scenario of exponential CO2 growth for the years 1851 to 1975 were more than seven times greater than the errors from a no change from previous year extrapolation method:,5_1
"On the news there are plenty of reports of winter storms hitting places all over Europe, into Asia, and even in the Eastern USA. There are some pretty grim cold weather stories.",1_3
"Fortunately, a draft version of the Senate's foreign operations appropriation only provides $25 million to the GEF, and the House may reduce the sum further. That's the good news. The bad news is that last year Congress denied the administration's budget request of $300 million for the GEF, only to be betrayed by the Republican leadership, who reinserted $200 million without consulting the members. A similar capitulation could occur again this year if GEF opponents are not more vigilant.",0_0
could signal immediate change via executive action to fit the public mood and,0_0
"Why is this important? Because, by an equation called the Clausius-Clapeyron relation, as the space occupied by the atmosphere warms it is also capable of carrying near-exponentially more water vapor. Superficially, therefore, considerable amplification of the original warming might be expected. In practice, however, as you rightly point out, the likelihood is that more water vapor in the atmosphere will lead to the formation of more clouds. And it is here that the UN's analysis goes completely astray. For it makes no allowance for the additional cloud-albedo effect that these clouds generated by the water-vapor feedback will create. This leads to a catastrophic overvaluation by the IPCC of the water-vapor feedback; and, though this is partly compensated for by the treatment of all cloud albedo as a forcing, it creates an overstatement of the final warming effect of adding greenhouse gases such as CO2 to the atmosphere after all feedbacks have been taken into account.",3_1
"""You need to compare the relative size of the oil industry and the tobacco industry,"" Mr. Ebell said. ""Tobacco is tiny compared to oil. So if they could get $10 billion out of the tobacco industry, think of what their goals are for the oil industry.""",0_0
"Third, the temperature distribution of the atmosphere is a natural result of thermal equilibrium and conservation of energy. The dry lapse rate can be calculated precisely without any reference to greenhouse gases (GHGs), and the wet lapse rate can be calculated precisely simply by factoring in latent heat release from water vapour to the dry lapse rate. This proves that GHG radiation does not determine nor have any effect upon the temperature distribution of the atmosphere, whatsoever.",2_3
"Second, they also argued that the p-value of the F-test entitled them to take notice, even if it was greater than 5%:",0_0
"The team also found that the effect changed depending on the measured visible-spectrum wavelength, and whether the light was direct or scattered.",0_0
"Germany, however, is the nation that has pushed the renewables agenda furthest and is struggling most with the unintended damage of the green energy shift, its so-called Energiewende.",0_0
Never in the history of pseudoscientific consensus will so much be done to so many by so few.,0_0
"A sobering aspect of the state AGs' crusade is what is taking place outside of courtrooms: they are pressuring companies to cut off donations to nonprofit groups that employ ""climate-change deniers."" Being one of those includes telling politically inconvenient truths about the costs of proposed climate-change legislation. It also includes projecting, as several mainstream climatologists have done, lower global temperature increases than liberal state attorneys general find politically convenient.",0_0
"You could have asked them to run the identical analysis looking at the correlation between carbon dioxide rise and temperature over the same time period, but you don??t want to rock the boat by showing that the carbon dioxide link is even more tenuous than the Svensmark process you??re trying to bury! Carbon dioxide has continued to rise, while global temperatures appear to have stopped rising in 1998 having stabilized below the 1998 level and might even now be starting to fall. Even the Met Office admits this ??? but you don??t report that of course.",2_3
"One also has to question sea level rise due to thermal expansion. Ocean heat content does not seem to be rising. As far as measuring sea level rise, it is an extremely complex affair that is fraught with vast uncertainty. Id also be very suspicious of anyone claiming they can measure sea levels to the millimetre. Its hard enough to do it in inches. Thats why sea level projections among experts range so widely. Of course, that allows a lot of flexibility when drawing conclusions.",5_1
Claim: Paris climate pledges only delay Climageddon by 8 months,0_0
"In a striking finding That raises new questions about carbon dioxides (CO2) impact on marine life, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists report That some shell-building creaturessuch as crabs, shrimp and lobstersunexpectedly build more shell When exposed to ocean acidification caused by Elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2).",0_0
has indeed become more intense since the 1960s esp during spring and summer?.,0_0
"Tapping the best minds at Stanford, other academic institutions and private research labs around the globe, the project holds the promise of leapfrogging beyond the economically disastrous Kyoto Protocol.",0_0
"But that conclusion holds true only if there are no other sources of c12 increases which are not human caused. Salby says there are the huge increases in carbon dioxide concentrations caused by such things as spells of warming and El Ninos, which cause concentration levels to increase independently of human emissions. He suggests that its warmth which tends to produce more CO2, rather than vice versa which, incidentally is the story of the past recoveries from ice ages.",2_3
"This wasn't necessarily the clearest or most explicit presentation of the reason and one could do better. Be sure that the conclusions won't change. The quantum fields at space-like separations commute with each other. And this vanishing commutator (or anticommutator in the case of pairs of fermionic operators) is a necessary condition for the independent evolution of fields at space-like separations. This absence of an ""action at a distance"" is required by the special theory of relativity because if such superluminal influences existed, they would be equivalent by switching to a different reference frame to actions affecting the past. That would break causality and allow us logically contradictory ""closed time-like curves"" in a Minkowski spacetime. (One could find a way to kill your grandfather before he had his first sex with your grandmother, you know the story.)",0_0
"that we must atone for our sins, by paying more for every bit of energy we use",0_0
Youve visited this page many times. Last visit: 5/10/12,0_0
"Heritage analyzed two of the three models used by the IWGthe DICE model and the FUND model. The proprietor of the third model, PAGE, insists on the right of co-authorship for any publication using his model. Because this insistence seriously compromises the independence of evaluating the model, Heritage did not do so. This also raises a question as to the propriety of basing costly federal regulation, at least in part, on a model that cannot be rigorously and independently evaluated.",0_0
A modern 1 MW (not 1 MWh) wind turbine does not require only ???roughly $1 million?? to install. Overnight implementation costs are over twice this amount according to the EIA .,4_4
"In its draft form, this post was titled Why Do Proponents of Manmade Global Warming Continue to Misinform the Public about the Roles El Nio and La Nia Play in the Warming of the Global Oceans? The answers pretty obvious once you understand the roles El Nio and La Nia play.",0_0
"""""No ice was left on earth. Antarctica was the best place for mammals to live, and the rest of the world would not sustain human life,"" he said. Sir David warned that if the world did not curb its burning of fossil fuels ""we will reach that level by the end of the century'.""",0_0
"""The Will County Board voted Thursday to hire former state Rep. Brent Hassert to lobby the Legislature for a ""quick take"" bill.""",0_0
"The Second Elephant in the Room : The IPCC ignores the second, larger elephant in the room. Over 33 years of satellite data that are compiled by two independent groups and separately supported by four sets of balloon data. These temperature data are comprehensive globally, except at the poles. They show a pronounced warming over the northern part of the Northern Hemisphere, little or no warming over the Tropics or the Southern Hemisphere and a cooling around Antarctica. The global warming models are inconsistent with these data. For some reason, one-third global warming does not sound compelling.",1_4
"The high costs of GHG abatement are a major source of the difficulty in reaching consensus on GHG control. New technology can lower these costs. Fostering the relevant kinds of innovation, therefore, should be a top priority. Implementing a modest carbon tax or, perhaps, a hybrid cap-and-trade system, would be an important step toward this goal. A price on GHG discharges would encourage the private sector to develop new lower-cost ways of curbing GHG emissions.",0_0
Big Oil execs hit back on tax proposal:,0_0
Remember that unprecedented Greenland ice sheet surface melt that was allegedly caused by global warming? Nevermind,0_0
"3. Houston vs. California. More building permits for single-family homes have been issued since 2011 in the Houston metro area (102,040) than in the entire state of California over that period (101,629), see chart above.",0_0
Based on data from the National Climatic Data Center.,0_0
"You may see that some things haven't changed but most technical details have become obsolete after these short four years. For example, no one talks about the increasing strength and frequency of tropical storms - because it has evidently not been taking place since 2006.",1_7
"The problem is very real, and soon the poor in Africa and elsewhere are going to be hit severely according to this Washington Post story USAID is looking at reducing the amount of food it can distribute, and dropping some recipient nations altogether.",0_0
Observations of upper tropospheric water vapor over the last 3-4 decades from the National Centers of Environmental Prediction/National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCEP/NCAR) reanalysis data and the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) data show that upper tropospheric water vapor appears to undergo a small decrease while Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) undergoes a small increase. This is the opposite of what has been programmed into the GCMs due to water vapor feedback.,5_1
"Repeal the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). By requiring fuel blenders to use biofuels regardless of the cost, the RFS has made most Americans worse off through higher food and fuel expenses. The higher costs paid by American families benefit a select group of special interests that produce renewable fuels. Tinkering around the edges will not fix this unworkable policy. Moreover, the federal government should not mandate which type of fuel drivers use in the first place. Congress should repeal the RFS.",0_0
"These water shortages are not caused by the population quadrupling. No way. They are really caused by fossil fuel induced AGW causing drought. No politician in Australia would seriously propose building anything as radical as a new dam. Instead, we are building a huge sea water filtration which might provide 10% of Sydneys fresh water needs if required. The recent torrential rain has reduced the urgency of the plant but population is still growing and it might get dry again at some time in the future.",0_0
"One of the two newly disclosed drafts of the June 6 letter also contains disparaging allusions by its author to some of the respected climate scientists who criticized Holdren's statement. That draft's text claims the criticism included ""attacks by a few of the usual suspects from the climate-change contrarian/confusionist community."" In response, a comment to the draft from Rutgers' Jennifer Francis suggested characterizing them as the ""disinformation"" community. (See pg. 4 of the draft, found at pg. 17 of the 24 released pages.)",0_0
"The mentality of assuming that other peoples bad behaviour is our fault is one of the most suicidal tendencies that is currently in fashion in the West. From our comfy middle class enclaves, it is easy to forget that in the real world, the struggle for power and resources is as red in tooth and claw as it ever was.",0_0
"Such votes may seem like inside-the-Beltway baseball, but they're also a window into a party's soul. Conservatives will argue that the GOP needs to return to its traditional conservative roots on matters like illegal immigration, the various aspects of which (border security, amnesty, national ID) divide the party. Moderates tend to avoid such wedge issues and instead stress outreach and expanding the loyal Republican base; in Florida, for example, Crist and Greer have embarked on get-out-the-vote efforts targeting Latinos.",0_0
"The decade with the most record monthly maximum temperatures, was the 1930s. Ten months set their all time record below 350 ppm CO2.",1_7
"Read here and here . Left/liberal/progressive/Democrat oriented groups just can't leave the proven scientific process and methodologies alone. They literally have to ""buy"" their ""science"" by financially contributing to scientists who will then likely perform the left's advocacy work as ""independent"" scientists, gratis. The Pew Environmental Group is one of the Big Green organizations that lays out the dollars on PhDs to hopefully enhance the desired activist ""science"" outcome.",5_2
"This notion was the central feature of the 1997 ByrdHagel Resolution, which unanimously passed the Senate, establishing conditions for the U.S. becoming a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol and remains the primary reason why the U.S. never ratified that treaty.",0_0
Hill-Carrboro school district is considering making 61 the lowest grade,0_0
I would have thought the CO2 enhanced warming would have been further along by now. Maybe the graphs are inverted?,0_0
"The data, analyzed by Robert Balling, director of the Office of Climatology at Arizona State University, shows rising temperatures from 1878 to 1950 and then cooling until the 1980s. The last decade, says Balling, ""has been dominated by high temperatures. The total record shows a warming trend of 0.71 degrees C.""",0_0
"On June 12, David Karoly stated of the then recently disappeared Gergis et al:",0_0
This they did by integrating into a wildfire modeling scheme information about millennial-scale changes in wildfire activity reconstructed from analyses of charred particles found in the sediments of eleven small lakes located in the transition zone between the boreal mixed-wood forests and the dense needleaf forests of eastern boreal Canada. And what did they find?,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. For reasons that remain unclear, Hantemirov objected to the calculation (see comments within post) and, once again, Real Climate screeched in fury.",0_0
"Yeah, And isnt the development well back from the watercourse and arent there platypuses in the Yarra as far downstream as the suburb of Heidelberg in Melbourne.",0_0
"Floods are occurring in the western and southern Cape as I write this email. This is the region that FIFTEEN scientists predicted would become warmer and drier as a result of global warming, (Midgley et al 2005).",5_1
Funding Flows for Climate Change Research and Related Activities,0_0
"Part of that history is Oslo, too, which for a fleeting moment seemed to suggest that sanity had at last prevailed. But despite Arafat's glitter in Gaza, and vigorous handshakes on the White House lawn, Oslo dodged the tough issues, leaving them to be adjudicated in so-called ""final-status talks."" Progress under Oslo fell hostage to traumatic events: the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the debut of Hamas suicide bombers in Jerusalem. Before long, Oslo had receded from memory, becoming part of the history that oppresses rather than liberates this region. Final-status talks at Camp David and Taba had broken down, and the parties had resumed an activity at which both were exceedingly proficient: killing each other.",0_0
The 1910-1940 warming was nearly identical to the 1975-2000 warming. Blaming the 1975-2000 warming on CO2 isnt going to fly. It was due primarily to the PDO shift in the mid-1970s.,2_1
"""Policy makers are working behind the scenes to come up with a way to let states declare bankruptcy and get out from under crushing debts, including the pensions they have promised to retired public workers.""",0_0
"As reported in The Heartland Institute's Environment & Climate News, ""European governments, once at the vanguard of renewable energy mandates, appear to be having second thoughts about their reliance on giant wind farms "" There has been a sharp drop in such projects with installations plunging 90% in Denmark, 75% in Italy, and 84% in Spain.",0_0
"Vilsack insisted at the time that the planting restrictions were necessary to help biotech and organic crops coexist more peacefully. But such unprecedented restrictions ignore the realities of seed production and give short shrift to the needs of conventional farmers. It seems that the secretary of agriculture needs a cram course in plant biology and genetics, as well as in the USDA's own regulations.",0_0
The Daily Signal reports on the subpoena sent to CEI by Attorney General Claude Walker as part of the intimidation campaign to silence the debate on climate change.,0_0
"To all appearances, then, GHG control requires action on a global scale, and most of what we know about efforts to restrict open access property rights tells us that a strong global GHG control pact will be an especially difficult challenge. Yet climate change is a threat, even if assessing its severity and timing remains difficult. U.S. climate policy can do no better than to make the best of the options that are actually available, even if they fall far short of offering final solutions.",0_0
"Senator Reid may believe that compelling and subsidizing increased renewable energy use, while undermining and even outlawing conventional energy, is the way to economic growth and energy independence. In reality, this reckless scheme could easily cause the collapse of our energy grid, job creation, economy and living standards, just as it is already doing in Europe.",4_1
"Higgins? campaign reminds me of a banner at a climate-change demo a few years ago which said ?trees don?t rape?. The message here is the same: nature is pure, innocent, helpless, while man is repugnant, exploiting, violent. That is, every man who is not already a diehard green, that apparently enlightened kind of individual who assumes he has the right to tell the rest of us that we need to venerate nature, or else.",0_0
thinks the ?right? answer is more like our detrended results in the,0_0
18. Does the threat of major climate change justify drastic reductions in CO2 emissions by the United States and other nations?,0_0
"The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.",1_4
Detailed rumor: gluon+b goes to b+Higgs: MSSM with large beta,0_0
"""I've long thought that man-made carbon-dioxide emissions will raise global temperatures, but that this effect will not be amplified much by feedbacks from extra water vapor and clouds, so the world will probably be only a bit more than one degree Celsius warmer in 2100 than today.""",3_1
"Note: You may be thinking that there might actually be a physical explanation for the monstrously excessive response of the HADMAT2-ERSST.v4 difference to the solar cycle data. Keep in mind, though, that the response to volcanic aerosols is solar relatedinasmuch as the volcanic aerosols limit the amount of solar radiation reaching the surface of the oceans. You can argue all you want about whatever it is you want to argue about, but unless you can support those claims with data-based analysis or studies, all youre providing is conjecture. We get enough model-based conjecture from the climate science communitywe dont need any more.",5_1
"In the 20th century, a similar transition from a period of primarily bilateral trade to global export competition occurred in wheat and later in steel, and the United States and Canada clashed as they became rivals for overseas markets. Today's calm could become the calm before a storm that neither country wants. Better to initiate a dialogue on natural gas now. U.S. midterm elections in 2014, a Canadian federal election in 2015, and the next U.S. presidential election in 2016 are all looming on the political horizon and each contest, in its own way, will complicate the environment for improving bilateral cooperation on energy and the environment.",0_0
"Despite corruption and bureaucracy, strong markets have grown up in developing countries. Kenya is a case in point. It leapfrogged the Western world's development process for mobile communications technology. Kenyans went from having few telephones to virtually everyone having a mobile phone without needing the stage of landline infrastructure in between. A similar process is now taking place in personal finance.",0_0
"The poll showed, for example, that Guardian/Independent readers are no more likely to have taken any specific energy saving actions than tabloid readers, and are actually less likely to have insulated their homes.",0_0
"Due to these factors, we will temporarily cease to offer tomatoes on your sandwhich. As soon as the tomato crop returns to normal we will add them back to your sandwiches.",0_0
">> >things since my return from Washington, but am slowly getting",0_0
"The White House has previously withstood furious diplomatic lobbying from fellow G-8 members, notably in 2005 at the summit in Gleneagles, Scotland. Despite pressure from summit host Tony Blair, the U.S. maintained its position that energy poverty is not an answer to any of the world's problems, and that economic growth and technological adaptation are humanity's best strategy for dealing with any environmental challenges.",0_0
"G lobally, each day, there are around four million hooks in the worlds oceans fishing for tuna and swordfish.",0_0
"Canada's Emission Reduction Program Has Failed Miserably, Total Loss Of Govt Funds; CO2 Up 35% Since Kyoto",0_0
But with the New Year its time for a new approach: its time industry leaders took the high moral ground for once and confronted the issue of the barrages that have destroyed the River Murrays estuary.,0_0
"Never mind the record low attained in Northern Ireland this weekend. I can't remember a time when so much snow has lain so thickly on the ground, and we haven't even reached Christmas. And this is the third tough winter in a row. Is it really true that no one saw this coming?",0_0
"on Thursday, February 17th, 2011 at 8:31 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
Nasas Oceans Melting Greenland study will deploy 200 robot probes to measure the full extent of Arctic climate change,0_0
"With this the greetings and invitation not to trust too partisan opinions emerged very clearly as, for example, The administration Bush actually tried to drive certain reports sullambiente to promote the use of fossil fuels and make the situation seem less severe than real so without unnecessary catastrophism and right that the country of the sun and wind to think and acquire soon an energy system with a strong presence of renewable energy, just so we can meet the energy challenges of the future.",0_0
"Residents in Sheffield and other parts of South Yorkshire can smell it due to the weather conditions that we had last night, which have encouraged it to spread.",0_0
"This is evident in his most recent letter in which he outlines ""Everything You Need to Know About Global Warming in 5 Minutes."" It contains the standard doomster litany about climate change. The costs of doing nothing include ""probable political destabilization from droughts, famine, mass migrations, and even war.""",0_0
"A recent paper in the journal Nature concluded that species extinction caused by habitat loss is happening less than half as fast as usually estimated. The normal method for calculating rates of extinction assumes that doomed species merely cling temporarily to a shrunken patch of habitat, on their way to disappearing (an idea called ""extinction debt""). Apparently, this isn't the case: Although a larger patch of habitat has more species in it, shrinking a patch does not lead to a proportional rate of species loss.",3_2
Many coupled general circulation models (GCMs) of the atmosphere tend to underpredict the presence of subtropical marine stratocumulus clouds and fail to predict the seasonal cycle of such clouds. These deficiencies are important because marine stratocumulus clouds have a major impact on sea surface temperatures below them; and they thereby impact many subsidiary phenomena with far-reaching climatic consequences. What was done,5_1
"Then in 2010, Kerry and fellow Senator Joe Lieberman co-sponsored a failed attempt to pass a cap-and-trade end-run called the ""American Power Act."" A more appropriate description, however, would have been ""American power grab"" since, in reality, it had little to do with developing our nation's vast domestic fossil energy resources. Rather, it emphasized ways to mitigate the alleged effects of carbon-based energy upon climate and expand government bureaucracy by creating at least 60 expensive new agencies and projects.",0_0
"According to the radiative-convective equilibrium concept, the equation for determining global average surface temperature of the planet is",0_0
"The ""forgotten man"" theme arises from the ideological sleight of hand at the core of the New Deal. The phrase originated with the supposed ""Social Darwinist"" William Graham Sumner, who had in mind the taxpayer who was the forgotten third party when politicians dreamt up schemes of social improvement that depended on the forgotten man to provide the means. The New Deal turned this on its head through its portrayal of the ""forgotten man"" as the little guy left behind in the collapse of economic growth. Instead of being the productive citizen best left alone by government, the forgotten man of the New Deal was the lowly citizen whose salvation depended on government.",0_0
It is described on the institutes website as a major sponsor and was joint second in Teris Environmental Excellence Award in 2008.,0_0
"In the following three graphs, were comparing data for the evolution of the 2014/15 El Nio so far (through month-to-date August 2014) with the data for the evolutions of the 1982/83 and 1997/98 El Nios. The Warm Water Volume data are the top graphs and the depth-averaged temperature data are the bottom graphs. As youll see, the curves of two datasets are similar.",0_0
"I'm not sure to which ""pediatricians"" Stonyfield refers, but both the American Academy of Pediatrics and American Medical Association have deemed milk from rbST-treated cows to be safe.",0_0
"Read here . It is common knowledge that global temperatures have not increased over the last 15 years despite massive new amounts of human CO2 emissions. And it is well known that the IPCC climate ""experts"" have been massively befuddled by this.",1_4
"Meanwhile, correspondent Black tries to convince us that the majority of Himalayan glaciers are growing. Late last year, says Black, the Kathmandu-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (Icimod) released data showing that across 10 regularly studied glaciers, the rate of ice loss had doubled since the 1980s.",1_1
"1.	""We need a broad social movement supporting climate protection."" No, we don't need that. Climate is the statistical median of weather parameters of 30 years. Nobody can protect statistic medians.",0_0
"Suddenly we are also seeingstudies showing that warming wont be so bad after all, and that CO2 climate sensitivity is much lower than first thought. The policy-making pressure coming from the threat of climate change is disappearing rapidly.",3_1
7. How did the environmentalists make New Orleans more susceptible to flooding?,0_0
"Figure 3. Projected global temperature rise from the IPCC?s business-as-usual (A1B) scenario (black curve) and the Kerry-Lieberman emissions scenario as applied to the U.S. (red curve), the OECD90 countries (magenta curve), and the entire world (blue curve).",0_0
"This year is likely to be the ninth warmest on record, with global temperatures in 2012 cooler than the average for the past decade",1_4
"Chapter 6, by Roger A. SedjoForests: Conflicting Signals",0_0
"Just last year experts at the International Energy Agency proposed a target for China""s carbon emissions to peak in 2020 before declining if the world were to be saved from devastating climate change. Too late now.",0_0
Can you spell out what your expertise is in this area which makes you a suitable witness for the US Congress?,0_0
"The warming effect of 4,500 ppm was pretty small, too. The total warming is approximately proportional to the logarithm of the relative concentration increase. You know, the warming doesn't start to accelerate when the concentrations grow (an obvious myth that some people want to be promoted among the gullible laymen): quite on the contrary, the warming effect of one CO2 molecule slows down as the concentration increases.",2_3
"Like hydro-power, wind power is limited, with few suitable sites, and every wind turbine slows the wind, thus reducing the wind energy available to any downwind turbines. It is renewable but it is not unlimited.",4_4
Stanley Young provides statistics showing air quality standards are not improving public health. Young notes air quality has not been a significant health risk since before the Environmental Protection Agency issued its first set of clean air regulations in the 1970s.,0_0
"My hunch, though, is that the Court agreed to review the case because some Judges do have serious concerns about the legality of EPA's regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources.",0_0
That's right. A tiny fraction of one degree. Over an 85-year period.,0_0
"Moreover, some treaty proponents point to expansive litigation possibilities. For instance, William C.G. Burns, a professor at Monterey Institute of International Studies, contends that LOST ``may prove to be one of the primary battlegrounds for climate change issues in the future.''",0_0
"Often taken for granted, energy is an integral component of human life all across the world. By tapping many of its uncovered resources, America has the potential to be the world's largest producer of energy. With the right policies in place, tapping this energy can help create a vibrant and prosperous economy for decades to come.",4_5
Link to study: Why Ending the Renewable Energy Mandate Is Good for Ohio Families and the Economy,4_1
"So from a global perspective, it doesnt seem like the planets plant life is responding negatively to climate change. Are some species suffering? Undoubtedly. But, as is also the case, many others are flourishing. And in net, the change in plant growth since the early 1980s is positive.",3_2
"While most of the Czech population tends to be slightly negative about the radar, there also exist early speculations that Czechia could eventually host both the radar as well as the missiles themselves (instead of Poland). From an administrative viewpoint, it would be a cleaner solution, I think.",0_0
Change. Top 400 Charities See Billions Less in Donations:,0_0
"Muller had previously been claimed by those unconvinced by the science as one of their own, because hequestionedthe validity of Manns hockey stick graph, used by Al Gore in his filmAn Inconvenient Truth.",0_0
"The Australian has been taking heat from the rest of the Australian media (notably Fairfax and ABC employees, and a couple of book writing academics). Its not that The Australian has held back on publishing the illogical, unreasonable PR, and baseless posturing of vested-carbon-scare-interests, no sir. They are just as ready as anyone to publish the unscientific Lomborgs , Orsekes , and Hamiltons . The real issue at stake is censorship. The rest of the media thinks The Australian should do more of it. They disparage The Australian in scathing terms, not for what it wont publish, but because it does not shield the dumb punters enough. The Australian commits the sin of giving some column space to people who dont hold UN-approved-views.",0_0
"Like Penny Wong before him, Minister Combet has been captured by the self-seeking, alarmist global warming rhetoric of the United Nations IPCC and its supporters. Surely the Government should conduct an inquiry before acting on such impaired advice, yet the advice stands unaudited? There are no checks and balances, and no formal oversight. To commit our nation to deliberate economic hardship, and that of a regressive nature, without even seeking a second opinion would in any other circumstances be considered both foolish and unacceptable (remember Tirath Khemlani, and the bypassing of the Loans Council?).",5_2
"My concern as a climatologist was that too many pieces didnt fit or were ignored in the complex weather systems that, on average, are climate. Most troubling initially was the effective omission of water vapor as a greenhouse gas (Figure 1).",2_3
"Such a move would face up to reality and would receive bipartisan support in the United States. Susan Schwab, who headed the office of the U.S. Trade Representative under President Bush, has asserted bluntly: ""The Doha Round has failed. It is time for the international community to acknowledge this sad fact and move on."" She is backed by all U.S. business sectors. The Doha Round for the service industries ""holds no promise,"" states Robert Vastine of the U.S. Coalition of Service Industries: ""Why are we wasting our time?"" His views are echoed by the U.S. manufacturing industry, whose spokesman, Frank Vargo, of the National Association of Manufacturers, asserts ""The Doha Round has failed miserably in generating new market access.""",0_0
"""The US government continues to keep prohibition of online gambling in place in the country, meanwhile, other countries have moved towards regulating the billion dollar industry. Now, as the prohibition continues, ChiliGaming is about to show once again just how ridiculous the current US laws are.""",0_0
President Barack Obama Already Dealing with Global Warming,0_0
"Of the 100 papers we identified, 65 didnt have anything to do with recent global temperature trends (these typified papers published prior to about 2010). Of the remaining 35 papers, every single one of them acknowledged in some way that a hiatus, pause, or slowdown in global warming was occurring.",1_4
"Senator Brown said coal companies, as major climate change contributors , should pay a 40 per cent resources super profits tax to pay for the clean-up.",0_0
"With barely any time to recover from jet lag, CFACT's ""climate truth squad"" arrived in Warsaw over the weekend and immediately went into action. First up was a conference hosted by Fundacj im Bolestawa Chrobrego, a Polish think tank that assembled a powerful coalition of experts drawn from the fields of science, labor, government, and public policy to talk about the dangers of a new international climate treaty on global prosperity and freedom.",0_0
LONDON (A.P.).-The earth isgetting warmer. The oceans aregetting deeper. The glaciers aregetting smaller. Even the fish are changing their way of life.,0_0
Footprint is thus 2 MW/km2 or 5.13 MW/mile2,0_0
"It has now been 831 days since the US was struck by any hurricane, and 6,695 days since the US was hit by a category 5 hurricane.",1_7
"""If it wants to fix the appalling mess that medical care has become at Washington D.C.'s Walter Reed hospital, the Department of the Army might take a quick trip down Georgia Avenue to the Department of Veteran's Affairs Washington, D.C. medical center. The VA hospital system, which once produced regular horror stories similar to Walter Reed's, has emerged as one of the best-run federal agencies. The Department of Defense should look to imitate it while simultaneously freeing military health care from the constraints a VA-like system would almost certainly impose on those who have DOD pay for their health care.""",0_0
"Our calculated global warming in this case is 16C, with warming at the poles approximately 30C. Calculated warming over land areas averages approximately 20C.",0_0
"These estimates are much lower than previous estimates, particularly on the implied acceleration. For instance Rignot et al 2011 looking at the period calculated polar ice melt contribution to sea levels of 0.91 mm yr 1 , 50% higher than the UNIPCC. Further the acceleration on this paper from polar ice melt was 0.1 mm yr 2 1 mm yr 2 and 0. 133 mm yr 2 including non-polar ice melt. Even at this rate of acceleration ice melt would only contribute 6 inches (150mm) to sea level rise. The upper NOAA estimates seem to be based upon taking this extreme figures and doubling them.",1_6
Another renowned scientist with objections to the Big Bang had additional problems in the 1930s. Einstein won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for thephotoelectric effect . He was a marked man in his Nazi occupied homeland and luckily fled to America in 1933. Einstein was in the unfortunate position of begging for funds to develop an atomic weapon. His begging letters to FDR are available on-line.,0_0
"23 See citations in Corporate Environmental Enforcement Council, supra note 17, pp. 13-15.",0_0
"Ironically, it is Schneiderman whose claims about global warming are at odds with actual climate data over the last 30 years, not Exxon.",0_0
"Following the early Holocene warming Siple Dome data indicate significant cooling between 6400 and 6200 years ago, followed by relatively milder temperatures over East Antarctica 6000 3000 years ago that lasted until about 1200 years ago in the Siple Dome area. There then seems to have been a flattening and a slight decline in temperature starting 1200 1000 years ago, followed by warming in the last few decades.",0_0
"Roughly speaking, there are two major coursechanging techniques.",0_0
"??? The density, scalability, and portability of oil, gas, and coal make them affordable, reliable, and flexible for average consumers,?? my article concluded. ???Wind turbines and solar panels, contrarily, are expensive, intermittent, and inflexibleand have their own set of health and safety issues.??",4_4
"Lohmann et al plotted the geologically reconstructed temperatures and compared them to modeled temperature curves from the ECHO-G Model. What did they find? The modeled trends underestimated the geologically reconstructed temperature trend by a factor of two to five. Other scientists have come up with similar results (e.g. Lorenz et al. 2006, Brewer et al. 2007, Schneider et al. 2010).",5_1
This question about whether or not the IPCC model predictions(as represented by the GISS models) are still consistent even withthe largeLoeb et alestimate should have been a majorpart of their article.The Loeb et al 2012 even cited the Hansen paper but did not take the next step and complete model and observational comparisons. That the IPCC models are close to being refuted with respect to the magnitude of global warmingeven with the large Loeb et al values is an unspoken result of their findings. They missed a major implication from their results.,5_1
"Virtually all the advice from the Left on this subject has been for scientists to improve their communication skills, as if another layer of spin will help. As the British government's new chief scientific adviser notes, perhaps the best advice is simply for scientists to be more honest about the uncertainties in climate-change science. That will allow their advice to be given the correct weight by the public and their representatives in the democratic process. Any other advice is simply confused.",0_0
"Ed Contoski and I examine the research showing renewable energyincluding wind, solar, and ethanolhas no substantial place in our nation's energy mix. Along the way, we explore how misplaced fears of anthropogenic global warming have led to erroneous beliefs in the value of renewable energy.",0_0
"Although Wilson claims his species-area curve has been ""established by hundreds of independent studies,"" the criticisms of it are born out in real-world observations. ""In the eastern United States, for example, during the first 300 years of European settlement, woodlands were broken up into fragments, none large than 1 to 2 percent of the original vast forest, but only three forest birds became extinct the carolina parakeet, the passenger pigeon, and the ivory-billed woodpecker. Moreover, habitat loss probably did not play the major role in their demise: The parakeet and the pigeon were hunted to death. (U.S. News, p. 82)",0_0
Sounds like the some critics are 100% correct.,0_0
Carbon dioxide from human activities will most likely cause dangerous climate change in the foreseeable future.,0_0
None of the models used by IPCC are initialized to the observed state and none of the climate states in the models correspond even remotely to the current observed climate.,5_1
Oxford University students lose faith in warming,0_0
"Reconstructed sea surface temperatures of the NE Atlantic are shown in the second graph, with the end of the 20th century at the left side of the graph. The smoothed data indicates a cooling of approximately 3C over the past 2,400 years.",0_0
"Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve.",0_0
"The Soviet model was defeated not only on the economic and social levels; it was defeated on a cultural level. Our society, our people, the most educated, the most intellectual, rejected that model on the cultural level because it does not respect the man, oppresses him spiritually and politically.",0_0
"These reductions in airborne pollutants and improvements in air quality are especially impressive in that U.S. Gross Domestic Product increased roughly 150 percent since 1970, and energy consumption increased by roughly 40 percent since 1970. Even holding the line on air pollution at 1970 levels would have been quite impressive given the substantial increase in U.S. population and economic and industrial activity.",0_0
Wente: Kpenhamn var inget politiskt haveri. Det var ett intellektuellt haveri av s hpnadsvckande karaktr att framtida generationer kommer att frvnas ver dess blinda naivitet. Kpenhamn var ett klassiskt fall av en kejsare utan klder.,0_0
"They were on a roll and they continued stating The global climate warming is not solely affected by the CO2 greenhouse effect. The best example is temperature obviously cooling however atmospheric CO2 concentration is ascending from 1940s to 1970s. Although the CO2 greenhouse effect on global climate changes is unsuspicious, it could have been excessively exaggerated. It is high time to re-consider the global climate changes.",2_3
What the United States and Canada are experiencing right now is making global warming alarmists such as Al Gore look quite foolish. The following are 10 of Al Gores stupidest global warming quotes,5_2
"Is global warming causing snow to melt thereby increasing the flow in the winter season? Absolutely not. St. George discovers that Streamflow between October and March is most strongly related to precipitation between August and October, with significant relationships observed using lags up to 6 months. Sure enough, he finds that Rising winter discharge across the basin has coincided with increasing annual and seasonal precipitation and that This change largely reflects increases in summer (MayJuly) and autumn (AugustOctober) precipitation, as no significant trends were observed for winter (November to January) precipitation.",1_1
"Schumer opens: ""Thank you for writing to express your opposition to tax credits, and subsidies for alternative energy. I share your opposition to unsuccessful and unnecessary subsides.""",0_0
"Coauthors of Rutherford et al (J Climate 2005) ( pdf ) were Rutherford, Mann, Bradley, Hughes, Jones, Osborn and Briffa. Its editor was Andrew Weaver. It was formally submitted on Sept 16, 2003, received two reviews in January 2004, revised and resubmitted on June 29, 2004, accepted without revision on September 27, 2004 and published in July 2005.",0_0
"It is abundantly clear from Stambaugh et al.'s findings that there is nothing unusual, unnatural or unprecedented about any 20th or 21st century droughts that may have occurred throughout the agricultural heartland of the United States. It is also clear that the much greater droughts of the past millennium occurred during periods of both relative cold and relative warmth, as well as the transitions between them. Thus, to testify that ""droughts are becoming longer and more intense,"" and to imply that they are doing so because of global warming, is to be doubly disingenuous.",1_7
"A recent report published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation and written by Princeton professor William Happerone of nation's pre-eminent physicistsexplains how and why the public has been misled about the global warming threat. He begins by quoting the forward written by Charles Mackay for the book ""Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds"":",0_0
"putting more energy into it (in the post-industrial age, energy means",0_0
"Nor can it do so without encouraging the agency to fool and trick Congress, as it didduring the Senate debates on the the Murkowski resolution and Inhofe legislation, when statements by McCarthy and the Air Office seemingly disavowed any ambition to bankrupt investors in new coal power plants. Whatever their party affiliation or views on climate change, Senators should dislike being hoodwinked.",0_0
"In 2003 and 2005, I was working to pass the Clear Skies bill, which was the most aggressive initiative in history to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and mercury in fact, this bill would have reduced mercury emissions by 70% by 2018. So in just 6 years from now, we would already have had a 70% reduction. It was a plan that would have improved our air by reducing utility emissions faster, cheaper, and more efficiently than the Clean Air Act as it still stands today. And it would have done all this without harming jobs.",0_0
Heres Dr David Jones from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology in 2008,0_0
The central page for information on The Thompsons is now listed on the blogroll on the right hand column so its easier to find.,0_0
"For more on the study the Obama administration did not want you to read, see here and here.",0_0
"A considerably more important issue is foreign trade. Opponents of freer trade tend to aggregate support and have arguments that appeal to certain voters. Labor unions reflexively oppose trade agreements, in memory of all those auto and steel jobs that disappeared some 35 years ago. Immigration restrictionists fear trade pacts would increase guest worker immigration.",0_0
"Judge Kavanaugh argues that rewriting the CAA not only exceeds the EPA?s statutory authority, it is also unnecessary because the PSD provisions can and should be read as applying only to pollutants regulated under the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) program. There are no NAAQS for GHGs.",0_0
"Of course, it doesn't make any sense for automakers to conform to two different fuel efficiency regulations, which is why the Bush administration refused to allow California to set its own standard. President Obama simply substituted Congress's 2002 CAFE targets with California's.",0_0
"30 inches (75 cm) of snow were measured in Zurich-Fluntern, more than has ever been seen here since the measurements were taken in 1949.",1_3
"The photosynthetic capacities of all six species were limited by the current low value of the atmosphere's CO 2 concentration. In addition, the stomatal conductances of all species declined with increasing CO 2 , so that their water use efficiencies all rose as the air's CO 2 content climbed. What it means",3_3
"At the very end, about 27 minutes, they find web sites with creation dates prior to the event as memorials",0_0
"Direct studies of sea level are showing only small rises. Sea level data for the United States and a few other countries can be sighted at: http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends.shtml . Most stations show a rise of sea level of about 1.7mm per year, but there is considerable variation even within a single state. Australian records can be sighted in Parker et al. 2013.",1_6
"What do you think? Watch the Audi ad, and post a comment!",0_0
I owe you this oneSierra Rayne says precip in the NE is in the range of usual,0_0
Congratulations on being asked to speak to Congress about climate change and security.,0_0
Read it first: Climate/Energy section of Obama SOTU here!,0_0
"A study by Navigant Consulting, prepared for Arizona Public Service utilities, showed that the amount solar customers pay for electricity (after bill credits) is below the utilities costs for servicing those customers. Utilities must then charge its non-solar customers to cover the fixed costs solar customers are avoiding in self-generation, leading to higher bills for those non-solar customers.",4_4
"Oh, and those aren?t just failed forecasts?they are failed hindcasts. Even knowing the answer, the climate modelers can?t explain why the Earth hasn?t warmed as fast as it was supposed to.",5_1
"The results of this study are just one more example of the almost embarrassingly obvious fact that data from all around the globe demonstrate the reality of the millennial-scale climatic oscillation that has brought the planet the Medieval Warm Period, the Little Ice Age and now the Modern Warm Period, along with earlier named and unnamed climatic intervals of like nature, totally independent of changes in the air's CO 2 concentration. References",2_1
But I haven't told you that they generally do so to different extents. The ratio of the two Higgs doublets' vacuum expectation values,0_0
"5. (Posts chart of accumulated cyclone energy trends) ???And consequently, an inconvenient truth is, the tropical cyclone accumulated energy is down at record low levels, not record high levels.??",1_7
"Indeed, coming after three of the last four years being the coldest since 1996, the warmth in 2014 is no more than a reflection of the weather.",1_4
CEI Experts Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on what every citizen should know about global warming.,0_0
"Science the GOP cant wish away , November 19 th 2010",0_0
Hawaii: $340 M in Solar Credits in last 10 years,0_0
"Krull et al . conclude their paper by saying their findings ""stress the importance of viewing soils as dynamic systems and indicating the potential for soil organic carbon sequestration in grazed semi-arid woodlands,"" which land use represents a form of agroforestry whose virtues have recently been touted by Mutuo et al . (2005) .?? Also, their findings suggest the operation of an important negative feedback phenomenon that has the potential to slow the rate-of-rise of the air's CO 2 content, wherein the ongoing enrichment of the air with CO 2 from the burning of fossil fuels enables woody species to more readily colonize less productive grasslands and thereby extract greater amounts of CO 2 from the atmosphere, which tends to retard atmospheric CO 2 's upward concentration trend while simultaneously providing many benefits to the soil and the plants that grow upon it. References",3_1
"In the words of Schubert and Jahren, ""if the below-ground biomass enhancement that we have quantified for R. sativus represents a generalized root-crop response that can be extrapolated to agricultural systems, below-ground fertilization under very high CO 2 levels could dramatically augment crop production in some of the poorest nations of the world."" And ""needless to say,"" as they continue, ""a doubling or tripling of below-ground crop tissue due to CO 2 fertilization would be welcome on both a nutritional and economic basis."" References",3_3
being run up under the Toxic Assets Relief Program or the 2009 stimulus,0_0
"""My plan will keep these investments, and we'll keep reducing the carbon pollution that's also heating the planet, because climate change isn't a hoax. The droughts we've seen, the floods, the wildfires those aren't a joke. They're a threat to our children's future. And we can do something about it. That's part of what's at stake in this election,"" Obama said.",0_0
Disadvantages: There are two main disadvantages of using only one data set. These are: one may be suspected of cherry picking and one increases error. The difficulties with the first can be largely minimized by explaining ones data choice prior to performing an analysis.,0_0
"There's a lot more agreement about (1) a modest warming trend since about 1850 than there is about (2) the cause of that trend. There's even less agreement about (3) the dangers of that trend, or of (4) what to do about it. But these four propositions are frequently bundled together, so that if you doubt one, you're labeled a climate change ""skeptic"" or ""denier."" That's just plain intellectually dishonest. When well-established claims are fused with separate, more controversial claims, and the entire conglomeration is covered with the label ""consensus,"" you have reason for doubt.",0_0
Peer review is a way of screening out opposing views. Skeptics of climate change have a difficult time getting published.,0_0
"We were very excited when we realized a lot of changes in the past century from warmer to cooler and then back to warmer were all natural, says Anastosios Tsonis, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Read more here .",2_1
"So is the atmosphere being heated from the top down or from the bottom up? The answer must be both. The Sun is heating mass, but only where there is mass. So the Greenhouse Gases must absorb the incoming infrared, and this is most easily illustrated by Water Vapour and clouds. For the full scientific argument on how this is done I would refer the reader to the paper by Hans Schreuder, Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere cool the Earth. (Affix link here). Clearly as Hans Schreuder argues the Greenhouse Gases absorb incoming radiation near-IR, which is far greater than far-IR, and therefore the Greenhouse Gases, far from causing warming, do exactly the opposite, - they have a net cooling effect, and this has been confirmed by NASA.",2_3
"I have one very serious criticism of Anthonys post on the issue. He left out an important reference to Knowles et al 2006, who provided a definite comment on the citation issue in a 2006 conference.",0_0
"The find was likened to the Bakken and Eagle Ford shale oil projects in the US, which have resulted in massive outflows and have led to predictions that the US could overtake Saudi Arabia as the world??s largest oil producer as soon as this year.",4_5
"America's oil and gas boom has the potential to jump-start the economy by lowering consumers' energy costs and attracting energy-intensive manufacturing in search of low-cost energy. The oil boom has come about despite, not because of, government policies.",0_0
So how does dreck end up getting published in journals? McIntyre quotes Andrew Weaver:,0_0
"McIntyre doesnt just use bad (or out of context) data, he also *manufactures his own* if bad data arent readily available:",0_0
"Whilst its a tad galling hearing the Copernicus denying church issuing a fatwa against global warming, its perhaps a sign that the end is really nigh for this scam. This is how the Gaurdian reported this Santa Claus (or rearranged Satans clau present from the Vatican)",5_2
"Though this may be obvious to readers, its worth repeating once in a while the chain of reasoning that must all be true for dramatic government action to be justified in reducing CO2. That chain is roughly as follows:",0_0
"In a nutshell, the issue is rather simple, yet powerful. Salby is arguing that atmospheric CO2 increase that we observe is a product of temperature increase, and not the other way around, meaning it is a product of natural variation.",2_1
"Though it has its limits, the peer-review process is meant to provide checks and balances, to weed out bad and misleading work, and to bring some measure of objectivity to scientific research. At its best, it can do that. But when the same few people review and approve each other's work, you invariably get conflicts of interest. This weakens the case for the supposed consensus, and becomes, instead, another reason to be suspicious. Nerds who follow the climate debate blogosphere have known for years about the cliquish nature of publishing and peer review in climate science (see here, for example).",5_2
"The worlds response to climate change is deeply flawed. The conventional wisdom on how to deal with climate change has failed and its time to change course. To date, climate policies have been guided by targets and timetables for emissions reduction derived from various academic exercises. Such methods are both oblivious to and in violation of on-the-ground political and technological realities that serve as practical boundary conditions for effective policy making. Until climate policies are designed with respect for these boundary conditions, failure is certain. Using nothing more than arithmetic and logical explanation, this talk provides a comprehensive exploration of the problem and a proposal for a more effective way forward.",4_2
"I guess its the number of people who dont believe the so-called greenhouse effect exists (I still get e-mails from them, even today), combined with the difficulty of convincing them that their everyday experience is consistent with its existence.",0_0
"The latest concern is that melting glaciers and collapsing ice shelves will lead to a massive water crisis. The left-wing British newspaper The Guardian claims that ""climate change is causing increasingly rapid melting of the ice"" and that this will damage ""communities that rely on meltwater for irrigation, hydroelectric schemes and drinking"". The loss of ice will ""increase sea levels worldwide"". Even where glaciers are expanding in Scandinavia (and Alaska) this is apparently due to increased snowfall ""also caused by climate change"". So whether it is an expanding or a receding glacier, human-induced climate change is to blame.",0_0
"Figure 2 shows what happens when I apply this correction to the ""observed"" data in Figure 1 and then re-calculate the temperature change. The overall warming trend declines from the ""observed"" rate of 0.116 C/decade to a ""corrected"" rate of 0.092 C/decade. So EPA's ""observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century"" has now dropped from 0.702 C to a ""corrected"" value of 0.552 C and 21% of EPA's increase from ""anthropogenic GHG"" increases has now vanished, lost to errors in the observed data.",0_0
"By contrast, the US has not been hit by a major hurricane in almost nine years. Climate experts say hurricanes are getting worse.",1_7
"The study that was inserted is a much more up-to-date survey of what we know about the natural variability of temperature, which suggests the Earth has been much warmer than it is presently (during the ""medieval warm period"" when Greenland was colonized and wine grapes grown in England). It is interesting that of all the funding agencies that contributed to the new study, the Times noted only the American Petroleum Institute, which provided the small amount of funding necessary to finish and publish the study. Ninety percent of the study's funding actually came from the governmentthe Air Force Office of Scientific Research, NASA, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.",0_0
"The Santa Fe New Mexican's headline for Hansen's visit was: ""A steep energy tax to curb global warming."" Perhaps Hansen was tipping his hand, confirming the rumor that Obama will approve the long-delayed, but much-needed Keystone pipeline if Congress will approve a carbon tax. Tit for tat.",0_0
"In 2014, domestic oil production soared to 8.66 million barrels per day. Thus, between 2005 and 2014, U.S. oil output grew by 3.4 million barrels per day, which is nearly five and a half times the energy output of the entire ethanol sector.",0_0
Remembering Adam Smith this July 4th (Part I),0_0
NJ PUC rejects offshore wind project as uneconomical,0_0
We can be better prepared for drought and wildfires by improving forest management as this column previously suggested in the aftermath of the deadly California wildfires of 2003.,0_0
"The answer to #1 is yes, it is settled science.",0_0
Use all the standard data sets thought reliable.,0_0
"Planet Earths history of climate change (CC) is about 4,500,000,000 years in the making. Why would anyone think that it stopped yesterday, last year, last decade, last century, or even a millennium ago? Do you think the rate or direction of natural CC has changed because the dinosaurs died out many million years ago? Or do you believe it was because humans arrived en masse on the scene a few thousand years ago?",2_1
"So, whats going on with the sun? The latest research was presented at the Nagoya Workshop on the Relationship between Solar Activity and Climate Changes .",0_0
"29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.",0_0
"The US Navy is forecasting an increase in ice around Newfoundland and the Barents Sea this week, which would likely push Arctic ice area above the 30 year mean.",0_0
Dark Matter Search Results Using the Silicon Detectors of CDMS II (arXiv),0_0
"Looming over the villages, the two largest glaciers in the Alpsthe Aletsch (satellite picture) and Fiescher (satellite picture)grew over the next two centuries, reaching their maximum lengths around 1850. Around that time, the Aletsch stretched some 16 miles (26 kilometers); the Fiescher was larger by similar proportions, though exact measurements arent available for the smaller glacier.",0_0
"What this graph shows is very simple, but also very powerful: The radiative variations CERES measures look nothing like what the radiative feedback should look like. You can put in any feedback parameter you want (the IPCC models range from 0.91 to 1.87I think it could be more like 3 to 6 in the real climate system), and you will come to the same conclusion.",5_1
Our thorough studies demonstrated that there was no evidence of increases in the frequency or magnitude of floods and droughts. This is not what the UNFCCC wanted to hear.,1_7
"Laltrimenti great Armando Massarenti simplifies a bit too sulleugenetica speech in his column on Sunday Philosophy Minimum Sole24Ore, on September 10 last (nellarticolo All subscribers to the stupidity of Hitler)",0_0
"We continually hear such assertions as ""2014 was the planet's warmest year on record fourteen of the fifteen hottest years on record have all fallen in the first 15 years of this century."" Perhaps surprisingly, such factoids are far less informative than many seem to assume. The recent year-to-year differences are almost never statistically significant. More important, the ""hottest year"" rhetoric is based on the surface temperature record, a collection of data that is deeply problematic, with heat-island effects difficult to expunge from the data, poor placement and shifts in the measurement stations, etc. An example: For over a century, ""China"" was 137 monitoring stations in four cities, and as those cities grew, ""China"" warmed. Surprise!",5_1
"The project will be run through C40, a coalition of major cities around the world that united to study the impact of climate change on their municipalities. The group, chaired by Bloomberg, merged two years ago with the Clinton Climate Initiativean offshoot of Clintons philanthropic foundation.",0_0
"If we apply the MAGICC/SCENGEN climate simulator developed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and used by both IPCC and the EPA, and assume an 80 percent reduction in GHG emissions by the OECD90 (North America, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan), the warming averted by 2100 would be about 0.3 C. If Asia also reduces emissions by 80 percent, that would increase the averted warming by about another 1.1 C , for a total close to the goal envisioned in the carbon budget relative to RCP8.5. Can anyone possibly believe that emission reductions of 80 percent are anything other than a fantasy?",0_0
Estimates of a carbon tax's impact on world temperature do not lend much support for a carbon tax. Climatologists Pat Michaels and Chip Knappenberger provides an online calculator to estimate the impact of various cuts in CO2 emissions. The calculations are based on the MAGICC model developed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.,0_0
"For nearly 14 years, Democrats have tried to persuade Americans that, after the disaster of 1994, they were no longer interested in making sweeping changes to the nation s health-care system.",0_0
"The bbmle package has a profile function that applies to mle2 output, which has a special-purpose plot attached to it (the style of which I applied in the above graph).",0_0
The Honorable James M. Inhofe (R-OK),0_0
"The actual temperature data indicates the opposite. Since 1998 , the U.S. temperature trend has been a negative 3.2F degrees/century - yes, that is a minus trend covering the 16-year period from December 1997 through November 2013. And as this recent article about Alaska's cooling since the turn of the century confirms, its forest fires have not been a result of 21st century ""global warming.""",1_4
"Long-anticipated results of the CLOUD experiment at CERN in Geneva appear in tomorrows issue of the journalNature(25 August). The Director General of CERN stirred controversy last month, by saying that the CLOUD teams report should be politically correct about climate change (see my 17 July post). The implication was that they should on no account endorse the Danish heresy Henrik Svensmarks hypothesis that most of the global warming of the 20th Century can be explained by the reduction in cosmic rays due to livelier solar activity, resulting in less low cloud cover and warmer surface temperatures.",2_1
"The official high temperature in Fort Collins today was 98 degrees, two degrees cooler than 1936. According to the rhetoric of the newspaper, 1936 shattered 2012 temperatures.",1_7
"The Corner on National Review Online In short, by opposing all drilling in Anwar, off the coasts, the continental shelf, and omitting any reference to coal, tar sands, shale, or nuclear, he apparently thinks that millions of acres of new solar panels and hundreds of thousands of wind turbines dotting our mountain crests and deserts, together with millions more acres devoted to corn, will somehow bring gas prices down or make energy more affordable. But this is absolute lunacy , and no one in the media seems willing to have him explain just how many megawatts, and how many gallons of biofuels he hopes to produce, and how millions of jobs will be created therein and how our energy prices thereby will become affordable.",4_4
"While it's hardly mentioned in the media, the U.S. is currently in an extended and intense hurricane ""drought."" The last Category 3 or stronger storm to make landfall was Wilma in 2005. The more than seven years since then is the longest such span in over a century.",1_7
"These results are quite striking. By 2035, the economy would experience an average positive employment differential of over 700,000 jobs with a peak employment differential of 1.5 million jobs. Chart 2 illustrates the impact of lifting these regulations on overall employment, across the American economy.",0_0
"Listeners ended up the twilight zone?? Emerson saying the Met office predicts warming too. Does he realize that (a) the Met office have been predicting future warming every year for the last 16 years (and look how well that worked out for them), and (b) even if they are right and it warms to freakishly hot conditions in a monster El Nino in, say, 2014, unless some kind of time-bending wormhole is fritzing current physics, there is no way that can affect the trend as measured between 1997 to 2012? Do I need to explain why?",1_4
"In 2005, Professor Flannery, a climate advisor to the Australian Government, predicted Sydney would be covered by 20 metres of water by the year 2050 (45 years-times). This is 444mm per year. Error to date is 26,144%",0_0
"10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:",0_0
"The past 4 years have seen 12 major landfalling hurricanes, very low but not unprecedented ??? 1984-1987 had just 11. The most is 35 (2005-2008).",1_7
"The camcorder was running at 18.3 frames per second. It's being said that in the frame 160, there was the first shot that missed everything. After 220, there was the second shot (magic bullet) that hit the governor in front as well as JFK (non-fatally). They react in some way. The third shot at 313 was used to make JFK's head explode which turned out to be lethal. The time between the first and third shot was probably over 8 seconds.",0_0
"By Robert Tracinski, The Federalist, Aug 6, 2015",0_0
"And so it has come to pass, as is explained in an excellent article titled, Greens Sour on Natural Gas , by Bob King, from yesterdays Politico . It starts,",0_0
"Insurance premiums are rising at double-digit rates, sparking widespread anger. Republican governors are refusing to expand Medicaid, the mechanism under which a large majority of people were to become ""newly insured.""",0_0
"A reader or a homeowner may lack the expertise to predict certain things about the climate but he surely understands what it means for the temperature to increase by 5 C in a few decades - let's say 3 decades. He may quickly learn that the warming caused by the greenhouse effect should be most pronounced in the middle troposphere. After a few minutes, he finds the graph of the mid troposphere temperatures from 1978 to 2008: three decades of data.",0_0
"Ben Pile is spot on. The 97% consensus article is poorly conceived, poorly designed and poorly executed. It obscures the complexities of the climate issue and it is a sign of the desperately poor level of public and policy debate in this country that the energy minister should cite it.",5_1
"The opposite La Nia weather pattern, which has been hovering around Australia for the past two years, brought flooding to the countrys east.",0_0
"We used HEM to analyze the impact of making hydraulic fracturing more feasible by increasing the availability of petroleum in North America. In particular, we ran two of the same simulations that the EIA used in ""Effects of Removing Restrictions on U.S. Crude Oil Exports,"" in comparing the impact of lifting the export ban to the impact of lifting the export ban coupled with greater availability of shale oil, shale gas, and its variants in North America.",0_0
"It has become standard procedure for advocates of reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to link extreme weather events, such as floods, hurricanes, droughts, etc., to rising global temperatures. But according to the former chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Dr. Bert Bolin, ""There has been no effect on countries from any current change."" Attempts by activists to establish such a link ""is why I do not trust the Greens,"" stated Bolin.",0_0
"Thus, the lack of any evidence for mass extinctions causes no hesitation on the part of those environmentalists calling for quick and draconian action.",0_0
"Today's Links: April 9, 2012",0_0
"Sea level has been rising steadily since the mid 19thC, with no evidence of long term acceleration.",1_6
"In the 27 November 2009 issue of Science, Michael Mann and eight coauthors (Mann et al., 2009) describe how they used a global climate proxy network consisting of data derived from ice core, coral, sediment, and various other records to reconstruct a Northern Hemispheric surface air temperature history covering the past 1,500 years for the purpose of determining the characteristics of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period. They used Manns Nature trick of Climategate fame, truncating the reconstructed temperature history near its end and replacing it with modern-day instrumental data, so the last part of the record cannot be validly compared with the earlier portion.",5_2
"Simple. We call it what it is, and we continue to speak freely and fearlessly, whether they like it or not, until they actually get to the point of putting us on trial for ?high crimes against humanity?. We will not, repeat not, repeat not, be silenced.",0_0
"Since the 1D models are the type used in the parameterization of the stable boundary layer in multi-decadal climate model projections, this is yet another reason to question their use as accurate predictive models, including their use to forecast the long term trends in near surface air temperature over land and sea ice.",5_1
"Another powerful negative-feedback mechanism which acts to reduce the effects of global warming has been identified, as scientists say that rising temperatures cause plants to emit higher levels of planet-cooling aerosols.",3_1
More evidence of huge explosions triggered by a magnetic reversal,0_0
"I thought it was kind of interesting that upon reading this McKinsey & Co study (currently the top one in the list) on education, Kevin Drum and a number of other left 'o center blogs pulled out this one chart to highlight. It shows starting teacher pay (i.e. out of college) as a percent of the economy's average)",0_0
"Look at the essay and graphs and see what you think. The trend was there before the region went to new enviro regs. You get, sometimes, what you wish forno graphs on the number of people who left the workforce or went on welfare dependency or moved off the grid with part-time and less productive work. The elite rich may be growing in the Northeast, but the economy may be declining in energy intense production.",0_0
"Christopher Booker discusses the implications in: Climategate, the sequel: How we are STILL being tricked with flawed data on global warming .",5_2
"""The Obama Administration,"" said Sheehen, ""consistently fails to acknowledge the enormous industry investments and advancements in clean coal technologies, place a wholly unmerited target on our back to achieve political gains; when in reality, America's coal fleet is responsible for nearly 40 percent of our nation's electricity and just a tiny fraction of the world's carbon emissions.""",0_0
"Teresa Mull, managing editor of School Choice Weekly, challenges us to ask why we should expect a president to determine how children are educated when education isn't even mentioned in the Constitution. ""If government were to mostly leave the education arena, people would find ways to provide high-quality educational opportunities for their kids, just as they do in nearly every other aspect of life, from washing machines to motor vehicles. If you don't want the government choosing your car for you, why would you trust it with your children's education? READ MORE",0_0
"Contamination by urbanization, changes in land use, improper station sitting, and inadequately-calibrated instrument upgrades further overstate warming.",5_1
"HAYDEN: Fine! If P, then Q! Q! Therefore P! Have it your way!",0_0
feels no need to look under the hood- and discourages its expert reviewers from doing so.,5_2
Greens Release a Slew of Global Warming Reports,0_0
Next Hundred Days Will Be Harder Than the First Hundred,0_0
"The world began to enjoy a bonanza in wealth, technology, living standards, and life spans. In just two centuries, average world incomes rose eleven-fold, disease rates plummeted, and life expectancy more than doubled. Unfortunately, not everyone benefitted equally, and even today billions of people still live under conditions little better than what dominated in 1810. Bringing them from squalor, disease, and early death to modernity may be our most important economic, technological, and moral challenge.",0_0
"The reason I bring this us is because I have always thought the way black and white TV was transitioned to color was particularly clever. They could have broadcast color with three signals of Red, Green, and Blue levels, and then black and white TVs would have to be thrown out - they wouldn't show anything meaningful with that signal. Instead, though, they mapped color with a three part system of an absolute brightness signal for each pixel, plus two color signals. If you are familiar with Photoshop, when you choose a color, you can enter the color as three numbers R-G-B for the intensity of each color or as Hue-Saturation-Brightness. While not the same as the TV system, it is similar in that it has a pixel brightness component, plus to color components. (my memory is that in the TV system, it is brightness plus two colors and the third color -- blue, I think -- is arrived at bysubtractionfrom the total brightness minus the two other colors.)",0_0
"The work of Scafetta and Willson are independent fortsttning and expansion of an earlier work, which I discussed in a inlgg at the beginning of frra year (.lnk). It shows that the total solinstrlningen the earth modulated via planetrt influence on the sun, and that this variation correlates with pverkan from planets. In this work uppmrksammas specifically to Earth-Jupiter conjunction, which has a period p r 1:09. With the help of spectral analysis finds that this collaboration has a dominant impact on the overall solinstrlningen MTT satellites 1978-2012. This is natural given on Jupiter's large mass. The results are clear, but we should note that the d rr about variations within the range of 1362-1368 W / m 2 vidtoppen of jordatmosfren. The importance for climate will understand with a variation in cloud formation.",2_1
"Amid reports that landowners in the states Southern Tier have reached an agreement to allow a drilling company to use propane fracking, DEC has said it now could accept and review drilling permits, even as it continues to review its proposed guidelines for water-based hydrofracking.",0_0
"In the charts below, I have given climate alarmists every break. I have used the most drastic CO2 forecast (A2) from the IPCC fourth assessment, and run the numbers for a peak concentration around 800ppm. I have used the IPCCs own formula for the effect of CO2 on temperatures without feedback (Temperature Increase = F(C2) F(C1) where F(c)=Ln (1+1.2c+0.005c^2 +0.0000014c^3) and c is the concentration in ppm). Note that skeptics believe that both the 800ppm assumption and the IPCC formula above overstate warming and CO2 buildup, but as you will see, it is not going to matter.",5_2
"No doubt booms bring challenges to communities, but most mayors would welcome them compared to the difficulties caused by economic slowdowns or busts. Gas drilling is not going bust in Pennsylvania, but it is slowing down, and the slowdown negatively affects the economies of communities in the gas fields.",0_0
"With a new contract for society, the Council desires to implement the Great Ecological Transformation to a nuclear-free and carbon-free global economy. A powerful, ruling government shall provide for this, and will care for the societal problemtic of non-sustainable living styles. Climate protection will be one of the fundamental targets of the state. Our current parliamentary democratic legal process is to be supplemented by a Future Council which will be expressly superordinate over Parliament, party squabbling and conflicting interests, and will be assembled by draw.",0_0
"In contrast, the U. S. Midwest Flood of 1993 reported 48 deaths.",0_0
"People have this idea that sailing is cheap, because of the low fuel costs. But blue-water sailors have a saying that goes like this:",0_0
"four or eight years, either a marathon or a triathlon. Measuring progress after",0_0
"The results show temperatures appear to have been more than 5C warmer in polar regions while the tropics only warmed marginally; strikingly similar to recent trends. Not only this, but taken together, the world appears to have been some 1.9C warmer when compared to preindustrial temperatures. Critically, the warmer temperatures appear to have resulted in global sea levels some 6.6 to 9.4 metres higher than today, with a rate of rise of between 60 to 90 centimetres per decade more than double that recently observed.",0_0
"How valid is the 2014 claim? In the 10,000 ??? year context, it is significant because it is among the 3 percent coldest years, which is far more significant than the 100-year warm alarmists proclaim. There are two major reasons: Highest readings occur in the most recent years of a rising temperature record. Every alteration, adjustment amendment and abridgment of the record so far, was done to create and emphasize increasingly higher temperatures.",5_1
"This new video is the second in a series revealing the truth about the Obama-EPA's extreme agenda to kill fossil fuels. It follows a video Senator Inhofe highlighted in April, which showed former EPA Region 6 Administrator admitting that EPA's ""general philosophy"" is to ""crucify"" and ""make examples"" of oil and gas companies.",0_0
"What I read is that by analyzing the large variance portions of SST with similar methods that look at all Sea Surface Temperatures, they found a different result supporting a very low climate sensitivity to CO2 through observation. It turned out that the tropics are definitely the region of interest in models vs observation.",3_1
"GLENN: Right. Wouldnt you just I mean, wouldnt you just be saying that natural cold is overpowering the manmade warmth? I mean, wouldnt that be good? I mean, look, if the cooling is masking the warming, the warming, according to these pinheads, is caused by man. The cooling is not caused by man. So wouldnt it mean that the non-manmade cooling is actually winning out over man? Almost like its weird how the whole system works itself out.",1_4
"This results in a hypothesis tests that, on average, do not increase the rate of rejecting IPCC projections when they are correct (i.e. error), but have some chance of rejecting it when it is, in fact, false (i.e. error.)",0_0
"The Australian s editors are supposed to be journalists who question everything, not a PR agency who promotes an ideology. In reply the Australian could have been roasting the other media agencies for not covering the photos of Anthony Watts surface stations project, and not exposing the missing ARGO results, and for not printing the worst of the climategate emails in full, in context, and with the job descriptions of the emailers for everyone to see. But then, The Australian, as good as it has been (in comparison), hasnt printed those things either. The field of blind parrots pecks the one-eyed.",0_0
"Arctic air will plunge toward the South and East on Wednesday and Thursday, after as much as 2 feet of record-breaking snow buried portions of the upper Midwest, warned USA Today on Tuesday.",0_0
More Problems for the Mann et al. Temperature Record,0_0
Climate models failings with respect to ENSOtheir failures to properly simulate of El Nio- and La Nia-related processeshave been known for years. See Guilyardi et al. (2009) and Bellenger et al (2012) . It is very difficult to find a portionany portionof El Nio and La Nia processes that the models simulate properly.,5_1
"Figure 1 from Liu et al., PNAS.",0_0
"Forget about the fact that much greater warming and cooler trends have occurred even before industrialization (remember the Ice Age, and the warming after that? That was a bit more than 1/100th of a degree!) These are just some of the facts you need to forget in order to believe that man has any effect on the weather (or women--mustn't forget the women!)",2_1
"According to this formulation, conscience is not some vexatious barrier. It is an active, living force something that has an apparentvolition of its own:",0_0
"2) Winter To Be Mild Predicts Met Office Daily Express, 28 October 2010",0_0
In chapters 14 and 15 he discusses photogenic polar bears that are the poster children of the media. Steele writes that polar bears arent going extinct and there never was any warming of their habitats. Evidence is shown by Steele that the local food supply benefits from less ice.,3_2
"The citys maximum temperature of 12.1 degrees is four below the average maximum for this time of year. For some western suburbs, it was even colder, only reaching nine in Richmond and 10 in Penrith, both eight below average and their coldest day in at least 15 years. ( source )",1_3
"I thought this post on clouds and climate modeling below from Steve McIntyre??s Climate Audi t was interesting, because it highlights the dreaded ???negative feedbacks?? that many climate modelers say don??t exist. Dr. Richard Lindzen highlighted the importance of negative feedback in a recent WUWT post .",3_1
"Just consider the incredible revolution that the genius of American capitalists has presented the world: hydraulic fracturing or ""fracking"" to tap previously inaccessible oil and gas deposits. This technology has turned ""depletion"" and ""sustainability"" claims upside down. It has already doubled US natural gas reserves and given North America over a century of recoverable gas, at current consumption rates.",4_5
"A major weapon in the arsenal of environmental activists over the last eight years has been the shareholder resolution. The Wall Street Journal (April 3, 2002) reports that the number of global warming resolutions originating from activists is increasing significantly in 2002. Already 18 resolutions have been filed, more than twice the amount filed in any other year in the previous eight years.",0_0
"Not only has the White House discouraged drilling on federal lands, President Obama has used his pen to lock up federal lands with potential development, such as the newly designated Organ Mountain Desert Peaks National Monumentwhich blocks production without analyzing the economic impact. ""Every time they lock up federal lands, whether through national monuments, conservation areas, or wilderness areas,"" Steven Henke, President of New Mexico Oil and Gas Association, told me, ""they eliminate the potential for royalties from the federal estate. Those funds benefit both the state and federal government and reduce the burden to the taxpayers.""",0_0
"So, if a record high temperature is reported on any given day in Las Vegas, it will likely be for these unadjusted, UHI-influenced temperatures?? not from NCDC-adjusted USHCN temperatures (which don??t include these stations anyway).",5_1
"Reuters added, ""While urging the EU to redouble efforts to get the Protocol ratified so it can come into force, the letter added: ""The review of the current EU climate-change policies should also be relevant as an alternative to the Kyoto Protocol in case it does not come into force.""",0_0
"""Immelt said that a carbon pricing scheme would create jobs Doesn't sound like it, if he has in mind a cap-and-tax scheme. (Here's also a useful primer on costs of global warming policies.)""",4_1
"Regulatory capture occurs when special interests co-opt the power of the government in order to advance their own interests at the expense of the public as a whole. Over at RegBlog, there is a 16 part series on regulatory capture, but almost all the contributors make the same mistake of assuming that industry is the only threat. In fact, ideological special interests also capture agencies and, in this manner, push for inefficient or even nonsensical regulations to the detriment of the public good.",0_0
"Yesterday, after Mr Huhne issued his first annual statement on Britain's energy future, it was clear that we should all be very, very concerned about the future of Britain.",0_0
"Rather than dozens of ugly offshore oil and gas platforms, often dozens of miles from our coasts will America now enjoy seeing thousands of beautiful offshore wind turbines, towering above our beaches and creating obstacle courses for submarines, merchant ships laden with bunker fuel, and more tankers filled with crude oil and far more toxic refined product?",4_4
Die Zeits grotesquesly skewed perception of climate science skepticism includes a one-sided look at the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) and prominent German heavyweight skeptic Fritz Vahrenholt. I will write about that tomorrow.,0_0
"There is a large divergence prior to 1900, but for the twentieth century the warming trend is not excessively increased. Further, the warming trend from around 1900 is about half of that in the GISTEMP Southern Hemisphere or global anomalies. Looked in this way Mearns would appear to have a point. But there has been considerable downward adjustment of the early twentieth century warming, so Homewoods claim of cooling the past is also substantiated. This might be the more important aspect, as the adjusted data makes the warming since the mid-1970s appear unusual.",0_0
"The BRT also recognizes a role for government in developing new technologies, albeit a small one. ""A central policy tenet is that governments cannot foster private sector technology advancement by picking winners and losers,"" says the report. ""Instead, a central role for government is to ensure its policies are coordinated and consistent, and that unintended regulatory, policy and tax impediments to innovation are remedied.""",0_0
"However, if we refer to the idealised temperature profile of the atmosphere shown above where I have drawn on a line at 282K, we see that except for the first couple of kilometres above the surface and over 110km where the addition of CO2 causes Global cooling. So it is true that:",2_3
"Illinois wind generated less than five percent of its capacity during the record breaking heat last week, producing only an average of 120 MW of electricity from the over 2,700 MW installed. On July 6th, when the demand for electricity in northern Illinois and Chicago averaged 22,000 MW, the average amount of wind power available during the day was a virtually nonexistent four MW, less than the output of two large wind turbines, or about and enough power to operate 4,000 blow dryers. In fact, the most electricity wind produced on any day during last weeks heat wave was an average of 320 MW on July 3rd, or about 10 percent of the capacity of the wind turbines built in Illinois, when temperatures soared to 103 degrees.",4_4
"So with all but a few data series not artificially augmented, Jim Bouldin (PhD) has determined that little Jeff Id BS, has no clue what he is talking about thus the BS I suppose.",0_0
"In the short and medium term, the U.S. can do little to bring about an effective global accord on GHG controls. Simple math reveals that GHG control is better viewed as the subject of a global bargain than as a domestic pollution control issue. ACESA's approach amounts to giving away one of this country's biggest bargaining chips, its expenditures on domestic GHG controlsand to giving it away before the hard bargaining has even begun. The U.S. has not used this approach in previous negotiations on trade, arms, or other important mattersand for very good reasons.",0_0
"Col. Cunningham led off the discussion by talking about the earth's geological history and fluctuating nature of carbon levels. He interjected interesting points taken from his experiences as an Apollo astronaut and urged the crowd to ""not just believe what they're being told, but to check the facts for themselves."" He included what he was telling them in that admonition.",0_0
"The failed hypothesis of dangerous man-made global warming is already discredited not only by the so-called ""pause"" in the rise of global temperatures. But it is also untenable because the very concept of a global climate is bogus to begin with, according to respected analyst Dr Vincent Gray.",1_4
"In 1990, the Broncos lost the Superbowl 55-10 to San Francisco (they scored two more than 2014.) Since then, there has been almost no warming on the planet. The graph below removes the Pinatubo cooled years of 1992-1994.",1_4
Climate Conspiracy Written by Peter Wood and Ashley Thorne,5_2
"???There is surely some limit to how long increasing carbon dioxide can continue to promote plant growth that absorbs carbon dioxide,?? Saleska said. ???Carbon dioxide is food for plants, and putting more food out there stimulates them to ???eat?? more. However, just like humans, eventually they get full and putting more food out doesn??t stimulate more eating.??",3_3
"The eight researchers report that the 1.5??C increase in temperature significantly advanced crop phenophases, leading to a reduction in the length of the entire growth period of about ten days, with the result that grain yields rose due to ""the mitigation of low temperature limitation during the pre-anthesis phase and to the avoidance of hot-dry stress during the post-anthesis phase."" In addition, they indicate that the areas of flag leaves and total green leaves at anthesis, as well as the 1000-grain weight of the plants, were 36.0, 19.2 and 5.9% higher in the warmed plots than in the unaltered control, respectively. And the net effect of these several warmth-induced changes was a mean grain yield increase of 16.3%.",3_2
"The dissertation paper, written by professional mountain guide and climate change campaigner Dario-Andri Schworer while he was studying for a geography degree, quotes observations from interviews with around 80 mountain guides in the Bernina region of the Swiss Alps.",0_0
Click on figure to view a diagram of a cosmic ray shower,0_0
"Boone : This would be the case frequently. And it would rarely achieve its rated capacity, producing most at times of least demand. Whatever it generated would be continuously skittering, intensifying, magnifying the destabilizing effects of demand fluctuations, for wind volatility is virtually indistinguishable from the phenomenon of people whimsically turning their appliances off and on. But wind fluctuations are in addition to those of demand, and even more volatileboth on a minute-by-minute basis and at wide scale, where whole days can pass with wind production at less than 10% of its rated capacity.",4_4
"MOOSE: Ah, these amateur philosophers aint worth hurtin. Now blow, Socrates, before I squeeze your spinal column into some symbolic logic.",0_0
"St Cloud, Minnesota, is experiencing its snowiest April ever.",0_0
"LIA = Little Ice Age, MCA = Medieval Warm Period. Note top graph appears to be based upon one of Mann's bogus temperature reconstructions. Remaining graphs show SST reconstructions along southern coast of Chile.",5_2
"On March 14, 2012, the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council bought air time in 12 major media markets in Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C., for an advertisement depicting children with oxygen masks roaming the halls of Congress. A narrator begins,",0_0
"It began when police in Lexington, Ky., were following a suspect who allegedly had sold crack cocaine to an informer and then walked into an apartment building. They did not see which apartment he entered, but when they smelled marijuana smoke come from one of the apartments, they wrongly assumed he had gone into that one. They pounded on the door and called ""Police. Police. Police,"" and heard the sounds of people moving.",0_0
CCD Editor's Note: It's shameful how Gore utilizes hate speech and misinformation to further his own agenda. Note all the inconsistencies in his speech. From Tech Times :,5_2
"The idea that CO2 has been an important driver of global temperature over the last 400,000 years is not supported by the evidence.",2_3
"Environment Minister Segolene Royal said in May France would unilaterally introduce a carbon price floor of about 30 euros ($33) a ton in order to kickstart broader European action to cut emissions to meet the EU's Paris climate agreement commitments. The announcement pushed power prices higher in the spring. Now sources within the government say the measure is too complicated to put in place and might be unconstitutional. Les Echos quoted one source saying, ""In the current context, is difficult, due to concerns about employment, legal difficulties, and security of supply.""",0_0
"The big problem that I see for the hypothesis that GHGs rule the temperature is that over the period of the CERES data, we should have seen a shift of almost two watts in the downwelling total radiation but I find no such thing in the dataset. So I throw this question out to the climate science community at large.",2_3
"The estimates of 0.5 to 1 watts/m^2 (watts per square meter, referenced to Earths surface area) are only 0.15 % to 0.29 % of the 341 watts/m^2 estimated amount of sunlight at the top of the atmosphere shown in Figure 1.",0_0
"The difference between this forecast and the IPCCs, is that this forecast is based on actual data.",5_1
"Walked Chicken B. Little. A scientist, mind!",0_0
"For 85 years the trend was pretty much consistent, hovering at about 8.2 or 8.3C. As indicated by the bold black line, there was an increase from 1900 to 1935, followed by a slight decrease from 1935 to 1985, i.e. in a time when CO2 emissions were rising strongly worldwide.",2_3
"One of the most astonishing quotes comes from Bert Bolin (he of the IPCC, who had decided prior to the IPCCs formation that CO2 was responsible for the present warming), who says of Svensmarks work:",0_0
USADA TO STRIP LANCE ARMSTRONG OF 7 TOUR TITLES,0_0
"""Just like temperature, radiant energy flows do not add. Lumping two 70 balls of clay together doesn't result in a single ball that's 140 , nor do 70 watts per square meter beaming back onto a body that's radiating 70 raise it to 140 . Frankly, it is stupid to think otherwise.""",0_0
"Once an official or professional shows that he shares the manners, the tastes, the interests of the class, gives lip service to its ideals and shibboleths, and is willing to accommodate the interests of its senior members, he can move profitably among our establishment's parts.",0_0
"In this case, the error in the trends is not different from zero in either the SH or the NH. So my calculations show that the value of the net sun (solar radiation minus albedo reflections) is quite sufficient to explain both the annual and decadal temperature variations, in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, from 1984 to 1997. This is particularly significant because this is the period of the large recent warming that people claim is due to CO2.",2_1
"Conclusion: Paleo-climate empirical evidence from the Roman Period indicates that natural climate change causes unprecedented warming , which also may have been the dominant causal factor the modern warming during the 1980-1990's period.",2_1
it raises some interesting results the analysis will not likely lie near to,0_0
"Since Mr. Trotsky also indicates that the only alternative position to the idea that the end justifies the means is some form of absolutistic ethics based on the alleged deliverances of conscience, or a moral sense, or some brand of eternal truths, I wish to say that I write from a standpoint that rejects all such doctrines as definitely as does Mr. Trotsky himself, and that I hold that the end in the sense of consequences provides the only basis for moral ideas and action, and therefore provides the only justification that can be found for means employed.",0_0
"This Monday, Americans celebrated Presidents Day. Of course, the holiday is scheduled around George Washington's birthday. In RealClearMarkets this week, CEI Director of the Center for Investors and Entrepreneurs John Berlau explained why George Washington should be remembered not only as our first president, but as a truly brilliant entrepreneur. Read the full piece here.",0_0
So apparently someone thinks the bill will have an impact on global warming. But those someones are wrong. The bill will have no meaningful impact of the future course of global warming.,0_0
1974 was right at the peak of the global cooling scare. It was also the year of the worst tornado outbreak in US history and some of the worst flooding in Queenslands history.,0_0
"""French oil workers on Monday defied the government's demand to get back to work and end scattered fuel shortages, stepping up their fight against President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to raise the retirement age to 62.""",0_0
"Winter Storms/ Blizzards Iran Blizzard, February 1972. A blizzard in Iran in Feb 1972 ended a four-year drought but the week long cold and snow caused the deaths of approximately 4,000 people.",0_0
"Bob Ferguson, president of SPPI, told me, ""The whole mission of CO2 control has been touted as staving off catastrophe, but we haven't paid enough attention to ""What catastrophe?' "" The Futility Report connects those dots: The first CO2 catastrophe is rapid temperature rise, or global warming, and the second is the dreaded melting of the polar ice caps with sea level rise inundating world coastlines.",0_0
ATLAS at 94/pb: diphoton hysteria goes away,0_0
"Figures 23 and 24 are model-data comparisons of land surface air temperature anomalies from November 1981 to December 2013. Again, were using the multi-model ensemble mean of the climate models stored in the CMIP5 archive. And for the data, theyre the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (land surface air temperature) anomalies. Both are referenced to the period of 1961-1990 for anomalies. The models perform very well at simulating the warming rate of the land surface air temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere (Figure 23), but overestimate the warming of land surface air temperatures in the Southern Hemisphere by a wide margin (Figure 24).",5_1
But with the global temperature has hardly kat p the last 10-15 pure s starts it will be krisigt also for this doubtful prognosis.,0_0
"I will submit several statements that indicate that the IPCC was wrong in its approach, in its entire methodology in trying to determine whether or not global warming, whether there is global warming and whether or not it is caused by man-made activity.",5_2
"Before his untimely death January 19, Dr. Robert M. Carter, former director of James Cook University's Marine Geophysical Laboratory and expert on historic and prehistoric climate change, offered succinct analyses of climate forces, fears, and realities, underscoring how fragile the climate chaos claims are.",0_0
Executives at a Bermudan firm funneling money to U.S. environmentalists run investment funds with Russian tycoons,5_2
"According to those pushing the (Australian) carbon tax, 500 bureaucrats googling away quietly in Canberra and generating little useful except carbon dioxide exhalations, are more valuable than 500 farmers, foresters, fishermen, workers and miners whose machines also generate more of the same harmless carbon dioxide in order to produce the food, fibres, hardware and energy needed for our daily existence.",0_0
"The longer growing season also has a profound impact on forests. Forests are, in effect, the worlds air filters. Green leaves on trees turn carbon dioxide a greenhouse gas that traps heat in our atmosphere into oxygen. Carbon dioxide also helps trees grow since they use energy from the sun to convert the gas into plant matter. A longer growing season could change quickly forests grow and increase the amount of carbon dioxide taken out of the atmosphere.",3_3
"While sea ice INFR winter stretches back to the North's makes it for the second hole in Antarctica where it makes the summer. Maximum nddes 18 September 22 ir, which was unusually late. But as the ice was also a record not only for surface but also frmodligen volume. It is the Alfred Wegener Institute, who reports about this (versttning of parts of the press release into English hr).",0_0
CEI: Jim Glassman has talked about the new investor class--so many more people own securities in some form now than even 20 years ago--saying it will transform electoral politics in the coming decades. Do you see that happening?,0_0
"European industries and some European governments have recently begun to recognise that the unconventional gas revolution is no longer confined to North America, but is spreading globally.The energy revolution is having a big impact on the overall economic competitiveness of the US economy and industries towards rivals in Asia and Europe. Cheap shale gas also calls into question therenewable energy policies of the EU, particularlythose of Germany.Foreign investments in European petrochemicalcompanies are already shifting from Europe tothe US.--Frank Umbach, Geopolitical Information Service, 19 March 2013",4_5
"Is there anything wrong with that? Not really, but you see the scientist sorting mechanism in action. It does exist, and pretending it doesnt is for fools. Another point which is not spoken is that the scientists at the top are of a far left political persuasion as well. You almost have to be in order to feel good about working for the IPCC.",0_0
"Governments also overlook a key conclusion from the world?s modelers, led by Fred Kucharski of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics: ?The increase of greenhouse gases in the 20th century has not significantly contributed to the observed decadal Indian monsoonal rainfall variability.?",0_0
A new paper by Stephen Schwartz of the Brookhaven National Laboratory says that the Earth is not as sensitive to carbon dioxide as had previously been thought.,3_1
"The contract terms established by 1199 also set the standard for the 10,000 workers in the city's Health and Hospitals Corporation represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) District Council 37. Thanks to state laws that allow unions to deduct dues automatically from employees' paychecks, the union's massive membership means a massive treasury.",0_0
"That when it comes to ""unelected bureaucrats"" (meaning, Hertzberg notes, almost the entire federal workforce), Congress should ""defund and abolish these positions.""",0_0
"They include or have included the National Hydrogen Association, Fuel Cells Canada, hydrogen producer QuestAir, Naikun Wind Energy and Ballard Fuel Cells. Mr. Hoggan apparently benefits from regulatory policy against CO2.",5_2
"Run on the issues of tomorrow, they say, not the issues of yesterday. Kamarck and Galston note that many Republicans offer policies modeled on Ronald Reagan's. But the country faces different problems today.",0_0
"In 2010, during the 111th Congress, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid shelved a cap-and-trade bill because too many Democrats opposed the bill during caucus meetings. And during his 2012 reelection campaign, President Obama conspicuously dodged speaking about climate change. Despite the failure of climate policy within his own party in the Senate, and after neglecting the issue altogether in 2012, President Obama in the summer of 2013 unveiled a far-reaching executive strategy for addressing global warming, known as the Climate Action Plan.",0_0
"So how did Katharine come to the opposite conclusion? I contacted her to find out, and she kindly told me she had used 1965 as the starting point for her analysis. As the graph clearly shows, 1965 was in the middle of a much cooler interlude which lasted from about 1960 to 1985. Since 1985 temperatures have recovered to the sort of levels seen between 1920 and 1960. Indeed the average temperature during the last decade is very slightly lower than the average of the last 100 years and the last two winters have been much cooler than normal.",1_4
"Numerous studies in the past have shown that solar fluctuations on decadal, century, and millennial scales have had a significant impact on climate development. In December 2012 another impressivestudy appeared on the subject in the Journal of Geophysical Research . Jing-Song Wang and Liang Zhao from the National Satellite Meteorological Center and the National Climate Center in Peking respectively studied the impact of the 11-year solar activity cycle on June precipitation of various regions in China during the 20th century. Here they checked the relationships using six statistical methods. In the summary of their paper both scientists wrote:",2_1
"You would never know from this that the its hiding in the oceans excuse is just one unproven hypothesisand one that implies that natural variation exaggerated the warming in the 1990s, so reinforcing the lukewarm argument. Nor would you know (as Andrew Bolt recounts in his chapter in The Facts ) that the pause in global warming contradicts specific and explicit predictions such as this, from the UK Met Office: by 2014 were predicting it will be 0.3 degrees warmer than in 2004. Or that the length of the pause is now past the point where many scientists said it would disprove the hypothesis of rapid man-made warming. Dr Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, said in 2009: Bottom line: the no upward trend has to continue for a total of 15 years before we get worried. It now has.",1_4
"The ideas of the evangelical church regarding energy policy will likely motivate responsible citizens to terminate their church memberships. The evangelical church should rather recommit to their proper mission, namely the annunciation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.",0_0
The UK Governments former chief scientific adviser has accused green activists of putting the fight against climate change at risk by wanting to take society back to the 17th century.,0_0
"Accumulated Cyclone (hurricanes, in the North Atlantic) Energy across the world: we are near a 30 year low.",1_7
"The latest bid in the climate Dutch Auction comes from a paper published in Nature. According to authors Markus Huber & Reto Knutti, if you dial down transient climate response to 1.8c / doubling of CO2, and conceded around 0.15c to a combination of bad luck (lack of El Nino events) and the drop in solar activity, and squint really hard, you can just about fit the data to the models.",5_1
"Another total lie has been that the Sunderbans in Bangladesh are sinking on account of the rise in sea level. The IPCC claimed that one-fifth of Bangladesh will be under water by 2050. Well, it turns out this is an absurd, unscientific and outrageous claim. According to scientists at the Centre for Environmental and Geographical Information Services (Cegis) in Dhaka, its surface area appears to be growing by 20 sq km annually. Cegis has based its results on more than 30 years of satellite imagery. IPCC has not retracted this claim. As far as they are concerned, Bangladesh is a goner by 2050, submerged forever in the Bay of Bengal.",0_0
"In an interview with The Independent , Mrs Metcalfe said: Our challenge is a democratic one: the UK and EU are by-passing the proper environmental and economic assessments and legally-binding procedures related to democratic accountability. Scotland, she said, is being turned into a hedgehog as a result, being covered with more than 3,500 wind turbines without due regard for the growing scientific evidence which shows they have a profoundly damaging effect on the local ecology and on peoples health. Such devastating changes might be merited if we had the information to enable us to understand the benefits. Many of the supposed claims by government are now proving to be the opposite of what they say.",0_0
I think an investigation needs to be launched to determine why taxpayer money is being spent on creating such rubbish. Taxpayers have the right to get answers.,0_0
"Environmentalists are quick to disparage their opponents as ""fossil-fuel funded."" How ironic, then, that one of the largest contributors to prominent green groups since 2007 has been the natural gas industry. These donations, in turn, were used to fund anti-coal activities, including media campaigns. Needless to say, anti-coal advertisements are beneficial to the gas industry, because the two fossil fuels compete in the electricity-generating market. One cannot help but draw the inescapable conclusion that certain major environmentalist groups act like fossil-fuel shills.",0_0
Turns out a little extra carbon dioxide in the air will add to your experience as the extra CO2 boosts productivity of those perfect-with-anything pineapples from our Pacific paradise.,3_3
TF: You are omitting the key detailI wrote that they could not provide temperature predictions on a decadal level. Which they cannot. The chosen period for total temperature change is usually 50 years or more.,5_1
"Speaking of Google , a rentseeking utility executive is now worried about the energy/climate dogs he helped unleash.",0_0
"Heres the essential fact to bear in mind. The tar sands of northern Alberta are the second-largest pool of carbon on earth, second only to Saudi Arabia.",4_5
"This has nothing to do with global warming. The oceans are, of course, risingvery slowlyas they have been doing for thousands of years, since the end of the last Ice Age. The rate of rise has not increased.",1_6
"Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects.",0_0
Australias antarctic runway melting | Border Chronicle,0_0
Cuba self-employed to pay taxes up to 50 percent:,0_0
The third point is that the sole support for predictions of dangerous warming are climate modelsbut they are faulty . We know this because observations over the last 20 years or so show the observed temperatures becoming increasingly cooler than the model predictions. This is easily verified. Let me repeat: the climate models are proved to be wrong.,5_1
"Pederson's refusal to respond made it very clear that warmists don't want to publicly acknowledge any cooling over the past 12 or 13 years (from 1997 in the U.S. and probably everywhere else, too). And so, they pour scorn on anyone, like Murphy or myself, who dares to mention it.",0_0
"But commercial companies, no matter how skilled or innovative, can't conquer space alone. It may be hard for some conservatives to admit, but there are still things government does best, because it can muster more critical resources technological, scientific, and monetary than the market can readily supply.",0_0
"4. The behavior of global averaged annual warming in the last several years has not conformed to their expectations. To attribute this absence of warming to the occurrence of La Nia, as some have done (e.g. see ),is inappropriate as that climate feature is as much a part of climate system as any other component.",1_4
"It is tempting for governments and reflexive central planners to try and come up with schemes, incentives, policies, and regulations to direct and cherry pick from the well of innovation. They get lucky episodically, but history shows they mostly fail. ""Successful technologies are pulled along by the needs of the buyers, not pushed along by the ideology of the sellers,"" says Freeman Dyson, professor emeritus at Princeton and one of the great scientists of the 20th century still living and lucidly pontificating.",0_0
Satellite measurements show global sea level has risen merely 0.83 inches during the first decade of the twenty-first century (a pace of eight inches for the century) and has barely risen at all since 2006. This puts alarmists in the embarrassing position of defending predictions that are not coming true in the real world.,1_6
"Scientific uncertainty plagues all aspects of multinational climate change negotiations. In large complex natural systems like the climate and its interaction with GHG accumulations, any damages accumulate in unknown or uncertain ways across time and space. Naturally, not all populations of the countries across the planet assess this damage uncertainty in the same manner. This makes it difficult for citizens in any country to determine how they will be affected under different GHG emission controls. Most of the costs will be up front, whereas the benefits are projected to accrue far into the future, perhaps taking multiple generations. Moreover, the understanding of global and regional climate systems, their interactions, and feedbacks with rising GHG levels is highly imperfect.",0_0
Cuba to drill five new oil wells by 2013:,0_0
"""Former Vice President Dick Cheney has to be smiling. With one exception, none of the Republicans running for the Senate including the 20 or so with a serious chance of winning accept the scientific consensus that humans are largely responsible for global warming.""",0_0
"Consider California's decision to ""lead by example"" on global warming. Environmentalists argued that Washington was negligent in fighting climate change at the federal level. Hence California had no choice but to tackle a national problem at the state level. California implemented standards that are considerably more strict than those required (for now) by Washington.",0_0
"The Heritage Foundation is a public policy, research, and educational organization recognized as exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is privately supported and receives no funds from any government at any level, nor does it perform any government or other contract work.",0_0
"The story seems to be that the land is rising, increasing the carrying capacity of the oceans. This would effectively reduce the amount of sea level rise expected, and we couldn't have that - hence the ""adjustment"". The effect of the adjustment appears to be small when put against the projected rises, but is certainly material against the actual changes recorded (although these are, per Morner, wrong).",5_1
"Turning to climate change Clinton went through a litany of horrors associated with warming: ""Concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are at their highest levels in more than 200,000 years and climbing sharply. If this trend does not change, scientists expect the seas to rise two feet or more over the next century."" He continued, ""Climate changes will disrupt agriculture, cause severe droughts and floods and the spread of infectious diseases, which will be a big enough problem for us under the best of circumstances in the 21st century.""",0_0
"Lets see who are skeptical. There is Paul Biggs , Bob Carter who else?",0_0
"4) Climate Models Can??t Even Hindcast How did climate modelers, who already knew the answer, still fail to explain the lack of a significant temperature rise over the last 30+ years? In other words, how to you botch a hindcast?",5_1
"Violent conflict increases vulnerability to climate change (medium evidence, high agreement). Large-scale violent conflict harms assets that facilitate adaptation, including infrastructure, institutions, natural resources, social capital, and livelihood opportunities.",0_0
"As the chart depicts over 12 different time periods (all ending July 2014), reality is that while CO2 levels keep increasing over time, the long-term temperature warming trend (the red curve) is not rapidly accelerating towards a tipping point of climate catastrophe.",1_4
"Thankfully, the Supreme Court took the highly unusual step of halting implementation of Obama's climate plan until its legality is judged by federal courts. In the meantime, Hickenlooper is imitating the president's embrace of regal prerogatives.",0_0
A team of Climate Audit regulars have finally had their paper refuting Steig et al's headline grabbing Antarctic temperature record accepted by Journal of Climate. The big story is not that Steig has been dumped but that the team are still moving heaven and earth to keep critical papers out of the literature.,5_2
President Bush responds to reports of appalling conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.,0_0
"Since climate scientists carefully calibrate the models to simulate the actual number of clay particles in the atmosphere, the paper suggests that models most likely err when it comes to the number of silt particles. Most of these larger particles swirl in the atmosphere within about 1,000 miles of desert regions, so adjusting their quantity in computer models should generate better projections of future climate in desert regions, such as the southwestern United States and northern Africa.",5_1
"From 1700-1998, temperature rose at a near-uniform rate of about 1 F per century . In 1998, global warming stopped, and it has not resumed since: indeed, in the past seven years, temperature has been falling at a rate equivalent to as much as 0.7 F per decade .",1_4
"That would be a tragedy. By allowing developing countries to use their comparative advantageinexpensive laborinternational free trade has proven the fastest route out of poverty for hundreds of millions of people. To avoid giving atmospheric chemistry priority over human welfare, the aid industry should ensure that the risks of global warming policies are considered as rigorously as the risks of global warming itself.",0_0
For more on this issue: Time for Big Cuts in Education Spending?,0_0
"Today, my friendly neighborhood Potbelly Sandwich Shop posted dozens of small flyers along the ordering line, asking: Where are the tomatoes? The flyer explained:",0_0
Hurricane Andrew in 1992 was the last category 5 hurricane to hit the US. Top scientists tell us that global warming makes hurricanes more intense.,1_7
"The mainstream media loves Democrat lies , especially if the lies support their beloved climate change hoax agenda. The growing Fakegate climate science scandal is an example of such.",5_2
"What we get instead is sophistry. In AIT, the only facts and studies considered are those convenient to Gore's scare-them-green agendaand in many instances, Gore distorts the evidence he presents.",5_2
"My ostracism from the IPCC advocacy tribe has been noted by other scientists that are quietly sympathetic to my position. As an example, several years ago at a conference, one of the speakers was quite critical of one piece of the conventional IPCC wisdom, but prefaced the talk with the statement something like this: While my talk contains some evidence that challenges some of the findings of the IPCC, I want to state up front that I support the IPCC consensus on climate change. After the talk, I asked this scientist why he felt the need to preface his talk with a statement of IPCC allegiance, when his research was rather devastating to part of the IPCCs argument. He stated I dont want to have to put up with what you have had to, so I make it very clear that I support the IPCC consensus.",5_2
"These are interesting questions. As I noted in my post the other day , I wonder if the militants in the UK have been put on the back foot by the Climategate revelations. That there are militants who have poisoned the debate and wrought havoc on the careers of dissenting scientists is not in doubt. But it is important to note that there are honest scientists and that they are operating in the same milieu as the militants. It is therefore necessary to make nice and to realise that demanding that the good guys condemn every transgression by the bad guys is not going to get anywhere.",0_0
"In summing things up, Pansch et al . write that ""given their present wide tolerance and the possibility to adapt to shifting environmental conditions over many generations, barnacles ( A. improvisus ) from the Western Baltic Sea might be able to overcome OA as predicted by the end of this century."" And, ""supporting this,"" they note that Parker et al . (2011) have shown ""selectively bred lines of the estuarine oyster Saccostrea glomerata to be more resilient to OA than wild populations."" Consequently, as in so many other cases of knee-jerk predictions of impending CO 2 -induced catastrophe, both global warming and ocean acidification appear not to be the quite the demons they have been made out to be within another coastal marine-life setting.",3_2
U.S. Derided for Failing to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions,0_0
"Thanks, Ben. But I must admit no one looks good on tv!",0_0
"And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.",5_1
"OK, now Im realizing that this is an interesting place to visit and thinking maybe I need to look for some historical data on the Czech Republic spring to know just how normal, or not, this Prague Spring might be",0_0
"So: you've been hired to be the MC at a sales awards presentation for a local fireplace company, but the security guards at the country club venue refuse to open the remote-control gate because you'd insulted them a few days earlier, and then , when you're trying to get in by climbing over the wrought-iron fence, you impale your foot on a spike, losing several pints of blood, and then... I'm sure we've all had days like that. The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.",0_0
"BTW, this means polar bears survived this extreme ice shrinkage in the past and will do so again.",3_2
So one has to be rather careful and always ask: What is the exact question for which a consensus has been claimed?,0_0
"Finally, the agency's woeful deadline performance in reviewing State Implementation Plans puts the states in a bind. In order to guide states in their compliance with the Clean Air Act, the EPA periodically publishes memorandums that tell states what EPA is looking for when the agency reviews the state plans. Naturally, these memorandums change when political control of the EPA shifts from one president to the next. EPA is so late in reviewing state plansup to ten years latethat the review period will encompass more than one guidance memo. The upshot is that states are faced with moving targets.",0_0
14. Costa Rica - Agreement Regarding a Debt-for-Nature Swap with Respect to Certain Debt Owed by the Central Bank of Costa Rica to the Government of the United States,0_0
Rumors are circulating on Capitol Hill that McCain plans to force another vote on S. 139 by using the same tactics if his party leadership requires his vote on some key procedural matter this summer. It is also rumored that Senator John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) is urging his ten Democratic colleagues who voted no on S. 139 last October to switch their votes and thereby pass the bill. It is surmised by some Senate staff that the Kerry presidential campaign believe this outcome would help Kerry and hurt President Bush in the election.,0_0
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"Moreover, California's comparatively low per-capita energy use is not chiefly due to its DSM policies but to other factors that most other states cannot replicate.",0_0
Nazi Bunker to Become Europe's Largest Solar Power Plant,0_0
p.s. Id be interested to know what Emeritus Chair Im about to be offered!,0_0
A trio of oil companies led by Chevron Corp. has tapped a petroleum pool deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico that has the potential to boost the nation's reserves by more than 50 percent. A test well indicates it could be the biggest domestic oil discovery since Alaska's Prudhoe Bay more than a generation ago.,4_5
"The old-timers of doomsaying keep plugging away to a smaller and smaller audience, with each iteration of the old time religion sounding more and more like Woody Allen's famous commencement speech from the 1970s: ""More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."" The doomsayers' theory seems to be that if they repeat these themes enough, it will get through our thick skulls. To paraphrase Karl Marx, this represents the poverty of environmental philosophy. You get the feeling that if someone in Hollywood did produce a remake of Soylent Green, these authors would rush to see it on opening night and pronounce it brilliant and believable.",0_0
"But the models accomplish it incorrectly. They underestimate the warming of the North Atlantic (Figure 13) by a little,but overestimate the warming of sea surface temperatures in the South Atlantic (Figure 14) by a huge margin.",5_1
"This followed U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch's disclosure early last month that the Justice Department had discussed pursuing civil action against so-called climate-change deniers, and she had ""referred it to the FBI to consider whether or not it meets the criteria for"" an investigation under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act of 1970.",0_0
Roy Glauber's Nobel Prize stolen,0_0
No major source may be constructed unless subject to BACT in ?any area? to which the PSD program applies. The term ?any area? can only refer to one thing: a NAAQS attainment area. The NAAQS program is clearly the context for the directive specified in CAA 165(a)(4). The most sensible reading of the sentence is that each major facility built or modified in a NAAQS attainment area must comply with BACT standards for pollutants subject to regulation under the NAAQS program. Why? Because the distinction between attainment and non-attainment areas has relevance only to NAAQS-regulated air pollutants.,0_0
"Eventually the waters will recede, bodies will be buried, clean-ups will commence, money will be paid out or borrowed and people will start again. Strangely however, Australian climate scientists have been noticeably absent in the media during these floods. Not on television, newspaper or radio. Not a peep. They were queuing up to get their earnest dials on TV after the hot summer and tragic deaths of the Victorian bushfires. Solemn looks, hand clasping, oh dear, if youd only listened to us. Of course, theyd predicted this warming and were more than happy to tell us about it.",0_0
"In 1929, when spectral analysis revealed a red shift in distant galaxies, astronomer Edwin Hubble speculated that this might be due to acceleration away from Earth and a possible expanding universe. Before he could reflect on other possible explanations, a radio interview stumbled onto the phrase Big Bang and a run-away train left the station. Dr Hubble was uncomfortable with both the concept and the catchy nick-name, but he had a conflict of interest on this issue.",0_0
"She then attempts to frame Bjorn Lomborg as a convert from scepticism, using some highly selective quotes from past newspaper interviews:",0_0
"In the first decade afterwards, the West was simply too focused on the ""second Cold War"" against the Soviet Bloc to ponder the meaning of the revolutions engineered by Den Xiao Ping in China and Khomenei in Iran. In the second decade, a victorious West, indulging in rhetorical self-intoxication, mistook the most recent stage of a century-old globalization process for the end of history and even geography.",0_0
It always astounds me when Harvard High Flyers put up something that makes no sense.,0_0
"A new study using a reconstruction of North American drought history over the last 1,000 years found that the drought of 1934 was the driest and most widespread of the last millennium.",1_7
"Ridley supports his views by discussing the questionable attacks by environmental groups on genetically modified organisms (GMOs), neonicotinoid pesticides (in the EU bee populations are increasing), nuclear power, and hydraulic fracturing for shale gas.",0_0
"Once again, we have another example of a marine organism that will likely benefit from so-called ocean acidification, even in the face of an important resource limitation??",3_2
"""Despite the multiple influences on the reef sites over the study period, the size classes of the corals studied showed resilience to change. We suspected this all along the coral reefs have been around for 100s of millions of years! He states What is apparent from this study is that despite the chronic and acute disturbances between 2002 and 2008, demographic studies indicate good levels of coral resilience on the fringing reefs around Discovery Bay in Jamaica. Crabbe warns that Unfortunately, previously successful efforts to engage the local fisherman in controlling catches around Discovery Bay have not been maintained, and it may be that the development of a Discovery Bay Marine Park is the only solution. We get the message dont blame global warming, blame the local fishermen!""",3_2
"Includes updated concepts and theories, new observational data, and modeling studies",0_0
"The statement we proved cannot be interpreted as CO2 has no impact on the dynamics of the Earth-atmosphere system . What we have proven is that the CO2 cannot heat the atmosphere in the bulk but the whole system cannot be reduced to the bulk of the atmosphere . Indeed there are 2 interfaces the void on one side and the surface of the Earth on the other side . Neither the former nor the latter is in LTE and the arguments we used are not valid . The dynamics of the system are governed by the lapse rate which is anchored to the ground and whose variations are dependent not only on convection , latent heat changes and conduction but also radiative transfer . The concentrations of CO2 (and H2O) play a role in this dynamics but it is not the purpose of this post to examine these much more complex and not well understood aspects .",2_3
"The outrage by the promoters of global warming and their allies in journalism was predictable. They immediately denounced Heartland and all those associated with it. The hypocrisy is typical. Many of the global warming promoters use similar tactics: logical fallacies that are effective, but for which they are not criticized. They accuse skeptics as being anti-science when skeptics point out that the physical science does not support the assertions and conclusions in the Summary for Policymakers of the Fourth Assessment Report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR4). They label skeptics as deniers, implying they are Holocaust deniers. These promoters claim that skeptics are shills for the tobacco industry, the oil industry, etc. In short, they try to eliminate any possibility of public, rational discourse on the scientific issues.",5_2
"However, if you say that the flux density is equal for every second and every place, then you either have to say that the Earth emits the same flux as it receives from the Sun, which is wrong, or that the Sun deposits the same flux as the Earth emits, which is also wrong. In the former case it makes the Earth too hot (on paper), and in the latter case it makes sunshine too cold (on paper).",0_0
"""I would not presume to tell Congress what to do,"" Jackson answered, saying she was acting under the authority of a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling that let the EPA enforce the Clean Air Act, including heavy carbon emissions.",0_0
"The fact that there was dissent within the climate science teams, that some people objected to the very basis of the grand claims of global warming, did not come out through the due process. It came to light when emails at the Climate Research Centre at East Anglia were hacked in November 2009. It is from the hacked conversations that a pattern of conspiracy and deceit emerge. It is a peek into the world of global warming scaremongeringamplify the impact of CO2, stick to dramatic timelines on destruction of forests, and never ask for a referral or raise a contrary point. You were either a believer in a hotter world or not welcome in this ""scientific fold'.",5_2
"The current drought in the US is quite ordinary, and the US has seen many similar or worsedroughtsover the last century.",0_0
"Wind power is an expensive, intermittent and limited energy source that degrades the environment, kills birds, affects the local weather but does nothing to improve global climate.",4_4
"/s/ Ed Gibson JSC, Astronaut Skylab 4, 14 years",0_0
"Scientists at the station have also collected rainfall data during the same period and also began collecting data on sunshine and cloud cover in 1915. These records show that both sunshine and rainfall have increased slightly during the last 84 years. Balling concludes that as a result of these changes together with increases in atmospheric CO2 concentrations that ""crops there now perform better than their ancestors in the days of Lawes and Gilbert (founders of the station)"" (World Climate Report, July 5, 1999).",0_0
He is a scientist on the leading edge of climate change analysis who proposes an end run around paralyzing climate disputes by focusing on energy and forest policies with multiple benefits and on fostering resilience to climate extremes.,0_0
"At this point I think Ive reached the end of the lunar cycles on various time scales. If I run into any more, Ill add them. I would only note that the 23,000 year cycle they mention in the paper is remarkably similar to the precession period of the Earth (or the potential orbital period of our Sun about a companion star) and thus is also the Maya calendar cycle. I suspect that what the Maya calendar cycle was saying was not that this is the end, but rather that this is as good as it gets and the next many thousands start a long slow slide into cold. My read on the 23,000 year cycle chart looks like were about at the turn to the other direction. Add that to a 5000 year cycle turn and an 1800 year peak warmth spot, well, lets just say Id not be moving to Alaska any time soon. Florida and Texas would be better choices.",1_2
"Another name little known even to many latter-day climatologists is Charles Thornthwaite (1889-1963). In 1931 he produced a classification also based on precipitation effectiveness and vegetation. It was valuable because it was produced from easily available data, total monthly precipitation (P) and evaporation (E) to produce a P/E Index. He modified it in 1948 by including a moisture index that relates the amount of moisture a plant needs to the amount available, known as the Potential Evapotranspiration (PE). (Evapotranspiration is the combined moisture loss from the surface. Either directly, due to evaporation, or indirectly transpired through the plant to the atmosphere.)",0_0
"The crisis was global cooling, until Earth stopped cooling around 1976. It was global warming, until our planet stopped warming around 1995. The alarmist mantra then became climate change or climate disruption or extreme weather. Always manmade. Since Earths climate often fluctuates, and there are always weather extremes, such claims can never be disproven, certainly not to the alarmists satisfaction.",5_2
"Perez-Sanz et al . report that ""the CMIP5 models fail to reproduce key aspects of both the modern and mid-Holocene climate of the northern Africa and Mediterranean region, including the correct geographical location of zonal precipitation regimes in the pre-industrial simulation and the magnitude of mid-Holocene changes in these regimes."" More specifically, they say that most models ""overestimate the extent of monsoon influence and underestimate the extent of desert."" And they state that they also ""fail to reproduce the amount of precipitation in each zone,"" while noting that ""most models underestimate the mid-Holocene changes in annual precipitation.""",5_1
The CSUs prediction for a major hurricane landfall in the U.S. is also on the decidedly low side. The scientists said there is a 28 percent possibility of a Category 3 or above hurricane hitting this countrys coastline. The average for the last century was 52 percent.,1_7
"Some years ago now Professor Bob Carter visited with me in my garden on the occasion of the publication of his first book. For some reason he was intrigued to meet a completely independent non-scientist writer writing in the Skeptic cause. As we walked around my garden Bob was at pains to explain to me that molecules of CO2 radiated every which way including downwards, thus warming the lower atmosphere. This is pretty precisely what Dr Helen Czerski also wrote to me.",0_0
"But until now, we could not see energy being transported away from the sun via its magentic field, which is why many in the environmental community doubt the role of the sun in climate change. We couldn??t visualize the sun??s magnetic output. This new tool is going to open a whole new era of understanding how the sun works, and more importantly how changes on the sun link to climate changes on earth.",2_1
"Experiments with Zebra Fish show that if their embryo??s develop in warmer water, they not only are able to swim faster but they cope better in both warmer and colder water. (How catastrophic can that be, I ask you?)",3_2
"?You would think that these environmentalists would beg our companies to stay here in America where we provide the cleanest, most efficient energy on the planet!? Tabitha said passionately. ?Instead, they?re not only chasing our companies away, they?re actually funding drilling and mining in other countries where they have relatively zero regulations compared to that of the US.?",0_0
"Kagan's prescription would be an unaffordable option for the vast majority of small businesses, as they could spend years in the exhausting ""exhaustion"" process before they could seek relief in court. This radically restrictive view of legal standing to challenge agency authority has been rejected by Democratic-appointed judges in federal courts and was given a stinging rebuke late last month by the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark case Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.",0_0
"Agnotology is the study of how ignorance arises via circulation of misinformation calculated to mislead. Legates et al. (Sci Educ 22:20072017, 2013) had questioned the applicability of agnotology to politically-charged debates. In their reply, Bedford and Cook (Sci Educ 22:20192030, 2013), seeking to apply agnotology to climate science, asserted that fossil-fuel interests had promoted doubt about a climate consensus.",0_0
"This is simply a fact, though of course it does not necessarily prove that the theory of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming is incorrect. Current results continue to be fairly consistent with my personal theory, that man-made CO2 may add 0.5-1C to global temperatures over the next century (below alarmist estimates), but that this warming may be swamped at times by natural climactic fluctuations that alarmists tend to under-estimate.",2_1
Dr Marek Obrtel: open letter to the defense minister,0_0
"Everybody totally lied. Not one genuine, authentic action by a whole cadre of people, but they circle the wagons. Dan Rather, the George Bush National Guard story proven to be based on fake documents. What happened? Brokaw and Peter Jennings circled the wagons, and the big members of the ruling class of journalism gave Rather a career award. And none of them did anything right. But they are in the ruling class.",0_0
"The report doesnt come to any quick conclusions, but rather, in plain English, explains how corals grow, how they can change and adapt following coral bleaching and why it is important to consider real-world observations rather than theoretical predictions.",0_0
"If rising atmospheric CO2 levels drive global temperatures upward, as they insist, why is Earth not suffering from the dangerous ???fever?? that Al Gore predicted? Instead, after mild warming at the end of the twentieth century, global temperatures have leveled off for the past decade, amid steadily rising carbon dioxide levels.",1_4
"Moreover the chart shows that wind energy output was close to zero for a period of three days (July 16 19). Little wonder that wind and solar have yet to replace a single conventional coal power plant in Germany. No matter how much installed solar/wind capacity the country has, it still has to rely on conventional power on windless nights, which are frequent enough.",4_4
"Most observers were convinced the energy gap caused by Germany?s decision, two years ago, to phase out nuclear power would be filled by wind and solar power. Hardly anyone realised that the extraordinary boom in renewable energy construction would generate a coal boom too.",0_0
The CPP Will Increase Electricity Costs for Consumers and Raises Reliability Concerns. A plan that gives low-carbon generation priority over low-cost generation and forces states to replace economical coal capacity with more costly renewable and nuclear generation will increase consumer electric bills.,4_1
Trenberth also said that some long-range climate models also fail to adequately simulate other natural climate patterns that influence El Nino let alone how they might also shift in a warming world.,5_1
"It is to be hoped that reason will reassert itself, but this is far from certain, because no institution has such a difficult time confessing error or backtracking as the Supreme Court.",0_0
"231 km (144 miles) ENE (70) from Lae, New Guinea, PNG",0_0
"James Cameron labelled climate change ""hypocrite'",0_0
We have many postings here at JS on the problem of treating the numbers to prevent heart and vascular disease and the side effects and problems with statins.,0_0
"Stephen Harper should take note of the way that Obama has reshaped North American summitry, keeping it trilateral, but trying to make it results-oriented. In 2010, Canada will host both the sixth North American leaders' meeting, and the next G8 (and friends) summit. By then, as U. S. midterm elections in November 2010 loom large for Obama, his ""summit fatigue"" will be at a peak.",0_0
"Minnesota opens the door to new nukes , just a crack.",0_0
"the worst case, the bank might be subjected to further sanctions and lose its",0_0
Y2Kyoto: The Duluth To Sault Ste Marie Great Prius Race,0_0
"NRDC wields political clout in proportion to its tremendous resources. In 2003, NRDC started a 501c(4) lobbying group, NRDC Action Fund, to ""work to educate and mobilize voters."" During the last election cycle, ""NRDC Action Fund primarily operated by encouraging its donors to donate directly to candidates or environmental advocacy groups,"" reported The Washington Post. NRDC is also involved in LeadingGreen, a new collaboration of environmental groups that will steer donations to federal candidates and enlist the help of major donors in lobbying elected officials.",0_0
"Blog feature: For more news and analysis, updated throughout the day, visit CEI Open Market.",0_0
Science Questions on the Global Surface Temperature Trends,0_0
"Some are even talking about a repeat of the Maunder Minimum, the period in the 17th century when sunspots disappeared (and, coincidentally, the planet went through the Little Ice Age). Interesting times.",1_2
Benny Peiser is director of the London-based Global Warming Policy Foundation.,0_0
TIME SERIES TROPICAL AND EXTRATROPICAL SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE,0_0
"Since the known natural gas reserves are52 million billion cubic feet (corresponding to 1.2 million billion kilograms ), it all comes down to an untapped reserve 31 times as much as what is currently available. With around 80 years between now and exhaustion of Earths natural gas deposits , we can burn our way through perhaps another 2,400 years of cooking .",4_5
"unprecedented help of George W. Bush, hit the ground running and moved rapidly",0_0
"By Tanya Lewis, Yahoo, Aug 5, 2015",0_0
"Welcome to American Products. American Power. If you shaved today, brushed your teeth, or are reading this on a computer, you already know us.",0_0
CFACT press conference at UN climate conference in Bonn,0_0
"The second is that, although the calculations for the NH and the SH are entirely separate, the fitting process produced the same c value for the fatness of the tail, c = 0.6. This indicates that this value is not varying just to match the situation, but that there is a real physical meaning for the value.",0_0
"Analyses by Professor William Nordhaus, a long-time advocate of carbon pricing and a world authority on estimating the costs and benefits of climate change, greenhouse gas mitigation policies and carbon prices, shows why carbon pricing must be global or the cost would be prohibitively for participants. Nordhaus (2008), p. 198 , says:",0_0
"In The Lord of the Rings, Boromir, heir to the forces of the ancient land of Gondor, urges his allies to use the One Ring to smite the evil Sauron. Apparently Rand Paul, heir to the ancient forces of Ron Paul, is familiar with this tale. He has made news recently by urging his allies to use what he considers to be the political equivalent of the One Ring, which, like its fantasy cousin, will bring certain victory.",0_0
"Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:11:24 -0500",0_0
The reaction rate in the opposite direction is given pss of,0_0
"""We are determined to protect the planet from degradation, including through sustainable consumption and production, sustainably managing its natural resources and taking urgent action on climate change, so it can support the needs of the present and future generations.""",0_0
"It outlines the methodological approach that allowed him to reconstitute global warming observed during the second half of the 20th century, and the stagnation of the average temperature of the planet, precursor to the onset of cooling.",1_4
"End unilateral land-use restrictions by repealing the Antiquities Act. The Antiquities Act of 1906 originally enabled the President to quickly designate land as a national monument to prevent looting of archeological sites. However, Presidents from both parties have abused the power to restrict land use. This practice prohibits or restricts economic opportunity, removes decision making from states and private citizens, and often does more environmental harm than good. Congress should limit the President's power by requiring congressional and state approval for any national monument designation.",0_0
rainfall is sensitive to El Nio variability are identified. This review of,0_0
"So before history can repeat itself and wind power (or solar power) can once again challenge the established order, whether it be an authoritarian regime in the developing world or a regulated utility in a Western democracy, it needs to be made dispatchableavailable on demand. It needs storage.",4_4
"Furthermore, the oceans have warmed at a rate consistent with the land.",0_0
"With the UK slowly dismantling support for gullibles (aka renewables), I was starting to see that politicians would just slowly change the goal posts and like Bird Flu, the Millennium bug, BSE, Ozone, Acid rain the scam might have just quietly been forgotten as government ease themselves out of the mess they got themselves into.",0_0
"The snowstorms that ground the nation's capital to a halt only underscored the need for bold action to fight global warming. Heavier, more frequent snowstorms are just what scientists predict in a warming world, as extreme weather events - whether blizzards or heat waves - become more common.",0_0
The title of one of the bibles of environmentalism ?Thinking like a Mountain? written more that six decades ago by the American author Aldo Leopold proves that quite convincingly.,0_0
"The rule is so riddled with loopholes that its become clear that this FCC chairman crafted it with the sole purpose of winning the endorsement of AT&T and cable lobbyists, and not defending the interests of the tens of millions of Internet users.",0_0
Does the Uptick in Global Surface Temperatures in 2014 Help the Growing Difference between Climate Models and Reality?,5_1
"First published in The Land, page 13, Thursday, January 5, 2012",0_0
"Based on the limited Global Ice and Snow measurements available, and noting the questionable value of Sea Ice Area and Extent as a proxy for temperature, not much inference can currently be drawn from Earth??s Ice and Snow measurements. However, there does appear to be a pause in Global Sea Ice Area.",5_1
"I will hr frska klarlgga some misunderstanding about the carbon cycle, which framgtt in part debattinlgg in the recent past. These queries and comments rr carbon dioxide probable origin, its duration in the atmosphere, its kllor and snkor and fljder as The increase has on vegetation and earth strlningsbalans. References from lsning available below.",0_0
"Unfortunately, the President and Congress are actively seeking to pass a major new tax burden - this time on energy use.",0_0
"Yet the number of folks acting that way just seems wrong. There is an overall artificial feeling to the whole thing. Curious. Then again, with about 1/3 the population on drugs of one kind or another, who knows how drugged up these folks were on anti-depressant feel good pills.",0_0
Note how the number of melting days in the area of the Wilkins ice shelf has decreased by -0.5 days per decade between 1987 and 2008.,1_1
"Mr. FOIA had previously released two batches of 5,000 files each in 2009 and 2011. This enormous third batch went to a network of friends for decoding, sorting and publication.",0_0
"Utterly focused on radiation, the infant science of climatology gave scant consideration to the crucial interplay of that double intense dose of solar energy on the sunny side of our spinning planet. That intense dose of energy in a focused area was the supercharging fuel for a dynamo that did its work by latent heat. Indeed, while solar radiation may be the origin of all incoming energy, once it enters our gaseous wet planet it is spun convectively about the vortex of Hadley Cells and those blue oceans and albedo white clouds begin to interplay in a constant cycle of evaporation and condensation.",2_1
The heavy handed actions taken against ?Tallbloke? and others may be attempts to intimidate people who want to lift the curtain that hides the Wizards of Climate Science from Dorothy and Toto.,0_0
Pen Hadow's scientific expedition disintegrating,0_0
"Clive Crook may be a warmist, but is honest enough to describe whitewash when he sees it:",0_0
"More on that publication, and how Ive caught the Met Office in a lie, coming soon.",0_0
"In a recent experiment in the Mediterranean, reported in Nature Climate Change, corals and mollusks were transplanted to lower pH sites, where they proved ???able to calcify and grow at even faster than normal rates when exposed to the high levels projected for the next 300 years.?? In any case, freshwater mussels thrive in Scottish rivers, where the pH is as low as five.",3_2
"Good morning, my name is Marlo Lewis. As Vice President for Policy and Coalitions of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, I welcome your invitation to discuss climate change policy. CEI is a public interest group established in 1984 with a current staff of 35 and an annual budget of about $2.5 million. Located in Washington, D.C., CEI works to educate and inform policy makers, journalists, and other opinion leaders on market-based alternatives to government programs and regulations. CEI also engages in public interest litigation to protect property rights and economic liberty. CEI is supported by the voluntary contributions of foundations, corporations and individuals. We accept no grants from any government agency, nor do we accept grants from any other party that would compromise the principled positions we espouse.",0_0
"Snow will begin late this morning and intensify this afternoon. The amount of snow that accumulates will depend greatly on the track of this system. The rain-snow boundary is expected to be very near Cambridge Bay with temperatures near zero degrees. Currently, snow is expected to become mixed with rain this afternoon and change back to snow later this evening. Total amounts of 10 to 15 centimetres (3.9 to 5.9) are expected by Sunday morning. A slight change in the track of the system could result in more snow or more rain.",1_3
"This is complete nonsense. Most of the old ice was lost during the winters from 1988 to 1996, and was driven by strong winds pushing the ice out into the North Atlantic.",0_0
"It is less important, but I can not let get to also wonder over G & amp; F curve from 2002 (purple solid) also is a rescaling of the ovannmnda curve with the best value 6.1 o C, and the upper grns in ondligheten? It was perhaps FR HGT?",0_0
"A successful energy agenda would unleash energy enterprise. Such an agenda would not involve government central planning, quotas, subsidies, or other interference with the effective operation of a free market in energy. Such an agenda would help provide opportunity for all and favoritism to none.",0_0
"From the WUWT sea ice page , Antarctic Sea Ice is more than 2 standard deviations above normal:",1_1
"The second warming shift began in 1975 and rose at quite a constant rate until 1998, a strong Pacific Ocean El Nio yearalthough this later warming is reported only by surface thermometers, not satellites, and is legitimately disputed by some. (Theres some background on this in my June 18 column .)",5_1
"Peter Nasaw, (212) 966-4600Christine Hall, (202) 331-2258",0_0
"The public is susceptible to scare tactics: Silent Spring, byRachel Carson, published in September of 1962, helped to start the environmental movement. A marine biologist, Carson documented the detrimental effects of pesticides on the environment, which led to the banning of DDT here in the U.S. and millions of deathsin malaria-prone countries.",0_0
Natural gas contains relatively more hydrogen and less carbon; that's why greens like it more than other fossil fuels. Over half of the heat from a methane-gas flame comes from the hydrogen. About 80% of the heat in coal comes from the carbon. Oil is in the middle.,0_0
"Comparing the regulation's ""benefits"" to its substantial costs makes Rep. Stivers' vote look reasonable and not exactly a poisonous threat to children.",0_0
"Whatever the aims of the climate-change crowd, it's obvious that they will not tolerate dissent. The academics who wrote the president insist that ""an overwhelming majority of climate scientists are convinced about the potentially serious adverse effects of human-induced climate change on human health, agriculture, and biodiversity.""",0_0
Climate adaptation careers are heating up. Insider tips on the skills needed:,0_0
"Consider that my post wouldnt be sitting here using Eric Steigs math with Steig et. al. data and 6 of 9 graphs showing a flat or negative Antarctic temperature trend, if they had just shown me the code and data as I politely requested.",0_0
From Warren Pearces posting of Ben Piles excellent article at Making Science Public,0_0
"Snow covered the streets of Tripoli and Duahyaha, Libya, Wednesday, December 31, 2014, also the western mountain areas and Tarhuna, Misrata and Zlitan.",1_3
"""Newt Gingrich is arrogant enough to believe that he doesn't have to play by the same rules as everyone else,"" Morano said, predicting it would hurt him in the primaries. ""I can't think of any Republican who hasn't addressed this in a way that is satisfactory to the Republican base.""",0_0
Prediction That Global Warming Causes More Storms Fails Empirical Testing IPCC Climate Models Wrong,5_1
"The end of the last ice age was not triggered by rising CO2 levels, it was triggered by the Milankovich cycle. It nothing to do with humans back then, and it has nothing to do with humans now.",2_1
"The program awards transferable emission credits to companies that lower their emissions below the allowed limits. These credits can then be sold to other companies whose emissions exceed the limits. Whitman, who now heads the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is now pushing a national level version of the plan.",0_0
"Well, it worries me too. Politically, however, there may be a silver lining in this dark cloud. Concerning which, I posted the following comment on Keith's blog.",0_0
"The study was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and performed in part through the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California at Santa Barbara.",0_0
"Indeed, the US Fish & Wildlife Service reported earlier this year that ""the number of polar bears observed in 2012 was high relative to similar surveys conducted over the past decade.""",3_2
"Sales: We know that, say, if you look back over the past 50 years there??s clear evidence of global warming. You know, the figures go like that. But there were figured released I think late last year that showed that there??d been a plateau for about the past 15 or so years , you know, so it was flatter. So if there??s been a plateau in recent years, how come this summer??s extreme weather events are due to climate change? Wouldn??t you have been seeing those same sorts of events all the way back those 15 years?",1_4
"Well, you have to admit that they've tried hard. Labor, that is. In April 2007 Kevin Rudd, before his election as prime minister, appointed distinguished social scientist Ross Garnaut to advise the party on global warming. A strange decision, that: ""Here's a scientific problem so let's appoint an economist to give us policy advice.""",0_0
"Conversely, rationally discussing the geological relationship between Fire and Ice in the context of the Plate Climatology Theory is far more thought provoking, avoids needless confrontation, and more importantly, increases the chances of discovering the truth about natural climate variations.",0_0
The Wikipedia situation is so bad the Scottish Parent-Teacher Council (SPTC) is citing Wikipedia in particular as it demands special training for students so they can distinguish between reality and falsehoods on the Internet.,0_0
"Also last week, TWTW linked to Steve McIntyres simple model of temperatures, which out performs the global climate models in temperature forecasts. Christopher Essex correctly noted that the global climate models can be scientifically useful because they include a number of other variables. As always, TWTW appreciates such amplifications and corrections.",5_1
"Finally, an additional complication is discussed: future ENSOprojections all rely on the standardized emissions scenarios from the IPCC. Projections of future emissions reductions may be overly optimistic, perhaps requiring attention to a wider range of CO2 changes for accurate ENSO impacts studies.",0_0
"Meanwhile, environmental activists, western powers and UN agencies dictate what issues are important and use them to keep us poor and deprived: Manmade climate change, no GMO foods, no DDT to prevent malaria, using wind and solar power and never building coal, natural gas, or nuclear power plants. This is a criminal trick that denies us our basic rights to affordable energy, jobs, and modern living standards.",0_0
"Yesterday I published a study that reviews EPA's performance for more than 1,000 Clean Air Act deadlines. Here's the big takeaway: the agency missed 84 percent of its date-certain duties by an average of 4.3 years.",0_0
Wayne Crews' op-ed in Big Government,0_0
"people, like monkeys, can be angels of generosity when all eyes are",0_0
"In addition to the fact that ""production of Bacillus thuringiensis crystal endotoxin proteins in a crop plant limits specific herbivorous insect attack without the need for chemical treatments,"" to quote the seven scientists, ""elevated CO 2 conditions could modify herbivore-induced defenses at the vegetative stage, and enhance indirect defense in the future."" And, of course, the increasing CO 2 content of the air would help to thwart the growth-reducing effects of ozone pollution at one and the same time. Reviewed 11 February 2009",3_3
"The climate alarmists, says Carlin, have now been making their apocalyptic predictions for almost thirty years and it is now possible to compare their predictions with actual physical observations. Suffice to say all the predictions of a significantly higher temperaturethe warminghave been wrong.??",5_2
"By Elana Schor, Politico, Aug 14, 2015",0_0
"As for Gore and the U.N.'s scientific claims, it has been quite a joy to watch the entire man-made global warming fear movement disintegrate before our eyes. A movement that had the divisive Gore as its face was bound to fail. A movement that utilized the scandal-ridden U.N. which is massively distrusted by the American people as the repository of science was doomed to fail. Gore is now reduced to pointing to every storm, flood, hurricane or tornado as proof of man-made global warming.",5_2
"Workers' compensation laws rely on a ""no fault"" rule that provides benefits regardless of who is responsible for a workplace injury. There are exceptions, however, for employees who hurt themselves due to reckless behavior or drug or alcohol abuse. In addition, employees who cause self-inflicted injuries or injure themselves while off-duty or while engaged in a criminal act usually do not qualify for benefits.",0_0
"The two ads - worth $2,070 - and about $4,000 in travel costs to the event in Montreal for an Alberta-based communications consultant (earning $100 an hour)... A consultant received $100 an hour for his work, an ad was bought for $2,000 (compare with the stolen $300,000,000 for Gore's own ads full of lies). What a crime! Note that the climate skeptics in the world produce something like $50 trillion every year. And this story is sold as something wrong by the people who are behind the flattening of villages in Uganda and who are earning $100 million per fat pig. This level of chutzpah is just incredible. Please, execute him already, whether the judicial details will be quite kosher or not: enough is enough.",0_0
"The measure of good science is neither the politics of the scientist nor the people with whom the scientist associates. It is the immersion of hypotheses into the acid of truth. That's the hard way to do it, but it's the only way that works.",0_0
Introducing a variable e = t dyn / t rad . There are several different regimes for e:,0_0
1. First principles tell us never to accept that all of the science is in on any proposition; always remain open to the relevance of new research.,0_0
Someone in power in India does not like wind turbines.,0_0
Despite global warming during the 20th century the number of tropical cyclones annually making landfall in the Philippines did not experience any net change. All variability was merely oscillatory activity around a mean trend of zero slope,1_7
"Bonus: Dozens of blog articles about dozens of recent scientific papers that disagree with the so-called ""consensus"". A large portion of physicists in Russia, especially solar physicists, have reached a ""scientific consensus"" - as others would call it - that the Earth will enter a period of global cooling in a couple of years and the temperatures will drop to the minimum sometime in the middle of this century. Bonus: 2007 was the coldest year of the 21st century so far If they're right, a period of deep freeze will start around 2055-2060 and last for 50 years or so. These predictions are based on a detailed analysis of internal dynamics of the Sun. 2007 is the International Heliophysical Year so you're not supposed to dismiss this science without reading it. Unfortunately, I cannot verify all these statements.",1_2
"The missing ingredient is wind shear, specifically an increase in wind speed with height, and a change in wind direction with height.",0_0
TENNESSEE 62% of electricity; $220 million in annual payroll,0_0
Depth	66.2 km (41.1 miles) set by location program,0_0
"When it gets cold, you do get more drought. One can only hope this is a one off or the world will become a very hungry place.",0_0
"But any kind of trading assumes a price that makes any risk involved worthwhile. And although the EPA assumes a price of $15 per ton during the early years of the program, the market doesn??t support that price, at least not today. The limited experience gleaned from the small volume of trading that??s taken place so far, such as what the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative has sponsored, certainly doesn??t come even close ??? $3 a ton last spring.",4_2
"THE Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the Australian National University will spend $30 million on two new supercomputers that will more accurately predict cyclones, tsunamis and the effects of climate change. Read more here .",0_0
"The statement that Nature doesn't give a damn about the random distribution of some papers written by a particular group of humans should be obvious and understandable. But I want to make one more related point. Even if the LHC found and confirmed one of the new sub-TeV models physics, it wouldn't mean that Nature would join the hep-ph consensus. Why? Because there's simply no consensus among the models on the hep-ph arXiv to start with. The models are inequivalent so they disagree with each other.",5_1
"As the reconstruction of the climates development in the past by proxy data shows, theres a series of temperature cycles that appear to be unknown, or ignored by many climate scientists. Among these are the larger climate cycles of 150 million to 180 million years (see Part 1 and Part 2 ), but also the shorter and for us the more important following cycles:",2_1
It should be remembered that GISS use this data to create the GISTEMP surface temperature anomalies. In Chart 7 I have amended Chart 1 to include Southern Hemisphere annual mean data on the same basis as the raw data and GISS H.,0_0
"creation in 2004, to devise a new method of turning the financial screws on other countries. The",0_0
"Primarily because they expect to get free energy technology transfers, and billions of dollars a year in climate mitigation, adaptation and reparation money from Western nations that they blame (and which blame themselves) for the dangerous climate change, rising seas and extreme weather that they claim are unprecedented and due to carbon dioxide emissions during the 150 years since the Industrial Revolution began. These FRCs (Formerly Rich Countries) have implemented low-carbon energy policies and penalties that have strangled their economies, dramatically increased energy prices and killed millions of jobs. But now poor developing countries demand that they also transfer $100 billion per year, for decades (with most of that probably going to their governing elites Swiss banks accounts).",0_0
In spite of the huge increase in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere the predicted temperature rise did not materialize so we need to ask what is wrong with Climate Science given that it claimed that the Consensus is supported by 97% of scientists and The Debate is Over. In my opinion the debate is indeed over because the cause of CAGW (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming) is dead and buried. What we need now is a better understanding of the effects of rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere given that the Consensus theory failed so dismally.,5_1
"14 W. H. Soon, E. S. Posmentier, and S. L. Baliunas, Inference of solar irradiance variability from terrestrial temperature changes, 1880-1993: An astrophysical application of the sun-climate connection, Astrophysical Journal 472, 891 (1996). Although change in the sun?s brightness is the simplest proposed mechanism for affecting terrestrial global temperature, the sun?s output comes in many wavelengths; it also emits energetic particles. Both the sun?s light and particles vary in time, space, and frequency. Components of the earth?s climate system may respond to different aspects of the sun?s diverse energy outflows.",2_1
The problem with consensus some thoughts on how focusing on agreement leads to more polarization on #climatechange,0_0
"Obama: ""And over the last four years, our emissions of the dangerous carbon pollution that threatens our planet have actually fallen. But for the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.""",0_0
"The Maldives Sea Level Curve of the last 500 years and the proposed best estimate of possible sea level changes by year 2100 This curve is a detail (without error bars, anchor points and curved breaking points) from the one presented by Mrner,(2007). Sea level has been stable for the last 30 years. Future changes in the next century are by no means alarming; at the most it would imply a return to the pre-1970 situation with an about 20 cm higher sea level as was the case from 1790 to 1970. These are the observational facts and the consequences to face for the future: i.e. no real problems and certainly no reason for any alarm and SOS message.",1_6
I was quite amazed by the coal ex-mines. I had thought that a) an open-pit coal mine would leave a horrible long-term scar and b) that there wasnt much you could do with the land after mining. I was totally incorrect on both counts.,0_0
"""A Democratic senator is preparing to introduce legislation that aims to end the golden era of tax-free Internet shopping. """,0_0
"Sixty four cosponsors from twenty three different countries signed on to Heartland's Fourth International Conference on Climate Change including Americans for Prosperity, Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, Freedom Works, Illinois Policy Institute, JunkScience.com, George C. Marshall Institute, National Center for Public Policy Research, and the Science and Public Policy Institute.",0_0
"There has been warming at the edge of the continent including where Wilkins Ice Sheet recently collapsed. The collapse could be due to global warming , oceanic volcanoes , and/or from internal stresses associated with the accumulation of ice in the bay.",0_0
"The British Met Office owns Britains most powerful super computer. It can make 1,000 billion calculations every second while consuming more electricity than a small town. The Met claimed that it will enable the Met Office to deliver more accurate forecasts, from hours to a century ahead. Some 400 climate high priests attend this electronic monster. But it has totally failed to forecast several frigid European winters because the model makers believe their own story and have programmed the models with a global warming bias. They assume without proof or evidence that carbon dioxide controls global temperature.",5_1
"According to John Eick, director of ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force, ""The workshop provided our legislative members with much needed facts, data, and historical anecdotes regarding these key policy areas. Feedback from our members since the workshop has been nothing but positive, and the panelists should all be congratulated for a job extremely well done.""",0_0
"Writing in Ottawa's Hill Times (Feb. 23), Richard S. Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT, summarizes the current state of global warming science and cautions against incorrect interpretations of what reviews such as that from the National Academy of Sciences (2001) were trying to do.",0_0
"Read here . (h/t Tom Nelson ) Enron alumni Jim Rogers is another ""green"" cap and trade lover who seems committed to destroying local environments for the sake of making a profit. If companies like Duke, and wealthy investors like Gore and Soros have their way, the world will be a barren wasteland because of the deranged profit incentive of anti-CO2 policies.",0_0
"Environmentalists may suggest, as they do in the Sierra Club publication, that ""acknowledging the earth's sacredness,"" providing a ""holy and awesome restoration of Nature herself,"" and having a ""reverence for trees"" are the only things that ""can serve as a worldview."" But that is not going to feed hungry mouths or provide a better life for the millions who must depend on the earth's natural resources for their sustenance.",0_0
"For example, northern Arizona where I live has a dry season and a wet season. In June when the humidity is very low the temperature is very high. In July when the Monsoons come the humidity goes up sharply. Not only does this result in a marked drop in daily mean temperatures, it also causes the countryside to turn greena welcome climate change indeed!",3_2
"The Light Brigade will assemble at 11:30 AM near the Smithsonian exit to the D.C. Metro at the Mall side of the exit. The Brigade can be reached at 949-421-8867 for anyone seeking to meet up with it during the event or seeking comment. The Light Brigade is a joint project of CIP and CFACT, the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow.",0_0
"Climatologist Dr. Pielke Sr. dismisses warming causes cold claims: ""They continue to miss the significance that it is the regional circulations that matter, not a global average anomaly' ""Until and unless they can skillfully predict observationally documented CHANGES in the statistics (probabilities) of the different major circulation patterns, their explanations are necessarily flawed'",0_0
"In the current climate, weather experienced at a given location or region varies from year to year; in a changing climate, both the nature of that variability and the basic patterns of weather experienced can change, sometimes in counter-intuitive ways some areas may experience cooling, for instance. Indeed, taking the mean of the monthly surface or lower-troposphere global mean surface temperature anomalies from all five principal datasets, the cooling has been global throughout the 150 months since January 2001, representing one-eighth of the present century.",1_4
"""As a father and an environmentalist I am particularly dismayed by the degree of pessimism for the future that is generated by predictions of an environmental apocalypse. Facts, Not Fear can help parents give their children a positive attitude towards the environment.""",0_0
"After looking at the data, Ms Ameling might consider Rahmstorf as simply not a serious person who is irresponsiblyinserting fear into vulnerable young minds and doing a disservice to his country.",5_2
Yet it is generally accepted and uncontroversial that 95 percent of the landmass of Antarctica has cooled over the last 20 years.,1_1
or using Anthonys name. They seem to have adopted the Team tactic (Hansen in particular) of refusing to even speak the name of critics.,0_0
"Those topics will wait until another day. The fate of Democrats in Congress, including the public judgment voters will make on their capacity to govern, rests on passage of some health care reform bill. Never mind polls showing public misgivings about reform (and especially pay little attention to Gallup surveys with questionable sample sizes and serious skews in party representation). Voters have given one party the keys to power in Washington, D.C., and expect action with no excuses. Gridlock would bring a sharp rejoinder from voters next year. Passage of any version of the health care reform bills on the table or in the air, on the other hand, would be a big trophy for President Barack Obama and his Congressional confreres, even if its main components are delayed or diluted.",0_0
But there are also strong hints that Tesla is ripping customers off. There's no sucker like a green sucker I suppose.,0_0
"Bottom line is that some parts of NOAA are completely FOS. 1936 was much more extreme than 2012, by any reasonable standard.",0_0
"The remaining warmingthat which possibly could be caused by anthropogenic GHG increasesnow stands at about 0.366 Cor just 52% of the EPA's ""observed"" increase.",0_0
"John Nielsen-Gammon: Fred, even if there was no anthropogenic component to climate change, the farmers and ranchers in my state would still be desperate to know what's going to happen with this present drought, and with future droughts. Our analysis shows our drought is mainly natural, with the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans playing important roles. In the long run, the more we know about ALL the causes of climate change, the better off we'll be.",0_0
"It seems environmentalists, frustrated that they weren't able to get cap-and-trade over the finish line with the largest liberal majority in Congress in a generation, think they need to get back to the ""grassroots,"" and ""connect with the people."" I'm not making this up. Eilperin quotes Fred Krupp, longtime CEO of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF): ""Certainly I think we have figured out we need to find a way to really listen harder and connect with people all over America, especially in rural America. I don't think we've done a particularly good job of that.""",0_0
"Although the net effect of the increase in the air's CO 2 content (which tended to reduce plant water loss) and the increase in the air's dryness (which tended to enhance plant water loss) resulted in no net change in plant iWUE, it can be appreciated that had the air's CO 2 content not risen over the period in question, the alpine plants would have fared far worse than they did in reality. Reference",3_3
Dozens of people registered to vote out of small mail box locations and from self-storage yards - there is no legitimate way for a person to appear on the list of Electors from a self-storage yard,0_0
"Misguided environmental regulations, green obstructionism, and the NIMBY (not in my backyard) syndrome have combined to delay the construction of desperately needed new power plants and transmission lines. Needless economic regulation has prevented the development of more appropriate pricing structures.",0_0
"Human-induced global warming is real, according to a recent U.S. survey based on the opinions of 3,146 scientists. However there remain divisions between climatologists and scientists from other areas of earth sciences as to the extent of human responsibility.",0_0
"By 2012, they'd come of age, when data revealed that (British) men outspent womenon shoes. And the Telegraph's 2013 report that the British military's base stores had struck a record deal to bring posh face scrubs, eye creams, and moisturizers to its shelves, to help British soldiers in their fight against blackheads.",0_0
Surrounded by low albedo (high solar absorbing) mudflats nearby with low tide near time of Tmax,0_0
"The big news this week is furnished by my colleague at CEI, Chris Horner, who released some interesting documents he obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request from the Treasury Department. Chris's initial blog post was picked up first by Amanda Carpenter in the Washington Times and then by Declan McCullough at CBSNews.com. There has been a flurry of stories since then, most of them trying to explain why it isn't really a news story. (I wish more reporters spent more time explaining why what they are writing can be safely skipped. It would save a lot of time.)",0_0
"We have not seen an increase in the number of storms, nor an increase in their intensity, Briggs said. It is true that some models would predict that as the surface gets warmer, more energy is available, but statistically we cant say weve seen it.",1_7
"The report also suggested that the institutional bias in favor of intervention in climate policy can be explained by public choice theory, which says that climate scientists define themselves as providing ""good"" in the political sphere, which is the technical information required to save ourselves from impending climatic doom. The value of this good is currently $4.2 billion a year (the current federal research budget, which supplies 99.5 percent of climatic research funding). Portraying climate change as benign would reduce the value of this good, and is therefore a clear threat to the well-being of its scientific community.",0_0
Now I am calling you out. Perhaps you might care to explain to me why you are so keen to make claims that are so apparently false?,0_0
"Notice that the vast majority of the all-time records were set more than half a century ago and that there are exceedingly few records set within the past few decades. This is not the picture that you would expect if global warming from greenhouse gas emissions were the dominant forcing of the characteristics of our daily weather. Instead, natural variability is still holding a strong hand.",2_1
"So RC's ""nothing to see here"" argument based on the alleged insider meaning of ""trick"" raises rather than allays suspicion that CRU is attempting to fit data to a predetermined conclusion.",0_0
Of course the food supply p festivalomrdet planned since long time back's one can speculate why arrangrerna chose dark ages year's surprise at the eleventh hour? Maybe they did not want stricter biljettfrsljningen? Or so they would not give mjligheten from restaurants nrheten to arrange catering just outside the area? A few that quickly hrsammade shortages p n other vegetarian sausages were the men who rushed there and stood on line outside the area. They realized that hr was a hack to earn.,0_0
"You would think there would be ONE historical set of original RAW data, but no not found it yet there looks to be many copies, all with slightly different processing, mixes, histories, updates, quality assurance, etc",5_1
"The founder of the Weather Channel is ridiculing Al Gore over his calls for action on global climate change, saying in a column that global warming is a hoax and bad science.",5_2
"Losing electricity, no matter where you live, is losing every technology that enhances and preserves your life. You lose the ability to cool or warm your home, apartment, or workplace. You lose the ability to keep food safe in your refrigerator and freezer. You most certainly lose the lighting. You lose the ability to turn on your computer or television. Indeed, to use everything you take for granted.",4_5
"A paper published today in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics by Dr. Willie Soon finds the "" Most convincing evidence for a sun-climate connection during the Holocene."" Professor Soon finds "" The Equator-to-Pole Temperature Gradient is linked to Total Solar Irradiance ,"" noting, "" This newly discovered relationship between TSI and the EPTG represents the 'missing link' that was implicit in the empirical relationship that Soon (2009) recently demonstrated to exist between multi-decadal TSI and Arctic and North Atlantic climatic change.""",2_1
"The potential that future warming would cause additional declines does not bode well for the ability of the biosphere to support multiple societal demands for agricultural production, fiber needs, and increasingly, biofuel production, Zhao said.",0_0
Climate variability or climate change are popularly reported to be significant causes of the mass killing in the Darfur region that began in 2003 All studies of this conflict agree that it is not possible to isolate any of these specific causes as being most influential . Most authors identify government practices as being far more influential drivers than climate variability noting also that similar changes in climate did not stimulate conflicts of the same magnitude in neighboring regions,0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell on the likely results of the Kerry and Graham plan:,0_0
"Glaciers are retreating on the Antarctic peninsula, as well as in Patagonia, and on the sub- Antarctic islands, and in West Antarctica adjacent to the peninsula.",0_0
"The European Commission has abandoned consideration of Science 2.0, finding it too ambitious. That was the wrong call, says Colin Macilwain.",0_0
"So what difference does it make when I use a fat-tailed exponential decay function, rather than a standard exponential decay function, in my previous analysis? Figure 2 shows the results:",0_0
"However, proof of global warming is not proof that human CO2 emissions caused that warming.",2_3
"The ongoing crisis in the Ukraine stirred much public interest, and great lessons can be learned from Peter Glover""s March 7 Breitbart.com article ""Putin's Real Great Game: Energy Imperialism."" Russia's annexation of the Crimea and threats to the rest of Ukraine after Glover's article makes it more important.",0_0
"Special Interests Love Cap and Trade The Foundry Remember, it was Enron who was the first big business supporter of cap and trade policies . Washington Times - Obama's cap, trade irk some in party ""We want to thank the administration for killing all industry support for cap-and-trade,"" said William Kovacs, the top energy specialist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. ""President Obama has consolidated the opposition.""",0_0
temperature trends at individual levels even if the boundary layer averaged,0_0
Lewis argues that the main flaw in the Marotzke and Forster research concerns the use of an equation describing energy balance in the climate system that links the so called radiative forcing acting to warm the climate with the sensitivity of the climate to changes in greenhouse gas levels. This equation is central to the logic used by Marotzke and Forster.,5_1
"By Jon Sanders, John Locke Foundation, June 4, 2015.",0_0
Flawed articles about the safety of genetically modified plants have been known to help spread the propaganda of antitechnology activists.,0_0
"""If every polluter's lobbyist around Congress was suddenly replaced by severely asthmatic children, then maybe Congress wouldn't always be trying to gut clean air standards """,0_0
"The following paper is referenced: Kopp and Lean (2011) GRL , summarizing total solar irradiance measurements from space and the nontrivial discrepancies in the baseline measurements from different satellites with overlapping time periods.",0_0
"In the wake of sexual misconduct allegations, the ghastly 2010 novel by Rajendra Pachauri is being taken out of circulation.",0_0
"Responding to this concern, the six scientists went on to test the ability of the globally-important phytoplankton species Emiliania huxleyi to adapt to ocean warming in combination with ocean acidification. In describing their findings Schluter et al . state that ""growth rates were up to 16% higher in populations adapted for one year to warming when assayed at their upper thermal tolerance limit,"" while particulate inorganic and organic carbon production was -- as a result of adaptive evolution over a period of three years -- 101% and 55% higher under combined warming (26.3 vs. 15.0??C) and acidification (2200 vs. 400 ??atm CO 2 ), respectively, than in non-adapted controls.",3_2
"August ACE for the Northern Hemisphere was 63 which is much less than the climatological average of 115. The Western Pacific again was much below average. It was indeed the Atlantic that produced two long-lived storms, Danielle and Earl that picked up some of the slack. The global and NH ACE remains at/near 30-year lows.",1_7
Professor emeritus of biogeography Philip Stott of the University of London explained the crux of the entire global warming debate when he rebutted the notion that CO2 is the main climate driver.,2_3
"* what is the broad global picture in respect to global warming now, and say in 50 years time under projected rates of energy use?;",0_0
"From this, they concluded that variations in wetness could not account for the very large variations in Patriot ball pressures and that the Patriot balls measured by officials did notall start the game at or near the same pressure (though they didnt define near):",0_0
"This is a false dichotomy, created by using my real null hypothesis NH1, and Dr. Meier??s straw man null hypothesis NH2. Yes, both CO2 and temperatures rose over the 20th century ?? but correlation is not causation, and CO2 does not correlate any better with temperature than a straight line correlates with temperature. Next, Dr. Meier seems to think that NH1 and NH2 are somehow related, so that one or the other must be false. But both could easily be true. It could be true that the climate variations are natural (NH1), and also true that the historical forcings still apply (NH2). So his ???one true / one false?? duality is not valid.",2_3
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Policy Analyst Michelle Minton on why Michigan lawmakers should not try to legislate lower insurance rates.,0_0
"#5. Stop lying about drought. Droughts in the US are becoming less severe and less frequent, and the US has been wetter than normal over the past year.",1_7
"The campaign web site of Senator John Kerry (DMass.) only briefly mentions what the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party would do about global warming if elected. The issues section says, ""When John Kerry is president, the U.S. will reengage in the development of an international climate change strategy to address global warming, and identify workable responses that provide opportunities for American technology and know-how"" (http://www.johnkerry.com/ issues/energy/).",0_0
"17) How Important Is ?Scientific Consensus? in Climate Research? In the case of global warming, it is nearly worthless. The climate system is so complex that the vast majority of climate scientists ? usually experts in variety of specialized fields ? assume there are more knowledgeable scientists, and they are just supporting the opinions of their colleagues. And among that small group of most knowledgeable experts, there is a considerable element of groupthink, herd mentality, peer pressure, political pressure, support of certain energy policies, and desire to Save the Earth ? whether it needs to be saved or not.",0_0
"Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, he always emphasized. It is a plant-fertilizing trace gas (400 ppm or 0.04% of the atmosphere), essential for photosynthesis and life on Earth. Rising CO2 levels are increasing crop, forest, and grassland growth, improving ecosystems and wildlife, and feeding more people. In fact, the 50-ppm increase in atmospheric CO2 between 1981 and 2010 fertilized an 11% boost in plant cover worldwide. Moreover, current CO2 levels are quite low relative to their levels across geological time, meaning terrestrial, fresh water, and oceanic plant life is currently starved for CO2 by comparison.",3_3
1. Should climate scientists discuss scientific uncertainty in mainstream forums?,0_0
Puls: It has been melting for 30 years. That also happened twice already in the last 150 years. The low point was reached in 2007 and the ice has since begun to recover. There have always been phases of Arctic melting.Between 900 and 1300 Greenland was green on the edges and the Vikings settled there .,2_1
CEI Weekly: Federal Handouts Can't Save Solar Energy Industry,0_0
"The Yamal version that Osborn attacked was shown as a sensitivity analysis in my original Sep 27, 2009 post on Yamal and not cited or promoted or advocated in any subsequent presentation or even blog post. My issue with Briffa-style regional chronologies had been their sensitivity (non-robustness) to inhomogeneity. Under the statistical model necessary for Briffa-style regional standardization, results should not depend on which subpopulation is used. However, this was very much not the case with his influential Yamal chronology. To illustrate the inhomogeneity, I showed three chronology variations (scenarios, if you prefer) in my Sep 27, 2009 blog post: (C) the Yamal-11 only (as in Briffa 2000 and Briffa et al 2008); (B) both the Yamal-11 and Schweingrubers Khadyta River and (A) Schweingrubers Khadyta River only. I described the calculations as a sensitivity study and did not promote or advocate either Scenario A or Scenario B.",0_0
"Having realized that a lot of folks might not know about Henges other than Stonehenge, I thought Id mention a couple of them here. The largest is Marden Henge. Its pretty much just a large circular ditch and mound now, but its very large.",0_0
202-331-2256 / mebell@cei.org,0_0
"Nothing new in my talk; I focused on the data, why scientists disagree, and emphasized that there was a lot of disagreement inside of the so-called 97%.",5_1
Die Welt writes that the prices are expected to rise unabated and that they likely will even accelerate. The feed-in tariffs will add up to 5.2 cents to the price of each kilowatt-hour.,4_1
"Predictions from the model suggest that solar activity will fall by 60 per cent during the 2030s to conditions last seen during the 'mini ice age' that began in 1645, according to the results presented by Prof Valentina Zharkova at the National Astronomy Meeting in Llandudno.",1_2
"As I have written elsewhere, the model of gay and lesbian Americans coming out is a good one. Not perfect but we dont need perfect. We need action. And what gays and lesbians proved is that one-on-one communication is a deeply powerful tool for creating social change.",0_0
"In fact, the study is an update and expansion of a 2013 study. In the study three years ago, I reviewed EPA's performance meeting more than 300 deadlines under three core Clean Air Act programs (National Ambient Air Quality Standards, National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants, and New Source Performance Standards). For the present study, I updated EPA's performance meeting these programs; in addition, I added a review of EPA's timeliness in reviewing State Implementation Plans.",0_0
"Weve known for quite some time that obesity is a serious problem for children of expectant mothers, said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal, and now we see that obesity is likely a serious problem for children of obese fathers as well. Hopefully as more research emerges to support these findings, future fathers will find ways to slim down, if not for themselves, then for their children and grandchildren.",0_0
"I??m going to give him two answers. A little later I will post a???taking Keating seriously part 2?? that recounts a few of the prima facie ways that the IPCC??s radical attribution claims are highly unscientific, as pointed out by numerous people in recent years. Then early next week I will post part 3, detailing a train of specific unscientific and anti-scientific steps in the IPCC analysis that render it not just scientifically invalid but properly classify it as a hoax and a fraud.",5_2
"Prof. McKitrick has now corrected the calculations upon which this conclusion was based. In a draft erratum, available at http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/research/gdptemp.html , he writes, The principal effect of the correction is a reduced weight on the constant term and an increased weight on the COSABLAT variable itself. Indeed the correction improves the overall fit and removes the anomalously small cosine-latitude effect. The socioeconomic variables remain significant and the effects carry over from the station data to the gridded data as before.",0_0
"He says 2014 was the warmest year, but NASA belatedly admitted they were wrong about thatand the UK Met Office has now validated this centurys global warming hiatus. The yearly temperatures vary by such lilliputian margins even an Ellerslie photo-finish wouldnt separate them; its impossible to claim a record for 2014.",1_4
"Al Gore is in full attack model, employing his ridiculous Climate Reality Project to Draw the Line on Denial, even as he laid off 90% of the staff at his Alliance for Climate Protection. Greenpeace has joined the fray, launching a Dealing in Doubt campaign that blames ExxonMobil for funding the global warming denial machine.",5_2
"Just as troubling is the shameful appeal Trump is making, as the Republican standard-bearer, to racist, anti-Semitic, and nativist elements in the populace. To their detriment, party leaders did little to discourage those nefarious appeals. Getting the racist genie back in the bottle may prove impossible.",0_0
"For the latest, see this new story . and this opinion piece on why this is a fiasco",0_0
"""Florida Republican Rep. Cliff Stearns is demanding an investigation into cybersecurity issues raised by #Weinergate, saying it is vital to ""ensure our national security.""""",0_0
"The record of GHG controls has been no more effective than attempts to control over-fishing and other similar problems. Global emissions of CO2, the most important industrial greenhouse gas, currently exceed the 1988 level by over a third. The IPCC and NOAA report that, through the last several decades, the rise in atmospheric concentrations of CO2 has sped up.",0_0
"So when I heard a wave break right behind our little fishing boat one afternoon as we were coming in between the rock and the hard place, my first thought was that we were about to join the folks from the Mary Jane.",0_0
Even the greenhouse effect itself is dominated by water. Between 75 percent and 90 percent of Earths greenhouse effect is caused by water vapor and clouds.,2_3
"It is long overdue that the IPCC was called for what it is, an activist eco-political body driven not by the dangerous manmade warming evidence that it pretends exists, but by the beliefs and philosophies of its sponsor, the UNEP, and by key individuals at the time the IPCC was established.",5_2
"But standing on that position in international negotiations will only lead to endless and increasingly acrimonious disagreements. The United States needs to realize that it is also a major developing economy and should make common cause with India and China to pursue policies that are based on the world's energy needs. As long as population continues to increase in the United States, emissions are going to increase as well. The developing countries, including the United States, should agree on an agenda that is based on the simple facts that the world is not energy rich, it is energy poor, and that for the foreseeable future most of the energy the world uses is going to come from hydrocarbons.",0_0
"However wind turbines DO change the local weather. Wind is a major component of weather. Wind brings moisture to the inland, clears pollution from the cities and changes air temperatures everywhere. Wind towers rob the wind of its energy, affecting local wind speeds and changing local weather patterns.",4_4
"But the Sea Surface Temperature anomalies of the East Pacific Ocean (90S-90N, 180-80W) have not risen in 30 years. Refer to Figure 18.",1_4
"The goal of the homogenization effort is to avoid any impact (warmingor cooling) of the changing environment that some stations experiencedby changing the long term trend of any non-rural station to match thelong term trend of their rural neighbors, while retaining the short termmonthly and annual variations.",0_0
"by Judith Curry. Posted on April 7, 2011",0_0
Total nationwide will be in the range of 1.44 million jobs lost.,0_0
The turkey thought it was special and would always be looked after.,0_0
"The third fact is that also the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere fluctuates in time, sometimes precedes, sometimes follows the temperature increase, and that ? with all the problems of not fully compatible time series ? in the last two centuries we witness a mostly anthropogenically enhanced amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. Its concentration increased from 284.7 ppmv in the year 1850 to 310.7 in the year 1950, and to 387.3 in 2009.",0_0
out of the blocks but recover to get a fast time or even a world record over the,0_0
"Washington, DC, September 20, 2005Will Congress finally make the right decision this fall and open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration? The Competitive Enterprise Institute supports the opening of ANWR to increase domestic oil production and help ensure that Americans continue to have abundant supplies of energy.",0_0
My clothes are twisted. Neither one of us are much to look at.,0_0
"Only yesterday, the EPA issued new proposals declaring that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from airliners threaten public health as they contribute to global warming. Indeed, only 2% of all man-made carbon dioxide emissions come from the aviation sector. Interestingly, this comes on the heels of the recent news that there has been no statistical warming for nearly 19 years based on satellite temperature measurements. Both the military and small aircraft would be exempt from these new proposals.",1_4
"""They've just announced an increase in carbon emissions which is the same scale as the entire carbon emissions of the United Kingdom,"" said British energy and climate change secretary Chris Huhne last week.",0_0
"6 Jan 2012 Australian Antarctic Division director Tony Fleming said there had been ... So they waste money on melting air strips, torpedeos that dont work, ...",0_0
The Administration only takes into account the costs to energy markets (direct costs). Other studies take into account the effects of higher energy costs on other markets (indirect costs) which lead to estimates two to four times greater than direct costs alone.,0_0
"Jeremy Grantham is the wildly successful investor who writes entertaining quarterly letters to his fellow ""die-hard contrarians."" Grantham struck it rich investing against herd mentality and his missives usually sparkle with insights. I've been a fan for a long time. But there is one issue on which Grantham has jettisoned his contrarian impulses: global warming. He has joined the fashionable crowd of alarmists and doom-and-gloomers.",5_2
"Obama is careful to make his statements ""true"" by insinuating links that do not exist and making emotional claims that do not justify his policies. ""Climate change is just one more example of how the environment will cause health problems,"" he says. ""You can't cordon yourself off from air or climate."" His surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, cautions: ""Asthma can be very difficult for patients...The impacts of climate change could make the situation worse.""",0_0
"Please pass this information on to other open-minded, science-oriented people. If you know anyone who would like to get AWED emailings periodically, please email me.",0_0
"They say the feedbacks, measured in Watts per square meter of the Earth per Celsius degree of direct warming, add up to 2. So the equation tells them to multiply by 3. Just 1 Celsius degree of warming from doubling CO2 in the air suddenly, wrongly, becomes 3 degrees. A non-event becomes a crisis.",0_0
Gov will spend 400k pounds to destroy ID card data:,0_0
"There is no need for major audits, amassed records, or an invasion of privacy. Plus its virtually impossible to cheat. In many ways the GPS solution would be worse for the environment. It would let a poorly maintained car get away with increased emissions without an extra penalty because they would be charged for the average emissions for that car model. Likewise there wouldnt be as much incentive to pump up your tyres and tune that motor, because if your car was better than average, you dont save much money, even though you save emissions. Its too bizarre for words. Yet apparently other state departments (like Oregon) have considered the same thing.",0_0
"Finally, we compare our new composite to one of the solar variability datasets not considered by the CMIP5 climate models, i.e., Scafetta and Willson, 2014s update to the Hoyt and Schatten, 1993 dataset. A strong correlation is found between these two datasets, implying that solar variability has been the dominant influence on Northern Hemisphere temperature trends since at least 1881. We discuss the significance of this apparent correlation, and its implications for previous studies which have instead suggested that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide has been the dominant influence.",2_1
"Senior Statistician and Research Programmer, The Heritage Foundation",0_0
"Early this morning, when I skimmed through the night's news, dk i p this little prla from the BBC. In this short article, we read that scientists now come to the conclusion that global uppvrmningens effect is irreversible and that temperatures will frbli HGA at least a thousand years to, even if we manage to strangle utslppen of CO2. The study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.",0_0
"There is one more technical detail about the graphs above that you should notice. The observed temperatures differ from a structureless linear increasing function in one most visible way, namely by the cooling period after 1940 or so. In order to describe this feature of the graph, the anthropocentric believers attribute the cooling to aerosols. However, these aerosols only cool the land because they don't spread globally. Indeed, you can see that the middle graph - global land - has a rather good agreement between the black line and the pink strip. However, if you look at the right graph, you see that the cooling after 1940 affected oceans, too - and the pink strip is clearly unable to reproduce the peak around 1940.",5_1
"Yes, this pact is an alternative, as its critics bemoan, but not to Kyoto itself, a five-year agreement that nothing could drag Europe into abandoning, although it isn't even complying. Also, contrary to green propaganda, having both Kyoto signatories and nonparticipants sign a new agreement is a symptom, not a determinant, of Kyoto's failure.",0_0
"I can see why Gore is bitter. His comparatively modest investments in green energy promised to make him a global warming billionaire if cap-and-trade were enacted. Unluckily for him, the American people have said no emphatically.",5_2
"Update: Looking back to December blogs (I recall noticing this at the time, but was otherwise occupied here), it seems that the story of IPCC problems was first raised on Dec 1, 2009 in a guest post at Pielke Sr here , crediting Graham Cogley for spotting the problem.",0_0
There is no evidence that the current gentle warm era is unusual or harmful. There have been warmer periods in the past and all have seen a profusion of animal and plant life.,2_1
"The Obama administrations proposed rule to cap carbon emissions from new power plants is just another line of attack to make certain energy sources sources like coal and fossil fuels so expensive that the producers themselves go bankrupt, said Marino.",4_1
"If, against all odds, the European public has a more positive image of the UN than of NATO, it is for a simple reason: When it comes to strategic communication, today's NATO is your grandfather's NATO. Meanwhile, over the years, the UN has turned itself into a slick, global propaganda machine.",0_0
>> would like to cite your note for the World Bank on climate variability and,0_0
"To take the other university at the center of the Climategate controversy, the University of East Anglia?s investigation was also something of a dodge, but they at least understood the question of ?conflict of interest?. So they asked an outsider, Lord Oxburgh, to chair the investigation, and he in turn presided over an all-outsider panel from Cambridge, London, Zurich and MIT. Penn State, under its corrupt president (now under criminal indictment), appointed a colleague of Dr Mann?s to investigate Dr Mann. And it all worked out swimmingly.",0_0
"from Iraq, and instead ""taking the fight to the terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan."" But the candidate followed his own counterterror logic even farther than the",0_0
"Levels of CO2 far beyond what we will ever be able to achieve in the ambient atmosphere are highly beneficial for plant growth, which is why most commercial greenhouses use CO2 generators to keep CO2 at 3x to 4x ambient levels, at significant expense. They spend the money to keep CO2 levels high because that dramatically improves productivity.",3_3
"When we include discouraged workers who have given up looking for jobs, and people who have been forced to work fewer hours or at temporary jobs, our unemployment rate is a whopping 19 percent and double that for black and Hispanic young people. America's labor force participation rate is at a 30-year low. Our nation's 2011 economic growth rate was a dismal 1.7 percent.",0_0
"So even if being a ""climate change denier"" were a crime (rather than constitutionally protected speech, as it in fact is), a donation to a nonprofit that employs such a person would not be a crime.",0_0
"Stabilized CCSM3.5 simulations are then performed, which show that once the climate has equilibrated, the ENSO response to a CO2 increase eventually does become significant . However, the details of that response are sensitive to small changes in model physics: the ENSOclimate sensitivity in the CCSM3.5 and CCSM4 oppose one another , and the mechanisms for the difference are as yet unclear. Seasonal forcing, high-frequency wind stress variability, or other processes may be responsible, but a complete diagnosis requires longer CCSM4 simulations than are currently available.",0_0
"""Google is investing $168 million in an alternative power project that aims to produce enough solar energy to light 140,000 homes.""",0_0
The UAH satellite-based global temperature dataset has reached 1/3 of a century in length,0_0
"The union's strength has grown in direct proportion to the importance of health care to New York City's economy. Between the mid-1960s and 2000, the period when 1199 began asserting its dominance, New York City gained 69,000 hospital jobs, a stunning 80 percent increase. During this same period, growth in government jobs was comparatively modest (22 percent) and manufacturing employment, the traditional mainstay of both the city economy and union strength, declined by 70 percent. At present, six of New York City's top ten private-sector employers are health-care providers. When it was first organized, Montefiore had 900 employees. Now it has more than 20,000.",0_0
"Polar bears ( Ursus maritimus ) have become a symbol of global warming, and their predicted decline a sign of worst to come, but until very recently population estimates were really just educated guesses. Current polar bear numbers are estimated to total between 20,000 and 25,000.",3_2
"The coalition includes Green pressure groups such as Greenpeace, Public Citizen, Friends of the Earth and the National Environment Trust, and renewable energy industry groups such as Bio Fuels America, the Solar Energy Industries Association, and several state solar energy associations.",0_0
Those are curious statements. Trenberth has never taken the time to explain that we would NOT expect the surface temperatures to go back down again. So his ???never go back to that previous level again?? seems to be a clear case of misdirection.,5_2
But as Mr. altogether INFR Copenhagen Is it vl hardly surprising that the emergence of new undergngsscenarier.,0_0
"Well, now the NEA might be getting really nervous. Something like this might cause parents to do something rash, like demand that low-performing teachers get fired. Gasp.",0_0
"Batsmanship comes naturally to Dr Pachauri, who can be compared to the very best as a natural striker of the ball.",0_0
"The seven Swiss scientists derived ""a total and spectral solar irradiance that was substantially lower during the Maunder minimum than the one observed today,"" which difference between then and now they describe as being ""remarkably larger than other estimations published in the recent literature."" In addition, they say that ""the magnitude of the solar UV variability, which indirectly affects the climate, is also found to exceed previous estimates.""",2_1
"I predict that there will be cold, snow and storms this winter, with lots of climate destroying Christmas lights.",1_3
Limit International Agreements to Areas Where Agreement Exists,0_0
"If allowed to stand, Kavanaugh cautions, the tailoring rule could set a mischievous precedent:",0_0
"If I had done what Schmidt described, then I would agree that his complaint would be justified. But as Lucia observed, Schmidt saying something is so doesnt make it so. I did not directly refer to or mention his May 11 criticism of my May 6 emulation of the regional chronology. If Schmidt had directly quoted my words, this would have been evident to RC readers. Nonetheless, in order to avoid any misunderstanding on this point, I added a clarifying sentence to the text of the post itself on July 2 as follows:",0_0
World Resources Institute has a post Adapting to Climate Change in Bangladesh . Excerpts:,0_0
Caption: This is Professor Chris Turney in the field in Svalbard. Credit: University of Exeter,0_0
How the Global Warming Scare Began : John Coleman video,0_0
"The court then gave Beckstead & Watts ""declaratory relief"" on the merits, though it did not go so far as to invalidate the PCAOB's appointments, as critics of Sarbanes-Oxley would have liked. The decision to grant this firm even a small amount of relief, however, was 5 to 4. This suggests that the outcome of the Kagan nomination could be the action of the greatest consequence for small business that the Senate faces before the August recess.",0_0
"As Joel documents, in press release after press release, NRDC enthusiastically applauds various new EPA rules that will dramatically reduce smog-forming emissions from automobiles, diesel trucks, off-road diesel engines, diesel fuel, and power plants.",0_0
Maybe the IPCC might cotton on to the additional reality that our current very weak solar cycle 24 is not exactly portending warmer times.,1_2
"Dr. Christy attached to his testimony an extract of testimony he delivered previously to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation, Subcommittee on Space, Science and Competitiveness, on December 8, 2015. That extract ends with the following summary:",0_0
The other paper by MM is just garbage ??? as you knew. De Freitas again. Pielke is also losing all credibility as well by replying to the mad Finn as well ??? frequently as I see it. I can??t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow ??? even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is !,5_2
"Although it seems a strange thing to celebrate, theTitanicFestival in Belfast, where the ship was built, will very soon mark the 100th anniversary of the liners foundering on 15 April 1912 after hitting a south-wandering iceberg, with the loss of a multitude of passengers and crew.",0_0
"The UKs House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has issued its report into the so-called Climategate scandal. As might be expected, its pretty much a whitewash. Only one MP dissented from its conclusions. There seem to me to be some serious errors and omissions in the reports, but Im not the only one:",0_0
"As for our natural gas, it will become a geopolitical tool only if substantial political barriers-some created by the Obama administration, some by powerful interests with a stake in keeping gas prices low by restricting its export-can be hurdled.",0_0
"Andrew Logan of Ceres, a Boston-based environmental group, sees two possible scenarios: ""One is that all the scientists in the world are wrong, in which case there's no climate change, in which case Exxon will do well."" He then says: ""But if the scientists are correct and we have to find a way to transform the way we use energy, then Exxon is going to lag significantly behind its competitors.""",0_0
"Farming is not something you do. It is something you are. The farmer has an intimate relationship with the land from which he earns his substance. Take away his right to farm his land, and you steal not only his earnings but also his very self.",0_0
"Let us now make jmvikten between deep sea and ythav 10 times faster, a corresponding rate constant 0.002 p / r, and expands best to 1000 are:",0_0
"To investigate how different climate impacts interact, an experiment was conducted at Kristineberg Marine Research Station.",0_0
"Im not to going to say too much on this article from the Discovery channel, as frankly the levels of stupidity it displays are just jaw-dropping.",0_0
Hgsommar. Boats. Sea. And discussion on climate and energy policy,0_0
Their conclusion also means that the climate sensitivity i.e. the expected warming obtained from doubling of CO2 from 280 ppm (in 1800) to 560 ppm (in 2100) is actually smaller than the bare value of 1.2 ??C. It could be close to 0.5 ??C which would mean that no additional warming from CO2 is expected by 2100.,3_1
"IPCC reports have predicted that average world temperatures will increase dramatically, leading to the spread of tropical diseases, severe drought, the rapid melting of the world's glaciers and ice caps, and rising sea levels. Congress is considering proposals to slow rising temperatures by joining international agreements or by implementing policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions.",0_0
"On the way out, I asked Professor Sugden whether there had ever been a climate-skeptical speaker at a Royal Society event. He said there had been several interjections by skeptics over the years. I pressed him, asking whether the Society had ever invited a skeptic to speak from the podium. No, he said.",5_2
"So rest assured. When we someday look back at today's global warming hysteria the way we now look back at the long-debunked Malthusian terrors of yore, there will be no shortage of fresh doomsayers advising the powers-that-be of humanity's impending doom, which can only be staved off by stamping out the fire of innovation and problem-solving spirit that brought us the device on which you're reading this. Let's hope there are still enough rational optimists out there to resist.",0_0
"which is just #3 x #4. I am in no way arguing that we should abandon formal statistics which produces quantifications like equation #3. But I am saying that since, as we already know, exactly quantifying #4 is nearly impossible, we will be too confident of any decisions we make if we, as is common, substitute probability #3 for #5 because, not matter what, the probability of #3 and #4 both is always less than the probability of #3.",0_0
"Steig says that surface temperatures are reliable, yet GISS has massively altered them over the past decade. In fact, GISShas nearly doubled reported 1880 to 2000 warming since their 2003 version. They have altered the data so much, they had to stretch the scale at both ends to fit their alterationson to the graph. This is not reliable data.",5_1
United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) in 1995 predicted sea levels rises would result in 50 million climate refugees by the year 2010. No climate refugees by that year. Very large Error,0_0
Al Gore Proposes New Condition on Climate Change Forecasting Challenge,0_0
date: Mon Jul 19 14:06:25 1999,0_0
"In fact, the defeat of this particular bill may say as much about Coburn's famous contempt for Senate proprieties and procedures as it does about the popularity of corn ethanol subsidies. Coburn is often styled ""Dr. No"" for his lone wolf stands on issues and personal friction with colleagues on both sides of the aisle probably cost this measure votes, particularly among the Democrats. Yet it is notable that the very conservative Coburn co-sponsored this bill with California's own Dianne Feinstein. And in a move that shows just how tortuous the Congressional politics of ethanol have become, Feinstein ultimately voted against her own Amendment, due to partisan issues related to Coburn's pushing for a vote without Majority Leader Harry Reid's blessing.",0_0
"MOOSE: Whos a bully! He likes it. Dont ya, Spunky.",0_0
"2. Unlike incandescents, CFLs take time to reach full brightness after they're turned on from 30 seconds to three minutes. The first time I used one, it was so dim I thought I'd bought a dud. Only when I walked back into the room later did I realize the need for patience. (And only then could I make out the small print on the back of the CFL package mentioning this.) If you're used to full brightness at the flick of a switch, forget it.",0_0
"All news reports I read said the high temperature in Gravesend occurred in late afternoon on Sunday August 10th. The historical data available from the Met Office is rather slim. So if somebody knows where to find the exact time the high temperature was recorded, that would help solve this mystery.",0_0
"7. Quote appeared in the Danish newspaper Iyllandposten, April 21, 2004; see Iain Murray, ""Adolf Lomborg?"" available at http://www.techcentralstation.com/051104C.html.",0_0
Cosmic Ray Flux and Neutron monitors suggest we may not have hit solar minimum yet,0_0
"Xiao and Mechoso (2008) also discussed their third hypothesis, which is:",0_0
"New theories on rainfall suggest that the models dont even have the basics right. We used to think that forests grow where the rain falls, but research now suggests that rain falls where forests grow.",5_1
"Some stations in the American Midwest reported minimum temperatures at or above 90 F (32 C) such as 91 F (33 C) at Lincoln, Nebraska on July 25, 1936; the next and most recent time this is known to have happened is a handful of 90 F (32 C) minimums during a similar heat wave in late June 1988 but far less intense than that of 1936.",1_7
"Global Warming Alarmist Science: Read How Actual Temperature Readings Are ""Adjusted"" - Fraud Potential Is Extremely High",5_2
"We also include available trends from the major pollsters on how recent presidents have handled the issue in this document. Questions about President Barack Obama's handling of the environment are not asked regularly by most pollsters. The President's ratings on handling the environment have declined over the course of his presidency in most polls. In the latest poll from Gallup, taken in March 2016, 54 percent, down from 79 percent early in his presidency, said he was doing a good job handling the environment. Questions about George W. Bush's handling of the environment were also not asked as often as questions about his handling of foreign policy or the economy, but he tended to receive negative marks on the issue late in his presidency.",0_0
"Regarding the impact of the IAC review of the IPCC: Pachauri lingers, the flagging rule has vanished, and real action on conflict-of-interest has been pushed well into the future. theres just one problem. While the IAC report said it should contain three independent voices, including people from outside the climate community, the IPCC thumbed its nose at that advice . . . instead gave four of its fulltime staff members seats at the table.",5_2
Trend That Is Not A Trend: Changes in Data Definition or Measurement Technology,0_0
"Democrats still have alternatives to courting those voters again. They can hope for favorable circumstances, like a well-timed recession or missteps and scandals in the coming Trump administration. They can wait on demography: The white working class is shrinking as a percentage of the population. They can look for a candidate who excites the Obama coalition more than Clinton did. They can continue to try to appeal to these voters based purely on their economic interests, ignoring their values and beliefs.",0_0
"And yet, with no empirical evidence whatsoever we have so-called scientists persuading the general public that a minute molecule in the atmosphere is causing runaway global warming!",5_2
"The Honourable John Howard, former Prime Minister of Australia, gave the Annual GWPF Lecture in London on Nov 5. The title of his lecture was One Religion is Enough, and full text is available from the GWPF . Excerpts:",0_0
"The answer to the third question may be that there is a generally positive effect if the only change to the atmosphere was a significant increase in CO 2 concentration. Most plant growth increases at higher levels of CO 2 . It also appears that some concerns for negative effects on ocean life from increased ocean acidity from CO 2 were exaggerated, or even totally wrong (as will be discussed more later) (also see http://www.seafriends.org.nz/issues/global/acid.htm ). A significant change in ocean pH would cause some changes, and there would be some winners and some losers in ocean life, but it appears that for realistic level changes this would not be a major problem. In fact, combining the slightly higher temperature with higher CO 2 levels should significantly increase world crop growth if these are the only factors, and this is clearly a generally positive effect.",3_3
"But I for one am not complaining that Pachauri is staying on as I have said before, every day he remains in charge subtracts credibility from the IPCC, and that can only be a good thing. The recent meeting in Busan has deferred a number of key issues for later discussion:",5_2
"He did not mention climate in his last State of the Union address, said Rosenthal, pouting over something about which neither Obama, nor anyone else on planet Earth can do anything except to clean up the mess left behind by hurricanes, floods, and other forces of nature..",0_0
"Why didnt they use the complete record, which ran (then) from 1957 through 1995? When they did, all correspondence between the models and reality disappeared. It just happened that 1963 was very cold, thanks to a blow-up of the big volcano Agung, and 1987 was warm thanks to El Nino, and the overall record showed no change at all.",5_1
"Rather than thinking that humans have the power to create a better world, they are viewed as potential destroyers. In this misanthropic worldview, humans essentially become parasites on the planet. They are portrayed as destroyers of the environment and creators of waste, rather than as being capable of achieving great things. Rather than highlighting human ingenuity, the emphasis is on the destructiveness of mankind.",0_0
"Before the subsidy-seekers really get going, let's look at the full extent of government handouts for Tesla.",0_0
"The ingredient plants need most is carbon from CO2. They typically exchange over 2,000 water molecules to grab one CO2 molecule. Plants are desperate for carbon from the air, just like we humans are desperate for oxygen from the air. ""No CO2"", implies no plant growth. One of the main roles of water in plant life is just so the plant can exchange it for carbon.",3_3
"on Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 at 1:43 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Such a cost difference ultimately will prove green powers undoing, he predicted. Because of green energy mandates in Ontario, consumers will see their electricity bills increase as much as 40 percent during the next five years, Bryce forecast. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power told the city council that its pursuit of renewables could raise electricity rates as much as 50 percent during the next four years. I wonder how there could not be a backlash.",4_4
"The conference, co-sponsored by NASA and UNEP by the way, released its statement calling for denser cities to mitigate ?worldwide population growth? ahead of the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development taking place in June of this year.",0_0
"We hear over and over that climate change is now so rapid that ecosystems all over the world are in peril as they attempt to cope with changes to the environment. This view of delicate ecosystems is at odds with the reality of the long climate history of the Earth. The climate has warmed in the past, cooled in the past, and many of these changes were quite rapid. Delicate ecosystems would have disappeared long ago and the most robust systems would have survived.",3_2
Skeptics Making Voices Heard at UN Meetings in Warsaw,0_0
"Recent global climate variation is entirely within natural cyclical variation, cooling trend now underway and is likely to continue to 2030's, according to best data.",1_2
"Not surprisingly, the author's recommendations are to eat more fruits and veggies, get plenty of exercise, and consider a return to living in caves. (Okay, I made the cave part up, but the rest is true).",0_0
"James Edward Kamis is a Geologist and AAPG member of 40 years and has always been fascinated by the probable connection between Geology and Climate. Years of research / observation have convinced him that the Earths Heat Flow Engine, which drives the outer crustal plates, is also an important driver of the Earths climate. To contact James, please use our Contact Us page.",0_0
"When Mr. Spencer tried to take the State's Minister for the Environment and Water to court in 2008 to get his land back, the judge in the State's Supreme Court told him the courts could not intervene in political decisions. Mr. Spencer will challenge that finding on appeal this spring, if he lives long enough.",0_0
All developed nations are dependent upon oil mostly because its the best transportation fuel by far.,4_5
Conclusion #7: EPA's recommendations are justified by the facts and ought to be implemented as quickly as possible.,0_0
"Nor did any key parameter of economic performance prior to 1985 point to a rapidly advancing disaster. From 1981 to 1985 the growth of the country's GDP, though slowing down compared with the 1960s and 1970s, averaged 1.9 percent a year. The same lackadaisical but hardly catastrophic pattern continued through 1989. Budget deficits, which since the French Revolution have been considered among the prominent portents of a coming revolutionary crisis, equaled less than 2 percent of GDP in 1985. Although growing rapidly, the gap remained under 9 percent through 1989 a size most economists would find quite manageable.",0_0
"As Bob Tisdale has pointed out, the above plot expressing heat content in terms of gazillions of Joules sounds dramatic (if you didn't know, 1022 is 1 gazillion) but the 0.2 deg. C warming upon which it is based? maybe not so much.",0_0
"In their attempts to disguise the fact that 2012 will likely turn out to be one of the colder years this century, NOAA have made the ludicrous, and frankly dishonest, claim that this year will be the hottest La Nia year on record.",5_2
16e. The ability of global climate models to model precipitation values for the next 10 years,0_0
"Next, my own unit and I published satellite measurements that clearly show a natural cooling mechanism in the tropics which all of the leading computerized climate models have been insisting is a warming mechanism (Spencer et al., August 9, 2007 Geophysical Research Letters).",3_1
"While this is obviously satire it was presented in parallel with other information that was considered by Mr. Cook to be scientific. I found this juxtaposition very odd, since it essentially disagreed with Cook??s own position on the public viewpoint percentages as well as trivializing and debasing the debate.",5_2
"The coral reefs at Milne Bay have been around for a long time and are known for their great biodiversity . I find the claim about reef fish survival due to reduced pH to be puzzling since they seem to be doing well for quite a long time. The fish seem to have not only survived but adapted to their environment. pH is reported to affect coral populations, but the reefs and seeps have been around for a very long time.",3_2
"""From what we've seen, global warming theory is definitely lacking in this regard,"" Spencer wrote.",0_0
"Issues: Energy, environmental politics, global warming.",0_0
"These programs are just a subset of the state's GHG reductions efforts, and GHG reduction is just one among many of the state's expensive social engineering schemes. Each takes money out of the pockets of average Californians in order to fund the pet causes of special interest busybodies. Because most of the costs are hidden in the form of higher prices for goods and services, the people who pay them don't realize they've had their pockets picked.",0_0
"Energy, manufacturing and agriculture are playing a major role in the corridor states revival. The resurgence of fossil fuelbased energy, notably shale oil and natural gas, is especially important.Cheap U.S. natural gas has some envisioning the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge as an American Ruhr. Much of this growth, notes Eric Smith, associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute, will be financed by German and other European firms that are reeling from electricity costs now three times higher than in places like Louisiana. --Joel Kotkin, The Wall Street Journal, 26 February 2013",0_0
"Eric Reid, who manages a fish processing plant in Rhode Island, told the Post there would be ""localized economic damage,"" hitting Atlantic fishing towns.",0_0
"This is possible because all of the warming took place in one year, 1947 to 1948. Balling argues that ""the temperature records from Kyoto and Japan can be interpreted a hundred different ways. One could fairly argue (a) Japan has warmed significantly over the past century, (b) Japan has warmed quickly in the most recent two decades, (c) 1998 is the warmest year on record for Japan, and (d) the greatest warming is occurring at night in the winter. All of these findings are broadly consistent with expectations from climate model simulations for increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases. From this perspective, the temperature record from Japan is another reason to support the Kyoto Protocol.""",0_0
"But the alarmists say the exact opposite, that the climate system amplifies any warming due to extra carbon dioxide, and is potentially unstable. It is no surprise that their predictions of planetary temperature made in 1988 to the U.S. Congress, and again in 1990, 1995, and 2001, have all proved much higher than reality.",5_1
"The procedure is based on the null hypothesis of AR(1) red noise predictions over the validation interval, using the variance and lag-one autocorrelation coefficient of the actual NH series over the calibration interval to provide surrogate AR(1) red noise reconstructions. From the ensemble of surrogates, a null distribution for RE and CE is developed. In other words, the appropriate significance estimation procedure requires the use appropriate AR(1) red noise surrogates against which the performance of the correct RegEM procedure as implemented by Schneider (2001)/Rutherford et al (2005)/Mann et al (2005) can be diagnosed.",0_0
"There is little detail of how many peer reviewed papers are needed to qualify as a specialist, it could by their definition be just two papers, one of which needs to be on climate change. What a poor example of scientific enquiry this survey really is",0_0
Climate campaigner wonders whether it's immoral to have kids,0_0
"For example, prior to 1990, EPA generally used the ""actual-to-future-actual"" method of estimating emission changes. In its 1990 Draft NSR Workshop Manual, EPA indicated it would begin to use the ""actual-to-potential"" test on a case-by-case basis. The change was successfully challenged by utilities in the WEPCO case, but EPA continued to assert that it could be used when regulating nonutility emitters. In 1996, EPA announced that nonutility emitters should presume the ""actual-to-future-potential"" method applied to them, but included a return to the ""actual-to-future-actual"" in its proposed reform agenda. Two years later, in 1998, EPA stated it would stay with the ""actual-to-future-potential"" test.",0_0
"I mean, you can equate the fluxes on paper if you want, but this no longer corresponds to the real system or its physics because, basically, the procedure is physically meaningless. Reality and physics does not respond to averages, reality does not wait around for an average to be determined and then choose to react to it, reality and physics react in real-time to instantaneous inputs, and the Sun doesnt shine evenly on both hemispheres at once.",0_0
A version of this article appeared on July 1 in Townhall Finance online.,0_0
"Suckers. ...a seemingly grey area exists when a product is labeled as non-GMO, yet a GMO counterpart does not exist. For example, should an avocado be labeled as non-GMO if GMO avocados don't exist? What about salt? Crushed tomatoes? A recent article highlighted that some brands of popcorn are advertised as not containing genetically modified corn when there is no genetically modified corn of the popcorn variety on the market.",0_0
"Iraq, to be sure, was in many ways sui generis. Iran, by contrast, should be a no-brainer, since a nuclear Iran would lead to nuclear proliferation throughout the Middle East all the way to Algeria. Were coercive diplomacy to fail, then, as Senator McCain put it, there would still be one thing worse than military intervention in Iran a nuclear Iran.",0_0
"The sea-level rises estimated in the IPCCs last assessment report, released in 2007, were now on the low side.",0_0
"Instead, OSTP described Holdren's claim in these drafts as ""information provided by the government meet ""basic standards of quality, including objectivity, utility, and integrity,"" and constituted ""communications from the White House about climate science."" (see pages 1 and 5 of each draft). Accordingly, OSTP argued it complied with the IQA's standards for the quality of official information.",0_0
PHILIP: Nicest thing you can do for somebody is tell them the truth. He has it. He doesnt want it.,0_0
"Dean Carroll, Public Service.co.uk, 3 August 2010",0_0
"In the rarefied world of economic theory, any number of carbon tax regimes can be constructed that buffer economic harms through rebates. And certainly, they would reduce GHG emissions.",0_0
Industrial activity is obvious as is close dense residential.,0_0
"So the only thing that climate science actually knows is the average near-surface air temperature, which isnt all that useful. It would be much better at least to have the actual physical surface temperature.",0_0
"Svensmarks Cosmic Ray Theory. TOP: If the sun??s magnetic field is weak it allows more cosmic rays, which may seed more clouds on Earth. BOTTOM: A strong solar magnetic field blocks the same rays and could mean less clouds and clearer skies.",2_1
"Congressional staff members describe the White House role in the negotiations as largely passive. It is expected that after the conference committee finishes, Tauzin, Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), and Senators Jeff Bingaman and Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) will meet behind closed doors to hammer out a deal that might be acceptable to both the administration and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.).",0_0
"President Obama's speech at West Point yesterday was touted in advance by his team as an important opportunity to lay out his vision for American leadership in the world. In that sense it was a success, in that there was indeed a vision, and that it was laid out. But the victories stop there, for the speech and for American foreign policy.",0_0
"Mind you, the term ""pause"" is misleading in the extreme: Unless and until it resumes again, it's just a ""stop."" You don't say a bullet-ridden body ""paused"" breathing.",0_0
"sign of national weakness. ""Not because we thought it would necessarily work,"" as Clinton later said, ""but because we knew that without trying we'd never get the allies to sign on to a much, much tougher approach.""",0_0
"Anll of the vicious nonsense that has driven Peter Spencer up his pole is in the name of addressing the non-problem of ""global warming"".",0_0
"Businesses Giving Away the Store on Global Warming , by Steven J. Milloy",0_0
"""So what miracle turned this problematic researcher's life around?",0_0
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the Twenty-first Century,0_0
"Oh, and there won?t be much room on the more heavily populated planet in 2050 for organic farming. We?ll need to shift our future concern from ?toxic chemicals? to lost wildlife. Think ?high-yield conservation.? when you think of modern farming.",0_0
"This approach, much like a trade negotiation, would make monitoring compliance with nations' pledges easier. It would also make penalties of failing to perform agreed actions more credible. At the same time, one must admit that such a negotiation would not produce the dramatic GHG reductions craved by the green groups, but, then again, no other form of negotiation is likely to produce that result. It makes no sense to condemn modest real progress because it does meet an unrealizable ideal.",0_0
"It might just be too difficult to do with any dependable and/or useful degree of accuracy, as the authors of this paper write their findings ???imply that the response of the tropical Pacific to future forcings may be even more uncertain than portrayed by state-of-the-art models because there are potentially important sources of century-scale variability that these models do not simulate.?? Such uncertainties must be adequately addressed before model projections can be taken seriously?? Read More",5_1
The reconstructions clearly show a ?hockey-stick? trend. I guess this is,0_0
"Were still waiting for update of the NODC ocean heat content data. It will be interesting to see what effect this off-season El Nio has had on the ocean heat content of the tropical Pacific. Did it drop as a result of this off-season El Nio? Well have to wait for their April-June 2014 update, which should be available in August or September.",0_0
"Based on the graphical representations of Lhotakova et al .'s findings, we calculate that at the end of the eight-year CO 2 enrichment experiment there was a CO 2 -induced increase in light-saturated net photosynthesis of approximately 115% in the trees' sun-exposed needles and about 55% in their shaded needles; and we likewise calculate that there was an approximate 20% decrease in the mean dark respiration rate of the trees' sun-exposed needles and about 40% in their shaded needles.",3_3
"At bottom, Murray notes, the environmental movement is rooted not in a concern for the environment, but in a disdain for personal freedom and free-enterprise capitalism. Humanity is the disease plaguing the planet. The antidote must be environmental policies enforced by government diktat, relying on mandates, bans, orders, restrictions and punishments to achieve its goals. The better answer is conservation by private stewards, individuals and corporations, who understand caring for the environment is important, while making choices that are actually logical - and sustainable.",0_0
"This current no-holds-barred attack on the coal industry is a sequel to previously failed liberal efforts to pass congressional cap-and-trade legislation. In addition to lacking a valid scientific basis for such policies, any emission reductions achieved would be minuscule compared with large increases already occurring in Asia and other regions.",4_2
"One recent manifestation of this phenomenon is the effort to define climate change as a ""national security"" issue a discovery that conveniently followed in the wake of President Obama's characteristically modest prediction that his presidential nomination would be remembered as ""the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."" We've even heard it said of late that childhood obesity a cause which just happens to be the personal crusade of the First Lady threatens U.S. national security by rendering ever more young Americans unfit for military service, thus reducing the talent pool of young recruits available to our armed forces. Childhood obesity, it has been proclaimed, is ""an epidemic that threatens national security.""",0_0
But in the midst of this mess weve come across the New York Times cutting sceptics some slack for a change. In commenting on the leaked emails from the CRU at East Anglia they acknowledge some positive results from some of the cranks and pests asking reasonable questions and identifying genuine problems.,0_0
Al Gore emerges as the leading contender to win the next Nobel Peace Prize for his global warming activism.,0_0
"Today my young Independent/Democrat-leaning friend Tabitha and I were discussing the Green movement in America. We were on the subject of the manufacturer-killing EPA, massive regulations and the loss of the Keystone Pipeline when she made a very astute observation.",0_0
"The acceptance of CO2 as a pollutant by the EPA, yet it is a climate forcing not a traditional atmospheric pollutant, opens up a wide range of other climate forcings which the EPA could similarly regulate (e.g. land use; water vapor).",0_0
"Recently, German scientists have argued that two naturally occurring cycles will combine to lower global temperatures to levels corresponding with the Little Ice Age of 1870. According to scientists declining solar activity and the 65-year Atlantic and Pacific Ocean oscillation cycle will cause the earth to cool during this century.",1_2
"Even the more cautious scientific acolytes of the official orthodoxy now admit that, thanks to ""natural factors"" such as ocean currents, temperatures have failed to rise as predicted (although they plaintively assure us that this cooling effect is merely ""masking the underlying warming trend"", and that the temperature rise will resume worse than ever by the middle of the next decade).",0_0
"1776 The Pointe--Pitre hurricane was at one point the deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record. At least 6,000fatalities occurred on Guadeloupe, which was a higher death toll than any known hurricane before it. It also struck Louisiana, but there was no warning nor knowledge of the deaths on Guadeloupe when it did. It also affected Antigua and Martinique early in its duration.",1_7
"Its unclear when the Bush teamdecided tomothball theendangerment finding and associated regulations, but a key event wasenactment of the Energy Independence and Security Act(EISA) in December 2007. EISAdirects federal agencies to implementnew fuel economy and renewable fuel standards similar to those proposed in Bushs 20-in-10 plan.The statutedirectly and immediately gave the Bush team the authoritytheyneeded to curb oil imports.So they put EPAs draft endangerment analysis and the associated motor vehicle emission regulations under wraps, much to the consternation of Sen. Boxer (D-CA), Rep. Waxman (D-CA), Rep. Markey (D-MA), and numerous environmental groups.",0_0
"Today, global climate change is the number one environmental issue facing the United States and the international community. The issues in the climate change debate can be very technical, and many Americans have found ,themselves confused and unsure whom to believe. According to one side, the ""activists,"" the prospect of human-induced global warming is a near certainty, and failure to address the problem will have catastrophic ecological consequences. According to the other side, the ""skeptics,"" global warming is a hypothesis lacking scientific validation, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions will have serious negative economic consequences.",0_0
"""limate policy could contribute as much as 10% to overall portfolio risk: Uncertainty around climate policy is a significant source of portfolio risk for institutional investors to manage over the next 20 years. The economic cost of climate policy for the market to absorb is estimated to amount to as much as approximately $8 trillion cumulatively, by 2030.""",4_1
"Conventional wisdom based on previous research held that land plant productivity was on the rise. A 2003 paper in Science led by then University of Montana scientist Ramakrishna Nemani (now at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.) showed that global terrestrial plant productivity increased as much as six percent between 1982 and 1999. Thats because for nearly two decades, temperature, solar radiation and water availability influenced by climate change were favorable for growth.",0_0
"One small problem. The CO2 theory says warming is caused by the CO2, where most of it got into the atmosphere since about 1945. This graph shows the warming happening when there is little added CO2, and growth of temperature halting as CO2 is released. Being essentially flat from 1932 to the left margin. We do see that the last half dozen years again have about 1/2 the low going range pruned out of the data; or it could just be like the 1940s flat period again.",2_3
"""Since 1987, environmental pressure groups have blocked every attempt to open ANWR with a collection of bogus arguments, false claims, and irrelevant facts,"" said Myron Ebell, director of global warming policy at CEI. ""The damage done by Hurricane Katrina to America's energy supplies should cause Americans to look more closely at the facts.""",0_0
Raul Labrador (R-Id) addresses Tea Party as part of bipartisan push for more green card slots for STEM.,0_0
"The compilation notes 15 mentions of climate change spread across a dozen speeches and remarks since July 23. For instance, the memo quotes a blurb from Obama's speech in Mount Vernon, Iowa, on Oct. 18, when the president attacked Mitt Romney's call to end a major tax credit for wind power projects.",0_0
"While the EU and its member nations continued to play an irresponsible role at Bali, I think it is fair to say that the delegations representing United States, Canada, and Japan made positive and constructive contributions to the negotiations. Together, they can be seen to be trying to get the world off its Kyoto fixation and to begin looking for alternative policies that might address the potential challenges of global warming in ways that will not consign hundreds of millions of people in poor countries to perpetual energy poverty.",0_0
"The IBT coverage acknowledges that subsidies and regulation are driving the ""uptick"" in solar deployment. It states: ""exactly how much of an increase will be determined by subsidies while new regulations encourage families and business to invest in solar power."" It continues: ""Proponents for the plan and the move toward solar said the government is working hard to create incentives to help families strapped for cash make the switch to renewable energy, such as solar panels."" Though, as Gilpin points out: ""The Clean Power Plan is geared toward centralized utility scale solar, meaning electricity sold to wholesale utility buyers, not end customers.""",0_0
"At the Competitive Enterprise Institute, we started Human Achievement Hour in 2009 to highlight the idea that environmentalism, as a philosophy, has this at its core: that humans should not exploit the Eartheven if it means humanity doesn't advance, fewer people live, and those who do survive live shorter, sicker, and less comfortable lives.",0_0
"Lest you think the generation numbers from Aug. 4 are an aberration, ERCOT has long discounted wind energy??s capabilities. In 2007, ERCOT determined that just ???8.7 percent of the installed wind capability can be counted on as dependable capacity during the peak demand period for the next year.?? And in 2009, the grid operator reiterated that it could depend on only 8.7 percent of Texas?? wind capacity.",4_4
"We believe China is nearing the end of the period of high economic growth, said Yu Bin, director general of macroeconomic research for the ruling State Councils research centre. What we need is moderate and reasonable economic growth.",0_0
"To insist upon establishing, and upon establishing all at once, and in spite of all opposition, every thing which that idea may require, must often be the highest degree of arrogance. It is to erect his own judgment into the supreme standard of right and wrong. It is to fancy himself the only wise and worthy man in the commonwealth, and that his fellow citizens should accommodate themselves to him, and not him to them.",0_0
"on Tuesday, August 19th, 2014 at 8:41 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"There is nothing in this that is inconsistent with the above commentary. The 1950 relocation from the large open hut is the relocation from the pagoda hut described above, which yielded an adjustment of 1 deg C. Im not objecting or arguing about this adjustment, merely observing that the changes as documented are not large and still yield an effect larger than observed global warming in the past century something that has to be considered in signal-noise statistics when one is dealing with estimation of undocumented station changes.",0_0
"""Twenty-four states, the District of Columbia and Amtrak are vying for $2.4 billion in federal aid that became available when Florida's governor canceled a high-speed rail project in his state, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Wednesday.""",0_0
2. Global cooling is becoming a trend but it's not clear whether that trend is accelerating and unequivocal - circumstantial at this point.,1_2
"Their definition of climate misinformation was contingent upon the post-modernist assumptions that scientific truth is discernible by measuring a consensus among experts, and that a near unanimous consensus exists. However, inspection of a claim by Cook et al. (Environ Res Lett 8:024024, 2013) of 97.1 % consensus, heavily relied upon by Bedford and Cook, shows just 0.3 % endorsement of the standard definition of consensus: that most warming since 1950 is anthropogenic.",5_1
"According to the Central England Temperature Series, England has just experienced its coldest Spring since 1891, says this article by Paul Homewood.",1_3
"Confusion about this point stems from three mistakes. First, many studies consider only industrial sector emissions. Most of the poorer countries' emissions stem from land use changes, agriculture, and animal husbandry, so they are not counted. Second, studies often look only at CO2. Poorer countries tend to have large methane emissions; again their contribution is missed. Third, many studies have lumped those poor countries with high emissions with the many poor countries that have virtually none. The regional averages mask the true state of affairs. Cumulatively, these errors have created a badly distorted impression of the origins of today's atmospheric GHG stocks.",0_0
On this point at least ??? the need for Lewandowsky to address issues of ???Lying/deceiving/incompetence?? ??? even Lewandowsky??s coauthors and critics appear to have found common ground.,5_2
"Not only is there nothing unusual, unnatural or unprecedented about the most recent surface air temperatures at Longyearbyen and Vardo, it is pretty clear that it was significantly warmer at both locations during the peak warmth of the Medieval Warm Period, when there was way less CO2 in the atmosphere than there is today. And this observation suggests as do many others from all around the world that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are not the great threat to humanity and the biosphere that climate alarmists claim them to be, for something in the environment appears to be effectively counteracting whatever greenhouse effect they may produce.",2_1
Toyota To Pay Tesla $60 Million For RAV4 Electric Components:,0_0
"The image on the left, like all clichd science fiction, helps us to suspend disbelief by showing us an iconic landmark Big Ben ravaged by whatever the threat is supposed to be.",0_0
"This anger can be expressed against big business, big government, or big anything. If working-class voters feel they are being treated as mere tools, they will react with anger whether the source of the treatment is an employer, a politician, or an academic.",0_0
"To be sure, the Colorado legislature never authorized the governor to independently impose cuts in greenhouse gases. Instead, by bipartisan majorities, the Colorado House and Senate passed a budget last April that strips the Air Pollution Control Division at the Department of Public Health and Environment of $100,000, which was an ""estimate of what they might be spending"" on the federal Clean Power Plan, according to Republican state Rep. Bob Rankin, who sits on the Joint Budget Committee.",0_0
The Climate Science Isn't Settled Written by Richard S. Lindzen,0_0
"It is hard to see how demand can be reliably met without having a huge amount of gas capacity paid to be on standby, nearly twice as much as the current capacity.",0_0
governmental opinion ?climate change? needs to be present in people?s,0_0
"9. The isotope ratio difference between natural carbon dioxide and carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels is small and not a reliable indication of the source of an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (see Spencer Part2: More CO2 Peculiarities The C13/C12 Isotope Ratio , Watts Up With That? January 28, 2008)",5_1
"Last month, a report by the UKs Met Office which had predicted global temperatures would rise by half a degree centigrade over the past 10 years faced ridicule after it emerged that temperatures had actually dropped by 0.014 degrees.",1_4
"Today, I submitted a comment on EPA's proposed Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Title V Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule. The gist of my argument is as follows:",0_0
"The glaciers of Norway andAlaska are only half the size theywere 50 years age. The temperature around Spitsbergen has somodified that the sailing time haslengthened from three to eightmonths of the year,",0_0
BBC News Sea-level rise from polar ice melt finally quantified,0_0
"on Monday, June 7th, 2010 at 7:00 pm and is filed under News.",0_0
"Peter C. Glover, Troy Media, 12 August 2010",0_0
"But while President Obama was telling the summit attendees in New York that nobody can stand on the sidelines on this issue, and advising world leaders that he had told Chinas top delegate at their meeting that we have a special responsibility to lead, China has staked out its much tougher position in a nine-page position paper drearily titled, Submission on the Work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Durban Platform for Enhanced Action.",0_0
"As a result of Hansens spectacular failures, his confidence levels and temperature forecasts have greatly increased.",5_2
"15 GOP State Attorneys General to AGs United for Clean Power: ""Stop Policing Viewpoints'",0_0
"David was here to install some essential digital recording equipment, provided by the Foreign Office, which will allow the TMA to record and digitally distribute their weather forecasts, thus keeping the forecasting up to date and helping with distaster risk reduction. David also provided guidance on filming and editing of material to produce a climate change awareness film for broadcast on national television and distribution among Tanzanian secondary schools.",0_0
"In the real UK (the one that exists outside the Met Office Supercomputers) the last three summers have all been complete washouts, the last two winters have been bitter cold, and over the last eighty years, summertime temperatures have risen only 0.5C.",1_3
"SOURCE: (IPCC FAR WG1 Chapter 9, p. 695)",0_0
"The book is well written with ample documentation (numerous hyperlinks in the kindle version). The target audience is the broader public, and the spoiled child metaphor provides a readable narrative for her arguments about the IPCC. Most (not all) of this material Ive seen before, but Laframboises narrative makes a clear and compelling case regarding problems with the IPCC. Notably, she covers distinctly different ground from Montfords book The Hockey Stick Illusion. Her final chapter is entitled Disband the IPCC. She makes a good case for this.",0_0
"However, it can be revealed that one of the sources quoted was a feature article published in a popular magazine for climbers which was based on anecdotal evidence from mountaineers about the changes they were witnessing on the mountainsides around them.",0_0
"Before I begin my remarks, I always like to state my beliefs and biases, so my comments can be understood in proper context. By training, I'm a biologist and environmental scientist. By vocation, I am a public policy analyst, having worked for 15 years in think tanks in the U.S. and Canada.",0_0
"New paper suggests volcanoes are causing Antarctic ice loss from below Antarctic ice sheet is melting from below, unrelated to CO2 Did Greenland & W Antarctic Ice Sheet Loss Suddenly Double? Fire And Ice; Volcanoes, Not CO2, Melt West Antarctic",2_1
Scientists Still Baffled by Surface- Atmosphere Discrepancy,0_0
"And last for the discussion of multidecadal variations in surface temperatures, refer to the blog post Will their Failure to Properly Simulate Multidecadal Variations In Surface Temperatures Be the Downfall of the IPCC?",5_1
Gore's graphs imply that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide historically have preceded increases in global temperature. But a 2005 study in the journal Science reported that higher temperatures may actually have preceded increased carbon dioxide levels in the pastthe opposite of the global warming hypothesis.,2_1
"One of the places Matt took us to was Northumberlandia, the Goddess of the North, reputed to be the largest sculpture of a woman on Earth. You can get a sense of the size by noting the cars in the car-park at the lower left, its a million and a half tonnes of earth ...",0_0
Measurements of world temperatures show world temperatures to have stalled with no significant warming since the nineties. IPCC climate models and real world temperatures have diverged and the Earth is cooler than projected.,1_4
"In 2012, the UK Meteorological Office reported that global temperatures have virtually remained steady since 1997 . So, global warming has pretty much stopped for nearly two decades.",1_4
Set Sights for Windows: Linux Moving Beyond Unix Migration in the Enterprise:,0_0
"The majority of China's coal (54 percent) is bituminous, which has a carbon content ranging from 45 percent to 86 percent. On the other hand, 47 percent of America coal, a plurality, is subbituminous, which contains a carbon content of only 35 percent to 45 percent.",0_0
"In our survey, the most specialized and knowledgeable respondents (with regard to climate change) are those who listed climate science as their area of expertise and who also have published more than 50% of their recent peer-reviewed papers on the subject of climate change ( 79 individuals in total). Of these specialists, 96.2% ( 76 of 79) answered risen to question 1 and 97.4% (75 of 77) answered yes to question 2.",0_0
"Solomon reports, ""For this reason, when visiting Oreskes' page on Wikipedia several weeks ago, I was surprised to read not only that Oreskes had been vindicated but that Peiser had been discredited. More than that, the page portrayed Peiser himself as having grudgingly conceded Oreskes' correctness. Upon checking with Peiser, I found he had done no such thing. I then exercised the right that we all have to edit Wikipedia, corrected the Wikipedia entry, and advised Peiser that I had done so.""",0_0
"Predictably, the agreements were attacked by far-Left greens for not going far enough fast enough, many of whom were out in force at Cancun, serving as a foil to make the delegates appear as ?capitalist? stooges by comparison. However, critics on the Right noted that even though the summit did not accomplish what the protestors and even the summit?s most ambitious advocates had hoped, the agreements are far from being the harmless documents described in most media accounts.",0_0
"As we both know or should know carbon dioxide is plant food. Other nutrients are needed, but CO2 is a plants only food, it cannot survive without it. Carbon dioxide replenished through the carbon cycle is the source of the carbon utilized to produce carbohydrates through photosynthesis. Without plants of course, we animals could not survive.",3_3
"In other words, it's not Rex Murphy who is misleading the public with ideology and false information. It's the alarmist climatologists like Pederson who are misleading the public with their smokescreen of ""certainty"" and ""consensus"" and ""global warming"" that not only hasn't occurred in more than a decade, but wasn't ""statistically significant"" before that.",5_2
"Why Coral Reefs and Shellfish Will Not Die From ""Ocean Acidification'",3_2
Why Do El Nio and La Nia Events Peak in Boreal Winter?,0_0
"These tide gauges show that sea levels are rising and falling around Vanuatu over the last 20 years (feast your eyes, there is a 30cm range on that graph below). Where is that CO2 signal? Seas around Vanuatu have been falling since 2008. Getting long term trends out of short data with large natural swings is misleading. Slightly different start or end points will change the rate dramatically. In 2009 the rate of sea level was listed as 6.5mm/yr since 1993. 1 By 2011, the trend was 5.2mm/yr . 2 There is no newer report, but clearly it would be even lower now.",1_6
"A common refrain of climate alarmists is that due to 'basic physics', global warming causes more evaporation and water vapor, and presumably more precipitation and flooding, yet in reality measurements reveal that evaporation has been dropping off worldwide since the 1950s. Furthermore, over 200 peer-reviewed paleoclimate publications find flooding and precipitation are more intense and more variable during cold periods than warm.",1_7
"However there is subtlety in his position too. He does not claim to know what the answers are; he claims that no one knows what the answers are. It is not a contest between opposite forecasts of what a thermometer will do, but one between certainty and not knowing. A key message is that the scientific enterprise in this field is dysfunctional and damaged. How can that be? It?s better funded than most, and plenty of influential scientists and organizations are its enthusiastic supporters. They would undoubtedly claim that there is nothing wrong at all. Answering that question, illustrated by the direct personal experiences of a field insider, makes this small volume compelling.",0_0
"I receive many e-mails, and a recurring complaint is that many of my posts are too technical to understand. This morning?s installment arrived with the subject line, ?Please Talk to Us?, and suggested I provide short, concise, easily understood summaries and explanations ?for dummies?.",0_0
"Does the problems with the IPCC mean that WG1 science is incorrect? Not necessarily, but I agree that a new trial is needed. WG2 and WG3 reports pretty much belong in the dustbin, as far as I can tell.",0_0
"Yes, I also think that Giuliani was the #1 person who showed his qualities as a leader after 9/11. As a leader, history turned him into a hero. He may have lost the primaries because of his highly imperfect image as a family man (be sure that the Czech voters have much more tolerance in all these matters!) or due to something else, who knows. John McCain was a lousy candidate and he is still a lousy politician but he was what the GOP finally offered.",0_0
"Evidence? However useful computer models may be, the one thing they cannot be is evidence. Computer climate models are simply conjectures, expressed in the form of mathematical equations (the language of computers), which lead to forecasts of future global temperatures, which can then be compared with the evidence on the ground.",5_1
""" ""Current scientific understanding provides limited guidance on the likelihood, magnitude, and timeframe of physical risks such as sea level rise, extreme weather events, temperature extremes, and precipitation.""",0_0
"Some might take this as a good thing, but ""electricity has gotten more expensive since 2008with the electricity price index at an all-time high."" So we are paying more while getting less.",0_0
Who would have thought that wed get such a major snow fall on Nov. 15? asked Goldfuss. Our day shift arrived at 5 a.m. to find eight to 10 inches of snow on the ground.,0_0
"One way to burn hydrocarbons without raising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere is to burn first, then suck the carbon back out of the air--by growing new trees, for example, or by seeding the oceans with iron to promote massive new growth of algae. If things go right, the new green plants will get buried, and in the fullness of geological time, turn into new coal--call it recycling. This is the cheapest approach and the greenest, too, but it doesn't curb energy consumption. And, if the truth be told, many environmental activists are as determined to curb energy consumption as such as they are to curb carbon emissions.",0_0
"3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?",0_0
"The cynic Ambrose Bierce is not widely acclaimed as a philosopher, yet he did have some useful insights. Before the First World War, in his Devils Dictionary, the cunning old codger defined logic as The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. This may dismay learned, studious people like me, who are entranced by our own beamish logic, but we should remember that Ambrose also defined learning as The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.",0_0
"To all of which, the autocratic European Commission essentially said ""Drop dead."" The EU, it decreed, will spend $375 billion ( 270 billion) annually to slash CO2 emissions by at least 40% below 1990 levels by 2030, and 80% by 2050.",0_0
Antarctic Ice Cores: The Sample Rate Problem,5_1
"For the 10-year period ending August 2011 (September 1, 2001 thru August 31, 2011 - 120 months), the cooling trend accelerates to a very significant minus 10.9F per century rate - again, per the updated NOAA/NCDC temperature records.",0_0
"The Courtfurtherheld that ifEPAmakes a finding of endangerment,then it has aduty, under CAA Sec. 202, to develop and adopt GHG emission standards for new motor vehicles.",0_0
"His environmental documentary, ""The 11th Hour,"" has been a total bust at the box office. After 18 days in release, the film has grossed only $417,913 from ticket sales. The 90-minute snore-fest is playing on 111 screens this week, but that number is likely to be reduced this Friday. The film will be sent to DVD heaven after that.",0_0
certainly will not as we?re choosing the periods to show warming.,0_0
Ford Motor Plans for Energy-Poor Future,0_0
Did the new president understand that FDR is not the model to emulate in the,0_0
"In any event, I asked Ms. Macfarlane precisely why reductions in ""carbon"" emissions are necessary. It was obvious that she has never been asked anything so impertinent she is wholly unused to having her assumptions challenged and so her rather stumbling answer was that increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide (she then used that phrase in place of ""carbon"") are creating dangerous climate effects that already are visible. The ensuing back-and-forth was as follows, almost verbatim:",0_0
"In mid-January, the Energy and Environmental Legal Institute revealed that emails obtained through the Freedom of Information Act revealed that the EPA used official events to help environmental groups gather signatures for petitions on agency rulemaking. ""The level of coordination in these documents is shocking"" said an EELI spokesman. The EPA has a long history of this, including a policy of ""sue and settle"" working with environmental groups to bring a suit to advance regulations and settling the suit to enable it to implement those regulations.",0_0
Now lets look at southern hemisphere sea ice extent. Slope of the red line is 0.02602 million Km^2/year.,1_1
"The inherent dangers and wickedness of technology and industrialism will lead, environmentalists argue, to apocalyptic destruction caused by man's unnatural alterations of the natural world, whether these result from GM crops or pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The contemporary twist on these traditional motifs is the patina of scientific research layered over mythic longings and anxieties. Yet despite those pretensions to scientific precision and rigor, the obsession with potential risks has obscured the proven advances new technologies have made, particularly in food production.",0_0
"Temme et al . conclude that in terms of carbon gain and whole-plant growth rate, responses to low CO 2 are, in fact, somewhat more extreme than responses to high CO 2 , the latter of which gradually diminish in magnitude as the air's CO 2 concentration rises higher and higher. Reviewed 19 February 2014",3_3
"With their agricultural lands inundated for months, many households in the area also use a floating bed of compacted water hyacinths to grow vegetables, locally known as baira. These floating gardens fall and rise with the water level and can allow households to grow vegetables for consumption when the flood waters are high. Researchers from BCAS have devised ways to improve the design of such bairas to make them lighter and stay afloat for longer periods of time.",0_0
"Of course, as we move forward with more EPA GHG rulemaking, it matters critically who the President is. But even if Mitt Romney is elected President, he will find it very difficult to eliminate EPA GHG regulation completely. To do so, he would have to pull the endangerment finding, which would be difficult to accomplish both legally and politically. However, the discretion that the CAA gives EPA to fashion GHG regulations, while dangerous in the wrong hands, also presents an opportunity to an EPA Administrator who wishes to have a moderate approach to GHG regulation.",0_0
2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.,0_0
increasing net primary productivity in natural and managed woodlands that may,0_0
"The Western-inspired international legal order is today under assault at the UN; at the same time, an obsolete Law of Armed Conflict is preventing the West from defending itself on the ground. As a military organization, NATO should today articulate a ""Counter-Lawfare"" doctrine for the sake of intellectual interoperability. As a security organization, NATO should not wait until it has become a full-fledged UN of Democracies to start elaborating a New Law of Armed Conflict adapted to the realities of post-modern warfare.38 Last but not least, the Alliance should take strategic communication more seriously and make better use of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (information) and the NATO Defense College (education).",0_0
"But in that case, since all of the coal on the planet seems to be conventional coal, if we convert coal to oil, are we making conventional oil or unconventional oil? Presumably it would matter whether we converted coal to oil horizontally or vertically ...",0_0
"The scientific community responded in a way that can only be described as disgraceful. In professional literature, it was complained he had no standing because he was not an earth scientist. His publisher, Cambridge University Press, was attacked with cries that the editor should be fired, and that all right-thinking scientists should shun the press. The past president of the AAAS wondered aloud how Cambridge could have ever ???published a book that so clearly could never have passed peer review.?? (But of course, the manuscript did pass peer review by three earth scientists on both sides of the Atlantic, and all recommended publication.)",5_2
"Mann: Many climate scientists myself included think that a single decade is too brief to accurately measure global warming and that the IPCC was unduly influenced by this one, short-term number.",1_4
"2. During the 20th century, a global warming of between 0.4C and 0.7C occurred, at a maximum rate, in the early decades of the century, of about 1.7C/century. In comparison, our best regional climate records show that over the last 10,000 years natural climate cycling has resulted in temperature highs up to at least 1C warmer than today, at rates of warming up to 2.5C/century.",2_1
"As politicians from around the world prepare to meet in Paris for the latest round of climate talks, their focus should be on spreading the fracking revolution worldwide. Their goal should not be making energy more expensive. Instead, it should be making cleaner energy cheaper.",0_0
"For moderate progressives, then, the very impatience and lofty ambitions that animate liberal progressives were seen to be the causes of Republican and conservative victory. Moderate progressives like Bill Clinton believed that voters would choose conservative Republicans if they were not offered a Democratic alternative that sought to modernize Roosevelt's legacy for modern times. By pledging to ""end welfare as we know it"" and support the people who ""work hard and play by the rules,"" Clinton sought to place that alternative before Americans. He did, and he won.",0_0
> >> decisio-making .. I disagree. Even though there are large,0_0
"By Doug MacEachern, Arizona Republic, Aug 7, 2015",0_0
Question: What are the quantitative uncertainties introduced from each step of the homogenization adjustment? Do they vary geographically?,0_0
"The Skeptical Science kidz are up to their usual paid-propaganda tactics with a new post claiming that a much bigger graph is needed to show the0.09C global ocean warming over the past 55 years . Apparently, they think making a graph larger will create a bigger impact from the tiny hundredths-of-a-degree world ocean warming since 1957 , rather than adjusting the axis scale.",5_2
"However climate scientists are insisting we are in the middle of the heaviest global warming maybe ever, and that the temperature will rise with at least 2-4 degrees towards the year 2100.",0_0
"I am sure it's hard for you to hear these words, but there is something you can do to help. Why not sit your dad down and have a good talk to him. Tell him you want him to stop helping the big companies that are spoiling the future for you and all the other kids at school. Tell him that the family would rather have less money if he had a different job, one you could be proud of.",0_0
"The Czech president, a vocal skeptic of global warming, said the United Nations should also keep out of science, including climate change. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has made fighting climate change one of his top priorities",0_0
"It may seem, to some, that Australia has addressed the bushfire bureau-political chain well (especially the hats, medals, helicopters and sympathy), yet there is ongoing dispute over the best way to actually prevent destructive bushfires. Some, including most farmers and volunteer bushfire fighters, with practical bushfire experience, are in favour of simplification, by returning to something like traditional Aboriginal management, where the bush was deliberately lit at short intervals, in a mosaic pattern, so keeping fuels low, and fires mild, even in summer. Local knowledge is essential for this approach. Those in white shirts should play a supporting, not directing role. In other words, lets make fire our friend, and use fire to fight fire.",0_0
"Ive been using it for a while and it looks both reliable and secure. Do NOT forget your password or you are hosed. If just using it for malware thwarts, you can use something trivial for the password (like your name, or name the file with the password Decrypt with Forgleware for example). Likely to prevent mechanical attacks, but a poor idea if a person gets on the box. I like using things like, for example, StarWars characters, but thats just me ;-) It means I have a limited set to search if I forget.",0_0
"Ormisher said Fisker has delivered between 250 and 300 Fisker Karmas in the United States, and the company is nearing approval to sell the cars in Europe.",0_0
"OK heres the bottom line. When Wppelmann et al. factored their measurements of land motion into the estimate of sea-level rise, they determined a global value of 1.31 0.30 mm per year compared to the 1.80.5 mm per year value given by the IPCC for the recent half century. We understand that the IPCC acknowledges a low-end value of 1.3 mm per year in their estimate, but another way to look at this article is that Wppelmann et al. just reduced observed sea-level rise by 27%! Perhaps the IPCC should reconsider whether they still have high confidence that the rate of sea level rise has in fact increased from the 19th to the 20th century.",1_6
> >> >>Attachment Converted: c:\eudora\attach\climatic variability,0_0
"""This is the true U.N. agenda unmasked in this draft report,"" he said. Morano now runs the ClimateDepot blog, which also reported on the draft document.",0_0
Court won't put aside Facebook settlement:,0_0
"CEI has been involved in the global warming debate for many years. Despite President Clinton's assertion, there is no scientific consensus on global warming. Mr. Smith and CEI work to educate the American people about the truth about global warming.",5_1
"Barack Obama, in contrast, has built a top-and-bottom coalition academics and gentry liberals, blacks and Hispanics, with funding and organizational backing from taxpayer-funded public-sector unions. In 2008 Obama carried those with incomes under $50,000 and over $200,000, and lost those in between.",0_0
"What is worse is that these doom mongers are so often found to be wrong and yet keep on going with their apocalyptic forecasts, rather like crazed American televangelists who predict that the Antichrist will come next Tuesday or that God will purge the land of homosexuals and then keep on making their bizarre pronouncements long after the date they said the world would end.",0_0
"The three Israeli researchers write that ""to the best of our knowledge, this is the first study of the reproductive responses of CAM plants to CO 2 enrichment,"" and they state that their experiments demonstrate ""the vast potential of possible increases in the yields of CAM crops under CO 2 enrichment."" Reference",3_3
"The German Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel is, in accordance with New Technology, willing to increase to Stockholm from talking with Stefan Lfven. He wants to remind that Swedish Vattenfall has a responsibility for the German arbetstillfllen and stable power generation. It comes naturally coal power in Germany, which stands for 45 percent of German energifrsrjning. Sigmar Gabriel says that it makes to wind electricity generation from coal and krnkraft simultaneously.",0_0
"3. CFLs can't be used with most dimmers or timers, and they don't fit in many fixtures. I've got several of those Y-shaped ceiling sockets that hold three 60-watt bulbs, but if I replace all three bulbs in a socket with CFLs, I can't fit the glass cover back on. (According to one customer service rep at Westinghouse, you shouldn't mix CFLs with incandescents in the same socket, so forget about inter-bulb harmony.)",0_0
"This again illustrates the very limited value of using a global averaged surface temperature linear trend as the primary climate metric to determine the consequences of human- and natural-climate change, even if we could accurately diagnose such a quantity.",0_0
"Interestingly, over the period of time that climate alarmists claim has exhibited the most extreme global warming of the past two millennia, and in spite of the fact that they have historically claimed such warming should be most evident in earth's polar regions, and that it should lead to a decrease in polar sea ice extent, just the opposite has occurred in the Southern Ocean about Antarctica.?? What is doubling damaging to their dogma is the fact that Southern Ocean sea ice extent is extremely sensitive to warming , decreasing from a 24-year-average maximum monthly value of 18.23 x 10 6 km 2 in September to a similarly-calculated minimum monthly value of 2.98 x 10 6 km 2 in February, which represents the disappearance of nearly 84% of each year's maximum sea ice cover.?? Given a little more seasonal warmth, it would disappear altogether each February.?? But it doesn't.?? It continues to slowly but surely grow in the mean. Reviewed 11 May 2005",1_1
"Analysts also challenged the belief that exports would somehow damage the fledgling alternative vehicle market. ""he small price increases that would result from allowing exports would have at most a marginal impact on the use of natural gas as fuel for cars and trucks,"" Levi wrote. ""Blocking exports wouldn't push natural gas into automobilesit would mostly keep it in the ground, because there would be less incentive to extract it.""",0_0
"How simple, deep, and useful. More seriously, first of all, this statement doesn't accurately express the conservation law which also says that destroying the energy into nothing is impossible. Second of all, the contrived language above tells us nothing about the validity of the energy conservation law. Third of all, the law is exactly valid whenever the background or the effective laws of physics are time-translational symmetric; however, the law is violated in cosmology which helpfully allowed cosmic inflation to create the whole visible Universe out of (almost) nothing.",0_0
"Heclaims that there is no dispute about CO2 trapping heat. But thats just a diversion from the real issue: CO2 sensitivity and feedbacks. Of course CO2 is a greenhouse gas. But the question is: How much warming will a doubling of CO2 lead to? Not much, or a lot? Thats what is beinghotly debated. A number of recent peer-reviewed studies and data are showing that the warming indeed will be small.",3_1
"Our research has shown that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has no impact on global temperatures, or the climate.",2_3
"It makes a large difference if you ask Americans to pay for a policy. Instead, Waxman-Markey will set up a marketplace for trading a new commoditycarbon creditson Wall Street while attempting to ensure that the proceeds and profits are fully redistributed, like an income tax with a 100 percent refund. The EPA's newest analysis also omits the impacts that higher energy rates engendered by Waxman-Markey will have on the economy in terms of reduced economic growth and likely job losses. Of course, the proceeds of freely allocated allowances will not be redistributed evenly, and many will not even flow to consumers, as the EPA analysis makes clear in findings that the advocates of Waxman-Markey have chosen not to advertise:",0_0
"In August, New York Governor George Pataki announced a $17 million aid package to four private companies to develop wind farms in various parts of the state. But, according to Glenn Schleede, president of Energy Market & Policy Analysis, New Yorkers should be wary of the environmental claims of wind power.",0_0
"It is suffocatingly warm, you can hardly breath. I was completely drenched in sweat after just 3 minutes. It is simply incomprehensible that the technical design of the ventilation system at the SeeCampus even got approved.",0_0
"If low sunspot activity coincides with volcanic activity, shouldnt even more volcanic activity have occurred during the Maunder Minimum than during the Dalton Minimum?",0_0
"For each Conspiracy Theory point, there is a Rational Alternative. Take the coroner who is, er, quirky. Evidence of bad acting? Or just that folks who spend their lives getting a medical degree so they can then cut up dead bodies all day are, well, a little Quirky (or even more than a little) Were the web pages with creation dates same day due to friends doing what they knew how to do as soon as they heard (rather than shadowy actions of non-grieving non-parents), and were web pages set up the day before, perhaps just a mis-set clock on the server, or even just an artifact of another time zone? (Unlikely since they are so close to GMT, so much of the world is running later, not earlier).",0_0
"Despite my inconspicuous consumption, I have an enormous carbon footprint. Indeed my carbon footprint is so big that it rivals that of a mega-consumer like Leonardo de Caprio, or even a super-mega consumer like Al Gore.",0_0
A critical ingredient for reducing vulnerability and enhancing resilience is empowerment of marginalized groups and the associated access to resources.,0_0
"Bratton isn't alone in that opinion. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Police Foundation, Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police, Major Cities Chiefs' Association, and other law enforcement groups oppose or are extremely critical of having local police enforce immigration laws for the same reason.",0_0
"""Today we revised our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Security Overview. We're in the process of emailing every user to let you know about these changes. These updates are meant to make all our policies clearer and more transparent to you.""",0_0
Smart meters are digital devices that measure electricity usage in homes and business and wirelessly transmit that information to the utility for billing.,0_0
"Instead, representatives at the Durban conference reportedly are still trying to figure out how and whether to extend the Kyoto protocol, whose emission requirements expire next year. Some industrial nations want a new agreement that would ask more of developing countries.",0_0
"The authors also noted that the proportion of corals that bleached in the summer declined over the period of study, while the proportion of young juveniles increased, suggesting a ""recovery"" of the corals and that their ""symbionts may be adapting to the stress.""",3_2
"Predictions of changes in other aspects of climate, such as precipitation and sea-level rise, are even more uncertain than the projections of global temperature.",5_1
Hrmed opens me the trees from all sorts of climate discussions.,0_0
"To date, in what Norby and Iversen describe as ""the longest observation period for N dynamics in a non-expanding deciduous forest exposed to elevated CO 2 ,"" there is no indication of nitrogen limiting, or even beginning to limit, the ability of atmospheric CO 2 enrichment to enhance tree productivity. Reference",3_3
"Charles Krauthammer crossed a line. He declared the American Left totalitarian. He is correct. Totalitarianism is written into the Left's DNA. Krauthammer wrote about a left-wing petition ""bearing more than 110,000 signatures delivered to the Post demanding a ban on any article questioning global warming."" He concluded: ""I was gratified by the show of intolerance because it perfectly illustrated my argument that the Left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation -- no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse any and all opposition. The proper word for that attitude is totalitarian"" Here is some of what the Left has done in the last week or two.",0_0
"""Atlantis' last flight is a sad day for those who believe in America's greatness and a happy day for those who welcome America's decline."" Arthur Herman",0_0
Could Climate Science Survive a Legal Cross Examination?,0_0
"Although it has been confirmed that the smoke is not harmful, we are very much part of the local community and have been as equally affected as nearby residents. It is clearly within everyones interest to ensure that the fire is put out as quickly as possible, said Paul MacLaurin, Wavins manufacturing director.",0_0
"A growing body of scientists have joined Gerlich and Tscheuschner in exposing the ""accepted science"" underlying the greenhouse effect. Here are a few of their more damning statements:",0_0
"Thus, though it is no part of their motivating intention to improve the conditions of life of others, in their own self-interest each individual must devote his efforts to serving the wants of those others as a means to achieving his own ends. And, thus, while it is no part of the individuals intention, the cumulative effect for society, Adam Smith argued, was that those goods most valued by others in society were the ones produced and offered on the market.",0_0
"If ratified and implemented, the Kyoto Protocol would inaugurate an era of international eco-energy planning. Under UN auspices, industrial nations would cooperate to ""decarbonize"" their economies. Kyoto itself would have little effect on atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gases alleged to cause global warming. But supporters hope Kyoto will be the first of many agreements restricting mankind's use of fossil energy.",4_1
"Even when a warming activist confirms the truth of what Plimer says, the Lateline reporter hears it as a denial. And what Plimer actually deduces from the drop since 1998 is also true that this is not consistent with the alarmists predictions or theory that the ever-increasing amounts of carbon dioxide emitted by man is causing ever-increasing warming.",1_4
"The American Association of Physicians and Surgeons Journal announces publication of an article condemning the EPA junk science on air pollution, imagine that.",0_0
"By Sonal Patel, Power Mag, Aug 12, 2015",0_0
From the BBC 2003: Britain swelters in record heat,0_0
"Their analysis proved prescient. Bill Clinton, campaigning as a New Democrat, captured the White House in 1992. And Republicans finally broke through and won a majority in the House in 1994.",0_0
"Cheap energy powers economies. Natural gas is more than just energy, it??s also a feedstock to all sorts of important chemical production, from nitrogen fertilizer to plastics. Pierre Gosselin has a couple relevant posts at his No Tricks Zone. 500,000 New US Jobs By 2025 Thanks To Affordable Shale Gas ??? US Gas 75% Cheaper Than In Europe notes some of the industries moving back to the US or starting from scratch thanks to cheap natural gas. It??s quite a counterpoint to his lament about companies leaving Germany and that Chemicals Industry Bosses And Labor Union Send Angela Merkel Warning Letter Over Skyrocketing Energy Prices .",4_5
"Epidemiological studies are corrupted by uncontrollable ""confounding factors"" and thus cannot reliably identify causes and effects, or attribute all the asserted deaths to particulates. How can you separate PM2.5 particles emitted by vehicles, power plants and factories from particles due to volcanoes, forest fires, construction projects, dust storms or pollen or from cigarettes that rapidly send 1000 times more tiny particles into lungs than what EPA says is lethal if they come from other sources? It can't be done.",0_0
"Texas, of course, may be an outlier. But the Maine Republican Party adopted a platform that called for the abolition of the Federal Reserve, called global warming a myth, and demanded an investigation of ""collusion between government and industry"" in perpetrating that myth. It also called for resistance to ""efforts to create a one world government."" And the Benton County, Ark., Republican Party said in its newsletter, ""The 2nd Amendment means nothing unless those in power believe you would have no problem simply walking up and shooting them if they got too far out of line and stopped responding as representatives.""",0_0
"Never let a good crisis go to waste could have been written for Bob Brown. No depths are too low for the Greens leader, exposing his party as a bunch of hysterical ecotards, more concerned with using the Queensland floods to push their extremist environmental agenda than for the suffering of so many people as a result of this tragedy. Fortunately, he has been criticised for his comments by all sides:",0_0
"Next up: the North American leaders meeting in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Sunday and Monday. This was the fifth in a series of annual meetings proposed by former U. S. president George W. Bush as part of his Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America initiative, the SPP.",0_0
"I'm dreaming of a white...climate change protest. As you might have seen on the Drudge Report, a demonstration in support of cap-and-trade legislation in Annapolis ended up covered in chilly snow yesterday. Where's your global warming, now?",1_3
"There are multiple factors that affect both regional and global temperatures, but the most important source of long-term temperature change is solar activity. Using data from the Norwegian Sea and multiple solar proxies, the peer-reviewed research by Sejrup et al. confirms a robust and synchronous correlation between solar activity and temperatures.",2_1
"NCAR had modeled on the theory that aerosols were the cause, but not the Sun, which again, I found odd, since the only major source of radiation that can only affect the opening and closings and sizes of the Earths ozones IS the Sun.",0_0
"In early 2013, the president announced he would ""act"" on climate because Congress had failed to pass a cap-and-trade bill. And in 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a controversial climate policy with the innocuously named Clean Power Plan, which is backstopped by a cap-and-trade scheme. Thus, the president used congressional inaction as a justification to impose his climate policy through executive means. Obama's attempt to legislate from the White House makes a mockery of the separation of powers established by the Constitution.",0_0
"The Chinese governments goals were to have 500,000 electric vehicles on the road by 2011 (accounting for 5 percent of total vehicle sales) and 5 million on the road by 2020. But, as the authors point out, in mid-2013, China had only about 40,000 electric vehicles on the road, more than 80 percent of which were in public fleet vehicles, such as taxis and buses.",0_0
"Pachauri blamed WG2 co-chairs, Martin Parry (now of the Grantham Institute) and Osvaldo Canziani for failing to pick up the error.",0_0
"With the help of this adjustment, they manage to get the rate of sea level rise, according to their figures, up from 2.8mm/yr to 3.1mm/yr, since 1993. So clearly this is not the small adjustment they claim, as it is more than 10% of the change!",5_1
"The GHG standards will starta regulatory chain reaction with potentially devastating economic impacts. The newstandardsare the regulatory complement to the endangerment proposal EPA issued on April 17.As explained here and here ,once EPA and DOTfinalize the Fuel economy/GHG emission standards, an estimated 1.2 million previously unregulatedbuildings and facilitieswillqualify as??major stationary sources?? of carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act??s Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) pre-construction permitting program.Thousands of small- to mid-size firmscould be compelled to obtainPSD permits in order to build or modify such ???major stationary sources??as office buildings, enclosed malls, big box stores, and commercial restaurants.",4_1
"Actually, they did. Allow me to introduce readers to Piers Corbyn, meteorologist and brother of my old chum, bearded leftie MP Jeremy. Piers Corbyn works in an undistinguished office in Borough High Street. He has no telescope or supercomputer. Armed only with a laptop, huge quantities of publicly available data and a first-class degree in astrophysics, he gets it right again and again.",0_0
"Some critics have questioned the rationale for spending research money on an electric car in a poor agrarian country with an ailing public healthcare system, and where electricity outages are the norm. One cartoon showed the Kiira being pushed by two men apparently because there was no electricity to charge it.",0_0
"Our letter never once makes reference to individuals, be they scientists or bloggers, instead suggested an ""investigation of corporations and other organizations"" such as oil and coal lobby groups. We are not calling for contrarian scientists or bloggers to be investigated for expressing their beliefs about climate change. Freedom of speech and freedom of scientific exploration are critical rights that should always be respected. We wish to apologize to any scientist or blogger who mistakenly concluded that we were calling for an investigation into their activities.",0_0
"October 20, 2015 | Commentary on Climate Change, Energy Policy, Political Thought",0_0
"More on the Seas that are not rising , or warming. Scientists have confirmed that they are still wet, they think.",1_6
"Cut allowable NOx emissions by 67 percent, from current emissions of 5 million tons to 2.1 million tons in 2008, and to 1.7 million tons in 2018.",0_0
"Where the threat is not a direct one, the President spoke of mobilizing partners and of collective action, both of which are sound, if difficult objectives. That said, the absence of such conditions should not hamper action worth doing. For instance, if we had information on where and how the young Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram were being held and the capability to carry out their rescue, would we wait on some kind of coalition to form in order to attempt it? The point is, there are ""non-core"" interests worth pursuing unilaterally and we should understand that.",0_0
"A Danish lady who had been in the audience at the meeting broken up by the Nazi thugs said that her father had told her that such displays had been a feature of Copenhagen during the German occupation. She, too, was shaken and saddened by the Hitler-Jugend?s attempted disruption of what we had all hoped was now the unchallengeable right of free speech.",0_0
"Plagiarism is the appropriation of another persons ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit.",0_0
"An automobile's carbon footprint is proportional to vehicle weight, so the new regulation will make larger cars more expensivework trucks will cost a lot more for blue collar Americans in the country's heartland. But that's of little concern to Prius-driving coastal urbanites.",0_0
The Labour leader said the UK had repeated the same mistakes in post-conflict planning for Libya as were made in Iraq and the current refugee situation should have been anticipated.,0_0
"In summary, ENSO is a coupled ocean-atmosphere process and its effects on Global Surface Temperatures are not represented by an ENSO index. ENSO indices cannot account for the impacts of the warm water released by an El Nio event, returned to the West Pacific and redistributed from there. Therefore, any scientific papers that attempt to determine manmade global warming by removing the linear effects of ENSO with a scaled and lagged ENSO index and subtracting it from global surface temperatures are fatally flawed. Papers that make this error-filled, misleading effort include:",5_1
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German consumers already complain about having to pay the second-highest electricity prices in Europe.??,4_1
"I'll try to get a look at the presentations when I get a minute. In the meantime, it's remarkable to compare the House Committee's take on Oxburgh with Joe Farman's from the previous post.",0_0
"WSJ Editorial Suggests There Should Be No Social Cost Of Carbon. In an editorial, The Wall Street Journal criticized the Obama administration for raising the social cost of carbon, or the estimate of the damages caused by emitting a ton of carbon dioxide in one year, which is used by regulatory agencies to calculate the benefit of reducing carbon emissions.The Journal suggested that the social cost of carbon should be $0, approvingly citing the previous lack of a social cost for carbon, adding that ?Congress has never legislated that there are social costs to carbon emissions? and claiming that assigning such as cost is an ?inventio? to ?ri the rule-making?:",0_0
"The memo points out that even the Cuban ruling elite leave Cuba when they need medical care. Fidel Castro, for example, brought in a Spanish doctor during his health crisis in 2006. The vice-minister of health, Abelardo Ramirez, went to France for gastric cancer surgery.",0_0
"Instead of saying the password, the Australian could be mocking the gatekeepers.",0_0
The Senate votes to override the FCC and make media ownership regulations more strict.,0_0
"* The climate crisis dogma-premised ""sustainable energy"" fetish has caused disastrous government policies in the U.S. and abroad, particularly in Europe where failures have produced economic distress.",4_1
global CO2 concentration and sea-level change are also supplied. While these,0_0
"2) An increase or decrease in greenhouse gases such as water vapour or carbon dioxide. (However, Miscolczi thinks an increase in co2 will cause a decrease in water vapour to re-equilibriate the system)",3_1
"According to the Washington Post , a Study Says Polar Bears Could Face Extinction. But our scientific roundup of two years ago runs counter to that notion, and still pertains today. For those of you who missed it, and that apparently includes Post staff writer Juliet Eilperin, we offer it again.",0_0
"""Oil prices hovered near $103 a barrel Wednesday in Asia as traders mulled whether a weakening dollar could help push crude back to 2 1/2-year highs.""",0_0
"Approximately 42,100 jobs across the United States;",0_0
Please click here to buy a copy . (Paypal or Credit/Debit Card). Its only US$8.00.,0_0
"In doing so, Gillett and colleagues concluded that the temperature rise over the course of the 21st century is probably going to be considerably less than their raw climate model projections suggest. In fact, they write in their paper titled Improved constraints on 21st-century warming derived using 160 years of temperature observations that:",5_1
"Hansen told the New York Times that the world would likely be under ocean water within decades, not centuries.",0_0
"The witnesses were, however, mere support for the re-launch of the Lieberman-McCain Climate Stewardship Act, which attempts to impose Kyoto-like policies on America. The bill was defeated 53-44 in the Senate last year, having reached the floor only as part of a failed compromise aimed at securing passage of the comprehensive energy bill.",0_0
"On its face, the current situation might seem to promise no real avenue of escape from the tragic history that weighs upon this conflict. Tensions in the area are high. The surge in U.S. popularity occasioned by the election of Barack Obama is largely spent. Turkey, one of Israel's few friends in the Middle East, appears to be turning eastward in its drive for geopolitical influence, a move accelerated by continued confrontations involving Israel's interdiction of ""relief"" supplies bound for Gaza.",0_0
"As weve illustrated and discussed in this post, looking at the three factors that make up the TOA energy imbalance, there is no agreement among the climate models on the values of past, present and future outgoing shortwave and longwave radiation. As a result, there is no agreement about:",0_0
"""now you're seeing Obama realizing that he's menaced by this energy issue""",0_0
"So far this Winter Season (December 1st through January 26th) of 2013-2014, International Falls ranks as the 3rd coldest on record.",1_3
"Despite their claims otherwise, As You Sow's tactics are designed to circumvent the historical bane of environmental activism scientific and economic debate. Its tactics work best against businesses that are hypersensitive about their brands being involved in any sort of controversy. But therein lies the solution to the problem.",0_0
"The Clean Air Act was, as I have said so many timesmisnamedit is really intended to be the Safe Air Act, because, even in Cambridge Mass there is no way to produce clean air. The air always has pollutants in it, and it is not sterile and it is not free of allergens or the many chemicals and molecules that have been on this earth for the eons. We live in a soup.",0_0
"""Addressing cybersecurity is not a question of how best to regulate businesses that are victims of cyber-attacks, but a question of how best to put market mechanisms into Internet and information technology operations to create incentives for improved security.""",0_0
"Cootamundra News, sport and weather | Cootamundra Herald",0_0
"Thus, just by simple logic, this means that the idea that once rainforest is gone, it is gone forever is obviously a myth. If people have been in the forests for centuries, clearing huge areas for agriculture and other purposes, and now it's hard to even find evidence of their civilization, the rainforest obviously grows back quite well. Travel to Mexico, for instance, and see ancient Mayan ruins that have only recently been discovered because entire cities have been swallowed up by the reforested jungle, and this will be more than clear.",0_0
Click here to view the full paper as an Adobe Acrobat PDF.,0_0
Different methods exist for calculating heat units depending on a) the crop or biological organism of interest and b) the whim or personal preference of the researcher. The calculation method most commonly used throughout the U.S. for determining heat unit accumulation relative to corn phenology is the formula first suggested by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 1969 and labeled as the Modified Growing Degree Day formula in 1971.,0_0
"In the East, a region lacking a security regime analogous to NATO, the lack of clarity of the law of the sea regarding such issues as military and intelligence-gathering activities in the EEZs of other countries, and the competing claims for territorial waters and seabeds, has become a game increasingly fraught with dangers. The best known example is the Spratly Islands, one hundred or so islands scattered over an area the size of France, said to hold more oil than Kuwait, and situated right in the middle of one of the busiest sea lanes, used by 300 ships a day. The Islands are claimed in part or totality by no fewer than 17 countries, and five of them (including China) actually have small military forces on these otherwise uninhabited islands.",0_0
"Given the incredible proliferation of lawsuits in this country, for all its faults, the workers comp system is probably better than the alternative. The article cited above has more on the history of workers comp as well as a nifty table of state by state benefits and requirements. As with almost any governmental practice in this nifty Federalist system we have -- small business owners in multiple states, Beware. Every state does it differently.",0_0
That observation ties into another Alpbach theme: pushing global financial regulation even further.,0_0
"Follow James Pethokoukis on Twitter at @JimPethokoukis, and AEIdeas at @AEIdeas.",0_0
Last week we talked about Clouds and some climate guys who cant decide if clouds are a forcer or an inhibitor.,0_0
"Climatologist Dr. Tim Ball accused NASAs Schmidt of climate deception: Schmidt knows, after all his years with participating in the creation and naming of the RealClimate.org web site, that it is all about the headline.",5_2
"Therefore carbon dioxide plays no part in creating smog.Smog consists of ash particles, unburnt fuels and noxious gases produced by the inefficient combustion of anything, usually in open fires or obsolete boilers engines or smelters with no pollution control equipment. Wind-blown dust, bush and forest fires, blue haze from forests and drifting volcanic ash add to the smog.",0_0
"More seriously speaking, I accept, with gratitude, modest donations to support The (other) Cause. The address can also serve as a digital signature to ward off those identity thefts which are part of climate scientists' repertoire of tricks these days.",0_0
Jan vejnar: basic ignorance about Czech realities,0_0
"Not to be outdone, the World Bank recently unveiled a ""Strategic Framework"" for global warming and development that calls for ""unprecedented global cooperation"" for the ""transfer of finance and technology from developed to developing countries."" The Bank established a Carbon Finance Unit and several Carbon Investment Funds to distribute climate change mitigation aid. There are major problems with this approach to development. For starters, it is unlikely that Western bureaucrats can create a green energy infrastructure in developing countries. The history of development assistance is littered with abandoned projects backed by the best of intentions. Already there is evidence that climate aid is more of the same.",4_2
"17. There is one final reason why Pachauri is a disaster as chairman of the IPCC. He, himself, has acknowledged that the process is rigged. Nevertheless, he continues to pretend otherwise.",5_2
"Finally, what is the purpose of all of this? Answer is, to try to emulate a simple climate model projection. I do not know if all climate models follow the same routines to get from start to finish, whether they calculate year by year, similar to this example, or if the whole lot goes into a series of matrixes that are solved one after another.",0_0
"For though economic betterment was their banner, there is little doubt that Gorbachev and his supporters first set out to right moral, rather than economic, wrongs. Most of what they said publicly in the early days of perestroika now seems no more than an expression of their anguish over the spiritual decline and corrosive effects of the Stalinist past. It was the beginning of a desperate search for answers to the big questions with which every great revolution starts: What is a good, dignified life? What constitutes a just social and economic order? What is a decent and legitimate state? What should such a state's relationship with civil society be?",0_0
"When we look at the temperature profile of the air, we see a cold lower level, and a nice about zero layer a bit above 40 km (and above the max ozone). What this says to me is that we have a very simple existence proof that the CO2 in the troposphere is rather irrelevant. Convection takes the heat right past it, up to that stratosphere level, where it is then radiated at high altitude.",2_3
"1989 was the year that sunlight fell on the blond-haired girl. That's something worth celebrating for far longer than a week, or a month, or even a year.",0_0
"Once the voting was done and Waxman was over the gall of minority leaders Boehner wanting to expose the detail of his cap and bend-over bill, The Goreacle appeared and Al made his official statement and immediately pushed the Senate to pass the bill . Al is worried that because Exxon has spent $9.3 million lobbying congress that his own $300 million might not be enough.",0_0
"But that doesn't seem likely to help the Democrats in 2016 if Hillary Clinton should drop out or if her most recently revealed shenanigans the boodle from foreign potentates, the $200,000 university speeches, the home-brew email system should render her unelectable.",0_0
"While it's tempting to dismiss such drivel as the inevitable product of a bloated, wasteful, out-of-touch, but ultimately powerless, bureaucracy, the UN's latest sustainable development agenda warrants serious attention. The UN doesn't operate in a vacuum; it has ties to a vast network of global organizations both governmental and nongovernmental all of which espouse similar views and all of which work for the adoption of ""transformative"" policies.",0_0
"I was intrigued, though, by the comment in the press release that The model shows that it is likely that tornadoes are not occurring with greater frequency, but there is some evidence to suggest that tornadoes are, in fact, getting stronger",0_0
"One cannot enter a discussion about rainforest loss without talking about its effect on the earth's species. Indeed, with the rainforests thought to be home to at least an estimated half of all species, this is the number one reason advanced as to why we must stop rainforest conversion, and put through an international Biodiversity Treaty that could lock up most of the remaining areas.",0_0
"Utility MACT is the centerpiece of President Obama's effort to kill coal: Utility MACT is specifically designed to close down existing plants, while the Obama-EPA's greenhouse gas regulations are specifically designed to prevent any new coal plants from being built.",0_0
Global Warming Causes Declining Snow Cover,0_0
"Republican and Democratic office holders and their retinues show a similar presumption to dominate and fewer differences in tastes, habits, opinions, and sources of income among one another than between both and the rest of the country. They think, look, and act as a class. . . . Differences between Bushes, Clintons, and Obamas are of degree, not kind.",0_0
"David, please indicate where in the documents it shows that Heartland is spreading lies and misinformation.",0_0
"Most Americans think of energy use in terms of big-ticket items such as gasoline, heating oil, and natural gas. But a great deal of the energy we use is indirect, embedded in the things we buy. Cutting down on indirect energy would produce substantial energy savings and allow Americans to continue to enjoy the lifestyle choices they have made.",0_0
Short answer: El Nio and La Nia processes.,0_0
"Rush Limbaugh read extensively from Codevilla's article on his radio program on Tuesday, and he correctly noted that Republican politicians' position on the edge of the aristocracy makes them extremely insecure and manipulable by the Democrats:",0_0
"4. Early observations indicate that water market activity in the 2008-09 season has been lower than in 2007-08, with prices being recorded at up to 50% less than the same period last year. This has been attributed to grower concerns about last seasons record high prices and current uncertainty of water resource availability.",0_0
"Earlier this week, FactCheck.Org published a critique of the Competitive Enterprise Institute's (CEI's) global warming ads. In this press release, CEI responds to FactCheck's allegations.",0_0
"With many Democrats already on board with Keystone and a push for more support from union leadership, the new Congress may be able to pass it againthis time with a veto-proof majority.",0_0
"With further testing this hypothesis can be exalted to a law of nature, which in turn can be used to reject other hypotheses not supported by observations and experiments. It is, of course, fundamental that all three major parts of the scientific method is based on sound statistical procedures regarding sampling theory, data representation, significance, error propagation, causality, etc., and should be unbiased and free of advocacy. If any part of the evidence does not support the hypothesis, the hypothesis should be rejected (Churchman, 1948).",0_0
The nation seems to be passing through a period in which too many U.S. Senators have been elected without so much as a high school level understanding of what drives the Earths climate and it isnt the 0.038% of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere.,2_3
"Joel Schwartz (American Enterprise Institute): NRDC uses emissions from 1996 to ""predict"" ozone levels, smog levels, in the 2050s. So we're already below the emissions of 1996, and emissions continue to drop because of fleet turnover to cleaner vehicles, because power plants are getting cleaner. And most of those emissions are going to be gone even in about 20 years. And in the 2050s there's going to be hardly any pollution in the air. But NRDC assumes we're going to have 1996 emissions levels in 2050.",0_0
"How diametrically different is then the attitude and phrases of our president, Milo Zeman, who despite a massive wave of outrage in the U.S. and Brussels, and indignation by the pro-American sold ""fifth column"" formulates the things as they are, uses the right names to call things, and localizes the genuine culprits and causal relationships and who isn't afraid that Europe also includes Russia but not the U.S... and other facts. I respect Zeman for those reasons and I encourage all those who care about the fate of our country and ourselves to loudly express their lasting support against ""the American practices of CIA realized not only by the U.S. Ambassador Andrew Schapiro"", against the red cards of the traitors from the Prague cafs, and against the policies of the ""sycophants in Brussels"". He is a directly elected president of ours, so we shouldn't let anyone take him away from us...",0_0
A person with poor hygiene celebrates the moppet-exploding 10:10 organization for persuading him not to buy any clothes in 2010 . Just what is it between hippies and soap?,0_0
"In 1998, Gavin warned us that climate data sets willbe distorted and twisted beyond all usefulness",0_0
"Lobbyists love cap-and-trade because of its complexity. At every step of the process, there are myriad nooks and crannies into which they can stuff special favors for their corporate clients. Industrial suppliers and users of energy will hire lobbyists to claim that they deserve free permits for some reason or another. And the auction-generated revenue would create a huge money trough coveted by every conceivable special interest and their pricey lobbyists.",0_0
"on Tuesday, June 5th, 2012 at 12:25 am and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline.,5_2
"9 hours ago AUSTRALIAS $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a new air link to the frozen continent.",0_0
ANE says that success can breed jealousy and koda is probably breeding a lot of it these days.,0_0
"from 20072013 there was a near-zero trend in observed Arctic September sea-ice extent, in large partdue to a strong uptick of the ice-pack in 2013, which has continued into 2014.",1_1
"In Arizona, the utility subsidies alone will likely exceed $150M ($25 per person) in 2010. This subsidy money comes directly from the pockets and bank accounts of the ratepayers in Arizona. Spending this money in the solar industry will create solar jobs, but will result in an equal reduction of spending for other goods and services Arizonans would have bought had the money not been taken away from them. Politicians claim job creation and capitalize on the apparent success, but the truth is each solar job comes by destroying a job in other segments of the economy. Many voters are fooled because the solar jobs are visible and can be counted, but the lost jobs are diffuse and spread over the state economy in a way which makes them hard to see and number. But there is no free lunch, the $150M taken from the general economy to fund the solar jobs is a zero sum jobs game at best to the state economy.",4_4
"I used the word misinformed in the preceding paragraph. A synonym of the verb misinform is lie to. Take your pick. Ill use misinform and other synonyms in a number of forms throughout the rest of this post, but you know what I mean.",0_0
You will see in the JS esssays repeated reference to two erudite and insightful Con Law Professors that are my favorites for exposing the judicial arrogance and deceitful power grabbing of federal judges and Supreme Court JusticesLino Graglia and Robert Nagel.,0_0
Professor Plimer said the planet came out of an ice age in 1850 and has been warming since.,2_1
"Meacher: ""I mean floods in Britain is one we are having to explain, rising sea levels, but in America quite serious things are happening, certainly stronger hurricanes on the east coast which are to do with, what is the name of that hurricane that comes every 2-3 years?""",0_0
"Today, the clearest example of the risks arising from the scientific-technocratic elite is the global warming debate. Consider the career trajectory of one of the leading climate alarmists, Penn State climatologist Michael Mann, who was implicated in the 2009 ""ClimateGate"" scandal, when leaked emails from a British university showed some of the world's leading climatologists discussing how to manipulate data and suppress studies that contradicted their work. Far from being a rogue actor outside the scientific mainstream, Dr. Mann has served as principal or co-principal investigator on research projects funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the Office of Naval Research.",5_2
"This study looks at now much carbon an individual will generate in their lifetime not only by normal activities, but also the carbon generated by their children and their childrens children. As it takes two people (obviously!) to have children, the authors talk in terms of genetic units to indicate responsibility for these future carbon emitters (in other words, your child is 50% your genetic unit and 50% your partners).",0_0
"Its a dreamy scene, and I say as much to Shova Biswas, vice-president of the Sonalir Shopnaw (or Golden Dream) forum, who has emerged to greet us. You should see it in the rainy season, she says flatly. I have come to the village during the two months of the year when land can be farmed and water is temporarily at bay.",0_0
"The four Brazilian researchers say their findings ""indicate changes in the pool of defense-related flavonoids in soybeans due to increased carbon availability, which may differentially alter the responsiveness of soybean plants to pathogens in CO 2 atmospheric concentrations such as those predicted for future decades."" Put more simply, the ongoing rise in the air's CO 2 content will likely increase the ability of soybeans to withstand the attacks of various plant diseases in the years and decades to come, helping the world to better meet the challenge of feeding its still-growing population. Reviewed 11 March 2009",3_3
"1 million per year (a 400-fold increase). In order to process these applications, permitting agencies would have to spend an extra $21 billion annually to hire an additional 230,000 full-time employees. Otherwise, ever-growing bottlenecks would paralyze environmental enforcement and freeze economic development.",0_0
"With their painstakingly pumped and chiselled bodies, muscle-enhancing tattoos, piercings, adorable beards and plunging necklines it's eye-catchingly clear that second-generation metrosexuality is less about clothes than it was for the first. Eagerly self-objectifying, second generation metrosexuality is totally tarty. Their own bodies (more than clobber and product) have become the ultimate accessories, fashioning them at the gym into a hot commodity one that they share and compare in an online marketplace.",0_0
"""Nessuno sta dalla parte di Rosarno: ecco perch in Calabria vince la ""ndrangheta, e perde lo Stato""",0_0
"Contradictory evidence be damned, a team of Korean and American scientists are invoking the hypothesis of a ?polar vortex? to contort the reality of increasing polar ice and cooling temperatures into support for their preordained conclusion of increasing global warming. The reality is that the increasing ice is, ?Confounding climate change computer models which say it should be in decline.?",5_1
"So that's what we are starting with. The EPA is 90 to 99% certain that at least 0.35 C of warming in the extant (""observed"") record is from GHG emissions from human activity.",0_0
"This is a very limited amount of time to make sweeping statements about climate change causation, particularly given the still infant-levelknowledgeof climate science. As a result, since 1970, skeptics and alarmists have roughly equal periods of time where they can make their point about temperature causation (e.g. 20 years of rising CO2 and flat temperatures vs. 20 years of rising CO2 and rising temperatures).",5_1
"Fourth, if industrial civilization is dangerously altering global climate, can any treaty stop it? The Kyoto accord in itself would do nothing to mitigate climate change, since it exempts the developing countries, which will be the major emissions source in the next century. Patrick Michaels notes that even if all industrial countries faithfully meet their Kyoto targets, the amount of warming averted will be a miniscule 0.19oC by the year 2047 (if, that is, we assume the validity of the National Center for Atmospheric Research s newest climate model). Ground-based measurements probably could not verify that such a small change had actually occurred.19",4_2
"And imagine the stink if they did: automakers, appliance makers, contractors, and everyone else who has had to re-tool their products to government specs or build non-economic forms of energy production such as wind or solar power would have an absolute fit and rightfully so in many cases. Theyll have done what they were told to do by the government, which, from their point of view, would be changing the rules in bad faith.",0_0
"One of the scientists, Graham Kell, says more than 50 platypus burrows have been discovered on the site and all have been photographed and their location fixed by satellite tracking.",0_0
"A summary of extreme weather events in 2013 is given by the Guardian . In spite of the Guardians portrayal, 2013 was a pretty wimpy year for weather and climate extremes.",1_7
"So, if it is indeed sulfates cooling the warming, given that there is no net change in global temperature, then the northern hemisphere should be cooling since 1998 (the first year in Kaufmanns paper) while the southern warms. Here are the sad facts:",1_4
I feel that these are vices that go beyond any ideology and it is simply a bad idea to promote such candidates.,0_0
"But Dr Peiser does not doubt the climate has changed, but the report has failed to explain why temperatures have not risen since 1997.",1_4
"The models predict increased warming, equally, at both the North and South Poles. The measurements show that the two poles are completely different. The North Pole is warming the South Pole is cooling.",5_1
"For starters, it's nave to think that NRDC is immune from pecuniary self-interest. As I noted above, NRDC has annual revenues of $130 million and growing. Obviously, NRDC can and does sell its evident influence to donors. After all, what is a better fundraising pitch than being credited by the New York Times with writing the EPA's most important rule?",0_0
"So you can imagine my surprise to see the infamous Hockey Stick graph appear in the 2001 IPCC Report, completely missing the MWP that I knew from multiple independent data sets, as well as the subsequent Little Ice Age that brought to an end the European occupation of Greenland. Later IPCC reports and subsequent media hype increased my discomfort with the concepts of Anthropogenic Global Warming and the insistence that presently observed climate change is driven primarily by human greenhouse gas emissions.",5_1
"Moreover, in early June EDF participated in a conference promoting early action legislation, sponsored by the Progressive Policy Institute. EDF presented a plan to monitor and verify greenhouse gas emissions.",0_0
"Notably, Dr. Idso emphasized that the increased CO2 levels allow plants to produce the same amount of crop yield with less water. Moreover, plants are able to grow in dry areas where it had been previously too dry to exist. A collateral benefit to this is that the increased vegetation reduces the effects of soil erosion.",3_3
How does this compare with the IPCC projections for the trend over the interval 2000-2030? Not too bad:,0_0
"Some point to a warm 2014 as evidence of climate change, however global temperatures have remained unchanged for the past 18 years.",1_4
New finding - Earth has been cooling for 2000 years!!!,1_2
"Still, there's some rough justice in the conservatives' cheap shots. In Washington's blizzards, the greens were hoist by their own petard.",0_0
"The Secret Science Reform Act (S. 544) and its House counterpart would require that the Environmental Protection Agency develop its regulations and the science behind them in the open , and allow experts and other interested parties to examine data, evidence and studies that supposedly support EPA standards and mandates that could cost billions of dollars and millions of jobs. This should not be controversial.",0_0
"The head of Canada's military returned recently from meeting with leaders of the African Union peacekeeping force that Canadian units would support. ""This is a complex and relatively dangerous environment,"" Gen. Rick Hillier told CBC News. Hillier said he has more than 30 officers working on the project but was mum on the specifics until he presents several options this week to Defence Minister Bill Graham. The minister wants military intervention to be only one part of an overall plan for the northeastern African country. ""We cannot invade Sudan. It requires United Nations action ... it requires political as well as military and aid matters,"" Graham told CBC.",0_0
"The latest extreme ""climate change"" evidence from NOAA confirms that severe weather events, such as maximum rainfall and temperature records, are not trending higher during the 21st century as expected - establishes that high levels of CO2 have not been driving U.S. weather extremes",1_7
"But the course on which Bush embarkedthe faith-based initiative, No Child Left Behindeffectively ended on September 11, 2001, with the emergence of antiterrorism as a predominant national issue. The first Bush presidency, essentially a ""supersized"" governor who read to kids in classrooms, gave way to a ""wartime"" presidency. And although that one issue (national security) was integral to Bush's re-election as well as the aforementioned GOP gains in Congress, it overshadowed the fact that the Republican president was at direct odds with his conservative base on at least three issues: runaway spending, massive debt, and illegal immigration.",0_0
"Jules Crittenden takes Stephen Harper to task . And rightly so. Dr. Rusty Shacleford has the full length Bin Laden 9/11 hijacker video , if you think it's worth your time to download it. Where there's a Clinton, can a crook be far away ? Junk science in action. Add yours in the comments.",0_0
"Ive gleaned some of my information from the graphs that Jennifer put up on the site on the 28th November . While youre explaining your models, could you please tell me what the mechanism is that makes temperature dive just after the peaks in CO2 shown in those graphs?",0_0
In 1933 Syrians actually banned yo-yos when religious leaders proclaimed that the up and down action interfered with people's prayers for rain. Anyone linking global warming to today's upheaval in Syria follows in that tradition.,0_0
"I believe AGW to be true, but since I am willing to pro-actively test projections against data during what appears to be a stall in warming, much of my audience consists of skeptics. Clearly, they are not going to be convinced this stall is meaningless if I restrict my analysis to using GISSTemp, the data set that shows the least recent cooling. Rather, what will happen is this: They will decide I simply pick data to suit my pre-conceived notions.",0_0
"Climategate 3.0: ""Mr. FOIA"" says lying elitists are destroying civilization",5_2
I understands von Storch word's will as he calls vrldsfrbttrarna always framhlla mjligheten to a climate disaster that something that it is a sin not to believe p .I will oskt to think p Swedish Church's bishops article in AB SUCH context and now We of course also the discussion of the latest episcopal letter:,0_0
"The ovens even work on the small banana tree rafts that the poorest have built and use during the three or so weeks when the floods force them out of their homes. Families pile goats and all their worldly possessions onto these rafts, and even sleep on them, until the water recedes. Other families have protected their possessions by piling firewood on their roof, or building platforms in their ceilings.",0_0
"But this isnt new. Sadly, the networks bias on climate change has been happening for decades. Many publications now claiming the world is on the brink of a global warming disaster said the same thing about an impending ice age in the 1970s. Several major ones, including The New York Times, Time magazine, and Newsweek, have reported on three or even four different climate shifts since 1895. (2)",5_2
"SHREWSBURY, MA A study published today in the Journal of Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism presented compelling data showing the consumption of both high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and sucrose (table sugar) at levels consistent with average daily consumption do not increase liver fat in humans, a leading cause of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). The findings also add to an already well-established body of science that high fructose corn syrup and table sugar are metabolically equivalent.",0_0
"Today Chantrill takes a different tack, looking back to von Mises and emphasizing that Pikettys book is not about capitalism, since Piketty doesnt know capitalism.",0_0
"A pulp and paper mill reported it had planned to install a new overfire air system to allow for more complete combustion of bark fuel, reducing the amount of natural gas required to provide supplemental heat by roughly 200 million cubic feet, for an annual natural gas savings to the company of about $1 million. Annual emissions of NOX, CO, and VOCs would have decreased. However, because the boiler is currently operating below its rated capacity, and the PTE is based on operating at full capacity, the project would have triggered the installation of NSR-required emission controls costing $17 million. The project was dropped.",0_0
"When Tribe's assistant admitted to having plagiarized some of the material he wrote for the book published in Tribe's name, Tribe said the plagiarism was ""inadvertent,"" Codevilla notes, and the Harvard Law School's Dean appointed a committee that whitewashed the incident. That dean, Elena Kagan, is now about to become a Justice on the Supreme Court. Thus are principles of accountability and responsibility flouted:",0_0
"While the approach in todays post doesnt appear conceptual, statistical algorithms, including linear regression, typically solve inverse problems. The spirit of todays post is approaching Deflategate as an inverse problem. In doing so, I am aware (as Carrick has forcefully observed) that the underlying physical conditions were poorly defined, but people still need to make decisions using the available information as best they can. I think that the approach in todays post providesa much more plausible and satisfying explanation of the variation in Patriot pressures than those presented by either Exponent or Snyder or, for that matter, my own previous commentary.",0_0
"Steve Pinker is an evolutionary psychologist, a great thinker, a popular author, an impressive speaker (I remember one of his talks about the evolutionary explanation of the religion: it was cool), and also one of the few brave Harvard professors who have defended Larry Summers when professional women and professional blacks slammed the former Harvard president for the very suggestion that there may exist group differences.",0_0
"A new book is advising us to prepare for a serious cold spell that is not only going to arrive in twenty to thirty years, but will likely stay around to become the next ice age. This time, though, the prediction is based on well-established climate cycles and the behavior of the Sun that was known as far back as Galileos day.",1_2
"An analysis of Scots pines in Catalonia, Spain showed that tree diameter and cross-sectional area expanded by 84% between 1900 and 2000. The growth of young Wisconsin trees increased by 60%, and tree ring width expanded by almost 53%, as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations rose from 316 ppm in 1958 to 376 ppm in 2003, researchers calculated.",3_3
"Another cause could be low solar activity, Mr Fisher said.",0_0
"(Although, since the EU does not count carbon-free nuclear power as ?renewable?, this may well fall foul of its ban on state aid.) All this, Mr Huhne assures us, might lead to a modest rise of 160 a year in the average household energy bill, but in the long run it will make electricity cheaper than if he had not intervened.",0_0
"Reduce: The effect of Australias carbon tax on the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is so tiny as to be undetectable and any miniscule reduction would be totally swamped in the far bigger natural seasonal variations of carbon dioxide levels. The effect on global climate, if any, would also be too small to be measured and of no benefit to the climate or life on Earth.",4_2
"Ozone is in turn controlled by natural variations in galactic cosmic rays & solar activity, rather than man-made chlorofluorocarbons or greenhouse gases. The Svensmark hypothesis relates variations in solar activity to amplified variations of galactic cosmic rays, which in turn result in changes in cloud cover. This new paper may provide a second mechanism by whichvariations in solar activity are amplified by the effect on galactic cosmic rays and ozone.",2_1
"We need someone whos going to make President Obama the issue, Santorum said on Fox News last week, adding that Romney is ill-equipped to make a sharp contrast with Obama because Romney has a bad record on climate change and other issues.",0_0
But neither the dissertation or the magazine article cited as sources for this information were ever subject to the rigorous scientific review process that research published in scientific journals must undergo.,0_0
"The Washington Post hit at a more expansive description when it characterized this new class of men as the equivalent of ""the trickled-down cultural derivative of the sporno."" Not everyone can achieve the status of the new jockthe combination of porn plus sports star, the sex symbol turned sports star and sports star turned sex symbol dubbed with the conflated moniker by Simpson (again) in a 2006 article. The majority of us haven't won enough Olympic medals, Nike endorsements, or multi-million dollar contracts, or crushed enough calories to be featured on ESPN's annual ""The Body"" issue (initiated in 2009, it features or ""celebrates"" the naked body, in male and female form, of numerous athletic celebrities, to cut into Sports Illustrated's lucrative swimsuit issue market) or the like. But just as other habits of celebrities and other popular culture heroes become aped and embedded in daily life, so this phenomenon has trickled down to the urban masses.",0_0
"Department of physics, Mid Sweden University, 851 70 Sundsvall, Sweden",0_0
"The fundamental issue can be framed as a question of cause and effect, for instance: To what extent are climatic variations in clouds caused by temperature change (feedback), versus temperature change being the result of cloud variations? If variability in cloudiness on any time scale is caused by some internal process other than feedback, the resulting relationship between temperature and radiative fluxes will look like positive feedback possibly even obscuring the signature of true negative cloud feedback.",3_1
The Obama administration allows widespread eagle kills.,0_0
"This morning, stunning photos show New England lobster boats frozen in port , looking like they are stranded deep within the Arctic Circle. The boats have been frozen in place for weeks, which would be remarkable enough if this were the middle of January. However, the calendar is about to turn to March.",0_0
"The waves have been stronger this year, working against the jet stream and bringing it to a halt.",0_0
"A Government Accountability Office study published in 2010 found that a total of $950,000 was being spent on research on solar radiation management in fiscal years 2009 and 2010.",0_0
The Sun is a crucial factor that warming campaigners ignore. The assertion that humans influence the climate and nature need not be considered is absurd.,2_1
"""It is not our job to see that anyone gets an education."" Oklahoma state Rep. Mike Reynolds.",0_0
"When President Obama announced on March 31 that he intends to ensure that the U.S. will slash its ?greenhouse gas emissions? 26% below 2005 emissions levels by 2025 in order to keep pledges made to fulfill the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, he failed to mention that such levels would be comparable to what they were in our Civil War era, 150 years ago.",0_0
"First, the U.S. could enact go-it-alone GHG controls and trust the moral appeal of its example to sway other nations. While it is clearly true that the U.S. could not expect China and India to bear the costs of curtailing their GHG discharges unless it were willing to do the same, it is quite another thing to leap from that statement to the assertion that the U.S. should act without firm pledges that other states will respond in kind.",0_0
"EPA is also waging this war on the permitting front, and this is a problem that we've been tracking for a long time. As my EPW Minority Report from January 2010 showed, EPA at that time was obstructing 190 coal mining permits, putting nearly 18,000 jobs at risk. And not much has improved since then.",0_0
"Leave everything in the hands of various parliamentary committees, from this point of view, only serves to cover it up, to slay the potential defendants old submitted before they even arrive at a single hearing on the subject, and to polarize lelettorato (Another positive opportunity for politicians, a disaster for pernicious lelettorato same).",0_0
"The National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) today released a study by Charles River Associates (CRA) on the economic impacts of H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACESA), the regulatory climate bill sponsored by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D-MA).",0_0
Too bad that e.g. RealClimate.ORG has no one who is as moderate as the official of the Czech Greenpeace. ;-),0_0
"RJ Smith, specialist in land management: Hope he doesn't buy into push by Greens and Progressives to lock up millions of acres of public lands rich in petroleum, natural gas, uranium and strategic minerals as wildlands. And they are urging him to do this by Executive Orders under the 1906 Antiquities Act, designating all these lands as National Monuments.",0_0
The midday air temperature on the Czech territory ranged from 0.2 C in Liberec to 6.5 C in the Brno area. At the top of Jesenk the temperature fell to -4.4 C,0_0
Was there ever heavy snow before human progress? Was there light snow?,0_0
"Third, there's the risk of waste disposal. Despite the fact that the federal government identified Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a nuclear-waste site over two decades ago and rate payers have long funded work at the site, the earliest opening date at Yucca is still at least 10 years away, assuming no delays from litigation, permitting or technical glitches.",0_0
The claims about disappearing mountain ice were contained within a table entitled Selected observed effects due to changes in the cryosphere produced by warming.,0_0
"Kenneth Artz (kartz@heartland.org) writes from Dallas, Texas.",0_0
Perhaps his error should be forgiven because Mr. Lazear is an economist. He was the chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors (2006-09) and head of the White House Committee on the Economics of Climate Change (2007-08). Presently he is a professor at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and a Hoover Institution fellow.,0_0
"Let's take a closer look at the average U.S. temperature in July, 2009, also from the NOAA website:",0_0
"Now Bob Carter is a very polite person and considers it absolutely infra dig to disagree with another Skeptic scientist all on the same side. But let us face the facts. The Skeptic cause is not making headway, in spite of the efforts of Lord Lawson and the GWPF and many others.We are just treading water, while the Warmists continue with their propaganda day by day.",0_0
"Next, those of us old enough to remember driving through Gary, Indiana in the 1960s and early 70s know how much cleaner our air and water are today. Smaller gains in ""cleanliness"" come at greater and greater cost now (although the EPA, which wants everything to be infinitely clean, does not seem to care about that). Unlike government bureaucrats, who get routine pay raises and job security no matter how much they hurt the business (our country), the people who actually pay the bills (taxpayers) still live in a cost-vs-benefits world.",0_0
"Discussion does not mention the lag between historical rises in temperature and increases in CO2 and gives the impression that CO2 changes were the cause of the rises in temperature as determined from ice core data. This omission like many others, strongly slants the discussion towards CO2 induced warming.",2_3
"8:30 International tide gauges also show: No acceleration in sea level rise. In fact tide gauges show a deceleration. Puls asked the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research for an answer,but they have yet to reply.",1_6
"Figure 1. Confidence intervals for the estimation of sea level rise using tidal gauge data.This means that 95% of the results fall between the two extremes. For twenty year trends, these are from a sea level rise of three mm/year to a sea level fall of three mm per year. SOURCE: Pacific Country Report, Sea Level & Climate: Their Present State Marshall Islands December 2010",1_6
"We should not judge political motivation or intention, but we do need to look at actual outcomes. ... he United States has made great progress thus far, even if not orchestrated, without federal policy or agency rules.",0_0
"I commented on Nurse on an earlier occasion, when Nurse had given a completely untrue account of the connection of FOI and Climategate:",5_2
"U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, ""The National Energy Modeling System: An Overview,"" http://www.eia.gov/oiaf/aeo/overview/pdf/0581(2009).pdf (accessed April 3, 2013).",0_0
"realclimate links in turn to a NOAA website which thanks Dr. Keith R. Briffa, Dr. Phil D. Jones, Dr. Michael E. Mann, and Dr. Henry N. Pollack for their contributions, and which takes a similar position to realclimate as follows:",0_0
This one is about 1/2 hour and I think it was the one I was supposed to look at:,0_0
Our fight is your fight! It's a battle to uphold our Constitutional freedom to debate and exchange ideas without fear of repercussion from government officials. We cannot allow the government to single out and intimidate people simply because they hold views contrary to some government official's policy agenda.,0_0
"As Larry Bell noted, even by the EPAs own calculations and estimates, the methane emissions limits, along with other limits on so called greenhouse gases will prevent less than two-hundredths of a degree Celsius of warming by the end of this century.",4_2
"Looking at the projections for 2006 to 2100, the model mean of outgoing longwave radiation has a positive trend of about 0.1 watts/m^2/decade. But some models show outgoing longwave radiation decreasing slightly in the future, while others show it increasing. The greatest negative trend is about -0.1 watts/m^2/decade. At the other end of the wide spectrum is a model with a positive trend of 0.35 watts/m^2/decade. Bottom line: theres an approximate 0.45 watts/m^2/decade spread in the trends of projected future outgoing longwave radiation, with some models showing an increase and others a decrease.",0_0
Figure 3. Action of volcanoes in reducing surface solar radiation. This measures the anomaly in downwelling solar at the surface minus the anomaly in downwelling solar at the TOA. The trend in the transmission is a warming of +0.34 W/m2 per decade.,0_0
"The very greatly exaggerated predictions (orange region) of atmospheric global warming in the IPCCs 1990 First Assessment Report, compared with the mean anomalies (dark blue) and trend (bright blue straight line) of three terrestrial and two satellite monthly global mean temperature datasets since 1990.The measured, real-world rate of global warming over the past 25 years, equivalent to less than 1.4 C per century, is about half the IPCCs central prediction in 1990.",5_1
"But, we have this graph charting the rise and fall of arctic sea ice for the last 365 days, notice that the arctic sea ice is right back where it started at in February 2007.",1_1
"The map above shows Goyders Line, which is defined by Wiki as a boundary line across South Australia corresponding to a rainfall boundary believed to indicate the edge of the area suitable for agriculture. North of Goyders Line, the rainfall is not reliable enough, and the land is only suitable for grazing and not cropping.",0_0
"Depending on the extent of future damages and the discount rate used for weighting future damages, the range of estimates of marginal global damages can vary by two orders of magnitude, from a negligible value of about $1 per ton to $100 per ton of CO2-eq. Roughly an order of magnitude in difference can be attributed to discounting assumptions, and another to assumptions about future damages from current emissions.",0_0
"But as volatile wind and solar take a larger share of the total from the steady sources gas, nuclear and hydro the state will need to build more conventional plants as a cushion.",4_4
"No transcript of the speech is available; however, the Santa Fe New Mexican covered Hansen's presentation at the Institute, during which he predicted catastrophes, such as rising seas and species extinctions ""if carbon-based fuels continue to be used at the same rate as today.""",0_0
"But we dont live in that world. In the real world of public policy, such ideal taxes are virtually never implemented by the book. And if even it they are, they soon come under attack from people wanting to raise them and gain control of a new, easy to collect, hard to avoid revenue stream.",0_0
3) The August ice extent in the Eastern area has been more than halved over the past 80 yr. A similar meltback has not been observed since the temperature optimum during the eighteenth century. This retrospective comparison indicates accordingly that the recent reduction of the ice extent in the Eastern area is still within the variation range observed over the past 300 yr.,2_1
British Government Scraps Climate Change Levy Exemption,0_0
"The report also points out that a necessary prerequisite to innovation is robust economic growth. Without the financial means to invest in R&D;, there is no technological progress. Moreover, developing countries will not be able to benefit from new technologies unless they become wealthier. The report can be downloaded from www.brtable.org.",0_0
"The idea of climate change should be seen as an intellectual resource around which our collective and personal identifies and projects can form and take shape. We need to ask not what we can do for climate change, but to ask what climate change can do for us?Because the idea of climate change is so plastic, it can be deployed across many of our human projects and can serve many of our psychological, ethical, and spiritual needs.",0_0
The state is mandating that automakers dramatically ramp up sales of battery-powered and other low-emission cars. It is imposing new cap-and-trade emission controls on business with hefty fees.,4_1
"Were so tightly knit, all 10,000 of us meet in an exotic location for two weeks every year with a mass media congregation, dinners and drinks no wait, thats what they do.",0_0
"So at the end of the first exchange, we have no explanation of why there was no assessment of the quality of CRU's science.",5_1
Then I remembered a long ago time when I helped a friend move his stuff from Clovis. Middle of nowhere. Where that hot spot is. And a US Air Base (He was retired Air Force). Gotta love those large rural US Airbase facilities. Nice and warm places to put thermometers,0_0
The New England monument creation comes on the tails of President Barack Obama designating the largest swath of ocean ever as a national monument in August. Obama expanded the Papah naumoku kea Marine National Monument to four times its original size.,0_0
"But Hubbert, who died in 1989,did not live to see the ??? shale revolution .??During the past decade, advances in directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing have made it economical to extract oil from the pores of rock. Although U.S. petroleum production is still lower than it was at its peak in 1970,it has increased every year since 2008 with no end in sight.",4_5
"""Biofuels from corn, sugar cane, and soy perform poorly in many environmental contexts, concludes a January 7, 2008 Science magazine review of a study commissioned by the Swiss government. For example, due to nitrous oxide emissions from fertilizer use, biofuel from corn or canola may be worse for global warming than simply burning fossil fuels.""",0_0
"This argument is unpersuasive if the warming of recent decades is not unusual or unprecedented in the past 1300 years. As it happens, numerous studies indicate that the Medieval Warm Period (MWP)???roughly the period from AD 800 to 1300, with peak warmth occurring about AD 1050???was as warm as or warmer than the Current Warm Period (CWP).",2_1
"Furthermore to take one of many instances in the reviewed literature a recent paper has confirmed the findings of a long line of papers on the global brightening that has been evident in recent decades, concluding that the naturally-occurring decline in cloud cover in the last couple of decades of the last century has caused four and a half times as much warming as Man.",2_1
"In a post titled ""The CRU Hack"" (November 20), RC writes:",0_0
"Wind energy projects require even more land. The Roscoe wind farm in Texas, which has a capacity of 781.5 megawatts, covers about 154 square miles. Again, the math is straightforward: to have 8,500 megawatts of wind generation capacity, California would likely need to set aside an area equivalent to more than 70 Manhattans. Apart from the impact on the environment itself, few if any people could live on the land because of the noise (and the infrasound, which is inaudible to most humans but potentially harmful) produced by the turbines.",4_4
"It is worth pondering the italicized sentence. It means that even if the United States and its fellow industrialized nations ceased to exist, emissions from developing nations, not included in the Kyoto Protocol and unlikely to be included in the successor treaty, would carry the CO2 level well beyond 450 ppm by midcentury. According to an EPA estimate made last year, the Waxman-Markey emissions target, even if fully achieved, would lower global CO2 levels in the year 2095 by 25 ppm at most and would, therefore, have a negligible effect on holding back global warming.",4_2
"Lower Manhattan has doubled in width over the centuries. World Trade Center construction alone contributed 1.2 million cubic yards to build Battery Park City, narrowing the Hudson River by another 700 feet. The East River has likewise been hemmed in, while other water channels have been completely filled. Buildings, malls and raised roadways constructed on former potato fields, forests, grasslands and marshlands have further constricted passageways for storm surges and runoff.",0_0
"P. Gosselin, Solar cycle 24 weakest in almost 200 yearsshows signs of an even weaker upcoming cycle 25, notrickszone.com. August 5, 2013",0_0
"* Finally, many of the ongoing disputes in climate science boil down to disputes over the relative validity and reliability of different observational datasets, suggesting that the very new field of climate science does not yet have standardized observational datasets that would allow for definitive testing of theories and models against observations.""",5_1
"James Hansen of NASA is one of the leading climate alarmists, and possesses a scientific credibility lacking in the Goracle. But Hansen really has become a parody of himself, more activist than scientist. His supervisor at NASA was a skeptic. And as Bill Steigerwald of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review wrote a year ago:",5_2
"SM: Discredited. This is a man who won, unbelievably, a MacArthur Foundation Genius Award a few years ago even after virtually every prediction he has made over the last 40 years has been disproven by events. Perhaps you can say that Paul Ehrlich is the wrongest man of the 20th century.",0_0
"With headlines heralding: ""North Dakota has joined the ranks of the few places in the world that produce more than a million barrels of oil per day,"" people know there isn't an energy shortage. And America's new energy abundance is on top of our rich reserves of coal and uranium that can provide for our electrical needs for centuries to come.",0_0
The self-sacrificing behavior that benefits the group is the ultimate situation in which the classical evolution and group selection offer different predictions. Pinker analyzes some suicidal strategies whose carriers would be quite obviously driven towards extinction; time scales are important in some of them (individuals following these suicidal strategies may die out well before the group could see substantial benefits so the theory with a dominant group selection driver simply doesn't work).,0_0
"""On a recent weekday afternoon inside a West Main Street storefront, a room filled with folding tables and flat-screen computer monitors has drawn about a dozen people all focused on the spinning and flashing images onscreen.""",0_0
"But significant market investment in other forms of renewable energy in recent years, particularly in geothermal, means that a coal backstop is becoming less of a requirement.",0_0
"Related: Inspired by a comment from Fred, here's a video someone put together of Canadian soldiers who were buried at Beny-sur mer in Normandy, France.",0_0
River with heated water from power plant and sewage plant dumped into it nearby,0_0
And according to Kristin Blasche of the Federal Ministry For Maritime Shipping And Hydrography:,0_0
"COPENHAGEN During howling winter weather two years ago, the thousands of windmills dotting Denmark and its coastline generated so much power that Danes had to pay other countries to take the surplus.",0_0
Ocean Acidification and Warming (Effects on Corals: Laboratory Studies) Summary,0_0
"Commercial break: 3D animation of the radar: Java needed On the picture, your humble correspondent is in the middle while the guy waving with the U.S. flag on the left side (too bad that you can't hear the people singing ""Good morning, Mr radar, we couldn't wait"") is the Czech Greenpeace #4, Mr Jan Rovensk, who also lives on the tree. He recognized me soon after we arrived there, because of global warming. The Greenpeace occupation zone is one of the places where my fame significantly exceeds the average. ;-)",0_0
"To achieve this science must take distances from the extremists, skeptics and alarm nutritionists, for not to mention the anti-democratic preaching authorities like ltsas have superior knowledge. Fr climate research would innebra to communicate undisputed skills such as accumulation of vxthusgaser from mnskliga kllor and researched temperatures and havsyteniver while clearly describes the various hypotheses and conflicting scientific claims.",0_0
"Ten Steps Back, One Step Forward",0_0
"The first is disclosure. The more that policy makers and the public know about overregulation, the more likely they are to do something about it. To that end, our organization, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, issues the annual Ten Thousand Commandments report. Official Washington needs its own such report card. Each year's federal budget, or the annual Economic Report of the President, should include in-depth chapters exploring the regulatory state.",0_0
"But he said he was hopeful that Heartland would come back. I think its a temporary feeding frenzy, he said. If Heartland had just started last year and only had 10 donors when that happened it could have been fatal. But this is a hiccup.",0_0
"So sometimes reigning paradigms do indeed need to be adjusted; sometimes they even need to be exploded. On the other hand, often they don't, and politically convenient recastings of policy challenges as ""security"" questions can sometimes quite properly sound strained.",0_0
"Finally, we should point out that a consensus can be manufacturedeven where no consensus exists. For example, it has become very popular to claim that 97% of all publications support AGW. Here the key question to ask is: Which publications and what exactly is the form of support?",5_1
"Marine monuments there are currently four in the Pacific, and none in the Atlantic are under the jurisdiction of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA typically bans commercial fishing, mining, and dredging in marine monuments.",0_0
as much as in the GCM. And there are some signs from Tom Karl (and Mike,0_0
"21 Charles Clover, ""Dreams of a Eurasian Heartland,"" Foreign Affairs (March/April 1999). It is worth noting that, in the 1990s, about 500 books were published on globalization; between 2000 and 2004, there were more than 4,000 books published. Pankaj Ghemawat, ""Why the World is not Flat,"" Foreign Policy (April 2007).",0_0
"Understanding clouds is key to predicting climate change, because clouds can cool or warm the atmosphere depending on their structure and location. A recent study compared measurements of cloudiness with predictions of ten climate models. The study reported both large variations between modelsas large as a factor of four for predictions of some types of cloudsand large discrepancies between the models and the observations.",5_1
"The critical scientific measure of whether or not increased atmospheric carbon dioxide will cause significant global warming is the sensitivity of the earths temperatures to a doubling of carbon dioxide. Since 1979, the estimate has been 1.5 C to 4.5 C about 3 to 8F. U.S. government reports estimate U.S. expenditures on climate change top $165 billion, with over $35 billion given to climate science between 1993 and 2013. Yet, the latest report (2013) by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change places the sensitivity at 1.5 C to 4.5 C, the same as it was 35 years ago.",3_1
"Now the trend of our satellite data -- this is just a different plot of our satellite data with some other data sets. I neglect to mention that our satellite measurements are for a very deep layer. It's from about the surface to an altitude of about six kilometers. So we call them troposphere temperatures. For that 18-year period, our satellite temperature trend is a cooling of four-tenths of a degree per decade. No doubt that wouldn't have been a negative trend if it weren't for the Pinotuba eruption. And the IPCC, for the most part, doesn't include -- was there a comment?",0_0
"Although Heartland Institute extended invitations to many global warming believers, only Hunt and Denning were brave enough to accept. Heartland's president, Joseph L. Bast, hopes to persuade more speakers with opposing viewpoints to attend next year's conference.",0_0
"The effects of snow-free winter in Britain are already becoming apparent. This year, for the first time ever, Hamleys, Britain's biggest toyshop, had no sledges on display in its Regent Street store. ""It was a bit of a first,"" a spokesperson said.",0_0
"In the morning hours a layer of up to three centimeters lay on the ground. Also at midday it occasionally snowed even in the lowlands, Prague-Ruzyn reported sleet.",0_0
"The study is part of a fast-emerging field in which scientists combine the data from many natural indicators of past climates to reconstruct what sorts of temperatures and rainfall were experienced over large areas of the globe long before scientific weather records were kept. Such work is providing a much better picture of the past climate, a subject of increasing importance after a century in which the Earth's average temperature increased by one degree Fahrenheit.",0_0
"Think about this. The precious LDL/HDL cholesterol theory has been tested in a gigantic study, with the ideal endpoint, and has been proven wrong in more than half of the cases! A rational individual would question the validity of the hypothesis, dont you think? Heck according to most authorities, its well beyond a mere hypothesis.",0_0
"If we add an additional 20 percent emissions cut by China by 2030, that adds 0.2 degrees; and another 0.2 degrees if we assume a 30 percent emissions cut by the rest of the industrialized world, by 2030. If we assume also a 20 percent reduction by the less-developed world by 2030, temperatures would be reduced by another one-tenth of a degree.",4_2
"Although temperatures have been generally mild over the past 500 years, we should remember that significant fluctuations are still normal. The past century has witnessed two distinct periods of warming. The first occurred between 1900 and 1945, and the second, following a slight cool-down, began quite abruptly in 1975. That second period rose at quite a constant rate until 1998, and then stopped and began falling again after reaching a high of 1.16F above the average global mean.",2_1
"Parts of the Perth region are subsidingdue to groundwater extraction (Featherstone et al ., 2012). Records from a GPS receiver at Gnangara and nearby artesian boreholes show that the land subsidence rate has slowed from about -6 mm/yr to about -2 mm/yr since the reduction of groundwater extraction from the Yarragadee Aquifer around 2005. Hillarys and Fremantle are only 20 km apart but have quite different rates of sea level rise. Part of the apparent sea level rise is due to gauge sinking. The accuracy of estimates of vertical velocities of the GPS domes is still above 1 mm/year, very close to the average relative sea level velocity.",1_6
"For example, based on data from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Pier, studies in the 1990s showed that higher temperatures are beneficial for sardine production. By 2010 new studies proved that the temperature correlation was instead a misleading, or mirage, determination.",3_2
"issue ? on the right side, i.e anti-Svensmark), Bohm, Brown, Christy (will be",0_0
"Many of these storms have been way out in the middle of the Atlantic where they likely would not have been detected in 1933 . Likewise, the peak intensity of the storms would have been recorded lower in the past. For example, hurricane Julia was a major hurricane for just a few hours. It is doubtful she would have been recorded as a major hurricane in 1933, and quite likely she would have been missed entirely. Lisa was barely a hurricane and far out in the ocean. Tropical storm Nicole was given a name, even though winds were tropical storm force for just a few minutes.",1_7
"Once again, as is the case with EU emissions, the people who proclaim themselves most concerned about a problem politically, are the least likely to do something about it practically. Image, it appears, is everything in the climate debate.",0_0
"The Corps had already done an environmental impact study that was approved by the EPA. A second study satisfying the judge's requirements, such as examining the mating habits of certain fish, may have taken ten years, the Corps feared. So the Corps went with what was regarded as the second-best option, building higher levees.",0_0
"Wilkins runway in Australias Antarctic territory. ANDREW DARBY Australias $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a ...",0_0
"Over the past several years, the possibility of a grand bargain that would produce major trade liberalization in manufacturing, services and agriculture has steadily diminished and has now disappeared. As this piece is written during the ""dog days"" of August, trade ministers and bureaucrats from World Trade Organization member states are engaged in a final desperate drive to come up with a face-saving ""mini-package,"" or Early Harvest, of trade concessions to present at a climactic meeting of WTO ministers in December. The goal of the package is to salvage benefits for the world's poorest countries such as tariff-free, quota-free trade with developed countries, drastic reduction in subsidies for cotton, exemptions from major services trade liberalization, and trade facilitation programs such as logistical aid to move goods from farm and factory to air-and seaports.",0_0
"Whether she can be prevailed upon or not, Professor Curry's case highlights the importance of this battle and the need to make sure that free speech is not just for members of the global warming establishment, but also for the rest of us.",0_0
"Bangladesh has been quite effective at playing the international aid game, which is now largely torqued from general development aid into climate-related aid mitigation, adaptation, and reparations. Two points here: mitigation funding (largely going to China) is directly competing with adaptation aid, that is serving humanitarian and development needs that exist now. In terms of bang per buck, I suspect that that the adaptation funding, if wisely used, is money that is much better spent.",0_0
"The large snowfall took the city by surprise, said Kevin Goldfuss, director of municipal services.",0_0
Basic problem is that all models are wrong ? not got enough middle and low,5_1
"In harmony with the findings of Alderkamp et al . (2012), Tortell et al . conclude that the ""exceptionally high productivity in the Amundsen Sea polynyas likely due to the high glacially-derived Fe concentrations of this water mass."" And this exceptionally high productivity ensures an exceptionally high organic matter sinking flux, which would be expected to have a cooling effect on the planet, due to the CO 2 it extracted from the atmosphere and incorporated into its tissues sinking with it. In addition, the much higher sea-to-air flux of DMS would be expected to also have a cooling effect on the planet, as described by the CLAW hypothesis of Charlson et al . (1987). And for more on that phenomenon, we direct you to Dimethyl Sulphide in our Subject Index.",3_1
"Spencer calls Santer's actions obfuscation. I call it data-fitting and a failed attempt at that. Whatever it is, it violates the scientific method and scientific ethics that require researchers to use the best data available to confirm or disconfirm a hypothesis or theory.",5_1
"The statements by Jane Lubchencoand the appointment ofTom Karl as the transitional director, assures that policymakers will continue to receive an inappropriately narrow view of our actualknowledge with respect toclimate science. I have documented the biases of Tom Karl in a number of reports and weblog posts; e.g. see",0_0
"Is there any reliable evidence that we could lose two-thirds of the polar bear population by mid-century? From the Mail Online, Is the polar bear a political weapon? Arctic creatures are NOT threatened by climate change, says scientist",3_2
"On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a non-profit public policy organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., we are pleased to submit this comment on the Air Resource Board's (ARB) Final Staff Report on AB 1493, a law requiring ARB to adopt regulations achieving ""maximum feasible and cost-effective"" reductions of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles.",0_0
"From Appendix B, pg. 9361 of Hansen's 1998 paper",0_0
I?ve been told that IPCC is above national FOI Acts. One way to cover yourself,0_0
I hesitate to put this posting up. It is a true catastrophe that is unfolding in Russia. My heart goes out to the folks there. Facing a brutal winter and watching your food burn is a very wrenching place to be.,0_0
"Ivy-Ochs et al . report that ""the earliest Holocene (between 11.6 and about 10.5 ka) was still strongly affected by the cold climatic conditions of the Younger Dryas and the Preboreal oscillation,"" but that ""at or slightly before 10.5 ka rapid shrinkage of glaciers to a size smaller than their late 20th century size reflects markedly warmer and possibly also drier climate."" After 3.3 ka, however, they say that ""climate conditions became generally colder and warm periods were brief and less frequent."" Last of all, they indicate that ""glaciers in the Alps attained their Little Ice Age maximum extents in the 14th, 17th and 19th centuries, with most reaching their greatest Little Ice Age extent in the final 1850/1860 AD advance ."" What it means",2_1
Washington Post Article on Heat Waves Balanced or Biased?,0_0
"Murari Lal, a climate expert who was one of the leading authors of the 2007 IPCC report, denied it had its facts wrong about melting Himalayan glaciers.",5_2
So if Adolf Hitler had been around today would he claimed Climate Change is a Jewish Conspiracy or would the Arabs and Moslems be blaming Climate Change on the Jews and the Christians or the poor on the rich or the perhaps the other way round.,0_0
Readers will remember the resignation of Nature editor Philip Campbell from the Muir Russell inquiry - Campbell's position became untenable when he was found to have prejudged the outcome of the inquiry by telling a television interviewer that the scientists involved in the Climategate emails had done nothing wrong.,0_0
"???These American heroes ??? the astronauts that took to space and the scientists and engineers that put them there ??? are simply stating their concern over NASA??s extreme advocacy for an unproven theory,?? said Leighton Steward. ???There??s a concern that if it turns out that CO 2 is not a major cause of climate change, NASA will have put the reputation of NASA, NASA??s current and former employees, and even the very reputation of science itself at risk of public ridicule and distrust.??",5_2
China mine death tolls rises to 30: government:,0_0
"Asia needs the energy to fuel its growing economy and support its still inadequate petroleum production infrastructure. Most of Europe's natural gas comes from Russia, which charges high prices, engages in energy blackmail, and is rattling sabers in Crimea, Moldova, and Ukraine.",0_0
"""Changes to gaming regulations taking effect Wednesday are the first in a succession expected during the next few weeks aimed at loosening rules so casinos can streamline operations.""",0_0
"""The ""Power Eater"" is a public art piece that takes the shape of a giant igloo made from 312 refrigerators in the middle of Hamburg. Inside, there's a ""tower of consumption,"" by artist Esa Ott, made from gadgets such as fans, TVs and toasters all plugged in and draining electricity. A nearby meter measures the total electrical requirement of the ""Power Eater.""""",0_0
"And the only way you can get rid of features you do not like. As a practical example, just think of the selection of the dog from the wolf, or much more recently allesperimento that is selecting meek mice and wild mice",0_0
* 20 Tables showing roughly bell-shaped distributions of answers:,0_0
"Worldwide, overwhelming amounts of data and observations now virtually prove that powerful geological forces associated with active Deep Ocean and Continental Rift Systems have a strong effect on climate trends, including glacial ice melting. Still this notion is rarely considered, much less mentioned by the press, NASA, NOAA, environmental groups, or politicians.",0_0
"The truth about global warming ??? it??s the Sun that??s to blame London Telegraph , July 18 2004 Global warming has finally been explained: the Earth is getting hotter because the Sun is burning more brightly than at any time during the past 1,000 years, according to new research.",2_1
"Also in keeping with past practice, the latest report confuses climate risk with climate change risk. Droughts, storms, floods, and heat waves are all part of the natural climate. Our risk of exposure to such extremes has much more to do with where we happen to live than with any gradual climate changes associated with the 1.3F 1.9F increase in average U.S. temperature since the 1880s.",0_0
reduce the solar RF significantly despite the many papers to the contrary in,0_0
"Dr. Thorning is Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the American Council for Capital Formation. She also serves as Senior Vice President and Director of Research for the ACFF Center for Policy Research, which focues on tax and environmental policies. Previously she served at the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Federal Trade Commission. Dr. Thorning is co-editor of numerous books on environmental policy including The Kyoto Commitments: Can Nations Meet Them with the Help of Technology? and Climate Change Policy: Practical Stategies to Promote Economic Growth and Environmental Quality.",0_0
"- I think that CO 2 plays too large a role in current climate models, and that they are not nearly describe the natural climate variations in a good way.",5_1
5 Jan 2011 AUSTRALIAS $45 million Antarctic ice runway has been unused this ... last year three were cancelled because the runways was melting.,0_0
Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.,0_0
"These continental ice shields had reached their maximum extent approximately 20,000 years ago but had completely melted away some 5,000 years ago. Now thats real climate change in action! Yes the CO2 levels increased too, but only with a time lag of 800 years. As clearly established from deep ice cores on Greenland, that CO2 increase was not the cause but the consequence of the melting.",2_3
"The problem, of course, is that other things are not equal.Wind energy is inferior to coal-generated electricity in many respects . It is intermittent,often unavailable when most needed(hot summer days when the wind doesn??t blow),costs more per unit of output, occupiesmuch moreland per unit of output,requiresthe construction of new transmission lines (because thebest wind sites aretypicallydistant from population centers),and kills far more birds than coal power plants do.Few wind farms would be built absent Soviet-style production quota (???renewable portfolio standards??), a special tax break (wind energy production tax credit), and billions in outright taxpayer-fundedgrants . Solar power, for its part, is even more costly than wind ,and does not generate any electricity when the Sun isn??t shining.",4_4
"5. Recent studies of ice mass loss at both Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets show that the wild-ass, speculative predictions of climate alarmist scientists and their climate/ice sheet models are galactically over-estimating the losses.",5_1
"Accompanying the layoffs was an announcement that Fisker has approached the Department of Energy about revising the targets it had to meet in order to continue drawing money from the federal loan. Whether the Energy Department agrees to alter the terms, and invest more taxpayer in the Fisker venture remains unclear. Critics of the Obama administration told ABC News they worried that Fisker was at risk of becoming the next Solyndra -- a reference to the now-bankrupt solar panel firm that received support from a government loan program.",0_0
"We are all familiar with the Litany: the environment is in poor shape here in Earth. Our resources are running out. The population is ever growing, leaving less and less to eat. The air and water are becoming ever more polluted. The planet's species are becoming extinct in vast numberswe kill off more than 40,000 each year. The forests are disappearing, fish stocks are collapsing, and the coral reefs are dying. We are defiling our Earth, the fertile topsoil is disappearing; we are paving over nature, destroying the wilderness, decimating the biosphere, and will end up killing ourselves in the process. The world's ecosystem is breaking down. We are fast approaching the absolute limit of viability, and the limits of growth are becoming apparent.",0_0
"Presumably, the reason would be to mitigate global warming. But it turns out that the fuel burned in all the gasoline-powered engines used in the United States produces about two-tenths of 1 percent of worldwide carbon dioxide (which is only one of the greenhouse gases thought to cause what may be some warming of the world's climate).",4_2
"James Murrays proposition seems to be essentially an updated form of environmental determinism, an approach once popular in academic circles but recently less so.",0_0
"Satellite data shows that glaciers in part of the Karakoram range on the China-Pakistan border are putting on mass, defying (supposedly) the general trend toward glacier shrinkage.",1_1
"Five elephants will trek 250 km in Thailand to urge US President Obama to take action against global warming The Chang(e) Caravan project is aimed particularly at urging Obama to bring up the issue of a worsening global-warming at the Copenhagen summit . ""He is expected to take a leadership role over the issue and act on it seriously,"" Hernandez added. ... There are 15 rest points along the route. All elephants will walk no more than 10 km each day, and will be transported in specially designed trucks in crowded areas or communities , he said.",0_0
"Organizations like the U.N.-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have pushed adaptation as a complementary strategy to mitigation. Still, adaptation has received little attention by the Obama administration and is hardly mentioned in public discussion. Proponents of strong anti-carbon measures seem to believe that even considering an alternative to mitigation will weaken the public's willingness to bear the costs of mitigation.",0_0
"The wording of the Eagle Protection Act could not be any clearer. It ""prohibits anyone, without a permit issued by the Secretary of the Interior,"" from ""taking"" bald or golden eagles. The law defines ""take"" as ""pursue, shoot, shoot at, poison, wound, kill, capture, trap, collect, molest or disturb.""",0_0
The news of Dr. Giaevers resignation comes on the heels of another blow to the notion of incontrovertible evidence this past July. A study published in the journal Remote Sensing (PDF) highlights several discrepancies in previously relied-upon data. From the Tuscon Citizen :,5_1
"So the warmer climate may have saved her life and allowed her to become a prime minister, too - because she would be unlikely to achieve the same thing in the U.K. How does she reward the warmer climate? She declares jihad on it. That's the Labor Party ethics.",0_0
"The Sierra Club doesn't want to see the U.S. benefit from coal, oil, and natural gas. It wants to see the landmass filled with solar farms and thousands of wind turbines that would not produce enough electricity to meet the needs of nation, let alone a major city. Because they are unpredictable, all require the backup of traditional plants.",4_4
15. Peru - Agreement Concerning the Establishment of a Tropical Forest Conservation Fund and Administering Board,0_0
"Short of a full-scale replica of the IPCC, a number of other national and international institutions could be brought into the issue in a serious way, starting with the U.S. Treasury Department and other finance ministries, along with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Thus far finance ministries have shown little interest in the economics of global warming. One reason for this is underappreciated: the IPCC members with coalition parliamentary governments tend to turn over the climate portfolio to the greenest members of their coalition (or to the Green Party itself in the case of some European countries), who are naturally enthusiastic about the issue but are not always well versed in economics, while finance ministries concentrate on more near-term issues.",0_0
"In other words, researchers have yet to find evidence of more-extreme weather patterns over the period, contrary to what the models predict.",1_7
"Despite his legacy, outside of climate science few people will have heard of Saltzman. It was only right at the end of his 40-year career that this esteemed analyst produced his greatest achievement: a unified theory of climate that drew worldwide plaudits.",0_0
"Thanks to the revelations of the Climategate e-mails, we now have a more skeptical view about the process which is used to vet publications. We know now that peer-review, once considered by many as the gold-standard, can be manipulatedand in fact has been manipulated by a gang of UK and US climate scientists who have been very open about their aim to keep dissenting views from being published. We also know from the same e-mails that editors can be bullied by determined activists.",5_2
"The Obama that emerges from the Atlantic interview is preternaturally icy, contemptuous of both his adversaries and his own staff, thin-skinned, angry, and oddly self-satisfied. That character portrait aside, it would have been nice if the article had shed light on the worldview that governs Obama's decisions. Rather, it illuminated the fact that he doesn't have a worldview. Instead, the president of the United States has opinions, and lots of them. And people he really doesn't like, and lots of them. And countries he thinks don't count, like those that make up the Sunni Middle East.",0_0
Is US Per Capita GDP Growth in Decline?,0_0
"The ERO projects that U.S. demand will increase by 141,000 megawatts (MW) over the next 113 years. Supply, however, will in- crease by only 57,000 MW, and that assumes that all currently proposed new facilities are approved and built.",0_0
Farmers protest plan for high-speed rail:,0_0
she persisted in spinning a fairy tale that Michigan is perfectly,0_0
"Using tree ring data from 14 different sites on three different continents in the Northern Hemisphere, the researchers constructed a temperature record of the last 1000 years. What they found was that the ""MWP was likely to have been a large-scale phenomenon in the NH extratropics that appears to have approached, during certain intervals, the magnitude of 20th-century warming, at least up to 1990.""",2_1
EPA Is Upset about Three Million Gallon Animas River Spill,0_0
"The model is the Hadley Center model. Pat Michaels demonstrates the model's poor performance in P. Michaels, Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media (Washington, DC: Cato, 2004). Michaels critiques the PNAS study here: www.co2andclimate.org/wca/2004/wca 23bpf.html.",0_0
"The operative word is ""empower,"" which is the purpose of the Assessment. It is to provide cover for a massive regulatory intrusion, and concomitant enormous costs in resources and individual liberty. History tells us that when scientists willingly endorse sweeping governmental agendas fueled by dodgy science, bad things soon happen. To borrow the meter of Winston Churchill:",0_0
"Though solar thermal tower technology has been around since the 1970s, to date, only one plant in the world commercially generates electricity: Abengoa Solars 11-MW PS10 tower just outside Seville, in Spains Andaluca desert has been grid-connected since early 2007. Because the technology relies on heat from solar energy that is reflected by mirror arrays (heliostats) onto a tower-mounted receiver, installations tend to be site-specific, expensive, and high-maintenance.",4_4
"So, how does analysis using the traditional EF Scale compare with Elsners study? Does it confirm his results?",0_0
My whole point was that bawdy comedy and elegant comedy have existed,0_0
"The two U.S. researchers report that the results of their analyses indicate that the global land carbon sink is intensifying , and that it is doing so at a rate of 0.057 PgC/year/year, resulting in 1.65 PgC of additional uptake over the period examined (1980-2008), which finding, in their words, ""is consistent with related findings in recent years,"" citing in this regard the studies of Cao et al . (2002), Cao et al . (2005), Le Quere et al . (2009) and Piao et al . (2009). What it means",3_1
"""A national payment structure would cut variation around the country in what the state pays for and what it does not, and support far more people to be cared for in their own homes, it said.""",0_0
"Low-cost natural gas can also provide the basic raw material for cheap fertilizer for farmers, thus lowering food prices, and feedstock for chemical plants for cheaper plastics and other basic materials. Industries can now return to the United States and provide jobs locally ??? instead of operating offshore where natural gas has been cheap.",4_5
"Worse, today's deficits are tomorrow's tax increases. And more spending is usually followed by more regulation. The Bush spending explosion was accompanied by over 30,000 new regulations. What the economy needs instead is a deregulatory stimulus. There are three fronts in the battle to achieve it.",0_0
"Vulnerable and more secure households differ in coping strategies when dealing with weather-related events. Forty-nine percent of vulnerable households turn to their faith, 43 percent to their family, and 36 percent turned to their friends for emotional support. Only 19 percent turned to financially-based responses and only 8 percent made attempts to secure credit to gain resources to make repairs rebuild. Households that have the highest levels of security are more likely to use their savings or sell their assets to engage in a financially based response by repairing and rebuilding, many times finding emotional support through this work.",0_0
11b. Data collection efforts are currently adequate or inadequate,0_0
3. It is unlikely that anything significant will be done to reduce greenhouse gases for at least the next decade and possibly longer. Developing countries will not do much unless the developed countries show them the money. Developed countries will continue to blow hot air while recognizing the impossibility of achieving much without the cooperation of the developing countries.,0_0
"That the fish have evolved a method to deal with excess calcium implies the ocean levels have risen from what they were when the basic cellular structure first evolved. Over millions of years, the ocean is getting saltier and, it would seem, with higher levels of calcium too. At the same time, we have a calcium carbonate influx deficit rate right now in the ocean (per that paper). If you put those two together, I get that we are just getting the ocean back a little bit toward the original calcium level. (And maybe it would benefit from a bit more carbonate flux to help that along).",3_2
Among the stalled high-priority projects is RES Americas' plan for an estimated $148 million project on wind-swept desert in San Bernardino County.,0_0
"As a part of this shift, watch for environmental activists to be more aggressive on the state levelpushing for increased mandates for renewables and more regulation and/or bans on hydraulic fracturing.",0_0
"No evidence supports either proposition. Moreover, oil sands production would add a minuscule 0.06% to US greenhouse gas emissions, a tiny fraction of that amount to global carbon dioxide emissions, and an undetectable 0.00002 deg F (0.00001 C) per year to useless computer-model scenarios for global warming.",4_2
"eight, and said he would do all of that in his first 100 days.",0_0
"The rules of the road the court would presumably enforce are based on the view that these developed countries owe developing countries a ""debt"" over climate change, and must provide financial aid in addition to taking major steps toward cutting emissions.",0_0
"The memorandum creates a Climate and National Security Working Group consisting of nineteen federal departments and agencies plus more to be named later. The working group will be chaired by Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Susan Rice and Assistant to the President for Science and Technology John Holdren. The working group, in ""close collaboration"" with the U. S. Global Change Research Program, is charged with seventeen specific tasks plus producing a broad Action Plan within 90 days and a Federal Agency Implementation Plan within 150 days.",0_0
"There is strong psychological evidence that alarmist fears of climate change are far more the result of groupthink and the group polarization process than scientific evidence and, yes, this alarmist groupthink has indeed led to the triumph of irrationality over reason.",5_2
"Who pays for all this bad science, and worse, news? We do, of course. And it doesn?t come cheap. According to data compiled by Joanne Nova at the Science and Public Policy Institute, the U.S. Government spent more than $32.5 billion on climate studies between 1989 and 2009. This doesn?t count about $79 billion more spent for related climate change technology research, foreign aid and tax breaks for ?green energy.?",0_0
This wont wash. It is tantamount to saying that EPA can avoid the obligation to establish NAAQSto control air pollution from numerous or diverse mobile or stationary sources that it hasdeterminedendangers public health or welfare just bydeclining to do the paperwork.,0_0
"If you take China and India out of the equation, what is more surprising is that under current regulations, coal demand in the rest of the world will remain at current levels, Durbin said.",0_0
"All major global datasets, up to date. The pause is clear enough. The lower two lines are from satellites. Jan 2015 | Graph, Dr David Evans.",1_4
And for additional introductory discussions of El Nio processes see:,0_0
"source: instagram.com Yet another bitterly cold, snowy winter is destroying alarmist global warming claims, proving once again that over-the-top global warming predictions are proving no more scientifically credible than snake oil.",1_3
"Less is more, part one. Warmists say the ice is melting, but Arctic ice increased 23% since 2007.",1_1
"I hope Dr. Parker isn't one of my PPO providers. I'd hate to have to pay to go out of network just to avoid her particular brand of eco-crazy. Then again, maybe it's just my lack of offspring that's making me callous to the prospect of slightly fewer snow days in Maryland. Think of the children!",0_0
U.S. Climate Extremes Index (CEI) | Extremes | National Climatic Data Center (NCDC),0_0
"What a difference a year can make. On Tuesday President Obama announced that the Department of Energy would guarantee $8.3 billion of loans to Southern Company, enabling its subsidiary, Georgia Power, to build two nuclear power plants, the first in America in over 30 years.",0_0
"Nightly television pictures of the tragic destruction from tornadoes over the past months might make one wonder if the frequency of tornadoes is increasing, perhaps due to the increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. But as one can read at Andrew Revkin??s New York Times blog, dotearth, ???There is no evidence of any trend in the number of potent tornadoes (category F2 and up) over the past 50 years in the United States, even as global temperatures have risen markedly.??",1_7
"(11) When the ""consensus"" is maintained by an army of water-carrying journalists who defend it with uncritical and partisan zeal, and seem intent on helping certain scientists with their messaging rather than reporting on the field as objectively as possible.",0_0
"the often quoted increase in weather extremes, this however has not been the case in the Alps. Completely to the contrary: The temperature fluctuations have even decreased over the last decades, summed up climatologist and study author Reinhard Bhm. The results of the study have left the scientists amazed.",1_7
An Obama Administration executive order / regulation (hard to tell the difference any more),0_0
The logarithmic plots of CO2 doubling help demonstrate why CO2 won??t cause a runaway greenhouse effect due to diminished IR returns as CO2 PPM??s increase. This is something many people don??t get to see visualized.,2_3
17j. The ability of regional climate models to model extreme events for the next 50 years,0_0
"The outbreak of recent killer weather events including US tornadoes hitting Joplin, Missouri and Tuscaloosa, Alabama has everyone asking whether there is a link between tornadoes and human-induced climate change. In this writer??s experience when US TV or radio weathermen are asked about the cause of recent strong tornadoes, they most always ignore climate change as a potential cause and point to a cyclical ocean circulation event known as La Nia as the cause of recent tornadoes if they comment on causation at all. Rarely is human-induced climate change mentioned as a cause or contributing factor in the recent outbreak of sever tornadoes although questions about causation are becoming more frequent on TV and newspapers in this writer??s experience.",1_7
MISSOURI -80% of electricity; 6th in coal use,0_0
"The two-week period, last week of November and first week of December is the coldest since CET records began in 1659.",1_3
WTO-UNEP report gives the nod -- sort of -- to carbon border taxes,0_0
It sits smack dab in the heart of several recently active geologically induced geothermal heat and gas release events (see geologic map below).,0_0
"Future historians will reflect upon this unscientific aberration of our age as highly reminiscent of a time nearly four centuries ago when Galileo hopelessly protested when forced to recant his direct observations,""and yet it moves."" Just as the sun doesn't orbit around the earth, perpetual world climate changes don't cycle around earthlings either.",0_0
"I, too, have firsthand knowledge about receiving special treatment. Ross McKitrick has documented similar experiences, as have John Christy and David Douglass and Roy Spencer, and I am sure others. The unfortunate side-effect of this differential treatment is that a self-generating consensus slows the forward progress of scientific knowledge?a situation well-described by Thomas Kuhn is his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. ?Chip Knappenberger]",0_0
"DSM proponents exaggerate the energy savings from such policies. Contrary to popular belief, energy efficiency improvements do not reduce society's overall energy consumption. In fact, greater efficiency leads to more energy use, because efficiency lowers the cost of consumption and frees up dollars for other energy-consuming activities.",4_2
"""Do the powers-that-be at NPR think Juan Williams is a bigot? Do they think a traveler who has a reaction (fair or unfair) like the one Juan describes, in our age of terror in the name of Islam, is a bigot?""",0_0
"This means that if this trend continues, these two datasets will in the future report monthly GSTA that are increasingly higher than UAHs. RSS on the other hand will in the future report monthly GSTA that are increasingly lower than UAHs and that of the three land-based data sets. Albeit the fact that RSS and UAH use data retrieved from the same systems; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellites microwave (and Advanced) sounding unit (MSU, and AMSU), the trend observed here suggests that computational and/or other data-treatment differences may play a role. In addition, this disagreement is likely a problem related to under-constraining such that one or both of the measurements is (are) biased relative to the true state of the measurand (2).",0_0
All of the above is background to one of the great mysteries of the climate change issue. Virtually all the scientists directly involved in climate prediction are aware of the enormous problems and uncertainties still associated with their product. How then is it that those of them involved in the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC) can put their hands on their hearts and maintain there is a 95% probability that human emissions of carbon dioxide have caused most of the global warming that has occurred over the last several decades?,5_1
"The group think concludes that carbon dioxide is the principal driver of climate change and that human emissions of carbon dioxide are causing unprecedented and dangerous global warming. These conclusions can easily be rejected by examining ice core borings from Greenland and other empirical data which show that temperature change for the past 10,000 and 25,000 years is largely unrelated to atmospheric carbon dioxide and that 20th century warming is insignificant compared with many 100 year warming and cooling periods in the past.",2_3
"Because the sea surface temperatures for that dataset cool during the 9- and 11-year periods between the major El Nio events, and because the sea surface temperatures there warm only during the major El Nio events, and because the long-term data shows a significant warming trend, then one might conclude the major El Nio events are responsible for all of the long-term warming of the South Atlantic, Indian and West Pacific Oceans. Its not an unreasonable conclusion. In fact, thats what the data shows.",2_1
"Plant growth enhancement with CO2 up to 1000 ppm is strong, and up to 2000 ppm is measurable, meaning that plants know how to use more, expect to have more, and are rate limited at the low levels of today.",3_3
"After years of talking about it, we are finally poised to control our own energy future. We produce more oil at home than we have in 15 years. We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas, and the amount of renewable energy we generate from sources like wind and solar with tens of thousands of good, American jobs to show for it. We produce more natural gas than ever before and nearly everyones energy bill is lower because of it. And over the last four years, our emissions of the dangerous carbon pollution that threatens our planet have actually fallen.",0_0
"A moment's reflection, however, reveals that this argument is an empty suit. All it proves is that EPA has jumped through the requisite procedural hoops, which nobody disputes. It in no way demonstrate that Congress intended for EPA to regulate greenhouse gases.",0_0
A Climate Deal Worth a Small Degree of Success,0_0
"As one would expect, Europe does very well in the rankings and has the highest representation at the top of the list with fourteen of the top twenty countries. The highly homogenized populations of Finland, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway are listed in order as the top five most prosperous countries. The larger and more ethnically diverse populations of the United Kingdom (twelfth), Germany (fourteenth), France (seventeenth), Spain (nineteenth), and Italy (twenty-first) also rank highly.",0_0
"We may have some information about the spin of the electron a second ago and predict some measurement of the spin we perform the next second. This is true both in classical physics and quantum mechanics. The two frameworks radically differ by the ""spectrum"" of possible values that the spin can take (and similarly other observables). And they also fundamentally differ in the way how we make predictions about the future measurements about the information that the measurements will yield (it's the very same thing) from the information that the past experiments have already yielded. The laws of quantum mechanics are probabilistic and involve all the linear Hermitian operators acting on a Hilbert space (or density matrices which are also operators on the Hilbert space).",0_0
"The models also did not predict the 18-19 year ""pause"" in global warming, thus are not valid to determine attribution to natural vs. anthropogenic causes",5_1
"Material for a reconstruction comes from several proxies, from innumerable places, several latitudes, of areas with continental climate and marine climate, and they are not all of equal quality. To puzzle this all together not only requires carefulness but also a truck cargo of statistical techniques to find real correlations and not only local coincidences. And then still in some periods of the reconstruction, the error margins in the results will be considerably large.",5_1
"A spate of books have come out to support these claims: ""The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World,"" ""Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil"" and ""The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies.""",0_0
"I seem to remember from statistics class that anything less than 95 percent probability is junk science. This is an editorial from the most recent issue of GEO, a Norwegian magazine about earth sciences",0_0
"The United States Supreme Court ruled today against six states that sought standing to sue sources of greenhouse gas emissions for their contributions to global warming under federal common law. The court ruled 80 in American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut that the Clean Air Act and the Obama administration's regulatory actions on climate had displaced the states' common law ""public nuisance"" argument. The Court left one issue open, splitting 44 on the issue of whether federal courts even had jurisdiction to hear the claims.",0_0
"The changes to the UAH dataset can obviously be justified, while the changes to the NOAA data obviously cannot be.",5_1
"Here For the 12th time this meteorological summer (since June 1), daytime highs failed to reach 70 degrees Wednesday. Only one other year in the past half century has hosted so many sub-70-degree days up to this point in a summer season -- 1969, when 14 such days occurred. Wednesday's paltry 65-degree high at O'Hare International Airport (an early-May-level temperature and a reading 18 degrees below normal) was also the city's coolest July 8 high in 118 years -- since a 61-degree high on the date in 1891.",1_3
Professor Bob Carter is a geologist and the author of Climate: The Counter Consensus.,0_0
"4. Global temperatures increased roughly from the middle of the 19th century (the end of the Little Ice Age) through the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, and then from about 1910 through about 1940. They were roughly constant through about 1980, increased until 1998 (a year with a strong El Nio), and have exhibited no trend since then. How much of this long-term upward trend is anthropogenic, and how do you know?",2_1
"???While incremental improvements can be expected with biomass, wind and solar, what is needed for them to become viable is an order of magnitude increase in productivity?? . As significant future energy sources these technologies are dead ends, which is why the government, and not the private sector, is funding them.??",4_4
"A more fundamental problem: Most Kyoto foes rest their case on a demoralizing argument. Kyoto is said to be ""flawed"" and ""unfair"" because it exempts developing countries from emission controls. As the slogan has it, ""A global problem requires a global solution."" But such criticism concedes the main points at issue. It implies that global warming is a real problem, and that suppressing fossil energy is the solution.",0_0
"Theodore Them provides a detailed criticism of New York State's determination to ban hydraulic fracturing, which prevents the development of the state's vast natural gas and oil reserves. The misguided fracking ban, he writes, is due to radical environmentalists' influence on Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and the actions of inept Commissioner of Health Howard Zucker.",0_0
"When doing business becomes so expensive, there tends to be a lot less of it. Of course businesses pass on their costs, so regulation becomes a hidden trillion-dollar tax on consumers. This is bad policy at any time. During a recession, it's economic hara-kiri. The numbers are up as well as the costs. The 2008 Federal Register reached a record 79,435 pages, up 10 percent from the previous year. Even as the economy dipped into recession, agencies issued 3,830 new final rules. As you read this, 4,004 new federal regulations fill the pipeline, 753 of which affect small businesses.",0_0
"Zurich University Hospital has stopped treating North American ""medical tourists,"" fearing million-dollar claims from litigious patients if operations go wrong. Hospitals in canton Valais have also adopted measures to protect themselves against visitors from the United States, Canada and Britain.",0_0
"Today, it's been 50 years since the assassination of JFK.",0_0
"The plan was aimed at ""raising questions about and undercutting the ""prevailing scientific wisdom'"" on climate change, Newsweek claimed. The plan was leaked to the press and as a result was never implemented, according to Newsweek.",0_0
"on Saturday, November 6th, 2010 at 12:26 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
The temperature increasing capacity of atmospheric CO2 is known to diminish as concentrations increase. This diminution effect is probably the reason why there was no runaway greenhouse warming caused by CO2 in earlier eons when CO2 levels were known to be at levels of several thousands ppm v .,2_3
transition of artificial ventilated Stevenson screen to the current KNMI round-plated screen (June 1993).,0_0
"California Gov. Jerry Brown is 76 and turns 78 in 2016. Andrew Cuomo lives with a woman not his wife not a problem in New York, but not helpful for a national candidate.",0_0
"In addition to the CEI, a number of groups belonging to the Cooler Heads Coalition were represented at Celebrate Coal!, including the National Center for Public Policy Research, FreedomWorks, and Americans for Prosperity. Also attending were Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer, the Irish filmmakers whose new documentary about global warming, Not Evil Just Wrong, masterfully debunks global warming hysteria. For all the Capitol Climate Action protesters' posturing, our per capita carbon footprint was much smaller than theirs. Many of them were university students who flew to Washington for the protest and to attend an environmental conference the previous weekend. Most of us took the Metro and a few walked to our Celebrate Coal! Rally.",0_0
"Among other things, the fact that the deadly North American droughts of the MWP have never been equaled throughout all the ensuing years argues strongly that what Benson et al . call the anomalous warmth of that period has also ""never been equaled throughout all the ensuing years,"" which further suggests (since the air's CO 2 content was so much less during the MWP than it is now) that the lesser warmth of today need not in any way be related to the much higher CO 2 concentration of earth's current atmosphere. Reviewed 8 August 2007",2_1
"First, Icelands eye-catching volcanism, which captured the curiosity of the world, erupted and its associated heat flow rapidly melted huge continental glaciers. It is important to understand that while pictures of Icelandic eruptions make good press, there is another very significant component to the Icelandic heat-flow story: convective systems.",0_0
"He says the most reliable gauges, located at Fremantle and Auckland, show an increase in sea level of approximately 120 millimetres between 1920 and 2000, or 1.5 millimetres per year. But this increase is reducing at a rate of between 0.02 and 0.04 millimetres per year.",1_6
"Response: Yes. The Clean Air Act specifies that BACT for a source cannot be less stringent than an applicable NSPS. Thus, when EPA completes an NSPS for a source category, BACT determinations that follow for applicable sources would need to consider the levels of the pollutant standards and the supporting rationale of the NSPS.",0_0
"Tonight, from the 1965 EP Prop Del Bressol (""Near the Crib""), Catalonian choir Orfe Enric Morera keeps Christmas up and running with a few traditional Czech, German, and Italian songs . The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.",0_0
"Because of the centrality of individual freedom in the United States, norming advocates are invariably on the international Left politically; there are simply no other nations as liberty-oriented as we are.",0_0
A Conservative Think Tank Wants The White House Science Czars Private Emails,0_0
The Times reports on the subpoena CEI recieved from an attorney general as part of the intimidation campaign to silence the debate on climate change.,0_0
"This study claims to reconstruct 2,000 years of sea levels. (It actually extrapolates from a study of shallow salt marshes with an historical reconstruction going back 300 years and based on the prevalence of foraminifera fossils to reconstruct the past sea levels. These reside in the very shallow, sandy pools and die in deeper waters, so theoretically we can see where sea levels were in the past.) They used tide gauge data to calibrate. By observing agreement between direct observations and this proxy reconstruction they can estimate the rate of rise and extrapolate into the past. Or so they claim.They were exhaustive in their methodology; choosing a whopping two points (Sand Point and Tump Point) to study the fossils and calibrating from data from two other points (Wilmington and Hampton Roads). Their conclusion? Sea level rise has accelerated, and this ""correlates"" to the industrial era.",0_0
"The total Arctic sea ice area is currently almost 2 million square kilometers higher than one year ago. It is near normal for the end of October, humiliating some would-be ""predictions"" (self-serving and ideologically driven, unsubstantiated lies) of a new record low for 2008.",1_1
policy for wanting others to step up: The point is not merely to spread the burden but,0_0
"In short, if melting permafrost continues, as it has being doing steadily since the last Ice Age, then more carbon dioxide will be absorbed. This represents a massive natural buffer to any tipping point predicted by climate change doomsayers.",3_1
"Coming at a time when public credibility in science is being seriously eroded by ongoing revelations of malpractice in what the public was assured was irrefutable fact and settled science regarding climate change, these extraordinary (their own description) claims regarding the GBR are well positioned to become a Reefgate . This is especially so in that a key claim in this report and widely made elsewhere, is that a major benefit of protected areas on reefs is the increased resilience they provide against climate change.",0_0
"Greenhouse gas curbs on industries such as power generation and steel could provide a basis for a renewed U.N.-led drive to fight global warming, Akio Mimura, Chairman of Nippon Steel Corp said on Thursday",0_0
"While we discuss the uncertainties in estimates of Arctic Ocean temperatures and its trends, it is useful to put into perspective its relatively small size.",0_0
"Renewable Electricity 'Creating' Jobs, Destroying Wealth",0_0
"Of course, not all celebrities are liberal. Bush had a small stable of celebs in his corner, ranging from Loretta Lynn to Bo Derek. Others such as Charlton Heston and Arnold Schwarzenegger have made themselves fixtures in conservative circles.",0_0
"Grandmother Mounts Legal Challenge to Scotland's ""Dash for Wind'",0_0
"Speziale, K.L. and Ezcurra, C. 2014. Rock outcrops as potential biodiversity refugia under climate change in North Patagonia. Plant Ecology & Diversity : 10.1080/17550874.2014.983200.",0_0
"The Committee also credited Mann with the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore. ""This would have been impossible had his activities in reporting his work been outside accepted practices in his field,"" the committee observed. MIT's Lindzen was also a co-Nobelist, but apparently the award didn't help his credibility.",0_0
"By Jim Lakely, Heartland.org, Jul 9, 2015, from geologist George Klein",0_0
My point is that there are many sudden rainfall change events in Australian climate history and from larger regions than SW WA and little attention is put into explaining these.,0_0
Patrick J. Michaels is Senior Research Fellow for Research and Economic Development at George Mason University and author and editor of ?Climate Coup: Global Warming?s Invasion of our Government and our Lives.?,0_0
"Aside from this flawed argument, you havent offered *any* other argument that would imply that the adjusted graphs are wrong and the graphs preferred by you are right. Its just your emotions and prejudices and the rational content is zero.",0_0
"Ultimately, President Bush has cleverly managed this issue to leave the sole outstanding question to be whether the increasingly isolated dare I say unilateral? European Union can accept a political loss and return to the table seeking practical responses to the challenge of potential anthropogenic climate change that are grounded in science and can be accepted widely.",0_0
The results showed fat content of the liver remained unchanged when the six HFCS and sucrose groups were averaged. Fat content in muscle tissue was also unchanged over the 10 weeks when the six HFCS and sucrose groups were averaged.,0_0
"Vecchi and Knutson introduce their study by stating that ""there is currently disagreement within the hurricane/climate community on whether anthropogenic forcing (greenhouse gases, aerosols, ozone depletion, etc.) has caused an increase in Atlantic tropical storm or hurricane frequency,"" as well, we might add, as storm duration and intensity. What was done",0_0
"Earth Gains A Record Amount Of Sea Ice In 2013 Earth has gained 19,000 Manhattans of sea ice since this date last year, the largest increase on record",1_1
"The Keystone pipeline remains a strong possibility, though the Canadians have nearly given up on us. Fracking is regulated at the state level, which, mostly, allows it tocontinue to increase America's energy freedomresulting in lower prices at the pump. Because more than 96% of the wells drilled in America today use the decades-old, but new-and-improved, technology of hydraulic fracturing, a federal fracking ban, like environmental groups have been trying to pass through city and county initiatives, would virtually shut down our booming energy economy. President Obama tried, but couldn't pass a cap-and-trade billeven when his party controlled both houses. Nor could he get a new Kyoto-like international treaty ratified. Most of the western world is now retreating on the climate pledges made in a different political era.",0_0
"Warm Weather, Lower Quota for Seal Hunt",0_0
"When it comes to implementingmeasures for adaptation to climate change, there are no problems like those listed above. Measures for adapting to climate change do not have the problems that measures for prevention have. Adapting to climatically related environmental changes do not have the free-rider problem, where one incurs the costs and the other reaps the benefits. The circle of beneficiaryandcost-bearer are mutual when it comes to adaptationmeasures. The strategy of adaptation thus offers opportunities for a unilateral, cost-effective national climate policy in a wide variety of impact areas (e.g.against flooding or storm damage). At the same time, such a policy augments the chances of an international emissions limitation.",4_2
"To keep the program going, the municipality has turned to asking for charity. ""Under the new charitable program,"" reports Electricity Daily, ""four levels of participation are offered: Friend of the Environment for $4.30 to $20 per month; Supporter of the Environment for $21 to $60; Conserver of the Environment for $61 to $125, and Protector of the Environment for a whopping $126 or more per month. LES declined to comment on whether these donations are tax deductible.""",0_0
"Meanwhile, about 30 of us gathered next to the Greenpeace truckapparently Greenpeace prefers motorized vehicles to bullock cartsfor a counterdemonstration to ""Celebrate Coal and Keep Energy Affordable!"" The Greenpeace truck had a big solar panel, but it was covered by at least three inches of snow, so the activists had to run a generator instead to power the truck's PA system.",0_0
Dating the air with respect to the ice it is trapped in is problematic.,0_0
Vanity Fair abandons the 'green issue' h/t,0_0
"The snow measured 69 centimetres on Sunday, the last day of March, he said.",0_0
The title summarizes the main point of this article that presents many examples suggesting that the temperature data from the weather stations have been repeatedly retroactively adjusted.,5_2
"EPA's final CPP contains a key initiative not mentioned in the draft rule: the Clean Energy Incentive Program (CEIP). EPA added the CEIP to jumpstart investment in wind and solar power, assuring environmental groups and renewable energy interests the CPP won't trigger a ""dash to gas' as it suppresses electric power generation from coal. In other words, the CEIP's job is to make sure the Clean Power Plan rigs the marketplace against all fossil-fuel generation.",0_0
"Oliver and Palumbi say their results suggest ""previous exposure to an environmentally variable microhabitat adds substantially to coral-algal thermal tolerance, beyond that provided by heat-resistant symbionts alone,"" indicating a latent potential of Earth's corals to adapt to warmer temperatures than scientists believed possible in the past, should they gradually begin to experience recurring daily episodes of greater warmth in a gradually warming world.",3_2
"Then theres the issue of sea level change. Global warming and climate change are usually thought to mean that world sea levels will rise, perhaps disastrously. But according to US government scientific experts, in recent times (2010 and 2011, to be precise) phenomena driven by human carbon emissions have actually caused world sea levels to fall. According to a statement issued by the US National Science Foundation: For an 18-month period beginning in 2010, the oceans mysteriously dropped by about seven millimeters. (3)",1_6
"In war and in science, the bloodiest conflicts always seem to be the religious ones. Time for the American public to say it's no longer going to play the victim in this one.",0_0
"The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows that some of the more calamitous projects are rather less likely, raising the question of how much of this agenda is really necessary in short order.",0_0
"7 "" the global time series since 1990 reveals that the full data set has warmed more than the rural during recent years and this coincides with a decreasing percentage of the rural stations in the full data set. T. C. Peterson et al., Global rural temperature trends, Geophysical Research Letters 26, 329 (1999).",0_0
"The White House document notes that the Treasury Department, OMB and other White House offices agreed that no more money should be provided because there was a near-zero chance that the company could survive.",0_0
"Given the categorical requirements of the statute, EPA's authority to take such action is dubious indeed, so it relies on ""the basis of the legal doctrines of ""absurd results' and ""administrative necessity,'"" to fill the gap. Of course, the invocation of such doctrines highlights the absurdity of the Massachusetts v. EPA opinion, which compels the actions that the agency now characterizes as absurd. But it is far from clear that these doctrines can be invoked, since the implication of the Court's decision is that Congress was aware of these consequences and proceeded as it did regardless. Let Justice Be Done Though the Heavens Fall, and all that.",0_0
"Libelous websites devoted to such tattling have been with us for years. There are many distortions and falsehoods on them. But what did the bad kids actually do wrong? Well, nothing. That is, unless you feel it is wrong to be seen in public with an acquaintance of the dentist of someone who worked once for an oil company. Moreover it is not that libelous to falsely accuse people of being paid for something when there is nothing wrong with being paid for that thing in the first place. However, there is such a powerful fossil fuel taboo in some circles that even private organizations, advocating skepticism about the prevailing climate dogmas, desperately try to avoid any hint of funding from anything mildly connected with fossil fuels.",0_0
"As political scientist Frances Lee has demonstrated, the trend toward polarization was driven not just by sharper policy differences but also by a much more competitive struggle for control of the levers of power. Unlike the situation through most of the past century, both parties now had a reasonable shot in most elections at winning the White House and Congress. There were fewer presidential landslides and fewer extended periods of one-party control of the House or Senate. Pressure built for more party loyalty in Congress; legislating became more than ever driven by the permanent campaign.",0_0
Washington would no longer regard sitting down to talk with an adversary as a,0_0
"Figure 2 presents the model-data comparison for global satellite-era sea surface temperature anomalies. The data show the oceans warmed at a rate of 0.08 deg C/decade for the last 32+ years, but the models indicate they should have warmed at twice that rate if they were warmed by manmade greenhouse gases.",0_0
"Watch the Liberals closely on this one. What they say - or, more likely, don't say about this development - will reveal much more about the party's position on Israel than the high profile - low cost Wrzesnewskyj resignation.",0_0
Changes in global atmospheric CO2 are lagging 9.510 months behind changes in global air surface temperature.,2_3
"Monckon, Spencer & Rothbard on Climate Science & Policy",0_0
"In the countersuit filed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute against the outrageous subpoena issued by the U.S. Virgin Islands attorney general for CEI's climate-change research, the attorney general was forced to show his cards. In a brief filed in D.C. Superior Court, the only two supposedly fraudulent statements by ExxonMobil he could cite were:",0_0
"The whole Northern Hemisphere is experiencing cold snaps at the same time, says Argiris. Whatever happened to global warming?",1_3
"The arrangement between the World Bank and the private, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) is working well. The NGOs lobby Congress for increased funding, and the GEF picks NGOs to help run its projects. Thus more money eventually ends up in the pockets of the environmental pressure groups.",0_0
A reviewer should not evaluate a manuscript authored or co-authored by a person with whom the reviewer has a close personal or professional connection if the relationship would bias judgment of the manuscript.,0_0
"But it should also mean another wake-up callabout the hundredthfor Congress to do something to protect our constitutional institutions of governance from decapitation via an attack. More than eight years after 9/11, we still have no serious plans in place to deal with a disruption of government that could follow an attack on the House or Senate, no plan to deal with an attack on the Supreme Court, and a wholly inadequate presidential succession act. Despite private assurances to the contrary, neither chamber has held serious hearings on the subjects or moved forward with any action. This is malpractice on a grand scale.",0_0
"This is an odd contention given that we are now in a multi-year period (12 years and counting) period during which time the global warming has been preceding much more slowly than the climate-model mean projections of the expected rate of temperature rise. And, whats even worse (for the models anyway), is that the rate has now dipped near the lower bound of the 95% confidence range of model projections. If the slowdown continues much longer, it will be a clear indication that something is amiss with the temperature projectionsand thus with alarming claims that depend upon them.",5_1
"To put things into even starker perspective, consider that from August 1954 through August 1955, the East Coast saw three different storms make landfallCarol, Hazel and Dianethat in 2012 each would have caused about twice as much damage as Sandy.",0_0
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed bills to repeal and replace Obamacare more than 60 times. Republicans in the Senate haven't been able to meet the 60-vote threshold to achieve closure in that chamber or to override a promised presidential veto. Candidates for the Republican nomination for president notably governors Scott Walker and Bobby Jindal and Sen. Marco Rubio have proposed replacing Obamacare with plans incorporating many of the ideas we first presented in Why We Spend Too Much on Health Care.,0_0
"During the Industrial Revolution, migration to cities made children less useful than they were on farms and more expensive. Easier divorce, reliable birth control, cohabitation replacing marriage, and women entering the workforce in greater numberssince 1990, about 70 percent of women have been working at any given timehave all contributed to the decline in marriage and the diminishing centrality of children in people's lives. These forces have created disincentives to reproduction, not the least being the $1.1 million price tag for rearing and educating a child today.",0_0
"1. Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that ""civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.""",0_0
"In the words of the authors, the results of this study are important because they indicate that ""transgenerational acclimation can help to overcome behavioral impairment observed in fishes exposed to high CO 2 ,"" adding that ""as CO 2 levels rise over coming decades, both parental and offspring generations will experience similar elevated CO 2 levels; thus our results indicate that this parental exposure will help to reduce some of the negative effects of high CO 2 on behavior."" Unfortunately, only a few studies have incorporated the concept of transgenerational acclimation when studying the response of marine life to rising temperatures and CO 2 . Given the findings of Allan et al ., more researchers would be wise to incorporate it into their experimental design; for in so doing, they will likely come closer to the true response of marine life to future climate and seawater pH conditions.",3_2
"But the principles frblir same. Bern curve, somen base for pstenden that carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, apparently from myself I physically omjlig.",0_0
"The solution is simple. Evil American energy companies produce fossil fuel, because evil Americans keep buying it. If all progressives (particularly at universities) would simply disconnect (I prefer the word divest ) their transportation, heating and electrical systems from the fossil fuel powered grid, they could save the planet.",4_5
The controversy surrounding this issue is reported today in a post by The Hill. Excerpts:,0_0
"Tin and Nickle are falling more than the copper / aluminum / DBB basket. Stuff metals are having the worst of it. Economic production is down, and not showing signs of increase (yet). In some ways, Platinum is the most interesting metal of the bunch. Relatively flat, most certainly at or near a bottom. Unfortunately, it has a drop of the end rather like all the other metals. Folks are not expecting a lot of increased chemical production nor auto sales",0_0
"It is also possible, though, that the mandates could, in some cases, go beyond the actions that the cap-and-trade would motivate. That is to say, the regulations might require steps that would cost more than would the cap-and-trade alone. The GHG cap sets total national emissions; so, if a mandate requires more GHG abatement in one area, less will occur in another. Therefore, society will reap no environmental gain, but the costs of reaching the cap will exceed those which would prevail with only the cap-and-trade in place.",4_1
"So what do the satellites show? Since the mid-1970s the satellite data show no trend either up or down in outgoing long wave radiation. Plain and simple, the satellites say the window is just as wide open now as it was in 1974. The average value of outgoing long wave radiation through the last nearly four decades is about 232.5 watts per square meter. As stated above, there has been very little long term variation in this number since 1974. However, during that time carbon dioxide has increased from 330 parts per million to 392 parts per million today, an increase of 62 parts per million. The pre-industrial revolution carbon dioxide base line value is about 280 parts per million. Since then we have seen a rise of 112 parts per million. The 62 parts per million rise since 1974 represents a 55% increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide over the 1850 level. Surely such a significant rise in carbon dioxide should be closing the window up there, if the theory is correct, but its not.",2_3
I came away with the view that you actually did her a favour. I was astonished that she seemed unaware that she was actually arguing against the scientific consensus and her lack of awareness when asked about the IPCC SREX was an eye opener. She was also pushing the view that absence of satellite records may mean past events were missed without recognising that it actually weakens her arguments concerning the relative frequency of modern to historic extreme events.,0_0
"We cannot make sane decisions on global warming if the ""experts' present us with evidence that is biased",5_2
"And throughout nearly all discussion of the rainforest, the idea is presented that only indigenous tribes and their ""earth- friendly"" technologies are suitable for this pristine environment. Peoples like the Kayapo and Yanomami ""possess a thorough understanding, much of it encoded in myth"" according to Alan Durning of the Worldwatch Institute who relays how one tribesman in Brazil said ""The only one who know how to defend the forests are we who have lived here for a hundred years or more the rubber tappers and the Indians.""",0_0
"What is Azar's and Rodhe's ""scientific"" assessment: ""It appears that to keep the changes in global temperature within the range of natural fluctuations during the past millennium, . . . atmospheric CO2 concentration has to be stabilized at around 350 parts per million by volume (ppmv)."" This would keep the temperature variation at around 1 degree Celsius. They state that until proven otherwise, that a 2 degree Celsius increase in temperature should be considered a critical level. To achieve stabilization at 350 ppmv would mean a 50 percent decrease of CO2 emissions worldwide, below current levels, over the next century.",0_0
"One needs only to spend a few days in Moscow talking to the intelligentsia or, better yet, to take a quick look at the blogs on LiveJournal (Zhivoy Zhurnal), Russia's most popular Internet platform, or at the sites of the top independent and opposition groups to see that the motto of the 1980s ""We cannot live like this any longer!"" is becoming an article of faith again. The moral imperative of freedom is reasserting itself, and not just among the limited circles of pro-democracy activists and intellectuals. This February, the Institute of Contemporary Development, a liberal think tank chaired by President Dmitry Medvedev, published what looked like a platform for the 2012 Russian presidential election:",0_0
The greenhouse effect is natural and necessary for life on Earth.,0_0
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"So much for transparency and scruples. This year, Obama is taking unlimited donations, including corporate cash. Instead of a detailed disclosure, the PIC website has one page with a very long list of donors, replete with typos and misspellings and no information on dollar amounts or donors' employment. AT&T;, for example, is listed under ""I,"" for ""AT&T;, Inc.""",0_0
"John: Subsequent events have confirmed the earlier conclusions Brian. The UN head of climate change turns out to be a railway engineer whos now on the gravy train, and it seems our peer reviewed glacier data is obtained over the phone from a gentleman in the Punjab.",0_0
John: Cheers for that Brian. Can we change the subject please?,0_0
"We need exploration and innovation in America. We need to tap into energy sources currentlyor in the process of being madeoff limits in America by the Endangered Species Act or by plans to lock up resources under the guise of a national monument. When you think about it, energy makes America greatand we do it in a manner cleaner and safer than anywhere else on the planet.",4_5
"In the mountainous Karakoram region of Asia the glaciers aren??t melting. If anything, some are expanding, says this article on LiveScience .",1_1
"How is that possible? My ex-wife and I buy ten thousand pounds of coal every fall for the Kyrgyz family with whom we lived while we served in the Peace Corps. Burning a ton of coal emits about 3 tons of carbon into the atmosphere, so we are responsible for 30 tons of green greenhouse gases! For environmentalists in rich countries, that's a cause for alarm. For the Kamchibekova clan in Talas, Kyrgyzstan, it's a reason to cheer.",0_0
"During snowy weeks, we are told that the snow is due to global warming. During non-snowyweeks we are told that skiing is doomed because of global warming is keeping it from snowing.",5_2
"December 1st, 2013 through February 28th, 2014 will now be remembered as the coldest meteorological winter on record across much of Upper Michigan.",1_3
"A conclusion and its implication in the summary paper was: because our scientific investigation leads us to the prediction that the Sun is headed into a protracted minimum, the warming forecast by the IPCC might not happen.",1_2
"The planet is doomed unless humans achieve zero net ""carbon"" emissions within 40 yearsand maybe even if we do.",0_0
"The public comments submitted by CEI further delve into the legal conflicts presented by the Clean Power Plan. For example, EPA is playing fast and loose with the statute because commercial technologies to capture or filter CO2 from existing power plants have not yet been developed.",0_0
"And the only purely observational study featured in AR4, Forster & Gregory (2006), which used satellite observations of radiation entering and leaving the atmosphere, also gave a best estimate of 1.6C, with a 95% upper bound of 4.1C.",3_1
"I was not sure these seeds would be any good, but its amazing they require little water and they grow fast, said Jacob.",0_0
"download large Hemispheric Trends image (81 KB, PDF)",0_0
"When the two researchers applied the relation they derived to the period 1610-1995, they found a rising linear relationship for temperature vs. time, upon which are superimposed ""some quasi-regular episodes of residual temperature increases and decreases, with semi-amplitudes up to ~0.3C,"" and they note that ""the present period of global warming is one of them."" What it means",2_1
"Well, maybe the second greatest lie ever told, after the anthropogenic GW hoax. From The Telegraph (UK): ""But if there is one scientist who knows more about sea levels than anyone else in the world it is the Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mrner, formerly chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea Level Change. And the uncompromising verdict of Dr Mrner, who for 35 years has been using every known scientific method to study sea levels all over the globe, is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story. Despite fluctuations down as well as up, ""the sea is not rising,"" he says. ""It hasn't risen in 50 years."" And see Sea-level theory cuts no ice",1_6
The Washington Times reports on a recent poll that says voters oppose government official's prosecuting those who disagree with them on climate change. CEI received a subpoena earlier this year for their work on climate change because of this very issue.,0_0
"Second, they will ask what ""class codes"" your labor force is. This refers to a set of four digit numbers that have been devised to categorize different types of jobs, much like SIC codes classify business types. A good agent should be able to figure out your code(s) from your description of the business, but if you want to get a head start, you can find a listing here, courtesy of Insurance Guys . Depending on the state and the insurance company, you may be allowed multiple class codes or you may be required to have just one. For example, we have some operations that combine campground jobs (expensive) with store and clerical jobs (less expensive). However, most workers comp carriers make me call all of these workers campground (the most expensive class). The only way to get the store workers at a cheaper rate would be to for a second subsidiary for stores with just the store workers and a separate workers comp. policy.",0_0
"My contribution to the 2007 report illustrates the scientific problem. The report's first table of figures - inserted by the IPCC's bureaucrats after the scientists had finalized the draft, and without their consent - listed four contributions to sea-level rise. The bureaucrats had multiplied the effect of melting ice from the Greenland and West Antarctic Ice Sheets by 10.",0_0
"The CPP is illegitimate. It violates the separation of powers. EPA is not authorized to restructure state electricity markets, revise state electricity policies, or establish statewide caps for CO2. EPA is making law, not implementing it.",4_1
The climate models are programmed to predict warming. They are completely useless and yet the Met Office continues to stiff British taxpayers withpurchasesof faster GIGO hardware.,5_1
"But instead we see anti gouging laws. Sounds good. Politically smart. But, if gas is selling for $3.50 / gallon and can at most have a 10% rise or you get punished, thats $3.85. That wont pay the freight (literally) to haul in gasoline or generators from remote locations. That you then would also penalize the folks doing the fuel and generator delivery for business without a license (and who knows what other legal crap) and, well, theres just no incentive for private folks to fix it.",0_0
"The problem with step changes is that two flat lines with a rising step change will artificially produce a rising linear trend that is meaningless. McKitrick and Voselgang account for the step change and show that significant warming trends in the low to mid troposphere only occur from 1958-2005 if we include the step-change. If the step change is removed, the underlying trend is not significant. In other words, 46 out of the 47 years of atmospheric data do not produce a meaningful rising trend.",1_4
"Read here . Over recent decades, it has been noted that Hudson Bay sea ice has been breaking up earlier in the summer season. These are anecdotal recollections/observations that scientists decided to investigate, using an array of advanced technology.",0_0
EU emissions trading scheme threatens electricity blackouts,0_0
"The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.",1_2
"Increasingly, researchers all over the world are using charcoal to reconstruct fire histories, Swetnam said. Many scientists are analyzing the global record of charcoal to study relationships between climate, fire and the resulting addition of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.",0_0
"Over the last week or so I've been spending a bit of time with a new paper from Gavin Schmidt and Steven Sherwood. Gavin needs no introduction of course, and Sherwood is also well known to BH readers, having come to prominence when he attempted a rebuttal of the Lewis and Crok report on climate sensitivity, apparently without actually having read it .",0_0
"The Daily Caller (DC) starts an article on Podesta's White House return this way: ""John Podesta's return to the White House should have oil, gas, and coal producers worried."" He is a former lobbyist and chief of staff to President Clinton. He is the founder of the liberal think tank the Center for American Progress (CAP)which Bloomberg news called ""an intellectual wellspring for Democratic policy proposals.""",0_0
"These threats have been wildly overstated. And the solution proposed by many SUV critics, raising the federal fuel economy standards, would mean expanding a regulatory program that has already caused thousands of traffic deaths.",0_0
SST Anomalies Continue To Plummet In The Hurricane Nursery,0_0
"That reforms gave rise to a revolution by 1989 was due largely to another ""idealistic"" cause: Gorbachev's deep and personal aversion to violence and, hence, his stubborn refusal to resort to mass coercion when the scale and depth of change began to outstrip his original intent. To deploy Stalinist repression even to ""preserve the system"" would have been a betrayal of his deepest convictions. A witness recalls Gorbachev saying in the late 1980s, ""We are told that we should pound the fist on the table,"" and then clenching his hand in an illustrative fist. ""Generally speaking,"" continued the general secretary, ""it could be done. But one does not feel like it.""",0_0
"The truth is, there has been only one time in all of human history when governments were able to control Earth's climate, and it is highly unlikely that we will ever return to those wondrous days.",0_0
Steve McIntyre points out the wholesale deletion of over 50 of Tom Fuller??s comments at Lewandowsky??s blog today (after they had been in place for days) and made this comment:,5_2
"The IPCC Working Group II AR5 report has been released and what people are saying are undermined by what the report says. Six claims are debunked. From Oil Price, Latest IPCC Findings Undermine Climate Change Claims",5_2
"The only truth about global warming is that there has been no measured warming over the last 16 years in the global air temperature of the land and the sea surface, the same global air temperature over the last century has been more naturally oscillating than following the carbon dioxide emission, there has been no warming and no change of salinity of the oceans 0 to 2000 metres depth over the first 10 years these parameters have been measured.",1_4
"Dieldrin's high persistence means it is available to bioaccumulate up the food chain, and can cause birth defects and therefore should not be used for anything else but stopping locusts. Nevertheless because the countries that are now sending aid, and also designed the Stockholm POPs treaty, don't have locust infestations they forgot to exempt it for such use.",0_0
"The six scientists report that they ""found almost no direct effects of OA on microzooplankton composition and diversity,"" and that ""both the relative shares of ciliates and heterotrophic dinoflagellates as well as the taxonomic composition of microzooplankton remained unaffected by changes in pCO 2 /pH.""",3_2
Read here . The vast majority of new scientific research continues to document that the modern era's warming barely rivals what was experienced during the Medieval Period.,2_1
"A PhD and a computer have, so far, been insufficient tools to provide useful predictions of the future of our climate system. The current state of climate science ??? or maybe I should say, how scientists have allowed the media and politicians to portray it ??? is a continuing source of embarrassment to some of us.",5_1
"> >> was +0.57 deg C above the 1961-90 average, the warmest year",0_0
"In a recent CA post , I observed that Shiyatov had crossdated 1021 subfossil trees from his 1968 and 1983 transects plus hundreds of living trees, from which the samples sent to Schweingruber were a minute subset. Although Shiyatovs comprehensive dataset is by far the most imposing dendro work at Polar Urals, Briffa et al 2013 neither used nor reported the extent of the Shiyatov dataset. In a comment at RC, I asked Osborn to explain their failure to use or even disclose the very large Shiyatov dataset as follows:",0_0
"Normally, El Nio results in diminished hurricanes in the Atlantic, but this new type is resulting in a greater number of hurricanes with greater frequency and more potential to make landfall, said Peter Webster, professor at Georgia Techs School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.",0_0
"/s/ Dr. Christopher C. Kraft JSC, Apollo Flight Director and Director of Johnson Space Center, 24 years",0_0
"The United States has enough coal reserves to last at least another 250 years, with reserves that are over one-and-one-half times greater than our nearest competitor, Russia, and over twice that of China. This figure excludes Alaska, which contains more coal reserves than all of the lower 48 states combined. If total U.S. ???in place?? reserves are included, the U.S. has enough coal to last 9000 years at today??s consumption rate.",4_5
"The March numbers are out for the CET series . At 2.7C this is the coldest March since 1892, which registered the same temperature. Indeed, you have to go back to 1883 to find a colder March.",1_3
"A couple of years ago a Charlatan hack EPA big shot named Jon Samet MD, announced that there is no safe level of pollutants.",0_0
"Still, the incidents have highlighted the risks of expanding the reliance on renewable sources like wind before necessary grids, storage and other technologies are established to handle their intermittency and volatility.",4_4
"There are still today individuals treated like indentured servants, or slaves, if you willproperty, bought and sold. Obviously other situations much worse are recalled after the kidnapping of girls who were mostly Christian and the declaration by Boko Haram that they are not through. They target Christian Schools and kids because they want to install Sharia and currently the Nigerian Government is Christian.",0_0
"First off, here is my take on what the EPA/IPCC is claiming.",0_0
Conservatives often assume that elections like 2010 show America has a consistent conservative majority. I think it is more accurate to say that they show that America has a consistent anti-progressive majority. The task conservatives have today is to transform the anti-progressive majority into a pro-conservative one. This will be harder than it seems.,0_0
"More importantly, climate models suffer from the limitations of current scientific understanding of the forces that determine weather patterns and climate change. Climate modelers cannot avoid making assumptions about the operation and effects of such key variables as water vapor, clouds, ocean-atmosphere interaction, solar cycles, ocean currents, and the natural carbon cycle. Those assumptions are fraught with uncertainties and may be little better than educated guesses. It is not surprising, therefore, that the models have been notoriously poor at replicating current and past climate. For example, the models that served as the scientific background for the 1992 Rio Treaty implied that the world should have warmed 1.5 C since the late 19th century. In fact, surface measurements indicate the world has warmed only 0.5 C. The models were off by a factor of three.",5_1
"On May 6 the same date as the Wells Report was released, Exponent submitted a report on simulations in which three untrained employees attempted to deflate 12 balls in 1 minute 40 seconds with a standard needle. The subjects, after one try, achieved remarkably consistent results, both between subjects and between balls. The average deflation was 0.76 psi with a standard deviation of 0.11 psi.",0_0
"There was a time, not so long ago, when above-the-fold content at some blogs was vehemently criticizing the surface temperature record in terms that suggested our collective ability to measure surface temperature or detect 0.7C or warming was so poor that we could not be confident the annual average surface temperature in 1900 was cooler than that in 2000. Or, possibly claims at the above the fold were less drastic and merely suggested the surface temperature record had some fairly large, difficult to quantify upward bias.",5_1
"The eight researchers determined that in terms of the frequency, intensity and duration of droughts and pluvial events, ""the 20th century contains some of the driest and wettest annual to decadal-scale events in the last 654 years."" However - and it's a very big however - they report that ""longer and more severe events were recorded in previous centuries.""",1_7
"Naturally, international aid agencies are jockeying for position to broker this wealth transfer. United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that his organization is the ""natural arena"" for coordinated international action on climate change. To that end, the U.N. operates two programs to facilitate the flow of climate mitigation aid to developing countriesthe Global Environment Facility and the Clean Development Mechanism.",0_0
"In the third scenario, ""Turbulent world,"" the US is beset by disruptions in the supply of foreign oil, terrorism at home, and global warming-triggered extreme weather events. Responding to those challenges, federal policy makers enact a national renewable portfolio standard, increase new-car fuel economy standards to 50 mpg, promote distributed generation, and subsidize CO2 capture and sequestration technologies. Above all, in 2010, the federal government launches an Apollo-scale program to commercialize fuel cell and hydrogen technologies. Notwithstanding these measures, volatile energy prices, and a poorly performing economy, carbon emissions ""grow to almost 20 percent above the 2000 level in 2035"" about 40 percent above the U.S. Kyoto target.",4_4
"Bangladeshis die in their thousands in floods, few die in Florida floods of the same magnitude. Bangladesh is among the most corrupt and backward countries in the world. Its people will continue to die in natural disasters until it has wealth, and the institutions to achieve that wealth. Limiting greenhouse gas emissions and energy use is the worst policy Bangladesh could follow.",4_1
"By Donn Dears, Power For USA, Aug 14, 2015",0_0
"We expect a summer pattern more like 2002-06, with above-normal temperatures.",0_0
Real Climate bashes Santa Fe and contrarians,0_0
"In short, the growth rates built into the IAMs exceed that of the past two centuries in the U.S. (and the world) and therefore rule out the possibility that Weitzman offers as justification for the very low discount rates. The IWG cannot simultaneously entertain arguments for low discount rates and project high GDP growth rates. At least until economic growth in the IAMs is re-worked to match the lower rates implied by DDRs there can be no argument for DDRs in the IAMs.",0_0
"To be sure, Congress never authorized EPA to shut down the coal industry. Rather, EPA is using creative interpretations of existing statutes to seize the power it needs to shutter existing coal-fired power plants and prevent new ones from being built, which raises an important question: Why hasn't Congress checked EPA's power grabs?",0_0
"A blog by Professor Chris Turney on this subject, called A Lesson from Past Global Warming, can be viewed on his website at www.christurney.com",0_0
"There are two tide gauges in the San Francisco Bay one shows 0.00 mm/year since 1980, and the other shows -0.78 mm/year since 1980.",1_6
"1) Computer model output is not ""evidence"" of anything. Observations are evidence, never models. It's the scientific method, look it up.",5_1
Must save the worldeh? Mother Gaia is at risk from these bipedal invaderstime to eliminate humans.,0_0
"I visualize it as taking some kind of baseline starting point (maybe a line toward the sun on the sun side?) and then subtracting the degrees away from it for each planet and making a net graph? A formula would have been helpful Also an A/B of actual sunspots vs the plot Still, the graph that is, is very interesting",0_0
"China Typhoons, Early Half of Century. Several typhoons also struck the eastern China coast during the early half of the century, causing great hardship with deaths from some of the storms reaching the tens of thousands. For example, Typhoons striking the China coast in August 1912 and August 1922 resulted in fatality counts of 50,000 and 60,000 respectively.",0_0
"Finally, consider the results from Ramanathan and Carmichael published in Nature Geoscience last year. These researchers reviewed the scientific understanding of how black carbon aerosols (aka soot) warm the earth's climate. Black carbon is not a GHG. Black carbon warms the earth by directly absorbing reflected solar radiation and also by darkening the surface of snow and ice when it is deposited there (and enhances melting). Ramanathan and Carmichael determined that in toto black carbon has been responsible for about 25% of the overall warming.",0_0
"Last July a brief spell of temperatures in the mid 30s had caused some surface slush formation on top of the 1 to 1.5 mile thick Greenland ice. The NASA sensors merely color-coded the phase of the water ice (white), mixed water and ice (rose) and none (land grey). Rose meant some surface liquid. For Greenland, business as usual, because 150 years ago , there were no satellites to record the event.",0_0
"The disaster for alarmists is that the winds have reversed and are pushing the ice towards the Pacific side, which is driving the massive recovery in the amount of Arctic sea ice up 60% from last summer.",1_1
EXCLUDING and misrepresenting unfavourable data does not provide a credible analysis into Australias extremely expensive carbon tax.,0_0
"on Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 at 5:16 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"The RICO 20 campaign is incoherent on a deeper level. Shukla believes the feds should prosecute organizations that ""knowingly mislead the public about a clear and present dangerthereby robbing innocent people of their lives and livelihoods."" For more than two decades, climate action groups have knowingly misled the public about the perils of putting an energy-starved planet on an energy diet.",0_0
"The ""ball don't lie"" expression has gained fame and is even the title of a popular basketball blog.",0_0
"Thats not all, a quick glance at the graph shows globally averaged temperatures have remained below the January 24, 2006 benchmark (when Gores movie was released at the Sundance Film Festival) except for the first few months of 2007.",1_4
"Figure 6 shows the step in temperature in 1998 at the Larsen Ice Shelf. The trend in cooling after 1998 is 1.8C/decade, the second fastest cooling on the Peninsula. Butler Island is cooling faster, at 1.9C/decade. (Of course 18C/century cooling is meant as sarcasm, and is only a trick that warmists like to use.)",1_1
"The German Federal Office for Information Security, or BSI, said that it was aware of targeted attacks and all that was needed was to lure web surfers to a website where hackers had planted malicious software that exploited the IE bug to infect their PCs.",0_0
Dr. Madhav L. Khandekar : The earth's climate has NOT warmed in 16 years per UK Met Office! We may not see warming of the climate by more than 0.5C in next 50 to 100 years.,1_4
"That is the one thing that they are definitely going to succeed in doing here and they will announce that as a victory in itself, and they will be right because that is the one and only single aim of this entire global warming conference, to establish the mechanism, the structure, and above all the funding for a world government. the British politician, business consultant, policy adviser exclusively told the Alex Jones show yesterday",5_2
"GHG Control, Predominantly a Foreign Policy Problem",0_0
"Last summer's ratcheting up of sanctions on oil and gas imports from Iran works similarly,",0_0
"Carolus Linnaeus? classification system that named, ranked and classified organisms was a major advance in biology. Vladimir Koppen produced a climate classification system in 1884 that named ranked and classified climates based on the distribution of plants.",0_0
"""Unfortunately, what will likely emerge a few months into the Clinton presidency is a deep desire by Republicans to recapture the party mojo by once again prevailing in the forthcoming 2018 midterm elections by using the old scorched-earth strategies.""",0_0
"So they are saying it. Silly them. Its a simple statement, but its not always true. If global warming tended to increase sea levels by, say, 0.3 mm/yr, but local isostatic rebounding was occurring at 0.4 mm/yr, the sea level wont rise, itll actually fall, because the land is rising.",1_6
"Cutting the ""Gordian knot"" is necessary if the Forest Service is to properly manage national forest assets and reduce wildfires. A start would be to require environmental groups to post a sizable bond when they file lawsuits. If the area burns while the suit is in the courts, the bond would be forfeited to defray firefighting costs.",0_0
"Back in December, the EPA announced that it had determined that greenhouse gases released by human activities ""threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations."" This ""Endangerment Finding"" is the first step toward EPA's issuing regulations aimed at restricting GHG emissions in the U.S.",0_0
U.S.-Afghan cooperation extending at least ten years beyond the 2014 departure of the last American forces.,0_0
Read here . Global warming alarmists and the climate models have long predicted that the frequency of severe storms would increase. Data worldwide indicates otherwise and a new study by an EU researcher confirms this.,1_7
"Given the extremely long and complex planning processes, large subsidies required, political controversy and long construction times (Hinkley Points will be about 10 years), it is not unrealistic to assume that just two more reactors are built with similar capacity to Hinkley Point by 2030.",0_0
"The second reason to discuss greenhouse gas emissions in a diet and nutrition report would be to dispel the notion that through your choice of food you can ""do something"" about climate change. In this context, it would be appropriate to provide a quantitative example of how the dietary changes recommended by the DGAC would potentially impact projections of the future course",0_0
"Not only that, ""Mr. FOIA"" (aka. Freedom of Information Act) has done it again. He has issued a password along with instructions to a select group that provides access to a new and much larger communications file, one which many of those researchers and their sponsoring organizations have worked very hard to suppress from legal FOIA requests. I have confirmed through reliable sources that this database is authentic. Some intriguing insights have already begun to surface.",0_0
"And the report does not mention the smell. And not any other potential side effects. What about the bugs? At least on humans, garlic is believed to be a repellant. Will this in turn affect the bird life? Guess a new bunch of money would be welcome, before the entire idea is picked up by the Comission, for a garlic cow directive.",0_0
"Global sea ice area is expanding rapidly, and is nearing a record high for early May. It is currently the second highest on record for the date, and the highest in 32 years.",1_1
"Electric cars are likewise ""environment friendly"" only in the minds of renewable zealots. They require multiple large batteries that typically last up to three years and cost about $8,000 apiece, not including disposal costs, Diane Bacher points out in eHow. Battery disposal involves putting their hazardous metal wastes in special landfills, and the mass production of electric car batteries will create large volumes of hazardous wastes, while placing as much demand on the power grid as traditional vehicle equipment manufacturing, Bacher notes. Increased use of electric vehicles would put enormous strain on power grids that rely increasingly on intermittent wind and solar energy and less on coal, natural gas and nuclear.",4_1
17i. The ability of regional climate models to model extreme events for the next 10 years,0_0
"Fifteen states are now home to more than 100 breweries: California, Washington, Colorado, Oregon, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Texas, Ohio, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Indiana.",0_0
"The catastrophe at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is being regarded as the atomic power equivalent of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which set back offshore oil drilling just as it appeared on the brink of a substantial expansion. This means we've now come full circle, as critics of offshore drilling compared the Gulf oil spill to Chernobyl. At the very least the events in Japan are going to reinforce the reluctance of Wall Street to invest in new nuclear power in the United States, deter insurance companies from covering nuclear plants, and increase resistance on Capitol Hill to extending the loan guarantees the nuclear industry says are essential to kick-starting more nuclear installations.",0_0
A blogger named Steven Goddard whose actual name is Tony Heller posted a reaction to this blog post of mine . Here is my answer:,0_0
"In scientific pursuits, it's necessary to constantly challenge theories. Just consider Albert Einstein. Slate writer Brian Palmer explains that Einstein been proven wrong ""at least twice on major issues."" And scientists are still testing his theories nearly a century after they were first published. That's because science invites legitimate questions of existing theories, and that includes skepticism surrounding claims that drastic reduction of traditional energy use and the accompanying emissions will reverse the global temperature increase that has taken place over the past century.",0_0
Link to detailed study: The Levelized Cost of Electricity from Existing Generation Resources,0_0
"""So here's my question: Is New York City challenging San Francisco as the capital of Nannyland?""",0_0
Let me know if I can cite your draft World Bank report.,0_0
"Global temperatures have been plummeting, and are almost back to where they were at the start of the satellite era during the coldest winter ever in 1979. Yet NOAA and the rest of the climate liars are trying to keep the global warming scam alive.",1_4
"The USA, simply by exploiting shale gas for electricity generation, has already reduced its CO2 emissions by some 9.5% since 2005 . That alone has already had more CO2 emission reduction effect than the entire Kyoto protocol .",4_5
"So the temperature graph made from seven weather stations, which NIWA has used for years to prove that the New Zealand climate has warmed, and thus we must take expensive action against global warming caused by humanitys emissions of carbon dioxide, has never had proper scientific standing.",5_1
"The standard account from liberal historians over the years, and more recently in bestsellers by Glenn Beck, is a linear story: Government expansion starts with the Progressives of a hundred years ago, accelerates through the New Deal and the Great Society, and is followed up by the Obama stimulus and Obamacare.",0_0
"And, you can blame some really good science and economics professors, but I learned not to trust forecast models, either in climate, stocks, energy prices, or whatever.",0_0
"Once again I have to thank Grant Foster (a.k.a. Tamino and Hansens Bulldog) for yet another opportunity to show that NOAA cannot justify the relatively high warming rate of their new ERSST.v4 sea surface temperature data during the hiatus, because it far exceeds the trend of the HadNMAT2 data that NOAA used as a reference.",5_1
"One could try to discover the answer by recourse to recent polls. If one examined the Ap-GfK poll from September 6-13, for example, one would find that working-class voters believe that government intervention in the economy is more harmful than beneficial by nearly a two-to-one margin. One would also find they are more distressed about the economy and more likely to say they have suffered financially or that a relative has lost a job. Over half say President Obama does not understand ordinary Americans' problems. It should come as no surprise, then, to learn the same poll shows Republicans leading Democrats by 22 points on the generic congressional ballot, whereas Democrats led Republicans by 12 points two years ago.",0_0
"The purpose of the ?social cost of carbon? (SCC) estimates presented here is to allow agencies to incorporate the social benefits of reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into cost-benefit analyses of regulatory actions that impact cumulative global emissions. The SCC is an estimate of the monetized damages associated with an incremental increase in carbon emissions in a given year. It is intended to include (but is not limited to) changes in net agricultural productivity, human health, property damages from increased flood risk, and the value of ecosystem services due to climate change.",0_0
"The continued loss of coal-fired plants has reduced their provision of electricity from over 50% to around 47%. The resistance to the construction of nuclear facilities slows the replacement of their loss, but plants utilizing natural gas have benefitted greatly from the discovery of billions of cubic feet through the use of hydraulic fracking technology holds the promise of maintaining the nation?s needs. Need it be said that ?fracking? has become a target of environmental organizations?",0_0
"Ensure that regulatory agencies and their advisory councils are honest and transparent; that they represent a broader spectrum of expertise, viewpoints and interests than they do now; and that they fully assess evidence for and against proposed regulations, as well as their true benefits and costs.",0_0
"The global circulation models (GCMs) are essentially linear. That presumably is why they generally fail to reproduce the ENSO and PDO. (If they show any nonlinear behaviour it is probably more by accident than design.) It remains to be seen whether climate and ocean modelling of the ENSO or of larger parts of the global climate, which used a nonlinear oscillator as a starting point, would be more effective.",5_1
CEI: The Bush tax cut was signed recently to much fanfare. How do you compare the Bush tax cut to the Reagan tax cut?,0_0
The reduced trend in radiative forcing is primarily due to volcanic eruptions ...,0_0
"All the datasets show some slight warming (+0.11 degrees Celsius per decade since Nov. 16, 1978), some more than others, he told CNSNews.com. But still, the amount of warming is much, much less than what was anticipated from climate models, and thats what Ive been showing and demonstrating in various venues, including Congress.",1_4
"-> There's this news from Portugal. You remember Portugal. It's the greenist environ-extremists' paradise. Guess what. ""Portugal is seeking a rescue package. The reason for the bailout? Strange as it may seem: a green economy that has gotten dark, so much darker Portugal will be the ONLY country in the World, according to the IMF (check out Table 2.2), that will have a GDP negative growth in 2012! Jos S crates, Environment Minister between 1999 and 2002, and Prime Minister since 2005, is the person behind this tragedy. His green vision has brought Portugal some recognition amongst greenies, but mainly a dark future! Almost everything imaginable in this Green promise has gone wrong. Murphy's law at its best """,0_0
"Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India (#3), although in New York, gave the climate meeting a miss, and his environment minister asked, ""What cuts? That's for more developed countries. The moral principle of historic responsibility cannot be washed away.""",0_0
"Mike Kelly has a new briefing paper out, looking at decarbonisation in the context of previous technology changes.",0_0
When the earth??s observations falls outside and below the ???weather?? spread but inside the ???all weather in all models?? spread that suggests the ensembles is biased high but the deterministic component of the earth??s trend might match one of the models whose deterministic warming falls in the lower range of the ensemble.,5_1
"Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Democrats blame global warming on human activity, compared to 21% percent of Republicans. Two-thirds of GOP voters (67%) see long-term planetary trends as the cause versus 23% of Democrats. Voters not affiliated with either party by eight points put the blame on planetary trends.",0_0
"Europe Storm Surge, 1953. One of Europes greatest natural disasters occurred during the winter months of January and February 1953. Violent winter storms caused storm surges which caused flooding in areas of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Almost 2,000 people perished due to these storm surges.",0_0
"""Relentless and punishing, July's heat was unrivaled in 140 years of Washington, D.C., weather record-keeping. The July temperature averaged 84.5 degrees at Reagan National Airport Washington's official weather station more than a degree above July 2010 and July 1993, which previously held the mark for hottest month.""",0_0
The blog publishes the strange maps Map of Biondi of Europe:,0_0
"Corker, of course, was not alone. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell fell in line quickly, and while House Speaker Paul Ryan hedged his support for a while, he also joined the Trump team. The Republican Party was about to nominate the most inexperienced, unpopular, and temperamentally unsuited major party presidential candidate in the history of American politics, and there was nothing the establishment could do about it beyond trying to contain the political damage.",0_0
"Consciously distorted: NCAR's Wigley once complained to Mann, ""Mike, the Figure you sent is very deceptive there have been a number of dishonest presentations of model results by individual authors and by IPCC. """,5_2
"Most ocean models used in performing coupled general-circulation model sensitivity runs simply cannot resolve most of the physical processes relevant for capturing heat uptake by the deep ocean. Ultimately, the second law of thermodynamics requires that any heat which may have accumulated in the deep ocean will dissipate via various diffusive processes. It is not plausible that any heat taken up by the deep ocean will suddenly warm the upper ocean and, via the upper ocean, the atmosphere.",5_1
EPA Regulations Will Result in 1.44 Million Job Losses,4_1
"Another shortcoming of the GDP measurement involves accounting for quality improvements where no change in price has occurred: BlackBerries or iPhones can do more and are vastly more useful than similarly priced phones from a decade ago. Failing to account for technological quality improvements, for example, results in the same overall impact as overestimating inflation: it undervalues changes in GDP. Examining these inadequacies, among others, demonstrates that GDP may not even be the most accurate indicator of actual income, let alone prosperity. Continual refinements in statistical methods reduce these problems, but they do not eliminate them completely.",0_0
"Alarmist climatologist Stefan Rahmstorf of the end-of-world-obsessed Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) responded angrily at Twitter , as the German-government-funded scientist called the statement very depressing and accused the Prime Minister of denial about reality:",5_2
This is the opposite trend expected by the IPCC. This deceleration would be even steeper on a percentage of existing CO2 in the atmosphere.,5_1
"36 See IPCC 1995, p. 5.",0_0
"???Current datasets indicate no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century No robust trends in annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes counts have been identified over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin",1_7
"On Friday, I praised the beauty of the left-right-symmetric models that replace the hypercharge \(U(1) Y\) by a new \(SU(2) R\) group. They could explain the excess that especially ATLAS but also (in a different search) CMS seems to be seeing at the invariant mass around \(1.9\TeV\), an excess that I placed at the first place of attractiveness among the known bumps at the LHC .",0_0
"""The only user group that's going to be negatively affected by this proposal is the fishing industry, period,"" David Borden, executive director of the Atlantic Offshore Lobstermen's Association, told the Post.",0_0
"We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms. The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition; we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries we must claim its promise. That is how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure our forests and waterways; our croplands and snowcapped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. Thats what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared.",0_0
"While the title of this article suggests Ive found evidence of natural climate cycles in the IPCC models, its actually the temperature variability the models CANNOT explain that ends up being related to known climate cycles. After an empirical adjustment for that unexplained temperature variability, it is shown that the models are producing too much global warming since 1970, the period of most rapid growth in atmospheric carbon dioxide. This suggests that the models are too sensitive, in which case they are forecasting too much future warming, too.",5_1
"Wind power is justified by claims that it reduces emissions and thus reduces global warming. However, when all the steel, concrete, construction, maintenance, replacement and rehabilitation are taken into account, wind power contributes nothing to reducing emissions or changing global climate.",4_4
"president has started his presidency, as there is merit in asking candidates for",0_0
"But it is worse than it seems. Since 1990, sea level in North Carolina has been rising at less than half amillimetreper year. If the post-1990 trend continued, North Carolina would see less than two inches of sea level rise by the year 2100.",1_6
"The variability in Patriot pressures is larger than the variability in Colt pressures, but the form of variability is very odd and, in my opinion, is more indicative of inconsistent gauges and even mistaken inclusion of a Colt ball, than of erratic washroom deflation.",0_0
And no country currently imposes an economy-wide tax on greenhouse gas emissions or has in place an economy-wide ETS.,0_0
"The forecast is one of the coldest winters in the past 20 years for Western Canada, major snowstorms for Ontario and Quebec and a drier than normal winter for Atlantic Canada.",0_0
90) Politicians and climate activists make claims to rising sea levels but certain members in the IPCC chose an area to measure in Hong Kong that is subsiding. They used the record reading of 2.3 mm per year rise of sea level.,1_6
"Not to forget Canadas own climate hysteric, David Suzuki, he came in for some mockery over some TV ads hes appeared in.",0_0
"Benjamin Santer of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, Tom Wigley of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and their colleagues put together weather forecasts and other data from the past 20 years to construct a computer model of a series of atmospheric simulations. The researchers concluded that greenhouse-gas warming in the troposphere and ozone-related cooling in the stratosphere accounted for about 80 percent of the rise.",0_0
"2) Any trend in the degree of summer melt in the Arctic is further confounded by the fluctuating concentrations of thin first year ice. Because continents surround the Arctic Ocean, Arctic Sea ice undergoes cycles of accumulating or reducing the amount of thick, multi-year sea ice that resists melting. 2 When the winds pile sea ice against the Arctic shoreline, thicker multi-year ice accumulates. When the winds shift, that thicker ice is blown out past Svalbard into the north Atlantic, and is replaced by thinner, first-year ice that more readily melts each summer. The amount of multi-year ice in the Arctic is controlled by the direction of the winds and the Arctic oscillation. 2 It was not warmer temperatures that removed the thickest Arctic Ice, but sub-freezing winds blowing from the coldest regions in the northern hemisphere. 4,5",1_1
"The Associated Press: Rising seas threaten Shanghai, other major cities Shanghai, altitude roughly 3 meters (10 feet) above sea level, is among dozens of great world cities including London, Miami, New York, New Orleans, Mumbai, Cairo, Amsterdam and Tokyo threatened by sea levels that now are rising twice as fast as projected just a few years ago , expanding from warmth and meltwater. Estimates of the scale and timing vary, but Stefan Rahmstorf, a respected expert at Germany's Potsdam Institute, expects a 1-meter (3-foot) rise in this century and up to 5 meters (15 feet) over the next 300 years. April '09: Sea Level Graphs from UC and some perspectives Watts Up With That? The fact is sea level are flatlining now since 2006 are may actually start to decline..due to reduced watts/mt from the sun.",1_6
"In a 1989 interview, the ""godfather of glasnost,"" Aleksandr Yakovlev, recalled that, returning to the Soviet Union in 1983 after 10 years as the ambassador to Canada, he felt the moment was at hand when people would declare, ""Enough! We cannot live like this any longer. Everything must be done in a new way. We must reconsider our concepts, our approaches, our views of the past and our future. There has come an understanding that it is simply impossible to live as we lived before intolerably, humiliatingly.""",0_0
"???In summary,?? to quote Dole et al ., ???the analysis of the observed 1880-2009 time series shows that no statistically significant long-term change is detected in either the mean or variability of western Russia July temperatures, implying that for this region an anthropogenic climate change signal has yet to emerge above the natural background variability.?? Thus, they say their analysis ???points to a primarily natural cause for the Russian heat wave,?? noting that the event ???appears to be mainly due to internal atmospheric dynamical processes that produced and maintained an intense and long-lived blocking event,?? adding that there are no indications that ???blocking would increase in response to increasing greenhouse gases.??",1_7
"There are the unknown conscientious ""objectors"" who, just prior to the UNCCC, released thousands of emails and documents proving decades of fraud by the ""global warming"" institutions and ""scholars."" Then came the many scholarly websites (junkscience.com, wattsupwiththat.com, climatedepot.com, icecap.us, cfact.org, sppi.orgto mention just a few) and the scientists who worked over-time analyzing the leaked documents. They have pieced together at least twenty years of ""faked"" global warming graphs and organized suppression of opposing points of view.",5_2
"""One of the classic issues facing innovators is that because their ideas are new, their products aren't always 'legal,' because they don't fit any of the traditional definitions of a product under existing rules.""",0_0
"on Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 at 7:29 am and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
An analysis like this might be used to estimate the probability of reaching agreement on a carbon pricing scheme that would deliver the projected benefits of reduced climate damages and survive until the job is done.,0_0
Ben has a review of James Garveys The Ethics of Climate Change: right and wrong in a changing world over at Culture Wars :,0_0
"As you can see, despite the warming of the last 115 years shown in the USHCN dataset, while some of the PDSI trends have decreased, almost all of the statistically significant changes in the PDSI are positive (less drought). And few of the changes are statistically significant.",1_7
"???Cheap, abundant natural gas is changing the game for energy in the U.S., and that means a renewed push for natural gas cars. According to Pike Research, there will be a total of 25 million natural gas vehicles on the roads worldwide by 2019, and the amount of natural gas vehicles sold in North America will grow around 10 percent a year between now and 2019. GE estimates there are 15 million natural gas cars globally today, and around 250,000 in the U.S.??",4_5
"Led by its widely respected prime minister, Salam Fayyad, and others, the Palestinian Authority (PA) is finally developing an infrastructure of statehood, which has generated cautious hope among many Israelis that a Palestinian regime could be a source of stability and democratic values in the region.",0_0
"The reality is that the infra-red active gases act more like an umbrella providing the Earths surface with shade to keep it cool than like a greenhouse to keep it warmer. It is a much more realistic description of the infra-red active gases to call them shade gases, rather than greenhouse gases.",2_3
"That's a truly ungrateful behavior. She was actually born in Wales, U.K., in 1961. After Julia suffered from bronchopneumonia as a child, her parents were advised it would aid her recovery to live in a warmer climate. The family chose to migrate to Australia in 1966, settling in Adelaide. (Copied from Wikipedia.)",0_0
"Reduce regulatory burdens where costs overwhelmingly outweigh the direct environmental benefits. The biggest threat to affordable, reliable energy in the United States is the current onslaught of regulations implemented by unelected bureaucrats under the guise of protecting the environment. Proposed and newly implemented regulations affecting current and future power generation will drive up energy costs for Americans and business owners, destroy jobs, and do little to protect the environment. In fact, the regulations will drive up the costs of goods and services that promote public health, such as access to affordable heating and air conditioning, and divert resources away from activities that could truly improve America's public health.",0_0
Peer-reviewed Study: Arctic and Subarctic Species Benefit from Global Warming,3_2
"Much text is given the Landsea-Trenberth kerfuffle regarding hurricanes and the AR4. Laframboise doesnt quite capture the complexity of this issue, and she mistakenly states If not a single hurricane expert thinks theres a link between hurricanes and global warming, how can it possible be OK for an IPCC senior author who is not a hurricane expert to make statements to the contrary at a press conference? The press conference in question occurred in Spring 2005 when Emanuel was working on his paper (and the press conference motivated Webster to start working on this topic). By the time of the 2007 IPCC report, the IPCC did draw reasonabley responsible conclusions with a substantial degree of uncertainty.",0_0
"The United States, where the development of nuclear fission and its use to generate electrical energy occurred, is now well behind other nations that have built nuclear facilities and are adding new ones. As Donn Dear, an energy expert with Power For USA, points out ""there are only four new nuclear power plants under construction, all by Toshiba-Westinghouse LLC. One other plant, Watts Bar 2, whose construction was held up for several years, is being completed by TVA.""",0_0
Due to the lack of actual extreme weather (record low tornadoes and hurricanes in the US) climate charlatans now describe mild weather as extreme.,1_7
Platinum Anniversary Of Clinton Solving Global Warming,0_0
"Tax records from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund indicate that it sent $1.25 million to Michael Marxs organization, Corporate Ethics International, between December 2007 and November 2010. The money was earmarked to coordinate the initial steps of a markets campaign to stem demand for tar sands derived fuels in the United States. The Fund has not yet filed its tax return for 2011.",0_0
"In addition, we should wait because the current proposals on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are all expensive and will be cheaper in the future as technologies improve.",4_2
"Climate Change policy is driven by forecasts of temperatures over the next 100 years. But the computer models need to be checked against the actual temperature trends of the last 100 years. If back-casts are wrong, then fore-casts will also be wrong.",0_0
"Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park and other best sellers, gave a lecture on 6th November with the text now doing the rounds on the internet. Titled, Fear, Complexity and Environmental Management in the 21st Century it is a bit of a ramble covering issues as diverse as management of Yellowstone National Park and deaths at Chernobyl, click here for the entire speech with some powerpoint slides.",0_0
"In light of their experimental findings, Haynert et al . conclude that foraminiferal communities are fully able to ""withstand present-day, seasonally high p CO 2 levels and might also tolerate moderate future p CO 2 increases,"" and maybe even some that are not so ""moderate.""",3_2
"TO VIEW THE VIDEO, go to UPDATE #2 (below): Shortly after posting this article, the 10:10 Global.org ""No Pressure' Ad Campaign videos began disappearing",0_0
INCIDENT SHORTWAVE RADIATION (INCOMING SUNLIGHT) AT TOA,0_0
Solar physicist Richard Harrison says he has never seen the sun this quiet in more than 30 years of studying it.,0_0
"An ECS value of 1.8 is not consistent with any catastrophic warming estimates but is consistent with skeptical arguments that warming will be mild and non-catastrophic. At the current rate of increase of atmospheric CO2 (about 2.1 ppm/yr), and an ECS of 1.8, we should expect 1.0 C of warming by 2100. By comparison, we have experienced 0.86 C warming since the start of the HADCRUT4 data set. This warming is similar to what would be expected over the next ~ 100 years and has not been catastrophic by any measure.",3_1
"Ive also highlighted an area in the eastern equatorial Pacific called the NINO3.4 region. Recall our earlier very basic discussion about an El Nio and the thermometers the scientists use to tell us when an El Nio is taking place. Thats the area. Please dont think theres only one thermometer bobbing around on wine bottle cork. There are weather station-like buoys measuring atmospheric and oceanic (surface and subsurface) conditions across the entire tropical Pacific. Those NOAA Tropical Ocean-Atmosphere (TAO) Project buoys are linked to satellites, which relay the data back to climate monitoring centers. The NOAA PMEL website includes an animated slide show that provides a simple, easy-to-understand overview of the TOA project.",0_0
Record Cold And Snow Destroy Global Warming Claims,1_3
"See the entire article. It trashes the idea that global warming hurt the Alaska polar bear populations in 2004 and 2006, when bear counts were one of the pieces of evidence used to have the bears listed as threatened in the U.S.",3_2
"One instruction was to change a correct statement about warming rates into a flat lie: ""Change ""continue to rise' to ""rise by even greater amounts' to provide a sense of magnitude of the extended change.""",0_0
"on Monday, April 19th, 2010 at 9:54 am and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
A new study predicts that the Northeastern United States could warm dramatically by the year 2100.,0_0
"Texas, once known for its oil tycoons and cattle barons, is now a stage on which renewable-energy moguls preen and strut.But whereasdemand for Texas oil and cattlewas market-driven, the States renewable boom is a creature of politics.Robert L. Bradley, Jr., an historian of political capitalism , chronicles the lastest chapter in theLone Star Statespatronage of Big Green here .",0_0
"They should reject ""hyper-individualistic libertarianism,"" ""mean-spirited words"" and (in an uncharacteristically nasty analogy) ""the tea party's Wahabbi-style drive to restore pure, uncompromised conservatism.""",0_0
"When all was said and done, however, Jutfelt and Hedg? rde report they found no effect of CO 2 treatment on any of the behaviors tested, indicating that ""behavioral effects of CO 2 are not universal in teleosts"" and that ""the behavior of Atlantic cod could be resilient to the impacts of near-future levels of water CO 2 ."" Ruminating on why this may be the case, the authors note that Atlantic cod have been observed to forage in deep waters of low pH, and, therefore, may be ""physiologically adapted to be tolerant to high environmental CO 2 levels.""",3_2
"Last Friday, I launched a blog series on CEI's film, Policy Peril: Why Global Warming Policies Are More Dangerous Than Global Warming Itself. The film is our antidote to Al Gore's Scare-U-Mentary, An Inconvenient Truth. The blog series highlights 10 short segments of the film, one each day this week and next.",0_0
"Its probably a better bet that organisms that have been around for 500 million years, on a planet that was much warmer, had much more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, got hit by an asteroid or two, experienced ice ages, and now a slight warming, will be around long after homo sapiens hit the evolutionary road.",3_2
"the ACE confounds the number of hurricanes with the intensity (ACE effectively includes both). There are several ocean basins where the number of cyclones is actually decreasing, which would lead to a decrease in ACE (while at the same time showing an increase in intensity). See also #1, re problems of just looking at a 20 yr time period.",1_7
"Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, global warming was the Left??s last, best chance to institute a world-wide redistributive regime. What happens when global warming, too, collapses?",4_1
"But according to increasing numbers of serious climate scientists, it does suggest that the computer models that have for years been predicting imminent doom, such as??those used by the Met Office and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, are flawed, and that the climate is far more complex than the models assert.""",5_1
"As briefly mentioned earlier, the National Research Council last year produced a report on a similar subject Hidden Costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production and Use which included a more thorough examination of the literature and factors that give rise to the huge range of uncertainty in determining the three items listed above.",0_0
Danish University Fires Professor Who Criticised Wind Turbines,0_0
"""Green programs in Spain destroyed 2.2 jobs for every green job created, while the capital needed for one green job in Italy could create almost five jobs in the general economy.""",4_1
"The government's new energy policy will lead to widespread power cuts and economic disaster, says Christopher Booker",0_0
night's energy panel from the convention stage because of the Wolverine,0_0
"China is experiencing its coldest winter in 28 years, with the average national temperature remaining at 3.8 C since November 2012, which is 1.3 degrees lower than normal for this period, according to sources from the China Meteorological Administration.",1_3
"By Jonathan Lesser, Continental Economics, Manhattan Institute, July 2015",0_0
The data is crucial to the famous ?hockey stick graph? used by climate change advocates to support the theory.,0_0
"CO2 Regulation under the Clean Air Act: Economic Train Wreck, Constitutional Crisis, Legislative Thuggery",0_0
"South Korea and Singapore employ fewer teachers than other systems; in effect, this ensures that they can spend more money on each teacher at an equivalent funding level. Both countries recognize that while class size has relatively little impact on the quality of student outcomes (see above), teacher quality does. South Korea's student-to-teacher ration is 30:1, compared to an OECD average of 17.1, enabling it in effect to double teacher salaries while maintaining the same overall funding level as other OECD countries....",0_0
"Libertarians and Post-Moderns are very similar demographically. They are nearly identical in terms of college completion (37 and 41 percent, respectively), income (39 and 34 percent have incomes above $75,000), being employed (52 and 51 percent), and being a parent (32 and 34 percent). Both groups are also very likely to live in cities or suburbs, and they are among the least religious groups in the survey (only Solid Liberals are less religious than these two groups). Age is the only significant demographic difference between them: Post-Moderns are mainly under 50, while Libertarians are evenly split.",0_0
"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.'",0_0
"The report then blamed the higher deaths in heatwaves on global warming (which stopped in 2001, and since when the earth has cooled):",1_4
The odds of a carbon tax being implemented in the ideal format are extremely slim. No such tax has been proposed in theUSoutside of opinion columns.,0_0
"Paleoclimatologists have long suspected that the middle Holocene or a period roughly from 7,000 to 5,000 years ago, was warmer than the present day. Terms like the Alti-thermal or Hypsi-thermal or Climatic Optimum have all been used to refer to this warm period that marked the middle of the current interglacial period.",2_1
"All prediction is inherently uncertain and effective communication of uncertainty information in weather, seasonal climate, and hydrological forecasts benefits users' decisions. The chaotic character of the atmosphere, coupled with inevitable inadequacies in observations and computer models, results in forecasts that always contain uncertainties. These uncertainties generally increase with forecast lead time, and vary with weather situation and location. Uncertainty is thus a fundamental characteristic of weather, seasonal climate, and hydrological prediction and no forecast is complete without a description of its uncertainty.",0_0
Another study used the model for Stormwater Management Planning in Ontario.,0_0
"In Siberia today the permafrost is supposed to be gradually melting, so we are told. But if you ask local Russian scientists, this cannot be confirmed ( see video above ).",1_1
"In order to distract from the Greenland cooling, alarmists made up a fake story about the Jakobshavn Glacier falling apart this summer. Satellite imagery shows that there has been almost no change since 2013.",1_1
7) Jared Olar: A Pagan Mindset Informs Global Warmingism,0_0
"For a seemingly simple topic, the calculation of trends and their confidence intervals has provoked a lot of commentary (see any number of threads at Lucias). Today, Im presenting what I think is an interesting approach to the problem using maximum likelihood. In a way, the approach builds on work that I did last year implementing Brown and Sundberg profile likelihood methods for proxy calibration. The techniques are very concise and, once stated, very obvious. It seems unlikely that theres anything original in the approach, but, despite all the commentary on trends, I havent seen anything analyzing trends in quite the way that Ive done here (but Im probably re-tracing steps done elsewhere).",0_0
"The Paris 2015 treaty is supposed to replace the tattered Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2020, and which the U.S. never ratified in large measure because huge greenhouse emitters like China and India were given a pass from most of its strictures.",0_0
"Let some evidence we have collectednever mind howbe E = Most people enjoy Butterfingers. We are interested in answering the truth of this statement: A = Joe enjoys Butterfingers. We do not know whether A is true or false, and so we will quantify our uncertainty in A using probability, that is written like this",0_0
"By Andrew Montford, Bishop Hill, Aug 14, 2015",0_0
"But, in fact, people rarely look back to see if their old forecasts were on the mark. Foretelling the future has always been difficult and almost always wrong. Charles Mackay, in his wonderful 1841 book ?Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds,? observes that the so-called necromancers of earlier centuries who purported to divine the future were grouped with the worst alchemists. Today, however, computers seem to have undermined our natural skepticism. Many of us put our faith in complex software that most of us cannot understand.",0_0
"Crane has a company to run and shareholders to protect, and his foray into politics and morals may be a smart strategy to keep them whole (and thus himself more than wholethink rent-seeking and crony capitalism ). If its really about amorphous strategy (remember John Brownes Beyond Petroleum and Ken Lays Green Enron), it helps explain why he depends on nothing more than rhetoric to support arguments that apply to a world my students and I dont live in.",0_0
"The year began with extremely cold winter temperatures and snowfall amounts that broke monthly and seasonal records at many U.S. locations. Seasonal snowfall records fell in several cities, including Washington; Baltimore, Md., Philadelphia; Wilmington, Del.; and Atlantic City, N.J. Several NOAA studies established that this winter pattern was made more likely by the combined states of El Nio and the Arctic Oscillation.",1_3
"Dow and anti-LNG export Congressmen are dressing their opposition in populist garb. Both say it will raise prices, hurting consumers and industry alike. Last year, both Wyden and Markey told Energy Secretary Steven Chu that increasing exports would amount to a ""transfer of wealth from consumers to oil and gas companies.""",0_0
"In Figure 3, HADISST Global SST anomaly data from January 1935 to December 1974 are compared to CRUTEM3 Land Surface Temperature data. Again, the data have been smoothed with a 13-month filter. And again, scaled HADISST NINO3.4 SST anomalies are provided for comparison. Global land surface temperatures also appear to be responding to an El Nino event around that time. But looking at other ENSO events, global land surface temperatures do exaggerate some ENSO events but not others. And looking at the land surface temperature data for 1938/39, there was also a similar anomalous rise and fall without an El Nino event.",0_0
"Indeed, coming on the heels of President Obama's termination of the space shuttle program in 2011, both events had people wondering if the end of America's decades-old dominance of space flight is really finally here.",0_0
"Germany?s biggest companies, such as Siemens and Bosch, are abandoning the industry too. Their renewable energy strategies resulted in costly debacles. Siemens, Europe?s largest engineering company, announced in June that it would close its entire solar division, at a loss of about ?1bn. Last month the Siemens board fired its chief executive, Peter Loescher. His dramatic dumping was seen in the context of a catalogue of disastrous misinvestments in the green energy sector he presided over.",0_0
"The UK??s Met. Office has boldly stated that a decline in the Sun??s activity will have no effect on the runaway effects of CO2. Based on their record, stout footwear and warm coat futures are up.",5_2
"Gradually, however, the IPCC found it expedient to offset not just some but all of the CO2 radiative forcing with a putative negative forcing from particulate aerosols. Only by this device could it continue to maintain that its very high centennial, bicentennial, and equilibrium values for the climate-sensitivity parameter were plausible.",5_2
"The above charts (click to enlarge) produced by Tisdale show both the Northern and Southern hemisphere actual sea surface temperatures (blue). The charts include the IPCC's climate model projection (red) for the last 17 years. As can be seen, the reality of sea surface temperatures and global warming is significantly different than what the IPCC's climate models predicted.",5_1
"Gil-Delgado et al . say that their ""finding of an increased subpopulation on Byers Peninsula"" suggests that ""the entire South Georgia stock may also be increasing instead of being stable as currently assumed."" In addition, they note that ""the occurrence of southern elephant seals breeding in recent times and in areas located at higher latitudes, such as Anvers island (ASPA 113, 2009), suggests that the breeding range of this species is expanding."" And, therefore, they conclude that ""habitat availability for southern elephant seals in Antarctica could increase as a result of climate change, thus providing additional suitable breeding habitats,"" as suggested at the turn of the century by the observations of McMahon and Campbell (2000). References",3_2
"It is precisely this kind of heuristic that has given popular environmentalism its bad reputation for unqualified doomsaying. The dot.com bubble was merely the latest in a series of speculative bubbles going back centuries, such as the tulip craze and the South Sea bubble. What is important to note about these speculative crashes is that, from a long-term perspective, they amounted to mere bumps in the road in terms of longterm human and economic progress. Is the dot.com bubble really the metaphor environmentalists want to use to arrest our attention? If so, they may as well pulp and recycle the new edition of Limits to Growth tomorrow.",0_0
"Overall, the extra federal revenues from a judicious expansion in domestic energy production could easily reach into the tens of billions annually, quite possibly eclipsing the $25 billion or so from the proposed 15 cent per gallon gasoline tax increase. But contrary to a tax hike, allowing additional supplies of domestic oil to come online would lower gasoline prices, as well as those for natural gas and heating oil.",4_5
"As Daniel Patrick Moynihan, an artist among social scientists, pointed out, social scientists didn't really know how to eliminate poverty or crime. Policies based on middle-class instincts often worked better than those of elite liberals.",0_0
"???Current datasets indicate no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century No robust trends in annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes counts have been identified over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin.",1_7
"??? If you believe that the observed West Antarctica warming is caused by warming of the atmosphere. Recent studies show that the heat is coming from volcanoes below the glacier. Besides, air temperatures in the area are far below zero. Ice doesn??t melt in subfreezing air.",2_1
"While calvings from ice shelves in parts of West Antarctica have generated headlines, evidence has emerged that temperatures are cooling in the east of the continent, which is four times the size of West Antarctica.",1_1
"Most of us gathered here are not climatologists or scientists in related disciplines of natural sciences, but economists, lawyers, sociologists and perhaps also politicians or ex-politicians who have been for years or decades involved in public policy debates. This is the reason why we follow with such an interest and with an even greater concern the prevailing intellectual and political climate, its biases and misconceptions, as well as its dangerous public policy consequences.",4_1
I dont expect a lot of people will bother with the longer interviews but I am glad I took the trouble. I was wondering how fair the edited version was to Jennifer Francis where her views were given much less time than Roger Pielke Jr.,0_0
"No matter what we do, we are unlikely to avoid all of the impacts of climate change. Adaptation is unavoidable.",0_0
"And of course, if the scientist was unable to disprove no warming in 23 years?? well then it??s probable that warming probably either a) wasn??t happening or b) it was slower than 1.1 C/century.",1_4
Professor Kellys paper discusses the role of technology changes in helping meet the global decarbonisation agenda: success in the UK and failure elsewhere still represents failure.,0_0
"Despite my longstanding policy against offering my own reconstruction under current information, CRU alleged that I had promoted, heavily promoted and advocated versions of the Yamal and Polar Urals chronologies, making these untrue claims both in their blog article itself and in Osborns inline comments. In a comment at RC, I rejected these allegations, pointing out that CRU had not provided any quotation or link supporting their assertions. Osborn was unable to provide any backup or source for his allegations.",0_0
"Developing countries need try to reach their voluntary goals only if now-wealthy nations make those wealth transfers and if reducing their emissions will not interfere with their ""first and overriding priorities"" of eradicating poverty, malnutrition and disease, and improving living standards and life spans.",0_0
The mean is not a good central estimate for a parameter like climate sensitivity with a highly skewed distribution. The median or mode (most likely value) provide more appropriate estimates. Aldrin's main results mode for sensitivity is between 1.5 and 1.6C; the median is about halfway between the mode and the mean.,3_1
"Twitter / Ed Shaz Honestly, the 'Global Warming' campaign is a discrediting disaster. How about straight forward 'stop trashing the planet!' efforts? YouTube - Cave Bob's Debut: Attack on James Hansen's Propaganda (warning-profanity)",5_2
"This statement puzzled me, since it is well established in the literature that the American West experiencedsevere droughts centuries before the advent of SUVs and coal-fired power plants. So I did a quick search at www.CO2Science.Org , Web site of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, where Drs. Sherwood, Keith, and Craig Idso reviewscores of peer-reviewed science studies each year. Beloware excerpts from a few of their reviews.",1_7
"GHCNs adjustment up of NYC data, clearly an urban location, also calls into question the global adjustment process. These kinds of what appears to be arbitrary adjustments imply lack of data quality assurance and constitute a clear violation of the data quality act.",5_1
"The goal behind these policies is not surprising. But what is surprising is that while President Obama goes around pretending to be for an ""all-of-the-above"" approach on energy, members of his green team administration just can't help but tell us the truth about what's really going on at EPA.",0_0
Democrats in Congress quarrel over new bankruptcy rules for homeowners.,0_0
"A period of humility and even silence would be particularly welcome from the Met Office, our leading institutional advocate of the perils of man-made global warming, which had promised a ?barbecue summer? in 2009 and one of the ?warmest winters on record?. ?Dominic Lawson, The Sunday Times, 10 January 2010",0_0
"Peter Glover's article pointed out, ""In the 1980s Reagan talked the Saudis into significantly boosting their oil production, effectively flooding the market with cheap oil. It is not widely understood that this move, resulting in a dramatic fall in the global oil price, led directly to the collapse of the Soviet economy and, ultimately, to the downfall of the Soviet empire."" With a massive program to develop fossil fuel resources in the United States, Russia's fossil fuel assets would be rendered impotent in a few years.",0_0
"In the past hundred years, the instrumentalization of Islam has been a recurrent temptation on the part of every rising power, be it Wilhemine Germany or Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia, not to mention America itself. As the latest rising power, China itself would not be immune to that temptation even if it were energy self-sufficient. The fact that China's energy needs are huge guarantees that the constitution of a Sino-Islamic axis is for Beijing not just a tactical option, but a strategic necessity.12",0_0
"First though, I want to clarify how I view the problem.",0_0
"Another 12 minutes of filler go by images of Gore in his limo, more Earth photos, a Mark Twain quote, and Gore memories until about the 16:30 minute mark, when, according to the judge, Al Gore erroneously links receding glaciers specifically Mt. Kilimanjaro with global warming.",5_2
"Leading off the witness list was Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and a co-author of the legislation with House Committee Chairman Fred Upton.",0_0
A government-funded research center destroys the original data behind its predictions of global warming.,0_0
This piece originally appeared in New York Post,0_0
"The short-term implications of the move are clear: getting the 60th Democrat in place before the crucial bargaining and votes occur on health reform, financial regulation and climate change. The short-term costs are also clear: Massachusetts' move smacked of rank hypocrisy, since the law being revised was slapped into place by Democrats quickly in 2004 to prevent then-Gov. Mitt Romney (R) from appointing a Republican to fill the Senate vacancy if Sen. John Kerry (D) won the presidency.",0_0
"Previous interglacial periods tended to last 10,000 to 20,000 years, and in fact most did not have temperatures as slow changing as the present one. Since the present interglacial started about 18,000 years age, and reached the plateau about 11,000 years ago, we probably should be more concerned with a possible impending major ice age than a fraction of a degree or so of warming. In fact, the best possible outcome would be that the (relatively modest) contribution from AGW might help delay the onset of a new ice age.",1_2
"This new paper by Adophi et al uses beryllium, oxygen and carbon isotopes from Greenland ice cores right back as far as the depth of the last ice age, 22,500 years ago, and finds there is a link between solar activity and the climate. It follows these proxies of temperature and solar activity as the planet warmed to the start of the Holocene 10,000 years ago.",2_1
"""Worse than we thought."" The headline in the British Guardian newspaper on Saturday was almost gloating about the bad news. The tone of the article that followed was no different: In Paris, a U.N.-sponsored panel, consisting of hundreds of scientists from all over the world, had just declared that average global temperatures will probably rise 4 degrees Celsius over the next century. If so, catastrophic flooding, famine and water shortages may follow, along with the extinction of up to half of existing animal species. Malaria and other tropical diseases may spread. Among the coastal cities threatened by the higher ocean levels caused by melting ice caps, the paper notednot without a degree of satisfactionare London, New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong.",0_0
"For decades, environmentalists have been trying to scare the public about pesticides, when in fact pesticides pose little risk when used properly and they are a critical part of controlling disease outbreaks. Pesticides meet very stringent federal safety standards and are applied at such low levels that the public has little need to worry about them. Unfortunately, many communities chose not to use pesticides because of environmentalist hype. We may be seeing more deaths as a result.",0_0
"The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change hailed by greens as the ultimate arbiter does not agree tropical storms have become more intense or frequent, but says the opposite. Their special report last year said: 'There is low confidence in any observed long-term (40 years or more) increases in tropical cyclone activity (ie intensity, frequency, duration).' Its authoritative Fifth Assessment Report added in September there have been 'no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century'.",1_7
"George, your response to Typhoon Haiyan prompted this memo. Are you aware that tropical cyclones that made landfall in the western North Pacific had declined from 1950 to 2010? See Figure 5, which is from Roger Pielke, Jr.s post Are Typhoon Disasters Getting More Common? Roger was one of the co-authors of the Weinkle et al. (2012) paper Historical Global Tropical Cyclone Landfalls .",1_7
"The struggling economy and low coal prices has rendered the European Union (EU) Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) ineffective, Durbin said. The carbon price will need to reach 40 euros per tonne to encourage fuel switching, which is unlikely before 2020.",0_0
"Governor Davis's solutionto have the taxpayer cover the difference between the market price and his promise to consumersis a recipe for state bankruptcy. The only real solution is to deregulate fully, allowing rates for users to rise to cover the costs of buying power. Where this might cause hardship, the state should step in and provide help. ""Electricity stamps"" for those who might have to choose between food, medicine, or their power bill could make sense. In the short run, the state could provide up to a fixed dollar amount toward covering the utility bills for those on food stamps or otherwise in need. But it makes no sense to have the taxpayer subsidize the costs of electricity for all users.",0_0
"DATA AND CODE: Ive put the data and code used to produce the graphs and calculations online. There are three code files: CERES Setup.R , CERES Functions.R , and the code for this post, CO2 and CERES.R . In addition, there are two datafiles, one for the CERES TOA files, and the other for the CERES surface files, entitled CERES 13 year (230 Mbytes), and CERES 13 year surface (112 Mbytes). I think that the data is turnkey, just pull up the CO",0_0
The company is waiting for Queensland Natural Resources and Mining Minister Henry Palaszczuk to give final approval for the deal and is expecting an answer in coming weeks.,0_0
"The first article appears in Environmental Pollution and was written by three scientists from the University of Illinois, Michigan Technological University, and the United States Department of Agriculture. Before we go further, we did wonder a bit why the authors chose this journal for their article? The article deals with aspen trees and carbon dioxide, which we do not see as a pollutant, and tropospheric ozone, which we agree is a pollutant. McGrath et al. note early in the article that is expected to increase 50% by 2050. Elevated increases photosynthetic rate in C3 plants, above-ground dry matter production, yield and maximum LAI (LAI is leaf area index). So even before the experiment is conducted, the authors were fully aware that elevated CO2 has many positive benefits for aspen.",3_3
""" changing climate already affects the air that our children are breathing,"" he said last month in the Everglades. On ABC's ""Good Morning America,"" he linked his climate focus to his own daughter's asthma attack 12 years ago. Even Obama's Twitter account announces: ""Addressing climate change isn't just good for our planet and our economy it's good for our health #ActOnClimate.""",0_0
Great Lakes ice coverage at an all-time record high,1_1
Overheated rhetoric on climate change doesn?t make for good policies,0_0
"election, begin to plot out what people they want and where they want them. Even",0_0
6. Niger - Agreement for Cooperating in the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program,0_0
"Bryan Shaw, Washington Examiner , 23 July 2011",0_0
Alan's book reveals evolutionary EPA experiences and insights through the eyes of an environmentally dedicated Los Angeles/Orange County Sierra Club chapter leader who later served the agency for nearly 39 years beginning in 1971 under the Nixon Administration. That period and throughout the present has witnessed dramatic changes.,0_0
"It was supposed to be the next big thing. California built decades of broad-based prosperity from the Gold Rush, then Hollywood, then aerospace, and later Silicon Valley. At the turn of the century, green jobs were supposed to be the wave of the future. How is that going for them? According to the best numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, fewer than 2,500 green jobs have been created in California since 2010. Conn Carroll, The Washington Examiner, 27 February 2013",0_0
"Then there is the matter of outright deception, collusion and fraud at EPA, via these and other tactics.",5_2
"""The carbon market is going very well. We've seen tremendous growth this year,"" Henrik Hasselknippe, senior analyst at Point Carbon, told Agence France Presse on February 12. ""Carbon is now being used as a commodity on the same lines as other energy commodities."" According to his estimates, CO2 trading will be a $40 billion annual industry by the end of this decade. The current price for a metric ton of carbon is $31, while a year ago it was $8. Others are equally bullish. Thierry Carol of Powernext Carbon, a CO2 trading market, told the same reporter, ""Things are taking off. This is just a start.""",0_0
Diverse Interests Raise the Transaction Costs of Reaching Agreement,0_0
"Historical production and reserve numbers provide documentation regarding the transition from technically recoverable resources to reserves. For example, in 1944, U.S. oil reserves totaled 20 billion barrels and yet our oil and gas industry produced 167 billion barrels between 1945 and 2010 8 times the amount of reserves available in 1944 and the amount of U.S. oil reserves in 2010 still totaled 20.7 billion barrels. Thus, there was no reserve depletion; there was reserve replenishment.",4_5
"In this system, Democrats who want to avoid a challenger running to their left must secure the WFP's endorsement. In addition to the leverage it wields through its ballot line, the party's 40-person full-time staff and 500 paid election canvassers have made it the most important third party in New York, especially at the city level. The WFP has also effectively developed its own legislative bloc in the city council, the Progressive Caucus, to which 19 of the 51 council members now belong. In 2014, 1199 was the WFP's largest source of financial support.",0_0
"This plan represents the sweet spot in the internal politics of the administration. It balances the Oval Office's determination to avoid a military clash in the final months of the President's term with the humanitarian instincts that are still strong at Foggy Bottom, in Congress and among many administration officials. Cynics would say it is a way to look like you are doing something without doing anything much; the President's supporters would say it's a balanced and nuanced response that offers the best hope of progress for the kind of solution Syria needs without giving up on America's (verbal) support of its ideals.",0_0
A miner who survived an explosion at the Sago coal mine in West Virginia returns home to his family.,0_0
"on Monday, October 25th, 2010 at 1:58 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"As he was speaking, a revolution was brewing under his feet. New methods of producing gas from unconventional resources???tight gas, coalbed methane (cbm) and shale gas???had greatly expanded the universe of gas resources available throughout the world.",4_5
"Smaller, lighter ponies would have helped meet the standard. Besides, who needed a surrey with fringe on the top pulled by a team of snow-white horses, anyway? (Apologies to Rodgers and Hammerstein.)",0_0
"Sven Olof Karlsson writes p Dagens Industri Agenda Energy (tyvrr behind a betalvgg) about an interesting meeting between just the German energy minister, Sigmar Gabriel and television Greenpeace activists on a congress organized by the German company Deutsche Energie-Agentur. Sigmar was Dr. for keeping a number but had just had time to Begin No. activists from Greenpeace trngde into p Congress and confronted him, demanding that stnga coal mines. The banners they carried, the text of the climate requires that coal power lggs down.",0_0
"Lee et al., of course, attributed the long-term and short-term warming of the Pacific Ocean (0-700 meters) to downward longwave radiation (from manmade greenhouse gases). Unfortunately for Lee et al., the data, when broken down into tropical Pacific and extratropical North Pacific subsets, indicate that was not the case. This suggests the simulations of ENSO in the tropical Pacific and the simulations of ocean heat uptake related to variations in sea level pressures and wind patterns in the extratropical North Pacific were both flawed in the model used by Lee et al.",5_1
Even that is likely to be too high. The climate-research establishment has finally admitted openly what skeptic scientists have been saying for nearly a decade: Global warming has stopped since shortly before this century began.,1_4
"Sixty percent of Protestant pastors disagree that global warming is real and manmade, and 41 percent of them strongly disagree, a new survey says.",0_0
"Much of the so-called science on global warming comes from computer modeling. This same science is rarely correct about the hurricane season, the severity of winter or the weather next week.",5_1
"""Aha!"" say the hated climatocrats and smirking Ministers, ""but we haven't actually taken Peter Spencer's land. It's still his. All we've done is to regulate his use of it, just as we do for instance with the zoning laws.""",0_0
"Goa (India) : ""there is no ongoing sea level rise, sea level has been stable for the last 50 years or so, sea level fell some 20 cm at around 1960.""",1_6
"It really is frustrating wading through these debates. A series with SNR of 0.1 (with white noise) is not ""essentially, entirely composed of noise"". It actually doesnt take all that many series for the noise to cancel out and to reccover the signal. The spurious regression problem is the problem of an unrelated trending series. Arguing from high white noise situation is totally irrelevant.",0_0
Q&A; WITH FRANK WOLAK ON U.S. COAL EXPORTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE,0_0
"All was now well and Yale gave Mann his Ph.D in 1998. One eminent source in my enquiries confirmed Mann's Ph.D. was, in fact ""rushed through.""",0_0
The climate models are also coming into agreement that the number of tropical storms and hurricanes will not go up and may perhaps even decrease (by around one-fourth fewer) because of the increased vertical wind shear.,1_7
"Reading the group's press releases it does seem that they even had a hand in getting the president of the United States to sic a taxpayer-funded agency on a foreign academic study about a foreign country's experience with its own policies, because said academic team and its writings threaten the welfare if the word gets out.",0_0
"In his RMS article , Kevin Trenberth also conveniently overlooked the fact that the discussions about the warming halt are now for a time period of about 16 years, not 10 yearsever since David Roses DailyMail article titled Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released and here is the chart to prove it . In my response to Trenberths article , I updated David Roses graph , noting that surface temperatures in April 2013 were basically the same as they were in June 1997. Well use June 1997 as the start month for the running 17-year trends. The period is now 204-months long. The following graph is similar to the one above, except that its presenting running trends for 204-month periods.",1_4
Surely this means we could be further into a a new ice age than any of us even dared to imagine!! says reader Lee Woods.,0_0
"No, that would play into the hands of the fossil-fuel lobby.",0_0
"Let's take a look at what's happening in West Virginia. The state government just sponsored a three-day forum last week on ""EPA's War on Coal."" Larry Puccio, the Democrat Party Chairman in West Virginia said, ""A lot of folks here have real frustration with this administration's stance on coal and energy."" Also recently, on a West Virginia radio show, Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America famously said that EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson ""shot in Washington"" just as the Navy SEALs shot bin Laden. As Roberts expanded, ""We've been placed in a horrendous position here. How do you take coal miners' money and say let's use it politically to support someone whose EPA has pretty much said, ""You're done'?""And let's not forget that West Virginia is the state where President Obama lost several counties to a convicted felon in the primaries.",0_0
"About 85% of our total energy is carbon-emitting, and about 99% of all transport sector energy is carbon-emitting. Since energy is used to produce and move everything from autos to food to houses to bytes of electronic information, ACESA's impacts would cascade through the economy. In the report's words:",4_1
"Many people including several famous physicists find Maldacena's and Susskind's ER-EPR correspondence hard to believe, controversial, or inconsistent. But there is no known inconsistency. Three folks at Caltech, Bao, Pollack, and Remmen, are addressing a point that I have mentioned on this blog a few times, but they do so a bit differently.",0_0
"It was a hot July afternoon 38 years ago, nearly 92 degrees, when Teamsters president and labor icon Jimmy Hoffa is said to have opened the rear door of a 1975 maroon Mercury in the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant, in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and climbed in.",0_0
"Instead of taking one broadband measurement that covers everything from ultraviolet to infrared, Kassianov and crew wanted to determine how individual wavelengths contribute to the net cloud effect. To do so, the team used an instrument that can measure brightness at four different wavelengths of color violet, green, orange, red and two of infrared.",0_0
"The Hinckley Times have the story of the 40K turbine at North Warwickshire and Hinckley College, which has used more electricity than it has generated.",4_4
High court could make gay marriage a 2012 issue:,0_0
5 TO 10 INCHES OF NEW SNOW ABOVE 6000 FEET,0_0
What will happen this winter if we keep going on with this trend? Ten degrees below normal with high precipitations? SNOW! A LOT OF SNOW!,1_3
School Board Orders Global Warming Class to Include Conservative Views:,0_0
"Finally, one with an intriguing twist from former reporter Ross Gelbspan in another 2005 Nieman Foundation piece, describing the fossil fuel lobby:",0_0
Ill let skyfall speak and then then link the interesting part.,0_0
"Algore said that the sea would rise 20?? and much of the world would be submerged. How inconvenient that sea levels in the South pacific have been, um, stable for over ten years .",1_6
"This scenario is too pessimistic. As countries develop, they become more efficient in energy use. But even if China tapered its emissions growth from 8.6% to zero over the same 27 years, it would still emit as much carbon in 2041 as the entire world does today. And that's not including emissions growth from India, Africa and South America.",0_0
"10. Overall the Antarctic ice sheet has grown in size for the last 35 years, except in a few selective areas which are related to geologically induced geothermal heating. An overwhelming number of these selective glacial melting areas are associated with the West Antarctic Rift System.",1_1
"Last week, the attorneys general of 20 states met at a conference ""dedicated to coming up with creative ways to enforce laws being flouted by the fossil fuel industry,"" in the words of the conference's host, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. The environmental website Ecowatch called it ""an unprecedented, multi-state effort to investigate and prosecute"" oil companies that the AGs say ""stymied attempts to combat global warming.""",0_0
"Crime against humanity. Not a moderate phrase, that. The usual penalty for crimes against humanity, as dictators from Mussolini to Saddam Hussein have found out to their cost, is execution.",0_0
"The alarmism of Sir David King, the British government's chief scientific adviser, has become even more hysterical in recent days. Not content with repeatedly calling global warming a bigger threat than terrorismeven after the Madrid attacks of March 11and publicly criticizing the U. S. administration, he has now gone, as the British say, ""completely off the deep end.""",5_2
"subsidies going into the ethanol industry, critics say, the dream of",0_0
"From the thousands of email and other documents that comprise ""Climategate,"" this is one of the most interesting: It's a ""travesty"" that ""we can??t account for the lack of warming at the moment."" (Emphasis added.) Further, ""any consideration of geoengineering quite hopeless as we will never be able to tell if it is successful or not!""What does ""at the moment"" actually mean? Would you guess the past 10 years! That's right; no warming in the past decade even as so-called ""greenhouse gas emissions"" and ambient concentrations are at historical highs! Does this prove global warming is a ""hoax""? No. But it proves the simple equation of ""more greenhouse gases = more warming"" is false. Read about it in my new Forbes Online piece, ""Show Me the Warming.""",5_2
"The only observed warming over the period is from 1978 to 1998, 20 years only, out of the 55 years.",1_4
"I looked for historical data for Gravesend, which has a tide gauge according to the London Port authority, but I couldnt find any actual data. So I had to rely on a tide prediction program. Given that Gravesend is well upstream from Sheerness. one would expect the tide to be lower, since it has an higher elevation difference, which is why the Thames flows east. I downloaded the wxtide32 program since it had a location for Tilbury dock, not too far away from Gravesend.",0_0
"Elevated CO 2 enhanced rates of net photosynthesis by an average of 38% in both cultivars. In addition, it reduced stomatal conductances by an average of 30%. Consequently, instantaneous water-use efficiency increased by approximately 80% in both cultivars. Moreover, analyses of rubisco kinetics indicated elevated CO 2 did not induce photosynthetic acclimation in either cultivar. What it means",3_3
"In light of the findings of Pansch et al ., as well as those of the other researchers they cite, it would appear that juvenile barnacles of the species they studied are already well equipped to meet the challenges of a significantly warmed and acidified ocean.",3_2
"But according to Professor Ole Humlum, a leading glaciologist in Svalbard, ""That glacier had already disappeared in the early 1920s as a result of a perfectly natural rise in temperature that had nothing to do with man-made global warming."" The photos are misleading, he said. ""They should have asked the specialist on Svalbard first"" (Daily Telegraph, August 17, 2002).",0_0
Similar movement rates needed for animals and plants on land and in the oceans,0_0
"""Startlingly, nearly all of the usual arguments for alarm about the climate are instances of Aristotles dozen fallacies of relevance or of presumption, not the least of which is the consensus fallacy.""",5_2
"Anyone who has met Roy Spencer knows him to be a careful, thoughtful, unpolemical scientist of formidable skill and knowledge. With John Christy he presents the monthly real-world data from the microwave sounding unit satellites that provide the least inaccurate global temperature record we have.",0_0
Germany urges users to ditch Internet Explorer,0_0
"Clearly the main accusations leveled at UEA after the Climategate scandal have not yet been addressed in any form by an independent inquiry. There is one more to come, from Sir Muir Russell?s team, which supposedly will investigate accusations of abuse of the peer-review process. If it approaches the inquiry with the same lack of thoroughness and superficiality as the previous inquiries, it will doubtless also find little wrong. However, those who have read Ross McKitrick?s narratives know there is a case to answer.",5_2
"Seitzs petition reminds us of the approach used by the tobacco industry over the decades when asked if tobacco is addictive and harmful, Lucier wrote last spring.",0_0
"7 Hugh Ellsaesser, ""The Misuse of Science in Environmental Management,"" Heartland Policy Study No. 70 (December 8, 1995).",0_0
"This is a circular, incestuous process. Scientists make decisions as journal editors about what qualifies as peer-reviewed literature. They then cite the same papers they themselves played midwife to while serving as IPCC authors.",5_2
"Finally, and most troubling, are the suggestions that a tribe of incestuous climate scientists may have actively conspired to undermine the peer-review process.",5_2
"After summarising his preferred version of the science, the remainder of Minister Combets address was concerned with economic and political analysis. Obviously, as scientists, we have no expert comment to offer on those matters. Equally obviously, however, until there is a demonstrated scientific problem of dangerous global warming to be dealt with, which there currently is not, economic measures and analysis are simply irrelevant.",0_0
"2) Climate models are not based upon physics, they consist almost entirely of parameterizations/fudge factors , which is one of many reasons why they do not properly simulate the most fundamental aspects of climate including convection, clouds, gravity waves, atmospheric circulation, ocean oscillations, indirect solar amplification mechanisms, etc. This is why recent papers have called for scrapping the current crop of failed numerical models and replacing them with a whole new approach of stochastic modeling.",5_1
Source: The Climate Policy Network Published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation,0_0
Reactions to his receiving the prize can be found here and here. Even some who voted for Gore think it is ridiculous. Bjorn Lomborg comments on how odd it was to include Gore along with reputable scientists as a recipient of the prize.,0_0
get ? and has to be well hidden. I?ve discussed this with the main funder (US,0_0
Another thing that feeds my suspicion that a pagan mindset informs Global Warmingism are the steady and consistent calls for sacrifice ? even human sacrifice ? to ward off the threatened catastrophes.,5_2
"The planetary energy balance equation has its greatest utility in the context of comparative planetology. It is not needed to prove the existence of the greenhouse effect, although it is conceptually useful in explaining and understanding the greenhouse effect.",0_0
"Following an exhaustive review of more than fifty years of long term data on environmental conditions at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the paper??s authors arrived at a sobering conclusion: current climate change models don??t account for real life surprises that take place in forests.",5_1
"Inorganic fertilizers, for example, are often decried as dangerous and ""unnatural."" Part of the appeal of ""organic"" foods comes from their claim that no such fertilizers are used, implying that there is some danger to them. In fact, a 2012 Stanford University meta-analysis of existing studies found that organic foods carried no significant health or nutritional benefits. Moreover, the animus against inorganic fertilizers ignores the role they have played in increasing food production and reducing famine in the developing world.",0_0
4 so that your alms may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.,0_0
"Likewise, the solar energy input on the Earths surface (and also some energy goes directly into the atmosphere) induces a temperature of up to +121 degrees C, and there is no way to trap or reflect this temperature to make itself hotter, as is claimed by the greenhouse effect. We checked to see if the solar energy was being trapped or back-radiated by the atmosphere in such a way as to induce a higher temperature, in the real-world with empirical observational data, using the predictions of the greenhouse effect math . The data showed that the greenhouse effect math was wrong. Of course, we already knew this, but we did the due-diligence of performing the appropriate observational experiment just to make sure. We already know the greenhouse effect math is wrong, because nowhere do we have something running at -100 degrees C being amplified to +100 degrees C this would be a perpetual motion machine.",0_0
"That research, which involved scientists from many disciplines, was based on experimentation. The scientists studied such questions as how atmospheric carbon dioxide interacts with plant life and the role of clouds in warming.",0_0
"Teams of international economists, scientists, inspectors and statisticians roaming China to gather information on carbon emissions and reduction initiatives would have been unprecedented. In promoting China, Beijing projects an image of order and competence to the world. In parts of its wealthier coastal cities, China is that. But these international teams would undoubtedly discover exactly how dysfunctional the heart of the country really is. They would see first hand and report back how China's 45 million local officials remain the most formidable obstacle to improving transparency in China's sprawling economic structure protecting their turf, defending their privileges, arbitrarily enforcing the law, and when it comes to economic performance blatantly cooking the books. Beijing still wants to assure outsiders that it remains in charge even though in important respects it is not.",0_0
"UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne confirmed Wednesday that his previously announced financial initiatives to revitalise the UK North Sea oil and gas industry will go ahead, and also said he would remove the climate change levy in his first budget since the Conservatives won the UK general election in May. -- Alliance News, 8 July 2015",0_0
The Rest-of-the-World data does diverge from the scaled NINO3.4 data as expected in response to the volcanic eruptions. Ive highlighted those in green. The effects of the very strong 1982/83 El Nio were counteracted by the 1982 eruption of El Chichon and the impacts of the 1991/92 El Nio were overwhelmed by the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo.,0_0
"As for natural gas, experts predict that lower prices as more is discovered via fracking, will increase industrial output 2.8% by 2015 and 3.9% by 2025. Policies that would allow the export of U.S. liquefied natural gas would generate between $15.6 billion and $73.6 billion to the Gross Domestic Product and help reduce our deficits and debt.",0_0
"Because of these realities of the unknown there is an unspoken, but crucial, code among scientists: tolerate colleagues poking and picking at your sacred cows. So Garth should have been able to depend on the code at a meeting of key climate players in Australia, where he questioned the, now infamous, hockey stick, according to the best scientific traditions. However, to Garth?s surprise, scientists there responded fiercely to his innocent questions. In fact, harangues reverberated for days afterward. He writes that it was like ?stirring a hornet?s nest.? Not only were the hornets enraged, they were attacking him rather than responding to his questions.",0_0
"Returning in India in the late 1970s, he became director of the Tata Energy Research Institute.",0_0
"In the face of some recent pushback for example, from the studies out of Spain and Denmark referenced in this space on numerous occasions the windmill welfare queens over at the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) have been cranking up the snivel volume to eleven.",0_0
"IPCC reports are supposed to be the gold standard account of what is and is not known about global warming. The panel boasts that it uses only peer-reviewed scientific literature. But its claims about mountain ice turned out to be anecdotes from a climbing magazine, its claims on the Amazon's vulnerability to drought from a Brazilian pressure group's website and 42 per cent of the references in one chapter proved to be to reports by Greenpeace, WWF and other ""grey"" literature. Yesterday's review finds that guidelines on the use of this grey literature ""are vague and have not always been followed"".",5_2
"Returning to the TAO Project data, the warm water volume and depth-averaged temperature data shown in Figure 6 for the eastern equatorial Pacific also show lower values in 2014 than in 1997. This year, the eastern equatorial data both rose, a result of the Kelvin wave carrying warm water from the West Pacific Warm Pool to the east. Most of that warm water in the east has now been consumed, released to the atmosphere through evaporation or distributed away from the equator.",0_0
Delegates to the World Trade Organization pledge to renew contentious negotiations over farm subsidies.,0_0
"A couple of notes: The multi-model mean data are not expected to present the year-to-year variations in sea surface temperature associated with the El Nio-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Some of the models simulate ENSO; others dont. The models that do attempt to simulate ENSO do a poor job of it. (This is documented in numerous peer-reviewed papers.) Each model produces ENSO events on its own schedule; that is, the modeled ENSO events do not reproduce the observed frequency, duration, and magnitude of El Nio and La Nia events. Since the multi-model mean presents the average of all of those out-of-synch ENSO signals, they are smoothed out. For this reason, we are only concerned with the disparity in the modeled and observed trends.",5_1
"IPCC mistakes, Climategate perversions, and now new major scientific findings all demand the same thingthat EPA reconsider its Endangerment Finding as the validity of its scientific underpinnings is badly in need of update and reappraisal.",0_0
"Aristocracies commonly prevent talented individuals from earning more wealth then their social betters, and today's progressive aristocracy runs true to form. Far from being the most talented individuals, its recruits are ""people whose most prominent feature is their commitment to fit in,"" Codevilla writes. He continues:",0_0
"Murphy is anything but foolisha Rhodes scholar, he's probably got the finest mind in Canadian journalism. Nor is he wrong or naive about the planetary cooling trend. For example, Murphy is quite aware of the difference between weather and climate, writing in his column:",0_0
"We will delete comments which deny the absolutely overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, just as we would delete comments which questioned the reality of the Holocaust or the equal mental capacities and worth of human beings of different ethnic groups. Such ""debates"" are merely the morally indefensible trying to cover itself in the cloth of intellectual tolerance.",0_0
"As he did in early September with the ozone regulations , President Obama has the power to tell Secretary Jackson to slow down, delay, or stop altogether. However, without intense public pressure, he is unlikely to do anything. The Utility MACT rule is just one of the expensive rules flowing down from the EPA that will cause America to lose important and cost-effective energy that is essential to economic growth. The higher costs will be passed on to the already struggling businesses and households.",4_1
Shouldnt truth-in-advertising laws also apply to press releases for scientific studies?,0_0
"By Robert Samuelson, Washington Post, Aug 9, 2015",0_0
"Theres an 80 per cent consensus indicating that increased fire activity into the future is highly likely, he told reporters in an online Australian Science Media Centre briefing.",0_0
"In the face of a changing climate many species must adapt or perish. Ecologists studying evolutionary responses to climate change forecast that cold-blooded tropical species are not as vulnerable to extinction as previously thought. The study, published in the British Ecological Society's Functional Ecology , considers how fast species can evolve and adapt to compensate for a rise in temperature.",3_2
"All of the believers in human caused ???global warming?? seem to see something ???unprecedented?? in the recent changes in temperature. But all recent changes are well within the normal range of variability, and recent small temperature excursions have been matched or exceeded many times in the past: the Medieval Warm Period, the Roman Warm Period, the Minoan Warm Period, the Holocene Warming, and all the major interglacial warmings that preceded them as shown in the Vostok data. They all occurred without any significant human emission of CO2.",2_1
"The ""trick"" was of course, to truncate the divergent data, to replace it with the instrumental records for the same period and then to smooth the spliced series so that the join was no longer visible. The sentence is the Spiegel article seems to suggest that this ""swap, splice and smooth"" process could reasonably be described as a ""mere"" fudge.",5_2
"The University of Colorado, at SPPIs request, has updated the sea-level data from the JASON satellite to the end of 2008. Though James Hansen of NASA says sea level will rise 246 feet, sea level has not risen since the beginning of 2006. Sea level rose just 8 inches in the 20th century and has been rising at just 1 ft/century since 1993.",1_6
"The Department of Energy (DOE), citingrising costs, pulled the plug onFutureGen,a $1.5 billion government-industrypartnership to build the world??s first commercial scale CCS power plant.In July 2009,however, FutureGen Alliance, Inc.announced it had reached an agreement with DOE to begin ???construction of the first commercial-scale, fully integrated carbon capture and sequestration project in the country in Matton, Ill.?? So there is still not even a commercial-scale demonstration project, though there may be in the next few years.",4_4
"First, a real attempt by a small group of scientists to subvert the peer-review process and suppress dissenting voices. This is at best massively unethical.",5_2
"Figure description: Trends in Estimated U.S. Air Pollutant Emissions, 1970-2006. Data Source: U.S. EPA, Air Quality and Emissions - Progress Continues in 2006.",0_0
"I was therefore interested to read about how critical climate scientists are of climate models, but this did make me return again to my observations about climate sensitivity. If climate scientists have so little confidence in computer models, how come the IPCC's estimates of climate sensitivity are based on models rather than the less alarming empirical measurements? I think we need to know.",5_1
In 2001 and 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (and here )estimated that the world would warm at a rate of 0.2 deg C per decade in the future due to greenhouse gas forcing. Since those predictions were made it has become clear that the world has not been warming at that rate. Some scientists retrospectively revised their forecasts saying that the 0.2 deg C figure is an average one. Larger or smaller rates of warming are possible as short-term variations.,1_4
"There are other deleterious manifestations of NRDC's capture of EPA, such as the phenomenon known as ""sue and settle,"" which I explain in more detail in the aforementioned paper.",0_0
"While time and space constraints here do not permit a thorough review of the evidence Soon and Baliunas present for their findings, or the possible natural explanations for these temperature variations, a few salient points about their studyand criticisms of itare worth making.",0_0
"These inflated, error-prone, tinkered-with temperature recordings are one of several measurements cited by the U.N.??s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as evidence man-made global warming is a threat. But the Heartland study concluded, ???The U.S. temperature record is unreliable. And since the U.S. record is thought to be ???the best in the world,?? it follows that the global database is likely similarly compromised and unreliable.??",5_1
"The examples of rigidly enforced conformity could fill several volumes, and no amount of criticism from outside the environmental citadel is likely to break though the walls. So, is there any chance that reform will come from within?",0_0
"Even if the Court upholds the Timing Rule, petitioners and their allies can extract some political capital from the case. A decision favorable to the EPA would confirm the urgency of ending ""regulation without representation."" As you know, many constitutionalists and free-marketers view the EPA's takeover of climate policy as a breach of the separation of powers. If the President submitted EPA's greenhouse gas regulations to Congress as a legislative package, it would be dead on arrival. Congress should have to approve major regulatory actions before they can become binding on the public.",0_0
"Fluorescents aren't all that bad. In fact, they've steadily gained market share in recent years. But from now on their popularity will rest not on consumer preferences, but on the force of law. If there's anything about fluorescents that involves the general absence of hope, it's that Congress has been able to mandate them with so little opposition.",0_0
"The IPCC AR4 report shows that over most of Australia precipitation increases and decreases are only shown in two-thirds of all the models, in other words, up to one third of the models might predict no change or the opposite result in exactly the same area.",0_0
"23 Different Health Reform Plans, and Not One Mentions Torts",0_0
"Solar activity explains all 6 well-known warming periods that have occurred during the Holocene, including the current warm period",2_1
"On September 11, 53 Senators (43 Republicans and 10 Democrats) signed a letter to Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), begging for a 60-day extension of the comment period for the ""Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Generating Units""also known as the Clean Power Plan (CPP). The original 120-day comment periodwhich is already longer than the traditional 60-day comment periodis coming to a close within the next 30 days (October 16).",0_0
troposphere unless you accept one single study and approach and discount a,0_0
"While the eagles are found across the country, populations are larger in the West. California's three priority projects alone are within 10 miles of 21 golden eagle territories, the closest 1,000 feet away.",0_0
China and India pose a great challenge to efforts to deal with the 85 percent of the task that lies beyond direct U.S. control. Their governments refuse to shoulder the costs of limiting GHG emissions. That decision is rational; their governments are largely free from domestic pressures to adopt controls.,4_2
"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
"""You're asking us to impose billions of dollars of cost on this economy and you won't answer the simple question of whether (temperature around the world is increasing faster than predicted) is accurate or not?"" Sessions responded.",0_0
"Global warming is not happening at anything like the predicted rate. The divergence between prediction and reality is now severe. Despite revisions in the terrestrial datasets calculated to cause an unmeasured increase in the warming rate of recent decades, the gulf between the exaggerated predictions in the models and the far less exciting observed reality is in danger of becoming an abyss.",5_1
"That is why the Eastern United States, Northern Europe and East Asia have experienced extraordinarily snowy and cold winters since the turn of this century. Most forecasts have failed to predict these colder winters, however, because the primary drivers in their models are the oceans, which have been warming even as winters have grown chillier. They have ignored the snow in Siberia.",5_1
"Glassman: Would you say, in general, that at this point the science is unsettled?",0_0
"""Monckton's data don't even agree with themselves""",0_0
"Ravelos team found evidence of similar amplified warming at the poles during the Pliocene Warm Period. Analysis of the sediment samples indicated that average sea surface temperatures in the Bering Sea were at least 5 degrees Celsius warmer than today, while average global temperatures were only 3 degrees warmer than today.",2_1
"So far Europe?s emissions trading scheme has cost consumers more than ?300bn. Massive amounts of green investments originally projected on the back of a high carbon price have been shelved and are no longer feasible. There can be little doubt Europe?s flagship climate policy has turned into an utter failure. In a realistic assessment of Europe?s policy shift, the International Energy Agency recently noted that ?climate change has quite frankly slipped to the backburner of policy priorities?.",0_0
UN environmental initiative is the Tea Party's new nightmare:,0_0
Homeopaths are facing a fight to defend their practice in Australia after the National Health and Medical Research Council flagged it might declare their work baseless and unethical.,0_0
China is particularly unamused. As an article in the Financial Times points out:,0_0
"From these early organizing struggles, Davis left two key tactical legacies. The first was an appreciation for the benefits of ideology and symbolism. All of 1199's 1960s-era campaigns were cloaked in the language of civil rights, an effective strategy, as most of the union's members were black and Puerto Rican. Its ""union power, soul power"" rhetoric helped 1199 cultivate high-profile liberal supporters such as Eleanor Roosevelt, U.S. Senators Herbert Lehman and Jacob Javits, Martin Luther King (who called 1199 ""my favorite union""), Thurgood Marshall, Malcolm X, the New York Times, and the then-left-leaning New York Post. Longtime Post columnist Murray Kempton once likened 1199 strikes to ""wars of national liberation.""",0_0
"As David Rothbard, the president and co-founder of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), a free market think tank, noted in the wake of Obama?s announcement, ?The President will have to bypass the law-making process and use executive orders and regulations? to achieve his goal of slashing emissions. ?To do so requires tortured readings of the Clean Air Act and other current laws.?",0_0
"Wellington : Moved from Bolton St to Buckle St (location uncertain) to Thorndon to Kelburn during 1906-1927, all with different aspects, exposures, elevations and urban heat island (UHI) effects. There were no nearby stations for comparisons.",0_0
"The real US temperature graph above (not to be confused with the fraudulent one generated by NCDC) shows pretty clearly that the US is on a 70 year warming and cooling cycle, and that there is no reason to believe global warming has affected the US in any way.",2_1
chapter with Kevin Trenberth and well be looking for Contributing Authors to help the,0_0
Congress did not design the Clean Air Act to be a framework for climate policy.,0_0
"on Thursday, May 27th, 2010 at 2:51 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Santorums strategy didnt work in New Hampshire. Romney outpaced all of his opponents among conservative voters, attracting 33 percent of those who describe themselves as very conservative, compared to Santorums 26 percent. Romney also won easily among evangelicals and tea party supporters",0_0
"War is the quintessential government activity, writes Higgs. Employment figures were stellar during World War II only because a number of men equivalent to 22 percent of the prewar labor force were drawn into the military, mostly by the draft, at below-market wages. Making- the critical distinction between wartime prosperity and genuine prosperity, he confirms that the economy did not actually recover fully until after World War II.",0_0
"Meacher: ""No, no, there is a name which is the Spanish word for a young child, what is it called?""",0_0
"The NSIDC maps show 7.5% more ice in 2010 than 2007, but their graph shows less than 3% difference.",1_1
Georgia Judge Blocks Coal Power Plant,0_0
"3. Critics of the bloody crossroads of science and politics are fond of recurring to Stephen Schneider's incautious statement: ""On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method. . . . On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings as well. . . . To avert the risk we need to get some broad based support, to capture the public imagination. That of course means getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up some scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements and little mention of any doubts one might have. . . . Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective, and being honest. I hope that means being both."" From Jonathan Schell, ""Our Fragile Earth,"" Discover (October 1989): 47.",0_0
"The yeah but statement after the boldfaced portion is, of course, speculation.",0_0
"It is time to follow Europe's lead. We may not be able to do anything about the weather or climate. But we can, and must, implement policies that ensure we have the technology, money, jobs and energy to adapt to whatever climate and weather changes might come.",0_0
"Ben, I am not supporting (or opposing) the foreign policy decisions made by Bush, Blair and their successors. For one thing, Im no expert in that field, and more broadly, it is impossible to do alternative scenarios. Its like those silly arguments that boil down to the famous headline in Honi Soit (the Sydney University student paper) Archduke Ferdinand found alive. World War 1 for nothing.",0_0
"Dr. Christopher J. Kobus, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Oakland University In essence, the jig is up. The whole thing is a fraud. And even the fraudsters that fudged data are admitting to temperature history that they used to say didnt happenPerhaps what has doomed the Climategate fraudsters the most was their brazenness in fudging the data",5_2
"Ocean acidification in response to rising atmospheric CO2 partial pressures is widely expected to reduce calcification by marine organisms. From the mid-Mesozoic, coccolithophores have been major calcium carbonate producers in the worlds oceans, today accounting for about a third of the total marine CaCO3 production. Here, we present laboratory evidence that calcification and net primary production in the coccolithophore species Emiliania huxleyi are significantly increased by high CO2 partial pressures. Field evidence from the deep ocean is consistent with these laboratory conclusions, indicating that over the past 220 years there has been a 40% increase in average coccolith mass. Our findings show that coccolithophores are already responding and will probably continue to respond to rising atmospheric CO2 partial pressures, which has important implications for biogeochemical modeling of future oceans and climate.",3_2
"// // The clocks above are central daylight savings time USA , just so you can figure out what the time will be in your own zone.",0_0
"""As President Obama and Congress brace to battle over how to reduce chronic annual budget deficits, Americans overwhelmingly say that in general they prefer cutting government spending to paying higher taxes, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.""",0_0
"Take the 2001 NRC report, for instance. Although media reports described it as supporting the theories of environmental advocates, its findings are actually quite delicately balanced: The NRC concluded that the slightly warmer temperatures of the last several decades ""are likely mostly due to human activities,"" but science ""cannot rule out that some significant part of these changes is also a reflection of natural variability"" (emphasis added). In fact, it is difficult to determine just how much warming is normal (or not) because ""the range of natural climate variability is known to be quite large.""",0_0
"Not only are the actors in Oregon who perform Shakespeare against modern seed technology, but so is Chuck Norris. Well, that settles it. Farmers depending upon genetically engineered seed might have had a chance against Dr. Oz and men who wear tights, but if you've lost Chuck, you are in deep trouble. According to the world's most famous Texas Ranger, GMOs are ""killing you softly"" and will be responsible for ""novel epidemics."" According to Iowa farmer Bill Horan, Norris didn't write the column in which those charges appeared, he just stared at ""words until they arranged themselves into sentences."" A society that cares what a martial artist conjures up about agriculture is already contaminated by an epidemic of foolishness.",0_0
"As of May 2011, the all-sector cost of electricity in California was 13.4 cents per kWh versus a national average of 9.936 percent higher than national average. A string of bankruptcies from solar energy plants show solar energy is not economical; winners are bankruptcy lawyers, and losers are taxpayers and electricity ratepayers.",4_4
19 Sep 2012 09:58 | by Nick Farrell in Rome,0_0
"At a time when the Republican presidential candidates are swiftly backing away from past moderate environmental positions, Newt Gingrich may be the only one with a book pending on the topic.",0_0
As Mann and Sanger try pick out the distinguishing features of Obama foreign,0_0
"To colleges, universities, and pension funds, we say: Demand and ensure open, robust debate on all these issues, before you vote on divestment. Allow no noisy disruption, walk-outs, or false claims of consensus. Compel divestment advocates to defend their positions, factually and respectfully. Protect the rights and aspirations of people everywhere to reliable, affordable electricity, better living standards and improved health. And instead of ""Global Divestment Day,"" host and honor ""Hydrocarbon Appreciation Day.""",0_0
The Age newspaper ran a series of daily feature articles during the week following the conference. Some excerpts are:,0_0
"The press release says it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century . The report fails to acknowledge that global temperatures have been at a standstill for the last 15 years, claiming rather that each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the Earths surface than any preceding decade since 1850 astatistical sleight of hand.",1_4
"15. Henderson made this recommendation at an AEI conference last November (see www.aei.org/eventsummary939), and more recently to an inquiry of the British House of Lords.",0_0
"rapid warming, due to CO2. The evidence from the last 1,000 years plus does not support the hypothesis. Previously , we examined the data from Antarctica. Now we look at the actual Arctic area data (see chart below) and find that like the Antarctic, the northern polar regions have temperature swings unrelated to the CO2 levels. From peak to valley, Arctic temperatures changed more than 1.6 degrees Celsius while CO2 levels remained fairly stable. (click on image to enlarge)",2_1
"According to the EIA, ""the United States is producing less electricity now than it did when Obama took office From 2008 to 2012, U.S. electricity production declined by 1.7%.""",0_0
"The courts ruling is somewhat of a shocker. Fuel economy standards clearly affect vehicle marketing and design in ways that run counter to consumer demand; that, in fact, is the very rationale for these government regulations. And so the notion that auto dealers cant litigate the legality of this impact on the products they sell seems strange. It also appears to run counter to the fuel-economy cases that CEI and Consumer Alert brought in 1989 thru 1995, challenging the federal CAFE standards on the grounds that they increased traffic deaths by restricting the availability of larger, more crashworthy cars.",4_1
"Mr. Martin's achievement is a reminder that, though we often underestimate the progress of a technology, sometimes we overestimate it. Back in the 1950s it seemed almost obvious that by the 21st century jet packs would be ubiquitous and routine aids to travel. They featured in sci-fi novels and comics and television series like ""Lost in Space."" A time-traveler who arrived from that era might be impressed by our Internet and mobile phones but amazed at our lack of working jet packs.",0_0
"One final thing, this IR map shows that area of Kent near Gravesend to be one of the warmer places around London, warmer even than the cityscape of London itself:",0_0
China's new five-year plan and a follow-up one for 2016-2020 will detail how to reach the intensity goal and shift to low-carbon growth. But it is struggling to meet an existing target to cut energy intensity by 20 percent from 2005-10.,0_0
"Major corporations profiting from Obama policies are bankrolling President Obama's official inaugural committee. While we know the names of the donors to Obama's inaugural, we don't know much more, because Obama is once again trampling his promises of transparency.",0_0
History Shows Carbon Caps a Failed Policy,4_2
"Watch Now: Flashback: Climate Depot's Morano on Fox News Mocking ""Climate Astrology': ""This is now akin to the predictions of Nostradamus or the Mayan calendar' Morano: ""There is no way anyone can falsify the global warming theory now because any weather event that happens ""proves' their case Man-made global warming has ceased to be a science, it is now the level of your daily horoscope' Gore did not warn us of extreme blizzards and record cold winters coming'",0_0
"This spectacular litany of misrule has elicited a mass public distrust of the nation's leaders. An April 2010 study found that ""Americans are more dissatisfied with the country's direction than at any time since the New York Times/CBS News poll began asking about the subject in the early 1990s."" Other polls show similar results. This is not a sustainable situation, and increasing conflict appears to be inevitable. With the productive class pressing for self-governance which its members see as both their inherent right and as necessary to their productivity and the progressive aristocracy threatened with the loss of everything, compromise is impossible.",0_0
"Based in Nairobi, UNEP was set up in 1972 as an office of the UN, but as a ""programme"" it does not have the scope of an agency.",0_0
"In the Assessment's 1200 horror-studded pages, almost everything that happens in our complex world sex, birth, disease, death, hunger, and wars, to name a few is somehow made worse by pernicious emissions of carbon dioxide and the joggling of surface average temperature by a mere two degrees.",0_0
There has not been a public debate about the causes of global warming and most of the public and our decision makers are not aware of the most basic salient facts.,0_0
"An insurmountable obstacle to AGW is that there is overwhelming evidence that CO2 does not move before temperature but at best as a response to it or arguably with no correlation at all; this is shown over all timespans: geological , 20thC and 21stC. So to argue as many do, that CO2 causes a temperature increase, is to argue against the data. That has never bothered AGW science so we have two new papers saying either CO2 rises before temperature as Shakum does, or that there is synchronicity between CO2 and temperature as Parrenin et al argues. Shakum is easily dismissed because he bases his conclusion on a massive cherry pick of the only period in the last 20,000 years where CO2 appears to rise before temperature .",2_3
"I frankly find it immensely sad that, not only real events, but also the work and knowledge of serious scientists, accumulated over many years, can apparently be swept aside at the whim of an algorithm. Computer models can have their value, but we surely need to keep an eye on whats happening in the real world.",5_1
Is there any limit to how large and powerful the reach of any government aims to be?,0_0
"Propane fracking is a new technique that has had limited use in the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Alberta and in a smaller number of test wells in states that include Texas, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Oklahoma and New Mexico. Its developer, Calary-based GasFrac, is seeking a U.S. patent.",0_0
"Oh, and what of those much-vaunted computer software models showing the world warming, the icecaps melting, and the world ending? The leaker kindly included the computer code used by the IPCC for its modeling, in which we find this interesting snippet:",5_1
New Engl J Med 2011;365:198-201.,0_0
"Risbey et al. (2014) admitted that the models they selected for having the proper sequence of ENSO events did so by chance, not out of skill, which undermines the intent of their paper. If the focus of the paper had been need for climate models to be in-phase with obseervations, they would have achieved their goal. But that wasnt the aim of the paper. The concluding sentence of the abstract claims that climate models have provided good estimates of 15-year trends, including for recent periods when, in fact, it was by pure chance that the cherry-picked models aligned with the real world. No skill involved. If models had any skill, the outputs of the models would be in-phase with observations.",5_1
"9. Demonize oil all you want, but coal is the real issue when it comes to carbon-dioxide emissions. Again, look at the numbers: Over the past decade, global coal use increased by 47 percent to about 71.4 million barrels of oil equivalent per day. During that same time period, oil use increased by 13 percent to about 87.3 million barrels per day. If Hansen, McKibben, and their allies want to protest projects that result in lots of carbon-dioxide emissions, they should be looking for coal mines and coal-fired generators, not oil pipelines. But protesting against coal means protesting against electricity generation, because most coal is used for that purpose. Over the past decade, electricity demand in Asia jumped by a whopping 85 percent. All over the world, people are turning on lights in their homes for the very first time. That trend will continue.",0_0
"So far, so good. However, the British arm of the climate establishment silently released an encyclical that revealed no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures from the beginning of 1997 until August this year.",1_4
Theres a media war going on here in Australia. At stake is free speech but the discussion about it is completely disguised and parades instead as a debate about balance in science reporting.,0_0
"Again, it should be noted that the NEMS and the HEM both include the changes in behavior and investment in energy-saving technology that firms and households will undertake to adjust to higher prices. So, the projected income and job losses are over and above any offsetting gains found in industries and services that provide low-carbon and no-carbon alternatives.",0_0
So what does the Met office say about how official weather stations should be sited? They have it right here:,0_0
"This private musing between two climate scientist colleagues first surfaced along with a whole raft of embarrassing material in 2011, when the anonymous Climategate leaker who calls himself ""Mr. FOIA"" leaked his second set of emails from Britain's disgraced Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia. Now, Mr. FOIA has emerged for a third time, sharing with the world not only his entire batch of 220,000 encrypted emails and documents but also, for the first time, his thoughts.",5_2
"I plotted the average difference between the Raw Data and the adjustment, along with the max and min values in Chart 4 .",0_0
How the regulating class is using bogus claims about climate change to entrench and extend their economic privileges and political control.,4_1
"In the two years since the big flash at Nature , further and better analysis confirms that what has been going on in Antarctica is pretty much what we knew to be happening all alongthat during the last 3-to-4 decade period of rapid build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide, the temperature has changed little at the continental scale, and instead is characterized by a complex pattern of regional warming and cooling. Such changes do not foreshadow a rapid loss of continental Antarctic ice nor an alarming Antarctic contribution to the rate of current and future sea level rise this century as a result of surface ice melt. In fact, measurements from a different satellite data set that begin in 1979 show that the extent of ice in the southern high latitudes is increasingly significantly .",1_1
"He would welcome Australia making a commitment to move to 100 per cent renewable energy but said it would be a mistake . I think the chances of that working and being at a price that the public would be willing to pay is not very good , he said.",0_0
16h. The ability of global climate models to model sea level rise for the next 50 years,0_0
"But as they say on TV, wait, theres more. The problem is, the surface loses energy in three waysas radiation, as sensible heat, and as the latent heat of evapotranspiration. The energy loss from the surface by radiation (per CERES) is ~ 400 watts per square metre (W/m2), and the loss by sensible and latent heat is ~ 100 W/m2, or a quarter of the radiation loss.",0_0
"They may be surprised to discover that Geologist Professor Peter Clift of Aberdeen University found that ???during a warm period 6,000 years ago, the Indus was a monster river, more powerful and more prone to flooding than today. Then, 4,000 years ago, as the climate cooled, a large part of it simply dried up. Deserts appeared where mighty torrents once flowed.??",2_1
"Seeing how poorly global SST anomalies track NINO3.4 SST anomalies in the 1940s, the upcoming modifications by the Hadley Centre could be a good thing. Maybe theyll try to clean up the data from 1910 to 1940 next.",0_0
"The Clinton administration played a role in the negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, but the former President refused to submit the treaty for approval by the Senate. The policy of the Bush Administration to continue to participate in negotiations under the UN's Framework Convention, but not to submit the Kyoto Protocol to the Senate is consistent with the Clinton record on climate change policy.",0_0
"By Larry Bell, Newsmax, Aug 10, 2015",0_0
"hyposthesis put out by IPCC and others, this report from 3 Naval Officers goes into the defense issues.",0_0
"So, according to my observations, sea levels in Moreton Bay have gone down about 300 mm over the last 67 years.",1_6
"In other words, you have to know all the current conditions of the atmosphere, everywhere within it, to predict what the atmosphere will be doing in the distant future. In view of the inevitable inaccuracy and incompleteness of weather observations, precise very-long-range forecasting would seem to be nonexistent, Lorenz concluded. So even if the molecules in the air all interacted nonrandomly, in a totally cause-and-effect (deterministic) manner, you still couldnt predict with certainty what they would do or what the weather would be.",5_1
"But theres a big disconnect from facts here. In reality, there has been no increase in the strength or frequency of landfall hurricanes in the worlds five main hurricane basins during the past 50-70 years; there has been no increase in the strength or frequency in tropical Atlantic hurricane development during the past 370 years; the U.S. is currently enjoying the longest period ever recorded without intense Category 3-5 hurricane landfall; there has been no trend since 1950 evidencing any increased frequency of strong (F3-F-5) U.S. tornadoes; there has been no increase in U.S. flood magnitudes over the past 85 years; and long-term sea level rise is not accelerating.",1_7
"Yes, it is very frenklat something more fullstndigt would it look s hr (this particular image is taken from here there are tskilliga be found through a bildskning on the web)",0_0
"Government climate scientists respond predictably by further tampering with temperature data, and claiming record warm sea surface temperatures.",5_2
"As can be seen, the satellite-based tempera tures have been steadily rising relative to the Conventional SST measurements, with a total linear Increase of 00:15 deg C over the 7 year period of record versus the Conventional SST measurements.",0_0
"Returning to the topic of the Sun, Gray isn't the only one. Roy Spencer recently decided that the evidence supporting cosmoclimatology got pretty strong but Richard Lindzen would still be more likely to say ""No"" than ""Yes"". Various people have different guesses what really matters and Richard Lindzen surely thinks that the internal, largely chaotic variability and ""long-term meteorology"" a natural extrapolation of the processes in which he's the world's leading expert is what dominates the climate change. Each of these people may construct a model that at least subjectively seems consistent enough with the observed data and more satisfactory than the models of the other folks, whether they're LFCSes or not.",0_0
"The Christian Science Monitor joins the NYTimes, WSJ, IBD and Rollingstone Magazine and comes out today against corn ethanol, the ""state religion"": Corn. There's nothing like eating it right off the cob at a picnic. It's also great as flakes, fritters, or a muffin. And it's feed for livestock. But there's one thing corn should not be: A solution for global warming or a way to reduce America's dependency on foreign oil. To take corn out of cereal bowls and put it into our gas tanks isn't an answer to global warming.",0_0
"""My column today contrasts President Obama's State of the Union hype about ""innovation"" and ""investment"" in education with the abysmal failures of massive federal spending on America's schools. The White House love to talk about global ""competitiveness,"" but refuse to support competition in our government-run K-12 schools monopoly. ""Sputnik moment"" or Sputter-nik moment?""",0_0
"The underlying causes of these constant switches from warm to cold cycles, and back again, remain a long way from being understood.",5_1
"Nor, as Idsos father Dr. Sherwood Idso points out, is there any doubt in the scientific community that the temperature increase associated with an interglacial period precedes an increase in carbon dioxide concentrations. Ice core data shows this relationship quite clearly and Al Gores misrepresentation of this fact, by skewing data in An Inconvenient Truth to make it seem that carbon dioxide concentrations have historically caused, rather than followed, temperature changes is one of the more glaring errors in his film.",2_3
"Early DOE loan-guarantee failures likely will be joined by later failures, despite a variety of special government favors keeping the ethanol, wind power, and on-grid solar power markets active.",4_4
"That Ring is ""libertarian Republicanism."" If only conservatives were more tolerant on social issues and less supportive of U.S. military involvement overseas, Paul argues, they could win elections in blue states and nationwide. ""I don't think we need to dilute our message of low taxes, less regulation, and balanced budgets to win in California,"" he recently said at the Reagan Library.",0_0
"CEI: In the mid-1990's, a nativist, anti-immigrant strain in the Republican Party, led by Pete Wilson and Pat Buchanan and Lamar Smith and Alan Simpson, garnered a lot of attention. What has happened to the issue?",0_0
"Keep in mind, though, that the discontinuity also exists in COADS and Hadley Centres Marine Air Temperature data (as does the appearance of an El Nino beforehand) and in the COADS Cloud Cover and Wind Speed data.",0_0
"The Winrock study is not the first to tackle the question of how much carbon is emitted from tropical deforestation. Researchers have been studying the land-use component of the global carbon cycle since the early 1980s, when a tabular bookkeeping model was developed that aggregates data and calculations over large geographic regions. This model uses broad assumptions about forest carbon stocks as well as national forest data collected by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Virtually all published estimates of carbon emissions from land-use change rely on this model.",0_0
Ornithologist and fgelmlaren Lars Jonsson (Kittocks board member of the Stockholm Initiative) was invited by virtue of his konstnrskap from talking about wind power and the countryside. I asked Lars to record their experiences from the conference fr then be able to share them. Here below follows the his tale. Anyone who wants to read more about Lars konstnrskap can then go out on his website: http://www.larsjonsson.se/frameset1.htm,0_0
"2) I have indicated which sites are classified as rural by GISS (i.e. <10000 population). Out of the three sites that report higher temperatures in 2012, only one is rural.",0_0
"It is curious to note that guests of the BBC broadcast rice have only up to a certain point after which one of them has wittily said Lysenko, with the personality and attitudes, would have a secure career in science modern British (mp3: 24m15s) .",0_0
On 11-12 May genomfrdes Conference Everyone wind Kalmar: http://www.nationellavind2011.se/,0_0
"Iversen et al . conclude that ""the greater residence time of C in deeper soil indicates that inputs from deep roots under elevated CO 2 may increase the potential for long-term storage of C and N in forested ecosystems,"" adding that ""this finding suggests greater C accrual in elevated CO 2 compared with ambient CO 2 during the experiment, consistent with the conclusion of a meta-analysis that indicated increased ecosystem C storage under elevated CO 2 (Luo et al ., 2006),"" all of which observations presage, in their words, ""the potential of future forests to store C and mitigate some portion of rising atmospheric CO 2 ,"" as they state in the concluding sentence of their report.",3_1
"Among the more revealing tidbits is a remark scolding a scientist for being honest about the weakness of aerosol forcing data: ""We clearly cannot use aerosol forcing as the trigger of our smoking gun, and then make a generalized appeal to uncertainty to exclude these effects from the forward-looking modeling analysis.""",0_0
"Sorry, the apparent break is caused by our 20+ kilometers long cross-country skiing trip across the Brdy Hills, a few miles from the U.S. radar base. We started at Chynn . Blogging will resume soon. Progress in neuroscience A simple scheme of female thinking has been found.",0_0
"Utz Tillmann,Energy Intensive Industries of Germany, quoted in German Industry Issues Stark Warning Ahead of EU Climate Summit , EurActiv , October 22, 2014.",0_0
"That project, code-named Project Nina, has been put off until sometime in 2013.",0_0
"Nowra News, sport and weather | South Coast Register",0_0
"But the big news, Watson, is missing from our papers expanding sea-ice in Antarctica . Is this why southern Australia has had its chilliest July in almost two decades and first snow in Hobart since 1986?",1_1
"???the annual mean temperature in the mid-thirteenth century was 0.9 degree C higher, the monthly mean January temperature was 0.6 degree C higher and the mean extreme minimum temperature was probably 3.5 degree C higher than at present??",2_1
"Congress, Ready to Drive a Stake Through the Climate Vampire's Heart",0_0
"CO2 has increased by 10% over the last 18 years, with no warming. This complete lack of correlation has convinced climate experts that CO2 is even more dangerous than they previously believed.",2_3
"As Fox report, Chinas latest ploy is to ignore current emissions and focus on cumulative emissions since the start of the Industrial Revolution. China Daily , for instance, state:",0_0
"Science is supposed to be about the pursuit of knowledge: challenging hypotheses, testing and validating new theories, and being skeptical until a theory can be validated or falsified. As Ted Koppel admonished Al Gore during an interview in the early ""90s:",0_0
"In keeping with the total and complete stubbornness of the paleoclimate community, they use the most famous series of Mann et al 2008: the contaminated Korttajarvi sediments, the problems with which are well known in skeptic blogs and which were reported in a comment at PNAS by Ross and I at the time. The original author, Mia Tiljander, warned against use of the modern portion of this data, as the sediments had been contaminated by modern bridgebuilding and farming. Although the defects of this series as a proxy are well known to readers of skeptical blogs, peer reviewers at Nature were obviously untroubled by the inclusion of this proxy in a temperature reconstruction.",5_1
"Without tipping into hysteria? Here are two versions of the front cover of the book,",0_0
"It should have been clear to experts that the scenario was pure nonsense, and not because so much icein this region could ever melt in just 25 years, but also because the Himalayan glacier area given in the IPCC report was completely false. It is only 33,000 square kilometers and not a grotesque 500,000.",5_2
"AGU response implicitly supports Grijalva (D-Ariz.) A failure of leadership by Margaret Leinen President, AGU",0_0
Evidence for cosmic ray modulation in temperature records from the South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly region,2_1
"""Obesity is, in truth, among our least tractable public-health problems.""",0_0
"According to Greenwire (May 5, 2011), Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-Pennsylvania), chairman of the House Agriculture Committee's subcommittee on conservation, energy, and forestry, the Forest Service in engaging in ""mission creep"" by requiring the cataloguing of invertebrate species and incorporation climate change language in the planning rule. Thompson fears this will unleash litigation that will tie up the Forest Service for years.",0_0
"Lord Christopher Monckton, Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, has been a leader of CFACT's delegations to numerous UN summits. He has held positions with the British press and in government, as a press officer at the Conservative Central Office and as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's policy adviser. Monckton advised Thatcher on technical issues such as warship hydrodynamics, psephological modeling; embryological research, hydrogeology, public-service investment analysis, public welfare modeling, and epidemiological analysis. He is author of a detailed analysis and summary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes's Fourth Assessment Report.",0_0
"4. Rise in global temperature has not been induced by increase to anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide. More than 80% of the anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide has been since 1940, and the increase to the emissions has been at a compound rate of ~0.4% p.a. throughout that time. But that time has exhibited 40 years of cooling with only 28 years of warming, and global temperature is now similar to that of 1940.",2_3
"China already the top consumer will drive two-thirds of the growth in global coal use this decade. Half of Chinas power generation capacity to be built between 2012 and 2020 will be coal-fired, said Woodmac.",0_0
Because the laws of thermodynamics and physics that govern our system says so.,0_0
"But right now, the ordinary people of the world have greater liberty and more material benefits then they've ever had at any time since the beginning of civilization.",0_0
"But whatever it is, Cap and Trade is not a jobs program. This should be obvious. If the Obama Administration argued that we should further complicate the tax code, so as to create more jobs for lawyers and accountants, they would be laughed out of the room. The fact that people must work harder to comply with new regulations is a cost of such policies, not a benefit.",0_0
"For some issues, the Sanger and Mann books complement one another by offering different pieces of the",0_0
"Since the experts made this warning, Antarctica sea ice area has steadily increased to record highs.",1_1
"The Governor of the Windward Islands has now sent out an appeal to the neighboring islands stating the facts, and asking that roots, slips, and seeds of potatoes, cassava, yams, peas, and other economic plants be forwarded as soon as possible to enable cultivation to be restored. His Excellency declares in a brief but significant descriptive paragraph that the whole aspect of the landscape has been changed. Instead of the pervading green common to all tropical prospects, it is now a uniform dirty brown color, only relieved by long white polesthe decapitated columns of palm and cocoanut trees. Nothing in the way of vegetation escaped the sweep of the wind and the subsequent scouring out by the deluge of water, and the island is practically a desert.",0_0
"Before long, Oslo had receded from memory, becoming part of the history that oppresses rather than liberates the Middle East.",0_0
"Now that was either some really bad editing of the programme for the trailer (I sincerely hope so) or some really bad physics. (I sincerely hope not.) I will explain where the phases of the Moon come from later although most readers know the reason and most of those who don't have understood it from the picture above. But at this moment, let me mention that the unexpected answer wasn't due to bad editing. He did say it and the January 28th, 2012 trailer above actually wasn't the first time when he did. See a discussion at Swanson's blog .",0_0
Australias antarctic runway melting | Donnybrook-Bridgetown Mail,0_0
"Do these dumb awards matter? They bring in new traffic, and help bloggers tick credibility boxes with the media and with donors. So yes. If you bother (I know its a chore) it is a way to say thanks and to put your favourite sites further up the rankings lists. Think of it as a way to alert more people to the sites you feel deserve more attention. Its free advertising for them. You might have a bit more sway if you also tick the box Id like to be on the panel of voters who choose the finalists.",0_0
"""Two top Federal Reserve officials argued for further aggressive action by the central bank, with one saying the economy needs ""much more"" help and the other pointing to Japan's painful lessons.""",0_0
"""It's been almost a year since we discovered one of the surprises in ObamaCare that Nancy Pelosi promised we'd find once we passed the bill a new federal law requiring all restaurant chains of 20 or more locations to put calorie counts on its menus. The mandate will creates a huge cost burden for restaurants not just in testing and printing costs for initial compliance, but every time the restaurant wants to add a new item to its repertoire. The extra cost will be worth it, say many, because it will change American eating habits once the benighted consumers realize the high amount of calories they consume when eating outside the home.""Economics:",0_0
Did Congress Intend for EPA to Regulate CO2 through the Clean Air Act?,0_0
"In February of 1972 earth-orbiting artificial satellites revealed the existence of a greatlyincreased area of the snow and ice cover of the north polar cap as compared to all previous years of space age observations. Some scientists believe that this may have presaged the onset of the dramatic climate anomalies of 1972 that brought far-reaching adversities to the worlds peoples. Moreover, there is mounting evidence that the bad climate of 1972 may be the forerunner of a long series of less favorable agricultural crop years that lie aheadfor most world societies. Thus widespread food shortages threaten just at the same time that world populations are growing to new highs. Indeed, less favorable climate may be the new global norm. The Earth may have entered a new little ice age",1_2
"The so-called Lochner-era decisions of the Supreme Court relied on just that distinction to enforce vigorously the antitrust laws against cartels while striking down mandatory collective bargaining and minimum wage laws for their manifestly anticompetitive efforts. The rejection of that earlier line of jurisprudence has led to the massive expansion of government regulation over labor markets in the form of the National Labor Relations Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act, which have had exactly the effect of creating monopoly institutions and imposing entry barriers at the bottom end of the labor market, hurting the workers with the most limited skills.",0_0
"I also need to emphasize that there is no ""inevitable"" contradiction between quantum mechanics and special relativity. In fact, quantum field theory discussed above is the simplest class of theories or framework (string theory is the only other framework with this property that we know) that perfectly respects the principles of special relativity and perfectly respects the postulates of quantum mechanics, too.",0_0
"""""During the 20th century, Russia seriously suffered from another ideology that came from Europe.... Not only Russia, but the whole world suffered,' he said, referring to Marxism.""",0_0
"Alarmists are reluctant to admit that the global surface temperature has not increased for 16 years, despite CO2 emissions rising far more than predicted. They wave this inconvenient truth away with the non-sequitur that this decade is the hottest since records began, so the world is still warming. If you climb a hill and reach a flat plateau you are higher than before - but the plateau is flat, not rising. When cornered, global warming alarmists assert that the current pause is simply the result of unspecified 'natural variations'. That implies that the pronounced warming over the previous 25 years may have been amplified by 'natural variations' in the other direction. In which case, the likely temperature rise for a given increase in CO2 may be less than previously estimated or required to produce the threatened doom.",1_4
"Again, we presented the modeled energy imbalances to show the similarities in the curves, but our primary focus is the modeled TOA energy imbalances in absolute form.",0_0
"This scientific account generates the imperatives that we, in this perilous world, are supposed to respond to if we want to be ethical, that is. But, as Garvey goes on to point out, scientific facts are a necessary part of reflection on climate change, but they are nothing near the whole of it. The moral philosopher is on hand to help us navigate the awkward journey, beset by doom, catastrophe, and other unimaginable horrors, toward a future of mere survival",0_0
"At this point, it seems like it is going to be difficult to make the case for a very active hurricane season.",0_0
"""The Federal Trade Commission is reviewing social networking company Twitter and its dealings with at least one company that makes software designed to interact with the service, according to media reports.""",0_0
"Eugene Trisko, United Mine Workers Association.",0_0
"As a cross check, I looked at the temperature records at four nearby sites, including one at Heathrow itself. All sites were within 7 miles of Heathrow, and they all showed highs of between 95.0 and 95.2F (35.0 and 35.1C), suggesting that the Heathrow temperature was both biased high by its siting and affected by an artificial spike.",5_1
The model simulations of outgoing longwave radiation in absolute form are shown in Figure 8. They too show a massive spread in simulated values. The 10 watts/m^2 difference during our base period indicates there is little agreement among the models on how much infrared radiation is presently being emitted by Earth to space.,0_0
"Last summer, when Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to the Obama administration's plan to renew face-to-face negotiations without preconditions, most opinion makers reacted with deep skepticism. They and most Middle East experts quickly lined up to dub the negotiations a frivolous confrontation between an Israeli leader who wants no agreement and a Palestinian leader too weak to get one.",0_0
"The polar bear population may be near the historic high at 20 to 25,000 animals. In the 1950s and 60s, the population may have been as low as 5,000. Sea-ice extent is cyclical. Bears have withstood many cycles of sea-ice shrinking and growing, including previous interglacials. The polar bear population is in no danger.",3_2
The slowdown in rising temperatures over the past 15 years goes from being unexplained to overexplained.,1_4
"The annual trend of the departures as shown below indicates a flat or slightly cooling trend, and not global warming at all. Yes they fluctuate but that does not mean the trend is warming.",1_2
"But consider a much larger issue. Whatever our individual political orientations or climate views, let?s all recognize that it is a very big deal indeed when key professionals entrusted with important science and reporting responsibilities betray our trust. Think about government policy impacts involving many billions of dollars that are influenced by false premises, including regulatory standards and budgets attached to energy, environmental, science and education programs. Try to imagine but a few of the sweeping impacts of bad science upon our national economy and daily lives.",0_0
"no one thinks that, in the short term, a world cooled by engineering would be preferable to one cooled by a reduction in carbon dioxide levels. And no one thinks that, as yet, we know enough to embark on any sort of large-scale engineering. Models of geoengineering's benefits need to be a lot more accurate than models of the harm that will be done in its absence. As Caldeira puts it, if you can be no more precise about the chances of harm under the status quo than to give them as 50%, that's still something to worry about. But if a proposed intervention has a 50-50 chance of doing good or harm, that's something to avoid.",0_0
12 of the hottest years in recorded history came in the last 15 years a period when there has been no trend global warming.,1_4
"I love my country, said Mr. Provini, chief executive of 10-employee Natcore Technology in Red Bank, N.J. It makes me crazy that Ive got countries that want to do things with us, but not here. Is this the best proof he has that we are losing 'green jobs' due to a country that has also 'failed to take action?'",0_0
"Washington, D.C., February 2, 2005President Bush's State of the Union address tonight will expound his vision of an ""Ownership Society,"" in which all Americans become invested in their own future success and prosperity. White House observers are familiar with the President's emphasis on tax and Social Security reform as a means of empowering average Americans.",0_0
"FULL PUBLIC consultation on fracking shale gas is needed so the planning process can move forward in an open and transparent way, according to the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health for Northern Ireland.",0_0
"The collapse of the global warming hoax has warmists running scared, and some are trying to play the ???uncertainty card?? . Busted:",5_2
"People who fret over headlines such as ""World's oil problems are only going to get worse"" must be growing downright panicky over recent news reporting on oil reserves.",0_0
"Yes, it would be premature to draw a conclusion (that global warming is not happening) based on current data (that global temps are lower today than in 1998). That??s what we foolish mortals do. Government scientists, and the functionaries and bureaucrats they serve, however, know better.",1_4
"As I explain today on MasterResource.Org, the free-market energy blog, Train ignores the obvious:",0_0
"The global temperature-monitoring network consists of 517 weather stations. But each reading is only a tiny dot on the big world map, and it has to be extrapolated to the entire region with the help of supercomputers. Besides, there are still many blind spots, the largest being the Arctic, where there are only about 20 measuring stations to cover a vast area. Climatologists refer to the problem as the ""Arctic hole.""",5_1
It is no secret that the global warming scare has become a cash cow for many groups and individuals. Green groups use the issue to convince contributors to give larger donations and scientists of many disciplines try to make their work relevant to global warming in order to get a share of the federal government's yearly $2 billion global warming giveaway.,5_2
"This is precisely the kind of government-as-usual our nation can no longer afford: politicians and bureaucrats deciding which energy technologies, industries and companies win and which ones lose on the basis of politics, rather than science, economics, technology or common sense.",0_0
"Every thinking person knows that these charts are bogus, using questionable data and compressing axes like crazy to get the graph that they want. After doctoring the data and its presentation, these latter-day charlatans sell their message of fear to the gullible.",0_0
"The former wrote in Spain's leading paper, El Mundo, slamming the research paper. However, he did not critique the paper itself he agreed with its conclusion. He was furious only that the study was publicized. By revealing the truth about Spain's increasingly mythologized ""green jobs"" and renewable energy experience, the revealed study threatened the prospects for Spain's companies to be bailed out by the U.S. repeating these mistakes.",0_0
"3. Loss of European export markets for African flowers and vegetables. This is a big stick wielded by the European market that bans imports of biotech vegetables. However, the earnings from bigger and more stable biotech crops promise to dwarf the earnings from the few flowers and vegetable imports the EU allows under their present restrictions.",0_0
"Can you see the issue? When projected back to pre-industrial CO2 levels, these future forecasts imply that we should have seen 2,3,4 or more degrees of warming over the last century, and even the flawed surface temperature records we are discussing with a number of upwards biases and questionable adjustments only shows about 0.6C.",5_1
"This joint lecture covered a lot of ground, but the high point or peak was the revelation, graphically documented by Professor Legates, that all major climate models both overestimate and underestimate rainfall by as much as 60 inches per year over huge portions of the globe. Rainfall affects the mass balance, energy balance, and water balance of the climate system. Rain (or the absence thereof) is what most people mean by ""weather."" If the models can't get rainfall right, why should we trust them to get anything else right?",5_1
But the climate scientists at CRU and elsewhere have denied McIntyre's information requests for yearsPhil Jones even emailed that he'd destroy the data rather than let McIntyre have it.,5_2
"TransCanada Corp. (TRP)s Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry oil from landlocked Alberta to the U.S. Gulf Coast, is a no-brainer that would create jobs and bolster the economy, former President George W. Bush said.",4_5
We did not advance our argument about asymmetric polarization lightly. We had worked closely with members of both parties and are not unaware of the issues and divisions inside the Democratic Party. But we had seen the GOP go from a problem-solving center-right party to a problem-solving very conservative party and then evolve into an obstructionist party intent on appeasing extreme forces inside and outside Congress.,0_0
"And 'now so' strange that even someone of his party openly defend him, which is no longer 'news to know that this or that policy of Blair did not bring the desired results, or that some ministers have made strong voice without being obsequious Toppo against those who guide the Labour for more than ten years .The only news that really interested and that Blair has announced to leave lincarico before the next elections (2009 and 2010), but has not stated exactly when, leaving his colleague / partner / rival Gordon Brown to bake a little longer in the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer, the British super minister for the economy and the Treasury.",0_0
Arctic Sea Ice Extent Unchanged For Several Days,1_1
"As I discussed in my February 11 column, passage of the international Kyoto Protocol plus proposed carbon cap-and-trade legislation in the U.S. promised a windfall profit bonanza for renewable energy subsidy seekers and their offset credit trading cronies. Al Gore's famous and feverish 1988 congressional hearings trumpeting global warming danger, along with his frightening An Inconvenient Truth science fiction movie set the stage for a media thriller.",0_0
"UPDATE: I forgot to mention, heres an analysis by Willis Eschenbach of the dubious techniques used in the paper:",0_0
breath of physical processes relevant to even a narrow area of focus.,0_0
Corals Seeking Shelter from the Storm of Acidification & Bleaching (14 January 2015),0_0
"Julia A. Seymour, Networks do 92 climate change stories; fail to mention lull in warming in all 92 times, mrc.org/bias, June 25, 2013",0_0
"Climate change? Not only is global warming in some sort of pause ( though hardly an excuse for inaction), there are some exciting advances being made in zero carbon energy sources such as solar and nuclear. (Also would have like to have a heard a calm analysis of the threats from emerging technologies. And not a single word about zombies, c'mon!) Then again, maybe the doom-and-gloomers will be proven correct. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.",0_0
"""We believe a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence,"" David said. ""We also find that allowing resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the arrest.""",0_0
"Vikings built homes, grew crops and raised cattle in Greenland between 950 and 1300, before they were frozen out by the Little Ice Age and encroaching pack ice and glaciers. Many warm periods followed, marked by open seas and minimal southward extent of Arctic sea ice, as noted in ships logs and discussed in scientific papers by Torgny Vinje and other experts. But warm periods of 1690-1710, 1750-1780 and 1918-1940, for instance, were often preceded and followed by colder temperatures, severe ice conditions and maximum southward ice packs, as during 1630-1660 and 1790-1830.",2_1
"Claiming that my comments were an intemperate response to his results posted 4 days later might, in some circles, also be considered unfair.",0_0
"One of the interesting aspects of the current temperature standstill is that it persists despite several El Ninos and La Ninas .Since 2006 the influence of these events has been more pronounced in satellite data; El Ninos in 2007 and 2009-10, La Ninas in 2008, 20102012. These events have increased the noise of the global temperature data in recent years.",1_4
I think NASA is using this huge area of super-heated water to bolster its deceptive ???warmest year on record?? pronouncements.,5_2
Differences in vulnerability and exposure arise from non-climatic factors and from multidimensional inequalities often produced by uneven development processes.,0_0
"I am not suggesting that the lunatics or extremists have won. Most Republicans in the Senate are not, to use John McCain's term, ""wacko birds,"" and most Republicans in office would at least privately cringe at some of the wild ideas and extreme views. At the same time, the ""establishment"" is fighting back, pouring resources into primaries to protect their preferred candidates, and we are seeing the rise of a new and encouraging movement among conservative intellectualsdubbed ""Reformicons"" by E.J. Dionneto come up with a new set of ideas and policy prescriptions to redefine the ideology and the party in a positive way.",0_0
"Cuccinelli's ruling is actually quite narrow. Law enforcement can inquire about immigration status at a lawful stop but can only arrest suspects who have committed a criminal violation of the immigration laws. It is important to recognize that, contrary to popular belief, unlawfully residing in the U.S. is not a crime. It is a civil offense and Virginia law enforcement agents, unless they are cooperating with federal immigration officials, cannot arrest people for civil violations.",0_0
"thinkers, William Galstonall along the same lines. Put aside your plans,",0_0
"We often hear the excuse for Chinas high emissions that they are a large country. In fact, latest emissions from the Global Carbon Project show that in 2013 Chinas per capita emissions have actually exceeded the EUs for the first time, 7.2 tonnes per head compared to the EUs 6.8.",0_0
I?d like to take you through a little thought experiment.,0_0
"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LuboMotlsReferenceFrame/~3/0-EbPcv09w0/el-nino-is-strengthening.html Incidentally, be sure that 2009 can no longer set the new warmth record, regardless of your preferred source of the global mean temperature data. Gaia would need temperatures warmer by something like 0.5 C than today to last from tomorrow till the end of the year (in average) which is unlikely. According to the satellites, it will be the 11th year that will have failed to improve the record reading. However, 2009 will be warmer than 2008 and probably other recent cooler years.",0_0
"There are several other products that have a crucial link to the tropical forests. One is chewing gum which comes from the chicle tree. Another is rubber which comes from rubber trees and is used for commercial and industrial purposes around the world including balloons, erasers, globes, tires, hoses and shoes. Yet another is coffee which comes ""courtesy of a bush in Ethiopia's forest. Being the ancestral source of all coffee plantations throughout the tropics, this wild bush continues to supply germplasm material to boost coffee productivity and to resist diseases."" The other is chocolate which ""originally derives from the cocoa tree native to western Amazonia and the Pacific coast of Ecuador."" (Lessons, Norman Myers, pp. 16-18)",0_0
"Abbey actually stopped performing because one fan, a man in his 60s, started following her from mall to mall, sending her creepy cartoon drawings of the two of them together, on their wedding day, with Abbey's eyes bleeding ""because she was so happy"". Somehow, he found her parents' house and would camp out in the bushes waiting for her to return from her gigs. He hid under her tour van once and waited there for hours in the hot parking lot one summer, just so he could grab her leg when the door opened and she stepped up into the back.",0_0
"* Warming temperatures have brought malaria to Nairobi, Kenya, killing little children. Fact: Nairobi has always had malaria, and anti-insecticide policies promoted by Gore have helped perpetuate the problem.",0_0
It is about as likely as not that most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is due to the observed increase in anthropogenic GHG concentrations.,0_0
"I did not have that problem since this was part of my beat. In interviews with the particular scientists (including Hansen) what I observed was that they were heavy on the ideology, yet not sure if it was strong enough because the global weather data in the late 1980s did not strongly support their case that the world was warming because of man.",0_0
"Gaertner explains how the idea of precautionary principle dates back to Cold War era. At that time it was used to prop up policies and investments that were perhaps inefficient, but they were justified to help the free West survive a dangerous Soviet threat. Nowadays this logic is mis-applied by eco-nihilists to hypothetical dangers, and because it carries costs and risks that can harm humanity, the world faces a strong threat from the use of this rigorously stringent principle.",0_0
"The story says that Watson is ""highly regarded as an atmospheric chemist by many climate scientists."" In reality Watson is a career bureaucrat who hasn't been a working scientist for decades. The story also characterizes Watson as an ""outspoken advocate of the idea that human actions - mainly burning oil and coal - are contributing to global warming and must be changed to avert environmental upheavals.""",0_0
"Yesterday, the boss addressed an article in a recent edition of The Economist reporting wishing for the downfall of The Heartland Institute . Definitely check it out especially for the part in which the esteemed international publication acknowledged Heartland s important and influential position in the climate debate.",0_0
"Gore refuses to give up his private jets, limousines and carbon-intensive lifestyle. He refuses to correct any of the errors in his movie, lectures or testimony. He just wants us to give up our living standards.",5_2
"The case of David Henderson and Ian Castles is a good example. Henderson, the former chief economist of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and Castles, the former head of the Australian Statistical Bureau, noticed two years ago a serious methodological anomaly in the IPCC's 100-year greenhouse-gas emission forecasts that are the primary input to computer climate models. Henderson and Castles made a compelling argument that the forecasts were unrealistically high. Everyone recalls the first day of computer-science class: garbage in, garbage out. If future greenhouse-gas emissions are badly overestimated, then even a perfect computer model will spit out a false temperature prediction. Since Henderson and Castles's initial critique, the IPCC's forecasts have been subject to withering criticisms from dozens of other reputable economists, including a number of climate alarmists who, to their credit, argue that this crucial question should be gotten right.",5_1
"2) Yeah, it wasnt so much 1998 and all that that I was concerned about, used to dealing with that, but the possibility that we might be going through a longer 10 year period of relatively stable temperatures beyond what you might expect from La Nina etc. Speculation, but if I see this as a possibility then others might also. Anyway, Ill maybe cut the last few points off the filtered curve before I give the talk again as thats trending down as a result of the end effects and the recent cold-ish years. http://bit.ly/ajuqdN",1_4
"Must See Video: ""Global warming panic explained' ""How can you disprove global warming? You can't, that's how you know it's true.'",0_0
"This is about free speech. What is happening to Matt and Janet is a warning to all of us. Speak against the Establishment and face targeted ruin. The DEC admit they didnt follow procedure, and have treated the Thompsons unfairly. Why wont they fix their mistake?",0_0
Climate history: Basic science and politics under Thatcher,0_0
"In fact, we cannot even build wind and solar facilities without coal and petroleum to mine, smelt, manufacture and transport materials for turbines, panels and transmission lines. Analysts calculate that it takes 150 tons of coal and coal-equivalent to build, transport and install one onshore turbine, and 250 tons for a single offshore turbine. We also need fossil fuels to build and operate backup power units that also require vast amounts of land, cement, steel, copper and other materials. This is hardly sustainable .",4_4
"The article mentions increased surface temperatures 5-7 degrees but doesnt mention the cold snap resulting in darn near freezing the Great Lakes over. It also mentions increases in swimmers itch, from duck feces. Is that a result of an increasing duck and goose population or climate change?",1_3
"A recent paper published in the Hydrological Sciences Journal examines precipitation in southern China from 1956-2000 and finds precipitation has becomeboth less extreme and less variable. Contrary to claims of climate alarmists, the paper adds to many others demonstrating that global warming decreases extreme weather including extreme precipitation, floods, droughts, and cyclone activity.",1_7
"Third, the federal government should impose a price on carbon that is fully rebated to taxpayers on a per capita basis. This would, in effect, shift the incidence of federal taxes away from income and labor and onto energy consumption and offset some of the potential regressivity of a carbon tax. For conservatives who have long supported shifting from an income tax to a sales or consumption tax, and oppose increasing the federal tax burden, this should be a no brainer. If fully rebated, there is no need to worry about whether the government will put the resulting revenues to good use, but the tax would provide a significant incentive to reduce carbon energy use. Further, a carbon tax would be more transparent and less vulnerable to rent-seeking and special interest mischief than equivalent cap-and-trade schemes and would also be easier to account for within the global trading system.",0_0
"The price of electricity. It has soared: largely to pay for gold-plating the grid after decades of underinvestment, and to meet state and federal renewable energy targets. But those price rises handed Abbott a powerful weapon against Julia Gillards great big new tax and besides, she had lied about it, hadnt she?",4_1
"One final noteand it's a positive thought that Republicans should take to heart. Political parties, like economies, are cyclic in nature. They rise and falland, if they're smart, learn to adapt to the changing times. Democrats found themselves in a similar valley in January 1989 after the spectacular failure that was the Dukakis campaign. The party soon became embroiled in a fight over a new direction and a new leader. Four years later, it was the Republicans' turn to agonize. Bill Clinton had just won thirtytwo states; his party controlled both chambers of Congress. Democrats, for that matter, controlled all of Washington. Two years later, the GOP reclaimed fifty-four House seats and eight Senate seats.",0_0
"Kill kill kill kill kill. Jim Fedako (who wrote this piece; send him email ) is a business analyst and homeschooling father of seven who lives in Lewis Center, OH.",0_0
"Global warming which has been the subject of so many discussions in recent years, may give way to global cooling. According to scientists from the Pulkovo Observatory in St.Petersburg, solar activity is waning, so the average yearly temperature will begin to decline as well. Scientists from Britain and the US chime in saying that forecasts for global cooling are far from groundless. Some experts warn that a change in the climate may affect the ambitious projects for the exploration of the Arctic that have been launched by many countries.",1_2
"When you live in a Global Environmental Insane Asylum, you are not likely to hear or read the truth, but you can arrive at it using simple logic. We know instinctively that humans do not control the waves of our huge oceans, nor the vast tectonic plates beneath our feet, the eruptions of volcanoes, the jet stream, cloud formation, or any of the elements of the weather we experience, such as thunder, lightning, and other acts of nature.",0_0
"$11,000 for a minor scrape on the rear panel, including a $155 charge to ensure battery remains charged during the repair",0_0
"Ken G. Glozer, ""Time for the Sun to Set on the Tennessee Valley Authority,"" Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2904, May 5, 2014, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/05/time-for-the-sun-to-set-on-the-tennessee-valley-authority.",0_0
My thanks to Judith Curry for suggesting papers that helped me better understand this topic and to Willis Eschenbach for taking a look at a draft of this post.,0_0
"CEI, a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group founded in 1984, is dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government.",0_0
"Fracking and the natural gas it produces have been heralded by many experts as reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, primarily because burning natural gas emits half as much carbon dioxide (CO2) per BtU of energy produced than burning coal. Some life-cycle estimates suggest burning natural gas emits 43 percent less CO2 per BtU than the burning of coal.",0_0
"By Anthony Watts, WUWT, Aug 5, 2015",0_0
"I won't send Glauber any condolences. After all, when I saw the headline for the first time, I thought that Glauber himself was missing which would arguably be more serious.",0_0
"However, EU environment ministers are alarmed at the prospective rollback. They are seeking to prevent the development of EU shale resources by trying to introduce EU-wide environmental barriers.",0_0
"Arguably the most important question is: what do the new ERF estimates in AR5 imply about TCR? Over the last century or more we have had a period of gradually increasing ERF, with some 80% of the decadal mean increase occurring fairly smoothly, volcanic eruptions apart, over the last ~70 years. We can therefore use the TCR = F 2xCO2 T/F equation to estimate TCR from T and F, taking the change in each between the means for two periods, each long enough for internal variability to be small.",0_0
The theory is that the Earth radiates out a low grade infrared which activates the CO2 molecules and they in turn radiate back to Earth thus warming or increasing the warmth of the lower atmosphere.,0_0
Big engineering projects are often ineffective and sometimes do more harm than good; the approach being taken by the Dutch-Bangladesh consortium seems like a good one.,0_0
"What goes on at the IPCC is not peer review as that term is normally understood . . . To sum up, the IPCC is inordinately proud of its review process. It expects us to be impressed by how many people are involved and by how many comments it receives and addresses. But this process is fatally flawed. It is not independent. It is easily short-circuited and circumvented. Nothing about it measures up to academic peer review.",5_2
OBAMA SPOUTS BRAZEN LIES AND CRETINOUS PSEUDO-SCIENCE. WE CHALLENGE HIM AND HIS CRONIES TO FACT-BASED DEBATE ANYWHERE ANYTIME,0_0
"Bethesda, MDIf you are obese and hope to be a father, heres another reason to lose weight: your children and grandchildren may inherit your waistline or metabolic disorders. Thats because scientists have discovered in mice that obese fathers, even those who did not show any signs of diabetes, passed this negative trait on most frequently to their daughters. Sons dont entirely dodge this genetic bullet eitherboth sons and daughters of obese fathers have increased risks of developing metabolic diseases, such as diabetes.",0_0
"Lindzens hypothesis was that high altitude tropical cirrus results from remnant moisture detrained from towering cumulonimbus clouds (convection cell thunderstorms). Depending on a lot of complicated cloud microphysics, a warmer sea surface could produce more massive convection cells containing more moisture, which would precipitate more rainfall, leaving less upper troposphere residual moisture detraining to form warming cirrus. So the proportions of upper troposphere dry and moist regions would counter-intuitively change as SST warmed in favor of dryand less cirrus. Hence there would be an adaptive infrared iris where warmer sea surfaces would produce via intermediate tropospheric convection and precipitation processes less cirrus, and therefore a net negative tropical cloud feedback. (This oversimplified description suffices for this post.)",3_1
"Under early action proposals, companies that do not participate in early reductions would be able to choose among different compliance strategies in the event that Kyoto is ratified. They could either reduce emissions at the site or they could buy emission credits. If ERT retires the credits it receives for its services, that would reduce the supply of credits. The range of compliance strategies would be lessened for latecomers.",0_0
The Assessment is woefully ignorant of humanity's ability to adapt and prosper in response to challenges. The quintessence of this is the truly dreadful chapter on human health and climate change.,0_0
"The total sea ice cover around Antarctica shows no significant change since reliable satellite monitoring began in the late 1970s, despite large but counteracting regional changes.",1_1
"""All too often, folks turn to the government to solve a problem, only to discover that the solution the regulations actually make it worse,"" Georgia continued. ""No environmental good will come from any policy that destroys economic growth. It is far more rational to remove those regulatory barriers so that the US, and countries all around the world, can develop wealth historically, the creation of wealth has led to a cleaner environment.""",4_1
"According to one popular just-so story being peddled by the anti-corporate Left, a small handful of media companies are currently buying up more and more outlets, reducing the range of opinions voiced in the major mediaeffectively blocking news and information unfavorable to, or contrary to the ideologies of, the media's owners.",0_0
"So 2 days ago, a Java issue popped up:",0_0
"Engages existing circulation patterns (Hadley, Ferrel and Walker cells) and atmosphere ocean interactions (ENSO)",0_0
"For people who want more action on global warming, an inconvenient truth has arisen over the last decade: Annual average temperatures stayed relatively flat globally and dropped in the United States and Oregon despite mankinds growing release of greenhouse gases.",1_4
"The Parliamentary Inquiry was never going to produce much. A single day?s hearings about a complicated subject with no-one on the committee an expert and several members true believers in global warming alarmism is not a recipe for an in-depth investigation. The main skeptical witness was Lord Lawson of Blaby, who, for all his strengths, is not an expert in the science himself. Researchers like Ross McKitrick, who have laid out strong cases for why Climategate reveals deliberate manipulation of science, were not asked to give evidence.",5_2
"James Hansen has made many forecasts over the last 30 years, with close to 0% success rate. Betting on the opposite of what he predicts, is almost a sure thing. Thirty years ago he forecast peak sea-ice loss (40%) in the Weddell Sea of Antarctica.",5_2
"And this from WattsUpWithThat.com: The cold this December and January has been noteworthy and newsworthy. We just posted that December 2009 was the Second Snowiest on Record in the Northern Hemisphere. Beijing was hit by its heaviest snowfall in 60 years, and Korea had the largest snowfall ever recorded since record keeping began in 1937. Plus all of Britain was recently covered by snow. The cold is setting records too. Oranges are freezing and millions of tropical fish are dying in Florida, there are Record low temperatures in Cuba and thousands of new low temperature records being set in the USA as well as Europe.",1_3
No evidence exists that suggests that both bears and the conservation systems that regulate them will not adapt and respond to the new conditions. Polar bears have persisted through many similar climate cycles.,3_2
"From the time he came to Congress in 1979, Gingrich deployed a strategy to break the Democrats' stranglehold on power in the House by moving to polarize the parties, to use the ethics process to taint both the majority and the entire political process, and to get Americans so disgusted with politics and politicians that at the right moment, they would rise up and throw out the incumbent party.",0_0
Heartlander: September-October 2010 (full-text PDF),0_0
"14) So, What Could Cause Natural Cloud Changes? I think small, long-term changes in atmospheric and oceanic flow patterns can cause ~1% changes in how much sunlight is let in by clouds to warm the Earth. This is all that is required to cause global warming or cooling. Unfortunately, we do not have sufficiently accurate cloud measurements to determine whether this is the primary cause of warming in the last 30 to 50 years.",2_1
"Between 1760 and 1860, the glacier at Glacier Bay, Alaska retreated a disturbing 30 miles. Atmospheric CO2 was 280 ppm at the time.",2_1
"Moreover, the teacher had failed to follow school policy, get permission to bring in outside propagandists, or present other perspectives. Unhappy parents raised a stink with Principal Kris Schuh, and the school district promised to distribute ""pro-oil and gas literature"" to secure some balance.",0_0
"In addition, the IPCC grossly exploits general public confusion over the whole issue of global temperatures. As I commented to them, their claim to have measured globally averaged temperatures near the surface is untrue. In order to do so, it would be necessary to distribute thermometers randomly over the entire surface of the earth, including oceans deserts and forests.",5_1
"on Monday, September 27th, 2010 at 3:11 am and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"As the CO 2 content of the air increases, belowground biomass production should increase in this particular type of annual grassland, either directly from CO 2 -induced increases in photosynthesis or indirectly from CO 2 -induced reductions in water use, which tend to increase soil moisture content. Hence, overall productivity in such grasslands will likely increase as the atmosphere's CO 2 concentration continues to rise.",3_3
"slightest, just the monotonous obsession with it. Would Holman care to",0_0
"John, With regard to the matter of species migration you raised, I believe that this topic is entirely too speculative to discuss here. There are too many variables, too many special circumstances, too many uncertainties. Likewise, ocean heat content data is very poor, requiring numerous ""adjustments."" Vertical temperature profiles are most surely controlled by currents that vary with depth. They are not one-dimensional, as implied by the data.",5_1
All the models assume that any temperature rise will be least at the poles and greatest at the tropics because the water vapour feedback is lower at the poles..They do not mention Antarctica where the ice is currently increasing.,1_1
Figure 12 presents the TOA energy imbalance anomalies smoothed with 5-year filters.,0_0
"But what this data indicates is that if and when warming resumes, it will likely occur at a rate that is lower than projected by the IPCC. So, while the trends will turn up they are unlikely to reach the 2C/century of warming.",0_0
"Those increases reflect soaring demand for electricity, up by 36%, which in turn fostered a 47% increase in coal consumption. (Natural-gas use increased by 29% while oil use grew by 13%.) Carbon-dioxide emissions are growing because people around the world understand the essentiality of electricity to modernity. And for many countries, the cheapest way to produce electrons is by burning coal.",0_0
"Climate change has been cited as one possibility, but scientist Gerald Meehl of the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Colorado told the New Scientist magazine there was no way to test the theory, as the resolution in climate change models was too low to replicate weather patterns such as blocking events.",0_0
"And by politicians I don't' mean just people who were elected or appointed. I mean people who sit on the New York Times editorial board and people who sit in the hot tubs of Hollywood, blowing bubbles about the environment and the state of world affairs.",0_0
"While they have been higher than before the past 15 years, they have not increased in line with fossil fuel emissions, just as they failed to do over the 1948-77 period.",1_4
"Dr. Richard Lindzen writes to me with news of this significant new paper saying It has taken almost 2 years to get this out. . Part of that problem appears to be hostile reviewers in earlier submissions to JGR, something weve seen recently with other skeptical papers, such as ODonnells rebuttal to Steig et al (Antarctica is warming) where Steig himself inappropriately served as a reviewer, and a hostile one at that. Hostile reviewers aside, the paper will now be published in an upcoming issue of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences and I am honored to be able to be able to present it",5_2
"The onslaught of regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will hurt consumers directly through higher energy costs and indirectly through higher prices for goods and services. Like cap and trade, the result is higher unemployment and less economic output.",4_1
"In the end, the exploitation of anti-government sentiment by Republican leaders, and the active efforts on their part to make all government look corrupt and illegitimate, reached its logical conclusion. The Republican political establishment looked no less corrupt, weak, and illegitimate than the Democratic one, and the appeal of a rank outsider became greater.",0_0
"Government bureaucrat-scientists and their expert ""global warming"" climate models, based on levels of atmospheric CO2, continue to prove an astounding incompetence - billions of taxpayer monies wasted on failed computer simulations that can't predict global temperatures",5_1
"There's just one small problem. According to the prestigious International Energy Agency, world energy demand is expected to grow by 65 percent between 1995 and 2020, and fossil fuels are expected to meet 95 percent of that additional demand. During the initial 2008-2012 Kyoto compliance period and beyond, fossil energy will become more important to the wealth of nations, not less. Kyoto conflicts with one of the broadest and deepest trends in the global economy.",0_0
"Tommaso Dorigo argues that this rumor above could actually be different from his rumor, and moreover he has rumored my rumor before - one month ago .",0_0
"Dr Pachauris father studied for a doctorate in educational psychology at the University of London while his mother, according to Dr Pachauris home page, educated and provided her son with the high standards that have enabled him to cope with his ever-increasing workload.",0_0
"All this and more is going onbecause of a vast, unaccountable,century-by-century change, in climate. In his study at Bedford College in London, Britains distinguished geographer, ProfessorGordon Manley, is worrying aboutit.",0_0
"UNITED NATIONS, Sept 25 (Reuters) Czech President Vaclav Klaus on Saturday criticized U.N. calls for increased ""global governance"" of the world's economy, saying the world body should leave that role to national governments.",0_0
"As the Romans used to say falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus, which means false in one thing, false in everything. Do we know that everything is false? Absolutely not ... but given egregious oddities like this one, we have absolutely no reason to believe that they are true either.",0_0
"The idea is to beef up the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), which critics say lacks muscle for dealing with the world's worsening environmental crisis.",0_0
"on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 at 7:12 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"The new EPA rule will impose large new costs for little benefit. In 2013 methane emissions counted for about 9% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Of that 9% about 3% are subject to the new rule, which would cut them in half. A Cato Institute study notes that even if the U.S. ceased all carbon emissions now and forever, the effect would be to reduce the rise in temperatures by the end of the century by 0.10 degrees Celcius. The methane rules contribution would be a mere 0.002 degrees Celsius.",0_0
"Before my most recent visit to the region last June, my own instincts would have mirrored those of my colleagues in the media. I covered Israel for ABC News in 198486 and had returned to the area on writing assignments three times between 2002 and 2007. Like many other journalists, I had a sense of hopelessness produced by my experiences in the region. After all, this conflict has survived war, peace negotiations, terrorist assaults on civilians, an authorized suicide-bombing campaign, presidential arm-twisting, even proximity talks. So it was with no great optimism that I undertook another journey.",0_0
Here are three more things that won't happen in 2015.,0_0
"Gillett et al. (2013) : This study uses temperature observations over 18512010 and a detection-and-attribution regression method to scale AOGCM TCR values. The individual CMIP5 model regression-based observationally-constrained TCRs shown in a figure in the Gillett et al. (2013) study imply a best (median ) estimate for TCR of 1.4C, with a 595% range of 0.82.0C. That compares with a range of 0.92.3C given in the study based on a single regression incorporating all models at once, which it is unclear is as suitable a method.",0_0
"Theres at least one big potential problem with that theory. Although atmospheric CO2 levels have risen, global temperatures have been flat for going on the past 17 years.",1_4
"Kate Sinding, a lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council, said propane fracking to extract natural gas did not exist at the time of the 1992 statement, which refers only to propane being pumped into underground storage.",0_0
"Agreement signed at Washington September 18, 2008; entered into force September 18, 2008. With annex.",0_0
"As the CO 2 content of the air increases, fast-growing native annual species, such as the five studied in this paper, will likely respond positively by increasing their photosynthetic rates and total biomass, regardless of any concomitant rise in air temperature.",3_3
Judge: NYT reporter need not identify sources:,0_0
"What a surprise! Numberwatch , the site listing a total of more than 480 things caused by global warming, doesnt have this new entry:",0_0
Free-market watchers might be surprised to find social-welfare and high-tax states at the top of the Prosperity Index. This indeed raises more questions than it answers.,0_0
"""The UK is not willing to take the steps that liberal environmental groups are demanding because otherwise British jobs will be lost and the economy will suffer,"" says Iain Murray, senior fellow in international policy at CEI and a native Brit.",0_0
"So the federal government's assessment of the state of our environment contains no information about an issue on which it spends $4.5 billion annuallyand which we have, for more than a decade, considered a ""common concern of humankind,"" as the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change put it.",0_0
Edwards said there is little more that can be done to prepare for such a rare weather event.,0_0
"Tom Crowley, a key member of Mann's global warming hockey team, showed crass disregard for the lying and hiding: ""I am not convinced that the ""truth' is always worth reaching, if it is at the cost of damaged personal relationships."" It's more important to keep the career back-scratching team happy.",5_2
New Evidence Our Record Warm March was Not from Global Warming,0_0
"But doesn't that mean a future administration could unilaterally pull out of the Paris agreement? A Republican administration could pull out of the agreement by undoing Obama's regulatory agenda, but that could be complicated in the courts.",0_0
"Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites, the UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Wiltshire, England.",0_0
"Still, there appears to be no groundswell of Israeli public opinion against the two-state solution. The implications of an Israeli state seeking to control an Arab population several times its size is not lost on Palestinian observers. For example, Jarbawi, the minister of planning, asks, ""Do I have to advise the Israelis, ""Take the two-state solution, because in twenty years, you'll be a minority and have to oppress us like apartheid, and in one hundred years you won't exist'?"" Even some Israelisdiplomat Shimon Stein among themacknowledge that more could be done to move the process along: ""The demographic issue is like climate changeno one wants to pay today for what may or may not happen twenty years from now.""",0_0
"My main criticism of the article is that the BoM relies on Melbourne CBD rain data to back up their regional conclusions regarding ???climate change?? and drought, while the rainfall history is in fact affected by the growing urban heat island.",5_1
"Environmentalists Defend Property Values Against Global Warming ""Art'",0_0
"So, depending on wind direction that day, combined with the low tide, the station may have picked up some heated air from the mud flats. Unfortunately the station does not record wind data. Given the nearby stations (such as London City ) show a shift of wind direction to northerly after about 5PM local time on that date, it is quite possible though:",0_0
"Put it this way. Climate forecasts, of the type relied upon by the IPCCand over governmental entities, stink. They are no good. They have beenpromising ever increasing temperatures for decades, but the observationshave been more or less steady. This must meanit is inescapable that something is very badly wrong with thetheory behind the models. What?",5_1
"The idea of pursuing Kyoto II by means of an executive agreement or a domestic emissions trading scheme by means of the budget reconciliation process has stirred up significant resistance among members of Congress who still take seriously the separation of powers and the prerogatives of the legislative branch. (Jimmy Carter also floated the idea of adopting the SALT II arms control treaty of 1979 by executive agreement instead of a formal treaty, but was quickly slapped down by members of his own party.) Already the White House is backtracking on both ideas, though we should not suppose them to be completely abandoned.",0_0
"Overall the SPPI report makes for a fascinating (although quite technical) read. I recommend it to anyone who wants to get into the nitty-gitty details of how marine organisms from corals, to phytoplankton, to fish respond to changes in the oceans chemistry as a result from atmospheric CO2 enrichment. By the end, after turning page after page full of examples from the scientific literature that seem to run counter to the ocean-acidification-is-most-certainly-going to-be-bad mantra, you really begin to wonder whether ocean acidification is any more than much ado about nothing.",3_2
"Given the Medicaid squeeze on the state budget, Pataki's successor, Eliot Spitzer, tried to turn the tables on 1199 after he took office in 2007. Unlike Pataki, Spitzer rejected the concept of Medicaid as a union jobs program. At a breakfast meeting attended by hospital and labor leaders, Spitzer delivered a hard-hitting presentation that branded 1199 and GNYHA ""guardians of the status quo."" In response to a proposal by the governor to impose cuts on hospitals and nursing homes, 1199 ran a multimillion-dollar ad campaign that sank Spitzer's approval rating. Union ally Joseph Bruno, in control of the Republican Senate, staked out a position to the left of the governor; in the end, only a quarter of Spitzer's proposed cuts went into effect.",0_0
"In fact, the spike in temperatures caused by the Great el Nio of 1998 is almost entirely offset in the linear-trend calculation by two factors: the not dissimilar spike of the 2010 el Nio, and the sheer length of the Great Pause itself.",1_4
"To avoid any ambiguity, in the Introduction to Elsners paper, he equates tornado intensity with wind speed.",0_0
"I rate a paragraph in Moranos article and report, which he fortunately accompanied with the disclaimer Note: Curry is not included in the count of dissenting scientists in this report.",0_0
What do you think? Dare we hope for that fund allocation is made regardless of whether the researcher ifrga stdjer or ifrgastter IPCC's message?,0_0
emissions scenarios prepared for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes,0_0
"10. Since CO2 is incapable of causing climatic warming by itself (CO2 makes up only 0.038% of the atmosphere and accounts for only a few percent of the greenhouse gas effect), is there evidence of concomitant increase in water vapor (which causes more than 90% of the greenhouse gas effect)?",2_3
"But this argument essentially says that Hillary Clinton should have won the presidency. The whole point of liberal progressivism is to rid the Democratic party of what it views as temporizing and lack of principle. Barack Obama won his nomination with that faction's support; Nancy Pelosi was elevated to the speakership with their favor. To ignore the liberal progressives' ideals in difficult times would break faith with them, guaranteeing their eternal enmity and earning the president a probable primary challenge.",0_0
"ER=EPR means that ER, an Einstein-Rosen bridge (a non-traversable wormhole), may always be interpreted as EPR (an acronym chosen for the quantum entanglement, after Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen, to make it sound funny), and vice versa. However, you could object that one can't define a Yes/No observable that would measure the ""existence of the entanglement"". However, one may define an observable for ""is there a wormhole"", you could argue, so there is a contradiction.",0_0
"Whatever the reason, all of us should be grateful that Mr. Obama is supporting nuclear power, a less-expensive means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and one that already provides 20% of America 's electricity.",0_0
"The science was idiotic, but Arrhenius saw global warming as a good thing. Fast forward 100 years, and the New York Times ups Arrhenius stupidity by a huge margin.",0_0
The blink comparator above shows the changes in UNISYS SST anomalies over the past week. Areas that are less than +/- 1C are marked as white.,0_0
"?The analysis revealed a number of trends in the reporting of renewable energy news,? the study found. ?First and foremost, the temperature of the media?s sentiment toward the renewables industry is cold. More than 51 per cent of the 138 articles analysed were either negative or very negative toward the industry.?",0_0
"The Vaclav Klaus lecture yesterday was excellent - a very unpolitician-like politician, I thought, quietly spoken and with a complete lack of histrionics. This made him a very persuasive speaker I thought, and I would recommend you read what he has to say if you haven't already.",0_0
"There are frsts several reasons for this, but one of them is that the EU's climate and energiml has received politicians to make very costly and destructive decisions on energy production. The focus on so-called frnyelsebara energikllor ssom wind and solar power is driving up prices, and both consumer and manufacturing ends up in big svrigheter. The focus on the f down koldioxidutslppen transport frdyrar both the manufacturing of cars and of sjlva transport. Additionally threaten a large-scale trade war, including China behind the corner.",0_0
"I sat in silence a moment, absorbing the complex simplicity of what she was asking.",0_0
What if the Global Warming ?Pause? was ?Fast Forward? Instead?,1_4
"The four Italian researchers write that ""the multi-model ensemble mean and most individual models exhibit a wet bias with respect to CRU and GPCC observations in both regions and for all seasons,"" which is about as all-encompassing a negative finding as one could imagine. Yet they also report that ""the models differ greatly in the seasonal climatology of precipitation which they reproduce in the HKK."" And so it is that they are forced to conclude that ""no single model (or group of models) emerges as that providing the best results for all the statistics considered.""",5_1
"Fracking Chemicals Linked to Cancer, According to New Report",0_0
"b) In the close bloggvrlden has framfrts To Bomb The curve does not have zero as the baseline, but rather goes from a value of approx 100 ngontingtill 200 ngontingoch then decays exponentially to 100 that is something kind of steady state in the atmosphere from the C-14 through the relatively constant pverkan (p N-14) of cosmic strlning.",0_0
"Youre probably asking yourself why you should spend $8.00 for a book written by an independent climate researcher. There arent many independent researchers investigating El Nio-Southern Oscillation or its long-term impacts on global surface temperatures. In fact, if you were to perform a Google image search of NINO3.4 sea surface temperature anomalies, the vast majority of the graphs and images are from my blog posts or cross posts of them. Try it. Cut and paste NINO3.4 sea surface temperature anomalies into Google. Click over to images and start counting the number of times you see Bob Tisdale.",0_0
"""But when leaders neither criticized nor condemned the assertions, it gave them more legitimacy with voters.""",0_0
"As a result, at higher CO2 concentrations, plants can better cope under conditions of drought, thereby vastly improving their productivity and growth as opposed to conditions experienced under lower CO2.",3_3
"British filmmaker Martin Durkin presents a groundbreaking new documentary on climate change titled ""The Great Global Warming Swindle.""",0_0
"Giving up on growth also means surrendering to problems that could be solved. For instance, the ""demographic problem"" populations aging in the Westmay be solved with strong economic growth. A more productive society, where each employed person produces more, can afford to maintain a larger number of dependents.",0_0
Relativism : Things arent worse; theyre just different. This would be the fall back position for all those with an allergy to any kind of duty.,0_0
"Whatever the reason for the divergence, it would seem to suggest that the practice of grafting the thermometer record onto a proxy temperature record as I believe was done in the case of the hockey stick is dubious to say the least.",5_1
Does anyone else find it disturbing to see legislators and environmentalists working hand-in-hand like this?,0_0
"""Climate change"" trumps property rights? A troubling precedent.",0_0
"And why not? Well, put simply, the equation shows that at the temperatures prevailing on Earth you need a very large increase in radiative flux to achieve a pathetically small increase in temperature. That's not the sort of thing the climate-extremists want known, so they carefully don't mention it, which is one reason why puir wee Moonbat hadn't heard of it.",0_0
Full text (note this is an unsigned draft) here and reprinted below the fold.,0_0
"Global Warming and Tropical Cyclones of the Western North Pacific (5 Apr 2011) In spite of a remarkable warming, the authors of this study determined that the frequency of TC against the background of global warming has decreased with time ... Read More",1_7
"The Northern Ireland Assemblys Enterprise, Trade and Investment Committee has been briefed by the Fermanagh Fracking Awareness Network on shale gas exploration. Further meetings with prospective developer Tamboran Resources are expected in the coming weeks.",0_0
"I'm not sure how much overturning the rule would help the economy, but it certainly would not hurt! It would avert regulatory burdens that hinder job creation and make U.S. firms less competitive. It would avoid at least some higher energy and production costs that regulated entities would pass on to consumers.",0_0
"Well, I could go on. And on and on. And on and on and on. Just about every one of the 115 slides presented by Abraham in his shoddy little piece of lavishly-funded venom contains serious, serial, material errors, exaggerations, or downright lies. All I have been able to do here is to give you some flavor of how unscientific, inaccurate, and deliberately mendacious Abraham's video is.",0_0
"Laurie Hawn, Conservative Candidate in Edmonton Centre, has filed a complaint with the Commissioner of Elections Canada after massive voter list irregularities were uncovered by his campaign. For some time, there have been rumors of election irregularities in Edmonton Centre. At an all candidates meeting with Elections Canada on January 4, 2006, it was revealed that two buildings had been struck from the electoral rolls because they were not residences. In reality, these buildings were both mailbox stores. Several days later, the Laurie Hawn campaign identified a third non-residence building which sells mail boxes and reported it to Elections Canada.",0_0
"While the pivotal states of this strategy appear to be Pakistan, Iran, and (more recently) Saudi Arabia, the geopolitical situation of Iran puts it in a class by itself, as the most precious proxy in China's ""indirect approach"" against American primacy. It is therefore no surprise to learn that China is using Iran as a conduit for the delivery of arms to both Iraqi and Afghan insurgents, and providing Iran itself the kind of small boats needed to conduct attacks against commercial shipping or the U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf.13",0_0
"Chicago school bans homemade lunches, the latest in national food fight:",0_0
SciAm: Effective World Government Will Be Needed to Stave Off Climate Catastrophe,0_0
"Now, according to GISS the homogeneity adjustments are designed to adjust the urban stations like Anchorage so that they more closely match the rural stations like Matanuska. Imagine my surprise when I calculated the homogeneity adjustment to Matanuska, shown in Figure 3.",0_0
"Camille came days after the first Moon landing, and history was largely lost in the euphoria.",0_0
"The sun is almost completely blank, meteorologist Paul Dorian notes . Virtually no sunspots darken the blinding yellow orb. The main driver of all weather and climate has gone quiet again during what is likely to be the weakest sunspot cycle in more than a century. Not since February 1906 has there been a solar cycle with fewer sunspots.",2_1
"Unfortunately, the anti-science of climate science will continue since it appears to be prerequisite of research funding - in simple words, scientists are forced to support the consensus green political agenda in order to survive and thrive.",5_2
"In 1974, the consensus agreed that global cooling was the new normal, and thatmuchmoney was needed to study it. 97% of scientists understood that global cooling causedextremeweather.",1_2
"A paper published today in Nature finds ""Australian tropical cyclone activity lower than at any time over the past 5501,500 years"" and ""we show, on the basis of a new tropical cyclone activity index (CAI), that the present low levels of storm activity on the mid west and northeast coasts of Australia are unprecedented over the past 550 to 1,500 years."" ""Other studies project a decrease in the frequency of tropical cyclones towards the end of the twenty-first century in the southwest Pacific, southern Indian and Australian regions. Our results, although based on a limited record, suggest that this may be occurring much earlier than expected.""",1_7
150 Economists Back US Republicans in Debt Fight:,0_0
"In some American and European quarters, this globalization of NATO has led some observers to assert rather boldly that ""NATO's next move must be to open its membership to any democratic state in the world that is willing and able to contribute to the fulfillment of NATO's new responsibilities.""37 But to add four or five global partners is one thing, to add the 88 countries recognized as democracies by Freedom House is quite another. The necessary, if not sufficient, condition for turning NATO into a UN of democracies would be to change the flawed images of the UN and NATO that European publics currently have. That said, this long-term scenario of NATO as a UN of democracies cannot be ruled out given the ongoing deconstruction of the Tower of Babble by China and the OIC.",0_0
"Sir, Nullius in Verba, the motto of the Royal Society, is usually translated as on the word of no one. That is a fine motto, the message being that knowledge about the material universe should be based on appeals to experimental evidence rather than authority",0_0
"For well over a decade, the George C. Marshall Institute has been addressing the studies, the speculation on hazards, the many efforts to predict, and the theories supporting fear of human-made global climate change.",0_0
"Lewis finds that in recent years neither the global temperature nor ocean heat uptake have changed very much, while CO 2 concentrations have continued to rise. Therefore, the climate sensitivity must be lower.",3_1
"In the 25 years since the first Earth Day in 1970, the environmental movement has spawned a new generation of scientists asking vital questions about the true state and fate of the planet. But, surprisingly, some of their answers--and even the questions themselves--contradict the movement's deepest beliefs. Why are the reserves of oil, precious metals, and other natural resources more plentiful than ever before? Why has the population growth of the twentieth century brought rising standards of living for nearly all? In The True State of the Planet ten premier scholars shatter the myths of overpopulation, food, global warming, and pesticides, while redirecting environmentalists' concerns to the far more urgent problems of fisheries, fresh water, and third-world pollution--and the political causes behind them.",0_0
"Babcock et al., 2010 (in another study published in PNAS on the same day as McCook et al.) also examined the ecological effects of marine protected areas. However, this report is much more widely based geographically and longer term .",0_0
Those countries will receive far less foreign aid from increasingly cash-strapped Western nations. Little good will come of the Green Climate Fund cash the United Nation says industrialized nations should transfer to kleptocratic rulers in poor countries as reparations for supposedly causing climate change.,4_1
Democrats in Washington have long fought to protect the unions and have been champing at the bit for greenhouse gas restrictions. The bailouts provide new leverage on both of these scores.,0_0
Hackers find new way to cheat on Wall Street to everyone's peril:,0_0
I recently came across a report written by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) which estimated the cost to taxpayers for ???federal policies to promote (aka subsidize) the manufacture and purchase of electric vehicles (EVs).?? The piece also predicts the short-term benefits of the subsidies and includes the effects of rising federal requirements for fuel economy (known as CAFE) standards. The outlook is that federal subsidies will cost taxpayers $7.5 billion over the next few years for little or no benefit (even when including the impact of CAFE) to total gas consumption or emissions.,4_1
"Last year I published an ebook (pdf) about the phenomena called El Nio and La Nia. Its titled Who Turned on the Heat? with the subtitle The Unsuspected Global Warming Culprit, El Nio Southern Oscillation . It is intended for persons (with or without technical backgrounds) interested in learning about El Nio and La Nia events and in understanding the natural causes of the warming of our global oceans for the past 31+ years. Because land surface air temperatures simply exaggerate the natural warming of the global oceans over annual and multidecadal time periods, the vast majority of the warming taking place on land is natural as well. The book is the product of years of research of the satellite-era sea surface temperature data thats available to the public via the internet. It presents how the data accounts for its warmingand there are no indications the warming was caused by manmade greenhouse gases. None at all.",2_1
"Certainly, 2011 sticks out , but it is absolutely clear that the last decade is unexceptional. It is also clear that there were many more strong tornadoes in the 1970s, and to a lesser extent in the 1950s.",0_0
"As the CO 2 content of the air continues to rise, it is likely that these four weedy species common to European grasslands will not flourish and expand their territories as often claimed by some individuals who propagate the view that rising CO 2 levels will cause weeds to become increasingly more problematic and devastating to ecosystems in the future. Rather, it is more conceivable that a single weedy species, Poa annua , may possess the ability to expand its ranges, but only in habitats receiving full sunlight; for this paper demonstrated that light level was a much greater determinant of vegetative and reproductive success than was atmospheric CO 2 enrichment. Thus, if the results of this paper are applicable to most weedy species, it is likely that they will exhibit few, if any , changes in their vegetative and reproductive success in response to future increases in the CO 2 content of the air.",0_0
"Port Pirie News, sport and weather | The Recorder",0_0
"The satellite measures temperatures in the layer of atmosphere from sea level up to about 35,000 feet, which Christy says includes three-fourths of the total Earth atmosphere. These measurements, he says, are much more accurate than relying solely on ground measurements.",5_1
"This breakpoint may be related to loss of seasonal measurements in Antarctica, note that in this Cryosphere Today graph, most of the ice extent anomalies post 2005 are positive.",1_1
"Another trick question by activists trying to sell a consensus: If you are seriously ill and 99 doctors recommend a certain treatment, would you go with the one doctor who disagrees?",0_0
"/s/ Thomas M. Grubbs JSC, Chief, Aircraft Maintenance and Engineering Branch, 31 years",0_0
Is there any good news for the environment among Evangelicals? guest post by Ken Wilson,0_0
"Reviving cap and trade or implementing a similarly costly carbon tax is even less likely today than four years ago, as the House of Representatives is controlled by Republicans, many of whom are unconvinced of the magnitude of climate change or of the efficacy of unilateral action. Similarly, interfering in the market through preferential policies and subsidies financed by taxpayer dollars designed to support green energy projectsadding to the tens of billions of dollars passed in the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Actis unlikely to elicit bipartisan support when Congress is grappling with how to reduce spending.",0_0
"The authors report that ""low salinity during 1160-1290 AD showed the humid climate condition the Medieval Warm Period in this area, while the high salinity during 1410-1540 AD, 1610-1670 AD and 1770-1850 AD the three cold pulses of the Little Ice Age with a dry climate condition,"" where the evidence for the occurrence of these warm and cold intervals comes from the climate change studies of Yao et al . (1990) and Wang (2001). What it means",2_1
"1. CO2, Global Warming and Coral Reefs Prospects for the Future, 2009. Science and Public Policy Institute http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/co2 coral warming.html",0_0
"Enlarging upon Talley's work, Boccaletti et al . develop the tools for calculating the sizes of the contributions each of the three levels of circulation (shallow, intermediate and deep) make to the total poleward heat transport of the global ocean. What was learned",0_0
"This post provides a simple overview of how the instrument temperature record confirms that El Nio and La Nia events, not manmade greenhouse gases, are the primary causes of the warming of global sea surface temperatures weve experienced over the past 30 years. It provides a slightly different and simpler perspective of the data-based arguments Ive discussed and illustrated in past posts here at Climate Observations , many of which have been cross-posted at the internets most-viewed website on global warming and climate change WattsUpWithThat . This is the same tackmake it easy to understandI took when preparing my popular e-book Who Turned on the Heat? The Unsuspected Global Warming Culprit, El Nio-Southern Oscillation .",2_1
"""Eco-Imperialism"" = efforts by the developed world to impose its environmental priorities on the developing world. Developed countries seek to pressure the Third World into reduce greenhouse gas emissions ""for the sake of the planet,"" regardless of its impact on the standard of living and prospects for economic growth in those nations. Cost-effective energy use is critical for Third World people, and is the fastest path toward ending poverty.",0_0
"Overall, this is a very good book on an exceedingly important topic. I give it 4.5 stars rather than 5 stars, since the writing was a bit uneven. The unruly teenager metaphor too often leads to explicit scolding, which to me sometimes goes too far in leading the reader. Some of the points, while broadly valid, didnt quite hit the nail on the head, IMO. A few examples:",0_0
"After a period of rapid temperature increases during the 1980s and 1990s there has been a significant slow-down since the turn of the century, leading some sceptics to claim that global warming has stopped.",1_4
"Perhaps the most Impressive feature, the Governor adds, is the absolute stillness that prevails not only through the absence of the familiar rustle of vegetation as the trade wind sweeps over it, but-also because of the absence of animal and even insect life. Birds, lizards, beetles, snakes, and, in fact, every form of animal life, seems to have been blown away or drowned out .",0_0
Roger Bate is a visiting fellow at AEI. David Montgomery is vice president of Charles River Associates.,0_0
"Duke Energy's new $3.3 billion coal gasification and ""carbon dioxide capture"" power plant will increase rates for its Indiana customers by some 15% the next two years. Hospitals, factories, shopping malls and school districts will have to pay an extra $150,000 a year in operating expenses for each million dollars in annual electricity bills. That's four or five entry-level jobs that won't be created or preserved.",0_0
"When compared with pre-1800s levels, do you think that mean global temperatures have generally risen, fallen, or remained relatively constant?",0_0
"A lot may be implied in those words. Obama refers to the creed the philosophy of rights and government articulated in the Declaration of Independence. He seems to suggest that its meaning for our times lies in the doctrine of creation care ,a green variant of progressive theology. But whereas the Declaration articulated a philosophy of limited government, green theologyaims to expand the reach and scope of government.Al Gore gave voice tosimilar views in his 1992 book on ecology and the human spirit, Earth in the Balance. He famously declared that the time had come to make rescue of the environment the central organizing principle of civilization.",0_0
"There is no question about the critical need for this service, she said. Climate change is real. Its happening now in our own backyards and around the globe, and its beginning to touch nearly every aspect of our lives.",0_0
"$10,000 to repair a minor but long scratch",0_0
"Image from Adam Smith, via Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.'s blog - click",0_0
Colorado State University professor Roger Pielke Sr. has extensively documented how land use affects climate. Urban sprawl has led to the creation of heat islands which are several degrees warmer than surrounding rural areas. Development in Florida has shifted in rain patterns. And deforestation has contributed to the famous melting of Himalaya glaciers.,0_0
"Then we learned that in the much touted Antarctic ice core record temperature increased before CO 2 , contradicting the main assumption of the Warmists hypothesis.",2_3
"""President Obama's environmental policies have already been hard on energy developers and the economy, so if we elect a Democrat president and follow their party's environmental platform, Americans will have hugely expensive energy costs and no economic growth,"" Ebell said.",0_0
"Last summer's record-smashing drought in the US heartland was driven far more by natural variability in weather patterns than by global warming, according to a new analysis by a team of federal and university researchers.",1_7
"Such claims have been repeatedly made by GBRMPA and would, if used by a business, constitute violations of advertising and corporate law. To see it done repeatedly and included in a report in a leading scientific journal is a sad indictment of GBRMPA sponsored science as well as basic honesty.",0_0
"From the graph it appears that the projections exaggerate, substantially, the response of the earths temperature to CO2 which increased by about 11% from 1989 through 2011. Furthermore, when one examines the historical temperature record throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, the data strongly suggest a much lower CO2 effect than almost all models calculate.",5_1
"If youre new to this discussion, you might be thinking the energy imbalance is a great big number. Sorry to disappoint you. Compared to the amount of sunlight reaching the top of the atmosphere, the imbalance is tinyreally tiny. Trenberth et al. (2014) provide a rough estimate in their Abstract:",0_0
"Chairman Markey and Members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me to testify today on the important topic of the outcomes of the global warming talks in Bali last week. My name is Myron Ebell. I have served as director of energy and global warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) since 1999. CEI is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy institute that concentrates on regulatory issues from a free-market perspective. CEI does not accept government funding. CEI is an NGO accredited to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and CEI's President, Fred Smith, attended the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. CEI has sent NGO participants to many of the succeeding Conferences of the Parties, including COP-3 in Kyoto in 1997. I have been an observer of the Kyoto process from the beginning, and, although I did not attend this year's COP in Bali, I have attended several previous COPs since joining CEI.",0_0
"David W. Kreutzer, ""Renewable Fuel Standard, Ethanol Use, and Corn Prices,"" Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2727, September 17, 2012, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/09/the-renewable-fuel-standard-ethanol-use-and-corn-prices.",0_0
Anyone whos read a book on climate change which excludes most of our media isnt surprised two top Canadian climate scientists have concluded the oilsands are insignificant to global warming.,4_5
Uh Oh Climategate just took the next step,0_0
"The IPCC has confirmed the authenticity of sample documents on these sticks. Today, I??m making this massive collection of data, (with reviewer comments), which I call the Secret Santa leak, public. Some of these documents are already online. Many others would only have been released by the IPCC years from now. Still others the IPCC intended to keep hidden forever.",5_2
"Researchers have traditionally estimated the net cloud effect by measuring a broad spectrum of sunlight that makes it to the earth's surface, from ultraviolet to infrared. But clouds are white that's because the large water droplets within them scatter light of all colors almost equally in the visible spectrum, the part of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes the colors of the rainbow.",0_0
"The EPA has also finalized new federal air quality standards for hydraulically fractured wells, a critical extraction process necessary to help tap vast supplies of oil and natural gas. The EPA contends that the regulations are necessary to reduce emissions of volatile organic compounds and hazardous air pollutants. However, the EPA quantifies only environmental benefits from methane, clearly indicating this rule was more about regulating a greenhouse gas.",0_0
"This article, seemingly successfully humiliating all the Christians in the U.S., together with a couple of nearly identical papers about the 1994 collision of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet with Jupiter, convinced the folks at the Real Climate that he is the most qualified ""climatologist"" to describe the Third Santa Fe Conference on Global and Regional Climate Change which took place during the Halloween week.",0_0
"This air is also very moist, something suggested by the 10 AM water vapor product from satellite data (see below). We have an atmospheric river today, with a narrow streamer of moisture extending from the tropics into our region.",0_0
"Sounds familiar? Sure, must have read it in the paper last week. Fact: the Arctic variations are notorious and the report above was issued by the US Weather Bureau in 1922.",0_0
"In order to assign guilt to humanity for our present warm period (that happens to be a wonderful time of warmth and plant growth), one must also explain the stadial / interstadial cycles, the Atlantic / Boreal cycles, and the Oscillations; then show they are not relevant to now. That simply can not be done since we dont know why those various cycles happened. Lots of theories, not much settled.",2_1
The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998. OK it has but it is only seven years of data and it isn't statistically significant.,0_0
"3. It is, of course, not only about ideology. The problem has its important scientific aspect but it should be stressed that the scientific dispute about the causes of recent climate changes continues. The attempt to proclaim a scientific consensus on this issue is a tragic mistake, because there is none.",5_1
"However, according to Tim Osborn, a climatologist at the University of East Anglia, global warming is an unlikely culprit in this case. ""If this had happened in winter, then it might be reasonable to talk about global warming,"" he said. ""However, the models suggest that rainfall in summer is likely to remain the same, or perhaps even fall, if climate change continues"" (www.bbc.co.uk, August 13, 2002).",0_0
"More generally, AAAS essentially is the lobbying arm of the U.S. science establishment; more money is its reason d'etre. Can Rush Holt possibly believe that this is consistent with research ""objectivity""?",0_0
"Variable crustal thickness beneath Thwaites Glacier revealed from airborne gravimetry, possible implications for geothermal heat flux in West Antarctica",2_1
"Earlier I noted that satellite-era sea surface temperature data indicate the oceans warmed naturally, not via manmade greenhouse gases. NOAAs ocean heat content data also do not support the hypothesis of manmade global warming. Refer to my recent essay titled The Manmade Global Warming Challenge, which is linked to my blog post here . Refer also to the two-part video series prepared for the WattsUpWithThat (WUWT-TV) special linked to the post The Natural Warming of the Global Oceans . And of course theres my book Who Turned on the Heat?",2_1
"Of course, it may not be of interest to the media, because it only uncovers unlawful dealings to hide an effort impacting our entire economy, the premise for that ""fundamental transformation"" of America, with the sleazy lobbying operation being the UN. We'll wait on OSTP's response and hope for the best from the Hill and Republican candidates.",0_0
months after the 1992 election either). Some of the early stumbles that resulted,0_0
"The president's renewed drive for a Paris deal was not the only good news for those who believe the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is imperative if a climate disaster is to be avoided. An estimated 300,000 activists, including former vice president Al Gore and marchers calling for the end of capitalism, the latter tussling with New York's finest for the control of Wall Street, turned out in New York City to support a reduction in emissions. So did the city's mayor, Bill de Blasio. He announced he would reduce New York's emissions by 80 percent by 2050, presumably by putting pressure on real estate developers who need his approval of their construction permits.",0_0
"These anti-hydrocarbon policies also mean the US Treasury will be deprived of hundreds of billions in lease bonuses, royalties, taxes and other revenues that it would realize from the development of our nations vast oil, natural gas and coal deposits. Instead, the United States will be forced to pay billions more for imported oil, often from dictatorial, unethical, environmentally reckless countries.",4_1
"> >> in Phase 1, then from my rather UK perspective the following",0_0
he main basis of the claim that mans release of greenhouse gases is the cause of the warming is based almost entirely upon climate models. We all know the frailty of models concerning the air-surface system. We only need to watch the weather forecasts.,5_1
"The Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI) estimates that the oil sands industry alone will add 3 percent to Canadas GDP by 2020 and will create, during the period to 2020, 5.4 million person years of employment, 44 percent of which will be outside Alberta. Currently the oil sands industry contributes toward 112,000 jobs across Canada and, according to CERI, over the next 25 years it is expected to contribute over 11 million person years of employment to Canada and $1.7 trillion to the Canadian economy.",4_5
"Over 20,000 people made homeless, replaced by carbon sinks in fight against AGW",0_0
Download PDF Considering the Human Influence on Climate,0_0
"Mr. Walker claimed he is dropping his Exxon subpoena so the U.S. Justice Department can more easily pursue its racketeering charges against the company. But that's glitter on a surrender document. The reason the state AGs chose to pursue Exxon for shareholder fraud is because anyone with legal knowledge knows how difficult it would be for the feds to bring a successful RICO case. To our knowledge, Justice doesn't even have such an investigation underway.",0_0
The 2014/15 El Nio Part 1 The Initial Processes of the El Nio .,0_0
"But worldwide Perus La Rinconada is at 5100m, Chinas Qinghai is at 4870m, Indias Korzok at 4570m and Chile, Nepal, Bolivia, Argentina, Afghanistan, Jyrgystan, Bhutan, Tajikistan, United States, Mexico, Ethiopia, Columbia, Ecador and Turkey all have towns higher than 3200m and Bolivias capital La Paz is higer at 3640m. And given we humans have towns up to 2000m higher than the height for the required pressure drop, we could occupy land up to at least 2000m with a 30% drop in atmospheric pressure.",0_0
"Rossiter on IPCC: For the IPCC to say nothing else can explain (global warming except mankinds CO2) is the opposite of what we do in science. We are trying to test the known hypothesis that there is no effect to anthropogenic warming. And in order to do that, you have to have data that removes all the other causes factors out all the other elements, and isolate yours. It is simply not true; it is simply not true that you can only model how temperature has changed from 1850 to today using a doubling of carbon dioxide levels. I can model it for you with baseball statistics from that same period, if you give me enough time to scrub the models.",5_1
"If we now look at demand, the average last year was 40GW, although winter demand will typically run at 45GW. Peak demand, of course, is much higher still, often reaching 60GW. Current capacity is listed by DECC as:",0_0
"As noted in our Editorial of 10 Dec 2003 , Hungate et al . (2003) claim - by way of a Carnegie Institution press release hyping their paper - that in a future world of higher atmospheric CO 2 concentration, ""the availability of nitrogen , in forms usable by plants, will probably be too low for large increases in carbon storage,"" ... or as van Groenigen et al . (2003) restate their contention, ""reduced soil N availability under elevated CO 2 may limit the plant's capacity to increase photosynthesis and thus the potential for increased soil C input."" What was done",3_3
"Now we have a massive problem. Because of the corrections, the surface measured temperatures (GISS, HadCRUT3) show a trend which no longer agrees with the satellite measurements (RSS, UAH).",5_1
"Williams Lakeis a city in the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada, says Wikipedia. It is the largest urban center between Kamloops and Prince George,",0_0
The weekly Reynolds OI.v2 dataset is available through the NOAA NOMADS website . And the ERSST.v3b dataset can be accessed through the KNMI Climate Explorer .,0_0
"Earlier this year, Chicago represented the global climate. Record cold this weekend has caused Chicago to disappear from the global climate map.",1_3
"Regional models give you the illusion of higher resolution. In reality its no better than the global models. If a GCM will give you strong warming, the regional model will give you strong warming. The message is that these regional models are not giving us the information people think they are giving.",5_1
"So perhaps this emergency is the time to relax the U.S. ethanol mandate, which diverts four of every 10 domestic bushels of corn into gas tanks. That's equal to 15% of international corn production, burned in internal combustion engines that could run on another fuel. But this obvious solution is evidently not obvious to the Environmental Protection Agency, which, despite studying the question for more than a year, says it needs more time.",0_0
"The leaked emails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia involve just a small coterie of scientists. However, they have been at the centre of climate science for a long time and their views, aspirations and activities have had effects far beyond their immediate working environments.",0_0
"It has been reported that the no-fly zone over Libya costs the US taxpayers 3.2million lbs. of jet fuel per day, and that is not including the fuel burned by the refueling tankers that are almost constantly in the air.",0_0
ENSO Basics: Westerly Wind Bursts Initiate an El Nio,0_0
"By Timothy Cama, The Hill, Aug 11, 2015",0_0
"Actually, GISS shows little or no winter warming over the past sixty years. Certainly nothing close to 11F.",1_4
"Daily Express, 28 October 2010: IT?S a prediction that means this may be time to dig out the snow chains and thermal underwear. The Met Office, using data generated by a 33million supercomputer, claims Britain can stop worrying about a big freeze this year because we could be in for a milder winter than in past years? The new figures, which show a 60 per cent to 80 per cent chance of warmer-than-average temperatures this winter, were ridiculed last night by independent forecasters. The latest data comes in the form of a December to February temperature map on the Met Office?s website.",5_1
"Yet another global warming alert, when global temperatures are heading down and records for cold are being broken left, right and center. And how long will it be before we read that it wasnt actually global warming, but something else? Its odd, but stories like that never seem to get published I wonder why?",1_3
"Experts say thepolar vortex is caused by global warming and disappearing ice, butforty years ago they said it was caused by global cooling and expanding ice.",5_1
"From August 2001 to August 2014, the warming trend on the mean of the 5 global-temperature datasets is nil. No warming for 13 years 1 month.",1_4
15 out of 44 chapters (one-third) were led (coordinating lead authors) by WWF-affiliated scientists,0_0
"Shova shows us the floating gardens a strengthened version of traditional models. They are planted with new crops, such as turmeric intercropped with okra, cucumber and chillies.",0_0
"The software needs to be downloaded, installed and then manually configured to protect computers from the newly discovered threat.",0_0
"But perhaps a carbon tax does run afoul of Coase's warning against blackboard economics. Mankiw makes the whole thing sound pretty straightforward. Then again, silver-bullet policies are rare. As the Fraser Institute's (and former AEIer) Ken Green has noted, a national carbon tax would be regressive, raise the cost of energy inputs for business, and likely be layered on top of existing regulations. What would be the right price, exactly? And wouldn't government become addicted to the new revenue stream? After all, the goal isn't to maximize tax revenue, but to reduce carbon emissions and thus carbon tax revenue over time.",0_0
"Within the Americas, tropical rainforests are located in five main regions: Mexico and Central America (known as Mesoamerica), Pacific Coastal Columbia and Ecuador (known as the Choco which extends from the Panama border south to northern Ecuador, is the wettest region in the world, and in terms of biological diversity is thought to be one of the most important in the world), the Caribbean Islands, the Guianas and Amazonia (which contain the largest contiguous rainforest in the world including part of eight countries Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela app. 7 million square kilometers), and finally, Atlantic Coastal Brazil. (Lessons from the Rainforest, Ghillean Prance, pp. 53-54).",0_0
The closest vessels are at least two days sailing time away.,0_0
#ar1 0.0459 198.5281 -0.0804 0.1698 -0.0577 0.1478 0.1251,0_0
"Conclusion: As multiple scientific studies have now shown, the ocean acidification hysteria is just that. Marine life seems extremely capable in its adaptive abilities, such that the risk from lower sea pH levels due to excess CO2 is tiny. This is also now true for the world's plankton communities in spite of the IPCC's prediction.",3_2
"The case for the pipeline has always been compelling if environmental concerns could be satisfied, and now that case is even stronger. If the president is re-elected this fall, its hard to see how his administration could be justified in again finding grounds to deny a permit for the project, as it did earlier this year.",0_0
Soaring Chinese economy at odds with climate goals,0_0
Om Kpenhamnsfiaskot skriver hon att den enda verraskningen med hur Kpenhamnsmtet slutade r att det var en verraskning fr s mnga intelligenta mnniskor.,0_0
"In his RMS article , Kevin Trenberth also conveniently overlooked the fact that the discussions about the warming halt are now for a time period of about 16 years, not 10 yearsever since David Roses DailyMail article titled Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released and here is the chart to prove it . In my response to Trenberths article , I updated David Roses graph , noting that surface temperatures in April 2013 were basically the same as they were in June 1997. Well use June 1997 as the start month for the running 16-year+ trends. The period is now 203-months long. The following graph is similar to the one above, except that its presenting running trends for 203-month periods.",1_4
Updated NASA Data: Global Warming Not Causing Any Polar Ice Retreat,1_1
"On September 26 of this year, President Obama said this of the new Obamacare exchanges:",0_0
"The report details how Schatten helped Hwang gain recognition, something the panel said likely encouraged Hwang to offer Schatten authorship of the paper. Schatten nominated Hwang for foreign membership in the United States National Academy of Sciences and with others for a Nobel Prize.",0_0
"What if the entire foundation for this energy and economic insanity were erroneous, groundless, fabricated a climate con job a Climate Hustle?",0_0
> >> Dr Mike Hulme,0_0
"A few days ago, the Laurie Hawn campaign was alerted, via e-mail, by an Edmonton lawyer that: ""Lots of supporters are enumerated at their downtown office address instead of at their houses. One of them was bragging about how many times he could vote liberal (sic) based on the number of leases he had in her riding."" In reaction to this e-mail, the Laurie Hawn campaign acquired a City of Edmonton map which listed all buildings and their street addresses and began thoroughly checking the revised voters list. Despite checking less than half the polls, here are some irregularities that have been identified: Almost 100 apparently nonexistent addresses in Edmonton's downtown core - in some cases, the addresses listed fictional residences in between two genuine buildings",0_0
"Wind power output is unreliable . Three parties should be concerned with the variability of windpower output: the company selling the wind power, the company buying the wind power, and the transmission network operator providing responsible for reliable operation of the power grid.",4_4
"Researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew and the Environment and Coffee Forest Forum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia looked at how climate change might make some land unsuitable for Arabica plants, which are highly vulnerable to temperature change and other dangers including pests and disease.",0_0
"A prolonged period of wet weather spurred the spread of the Bubonic plague in medieval times, according to a new study. And a 300-year spell of unpredictable weather coincided with the decline of the Roman Empire.",0_0
"Stranger than fiction: A little background on the cartooning and cricket blogging of John Cook of Skeptical Science, Al Gores Climate Reality drop partner.",0_0
"Again, EPA would not pay any attention to climate change scenarios that assume 1996 or even 2009 CO2 emissions in 2020, 2050, 0r 2080. So why put any credence in ""studies"" that assume 1996 ozone precursor emissions in perpetuity even though today's emissions are already significantly below 1996 emissions? By the 2050s and 2080s, the ""global warming effect,"" if any, on ozone formation, will likely be negligible. The real point of holding emissions constant is not to isolate a warming effect, but to scare the public.",0_0
"No, the basis for my suspicion is, in large part, the irrational and superstitious way Global Warmingism proponents and adherents react to any kind of extreme weather as evidence that modern economic and scientific activity is making global temperatures unnaturally rise.",5_2
"Mark Steyn will be on Ezra's show on Sun TV later today to discuss his new book, After America . If you enjoyed Mark's last apocalyptic blockbuster, you'll appreciate this one even more. From budgets to the border, diversity to disease, manufacturing to manhood, Steyn looks at the American undreaming, and provides a glimpse of the post-American world. There's laughs along the way, and a few suggestions as to how total civilizational collapse might be avoided.",0_0
"Unfortunately, Reid and his allies could get away with it, because ""renewable"" confers an almost Holy Grail status that ensures widespread political, media and public support. That lofty status, however, ignores two fundamental facts:",0_0
"Nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions are lower than they were 25 years ago, despite significant increases in population and industrial activity.",0_0
"As a postscript, I take on Mr. Stern's temperature forecasts of 2.5-3 degree C rise by 2050 and show why they make absolutely no sense in light of the last 100 years of empirical data.",5_1
"19) What Do I Predict for Global Temperature Changes in the Future? I tend to shy away from long-term predictions, because there are still so many uncertainties. When pressed, though, I tend to say that I think cooling in our future is just as real a possibility as warming. Of course, a third possibility is relatively steady temperatures, without significant long-term warming or cooling. Keep in mind that, while you will find out tomorrow whether your favorite weather forecaster is right or wrong, no one will remember 50 years from now a scientist today wrongly predicting we will all die from heat stroke by 2060.",0_0
"Xiao et al . concluded that the results of their study ""confirmed the beneficial effects of elevated CO 2 on C. intermedia seedlings exposed to drought-stressed conditions,"" and that these findings ""suggest that elevated CO 2 may enhance drought avoidance and improved water relations, thus weakening the effect of drought stress on growth of C. intermedia seedlings,"" all of which phenomena should help to fight desertification in the Maowusu sandland of China and parts of Inner Mongolia as the air's CO 2 content continues to rise. Reference",3_2
Gowdiak said his company found 50 problems in various Java SE implementations including 17 different complete sandbox bypass exploits.,0_0
"Washington's future in Asia depends upon a rich, strategically active Japan.",0_0
"""Superstorm"" Sandy killed more than 100 people, destroyed thousands of homes and businesses, and left millions without food, water, electricity, sanitation or shelter for days or even weeks. Our thoughts and prayers remain focused on its victims, many of whom are still grieving as they struggle with the storm's wintry aftermath and try to rebuild their lives.",0_0
"The authors observed increases in CAPE at 12 of the 15 tropical radiosonde stations over the period of their study. These increases, they say, appear to have been driven ""by increases in near-surface temperature and/or humidity."" They also report that the overall increase in CAPE appears to have been caused largely ""by a shift in the middle 1970s"" that was ""consistent with the time of an apparent shift of the background state of the climate."" The climate model, however, even though forced by observed sea surface temperatures, did not reproduce the overall increase in CAPE. The authors then coupled the atmospheric model to an ocean model and ran a simulation ""with changing greenhouse gases and aerosols in the twentieth century."" Once again, however, they report that, ""like the atmospheric GCM, the coupled model did not reproduce the observed trends in CAPE over the period examined.""",5_1
"As the president of a school district board, you have a particular responsibility to encourage informed discussion on controversial matters of the day, rather than to denigrate in ignorant fashion one aspect of a complex, multi-sided argument of which you happen to disapprove.",0_0
"According to findings published by the American College Testing (ACT) National Curriculum Survey, Common Core State Standards fail to prepare students for college. According to the ACT survey, released in June, only 16 percent of college educators say incoming students are prepared for post-secondary coursework. ""The college instructors are having to grapple with students who are not fully prepared for college writing,"" said Mary Byrne, a former college professor and a member of the Missouri Coalition Against Common Core. READ MORE",0_0
Brazil President courts Chinese bid for high-speed rail link:,0_0
"Ive also tried to explain that the temperature of the Earth and its atmosphere (or anything else, for that matter) is a function of rates of energy gain and energy loss, not of just how much solar radiation is absorbed. Ive argued this using the analogy of insulation in a house even though the insulation does not add new energy (just as the atmospheric greenhouse effect doesnt add new energy to the Earth system,) it does make the house warmer in winter by reducing the rate of energy loss to its colder surroundings.",0_0
"If she happened to obtain the data that the actresses got better rankings, she would have interpreted the data as a confirmation of the ""sexist biases"" as well. She would argue that her experiments show that there's no real difference and all the differences in the real world have to be due to sexism. Her colleagues are publishing similar ""research"" all the time, too.",0_0
"Another interesting thing raised by this critique is that, for all the ballyhoo about 2500 scientists being involved, the IPCC seems to be an enormous echo chamber operating outside of mainstream scientific thought. Last year, when the chairman of the National Academy of Science's panel on Applied Statistics looked at the statistical methodology of the paleoclimatologists he found serious drawbacks (PDF link). He was, of course, dismissed for not being part of the echo chamber.",0_0
"Most people not directly affected by the layoffs consider such arguments petty in comparison with ?saving the planet.? It would only be by demonstrating that the impact threat was false that anti-deflection bureau advocates have any chance of winning the debate, but they dare not bring it up. Bureau supporters would be furious if the rug was pulled out from under their pet project.",0_0
"""The Environmental Protection Agency's pending global warming regulations are no ""end run"" around Congress, as many conservatives are charging. This time, Congress is being held hostage by its own laws.""",0_0
"The UN's Margareta Wahlstrom , aka ""United Nations Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator and the Secretary-General's Special Coordinator for Humanitarian Assistance in Tsunami-afected countries"" - (yes, this is her title) is calling all psychiatrists;",0_0
"President Obama's Clean Power Plan (CPP) has widespread opposition within the Republican Partyincluding state governors who struggle to interpret the regulations but who are asking the right questions regarding the impact on their individual states. Even coal-state Democrats, such as Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), have concerns with the CPP.",0_0
"According to DECC statistics , the capacity of installed wind farms last year was 10976 MW, but on average, wind only runs at about 28% of that capacity over the year. On days such as today, wind is only running at 5% or less.",4_4
Analysts do not expect the segment to grow significantly this year: the combination of gas prices below $4 a gallon and higher upfront costs for the cars is not attracting consumers.,0_0
"The top five corporate givers provided The Heritage Foundation with 2% of its 2013 income. The Heritage Foundation's books are audited annually by the national accounting firm of McGladrey, LLP.",0_0
"Now there may be even fewer Democrats for TPA, and Boehner, lacking enough Republicans to pass it, is pressing the president to get more votes from his party.",0_0
"But problems with the GDP measurement exist. Prices may not exist for some goods and services, such as government-provided free health care or family care services, so statisticians have to impute prices to get a more complete GDP measure. Yet imputation is unreliable, given that the necessarily subjective evalu-ations are done by remote statisticians and not by consumers using the services. Additionally, discrepancies arise when the imputed values of these services vary cross-nationally. For instance, many services are valued more highly in Finland than in the United States because in the former the government sector is larger. Not including these services would bias Finland's GDP downward in relative terms.",0_0
Thanks to Sonya Porter and Allan Cotterill for this link,0_0
"In certain industries and certain states, it can be very hard to find coverage. For example, because campgrounds have a higher than average history of accidents, and because it is not a large market, many insurers won't touch our class code. One of the first thing an agent will do is to check to see if the companies he represents will write for your class code(s). By the way, this is also one of the first things that an employee outsourcing company will check, to see if they want to do business with you. In addition to difficulties with certain class codes, certain states, like Florida, can be a problem. For example, our company used to have a national policy that covered all 11 states that we were in. Several years ago, that company stopped writing certain states (California and Florida were the first they dropped) and I have had to systematically stitch together coverage from multiple brokers and companies. I currently have 5 policies to cover 10 states.",0_0
"As we argued in a previous AEI Environmental Policy Outlook in June, a revenue-neutral carbon tax, offset by reductions in taxes on productivity is a superior policy option to carbon emission trading in virtually every dimension. Revenue neutral carbon-centered tax reform would: be more effective at reducing GHG emissions than emission trading; create a revenue stream to offset economic damage of higher energy prices; shift a portion of the tax base from productive endeavor to consumption; be less prone to corruption; require no new collection mechanisms; be predictably adjustable and be self-moderatingnobody is likely to want the tax to be higher than absolutely necessary.",0_0
"Do the scientists who are at the top of their fields realize the above, not all. But guys like Keven Trenberth, Michael Mann and Phil Jones do. They understood the need to maintain a perfect consensus to achieve the IPCC goals. Do they believe in what they do? I dunno. I dont think Mann does, but how can you tell what another thinks?",0_0
"Ever had a child with colicterrible experience, late in the afternoon in the 3rd or 4th month they scream and cry and they are inconsolable. We have to teach parents to walk away to prevent anger and violence, the kid has what you might call an energy/behavior disorder, runs in families. You want to think they have cramps, be my guest. People take the child for a ride, put them on the dryer, anything to stop the crying. The only thing good about colic is that it stops just about as abruptly as it starts.",0_0
"Now Germany plans to phase out subsidies altogether, its solar industry is likely to disappear by the end of the decade.",0_0
"In his presentation, Dr. Patzelt also reveals glacier advances and retreats in the Alps throughout the Holocene, thousands of kilometers away from the Russian Altai. Forests existed at elevations that werehigher than today in areas that are presently covered by glaciers.",2_1
"The situation is quite clear on EF-4s the trend has significantly declined, and even 2011 had far fewer events than 1974 17 v 29.",0_0
"More ice in the Antarctic, it is mans fault for wrecking the ozone layer.",0_0
"Der Spiegel has an article on this topic, an interview with German electric utility executive Fritz Vahrenhold, entitled I feel duped on climate change .",0_0
"Last Monday he first gave an interview to The Economist where he declared he had no idea the size of his salary but later that day he told The Guardian he earned 30,000 a year. He lives in an inherited house reported to be worth millions in Delhis most expensive neighbourhood.",0_0
Some people are rejoicing over this turn of events. Desmog blog announces the death of the denial palooza:,0_0
"With eastern Arctic ice above normal, total ice extent willbe very close tothe 1981-2010 mean in a few weeks. Might even go above themean. Look for a spectacularramp up of Arctic lies this autumn from government funded experts.",1_1
"?The main reason they were able to get away with what they?ve gotten away with is that a majority of the mainstream media were complicit in what (the IPCC and other scientists) were doing,? Ball said. ?This is where the Founding Fathers have been corrupted because they believed the media would be the watchdogs, the gatekeepers. The mainstream media have failed completely.?",0_0
"These researchers sought to identify the magnitude of the natural signals present in the observed trends of surface and lower atmospheric temperatures and to see whether the recent slowdown in the rate of global average temperature rise could be explained by the combination of the timing of natural influences (again, solar, El Nio/La Nia, volcanoes). Ultimately, they concluded that, in fact, it could be. And when the natural signals were removed from the global temperature record, global warming was alive and well and proceeding at a remarkable steady rate since the beginning of their period of study, 1979-2010 (Fig. 3).",0_0
"The real food crisis hasn?t hit yet. The crop shortfalls in the U.S., Russia, Argentina, and Australia aren?t even all that unusual. Bad weather happens, and it hasn?t gotten worse with ?global warming.?",0_0
"Second, the idea of seeking a consensus on global warming reveals a misunderstanding of science itself. For science, facts are determined by the scientific method, wherein quantitative predictions resulting from a theory are refuted or confirmed by experiments. The known inadequacies of the present models mean they can tell us very little about the cause of climate change.",5_1
"In its 2013 report, ""How to Make Nuclear Cheap,"" the Breakthrough Institute offers a plan that would seem to sync with what Thiel recommends. It includes both expanded support for public research as well as regulatory reform ""so developers can demonstrate and license reactor components; and lower the costs, regulatory barriers, and time to market for new designs."" And certainly there are examples of government and private sector working together successfully on energy advances, most notably the shale energy revolution.",0_0
"The Endangered Species Act (ESA) direly needs revision, updating or outright repeal as, though well-intended in the beginning, it has more recently been used as a funding tool for environmental groups and a way for them to block economic activity, such as oil-and-gas extraction, and ranching, farming, and mining.",0_0
"Anti-skepticism isn?t science. At best it?s a kind of para-science, because skepticism is inherent to the scientific process. This para-science is the unprecedented, powerful, well-funded force, not the much-maligned skeptics. Even the oil companies go against the clich and fund it. It?s the skepticism inherent to science that is embattled. Everything else is delusion and lies. That is how the science has been damaged. That is among the main points of Garth?s book. Skepticism aims at truth. Para-science is about other agendas. No matter what they are, ?moral imperative? not withstanding, finding the truth trumps them all. Many scientists, including me, are worried humanity has been paying ?too high a price? in subordinating science to these agendas.",5_2
The pundits and pollsters are calling the presidential race too close to call. They suggest even minor issues could decide the outcome.,0_0
95 percent of global warming models are wrong,5_1
"> >> >- p.5, top under Analytic Framework: your 1st sentence says that",0_0
"Yeah, those guys suck. But more on our worthless allies later.",0_0
"In April, researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that forests in northern regions those north of the line of latitude that runs through southern Cuba will warm surface temperatures by an estimated 10 degrees Fahrenheit by the year 2100.",0_0
He begins by a clear universal explanation of the mechanism of natural selection and evolution. Societies and cultures are claimed to compete in similar ways but Pinker says that this is at most a metaphor because societies and groups in general fail to obey three key conditions of the classical evolution theory:,0_0
"CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President Clyde Wayne Crews, Jr. on why the U.S. is right not to yield control.",0_0
"The second pillar of science is that by its very nature, science is impersonal. There is no ""us', there is no ""them'. There is only the quest. However, in the entire murky non-scientific global warming episode, if anyone was a sceptic he was labelled as one of ""them'. At the very apex, before his humiliating retraction, Pachauri had dismissed a report by Indian scientists on glaciers as ""voodoo science"".",0_0
The overall trend declines to 0.081 C/decade (or a total rise of 0.486 C).,0_0
"Its important to realize that these are shown on a per molecule basis. Because water vapor (bottom bar of the figure) is much more plentiful in the atmosphere than any of the others, H 2 O absorbs vastly more energy and is by far the most important greenhouse gas. On any given day, H 2 O is a percent or two of the atmosphere; we call that humidity.",2_3
"The much-vaunted treaty creates a complicated and unenforceable system of international targets for carbon emissions reduction, based on measurements taken in 1990. Critics of the American president have condemned him for failing to sign it, conveniently forgetting that the Senate rejected it 95 to 0 in 1997, a margin that reflects broad bipartisan opposition. At the same time, few of the Asian and European signatories are actually on track to meet their goals; those that will meet the targets, such as Britain, can do so because their economies rely less on industry than they once did. Canada and Japan aren't even close to compliance; China and India, whose emissions rates are growing most rapidly, are exempt altogether as ""developing"" countrieswhich, given their economic strength, is absurd.",0_0
"Unlike China, Russia is not a rising power. Russian hearts and mind are still up for grabs, though, and there are three reasons why it would be grossly irresponsible to alienate Russia gratuitously. In the short term, Russia's support is critical to solve (militarily or not) the Iranian question; in the middle-term, Russia has considerable leverage over Europe, with much bigger sticks and carrots than America's, and the risk of a creeping Finlandization of Europe is real were America to indulge in brinkmanship; in the long term, the West would have nothing to gain were Russia, against its best interest, to upgrade its relations to the SCO from the tactical to the strategic level.",0_0
"Reason seems to be winning the day now, but a multi-billion dollar political adventure wont be going away anytime soon.",0_0
"Admittedly, CEI's ad did not mention that Davis's ROC encompasses about 70% of the total Antarctic ice sheet area, which he refers to as the ""grounded ice-sheet interior."" His ROC does not include interior regions that are within 8.4 degrees latitude of the pole (the satellites can't see there). However, Davis suspects that these near-polar regions are also gaining mass and thus suggests that his calculation of net gain is a ""conservative estimate."" He notes that, ""These results are consistent with ice-core evidence, though sparse, for increasing accumulation in East Antarctica during the decades preceding our observational time period.""",1_1
"One can think of A1F1 being close to a ""do nothing"" scenario on CO2, what is often called a Richer but Warmer scenario. The B1 scenario represents fairly large interventions in Co2 use and investments in energy technologies, with lower CO2 concentrations and as a result lower but still positive GDP growth (it takes only a small change in GDP growth to result in large changes in GDP 80 years hence -- the miracle of compounding). This is the cooler but poorer scenario. I know the Left has a fantasy that climate legislation is somehow an economic engine, but most economists on this reality plane achnowlege a tradeoff between CO2 intervention and economic growth.",4_1
"It's time to give America's forest management and fire control policies a thorough review and revision, before we lose more habitats, wildlife, homes, and human lives. And while we're at it, let's end this insane obsession with manmade climate Armageddon.",0_0
"A decade into his tenure, Gingrich was able to seize on and exploit a wave of populism triggered by a proposed 25 percent pay raise for members of Congress, judges, and top executive officials a raise, ironically, Gingrich himself supported. The move ignited a broad national anger, empowering such diverse figures as Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan, and, later, H. Ross Perot, and solidifying talk radio under Rush Limbaugh as a political phenomenon.",0_0
"One should not ignore the elephant in the room. Our CO2 graph shows one elephant: the failure of CO2 concentration over the past decade to follow the high trajectory projected by the IPCC on the basis of global emissions similar to todays. As far as we can discover, no one but SPPI has pointed out this phenomenon. Our temperature graph shows another elephant: the 30-year warming trend long enough to matter is again well below what the IPCCs methods would project. If either situation changes, followers of our monthly graphs will be among the first to know. As they say at Fox News, We report: you decide.",5_1
"Tragedy struck Niger, the former French colony of West Africa, over the summer. Millions were at risk of starvation. Political corruption, drought and poverty were the main causes for the lack of food, but over this past year West Africa has also been ravaged by a plague of locusts.",0_0
"Rosarno was a war among the poor: on the one hand cerano poor Italian, dallaltro cerano poor Africans. They lost all but lintellighenzia culture of our country decided that blacks are right and that the citizens of Rosarno are racist and xenophobic. Lhanno lhanno said and written a p all but the Ndrangheta, the only organization that has decided to take the side of Rosarno. Others can not be on the side of Rosarno Rosarno is because they think that the Ndrangheta. Why think only of those 300 affiliates criminals, certainly not representative of the other 15,700 Rosarnesi honest and healthy.",0_0
"Matt Melchiorre: But what the Germans don't have are rigid teachers' unions that prevent good teachers from being rewarded and bad teachers from getting fired. The Germans also don't rely on organized labor in education to support their government, as Mr. Obama does. This line must have been a joke. Mr. Obama will never bite the hand that feeds.",0_0
"In Part 3, I??ll show you some hardly ever seen before solar studies that come about as close to a ???smoking gun?? for climate change you??ll ever see and suggest a mechanism for how the missing linkage between the sun and earth is likely responsible for the ???apparent?? climate shifts we see.",2_1
"Earlier we added this to the list , now here is the description of the excuse. Basically what they are saying is that natural climate variability has overtaken the posited powerful effects of CO2 on climate.",2_1
5. His most recent television appearance was with me on the syndicated PBS show Uncommon Knowledge (www.uncommonknowledge.org).,0_0
"Mr. Kerwick revisits his original thesis and explains why it is important to have an historical perspective. Slavery throughout history is not about race, but culture and other things, and it still exists.",0_0
"the GCMs fail to reproduce the major decadal and multidecadal oscillations found in the global surface temperature record from 1850 to 2011. On the contrary, the proposed harmonic model (which herein uses cycles with 9.1, 1010.5, 2021, 6062 year periods) is found to well reconstruct the observed climate oscillations from 1850 to 2011, and it is shown to be able to forecast the climate oscillations from 1950 to 2011 using the data covering the period 18501950, and vice versa.",5_1
"President Obama addresses employees of General Electric's Waukesha Gas Engines facility in Waukesha, Wisconsin, January 30, 2014.",0_0
"""Some people say that because the Soviet people have to stand in line, it gives them time to reflect and become philosophical.""",0_0
"But I think the rest of us understand that American tort law, which allows juries to make multi-million dollar judgements based on emotions and empathy rather than facts and true liability, has at least a share of the blame. Not just the settlements, but the steps doctors go through to try to protect themselves from frivolous suits down the road. Here are two interesting stories along these lines. The first from Carpe Diem :",0_0
"If there was no carbon dioxide, it would be impossible for plants to grow, we would rapidly run out of food and life on this planet would cease to exist.",3_3
"Under this scenario, a piece of paper, from Ottawa or Oslo, committing the United States to reductions in greenhouse gasesthe way the Europeans want them reducedwould face a President Bush in his first day in office, with environmentalists clamoring for him to prove his mettle by agreeing to it.",0_0
"Says Milbank, ""Argument-by-anecdote isn't working.""",0_0
"Read here . Bozo climate predictions appear to be the IPCC's raison d'tre, which they definitely excel at. The latest bozo climate prediction found to be erroneous is that global warming, due to human CO2 emission increases, will cause more precipitation, thus causing more floods of greater frequency and intensity. Fortunately for the world, the IPCC is wrong again.",5_1
"Rogers, B.M., Randerson, J.T. and Bonan, G.B. 2013. High-latitude cooling associated with landscape changes from North American boreal forest fires. Biogeosciences 10: 699-718.",0_0
"A sound energy policy will permit us to harness energy from areas both offshore and in Alaska. It will ensure the rapid expansion of nuclear energy. It will not force us to subsidize unproductive sources of power, but rather expand research and development toward discovering genuine alternative energy solutions. We need to decouple our energy policy away from the global warming issue, and instead focus instead on ensuring we have enough energy to meet our needs and thereby continue to be a source of innovation and prosperity for the rest of the world.",0_0
"Wind Forecast Order Jeopardizes Industry, Tata Power Says",0_0
"Consider, as a sign of the party's decadence, how quickly Bob Corker, a card-carrying member of the Republican Party elite the center-right chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee caved in to this horribly miscast party standard-bearer. Trump's campaign has been filled with statements whose ignorance and bombast have appalled the establishment. Then a ballyhooed foreign policy speech in late April was widely panned by experts across the foreign policy spectrum. (""A very odd mishmash""; ""strident rhetoric masked a lack of depth."") Corker's response? He praised ""the broadness, the vision"" of the speech.",0_0
"The other great tourism business in Australia is the skiing industry. The industry is steadily investing in snow making equipment. Maybe it really needs to. Global warming creates a range of basic problems for Australias 11,500 square kilometre alpine region, a tiny 0.15 per cent of the continent. The most obvious effect of rising temperatures is snow that melts more quickly, is spread thinner, and a snow line that moves higher up the mountain. A complication is rainfall. Under climate change, the winter rain systems are expected to lessen so the chance of snow even if it is cold enough drops off. There may be some solace as storms increase, bearing the chance of a big snow dump.",0_0
"When pressing for Vermont Yankee to be closed, Gov. Shumlin described the possibility of closing the plant as giving a billion dollar bonanza to Vermont. What on earth was he thinking? Theres no billion-dollar bonanza. Theres a drop-off in employment, a killing of the local towns, and general misery.",0_0
"It is in the general interest of business to preserve an open and competitive marketplace, and to limit tax and regulatory burdens. However, it is often in the special interest of particular firms to expand the size and scope of government in order to collect political ""rents"" -- windfall profits created by market-rigging subsidies, preferences, or mandates.",0_0
"In contrast, tropical temperature reconstructions, only available from marine records, show that tropical Atlantic, Pacific, Indian Ocean SSTs exhibit a progressive warming from the beginning of the current interglacial onwards (Rimbu et al., 2004; Stott et al., 2004), possibly a reflection of annual mean insolation change (Figure 6.5).",2_1
A committee selected by Norway's socialist legislature has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.,0_0
The 2014/15 El Nio Part 9 Kevin Trenberth is Looking Forward to Another Big Jump,0_0
"The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the driving force behind the global warming hoax. It is holding a climate change summit on September 23. Guess who won't be attending? Chinese president Xi Jinping, India's prime minister, Narenda Modi, and for good measure, Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel. Others whose leaders will not be attending include Canada, Japan, and Russia.",0_0
As initially announced on Climate Science where a discount is available (and as another plug for our book! :-)) The second edition of our book Human Impacts on Weather and Climate has appeared. There is both a hardback and a paperback version.,0_0
"Very few people disagree with the basic fact that the greenhouse gas CO 2 warms the climate, but without some kind of positive feedback mechanism, it doesnt add very much: around 1C-1.2C per doubling of CO 2 . (See this discussion on no-feedback sensitivity). The global warming crisis emerged from a belief that small rises in CO 2 concentrations result in large knock-on effects, or strong positive feedbacks. These remain conjectural, as the forcings and feedbacks are poorly understood. Just how much of an effect does a rise in CO 2 have a little, or a lot? Hence the importance of new and better studies in the area of climate science dealing with attribution.",3_1
"The representation of clouds is one of the main weaknesses of current climate models . In particular, the parameterization of boundary layer stratus clouds has proved to be very difficult and has been a major area of research in the last decade. These clouds have a very weak greenhouse effect, but strongly reflect incoming shortwave radiation, thus modulating the albedo of the Earth. Bony and Dufresne (2005) have shown that the simulation of marine low level clouds is a large source of uncertainty in tropical cloud feedbacks and of climate sensitivity, suggesting that the simulation of tropical responses to different forcings will strongly depend on the parameterization of these clouds, and that results need to be tested using different cloud schemes.",5_1
"""Two-Point-Eight-Trillion-Anything Is Scary""",0_0
1993-2007: Did sea levels off the US East coast actually FALL?,0_0
Western US Hit Hard By Global Warming,0_0
"Whilst agnotology can be useful in many situations where old wives tales, myths, and other incorrect ideas exist, the value of using agnotology in politically-charged discussions such as climate change is questionable. Since the definition of misinformation lies in the eye of the advocate of a particular viewpoint, there is a danger that agnotology may serve not to enhance discussion or learning but rather to stifle debate and silence critics",0_0
The Courier-Mail Monday 6 May 1940,0_0
New paper: investigating the cosmic ray link,0_0
I am ashamed to be Norwegian today. The Norwegian Nobel Committee chose to give the prize to a shyster and a bureaucratic ministry of truth. I am not sure if I am more furious or more ashamed.,0_0
"Dr. Martin Hertzberg, Ph,D, co-author of Slaying the Sky DragonDeath of the Greenhouse Gas Theory, summed it up neatly, pointing outthat water vapor in the Earths atmosphere is a primary factor affecting climate long term and weather short term.",2_3
Non-Existent Cold Arctic Air Makes Winter Cold,0_0
"Solar radiation also evaporates water from the oceans and provides the energy for rain, winds and storms. Much of this moisture falls as useful rain when the winds penetrate land masses. Wind turbines create artificial obstacles to the wind, reducing its velocity and thus tending to create more rain near the coast and rain shadows behind the turbine walls. And they chop up many birds and bats. Again, green energy harms the biosphere.",4_1
"A Yiddish proverb states ''a half truth is a whole lie''. By withholding vital information, it's possible to lead you towards the opposite conclusion to the one you would get from considering the full picture. In Bob Carter's opinion piece on this page yesterday, this technique of cherry-picking half-truths is on full display, with frequent examples of statements that distort climate science.",0_0
"the Obama administration built support, including from China and Russia, for a",0_0
The empirical evidence is so overwhelming that even the vast majority of alarmist climate scientists (over 97%) agree that the predicted accelerating global warming has been non-existent over the last 15 years.,1_4
"In the lower 48 states there have been about ten extreme megafires, which I define as burning more than 1 million acres. Eight of these occurred during cooler than average decades. These data suggest that extremely large megafires were 4-times more common before 1940 (back when carbon dioxide concentrations were lower than 310 ppmv). What these graphs suggest is that we cannot reasonably say that anthropogenic global warming causes extremely large wildfires.",1_7
1) admit that mean global temperatures have not risen since 1997 and that the warming trend has stalled,1_4
"Carlin refers to a ""climate-industrial complex"" patterned after a ""military-industrial complex"" term that President Eisenhower warned against in his 1961 farewell address.",0_0
"I'm suspicious of anybody who does a lot of loud, public fretting. Hoodwinking your fellow citizens by means of dreads and frights has been going on since Paleolithic times. Politicians on the subject of global warming are no different than tribal wizards on the subject of lunar eclipses.",5_2
"This story appeared in the Boston Globe, May 20, 2003, page C9.",0_0
"""This is hard to explain with our current models"" An exploded star some 3.8 billion light-years away is forcing scientists to overhaul much of what they thought they knew about gamma-ray bursts - intense blasts of radiation triggered, in this case, by a star tens of times more massive than the sun that exhausted its nuclear fuel, exploded, then collapsed to form a black hole. ""Some of our theories are just going down the drain,"" said Charles Dermer, an astrophysicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico... h/t Paul B.",0_0
"7) It is claimed that the current ice loss in the Antarctic is enough to raise global sea levels by 0.45 millimetres each year, but much of this rise has already been occurring throughout the last century.",1_6
"When the secondary cosmic rays interact in the monitor, (actually in lead surrounding the counters) they cause nuclear disintegrations, or stars. These stars are composed of charged fragments and neutrons typically in the energy range of tens to hundreds of MeV (million electron-volts), even up to GeV energies. As a result of these high energy nuclear interactions, there will be more secondary fragments generated than incident particles and hence there is a multiplier effect for the counters. The neutrons are moderated and then counted using Boron tri-fluoride (BF3) proportional counters which are efficient thermal neutron detectors; hence the name neutron monitor.",0_0
FactCheck: Scientists also say that the ice sheet is melting at the ocean's edge .,0_0
Jobs Picture Gets Even Worse as Rate Swells to 9.2%:,0_0
Democratic Party's brand with the antiwar constituency that gave George McGovern the nomination 35 years earlier. Rather than overcompensating for this stereotype with a me-too,0_0
"The platform states climate change is an ""urgent and severe threat"" and calls for an 80 percent cut in carbon-dioxide emissions below 2005 levels by 2050 and getting 50 percent of the nation's electric power from ""clean energy sources"" by 2025. The platform also adopted a provision calling for the Department of Justice to investigate companies for skeptical statements they've made concerning the causes and consequences of climate change.",0_0
"Microfinance loans empower their customers to invest, grow, and be productive, all of which contribute to diminishing poverty within communities.",0_0
"Because Exponent had also purported to justify their statistical analyses without consideration of timing as a sort of preliminary gatekeeping,Kessler scored some points as to why they didnt do the same thing with their analysis of differences in variability. In my opinion, this was a better rhetorical than analytic point. I dont have any issue with Exponent analysing variability; only that they didnt do enough analysis or that their analysis wasnt insightful enough.",0_0
"As this is being written, the State Department just released a report that would clear the way for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada after a 5-year delay by the Obama Administration. Pipelines are the safest way to transport oil and natural gas. If the U.S. cannot gain access to the oil, it will go to China and other nations.",0_0
"The United Nations undersecretary for planning is following in the footsteps of his comrades Stalin, who had 5-year plans, and Hitler, who had 4-year plans. His planning includes the future developments in science. As the AFP reveals, Robert Orr of the U.N. has planned that the next IPCC climate report will be more catastrophic than ever before.",5_2
"John opened his discussion with a statement that there has been a (reported) rising global temperature trend since 1975, while in fact broad agreement exists that there has been no warming for at least a decade. Phil Jones has stated that global temperatures have been flat for 17 years.",1_4
while Antarctic Sea Ice Extent has remained above the ???normal?? range for much of the last two months:,1_1
"After all, isn't serious scrutiny a prerequisite for all trusted science?",0_0
The condensate is pumped back to the boiler for reuse and the cooling water is returned to the river.,0_0
> >> >>My questions are: Who would be able to do a good job on this,0_0
"Climate change will be another factor adding to the stress (WWF, 2005).",0_0
This week I spoke to Pielke by phone. Asked for his initial reaction to the ThinkProgress e-mail...,0_0
"Environmentalists are ecstatic with the announcement, but New England fishermen aren't very happy about losing fisheries worth $50 million to their bottom-line, reports The Washington Post.",0_0
Based on California temperature data from the National Climatic Data Center and runoff data from the California Department of Water Resources.,0_0
"For a more detailed examination of the CEIP, see my Clean Energy Incentive Program: New Unlawful Element in EPA's Power Plant Rule?",0_0
"In Massachustts v. EPA, the 5-4majority argued:(1) The Clean Air Act (CAA) defines air pollutant as any airborne substance whatsoever; (2) the EPA has a mandatory duty to regulate air pollutants emitted by automobiles if the associated air pollution may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health and welfare; and (3) welfare effectsincludechanges in weather and climate. Given these premises, the Court basically left the EPAone way to avoid regulating GHGs: Cancel its membership in the self-anointed scientific consensus the climate alarm movement that the agency had spent years promoting and leading.No chance of that happening.",0_0
"Another drawback is range.Except forthe Tesla Model S, with an EPA-estimated range of 265 miles, most battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) have EPA-estimated ranges of 62 to 99.8 miles ??? although motorists may go farther under actual driving conditions, Edmunds.Com reports. These range limitations diminish the utility and, thus,value ofBEVs for many consumers, and may induce ???range anxiety?? ??? fear of being stranded between where you are and where you have to go. The Tesla Model S has an impressive range but, with a manufacturer??s recommended sale price of $69,900 ,most households cannot affordto buy oneevenwith generous federal and state tax rebates.",4_4
"Although elevated CO 2 increased the total number of bacteria and respiring bacteria in the bulk soil beneath white clover by 40 and 70%, respectively, it had no significant impact on bulk-soil bacterial numbers beneath perennial ryegrass. When the total bacterial numbers in rhizosphere soil were expressed on a per unit land area basis, however, it was found that elevated CO 2 increased the total number of bacteria and respiring bacteria beneath white clover by about 100 and 250%, respectively, while it increased the total number of bacteria and respiring bacteria beneath perennial ryegrass by approximately 85 and 125%, respectively. What it means",0_0
"To reduce the interpretation of the causality of all kinds of climate changes and of global warming to one variable, CO2, or to a small proportion of one variable ? human-induced CO2 ? is impossible to accept. Elementary rationality and my decades-long experience with econometric modeling and statistical testing of scientific hypotheses tell me that it is impossible to make strong conclusions based on mere correlation of two (or more) time series. In addition to this, it is relevant that in this case such a simple correlation does not exist. The rise of global temperature started approximately 150 years ago but man-made CO2 emissions did not start to grow visibly before the 1940s. Temperature changes also repeatedly moved in the opposite direction than the CO2emissions trend suggests.",2_3
"Following the humiliation of the EU and its supporters (including Australia) at Copenhagen last December, the whole Anthropogenic Global Warming structure is now falling down, as one key structural element collapses after another. Even the Royal Society of London, for years a rock-solid player in this fraud, has announced the establishment of a committee to inquire into the Society?s role and conduct in this debate.",5_2
"The former vice president, who has devoted his post-electoral career to climate change fanaticism, this week gave the former Massachusetts governor kudos on the issue closest to Gore's heart.",0_0
"Well, I wasn??t going to mention this paper, but it seems to be getting some play in the blogosphere. Our friend Nicola Scafetta is back again, this time with a paper called ???Solar and planetary oscillation control on climate change: hind-cast, forecast and a comparison with the CMIP5 GCMs?? . He??s posted it up over at Tallbloke??s Talkshop. Since I??m banned over at Tallbloke??s, I thought I??d discuss it here. The paper itself is here , take your Dramamine before jumping on board. Dr. Scafetta has posted here on WUWT several times before, each time with his latest, greatest, new improved model. Here??s how well Scafetta??s even more latester, greatester new model hindcasts, as well as what it predicts, compared with HadCRUT4:",2_1
That Heartland is losing the battle is discussed by several recent articles in the Guardian:,0_0
"The world stopped getting warmer almost 16 years ago, according to new data released last week.",1_4
"As these figures demonstrate, lower tropospheric temperatures (the part of the atmosphere where weather is generated) have reverted to the levels of 11 years ago after a period of rapid cooling over the last year and a half. In addition to RSS, the other three measures of world temperatures reveal the same cooling pattern: http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1997/to:2009/offset:-0.146/plot/gistemp/from:1997/to:2009/offset:-0.238/plot/uah/from:1997/to:2009/plot/rss/from:1997/to:2009 . As Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. has previously discussed, the oceans (the more important indicator of global temperature change) have not been warming in recent years and have actually cooled slightly. The ???warming?? conditions explict in the EDF claim and implicit in the NOAA release do not exist.",1_4
"But, it is often unreported that we??ve had sea level rise all through American history. Of all the talk about sea level rise, it is interesting to point out that at least in Boston, man has easily outraced the sea. The worry about sea level is real, but the ability of man to adapt is clearly illustrated in the comparative maps. See here: The rubbish is coming! One if by land, two if bysea",1_6
"It involved the crews of Mercury and Apollo and the space shuttle's 135 missions and the engineers of a thousand companies who made those things fly and gave us personal computers, cellphones and GPS along the way.",0_0
"Similarly, relatively large warming and cooling radiative forcings (e.g., well-mixed greenhouse gases and the indirect effect of aerosols) could be in near balance at present, suggesting that sudden climate changes could occur if one of these forcings becomes dominant. On the other hand, a loss of space to a large portion of the increased radiative fluxes, as the atmosphere adjusts, such as through a change in cloud cover (e.g., Lindzen et al. 2001), would suggest that the climate system is relatively more resilient to continued anthropogenic heating effects than conventionally assumed.",3_1
Seven power plants in Pennsylvania are under attack by the Sierra Club and EarthJustice which have filed a federal lawsuit. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has exposed this common practice by environmental groups to ?sue and settle.?,0_0
100 countries back world environment agency,0_0
Alexis de Tocqueville InstitutionAmericans for Tax ReformAmerican Legislative Exchange CouncilAmerican Policy CenterAssociation of Concerned TaxpayersCenter for Security PolicyCitizens for a Sound EconomyCitizens for the Integrity of ScienceCommittee for a Constructive TomorrowCompetitive Enterprise InstituteConsumer AlertDefenders of Property RightsFrontiers of FreedomGeorge C. Marshall InstituteHeartland InstituteIndependent InstituteNational Center for Policy AnalysisNational Center for Public Policy ResearchPacific Research InstituteSeniors Coalition60 PlusSmall Business Survival CommitteeThe Advancement of Sound Science CoalitionThe Heritage Foundation,0_0
"Foxnews argues that astronomers have been deaf so far but with LIGO and LISA, they may detect the songs sung by cosmic superstrings: :-) Cosmic superstrings might 'sing' in gravity waves The expected music is 10-20 octaves below the usual pop-music hits. Fair and balanced. We report, you decide. :-) There are interesting people mentioned in the article but let me still recommend this 2004 review by Polchinski: Introduction to cosmic F- and D-strings Unlike our friends in Foxnews, Joe Polchinski doesn't confuse cosmic superstrings with more general cosmic strings - thin tubes filled with the primordial vacuum. ;-)",0_0
"The Iceberg Lake, Alaska series has profound inhomogeneities, especially in its 20th century portion. A major inhomogeneity is that varve thickness is related to distance to the inlet, an observation first made in comments at Climate Audit in comments on Loso 2006. Loso 2009 conceded this point (without mentioning Climate AUdit though it did acknowledge WIllis Eschenbach who corresponded with Loso on a different point) but its remedy (taking logarithms) was hopelessly inadequate to the problem. Dietrich and Loso 2012 acknowledges that inhomogeneities impact their reconstruction, but did not amend or withdraw the earlier series. Interestingly, Dietrich and Loso report glacier advance in Alaska commencing around 1250AD, almost exactly contemporaneous with the well-dated Hvitarvatn advance. The Iceberg Lake series, as used, has a late 20th century uptick coinciding with a major inhomogeneity, the effect of which cannot be separated under any plausible technique known to me.",5_1
"An extremely cold period commonly known in Kuwait as Izairig will continue until the end of the month, says astronomer Adel Al-Saadoun.",0_0
"Related Issues: Climate Change, Energy Policy, Political Thought",0_0
"In answer to this question, the Canadian and French scientists note that the studies of McKenney et al. (2011) and Terrier et al. (2013) suggest that ""future climate warming will lead to increases in the proportion of hardwood forests in both southern and northern boreal landscapes."" And they say that this change in landscapes likely will have other benefits as well, such as ""the higher albedo and summer evapotranspiration from deciduous trees, which would cool and counteract regional warming (Rogers et al., 2013), and the increase in the resilience of forests to climatic changes (Drobyshev et al., 2013).""",0_0
"Whatever it does produce is constantly changing, moment-to-moment; no one can predict what it will produce at any future time. Winds performance history also shows that wind plants generally produce most at the times of least demandand least at the times of peak demand.",4_4
Here?s a break down of just a handful of the states affected by these regulations:,0_0
"The CFACT workshop on ""How to Think and Talk about Climate and Energy Issues"" was held as part of the 41st annual national meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC an outstanding organization that helps state legislators promote limited government, free markets, and federalism.",0_0
"These anti-hydrocarbon policies also mean the U.S. Treasury will be deprived of hundreds of billions of dollars in lease bonuses, royalties, taxes and other revenues that it would realize from the development of our nation's vast oil, natural gas and coal deposits. Instead, the United States will be forced to pay billions more for imported oil, often from unethical, environmentally reckless countries.",4_1
Jay Louvion/World Trade Organization,0_0
"So, both current temperatures and 10-Year averages are actually slightly lower than 2002-11. With just three years to go, it seems unlikely that the 2007-16 will alter this position drastically.",1_4
NRO's Manzi Mischaracterizes Global Warming Debate,0_0
"Now, thanks to Kennedy, Massachusetts can be a model for the rest of the states.",0_0
"41 Javier Solana, ""Mars and Venus Reconciled: A New Era for Transatlantic Relations,"" Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (April 7, 2003).",0_0
"Agreement signed at San Jose September 13, 2007; entered into force September 13, 2007. And agreement amending the agreement signed at San Jose September 25 and 26, 2007; entered into force September 26, 2007.",0_0
"""The idea that CO2 is the tail that wags the dog is no longer scientifically tenable,"" said Marc Morano of ClimateDepot.com, a website devoted to countering the prevailing acceptance of man-made global warming.",0_0
"In the end expect hundreds of thousands of euros more to be spent on proper ventilation and climate control, and expect much more than the ballyhooed 15 kwh/m/year to be consumed. Or, in the worst case, expect the place to be taken over by the weeds soon.",0_0
"Some of the areas where organisms would need to relocate the fastest are important biodiversity hot spots, such as the coral triangle region in southeastern Asia, says lead author Mike Burrows of the Scottish Association of Marine Science.",0_0
"Also we have applied a completely artificial adjustment to the data after 1960, so they look closer to observed temperatures than the tree-ring data actually were Dr. Tim Osborn, Climatic Research Unit, disclosed Climategate e-mail, Dec. 20, 2006",5_2
"(gales, storms, hurricanes, tornadoes etc) there seems to be little robust",0_0
The Overstatement Of Certainty In The Levitus Et Al 2012 Paper,0_0
"As a token gesture towards those of us who dislike State-funded propaganda that is also wasteful and prodigiously carbon-emitting, in one of Copenhagen?s squares a giant Christmas tree covered in white lights (colored Christmas decorations are regarded as vulgar in Denmark) is surrounded by a couple of dozen fixed bicycles attached to generators, so that the eco-Fascists can feel good about the environment as they pedal like mad to keep the Christmas-tree lights on.",0_0
China Demand $100 Billion While They Continue To Increase Emissions,4_2
"This time power will be met by a commercial generation market where the government, until around 2020, will set the required amount and price for low-carbon power according to technology and leave delivery to the market. (The CEGB in addition owned the power plants, in a fully nationalised model).",0_0
Then we will watch our nation's economy expand with more jobs and more revenue.,0_0
"Freely distributed allowances to firms tend to be very regressive. Higher-income households may actually gain at the expense of lower-income households under this policy. This is because the asset value of the allowances flows to households in the form of increased stock values or capital gains, which are concentrated in higher-income households.",0_0
"On Tuesday November 17th, a little sanity came to the Parliament of Canada. The Canadian Senate killed the NDP sponsored Bill C-311, ""The Climate Change Accountability Act.""",0_0
"A paper published today in the Journal of Geophysical Research finds that current global climate models make ""very large"" errors in determining solar radiation at the surface of the Earth ""due to ignoring the effects of clouds."" According to the authors, these very large errors can exceed 800 Watts per meter squared, which by comparison is about 216 times more than the alleged effect of doubling CO2 concentrations .",0_0
"Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman, who supports the pipeline if it avoids the Sand Hills, signed legislation last month allowing his state to restart a review of the project. So its probably only a matter of time before the ball lands squarely in the federal governments court with a final decision coming after November.",0_0
"The Obama vision has been an unmitigated disaster. Countless failures, bankruptcies and layoffs are matched by a need for perpetual subsidies taken from hard-working, productive people and businesses, and given by unaccountable bureaucrats to failed technologies and companies, run by crony-corporatists who return the favor by contributing substantial portions of our compulsory taxpayer largesse to the reelection campaigns of cooperative politicians.",0_0
"In her sworn testimony, Dr. Curry stated, The information cascade of climate change as apocalypse is impeding our ability to think rationally about how we should respond to climate change.",5_2
"Professor Stephan Lewandowsky may not understand much about the climate, but he is a professor of psychology so satire, humor, and hoaxes ought to be right up his alley, right? Hes realized he fell for the brilliant Alene Composta (a master satirist) replying to her and even sending her fake request for advice to fellow blogger John Cook ( who fell for it too ).",0_0
"Some will argue that, with 50,000 troops present in three continents today, NATO is in essence already global. Others will counter that the story of this halfhearted, haphazard globalization reads at times like a tale told by an idiot, full of rhetorical fog and bureaucratic friction, and signifying nothing more than ""flight forward"" or ""muddling through."" In fact, in the post-Cold War period, NATO's desire to have its cake (collective defense) and eat it too (collective security) has created a certain conceptual confusion.2",0_0
"There have only been three recorded hurricanes during May in the Atlantic Basin. They occurred in 1908, 1951 and 1970, including this hurricane which struck the US during the last week of May, 1908",1_7
"According to the authors, their research revealed ""a general long-term cooling trend,"" but that ""superimposed on this overall trend"" were ""partly higher temperatures and salinities from 180 to 560 AD and 750-1160 AD,"" which they say ""may be ascribed to the Roman and Medieval Warm Periods , respectively,"" the latter of which was followed by the Little Ice Age (LIA) and what they describe as the ""post-LIA recovery and, possibly, (late) 20th century anthropogenic warming.""",2_1
"Let me emphasize again: The catastrophe results not from greenhouse gas theory, but from the theory of extreme climactic positive feedback. In a large sense, all the debate in the media is about the wrong thing! When was the last time you saw the words ""positive feedback"" in a media article about climate?",5_2
"To put it another way, the reason that polar bears in some areas easily survive an onshore fast of 4 months or more over the late summer/early fall is that they would get very little to eat (if anything) even if they stayed out on the ice. It??s the fat put on in spring/early summer (from gorging on baby seals) that carries them over the summer, no matter where they spend it.",3_2
2012 Presidential Election Results The Washington Post,0_0
and rainfall variability are also presented. Regions of Africa where seasonal,0_0
"Montral, Quebec, December 9, 2005Former U.S. President Bill Clinton will address the United Nations climate conference in Montral this afternoon, and is expected to urge the United States to change course and adopt the energy-use restrictions of the Kyoto Protocol. Clinton's current enthusiasm for the treaty is in sharp contrast to his position while President and the conditions he demanded be met prior to U.S. approval.",0_0
"3) Hydro is obviously pretty much fixed, and the general impression is that there is little scope for much more onshore wind, so I have assumed an increase in capacity from the current 8GW to 10GW.",0_0
"Over the past decade, GISS has continued to show an increase in global temperatures, while HadCRUT has decreased. They have been diverging at a rate of about 1C per century, which is pretty dramatic considering that they report 0.01C precision.",5_1
"As tallied up at JunkScience.com courtesy of the global warmers' own data, Kyoto is estimated to have cost about $150 billion so far, while only hypothetically reducing the average global temperature by 0.0015 degrees Centigrade.",4_2
"Just look at some of the other postings on this site. Bossy, hand-wringing, whingeing demands that the economies of the West should be selectively shut down, because otherwise the polar ice will melt, the sea will rise, coral islands will drown, tempests will roar, plagues, famines, droughts and floods will stalk the Earth, and there will be Horsemen of the Apocalypse all over the place.",5_2
"While Chinas program has been primarily driven by a desire to build globally competitive electric vehicles, air pollution, especially in the cities, has become a national imperative. Yet, if coal-fired power is used to meet electric vehicle electricity demand, the absence of tail pipe emissions will likely be entirely offset by incremental power generation.",0_0
"There is very little exchange of air between the northern and southern hemispheres, and basic climate science shows that most sulfates from China will rain out before they get across the thermal equator. In fact, there is a great deal of literature out there published by luminaries like the Department of Energy?s Ben Santer and NASA?s James Hansen claiming relative cooling of the northern hemisphere from sulfates, compared to the southern.",0_0
This dull looking open access paper hides gems.,0_0
"As far as his professed fear and trembling over CO2 being higher than any time in recorded history, first, its not true. There were times in the 19th century that atmospheric CO2 was measured at over 400 ppm. And, second, recorded history is a cute way to avoid looking at all the other ways that atmospheric CO2 concentrations are measured for times before recorded history. Again, he either lacks perspective or is deliberately failing to provide it. In the geological time frame, the current amount of atmospheric CO2 is near an all time low, vying with the Carboniferous and Permian Periods for the lowest atmospheric CO2 in over 500 million years. Its decline over the past 150 million years has been almost linear and completely unconnected with any sort of human activity, as was its abrupt increase at the end of the Permian period from about where it is now, just barely enough to sustain life, to over 2500 ppm.",2_3
"Its political might has also made 1199 into a talent farm for the Democratic Party's liberal wing. Take the impressive career of Jennifer Cunningham, a well-connected advisor in Democratic circles, once described by the New York Post as ""the most powerful woman in Albany."" She joined 1199 after earning her spurs in the political-affairs office of Victor Gotbaum's AFSCME District Council 37, the largest pure government union in New York City.",0_0
Do you think human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures?,0_0
"But the memo reveals that when the film was shown to a group of Cuban doctors, some became so "" disturbed at the blatant misrepresentation of healthcare in Cuba that they left the room"".",0_0
"Now consider the Apocalypse Delayed? posting of March 28th. Referring to an Economist article, it says that a number of empirical studies show that climate sensitivity is much lower than the climate models assume. Therefore, moving into the net cost range seems much less likely.",3_1
"Acronym translation: OMB is the Office of Management and Budget, DPC is the Domestic Policy Council, NEC is the National Economic Council and OLA is the Office of Legal Affairs.",0_0
"And now the Vatican is adopting the same secretive, agenda-driven, inquisition tactics.",0_0
"To paraphrase Mario Cuomo's dictum about political campaigns, we debate foreign policy in poetry and",0_0
"Canberra Times For local Canberra News, World News & Breaking ...",0_0
"Climate researchers have discovered that NASA researchers improperly manipulated data in order to claim 2005 as ""the warmest year on record.""",5_1
"Climate scientists say it will take at least ten years of continuing observation and theoretical studies to decide whether increasing CO2 levels are likely to cause significant global warming. T. P. Barnett, co-reviewer of the 1995 IPCC report, states, ""The next 10 years will tell; we're going to have to wait that long to really see.""37 K. Hasselmann of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Meteorology concurs, ""It will take another decade or so to work up out of the noise."" 38",5_1
"The Daily Show. Jon Stewart, who hosts the popular Daily Show, recently introduced his viewers to the idea of geoengineering as a solution to climate change, using AEI's own Sam Thernstrom as an expert. In typical Daily Show hyperbole, the producers titled the segment ""Our Dead Planet.""",0_0
"So far the U.S. has been nearly alone in its skepticism of global warming claims and the need to spend billions of dollars to prevent it. The Canadians, however, are becoming more and more squeamish about the Kyoto Protocol and its implications.",0_0
"But don't get me wrong: I was convinced by the reigning consensus on global warming a long time ago, have accepted that human use of fossil fuels has caused it and am very glad so many European politicians take the scientists' words seriously. The question now is whether these same Europeans will start taking the solutions seriously. If so, they must begin by abandoning the bankrupt Kyoto treaty on climate change and encouraging the United States to do so, too.",0_0
"It was eight years ago this month that the United Nations said we had eight years to do something about global warming. If not, the planet would be in trouble . Well, here we are, and no climate disaster has befallen Earth. And none is on the horizon.",5_2
"environmental pressure groups, renewable energy companies and some public officials who keep each other well supplied with lavish funds, scare stories and green tape.",5_2
"The delegates, if they could, would impose carbon taxes nation-by-nation and globally, but Chip Knappenberger, a leading skeptic, writing in MasterSource.org, asked How much global warming will result from U.S. emissions over the course of this century and how much of that could be prevented by a carbon tax? These two questions have the same simple answervirtually none. One or two tenths of a degree a century with or without a carbon tax makes the whole climate debate a peculiar exercise.",4_2
"A coral reef in Northern Australia severely damaged by warming seas has managed to completely heal itself in just 12 years, stunned researchers have found.",3_2
"There are other concerns that should be taken into account. For example, you might move before you get your hands on all the payback, and the value added to your house by solar panels may not be fully recognised by buyers.",0_0
"And how was last year? Also in 2012 tornadoes were relatively rare, as no year saw fewer tornadoes than 2012 since tornado recording began in 1954 . 2012 was the absolute low-point of the officially recorded tornado development of the past 60 years. The lilac-colored curve in Figure 2 represents the year 2012, which is not that far off from the current 2013 year (black).",1_7
"This one is about 13 minutes of off the deep end conspiracy theory talk, but the video of the cars and lots (repeated) is rather good. Much easier to see the non-random nature of the distribution of car types.",0_0
"An article published today in Nature notes multiple and substantial uncertainties and deficiencies of climate models which are"" crucial for predicting global warming,"" due primarily to the low-resolution of today's models which is insufficient to skillfully simulate essential climate aspects such as",5_1
"The new hottest ever record set in the UK was on August 1o, 2003.",0_0
"This last sentence appears to me to be a complete fabrication (and is repeated in his Second Reply). Ive searched the NAS Panel report (Cubasch) and found no reference that remotely supports this claim. If anything, the NAS quote highlighted at the beginning endorsed the view exactly opposite to what Mann espouses here.",0_0
"16.	""Continuous development of renewable energies "" No, alternative energies are largely inefficient, costly, and unnecessary. Eatable raw materials, especially with so many starving throughout the world, should not be used for energy production.",4_1
"In addition, computer models cant explain global warming from 1910-1940 without increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels; followed by a slight decline in global temperatures from 1945 to 1975 and increasing global temperatures from 1975-1998, at the same rate as the 1910-1940 increase, when atmospheric carbon dioxide levels increased about 16 percent.",5_1
"There appear to have been more category four and category five storms post-1928 as compared to pre-1928 (12 vs. 9). But since that difference depends on measurements of maximum hurricane wind speeds, it could easily be questioned given dramatic technological improvements in modern hurricane data collection.",1_7
"Rockst m and his co-authors are a prime example of what Roger Pielke, Jr., calls ""stealth issue advocates,"" a role ""characterized by the expert who seeks to hide his/her advocacy behind a facade of science."" Stealth advocacy, Pielke says, is ""the fastest route to pathologically politicizing science. It is also what gives scientists as advocates a bad name.""",0_0
"""PRESIDENT OBAMA: That's exactly right. So -- so part of what's happened also is some structural changes in the economy. Where it used to be that there was broad-based shared prosperity, now if companies are doing really well -- they're not necessarily hiring back workers. They're just figuring out how to do more with fewer workers. That may increase profits, but it doesn't help folks who are lookin' for a job. And often times that look -- puts a lot of pressure on the people who are already on the job.""",0_0
"Natural gas prices would still be above $8 per thousand cubic feet (million Btu), instead of in the $2.50-$3.00 range. America would still be looking overseas for fuels to replace the coal that the Obama EPA is effectively eliminating from our energy, electricity, employment and economic picture.",0_0
"Included are updates of the weekly sea surface temperature anomalies for the four most-often-used NINO regions. Also included are updates of the GODAS map-based animations of sea surface height anomalies, T300 anomalies (depth-averaged temperature anomalies to 300 meters), sea surface temperature anomalies, and the cross sections of temperature anomalies at depth along the equator. These animations start in January 2014 for the full progress of this years event. Also included are a couple of graphs of the BOM Southern-Oscillation Index (SOI).",0_0
"The Ukraine Crisis is an example of future events until the United States develops fossil fuel energy production superiority. The Ukraine Crisisjust as the 1973 Oil Embargo is a great gift to stop the environmental movement's eliminating fossil fuel production and insistence on relying on solar, wind, ethanol from corn, etc., as primary energy sources. These renewable energy sources are of no consequence in the conduct of foreign policy. Do we want peace and prosperity or ""Green energy,"" poverty, and the possibility of nuclear war?",0_0
"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrarywise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see? Alice in Wonderland",0_0
"Mercury Emissions have declined by 45 percent during the 1990s, most of which is due to the phase-out of municipal and medical waste incineration. As a result, consumers can feel comfortable consuming fish, such as salmon and trout. Recent concerns about the safety of fish due to high mercury levels have abated thanks to guidance published in 2004 by the EPA which emphasized that ""for most people, the risk from mercury by eating fish and shellfish is not a health concern.""",0_0
"The scientific and economics literature provide a wide range of guidance on each of these factors. And from this guidance, Epstein et al. develop low, high, and best estimate determinations of the externalities from electricity generated from the burning of coal. Epstein et al. have a tendency to give more preference for research conducted by various members in or close to their group. And since Epsteins Center for Health and the Global Environment is focused on playing up the negative impacts of anthropogenic climate change, their best estimate tends to incorporate some rather high-end formulations.",0_0
"In the 1970s, however, scientists began to realize that life had in fact greatly changed the Earth?s environment, starting more than a billion years ago. At the same time, evidence was building that burning fossil fuels was increasing the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide. In 1957, Charles Keeling began the first continuous measurements to study carbon-dioxide change over time at Mauna Loa, Hawaii. By 1973, he reported at a landmark conference at Brookhaven National Laboratory on ?Carbon and the Biosphere? that carbon dioxide showed a definite increase in 15 years, consistent with releases from burning fossil fuels. For those of us working on these issues, the scientific and environmental implications were vast.",0_0
"To start with, the Washington ""show"" consisted of country stars Garth Brooks and Tricia Yearwood added to preexisting events with Indian artists. As Carter Wood observed at the National Association of Manufacturers' blog ShopFloor.org:",0_0
"By Peder stermark Andrease, President and CEO, Energinet.dk, July 2015",0_0
Tree-Based Climate Reconstructions in CO2-Accreting Air,0_0
"Aerosols - suspended particles - in the atmosphere have various effects. Black carbon soot absorbs sunlight and heats the world up, but most other kinds of aerosol tend to cool things down, mostly by presenting nuclei for clouds to form on and so reflecting heat back into space. There is widespread scientific agreement, even among firmly pro-warmist researchers, that aerosols have powerful effects - but just how much aerosol can be expected in the atmosphere of the future is not at all well known, and current models aren't thought to handle this factor at all well.",5_1
Environmental extremists take the opposite tack arguing that the only thing we have to fear is just about everything.,0_0
"Because manufacturing is energy intensive, bringing industry back to the U.S. and/or attracting businesses to relocate here, will increase our energy consumption. As my column last week on the Clinton Foundation and Haiti makes clear, industry needs energy.",0_0
"EIA: Clean energy increases electricity cost by 29%, cuts GDP growth",4_1
The Consensus on the Consensus: An Opinion Survey of Earth Scientists on Global Climate Change,0_0
"How is two to five metres of ice going to melt this summer, with the sun setting for the winter andtemperaturesbelow 0C? They cant even keep their story straight, much less get it right.",5_1
"Even when the source is in fact plainly stated on my slides, Abraham is prone to say I have not provided the source. I had shown a graph, which I had said was compiled by satellite, of temperatures at the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, where there has been no warming for 30 years.",0_0
"The most recent glaciation covered much of the northern hemisphere with miles-thick ice and wiped out the Neanderthalers; its sudden end about 12,000 years ago led into the present warm interglacial period, which we call the Holocene. According to the Milankovitch astronomical calculations, the next glaciation is just around the corner ??? or at least a millennium or so away.",1_2
"Eco-activist Mark Lynas, has won the Royal Societys prize for popular science writing, for his book, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet .",0_0
"That hasnt stopped the White House, U.N. bureaucrats and green activists from using this consensus mantra as part of their effort to discredit dissenters. But now, with Seitzs help, 17,000 scientists have blown away the myth of any scientific consensus on global warming.",0_0
"So, no climate that has been relatively stable can have high levels of positive feedback. And if a climate did have very high levels of positive feedback it would have gone off the rails a very long time ago either leading to runaway warming or runaway cooling until the climate had so changed that the positive feedback mechanism disappeared and it became stable again but with an entirely new temperature or state.",3_1
"Second, California's economy has undergone a structural change, away from energy-intensive manufacturing to less energy-intensive services, which are also more reliant on having a consistent electricity supply. This shift is due in part to manufacturing firms leaving the state because of high energy prices.",0_0
Releasing the encrypted archive was a mere practicality. I didn't want to keep the emails lying around.,0_0
"We predict a significant decrease in the area burnt, he said.",0_0
"With all of their fancy equipment, forecasters can??t predict an historic ice storm just a few hours in advance ?? and you want me to believe that the IPCC can predict what??s going to happen a hundred years from now?",5_1
"been shunted to Iraq, yet this raised the question of what could be achieved",0_0
"What are our options? I could race back to the car, buy a pair of boots and hike up again. Dylan could go, flag a car, call the police. But I don't like the idea of separating. I imagine trudging back in socks, my feet starting to freeze. I imagine panicking as frostbite sets in, and starting to run. It's ""To Build a Fire"" all over again.",0_0
"The numerical raw data are here, with some early stage statistics derived from the raw data. I make no claims about the number of significant figures carried, the distributions of data, etc. The purpose of this essay is to invite your comments.",0_0
"Toward the end of that overview, she boldly and vigorously supports free speech. Moreover, she rejects the idea that academic freedom is meant to be a shield behind which publicly-funded professors hide.",0_0
"???The reality of these key points is not just our opinion. The national academies of science of 32 nations, and every major scientific organization in the United States whose members include climate experts, have issued statements endorsing these points. The entire faculty of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M; as well as the Climate System Science group at the University of Texas have issued their own statements [ here and here ) endorsing these views. In fact, to the best of our knowledge, there are no climate scientists in Texas who disagree with the mainstream view of climate science.??",5_1
"The next question you may have: The El Nio released lots of warm water from below the surface of the western tropical Pacific, but how was that warm water created?",0_0
World Bank Serves as PR Firm in Support of Global Warming Treaty,0_0
"Youre still the doctor and you still have to prescribe D or P (or nothing). No matter what you prescribe something will happen to the patient. What? And when? Perhaps the malady clears up, but how soon? Perhaps the illness is merely mitigated, but by how much? You not only have to figure out what treatment is better, but what will happen if you apply that treatment. This is a very tricky business, and is why, incidentally, there is such a variance in the ability of doctors. 3 Part of the problem is explicitly defining what is meant be the patient improves. There is ambiguity in that word improve , in what will happen with either of the drugs is administered.",0_0
NOAA ??? NASA Temperature Announcement: Perhaps few public statements exemplify the willingness of certain government agencies to mislead the public as clearly as this week??s joint announcement by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The press release reads as if the announcement was considered more an opportunity for self-promotion than a scientific statement.,5_1
"Are environmentalists and government bureaucrats using global warming to cover up their share of responsibility for the wildfires that have displaced more than 500,000 people and destroyed more than 1,300 homes?",0_0
The same degree of judgment is required in practically every other area of medical practice. That doesnt mean that the tech enthusiasts wont continue to push for more computerization and may even succeed. But the quality of medical care will certainly be much the worse for it.,0_0
Its reached the point where our national masthead felt the need to issue a whole feature article rebutting their critics ( Climate debate is no place for hotheads ) which includes quote after quote of The Australians pro man-made-global-warming editorials. But why under the Goddess of Free Press should any serious newspaper feel required to declare their belief in a particular scientific theory?,5_2
"Two major uncertainties lie in the statistical development, analysis and interpretation of tree-ring data for paleoclimate studies. First, there are nonclimatic influences on tree-ring records, including tree biology, size, age and the effects of localized forest dynamics ?? . Perhaps of more concern is that tree ring data reflect a nonlinear response to multivariate climate forcings.",5_1
"Global-Warming Bill Contains Ethanol Subsidies, Which Cause Famine, Hunger, Food Riots, and Political Unrest",4_1
"As the International Energy Agency recently put it in a recent report , increasing access to modern forms of energy is crucial to unlocking faster economic and social development in sub-Saharan Africa. Africa is awash with fossil fuels but not the capital to build plants to turn them into electricity.",0_0
"A new paper published in Climate of the Past reconstructs the climate of southeast Tibet over 224 years from 1781-2005 and finds, "" The climate appears drier and more stable in the 20th century than previously."" The paper contradicts claims of climate alarmists that global warming causes an increase of extreme weather or extreme precipitation. In addition, the paper finds cloud cover decreased during the 20th century in comparison to the 19th century, which could amplify solar effects on temperature. According to the authors, "" The occurrence ofyears of extreme low or high cloud index appears to havestrongly decreased since the 1920s, suggesting a relativelystable summer moisture condition in southeast Tibet in spiteof the increasing impact of human activities on climate.""",1_7
Rarely does one see science get so harshly criticized.,0_0
"Link to report: Renewable Energy: Lobbys Report More Fog than Light,",0_0
"Little attention is given to the fact that oil production in the North Slope of Alaska has fallen from 2 million barrels per day in 1988 to 500,000 barrels per day in 2013. Alaska now ranks fourth as an oil-producing state. If oil flow through the Alaska Pipeline slows to 300,000 barrels per day, the oil may freeze and the pipeline may never be restarted. Oil in Northern Alaska is stranded. Steps should be made to allow oil production in a 2000-acre area of the 30,000-square-mile Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).",0_0
"Today I have talked a lot about Utility MACT. Let's be sure we understand what it means one more time. Utility MACT is a rule by the EPA to end coal in America and cause electricity rates to skyrocket. My resolution, SJR 37, will allow the elected members of the Senate to stop the Obama-EPA. It is as simple as that.",0_0
Democratic Institutionstransparent and accountable governing institutions that promote economic growth,0_0
"In both cases, plants absorb CO 2 through stomata in their leaves and they need a very large amount of water to grow. A higher CO 2 concentration allows them to reduce the number of stomata and save water, if I simplify things a bit. So one may say that a higher CO 2 helps the plants to deal with the shortage of water.",3_3
Oceanic Transport of Heat: Deep vs. Shallow Circulation,0_0
"What justification does the Appendix give for choosing the trending autoregressive model? None. In other words, the model used by the IPCC is just adopted by proclamation. Science is supposed to be based on evidence and logic. The failure of the IPCC to present any evidence or logic to support its choice of model is a serious violation of basic scientific principles indeed, it means that what the IPCC has done is not science.",5_2
"Were it easier to understand, this collective lapse in judgment could have been safely consigned to a mental file containing other oddities and caprices of the social sciences, and then forgotten. Yet even today, at a 20-year remove, the assumption that the Soviet Union would continue in its current state, or at most that it would eventually begin a long, drawn-out decline, seems just as rational a conclusion.",0_0
"Hewitt, K. 2005. The Karakoram anomaly? Glacier expansion and the 'elevation effect,' Karakoram Himalaya. Mountain Research and Development 25 : 332-340.",0_0
"The four Spanish researchers say that ""elevated CO 2 caused cork oak seedlings to improve their performance in dry and high light environments to a greater extent than under well-irrigated and low-light conditions, thus ameliorating the effects of soil water stress and high light loads on growth ."" Consequently, and because they believe these latter two stressful conditions are what ""global change is likely to produce in the Mediterranean basin in the next decades,"" it can be appreciated that the ongoing rise in the air's CO 2 concentration should help the cork oak species to better deal with those stresses, if they actually do occur. Reviewed 25 April 2007",3_3
Met Office 2008 Forecast: Trend of Mild Winters Continues,0_0
Environmentalists and Democrats often cite a ?97 percent? consensus among climate scientists about global warming. But they never cite estimates that 95 percent of climate models predicting global temperature rises have been wrong.,5_1
www.remss.com/data/msu/monthly time series/RSS Monthly,0_0
"The global average anomalyis currently well above average, but unless this positive anomaly continues for the coming months, the absence of a clearlong term trend since1998 remains (although the interannual variations are remarkably large).",1_4
"About eight percent of the contiguous U.S. was covered by snow at end of April, according to an analysis by the National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center.Snow coverage during the month peaked at 30.2 percent on April 6, after a late-season winter storm hit the Midwest and Plains.",1_3
"Atmospheric pressure, gravity and temperatures Every planet with sufficient gravity to hold onto a substantial atmosphere shows a temperature gradient like the earth's, warmer as you approach the surface - and always far warmer than radiative physics allows. Every planet. Despite evidence now available to us, however, trace gas heating theory has a firm grip on the minds of skeptic and believer alike. Decades more look likely to pass before this 19th century conjecture is finally abandoned.",2_3
"""According to the second law of thermodynamics such a planetary machine can never exist. Nevertheless, in almost all texts of global climatology and in a widespread secondary literature it is taken for granted that such mechanism is real and stands on a firm scientific foundation.",0_0
"Moreover, Republicans have won House majorities in eight of the last ten elections on platforms similar to that of their presidential candidates. The party faces challenges but not doom.",0_0
"Obviously there has been a lot of concern from climate change sceptics who brought this matter to the public eye. If you look at the wording of the emails, the fact is that Prof Jones talked of a trick to hide the decline.",5_2
"It is long past the time to have a real energy policy, one that works for America, not against it.",0_0
"The IPCC reached a climate sensitivity to CO2 of about 3C per doubling. More popular (at least in the media) catastrophic forecasts range from 5C on up to about any number you can imagine, way past any range one might consider reasonable.",5_2
"Now that scientists have confirmed that global warming has been entirely missing since 1998, possibly the the lamestream press will finally gain the courage to finally report actual weather and climate facts, such as reporting the global cooling trend since 2002. This would be a huge improvement versus their modern method of doing climate science by press release.",1_4
"The core from Lake Elgygytgyn shows a regular change between warm and cold periods in the Arctic thanks to changes in the Earths orbit, fluctuating greenhouse gases and changing solar activity. However from the back and forth in temperatures and precipitation, some extreme events stand out: The scientists have compared two normal warm periods the current one, which has been ongoing for the last 12,00 years, and another one 125,000 years ago, and compared them to the so-called super warm periods. These occurred 400,000 and one million years ago.",2_1
"President Obamas Clean Power Plan: All cost, no benefit",0_0
G F(x-y) = i \bra 0 T \ket 0.,0_0
"#4. The simple 5-year moving average curve during the very recent past indicates a declining period for 30-year changes, possibly signalling an extended cooling phase is upon us.",1_2
"Scottish Power has announced that it is going to convert two of its coal-fired power stations to burn wood - coppiced trees in other words. They aim to replace fully 5% of their coal requirement (that's their coal requirement, not the country's coal requirement, mind) with this ""carbon neutral fuel"". In order to do this, they need to use 12% of the agricultural land in Scotland . So it's an expensive, but meaningless gesture. Update: It's a very expensive meaningless gesture. According to this , biomass fuel is more expensive than oil or coal, even if set-aside subsidies are still paid!! It's daylight robbery!",4_4
"Now on Arctic sea ice, allow me to use the same NOAA scientific method and declare that the Arctic has experienced the slowest July ice melt ever! (Well, at least sofar).",1_1
"Climate change science is in a period of negative discovery the more we learn about this exceptionally complex and rapidly evolving field the more we realize how little we know. Truly, the science is NOT settled.",5_1
"The two photos were published across the world with the statement, ""The blame can be put squarely on human activity. Our addiction to fossil fuels releases millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and this is what is causing temperatures to rise and our future to melt before our eyes.""",0_0
"So, when you hear the solar power proponents chirping about regulations that encourage investment in solar, incentives to help families, and mechanisms to increase deployment, remember they are taking our tax dollars and giving them to companies like Abengoa that get the funding because of connections. They win, while we lose.",0_0
"14.	"" highly risky use of atomic energy use."" No, nuclear energy is not highly risky.",0_0
"The Wealth of Nations was published in March 1776, just a few months before the signing of the American Declaration of Independence in July of 1776. If the American Founding Fathers articulated in TheDeclaration of Independence the political case for individual freedom, Adam Smith presented the complementary argument for economic freedom and free enterprise.",0_0
"The authors report that Stenchikov et al . (2006) analyzed seven models used in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) that ""included all the models that specifically represented volcanic eruptions,"" finding that the strength and spatial pattern of the surface temperature anomalies predicted by them were not ""well reproduced.""",5_1
Natural influences and anthropogenic influences have different strengths in the stratosphere relative to the surface,0_0
"This is a real concern. The presence of significant economic rents in the area will attract investment like flies to flypaper. For example, President Bush's new Advanced Energy Initiative offers $148 million for solar and $44 million for wind energy research in 2007. In most economic bubbles, the expectation of high profits is driven by inflated claims of the commodity's performance. In this case, those claims are backed in part by taxpayers' money, which makes them all the more attractive to investors. That does not make the bubble any less a bubble, however.",0_0
An often appearing name in the BBC news as the hottest place in the country is Gravesend but the true location of the Met Office thermometer is a mystery. By chance I followed up today and discovered a new snippet of information.,0_0
"Just a few years ago, LNG import terminals were being constructed across North America in response to the then dwindling domestic natural gas supply. Most of them are underused. Today, the public debate is no longer about how to squeeze out more domestic supplies to limit expensive oil and gas imports and cap domestic coal usage but how much natural gas we should exportand that requires approval from the DOE.",0_0
"Credit: Ian Howat. It has come to an end, Murray said during a session at the meeting. ""There seems to have been a synchronous switch-off "" of the speed-up, she said. Based on the shape and appearance of the 14 largest outlet glaciers in southeast Greenland, outlet glacier flows have returned to the levels of 2000 nearly everywhere. There's a pattern of speeding up to maximum velocity and then slowing down since 2005,"" Murray reported. It's amazing; they sped up and slowed down together. They're not in runaway acceleration.",1_1
"When skeptics point out these blatant biases, however, alarmists claim that scientists by their very nature are immune from having their environmental activist affiliations, the source of their paychecks or their preexisting advocacy for global warming restrictions influence their research and scientific opinions. Skeptics who call attention to such biases are demonized as attacking scientists or attacking science itself.",5_2
"Given that the President last night announced that legislation for ""a market-based cap"" on greenhouse gas emissions is a priority for his administration, it should come as no surprise that there has been an explosion in climate lobbying on Capitol Hill. According to an article in today's Politico,",0_0
Dr.Timothy F. Ball on Alex Jones show,0_0
Environmental Protection Agency administrator from 2001 to 2003; governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001; chair of the Republican Leadership Council,0_0
"A close study of the Elsner paper does not appear to reveal any reference at all to tornadoes getting stronger. (The paper is here if anyone finds such a reference, let me know!) So where does he get this evidence from?",0_0
"Congratulations to BH regular Mike Haseler, who has been appointed UKIP's climate change spokesman for Scotland. The press release is as follows:",0_0
"Let me stress that there is a lot of uncertainty with this forecast and the models were not good last year. But this year's warm water is more extensive than last and the models are more in agreement. If the forecasts hold into mid-summer, our confidence in the strong El Nino prediction will be substantially enhanced. So hold on but you decide on buying that ski pass at your favorite resort.",0_0
"Germany has the most expensive electricity in Europe, with an average price of 26.8 euro cents (40c) a kilowatt hour. No wonder Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that the rapid expansion of green energy programs is weakening Germany?s competitive advantage in the global economy.",0_0
"Until the last quarter of a millennium, mankind depended on living nature for all its food and clothing, most of its energy, and much of its material and medicines. Then mankind began to develop technologies to augment or displace living natures uncertain bounty. In a new study, author Indur Goklany shows how fossil fuels not only saved humanity from natures whims, but nature from humanitys demands.",4_5
"The SPM omits that better cultivars and improved irrigation increase crop yields . It shows the impact of sea level rise on the most vulnerable country, but does not mention the average. It emphasizes the impacts of increased heat stress but downplays reduced cold stress . It warns about poverty traps , violent conflict and mass migration without much support in the literature. The media, of course, exaggerated further. . . .",5_2
"If temperature can't be projected for a week, how is itpossible to project temperature to 2050 and beyond?",5_1
"In the green energy society, before coal and oil replaced our hay burning horses and bullocks, most of the food produced was consumed by the large farming families, their labourers and their draught animals. Any surplus went to service people like butchers, bakers, blacksmiths and saddlers. Cities were small and there was little left for the tax man.",0_0
"Interannual shifts in plant productivity (green line) fluctuated in step with shifts in atmospheric carbon dioxide (red line) between 2000 through 2009. Credit: Maosheng Zhao and Steven Running Earth has done an ecological about-face: Global plant productivity that once flourished under warming temperatures and a lengthened growing season is now on the decline, struck by the stress of drought.",0_0
"Japan caused an uproar last week when it flatly said it will refuse to go along, as long as all major emitting countries have similar obligations. The United States was assigned a reduction target, but it rejected the treaty. Developing countries, including China India were excluded from Kyoto's strictures.",0_0
"In spite of its massive size, Obama's carbon tax won't begin to pay for all his spending increases, such as a budget that will generate $4.8 trillion in increased deficits, Obama's trillion-dollar toxic-asset program, and his $800 billion, economy-shrinking ""stimulus"" package, all of which contradict Obama's campaign pledge of a ""net spending cut.""",0_0
"This comes almost exactly 40 years after the government wrote a state of the climate report saying that global cooling was going to cause floods, famines, extreme weather, and wouldkill us all.",1_2
"First, 74% of all U.S. stations are adjusted, while only 37% of ROW stations are adjusted. This is a statistically significant difference by any measure. Is this because the ROW stations are, on average, located in more rural settings than in the US? Or is it because of a difference in methodology (or metadata)? While no one to my knowledge has carried out the engineering-quality investigations necessary to resolve the matter, my impression is that the US has made a fairly concerted effort to maintain weather stations in rural settings (Orland, Miles City etc.) and that many ROW stations are in cities and small towns (especially airports). Using a consistent apples-and-apples population classification, I would be very surprised if this very large difference between U.S. and ROW classifications held up.",5_1
"Although fracking has been used for 60 years, in combination with deep horizontal drilling it has sent U.S. oil and gas production sharply upward for the first time in decades, turned ""imminent depletion"" into another century of affordable petroleum, generated millions of jobs and billions of dollars in government revenues, kept home heating and electricity prices from skyrocketing in the face of EPA's war on coal, brought a resurgence in US petrochemical and other industries, and helped reduce CO2 emissions (which should make Earth Guardians and other global warming true believers happy). It's meant fewer oil imports, improved balance of trade, and more opportunities to lift more people out of poverty worldwide.",0_0
"On forest floor, air is very still, humidity is almost always above 70%, and temperature is relatively constant and other than seedlings, herbs, and ferns, vegetation is sparse due to lack of light. Also, mostly free from decaying logs and dead leaves since high temps and humidity are good place for billions of microorganisms in soil to break down debris quickly. ""This fast and continual recycling of nutrients is what keeps rainforest systems working so efficiently, despite their shallow, relatively infertile soil."" (NWF-Educator's Guide)",0_0
"""In the long run, Congress should end subsidies, privatize and deregulate passenger rail. These actions are the only way to force Amtrak to abandon unnecessary routes that are not commercially viable, improve safety, and manage its resources effectivelyand honestly.""",0_0
"However, we can reach the point where remaining pollutants pose few or no health risks and we have largely done so. Since 1970, America's cars have eliminated nearly 99% of pollutants that once came out of tailpipes, notes Air Quality in America co-author Joel Schwartz. Refiners have eliminated lead from gasoline and reduced its sulfur content by some 95% while coal-fired power plants now remove 80-95% of the particulates, mercury, nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide that they emitted in 1970.",0_0
New Source Review: Report to the President (pdf),0_0
"We have often discussed the observed patterns of Atlantic tropical cyclone activity and what may lie behind them, and we generally have concluded, based upon both our analysis of the data, along with a thorough review of the scientific literature, that identifying a statistically significant and robust human signal in the observed history of Atlantic basin tropical cyclones, whether over the past 100+ years, or in recent decades, is untenable.",1_7
"National Economic Research Associates (NERA) used the Federal Government?s own data in finding that Obama?s proposed EPA regulations would cost America over 180,000 jobs per year between 2013 and 2020.",4_1
"Now, these and other projects appear unlikely to make the year-end deadline to potentially qualify for hundreds of millions of dollars in stimulus funds. If extensions aren't granted in the lame duck session of Congress, the future of many of these plans could be in doubt.",0_0
"Eisenhower's warning dovetails well with one made some years earlier by the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in his essay, ""Can Capitalism Survive?"" He warned that intellectual elites, driven by resentment of the market and their economic self-interest, would push for the expansion of the state and the increased regulation of the economy. A casual observer need only look around today to see how far they have succeeded.",0_0
"Historical records indicate that the first recorded El Nio occurred in 1525 observed by Spanish explorers. Other studies suggest strong ancient El Nios ended Peruvian civilizations. The main point here is that strong El Nios are natural, and not increasing in relationship to global warming as contended by many climate scientists.",1_7
"Because, in the long run, the country class will not support a party as conflicted as today's Republicans, those Republican politicians who really want to represent it will either reform the party in an unmistakable manner, or start a new one as Whigs like Abraham Lincoln started the Republican Party in the 1850s.",0_0
"L. GORDON CROVITZ: ""Complexity Is Bad For Your Health""",0_0
"Dr Whitehouse is a man who deserves to be listened to. He has consistently followed an approach of examining observations rather than projections of large scale computer models, which are too often cited as evidence. He looks dispassionately at the data, trying to establish what message it tells us, rather than using it to confirm a pre-held view.",0_0
"Similarly, to avoid making the PSD statute an absurdity, the EPA must construe ?air pollutant? in CAA 165(a)(4) to mean any NAAQS-regulated air pollutant.",0_0
"Farmers in developing countries are clear-cutting rain forests to make room for arable land to grow crops and meet global demand. According to many scientists, these land-use changes result in massive emissions of greenhouse gases.",0_0
"Or, some at the march were there for entirely unrelated reasons, such as this walking contradiction:",0_0
"develop tactical and strategic regional adaptation plans to reduce vulnerability to extreme weather events, climate change, and sea level rise.",0_0
">> At 13:25 28/05/99 +0200, you wrote:",0_0
"It was easy to compare the year-to-year warmings and coolings in the East Pacific data and our ENSO index because neither has warmed in 30 years. Lets make the Rest-of-the-World sea surface temperature anomalies just as easy to compare to our ENSO index by removing the trend in the Rest-of-the-World data. Detrending a dataset is simple. First, the monthly values of the trend line for the Rest-of-the-World data are determined. Second, the values of the trend line are subtracted from the Rest-of-the-World data. Its a quick and easy process with a spreadsheet. Figure 7 compares the Rest-of-the-World data to its detrended version.",0_0
"1) The various green levies will add 188 to household dual bills by 2020, about 13%. Of this, we are already paying 89/yr.",4_1
"An overriding feature of the debate is the constant attempt to intimidate policy makers, in some cases successfully, with the mantras of follow the science and the science is truly settled. The purpose is to create the impression that there is really no room for argument; this is not really a public policy issue; it is one on which the experts have spoken, and we would all be quite daft to do other than follow the prescriptions, it is asserted, which flow automatically from the scientific findings.",0_0
"Unfortunately, it seems that environmentalist groups owe more than their intellectual pedigree to the gas industry. Recent evidence suggests Chesapeake Energy has been giving millions of dollars to environmental nonprofits, including the American Lung Association and the Sierra Club, to propagate anti-coal disinformation. Chesapeake Energy started funding environmentalist groups soon after being pressured to shut down its ""Coal is Filthy"" campaign. This timing raises the unseemly specter that the aforementioned attack ads, in addition to being tasteless and untrue, are part of a prolonged campaign on behalf of one fossil fuel industry (gas) against another (coal).",0_0
"To explore the indirect ways that people use energy, we examined input-output tables from the Bureau of Economic Analysis for 2006, the latest year for which data are available. The core of the input-output accounts consists of two basic national accounting tables: a ""Make"" table and a ""Use"" table. The Make table shows the production of commodities by industry. Each row shows all the commodities produced by a specific industry with the row total being the industry's output. Each column shows the total output of a specific commodity from all industries. The Use table shows the use of commodities by intermediate and final users. In contrast to the Make table, the rows in the Use table present the commodities, and the columns display the industries and final users that use them. The Use table is sometimes referred to as the ""recipe"" matrix because it shows the components that are necessary for producing the output of each industry.",0_0
"There are 2 main reasons why stronger tornadoes are usually associated with unseasonably cool conditions, and why there has been a decrease in strong tornadoes during a period of average warming:",0_0
Leaked IPCC Draft: Climate Change Signals Expected To Be Relatively Small Over Coming 20-30 Years,0_0
"The days of Washington dragging its heels are over, Obama said.",0_0
Here's a summary from the report of the relevant GATT and WTO rules:,0_0
"We show for the first time in a large cohort of patients with chronic HF that moderate wine consumption is associated with a better perceived and objective health status, lower prevalence of depression, and less vascular inflammation, but does not translate into a more favorable clinical 4-year outcomes.",0_0
Apparently you should abandon modernity so that fermented whale tail doesn't taste different,0_0
"The 200-year lag that we observe certainly hints at an oceanic mechanism, Buizert added. If the climatic changes were propagated by the atmosphere, the Antarctic response would have occurred in a matter of years or decades, not two centuries. The ocean is large and sluggish, thus the 200-year time lag is a pretty clear fingerprint of the oceans involvement.",2_1
"First, we could stop doing things that make the risks worse. For example, we should eliminate the subsidized flood insurance that leads people to live in flood plains and on eroding coastlines. We should end the subsidized hurricane insurance that leads people to live in areas prone to hurricanes, where even small increases in force could cause major harms. We might eliminate the water and farm subsidies that lead people to live and farm in areas where even small increases in drought cause hardship. And we should eliminate fire insurance subsidies that lead people to live in areas that tend to burst into flames during warm periods.",0_0
"These outcomes were far superior to any attempt by those in political power to consciously and purposely try to guide production into various directions. Those in political authority possess neither the knowledge nor wisdom nor ability to do so better than each man in his own corner of society, who is most familiar with the surrounding circumstances and opportunities.",0_0
"9 In June 2007, Tim Flannery warned Brisbane that its water supplies are so low they need desalinated water urgently, possibly in as little as 18 months. Last month Brisbane recorded the wettest December in 150 years .",5_2
"In any case, the peer-review process can easily be slanted by the editor, who usually selects the reviewers. And some editors misuse their position to advance their personal biases.",0_0
"NOAA will reporting something very different, because they subtract up to 1.7 degrees from older temperatures. Essentially all reported US warming is due to a hockey stick of temperature adjustments, which makes the past appear to be much colder than what the thermometers measured at the time. (They of course do not mention this in their press releases.)",5_1
"Another important fact, according to Sedjo and Clawson, relates to a study done by the Food and Agriculture Organization and U.N. Environmental Programme by J.P. Lanly. Lanly is Forest Coordinator for the UNEP/FAO Tropical Resources Assessment Project and his study ""indicates that the undisturbed or ""virgin"" broadleaved closed forests have a far lower rate of deforestation than the total, being only 0.27 percent annually as compared with 2.06 percent annually for logged over secondary forest.",0_0
"Fortunately, the Supreme Court wasn't comfortable with Kagan's proposition that a firm needs to break laws in order to get access to justice. Noting that Beckstead & Watts would face ""severe punishment should its challenge fail,"" Chief Justice John Roberts wrote dryly in the June 28 opinion, ""We normally do not require plaintiffs to bet the farm by taking the violative action before testing the validity of the law, . . . and we do not consider this a meaningful avenue of relief.""",0_0
"SPEAKING of the Met, it has so far predicted 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2007 would be the worlds hottest or second-hottest year on record, but nine of the past 10 years it predicted temperatures too high.",5_2
"This would be decisive if today??s models accurately simulate all important modes of natural variability. In fact, models do not accurately simulate the behavior of clouds and ocean cycles. They may also ignore important interactions between the Sun, cosmic rays, and cloud formation.",5_1
"The CPP's Climate Benefits Are Illusory. EPA claims the CPP will deliver $31 billion in climate benefits to the American people in 2030. That is impossible because, even assuming EPA climate sensitivity estimates, the CPP will avert less than 0.02 C of global warming by 2100 too small an amount to have any discernible impact on sea-level rise, weather patterns, polar bear populations, or any other climate-related variable people care about.",4_2
The Bush-Blair doctrine of eliminating the risk of terrorists seems instead to have unleashed a horrific and savage Islamic movement that has capitalised on the chaos and power vacuum left in their wake.,0_0
"Thus, U.S. ex rel. Fragoules denotes that the Feds have instituted the action, but on the information and instigation of an individual (Fragoules) who has a private interest in the matter. Ex rel . is an abbreviation for the Latin Ex relatione , meaning Upon relation, or information.",0_0
"Figure 12 presents the model-data comparison of the sea surface temperature anomalies for the Atlantic Ocean. They do a reasonable job here. The modeled warming rate is slightly more than the observations. In fact, of the three major ocean basins, the models perform best in the Atlantic.",0_0
"Next, we can use these numbers to estimate the net feedbacks operating in the climate system. The simple time-dependent model of the climate system in this case looks like this:",0_0
And the media diehard alarmist are reaching even deeper into their bag of tricks. The September 2013 National Geographic cover shows the Statue of Liberty covered in 65 m (214 ft) of waterthis is 80 times more than even the highest expected sea level rise in the upcoming IPCC report.,5_2
"He also said that, ""One might get the impression that countries of the European Union believe that Russia is simply obliged to ratify the protocol but this position is deeply erroneous. Russia had already cut its greenhouse emissions by 41 percent. I believe that the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol is possible only after negotiations are held with the European Union to which certain terms should be set. In particular, Russia objects to the fact that the European Union might easily adapt to clauses of the protocol in order to exercise pressure in the field of international trade. If the European Union does not change its politics, Russia will not agree to the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol.""",0_0
"Figure 3. Homogenization adjustments made by GISS to the Matanuska , Alaska rural temperature record.",0_0
"Hansen constructed three scenarios ""Scenario A assumes continued exponential trace gas growth, scenario B assumes a reduced linear linear growth of trace gases, and scenario C assumes a rapid curtailment of trace gas emissions such that the net climate forcing ceases to increase after the year 2000.""",0_0
"Look at the break points in Figures 4 and 5. Theres one in 1976 that corresponds to the Great Pacific Climate Shift of 1976. That natural phenomenon effectively shifted the surface temperature of the entire Eastern Pacific Ocean (about 33% of the surface area of the global oceans) up about 0.17 deg C . In Figure 5, you can see its impact very clearly now that you know it exists. The Great Pacific Climate Shift also refers to the change in the basic state of the ocean processes taking place in the tropical Pacific. After 1976, El Nio events dominated, but for the period from the early-1940s to 1976, El Nios and La Nias were more evenly matched, with La Nias just a little bit stronger .",2_1
"Those preferences that do reduce energy production costs simply encourage market actors to produce costly, economically uncompetitive energy. Markets are not made more efficient by producing costly relative to less costly energy.??",4_2
"Read here . Map source . The Mannian style of climate science was established to fabricate a scenario that the Medieval Warming (MWP) and Little Ice Age (LIA) periods were insignificant weather blips, primarily felt in the northern Atlantic/European region. A vast amount of both anecdotal and paleo-climate empirical evidence refutes Mann's contentions that the MWP and LIA were insignificant and only regional. Another peer reviewed study adds to the refutation.",2_1
"He pointed to the graph. I was indeed wrong. Karls graph showed no trend in landfalling hurricanes not only for 100 years but for 150 years. His face fell, then brightened again: Ah, he said, but just look at how tropical storms have increased in the past 30 years!",1_7
"In fact, climate scientists were not in any agreement if the earth was warming in the 1980s though it was true. Many scientists would roll their eyes at the mention of global warming but many changed their tune in the 1990s just as major federal dollars were being directed to man-made global warming which I continue to remind everyone cannot ever happen on Earth due to the laws of thermodynamics. The Earth can never become a greenhouse according to the laws of physics.",0_0
But Markey? We set a higher standard for our public officials who we hope will put the broader public interest ahead of politics.,0_0
"And the electricity industrys naifs dont seem to notice the boil. They complain about EPAs carbon rule when even some enlightened members of corporate America know better. How does Crane know this? He states (without references) that the most influential companies of the modern era (Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Apple) are all competing to make sure their data centers are 100 percent clean energy (which one way or the other includes fossil backup and credits).",0_0
"into law within 30 days of assuming office, by giving sizable slack to Congress",0_0
Gore: Climate change is increasing the intensity of hurricanes. Truth: Hurricane numbers and intensity are on par with historic records and trends. Katrina was a large Category 3 hurricane when it hit a poorly prepared New Orleans.,1_7
"The people most likely to suffer as a result of the contemporary aversion to growth are the billions of people who live in the developing world. Despite the rapid growth of China and India in recent years, about a billion people still live on less than $1 a day. About 2.6 billion people live on less than a $2 daily threshold.",0_0
Is a mini ICE AGE on the way? Scientists warn the sun will ???go to sleep?? in 2030 and could cause temperatures to plummet,1_2
"And of course, warmers seem to treat a risen/yes reply to this poll as affirmation of catastrophic AGW projections, which may not be intended.",0_0
"William Tucker is a TAE contributing writer, and authors ""Right Idea"" at TAEmag.com.",0_0
"Indeed, Wang et al. begin their article noting The impact of the rising sea surface temperature (SST) on tropical cyclone (TC) activity is one of the great societal and scientific concerns. With the observed warming of the tropics of around 0.5C over the past 4 to 5 decades, detecting the observed change in the TC activity may shed light on the impact of the global warming on TC activity. Recent studies of the trends in the existing records of hurricane intensity have resulted in a vigorous debate in academic circles. Much of the debates centered on uncertainties of the hurricane intensity records. Once again, we see scientists acknowledging that yet another vigorous debate is ongoing in the climate change world, despite the popular claim that the debate is over when it comes to the science of global warming (possibly the most laughable claim we encounter).",5_1
"Of course, developing nations were quick to object to Blair's idea. Chinese representatives agreed to act as soon as the West agrees to pay for it, and by the second day, the two sidesrich and poorregressed into the sort of finger pointing that always characterizes these international climate confabs. Needless to say, the Japanese conference did not produce anything in the way of tangible results.",0_0
"This blocking pattern, while difficult to predict, usually lasts about eight to 11 days, he said.",0_0
Scattering this amount of sunlight may be fairly easy. Past volcanic eruptions have shown that injecting relatively small volumes of matter into the upper atmosphere can scatter enough sunlight back into space to cause discernable cooling. The 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo reduced global mean temperature by about .5 degrees Celsius. This temperature reduction was apparent in just a few months and persisted for about three years.,0_0
"Above all, the President's war on hydrocarbons is a war on Coal Country families. For 21 states that still rely on coal to produce 40-96% of their electricity, it is a war on people's livelihoods and living standards on the very survival of small businesses and entire communities. The price of electricity has already risen 1-2 cents per kilowatt-hour in those states, from as little as 5.6 cents/kWh in 2009. If it soars to the 14.6 to 15.7 cents/kWh paid in ""job-mecca states"" like California and New York which rely on coal for less than 3% of their electricity the impacts will churn through coal-dependant states like a tsunami.",4_1
"We are also told that only 5% of the original sample responses were climate scientists , so if we pragmatically apply those proportions we end up with just 141 from the US, 9 from Canada and just 6 from 21 countries around the world, hardly a global consensus.",0_0
The authors decomposed average air surface temperature series obtained from GISS and sunspot number (Rz) from 1880 2005 to see if a correlation could be found. They performed a cross correlation analysis between band-passed filtered data around 11-year and 22 years.,0_0
"Associate Professor Cary said in areas with wet climates, like Tasmania, bushfire risk could double over the same period.",0_0
"Isthis destruction and poisoning of the natural world, this trampling of human rights, the legacy that climate campaignerswant to leave the world? Is this really the only ethical way to deal with the question of global warming? Is it even ethical at all? ... A public debate on the damage being done by climate change policy is long overdue.",0_0
"In the post, after citing a small portion of the extensive work, both in the laboratory and in the field, of the benefits of enhanced atmospheric carbon dioxide, Craig asks: Why on Gods getting-greener earth would the United Nations simultaneously work to reduce the anthropogenic CO2 emissions that are demonstrably raising standard of living for so many of the worlds poor?",0_0
A former NASA climate scientist has put out a new report criticizing the argument that global warming is settled science.,5_1
"There is no longer any doubt that the purported tropical hot spot simply does not exist. Thus, EPAs theory as to how CO 2 affects global average surface temperatureEPAs first line of evidencehas been falsified.",2_3
"The union supplements its lobbying efforts with state-level political contributions, which have totaled $9.5 million since 1997, according to the National Institute for Money in State Politics. These ""hard money"" contributions to candidates and parties are striking not only for their size1199 regularly ranks among the state's top donorsbut also for what they reveal about the union's political opportunism. Over the years, the two largest recipients have been the New York Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee ($1,712,500) and the New York Senate Republican Campaign Committee ($1,594,300).",0_0
Predicting Active-Layer Thicknesses of Permafrost-Affected Soil (13 January 2015),0_0
3) the monetary damages from climate change caused by the burning of coal,0_0
Joanne will tell you that Yesterday Prince Charles and Tony Abbott and the royal family celebrated ANZAC Day.,0_0
"These conditions must have impacted nutrient availability in the ocean and ultimately the spatial and temporal distribution of marine life, said team member Jeremy D. Owens , a former UC Riverside graduate student, who is now a postdoctoral scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Under low-oxygen environments, many biologically important metals and other nutrients are removed from seawater and deposited in the sediments on the seafloor, making them less available for life to flourish.",0_0
"In 1999, NASA published this graph, showing that the 1930s was by far the warmest decade in the US",2_1
"In considering traditional foreign affairs issues, the laws of war, the ICC, and the isolation of Israel are all excellent examples of the globalist approach. They seek to exploit both international law and domestic U.S. law to limit, constrain, and intimidate the United States and its political and military leaders from robustly defending our national interests abroad. One should begin here with skepticism for the very idea of international law, a skepticism now increasingly justified by a torrent of wide-ranging scholarship. Jeremy Rabkin, John Yoo, Jack Goldsmith, Eric Posner, and many others have dealt the globalists setback after setback, precluding even the Obama Administration from following its basic proclivities.",0_0
"This, even as new data show that last year the U.S. median wage hit its lowest level since 1998 and long-term unemployment is almost the highest ever.",0_0
"In his foreword, Lord Turnbull, former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service, commented:",0_0
"What we found will surprise many people. It turns out that nearly half (46 percent) of total energy used is consumed indirectly, through production of foods, medicines, and consumer goods. The highest level of indirect energy consumption is in health care services and pharmaceuticals, and the second highest is in food production and preparation. At the other end of the spectrum, religious activities and education consume relatively little indirect energy. And what will come as a pleasant surprise for those with a somewhat more hedonistic bent, beauty products are fairly ""low energy."" The good news for those who want to reduce energy consumption but cannot make major lifestyle changessuch as moving from a house to an apartment, ditching the car, or not flyingis that there are unexplored options for reducing energy use.",0_0
"Workers in Kentucky are also weighing in. As Politico Pro reported, President Obama lost to an ""uncommitted"" vote in 38 counties representing the Kentucky Coal Coalition and won just 44 percent of over 49,000 votes; he only carried 14 of the 38 coal counties; and overall carried the state as a whole with just 58 percent of the vote. In Arkansas, President Obama won the primary with less than 60 percent of the vote. In Ohio it's the same story. When Vice President Biden visited that state recently he was faced with over 100 workers who will lose their jobs because of this administration's aggressive regulatory regime. Their message to the Obama administration: ""stop the war on coal.""",0_0
"Scientists have been predicting a doubling of atmospheric CO2 by 2050, but current trends suggest a doubling sometime after 2100. According to James Hansen, head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, this new revelation shows that ""our understanding of greenhouse gases is not all that good."" Hansen also said, ""we really have to understand the cycles of these greenhouse gases if we're going to reliably forecast what's going to happen in the next century"" (The Christian Science Monitor, July 15, 1999).",0_0
"If passed, John Rowe calculates the Waxman-Markey bill will add $700 to $750 million to Exelon's annual revenues for every $10 per metric ton (Mt) increase in the price of CO2 allowances. Such a revenue increase would contribute $0.67-0.72 to earnings per share. Exelon estimates that the price of CO2 allowances, when the law takes effect in 2012, will range from $15 to $18/Mt, implying a positive earnings impact of $1.00 to $1.30 per share.",0_0
The observed surface and lower-atmosphere temperatures do not support predictions of dramatically rising temperatures from increased atmospheric greenhouse gases.,5_1
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on the implications of this new research:,0_0
It is difficult now to question either the policies or the premises on which those strategies are based. Scientists are told quite bluntly that it is completely inappropriate for them to speakunless of course they support it. Non-scientists are assumed to be technically ignorant and thereby incapable of speaking with authority on this issue. (page 13),0_0
"Yet ever since Arizona passed its SB 1070 aimed at cracking down on undocumented immigrants, Marshall and some others have pushed for a Virginia equivalent. Many blame America's domestic problems on undocumented immigrants and Virginia's legislators aren't immune from such pressures. But, unlike many states, Virginia is now enjoying an unexpected surplus -- which suggests that its policies of maintaining low taxes, restraints on spending and keeping the burdens of regulation light are far more important than any problems that immigrants might create. Threatening to deport otherwise law abiding people would do little to advance Old Dominion growth.",0_0
"Last year, I published my e-book (pdf) about the phenomena called El Nio and La Nia. Its titled Who Turned on the Heat? with the subtitle The Unsuspected Global Warming Culprit, El Nio Southern Oscillation . It is intended for persons (with or without technical backgrounds) interested in learning about El Nio and La Nia events and in understanding the natural causes of the warming of our global oceans for the past 30 years. Because land surface air temperatures simply exaggerate the natural warming of the global oceans over annual and multidecadal time periods, the vast majority of the warming taking place on land is natural as well. The book is the product of years of research of the satellite-era sea surface temperature data thats available to the public via the internet. It presents how the data accounts for its warmingand there are no indications the warming was caused by manmade greenhouse gases. None at all.",2_1
"That's amusing enough, of course, but even better is the description of what actually went on while the inconvenient snow was falling:",0_0
"That does not mean that passage of any bill by Congress will result in a surge of popular support. Health care costs are going to rise over the next several years no matter what. The pattern that many people have experienced regularlyemployers forced by their rising costs to adopt employee health plans that annually raise out-of-pocket expenses and deductibles and curtail coveragewill continue even without reform, but if a plan is enacted, voters may well blame Democrats for their increased costs. The plan may have exquisitely bad timingcosts first, benefits later. And it may prove to be unwieldy, uneven and unfair.",0_0
The alternative option is for the Commission to continue on its present policy of suppressing contrarian research on the climate change issue. The Commission should be prepared for the inevitable criticism when the predicted severe droughts occur and the public start asking awkward questions. The disintegration of its policy could commence within months.,5_2
"Note from the Die Kalte-Sonne editors: The mainpoint of this post is to provide any analysis of natural cycles and their logical extension into the future. Unaccounted in the projection shownin Figure 4 is the climate impact of CO2, whose role in climate today is hotly disputed. In our book The Neglected Sun we presented two CO2 climate sensitivity scenarios: 1.0C and 1.5 C warming for a CO2 doubling. Current studies have corrected the original IPCC value of 3C strongly downwards (see our articles Studies from 2014 provide hope: warming effect of CO2 is considerably over-estimated. Official correction is imminent ). It will be exciting to watch how research will develop with respect to climate sensitivity over the coming years.",0_0
"Just when you were starting to believe that variations in the amount of energy coming from the sun werent responsible for much of the observed surface warming during the past 20 years, comes along a paper in Geophysical Research Letters from two researchers at Duke University, Nicola Scafetta and Bruce West, that concludes otherwise:",2_1
"Barry Brill makes a strong case for the New Zealand temperature record to ignore the period before 1930. In essence, he says that a 70-year-long record is plenty long enough to establish a trend, and in any case the early data is either missing or unreliable just chuck it out! He says it at greater length and more politely than that in a sometimes tongue-in-cheek article that makes sly digs at NIWA for the mistakes or naked bias that have given us a deeply suspect temperature history. Richard Treadgold",5_1
NOAA Responds To Watts' Temperature Station Report,0_0
"Republicans need future-looking policies, not old bromides",0_0
"Honestly. The IPCC was established by politicians, its experts are selected by politicians, and its conclusions are negotiated by politicians. A predetermined political agenda has been part of the landscape for the past 20 years. For to whine that people who disagree with the IPCC are motivated by politics is the equivalent of someone who has lived by the sword complaining that they might die by it.",5_2
"It is concerning that the expert panel still cannot explain the exaggerated warming in the official record for Rutherglen. It seems the only thing wrong with the original observed values is that they did not accord with global warming theory, and so they were homogenized.",5_1
"The result: Carbon-dioxide emissions are soaring. The Kyoto agreement failed. Copenhagen failed. Cancun failed. The upcoming climate meeting to be held in Durban in December will fail, too. Why? The developing countries of the world need energy, and lots of it.",0_0
"A newer philanthropy, the Sea Change Foundation, also sent Tides $2 million in 2009, all of it to promote awareness of an opposition to tar sands. Another $3.75 million to Tides followed in 2010.",0_0
We forgot to mention one other little problem. The average warming given by the IPCC in the scenario used by Battisti and Naylor is almost certainly too high.,5_2
"""As Congress haggled over a deal to stave off the risk of an unprecedented U.S. default, British and Japanese officials on Sunday said failure could hurt households across the globe.""",0_0
Since the late 1980s The New York Times has engaged in the most horrid effort to convince its readers and the world that the IPCC should be taken seriously even though its successive reports have proven to be an offense to real science and the truth. No opportunity was ignored to advance the hoax even in the face of incontrovertible facts of every description.,5_2
"The cruel madness is even worse than this, and may soon claim its first Australian life. The former government cut a shoddy deal with the UN's hated climate bureaucrats by which, if it agreed to leave millions of acres of farmland fallow and designate them fatuously as ""carbon sinks"", it would be exempted from its obligation to make the cuts in emissions of CO2 from fossil-fuelled power stations and automobiles that would be demanded if it ratified the Kyoto Protocol.",0_0
Exceptionally unlikely . <1% probability,0_0
"It has been an exciting and eventful year at The Talkshop. This is reflected in the site stats, which show strong increases in traffic, especially around the Lisbon conference back in January , the scientific work done mid year and obviously Climategate 2 and the aftermath . I want to emphasise though that it is the solid contributions from our guest authors and my co-mod and contributor Tim Channon which are the backbone of success here, not my flash in the pan PR stunts! For this reason, I have changed the site title at the top of the page to be simply: The Talkshop , though the url will remain as tallbloke.wordpress.com for reasons of the way we are embedded in the internets search systems. The domain I bought at thetalkshop.info currently does a simple web-forward to wordpress, but Ill be doing some nifty DNS work so that we can host currently unsupported filetypes such as excel spreadsheets for download.",0_0
White clover ( Trifolium repens L.) and perennial ryegrass ( Lolium perenne L.) were grown in FACE plots maintained at atmospheric CO 2 concentrations of 350 and 600 ppm for three years before the soil was sampled to determine the effects of elevated CO 2 on its bacterial populations. What was learned,0_0
"Accountability and personal responsibility the sine qua non of liberty and of the American experiment are kryptonite to the ruling class. In fact, Limbaugh notes, the aristocracy of today looks down upon real accomplishments, just as their predecessors in hereditary aristocracies often did, I would add. ""The men in the country class are the fixers, and they're looked upon with disdain,"" Limbaugh notes.",0_0
"About 50 million smart meters have been installed in the United States over the past decade, but theyve only recently arrived in Nevada.",0_0
"Post-A.C., Congress again adjourns for the summer, giving ""tea partiers"" the smaller government they seek. During unseasonably warm spring and fall days, hearings are held under canopies on the Capitol lawn. What better way to foster open government and prompt politicians to focus on climate change?",0_0
Then there is this guy. Really has a Kaczinski In The Cabin look ;-) but also make an interesting point of it all; at about 2 minutes.,0_0
"Delving into the Prologue of Saltzman's last and greatest work provides the clue. In his very first pages of ""Theory of Climate' Saltzman reveals the importance of certain researchers who helped him bridge the climate ""cultural gap."" For Saltzman they ""have brilliantly and painstakingly been reconstructing the paleoclimatic record."" Saltzman goes on to say, ""It is again my hope that this book will help bridge this gap.""",0_0
"In that regard, there has been a good deal of muddled discussion about a new agenda for the WTO, including calls for rendering the current round more relevant by adding new issues. Among the candidates for new negotiations are climate change, food security, labor, environmental questions and competition policy. The problem with this fantasy agenda is that no nation or group of nations can just willy-nilly add items to the negotiations. The WTO acts by consensus, and the history of past rounds has demonstrated that negotiations to produce a ""balanced"" package to tee up for tradeoffs are as difficult as the actual negotiations during the rounds themselves. This is particularly true now that WTO rules go well ""beyond the border"" and deeply impact domestic rules and customs.",0_0
"If Ma Nature caused the ""pause,"" can't this same lady be responsible for the warming observed earlier? You bet! Fact is, the earth was cooling and warming long before so-called GHGs could have been a factor. A warm spell ushered in the Viking Age, and many scientists believe recent warming was merely a recovery from what's called ""the Little Ice Age"" that began around 1300.",2_1
"As far as green plants are concerned, CO2 is not a pollutant, but part of their daily breadlike water, sunlight, nitrogen, and other essential elements. Most green plants evolved at CO2 levels of several thousand ppm, many times higher than now. Plants grow better and have better flowers and fruit at higher levels. Commercial greenhouse operators recognize this when they artificially increase the concentrations inside their greenhouses to over 1000 ppm.",3_3
"As we saw at the start of this report, there are other approaches to intergenerational equity that would lead to profoundly different policy responses, responses that would avoid the damage being visited upon the poor of the world and improving the lives of everyone.",0_0
"You see, the Earth hasn't warmed in the past 16 or 17 years, even though the production of carbon dioxide has continued apace.",1_4
"Matthew hasn't made landfall, but is expected to soon. If it does, it will break an 11-year streak of no major hurricanes making landfall in the U.S.",0_0
"Wind-generated electricity in China amounted to 100.4 billion kilowatt-hours in 2012, accounting for 2 percent of the countrys total electricity output last year, up from 1.5 percent in 2011, data from the China Wind Energy Association (CWEA) showed Saturday.",0_0
"Oh noes, thermometers climate scientists used to measure thermal radiation to prove the greenhouse gas effects temperature are designed to specifically ignore feedback from greenhouse gasses . The science is unsettling, no?",5_1
"Or consider the nonsense widely promulgated about the Costa Rican golden toad --a species whose disappearance alarmist scientists frequently ascribe to ""climate change,"" despite overwhelming evidence that it perished as a result of a fungus unconnected with ""global warming.""",3_2
"Besides ruining tomatoes, winter is strongly correlated with cold and flu. Winter can also cause or contribute to power outages, travel disruptions and delays, traffic accidents, and injuries from slipping on ice.",0_0
"Bob Carter?s book is a well written account of the deep corruption of our scientific inheritance which has been central to the spread of this fantasy. It is a fantasy which has spread throughout the intellectual, political and religious elites of the English-speaking world, and which has infected key Australian institutions, notably the CSIRO, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, and virtually all our universities.",0_0
Al Gore's Whine: What Really Happened on the Mall,0_0
"Obama's global warming legislation would also drive jobs overseas, since it would impose a costly cap-and-trade carbon rationing scheme on American industry, while leaving foreign plants operated by multinational corporations unregulated. That's one reason why many big companies with plants overseas are lobbying for the global-warming legislation, which would give them an advantage over competitors that make their products largely in America. The legislation would result in a tax increase for American consumers of up to $200 billion a year or $1,761 per household.",4_1
"But these inconvenient truths are irrelevant to climate campaigners, who are using dangerous manmade climate change as the best pretext ever devised to control energy use and economies. They simply hypothesize, model and assert that every observed weather and climate phenomenon is due to human CO2 emissions. Warmer or colder, wetter or drier, more ice or less, more storms, fewer storms, occasional big storms if not now, someday, sooner or later. Its exactly what climate alarmists predicted.",5_2
The Export-Import Bank holds an advisory meeting to prepare its next report to Congress.,0_0
"According to Bruce Berman of Save the Harbor Save the Bay, ""Everything you see there was on the streets when the snows hit. None of it went into Boston Harbor, which is a terrific thing."" The city of Boston also has a twitter contest on how long the snow will remain before it all melts. Enter using the hashtag #BosMeltNow.",0_0
"The taxpayer-funded, billion-dollar black holes known as 'climate models' have been unable to predict squat when it comes to future climate conditions - as with global temperatures, the same holds true for the newer IPCC models predicting Antarctic sea ice extent.....it's the 'same old, same old'",5_1
Polls of voters consistently show that Americans place global warming (sometimes framed more generally as environmental concerns) at or near the bottom of their list of priorities. Most of the top concerns are almost always directly related to the economy.,0_0
The US is currently in the midst of the longest streak ever recorded without an intense hurricane landfall,1_7
"In fact, no one has yet documented a single case of illness from GM foods, even as about 3,000 people a year in the U.S. die of food-borne illnesses, many of them contracted from ""organic"" foods. All the dangers of GMO that worry critics are speculations of what might happen in the distant future. Mixing genes from different species, critics contend, will create alterations in the organism that will in the long term produce destructive effects, or genetic material from an engineered crop someday may transfer into the human genome.",0_0
"Some of President Obama's personal habits also rub working-class voters the wrong way. The president's urbane articulateness and emphasis on rational argumentation attracts many highly educated voters, but is offputting to the working class. His preternatural calm and seeming lack of emotion also work against him. These traits have been lampooned by Doonesbury and commented on in the recent New York Times Magazine profile, but historically, working-class voters have been drawn to politicians who connect with them on an emotional level, from FDR to Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton. They need their politicians to demonstrate warmth and humor; they respond to speakers who use example, story, and narrative as much as specific analysis to make their points. President Obama's aloof and academic manner is the exact opposite of what working-class voters want in their leaders.",0_0
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Gas Prices Climbing Toward $5 Per Gallon:,0_0
"I look at the models, and I do use them as input to the forecast with many other factors. However they are not Gods, and to make the excuse we need a bigger computer when in reality all they do is arrive at a solution right or wrong faster, and have nothing factored in about past weather events, or natural cycles, or some of the other things Piers and I use, seems to me to be blaming the model and then saying you need more of what failed in the first place.",5_1
This is not a peer review issue this is a propaganda issue. And right now the good guys have conceded the field.,0_0
"I have drought data are from NCDC, and the temperature record is Hansens own. His hypothesis is a complete and abject failure.",0_0
"Governor Schwarzenegger justifies his call for a near elimination of California's GHG emissions with scary stories about future human-wrought climate disasters. But the only ""evidence"" for these upcoming disasters is the output of computer models that don't jibe with reality. This is not evidence, but nonsense.",0_0
She has also immediately declared that she will be fighting against global warming.,0_0
"The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : Challenging the basis of Kyoto Protocol As western nations step up pressure on India and China to curb the emission of greenhouse gases, Russian scientists reject the very idea that carbon dioxide may be responsible for global warming. Russian critics of the Kyoto Protocol, which calls for cuts in CO2 emissions, say that the theory underlying the pact lacks scientific basis. Under the Theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming, it is human-generated greenhouse gases, and mainly CO2, that cause climate change. The Kyoto theorists have put the cart before the horse, says renowned Russian geographer Andrei Kapitsa. It is global warming that triggers higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, not the other way round.",2_3
"Now we calculate the global warming that will be forestalled by reducing carbon emissions by this amount. For this we need another equation: 88% of 5.35 times the natural logarithm of . And the answer? A little over 0.0001 Celsius, or around one five-thousandth of a Fahrenheit degree. And only that much if the IPCCs exaggerated estimate of future warming is correct. If not, make that well below one ten-thousandth of a Fahrenheit degree. Either way, extravagantly pointless .",4_2
"Agreement 9, another bilateral with Mexico, authorizes Peace Corps ""volunteers"" to ""respond to the needs of both Parties in the area of the environment and natural resources.""",0_0
"Here's your daily dose of links and quotations on the latest in science, business, and tech.",0_0
The July eagle memo obtained by the AP directed BLM staff not to approve any more permits until companies submit protection plans. Federal officials said they do not know when permitting will resume nor whether the stimulus deadline will be met.,0_0
"I could walk too fast among the metropolitan commuting classes to notice gaggles of women swooning over the newly-liberated male thigh, or am frightfully unobservant, but it doesn't seem that Chubbies and their like have become the Pied Piper of females. A small surface-scratching of the Chubbies culture, in particular, and the ""bro"" culture, in general, reveals that it's not at all about women, despite the posturing. It's a retreat of men into the Tribe of Maleness, where a requisite irreverent attitude is matched with the ""classic fraternity loves like patriotism, drinking and matching outfits with an excess of enthusiasm.""",0_0
"?Each chapter of the report has two co-ordinating lead authors,? explains, ?and then nine other contributing authors. Sven Teske was one of the nine, as was someone from a Jamaican oil company. These people are not dummies. They are distinguished scientists.?",0_0
A Lone Dissident Uncovers the Terrifying Truth Behind Government-Issued Carbon Offsets,0_0
"Bolt, J. and J. L. van Zanden (2013). The First Update of the Maddison Project; Re-Estimating Growth Before 1820. Maddison Project Working Paper 4, http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/maddison-project/home.htm (accessed February 26, 2014).",0_0
"New Paper ""Decision Scaling: Linking Bottom-Up Vulnerability Analysis With Climate Projections In The Water Sector"" By Brown Et Al 2012",0_0
"Whats happened here is that the cart was put before the horse. The UN didnt wait around for climate science to mature. Theyd already decided that human-generated emissions were dangerous. Back in 1992, 154 nations endorsed this premature conclusion when they became signatories to the UNFCCC. . . The fourth edition of the Climate Bible, which contains the strongest yet still speculative and qualified language, appeared 15 years later.",5_2
"Last year, I encountered a stark example of this. One of my colleagues was thinking about publishing a paper that challenges the IPCC interpretation of the previous pause during the 1940s to 1970s. My colleague sent a .ppt presentation on this topic to three colleagues, each of whom is a very respected senior scientist and none of whom have been particularly vocal advocates on the subject of climate change (names are withheld to protect the guilty/innocent). Each of these scientists strongly encouraged my colleague NOT to publish this paper, since it would only provide fodder for the skeptics. (Note: my colleague has not yet written this paper, but not because he was discouraged by these colleagues).",5_2
"The Earth is not a greenhouse with a glass roof. The amount of heat in the atmosphere is totally dependent on the amount of heat the Sun produces. In its current cycle, it is producing less.",2_1
"The report is driven by the misguided ideology of Climatism, the belief that man-made greenhouse gases are destroying Earths climate. According to Climatism, Earths climate has been unchanging for thousands of years, but carbon dioxide emissions from human society are now causing dangerous global warming. Further, any change in Earths climate must be bad for US citizens.",5_2
was a couple of years later that the programs we remember the New Deal for were,0_0
"Similarly the Climategate emails, the FOIA-2011 releases, the EPA-Gate fake email accounts. Folks are conspiring all over the place these days, openly at times. Sure, it is called collaboration, coordination, or just working together or getting grants / giving grants. Its all just legal forms of conspiracy. That is why police like conspiracy to do FOO laws so much. More conspiracy is done, and prosecuted, than most anything else. It isnt a theory if they are doing it; and we know a lot of it gets done.",0_0
"As the CO 2 content of the air increases, most plants will likely experience concomitant decreases in oxidative stresses, which trigger the production of reactive compounds that can cause cellular damage. Thus, plants should require reduced concentrations of the enzymes that detoxify these harmful substances; and this phenomenon should allow valuable resources to be invested elsewhere in the plant, which may (to some extent) actually keep low nutrient-induced oxidative stresses from occurring in the first place. Reviewed 15 December 1998",3_3
"At the end, you measure some observables such as the spin \(s z\) or anything else and the state vector tells you the probabilities of individual outcomes. Once you get the outcome, like \(s z=-1/2\), you have the same information you may call it classical information that you have in classical physics. There is no difference. What is completely different is ""just"" the way how physics predicts what will (or may) actually happen.",0_0
"In one of the just-released documents (#000033, dated October 2, 2015), Shukla insists that he and his comrades never asked for a RICO investigation of ""contrarian scientists or bloggers"" for ""expressing their views about climate change."" Well, of course they didn'topenly. Only a fool would do that.",0_0
"Dr. MICHAEL MANN (University of Massachusetts): The unusual warmth of the 20th century, and the 1990s in particular, which have been an especially warm decade, are unprecedented over a much longer period of time then we previously have been able to establish.",0_0
"In fact, even those brave dissidents who have not yet had their meetings broken up by groups of savage goons are more and more openly saying that the nastiness that was National Socialism/Fascism/Communism now stalks the world again, in a new and more terrible form. This time, it is global. This time, leaders of once-democratic nations subscribe to its half-baked, unscientific notions and are themselves increasingly intolerant of anyone who dares to dissent.",0_0
I therefore assume a capacity increase of 25%.,0_0
"By Paul and Anne Ehrlich, Project Syndicate, Aug 12, 2015",0_0
"""The state's new attorney general said Tuesday he plans to continue the kind of enforcement that has closed three of four privately operated gambling halls that had reopened in recent weeks, but he wouldn't say if the last remaining hall at Greenetrack in west Alabama is his next target.""",0_0
Sixty-two percent of vulnerable households made the assertion that chronic weather-related threats such as floods and prolonged drought are a greater concern than one-off disasters like hurricanes.,0_0
"What happens if a modification to one unit in a manufacturing complex allows output and therefore emissions to increase in other, un-modified, units of the same complex? If two modifications are made at the same time or sequentially, should the emission impacts of the two projects be combined (aggregated) to determine whether the total effect is sufficiently large to trigger NSR?",0_0
"In 2006, I met a lady in Mulago Hospital whose son was dying from malaria. The Congress of Racial Equality people I was with asked her if she knew that DDT could help prevent malaria, by keeping diseased mosquitoes from coming into their homes. She said, yes, ""but DDT is bad for the environment,"" so she opposed using it.",0_0
"Clearly Schellnhuber wants us to believe that he had never peddled the easy to calculate 2035 Himalayan ice melt scenario. Journalist Karsten Schwanke, who had done the interview withSchellnhuber on ZDF television backin 2009, wrote in an e-mail on February 1, 2010 (see 8:00 min mark):",0_0
"A spokesman for the South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said: Its going to be a long job. The wood chippings are able to generate heat so can make it tricky to deal with which is why we are using 6,000 litres a minute to tackle it.",0_0
"2. If anything is done in the short term, developed countries are likely to bear virtually all the costs. Climate change is generally not a high priority for developing countries. Putting food on the table isnot to mention the annual toll of 2 million children who die of diarrheal diseases from poor sanitation.",0_0
"Authoritative studies by social scientists have shown that good weather is helpful to Democratic candidates. One well-known study by Gomez et al. 2005 (link here ) entitled The Republicans Should Pray for Rain: Weather, Turnout, and Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections found that the estimated number of",0_0
"The two Polish researchers report that the frequency of deep cyclones in Poland, both overall and in each of a number of specific track groups, ""failed to change significantly"" over the 110-year period of their study (see the figure below). In the most important of these groups, which was composed of ""more than half of all deep cyclones,"" they found that they ""developed over the Atlantic and travelled over or near Iceland via the Baltic Sea and/or the Scandinavian Peninsula,"" and that ""towards the end of the study period, it was observed that deep cyclones following these tracks shortened their journeys considerably,"" due to the fact that ""as they moved over the Scandinavian Peninsula or the Baltic Sea, they 'suddenly' weakened and filled up.""",1_7
"A recent report detailed how Californias Riverside County has become the epicenter of the states renewable power movement, producing more solar power than anywhere else in the United States. But consider one of the impacts on the local economy. A 500-megawatt natural gas plant in the county pays nearly $6 million in property taxes, while a solar plant built just a few miles away pays less than $100,000.",4_1
"Over the full record (1979-2010) the real world has only warmed about two-thirds as much as models indicate that it should have. If this continues to the end of the century, the IPCC?s 21st century warming range of 1.1 C to 6.4 C becomes about 0.75 C to 4.25 C ?with a central value of 2.5 C. But what?s worse is that a model/observation disparity could indicate that the climate models are not faithfully reproducing reality, which would mean that they are not particularly valuable as predictive tools.",5_1
"The problem is that until the surfacestations.org project came along, they never actually looked at the measurement environment of the stations, nor did they even bother to tell the volunteer operators of those stations that they were special, so that they would perform an extra measure of due diligence in data gathering and ensuring that the stations met the most basic of siting rules, such as the NOAA 100 foot rule :",5_1
"Computer codes Here the committee lurches into willful ignorance. They unquestioningly accept Jones' argument that the details of his adjustments were published in journal articles and continue: ""We note that the research passed the peer review process of some highly reputable journals."" The implication seems to be that we should accept the findings without further question. Evidence about the inadequacy of peer review was available to the committee and so their hiding behind it looks wholly culpable.",0_0
CEI Expert Available for Comment: Director of Global Warming & International Environmental Policy Myron Ebell on the need for reform of the Endangered Species Act.,0_0
"The evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to act quickly? Soon government and the scientific community were working together and lots of science research jobs were created. We scientists had political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly important and useful (well, I did anyway). It was great. We were working to save the planet.",0_0
"Northwestern University's Monica Prasad argues that Demark's experience with carbon taxes is instructive: ""Unless steps are taken to lock the tax revenue away from policymakers and invest in substitutes, a carbon tax could lead to more revenue rather than to less pollution. If we want to reduce carbon emissions, then we should follow Denmark's example: tax the industrial emission of carbon and return the revenue to industry through subsidies for research and investment in alternative energy sources."" Indeed, approximately 40% of Danish carbon tax revenue is used for environmental subsidies, while the other 60% is returned to industry.",0_0
"The attitude of some Democrats, including some in the leadership, is eerily reminiscent of the Republican leaders in 2005 and 2006voters don't really care about the internal dynamics of Congress, and even if they are unhappy, our fundraising advantages and strong candidate recruitment will keep us in charge. That is a formula for repeat disaster. Even if Democrats can continue to maintain a thin edge over Republicans in the approval/disapproval ratio, keep up their funding advantage and gain leverage from the retirements of many Republican moderates in contestable districts, their ability to hold a majority beyond 2008 will be severely limited.",0_0
"But the main problem is the longstanding one: if you take a small subpopulation of hockeystick shaped bristlecones and mix them with a population of proxies that are indistinguishable from white noise/red noise and apply typical multiproxy recipes, you will get back a HS-shaped reconstruction.",5_1
"Micropropagation , to quote the authors, ""is an established technique for rapid propagation of uniform plants,"" but they note that leaves formed during in vitro growth ""may never attain photosynthetic competence."" Consequently, to maintain a positive carbon balance over the in vitro to ex vitr o transition, they say ""sugar is supplemented as the source of carbon."" But they go on to state that ""addition of sugar to the culture media negatively correlated with growth, photosynthesis and expression of enzymes of the carbon assimilation pathway,"" so that the standard cure for the problem is partially self-defeating . So we have to ask ourselves: Can CO 2 do anything to help? What was done",0_0
"They also ignore and undermine the recent International Energy Agency forecast that, by 2020, the USA could be producing more oil than Saudi Arabia , currently the largest oil producer on the globe, thanks to advances in seismic, fracking, deepwater drilling and other technologies. A March 2012 Citi Global Problems and Solutions report painted a clear picture of the benefits that domestic energy development could bring if government public servants and environmental public interest groups would permit it.",4_5
"However it is not a stretch to think that the conclusions of this Harvard study were preordained. Delving into the literature shows that a different group of folks could set out to examine the same thing even selecting from among the same pool of climate, economic, and epidemiological studies and arrive at a largely different conclusiona conclusion that the externalities from coal-fuelled electricity are only slightly negative, and perhaps even positive.",5_2
"Today the New York Times is hysterical about retreat of the glacier at Glacier Bay, Alaska.",5_2
"At this point, we might ask, since virtually everything else in the NCA report is based on these computer models, doesnt that invalidate all that follows? It certainly invalidates their dire predictions, but the report also contains assertions that are based on claims other than from models. So lets look at some of those.",5_1
Editorial: The growing case for the Keystone XL pipeline,0_0
"David Bier, immigration analyst: The president should focus less on trying to dump billions of federal dollars into high tech jobs and more on trying to allow immigrant entrepreneurs and innovators create them for free.",0_0
"So, based on the most up to date numbers from the IPCC AR5 report itself and using the most robust methodology on the data with the best signal-to-noise ratio, one arrives at an observationally based best estimate for TCR of 1.30C, or 1.36C based on the unadjusted AR5 aerosol forcing estimate.",0_0
"Do you think we will hear anything about this major turn around from the people screaming about the hot July, even though it may wind up being unprecedented",0_0
"This is the definition of a sensitivity experiment! In other words, policymakers are being given global and regionalmulti-decadal model results by the IPCCwhich are not predictions but sensitivity model runs since a variety of important first order climate forcings and feedbacks are not included in the models! . Real Climate now has finally reported to us this serious limitiation to the interpretation of the results fromclimate models.",5_1
"The ""greenhouse effect"" is then determined by dT=h*g/Cp = 33K on Earth 3. The surface temperature is thus 255+33 = 288K Thus, the entire greenhouse effect, troposphere temperature profile, and surface temperature have all been derived from the 1st and 2nd laws and ideal gas law, completely independent of ""radiative forcing"" from greenhouse gases. The wet adiabatic lapse rate is only one-half of the dry, which proves increased water vapor has a negative feedback cooling effect. Water vapor increases Cp in the above equation, therefore decreases the lapse rate. CO2 has essentially zero effect on atmospheric mass, any of the barometric equations, or lapse rate and thus essentially zero effect on the surface temperature.",2_3
"From page SPM-9: There is very high confidence that models reproduce the more rapid warming in the second half of the 20th century, and the cooling immediately following large volcanic eruptions. Models do not generally reproduce the observed reduction in surface warming trend over the last 1015 years. There is medium confidence that this difference between models and observations is to a substantial degree caused by unpredictable climate variability, with possible contributions from inadequacies in the solar, volcanic, and aerosol forcings used by the models and, in some models, from too strong a response to increasing greenhouse-gas forcing. {9.4.1, 10.3.1, 11.3.2; Box 9.2}",5_1
"In the minds of the audience, the evidence that global warming has occurred becomes conflated with the alleged cause, and the audience hasn't noticed that the cause was merely asserted, not proved. HT: Ben Cunningham",0_0
"All best estimates given are medians (50% probability points for continuous distributions), unless otherwise stated.",0_0
"No Social Security information, drivers license numbers, addresses, birth dates or other identifying information is transmitted from the smart meter. Instead, an encrypted code is used to identify the house and its usage, Smith said.",0_0
"""We have learned from our experience with Medicaid that more spending does not mean better care,"" he said. But by the time of his final State of the State address in 2006, Pataki had abandoned talk of fiscal discipline, defining better care as expanded enrollment in government health-insurance programs. Pataki's reversal was due entirely to pressure from 1199, which opposed him in his initial bid for office in 1994 and remained neutral in his 1998 reelection campaign against Peter Vallone. But by 2002, pleased with the governor's evolution, the union endorsed him outright.",0_0
"But when leaders neither criticized nor condemned the assertions, it gave them more legitimacy with voters. We do not believe that party leaders themselves believed Obama was a secret Muslim, that Hillary Clinton's aide Huma Abedin was a terrorist, or that a Black Panther uprising was ever imminent. But those claims were cynically exploited to foster anger among base voters.",0_0
"In many countries, people could possess access to capital by virtue of the real estate they already occupy, but they are unable to prove ownership of the land due to inadequate land-titling systems or because of traditional forms of property ownership where everything belongs to the village chief. As Hernando de Soto explained in his book, The Mystery of Capital, land-titling reforms significantly benefit the poor, enabling",0_0
What can possibly be wrong with those guidelines unless the regulators have a lot to hide?,0_0
"The hilarious South Park episode, ""Smug Alert"" (Season 10), frames the issue with which the Audi ad execs seem to be wrestling.",0_0
"It seems to me that it is at least plausible that Immelt is simply switching rent-seeking strategies. If, all of a sudden, the prospects for cap-and-trade and other Obama green priorities dramatically improved, I'd bet Immelt would still be touting his love of renewable energy subsidies and the like.",0_0
"Okay, the good professor doesnt say that exactly (though he gets there, eventually, by extension). Heres whathe actuallysaid:",0_0
"As a public body, NCDC have a duty to be accountable for all of their work, as well as to be totally transparent. They have been aware of this issue now since January, and it is surely time for them to step up to the plate and either explain how their adjustments are correct, or withdraw them. Furthermore, they must fully investigate all other significant adjustments elsewhere and withdraw them where they cannot be fully substantiated. I would also suggest they ask themselves why these clearly incorrect adjustments were not identified and put right at the very outset. It should not be up to independent observers to be doing this for them.",5_1
"For decades, the IPCC has presented climate science as an established field. Now we??re being asked to have ???more patience to let the science to unfold??? Climate scientists have had two decades to program their models, and they still cannot simulate naturally occurring, naturally fueled, coupled ocean-atmosphere processes that can cause global temperatures to warm or can halt that warming.",5_1
"""In comparison to water in all of its forms, the effect of the carbon dioxide increase over the last century on the temperature of the earth is about as significant as a few farts in a hurricane!""",2_3
"In the end, the most rational thing for the country to do on GHGs is for Congress to enact legislation that gets EPA out of the GHG regulatory business entirely. Even proponents of GHG regulation dont believe that the CAA is suited to that purpose. We must therefore keep pushing on the legislative front, since new legislation is the right thing to do. Still, the alignment of political forces is such at this time that comprehensive GHG legislation seems out of reach, although more targeted legislative approaches may be possible. Without some intercession from Congress, we are left with possibly decades of hand-to-hand combat on GHG regulation.",0_0
Parameterization of instantaneous global horizontal irradiance at the surface. Part II: Cloudy-sky component,0_0
"I like that whim of the researcher part. It is true, but the reality is that the degree days calculated with a 41 degree reference point will not be dramatically different from the 40 point and most crops will not care which one you use (as long as you have calibrated that crop on that scale) while repeatedly doing math in your head with 40 is likely easier than 41 for most folks, so a researcher may be prone to picking 41 vs 40 based on whim",0_0
The IPCCs 2-4.5 deg claimed sensitivity range is shown as the shaded area.,0_0
"Thus proving to be rude, ignorant, and unable to reason. He is at least up front about it. It was honest of him to CC Bob Carter in at the start. Though it appears to be more unfounded arrogance than an attempt to communicate.",0_0
"President Obama claims the global climate pact negotiated in Paris last Decemberthe so-called Paris Agreementis an ""executive agreement,"" not a treaty, hence is not subject to Senate review. How convenient. Obama knows that if he were to submit the Paris Agreement to the Senate for a debate and vote on ratification, it would be dead on arrival.",0_0
"There is no support for this type of environmental and energy legislation in the U.S. Congress among most Republicans, and little among Democrats.",0_0
"I can understand why certain officials need to fly private planes just for security, but the average Congressman from Wyoming? Why won't commercial work. Andy why, if they must have a private plane, wouldn't a more reasonably sized Falcon 50 or Citation work just as well?",0_0
"Does GISP2 ??? or any other paleoclimate record ??? show us that climate change isn??t happening? No, of course not. It shows us that climate change always happens. The 20th-century warming was hardly unprecedented, and doesn??t call for unusual explanations.",2_1
"Energy Density . As scholars from Vaclav Smil to Robert Bryce have documented, the best energies are the ones that can produce the most power at the least resource cost. The future belongs to the efficientand oil, gas, and coal are the prime-time consumer-driven choices.",4_5
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"Frankly neither the pH range nor the time frame for OA seems to be outside natural variation. There is also ample evidence that more significant physiological changes can happen in shorter time frames. At the end of the day, before we get all hot and bothered by OA we need to sit back and acknowledge that the species in contention not only show a wider reaction range than is commonly presented, but that whatever their method for calcification is, they simply need to increase the metabolic rates, or the mean metabolic rate of the species through natural selection, to adapt to changing oceanic conditions.",3_2
"Business suits are out, for both sexes. And with the right to open a window, office employees no longer have to carry sweaters or space heaters to work in the summer. After a long absence, ceiling fans, window fans and desk fans (and, for that matter, paperweights) take back the American office.",0_0
"The panel found Schatten, as co-author with Hwang on a 2005 article in the journal Science, did not exercise a sufficiently critical perspective as a scientist. By not properly checking the veracity of the paper, Schatten committed a serious failure that facilitated the publication of the work, the panel said....",0_0
"For most months and for the entire growing season, the first half of the century was much drier that the second half of the century (Figure 3). Bonsal et al. note that The time series of total growing season precipitation indicates 3 distinct periods: above normal precipitation from 190516, anomalously low amounts during 191749, and generally higher precipitation from 195096. We are not sure why the ended their study in 1996, and we have not seen the drought of today in central Canada put into historical perspective. But if we simply look at the data presented by these scientists, there is no trend whatsoever to reduced precipitation as the greenhouse gas concentration increased through the 20th century indeed there is evidence that precipitation was enhanced through the century.",1_7
"Better still, we can look at the graph of GISS anomalies for the two poles between 1938 and 1980.",0_0
"Figure 2.1.1: Leading mode of annual rainfall variability over Australia, from observations (Bureau of Meteorology), the CSIRO Mk3.6 and Mk3.5 climate models, and three leading international models: HadGEM1 (United Kingdom), GFDL CM2.1 (USA) and MIROC 3.2, medium resolution (Japan).",0_0
"Inhofe rightly noted that Congress deliberately did not regulate so-called greenhouse gases with the Clean Air Act, a bill that was designed to deal with air quality, not climate change.",0_0
"I'd guess that's slim to none. The Republicans may well move to the center, and embrace some kind of domestic greenhouse gas control scheme (which would be a bad idea for the same reasons discussed earlier), but I'd say there's little or no chance they'll ever join in the United Nations process. It's possible that more countries will join the Asia-Pacific Climate Coalition that the Bush Administration has created as an alternative to the UN process as they realize how impossible the UN approach is, but I haven't detected momentum yet one way or the other.",0_0
Neutron Monitors. Ground-based neutron monitors detect variations in the approximately 500 Mev to 20 GeV portion of the primary cosmic ray spectrum.,0_0
"The Plan also supports more conventional generation technologies that can address climate change. According to the Plan, the Department of Energy will issue a draft solicitation that would make up to $8 billion in loan guarantee authority available for a wide array of advanced fossil energy and efficiency projects to support innovative technologies. The Obama Administration will encourage our international partners to switch from coal to gas for electricity production, as well as deploy nuclear energy and clean coal technologies. Under the Plan, the President also calls for an end to U.S. government support for public financing of new coal plants overseas, except where there is no feasible alternative or if the facility deploys carbon capture and sequestration technologies.",0_0
"1. Chris Landsea, ""Why I Must Resign,"" Canada's Financial Post, January 20, 2005.",0_0
"Well, we already know that models cant simulate the coupled ocean-atmosphere processes that cause global sea surface temperatures to warm over multidecadal periods. (See the quick overview that follows.) So, the difference between the modeled and observed ratios of land to sea surface temperature warming rates suggests the basic underlying physics within the models are skewed. Skewed is the nicest word I could think to use.",5_1
Svenmark's cosmic ray theory of climate is only one of many solar amplification mechanisms described in the peer-reviewed literature.,2_1
"George Bush would make Dick Cheney do it, and Dick'd have a heart attack in your front yard. Donald Rumsfeld would invade your lawn, and have 100,000 soldiers trying to cut it with one pair of nail clippers. Howard Dean would be screaming at the grass to shorten up. Hillary Clinton would marry the Toro dealer. You wouldn't hire politicians. And you certainly wouldn't buy them. Look where it got Jack Abramoff.",0_0
SOURCE: Roy Spencer Global Warming Blog,0_0
Gore's U-Turn Given Qualified Welcome,0_0
"But men evolve! And Simpson, from his front-row seat at the runway of male social trends, this summer declared that decades of encouraging men to take themselves as their own love-object has spawned a much hipper version of the original metrosexual. This newer new man has untangled himself from the (still enjoyable, sure) distraction of clothes to focus with unadulterated purpose on himselfnaked, chiseled, and glistening. Simpson would like to make our acquaintance official with this individual. Meet Mr. Spornosexual.",0_0
to ramming home a lesson that we all seem very reluctant to learn:,0_0
Dr. Ahlman urged the establishment of an international agency tostudy conditions on a global basis.Temperatures had risen 10 degreessince 1900. The navigable seasonalong Western Spitzbergen now last-ed eight months instead of three.,0_0
"To be sure, 2011 saw some very extreme events in the United States. But was it the ""most extreme year for weather"" since the 19th century? Not by a long shot, whether the metric is dollar damage or loss of life.",1_7
"In Obama's construct, America's allies are ""free riders"" on US power and treasure. Nowhere does he profess an understanding of leadership or of what the concept of leading an alliance might mean. Indeed, at one moment, he refers to presidential leadership as ""theater in political communications."" But this great man is too great for that sort of self-indulgent theater. He has a higher vantage point from which, with Goldberg's assistance, he prefers to school the rest of us rubes.",0_0
"And what about the people? Environmentalists may like to keep development out of the Third World and maintain it as some kind of giant wilderness refuge they can visit now and again, but that is hardly in the best interest of the citizens there. And as for the indigenous tribes, they may like to glamorize the lifestyle and discuss it in terms of the noble savage, but as expressed in ""The Cross and the Rainforest,"" ""the lifestyle of the rainforest Indian, weaving bodily adornments from leaves and living off nutritious bark and berries, probably holds more charm for white, middle-class environmentalists than it does for the Indians."" (p. 147)",0_0
It comes after officials for the panel were forced earlier this month to retract inaccurate claims in the IPCCs report about the melting of Himalayan glaciers.,0_0
warming trend of 0.11C per century caused by urban warming.,0_0
"My browsing did go so far as to try to identify the underlying data and, for some reason, I contacted the author of the hockey stick study, Michael Mann, when I was unable to locate the data. I initially became engaged in the matter in a more serious way, when Mann said that he had ""forgotten"" where the data was and one of his associates, to whom Mann turned over the inquiry, said that it was not in any one place, but that he would get it together for me. I drew that conclusion that no one had ever checked Mann??s work and thought that this would be an interesting project, rather like doing a large crossword puzzle. At the time, like any undergraduate reading this, I had never written an academic article. I certainly had no plans to become engaged in academic controversy.",5_1
Tropical Cyclones Making Land-Fall Over Eastern Australia,0_0
Morano specifically wants Gingrich to apologize for the Pelosi ad and for suggesting that lawmakers need to find a solution to global warming.,0_0
"Seitzs sin? He signed a cover letter for the Petition Project, an effort by scientists skeptical of the global-warming mania. The petition urges the U.S. to reject the climate treaty drafted in Japan in December.",0_0
"Regular SDA reader (and he adds - frequent Weblog Awards vote caster) Gary Valcour is requesting your assistance in the final round of the National Post's ""Canada in six words or less"" contest. It's an entry worthy of SDA support, I do believe!",0_0
"Abdussamatov also observed the most significant solar event in the 20th century was the extraordinarily high level and the prolonged (virtually over the entire century) increase in the energy radiated by the sun, resulting in the global warming that today climate alarmists believe is a man-made phenomenon.",2_1
Image by Darren Wamboldt/Bergman Group.,0_0
"Last year, some 160 nations negotiated an agreement in Kyoto, Japan, that would require the United States to reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases, chiefly carbon dioxide from the combustion of fossil fuels, more than 30 percent below the levels otherwise projected for 2008- 2012. Since emission levels are closely linked to energy use, since energy is used to produce and transport virtually all goods in a modern economy, and since 85 percent of all U.S. energy comes from fossil fuels, the Kyoto Protocol would appear to pose a serious threat to our economy.",0_0
Chicago exploring high speed rail system:,0_0
"As has been recently reported by this writer on this blogand at Anthony Watts on WUWT, the summers in both the contiguous US and Canada have not warmed but have actually cooled in US and the trend is quite flat in Canada over the last 10 years. Therefore warmer summers cannot be causing more negative AO and colder winters.",1_4
"The report did conclude, however, that, ""We have not found, and based on current knowledge do not believe it is realistic to expect, that there are new reactor and fuel cycle technologies that simultaneously overcome the problems of cost, safety, waste, and proliferation."" (Boston Globe, July 30).",0_0
"The United States signed Kyoto on November 12, 1998 and never rescinded that signature. There is nothing in the Constitution or law impeding the Senate from voting on the duly signed Kyoto today. One of the most important reasons they have not done so is the surrender of US sovereignty to foreign regulators and courts that are not responsible to American voters and circumscribed by our Constitution.",0_0
Liberal Senator Eric Abetz said the Greens leader should apologise for his insensitive comments.,0_0
"ased on what we see in the atmosphere, there is no evidence of substantial increases in methane emissions from the Arctic in the past 20 years.",3_1
Peter Glasers full commentary on the D.C. Circuit Court decision follows.,0_0
"Simple as that, but people in the business of taking down institutions use any tool available.",0_0
"Their piece begins with a large color photo (not the one shown above) of a godfather-like appearing Marc Morano, who Die Zeit portrays as the communication and climate skepticism kingpin. The only thing missing from the photo is Richard Lindzen kissing his hand.",0_0
"And they are realists. Take, for example, the agreement of Palestinian negotiators to accept serious limits on their military capabilitiesno heavy arms or aircraft, merely a well-equipped militia to provide law and orderin exchange for Israel's forgoing the right of any of its soldiers or civilians, including settlers, to be posted in Palestine.",0_0
"Ocean heat content (sorry, can't find the link but the shift from using thermometers in pails dipped from ships to the ARGO floats caused a one time step change in ocean heat content measurements)",0_0
"""Each of the successive periods after 1950 exhibits a downward step in per-capita real GDP growth, with steps downward marked at 1964, 1972, and 1987.""",0_0
"It goes on at some great length about how Green House Gases increase the radiative cooling of the Stratosphere. They are throughly convinced that stratospheric cooling is the Evil Twin of tropospheric warming, showing that GHGs are critical to both (so by implication, cooling in the stratosphere endorses warming troposphere). Completely missing the point that the troposphere is dominated by water and convection, so more heat in just means faster transport up. Yet the graph is useful and the discussion is interesting.",2_3
The Maunder Minimum was a period of intensely cold winters during the 1600?s. If Lockwood and his colleagues are right this is yet another indicator that points towards global cooling. Although the effects of the jet stream are predominantly felt in Europe the overall temperature drops caused by a cessation of activity on the Sun will be felt across the Northern Hemisphere.,1_2
Once again - see Greening of the Earth in our Subject Index - we have more compelling evidence for the powerful aerial fertilization and transpiration reducing effects of atmospheric CO 2 enrichment and what they can do for both the managed and unmanaged biosphere in terms of enhancing biological prodctivity.,3_3
"But the real worry with climate research is that it is on the very edge of what is called postmodern science. This is a counterpart of the relativist world of postmodern art and design. It is a much more dangerous beast, whose results are valid only in the context of societys beliefs and where the very existence of scientific truth can be denied. Postmodern science envisages a sort of political nirvana in which scientific theory and results can be consciously and legitimately manipulated to suit either the dictates of political correctness or the policies of the government of theday.",5_2
The EPA enjoyed substantial administrative policy and budget independence during its early years. This rapidly began to change when President Clinton came into office with an alleged pre-election deal to appoint an assistant administrator from the Sierra Club who carefully and methodically removed the policy office's independent analytical integrity.,0_0
"But there are several critical elements that cast a long shadow on this scenario. First is the obvious question of just how much rainforest is actually being lost. Wilson and others put in the high estimates, and get high numbers of species loss, but as seen in the previous section, the numbers they use are at least 4 to 5 times higher than, say, the estimates by Lanly.",0_0
"Many former believers in catastrophic man-made global warming have recently reversed themselves and are now climate skeptics. The names included below are just a sampling of the prominent scientists who have spoken out recently to oppose former Vice President Al Gore, the United Nations and the media driven ""consensus"" on man-made global warming. The list below is just the tip of the iceberg.",0_0
"Climate has continually varied in the past, and the causes are not well understood ??? especially on the 100 year timescalerelevant for todays climate change",2_1
Scientists announced this week that rapidly melting Arctic sea ice has beached tens of thousands of Walruses in Alaska. Apparently no one told them that the ice is closer to Alaska this year than it was in 1998.,1_1
I suspect that those of you you that have been diligently attending the College of Climate Etc. are eminently qualified for such positions :),0_0
Decline in the extent of Arctic sea ice may have more to do with changes in circulation patterns of fresh water entering the Arctic Ocean from rivers in Russia than changes in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide according to a new article in Nature :,2_1
"Global Warming Research, Financial Regulation and Transportation Projects",0_0
"Years from now, historians will look back on this period as extraordinary. The great social fervor was over something that only seems like science. It?s of science but lacks the heart of science. It will take generations to pick through the detritus, but this period will ultimately tell us far more about ourselves than Nature. Soon it will be over. If doom has not ensued, the climate science tourists will leave for other errands. People like Garth and myself will be left to pick up after them. Perhaps then I will have an occasion to congratulate him on his book?s concise and effective exposition of relevant physics for laymen.",0_0
The snowfall and thunderstorms came just before the Memorial Day holiday weekend.,0_0
> >> climate and adaptation in SE Asia and the Caribbean (Neil Adger et al.),0_0
"Biomass burning was calculated to cause 20 year global warming of ~0.4 K because CAE I (~32% of BB warming), CAE II, semidirect effects, AHFs (~7% of BB warming), AMFs, and tar balls from biomass burning together outweighed indirect effects, contrary to previous biomass burning studies that did not treat CAEs, AHFs, AMFs, or brown carbon. AHFs from all sources and AMF + AHF from power plants and electricity use each accounted for statistically significant +0.03 K global surface air temperature warming.",0_0
"Initially, rationally minded people could chalk it up to human confusion and misinformation. But after the recent fake news follies of 2016, weighed against the sheer scale of the past absurdities, only the most earnest boy scouts would not see much of it as pure disinformation instead.",0_0
"It is not that conservatives are ignorant. Knowledge of science makes little difference to people's beliefs about climate change, except that it makes them more certain about what they believe. Republicans with a good knowledge of science are more sceptical about global warming than less knowledgeable Republicans.",0_0
"Hansen now believes he has an answer: All the climate models, compared to the Argo data and a tracer study soon to be released by several NASA peers, exaggerate how efficiently the ocean mixes heat into its recesses . Their unanimity in this efficient mixing could be due to some shared ancestry in their code. Whatever the case, it means that climate models have been overestimating the amount of energy in the climate, seeking to match the surface warming that would occur with efficient oceans. They were solving a problem, Hansen says, that didnt exist.",5_1
"The Transport Secretary, Philip Hammond, is seeking the opinion of the chief scientific adviser about whether the government should be planning for more severe winters in future. ? BBC News, 19 December 2010",0_0
"A reader explains - ""This is an online...christmas? holiday? disturbing? card sent, presumably to commenters on Garth Turner's blog."" The copy of the email I received indicates it's ""From: ""Garth Turner, MP Halton"" "" I'm holding out hope that this is a hoax... source Update . The good citizens of Halton can be proud. It's no hoax. It appears that their elected member of parliament is actually sending this ""e-card"" to individuals who have commented at his blog site.",0_0
"Crop production is predicted to decrease by up to 32 per cent by 2050, by which time there will be an extra 130 million mouths to feed.",0_0
"Figure 1 presents the temperature deviation data, and it can be seen that solely northwestern Alaska was above normal, while all the rest of Alaska was too cold when compared to the normal. It is interesting to note that a new minimum in the sea ice extent in the Arctic Ocean was observed in September. The lack of sea ice affected Barrows temperatures, and in October the temperature deviation from the 30 year normal was a very substantial +10.3F. The greatest negative deviations were found in the Bering Sea area, which is understandable after noting that the sea ice extent for the Bering Sea recorded a new maximum in April for the time period since microwave satellite measurements became available. (Microwave instruments provide for observations of the sea ice though clouds and darkness.) This is, of course, in direct opposition to the above noted sea ice minimum observed in the Arctic Ocean.",1_1
"Casual observers of the issue might recall 1978 as the approximate end of the 30-year cooling trend, or, if one prefers, the beginning of the subsequent 30 years' warming of the same, er, degree. No mention of that in the story.",0_0
"Last month Landsea, a climate change scientist with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), resigned as a participant in the producing the report. Landsea had been a chapter author and reviewer for the IPCC's second assessment report in 1995 and the third in 2001, and he is a leading expert on hurricanes and related extreme weather phenomena. He had signed on with the IPCC to update the state of current knowledge on Atlantic hurricanes for the fourth report. In an open letter, Landsea wrote that he could no longer in good conscience participate in a process that is ""being motivated by pre-conceived agendas"" and is ""scientifically unsound.""",5_2
"Actual scientists in disciplines that have existed before this political movement became strong are usually neutral or skeptical about the climate panic. This includes people in the adjacent disciplines such as meteorology, geology ??? and physics itself. Physicists should be particularly immune towards this kind of brainwashing. After all, when Galileo Galilei kickstarted physics, he was fighting against similar religious attempts to ""constrain"" the human thought.",5_2
"Brian: OK. So, err, Senator, any plans for the future?",0_0
The U.K.'s The Independent newspaper reproduced a graphic (from by the Climate Research Unit) that generally illustrated what the correction to the dataset may look like when it is finally applied.,0_0
"According to an article in the Washington Post, Maryland Governor Martin OMalleys long-sought offshore wind project is positioned to win approval from the state legislature within the upcoming weeks. Environmentalists have fought hard to encourage States and developers to build off-shore wind projects on the East Coast. At least six wind farms have been proposed in the region. However, owing to the inefficient and costly nature of offshore wind farms, combined with the need for heavy subsidization, none of these projects have managed to gain any traction.",4_4
"On the other hand, Italian researchers have just finished surveying bird species in a high Piedmont valley where the temperature since the early 1990s has increased about 1 degree C. How did the birds adapt? They did nothing. Sixty-eight bird species were detected in both the 1992-94 survey and the 2003-05 survey. The researchers report ""the number of species whose mean elevation increased (42) was higher than the number whose mean elevation decreased (19)."" But the birds move up an average of just 29 metersnot statistically different from zero.",3_2
of the private sector economy in order to avoid an environmental crisis that is,0_0
"As weve seen in numerous model-data comparisons, there are few similarities between modeled and observed surface temperatures and precipitation. See here , here , here , here , and here for examples. Weve compared satellite-era sea surface temperature to model outputs in past posts (examples here , here and here ), but we used model outputs from climate models stored in the CMIP3 archive, which was prepared for the 2007 4 th Assessment Report from the IPCC. In this post, were using the outputs of newer CMIP5 models, prepared for the IPCCs upcoming 5 th Assessment Report. Scenario RCP6.0 for the CMIP5 models is presented because it most closely matches the climate forcings of the scenario called SRES A1B, which was widely cited in the past.",5_1
"Last September, when the First Working Group (Physical Basis) released its fifth report, I was sort of optimistic (on TV and in a newsletter), suggesting that we may be nicely surprised by Spring 2014. The other parts of the IPCC may very well see the light before WG1 and they may conclude that there is no problem before others do.",0_0
Americans are working longer than ever to pay for the cost of government programs.,0_0
"Because of TOBS, all older temperatures should be adjusted upwards, not downwards. And because of UHI, all recent temperatures should be adjusted increasingly downwards. The actual adjustments are exactly the opposite of what they should be according to the USHCN documentation.",5_1
The Environmental Protection Agency has been in a full assault on the U.S. economy since the 1980s when the global warming hoax was initiated. It has been assisted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA.,5_2
"How does this square with temperature records from 2005-2007, by some measurements among the warmest years on record? When added up with the other four years since 2001, Swanson said the overall trend is flat, even though temperatures should have gone up by 0.2 degrees Centigrade (0.36 degrees Fahrenheit) during that time.",1_4
"Obama, With Co-Star DiCaprio, Says Climate Change Skeptics Should ""Pay Penalty'",0_0
"There are cheaper options, he says. Scientists with the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute in Gazipur have developed salt-tolerant rice to grow in flood-prone plains. In large coastal cities, new homes and public infrastructure could be built on artificially raised land. Near the coast, conserving and planting trees could create a buffer against storm surges.",0_0
Surface temperature trend (HadCRUT4) = 0.3 F/decade,0_0
"A team led by researchers at Winrock International, a U.S. environmental nonprofit organization, has developed an estimate of gross carbon emissions from tropical deforestation for the early 2000s that is considerably lower than other recently published estimates.",0_0
"Animation 2 is a similar side-by-side comparison, but on the left are maps of sea surface temperature anomalies and on the right are the H300 maps. The sea surface temperature maps trail the others by a pentad or two, which is why they do not run through July 2. My apologies for the shift in the color scaling for the range of +0.5 to +1.0 deg C in the sea surface temperature anomaly maps. That appears to be a quirk of my computer, not the GODAS website.",0_0
There is an interesting parallel with the German Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in 1941. No Hitler planned Operation Barbarossa (the attack on the Soviet Union) 's promised scientists that the coming winter would be mild. That was the message that Hitler wanted. Hitler anfll is why Soviet without frsett Wehrmacht with tillrcklig winter equipment. The next war winter proved to be colder n n on the previous s came the debacle at Stalingrad.,0_0
"In the Fits test, the dummys head struck the steering wheel through the air bag and showed a high risk of leg injuries. In the vehicle-to-vehicle test, the Fit was rated poor while the Accords structure held up well.",0_0
"Replacing NSR as it affects nonutility emitters with simpler Clean Air Act tools would be a superior option to NSR reform, but the administration may have feared a firestorm of criticism from Democrats and reporters had it attempted to cross that bridge. As it turns out, the administration's more modest reforms generated intense criticism nonetheless from those who seem determined to view the reform debate, naively we feel, as a contest between good (the environment) and evil (big business).",0_0
"The next Administration should also recognize that state and local governments are closer to most environmental issues than Washington and can more effectively promote environmental protection and economic growth. Federal ownership and federal regulation of public lands restrict economic activity and often have created environmental problems due to mismanaged lands and lack of a proper incentive structure to maintain the properties. States, local governments, and individuals are the best arbiters of how to manage land, and the federal government should explore opportunities to privatize land. New leadership should shift the regulatory authority to the states for land use and environmental protection.",0_0
"Gus Speth, author of Red Sky at Dawn, is currently dean at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and was chairman of the President's Council on Environmental Quality under President Jimmy Carter, where he was the driving force behind The Global 2000 Report to the President. Global 2000 had the misfortune of offering specific predictions for the year 2000, such as $100-a-barrel oil, a 40-percent loss of forestland in developing nations, and a 20-percent increase in desertification. Some of these predictions were not just wrong; they were wrong by an order of magnitude. Looking beyond 2000, Global 2000 forecast that world population would approach 30 billion people by 2100a figure that even the most outlandish pessimist would not put forward today.",0_0
"The key error stems from the risky practice of grandfathering existing sources of pollution while imposing high regulatory standards on new facilities and equipment. This differential enforcement creates perverse incentives that systematically increase pollution levels by postponing the orderly substitution of new (and cleaner) for old (and dirtier) plants. The Clean Air Act of 1970 (CAA) unwisely exempted existing dirty plants from the full brunt of the law, which applied with force only to new coal facilities. The regulators navely assumed that these old plants would be phased out anyway in a few years.",0_0
"The idea there was that Dr. Frankenstein was doing something against nature, and that somehow the genetically engineered food crops are against nature. And as a biologist, Im just baffled by that line of argument because agriculture has been in that sense against nature for 10,000 years. That were finally able to do more precise tuning of the crops is a huge gain, not a loss.",0_0
"His conclusion: ""Because of the saturation effect in the energy absorption of CO2 molecules with increasing concentration and short residence time, the further increase in temperature could be therefore only at most a few tenths of a degree, if at all. However, the known fossil reserves would be exhausted by then.""",2_3
Facebook upgrades user privacy controls in response to customer concerns.,0_0
"Farmers are the next target for greens one sure way to ensure a lower population is a lot less food. That said, anything that ends the crooked racket of EU farm subsidies is likely to be a new benefit. US farmers arent all that impressed with new green tractors and prefer to keep the old ones running.",0_0
"China's one-party autocracy has acted decisively on two issues, which can be summed up in the phrases the population explosion and global warming. The media, university and corporate elites of not just America but most of the world have been of one mind about these two issues, and in my opinion are being proven wrong on both. Each of them is used by the elites as an excuse to prevent ordinary people from behaving as they would like to.",0_0
"The 1997 version disappeared from the web archive around January 1, right after I first published the results. It now comes up a blank page. Nothing suspicious about that. Certain nothing suspicious about the past repeatedly getting colder, and the present repeatedly getting warmer.",5_2
"The absolute fact, we are told, is that once a piece of rainforest is gone, it is gone forever and that the intrusion of people is simply bad for this wondrous ecosystem. But once again, reality is quite a bit different from perception.",0_0
"eventual political payoff for this stance is well known, the speech Obama gave",0_0
"Lehr: As indicated in the film clip, carbon dioxide does absorb some of the heat radiated back into the atmosphere by the earth. Water vapor absorbs 95 percent of it, but CO2 absorbs some, but only that which is in a wave length of 15 microns, which is like 10 to the minus 17 exponent. This measurement is extremely fine. The atmosphere is already saturated with the 15 micron wavelength of heat radiated from the earth, so any additional carbon dioxide will have no 15 micron wavelength to absorb.",0_0
"Guess what: These crowd-pleasing proclamations are contradictory. Anyone fearful of global warming should cheer higher gasoline prices, because much higher prices represent precisely the sort of powerful incentive needed to push consumers toward more fuel-efficient vehicles and to persuade the auto industry to produce them in large numbers. Bravo for higher prices!And Samuelson concludes, Americans want to stop global warming. They want to cut oil imports. They want cheaper energy. Who will tell them that they can't have it all? Not our""leaders.""",0_0
"FactCheck: Actually a more recent study (also published in Science magazine) says satellite measurements show that the ice sheet as a whole is in fact shrinking ""significantly,"" and that most of the loss is taking place in the smaller West Antarctic ice sheet.",0_0
"The second part of this classic play is the attempt to discredit your opponent. In this case, Sen. Rockefeller would have us believe that ExxonMobil, as an interested party, cannot be a participant in an honest debate.",0_0
"A paper published today in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change finds that development in poor countries will be harmed by misguided efforts at emission reductions, even if industrialized countries covered all of the costs. According to the authors, ""This opinion piece argues that even if the full incremental costs of abatement in developing countries would be covered by industrialized countries, the former's development prospects could be hampered by climate change mitigation due to the following reasons. First, financial inflows have the potential to induce a climate finance curse similar to adverse effects related to natural resource exports. Second, increased use of more expensive low-carbon energy sources could delay structural change and the build-up of physical infrastructure. Third, higher energy prices could have negative effects on poverty and inequality.""",4_1
"In that respect, the UN's main achievement since 1949 has been the transformation of a once-peripheral issue into a global Passion Play. Though the number of refugees throughout the world were millions after 1945 (and 15 million more with the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947), the UN decided to focus quasi-exclusively on the 700,000 refugees of the 1948 Israeli-Arab war. For these Palestinian Arabs, the UN created not only a specific agency (UNRWA) but a unique, and Orwellian, definition of ""refugees"" carefully designed to maintain the issue forever alive.35",0_0
"How do they know? Well, because that's what ""settled science"" based upon infallible computer models and divine authority ""consensus"" tells us to believe.",0_0
"Future decline in glacier runoff will affect both mountain villages as small glaciers disappear and the four five hundred million inhabitants of the entire Ganga basin as spring and autumn flows in particular decline, at differing timescales. Reviews from the region suggest that the timescales are short, may be the 2040s (World Wildlife Fund 2005) or the 2050s (Xu Jianchu and others 2007), although monsoon precipitation in the Indian and Nepal Himalaya appears to stave off glacier reduction in the central and eastern Himalaya by comparison with the Karakoram in the west (Rees & Collins 2006)....",0_0
"The TPA legislation, agreed to by Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and ranking Democrat Ron Wyden D-Ore., plus Ryan, now chairman of House Ways and Means, would require the administration to keep Congress informed on the specifics of the negotiations. Like previous TPA bills, it would require Congress to give an up-or-down vote on final trade agreements submitted by the administration. That's necessary, because other countries aren't going to make concessions to administration negotiators if they know Congress will try to extract further concessions as the price of ratification.",0_0
"EPA has also issued 588 pages of rules for hydraulic fracturing for critically needed oil and natural gas, while the Obama Administration has vetoed the Keystone XL pipeline and made 95% of all publicly owned (but government controlled) energy resources unavailable for leasing, exploration, drilling and mining.",0_0
"Hence the temptation in certain quarters to reify this temporary disconnect into a Mars/Venus gap. But the most cursory examination of twentieth-century history shows that transatlantic time lags have always been the rule rather than the exception. The First World War began in 1914, the U.S. only joined in 1917. The Second World War began in 1939, the U.S. only joined in 1942. The Cold War began in 1947, and it took Europe a full two years to give up the temptation of neutrality and side with the U.S. Since the Long War is of an asymmetric kind, it is no surprise if it took longer than usual for America and Europe to synchronize their chronopolitical watches.",0_0
"Greenlands surface has gained more than half a trillion tons of ice, it is still snowing, and less than eight possible weeks left to the melt season.",1_1
"Social Benefits of Carbon: Craig Idso of CO2 Science has a post on the Cato web site describing the great benefits of enhanced atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Together with his father Sherwood and brother Keith, the Idsos have built a large repository of studies evaluating the effects of enhanced carbon dioxide, both on land and in waters (oceans). Sherwood and Craig were lead authors of the extensive report, with multiple scientific references, by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC): Climate Change Reconsidered II: Biological Impacts (2014).",3_3
We have also shown that land use/land cover change has not been properly assessed inTom KarlsNCDC assessment ofglobal average surface temperature changes ; e.g. see,5_1
"Most surface temperature measurements have been made over land, and primarily in inhabited regions. Measurements for the ocean, which covers three-quarters of the area of the globe, are sparse. Measurements from a single station are sometimes used to represent an area as large as a million square miles. Temperature records also have other biases that require correction. One important bias arises from the fact that recording sites in and near cities are subject to the urban-heat-island effect. These sites were originally in rural areas, but as more people moved in and the surrounding areas were developed, the local temperature may have increased for reasons unrelated to changes in atmospheric greenhouse gases.7",5_1
"Now, as Ive mentioned before, as much as 75% of this big, bad greenhouse effect is short-circuited by convective heat loss by the surface, which is almost entirely a daytime phenomenon over land (nighttime surface temperatures quickly cool the near-surface air to make it convectively stable). (And, just for completeness, a greenhouse atmosphere is colder in the upper layers than it would otherwise be.) My point is that, just because the greenhouse effect exists doesnt mean that our 1-2% enhancement of it with carbon dioxide is going to cause anything bad to happen. There are natural cooling mechanisms in place for the lower atmosphere. The stratosphere, though, probably will cool, as we have seen in satellite data.",0_0
"It should be part of a rethink of the world's economy, in which green issues and social questions should be integrated into the search for profit, she said.",0_0
Congress's intent in adopting NSR in 1977 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 and when making major modifications to existing facilities that would result in significantly increased emissions.,0_0
"Ow et al. say the results of their study demonstrated that tropical seagrasses can increase their photosynthetic rates, adjust photosynthetic performance and increase growth rates in response to CO2 enrichment??",3_3
"Four crews have been at the R Plevin and Sons site in Crow Edge, near Penistone, since the wood chippings fire was discovered at about 08:10 BST on Monday.",0_0
"Figure 1, on the other hand, shows my results regarding the same question of the climate sensitivity. These reveal nothing like a 3C temperature rise from a doubling of CO2:",3_1
"The expansion took place mostly during the 1960s. Having successfully organized the vast majority of drugstores in the city by 1958, union president Leon Davis, a Russian-born drugstore clerk and onetime member of the American Communist Party, set out to organize New York's ""voluntary"" hospitals. Founded in the nineteenth century as nonprofit public charities with a religious orientation and dedicated initially to caring for the indigent, the voluntary hospitals eventually began seeking out government subsidies and paying customers to diversify their revenue streams.",0_0
"To accomplish all this, the UN has set 17 ""Sustainable Development Goals"" and no fewer than 169 targets all of which are to be implemented by 2030. The grandiose scheme was adopted by the UN at its September 25-27 meeting in New York, attended by numerous heads of state, including President Obama. In keeping with previous UN declarations, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development contains the standard boiler-plate references to the importance of eradicating ""gender inequality,"" promoting ""human rights of all,"" favoring ""strengthened global solidarity,"" and the like.",0_0
Several thousandbuoysput into the sea to measure temperature havent registered any rise in sea temperatures.,0_0
"The latest satellite information from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (passed on by the Watts Up With That blog) shows that, after the third slowest melt of April Arctic ice in 30 years, the worlds polar sea ice is in fact slightly above its average extent for early May since satellite records began in 1979.",1_1
"Unwanted pollen flow is an issue that farmers and seed breeders have had to address for decades. Long before the advent of the modern techniques of biotechnology, common law and agronomic customs recognized that seed breeders and organic farmers were producing specialized products and should therefore bear the responsibility to protect the genetic composition of their crops. Farmers and breeders must protect sweet corn from cross-pollination by the unpalatable field corn varieties fed to livestock, for example. And in a starker example, they must prevent canola from being cross-pollinated by rapeseed, which contains potent natural toxins. But there are a number of easily adoptable and flexible agronomic techniques, such as isolation distances and buffer zones, that growers can and do use successfully to preserve the identity of their crops.",0_0
"Of greatest interest to us are Bard and Frank's conclusions about sub-orbital time scales, i.e., the first three of their four major focal points. Within this context, as they say in the concluding section of their review, ""it appears that solar fluctuations were involved in causing widespread but limited climatic changes, such as the Little Ice Age (AD 1500-1800) that followed the Medieval Warm Period (AD 900-1400)."" Or as they say in the concluding sentence of their abstract, ""the weight of evidence suggests that solar changes have contributed to small climate oscillations occurring on time scales of a few centuries, similar in type to the fluctuations classically described for the last millennium: The so-called Medieval Warm Period (AD 900-1400) followed on by the Little Ice Age (AD 1500-1800)."" What it means",2_1
Jylland Posten ends its 2-page feature story with questions and comments by Svensmark:,0_0
"Assessing impacts of future anthropogenic carbon emissions is currently impeded by uncertainties in our knowledge of equilibrium climate sensitivity to atmospheric carbon dioxide doubling. Previous studies suggest 3 K as best estimate, 2?4.5 K as the 66% probability range, and non-zero probabilities for much higher values, the latter implying a small but significant chance of high-impact climate changes that would be difficult to avoid. Here, combining extensive sea and land surface temperature reconstructions from the Last Glacial Maximum with climate model simulations we estimate a lower median (2.3 K) and reduced uncertainty (1.7?2.6 K 66% probability). Assuming paleoclimatic constraints apply to the future as predicted by our model, these results imply lower probability of imminent extreme climatic change than previously thought.",0_0
"Of course, we have also had a nice chat about environmentalism and climate change. He was happy to hear that I agree that an elevated concentration of CO2 contributes to the temperature by a nonzero amount and I was happy to hear that Vclav Klaus, the Czech president, has made valuable contributions to the climate debate in the Czech Republic. And he has said many other sane things, too.",0_0
"Do you remember? They said it would be mild and damp, and between one degree and one and a half degrees warmer than average. Well, I am now 46 and that means I have seen more winters than most people on this planet, and I can tell you that this one is a corker.",0_0
"This tight statement implies at least one relatively unaccountable third party (other than experts and the public) is actually running the show. It also explains why the public has not often heard doubts from scientiststhey?ve been tied up and gagged in the backroom. In contrast the conventional talking point is that multitudes of powerful, well-funded skeptics relentlessly deploy a cloud of confusion to derail helpless politicians from concrete action. Garth does a fine job of skewering the consumers of this cool aid. He observes that activists within and without science view themselves romantically as a virtuous few, gallantly facing climate criminals everywhere. He writes:",0_0
"Michael Manns famous hockey stick graph, the ultimate alarmist propaganda poster, has, we hope, finally been laid to rest. The stick was a central part of the IPCCs third assessment report, but was strangely dropped in the fourth. However, our own government still continues to use a version of it in order to mislead the unsuspecting public:",5_1
"It seems that, rather than basing knowledge about the material universe on experimental evidence, the Royal Society and its senior members instead seek authority in science fiction; the extrapolation of superficially plausible science, forward into the future, where a drama plays out.",0_0
"In light of their most interesting findings, the international team of Kenyan, Swedish, Tanzanian, and American scientists conclude that Tanzanian and possibly many other reefs that exhibit similar environmental conditions have the ability to recover from large-scale climatic and human disturbances, and they thus urge local action to deal with local problems as the best formula for protecting Earths coral reefs in the days and years to come.",0_0
"> >> >- p.2, bottom paragraph: studies reporting damages due to",0_0
"With increased national Doppler radar coverage , increasing population, and greater attention to tornado reporting, there has been an increase in the number of tornado reports over the past several decades. This can create a misleading appearance of an increasing trend in tornado frequency. To better understand the true variability and trend in tornado frequency in the U.S., the total number of strong to violent tornadoes (EF3 to EF5 category on the Enhanced Fujita scale) can be analyzed. These are the tornadoes that would have likely been reported even during the decades before Doppler radar use became widespread and practices resulted in increasing tornado reports. The bar chart below indicates there has been little trend in the frequency of the strongest tornadoes over the past 55 years.",1_7
Scientific paper that suggested Gulf Stream slowdown was based on a trivial error.,0_0
"Free energy sounds good. Saving energy makes people feel good. But the costs of these sound-good, feel-good policies penalize those who can least afford ittrapping them in a life of government dependence. Since we do not have an energy shortage, maybe that is the goal of all of these energy-saving policies, after all.",4_1
"However, the production outlook for the coming crop year is projected at 18.45 million tonnes the lowest since 2002.",0_0
The Outlook piece went viral and became the talk of political Washington even before the Sunday paper was delivered. So we were bemused that the major Sunday talk shows on the three networks and cable news whose panels focus each week on buzzy topics in politics all maintained radio silence about the essay. The denial surrounding this issue has barely changed since 2012.,0_0
Say what you will about the risks presented by Chinese imports - they still haven't managed to top this .,0_0
"October 24, 2012 AUSTRALIAS $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a new air link to the frozen continent.",0_0
"Insisting the world?s population be locked up within the confounds of mega-cities, the elite realizes that if the herd is to be properly controlled walls are needed- thick walls, and by constructing these walls, making the masses go this or that way will be made easier..",0_0
"They are WIND TURBINE WARNINGS, and very real ones. The maximum tip speed on those blades is on the order of 200 miles per hour (320 Km per hour). Think about the damage that say a 20 kg (44 lb) chunk of ice moving at 200 miles an hour might do to a house or a car or a child and they build these near highways, schools and homes?",0_0
"Pass on again to February this year, past the final defeat of the emissions trading bill in the Senate in July 2009, the collapse of the Copenhagen climate talks in December 2009 and the rise of Julia Gillard to the prime ministership in June 2010. On February 10, Tim Flannery was appointed Climate Commissioner presumably to provide a more friendly public face to the government's anti-global warming campaign. Unfortunately, Flannery's Gaia-esque style and his numerous failed climate prognostications undermine the credibility of the commission.",0_0
"This inlgg resulted in 60 comments hr p TCS, and from unusually, I was also a semi-private mail with diverse viewpoints.",0_0
The real Clarke and Dawe on Climate Change. (Remember it was two years ago).,0_0
"These groups are currently running a massive campaignin Texas to prevent the building of new coal-fired plants, without which the state will be patently unable to meet its needs. Transmission lines face even worse obstruction.",0_0
"From CEI: Director of Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell and President Fred L. Smith, Jr. sign on to an open letter to the Members of the Senate opposing the global warming amendments.",0_0
"Now lets look at the differences that arise from different adjustment schemes. See bottom right above. The KNMI and Labrijn already appear to contain an adjustment for the move from the pagoda hut. I presume that the online KNMI version derives in some way from the Labrijn version as these are essentially the same. Hans Erren has his own proposed adjustments shown here , which is in the same family as the other Dutch adjustments. A caveat here : my calculation of the GISS adjustment differs somewhat from Hans (well probably try to reconcile calculations at some point) although the shapes are similar; and Hans figure does not include the GHCN adjustment version.",0_0
"It wasnt just the Obama administration that expressed doubts about the original Keystone XL pipeline proposal, which would transport heavy crude oil from Canadian tar sands to refineries along the Gulf of Mexico and has become a bone of contention in the presidential race. The state of Nebraska last year told TransCanada that its proposed route through that state needed adjustment, too.",0_0
"Concerning forest clearing, the Sierra Club says ""protection is the most obvious alternative"" and goes on to say that instead of development, solutions to address ""population growth and poverty"" should come through so-called ""family planning, basic health services, and literacy campaigns."" (Lessons, p.7)",0_0
"Jones further admitted in a Feb. 13, 2010, interview with the BBC that there had been no ""statistically significant"" warming since 1995, and evidence of cooling (although not ""statistically significant"" for Jones) since 2002. Here's what Jones said about the cooling:",0_0
Tracking Changes in Yellowstones Restless Volcanic System,0_0
"""Our position on LNG exports has not changed,"" Lamb wrote in a boilerplate response that echoed the talking points at the January news conference. ""The report failed to give due consideration to the importance of manufacturing to the US economy. Further we do not believe that any one report gives the whole picture and we are asking the DOE to ensure that it remains cognizant of the country's long-term growth potential when making any decisions.""",0_0
"Model.ols = mle2(ols.lik, start = list(b=.01),data=list(y=x,t=Year) );",0_0
"In a move that would make zero a grade of the past, the Chapel",0_0
Shrinking Arctic sea ice may not be the real threat to polar bears. Veteran zoologist Susan Crockford argues that thick spring ice is a bigger problem for polar bears than sparse summer ice.,0_0
Editorial: Hansen is simply wrong and his hypothesis is a complete and abject failure,0_0
"It is great how climate scientists can develop a cause and effect relationship, skipping directly past the cause part.",0_0
"One of the most severe El Nio events occurred in 1789-93 and caused severe droughts in Southern India, Australia, Mexico, the Atlantic islands and southern Africa. In the Madras Presidency of India the droughts led to 600,000 deaths, about half the population. The droughts were periodically interrupted by ""highly destructive rainfall."" One three-day period at Madras experienced 25.5 inches of rain. As with so many of the catastrophic scenarios trotted out by global warming gloomies, the purported link between El Nio and global warming cannot withstand historical scrutiny.",2_1
"Scatterplot graph of U.S. Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) -vs- NASA GISS temperature data. If there was a correlation between temperature and droughts in the USA, the dots would align along a line from upper left to lower right (or mirrored LL to UR, depending on the correlation). But, as the plot shows, there is no correlation between drought & temperature of any kind.",1_7
"The figures, which have triggered debate among climate scientists, reveal that from the beginning of 1997 until August 2012, there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures.",1_4
"Progressives tell us that all of creation is accidental, and the result of entropy and disorder.",0_0
"This cute mechanism (that I have appreciated for a couple of years, much like Frank Wilczek himself) based on logarithmic running only explains the gap between the QCD scale and the Planck scale. Of course, the gap between the electroweak scale and the Planck seems to be a very different problem - it is the hierarchy problem that is harder to solve but some mechanisms of SUSY breaking effectively propose an analogous solution.",0_0
"Peter Stott, a researcher who authored the most recent IPCC report chapter on global climate projections, has found that climate model projections of an alarming temperature rise are inconsistent with past observations. When he and his colleagues at the U.K.s Met Office forced the amount of global warming predicted by the models to equal the amount of warming actually observed, the projected future rise to accompany human greenhouse gas emissions dropped substantially. In other words, the better climate models match the past, the less scary the likely future looks.",5_1
"Steer has a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. His appointment will be effective July 1, 2010.",0_0
"The ""Divergence Problem"" falls into the category of a ???main area of uncertainty?? . It arises because the majority of temperature-sensitive tree ring width ""site chronologies"" go down in the last half of the 20th century. Cuffey asked the $64 question to D??Arrigo: if tree rings are not picking up late 20th century warmth, how can you be certain that they might not have had a similar response to a comparable warm period in the past (e.g. in the Medieval Warm Period). The NAS panel acknowledges the ???divergence problem?? (p 47, 110), but doesn??t summarize it as one of the ???major areas of uncertainty??.",5_1
"The earth hasn??t warmed at the same pace during the 20 th century. The noticeable temperature increases during some periods interspersed with fairly stable or decreasing levels during others have been explained as a combination of secular global warming (likely manmade) and natural climate variability. We are currently, in the early 21 st century, experiencing a hiatus period, during which surface temperatures have not risen at the same rate as higher atmospheric radiative forcing.",1_4
Six climate headlines from 2009 that tell us something important about the run-up to the 2015 Paris climate conference,0_0
"Taking the tobacco analogy one step farther, Ignatius foresees liability lawsuits winning trillions of dollars in damages against those ""companies that have been working so hard to deny"" that global warming may be a problem.",0_0
"A Feb. 9 front-page article about the Pentagon inspector general's report regarding the office of former undersecretary of defense Douglas J. Feith incorrectly attributed quotations to that report. References to Feith's office producing ""reporting of dubious quality or reliability"" and that the office ""was predisposed to finding a significant relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda"" were from a report issued by Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) in Oct. 2004. Similarly, the quotes stating that Feith's office drew on ""both reliable and unreliable reporting"" to produce a link between al-Qaeda and Iraq ""that was much stronger than that assessed by the IC and more in accord with the policy views of senior officials in the Administration"" were also from Levin's report. The article also stated that the intelligence provided by Feith's office supported the political views of senior administration officials, a conclusion that the inspector general's report did not draw .",0_0
"Alexander noted that weather events show no long-term trend whatever over more than a century of reliable data. Weather extremes have occurred from time immemorial, long before industrialization boosted the CO2 level in the atmosphere.",1_7
"Former NASA scientist dispels notion global warming is ""settled' science",5_1
Annual mean temperature in Central England during 1999,0_0
"Far from being the final word on climate change, last week?s United Nations report suggesting near certainty that human activity is causing a rise in Earth?s temperatures is actually further proof that the conventional wisdom is dead wrong and the Earth is cooling right on schedule, according to one of the leading scientists who is skeptical of the climate-change premise.",1_2
"Corporations that would not benefit from new projects forecast that tax increases will compel them to lay off workers and raise prices for consumers. ?We can?t afford it,? they say. ?We?ll go out of business. Besides, why should America go first? Unless the rest of the world pulls its weight, we have no chance of succeeding.?",0_0
"The New York Times noted that, ""Some climate panel scientists said that other countries were planning to push for Dr. Watson to remain, and that it might be possible to craft a compromise in which the two scientists served as co-chairman.""",0_0
Regulations begin easing Wednesday for Atlantic City casinos:,0_0
Illegal Immigration: Virginia Should not try to be Another Arizona,0_0
"Different from crude oil, the law currently allows liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, but the Energy Department has dozens of applications for LNG export terminals languishing on some bureaucrat's desk. Just six applications have been approved in the past year. Bipartisan support exists for expediting the permitting processespecially in light of Russia's stranglehold on natural gas supplies to many of our European allies. Legislation must be drafted and passed to allow exports to non-European free-trade countries.",0_0
While perhaps one could designate some subset of models as being poorer in a,0_0
"Oops; His case is one of dozens around the U.S. to come under scrutiny because of entrenched but now-discredited beliefs about how arson can be detected. The Arson Research Project at the Monterey College of Law in California has highlighted at least 31 convictions based at least partly on debunked fire investigations, including that of a Texas man executed in 2004, and experts believe there are many more. ""There was just no science behind"" the old assumptions about arson, said Paul Cates of The Innocence Project, a group that works to overturn wrongful convictions, primarily through the use of DNA. ""A lot of this was just guesswork and voodoo."" Flashback: The FBI's Bullet Lead Analysis Used Flawed Science",0_0
"These highstand oscillations recorded in the Bahamas and elsewhere require another, yet unexplained, forcing mechanism of much shorter duration than Milankovitch frequencies but also document rapid climate changes during warm interglacial periods.",2_1
Due to recent interest we have made it onto the Alexa graphical stats system too. here a comparison with Andrew Montfords excellent site at bishop-hill.net,0_0
"Oil near $103 amid falling dollar, rising stocks:",0_0
"By Niger Innis, Rev. Samuel Rodriguez and Amy Frederick",0_0
"These devastating changes, utterly ignored by an upper middle class intellectual and cultural establishment that not so secretly hopes for a demographic change in America that will finally marginalize uncredentialed white people once and for all, make Jacksonians angry and frustrated, but they also make it harder to develop an organized political strategy in response to some of the worst and most dangerous conditions faced by any major American demographic group today. Strong in numbers (though not a majority), awakening to a new sense of anger and endangerment, Jacksonians are still groping for a movement and a program.",0_0
"The U.S. needs a comprehensive energy program to bridge the country's adjustment to cleaner fuels that reduce carbon emissions. This includes green energy and nuclear energy, as well as clean coal, oil and natural gas.",0_0
"I doubt that world leaders, however, will perpetually sacrifice 2 percent or more of their nations' annual economic growth, year after year, for no tangible benefits.",0_0
NEW VIDEO: Global Warming and Eco-Imperialism,0_0
"/s/Charles F. Deiterich JSC, Mgr., Flight Operations Integration, MOD, 30 years",0_0
"We have, for example, the case of a former editor of Science who was quite open about his belief in DAGW, and actively discouraged publication of any papers that went against his bias. Finally, he had to be shamed into giving voice to a climate skeptics contrary opinion, based on solid scientific evidence. But of course, he reserved to himself the last word in the debate.",5_2
Virtually certain . >99% probability of occurrence,0_0
"Remarkably, even the IPCCs latest and much reduced near-term global-warming projections are also excessive (Fig. 3).",5_2
"Policy makers recognize it is difficult to say what is a ""fair"" emissions target for China, which is rapidly pulling its huge population out of poverty.",0_0
"So will James Murray be gleefully waving our brave young people off to war.Does he seriously think that buying a few of his Solar Panels ,Windmills and fancy Halogen Light Bulbs will automatically make it rain in the desert and make all the IEDs and the armed insurgents along with all the CO2 magically disappear.",0_0
"Tuesday is Earth Day, the calendar's High Holy Day of Green theology. With each passing year, environmentalism more clearly assumes the trappings of a secular religion. Now, along comes Iain Murray to assert that the Green God is dead.",5_2
"So for twelve years there has been a rise 0.1 0 C with a 140% error, in other words, no significant measureable temperature rise. You can play with the data. If you omit 1998 then you can double the change. But 1998 was an El Nino year followed in 1999 by a La Nina. If we omit both years then the results are unchanged.",1_4
"By Gil Ross, ACSH, Aug 7, 2015",0_0
Global warming proven by snow? Scientists make their case,0_0
Kind of like the report card syndrome. Hospitals got very anxious about negative reports on their results and started refusing some admissions to avoid the negative outcomes that come with taking the tough cases. Some people say that such reporting just causes a shift of the difficult cases away to other institutions.,0_0
"Which technologies today are about to hit the brick wall of diminishing returns, and which are poised for sudden price collapses?",0_0
"""It's the green movement's new Jim Crow law,"" Deneen Borelli, outreach director at FreedomWorks, told The Daily Caller News Foundation in 2014.",0_0
"Do new data provide evidence for ice sheet slow death or ice sheet slow growth? An Ohio State University researcher reports that the most recent data show that thinning rates are slowing at several sites just east of the ice sheet divide, and that the elevation at the divide continues to increase?? Read More",1_1
"Before the DOE report came out, Dow, guided by its public relations team, had characterized itself as ""in the middle"" on this issue. All last year, the company had repeatedly declared itself a ""proponent of fair and free trade,"" stating that it ""opposes policies that arbitrarily limit reasonable experts of natural gas to free-trade agreement countries or that provide for unlimited global exports."" As George Blitz, vice president of energy and climate change and a corporate vice president, claimed as late as October, it just wanted a balanced public policy.",0_0
"As the BBC put it (May 13), ""The blockbuster climate disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow contains badly flawed science and ignores the laws of physics, leading UK scientists believe."" It seems somewhat odd for the chief scientific adviser to praise the something that ""ignores the laws of physics"" for its political qualities. King, a professor of chemistry at Cambridge, has no expertise in climate science.",0_0
CEI: What's the idea behind the Club for Growth?,0_0
Inhofe Honored For Protecting U.S. Taxpayers from Devastating Climate Tax,0_0
"Donald Trump said, ""A lot of people in my industry think asbestos is the greatest fireproofing material ever made."" Fire testing organizations such as the National Fire Protection Association have consistently given asbestos materials a zero flame-spread rating, which means it has no ability to spread flame under any circumstances. Before asbestos was widely used, it was not uncommon for a fire in a school or theater to kill, dozens, and sometimes hundreds of people. After asbestos, these types of fires disappeared overnight. Fred Astaire sang the praises of asbestos in the classic 1930s song, ""I won't dance."" And my book documents how lack of asbestos added to the tragedies of the World Trade Center attacks in 2001 and the fire at The Station nightclub in Rhode Island in 2003",0_0
"Heres an example of his calculations: At Cougar Peak, a 1925 record documented the lowest elevation that pikas had inhabited was 2416 meters . Beevers more recent surveys detected pikas living even lower on Cougar Peak at 2073 meters in the late 1990s, and at 2222 metes in followup surveys in 2003. Despite the fact that recent observations were all lower than 1925 by about 200 meters, Beever ignored the historical record. He simply subtracted the 1990s elevation from the 2003 elevation, to report climate had pushed pikas 149 meters higher. Furthermore, the Cougar Peak site was one of the sites Beever had initially reported as extinct. Follow-up surveys found a robust population.",0_0
"So we're also exposed to the standard anti-quantum propaganda that entanglement is a borderline crime and it shouldn't happen unless and the rest of the sentence is their ""contribution"" you have some powerful constructors inside kettles to heat water and to beat other constructors, or whatever. It's just batit crazy.",0_0
"9. ""Surely no failure of American intelligence,"" wrote Angelo Codevilla, a former senior staff member of the Senate Intelligence Committee during the 1970s, ""compares in seriousness to this NIE's misprision of the size, scope, and purpose of Soviet strategic forces between 1965 and 1979."" From Angelo Codevilla, Informing Statecraft: Intelligence for a New Century (New York: Free Press, 1992), 223.",0_0
"Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and multiculturalism means more pavilions at Jihadifest;",0_0
UPDATE: Robert Manne replies at #29. See my reply to that. Jo,0_0
"""DOE is to be congratulated for abiding by the law despite strong pressure from special interests to set up a credit program, which would allow them to profit from higher energy costs at the expense of consumers. Awarding Kyoto credits would shift the political balance of power in favor of policies like the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act,"" said CEI Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis.",0_0
"Off the coast of the southern island of Japan, we have a 6.6 quake. Some news shows are reporting this as a 6.9 but Ill go with USGS.",0_0
"Flashback 2008: ""Why Winter No Longer Exists' ""Winter has gone for ever Climate change has wiped out the season of traditionally long, hard frosts'",0_0
Its also instructive to witness the hostility that Svensmark receives from The Cause. And they accuse the sceptics of being anti-science?,0_0
Well at least the models were right about the sea ice loss in the Northern Hemisphere. Too bad for the modelers that our planet also has a Southern Hemsiphere.,5_1
Less has gone to those at the bottom. Those in the middle have seen their health insurance canceled by Obamacare and sit waiting for healthcare.gov to function.,0_0
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"Will Hutton, a stockbroker turned left-wing talking head, reviews the climate debate in the aftermath of the Rio conference. It's mostly fairly ill-informed:",0_0
"Did you know? nder the 2011 budget, every hour of every day, the federal government spends $188 million it doesnt have, $130 million of which is borrowed from itself. A little more on the utterly ignored number one threat to the Canadian economy.",0_0
So heres the Harvard blather about food production creating net bad effects:,0_0
"Lewis and Curry arrive at their lower equilibrium climate sensitivity estimate by using updated compilations of the earths observed temperature change, oceanic heat uptake, and the magnitude of human emissions, some of which should cause warming (e.g., greenhouse gases), while the others should cool (e.g., sulfate aerosols). They try to factor out natural variability. By comparing values of these parameters from the mid-19 century to now, they can estimate how much the earth warmed in association with human greenhouse gas emissions.",3_1
"But no matter how cold it gets, global-warming adherents insist its all part and parcel of what they believe to be abnormal and soon-to-be-catastrophic warming of the planets surface due to mans reckless introduction of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.",5_2
"And don't forget the Medieval Warm Period, Little Ice Age, and the five frigid epochs that buried North America, Europe and Asia under glaciers a mile thick. Or the 4,000-year-old trees that recently emerged as modern glaciers melted back proving that a forest grew in the now icy Alps just four millennia ago.",2_1
"Over the last 30 years, the warming rate has been remarkably constantabout 0.17 degrees Celsius per decade. And for 25 years before that, the world was actually cooling!",1_4
We've been hearing a lot of criticism of Barack Obama in recent days from,0_0
"Green energy also uses more land and materials than conventional fossil fuels, which the authors note makes it questionable whether wind and solar are really ""green"" at all. For instance, Moore and White point out an average wind farm uses 460 metric tons of steel and 870 metric tons of concrete per megawatt produced, whereas a natural gas plant requires only three metric tons of steel and 27 cubic meters of concrete per megawatt.",4_4
"The logic of this announcement is crazy the US government is already spending billions of taxpayer dollars propping up the struggling car manufacturers in the US, and yet in the name of climate change, Obama kicks them again hard while theyre down",0_0
The one-sided reporting and blind faith in climate change has infected politicians who are incapable of balancing the federal budget. So why put faith in them or the meteorologists who track with them that they can do anything other than talk about the weather?,0_0
"In another email exhange, Mr. Mann wrote to Mr. Jones: ""This was the danger of always criticizing the skeptics for not publishing in the ""peer-reviewed literature.' Obviously, they found a solution to thattake over a journal! So what do we do about this? I think we have to stop considering ""Climate Research' as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal.""",5_2
"The failure of the models to simulate the polar amplified warming should come as no surprise to regular visitors. We showed in the post here last year that the models do not show the polar-amplified warming in the Arctic during the recent warming period, or the polar-amplified cooling in the Arctic during the cooling period from the early-1940s to the late-1970s.",5_1
"The question of post-accord security for Israelis dominates every discussion of a deal with the Palestinians. The Obama-Bush transition does not appear to have produced any significant glitches in the critical area of permanent security arrangements. First outlined by Condoleezza Rice and later fleshed out by retired General James Jones, Obama's recently departed national security adviser, all key points of the plan have been presented to both sides without any deal breakers becoming apparent. Under this plan, Palestine would become a ""demilitarized state with a strong police force."" As summarized by Abed Rabbo, ""An international force would be deployed on the borders and inside the Palestinian state. No Israeli presence of any kind would be permitted inside the Palestinian state. Israel would be able to nominate members or veto the proposals of others. A member of the international force could not be removed without the agreement of Israel, the United States, and Palestine.""",0_0
"The above graph shows how drastically the IPCC was compelled to reduce its near-term warming projections between the spaghetti-graph shown and the sharply downward-revised prediction zone between the two green arrows. The red arrows show where the medium-term predictions were in 1990. The observed trend, in black, is trailing along at the very bottom of the prediction zone.",5_1
"?The scale and scope of the World Bank Group?s support to our country clients on climate change issues has grown rapidly, as has our engagement in the international dialogue,? said Mr. Zoellick. ?Given the importance of this issue, we decided we needed a high-level ?point person? on climate change. Andrew brings a deep knowledge of the technical, financial and political aspects of climate change to this important new role.?",0_0
"Leading climate scientist: ""democratic process isn't working'",0_0
"What Congress, and Everybody Else, Should Know About Genetically Modified Crops",0_0
"It is important to understand why measures to attempt to mitigate CO2 emissions are always going to be unaffordable. First, as the California example demonstrates, regional mitigation measures do not noticeably change the global CO2 concentration. Therefore manmade radiative forcing is scarcely altered.",4_4
"In the updated edition of the Limits to Growth, the authors seem to climb down from the certainty of the original report, complaining that the media misunderstood or misinterpreted their findings. More than once in the new edition, the authors insist that ""we are not predicting that a particular future will take place. . . . We do not believe that available data and theories will ever permit accurate predictions of what will happen to the world over the coming century."" Two pages later this reticence is thrown out the window. After the reviewing in two short paragraphs the trajectory of the dot.com bubble of the 1990s, the authors conclude: ""Sadly, we believe the world will experience overshoot and collapse in global resource use and emissions much the same as was the dot.com bubblethough on a much larger time scale.""",0_0
The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) contradicted their claim that the 20th century was the warmest ever.,2_1
"I first posted this five-part video series in November, 2008 because I felt that Svensmark was truly on to something very important in climate research. As the debate over Svensmarks research intensified, I posted it again in July, 2009 for the same reason. Recently, Svensmarks research was validated in the CERN experiment which makes this video series more relevant than ever, and casts further doubt on Al Gores theory of castastrophic man-made climate change. So, for the third time, I present this five-part video series just as I did back in 2008:",2_1
"Solar activity is going into a decline as well. We dont yet know if this decline will be to a Dalton Minimum-like level or a Maunder Minimum level. The model projection into the future does not contain ENSO or volcanic data as that data cannot be predicted. But it will get cooler for the next thirty years. The AMO will turn positive some time in mid-century, and solar output may not decline as much as indicated, so another full-blown ice age is not beginning, but a Little Ice Age may be starting. See here for further projections into the future based on the deVries 230-year cycle and the 1000-year Suess cycle.",1_2
after having to ask a second time. This gorgeous little juxtaposition of tales comes from a new,0_0
"Experts like Katherine Hayhoe have been hysterically warning about drought in the southwest, based on their mindless superstitions about CO2. Over the past two years, the southwest and Rocky Mountain states have been much wetter than normal.",5_2
"Bear in mind that under established legal interpretation ,EPA is forbidden to take compliance costs and economic impacts into account when settingNAAQS. In short,applying the NAAQS program toCO 2 could turn the CAA into the equivalent of an economic suicide pact.",0_0
"The sun is causing the cooling thats going on. The sun reached a peak of activity around 2000 and has been declining ever since, said Ball, who noted that the cooling trend will continue for years to come.",1_2
"And 2012? Their forecast of 0.48C was well above the actual temperature of 0.40C (based on HADCRUT3 , which was in operation when they made their prediction).",5_1
"There are theories see e.g. the Milankovitch cycle but they have no quantitative predictive value and the actual causal mechanism is far from clear. So we do not know what the temperature outside should be, with and/or without CO 2. We do know historically that the Little Ice Age that ended around 200 years ago was tied for the coldest century long stretch of the entire Holocene that is, the coldest for the last 11,000 or so years (where it might surprise you to learn that the Holocene Optimum was between 1.5 and 2 C warmer than it is today, without CO 2).",2_1
"""House Republicans moved today to prevent controversial Net neutrality regulations from taking effect, a move that is likely to invite an eventual confrontation with President Obama. """,0_0
seasonal-mean temperature and rainfall. Estimates of associated changes in,0_0
The issue of drought post 2000 ??? often greatly exaggerated and distorted ??? usually linked with arm-waving ???climate change?? doomsterism ??? misleading publicity on rainfall ??? all have been skilfully brought into play by the proponents of expensive water.,5_2
"""The one that brought the hot temperatures to the US lasted over a week, while the current one affecting Pakistan and Russia has been persisting for already around eight days and could last for a few more days.""",0_0
"The EPA statement is grossly misleading. There has been no warming in Alaska since 1978, and a sharp decrease in temperatures over the last five years.",1_4
"If this network of division of labor exists and operates within a system of natural liberty, each man will soon find that it is in his own self-interest to apply his own activities in ways that serve and improve the conditions of his fellow human beings as the surest means of attaining his own desired goals and ends.",0_0
"The lesson for climate change is obvious: Innovation is the key to moving from dirtier fuels to cleaner ones. Some environmentalists despair that this means there's nothing governments can do on climate. But the truth is that the federal government helped create the fracking revolution. Forty years of Department of Energy funding and research and development, as well as favorable tax policies (such as the depletion allowance and the deduction for intangible drilling costs) helped set the stage.",0_0
"But the Global Warmingists seem more intent on making others sacrifice than in making big, painful changes in their own lives (yes, Al Gore, I?m talking to you).",0_0
"Nominations close on Sunday evening. To nominate click here, fill in at least three different URLs. But you can nominate any blog for several categories as long as they suit the category.",0_0
"Dr. Ryan Maue??s ACE plot also shows a low year. He adds: ???The agency should have stopped when they were ahead and not mentioned global warming during a historically quiet Typhoon season. Their explanation must have been lost in the translation because almost everyone has noticed that there has been a rapidly developing and intense La Nina during the summer and fall of 2010. Put very simply, the previous historically quiet Typhoon seasons in the Western Pacific basin are usually associated with La Nina. Global ACE is still near 33-year lows , and shows no signs of picking up anytime soon.??",1_7
"Nevertheless, skepticism about manmade climate disasters is gradually gaining ground.",0_0
"The global warming legislation backed by President Obama would drive jobs overseas, since it would impose a costly cap-and-trade carbon rationing scheme on American industry, while leaving foreign plants operated by multinational corporations unregulated. Companies with plants overseas are lobbying for the global warming legislation, which would give them an advantage over American competitors. The legislation Obama backs may perversely increase pollution by driving industry overseas to places with fewer environmental regulations.",4_1
"A dozen states have already sued EPA over its Clean Power Plan, which is opposed by experts on both sides of the aisle and even noted liberal constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe. Other states should join the suit, demand a full accounting of regulatory costs, and simply refuse to implement the plan.",0_0
"Personally I dont think God pays any interest in the sexual mores of a person as long as there is love behind them (with consent, adulthood, etc etc).",0_0
"There could be no question as to the climax of the conference. Even the president of Heartland Institute, Joseph Bast, concluded as much, when he decided to present the wrap-up of the conference before Lord Christopher Monckton had spoken at the final lunch gathering on Tuesday, May 18. Lord Monckton is chief policy adviser to the Science and Public Policy Institute. Monckton was also a policy adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He now travels the world, all for the truth of sound science. Monckton describes truth ""as the center of every lasting consensus.""",0_0
"See this amazing film on May 2, and find out for yourself. To learn where it's showing near you, and to buy tickets, visit www.ClimateHustle.com",0_0
"Whatever the reason, prosecution is not the answer. If you can't stand the heat in the debate room, don't try and bar the doors to others.",0_0
Drought Drives Decade-Long Decline in Plant Growth,0_0
Judge rules use of GPS to track a cheating spouse is not an invasion of privacy:,0_0
"A trend analysis of the RSS satellite dataset would reveal a modest global cooling since January 2000, while at the same time, vast amounts of human CO2 emissions were injected into the atmosphere having zero warming impact - in addition, reviewing the empirical measurements since the beginning of the satellite era indicates that huge record-setting CO2 emissions have not caused the IPCC's predicted ""accelerating,"" and ""dangerous"" global warming, instead temps decelerated",1_4
"Mr. Obama made his announcement at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 26 job training center in Lanham, Maryland. He was joined by Building Trades President Mark H. Ayers; United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters President William P. Hite; and President Ed Hill of the IBEW. He boasted that the plants would create thousands of ""well-paying"" construction jobs, and 800 permanent jobs after the construction was finished.",0_0
"And since he knows the deniers are misinformed, anti-science, and confused, it seems odd that he also deleted the link in the quote from Alenes original article (the one his whole article is about) that shows just how nasty those vile people can be. (Its tricky to cut and paste directly isnt it?)",0_0
"""U.S. employment growth ground to a halt in June, with employers hiring the fewest number of workers in nine months, dampening hopes the economy was on the cusp of regaining momentum after stumbling in recent months.""",0_0
Hadley Centre/University of East Anglia: +0.3 F/decade.,0_0
"However, close examination of the source of the claimed 97% consensus reveals that it comes from a non-peer reviewed article describing an online poll in which a total of only 79 climate scientists chose to participate. Of the 79 self-selected climate scientists, 75 agreed with the notion of AGW. Thus, we find climate scientists once again using dubious statistical techniques to deceive the public that there is a 97% scientific consensus on man-made global warming; fortunately they clearly aren't buying it.",5_1
The web site sent out an email blast on Gingrich's ideological transgressions on cap-and-trade on Wednesday and demanded: Will Gingrich recant and apologise for appearing in the ad with Pelosi?,0_0
"Despite the absence of any significant amounts of human-released carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the climate was HOTTER in Roman and Medieval times than it is now.",2_1
"OIRA should recognize that regulatory agencies now face no serious discipline, and that, even worse, no one within the agency sees regulation A competing with regulation B. Each regulation is seen as sui generistanding on its own grounds, to be decided only on the grounds that it is, or is not, a ""good"" thing. The use of B/C analysis to disguise this inherently political decision is foolish. We're merely encouraged agencies to distort the facts, alarm the public, and posture in the media. The idea that OIRA can replicate the decisions that would have been made had a market existed is foolish. Markets without property rightswithout exchange possibilitiesare a Grand Illusion. The information does not exist to determine what might have happened. We should not encourage SONKingthe Scientification of Non-Knowledgeto obscure that fact.",0_0
"After all, Mississippi didn't cause global warming. The State only industrialized during the 1980sabout a century after the rest of the country. Because of this, the Eagle State's historical contribution to U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is tiny. Congress needs to ask itself: Is it right to slow Mississippi's economic growth to solve a problem for which it is not responsible?",0_0
One of the key statements (from page 2 of the Executive Summary of the EPA's TSD) is thisa simple mimic the IPCC AR4 finding:,0_0
"At his latest July 18 Saturday Summary here , Joe Bastardi presented the latest NCEP global temperature chart for the past 10 years, and here more confirmation that the globe has cooled off a bit.",1_4
Health authorities admit wind turbine syndrome is real,0_0
"Iain Murray, The Corner , 1 April 2010",0_0
"On December 4, 2011 it will have been 2,232 days since Hurricane Wilma made landfall along the Gulf coast as a category 3 storm back in 2005. That number of days will break the existing record of days between major US hurricane landfalls, which previously was between 8 Sept 1900 (the great Galveston Hurricane) and 19 Oct 1906. Since there won??t be any intense hurricanes before next summer, the record will be shattered, with the days between intense hurricane landfalls likely to exceed 2,500 days.",1_7
"Recent research from Robert Davis and Wendy Novicoff of the University of Virginia looked at whether urban mortality related to higher temperatures than normal has increased or decreased over recent years. In many cities across the US, they found that human mortality during days with extremely high apparent temperatures has declined significantly since the 1960s, probably as a result of sociological, technological, and physiological adaptation. This finding directly contradicts the prediction of the National Assessment on Climate Change that mortality rates in cities such as New York and Minnesota could more than double as a result of the projected increased incidence of extreme heat waves.",0_0
"That preoccupation with risk is expressed differently in arguments about climate and terror, but the logic is the same, and their nexus is interesting. Since the claims in currency are so contested, it would be prudent to understand the desire to naturalise complex things such as war than to take the claims at face value.",0_0
"Pielke Sr response: This is also erroneous. You made no mention of the inappropriate shadow version of the Chapter that I was Convening Lead Author on that you were aware of, nor that it was not the publication of the papers, but the repeated cherry-picking of information from the draft Report that were prematurely presented to the media and to the Senate Committee that were the issue. What can explain this fictional reporting?",5_2
scale. But the ?big climate picture? includes ocean feedbacks on all time,0_0
"In light of these several observations, it would appear that if humanity's many physical and chemical disturbances of the planet's coral reef environments were either eliminated or significantly reduced, there would be much less warming-induced destruction of corals throughout the world; for if a 50% reduction in seawater Cu concentration provides a 3.5??C increase in the degree of heat that can be tolerated by coral larvae, and if a 50-80% reduction in dissolved inorganic nitrogen runoff provides 2??C more relief, imagine what benefits similar reductions in man's many other assaults upon earth's coral reef environments might bring.",3_2
"But the pain from the new EPA rules won't be evenly distributed across America. Far from it. The coal producing states like West Virginia and Wyoming will see massive job losses and increases in electric utility costs. The nationwide costs will be about $100 billion a year eventually or a reduction in GDP by about one-half percentage point, the Heritage Foundation finds. But for heavily impacted states Republican areas in the Midwest, South and mountain states the costs will reach about $1,200 a year to average families. Mr. Obama's policies that have had such a crushing effect on middle-income family finances are about to get a whole lot worse.",4_1
"The disclosure will lead to further questions over possible conflict of interest against Dr Pachauri, whose position as chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is already under threat over errors in its reports.",0_0
"on Monday, May 24th, 2010 at 2:24 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"MP: Let's keep those spectacularly wrong predictions from the first Earth Day 1970 in mind when we're bombarded tomorrow with media hype, and claims like this from the 2015 Earth Day website:",0_0
I'm up to my ears in travel and work until Monday - posting will be slow as a result. Get over to the blogroll and expand your blogging horizons. (Or get off the computer and expand your horizons - even better!),0_0
JFK magic bullet: irrationality of conspiracy theories,0_0
Poor Andy gets told by Marty Hoerling and John Wallace that Coumou and Rahmstorf are basically FOS.,0_0
"""Let me quote from the Salon review to give you an idea.""",0_0
"We are dealing with environmental groups, the IPCC, and government leaders like Obama for whom the telling of huge and blatantly obvious lies about global warming is nothing compared to the billions generated by the hoax for the universities and scientists that line their pockets supporting it and industries that benefit by offering ways to capture carbon dioxide or conserve energy by first banning incandescent light bulbs.",5_2
"3. Accelerating , rapid and ""runaway, tipping point"" global warming does not exist, nor is it even remotely and/or feasibly ""imminent""",3_1
"This is simply an outright lie. Inherent in natural events such as hurricanes and typhoons, blizzards, tornadoes, floods, droughts, and forest fires is the damage they cause, but FOE asserted that ""People in vulnerable communities are already struggling with dirty air, unsafe housing, and increased cancer rates. So when extreme weather hits, its impacts are even more devastating.""",0_0
"It's a cooling trend equaling 1.3F per century. And not a single government sponsored climate expert, nor wildly expensive climate model, predicted such.",1_2
"Finally, the broker will ask you for your workers comp. experience ""mod"", short for modifier. If you do not know what an experience mod is, you soon will. A company called NCCI collects premium and loss data from most all the carriers for most businesses. If they are tracking your company, you should get a report like this one from them (OK, the NCCI site has a web site design that won't let me link to the actual page - grrrr. Click the link above, and find ""how to understand your experience rating worksheet"" under the learning center heading.).",0_0
"There has been a 43% increase in the best estimate of total anthropogenic radiative forcing between that for 2005 per AR4, and that for 2011 per AR5. Yet global surface temperatures remain almost unchanged: 2012 was marginally cooler than 2007, whilst the trailing decadal mean temperature was marginally higher. The same 0.8C warming now has to be spread over a 43% greater change in total forcing, natural forcing being small in 2005 and little different in 2012. The warming per unit of forcing is a measure of climate sensitivity, in this case a measure close to TCR, since most of the increase in forcing has occurred over the last 6070 years. It follows that TCR estimates that reflect the best estimates of forcing in AR5 should be of the order of 30% lower than those that reflected AR4 forcing estimates.",0_0
Climate Minister Combet still innocent of knowledge,0_0
"During autumn1958, The New York Times predicted both an ice-free Arctic and a new ice age.",5_2
"Warmists didn't get everything wrong: CO 2 levels are indeed greater than they were just a few decades ago, thanks to China's industrialization. Yet global temperatures have not increased in 17 years; actually, they are trending down, undercutting the warmists' key argument. The seeming contradiction can be explained by, well, looking up.",1_4
"1. Per the empirical satellite data, human CO2 emissions are not causing an accelerating sea level rise that is swamping Pacific Ocean islands, and thus causing a vast migration of climate change refugees (another hysterical IPCC prediction spread by climate liars).",1_6
OMG Greenlands ice sheets are melting fast,0_0
"32 P. Reiter, Global Warming and vector-borne disease in temperate regions and at high altitude, Lancet 351, 839 (1998).",0_0
"Obama signed memoranda designed to prod the struggling US auto industry to design new fuel-efficient vehicles to lessen US dependence on energy sources which he said bankroll dictators, and to spur the US economy .",0_0
"As mentioned above, the most useful place to start when considering the nonmonetary aspects of prosperity is with measures that already exist but which have not previously been brought together. The Prosperity Index, generated by the Legatum Institute, has for the past three years attempted to provide a comprehensive measurement of prosperity using a combination of variables based on economic wealth and quality of life. While it is not as ambitious in its long-term measurement objectives as the Sarkozy commission, the Prosperity Index more usefully encapsulates what can be measured from within the business and social realms.",0_0
"The Turbines produce a third of their rated output and require space and lines and a back up gas or coal fired plant. That makes sense? And at 5 acres per the space required for equivalent output with 2 Megawatt fans is 2500 acres. Think about that, and then back up generator could be on line but is still required to maintain a stable source. Is that sounding stupid enough?",4_4
"At the end of the Eemian Period, for example, the climate descended from a period of warmth as warm as, or even warmer than today??s, into full-blown glaciation in less than 20 years.",2_1
"There are people who believe in horoscopes, people who believe spaceships come here; that is not problematic. But it becomes problematic if it becomes a power structure that destroys our society because that is really what's going on. If you cannot use science anymore because of these crazy beliefs, then there is a problem; I would even say there is a war going on that is much more serious than we were thinking before.",0_0
"I knew it was bad, but interviewing two people now constitutes a ???thorough investigation?? of alleged serious scientific malfeasance? The investigators didn??t even understand that the famous ??? Mike??s Nature trick ???was a clever way of hiding adverse data , a big scientific no-no. They didn??t interview anyone who actually understood the issues.",5_2
"Take four issues where our free and open political system allows continuing, robust domestic debates: global warming, abortion, gun control and the death penalty.",0_0
"""Luis Picado's mother remembers the day her son thought he had won the lottery. He came home to their tin-roofed cinder-block house in a Managua, Nicaragua, slum and said he'd found a way to escape poverty and start a new life in the United States.""",0_0
It just happened that the Nobel Prize - the medal plated with 24-carat gold - has been missing for weeks.,0_0
"In contrast, a U.S. Senate report listed 1,000 international climate scientists who dissent from ""man-made climate catastrophe"" claims. More than 31,000 American scientists signed a statement saying they disagree with alarmist predictions. And a 2013 survey found 48% of American meteorologists do not believe humans are causing dangerous climate change.",5_1
"18 See IPCC 1995, p. 6.",0_0
Dr. Hans Penner is member of the advisory board of CFACT Europe.,0_0
"GHGT effect 15C (-18C) = 33C is wrong. Correct value is 15.0C 15.0C = 0C. Nothing to it. Hansen, Science , 28Aug1981, incorrectly assumed Earth radiates as a black body with emissivity = 1.0, took satellite readings of its average intensity, 239 w/m 2 of surface, and deduced from Boltzmann equation, K = 100(P/5.67e) 0.25 , it radiates at -18C. K = 100(239/5.67(1.0)) 0.25 = 254.8K 273.1 = -18.3C.",5_2
Features of GHG Controls that Impede Collective Action,0_0
"The Young Guns and their allies, including McConnell, also blew up a series of governing norms. While the debt ceiling had been a political football for both parties for decades, leaders were always careful not to push too far, to flirt with default. Republicans in both the House and the Senate, starting in 2010 and continuing through 2014, explicitly held the debt ceiling and US credibility hostage to a series of ideological demands, coming dangerously close to going over the edge.",0_0
"Answer: Australians emit 1.5% of the CO2 emitted by humans. So Australians, over the years, emitted at most about 1.5% of the 110 ppm increase in CO2 since pre-industrial times (that increase is is probably due to ocean warming, due to whatever has been heating the world since 1680), or 0.0000017% of the air (1.7 ppm).",4_2
Conclusions hinge on the choice of statistic and where you set the benchmark. MM05 obtain a critical value for RE of greater than 0.5 using random red-noise data in a replication of the procedure used in MBH98. Non-existent statistical skill of the models is one of the main arguments in MM05 against the reconstruction method in MBH98.,5_1
"The divergences shown in brown in Figure 8 are caused when sea surface temperatures of the Rest-of-the-World fail to cool in response to the La Nia. Basically, they dont cool because of the warm water thats left over after the El Nio.",0_0
"In spite of all of the purportedly unprecedented negative influences arrayed against them over the past decade and a half, GBR corals appear to have held their own, maintaining a stable presence over the totality of their 1300-km linear expanse. References",3_2
"According to a new paper based upon obedient computer models, global warming could result in an increase in the frequency of wildfires. However, data from both the US and Canada show that the number of wildfires has declined over the past 40-50 years of global warming, and that the number of wildfires was higher during the global cooling scare of the 1970's.",1_7
"A similar dynamic is working on the purely domestic level, which is the third moving part of this story. Prospects for the passage of a ""cap and trade"" GHG emissions reduction plan in Congress do not look good at the moment, again because too many Democrats in the heartland states that would be hit hard by sharply higher energy costs are now hesitating or opposing the idea. But Obama's budget plan has penciled in more than $600 billion in revenue from an emissions trading bill in his budget plan, and hence the idea of attaching emissions trading to the budget reconciliation process, thus allowing it to be passed by a simple majority vote of Congress and making it immune to the Senate filibuster. Above all, it is an attempt to end-run the deliberative process of the legislative branch. An emissions trading bill simply cannot survive the light of a sustained, open debate in Congress.",0_0
"Britain has ended liberalised power market pricing, in a broad strategy announcement that poses questions over how qualified government ministers are to choose between energy technologies and to set prices.",0_0
"Whatever may or may not be happening with the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current (AMOC), one thing that you can take to the bank (or insane asylum, as appropriate): contaminated Finnish lake sediments, strip bark bristlecone pines and the hundreds of nondescript Mann 2008-9 tree ring series do not contain any useful information on the past history of the AMOC.",5_1
I just discovered that this blog has been nominated for an award in the annual Canadian Blog Awards. Thanks to the eagle eyed Mayor for spotting the nomination.,0_0
"As highlighted in IPCC AR4 (2007), already a moderate warming produces negative consequences: increasing number of people exposed to water stresses, extinction of species and ecosystems, decrease in cereal productivity at low latitudes, land loss due to sea level rise in coastal areas, increase in mortality and morbidity associated to change in the incidence of vector borne diseases or to increased frequency and intensity of heath waves; infrastructural disruption and mortality increase due to more frequent and intense extreme weather event occurrence.",0_0
"The three researchers say their results showed there was ""no change in long-term monthly, seasonal and annual rainfall and frequency of rain days"" and that ""there is no significant trend in the annual and seasonal rainfall totals."" This being the case, they also say ""it can be concluded that there is no climate change observed over Combatore.""",1_7
"Now with global temperatures in an extended hiatus, the IPCC has reversed course and told us that such short-term periods are actually irrelevant to its arguments:",1_4
"As you try to wrap your mind around that explanation, just think about the way the Earth goes through regular seasons as well as predictable cycles of warming and cooling. It has done this now for some 4.5 billion years.",2_1
"If the deep heat explanation for the Pause were correct (and it is merely one among dozens that have been offered), the complex models have failed to account for it correctly: otherwise, the growing discrepancy between the predicted and observed atmospheric warming rates would not have become as significant as it has.",5_1
"Should the world face a ""clash of civilizations,"" America may find itself with weaker allies. It may then be forced to play a greater role in defending and promoting the liberal, pluralist beliefs and values of Western civilization. We may have to do more, not because we want to, but because we have to.",0_0
"While the White House economic report does not address those criticisms directly, it says greater domestic energy production, the use of wind and solar power and the reduction in oil consumption have had substantial economic and energy security benefits, and they are helping to reduce carbon emissions in the energy sector and thereby tackle the challenge posed by climate change.",4_1
"I am not brave enough to go to fight to the East of Ukraine in the new conflict created as a product of the desperate American imperialism against the self-declared Ukrainian government. Not only I lack the courage. Such a decision would be meaningless because this conflict is about something completely different than the search and application of the human rights and freedoms i.e. the values ""for which"" the U.S. has already devastated so many countries in the world.",0_0
"How unprecedented? Well, so far as we can tell, since 1978, from which year, the Post reports, the date on which a certain farmer in Northern France harvested his grapes has moved up by nearly two months.",0_0
"The United States should engage other nations on climate change. More than a few opportunities for agreement may exist. A global pact on GHG caps with full trading of allowances is almost certainly not among them, nor, in my opinion, would it be desirable.",0_0
"Hydrocarbon fuels are the true green energy sources. They disturb less land per unit of energy produced, do not murder wildlife and their combustion produces new supplies of water and carbon dioxide for the atmosphere. More carbon dioxide and water in the atmosphere enables plants to grow faster, bigger and more able to cope with heat or drought.",4_5
"Will that nuclear-construction renaissance happen? Although no company has opened a new nuclear power plant on American soil in 30 years, at first glance, there are good reasons to believe in a resurgence. Ten companies, including Constellation Energy, Duke Energy, EDF International, Entergy, Exelon, FPL, Progress Energy, SCANA, Southern Company, and the Tennessee Valley Authority, have teamed up with reactor manufacturers GE Energy and Westinghouse in a consortium called NuStart to support efforts to build and operate new nukes. More than a dozen companies, including NuStart members, have either filed or signaled their intent to file for new generation permits at sites from Louisiana to Maryland.",0_0
"But here is the quite fascinating selection bias by the lefty blogs: I have read the whole report, and this is absolutely the only chart in the whole study that in any way, shape, or form might be interpreted as a call for higher government education spending. Even more interesting is what these bloggers left out. This is the other half of the starting teacher pay analysis Drum et. al. chose note to include, and makes clear that even this chart is not a call for more total spending:",0_0
"The models also performed poorly at simulating the warming rate of the sea surface temperatures of the Indian Ocean, Figure 20. The models almost double the warming rate there.",5_1
Part I:Schellnhuber claimed the Himalayas melt of 2035 was very easy to calculate,0_0
"In a fact check of Chait's article, I wrote the following about the above paragraph:",0_0
"Those are very big ifs. And there are many other explosive issues, from abortion to immigration, that make the process of getting to 60 votes in the Senate challenging to say the least. Have you noticed that I have not yet mentioned the public option? That is because I am in fundamental agreement with Paul Starr, the Princeton sociologist (and author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning history of American health care) that the monomaniacal focus on the public option is a waste of time. The key here is getting real competition and reasonable insurance plans through the exchanges. The public option was one way to try to do so, but neither the only way nor an absolutely essential one. Under the right circumstances, an exchange with only private insurers can work just fine.",0_0
"Just imagine if the uncooperative polar ice was melting rather than thickening. We would hear a collective chorus of, ?See See See? from the climate activists and the media that the planet really is warming. That Al Gore was right when he predicted that the North Pole would have melted by 2013.",0_0
Romney Unveils Climate Protection Plan for Massachusetts,0_0
"Conclusion : the Sagan/Hansen runaway greenhouse effect is complete nonsense, and if Hansen was a competent climate modeler he would already know this.",5_2
"So the data may very well be real. Notice also that the trend in DMI plots for the last few years since 2000 has been ever so slightly below the mean. Since the sea ice melt may be driven more by wind and currents, what effect it may have on the 2009 sea ice melt season remains to be seen. I think it would be safe to say though, that NSIDC??s director, Mark Serreze won??t be issuing an ???ice free north pole?? soundbite this year.",1_1
"7 March 2013 The Little Ice Age should be the story of the century, yet its only being announced quietly by climate scientists and solar physicists. Not a word is being mentioned by the mainstream media, who had a hand in selling the Global Warming propaganda that has become irrelevant as we slide into colder climate.",1_2
"The NZ temperature record averages seven weather stations Auckland, Masterton, Wellington, Nelson, Hokitika, Lincoln and Dunedin through the twentieth century. But there are many gaps and flaws up to about 1930 and, apart from these seven, there are very few other records to use as benchmarks.",0_0
"Mr Cameron is hardly the only prominent celebrity to oppose the ballot measure. Other high-profile individuals campaigning against it include David Arquette, Benjamin Bratt, and California's Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger ? a prime candidate for a similar attack advert, since he drives an SUV and commutes to Sacramento from his home in Los Angeles by private jet.",0_0
"CEI: Some people, like Steve Forbes and Bob Novak, have not been so charitable toward Greenspan.",0_0
"Unscientific policies and regulatory grandiosity and excess, wrote Dr. Miller, are not EPAs only failings; neglecting to weigh costs and benefits is shockingly common, noting that The EPAs repeated failures should not come as a surprise because the agency has long been a haven for scientifically insupportable policies perpetrated by anti-technology ideologues.",5_2
"What's more interesting is that periods in the Arctic when sea ice was exceptionally thick, polar bears and other Arctic animals had the hardest time surviving.",0_0
"As a former loyal public servant, I wont give Ambroses cynical definition of the word politician, but it involves the word eel. We should remember, of course, that dictionaries can be wrong. Lets hope that philosophy can come to the rescue, and that there are at least some worthy Australian politicians, and public servants, who understand that bushfire is Australias most lethal, costly, and urgent natural hazard, and wont use pseudo-science to wriggle out of their duty of care, or ignore bushfire in the hope that it will go away, or become somebody elses responsibility. Should a basic grasp of philosophy be a requirement for political office? Plato thought so.",0_0
"The slowdown is a bit of a mystery to climate scientists. True, the basic theory that predicts a warming of the planet in response to human emissions does not suggest that warming should be smooth and continuous. To the contrary, in a climate system still dominated by natural variability , there is every reason to think the warming will proceed in fits and starts.",1_4
"Finance ministers and central bankers are now calling for an end to ethanol subsidies and other ""biofuel policies adopted recently in the West."" South African finance minister Trevor Manuel called such subsidies ""criminal."" Earlier, the Indian Finance Minister Chidambaram noted that ""in a world where there is hunger and poverty, there is no policy justification for diverting food crops towards bio-fuels. Converting food into fuel is neither good policy for the poor nor for the environment.""",0_0
"My Comment: In other words, observations are devalued as being an important part of the assessment of theskill of model predictions. This is such a deviation from the scientific method that I find it puzzling why funding agenciessuch as the NSF do not reject projects that make such a claim. Not only are they ignoring the need to properly validate model skill by using historical data, but they ignore that they also need to validate the model predictions for the CHANGES in climate statistics that result from human and natural climate forcings.",5_1
"3. The disappearing ice, we were told, was increasing the propensity of the Arctic to absorb 85% of the incoming solar radiation, rather than reflecting 85% of it harmlessly to space. However, Bob somehow failed to mention that at the summer sea-ice minimum in 2008 the extent of the ice was 12% up on 2007, and in 2009 it was another 12% up. This good news, indicating that ever more of the Sun??s rays are being reflected up into outer space, wassomehow not shared with the audience.",1_1
"Meanwhile, the natural climate archive is disappearing faster than scientists can gather data. ""Ice is melting, corals are being destroyed, trees are being cut down,"" said Trenberth. ""Collecting needs to speed up.""",0_0
"""Low-fat diets didn't reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, colorectal cancer or invasive breast cancer, according to three large studies published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The researchers divided 48,835 women into two groups based on diet-- one group with 19,541 women consumed a low fat diet and the other group with 29,294 women consumed their usual dietsand followed the women for 8.1 years.""",0_0
"""Breast cancer surgeon Kathryn Wagner has posted a warning in her waiting room about a different sort of risk to patients' health: She'll stop taking new Medicare cases if Congress allows looming cuts in doctors' pay to go through.""",0_0
"Notwithstanding the considered opinion of Baillie and Wilson that oaks are ???virtually useless as a temperature proxy?? and ???dangerous?? to use in a temperature reconstruction, no fewer than 119 oak chronologies were used in Mann et al 2008.",5_1
"But according to the geological record and data from ice cores, higher temperatures actually precede higher carbon dioxide levels by about 800 years. Twentieth century data support this idea in at least two ways. First, most of the 20th centurys warming occurred before 1940, while most of the centurys greenhouse gas emissions occurred after 1940.",2_3
"Little wonder, during the government shutdown, more than 93% of EPA employees were furloughed when designated as ""non-essential."" That was more than nine out of every ten employees!",0_0
Shipping contributes twice as much to emissions as aviation.,0_0
"August 2003 low is 0.2m, high is 6.2m, range is 6.0m.",0_0
Morano on CNN debates alleged 'censorship' of global warming science,0_0
"This could be part of a natural oscillation of El Nio, he said. Or it could be El Nios response to a warming atmosphere. There are hints that the trade winds of the Pacific have become weaker with time and this may lead to the warming occurring further to the west. We need more data before we know for sure.",0_0
"In his review, Ball has a number of excellent quotes from Gray including:",0_0
"First, it is difficult to project trends in atmospheric CO2 concentration because the gas is absorbed and released by the ocean, soil and vegetation. Second, it is also difficult to calculate the response of the climate to increased atmospheric CO2 as well as to independently occurring natural climate changes. Current computer simulations of the climate suggest that global warming from increased greenhouse gases may increase the global temperature by somewhere between 0.8 C and 4.5 C by the year 2100, a range too wide to be meaningful.21",5_1
"smartly, with a whirlwind of purposeful activity from Nov. 5 on. Obama more than",0_0
"However, there is some humor in ClimateGate. Here's some odd stuff a commenter on the website Climate Audit picked up as a result of checking out the file HARRY READ ME.txt - one of the hacked files. The ""Harry"" file tells the tortured story of a programmer at CRU struggling to make sense of inconsistent, missing, and incompatible data files and seemingly to try to replicate them. Many of those files had earlier been compiled by someone named ""Tim,"" who seems to have really made a mess of things. According to the commenter, this ""Tim"" seems to be Tim Mitchell - who worked at the Climactic Research Unit at University of East Anglia when he was a Ph.D. student and then received his degree. At the time, he also was a member of -- no joke -- South Park Evangelical Church, as he notes in his religious writings on climate change and religion.",0_0
"At the same time the report concludes that the pipeline will have no meaningful effect on the climate, even if you accept (you shouldn't) the dire predictions of the most extreme climate computer models, as Canada will extract oil from its oil sands with or without the pipeline. The oil would simply get to market through less efficient means.",0_0
"And, of course, the natural processes that cause the oceans to warm were detailed with numerous datasets in my recently published ebook. Its titled Who Turned on the Heat? with the subtitle The Unsuspected Global Warming Culprit, El Nio Southern Oscillation . It is intended for persons (with or without technical backgrounds) interested in learning about El Nio and La Nia events and in understanding the natural causes of the warming of our global oceans for the past 30 years. Because land surface air temperatures simply exaggerate the natural warming of the global oceans over annual and multidecadal time periods, the vast majority of the warming taking place on land is natural as well. The book is the product of years of research of the satellite-era sea surface temperature data thats available to the public via the internet. It presents how the data accounts for its warmingand there are no indications the warming was caused by manmade greenhouse gases. None at all.",2_1
A bit of interesting action continuing on the mid-Atlantic spreading zone and some mild stuff down in Mexico.,0_0
I think the American Democrats and the British Conservative are offering similar advice in two respects.,0_0
"Normally by this date, about 20% of the Greenland ice sheet is melting. This year only about 5%, which is the slowest on record.",1_1
"Schellnhuber is also the Chairman of the WBGU advisory council to the German government, which is pushing for a Great Transformation of global society to one that is sustainable and not based on fossil fuels.",0_0
"Not only did I provide a thorough review of their argument on root collar inhomogeneity, I explicitly stated that their concerns about root collar and radial inhomogeneity seemed entirely reasonable to me:",0_0
"He references this assertion by a link to another page of Skeptical Science that provides multiple lines of evidence for the proposition, agreed as St. Vincent of Lerins used to put it, fere omnibus (by very nearly everyone) that the planet has been warming. But not that it currently is warming.",0_0
"on Friday, August 17th, 2012 at 12:41 am and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Councils in the UK should do ""absolutely nothing"" to tackle climate change unless a stringent global deal on reducing carbon emissions is reached through the United Nations, which includes developing as well as developed countries according to Lord Lawson.",0_0
"If taxpayers and consumers are informed about the high cost and limited environmental benefits of renewable energy, and nevertheless choose freely to support renewables by voluntarily paying taxpayer subsidies and higher electricity bills, that is their right. But they also have a right to an honest and fact-based discussion of the cost and environmental impacts of renewable energy polices. None of this is presented in McKibben's article.",0_0
"As a fuel source, coal is a different product from what it was in past decades. Specifically, it is much cleaner. Yet, as always, it is much cheaper and more reliable than renewables such as wind and solar. In the generation of electricity, its real competition is natural gas.",4_5
"This occurred despite the diversion of land and crops from production of food to the production of biofuels in large part in response to climate change policies. According to one estimate, such diversions helped push 130155 million people in 2008 into absolute poverty, exacerbating hunger in this most marginal of populations which, in turn, may have led to 190,000 premature deaths worldwide in 2010 alone. Goklany IM (2011), Could Biofuel Policies Increase Death and Disease in Developing Countries? Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons 16 (1): 913.",4_4
"Could the global warming hypothesis meet the rigorous evidentiary standards of a legal trial? The answer, according to Jason Scott Johnston, is clearly negative.",0_0
"The latest Democratic president is repeating the mistake of the first. When Thomas Jefferson entered office 210 years ago, Chief Justice John Marshall warned that Jefferson would ""embody himself in the House of Representatives."" This would ""increase his personal power,"" Marshall predicted, but it would lead to the ""weakening of the office of the President."" The chief justice meant that his political rival (and distant cousin) would gain power by joining forces with his party's legislative majorities. But the combination would realize the Framers' fear that Congress would come to dominate the executive branch.",0_0
"Corbin Hiar, UN Dispatch, 11 August 2010",0_0
"When you're out in cold like this, you realize how much you depend on your own body. It's 98.6 degrees in your gut, and zero outside, so you have to conserve that ""slow burning"" fuel inside. Our boots were soaked, so Dylan left his by the fire. I threw on a few extra logs, and we crawled into our sleeping bags by 9 o'clock.",0_0
"Any projects built with federal funding have to pay prevailing wage rates pursuant to the Davis-Bacon Act, and those rates are approximately 20% above standard wage levels. Hence the union applause at the president's announcement.",0_0
"Yesterday's speech does little violence to the President's symbiosis with the prevailing winds of public opinion, as most disinterested Americans would find nothing objectionable in what he said. He effectively threaded the rhetorical needle of marrying full-throated American exceptionalism with a series of straw-man arguments against military intervention. In the President's mind, there is the over-reach of his predecessor, there is the isolation of the past century, and there is his wise path, laid out in four broad ideas. His words were powerful and direct, and if one does not think too hard about the linkage between words and deeds comforting.",0_0
"So we build into these models a feedback mechanism that says as more CO 2 is added, the temperature increases non-linearly. We then run these models and we find exactly what we expected to see: increasing CO 2 leads to a positive feedback in temperature!",5_1
"These numbers do not show successive downward steps in US GDP per capita growth rates from 1950. In fact, the peak is right in the middle of the periods, and otherwise the growth rates are very similar through the period. The calculation of trends on the time series is very sensitive to the start and end point chosen for analysis -- which should raise a red flag for chartist-based arguments.",0_0
"Observers should note that the cost relates purely to adaptation and resiliency projects, such as poverty alleviation, which will enable poor Indians to better cope with any environmental changes. This cost does not include the far more onerous burden of emissions caps, carbon taxes, renewable fuels mandates, or all of the other smorgasborg of policies designed to reduce emissions. Under the Kyoto Protocol, India and other developing nations do not face binding emissions reduction targets.",0_0
"This offset program, the Carbon Capital Fund, will link consumers' offset investment to projects on National Forests to sequester additional carbon as well as improve water quality, increase wildlife habitat, and improve the ecological condition of our National Forests and Grasslands .",0_0
"If you are criticizing Professor Mann, that is. But if he is criticizing you?well, then, that's a different story.",0_0
"In context of the current status of the CAGW-policy debate, moral arguments seem to be in ascendancy as the scientific argument seems to be weakening. Climate change is a complex moral and political issue; thinking that science and scientism holds the answers is unfortunate dogma and ideology among too many scientists.",5_2
"Donald P. Hodel and Becky Norton Dunlop, ""The Federal Estate: Opening Access to America's Resources,"" Chapter 7 in Environmental Conservation: Eight Principles of the American Conservation Ethic, The Heritage Foundation, 2012, http://www.heritage.org/research/projects/environmental-conservation; Katie Tubb and Nicolas D. Loris, ""The Federal Lands Freedom Act: Empowering States to Control Their Own Energy Futures,"" Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2992, February 18, 2015, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2015/02/the-federal-lands-freedom-act-empowering-states-to-control-their-own-energy-futures.",0_0
"Keep on the good work. I won't be able to use this email address for long so if you reply, I can't guarantee reading or answering. I will several batches, to anyone I can think of.",0_0
"It is in this context that climate change provided a new opportunity for many governments to legitimize their role, and expand their scope. The formation of the IPCC and its apparent focus on the science of climate change allowed the political establishments to claim science as the basis for proposed climate policies that increased the power of government and curtailed the private sector. The time frame of the projected climate change was longer than earlier green crusades, typically from 50 to 100 years. This will allow policy makers to escape accountability for their misguided policies since they would be out of office by the time the consequences became apparent.",5_2
"In Scotland, such poisonous artifices to circumvent the plain intention of a law, and particularly of a constitution, would be regarded in the courts with the gravest disfavour. Yet in Australia, according to the judge in Peter Spencer's case, the governing class can do pretty much as it likes, and to hell with the mere Constitution.",0_0
"The reader may be surprised to learn of the critical role energy plays in agriculture and the amazing variety of important products made from petroleum and other fossil-fuel energy sources. As Moore and White point out, these products include pharmaceuticals, plastics, chemical feedstocks, soccer balls, guitar strings, fabric softener, artificial limbs, electrical tape, shaving cream, hair color, and hundreds more. In fact, even most textiles and clothing are now made from synthetic fibers, which are developed in part from fossil fuels.",0_0
"The report has good news for the Canadian environment as well, ""The Environmental Screening Report concluded that, with incorporation of Keystone's proposed measures to avoid or minimize impacts and with Keystone's acceptance of the NEB's regulatory requirements and recommended conditions, implementation of the proposed Project in Canada would not likely result in significant adverse environmental effects. """"",0_0
"Once again quoting the researchers who did the work, ""our results show both short-term acclamatory and longer-term adaptive acquisition of climate resistance."" And they thus conclude that ""adding these adaptive abilities to ecosystem models is likely to slow predictions of demise for coral reef ecosystems.' References",3_2
"Instead, though, the authors of this studymost of whom get money from Big Pharmaconclude that the results mean that we must tighten LDL and HDL goals even moreto a point whereby they cannot be achieved except with drugs.",0_0
"""Seems to me that ""serial climate misinformer' and ""anti-science' qualify as defamatory, and it's difficult to imagine that the statements were not made with malice.""",0_0
"How the desire to beat the crap out of someone who is a fellow scientist, and who is also a taxpayer who helps pay his salary, is in accord with these above values is something Id love to hear Santer explain.",0_0
"Has something happened to the Adam Smith Institute ? They seem to have a new, very corporate-style website (yuk). The blog appears to be there, but there's no RSS feed. No word of explanation - no nothing. Have they all been abducted by aliens or something?",0_0
"In this post, Dr. Roy Spencer asserts that climate change is more a result of changes in the environment from natural causes or cycles, and not by man-made causes. He writes that, Over the last quarter century, mainstream climate science has changed dramatically, from a paradigm where climate changes naturally to one where climate forever remains the same unless humans meddle with it.The reasons for this paradigm shift are clearly not based on science. Sure, you can always analyze some dataset in such a way that it gives the appearance of climate stasis (e.g. the hockey stick), but there is plenty of published research over the last 50 years supporting the view that climate changes naturally, and on all time scales decadal, centennial, millennial, etc.",2_1
"Although there have been year-to-year and decadal-scale oscillations in the annual number of freezing rain-days in the United States, recent numbers are about the same as the 50-year average.?? Thus, it would appear that there is nothing extreme or unusual about the current level of occurrence of this particular weather phenomenon, which finding represents just one more example of the superiority of our contention that real-world data fail to support climate-alarmist predictions of warming-induced increases in extreme weather events. Reviewed 28 September 2005",1_7
Infections of significance that occur in hospitalized patients are unavoidable in many cases because the patients are debilitated and have reduced resistance.,0_0
Can climate models simulate ENSO? The answer is also no. Refer to the post Guilyardi et al (2009) Understanding El Nio in Ocean-Atmosphere General Circulation Models: progress andchallenges .,5_1
The question is not whether temperatures have risen or whether mankind has affected the climate. Temperatures have always risen and fallen and mankind has always affected the climate. The question is whether we have a problem on our hands. The poor performance of the climate models suggests that the problem is much less than we have been led to believe.,5_1
"This huge, international farce formerly known as the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, began as an international treaty created in 1992. The U.S. Senate refused to ratify the Kyoto Treaty, but pledges to reduce greenhouse gases were made by 33 out of 195 countries, called their ?Intended National Determined Contribution? are the main feature at the forthcoming Paris conference.",0_0
"Once the embodiment of Western ideals, the UN has turned into a lean, mean anti-West machine. Though European publics no longer have any illusion today about a Europe-puissance, they still retain a surprisingly boy-scoutish view of the UN, one that no longer corresponds to reality. European public opinion saw nothing wrong, for instance, in the recent establishment of an International Criminal Court that would give its prosecutor the power of a grand inquisitor, in part because they are not aware of the politicization of the UN (and of the potential use of the ICC as an anti-Western weapon), but also in part because, over the years, they have resigned themselves to the creeping judicial and technocratic imperialism pursued at home by the EU Court of Justice and the EU Commission.",0_0
Whales whose hearing is disrupted or permanently damaged by noise are basically sentenced to death because they are no longer able to orient themselves.,0_0
"Well then, I would say that pretty much confirms it. For quite some time, I?ve harbored the suspicion that both the popular science and the political activity that create and sustain the belief in Global Warmingism are informed by a retrogressively pagan mindset.",5_2
Separate from the matter of EPA's final position on the three enforcement issues described above is the constant change and uncertainty surrounding its positions. Industry experts express frustration with EPA's apparent practice of changing NSR policies without following established rulemaking requirements.,0_0
"The European Union's legal officials propose creating a new category of ""environmental crimes"".",0_0
"In 1997, the Competitive Enterprise Institute set out to answer just that question. CEI sponsored a conference on the implications of an international treaty on global warming in July of that year. This conference examined recent scientific developments, the economic and distributional impacts of proposed policies, the impact of political pressure on climate research, and the implications of applying the precautionary principle to global climate change.",0_0
"But lets be real generous, and ignore all that. For the purpose of this analysis, well swallow the whopper that a 3 temperature rise wouldnt drive evaporation through the roof, and well assume that the parasitic sensible and latent heat losses from the surface stay at a quarter of the radiation losses.",0_0
<2495> Humphrey/DEFRA:,0_0
"This is a pretty serious warning that warmer temperatures are not going to endlessly improve plant growth, Running said.",0_0
"In the face of multi-trillion dollar political insanity, we would do well to remember these scientists are nothing but glorified weathermen. The same as the much derided group of science minded individuals who tell us if it will rain next week. These climatoknowledgists claim to know the average temperature a hundred years in the future within two degrees C, yet cant nail down the temp of St. Louis within 5C in two weeks.",5_2
"I also agree with Giuliani that Obama is helping to establish the culture in which one cannot criticize Islam , not even for its features that are self-evidently wrong, and that's a very harmful influence of the president on the life and security of the U.S.",0_0
"The 2001 IPCC gospel had abolished the medieval warm period by another piece of dubious statistical prestidigitation that was now under investigation by the Attorney-General of Virginia under the Fraud against Taxpayers Act 2000 (gasps of gaping astonishment from some of the environmentalists, who seemed not to have been told this before).",5_2
"Now the picture seems to look rather less satisfying. We can see that empirical measurement is suggesting a low climate sensitivity with the most likely value at around 1.5C. Higher values are driven by the modelling studies. Moreover, we can see that large ranges of values of climate sensitivity as implied by the empirical measurements of Forster and Gregory are not covered by the PAGE model at all. The IPCC's suggestion that climate sensitivity is most likely to be in the range 24.5C is shown to be barely supportable and then only by favouring computer simulations of the climate over empirical measurements. This seems to me to throw lesson one of the scientific method out of the classroom window. And I really do mean lesson one:",3_1
"All of this raises the question just how much of the step up in UK temperatures since the 1980s been caused by more sunshine, rather than CO2?",2_1
"The well documented , accelerating growth of CO2 emissions has not produced the ""expert"" predicted warming across the globe , nor thecontiguous U.S.",2_3
"Have you wondered what the end game of the ""protests"" on Wall Street might be? To gain a little insight into the answer to that question, watch these two videos:",0_0
"The same conclusion emerges from a 1997 NHTSA study, which was similarly characterized as indicting SUVs but which turns out, on closer analysis, to indict CAFE. A NHTSA press release touted the study's finding that a 100-pound decrease in SUV weight would prevent 40 fatalities per year, most of them in cars colliding with SUVs. But according to the study itself, this conclusion was not statistically significant; there might even be a net loss of life from such downsizing, and on balance the overall effect would be ""negligible."" More important, those minimal effects paled in comparison to the effects of a 100- pound increase in passenger car weight -- a saving of over 300 lives a year. And the effect of this passenger car upsizing was found to be statistically significant, unlike the SUV downsizing.",0_0
"This is Mann at his best. Claiming random data will fail cross validation is only reasonable by properly doing the statistics. He performed this verification by calibration of end points to temp data and checking the middle in M08, the statistical pass has to take into account the autocorrelation of the proxy data which was done very poorly in M08. The reason I dont answer more clearly is that Even if Mann was perfectly correct, this arm waiving does not address the conclusions in my posts.",5_1
The result of factoring out this non-GHG warming is illustrated in Figure 4. The 1950-2009 trend drops to 0.061 C/decade.,0_0
"A: Our global paleotemperature reconstruction includes a so-called uptick in temperatures during the 20 th -century. However, in the paper we make the point that this particular feature is of shorter duration than the inherent smoothing in our statistical averaging procedure, and that it is based on only a few available paleo-reconstructions of the type we used. Thus, the 20 th century portion of our paleotemperature stack is not statistically robust, cannot be considered representative of global temperature changes, and therefore is not the basis of any of our conclusions.",5_1
"Regulating GHGs under the CAA leads inexorably to ""absurd results,"" including an economically-chilling administrative quagmire. To prevent GHG regulation from overwhelming agency administrative resources and stifling economic development, EPA proposes to suspend, for six years, the ""major"" source applicability thresholds for the CAA pre-construction and operating permits programs. That is, EPA proposes to amend the Act. This violation of the separation of powers compounds the constitutional crisis inherent in the Court's substitution of its will for that of the people's elected representatives.",4_1
"""It should be clear that the science of global warming is far from settled,"" said Dr. Roy Spencer, a former NASA scientist who now co-runs a major satellite temperature dataset at the University of Alabama-Huntsville.",5_1
"The utility group, RWE, is about to commission a new lignite power plant that would emit 2.9 million fewer metric tons of carbon dioxide per year than the plant it would replace. It also plans on building a second plant in 2008. But Dietmar Kuhnt, chairman of RWE, said that the second plant would not go ahead ""if its profitability is jeopardized by unreasonably stringent sanctions of carbon dioxide penalties. This could be the case if the EU implements the plans it has for carbon dioxide certificate trading without making the adjustments required by several constituencies"" (The Guardian, August 13, 2002).",0_0
"This tendency is captured in an old expression popularized by Nat Hentoff: free speech for me, but not for thee.",0_0
"The main excuse was that some of the raw data had been provided to CRU with strings on it preventing release. Surprisingly, within days of Climategate, the Hadley center has announced that it got all of those nasty strings cut, and voila!are now free to release the data. That is, the data they haven't ""lost,"" which supposedly includes most of the raw temperature data they ever collected.",5_2
"none of the AR4 models simulates the overall brightening of the Earth system. The majority of the models show a loss of radiative energy by the tropical energy in the post-Pinatubo period, suggesting that the models have still not properly captured the feedbacks between temperature change and clouds.",5_1
"A version of this story was posted in Forbes Online on October 29, 2013.",0_0
Sydneys hottest Christmas Day on record was in 1868 when the city sweltered to 39 degrees celsius.,1_7
What about Russian astrophysicist Habibullo Abdussamatovs contention that were headed into a little ice age? No mention of him.,1_2
"As of 1999, Hansen showed 1934 almost a full degreeFahrenheitwarmer than 1998. How did 1998 retroactivelybecome the hottest year?",5_1
"Here are the biggest Republican ethanol boosters. Readers may want to call or email them, to present the facts and ask them why they (and most Democrats) insist on perpetuating this wasteful system, which benefits so few, at the expense of so many.",0_0
The jerk you mention was called Good(e)rich who found urban warming at,0_0
"2. Labor Market Improving. The BLS reported today that total job openings in May (4.63 million) reached their highest level since June 2007, and openings for private jobs (4.2 million) were the highest since April 2007. That brought the number of unemployed workers per job opening down to 2.11, which is the lowest in five years, going back to May 2008 (see chart above).",0_0
"As I said in Parliament, the inability of climate scientists to admit their ignorance is one of the reasons nobody trusts them. The Science Media Centre are just helping that process along in the wrong direction.",0_0
"As independent scientific advisors to Senator Fielding have shown , the IPCC-derived science advice that the Australian Government is using as the basis for its carbon dioxide tax legislation is utterly flawed. This finding has yet to be rebutted.",5_2
"On Thursday, DEC spokeswoman Emily DeSantis said the agency could act on propane fracking applications by relying on a 1992 state environmental impact statement on natural gas drilling. While no applications have been received yet, she said if one is, DEC would conduct a thorough environmental review including evaluation of the proposed activity against the findings and analysis of the 1992 (impact statement).",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Energy & Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell on why California is heading down a failed path:,0_0
"Collie News, sport and weather | Collie Mail",0_0
"Treasury hiring FOIA officers ""to withhold information from release to public':",0_0
"In April of last year, 47% of Americans blamed human activity versus 34% who viewed long-term planetary trends as the culprit. But the numbers have been moving in the direction of planetary trends since then.",0_0
"I am an ardent proponent of nuclear energy because of its negligible carbon dioxide emissions and its incredibly high power density. No other form of energy production can produce as much energy from such a small footprint as a nuclear reactor. This is due to basic physics. Allow me to explain this by using a common metric in physics: power density, which is a measure of the energy flow that can be harnessed from a given area, volume, or mass.",4_5
"This summer's once-in-a-half-century Midwestern drought caused global prices for staple food products to soar by 10%and corn in particular to jump by 25%, according to the World Bank. The food shortages across Africa, the Middle East and South America are the worst since the 1980s and have produced hunger and political instability, according to the United Nations.",0_0
"LOL, it's a constructor. Who would have thought? One would think that a kettle isn't constructing anything in the same sense as cranes do. But if you want to become so high that you confuse construction workers with cooks, it may be a great idea to unify cranes with kettles. And raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens. Brown paper packages tied up with strings. These are a few of my favorite things. Engineers and cooks are the same thing, after all. They are constructors.",0_0
for by the same richest 40% who would lose their benefits. Given the negative rates of return that SS pays,0_0
Ive added the 5 million square kilometer line for reference.,0_0
"Since Nov. 18, the normal high temperature has been hovering around 15 degrees colder than the historical normal temperature of 55 degrees. The normal low has been about 10 degrees lower than the normal temperature of 36 de grees. The national weather forecasters are predicting this same weather pattern going into the beginning of December.",1_3
"on Sunday, November 24th, 2013 at 1:35 am and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Observe the last interglacial 130,000 to 110,000 years ago. Temperature plummeted even as CO2 stayed at about 260 ppm.",2_3
"Even a new ?record warmest year?, year after year, is not that significant if the total warming ends up being only 1 deg. C more over the next 100 years.",0_0
"Southern ice cap expansion is particularly impressive because, since is surrounded by water, it requires more cooling to freeze that ice than it does to warm cold dry air a bit on continental surfaces that surround the Arctic Ocean. When the Atlantic Oscillation returns to its cold mode, the northern ice cap will expand again as the southern ice cap shrinks.",0_0
"Conclusion #6: EPA's 2002 reform recommendations promise to restore common sense to the New Source Review program, thereby avoiding the excessive costs, uncertainties, and counterproductive incentives resulting from recent enforcement deviations. The reforms do not put at risk recent gains in air quality.",0_0
The climate change debate is unfolding in precisely the same way. Because they oppose EPA regulations while still supporting the overarching reasons for the rules ? fears of dangerous anthropogenic climate change ? groups such as the United Mine Workers are regarded by many as selfish and misguided. This is especially true of those who regard it as America?s responsibility to lead the world to solve important global problems.,0_0
"I never thought much of psychoanalysis but its fun to consider psychopathology in the context of true believers. This series talks of the bright, dull and dark greens.",0_0
"Hansen believes, the paper reported, that ""efforts to stem climate change will be ineffectual as long as fossil fuels remain the cheapest form of energy,"" and therefore he ""proposed a new tax for carbon emissions from oil, gas and coal."" Yet, he stated: ""Government shouldn't be making decisions as to what the next energy sources are. Let the marketplace make the decision."" He wants a tax to make fossil fuels unattractive, but the government should let the marketplace decide?",0_0
"NOAA image for the famous Elkhart, IN double funnel tornado that hit the Midway Trailor Park.",0_0
"And what cant climate models simulate? ENSO. For further information about climate models failings when trying to simulate ENSO, refer to Guilyardi et al (2009) . Climate models also cant simulate Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, the Indian Ocean Dipole, and other coupled ocean-atmosphere processes.",5_1
"Morano followed up by showing slides of quotes by noted climate alarmists making outrageous claims of doom and gloom. At several points the crowd broke out in laughter or were simply astonished, such as when Morano showed them quotes by famous green thinkers saying insensitivity to global warming alarmism is a ""sin,"" and then viewing pictures of climate protestors praying to Mother Earth at a recent march and vigil in New York City.",5_2
"Our latest result of plant growth responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment obtained from experiments described in the peer-reviewed scientific literature is for Red Raspberry (Hentley et al., 2014)",0_0
"22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?",0_0
"The Sahel is just such a transitional region between the rainforest on the coast of west Africa and the true desert of the Sahara. Alarmist stories appeared about the expanding Sahara desert associated with the cyclical Sahelian drought that visited the region between 1968 and 1974. Famine accompanied the drought and overgrazing was blamed. It, and another drought in 1984-85, launched the environmental career of Bob Geldof.",1_7
"This isn't proof that the world is entering a global cooling cycle. But the absence of sunspots is the most prolonged in a century, and scientists say the reduced solar activity is reminiscent of the Maunder Minimum, between 1645 and 1715, when the Northern Hemisphere suffered through the coldest weather, worst storms and shortest growing seasons of the Little Ice Age.",1_2
"When so-called ""consensus"" can be that far off, it would seem that there's plenty of room for serious debate.",0_0
Part I. The Rise and Fall of the Science of Weather Modification: 1. The rise of the science of weather modification; 2. The glory years of weather modification; 3. The fall of the science of weather modification; Part II. Inadvertent Human Impacts on Regional Weather and Climate: 4. Anthropogenic emissions of aerosols and gases; 5. Urban-induced changes in precipitation and weather; 6. Other land-use/land-cover changes; 7. Concluding remarks; 8. Overview of global climate forcings and feedbacks; 9. Climatic effects and anthropogenic aerosols; 10. Nuclear winter; 11. Global effects of land-use/land-cover changes and vegetation dynamics; Epilogue; Index.,0_0
"He points also on a dilemma hr: In order to explain the LGA temperatures p 2000s's must models are either count with a oknd factor (eg, an inactive sun) that can keep the temperature down. But d it becomes difficult to hvda that one must explain the late 1900s uppvrmning with principal hnvisning to mnniskans CO2 production if it does not show how this oknda factor may have pverkat. Or also's're counting not skid oknd factor. But d must the erknna to klimatknsligheten r lg. And then it becomes problematic to explain the late 1900s uppvrmning with hnvisning to just CO2 production.",0_0
"b) The USHCN station is situated within a water treatment plant, which may not be ideal.",0_0
"More likely, the day after enactment of a carbon tax, various groups will put out studies with ever higher social costs of carbon, and environmentalists will immediately wave them around, calling for raising the carbon tax, and decoupling it from revenue neutrality to finance more wind and solar boondoggles. And theyll still want additional regulations to drive emissions down faster. If conservatives resist this, theyll get the same denier routine they get now.",0_0
"Even if Waxman-Markey works according to design, it appears the net reduction in GHG emissions by 2050 would only be about 50 percentstill an ambitious target, but considerably less than the 83 percent reduction advertised in the bill's summary. In other words, instead of reducing fossil fuel CO2 emissions from 6 billion tons to 1 billion tonsthe stated targetthe use of offsets and other gimmicks means that CO2 emissions will only be reduced to about 3 billion tons. The ""83 percent reduction by 2050"" represents false advertising.",0_0
"This is in now way excusable, and naturally we have to make sure that we make the peer-review of the text much more efficient.",0_0
The only people that seem to be unable to get their arms around the reality is the enviroslooking for a utopia where the air is clean as in no pollutants.,0_0
"Microsoft has received federal contracts worth $852 million under Obama, according to USASpending.gov, and the company spent about $6 million on lobbying last year, pushing its case on tax credits, education funding and immigration policy.",0_0
"Even in his most recent whinge, Schmidt does not seriously argue against the strident antagonism of Real Climates reaction in September 2009.",0_0
Hope for the future: One of the striking facts about America is how readily we believe that we can prosper through hard work and our own efforts. Polls show that Americans overwhelmingly believe this to be true. These polls also show there is a high correlation between the belief that one is in control of one's life and the belief that one can prosper through one's own efforts.,0_0
"Arctic Ice Loss July 7 August 28, 2006",0_0
"If we can bring back manufacturing jobsor at least stem the flow of them from our countrywe need to be encouraging low-cost energy and making more of it available. Moser believes: ""balancing the trade deficit should be the number 1 national priority."" He told me that would take a 25 percent increase in manufacturingwhich would require about a 10 percent increase in energy usage. Yet, climate change policies demand that we take greater cuts than the developing countries like China and India. If our energy costs continue to go up, as they have in New Hampshire, we'll lose the best competitive advantage we have.",0_0
"The aerosol cooling that appears in the Met Office model when climate sensitivity is low is very strong, completely inconsistent with recent observationally-based estimates of aerosol forcing. In fact it is so strong that it would also have prevented most of the temperature rise seen since industrialisation. In other words, the virtual climate produced with these settings of the model doesnt match the real one. This means any scenario in which climate sensitivity is low as indeed the observational studies suggest it is gets downweighted in the final analysis to the extent that it doesnt really show up in the final results. The effect is essentially to rule out low climate sensitivity as a possibility.",5_1
The Board owes every child an open-minded education free of indoctrination.,0_0
"So I was pleased indeed to participate last week on a panel discussing ""Science, Politics, and the 2016 Election,"" held at George Washington University (GWU) before an audience of about 200 policy types, faculty, students, and a few souls seeking a respite from the sidewalk slush. The central issue how can rigorous scientific analysis be encouraged and then used to shape policy debates? is important, subtle, and difficult. It is a topic directly relevant to a major dimension of my own work, to wit, the relationship of climate policy analytics to climate modeling and the evidence on such climate phenomena as tropical cyclones.",0_0
"No time to blog right now, check this out at WUWT. It looks like the DOE didnt get the exhaustive review from the AP. All documents must be preserved.",0_0
Glacier Scientist: I Knew Data Hadn't Been Verified,5_1
"Many CA readers have followed Richard North s recent blog posts on Pachauri, whose recent travails have been also covered by Bishop Hill , Pielke Jr. , James Delingpole , Andrew Bolt , to name but a few.",0_0
> Climatic Research Unit fax: +44 1603 507784,0_0
Band-aids Can't Fix the New IPCC Report,0_0
"The Justice Department has prosecuted farmers and ranchers for trying to protect their property from current or potential fires, by starting ""controlled burns"" or ""backfires"" that got out of control and burned a few hundred acres of U.S. forest. But when intentional Bureau of Land Management or Forest Service fires in Oregon or South Dakota got out of control and burned thousands of acres of U.S. and private forestland, forage, and livestock, no repercussions, prosecutions, or compensation were forthcoming.",0_0
"The longest running tide gauge in the Marshall Islands is on Wake Island. It shows a trend of 1.91mm/year since 1950; in other words, about 5 inches since the war.",1_6
President Obamas energy/climate policy is all about the two things that Enron wanted most in its lifetime cap and trade and a federal renewable standard. (Enron did secure a renewables mandate for Texas back in 1999 the single most important reason for the U.S. wind power boom.) This is why I have referred to the Waxman-Markey climate bill as the Enron Revitalization Act of 2009.,4_2
"What has become of science? We thought that science was about the pursuit of truth. Then we became perplexed at how quickly scientists have prostituted themselves in the service of political agendas. We have seen the unedifying spectacle of scientists refusing to share their data, fiddling their results, and resorting to ad hominem attacks on those who have exposed their work to be fraudulent. We have seen the Royal Society becoming a shamelessly crude advocacy society.",0_0
RATES OF DEFORESTATION: FOOTBALL FIELDS OR NOT EVEN ENOUGH FOR A FIRST DOWN?,0_0
"Taxes have two general categories of costs. The first is the tax revenue, called the direct burden in economic jargon. The second is the cost imposed by the tax's price distortions, called the excess burden in economic jargon. A simple (if extreme) example will illustrate these different impacts.",0_0
"Senator McCain said of his measure, ""This is an issue of worldwide importance. We will get another vote and see if there is any temperature change in the Senate this spring."" McCain acknowledged that there is little, if any support for his bill in the U.S. House of Representatives. (Environmental News Service)",0_0
Why is this stunning refutation of previous IPCC forecasts of strong warming driven by rising levels of CO2 hidden away in Chapter 10?,5_1
"Last summer, the mainstream media breathlessly reported that a brief 4-day surface melt over the Greenland ice sheet represented evidence of man-made global warming. However, a paper published today in The Cryosphere finds that "" the recent warmer summers over cannot be considered as a long-term climate warming but are more a consequence of variability affecting atmospheric heat transport."" In other words, the brief Greenland surface melt was related to natural variability rather than alleged man-made global warming.",2_1
"Simon is back, and he has brought the satirebat with him global warming causes Vegemite sales slump , or something.",0_0
"Morano on new modeling study claiming: Climate Change Will Make the Persian Gulf ""Uninhabitable'",0_0
"on Friday, June 15th, 2012 at 8:45 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"So, if we had sea levels of 16-31 feet higher than the present 100,000 years ago, well before the dawn of the industrial revolution, what caused that? Inquiring minds want to know.",2_1
"@wattsupwiththat Mann seems to split his time thusly?? 1) Complain about abuse, etc, in the media/journals.
2) Abuse, name call on twitter",5_2
"27 You have heard that it was said, `You shall not commit adultery.",0_0
"If a single simulation is not a good predictor of reality how can the average of many simulations, each of which is a poor predictor of reality, be a better predictor, or indeed claim to have any residual of reality?",5_1
"Although Svante Arrhenius showed great foresight in many of his comments on energy in 1919, he was wrong in some of his most important predictions: America will run out of oil by 1953 at the latest. Coal reserves will be depleted in England within 50 years and in America within 150 years.",5_2
"What is at stake, the papers make clear, is not only the alleged betterment of the world, but the U.N.'s soaring ambitions for itself no matter what roadblocks national sovereignty may throw in its way.",0_0
"The panel lineup had changed significantly from the original plan - Associated Press reporter Seth Borenstein was sidelined due to an illness in the family (although was later noted to be listening to the proceedings via cell phone). The final lineup consisted of Oregon Public Radio producer Christy George, ABC News correspondent Bill Blakemore, New York University professor Dan Fagin, Marc and New York Times environment reporter Andrew Revkin.",0_0
"But if the temperature ""trend"" might be toward cooling, that at least means that there was no statistically significant global warming during the years from 2002-2010, does it not? And the planet may well be coolingNOAA's U.S. data certainly points that way. Jones argues the timeline isn't long enough to establish a cooling trend, but 12 years of no warming certainly looks like a trend. It's also 12 years, or more, during which the public has been relentlesslyand, it appears, falselybombarded with the message that the planet is suffering from out-of-control warming.",1_4
"But Clinton s drift to the middle ended abruptly in 2008: as the primary campaign wore on, and a frontrunner emerged to her left, Hillary herself banked left and embraced more and more government activism. By the spring, she was championeing a series of hard-edged proposals that would leave Washington setting the price of pharmaceuticals; dictating to insurance companies what products they can sell, to whom, and at what profit; capping the amount Americans pay for health care based on their income; forcing them to buy insurance even if they don t feel it necessary (i.e., mandates); and hiking taxes to pay for it all.",0_0
The IPCC's first report on predicted surface temperatures was off by 500%. It's fifth report was off by 300% when compared to real-world data.,5_1
"In a statement released on Wednesday, the group admitted ""poorly substantiated estimates."" More specifically, it appears to have been based on a news story in the New Scientist, a popular science journal, published in 1999. That story, in turn, was based on a short telephone interview with Syed Hasnain, a little-known Indian scientist in Delhi. And Hasnain has since admitted his assertion ""speculation"" unsupported by any formal research.",0_0
"Despite the expenditure of over $50 billion to find evidence that man-induced greenhouse gasses are the primary cause of the current warming, not one piece of empirical evidence in support of this theory has been found.",2_3
"An apples to apples comparison, shows that the summer of 1936 had five times as many record maximums as the summer of 2012.",1_7
"The faint grey dashed lines represent the 1?? spread of the model-mean projections. In principle, this spread represents the structural uncertainty arising from l lack of understanding of the physics. In truth, it??s actually something of a bastard value because some models only have 1 run. So,the spread may include a large contribution from ???weather??, which is a random sort of uncertainty??. (That said, this sort of 1?? spread was shown in figure 10.4 in the AR4.)",5_1
"On the same day the President was lying about warming, eight inches of snow fell in Rize, Turkey. It has fallen as well in South Africa, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia while closer to home snow fell on several cities in Idaho with cold freezes extending into Oregon. In June!",1_3
"Gooding et al . report that ""the relative growth (change in wet mass/initial wet mass) of juvenile P. ochraceus increased linearly with temperature from 5C to 21C,"" and that it also responded positively to atmospheric CO 2 enrichment. More specifically, they state that ""relative to control treatments, high CO 2 alone increased relative growth by 67% over 10 weeks, while a 3C increase in temperature alone increased relative growth by 110%."" They also state that increased CO 2 ""had a positive but non-significant effect on sea star feeding rates, suggesting CO 2 may be acting directly at the physiological level to increase growth rates."" Last of all, their data show that the percentage of calcified mass in the sea stars dropped from approximately 12% to 11% in response to atmospheric CO 2 enrichment at 12C, but that it did not decline further in response to a subsequent 3C warming at either ambient or elevated CO 2 . What it means",3_2
"In blasting Republicans for delaying passage of the small-business bill, Obama proclaimed, ""Small businesses are the engine of job growth, and measures to cut their taxes and make lending available should not be held hostage to partisan tactics."" Yet in preparing legal briefs for the Obama administration, Kagan effectively argued that small businesses that object to a particular law or regulation as unconstitutional should be held hostage to the administrative-review process of the agency responsible for enforcing that law or regulation. According to Kagan, ""regulated firms"" should have no standing to bring a constitutional claim to federal courts until they ""exhaust"" every remedy at the regulatory agency.",0_0
"By how much, measured in thousandths of degrees Celsius, will the Earths temperature be reduced through the carbon tax?",4_2
"Now comes a new spat, with Japanese officials and media suggesting Chinas latest air-pollution crisis may be spreading across the East China Sea into Japan The Japanese reports drew some harsh response from China. One critic was quoted as saying: After the earthquake, Japan switched from nuclear power to coal fired power, and has been incinerating their waste. This has greatly affected Chinas environment, so one cannot criticize only China. The pollution needs to be reduced, but we cannot ignore climate change and neighboring countries.",0_0
Here's a poll. The only reason I didn't use JS-Kit polls for quite some time was that I forgot that I had to reset admin access after some time and it didn't work without it.,0_0
"All these forces created a massive backlash against the Republican Party leadership. From the beginning stages of the presidential nomination process for 2016, 60 to 70 percent of Republicans in polls opted for insurgent or outsider candidates, with 20 percent or less for insiders and establishment figures. In the end, the only two viable contenders were Ted Cruz, whose calling card was calling his own leader, Mitch McConnell, a liar on the Senate floor and Donald Trump.",0_0
"Energy officials Monday touted a deal to recover money loaned to a less well-known firm, Beacon Power, which currently operates a 20-megawatt flywheel storage plant in Stephentown, N.Y. The company was the second recipient of Energy Department funds to file for bankruptcy. Under a deal announced today, taxpayers are expected to recover $28.7 million of the $39.5 million in federal funds that had been loaned to the struggling firm.",0_0
"""As a former research chemist now teaching middle-school science, I am concerned about the scientific ignorance underlying much of what now passes for environmental education. That is the reason I am pleased to recommend Facts, Not Fear, a concise and easy-to-use alternative resource.""",0_0
"In their simulations, Exponent observed that the difference in measurements between extremes of dry and wet balls was relatively small as follows:",0_0
"Corrected versions will continue to be used in Millard's sixth-grade language arts curriculum, he wrote.",0_0
Climate Change Reconsidered II: Biological Impacts,0_0
"Several commenters retaught the scientific principle of ""least significant digits."" Climateers concoct 'temperature reconstructions' from bacteria fossils, ice samples, and tree rings. Translation: They're guessing. We don't know historical temperatures on a calibrated temperature scale. If you measure five samples to the nearest 5 degrees Celsius and five samples to within 0.1 degree, your conclusions can only be calculated to the nearest 5 degrees. Precise measurements are reduced to the level of the least precise data in the mix. When alarmists extrapolate from bacteria fossils or tree rings, their calculations cannot be precise.",5_1
"""Propaganda Mill Marches On': ""These unusually harsh winters usually are the result of heating somewhere else, most likely in areas of the world that are already hot'",0_0
"Abuses are rampant throughout federal, state and local governments, as news accounts constantly attest. Incompetence, fraud and public trust violations just in the environmental arena are mind-numbing.",0_0
"But to the PR experts cited by Marshall, ""doublespeak"" means that the world's scientists, journalists, and government agencies do not all speak about climate change with one voice.",0_0
"""The Obama administration will require mortgage companies to extend more generous mortgage relief to help certain unemployed borrowers from losing their homes to foreclosure.""",0_0
"""The next generation of entrepreneurs will be focusing on climate change adaptation products, and in a world where billions of people face these challenges, there is a huge marketand enormous payofffor those who succeed.""",0_0
"Predicted historical low is -2.1m, high is 8.4m, range is 10.6m.",0_0
"""In trying to overcome criticism of earlier attempts to gauge the view of earth scientists on global warming and the human impact factor, Doran and Kendall Zimmerman sought the opinion of the most complete list of earth scientists they could find, contacting more than 10,200 experts around the world listed in the 2007 edition of the American Geological Institute's Directory of Geoscience Departments.",0_0
"What about renewable energy as an alternative? Consider these EU costs for various sources of electricity in cents per kilowatt-hour: nuclear 4, coal 4, natural gas 5, onshore wind 13, biomass 16 solar 56!",0_0
"The murder took place on Friday, just like today. For generic two years, the probability is 1/7 that a given day occurs on the same day of the week. However, for a 50-year gap, the probability is approximately 1/3 because each of the 50 years shifts the day of the week by 1 plus 11-13 (mostly 12) from leap years (it may be just 11 because about 3/8 of the 50-year intervals include a non-leap year like 1900).",0_0
"Hubbard Glacier has been advancing into Disenchantment Bay for more than 100 years, according to NASA??s Earth Observatory. In addition to its forward movement, the glacier has been thickening as well.",1_1
"(I would have posted this earlier, but I didnt hear about it until today. For some reason, the national media doesnt seem to have noticed this.)",0_0
"In other words, the model mean represents the central tendency of how the climate science community thinks the oceans should have warmed if they were warmed by manmade greenhouse gases, and, in the real world, the oceans only warmed at half that rate for the past 32+ years. Or to phrase it a little differently, in the models, the warming of the surface of the oceans is forced by manmade greenhouse gases, but in the real world, the ocean surfaces are obviously not as sensitive to manmade greenhouse gases as the climate science community assumes.",5_1
"The record snow burying Boston this winter remains within the bounds of natural weather variability. It is weather, not climate, and neither proves, nor disproves the theory of global warming.",0_0
"Renewable fuels that cost so much in land and fuel use, cant be piped, eat up space and money to pander to enviro agendas and feed the the maw of the Ag people making this bad excuse for a fuel that competes in the market for food for people.",4_4
International Law Expert Defines Ideal United States-United Nations Relationship Living with the UN: American Responsibilities and International Order,0_0
GWPF summary of the full DM report: Myth Of Arctic Meltdown: Satellite Images Show Ice Cap Thicker And Growing Back .,1_1
"on Friday, January 8th, 2010 at 11:12 am and is filed under News.",0_0
"Technically recoverable energy resources on these onshore and offshore lands total 1,194 billion barrels of oil and 2,150 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, Institute for Energy Research analyst Daniel Simmons noted in congressional testimony . At $100 per barrel of oil and $4 per thousand cubic feet of gas, those resources are worth $128 trillion ! Developing them could generate some $150 billion in bonuses, rents and royalties over the next ten years alone plus billions more in local, state and federal tax revenues, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Using those CBO numbers, an IER study concluded:",4_5
"Despite a consumption of 90 million barrels of oil per day, the world needs more coal than ever, about 8,000 million tons per year. Most of that is used for electric power, the rest mainly for heating. Obviously, with estimated reserves many multiples of that annual consumption, the world is not going to run out of coal tomorrow. In the long run though, I think nuclear power is the way to go for electricity generation.",4_5
Hes also co-author of the IPCC reports based on his readings.,0_0
"The authors would like to thank AEI research assistant Abigail Haddad for her assistance with editing, fact-checking, and calculation validation.",0_0
"That the U.S. withdraw from the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, and the World Bank.",0_0
"Group selection as a theory is something that is designed to support collectivist ideologies and collectivist political regimes. They exist on both sides of the political spectrum; it just seems fair to say that the extreme left-wing ones are much more widespread than their right-wing counterparts today. Nevertheless, Pinker mentions fascism as something that should be the best organization of a society if the group selection theory were right.",0_0
"4. If empirical evidence indicates that the rate of sea level rise is decreasing, how does the IPCC claim that there definitively is a strong correlation between sea level rise and CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere? Doesnt the science tend to indicate that there is a lack of correlation?",2_3
"Two years later, Copenhagen became the epicenter of a world-wide media frenzy as some 5,000 journalists, along with some 100 world leaders and scores of celebrities, descended on the Danish capital to witness what was billed as the best opportunity to impose a global tax or limit on carbon dioxide.",0_0
"If you thought the current talk of enforced compliance with energy reduction mandates and soaring electricity prices was oppressive, you aint seen nothing yet. Especially if you live within the European Union. According to the bureaucrats in charge of EU Climate Change Policy science tells us that we have to reduce emissions of Co2 not by 20, 40, or even 60% but by a ludicrous 80-95%. Or else:",4_1
"Its criteria obviously don't include a concern for accuracy or truth, or Gore wouldn't have been a co-recipient of the Prize.",0_0
"Skeptics have well-justified suspicions that the official climate data keepers were ???cooking the books?? to lend whatever support they could to the highest estimates of carbon sensitivity. Around the year 2000, US Mean Temperature data was ???adjusted?? down by 0.1 to 0.2C for years prior to the 1970??s, and upwards by 0.2 to 0.3C for years after the 1970??s, increasing supposed warming by 0.3 to 0.5C.",5_2
"In one section, the document calls for developed countries to help poorer countries with ""finance, technology and capacity building"" so they can ""adapt to and mitigate climate change"" while helping eliminate poverty. Another section provides that developing countries should receive an amount of money equal to the amount ""developed countries spend on defense, security and warfare.""",0_0
They are the four independent scientists who together advised Senator Steve Fielding during his discussions with Climate Minister Penny Wong over her proposed emissions trading bill in 2009.,0_0
Discounting is the tool used to make the comparisons and the correct rate is critical. Office of Management and Budget guidance stipulates that cost-benefit analysis should use discount rates of three and seven percent.,0_0
> >> is about +1.6 deg C above the 1961-90 average,0_0
"In his paper The NIWA Seven-station Temperature Series , Dr B. Mullan notes that 238 stations currently report temperatures to NIWA, but prior to the 1930s, a lot fewer observations are available.",5_1
"* Americans support prioritizing energy development (47 percent) over protecting the environment (44 percent). This is a change from previous years, when more people prioritized the environment.",0_0
The Legates piece must have been sent to loads of environment correspondents across,0_0
"/s/ Enoch Jones JSC, Mgr. SE&I, Shuttle Program Office, 26 years",0_0
It is a tragedy that an alleged American nightmare of overconsumption has replaced the earlier dream of a more prosperous world. Such social pessimism stands in the way of tackling the real challenges facing humanity. That is why growth skepticism is so important to understand and challenge. It is a barrier to rediscovering the potential of human progress.,0_0
"Temperature, after holding near freezing, now appears headed sharply downward.",0_0
"Contrary to Schneiderman's claims of fraud, Exxon did not engage in any deception about the health risks of its products when used by consumers (the way that asbestos makers were accused of doing), or in other forms of unprotected speech. Nor did it deny basic science. What angers Schneiderman most may be that Exxon pointed out that climate-change proposals have costs, and that these costs may hamper their political viability.",0_0
"Much has changed in the last century, but in all cases the key to freeing us from these strictures has been widespread, affordable energy. A permanent flow of electricity has powered an explosion in wealth that has enabled millions to livelong Uniting lives free from Crushing hardship. The condition of life is no longer nasty, brutish and short.",0_0
California's GHG intensity is about half the national average. See California's greenhouse gas inventory here: http://www.energy.ca.gov/reports/600-02-001F/2002-09-14 600-02-001F.PDF.,0_0
"Nor do I agree that CRUs response demonstrated that the observations about crossdating reported in the comment were erroneous. The calculations are what they are and yielded the results that I reported. In any event, it is common ground between us that the 11th century portion of the Briffa et al 1995 chronology did not meet quality control standards for number of cores (which implies, in my opinion, that this portion of the chronology should not have been used in Jones et al 1998, of which Briffa was a coauthor. Nor, for that matter, does the 11th century portion of the recommended Polar Urals version of Briffa et al 2013 which supports the argument against Briffas decision to use an inadequate version of the Polar Urals data, rather than the comprehensive Shiyatov dataset.",0_0
"Delegate authority to states for environmental review and permitting of energy projects on federal lands within their borders. The sheer size and diversity of the federal estate and the resources above and below ground are too much for distant federal bureaucracies and an overextended federal budget to manage effectively. Allowing states to regulate the energy resources on federal lands means more efficient and accountable management and frees federal resources for more pressing issues. States share the cost of maintaining federal lands and have the regulatory structures to manage federal lands within their boundaries. Short of returning land ownership to private individuals, the federal government should transfer the responsibility to the states, which would benefit from the energy sources and technologies, including renewable sources that face onerously long permitting time frames.",0_0
"2. The wind-energy industry is lobbying to extend a production tax creditthe 2.2 cent-per-kilowatt-hour subsidy that has fueled the turbine-building craze over the past few years. Last year the subsidy was extended for one year, at a cost to taxpayers of $12 billion. Another one-year extension will cost an additional $6.1 billion, according to a recent estimate by the congressional Joint Tax Committee.",4_1
"In honor of this celebration, on this week's RealClear Radio Hour, I interview Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist, who recounts the long, flawed history of pessimistic predictions that have been debunked time and again by humanity's forward march of progress. Also joining me on the show is Marian Tupy, editor of HumanProgress.org, who reminds us that even as Western nations have been doing the utmost to stamp out economic growth, developing countries have been on a tear catching up. Income inequality, this season's rallying cry for redistributionist demagogues, is decreasing globally as billions climb their way out of extreme poverty.",0_0
Extreme Heat: The number of 100 degree days may ???turn out to be the lowest in about 100 years of records??,1_7
"Ethanol and Water Pollution. In Water Implications of Biofuels Production in the United States, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) points out that if the United States continues to expand corn-based ethanol production without new environmental protection policies, ""the increase in harm to water quality could be considerable."" Corn, according to the NAS, requires more fertilizers and pesticides than other food or biofuel crops. Pesticide contamination is highest in the corn belt, and nitrogen fertilizer runoff from corn already has the highest agricultural impact on the Mississippi River. In short, more corn raised for ethanol means more fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides in waterways; more low-oxygen ""dead zones"" from fertilizer runoff; and more local shortages in water for drinking and irrigation.",0_0
"on Tuesday, December 10th, 2013 at 4:14 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Climate fraudsters keep telling the press that Greenland is melting down. With satellite technology, you can see that they are lying. There is a strip about 60 miles wide on the northern and western edges of the ice sheet where significant melting is occurring. The rest of the ice sheet shows very little signs of melt.",1_1
"Read More: The climate drown in climate policy, Susanna Birgersson, DN 2014-03-06.",0_0
"Next is canopy layer at 65 to 100 feet formed by flat-crowned trees that offer near-continuous cover over the forest. Catch most of the sun's rays, allowing only 2 to 5 percent to slip through to forest floor.",0_0
"The ice is spreading out and the extent is increasing, exactly as it did in years past.",1_1
"3. But DDT was once nicknamed ""Double Death Twice"" in the popular press. What happened to people exposed to higher than normal amounts of DDT?",0_0
"I can't stand pompous fools, people who are completely dumb but who like to pretend how wonderfully smart they are. So it is not hard for you to guess that I was rather upset when I was forced to read a new preprint by David Deutsch and Chiara Marletto and the associated hype in Scientific American:",0_0
"It is not just the winter, either. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data show the United States has been cooling for the past decade . Nor is it just the United States defying alarmist predictions. Global temperature data show no global warming since the late 1990s and very little global warming for the past 45 years.",1_4
"The villagers have a solution. Stop air pollution and give us financial help to survive this, they say. It resonates with UN climate negotiations: stop damaging, pay for the damage.",0_0
"A sampling of the international norms on which this duty of care is based includes ""fairness,"" the ""precautionary principle,"" ""sustainability,"" the ""principle of a high protection level,"" and the ""prevention principle"" (whatever any of those mean). ""With due regard for all the above,"" write the Dutch judges, ""the answer to the question whether or not the State is exercising due care with its current climate policy depends on whether according to objective standards the reduction measures taken by the State to prevent hazardous climate change for man and the environment are sufficient.""",0_0
"The tragic deaths in the Mediterranean are precisely in line with the predictions of climate security analysts, without urgent action they could herald an era of mass migration and international tension",0_0
"The doom and gloom started right away. Another introductory speech, this one by host-country President Felipe Calderon, painted an approaching dire apocalypse. ?If we don?t act to prevent climate change, the cost will be much higher to reverse its effects,? claimed ?His Excellency? Calderon (the UN really refers to distinguished delegates like that). ?Approximately five to 10 percent of world GDP would have to be dedicated to alleviate the devastating changes.? Even worse: ?The disasters caused by climate change are threatening the survival of human beings,? Calderon opined. He cited a hurricane, a fire, and a drought ? phenomena that have plagued mankind for thousands of years prior to the invention of SUVs ? as evidence of his claims and the need for massive wealth redistribution and a global carbon regime. It?s for ?the children,? of course, he concluded.",0_0
"On the American side, there is certainly no shortage of will and vision. Our two authors themselves were instrumental in forcing Europeans to look beyond Brussels sandbox politics and leading the drive for a successful enlargement of NATO. In the process of preaching a gospel of ""broader and farther is always better,"" though, they elevated enlargement to the rank of a Kantian categorical imperative and by the same token lost sight of the Hobbesian iron law known in the jargon of political science as the security dilemma. Simply put: however defensive in intent, any actor's move to increase its security always runs the risk of being perceived as an offensive move by another actor.5",0_0
To reach the multimeter levels projected for 2100 by RV requires large positive accelerations that are one to two orders of magnitude greater than those yet observed in sea-level data.,1_6
"Alex Jones Prison Planet.com Dearth Of Sunspot Activity To Herald New Ice Age? A top observatory that has been measuring sun cycles for over 200 years predicts that global temperatures will drop by two degrees over the next two decades as solar activity grinds to a halt and the planet drastically cools down, potentially heralding the onset of a new ice age. While the mass media, Al Gore and politicized bodies like the IPCC scaremonger about the perils of global warming and demand the poor and middle class pay CO2 taxes, both hard scientific data and circumstantial evidence points to a clear cooling trend.",1_2
"Above all, it reflects a conviction that alarmists have a right to control our energy use, lives, livelihoods and living standards, with no transparency and no accountability for mistakes they make or damage they inflict on disfavored industries and families. And they are pursuing this agenda despite global warming again being dead last in the latest Gallup poll of 15 issues of greatest concern to Americans: only 25% say they worry about it ""a great deal,"" despite steady hysteria; 24% are ""not at all"" worried about the climate. By comparison, 46% percent worry a great deal about the size and power of the federal government.",4_1
"American Products. American Power. educates Americans on the importance of domestic energy production and the hundreds and hundreds of products that are made with American power. Our goal is to not only create awareness, but also mobilize Americans against regulation that fail to properly balance the costs and the benefits, thereby stifling innovation and economic growth.",4_1
"OIRA seems to have little understanding of the nature of regulation and how it might be disciplined. By ""discipline,"" it should be understood, we are not asserting that regulations are ""good"" or ""bad,"" but rather that OIRA ensure that this question is addressed. To see how badly OIRA has missed this point, consider how its approach would fare if applied to OMB's major task of reviewing government spending.",0_0
"To condemn the poorest of India?s poor to continuing poverty is to condemn many to an untimely death. Mr. Modi is right to have no more to do with such murderous nonsense. It is time to put an end to climate summits. On the evidence, they are not needed.",0_0
"In his first year in office President Obama has presided over an administration that has been more hostile to the development of nuclear energy than any of his predecessors. This week, forced by economic realities, he has begun to resurrect the nuclear energy program he and his environmental supporters have long demonized. These are but initial steps - more are needed.",0_0
"Too many are intimidated by the CTBS cult of expertise. Citizens of a democracy cannot afford to leave important decisions to persons unknown, for reasons that are too technical for laymen to comprehend.",0_0
Chimalaya has an article Ready or not: Can Bangladesh cope with climate change? Excerpts:,0_0
Some authors (e.g. E. O. Wilson) went as far as to suggest that ?humans are bringing about a holocaust for the Earth?s other species.?,0_0
"Climate policy that is designed to mitigate the human impact on regional climate by focusing only on the emissions of CO 2 is seriously incomplete unless these other first-order human climate forcings are included, or complementary policies for these other human climate forcings are developed. Moreover, it is important to recognize that climate policy and energy policy, while having overlaps, are distinctly different topics with different mitigation and adaptation options.",4_2
"In its own way, progressive ideology is just as vital to the modern 1199 as Medicaid revenues. Like other interest groups that rely on ideological incentives to enhance solidarity, 1199 must exaggerate threats to keep members engaged. Without uncompromising rhetoric and a sense of perpetual crisis, the union would risk seeing enthusiasm dwindle.",0_0
County board hires former Rep. Hassert as lobbyist:,0_0
"The committee found the video ""without merit"" and recommended that it not be used.",0_0
America's Businesses Get It: Immigration is Good,0_0
"So far I have identified six different versions of the De Bilt series: GISS raw, GISS adjusted, GHCN raw, GHCN adjusted, KNMI and Labrijn (the latter emailed to me by Hans, who obtained it from the authors.) GHCN raw and Labrijn are the only versions that go back to 1706; the two GISS versions begin in 1881; the GHCN adjusted version in 1851 and the KNMI version in 1901. Four versions extend up-to-date, but the GHCN adjusted ends in 1991 for some inexplicable reason and the Labrijn version in 2000. The Labrijn and KNMI versions are pretty much identical for their period of overlap (1901-2000) and the GHCN and GISS raw versions are essentially identical for their period of overlap (1881-2006).",0_0
"He went to La Martiniere, a boarding school for the Indian upper middle classes. Cricket is an obsession and his website devotes a whole section to his achievements, detailing such landmarks as his 300th wicket.",0_0
Rural American jobs threatened by Obama forest plan,0_0
"For starters, establishing GHG emission standards for new motor vehicles would by definition make CO 2 a CAA-regulated air pollutant. As such, CO 2 wouldautomatically besubject to regulation under the Acts Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) pre-construction permitting program.Under the CAA, any firm that plans to build a new major stationry source, or modify an existing source in a way that would significantly increase emissions, must first obtain a PSD permit from EPA or a state environmental agency.",0_0
"""John Pappas, executive director of the Poker Players Alliance, has advised that the action group for the legalisation of online poker is to change its strategy in Washington state, lobbying lawmakers to change the state's draconian anti-online gambling laws rather than fight cases through the courts.""",0_0
"Quoting an essay in the American Outlook (Summer 2000), he noted, ""But to the Federal government, the greatest threat is something far different. As Warren Christopher assured his audience in May 1996 at Stanford University, the main threat is climate change produced by the burning of fuels .""",0_0
"If we take the HacCRUT3 instrumental temperature record for the Northern Hemisphere and tack it on to a recent Northern Hemisphere climate reconstruction ( Ljungqvist, 2009 ) and then scale the GISP2 climate reconstruction ( Alley, 2004 ) to fit the instrumental record and reconstruction, we can see that the modern climate is actually rather cool relative to the rest of the Holocene??",2_1
"This is a good question. It is a still incompletely understood mix of a variety of human caused radiative forcings (e.g. CO2, methane and several other greenhouse gases, land use/land cover change,black carbon (soot), sulphates, and other aerosols) and natual climate variations.",5_1
"After all, the pols know that both party bases will be there, with predictable results and that what they need to do is persuade the persuadables. This means a sharper focus on the big issues that concern them and the country, from budgets to energy and climate change to education and jobs, and more moderate rhetoric, since fiery words will turn away moderate voters.",0_0
"The four researchers?? reconstructed record of intense hurricanes revealed that the frequency of these ???high-magnitude?? events ???peaked near 6 storms per century between 2800 and 2300 years ago.?? Thereafter, it suggests that they were ???relatively rare?? with ???about 0-3 storms per century occurring between 1900 and 1600 years ago,?? after which they state that these super-storms exhibited a marked decline , which ???began around 600 years ago?? and has persisted through the present with ???below average frequency over the last 150 years when compared to the preceding five millennia.??",1_7
"The computers are taught that the temperature rise during the last hundred years is due mostly to the greenhouse effect. If the truth is that only about 10% of the present warming is caused by the greenhouse effect, the computer code must be rewritten",5_1
Heartland Institute Experts React to State of the Union Address,0_0
"Going back even further there is strong evidence for dramatic changes obtained the synthesis of ice core isotope proxy records for temperature showing that there was a warm period, much warmer than Antarctic is today, between 11,500 and 9000 years ago, a period sometimes referred to as the early Holocene climatic optimum. The ice sheets responded to this warmth. Analysis of grounding lines in the marine-based parts of the West Antarctic ice sheet, at the head of the Ross Ice Shelf, show that the sheets started to retreat to their current position from a position close to the edge of the current Ross Ice Shelf 7000 9000 years ago.",2_1
"But, in SK they generate about 40% of this potential or 60 megawatts (see Saskatchewan Legislature Hansard, January 2007, page 794)",0_0
4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?,0_0
"When equating energy flux density, climate science thus chose the branch of making Sunshine way too cold (-18 degrees C). Such freezing cold sunshine is at odds with the observation and fact that Sunshine creates the water cycle by both melting and evaporating H2O. Instead of reconsidering whether or not the numbers on paper were correct, climate science chose to add some more numbers on paper called the greenhouse effect in order to bump up the temperature from -18 degrees C to the temperature of the air near the ground, which is +15 degrees C on average.",0_0
"""For now, energy is carbon based because it is cheaper than anything else and it makes no sense to decarbonise unless everybody is doing it; it's lunacy to go it alone when China is building a new coal power station every week,"" he said, speaking at the LGA annual conference.",4_2
"I clearly remember the tone of articles on global warming during the 1980s. Most of the concern came out of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) on the ozone layer. By the way, this was during the new era of climate scientists working with high-grade graphic computer modelling.",0_0
"Where is this likely taking us? President Obama has long promised to fundamentally transform the U.S. economy and ensure that electricity prices necessarily skyrocket. His edicts are doing precisely that. And now Christiana Figueres, the UNs chief climate change official, has declared that her unelected bureaucrats are undertaking probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves , which is to intentionally transform the economic development model. Her incredible admission underscores what another high-ranking IPCC official said several years ago: Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection. The next world climate summit is actually an economy summit, during which the distribution of the worlds resources will be negotiated.",0_0
project could do a lot to raise awareness of threats to the reef from climate,0_0
What this implies is that even if CO2 emissions are responsible for all the warming of the past 30 yearsa big ifwe may reasonably expect about 1.7 degrees Celsius of warming over the next hundred years.,0_0
"A paper under open review for Climate of the Past reconstructs summer ] temperatures in Sweden and Finland over the past ~2,200 years and finds temperatures during the Medieval Warm Period 1,000 years ago and the Roman Warm Period 2,000 years ago were about the same as at the end of the 20th century. The paper also shows excellent agreement between the instrumental record since 1800 and the proxy reconstruction, unlike Michael Mann??s hockey stick ???trick to hide the decline?? in proxy temperatures after 1960. The paper adds to the published papers of over 1,200 scientists finding non-hockey sticks demonstrating that the Medieval Warm Period was global and as warm or warmer than the present.",5_1
"In the May 2000 issue of Reason Magazine, award-winning science correspondent Ronald Bailey wrote an excellent article titled ""Earth Day, Then and Now"" to provide some historical perspective on the 30th anniversary of Earth Day. In that article, Bailey noted that around the time of the first Earth Day, and in the years following, there was a ""torrent of apocalyptic predictions"" and many of those predictions were featured in his Reason article. Well, it's now the 46th anniversary of Earth Day, and a good time to ask the question again that Bailey asked 16 years ago: How accurate were the predictions made around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970? The answer: ""The prophets of doom were not simply wrong, but spectacularly wrong,"" according to Bailey. Here are 18 examples of the spectacularly wrong predictions made around 1970 when the ""green holy day"" (aka Earth Day) started:",0_0
"Even if these women do exist, which is highly doubtful, EPA could not identify the supposed harm posed by U.S. power plants. EPA's modeling demonstrates that the 99th percentile pregnancy fish consumer (a hypothetical woman who eats almost 240 pounds of self-caught fish during pregnancy) would suffer a 0.8 IQ point loss in her fetus. But it is impossible to measure a fraction of an IQ point. That would be like using a cheap bathroom scale to measure one's weight to the hundredth of a pound.",0_0
"This is why validating the predictions of any theory is so important to the progress of science. The best test of a theory is to see whether the predictions of that theory end up being correct. Unfortunately, we have no good way to rigorously test climate models in the context of the theory that global warming is manmade. While some climate modelers will claim that their models produce the same fingerprint of manmade warming as seen in nature, there really is no such fingerprint. This is because warming due to more carbon dioxide is, for all practical purposes, indistinguishable from warming due to, say, a natural increase in atmospheric water vapor.",5_1
"It tells us so little while saying so much. The paper tells us, by the figures in Table 2, that sea levels could rise from anywhere between 300 mm and 2200 mm, but Table 3 tells us that, relevant to coastal planning the range could be from 120 mm to 1900 mm.",5_1
"Further, the political downside to supporting the legislation is unambiguous. Americans are primarily concerned with jobs and the economy. Any significant effort spent on other legislation will reignite charges, originally hurled during the lengthy and unsuccessful health-care debate, that the White House and Democrats in Congress are out of touch with voters' needs.",0_0
Global warming activists call for policies to lower the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to their recommended level of 350 parts per million.,0_0
"Dr. Sassan Saatchi of NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., put the critical role of these earth observing satellites into perspective. These detailed emissions estimates would not have been possible without the NASA satellites that helped us quantify forest cover change and forest carbon stocks, which are the two critical data sources for this work, he said.",0_0
Effects of Super-Elevated CO2 on Mint and Thyme,0_0
"Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced new rules for existing coal-fired power plants, a 30 percent reduction in allowable carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. The only way this will be possible will be by upgrading almost all combustion units, and the ultimate cost of the upgrades will make coal noncompetitive with much-less-expensive natural gasfired facilities.",4_1
"If you've been following the global warming issue via this Report, one thing you can't have missed is that the satellite data in our monthly Earth Track segment show no warming since measurements began in 1979. Yet we hear that this year, last year, or next year is, was, or will be the hottest ever measured by ground-based thermometers.Here we look at a third source of temperature informationweather balloons. Launched simultaneously around the planet twice a day, they transmit pressure, temperature, and humidity conditions. The data they collect go into the dependable daily weather forecast. These data also tell us a lot about the accuracy of the long-range forecast of greenhouse warming.",1_4
"Clearly we see that in 2009,two years after the 4AR had been issued in 2007, Schellnhuber was preaching the Himalayan 2035 glacier meltdown, even claiming he could calculate the melt very easily and that major rivers like the Yangtze, Ganges, Mekong, etc.would dry up. But just over 2 months later, the media found out that what had been very easy to calculate was a huge whopping error. The above video shows two clips: one on 19 January 2010 and one on 11 February 2010 that say the 2035 Himalayan ice melt was a huge blunder. Moreover, the 3SAT report at the 4:20 mark of the above videopoints out yet another whopping error made by the 2007 IPCC report:",0_0
Ed Feulner is founder of the Heritage Foundation. This piece originally appeared in The Washington Times.,0_0
"""Toyota is recalling 1.53 million Lexus, Avalon and other models, mostly in the U.S. and Japan, for brake fluid and fuel pump problems, the latest in a string of quality lapses for the world's No. 1 automaker.""",0_0
"In a new report, computer expert E. Michael Smith and Certified Consulting Meteorologist Joseph D'Aleo discovered extensive manipulation of the temperature data by the U.S. government's two primary climate centers: the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, North Carolina and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) at Columbia University in New York City. Smith and D'Aleo accuse these centers of manipulating temperature data to give the appearance of warmer temperatures than actually occurred by trimming the number and location of weather observation stations. The report is available online at http://icecap.us/images/uploads/NOAAroleinclimategate.pdf.",5_2
"So I reached out to Patrick Muttart, former chief of staff to Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper. Muttart is perhaps the world's leading expert on working-class voters in English-speaking countries, having studied their behavior and attitudes not only in Canada but also in Britain, Australia, and America. He has found that in each country, working-class voters may form the base for successful center-left governments but are crucially responsible for the rise of center-right leaders like Harper, Australia's John Howard, and Margaret Thatcher.",0_0
"If the greenhouse effect is so strong on Venus, why isnt the lapse rate much larger, and much larger than Earths, given the fact that the amount of CO2 decreases a lot between the surface and the height of 60km?",2_3
?unchanging? environment leads people to generate local explanations for coral,0_0
"Plant stomata reconstructions (Kouwenberg et al., 2005, Finsinger and Wagner-Cremer, 2009) and contemporary chemical analyses (Beck, 2007) indicate that CO2 levels in the 1930s to early 1940s were in the 340 to 400 ppmv range and then declined sharply in the 1950??s. These findings have been rejected by the so-called scientific consensus because this fluctuation is not resolved in Antarctic ice cores. However, MacFarling Meure et al., 2006 found possible evidence of a mid-20th Century CO2 decline in the DE08 ice core??",2_3
"In other words they are picked as being robust and reliable. Out of the nineteen, only thirteen have records back to 1934 and these are listed below with comparisons of this years temperatures with those of July 1934. The temperatures shown are the actual original readings, and not adjusted, homogenised or otherwise tampered with! (The original handwritten/typed monthly records for these can be accessed on the USHCN site here ).",0_0
"Leaf water potential in plants subjected to drought, but grown at elevated CO2, was less negative than in their ambient CO2 grown counterparts ... Read More",3_3
"Monash News, sport and weather | Monash Weekly",0_0
"Ed Markey (D-CA) responded flippantly to Johnson's ANPR letter: ""The A' in this document should stand for absurd.' ... This cynical step by EPA to announce an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking' in the coming months should be seen for what it is: an ""Aspirational Notice of Procrastinational Rulemaking'."" Markey has no excuse for spouting such drivel. He understands full well the regulatory morass EPA could create if it followed his advice, because Peter Glaser explained it to him in testimony just two weeks ago.",0_0
"Of particular concern to me, is the Bureaus decision of last June, to discard the statistical models that had been used to generate seasonal rainfall forecasts in favour of a general circulation model that has no predictive skill at all. I have documented the absence of skill in the general circulation model in a peer-reviewed paper recently published in the journal Atmospheric Research ( Volume 138, Pages 166-178 ).",5_1
"The reality is far brighter. The costs of removing oil from the sands have gone down as new innovations have made it more economical. Peter Huber and Mark Mills, authors of the newly released book ""The Bottomless Well,"" note that oil extraction from the Alberta sands is not ""especially difficult or expensive.""",0_0
"Moderate progressives view the rejections of the Democrats from 1968 to 1984 as a sober lesson delivered by a sober populace. They view Americans today as wanting the same things economically that their parents and grandparents wanted from the New Deal: an active safety net that helps them move up in American life. In this view, Americans support Democrats when they use government to support and enhance middle-class values and aspirations. Moderate progressives believe Democrats got away from that heritage when they started to be perceived as worrying more about people who did not work than about those who did, as worrying more about criminals than the victims of crime, as worrying more about American aggression than about the freedom of the West.",0_0
"First, why is ""the existence of entanglement"" not an observable? Well, take a two-spin Hilbert space, to pick an example. The states \(\ket{\uparrow\downarrow}\) and \(\ket{\downarrow\uparrow}\) are said to be non-entangled. So if there is an observable \(E\), a linear operator whose eigenvalues are \(0,1\) for non-entangled and entangled states, respectively, then both of the states I just wrote are the eigenstates with the eigenvalue \(E=0\).",0_0
"Pershing also suggested U.S. financial support for the Green Climate Fund would not be a sticking point, because Paris puts pressure on industrial countries to ""mobilize"" $100 billion for the fund, not pay it all out of ""public coffers.""",0_0
"And then there is a new breed of academics that are working at the interface of (physical) climate science and social science, trained in the paradigm of environmental studies. These academics have some understanding of the science of climate change. They mostly use the IPCC conclusions (imbuing them with even higher confidence than provided by the IPCC) as a starting point for their (policy, economic, sociological, psychological, political) analysis. As a result, their studies often get caught up in circular reasoning, such as the paper by Anderson and Bows. I find their arguments particularly peculiar in arguing that climate scientists and those working at the boundaries of climate science should dismiss economics.",5_2
"And the fabricated documents (which Dr. Mann apparently still thinks is factual) which lead to the sort of misinformation Dr. Mann uses, are here: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/02/global-warming-alarmists-resort-to-hoax.php",5_2
"Inhofe disputed this, saying that while the Supreme Court said the EPA had the discretion to ""decide whether greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare,"" it did not authorize draconian regulations based on flawed science, regulations that would impose an economy-crushing hidden tax on businesses, energy producers and American consumers.",0_0
Chinese Famine of 1928-1930-Over 3 million perish in northwest China,0_0
QUOTE OF THE WEEK - NY Top Court Upholds Lap Dance Tax,0_0
"/s/ Joseph E. Rogers JSC, Chief, Structures and Dynamics Branch, Engr. Directorate,40 years",0_0
"Last's informative and crisply argued book strives to let ""hope have the last word."" Yet his documentation of our self-absorbed commitment to our own pleasure and comfort, both of which child-bearing interferes with, and our indifference to the world that will come after us, suggests that for ""a deeply unserious people,"" as Last calls us, change will not come until the costly wages of our selfishness become manifest.",0_0
"We are being told atmospheric carbon dioxide levels leapt, so why didnt it get unbearably hot?",2_3
"""Cuba has set income tax rates at 25 to 50 percent for its soon to be expanded private sector, with the biggest earners paying the most taxes, according to official decrees published on Monday.""",0_0
Pretty much says it all: Sweden may have to import garbage,0_0
"Memo to believers of global catastrophe: Here??s a strategic tip ??? run, flee, hide, and avoid the Hot Spot argument at all costs. (You can??t win). Either the hot spot is missing because the models exaggerate wildly, or the hot spot is there but we can??t see it because the world hasn??t warmed as much as those thermometers-near-carparks are claiming it has.",2_3
"on Saturday, October 23rd, 2010 at 1:13 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Oh, my. Only American troglodytes and neanderthals are supposed to question whether the planet is hurtling towards climate disaster. Surely the Aussies can't be having any doubts. Al Gore, call your office!",0_0
"The winners are states with high power costs or with significant inexpensive hydroelectric resources that would be unaffected by GHG policies. The losers are states with low power costs driven by disproportionate use of cheap, coal-fired power. By driving power costs up in the latter group of states, the GHG policies would reduce the competitive disadvantages of the former group.",0_0
"2. Hinderaker, J. June 9, 2012. Is the United States Actually Getting Warmer? http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/06/is-the-united-states-actually-getting-warmer.php",0_0
"The hockey team could have stayed with the temperature according to tree rings but they did not. For this small region of temperature, forty degrees or so, they used conventional thermometry but for the other thousand years or so they used ring separation. That is, they chose to replace the inconvenient later tree data with more suitable data from other sources. The trouble is that the uptick in the twentieth century, the stubby blade of the hockey stick, is the crucial result! So it might be argued, and is by deniers, that to use tree rings up to the year 1960 and then switch to normal thermometry is asking for trouble especially if you dont make it clear that this is what you have done, which is a fair description of the actions of Manns team.",5_1
"Australian, New Zealand Armed forces equivalent of Poppy Day. Remembrance Sunday.",0_0
"Citigroup's ""Energy 2020"" report says the U.S. petroleum industry could add ""as many as 3.6 million jobs by 2020 and increase the U.S. gross domestic product by as much as 3 percent,"" while also generating billions of dollars in lease bonuses, rents, royalties and taxes for local, state and federal governments.",4_5
"""Last summer, two American researchers took a more careful look. Armed with 210 overhead photographs of the Amazon region taken by Landsat satellites, they compared images from 1978 and 1988, painstakingly entered into a computer every tiny forest clearing, road, and power-line right of way. They found the average rate of rainforest loss was 3.7 million acres per year, or about one-fifth the widely accepted number.""",0_0
"Since the earliest days of climate policy development, the world's focus has been on the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions rather than adaptation. In fact, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has always discussed the idea of adaptation to climate change as a second- or third-best policy responsesomething to be done only after every possible effort has been made to reduce GHG emissions.",0_0
"Fortunately, while globalista academics, their handmaidens in the political commentariat, leftist think tanks, and non-governmental organizations were hard at work, others, in the late '90s, were awakening to the consequences of all that buzz. Sometimes derided as ""new sovereigntists"" by the multilateralist chorus, these analysts and practitioners began examining both the precepts and the implications of the global-governance agenda.",0_0
"4 Fourth, satellites have measured the outgoing radiation from the earth and found that the earth gives off more heat when the surface is warmer, and less heat in months when the earths surface is cooler. Who could have guessed? But the climate models say the opposite, that the Earth gives off less heat when the surface is warmer, because they trap heat too aggressively (positive feedback). Again, the climate models are violently at odds with reality.",5_1
"''Imagine, if you will, someone who read only the Reader's Digest between 1950 and 1970, and someone in the same period who read only The Nation or The New Statesman. Which reader would have been better informed about the realities of Communism? The answer, I think, should give us pause. Can it be that our enemies were right?''",0_0
"Other complicating factors are easier to assess and guard against. They found that the embankments that protect the land from the river and sea had also robbed it of fresh supplies of sediment: during the five decades of its existence, the polder had sunk by a full metre relative to the land outside the embankments because it was not being replenished. On top of that, Goodbred found, local shrimp farmers had drilled holes into the dikes to pipe salt water from coastal rivers into their hatcheries, weakening the barriers.",0_0
It gives us little pleasure to say we foresaw that the Republican Party was on a destructive course that could lead to such a situation.,0_0
"The purpose of this paper is to describe existing methodologies to separate decadal natural variability from anthropogenically forced variability, the degree to which those efforts have succeeded, and the ways in which the methods are limited or challenged by existing data. Note that the separation of decadal natural variability from anthropogenically forced variability goes beyond what has already been accomplished in previous studies that focused primarily on the detection of a long-term anthropogenic signal (Hegerl et al. 2007b) because on decadal time scales anthropogenic effects may be nonmonotonic, regionally dependent, and/or convolved with natural variability.",0_0
Final Tab for Pelosi's Speakership: $5.34 Trillion in New Debt Or $3.66 Billion Per Day:,0_0
ScienceWorldReport Climate Change: Seabirds are Abandoning Ancestral Nesting Grounds in California .,0_0
"This figure depicts the central Greenland surface temperature reconstruction produced by the six scientists; and as best as can be determined from this representation, the peak temperature of the latter part of the Medieval Warm Period - which actually began some time prior to the start of their record, as demonstrated by the work of Dansgaard et al . (1975), Jennings and Weiner (1996), Johnsen et al . (2001) and Vinther et al . (2010) - was approximately 0.33C greater than the peak temperature of the Current Warm Period, and about 1.67C greater than the temperature of the last decades of the 20th century.",2_1
"""Giving the HPV vaccine to young women could be potentially harmful,",0_0
"The institute said there was a need for a wider public debate as the controversial method of extracting gas from shale rock, commonly known as fracking, has generally relied on a solution of potentially toxic chemicals to break up rock and release the gas.",0_0
"Research and ruling classes benefit, while poor, minority and blue-collar families suffer and Africans are told they must be content with wind and solar energy because, as President Obama put it, ""if everybody has got a car"" and air conditioning and a big house, ""the planet will boil over.""",0_0
Obama seeks new air pollution limits for landfills,0_0
"In other words, the assumptions that underpin the economic analyses used to justify carbon pricing are appropriate for a theoretical modelling exercise but unrealistic, impracticable and highly unlikely to be achieved in the real world. Some key assumptions that underpin the analyses are:",0_0
"Marcott, Shakun, Clark and Mix did not use the published dates for ocean cores, instead substituting their own dates. The validity of Marcott-Shakun re-dating will be discussed below, but first, to show that the re-dating ???matters?? (TM-climate science), here is a graph showing reconstructions using alkenones (31 of 73 proxies) in Marcott style, comparing the results with published dates (red) to results with Marcott-Shakun dates (black). As you see, there is a persistent decline in the alkenone reconstruction in the 20th century using published dates, but a 20th century increase using Marcott-Shakun dates. (It is taking all my will power not to make an obvious comment at this point.)",5_1
"The most cited potential reason for this unexpected inconvenience is that the oceans have been taking up the extra heat and replacing it with cooler water from the ocean depths. In that scenario, the natural ocean surface-cooling mechanism now in progress (if it exists) will eventually go back to normal, and surface warming will return with a vengeance. Just you wait and see.",0_0
"The BEST report said: Numerically, our best estimate for the global temperature of 2014 puts it slightly above (by 0.01C) that of the next warmest year (2010) but by much less than the margin of uncertainty. (italics added) Therefore it is impossible to conclude from our analysis which of 2014, 2010, or 2005 was actually the warmest year. the Earths average temperature for the past decade has changed very little.",1_4
Glacial ice packs advance and recede according to precipitation and havent lost any ice due to warming anywhere on the globe. We have been told for years of the sea rising and flooding shallow areas of the globe.,1_1
Why nuclear energy is Obama's Nixon-to-China opportunity,0_0
"3 EPA, Fact Sheet: New Source Review Report and Improvements, p.4",0_0
So for James Murray did Global Warming decide Boko Haram to kidnap and rape 200 school girls and machine gun thousands more .Or did Global Warming decide ISIS to behead and burn people to death in metal cages live on the internet.Bit of an extreme reaction to a drought.,0_0
"U. S. President Barack Obama is said by White House insiders to be suffering from a bad case of ""summit fatigue.""",0_0
"The adrenaline rush of the Nobel is likely to prove evanescent, however, and will probably turn out to be the high water mark of climate hysteria. Increasingly, climate catastrophe is coming more and more to resemble the hysteria over the ""population bomb"" of the late 1960s and early 1970s. In those days, Paul Ehrlich was a frequent guest on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, and there were government commissions launched here and abroad to ponder whether we needed an aggressive anti-natalist policy. The effort to develop a population policy in the U.S. collapsed quickly and quietly when someone pointed out that any anti-natalist policy would disproportionately affect racial and ethnic minorities. Oops.",0_0
"Hammering away at perceptions that nation-states cannot adequately meet global challenges, but the U.N. can, is a major theme of the position papers, which were assembled by a variety of U.N. think tanks, task forces and institutions, including the United Nations Development Program, and the U.N.'s Department of Economic and Social Affairs.",0_0
"First, laboratory tests prove that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. But that observation tells us nothing about how much the global temperature changes if extra carbon enters the real, complicated atmosphere. Every emitted carbon atom raises the global temperature, but the missing hotspot shows that the effect is negligible.",2_3
Scientistsalso say that global warming causes record sea ice around Antarctica,1_1
"Kevin Trenberth says that one needs exactly seventeen years, and not just ten years, when the global warming is absent to disprove the theory of man-made global warming. This absolute and seemingly authoritative statement misses the fact that there are no sharp numbers here at all. First of all, the humans surely have a nonzero effect on the temperatures. The previous sentence would be valid even if the human contribution to the temperature changes were 1,000 times smaller than the largest natural driver. So we can never prove that the human effect is ""exactly zero"" because this is clearly an invalid statement.",5_2
"Until the temperatures begin to or the IPCC revises its projections, weather watchers will continue to point out that it is difficult to reconcile trends of -1.5C/century with projections of 2C/century projected to apply right now .",1_4
"Of course, in order for the risk-takers to try a new business enterprise (most of which fail), they have to have some hope they will get rewarded if they succeed. That's why you can't just keep taxing the rich more and more. For every rich person, there were ten or more who failed at meeting the needs of society on a grand scale.",0_0
"IPA remained the top style sold by independent craft brewers, and continues to grow faster than the overall craft category.",0_0
"50,000 North Americans die annually in car crashes.",0_0
question of how the climate will change in many decades time.,0_0
"A rogue nuclear missile on Paris or Berlin is decidedly more unlikely in the next five years than the hijacking and sinking of a couple of supertankers in the Strait of Gibraltar or the Bosphorus. The latter, in particular, is less than a mile wide in some areas, and 10 percent of the 50,000 ships that pass through it each year are tankers carrying Russian and Caspian oil.",0_0
"Worldwide, there were at least 90 major volcanic eruptions in 1660 alone, according climatologist Cliff Harris and meteorologist Randy Mann.",0_0
"After a recent victory in a FOIA lawsuit, Horner and CEI v. GMU, a Richmond court allowed the Competitive Enterprise Institute to release records on Friday that showed George Mason University's Ed Maibach and Jagadish Shukla, both taxpayer-funded instructors, organized a campaign calling for prosecution of those who disagree with their views on climate policy.",0_0
"But in protecting children from an unproven threat, parents may not just be taking some of the fun out of childhood but also raising children in an atmosphere of paranoia, which cannot be good for them.",0_0
"Question 5 (for Peter Calamai or Lucinda Chodan): There has never been, to my knowledge, a full-dress debate on any of the major Canadian television networks on the question of global warming, in part, I gather, because AGW supporters do not want to give the skeptics ""credibility."" If the AGW hypothesis is as ""certain"" as its supporters believe, why not have such a debate, or a series of them, and crush the skeptics once and for all?",0_0
Comments on the Menendez Climate Amendment from CEI and the Center for Science and Public Policy,0_0
"In the speech Michael Crichton claims that the BBC and New York Times reported 15,000-30,000 dead from Chernobyl when the actual number was 56. Crichton claims:",0_0
"Satellite observations reveal a greening of the globe over recent decades. The role in this greening of the CO2 fertilization effectthe enhancement of photosynthesis due to rising CO2 levelsis yet to be established. The direct CO2 effect on vegetation should be most clearly expressed in warm, arid environments where water is the dominant limit to vegetation growth. Using gas exchange theory, we predict that the 14% increase in atmospheric CO2 (19822010) led to a 5 to 10% increase in green foliage cover in warm, arid environments. Satellite observations, analyzed to remove the effect of variations in precipitation, show that cover across these environments has increased by 11%. Our results confirm that the anticipated CO2 fertilization effect is occurring alongside ongoing anthropogenic perturbations to the carbon cycle and that the fertilization effect is now a significant land surface process.",3_3
"On climate change, is Gov. John Hickenlooper ripping a page directly from President Obama's authoritarian playbook?",0_0
"butdo, at least,recognize the need to move beyond just the GCM runs. Theywrite",0_0
"Now, you say, this is the LA Times, so surely they would blame all this on global warming? And, of course, you would be right.",5_2
"Dr. Cindy Parker of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health said: ""I'm a physician, why am I here for a rally for an environmental bill? It's not an environmental bill, that's why. It's a health bill. This is the biggest threat to our health of anything going on right now, and anything we expect this century. We have to pass this bill for our health and for the health of everybody in the world and our children and their children.""",0_0
"What is now the relevant rate constants? The first fr transportation between the atmosphere and the deep ocean is given actually directly by bomb test curve (and several other estimates, including by Bertil Bolin, already in the 1950s), which decays pi order of 10 years. Let us assume attden occurs PCA 5 r and rate constant in the example nedand can sttas to 0.2 / s.",0_0
"Ethanol and Air Pollution. Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claims a net decrease in greenhouse gas emissions from using ethanol, they recognize that ethanol use is a problem for conventional air pollutants. Ethanol use, according to the EPA, will increase the emission of chemicals that lead to the production of ozone, one of the nation's most challenging local air pollutants.",0_0
"Speedy in comments on this site has done a better than excellent job of satirizing the satirists, so Im reposting one of his comments here for those who missed it.",0_0
"Such modelling underpins the last three propositions, too. Whether warming is going to be dangerous or beneficial for humanity and where it might occur, and what effects any warming would have on rainfall, or storms, or anything else, depend on the outcome of the models. Since the IPCC itself says that the current level of scientific understanding of some of the variables in the climate models is low or very low, it is not clear why we should take especial interest in what the models say. They do not predict, incidentally, but produce scenarios or projections, on an ifthen basis. Scary ones usually make it to the media, which like scary stories. But we have had an awful lot of them in the last few years, and people have begun to hear Matilda crying Fire. (For those younger than me, Matilda is the subject of one of Hilaire Bellocs Cautionary Tales , all worth reading.)",5_1
"Swapping income today for greater income in the future is investment. The logic underpinning a carbon tax is the same. Lower GDP today will provide even greater benefits in the future. Because there are many investment opportunities that can swap current income for even greater future benefits it is necessary to compare alternative investments to investments in moderating global warming. In the jargon of Econ 101, ""what is the opportunity cost"" of such an investmentwhat is the alternative investment of the same magnitude that would provide the greatest alternative future benefit?",0_0
"periods of active Earth Tectonics and Volcanism can be correlated to periods of active climate change and climate-related events. To describe this new theory, the term Plate Climatology is proposed. In general increased tectonic activity, either locally or globally, equates to more faulting and volcanic activity primarily along tectonic plate boundaries / rift systems. Increased tectonic activity leads to more heat and fluid release from these active geological features into both the oceans and atmosphere. Altered heat and fluid input equates to climate change. This effect has been largely hidden from scientific investigation because the primary heat and fluid release is from two under-explored / under-monitored regions; deep oceans and sub-glacial polar ice caps.",2_1
"In the past, local governments and the legislature have blithely hit up taxpayers to pay for new sports stadiums for local teams. You may think you have it bad in your city with 4 major sports teams, but we have 4 major sports teams PLUS about seven or eight baseball spring training stadiums.",0_0
Shub identifies the source of the ?rigor and honesty? quote as a post from Skeptical Science.,0_0
voters lost due to precipitation significantly benefits the Republican,0_0
"*if the paleo proxy reconstruction can miss these considerable perturbation downwards, some doubt is thereby introduced as to whether they would catch other similar perturbations in the opposite direction most notably during the so called medieval warm period.",5_1
We welcome the acknowledgement by the Panel that the Urban Heat Island effect on surface temperatures records in and around large cities is important but poorly understood. We also welcome the admission that the IPCC ignored the expressions of uncertainty in CRU papers.,5_1
"The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering. In fiscal year (FY) 2011, its budget is about $6.9 billion. NSF funds reach all 50 states through grants to nearly 2,000 universities and institutions. Each year, NSF receives over 45,000 competitive requests for funding, and makes over 11,500 new funding awards. NSF also awards over $400 million in professional and service contracts yearly.",0_0
How to interpret expert judgment assessments of 21st century sea-level rise,0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Counsel Hans Bader on the effects of ethanol subsidies.,0_0
"Russia provides substantial natural gas, oil, and coal to Europe that gives it leverage in the Ukraine Crises due to Europe's fear of energy supply cutoff. The European Union has assisted in its servitude by resisting natural gas production by fracking and shutting down and curtailing future use of nuclear power plants.",0_0
"3) The only significant temperature increase is in the Tidewater Division, and here of course, we only have one sample, the town of Hopewell. So just how robust is the Hopewell temperature record?",0_0
"10 Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.",0_0
8. Sweden - Agreement for Cooperation in Environmental Protection in Defense Matters,0_0
"I also want to demonstrate my disapproval of the attitude of the Czech government and other competent institutions when it comes to the misinformation campaigns and the intentional information embargo on key events that are relevant for the current geopolitical and military situation in the world. In this context, I also blame all the responsible organs for the total inactivity in their task to prevent a global conflict (especially) between the U.S. and Russia on the European territory.",0_0
"The science of anthropogenic global warming is settled, and has been for decades.Just not the way the AGW alarmists would have you believe. Increased amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere cannot be the cause of global warming, if global warming even exists.",2_3
"The trick, according to RC, is to splice onto the end of a temperature reconstruction, built on proxy data going back several centuries, the data from instrumental records starting in 1960 and 1981.",0_0
"CO 2 itself is hardly a desproblem if the concentration rises to values as around and more than double what we have today. The problem hnger together rather how primarily vattenngan in atmosfrens behave. If the reservoirs as a fljd of temperature rise, according to the Clausius-Clapeyron rule, ie almost exponentially, becoming fljden an additional frhjd soil temperature depending on the tillbakastrlningen into space takes place from a higher level in the atmosphere. This is further complicated by frndrad cloud formation to fljd of ndrad fuktighetsfrdelning and is a major cause of the large oskerheten in climate projections.",0_0
"This discrepancy matters quite a bit. Wintertime minimum temperatures help determine plant hardiness, for example, and summertime minimum temperatures are very important for heat wave mortality. The use of temperature trends from poorly sited climate stations, therefore, introduces an uncertainly in our ability to quantify these key climate metrics.",5_1
"Garth is known and respected, among other things, for his unorthodoxy on the subject of climate. In the early eighties he was not only saying that something different needed to be done to advance the field, but unlike many others complaining similarly about it then, he actually took a crack at it. Now, it will come as no surprise to Garth if I say here that I believe that his approach was wrong. But it was also brilliantly wrong. And that matters in science. Scientists remember him for the brilliant part, rather than the wrong part, because, frankly, in challenging the unknown, being wrong is the norm. Being brilliantly wrong is the best scientists can hope for when it happens. On the other extreme, the worst is encapsulated by the infamous insult by Wolfgang Pauli: ?It's not even wrong.?",0_0
"Empirical evidence does not lie - RSS global satellite temperatures confirm hiatus of global warming, while the general public and mainstream press are now recognizing the AWOL truth that skeptics long ago identified...global temperatures are trending towards cooling, not accelerating higher",1_4
He compared this death tally to the WHO figures for deaths attributed to global warming and finds that the biofuels policies are more deadly. (And he is not including any increase in poverty due to other anti-global warming practices).,0_0
"So where exactly is the Svalbard Island Chain , and of what importance is it? Thrust into prominence by recent reports of rapid ice melting in one specific continental glacier, these islands are located north of Iceland along the giant Mid-Atlantic / Arctic Mid-Ocean Rift Complex.",0_0
"T he Truth About Cars is a website that I haven't come across before, but its article on ownership costs of a Tesla EV is well worth a look. It seems that the aluminium bodywork, used to reduce weight, makes it startlingly expensive.",0_0
"The researchers, Gabriele C. Hegerl of Duke University and John M. Wallace of the University of Washington, attempted to account for this change by comparing the pattern to El Nio southern oscillation and other factors, but found that, ""Trends in these patterns can account for only a small fraction of the observed trend in lapse rate.""",0_0
"Now, however, Lynas the one-time circus-activist stuntman, has his childish perspective on the world given respectability by the establishments accolades, and has expensive films made about his dark fantasy.",0_0
"He cites the treaty's expansive definition of marine pollution, writing that ``the potential impacts of rising sea surface temperatures, rising sea levels, and changes in ocean pH as a consequence of rising levels of carbon dioxide in sea water'' all could ``give rise to actions under the convention's marine pollution provisions.''",0_0
"This document includes six major sections the politics of the issue, the significance of the issue, global warming, energy issues, gas prices, and nuclear energy. For commentary concerning each of these issues, see the respective sections.",0_0
"For the largest group of balls (seven), I guessed that the deflation would be 0.38 psi. When the implied temperatures were re-calculated using this guess, they fit nicely within the corridor (red + signs). However, if this deflation were applied to the three balls in the two upper ellipses,they end up well above the corridor and this estimate is insufficient for one ball.",0_0
"Flashback 2010: Climate Depot's Morano on Fox News: ""There is no way anyone can falsify the global warming theory now because any weather event that happens ""proves' their case'",0_0
"A new poll of physicians finds that 76% of respondents consider the FDA's approval process too slow, and 80% would like to see painkiller Vioxx made available again.",0_0
"The actual number of sites that passed this screening: 484, or over 3 times the number expected based on chance alone, (i.e. assuming no relationship between rings and temperature, and using a one tailed test).",0_0
"Imagine astronomers discover that a large asteroid will collide with the Earth in 2026. The only way to prevent catastrophe, they say, is to significantly deflect the asteroid well before impact.",0_0
"The six scientists report that enhanced plant production -- an increase in aboveground biomass on the order of 40% in response to their specific degree of elevated CO 2 -- ""did not lead to a progressive decline in soil N availability."" In fact, they say that on the contrary , ""soil N availability remained higher after 5 years of elevated than ambient CO 2 ,"" likely due to ""a greater mineralization rate under elevated CO 2 ."" As for why this was so, they speculate that ""elevated CO 2 increased soil moisture due to decreased plant transpiration at our site (Nelson et al ., 2004), which could have stimulated microbial activity and N mineralization."" What it means",3_3
"If there is a more obvious example of crony capitalism to be had in our country than the treatment the wind industry now enjoys, I can't think of it.",0_0
Obama's cultural liberalism helped sink Democrats,0_0
"Our individual carbon footprints are a function of consumption, which, in turn, is a derivative of individual wealth. Accordingly, my carbon footprint should be small, because I am poor. As an adult, I've never lived in a space larger than a room, and I don't drive.",0_0
"The graph below shows how they lowered past sea level, and raised recent sea level to create the EU mandated scary appearance of sea level rising.",1_6
So the spouse hands me a scrap of paper and says One of the people I know asked me to ask you to watch this and tell her what you think of it. Which really means tell the spouse who will tell something slightly different to the friend of a friend.,0_0
"The Wells Journal website predicts 1,000,000C and 999999 mm rain. And they had the sense of humor to highlight their glitch and have a good laugh.",0_0
"Well, in this case, the ""experts"" claim that not only one house, but the whole planet will ""burn"" in a few years. That's a much more extraordinary statement than the already bizarre warning by the female structural engineer.",0_0
"We might have more to say about this, and in greater detail, at a later date. But know this: The leftist victory over Heartland is all in their heads.",0_0
"AUSTRALIAN GROUP LAUNCHES ""CLEXIT' PUSH",0_0
"This echoes yet another scientist, a professor at the University of Colorado, who in recent times also mentioned this new era in relation to a call for population control when he stated:",0_0
"Among the facts that are clear, however, are that U.S. emissions contribute very little to global concentrations of greenhouse gas, and that even substantial cuts in these emissions are likely to have no effect on temperature. Data from the Energy Information Administration show, for example, that the United States cut carbon dioxide emissions by 12 percent between 2005 and 2012 while global emissions increased by 15 percent over the same period.",4_2
"My answer is limited to WG1. Instead of trying to be complete, this report should focus much more on the really crucial issues: What are the natural and anthropogenic forcings that influence the climate, what are the relevant feedbacks? How can we decide whether feedbacks are positive or negative? How good are the models? Which models are the best and for what reasons? Many of these crucial issues are now buried deep inside the report instead of highlighted in the summary. Progress would be much faster if supporters of AGWand sceptics would be forced to sit together at the table and discuss where the consensus is and where the discrepancy. This worked when the satellite temperature of Spencer and Christy were challenged by Mears and Wentz; it worked when hurricane specialists sat around the table to come up with a consensus statement.",5_1
"A federal program to help subprime mortgage holders attracts 45,000 applicants.",0_0
the results mostly show moderate skill for temperature indices and low skill or its absence for precipitation indices . Kiktev et al,0_0
Socially sustainable? Culturally sustainable? We dont even know if what we currently do is culturally or socially sustainable. How can we guess if some development is culturally sustainable?,0_0
"In the first experiment, the total reproductive biomass of the plants that were grown in CO 2 -enriched air was 32% greater than that of the plants grown in ambient air, as was the total number of fruit produced.?? In the second experiment, for seeds from female plants grown in ambient air, 55% of all emergence occurred within six days of sowing, while for seeds from plants grown in CO 2 -enriched air, 67% of total emergence occurred during the same period.?? In addition, 87% of the seeds from the elevated-CO 2 -grown plants ultimately germinated, while only 67% of the seeds from the ambient-CO 2 -grown plants did so.?? Last of all, there was a tendency for a greater percentage of female progeny to be produced in the CO 2 -enriched air than in ambient-air (56.3% vs. 52.7%). What it means",3_3
MEDIA ADVISORY: Heartland Institute Environment Expert Reacts to NRC Climate Report,0_0
"A global map of surface air temperature anomalies in July 2011 vs. the mean of 1998-2006 shows at least 75% of regions were cooler or exhibited no change from the baseline. While the US July heat wave received extensive press attention and claims of links to greenhouse gases, a cooling anomaly of equal and opposite magnitude occurred in the western US and Canada, but received no press attention. Atmospheric CO2 is well-distributed throughout the atmosphere and could not account for the large regional differences.",1_4
"Now, weve all seen how much skill climate models have shown at hindcasting sea surface temperatures since 1900 and at hindcasting and projecting sea surface temperatures over the satellite era (the last 30 years). A one word summary: None. Refer to the discussions of Figures 15 through 20 in the post Part 2 Do Observations and Climate Models Confirm Or Contradict The Hypothesis of Anthropogenic Global Warming? and the two-part post Satellite-Era Sea Surface Temperature Versus IPCC Hindcast/Projections Part 1 and Part 2 . Or if you prefer, those discussions are also included in my first book If the IPCC was Selling Manmade Global Warming as a Product, Would the FTC Stop their deceptive Ads?",5_1
"People have imagined That if we stopped emitting carbon dioxide the climate would go back to normal in 100 years, 200 year thats not true, said researcher Susan Solomon, the lead author of the report, quoted by AP news agency.",0_0
"Cloud properties can have a significant impact on climate, yet the effects of aerosols like dust is one of the more uncertain components of climate change models. Scientists have long recognized the importance of soluble particles, such as sea salt and sulfates, in creating the droplets that form clouds and lead to precipitation. But until now, the role of insoluble particles mostly dust swept into the atmosphere from such sources as deserts hasn??t figured significantly in climate models.",5_1
"In relation to the three studies that I do not find any serious fault with, some relevant details from my analysis are:",0_0
"The Pacific Ocean has been significantly warmer than the present throughout vast majority of past 10,000 years",2_1
Yesterday the Climate Institute released its Global Climate Leadership Review that significantly bucked other analyses and concluded Australias carbon tax of $23 a tonne of greenhouse gases was modest. The report says Sweden has a $130 equivalent carbon price. Switzerland is up to $60.,0_0
"CEI's General Counsel Sam Kazman responded: ""This is the latest effort in an intimidation campaign to criminalize speech and research on the climate debate. CEI will vigorously fight to quash this subpoena. It is an affront to our First Amendment rights of free speech and association for Attorney General Walker to bring such intimidating demands against a nonprofit group. If Walker and his allies succeed, the real victims will be all Americans, whose access to affordable energy will be hit by one costly regulation after another, while scientific and policy debates are wiped out one subpoena at a time.""",0_0
"Mr Watson, the NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change??s coastal unit team leader, analysed data taken over 100 years by tidal gauges at Fremantle, Auckland, Fort Denison in Sydney and Newcastle, and found a weak deceleration of sea-level rises between 1940 and 2000.",1_6
Figure 1. Left panel Nonlogo ball pressures expressed in deg F using the Ideal Gas Law. The eleven Patriot measurements are divided into three groups indicated by the ellipses.,0_0
"Furthermore, even if we accept that carbon dioxide is bad, it's not clear exactly what we should do about it. In September, Tom Wigley of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder published a report that determined ""switching from coal to natural gas would do little for global climate."" Mr. Wigley found that the particulates put into the atmosphere by coal-fired power plants, ""although detrimental to the environment, cool the planet by blocking incoming sunlight.""",0_0
"""Amazonia consists of several types of forest and a large expanse more than a third of the region of savannah (cerrado) and semidesert (chaco). `The cerrado and chaco are being destroyed at a much faster rate than anything else,' Lacher says. `The rate at which they're being gobbled up by soybean plantations is staggering. Then comes the dry forest, and last is the moist forest. So the actual wettest forest, which is what most of the attention is focused on, is not being hit as much as people sometimes think."" (Science, p. 737)",0_0
See the whole thing (dated June 2007) here . From the summary: The Sun drives climate change and it will be colder next decade by 2.0 degrees centigrade. (Via Climate Science ),2_1
"Please note that there is a factual error in Holly Morris Polar Distress , published last weekend in the NYT and the IHT and concerned with The Magnetic North by Sara Wheeler.",0_0
Many skeptics' adjustment-phobia unmasks their anti-scientific credentials,0_0
"""Beijing - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday urged Chinese rail firms to bid for a planned high-speed link between Brazil's two largest cities, state media said.""",0_0
Perhaps Pachauri and journalist Stanford would care to explain which part of Teske?s CV makes him a distinguished scientist.,0_0
"The authors reviewed 225 pertinent scientific papers in an attempt to synthesize existing knowledge relative to the relationship between ecosystem net primary production and species richness, using data derived from terrestrial, wetland and aquatic environments. What was learned",0_0
"?Ice and snow reflect up to 90 percent of the sunlight,? Eicken said. ?The ocean without any ice absorbs about 90 percent of the sunlight.?",0_0
"Meanwhile, Coburn framed the ethanol issue in stark terms declaring: ""What part of stupid are we? This is a historic vote that is a signal to the American people: Either people in Washington get it and are going to stop wasting money and start acting in the best interests of the country, or ... they won't.""",0_0
"CLEXIT's founding statement says, ""This vicious and relentless war on carbon dioxide will be seen by future generations as the most misguided mass delusion that the world has ever seen. Carbon dioxide is NOT a dangerous pollutant it is a natural, non-toxic, and beneficial gas which feeds all life on earth. Its increasing concentration is improving the environment, not harming it.""",3_3
"Before the cause started to contaminate climatology about two decades ago, climate scientists realized that around the years 950-1250 AD or so, the Earth experienced warmer temperatures than in some later centuries, e.g. 1550-1850 AD. They called the first period the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and the second period was the Little Ice Age (LIA).",2_1
"In Iraq, George W. Bush has followed the Reagan path, repeatedly changing methods and tactics but without drawing attention to his changes of direction. The voting public has not liked that.",0_0
"The sin of course is modern human activity in prosperous nations. You know, the kind of sinful activity that has lifted so many out of poverty, protected them from never-ending unusual weather events, and dramatically contributed to healthy living.",1_7
"the reputation of the ?scientific standing? of some of the leading exponents of the global warming doctrine has been heavily undermined recently (the most scandalous example being the case of the ?hockey stick?, which constituted the basis of the 2001 Third Assessment Report of the IPCC);",5_2
"In order to deter challenges to your plan for centralized control of industrial development through the issuance of permits for greenhouse gases, you have called upon each state to declare its allegiance to the Environmental Protection Agencys recently enacted greenhouse gas regulationsregulations that are plainly contrary to United States law . To encourage acquiescence with your unsupported findings you threaten to usurp state enforcement authority and to federalize the permitting program of any state that fails to pledge their fealty to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).",4_1
"The UAH graph provides a complete answer to the Chameides attempt to suggest that skeptics are confusing short-term and longer-term temperature changes. The year 2008 will turn out to have been no warmer than 1980 28 years ago. This is not a short-run change: the cooling trend set in as far back as late 2001, seven full years ago, and there has been no net warming since 1995 on any measure. Next, Chameides attempts to suggest that the recent cooling is caused by solar activity. He could well be right however, if so, by the same token the warming that stopped in 1998 could also have been caused by solar activity there was, after all, a solar Grand Maximum in the last 70 years of the 20th century, during which the sun was more active and for longer than at almost any previous similar period in the whole of the past 11,400 years.",1_4
"As former NASA employees, we feel that NASAs advocacy of an extreme position, prior to a thorough study of the possible overwhelming impact of natural climate drivers is inappropriate. We request that NASA refrain from including unproven and unsupported remarks in its future releases and websites on this subject. At risk is damage to the exemplary reputation of NASA, NASAs current or former scientists and employees, and even the reputation of science itself.",0_0
"Similarly the real savings of CO2 emissions from wind were 3 million tonnes less than the official DECC figures of 11.7 million tonnes, and which also ignores the increased emissions of Gas plants to balance Wind. The real capacity load factor of Wind Farms was 20.6% and not the quoted 28.7%, once you take into account the discarded excess wind energy.",4_4
Lets return to the quote from the introduction of Trenberth et al. (2014) Earths Energy Imbalance :,0_0
Be afraid of the dark: Misguided NIMBYs foster future of blackouts,0_0
"Steven Lyazi is a student and day laborer in Kampala, Uganda. He served as special assistant to Congress of Racial Equality-Uganda director Cyril Boynes, until Mr. Boynes died in January 2015.",0_0
"There are other, deeper tensions at work. Working-class voters crave order and stability. They value the degree of these things that the welfare state and public institutions have provided. They also respect entrepreneurs but have no desire to be forced to emulate them. They respect private economic activity, but fear that business will cast them aside in the pursuit of profits. A conservatism that conveys the message that we seek to abolish the welfare state or that people have value only if they enthusiastically participate as risk takers in a dynamic, turbulent economy will not appeal to them.",0_0
Joe Herring warns of Islamist terrorists setting up a propaganda shop in the Heartland,0_0
"""At a stroke, Medicare chief Donald Berwick has revived the ""death panel"" debate from two summers ago. Allow us to referee, because this topic has been badly distorted by the political processand in a rational world, it wouldn't be a political question at all.""",0_0
The administration wants to apply this to concessionaires as well. This will force us to raise a $20 camping rate by $4 a night.,0_0
"A host of data shows all catastrophic events allegedly caused by CAGW occurred in the past when atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were lower and constant.For many weather events, rates of occurrences recently declined.",1_7
"It is time that the Australian government shook itself free from the baleful influence of the IPCC by, first, commissioning a review by fully independent scientists as to the relative risks of natural and hypothetical human-caused climate change; and, second, by adopting a cost-effective national climate policy of preparation and adaptation.",0_0
"By Matt Ridley, WSJ, Aug 13, 2015",0_0
"From a sampling point of view you cant sample temperature using a min/max thermometer, nor is meteorological maths correct. Lots of awkward problems where pragmatics comes into it. On the other hand a deep ground temperature thermometer is integrating, it can produce valid data except the technology and reading method was poor.",5_1
Former Vice President Al Gore prepares for the release of his documentary on global warming.,0_0
"Professor Chris Turney and Dr Richard Jones, both from the Universitys Department of Geography, have reported a comprehensive study of the Last Interglacial, a period of warming some 125,000 years ago, in the latest issue of the Journal of Quaternary Science .",0_0
"In the context of our weblog posting of December 26, 2005 More on Sudden Climate Transitions A Book by John D. Cox , the paper we published in the Proceedings of the National Academy (PNAS) in 2004 is relevant.",0_0
"In respect to Schmidts whinge, as Lucia sagely observed a couple of years ago in connection with Schmidts defence of upside-down Tiljander, one cannot assume that people actually asked the questions that Schmidt says they asked or that his answers are adequate because he says so:",0_0
"Following the records set last September, Antarctic Sea Ice Extent continues to run well above normal. The average for January was similar to last year, and continues the increasing trend since 1979.",1_1
"The controversy started in August 2007, when statistician Stephen McIntyre found an error in NASAs temperature data sets that he said caused temperatures in the U.S. from the year 2000 onward to be overstated. After posting his findings on his website ClimateAudit.org , according to Judge Barbara Rothsteins decision, McIntyre emailed them to NASA climate scientists at the Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS), which quickly revised values in its temperature data set did not issue a press release announcing or explaining the corrections.",5_1
"Below is chart showing recent global temperature increases are not even ""unprecedented"" in the context of the 20th century. Here are some worldly examples of higher temperatures in early 20th century. And, in recent historical past, today's temps are not near being "" unprecedented ."" (click to enlarge)",2_1
"For years, wind farms sprouted on privately held land while projects on public lands languished, in part because of the complex federal environmental reviews. Projects on private land are governed by state regulations if a federally protected species does not live there, which can lead to a cheaper and quicker approval process. If a threatened or endangered species is on private land, then federal environmental review is required just like a public site.",0_0
Is Kyoto the Hidden Price of Britain's Aid in Iraq?,0_0
"Things went along just fine like that for years. Then secondary recovery methods started to come into use. These were a variety of physical and chemical methods used to squeeze more oil out of existing fields, including fracturing the rock to allow the oil to come out more easily.",0_0
"The adjustable parameters (in red in the spreadsheet) are soil depth (0.2 m is typical for day-night temperature changes), the soil heat capacity (2.5 is typical, water is 4.18), the IR emissivity (0.90-0.95 would be typical), the downwelling sky radiation intensity (0 for all you sky dragon slayers out there, 250-350 for the rest of us), and the starting temperature (300 K is about 80 deg. F).",0_0
"Did the Gore Effect land in Melbourne , Australia? I report, you decide . Related, Gores speaking engagement wasnt quite as non-partisan as it appeared.",0_0
"Today, EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson announced that EPA would respond to the Supreme Court global warming case, Massachusetts v. EPA, by issuing an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) to solicit public comment on a range of complex issues.",0_0
"Amazed that the committee would treat a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT and an IPCC lead author with such disrespect and disregard, I contacted Dr. Lindzen. He told me, ""They also basically ignored what I said. I suppose they interviewed me in order to say that they had interviewed someone who was skeptical of warming alarm.""",0_0
"Your base rate will depend on your state and your job class. Rates are usually stated as premium dollars per hundred dollars of payroll. Rates vary all over the map. Store or clerical workers might be just a few dollars per hundred. Our campground workers are $9-$20 per hundred. Roofing workers can be $25 and up. So if your rate is $6.00 per hundred, and you have $100,000 in annual payroll, your base premium will be $6,000 per year (ouch).",0_0
"Climate researcher Michael E. Mann said his shared interest, with U.Va., in his e-mails means they can be released to him, but not to climate change skeptics. (Tom Jackman The Washington Post) Thats because U.Va. apparently has already given the 12,000 e-mails to Mann himself, though he left Charlottesville years ago. The American Tradition Institute, the conservative group hoping to show that climate change scientists like Mann manipulated their data, argues that U.Va. cant give the e-mails to one person and not another. By giving the emails to Mann, the university has waived any exemptions theyre claiming to the state Freedom of Information Act, ATI says.",5_2
"The reconstruction also ???reveals a long-term cooling trend of -0.31C per 1,000 years (0:03C) over the 138 B.C.-A.D. 1900 period . . .??This trend isnotreflectedin tree ring width data from ???the sametemperature-sensitive trees.?? Thus,reliance onsuch data (as in the hockey stick reconstruction)??probably causes an underestimation of historic temperatures.??",5_1
"After 1985 solar activity started to decrease yet global temperatures continued to rise. Nir Shaviv is a proponent of a possible solar explanation for this that requires the suggested link between cosmic ray flux and clouds to be real. Svenmarks successful pilot experiment, published in 2006 provides experimental support for such a link. A much larger experiment at CERN in Switzerland should be completed by 2010.",2_1
"(C) Documents 1-7 in your list have not been revised by Heartland staff since they were stolen by Peter Gleick. Document 8, the fake memo, is not an authentic Heartland document or draft document, therefore I do not know whether or not it has been changed. I suggest you ask the Pacific Institute if they know.",0_0
"First of all, I am going to enlarge the context of the discussion. The primary source of heat for the surface of the Earth is the radiant energy of the sun. The solar wind of the sun, materials dumped into the atmosphere from space, heat from the deep interior of the earth, and the interplay of changes in the Earth's magnetic field and the sun's magnetic field are also contributors of heat, though the sum of these is much less than that from the sun's radiant energy spectrum of ultraviolet (UV), visible, and infra-red (IR) light. The entire catastrophic greenhouse gas hypothesis ignores effects upon the incident IR portion of this spectrum of light from the sun. This is foolish.",2_1
"Switzerland would have to charge higher end-user power prices and resort to new gas-fired plants to fill the supply gap created by its planned nuclear phase-out prompted by Japans Fukushima accident, the Swiss energy ministry said on Friday. The statement also said the average household electricity bill, estimated at 890 Swiss Francs ($950) a year, was due to rise in line with higher costs for renewable energy and to cover the costs of investment in the grid. Reuters, 28 September 2012 ( http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/28/switzerland-gas-idUSL5E8KSFFT20120928 )",0_0
"Tool making and communication skills are easily distinguishing features between human beings and other species on this planet. When coupled with a natural curiosity and the ability learn from our mistakes, we have lifted most humans from the vulgar realities of our ancestors existence. For those bent on controlling others, tools and communication must be controlled and manipulated.",0_0
"The IBM supercomputer, unveiled in May 2009 and 90 per cent funded by Government, has 15 million megabytes of memory and can make 125 trillion calculations every second.",0_0
"Julian Morris makes 26 points in response to the Stern Review discussion paper, ""What is the Economics of Climate Change?""",0_0
"African leaders have expressed concern about European efforts to seek binding targets on sustainable development, fearing brakes would be applied to their economies by rich countries. An expanded role for UN agencies would face almost certain opposition from the United States.",4_1
"Experts in academia and government research centers were e-mailed invitations to participate in the on-line poll conducted by the website questionpro.com. Only those invited could participate and computer IP addresses of participants were recorded and used to prevent repeat voting. Questions used were reviewed by a polling expert who checked for bias in phrasing, such as suggesting an answer by the way a question was worded. The nine-question survey was short, taking just a few minutes to complete.",0_0
"The provision of financial resources in payment for ecosystem services projects, such as are associated with Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), has the potential to stimulate conflict over resources and property rights (Melick, 2010). For example, efforts to ensure REDD readiness in Tanzania (Beymer-Farris and Bassett, 2012; 2013; Burgess et al., 2013) and the Congo basin (Brown et al., 2011) have been contested, and placed communities in conflict with conservationists and governments. Eriksen and Lind (2009) similarly find that climate change adaptation interventions in Kenya have aggravated surrounding conflicts.",0_0
OBSERVABLE DATA REBUT CLIMATE COMPUTER MODELS,5_1
"CFACT Executive Director Craig Rucker, Marc Morano, who edits CFACT's Climate Depot news and information service and a contingent of students from CFACT Collegians chapters at the University of West Virginia and Marshall University testified before the Board, which voted in January to temporarily pull back the amended standards and further consider the matter.",0_0
"Worst of all, our Congress and courts have completely abdicated their obligations to provide oversight and control of this dictatorial agency and Obama Administration. If this is the hope, change and future we can look ""forward"" to, our nation's health, well-being and justice will be rolled backward.",0_0
Roy knows full well that PSI already did a physics experiment looking for the type of heating that is postulated from their greenhouse effect models. We used the atmospheres very own theorized greenhouse effect to check for the heating from back-radiation/imbalanced radiation output/heat retention or whatever label they want to obfuscate with to pretend the process. It doesnt exist. Real-world data does not show any hint of any form of the postulated greenhouse effect.,2_3
"The IPCC models water vapour-driven positive feedback as starting from the pre-industrial level. Somehow the carbon dioxide below the pre-industrial level does not cause this water vapour-driven positive feedback. If their water vapour feedback is a linear relationship with carbon dioxide, then we should have seen over 2 C of warming by now. We are told that the Earth warmed by 0.7 C over the 20 th Century. Where I live ??? Perth, Western Australia missed out on a lot of that warming.",3_1
"Swedish academic gives climate models ""F"" in history",0_0
"In fact, this year was cooler than years such as 1762, 1779 and 1826, and more than a degree colder than 1783.",1_3
"Sea level was stable from at least BC 100 until AD 950. Sea level then increased for 400 y at a rate of 0.6 mm/y, followed by a further period of stable, or slightly falling, sea level that persisted until the late 19th century. Since then, sea level has risen at an average rate of 2.1 mm/y, representing the steepest century-scale increase of the past two millennia. This rate was initiated between AD 1865 and 1892.",1_6
"NREL is an extension of the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). EERE is run by Assistant Secretary of Energy Cathy Zoi, who, until assuming this post, served as CEO to Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection. Zoi is responsible for many millions of the ""green jobs"" stimulus dollars pushed for and designed by Van Jones (this according to Jones himself).",0_0
"Neither I, Marlo Lewis, Jr., nor The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) has received any federal government funding which directly supports the subject matter on which I am appearing before the Committee. No money has been received in any amount from any Federal Grant (or subgrant thereof) or contract (or subcontract thereof) by me or CEI during the current and two preceding fiscal years from the Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration relating to global change research, nor has any money been received from any other Federal agency.",0_0
"It is fair to say that those who had access to powerful computers had no advantage in predicting anything about the long-term behavior of the atmosphere relatively to those who know enough theory (about the atmospheric dynamics) and only use the pencils and paper. The climate models may have ""looked"" realistic, like a computer game, but the correlation between their outcomes and the actual behavior of the climate turned out to be non-existent.",5_1
"Russians Pressure Japan, EU to Buy Credits",0_0
"In Debunking National Wildlife Federation Claims Part 2 some commenters claimed that the snow data cited from WRI ""was not good enough"". OK then, on to a bigger catchment. Steve Goddard replies in this brief essay.",0_0
The American conservative movement was founded in explicit opposition to the progressive project. It was also founded on the premise that a return to the governing principles of the Founders' Constitution was feasible and desirable. The first principle is anti-progressive; the second is pro-conservative. The dynamics of working- and middle-class attitudes I have outlined above raise the specter that these principles in their pure forms can be politically incompatible.,0_0
"They argued that Democrats' previous victories in congressional and state elections wouldn't continue indefinitely, as conservative Southerners would start to vote Republican.",0_0
"In 22 days, Antarctic sea icea area will have been above normal for 365 days in a row.",1_1
"The heavy agenda Congress faces for the remainder of the year has gotten much heavier over the past week. The botched car bomb in New York puts a new emphasis on threats to the homeland, and it will (or should) require a renewed focus on the threat that exists to the most endangered places in America, namely New York and Washington, the sites of previous terrorist attacks. That should mean enhanced oversight of our mechanisms in place and inadequacies in responseincluding our chronic problems of coordinated communication for first responders.",0_0
Virgin Islands AG raises free-speech fears with subpoena for climate dissenters,0_0
<3655> Singer/WWF:,0_0
"Counterviews are also presented, however, although at the end of the article, and lumped together with industry lobbyists. An excerpt from a climate scientist is",0_0
"Elevated CO 2 significantly increased leaf tannin and starch contents in a genotypically-dependent and -independent manner, respectively, while decreasing leaf cyanoglycoside contents, regardless of genotype. Atmospheric CO 2 enrichment did not significantly affect leaf water, sugar, protein, or nitrogen contents. Thus, these CO 2 -induced changes in leaf chemistry (higher starch and tannin and lower cyanoglycoside concentrations) increased its palatability, as indicated by greater leaf dry weight consumption of CO 2 -enriched leaves by butterfly larvae. In addition, increased leaf consumption (of CO 2 -enriched leaves) led to greater larval biomass and shorter larval developmental times, indicating that atmospheric CO 2 enrichment affected leaf quality to positively influence larvae of the Common Blue Butterfly. Moreover, larval mortality was lower when feeding upon CO 2 -enriched, rather than ambiently-grown, leaves. What it means",3_3
"It's a time for some potentially shocking news from the ""third leg"" of the WIMP witch hunt.",0_0
"Britain is in trouble with his runaway energy prices, with a rural lousy of wind, and with lots of fossil-fired power plants must stngas soon on grounds of age. The new environment minister Owen Paterson, gr out HRT against wind industry. Green subsidies in Soviet-style br scrapped, he says. Wind Industry should stand on their own feet instead from the JMT and constantly beg for money from the state. And he seems to f a certain stdfrn Energy Minister John Hayes. But not everyone in England GRN-blah government is frtjusta. S vein hr we can probably frvnta us an entertaining power struggle Looking ahead.",0_0
"One fast-food chain, which I wont name, had a large (2-ft x 2-ft) help-wanted sign in the front window, a similarly-sized sign hanging over the serving line, and yet another large sign that practically covered the soda dispenser. I mean, they really want workers!",0_0
"The three Australian researchers discovered that the RMRs of fish reared at 29.5 and 31.5??C were ""significantly higher than the control group reared at 28.5??C,"" and they indicate that ""fish that developed in 30.5 and 31.5??C exhibited an enhanced ability to deal with acute temperature increases."" What it means",3_2
Cross-sex strip searches ruled unconstitutional:,0_0
"Increasing U.S. domestic petroleum will not likely lower world oil pricesmost experts believe that U.S. oil reserves are small in relation to the rest of the world. But it will help the U.S. offset the negative economic impact of a large increase in oil prices. For example, the economies of Alaska and Texas fare much better than non-energy producing states when oil prices rise by 50% or 100%. Oil- and natural-gas-producing states experience smaller increases in unemployment and a smaller decline in non-farm employment during a peak oil shock. The reason for this is simple; the size of the energy sector expands during a period when oil prices rise while the rest of the economy shrinks. The growing energy sector helps prop up other areas in the economy by increasing the demand for goods and services in non-oil industries.",4_5
"There is little doubt that some players in the climate game not a lot, but enough to have severely damaged the reputation of climate scientists in general have stepped across the boundary into postmodern science. The Climategate scandal of 2009, wherein thousands of emails were leaked from the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in England, showed that certain senior members of the research community were, and presumably still are, quite capable of deliberately selecting data in order to overstate the evidence for dangerous climate change. The emails showed as well that these senior members were quite happy to discuss ways and means of controlling the research journals so as to deny publication of any material that goes against the orthodox dogma. The ways and means included the sacking of recalcitrant editors.",5_2
"Congress should also keep in mind Mississippi's ""right to develop."" International lawyers assert that the countries of the world must achieve greater economic parity before developing nations are expected to pitch in to fight global warming, even though they account for more than 30 percent of annual global emissions.",0_0
"For thirty years, asthma rates in the United States have increased, while pollution has declined. From 1980 to 2009, ambient American air concentrations of the major pollutants sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and ozone decreased 78 percent, 48 percent, and 30 percent, respectively. Yet the prevalence of asthma increased 75% from 1980-1994, and asthma rates in children under the age of five have increased more than 160% from 1980-1994. Moreover, the number of people with asthma continues to grow. One in 12 people (about 25 million) had asthma in 2009, compared with 1 in 14 (about 20 million) in 2001. The truth of the matter is that asthma is poorly understood. The ailment appears to have a number of triggers. Clearly, ""pollution"" isn't the driving variable. Otherwise, asthma rates would have declined in lockstep with decreases in airborne sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and ozone.",0_0
"Hurricane Ike has many people worried, much like with Hurricane Gustav. As many of you may know, I produce a variety of weather imagery maps for web and broadcast in SD and HD. Since there is a lot of interest in the path of hurricanes, I thought Id post a few near-live images, which will update every 30 minutes. Here is Hurricane Ike, entering the frame on the right:",0_0
"Deploying its members and financial resources, 1199 has branched out to support other ""progressive"" causes, including tax increases, gay rights, climate change, and an expansive immigration policy. It has helped underwrite ""living wage"" campaigns, including the ""Fight for $15"" fast-food workers' movement, and lent support to the recent antipolice protests in New York City and elsewhere. Now that 1199's longtime friend and former employee, Bill de Blasio, has been elected mayor, the union's power is at an apogee, especially at the city level. The union's continued dominance not only thwarts prospects for health-care reform in New York; it also drowns out any sense of proportion in public discourse, particularly in the city.",0_0
"on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 at 5:19 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Since January 2005, the data from which the IPCCs latest Assessment Report starts its backcast predictions, there has been no global warming at all. Yet compared with little more than nine years ago the IPCC predicts that the weather should now be a sixth of a Celsius degree warmer than it is (Fig. 1).",1_4
"Meanwhile, warming prevention proves not to be cheap. Forced substitution of commercial energy by costlier alternatives has hurt individuals and businesses in Europe, Australia, Ontario, and elsewhere. With claims about cost-free adoption of carbon-free energy increasingly in conflict with experience, doubt grows about the need to make near-term sacrifice in response to long-term phenomena still poorly understood.",4_1
"Now, there is no shortage of true believers in global warming even in the face of this awe-inspiring scandal. They do have a point: just because there is no evidence of global warming doesn't necessarily mean that it isn't happening.",0_0
"Also, as Peltier (2009) points out, the GRACE gravitational-anomaly record indicates that sea level has actually fallen in recent years. The raw data from the Envisat satellite from 2004-2012 show sea level rising at a rate equivalent to an unalarming 3.2 cm/century:",1_6
"The Army Corps of engineers intended to construct floodgates to close off water from Lake Pontchartrain during storms. A lawsuit by the local environmental group Save Our Wetlands, assisted by the national Environmental Defense Fund (now Environmental Defense), sued the Corps of Engineers, saying that gates could threaten some fish species. The U.S. Attorney warned the federal judge that a delay could kill thousands of New Orleanians in a hurricane. Nevertheless, in 1977, a federal judge stopped the project.",0_0
"The LNG issue boiled over last month when the US Department of Energy released the second of its delayed and highly anticipated reports on the potential impact of relaxing restrictions on natural gas exports. This analysis, prepared by NERA Economic Consulting, concluded ""the US would experience net economic benefits from increased LNG exports""and they could be staggering. Among other key points: any potential price impacts would be in a ""relatively narrow range"" and exports would result in ""an increase in US households' real income and welfare,"" even among vulnerable lower income families.",0_0
"After two studies refuted President Barack Obama's assertions regarding the success of Spain's and Denmark's wind energy programs, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request reveals the Department of Energy turned to George Soros and to wind industry lobbyists to attack the studies.",0_0
"An American team led by Randy Dole of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) suggested that the heatwave was mostly natural in origin. They based that on the fact that there was no basis for anticipating the heatwave given the conditions which applied at that time in Russia, said Myles Allen, a climate scientist at Oxford University. Heatwaves of that nature had happened in the past on a 100-year timescale and there wasnt an obvious significant trend in temperatures in that region or in the statistics of hot temperatures in that region. They came to the conclusion this was an event that was mostly natural in origin. There was no need to induce climate change to explain this event.",1_7
"Despite the reports projected increases in electricity cost and reductions in GDP, the impact of a CES would likely be much worse as the EIAs models (like most other economic models) dont do a very good job of predicting the future and, in the case of a CES, a government-dictated energy market can only lead to disaster.",4_1
"Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has sent U.S. oil, natural gas, and propane production soaring. Natural gas output is up 36% since 2005. Oil output is expected to increase another 780,000 barrels per day (BOPD) in 2014 and reach 9.6 million BOPD by 2019. The United States is now importing half of what it did in 2005.",4_5
"A large degree of uncertainty in global climate models (GCMs) can be attributed to the representation of clouds and how they interact with incoming solar and outgoing longwave radiation. In this study, the simulated total cloud fraction (CF), cloud water path (CWP), top of the atmosphere (TOA) radiation budgets and cloud radiative forcings (CRFs) from 28 CMIP5 AMIP models are evaluated and compared with multiple satellite observations from CERES, MODIS, ISCCP, CloudSat, and CALIPSO.",0_0
"Verification of the forced component of twentieth-century climate trends simulated in model experiments depends on the existence of accurate estimates of these trends in observations. Given the limited sampling in both space and time of the observations and proxy records, these verifications must be handled carefully. In particular, knowledge of the spatial patterns and magnitudes of climate trends over the oceans is hampered by the uneven and changing distribution of commercial shipping routes and other observational inputs as well as different approaches to merging analyses of the observations (Rayner et al. 2011).",5_1
"Bellantuono et al . say their findings suggest that ""the physiological plasticity of the host and/or symbiotic components appears to play an important role in responding to ocean warming,"" and they go on to describe some real-world examples of where this phenomenon may have played a crucial role in preserving corals exposed to extreme warm temperatures in the past (Fang et al ., 1997; Middlebrook et al ., 2008; Maynard et al ., 2008), all of which suggests, of course, that earth's corals may be much better adapted to dealing with global warming than has long been believed.",3_2
"In our column from the previous month , we took a lookat the ice volume in the Arctic. Since then summer has come to an end and the data for the May-August period are now available from PIOMAS .",0_0
"Today, our own Margaret Wente and Rex Murphy sing in tune with the likes of Glenn Beck, sincerely believing their skepticism to be a form of intellectual virtue. It is not.",0_0
"Herrick and Thomas conclude that atmospheric CO 2 enrichment stimulates the seasonally integrated carbon gain of sweetgum trees by increasing rates of leaf photosynthesis, but not by changing leaf phenology. They also demonstrate that the CO 2 -induced stimulation of photosynthesis has now persisted in these specific trees for several years, with no indication it is in process of significantly declining. References",3_3
"Figure 3 shows the global temperature projections from the BAU scenario, along with the successive adherence to the Kerry-Lieberman emissions schedule by the U.S., the OECD90 countries (industrialized countries including the U.S., Western Europe, Australia and Japan), and the entire world. Basically, unless the developing world comes on board, the world?s future temperature pathway will be largely unchanged.",4_2
"In ???The scandal of fiddled global warming data,?? Christopher Booker points out how one of the graphs of US surface temperature records published by NOAA, one of the worlds most influential climate records, has been ???shamelessly manipulated.??",5_2
"Open access to natural resource development. The next Administration should open all federal waters and federal lands that are not part of the national park system or congressionally designated areas to exploration and production for all of America's natural resources. Congress should require the Department of the Interior to conduct lease sales if a commercial interest exists whether for offshore oil or offshore wind. Congress should also force the Interior Department to use its flexibility under its current authority to attract interest to federal lands, such as streamlining of red tape or reducing royalties. Ideally, states should be given charge of managing resource development within their boundaries and off their shores.",0_0
"Because of the low photosynthetic efficiency and the competition of energy plants with food plants for agricultural land, we should not grow plants for biofuel production. The growth of such energy plants will undoubtedly lead to an increase in food prices, which will predominantly hit poorer people.",4_4
Study of Gravity Exposes Weakness of Global Warming Theories,0_0
"Indian Drought of 1900-1/4 to 3 1/4 million die due to drought, starvation and disease",0_0
"Over at his blog, Thomas Fuller gives many reasons not to take at face value the claims that climate change contributed to the conflict in Syria. These include (in no order):",0_0
"Nicolas D. Loris, ""The Many Problems of the EPA's Clean Power Plan and Climate Regulations: A Primer,"" Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 3025, July 7, 2015, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2015/07/the-many-problems-of-the-epas-clean-power-plan-and-climate-regulations-a-primer.",0_0
This volume can be regarded as an observation-based response to the IPCC reports from the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climatic Change (NIPCC) .,0_0
"One reason we have been so unprepared for the past three winters has been the obsession of our government and other authorities with global warming. They kept listening to climate change campaigners warning that Britain will heat up four or five degrees and believed we would never have cold weather again. 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. -?Ross Clark, Daily Express, 3 December 2010",0_0
"Mumby and Harborne's findings suggest that marine reserves can indeed ""build coral resilience and offset the effects of global climate change."" And they also suggest that were it not for the site-specific deleterious effects of humanity on reef environments, this would likely be the case nearly everywhere, which in turn suggests that the local environmental impacts of man are what are harming earth's corals, and not the more speculative global impacts that the world's climate alarmists typically blame on anthropogenic CO 2 emissions. Reviewed 31 March 2010",3_2
"At the same time, Santorum was leveling similar attacks at Romney, who supported carbon reductions when he was governor, before changing course to oppose the 10-state cap-and-trade program called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.",0_0
"So the fact that individuals are voluntarily sending money to pay for the Forest Service to plant tress (and other stuff) is proof of a plan to sell off all government-owned land. That's some tortured logic worthy of Moonbat himself. All of this, however, is strictly academic, since we all know that even if we were facing a future of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change, carbon sinks wouldn't do any good anyway. Take it from the journal Nature:",0_0
"As the table shows, there is no clear-cut answer as to what is happening to sea levels in the Pacific. If we average the data, we get a sea level fall of -11.2 mm/yr., but this still tells us almost nothing and has little meaning to an island such as Tonga, which is experiencing sea level rise. Given the large differences in sea level change it's difficult to know what is going on (www.vision.net.au/~daly).",1_6
Poll Finds Party Polarization on Global Warming,0_0
Wal-Mart teams up with labor unions to launch a new health care program for workers.,0_0
"Contrary to what you may have heard, both of those huge ice sheets are growing.",1_1
"Mazzarella and Scafetta say their findings and analysis indicate that ""the global climate likely presents a ~60-year oscillation since at least 1700,"" and that ""this natural oscillation was in its warm phase during the period 1970-2000 and has likely largely contributed to the global warming during this period,"" which finding, in their words, ""confirms a quasi 60-year cycle in the climate system that further confirms the result of Loehle and Scafetta (2011),"" i.e., that ""the climate models used by the IPCC have significantly overestimated the anthropogenic effect on climate since 1950 by three to four times."" And we also note, in this regard, that the several real-world or ""natural"" experiments of Idso (1998) suggest that even the anthropogenic-induced warming component of Loehle and Scafetta is likely too large. What it means",2_1
"This value is very important for calculating the amount of energy that the carbon dioxide absorbs and emits each second. Given the specific heat capacity of the carbon dioxide at its current density and temperature, which is of the order of ~871 J/Kg K, the carbon dioxide is not the cause of any change of the Earths climate.",2_3
Odd couple: Will Dow Chemical and Ed Markey's opposition to natural gas exports cripple America's energy advantage?,0_0
"What the pessimists missed, however, was the successful launch last Friday of United Launch Alliance's Atlas V booster, carrying a GPS satellite into orbit the fiftieth such successful launch and powered by the same kind of seventies-era RD-180 engine that blew up on the Orbital Science platform.",0_0
"I warned at the start of the post that wed see the usual Mannian debating trick. B-C said that the Mannian method was ""susceptible"" to nonsense regressors, a view that I share. Watch the pea under the thimble. Mann re-states this as being ""necessarily"" and then tries to show a situation where the problem doesnt occur thereby supposedly refuting the original claim.",0_0
"So imagine how completely flabbergasted I am when I hear nonsense about co2 and causing global warming and Irene is a product of that, , when in a 2 year stretch, 1954-1955 6 hurricanes, affected N Carolinas with at least hurricane conditions and 8 in a 7 year stretch from 1954-1960. And cat 2 or greater in New England with a sideswipe to the west from the great Hazel in 1954, and then Donna in 1960, a storm that gave hurricane force winds to every state on the east coast.",1_7
"Attending Heartland's Fourth International Conference were seventy-three distinguished scientists, economists, and policy experts from twenty-three countries. The speakers were all united in thought that the time is now to reconsider the science and economics of global warming. New scientific discoveries cast doubt on how much of the warming during the twentieth century was man-caused, and how much was due to natural causes. Governments around the world have begun to recognize the astronomical cost of reducing emissions, and how the cost of slowing or stopping global warming might exceed the societal benefits. Even so, not all seventy-three of the invited guests agreed on the causes, extent, or the consequences of climate change.",0_0
"About 2/3 of the Americans, including John Kerry and Oliver Stone , believe that there is some deeper story behind the murder than a lone gunman named Lee Harvey Oswald. Holy crap. Why are they doing it? I have already mentioned that they probably want to ""restore some order"", to save their (incorrect) assumption that famous men may only be killed by other famous men or their collectives.",0_0
"Twitter / billmckibben: Quite a large, actually a truly",0_0
"EPA Offers Draconian ""Guidance"" for Global Warming Energy Restrictions",0_0
"By Donn Dears, Power For USA, Aug 11, 2015",0_0
"He understands that there are risks to over-reacting, because wealthier societies are safer societies, and radical climate policy can threaten that wealth; and",0_0
"The Green Jobs conceit goes like this: the government should offer tax credits and impose regulations that lead businesses to implement environmentally-friendly practices. This will create jobs doing what's needed to qualify for the credits or comply with the regulations. Most importantly, carbon regulation (most likely in the form of Cap and Trade) will lead to investments in technology that reduces carbon emissions.",0_0
"EXAMPLE: WHY DIDNT THE CONSENSUS OF REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS PREDICT TIMING, EXTENT AND DURATION OF THE CALIFORNIA DROUGHT?",5_1
"??They are obviously tuttorecchi to know who can deal better than me, than you will reduce global temperature in 2020 thanks to 20-20-20. Lomborg also on Sole24Ore recently spoke of hundredths of a degree, in 2100.",4_2
I would like to weigh in or maybe kick the door down.,0_0
"At -67 degrees, the pro is concerned about damage to the greens.",0_0
"The attachment was a polite rejection of our paper. Included were the complete reviews. Although some of the points in the reviews were, in fact, addressed in our paper, we thought it advisable to respond to the reviews in detail, and to revise our paper in order to clarify matters. It was, however, clear, that the revised paper would no longer satisfy the space constraints of PNAS ? especially since the reviewers made clear that important material should not be relegated to ?supplementary material?.",0_0
"By Dan Murtaugh, Bloomberg, Aug 12, 2015",0_0
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"He replied, soaking it all up. In a bold twist reminiscent of Soviet psychologists, he called the skeptics bullies and the attacks orchestrated:",0_0
"Automobile designers have long recognized ethanol's potential as motor vehicle fuel. The first American internal combustion prototype made by Samuel Morey in 1826 ran on ethanol, and it remained the dominant automotive fuel until 1908, when a combination of rapidly dropping gasoline prices and rapidly increasing ethanol prices led the Ford Motor Company to introduce the Model T, an early ""flex-fuel"" vehicle that could use either gasoline or ethanol. Gasoline/ethanol blends were used until the 1920s in the United States and the 1930s in Europe but were finally replaced by gasoline with lead additives, which was discovered to stop engine knocking. Ethanol blends were essentially off the market by 1940.",0_0
"Only 7000 years ago the earth was warmer, a lot warmer. In fact it was enough warmer that TREES WERE GROWING OLD WHERE GLACIERS NOW LAY!!!!. When you first read most warming in 7000 years, it is shocking, . . . but taken in context it means that the Earth WITH NO PEOPLE MAKING CO2 will still MELT THE DAMN GLACIERS! They say Historic minimum, but melting of ice clearly happens naturally.",2_1
"Actually the arctic ice is very 3rd highest level since 2002, very close to 2003, in a virtual tie to last winter and the highest year according to IARC-JAXA . The anomaly is a relatively small 300,000 square km according to The Cryosphere Today.",1_1
"And if the higher profits of koda depend on the salaries, well, it means that the salaries in koda should relatively go up while those in other parts of the VW Group should go down. The average wage in koda is 1.5 times higher than the average Czech salary, so it's a great employer, but it's still lower than in VW Germany. There is some evidence that this gap at least overstates the difference between VW and koda and the difference may already have the opposite sign than what we would have assumed for 2 decades.",0_0
"It is time to demand, unequivocally, that the warmies tell us exactly what would falsify the theory of AGW. And it is time to demand that the EPA Administrator answer that question under oath before Congress.",0_0
"One-fiftieth of a Celsius degree of warming forestalled is all that complete, global compliance with the Copenhagen Accord for an entire decade would achieve. Yet the cost of achieving this result an outcome so small that our instruments would not be able to measure it would run into trillions of dollars. Do your Treasury models demonstrate that this calculation is in any way erroneous? If they do, junk them.",4_2
"???he impact that emissions reduction efforts in the U.S. will have on global emissions totals???andby extension, global climate???is quickly diminishing.??",4_2
"From President Obama, in campaign rather than governing mode these days, we hear denunciations of Republicans for killing proposals for legalizing illegal immigrants.",0_0
"However, these actions are essential if the United States is to have an economic and employment revival, and poor, minority, and blue-collar families are to be protected from regulatory excess and unaccountable ruling elites.",0_0
This article appeared on Dr. Spencer's weblog at http://www.drroyspencer.com/,0_0
"on Thursday, December 16th, 2010 at 3:39 am and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
Bottom right: Adjustments from GISS-GHCN raw data. GISS-GHCN version minus 4 versions.,0_0
"Nicolas D. Loris, ""No More Energy Subsidies: Prevent the New, Repeal the Old,"" Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2587, July 26, 2011, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/07/no-more-energy-subsidies-prevent-the-new-repeal-the-old.",0_0
"The $800 per-household expenditure is merely the cost of building the transmission lines. Wind power is more expensive to produce than conventional power sources, so Texas consumers will also pay electricity premiums every year.",4_4
"In addition to traditional public service announcements, prominent green organizations have recently added the political attack ad to their public-relations portfolio. Indeed, environmentalists now run some of the most aggressive negative advertisements in the media business. It doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat; if you don't toe the green line, these advocacy groups will go for your political jugular.",0_0
"I recently had a post about why $5 per gallon gas would be good for America, because the higher the price and the longer gas stays expensive, the greater the conservation, and the greater the chance we'll someday see viable alternatives. In today's Washington Post, Robert Samuelson has an excellent, related article (""A Full Tank of Hypocrisy""):It's one of those delicious moments when Washington's hypocrisy is on full and unembarrassed display. On the one hand, some of America's leading politicians condemn high gasoline prices and contend that they stem from ""gouging"" by oil companies. On the other, many of the same politicians warn against global warming and implore us to curb our use of fossil fuels that emit carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas.",0_0
"However, thinking back upon the results from Santer et al., the same is probably is not entirely true for all of the climate model runs for the 1979-2010 time period. Almost certainly, the combination of random variability has added some amount of noise to the trend distribution even at time frames of 30 years or so.",0_0
"According to these results there wont be any significant global warming between now and 2100 provided my analysis is realistic. Is it? Well, its admittedly speculative. But then, so are the climate models the IPCC uses to make its official global warming predictions. And my models fit observations a lot better too.",5_1
"A Chinese icebreaker named Snow Dragon ( MV Xue Long ) was sent to liberate the Russian vessel. However, this Chinese boat can only penetrate through the ice that is about 1.5 meters thick ??? and the thickness is 3-4 meters at many places, as I have mentioned. So the Chinese gave it up two days ago ??? while being about 30 km from the Russian vessel.",1_1
"But the green technologies are not commercially viable to build without the subsidies, which will be paid for through levies on energy consumers bills.",4_4
"""The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian had already scheduled a day of events -- including the Indian Summer Showcase 2007, which appeared to be absorbed into ""Mother Earth - In the Spirit of the Live Earth Concerts.' There were already going to be performances, drum circles and spiritual/environmental speeches by tribal leaders. Al Gore and the Smithsonian's organizers just figured a way to add Gore's overtly political address and the Garth Brooks/Trisha Yearwood performance to an existing event.""",0_0
"The chart also clearly indicates that billions upon billions of human CO2 emissions have had little, if any, impact on global warming.",2_3
"Meanwhile, the population bomb has turned out to be a dud worldwide, as birthrates declined, and the real demographic problem, as Ben Wattenberg and Phillip Longman have pointed out, is population decline. Warren Buffett, who planned to leave his fortune to population controllers, wisely decided to leave it Bill and Melinda Gates to spend as they think best.",0_0
Australian National Universitys Geoff Cary said a projected lift in temperatures of more than 2C would probably mean much more bushfire activity across the country.,0_0
"Walking is not as difficult as I imagined. Every twenty steps I have to stop and pull the sleeping bags up over my legs again, but my feet stay warm. In ten minutes we meet another hiker. We must look like the Donner Party, but we tell him everything is okay and keep going. Between the mountain ridges there is a small draw. I slide down one slope, then struggle up the other. It is impossible to get traction. I have to crawl on my stomach. Dylan waits patiently at the top.",0_0
"Even the catastrophic scenarios painted by enthusiasts clash. In one extreme case, the Greenland ice sheet and much of the polar ice caps could melt, raising the global sea level by as much as 30 feet, inundating billions in coastal areas. (Keep in mind, though, that such a scenario would take decades to play out, unlike a tsunami.) But hold on: A variant of catastrophe theory holds that warming might cause the Greenland and polar ice sheets to thicken and bring on a new ice agethe scenario of the movie The Day After Tomorrow. Incidentally, the sea level would fall by several feet, creating new opportunities for beachfront development.",5_2
"With the Republicans now in charge come January, Murkowski will become the Chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. She is expected to start by ""holding hearings, pressuring Obama Administration officials, and testing the level of support from party leadership.""",0_0
"To put some perspective on this, here is what 7000 wind turbines across Northern Europe (between the North sea, the Baltic Sea and the Austrian-Swiss border) produced in 2004. You can admire the stable predictable output that comes from averaging so many turbines over such a large area. Right?",0_0
"Yeah, adding in fudge factors is definitely one way to make the numbers show whatever you'd like them to.",0_0
"Putin may not have an economy, and his power projection capability may be held together with chicken wire and spit, but the delusions of his opponents have always been his chief tools. European and American leadership since the end of the Cold War has been operating on the false belief that geopolitics had come to an end; they have doubled down on that delusion as geopolitics came roaring back in the Obama years. In the past, Europe was able to take ""holidays from history"" because the United States was keeping an eye on the big picture. But that hasn't been true in the Obama administration, and the juddering shocks of a destabilizing world order are the consequence of a foreign policy that isn't grounded in the hard facts of power.",0_0
"The Czech company has been doing some quality cars since the 19th century (founded as Laurin & Klement). It was bought by the non-car industrial giant koda Works, here in Pilsen, in the 1920s. The companies shared and keep on sharing the logo, the winged arrow , even though communism has de facto divided them again. The companies weren't reunited and VW bought the rights from koda Works to co-use the logo in 1991.",0_0
"Looking at the latest global temperature on Roy Spencers graph, I was struck how half the graph is warmer than the rest. Zealots usually pick on this and ask why have 9 out of the last 10 elections days been warmer than they were, or some other meaningless statistic.",5_2
"Above all, there is a striking contrast between the careful, measured, balanced tone of Roy Spencers facts, which I have summarized above, and the intemperate, hate-filled Gish gallop of cherry-picked citations, half-truths, and outright falsehoods of which Nuccitelli is yet again guilty.",0_0
"coordinating with organizers of an April conference in Germany (programme here, registration info here)",0_0
"Bao et al . next compared their record to other pluvial studies within and around their study region, of which they report ""similar fluctuation patterns of drought and pluvial intervals existed in several available tree-ring-based hydroclimatic reconstructions and ours."" And based on their record and this regional comparison, Bao et al . conclude that ""the recent drought events from late 1990 to the present are not unusual in the context of the past several centuries."" Once again, therefore, we have another reliable reconstruction that reveals there is nothing unusual, unnatural, or unprecedented about current (or past!) precipitation variability -- for either floods or droughts -- that would suggest a CO 2 -induced influence.",1_7
Interesting juxtaposition of news today record snowfalls at Falls Creek and the ACT GreenLabor Govt inflicting more mad taxes on us. While of course their incomes and super are indexed and paid for by you guessed it us poor sucker voters.,0_0
"After finding polar bear prints and scat they finally encounter one actual bear, an animal who appears half-starved and confused by the Greenlandic summer, which has rendered the fjords ice-free for a few weeks each year, for the first time in human memory. He has ransacked a remote cabin left behind by other explorers or scientists the only human structure we see in this entire film eaten the entire cache of canned foods and chocolate bars, and left behind a potent stench of polar-bear urine and excrement. If its possible to read the moods of a wild animal, this one seems both bewildered and enraged; its almost as if he understands on some instinctive level that the creatures who left this building and its peculiar treats behind are also responsible for his predicament.",0_0
"One of the more difficult concepts is RegEM, an algorithm developed by Tapio Schneider in 2001 . Its a form of expectation maximization (EM) which is a common and well understood method for infilling missing data. As weve previously noted on WUWT, many of the weather stations used in the Steig et al study had issues with being buried by snow , causing significant data gaps in the Antarctic record and in some burial cases stations have been accidentally lost or confused with others at different lat/lons. Then of course there is the problem of coming up with trends for the entire Antarctic continent when most of the weather station data is from the periphery and the penisula, with very little data from the interior.",5_1
"Queen's University Belfast has data on tree rings that goes back millennia, in particular, to the Medieval Warm Period. QUB researchers have not analyzed the data (because they lack the expertise to do so). They also refuse to release the data. I have been trying to obtain the data, via the UK Freedom of Information Act, since April 2007. The story is scandalous. In light of all the slander going around, maybe I should add this: I used to do mathematical research and financial trading on Wall Street and in the City of London; since 1995, I have been studying independently (for more details, please see my web site); I have received no payment of any kind from any entity for any work that I have done since 1995. Douglas J. Keenan",5_2
"The expedition vessel was hired by a group of global warming scientists, says Craig Rucker at CFact.",0_0
"This economy needs stimulus. Taxing and spending are anti-stimulantsand so is regulating. The administration's fiscal ""stimulus"" amounts to taking money out of the economy and putting it back in. That is like ladling water out of the deep end of a pool only to pour it back in at the shallow endall the while paying somebody to make the pointless transfer.",0_0
Australias antarctic runway melting | The Wagin Argus,0_0
"Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! It's cooling, not warming.",0_0
How the Hadley Centre spins the data on non-warming,5_2
""" The most obvious way for warming to be caused naturally is for small, natural fluctuations in the circulation patterns of the atmosphere and ocean to result in a 1% or 2% decrease in global cloud cover. Clouds are the Earths sunshade, and if cloud cover changes for any reason, you have global warming or global cooling .""",2_1
"However, many people involved with the U.S. research program are involved closely with the IPCC process, and a reciprocal influence is to be expected. A genuinely independent climate assessment process would need to build from the ground up, recruiting a team wholly independent of the IPCC's personnel, and funded adequately to conduct original research, computer modeling, and consultations on a scale similar to the IPCC. Congress might consider earmarking a portion of current climate science appropriations for a competitive effort, perhaps in collaboration with Australia, Russia, Italy, Japan, and other nations that have expressed reservations about the Kyoto process.",0_0
"Thus, the price of oil, which is responsible for about 40 percent of the price we see at the pumps, is largely outside of government control. On the other hand, a good chunk of the other 60 percent can be reduced. The most obvious target is taxes, including the 18.4 cents per gallon federal excise tax, as well as state and local taxes averaging 24 cents per gallon.",0_0
"Advantages: Least effort. Readers will notice that back in January, when I first began using data, I would use only one data set: GISSTemp. This choice was dictated by pure laziness. I was interested in getting up to speed and gaining familiarity with available data sets and the literature.",0_0
"In contrast, records of CO2 and temperature reveal no discernable warming effect of CO2. There is a correlation between atmospheric CO2 and temperature, but with CO2 changes following temperature changes by an average of about 800 years (Caillon 2003 ), indicating that it is temperature change that is driving atmospheric CO2 change (as it should, since warming oceans are able to hold less CO2). This does not rule out the possibility that CO2 also drives temperature, and in theory a doubling of CO2 should cause about a 1 degree increase in temperature before any feedback effects are accounted, but feedbacks could be negative (dampening rather than amplifying temperature forcings), so there no reason, just from what we know about the greenhouse mechanism, that CO2 has to be a significant player. The one thing we can say is that whatever the warming effect of CO2, it is not detectable in the raw CO2 vs. temperature data.",2_3
"UN IPCC 2001 report: ""Milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms' IPCC Third Assessment Report ? Climate Change 2001",0_0
"support is vital to keep pressure on Iran in between attempts at negotiation,",0_0
The project?s purpose is as ambitious as sending men to the moon once was: to foster the development of a global energy system with significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions and provide abundant and efficient energy for a world population projected to increase by some 21 percent in the next two decades.,0_0
"2) Regardless of whether it's getting hotter or colder ""or both ""we are going to need to produce a lot more energy in order to remain productive and comfortable.",0_0
"They are using high-pressure pumps from Nottinghamshire to fight a woodyard blaze, more than 48 hours after a pile of wood chippings caught fire , and are pumping water almost four miles from Harden reservoir at Hade Edge.",0_0
"The most intense hurricane in US history occurred in 1935, and seven of the ten most intense hurricanes occurred below 350 ppm. It has been seven years since a major hurricane hit the US the longest period on record.",1_7
"After lamenting that, since his visit to the 2009 Copenhagen UN conference on climate change, President Obama has failed to mention global warming every day, Rosenthal wrote But two years later, now that nearly every other nation accepts climate change as a pressing problem, America has turned agnostic on the issue.",0_0
"???The results of the study indicated that a temperature increase of up to 2C could be advantageous for growth of some species of tropical plants, such as Stylosanthes capitata Vogel ,?? Martinez stated.",3_2
"Errors arise when we think about jobs on a gross basis, not a net one. Green programs do create jobs in certain fields, like makers of solar panels and providers of energy audits. Home Depot's CEO attended the jobs summit to push for more tax credits for products like insulation and energy-efficient windows-because these create jobs (and profits) at Home Depot. Many participants in the Green Jobs session argued that quick implementation of Cap and Trade was necessary to create jobs, because businesses won't invest in the green technologies they produce until they know what it will cost to emit carbon.",0_0
"First up, a common misconception in the climate debate is that radiation from a cold body (e.g. the -18C atmosphere) can warm a hot body (e.g. the +15C Earth surface) just because the cold body does indeed send very-low-energy photons to the hot body. Heat transfer (not radiation) from cold to hot is forbidden by the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics on a macro basis, and by the Pauli Exclusion Principle of fundamental quantum theory on an atomic and molecular basis.",2_3
"Twenty years ago, Mark Simpson walked out of Britain's first style exhibition laser-beamed at menGQ had sponsored ""It's a Man's World""and, on the evidence of the stockpiled face creams and the tailored Armani suits, declared that the age of Metrosexual Man had arrived. (""I'd seen the future, and it was moisturized,"" Simpson reminisces.) Men were finally set free to be vain, to trumpet with perfumed pride that both fellow men and women admirers be damned; nothing would come between themselves and their reflection.",0_0
"Molly: Well, it recognizes that the world is now dangerously overcrowded. Did you know there are now about 1 trillion of us? Experts at United Forests say we are now at the carrying capacity of the Earth. Each year billions of us die just due to overcrowding and competition for natural resources.",0_0
"Scientists can calculate how much energy is added to the atmosphere by increases in greenhouse gases. Then, using sophisticated computer models, they attempt to simulate how the climate responds to the added energy. But no one knows how to calculate correctly the climate's response to the added energy. Two of the many questions in this regard are the impacts of water vapor and clouds in the climate response. Scientists need to learn more about whether changes in atmospheric water vapor and clouds amplify or diminish the effects of human-made greenhouse gases on the earth's climate.",0_0
"in the U.S. there has been little temperature change in the past 50 years, the time of rapidly increasing greenhouse gases in fact, there was a slight cooling throughout much of the country (Figure 2).",1_4
Carpe Climate: Senate GOP seizes power from Obama by controlling confirmation of EPA political appointees,0_0
"With respect to the current and future health of Earths coral reefs, McClanahan et al . (2009) note that Jones et al . (2004) have argued that climate overrides and undermines local resource use and management, and they say that Aronson and Precht (2006) have thus further argued that this position emphasizes the need for management of the atmosphere at the global scale, if we are to preserve the planets corals.",0_0
"The reconstruction of past temperatures is a science unto itself, and the library contains many journals dedicated to the field. We could easily locate an article a week presenting a temperature reconstruction from some part of the planet that would call into question the notion that the 20th century was a period of unusual warmth. You may recall many essays we presented over the past five years examining the hockey stick depiction of planetary temperature (little change for 900 years, and suddenly 100 years ago, the temperature shot up) so merrily adopted by Gore and many others.",0_0
"Last March, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that he would convene a ""blue-ribbon panel to develop a long-term strategy that must include the waste disposal plan"" as a way to compensate for abandoning Yucca Mountain. ""I don't want to suggest what this blue-ribbon panel might determine, but let me stress this will be done this year,"" Chu told a Senate committee. Much like Obama's promise to close Guantanamo Bay within one year, that hasn't happened. No blue-ribbon panel has been convened, and waste policy is in disarray. This threatens the viability of nearly two dozen proposed commercial nuclear reactors that are on the drawing boards. It also leaves taxpayers exposed to tens of billions of dollars in liabilities to electric utilities, which have shouldered the burden of dealing with nuclear waste for years while the feds have been collecting a surcharge from ratepayers.",0_0
"The May-June 2010 issue of The Heartlander opens with Heartland President Joseph Bast's comments on old media and new media. Heartland's Fourth International Conference on Climate Change attracted little old media coverage, a fact that speaks ""volumes about what's wrong with old media,"" Bast writes.Also in this issue:a lengthy wrap-up of proceedings at the Fourth International Conference on Climate Change;information about Heartland's 26th anniversary benefit dinner and sixth Emerging Issues Forum, both scheduled for Thursday, September 16;news of Heartland's latest online effort, The Freedom Pub, where liberty's on tap; andupdates on our public relations and government relations work on budget and tax policy, environment, health care, information technology and telecommunications, school reform, lawsuit abuse, and finance, insurance, and real estate",0_0
"It's easy for many of us in the western world to accept a tiny green inconvenience and then wallow in that righteous feeling, surrounded by our ""clean"" technology and energy that is only slightly more expensive if adequately subsidized.",0_0
This post is available in pdf form here . Its only 1.2MB so you could email copies to your friends who are proponents of manmade global warmingand to your skeptical friends as well.,0_0
"Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades. . . . A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.",0_0
"on Tuesday, January 11th, 2011 at 9:19 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Although Smiths research establishes a natural frequency of vacancy rates, it still doesnt tell us why a site became vacant. In Beevers 2003 paper, the seven extinct sites he attributed to climate change had other more plausible explanations. One site had half of the talus removed for road maintenance, another site had become a dump site, and a third site had scattered shotgun shells throughout the talus.",0_0
"One-third of Mans entire influence on climate since the Industrial Revolution has occurred since January 1997. Yet for 224 months since then there has been no global warming at all (Fig. 1). With this months RSS temperature record, the Pause sets a new record at 18 years 8 months.",1_4
"These costs are small in comparison to the economic damage that could result from reduced use of carbon fuels and the high cost of noncarbon substitutes, such as solar and wind power.",4_1
"This sentiment is particularly strong among recent immigrants. One way to show your devotion to your new country is to revere its symbols and institutions, and for the working class the military is perhaps the most accessible institution of all. Hispanics in particular enlist in the military, and it is no surprise that Republican presidential candidates who are strongly supportive of the military, like Reagan and George W. Bush, have fared best among Hispanic voters in the last 45 years.",0_0
"Why, such a thing is hard to believe; (link fixed!) ...the UKs General Medical Council has found that Andrew Wakefield the founder of the modern antivaccination movement acted ""dishonestly and irresponsibly"" when doing the research that led him to conclude that vaccinations were linked with autism. Despite this and other sarcastic headlines, I'm not suggesting all scientists are unethical and/or incompetent. But I do believe peer review systems (not to mention, hiring standards) are failing us when those who engage in political activism are permitted to even remain within the walls of research institutions. I was going to write that the bullying, obfuscation, data manipulation, public activism (and shoddy science journalism ) we've witnessed in the name of ""climate"" research is just the tip of the iceberg , but that's not quite accurate. It's more like a template.",5_2
"I'd like to say thank you to the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). Thanks for all the effective actions and the courageous stands that you've taken in the fight to protect freedom. Thanks to all of you who have supported CEI with your effort, time, and money. And I'd like to say a special thank you to Bill and Hillary Clinton.",0_0
"Apparently, global warming is now irreversible. Or, at least, it is if you don't consider any of the policy options that might, you know, reverse it. As Roger Pielke Jr points out, the study didn't examine the potential for geoengineering:",0_0
"Although the observed effects were generally positive, they were decidedly less large, rapid, extensive, and uniformly positive than those reported for the GBR . All of them also involved areas subject to much greater fishing pressure than the GBR. One might reasonably expect that increased protection for the least impacted areas would result in a less marked beneficial effect rather than the much more widespread rapid and dramatic benefits claimed by McCook et al.",0_0
"The Amazon River drainage basin alone supports about 5,000 kinds of fishes, nearly equal to all those in the Atlantic Ocean, while little Panama boasts as many plant species as the entire continent of Europe."" (Richard Nalley, Science Digest, p.56)",0_0
"I am personally keeping close watch on the seismic activity in the area and if I see anything ominous Ill let you know. As soon as I finish packing and driving about 2,000 miles to the south of here.",0_0
"Provoked Scientists Try To Explain Global Warming Standstill The hunt for this missing energy, and the search for the mechanisms, both natural and artificial, that caused the temperature hiatus are, in many ways, a window into climate science itself. Beneath the sheen of consensus stating that human emissions are forcing warmer temperatures a notion no scientist interviewed for this story doubts there are deep uncertainties of how quickly this rise will occur, and how much air pollution has so far prevented this warming. Many question whether energy is missing at all.",1_4
"Last week, at the World Federation of Scientists annual seminar on planetary emergencies in Sicily, I heard presentations from several researchers each using different methods showing that the warming from doubling atmospheric CO2 concentration will be just 1 C, not the 3.3 C the IPCC imagines.",3_1
"Franke and Clemmesen conclude that ""herring eggs can cope at current temperature conditions with an increase in CO 2 ,"" even one ""exceeding future predictions of CO 2 -driven ocean acidification."" References",3_2
"It's not us : This is a surprisingly basic and general point to appear on the 80th place. As ""proofs"" that it's us, Cook mentions satellite-measured energy flows and the stratosphere cooling. However, the latter is a general by-product of any near-surface warming, so it says nothing whatsoever about ""us"". To see whether the warming is due to the greenhouse effect, we need to look at more specific ""fingerprints"" of the greenhouse effect, namely the warming in the tropical mid troposphere where the greenhouse theory predicts the fastest warming trend. And according to the observations, it doesn't work at all: when the relevant criteria of the type Cook mentions are used correctly, science clearly says that it's not us. The energy flows disagree between the observations and the greenhouse-dominated models, too: see Lindzen Choi 2009. Again, it's not us. Cook's arguments are complete bogus.",2_3
"Bangladesh is awash with climate adaptation projects. But I am left wondering: what makes for success? And how do you know when you see it? In the capital Dhaka, I track down Bangladeshi scientist Saleemul Huq, leading climate adaptation expert, and author for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IP CC).",0_0
"In particular, what is it telling us about the social status and perceived authority of scientific claims about climate change?",0_0
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"Complete with interactive chart - This series of four articles will address the problem by digging into the details of the protest, the people and organisations working behind the scenes, and by deconstructing some of the bovine excrement being fed to the public. After several weeks of investigation it's become clear that everything is not what it looks like on the surface- despite the protest's grassroots appearance, there are many well-funded organizations working in the background.",0_0
"This problem is only the tip of the iceberg with NCDC data. ""For one thing, it is clear that comparing data from previous years, when the final figure was produced by averaging a large number of temperatures, with those of later years, produced from a small temperature base and the grid method, is like comparing apples and oranges,"" says Smith. ""When the differences between the warmest year in history and the tenth warmest year is less than three-quarters of a degree, it becomes silly to rely on such comparisons,"" added D'Aleo, who asserts that the data manipulation is ""scientific travesty"" that was committed by activist scientists to advance the global warming agenda.",0_0
"Several weeks after the news of the EPA report hit the press, the administration convened an Earth Observation System summit in Washington. More than thirty nations agreed to undertake a cooperative effort to collect better environmental monitoring data, including precise global weather data that may help refine climate change projections. The data they will gather may be extraordinarily usefulbut their value is limited if neither the public nor the policymakers involved understand why we actually need this information.",0_0
"Im guessing Manne has never spoken to a real skeptic, at least not for long. Only someone who studies skeptics through the DeSmog portal could define denialists as orthodox members of a tightly knit group whose natural disposition is not to think for themselves.",0_0
"Reid Bryson , emeritus professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison : Its absurd. Of course its going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because were coming out of the Little Ice Age , not because were putting more carbon dioxide into the air.",2_1
"The strange part is, when you open a barrel of un conventional oil to see what conventions were broken in its creation, you find it is indistinguishable from conventional oil.",0_0
"You could think that things are different on the gravitational side. You may measure whether the topology of the spacetime is one of a wormhole; or a topologically trivial one. However, as I mentioned many times (as a half-pedagogic, half-research contribution of mine), this is not the case. One actually can't define observables (linear operators) for the spacetime topology.",0_0
"Here??s the bottom line: ???Yes?? other forms of warming (under extreme circumstances) could cause the hot-spot according to the models. But it isn??t there, the models are still wrong. Just compare the models with reality.",2_3
12d. How well do atmospheric models deal with the influence of clouds,0_0
"8.Mandatory reductions in CO 2 emissions, pursued to prevent dangerous global warming, would have little or no discernible impact on global temperatures, but would greatly increase the price of energy and therefore of everything else. Such policies would put more people at greater risk than the warming they are intended to prevent, because they would slow, stop, or even reverse the economic growth that enables people to adapt to all climates. They would also harm the poor more than the wealthy, and would harm them more than the small amount of warming they might prevent.",4_1
Obama Fail Deny Blame Golf Distract.Lie Repeat Bumper Sticker from Zazzle.com,0_0
"First, let?s review the global average temperature, both at the surface, and in the lower atmosphere since 1979?the year that satellite observations of the temperature from the lower atmosphere become reliably available, and pretty near the beginning of the second warming episode of the 20th century.",0_0
"For all we know, there is a wholly separate universe, a material world coexisting with everything we can touch and see, with a lot more mass than ours, and getting by without much interaction with our material world, apart from gravity perhaps.",0_0
"Remember these scientists and politicians just got on the world stage and literally screamed at the world that, if we dont let them tax us hundreds of billions of dollars and send it to small generally communist, undeveloped countries , the world will die. As an ignorant conservative, you couldnt get me to do that except by gunpoint. Of all things we know, we know the solution presented, was a FAKE!",0_0
"Botkin, D. B., D. A. Woodby, and R. A. Nisbet, 1991, Kirtland?s Warbler Habitats: A Possible Early Indicator of Climatic Warming, Biological Conservation 56 (1): 63-78.",0_0
"The administration argues that the acid rain program has reduced emissions below the required regulatory cap and has done so at very low cost, about $100 per ton of SO2 reduced. According to the brief, however, economists have estimated that the true cost of the acid rain program has been about $187 to $210 per ton. Moreover, the program is supposed to reduce total emissions to 9 million tons by 2002. That goal will not be reached until between 2005 and 2012, according to economists at MIT.",0_0
"What's more, asserting that intellectual opponents in the climate fight are industry stooges is a timeworn tactic. But what's comical about Grantham's assertion is he conveniently omits his own role in supporting organizations to push his preferred views on climate. These include the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics. According to the Institute's website, it was ""established in May 2008 through a generous 12 million donation from the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, and works closely with the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London, which was launched in February 2007.""",0_0
"The reason why this is the case appears to be that the negative phase of the PDO also favors longwave low pressure troughs over the U.S. The following regional correlation plot between the negative of the PDO and temperature shows this quite clearly, with a very cool West and somewhat warm South and Southeast:",0_0
"I lived in the Midwest all of my youth and into my 30s, except for one year of internship in New York at Harlem Hospital, a great experience at 135th and Lenox.",0_0
"Climate Crisis, Inc., jealously guards this power and money train. The IPCC, the EPA, and NOAA spend billions in tax dollars to publish horror stories about runaway temperatures and looming disasters. Mike Mann sues anyone who disparages him or his work. Sheldon Whitehouse and Jagedish Shukla demand that anyone who disputes manmade disaster claims be prosecuted for ""climate denial.""",5_2
"The Wild Jet Stream (Mini-Ice-Age) era we are now in has nothing whatsoever to do with CO2, says astrophysicist and forecaster Piers Corbyn.",1_2
"...this British cartoonist tries to explain why the members of his association voted the ""Sharon eating Palestinian babies"" editorial cartoon the best of the year. The interviewer asked him why no one draws the same sort of thing about Arafat. ""Because Jews don't issue fatwas,"" he says, sheepishly.",0_0
"Now the farm lobby is hitting back. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Colin Peterson exploded in a hearing in late May, declaring the EPA is going to ""kill"" the ethanol industry.",0_0
"Al Gore for less than a Euro. Fine with me. It's been a while since someone mentioned that movie. Incidentally, yesterday, I friend told me that when her daughter had to watch it in class, she gave her a list with the ten worst fallacies in the movie. To her surprise, the public school teacher copied it and distributed for the following discussion.",0_0
"Regarding Podesta's role, The Hill reports: it's ""likely to include administration decisions about how to lease out federal lands and which energy development and mining projects to permit."" It also cites Jay Carney as saying: ""Podesta will help implement ""executive actions where necessary when we can't get cooperation out of Congress.'"" And the article states: ""Officials and outside energy groups are particularly optimistic he'll be able to advance the administration's environmental agenda through administrative policy."" According to the New Yorker, Podesta believes that Obama needs ""to be expansive in his use of executive power.""",0_0
"Articles | Kayaker bids for Pole failure - ITV News An environmentalist is aiming to become the first person to kayak to the North Pole - but hopes the expedition will fail. Lewis Pugh - who has previously braved temperatures of -1.7C to swim in the Arctic ocean - wants to show how cracks in the ice have now made the route from teh Norwegian island of Spitsbergen possible. The 38-year-old said: ""Scientists predict that this is the first year that the North Pole will be ice-free. I hope I fail. ""I hope I don't get all the way there, because that means the scientists are right. This expedition is only possible because of climate change and I will see that up close."" ... Sam Branson, son of Sir Richard Branson, will join Mr Pugh on the journey and write a blog. This is the same guy whose fingers were numb for ""several months "" after swimming at the North Pole last year. Note that it's not even rare for the North Pole to be ice-free.",0_0
Summer cyclone chewing up Canadas Arctic sea ice,0_0
"In the words of the authors of this study, ???our findings suggest that diverse grasslands throughout the globe have the potential to be resilient to drought in the face of climate change through the local expansion of drought-tolerant species,?? which is good news for the future of grasslands worldwide?? Read More",3_2
"Yes, there will be competition for those resources, but since when is competition an automatic negative for the USA?",0_0
"In fact, the US government alone spent over $106 billion in taxpayer funds on alarmist climate research between 2003 and 2010. In return, the researchers refuse to let other scientists, IPCC reviewers or FOIA investigators see their raw data, computer codes or CO2-driven algorithms. The modelers and scientists claim the information is private property, even though taxpayers paid for the work and the results are used to justify energy, job and economy-killing policies and regulations. Uncle Sam spends billions more every year on renewable energy programs that raise energy prices, cost jobs and reduce living standards.",5_2
"Figure 1. Log likelihood for MSU Tropical T2LT, with various autocorrelation models. Note: y-axis should be labelled as |z|.",0_0
lowering of Stevenson screen from 2.2 m to 1.5 m (June 1961).,0_0
EPA Coal Rule Skirts Law: 10 Percent of Comments from Obamas OFA,0_0
"The question remains is whether or not the White House will approve the bill, though spokesman Josh Earnest hinted at an Obama vetowhich would further anger his union supporters that have pushed for its passage for the past six years. If the president vetoes what many are calling the Save Mary Landrieu Act, all is not lost for the Keystone pipeline.",0_0
"Perhaps they refer to periods mentioned by the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in an information leaflet that was available on their pre-climategate web site, where they acknowledged earlier warm periods in the Central England Temperature record, but didnt explain the lack of a CO 2 link. However that would produce difficulties for the theory, so maybe not. One wonders what time period the 76 specialists out 79 thought they were answering yes to.",0_0
"It is a moral imperative to keep the power flowing. If our forefathers a century ago had worried about the side effects of using all that energy and set in place restrictions to stop it, millions -- no, billions -- would have suffered as a result. 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.",4_1
"If even such nonsense models score that high the reported 51% of validation RE of MBH98 are not very meaningful. The low CE and R2 values moreover point to a weakness in predicting the shorter time scales. Therefore, the reconstruction skill needs a re-assessment, also on the background of the McIntyre and McKitrick, 2005b claim that it is not even significantly nonzero.",5_1
"I said at that time that this claimed accuracy, somewhere around five thousandths of a degree (0.005C), was well highly unlikely.",5_1
Well! I guess there's something to be said for predictability!,0_0
"""In an unrecorded voice vote, the House of Representatives voted down a proposed amendment to keep people who lied on their loan applications from receiving federal bailout money. The vote was unrecorded so that liberal lawmakers in conservative districts (who camouflage themselves as supposedly-conservative ""Blue Dog' Democrats) could hide their vote from their constituents. The stimulus package funds groups like ACORN, which helped spawn the mortgage crisis by promoting ""liar loans,' and which has an extensive history of financial fraud and vote fraud.""",0_0
"The glitter of the Nobel overshadows the inconvenient news reported last week that a British court of law labeled Gore's movie as partisan political propaganda, pointing out 11 different errors of fact or scientific judgment, and prohibiting its screening in British public schools without a disclaimer of these defects. The Nobel will be one more quiver in Gore's arsenal of intransigent moral authority by which he refuses to debate any aspect of the subject and declares the entire matter ""settled."" It's never a good sign when politicians declare a scientific matter settled; we all remember how well that worked out for the Vatican when they told Galileo 400 years ago that astronomy was settled. It is even more problematic to suggest that climate change is not a political issue, but a moral issue, but then to demand massive political interventions in the economy to fix the problem.",5_2
Id really like to see Al Gore sitting down on that rug with those kids. He might learn something.,0_0
"The answer to #2 is probably yes, though the amount is in some doubt, but everyone (even the IPCC) agrees it is probably less than a degree per century.",0_0
I know what my environmentalist friends are saying: they're already accusing me of allowing mercury going into the air so today I would like to remind them that it was Republicans who first put forth a real plan to reduce mercury emissions from power plants.,0_0
"This comment is divided into two main parts. The first part addresses the scientific basis of the Endangerment Proposal as discussed in EPA's proposed rule and the related Technical Support Document (TSD). The second part addresses the legal basis and regulatory implications of the Endangerment Proposal, drawing upon EPA's July 2008 Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Regulating Greenhouse Gases under the Clean Air Act.",0_0
The 2014/15 El Nio Part 10 June 2014 Update Still Waiting for the Feedbacks,0_0
"The hits just keep coming... The number of bears along the western shore of Hudson Bay, believed to be among the most threatened bear subpopulations, stands at 1,013 and could be even higher, according to the results of an aerial survey released Wednesday by the Government of Nunavut. Thats 66 per cent higher than estimates by other researchers who forecasted the numbers would fall to as low as 610 because of warming temperatures that melt ice faster and ruin bears ability to hunt. The Hudson Bay region, which straddles Nunavut and Manitoba, is critical because its considered a bellwether for how polar bears are doing elsewhere in the Arctic. h/t Glenn",3_2
"SM: John McCain's policies have become schizophrenic. Six years ago, McCain was a solid, fiscal conservative. But he really has changed. It's been a complete metamorphosis, and it's been extremely discouraging. John McCain is viewed by many as a great American hero. He had a strong following behind him. But, his recent voting behavior is bizarre, to say the least. I can't explain his motivations, for why he was only one of two Republicans in the entire Congress to vote against the tax cut. Part of it might be because he has such a hatred of George W. Bush. Part of it may be that he sees this as the kind of way of setting up a center path to the White House if he wants to run as an independent in 2004. So, I think his motivations were mostly personal. Hopefully he doesn't believe the types of things he was saying, like this would only help rich people. You could transplant Tom Daschle's name on his speech. The two of them were saying exactly the same thing.",0_0
"On Sunday, February 17, the Sierra Club and other NGOs will lead what they are billing as ""the world's largest ever climate rally.'",0_0
"""Five questions on the Army and the Fort Hood shooter""",0_0
Increase of Carbon Dioxide is thus wholly beneficial to the environment There is no evidence that it causes harm.,3_3
"More important from a libertarian-Republican perspective, none of the deep-blue-state governors was a model of the libertarian fiscal policy preferred by Paul and his backers. Romney pushed through Romneycare; Schwarzenegger turned to the left after two years in office, going so far as to hire the former executive director of the state's Democratic party to be his chief of staff. Pataki, Romney, Schwarzenegger, and others championed regional greenhouse-gas-limitation pacts to combat global warming. None cut government by anywhere near as much as Senator Paul suggests in his proposed budget.",0_0
Temperatures are expected to be several degrees colder than usual for the rest of the week and dropping each day.,1_3
"Tempers run high at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.",0_0
"In the 1990 report, it was estimated that future global warming, at least until the end of the next century, would run about three-tenths of a C per decade. In 1992, they came out with an interim report and basically said there was really no new science that would substantially change the 1990 estimate of three-tenths of a degree warming although they hinted that we're learning more about aerosols and that aerosols might indeed reduce the amount of warming. Now we've just had the latest report come out, 1995 report, which was released in '96. And the estimate of global warming has been reduced to about .18 degrees per decade which comes from an estimate of 2 warming, 2 C warming by the end of the next century. The next major report is probably going to be 2000. I imagine it will be 2001 before it's published, at which time we'll have a new estimate.",0_0
"Hallucination: Obama wants 80% of energy from ""clean' sources by 2035",0_0
"In short: The very existence of a troposphere makes the whole CO2 driven radiative IR model daft. All that tropospheric CO2 can only close an already closed radiative window in the troposphere and contribute to the convection that is already dominant. BTW, in deep winter with a strong polar vortex, the tropopause can reach ground level near the poles (especially the South Pole). In that context, then, it can enhance the radiative heat dump to space. But warming? In any mid-latitudes especially? Not a chance.",5_1
"Based on strong correlation between the production rate of the cosmogenic nucleids 14 C and 10 Be and proxies for sea ice drift, Bond et al. (2001) concluded that extremely weak perturbations in the Sun's energy output on decadal to millennial timescales generate a strong climate response in the North Atlantic deep water (NADW). This affects the global thermohaline circulation and the global climate. The possible sunoceanclimate connection may be detectable in temperature series from the North Atlantic region. Since the ocean with its large heat capacity can store and transport huge amounts of heat, a time lag between solar activity and air temperature increase is expected. An observed time lag gives us an opportunity for forecasting, which is the rationale for the present investigation.",2_1
"Their explanation is a bit different from the prose I usually offer. They start by defining it by a single observer. One observer can't guarantee that a wormhole exists or not exists because the wormhole in ER=EPR is non-traversible so he would die before he would complete the test of its existence. More nontrivially, they discuss the attempt to measure the existence of the wormhole by two or many observers. They fail because they may only start to collect evidence about the existence of the entanglement if they also start to measure the detailed properties of the arrangement inside the would-be wormhole.",0_0
"Then there is the lack of warming since 2000, which is fully compatible with a solar explanation for late 20th century warming but is seriously at odds with the CO2 theory. Of course 10 or 15 years is not enough data to prove or disprove either theory, but the episode that is held to require a CO2 explanation is even slighter. The post 1970??s warming that is said to be incompatible with a solar explanation didn??t show a clear temperature signal until 97 or 98:",1_4
"Kvicksilverinnehllet in a single lamp is tillrckligt from to make at least 3000 liters of water undrinkable, continuing Jonas and Ida. If each hushll would slnga a single lamp failure corresponds to a volume of less sj.",0_0
Data published on U of Colorado website in 2004 shown in blue. Same data after 9 years of adjustments published on same website today shown in red. The slope of the same 1992-2004 data has somehow increased by 34% over the past 9 years.,0_0
"Wind and solar power nearly fried Germany's power grid, but the disaster was prevented when the German government paid consumers to use electricity.",0_0
"As with so much of our climate, US and Texas temperatures are driven by ocean cycles. A proper climate scientist would, of course, know this, and would also be fully aware of the long term data and trends.",2_1
Desert Solar Power Plant a Risk to Air Safety,0_0
"""Tea Party activists have started to sound the alarms over a United Nations initiative most Americans have never heard of, but one that many in the movement see as one of the greatest threats to America's sovereignty.""",0_0
"Ice in the Barents and Kara Seas is above normal now, and they will come up with a completely different serious sounding explanation for the harsh weather.",1_1
"Unable to afford food, hungry Haitians are now eating ""cookies made of dirt, vegetable oil, and salt.""",0_0
"Yes, thats right, deadly man-made CO2 is the largest cooling agent of the stratosphere as demonstrated by this computer-modeled representation of stratospheric cooling rates:",2_3
We could spend hours analyzing the new IPCC report about the impacts of climate change. Or we could just point out:,0_0
California screamin. Once fertile land in a once rich and prosperous state now resembles an African failed state .,0_0
The record rainfall and storm surges that have brought flooding across the UK are a clear sign that we are already experiencing the impacts of climate change. (Guardian),0_0
"Republicans need to take note "" and take action.",0_0
Id also point out that such an international tax regime would be highly undemocratic: it would almost certainly be set in international negotiations with some kind of EU/UN input. Your carbon tax in Birmingham could well be set in Brussels. Who do you vote out of office in that situation? Wheres your First Amendment right to petition your government for redress of grievances then?,4_1
"Srinivasan added: Between 2013 and 2014, India experienced a deficit of 4.5 per cent in terms of the electricity supply available to fulfil peak demand.",0_0
LSU researchers find new information about Snowball Earth period,0_0
Is the PCA approach robust? Are the results statistically significant? It seems,0_0
"In my closing comment, I firmly endorsed Briffas stand against the use of radially deformed data.",0_0
"The part I really don??t like in all of this is that once again, all of their claims are built on computer models. But what I don??t find is any serious testing of their whiz-bang models against things like the global or the CET temperature and rainfall records. In fact, I don??t see any indication in any venue that any computer models are worth a bucket of warm spit when it comes to rainfall. Computer models are known to perform horribly at hindcasting rainfall, they do no better than chance.",5_1
koda Octavia is the bestselling model (or group of models) but there are perhaps better examples of the edge.,0_0
"Actually, more concern by all should be directed towards the potential of extreme global cooling, based on the most current 10-year trend",1_2
"What they have done here is divide Alaska up into its natural climatic zones (their opinion, of course) and graphed each separately, on a single graph. We see mirrored here the warm 1930s-40s. The global cooling period 1945-1975 (rough dates here, folks, we are just talking about this). Then the 1975-1978 spike/step-up, then? After 1978, roughly even-steven right to present time.",2_1
Complete participation is important because the cost function for abatement appears to be highly convex. We preliminarily estimate that a participation rate of 50 percent instead of 100 percent will impose a cost penalty on abatement of 250 percent.,0_0
"America can ready for living in the dark no new coal power stations were built in 2010 , despite the nation generating half of its power with its abundant coal reserves.",0_0
"I can only imagine the future where Ill be typing some story, like this one, and there will be a knock at the door and",0_0
"This is energy policy by and for not-so-bright lights, who let their religious fervor for anything not hydrocarbon get in the way of common sense and fact-based analysis. Their policies will result in dim bulbs in our future light fixtures and expensive, job-killing energy for other needs. We cannot afford to continue going down this suicidal path.",4_1
"A rapidly growing number of Americans are coming to distrust ?scientific? climate report conclusions that emanate from authoritarian government and institutional sources ? often with good reason. Such skepticism has arisen in part from revelations of conspiracies among influential researchers to exaggerate the existence and threats of man-made climate change, withhold background data and suppress contrary findings evidenced in the ?ClimateGate? scandal.",5_2
13b. How well do ocean models deal with heat transport in the ocean,0_0
The Stanford project will seek to provide the kind of clean energy alternatives that will allow all nations to dramatically reduce man-made greenhouse gas emissions.,0_0
"For others who are more busy, a homework problem: Where have you seen the background color under the Calabi-Yau manifold from the video at 1:39:06? ;-) It's actually an originally Mathematica animation that was redone with other options.",0_0
"The Polar Bear Specialist Group didn't invite Taylor to their conference. More disturbingly, they explicitly said that the reason had nothing to do with the quality of Taylor's science. Derocher, a boss of the AGW-contaminated polar bear specialists, wrote an explanation to Taylor:",5_2
"Fortunately, the authors allow us to formulate even such statements in a more ""natural"" and more ""profound"" way:",0_0
Fax: (49-228) 815-1999,0_0
"In public policy, favoritism in the energy sector takes many forms. Over the years Congress has implemented numerous policies that use the political process to support the production or consumption of one good over another, including direct cash grants, special tax treatment, taxpayer-backed loans and loan guarantees, socialized risk through insurance programs, mandates to produce biofuels, tariffs, and energy sales at below-market costs. Whatever shape the favoritism takes, the results are the always the same: The government delivers benefits to a small, select group and spreads the costs across families and consumers.",0_0
"Shlaes offers a new gloss on the old theme of how FDR used the Depression to craft the durable New Deal coalition. Here her narrative sparkles, as she recounts how FDR transformed the failures of his economic policy to his political advantage in the 1936 election. The failure of the New Deal to deliver meaningful economic growth lent paradoxical validity to FDR's class-warfare rhetoric: ""Many in the country believed that the United States was actually becoming the society of social classes that Roosevelt now described in his speeches. And they responded accordingly,"" that is, by re-electing Roosevelt. The secret was purposely dividing people into interest groups, and pandering to enough of them to create a majority.",0_0
"Climate change skeptics are doing a bit of gloating following a series of mainstream media reports that acknowledge what those skeptics have long held the earth is not warming, at least not in the last 10 years.",1_4
26b. Potential for catastrophe from climate change for other parts of the world in the next 50 years (very low to very high).,0_0
"extreme weather is due to global warming""] ? at least not a climatologist.",0_0
"MSNBC doesn?t talk about solutions to the food chain tightening, but we will. We must triple the food yields on the planet?s existing farmland, by intensifying production. The public must get over its chemo phobia, and license its farmers to use the pest controls that work best, whether they be chemical or biotechnological. Our ill-considered bans on such safe chemicals as DDT and Dursban have cost 50 million needless deaths in the tropics, are bringing widespread suffering from bedbugs in America today, and pest losses could lead to destruction of much of the planet?s wild biodiversity in the decades ahead.",0_0
Right now we are witnessing cold temperatures that we have not seen in decades. The following is the way that one meteorologist put it,1_3
"Insurance companies facing massive claims due to the devastating floods in Europe are blaming global warming. Swiss Re, a major re-insurance company that is likely to be burdened with the lion's share of the costs, has stated unequivocally that global warming is the reason for the floods.",0_0
"Such polls function to manufacture opinion where none exists and, in particular, to claim a popular mandate for the preferred policies of the political class. A way has been found to impute a superior wisdom to the very people whose ignorance is privately relied on. Democracy triumphs again! The college educated are the most susceptible to these techniques, as the New York Times reported. (""Better educated people are most likely to favor early action by the United States. Fully three-quarters of college graduates favor acting even without a binding treaty."")",0_0
Exhibit 1: Greenhouse Gases are Making You Fat:,0_0
The Fakegate scandal provides opportunity for U.S. congressman to push common Democrat lies and the climate change hoax - the Heartland Institute challenges congressman about falsehoods,5_2
"A paper published today in The Holocene reconstructs sea surface temperatures of the Southern Adriatic Sea during the Medieval Warm Period and finds ""clear"" evidence of solar influence on climate change. The authors find sea surface temperatures varied closely with 11 year solar cycles. According to the authors, "" We observe a clear 11.4 year cyclicity in the reconstructed SST series. Furthermore, there is a good matching between SST and global 14 C anomalies. This suggests that solar activity might have had an important influence on the local climate during Medieval time.""",2_1
"Were that fact mentioned in Al Gore's movie, the Kyoto Protocol might not survive its second anniversary.",0_0
"Cancun, Mexico (AP) More countries are expected this week to pledge specific actions to limit carbon emissions over the next decade, in what would be ""very good news"" for arduous negotiations on a climate change agreement, says host country Mexico.",0_0
"An earlier version of this post appeared in Energy Metro Desk (subscription required), titled The Future: 97 Percentiles Below Princeton.",0_0
"Irrespective of soil nitrogen status and air temperature, increases in the air's CO 2 content produced large increases in soybean biomass, as well as soybean seed concentrations of twelve major isoflavones. Hence, it can be appreciated that as the atmosphere's CO 2 concentration continues to rise in the years and decades ahead, both the amount and the potency of important health-promoting properties of soybean seeds will be significantly enhanced, providing huge benefits to humanity. References",3_3
"Unfortunately, EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman has pledged to continue these legal and administrative enforcement actions, even though a strong case can be made for putting such actions on hold pending NSR reform. In defense of the Clinton EPA, it should be noted that the problems and inefficiencies of NSR were observed and a reform agenda was in the works well before the November 2000 election. As we note below, some of EPA's 2002 reform proposals are based on reforms first proposed and endorsed by the previous administration.",0_0
?The findings in the new report from the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) are a cause for great concern.,0_0
"Alpine melt reveals ancient life. A glacier in the mountains retreats due to our evil cars and what do we find? People, living 3000 plus years ago where we couldnt live now with modern technology. Only three thousand years ago people are living in what is no unimaginably cold, yet we cant even explain how they were able to pull it off. LINK HERE.",0_0
"Few arguments in favour of action to mitigate the effects of climate change begin without claiming that the science is in. James Garveys The Ethics of Climate Change is no exception. There begins an account of the science which forms the basis of an unassailable consensus that the world faces a terrifying future. The account is a breathless list of tragedies that await us: sea-level rises, species-extinctions, glacial retreat, resource wars, and climate refugees, all of which will be worse for the poor, and most of which have been caused by the industrialised world. We face planetary upheaval, the deaths of countless living things, human suffering on an enormous scale and all sorts of other horrors, Garvey tells us. Be very afraid.",0_0
"Temperature in Greenland now is -67F, and only needs to warm up 100 degrees to get above freezing.",1_3
"When free enterprise operates, resource extraction and development expands greatly, and innovative technologies generate new opportunities, creating jobs and stimulating the economy in the process. On the other hand, when policymakers try to promote or prohibit specific energy sources and technologies, the federal government wastes taxpayer dollars, delays or blocks promising energy development, and shifts resources to politically preferred sectors of the economy as opposed to the most economically viable sectors. America needs policies that open access to markets, eliminate preferential treatment for all energy sources, and reduce the regulatory burden that chokes investment and innovation.",0_0
"For two centuries, overpopulation has haunted the imagination of the modern world. According to Thomas Malthus, writing in 1798, human population growth would always surpass agricultural production, meaning ""gigantic inevitable famine"" would ""with one mighty blow level the population with the food of the world.""",0_0
"I think Ian will be a real asset because in his profession one is often trained to hold people?s feet to fire. Many like to say or write things, but are they able to back it all up later on. After all people who listen to these experts often act and make decisions based on the things said, and thus may incur either benefit or major damage as a result.",0_0
"Green energy supporters, such as Schumer, like to mix the terms ""subsidies"" and ""tax credits"" with ""tax deductions""when they are completely different. A subsidy, or loan guarantee, and tax credit involves taxpayer dollars being doled outor taxes not collectedto incentivize a favored activity. This is not how America's oil-and-gas producers are treated. They do, however, receive tax deductionslike any other businessthat allow them to write of losses and the cost of doing business against income.",0_0
"Russia may be tempted to pursue tactical rapprochement with China. But any meaningful strategic rapprochement with China would move Russia further away from the United States and into a position of dependence on Chinese support. This would run counter to the strategic realities Russia faces on its far-eastern border, given the decline in its population and negative demographic trends. We cannot be fixated by things that are in the power of Russia and China to do. The wise American policy is to establish close relations with both Russia and China. And we should conduct it on the basis that whenever possible there should always be at least equal if not greater incentives or prospect of risks to cooperate with the United States than with each other.18",0_0
"Due to the lack of understanding a thermometer remains crucial. And it is not pointing in the direction of a doomsday. The temperature over the Northern Hemisphere has decreased since about 1950. In some countries the eighties were very warm, but there are countries where this is not the case. On Greenland there is little to be seen of the greenhouse effect. It has been very cold during the last couple of years.",1_4
"I'd like to share my positive experiences in engaging with climate sceptics and talk about the extent to which we can, or already do, apply this approach to other areas - both geographically and scientifically. Where is the common ground, and where are the difficulties? Is it just too late to try and erase some battlelines? Are there substantial cultural or societal differences between European and USA/Australian scientists + public that explain or limit these approaches, and how about the rest of the world? Some scientists disagree with our approach - what are the pitfalls? Can we learn lessons across different sciences or is, for example, personal medical risk just too different to global environmental risk? I'd love to hear your views.",0_0
"He acknowledges there are risks to both natural and manmade climate change, he simply doesn't believe the case has been made that they are catastrophic risks;",0_0
"The strong relationship between global temperature and CO2, documented by ice-core studies, makes scientific sense only if the CO2 is the effect rather than the cause. Correlation does not necessarily describe cause and effect. In the last transition from ice age to our present climate, global temperature changed about 15 F. For CO2 to have caused this change, atmospheric levels of CO2 would have had to double at least three times to about 1,400 ppm. Ice-core studies show that during this period, CO2 levels increased from 180 ppm to 280 ppm. CO2 is very soluble in water, and a considerable amount is dissolved in our oceans, which cover about 70 percent of the planet",2_3
"There's a general point here. Though communication has advanced beyond the wildest dreams of futurologists of the 1950s, transportation has underperformed. Our time-traveling visitor would be shocked at the absence of routine space travel and the general scarcity of helicopters in civilian life. He would be surprised to find that our cars aren't really that different in mechanism or speed from the things with fins that he drove. In vain would you boast of electric windows and catalytic converters.",0_0
"Misguided environmental regulations, green obstructionism and the NIMBY (Not-in-my-backyard) syndrome have combined to delay the construction of desperately needed new power plants and transmission lines. 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
"However, the 12-mra of the difference between UAH and NCDC, when normalized to 1981-2010, is not increasing statistically significant indicating that the difference between these two datasets to date has not increased over time (linear regression slope is also close to 0). The 12-mra of the difference between GISS, HadCRUT4 and UAH, respectively, is, however, increasing with almost identical slopes (figure 1, table 1).",0_0
"From CEI: Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis, Jr. on why adopting watered down versions of the Kyoto Protocol is just as foolish as embracing the treaty itself, plus how we got from Kyoto to here.",0_0
Aus: No emission limit on new coal plants,0_0
The rising CO2 content of the atmosphere may induce changes in ocean chemistry (pH) that could slightly reduce coral calcification rates; but potential positive effects of hydrospheric CO2 enrichment may more than compensate for this modest negative phenomenon.,3_2
"The highest recent rate of warming based on its linear trend occurred during the 154-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 early-1970s was the last time there had been a 154-month period without global warmingbefore recently.",1_4
"Glassman: Now, have you actually correlated the activity of the sun, this magnetism that you're talking about, with the rise of temperatures on Earth?",0_0
"Bry goes on to note his concern that humans may be living through what many environmentalists and conservationists call the ""Sixth Extinction,"" which is understood to mean an era when more than half of all earth-living species will croak.",0_0
"The spatial structure and dominant time scales of natural variations differ across models (see discussion of Fig. 5). Additionally, coupled climate models produce a range of responses, in space and time, to anthropogenic radiative forcing (Fig. 8). Such differences in model estimates of internal variability and response to external forcing limit our understanding for the potential of the decadal climate predictions.",5_1
"5. The UN's IPCC and the other immensely taxpayer-funded climate ""science"" agencies (e.g., NOAA, NASA, UK's MetOffice, Australia CISRO , etc.), continue to claim that CO2 levels act as the globe's thermostat, which will allow politicians and bureaucrats to ""dial-in"" the desired Earth 's temperature... this claim is demonstrably a flagrant, anti-science falsehood, per the actual depicted temperature/CO2 evidence above",2_3
"A paper published today in Quaternary Research reconstructs drought and fire activity in Idaho during the Holocene and finds droughts have been relatively less common and rainfall less variable over the past century in comparison to the past 1,900 years. In addition, the paper finds fires were more common ~900-400 years ago in comparison to the past century. Contrary to the claims of climate alarmists, the paper finds fire activity is more common during wetter periods compared to drier, due to the denser vegetation and more variable climate. The paper adds to many other published papers finding there is nothing unprecedented, unusual, or unnatural about present day drought , extreme weather , and fire activity .",1_7
While Grantham might be correct about some harder-edged libertarian,0_0
"Of course, this is not entirely fair. The 110th Congress has some significant accomplishments, including implementing the 9/11 commission recommendations, increasing the minimum wage, expanding college aid, implementing ""pay-as-you-go"" budgeting and working hard to make it a reality, and passing significant lobbying and ethics reform. But many other things have passed the House and foundered in the Senate, or been stopped, like children's health insurance, by a presidential veto. And, of course, Congress has spent countless hours trying futilely to do something to change course in Iraq.",0_0
"Instead of saying clearly that the models prove that humans cause global warming, they have to talk with forked tongues with such phrases as: This experiment showed that the projections of climate models are consistent with recorded temperature trends over recent decades only if human impacts are included.",5_2
"The environment is challenging, with resources trapped deep in shale rock. But technological breakthroughs coupled with a feverish quest for the next major find are unlocking the door to oil and natural gas riches here and in several other countries in the Americas not traditionally known as energy producers.",4_5
"USA Today lauds the EPAs GHG reduction proposal a big deal to for fighting climate change, but it doesnt go far enough. David Brodwin, writing in USA Today lauds the EPAs proposed GHG reductions for existing coal plants (the dirtiest form of electricity). His opinion is that the 30% reduction in GHG from dirty coal electricity wont be all that expensive to accomplish. He does notice that the estimated US decrease is chump change when you look at China and India, so it doesnt go far enough.",0_0
"You see the same shift in focus in the public away from climate change questions to questions of economic survival and growth , said Woo, president of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.",0_0
"With regard to the political aspects of bushfire, Ambrose Bierce had it well covered. He defined politics as a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The strife of interests includes winning the votes of urban dwellers who are rarely subject to bushfire, yet may have assorted passionate notions about its ecology, perhaps gleaned from refereed journals. The contest of principles, in this case, is the ethical duty of care to both nature and human society.",0_0
"The feedback parameter used here is 4 W m-2 K-1, which implies a climate sensitivity of only 1 deg. C warming from a doubling of CO2. This is much less than the IPCC's estimate of 2.5 to 3 deg. C of warming.",3_1
"It is in this context that the Manhattan Institute's Center for Energy and the Environment offers this publication. It is predicated on the belief that wise and prudent policies in these areas require a well-informed citizenry ""one well versed in the facts. With that goal in mind, the Center sought, with the help of survey research conducted by Zogby Associates, to determine what Americans believe about energy and environmental issues. We report here on the answers given by 1,000 Americans, chosen to be representative of public opinion generally, on matters such as the sources of U.S. energy supply, the extent of the oil supply, the rate of global warming, and trends in atmospheric pollution. Our poll was taken at a time ""the summer of 2006 ""when, because of a sharp increase in the price of gasoline, public interest in energy and environmental issues was particularly keen.",0_0
"5) And in March this year, scientists at the British Antarctic Survey quantified just how badly the predictions had failed, An Initial Assessment of Antarctic Sea Ice Extent in the CMIP5 Models",5_1
"As the study concludes, Clearly, the potential savings from reduced reproduction are huge compared to the savings that can be achieved by changes in lifestyle although they caution that reducing the future population on its own is not enough. What is required is that the changes to your lifestyle are then multiplied by you having fewer children who also live a low-carbon lifestyle as well:",0_0
Click here to download Part 2 in PDF form,0_0
"An organosulphur compound obtained from garlic kills off methane-producing bacterium in the digestive system of cows, according to Professor Jamie Newbold, who heads up a 5 million-research programme at Aberystwyth University.",0_0
"Without a large uptick in temperatures in the next few years, the modelers really have to go back to the drawing board (or they need to discover another negative forcing to keep the models on track to reality).",5_1
"What is so striking is how these scientists, who rightly highlight the need for careful scientific analysis in characterizing the climate effects of GHG emissions, unwittingly forsake science when thinking about how to mitigate climate change. Instead, they jump right from ""burning fossil fuels causes dangerous climate change"" to ""therefore the best way to stop climate change is reducing fossil fuel use.""",0_0
"Doran and Zimmerman (2009) Examining the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change, Eos, VOLUME 90 NUMBER 3 20 JANUARY 2009",0_0
"So what about the ?fourth branch of government,? the media? What do they appear to think about such breaches of public trust? Judging from all of the seven invited representatives at Part Two of a Nov. 23, 2010, Yale Forum titled ?Scientists and Journalists on Lessons Learned ,? not very much at all.",0_0
"Abstract. 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, it is envisioned that initialized decadal predictions will provide important information for climate-related management and adaptation decisions. Such predictions are presently one of the grand challenges for the climate community. This requires identifying those physical phenomenaand their model equivalentsthat may provide additional predictability on decadal time scales, including an assessment of the physical processes through which anthropogenic forcing may interact with or project upon natural variability. Such a physical framework is necessary to provide a consistent assessment (and insight into potential improvement) of the decadal prediction experiments planned to be assessed as part of the IPCCs Fifth Assessment Report.",0_0
MONTANA -60% of its electricity; 5th in coal production,0_0
Sea level is not rising appreciably in California. The global warming industry is reduced to nothing but fantasy.,1_6
"The trick to making sense of the diverse paleoclimate record is to understand that some measures are more precise than others, says Hughes. For instance, rings on trees in Canada may tell you something about summer-to-summer changes in precipitation, while lake sediments, stalagmites, and ice cores may not record every year and give more of a decade-long or 50-year picture.",0_0
"A snapshot of Earths plant productivity in 2003 shows regions of increased productivity (green) and decreased productivity (red). Tracking productivity between 2000 and 2009, researchers found a global net decrease due to regional drought. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio",0_0
"For more information on Living with the UN: American Responsibilities and International Order, find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Scribd (keyword: Hoover Institution) or visit HooverPress.org. For more information on the Hoover Institution, visit Hoover.org.",0_0
www.canberratimes.com .au/.../melting-runway-cuts-flights-to-antarct...,0_0
"To save his presidency, Obama should follow the real lesson of FDR and our other great presidents and turn away from the failures of health care reform and nationalization of the economy. He will be remembered if he follows through in Iraq, pursues al Qaeda with the restoration of aggressive measures, and achieves victory in Afghanistan. If he loses in war in favor of an attempt to expand the size of government at home, he will take his place in presidential history alongside Jimmy Carter and Lyndon Johnson, rather than FDR and Ronald Reagan.",0_0
Carbon dioxide is an environmentally beneficial atmospheric trace gas;,3_3
"on Thursday, January 14th, 2010 at 9:41 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"on Monday, May 20th, 2013 at 1:40 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"There are currently huge amounts of money in energy attracted there primarily by the presence of Kyoto-style regulation. That money, however, is not to the benefit of the energy consumer and may well damage the development of emissions-reducing technology in the future. It would be best for government to step out and let energy provision develop naturally, in response to the pull of the market. If people are genuinely concerned about global warming, as the polls tell us they are, then that worry will affect their behavior in the market. Kyoto advocates who tell us they do not trust the market, in fact do not trust the people. When the bubble bursts, we will see how wise that choice was.",0_0
"Farmers are resilient, but when you cannot even get seed into the ground, its devastating, he said.",0_0
"Climate studies show that the world has already warmed about 0.8 degrees Celsius since 1900, but that warming has stopped and some scientists even argue that the world has cooled slightly since then.",1_4
"SHIMLA/MANALI: 15 Dec 2014 ??? Intense cold has gripped the entire Himachal Pradesh with unprecedented snowfall in areas where it had not snowed in many years. Snow not only covered Kullu, Bhuntar, Bajaura but also Panarsa area in Mandi district where snowing is not common. Across the state hundreds of roads were blocked throwing normal life out of gear.",1_3
"Well over a million U.S. workers age 55 and older have now been out of work for 27 weeks or more. Not only do prospects plummet for re-employment of older workers. The longer they are unemployed, the more they are disconnected from society, the further their living standards fall, the more their physical and emotional well-being deteriorates, and the more likely they are to die prematurely.",0_0
undoubtedly result in reconstructions with wider error bars than we currently,0_0
"It's true that Detroit temperatures didn't dip below freezing in January and February in'79 followed by a frost in June. But that was 1879! When he was a boy, ""snows were frequent and deep in every winter,"" Thomas Jefferson recalled in December 1809. ""The Greenland seas, hitherto covered , have in the last two years entirely disappeared,"" Britain's Royal Society reported in 1817. ""We were astonished by the total absence of ice in Barrow Strait. still frozen up, and doubts were entertained as to the possibility of escape,"" Captain Francis McClintock wrote in his ship's log in 1860.",0_0
"Hudson Bay sea ice cover is the highest since 1992, and is the third highest on record.",1_1
$ M \leq M {Planck} / N^{1/2} $ This statement is supported by,0_0
Attorney Peter Glasers Morning After Reflections on the D.C. Circuit Court GHG Decision,0_0
"A commentary that accompanies the study notes that, ""The warming of the 20th century is seen more clearly as a continuation of a trend that began at the start of the 19th century, not the early 20th."" It also notes that, ""the curve of Esper et al. provides evidence for greater climate variability in the last 1000 years than has yet been generally accepted.""",0_0
"The first conclusion is that as is not uncommon with sea level records, nearby tide gauges give very different changes in sea level. In this case, the Wilmington rise is 2.0 mm per year, while the Hampton Roads rise is more than twice that, 4.5 mm per year. In addition, the much shorter satellite records show only half a mm per year average rise for the last twenty years.",1_6
"Nor, despite Mr. Paulson's claims, is there much reason to think that adopting a U.S. carbon tax would cause Beijing to do the same. China's Communist Party, after all, flouts Western norms on human rights, on intellectual property, and even on market-based exchange rates. Why should climate be different? To the contrary, that high Party officials are extracting fortunes from the massively polluting state owned enterprises would seem to cast an especially dark shadow of doubt over hopes for change in this area. Yet Mr. Paulson, a self-proclaimed expert on avoiding needless risks, urges the United States to incur the costs of a carbon tax based mainly on the rather far-fetched hope that it will induce Beijing to change its behavior.",4_2
This piece originally appeared in National Review Online.,0_0
"DC to offer Internet gambling, becomes first in US:",0_0
A leading House GOP member on nuclear issues said Wednesday that Senate nuclear waste management legislation that does not identify Yucca Mountain as a permanent repository will not pass the House.,0_0
"In investigating this possibility, Yoon et al . grew plantlets of Phalaenopsis ""Amaglade"" -- a monopodial epiphytic CAM orchid with succulent leaves -- derived from flower stalk cultures and multiplied on a hyponex medium either with or without the addition of 30 g sugar per liter of medium, in air of either 400 or 1000 ppm CO 2 , for a period of 90 days in vitro followed by 40 days ex vitro , in order ""to identify the more suitable treatments in vitro for the best acclimatization of Phalaenopsis plantlets to ex vitro conditions,"" which they did by monitoring a number of plant morphological traits, photosynthetic attributes and intrinsic elements of the CAM pathway. What was learned",0_0
"Cut allowable SO2 emissions by 73 percent, from 11 million tons currently to 4.5 million tons in 2010, and 3 million tons in 2018.",0_0
"The House-passed energy and climate bill remains moribund in the Senate. EPA is trying to regulate carbon dioxide in the absence of congressional action based on its assertion that automotive, power plant and factory CO2 emissions ""endanger human health and welfare."" However, Texas refuses to knuckle under, other states may likewise balk, and the next Congress could overturn the ""endangerment"" finding and bar EPA from rewriting the Clean Air Act and implementing its job-killing rules.",0_0
"While ACESA would be more efficient without its regulatory provisions, the design of the cap-and-trade program is also troubling. Namely, the emission reductions are more stringent and faster than most economic analysis recommends.",0_0
"Enforcement of EPA's reinterpretation of NSR has discouraged modifications that, had they been allowed to proceed, would have been economically and/or environmentally beneficial and would not have increased emissions.",0_0
"If Andrew Weaver is heading for the exits, its a pretty sure sign that the United Nations agency is under monumental stress.",0_0
"Solar forcing based on these modern reconstructions is 1 - 2.6 times higher than the alleged forcing from increased greenhouse gases during the 20th century. In addition, climate models do not consider any of the multiple solaramplificationmechanisms which have been described in the literature. Thus, the IPCC and others dismiss the role of the Sun in climate by conveniently assuming solar activity changed 5 - 13 times less than the research indicates.",2_1
"Not every idea advanced at the summit was bad-participants talked about the need to simplify regulations, improve American tax competitiveness, and increase openness of foreign markets. Even President Obama admitted that ""true economic recovery is only going to come from the private sector."" But if Obama realizes the private sector must lead the recovery, why is he proposing to burden it with more taxes, more government spending, and more regulation? True economic recovery will only come when the Administration realizes that regulation does not create jobs.",0_0
"The term carbon emissions really refers to emissions of carbon dioxide gas but carbon and carbon dioxide are two totally different things. Carbon is a solid (think coal and charcoal) and the central building block of hydrocarbons, whereas carbon dioxide is the gas that all humans and animals exhale and all plants require to grow. Without carbon dioxide, all life on Earth would cease.",3_3
"(Climate Change Skeptics (also known as morons) are people who dont believe in science purely because they a) cant bear to admit they couldnt see it coming or may have contributed to it b) dont care because they assume by the time the real catastrophe happens theyll be old, dead or rich enough to buy their way out and or c) refuse to accept the evidence because if they do they will have to admit that it God doesnt exist. Because if God existed wouldnt we be special enough for him to spare us?)",0_0
"I then followed up immediately with working on her account, in Sacramento, CA.",0_0
"Under normal circumstances, someone who started a campaign called Trees Have Rights Too in order to convince the United Nations to adopt a Universal Declaration of Planetary Rights, based on the idea that ?we are all one, life is sacred and love is all?, might reasonably be suspected of being an LSD-tripping hippy.",0_0
A version of this article first appeared in Forbes Online.,0_0
OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION (EMITTED INFRARED RADIATION) AT TOA,0_0
"The six Malaysian scientists conclude that ""collectively, the enhancement in yield and quality provides an economic motivation to produce a consistent pharmaceutical-grade product for commercial purposes,"" via what they describe as ""controlled environment plant production."" And it also stands to reason that the ongoing rise in the atmosphere's CO 2 concentration should gradually increase the medicinal potency of C. asiatica plants either growing wild or cultivated out-of-doors.",3_3
"Die Zeit describes the first time Michael Mann met Marc Morano, having no idea who he was. Today when Mann thinks back at this first encounter, he has to take a deep breath. Now hes knows who Marc Morano is .",0_0
The ABC's idea of balanced debate on climate change,0_0
"By providing energy flows of high power density, fossil fuels and electricity made it possible to embark on a large-scale industrialization creating a predominantly urban civilization with unprecedented levels of economic growth reflected in better health, greater social opportunities, higher disposable incomes, expanded transportation and an overwhelming flow of information.",4_5
JC comment: the possibility that multidecadal natural variability is a major driver of rainfall variability does not seem to be considered. The poor performance of the climate models somehow gives rise to greater alarm about the future. Go figure.,5_1
"Pea-size hail and dangerous lighting were possible, along with gusty winds and brief periods of heavy rainfall.",0_0
"""Economically significant"" is the bureau-speak description for rules costing at least $100 million per year. There are 180 of such rules in the 2008 Register, up 13 percent from 2007which was itself up 14 percent from 2006.",0_0
"The penny is fast dropping that by far the most disastrous appointment made by David Cameron to his Coalition Cabinet was that of the ultra-green, Lib Dem millionaire Chris Huhne as our Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.",0_0
"Unlike the global marching army of climate researchers the IPCC has enlisted, we do not walk in lockstep. We are willing to admit, ?we don?t really know?, rather than mislead people with phrases like, ?the warming we see is consistent with an increase in CO2?, and then have the public think that means, ?we have determined, through our extensive research into all the possibilities, that the warming cannot be due to anything but CO2?.",0_0
"~Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth, the divergence between the climate models and reality is ever greater . In other news, it may not all be the fault of your carbon footprint :",5_1
"Yes, it is a whole new world when it comes to the ""Climate Debate"" and the Canadian Senate has reflected this sea change by striking down a bill that in the words of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, ""sets irresponsible targets, does not lay out any measure of achieving them, other than by shutting down sections of the Canadian economy and throwing hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of people out of work.""",0_0
"On the other hand, on immigration, President Bush has followed the Roosevelt approach, turning about-face on the border fence and ordering raids onmeat-packing factories that employ illegal aliens. Yet this has not helped him either: Immigration skeptics still do not trust him on the issue, but neither do Hispanic voters. And his overall poll numbers have not even twitched in response.",0_0
Obama can't afford to oppose this commonsense measure.,0_0
Chevy Recalls Cruze After A Steering Wheel Falls Off:,0_0
There is a long-term warming trend with or without La Nina.,0_0
It has been 15 years since leading British experts announced the demise of snow.,0_0
"The principle, therefore, is that if the national government (or, a fortiori, the government of a State or Territory) takes over a person's land, it must pay just compensation, or else.",0_0
"Indeed, satellites show that Earths total vegetation increased 6% just from 1982 to 1999, as CO 2 levels increased. Famines in a CO 2 -warmed tomorrow are therefore less likely, not more.",3_3
"That's a tiny fraction of the wind turbines' ""rated capacity."" But it is a situation commonly faced with turbines on freezing Minnesota winter nights and sweltering Texas summer afternoons, when they average a measly 10% of the electricity output their subsidy-hungry backers say they are capable of.",0_0
"While the UN was sinking in global parochialism, NATO has gone global geographically (50,000 troops deployed now on three continents) and functionally (broadening of political consultations in the NAC). It is also beginning to go global in its cooperation with non-Atlantic partners like Japan to Australia.",0_0
"Carbon dioxide gas is NOT a pollutant, but a harmless and vital gas which trees and plants fix by the process of photosynthesis and liberate oxygen to the atmosphere. We humans and all animals need this oxygen to breath and survive. Atmospheric carbon dioxide is recycled naturally, as a plant nutrient, by rock weathering and by being absorbed in the oceans which cover 70% of the Earths surface. So dont blame carbon dioxide for climate change!",3_3
"""Gary Weeks' balanced approach to budget is far from balanced. He and SEIU worked this out together.""",0_0
"US Police increasingly peeping at email, instant messages:",0_0
"He was right to be embarrassed. Climate change is already hurting and, unchecked, will turn into a catastrophe. Economists use what is called a discount rate to compare income and welfare in the future with income and welfare today. If we forgo just a little welfare today through burning less fossil fuel, even applying a modest discount rate, we can guarantee that there will be no catastrophic loss of welfare in 2050. This is exactly the same argument that Ferguson, Osborne et al use in reverse when asking us to accept austerity today for the joy of being free of public debt in decades to come. But it is not OK to use it for climate change.",0_0
"We owe the Heartland Institute, a free market think tank, a debt of gratitude for the eight international conferences it has held to debunk global warming. Joseph Bast, its president and CEO, has said: ""The toll our EPA is taking on the country is staggering, putting hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work at a time when millions of people are unemployed and our reliance on foreign sources of energy threatens to compromise our nation's security.""",0_0
"Clearly, G.W. Bush's environmental executive agreements provide no precedent for Obama's plan to adopt ""the most ambitious climate change agreement in history"" without obtaining the Senate's advice and consent.",0_0
"Ian Marchant, chief executive of Scottish-based utility, says government must invest more money in CCS technology",0_0
The longer-term record shows global temperatures have hardly risen for about 15 years. But Dr Stott said the key point was that they had remained consistently above the long-term average. ( source ),1_4
"What could explain the lack of interest in verifying a dated computer forecast? After all, computer forecasts are the basis for the current alarm. Did people perhaps decide that a 16-year-old forecast had to have been based on inferior methods?",0_0
"So Santers messages to Jones and others at UEA were not private or personal correspondence. If he wanted them to be, he should not have used his llnl.gov email account with his official LLNL affiliation in the signature line. He should know better, since LLNL makes clear those distinctions . But if he did want to communicate with Jones on that level, I doubt he could have conducted official government business such as discussion of climate data on a Google account. That would have been evading public scrutiny. A Santer-Jones Google exchange would have had to been about the merits of U.S. vs. European football or something like that.",0_0
"That's because the snow plows picked up virtually everything in their paths, which prevented them from simply depositing all that winter snow into the harbor. Ton after ton was moved from the city streets of Boston to this snow farm, where piles towered over 20 feet. It was one of seven such piles scattered throughout the city and this one still has snow left on it.",0_0
"But looming in the background, Shlaes thinks, was the European war, and the Republicans' latent isolationism diluted their appeal. Although Willkie was an internationalist, FDR was a more convincing one. ""As leaders and oppositions since have discovered,"" Shlaes writes, ""war trumps everythingeconomics as well as politics."" In the absence of the specter in Europe, Shlaes thinks Willkie might have defeated Roosevelt. Shlaes's judgment about Willkie and the 1940 election is probably correct, but it is the only thinly argued part of The Forgotten Man. To complete this account, more needs to be said about the cognitive dissonance that characterizes public opinion toward America's global involvement. (FDR, for example, was quietly consulting pollsters during this time to determine how far he could go with his European policy.)",0_0
"Folks wanting to do even more can set up a Virtual Machine and play with it (not too hard, but needs decent real hardware or its slow):",0_0
"In fact, the baneful state of contemporary American society might seem to be no accident at all, as it keeps the productive class in line through threats from above (impoverishment, prison, and family breakups, all of which governments have shown themselves quite willing to inflict) and below (by crime and social disorder) and bought off with cheap pleasures. It's a regime that combines the worst elements of the dystopias in 1984, Brave New World, and A Clockwork Orange.",0_0
"It certainly is not in line with what one would call reasoned debate, Kenneth Haapala, executive vice president of the Science & Environmental Policy Project, said of Heartlands short-lived marketing campaign. Id much prefer to stick to reasoned argument. But Heartland is doing a good job. Whether this was the best thing to do, I cant assess that.",0_0
"Each point is an orbital subtraction calculation of the mean anomalies of four planets Jupiter, Mars, Earth and Venus, taken on the 1st of January every two years from 1900-2012..",0_0
"on Friday, December 20th, 2013 at 3:32 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"The public think political decisions concerning climate are based on scientific predictions. This is untrue: what the politicians get from IPCC and CSIRO are projections based on models. Models depend on assumptions, what you put in (data), the program, and conclusions drawn from the output.",0_0
"Sound Science And The U.S. Economy Victimized By The EPA's CIA Fake, John Beale",0_0
"Ah, but you won't have to wait nearly as long for the higher cost of energy to be passed on to all Americans. And not just in the form of higher utility bills (which are already bad enough), but in the cost of nearly everything. After all, the businesses that you use will be facing higher bills, too. That increase will be paid by you as well.",4_1
So how do we get 1/2 of the present value when it was warm enough to melt Antarctica (while today Antarctic ice is growing)?,1_1
NW Washington Gets Hit Again...and an Unusual Low,0_0
"As disturbing as such thuggery from state attorneys general would be in any case, the premise of the subpoena is faulty. The Competitive Enterprise Institute did not cast doubt on the dubious climate science. The actual data cast the doubt. The think tank and others have simply pointed out what the data show.",0_0
"When it was Mr. Hamm's turn to talk briefly with President Obama, ""I told him of the revolution in the oil and gas industry and how we have the capacity to produce enough oil to enable America to replace OPEC. I wanted to make sure he knew about this.""",4_5
"And in fact, a plain reading of two of the key studies that the White House and EPA deadlocked on is quite revealing. Far from being a settled matter, as environmental activists claim, both reportseven the one that the White House did not favorare quite clear about the extent of the remaining uncertainty, and the importance of focusing on that uncertainty rather than disguising it.",0_0
Bangladeshs problem is primarily one of population a very large and growing population with demands to feed more and more people places more people in the most flood vulnerable regions (also most fertile)as they attempt to eke more productivity out of their limited land.,0_0
"Moreover, most of Britain's older coal-fired and nuclear power plants are scheduled to be shut down, with almost nothing to replace them, even as electricity demand rises. That could bring widespread blackouts, said the Daily Mail, and cause hundreds of thousands of UK jobs to be outsourced to countries where energy costs are much lower, and air pollution and carbon dioxide emission standards far less stringent. That will hardly improve England's economy or global environmental quality.",4_1
"Here is a chart similar to the one used by Al Gore in The Inconvenient Truth showing a correlation between estimated global average temperature of the atmosphere at the surface and CO 2 concentrations during the most recent glacial and interglacial periods, over the past 400,000 years. As is well known, Gore misrepresented this data in his film, claiming incorrectly that it supported the hypothesis that atmospheric CO 2 concentration causes temperature changes. The changes in CO 2 concentrations actually follow the temperature changes by about 800 years, not the other way round, which is most likely to be explained by the fact that less CO 2 is dissolved in the oceans the higher their temperature, so called ocean outgassing.",2_3
"What with the current mania for carbon offsets, I should have known it would happen eventually. In addition to the already burgeoning crowd of environmental outfits specializing in questionable science and creative economics, the ranks of carbon offset vendors has been joined by...the U.S. government. Thats right, fellow citizens, the U.S. Forest Service is now in the ""voluntary"" offset business. Just calculate your carbon footprint online and they'll quote you the price for your personalized indulgence, er, offset. My roughly calculated tab comes to $44.40 a year.",0_0
"There also hasn't been an increase in the number of stormy seasons. Pre-1928, there were nine years with three or more hurricanes compared to only five years with three or more hurricanes post-1928.",1_7
"I heard President Obama on the radio talking about the epidemic of school shootings by psychotic young men armed with knives, guns, cars and explosives. He said he would even be willing to talk to sportsmen about the problem",0_0
"Then at BBC on Dec 5 , where the IPCC WG2 author denied any problem:",5_2
I dont believe that the worlds present population is sustainable if there are more than three years like 1972 in a row.,0_0
"But it's not that simple. The EPA is part of the executive branch of government, and it is unconstitutional for the executive to legislate. The EPA's attempt to alter the text of the Clean Air Act seems to fly in the face of the separation of powers, one of America's founding political principles. There will be lawsuits, and if the courts rule that the EPA overreached, the American economy will become subject to an unprecedented regulatory onslaught.",0_0
CEI: Any thought that down the road you could be the right-wing Ralph Nader?,0_0
"Olle Hggstrm have 2015-05-09 via Twingly in the right hand column lnkat hit with a blogginlgg entitled The vile debate grip SLAPP. This is part of a frtalskampanj he conducts. His reasoning is lax because SLAPP is a legal freteelse as frekommer in the United States but that hardly is mjlig in Sweden. Swedish frtalslagstiftning prioritize freedom of expression, and makes it hard for the frtalade to pursue legal process. There will of course nd more difficult for a frtalad person who is ttiorig pensionr. S, the Swedish legislation is output has been primarily regarded as a moral ledstjrna.",0_0
"In addition, as is well known, prompt policy action (by cutting emissions of greenhouse gases in accord with the Kyoto Protocol) would lower the calculated temperature rise by 2050 by at most a tiny one-thirtieth of a degree C ??? too small to even measure.",4_2
"Eelgrass meadows grow in shallow coastal waters and are among the most productive ecosystems in the sea. These meadows are now threatened, not only by climate change but also by overfishing and eutrophication.",0_0
"8) And Finally: Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past The Independent, 20 March 2000",0_0
"The previous administration, of course, did not ratify Kyoto. But one of Kevin Rudd's first acts as Prime Minister was to grandstand at a UN climate junket in Bali two years ago and turn his signature to the Kyoto Protocol into a gruesome, gibbering publicity stunt.",0_0
"Each of modern rationales for energy subsidies that have proposed over the decades, suffers from fundamental analytic weaknesses that should discredit them and the subsidies that result from them. These rationales include: the need for energy ""independence;"" the need to support infant industries; the need to level the subsidy playing field; harmful enviromental impacts from conventional generation; fears of resource depletion or ""sustainability;"" the creation of jobs by expanding ""green"" energy use; and the harms flowing from climate change due to fossil fuel use or the ""social cost of carbon"" argument. Each of these rationales fail and the subsidies created to meet the stated goals have stifled innovation, slowed economic growth, resulted distorted investment decisions and limited job creation, and did not improve the environment.",0_0
2) The Decreasing Population Bias in Tornado Reports across the Central Plains by James B. Elsner and Laura E. Michaels,0_0
"The fertilisation effect occurs where elevated CO 2 enables a leaf during photosynthesis, the process by which green plants convert sunlight into sugar, to extract more carbon from the air or lose less water to the air, or both.",3_3
What do observational analyses tell us? Observational analyses can implicitly include the effects that are ignored by climate models. Here is one paper that suggests a significantly larger role for solar forcing:,2_1
"If BACT does not require fuel-switching, we should have no reason to expect that NSPS would require fuel switching or redefine the source to impose identical CO2 control requirements on coal boilers and on gas turbines. Is that correct?",0_0
"Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers,",0_0
"Any regulation seeking to limit the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth's atmosphere deliberately and deceptively ignores facts that anyone can understand. Bonner spelled out the basic scientific facts, but it is essential to keep in mind that CO2 is essential to all life on Earth, providing the ""food"" that all vegetation depends.",3_3
President Obamas Inaugural Speech: New Heat on Warming?,0_0
"Between 1998 and 2012 the global economy more than doubled in sizeto some $71 trillion in GDP from $30 trillion. Thats the good news. Over the same period the world pumped more than 100 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. That is supposedly the bad news. Yet global surface temperatures have remained essentially flat. Thats the mystery: If emitting CO2 into the atmosphere causes global warming, why hasnt the globe been warming?",1_4
"According to Mydlarz et al ., ""taken together, these studies suggest an unexpected degree of resilience under adverse environmental conditions."" Indeed, they say ""it is clear from the data presented in this paper that the sea fan aggressively combats infection in the gorgonian- Aspergillus pathosystem and exhibits the capability for resilience against multiple challenges,"" not the least of which, we might add, would be further global warming (if the planet ever starts to warm again after its hiatus of the past decade or so). References",3_2
"If this doesn't prompt you to lobby your MP to have ""Canada's Almost New Government"" do away with these kangaroo courts, nothing will.",0_0
"This ensemble output suggest that it isi probable that the temperatures will be warmer than currently (they are very cold now), but there is a lot of uncertainty. Precipitation should be light, but a few ensemble members are fairly wet. Winds are modest.",5_1
"Jo Nova has an entertaining article describing the excellent correlation between increasing US Postal charges and rising temperatures through the 20th Century. Joanne humorously claims a causal relation and thus excellently lampoons the IPCCs ridiculous assertion that a similar correlation between rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and rising world temperatures proves that carbon dioxide is causing the temperature rise. Actually, even the claim of a correlation is disputed, since temperatures have gone both up and down while CO 2 rises quite steadily. Click for a larger version.",2_3
"Even so, the FTA represents a significant milestone in the economic relationship between the two signatories. And President Xi played his part perfectly. In his address to the Australian Parliament, he offered the FTA as a sign of China's friendship and evidence of the economic opportunity its rise is creating for neighbours. Expressing hope that the strategic partnership between the two countries will become a comprehensive one, President Xi urged Australia to pursue a more independent strategic direction. Although Parliament knew what this means moving away from America, if not yet closer to China the point was nevertheless respectfully posed.",0_0
A New Theory of Everything: Reality Emerges from Cosmic Copyright Law (SciAm),0_0
"Even though it is stylish to excoriate conservatives with toothpaste-commercial moralizing about science, there is no science in the toothpaste-commercial science consensus picture. There is only politics, money, and power. The political events of 2016 make plain that the climate arena is a side show in a much larger political struggle that has nothing to do with science. Some sort of link between climate and power may have been inevitable because death, taxes and weather are all inevitable. Its such a glorious convergence of inevitabilities that rich and powerful increased-government enthusiasts could not pass it up.",0_0
"Of course, the chance of editors at Science allowing such a response paper to get published is virtually zero. The editors at Science choose which scientists will be asked to provide peer review, and they already know who they can count on to reject a skeptics paper.",5_2
the state of climate science from the sort of standpoint you are wanting.,0_0
"Blacks and Hispanics work hard to provide better futures for their children. The EPA regulations will push the American dream even further out of reach for them. Their incomes will be less, their unemployment rates will increase substantially, and it will take those who are out of work longer to find another job. Blacks and Hispanics are often the ""last hired and the first fired.""",0_0
"Many of the doubt-inducing climate scientists and their media acolytes attribute this rising skepticism to the stupidity of Americans, philistines unable to appreciate that there is ""a scientific consensus on climate change."" One of the benefits of the recent Climategate scandal, which revealed leading climate scientists manipulating data, methods, and peer review to exaggerate the evidence of significant global warming, may be to permanently deflate the rhetorical value of the phrase ""scientific consensus.""",5_2
"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
"on Monday, September 22nd, 2014 at 9:21 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Even then, according to UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) figures, the reported global temperature increase between 1942 and 1995 was approximately +0.5 C, while U.S. and Western European data showed approximately zero.",0_0
"One of the authors of the new study today, Professor Jonathan Bamber of Bristol uni, carried out a previous effort to work out what scientists think sea levels will do, in which metre-range rises were described as ""conceivable"" but highly unlikely.",1_6
"CFACT recently erected a billboard graphing world temperature data reported by the U.K. Met Office in Washington D.C. to raise awareness, however, the U.S. executive branch is operating within a similar information bubble to that which encloses the UNFCCC.",0_0
He moved to Los Angeles a few years ago and has landed some roles in movies and on television; he played a hotel concierge last season on the Fox series House.,0_0
the paper by Wang et al (which I have been unable to access) in the decision to,0_0
"The AGU has an official position statement on global warming. The statement is currently being rewritten by a committee of 14 people. The existing AGU climate statement turns the speculative claims of global warming hysterics into what many readers might mistake for the prudent judgment of serious scientists. The current statement was last revised in 2007. It will be interesting to see if the new statement acknowledges an additional 5 years of failure to warm. The 2007 statement does not invoke the extreme weather catastrophe story, probably because the extreme weather story was still in its infancy in 2007.",5_2
"Acquiescence Response Bias, the tendency for respondents to agree with statements no matter what their content. This is especially problematic in agree-disagree questions.",0_0
? A wide area network (WAN) communications module to connect to the central communications provider,0_0
Accounting for wavelength effects will likely improve climate models,5_1
"Dr. Illarionov went further when speaking to journalists on April 14. He said, ""First we wanted to call this treaty an interstate Gosplan, but then we realized that a Gosplan is much more humane, so we should call the Kyoto Protocol an interstate gulag . In a gulag, people were at least given the same rations, which did not lessen from one day to the next, but the Kyoto Protocol proposes decreasing rations day by day .",0_0
"It was me or nobody, now or never. Combination of several rather improbable prerequisites just wouldn't occur again for anyone else in the foreseeable future. The circus was about to arrive in Copenhagen. Later on it could be too late.",0_0
"But there is a darker reality. Many of the ""preferred"" candidatesincluding Ernst as well as James Lankford in Oklahoma and Jack Kingston in Georgiaare anything but pragmatic.",0_0
"The oceans contain about 50 times more CO2 than the atmosphere, mostly as bicarbonates. When the temperature of the ocean rises a little, more CO2 is released into the atmosphere, and when it cools down, goes back more CO2 in the water. Small changes in the CO2 content of water correspond to large changes in the atmosphere. Moreover, some of the CO2 will be permanently removed from the cycle by the formation of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) as shells of marine organisms that sink to the bottom. We do not know how much the mind, but possibly the proportion is not negligible. The limestone cliffs z. B. at Dover in England and many other places around the world are created.",2_1
"So is rainforest loss, as Postel suggest, nearly 40 million acres per year the alleged equivalent of one football field per second? Well that's the number U.S. News and World Report used as its figure in a major article debunking environmental myths. But other environmentalists use slightly lower figures.",0_0
"Corrupting science is bad. Al Gore promotes spending by governments around the globe to finance his multibillion dollar venture capital fund, KPCB, which owns 16 GreenTech firms and Google. Providing government grants for fraudulent science research promoting caps on CO2 production is a conflict of interest. I personally found flawed science in peer reviewed papers in Science and Proceedings of The Royal Society and published my findings in a letter to HP in January 2009.",5_2
"If the physics are so simple, why are temperatures below Hansens zero emissions Scenario C?",5_1
Russian president Vladimir Putin (#4) is more interested in developing a plan to step up his challenge to NATO than to scale down his nation's emission.,0_0
"A reference list compiled by CO2Science shows that there are at least 96 proxy studies of Europe, North America, South America, Asia, and Aus/NZ with quantitative estimates of MWP temperatures, plus 109 more with qualitative estimates, and an additional 116 providing evidence that it was a significant, centuries long event that came and went fairly suddenly.",2_1
CO2sceptics News Blog | Morano on CNN debates alleged 'censorship' of global warming science (Video & Transcript),0_0
"Again the overall rise of the past 200 years is easily explained by sunspots, which is why a lot of people are nervous about cooling. After all, if you are claiming the sun caused the warming, andyou take it away, and the oceans flip to their negative phase, and a couple of volcanoes blow to boot, then there is real trouble. Hence the triple crown of cooling, which I showed on national TV 4 years ago when explaining why the cooling would commence, and by 2030 temperatures would return to levels seen in the late 1970s.",1_2
"And that's why I've got an old tobacco tin with cash and a ticket to Singapore buried in my backyard ; ...Cecilia Reynolds, the dean of education at the University of Saskatchewan, said the college is currently considering making the math education course an elective. Related , from the Frontier Centre. h/t LC Bennett",0_0
Sanitation Union Fires Back At Accusations Of Slow-Down:,0_0
CO2 is not a Greenhouse Gas that Raises Global temperature. Period!,2_3
"""The Commission mistakenly equates Intel's market share with market power. In fact, Intel has managed to sustain its market share over time only because it has continued to innovate aggressively and compete with archrival AMD to bring better processors to the market. This dynamic state of affairs has benefited consumers immensely. Spending millions of taxpayer dollars intervening in a well-functioning market is an enormous waste.""",0_0
"I, then, explained what I call the Obama Doctrinehis primary mode of operation: ""Reward your friends, punish your opposition."" With a shrug, I told them, ""You don't need to know anything more than that to know that Keystone will not be approved.""",0_0
Heres another example: Gravesend sizzles in late September sun,0_0
"Ackermann reminds us: History shows us that this is precisely what never has put us on the path to democracy, freedom and prosperity.",0_0
Proxy sample temperature differences (mostly land surface)= approx. zero,0_0
"Clouds seeded with salt water would be thicker, and would reflect more heat back toward the sun, away from Earth. Cooling effects - as well as other, adverse consequences - have been observed after volcanic eruptions.",0_0
They could have mentioned the remarkable absence of hurricanes making US landfall in the last 6 years or the fact there have many earlier decades with more major hurricane strikes than the last one.,1_7
"However, this graph basically said otherwise. I was left asking myself how I could vote for a carbon pollution reduction scheme if it appeared as though carbon dioxide emissions were not driving climate change. It is important to point out that the IPCC had predicted in their models that there would be a direct correlation between increasing carbon dioxide emissions and increasing global temperatures. However, if you look at the graph it is obvious to everyone that this correlation simply does not exist.",2_3
The last year has seen a realization among many in the media that the case against GMOs is without merit.,0_0
"The early complaints are coming in large part from a former aide to Congress' No.1 climate change skeptic, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. The ex-aide, Marc Morano, has virtually devoted his blog ClimateDepot to lambasting Gingrich's stance on energy issues.",0_0
"May Obama also prod the SEC to stop delaying provisions of that bill that would lift barriers to crowdfunding, allowing sites like Kickstarter to allow equity shares in projects as well as trinkets.",0_0
"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 turn to crime. More will have strokes and heart attacks. More will die prematurely or commit suicide. For no measurable benefits.",0_0
The ink-ocracy: Some Republican-friendly columnists turned on the McCain-Palin ticket; others stayed right amid the wave of rampant Obama worship. How long will it take before they find a new darling to champion?,0_0
Taking the temperature: Climate change poll From Scientific American Readers,0_0
"In line with environmentalist ideology and Democratic Party ideals, it's also expanding efforts to eliminate the last vestiges of drilling, mining, timber harvesting, ranching, farming and property inholdings (private lands allowed to remain within subsequently designated parks, wildlife refuges and wilderness areas) on government-controlled lands in America's western states and Alaska. Many call it cultural cleansing, to create private recreational domains for the rich and famous.",0_0
"Iran has touted its ability to continue with domestic energy production, notably in the South Pars natural gas field in the Persian Gulf, despite international sanctions targeting its energy sector. In the Caspian, however, Irans recent claims may put it at odds with its neighbours over their rights in disputed territorial waters.",0_0
"The three Australian researchers report that (1) ""most models show substantial deviations from the observations and from each other in most domains,"" that (3) ""the CMIP models tend to largely overestimate the effective spatial number degrees of freedom,"" that (4) the models ""simulate too strongly localized patterns of SST variability at the wrong locations with structures that are different from the observed,"" and that (7) ""the mismatch between the models is as big as the mismatch with the observations.""",5_1
"NEMS is used by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the Department of Energy as well as various nongovernmental organizations for a variety of purposes, including forecasting the effects of energy policy changes on a plethora of leading economic indicators. The methodologies, assumptions, conclusions, and opinions in this report are entirely the work of statisticians and economists at The Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis (CDA) and have not been endorsed by and do not necessarily reflect the views of the developers of NEMS.",0_0
NCDC head Thomas Karl will serve as the climate services transitional director. NOAA also plans to create new positions for six regional climate service directors.,0_0
"The authors write that ""because of climate unpredictability, species have evolved a certain amount of tolerance to various abiotic climate-related factors in their responses to warming and cooling events,"" noting that such responses may have been driven by natural selection , ""in which case,"" as they continue, ""genetic traits that provide a higher fitness under the new climate regime are selected, or they may be phenotypically plastic, where the organism can adjust its phenotype without any genotypic change,"" as described by West-Eberhard (2003). What was done",3_2
How the Climategate emails were extracted from the UEA CRUnit may or may not have been a criminal act that has still not been determined. But Dr. Thug clearly doesnt understand how this whole public/private nature of correspondence is categorized. Let me explain.,0_0
"Climate Depot describes it as a ""clitanic disaster,"" but the global warming scientists and eco-tourists trapped in Antarctic ice held a sing-along to welcome the new year while awaiting rescue.",0_0
A version of this article appeared in the summer edition of the Manhattan Institute's City Journal.,0_0
The issue of ramming huge piles into the seabed is becoming increasingly controversial in the installation of offshore windparks.,0_0
"Finding that the estimated historic increase in carbon dioxide was not enough to cause dangerous warming on its own, the modellers guessed that atmospheric water vapour would amplify, by a factor of three, any initial carbon dioxide-forced warming.",5_1
"The actual Arctic has almost exactly normal sea ice, with only a few weeks remaining in the melt season.",1_1
"Note: A climate delusionist, is someone who increases their confidence that humans caused the 20th century warming at the same time as their predicted warming fails to materialise and almost none of their predicted trends for extreme weather prove to be true. Rising confidence at a time your predictions are moving false is a clear sign of delusion.",5_2
"In the words of the author, the above results ""suggest that the accelerated urbanization process in recent decades may have substantially contributed to the warming of the urban air observed in large cities in Mexico."" Once again, therefore, we are reminded of the huge magnitude of the urban heat island effect, even compared to the global warming of the past century, which climate alarmists claim was unprecedented over the past twenty centuries, as well as the urban heat island's dependence upon the nature of the urban landscape. These observations suggest to us that it is essentially impossible to adequately adjust surface air temperature measurements made within an urban area to the degree of accuracy required to correctly quantify background or rural climate change, which may well be an order of magnitude smaller than the perturbing effect of the city. Reviewed 29 March 2006",5_1
"In February 2016, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that OSTP must produce these records, since the emails did not involve privileged agency policymaking, and the drafts of OSTP's rejection letter had lost their privileged status by being shared with a non-agency employee. OSTP had claimed the professor it was shared with was a neutral consultant, and thus, functionally an agency employee. But the judge ruled that the professor, who is the principal exponent of the idea that global warming is causing more winter cold, was an interested party, not a neutral consultant. Thus, none of the records were privileged under FOIA's Exemption 5 deliberative process privilege.",0_0
"A new NASA research project aims to study how changes in water vapor and ozone in the upper atmosphere result in ""significant climate impacts"" on the Earth surface. Prior research has shown that tiny changes in solar activity within and between solar cycles can have greatly amplified effects upon climate by altering the specific humidity of the upper atmosphere, as well as ozone production in the stratosphere due to large changes in solar UV. This new mission may add to our understanding of how small changes in solar activity can drive large scale changes in atmospheric circulation, ocean oscillations, weather, and climate.",2_1
"The trick to reconstructing temperatures here involves the shell remains of planktonic diatoms that have lived in the Lake for eons. During warm periods, some species of diatom phytoplankton flourish while during cold periods, some species flourish while most reduce production. Cores from the bottom of the Lake therefore contain a high-resolution temperature record for hundreds of thousands of years interpreted from biogenic silica left from the plankton.",0_0
"And whoops! climate scientists conceded last year that the Earths surface temperature stopped rising in 1997. (Or did temps take a temporary pause, as warmists say?) Too bad for makers of jet-skis and tank tops: We might see global cooling into the 2030s.",1_4
September Snow Cover Was Highest On Record In North America,0_0
"* Meeting this threat head on, CEI on Monday, May 16, petitioned the District of Columbia Superior Court to fine AG Walker for violating the organization's First Amendment rights under the District of Columbia's Anti-SLAPP law, and for attorneys' fees and other sanctions.",0_0
"Mexico's deputy foreign minister, Juan Manuel Gomez Robledo, said more countries had said in private consultations that they intended to add their pledges to the list of 85. Some countries that already have submitted pledges may take ""additional measures,"" he said. He declined to name any country, but said they included both industrial and developing nations.",0_0
"?? certain ABC reporters seem to be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome when it comes to interviewing scientists promoting climate alarm. They appear so besotted they are failing to properly scrutinize experts and authoritative documents like IPCC assessments and government reports. They put their faith in authority without bothering to properly verify the facts, the way journalists did in the good old days. In doing so they act as echo chambers spreading misconceptions and exaggerations in the process.",5_2
like that of last summer? That?s the sort of thing we need to think about.,0_0
"Dangerous manmade global cooling, global warming, climate change, and extreme weather claims continue to justify what has become a $1.5-trillion-per-year industry: tens of billions spent annually on one-sided research and hundreds of billions sent to crony corporatists to subsidize replacing dependable, affordable carbon-based fuels with unreliable, expensive ""renewable"" energy.",0_0
The Daily Caller reports on Attorney General Claude Walker's refusal to admit he violated CEI's First Amendment rights and quotes Kent Lassman's response.,0_0
"Climate change: A new religion complete with evangelists, tithes, indulgences and superstitions",5_2
"This is unpersuasive. The majority base their interpretation on CAA 165(a)(4) , which states that no major source may be constructed unless ?the proposed facility is subject to the best available control technology for each pollutant subject to regulation under this chapter.? They conveniently drop the qualifier that appears at the beginning of the quoted sentence. The full text reads:",0_0
"Seriously, these two have failed. Failed completely, utterly and abysmally with their climate predictions. After these terrible events abate, these people should be put in front of some sort of panel and held to account for their predictions and asked why they were so wrong. It wont happen of course but why should anyone give two squirts of guinea pigs piss about their predictions for the future?",0_0
"To add to the confusion, a Greenpeace press release from 1995 describes him as a ?nuclear expert? (screengrab here).",0_0
Figure 21 is the model-data comparison of the sea surface temperatures of the Arctic Ocean. The models captured the warming rate of the Arctic Ocean sea surface temperatures reasonably well.,0_0
"As for why the Florida Keys corals have fared so well, when climate alarmists claim ""we're on the eve of destruction,"" Helmle et al . write that the answer could be that ""massive reef-building corals are not as susceptible to declines in ?? arag as demonstrated by laboratory experiments; local processes, such as high seasonal variation in ?? arag in the Florida Keys, may be temporarily enabling these corals to maintain their historical rates of calcification; the role of ?? arag in controlling calcification is masked amidst considerable natural inter-annual variability; or the actual in situ reef-site carbonate chemistry is decoupled from the oceanic values, which could occur as a result of shifts in benthic community metabolism, mineral buffering and/or coastal biogeochemical processes.""",3_2
"The previous record was 58.8 inches that fell before, during and after the Blizzard of 1978. However, this time, that record was set in 17 days, not 30.'",0_0
"Investigations by state governments of a company's donations and its positions on climate-change legislation are legally baseless, because any sanctions imposed on Exxon for them would obviously run afoul of the First Amendment (as newspapers like The Washington Post and USA Today have noted). As the Post's Robert Samuelson noted, Exxon is being targeted for ""expressing its opinions.""",0_0
"These are important scientific questions which have either been poorly, or not at all, examined in climate assessments such as the IPCC and CCSP reports. Clearly, we need to move beyond such assessments that are written by individuals who are mostly evaluating their own research. Policymakers are poorly served by this inbred assessment framework by the scientific community.",0_0
"Ms. Macfarlane: Polar ice, sea levels, storms, ocean acidification. I am not going to get into a discussion on this issue because there is a scientific consensus.",0_0
How to deal with a Global Warming skeptic in a cooling world,0_0
"Eighty percent of world trade travels by sea, and 60 percent of the world's oil is shipped by about 4,000 tankers: ""Were terrorist pirates to hijack a large bulk carrier or oil tanker, sail it into one of the chokepoints, and scuttle it to block the sea-lane, the consequences for the world economy would be severe: a spike in oil prices, an increase in the cost of shipping due to the need to use alternate routes, congestion in sea-lanes and ports, more expensive maritime insurance, and probable environmental disaster. Worse yet would be several such attacks happening simultaneously in multiple locations worldwide.""30",0_0
Unsettled Science: Effects of clouds on climate still unknown,0_0
"In the past, America becoming more like California might have been a good thing. If the President still believes that, he hasn't been paying attention.",0_0
"In short, most AOGCMs do not simulate the spatial or intra-seasonal variation of monsoon precipitation accurately.",5_1
"As usual, though, none of these shallow bloggers makes any attempt actually to verify whether what poor Abraham is saying actually has the slightest contact with reality.",0_0
Dana Joel Gattuso's op-ed in The Washington Times,0_0
"With a few weeksof growth still to occur, the Arctic has blown away the previous record for ice gain this winter. This is only the third winter in history when more than 10 million km of new ice has formed.",1_1
Meanwhile the Gulf of Mexico has warmed above normal due to the southeast ridge the last 6 weeks.,0_0
"On his international missions, Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), called for radical action to stave off environmental disaster.",0_0
"Even without the scandal, the very idea of scientific consensus should give us pause. ""Consensus,"" according to Merriam-Webster, means both ""general agreement"" and ""group solidarity in sentiment and belief."" That pretty much sums up the dilemma. We want to know whether a scientific consensus is based on solid evidence and sound reasoning, or social pressure and groupthink.",5_1
"3) Snow: Why Britain Has Been Brought To A Standstill Again Daily Express, 3 December 2010",0_0
"CLEVELAND, Feb. 16 (A.A.P.) Dr. William S. Carlson, an Arctic expert, said to-night that the Polar icecaps were melting at an astonishing and unexplained rate and were threatening to swamp seaports by raising the ocean level s.",0_0
"The two-year-old Darfur conflict, stemming from the fallout of a peace deal to end the country's decades-old civil war, has driven about two million people from their villages to live in camps and killed 300,000 others.",0_0
"In the oceans, there is a buffering reaction between the sea floor basalts and sea water (see below). Sea water has a local and regional variation in pH (pH 7.8 to 8.3). It should be noted that pH is a log scale and that if we are to create acid oceans, then there is not enough CO2 in fossil fuels to create oceanic acidity because most of the planets CO2 is locked up in rocks.",3_2
"What strikes me is not that leftism does not work, but that when it is indulged and doesnt work, its beneficiaries scream at the unfairness of it allin the fashion that a theorist who claimed 2 plus 2 equals 5 blames the construct of mathematics because his equation is not true.",0_0
"This sentiment did not trickle down to the EPA, which is less concerned with feeding the world than feeding the ethanol lobby and buying Farm Belt electoral votes. The EPA will now rule on the hunger issue post-election.",0_0
"""The Supreme Court's ruling today in the American Electric Power case dealt a major blow to efforts by states to use the courts to force industry, under the federal common law of public nuisance, to limit its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The court reversed the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which had ruled litigation could go forward even though the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is in the midst of imposing emission limits.",0_0
Murry Salbys paradox and the destructive elements of the climate debate,0_0
"In light of their findings, as well as those of other scientists studying the subject, Mayfield et al . say ""there is now a growing body of evidence to support the notion that corals inhabiting more thermally unstable habitats outperform conspecifics from reefs characterized by more stable temperatures when exposed to elevated temperatures,"" citing Coles (1975), Castillo and Helmuth (2005) and Oliver and Palumbi (2011). And they report that ""in other systems, provocative gene expression changes, such as the constitutive up-regulation of genes involved in thermotolerance (e.g., hsps; Heath et al ., 1993; Feder, 1996), underlie the capacity for organisms to inhabit high and/or variable temperature environments,"" such as has more recently been documented in corals by Barshis et al . (2013).",3_2
"""Online gamblers in Australia have been visiting the three big online poker sites that the U.S. Feds seized last month for years. Poker stars, Full Tilt and Absolute Poker are no strangers to gamblers down under even though Australian authorities have had their own version of UIGEA law longer than the US has. The Interactive Gambling Act in Australia prohibits the ""provision of an interactive gambling service to the citizens of Australia. But it is estimated that unregulated online casinos pull in over $1 Billion a year from hundreds of thousands of online punters and gamblers in OZ.""",0_0
"I must disagree. As jamspid pointed out, what on earth have Boko Haram or ISIS got to do with Bush and Blair? I doubt that most of their members have ever heard of Bush and Blair, or their doctrine. Indeed, Im not aware of what that doctrine is supposed to be. And note, a doctrine is a set of beliefs or principles quite separate from action.",0_0
"Im exhausted so Im going to bed, I hope the wording is intelligible.",0_0
Is the Obama Administration Trying to Expand Federal Collective Bargaining?By Ivan Osorio,0_0
"Apparently the heat of combustion of wood has changed, most likely accompanied by the a change in the weight of ducks.",0_0
"Well gosh, Walsh does gorebull warbling, again. Arent we all surprised",0_0
"Introduced on February 9th, 2009 the bill was subtitled, ""An Act to ensure Canada assumes its responsibilities in preventing dangerous climate change."" This was, of course, before Climate-gate, before Glacier-gate, before the Canadian IPCC Citizens Audit showed that fully 1/3 of the IPCC 4th Assessment Report's references were not peer-reviewed, and before the Copenhagen Climate Conference failed amid statements like the one from the head of the G77 Group, Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping, who said, "" asks Africa to sign a suicide pact, an incineration pact in order to maintain the economic dominance of a few countries. It is a solution based on values, the very same values in our opinion that funnelled six million people in Europe into furnaces.""",0_0
"Not primarily. Laws and polices, influenced by environmentalists, are actually moving the ""wild lands"" closer to us. Since the ""50s, only 26 percent of former farmland has been urbanized. Much of the rest has become new forest land in a phenomenon called reforestation. The share of forested land increased from 50 percent to 86 percent in New Hampshire.",0_0
"Chapter 4, by Stephen MooreThe Coming Age of Abundance",0_0
Apparently that seemed to be a bit of an expansionary stretch even for EPA. And then what did they do?,0_0
"Figure 2 & 3 show the latest territorial distribution of emissions, and the change over the last ten years.While emissions in the US and EU have fallen by around 8% and 14% respectively, they have sharply increased not only in China and India, but also in the Rest of the World.",0_0
"What would the effect of the temperature changes be, both negative AND positive. Undoubtedly some things would be worse, while others, like longer growing seasons, would be better",0_0
"The Obama administration lied to change a major foreign policy issue. Other lies are about less important but not unimportant issues. The French economist Thomas Piketty claimed that capitalism squeezes the middle and lower classes to favor the rich. Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century and other studies that followed supported that argument by relying on deceptive dataspecifically, income before taxes and transfers. Critics pointed out that the case is much weaker if income after taxes and transfers is used, as it should be. That's much closer to the receipts that people have. And the differences are large. Transfers that are not part of income before taxes amount to more than $1 billion annually. The top 20 percent of taxpayers paid 84 percent of all income taxes in recent years. And the derided top 1 percent paid 23.5 percent of the income tax.",0_0
"At the same time, the paleoclimate data revealed average ocean temperatures that were only about 0.7 degrees Celsius, or 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit, above those of today.",2_1
is an important one. the IPCC curve needs to be improved according to,0_0
"Even on a frozen planet, H2O would be much more abundant than CO2, and H2O also absorbs a much wider spectrum of LW radiation.",2_3
"Well then, can we not assume that if the 22-year cycles have an impact, also the 78-year, 210-year, and 1000-year solar activitycycles must have a significantcorrelation with the earths climate too? Already there are dozens of proxy records showing that this is precisely the case.",2_1
"Climate Change, February 2014, Volume 122, Issue 3, pp 447-458",0_0
"The Reynolds OI.v2 sea surface temperature data presented in this post is available through the NOAA NOMADS website , or through the KNMI Climate Explorer .",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Technology Analyst Peter Suderman on regulation of social networking websites:,0_0
"What is interesting is that the primary reason for this is not skepticism on global warming per se, even though many recognize that there are more things in heaven and earth than in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. What drove a growing number of people, and not just in the center-right coalition, to become dubious about the EU road to climate serfdom is the acknowledgment that the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and the other political tools aimed at cutting emissions would produce negligible environmental benefits, if any. However, they would have a significant cost for the Italian economy, and even more concerning they entail a major restructuring of the EU structure, with the creation of an ad hoc bureaucracy that has a vested interest in keeping the alarms on, instead of promoting a fair assessment of costs and benefits of the proposed policies.",0_0
"""But this jet stream is also bringing dry air from eastern Africa right up into Russia and this continuous heatwave is allowing the wildfires to build.""",0_0
"Liu et al . report that ""overall, the total Antarctic sea ice extent (the cumulative area of grid boxes covering at least 15% ice concentrations) has shown an increasing trend (~4,801 km 2 /yr)."" In addition, they find that ""the total Antarctic sea ice area (the cumulative area of the ocean actually covered by at least 15% ice concentrations) has increased significantly by ~13,295 km 2 /yr, exceeding the 95% confidence level,"" noting that ""the upward trends in the total ice extent and area are robust for different cutoffs of 15, 20, and 30% ice concentrations (used to define the ice extent and area)."" What it means",1_1
"Under the Data Quality Act, material which is considered ""influential scientific information""--in other words, is likely to influence public policy or private sector decisions--is also subject to the scrutiny of scientific validation. The National Assessment on Climate Change (2000) and EPA's Climate Action Report 2002 base their analyses of the potential impacts of climate change on two computer models that are incapable of providing reliable predictions. Efforts to validate these two models actually exposed them as less capable at predicting climate impacts than a table of random numbers. The law prohibits this.",5_1
"Nonetheless, although it's true that the treaty won't be ratified any time soon, it can be kept on hold in the Oval Office. A number of other treaties are likewise waiting in the West Wing: the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the Law of the Sea Convention, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the Basel Convention on Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes. Clinton could start implementing Kyoto surreptitiously. He could use the Clean Air Actparticulate matter/ozone standards promulgated by the EPA last year. Other regulations can be brought into play, requiring sharp increases in fuel efficiency for automobiles. Appliance standards can be ratcheted upward. The alternative energy subsidies doled out at the time of the 1970s energy crisis will be back with us. Five billion dollars in tax breaks and subsidies are planned to promote solar power, electric cars, wind power, and so on.",0_0
"There are too many coincidences here that a sane homeowner wouldn't expect if the ""experts"" were real independent experts who were giving him a pure professional analysis.",0_0
"on Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 at 2:25 am and is filed under News.",0_0
"When I started to do this, I focused on American voters. But I soon realized that working-class voters exhibit similar traits in other countries as well. Ask an American working-class voter why he supports Democrats, and he or she is likely to say it's because Democrats support ""the little guy."" Reading about English voters in Claire Berlinski's biography of Margaret Thatcher, There Is No Alternative, I found the exact same phrase used by English miners to describe their support for Labour. When I found the same phrase being used by Australian working-class voters to describe their attraction to the Australian Labour Party, I decided I needed to learn more.",0_0
"June 20, 2014. Princeton, New Jersey. Recently climate scientists here at the ???Center for the Study of Earth and Moon?? have discovered a dramatic warming effect on the Earth??s climate, which is likely to be caused by the orbit of the moon around the earth. It is estimated that up to 18% of the warming of the earth??s atmosphere and oceans observed in recent years, could be caused by moon and its power for reflecting heat-causing photons upon the earth and creating the tides.",2_1
"The system will be operating below the marginal capacity needed to ensure supply rellability at all times. In other words, in peak periods like heat waves, there won't be enough electricity to go around. Blackouts will inevitably result",0_0
The press release is about the Velarde et al. (2015) paper Warm oceanographic anomalies and fishing pressure drive seabird nesting north . The abstract reads:,0_0
"3. In the first half of the sample period from 1954 to 1983, there were nine years when there were more than 60 violent tornadoes, and the annual average was 52 during that period. In contrast, in the second half of the sample from 1984 to 2012 there were only two years when there were more than 60 violent tornadoes, and the annual average was only 37.6.",0_0
Rex Murphy slandered for stating a fact: the planet is cooling,0_0
"The other day in the Herald , Mr Chris Barton took up the topic of global warming in an article headed Climate debate adrift on rising tide of lunacy .",5_2
(4) The return of a nuclear industry that will prosper on State guarantees and produce large amounts of radioactive garbage nobody has found as yet a good way to dispose of,0_0
"That ""all adult citizens should have the legal right to conscientiously choose which vaccines are administered to themselves, or their minor children, without penalty for refusing a vaccine.",0_0
"Note alsothat the proposed 1,000 lb CO2/MWhperformance standardis substantially similar to the NSPS proposed in section 116 the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill , which would require a 50% reduction in CO2 emissions from new coal plants permitted before Jan. 2020. The Waxman-Markey legislation narrowly passed in the House but companion legislation died in the Senate. The Carbon Pollution Rule sure looks like an attempt to end-run the legislative process and enact a policy Congress has rejected .",0_0
"fuel needs. ""So its not making us energy independent at all, and its",0_0
"With respect to the simulations of the 20 th Century, it appears the modelers did change some forcings during the mid-20 th Century flat temperature period, in an effort to force the models to show more of a decrease in temperature between 1944 and 1976. Yet the models still have difficulties simulating the rates at which global surface temperatures warmed and cooled since 1901. Compared to the weighted average of HADSST3 and CruTem4 data (used to approximate HadCRUT4 global surface temperature data), the models are still only able to simulate the rate at which global surface temperatures rose during the late 20 th Century warming period of 1976 to 2006. They still cannot simulate the rates at which global surface temperatures warmed and cooled before 1976.",5_1
"* Polls show strong support for building the Keystone pipeline. In March 2012, 57 percent told Gallup the U.S. government should approve the building of the pipeline, while 29 percent thought the government shouldn't.",0_0
"Anyway, can the IPCC do not hvda that we have never before seen a s rapid tempera Turkish accession. NNU an argument that falls.",0_0
"On the other hand, it didn't stop him from being a jerk of a sort, either. In 1936, he warned the Soviet officials that the mathematics community was full of counter-revolutionaries in the so-called Luzin affair. People were losing jobs. He was not only an aggressive commie, he was a sort of fascist, too. During mathematical conferences, he would scream that a pro-Israel Jewish scientist named Nathan Jacobson was a mediocre mathematician and racist because he was a Zionist. Another, even better Jewish mathematician, Grigory Margulis, won the Fields medal but couldn't get the permission to leave the USSR after Pontryagin painted him as a dirty Jew, too.",0_0
"I may be wrong, but in my opinion, the averaging over multiple data sets is better than relying on only one.",0_0
"Davis' tactics were honed further under Dennis Rivera, who led 1199 from 1989 to 2007. Rivera grew up middle-class in Puerto Rico and moved to New York in 1977; his first job on the mainland was as an organizer for 1199. Upon being elected union president, Rivera faced two challenges. Davis's long-delayed retirement in 1982 had led to bitter factionalism among his successors. Rivera projected a calm, optimistic outlook that appealed strongly to members, and he sought to swell 1199's ranks by enlisting a variety of local unions to join it.",0_0
"It's a contentious issue, to say the least. JunkScience.com has tried to slice through a little of the overblown rhetoric to see what, if any, cold, hard facts are available.",0_0
"Today, Lysenko synonymous with fraud, but in Stalin's Russia his ideas became law. They reveal a scientific environment distorted by ideology, in which the ideas were literally a matter of life or death. Risked the gulag, those who disagreed with Lysenko, but this has perhaps irreparably damaged the ability of the Soviet Union to fight and win the Cold War.",0_0
"I would also remind you that Germany has repeatedly cited the country alone holds 54% of the entire PV market WORLD, and in Germany they have half of the solar radiation that we have in Italy, converge with me then that the development technology of photovoltaics and still in its infancy (a apnnello today can convert only 14% -16% dellenergeia solar picks), and only by insisting on this button will come in panels with efficiencies that make absolutely no use any fossil fuel.",0_0
"Bao says that he had been interested in this most intriguing episode of Earths history since Paul Hoffman, Dan Schrag and colleagues revived the Snowball Earth hypothesis in 1998.",0_0
"In a Times magazine interview, on December 14, 1936, titled Science: Shift on Shift, Dr Hubble makes his opposition clear. One reason that he was not more forceful was because he was begging the government for funding of the Mount Palomar telescope. Public interest was necessary during the tight depression era federal budgets to complete this project.",0_0
The Washington Post published a blog in January making a case for cold weather during global warming.,0_0
Lying by political leaders is what we expect from totalitarians. Free societies require truth and honesty.,0_0
"The vast majority of this warmingis near the Earths surface, and is due to H2O molecules, rather than CO2. Forecastsoflarge amounts ofCO2 warming, are not based on any legitimate science.",2_3
"The current CAFE standard of 27.5 mpg was responsible for between 2,700 and 4,700 deaths in 1996.",0_0
"The dumbest global warming story below claimed a 1000 year storm surge as proof of sea level rise and global warming. We already established that sea level isnt rising there, but there is another problem.",1_6
"At this point in the solar cycle the sun should be a hive of activity, popping off flares and dotted with sunspots.",0_0
"A whole chapter of Pachauri gems, here is one: I am not going to rest easy until I have articulated in every possible form the need to bring about major structural changes in economic growth and development. Thats the real issue. Climate change is just a part of it.",0_0
"Above all, opponents should spotlight how Kyoto endangers poor countries. To begin with, the U.S. is the single largest market for developing country products. Any Kyoto-induced economic downturn here would wipe out billions of dollars in developing country revenues. If the U.S. economy catches a cold, developing countries will catch pneumonia.",4_1
So what are the implications for the Northwest if a strong El Nino is in place next winter?,0_0
"IPCC AR5 climate model simulations are using the reconstruction from Wang, Lean, Sheeley (2005). Other recent estimates of long term solar variability: Kirova et al. 2011, Shapiro et al. 2011 .",0_0
Don't Like the Weather? Don't Blame it on Global Warming,0_0
"That position follows legal actions against ExxonMobil by attorneys general from California, Massachusetts, New York, and the Virgin Islands which demand that the company turn over decades of correspondence with a lengthy fishing trip listing of other suspected climate crisis skeptics.",0_0
a Special Issue on climate change impacts in Africa and would appear early next,0_0
"The EPA graph shows 2012as the hottest, when in fact it wasnt even in the top ten. They show 1936 at 50%, when in fact it was 75%.",1_4
"Yet the ""norming"" advocates say that the rest of the world, through treaties, United Nations decisions and ""customary international law,"" has already decided these questions: for massively increased government taxation and regulation to combat global warming, for widely available abortions, for gun control and against the death penalty.",0_0
"Already, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been in full retreat after having to concede a 17-year stall in global warming despite levels of atmopheric CO2 rising almost 40 percent in recent decades. The new SABER data now forms part of a real world double whammy against climatologists' computer models that have always been programmed to show CO2 as a warming gas.",1_4
"When I saw that article in the Bend (Oregon) Bulletin , I thought bingo! that eruption hit smack dab in the middle of the Dalton Minimum, a time of extremely low sunspot activity.",0_0
"Fracking and horizontal drilling have been critically important technologies in the extraction of the vast amount of recoverable oil and gas in various parts of the country and the revitalization of America's energy sector. Drilling and extraction create jobs, but there are often tremendous job opportunities for engineers, geologists, mathematicians, truck drivers, welders, and others as well. There are also increased needs for associated manufacturing as well as demand for repair shops, menders, hardware stores, restaurants, hotels, and laundromats among many others. Natural gas and butane, ethane, and propane removed from natural gas provide feedstock for fertilizers, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. The shale gas boom resulted in more than $100 billion in new chemical manufacturing investment.",4_5
A study conducted by a team of weather experts determined the October 2013 blizzard that devastated parts of western South Dakota and Wyoming isnt anything to be alarmed about in the near future.,0_0
How well is the new model performing? Let us count the many ways in which a new study suggests it sure could use some help,0_0
"During his first term, Europe saw George W. Bush as a fluke. He had won in 2000 without a majority, gaining the White House chicanery or outrageous luck, and he had been a disaster as president. Surely, given the choice of the urbane John Kerry, Americans would not re-elect this hick.",0_0
"The results of the Kosalka and Xie simulations can be interpreted in numerous ways. Trying to filter out the ENSO from the PDO signal seems to me to be an erroneous thing to do, given their intrinsic relationship. Using these simulations to attribute the pause (since 2002) to the cooling effect of ENSO/PDO has a corollary that the warm phase of the PDO in the last quarter of the 20th century also contributed to this warming.",2_1
"Martin Lidegaard, the Danish minister for climate and energy, has portrayed the plan as an insurance policy against the rising costs of fossil fuels.",0_0
"So three cheers for Judith Curry, who writes today:",0_0
"Yesterday?s article in the UK?s Telegraph may turn out to be one of a series of similar stories (backup link here). Unfortunately, there?s every indication that these accounts will be written by shockingly uninformed journalists who?ll continue to give Pachauri the benefit of the doubt.",0_0
"Why is it that despite the past decade of increased CO2 emission levels, the temperature has been stable and is predicted by the Hadley Centre to actually go down over the next decade?",1_4
"Over the two years of the study, the CO 2 -enriched plants that were exposed to air containing 49% more CO 2 used 12% less water than the ambient-treatment plants, while they produced 47% more tuber biomass. Hence, the CO 2 -enriched plants experienced a 68% increase in water use efficiency , or the amount of biomass produced per unit of water used in producing it. What it means",3_3
Warming over New Zealand through the past century is unequivocal.,0_0
"The highest recent rate of warming based on its linear trend occurred during the 160-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
"Given that the plaintiffs and the government agree on the ultimate goal while disagreeing only on how to get there, why isn't this an issue properly resolved in the executive and legislative branches of the Dutch government? Because, says the Dutch court, that government's policy choices violate the rights of Dutch citizens.",0_0
"But the results will be worth it. Once the millennial records of changes in oceans, land, and air are sorted out, they can be used to fine-tune computer climate models that take all the same parts of the puzzle into account, says Trenberth. And once those models can be made to reproduce the past climate changes, they can begin forecasting what might happen next. No one knows how accurate such models will be, but it's certain they will need a lot of data and computer power to take into account all the variables that influence the Earth's climate.",5_1
"There is actually a cooling trend. There were ENSO neutral conditions throughout 2001, which makes it a good place to start any comparisons. In contrast, last year had moderate El Nino conditions, which makes the declining trend even more remarkable.",1_4
"Everyone acknowledges that electricity generated from wind and solar cannot be produced and delivered at prices that compete with coal or gas. However, alternative energy advocates believe that someday the cost curves will cross, and that government subsidies will accelerate that days arrival.",0_0
You can see the ice at the summit was very much still in evidence.,0_0
"The five-judge majority, however, deny that Judge Kavanaugh?s narrow reading of the PSD statute is a ?plausible interpretation.? Congress said ?any air pollutant, and it meant it.? The EPA?s broad interpretation ?is the only plausible one.? Let us see.",0_0
"Uganda produces about 63 kilowatt-hours of electricity per person. The U.S. produces about 13,300 kWh per person and EVs still havent caught on.",0_0
"Antarctica has a record amount of ice this year, and has been above normal for almost 500 consecutive days. A perfect time for Huffington Post to declare the continent to be without ice",1_1
"More interesting, though, is the possibility of emerging bipartisan coalitions on sentencing and prison reform and on reform of the National Security Agency. Both are issues that have support from liberal Democrats and libertarian Republicans. Neither is so hot-button that the radio talk show/blogger wind machine on the right would go ballistic at the prospect of bills being signed by the president. There are senators on both sides of the aisle from Al Franken and Ron Wyden to Rand Paul and Mike Lee who could work together on both these issues.",0_0
"That does make me a little uncomfortable about this guy being in charge of global temperature records to show we're destroying the earth. Can't check out his academic/research papers at CRU. Surprisingly, they've been taken down.",0_0
"State Department Friday release: Keystone XL will have little environmental impact, but create 42,100 U.S. jobs",0_0
"Florida hasnt been hit by a hurricane in almost 8 years, the longest hurricane-free period on record. In the 19th century, Florida averaged about one hurricane per year compared to one every other year now.",1_7
"Also good, and rather surprising, was Revkin's choice to take some of his colleagues to task for over-hyping the results of individual scientific studies by claiming the latest paper out of whichever journal is conclusive proof that we are even now in the midst of catastrophic climate change. It was good to hear.",0_0
"After watching the IPCC crowd for the last 25+ years, I feel pretty confident they would be falling all over themselves declaring ?it?s worse than we thought!? They would be adjusting the sensitivity of their models to produce even more warming.",0_0
"Here is aclear-cutexample of advocacy by a scientist, Marcia McNutt , who also happens to be the Chief Editor of Science : The beyond-two-degree inferno . Read the whole thing, its only about 600 words.I cite here the passages that I particularly want to comment on:",5_2
"AGW alarmists tell us that Arctic ice is melting because of global warming. So what happened 6,000 years ago , exactly?",2_1
I guess Karoly has been taking lessons on honesty in climate communications from Phil Jones.,0_0
"In addition amore detailedanalysis might well indicate that, in spite of the cost of fuel being essentially free, the development, fabrication and installation of both Solar and Wind-powerinstallationsinvolves the release of substantial amounts of CO2. The actual savings of CO2 emissions may be hardlyexceededover their installed working life of these Renewable technologies.",4_4
"It is sheer hubris for humans, even the supposedly smart ones, to believe they can predict the future with any accuracy.",0_0
"Last, according to Chen and Tung (2014), hiatus periods due to the sequestration of ocean heat to depth in the Atlantic and Southern Oceans can last 20 to 35 years. And they note the current hiatus period has already lasted 15 years. That indicates weve got another 5 to 20 years more to go with the current hiatus.",1_4
It seems hard to think that the intent of the Epstein et al. work was anything other than to find large negative externalities from using coal to produce electricity and to cast coal-fired electricity in a negative light.,0_0
"There are food taboos. Instead of eating fish on Friday, or avoiding pork, Greens now eat organic foods and many are moving towards eating only locally grown foods.",0_0
Part 2 will continue where Part 1 left off. Denning and Lehr debate the final four clips from Al Gore's movie: 3) Melting ice will cause low-lying cities to disappear; 4) Polar bears are endangered because ice is their habitat; 4) Can this nation rise above itself and history to solve global warming?; 6) Global warming is casing rapid melting of ice on top Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa.,0_0
And I am not conceding that the apparently elevated levels of carbon dioxide are driving global temperatures.,2_3
"If Michael Mann can sue Tim Ball in Canada for libel, Heartland ought to have a case against David Suzuki as well.",0_0
"The fact that all the world's complex and expensive climate models can't explain climate change since the last glacial period ended is one of the little talked about embarrassments of climate science. In a new study, soon to be published in PNAS, a team led by Zhengyu Liu, a researcher at the Nelson Center for Climatic Research and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, has come out of the modeling closet to examine the model-data inconsistency. They took as their baseline a study by Shaun Marcott et al. previously published in Science. The composite proxy record generated by those researchers is shown below.",5_1
"In the meantime, out of the media spotlight, thousands of people gathered on the Mall for the festivals that had been properly booked. As Ludacris and Madonna crooned (if you can call it that) in the bask of media attention, the Folklife Festival was abuzz with the sounds of Southeast Asian flute music, folk songs and dances from Northern Ireland, and the bluegrass tunes of rural Virginia.",0_0
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is investigating the state-funded global warming researchUniversity of Virginia professor to see if he defrauded taxpayers; UVA is refusing to cooperate. of a former,0_0
"Last week, I mentioned a study which Roy Spencer had done a couple of years ago into tornadoes, and which suggested that a greater number of strong/violent tornadoes occurred in cool years.",1_7
"So, goodbye dear old friend, we will always miss you. You made each day that much better, and from now on each day will be that much worse.",0_0
"National Geographic published an article titled, Blizzard of Noreasters No Surprise, Thanks to Climate Change.",0_0
"The White House is expected to bypass Congress if any U.N. climate treaty is signed by arguing whatever comes out of Paris isn't a treaty, but an international commitment made by Obama using existing U.S. laws and regulations.",0_0
"Paper demonstrates the claim made by the IPCC that Himalayan glaciers were retreating at an abnormal rate and would disappear by 2035 was unsubtantiated. Glaciers in the Himalayas, over a period of the last 100 years, behave in contrasting ways, some shrinking, some expanding, some staying about the same. It is premature to make a statement that glaciers in the Himalayas are retreating abnormally because of the global warming.",1_1
"Smiths system of natural liberty, therefore, came very close to the free-market ideal of laissez-faire.",0_0
"Even cutting it down to 1825 start date is a bit large. Notice that the trend of the blade on our little hockey stick tries to get a lift in trend, but our recent cool spate and sleepy sun have quashed it. Unless you measure from a cherry picked baseline, there is no warming. Everything is substantially like it has been in the past. We did have some cold times, but weve had warm times too. 100 year weather changes. 30 year climate is an oxymoron.",2_1
"By now, you may realize that the acidic CO2 and photosynthesis does not cause a decline of the pH in natural water but an increase instead. In fact, that has been documented by the annual pH spikes observed in ocean water like at the ALOHA Station offshore Hawaii and in freshwater at the Experimental Lakes Area in Canada . When the photosynthesis activity is strong, i.e. in spring and summer, the pH of the water rises. You can demonstrate that yourself with a simple experiment that I have previously described. Give it a try, its easy to do (next to no work required), the ingredients cost next to nothing and it will amaze you.",3_2
The Climate Exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco,0_0
The IUCNs Dr. Andrew Smith is the only researcher with results from long term pika monitoring that actually provides insight into the natural frequency of extinction and recolonization.,0_0
"However, previous periods free of global warming did not occur while Man was putting more CO2 in the air anything like as rapidly as he is today. Now that CO2 concentration is rising, so should temperature be rising, if the IPCC were correct about how much warming we should expect as CO2 concentration increases.",2_3
"#2 0.5 < Pr( A | E ) < 1 and which reads ""The probability that A is true is greater than a half but not certain given the evidence E. This answer is the best we can do with the given evidence.",0_0
Dr Pearman suggested that much of the 0.7 degree Celsius increase in the earths temperature over the last 100 years has occurred in the last 10 years. Yet the last really hot year was in 1998 and global temperatures have since plateaued.,1_4
"""Improve the ecological condition""? Doesn't that cover pretty much anything the Forest Service does? That's not really much of a promise when the point of this ""investment"" is specifically to fight global warming by planting more trees. One wonders if the people who are sending their money in are reading the fine print. After all, how would those same people react if their college-student son called them asking for money, promising to spend it on books ""...as well as beer."" I imagine they would at least expect some sort of books-to-beer budget breakdown. The way this offset scheme is described, your heard-earned money could end up being spent on anything from bear repellent to re-tiling the bathroom in the ranger's cabin.",0_0
"While it might not have been obvious, I am trying to come up with a quantitative method for correcting past temperature measurements for the localized warming effects due to the urban heat island (UHI) effect. I am generally including in the ???UHI effect?? any replacement of natural vegetation by manmade surfaces, structures and active sources of heat. I don??t want to argue about terminology, just keep things simple.",5_1
Boston snow still melting in man-made glacier of ice and trash,0_0
<4938> Jenkins/MetO:,0_0
It??s interesting that the very first incident of hide-the-decline in IPCC literature was in a graphic prepared by the UK Met Office.,5_2
"Although controversy regarding the management of the GBR may appear of minor public interest from a U.S. perspective, it will be national news here in Australia and PNAS could find itself very much involved in a most difficult to defend position should prompt and decisive action not be taken.",0_0
"Charles Battig, M.D., Piedmont Chapter president, VA-Scientists and Engineers for Energy and Environment (VA-SEEE). His website is www.climateis.wordpress.com",0_0
"(ii) If e << 1, the dynamical transports of heat dominate over radiative cooling. This regime, characteristicof Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn. Thus, for e << 1 a very small or negligible equator-to-pole temperaturedifference is expected. For similar reasons, the diurnal variation of temperature on such a planetwould be negligibly small.",0_0
"""Two new initiatives at the University of Cambridge aim to address the growing demand on the Earth's resources for food and fuel by improving the process of photosynthesis.""",0_0
"In yesterdays posting, we saw how an excursion of 80% of record ranges would provide more than enough tracking error to cause biased analysis. (Tracking error of the excursion from a full average for temperatures in a city such that the analysis done by folks using The Reference Station Method or comparing a Grid Box in one time to a box made from different thermometers in another time could easily have large errors).",5_1
Heritage Foundation Panel on the Social Cost of Carbon featuring Marlo Lewis,0_0
"Lets clarify a few things on another of Anthonys excellent posts, like this one Hey Hansen! Wheres the Beef !?",0_0
Note how all the issues in the progressive civil war played out in this discussion. Should we aim for incremental amelioration or bold transformation? Should public opinion cause progressives to slow down or not? Is the public genuinely for liberal progressivism or not?,0_0
What can you do? Think twice before you purchase any products with germ-fighting or antimicrobial claims. No one needs chemical-impregnated clothing. Soap and water is all the germ-fighting we need.,0_0
"When the wildfires that are burning millions of acres in the West are finally smothered by winter snows, environmentalists undoubtedly will blame climate change. They might look in the mirror instead.",0_0
"It has returned to very near the 1979-2000 year average ( NSIDC ). Had NSIDC used the entire period of record as their base period (1979-2008), we would be at or above the average.",1_1
"Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms, the President says.But even assuming the President is right about the science, since even aggressive emission controls would at best avert only a tiny amount of warming, such policies would afford no protection from fires, drought, or storms.",0_0
"According to the EPA?s longstanding opinion, reaffirmed in the agency?s April 2010 triggering rule, once any air pollutant is regulated under any part of the CAA, ?major? sources become ?subject to regulation? under the PSD program. Under this reading of the Act, a firm must obtain a PSD permit before it can build a major source of any regulated air pollutant, or modify a major source in such a way as to increase emissions of said pollutant. This is a complicated process in which the owner or operator must first conduct a best available control technology (BACT) analysis evaluating, selecting, and proposing a facility-specific emission control strategy. Carbon dioxide (CO2) became a regulated pollutant on Jan. 2, 2011, when the EPA?s tailpipe rule took effect.",0_0
Fig. 3: Where do the emissions p 100 Gtonnes in the coming 1000 clean? Klla IPCC.,0_0
I have a ghost of an old songbig band dayshiding in the back of my head into which I know I can insert,0_0
"As the following graphic shows, the PDO which was originally discovered as the main control over fisheries productivity off the west coast of North America is also related to periods when global temperatures were rising or falling, which tend to occur over ~30 year periods:",2_1
"It's microsite influences : barbecue devices etc. often sit in the stations and Cook says that it doesn't matter. In reality, a huge portion of the surface stations was affected by such things and the accumulated errors often exceed 1 degree Celsius. A priori, the effect of the microsite influences may be both warming and cooling. In reality, because of the increasing energy (and heat) used by humans, the actual impact of the microsite influences almost always overstates the warming trend. But I do think that the paper that Cook cites is realistic, assuming that it didn't use some wrong adjustments along the way, and the microsite effects could actually be as small as the picture indicates.",5_1
Averaging the Dye 3 temperature record using the 22 year length of the Hale Cycle produces a lot of detail. What is evident is that there has been a very disciplined temperature decline over the last four thousand years. The whole temperature record is bounded by two parallel lines with a downslope of 0.3C per thousand years. The fact that no cooling event took the Dye 3 temperature below the lower bounding green line over nearly four thousand years is quite remarkable. It implies that solar events do not exceed a particular combination of frequency and amplitude. From that it can be derived that this particular combination of frequency and amplitude with be ongoing that is that cooling events will happen just as frequently as they did during the Dye 3 record.,1_2
"""New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie's spokesperson responded to videos conservative activist James O'Keefe released Monday apparently showing unionized educators at a New Jersey Education Association conference attacking the governor and his policies in crude language.""",0_0
Obviously Isis Solar isn't doing this out of the goodness of its heart. So what's in it for them?,0_0
"Also, as noted in a previous post ,NASA scientistJames Hansen, theworlds leading voice of climate alarm, argues thatatmospheric CO 2 levels should be reducedto 350 ppm or lower.This viewpoint is gaining traction among eco-litigationgroups, notably the Center for Biological Diversity , which recentlylaunched a $17 million litigation campaign to ensurethat existing environmental statutes (CAA, Clean Water Act, National Environmental Policy Act, Endangered Species Act) are fully implemented to regulate greenhouse gas emissions (emphasis added).",0_0
"Such a dramatic decrease of the frequency of record cold temperatures is clearly not happening because the record cold temperatures seem to be as frequent as they were in the past. More precisely, their frequency should be naturally decreasing with the growing temperature records (with time).",1_3
"Total water vapour is of the order of 0.5%. So at worst, going from 0% to 100% humidity is only going to equate to around a 0.1C change in global temperature.",0_0
"A review of biofuel justifications shows why these programs must be revised, cut back or scrapped.",0_0
"Asked to explain data that showed the earth had been cooling in recent years, the trained astrophysicist acknowledged air temperatures had leveled during the La Nina weather pattern, now nearing an end.??",1_4
"Socialism is counter to innovation, effort, creativity, service and productionit dumbs things down but does provide a comfort zone.",0_0
"Nature is dominated by negative feedbacks ??? a reason to expect that the climate sensitivity is smaller than, not larger than, the no-feedback value of 1.2 ??C per CO2 doubling. Why are negative feedbacks more common? It's simple. They're a property of stable points in the landscape of possibilities, in the configuration spaces of complicated physical systems. There can also be unstable points in the landscape where unstable feedbacks may be the kings but because they are unstable, the system usually finds its reason to evolve away from them and end in a more stable situation where the negative feedbacks prevail.",3_1
"In chemical jmviktr reaction rates ibda directions equal, and we have the simple relationship:",0_0
"July 07, 2011 at 08:52 PM | Permalink ShareThis",0_0
"Canada benefits as China attempts to squeeze the rare-earth minerals supply . No doubt greens will soon be slamming the rare earth mines as hard as the oil sands, until they figure out that rare earths are needed to make every wind turbine and electric car.",0_0
"Nicolas D. Loris is Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies and Brett D. Schaefer is Jay Kingham Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, a division of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, at The Heritage Foundation",0_0
regional land cover changes and changing dust and biomass aerosol loadings.,0_0
Underlying those short-term variations are a long-term trend whose cause is known and whose existence is supported by all the available global analyses.,0_0
"These dismissals of 1970s-era hysteria from some figures in the environmental establishment are an indication that eco-pessimism is slowly passing out of fashion or is at least maturing from free-floating apocalypticism toward more specific focus on discrete global issues such as species extinction and climate change. The trajectory of Paul Ehrlich himself offers some encouragement on this score. The Population Bomb sold millions of copies in the late 1960s and early 1970s, was assigned reading in many college courses, and landed Ehrlich as a frequent guest on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Subsequently in the 1970s, Ehrlich published more bestsellers with first-line trade publishers such as Simon & Schuster.",0_0
"Last October, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Action Aid petitioned the EPA to review the so-called renewable fuel standard that mandates that 13.8 billion gallons of corn ethanol be blended into the gasoline supply next year. The free-market think tank and global hunger charity argued that the EPA's technical regulations implementing the mandate did not meet ""basic standards of quality.""",0_0
"We find a similar pattern in the UK. The Met Office offer the following list of extreme rainfall events. The heavy rain at Seathwaite in 2009 stands out, but all the other events date to 1975 and earlier.",1_7
"Read here and here . Map source here . A peer-reviewed study utilizing high resolution data from a peat bog sediment core, analyzes 6,000 years worth of a temperature proxy. The researchers determined that both Roman and Medieval Periods experienced temperatures that were significantly higher than those of the current period. (click on image to enalrge)",2_1
"And exporting coal, and increasing exports of coal, is almost equivalent to being a drug dealer to the world .",0_0
"Finally, this Framework recognizes that, as we expand manufacturing in the United States, the tax code should encourage doing so in way that is sustainable and that puts the United States in the lead in manufacturing the clean energy technologies of the future. This will create jobs here at home and can also have important spillover benefits. Moving toward a clean energy economy will reduce air and water pollution and enhance our national security by reducing dependence on oil. Cleaner energy will play a crucial role in slowing global climate change, meeting the Presidents goal of producing 80 percent of our nations electricity from clean sources by 2035",0_0
"Working at the Duke Forest FACE site in Orange County, North Carolina (USA), where eight 30-meter-diameter plots of loblolly pine ( Pinus taeda L.) trees were enriched with an extra 200 ppm of CO 2 from 1996 to 2010, while four similar plots were maintained under then-current ambient-air conditions, Phillips et al . measured root-induced changes in soil C dynamics of trees exposed to CO 2 and nitrogen enrichment by combining stable isotope analyses, molecular characterizations of soil organic matter, and microbial assays.",3_3
"Almost all measures of the cost of electricity only assess building new plantsuntil now. Using data from the Energy Information Administration and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, we offer useful comparison between existing plants and new plants.",0_0
Ldecke and his colleagues agree with Dr. Michaels assertion that the projected increase in the earths temperature from CO2 is getting smaller and smaller.,2_3
"Why should you be interested? Sea surface temperature records indicate El Nio and La Nia events are responsible for the warming of global sea surface temperature anomalies over the past 30 years, not manmade greenhouse gases. Ive searched sea surface temperature records for more than 4 years, and Ive searched ocean heat content records for more than 3 years, and I can find no evidence of an anthropogenic greenhouse gas signal. That is, the data indicates the warming of the global oceans has been caused by Mother Nature, not anthropogenic greenhouse gases.",2_1
"The Financial Post brought attention to the problem back in January in this article : ""...the sharp rise in raw food prices in the past year will",0_0
EPA's recommendations are justified by the facts and ought to be implemented as quickly as possible.,0_0
"""The mortgage mess just keeps getting messier. Last week, Bank of America announced that it had performed a ""thorough review"" of its processes, found nothing amiss and would soon restart 102,000 pending foreclosures. On Sunday, the bank acknowledged that it had in fact found errors in its filings, and would resume foreclosures only in a deliberate manner as new and corrected paperwork was submitted to the courts.""",0_0
Although I agree that GHGs are important in the 19th/20th century (especially,0_0
"In April 2012, we created a major stir in the political world with a long piece in the Washington Post Sunday Outlook section called, ""Let's Just Say It: The Republicans Are the Problem."" It was adapted from our book published days later, It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism, and this was our money quote:",0_0
"The new energy bill, signed by President Bush this past Wednesday, is noted for its huge hike in auto fuel economy standards and in ethanol mandates and subsidies. The former will kill people, by causing cars to be downsized and less crashworthy; the latter will waste huge sums of money.",0_0
"What begets such total climate madness? Seriously, its completely, utterly, totally, mind-bogglingly beyond comprehension.",0_0
"Reprinted with permission from Foundation for Economic Education, http://www.fee.org",0_0
Cap-and-trade attacks went both ways for Romney in New Hampshire primary,0_0
"The village sticks out on a thin raised finger of land surrounded by water, close to the Modhumoti river. Located on the intertidal floodplains of south-central Bangladesh in Gopalganj district, its facing a three-pronged attack from water-logging, floods and saltwater intrusion.",0_0
"9 hours ago AUSTRALIAs $46 Million Antarctic Airstrip Is Melting, Leaving The Government Scrambling To Find A New Air Link To The Frozen Continent.",0_0
Carter and de Lange conclude that policy guidelines should include (1) abandoning lets stop global sea-level rise policies; (2) Recognising local or regional nature of coastal hazard; and (3) flexible and adaptive planning controls.,0_0
"Unfortunately, facts like these have not stopped peak oil diehards and anti-hydrocarbon activists in and out of the Obama administration. They have become master fear mongers and propagandists, advancing their ""just say no"" opposition to North American fossil fuel energy and using lawsuits, lobbying, fabrications and demonstrations to block drilling, fracking, the Keystone XL pipeline, coal mining and burning, and countless other projects, while promoting subsidies, favoritism, and exemptions from environmental laws for wind, solar and biofuel programs.",5_2
"These numbers are not perfect, and they come from observations that are definitely not perfect. For example, there are concerns about urban heat islands and about siting issues, concerns which I share and have helped publicize. So these trends need to be double-checked and confirmed in some way.",0_0
Krugman on Waxman-Markey's Cost: We Hope His Readers Can't Multiply,0_0
"Nor was America the catalyzing force. The ""Reagan Doctrine"" of resisting and, if possible, reversing the Soviet Union's advances in the Third World did put considerable pressure on the perimeter of the empire, in places like Afghanistan, Angola, Nicaragua, and Ethiopia. Yet Soviet difficulties there, too, were far from fatal.",0_0
"Once again, and from the part of the world - high northern latitudes - where CO 2 -induced warming is predicted to be particularly dramatic, real-world data reveal no net warming over the last 117 years. As we are wont to say in our USHCN Temperature Record of the Week feature: ""Not much global warming here!""",1_4
"This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory.",1_4
"While the CPP appears to be about forcing the power sector into reducing CO2 emissions, there are spillover impacts of higher electricity rates on overall economic activityespecially energy-intensive industries such as steel, manufacturing, and chemicals. America's abundance of affordable, reliable energy provides businesses with a critical operating advantage in today's intensely competitive global economy. The EPA's proposal will reduce America's advantage, as it's acknowledged that the proposed regulations will raise electricity rates in the contiguous U.S. by 5.9% to 6.5% in 2020.",0_0
"M.K. Muthoo, leader of a FAO/UNDP Project Team, wrote in 1978, ""Brazil has abundant natural forest. It holds that world's biggest tropical forest reserve, in the Amazon, which can be continuously used and improved at the same time, but has hardly been tapped."" (Rational Readings, Simon, pp.745-746).",0_0
"New proposal from NASA JPL admits to spurious errors in current satellite based sea level and ice altimetry, calls for new space platform to fix the problem.",5_1
"Oh, and designing a bigger rocket that someday, we're told, could take astronauts and robot ships to asteroids and Mars. Right: We'll see Obama embrace the flat tax first. There's ideology at work here.",0_0
"1) Wind, solar and biofuel energy are not renewable, eco-friendly, reliable, affordable or sustainable.",4_4
"Climate Change Hoax: Key U.S Congressman Caught Spreading Democrat Lies & Rumors - Same Old, Same Old",5_2
"When it comes to climate change, ad hominems are all but ubiquitous. They are even smuggled into the way the debate is described. The common label ""denier"" is one example. Without actually making the argument, this label is supposed to call to mind the assertion of the ""great climate scientist"" Ellen Goodman: ""I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.""",5_2
"The highest recent rate of warming based on its linear trend occurred during the 157-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 early-1970s was the last time there had been a 157-month period without global warmingbefore recently.",1_4
"Read here . IPCC scientists still claim that the Medieval Warming was limited to the northern European region despite all the evidence otherwise . Adding to that 'otherwise,' researchers documented a confirmed Medieval warming and associated dry precipitation levels within the Panama region, near the Equator. ""The authors conclude that ""the correspondence between warm medieval temperatures and dry hydrologic anomalies in Panama supports a large-scale Medieval Climatic Anomaly that may have been global in extent, and involved atmospheric circulation reorganizations that are linked to ENSO."".....noting that such reorganizations of earth's climate system are not dependent on rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations to trigger them, and, therefore, that the development of the Modern Warm Period likely was largely unrelated to the concomitant increase in the air's CO2 concentration""",2_1
In other words: The 21st century climate catastrophe is not taking place.,0_0
"Figure 1. Observed global temperature history, 1950-2009 (data source: Hadley Center).",0_0
"A look at the range of public opinion surveys on Congress in recent days, weeks and months can't leave anybody happy. The most recent Associated Press-Ipsos survey showed a 25 percent approval rating, coupled with a staggering 70 percent disapprovala 45 percent gap in the wrong direction. The most recent NBC-Wall Street Journal survey showed 19 percent approval and 68 percent disapproval, for a 49 percent gap.",0_0
"system to reduce greenhouse gases, for effectively abolishing the secret ballot",0_0
"In fact, the opposite relationship applies at all time scales. Temperature change precedes carbon dioxide change by about 5 months during the annual seasonal cycle, and by about 700-1000 years during ice age climatic cycling. Hypothesis fails.",2_3
"Canadians are already among the biggest contributors to UN aid funds, including more than $300 million to the World Food Program, and almost $70 million to run the UN itself. Canada is also one of the few nations to pony up on its climate commitments at Copenhagen after Environment Minister Jim Prentice announced the country was committing $400 million (US$382 million) around 4 percent of the pledge of industrialized nations combined to make good on Canada's climate aid pledge.",0_0
"On Wednesdays broadcast of MSNBCs Morning Joe, the Center for American Progress Christie Hefner said that Chicagos sky-high murder rate could be blamed at least in part on climate change.",0_0
1. All the species of coral that occur in the Great Barrier Reef also grow in Papua New Guinea where the waters are 2 degrees warmer.,3_2
"If now, and one can calculate this very easily, in the next 30, 40 years, with 2C of warming this will with certainty happen, um, when these large glaciers disappear for the most part, these rivers will dry up in the summertime. And in winter, this is the other side of the story, the precipitation will fall as rain in the valley; that means the floods will be far more dramatic, no?",0_0
"???Such causality assertions require a validated theory that higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations cause increases in GAST. Lacking such a validated theory, the EPA??s conclusions cannot stand. In science, credible empirical data always trump theory.??",2_3
My latest Mind and Matter column for the Wall Street Journal is on how the future turns out:,0_0
The most widely used metric of global warmingglobal surface temperaturesindicates that the rate of global warming has slowed drastically and that the duration of the hiatus in global warming is unusual during a period when global surface temperatures are allegedly being warmed from the hypothetical impacts of manmade greenhouse gases.,1_4
"For quite some time, this idea of wisely developing the natural resources of a nation and improving the lives of it people was the common thinking of the day. But that was 1961. This is 1997. And instead of looking to a place like the rainforest to see how man and nature can work together for the benefit of both, the Green view of today is to put an iron gate around the rainforest with a big ""Keep Out"" sign clearly posted.",0_0
"Green taxes could force one in four into fuel poverty One in four households will be driven into fuel poverty if the Government pursues controversial green energy targets, ministers have been warned.Radical policy change may be necessary to protect millions of struggling families from biggest household price shock since the 1970s, according to City analysts. (Daily Mail)",4_1
"Care must be taken when using HadISST1 for studies of observed climatic variability, particularly in some data sparse regions, because of the limitations of the interpolation techniques, although it has been done successfully...",0_0
entirely predictable to primatologists. He observes two university colleagues in a coffee shop and notes,0_0
Monsanto posts profit in 2Q on corn seed gains:,0_0
"THREE senior Japanese scientists separately engaged in climate-change research have strongly questioned the validity of the man-made global-warming model that underpins the drive by the UN and most developed-nation governments to curb greenhouse gas emissions.""I believe the anthropogenic (man-made) effect for climate change is still only one of the hypotheses to explain the variability of climate,"" Kanya Kusano told The Weekend Australian.It could take 10 to 20 years more research to prove or disprove the theory of anthropogenic climate change, said Dr Kusano, a research group leader with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science's Earth Simulator project.",5_1
"September 1, 2016 | Backgrounder on Energy and Environment",0_0
"By Tony Heller Real Science, Aug 14, 2015",0_0
"The report offers a framework for prioritizing climate change research given the many uncertainties that exist. Specifically, the report recommends that research in the following areas be given the highest priority:",0_0
Whatever happened to global warming? How freezing temperatures are starting to shatter climate change theory.,1_3
"Not that climate modelers are unaware of the problems with their creations. Numerous papers have been published that detail problems predicting ice cover, precipitation and temperature correctly. This is due to inadequate modeling of the ENSO, aerosols and the bane of climate modelers, cloud cover. Apologists for climate modeling will claim that the models are still correct, just not as accurate or as detailed as they might be. Can a model that is only partially correct be trusted? Quoting again from Roy Spencer??s recent blog post :",5_1
"Elevated from a comment Theodore White says: March 8, 2012 at 5:04 pm",0_0
"Similarly, climate alarmists are now scrambling to find new shelter from the stress coming from a public that increasingly realizes their doom-and-gloom predictions of climate chaos are based on shoddy data, faulty computer models, and perhaps outright deception. The alarmist scientists have put themselves in a climate cataclysm box, and are desperate to protect their reputations, predictions, and funding.",5_2
"UN ""95% certainty"" of manmade global warming challenged",0_0
"As the concentration of CO 2 in the air rises, photosynthetic acclimation, which effectively reduces the amount of rubisco in leaves (which is often present in excess amounts), may occur to a greater extent in plants growing at high soil nitrogen, rather than at low soil nitrogen, as greater amounts of rubisco are generally present under higher soil nitrogen regimes. In either case, the mobilization of nitrogen from excess rubisco can supply needed nitrogen to plant sink tissues to allow for their continued growth and development. In all cases, therefore, atmospheric CO 2 enrichment enhances the use efficiency of nitrogen and enables plants to grow more productively in soils regardless of their fertility.",3_3
"...the problem causing these breakdowns is so simple. In cold weather, the pipe that takes waste water from the back of the condensing boiler-which isnt there in a normal boiler-freezes solid, shutting down the system and in many cases causing permanent damage. But this problem is just one of many that have plagued this boiler design since they became popular in the Nineties. Many plumbers consider them to be little more than a multi-billion-pound con-trick.",0_0
"In March 2012, consulting firm Ecosystem Marketplace released a report on the evolution of the voluntary carbon offset market since 1997. The report, ""Bringing It Home: Taking Stock of Government Engagement with the Voluntary Carbon Market,"" was sponsored by the International Emissions Trading Association, International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance, and the Carbon Markets and Investors Association. It found that more than 20 national and sub-national governments had mandatory or voluntary domestic carbon market exchanges. However, in 2011, only 11 percent of credits granted were then voluntarily traded worldwideleaving most of the credits untraded, the report found.",0_0
"We received an email taking issue with some of my comments and observations on the Camp Minden, LA, artillery propellant disposal. This is a good expample of how confusing and messy a Superfund cleanup can get. The writer wished to remain anonymous, so Ive copied the meat of his response below:",0_0
Plant Growth Database (8 January 2015),0_0
IPCC overblows Bangladesh doomsday forecasts in 2007 4AR.,5_2
"And, I didn't include any warming from things such as urbanization, land-use change, site changes, or other natural variabilitywhich have been by some studies to have a detectable (warming) impact.",0_0
"The ""abuse"" of the First Amendment here is by state attorneys general acting like a scientific Inquisition to silence what they believe is the wrong view in this vigorous, unsettled scientific debate.",0_0
"When told that the first three allegations against Dr. Mann were dismissed at the inquiry stage Dr. Lindzen's response was: ""It's thoroughly amazing. I mean these issues that he explicitly stated in the e-mails. I'm wondering what's going on?' The Investigatory Committee members did not respond to Dr. Lindzen's statement. Instead, Dr. Lindzen's attention was directed to the fourth allegation, and it was explained to him that this is the allegation which the Investigatory Committee is charged to address",0_0
"From the Civil War to World War II, it was generally assumed that neither Southerners nor Catholics were viable presidential candidates. No Democratic nominee from 1864 to 1944 resided in a state that had slavery in 1860. The only Catholic nominee, the talented Al Smith, lost much of the Democratic base. The only Democrats elected president then were Protestant governors of New York and New Jersey.",0_0
"SUV critics argue, to use Consumer Reports' words, that ""most people who buy an SUV don't need one."" But what one person doesn't need is largely a matter of another person's opinion. In the early 1800s the Duke of Wellington complained that the new railroads would ""only encourage the common people to move about needlessly."" Today the elitist view is that the masses still move about needlessly, only now they're doing it with four-wheel drive.",0_0
"""Gasoline prices haven't gotten much attention amid all the other bad economic news for Democrats heading into a final week of campaigning, but the price per gallon has climbed nearly 15 cents since Labor Day - a surprising jump, given that prices usually plummet before an election.""",0_0
"The costs of ACESA's proposed GHG emission reductions would probably exceed their benefits. The draft bill's many regulatory mandates are, at best, entirely redundant to its cap-and-trade provisions. In other cases they are likely to add costs without adding to the bill's social benefits. Further, the cap-and-trade program is designed to cut emissions deeper and faster than appears to be optimal.",0_0
"Serious - Less than 10 percent of fossil fuel has been burnt. Should we burn the other 90 percent? Economists predict that should 10 times more fossil fuel be burnt, there would be a 25 percent reduction in the size of our economy (GPD) by 2100.",0_0
"During the last 10,000 years the climate has remained relatively warm and stable, allowing humans to advance and prosper. But even during this generally warm period the temperature has fluctuated significantly. The climate was warmer than it is today about 6,500 years ago, during the Holocene Climate Optimum. There is evidence that roughly 1,000 years ago regions of the earth again were substantially warmer than they are today, during the period called the Medieval Climate Optimum. By the 14th century, a cold period called the Little Ice Age had begun. The warming begun in the late 19th and early 20th centuries seems to be a natural recovery from the Little Ice Age.11",2_1
"This is quite remarkable, because the average of all NOAA tide gauges is less than one third of that, at 1.01 mm/year. Eighty four percent of the tide gauges show lower rates than 3.3 mm/year. The median value is only 1.28 mm/year.",1_6
a simple climate model to link these two analyses. We present a range of four,0_0
"MOOSE: See what I mean, Spunky? A little friendly pressure and Socrates here starts in with remarks which cannot be construed as necessary or objective. Ad hominem all the way.",0_0
"It has 104 minutes but based on various hints and a quick selection, I believe it must be a pretty good one for an apparent amateur creator! Correct me if I am wrong but I hope you won't! ;-)",0_0
Roman and Medieval Warm Periods vs. the Current Warm Period (12 January 2015),0_0
Chief scientist Michail Fragkias involved with ?Planet under Pressure? told MSNBC that ?the answer (to population growth) is denser cities.?,0_0
"A Russian scientist says the regional heat wave taking place in Russia is not a sign of catastrophic climate change and that the permafrost has been thawing since the last ice age 10,000 years ago, and its rate of thawing is alsonot catastrophic.",1_7
"Now the Obama Administration is unleashing a host of new mandates and standards, based on arbitrary ""social cost of carbon"" calculations that assume fossil fuel use imposes numerous climate and other costs, but brings minimal or no economic or societal benefits. The rules will require onerous new energy efficiency and CO2 emission reduction standards that will send consumer costs skyrocketing, while channeling billions of dollars to retailers, installers, banks and mostly overseas manufacturers.",4_1
"But already at those places, and especially in Kosovo, I was growing suspicious that our path (actions in units of troops organized by NATO) isn't right...",0_0
"Perhaps most hypocritical is the global-cooling scare promoted by, among others, Mr. Obamas science czar, John Holdren. Today, Mr. Holdren says a billion people may perish from global warming by 2020.",0_0
"And including ""climate change"", as is being more and more talked about? Careful here. This is an ongoing debate and predictions are all but clear. And how do you intend to translate the virtual lack of global warming over the past decade into economic figures?",1_4
"Shlaes leaves it to the reader to project lessons forward to our own time. The Democratic party lived large on FDR's high-tax, class-warfare playbook for nearly two generations. The Reagan Revolution put some of it into receivership, but the impulse to tax, regulate, and plan the economy remains embedded in contemporary liberalism, with John Edwards, among others, doing his best to revive New Deal-style populism and animus against wealth. We are now so far removed from the economic ruin of the New Deal's ill-considered economic interventionism that resistance to grand central fixes for health care, global warming, or outsourcing may be on the wane. With this prospect in mind, Shlaes's book could be called The Forgotten Lesson.",0_0
"I put this up actually as an indicator of what climate science is trying to say about the Antarctic. It is apparently based entirely in fantasy world at this point, computer models predicting doom for penguins is certainly not a good thing cept the hockey team. I suspect that when temperature trends in the Antarctic are substantially lower than Climatology wants (Hansen is an example of an advocate and he does want it), these models will need to be updated. After the taxation and regulation but just in time to save the penguins.",5_1
"This, unfortunately, is not atypical. Under gatekeeper Neal Lane , the Baker Institute has refused to allow fair, open debate about natural versus anthropogenic climate forces and has championed sky-is-falling government activism. For example, Lane/Baker:",5_2
Sneer quotes! Yeah that's a good one. Like they're Al Gore or something. And what the hell would an economist know about climate? What chance is there that an economist could add to the debate?,0_0
"In their inaugural essay in Breakthrough Journal outlining what is meant by ""modernizing"" liberalism, Shellenberger and Nordhaus offered a number of departures from current liberal orthodoxy, including: ""A new progressive politics must take liberalism's commitment to broadly-shared prosperity forward while leaving the old, redistributive agenda behind."" Despite these and other tergiversations, the duo resist the label ""neoliberal,"" not simply out of discomfort with the symmetry of the now-dreaded ""neoconservative"" but also because they think the neoliberalism of the 1980s and 1990s conceded too much to minimal-state libertarianism. They still believe in a strong role for the state as a modernizing force, but correctly perceive that liberalism's current power brokers (such as labor unions) are in fact reactionary forces, standing in the way of modernization, whether midwived by the state or by the private sector.",0_0
"However, the largest of all the positive or temperature-amplifying feedbacks in the UN's arsenal is the water-vapor feedback. The UN gets this feedback wrong in numerous fundamental ways. For instance, its models tend to treat column absolute humidity as being uniform at all altitudes, when in fact as Paltridge et al. (2009) have demonstrated recently the upper troposphere (the only place where adding CO2 to the atmosphere could make any difference to temperature) is considerably drier than the models are tuned to expect.",0_0
"State Sen. Evie Hudak resigned her seat Wednesday, ending a recall effort being waged against her days before gun-rights activists were to turn in petitions to try to oust the Democrat from office.",0_0
(16) Alarmists had indicated a decline of Antarctic ice due to warming. The upward trends since 1979 continues.,1_1
"PHILIP: Hello, big guy. Circus in town?",0_0
"""Environmentalists have long admitted to using fear to arouse public action,"" writes Berlau, who is a policy director at the Washington, D.C.-based Competitive Enterprise Institute. In ECO-FREAKS, Berlau exposes the often tragic consequences of modern environmentalism. From the banning of DDT to the collapse of the levees in New Orleans, environmentalists have used an idyllic image of ""nature"" to pursue a radical, anti-human agenda.",0_0
"What the Europeans haven't come to terms with is that their policies and the policies of the respective member governments have put their economies in a lurch. Pushing the U.S. to adopt similar regressive European policies is not going to help their industries compete with the U.S., rather it will hurt the world economy, dragging everyone down.",0_0
"Please allow me to add to James Glassman's excellent analysis of how the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, which the United States recently announced, has shown the Kyoto Protocol to be yesterday's answer to yesterday's assessment of tomorrow's problem (""Way beyond Kyoto,"" Commentary, Wednesday).",0_0
"I observed the other day that Eli Rabett had done a bait-and-switch, in which Eli showed a picture of a well-located new station at Niwot Ridge (started only in 2003) as a supposed refutation of criticisms of incinerators, barbecues and tennis courts at USHCN stations. In response, Eli observed his right to carrot pick. Rosanne DArrigo once told an astonished NAS panel that you have to pick cherries if you want to make cherry pie and I guess the same applies to carrots.",0_0
The Republicans want to be even more accepted in the ruling class. They want to be even more powerful. They want to be considered part of it. They want to be in the clique.,0_0
"In an April 2013 article in Investor's Business Daily, John Merline reported that, ""Overall air pollution levels dropped 62% from 1990 to 2012, while GDP grew 69% and population climbed 26%."" The pollution the EPA keeps claiming is rising includes emissions of carbon monoxide, soot, sulfur dioxide, ozone, and others, all of which are well below the EPA's safety threshold. Water quality, too, has also improved over several decades.",0_0
"In addition, stabilizing atmospheric CO2 concentrations Kyoto's ultimate goal is impossible without constraining energy use in developing countries. China's energy emissions alone will surpass those of the U.S. by 2020. Kyoto is, thus, the proverbial camel's nose under the tent. If it is ever ratified, developing countries will come under unrelenting pressure via foreign aid bribes or cutoffs, trade preferences or sanctions to implement energy policies far more restrictive than any currently under discussion. The time to head off that threat is now.",4_2
"All communities, from small towns to major cities are by definition ""vulnerable"", but the air has undergone significant cleanup over the years, so this is not a common problem anywhere. As for cancer rates, they too have been in decline thanks to advances in medical care. It is doubtful that most Americans live in allegedly unsafe housing these days. Houses on both coastlines are vulnerable to ocean storms. Houses inland are vulnerable to floods and fires. There is nothing inherently ""environmental"" about this. It's about location.",0_0
"The 74 people aboard the ice-bound ship have two weeks food left, but report that alcohol is running short.",0_0
"We ourselves can't avoid blame for the science disaster uncovered by Mr. FOIA. As Peter Foster of London's Financial Times noted, we didn't heed President Dwight Eisenhower's warning. ""Most people are aware of Ike's warning in 1961 about the military-industrial complex,"" Foster wrote. Our fatal error was to ignore what he said next: ""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 a scientific-technological elite.""",0_0
Three bulldozer operators worked on the 4th of July trying to break down mountains of snow still towering over parts of Anchorage after the city broke its annual snowfall record of 132.6 inches.,1_3
"Recolonization has similarly undermined other classic doomsday stories. Parmesans iconic 1996 paper reported global warming had increased extinctions for the Ediths Checkerspot butterfly, but most of those extinct colonies in the Sierra Nevada have now been recolonized. Unfortunately the recolonization information was never published. (read here and here ).",0_0
"If both sides viewed this marriage as one of convenience, 1199 got the better of it. In 1995, GOP governor George Pataki's first year in office, Republicans held 11 more state senate seats than Democrats; 20 years later, after falling into the minority in two of the four electoral cycles since 2008, their margin of majority control is just one seat.",0_0
"IPCC produced a graph presumably showing global warming rates on the increase (see Figure 1). The graph uses a well known trick. In any length of a rugose (noisy in appearance) data set, one will encounter short portions steeper (flatter or of opposite sign) than the length as a whole. If the steeper portion happens to be at the end of the data set, it will appear that the rate of change is accelerating when it is just the rugosity of the data. For example, the HadCRUT4 data series ending June, 1913 had 50, 25 and 15 year cooling rates of -0.42, -0.83 and -1.70 C per century respectively. There was no predictive power in observing that cooling rates were strengthening. In fact, the world warmed after that, to about the year 1940, when it began to cool again.",5_1
Official announcements and papers on the CDMS-II page (added several hours after this blog entry was initially posted),0_0
"On other aspects of climate policy, prospects for technology cooperation may also be good. The U.S. may wish to coordinate with other industrialized nations to help to boost the adaptive capacity of poorer states. There is no reason to forego progress in these areas while waiting for a global deal on GHG caps, a deal that may be decades away.",0_0
"In the Alaska Climate Research Center data, you can clearly see the 1976 shift of the PDO from the cool to the warm phase, and the recent return to the cool phase. Unsurprisingly, the rise in the Alaska temperatures (typically shown with a continuously rising straight trend line through all the data) have been cited over and over as proof that the Arctic is warming. However, the reality is a fairly constant temperature from 1949-1975, a huge step change 1975-1976, and a fairly constant temperature from 1976 until the recent drop. Heres how the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report interprets these numbers ...",0_0
"In October 2003, the ICTAgang, joined bythe attorneysgeneral of Massachusetts and11 otherstates, challenged EPAs decisionin the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.Parties filed briefs during June-December 2004.In July 2005, theappelate court held that EPA acted lawfully in denying the petition, but it did not rule on the core legal issue: whether the CAA authorizes EPA to regulate GHG emissions.",0_0
UN Millennium Goals flunk reality check,0_0
"Uh, oh...the clash of ice and warmth brings storms",0_0
"It is difficult to explain the whole climate-change panic except in religious terms. There has arisen among some in the environmental community what can only be understood as a cult of Earth worshipit is against energy, against mining, against land use, against industry, and against industrial society. Climate change is a useful tool in that fear of catastrophe can be used to compel economically destructive actions that would otherwise be unacceptable. It is not just carbon-based energy they hate, but nuclear as well, which indicates the true nature of the faith. Alternatives such as wind and solar can never be effective, but they are useful as Judas goats.",5_2
"Matthysen et al . emphasize that ""synchronization of the nestling period with the food supply not only depends on first-egg dates but also on additional reproductive parameters including laying interruptions, incubation time and nestling growth rate."" And as a result of adjustments in these several related phenomena, they report that ""both of our study species have been able to maintain synchrony with their food supply in the face of global warming.""",3_2
(1) Negative consequences of EPA's interpretation of the RMR&R; exclusion,0_0
"""Students who attend Chicago's Little Village Academy public school get nothing but nutritional tough love during their lunch period each day. The students can either eat the cafeteria food--or go hungry. Only students with allergies are allowed to bring a homemade lunch to school, the Chicago Tribune reports.""",0_0
"Then again, our understanding of the rate of the precession of the equinoxes is limited to about 10,000 years of human history. That isnt even one full cycle (of 24,000 years). So perhaps the answer is simply that its easy to see a 24,000 year periodic function that isnt really there. That the actual function is some more open process that only looks cyclical when viewed in a very short time frame. A Hundred Million years is a very long time Could the whole solar system simply be in a flat spin of 24000 years from some prior event long ago? I just dont know.",5_1
"Whats not so well known about the Medieval Warm Period is how warm it was in the western U.S., Swetnam said. This is one line of evidence that it was very fiery on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada and theres a very strong relationship between drought and fire.",0_0
"The Canadians found that the Medieval warm period had indeed occurred, suggesting that periods of warming and cooling were natural trends unrelated to the number of SUVs on the road.",2_1
Here is another one a map of worldwide CO2 distribution as measured by a NASA satellite that appears to me to be almost directly counter to the consensus. Red represents the higher concentrations.,5_1
"California is weighing how to avoid a looming electricity crisis that could be brought on by its growing reliance on wind and solar power. At Tuesdays meeting, experts cautioned that the state could begin seeing problems with reliability as soon as 2015. --Rebecca Smith, The Wall Street Journal, 27 February 2013",0_0
"The relevant section reads, ""From the viewpoint of the IAEA, ""no progress was made in 2003 on the Kyoto Protocol, which would help make nuclear power's avoidance of greenhouse gas emissions valuable to investors.' The next round of talks on energy and sustainable development is scheduled for the 13th session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development in 20062007.",0_0
Does the observational evidence in AR5 support its/the CMIP5 models TCR ranges?,0_0
the transition of the wooden Stevenson to a PVC Stevenson screen (August 1980) did not have a noticeable effect on the daily mean temperatures; consequently no corrections had to be applied.,0_0
"Liberalism and environmentalism have only been strongly connected for about 40 years. Franklin D. Roosevelt had no particular fondness for pristine wilderness. He boasted proudly of the dams he built and proclaimed proudly, at the dedication of the Hoover Dam (then called the Boulder Dam), that humans were ""altering the geography of a whole region"" that had previously been ""cactus-covered waste."" In the 19th century, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels disagreed vehemently with the original population doomsayer Thomas Malthus. Sounding much like modern population control critic Julian Simon, Engels wrote that ""it is ridiculous to speak of overpopulation,"" because the progress of ""science is just as limitless and at least as rapid as that of population.""",0_0
"Clearly, your humble correspondent can't compete with Tommaso Dorigo in the number of rumors he propagates. Dorigo has already spread rumors by/from most of the janitors at CERN and Fermilab, too. :-) Many of his rumors will refer to indefensible interpretations of the observations. If one of them were right, it would still be amazing. However, I can imagine that both of the rumors described above will actually turn out to be right simultaneously.",0_0
"Raising constant alarmsabout fracking, pesticides, GMO foodin the name of safety is a dangerous game.",0_0
"Zapata et al . conclude that ""the recent history of La Azufrada reef since coral reef studies began at Gorgona Island three decades ago (Prahl et al ., 1979; Glynn et al ., 1982) suggests a remarkable ability of this reef to recover from past perturbations,"" which are of the type (extreme El Nio-driven temperature increases leading to coral bleaching) that climate alarmists claim should be especially deadly, and from which coral recovery should not be expected.",3_2
"Again, Osborn provided no citation or references. I never claimed that the data for Scenario A or Scenario B or Polar Urals was less biased I defy Osborn to locate any support for that suggestion.",0_0
"""The chairman of the Municipal Labor Committee, Local 831, which represents men and women of the New York City Sanitation Department says there is no truth behind a rumor that his members worked slower during the blizzard of 2010.""",0_0
Leading hurricane expert Kerry Emmanuel has published a new paper in which he reports that his models suggest that global warming will cause a reduction in the number of hurricanes (with a slight rise in hurricane intensity in some regions).,1_7
The Vatican had approved the change as the effects of global warming became all too tangible in the Alps.,0_0
"The TRAIN Act (H.R. 2401, ?Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation Act of 2011?) establishes an 11-member federal interagency committee, chaired by the Department of Commerce, to analyze the cumulative impacts of a number of major EPA regulations. A final report on the results of the analysis is due to Congress by August 1, 2012.",0_0
"Das Welts-Klima-Maschine is nicht fur gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Es ist zu simpel zu schnappen der Springenwerk, Blowenfusen und Korkenpoppen mit Spitzensparken. Das Klima ist nicht fur Getinkeren bei die Dummkopfer. Die Rubberneckeren und Sightseeren musten keepen der cotten-pickenen Hande in der Pocketen, oder else. Relaxen sie sich und watschen der Blinkenlights!",0_0
"On to the biggest scare of them all: sea-level rise. Here, Roy Spencer concedes that Sea levels have indeed increased, which probably is a sign of warming. However, he goes on to say, It is difficult to attribute the current rate of rise to humans when we dont know how much of the rise is natural.",0_0
"The average of the trends for each source, calculated , with the uncertainty intervals calculated as if the residuals for each instrument at a given time are uncorrelated from each other. This is incorrect, but the this uncertainty band would enclose the uncertainties in the slope computed using the five sources. It is illustrative for this reason.",0_0
Have charm for children but lack nobility; it is bitter earnestness,0_0
"It is because both contain stations like Las Vegas that have been compromised by changes in their environment, that station itself, the sensors, the maintenance, time of observation changes, data loss, etc. In both cases we are plotting data which is a huge mishmash of station biases that have not been dealt with.",5_1
"He writes, ""t is quite wrong to say that our NAS study endorsed the credibility of the IPCC assessment report. We were asked to evaluate the IPCC ""Summary for Policymakers"" (SPM), the only part of the IPCC reports that is ever read or quoted by the media and politicians. The SPM, which is seen as endorsing Kyoto, is commonly presented as the consensus of thousands of the world's foremost climate scientists. In fact, it is no such thing. Largely for that reason, the NAS panel concluded that the SPM does not provide suitable guidance for the U.S. government.",5_1
The Washington Times reports on the subpoena an attorney general sent CEI regarding documents on climate change work.,0_0
"And while the added troops would be put on the ground as quickly as possible,",0_0
2. One would expect greater agreement with recent data in more recent years. But since 1997 the difference in temperature anomalies has widened by nearly 0.3 celsius GISSTEMP showing rapid warming and HADCRUT showing none.,5_1
New Internet caf tests limits of state gaming laws:,0_0
Global warming will NOT lead to an overall stormier atmosphere.,0_0
"""Although Islam had a religious component, it is much more than a simple religious ideology. It is a complete geo-political structure and, as such, does not deserve First Amendment protections."" Georgia congressional candidate Jody Hice.",0_0
"This ""new nullification,"" as we call it, has left President Obama's nominee to fill the late Justice Antonin Scalia's Supreme Court seat, Merrick Garland, drifting in limbo.",0_0
"on Thursday, May 13th, 2010 at 5:37 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"In fact, it seems the only constant in climate history is change-continuous change, in varying ways at various times, collectively spanning a very broad range of temperatures. What causes these changes is unclear. Temperatures have been warmer than now, and greenhouse gas concentrations higherbut which caused which remains uncertain. As the NRC wrote, ""climate is continually varying on time scales ranging from seasons to the lifetime of Earth.""",2_1
"Methane emissions from hydraulic fracturing operations have become the latest target for activists seeking to ban hydraulic fracturing, commonly called ""fracking."" A recent article in the Nation,titled ""Global Warming's Terrifying New Chemistry,"" by anti-fossil-fuel activist Bill McKibben is a perfect example of the cognitive dissonance that occurs when activism supersedes science in the name of altering public policy.",0_0
"The above quote illustrates the extent to which the leadership of the EPA will ignore all science that interferes with its quest for power. The work of Sherwood, Craig, and Keith Idso, and many other scientists, has clearly established that an atmosphere enriched with carbon dioxide provides for more robust plant growth than the current atmosphere. Thus, a carbon dioxide enriched atmosphere is a great benefit to agriculture, humanity, and the environment. The EPA ignores this work.",3_3
"For now, though, it is enough just to see the Medieval WARM Period shown to be global, and warmer than today.",2_1
"There is no greenhouse effect. Like two years ago, you again offer the fact down-welling IR measured by pyrometer (IR thermometer) from cold CO2 in sky at 300 w/m 2 as proof heat transfers at that rate from cold CO2 to warmer surface, is absorbed by surface, heating it and causing it to radiate more intensely. It proves no such thing. I explained you are confusing S-B irradiance or intensity of radiating matter with radiating heat transfer between two radiating matter bodies, driven by an intensity difference. Just because they share the same units, w/m 2 , does not mean they are the same phenomena. So your argument doesnt hold water, or GHGT. Since there is no greenhouse in the sky, how can there be a greenhouse effect?",2_3
"As the air's CO 2 concentration continues to rise, it is likely this dwarf apple species will exhibit significant increases in both photosynthesis and apple production. And if air temperatures also rise, photosynthetic rates will likely be even greater, due to the positive interaction between elevated CO 2 and temperature plus the large CO 2 -induced increase in the optimal temperature for photosynthesis in this species. Thus, apple yields should substantially increase in a future CO 2 -enriched environment, especially if air temperature rises a few degrees.",3_3
"Perhaps 2012 will turn out to be worse than 1886, when the US was hit by seven hurricanes including two major hurricanes.",1_7
"How not to measure temperature, part 93: the hottest weather station in the UK cited by the BBC has some interesting exposure",0_0
"Others are even less likely. Bernie Sanders, age 73 is a self-described socialist. The interesting Jim Webb is out of sync with an increasingly Leftist party. Martin O'Malley couldn't get his lieutenant governor elected to succeed him in a 62 percent Obama state.",0_0
"The previous record of 61 centimetres was set in April 1994, meteorologist Mikhail Leus told AFP.",0_0
Among the issues upon which the President can act to make a difference include:,0_0
"Even today, amid the furor over global warming, no one is rushing out to verify that it does indeed threaten the Michigan jack pine. (But, happily, independent action by the government, the Audubon Society and private individuals has brought the Kirtland?s warbler back from the brink of extinction.)",0_0
The number of dodgy adjustments could be reduced from 49 to a mere 16.,0_0
There are just so many illogical steps and contradictions with the empirical data from that day as well as with some historical data on similar events and with the knowledge about the human nature that these conspiracy theorists commit so that I can't avoid thinking that they're just stupid. But there must be more to it it's some stupidity that is more likely to spread through the society. It may be the case that most of the JFK conspiracy believers haven't really tried to think about the sad day rationally and independently. They are just absorbing a mass delusion from their environment.,0_0
"U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack must have been on vacation the day President Obama pledged in 2009 that ""Science and the scientific process must inform and guide decisions"" made by his administration and that ""political officials should not suppress or alter scientific or technological findings and conclusions."" Why else would Vilsack, last December, have disregarded his own department's scientific review and conclusion that a new, genetically engineered crop variety should be approved because it is safe for humans and the environment?",0_0
"We will make it clear to the world that America is ready to lead , Obama said, in an apparent swipe at former president George W. Bushs reluctance to take control of international efforts to combat climate change.",0_0
"In the real world, there has been a temperature rise of 0.3C in the last 35 years as measured by satellites. This is well short of what is predicted by global warming theory as practiced by the CSIRO, Bureau of Meteorology and others.",5_1
"Our allegiance to the precautionary principle seems to have its limits, however. When two recent Ebola victims were offered a possible cure, the fact that the medicine was derived from a genetically engineered tobacco plant was of little import. Genetic engineering was used because it made possible the rapid production of the medicine, and tobacco plants are used because they are easy to manipulate. The two patients have been released from the hospital, and tests show that they are free of Ebola. Thanks to medicine from genetically engineered tobacco plants. Turns out Gaia has a sense of humor.",0_0
"Now, of course, the drought is ended, the dams have refilled and the atmosphere hasn't warmed in 15 years. The hype has receded.",1_4
"The National Academies Press has published ""Frontiers in Decadal Climate Variability: Proceedings of a Workshop."" The proceedings conclude scientists are still unable to determine the extent human activities or other natural factors dominate climate changes on decadal time scales. For instance, the Overview and Introduction states:",0_0
"This goes to show that temperatures are more closely related to ENO than temperatures are related to CO2, let alone ENO is related to CO2. Hence the Hadley Centres making of some fairly safe bets, but changing them, not as new scientific evidence emerges, but according to what they expect theENO to do in the near future, or is already doing. Claims made by sceptics that the effects",2_1
"So this is the trick people like this blogger use. They point to good science in #1 and partially in #2 to claim the whole chain of reasoning is ""settled science,"" when in fact there are gaping holes in our knowledge of 3-4-5-6.",0_0
"An interview with General David Petraeus. as a black man I cannot be racist "" ""Just had a visit from two uniformed officers. Reason? My firearms renewal, but more significantly this blog. It seems that my crappy little corner of the blogosphere has come to the attention of the police, and they don't like it."" James Travers: Code Talker Comments are open for yours.",0_0
"CEI Analyst Available to Comment: CEI President Fred L. Smith, Jr. on the slow removal of the market from the marketplace of ideas.",0_0
"CEI Response: FactCheck neglects to mention that the study it cites is based on only three years of data, from 2002 to 2005. This is strange, because FactCheck later argues, quoting a caveat in the study on Greenland's glaciers that we referenced in our ad, that ""the 11-year-long data set developed here remains too brief to establish long-term trends."" If 11 years is too brief to establish a long-term trend, then three years must be an even less adequate basis for trend analysis. Apparently, FactCheck wants people to be frightened by three years of data but not reassured by 11 years of data. This confirms our ad's basic point: in general, media coverage is biased in favor of climate alarmism.",5_2
The story was widely covered at the time and the result has been relied upon to marginalize criticism of the reliance of IPCC multiproxy studies on strip bark bulges or tree ring chronologies developed by CRU. Now it turns out that the much vaunted claim to have a ???validated?? no-dendro reconstruction for the past 1300 years was merely an illusion .,5_1
"Accordingly, Paterson proposed $3.5 billion in cuts to the state's Medicaid programthe second-greatest burden on New York taxpayers, after K12 educationand sought to shift monies away from inpatient hospitals to less expensive outpatient clinics. Hospitals would have seen a revenue reduction of less than 2 percent.",0_0
"Tim Hearn, chief executive of Imperial Oil Ltd., told the audience at a Peters & Co. energy conference in Toronto that the agreement would be disastrous for Canada. ""There's absolutely no reason in this country why we can't have good environmental management and economic growth for the prosperity of all Canadians - my view is that Kyoto fails on both accounts,"" Mr. Hearn said. ""It's somewhat incongruous to me that the federal government will end up going down a path that's going to shrink our economy, transfer wealth out of the country and reduce jobs.""",0_0
"At the opposite end of the nation in the iconic Kakadu Park creeping salinsation into the freshwater wetlands has occurred over the last 50 years. While the current cause is not likely to be attributable to climate change further rises in sea level and changes in rainfall pattern will increase and accelerate the trend. The parks paperbark vegetation is thickening up considerably a combination of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide, changed fire and rainfall regimes are all possibilities. If the system transforms into a salt environment the wetland flora and fauna will go replaced by mangroves. Some 60 species of water birds are also at stake. The debate about building a barrage to hold back the sea incursion and the salt is on in earnest.",0_0
"Locusts first moved south last summer from their breeding grounds in North Africa towards West Africa, causing widespread problems last September. But over the summer a new wave of locusts hatched and vegetation disappeared in the semi-desert of the Sahel (Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Niger and Chad). With the end of the rainy season, the locusts are heading back north. After years of drought, this year's heavy rains (in some parts of the Sahel at least) have provided the perfect conditions for the locusts to breed.",0_0
"If we are talking about halting and reversing this unbridled federal control, President-Elect Trump has promised to roll ""progress"" back and not a moment too soon, if we are to rejuvenate our economy.",0_0
"Footprint is 2,880 MW/km2 To get 2,880 MW from wind, at same scale as the Centennial project and efficiency (0.72 MW/turbine) (2 MW/km2), it would require;",0_0
"Now, if we leave out the extinctions by introduced predators, then out of the 207 bird and mammal extinctions there are only 9 extinctions in 500 years, three mammals and six birds. This means that other than extinctions from introduced predators the extinction rate is only 1.2 extinctions per MSY very low.",3_2
The revised and expanded paper is available here as an Adobe Acrobat PDF.,0_0
"""Men have objectified women for ages,"" said founder Rainer Castillo. ""We've flipped the game. Now women will objectify them."" While Chubbies' culture is explicitly fratty (its official Instagram account announces, ""Retro badasses, bacon, and occasionally shorts;"" beer is a given) and is gleeful and boastful about the Chubster's supposed knee-weakening effect on women, the conversation, the language, and the culture are explicitly self-referentially male.",0_0
"These are not the only data sets that point to unambiguous warming. Night time marine air temperatures (NMAT) measured on ships show warming. Also, a recent study analyzed the weather using only sea surface temperature and sea level pressure observations. The resulting temperatures over land produced a trend of +0.4 F/decade.",0_0
"Cross-scale Interactions, Nonlinearities, and Forecasting Catastrophic Events",0_0
"Dennis Byrne, Chicago Tribune , 26 July 2011",0_0
"Pacific coral atolls are not being drowned by extra sea-level rise; rather, atoll shorelines are affected by direct weather and infrequent high tide events, ENSO sea level variations, and impacts of increasing human populations.",1_6
"Re-location is fine (and easy; we only rent). For years, Ive been trying to find a way back into Texas where I started my illustrious career, via, its true, the nepotism of my Uncle Sam. I dont want to live in California, as gorgeous as that state is (I would like to keep at least some of the money given to me by my potential employer).",0_0
There's a complete misrepresentation of science's level of understanding of the reasons why this is happening:,0_0
"Because of their pollution, lots of people, mostly poor people, are likely to die. They will die from floods, from diseases like dengue fever, and from starvation when their crops won't grow anymore.",0_0
"To get a better sense of why these obstacles are so critical in blocking multilateral action, consider each of these in more detail.",0_0
Monckton's subsequent appearances on the Glenn Beck Fox News show and his many writings focused national attention and debate as no one else had.,0_0
"Thanks for reproducing in your recent post my account of the lefts attacks on our scientists and donors. Its a story that isnt getting nearly enough attention in the blogosphere. Im disappointed, though, that you also reproduced, at length and even endorsed, the lies and distortions written about us by Suzanne Goldenberg. A simple call or email to me or Jim Lakely would have given us a chance to correct her many misstatements.",0_0
"In any event, it is impossible to deny that this flatlining, whatever the cause may be, has huge implications for future projections of global temperatures. As such, this should be at the very centre of public debate.",1_4
"If global climate warming change disruption is likely to wipe out such a prevalent coffee bean in a few decades, the previous few hundred years of warming should have left a mark on global coffee production... Right?",0_0
"It was not I, but Schulte who had done the search, as I had said in my talk. It was not Google Scholar (most of whose sources are not peer-reviewed papers) but the ISI Web of Science database of peer-reviewed, learned journals that Schulte searched, as I had said in my talk. It was not the ""containing all of the words"" search option that Schulte had used, though that is the option Abraham used, but the ""exact-phrase"" option, which returned only 539 papers.",0_0
Senate Still Has Time to Get Health Care Reform Bill Right,0_0
"In conclusion, claims of impending marine species extinctions driven by increases in the atmosphere??s CO2 concentration do not appear to be founded in empirical reality, based on the experimental findings we have analyzed above.",3_2
"In the West itself, the current fixation of America on Central Asia and of Europe on the Middle East the closest thing to a ""Western"" geopolitical vision is based on two flawed premises. To put it crudely: Americans believe that Caspian Sea oil is the key to success in the Great Game; Europeans are convinced that the resolution of the Palestinian question holds the key to victory in the Long War.",0_0
"First, as clearly documented on the Anthony Watts website, many of the observing sites are not at the same height above the ground (i.e. not at 1.5m or 2m). Thus, particularly for the minimum temperatures, which vary more with height near the ground, the height matters in patching all of the data together to create long term temperature trends. Even more significant is that the trend will be different if the measurements are at different heights. For example, if there has been overall long term warming in the lower atmosphere, the trends of the minimum temperature at 2m will be significantly larger than when it is measured at 4m (or other higher level). Including minimum temperature trends together will result in an overstatement of the actual warming.",5_1
"Still, it is the geopolitical implications of this change that may well be the most important. There is not a one-to-one relationship between population and power. But numbers matter. Big nations, or big groups of nations acting in concert, can become major powers. China and India each have populations of more than a billion; their power and influence will almost surely increase in the decades to come. Europe will shrink and age, absolutely and relatively.",0_0
Global average temperature has been flat for a decade. But frightening myths about global warming continue.,1_4
"Mere Moral Realism : Everything in conscience can be weakened by neglect and erased by culture . . . . [I[f mere moral realists are right, then although the problem of moral decline may begin in volition, it dwells in cognition: it may begin as a defect of will, but ends as a defect of knowledge. We may have started by neglecting what we knew, but we have now gone so far that we really dont know it any more. What is the result? That our contemporary ignorance of right and wrong is genuine. We really dont know the truth, but we are honestly searching for it trying to see on a foggy night doing the best that we can. In a sense, we are blameless for our deeds, for we dont know any better.",0_0
"Modern warming is not preceded by or coincident with change in atmospheric circulation, suggesting that recent warming is not like the natural variability of the last few thousand years and that therefore is a consequence of anthropogenic forcing. This is an interesting argument though it must be realised that given our limited understanding of Antarctic climate and what has happened in the past, the logic of this case is suggestive, but by no means proof, of man's influence.",0_0
"The oceans cover about 70% of the surface of the Earth. The surface air temperatures of the smaller land portion imitate and amplify the warming or cooling of the oceans. The hypothesis of greenhouse gas-dominated manmade global warming has one fundamental requirement. Greenhouse gases MUST warm the surface and subsurface temperatures of the global oceans. If they dontthat is, if the recent warming of the oceans can be shown to be naturalthen carbon dioxide and other manmade greenhouse gases lose their importance. Those anthropogenic greenhouse gases then become second or third tier causes of the warming of land surface air temperatures. Instead of being important, manmade greenhouse gases then become impotent.",0_0
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"Tide gauge records are the primary source of sea level information over multi-decadal to century timescales. A critical issue in using this type of data to determine global climate-related contributions to sea level change concerns the vertical motion of the land upon which the gauges are grounded. Here we use observations from the Global Positioning System for the correction of this vertical land motion. As a result, the spatial coherence in the rates of sea level change during the 20th century is highlighted at the local and the regional scales, ultimately revealing a clearly distinct behavior between the northern and the southern hemispheres with values of 2.0mm/year and 1.1mm/year, respectively. Our findings challenge the widely accepted value of global sea level rise for the 20th century .",1_6
"""While the financial markets and economists were impressed with the size and generosity of official support for Greece, there was much less confidence that private investors will take enough of a hit to make its debt sustainable in the medium term.""",0_0
Failed Legislative Attempts with Even Dimmer Prospects Now,0_0
Observed Trend Less Than Climate Model Simulations,5_1
Planning Minister Brad Hazzard has accused farmers of an unusual game of simply trying to stop anything.,0_0
"on Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 at 5:48 pm and is filed under News.",0_0
"Oskerheten about what really happens is still high, brewing final line: The Bottom Line Is that we really need to bring down CO2 levels in the atmosphere. The study is published in the latest utgvan of Geology.",0_0
"Thats Part One. Parts Two through Five can be located at The Daily Bayonet , including the weekly Global Hottie.",0_0
"on Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 at 5:32 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Sea ice news Volume 5, # 5 NSIDC: the expansion in Antarctic sea ice is confirmed http:// wp.me/p7y4l-tHR",1_1
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"Basically, they found that when their climate model is constrained by reality over the past 160 years, that the temperature projections for the end of the 21st century are reduced by about 33%. This is a result of a similar magnitude as determined by Santer et al.",0_0
A generally non-mathematical presentation of scientific concepts and theories to appeal to a broad range of readers,0_0
"Perhaps the most important difference between the two graphs is the inclusion of a second set of data points in the Wheeler graph. These show the effects of raised temperatures on wheat maintained at elevated CO2 levels. As is plain to see, the effect of temperature seems to be more than compensated for by the enriched atmosphere. In other words the conditions we are alleged to be subject to in future are actually beneficial for wheat.",3_3
"The plots of this figure are provided simply because they account for the totality of the data contained in our Ocean Acidification Database Tables ; and it can be seen from the plots that they all extend into the region we have labeled ???far, far beyond the realm of reality.?? Therefore, in Figure 10 below, we present only the portions of the plots that extend into and through the domain of what we have denominated ???the warped world of the IPCC.??",5_2
"Abraham's approach is novel. He's saying not that I got one thing wrong but that I got just about everything wrong. And how plausible is that? A couple of pointers. First, it's now June 2010, and I spoke in October 2009, almost eight months ago. I've made a lot of speeches since. Why has it taken Abraham so long to cobble together his ramblings?",0_0
"The ""gap"" stayed bridged-at least until Climategate when Saltzman's neat and tidy theory began to unravel. An unsuspecting world merely had to read the leaked emails to see how the Emperor's Climate Clothes were crudely stitched together by heady tribalism among opportunist cronies.",5_2
To understand the scale of the revision that had taken place compare the two graphs below. The one on the left is diagram 7c from page 202 of the 1990 IPCC report in which the Medieval Warm Period was portrayed as clearly warmer than the present. On the right is the Hockey Stick graph from the 2001 IPCC report in which the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age have all but disappeared and the recent climate history is dominated by a rapid temperature rise in the last 20th century.,5_1
"Paatalo, M.-L. 1998. Factors influencing occurrence and impacts of fires in northern European forests. Silva Fennica 32: 185-202.",0_0
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie responds to O'Keefe video:,0_0
"The statement proposes that the contraction and convergence targets for Co2 emissions that all countries have accepted in principle (though not formally agreed on) should be on a per capita basis to encourage the adoption ofpopulation restraint policies. What this means in non-jargon terms is that when setting a nations Co2 emissions targets in any future treaty, these emissions should be the ceiling or maximum allowable amount if more people are subsequently born, the total emissions allowed for that nation cannot then increase. So, effectively, each individuals allowed emissions will therefore have to decrease to stay within the emissions target that the nation had previously agreed to.",0_0
WHAT DO YOU SUPPOSE HAPPENS WHEN SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES WARM IN RESPONSE TO STRONG EL NIO EVENTS BUT DONT COOL IN RESPONSE TO THE LA NIA EVENTS THAT FOLLOW THEM?,0_0
As people have moved near the coast they have built in harm's way.,0_0
"on Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 at 6:02 pm and is filed under News.",0_0
"Here . Update : In a related post, Al Fin writes : Can you imagine? The rain forests keep losing the same 150 million ha of rainforest every ten years!...The clueless mainstream media continues to barrage a hapless public with disaster stories of rain forest devastation accompanied by catastrophic human-caused global warming.",5_2
CEI: Stuff president took credit for that he didn't do:,0_0
"Now some believe that a newly installed Baltic 1 offshore windpark (see map) consisting of 21 2.3-MW turbinesmay be responsible, according to reports.",0_0
It is interesting to see the lower tropospheric warming minimum in the tropics,0_0
This foreign policy civics lesson is offered as background for a pair of,0_0
The results will be published in the journal Climatic Change and Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change .,0_0
"You are New York City, for Gods sake, he said. Give it to us the right way or we wont believe you at all.",0_0
"16) Why Would Bias in Climate Research be Important? I thought Scientists Just Follow the Data Where It Leads Them When researchers approach a problem, their pre-conceived notions often guide them. It?s not that the IPCC?s claim that humans cause global warming is somehow untenable or impossible, it?s that political and financial pressures have resulted in the IPCC almost totally ignoring alternative explanations for that warming.",0_0
"Meanwhile, in contrast to these theoretical risks, GM foods are improving people's lives, especially in the developing world. Food is cheaper, meaning more people are adequately fed. Crops are 20 to 30 percent more productive, so less land is needed to feed more people. Pesticide use is diminishing, lessening damage to the environment. And if the bans on GM crops were not deterring some countries from planting it, Golden Rice, genetically engineered to contain vitamin A, could be reducing the one million deaths, and half a million cases of blindness, occurring in the developing world every year because of vitamin A deficiency.",0_0
"Audi Super Bowl Ad: Working Both Sides of Street? (Updated Feb. 10, 2010)",0_0
"UN IPCC's Michael Oppenheimer on his unused sled in 2000: ""Oppenheimer even had a tear-jerking personal angle on the ""absence of snow' in modern winters omichael@princeton.edu NYT quoted ""Oppenheimer on the pathetic spectacle of the unused sled in his stairwell, symbol of a warming world: ""I bought a sled in '96 for my daughter,' said Oppenheimer, a scientist at the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund. ""It's been sitting in the stairwell, and hasn't been used. I used to go sledding all the time. It's one of my most vivid and pleasant memories as a kid, hauling the sled out to Cunningham Park in Queens.'",0_0
"As The Washington Post writer Charles Lane observed at the time: ?It?s one thing to lose your job because a competing firm built a superior mouse trap; it?s quite another, justice-wise, to lose it because a competitor talked the government into taking its side.?",0_0
Figure 2: Plant growth vs CO2 concentration. Plants really begin to suffer once CO2 concentrations fall below 500 ppm. Source: click here .,3_3
"With climate change we often assume that populations simply need to move poleward to escape warming, but our study shows that in the ocean, the escape routes are more complex, says ecologist Lauren Buckley of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, also a co-author of the paper.",0_0
The Record of Collective Action on Other Open Access Problems,0_0
"New Yorkers should also be aware that there is growing opposition to wind farms wherever they are proposed, in Europe, Australia and in nearly every state in the U.S., says Schleede. ""Opposition is due to a variety of reasons including scenic and property value impairment, noise, bird kills, ""flicker' effects of spinning blades after sunrise and before sunset, potential safety hazards from blade and ice throws, interference with telecommunications, and higher costs of electricity.""",0_0
Wait a minute. What did the last IPCC report say?,0_0
"From the Federal Food Insurance program that now socializes the cost of flood stupid to everyone (and is painfully in deficit) encouraging massive building in flood plains (guess whey the are called that?) and on mobile sand bars (as they all are), to the over regulation of commerce that breaks flexible and innovative response, to the selling of privilege for political favor; we have a new Power Of Stupid at work.",0_0
"New research in The FASEB Journal suggests that obese fathers have changes to microRNAs that increase the risks for daughters to be overweight/obese, and both sons and daughters to have diabetes-like diseases",0_0
"Update: This does not mean that there has been no warming, just that it has been exaggerated. Satellites have shown warming over the last 30 years and are unaffected by the same biases and issues as at the CRU. But the whole point is the exaggeration. Skeptics generally dont think there is no warming from mans CO2, just that it is greatly exaggerated. And this matters. Ten degrees of warming vs. a half degree of warming over the next century have very very different policy implications. See my video here for more.",5_1
"One year ago, on January 31, we were treated to another of these Snowmageddon scenarios. At the time, USA Today quoted Gary Szatkowski, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service, as saying: Its a little surprising that people are falling for this.",0_0
"Temeln (CZ), Jaslovsk Bohunice (SK), Tetov (CZ), Blahutovice (CZ), Mochovce (SK), Kecerovce (SK) besides the existing ones in Temeln (CZ), Dukovany (CZ), Jaslovsk Bohunice (SK), and Mochovce (SK). Seven nuclear places is not bad for a country of 15 million.",0_0
"All essentially forced energy conservation (called conservation ism at this blog) is primarily to reduce emissions of all sorts, but largely GHGs, given that pollutants are covered by other regulatory regimes.",0_0
"The entire industry of ""climate science"" was created out of virtually nothing, by means of a massive influx of funding that was almost universally one-sided in its requirement that its recipients find evidence for man-made climate changenot investigate whether or how much mankind had caused climate change.",5_2
"The basic concept is that if the radiative forcing of the climate system is increased, the surface temperature will warm until the outgoing long wave radiation becomes in balance with the new radiative forcing. There is a lag between when the radiative forcing is imposed and when an equilibrium is achieved with the new forcing (this has been referred to as a temperature increase which is still in the pipeline). If the forcing changes over time, the surface temperature will not, of course, ever reach an equilibrium.",0_0
"Most recently, the current issue of Macleans magazine has a cover story titled ""Why Your Grocery Bill is About to Hurt"", which is linked here : ""...the U.S. biofuels industry has made",0_0
"The plaintiff in the case is the Dutch environmental organization Urgenda, described by the court as ""a citizens' platform . . . involved in the development of plans and measures to prevent climate change."" As part of a global strategy to persuade courts that they have authority to trump the climate policy decisions of the legislative and executive branches of government, Urgenda's lawsuit resulted in a rare but significant victory for climate activists. The ruling will now be cited as precedent in pending and future lawsuits not only in the Netherlands, but across the globe.",0_0
> >> >>adaptation. Such a document should contain a critical,0_0
"the opportunity for major policy change is ripe, as it was for LBJ in 1965. But",0_0
"When all the warming and cooling periods are combined, there has been overall warming of +0.6C since 1880, which is entirely normal, considering the realism that world temperatures have been on a natural warming trend since the incredible coldness of the Little Ice Age. Even with the large increase of CO2 levels since 1880, the overall warming is nothing extraordinary or dangerous. And just to be clear, the natural cycles of warming and cooling will keep global temperatures from jumping to the ludicrous heights (as the red dots represent on the above chart) that warming alarmist scientists and eco-activists speculate about. One last graph and note:",2_1
"Use more technology (geoengineering, carbon capture and storage).",0_0
This set of examples shows that the HADCM3L cannot produce a unique solution to the problem of the climate energy state. No set of model parameters is known to be any more valid than any other set of model parameters. No projection is known to be any more physically correct (or incorrect) than any other projection.,5_1
"From S. Fred Singer HOT TALK, COLD SCIENCE: Global Warmings Unfinished Debate S. Fred Singer is a distinguished astrophysicist who has taken a hard, scientific look at the evidence. In this book, Dr. Singer explores the inaccuracies in historical climate data, the limitations of attempting to model climate on computers, solar variability and its impact on climate, the effects of clouds, ocean currents, and sea levels on global climate, and factors that could mitigate any human impacts on world climate. LearnMore",0_0
"Since 2000, industrial power prices are up 13 percent in real dollars, while commercial power prices are up 9 percent. Before 2000, both prices had fallen steadily since 1982, by 42 percent and 27 percent, respectively, according to the federal government's Energy Information Administration (EIA). Prices are up in part because the cost of natural gas, which increasingly fuels power plants, has skyrocketed over the period; independent power companies have also had to try to recoup the billions of dollars they spent in the early to mid-1990s building natural gas plants by passing the costs of construction on to their customers in deregulated markets.",0_0
"Using a livelihood security approach, Alexander and her team identified vulnerable households in these communities and examined how they adapted and coped with major climate events and shocks such as droughts, hurricanes and floods. The Baylor researchers also developed tools to measure each households long-term resilience, an area that has not been extensively researched, and identified specific behaviors and strategies that allowed some families to weather the storm better than others.",0_0
"They may dismay consumers, but higher rates will encourage suppliers to find new sources of energy.",0_0
The 2014/15 El Nio Part 5 The Relationship Between the PDO and ENSO,0_0
"The SREX Report seemed to conclude that, apart from warmer days and nights, there was no significant trend in heatwaves, tornadoes, hurricanes is that still the case?",1_7
"Of the $6.3 billion to be spent on stage 1, $3.6 billion would come from tax incentives to stimulate spending on energy efficient transportation and housing. But, says the GAO, the Administration ""has no estimate of the expected benefits and thus is not explicitly tied to the protocol's target for emission reductions."" The GAO says that ""it is uncertain how much"" the $2.7 billion proposed for R&D; will ""help the United States meet the target specified by the protocol.""",0_0
"The 2001 Third Assessment Report contained a graph contradicting the First Report by falsely abolishing the medieval warm period, which, like the Roman, Minoan, and Holocene optima, and 7500 of the past 11,400 years, and each of the four previous interglacial warm periods, and most of the past 600 million years, was warmer than today. Some 800 scientists from more than 460 institutions in 42 countries over 25 years have written peer-reviewed, learned papers providing evidence that the Middle Ages were warmer than today.",2_1
"This new version of the party eschewed any serious effort to bargain and compromise with the opposition party, an essential activity within the American constitutional system.",0_0
"Advocates of ""pooling"" U.S. sovereignty with others to address ""global"" problems are really saying we should surrender some of our sovereignty to international organizations that other nations will influence or even control.",0_0
Theres no indication that global warming will result in stronger storms. The World Meteorological Organisation announced earlier this year they find no connection between global warming and hurricane activity.,1_7
"Economics, not politics, will decide the fate of Canada's tar sands. Energy analysts at Wood MacKenzie recently estimated that $200 billion in oil and gas investments in 45 projects around the world were being delayed due to low prices. About $60 billion of those planned investments were slated for oil sands projects. Just last month, Royal Dutch Shell announced it was halting its Carmon Creek oil sands project in Alberta due to low oil prices.",0_0
"This brings us to the what John L. Casey, founder of the Space and Science Research Corporation, (SSRC), an independent scientific research organization in Orlando, says about the forthcoming November 30 to December 15 U.N. climate conference in Paris which he describes as ?doomed? and that?s the good news.",0_0
Little kid (sounded 5 or 6 years old) asks:,0_0
"23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?",0_0
"Source:?? Popular TechnologyGlobal warming alarmists like to distort the scale on temperature graphs to exaggerate the mild warming of less than a degree since the end of the little ice age. (IPCC +0.74 ??C)NASS GISS Global Land-Ocean Temperature Index (1880-2009)Realist:Alarmist:Source:NASS GISS Global Land-Ocean Temperature Index (1880-2009)This entry was postedon Wednesday, October 13th, 2010 at 2:23 pmand is filed under Uncategorized.You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.",5_2
"Its a good question, and it arises out of an article posted on Business Green (an on-line news and campaigning site for green capitalists) by its editor, James Murray. More about that in a moment. First, the background.",0_0
Eighteen people registered to vote out of a truck stop,0_0
"The data shows a global mean sea level rise of only 1.85 mm/year since January 2005, a deceleration of 44% from the prior rate of 3.3 mm/year. At this rate, sea levels will rise 7 inches over the next 100 years. Break out the life rafts!",1_6
"One of the key assumptions in the general circulation models (which are the basis for the IPCC's global warming predictions) relates to the sensitivity of climate to changes in the amount of energy reaching the earth. The models currently assume that every Watt per meter squared (W/m2) of energy added to the earth will cause the temperature to rise by .55 C. A doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to the model assumptions, will add 4.5 Watts per meter squared (W/m2) of energy to the earth causing the temperature to rise by 2.5 C. This is the basis for model projections.",0_0
The unadjusted NZ temperature history. Click for larger version.,0_0
"Far too many environmentalists, bureaucrats, politicians, and judges would rather let forests burn than let anyone selectively cut timber, thin out overgrown trees or even let loggers harvest usable timber left from beetle kills, devastating fires, or volcanic explosions like Mount St. Helens. (Do you suppose they'd alter their policies if loggers promised to use chain saws powered by little wind turbines or solar panels?)",0_0
Robert L. Bradley is the chief executive officer and founder of the Institute for Energy Research in Houston.,0_0
"For Bosch, another German giant, its move into solar ended in disaster too, costing the electronics company even more than Siemens: about ?2.4bn.",0_0
"In Pakistan, about 1600 people have died since floods struck in July and early August, while about 14 million are struggling to cope with the consequences of the natural disaster, the UN and Pakistani government said.",0_0
"A new paper finds that over the past decade the global average effective cloud height has declined and that If sustained, such a decrease would indicate a significant measure of negative cloud feedback to global warming.",3_1
"Meet the man, assistant DeSmogger Brendan De Melle , who took a whole hour to get the documents online from the time received. Speed is more important than fact checking in journo-lism I suppose.",0_0
?global icons? One of these suggested icons was the Great Barrier Reef,0_0
"They let these random diatribes of absolute, incorrect nonsense get published. Theyre not able to determine if whats being said is correct or not, or whether its just absolute balderdash. .",0_0
"Addressing the executive order emphasis, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue says: ""It is unfortunate that on a matter of such importance to all Americans that the administration has chosen to bypass our elected representatives in favor of unilateral actions and go-it-alone tactics.""",0_0
"The paper is a preprint that will eventually appear in the European Journal of the Philosophy of Science and can be downloaded here . It is a contribution to an ongoing debate in philosophy of science circles as to how computer simulations fit into the normal blueprint of science, with some claiming that they are something other than a hypothesis or an experiment.",0_0
"But UKIP hates Europe? Not at all . European nations are among some of our closest allies, but we want out of the European Union on the grounds that it is entirely undemocratic. Unelected people write the laws, referendums are scoffed at and ignored and the EU has failed its financial audit every year for the past 20. The EU also stifles trade. Arguments about losing three million jobs can only be sustained if one believes that the EU will stop trading with us, despite the fact that we will instantly become its biggest export market and that they already have free trade deals with countries such as Mexico. Dont some things require international cooperation? Yes, and this can still be achieved, but it does not require forced political and economic union.",0_0
"Missing stations, missing data, adjustments based on differences in temperature measurements and rerunning the adjustments all t get more precise results? I couldnt adjust data that had product or legal (environmental) liability without documenting each change. I was also subject to regular audits by customers and regulatory agencies.",5_1
An all of the above energy policy that is rigged against consumer-driven dense energy and rigged for government-enabled dilute energy;,5_2
"Fuel poverty will only reducesubstantially if fuel costs come down. That will only happen if someone comes up with a cheaper, clean alternative to fossil fuels. That will not happen for a generation or more. Subsidising alternative energy sources that will always be much more expensive than oil is currently may divert attention away from that search. It is the poor who will suffer from most.",4_4
2nd person denied Ariz. Transplant coverage dies:,0_0
"The caricature of President Bush the unilateralist is inaccurate. He went to the United Nations before invading Iraq, and he assembled an international coalition to fight the war. But Europeans should recognize that Mr. Bush scored points in the campaign when he derided Sen. Kerry's suggestion that the U.S. needed a permission slip from the U.N., France and Germany before defending itself, and Bush went out of his way during the debates to criticize the International Criminal Court. Americans don't want to pull out of the U.N.; to the contrary, they want it to be effective. A survey by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations found that 87% of the public favors ""working through the United Nations to strengthen international laws against terrorism."" Expect, however, that the administration will take a close look at U.N. institutions like the World Health Organization, which, with heavy support from American taxpayers, revel in attacking U.S. policies and businesses.",0_0
"An advertising agency for the citys health department obtained the rights to use the photo to illustrate its campaign shown throughout the subway system against supersize portions of fast food and sugary sodas. To emphasize that consuming too much of those foods could lead to diabetes and the amputation of limbs, the agency edited away the lower half of Mr. Berrys right leg and conjured up a pair of crutches.",0_0
"There is not the slightest indication that Arctic sea ice is disappearing. Arctic sea is two meters thick, the thickest it has been since 2006 and about the same thickness it was 75 years ago.",1_1
Experts Decry Eco-Imperialism on Earth Day,0_0
Global sea ice levels decreased but then recently have come back to normal (at least the same levels as when we started monitoring).,1_1
"In reality, the soil surface cools faster that does the deeper layers, but I didnt want to complicate things with a multi-level model (which I dont have time to work on anyway). This is just a simple, bulk model calculation meant to illustrate how extremely cold it would get at night without downwelling IR from the sky (aka, the greenhouse effect) reducing the net rate of energy loss to outer space.",0_0
"Now I'd like to address one more myth that's being perpetrated by Utility MACT proponents, which has to do with their public health argument. The truth is that the health benefits EPA claims are exaggerated and misleading. That's because EPA's analysis shows that over 99 percent of the benefits from the rule come from reducing fine particulate matter, not air toxics. Of course, fine particulate matter is regulated under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards program, and in fact 90% of Utility MACT's purported particulate matter benefits occur in air already deemed safe in the NAAQS program.",0_0
"Instead of these intractable disputes, it's better to ask whether, at the margin, the additional cost of pollution control is justified by the environmental gains achieved. Only a firm has the information needed to make these continuous adjustments. Let the government set the per-unit tariff for pollution and the firm will figure out its compliance strategy, independent of political machinations. To be sure, this system requires some collective measurement of pollution costs from various types of emissions. But any system of state regulation has to ask that question, including one that uses BAT.",0_0
"The 2013 hurricane season just ended as one of the five quietest years since 1960. But don't expect anyone who pointed to last year's hurricanes as ""proof"" of the need to act against global warming to apologize; the warmists don't work that way.",0_0
"In commenting on their findings, the five Chinese researchers say ""our well-calibrated high-resolution tropical SST records, which suggested a warmer MCA than recent decades, did not agree with the results of the IPCC fourth report, which suggested that the recent decades were the warmest in at least the past 1,300 years."" And they additionally go on to say that their new temperature reconstruction is ""not the only evidence in eastern Asia for a warmer MCA than recent decades.""",2_1
"This is not some Iird skeptics fantasy. This two-part description of catastrophic global warming theory is right out of the latest IPCC report. Most of the warming in the reports forecasts actually results from the theory of positive feedback in #2, not from greenhouse gasses directly.",2_3
> >> >- maybe the IDS at Sussex,0_0
"The Gospels are quite clear. Besides depicting Jesus dining with prostitutes and publicans without feeling any urge to lecture and condemn them, references abound on concentrating on ones own real problems instead of anybody elses purported issues.",0_0
"According to the French financial daily Les Echos, France, the birthplace of the Paris climate agreement, is planning to scrap a tax on carbon dioxide emissions it had announced earlier in 2016. Sources within France's socialist government said it would not include the carbon tax in the budget update it is drafting.",0_0
"The firefighters have been working around the clock to fight the Crow Edge blaze, which has created a huge pall of acrid smoke that can be smelled across much of South Yorkshire .",0_0
"If the standstill continues for a few more years it will mean that no one who has just reached adulthood, or younger, will have witnessed the Earth get warmer during their lifetime, said the reports author, Dr David Whitehouse.",1_4
"We have to switch datasets to NOAAs ERSST.v3b for the long-term data. The data for the month of February 2013 will not be available until early in March, so well use the January 2013 value for the most recent temperature anomaly for the New England coastal watersthe red horizontal line. The current anomalies were exceeded by a good amount in the 1940s. And theyve regularly been exceeded as far back as the 1850s and 60s.",0_0
"In fact, Obama??s energy policies have created the worst of all possible worlds for American consumers: higher prices and continued dependency on imported oil.",4_1
Blake Hurst is a Missouri farmer and a frequent contributor to THE AMERICAN.,0_0
"""The Clean Power Plan is an illegitimate exercise in executive authority,"" added William Yeatman, CEI senior fellow. ""It is an affront to federalism; it usurps the states' long-held, exclusive authority to oversee retail electricity markets. If finalized, the rule would fundamentally overhaul the electric industry without the permission of Congress or the American people.""",4_1
"According to NOAA, drought in recent years has been at historically low levels, while precipitation has been trending upwards.",1_7
Click for more on the Manns involuntary public figure charade.,0_0
>> >Sorry for this delayed reply to your mail. I have been quite,0_0
"Table 1. Exponents table showing pairwise differences in Patriot measurements. Exponent commented as follows: There are seven pairs of measurements (highlighted in orange and red) in which the drop in pressure between the earlier ball tested and the later ball tested is greater than or equal to 0.75 psig, and there are three pairs of measurements (highlighted in red) in which the drop in pressure between the earlier ball tested and later ball tested is greater than or equal to 1.0 psig.",0_0
"At the same time it released its report, EPA issued seven recommendations, the first four of which were proposed by the Clinton administration in 1996 but never implemented. These recommendations are:",0_0
"In Scramble for Land, Group Says, Company Pushed Ugandans Out",0_0
"This tactic will allow developed nations to sell binding targets to the public. Nature concludes, ""Their greatest opportunity is that a growing sense of crisis over global warming will focus minds on the need to rethink our use of energy and other resources, and to accept the pain that this will inevitably require.""",0_0
"In other words, increasing atmospheric CO2 is not causing global temperature to rise; instead the natural cyclic increase in global temperature is causing global CO2 to rise. The reason that global CO2 levels rise and fall in response to the global temperature is because cold water is capable of retaining more CO2 than warm water. That is why carbonated beverages loose their carbonation, or CO2, when stored in a warm environment. We store our carbonated soft drinks, wine, and beer in a cool place to prevent them from loosing their fizz, which is a feature of their carbonation, or CO2 content. The earth is currently warming as a result of the natural Ice Age cycle, and as the oceans get warmer, they release increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere.",2_3
"So don't think President Obama has softened his position since 2009, when he attempted to ram a cap-and-trade bill through Congress that would have required draconian cuts in carbon dioxide emissions and caused electricity rates to skyrocket. Apparently he still believes that droughts, floods, and wildfires can be banished by legislative fiat that he can set the global thermostat by substituting unreliable wind and solar power for coal and oil.",0_0
"Because non-CO 2 -forceced wetter and drier conditions than those of the present have occurred in this region in the past, such conditions can be expected to naturally recur in the future.?? Yet just as soon as the precipitation balance begins to tip towards one extreme or the other, you can count on there being a number of climate alarmists who will be all too eager to attribute the change to the ongoing rise in the air's CO 2 content, even when such attribution is clearly unwarranted. Reviewed 20 July 2005",1_7
Abbott promised to repeal Labor's carbon tax. Norway's Ema Solberg called for business-friendly reforms to produce the economic growth necessary for an expensive welfare state.,0_0
"I've spent a little time with this report. Here are my observations. Feel free to forward and cite this posting, I?ll get it up on Heartland?s Freedom Pub momentarily. I?ll appreciate comments on whether I got this right.",0_0
"What is actually going on is the exact opposite of the Guardians claims. Arctic sea ice is melting very slowly, and is nearing a mid-summer high for the past decade.",1_1
"Irvine, Calif. Two new UC Irvine papers reach markedly different conclusions about why methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas, unexpectedly leveled off near the end of the 20th century. They appear today in the journal Nature.",5_1
"It is now estimated that some 50,000 executions took place across Europe.",0_0
The Elsner paper relies on far too short a period to draw any meaningful conclusions.,0_0
"The London Daily Mail published a chart that, as they say, reveals how 95 % certain estimates of the Earth heating up were a spectacular miscalculation. Comparing actual temperatures against the IPCCs 95% certainty projections, the lines track closely until recent years, at which point the line representing the observed temperatures is about to crash out of the boundaries of the lowest projections. They were supposed to climb sharply after 1990.",5_1
"Earlier this year, CEI filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the State Department as part of its inquiry into developing a successor regime to the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. For example, CEI hopes to obtain records shedding light on the Global Climate Fund (GCF) that then-Secretary Hillary Clinton proposed as a means to rescue the December 2009 Copenhagen ""climate talks"" from collapse, and why and how the administration decided to claim that an obvious treaty isn't a treaty, after all.",0_0
"Another tiny factor that plays a role in our climate is the sun, believe it or not. Low solar activity has shown to be strongly correlated with cold periods on this planet. Currently, contrary to what was earlier expected by NASA, cycle 24 is turning out to be one of surprisingly low activity. That bodes ill for more cooling.",2_1
"Our findings in this report ratify a longstanding and broadly-held belief that parts of the NSR program can and should be improved. For example, we conclude above that changes to NSR that add to the clarity and certainty of the scope of the routine maintenance exclusion will improve the program by reducing the unintended consequences of discouraging worthwhile projects that are in fact outside the scope of NSR.43",0_0
"According to Teris own website, Dr Pachauri and his wife are on the jury panel for the 2010 awards. Dr Pachauri has been on the jury panel for the awards in previous years.",0_0
"The year as a whole is currently running as the second coldest since 1996, beaten only by the exceptionally cold year of 2010. Temperatures so far in December are 2 degrees below normal, and the Met Office are forecasting that this will continue for the foreseeable future.",1_2
Kevin Rudd was fired and Julia Gillard took his job.,0_0
Your dad's job is to try to stop the government making laws to reduce Australia's carbon pollution. He is paid a lot of money to do that by big companies who do not want to own up to the fact that their pollution is changing the world's climate in very harmful ways.,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. Missing estimates by more than 30 percent will incur penalties. Forecasting at 15-minute intervals is very challenging, and could cost a 100-megawatt farm an estimated 250 million rupees ($4.2 million) a year, Tata Power said in an e-mailed response to questions. Developers will see this as a further handicap and penalties will jeopardize the industrys growth, the nations second-biggest developer said.",0_0
"?This century is special in the Earth?s history. It is the first when one species ? ours ? has the planet?s future in its hands,? reports the AFP news agency. ?We?ve invented a new geological era: the Anthropocene.?, he stated.",0_0
"Larsen et al. performed multiple analysis of sediment cores of an Iceland glacial lake. The analysis clearly documents the robust climate change during the periods of the Dark Ages,the Medieval Warming and the Little Ice Age. The empirical evidence points to the extreme warmth of Iceland's climate during the MWP and the extreme cold of the LIA.",2_1
"Principal component analysis of the weather station data produces results similar to those of the satellite data analysis, yielding three separable principal components. We therefore used the RegEM algorithm with a cut-off parameter k=3. A disadvantage of excluding higher-order terms (k>3) is that this fails to fully capture the variance in the Antarctic Peninsula region.Weaccept this tradeoff because the Peninsula is already the best-observed region of the Antarctic.",0_0
"As Adam Smith expressed it in his earlier book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759):",0_0
These maps and graphs make it clear just how brazen the fraud of the Hockey Stick is.,5_2
"As stated earlier, the average surface temperature over the last hundred years has increased by about 0.5 C. Much of the 0.5 C warming occurred early in the 20th century, before the major increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, so most of the 0.5 C warming must have resulted from natural factors of climate change. The early 20th century warming could not have been caused by human-made greenhouse gases.",2_1
"Green power was replaced by coal and oil. Carbon energy powered factories, mills, pumps, ships, trains, and smelters; and cars, trucks and tractors replaced the work-horses. The result was a green revolution forests began to regrow and vast areas of crop-land used for horse feed were released to produce food for humans. Poverty declined and population soared.",0_0
"Currently, the DOE program is a simple voluntary reporting program with no regulatory significance. But, says Lewis, writing for Tech Central Station (September 10, 2002), the addition of the awarding of credits to companies that report greenhouse gas reductions will corrupt the ""politics of U.S. energy policy"" and ""grow the greenhouse lobby.""",0_0
"hurricane, tornado, flood and drought disaster frequencies have not increased globally, or in the U.S. ...( Ramez",1_7
"However, this potential increase is just 3% of an average household's annual $2,912 gasoline outlay. That's $87 a year or $1.68 a week half the price of one Starbucks Latte Grande.",0_0
No. 84 Climate Change 95: An Appraisal (summary),0_0
"Another famous place is the Tuvalu Islands, which are supposed to soon disappear ?? There we have a tide gauge record, a variograph record, from 1978, so it??s 30 years. And again ?? absolutely no trend, no rise.",1_6
"Greece, aiming to stave off a fresh energy crisis, plans to support its main electricity market operator through a temporary tax on renewable power producers and by extending an emergency loan, a senior official said on Friday. The electricity system came close to collapse in June when market operator LAGHE was overwhelmed by subsidies it pays to green power producers as part of efforts to bolster solar energy. Greece has slashed the guaranteed feed-in prices it pays to some solar operators and is no longer approving permits for their installation. Harry Papachristou, Reuters, 28 September 2012 ( http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/28/us-greece-interview-idUSBRE88R0UQ20120928 )",0_0
An Argyll grandmother is headed to Geneva to obtain a ruling on whether Government and planning authorities are overstepping their powers and failing to perform legally binding duties to citizens in their rush to build windfarms.,0_0
"Note that not only can the Medieval Warm Period be seen, around 1000 years ago and the depths of the Little Ice Age around 500 years ago, but also the Dark Ages cold period (1700 years BP) and the Roman Warm period (around 2000 years BP) and other warm periods at 2500 and 3000 years BP.",2_1
The scale of global warming was exaggerated due to temperature distortions for Russia accounting for 12.5% of the world??s land mass. The IEA said it was necessary to recalculate all global-temperature data in order to assess the scale of such exaggeration.,5_1
"The left has been scheming to transform health care in America ever since and came close to achieving its goal with passage of the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, in 2010. Obamacare was designed to fail it simply could never deliver on its promises of preserving choice of private insurance coverage while also controlling spending and to destroy the private health care system in the process, leaving the path clear for single-payer or nationalized health care.",0_0
"The prospect for increasing domestic fossil fuel production is much brighter for natural gas than conventional oil. Hydraulic fracturing, a new technique for extracting natural gas from shale rocks, led the Potential Gas Committee to increase their estimate of American natural gas reserves by 35% over the past couple of years. A more recent private sector report argues that shale gas more than doubles America's natural gas reserves.",4_5
Maybe the IPCC's Modelers Should Try to Simulate Earth's Oceans,0_0
"The researcher - who hails from the Active Cavity Radiometer Solar Irradiance Monitor Laboratory and Duke University at Durham, North Carolina (USA) - states that by not properly reconstructing the 20-year and 60-year natural cycles found in earth's surface temperature record, ""the IPCC GCMs have seriously overestimated the magnitude of the anthropogenic contribution to the recent global warming."" And as a result, with respect to the future, he says that whereas the IPCC models project a warming of 1.0-3.6??C by the end of the current century, his model suggests a global warming in the range of 0.3-1.2??C by 2100, which is considerably more in line with the real -world and observation -based assessments of earth's climate sensitivity that were empirically derived several years ago by Idso (1998) and more recently by Lindzen and Choi (2009, 2011).",5_1
Figure 4. Projection of climate changes of the last century and past 500 years into the future. The black curve is temperature variation from 1900 to 2009; the red line is the IPCC projected warming from the IPCC website in 2000; the blue curves are several possible projections of climate change to 2040+ based on past global cooling periods (1945-1977; 1880 to 1915; and 1790 to 1820). The lack of sun spots during the past solar cycle has surpassed all records since the Dalton Minimum and some solar physicists have suggested we may be headed for a Dalton or Maunder type mimimum with severe cooling.,1_2
"Climate Astrology: ""No matter what the weather is like, it always turns out to be exactly the kind of weather we should expect if human activity were causing global temps to rise' ""The natural sciences have terms for that kind of hypothesis. ""Unfalsifiable' is one of them. ""Unscientific' is another. An idea may be true, but if it is incapable of being ""falsified' or proven wrong, then whatever else that idea is, it certainly isn't science.'",0_0
"RSS satellite temperatures show that by 2008, US temperatures had cooled down below what they were during all of the non-volcano years of the 1980s and 1990s.",1_4
"Obama said his would be the most transparent administration in history. But transparency quickly took a back seat to his radical climate change, renewable energy and other plans to fundamentally transform the United States. EPA practices epitomize what goes on throughout his Executive Branch, why our economy is growing at 0.2% and what congressional Democrats are apparently determined to perpetuate.",0_0
"Animation 1 provides the sea surface height anomalies and the depth-averaged temperature anomalies for the top 300 meters (T300) side by side. Again, please click on the animations to enlarge them.",0_0
"The Guardian tells us that Bjorn Lomborg, ?The world?s most high-profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is ?undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today? and ?a challenge humanity must confront?, in an apparent U-turn that will give a huge boost to the embattled environmental lobby.? The problem is it is completely false. His message on climate in his new book is exactly the same as it has been all along.",0_0
"6. Empirical evidence shows that Earth is currently ""greening"" significantly due to additional CO2 and a modest warming.",3_3
HOW THE BASIC ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING MYTH IS PORTRAYED,0_0
"Most, though not all, models overestimate the observed warming trend in the tropical troposphere over the last 30 years, and tend to underestimate the long-term lower stratospheric cooling trend. {9.4.1, Box 9.2, Figure 9.8}",5_1
"Contrary to what environmentalist organizations would like the public to believe, a vote to check President Barack Obama's overweening EPA is not a vote against children's health. Rather, the opposite is true. EPA's job-killing regulatory agenda is anathema to the health and well-being of Americans, young and old. By reining in this rogue agency, Congress could unleash wealth creation that has been stifled by EPA's unjustifiable intrusions. Wealth creation, in turn, will produce the means by which parents can care for their children, properly and fully.",0_0
"Democratic Platform Calls for End to Fossil Fuels, Prosecuting Climate Skeptics",0_0
"Jack Dini, Livermore, CA, writes a monthly column on science and environmental issues for Plating & Surface Finishing and also writes for other publications. He is the author of Challenging Environmental Mythology (2003).",0_0
"Ralph Nader, commenting on the long queues outside Moscow shops during his 1990 visit. It's reassuring that Nader appears to misunderstand Communism as badly as he misunderstands capitalism.",0_0
"After six months of differential CO 2 treatment, short-term exposure of ambiently-grown plants to an atmospheric CO 2 concentration of 700 ppm increased their photosynthetic rates by approximately 35 and 20% for the grasses and legumes, respectively. However, the long-term photosynthetic responses of most plants grown and measured at atmospheric CO 2 concentrations of 700 ppm were not significantly different from those of control plants grown at ambient CO 2 , indicating that photosynthetic acclimation had occurred in these species. Nevertheless, atmospheric CO 2 enrichment significantly reduced the stomatal conductances of all species in both the short- and long-term, enabling them to maintain significant CO 2 -induced increases in plant water-use efficiency throughout the entire experiment.",3_3
"There is no prayer, but there are self-sacrificing rituals that are not particularly useful, such as recycling. Recycling paper to save trees, for example, makes no sense since the effect will be to reduce the number of trees planted in the long run.",0_0
But what are they proposing? Barack Obama advocates further government subsidy and regulation of a health-care system already drowning in both.,0_0
"Polar Ice Check - Still a lot of ice up there Watts Up With That? In most years, there are open waters in the area north of the archipelago in July month. Studies from this year however show that the area is covered by ice, the Meteorological Institute writes in a press release. In mid-July, the research vessel Lance and the Swedish ship MV Stockholm got stuck in ice in the area and needed help from the Norwegian Coast Guard to get loose. The ice findings from the area spurred surprise among the researchers, many of whom expect the very North Pole to be ice-free by September this year.",1_1
"Unfortunately for the modelers, they underestimated the warming of the surface of the extratropical North Atlantic (Figure 10), and overestimated the warming in the extratropical North Pacific (Figure 11), though the differences are not badcompared to whatweve seen elsewhere.",5_1
"The cold winters are likely to continue and so are the floods for the next 20-30 years as the 60 year planetary climate cycle goes into its cold phase. We are having the winters like the previous cold cycle 30 years ago. Yet Environment Canada only talks about continuing global warming . on their web page .There is absolutely nothing about possible global cooling or warning to the Canadian public and businesses about possible flooding again, crop losses, infrastructure disruptions, etc from the pending weather.",1_2
"Referring to their Figure 2, the climate models clearly underestimated the early 20 th Century warming, from about 1910 to the early 1940s. The models then clearly missed the cooling that took place in the 1940s but then overestimated the cooling in the 1950s and 60sso much so that Risbey et al. (2014) decided to erase the full extent of the modeled cooling rates during that period by limiting the range of the y-axis in the graph. (This time climate scientists are hiding the decline in the models.) Then theres the recent warming period. Theres one reason and one reason only why the models appear to perform well during the recent warming period, seeming to run along the mid-range of the model spread from about 1970 to the late 1990s. And that reason is, the models were tuned to that period. Now, since the late 1990s, the models are once again diverging from the data, because they are not in-phase with the real world.",5_1
"SM: I'd like to see the United States abolish the income tax system entirely and go toward a consumption-oriented tax that would be paid at the cash register when you buy things, not by having the government compelling you to fill out 1040 forms and all sorts of other invasive types of information. So I'd like to see a national sales tax replace the income tax. I worry a little bit that Republicans could face some tough elections in the next couple years if the economy doesn't turn around. And there's no reason to think that the economy's going to because of this tax cut. Most of the tax cut doesn't even happen until 2005, 2006. My colleague David Keating likes to say that this would be a great tax cut if we were living in 2008.",0_0
"on Sunday, February 23rd, 2014 at 5:11 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"As Spykman defined it, the Rimland ""functions as a vast buffer zone of conflict between sea power and land power. Looking in both directions, it must function amphibiously and defend itself on land and sea."" On this geopolitical foundation laid by Spykman, Kennan simply built a chronopolitical strategy of containment, which would pay off 50 years later (much later than initially anticipated by Kennan).",0_0
"So how do we judge Barack Obama? First of all, he did start early and",0_0
CRA Attempts to Reconstruct Clinton Administration Cost Estimates,0_0
"It should come as no surprise that the models did overestimate the warming of the sea surface temperatures of the tropical oceans over the past 32+ years. See Figure 7. In fact, the models overestimated the warming by a wide margin. The data indicate the sea surface temperatures of the tropical oceans warmed at a not-very-alarming rate of 0.06 deg C/decade, while the models indicate that, if the surfaces of the tropical oceans were warmed by manmade greenhouse gases, they should have warmed at 3 times that rate, at 0.19 deg C/decade. For 46% of the surface of the global oceans (about 33% of the surface of the planet), the models tripled the observed warming rate.",5_1
Right. Hudson Bay is ice-free for several months every summer,0_0
"We used to call it playing outside, now it has to be called ""free range parenting"" just to stop the cops from taking your kids away - except that doesn't work does it.",0_0
"The maneuver failed: Rossi lost again, this time by nearly 200,000 votes. His tactics show the hardships some Republicans underwent in 2008. If it wasn't Rossi playing name games in the upper Northwest, it was GOP candidates such as Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman avoiding his party's nomineein the same state that was home to the 2008 Republican National Convention. As for that nominee, John McCain's last campaign appearance with an unpopular George W. Bush occurred in late May, a good five months before America voted.",0_0
"At the heart of environmentalism and its ""save the Earth"" agenda is the reduction, if not the elimination, of humans from planet Earth.",0_0
"DCC trialling and testing should be completed by August 2013, at which point it will become obligatory for domestic customers.",0_0
stunt the growth of the private sector economy. But most of themnational,0_0
"Richard B. Stewart is University Professor and Emily Kempin Professor of Law at New York University. Jonathan B. Wiener is professor of law, professor of environmental policy, and faculty director of the Duke Center for Environmental Solutions at Duke University and University Fellow at Resources for the Future.",0_0
Click here to view this Outlook as an Adobe Acrobat PDF.,0_0
"since the 1970s), if the weighting of solar forcing was stronger in the models,",0_0
"For example, 2,000-year-old bristlecone pine trees now living on a mountaintop in Nevada can have a core extracted (without harm to the tree) and the most recent annual rings compared to meteorological records of the area dating back about a century. Once a century of tree rings can be calibrated to local temperature and rainfall records, and the details of how the rings change with the changing conditions, the process can be reversed and the rest of the tree ring record can be deciphered to reveal what sort of rainfall and temperature patterns were present for 2,000 years.",0_0
"We've known that Marc Morano was a brave man for some time, but he proved it again last night at the Society of Environmental Journalists' conference here in Burlington. He was the lone critic on a panel about the media and global warming entitled ""And Now a Word from Our Critics..."" Not only was he the only critic of the mainstream reportage of climate change on the five-member panel, but I seemed to be one of the only people in the packed ballroom not actively hostile to his point of view.",0_0
"Recall that the Kyoto Protocol set limits on 37 industrialized countries' emissions of greenhouse gases, chiefly carbon dioxide. Signatory governments agreed to reduce their emissions by at least 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2008 to 2012.",0_0
Republican plans Senate bill to put brakes on E15 approval,0_0
Musk has another argument up his sleeve to justify taxpayer largesse lavished on his company: to save the world from global warming.,0_0
"Mr. Chairman, Mr. Upton, other members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. I am Lee Lane, a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. AEI is a non-partisan, non-profit organization conducting research and education on public policy issues. AEI does not adopt organizational positions on the issues that it studies, and the views that I express here are mine, not those of AEI.",0_0
"Hundreds of MW, probably upper, however, oil is an unusual fuel so I suspect this is peak times only. They mention gas plant but seem to casually throw this in without detail. Presumably a similar power and the thermal efficiency is a little better.",0_0
At the UN Climate summit in Peru this whole issue of verification has moved front and center as various parties balked this week at the notion of letting an international body like the UN play judge and jury to their energy policies.,0_0
"4. The statement by Ramanthan and Feng that IPCC models suggest that 25% (0.6C) of the committed warming has been realized as of now illustrates that they assume that the climate system has an equilibrium radiative balance, when in reality it does not. Moreover, they are using the IPCC models to evaluate how out-of-radiative-balance the climate system is, yet those models fail to adequately simulate the radiative feedbacks, nor even have all of the first order climate forcings. In the 2005 National Research Council report (on which Dr. Ramanathan was a co-author), it is written on page 100 that",5_1
"In 2009, Dow broke ranks with many manufacturers to aggressively support the American Clean Energy and Security Act, the Democrats' cap-and-trade bill, jointly sponsored by him and Waxman in 2009. Many on the left and the right savaged the bill as both weak and a pork-fest. After barely passing in the House it went down to bi-partisan defeat in the Senate in 2010. Although it never became law, it provided a huge political boost to Markey and Waxmanand Dow's support was crucial. And now Markey and Dow are aligned once again.",0_0
"I also think that the National Academy of Sciences was right, when they recently clarified that historically, reporting that the last few decades have been the hottest in the last 400 years, though nobody knows what that really means in any kind of historical context.",0_0
"It was roundly de-bunked at the time by several commentators and it would have been forgotten and consigned to its proper place in the dustbin, if it hadnt been continually quoted by activists as fact.",0_0
"If youre waiting for me to say global sea surface temperatures cool during all La Nia events, youll be waiting a long time, because the sea surface temperature records dont show they cool during all La Nias. Let me clarify that: the sea surface temperatures for a portion of the global oceans do respond proportionally to El Nio and La Nia events, but in a much larger area, they do not.",0_0
Claim: Obesity causes genetic changes that are passed on to offspring,0_0
"Here once again we have a few arrogant Germans with an insatiable desire for world domination. One function of the WBGU is, as Ackermann writes:",0_0
"Hawthorn News, sport and weather | Melbourne Weekly",0_0
"Although it is easy to dismiss all this as bureaucratic bilge, President Barack Obama's latest memorandum builds on a number of earlier executive actions to embed climate policies, programs, and offices into every aspect of the federal government. It has proven very difficult to abolish federal programs of any type once they have offices and employees.",0_0
"Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ?not as good as it should be?.",0_0
"We are not on the winning side, but looking back, we can afford to say that since the launching of the massive global warming propaganda at the UN Rio Summit in 1992 and since its subsequent acceptance worldwide, several things happened that suggest some degree of optimism:",5_2
"It is a fact that atmospheric CO2 concentration over the course of the earths history was far greater than it is today. And if that is the case, then so were the oceans. It is a fact that the pH value of the oceans has dropped from 8.2 to 8.1. This is nothing more then a small drop in alkalinity because water does not become acidic until the pH drops under 7.0. Whether the current pH change from 8.2 to 8.1 is new and unique, or can also be greater and how it was in former times, is unknown because no long-term measurements are available.",2_3
2. What will be the effect on global climate of increasing amounts of human-made greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide in the air?,0_0
"While the nations weather in individual years or even for periods of years has been hotter or cooler and drier or wetter than in other periods, the new study shows that over the last century there has been no trend in one direction or another.",1_7
"Actions speak louder than words and the message is disheartening Heres a rhetorical question: If youre holding a seminar about the benefits of green technology strategy, should you really be giving away a gas card as one of the incentives to sign up? I thought not. For shame!",0_0
"Yet to date no empirical, theoretical or numerical method, complex or simple, has yet successfully specified mechanistically either how the heat generated by anthropogenic greenhouse-gas enrichment of the atmosphere has reached the deep ocean without much altering the heat content of the intervening near-surface strata or how the heat from the bottom of the ocean may eventually re-emerge to perturb the near-surface climate conditions that are relevant to land-based life on Earth.",5_1
"In the new ""cold war"" I stand on the side of Russia",0_0
"We already have Climate Audit, but now it looks like we may be getting ?Climate Scientists on Trial?. Here?s a site you?ll want to subscribe to, bookmark ? or at least visit on a regular basis:",0_0
Good News For Polar Bears Is Bad News for Global Warming Alarmists,3_2
"The petrochemical engineer was saying that we had no evidence that fossil fuels caused harm to the planet, turning his point semantically into something equivalent in decision making to the statement that we had evidence that fossil fuels did not harm. He made the mistake of saying that Stern was recommending useless insurance, causing me to jump to ask him if he had car, health, and other insurance for events that did not take plane, that sort of argument.",0_0
Fred L Smith Jr. (fsmith@cei.org) is President and Founder of CEI. William Yeatman (wyeatman@cei.org) is an energy policy analyst at CEI.,0_0
"Fonte warns against the ""globalista"" technique of international norm setting, whereby self-selected, transnational elites fashion rules of conduct through multilateral negotiations, which are then carried down to the nation-state level to be rubber-stamped by pliant parliaments. This model is actually not far from current European Union (E.U.) governance practices. U.K. Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and David Cameron, for example, have both estimated that approximately 50% of significant parliamentary actions involving economic policy simply ratify, without possibility of amending or rejecting, what E.U. bureaucrats or diplomats in Brussels have already decided.",0_0
c) The 17% wage gap between Asian and white men (in favor of Asian men) is exactly the same as the 17% overall gender wage gap in 2014.,0_0
"""Kind of tragic, given that the global warming they feared never actually came to pass.""",0_0
Only a carrier could trumpet $500 per gigabyte as a price cut:,0_0
"William London and Deborah Schaeffer explore the influence of health information on individual behavior, noting accurate health information is often insufficient to promote behavioral changes without interventions addressing psychosocial and environmental influences on lifestyle. In addition, the widespread availability of health misinformation often leads people to make bad choices, they observe.",0_0
"Moreover, this estimate is undoubtedly too optimistic. Wind frequently does not blow when we need it. For example, as the BBC reported, the cold weather on December 21, 2010, was typical of a prolonged cold front, with high-pressure areas and little wind. Whereas wind power, on average, supplies 5% of the UKs electricity, its share fell to just 0.04% that day. With demand understandably peaking, other sources, such as coal and gas, had to fill the gap.",4_4
"Nevertheless, it is fairly easy to show that natural cycles are indeed involved in not only regional changes, but ""global warming"" as well.",2_1
"As Albert Einstein once said, a good theory predicts things in advance anda bad theory needs additional adjustments after each new discovery. The problem with the anthropogenic warming theory is: it cannot sustain anything new. For every new and unexpected climate or weather trend aspecial sub-theory must be developed, and it doesnt matter if they often completely contradict each other.",5_1
"Anyone who'd like to argue that the world is experiencing a ""new normal"" with respect to tropical cyclones is simply mistaken. Over the past 4 years, the world is actually in the midst of a very low period in tropical cyclone landfalls -- at least as measured over the past 43 years.",1_7
"Figure 5 illustrates the annual Indian Ocean Sea Level from 1993 to 2007. From 1999 to 2007, Indian Ocean Sea Level appears to have increased exponentially, but a look at the smoothed data in Figure 4 reveals that the rise has ended. http://i33.tinypic.com/9kpm39.jpg Figure 5",1_6
"The point here is that Die Zeit is just too fanatic and caught up in AGW dogmatism, and thus cannot be taken seriously as an objective source of any kind.",0_0
"Free speech has never been more comprehensively, aggressively and dangerously threatened than it is now. Todays attack is an attack on the theory of freedom of speech on the desirability of free speech and indeed on the very possibility of free speech.",0_0
dishonest presentations of model results by individual authors and by IPCC,0_0
"Senior Research Fellow, Energy Economics and Climate ChangeCenter for Data Analysis",0_0
Uggh: We are NOT in a Great Green Race with China. So silly.,0_0
"It is hard for me to believe that Hansen did not know this, and yet he went ahead with his paper. This must be true because Hansen has published papers on the Palmer Drought Index and future warming. Administrator Bolden is obligated to investigate the ethics of publishing a paper that the Director of the GISS laboratory knew could not pass the most simple test of hypothesis.",0_0
"A 50 per cent RET will put jobs and growth at risk, she said. Modelling undertaken last year by Deloitte Access Economics showed the existing RET pushed up electricity prices, costing the economy up to $28billion and a net loss of 5000 jobs, she said.",4_1
"Fourth and finally, the president asserted his willingness to act on behalf of human dignity, which he declared to be a matter of national security. Hearkening back to his first point though, the question remains whether it is a ""core"" interest. If so, how then would this be any different than George W. Bush's ""freedom agenda,"" which was centered on the promotion of human dignity and liberty? If it is not core, would we be willing to intervene to support it without a coalition? One has to consider the ongoing situation in Syria when dissecting the logic of this point.",0_0
"Therefore, Congress intended for EPA to regulate greenhouse gases.",0_0
"Where Mann situates the ""Obamians"" within contemporary domestic politics, Sanger distills the president's use of military into one pillar of an Obama doctrine:",0_0
"Unlike the administration reaction to the Gulf oil spill last year, President Obama and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu have reiterated their support for nuclear power even in the face of the unfolding disaster in Japan, an encouraging sign. Obama and Chu could go one step better, though, and give a major address when the Japan crisis is over, calmly laying out all the facts and making the case to carry on.",0_0
"(Note: The article started out by saying record low temperatures. Then it switched to coldest temperatures of the year. I dont know which statement is true. Either way, it certainly doesn??t look like ???global warming.??)",1_3
House Science Committee Chairman Smith has expressed a commitment to look into concerns that the real purpose of NOAA's report was to push President Obama's political agenda.,0_0
"on Friday, May 14th, 2010 at 10:27 am and is filed under News.",0_0
"JC comment: the detection of the long-term signal from anthropogenic forcing was detected in the AR4 basically for the period 1970 or 1980 to 2000, without account for this: because on decadal time scales anthropogenic effects may be nonmonotonic, regionally dependent, and/or convolved with natural variability .",0_0
These include the often poor representation of El Nio variability in global,0_0
"We have warm, humid area over us now, with many dew points at 60F and above....that is why it feels kind of sticky.",0_0
"As Mr. Bast explains in his blog post , the idea Heartland lost nearly $1 million in donations is false: Most of the donors who have said they wont continue to support us have agreed to fund new or existing groups that will continue our work; some already contributed this year before their announcements; and others had indicated they would not fund us even before the billboard controversy. We have now raised considerably more from current and new donors than we may have lost due to the controversy.",0_0
"the atmosphere. I don't think the evidence is definitive, but it certainly casts doubt as to whether we really know what is going on. I always thought it a bit odd that people would search for the causes of changing temperatures without first checking out the sun, sortof like walking in a room that is too hot and trying to fix it without first checking the thermostat. This is particularly true given new evidence that other planets are warming , presumably due to solar activity (unless, of course, it's an Exxon plot).",2_1
"Seabra et al . further state that ""habitat heterogeneity as determined by surface orientation and, to a lesser extent, height on the shore may provide thermal refugia allowing species to occupy habitats apparently inhospitable when considering only average temperatures,"" and they state that ""this may be important for understanding range shifts contrary to global warming predictions (e.g. Lima et al ., 2007a, 2009; Hilbish et al ., 2010)."" Thus, they emphasize once again that ""thermal heterogeneity within habitats must be fully understood in order to interpret patterns of biogeographic response to climate change."" And if that is done correctly, it would appear that the ""doom-and-gloom"" predictions of the world's climate alarmists, as regards species extinctions in a warming world, may in reality be not all that ""doomy and gloomy.""",3_2
"The campaign against The Australian gets under the editors skin and Chris Mitchell and others are right to protest that they have been mislabeled. But by putting so much effort into claiming they really truly do believe in Climate Change theyve fallen into the Orwellian trap of stating the blindingly obvious, as well as playing on the enemies turf... its like saying Im not four headed monster, or Im not an alcoholic. (So youre just a three headed, heavy drinker, with a problem on weekends right?)",0_0
Ethanol is a versatile fuel. And the benefits are easy to recognize when you think about it. . . . Ethanol is good for our rural communities. It's good economic development for rural America. . . . Ethanol is good for the environment. . . . thanol's good for drivers. . . . Ethanol's good for the whole country.,0_0
"In fact, the power was still off for hundreds of thousands of households in North Carolina, and forecasters warned that black ice was setting in on roads in the western part of the Triangle.",0_0
"While soundly endorsing New Delhi's bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, the American President stated that ""with increased power comes increased responsibility."" President Obama asked for Indian collaboration in the fields of nuclear non-proliferation, climate change, freedom, human rights and democracy. Stating that India has often shied away from dealing with these issues, President Obama's words were directed at the Indian policy elite.",0_0
"In order to reduce the risk of expanded nuclear power leading to the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the report recommended giving countries that forego ""proliferation-risky"" enrichment and reprocessing activities a preferred position to receive nuclear fuel and waste management services from nations that possess the full range of nuclear processing capacity.",0_0
"The weather played an April Fools Day prank on Moscow residents Monday, bringing fresh snow to the Russian capital instead of long-awaited sunshine.",0_0
Even if I have it all wrong and these scientists had some good reason to mislead us (instead of making a strong case with real data) I think disseminating the truth is still the safest bet by far.,0_0
"In the meantime, we look for Rep. Henry Waxman to reprise the level of outrage he displayed over Abramoff to prove it was also not political and come down hard on the practice he so aggressively condemned and pursued, demanding preservation of records, threatening subpoenas, the whole works. With our request, that's essentially what we've done, and we'd appreciate the company. You too, NPR.",0_0
"U.S. sees 2,232nd consecutive days without being hit by major hurricane ???shatters?? previous streak set in 1906 Prof. Pielke Jr.: ???Since there won??t be any intense hurricanes before next summer, the record will be shattered, with the days between intense hurricane landfalls likely to exceed 2,500 days??",1_7
"Agreement signed at Stockholm and Washington November 23 and December 6, 2005; entered into force December 6, 2005.",0_0
"test-day disaster doesn't ruin a semester. Some teachers, students and",0_0
"Lamb, Christina. ""Chopping Down Rainforest Myths,"" Financial Times, January 8, 1992, p. 47.",0_0
They only make one dismissive comment about Thornthwaite?s work.,0_0
"TAPS was completed in 1978. It has carried almost 17 billion barrels of oil to energy-thirsty American markets. Its a technological and environmental marvel and a critical component of Americas energy infrastructure. Its been a resounding success for this country, and for my state. Its the engine of growth for Alaskas economy, and has proved the safest and most environmentally responsible way to transport oil, is through a pipeline.",4_5
"Detailed addenda accompanying ITSSD FOIA requests filed with EPA and DOC-NOAA during March May 2014 strongly suggest that the peer review science processes EPA and DOC-NOAA had employed in vetting the USGCRP and other federal and IPCC agency assessments supporting the EPAs Endangerment Findings did not comply with U.S. law. In other words, such peer review processes did not satisfy Information Quality Act and relevant OMB, EPA and DOC-NOAA implementing IQA guidelines standards applicable to highly influential scientific assessments (HISAs).",5_2
Arizona's Ugly but Necessary Immigration Law,0_0
"DDT can be harmful if used in excess, but application of DDT has also saved many trees from insect infestations and may be partly responsible for an increase in bird populations. Starting in the late ""40s, it was sprayed on elm trees to successfully stave off predatory beetles spreading Dutch Elm disease. After DDT was banned, the U.S. population of elm trees fell by more than half, and many American towns have few of the elms that once lined their streets. DDT also saved Oregon's ""old-growth"" Douglas fir trees, home for the celebrated spotted owl, from devastation by tussock moths in 1974.",0_0
"General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler all have come begging at the federal trough for a series of bailouts. In recent weeks, Democrats have made it clear what they will demand in exchange for the bailout cash: more attention to fuel-efficient cars, fewer gas guzzlers, more research into alternative-fuel-powered cars, and other green efforts.",0_0
( comment to the IHTs Welcome to the new nuclear era ),0_0
"If thats what a cleaner, greener world looks like, Id rather have it brown and dirty, thank you!",0_0
"The draft bill would force tough emission cuts on a fast schedule. This haste flies in the face of a great deal of economic analysis of how GHG reductions should be timed in order to get the most benefit from a given expenditure of resources. That analysis teaches that, for carbon dioxide (CO2) controls, ""a more gradual departure from the baseline is preferable to a more rapid departure."" Yet, in this respect, ACESA's controls are more abrupt than those of even President Obama's cap-and-trade plan.",0_0
"Between 1989 and 2010, Congress rejected nearly 700 cap-tax-and-trade and similar bills that their proponents claimed would control Earth's perpetually fickle climate and weather. So even as real world crises erupt, President Obama is using executive fiats and regulations to impose his anti-hydrocarbon agenda, slash America's fossil fuel use, bankrupt coal and utility companies, make electricity prices skyrocket, and ""fundamentally transform"" our economic, social, legal and constitutional system.",4_1
"Beyond direct taxes is the hidden tax of federal regulations. This includes reformulated gasoline (RFG), a specialized blend required by federal law in nine major metropolitan areas. RFG currently costs nearly 15 cents per gallon more than already pricey conventional gasoline.",0_0
"Over the past few years, Arctic has shown considerable reduction in sea ice levels due to global warming. However, Antarctica has cooled and has even gained some ice recently . A new study suggests that ocean circulation can explain why the polar regions have different reactions towards rise in earths temperature.",1_1
"It is worth pointing out that the Index looked much worse for Al Gore back in May when the UAH graph showed its lowest temperature in at least eight years. Since May, the temperatures have been slowly ticking up, but are still lower than when Al Gore released An Inconvenient Truth, which just underscores the decline (or flattening off) of the globabally averaged temperatures in the past ten years. Even with a six month increase in temperatures Al Gore is still in negative territory.",1_4
"This view was confirmed by Charles E.P. Brooks (1888-1957) in the Compendium of Meteorology (1951, American Meteorological Society ) who stated that the idea that CO2 could alter the climate ""was never widely accepted and was abandoned when it was found that all the long-wave radiation absorbed by CO2 is absorbed by water vapor.""",2_3
"Tim Pawlenty: Also a runner-up in the veepstakes, Pawlenty is the rare Republican who can talk about winning in a blue state without ceding his conservative credentials. Call him the Un-Arnold of the GOP.",0_0
"Only seven minutes long, this eye-opening video is well-worth watching.",0_0
"To Judith Curry's credit, she is not eager to sue.",0_0
"Is that an argument worth a Nobel prize winner? Brian Josephson, Chu's Nobel colleague, might add that the future fire in your house would be started by telekinesis. Well, what a sane person would do in this context?",0_0
"They have managed to get committed environmentalists appointed to key congressional committees and regulatory positions. They have a president in the White House who agrees on the broad contours of their agenda. They have already won increased fuel economy regulations, restrictions on drilling for oil and gas in the West, and billions of dollars of subsidies for wind and solar power.",0_0
Now take a look at Figure 2. Is the warming of the 20th century really unprecendented as Mann claims? Why was it as warm 1000 years ago as it is today? Now comes one of the highlights of the interview:,2_1
"Our interest is, or should be, a free, democratic and prosperous society. That is the reason why we have to stand up against all attempts to undermine it. We should be prepared to adapt to all kinds of future climate changes (including cooling) but we should never accept losing our freedom.",0_0
"Some have asked me why I have not updated my climate blog in a while. Frankly, the climate debate has become like the movie Groundhog Day, with the same handful of scientists releasing the same flawed studies making the same mistakes. What used to be exciting is frankly boring. I still blog here on updated climate news, and perhaps the IPCC will give us new things to write about soon, but for now most of my climate work will just be making appearances and presentations (let me know if you have a large group, I don't charge any sort of fee).",5_1
"As for the EU's additional measures, these are proving difficult to adopt. Instead, the British government is on the verge of approving a new runway at Heathrow Airport and is considering applications to build a number of new coal-fired power plants. The German government has applied for special exemptions for its coal industry and on behalf of its auto industry is resisting the European Commission's new proposal to regulate auto emissions.",0_0
"In the letter to parents, Feldhausen said the committee recognized there are ""multiple viewpoints"" on global warming. The committee recommended that all teachers using the book ""make students aware of both sides of the global warming theory,"" he said.",0_0
"The Benestad, R. E., and G. A. Schmidt 2009 and Lean, J. L., and D. H. Rind 2009 cannot both be correct in their conclusion regarding the magnitude of solar forcing on the Earths climate. They could both even be wrong based onsuch studies as",5_1
"Radiative forcing has to be replaced with a dynamic energy transfer model. There is no climate equilibrium and the time dependence of the energy transfer must be explicitly included. Once this is done, CO2 induced global warming disappears. The minimum description requires four thermal reservoirs and six energy transfer process. This is discussed in the book The Dynamic Greenhouse Effect and the Climate Averaging Paradox. It is available on Amazon. There is also further discussion at http://www.venturaphotonics.com",2_3
"...if the vast majority of Americans are still not even talking about climate change, we will never break through these obstacles and put irresistible pressure on Congress and every other opponent to stop fighting all reasonable actions to combat climate change and finally take positive action-for the sake of their own children and grandchildren if no one elses.",0_0
"CO2 Science Sheffer et al. conclude that ""the extraordinary flood of 2002 was not the largest in the basin"" of the Gardon River. And their findings and those of many others, both in France and elsewhere, suggest that the really huge European floods of the past few centuries occurred during colder rather than warmer times, which relationship is just the opposite of what the world's climate alarmists claim to be the case.",1_7
"Hurricane Matthew is currently pummeling the Florida coast after leaving hundreds dead in Haiti. More than 600,000 Floridians have lost power, according to reports, and only one has died during the storm.",0_0
"It does a good job in explaining one skill of string theory from a viewpoint of someone who was definitely not trained as a string theorist. In condensed matter physics, there are various phases of matter displaying numerous kinds of behavior (and critical behavior) and things can get very complicated. However, under somewhat general circumstances, when the complexity becomes really extreme, there is another, alternative description of the situation that becomes easy, at least once you know its formalism.",0_0
"8 pm: Jaeah Lee, a nice fact-checker from Mother Jones, has a genial online video in which she tries (unsuccessfully) to figure out the trick to hide the decline, eventually being tricked by Briffa.",5_2
"The debate over human-induced global warming is far from settled. Listening to radical environmental activists and Vice President Al Gore, however, would give one the impression that the science is settled and humans are to blame for the warm temperatures in 1998. Recent weather events, however, could give the opposite impression.",5_1
"Thefuel switching issue is somewhat arcane, so it may be helpful if I provide a quick overview before commenting on McCarthys answers.",0_0
"The IPCC wants the world to stop using coal, oil and natural gas, saying that they must be ""phased out almost entirely"" by the end of the century. The report reeks of their contempt for humanity.",0_0
"It was created during a La Nia that came before the El Nio. This happens because La Nia events reduce cloud cover and allow more sunlight than normal to penetrate and warm the tropical Pacific. Its all so simple, and its all supported by data, not by incorrect assumptions implantedinto theprogramming climate models.",0_0
"In September 2013, the Republican members of the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee issued a report that EPA officials had, from the beginning of President Obama's tenure, ""pursued a path of obfuscation, operating in the shadows, and out of the sunlight."" It detailed violations of the Freedom of Information Act and other federal laws and regulations intended to encourage transparency and accountability in the government.",0_0
"To my knowledge, ???hide the decline??, as a technique, was used in every subsequent spaghetti graph using the Briffa reconstruction except one ??? the Zero Order Draft of IPCC TAR presented to the Lead Authors in Arusha in September 1999. This spaghetti graph ??? which didn??t hide the decline ??? went over like a lead balloon with IPCC ??? thus the busy emails of September 1999, which I??ve previously discussed. The IPCC spaghetti graph in its First Order Draft (October 1999) adopted a hide-the-decline strategy modeled on the techniques ???pioneered?? in Jones et al 1999 and Briffa and Osborn 1999 (though Mann varied the method somewhat.)",5_2
"Now they claim they predicted their failures all along, declare every weather event to be unprecedented, and claim that CO2 somehow heats the depths of the ocean where temperatures cant be measured.",5_1
Circle around little tail indicates recent warming that has caused worldwide panic and mass hysteria.,5_2
C-O C/century <m>,0_0
It's time to tie up loose ends and dispel some of the speculation surrounding the Climategate affair.,0_0
"The Greens are the political face of the environmentalist movement and they have become extremely influential, not only as separate political parties, but as factions within the major parties throughout the Anglosphere and very clearly within our own Liberal and Labor parties. Because they have been able to play the political game with great skill they have not been subjected to proper scrutiny. John Howard, for example, failed to realise that the environmentalist movement is an existential threat to Western civilisation, indeed to all civilisation.",0_0
"Google: 244,000 Germans say ""no' to Street View:",0_0
"As a result, coal plants must install technology to capture and store carbon emissions. This is a cost-prohibitive prospect and one that all but forces new power plants to be generated by natural gas instead of coal. Of the proposed EPA rules, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity has predicted they will make it impossible to build any new coal-fueled power plants and could cause the premature closure of many more coal-fueled power plants operating today.",4_1
"In response to Barton's letter about ending the PTC for industrial wind, Schumer continues: ""I believe that it is necessary to balance our country's increasing energy needs with the need to protect the environment. We must also focus on renewable energy and energy conservation in order to meet our growing energy demands. According to one study, if the U.S. increases its efficiency by 2.2% per year, it could reduce foreign oil imports by more than 50%. Such actions would not only reduce our dependence on foreign oil but would also safeguard the environment.""",0_0
"We invite you to visit our facts page, videos section and infographics area to see how your life is made easier with American Products. American Power.",0_0
"She said the world might be approaching a period similar to that from 1965 to 1975, when temperatures fell over a longer period leading some scientists to predict a new ice age.",1_2
"Even if McCarthy makes it, the agency will still be short on Senate-confirmed leaders for its air and general counsel offices, among others, which many agency-watchers say could hamper progress on new regulations.",0_0
"A link to a good discussion of the ?Sea Levelgate? scandal appears below, along with links to other important climate news stories of the week.",0_0
"Third, while the California economy has grown during the past 25 years, it has also become more volatile.",0_0
Update: Several people have found it ironic that the White House threw a fit over $300+ million for funding of new warplanes but hasn't blinked over $500+ million to ferry Congress around in luxury.,0_0
"When I challenged ) Osborn on his untrue claim that I had heavily promoted or advocated Scenario A and/or Polar Urals, Osborn implicitly conceded that he had no source. Instead of then endeavouring to locate a source, Osborn stated that he would not search through hundreds of comments to try to find support for his assertion though surely this is something that he should have done before making the comment, rather than after.",0_0
So how cold is it going to get over the vast Canadian territory? The Winnipeg Free Press writes:,0_0
Climate Science has often blogged on the need to assess the entire spectrum of effects when a particular environmental (or other) regulation is implemented (e.g. see and see ).,0_0
"Had that reporter been American rather than Russian, he probably would have missed Beckmann's point entirely. When you don't grow up surrounded by propaganda, you tend not to be too good at spotting it. Perhaps that's why residents of Russia and the former Soviet Bloc have such a relatively low opinion of today's global warming hype.",0_0
"Once again, climate models have shown they are good for one thing and one thing only: to display how poorly they simulate Earths climate.",5_1
"...the scientists were right and Plait was wrong. Or, as he might phrase it, he blatantly misinterpreted long term trends. Notice old Phil (his source, actually) starts, quite arbitrarily, with 1973, a point which is lower than the years preceding this date. If he would have read the post linked above, he would have known this is a common way that cheaters cheat. Not saying you cheated, Phil, old thing. But you didnt do yourself any favors.",0_0
Twitter / ClimateReality: MT @worldresources: #Climate,0_0
"""For more than two years, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has been involved in a constitutional challenge to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the giant agency set up by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to create auditing rules under the law. CEI attorneys Sam Kazman and Hans Bader are of counsel to the plaintiffs in Free Enterprise Fund (FEF) v. PCAOB, and they have worked with the lead attorneys at the Jones Day law firm on the case. Representing both the FEF and Beckstead & Watts, a small Nevada accounting firm burdened by the PCAOB's mandates, we have argued that the agency violates the Constitution's Appointments Clause because it wields enormous power (and the individuals on its its five-member board actually get paid more than the president), yet its leaders are not subject to the Presidential appointment and Senate confirmation.""",0_0
"We should provide a word of caution about the optimal case. It is not presented in the belief that an environmental czar will suddenly appear to promulgate infallible canons of policy that will be religiously followed by all. Rather, the optimal policy is a benchmark to determine how efficient or inefficient alternative approaches may be. This is the best possible policy path for emissions reductions, given the economic, technological, and geophysical constraints that we have estimated.",0_0
"But giving in to fear and hysteria, and throwing more roadblocks in front of responsible energy and economic development, creates far more harm than benefit for our nation and its people.",0_0
"Will MSM Report on 2008 Arctic Ice Increase? | NewsBusters.org Good news! Despite the recent global warming alarmism in the media that Arctic ice might melt away completely from the North Pole this summer, the latest scientific observations show that Arctic ice has actually increased by nearly a half million square miles over this time last year. This is in stark contrast to the Chicken Little hysteria that was being promoted less than a month ago on the CBS Early Show as reported by Kyle Drennen on June 27 here in NewsBusters...",1_1
"As the CO 2 content of the air rises, it is likely that ponderosa pine will exhibit increased rates of photosynthesis throughout their entire range in the state of California and elsewhere, regardless of genotype. In addition, with greater carbohydrate supplies, resulting from enhanced photosynthetic rates, it is likely that ponderosa pines will also increase their growth and biomass accumulation as the atmospheric CO 2 concentration continues to increase in the future.",3_3
"""When we protect our lands, it helps us protect the climate of the future,"" Obama said at a recent Lake Tahoe environmental summit.",0_0
Pelosi: Things were going great for us until these outside groups started spending money:,0_0
"The new approach is to make very general statements about our dire future with only glancing references to secondary literature about climate change or species extinction, all wrapped in a ""systems analysis"" of the impeding collapse of the planet. Like Limits to Growth, Speth's book offers very little detailed data or analysis of specific ecological problems; recent eco-apocalypse books proceed with the presumption that scenarios of catastrophe are beyond reasonable dispute or qualification and are not even open to discussion. (Speth recently withdrew from a debate about the future of the global environment when he was booked opposite Bjrn Lomborg. Speth is highly critical of Lomborg in Red Sky at Dawn, but is unwilling to face off with Lomborg in a public forum.)",0_0
"""We have here a chance to appreciate the amazing technologies created by free people. For they allow us to laugh at the folly of our fellow humans, rather than having to mourn their passing."" The Wall Street Journal",0_0
Such measures will clearly involve a considerable expense. To afford them means generating more growth to create the resources to pay for them.,0_0
"""The Democrat coalition of radical environmental groups, the Environmental Protection Agency, and green companies claim they want to help the environment, but those claims are dubious at best since the oil and gas industry is already doing a good job of policing itself,"" Stone said. ""Being green is big business.""",0_0
"Putting aside the fact that the Himalayan glaciers have been retreating since 1780 some 70 years before the onset of the current post-Little Ice Age warming trend and 100 years before the onset of significant global industrialization full appreciation of the significance of the researchers' finding requires a brief trip down recent-memory lane, one, incidentally, that no media outlet reporting this finding bothered to make.",2_1
"the ranges of TCR estimated from the observed warming and from AOGCMs agree well, increasing our confidence in the assessment of uncertainties in projections over the 21st century.",0_0
"Climate alarmists want the newspaper and television media to ignore this information and the skeptics who might present it. Bill Nye the science guy recently asked MSNBC to link all weather events to climate change. Just say the words climate change when you talk about this winters cold and snow, he begged. A new study shows how widespread these repulsive practices have become.",5_2
"For a comprehensive solution to offshore oil spill liability, see Nicolas D. Loris, Jack Spencer, and James Jay Carafano, ""Oil Spill Liability: A Plan for Reform,"" Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2446, August 2, 2010, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/08/oil-spill-liability-a-plan-for-reform.",0_0
the degree to which global temperature responds to concentrations of greenhouse gases,0_0
"It is unclear whether there will be time to bring such a deal to the House and Senate floors before Congress adjourns or recesses for the election campaign. The announced date for adjournment is October 11, but a lame duck session after the election is still possible.",0_0
"And do we know that protests over soaring food prices were the spark that began the Arab Spring? The Gaurdian certainly thought so . But to the leave it in the ground campaigners rarely stop to think about the effect on prices of abolishing fossil fuels, or subsidies for its consumers the self-fulfilling prophecy. And we can moreover return to Sen, to point out that, even if there were apparent environmental causes for reduced harvest and thus higher prices (and so on to protests and conflict), the dominant issue was the tyrannies that failed to address the populations needs, not the relative scarcity of food crops. Here is a graph showing wheat production in the region. (Data from UN FAOSTAT).",0_0
"At that time, those FOI requests referred to in the emails had been long since submitted. The stonewalling evident in the emails was well entrenched. The skeptics were trying to find enough information to attempt replication of The Teams work but were having difficulty getting that information. Also, the public was almost entirely in the dark about there being any other possible side of the story, in spite of the work of Christy, Spencer, Richard Linzen, Willie Soon, and others, including many studies on the supposedly non-existent Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age that showed those two events were actually global, as opposed to Manns assertion that they were only regional.",5_2
"6. Is it possible that human-made global warming is occurring, but is masked by the cooling effect of air pollution?",0_0
"Since this result uses the IPCC models themselves to ???calibrate?? the Levitus observations, it cannot be faulted for using a model that is ???too simple??. To the extent the average IPCC model mimics nature, the models themselves suggest the relatively weak ocean warming observed during 1955-1999 indicates relatively low climate sensitivity.",3_1
"But for the past two decades, beyond the farm gate, the controversy has been brewing. In fact, if my summer is any indication, it may be getting worse. So, herewith some reports from a few months on the front lines in the anti-GMO resurgence.",0_0
"The American economy is growing roughly twice as fast as Europe's. President Bush's re-election will put more pressure on EU leaders to consider adopting more business-friendly policies; it is evident that Bush's embrace of free, competitive markets, low taxes and light regulatory touch underpin the U.S.'s widening comparative advantage in the biotech and pharmaceutical sectors. In fact, the greatest challenge Mr. Bush poses to the security of European leaders is not in foreign policy but in economics.",0_0
"William of Ockham might explain this increase of Antarctic sea ice extent as an effect of the STH having cooled, just as the loss of Arctic sea ice has been explained as an effect of the NTH having warmed.",1_1
"Curb the excessive power and representation of environmentalists and bureaucrats in our government. End the sue-and-settle lawsuits between government agencies and radical environmentalist pressure groups. Cut agency budgets, especially the billions of dollars that EPA and other agencies give to anti-energy advocacy organizations and biased advisory panels.",0_0
"Additionally, our estimates of climate sensitivity using our and the four instrumental temperature records range from about 1.5C to 2.0C. These are on the low end of the estimates in the IPCCs Fourth Assessment Report . So, while we find that most of the observed warming is due to human emissions of , future warming based on these estimations will grow more slowly compared to that under the IPCCs likely range of climate sensitivity, from 2.0C to 4.5C.",3_1
Once again we have numerous climate model results that deviate significantly from real-world measurements; and we see no improvement in this regard between the CMIP3 set of models and the newer and supposedly improved CMIP5 models. This is not what most rational people would call progress. References,5_1
Methane From Fracking: Not the Monster Bill McKibben Sniffs Out,0_0
"Previous attempts to explain the global surface temperature cooling trend have relied more heavily on climate model results or a combination of modeling and observations, which may be better at simulating long-term impacts over many decades and centuries. This study relied on observations, which are better for showing shorter-term changes over 10 to 20 years.",1_4
The latest explanation from climate scientists is that Pacific trade winds have caused the planet to stop warming. Stronger winds in the last two decades may have forced warmer water deeper while bringing cooler water to the surface.,0_0
"d) Evidence shows that extreme rainfall events are becoming neither more frequent, or intense see here.",1_7
They are in more than the usual disarray that afflicts parties out of the White House. Many members of their majority in the House of Representatives are out of step with the Republican leadership on issues ranging from Syria to defunding Obamacare.,0_0
"I havent quite figured out how they attribute a RE of 0.25 to MBH. It looks like it arises from various permutations and combinations of methods applied to the MBH network. However, if the network itself contains spurious regressors (bristlecones), none of the choices are really applicable. Their point is more that the calibration/verification period selection of MBH yields an exceptionally high RE statistic relative to random sampling still a worthwhile point. In their conclusion, they point out that the confidence intervals obtainable from an RE of 0.25 leave an amplitude error of which is insufficient to resolve the medieval-modern problem.",0_0
"This huge unknown could alone be responsible for all global warming due a tiny 1-2% natural change in global cloud cover. Climate models conveniently assume clouds are a positive feedback that accelerates global warming, but this paper and many others show this is an unjustified assumption and that cloud feedback could instead be strongly negative.",2_1
"Discussing his job, at the time as a close associate of Gina McCarthy, the new EPA administrator, Beale revealed that he was there to come up with ""specific proposals that could have been proposed either legislatively or things which could have been done administratively to kind of modify the capitalist system """,0_0
"Obviously, since 1996, the last 18 years has witnessed its normal wide variation in temperature swings but the overall linear trends are cooling for all three datasets, NOT WARMING as predicted.",1_4
"Instead of acknowledging any of this, EPA employs a""social cost of carbon"" scheme that places arbitrary inflated costs on damages it claims result from alleged climate risks from using carbon-based fuels. It includes every imaginable and imaginary cost of using fossil fuels even absurd claims that its anti-energy plan will reduce asthma rates, which have been increasing while pollution rates are going down.",0_0
"A recent article in the British newspaper, The Register , reported on a study by scientists in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, that was published in Nature Geoscience that concluded there was no scientific consensus to suggest the rate of the seas rise will accelerate dangerously.",1_6
"External security cameras coming to ""real time crime center':",0_0
"Billionaire Elon Musk prances around as CEO or godfather of Tesla Motor Company manufacturing electrical cars, Solar City manufacturing solar panels to make electricity, and SpaceX manufacturing space rockets to launch satellites into orbit. These companies rarely make a profit, though they've made Musk a very rich man. How do they stay in business? With a stream of $5 billion in taxpayer funds. READ MORE",0_0
"Contrary to David Evans hypothesis I think that the cause of a decadal lag between solar change and climate response is to be found in the oceans, not the Sun. Seawater has a high heat capacity, and its deep. This mass of global ocean damps the climate response to solar input. It also stores and releases energy on long timescales. This is why the latest explanations for the pause in global warming hypothesises that the ocean is eating excess energy. This is correct in my opinion, except its not excess energy from an alleged enhanced greenhouse effect that its eating, its solar energy, which penetrates the ocean to a depth of 100m, whereas longwave radiation from the atmosphere cant penetrate the ocean surface.",2_1
"""On Monday I asked, ""What should we call people who care about climate change and clean energy?"" A fantastic discussion ensued, up to 226 comments and counting -- thanks to everybody who weighed in, not only on the site, but on Facebook, Twitter, email, and ""words spoken in my physical presence"" (kids, ask your parents!).""",0_0
"This is not a real article, just an announcement: under the article Predictive landscapes, Nima Arkani-Hamed , a co-author of the paper and arguably the leader of current particle physics, gives a rather detailed explanation of his viewpoints and the really attractive features of these models. So I hope that this answer of him will increase the number of visitors in interested in physics, and it will double their average IQ! :-) Also, Jacques Distler describes the article about the predictive landscapes here .",0_0
"The UN has been peddling sustainable development since its landmark conference in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Don't buy any of it. It's a scam that, by denying the world's poorest people access to affordable energy and other natural resources as well as the tools of modern agriculture, will perpetuate global poverty and empower unelected bureaucrats and their cronies.",0_0
"The production of biofuels may have led to at least 192,000 additional deaths and 6.7 million additional lost disability-adjusted life years in 2010. These estimates are conservative exceed the World Health Organisations estimates of the toll of death and disease for global warming. Thus, policies to stimulate biofuel production, in part to reduce the alleged impacts of global warming on public health, particularly in developing countries, may actually have increased death and disease globally.",4_4
"Where does one start in unwinding all the fallacious assumptions implicit in this confused line of thinking? Why should the goal of climate policy be to make the world more ""natural""? And why should anyone think ""natural"" is better than ""artificial""? Why is it okay to force ""massive changes"" in how people live their lives without even a nod to the possibility that this could cause ""massive"" harm of its own?",0_0
CEI is a public policy organization committed to advancing the principles of free enterprise and limited government.,0_0
"As a result, during multidecadal periods when El Nio events dominate, like the period from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s, global surface temperatures and ocean heat content rise. In other words, global warming occurs. There is no way global warming cannot occur during a period when El Nio events dominate. But projections of future global warming and climate change based on climate models dont account for that naturally caused warming because the models cannot simulate ENSO processesor teleconnections.",5_1
"I'm now back home, having had an interesting couple of days in London.",0_0
Conclusions: This research finds that past extreme warming and climate change were not CO2 caused - the empirical observations from the past don't support the IPCC's version of the AGW theory. Extended warming periods do happen naturally without human contribution. Natural warming can be very dramatic. Those are the global warming science facts .,2_1
"on Monday, April 13th, 2015 at 7:39 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Medieval Warm Period Project Was there a Medieval Warm Period? YES , according to data published by 1015 individual scientists from 584 research institutions in 44 different countries and counting! This issues Medieval Warm Period Record comes from Rumailiah River Floodplain , North-western Coast of Syria. To access the entire Medieval Warm Period Projects database, click here .",2_1
"As there has been no noticeable change in the rate of sea level rise since 2010, there is no evidence that the new figures claimed for Antarctica represent any significant increase.",1_6
"30 C the USDA measure heat zones in GDD above 30 C; for many plants this is significant for seed maturation, e.g. reed (Phragmites) requires at least some days reaching this temperature to mature viable seeds",0_0
"The television, radio and print ads, sponsored by the National Environment Trust, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Physicians for Social Responsibility, are funded by an array of left-wing charitable foundations. The Turner Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the John Merck Fund, and the W. Alton Jones Foundation have provided $8 million for the ads and $3 million for grassroots efforts. Turner is also providing money to the League of Conservation Voters to sponsor presidential debates on environmental issues (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 6, 1999).",0_0
"Applying the Clean Air Act to carbon dioxide leads to ""absurd results"" -- regulatory consequences that conflict with and undermine congressional intent, as even EPA admits.",0_0
Some Personal Thoughts on Yesterdays D.C. Circuit Greenhouse Gas Decision,0_0
"But the problem not arise last week. While the issue has only recently become acute, it has become acute because of accumulating failure during the AR5 assessment process, including errors and misrepresentations by IPCC in the assessments sent out for external review; the almost total failure of the academic climate community to address the discrepancy; gatekeeping by fellow-traveling journal editors that suppressed criticism of the defects in the limited academic literature on the topic.",5_2
"""The right to compete and offer new options to customers should be beyond argument and unconditional; yet, as FCC notes at the beginning of the order, the local franchising process, which can impede competition with tangential and unrelated demands, has become a barrier to entry rather than a guarantor of competition.""",0_0
"""This report confirms that exporting our natural gas will lead to some big winners and many big losers in our economy,"" Markey wrote in a statement posted online shortly after the release of the DOE report. ""American consumers and manufacturers will be the losers, as exporting natural gas will increase domestic prices by up to 30 percent, and reduce domestic investment and wages by $45 billion per year by 2030.""",0_0
"Another 15,000 smaller organisations are also required to register and could be expected to buy permits in the future. If they miss the September deadline, they face fines of 500.",0_0
"Why has nobody other than the IPCC been able to see the actual raw data collected by researchers which supposedly proves global warming is taking place? Simple: IPCC officials at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit destroyed the underlying numbers after they'd created their alarmist graphs, so that no skeptics could identify any methodological or mathematical errors they might have made. Since the work was funded by the governments of England and the United States, destruction of the data is destruction of government property, a criminal act which can and should be prosecuted.",5_2
"14. ""Nowhere,"" the Ehrlichs write, ""could delegated delegation be more important and spare politicians more pain, than in areas of fundamental constraints,"" 308.",0_0
Here is what an aerial view of the station and the point looks like at low tide of similar magnitude:,0_0
"Professor Turney said: The results here are quite startling and, importantly, they suggest sea levels will rise significantly higher than anticipated and that stabilizing global average temperatures at 2C above pre-industrial levels may not be considered a safe target as envisaged by the European Union and others. The inevitable conclusion is emission targets will have to be lowered further still.",0_0
"""You would have thought the world was coming to an end last week after popular movie streaming service Netflix raised its prices by 60%. The company's customers took to blogs and social networks in revolt, threatening to cancel their subscriptions. However, between the cost of mailing DVDs and paying increased licensing fees for content, a Netflix rate hike was inevitable. Is Netflix still one of the best movie bargains available today, and if not, are there any alternatives?""",0_0
"Novak reported that the studies are very pessimistic. The five assessments were conducted by the European Commission Directorate General for Energy, the International Energy Agency, the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration, and the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics.",0_0
"To be sure, the basic concept is not new. In 2006, a doctor named Mark Osterloh managed to get a proposition on the Arizona ballot to offer a $1 million prize for a voter in the state's upcoming primary or general election (those who voted in both would have two tickets, or chances at the prize) with the lottery winnings coming from unclaimed rewards left in the state's own lottery pool. The initiative was widely panned as tawdry, or as dangerous for encouraging uninformed citizens to cast uninformed votes, or as aiming at increasing turnout for no good reason beyond having a higher turnout. It failed.",0_0
"As the air's CO 2 content rises, this spring wheat cultivar (and others) will likely display enhanced rates of photosynthesis, decreased rates of transpirational water loss, and increases in water-use efficiency, even under less-than-optimal soil moisture conditions. Thus, it should be able to better cope with periods of water stress in a future CO 2 -enriched world than it does currently. In addition, this important crop should be able to be grown in areas where low soil moisture conditions presently preclude its cultivation.",3_3
China's president Xi Jinping (#1) did not come to New York.,0_0
"Galileos perfection of the telescope in 1609 allowed scientists to see sunspots for the first time. From 1610 A.D. to 1645 A.D., very few sunspots were seen, despite the fact that many scientists with telescopes were looking for them, and from 1645 to 1700 AD sunspots virtually disappeared from the sun (Fig. 1). During this interval of greatly reduced sunspot activity, known as the Maunder Minimum, global climates turned bitterly cold (the Little Ice Age), demonstrating a clear correspondence between sunspots and cool climate. After 1700 A.D., the number of observed sunspots increased sharply from nearly zero to more than 50 (Fig. 1) and the global climate warmed.",2_1
"There's been some personal tension between Mosher and Watts who have been friends in the past and I won't amplify it by mentioning any details. But while it's true that one must be careful not to apply adjustments incorrectly or selectively in order to push the data in a fixed direction, one must also honestly recognize that many adjustments make the underlying science (or technology) more accurate and many of these adjustments don't matter much, anyway.",0_0
"According to a Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) report, world demand for energy is expected to rise by two-thirds between now and 2030. Consequently, energy firms in Europe must dramatically increase supply. However, they have been slow do to so because of the new emissions trading directive and uncertainty over future regulation. Manfred Wiegand, PWC's global utilities leader, said: ""Companies are facing a huge need for investment. The bill from now until 2030 is some $10 trillion and they need a consistent and stable regulatory environment to make the sector more attractive to investors.""",0_0
Or take Obamas decision to slash funding for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository:,0_0
"So what do real-world observations say about the worldwide loss of species? Well in response to questions about species extinction, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) commissioned a book in 1992 to look into the matter. According to Simon, all the authors are ecologists who express concern abut the rate of extinction. Nevertheless, they all agree that the rate of known extinctions has been and continues to be very low.",0_0
"They love their armies and fast cars, treat their own people like terrorists, and have betrayed our continent. They pay no attention to the most critical and fundamental needs and concerns of people who are jobless, poor, hungry, and at the mercy of diseases and the environment. They do not care that most of their people never have clean water, a decent home, enough food to live, or electricity for even one light bulb and a tiny refrigerator.",0_0
This appointment comes amid unprecedented demand from developing countries for World Bank support in their efforts to address development and climate change as interlinked challenges.,0_0
"There seems no end in sight to the long-term growth of seasonal Antarctic sea ice, reports RTCC (link below). This continues to baffle scientists, to quote the usual expression.",1_1
"If these findings hold true in humans, then a fathers diet and body composition at the time of conception is likely to affect his future childs health and risk of lifelong disease, said Tod Fullston, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the Robinson Institute, Research Centre for Reproductive Health at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. Fathers should aim to be as healthy as possible at the time of conception to give future generations the best possible chance of good health.",0_0
Suppose it's the year 1910. Could anyone forecast the iPhone and all the technology that underlies and surrounds it? Can anyone forecast today the iPhone equivalent in 2110?,0_0
"You may clearly see these things in the movie. They couldn't really fake movies well at that time. Why would you doubt it? Some people want to protest against a bullet that goes through both bodies. But what's so shocking about it? When one body is behind another, and it clearly was from that angle (it is not too unlikely in a car, anyway), a shot simply gets through both bodies.",0_0
Goklany: How Fossil Fuels Save Humanity from Nature and Nature from Humanity,4_5
Here is a radar image around 6 PM for the Seattle area. A beautiful example of rain shadowing east of the Olympics!,0_0
Newspaper headlines claim that sea levels are rising twice as fast as before.,0_0
"means. There are 3 groups that have done this independently (CRU, NOAA and",0_0
"So in fact, according to Phil Jones (who strongly believes in the AGW hypothesis) there is nothing unusual about the recent warming either. It is not statistically different from two earlier modern periods of warming. Since these warming periods were before the modern rise in CO2, greenhouse gases cannot have been responsible for those rises.",2_1
"In brief response, Maneja et al. write that the swimming kinematics in Atlantic herring larvae that had survived to 34-dph were ""unaffected by extremely elevated levels of seawater p CO 2 , indicating that at least some larvae in the population are resilient to ocean acidification."" And in further commenting on their findings, they say ""it also appears that inter-individual variation in the behavioral responses of some fishes to elevated p CO 2 selects for tolerant individuals, possibly resulting in resilience to ocean acidification,"" citing the work of Munday et al. (2012).",3_2
"""The sunlight scattered by clouds can heat the surface,"" said Kassianov. ""We all know that we can still get sunburned on cloudy days. This explains why.""",0_0
"In a book on Brazil written in 1961, you can read ""If people are to have better jobs and make enough money so that they may have better homes and food and clothes, Brazil must develop her resources and expand her industries. Areas like the Amazon Valley, and much of the interior, must be fully explored. Already, new mineral deposits have been found. There is still much land that could be farmed. If all the land in Brazil were properly used, there would be plenty of inexpensive food for everyone."" (""Let's Visit Brazil, p. 87)",0_0
28 But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart,0_0
"The maneuvering for the RNC vote bears consideration. Florida Governor Charlie Crist expressed a wish for Jim Greer, his state party's chair, to assume the national job as of January 2009. Like Crist, Greer is a moderate. Conservatives are prepared to push for an alternative, such as Michael Steele, the African-American former lieutenant governor of Maryland and media pundit.",0_0
"Recently, on my way to lunch, I passed a fountain filled with young ladies in bikinis. The poster on the side announced that this was all about global warming. Not that I don't enjoy scantily dressed and pretty ladies, but as I pulled my coat tighter and my hat further down, I felt more sorry than impressed.",0_0
"The four Colombian researchers report that comparisons with previous studies showed the reef at La Azufrada to have returned to ""pre-disturbance (1979) levels of coral cover within a 10-year period after the 1982-83 El Nio, which caused 85% mortality,"" and that, subsequently, ""the effects of the 1997-98 El Nio, indicated by the difference in overall live coral cover between 1998 and 1999, were minor (<6% reduction)."" And they indicate that ""despite recurrent natural disturbances, live coral cover in 2004 was as high as that existing before 1982 at La Azufrada.""",3_2
"3) A Statistical Model for Tornado Intensity by James Elsner, Thomas Jagger & Ian Elsner.",0_0
"It is interesting to note that although several studies have indicated that Atlantic Ocean hurricanes of the past few decades have been no more numerous than they were in prior cooler periods -- see Tropical Cyclones (Atlantic Ocean - Global Warming Effects) in our Subject Index -- in this special case , where extra warmth does appear to enhance their numbers, they seem to be preferentially steered away from the coastal regions of the United States, sparing the country much of the extra damage they might otherwise cause.",1_7
"So far this year, the northeast US has been record cold, with by far the driest snow on record. The ratio of snow to precipitation has been double thelong termaverage.",1_3
"Geophysical Research Letters abstract 1999 J. Feynman,A. Ruzmaikin High energy cosmic rays may influence the formation of clouds and thus impact weather and climate. Due to systematic solar wind changes, the intensity of cosmic rays incident on the magnetopause has decreased markedly during this century. The pattern of cosmic ray precipitation through the magnetosphere to the upper troposphere has also changed. Early in the century, the part of the troposphere open to cosmic rays of all energies was typically confined to a relatively small high-latitude region. As the century progressed the size of this region increased by over 25% and there was a 6.5 equatorward shift in the yearly averaged latitudinal position of the subauroral region in which cloud cover has been shown to be cosmic ray flux dependent. We suggest these changes in cosmic ray intensity and latitude distribution may have influenced climate change during the last 100 years.",2_1
"A careful scientist keeps his head down. But Bill was completely fearless nonetheless. I never saw the like of it. That said, he was a kind and generous man, whom I learned much from. He too did not live to see the public vindication he deserved. When was the last monster hurricane that made landfall on the continental US?",0_0
"Pat Michaels, ""Energy Tax Blacks Out Many Lives in Europe,"" Boston Herald, August 17, 2003.",0_0
"The authors also find a remarkable correlation between solar rotational signals, cloud height, and the Madden-Julian Oscillation , which may represent yet another mechanism by which small changes in solar activity can be amplified to large changes in climate. Other amplification mechanisms include via ocean oscillations, ozone, and sunshine hours/clouds .",2_1
The Carbon Tax/Cap-and-Trade Royal Rumble,0_0
Czech president tells UN to stay out of economics and science,0_0
"Short answer, data to date says no. There has been no acceleration the rate of sea level rise. Sea level has been rising for centuries. But the rate of the rise has not changed a whole lot. Both tidal stations and satellites show no increase in the historic rate of sea level rise, in either the short or long term. Fig. 1 shows the most recent satellite data.",1_6
"MANY environmentalists dont believe we should be growing rice in Australia. I disagree. Rice suits a land of drought or flooding rains. Unlike almonds, grapes and other perennial crops, rice doesnt need water every year. Its an annualcrop that can be planted onlywhen there is an excess of water.",0_0
"With the trend removed from Rest-of-the-World sea surface temperatures, two things SHOULD appear when they are then compared to the NINO3.4 data. The Rest-of-the-World sea surface temperature anomalies should temporarily dip below the scaled NINO3.4 data starting in 1982 and in 1991 as the Rest-of-the-World data cools then rebounds in response to the volcanic aerosols. Theres something else that SHOULD happen if the proponents of anthropogenic global warming have been truthful about El Nio and La Nia. Sea surface temperatures in the Rest-of-the-World should warm in response to El Nios and they should cool proportionally to La Nias, just as they had for the East Pacific data. Figure 8 compares the NINO3.4 and Rest-of-the-World sea surface temperature anomalies.",0_0
"I am sure that by now, all of you are aware of the hacking incident which recently took place at the University of East Anglias Climatic Research Unit (CRU). This was a criminal act. Over 3,000 emails and documents were stolen. The identity of the hacker or hackers is still unknown.",0_0
"One of the many crises that overwhelmed David Paterson's brief, hapless term as governor of New York was a surge in Medicaid costs. Every recent New York governor has tried but failed to rein in Medicaid. Yet Paterson's opportunity to address the problem appeared promising. Government spending had to be cut during the 2009 budget cycle because of that year's historic collapse in revenues.",0_0
The global-mean surface air temperature anomaly for 1998,0_0
"30 Apr 1935 Do The Martians Exist? LONDON, March 23.",0_0
"""Moments after her son finished practicing with his fifth-grade tackle football team, Beth Sparks examined his scuffed and battered helmet for what she admitted was the first time. She looked at the polycarbonate shell and felt the foam inside before noticing a small emblem on the back that read, ""MEETS NOCSAE STANDARD.""""",0_0
"We conclude that the first explanation offered by Santer et al. provides the most parsimonious explanation for the divergence between surface and lower troposphere temperature trends, based on recent research suggestive of biases in the surface temperature record. Our findings suggest that the supposed reconciliation of differences between surface and satellite datasets has not occurred.",5_1
"Less well known is the bill's boosting of appliance efficiency standards, despite the fact that items like top-loading washing machines have already been ruined by the stringent standards currently in effect. (That's Consumer Reports ' assessment, not mine.)",0_0
"Styf et al . report that (1) ""the rate of yolk consumption per day, as a measure of embryonic development rate, significantly increased with temperature,"" that (2) lower pH ""had no effect on development rate,"" that (3) ""pH had no effect on heart rate,"" that (4) ""there was no interaction between pH and temperature,"" that (5) ""there was no significant effect of temperature on oxidative stress when analyzed independent of embryonic age,"" that (6) ""there was a significantly higher level of oxidative stress in the control embryos compared with the embryos developed in low pH,"" and that (7) they ""observed no mortality nor abnormalities.""",3_2
But not in climatology; being a charlatan hack seems to be de rigueur.,0_0
"13 Tech Environmental, Inc., ""Progress in Reducing Ozone Exceedance Days in Ten Major U.S. Cities (1987-1999),"" October 1999, report produced for the Foundation for Clean Air Progress, Washington, D.C.",0_0
"I (and actually we) have often been accused of promoting conspiracy theories in climate science. Its meant to be an automatic disqualifier of tAV opinions, which from the large number of us who gather here, are shared in some part by much of the public.",0_0
"Warmies never learn. They seize on inconvenient/unpleasant weather and claim will make it permanent/worse. Then, when their predictions fail spectacularly, which they always do, its because people expect the wrong thing. Flimflam Flannery claimed several of Australias major cities would be out of water and abandoned years ago due to climate change (we were experiencing periodical drought at the time) then Brisbane (one of the soon to be out of water cities) flooded spectacularly and the other states dams filled too.",5_2
EPA Estimates Its Greenhouse Gas Restrictions Would reduce global Temperature by No More Than 0.006 of a Degree in 90 Years,4_2
"For all the post-Cold War talk about the decline of the state, there is at least one domain where the state is in expansion, and it is the sea. And for all the talk about a Great Game in Central Asia, it is worth keeping in mind that more than 30 percent of the world's oil and 50 percent of the world's natural gas is produced offshore. The percentage is greater still when moving from proven reserves (i.e., 90 percent certainty) to probable reserves (50 percent certainty). Add to that the fact that 60 percent of the world's oil and gas is transported by sea, and in the end, it is hard to deny that command of the high seas will matter just as much as control of the Heartland.",0_0
"John: Been a mongrel, Brian, yes. First Climategate made us all look like a bunch of crooks. Then Copenhagen made us look like a bunch of stupid crooks. And",0_0
"Not only will the trace gases need more energy to reach the same temperature as the air that contains them, they will radiate it in all directions instantly and at the speed of light and thus increase the efficiency of the air mass in cooling it, not warming it, in line with the first and second laws of thermodynamics.",2_3
"However, the Adelie species is far from threatened as he implies, being common around the entire coast of Antarctica and adjacent islandsin the Ross Sea region alone the Adelie population numbers more than 5,000,000 birds.",3_2
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell on the real news coming out of Copenhagen:,0_0
"funny it follows the rule. And when something isn't, it doesn't. One",0_0
"A problem that Alley and other paleoclimate scientists refer to as the insensitivity of models or the model-data gap sounds like a technical issue but really is more fundamental. It means that the models are unable to reproduce accurately the numerous episodes of abrupt change that show up clearly in many environmental archives around the world. The reasons for this failure are not yet known, but the implications are plain enough. Until these highly sophisticated numerical representations of Earths climate systemrunning on the worlds most powerful computersare able to get the past right, what reason is there to believe they can get the future right? (page 183).",5_1
"Accumulated departure from the annualized monthly mean (41.2) observed sunspot numbers 1610-2009 shows declining solar activity during the little ice age (LIA) and increasing solar activity during the subsequent recovery from the LIA. The 11 year moving average, corresponding to the 11-year solar cycle, is also plotted. Note the accelerated increase in solar activity beginning in the 1940s and correlation with land temperature data (HADCRU3 5 year moving average).",2_1
"However, the idea of a climate court anytime soon particularly one that the United States and other big carbon emitters would agree to may be far-fetched. One environmental law expert, professor Jonathan Verschuuren at The Netherlands"" Tilburg University, wrote in an online column that the court ""will certainly not materialize.""",0_0
Blackouts ahead if EPA rules shut down more power plants,0_0
"Hopefully some of this has been helpful. NCCI has a more complete training package here (same site problem - click on ""Introduction to Workers Compensation"" under Learning Center and then click it again on the next page). More detailed state by state data is in this article. I have never worked with these guys but mostchoice.com seems to have an informative web site. In putting together this post, I also used the Insurance Guys web site -- they have contacted me in the past and if you are out in CA, they claim to be able to have access to many different underwriters to get folks the best policy. Cal-Nevada Insurance did a good job for me. I have related posts on workers comp here and here .",0_0
British Science Adviser Goes Beyond Parody,0_0
"4.Global average temperatures during the 2030's will reach a level of at least 1.5 C lowerthan the peak temperature year of the past 100 years established in 1998. The temperatures during the 2030's will correspond roughly to that observed from 1793 to 1830, shortly after the founding of the United States of America. This average lower global temperature of 1.5 C on average, translates to declines in temperatures that will be devastating for crop growing regions in the mid latitudes of the planet.",1_2
"""Oh, I did, son. I did. But the competition was stiff. Let me tell you, by the mid-2010s you could barely move in the Antarctic or the Arctic for self-proclaimed artists and explorers and ""climate"" ""scientists"" making utter dicks of themselves in the name of saving the planet from the deadly threat of ManBearPig. There was the Ship Of Fools expedition of 2013. And sundry expeditions conducted under the name Cape Farewell Project , in which luminaries such as Martha Wainwright, Laurie Anderson, Jarvis Cocker, Cormac McCarthy, Feist and ""comedian"" Marcus Brigstocke sailed north in order to create meaningful art projects on the theme of climate doom.""",0_0
"The Sun: Increasingly we are seeing more papers asserting that the sun is a major factor in climate change. Yet, in its Summaries for Policy Makers, the government-funded, UN, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) largely dismisses it as an important influence on recent climate global warming/climate change. The total energy emitted by the sun drives the climate systems in the solar system, including the earth. Yet, according to the IPCC, and the group of 20 (above) minor changes in total energy emitted, including solar wind and magnetism are far less important in determining changing climate that human additions of CO2 into the atmosphere. See links under Science: Is the Sun Rising? and 100+ Papers Sun Drives Climate",2_1
"Bry used a New York Times interview with climate scientist James Hansen, who is often touted as the godfather of the climate action movement, to bolster his account that humans are killing themselves through so-called man-made global warming.",0_0
"""If you want to study how aerosols and clouds interact,"" said Kassianov, ""you need to look in the region of the spectrum where aerosol effects are significant. If you want to fish, you go where the fish are biting.""",0_0
"2. Clean Unit Exclusion. Regulated emitters who achieved federal BACT or LAER control levels or comparable state minor source BACT since 1990 would be entitled to a ""clean unit exclusion"" from NSR. A clean unit would trigger NSR only if permitted allowable emissions increase. Companies that make investments in pollution prevention or processes that are inherently clean or lower-emitting, and which achieve emission reductions comparable to BACT or LAER at the time the investment was made, would also qualify for the exclusion.",0_0
The boss of the only energy company still committed to investing in carbon capture and storage technology has called the pilot project the most risky investment of his career.,0_0
"Not only do US laws, the Nuremberg Code, the Helsinki Accords and EPA Rule 1000.17 make it unethical or illegal to conduct toxicity experiments on humans. When California, Washington, Rutgers and other University researchers explained the experiments to their volunteers, they generally failed to advise them that EPA says the pollution they were going to breathe was toxic, carcinogenic and deadly.",0_0
"With Arctic ice extent just 6% below average at the end of October, global sea ice area remains just above normal.",1_1
"High energy prices disproportionately hurt the poor: Policies that make energy more expensive have regressive effects. According to the government's 2012 Consumer Expenditure Survey, those in the lowest earnings quintile spent 28% of their incomes on energy electricity, natural gas, gasoline, and motor oil. This is far more than the U.S. average of 9%, and the 4% spent by the top quintile. Increases in energy costs affect the prices of other consumer goods as well.",0_0
"It wasn?t always this way. In the 1960s, when research into global warming was just beginning, it seemed impossible that people could change the global environment; the Earth was just too big. Charles Lyell, the father of modern geology, considered the possibility in detail in the mid-19th century and decided it was impossible because the mass of living things amounted to less than a drop in the bucket compared to the weight of all the materials in the oceans, atmosphere, soil and rocks.",0_0
"Remember the Club of Romes 1972 prediction of resource exhaustion? Fifty-seven predictions were made regarding 19 minerals, and all either have been proved false or will be.",0_0
"""The environment and forests ministry gave the go-ahead for the observatory to be built in the Bodi West hills on the coast of southern Tamil Nadu state.""",0_0
"stole from ourselves, took and gave bribes, lied in the reports, in newspapers, from high podiums, wallowed in our lies, hung medals on one another. And all of this from top to bottom and from bottom to top.",0_0
"The coupled ocean-atmosphere processes that drive multidecadal variations in sea surface temperatures will be more of a problem. The sea surface temperature record is globally complete only during the satellite era the last 30 years. Further, the subsurface temperature and salinity records of the oceans are globally complete for only the past decade or so; moreover, the subsurface data are riddled with problems. It will be decades before the climate science community can hope to begin to have a data-based understanding of subsurface ocean weather and its interactions with ocean-atmosphere processes.",5_1
"Photosynthetic processes are accelerated with the increased availability of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and, hence, it is conjectured that ring growth would also be correlated with atmospheric carbon dioxide; see Graybill and Idso (1993). In addition, oxides of nitrogen are formed in internal combustion engines that can be deposited as nitrates also contributing to fertilization of plant materials. It is clear that while there are temperature signals in the tree rings, the temperature signals are confounded with many other factors including fertilization effects due to use of fossil fuels.",3_3
"In the past, we have often referred to cosmic rays as galactic cosmic rays or GCRs, because we did not know where they originated. Now scientists have determined that the sun discharges a significant amount of these high-energy particles. Solar Cosmic Rays (SCRs cosmic rays from the sun) originate in the suns chromosphere . Most solar cosmic ray events correlate relatively well with solar flares. However, they tend to be at much lower energies than their galactic cousins.",0_0
CBS2s Randy Paige placed a thermometer in the pathway of the beam on a partially cloudy day. The temperature registered over 120 degrees in less than five minutes.,0_0
"In short, America should produce more here at home, export both crude and refined petroleum to Europe and Asia, and support companies that want to take their fracking technology and expertise overseas.",0_0
"Within a capitalist world order, climate change is actually a convenient phenomenon to come along.",0_0
"???It??s funny,?? says Jason. ???When it??s colder than usual (the last few years) it??s called natural phenomenon but when we get a hot spell or warmer than usual temperatures it??s not a natural phenomenon?? ?? .it??s ???Global Warming?? or the better yet catch phrase ???Climate Change.??",5_2
"Somewhat amusingly, Plait ends his semi-random venting by telling us that Michael Mann has been tweeting furiously about this. Good grief! This isnt helping his case. Manns understanding of statistics may be likened to an overly enthusiastic undergraduate who left the lecture early.",0_0
"Washington, D.C., March 22, 2005 The Department of Energy (DOE) today released its long-awaited revised guidelines for voluntary reporting of greenhouse gas emissions. The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) submitted six comments during 2002-2004 warning DOE (a) that it lacks legal authority to award or certify emission credits applicable to a future regulatory climate program, and (b) that a crediting program is undesirable because it would build a corporate lobbying clientele for Kyoto-style energy rationing policies. The guidelines released today specifically do not award or certify tradable emission credits.",0_0
"Tony Blair, o Il Crepuscolo degli Idoli",0_0
Kerry's Very Original Talking Points Speech Writer,0_0
"Whether you believe in manmade global warming or not, you ought to question the bona fides of ClimateCounts given its roots Stonyfield Farm's dubious marketing and Fenton Communications' fear profiteering.",0_0
"Dear Mr. Gore, you and I each have books on global warming at the top of the New York TImes non-fiction best-seller list. Your book, An Inconvenient Truth, claims that the earth's recent warming is humanity's fault, and that society must give up most of its current enery supply in order to prevent climate catastrophe.",0_0
South Australia??s hottest day is still the 50.7 degrees Oodnadatta suffered 37 years ago. NSW??s high is still the 50 degrees recorded 70 years ago.,1_7
"So the initial moment for comparisons isn't mentioned. But another thing that isn't mentioned is the convention with which we define and measure the global mean temperature e.g. when it comes to the altitude (or depth in the sea) where the contribution of each square meter is measured and dozens of other important subtleties. Also, the surface weather stations produce warming trends that are something like 50% higher than those measured by the satellites.",5_1
"John Kelly, a spokesman for the health department, said in a statement: This issue isnt about one actor but rather the 700,000 New Yorkers who struggle with diabetes, which kills 1,700 people a year and causes amputations in another 3,000. Advertising to warn the public about health concerns saves lives, and we will continue our efforts to warn New Yorkers about diabetes.",0_0
"The correct approach to this debate should not dwell on the conflict between financial diversification and global warming. Instead, it should rethink the way to regulate and tax fossil fuel emissions. Currently, the amount of energy generated per unit of pollution could be rapidly increased by undoing deeply entrenched, but perverse, energy policies.",0_0
"Bear in mind that under established legal interpretation, EPA is forbidden to take compliance costs and economic impacts into account when setting NAAQS . In short, applying the NAAQS program to carbon dioxide could turn the Clean Air Act into the equivalent of an economic suicide pact.",0_0
The pollutant claims are easy to refute.The worst air pollution in the world today is the Asian smog. Smog is very visible but carbon dioxide is a transparent gas that is exhaled by all living creatures.Smog is air polluted with particulates and noxious gases but there are no particulates or noxious components in carbon dioxide.,0_0
"Frankly, it was a stupid error. But no one brought it to my attention, he added.",0_0
"As best as I could determine, none of my suggested reviewers would have made such a recommendation. I can only speculate that Schekman considered Ramanathan as one of my suggested reviewers; I have not checked with Ramanathan. In any event, my response was the following.",0_0
... only those of us in Congress get to fly private jets,0_0
"When President Clinton had the United States sign the Kyoto Protocol on ""global warming,"" his gesture was widely viewed as PR, pure and simple. After all, the Senate already was on record 95-0 against implementing the treaty as written. If the United States is safe from Kyoto's global constraints on economic freedom, why is corporate America booking seats on the, Kyoto Express?",0_0
"Well, that's new. Throughout his presidency, Obama has gone out of his way to avoid mentioning nuclear power at all, though he has delivered numerous speeches around the country touting the virtues of clean-energy technologies such as wind and solar. Judging by its conspicuous absence from these talks, nuclear power has clearly been out of favor with this president.",0_0
"An absolute record for the first of April, says reader Argiris Diamantis. Nothing about this is reported by the Dutch MSM, of course.",0_0
"If GM foods have an ""astonishing range of potential applications,"" according to James D. Watson, the co-discoverer of DNA, that could radically improve daily life for billions in the developing world, why this war against their use? The origins of this animus lie more in culture than in sciencein an ancient myth about nature and humanity's relationship to the environment, and in the angst about technology embedded in those myths.",0_0
We need to craft national policy that uses market forces to provide incentives for the technological advances required to address climate change. price on carbon would change the behavior of both individuals and businesses.,4_2
"Democratic strategist James Carville, who was raised in Louisiana, called Obama's handling of the BP oil spill ""lackadaisical"" and ""unbelievable"" in its ""stupidity.""",0_0
"This divergence is already approaching a full degree Celsius, which already demonstrates that the models are more fairy tale than science. But in the coming years that divergence will only grow and grow, ultimately not only discrediting but falsifying the theory of anthropogenic, catastrophic global warming.",5_1
"Reports from a variety of outlets, including the DOE and the US Energy Information Administration, which did the first part of the two required DOE analyses, show that most LNG would be sourced from new natural gas development, which means exports are unlikely to materially impact domestic demand or prices. EIA found that increased exports would initially raise consumer electricity bills by 1-to-3 percent annually, before subsiding. Both Levi and the DOE estimate the rise in industrial prices would not exceed 10 percent at most at its peak, before dropping.",0_0
The government's role was not to impede either the use of the horse or the development of the automobile.,0_0
"Mike Hulme July 25, 2013 at 6:39 am",0_0
"The Earths climate system is highly nonlinear: inputs and outputs are not proportional, change is often episodic and abrupt, rather than slow and gradual, and multiple equilibria are the norm. While this is widely accepted, there is a relatively poor understanding of the different types of nonlinearities, how they manifest under various conditions, and whether they reflect a climate system driven by astronomical forcings, by internal feedbacks, or by a combination of both.",5_1
"According to NYSERDA , the average NYS residential electricity rate in 1999 was 13.3 cents per kilowatt hour. The first NYS wind factories went up in 2000 (Wethersfield & Madison). Twenty wind factories later, the average residential electricity rate in NYS as of February 2015 is 19.8 cents per kWh (according to the EIA, as cited by NYSERDA). That is one of the highest rates in the nation, and nearly a 50% increase since New York State began mindlessly plastering countrysides with industrial wind factories. Only 2% of NYSs electricity comes from coal, and we have an endless supply of hydro.",4_4
"May 2007 and October 2007 share the silver and bronze medals with the anomaly of 0.091 Celsius degrees which is 0.81 Celsius degrees cooler than the warmest RSS month, April 1998. Using Al Gore's terminology, two of the three coldest months in this century have occurred in this year! ;-)",1_3
"From the University of Gothenburg , the stuff that keeps some people awake at night. A question; why should we care? And, why should we take any of this seriously when you do things like We raised the water temperature in miniature ecosystems containing eelgrass meadows, while simultaneously bubbling with carbon-dioxide. when that bubbling would not happen naturally?",0_0
"So what is different now? I offer the following observations based on many interviews with senior diplomats, government officials, legislators, and negotiators on both sides, most of them working for peace with a new urgency:",0_0
"8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,",0_0
"New York Times in 2000: ""Sledding and snowball fights are as out-of-date as hoop-rolling' NYT in 2000: ""But it does not take a scientist to size up the effects of snowless winters on the children too young to remember the record-setting blizzards of 1996. For them, the pleasures of sledding and snowball fights are as out-of-date as hoop-rolling, and the delight of a snow day off from school is unknown.'",0_0
1) Warm Bias: How The Met Office Mislead The British Public,0_0
"For example, a recent issue of Global Change Biology contains an article about global warming and a positive fitness response in mountain lizards in Europe. Did these lizards not get the memo about extinctions? Maybe the lizards havent read their e-mail about global warming making things tough on lizards around the world? If nothing else, these lizards have obviously not been reading newspapers over the past decade!",3_2
"?Mississippi Power?s 186,000 customers, who live in one of the poorest region of the country, are reeling from double-digit rate increases,? adding that ?the plant hasn?t generated a single kilowatt for customers??",0_0
"""Cuba on Tuesday announced plans to drill five deepwater oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico beginning this summer, expressing confidence that its efforts will be rewarded with major new energy finds.""",0_0
"Update #2: An example of the BBJ. This is how you fly, right?",0_0
But the company he keeps numbers just six in New Zealand and 142 worldwide according to the ICSC which keeps a register of climate experts who challenge the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused climate change.,5_1
"large number of politically appointed officials in the American system,",0_0
"Temperatures have not risen nearly as much as almost all of the climate models predicted, Dr. Roy Spencer, a climatologist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, told Fox News January 28. Their predictions have largely failed, four times in a row... what that means is that it's time for them to re-evaluate.",5_1
"HEM is based on well-established economic theory as well as historical data and contains a variety of modules that interact with each other for long-term forecasting. In particular, HEM focuses on the interactions among (1) the supply, conversion, and demand of energy in its various forms; (2) American energy and the overall American economy; (3) the American energy market and the world petroleum market; and (4) current production and consumption decisions as well as expectations about the future These modules include:",0_0
"Are you an aspiring journalist for Reuters? If so, you need to know how to ""bury the lede,"" which is insider journo-talk for ignoring the real story in favor of the story you want to tell.",0_0
"Kevin D. Dayaratna and David W. Kreutzer, ""Unfounded FUND: Yet Another EPA Model Not Ready for the Big Game,"" Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2897, April 29, 2014, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/04/unfounded-fund-yet-another-epa-model-not-ready-for-the-big-game. See also Kevin D. Dayaratna and David W. Kreutzer, ""Loaded DICE: An EPA Model Not Ready for the Big Game,"" Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2860, November 21, 2013, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/11/loaded-dice-an-epa-model-not-ready-for-the-big-game.",0_0
"As reported by the Daily Caller News Foundation, Smith said: ""It is this committee's oversight role to ensure that federal science agencies are transparent and accountable to the taxpayers who fund their research."" He added: ""Americans are tired of research conducted behind closed doors where they only see cherry-picked conclusions, not the facts.""",0_0
Recently Keigwin??s Sargasso Sea dO18 temperature reconstructions have been mentioned in the climate public eye. Keigwin??s reconstruction famously has a warm MWP as shown below. This reconstruction uses modern dO18 measurements at Station S to calibrate two cores (with modern Station S values specifically shown in the graphic below):,2_1
"This is a trend that British social commentator James Heartfield called ""the retreat from production"" in his astute study, Green Capitalism. American society, just like Britain, is increasingly estranged from the world of production. Instead, there is a one-sided emphasis on the world of consumption and a consequent downgrading of the potential to increase production.",0_0
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Tel: (49-228) 815-1506,0_0
"A May 9th ruling by U.S. District of Columbia Judge Amit Mehta determined that the Obama Administration had engaged in ""bad faith"" for stonewalling repeated Freedom of Information Requests issued by the Competitive Enterprise Institute seeking any such scientific evidence.",0_0
Australias antarctic runway melting | Launceston Times,0_0
"Mr. Lazear, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers (2006-09) and head of the White House committee on the economics of climate change (2007-08), is a professor at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and a Hoover Institution fellow.",0_0
"One possible reason for the reversal, say the researchers, is that now, some of the extra atmospheric carbonraw material for photosynthesis???may be feeding back into living plants and making them grow faster. The extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may be providing a fertilizing effect, said study coauthor Timothy Hall , a senior scientist at NASAs Goddard Institute for Space Studies . Many other scientists are now working to determine the possible effects of increased carbon dioxide on plant growth , and incorporate these into models of past and future climates.",3_3
"Otherwise, the Copenhagen Accord's negligible effect on the climate will have been achieved at the expense of the Australian Constitution, of your right to hold and work your property, and I fear of Peter Spencer's life. If he dies, Kevin Rudd must resign. If I had my way, he would stand trial for crimes against humanity.",0_0
What Happens If the Social Costs of Carbon Goes Negative?,0_0
"Monckton replied with a powerful rebuttal that, point by point, eviscerated Abraham's embarrassingly dishonest production. Monckton called on Abraham and the university to issue a formal apology, remove the libelous presentation from the Internet, and donate $110,000 to a Haitian charity as compensation for the damage done to his reputation.",0_0
"complicated, BUT I accept the dominant view that people are affecting it, and",0_0
"All five series show long term warming from either the late 18th or early 19th centuries. Recent years are only marginally the warmest of the entire series because of the warmth of the 1730s (particularly in Western Europe) and the 1820s (Northern Europe) The five series are CET, De Bilt, Berlin, Uppsala, Stockholm.",2_1
"Once again, over a period of time described by climate alarmists as having experienced ""unprecedented"" global warming, and in contradiction of the climate-model-inspired assumption that rising global temperatures increase the frequency and intensity of severe storms, real-world data demonstrate that ? it just ain't so .",1_7
"Emission trading may be severely constrained for other reasons as well. A trading system can be viable only if there are credible mechanisms to monitor trades, keep the books, and punish cheating. Why play by the rules if no one else does, if other countries are free to undercount emissions for domestic producers, or to issue permits exceeding their national quota? Kyoto, however, creates no monitoring and enforcement machinery for emissions trading. It leaves to future conferences the task of setting up the institutions required to audit emissions trades and punish emissions violators.",4_2
"""(Companies) are waiting to know the criteria to get a permit,"" said Larry LaPre, a wildlife biologist for BLM's California desert district, of the companies hoping federal agencies will begin permitting again soon. LaPre said he expects it to be ""at least a year or longer"" before permitting resumes.",0_0
"A new study led by K.M. Hiremath of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics shows a strong, possibly causative correlation between variations in solar activity and in monsoon rainfall.",0_0
"Our analysis revealed a shift in coral community composition but no impact of acidification on coral richness, coralline algae abundance, macroalgae cover, coral calcification, or skeletal density. a comparison of the naturally low-pH coral reef systems studied so far revealed increased bioerosion to be the only consistent feature among them, as responses varied across other indices of ecosystem health.",3_2
"Here??s the MBH98 PC1 (bristlecones) again marking 1934. Given that bristlecone ring width are allegedly responding positively to temperature, it is notable that the notoriously hot 1934 is a downspike.",5_1
"""Most resolutions,"" says the Journal, ""ask corporations to disclose estimated greenhouse gas emissions from their operations, as well as the products they make, and ask for an assessment of the costs of reducing those levels."" One resolution that targets Exxon Mobil Corporation, demands that it separate the positions of chief executive and chairman, saying that Exxon Mobil's CEO and Chairman, Lee Raymond, is endangering shareholder value by his stance on global warming.",0_0
"The countries during a week of international frhandlingar in Tianjin, China could not agree on another n smsaker. P lrdagen, last mtesdagen, it was clear that the drjer before a new binding climate uppns.",0_0
"You will also be struck by how cunning these nasty fraudsters are. Science these days is so very highly specialized that a scientist looking at science outside his specialist field is just as much in the dark as a layman with no scientific knowledge at all. If a couple of dozen in different sub-disciplines conspire together to make up bad science and that is what Climategate shows the UN's climate panel did then the vast majority of the thousands of scientists participating worldwide will simply be unaware that they are being deceived, and they will be even more easily deceived than the layman, because they will tend to trust colleagues in their own profession.",5_2
Note here that the Russian scientists confirm that the Arctic sea ice extent was also low in the 1930s. This tells us that nothing is really so unusual in the Arctic today.,1_1
"With Carbon Dioxide Emissions at Record High, Worries on How to Slow Warming",0_0
CFACT will be posting extensive coverage of the COP 19 gathering in Warsaw as news breaks. Be sure to check in for complete coverage at our Mission Warsaw information center.,0_0
"Given the strenuous efforts EPA has taken to hide these emails,and what we have learned to date, it is more than fair to assume this is more than petulant retaliation, but hidingsomething awfullydamning.",5_2
"Lifting restrictions on energy production that have little, if any, environmental benefit, will add 700,000 jobs and $3.7 trillion in GDP through 2035. Electricity expenditures for households will decline by up to 10.19 percent per year. For a family of four, this means an additional $40,000 of income by 2035.",0_0
It seems that whenever government expands either its powers or its,0_0
Warmer daytime + warmer nighttime = Warmer Earth.,0_0
of panic in the country over the state of the economy in the midst of the Great,0_0
"Under the Kyoto Protocol, for example, companies subject to climate regulations can meet their carbon ""cap"" by paying for emissions reduction projects in developing countries. According to the journal Nature, the U.N. certified $6 billions' worth of emissions ""savings"" for reductions in HFC-23, a potent greenhouse gas. Yet removing the HFC-23 cost $130 million. That's a lot of waste.",0_0
"This statement is a further example of the narrow and closed viewpoint illustrated in the released CRU e-mails. I agree with Michael that we have detected human climate forcing effects. To label me as a skeptic, however, is completely wrong (as Andy knows; e.g. see and see )",5_2
A keen eyed reader sent me this gem. I think it is from a book Gilgunnia a special place by Leila Alderdice 1994.,0_0
The 2014/15 El Nio Part 14 Warm Water Recirculated?,0_0
Can the weight of added CO2 explain the 8C change?,0_0
"Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, says the Mars data is evidence that the current global warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the sun.",2_1
"In anticipation c also the construction of a series of five solar electric power plants to salts, from the cost of billions of Euros. And the Archimedes project, wanted by the minister and processed by Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia. It is an American technology, 30 years old female, which is to focus the sun's rays with mirrors, on a cylinder flowing salt solutions: never gave cost-effective results.",0_0
In Vitro and Ex Vitro Growth of an Epiphytic CAM Orchid,0_0
"On the other hand, fault can certainly be found in the manner of editing that the White House reportedly engaged in. While it had a responsibility to use this report to articulate administration policy, there was certainly no need to suppress discussion of credible scientific reportsparticularly a report that had been conducted by a blue-ribbon panel at the president's requestin order to do so. Regardless of what agency published the report, one thing is clear: it was a lost opportunity to examine the state of the science, economics, and public policy questions related to global climate change. And a look at what was not discussed reveals how constructive a review of the data could have been.",0_0
"They claim that 2012 is the warmest year by almost a degree, and they accomplished that by subtracting a degree from the hot years of the 1920s and 1930s.",0_0
"By Paul Driessen, Townhall, Aug 8, 2015",0_0
"Recent research has pointed not to an imminent revolution in renewable energy, but rather to its limitations. Solar and wind power combined produce less electricity than what is generated from hydroelectric power alone. All renewables are dwarfed in their contribution to total U.S. energy by oil, gas and coal.",4_4
"Further, if this is true, then (as is usual in climate-world), ?it?s worse than we thought.? After all, China will eventually reduce their sulfate emissions as their population becomes affluent enough to demand something better than miasmic air. Indeed, they are already beginning to clean things up, and when they finally do, all the cooling particles will be gone and the earth will warm substantially.",0_0
"an augmented force, military commanders said they could sweep Taliban",0_0
Here . Excerpt: All these well-meaning (if misguided) wannabe critter-savers are being discouraged or are misdirecting their efforts because no one has explained the difference between reality and PlayStation climatology. We do not know and probably never will know what the climate will be in 30 years time. All we really know is that there is an equal chance next year will be either warmer or cooler. We have no evidence of accelerating sea level rise. We have no knowledge of impending disaster or temperature-related catastrophe. What a waste of everyones time and effort.,5_1
"One likely culprit is the oceans, which already absorb most of the heat. The latest research suggests that more heat than expected could be going into the deep oceans, below 700 metres 7 . Another possibility that scientists have investigated is whether volcanic ash from minor eruptions and pollution from the industrialization of China and other countries are reflecting more of the Sun's energy back into space 8 . Still another is the prolonged lull in solar activity early in the millennium, which might decrease the amount of energy hitting Earth.",1_4
"1. Hansen made three forecasts, Cook picked scenario B which Hansen described as a reduced linear linear growth of trace gases . Obviously that has not happened and is not the correct one. He should be comparing against scenario A. Joe Romm says that greenhouse gases have been accelerating super-exponentially .",5_2
EXTRAS: Dr. Roy Spencer to debunk cloud feedback study w/in hour of its release,0_0
Amazing pictures...the clouds reached up to just under 1000 ft. And as you rise above the clouds you enter the inversion and temperature warms rapidly--to roughly 50F at 2500 ft!,0_0
"Note that the value for the incoming solar radiation (341.3 watts/m^2) is much less than the values you are used to seeing for Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) at the top of the atmosphere, which is about 1366 watts/m^2. Why the lower number in the energy budget? The sun only shines on half the Earth at one time and, because the Earth is spherical, sunlight is not distributed evenly across Earths surface. So the incident shortwave (solar) radiation is the TSI value. See the NASA EarthObservatory webpage Incoming Sunlight for a further discussion.",0_0
"So why do we persist in scaring ourselves this way? Strangely enough, the reason may lie in how safe our society is for our children. If our children are not subjected to the real horrors of everyday disease, starvation and war that have been major worries for parents throughout history, we still feel a need to protect them from something. The figure of the murderous candy-poisoner or foreign terrorist fills the vacuum well.",0_0
"To bring manufacturing back to the U.S., or encourage expansion, we need energy that is abundant, available and affordableand we'll need to use more, not less. If we want to balance our trade deficit, boost GDP, and have a prosperous economy, energy is the key. As I am known for saying: ""energy makes America great!""",0_0
"Last month a crash dummy flew to 5,000 feet above ground level in a personal jet pack. The inventor, New Zealander Glenn Martin, has spent decades on the project and is ready to start selling the device for $100,000 each next year. The gasoline-driven machine can stay aloft for 30 minutes, thanks to what is, in effect, a pair of large leaf-blowers. A parachute provides partial reassurance if something should go wrong.",0_0
"Had such measures been taken in the case of the research articles described above, it is unlikely that any of them would have been published in a prominent journal. If scientists want to retain society 's respect, they must insist that journal editors uphold the highest standards of accuracy.This essay appeared in the Guardian (U.K.) on March 6, 2008.",0_0
"Reading ""an early draft"" of a federal government report has helped David Ignatius see that the global warming debate is just like the tobacco wars of the past four decades . On one side are the good guys trying to warn the world about the impending floods and droughts and the fact that ""forests and agriculture may be affected by rising temperatures?",0_0
"The issue here isnt just schadenfreude , although its hard not to feel a bit of that. The issue is that government is inherently less accountable, less transparent and less responsive than private industry.",0_0
"According to the independently produced International Energy Agency World Energy Outlook 2012, the global energy map is being redrawn on the back of shale gas. The United States was recently facing the prospect of long-term scarcity. Now the US could pass Russia and Saudi Arabia as the world's top energy producer during the,2020s while dramatically decreasing its carbon footprintunless political forces conspire to turn back the clock.",0_0
"In tonight's Tips music The Pogues invade the Spanish city of Almera for an ethanol-powered Fiesta . And maybe a bit of dental work. The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.",0_0
"Since energy touches every aspect of our lives, this is a subject that requires careful consideration and extended debate. We need candidates putting forward specific proposals and debating their merits on the campaign trail so voters can make an informed choice about the type of approach they want to see. That hasn?t happened yet and debating something this important requires more deliberation than we?ve had yet.",0_0
Today's segment rebuts a related scare--the claim that global warming will sicken and kill thousands of us by increasing air pollution. Click here if you want to watch Policy Peril in its entirety. Click here to watch the segment on air pollution.,0_0
"Several key White House offices were involved with the Obama administrations messaging plans and other preparations as the collapse of the taxpayer-backed solar company Solyndra was imminent, newly released documents show.",0_0
"We have already seen that there is ambiguity in computing the probability of events. The more complex these events the more imprecise the estimate. It is also often the case that part (2) of the risk analysis is the most difficult. The events themselves cannot be articulated, either completely or unambiguously. In simple physical systems they often can be, of course, but in complex ones like the climate or ecosystems they are not. Anything involving humans is automatically complex.",0_0
"When the new EPA administrator, Gina McCarthy, in testimony before a congressional committee in mid-January was asked by Sen. Jeff Sessions (AL-R) to confirm a statement made by President Obama last year that global temperatures were increasing faster in the last 5 or 10 years than climate scientists had predicted.",0_0
"The truth seems to be a simple one: Lucy likes watching Charlie Brown humiliate himself by falling flat on his back more than she enjoys watching the football fly down the field. That is, the Obama Administration's Syria calculus has underestimated how great Putin's interest is in making the United States look and sound weak and unsuccessful. He doesn't just enjoy it when John Kerry slips and falls on a banana peel that Lavrov has artfully positioned behind him; Putin is willing to run risks and even to take on significant costs simply in order to make the United States look bad.",0_0
"Mr. FOIA denies these absurd allegations in his 3.0 message. ""I took what I deemed the most defensible course of action, and would do it again,"" he said. ""That's right; no conspiracy, no paid hackers, no Big Oil. The Republicans didn't plot this. USA politics is alien to me, neither am I from the U.K. There is life outside the Anglo-American sphere.""",0_0
"One-year ago Merkel and her government approved operating lifetime extensions of nuclear power plants in Germany, giving8 older reactors the seal approval, certifying they were safe and reliable. That, they were. Indeed German reactors and their management are among the best and safestin the world.",4_5
"Equally interesting is the other phenomenon happening on the new Rimland: the so-called territorialization of the seas. The belated implementation, in the 1990s, of the 1982 Law of the Sea (UNLOS) and in particular of the 200 mile Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ), has had over time unintended effects. Due to the existence of more than one hundred EEZs, 32 percent of the ocean is today under some sort of national jurisdiction. We are talking an area of 28 million square miles, i.e. four times the size of Russia (America's EEZ itself is two-thirds the size of the continental United States and accounts for 30 percent of the U.S. oil production).",0_0
million budget shortfall that will force the agency to reduce emergency,0_0
"In May the federal appeals court invalidated the Environmental Protection Agency's standards for ozone and particulate matter on the grounds that they constituted an ""unconstitutional delegation of legislative power."" According to Bonner Cohen in an article in Electricity Daily (June 28, 1999) this ruling also thwarts the ""administration's plans to implement the Kyoto Protocol by regulatory means."" Cohen points out that ""the manmade sources of ozone and particulate matter automobiles, coal-fired electric utilities, manufacturing plants, etc. are the same ones that produce manmade greenhouse gases.""",0_0
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"The latest WikiLeaks dump contains plenty of insider dirt on John Podesta, the founder of the Center for American Progress and the campaign manager for Hillary Clinton. Perhaps the tawdriest story to be exposed by Podesta's pilfered e-mails is the bragging by an employee of ThinkProgress, an arm of the Center for American Progress, about how they got Roger Pielke Jr.'s scalp.",0_0
comparison attribution studies. We need to be careful with the wording I think.,0_0
RICO 20 Ringleader's Implausible Denial of Intent to Silence Skeptics,0_0
"\] with two copies of the regular electroweak \(SU(2)\) gauge group. An anomaly in the gauge group would mean that the field theory is inconsistent. In the characteristic field theory constructions, the right multiplicities and charges of the spectrum are needed to cancel the anomaly. However, string theory has one more trick that may cancel gauge anomalies. It's a trick that actually launched the First Superstring Revolution in 1984.",0_0
"The Northern Hemisphere used to have a broken hockey stick problem. According to the National Academy OfSciencesin 1975, the hemisphere had cooled 0.7C since the 1930s, and was colder than it was at the turn of century.",2_1
"The real change occurred with the 2002 Prague Summit""s decision to transform these two geographical pillars into functional pillars: Allied Command Operations (ACO) and Allied Command Transformation (ACT). The transformation of the geographical ACLANT into a functional ACT did more than marginalize the maritime dimension; it also brought the wrong transformation to the fore. NATO-ACT being twinned with the U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM), the Alliance, in the name of interoperability, soon adopted all the shibboleths of the RMA: network-centric warfare, information dominance, the change from threat-based planning to capabilities-based planning which can only aggravate the idea of the Alliance as a ""toolbox,"" and last but not least, the religion of jointness itself, whose unintended effect was to downplay the specificity and autonomy of navies when it comes to constabulary and diplomatic missions.",0_0
"It was disconcerting and even unconscionable that the Chicago media ignored Heartland's Fourth International Conference on Climate Change. While there were reporters and TV stations present at the conference, they were not from Chicago media sources. The bias shown by the Chicago media is unforgiveable.",0_0
"CEI Response: Again, that's five years' worth of data. Why is that more significant than 11 years of data? More pertinently, if there are two processes going on, accumulation of ice in the interior and calving of ice on the coastline, shouldn't the public hear about both?",0_0
"Dennis T. Avery, a senior fellow for the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., is an environmental economist. He was formerly a senior analyst for the Department of State. He is co-author, with S. Fred Singer of Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years. Readers may write to him at PO Box 202 Churchville, VA 2442; email to cgfi@hughes.net or visit us at www.cgfi.org",0_0
there are some nitpicky jerks who have criticized the Jones et al. data sets ?,0_0
"Yours truly: What actual evidence supports the ""dangerous climate effects"" assertion?",0_0
"9. Who-d a-Thunk It? Mexican drug cartels see their profits tumble as America loosens its laws on weeds? Shocking, no?",0_0
An argument can in fact be made that if adjustments this large are needed to make the raw records correct then the raw records were far too heavily distorted to have been used to begin with.,5_1
relocation combined with a transition of large open hut to a wooden Stevenson screen (September 1950).,0_0
"For President Obama, this is leadership. It is embracing negotiation. It is looking beyond the atmospherics, reaching out to one's opponents, finding common interests. It is overcoming the inherited taboos of the Cold War era, transcending the shibboleths of geopolitical competition, dispensing with the superstitious faith that ""credibility matters', laying the foundations of a true, and truly liberal, international order. The President does not see that occupied Crimea, embattled Ukraine, slaughtered Syria represent the negation of everything he hopes to build. He doesn't understand that from Pyongyang to Caracas hard men with cold eyes and dead hearts are weighing his words and placing their bets. He doesn't see the connection between his concessions to Putin and the crisis of his China policy. He doesn't really understand why, despite his best efforts, the world is less peaceful now than it was when George Bush left office.",0_0
"""it is useful to remember that the IPCC concludes that there is only a 90% chance of a connection between global warming and the burning of fossil fuels. In other words, there is a 10% chance - which I consider significant - that there is no connection between the two.""",0_0
"You might notice that there has been a move towards creating an economic basis for the mitigation of climate change Stern, etc. More to the point, you only need to look to Malthus to find a classical political economist making ecological arguments, many years ago. Our argument is that ecologists/greens/environmentalists posit the inevitability of catastrophe to legitimise their political agenda, and to close down debate about its terms, and therefore to close down the possibility of alternatives to the problems it identifies. We might ask, therefore, whether environmentalism, at least insofar as it influences the mainstream really has ecological science as its antecedent, or whether its politics is prior to the science. We think the politics of environmentalism are prior to the science, but that it is expedient to the existing political establishment, as are any other forms of the politics of fear.",5_2
"A similar theme is part of an As You Sow shareholder resolution filed with chemical giant Dupont in order to cast aspersions on biotechnology. Pretending as if biotechnology is some unregulated and haphazard Frankenstein-making process rather than the heavily regulated activity it actually is, As You Sow seeks to be come a new biotech regulator by demanding special biotech safety reports and assurances.",0_0
Orbital shifting on climate up to four times as powerful as AGW (human-caused warming),2_1
5. There is factual evidence that ocean temperatures influence global temperatures and with it the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere via the absorption and emission of this soluble gas from the vast oceans that cover more than two thirds of our planet.,2_1
Special thanks to Roger Pielke Sr. for finding Johnston's article. See PDF.,0_0
"Satellite measurements (Wielicki et. al. 2002, Evidence of large decadal variability in the tropical mean radiative energy budget. Science Vol 295, pg841) suggest that, at least over the tropics, longwave emission to space increased over the period 1985-1999, contrary to what would be expected from anthropogenic greenhouse radiative forcing.",2_3
"Tropical forests today cover about 13% of earth's surface (others say only 7%). Amazon covers 6.5 million square kilometers, of which 3.5 million is in Brazil. ""Brazil has created what is known as Legal Amazonia which covers nearly 5 million square kilometers, or 57 percent of Brazil's territory. The entire continent of Europe could fit inside Legal Amazonia, and 70 percent of it is tropical forest."" (The Cross and the Rainforest, p.146)",0_0
Shukla's October 2 document continues:,0_0
"The fine moral shadings of the inner machinations of A and B over C are legion. But none of them (none!) concerns the truth or falsehood of C. Science is unequivocally about C and nothing else! Science has nothing to do with the inner struggles of A and B. Scientists, when being scientific, dont test the virtue or morality of experts to decide whats true in nature, because they dont believe any experts. Thats how they got to be experts. History shows that humans do an excellent job at getting things wrong, even without lies. Not believing experts is scientific. If you want to know the truth of C, just test it. Test things, not persons!",0_0
"Dear Mr Defense Minister, I urge you to remove all the awarded NATO medals from me, and I thank you for this act in advance.",0_0
"Thanks to Administrator Johnson's decision, Boxer can no longer pretend that Mass v EPA is just about minor tweaks in new-car fuel economy standards. If she wants to regulate auto emissions, she must also accept responsibility for the broader and heavier regulatory burdens this could impose on the U.S. economy. No wonder she's irked!",0_0
Another dark matter sign from a Minnesota mine,0_0
"Maybe the real lesson of the story is that in politics, it is never possible to succeed wholly or for very long. Politicians are always trying to pull too little sheet over too much mattress: to reconcile the irreconcilable, to unite disparate and disputatious constituencies.",0_0
Two Northrop B-2As and a McDonnell Douglas KC-10A Extender. Credits - U.S. Air Force Museum Archives,0_0
The shape of the orbital subtraction points resemble the shape of the ssn record.,0_0
"I havent waded through GHCN and GISS adjustment methodologies to see exactly what they are doing and am nowhere near to replicating their methodologies. (Wouldnt it be nice if they just posted their codes so one could see exactly what they were doing, instead of having to decode obscure and poorly written methodological descriptions?) But lets say that the KNMI adjustments are right and that the GISS and GHCN adjustments are wrong in this spot check. Then that would appear to indicate that the GHCN and GISS methodologies were wrong in some way and there would be no reason to assume that they were randomly wrong.",5_1
"I have always been something of an agnostic on global warming. I have never rejected, totally, the multiple expressions of concern from many eminent scientists, but the history of mankind has told me of his infinite capacity to adapt to the changing circumstances of the environment in which he lives.",0_0
the way to pitch the analysis is to argue that precautionary action must be,0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Economics Policy Fellow John Berlau and Special Projects Counsel Hans Bader on the unconstitutional elements of federal accounting regulation:,0_0
"/s/ Miguel A. Hernandez, Jr. JSC, Flight crew training and operations, 3 years",0_0
"The Puget Sound rain shadow is so profound that Seattle gets less rain than Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C. or Miami.",0_0
Friel then claims the Little Ice Age was a North Atlantic phenomenon and claims that the cryosphere is melting. Clearly Friel hasnt looked at the Antarctic ice records for the past 30 years.,1_1
ACHTUNG! Fingerpoken in der Klima-Maschine ist Katastrophisch!,0_0
"If that idea doesn't make it, ramping up the timetable to get exchanges going quickly and providing serious financial incentives to states to create exchanges with meaningful regulation of the market for private insurers, including standards for the medical loss ratio to ensure that a reasonable portion of every dollar in insurance goes to pay for benefits, would be more workable and meaningful than any public option the Senate can achieve, if it can achieve one at all.",0_0
"Finally, lets take a look at global sea ice area, which has been running above average for most of this year.",1_1
"Had satellites gone up in the 1930s, instead of the late 1970s, we would still be doing the global cooling scam, rather thanthe global warming scam.",5_2
"What is the ""Hockey Stick' Debate About? Written by Ross McKitrick",0_0
"In English, the word most at least means more than half ; it could even mean a lot more than a half , or even nearly all there is certainly ambiguity in its definition. But since most at least means more than half , we can partially answer our question, which is written like this",0_0
"Also in advance of the Paris climate conference, WHO released a report tying ""carbon pollution"" and global health risks. As noted by Julie Kelly and Jeff Stier in the Wall Street Journal (Nov. 10), the report's section on agriculture directs consumers away from foods whose production emits high levels of greenhouse gases. ""A key action with large potential climate and health benefits is to facilitate a shift away from high-GHG foods many of which are of animal origin and towards healthy, low-GHG (often plant-based) alternatives,"" the WHO report says.",0_0
"To pound the square peg of climate policy into the round hole of the Clean Air Act, EPA has to play lawmaker and effectively change the statute. This breach of the separation of powers only compounds the constitutional crisis inherent in EPAs hijacking of fuel economy regulation and climate policymaking.",5_2
Democratic Senator wants Internet Sales Taxes:,0_0
"A new study suggests that business school students expect more instruction on the ""social responsibility"" of corporations.",0_0
"???Fearing low returns could force investors to abandon the scheme, the United Nations earlier this year commissioned a study into how much it would cost to buy up the credit surplus and keep the market functioning while nations have a second go at thrashing out a new global climate deal to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.",4_2
"Governments are going to have the same temptation with global temperature, mismeasuring it to make it appear to be rising faster than it really is.",5_2
"But alternatively, if a large energy imbalance causes only a small temperature change, then that is called low sensitivity, which is how I, MIT??s Dick Lindzen, and a minority of other climate researchers believe the climate system behaves.",3_1
"The United States alone can do next to nothing about greenhouse gas emissions alone and we should not burden our economy to attempt to do so. China and India are growing so rapidly that their additional greenhouse gas emissions swamp any reductions possible in the U.S. today. For example, Chinese car ownership today on a per-capita basis is not even equal to U.S. car ownership in 1920.",4_2
"One limitation of the authorss findings is that many of their climate models are severely flawed when simulating the period and magnitude of ENSO. The misrepresentation of ENSO dynamics in such models may preclude an accurate separation of dynamic and thermodynamic coupling effects. Moreover, most climate models erroneously predict the existence of an intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) a band near the Equator where the trade winds from the two hemispheres converge in the South Pacific, in addition to the real one observed north of the Equator. This problem is known as double ITCZ bias. .",5_1
A weak global cooling began from the mid-1940s and lasted until mid-1970s. I predict this is what we will see in the next few decades.,1_2
"Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman, commenting on the defeat of 2009 cap-and-trade legislation, wrote: ""And as I watched the deniers make their arguments, I couldn't help thinking that I was watching a form of treason treason against the planet.""",0_0
"The worst tornado in US history occurred in 1925. It had wind speeds over 300 mph and destroyed 15,000 homes.",1_7
"Thus, it is not surprising that Yale University economist William Nordhaus calculated that Kyoto would impose higher compliance costs on the United States than on all other industrialized countriesEurope, Canada, Japan, and Russiacombined. Given Kyotos impotence as climate policyit would avert a hypothetical and unverifiable 0.07C of warming by 2050 Kyoto is largely an EU trade strategy masquerading as an environmental treaty.",4_2
Forecasters predict barbecue summer to rival 2003,0_0
"Dr. Sara Alexander, an applied social anthropologist at Baylor who conducts much of her research in Central America, studied different households in several coastal communities in Belize. While climate change has been an emerging topic of interest to the world community, little scientific data exists on exactly how people respond to different climate-related shocks and events such as more intense hurricanes and prolonged drought.",0_0
"But one essential argument appears at the very end of Mosher's text: Whether or not you apply one of the specified major adjustments or two or none of them doesn't visibly affect the resulting graph at all. It changes nothing about the qualitative picture. So not only is the ""principled"" criticism of all adjustments conceptually misguided: Even if this criticism were justifiable, the conclusion that ""the result of an analysis that used some adjustments is compromised"" would still be incorrect because many adjustments simply don't matter for many questions!",0_0
2013 was a year which rocked the credibility of the global warming campaign. It will take a long time for the closing image of warmists on ice to fade.,0_0
"In other words, leave it to the market to assess the true risk. Dont impose your warming beliefs.",4_2
"In short, although with a veneer of satire, eight years ago there was no talk of a simple head of government, and even of a charismatic leader, but also a divine figure, by superhuman powers, ready to put in place a UK he felt exploited and gnawed by two decades of conservative leadership, first with the Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher and then John Major and his gang of ministers and undersecretaries discovered in intimacy 'with prostitutes, or with your hands on the stacks upon receipt .",0_0
"Most economists traditionally use a simple economic measure known as GDP to define prosperity. Whether measured in total for a country or on a per-capita basis, GDP is the most familiar and widely used measure of national progress. It captures the value of all goods in the economywhether consumed by households, governments, or businessesand as such, it is an extremely useful single measurement of a country's well-being.",0_0
"This is exciting news, particularly given that we disappeared in a cloud of blue steam decades ago, we survived the 1970s ice age, we survived the global famine of the 1980s, we survived the ozone hole and acid rain, we survived the permanent drought, and we survived the drowning of Manhattan.",5_1
"As Mark Calabria, director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute, writes, under the amendment, borrowers purchasing energy-efficient homes ""would mostly likely leave the table with an LTV over 100%, that is already underwater before they've even moved in. Did Congress learn nothing from the crisis?""",0_0
"The relationship is totally clear: The higher the share of wind and solar power in the power generation, the higher the electricity prices for consumers.",4_4
"""I had been expecting it, but when it finally came it was far worse than I had feared. I could scarcely believe my eyes.""",0_0
"The climate models upon which the anthropogenic climate change hypothesis is based have no such record of success. This is not their fault. They are new and they make predictions about the climate, which can be observed only over a period of decades, shorter periods being mere weather. A new model that predicts weather patterns in 50 years' time cannot be said to have been tested until 50 years have elapsed. Even then, we will have only one data point, which is hardly enough to confirm any theory.",5_1
A look at the websites of the candidates as well as media coverage reveals that all of the Democratic candidates for President have presented detailed plans for addressing climate change that include four components: carbon caps and targets; fuel efficiency measures; renewable electricity standards; and efficiency targets. They also generally oppose coal power plants unless greenhouse gases are sequestered.,0_0
"Is it necessary to point out that those in NIWA and the Royal Society of NZ, with the connivance of the Minister for Climate Change Issues, Nick Smith, who resist the release of New Zealands temperature records for independent examination, risk similarly magnified scrutiny just because of their resistance?",0_0
"China and India as well as heavy demand from the biofuels industry .""",0_0
"Heavy snow is expected on Wednesday in parts of Canterbury and Marlborough, with the MetService warning snow could be more than 1 meter (3 feet) deep in places.",1_3
4. United Nations Environment Programme - Agreement to Cooperate on Activities and Facilities to Support the UNEP Division of Early Warning and Assessment in North America,0_0
"A plastics plant wanted to install a heat exchanger that would recover waste heat from one of its natural gas-fired units. As a result, natural gas consumption would have fallen 7.5 percent and emissions of NOX would have fallen by 7.5 percent, SO2 by 5.8 percent, CO by 7.6 percent, PM by 9 percent, and VOCs by 9.3 percent. However, because the boilers required back-up firing with oil during the winter to ensure operation, the actual-to-future-potential emission test would have caused the project to trigger NSR. To avoid NSR, the company says it is considering burning more fuel oil over the next two years to increase the base level of emissions (actual emissions).",0_0
"The last two years have been a real Arctic nightmare for greens who hate the human race, but it gets much worse. There has been a massive increase in the amount of oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic over the past three years, and next year is set to double the amount of five+ year old ice.",1_1
EPA stalling policy to prevent politicizing science,0_0
"These totalitarian green decrees are fraudulent, illegal and unconstitutional. They severely impair the rights of people to enjoy affordable, reliable energy and the quality jobs, living standards, health and welfare such energy brings.",0_0
Also youll note there is a difference in the annual cycles of the sea surface temperatures in the eastern and western equatorial Pacific in Figure 4-40. The two cycles per year in the western equatorial Pacific are of course due to the fact that the Sun crosses the equator twice annually. The reasons for single cycle in the eastern equatorial Pacific are still being debated. A good overview of the proposed reasons can be found in the introduction to Wang and Wang (1999) .,0_0
"Video: Police officer threatens concealed-carry driver with execution, beating; Update: Officer relieved of duty, under investigation:",0_0
"By Betsy McCaughey, The Shreveport Times, Aug 7, 2015",0_0
"One country adopting trade sanctions, or a few countries doing so, will merely change the geographic pattern of trade flows. It would do little net harm to China and India. As GHG controls raised U.S. production and transport costs, countries like Japan with low-carbon processes for producing steel, aluminum, or other energy-intensive goods would raise their exports to the U.S. At the same time, these countries could boost their own imports from China and India to fill the gap left by their higher exports. The Chinese and Indians would be largely indifferent to the change. The threat of U.S. action will, therefore, put little pressure on them.",0_0
"Whoand whatexactly is this ""spornosexual""? As described by Simpson, the ""spornosexual"" is a man who has become everything to himself, and then given a one-ticket exhibition in the Louvre. He is his own inspiration, his own disciple, his own jealous lover. The image of himself upon which he expends so much attention and effort holds his admiration; the product of countless hours of consuming ""selfies, social media, and porn,"" his body is essentially himself ""photoshopped in real life."" But the phenomenon is something beyond simple egoism, preening, or dandyism instagrammed and selfied. It is its component of physical exhibitionism that distinguishes it as something new and remarkable:",0_0
"Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalists Journey to Climate Skepticism",0_0
"Since wind and solar also run the risk of not producing enough electricity, grid operators have to keep excess conventional power reserves running just in case. Power demand is relatively predictable over time and conventional power plans, like nuclear plants and natural gas, can easily adjust output.",0_0
"Using the Wilson cloud chamber , in 1927, Dimitr Skobelzyn photographed the first ghostly tracks left by cosmic rays.",0_0
"JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) A federal wildlife biologist whose observation in 2004 of presumably drowned polar bears in the Arctic helped to galvanize the global warming movement has been placed on administrative leave and is being investigated for scientific misconduct, possibly over the veracity of that article. And then there's that problem with the sheep...",5_2
"These comments were not acknowledged in the Final Report, Climate Change The IPCC Scientific Assessment (1990) which only listed four individual comments from New Zealand.",5_2
"""Now I don't assert where he was born, I will just tell you that we are all certain that he was not raised with an American experience. So these things that beat in our hearts when we hear the National Anthem and when we say the Pledge of Allegiance doesn't beat the same for him."" U.S. Rep. Steve King of Iowa.",0_0
16b. The ability of global climate models to reproduce precipitation observations,0_0
"The fact that this has not happened is actually enormously strong evidence against both positive feedback and catastrophe. Yes, anthropogenic CO 2 may have shifted all the attractor temperatures a bit higher, it may have made small rearrangements of the attractors, but there is no evidence that suggests that it is probably going to suddenly create at new attractor far outside of the normal range of variation already visible in the climate record. Is it impossible? Of course not. But it is not probable.",3_1
"Other scientists contest the IPCC assumptions, on the grounds that the climatological effect of increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide is trivial and that the climate is so complex and insufficiently understood that the net effect of human emissions on global temperatures cannot be forecasted.",5_1
"In the September 7 Gazette article, ""Global warming makes firefighting more dangerous,"" Running is quoted saying ""Since 1986, longer, warmer summers have resulted in a fourfold increase of major wildfires and a sixfold increase in the area of forest burned, compared to the period from 1970 to 1986."" Fortunately for scientific truth, the National Interagency Fire Center keeps detailed statistics on wildfires going back to 1960. The objective data show wildfires are decreasing, not increasing, as the planet modestly warms.",1_7
YouTube - Patrick J. Michaels on Climate Change,0_0
"Despite the Obama Administrations hostility to fossil fuels, the U.S. is the worlds largest natural gas producer and third largest and fastest growing crude oil producer. The United States is poised to develop and export energy to the advantage of the American economy and permanently reduce Russias control over European energy markets, Rep. Bridenstine added. Control a nations energy and you control the nation. The biggest hurdle to the American energy renaissance and European energy security is not Moscow, but Washington D.C. Our bill frees up the private sector and gets the government out of the way.",4_5
conundrum of peer review in science. Peer review is asymmetric: The,0_0
"On average, Antarctic sea ice reaches minimum on 20th February, about a month earlier, relatively speaking, than the Arctic. It is likely then that we will see a new record high minimum set this month. The current record was set in 2008, with 3.691 million sq km.",1_1
"Prof Richard Tol calculated that climate change would be beneficial up to 2.2C of warming from 2009 (when he wrote his paper). This means approximately 3C from pre-industrial levels, since about 0.8C of warming has happened in the last 150 years. The latest estimates of climate sensitivity suggest that such temperatures may not be reached till the end of the century if at all. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose reports define the consensus, is sticking to older assumptions, however, which would mean net benefits till about 2080. Either way, its a long way off.",3_1
"Water required for energy production. Source Dominguez-Faus et al. Deepak Divan and Frank Kreikebaum from Georgia Tech, writing in the November 2009 IEEE Spectrum , put the issue into perspective: organic biofuels can't possibly fuel a growing world economy in a sustainable manner. By their calculations running the world on biofuels would require crop land equivalent to 193% of Earth's surface and 173% of annual global precipitation to keep the plants wateredan obvious impossibility (see Biofuels Aren't Really Green ). Yet in both the US and the EU government mandates have been passed requiring the use of biofuels as a way of reducing CO 2 emissions and, to a lesser degree, attaining energy independence.",4_4
"Weve all been looking at the Yamal (Steve Mosher named)treemometer ring width data. Yamal is a tree ring series with a huge hockey stick blade used in and likely to be highly influential in a lot of serious studies which demonstrate the unprecedentedness of recent temperatures. When Steve McIntyre replaced 12 of the hockey stick creating proxies (the dirty dozen) with equally valid schweingruber proxies the blade of the hockey stick disappears along with the unprecedentedness. Of course the boys at Real Climate made a big stink about it but notably missed any specific criticism of the methods or data chosen. However, in this post I looked at the methods of RCS standardization and the effects it has on the series.",5_1
The difference between these two regions is that the water from the Great Canadian Lakes was ready to flow to the Atlantic while the Greenland ice sheet would have to melt first. It is not quite the same thing although I understand that a brain at the Gore level simply can't be enough to comprehend such things.,5_2
"Has anyone ever seen a verified threat from a real skeptic? (And was it anything more than an angry commenter mouthing off, which no publicly known skeptic encourages.)",0_0
"We hear over and over that any warming at the global scale will be amplified in the Arctic region of the Northern Hemisphere, and the warming will cause ice to melt and sea level to rise and all the rest. Let some ice-free area appear during summer near the North Pole and the global media will take the bait every time and announce we are witnessing geophysical changes of Biblical proportions. Several articles have appeared recently in leading journals with interesting results regarding the temperature history of the Arctic over the past 1,000 to 1,500 years, and they show that temperatures there have risen and fallen to a significant degree many times in the past (that is, without the benefit of large changes in atmospheric CO2 levels), and they call into question whether any unusual warming (or cooling) has occurred there in recent decades.",2_1
"In the concluding sentence of their revealing paper, Frommel et al . suggest that ""since the Baltic Sea is naturally high in p CO 2 , its fish stocks may be adapted to conditions predicted in ocean acidification scenarios for centuries to come.""",3_2
"Leiserowitz points to the damage caused by ""Climategate"" and ""Glaciergate."" He is partially right; those scandals did cause damage. Unfortunately the damage was inflicted on climate scientists.",5_2
I think that there are two separable issues in the Burger and Cubasch paper which you have to pay attention to,0_0
"CEI also reminds OSTP of a similar, ongoing effort by the administration to claim that records on U.S. government computers belong to the UN IPCC, refusing to produce them under FOIA. This practice was affirmed in a report by the Department of Commerce's Office of Inspector General earlier this year.",0_0
"I don't want to jinx a good thing by talking about it, but good news on the climate front continues, although you wouldn't know it from reading your local newspaper or watching the news on television. In less than two months (October 6, 2016) it will be 4,000 days since the last time a major hurricane (category 3 or higher) made landfall in the United States, Wilma on October 24, 2005.",1_7
"But on occasion those scientific articles have been egregiously and obviously flawed, with basic rules of research violated.",0_0
"In terms of greenhouse gases it emits half what coal does, per KWh generated. Unlike oil, or even coal, the worlds gas reserves are expanding dramatically. The coming decades could be a golden age for natural gas, as the International Energy Agency explored in a recent report by this title. However, it is doubtful that Europe will share in this new gas era.",4_5
The consensus literature proposes that direct effects of CO2 result in a downward energy flux of 3.7 watts/m2 for a doubling of CO2. Lets accept that. Then they propose that this in turn results in a temperature increase of one degree. That proposal cannot be supported.,2_3
"Here is what the Newcastle wind turbine looks like during the day, note the coal terminal in the background.",0_0
"One of our early issues was a critique of the International Monetary Fund. At a Cato Institute conference, one critic of my talk claimed that abolishing the IMF would bring about financial Gotterdammerung. I responded that I doubted it, but that anyone who's visited the IMF's headquarters could easily envision Valhalla!",0_0
"As my wife and I walked down the historic main street, we saw help-wanted signs in almost every other window. Dishwashers, servers, cooks, hostesses, cashiers, clerks, stockers, janitors, painters, carpenters, electricians, masons, bookkeepers, window washers, you name it, those jobs are going begging. One owner told me that many businesses close down on Mondays because the owners cant find enough help. Closing shop is the only way they can take a break.",0_0
"Had it been otherwise, ""fracking"" would never have gotten off the ground. The incredible North Dakota, Texas and Pennsylvania oil, gas, jobs and revenue boom would never have occurred. Vast deposits of oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids would have remained trapped in shale rock formations, thousands of feet below Earth's surface.",4_5
"Finally, the studies argue that opportunities for meeting the targets through fuel substitution (gas for coal, for instance) are few since there have already been significant advances made along these lines. All of the studies agree that Annex B countries will be unable to meet their Kyoto targets without large carbon taxes or extensive use of flexible mechanisms.",0_0
I prepared CG1 & 2 alone. Even skimming through all 220.000 emails would have taken several more months of work in an increasingly unfavorable environment.,0_0
"The reasons an El Nio did not continue to form this year in response to the Kelvin wave are well established. First, the atmospheric component of ENSO, the SO part, refused to cooperate. That is, the trade winds in the western equatorial Pacific did not weaken as expected to help reinforce the El Nio development. (The other reason, of course, was the upwelling (cool) Kelvin that formed in the wake of the downwelling (warm) Kelvin wave, the latter of which had everyone so excited earlier this year. That trailing cool Kelvin wave has now helped to counteract the warm Kelvin wave.)",0_0
ACESA 2009 and the U.S. National Strategy for Dealing with Climate Change,0_0
"on Saturday, July 13th, 2013 at 12:24 am and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"The previous six months shows a quite different pattern of local trends, but, again, the global trend is cooling.",1_2
"The Accumulated Cyclone Energy Index is a 24-month running sum of monthly energy levels in all hurricanes, typhoons and tropical cyclones. The Accumulated Cyclone Energy Index hit a 30-year low in October 2008.",1_7
"Obviously there are no events listed since 1999, but it gives a bit of historical perspective to weather disasters in the 20thC.",0_0
"Altogether, these and other similar programs achieve emissions reductions that far exceed those attributable to the NSR program. Moreover, most of these other programs are much more efficient, streamlined, and simple than NSR because they do not entail the same resource-intensive, case-by-case review that is required under NSR.15",0_0
Tehran's abandonment of the deal coming just weeks after President Obama's news conference at a g-20 summit to uncloak a secret nuclear facility in Iran made many key governments much less patient with Iranian leaders. Which is how,0_0
The IPCC central tendency is illustrated: it lies outside the uncertainty intervals which corresponds to rejecting the hypothesis that the IPCC projections are correct.,5_1
"Even the United Nations will soon issue a report admitting that biofuels do more harm than good. Here are the details, according to The Telegraph:",4_4
"James Hansen, Homer Simpson lookalike, is in Melbourne lucky old Melbourne spouting his usual mix of hysteria and lunacy. The Age fawns and grovels at his feet not surprising since acres of Age copy is thanks to Hansen and his ilk.A few quotes deserve mention. On the plus side, he acknowledges that nuclear power has to play a part in Australias energy mix:",0_0
"It is certainly true that voters need to understand better the most important facts relevant to allegedly dangerous, human-related global warming. So let us list the five most salient facts the minister might try to communicate in his advertisements.",0_0
"10 questions with British politician and ""New Road to Serfdom' author Daniel Hannan:",0_0
"It looks to me like the error band on precipitation makes it completely impossible to know what CO2 might or might not be doing. It can only be an article of faith. Since we have no clue, really, how precipitation changes happen over the PDO / AMO cycles to 2% of variation, how can we say if any warming or cooling is CO2 induced or precipitation dependent?",5_1
California: Lawyers to save us from reliable electricity,0_0
"We could end the post on those notes, but lets examine the models in more detail to see how else they fail.",0_0
"For those who cannot fly to Europe for care, death does not distinguish between rich and poor, Ugandan or foreign. The same terrible facilities and lack of medicine affect everyone. In a world with so much money, technology and knowledge, there is no reason this should continue, year after year.",0_0
Asia-Pacific: Climate change momentum fading,0_0
"Over the coming days I will produce specifics of these internal emails and emails between the administration and the windmill lobby (think numerous European companies, not merely a few utilities and GE).",0_0
"Conflicting statements by the two different NASA entities brings into focus several political and scientific questions. This article will address one of the scientific questions, specifically the root cause of western Pacific Ocean warming during the 2000-2015 time period. Discussions of the other questions arising from this NASA infighting such as the nature / validity of the global warming pause, NASAs ever diminishing scientific credibility, and NASAs apparent inability to communicate internally will be covered later.",0_0
"Apropos for UN events, COP16 began with a lavish climate ?Fiesta? on the beach, paid for by taxpayers around the world. While preaching austerity for the rest of humanity, the self-anointed Earth saviors lived it up: gourmet food; fancy drinks; excellent service; expensive entertainment, including a live mariachi band; and, of course, carbon emissions aplenty. Americans for Prosperity got in the party and filmed the giant gala; their video, entitled ?Bureaucrats Gone Wild,? is posted online for your edification. But it wasn?t all party time; eventually the global ?civil servants? had to get down to business.",0_0
"So why did Clear Skies fail? In 2005, then Senator Obama served with me on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and it was his vote that killed the bill. As Senator Obama himself admitted, ""I voted against the Clear Skies bill. In fact I was the deciding vote despite the fact that I'm a coal state and that half of my state thought I'd thoroughly betrayed them because I thought clean air was critical and global warming was critical.""",0_0
"Indeed, if there is an Achilles heel to climate reporting, it would be its penchant for simplistic, dramatic coverage be it a new study linking climate change to shrinking animals or to declining grape quality in wine-growing regions.",0_0
"Environment, education, and health all benefit from wealth creation. Perhaps the real mystery of capitalism is that neither the United Nations nor the pope recognize the benefits it can bring to four billion of the world's poor. Free enterprise and human welfare boom where governments allow new markets with access to capital and credit. That is all it takes to meet the UN's development goals.",0_0
"The blaze was ""a big job"", said Mr Hoyland.",0_0
"NASA's James Hansen said in a statement that, ""to say that the tar sands have little climate impact is an absurdity."" Hansen conveniently ignored the report's common sense conclusion that this oil will be put to use with or without the pipeline. If CO2 is Hansen's worry, transporting the oil less efficiently would surely emit more.",0_0
"Marchants comments will be a concern to the government, after Scottish Powers decision to abandon its attempts to develop the technology last year. SSE and the oil group Shell are trying to create the countrys first CCS facility at an existing gas-fired power station at Peterhead in Aberdeenshire. Marchant told MPs more funding would be needed. My own belief on CCS is we are at the demonstration stage and what is principally needed is capital support. We do not know that this technology will work. We need to demonstrate that it will work.",0_0
"???The leap from one-dimensional to three-dimensional models is an important step,?? said Wolf. ???Clouds and sea ice are critical factors in determining climate, but the one-dimensional models completely ignore them.??",5_1
"Arizona's law is more humble than that. While California pushed a stricter standard than the one Washington was enforcing, Arizona seeks to enforce the federal law that Washington isn't enforcing.",0_0
The strange thing from my point of view is that its in the middle of nowhere. Zooming in:,0_0
"The acid test of all this is the last 22 years of satellite measurements made of the lower layer of air of the Earth. That layer of air should be warming quite rapidly. It's where the carbon dioxide greenhouse effect should be taking place. That layer has not seen a big warming trend. It's seen ups and downs, but there's been no net trend. That layer of air has to warm first according to the (global warming) models. Then it, in turn, warms the surface. Now we've seen a little bit of warming of the surface, but it can't be caused by that carbon dioxide effect in that atmospheric layer, which has no warming. You can't bypass the lower layer of air and warm the surface by carbon dioxide effect. . . .",0_0
"Conclusion : Should we expect a nice recovery this summer due to the thicker ice? You bet ya. Even if all the ice less than 2.5 metres thick melted this summer, we would still see a record high minimum in the DMI charts.",1_1
"CEI is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group dedicated to free markets and limited government. For more information call Emily McGee at (202) 331-1010.",0_0
"A few weeks after the White Housedeclared the end of winter sportsdue to global warming, Colorado has record snowpack and streamflow.",1_3
"Over the last million years, the earth's climate has shifted dramatically between ice ages and warmer periods like the present one, called the Holocene. The glacial periods, with major advances of ice sheets, have generally lasted about 100,000 years, while the interglacial periods have lasted about 10,000 years. The transition between glacial and interglacial conditions can take place in less than a thousand years sometimes in as little as decades. Such a dramatic climatic shift occurred near the end of the last major ice age, about 15,000 years ago. First, a brief warming occurred, then the ice age returned for roughly 1,000 years. Finally, by 11,000 years ago, the climate was quickly warming again.10",0_0
"Another Kyoto area where money is flooding in with the expectation of quick profits is renewable energy technology. As UPI Business Editor Martin Hutchinson has recently written,",0_0
"At the political level, the Fifty Years' War is about what defines American freedom. Is the promise of America that everyone enjoys the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness best kept when government is minimally involved, either through regulation or taxation, in individual decision making? Or is it best kept when government removes material and immaterial obstacles to some individuals' ability to make the decisions they would prefer to make, even if removing those obstacles places obstacles in the paths of other Americans?",0_0
"According to the CEI, the subpoena requests ""communications, emails, statements, drafts, and other documents regarding CEI's work on climate change and energy policy, including private donor information. It demands that CEI produce these materials from 20 years ago, from 1997-2007, by April 30, 2016.""",0_0
"Okay, there's certainly a desire to develop your own pet theories. And once you have one, you're reluctant to let go of it.",0_0
"But as there has been no warming since 1997, how can any increase in intensity since then be due to global warming?",0_0
puzzle. Their accounts of the Iranian nuclear controversy mesh especially well.,0_0
"With respect to the bottom-line result of final seed yield , this parameter was determined to be 0.98 g/plant in the control treatment (ambient CO 2 , with UV-B).?? Doubling the CO 2 concentration increased yield by 25.5% to 1.23 g/plant.?? Alternatively, removing the UV-B radiation flux increased yield by 91.8% to 1.88 g/plant.?? Doing both (doubling the CO 2 concentration while simultaneously removing the UV-B flux) increased final seed yield most of all, by 175.5% to 2.7 g/plant.?? Viewed from a different perspective, doubling the air's CO 2 concentration in the presence of the UV-B radiation flux enhanced final seed yield by 25.5%, while doubling CO 2 in the absence of the UV-B radiation flux increased seed yield by 43.6%. What it means",3_3
"Stein's claims that ""when CO2 levels have risen, so have global temperatures"" or that the world has been warming rapidly are refuted by geological history, U.S. temperature records since the end of the Little Ice Age, satellite data and the most recent warming pause. Most scientists agree that a doubling of carbon dioxide would only raise temperature about 1 degree unless there is increased climate sensitivity, which has not been demonstrated. Even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)keeps reducing its ""estimate"" of sensitivity. The real issue is sensitivity; not carbon dioxide levels .",3_1
"Take your pick between Nature and Calder. Is the link alleged or confirmed? Is there a non-GHG-induced magnification of solar influence on cloud formation, and therefore global lower tropospheric temperature, or not?",2_1
The lesson for climate change is obvious: Innovation is the key to moving from dirtier fuels to cleaner ones.,0_0
"Republicans have pounced on last years Solyndra bankruptcy, arguing that the administration missed a series of red flags that hinted at the companys financial problems. Theyve also alleged that the administration approved the loan in 2009 to please Obamas campaign donors.",0_0
"From 1896: Japan suffers giant earthquake, tsunami and typhoon before large levels of human CO2 emissions and modern global warming.",1_7
"We show that although these anthropogenic forcings share a common stochastic trend, this trend is empirically independent of the stochastic trend in temperature and solar irradiance. Therefore, greenhouse gas forcing, aerosols, solar irradiance and global temperature are not polynomially cointegrated. This implies that recent global warming is not statistically significantly related to anthropogenic forcing. On the other hand, we find that greenhouse gas forcing might have had a temporary effect on global temperature.",2_3
"For the leader of an ex-global power whose economy is in disarray, Vladimir Putin is having a pretty good 2016. His ships sail the South China Sea, supporting China's defiance of international law. The Japanese Prime Minister brushes Washington's protests aside to meet with him. Putin's Russia digs itself more thoroughly into Crimea each week, a Permanent Member of the Security Council in open and glaring violation of the UN Charter and its own pledged word. He's watching the European Union grow weaker and less cohesive each day. And in Syria he forced the Obama administration to grovel for a ceasefire deal that leaves him, Putin, more in control than ever, and tacitly accepts his long term presence as a major player in the Middle East. Watching the State Department pursue its Syria negotiation with Russia was surreal: as if Robert E. Lee had to chase Ulysses Grant around Northern Virginia, waving a surrender document in his hands and begging Grant to sign it.",0_0
"Regarding the April 16 vote, The Financial Times reported: ""Complaints from business groups that the carbon market and other climate policies are contributing to higher energy prices at a time when they are already grappling with a weak economy appeared to be decisive in Tuesday's vote."" To meet its energy needs, Europe is now importing U.S. coal and North American wood.",4_1
Hillary/Obama Democrats vs. Kennedy Democrats,0_0
"As the lower grade coal comes into the market, further downward pressure on prices will further drive demand, he said.",0_0
"They also share many important beliefs and political attributes. They strongly believe that Americans can still advance through hard work, and they are the groups likeliest to believe that Wall Street helps America more than it hurts. While Libertarians are a bit more socially conservative than Post-Moderns, probably because they are older, Post-Moderns fit the libertarian-Republican pattern: Over three-quarters favor gay marriage, and similar numbers support legal abortion and believe illegal immigrants should have a path to citizenship. Both groups also perceive themselves as politically independent: Over 60 percent of each group describe themselves that way.",0_0
"The report was also critical of Schattens acceptance of $40,000 from Hwang over 15 months, including $10,000 in cash while attending a press conference after the 2005 paper was published...",0_0
In the end I found that the important parameter was OPTIONS.regpar which had an amazing amount of control over the final trend. In the methods section the paper states:,0_0
"Both the U.S. and India desire a stable and peaceful Afghanistan and fear the growth of radical Islamist groups, including the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba and other such organizations. India has long stated that a stable and democratic Pakistan was in India's vital interests and that peace in the region is India's goal. India and the U.S. are also likely to take a similar view of the global security architecture.",0_0
"First here is a comparison from CA in Sep 2009 here of the Briffa 2008 superstick to a version that simply incorporated Schweingrubers Khadyta River data, applying the method used by Briffa for Taimyr in Briffa et al 2008. Real Climate screeched in fury against this comparison.",0_0
"However, since this topic has been discussed in blog comments, I will now take the liberty to elaborate a further on these two issues, as both are important in the context of the blog climate wars we all enjoy.",0_0
New York Times Silly Season: Killer Heat Waves!,0_0
"The initiative to regulate the domestic economy and societylimited as it originally was to have beenrested with Congress. The president was to restrain the legislature when it favored party or special interests over the public good. This was no easy job. To give it institutional backbone, the Framers clothed the presidency with independent election, consistent pay, and control over the execution of the laws. Still, Hamilton could only hope that when the legislature gave in to demagogues or temporary passions, the president would ""be in a situation to dare to act his own opinion with vigor and decision."" Obama has inverted the presidency in domestic affairs by transforming it from a check into a facilitator of Congress.",0_0
"The return to central price-setting is unavoidable for now, and evokes the UK state-owned Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB), privatised in the 1990s.",0_0
"""Rushed through Congress after the Enron and WorldCom scandals, Sarb-Ox ended up imposing many mandates that greatly encumber honest entrepreneurs. Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus recently told IBD that his company could not have gone public as a four-store firm ""in today's legal and regulatory climate.' This means that Home Depot's early investors would also have lost out if Sarb-Ox had been in place.""",0_0
"US coal-fired power plants emit less than 0.5% of all the mercury that enters Earth's atmosphere every year from Asian power plants, forest fires, volcanoes, subsea vents and geysers. EPA nonetheless claims its rules will magically bring benefits like an imperceptible 0.00209-point improvement in IQ scores!",0_0
"Excerpt: Thanks to new evidence that Dr. Kukla only recently published, he now knows that global warming always precedes an ice age. That makes the current period of global warming a mere blip that constitutes additional indication of the ice age to come.",2_1
"It will, however, give Gore one more excuse to fly across Europe in his private jet on one junket after another, emitting copious amounts of greenhouse gases while delivering sanctimonious harangues about climate change.",5_2
"My work is as Director of the national centre for climate change research, a",0_0
"The maps below show how many more weather stations are feeding Australia??s temperature record from 1930 to 2010, with scant recording possible of the interior where most of the January 2013 heatwave occurred.",5_1
"Results of a new study indicate a ""need for better process representations and representation of natural spatial heterogeneity due to local environment (topography, vegetation and soil properties) in Earth system models to generate a realistic variation of regional scale AL thickness, which could reduce the existing uncertainty in predicting permafrost carbon-climate feedbacks""",0_0
"The next figure shows compares core counts in the Vaganov and Briffa 2009 networks. The Vaganov network has 400-500 cores over most of the 20th century. In contrast, the living tree portion of the Yamal network in Briffa (2000) and Briffa et al 2008 had only 17 cores (10 in 1990; 5 in 1995). The somewhat expanded Limited Hangout network of Briffa 2009 still contained only 11-12% of the number of cores of the Vaganov network and thus falls far short os using ???all?? the data. (It didn??t even use the Polar Urals data.)",5_1
"So do I think IPCC scientists are policy advocates? They seem mainly concerned with preserving the importance of the IPCC, which has become central to their professional success, funding, and influence. Most dont understand the policy process or the policy specifics; they view the policy as part an parcel of the IPCC dogma that must be protected and preserved at all cost, else their success, funding and influence will be in jeopardy.",5_2
"Let's consider an alternate investment in gas turbine electric generation, and assume it and the wind turbines are displacing coal-fired power. Per Kw-H, gas turbines are going to, even including the fuel, produce power for a fourth or less the cost of wind with these relatively small turbines. And gas is plentiful and most of it comes from the gold old USofA (or at least North America).",4_4
"Mr. Berry was a struggling young actor several years ago when he accepted $500 to pose for some photographs in a Manhattan studio, he recalled in a telephone interview from his home in Los Angeles on Saturday. He had not given those pictures much thought until Friday night, when a friend alerted him that his image minus one leg was all over the Internet.",0_0
"Each participant received a special set of ""Talking Points for 2014"" on climate and energy issues, and many were introduced to CFACT and its programs as a prime resource in this arena.",0_0
"Basically, at this point in time, the conclusion is largely dictated by the storyteller.",0_0
The solid blue line shows the estimated probability of success of each round of the UN climate conferences since 1995.,0_0
"Elizabeth Kolbert of The New Yorker agreed with both Brainard and Harris: ?The obvious lesson of faux scandals like ?ClimateGate? is that they tend to be created by groups or individuals with their own agendas, and journalists ought to be very wary about covering them.?",0_0
"Geologic reconstruction of past climate (see figure below) shows a sharp DROP of 10C during the late Ordovician of the Paleozoic (~488 to 444 million years ago) while atmospheric CO levels INCREASED from ~4100 ppm to 4500 ppm. This climate change reflected the onset of one of the coldest Ice Eras in Earth's climate history and demonstrates conclusively that there is no causative relationship between atmospheric CO and global average temperature. This non-relationship is clear over the past 600 million years during which Earth has experienced four Ice Eras of varying intensity and duration, among which is included the current Ice Era which began about 60 million years ago.",2_3
"???Using gas exchange theory, we predict that the 14% increase in atmospheric CO 2 (19822010) led to a 5 to 10% increase in green foliage cover in warm, arid environments. Satellite observations, analysed to remove the effect of variations in rainfall, show that cover across these environments has increased by 11%.??",3_3
"In the past couple of years a new wave of predominately UK climate scientists and sceptics have found a way to ""take the heat out of climate change"". We have open lines of civil and respectful dialogue - ""tea with the enemy"" - and believe we have made tangible achievements in improving public trust in climate scientists and evidence. In contrast, climate conversations in countries such as the USA and Australia continue to either be polarised, with aggressive name-calling and defensive entrenchment of views, or else pointless from the point of view of the above, by preaching only to the converted.",0_0
"Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), appears to be on a media tour intended to rehabilitate both his own reputation and that of the organization he leads.",0_0
"The International Business Times (IBT) reports: ""The proposed regulations to combat climate change will likely spur an exponential amount of additional solar deployment.""",0_0
"In urban areas alone, more than 360 million people, most in developing countries, live in low elevation coastal zones that are threatened by rising sea levels and storm surges.",0_0
"That's right; no conspiracy, no paid hackers, no Big Oil. The Republicans didn't plot this. USA politics is alien to me, neither am I from the UK. There is life outside the Anglo-American sphere.",0_0
"Copenhagen, a $30 billion dollar success?",0_0
"I would like to mention three late, great individuals who inspired CEI: Warren Brookes, in whose honor we instituted our Warren Brookes Journalism Fellowship; Julian Simon, memorialized in our Julian Simon Prize; and Aaron Wildavsky, the inspiration for CEI's value-based communications project. Had we not been able to stand on the shoulders of these giants, we'd have accomplished much less. Their work continues to inspire us, and we hope that our work provides a fitting memorial to them.",0_0
There are several favorite lines of defense when trying to rationalize away the record Antarctic ice.,1_1
"???By the end of this 21st Century, a big cool down may occur that could ultimately lead to expanding glaciers worldwide, even in the mid-latitudes. We could possibly see even a new Great Ice Age. Based on long-term climatic data, these major ice ages have recurred about every 11,500 years. Well, you guessed it. The last extensive ice age was approximately 11,500 years ago, so we may be due.??",1_2
"Other large companies could be asked to follow suit when the policy is reviewed in 2015, the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, is expected to announce at the opening of the Rio+20 conference on sustainability in Brazil.",0_0
"According Jinlun Zhang, University of Washington's possible to explain the mystery by pointing p winds around Antarctica has increased in strength in recent years. Although the oceans vrms up's can form more ice, he says, because the stronger winds tend to push together the ice so that it becomes thicker. And thicker ice verlever better avsmltningen during the southern hemisphere's summer season. He has at least managed to construct a model that gives the result.",0_0
"So when we have a written account from someone as notable as Julius Ceasar, I just dont see the need to go making up a bunch of stuff about religious rites and crossing sacred rivers into the afterlife and other clap trap.",0_0
"While the government has a terrible record of accurately and effectively employing biometric information to check workplace immigration status, Secure Communities is relatively uncontroversial in that it seeks to remove only criminal undocumented immigrants. The program, part of the Obama administration's increase in immigration enforcement, funnels more resources into enforcing immigration laws but also prioritizes dangerous criminals over those suspected of non-violent civil offenses.",0_0
Uncertainty Identified in GCMs With Respect to Predicting Global Albedos,0_0
"The more that groups such as the American Enterprise Institute, CEI, or the Chamber of Commerce talk about the hideous costs of its policy prescriptions, the happier it makes the devotees of this cult. Their view is that we have sinned against the Earth, and the extent of the suffering we must now undergo shows the magnitude of that sin.",0_0
"Fox News extensively cited CFACT's Marc Morano, editor of Climate Depot:",0_0
"The New York Times states: ""Mr. Podesta's main task will be to give the Environmental Protection Agency the support it needs to devise new rules controlling greenhouse gases from new and existing power plants."" And, ""He will further elevate the issue of climate change."" The New Yorker Magazine's coverage of the Podesta position agrees: ""Podesta's climate-change portfolio will therefore be limited largely to overseeing the implementation of EPA regulations.""",0_0
"Mr. Mann??s chart was both a scientific and political sensation. It contradicted a body of scientific work suggesting a warm period early in the second millennium, followed by a ""Little Ice Age"" starting in the 14th century. It also provided some visually arresting scientific support for the contention that fossil-fuel emissions were the cause of higher temperatures. Little wonder, then, that Mr. Mann??s hockey stick appears five times in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change??s landmark 2001 report on global warming, which paved the way to this week??s global ratification???sans the U.S., Australia and China???of the Kyoto Protocol?? .",5_1
"32 Milan Vego, ""Russia and the Return of Geopolitics,"" Joint Forces Quarterly 45 (2007).",0_0
"The change is revealed in a study released on Monday by IHS Global Insight, a US-based economics consultancy, which estimates that China last year accounted for 19.8 per cent of world manufacturing output, fractionally ahead of the US with 19.4 per cent. That said the US remains far more productive:",0_0
"And in #6, nobody knows the answer, but a few serious looks at the problem have shown that aggressive CO2 abatement programs could have catastrophic effects on world poverty. Which is ironic, since the best correlation with severe weather death rates in the world is not CO2 level but wealth and poverty reduction. No matter how many storms there are, as poverty has declined in a certain region, so have severe weather deaths, even while CO2 has been increasing. So one could easily argue that CO2 abatement programs will increase rather than decrease severe weather deaths",4_1
"The dwindling number of readers of the New York Times were treated Wednesday to a column by Thomas Friedman extolling China's ""one-party autocracy,"" which, he told us, ""is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people."" China's leaders, he reported, are ""boosting gasoline prices"" and ""overtaking us in electric cars, solar power, energy efficiency, batteries, nuclear power and wind power."" All, of course, in the cause of reducing carbon emissions, which so many luminaries assure us are bound to produce global warming and environmental catastrophe.",0_0
"You see that the average annual temperature ranges from -50 C to +30 C, depending on the location. That's about 80 C of temperature difference between the poles and the equator. Indeed, the idea that the world has a constant or uniform temperature is a wrong intuition forced upon you by your fancy air-conditioning system. ;-)",0_0
"We would reject the multi-model mean trend as too warm relative to the observed trend if we based our judgement on trends computed starting in 2001, 2002. For these cases, the observed trend falls below the lower 95% confidence interval for the multi-model mean.",5_1
"Maurice Strong certainly no common run-of-the-mill billionaire has an extremely interesting and active background. Early-on he and his wife, Hanne, an occultist, established a global headquarters in San Luis Valley, Colorado, for the New Age movement called ""Baca."" after a mystic informed them it ""would become the center for a new planetary order which would evolve from the economic collapse and environmental catastrophes that would sweep the globe in the years to come.""",0_0
"The next morning, on the way to the airport again at 6AM, the windmill was still there, just like it was before. My driver (Anthony#2 of Team Anthony) gladly pulled over to allow me to get this shot as dawn crept in. I was incredulous that the shot hadnt changed.",0_0
"Kevin of course being Trenberth himself. Now the believer crowd will see it as a cheap shot but Trenberth deserves this when he is centrally involved in an editors resignation. He may be correctly involved, but he has been caught over the line of reason in the past. The point here is, that for a senior editor to resign over an issue of disagreement indicates what is likely a huge amount of behind the scenes pressure on the editors to prevent publication. Even if the paper is truly horribly flawed, a resignation!!??? Come on. Why not wait for the retractions and publish those?",5_2
"Moreover, our recent climate has been more stable than the chaotic little ice ages. Iraq has not had a three-century drought recently. The Volga River Valley has not been too flooded to farm for 700 years, as happened after 600 BC. British logbooks show the Little Ice Age featured more than twice as many major hurricanes making landfall in the Caribbean, compared to the twentieth century.",1_7
"Trying to prevent skeptics from seeing the raw data was always a questionable strategy, scientifically. Now it looks like dubious public relations, too.",0_0
"But the G8 statements on carbon emissions have been eclipsed by discussions of the global food crisis and biofuels, and the supposed causal connection between the two. The G8 pledge to ensure that biofuel policies are compatible with food security comes in the wake of the leaked World Bank report that the push for biofuels accounts for 75% of the food crisis by competing with food crops for agricultural land. Suddenly, it seems, all the worlds problems are less about oil than they are about ethanol.",4_4
"Freezing temperatures ruled Switzerland on Sunday night (Feb 10). In many places in Graubnden the thermometer dropped far below zero. The mercury plunged to -29.4 degrees in Buffalora SRF Meteo, to -27.3 in Samedan, and -20.4 degrees in Davos.",1_3
"Heartland Institute conference attendees try for a subtler skepticism, but group's leader sometimes strays off message",0_0
Instead fr to let kra out activists took Sigmar tillfllet opportunity and lxade them up in half an hour far impromptu speech addressed directly to the two activists.,0_0
"""There's a finite number of species within any community type,"" Kangas says. ""As you continue to move out, the numbers level off."" So further increase in area does not produce concomitant increase in diversity, and as a result, habitats on upper, flatter part of curve can be reduced without substantial immediate species loss. (Science, p.738)",0_0
"Elevated CO 2 reduced evapotranspiration by 7% in ecosystems established upon acidic soils; but it did not significantly affect ecosystem evapotranspiration rates on calcareous soils. Nonetheless, elevated CO 2 increased water-use efficiency (new leaf biomass produced per unit of water consumed by the ecosystem) on both soil types. Indeed, in the low soil nitrogen regime, atmospheric CO 2 enrichment increased ecosystem water-use efficiency by approximately 19%, regardless of soil type; while in the high soil nitrogen regime, it increased water-use efficiency by 14 and 25% on the acidic and calcareous soils, respectively. What it means",3_3
"Some flood-control efforts might exacerbate the problems. UK geographers John Pethick at Newcastle University and Julian Orford at Queens University Belfast reported last year that water levels at some spots in the most vulnerable southwest are much higher than expected. They concluded that embankments along hundreds of tidal channels, some of which reach hundreds of kilometres inland, have vastly reduced the area of land covered by water at high tide. Because the water is less able to spread out, it shoots farther inland where it can. The result is a huge increase in tidal range in less-protected areas. Tide-gauge records from three locations in the southwest suggest a mean rate of relative sea-level rise of about 5 millimetres per year over the past 30 years, but some local spots have experienced an average annual high-water-level increase of 1520 millimetres.",0_0
Competitive Enterprise Institute subpoenaed in global warming 'fraud' investigation,0_0
Man-made global warming was fabricated around the year 2000 by people with no morals who were willing to tamper with data in exchange for funding.,5_2
"According to wire reports, temperatures reached their lowest point in 30 years , reaching to -2C in the capital, Riyadh, and to -6C in mountainous regions blanketed by snow. At least 10 people have died in the country as a weather system driven South from Siberia sent temperatures plummeting .Below are some pictures of snow from that region.",1_3
in a rather interesting fashion. Changes have been made to the data resulting in an increase in the rate of reported sea level rise by nearly a millimeter per year.,5_2
"Tony Blair is resisting demands from the environmental pressure groups and, err, the Conservative Party to impose annual targets on greenhouse gas emissions for the quite sensible reasons that this will be disastrous for British industry. The other party speaking sense on the issue is the UK Independence Party, which is now the closest thing the land of Margaret Thatcher has to a libertarian party.",0_0
"Contrary to the contention of the IPCC, real-world data from Argentina and the United States, as well as many other countries (see Temperature ( Variability ) in our Subject Index), demonstrate that global warming is generally accompanied by a decrease in temperature extremes, which for agriculture is a positive development. References",3_2
"""We are very close to a Palestinian state, so we cannot fail again. If we get two rockets every day at Ben Gurion, we are done.""",0_0
"To see why Steven Chu is psychiatrically impaired, let us look at his new talk about the ... electrical wiring . After a small fire in your house, a woman comes to your house and tells you that you have to pay $20,000 to get a new wiring, otherwise your house will burn in a few years at the 50% confidence level. Related: Veteran psychiatrist finds out that all left-wing people are mentally ill Chu's opinion is that it would be foolish to ""look for"" an expert who says that the new wiring is not necessary. Clearly, you must trust the woman and her first friend who says the same thing, he says: you have to pay $20,000. In the same way, the United States of America (and perhaps other countries as well) must immediately sacrifice a part of the national economy, too, in order to avoid the burning house - a planet, in this case - in a few years.",0_0
"The report reveals that there were no actual temperatures left in the computer database when NASA/NCDC proclaimed 2005 as ""the warmest year on record."" The NCDC deleted actual temperatures at thousands of locations throughout the world as it changed to a system of global grid points, each of which is determined by averaging the temperatures of two or more adjacent weather observation stations. So the NCDC grid map contains only averaged, not real, temperatures, giving rise to significant doubt that the result is a valid representation of Earth temperatures.",5_2
"An overlooked study suggests that evidence from the Great Barrier Reef in Australia points to corals being strengthened, not weakened, by rising temperatures.",3_2
"My friend Alan Carlin's long-awaited book, Environmentalism Gone Mad (published by Stairway Press), discusses ""How a Sierra Club Activist and Senior EPA Analyst Discovered a Radical Green Energy Fantasy.""",0_0
"Those IPCC reports serve as the primary basis for EPAs regulatory actions under the Clean Air Actas are the presidents statements that his administrations policies are based upon the overwhelming judgment of science. Asserting in his State of the Union Address that global warming played a role in fueling deadly and destructive storms like Hurricane Sandy, President Obama said: We must do more to combat climate changeIts true that no single event makes a trend. But the fact is, the 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15. Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and floods all are now more frequent and intense.",0_0
"Po-Chedley S. and Fu Q. (2012) Discrepancies in tropical upper tropospheric warming between atmospheric circulation models and satellites, Environ. Res. Lett. 7 044018 (http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/7/4/044018)",0_0
Another pet peeve of mine is when people on the warming side tell me not to listen to the skeptics as they have no peer reviewed papers and they have vested financial interests and then in the same breath they tell me about something they learned at an Al Gore presentation.,5_2
"The result of falling emissions has been a general improvement in air quality in nearly all major urban areas of the country. Between 1987-1992 and 1994-1999, for example, the number of ""bad air days"" (when air quality failed to meet federal standards) fell 82 percent in Newark, 54 percent in Los Angeles, 78 percent in Chicago, and 69 percent in Milwaukee.13",0_0
"As of today, it has been a record 118 months since the last major hurricane struck the continental United States, according to records kept by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administrations (NOAA) Hurricane Research Division , which list all hurricanes to strike the U.S. mainland going back to 1851",1_7
The new paper is intended to bring out some key lessons from the realities of successful technology changes in the recent past as they bear on the global challenge of climate change.,0_0
"This cooler era of approximately four centuries followed after the Medieval Warm Period of the first part of the last millennium. This warm period was in the pre-industrial age, which is for us and our argumentation absolutely crucial. It makes the CO2induced temperature increase of the current warm period difficult to defend.",2_1
If someone of you wondered what the IPCC tnker gray with the prize money they received when they and Al Gore received the Nobel Peace Prize hr is the answer. Directly from the IPCC and their Use of funds from the Nobel Peace Prize.,0_0
"Once we chose a policy, the application process online was quick and easy",0_0
Romney's experience in private equity is not to be discounted; time and again he took broken companies and fixed them. And there's no question Romney would be a far better president than Barack Obama.,0_0
Its time to move America forward. Join the conversation at American Products. American Power.,0_0
"Figure 4 shows the real global temperature development of the past 1000 years and its theoretical continuation over the next 700 years. This is not a forecast, but rather it is the extended possible course of the over all temperature trend, which over the mid-term in the next 100 years could see a drop of approx. 0.3C and a 2C drop in global temperature in 350 years which would mean conditions just like those seen in the Little Ice Age from 1450 to 1700.In about 1000 years the 1000-year cycle will again take on its warm phase and temperatures like those of today can be expected.",1_2
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
"Lomborgs Copenhagen Consensus wrote numbers 1, 3, 5 and 6.",0_0
"cost of $1.39 million/job to install smart meters in Chattanooga, TN. (Project #51)",0_0
"SUMMARY: Ridley repeats President Obama comments claiming stale arguments when defending the Environmental Protection Agencys carbon-dioxide reduction plan, which may do more harm than good. The trouble is, weve heard his stale argument before, too: that were doomed if we dont do what the environmental pressure groups tell us, and saved if we do. And it has frequently turned out to be really bad advice.",0_0
"In the past, La Nina has been associated with a greater than average number of North Atlantic hurricanes and La Nina seems to be changing its structure as well, said Webster. Were vitally interested in understanding why El Nio-La Nia has changed. To determine this we need to run a series of numerical experiments with climate models.",0_0
"In 2011 the Congressional Research Service reported that America's reserves of coal are unsurpassed, accounting for more than 28% of the world's coal. It estimated that U.S. recoverable coal reserves were approximately 262 billion tonsnot including massive, but difficult to access, Alaskan reserves.",0_0
"Granted, McCain could run again in 2012. But he would be 76, which makes another campaign less likely. And that leads to these questions: Who emerges as the party's standard-bearer, and what will become the new standard for the GOP? Does the party first have to concern itself with a redefined message and then worry about finding an eloquent spokesperson, or is it the other way around? Or, as was the case with Reagan giving his famous speech near the end of the 1964 presidential race, is it more a function of harmonic convergence: the message and messenger finding each other?",0_0
Suddenly 93% of the Earths the third pole disappears.,0_0
"The models have difficulties capturing the difference between the higher NH winter solstice peak and the lower SH winter solstice peak in the seasonal cycle of albedo, seen in the ERBE and CERES observations. This is likely due to the representation of snow and ice in the models. Large and consistent differences in absolute values between ERBE and model albedos occur at high southern latitudes during boreal summer, where almost all models under-estimate the albedo by as much as 0.1..",0_0
"How global warming can worsen snowfalls, read a Boston Globe headline .",0_0
"Figure 2. Changes in monthly average lower tropospheric temperature between latitudes 82 N and 82 S through August 1999, from satellite Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) measurements. These data have been corrected for the recently reported effects of, for example, satellite orbit decay.3 The temporary warming in 1997-1998 is a natural and unusually strong El Nio event.",0_0
"> >> >>Dear Mike,",0_0
Quite simply the hurricane and cyclone records demonstrate a decline in the numbers and force. The primary reason insurance losses have increased is migration of people (and therefore increase in property value) to more attractive coastal areas such as Florida in the natural hurricane path.,1_7
New EPA Regs Will Boost Oil Productionand Carbon Emissions,0_0
"To avoid such ?absurd results,? the EPA in July 2010 issued a ?tailoring rule? exempting GHG emitters from PSD unless they have a potential to emit 100,000 tons per year of CO2-equivalent emissions ? a 400-fold increase over the statutory definition of ?major? source. In effect, the EPA?s solution was to amend the statute.",0_0
Source: Seminole County Environmental News Examiner,0_0
Has James Murray realized playing the Climate Change card he is letting every third world tyrant and terrorist of the hook .Is he trying to excuse every latest civil war atrocity.,0_0
"conventional wisdom would go unilaterally into Pakistani territory, without the consent or cooperation of",0_0
"In fact, he later admitted this bleaching had a minimal impact and his team was genuinely surprised/relieved about how quickly some of these coral colonies had recovered. In 2007, he warned temperature changes were again bleaching the reef.",3_2
"""We suggest that the qualitative projections for dramatic reductions in population numbers and range are overly pessimistic given the response of polar bears, climate, and sea ice to the present,"" Canadian scientists wrote.",0_0
"The major source of economic optimism about the costs of reducing emissions is provided by the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change. Sir Nicholas Stern and his team of two dozen or so professional economists produced a most impressive 700-page report that displays all the technical tools of the economics profession. It concludes that the costs of global warming between now and 2200 will be from 5% to 20% of total global economic output, whereas the costs of reducing emissions by 60% below 1990 levels by 2050 would amount to only 1% of total global economic output. Thus reducing emissions is a great deal.",0_0
"Not long after I wrote the elusive post, Gavin Schmidt (current director of GISS) made a couple of curious statements in his blog post Absolute temperatures and relative anomalies at RealClimate. We discussed them in the post Interesting Post at RealClimate about Modeled Absolute Global SurfaceTemperatures . The statement by Gavin Schmidt that bears on this discussion (my boldface):",0_0
"Increasingly, government policies in general (both federal and state) are anti-business. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. Geez. And that discourages those who have the money to spare from investing it into new business, or hiring more people. They then take their business out-of-state, or out of the country. Or, they give up and retire.",0_0
"Quoting the nine Australian researchers, ""there is evidence to reject one model as unsuitable for making climate projections in the region, and another two models unsuitable for analysis of the South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ)."" And they add that ""many of the systematic model biases in the mean climate in CMIP3 are also present in the CMIP5 models,"" specifically identifying ""biases in the position and orientation of the SPCZ and Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone, as well as the spatial pattern, variability and teleconnections of the West Pacific monsoon, and the simulation of El Ni?o Southern Oscillation."" In addition, they indicate that unresolved problems also prohibit successful modeling of the region's cold tongue and the West Pacific monsoon, further adding that there are still ""several regions in the world where CMIP5 models show significant differences to observed trends in temperature and mean sea level pressure.""",5_1
"The boys have been inculcated in Aztec and Hard Green ideology from birth. As EG members, they're dedicated to ""educating"" other children about ""sustainability,"" ""dangerous climate change"" and ""earth-friendly"" renewable energy. In an era when too many babies are having babies, it's not surprising that children are indoctrinating children. Not surprising, but not beneficial either.",0_0
"One mechanism that suggests a link between the Sun and recent cold winters is ???blocking??. Low solar activity causes extensive anticyclones that persist for several weeks in the Atlantic Ocean, causing the warm westerly winds to be replaced by cold, continental north-easterly winds. Depending on the position of the anticyclone, this can also lead to clear skies at night causing the land to cool even further.",2_1
"Only the federal government and crony confederates could come up with a scam where we are forced to pay more to remove something that doesnt really matter, use it for something else they are trying to regulate out of existence, and then release that same bad stuff into the air where it was supposed to be dangerous.",5_2
"The global warming trend since 1990, when the IPCC wrote its first report, is equivalent to below 1.4 C per century half of what the IPCC had then predicted.",5_1
"Now, take the claims that there was a different shooter, like the driver. Well, the driver theory just disagrees with all the evidence I could see. An even more popular theory is the Grassy Knoll Badge Man. I watched this conspiracy video defending this meme and I just had to laugh out loud. They take a random place in the noise of a picture and argue not only that it contains a man. They can say that he had a particular haircut or hat and a uniform and some of them say that he wore glasses. Holy cow, I don't see a damn thing. It's as noisy a piece of the picture as almost any other in the area.",0_0
"Over the course of his first term, Obama gradually shifted toward the non-interventionist position. A series of disasters in the Middle Eastthe chaotic aftermath of the war in Libya, the debacle that followed the removal of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and the generally disappointing results of the Arab Springseem to have convinced the President that his ""humanitarian hawk"" advisors couldn't be trusted with the keys to the car. But this didn't kill his humanitarian and idealistic impulses, nor did it diminish the strength in the Democratic Party of those who believe that the promotion of democracy, morality and the rule of law should be the foundation of American foreign policy.",0_0
"An ancient description of a wise man is that he is the same on the inside and the outside. That means that as he thinks, so he speaks and acts. There are other things that might be said of the wise, but this simple description comes to us now as the essence of the modern term transparency.",0_0
"Stefan Rahmstorfs Sea Level Amnesia Using His Own Numbers, Sea Level Rise Actually Slowed Down 3%!",1_6
"A typical carbon tax of $20 per metric ton of carbon dioxide, rising at a nominal rate of 5.6% a year, could bring in $1.2 trillion over 10 years. But a major problem with the carbon tax is that it is regressive. Because low-income people spend a larger percent of their income on energy than high-income people, a carbon tax would have to be accompanied by transferring benefits to low-income groups.",0_0
"It's no small amount of cash either it can add up to between 900 and 1,450 a year. But go with Isis and you won't get it Isis will. And that isn't particularly financially efficient for you.",0_0
"SMHI also issued a class 1 warning ??? meaning weather conditions that can involve some risks and disruptions ??? for Halland and Blekinge counties, two other southern regions where snowfall, windy weather and between five and 15 centimetres of snow were expected on Sunday.",1_3
"Christiana Figueres of Costa Rica, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, followed her, declaring that ""This meeting needs to take the next decisive steps in the global response to climate change.""",0_0
"The most interesting, and important, dynamic in American politics today is the existential struggle going on in the Republican Party between the establishment and the insurgentsor to be more accurate, between the hard-line bedrock conservatives (there are only trace elements of the old-line center-right bloc, much less moderates) and the radicals.",0_0
Over the years Germany has been bombarded by the media with dire warnings that the warming was galloping ahead like never before. Now suddenly observations and measurement data show theres been no warming even though CO2 emissions have steadily risen. The public is wondering.,1_4
"Heartland's science director points out that ""EPA's budget could safely be cut by 80% or more without endangering the environment or human health. Most of what EPA does today could be done better by state government agencies "" I serve as an advisor to Heartland.",0_0
"Astrophysicist Nir Shariv, one of Israel's top young scientists, describes the logic that led him-- and most everyone else -- to conclude that SUVs, coal plants and other things man-made cause global warming.Step One Scientists for decades have postulated that increases in carbon dioxide and other gases could lead to a greenhouse effect.Step Two As if on cue, the temperature rose over the course of the 20th century while greenhouse gases proliferated due to human activities.Step Three No other mechanism explains the warming. Without another candidate, greenhouses gases necessarily became the cause.",2_3
"However, I do not believe the earths climate is dominated by strong positive feedbacks and tipping points. It is this feedback hypothesis in climate models that multiplies warming to 3-4-5 degrees or more over the next century. In climate models, the catastrophe comes from feedback, not greenhouse effects, and I think this is a bad hypothesis. Believers in catastrophic warming have an interesting problem reconciling Manns hockey stick, which points to incredible stability in temperatures, with a hypothesis of very high positive feedback, which should make temperatures skittish and volatile. I also think that the hypothesis that aerosols are masking substantial amounts of warming is weak, and appears to be more wishful thinking to bail out model builders than solid science (while there is some cooling effect, the area of effect is local and shouldnt have a substantial effect on global averages).",3_1
"Gilders is making a weak attempt to neutralize skeptics. He hits imaginary ???deniers?? he can??t name and pretends that real skeptics would agree with him, even as he exposes that he is religiously irrational.",5_2
"In sum, it would have been good if we had won yesterday and even better if we had gotten that fifth vote in Massachusetts (that is also likely to be the decisive vote in the health care decision tomorrow). We didnt. Petitioners will now at least ask the Supreme Court to take the case and may also seek rehearing en banc from the full panel. Absent the Supreme Court granting certiorari and reversing the panel decision, we will have broad EPA authority over GHG emissions under the CAA. If that is the case, there is nothing we can do but to continue fighting on a rule-by-rule basis with all the ammunition we have, political, legal, technical and scientific.",0_0
In modern conditions the overwhelming thermostatic influence of the two giant atmospheric heat-sinksthe oceans and outer spacedampens the already small direct warming from a doubling of CO2.,3_1
"Figure 2: Symbolic diagram of the Suns influence. The Sun influences Earthly temperature by two forces, solar radiation and force X, where changes in the former lead the latter by half a full solar (Hale) cycle. The influence of force X on changes in Earthly temperatures is about 10 to 20 times the influences of changes in the solar radiation.",2_1
"Environmental activists believe efforts to address the remaining uncertainties in climate change science are nothing more than a way to delay mandatory greenhouse gas emission limits by revisiting questions that have already been long ago ""asked and answered,"" as the Natural Resources Defense Council's climate change science director recently told the Washington Post. They could hardly be more wrong. As the NRC's 2001 report said:",0_0
"Calls for us to live ""sustainably,"" use wind and solar and biofuel power, and never use fossil fuels, are a demand that we accept prolonged starvation and death in our poor countries. They mean desperate people will do horrible things to survive, even just another day.",0_0
Which brings to mind the one person who is largely missing from the bursting out of bipartisanship: President Obama. All these recent bipartisan agreements have been reached with little or no involvement by him. They were forged by knowledgeable members of Congress skillful at bridging differences with colleagues across the aisle.,0_0
"EPA's punitive, fraudulent clean power plan",0_0
"""German researchers have created software called X-Pire that gives images an expiration date by tagging them with an encrypted key.""",0_0
"Predictions of changes in bushfire 60 years hence are thus equivalent to alchemists attempts to turn lead into gold. These are National Tea-leaf Readers, and they are not only afforded nice salaries and all the accoutrements, but given space in our national news as if they had something remotely useful to say.",5_2
"On the other side, citizens, like Mary Kay Barton of New York, are sending their elected federal representatives letters asking them not to support a PTC extension as proposed in EXPIRE. She sent a letter to Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) and he sent one back to her.",0_0
East Antarctica is four times the size of west Antarctica and parts of it are cooling. The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research report prepared for last week??s meeting of Antarctic Treaty nations in Washington noted the South Pole had shown ???significant cooling in recent decades??.,1_1
The Chinese are actually blaming the Japan for high PM 2.5 levels.,0_0
"New York spends more on Medicaid than Texas and Florida combined. The state spends so much because it enrolls so many people6.2 million today, up from 2.7 million in 1995, during a period of near-stagnant population growthand because it allocates Medicaid dollars using complex reimbursement formulas that favor inpatient hospitals and nursing homesmore expensive modes of health-care delivery than outpatient clinics and home care.",0_0
"EPA's three changes in enforcement policy, if consistently enforced in the future, would vastly expand the number of applications for NSR required from regulated emitters. But EPA is not content with applying its latest interpretations to future cases. Starting in 1994, EPA began a series of enforcement actions alleging that whole industries had been violating its interpretations of policy for decades. According to EPA, 70 to 80 percent of the wood products industry and 80 to 90 percent of the electric utility industry are operating in violation of NSR requirements. In 2000, one-third of all refineries received letters from EPA seeking information on plant operations, apparently in preparation for legal action against that industry.",0_0
"on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 2:56 am and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Has there been any warming since 1997 (Jonathan Leakes question)? There has been slight warming during the past 15 years. Is it cherry picking to start a trend analysis at 1998? No, not if you are looking for a long period of time where there is little or no warming, in efforts to refute Hypothesis I.",1_4
"Washington, D.C., December 8, 2004 An energy policy group created and funded by left-wing foundations is scheduled today to release a report expected to call for a range of anti-energy policies designed to raise energy prices, restrict consumer choices, and expand government control over energy use.",0_0
"The mayor has also obsessed about urban sprawl. However, when new developments mean high rents, high taxes and photo-op ground breakings, he has a different philosophy.",0_0
"It appears to be based on another paper he has written this year, A Statistical Model for Tornado Intensity . There is already, of course, a well established system of measuring the severity of tornadoes, the Enhanced Fujita Scale, which uses damage surveys to estimate wind speeds.",0_0
"""I have been brooding about the cumulative void. First we lost Milton Friedman, who died in November 2006, then William F. Buckley, Jr., in February 2008, and then on September 18, Irving Kristol. The respective giants of the libertarian, conservative, and neoconservative Right, all gone within three years. . . . We're in a battle for America's soul at a pivotal moment. But the very truth of that statementwe are indeed in a battle for America's soulmakes it a good idea to stop and think about when the American Right was truly influential. It didn't start after right-wing talk shows got big. It started in the 1960s, as Friedman, Buckley, and Kristol were hitting their stride. . . . Don't tell me we have to put up with the Glenn Becks of the world to be successful. Within living memory, the Right was successful. The Right changed the country for the betterthrough good arguments made by fine men.""",0_0
"Some scientists, including Dutch Nobel Prize winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen, believe that altering some features of the Earth's environment would be a more cost-effective and efficient way to combat global warming. This is geoengineering.",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Fellow Fran Smith on the outlook for a new trade agreement:,0_0
"By independent I mean I am not employed in a research or academic position; Im not obligated to publish results that encourage future funding for my researchthat is, my research is not agenda-driven. Im a retiree, a pensioner. The only funding I receive is from book sales and donations at my blog.",0_0
"Suitably impressed and depressed, we rolled on south to visit Matt Ridley and his family. Matt is an amazing guy, he was the Science Editor for the Economist magazine, is the author of several books, writes a blog called The Rational Optimist , and is a member of the House of Lords. He graciously had invited the Clan Eschenbach to stay for a couple of days and offered to show us around the countryside.",0_0
"Another WUWT.TV video, Mike Smith, severe weather expert",0_0
"There to be clarified first of all if the road of the International Tribunal would be feasible: as a future US administration will in fact never take the responsibility to establish a precedent, sending an ex-President to answer for war crimes abroad? So at most we would have to wait for it to move something in America.",0_0
"Bangladesh Cyclone 02B, April 1991. Another cyclone struck the Chittagong region in Bangladesh in 1991 killing over 138,000 people and causing damage in excess of 1.5 billion dollars. The tropical cyclone devastated the coastal area southeast of Dacca with winds in excess of 130kts and a 20 foot storm surge.",0_0
"The software maker advised customers on its website late on Monday to install the security software as an interim measure, buying it time to fix the bug.",0_0
"The pause is now the ever greater pause . And even if global temperature sets new record highs, it will be by hundredths of a degree, well below the model-predicted increase. The pause is even more the climate-model discrepancy . 95% of Climate Models Agree: The Observations Must be Wrong , one climatologist humorously wrote.",1_4
"A big part of this data tampering is implemented by making up monthly temperatures at stations where USHCNsays they have no thermometer data. The amount of fabricated data is increasing exponentially, and at current rates of fabrication 100% of the data will be fake by the year 2035 i.e. there will be no actual thermometer data used after that date. NCDC says that their software whichdoesthis, is working as expected.",5_2
"Such musings have been a recurring theme in Western civilization for generations, particularly among wealthy elites. Fortunately, for centuries the consequences of back-to-nature evangelizing were restricted to a few intellectual poseurs reading some impenetrable books by some other intellectual poseurs who somehow convinced a slightly larger circle of poseurs that they had special insights on how the world should be.",0_0
"To extend the analysis, I have decided to show results of hypotheses test to determine whether the IPCC best estimate for the trend in GMST during the next three century, published in the AR4, is consistent with observation for the GMST measured after the projections were made.",0_0
"The age of ""thought crimes"" is truly here in the ""land of the free.""",0_0
The 2014/15 El Nio Part 7 May 2014 Update and What Should Happen Next,0_0
"Pat and Chip thencompare the black part of the chart above (theportion of U.S. temperatures influenced by global temperatures) with the PDSI. They find no relationship between global temperature variations and U.S. drought conditions (graph below, left) but a significant relationship between PDSI and non-global warming factors (graph below, right).",1_7
"Video: World Bank Prez says if you disagree with the climate consensus, then ""you disagree with science itself'",0_0
"Canada will seek to claim credit for exporting energy from hydroelectric power and natural gas to the United States and elsewhere. Environment Minister David Anderson claims that Canada should be given credit since such exports would replace ""dirty"" coal power. This would account for as much as 29 percent of Canada's Kyoto target (Associated Press, September 5, 2002).",0_0
"The next problem with an ???ice-free Arctic?? is that summer temperatures north of 80N have not changed over the last 50 years. You can see that in the DMI graphs . If anything, recent years have had colder summers near the pole. High Arctic warming has occurred in other seasons, but not during the summer. The melt season is very short at the pole , and some summers have no melt.",1_1
Interior Secretary Salazar cracks under pressure and begins issuing Gulf of Mexico Drilling Permits:,0_0
"This major effort revealed, in the words of the two researchers, that ""southern faces of outcrops had different species and lower maximum temperatures than isolated north faces and surrounding vegetation plots."" And, therefore, they concluded that ""south faces of outcrops by providing cool microhabitats, and currently harboring species not found in the surrounding zonal vegetation matrix, could serve as local refugia for heat-intolerant plants and other microthermic organisms.""",0_0
"The problem is that few degrees of freedom are easily adjusted in a regression. Therefore, the described feature will occur with any trended series, be it synthetic or natural (trends are ubiquituous): regressing it on NHT using that special calibration/validation partition returns a high RE. McIntyre and McKitrick, 2005b demonstrate this with suitably filtered red noise series. We picked as a nonsense NHT regressor the annual number of available grid points and, in fact, were rewarded with an RE of almost 50% (see below)!",0_0
"Of course, older tide gauge data is likely to be poor, too, and the older data is suspect.",0_0
"Now, let's see what happens when we start to factor in recent findings.",0_0
"At the very least, the House of Representatives needs to hold hearings, and have callous bureaucrats, slick scientists and computer modeling charlatans present their data, codes and findings under oath. Then voters need to vote Republican in November to change the Senate majority, and restore at least a modicum of constitutional checks and balances to a system which has vested far too much power in an unaccountable Executive Branch that shows total disdain for honesty, transparency and working families.",0_0
First U.S. small modular reactor inches ahead,0_0
"The Sun and solar amplification mechanisms are dismissed as a cause because sunspots peaked around 1960, even though sunspots remained at relatively high levels, considered as the solar grand maximum of the late 20th century.",2_1
"Here is the NHC 5 day track, Havana, Houston, and Galveston seem to be the targets this time. Ike will probably weaken as it goes ove Cuba, and may regain strength as it passes into the Gulf. Though, the last time, Gustav didnt recover much after passing over western Cuba.",0_0
"As Senate majority leader, Harry Reid blocked bipartisan measures, and Obama has shown neither the inclination nor the capacity to advance them. But with McConnell opening up the Senate floor for votes and amendments, agreements are now possible.",0_0
"B classification is the only one initially determined by annual precipitation. If it is not a B climate then it is one of the other classifications. The amount of precipitation must be sufficient to support trees. Thus a desert is not defined by temperature, but by lack of vegetation. Koppen recognized another important issue called the effectiveness of precipitation.",0_0
"If you register as a warrior against the ""deniers"", and I did, you will be getting lots of e-mail asking you for money. We often mention the Nigerian scams as an example of scams associated with Africa but I am afraid that Obama's Kenyan scams are already harming the credibility of the U.S. more than the Nigerian scams. I am pretty sure that BarackObama.COM must violate many anti-spam laws and if the law were properly and neutrally enforced, Barack Obama would have to be taken down.",0_0
"Another peer-reviewed scientific study, by Erlykin et al. this time, finds that modern fluctuations of temperature, storminess and precipitation are basically normal fluctuations - ergo, the weather still changes and includes extreme incidents, as has always been the case.",2_1
"The three Canadian researchers say their findings demonstrate that ""increased CO 2 will not have direct negative effects on all marine invertebrates, suggesting that predictions of biotic responses to climate should consider how different types of organisms will respond to changing climatic variables."" Indeed, they clearly state -- and without equivocation -- that ""responses to anthropogenic climate change, including ocean acidification, will not always be negative,"" as is also indicated by the results of numerous studies archived under the headings of Calcification and Marine Biota in our Subject Index. Reviewed 19 August 2009",3_2
"And what happened? Mr Letts asked. Zilch, said Mr Lilley. Nothing. There was no global warming over the ensuing decade. And, indeed, when 2014 arrived, we could see that far from this forecast coming to pass, the temperature trend had not, in fact, risen since 1998.",1_4
"""Although the high-speed rail project is dead, the downtown Madison area around the proposed rail station is set to be developed.""",0_0
"So having an archive named Archive Chewy and a working set named Working Droid lets you only decrypt the active part of your files and leaving the more stable set even less likely to be accessible. Keep a backup copy on a removable drive so if the malware tries to re-write and / or append and screws up the bits so the decrypt fails, you dont lose it all",0_0
"And the concern about EPA GHG regulation does not just stem from the CAAs very permissive endangerment standard. The CAA programs under which EPA can regulate also grant EPA great discretionary authority in setting standards. Some CAA programs (the NAAQS, for instance) do not authorize consideration of costs; others do authorize consideration of costs but give EPA authority to weigh cost and environmental factors in its judgment.",0_0
"A recent article in Science, Arrow et al., provides a summary of and supporting example for the declining discount rate argument. However a close reading of both the Science article and Wietzman's original article reveals just how critical, and arguably contrived, are the assumptions needed to justify declining discount rates. Nevertheless, even with the assumptions ceded, declining discount rates cannot be used with the IAMs as set up in the IWG's analysis. The low discount rates that motivate DDRs require extended periods of stagnant growth; and the growth rates used by the IWG in the IAMs are too high to meet this criterion.",0_0
"The three Finnish researchers report that ""higher production temperature induced a positive maternal effect resulting in faster hatching and indicating that the mothers can invest more in their eggs, and therefore produce better quality eggs."" In addition, they further note, in this regard, that the similar studies of Karell et al . (2008) and Jonasdottir et al . (2009) showed how ""the egg quality in terms of maternal immunological or nutritional provisioning improved,"" and they suggest that this phenomenon may explain ""the declining effect of pH difference on egg hatching."" What it means",3_2
"From legal scholar Henry G. Manne, one of the founders of the field of law and economics. Communism's show trials and gulags are well known, but Communism has an equally insidious impact on how ordinary people live and work. Prof. Manne's formulation may be the single most concise summary of Communism's devastating impact on human incentives.",0_0
"A year into Kyoto, global warmers seem to be focusing more on melodrama than science.",0_0
"However, the American public is not clamoring for the closure of cost-effective coal-fueled power plants. What they want is cheap energy, but Obama is, as the Washington Post states: ""a President bizarrely antagonistic toward domestic energy production and low energy prices.""",4_1
"On 23rd June 1988, James Hansen went before the Senate having allegedly** went in the night before and opened all the windows, So that the air conditioning wasnt working inside the room it was really hot . Hansen then stated falsely that he was 99% certain that the recent temperature rise was caused by humans a figure so utterly wrong it is even rejected by the IPCC.",5_2
"S. Raghavan, retired Deputy Director-General of Meteorology of the India Meteorological Department, has written a valuable and very insightful essay on the role of meteorologists in society. Although he recognizes that he is not a climate expert, his essay equally applies to climate scientists, as is evident in the text. The article is part of the May 2005 issue of BREEZE the newsletter of the Indian Meteorological Society, Chennai Chapter. See also here .",0_0
"They have good reason to worry. A new study by Charles River Associates, an economic consulting firm, shows that of all the industrial nations Canada could face the highest costs to reduce energy emissions. ""Of all the OECD countries,"" says the study, ""Canada is probably in the most disadvantageous position to respond to the Kyoto Protocol."" Compliance could reduce Canada's annual economic growth by 0.66 to 2 percent per year.",0_0
I will not search through the hundreds of comments you have made on the subject in multiple venues to find ones that might meet some agreed definition of promotion,0_0
"Floods usually occur in the middle and lower reaches of the major rivers in China. These floods are experienced on a recurring basis along this and other river systems in China. The periodic severe flooding associated with these heavy rainfall events kill from several thousand to several hundred thousand people. During this century major flooding disasters occurred in 1900,1911, 1915,1931,1935,1950, 1954,1959, 1991 and 1998 mainly in the Yangtze River Valley.",1_7
"The climate policy adopted by many governments is still in its infancy. The publications provided by an international group of scientists (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , IPCC) have encountered skepticism, especially since some of their researchers have shownthemselves to be fraudsters (Betrger). In any case, some governments?? publicly stated targets are far less scientific, but rather politically endorsed. It seems to me that the time has come that one of our top scientific organisations should scrutinise, under the microscope, the work of the IPCC, in a critical and realistic way, and then present the resulting conclusions to the German public in a comprehensible manner ?? .",5_2
The CFC Ban: Global Warming's Pilot Episode,0_0
2 Observations and Global Climate Models. in press Journal of Climate,0_0
"If you want to know which scientific frauds each of these wretches committed, come to my lectures across Australia in late January and early February. Dates, times and venues will be posted from mid-January at www.scienceandpublicpolicy.org.",0_0
"Prof Phil Jones told the University of East Anglias boss that he did not delete any of the emails that were released from the university last November, despite apparently saying he would in one of those emails.",5_2
"We now know that the prospect of such answers seeing the light of day was clearly of great concern to the DoE. This raises the question of whether, by refusing to share information sought by the ranking Republican on the House Select Committee on Global Warming, Ms. Zoi lied to or misled a member of Congress exercising his legitimate oversight function.",0_0
Increasing river flow into lakes causes the water level to decline. Brilliant.,0_0
"When those early records are taken into account, it is clear that New South Wales experienced cooling from the late 1800s to about 1960. After 1960, temperatures across the state and the nation started to increase. This warming continued until it reached a plateau in 2002. Because the warming of the late twentieth century never completely negated the cooling of the early twentieth century, the overall net trend is actually one of cooling. In the case of Newcastle, its a cooling of 0.63 degree Celsius per century.",1_4
"On page 45 of the platform, the Democratic Party agreed, ""We believe the United States must lead in forging a robust global solution to the climate crisis. We are committed to a national mobilization, and to leading a global effort to mobilize nations, to address this threat on a scale not seen since World War II.""",0_0
"This line of thinking falls apart at the very beginning, of course, since it's not at all clear that global temperatures are driven by atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide.",2_3
Mr OBrien pointed to the Commonwealths decision as a reason not to go ahead with the Victorian standards.,0_0
"In the words of the authors, ""during the period 1801-1900, the western European lakes show no significant trend whereas annual mean air temperatures at the eastern European lakes decrease significantly."" For the period 1901-1997, on the other hand, they note there is a warming trend ""at all but the Fennoscandian lakes."" Even more interesting is what one learns when the 20 years from 1781-1801 are also considered. In terms of sliding decadal averages, four of the lakes depict net increases in air temperature over the 216-year period, as one would expect for a world that has just experienced a century of ""unprecedented"" global warming, as climate alarmists would have us believe. Three of the lakes, however, exhibit no net change in temperature; and four of them actually depict net cooling . What it means",1_4
Two New Attacks on Hockey Stick by Paleoclimatologists,0_0
"Whether it is the President or the Pope, or the countless politicians and bureaucrats, along with multitudes of ""environmental"" organizations, as well as self-serving ""scientists"", all aided by the media, a virtual Green Army has been deliberately deceiving and misleading the citizens of planet Earth for four and a half decades. It won't stop any time soon, but it must before the charade of environmentalism leaves us all enslaved by the quest for political control over our lives that hides behind it.",5_2
"Quite generally, the very idea that there should be more people involved in this shooting is bizarre. A vast majority of similar incidents involves a single shooter. Think about Breivik and lots of others. Why would someone think that it's more convincing to create a theory with numerous shooters?",0_0
The Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) Land-only TLT trend is +0.3 F/decade.,0_0
The groups lawyer Terry Sissons told the High Court at Auckland today that NIWA could have obtained inaccurate New Zealand average temperatures due to sudden site relocations and by regularly changing temperature gauging instruments.,5_1
"Despite the withdrawal, CEI is still pressing for the D.C. Superior Court to take action and apply sanctions against Walker. The superior court heard the group's legal case at a hearing on Tuesday. The think tank says the judge is reviewing their request and a decision could come soon.",0_0
Yesterday's vote in the Senate that failed to kill $6 Billion in annual subsidies to corn ethanol might seem like a defeat for market-oriented energy reformersBut there's a lot more here than meets the eye.,0_0
"Floods, hurricanes, droughts and famine are all blamed on man-made climate change and more is to come if we dont clean up our act we are told. One would have thought, listening to the doom mongers, that such disasters had never happened in the history of mankind until some Pandora-like figure had the idea of burning the energy out of coal and oil.",0_0
"By Tom Stacy and George Taylor, Institute for Energy Research, Jun 30, 2015",0_0
"Grain-based ethanol is a bad idea, combined with subsidy programs; prices of corn have soared to new heights. We should stop that insanity.",0_0
"President Obama's director of progressive media is obsessed with one particular conservative provocateur. Jesse Lee's duties at the White House include ""online response"" and there has been no shortage of responses to one person who routinely communicates with him on Twitter.""",0_0
"Meanwhile, the weeds, bedbugs, mosquitoes and viral crop diseases continue to mutate and proliferate. The chemical companies only make money if their pesticides can safely be approved for useand suppress pests.",0_0
"Roughly speaking, the business-as-usual warming from all greenhouse gases in a century is the same as the warming to be expected from a doubling of CO2 concentration. Yet at present the entire interval of warming rates that might have been caused by us falls well below the least value in the predicted climate-sensitivity interval C.",3_1
I also think the science is being manipulated to put a political spin on it,0_0
"On Al Gores own chart of the past 650,000 years, you can see temperature increases similar to today approximately every 105,000 years.",2_1
There hasnt been any sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay for at least 70 years.,1_6
"Everybody: please PLEASE, whatever your concern is, DO NOT ever make it descend into a farce, following the sad path of AGW.",0_0
MV Akademik Shokalskiy (file photo) from expeditionsonline.com click image for details,0_0
The problem with the great international conspiracy of climate sceptics is that its so small and innocent that a disappointed warmist who steals documents from the Heartland Institute finds they must fake the main one to get media attention.,0_0
"However, the trends of increases or decreases in extreme daily rainfall are not statistically significant; although, there have been changes in extreme rain events in certain areas in the Philippines. For instance, intensity of extreme daily rainfall is already being experienced in most parts of the country, but not statistically significant (see in Fig.14 ). Likewise, the frequency has exhibited an increasing trend, also, not statistically significant (as shown in Fig.15 ).",1_7
They??ve gone down .39 degrees Celsius per decade from 1986 to 2011. These two periods of down-trending annual temperatures were separated by a curious and unexplained temperature step change increase of 3.6 degrees F occurring between 1985 and 1986.,1_4
"Balling also found that ""winter warming of minimum temperatures accounts for more than 40 percent of all warming observed at Rothamsted; summer maximum temperatures account for only 10 percent of the warming,"" meaning that most of the warming occurs at night and in winter. Also, 92.5 percent of the warming in the record occurred before 1950.",0_0
"Another apostle of the renewable energy, anti-hydrocarbon movement is Senator Harry Reid. The chief organizer of and keynote speaker at this week's falsely named National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas, Reid is a true believer in destroying conventional energy through subsidies, regulations and strong-arm tactics. He even wants to shut down every coal power plant in Nevada.",0_0
"Learn more:Obama: Sound and fury, signifying nothing for foreign policy",0_0
"The wind power industry often claims that ""electricity generated by the wind turbines will displace on a kWh for kWh basis electricity that would be generated by fossil-fuel generating units and any associated emissions."" But that simply is not true, says Schleede. ""Such claims are generally exaggerated. For example, they do not take into account that any fossil-fueled generating unit that is kept available to back up the intermittent electricity from the wind farm will be giving off emissions while it is running at less than peak efficiency or in ""spinning reserve' mode. Nor do they take into account the fact that other alternatives for reducing emissions are likely to be far more cost-effective.""",4_4
"Incidentally, as we expected, they begin to emerge more and more 'stories related to the cliche' of corruption generated by power. There 'year that passes without a minister who should resign in shame (even twice). Blair himself, instead of preventing earthquakes, and was detected in the public cultivate ties, those are 'slightly sulphurous, with tobacco companies and especially with the arms merchants, you are having said it would be more' immaculate of a sheet White.",0_0
"Like the global-warming crowds movement toward ever more labored explanations for why the weather isnt behaving according to Al Gores scary computer-model scenarios, Earth Day keeps evolving. It began in 1970 as a well-meaning conservation effort, and even inspired some needed laws to clean up the air and rivers.",5_2
"The start of the current pause is difficult to determine precisely. Although 1998 is often quoted as the start of the current pause, this was an exceptionally warm year because of the largest El Nio in the instrumental record. This was followed by a strong La Nia event and a fall in global surface temperature of around 0.2oC (Figure 1), equivalent in magnitude to the average decadal warming trend in recent decades. It is only really since 2000 that the rise in global surface temperatures has paused.",1_4
WND reports on the subpoena that CEI receieved from Attorney General Claude Walker and discusses Sam Kazman's response.,0_0
"Carbon dioxide present in the oceans is essential to plant life and current very low levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the ocean are limiting plant growth. All animal life depends on these plants. Mans mining and industrial activities are harmlessly recycling some of this valuable carbon dioxide from natural limestones and hydrocarbons buried in the dead lithosphere, back to the living biosphere.",3_3
"The rule follows new ozone limits proposed by the EPA last November, new limits issued in March on hydraulic fracturing on public lands, new moratoriums on drilling in and around Alaska, and a potential rule cracking down on greenhouse gas emissions from drilling on federal lands. Keep in mind the states already regulate natural-gas drilling, and theyve done it well enough to avoid major accidents.",0_0
"There's another reason why there will be more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It involves two of the most swiftly developing nations in the world, China and India, both of whom are building coal-fired plants to generate electricity as fast as they can. This is happening while the Environmental Protection Agency has been engaged in an all-out war on coal that has closed several hundred U.S. plants. If an especially cold winter occurs, the demand for electricity to warm homes and other facilities may overload a system that has been diminished in scope.",4_2
"In the field of governance, things are not a great deal better in the UK. We have seen a second instalment of the CRU Climategate e-mails, which tell us little new but confirm the culture of shiftiness, obstruction and the stifling of debate seen in the first instalment. We still hear from time to time the mantra of, The science is settled, the debate is over from politicians and even from some scientists.",5_2
"Censorship is the single most important tool of those who want to scare the masses. (Money, of course, would trump that, but there is no shortage of whole government departments devoted to pumping the climate gravy, so while money is theoretically vital, in this case its guaranteed. Censorship, though, is an entirely different story: it could disappear in an instant, and once gone, its hard to get back.)",0_0
"16 Marshall Goldman, The Piratisation of Russia: Russian Reform Goes Awry, 2003.",0_0
Man Made Global Warming Is A Complete Fraud,5_2
"A company in the flexible packaging industry asked its permitting agency to allow it to run a thermal oxidizer only when it runs solvent-based inks and coatings, since the increasingly popular water-based inks and coatings contain materials that can poison the oxidizer's catalyst. The change would have saved approximately 15,000 cubic feet of natural gas and 650 kWh of electricity each day. However, the company felt EPA would view the request as a change in the plant's method of operation, triggering NSR, even though actual emissions were expected to be reduced. The project did not go forward.",0_0
"In effect, the only thing which conceptually allows our temperature to measurably rise with todays minimal CO2 forcing is the lag in thermal transfer to these huge thermal masses. Oceans are said to mix on over-century timescales. Water and ocean, conduction and convection effects are stated by modern science to be too slow and therefore dangerous warming can occur. Interestingly, land thermal mass seems to have a very high transfer rate and is quite nearly ignored. I dont believe this very significant aspect of global warming has been vetted thoroughly and you shouldnt either.",5_1
"Conclusion #5: There are better, more cost-effective ways to improve and protect the nation's air quality.",0_0
"The Clinton-Gore administration claims, however, that if implemented with ""flexibility mechanisms,"" Kyoto would impose negligible costs on the U.S. economy not more than one-tenth of 1 percent of GDP. The most important flexibility mechanism is emission trading a system under which the U.S. supposedly could pay others to reduce their emissions for a fraction of what we'd have to pay to reduce our own.",0_0
"If e increases with CO2at constant I, T goes down. Therefore CO2causes global cooling.",0_0
"Of course, it is not clear what, if any, good can come from a climate plan that exempts the heaviest emitters.",0_0
"on Tuesday, January 18th, 2011 at 1:17 am and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"on Sunday, October 3rd, 2010 at 2:36 am and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Romney commented, ""Economic success and environmental protection go hand in hand. The steps we are taking today will ensure a cleaner environment and a brighter future for generations to come."" He also maintained that the plan is one of the nation's strongest to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and said it exhibited a strong dedication to implementing the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers global warming plan from August 2001 (which, by the way, is clearly unconstitutional: see Article 1, Section 10).",0_0
All GHG emission sources are included (all countries and all GHG emissions in each country),0_0
The fraudulent documents created by the IPCC modelers generate massive increases in carbon dioxide emissions over the next century.,5_2
"Could polar bears face extinction? A November 9 Washington Post would have us believe that. Apparently Post staff writer Juliet Eilperin was unfamiliar with a review of the science on polar bears and climate change that we first published in 2002; that report can be found here . But first, consider the study on which Eilperin based her article.",0_0
"This AEI Public Opinion Study examines polls on the environment, energy, nuclear power, and global warming. In the first section, we look at national polls on the politics of the environment. Democrats lead Republicans by a substantial margin nationally as the party best able to handle environmental issues. Surprisingly, no questions were asked during the 2012 presidential campaign about whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney would be better at handling the environment. The absence of questions tells a great deal about how little the issue featured in the pollsters' minds in the 2012 election. A few questions were asked about which candidate would be better at handling energy issues.",0_0
"""While its actions are being lauded as a step into the future, California is actually a late entry into the already failed game of energy rationing. Europe, Japan and Canada are all failing spectacularly to meet their emissions reductions targets under the Kyoto Protocol, despite years of breathless cheerleading for cap-and-trade mechanisms. What California has done today is to decide to become a Third World economy.""",4_1
The Trick Thats Going to Keep Americas Coal Alive,0_0
"What we demonstrated in our JGR paper earlier this year is that when cloud changes cause temperature changes, it gives the illusion of positive cloud feedback even if strongly negative cloud feedback is really operating!",3_1
President Obama's prescient 2002 opposition to the Iraq War was an early instance of this instinct. While the,0_0
"This palpable, intolerable insanity must end. It's time to tell Congress (and the European Commission) we need real energy for real jobs, real revenues and a revitalized economy. And we need it now.",0_0
"How could that be? Cherry says theres been an implicit assumption that because electric cars dont burn fossil fuels, theyre cleaner for the environment and safer for people, but that doesnt take into account how the electricity they use is generated. In China, that would be from you guessed it fossil fuels. About 85% of the countrys electricity is powered by fossil fuels, of which 95% is coal.",4_2
"Two quick comments. First, as a technical matter, EPA did not receive an official remand from the Court of Appeals, where the case originated, until September 14, 2007. Second, and more importantly, it wasn't until December or thereabouts that EPA began to understand the enormity of the regulatory burden it might inadvertently unleash by rushing to set CO2 standards for motor vehicles.",0_0
"Now, as to the second piece of trash you mention, written by a grad student and Steven Schneider, that is so hopelessly flawed that even several warmists condemned it. It's all over the blogosphere if you care to read the details. BTW that paper was NOT peer-reviewed. PNAS is a vanity press for members of the NAS and publishes articles from NAS members WITHOUT peer review. PNAS is becoming a laughing stock with this paper and the recent Oppenheimer paper telling us ""climate change"" is going to flood the US with illegal aliens.",0_0
"Figure 1. Annual average global temperature anomalies from the surface (red) and from the lower atmosphere (blue), 1979-2011 (the value for 2011 in the surface record is based on only 11 months of data).",0_0
"According to Storch et al. (2009) , ""temperature is often invoked as the main determinant of distribution ranges and boundaries for marine and terrestrial species,"" and they note the larval stages of many marine species ""are more vulnerable to thermal and osmotic stresses than adults."" Consequently, they explored the rigidity of this temperature determinant of livable range for the Chilean kelp crab (Taliepus dentatus) in its most temperature-sensitive larval state.",0_0
"""Alex Sink's campaign violated rules Monday evening at the CNN/St. Petersburg Times Florida gubernatorial debate when her make-up artist delivered a message during a television break.""",0_0
"But Thompson et al (2009) acknowledged that there was also a drop in land surface temperatures at that time. They wrote, It is worth noting that the land data also exhibit a small drop in the mean ~1945, albeit much smaller than that found in the residual SST time series (Figure 10).",0_0
"Thus Michael Kundu, whale photographer , pronounces the data from NASA, Hadley, UAH, CSSP, IPPC, as fiction.",0_0
Google launches a new global initiative dedicated to promoting literacy.,0_0
"So riddled with wishful thinking and contradictions are these proposals that one scarcely knows where to begin. For a start, even if we could hope to build enough windmills to provide, say, 25 per cent of our electricity (10 times the current proportion), this would require not the 10,000 turbines the Government talks of, but more like 25,000, costing well over 200 billion, plus another 100 billion to connect them up to the grid.",0_0
Steve Fielding confronts Climate Minister Penny Wong with his question : why has the world not warmed these past seven eight years when were pumping out more carbon dioxide than ever?,1_4
UPDATE: See the follow-up post El Nio Residuals Cause the C-Shaped Warming Pattern in thePacific for a further discussion.,0_0
Back to the title question: Are anthropogenic greenhouse gases important in the warming of the global oceans?,0_0
He?s skeptical that the warming is as great as we show in East Antarctica ? he,0_0
"Meanwhile, the National Academy of Sciences and a number of large higher education associations and other academic interests are supporting Mann?s position with their own legal brief. Michael Halpern of the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has written about relevant background for the scientific community. ?The court clearly understood the potential consequences of the actions it is being asked to take,? Halpern wrote after attending the Virginia Supreme Court?s January 2014 hearing, ?with multiple justices talking about how the interpretive standard they set will apply not just to this case but to tens of thousands of cases.?",0_0
Australias antarctic runway melting | Crookwell Gazette,0_0
"""Mankind shares a real co-responsibility,"" Trittin told a news conference. ""It is unacceptable for American citizens to pump twice as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as Europeans,"" he said earlier in an ARD television interview.",0_0
"R is the coefficient of determination. It tells us how well the trend line fits the data. An R of 1.0 would be a perfect fit. An R of 0.0 would be no fit. 0.0334 is a lot closer to 0.0 than it is to 1.0. R is related to explained variance. The linear trend line explains about 3.3% of the variation in the temperature data since 1997. 96.7% of the variation was due to natural climatic oscillations (quasi-periodic fluctuations, if you prefer) and stochastic variability.",0_0
26a. Potential for catastrophe from climate change for other parts of the world in the next ten years (very low to very high).,0_0
"Of course, this agency would be fair. They would realize that it was trivial to see that the fire couldn't occur - because they were looking at hundreds of similar houses in the past and they knew the actual reason of the small recent fire. And the only reason why they had to see this house was that its owner was misled by a well-known group of fraudsters - and a fair agency doesn't want to charge people for such incidents because that would effectively be collaboration with the fraudsters. So they would only charge the homeowner $50. As you can see, the guy saved $19,900. He is insured and owns additional houses in other towns, anyway.",0_0
"At best, such argumentation debases the coinage of public discourse about ""national security"" and makes it harder to devote resources and attention to things that have a much more direct and demonstrable impact upon our security. When everything is a pressing ""national security"" challenge, after all, nothing really is. (Well, perhaps not everything. Rice's argument, of course, offers a marvelously convenient case for shortchanging military security. Why spend a dime on the Pentagon when the real threat comes from the fact that somebody somewhere in the world lacks ""affordable health care"" and a ""decent school""?) At worst, such notions could open the door to a degree of government involvement and involvement by our security bureaucracies, no less in socio-economic policy worryingly beyond what our political system has hitherto been willing to tolerate.",0_0
"About 50 people set out on foot from the Swiss village of Fiesch at dawn on July 31. As the sun rose over 13,000-foot (4,000-meter) Alpine peaks, the procession moved slowly up a mountainside and into the cool of a pine forest, stopping at a tiny church.",0_0
"Uncertainty in the amount of warming combines with uncertainty in the pace of warming. From an instantaneous doubling of atmospheric CO2 content from the pre-industrial base level, some models would project 2C (3.6F) of global warming in less than a decade while others would project that it would take more than a century to achieve that much warming.",5_1
"Things used to be simple. The Church taught how the world worked and how to behave. The positive and the normative were united. The Enlightenment put an end to that. We are supposed to follow evidence rather than dogma. In the early days, an intelligent person could comprehend all of science. Not any longer. Experts master a small subfield only.",0_0
"The Chinese crew is hoping a French icebreaker 14 nautical miles away will arrive and offer relief, said Zhu Li, chief officer of the Chinese ship.",0_0
"Morrongiello et al . determined that ""fish growth declined as water levels in the lakes dropped during the drought,"" but they say that ""this effect was offset by increased growth in warmer years."" In fact, it was more than offset; because based on the relationships they developed from their real-world data, they found that the 2070 mean annual growth of two-year-old golden perch in Lakes Mokoan and Eppalock, respectively, was estimated to increase by 14.9% and 17.2% under low CO 2 emission and 56.5% and 58.6% under high CO 2 emission scenarios compared with 1990 CO 2 levels.",0_0
"They say a team of scientists has irrefutable proof of a large colony of platypuses, living under the site and they have called on Environment Minister Desley Boyle to intervene to stop construction of the supermarket.",0_0
"It then strongly looks as though 2004-2005 was simply an unlucky anomaly since hurricane trends bear no similarity to the annual atmospheric carbon dioxide trend and, by extension, to global warming.",0_0
A new study suggests a connection between global warming and stronger hurricanes.,0_0
"The most important occupations included my job as the commanding officer of the Czech Army Contingent in Afghanistan, the superintendent of the 11th field hospital of the Czech Army in Afghanistan, the vice-commander of the operational commandership of the armed forces' medical service, or important positions within the Section of army's healthcare of the Military headquarters of the Czech Army.",0_0
Australias antarctic runway melting | The Area News,0_0
Ive provided my best naive prediction for future values: Shown in brown. These are based on simple linear extrapolation. No assumption the 52 values are 52 weeks or anything like that. Im assuming being close to 52 weeks is a coincidence.,0_0
evidence. . . . The implicit threat was that if a bank continued to do business,0_0
"I think any good scientist ought to be a skeptic, Dyson said.",0_0
"then it should come as no surprise that the IPCCs climate models without anthropogenic forcings cant simulate the warming observed during the late warming period of 1976-2000 either, Figure 5.",5_1
"The significant subjective components of each of the more socially oriented subindices of the Prosperity Index are bounded by reality. Even if one were to debate how comparable one country's subjective well-being data are with another, at least there is a reference point for debate. Indeed, that is the beauty of the Index: because it is transparent and provides the reader and researcher alike all the background data, it allows for individual experimentation, and it is a work in progress. It answers many questions, while it raises even more. Like the Sarkozy commission, it may lead to a better understanding of what makes people prosperous.",0_0
"Earth is currently experiencing rapid warming, which the vast majority of climate scientists says is due to humans pumping huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.",0_0
"A second option is to strip the carbon from the fuel before you burn it. Most fuel cells depend on ""reformers"" that do just that. Most current reformers dump the stripped-out carbon into the air as carbon dioxide, but other processes leave the carbon behind as a solid residue. That takes care of carbon emissions all right--roughly speaking, such a fuel cell starts with methane, extracts the hydrogen and then returns coal to the ground. But this also costs about 50% of the heating value of the original gaseous fuel.",0_0
The North Atlantic has an additional mode of natural variability called the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. Weve discussed it in numerous posts over the past few years. (See the posts under the category of Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation here .) If youre not familiar with the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation see the NOAA Frequently Asked Questions About the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) webpage and the posts:,0_0
"T and CO2 appear to have been in equilibrium until about 3,000 BCE. Over the 5,000 years since then, CO2 has risen increasingly above its natural equilibrium. By 1,800 CE, CO2 had risen to a level comparable to the highest in the Vostok record. During this time, T declined at a rate of 0.1 C per thousand years, indicating again that CO2 has no apparent effect on T. The trends of this 5,000-year interval of excess CO2 are consistent with the equilibrium model, in",2_3
"I suspect that the committee will spend very little time asking how energy prices might be lowered by lifting restrictions on domestic exploration and refinery development. That said, they will likely spend no time at all pondering how dozens of greenhouse gas and renewable energy legislative provisions will almost certainly increase energy prices throughout the economy. It's like inviting PETA to testify at a hearing on ""America's Meat Supply Crisis.""",0_0
"""Google is resuming work on a major data center project in Pryor, Oklahoma, saying it will soon need to being additional data center capacity online. The $600 million Oklahoma project was originally scheduled for completion in 2009, but was delayed due to the slowing economy. It is now expected to be operational by the end of 2011.""",0_0
"Like all people apart from politicians my hopes for 2010 are world peace and freedom from hunger, poverty, discrimination and oppression. Oh and the reintroduction of stoning for Channel Nine executives, religious fundamentalists, people who ask you to bring your own meat to their barbeques, parents with gifted children and climate change skeptics.",0_0
"Introductory Remarks by Craig Rucker of CFACT, Climate Sense Conference, Copenhagen",0_0
The Leaflet: Missed Heartland's Emerging Issue Forum in Nashville? Watch It Online!,0_0
"One is the fact that any Senate vacancy can have huge implications for policy, especially in this polarized environment. One vacancy out of 435 in the House is nowhere near as significant as one out of 100. The situation earlier this year, with five Senate vacancies, pointed out another twist on the vacancy issue. It is a good thing when presidents reach into the Senate for Cabinet or other key posts; it broadens sensitivity in the executive to the importance of Congress, smooths communications between the branches, and expands the talent pool for a president. But if there are no appointments at all under any circumstances for the Senate, presidents will rarely if ever choose a Senator for the Cabinet; the loss of a Senate vote for five or six months would be too costly.",0_0
"The CPP Conflicts with Underlying Regulations. Even if the courts concluded this rule does not violate the Clean Air Act, the Constitution, and canons of statutory construction, it violates the EPA's own implementing regulations. Therefore, the Clean Power Plan runs afoul of a key administrative law principle - namely, an extant regulation carries the force of law. Because it is inconsistent with its underlying regulation, the Clean Power Plan is an impermissible exercise of authority.",4_1
Antarctic airstrip melting away I4U News,0_0
"The blink comparator below shows CU claims, and the actual rates.",0_0
"The Competitive Enterprise Institute was subpoenaed by one of those AGs on April 7, 2016.",0_0
"Faced with the embarrassment that the snowfall predictions were all wrong, advocates who claim increased CO2 from fossil fuel use will cause global warming are desperate to keep the global warming hype alive, says Ken Gregory, a director of Friends of Science. After all, it has become a multibillion dollar 'low-carbon' industry. So, global warming activists now say warmer weather causes more snowfall! Their predictions change with every weather event - one day warming causes more snow and the next day it causes less snow.",5_1
"on Monday, October 29th, 2012 at 3:38 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Through a comprehensive error analysis, we found that CF is a primary modulator of warming (or cooling) in the atmosphere. The comparisons and statistical results from this study may provide helpful insight for improving GCM simulations of clouds and TOA radiation budgets in future versions of CMIP.",0_0
"Sure keeping taxes as low as possible and limiting government spending are important, but without economic growth which the EPA is blocking neither will be enough to rescue our economy or our country from financial disaster.",4_1
"It is pertinent to ask whether any experiments have been performed to suggest whether life could thrive at higher CO 2 concentrations. Pine and aspen trees grown at the University of Michigans biological station at Pellston, were found to respond dramatically to elevated CO 2 levels. They grew 30% faster than normal trees at about double the normal CO 2 level (700 ppm) ( 20 ).",3_3
Solar cycle 24 showing signs that we could be entering a new Maunder minimum anytime soon.,1_2
"The claims against The Australian are not just baseless, theyre claims any half decent rag ought to be ashamed for even mentioning. Golly, The Australian not only prints baseless smear articles in favor of establishment opinions, they sometimes print rational dialogue in response. The crime! The saddest thing is that that places the lonesome Australian closer to the center, but far to the right of all the rubber-stamping PR machines who only put out the government approved propaganda.",0_0
"3. Due to this strong negative-feedback, global climatesensitivity is only 0.41 K/(W m-2) - HALF the 0.8 K/(W/m2) + assumed by the IPCC",3_1
"Ron Clutz on Science Matters, has an interesting and very detailed piece on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ( AMOC ): Climate Pacemaker: The AMOC . It was also picked up by Paul Homewood on Not a Lot of People Know That with a comment by Joe DAleo The AMO tracks to the solar irradiance with a lag of about 8-9 years. This suggests the current warm AMO state will end by around 2015. Northern Hemispheric temperature will take a leg down. With the cooling of the Pacific now and more La Ninas, look for net cooling especially in the tropics until then.",1_2
"Shova picks out some of Mitradangas defences from our surroundings. The mudcaked men are climbing up out of paddy fields sown with indigenous deep-water and saline-resistant rice varieties; the ducks waddling into their coops are prodigious layers, whose eggs provide both nutrition and an income to plug the gap left by lower-yielding rice.",0_0
"Climate change chatter ran rampant after an unusually violent string of twisters in 2011 (see chart above), including a Joplin, Mo., storm that killed 158 people. After tornadoes took at least 24 lives in Moore, Okla., on Monday, headlines are once again raising the question: Will a warming world fuel more tornado strikes?",0_0
"The reader is still left, however, with a view that most climate scientists agree that more heat waves should be expected in the future.",0_0
"And in fact, that's exactly what the DOE did in its analysis: reasonably assess the complicated impact of LNG exports across a range of economic and environmental variables. Although the Energy Department's findings were well received by most economists across the political spectrum, Dow along with the coalition of anti-shale gas Congressmen rejected them outright.",0_0
"There are ways to help prevent this. If you haven?t heard of the TRAIN act, it may be voted on this Friday and it will hopefully be a way to reign in some of this tyrannical regulation:",0_0
"There is no such thing as ""environmental justice."" It is an invention of environmental groups that are intent on convincing people that whatever they do or fail to do somehow has an impact on the weather.",0_0
"Looking at the projections for 2006 to 2100, the model mean of outgoing shortwave radiation has a negative trend of about -0.21 watts/m^2/decade. But some models show outgoing shortwave radiation increasing slightly in the future, while others show it decreasing at a much greater rate. The greatest negative trend is about -0.48 watts/m^2/decade. At the other end of the wide spectrum is a model with a relatively slight positive trend of +0.02 watts/m^2/decade. Bottom line: theres about a 0.5 watts/m^2/decade spread in the projected future outgoing shortwave radiation, with some models showing little change and others a sizeable decrease.",0_0
"""As I understand, the plan now is for world leaders to fly in for the first day and hold a pep rally,"" Myron Ebell, director of energy policy at the free market Competitive Enterprise Institute. ""That way, they can't impede the negotiations as they did in Copenhagen in 2009.""",0_0
"Using the Heritage Energy Model (HEM), a derivative of the Energy Information Administration's National Energy Modeling System (NEMS), Heritage projected what the economic impacts would have been had the bill become law.",0_0
"Since we have now been in an interglacial warm period for 11,500 years, (the normal length between ice ages), we should be more worried about getting colder then warmer in the future.",1_2
"Subsequently in our submitted JGR paper, we show that the use of 1.5-2 m nighttime temperatures over land as part of the measure is an example of a quantity that is not tightly coupled, given its strong sensitivity to the local land-surface conditions, the overlying boundary layer thermodynamic stability, and the wind speed.",0_0
"Back on August 6, 2010 , when the UK BOM was predicting a warm winter, and every Met Agency in the West was already declaring that 2010 would be the hottest year ever, Bryan Leyland predicted (on a global scale) that before the end of the year, there would be significant cooling. As you can see from the chart, this is exactly what happened.",1_3
"In various parts of the world, the climate debate displays different features. The US and other parts of the non-European Anglo-Saxon world feature highly polarized and politicized debates along the left/right divide. In Europe, all major political parties are still toeing the ""official"" IPCC line. In both arenas, with a few notable exceptions, skeptical views even from well-known scientists with impeccable credentials tend to be ignored and/or actively suppressed by governments, academia and the media.",5_2
"The characteristic difficulty with ""national security"" arguments for traditionally non-security problems isn't their falsehood per se, but rather their analytical triviality, their enormous plasticity, and the questionable propriety of suggesting that the national security bureaucracy should have a role in their solution.",0_0
Thank you for your email. It has been forwarded to my attention and we're pleased to respond to your concern. It has come to our attention that a chart on page 18 of The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming by Laurie David and Cambria Gordon (Orchard Books) was,0_0
"A similar conclusion is indicated from atmospheric temperature measurements. Although they use two independent methods, and as with other tools, each is imperfect, satellite and radiosonde data confirm each other's trend results quite well. Satellite temperature records, which have only been in existence since 1978, cover the whole globe, but are subject to problems associated with various drifts which must be accounted for and corrected. Balloon-borne radiosondes are best used for data at detailed altitudes, but have problems with instrument calibration and interference from direct solar radiation.",0_0
Green Madness: Freeze on Fracking Could Cost Scots Hundreds of Millions,0_0
"The Clinton Administration's blueprint for implementing the Kyoto Protocol lacks quantitative goals, specific time frames, and cost benefit analyses, according to the General Accounting Office. GAO Director of Energy, Resources, and Science Victor Rezendes testified before the Senate Energy Committee on June 4 that the Administration lacked a sound analysis of stage 1 of its overall plan, a $6.3 billion tax and subsidy package. It also lacks a coordination plan for the 14 federal agencies managing the program.",0_0
Some scientists have even argued that increased coal use in China has caused the planet to cool slightly. But there does not seem to be any solid agreement on what caused global surface temperatures to stop rising.,0_0
"Within this context Mr. Spornosexual makes perfect sense. Yet: ""Pity the world, or else this glutton be/ To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.""",0_0
"More importantly, the real issue in Mass v. EPA was not, as petitioners and the majority argued, whetherCAASec. 302(g) could be interpreted (or tortured) to justify regulating GHG emissions from one subset of mobile sources (new motor vehicles) under one provision of the Act(CAA Sec. 202).The real issue, rather, waswhether Congress, when it enacted and amended CAA Sec. 202 in 1970 and 1977,authorized EPA to implement a Super-Kyoto regime under the CAA as a whole . To state this question, is to answer it. Sadly, that question was never squarely before the Court.",0_0
"The news hook for our scheduled appearance was Hirshberg's new global warming effort called ClimateCounts. The project's ostensible goal is to help consumers make ""climate-conscious"" purchasing decisions.",0_0
You are an engineer. Try watching a few shows about the history of the Earth. It has ranged from covered in solid ice to raging (unlivable) heat many times. Ice ages come and go all without any effect or input from humans. The current cooling period is a result of reduced sun activity just like warming periods are from increased sun activity. The effect of the sun on global temperatures is so profound it outweighs all other factors by millions of times.,2_1
"And finally, we have the wild card, the methane hydrates, the ice that burns. Estimates of the amount of these are all over the map, but all of them share one featurethey are very, very large, on the order of quadrillions of cubic feet. This is rivals the size of the global natural gas resource ...",0_0
"Al promised that the climate bill will only cost them the same as a postage stamp a day and that green jobs would magically drop from the sky. Spain? What about Spain ? Oh, I see. Shut Up !",0_0
"Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt called for a full and independent investigation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, its practices and suspect science. The IPCC no longer has integrity or credibility, he said, and some of its researchers ""have shown themselves to be fraudsters.""",5_2
"Ohio Maximum Temperatures Peaked In 1921, Down Since 1895",0_0
Climate Change as the Pretext for a Radical New Housing Policy,0_0
A Period Of Humility And Silence Would Be Best For Met Office,0_0
we dont take seriously enough our God-given responsibility to care for the,0_0
ABC's spin on Alpine catchment report,0_0
"Delegates to the United Nations' global warming summit in Bali generate as much carbon dioxide as 20,000 cars in a year.",0_0
Why should the administration now decide that its last questionable proposal should become the starting point for further compromise on a climate treaty that the Senate won't accept? Perhaps to put pressure on George W. Bush if he becomes president.,0_0
"Stewart made one more feeble attempt to justify using average summer temperatures. He reported that a 2005 paper by Grayson revealed pika have been forced to move ever upwards as climate warmed throughout the Holocene. (See graph below) But Stewart seems unaware that he damaged is own argument. Several studies , using proxies and models, have shown the Great Basin was warmer during the Middle Holocene by 1 to 2.5C. Using Stewarts logic, as global warming approaches temperatures seen in the mid Holocene, pika should descend to lower elevations.",0_0
(Thanks to my spkskrivare for a few wondering over the title above rman not plsta p Monty Python).,0_0
"What this myth overlooks is that emission caps inescapably--and by design--increase the cost of producing and consuming energy. The ""cap"" in cap-and-trade ""works""--that is, reduces emissions--by creating an artificial scarcity in the right to produce and use fossil (carbon-emitting) energy. This drives up the price of coal, oil, and natural gas. It also increases reliance on higher-cost non-fossil energy.",0_0
"Footnote: In hisBudget of March 23 2011 the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne confirmedthat the UK would become the first country in the world to i mpose a carbon floor price . It is designed to ensure the price on carbon imposed through the EU emissions trading scheme does not fall below a set level. He said the floor price would start at 16 per tonne in 2013 and rise to 30 a tonne by 2020. However, experts were divided on the effectiveness of the new floor price. Many warn it will not be high enough to drive significant increases in low-carbon investment, while others predict it will deliver a major windfall in excess of 1bn a year to existing nuclear power plants.",4_2
"Very little, by 0.05 C per decade in the lower atmosphere.",0_0
"But this paradise is lost, and the human race degenerates into the Iron Age, a time of wickedness, crime, hard work, war, disease, private property, and greed, the ""cursed love of possessing,"" as Ovid called it. Key to this degeneration is the rise of technology, particularly sea-faring, metallurgy, agriculture, and mining. Already in antiquity the contrast is set: the idealized, lost peaceful world of life in harmony with nature, and the miserable present world of crime, sickness, and war.",0_0
"Australia threw out their lunatic, and has returned to sanity. Can the US do the same?",0_0
"This is a modern version of Frederic Bastiat's parable of the broken window. The accidental breakage of a shopkeeper's window may look like an economic boon - it creates work for a glazier, who spends his extra income on goods from other merchants, producing a virtuous cycle of economic activity. But what's not seen is how the shopkeeper would have otherwise spent his money: on goods from other businesses, creating a similar virtuous cycle. Breaking the window is a net loss for society, as no bonus economic activity is generated and a valuable capital item is lost.",0_0
"The IPCC says it is near certain that we caused at least half of that warming say, 0.65 C/century equivalent. If the IPCC and the much-tampered temperature records are right, and if there has been no significant downward pressure on global temperatures from natural forcings, we have been causing global warming at an unremarkable central rate of less than two-thirds of a Celsius degree per century.",3_1
"Florida and Bangladesh both experience tropical storms. When a typhoon hits Bangladesh, tens of thousands of people may die. In contrast, when a hurricane strikes Florida, there may be tremendous property damage, but comparatively little loss of life. The reason is not that typhoons are worse than hurricanes but that Florida is wealthy, Bangladesh poor. In Florida, homes are built to withstand high-velocity winds. A developed infrastructure is in place to provide early warning, continuous communication, medical services, and emergency relief. Also, car ownership is widespread, allowing people to drive to safer locales before the storm hits. In short, richer is safer. This suggests that the proper goal of policy is to make more of the world like Florida and to shun political schemes that might damage our mobility, prosperity, or technological prowess. The best insurance policy against both man-made and natural disasters is greater wealth and technological sophistication.",4_2
"The authors note that ""the standard interpretation of global climate data is that extraneous effects, such as urbanization and other land surface effects, and data quality problems due to inhomogeneities in the temperature series, are removed by adjustment algorithms, and therefore do not bias the large-scale trends."" What was done",5_1
"1) Arctic temperatures were actually in decline during the 1980s, before falling further around 1993, presumably as a result of the Pinatubo eruption two years earlier.",0_0
Blotting out the Sun to slow down global warming could be outlawed:,0_0
Cooler Heads Digest 1 April 2010,0_0
"The state said 463,000 utility customers were without power at 3:30 p.m., near the apparent peak of the outages. The bulk of the outages were in Orange, Alamance and Guilford counties, the state said.",0_0
"The report even gives the pipeline a passing grade in the politically correct category of ""environmental justice"" concluding that, ""impacts to minority and low-income populations during construction may include exposure to construction dust and noise, disruption to traffic patterns, and increased competition for medical or health services in underserved populations. Such impacts would generally be small and short-term."" In addition, as ""the risk of a potential release is roughly equal at all points along the pipeline, the risks associated with such releases would not be disproportionately borne by minority or low-income populations.""",0_0
Article 51 of the Constitution of Australia lists the 31st of 39 legislative powers of Australia's Parliament as follows:,0_0
An actual Maunder Minimum can take > 100 years not 10 years to eventuate. A new Maunder Minimum will NOT cause another Little Ice Age.,0_0
"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?",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Energy Policy Analyst William Yeatman on the implications of Russia's energy strategy:,0_0
"WCVB TV reports that, ""Boston also set a record with the most snow in 30 days with 60.8 inches.'",1_3
"We can also ask what the weather (thus climate) would be like if we were to slow, hold constant, or increase pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. But we have the same problem as before: well never know if the model is right because all well have is the atmosphere that exists, and the knowledge that everything, from worms to the sun, cause changes in it.",5_1
"In a cooling climate, we would expect to see more than 10 record lows per day, and fewer than 10 record highs per day. The USHCN record consists of more than 1000 stations, so we should expect to see more than 10 record highs per day. Throw in the UHI effects that Anthony and team have documented, and we would expect to see many more than that. So no, record high temperatures are not unusual and should be expected to occur somewhere nearly every day of the year. They don??t prove global warming ??? rather they prove that the temperature record is inadequate.",5_1
"Furthermore, the mean correlation for sites with records that went back to 1000 AD was 0.33. The probability of getting an r value that high by chance, over a 150 year calibration period, for 59 sites, is very small indeed. Note that Mann et al pointed all but the last of these things out in either the paper, the supplement, or both.",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Technology Policy Analyst Cord Blomquist on the difference between moral choices in the real and virtual worlds:,0_0
"4) When the sun goes quiet, excess energy sequestered in the oceans has a chance to escape. On the decadal scale, this manifests as big el ninos shortly after solar minimum (see last five solar minima). On the multi-decadal scale, the drop in solar activity from 1870 was followed by big el ninos and la ninas which caused large swings in SST at the end of the C19th and during the 1900-1910 period. These map almost perfectly to what has happened since 1998 too. Same solar cycle phases, same ENSO swings.",2_1
"Petitioners in Utility Air Regulation Group v. EPA argue that the PSD and Title V programs apply only to pollutants that affect public health and welfare by virtue of their local concentration, toxicity, or air quality impact. Since the harm allegedly posed by greenhouse gas emissions has nothing to do with local concentration or exposure, the permitting programs do not apply to them.",0_0
"It should all be straight forward, but its not. In part because itreally is important to those who believe in anthropogenic global warming that temperatures are rising and it really is important to many so-called sceptics that they are not.",0_0
"""Climate change is pestering the launch of Newt Gingrich's presidential bid,"" reported E&E; News' ClimateWire. The E&E; reporter then proceeded to extensively quote CFACT's Marc Morano as the primary watchdog bringing attention to Newt's past position on global warming.",0_0
"Whereas the IPCC has predicted that temperatures will rise by 3 degrees Celsius by 2050 if CO 2 doubles from pre-industrialized levels of 1750, The Research Council of Norway plugged in real temperature data from 2000 to 2010 and determined that doubling would cause only a 1.9 degree Celsius rise. Another study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences links temperature changes from 1750 to natural changes (such as sea temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean) and suggests the anthropogenic global warming trends might have been overestimated by a factor of two in the second half of the 20 th century.",2_1
"The story is to put a time limit on how fast our Earth system can recover from a total frozen state, Bao said. It is about a unique and rapidly changing post-glacial world, but is also about the incredible resilience of life and lifes remarkable ability to restore a new balance between atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere after a global glaciation.",0_0
"Arctic Sea ice area is above the ???normal?? line as defined by NANSEN. As far as I know, NSIDC does not offer an equivalent plot. If I am in error and somebody knows where to find NSIDC??s area plot, please let me know and I will include it here.",1_1
Humana boosts outlook as profit tops Street target:,0_0
"/s/ Grace Germany JSC, Program Analyst, 35 years",0_0
"I took the precaution of isolating myself from this survey by enlisting the cooperation of Dr Jay Winston, a widely respected meteorologist, skeptical of climate skeptics. And I employed two graduate students who had no discernible expertise in climate issues to conduct the actual survey and analyze the returns.",0_0
"""Spitzer and his allies can't change any of this. Their suit mainly allows them to advertise themselves to people who don't know better. Here's Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal sounding off:",0_0
Finally a graphic of Perth rain history back to 1876 note how the pre WWI winter rain is similar to the post 1970s rain. Who is to say what is normal ? I am not aware of any tablet of stone which tells us whether the WWI to mid 1970s high rain era was normal or are the slightly dryer decades before and after more normal.,0_0
"FactCheck: One of the ads says research shows ""The Antarctic ice sheet is getting thicker, not thinner. . . Why are they trying to scare us?"" Actually, scientists say increased snowfall in Antarctica's interior is evidence that global warming is taking place.",0_0
"For the sake of their constituents, elected officials in Washington and state capitals have an obligation to fight this federal takeover of state authority. They should act soon. EPA is scheduled to release its final regulation in August, initiating a one-year period before states will be forced to comply.",0_0
"The model-data comparisons in this post run from the November 1981 start of the Reynolds OI.v2 data to February 2014, more than 32 years.",0_0
"So Im feeling like I can embrace the Conspiracy Conjecture enough to investigate, but I cant swallow the Conspiracy Theory angle.",0_0
"Youd think it would be huge news that the greenhouse scare is over. Instead, the news sections of Science and Nature are behaving in their predictable fashion. In Nature , Quirin Schiermeier wrote this may worsen the greenhouse effect.",5_2
"The federal government can also play a role. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, has recently introduced some proposals to create a federal equivalent of the My Safe Florida Home Program. Through tax credits and means-tested assistance, Thompson's proposals would help people around the country make their homes more storm resistant.",0_0
"My brief comment was sent in at 12.26 WST to the ABC site... The moderators must be overwhelmed coping with all the comments, Im sure theyll put one up soon.",0_0
"Thinking over this history, I see three primary uses of environmental computer forecasts: to understand the implications of what we know (Can living things change the global environment?); to know the future; and to influence public behavior. Only the first can be strictly scientific. The third is wandering farther and farther away from science.",0_0
Authors correct error found in research article,0_0
"One of the favorite policies of green activists is the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards that require U.S. auto makers to keep the average fuel economy of their fleet below 27 mpg. Recently, however, the greens have been frustrated because the CAFE standard has not been tightened for years. They are especially upset about the increasing popularity of big trucks and sports utility vehicles that they claim are significantly contributing to global warming.",0_0
"Another variation to the fairy tale: ENSO is simply noise or an exogenous factor in the global surface temperature record. The fancy-schmancy word exogenous was recently and incorrectly used to describe ENSO in the 2011 Foster and Rahmstorf paper Global Temperature Evolution 19792010 . Exogenous, according to Webster, means:",0_0
"* It hasn??t warmed in 7 years. Al Gore says that ???there is one relationship that is more powerful than all the others and it is this: When there is more carbon dioxide, the temperature gets warmer.?? Well, emissions keep going up, yet temperatures stay the same. Where??s the warming?",2_3
"Obtaining federal permits for energy production is difficult. Between fiscal years 2005 and 2012 the number of new permits fell over 50%, from 3,514 to 1,729. Between 2005 and 2012, the time it took to acquire such a permit rose from 154 days to 228 days. In contrast, it takes only 10 days to secure a state drilling permit in North Dakota.",0_0
"Quite to the contrary of model predictions, the four researchers found that observations of intact forest ""greenness"" in the region were, in their words, ""dominated by a significant increase (P<0.0001), not a decline."" What it means",0_0
"WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- This week the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and 11 other free-market organizations submitted public comments to the Environmental Protection Agency opposing EPA's long-anticipated Clean Power Plan (CPP), which would increase electricity prices and raise reliability concerns across the country. According to CEI senior fellow Marlo Lewis, the Clean Power Plan is illegitimate and unlawful.",4_1
"Finally, if the global temperature begins to rise again, we can consider the implementation of a carbon tax.",1_4
"Osborn also complained that I had insufficiently acknowledged their identification of root collar inhomogeneity at Polar Urals. However, in my first article in the recent sequence, I provided a lengthy exposition of their findings in connection with root collar inhomogeneity, complete with long quotations directly from their text.",0_0
"Or, to look at it in yet another way, were being told that, while surface temperatures are no longer warming, the oceans to depth continue to warmyet the warming is not occurring in the largest ocean basin, the Pacific, and the North Atlantic is showing evidence of cooling.",1_4
"There are obvious similarities both single men of low intelligence and not really connected with the world, convicted on faulty forensic evidence.",0_0
"Government officials cannot pressure a private party to take adverse action against a speaker. For example, the federal appeals court in New York ruled that officials could not pressure a billboard company to stop displaying a church's anti-gay billboard, or pressure a business group not to publish a businessman's ad in its publication, even though the officials avoided using explicit threats. (See the 2003 case of Okwedy v. Molinari and the 1991 case of Rattner v. Netburn.) And a federal court allowed Google to sue a state attorney general over his speech-chilling investigation in Google v. Hood (2015).",0_0
"The data are seriously compromised and fill in with homogenizing makes it worse, not better. It hides what is really happening and smoothes out divergent and disjoint obviously incongruent series to blend them into a fictional common warming that does not exist.",5_1
"Chesapeake Energy is also a major donor to the American Lung Association. Although exactly how much the company has donated is not clear, the American Lung Association's 2010 annual report said Chesapeake Energy ""provided the funds that allowed the American Lung Association to create a new public service campaign based on the Fighting for Air platform. In addition to traditional radio and television advertisements, the campaign includes online components, print, and even outdoor advertising."" One such anti-coal TV ad is the ""Red Carriage"" spot described and debunked above.",0_0
Your question and other commentary at your blog may give readers the false impression that we have published using an inadequate dataset.,0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on the train wreck that would result from trying to restrict greenhouse gas emissions using the Clean Air Act:,0_0
"No model has ever successfully predicted any future climate sequence. Despite this, future projections for as far ahead as several hundred years have been presented by the IPCC as plausible future trends, based on largely distorted storylines, combined with untested models.",5_1
Image source: National Snow and Ice Data Center via the WUWT sea ice page .,0_0
"and I'll now show the unique numeric solutions perfectly reproduce within 0.28C the temperature at every height in the 1976 Standard Atmosphere database from the surface all the way to ~11,000 meters height, after which the atmosphere at < ~0.223 atmospheres (units) becomes too thin to sustain convection and the equation no longer applies. This is near the transition between the troposphere and tropopause, which is where Robinson & Catling, Nature 2014, demonstrated the transition begins due to loss of convection, not greenhouse gas radiative forcing. Above the tropopause transition level (which is isothermal for several km), increased greenhouse gases cause increased cooling .",2_3
"17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,",0_0
"The earths climate is largely controlled by the suns radiation. The current and anticipated sun (-spot) activity, i.e . energy received by earth from the sun, will be below normal for the next decades .",2_1
This piece originally appeared in WSJ's Marketwatch,0_0
"Southern Europe will be gripped by fierce heatwaves, drought in North Africa will be more common, and small island states face ruinous storm surges from rising seas, a report by United Nations climate scientists says. The assessment is the most comprehensive yet by the 194-nation Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change into the impact of climate change on extreme weather events. A 20-page draft summary for policymakers says that global warming will create weather on steroids, and that these amped-up events cyclones, heatwaves, diluvian rains, drought will hit the world unevenly. Marlowe Hood, Agence France-Presse, 14 November 2011",0_0
"""Canada is -- like it or not, take it or leave it -- a country founded on Christian principles...""",0_0
"Wall Street agreed. According to Mother Jones, in 2006, Wall Street ""worried that even a small increase in investment in non-oil alternatives would distract BP's focus from its core businessoil."" Commentators and analysts began mocking BP as being ""Beyond Profits.""",0_0
"I can only conclude you would rather sit in the dark and bitch, smugging about price gougers getting spanked and threatening the limited allowed approved licensed union dues paying utility workers for not having feather bedded enough in the last 50 years to be able to cover this as Business as usual.",0_0
"34568 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 116 / Tuesday, June 17, 2014 / Proposed Rules",0_0
"To some extent, our findings demonstrate that whatever happens to Earth, she will recover, and recover at a rapid pace, Bao said. Mother Earth lived and life carried on even in the most devastating situation. The only difference is the life composition afterwards. In other words, whatever humans do to the Earth, life will go on. The only uncertainty is whether humans will still remain part of the life composition.",0_0
"Environmental scientists are cast in the role of priests, the trust in their narrow expertise extended to other areas of fact and value. Most scientists dont like that. Some quite enjoy it. The concept of planetary boundaries seems to be designed to make environmental scientists the final arbiters in politics, much like the Pope was once in Europe and the Guardian Council is in Iran.",5_2
"Climate models suggest they should be increasing, 110 years of real world data indicate otherwise?? Read More",5_1
"Ocean SST as measured by PDO, AMO, ocean heat content and ENSO cycles and pressure changes as measured by AO and NAO are all pointing to a future cooling planet. AMO has gone negative in November 2011 for the first time since early 2009. Time will tell whether this is just the normal seasonal dip or a long-term pattern. This cooler AMO, if sustained through the winter, could signify cooler weather for the US east coast and Western Europe. Several severe storms have already happened this fall on both sides of the Atlantic.",1_2
"And how he crows at the news of Abraham's ""evisceration"" of my Minnesota speech.",0_0
4. According to Marlo Lewis in A Skeptics Guide to the Inconvenient Truth ** tide gauge records show that sea levels at Tuvalu actually fell during the latter half of the 20th Century. This is an island often quoted as being lost to rising sea levels including in Al Gores book also called An Inconvenient Truth where there is a two-page photograph and reference to the islands of Funafuti and Tuvalu and residents having to evacuate their homes because of rising seas.,1_6
"A veteran Palestinian negotiator complains: ""It's as though you ask me to sit and discuss the future of this table, but as we talk you are slicing away the pieces of the table.""",0_0
"Science is about developing theories and then continually challenging those theories through observation and accumulation of real world data. Yet, a myopic focus on a single variable (fossil energy use, in this case) excludes a wide range of other valid perspectives and ignores critical factors and. As a result, the resulting conclusions are unbalanced and make faulty foundations for policy recommendations.",0_0
"And while were on the subject of Svensmark and cosmic rays, Anthony on Facebook linked to an interesting series of videos in which Svensmark and Nir Shaviv are both interviewed. First three parts are excellent, will get to watch the remainder soon. There doesnt appear to be a date, but from the upload information, it was made prior to the results of the CLOUD experiment.",0_0
"Figure 6 presents the long-term hindcasts and projections of outgoing shortwave radiation, but this time in anomaly form, referenced to the 1996-2015 base years. The use of anomalies allows a better visual comparison of the modeled changes before and after the transition from hindcast to forecast. Obviously, there are very wide ranges in the hindcasted and forecasted trends in model-simulated outgoing shortwave radiation. Again, note how the model mean shows increasing outgoing shortwave radiation in the past and a decrease in the future.",0_0
"I tend to agree that these adjustments are likely to have made the warming trend look higher and the case for global warming more robust than the most accurate data would manage. However, I am not quite certain about the size and relevance of this effect and I feel very uncomfortable about many climate skeptics' knee-jerk emotional reaction showing that they hate the very idea of an adjustment.",0_0
"Might Brown or his successor pay it back? Who knows. Even if they do pay back the loan, that wont undo the consequences: as environmentalists point out, the loan will delay the implementation of various programs that were intended to cut GHG emissions in the near-term, a delay that wont be recouped even if the loan is repaid.",0_0
"Climate Depot releases 321 page report over 1,000 skeptical scientists",0_0
critics of Obama's Iran policy is that he has imposed much tougher sanctions on Iran than his,0_0
And Bush was excited about our ability to make ethanol as well:,0_0
"But a scientific moment of clarity is now prevailing: The U.N. and Congress do not have the power to legislate, tax or regulate the weather.",0_0
"It also appears that other experienced and reputable scientists such as Hans Jelbring, Harry Dale Huffman and many others have previously pointed out the errors of the climate consensus in failing to give due weight to the Gas Laws which represent much longer established settled science than the relatively recent speculations about the supposed thermal properties of greenhouse gases.",5_1
There are reasons to assume that marine life will not be overly affected by an increase in ocean acidity due to atmospheric carbon dioxide:,3_2
"Bank plan would help build bridges, boost jobs:",0_0
"I agree that there's something ugly about the police, even local police, asking citizens for their ""papers"" (there's nothing particularly ugly about asking illegal immigrants for their papers, though). There's also something ugly about American citizens' being physically searched at airports. There's something ugly about IRS agents' prying into nearly all of your personal financial transactions or, thanks to the passage of Obamacare, serving as health-insurance enforcers.",0_0
"Really now, you've got to be kidding me. Your link doesn't even mention this article. You're going to have to show actual proof that it is peer-reviewed, and if it is my opinion of the peer-review process in climate ""science"" will sink to a new all-time low. I didn't even mention many other flaws in this article, including not defining the word ""significant"" in the polling question. For many other flaws read the 100+ comments over at WUWT.",0_0
A new assessment of global mean sea level from altimeters highlights a reduction of global trend from 2005 to 2008,1_6
"Regardless, the automakers have little choice but to develop and try to push more hybrids as they prepare for fuel-efficiency requirements that call for significant increases later this decade. Advances such as Fords EcoBoost technology have increased mileage for gas-powered engines the new Fusion midsize sedan it unveiled Monday can get 37 miles to the gallon, Ford said but bigger gains are needed. (NYT)",0_0
"Now just so you can compare numbers, nuclear power plants cost about $2000 per kW or $2 billion for a plant to reliably produce the nameplate capacity of the massive Indiana windfarms 1000 MW of electricity at 90% operation capacity with a 40 year life. Ill do a more complete post on nuclear power later but just from this simple fact, the nuclear plant starts out looking a hell of a lot better.",4_5
"We are getting more intense rainfall events as the earth warms , but its difficult to pin down any individual event, he told AAP.",0_0
"She explained at the time: ""When the earth gets warmer, more water evaporates into the atmosphere. Warmer air holds more water, and if you look around the planet, our humidity at a global scale has increased already by over four percent. So, there is more water up in the air. That's why our rainfalls are often getting more extreme, especially in the warmer part of the country, because there is much more water in the air. Well, what happens when it's below freezing? It gets dumped out as snow.""",0_0
"Elevated levels of atmospheric CO2 also enable plants to better withstand the growth-retarding effects of various environmental stresses, including soil salinity, air pollution, high and low air temperatures, and air-borne and soil-borne plant pathogens. In fact, atmospheric CO2 enrichment can actually mean the difference between life and death for vegetation growing in extremely stressful circumstances. In light of these facts, it is not surprising that Earths natural and managed ecosystems have already benefited immensely from the increase in atmospheric CO2 that has accompanied the progression of the Industrial Revolution; and they will further prosper from future CO2 increases.",3_3
"Also in South Africa, researchers are working on insect-resistant biotech potatoes for Africa's millions of small highland farmers who can't afford pesticides. USAID is collaborating with Michigan State University and the South African Research Council. The project has foundered amidst regulatory disputes between South Africa's agricultural researchers and its environmental regulators.",0_0
"(As an aside, if Miliband was serious about massive and quick expansion of nuclear, which he would need to set in motion soon after the election, I assume he would have offered it as a definite strategy by now. The history of the Blair and Brown Governments would suggest that, instead, there will be much prevarication.)",0_0
"From Laframboises Citizen Audit: Of the 18531 references in the 2007 Climate Bible we found 5,587 a full 30% to be non peer-reviewed.",0_0
Fax: +61 (0)8 9881 5585,0_0
"What you see if you do a linear regression is a cooling trend by 0.49 ??F = 0.27 ??C per decade. The cooling between 2006 and 2008 was more dramatic: from 55 ??F to 53 ??F, by a whopping two degrees Fahrenheit!",1_4
But now scientists claim that warming of the planet is in fact behind a paradoxical growth in South Pole sea ice.,1_1
"By Ben Wolfgang, Washington Times, Aug 6, 2015",0_0
"So if I dont believe that the warmer ocean can be substantially warmed by radiation from cooler air floating over it, on the basis that a warmer object will always heat a cooler object, its a rejection of science. That is itself unscientific however, it would be scientific to produce evidence of the alleged warming.",2_3
"Regulators and energy companies met Tuesday, hoping to hash out a solution to the peculiar stresses placed on the state's network by sharp increases in wind and solar energy. Power production from renewable sources fluctuates wildly, depending on wind speeds and weather.",4_4
"The cap-and-trade bill will do little to cut greenhouse gas emissions, since it contains so many special interest giveaways and environmentally-destructive provisions like subsidies for ethanol . Instead, notes the Examiner , it will result in massive destruction of the Earth??s forests. Although the bill??s supporters claim it will cut greenhouse gas emissions, it may perversely increase them by driving industry overseas to places where there are fewer air pollution curbs, resulting in dirtier air.",4_1
"The first explanation that comes to my mind is a change in daytime convective mixing of the troposphere. If there is a slight increase in the depth of convective mixing, then drier (lower dewpoint) air aloft will be mixed down toward the surface. Such a change would probably also be associated with deeper moist convection and probably an increase in heavy rain rates, evidence for which has been claimed elsewhere (e.g. here ). The implication of such a change for climate feedbacks is complicated and not obvious.",0_0
> >> >>The Bank would commission a study estimating weather-related,0_0
"The naive assumption of policymakers that Europe?s main competitors would follow the shift from cheap fossil fuels to expensive green energy has not materialised. Europe, The Washington Post recently warned, ?has become a green-energy basket case. Instead of a model for the world to emulate, Europe has become a model of what not to do.?",4_4
Forecasters predict barbecue summer to rival 2003 as temperatures rocket to 27C tomorrow Telegraph,0_0
"This post was written for persons who have seen my posts around the blogosphere for the past three and a half years, or have seen other bloggers discussing them, and have wondered what I was yakking on and on aboutwith the El Nio this and La Nia that. This post is a basic, down-to-Earth discussion of the causes of the warming of global sea surface temperatures over the past 30 years. Its how data, not models, account for the warming. Ive tried to make it as non-technical as possible.",0_0
"A paper by the same author finds we are nowhere near a ""tipping point"" regarding Arctic Sea Ice",1_1
"Date: April 3, 2010 Time: 10:00 am Central DST To Listen: Visit our BlogTalkRadio Page Call 646-727-3170 to ask a question. /p>",0_0
"In fact, though, a recent Brookings Institution study by Charles Frank shows that the main effect of a carbon tax would be to induce power companies to switch from coal to natural gas. Even with a hefty price on carbon emissions, the study shows, today's wind and solar power sources cannot compete with natural gas. Now, maybe more switching from coal to natural gas would be a good thing, and maybe not, but it certainly does not amount to the great surge in innovation about which Mr. Paulson is fantasizing.",0_0
"A suggestion the Great Gale of 1821 was worse than Hurricane Sandy, and Alarmists are wrong to suggest otherwise.",1_7
"Now, you Keith complain about the way we introduced our result, while saying it",0_0
Joint letter to NASA Administrator blasts agencys policy of ignoring empirical evidence,0_0
??self-evidently? dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth-seeking?scientists ? and politicians ? must trade truth for influence.,0_0
"More reading to observe the green ""holy day' Earth Day",0_0
"The second thing the large range of modeled energy imbalances reminded me of: there is a similar large range in the modeled global surface temperatures in absolute form. See the graph here from the post On the Elusive Absolute Global Mean Surface Temperature A Model-DataComparison . The span of the modeled surface temperatures in 2010 was more than 3 deg C, and thats about 3 times greater than Earths surfaces have warmed since pre-industrial times according to the (much-fiddled-with) observations-based data.",0_0
"Over time, the UN's New Urban Agenda will see decision-making authority shifted from individuals and local governments to regional councils. These regional councils will be stacked with a smattering of elected officials joined by assorted ""stakeholders."" These stakeholders will be composed of green groups, housing advocates, officials from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and other busybodies. It is they who will rewrite local zoning ordinances, land-use laws, and transportation policies.",0_0
Earth to looney left. A record cold winter is the wrong time to be picking a global warming fight.,1_3
"Wollondilly News, sport and weather | Wollondilly Advertiser",0_0
My Comments On A New Paper Climate Drift In The CMIP3 Models By Sen Gupta Et Al 2012,0_0
"her colleague's remarks than vice versa, stares down her colleague",0_0
"The all-clear signal on the hurricane front is another setback for the IPCC. In keeping with lead author Kevin Trenberths predictions, the IPCC report warned that there would be more hurricanes in a greenhouse climate. One of the graphs in the IPCC report is particularly mysterious. Without specifying a source, the graph suggestively illustrates how damage caused by extreme weather increases with rising average temperatures.",1_7
"He quotes extensively from Mike Hulme, the guy who set up the Tyndall Centre with help from Pachauri, here are just a few prime examples:",0_0
CSIROh!: Climate of Deception? ... Or First Step to Freedom?,0_0
"The survey found that the views that Americans hold about a wide range of these issues are, in key ways, inaccurate. Significant numbers of people appear to misunderstand such crucial matters as:",0_0
"Fossil fuels--hydrocarbons--are part hydrogen, part carbon. Both elements burn nicely. Your charcoal barbecue burns pure carbon; the Space Shuttle's main engine burns pure hydrogen. The carbon, which becomes carbon dioxide when you burn it, is what the climate models link to global warming.",0_0
Hope all is well with you and all the best to all. Glad you enjoyed the paper.,0_0
"Read here . The IPCC, its climate models and its Climategate scientists have become infamous for flat-out, dreadful, incorrect climate predictions. A prominent prediction of an increase in severe weather due to global warming (ie, climate change) was made long ago, yet all the empirical research keeps confirming the lack of an increase. (click on image for more info)",1_7
"Singer reveals he assumes CO 2 warms Earth because it is called a greenhouse gas, which does not make it so.",0_0
"The two westerly wind bursts shown in red in the western equatorial Pacific in 2014 are associated with the downwelling Kelvin wave, and the westerly bursts in March and May 1982 are associated with the Kelvin wave that year. (See the post ENSO Basics: Westerly Wind Bursts Initiate an El Nio .) Note how in 1982, as the June progressed through December, the negative wind stresses decreased (associated with a weakening of the trade winds), with the neutral whites expanding eastward. Also note the repeated westerly wind bursts in the western equatorial Pacific from June through November, with the big one in November 1982. Those westerly wind bursts throughout 1982 continued to help push warm water from the western equatorial Pacific into the east, strengthening the 1982/83 El Nio.",0_0
"CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI's fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. Also included in the Weekly newsletter is a brief description of CEI's weekly podcast and a feature on a major CEI breakthrough made during the week. To sign up for CEI Weekly, go to http://cei.org/newsletters. CEI WeeklyNovember 6, 2009 >>CEI Blasts Antitrust Lawsuit Against Intel",0_0
The news of melting on the runway broke last summer over nine months ago.,0_0
"Having established scale and urgency, the political challenge is then to turn",0_0
"Without a successful validation procedure, no model should be considered to be capable of providing a plausible prediction of future behaviour of the climate.",5_1
"""Law enforcement organizations are making tens of thousands of requests for private electronic information from companies such as Sprint, Facebook and AOL, but few detailed statistics are available, according to a privacy researcher.""",0_0
"In fact, scientists can no more accurately predict long-range future climate shifts than they can predict earthquakes, volcanic eruptions or drought; in the same way science cannot definitively account for past ice ages, meteor strikes or the Big Bang. Theories, yes; facts, no.",5_1
Effect of Cloud-Scattered Sunlight on Earth's Energy Balance Depends on Wavelength of Light,0_0
"#3 Temperatures have dropped or stayed flat for the last 10 years. This is absolutely in opposition to climate predictions of 10, 5, 3, 1 years ago. The earth has not followed the predictions of the climate models",1_4
"So we may yet be saved. But at best, we are in for years of investment and job-killing uncertainty.",0_0
"Finally John, your statements attributing later fall coolings and earlier spring bloomings as evidence of global warming lack example and specificity needed in order to frame a substantive response. One very plausible explanation could be attributed to CO2 fertilization. Notwithstanding the matter of where and when these conditions arise, CO2 increases most certainly benefit agriculture. By the same token, if there is no reliably measurable evidence of global warming from thermometers, those undocumented species migrations you alluded to prove nothing either.",0_0
"In the dogmatically blind worlds of liberalism and environmentalism, the truth is irrelevant",0_0
"Soon after Climategate broke last November, Penn State convened an internal committee to investigate Mann, the primary author of the now-infamous and discredited ""hockey stick"" global warming graph.",2_1
"This analysis surely casts huge doubt on Elsners conclusions, based as they are on such a short period.",0_0
"Establishing what caused Earths largest climatic changes in the past requires a precise knowledge of both the forcing and the regional responses. Here we establish the chronology of high and low latitude climate change at the last glacial termination by 14C dating benthic and planktonic foraminiferal stable isotope and Mg/Ca records from a marine core collected in the western tropical Pacific. Deep sea temperatures warmed by ~2C between 19 and 17 ka B.P. (thousand years before present), leading the rise in atmospheric CO2 and tropical surface ocean warming by ~1000 years. The cause of this deglacial deep water warming does not lie within the tropics, nor can its early onset between 19-17 ka B.P. be attributed to CO2 forcing. Increasing austral spring insolation combined with sea-ice albedo feedbacks appear to be key factors responsible for this warming.",2_3
I received a hard copy of this long and detailed report by three Navy flag officers retired.,0_0
"According to (1) , construction of a pH profile for the middle Eocene tropical Pacific Ocean shows that atmospheric pCO 2 was probably similar to modern concentrations or slightly higher .",2_3
"""The agency expressed concern that the nuclear expertise that exists today might not be passed on to the next generation of scientists and engineers, now that the rapid nuclear expansion of the 1970s and 1980s has leveled off.""",0_0
Vasseurs research shows water temperatures rising almost a decade earlier than expected.,0_0
"Note also that only a handful of early credit bills were introduced, all in the 105th, 106th, and 109th Congresses, and all went nowhere. None ever garnered more than 15 co-sponsors, none was marked up in committee, and none made it to a floor vote in the House or Senate.",0_0
The approximation suggest the following change in global temperature with changes in global pressure:,0_0
"President Obama's modest proposal to slice $17 billion from 121 government programs quickly ran into a buzz saw of opposition on Capitol Hill yesterday, as an array of Democratic lawmakers vowed to fight White House efforts to deprive their favorite initiatives of federal funds.",0_0
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"UPDATE (1:20 pm. CDT 5/13/11): Since the issue of deep ocean warming (below 700 m depth) has been raised in the comments section, I have re-run the forcing-feedback model for the following two observations: 1) a net 50 year warming of 0.06 deg. C for the 0-2000 meter layer, and (2) a surface warming of 0.6 deg. C over the same period. The results suggest a net feedback parameter of 3 W m-2 K-1, which corresponds to a climate sensitivity of 1.3 deg. C from 2XCO2, which is below the 1.5 deg. C lower limit the IPCC has placed on future warming.",3_1
"Atmospheric radiation absorption and emission are dominated by the presence of all three phases of H 2 O. Like all molecules, CO 2 only absorbs and emits specific spectral wavelengths (14.77 microns) that constitute a tiny fraction of solar radiation energy in Earth's atmosphere. The first 50 ppm of CO 2 absorbs about half of this tiny energy , each additional 50 ppm absorbs half of the remaining tiny fraction, so at the current 380 ppm there are almost no absorbable photons left. CO 2 could triple to 1,000 ppm with no additional discernable absorptionemission. This is the Beer-Lambert Law: The intensity of radiation decreases exponentially as it passes through an absorbing medium.",2_3
White House Staffers Got a Bigger Raise Than You Did Last Year:,0_0
"Earlier this month, researchers at Norway's University of Science and Technology compared the life-cycle environmental costs of EVs with those of conventional vehicles. Their conclusion: ""The global warming potential from electric vehicle production is about twice that of conventional vehicles."" The report differentiates between EVs fueled with low-carbon sources like nuclear or renewable energy, and finds that in Europe, EVs could provide a substantial reduction in greenhouse gases, up to 24 percent. But the researchers also conclude that ""EVs exhibit the potential for significant increases in human toxicity, freshwater eco-toxicity, freshwater eutrophication, and metal depletion impacts, largely emanating from the vehicle supply chain.""",0_0
"Broadness Radar.Swanscombe, Kent, Great Britain. This is the shipping radar station at broadness helping keep river traffic safe Date: 4 September 2005. Photo by Glyn Baker via Wikimedia Commons and Geograph. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Broadness Radar - geograph.org.uk - 48941.jpg Maybe the Met office should add air conditioners to the list? The brick building and sidewalk leading up to the station make nice heat sinks dont you think?",0_0
Ivan Osorio: Is the minimum wage the first of many bad ideas Dems will justify by citing Romney's support for it?,0_0
"If faster warming does resume in the coming months and years, it?s important to stay focused on the amount of warming?over the long term. Thinking and talking in qualitative terms, like record warm years, can be used to fool and manipulate people?s emotions on the subject.",0_0
"/s/ George Weisskopf JSC, Avionics Systems Division, Engineering Dir., 40 years",0_0
"Read that again. From roughly 1925 through 1940, a 15 year period, Arctic summer temperatures rose just about as much as they have from 1979 through 2005, a 25 year period. If sea-ice wasnt near or at its end-of-summer lows this year, something would be wrong with a very basic physical theory: warm temperatures melt ice.",2_1
"Sea level is rising no faster than for the past 150 years. From 2004 to 2012, the Envisat satellite reported a rise of one-tenth of an inch. From 2003 to 2009, gravity satellites actually showed sea level falling. Results like these have not hitherto been reported in the mainstream news media.",1_6
"Floridians, don't let the current lack of hurricane activity lull you into a false sense of security. As a low-lying peninsula jutting out into the Caribbean Sea, Florida attracts hurricanes just as surely as a magnet attracts iron filings.",0_0
"Figure 10 presents the modeled outgoing longwave radiation anomalies smoothed with 5-year filters, to provide a clearer view of the differences in the model simulations.",0_0
"Most of the warming in forecasts (2/3 or more in the IPCC cases) comes from positive feedback in #3, but we really know nothing here, except that most systems are driven by negative feedback. In other words, this is so unsettled we dont even know the sign of the effect. ( Video here )",3_1
"But in the recently decided Medillin v. Texas case before the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice John Paul Stevens contrasted the Vienna Convention which the court determined was not self-enforcing with LOST, which he opined did ``incorporate international judgments into international law.''",0_0
Huh? Why would it just be skeptics who would be interested in evidence of serious flaws in the science? I'm amazed by paragraph 6 of an article that begins:,0_0
"Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 09:24:22 -0500",0_0
Pat Michaels was at my presentation yesterday and pointed out at minute 56 that one of the reasons temperature representations have changed is because of the inclusion of southern oceans into the global temperature record.,5_1
"Dunn details his personal crusade to expose EPAs bad science and policy making, which began in the early 1990s.",0_0
Katie Brown Katie Brown@epw.senate.gov (202) 224-2160,0_0
Based on this analysis we can say that there is a probability of 94% of imminent global cooling and the beginning of the coming ice age.,1_2
Czech president Vclav Klaus has summarized his experience with the other EU politicians.,0_0
"Speaking methodically with flashes of humor I always feel that when the conversation turns to weather, people are bored. he said a basic problem with current computer climate models that show disastrous increases in temperature is that relatively small increases in atmospheric gases lead to large changes in temperatures in the models.",5_1
"There are many different types of uncertainty that are encountered in the modeling of the climate system, and it is important to understand and characterize and quantify them all. One pervasive type of climate uncertainty is what has frequently been referred to as the unforced or natural variability of climate. This characteristic type of uncertainty is encountered when running a interactive atmosphere-ocean climate model for thousands of years with no change in the external forcing (other than standard diurnal and seasonal change in solar radiation) exhibits variability (by several tenths of a degree) in the global annual-mean surface temperature, essentially over all time scales.",5_1
Judge Forces Obama Administration to Disclose Climate Documents,0_0
Labor to introduce register for foreign ownership of land | The Area ...,0_0
"These problems are an inevitable consequence of the march of human progress and politics - coupled with more recently acquired sensitivites to the politically incorrect, place names are going to be a perpetual source of irritation. The ribbon-cutting celebration opening ""Winnie Wharf"" today may well become the offensive Port Elizabeth of tomorrow. And as we are coming to understand, the right of future citizens not to be offended ought to be enshrined in law. On the practical side, though, ad hoc renaming of cities, towns and rivers is likely to be a cumbersome and contentious process. To address this, we should apply a sunset clause to all place names, so that they will automatically expire at set intervals. This way, each new political generation can respond more efficiently to those most recently insulted by the historical fact of their choosing.",0_0
"The temperature record resulting from the weather stations differs from the graphs generated by the satellites not by too much but substantially enough for the satellites to completely deny the claim that 2014 had a chance to have been the warmest year, and so on. But the differences between the satellite and weather-station-based temperature records probably mean that these two methodologies measure ""substantially different quantities"" (quantities with inequivalent definitions) that shouldn't be assumed to behave equally, and that's why they don't behave equally. The disagreement between the two methodologies isn't necessarily due to any ""big error"" on either side.",5_1
"By now you may have forgotten poor, old Hurricane Rita that hit next. Hurricane Rita, with its sensible actions by local officials, its orderly evacuations, its lack of looting and minimal loss of life, was not a blessing. My heart went out to Chicken Little as Rita failed to destroy Galveston, flood Houston, or wipe Crawford, Texas, off the map.",0_0
"Because hurricanes form over warm ocean water, it is easy to assume that the recent rise in their number and ferocity is because of global warming. But that is not the case, scientists say. Instead, the severity of hurricane seasons changes with cycles of temperatures of several decades in the Atlantic Ocean. The recent onslaught ""is very much natural,"" said William M. Gray, a professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University who issues forecasts for the hurricane season.",1_7
A very recent extensive study of the Great Barrier Reef concluded that the changes forecast under the business as usual greenhouse gas emissions were unlikely to cause great harm to the reef.,3_2
"scales, carbon and other elemental cycles, etc. and it has to be several",0_0
"As bad as this year has been for Arctic alarmists, their pain is just beginning. Melt has been extremely slow in August, in fact area has notchanged for about a week, and is now largerthan 2006",1_1
Thefederal governmentof the United Stateshas announced the establishment ofa National Climate Service; e.g. see the NY Times article by Lauren Morello titled Agency Will Create National Climate Service to Spur Adaptation .,0_0
"Prof Brian Cox is a physicist who was the main presenter of the one-hour-long 2011 BBC special, "" Guide to the Moon "", among many other programs. You may expect him to know something about the Moon; you may also be wrong. How does it work in practice? Steve Davis pointed out the following cute story; see the Student Room :",0_0
"In the West, it has become popular for many activists such as Naomi Oreskes to claim that there is no peer-reviewed literature that contradicts the fashionable theory of the so-called global warming. Well, that's very far from reality as everyone who is familiar with basic research directions in this field knows very well. Whether or not we think that all these papers are right or not, it's a fact that there is even peer-reviewed literature that argues that we're gonna experience global cooling.",5_1
"8. The IPCC??s own climate-sensitivity equations show that abating 0.06% of global carbon emissions would reduce CO2 concentration from a predicted business-as-usual 410 microatmospheres to 409.988 microatmospheres, and that this would reduce global mean surface temperature by just 0.00006 Celsius degrees ??? if the carbon tax succeeded every bit as fully as its framers had intended. Do you consider that spending $150 billion to cut surface temperature by 0.00006 Celsius degrees is a sensible, proportionate,cost-effective use of other people??s money?",4_2
"The global war against fossil fuels is a war against progress, prosperity, and the poor. No one has ever explained this better than Stephen Moore and Kathleen Hartnett White do in Fueling Freedom.",4_5
"In the sixties, there was a TV series called The Outer Limits, which started with an intro saying, ""we are controlling your television set .""",0_0
"While Real Climate might not characterize their response to Hantemirovs complaint as screeching, it is surely unarguably that Hantemirovs complaint prompted a large number of furious comments at Real Climate, both by commenters and by moderator Steig.",0_0
"???The coral reef system at the Papua New Guinea vent site is an algae-dominated one with few species of corals,?? says Barkley. ???We see responses much like those shown in many lab experiments at some of the other naturally low pH coral reef sites as well, particularly lower calcium carbonate production. But we don??t see the same responses across all of the sites, especially not at the coral reefs in Palau Rock Islands. The coral communities there are thriving, except for higher rates of bioerosion.??",3_2
"Because the model simulations have difficulties reproducing the mean patterns of Arctic circulation and thickness,' as Kwok writes in his concluding paragraph, ' he says his analysis suggests there are 'considerable uncertainties in the projected rates of sea ice decline even though the CMIP3 data set agrees that increased greenhouse gas concentrations will result in a reduction of Arctic sea ice area and volume.' But with all the problems he finds with the models, who really knows how good those latter projections are?",5_1
"FSU Professor, James Elsner, has attempted to develop a model to determine the real trends, in the paper The Decreasing Population Bias in Tornado Reports across the Central Plains .",0_0
"The multinational corporation (SUNY, Paris, Munich, Taiwan, Bern, Boston) consisting of Anchordoqui, Antoniadis, Goldberg, Huang, Lst, and Taylor argues that the bump has the required features to grow into the first package of exclusive collider evidence in favor of string theory yes, I mean the theory that stinky brainless chimps yell to be disconnected from experiments.",0_0
"offering more support strategies, making it easier for them to pass.",0_0
"/s/ Michael F. Collins, JSC, Chief, Flight Design and Dynamics Division, MOD, 41 years",0_0
"When sunlight penetrates a water droplet containing black or brown carbon particles, Jacobson said, the carbon absorbs the light energy, creating heat and accelerating evaporation of the droplet. Carbon particles floating around in the spaces between the droplets also absorb scattered sunlight, converting it to heat.",0_0
7. Adaptation is clearly the best approach to deal with the moderate global warming and cooling experienced in recent centuries.,4_2
"Work undertaken not the first, claiming the periodicity of climate change and, accordingly, the incorrect predictions of global warming, experts say FIAN. One of the confirmations of the calculations of Russian scientists began a study of ice cores extracted from boreholes drilled above Lake Vostok in Antarctica. The longest core length of 3623 m allowed to conclude that changes in temperature over 420,000 years. During this time the Earth was at least four major temperature fluctuations in a big way at 8 degrees! So the upcoming cold spell can be considered gentle. In any case, a century ago, the planet was one degree colder than today. And for a lot of global climate change, say meteorologists.",2_1
"No more excuses, Mr. Gore. Have the guts to defend your views. Show some cojones.",5_2
"Most importantly, the GEF has become a giant protection racket in which environmental activists shake down the World Bank in exchange for their silence and even their support. The scheme has worked magnificently as Green organizations have ended their campaign to abolish the World Bank even though they don't consider it any more ""Earth-friendly"" than before.",0_0
David Whitehouse reviews the scientific literature and shows that the global warming standstill is a reality. Full report,1_4
"Give Greece a Going Away Present, But Go It MustBill Frezza's op-ed in Forbes",0_0
"To achieve this goal, the new state policy mandates that a mix of 1.4 million zero-emission and plug-in hybrid vehicles be on the road by 2025, nearly triple the number being driven today. Problem is, this increases the cost of these vehicles and limits consumer choices to those they dont want to make.",4_1
"In the e-mail, Legum boasted to Steyer about how ThinkProgress had silenced Pielke by preventing him from publishing at Nate Silver's then-new website, fivethirtyeight.com, on the issue of climate change. Legum was also asking Steyer, indirectly, for more money. Steyer and Podesta both sit on the board of the Center for American Progress. Between 2008 and 2014, Steyer gave the Center for American Progress some $3.85 million. I'll come back to the specifics of that e-mail shortly.",0_0
"The number of real experts who can independently judge whether the UAH MSU correction made things more accurate is very low. I am not one of them. My sociological criteria tell me that it's more likely that the correction should have been made. But of course, I don't care. Whether a mid-troposphere warming trend should be 50% higher or lower is a technicality. I didn't have any belief and I couldn't have any belief a priori; and I don't really care about the outcome, either.",0_0
"The ingenious system required the same percentage reduction emissions from the two types of coal even though unscrubbed western coal was still cleaner than scrubbed eastern coal. This law (which lasted under the 1990 Clean Air Amendments) illustrates how powerful political figures (Robert Byrd of West Virginia and Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio) could take advantage of weak constitutional structures to impose destructive legislation, which should be struck down because of its massive implicit economic subsidies for dirty eastern coal.",0_0
"The big lie peddled by the UN is the notion that a doubling of CO2 concentration will cause as much as 2-4.5 C of global warming. In fact, according to a stream of recent papers in the peer-reviewed journals, it will cause more like 0.5-0.8 C of warming. That is all and it is harmless.",3_1
"The term ""air pollutant"" means any air pollution agent or combination of such agents, including any physical, chemical, biological, or radioactive (including source material, special nuclear material, and by-product material) substance or matter, which is emitted into, or otherwise enters, the ambient air. Such term includes any precursors to the formation of any air pollutant, to the extent that the Administrator has identified such precursor or precursors for the particular purpose for which the term ""air pollutant"" is used.",0_0
"So, how will this book be received by the climate establishment? First, I suspect that they will attempt to smear Laframboise as a denier. This is not the case. Her prime motivation seems to be a concern about free speech; she has a long standing involvement in free speech issues in Canada. Second, people will pick apart some of the minor points that are arguably suboptimal interpretations.",0_0
"As the atmospheric CO2 concentration has grown since the 1700??s coral reef extension rates have also trended upwards. This is contrary to the theory that increased atmospheric CO2 should reduce the calcium carbonate saturation in the oceans, thus reducing reef calcification. It??s a similar enigma to the calcification rates of coccoliths and otoliths.",3_2
"So natural gas supplies may be plentiful now, but the Obama Administration's ""crucify them"" agenda on oil and gas development is designed to change that. Its whole purpose is to decrease access to these resources through increased regulations from the federal government.",0_0
"Underestimating Costs: The Institute for Energy Analysis (IEA) produced a study that estimates the cost of replacing existing power plants with solar- or wind-generated electrical power. Many prior studies used government estimates of new power plants to compare different types of electricity generation, such as comparing nuclear power with combined-cycle natural-gas plants. Such studies failed to take into account the useful life of the existing plants, with much of the capital costs substantially reduced over time and use. Our study shows that on average, electricity from new wind resources is nearly four times more expensive than from existing nuclear and nearly three times more expensive than from existing coal. These are dramatic increases in the cost of generating electricity. This means that the premature closures of existing plants will unavoidably increase electricity rates for American families.",4_4
"BBC NEWS | Climate change threat to haggis Global warming could pose a threat to a key ingredient used in one of Scotland's most famous dishes. An increase in lungworm infections in sheep has been identified by the Scottish Agricultural College Veterinary Investigation Centre. The parasite renders sheep lung - used to make haggis - unfit for consumption . The centre's Sandy Clark said climate change could be a factor in the rise of cases and said lung could end up being used less in making the food. Thurso-based Mr Clark said: ""There is the possibility that their part of the ingredients maybe less prevalent and may have to change to another mix.""",0_0
Are Tornadoes Getting Stronger? Rebuttal to Elsner et al.,0_0
"It is reported here that the University of Pittsburgh Research Integrity Panel concluded that Dr. Gerald Schatten didnt intentionally fabricate data, but he committed research misbehavior in signing his name to Dr. Hwang Woo-suks work in South Korea.",0_0
"The worlds climate scientists are almost all employed by western governments. They usually dont pay you to do climate research unless you say you believe manmade global warming is dangerous, and it has been that way for more than 20 years. The result is a near-unanimity that is unusual for a theory in such an immature science.",5_2
"In an attempt to further explore the subject, which Gardelle et al . describe as suffering ""from a severe lack of observations,"" the three researchers calculated the regional mass balance of glaciers in the central Karakoram between 1999 and 2008, based on the differences they found between two sets of digital elevation data, one generated from the February 2000 Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) and the other from the December 2008 optical stereo imagery acquired by the Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre (SPOT5) program.",0_0
"4 Eugenics, which arose in the US, was advocated by many progressives. It was simply another manifestation of the liberation of man.",0_0
"Brian McNicoll: If president is serious about across-the-board energy, why won't he approve the Keystone pipeline? More than 1,200 pipelines traverse more or less the same route. William Yeatman reacts to Obama on climate change:",0_0
"hawkish stance, Obama and the rising generation of Democratic foreign policy",0_0
"Idso first looked at changes in atmospheric water vapor that occurs in Phoenix, Arizona each year with the advent of the summer monsoon. By plotting daily minimum and maximum temperatures for the last 30 years as functions of atmospheric water content he was able to calculate a climate sensitivity factor of 0.17 C per W/m2, considerably less than the model assumption. He then obtained data for the annual range of solar radiation reception and compared that with the annual temperature range at 81 locations within the United States. He found a climate sensitivity of 0.17 C per W/m2 for the non-coastal stations and 0.087 C per W/m2 for coastal stations (coastal temperatures are moderated by the ocean).",0_0
The Science Media Centre soon followed with an attempt at expert reaction to new report on climate sensitivity published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation . The SMCs approach to climate is less about getting clear scientific advice to the public debate than it is about getting rehearsed soundbytes from scientists into the press as quickly as possible.,5_2
"A new paper published in Environmental Research Letters finds excuse #66 for the 18+ year ""pause"" of global warming :There's no ""pause"" if you look at only the one single warmest and coldest days per year.",1_4
"As Castillo explained to The Wall Street Journal's David Colman, ""We spend too much time in the gym to hide under frumpy shorts that say, ""I don't care how I look.'"" Colman himself has been a chronicler of men's shortening shorts, with the rise of Chubbies' popularity prompting him this summer to comment that ""if men's shorts were a glacier in Greenland, scientists would be freaking out."" In just a few short years, the 15-inch inseam has retracted to the 11-inch knee-length look, only to make a decisive jump to 9 inches, after which it tried out the ""quadriceps-exposing 7 inches"" and didn't stop until reaching ""the newly fashionable thigh-flaunting 5 inches.""",0_0
"10 Hew Strachan, ""Making Strategy: Civil-Military Relations after Iraq,"" Survival (Autumn 2006); Lawrence Friedman, The Revolution in Strategic Affairs, 1998, and The Transformation in Strategic Affairs, 2006.",0_0
"Their ""work"" is all about imposing a meaninglessly contrived language upon people. Moreover, Ms Marletto's understanding of energy dominated by the question whether it can be obtained for free is exactly the same childish misunderstanding of the concept that Feynman would humiliate in his text Judging Books By Their Covers . ""Energy makes it go"" was written as an answer to all questions in the book. Feynman pointed out that the children wouldn't learn a damn thing. They could have written ""Wakalixes make it go"" just as well. Moreover, the statements aren't really true because energy isn't what makes things go. It's just being converted from one form to another etc.",0_0
"Levi, Ebinger and most recently the DOE addressed Markey's dubious thesis that expanding LNG exports would increase our dependence on foreign supplies. They concluded much the oppositea growing export market would increase energy security by expanding overall supply while also providing invaluable geopolitical chips to support US foreign policy goals, all with only minor impact on domestic prices.",0_0
>I have contacted the Bank in order to check if and how to use my note.,0_0
IT?S a prediction that means this may be time to dig out the snow chains and thermal underwear.,0_0
"In America, it is harder to balance the electricity wind provides to the grid. Hydropower only supplies 6 percent of the electricity in the United States. In some markets, such as the Pacific Northwest, hydroelectric power is plentiful. But the fickle nature of electricity from wind means that even in the Pacific Northwest it is difficult to balance the electrical load and the Bonneville Power Administration is increasing rates for wind operators by 90 percent (down from a proposed 300 percent increase).",4_4
"The observed reduction in warming trend over the period 1998-2012 as compared to the period 1951- 2 2012, is due in roughly equal measure to a cooling contribution from internal variability and a reduced trend in radiative forcing (medium confidence). The reduced trend in radiative forcing is primarily due to volcanic eruptions and the downward phase of the current solar cycle. However, there is low confidence in quantifying the role of changes in radiative forcing in causing this reduced warming trend. {Box 9.2; 10.3.1; Box 10.2}",1_4
"If you were to take that argument to the nth degree, we should all be driving 18-wheelers. And the trend in society today is just the opposite, said Dave Schembri, president of Smart USA.",0_0
"He oversaw the first orbital flight in 1981, just nine years after the program began. Then, after the Challenger disaster took the lives of McAuliffe and six other shuttle crew members on Jan. 28, 1986, he insisted that the program continue.",0_0
"Sandra Brown, professor of forestry at U. of Illinois and Ariel Lugo, project leader at the U.S. Forest Service's Institute of Tropical Forestry in Puerto Rico also studied available data and ""concluded the `dangerous' misinterpretation and exaggeration of the rate of deforestation has become common.""",0_0
"In 1908, a hurricane formed on March 6, the earliest on record. Ah, for the good old days of early spring hurricanes..",1_7
Junk Science: An Epidemic that Hurts Us All: an exclusive interview with Steven J. Milloy,0_0
"Some might counter that the House bill touts complex tax credits for wind and solar development. However, when the wind isn??t blowing and the sun isn??t shining, those two alternatives don??t provide a watt of energy ??? they??re simply enhancements, not baseload providers. Additionally, the Kerry-Lieberman loan giveaway for the construction of nuclear plants ??? which do not generate carbon emissions ??? is simply a lure to entice gullible Republicans to bite, because the White House is not a fan of nuclear power.",4_4
"The Church held sway over what is right and wrong for long after the Enlightenment, but it has been losing terrain. Others have stepped in to fill the moral vacuum. The environmental movement is one. There sure are environmental problems that should be solved, but some environmental organizations take it one step further. On offer are guidance how to live your life, a tribe to belong to, a feeling of superiority over outsiders, and even a looming Armageddon, lest we atone for our sins, in the shape of climate change.",0_0
"Methods, brands, and models that work should be multiplied, those that don't work should be suppressed. Salaries in parts of the company that produce ""too much"" profit should be raised, relatively speaking, while those in the loss-making parts should be lowered. And the brands and the emotional attitude that various people have towards various brands should be just tools to achieve the actual goals higher profits and their growth and sustainability and not the ultimate goal of the decisions.",0_0
"""This was a Soviet Union at the height of its global power and influence, both in its own view and in the view of the rest of the world."" Leon Aron",0_0
"Luciers attack on Seitz fits into a broader effort to squelch scientific debate on global warming. Last year, Vice President Al Gore and his minions claimed that a consensus of 2,500 scientists supported the theory that man-made emissions of greenhouse gases were disrupting Earths climate.",0_0
"Having read too many Gore, Pachauri, Quinn and other Deep Ecology treatises, LunaBomber James Lee held Discovery Channel employees hostage and denounced the TV station for its support of ""parasitic human infants,"" before being shot by police. His website and actions underscore how demented some Earth Liberation and global warming fanatics have become.",5_2
(f) I am not surprised or disappointed that you and other bloggers disapprove of our tactics. It is simply not your role in the controversy to be aggressive or controversial. But it is ours.,0_0
"Elevated CO 2 increased rates of net photosynthesis in 74% of the reviewed studies. Some of the non-responsive observations were made late in the growing season when senescence was occurring. The CO 2 -induced increases in photosynthesis led to increases in total biomass ranging from 22 to 90% and averaging 33%, in spite of the fact that several of the studies were performed when environmental stresses and resource limitations made growing conditions less-than-optimal for this genus. In addition, elevated CO 2 reduced stomatal conductance and water loss in the majority of studies. What it means",3_3
"Hmm. No lepers bell there. But perhaps Tim Flannery , then, is introduced as a paleontologist and mammalogist, not a climatologist who by definition works closely with people who pay him to scare us about global warming:",5_2
"This comes on the heels of a review of the ICESat satellite data from 1992 to 2008, which showed a net gain in ice mass in Antarctica.",1_1
We are dealing here with something more like religion and less like science.,5_2
"First, standard climate alarmism claims that manmade emissions of greenhouse gases are warming surface temperatures. But not only is such warming not being observed in Antarctica, its actually getting cooler in western Antarctica, according to surface temperature analysis from each of eight NASA stations located there.",1_1
"Because the press hounds followed this red herring so eagerly, activists followed up through intimidating letters from congressman to university and corporate officials, naming skeptical scientists, implying that questioning climate dogma can have serious personal repercussions. Disturbing and threatening as the revealed totalitarian impulses of this activism is, it reinforces the lesson of the climategate scandal: popular climate discourse is actually a dogma posing as science. Not only does this undermine the credibility of science, but also it destroys the collegiality needed for scientists to question each other about their works in order to move human knowledge ahead. Science has been set back a generation by the red herrings of climate activism. Its time for it to end.",0_0
THE SOI INDICATES NO EL NINO EVENT IN 1943 OR 1944,0_0
"Sen. McConnell warned, ?Considering that two-thirds of the U.S. Federal government hasn?t even signed off on the Clean Power Plan and 13 states have already pledged to fight it, our international partners should proceed with caution before entering into a binding, unattainable deal.",0_0
There were 124 separate occasions from November 2008 till December 2010 when total generation from the windfarms metered by the National Grid was less than 20MW (average capacity over the period was in excess of 1600MW).,4_4
"Clearly, sea levels have actually been falling in the last decade, after very little change in the 1990s.",1_6
"Phew! That took rather longer than originally expected. I'm finally back in the saddle, and bear the scars of a rather traumatic house move and a complete absence from the blogosphere for three weeks. I spent the first ten days like a lost sheep, wandering around aimlessly, unable to understand how any question, even the most simple, could be answered without a 2Mb broadband connection and the assistance of Mr Google. It's nice to be back. Lots of reading to catch up on though. Posting will resume in due course. Thanks for your patience.",0_0
"The climate record indicates a solar effect of this kind. One example is the record of the sun's magnetism and reconstructed land temperatures of the Northern Hemisphere over 240 years (Figure 3).13 If changes in the sun's magnetism track changes in the sun's brightness, over these long time scales, they might explain the high correlation of solar magnetism with terrestrial temperature change. Climate models suggest that changes of roughly 0.5% in the sun's brightness would produce global average temperature changes of about 0.5 C over a century or so.14",2_1
"The recent hype in Nature notwithstanding, Greenland has been cooling for the better part of two generations.",1_4
"In one corner are William Galston and Elaine Kamarck, Democrats who held top jobs in the Clinton White House, writing in the Washington Post.",0_0
"3 W.S.Broecker and G.H. Denon: What Drives Glacial Cycles ? Scientific American, Jan.1990",0_0
"""..., this committee recommends an increased effort in research on the natural causes of climate change, in particular the activity variations of the sun, the mechanism of cloud formation, and the multi-decadal variations in ocean current systems.""",2_1
"When global warming alarmists claim winters will become warmer and free of snow, yet their predictions are proven false for 20 years in a row, at some point logical people come to realize that global warming alarmists are selling snake oil.",5_2
Local newspaper boasts ultimate passive-aggressive paywall policy:,0_0
"A new Iowa state law to curb junk food consumption may make it much harder for school cafeterias to feed students. ""Based on a strict interpretation of these new guidelines, six of our top revenue-producing food items would be eliminated,"" Dianne Duncan-Goldsmith, director of food service for the Iowa City school district, told The Daily Iowan. That would amount to nearly $200,000 in lost profits at a time when budgets everywhere are tight.",0_0
"The result? Nothing, aside from promises by various countries to get serious ""really serious ""about carbon emissions sometime soon.",0_0
"""An international group of scientists are aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth - from global weather patterns and the spread of diseases to international financial transactions or congestion on Milton Keynes' roads.""",0_0
"The Chicago River is largely frozen over this morning, as a historically cold air mass plunges most of the nation into a deep freeze.The temperature at Chicago's O'Hare airport was 16 degrees below zero this morning, shattering the previous January 6 low temperature record of 14 degrees below zero set in 1884 and 1988.Temperatures at the South Pole were 11 degrees below zero five degrees warmer than Chicago at the time Chicago set its low temperature record..Meteorologists at Weather Bell reported the average temperature in the United States registered merely 14.8 degrees Fahrenheit this morning, with strong Arctic cold extending into South Texas and Florida.Global warming activists and their media allies have already begun blaming global warming for the record cold.The accompanying photo was taken this morning by Heartland Institute communications director Jim Lakely.",1_3
A Compelling Description of Water Resources and Global Water Policies,0_0
"During the last interglacial, sea levels were 31 feet higher than the present, sea ice extent much less than the present, and Greenland was 8C warmer than the present , all with ""safe"" levels of CO2. There is no evidence the current interglacial is any different.",2_1
Working Group I depends entirely on climate models and 98% of them didnt predict the pause.,5_1
Let's cool it in heat of great debate,0_0
I can?t overstate the HUGE amount of political interest in the project as a,0_0
"Furthermore, there has been no ???global warming??, in any statistically-significant sense, for 15 years. Indeed, there has been global cooling for nine years. In general, there was less warming in the southern hemisphere than in the northern hemisphere anyway. So the likelihood that manmade ???global warming?? had or has any measurable impact on the glaciers of the Andes is very small indeed. But that will not stop the likes of Al Gore and the New York Times (with which he works closely) suggesting otherwise.",1_4
"Let us next consider the erroneous discussion by the authors of statistical significance of verification scores. The authors state the following: The nonsense predictor mentioned above (number of available grid points) scores RE=46% (and CE=-23%), which is more than any of the flavors ever approaches in the 100 random samples. And it is not unlikely that other nonsense predictors score even higher. On this background, the originally reported 57% of verification are hardly significant. This has already been claimed by McIntyre and McKitrick 2005b in a slightly different context.",0_0
I too don?t see why the schemes should be symmetrical. The temperature ones,0_0
"The over-reaction was typified by Robert Watson, former head of the IPCC, who waxed lyrical to the Observer about what this could mean for the administration: ""It's hugely embarrassing.... If climate change is a threat to national security and the economy, then has to act. There are two groups the Bush Administration tends to listen to, the oil lobby and the Pentagon.""",0_0
that there are lessons to be learned - data should be available to the wider public,0_0
"ethanol last year, yet it provided only one per cent of the countrys",0_0
"The1899 San Ciriaco hurricane was the longest lasting storm on record, and killed more than 3,000 people.",1_7
"At the same time that the President was announcing the Californication of the country's automobile fleet, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Beverly Hills) is pushing through an anti-energy bill designed to export the Golden State's failed energy model to the rest of the country. The bill, the Clean Energy and Security Act, borrows liberally from California's climate initiatives, including a cap-and-trade scheme, a renewable energy requirement, and a low-carbon standard.",0_0
"There was just one problem. The CAA is a highly interconnected statute. As Attorney Peter Glaser cautioned in congressional testimonies , once you start regulating CO 2 under oneprovision of the Act, you end up having to regulate CO 2 undermultiple provisions. The endangerment finding wouldinitiate a regulatory cascadethat couldgive thegreenhouse lobby everything it had ever demandedand more.Bushs EPA could tee up Al Gores regulatory agenda on steroids but without any of Gores allies on the Hill voting for it or taking responsibility for the compliance burdens and economic fallout, energy realists warned .",0_0
"Dumping them all into the public domain would be the last resort. Majority of the emails are irrelevant, some of them probably sensitive and socially damaging.",0_0
"liquid ocean, whose heat capacity and mass/energy transport with the atmosphere dominate the earth's weather.",0_0
"The errors in the record exceed by a wide margin the purported rise in temperatures of 0.7 degrees C (about 1.2 degrees F) during the twentieth century, Watts said. See for yourself at Surfacestations.org",5_1
And an ideal carbon tax can be shown to have only modest damage to the economy .,0_0
"The march was an excuse for those who are perpetually angry that the top 50% have so much more than the bottom 50%. Arguably, the environmental movement has been hijacked by anti-capitalists who think everyone can live in peace, harmony, and prosperity without anyone having to work hard.",0_0
"Charlie Crist: The Florida governor's presence would spark the age-old debate between GOP conservatives and moderates. Crist might want to talk to Rudy Giuliani, who spent nearly $50 million on his presidential effort and secured all of one delegate.",0_0
"A better way to look at this is in cross plots of the corresponding CO2-temperature data as shown below. If there is 95% certainty that global warming is predominately caused by manmade activities the relationship should be easily discernible including by the naked eye. In fact the cross plot below covering over the period mentioned there were two hiatuses totaling 35 years out of the total 56 years (nearly two-thirds of the time), exhibiting no or very little correlation between CO2 and global mean temperature. So how can the IPCC in AR5 increase the probability (to 95%) of manmade causes being the overwhelming predominant and by implication the only important forcing of global warming? (my question).",2_3
"""here is potential for positive foreign policy impacts from US entry in the global gas market, through both increased supply diversity for strategic gas-importing allies, and as a contributory factor in weakening the oil linked contract pricing structure that works to the advantage of rent-seeking energy suppliers,"" Ebinger and colleagues concluded in their Brookings analysis.",0_0
Ive finished reading Donna Laframboises book The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the Worlds Top Climate Expert: An Expose of the IPCC .,0_0
Swissvale man accused in casino thefts arrested by federal agents:,0_0
The Californian company bankrolls businesses hoping to profit from technology that helps reduce global warming and carbon emissions.,0_0
"They state: ""we have shown that bad weather may affect electoral outcomes by significantly decreasing Democratic presidential vote share, to the benefit of Republicans"". And they make a compelling case that weather has decided some presidential elections.",0_0
"I was reading through the latest State of the Climate in 2006 put out by AMS, and was kind of puzzled by their discussion of Antarctic Sea Ice on page S74. while there was considerable discussion of the reduction of sea ice in the Arctic, there was no discussion of the rising trend of March sea ice as shown on the lower left of Fig 5.22. In fact, after reading through the discussion, I at least, was left with impression that negative ice cover trends and locations where they took place were more important than the overall positive trend as shown in the figure.",1_1
Russian President Proposes Creative Commons-Style Rules Baked Directly Into Copyright:,0_0
Rick Piltz at Climate Science Watch reports that the U.S. House of Representatives votes 244-179 to kill funding for the UN IPCC.,0_0
"Great way to cap off a less than perfect year for the warmist camp, says Allan.",0_0
Witch trials were completely legal and were administered by highly educated upper level social strata.,0_0
"Frank Pallone (D- N.J.) will introduce a bill that would create an emission trading system amongst electric power plants with caps on emissions. According to the BNA Daily Environment Report (July 2, 1999) the ""bill would impose a cap and allow trading of nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and carbon dioxide emission allowances."" Also, it ""would amend the Federal Power Act and require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to set standards for those pollutants' cap levels.""",0_0
"You can read the whole paper ""Carbon cycle modelling and the residence time of natural and anthropogenic atmospheric CO2: on the construction of the ""Greenhouse Effect Global Warming' dogma"" by Tom V. Segalstad, one of the chapters in the book Bate, R. (Ed.): ""Global Warming: The Continuing Debate"", European Science and Environment Forum (ESEF), Cambridge, England (ISBN 0-9527734-2-2), pages 184-219, 1998.",0_0
"To fully understand the context of Vilsack's actions, some background is essential.",0_0
"Here we see that while warming was most rapid in the N. Hemisphere during this period, it was also present in the tropics in southern hemisphere. The contradicts Trenberth??s assertion that the early warming period was not globally distributed.",2_1
6. No Global Warming for 15 Years: David Whitehouse. http://jennifermarohasy.com/2012/04/no-global-warming-for-15-years-david-whitehouse/,1_4
"""Last week, as President Obama delivered his economic speech deriding the so-called 'trickle-down' economic policies that created 16 million jobs under President Reagan, his Energy Department was preparing to announce the next stage of a policy that may never create any. Why Obama is doubling and tripling down on one of his worst and most embarrassing policy mistakes is anybody's guess. Maybe it's change that only he and global warming diehards can believe in.""",0_0
"There has been a technological revolution in the natural gas industry over the last decade. In that time, a drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing , or ???fracking,?? has become economically viable, thereby allowing for the exploitation of huge natural gas reserves that had been too expensive to recover. As a result, America??s natural gas supply has roughly doubled.",4_5
"Given the intense interest in Arctic Sea Ice this year, since it appears we have a potential for recovery again, I??ve decided to put all the sea ice graphs and imagery in one handy place for easy nail biting reference.",1_1
The proposed EPA plan will chase away more American industry,0_0
The definition of fully consistent is that they are on a mission and have little or no evidence. The fall in temperatures after 1950 was fully consistent withenteringan ice age.,0_0
"Despite claims that it continues to get warmer and warmer, this table from NOAA/NCDC indicates that 2011 was in the middle of the pack, going all the way back to 1980 (the start of the global warming era). Such remote years as 1981, 1986, 1987, and 1990 were hotter.",1_4
New York Times Columnist Tom Friedman Hails China's One-Party Autocracy,0_0
Boeing Announces Big Layoffs in Defense Division US Business News CNBC,0_0
A Dark Victory: How vested interests defeated climate science,0_0
"on Monday, December 12th, 2011 at 3:22 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"The climate change fraud that is now unravelling is unprecedented in its deceit, unmatched in scopeand for the liberal elite, akin to 9 on the Richter scale. Never have so few fooled so many for so long, ever.",5_2
"Do you understand that the correct null hypothesis is that gentle warmings, such as that which occurred between 1979 and 1998, and equivalent coolings, are to be viewed as due to natural causes unless and until evidence indicates otherwise. Gentlemen, where is that evidence, and why is it not presented in the voluminous reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that you and the government so often refer to?",2_1
Dalton McGuinty??s Green Energy Act is already destroying jobs as energy costs rise and the opposition has targeted the province??s impossible green energy math as an election issue.,4_1
"The President says that, America cannot resist this transition; we must lead it.We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries we must claim its promise. But thats just it how does he know, despite the Solyndra and other failures, the tiny market shares of politically-correct renewables, and the intractable dependence of renewables on policy privileges thatwind and solar power are the future?What information does he have that tens of thousands of savvy investors dont?",0_0
"People haveresponded to Osbornes Budget with protests up and down the country, and leading figures from the Green Parties were fast to criticise the measures included in theBudget. In her response to theBudget, Green MP Caroline Lucas said it was cruel and counterproductive and a serious blow for the fight against climate change. -- Bright Green, 8 July 2015",0_0
"Out: ""climate change"" (joining its predecessors ""new ice age"" and ""global warming"" on the scrap heap).",0_0
Water-efficient maize boosts harvests for drought-hit Tanzanian farmers,0_0
The people in the future envisioned by the IWG (and embedded in their IAMs) need not worry. They will not be disappointed because the IWG assumes future growth in per capita GDP that actually exceeds that of the U.S. for the past two centuries.,0_0
"There is no evidence at all of an increasing trend over the last decade and temperatures since 2006 have averaged 15.8C, a similar level to the late 1940s.",1_4
"Until recently, Europe had positioned itself as the global leader in climate protection and renewable energy, with Germany leading the way with ambitious targets and generous subsidies that boosted solar power and wind energy.",0_0
"And the judge's finding could not have been blunter: ""The Armageddon scenario that he depicts is not based on any scientific view."" And that quotation, too, was on one of my slides, but Abraham carefully failed to mention it, or to check with me to find out how it was that the judge had come to that conclusion.",0_0
"More than 100 of the world's independent science bodies including the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Medical Association and every major science oversight group in Europe and across the developed and developing world have by now issued summary statements that foods made from genetically modified crops are as safe as conventional or organic varieties and often times are safer because they undergo extensive evaluations for approval.",0_0
Learn more:5 questions every president should answer on Afghanistan,0_0
Last May I wrote about a study which he had authored where he found that weather extremes in the Alps had not increased.,1_7
"Remember that all these samples were collected the year of their exposure along receding ice cap margins . So, out of the 145 samples, 135 have been dated to less than 5000 years ago, and over half are as recent as the MWP. Yet the study ignores all the evidence from these, and uses a tiny amount of data from one small corner of the survey area to justify its claim of Unprecedented warmth in the Arctic.",5_1
"Any further action by the Prime Minister seems to bring new charts, new requirements and new demands, without any connection between them. The response of the British public service and it was obvious, as a run-up to do the minimum possible to avoid incurring the wrath ministerial, with no consideration for the users of the service. The Dean of the above will try to excel many more students can, and will not care if people with disabilities in her school will not learn the bare minimum. The family doctor will refuse to see patients suffered more serious and / or most at risk, but success will appear in the list of the average waiting time in his clinic. And so on.",0_0
"6) Thought control. In addition to vilifying climate chaos skeptics, alarmists are determined to control all thinking on the subject. They are terrified that people will find realist analyses and explanations far more persuasive. They refuse to debate skeptics, respond to NIPCC and other studies examining natural climate change and carbon dioxide benefits to wildlife and agriculture, or even admit there is no consensus.",5_2
"Funniest thing about this climate nonsense is the sense of supreme importance many (like our opponents in the paper) feel. Politicians feed egos of scientists and their hangers on because, for now, these folks are useful in advancing the agenda-of-the-moment. But, as always happens, manias morph and something new will capture attentions. How sad some will be when the phone stops ringing! Perhaps the mere thought of this misery is what accounts the vehemence of the debate.",0_0
"Converting to biomass? I bet the conversion efficiency is lower than conventional fuels, therefore even more waste heat.",0_0
"Currently, its ""Clean Power"" plan is generating its latest and most duplicitous Administer, Gina McCarthy, to go around saying that it will not be costly, nor cost jobs. ""Clean Power"" is the name given to the EPA policy to reduce overall U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 30% from 2005 levels by 2030. It is requiring each state to cut its emissions by varying amounts using a baseline established by the EPA.",4_1
"For instance, the notorious claim that glaciers in the Himalayas would disappear by 2035 seems to have been based on a misprint (for 2350) in a document issued by a pressure group. When several reviewers challenged the assertion in draft, they were ignored. When Indian scientists challenged it after publication, they were not just dismissed but vilified and accused of ""voodoo science"" by the IPCC chairman, Rajendra Pachauri.",0_0
Yet you wouldnt know this from most networks. Recent years slowdown in global warming was completely ignored by networks in 92 climate change stories in 2013. (2),0_0
"Dem congressman: Hey, let's impeach John Roberts:",0_0
"As DOJ reviews legality of merger, it's AT&T; versus Sprint:",0_0
"Biggest Player. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the scientific panel whose reports contain the work of Glimategate figures and are highly politicized and publicized to increase fear of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW): ""imminent catastrophic man-made climate change."" Many horrendously expensive and needless local, state, federal and international policies have flowed from IPCC's flawed reports.",5_2
"To summarize, a pro-AGW paper being peer reviewed by other climate scientists is probably (like Briffa appears to have been) being considered favorably because of its results, is being reviewed by reviewers who know and often have co-authored with the papers writer, likely contains undisclosed data treatment that influences the result, is being reviewed by reviewers who do not have the mathematical background to spot subtle statistical errors, and is being judged on conformity to accepted practices in the discipline in a discipline that is evolving so quickly that the accepted practices themselves are not well validated.",5_2
"As noted above, the application of likelihood methods to assess trend confidence intervals under different autocorrelation structures seems so obvious and is so easy to implement that one would expect it to be almost routine. And perhaps it is in some circles, but, if it is, it hasnt been mentioned in any of the recent climate debate on trends.",0_0
Click here to download Part 4 in PDF form,0_0
"Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball, WUWT, Aug 8, 2015",0_0
"On the basis of these findings, the authors conclude that this worst drought of the modern meteorological record ""is not likely to be purely anthropogenic in origin."" And if it is no different from what has been occurring over and over again for the past 1500 years, it is surely not the result of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.",1_7
"These showers are just the first line, more will come later...here is the 24 hr precipitation ending 5 AM Monday. Not used to seeing precipitation around here! But with the rain will come lightning and the potential for new fire starts.",0_0
"""Based on the above analysis,"" in the words of the three researchers, ""it is likely that the observed decrease in stress response was the result of acclimatization of the coral/algal holobionts (Berkelmans et al ., 2004; Maynard et al ., 2008) or an influx of thermo-tolerant colonies between 2002 and 2007."" And providing further support for their conclusions, they note that several ""similar decreases in susceptibility to thermal stress have been documented between successive bleaching events, including between 1991 and 1994 at Moorea Island (Adjeroud et al ., 2002), between 1998 and 2002 on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia (Maynard et al ., 2008), and between 1982-83 and 1997-98 in Panama (Glynn et al ., 2001), Costa Rica (Jimenez et al ., 2001), and at the Galapagos Islands (Podesta and Glynn, 2001).""",3_2
"Human Achievement Hour is an annual event that recognizes and celebrates the fact that this is the greatest time to be alive yet, and that the reason we have come this far is that people have been free to use their minds and the resources in their environment to experiment, create, and innovate.",0_0
"Figure 1. Changes in yearly average surface-temperature sampled worldwide, reconstructed for land and sea surface (solid line, University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit ), and land only (dashed line, NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies ).2 The temporary warming in 1997-1998 is a natural and unusually strong El Nio event and biases the estimated warming trend upward.",0_0
"In today's highly charged environment of climate change policy, efforts are often made to impune the credibility of those engaged in the debate through assertions that their views are a product of financial relationships rather than sincerely held beliefs or objective research.",0_0
"For what its worth, while this study is often cited by cholesterol deniers, they almost never emphasize the absurd conclusions regarding pushing the guidelines even lower. Perhaps this is to protect the lay audience from falling into despairas they probably shouldover the state of what used to be called science.",0_0
Near-future reductions in pH will have no consistent ecological effects on the early life-history stages of reef corals,3_2
"Firstly, it misunderstands international trade. Our economic well-being is independent of Chinese productivity. The idea that other nations will ?steal our jobs? or otherwise capitalize off of our unwillingness to go green is a fallacy. The belief that another country?s rise or fall impacts our economic well-being in any appreciable way is unsupported by economic theory and disproven by empirical evidence (ignoring, for simplicity, the prospect of military confrontation, where relative strength does indeed matter). There is no race or contest being played out; the U.S. and China are not Pepsi and Coca Cola writ large.",0_0
#31. Key Finding of International Scientific Panel's Analysis of Climate-Change,0_0
National | Central Midlands & Coastal Advocate,0_0
"In the civilian world, politicians and bureaucrats have robbed the concept of ""strategy"" of any meaning by systematically using it interchangeably with ""policy."" Academics and think-tankers, for their part, have chosen to blow out of proportion a Revolution in Security Affairs in which ""the dividing lines between hard and soft, civil and military security are rapidly dissolving, requiring far more flexibility and causing much confusion as allies and partners have disagreed significantly about how to manage such complexity."" This supposed Revolution has been used as a pretext to dissolve the concept of ""strategy"" in the catch-all notion of ""security,"" the concept of ""national security"" itself in a nebulous ""human security,"" and last but not least, the concept of grand strategy into that of global governance whatever that may mean.9",0_0
"\] is an example of a state (there are infinitely many) that is a linear superposition, but it is obviously not non-entangled. It is entangled. It should have a different eigenvalue \(E=1\) which proves that the linear operator cannot exist.",0_0
"Students meet state treasurer - Campus With a graduate degree in geology, Mourdock said his studies have convinced him that global warming is not happening. ""I'm scared to death about each of the three candidates and their positions on global climate change,"" Mourdock said. ""Global caps in the last 15 years receded until last year on Mars, but what do we have in common with Mars? Last time I checked, only the sun."" Mourdock explained that humans aren't the cause of global warming and that it's something bigger in the universe, such as the sun.",2_1
"We know life is better from stories we've heard in our own homes. Existence has improved enormously within the lifetimes of our immediate family members. My Grandfather O'Rourke was born in 1877, and born into a pretty awful world. The average wage was a dollar a daythat's if you worked; O'Rourkes were not known to do so.",0_0
"""A New Jersey Little League is taking safety up a notch. For the first time they're requiring all their volunteers be fingerprinted. We're talking coaches and concession stand workers, too.""",0_0
"Right now, Higginbotham's salary and career hang by a thread, preserved only by attorneys he has hired to protect himself from OSU attacks. The Robinsons' studies have been severely disrupted. Meanwhile, however, public outcry in favor of Higginbotham and the students has grown in intensity, especially in Oregon, and a group of prominent alumni donors has offered to pay for the student's remaining PhD work and legal costs to settle the dispute. (Higginbotham is a nuclear power guy; the culprits are in ""nuclear medicine"" and generally anti-nuclear power.)",0_0
"Typhoon Vera, September 1958. This typhoons passage over Japan in 1959 caused Japans greatest storm disaster. The death toll reached nearly 5000, with 1.5 million homeless. Typhoon Vera dealt a staggering blow to Japans economy with tremendous damage to roads, bridges and communications from wind, floods and landslides.",0_0
"Dubbed geoengineering, it involves purposely ""engineering"" the planet's climate in ways intended to offset warming from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Although Nature""s discussion of the various possibilities is fascinating on its own, the article is more interesting for its implicit insights into climate scientists' blinkered view of how to deal with greenhouse risks.",0_0
Researchers say it proves their cosmic impact hypothesis. I say its more evidence of huge explosions in the sky triggered by the Gothenburg magnetic reversal.,0_0
Todays Paper | Sydney Morning Herald | smh.com .au,0_0
In Keremali Akyaz Plateau district about 10 most elderly stranded citizens were rescued after heavy snowfall there mounted up to 70 cm (27 inches).,1_3
Here is another attempt at trying to untangle the Skydragons misunderstanding about the greenhouse effect and the planetary energy balance.,0_0
"Academic freedom is the belief that the freedom of inquiry by faculty members is essential to the mission of the academy as well as the principles of academia, and that scholars should have freedom to teach or communicate ideas or facts (including those that are inconvenient to external political groups or to authorities) without being targeted for repression, job loss, or imprisonment. Academic freedom is a contested issue and, therefore, has limitations in practice.",0_0
The Nobel Committee has a long tradition for being controversial; it has repeatedly awarded the price to controversial candidates in an effort to reach a hand out to people building bridges for peace and prosperity. This decision was not controversial; it was trite.,0_0
"Also July of 2015, and thus the 19th year without any signfiant linear global warming, the question remains: wheres the global warming ?",1_4
"Veterans Affairs wind turbine, built for $2.3 million, stands dormant",0_0
"It is true, Secretary Kerry, that ""no one nation can stand alone."" But he has promised we will rise to meet the challenge of tackling climate changerising energy prices, that is.",0_0
<4262> Klein/LLNL:,0_0
"Despite this, no changes were made to the text. In fact, when V.K Raina challenged the 2035 date in his report on Himalayan glaciers for the Indian government, the IPCC accused him of mischief and defended 2035 as a good estimate of when the glaciers would be gone.",5_2
"The authors of this new study were able to reveal a dimension of plant-environment feedbacks, which is currently insufficiently investigated and described for the response of plants to future CO2 concentrations, and that dimension reveals a promising future for Earths plant life?? Read More",3_3
It is a huge no-brainer that Jan 1974 rain exceeded Jan 2001 . Note the BoM coy way of putting it ??? ???? what data the bureau has suggests 1893??s rainfall was extreme.?? Feb 1893 rain might have exceeded Jan 1974 and 2011 combined.,1_7
"Not only are the 14 proxies used in O&B; not independent of prior studies, in fact, they are composed entirely of proxies repeatedly used in previous studies. Astonishingly, 2 of the 14 proxies (2 of only 10 in the Medieval Warm Period) are bristlecone/foxtail pines, despite the fact that these are precisely the proxies that have most been called into question in connection with the work of Mann et al.",5_1
"On Wednesday, July 20, authors Timothy and Christina Sandefur will be at The Heartland Institute's Andrew Breitbart Freedom Center in Arlington Heights, Illinois to talk about their book Property Rights in 21st-Century America. On Wednesday, July 27, Eric O'Keefe who successfully fought back against the infamous ""John Doe"" investigations in Wisconsin will be here to talk about how the power of the state can be used to silence patriotic Americans. You won't want to miss either of these important presentations! We hope to see you here in Arlington Heights, but if you are unable to attend in person, the events will be live-streamed and archived on Heartland's YouTube page. SEE UPCOMING EVENTS HERE",0_0
"FactCheck: The lead author of the Antarctica study, University of Missouri professor Curt Davis, said : ""These television ads are a deliberate effort to confuse and mislead the public about the global warming debate. They are selectively using only parts of my previous research to support their claims."" Davis's study indicated the increased ice accumulation in the interior might be offsetting the loss of ice at the coastal regions, or might not. It said that whether the entire ice sheet is shrinking ""will depend on the balance between mass changes on the interior and those in coastal areas.""",0_0
"Emissions from our power plants, cars, factories, and farms are causing catastrophic climate change!",0_0
"We can see this clash most clearly in the reactions of both camps to the Clinton presidency and to Hillary Clinton's once and future candidacy. To liberal progressives, the Clinton presidency is anathema. It was too timid when it had power in 1993-94, and too conciliatory when it shared power with a Republican Congress thereafter. This belief fueled the challenges to Al Gore in 2000 by Bill Bradley in the primaries and Ralph Nader in the general election. It fueled Howard Dean's 2004 bid, and was the impetus behind much of the support for Barack Obama's challenge to frontrunner Hillary Clinton in 2008.",0_0
"Translation; Pieces of wood are found repeatedly at the edges of receding glaciers. These provide evidence that it was frequently warmer than today over much of the past 10,000 years.",2_1
"The economic pain cuts deeper than wasted taxpayer money because government inventions distort free enterprise, create government dependence, and allow Washington to direct the flow of private-sector investments. The number of investment opportunities is broad and expansive, but the available capital is limited. Of course, investors must choose among the different projects, but government favoritism diverts limited capital by dictating who should receive it by extending the confidence of the government through a subsidy to a politically favored technology or company. For instance, private investors sank $1.1 billion into Solyndra. Much of the private financing came after the Department of Energy announced that Solyndra was one of 16 companies eligible for a loan guarantee in 2007. That $1.1 billion could have been invested elsewhere in the economy.",0_0
"Claim F: Climate scientists claim that the .4-.5C warming from 1975-1998 cannot have been caused natural variations. This has never been reconciled with the fact that the 0.6C warming from 1910 to 1940 was almost certainly due mostly to natural forces. Also, the claim that natural forcings could not have caused a 0.2C per decade warming in the 80's and 90's cannot be reconciled with the the current claimed natural ""masking"" of anthropogenic warming that must be on the order of 0.2C per decade.",2_1
"The Public Utility Commission is anticipating months of debate. It will hold another five hearings in February, March and April to consider what testimony will be permitted. Evidence will be presented at hearings in early May. Kristen Edwards, staff attorney at the commission, told me: ""We'll consider more meetings as necessary.""",0_0
"Expanded the first 10 clean, it looks s hr:",0_0
Global warming alarmists in full retreat as skeptics attack greenhouse theory,5_1
"In conducting their experiments, the three researchers determined that ""primary polyp growth was reduced only marginally by more acidic seawater,"" but they state that ""the combined effect of high temperature and lowered pH caused a significant reduction in growth of primary polyps by almost a third."" Nevertheless, they report that ""survival and settlement of planula larvae were unaffected by increased temperature, lowered acidity or the combination of both.""",3_2
"DELVING INTO THE causes of the French Revolution, de Tocqueville famously noted that regimes overthrown in revolutions tend to be less repressive than the ones preceding them. Why? Because, de Tocqueville surmised, though people ""may suffer less,"" their ""sensibility is exacerbated.""",0_0
Michael Mann proved climate change with his hockey stick,0_0
"A recent study from the Institute for Energy Research (IER), which examined the state-by-state burden of the PTC, called it ""an amazing subsidy"" because it can ""effectively give a utility a bigger subsidy than the actual market price. It would be as if Uncle Sam allowed car dealers to knock off $60,000 from their tax bill for every $50,000 car they sold. Indeed, the PTC is so generous that it can result in negative wholesale electricity prices."" The ""Sharing the Burden of the Wind PTC"" report shows which states benefit most from the federal subsidy and which lose. Texas was the biggest winner, having received $394 million in PTC credits.",0_0
"Aside from giving over most of its running time to what amounts to a stump speech, the film's efforts to humanize Gore are only remotely tied to his passion for the environment. We do learn that his interest in the issue goes back to his college days. But the picture's attempts to connect the near-death of Gore's young son with the father's love for the earth is as manipulative as the film's use of Katrina footage.",0_0
"The compromise baffled many outside observers, who could not understand what drove either side to reach the agreement. Both sides claimed victory, with Max Baucus (D.-Mont.) announcing that last year's was ""a better bill,"" while Pete Domenici (R.-N.M.) reminded commentators that the Republicans would be able to rewrite the bill in conference with the House.",0_0
"The hiatus period of 18 years 4 months, or 220 months, is the farthest back one can go in the RSS satellite temperature record and still show a sub-zero trend.",1_4
"Satellite Study: slowing plant growth, 2000-2009",0_0
"""If the Vice President is so worried about global warming he should consider a ""no regrets' policy,"" says Paul Georgia, environmental research associate at CEI and managing editor of Cooler Heads, a bi-weekly newsletter covering global warming issues. ""We suggest a program of deregulation that would remove barriers to energy innovation, eliminate subsidies that encourage energy use and liberate energy markets. A ""no-regrets' policy should be pursued regardless of global warming considerations.""",0_0
"22 Amy Myers Jaffe and Robert Manning, ""The Myth of the Caspian ""Great Game': The Real Geopolitics of Energy"" Survival (Winter 199899). See also Robert Sokolsky and Tanya Charlick-Paley, ""NATO and Caspian Security: A Mission Too Far?,"" RAND, 1999.",0_0
70-100: Friends funerals in-between doctor appointments,0_0
"Editor note : Adam Smith (17231790)is considered the father of modern libertarian thought, although economics and political economy have advanced significantly since the 18th century. Many of Smithsinsights have proved prescient, and it is often remarkable how todays follies bring to minda quotation or insight from his books, essays, or correspondence.",0_0
"Further information on the upward step changes that result from strong El Nio events, refer to my posts from a year ago Can El Nino Events Explain All of the Global Warming Since 1976? Part 1 and Can El Nino Events Explain All of the Global Warming Since 1976? Part 2",2_1
"Sea level in the region has been completely steady since 1975, Taminos period of modern global warming. Once again, scientists are trying to pretend that they know something scary, when in fact there is not one shred of evidence to support their claims.",1_6
"The paper, written in Chinese, says that there is also a ""significant correlation"" between solar activity over the past century and an increase in Earth's surface temperatures over the same period. The correlation between solar activity and water temperature is even higher than the correlation between solar activity and land temperature.",2_1
"Narrator: Like heat-related mortality, air pollution levels have fallen as cities have warmed. U.S. air quality should keep improving regardless of climate change.",0_0
"Simon, Julian L. ""Disappearing Species, Deforestation and Data,"" Rational Readings on Environmental Concerns. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992. (ed. Lehr, Jay H.)",0_0
"November to April snow extent was the highest on record this year, and has increased sharply since CO2 hit Hansens global warming tipping point of 350 PPM.",1_3
"It's not just me saying this. As the Chicago Tribune reported on May 18, in 2015 ""electric bills are set to be about $130 more than they are now."" It went on to say that prices have already significantly risen in the heartland. To quote this article again, ""Prices were higher in northern Ohio and the Mid-Atlantic region, at $357 per megawatt and $167 per megawatt respectively.""",4_1
"Why did they overestimate ice loss from these glaciers by 50%? The impact of rock debris that covers certain glacier tongues (4) and protects them from solar radiation (and thus from melting) was not taken into account in the previous work. Moreover, their sampling was limited to longitudinal profiles along the center of a few glaciers, which geometrically led to overestimation of ice loss.",5_1
"The substantial study, by Peter Lilley MP, is the most thorough analysis of the Stern Review so far undertaken. It takes the IPCCs view of the science of global warming as given, but points out that Sterns economic conclusions contradict the views of most of the worlds leading environmental economists and even the economic conclusions of the IPCC",5_2
implement it in prose. The political discourse on foreign policy wrestles with,0_0
"In fact it isnt a slur to call the farming lobby virtually irrelevant in the coal seam gas extraction debate because they are. In Australia the Crown owns mineral rights, not landholders and regardless of whether farmers lease grazing rights on surveyed government roads they have no rights to lock gates or prevent access to holders of mineral claims.",0_0
"This brings us to the topic of cap-and-trade, a form of energy rationing. There's money to be made in energy rationing -- OPEC proves it! The emission permits in a cap-and-trade program are like the oil production quota in OPEC, the only difference being that they're tradable. The cap makes the permits a valuable commodity, and Waxman-Markey in the early years would distribute about 85% of all permits free of charge to various industries and interest groups.",0_0
"11) Is Rising CO2 the Cause of Recent Warming? While this is theoretically possible, I think it is more likely that the warming is mostly natural. At the very least, we have no way of determining what proportion is natural versus human-caused.",2_1
"27 EPA, New Source Review: Report to the President, p. 11.",0_0
"And making flood insurance a federal program was a stroke of genius. That way homeowners didn't apply for it. Because you get federal government services whether you want federal government services or notInternal Revenue Service, for instance.",0_0
"Hes taken the leash off the EPA to wreak havoc on industries with massively expensive, and entirely unnecessary new regulations.",0_0
"As of Saturday afternoon, 31,800 customers remained without power. Duke Energy estimated that some customers in the Triad may not get their lights back until Wednesday.",0_0
record for a 100-yard dash and then flame out before ever reaching the finish line.,0_0
Hansen Forecasts 30 Degrees Warming At The Poles,0_0
a foreign country's experience: http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/pdf/Calzada%20EPW%20Testimony%...,0_0
Joe reports the shocking news that it is hot in Arizona in the summer.,0_0
Meltdown cuts Antarctic flights Tasmania News The Mercury The ...,0_0
"Yesterday on Saskatoon radio's John Gormley Live , Finance MInister Ralph Goodale responded in a grave, lowered voice when a caller challenged him on the just-announced assistance to the Darfur region of Sudan. She accused him of buying the vote of independant MP David Kilgour, who has been publicly demanding action in the Sudan as his price for supporting the government. Goodale told listeners that there had been a year of planning leading up to the announcement that 100 troops and another $170 million in aide were going to the Sudan. Indeed, this had been a top priority of the Liberal government for months and any suggestion that the package had been hastily arranged to secure David Kilgour's vote was ridiculous - ""Clearly this plan for Darfour was not devised in the last week or two."" Reuters ;",0_0
Latif saysthat half of the 0.8C of global warming weve seen since 1850 is due to natural causes.Marotzke says that ocean cycles stopped the warming over the last 12 years.,2_1
"That is politics in a nutshell. Because how else are the politicians going to stay politically powerful? Or get politically powerful? Or, for that matter, get a job?",0_0
"""These harmful regulations are going to drive blacks into government dependency,"" said Borelli, who is an African American. ""By harming the fossil fuel industry, you're harming hard-working Americans.""",0_0
"Obama's turnout pitch to Latinos: Get out there and punish your ""enemies"":",0_0
"Temperatures above the ""pre-industrial era"" in the last 450,000 years. Note that even the limit of 2.0 ??C was probably breached 8,135 years ago and 128,357 years ago, among other periods.",2_1
There were no significant steps taken toward a new global waming treaty at the April meeting in the Bonn Maritim Hotel of two ad hoc working groups of the UNFCCC parties. The official purpose of the conference was for the industrialized nations to negotiate additional obligations on the carbon dioxide reductions and their long-term co-operation with poorer countries. Two thousand delegates met in the conference centre's elegant halls. NGOs demonstrated on a pile of broken glass in the hotel's driveway as their way admonish conference participants over their recent fiasco in Copenhagen and to try launch a new run towards a Kyoto type agreement on carbon reduction.,0_0
"Track between Govett and Evans Lookouts, December 9, 2007",0_0
"Unfortunately, the total surface heat and water fluxes are not well observed. Normally, they are inferred from observations of other fields, such as surface temperature and winds. Consequently, the uncertainty in the observational estimate is large of the order of tens of watts per square metre for the heat flux, even in the zonal mean.",5_1
Junk Science: Climate Activists' Credibility Gap,5_2
"As I mentioned earlier, I was a student at ASU in 1974 the year they had eighteen days in a row over 110 degrees .",0_0
Aus: Farmers shocked at minister's slur,0_0
"At a May 6 hearing, Senator John McCain (R-Az.) vowed to seek a second vote before the end of this Congress on his bill to cap greenhouse gas emissions. McCain is the chief co-sponsor along with Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) of the Climate Stewardship Act, S. 139, which would create the infrastructure necessary to ration hydrocarbon energy.",0_0
Perhaps Idsos final conclusion should make all those who fear that global warming and increased CO2 is adding to the demise of the planet that everything is going to be OK: he claimed it is far more likely that CO2 proliferation will increase regional biodiversity and will contribute to the expansion and proliferation of animal habitats.,3_3
"But skiers can enjoy the snowfall. In the Carpathians, snow does not stop almost daily. The slopes of the tourist complex Bukovel are covered by 10 -cm layer of snow. If this continues, management is optimistic and hopes this years ski season will start in the middle of November.",1_3
"as individual rivalry. Says Dr. Maestripieri: ""I am a Monkey-Man,",0_0
"But anyone who looks at the data (shown in Figure 1) will see that no matter which caused the other, the changes in temperature from ice-age cold to interglacial warmth are about 10C while the change in CO 2 is about 100ppm. Since the late 1800s, the temperature has warmed a bit less than 1C , while the CO 2 concentration has increased by a bit less than 100ppm. In other words, the natural, historical relationship between CO 2 and temperature is about 10 times weaker than that observed over the past 100 or so years. Thus, there is no way that the temperature rise from the Little Ice Age to the present can be the cause of an atmospheric CO 2 increase of nearly 100ppmthe reasonable expectation would be about 10ppm. This line of reasoning is off by an order of magnitude.",2_3
U.S. Climate Data Reveals Past Global Warming Far Exceeds Modern Temperature Change,2_1
"They balked at reducing carbon dioxide by using such methods as reforestation (""carbon sinks"") and trading of emission credits between nations. Those methods would have made meeting the targets more affordable for countries such as the United States, Australia, Canada and Japan, but would have little effect on Europe, which had already rigged the rules in its favor. More important, carbon pulled out of the air through the natural action of trees has the same effect, scientifically, as carbon emissions never entering the air in the first place.",0_0
"I have been following the proposed collision theory for the onset of the Younger Dryas for a number of years with considerable interest as it explains so much in a relatively straightforward fashion, if true. The academic response to the hypothesis has been, predictably, harsh and unforgiving with accusations flying back and forth as to procedures and interpretations. I did, however, enjoy one researchers claim that he could not reproduce the results reported in one peer-reviewed paper on the evidence for an impact. The impact researchers countered with the valid observation that the scornful researcher did not bother to use the same time-consuming methods they employed to extract extremely small microtectite spherules and nanodiamonds from sediments.",0_0
"Tropical rainforests are found within the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, in a belt that girdles the earth. Location is between 23 1/2 degrees north and 23 1/2 south of the equator. They grow through the heart of South America, Africa, Northern Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, to name a few. (Lessons of the Rainforest, Donald Perry, p.26)",0_0
"Still, if you have 12,500 to spare for the long term, the scheme looks attractive. The industry regulator Ofgem warned last week that bills could rise by 25% over the next ten years and having your own power source could help protect you from these rises. (I think a diesel generator may be a better option).",0_0
"A new poll among 3,146 earth scientists found that 90 percent believe global warming is real, while 82 percent agree that human activity been a significant factor in changing mean global temperatures.",0_0
"Tuesday the U.S. Government's Global Change Research Program released its latest ""National Assessment"" report on climate change impacts in the United States.",0_0
"""A second person denied transplant coverage by Arizona under a state budget cut has died, with this death ""most likely"" resulting from the coverage reduction, a hospital spokeswoman said Wednesday.""Economics:",0_0
"The main reason, though, is that to acknowledge cooling over the past decade is to admit that the AGW hypothesis is wrong. Why? Jones provides a clue when he says that while the planet isn't warming and is actually cooling, it hasn't warmed or cooled for enough years to be ""statistically significant.""",0_0
"Since the mid-2000s, about 9,000 megawatts of proposed wind projects were delayed or derailed because of radar issues, according to AWEA, the industry's trade group. Defense officials say they are trying to work out issues with companies and even posted an online map so companies can see if their proposals are close to radar systems.",0_0
"At one time, citizens could count on their officials and candidates to either tell the truth or say nothing. Not any more. Clinton has a long record of neglecting truth. Trump seems not to care about the veracity of his statements. And the media is so much on one side that it mainly looks at the Trump gaffes and does its best to ignore Clinton's. And most serious of all, it allows the Obama administration to tell the public lies like Americans can keep their health insurance or that global warming is a coming disaster.",0_0
"Saying that humans cause climate change is like saying alcohol causes babies. Sure, you might get some more, but it rather misses the point.",0_0
"Not only have these disasters not occurred but the world has more food per capita, less disease and larger and cheaper energy reserves every decade.",0_0
"Let us be clear about what that would mean. The electric power supply will be interrupted when it cannot meet demand. Lights will go out Offices wlll cease to function. People wlll freeze or swelter. Elderly people will die. If sustained, this situation will severely damage the economy. Jobs will be lost. Health will suffer. The poor will get poorer. Flows of money from America to the developing world will shrink.",0_0
"The problem with NCARs interpretation on the ozone fluctuations were that some, like Hanson, took an immediate ideological tone to explain the ozone shifts not once mentioning the Sun or the Interplanetary Magnetic Field effect on Earths ozone layers. For some reason, there was a resistance to even mentioning the Suns effects on earth by these new climate scientists getting jobs at the science agencies. It was odd I thought.",0_0
"A well-rooted scientific consensus, like a mature oak, usually needs time to emerge. Scientists around the world have to do research, publish articles, read about other research, repeat experiments (where possible), have open debates, make their data and methods available, evaluate arguments, look at the trends, and so forth, before they eventually come to agreement. When scientists rush to declare a consensus, particularly when they claim a consensus that has yet to form, this should give any reasonable person pause.",0_0
"Tomorrow is the exhaustively-named House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming's hearing on high gas prices. According to Chairman Ed Markey, it would seem that the problem with high gas prices is the percentage of oil and gas that U.S. suppliers import from abroad. In the world of gas price demagoguery, of course, importing petroluem products from countries that produce them cheaper than we can isn't international commerce, it's ""dependence of foreign sources of energy,"" which makes it sound as though we were fueling Crystal River with plutonium smuggled out of Pakistan.",0_0
"Automakers who manufacture the small cars said the tests simulated a high-speed crash that rarely happens on the road. They also said the tests rehashed past insurance industry arguments against tougher fuel efficiency requirements. The institute has raised questions about whether stricter gas mileage rules, which are being developed by the government, might lead to smaller, lighter vehicles that could be less safe.",0_0
"CEI Response: Davis found a net ice balance increase of 1.4cm/yr over his entire region of coverage (ROC). The East Antarctic Ice Sheet is gaining at a rate of 1.8cm/yr (over the period 1992-2003) and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is thinning at a rate of 0.9 cm/yr. He writes: ""For the ROC, the 5:1 ratio in East versus West Antarctic area coverage causes slight thickening overall at a rate of 1.4 +/- 0.3 cm/yr."" Thus, it is a fair assessment to say that overall, Davis found that the portion of Antarctica in his ROC has been gaining ice. Indeed, the title of Davis's article states that, ""Snowfall-Driven Growth in East Antarctic Ice Sheet Mitigates Recent Sea-Level Rise."" We think this is good news, but the general public seldom (or never) hears it.",1_1
"News release, ""U.S. Chemical Investment Linked to Shale Gas Reaches $100 Billion,"" American Chemistry Council, February 20, 2014, https://www.americanchemistry.com/Media/PressReleasesTranscripts/ACC-news-releases/US-Chemical-Investment-Linked-to-Shale-Gas-Reaches-100-Billion.html (accessed July 7, 2016).",0_0
"Then an even higher temperature was recorded in Kent, making today the hottest day since records began about 130 years ago in 1875.",0_0
"In addition, on PNAS Authors must acknowledge all funding sources supporting the work . There appears to be no such disclosure in this study.",0_0
"""Most BLM projects are being held up as a result of this,"" said John Anderson, director of siting policy at the American Wind Energy Association. ""It's definitely a mixed message and an example of one hand not knowing what the other hand is doing.""",0_0
"Showing that academics can cost the country more than they return, ANUs Geoff Cary posits that there is an 80% consensus (an unmeasured, meaningless statistic) that there will be more fires in Australia 60 years from now.",0_0
"Ezra Levant; Calgarys Muslim mayor, Naheed Nenshi, has been held up as a symbol of the citys tolerance. Which is ironic, given his own anti-Christian bigotry in return. Last week, Nenshi ordered city police, backed up with a ridiculously large contingent of private security, to arrest a Christian pastor and five of his congregants who had the temerity to lead a Christmas service in the public atrium of Calgarys City Hall. Artur Pawlowski, lead pastor of Calgarys Street Church, had foolishly taken the mayor at his word when he described city hall as the citys living room, open to all. What Pawlowski didnt understand is that Nenshi didnt mean Christians. Nenshi meant his own co-religionists no, not Muslims, but the leftist activists who had comprised the Occupy Calgary protests for two months with Nenshis blessing. h/t Neil.",0_0
"LaFramboise further found that one third of the literature reviewed and cited by the IPCC in its 2007 report wascontrary to IPCC chief publicist Ragendra Pachauris pronouncementsnot even peer-reviewed, and in many cases included citations of promotional literature devised and distributed by environmental activist organizations.",5_2
"However, a belligerent Pachauri has told the Times of India he has ""shed any inhibitions or feelings of cowardice. I believe this is now my opportunity to go out and do what I think is right. In the second term I may be a little more uncomfortable for people than I was in the first.""",0_0
"Megadroughts lasting a century or two are known to have occurred in what is now California over the last 3,500 years. Droughts of similar severity have also been implicated in the downfall of the empire of the Maya in Central America a millennium ago; the Akkadian empire (the worlds first) in Mesopotamia 4,200 years ago (that drought lasted 300 years) and several pre-Inca cultures in South America.",1_7
"The Climate Change Doctrine is Part of Environmentalism, Not of Science",0_0
"""This settlement shows that EPA is committed to upholding standards to protect public health, enforce the law and protect clean air,"" said Administrator Gina McCarthy. But it's just a ""partial settlement,"" a ""first step"" in holding VW accountable for breaching ""the public's trust,"" added DOJ Deputy AG Sally Yates.",0_0
"Recognizing the brazen nature of their mandate, the Dutch judges take pains to explain why they believe they are not violating the separation of powers as it exists under Dutch law. ""The task of providing legal protection from government authorities, such as the State, preeminently belongs to the domain of a judge."" ""With this order,"" they proclaim, ""the court has not entered the domain of politics.""",0_0
"Gwen Ingram, an artist and yoga instructor, is one of many Oklahomans who have protested Keystone XL in recent weeks. The proposed project has become a poster child in the climate change debate, and Ingram said she does see a potential connection between climate change and the latest string of tornadoes to rip through her state, which boasts a long history of fossil fuel production and transport.",0_0
The title makes you instantly skeptical because sea ice isnt at its lowest even in the last two years. Of course we then have to wonder how they determined sea ice levels back 800 years.,1_1
"Had these scientists found an increase in the total number of tropical cyclones in the Southern Hemisphere, they would need to hire press agents to handle the global coverage. Their work would be front page news all over the world, Time and Newsweek would be all over the story, and thousands of web pages would trumpet the results. However, they found no trends, or even downward trends, in total tropical cyclone frequency over a huge area of the planet coverage at World Climate Report is about all they can expect.",1_7
"Health-care costs are soaring. Since 2000, insurance premiums have more than doubled "" hitting working Americans right in the pocketbook. Median family income has dropped by a thousand dollars a year every year since the beginning of the decade. As David Frum notes in his book, Comeback, employing a typical, median worker jumped from $19.85 per hour in 2000 to $25.67 in 2006. That s a raise of more than $5 per hour, or 25%. Yet the average worker saw none of the money. Every dime "" and then some "" was gobbled up by the rising cost of employer-provided heath insurance. . . .",0_0
Greg Mankiw points to this Larry Summers comment on the Charlie Rose Show:,0_0
"on Thursday, August 12th, 2010 at 6:36 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"on Sunday, December 13th, 2009 at 4:28 pm and is filed under News.",0_0
"United States, as a global power, has developed for its dealings with the rest",0_0
"Before the abysmal British summers of 2007 and 2008, a series of hot summers lead to the inevitable speculation that the UK would, in the near future, have a summer climate like that of the Mediterranean. If only! This in turn fuelled speculation that the water supply shortages that the country experienced would also become a more permanent feature of British life. This has always baffled us Editors, one of whom remembers a radio program broadcast a few years ago, about the drought. What was especially baffling was that the Editor in question had, as the program began, run some water from a tap, into a kettle, to make a cup of tea, and had just walked home over a bridge crossing a river, which seemed to have burst its banks into a field. What kind of drought is happening while rivers are bursting their banks, and taps are flowing?",0_0
"How delusional is the OIC today? So delusional that, at its May 2007 summit, the 56 foreign ministers agreed that the ""greatest form of terrorism"" in the world today is Islamophobia! The same OIC is the main force behind the election of Iran as vice-chairman of the Disarmament Commission, the presence of representatives of the worst dictatorship on the planet in the UN Human Rights Committee, not to mention the attempt, following the Danish cartoon affair, to make the UN recognize ""blasphemy"" as a crime.",0_0
"Utility MACT: Electricity Prices will ""Necessarily Skyrocket""; Jobs will be lost",4_1
The trends in the neutron count over the lastfew solar cycles strengthens the forecast of coming cooling made from projectingthe PDO and Millennial cycle temperature trends.The decline in solar activity from 1990 (Cycle 22) to the present (Cycle 24) is obvious.,1_2
"But equally importantly, the comments they are making about things like quantum information are just totally wrong.",0_0
Inhofe Opening Statement Regarding Gore Testimony,0_0
"In order to obtain a TCR estimate that is as independent of global climate models as possible, one should scale the aerosol component of the AR5 total forcing estimates to match the AR5 recent satellite-observation-derived mean of 0.78 W/m 2 . Putting this all together gives F = 2.03 W/m 2 and T = 0.71, which, since AR5 uses F 2xCO2 = 3.71 W/m, gives a best estimate of 1.30C for TCR. The best estimate for TCR would be 1.36C without scaling aerosol forcing to match the satellite-observation derived mean.",0_0
Kavanaugh cites several provisions that clearly link PSD permitting to NAAQS pollutants:,0_0
"This article, by ABCs environment editor, Sara Phillips (pictured), encapsulates all that is wrong with the national broadcasters treatment of the climate debate. Written, as always, from a position of belief, and institutionally critical of any dissent, Phillips attempts to show that scepticism is crumbling in the face of ever-mounting evidence to the contrary:",5_2
"What Abraham has done, here as elsewhere, is to wrench my data deliberately out of the context in which I actually (and accurately) presented then, and then to lie about it.",0_0
""". . . if the tenets of this theory are valid there can be no outcome other than a doubling of surface energy (a doubling at minimum, that is, since there's no reason to suppose that radiation from the now-warmer surface would not continue to be back-radiated, absorbed, and amplified in a ""runaway' heating cascade).",0_0
"This picture was taken soon after it was completed. It was lovely and green on the day that we visited, with people walking all over ...",0_0
Microbial mass increases. Another team of Japanese scientists examined how the beneficial soil microbial biomass beneath the rice plants was impacted by elevated CO2. Li et al. reported Elevated significantly increased microbial biomass carbon in the surface 5 cm soil when N (90 kg ha-1) was in sufficient supply.,3_3
"In its Report to the President, EPA did not specifically acknowledge that its policies on de-bottlenecking and aggregation have harmful effects on efficiency, utilization, or emissions. However, EPA's 2002 recommendations for reform include action on these matters.",0_0
"If we could pick the month when global warming officially started, it would be March of 1985. The previous month, February of 1985, was the last time the temperature of the Earth was below the average for the 20th century. Over twenty-seven years ago. Every month since then 329 months in a row has been above the 20th century average",1_4
"Now, here is why we spent so much time with experience mod. This base premium is then multiplied by your experience mod to get your actual premium. So, if you have an experience mod of 1.3, your premium in this example would be 1.3 times $6,000 or $7,800. (By the way, beyond just the audits, this is why trying to hide payroll does not pay. If you hide payroll, for the same experience, your experience mod will go up and your premiums will go up -- in the long run, you are not going to save any money).",0_0
"Glaciologist, Lonnie Thompson, also produced this temperature graph, using ice cores on the Quelccaya, which clearly show higher temperatures back in the MWP.",2_1
"The two Australian researchers report that after a 4-week incubation period under various experimental conditions, negative effects on juvenile development and growth were only observed at a pH of 7.2 (a decrease of one full unit), which was brought about by pCO 2 values in the range of 4430-4600 atm.",3_2
And it even warns that incautious attempts to mitigate climate change may themselves be the causes of conflict:,0_0
"The figure above also highlights the strong divergences between the IPCC model and the temperature, which are explicitly studied in my papers proving that the IPCC model are not able to reconstruct any of the natural oscillations observed at multiple scales. For example, look at the 60-year cycle I extensively discuss in my papers : from 1910 to 1940 a strong warming trending is observed in the data, but the warming trending in the model is far lower; from 1940 to 1970 a cooling is observed in the data while the IPCC model still shows a warming; from 1970 to 2000, the two records present a similar trending (this period is the one originally used to calibrate the sensitivities of the models); the strong divergence observed in 1940-1970, repeats since 2000, with the IPCC model projecting a steady warming at 2.3 o C/century , while the temperature shows a steady harmonically modulated trending highlighted in my widget and reproduced in my model.",5_1
"The unprecedented boom in natural gas supplies over the last few years as been one of the few tail-winds for the US economy over the last few years, as plummeting natural gas prices have lowered costs for both industry and consumers.",4_5
"The results of this study are very encouraging. For the standard 300-ppm increase in atmospheric CO 2 concentration we use to express the effects of elevated CO 2 on plant photosynthesis , they indicate that this important plant process is stimulated by close to 42% in ambient air and 34% in ozone-polluted air for typical growing-season air temperature and soil moisture conditions experienced at the SoyFACE facility, while for both warmer and drier conditions, the CO 2 -induced photosynthetic enhancements are greater still. Reviewed 3 January 2007",3_3
"Monbiot and Lynass one sop to science is to link to the official sea level rise data for the Maldives. At one site the sea level is rising by 3mm a year, as the IPCC says; at the other, the rise is zero, as Mrner says.",1_6
We have been told by NASA ???that carbon dioxide itself is a potent greenhouse gas (GHG)?? and by NOAA??s UCAR that ???the current spike in carbon dioxide is sure to result in a rapid increase in global temperature??. Anthroprogenic CO2 emissions have increased by over 60% since 1990;,2_3
"The scientists will start monitoring temperatures for some unstated reason. During the first 25 years, the scientists continue to support all 10 thermometers, fixing broken ones running QA checks etc. But after a while, someone cuts their budget. Inspecting the data, the scientists decide they don??t need to record the temperatures from all 10 thermometers. To save manpower, they can record the temperature from with 5: one from each continent. Because mountain tops stations are difficult to maintain, they stop recording the mountain top thermometers. (Meanwhile a secret band of conspirators does record those, so we here in toyland can look at those temperatures.)",5_1
"When asked directly by ABC News in October if taxpayers should worry about the more than $500 million in federal funds on the line, Henrik Fisker was emphatic: ""No, I don't think they need to worry about it."" When asked if Fisker might be the next Solyndra, he said, ""Absolutely not.""",0_0
"Today's Wall Street Journal features several letters to the editor (subscription required) on the paper's editorial on the Rockefeller-Snowe letter to ExxonMobil. Naturally, it is to be expected that at least somebody would write taking exception to the editorial, but the letter by Rick Piltz of Climate Science Watch has got to be read to be believed -- because it misses the central point so widely off the mark.",0_0
"10) But Aren?t Natural CO2 Emissions About 20 Times the Human Emissions? Yes, but nature is believed to absorb CO2 at about the same rate it is produced. You can think of the reservoir of atmospheric CO2 as being like a giant container of water, with nature pumping in a steady stream into the bottom of the container (atmosphere) in some places, sucking out about the same amount in other places, and then humans causing a steady drip-drip-drip into the container. Significantly, about 50% of what we produce is sucked out of the atmosphere by nature, mostly through photosynthesis. Nature loves the stuff. CO2 is the elixir of life on Earth. Imagine the howls of protest there would be if we were destroying atmospheric CO2, rather than creating more of it.",0_0
And it's not even consistent with itself. According to Willis Eschenbach:,0_0
"The new study undertook a more accurate estimate by continuously monitoring the emission of carbon dioxide from a reservoir in Mississippi. The researchers discovered nighttime carbon dioxide emissions were 70 percent greater than during the day, and extratropical cyclones increase emissions by as much 16 percent. As a result of these two previously unaccounted-for emission rates, their research indicates inland bodies of water emit as much as 40 percent more carbon dioxide than previously estimated.",0_0
"S hopefully we can look forward to an exciting internal struggle between different kommissionrer within the EU. It becomes frnuftet to win, or will it f dangling from the gallows?",0_0
"With up to 50 inches of snow dumped across the northeast of the United States, this monster blizzard was aptly dubbed The Great White Hurricane. Major metropolitan areas like New York faced severe winds of up to 45 miles an hour, drifts of more than 50 feet and floods caused when the snow melted. With fire departments unable to function, the financial losses from fires alone amounted to a staggering $25 million. Human casualties totaled 400, with 200 people dying in New York alone.",0_0
"""The Obama administration is instituting a variety of far-reaching policies to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate climate change. Are any of these capable of making a difference?"" asked Mr. Lazear. ""Simple arithmetic suggests not."" Up to this point I was very pleased with his conclusion, but then he wrote ""Given this reality, we would be wise to consider strategies that complement and may be more effective than mitigationnamely, adaptation.""",4_2
X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 3.027 (F2.74; T1.28; A2.05; B3.07; Q3.07),0_0
"Again, the timing of Chesapeake's donations is suspicious. The company started giving to the American Lung Association at about the time the Sierra Club discontinued its relationship with Chesapeake. The timeline speaks volumes:",0_0
"A paper published today in Global and Planetary Change reconstructs temperatures in Northern Fennoscandia over the past 1,600 years and finds more non-hockey-sticks clearly demonstrating that the Arctic was warmer than the present during the Medieval Warm Period. The paper adds to over 1,000 peer-reviewed published non-hockey-sticks finding the Medieval Warm Period was global, as warm or warmer than the present , and that there is nothing unusual, unnatural, or unprecedented about the current warm period.",2_1
"I would love to implement the Australian model in America, but I recognize that mandatory voting actually, mandatory anything is a hard sell in this country. So here is another idea: a series of Mega Millions-like lotteries for primary and general elections, with awards that can range up to the hundreds of millions for a big general election where your lottery ticket is your voting stub. It is a reasonable guess, given what we have seen with big lotteries in the states, that a billion dollars for all federal primary and general elections in a cycle (a small sum to enhance democracy and reduce dysfunction) would, by providing a very powerful incentive to get Americans registered and to actually turn up at the polls, result in a robust increase in turnout, perhaps to as much as 75 or 80 percent. The idea could be applied in states and localities with smaller prizes and not simply using public money; perhaps auto dealers could donate cars, for example.",0_0
"The Norwegian, Captain WiktorArnesen, who has just returned fromthe Arctic, clains to have discoveredan island 12 miles in circumferencenear the Franz Joseph Island, in latitude 80.40. He says that the islandpreviously was hidden by an iceberg between 70 and 80 feet high, which hasmelted, showing the exceptional natureof the recent thawing in the Arctic.",0_0
"This is why the ERO has recommended a series of reforms. Foremost among these is the removal of regulatory barriers to the building of new infrastructure. Power plants and transmission lines need to be built urgently; measures that facilitate green obstructionism must be repealed. Without this new capacity, the power supply system will fail.",0_0
"A few years later, when Simpson had expanded his argument and identified David Beckham as the poster boy of the phenomenon, ""mextrosexual"" entered the cannon of the chattering classes' vocabulary, and the Aughts found us familiarly, unblinkingly rubbing shoulders with the specimen.",0_0
"Within the military, the concept of ""strategy"" has not fared much better. The post-Cold War era has witnessed a surreal debate between the disciples of Clausewitz, who invariably confuse strategy with the operational level of war, and the supporters of the supposed Revolution in Military Affairs reducing war to ""targeting and shooting,"" and whose network-centric paradigm leads to a tacticization of strategy.10",0_0
"The higher temperatures reported at the 3 vacancies with intermediate talus areas may have been the result of a more barren dry landscape typical of the eastside of the Sierra Nevada. If so, lack of food, not higher temperatures may be the critical factor. Stewart never asks if the vacancies are due to higher temperatures, less reliable vegetation, or distance from other territories. Stewarts model statistically linked higher temperatures to pika vacancies, but that link depends on what sites he includes or omits in his database.",0_0
Yet Gore has received a Nobel Prize for a book (and film) that even sympathizers can see is filled with factual errors. Gore's book and film are so tendentious and inaccurate that they do little to advance his position.,5_2
IOC President opens historic meeting on irregular and illegal sport betting:,0_0
"The crisis? Theres a fast shifting moral landscape that threatens to leave our industry adrift, shunned by the customers we serve. Good luck on the shun, given that most people have monopoly utilities, and the IPP industry where NRG operates is unknown to most of the public.",0_0
"A Canadian soldier, killed recently in Afghanistan, is praised for saving the lives of his mates, while Hillier moves to rectify an inequity that involves wounded soldiers and their danger pay. A new Canadian poll (for what its worth), suggests that support for the Afghan mission is up. In Afghanistan itself, a clutch of trained suicide killers was captured and what was discovered; yes, theyre from Pakistan and theyre now whining the whine of most Islamists who become prisoners We were brainwashed! Christie Blatchford gives us her long view, while the Pentagon blasts a Newsweek piece, basically calling it a work of fiction. And as winter begins to approach, the Taliban scurry back to Pakistan to plan the next phase of, retake Afghanistan. They failed in their 2006 offensive but are planning what some call the Afghan Intifada. CLICK cross posted @ Celestial Junk",0_0
CMIP5 Models Misinterpreting the North Atlantic Oscillation (12 January 2015),0_0
"Dwight Fielder, who heads BLM's Division of Fish, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, said federal officials are discussing issuing conditional permits to companies working on eagle protection plans, but it's not clear if this would allow them to make the stimulus funding deadline.",0_0
"We frequently hear that climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of droughts in Africa. There is, of course, no evidence that current droughts are any worse than historical ones.",1_7
"One of the most cited and used historical surface temperature databases is that of NASA/Goddard's GISS. This is not some weird skeptics site. It is considered one of the premier world temperature data bases, and it is maintained by anthropogenic global warming true believers. It has consistently shown more warming than any other data base, and is thus a favorite source for folks like Al Gore. These GISS readings in the US rely mainly on the US Historical Climate Network (USHCN) which is a network of about 1000 weather stations taking temperatures, a number of which have been in place for over 100 years.",5_1
"The Kind and Lee amendment (#9) would not merely codify EPA??s Tailoring Rule, it would also codify the entire ever-growing ensemble of EPA greenhouse gas regulations of which the Tailoring Rule is apart. It would put Congress??s legislative seal of approval on EPA??s seizure of legislative power. Passing this amendment would obviously defeat the constitutional purpose of H.R. 910.",4_1
"There has certainly been a jump in temperatures in the last 20 years or so, but all they have done is return to the level commonly seen between the mid 1920s and mid 1950s. Since 2007, the annual average temperature has been 60.73C, compared with 60.65C between 1934 and 1954. Meanwhile the warmest year on record is still 1927.",0_0
"Climate change is a manmade crisis, and so the need to implement sharp reductions in greenhouse gas emissions is paramount. That summarizes the constant drumbeat of conventional wisdom, which raises an interesting question: If the Obama administration's Climate Action Plan a 17 percent reduction in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 were to be implemented immediately, what temperature reduction would that yield by the year 2100?",0_0
"Investment in newer and cleaners plants has ground to a halt in places such as the United Kingdom where the government has embraced the Kyoto treaty and pledged to cut greenhouse gases by 5.5m tonnes by 2010. It is the opinion of energy experts that blackouts such as the one in London last August that trapped 250,000 commuters are therefore likely to become more frequent. Paul Golby of Powergen stated ""We want to invest but we have all had our fingers burnt in the past"" and ""over the next few months the government must make some key decisions about how emissions trading will be implemented."" (The Times, May 9)",0_0
"Such a peach, today's column - ""The Truth, Still Inconvenient"" - by Paul Krugman, economist and former consultant to the company that created the global warming industry, ""monitizing' (sic) its relationship with green groups, scientists and, I'm pretty sure, economists in pursuit of creating that better atmosphere for enacting policies to add value to their uneconomic investments...purchased in anticipation of creating a global warming industry.",0_0
EPA Treats Own Environmental Catastrophe As Ho-Hum,0_0
Lots of global warming-related stories you may have missed:,0_0
Left Launches Witch Hunt Against Climate Scientists,0_0
16. Will global warming cause the spread of infectious diseases?,0_0
"That's certainly interesting, but hardly earth-shaking. Ice cores and fossil pollen show the earth has had six major global warmings since the last Ice Age, interspersed with centuries-long cold periods. The earth's temperatures are always cycling up and down.",2_1
"- which is what they use to break the electroweak symmetry - is known as ""tan( beta )"", the tangent of a new angle relevant for supersymmetry.",0_0
"The bounty hunter provision enables private citizens to sue companies to enforce Proposition 65. Not only do victorious plaintiffs get to recover attorneys' fees and court costs, but they are entitled to 25 percent of any penalty assessed by the court.",0_0
"And when the IPCC is not ignoring its responsible critics like Landsea and Lindzen, it is demonizing them. Not long ago the IPCC's chairman, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, compared eco-skeptic Bjorn Lomborg to Hitler. ""What is the difference between Lomborg's view of humanity and Hitler's?"" Pachauri asked in a Danish newspaper. ""If you were to accept Lomborg's way of thinking, then maybe what Hitler did was the right thing."" Lomborg's sin was merely to follow the consensus practice of economists in applying a discount to present costs for future benefits, and comparing the range of outcomes with other world problems alongside climate change. It is hard to judge what is worse: Pachauri's appalling judgment in resorting to reductio ad Hitlerum, or his abysmal ignorance of basic economics. In either case, it is hard to have much confidence in the policy advice the IPCC might have.",0_0
"on Thursday, February 13th, 2014 at 1:59 am and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Now theres a trend thats simply not sustainable at least, lets hope so.",0_0
Greg Conko and Henry I. Miller's citation in Farm Press Blog,0_0
"Just as some clever birds may have figured out that flying higher means not getting shredded by hippie-power, dastardly greens invent flying wind turbines . Curses!",0_0
Your quotation from the MIT piece illustrates the problem that you have with your models. You say a projected 18 percent increase resulting from fossil fuel combustion to the year 2000 (320 ppm to 379 ppm) might increase the surface temperature of the earth 0.5C. Now CO2 is at 380 ppm and you are claiming a rise in surface temperature of 0.5 degrees.,0_0
"That and Horner's other examples of green fraud would only ""confuse people"" and diffuse the anti-industry venom of Democrats, who didn't even mention the bogus Chamber event.",0_0
Sceptics have seized upon the mistakes to cast doubt over the validity of the IPCC and have called for the panel to be disbanded.,5_2
"An R Plevin & Sons spokesperson said, Efforts to bring a fire under control on one of our wood piles is continuing. The wood pile is isolated and breaks between neighbouring wood piles increased to reduce the risk of the fire spreading. The damping down process is expected to carry on for several days.",0_0
"""The presence of new media should change the way we look at the current debate over media ownership. The ongoing digital revolution is creating a vibrant journalistic world that exists, thankfully, outside the ambit of government regulation. No longer is it necessary to see the debate as a simple dichotomy with ""big media"" on one side (deregulation) and ""media diversity"" on the other side (regulation). This way of thinking is stuck in the analog world. The digital world is much more complexand it requires a new way of thinking about media ownership.""",0_0
"Natural variability, therefore, is sufficient to explain all of the warming since 1750. No other explanation is necessary. Accordingly, it is not legitimate to claim, as the Berkeley team claim, that in the absence of any other explanation the warming must be attributed to CO2. That claim is an instance of the argumentum ad ignorantiam, the fundamental logical fallacy of argument from ignorance. It is not sound science.",2_1
"Does 'climate change' mean 'changing data'? ""So what is the probability of this effort consistently increasing recent temperatures and decreasing older temperatures? From a statistical viewpoint, data recalculation should cause each year to have a 50/50 probability of going either up or down thus the odds of all 70 adjusted years working in concert to increase the slope of the graph are an astronomical 2 raised to the power of 70. That is one-thousand-billion-billion to one. This isn't an exact representation of the odds because for some of the years (less than 15) the revisions went against the trend but even a 55/15 split is about as likely as a room full of chimpanzees eventually typing Hamlet. That would be equivalent to flipping a penny 70 times and having it come up heads 55 times. It will never happen one trillion to one odds (2 raised to the power 40).",5_2
"This is not to make light of a very serious situation at the reactors or the health risks to the courageous workers on the site who may be exposed to dangerous levels of radiation when new explosions and breaches occur. But the media coverage of the whole episode is a textbook example of the inability to gauge risks, weigh trade-offs, and put a story in its proper perspective. Instead the media have done what they do best: generate panic.",0_0
Whatever happened to all the missing warming? asks J-P.,0_0
"Conrad Black; About 70% of the American deficit is bought directly or through the banking system by the Treasurys 100% subsidiary, the Federal Reserve, and the minimal interest paid on it is recycled back through the Federal Reserve to the Treasury, so the cost of borrowing is zero. It is the ultimate Ponzi scheme, the fiscal nirvana of endless, mountainous debt, rendered easily bearable because it doesnt cost anything. It is a fraud, a mirage. It all possesses the hypnotic allure of the Gotterdammerung as the Gods ascend to a burning Valhalla. If this administration is re-elected, Canada, as it has for the entire mighty spectacle of the inexorable rise of the United States, will have the ring-side seat for a disaster.",0_0
"Space isn't only a scientific but a strategic domain, and securing our country's future in it has to be a pressing national priority.",0_0
"Another CO2 measurement provides evidence of smoothing effects and artificially low readings. Stomata, small openings on leaves, vary directly with atmospheric CO2 levels. Stomata records compared with ice core record for a 2000-year period illustrates the issue.",0_0
"Five different dating methods have been used for Vostok cores, with differences such as 300 years at 100 m depth, 600yr at 200 m, 7000yr at 400 m, 5000yr at 800 m, 6000yr at 1600 m, and 5000yr at 1934 m.",0_0
"""Google's aggressive online growth increasingly has a counterpart in bricks and mortar, with the company's Mountain View headquarters mushrooming in the past four years to occupy more than 4 million square feet, or the equivalent of about 40 Home Depot stores.""",0_0
"This is a zero dimensional model (global average). It has many faults, but seems to not be too far off. Analysis of output (just as though they produced real data) from most of the GCMs give about these same values for A and B, etc. This simple model probably includes the lapse rate feedback, etc. It does not include snow/ice feedback which would raise the sensitivity slightly. Finally, the fits do not properly take the tropics (all-important, unfortunately half the planet??s area) into account. Lindzen would argue that it fails miserably there. The clouds muck up the tiny seasonal and latitudinal signal in the tropics and this could change the result. I cannot deny it.",5_1
"Williams et al . conclude, in their words, that ""the 60% increase in root growth during the 8-year study was the likely catalyst for the greater potentially mineralizable soil C pools in the enriched CO 2 treatment,"" and that this finding ""confirms that C can accrue in soils under elevated CO 2 ."" In their specific study, for example, they determined that the total amount of extra new carbon sequestered in the soil due to their doubling of the air's CO 2 concentration was 4 Mg C ha -1 over the 8-year period, for an annual rate of extra (CO 2 -induced) carbon sequestration of 0.5 Mg ha -1 year -1 . Reviewed 22 February 2006",3_3
Here's what the graph shows if you input the years 1997-2010:,0_0
The PUC also said NV Energy would use an encrypted radio frequency and best-in-industry technology.,0_0
"4) Solar, it has to be accepted, is to all intents and purposes a busted flush. It contributes so little that even a tripling of capacity will make no significant difference.",4_4
"It is often argued that infrared radiation from manmade greenhouse gases can only penetrate the top few millimeters of the ocean surface and thats where evaporation occurs. That argument then continues that additional infrared radiation from anthropogenic greenhouse gases can only add to surface evaporation, and cannot heat the oceans. On the other hand, sunlight reaches into the oceans to depths of 100 meters or so, though most of it is absorbed in the top 10 meters. Even so, sunlights ability to warm the oceans is many orders of magnitude greater than infrared radiation. One of my earliest memories of this argument came from Robert E. Stevensons (Oceanographer Scripps) 2000 article Yes, the Ocean Has Warmed; No, Its Not Global Warming . In April of this year, looking for solid answers on this topic, Roy Spencer presented the same arguments and a few counter arguments in his post, Can Infrared Radiation Warm a Water Body?",2_1
Osborn then asked why all of this had happened if I had not heavily promoted and/or advocated Scenario A and/or Polar Urals arguing that I had left CA readers with the impression that these chronologies were perhaps more reasonable because I had claimed they were based on newer or less biased data.,0_0
The 2 C Maximum Temperature Goal: German Climate Scientist Admits It's A Bogus Public Relations Stunt,5_2
"The technological advancement of wind has primarily been in the form of ridiculously large rotor blade designs. But no matter how large those rotors become, they cannot reverse the basic failing of wind as a fuel: it is intermittent and shows up primarily at times of low demand and thus low energy value. Strikingly, the value of the PTC is essentially equal to the wholesale value of electricity in most markets.",4_4
#arm11 1 0.0453 198.8339 -0.0867 0.1743 -0.0626 0.1512 0.1305,0_0
"There's no ready answer to the question of which is the best path, Roosevelt's or Reagan's.",0_0
"4. Given that many of these models predicted warming trends well before China surpassed the United States as the largest GHG emitter, and given the fact that emissions continue to grow at a pace beyond what was originally incorporated into the models, shouldnt the warming be far worse than what was predicted in the worst case scenarios rather than well below predictions?",5_1
"Does Steven Chu offer a more specific threat in a warmer world? Well, he says the following: A world average temperature change of 5 C does not sound like much, but a 5 degree warmer world will be a very different world. In the last ice age, roughly one third of the United States was covered year-round in a glacier. That sounds scary. There is only one subtle problem with the glacier. You would actually need a cooler weather, not a warmer weather, to re-create a big U.S. glacier. A few degrees of cooling could re-create some of the glaciers (it would surely take a long time!) but because the big glaciers are pretty much gone in today's world, a few degrees of warming simply don't have any comparably spectacular effect. The only ""qualitative"" threshold here is the freezing point of H2O and the bulk of the U.S. is above it.",0_0
The Board of Education should ensure that its science standards permit students to examine and learn from all the data and analysis about global warming.,0_0
ChiliPoker Set to Show US Online Gambling Laws Are a Joke:,0_0
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"This model from Kaufmann et al., 2011 simulated natural and anthropogenic (primarily CO2) forcing mechanisms from 1999-2008. Natural forcing won by a score of 3-1.",2_1
"Despite the Sierra Club's certitude, asthma is in fact a poorly understood condition, and pollen is only one of many potential asthma triggers that have been identified by the scientific community. Other triggers include dust mites, cigarette smoke, and cold weather. According to one peer-reviewed study, ""A decrease in air temperature is an aggravating factor for asthmatic symptoms, regardless of the geo-climatic areas under study."" Cold weather triggers asthma both directly and also indirectly, by making people sick with cold and flu, which are other major asthma triggers.",0_0
"Marlo Lewis, Senior Fellow, Environmental Policy",0_0
"David Evans, who spent six years working for the Australian government on climate change issues, started out a believer in global warming but finds the case has weakened over time. He writes in the Australian:",0_0
"Black and Hispanic household incomes will decline by increasing amounts every year, while their food and healthcare costs will climb significantly, since those business sectors will also have to pay much more for energy. The poverty rate will increase by more than 23% for blacks and more than 26% for Hispanics.",0_0
"But there are other macro-trends at play here that are driving thousands of people to risk their lives attempting to cross the Mediterranean, of which climate change is undoubtedly one.",0_0
"I was in Cyrpus at a conference dinner in which another speaker, a Cypriot professor of petrochemical engineering in a American university, was ranting against the climate activist Lord Nicholas Stern. Stern was part of the conference but absent from the dinner. The Cypriot was extremely animated. I had no idea what the issues were, but I saw the notion ""absence of evidence"" mixed with ""evidence of absence"" and pounced on him in defense of Stern, whom I had never met.",0_0
Australian BOM under fire questions about adjusted temperatures exploding around the world,0_0
"In much of Europe, coal has become much cheaper than natural gas for power generators. The reason is the collapse of the EU?s emissions trading scheme and the subsequent decline in carbon prices, which make coal plants more economical than gas-fired power plants.",0_0
"""At the core of the Breakthrough philosophy is the belief that human ingenuity will trump all of the doomsaying, allowing us to survive and adapt to a warmer world. t would be easy to characterize Shellenberger, Nordhaus, & Co. as climate skeptics or deniers they are certainly quick to criticize those who predict imminent disaster. But to do so would be to oversimplify their arguments. Instead, they are trying to put climate change into a broader context one that includes other challenges such as hunger, poverty, and access to clean energy, as well as a more realistic (in their opinion) sense of our abilities to innovate our way through sticky circumstances.""",0_0
"The document notes that Kerry has demonstrated a long commitment to addressing climate change beginning as a participant at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 that produced the U. N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and calls climate change ""the globe's most serious environmental challenge."" It continues, ""John Kerry will reinsert the United States into international climate change negotiations. He will reestablish our nation's credibility and influence over the process. The Kerry Administration will come to the international table with a serious domestic climate change program in hand .""",0_0
"35 Marc Ginsberg, ""Arabs Ignore Palestinian Plight,"" Wall Street Journal (August 2002).",0_0
"Because most people cant fathom how 0.8 degrees of warming over a century can be lethal compared to far greater changes a daily and seasonal basis, advocates of CO2 warming have littered the media and scientific literature with apocryphal stories statistically linking cherry-picked data with that small temperature rise and suggest wide spread future extinctions (i.e. Polar Bears , Walrus , Emperor Penguins , Edith Checkerspot , Moose , Golden Toad ). Pikas are another species that have been repeatedly targeted as an icon of impending climate doom. Pikas, or boulder bunnies, inhabit talus slopes (boulder fields) throughout western North Americas mountainous regions. Some suggest warming has been driving pikas up the mountain slopes, and they will soon be driven over the edge into the extinction abyss.",0_0
"Also in the US we are experiencing a coal plant, with zero emissions. The fumes are filtered by the system clean coal, and then used for the cultivation of algae, contained in sacks exposed to sunlight, that recycle heat from the hot flue gases from the water and plant cooling. Are synthesizing of GMO varieties of algae can be used later as livestock feed or as biomass to be fermented.",0_0
"It is true that China is planning to reduce its so-called ???carbon intensity?? quite substantially by 2020. But there is a world of difference between the sensible objective of using fossil fuels more efficiently, which is what this means, and the foolish policy of abandoning fossil fuels, which it has no intention of doing. China??s total carbon emissions are projected to carry on rising and rising substantially as its economy grows.",4_2
"Of the 484 series with enough Mannliness to pass correlation screening, 391 were infilled with fake data as plotted below.",0_0
"Behind the scenes, however, Dow was taking a far different position. According to sources inside the company, executives had learned from lobbyists with connections to the Energy Department that the analysis was ""not going well""by which they meant the DOE was going to report LNG exports would be broad positive to the American economy, help promote US geopolitical interests and produce more environmental benefits than challenges. Dow was reportedly apoplectic.",0_0
"Warmists have found themselves friends at last the CIA, the Joint Chiefs and CEOs . Wait, what?",0_0
"Joe Bast, president of The Heartland Institute, opened the program with a brief historical account of the organization. Heartland was co-founded by Joe Bast in 1984 and was located in downtown Chicago until about 14 months ago, when its headquarters moved to Arlington Heights. In sync with informing attendees that the anticipated Denning-Lehr debate would deal with the causes and consequences of global warming, Mr. Bast promoted a Heartland book that was for sale at the event and can also be purchased at this site, Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming.",0_0
dairy products from the growing middle classes of countries such as,0_0
"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
Although we were motivated in this research by an objective to expose effects of human-made global warming as soon as possible...,0_0
The following YouTube video entitled Hitlers Reaction to the Watts Study explains some of the politics:,0_0
"Thats because this new type of El Nio, known as El Nio Modoki (from the Japanese meaning similar, but different), forms in the Central Pacific, rather than the Eastern Pacific as the typical El Nio event does. Warming in the Central Pacific is associated with a higher storm frequency and a greater potential for making landfall along the Gulf coast and the coast of Central America.",0_0
"Then only reason geoengineering remains speculative is because the global warming industry is locked into one policy model: mitigation. If adaptation is the red-headed stepchild of global warming research, geoengineering is the unacknowledged bastard, kept tied up in the basement and fed only with a bucket of fish heads.",0_0
"???The lack of a tropical upper tropospheric hotspot in the observations is the main reason for the disconnect in the above plots, and as I have been pointing out this is probably rooted in differences in water vapor feedback. The models exhibit strongly positive water vapor feedback, which ends up causing a strong upper tropospheric warming response (the hot spot), while the observations lack of a hot spot would be consistent with little water vapor feedback.?? ??? Roy Spencer",2_3
"These results provide valuable insights into how climate will affect biological communities worldwide, says David Garrison, director of NSFs Biological Oceanography Program.",0_0
"Among other initiatives, Corporate Ethics Internationallaunched a campaign in July 2010 to persuade American and British travelers to avoid visiting Alberta while tar sands exploration was underway. Tourism brings $5 billion to Alberta, making it one of the Canadian provincesbiggest industries.",0_0
"Because of peoples inherent and acquired talents and abilities, there has emerged in every society a system of division of labor. People begin to specialize in what they discover they are comparatively better at producing than their neighbors and offer to sell their specialized wares to others who, in turn, can produce and supply something they want in a better quality or at a lower cost than if they attempted to produce it for themselves. Explained Adam Smith:",0_0
"The climate models that try to emulate the greenhouse effect but that don't reproduce the correct chemistry are simply wrong models because the chemistry that involves the greenhouse gases on either side of the formulae is completely crucial for the greenhouse effect. Because O??? and CH??? are also greenhouse gases, it is damn important to know whether they exist in the atmosphere and whether they are being destroyed and whether they will be destroyed in the future (and how much). So Schmidt's statement Precisely zero of the IPCC AR4 model simulations ( discussed here for instance) used an interactive ozone module in doing the projections into the future. implies that you should now throw precisely all IPCC AR4 models to the trash bin or, to say the same thing more moderately, to work very hard to correct the bug and to introduce the previously neglected important effect that was pointed out by Dr Katie Read et al.",5_1
A recent publication by NASA suggests that carbon dioxide actually contributes to Global Cooling: http://www.naturalnews.com/040448 solar radiation global warming debunked.html,2_3
"Further words of truth spoken by Lord Monckton described how science and economics cannot be divorced from politics, that Cap and Trade is nothing less than an attempt by the rich and powerful to take away the chance for the little guy to face up to the big guy, and that scientific truth will always remain the truth because it doesn't matter how many lies are told.",0_0
Why propose something so contorted? The EPAdoes not anticipate any quantifiable climate or health benefits fromtheNSPS(77 FR 22430).The rulesonly discernible purpose is to ban construction of new coal generation. The greenhouse gas permitting guidance document concealed that purpose.,0_0
The source of the fire is believed to be an electrical fault with a solar panel on the roof. An investigation is under way.??,4_4
"EPA goes on to say, ""The basic elements of the NSR program remain in place. All new major sources of air pollution will need to comply with the best control technology and existing sources which make major modifications and have a significant increase in actual emissions also will have to meet these requirements. The reforms simply clarify which changes at existing sources can be made without triggering NSR.""40",0_0
"We didn't ""attempt to squelch debate,"" as the Daily Mail suggested. Rather, our letter was, in fact, an attempt to create and foster greater debate.",0_0
"Recent NEPA lawsuits have prevented the marketing of products that offer palpable, demonstrated benefits to farmers, consumers, and the environment. Nuisance litigation intended to slow the advance of socially responsible technologies is abusive, irresponsible, and anti-social. And so are those who file such suits. It is long past time for NEPA's abusive paperwork requirements to be lifted from such an important and beneficial technology.",0_0
"There had been 300 years of warming from 1695 to 1995, during which we could not have had any measurable influence over the first 280 years.",2_1
"Flawed premises aside, there is another, more pedestrian reason why the closing of the transatlantic mind is particularly pronounced within NATO. As the Alliance underwent a gradual transformation from collective defense to collective security, this functional broadening focused on the continental dimension led to a neglect of the maritime dimension and thus to transatlantic tunnel vision.",0_0
"So what about the vaunted European Center model...the model that nailed the Sandy forecast 8-9 days before? Here it is (solid lines are sea level pressure). Same story, with high pressure over much of the U.S. Unlike the pollsters, meteorologists really know how to deal with uncertainty and as explained in earlier blogs, we use ensembles (many forecasts) to do this. The ensemble systems of both the U.S. and European Center models are consistent with the high-resolution forecasts described above.",0_0
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"Yes, the world has warmed since 1750. However, even if one accepts Dr. Mllers estimate of 1.5 C o warming since then, that rate is indeed well within the natural variability of the climate. Indeed, in the 40 years from 1695 to 1735, Central England (not a bad proxy for global temperature change) warmed naturally at 0.4 C o per decade, seven times faster than the 0.057 C o per decade he finds in the 262 years during which we are supposed to have influenced the weather.",2_1
"Counter: ""Unbearable Heat During The Ice Age': ""Now that we know that heat causes harsh winters, one can only imagine how hot the last ice age must have been'",0_0
"Did Lord Monckton not accept that we could quantify the CO2 feedback? This point came from the professor. Well, replied Lord Monckton in one of his most crushing responses, perhaps the professor can quantify it, but the IPCC cant: its 2007 gospel gives an exceptionally wide range of answers, from 25 to 225 parts per million by volume per Kelvin in short, they dont know.",5_1
"Lastly, Audi is foolish if it expects to prosper under a green police state. The Audi A3 TDI gets above 40 mpg, but its fuel still comes from Big Oil. The Gorethodox won't be satisfied until cars are all-electric, and the electricity comes from solar panels and wind turbines. Even if levened by tongue-in-cheek, greener-than-thou feeds the perception that global warming is a ""planetary emergency"" and government must restrict our liberties to save us from ourselves.",0_0
"and he barely said a thankyou. It seems they are now going for Tom Crowley, Lonnie",0_0
"It might well be that the limited radiosonde evidence we have of lower tropospheric moistening and upper tropospheric drying (e.g. Paltridge et al., 2009 ) is telling us that water vapor feedback is not positive, as is currently assumed in climate models. This is basically the reason why Miskolczi (2010) found a constant greenhouse effect?? that the observed decrease in upper tropospheric humidity (which is controversial from an observational standpoint) just offset the warming caused by increasing CO2.",3_1
So where is responsible journalism in all of this? All too often the mainstream is very far downstream in channeled disregard of abuses. The combined Bernard Madoff and Enron hoaxes did far less national damage yet received a whole lot more media attention.,0_0
"So what??s the upshot? Their reconstruction ???shows a succession of warm and cold episodes including peak warmth during Roman and Medieval times alternating with severe cool conditions centred in the fourth and fourteenth centuries.?? The warmest 30-year period was A.D. 21-50, which was1.05C warmer than the mean temperaturefor 1951-1980 and~0.5C warmer than the region??s maximum 20th century warmth, whichoccured during 1921-1950.",2_1
"Natural gas will be used to produce 29 percent of the countrys electricity this year, up from 20 percent in 2008. Nuclear accounts for 20 percent. Hydroelectric, wind, solar and other renewables make up the rest.",4_5
"A paper published today in the Journal of Geophysical Research in essence reveals climate models are not capable of reproducing the observed climate of the past century, much less the future. According to the paper, ""few models reproduce the strong observed warming trend from 1918 to 1940,"" there are ""large differences"" in the forcings and feedbacks used in various models and that some of these are ""unrealistic."" In other words, the key inputs and assumptions of the models are not known with reasonable certainty - ergo GIGO . The paper also finds that predicting the range of ""future climate change by weighting these models based on their 20th century is not possible.""Translation: climate models are little more than very expensive computer fantasy games that cannot predict the future nor even replicate the past.",5_1
India threatens Wind farms with fines. They must accurately predict the wind a day in advance or else!,0_0
"My impression is that it is a solid report, HRD, in substance, but calm and without personal attacks. Dr. given more weighty arguments for the AR5 should have presented clearly lower values as on the BDA klimatknsligheterna. I quote I TV conclusions (my verse) of klimatknslighetens values as, directly jmfras the table above:",0_0
"And how about Al Gore? Well in his book, he says "" are disappearing from the face of the earth at the rate of one and a half acres a second, night and day, every day, all year round."" This works out to be about the same number NWF uses in its Educator's Guide.",0_0
"In a recent statement put out by ?Planet Under Pressure? several scientists call for denser cities in order to mitigate worldwide population growth. When in doubt that UN?s Agenda 21 is not the Mein Kampf of our day, one should consider yet another in-your-face confession from yet another certified biocratic control freak",0_0
How to Destroy Science: Cast Self-Interest as Public Interest,0_0
"Positive feedback in engineering invariably results in unstable systems so we have to ask why do most if not all of the climate models rely on it to get doomsday predictions? For the Earth to have survived as long as it has with a stable climate, through major events like ice-ages or volcanic eruptions, there is little doubt that a degree of negative climate feedback is essential.",3_1
"Note that the most reasonable explanation to the cloud variations is that of the cosmic ray cloud link. By now there are many independent lines of evidence showing its existence (e.g., for a not so recent summary take a look here ). That is, the cloud cover variations are controlled by an external lever, which itself is affected by solar activity.",2_1
"Electric cars are bad for the planet, Swedes piddle in their gardens for Gaia and a plastic peril in the Pacific is just another perfidious porky .",0_0
"Well, Im at the International Conference on Climate Change in Chicago, where Im one of the speakers. Since Im a cartoonist, rather than liveblogging the conferenceI figured Id livetoon it instead ... these are my summaries of the main points that each scientist made in their presentation:",0_0
"I am for a carbon tax. I also believe that the Climategate emails revealed, to an extent that surprised even me (and I am difficult to surprise), an ethos of suffocating groupthink and intellectual corruption?",5_2
I was privileged to moderate the workshop that included CFACT senior policy analyst Paul Driessen; publisher and editor of ClimateDepot.com Marc Morano; and former national field director for CFACT's Collegians campus program Robert Harrelson.,0_0
Canadian researcher Steve McIntyre discovered earlier this week that the IPCCs recent report on alternative energy which asserted that it was possible to convert the world to 80% green energy by 2050 if politicians would simply tax conventional sources and spend billions on alternative sources was lifted largely from Greenpeace reports.,5_2
"ex-employee. It showed Pachauri as an infant, Pachauri as a toddler, Pachauri at school, Pachauri playing cricket, Pachauri getting married. It was all about Pachauri the Great and his achievements.",0_0
"In a world brought up on the idea of a ""population explosion,"" this is a radical notion. The world's population is still growingit will take some time for it to actually start shrinkingbut the next crisis is depopulation.",0_0
"As in all newly elected administrations, President Obama and his minions made commitments to regulate in accordance with the dictates of science and to act in the public interest. They have failed spectacularly, instead consistently adopting unscientific, anti-technology, anti-business, economy-slowing, job-killing policies. This latest example is one of the most egregious. If Obama's concerns about the importance of scientific integrity in the regulatory process were genuine, both Vilsack and Merrigan would be history.",0_0
Media reports that GMO science is settled are flat out wrong,0_0
All historical El Ninos including the currently emerging 2015 El Nino (Figure 2) have originated at this same deep western pacific Ocean Point source in the Solomon Island / New Guinea area.,0_0
"And even the ""usually panic-stricken Worldwatch Institute reported in 1992 that `with nearly 90 percent of its groves still standing, by national or international standards, the Brazilian Amazon is relatively untouched."" (Eco-Sanity, p.89)",0_0
"I would add that the part of the presidents new policy offering work permits to some of those whose deportation is deferred in no way changes the analysis above. The work permits are merely a formalization of the the presidents exercise of prosecutorial discretion here, which indicates that the administration will not attempt to deport these people merely for being present in the United States and attempting to find jobs here. They do not purport to legalize their status, and the policy of nondeportation can be reversed at any time by the president or his successor.",0_0
"And so we discover yet another positive impact of CO 2 -induced ocean acidification on Earth's marine life in which the ""harmful effects of UVR on C. curvisetus could be counteracted.""",3_2
The eastern slopes of the Cascades are susceptible to very heavy thunderstorm rains during the summer and on Saturday night it happened again.,0_0
"The 'greenhouse gases' convert the energy carried by the infrared radiation emitted from the surface into heat in the oxygen and nitrogen in the atmosphere. The greenhouse gas (water vapor) that produces 95% of the 'greenhouse effect' near the surface is also the component in the atmosphere that sets the lapse rate. The supposed amplification of AGW by the increase in the concentration of water vapor by an increase in the concentration of CO 2 is contradicted by the measurements taken by radiosondes of temperature changes in the atmosphere, which clearly show that an increase in the concentration of water vapor causes the temperature of the surface to fall rather than rise.",2_3
But other experts maintain we are in for another big freeze. Positive Weather Solutions senior forecaster Jonathan Powell said: ?It baffles me how the Met Office can predict a milder-than-average winter when all the indicators show this winter will have parallels to the last one.,0_0
"6. The ""ecological overshoot"" model of Mathis Wackernagel has been analyzed previously in Steven F. Hayward, ""Sustainable Development in the Balance,"" Environmental Policy Outlook (August 1, 2002).",0_0
"SM: Well, what can you say about Ralph Nader? Thank God for Ralph Nader or else Al Gore would be president today.",0_0
"An excellent discussion of this aspect of the debate can be found in Robert H. Nelson ?Ecological Science as a Creation Story?, The Independent Review, vol. 14, no. 4, Spring 2010, pp. 513-534.",0_0
"The president's top goals in the second term are to overhaul the U.S. tax and Social Security systems. If he succeeds, the gap between America's growth rate and Europe's will widen, and political pressure in Europe for free-market reforms will grow.",0_0
The climate models overestimate temperature rises due to CO 2 by at least a factor of three.,5_1
"Apparently, Minnis was indeed asked to review the manuscript. We finally received a decision letter from Schekman (attached to the following email). There were 4 reviews. One was from Minnis. Another may have been by Ramanathan. The other two were from those recommended by the board.",0_0
"Of course, the stupid district court judge Ms Gisela Triana agreed for the first time in the history that the atmosphere is a subject to the "" public trust doctrine "" which was invented to force a government to protect the natural resources belonging to the people led by this government.",0_0
"In other words, they aren?t interested in actual debate. They want to be authority figures who school the rest of us. Anyone who challenges them is reflexively pigeon-holed, labeled, and dismissed as",0_0
Structural uncertainty is rarely quantified in context of subsequent model versions. Continual ad hoc adjustment of GCMs(calibration) provides a means for the model to avoid being falsified new model forms with increasing complexity aregenerally regarded better.,5_1
"The usual suspects denounced the ANPR as a climate delayer tactic. However, any fair-minded reader (the ANPR spans 166pages in the Federal Register plus 11 technical support documents)willsee thatCAA regulation of GHG emissionsaboundswith administrativeconundrums and economic risks neveraddressed bypetitioners in Mass v. EPA .Bypassing this crucial exploratory analysis would havepreemptedpublic debate on the full range of legal, economic, and scientific issues.When EPA published its ANPR and opened a 120-day comment period, itstruck a small blow for good government.",0_0
"Moreover, for those watching recent E.U. developments, events there are a source ofconsiderable concern rather than admiration. Euroskeptics (or Eurorealists, as they prefer) have repeatedly highlighted the E.U.'s ""democratic deficit,"" a phrase often associated with Margaret Thatcher's E.U. critique. Not only are E.U. institutions and processes remote, opaque, and unaccountable but also, as a consequence, they lack the legitimacy so fundamental to acceptable governance. The euro's unfolding debacle only underlines this point.",0_0
"Americas electricity generation landscape is rapidly changing. Federal and state policies threaten to shutter more than 111 GW of existing coal and nuclear generation, while large amounts of renewables, such as wind, are forced on the grid. To understand the impacts of these policies, it is critical to understand the cost difference between existing and new sources of generation.",0_0
"The reason why SST, CO2 and LOD correlate so well is that they are all dependent variables. The external driving force is the independent variable. It is the electromagnetic field imposed on the earth which causes motion (rotation) and electromagnetically induced heating. The driving force is nominally from the Sun.",2_1
Rttelse via Lennart Bengtsson now p frmiddagen: history writing is not entirely correct d it was actually lngtidsprognosavdelningen at the Deutsche Wetterdienst under the direction of Mr. Bauer made this prediction and not KWI.,0_0
"Second, when it comes to the environment, people have been warned by ""scientists"" of catastrophe for decades. Many of us were supposed to die long ago from heat, floods, storms, crop failure, etc. It didn't happen. Global warming fatigue has been brewing for years, and is now firmly entrenched. Google Trends reveals that over the last 10 years, Google searches on ""climate"" have steadily decreased to about 50% of what they were, whereas interest in ""weather"" has increased by about 50%.",0_0
"Station Manager Andy Hoyland said a water pump from a neighbouring brigade was being used to carry water from a nearby reservoir, to help extinguish the fire.",0_0
More Midwest daily maximum temperature records were set in the heat waves of 1911 and the 1930s than in the 2012 heat wave.,1_7
"A British High Court judge ruled that ""An Inconvenient Truth"" promotes ""partisan political views,"" was riddled with errors and falsehoods, and could not be shown any more in schools, unless accompanied by a teacher's guide correcting information that Gore had misrepresented. Two of the most egregious distortions are especially likely to scare kids.",5_2
"Michaels also discusses the scientific controversy. Although the skeptics pointed out in 1990 that computer models were predicting much more warming than observed, it wasn't until 1995 that the IPCC admitted as much. The argument made, according to Michaels, was, ""Either it's not going to warm up as much as we said it was, or something (like sulfate aerosol) is reducing the warming.""",0_0
"(A closer analysis of the red curve shows that it is monoexponential without biexponential, and that the rapid component is close (menr not equal to 0.2 which was the rate constant for its frsvinnande). The lngsamma component r PSS lnadfrn the lngsammare deepwater process. However, we frdjupar us not into it.)",0_0
"Alene ticked all the headline stereotypical victim-leftie boxes , her interests included christine milne, organic gardening and batik hangings and lets face it, Composta is a red flag, rather. So she wrote to Lewandowsky begging for advice in dealing with monster commenters from Bolt and Blair, and notably pointed to him surviving my scorn and ridicule:",0_0
"A grotesque aspect of the malaria issue is that anyone who truly cares about this disease need not concern themselves with global warming. A world that cant rouse itself to do more about todays malaria victims surely has no business using theoretical, sometime-in-the-future victims as ammunition in the climate debate.",0_0
"Hard cases make bad law, says the old maxim, meaning that a judge's sympathy for a particular party's predicament seduces him into twisting legal doctrine in ways that cause trouble in the future.",0_0
(h/t Lazarus at Steven Goddards Real Science ),0_0
"Who populates these agencies? People with orthodox credentials of course. It helps a lot if they have published books or articles that favor and advance those views, or at least associate with influential organizations that do. Let?s call that the ?orthodox mainstream.? Then again, most of those books and articles wouldn?t have been published at all if the authors didn?t have good science credentials, right? They would need to have undertaken research that was published in respected journals.",0_0
"Another way to implement the plan would be to use a state's voter registration rolls and pick five names at random as winners with the names announced after the election, but the prizes given only to those who actually voted. All it would take to send a powerful message to other non-voters is one example in an election where an individual was picked but lost a Corvette or $100,000 because he or she did not vote.",0_0
"Another paper with a warm reception from the lukewarmers was published by Gillett et al. (in actuality, this paper was published during the first week of 2012, but was accepted for publication in late 2011, so I?ll go ahead and include it here). Gillett and colleagues used the character and evolution of the global average temperature from 1851 through 2010 to bend the output of a climate model to best fit reality (or at least reality as captured by the Hadley Centre/Climate Research Unit global average temperature compilation).",0_0
"Gia urges the readers to study the relation between his statements and the weak gravity conjecture. What I find perhaps even more interesting is that Dvali's inequality may be understood as a lower bound on the amount of discrete symmetry in a theory of quantum gravity. If the argument is refined, it could also be used to explain why pure AdS3 gravity has to have the monster group symmetry .",0_0
"Yes, you read that right the same Will Steffen who is the Labor governments Chief Alarmist, and who has already made up his mind and linked the Queensland floods to climate change (see here ). Kind of like the University of East Anglia investigating Climategate no, wait, they did. What hope is there for an impartial, balanced report? None. The people of Queensland deserve better.",5_2
"China could opt for a more stringent greenhouse gas goal from 2016 if it found the costs of carbon cutting and energy saving fall and other big emitters also took steeper cuts, said Barbara Finamore, Director of the China Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a U.S. environmental group.",0_0
"We soon moved to a location across from The Heritage Foundation, in a not-yet gentrified building with one large room, a bathroom, and a balcony overlooking Massachusetts Avenue. From that balcony I would solicit donors, harangue policy makers, market the media, and talk to passers by. All in all, not a bad way to start an organization.",0_0
"The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term climate change indicate that the warm, twelve thousand year-long Holocene period will rather soon be coming to an end, and then the earth will return to Ice Age conditions for the next 100,000 years.",1_2
"De Blasio himself may owe his mayoralty to 1199, the only major union to back him during the Democratic mayoral primary. The 1199 endorsement was essential in catapulting de Blasio into contention for the nominationand the mayoralty. The union's 150-member executive council supported de Blasio in a unanimous vote. After being elected, de Blasio named current 1199 president George Gresham, a longtime friend, to his transition team.",0_0
"A well-known theologian, policy analyst, scientist, and economist, united by their evangelical faith, respond to the Evangelical Climate Initiative's ""Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action,"" which calls for evangelicals to speak out against global warming for ethical reasons. While the authors of this paper agree with their motive, they take issue with several assumptions the ECI makes regarding global warming science, and posit an equally concentrated effort aimed at developing economic growth in impoverished regions would be a far more noble cause than restricting global warming-causing greenhouse gas emissions.",0_0
You can explore the BoM data for NSW etc and that huge increase in rain about 1950 often stands out. But it is a feature that nobody wants to explain.,0_0
"Any policies that shackle our ability to follow this new Europe-advised course will severely harm our nation's future and shackle blue-collar jobs, poor families and minority opportunities worst of all.",0_0
"When looking at the temperature trends , it is clear that global warming has actually been missing for the last 15 years. This has definitely been the case of the continental U.S. as the graph on the left depicts.",1_4
"We can not look particularly noticeable traces of the major volcanic eruptions Pinatubo in 1991, El Chichon in 1992 and Agnung 1963, suggesting that the cooling effects due to emissions of particles (aerosols) are modest, at least for these eruptions.This strengthens our claim in an earlier post that aerosols in climate models are exaggerated.",5_1
David Rothbard and Craig Rucker serve respectively as president and executive director of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow.,0_0
"I find it difficult to describe either Sir Humphry or the castle, so let me start with the castle, it has hundreds of rooms, so its less complex than he is. Chillingham Castle started out life somewhere around the year dot as four watchtowers with a fence connecting them. Then at some point the towers were connected with stone walls to make a palace for a visiting Scottish King. It had always belonged to the Grey family line since that same year dot, but was abandoned in 1932. Heres the castle, and a resplendent Sir Humphry in formal hunting attire:",0_0
"Nowack et al . (2014) write that ""state-of-the-art climate models now include more climate processes simulated at higher spatial resolution than ever,"" but they state that ""some processes, such as atmospheric chemical feedbacks, are still computationally expensive,"" and they say they are therefore ""often ignored in climate simulations,"" citing the studies of Taylor et al . (2012) and Kravitz et al . (2013).",5_1
"Growth skepticism means giving up on the possibility of overcoming economic problems, including burgeoning fiscal deficits, through growth rather than austerity. In Europe the talk has already shifted to curbing consumption rather than raising output. It looks likely that America will follow shortly.",0_0
"For the second time this year, Hawaii has experienced a spectacular electric show. In late February we saw nearly 21,000 lightning strikes in a five-hour window when a storm system stalled over Hawaii.",0_0
"But NSIDC seems to be thinking differently in their March 3, 2010 newsletter . They say Antarctica is cooling and sea ice is increasing (makes sense ??? ice is associated with cold.)",1_1
"Meanwhile, scientists who don't agree with the ""leaders"" are accused, by the likes of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., of ""treason."" He wants them ""in jail.""",0_0
"""American college students are hooked on cellphones, social media and the Internet and showing symptoms similar to drug and alcohol addictions, according to a new study.""Google loses autocomplete defamation case in Italy:",0_0
"The EU summit signalled Europe intended to restore its declining competitiveness by supporting the development of cheap energy, including shale gas, while cutting green energy subsidies.",0_0
"Arizona GOP Gov. Jan Brewer claimed recently that law enforcement has been finding beheaded bodies in the desert "" but local agencies say they've never encountered such a case.",0_0
"If you don't visit Somewhat Reasonable and the Heartlander digital magazine every day, you're missing out on some of the best news and commentary on liberty and free markets you can find. But worry not, freedom lovers! The Heartland Weekly Email is here for you every Friday with a highlight show. Subscribe to the email today, and read this week's edition below.",0_0
"United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, September 27, 2015",0_0
"Of course, this independence is required by the special theory of relativity. If \(x,y\) are space-like-separated points in your spacetime, the question ""which of them is earlier"" depends on the inertial system. In some reference frames, we may have \(x^0 \lt y^0\). In others, we will have \(x'^0 \gt y'^0\). So the physical results mustn't depend on questions how we order \(\Phi(x)\) and \(\Phi(y)\) in the products: there's no God-given ordering and quantum field theory must be able to yield some expectation values of the product in a given spacetime without any reference to a particular inertial system.",0_0
"The multi-decadal climate models are intended to provide information as to what are the plausible changes. However, in my view there is no need (and much added expense) to use the models to create changed climatology when these models have never demonstrated skill in the predictionfor the past decadesof changes in regional climatology . Thus, the large expense being applied, as illustrated in my post on the Mote et al 2011 EOS article , is not justified.",5_1
"OK, I was tooling around looking into the Degree Days on the west coast (due to the complete lack of things to harvest from my way too late garden Well, I did get one small yellow squash that made a side dish for two people. For mid-July in Coastal California that is just crazy. Ive also got a handful of Dragons Tongue beans, but Im running them to seed and it ought to be a colander full but I digress. It just isnt what it ought to be as its been darned cold at night and not very warm mid-day.)",0_0
"This disagreement goes to the heart of many current political issues and explains much about why people disagree about environmental policy. In the climate debate, for example, pessimists see a limit to the atmosphere's capacity to cope with extra carbon dioxide without rapid warming. So a continuing increase in emissions if economic growth continues will eventually accelerate warming to dangerous rates. But optimists see economic growth leading to technological change that would result in the use of lower-carbon energy. That would allow warming to level off long before it does much harm.",4_2
"Where Jim Hessells piece comes off the rails is in his assumption that increased CO2 is a proven threat. CO2 causes global warming, and more of it will cause a small fraction more, but theres no sound evidence that increased CO2 is a hazard.",2_3
"In all of the discussions of the global warming hiatus in AR5, the IPCC starts the hiatus period in 1998, limiting the hiatus period to the last 15 years. They also limit the presentation to the data and models that represent the combined global land surface air plus sea surface temperatures. This discussion shows that the hiatus period has lasted much longer than 15 years in some ocean basins.",1_4
Jmviktskonstanten fr frloppet = ratio nmnda rate constants,0_0
"Ive been gone for a while working on other things. MikeN called my attention to a criticism by Jim Bouldin, of my probing of the hockey stick CPS methods. Since the Air Vent wouldnt even be a climate blog, if it werent for Mann 08, it does seem important to address the criticisms by Jim. As it is my blog, the cool thing is that I can shove comments right in the middle of his criticisms to point out the issues of disagreement.",0_0
"A reviewer should be sensitive even to the appearance of a conflict of interest when the manuscript under review is closely related to the reviewers work in progress or published. If in doubt, the reviewer should indicate the potential conflict promptly to the editor.",0_0
"To describe carbon dioxide as a lethal air pollutant is an irresponsible lie it is surprising to see such rubbish in print. Carbon dioxide is the most important and essential atmospheric plant food, without which there would be no plants, no herbivores (which live on plants), and no carnivores (which live on herbivores).",3_3
"CNN Anchor: ""Every time we see a storm like this lately, the first question to pop into a lot of people's minds is whether or not global warming is to blame? I'll talk to Bill Nye, ""the science guy,' about devastating storms & climate change'",0_0
"Let us have a truly Happy New Year, where we rout the Warmists with their phoney science.",0_0
Windows Intune hits the street March 23:,0_0
The article contains the statement with respect to the top-down global climate model predictions that,0_0
"What's more, if EPA does believe the Clean Air Act provides authority for a GHG early credit program, it is the first early credit advocate to do so. Consider the subtitle of Lieberman's first stand-alone early credit bill, S. 2167, the ""Early Voluntary Reductions Act,"" introduced in the 105th Congress: ""To amend the Clean Air Act to authorize the President to enter into agreements to provide regulatory credit for voluntary early action to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions"" (emphasis added).",0_0
New evidence casts doubt on global warming,0_0
The wind is free ... but everything else costs money.,0_0
"In regard to their self-imposed question - ""which factor (temperature or CO 2 ) would have a greater effect under a climate change scenario?"" - Garrua-Hernandez et al . say their present results suggest that ""a doubling of atmospheric CO 2 levels in tropical-subtropical regions would promote positive changes in plants that could mitigate any deterioration caused by higher temperature, as long as this factor does not reach extremely stressful levels."" And they add that ""under greenhouse conditions, the present results are promising since maximum temperature can be controlled, preventing any detrimental effects, while high CO 2 levels can be applied to accelerate phenological states, increase the number of flowers and fruit, and consequently improve fruit yields."" Reference",3_3
Collapse of the AGW theory of the IPCC; 'Most influential climate paper of all time' contains multiple false assumptions,5_1
"The reasons are that the models assume that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) will lead to increases in atmospheric water vaporthe most prevalent greenhouse gasand that will enhance the gas' warming affect. That's fine in theory but has yet to be demonstrated in practice. Atmospheric water vapor has not increased. More importantly, scientists like University of Alabama's Roy Spencer and MIT's Richard Lindzen have shown that other elements in our complex climate system can be compensating.",2_3
"This excellent article by Art Horn in the Energy Tribune, takes the lid off the massive amounts of money being spent by government on ""climate change"", at a time of severe financial constraints.",0_0
"To date, Fisker has received $193 million in government funds, according to a company statement. Back in October, the company acknowledged outsourcing Karma assembly to Finland, but said that the bulk of its government funds would be used to launch a second-generation electric vehicle, still under wraps, that would be assembled in a shuttered General Motors plant in Delaware. Some of those hired to prepare the Delaware plant for that effort were among those let go.",0_0
Learn more:5 questions every presidential candidate should answer on global warming and energy policy,0_0
"In March 2012, however, theEPA proposed a Carbon Pollution Rule that does exactly what McCarthy and the Air Office said the EPA would not do. Therule lumps coal power plants and NGCC plants into a single newly-minted industrial source category fossil fuel electric generating units.Moreover, the rulerequires fuel switching, proposinganew source performance standard (NSPS) 1,000 lbs CO2/MWh that nearly all new NGCC plants already meet (77 FR 22396) and exactly zero commercial coal power plants can meet.",0_0
"The Congressional Research Service says average US households will pay almost $1,000 this winter just for heat. That's average: Alaska to Florida, Hawaii to New York. Northern states residents will pay double or triple that. Businesses, schools and hospitals will also be hammered.",0_0
"bogging down, nato would hand off responsibility for the areas they had taken to Afghan forces.",0_0
"We have been through a dark time when blacklists of scientists who disagree with the IPCC climate orthodoxy have been drawn up, editors have been threatened with being forced out of their jobs for allowing dissenting papers to be published in journals, correct science which disproves the orthodoxy position has been ignored and witch hunts on skeptical scientists and bloggers have been promoted.",5_2
"El Nio years typically result in fewer hurricanes forming in the Atlantic Ocean. But a new study suggests that the form of El Nio may be changing potentially causing not only a greater number of hurricanes than in average years, but also a greater chance of hurricanes making landfall, according to climatologists at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The study appears in the July 3, 2009, edition of the journal Science.",0_0
"The core of the 54 majority opinion was simple. Under the provisions of the Clean Air Act that apply to motor vehicles, the EPA administrator ""shall"" regulate any ""air pollutant"" which ""in his judgment cause, or contribute to, air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare"" .",0_0
"An issue with models (as far as I know how models handle this issue), by the way, is that they dissipate this transferred free energy by turbulence rather than transferring it to the ocean or to the sand. Oceans are usually driven by wind drag, but the resulting power input has already been dissipated by the models drag parameterization in the atmospheric boundary layer. So this should be quite an inconsistency in the coupling of models, with effects on the turbulent fluxes. I really think this points out that models do not handle interactions correctly at system boundaries with respect to free energy transfer.",5_1
"This is a live map so will change over time and in future months or years will look quite different. For now, it has a very hot Bos-Wash to Midwest but with everything from Wyoming west on the cold side (but with hot spots in the cities). These maps are all much larger than shown on the page. You ought to be able to click on them to get a very large version.",0_0
"When pressed, Brewer said that even those who do come to the United States looking for work are often ensnared by the cartels.",0_0
"America's carbon dioxide emissions last year fell to their lowest levels since 1994, according to a new report.",0_0
Casino And Lottery Gambling On The Agenda of Hawaii Lawmakers:,0_0
"DAVID B. RIVKIN Jr. and ELIZABETH PRICE FOLEY: ""Plenty of Debates, Not Much About States""",0_0
"The fact that four of the seven recommendations were initially proposed during the Clinton administration suggests they have been extensively debated by stakeholders. While this does not mean these four recommendations would necessarily be cost-effective or optimal, they are unlikely to have as their intended effect a weakening of existing protections of air quality. Certainty and clarity, missing from the current program and the source of much waste and lost opportunities to reduce emissions, are often-stated goals of the recommendations.",0_0
"Steve McIntyre pointed out some time ago, here , that almost all the global climate models around which much of the IPCCs AR5 WGI report was centred had been warming faster than the real climate system over the last 35-odd years, in terms of the key metric of global mean surface temperature. The relevant figure from Steves post is reproduced as Figure 1 below.",5_1
"However, what I do have an unambiguous opinion about is the management of the co-existing brands at the VW Group level. First of all, it seems obvious to me that whatever seems to ""work"" in the VW Group should grow and be copied to other parts of the group; and what doesn't work too well should be suppressed or abolished. Is this really controversial?",0_0
"Research published in the July 25 issue Science suggests that the height of the tropopausethe boundary between the stratosphere and the troposphere, the atmosphere's lowest layer that extends to the Earth's surfacehas risen by almost 700 feet since 1979 because of the human impact on the atmosphere. The tropopause plays an important role in the development of weather formations.",0_0
"The title of Souweines piece is, The People-Power-Inflicted Downfall of Heartland. Hate to break it to you, Dan, but there is no downfall. While you and your leftist activist buddies have been exchanging high fives and taking a victory lap, Heartland has been keepin on keepin on and better than ever.",0_0
"By Rafael Mendez and Miguel Jimnez, El Pais, Jun 25, 2015",0_0
?These are what we call a cold snap? a series of three or four cold snaps in a row adds up to a cold winter. And that?s quite likely what we?ll see as solar activity declines.?,0_0
"Now, when I've talked about this before, I always get the same question, so I'll answer it pre-emptively. What about people who can't get away? This is a tough problem. Some have proposed the establishment of a climate-change damages trust fund, which would grow over time, and be there to pay for relocation of people, the construction of sea-walls, the building of pipelines for bulk-water transport in the event climate calamities come to pass.",0_0
Theoretically this relationship has been known a long time. The parallelism between global temperature and solar activity over the past 1000 years appears to confirm it.,2_1
"The vast majority of public lands regulated by the BLM are in western states, where all current onshore wind farms approved or in planning stages will be located. Offshore wind farms, like those proposed off the New England coast, are regulated by a different federal agency.",0_0
"All the Great things are Simple, and Many can be Expressed in a Single Word: Freedom; Justice; Honor; Duty; Mercy; Hope . Winston Churchill .",0_0
"On Wednesday, Heather Zichal, the White House coordinator for energy and climate change, told a group of reporters that Obama, knowing that climate change is ""a legacy issue,"" will soon issue new rules to limit carbon-dioxide emissions from electricity-generation plants. ""After all that we've done, after all that historic progress in the first four years, we are well poised to take meaningful action for the second term,"" Zichal said.",0_0
"One passage from Sanger's book, quoting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, gets to the heart of the Obama strategy of engaging Iran or any government with which the United States",0_0
"In order to hide the unexpectedly slow increase in temperature, he has alsostretchedout the Y-axis of his graph. If he drew the temperature graph at the same scale as his 1988 forecasts, no one would even be paying attention any more. The graph below doesnt look much like a hockey stick.",5_2
"Obtaining the lithium for these batteries involves mining and scarring the earth as much as mining coal, which for the foreseeable future will generate much of our electricity. And we likely will be as dependent on foreign, and sometimes unfriendly, sources of lithium as we are for oil.",4_4
"On his web site, Alan Carlin posted his remarks upon acceptance of the Climate Science Whistleblower Award. Carlin tried to fight from within the EPA that finding the greenhouse gas emissions, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2), endangers human health and welfare (Endangerment Finding). He thought it was based on bad science. He was promptly muzzled. So much for the most transparent Administration ever. This highly questionable finding provides the EPA with the justification to severely regulate power plants, expanding its powers without Congressional action. Carlin states: So what started out as a scientific issue concerning a proposed Endangerment Finding has now escalated into a major legal and even Constitutional issue concerning Presidential powers. The President roams the country calling us flat-earthers and science-deniers. Perhaps it is time to characterize his behavior as illegal and even dictatorial.",5_2
"""We're doing everything we can to move things forward,"" said Rankin, whose 104 megawatt wind farm proposal is planned for west of Bend in central Oregon. ""Whether or not we'll qualify for stimulus grant money remains to be seen.""",0_0
"Senior Fellow, Energy and Environment, Competitive Enterprise Institute",0_0
"In Denver, some teams also talk about the searches for axions. They promise a final Yes/No verdict on axions within a few years.",0_0
"""The discovery of shale has really recreated the value proposition to build these facilities in what is the world's largest market,"" Andrew Liveris, Dow's chief executive, gushed about its Texas expansion plans.",0_0
"CEI: The recent tax bill contains an odd treatment of the death tax: phasing it out for one year a decade down the road. Why has eliminating (or even modifying) the estate tax been so difficult, and what are the prospects for speeding up its elimination?",0_0
"S. Edvardsson, K. G. Karlsson and M. Engholm",0_0
"In 2005, a similar blizzard struck central North Dakota.",0_0
"Right now, we have too many taxes and regulations, too much secrecy and fraud, too many extremists, and far too little accountability in EPA. There is too much eco-religious fervor, too little science and humanity. Poor and minority families are hurt most of all. Our governors, state and federal legislators, attorneys general, courts, next president, and citizen, industry and scientific groups need to take action.",0_0
"Considered somewhat of a black sheep within the scientific community Judith was a one time supporter of the IPCC until she started to find herself disagreeing with certain policies and methods of the organization. She feared the combination of groupthink and political advocacy, combined with an ingrained noble cause syndrome stifled scientific debate, slowed down scientific progress, and corrupted the assessment process.",5_2
"The idea that three outstanding students PhD candidates at OSU could face dismissal, and worse, shortly before receiving their degrees, is simply shocking. That this could be happening because their father had the temerity to challenge an entrenched 12-term Democratic congressman (and OSU earmark purveyor) could make people think the university is in Zimbabwe, not America.",0_0
"in magnitude? Of course not. And the last thing they really want you to do is look at the total picture of the 2 meter temperatures the last few years, after the leveling off of the previous 10.",0_0
"The Merkel government now stresses that fossil fuels will remain the foundation of German energy supply for many years to come. It has also announced it will produce a new national energy plan in 2013, with support from all institutions. In the meantime, the energy transformation is entering a chaotic phase.",0_0
Lead to an aggregate loss of more than 1 million jobs by 2016 alone.,0_0
"Secondly, during the eight months of ""investigation"" (Abraham's word) that he carried out, at no single point did he ever contact me to ask me to clarify one of the numerous references which, he said over and over again, were not clear in my slides.",0_0
"Our work shows that even though only a small portion of the ocean contained toxic and metal-scavenging hydrogen sulfide, it was sufficiently large so that changes to the oceans chemistry and biology were likely profound, Owens said. What this says is that only portions of the ocean need to contain sulfide to greatly impact biota.",0_0
"Instead of questioning the integrity and motivation of those who raise important questions about our understanding of the climate system, advocates should engage in an honest discussion of what actions are consistent with our state of knowledge and how best to resolve major uncertainties. That would make an important and serious contribution to climate policy.",0_0
"For Obama, closing down some of Guantanamo, signing an unenforceable climate agreement in Paris, flirting with the notion of a ""no first use' nuclear doctrine, apologizing to Laos and exchanging ambassadors with the Castro brothers are what history is made of.",0_0
"I wish they??d exhibit the same investigative zeal when it comes to looking at Arctic sea ice record low extents , for all we know, the 2007 low extent might also be a victim of the same algorithm shift that occurred that year.",5_1
"On the other hand, the same temperature record could be used to argue that there is no justification for supporting the Kyoto Protocol since ""without that jump, there is no warming in Japan."" Balling concludes, ""in discussing the climate shortcomings of the Kyoto Protocol, one need look no farther than Japan to begin to see reasons many folks are skeptical about the scientific basis for the agreement. If the temperature record from Japan represents the type of facts the Protocol is built upon, it's time to say ""sayonara' to Kyoto."" The report can be found at www.greeningearthsociety.org.",0_0
"The swirl of praise around Rowling's comments is especially welcome given how widely it was reported and commented uponfrom the proudly left-wing pages of The Guardian in the UK to the enthusiastically conservative Daily Caller here in the U.S. But it is a reminder that we should also be vigilant in standing up against attempts to suppress speech when agreement is less universal and the threat is more immediate. That's why CEI has also been part of numerous coalition efforts to limit the powers of federal agencies and allow the free flow of information and expression, unhampered by illegitimate government searches and surveillance. We hope you'll support our efforts we need as many allies in fighting the abuse of government power as we can get.",0_0
"We do know a few things about the 50 or 100 year future that are locked in. First, people will be the same and there will be more of them. There's no evidence that human or social evolution has changed or will change people's basic proclivities. Even in the very far future, people will still have two eyes, a nose, and a mouth--the same desires and emotions, both good and bad. Second, new technologies will emerge and will be rapidly pulled into widespread use if they yield opportunities to live more comfortably, pleasantly and safely. And third, over many centuries these two inexorable trends in combination increase energy consumption--met by new energy sources and techniques.",0_0
"A key part of the IPCC report is the presentation of evidence of parallel increases in both global temperatures and levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It is claimed by IPCC that the increased carbon dioxide emitted by Man is causing global warming. In my paper it is shown that the cause and effect relation is exactly the opposite; that natural global warming has caused an increase in the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, simply because of the reduction in solubility of carbon dioxide in sea water with increasing sea temperatures.",2_3
delta H = inflow outflow K,0_0
"Comment: Bingo! If the conclusion that the EPAwould not require fuel switchingis a reasonable interpretation of the BACT guidance, then Congress and electric utilities had no reason to expect the agencyto require fuel switching only one year later, much less do sovia a form of regulation NSPS that is generally less stringent than BACT. In hindsight, the BACT guidance was the setup for a bait-and-fuel-switch .",0_0
"Here is a photo from the walk way along the top of the dam. I can not imagine a worse place for a USCHN weather station. It is located in a very narrow canyon, with long shadows. It is surrounded by stone building heat sinks except on the river side. Here on the river it is exposed to waters of varying temperatures, cold in spring and winter, warm in summer and fall as the river flows vary with the season. The level of spray also varies, depending on river flow. During high flows the spillway creates a lot of spray. During low water conditions, the only water flow is through the two power houses, one which is a mile down stream. Very little spray. We know that the amount of water vapor in the air has a big impact on temperatures, and here it varies by season and river flow.",5_1
"A high price today that is expected to collapse because of a faulty design (not to mention the lack of bipartisan support) will merely cause input costs of energy to rise but generate little investment in reducing emissions. A price that is low but expected to rise in future years in a robust system, with the interests of key players aligned through clever allocation of permits, will likely generate a far greater investment response. Uncertainty stifles investment. The current carbon pricing system has too much uncertainty.",4_2
"Flashback 2010: Watch Now! Climate Depot's Morano in MSNBC TV Debate Morano: ""Now are trying to say global warming causes blizzards, that's the level of climate astrology it's like a daily horoscope nothing that happens falsifies the theory' ""He (Weiss) need's Tarot cards, that is what he needs, he is peddling astrology'",0_0
"his aides had been reading Gordon Goldstein's Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam about the difficulty of trying to finely tailor wartime decisions.) Meanwhile,",0_0
Professional alarmist Tim Flannery whips up more fear by exploiting bushfires which he falsely claims were unusual and unprecedented:,1_7
"Scott is not alone, however. It's unfortunately common among reporters to reinvent a highly partisan history of climate policy in Congress. For example, in a late 2015 story for the New Yorker, Jonathan Chait wrote the following about what ultimately happened to the Senate version of a cap-and-trade in the 111th Congress:",0_0
"If Gore had really wanted a big event on the Mall, all he would have had to do was pick another weekend. The big bad Bush Administration and the mean old Republican-controlled Congress placed no obstacles in the way of antiwar rallies and Earth Day events held on the Mall in the past few years that bashed the President and the party. The Park Service issues permits in a professional manner without regard to an event's ideological content. But it will not let an event jump in front of the line, even if the organizer is a former vice president and Academy Award winner. As the Washington political newspaper The Hill explained, ""Getting access to the Mall comes on a strict first-come, first-serve basis.""",0_0
"There is evidence that the document is authentic based on a specific mention in the 2000 Hoover Institution report by S. Fred Singer and Frederick Seitz, ""Climate PolicyFrom Rio to Kyoto: A Political Issue for 2000and Beyond.""",0_0
"In Sub-Saharan Africa, some 615 million (100 million more than in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico combined) still lack this life-saving technology, and 730 million (the population of Europe) still cook and heat with wood, charcoal, and animal dung. Millions die every year from lung and intestinal diseases, due to breathing smoke from open fires and not having the safe food and water that electricity brings.",0_0
"Looking at the numbers shows that in 2013, just the increase in hydrocarbon use was greater than the contribution of all global wind energy and all global solar energy combined.",0_0
The AEO2014 side case for the $25 per ton carbon tax would cut energy-related CO2 emissions by about 50 percent by 2050 (overall emissions would probably drop by a slightly smaller percentage). These cuts translate to a temperature moderation of about 0.05 degrees centigrade (about 0.09 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of this century. Few would argue that this virtually unmeasurable impact is worth the million lost jobs and trillions of dollars of lost income.,0_0
"This is a leading statement. It implies that opinion leaders think global warming is happening; otherwise why give it attention? This amplifies, instead of overcoming, social desirability bias.",0_0
"Another curiosity: Meehl et al (2013) presented the outputs of 5 ensemble members of the CCSM4 model using RCP4.5 forcings. But the CMIP5 archive contains 6 ensemble members with those forcings. Why did they exclude one? We illustrated how poorly all six ensemble members simulate the warming rates in the Pacific on a zonal mean basis, so why they excluded one is somewhat of a mystery.",5_1
"""It points to the natural variability of the climate system,"" he said in an interview with Canada's National Post. ""It's quite likely is simply due to the dimming and brightening of the sun.""",2_1
Drought severity and area has declined sharply in the USsince the 12th century. The exact opposite of what Obama claims.,1_7
"Fred Dardick, When will science get serious about global cooling?",0_0
"10. Ecologist Kenneth Watt told Time that, ""At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it's only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.""",0_0
But that may be changing. Consider the more insidious and subtle tactics of the San Francisco-based As You Sow Foundation.,0_0
"The list makes no distinction between corporate donors and individual donors, or between million-dollar donors and $5 donors. The PIC has all this information it is legally required to collect it for the April FEC filing. But it's not disclosing the information, and PIC officials didn't answer when I asked why. They also wouldn't give me the amounts donated by a few specific corporations.",0_0
"It s worth noting that the sharpest point of contention between Clinton and Obama in their now-finished race "" whether people should be forced to buy health insurance "" amounted to a lovers quarrel: Obama favors the idea for children, while Clinton champions it for adults, too. Even that distinction is fuzzy, though, since Obama has suggested before that he d endorse a mandate for adults eventually, should too many remain uninsured after his first term.",0_0
"Belief in public order: Working-class voters rely more on the public order to provide a structure in their lives than do upper-class voters. They can't afford private security services or retreat to homes with large yards far from unruly elements. They live closer together and in closer contact with crime. Accordingly, they place a high premium on effective police and fire services and greatly respect policemen and firemen.",0_0
"Date-Time	Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 09:01:06 UTC",0_0
"Are E30-optimized vehicles commercially viable? The proposed Tier 3 rule provides no data on either the consumer cost of such vehicles or the fuel economy gains. Even if the lifetime fuel savings outweigh the increase in vehicle cost, that is not usually the decisive factor for most consumers, otherwise hybrid sales would be largerthan 4% of the vehicle market.",4_4
"criminals in a blackout, anonymous reviewers, in the book's words,",0_0
"With a r 2 of 0.00 between monthly CO2 and temperatures values, the UK climate records also confirm the legitimate dismissal of the argument that CO2 acts as a ""control knob"" - some type of global temperature thermostat that UN elite bureaucrats and national politicians thought they could just dial for a desired climate.",2_3
"6. J. W. Zillman, Bulletin of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society 16, no. 85 (2003).",0_0
From Dan Hopey's article in The Toledo Blade:,0_0
"The three researchers conclude their report by speculating that elevated atmospheric CO 2 was effective for the survival and rooting of the majority of the cutting branches ""because of its promoting photosynthetic activity in plants and possible synthesis of root promoting factors."" Whatever the reason, their observations certainly suggest that atmospheric CO 2 enrichment might well figure prominently in propagating commercially-important woody plants in the not-too-distant future. Reviewed 22 July 2009",3_3
"Winter storms throughout southern Scandinavia were more frequent and intense during the multi-century Dark Ages Cold Period and Little Ice Age than they were during the Roman Warm Period, Medieval Warm Period and Modern Warm Period, providing strong evidence to refute the climate-alarmist contention that storminess tends to increase during periods of greater warmth. Actually, just the opposite is generally found to be true, not only here but in most other parts of the world, as may be readily appreciated by reviewing the materials we have posted in our Subject Index under the general heading of Weather Extremes (Storms) .",1_7
"While we have known for some time, including through the work of Anthony Watts , that many weather stations are poorly maintained and positioned in wrong places including next to air conditioning outlets on bitumen the recent GISS saga indicates how subjective the system of compilation can be. Indeed it appears that when Australia sends data in late, rather than wait, the team in New York might be inclined to best guess based on last months pattern and climatology.",5_1
"on Friday, July 23rd, 2010 at 5:54 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"I suggest this is what really happened: the polar bear biologists working in Svalbard earlier this year knew this bear was going to die back in April when they captured him they simply waited, with a photographer on hand, until he died. It was an orchestrated photo-op ?? How is it possible that this bear was healthy in April but dead by starvation less than 3 months later? Why was he even on land in April? Why was global warming photographer Ashley Cooper in Svalbard for 12 days in July, fortuitously available to take the bears picture?",5_2
The IPCC does not have a convincing or confident explanation for this hiatus in warming.,1_4
"Restructure socialized insurance and risk mitigation for energy projects. Several government programs offer liability insurance schemes for specific industries. Proponents usually argue that these programs support industries that are vital to the national interest, but are so high-risk that they would be unprofitable without subsidies. Two examples are the $75 million liability cap for offshore oil and gas operations and the PriceAnderson Act of 1957, which provides a liability regime for the nuclear industry that extends through 2025. The free-market solution is generally to eliminate these subsidies, but given the broken tort system and increasingly onerous federal regulation, these subsidies often offset government-created risks. Any discussion of ending liability insurance subsidies should include proposals to ease the regulatory burden on the affected industry.",0_0
"There are ominous signs that the Earths weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.",0_0
"But what about the climate? Did it lower temperatures? Nope. Did it make any difference to global action on climate? Double Nope. Did anybody, except the twits in the Gillard government, take any notice whatsoever of the fact that New Zealand had stitched up its economy like a kipper? Nope, nope and thrice nope.",0_0
How else could this sentence lead a recent article on global warming? ?Scientists now believe that global warming is to blame for extreme cold snaps in North America during the winter months.? I suppose by this logic excessive rainfall causes droughts.,0_0
"Today is the 30th 40th* anniversary of the most expensive flubbed line in history. ""One small step for A man, one giant leap for mankind.""",0_0
"""This is a global problem,"" stated McGinty. ""This job gets much more difficult if China and the rest of the developing nations do not become part of the solution."" To make them part of the solution the administration has promised $1 billion in foreign aid.",0_0
"In 2011, winter drought in eastern Chinas wheat-growing region had significant implications beyond the countrys borders. Potential crop failure due to drought led China to buy wheat on the international market and contributed to a doubling of global wheat prices; the resultant price spikes had a serious economic impact in Egypt, the worlds largest wheat importer, where bread prices tripled. Egypts geography and population combine to create a dependency on imported wheat and a subsequent exposure to external commodity factors. Bread is the staple of the Egyptian diet, and for decades bread subsidies have been used to maintain social stability.",0_0
"""Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn (D) continues to pick up key endorsements in the special election race for former Rep. Jane Harman's (D-Calif.) seat.""",0_0
"In the meantime, global average sea surface temperatures have reportedly increased at about 3.5 times this rate, about 0.6 deg. C, based upon the HadSST2 data.",0_0
"The fact that people try to escape conflict and persecution needs no explanation. One only needs to see footage from any war to see precisely that refugees are one of the most predictable consequence of war. The cause for this that Murray chooses to emphasise is is weak, theoretical and highly contestable. Murray claims that this is precisely the kind of extreme event climate security analysts from the Pentagon to the MoD to the worlds top insurance firms expect to see happen more often and with more intensity. But this is owed to the increasing tendency to attempt to frame complex social and political phenomena in natural terms, not because of any developments in rational or scientific attempts to understand the world.",0_0
Anyone who would like to join the Light Brigade and enlighten the Mall on February 17th can sign up at industrialprogress.net/lightbrigade.,0_0
"In addition, the platform supports the Paris Agreement, an international agreement adopted by 195 countries that aims to keep global temperature increases to ""well below"" two degrees Celsius.",0_0
i) We need to know whether the Modern Warm Period has peaked or not. It seems that the recent peak late 20 th Century has passed but at a level of temperature lower than seen during the Mediaeval Warm Period. Greenland is not yet as habitable as when the Vikings first colonised it. Furthermore it is not yet 1000 years since the peak of the Mediaeval Warm Period which lasted from about 950 to 1250 AD,2_1
"RSI At the start of November RSI had a peak, but it was a lower peak than the near 80 from August. Lower Highs is a downtrend.",0_0
"The two researchers say their results imply that ""current climate models cannot reliably predict changes in tropical precipitation extremes,"" noting that ""inaccurate simulation of the upward velocities may explain not only the intermodal scatter in changes in tropical precipitation extremes but also the inability of models to reproduce observed interannual variability."" References",5_1
"2005 may go down in the record books as the warmest year on the global record. What a perfect backdrop for the international Greenhouse 2005 conference held in Melbourne over the last week. 350 delegates from science, industry and government attended for a review of climate change science, likely impacts and strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The conference saw the whos who of climate change in Australia pouring over the facts and figures and making impassioned speeches on future needs.",0_0
* Atmospheric satellite temperature trend over land (RSS MSU-LT) = 0.3 F/decade,0_0
"Who Turned on the Heat? The Unsuspected Global Warming Culprit, El Nio-Southern Oscillation is intended for color versions of Kindle. It is a data-supported, not a computer model-dependent, presentation of how the Earth warmed naturally over the past 30 years. This is not some theory. This is how the satellite-based sea surface temperature and ocean heat content data accounts for the recent warming of the global oceans. Keep in mind, the oceans cover 70% of this planet. The publicly available sea surface temperature records for the global oceans contradict the assumption that manmade greenhouse gases are responsible for most of the warming over the past 30 years. Thats the time period the computer models employed as marketing tools by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) say only anthropogenic greenhouse gases could have caused the warming.",2_1
Floods : Prof. Pielke Jr. : 'Are US Floods Increasing? The Answer is Still No' -- 'A new paper out today shows flooding has not increased in U.S. over records of 85 to 127 years',1_7
The Global Economic Recession and Montana's Energy Future,0_0
"We report on a sediment record from a small lake within the subarctic wetland complex Stordalen in northernmost Sweden covering the last 1000 years. Variations in the content of minerogenic material are found to follow reconstructed variations in the activity of the Sun between the 13th and 18th centuries. Periods of low solar activity are associated with minima in minerogenic material and vice versa. A comparison between the sunspot cycle and a long instrumental series of summer precipitation further reveals a link between the 11 yr solar cycle and summer precipitation variability since around 1960. Solar minima are in this period associated with minima in summer precipitation, whereas the amount of summer precipitation increases during periods with higher solar activity. Our results suggest that the climate responds to both the 11 yr solar cycle and to long-term changes in solar activity and in particular solar minima, causing dry conditions with resulting decreased runoff.",2_1
"Additionally, having now actually lived with the presence of industrial wind turbines, people no longer want them ""imposed on their communities."" On April 4, the Falmouth, MA, Board of Selectmen and the Falmouth Finance Committee held a joint meeting and unanimously stood by the selectmen's prior vote to remove the town's wind turbines. Residents say: ""they're suffering headaches, dizziness and sleep deprivation and often seek to escape the property where they've lived for more than 20 years.""",0_0
"With this morning's Freedom of Information Act request, the explaining they have to do must begin by providing the taxpayer certain records regarding including but not limited to user names and passwords for a backchannel ""cloud' established to hide IPCC deliberations from FOIA, thereby also seeking to undermine the Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978.",0_0
"The authors of this study conclude that the coccolithophorid they studied ???could adapt to ocean acidification with enhanced assimilations of carbon and nitrogen,?? becoming even more productive than it is now, which is yet another positive finding of the often feared consequence of Earth??s rising atmospheric CO 2 concentration?? Read More",3_2
"The answer and, as I shall show, it is the right one is that his deliberately dishonest personal attack on my integrity and reputation is an ingenious fiction, he knows it, and he has therefore had to go to some elaborate and time-consuming lengths to conceal the steps he has taken to hide the truth and make this nonsense look plausible.",0_0
"""While the details of the debt ceiling deal remain fuzzy, this much is clear: Barack Obama may be president, but the Tea Party is now running Washington. How did this happen? Simple; this is what American politics looks like when there's no left-wing movement and no war.""",0_0
"Recall that she mentioned polar ice, sea levels, storms, and ocean acidification. With respect to polar ice, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reports that the Arctic and Antarctic sea ice extents now do not differ from their respective 19812010 averages as a matter of statistical significance. (The 20152016 Arctic data are near the bottom of the statistical confidence interval, while the 20152016 Antarctic data are near the 19812010 average.)",1_1
This class of cosmic ray detector is more sensitive in the approximate 500 Mev to 4 GeV portion of the cosmic ray spectrum than are cosmic ray muon detectors. The portion of the cosmic ray spectrum that reaches the Earths atmosphere is controlled by the geomagnetic cutoff which varies from a minimum (theoretically zero) at the magnetic poles to a vertical cosmic ray cutoff of about 15 GV (ranging from 13 to 17) in the equatorial regions. (Note: GV is a unit of magnetic rigidity. Magnetic rigidity is a particles momentum per unit charge. It is the relevant quantity for characterizing a cosmic rays ability to penetrate Earths magnetic field.).,0_0
"In 2006, an article appeared in Science magazine reconstructing the temperature of the Northern Hemisphere back to 800 AD based on 14 smoothed and normalized temperature proxies (e.g., tree ring records). Osborn and Briffa proclaimed at the time that the 20th century is the most anomalous interval in the entire analysis period, with highly significant occurrences of positive anomalies and positive extremes in the proxy records. Obviously, concluding that the Northern Hemisphere has entered a period of unprecedented warmth is sure to make the news, and indeed, Osborn and Briffas work was carried in papers throughout the world and was loudly trumpeted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) that publishes the journal Science .",0_0
9% Support For Barack W Bush,0_0
"Most people probably remember from high-school biology that ethanol is a chemical made when yeast breaks down sugar molecules in a process called fermentation. Ethanol has two carbon atoms, six hydrogen atoms, and one oxygen atom. There are various kinds of alcohol, but ethanol is the one found in your beer, wine, and spirits. It is also combustible, which is well known to anyone who has set brandy on fire while cookingthink Cherries Jubilee.",0_0
"What I noticed about Sen. Wirth and Hansen back in the late 1980s, is that there was a obvious concerted effort within the emergence of baby boomer management and personnel into climate science on the federal level; that they were pushing ideology as policy. This was a prepatory assault that was planned out.",0_0
"More importantly, down to a pH of 7.2 (10 times more acidic), no measurable effect was found and no loss of biodiversity. Thus a doubling (pH=7.9) or quadrupling (pH=7.6) of CO 2 concentrations in the atmosphere is not going to have any measurable effect on marine life.",3_2
"National monument designations come with severe land- and, in this case, sea-use restrictions. For over four hundred years, the area targeted by green activists and the Obama administration has been one of the richest fishing grounds in North America.. The region's fishermen fear that the monument could spell the end of their industry and they suspect that this is the ultimate goal of environmentalists, in and out of government.",0_0
"Yet, even *after* Haiyan, the Accumulated Cyclone Energy of all cyclones in the Western North Pacific is below normal (99%, http://models.weatherbell.com/tropical.php ). The global ACE is at 74%.",1_7
"Recognizing that ""employment"" is one of the primary drivers of global warming, California has been among the first to act. And things are turning around! Green jobs compose less than one percent of Californias economy. Thats right, less than one percent. From 1995 to 2008, California added only 42,000 new green jobs. At that rate of growth, it would take 89 years for green jobs to replace all of the other jobs California has lost in the current economic downturn. The project is being watched closely in Washington, where by all indications , the California example is set to go nationwide.",4_2
"Some greens argue that rural parts of Africa may be able to eschew giant power grids and leapfrog into off-grid solar-powered electricity, a bit like Kenya has with mobile banking. But that costs more and it wont power factories. The continent needs both, and those who advocate no support for coal are effectively saying that the adoption of renewable energy is more important than alleviating African poverty.",0_0
"it's because when a new male baboon joins a troop, it's traditional",0_0
"The Wall Street Journal ran a story on March 9, In Study, Past Decade Ranks Among Hottest . It was about a study published in a recent issue of the Journal Science claiming that a one degree temperature variation resulted in 2000-2009 being one of the warmest since modern record-keeping began. Their claim is that the planet will be warmer in 2100 than it has been for 11,300 years. Thats about the amount of time since the end of the last ice age and the beginning of the Holocene, an epoch of warm weather that gave rise to civilizationabout 5,000 years ago. The length of the periods between ice ages is about 11,500 years. Another ice age will kick in any day now.",1_2
"In conclusion, we stand by our request that corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risk of climate change be investigated to determine if they knowingly deceived the public about climate science. And we wish to be clear that we are not suggesting that scientists or bloggers should be investigated for expressing their beliefs.",0_0
"Firstly, the assumption that solar activity peaked in 1960 and declined since is false, since it is necessary to determine the accumulated solar energy over multiple solar cycles, which is the accumulated departure from the average number of sunspots over the entire period, which I call the ""sunspot integral."" The sunspot integral is plotted in blue and shows remarkable correction with global temperatures plotted in red below. Correlating sunspot and temperature data with and without CO2, we find the sunspot integral explains 95% of temperature change over the past 400 years, and that CO2 had no significant influence (also here ).",2_1
"Even those who agree with Gore's environmental philosophy, which the picture lays out in exhausting detail, would have to admit that An Inconvenient Truth fails in many of the same ways Gore failed as a Presidential candidate. The picture is tedious, impersonal, dare I say stiff. Staunch environmentalistsor even those of us who are looking for engaging, informative dialogue on the global-warming debateshould be dismayed that",0_0
"A historical movie from that day, 15 minutes. Death at 6:01.",0_0
"But was the ""evidence"" for global warming intentionally and illegally concocted? By their persistence in hiding their data we may think so, as far as Mann and Weaver are concerned; while Dr Ball's latest sensational book,'' The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science ;' detailing the Climategate shenanigans, is a 'must read' as to culpability. But only a full criminal investigation will be determinative of all that. The question now is, will the U.S. and Canadian governmental authorities have the stomach to delve deeper?",5_2
"... simply put, you can't (from 2006): Mankind has had less effect on global warming than previously supposed, a United Nations report on climate change will claim next year. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there can be little doubt that humans are responsible for warming the planet, but the organisation has reduced its overall estimate of this effect by 25 per cent. The IPCC has been forced to halve its predictions for sea-level rise by 2100, one of the key threats from climate change. It says improved data have reduced the upper estimate from 34 in to 17 in. Commentary and Vitriol @ Cjunk",5_1
"The results showed that, without small algae-eating crustaceans in the eelgrass meadows, climate change could pose a much greater threat to their survival.",0_0
"Others presented their research suggesting the primary cause is external to the earth. One suggestion is that the primary cause may be the sun alone. Still others suggested the primary cause is high energy cosmic rays, modulated by the sun, hitting the atmosphere and creating changes in cloud cover.",2_1
New Hampshire Town passes 3 mile Property Value Guarantee,0_0
"There shouldn?t be someone else at UEA with different views [from ""recent",0_0
"When we wrote It's Even Worse Than It Looks, many former Republican officeholders understood we were not attacking the Republican Party as partisans but trying to save it from itself. We took no comfort from calling out the GOP. We well recognize that our polity will not function as it is supposed to without two strong and vibrant parties whose goal is to solve societal problems within the rubric of our constitutional system.",0_0
"""Turning control of the Internet over to an agency staffed by UN bureaucrats would a disastrous mistake. Imagine a world where the rules for what's permissible to say and do online are written by diplomats appointed by Robert Mugabe, Fidel Castro and the Chinese Communist party.""",0_0
"This dovetails nicely with our own Al Gore/AIT Index which is currently -.594 degrees Fahrenheit as of the end of July, 2008, i.e. the globally averaged satellite-based temperature has dropped .594 degrees Fahrenheit since An Inconvenient Truth was released January 24, 2006.",1_4
Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps calls for an investigation into the National Security Agency's database of telephone records.,0_0
"At one point, I asked Ms. Macfarlane about the evidence on the recent temperature record, that is, the climate sensitivity of the atmosphere. She obviously knows nothing about it, but Rush Holt (the AAAS CEO), playing to the audience, jumped in with the snarky comment that it is ""either big or huge."" That is not what the peer-reviewed literature tells us, and even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has adjusted its estimate downward. Does Holt not know this? Or was he simply talking out of a hat?",0_0
"But is the goal to save the planet from ecological catastrophe or simply to lower energy use? Nature admits in the article that more science is needed, that better and more credible models must be developed. Indeed, it warns governments against relying too much on climatologists! Regardless, Nature argues for signing a treaty because reducing energy use is a good thing in and of itself. Global warming is just a convenient excuse.",0_0
"If you don't want to watch 10:10?s ad campaign, HillBuzz provides a synopsis:",0_0
"reading a book I promised, many weeks ago, to review",0_0
Andy Revkin: More on Extreme Weather in a Warming Climate,0_0
"It is reasonable to say that if air pressure caused the lower temperature in the ice-age then birds that cannot fly above 3200m (due to the lower lift) would not be present. In other words, we can disprove this theory if we can find a bird that cannot fly above 3200m and has not changed significantly through the ice-ages.",0_0
"Sir, Your editorial ""Cutting carbon"" (January 20) misstates the efficacy of carbon cap-and-trade schemes as ""the most cost-effective way of reducing pollution.""",0_0
"Yes, that's right: the computer code was designed to create a warming trend no matter what data was put into it. You could make up your own numbers showing the exact same recorded temperatures each and every year for the last thousand years and the ""model"" would still spit out an Al-Gore-style hockey-stick warming graph.",5_2
"Is the USA next in line? The United States is reaping imaginary bounties from its $814-billion ""stimulus"" spending orgy. It hemorrhaged $223 billion in red ink during February alone on its way to a projected 2011 deficit of $1.5 trillion, the Congressional Budget Office reports.",0_0
Much-hyped Antarctic runway turning to water | News.com .au,0_0
The latest data actually show temperatures have dropped in recent years. 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
"are consumed by such fast-emerging markets as China and India""",0_0
"Entitled The extra-tropical Northern Hemisphere temperature in the last two millennia: reconstructions of low-frequency variability, by B Christiansen of the Danish Meteorological Institute and F C Ljungqvist of Stockholm University, the paper concludes that previous climate reconstructions seriously underestimate variability and trends in the climate record of the past two millennia.",5_1
About this time Steve McIntyre linked up with Ross McKitrick a Canadian economist specialising in environmental economics and policy analysis. Together McIntyre and McKitrick began to dig down into the data that Mann had used in his paper and the statistical techniques used to create the single blended average used to make the Hockey Stick. They immediately began to find problems .,5_1
"Already, protected areas or parks now occupy 13.2% of all of South America. The Pan American Railroad proposed to link North America with Chile is virtually blocked since every possible route must pass through a protected area. (Eco-logic report, p.12) And if the U.N. Biodiversity Treaty goes through, massive stretches of additional forest will be forever locked away with access in and out regulated by international bureaucrats or the non-governmental organizations (like Rainforest Action Network, National Wildlife Federation, and World Wildlife Fund) they charge with oversight.",0_0
"This reads, the probability that somebody gets better using drug D rather than P given the raw numbers we had from the old trial (including the old patient characteristics) and that no cheating took place in that trial and the new patients who will use the drugs look like the patients from the previous trial, is greater than 50% (and less than certain).",0_0
"If it all feels like legal deja-vu, that?s because it is ? though this particular case has come with a twist, as new, broader issues of information access are at stake. On the surface it looks like a kind of redux of the suit launched by then-Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. But because of different legal issues, it has ended up bringing together strange allies, banding together media groups with the libertarian think tank.",0_0
This chart illustrates a data analysis mistake that is absolutely endemic to many of the most famous climate charts. Marc Morano screencapped this from a new EPA web site (update: Actually originally from Pat Michaels at Cato ),0_0
"""The Tampa to Orlando line had the backing of everyone from business to the state's Republican legislators; but Rick Scott, the new Tea Party-backed governor, blocked it as a ""big government boondoggle"". Today the Transportation Department announced that the money will go elsewhere.""",0_0
"From a 2005 Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard page, ""Global Warming: What's Known vs. What's Told"", first quoting from other Nieman writers, then environment reporter Bud Ward:",0_0
"This morning we received an update from friend at the Institut Hayek in France. Evidently, the French Academy of Sciences soon will release a paper that eviscerates the ???beautiful certainties?? espoused by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. To read Drieu Godefridi??s brief on the imminent report, click here . To visits the Institut Hayek website, click here .",5_1
"The restriction has stymied efforts to ""fast-track"" approvals for four of the seven most promising wind energy proposals in the nation, including all three in California.",0_0
"Maritime operations are of course not foreign to NATO. In the 1990s, Operation Sharp Guard constituted a dress rehearsal of sorts for Operation Active Endeavor after 9/11. In 2003, OAE was expanded functionally and geographically to cover the whole Mediterranean and ended up including some Mediterranean Dialogue countries as well as Russia and Ukraine. Many NATO allies participate in the Container Security Initiative (CSI) and the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), and it is no coincidence that the former head of Joint Forces-Naples, Admiral Mullen (the current chief of naval operations and JCS chairman-designate), is the one who developed the concept of the ""Thousand Ship Navy"" (TSN), which is today the talk of the U.S. Navy.",0_0
"Figure 2. Observations and calculated values, Northern and Southern Hemisphere temperatures. Note that the observations are almost hidden by the calculation.",0_0
"The overwhelming success of the Mega Millions enterprise makes it an irresistible target for something more a way to transform American elections and along the way reduce our deep political dysfunction. Our take-no-prisoners tribal politics have at root the reality that the two parties' narrow ideological bases have far more influence on the selection of candidates, the positions taken by the candidates and the pressures placed on elected officials than the rest of the population. With turnout in presidential elections hovering between 50 and 60 percent, 30 to 40 percent for mid-term congressional contests, and sometimes 10 to 20 percent for primaries, it is the bases who rule.",0_0
"In 2011, almost 40 percent of the giant U.S. corn crop went into making ethanol, and the United States still exported more than half of all corn shipments worldwide.",0_0
"Farm special interests lobbied fiercely against including indirect emissions, arguing that the science was inexact. The environmentalists prevailed. In early May of this year, the EPA announced it would include the controversial emissions in its calculation of ethanol's lifecycle emissions.",0_0
Subject: factual error in book review Polar Distress by Holly Morris (last weekends),0_0
Penn State University has just announced their new President ? Eric Barron. Barron is currently President at Florida State University; my colleagues and friends there tell me that Barron is well liked and has been doing a good job. The interesting angle is this. From his FSU biosketch:,0_0
"Note that the survey comprised NINE questions, about global warming, to earth scientists. Only two of the questions have ever been revealed, and the results assessed from those two alone. These two do not consider the magnitude of human influence at all. There is no mention even of CO2. Now what on earth were the other 7 questions about, to earth scientists?- Cooking? Sport? Why is the EOS article so coy?",0_0
"According to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, ""the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know the time for action is now."" Schwarzenegger issued his call for action on climate change last week at the United Nations World Environment Day conference in San Francisco, where he unveiled an executive order establishing stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets for California.",0_0
"El Nio and La Nia events typically peak in strength in December and January. Refer to Figure Intro-1. Its a graph of the weekly sea surface temperature anomalies for the NINO3.4 region of the eastern equatorial Pacific, starting in 1990. The sea surface temperature anomalies of the NINO3.4 region are an often-used index of the frequency, strength and duration of the El Nio and La Nia events. The El Nio events appear as the large upward spikes (warmings) in the sea surface temperature anomalies, and La Nias show themselves as the downward spikes (coolings). As youll note, they normally peak in December and January.",0_0
"- The available scientific evidence does not support the claim that the climate of the 20th century in many locations around the globe was unusual when compared to the previous 900 years. Claims that man-made emissions are causing ""unprecedented"" global warming have been seriously undermined by new research that shows much of the earth was warmer during the early Middle Ages.",2_1
Heartland's Horace Cooper on The O'Reilly Factor!,0_0
"Based on Mann's denial, the preliminary report concluded that there was no evidence to indicate that Mann intended to delete e-mails even though that conclusion is contradicted by the plain language and circumstances of the relevant e-mail exchange. No inquiry beyond Mann's denial was made.",0_0
understand how the physical environment may be damaged by changes in climate and,0_0
"Now, as you can see from Figure 2, the Kiehl hypothesis of cancellation has a big problem. The CERES results do not bear out Kiehl??s claims in the slightest. Instead, they support my hypothesis that increased tropical clouds cool the surface. As you can see, on average the loss from the reflected sunlight is about 20% or so greater than the gain from increased IR. This means that there is no cancellation. Instead, the clouds have a net cooling effect.",3_1
"And finally, the Heartland meltdown puts Gleicks actions into a new perspective. An indirect consequence of Gleicks actions seems to have been to motivate some individual environmentalists to harass Heartland, which triggered a response that included the billboard. I still dont think that Heartland was a worthy target for Gleicks bullet, although his bullet seems more effective to me now than it did a few months ago.",0_0
"I cant get into it enoughI work at Fort Hood, the home of the 4th ID.",0_0
New Report Debunks Common Myths about Energy,0_0
"The Light Brigade is the first serious effort to provide balance to the ""forward on climate"" rally.",0_0
"However, the RICO investigation they propose would unavoidably extend to people whose only ""crime' is questioning climate orthodoxy.",0_0
Im free immediately. The only hitch is that I promised Cornell I would teach a two-week course at the end of this June.,0_0
"A high-quality, motivated workforce with diverse ideas, skills, and backgrounds",0_0
"It is still a good question to ask and one I urged teachers to get their students to ask. They can begin with the book that became the book of genesis for the environmental alarmism, Rachel Carson?s Silent Spring. They can continue through the Y2K fiasco to the CFCs destroying the ozone. There never was a shred of evidence that CFCs were in the ozone layer or causing change. Interestingly, a major proponent of the CFC destruction argument was Susan Solomon who became Co-Chair of Working Group I of the IPCC.",5_2
"First, I suspect that we will see the EPA Administrator raised to cabinet rank. With this will come a more radical and assertive EPA. This should not be surprising. Even within this Administration, the EPA has been flexing its muscles. The issuance of the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act was accompanied by reactions from other government departments about how terrible the rules would be, rather than going through the usual process of dealing with these difficulties internally and watering down the rule. Given that Obama has said he will want the EPA, absent Congressional action, to go ahead with its plans, this may be an indication that EPA will become an agency that, in most cases, is primus inter pares.",0_0
"This seems to support Serreze on ""more intense in the Arctic"" but not on ""first in the Arctic"". Ed also pointed me to this article, which is cited by AR4. It says this in its abstract:",0_0
"The power of green loonies: Apple Rejoins ""Green' Registry and Says Exit Was Mistake",0_0
"Assuming the ocean heat content data and Hansen's forcing estimates are accurate, how could the average radiative forcing be 4 times the average radiative imbalance? The answer is FEEDBACK:",0_0
"In a blog post a few weeks ago, Ms. Cullen scolded a fellow meteorologist, who declined to lecture viewers about global warming, noting how the issue had been ""politicized"" and that, given the cyclical nature of weather patterns, he was unsure what ""generalizations"" could be inferred from the warming trend of recent times.",0_0
"Bast, Joseph, L.; Hill, Peter J.; Rue, Richard C. Eco Sanity: A Common Sense Guide to Environmentalism. Lanham, Maryland: Madison Books, 1994.",0_0
"Ever since the mosquito-transmitted West Nile Virus appeared in New York City during 1999, environmental activists have been fighting efforts to keep the disease under control. Not only have they battled against any spraying for adult mosquitoes, they have also fought methods to manage mosquito larvae. These groups maintain that the control methods are more dangerous than the diseases they seek to control.",0_0
"Indeed, EPA and other regulators routinely ignore the impacts that their draconian regulations have on people's jobs, living standards, health and welfare including reduced or lost incomes, lower nutrition, welfare dependency, drug and alcohol abuse, and shorter life spans. They then present scientists, ""health"" and ""environmental"" organizations and advisory committees that approve and applaud the regulations anyway often because the agencies pay them millions of dollars a year to do so.",0_0
"This study finds that even after accounting for green jobs, there is a substantial and long-term net reduction in total labor earnings and employment. This is the unintended but predictable consequence of investing to create a ""green energy future.""",0_0
"Durning, Alan. ""Cradles of Life,"" Worldwatch, May/June, 1989, pp. 30-40.",0_0
"TaxPayers Alliance chief executive Matthew Sinclair, said: Many families are going to struggle to pay their energy bills this winter, but instead of helping, politicians are adding to the problem with expensive green taxes.",4_1
"Not all federal lands have oil-and-gas, or other mineral-extraction, potential, so a reversal of policy may not increase production by the 61% seen on state and private landsbut it could mean the U.S. not only passes Saudi Arabia in oil production, it leaves it in a dust storm.",0_0
"We??ve discussed on many occasions that you can ???get?? a HS merely from picking upward-trending series from networks of red noise (David Stockwell had a good note on this phenomenon on his blog a couple of years ago. My first experiments of this type were on the cherry picks in the original Jacoby network.) Since gridcell temperature series from the mid-19th century to late 20th century by and large have an upward trend, this test is equivalent to a simple pick operation. Whatever the merits of effectively screening the data set for upward trending data, this affects statistical benchmarks, as the null is applying the same sort of operation to red noise networks.",5_1
Researchers around the globe continue to build on the mountain of scientific evidence that the Medieval Period had warmer temperatures than the modern era.,2_1
"35 See IPCC 1995, p. 40.",0_0
"So the White House pushed, and the Congress passed, a gigantic trillion-dollar stimulus, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It was, however, anything but targeted. Instead, it was a grab bag of special interest handouts.",0_0
"Unlike carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and other pollutants, carbon dioxide is not toxic. In fact, it is an essential ingredient in plant photosynthesis, without which there would be no life on earth. For the past century, greenhouse operators have been adding CO 2 to the air inside greenhouses to enhance plant growth.",3_3
"Jan Rovensk, Czech Greenpeace Climate Boss, on the left, one of his comrade on the right, and your humble correspondent in the middle.",0_0
"And sea levels are rising, threatening to inundate New York and Los Angelesalthough rising sea levels does have a downside.",0_0
They did say that didn't they? I guess what you see is very much driven by where you look.,0_0
"Since temperatures have stabilized in the last decade, we looked at the correlation of the CO2 with HCSN data. Greenhouse theory and models predict an accelerated warming with the increasing carbon dioxide.",1_4
"B ttcher, F. (1996): Climate change: forcing a treaty. In: Emsley, J. (Ed.): The Global Warming Debate. The report of the European Science and Environment Forum. Bourne Press, Ltd., Bournemouth, Dorset, UK, 267-285.",0_0
"I'm not so sure. It's disturbing to see people who have some scientific knowledge, and probably know better, use opposition to GMOs to raise money and garner publicity. Dr. Oz and the Food Babe are after ratings and Internet traffic, and perhaps they haven't taken time to understand the science. But some of the major environmental groups and leading food journalists understand the science, and they still won't admit what is patently true: the methods we use to genetically engineer plants are perfectly safe and offer great hope for our ability to continue increasing the production of food.",0_0
Independent climate researcher Nick Lewis put out a study last year with Georgia Techs Dr. Judith Curry that found that the climates response to a doubling of atmospheric CO2 levels a measurement called climate sensitivity was 1.64 degrees Celsius.,3_1
"13. Paul Ehrlich warned in the May 1970 issue of Audubon that DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons ""may have substantially reduced the life expectancy of people born since 1945."" Ehrlich warned that Americans born since 1946 now had a life expectancy of only 49 years, and he predicted that if current patterns continued this expectancy would reach 42 years by 1980, when it might level out.",0_0
"Because the judicial role is generally understood to be that of law interpreter and enforcer, not law maker, plaintiffs in these climate change lawsuits must persuade the courts that existing law requires them to order their coequal branches of government to do what they have previously failed or even declined to do. In the United States, most plaintiffs have relied on the common law doctrines of public nuisance and public trust. Pursuant to both theories, the idea is that the public has preexisting rights that are being violated by government's failure to adequately mitigate climate change. In other countries, climate change lawsuits are more often founded on alleged government obligations under international law and on public rights implicit in international legal principles.",0_0
"The research institute run by the head of the UNs climate body has handed out a series of environmental awards to companies that have given it financial support, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose.",0_0
"on Tuesday, June 28th, 2011 at 10:57 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"""We are here to discuss a serious threat to sport and to society. Irregular and illegal betting are closely linked to match fixing and money laundering.""",0_0
GLOBAL IMPACTS OF AN GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE TREATY,0_0
"Heath: I dont know, Molly. Dont you think that trees have a right to take what we want? I meansurvival of the fittest and all.",0_0
"Warmists are having a hard time convincing people that its getting warmer when the weather outside is cold, but coolists are having a great time with predictions:",0_0
Featured Podcast: Phelim McAleer: I Was Held Prisoner by Pipeline Protesters,0_0
"(Incidentally, our items in this post are pulled from Marc Morano's exceptional Climate Depot ezine newsletter. Go here to get it delivered to your email box daily. Highly recommended and not just because he linked to our column.)",0_0
"New data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are continuing to rise but global temperatures are not following suit. The new data undercut assertions that atmospheric carbon dioxide is causing a global warming crisis.NOAA data show atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rose 2.67 parts per million in 2012, to 395 ppm. The jump was the second highest since 1959, when scientists began measuring atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.Global temperatures are essentially the same today as they were in 1995, when atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were merely 360 ppm. Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rose 10 percent between 1995 and 2012, yet global temperatures did not rise at all. Global warming activists are having a difficult time explaining the ongoing disconnect between atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and global temperatures.Read the full story in my weekly Forbes.com article, available here.",1_4
"I searched the Internet for more information, but the story appears to be bottled up for now. The online dnews.de has a small report.",0_0
Jasper Kirkby of CERN has published a new paper examining the potential link between cosmic rays and climate.,2_1
Bry rhetorically asked himself if it is immoral to bring a kid into a world ravaged by pot-marked roads brought asunder by man's unwillingness to meet climate change head-on.,0_0
One of the unintended and humorous consequences of climate record fabrications has been the nonsensical and irrational explanations as to why enhanced global warming is producing colder and more severe winters. The faux-warming has now necessitated the fabrication of new global warming capabilities that are entirely inconsistent with known weather physics and history.,5_2
"The climate record also reveals evidence for major climatic changes on time scales shorter than those for astronomical cycles. During the past millennium, the earth experienced a climate Optimum around 1100 A.D., when Vikings found Greenland to be green and Vinland (Labrador?) able to support grape growing. The Little Ice Age found European glaciers advancing well before 1600 and suddenly retreating starting in 1860. The warming reported in the global temperature record since 1880 may thus simply be the escape from this Little Ice Age rather than our entrance into the human greenhouse.",2_1
"\] Here, \(\rho\) is the density matrix. In a basis where \(\rho\) is diagonal, the formula directly reduces to the classical one. In this sense, the new aspect of information in quantum mechanics is that the state vector (or density matrix) may be sliced in many inequivalent ways by measuring one set of mutually commuting observables; or another set of mutually commuting observables that however refuse to commute with those in the first set.",0_0
"The response to Mr. Carlin was an email from his boss, Al McGartland, forbidding him from ""any direct communication"" with anyone outside of his office with regard to his analysis. When Mr. Carlin tried again to disseminate his analysis, Mr. McGartland decreed: ""The administrator and the administration have decided to move forward on endangerment, and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision. . . . 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."" (Emphasis added.)",0_0
"CEI: Most Americans are going to be receiving tax rebate checks from the federal government in the next few months, partly to refund too much money that was taken in taxes and also partly to spur consumer spending this summer. What are your thoughts on this move?",0_0
"Some of this information may come through observed, harmful localized shifts in weather patterns convincingly attributable to global climate change. Credible linkages between local weather events and broader global climate changes require positive research, not advocacy. Indeed, reduction in regional scientific uncertainty can come from more research on regional climatic feedbacks from GHG accumulations and their economic consequences.",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Chris Horner on how the climate debate is changing:,0_0
"In different areas of the country, heavy snowfalls have hindered road traffic.",0_0
"The largest center for global-warming research in the UK is the Hadley Centre. The Hadley Centre employs a statistician, Doug McNeall. After my op-ed piece appeared, Doug McNeall and I had an e-mail discussion about it. A copy of one of his messages is attached. In the message, he states that the statistical modela straight line with AR(1) noiseis simply inadequate. (He still believes that the world is warming, primarily due to computer simulations of the global climate system.)",5_1
A gentlemanly discussion of climate change: S. Fred Singer v. John Nielsen-Gammon,0_0
"11 The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: `God, I thank you that I am not like other menrobbers, evildoers, adulterersor even like this tax collector.",0_0
SOUTH KOREA - South Korea's Twitter generation may give liberals upset win,0_0
"Can there then be too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, as some would have it? Hardly, since green leaves and phytoplankton love CO2. As it is said, leaves are busy. Green leaves take in carbon dioxide and produce oxygen as a by-product. This is a well-known biological fact. What is not so well known is it that the enormous masses of the many different types of phytoplankton in the oceans are also actively producing Oxygen. This is the great carbon cycle, produced by Great Nature!",3_3
Shlaes's achievement stands out for the devastating effect of its understated prose and for its wide sweep of characters and themes. It deserves to become the preeminent revisionist history for general readers.,0_0
Zee News Sea-level warming forces seabirds to abandon nesting grounds .,0_0
"The ?premeditated? science is a major culprit for the climate-change concerns, according to Ball. But he also blames the media.",0_0
"NSR was adopted at a time when forecasts of a ""post-industrial era"" were naively thought to justify anti-manufacturing policies. Balancing costs against benefits was thought to be unnecessary, and the effects of regulations on the incentives of regulators and members of the regulated community alike were poorly understood and often dismissed as unimportant.",0_0
The carbon policies of the Australian government will destroy regional industry.,4_1
"These costs hogtie innovation, job creation and economic growth. They make millions unemployed.",0_0
"The tiny effect of rising CO2 levels on climate contrasts sharply with their enormous benefits to plant growth and agriculture. Not only is more CO2 greening deserts, forests and grasslands; it is increasing grain and food yields worldwide, and helping people in developing nations live longer, healthier lives.",3_3
"This rapid warming of the 13th century was followed by a period of extended warmth that lasted until an abrupt cooling event occurred around 1375, which made the following decade one of the coldest in the record. This event signaled the onset of the Little Ice Age, which lasted for 400 years, until a gradual warming trend began around 1800, which was followed by a dramatic cooling event in 1900 that brought temperatures back to levels similar to those of the Little Ice Age. This cold regime lasted until about 1950, whereupon temperatures warmed for about two decades but then tended downwards again, all the way to the end of the record in 1990. Thus, in this part of the Arctic, the Medieval Warm Period was also warmer than it is there currently.",2_1
The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever,5_2
"Deutsch and Marletto also write kilotons of bullit about the meaning of entanglement (they want to say that it's not mysterious but their babbling is only meaningful if you are ready to think that it is mysterious, so the goals of their ""explanations"" are internally logically inconsistent) and the ""reasons"" why quantum mechanics prohibits cloning (founders of quantum mechanics surely knew that the evolution in quantum mechanics is given by a linear evolution operator and because a copying is a tensor square, a quadratic operation, it clearly cannot result from the linear evolution). Why would they write lots of confusing it about these matters that are in principle trivial?",0_0
"McCook et al. state, The economic value of a healthy GBR to Australia is enormous, currently estimated to be about A$5.5 billion annually.Relative to the revenue generated by reef tourism, current expenditure on protection is minorTourism accounts for the vast majority of reef-based income and employment. income from tourism is estimated to be about 36 times greater than commercial fishing . These claims are highly misleading .",0_0
Thereputable climate science community should collectively cringe with embarrassment.,5_2
"The British Government's Sustainable Development Commission is worried that the United Kingdom will not be able to meet its Kyoto targets because its economy is behaving in too American a fashion. The Commission, chaired by former Green Party head Jonathan Porritt, frets in a report to Prime Minister Tony Blair released April 14 that, ""American-style patterns of growth in aviation, road transport and fuel use are ""wholly unsustainable' and will damage the quality of life of present and future generations.""",0_0
You might note Graglia and Nagel are both justly cynical about their colleagues at the Bar and on the BenchI am an inactive attorney for 36 years and share their negative sentiments.,0_0
"The latest nail for the CO2-GHT coffin has been contributed by Dr. Charles R. Anderson with his article ""The Most Essential Physics of the Earth's Temperature and Why Carbon Dioxide is No Threat to the Earth."" This comes hard on the heels of a recent paper on ""The phase relation between atmospheric carbon dioxide and global temperature"" by Dr. Ole Humlum and coworkers. Their work showed conclusively that the regular seasonal variations in the atmospheric CO2 levels are lagging the sea surface temperatures by 9.5 to 12 months not the other way.",2_3
"Yet it has become acceptable, particularly in green circles, to argue that the third world should stay poor, to contend that the poorest of the poor may need a little growth, but the rest of the world should not aspire to American living standards.",0_0
"The outgoing Congress nearly enacted a bill that would have provided much needed congressional checks on EPA actions. The Murkowski bill fell just short in a Senate dominated by partisan Democrats. The incoming Senate should be far more supportive of such legislation, especially in the face of EPA and other attempts to override the will of Congress and the American people.",0_0
"When you hear an eminent physicist speak such common sense, its like a breath of fresh air amid the fetid stench of climate science.",0_0
Check to see if Climate Hustle is being shown in your area and watch it on May 2 so you aren't taken in by the sleight of hand.,0_0
"Yet it is not as if we have no experience with uranium mining, which is in fact relatively harmless. Handled properly, the yellowcake that is extracted is no more hazardous than regular household chemicals (and unlike coal, it won't smolder and combust).",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Journalism Fellow Ryan Young on the conflicts created by such rules:,0_0
"13) If Not Humans, What could Have Caused Recent Warming? This is one of my areas of research. I believe that natural changes in the amount of sunlight being absorbed by the Earth due to natural changes in cloud cover are responsible for most of the warming. Whether that is the specific mechanism or not, I advance the minority view that the climate system can change all by itself. Climate change does not require an external source of forcing, such as a change in the sun.",2_1
"The term, Izairig, which means blue in the local Kuwaiti dialect, was applied due to the color of peoples skin during the short extreme seasonal period.",0_0
"So it is sadly little surprise that David Bellamy, one of the most recognisable naturalists and botanists in the UK, and whom I used to watch without fail on TV when I was a kid, has been shunned for over 10 years by the BBC because of his views on climate change, as the UK Daily Mail reports:",5_2
"As Jonah Goldberg, author of the scholarly best-seller ""Liberal Fascism"" notes, ""This is exactly the argument that was made by American fans of Mussolini in the 1920s."" Mussolini, we were told then, made the trains run on time. He drained the Pontine marshes. He got things done while Americans, with their chaotic democratic politics, dithered.",0_0
"To state the problem another way, 202 of the CAA requires the Administrator to exercise her ""judgment."" Yet in every instance, the Endangerment Proposal and TSD simply defer to the judgment of the self-proclaimed scientific ""consensus"" represented by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the U.S. Climate Science Change Program (CSCP).",0_0
I agree with the importance of extreme events as foci for public and,0_0
"What about the four models that show a negative imbalance during our base period of 1996-2015? If those models are correct, then the hypothesis of human-induced global warming has a very big problem. A negative imbalance indicates that presently more energy is being reflected and emitted by the planet than is being received from the sunand that our emissions of greenhouse gases are returning the Earth to a balanced energy budget.",0_0
"\] as I mentioned earlier. The commutator of space-like-separated operators vanishes. On the left-hand side, the operator \(\Phi(y)\) is on the right side of the product so it acts on ket vectors before \(\Phi(x)\) which is the factor on the left side. However, the product is the same, regardless of the order, which means that the values of \(\Phi(y)\) don't depend on whether we did a measurement of \(\Phi(x)\) before or not.",0_0
"Similarly, how much confidence should climate modellers have in Hansen's 1988 prediction? As the Hargreaves paper cited notes, Hansen's GCM overpredicted warming by some 40% as assessed in its first 20 years. This was still better than a naive prediction of no warming, but was still a long way out. Moreover, it should now be possible to redo Hargreaves' assessment at the 25-year mark and it is more than likely that the naive prediction will now outperform the GCM.",5_1
"During the period from 7500 yr BP to ca. 3000 yr BP temperatures rose about 2C more, causing another upward shift in the forest line of about 300-400 m higher than today, and thereby reducing the area occupied by pramo. Finally, at about 2900 yr BP, there was a noticeable lowering of the temperature that marked the last downward movement of the forest and pramo belts to their present-day positions.",2_1
Separating natural and anthropogenically-forced decadal climate variability,0_0
"hands try to approach questions of military force with calm prudence believing force should be used because of compelling circumstances, not",0_0
"Unsurprisingly, the BBC refuse to tell the whole story. The wood recycling plant is actually used for turning wood into biomass pellets for use at a biomass power station at Sheffield , about 20 miles away, and which is due to open soon.",0_0
"Arctic sea ice extent is currently running 577,000 sq km above 2006 levels, and higher than any year since then except for 2008.",1_1
"With the possible emergence of a NATO Security Providers Forum consisting of the leading contributors, three key questions are likely to keep the Allies busy in the coming years. What would happen with the four NATO Partners who are also SCO members in the event the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council was to be disbanded in favor of a Security Providers Forum. What will be the nature of the articulation between the North Atlantic Council, the Security Providers Forum, and the NATO-Russia Council? Has the time come for NATO to adopt an EU-style, ""variable geometry"" decision-making process? At the same time, the debate on the future Global NATO should not be limited to these organizational matters.",0_0
The Christmas travel plans of thousands of Britons are in disarray after snow left Heathrow Airport all but shut.,0_0
Maybe Hansen will be proved right. But these days he seems more interested in ideology than science.,5_2
"1. Fear of large multinational companies. Are they also afraid of Toyota cars and Boeing airplanes? Both companies provide products in exchange for cash. If a farmer didn't want the biotech product, he needn't buy it.",0_0
Michigan Has Cooled Eighteen Degrees Since The Ice Age Scare!,0_0
Video: Calorie counts on menus don't change behavior:,0_0
"To get to the truth, I emailed a sample of scientists whos papers were used in the study and asked them if the categorization by Cook et al. (2013) is an accurate representation of their paper. Their responses are eye opening and evidence that the Cook et al. (2013) team falsely classified scientists papers as endorsing AGW, apparently believing to know more about the papers than their authors.",5_1
"Knee-jerk reactions from Boxer, Markey to EPA decision on CO2",0_0
"On May 6 the same date as the Wells Report was released, Exponent submitted a report on simulations in which three untrained employees attempted to deflate 12 balls in 1 minute 40 seconds with a standard needle. The subjects, after one try, achieved remarkably consistent results, both between subjects and between balls. The average deflation was 0.76 psi with a standard deviation of 0.11 psi. This finding was not discussed in the Wells Report, but it poses a conundrum: the observed variability in Exponents washroom simulations is much too low to explain observed Patriot variability.",0_0
"More importantly, solar contributes even less during winter months, when demand is highest. In Q1 this year, for instance, solar ran at only 4% of capacity.",4_4
"China has resisted an absolute cap on its greenhouse gas emissions, like those developed countries are expected to implement. It says a cap would be unfair because it contributed less to the problem historically, its emissions per capita are still relatively low and it needs leeway to grow its economy.",0_0
"So what can we expect from the new GOP candidate when it comes to climate change and science? First note, however, that his Democrat opponent is alsono stooge of the warmists hoax.",5_2
?One dollar can save a life? ? the opposite must also be true.,0_0
"First, I have no basis from which to dispute Nielsen-Gammons opening sentence of, When driven by observed oceanic variability, the models do a great job simulating the atmospheric response. I have not investigated how well the models actually perform this function. But thats neither here nor there. Why? Well, if the hindcast and projected representations of sea surface temperatures created by the models are not realistic, then the atmospheric response to the modeled oceanic variability would also fail to be realistic.",5_1
"Sterns central conclusion that If we dont act, the overall costs and risks of climate change will be equivalent to losing at least 5% of global GDP each year now and forever whereas the costs of action reducing greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst impacts of climate change can be limited to around 1% of GDP each year is found to be entirely fallacious.",5_2
Agencies presumably could adopt absurd or otherwise unreasonable interpretations of statutory provisions and then edit other statutory provisions to mitigate the unreasonableness. Allowing agencies to exercise that kind of statutory re-writing authority could significantly enhance the Executive Branch?s power at the expense of Congress?s and thereby alter the relative balance of powers in the administrative process. I would not go down that road.,0_0
"Plants apparently love the stuff. They generally prefer long, warm growing seasons, too.",0_0
"This is east of London, is the tidal lower Thames close to the estuary. It is going to be permanently humid, including any effect from the elevation of the temperature of the Thames, heat from London.",0_0
"With more territory thus available to them, their ""foothold"" on the planet becomes ever stronger, fortifying them against forces that might otherwise lead to their extinction.",0_0
"(p16-17) The issue revolved around a tree ring series that had been used to reconstruct temperatures of the past . This series diverged dramatically from instrumental temperatures in the last half of the twentieth century, experiencing a sharp decline during a period when instrumental temperatures were rising. Showing this divergence would have raised a major question mark over the reliability of tree ring temperature reconstructions since, if there is a divergence between tree rings and instrumental records in modern times, it cannot be said with any certainty that such divergences did not also occur in the past, rendering the temperature reconstruction of questionable utility",5_1
"Jan 2010: One of the report??s co-authors, hydrologist David Post, told The Canberra Times there was ??no evidence?? linking drought to climate change in eastern Australia, including the Murray-Darling Basin.",1_7
"Alcohols like ethanol and its chemical cousins make effective fuels because they give off a lot of energy when burned, just as liquid fossil fuels do. The advantage of alcohol is that it is liquid at room temperature, which makes it easy to transport and handle.",0_0
"Since the Guardian was not the only European paper to feature this storyGermany's Der Spiegel cautioned ""A Tropical Germany by 2100?""perhaps it's not surprising that the U.N. report inspired politicians of various hues, across Europe and the world, to seek controls on carbon emissions and the fossil fuels that create them. The British environment minister called for an ""international political commitment to take action."" The head of the German environment agency said, ""We must all change our environmental behavior considerably."" So much was said about the need for ""action"" and ""change,"" in fact, that it's a wonder the resultant hot air didn't make temperatures rise higher.",0_0
"It started when I said something like: the models do not work or if you predict warming and that predicted warming doesnt happen then the model/theory is invalid and not science. Well apparently the greenblob also work Saturdays, because one quite obnoxious individual just kept coming back with a whole lot of twaddle. In the past Ive found that if I just keep to the point and asked them to show me that the global average surface temperature had warmed by at least the lowest prediction of the IPCC prediction they would eventually give up.",5_1
""" analyzed storminess across the whole of southeast (SE) Australia using extreme (standardized seasonal 95th and 99th percentiles) geostrophic winds deduced from eight widespread stations possessing sub-daily atmospheric pressure observations dating back to the late 19th century The four researchers report that their results ""show strong evidence for a significant reduction in intense wind events across SE Australia over the past century."" More specifically, they say that ""in nearly all regions and seasons, linear trends estimated for both storm indices over the period analyzed show a decrease,"" while ""in terms of the regional average series,"" they say that ""all seasons show statistically significant declines in both storm indices, with the largest reductions in storminess in autumn and winter.""",1_7
EPA analyst exposes climate science takeover,0_0
"According to anthropogenic global warming (AGW) theory, carbon dioxide increases the potential of water vapor to absorb and emit IR radiation as a consequence of the overlapping absorption/emission spectral bands. I have determined the total emissivity of a mixture of gases containing 5% of water vapor and 0.039% of carbon dioxide in all spectral bands where their absorptivities/emissivities overlap. The result ofmy calculations is that carbon dioxide reducesthe total absorptivity/emissivity of the water vapor, working like a coolant, not a warmer of the atmosphereand the surface.",2_3
The full text of this book is available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.,0_0
Ten Righteous Journalists Could Be Found in 2016,0_0
Two Lies Make A Truth In Green and Liberal Views on Climate Science,0_0
"The writer is president of the George C. Marshall Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. He contributed this comment to the International Herald Tribune.",0_0
"The problem is that upwards of one million non-industrial facilities ? office buildings, fast food restaurants, schools, hospitals, large houses of worship, heated agricultural facilities ? have the potential to emit enough CO2 annually (250 tons) to qualify as ?major? stationary sources. Apply PSD to CO2, and permitting agencies would have to process an estimated 81,000 PSD permits annually instead of about 280. Without massive expansions in agency budgets and staff, ever-growing bottlenecks and delays would obstruct environmental enforcement and freeze economic development, contravening congressional intent.",0_0
"(e) Our PR response to Fakegate has been called brilliant even by the folks at DesmogBlog. History will record it as another major scandal that helped bring down the man-made global warming movement. But the MSM and environmental groups doubled down on their strategic mistake, understanding that the only way to prevent Fakegate from becoming another Climategate is to take down Heartland and its network of scientists and donors. Their tactics compelled us to match their intensity.",0_0
"HEM's Macroeconomic Activity Module makes use of the IHS Global Insight model, which is used by government agencies and Fortune 500 organizations to forecast the manifestations of economic events and policy changes on notable economic indicators. As with NEMS, the methodologies, assumptions, conclusions, and opinions in this report are entirely the work of CDA statisticians and economists and have not been endorsed by and do not necessarily reflect the view of the owners of the IHS Global Insight model.",0_0
"Principal Research Scientist, Ice Cores and Climate, Australian Antarctic Division, Hobart may well be right is linking the events we will look for a peer reviewed paper on the subject.",0_0
"What does Inhofe have in his power? Andrew Wheeler, EPW staff director when Inhofe was chairman previously, says: ""I know he won't hesitate to conduct oversight of the Democratic Obama Administration.""",0_0
"While all the press is about the observed declines in Arctic sea ice extent in recent decades, little attention at all is paid to the fact that the sea ice extent in the Antarctic has been on the increase. No doubt the dearth of press coverage stems from the IPCC treatment of this topic.",1_1
"Once more, we see that there is absolutely nothing unusual about recent temperatures. The colder interlude in the 1960s and 70s is again apparent, but winter temperatures prior to that period were pretty similar to now.",0_0
"17. See, e.g., Terry L. Anderson and Don Leal, Free Market Environmentalism (New York: Palgrave, 2002).",0_0
"Based on historical climate fact, it is possible to extend the trend into the future to form a possible climate scenario. Figure 4 depicts the extrapolation of the 1000-year and 230-year cycle along with the generally expected trend. Added to this are the fluctuations of the 65-year ocean cycles, the impacts of the ENSO-events, sunspot cycles and volcanic eruptions, which result in additional fluctuations of a few tenths of a degree just as they have in the past.",0_0
"For example, one prediction has drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) becoming a part of the Republican Party's vision of energy independence: Alaska's senior Senator ""Lisa Murkowski has long argued that drilling in ANWR would help reduce the national deficit.""",0_0
"Whatever happens to the Trump candidacy, it now seems clear that Jacksonian America is rousing itself to fight for its identity, its culture and its primacy in a country that it believes it should own. Its cultural values have been traduced, its economic interests disregarded, and its future as the center of gravity of American political life is under attack. Overseas, it sees traditional rivals like Russia, China, North Korea and Iran making headway against a President that it distrusts; more troubling still, in ISIS and jihadi terror it sees the rapid spread of a movement aiming at the mass murder of Americans. Jacksonian America has lost all confidence in the will or the ability of the political establishment to fight the threats it sees abroad and at home. It wants what it has always wanted: to take its future into its own hands.",0_0
"Its frustrating that a state-funded academic does not take responsibility for his statements. Unfortunately, this sort of recklessness seems to have increased rather than decreased following the inept Muir Russell.",0_0
Both of our distinguished German colleagues left the meeting with their heads bowed low and their shoulders stooped. Their distress and concern for the future of Europe and the world was evident.,0_0
"So why the hell would someone switch from the minimal, effective theory to the contrived one one which needs several shooters and perhaps even some synchronization of their shooting? A contrived hypothesis that is not only less plausible a priori but one that also seems to almost directly contradict the empirical data about the shots and their trajectories? I think that the stupidity is the only conceivable explanation.",0_0
"If you are below 50 and in the top 40% of earners, do NOT expect to get",0_0
"Climate alarmist James Hansen has long predicted the catastrophic tipping point of global temperatures from human CO2 emissions. His predictions include the seas will soon be boiling and a significant increase of extreme weather events, due to the excessive warming of the tropical atmosphere.",5_2
"Unless we are vigilant, data sets will evolve and data that have been so painstakingly collected and saved will be distorted and twisted beyond all usefulness . Our care in using data should be a force analogous to natural selection, keeping data sets fit for the purposes intended. If we do not take care, the gold standards of climatology may in time turn to lead.",0_0
"Therefore, just as cold weather is known to lead to the deaths of far more people than is hot weather around the world (see Health Effects (Temperature - Hot vs. Cold Weather) in our Subject Index), and in light of the fact that daily minimum temperatures have historically risen considerably more than have daily maximum temperatures during periods of global warming (see Temperature (Diurnal Range) in our Subject Index), it can be appreciated that both humans and corals -- together with their symbionts -- may well have little to fear if temperatures begin to rise again.",3_2
The scientists investigated the phase relation (leads/lags) between atmospheric carbon dioxide and global temperaturesusing standard data series for the period January 1980 to December 2011.They found that changes in global atmospheric CO2 follow 1112 months behind changes in global sea surface temperature and 9.510 months behind changes in global air surface temperature. The findings conflict with the consensus view concerning the greenhouse gas theory that says the opposite should happen with temperatures supposedly being driven by any rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2 levels are up 40 percent in recent decades).,2_3
"Reconstruction of the Palmer Drought Severity Index shows there is nothing unusual, unnatural, or unprecedented with regard to 20th century drought",1_7
"If you talk to the greenhouse mafia about these observations, they provide some answers, but those are not real. There is no proper support for the claim that the greenhouse effect should already be visible. It is sometimes stated that the Southern Hemisphere is warming. But there are so few observational sites over there that it is very difficult to draw any definitive conclusions about the temperature in the Southern Hemisphere.",5_1
ACT: Common Core Does Not Prepare Students for College,0_0
"During the period 1976 to 1990, when global temperatures rose back to the 1940 level, there were 8 years of moderate-to-severe drought.",0_0
Only in the modern media can a 6 billion barrel decrease get a ton of coverage while a massive 35-fold increase of 175 billion barrels gets only an ounce. Perhaps that proves really good news is absolutely no news at all.,0_0
"As always, with intellectuals when they analyze their failure, its impossible for them to have been defeated by better arguments and stronger evidence. Mannes synopsis:",0_0
"Changes in global sea level is an issue of much controversy. In the Kattegatt Sea, the glacial isostatic component factor is well established and the axis of tilting has remained stable for the last 8,000 years. At the point of zero regional crustal movements, there are three tide gauges indicating a present rise in sea level of 0.8 to 0.9 mm/yr for the last 125 years. This value provides a firm record of the regional eustatic rise in sea level in this part of the globe.",1_6
A particularly ingenious way by which almost any adaptive response to any type of environmental stress may be enhanced in the face of the occurrence of that stress would be to replace the zooxanthellae expelled by the coral host during a stress-induced bleaching episode by one or more varieties of zooxanthellae that are more tolerant of the stress that caused the bleaching.,3_2
"Coal prices are low, he said, adding that coal is about one-third of the price of LNG in Asia and about half of the gas price in Europe.",0_0
"The result is clear, according to moderate progressives. Once again, the Democratic party has been seduced by the siren song of immediate and comprehensive public action without regard to cost or public opinion. The cure for this disease is clear: a return to the only course of political action that has worked for Democrats since 1966, Clintonian incrementalism.",0_0
"In the words of the researchers, ""net primary productivity in this stand has been significantly higher in CO 2 -enriched plots, and the response has been sustained through time, thereby meeting one of the criteria for the development of PNL."" However , as they report, "" none of the measured responses of plant N dynamics in this ecosystem indicated the occurrence of PNL."" What it means",3_3
F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow Steven F. Hayward,0_0
The most telling point is that after spending $30 billion on pure science research no one is able to point to a single piece of empirical evidence that man-made carbon dioxide has a significant effect on the global climate.,2_3
political to the extent that the issues are controversial either in domestic,0_0
"I see everything as a miracle. Everybreath, every leaf, every sip of wine. All of our illusions of being in control are arrogant nonsense.",0_0
There was another very important volcanic eruption in the 1980s El Chichon in 1982 whose aerosols actually reduced solar irradiance by an even greater extent than Pinatubo .,0_0
find the 60 votes needed in the Senate. Not half bad.,0_0
"The phrase ""the fortune at the bottom of the pyramid"" was coined by the late C.K. Prahalad, building on the work of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. In his groundbreaking 1999 work, Development as Freedom, Sen pointed out that one of the most important aspects of development is freedom of opportunity, a vital part of which is access to capital and credit. Capital and credit, however, appear nowhere in the draft UN goals.",0_0
"Quoting the six scientists, ""after 7 weeks, plants grown under an elevated CO 2 concentration showed an increase of 77% in photosynthesis, 56% in tillering, 104% in leaf area, 92% in height and 91% in total biomass."" In addition, they say that the CO 2 -enriched plants ""also had a lower stomatal conductance (-40%) and higher water use efficiency (62%).""",3_3
"At the same time crop yields are going up by 10, 15, 20 percent per decade due to technological change,' he continued. 'So, it's not the case that climate change will cause life-threatening famine; instead, climate change will mean that crop yields will go up more slowly.'",3_2
"People registered to vote out of karaoke bars, lingerie stores, dance lounges, galleries, etc... The deadline for revising the list of Electors has now passed, and these irregular voters will remain on the list. In some cases, they have already voted in the advance polls and some of these irregular voters may have voted in previous elections, and may have had an impact on the results in the riding of Edmonton Centre.",0_0
"The proliferation of wind turbines over the past few years has not, and will not, result in statistically significant reductions in global carbon dioxide emissions. That is not an opinion. It is simple math.",4_4
"The phrase 97 percent of the worlds climate scientists sounds very dramatic and overwhelming, but the truth is somewhat different. According to the figures presented in the paper, 90% of the scientists were from the US, including federal and state bodies, 6% from Canada and 4% from 21 countries around the world.",0_0
"Today we find ourselves deep into a post-ice age interglacial warm period. During the last ice age the sea level was 120 m lower than todays level. During the last interglacial, the Eem interglacial of 126,000 to 115,000 years before present, sea level was up to 9 m higher than today without any help from man. This has been shown by a number of studies (Dutton & Lambeck 2012 in Science , Muhs et al. 2012 in Quaternary Research , OLeary et al. 2013 in Nature Geoscience ).",2_1
"That stacks the deck the same way the ""public comment"" process is tilted in favor of ultra-rich Big Green agitators who have the funding and organization to generate thousands or millions of comments.",0_0
"In the video, DiCaprio attributes global warming to mankind's ""destructive addiction"" to oil. He says ""big corporations"" and politicians gained too much money and power ""on our addiction,"" making them ""dangerously resistant to change.""",0_0
"There is no way that anyone could possibly say that most are declining. In fact, over 80% are no change or improving . ABC, please explain.",0_0
"Afraid that a new plan by the U.S. Forest Service will wreak economic havoc on timber-dependent rural communities, lawmakers from both political parties are expressing their displeasure with the Obama administration initiative.",0_0
"The Falmouth MRCC received a distress message via satellite from a Russian flagged vessel, MV Akademik Shokalskiy, with 74 people about 7.20am (AEDT).",0_0
"ICSC Chief Science Advisor Professor Bob Carter of James Cook University in Australia adds, ?Whether it?s warming or cooling is entirely a function of the length of the piece of climate string you choose to cut off.?",0_0
"a live webcast with cloud and climate expert: David Randall,director of the Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes and a professorof atmospheric science at Colorado State University;",0_0
"The blue line totally ignores any of our other understandings about the changing climate, including the changing intensity of the sun. It is conveniently exactly what is necessary to make the pink line match history. In fact, against all evidence, note the blue band falls over the century. This is because the models were pushing the temperature up faster than we have seen it rise historically, so the modelers needed a negative plug to make the numbers look nice.",5_1
"However, an analysis of some of the calamities reported in doom and gloom media accounts (e.g., table 1) shows someat times, severedisconnect with actual observations. For instance, there is no evidence that ocean acidification has killed jellyfish predators, nor that jellyfish are taking over the ocean, and predictions that the killer algae, Caulerpa taxifolia, was going to devastate the Mediterranean ecosystem have not been realized, despite claims to the contrary from the media (table 1). It may be, therefore, that some of the calamities composing the syndrome of collapse of coastal ecosystems may not be as severe as is portrayed in some accounts.",3_2
"Using the longer term CET record, the last five years temperature averages 10.0C, and compares with 9.85C for the decade 1730-39, an even less significant increase.",2_1
"Volkswagen has plans to become the world's #1 carmaker by 2018 or so. Can it be achieved? Lots of numbers were promising. But June 2015 has shown a 8.6% year-on-year drop in sales which is worrisome. One brand at least managed to stay above zero (at least a month earlier), koda. Its annual production is safely above 1 million cars and the growth rate remains substantial. In H1, it produced 544,300 cars, a year-on-year increase by 4.2%.",0_0
"Abraham also mentions a paper he found that talks about extinctions that are predicted as a result of ""global warming"". But though he may perhaps not have understood this, for many of his political stamp do not prediction is not the same thing as evidence. The fact is that most of the predictions of the climate-extremists and their overworked X-Box 360s and Playstation Vs have proven to be spectacular exaggerations.",0_0
"Then 2009 rolled around, and I was no closer to a definitive answer in my own mind about the anthropogenic global warming exercise than when I started. I remembered hearing on the news that the average daytime temperature of Mars was rising. Fine. I set off in search of information on the suns radiance and found a whole complete new can of worms to deal with. The sun guys had gobs and gobs of published data showing a correlation between sunspots and atmospheric temperatures on planet Earth.",2_1
"The drugs in question are Welchol (cholesterol-lowering); and Benicar, Azor, and Tribenzor (antihypertensives).",0_0
Electricity from New Wind Three Times More Costly than Existing Coal,0_0
"And while global warming alarmists continue to say 2010 or the U.S. summer of 2012 was the hottest on record, actual data reveal that there is only a few hundredths of a degree Fahrenheit difference between these and other alleged hottest years, such as 2005. The 1930s still reign supreme as the hottest in American history.",1_4
Hackers broke into thousands of emails and documents from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University last week and uncovered the global warming conspiracy.,5_2
Margaret Wente pekar p flera riktiga miljproblem som hamnat helt i skuggan av CO2. Agendan att avveckla fossilbrnslen har istllet varit hgsta prioritet.,0_0
Building and maintaining the climate observation network and data management system needed to generate the high quality data required to provide the empirical insights to the climate system and its changes. This can lead to improved theoretical understanding and an ability to build and test climate models; and,0_0
"Keen observers will have noticed that one of John Kerry's key campaigning points recently has been the current high price of gasoline. According to a study by the American Council for Capital Formation in 2000, the Kyoto Protocol would add 71 cents to the price of each gallon.",0_0
Arctic melting is a good thing . The alternative would be a real problem.,0_0
"The 1880s was also the second busiest decade for US hurricane strikes (22 hurricanes, five major hurricanes) topped only by the 1940s (24 hurricanes, 10 major hurricanes) yet both decades were supposedly very cool, with plummeting temperatures.",1_7
"As the Soviets found out, very few people want to ""work hard"" unless they are rewarded. Here comes capitalism! You are rewarded in proportion to how much you provide to others. And the age of abundance requires access to affordable, abundant energy.",0_0
"I have worked with and respect Sam Karnick, a fine and intelligent fellow who speaks for our side eloquently.",0_0
"While that lat/lon puts the station in the parking lot, I note that typically most GPS readings in NCDC??s metadata are good to only about 100 feet. And sure enough, right where I suspected it was, was the telltale shadow of the MMTS shelter. Some annotation was added to the Google Earth image to help you visualize what I know from years of experience doing aerial station surveys.",5_1
"The EPA rules will: 1) more than double the cost of natural gas and electricity, adding over $1 trillion to family and business energy bills; 2) require average families to pay $1,225 more in inflation-adjusted dollars for power and gas in 2030 than in 2012; 3) destroy millions of jobs in companies and industries that can no longer compete, here or internationally; and 4) significantly reduce U.S. economic growth every year for the next two decades, causing more than $2.3 trillion in total lost gross domestic product.",4_1
Think I am exaggerating? H ere are the facts of the case:,0_0
The potential demise of the scheme comes amid growing fears among renewable power enthusiasts that David Cameron and George Osborne want to scale back the green agenda on the grounds that low-carbon energy schemes such as CCS and offshore wind cost too much at a time of austerity. Osborne told the Conservative party conference in Manchester that if he had his way the UK would cut carbon emissions no slower but also no faster than our fellow countries in Europe.,0_0
"By Staff Writers, NCPA, Aug 5, 2015",0_0
Scary warnings from climatologists. Take heed. Take action quickly before it is too late.,0_0
Doug Bandow is the Bastiat scholar in free enterprise at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He is also a former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan. This article is adapted from a forthcoming study for the Institute for Policy Innovation. He can be reached at ChessSet@aol.com.,0_0
"For this heresy against the renewable energy boondoggle, he is being attacked by the green Taliban, which is campaigning to prevent him joining the University of Western Australia. As the blogger Andrew Montford put it : Bjrn Lomborg argues that we should focus our spending on immediate problems, such as ensuring Africans have access to clean water. For this he is vilified, attacked and has his livelihood threatened. His critics wish to see money spent on climate change mitigation measures instead. A tragedy for the Africans.",0_0
"By Kevin D. Dayaratna, Ph.D., David W. Kreutzer, Ph.D. and Nicolas Loris",0_0
Anti-cap & trade black ribbon,0_0
"What's missing from the PBS response is an outright explanation for its lack of skeptic scientist guests, and Ombudsman Getler's ""danger of establishing a false equivalence"" observation was a head-snapper for me because it mimics Society of Environmental Journalists board director Robert McClure's opinion in his October 16th reply to me at his web page here (comment #7).",0_0
"As in our prior analyses, we use the same techniques employing a climate model simulator to derive global temperature (and sea level) projections from the greenhouse gas emissions scenarios. We use the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?s (IPCC) ?business-as-usual? scenario (A1B) as the baseline, and then modify it to take into account the Kerry-Lieberman emissions targets for the U.S.",0_0
"No, we cant say any single weather event was caused by climate change. But its getting to the point where some of the most esteemed climate scientists say that it would be irresponsible not to mention climate change in the context of extreme weather events (thats NCARs Kenneth Trenbeth). And its no different with the record flooding thats currently swamping regions along the Mississippi River.",0_0
"Dr. James Hansen is the Director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Dr. Hansen is right up there with Al Gore, Michael Mann and the Climategate CRU on the list of people helping the UN to swindle the United States and other western democracies out of trillions of dollars through his promotion of the Anthropogenic Global Warming fraud.",5_2
"1. When compared with pre-1800s levels do you think that mean global temperatures have generally risen, fallen, or remained relatively constant?",0_0
"By Alan Carlin, Carlin Economics and Science, Aug 12, 2015",0_0
"CC: Ass Mr. Chris Scolese, Director, Goddard Space Flight Center",0_0
The government of South Africa is casting a reformist eye to country's place names . They are too white.,0_0
The 5-year (60-month) running mean global temperature hints at a slowdown in the global warming rate during the past few years.,1_4
The most obvious reason why big oil and gas companies would support a huge new tax on their own products is that it would kill coal first.,0_0
"The editorial concludes, ""Imagine if the US had had a decade of a 50-cent or higher add-on to the gas tax. Fewer people would have bought SUVs. Roads would be less crowded. Suburban sprawl would be slower. Air pollution would be less . In all, the US would be further along in moving away from an oil-based economy, which it needs to do quickly. So go ahead and wince once at the high oil prices. But then think twice about how the collective sacrifice of a higher gas tax could bring about a shift from oil by choice and foresight, rather than by last-minute necessity.""",0_0
"If you believe that surface temperature depends upon trace gas composition via back radiation it would be best to put that idea aside while you read this paper. Observation of the manner in which the climate at the surface of the Earth changes over time suggests that the effect of down-welling radiation is swamped by the mechanism described here. Historically the globe has warmed and cooled hemispheric-ally rather than monolithic-ally, a point that is lost on those who insist on a single global metric for temperature. The process is hemispheric-ally distinctive because it is driven at the poles. The atmosphere at the two poles is distinctively different, largely due to the very different distribution of land and sea between the hemispheres. It is the difference in the atmosphere between the poles that is important for the evolution of climate.",2_1
One Hundred Years Later: Same Junk Science Worse Attitude,0_0
"Under the rules of the system, airlines must hand over enough CO2 allowances by April 30, 2013, to match their verified CO2 emissions in 2012.",0_0
"The draft report, which strings together proposals from various working groups, quickly raised alarm among climate change skeptics.",0_0
I wrote about JFK 5 days ago but now I want to avoid particle physics.,0_0
"While FOE tries to scare people with references to ""extreme weather disasters,"" Idso and Taylor pointed to the fact that ""Global hurricane frequency is undergoing a long-term decline, with global hurricane and tropical storm activity at record lows during the past several years The United States is benefitting from the longest period in recorded history without a major hurricane strike. Tornado activity is in long-term decline, with major tornado strikes (F3 or higher) showing a remarkable decline in recent decades.""",1_7
"Climate models appear to be very good at predicting the past, yet they havent predicted the latest bout of cooling, so why are we still spending so much on them. There was the lack of salt for the roads this winter and an expectation of warm winters.",5_1
"Using some legerdemain known only to Government scientists, NIWA claims that the 11SS begins in 1931. The 7SS should begin at the same time.",0_0
"Pajamas Medias PJTV has a new 26 minute video interview with Lord Christopher Monckton . Al Gore was discussed, of course, and specifically mentioned was Al Gores doubling down on man-made climate change via his blizzard of lies op-ed he wrote for the compliant New York Times. However, in my opinion the doubling down analogy is a weak one. Doubling down is a strategy that is used in blackjack, and is done when playing from a positon of strength rather than weakness, e.g. when a player is dealt a ten or an eleven, or when the dealer is showing a very weak hand to your own nine:",5_2
"Had the Justices known what the ANPR and other analyses have brought to light about the regulatory ramifications of establishing greenhouse gas emission standards under 202, they might well have decided Mass. v. EPA differently. Few if any of the Justices would have openly and directly ordered EPA to undertake the kinds of extreme measures to which an endangerment finding logically leads.",0_0
Fred Pearce of New Scientist and the Guardian said that the Committee avoided examining more complex charges .,0_0
"The second example comes from some of my experiences in the medical field. Although I am retired from active medical practice, I still do electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretations for the hospital where I used to practice. I have been doing this for about forty yearsas a sideline when I had an active practice and now as my sole medical activity. Currently I read 90-100 ECGs per day. Over the years, I would estimate that I have read well over a million. So I know more than just a little about this one specialized area of cardiology.",0_0
"If Africa puts up insurmountable roadblocks to food security through modern agriculture, it risks starvation of its own people and loss of wildlife habitat. It seems as if First World activists and the African powerful (who aren't going to starve in any case) are in collusion to keep Africa unstable and hungry. This will, ironically, also keep them burdened with high birth rates driven by the parents' famine fears.",0_0
"In the concluding paragraph of their paper, Foo et al . affirm that ""the presence of tolerant genotypes, and the lack of a trade-off between tolerance to pH and tolerance to warming contribute to the potential of C. rodgersii to adapt to concurrent ocean warming and acidification, adding to the resilience of this ecologically important species in a changing ocean."" References",3_2
Yeatman: Obama emitted this same canard last SOTU see: http://www.globalwarming.org/2012/01/25/sotu-obama%E2%80%99s-sleight-of-hand-on-oil-production-data/,0_0
made some very unequivocal statements along the lines of global warming,0_0
The Information Commissioner has ruled on David Holland's EIR request - the one that was so central to the Climategate affair. This appears to be very important. In essence the Commissioner has set a wider rather than a narrower scope on EIR by ruling that information need not have a direct effect on the environment for it to be subject to the regulations. UEA have been found to be in breach of the regulations.,0_0
Corrected sunspot history suggests climate change not due to natural solar trends,0_0
"To us in the Stars goose-pimpled traveling party, it appears that the polar bears are going to keep their habitat after all.",3_2
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's Real CrisisIvan Osorio's op-ed in Forbes,0_0
"The federal government dumped similar national standards in December, saying the introduction of its carbon tax had made them redundant.",0_0
The IPCC has decided to discount the global warming standstill since 1997 asirrelevant and has deleted from its final document its original acknowledgement (in its 7 June draft) that climate models have failed toreproduce the observed reduction in surface warming trend over the last10-15 years.,1_4
From CEI: Director of Global Warming & International Environmental Policy Myron Ebell on the prospects for action on ESA reform.,0_0
"""I believe this $800 million settlement gives the Virgin Islands Attorney General a lot of credibility in being involved in the inner circle of this because he's proved that he can shake down a major company,"" said Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, one of Mr. Walker's targets.",0_0
"???As shown in the accompanying figure, the d11B-derived pH values for the South China Sea fluctuated between a pH of 7.91 and 8.29 during the past seven thousand years, revealing a large natural fluctuation in this parameter that is nearly four times the 0.1 pH unit decline the acidification alarmists predict should have occurred since pre-industrial times.??",3_2
Guest Opinion: Global warning: Beware of zealot Al Gore - Ellen Prekop,0_0
"As most readers know by now, the problematic GISTEMP global temperature anomaly plot for October is heavily weighted by temperatures from weather stations in Russia.",5_1
"42 National Governors Association, ""New Source Review,"" from the NGA Web site (www.nga.org) on June 11, 2002.",0_0
"The processes of El Nio and La Nia themselves are not opposites. La Nia is simply an exaggeration of the normal state of the tropical Pacificthat is, La Nias are the normal state with some oomph. 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
"Roughly one million children and another million pregnant women die from malaria each year, for example, a tragedy that could well be brought under control if the controlled use of DDT was encouraged by the U.S. and utilized by international pesticide programs. Another four million people a year die from lung infections which are caused by breathing in smoke and air pollution from wood and dung they use for cooking and heatinga problem which can be solved by helping developing nations attain modern electricity production. Yet another six million more perish from dysentery and other intestinal diseases caused by spoiled food and unsafe water, issues which can be addressed through American efforts at improving refrigeration, water purification and food irradiation. The Bush Administration can make its mark on these issues by setting the tone and providing leadershipleadership that is presently absent in the international communityover the next four years.",0_0
CEI Experts Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on Gore's climate claims:,0_0
"El Nio, La Nia El Nio and La Nia events tend to alternate about every three to seven years. However, the time from one event to the next can vary from one to ten years.",0_0
"What Mr. Chu didnt mention is the clean energy market is an artificial one built upon an unsound theory. It posits that combustion of the carbon-based fuels that power modern civilization is elevating levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, trapping heat and cooking the planets biosphere. Whats missing in this scary tale is the link between cause and effect. If an increase in carbon dioxide from human activity causes rising temperatures, then the warming trend should have accelerated as industrialization has spread. It hasnt.",2_3
"That air when dry contains roughly 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 1% argon and very small amounts of other gases in fact, such small amounts that they were called trace amounts until we discovered global warming. At that point we called it the greatest challenge in human history and people began to exaggerate the influence of carbon dioxide.",2_3
"The map resembles the planet Earth, where most of us reside. The continents are in the right places, and so are the oceans. But we know thats not the Earth. The risks illustrated are based on climate models, and we know that climate models used by the IPCC for their reports are not based on Earths actual climate, as it has existed in the past, or as it exists now. The maps output by climate models may resemble our Earth, but theyre fantasy maps of a fantasy world. They create nothing more than an illusionan illusion that is intended to make it look like bad things will happen in the future if we all do not agree to reduce our carbon footprints.",5_1
"More Confirmation That Unprecedented Global Warming Happened In Past Say, The 1930s",2_1
"He focuses on a particular study within the energy balance modelling approach. What he doesnt say is that this paper suggests estimates of climate sensitivity that are largely unchanged based on recent temperature data, and that it implies the need to cut global emissions significantly in order to limit currently high risks of very dangerous climate change. Neither does he refer to other studies within this approach which find a higher sensitivity. He does not highlight the limitations of energy balance modelling, which is no more certain than climate modelling.",5_1
factoring constraints into the equation. This raises the issues of economic,0_0
"In early 2010, MoveOn.org purchased air time for a television ad that claimed a pending Senate vote to ""roll back"" the Clean Air Act would be as harmful as forcing cigarettes on children.",0_0
"On Syria, Obama has constructed an elaborate scaffolding around his ignominious retreat, both from his demands that Assad must go to his infamous ""red line."" First, or so apparently went the president's thinking, ""e was tired of watching Washington unthinkingly drift toward war in Muslim countries. Four years earlier, the president believed, the Pentagon had ""jammed' him on a troop surge for Afghanistan. Now, on Syria, he was beginning to feel jammed again."" (Never mind that later in the piece he dishes out another serving of self-satisfied praise for his decision to up troop levels in Afghanistan.)",0_0
"Mr. Mann??s 1999 paper eliminated the Medieval warm period from the history books, with the result being the bottom graph you see here. It??s a man-made global-warming evangelist??s dream, with a nice, steady temperature oscillation that persists for centuries followed by a dramatic climb over the past century. In 2001, the IPCC replaced the first graph with the second in its third report on climate change, and since then it has cropped up all over the place. Al Gore uses it in his movie.",5_2
"?This hiatus could persist for much of the present decade if the tradewind trends continue; however rapid warming is expected to resume once the anomalous wind trends abate,? the Aussie scientists added. ?Volcanoes and changes in solar radiation can also drive cooler decades against the backdrop of ongoing warming.?",0_0
"If I had a chance to accomplish even a fraction of that, I'd have to try. I couldn't morally afford inaction. Even if I risked everything, would never get personal compensation, and could probably never talk about it with anyone.",0_0
"We in Europe have put our cards on the table. It is time for the special pleading to stop and for others to follow suit."" Britain has called for steep emission cuts and increases in foreign aid to help developing countries grow without increasing emissions. Other countries, Germany included, called for a new international environmental bureaucracy.",0_0
"""The glaciers in the Himalayas are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, a large number of them may disappear by 2035 because of climate change."" Such was the lede of one of countless articles about how 1.3 billion Asians were in imminent danger of first flooding and then drought. And that's not to mention the certain extinction of the abominable snowman.",0_0
"In 2005, As You Sow filed a shareholder resolution on global warming with the financial services giant JPMorgan Chase & Co. In return for withdrawal of the resolution, the bank announced that it would lobby for global warming regulations. Though the CEO apparently thought that settling with As You Sow would make the controversy vanish, a shareholder group that I am affiliated with spotlighted the embarrassing capitulation at the bank's annual meeting and forced the bank to reverse its position on global warming lobbying.",0_0
"Most would agree that climate science has already directed where humanity puts its capability, innovation, mental and material ""might"". The scale will grow ever grander in the coming decades if things go according to script. We're dealing with $trillions and potentially drastic influence on practically everyone.",0_0
"Nigel Calder explores the correlation between cosmic ray flux and its effect on the climate, in particular in relation to the sinking of the Titanic (100 years ago on 15 April):",0_0
"Undoubtedly, if human caused global warming is one day proven to be a hoax (a moment that may be just around the corner), AL Gore will go down in history as one of the most successful fraud artists ever. He will have enriched himself while causing massive strains to be placed on Western economies just when they are in an economic crisis ... and all this for a hocus pocus theory that has yet to be proven and is showing growing cracks in its facade. But, emerging ever more from the shadows is the real man behind the Global warming frenzy; Dr. James Hansen of NASA .",5_2
"According to a press release from the British Antarctic Survey, temperatures of the Antarctic peninsula were 1.3C warmer than today 11,000 years ago . Examination of a graph from the paper also indicates nearby sea surface temperatures were up to a remarkable 10C warmer than the 1961-1990 mean 12,000 years ago as the Earth emerged from the last major ice age. The graph also indicates the Antarctic peninsula warmed at a much faster rate from 13,000 to 12,000 years ago than over the past 1000 years. Greenhouse gases could not possibly explain this radical climate change, especially given the fact that there was little change in greenhouse gases during these periods and that infrared radiation from greenhouse gases cannot heat the oceans.",2_1
"Inferentially, the bureaucrats have decided they can no longer pretend I was wrong to say there has been no global warming for 16 years. This one cannot be squeezed back into the bottle. So they have decided to focus on n years without warming so that, as soon as an uptick in temperature brings the period without warming to an end, they can neatly overlook the fact that what really matters is the growing, and now acutely embarrassing, discrepancy between predicted and observed long-term warming rates.",1_4
"on Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 at 5:42 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
Texas executes Mexican despite White House plea:,0_0
"And finally, Lindzens statement bears repeating, a statement that is wholly consistent with my own statements on the Subterranean War on Science:",0_0
"Some recent studies estimate inland waters emit approximately one billion tons of carbon dioxide and methane every year. Those estimates have mostly involved researchers collecting daytime water samples for analysis, once or twice a month, missing any increases or decreases in emissions occurring between readings or at night.",0_0
"As the air's CO 2 content rises, potatoes will likely display an increase in their water-use efficiency , due in part to reductions in stomatal conductance and increases in rates of net photosynthesis. Thus, it is likely that potatoes will be able to better deal with water stress in the future. In addition, it is also possible that potatoes could be grown in more arid regions if the air's CO 2 content rises.",3_3
Australias antarctic runway melting | Wollondilly Advertiser,0_0
"Roy Spencer contends in this posting that,as part of my exploration of different surface temperature datasets, I'm examining the relationship between average U.S. temperatures and other weather variables in NOAA's Integrated Surface Hourly (ISH) dataset. (I think I might have mistakenly called it ""International"" before, instead of ""Integrated"" Surface Hourly).Anyway , one of the things that popped out of my analysis is related to our record warm March this year (2012). Connecting such an event to ""global warming"" would require either lazy thinking, jumping to conclusions, or evidence that the warmth was not caused by persistent southerly flow over an unusually large area for that time of year.",0_0
"He was at the center of the 2009 Climategate scandal involving the global warming issue. Based on stolen e-mails, scientists were accused of manipulating data to promote their theory that global warming is being exacerbated by humans.",0_0
"Finally there the big skeleton in the closet called Iraq, with the United Kingdom junior partner in an alliance with the US opposed by almost all lelettorato, without any evidence that President Bush has never really listened to his buddy Tony, stuck in a war that does not seem endless.",0_0
"It is the fact that henges of various sorts are found all over the place (and since we know of some that have been destroyed during the time of written history, we can presume there were more than even the ones weve found) that leads me to the simple conclusion that these were modestly common places. Places where the local farmers might meet for a farmers market while visiting the local season solstice party and picking up a new moon counter or learning a new Henge Tuning Trick ;-)",0_0
"Clouds both cool down and warm up the earth's surface. They cool the earth by reflecting some sunlight up into outer space, and they warm it by bouncing some sunlight down to the surface. Overall, most clouds have a net cooling effect, but atmospheric scientists need to accurately measure when they cool and warm to produce better climate models that incorporate clouds faithfully .",5_1
"Do we really want to repeat that experience on a global scale? Kyoto and its progeny threaten a vast array of international (and domestic) bureaucrats allocating economic rights and privileges based on vague standards, arbitrary conditions and bad science.",0_0
"And that is exactly what he did. The animation below shows how Gavin has altered the US temperature record since 1998, and turned the gold standards of climatology into lead",5_1
"Instead of using a single number, or point estimate, for the ECS, the IAMs use a distribution of possible values for the ECS. In essence, the distribution is a spectrum of values in which potential temperatures are weighted by their probability of occurrence. Because of the myriad factors that affect measured temperatures, estimates of ECS distributions are themselves uncertain and evolve as new data and theory are added to the process.",5_1
"""Al Gore foils opponents,"" proclaimed Associated Press, after Gore had just announced a ""surprise"" Live Earth concert in Washington, D.C., the next day. ""Global warming naysayers in the political world have not been able to have their way, because this will - despite their best efforts - be held on the Mall,"" Gore was quoted in the story as saying.",0_0
"Postscript: I really have little use for discussions about funding amounts and sources of various causes. I find it largely irrelevent. So I post this only because this week we are talking about the Heartland Institute's funding of climate skeptics as revealed by hero (if you are an environmentalist blog) or thief Peter Gleick. Heartland sends a portion of its $6 million budget to support various climate skeptics, and somehow this ""revelation"" has environmentalists running in circles screaming rape. But Heartland's pitiful few millions seem a joke in comparison to the environmental funding torrent. Take this example from the Canadian tar sands issue , just a single one of a myriad of climate-related issues getting millions, even billions of dollars of funding.",0_0
"Climate experts claim that hot days in the US are becoming more common due to increased CO2, but the data shows the exact opposite. Through June 15, hot days peaked in 1911 and were much more common prior to 1960.",1_7
"Because of the immense heat capacity of the deep ocean, the magnitude of deep warming in Scenario 3 might only be thousandths of a degree. Whether we can measure such tiny levels of warming on the time scales of decades or longer is very questionable, and the new study co-authored by Trenberth is not entirely based upon observations, anyway.",5_1
"Found it in Dr Richard Keens Global Warming Quiz , via Roger Pielke, Sr.s Climate Science .",0_0
"Antarctic Bottom Water across a wide sector off East Antarctica has freshened, and the densest bottom water in the Weddell Sea has warmed.",0_0
"Whilst human-adjusted datasets show some warming, none of those predicted to warm by at least 0.14/decade by the IPCC in 2001 have warmed at even the lowest predicted rate.",5_1
"In commenting on their findings, Comeau et al . state that ""the increased resistance of Acropora hyacinthus exposed to large pCO 2 oscillation (particularly in the 400-2000-oscillating treatment) compared to the response of corals under constant pCO 2 conditions suggests that reef corals may be more resistant to future ocean acidification conditions in locations where diel variation in seawater pCO 2 is pronounced.""",3_2
"National security amounted to an afterthought. He devoted one paragraph eachout of the approximately 110 paragraphs in the speechto Iraq, Afghanistan, and terrorism. It is as if Lincoln had spent most of his Inaugural Addresses on the transcontinental railroad and the Homestead Act.",0_0
The Heartland Institute speaks with Myron Ebell on the presidential candidates' mentions of climate policy.,0_0
"How about signing some of those low-income people up for the 42,000 construction jobs and welcoming them into the middle class? How's that for environmental justice?",0_0
"Here Poulot and Jacob, engineer goofs from Harvard propose that American Food production for export is badproduces too much small particulate pollution and too much ammonia yadayadddyaaaayaa.",0_0
"The debate over GMOs is often compared to the controversy over global warming, but I don't think the analogy holds. Although most climate scientists agree that man has caused global warming, there are academics who specialize in climate science who disagree, at least in part, with their peers. It's instructive that the opposition to genetic engineering is led by non-scientists. Television personalities, bloggers, philosophers, and journalists all oppose the technology, but the opposition to genetic engineering among the professional community, at least opposition on safety grounds, is essentially nonexistent. That unanimity, while reassuring, has led to a paradox: Scientist are reluctant to engage, because they don't want to argue with people whom they don't respect. Like my Missouri friends, they won't waste their valuable research time engaging with those they consider not worthy of their intellect and their time.",0_0
"Figure 1. Mauna Loa CO2 data (orange circles), and CO2 data from 8 separate ice cores. Fuji ice core data is analyzed by two methods (wet and dry). Siple ice core data is analyzed by two different groups (Friedli et al., and Neftel et al.). You can see why Michael Mann is madly desirous of establishing the temperature hockeystick ?? otherwise, he has to explain the Medieval Warm Period without recourse to CO2. Photo shows the outside of the WAIS ice core drilling shed.",2_1
"Temperature data from 1079 stations worldwide contributed to the analysis, 134 of them being located in the 50 US states. Data from essentially the same few stations have been used for the past twenty-four months. Many, many hundreds of stations that have historically been included in the record and still collect data today continue to be ignored by GISS in global temperature calculations.",5_1
"The map also shows a 40 per cent to 60 per cent probability that western England and Wales will be warmer than 3.7C (38.6F), with a much smaller chance of average or below-average temperatures.",0_0
"Many critics of exporting shale gas, including Congressmen, are environmental ideologues who have come to believe that natural gas is an unacceptable energy option regardless of its vast potential benefits. Its advanced extraction procedure, hydraulic fracturing, is just too dangerous, they say. The nation should not provide any incentive, including exporting gas, which could result in expanding gas exploration. They contend that if the US expands LNG exports, it would be exporting greenhouse gases with the fuel, making it harder to combat global climate changes.",0_0
I raked Rahmstorf and company over the coals on this point. I ran their own model with the corrected data from their own source (Church and White) and published the results online. The result: vastly lower sea level projections for the 21 st century. Their response: silence.,1_6
Wondering about the credibility of #climatechange #denial attack dog #StephenMcIntyre? @DeepClimate?s got the goods: http://deepclimate.org/?s=McIntyre,0_0
instrumental data ! It is a classic. Our uncertainty estimates are based solely on how,0_0
"The conditional part of the registration means that EPA does not have all the legally required toxicity data, but is letting the pesticide on the market anyway, on the condition that the manufacturer, HeiQ, provide it sometime over the next four years. Four years! (More on the registration process from my colleague Mae Wu here)",0_0
"Geopolitical reasons: When the wind tax credit was put into place in 1992, it was thought that the U.S. needed to be self-sufficient in energy so that the country was not at the economic or geopolitical mercy of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.",0_0
Here we go again. Global warming activists and some warmist scientists are linking the massive blizzard to man-made global warming.,0_0
"Get that my fellow Skeptics? CO2 causes Global Cooling. This is the high ground this is the ground from which we should be fighting, not in the swamps of positive and negative feed backs.",2_3
"Al proclaimed to his sheeple that they had a crucial part to play in the Waxman-Malarkey vote. To be more accurate they will have more to do after its passage, like getting a 2nd job to pay for the increased taxes on their first job. Until both jobs only exist in China.",0_0
"At Monday's opening, South Africa's International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, president of the conference, rolled out the usual boilerplate. She told the delegates that she was hoping for ""a balanced, fair, and credible outcome, with multilateralism, environmental integrity, fairness, and common, but differential responsibility.""",0_0
"No other country in the world has an energy policy so utterly mad and unworkable. Yet all our major political parties are equally locked into the same self-deceiving bubble of unreality. Any final hope that we might be saved from this absurdly unnecessary disaster seemed last week to vanish, even as the ice and the snow closed in.",0_0
"We have two new entries to the long (and growing) list of papers appearing the in recent scientific literature that argue that the earths climate sensitivitythe ultimate rise in the earths average surface temperature from a doubling of the atmospheric carbon dioxide contentis close to 2C, or near the low end of the range of possible values presented by the U.N.s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). With a low-end warming comes low-end impacts and an overall lack of urgency for federal rules and regulations (such as those outlined in the Presidents Climate Action Plan) to limit carbon dioxide emissions and limit our energy choices.",3_1
"First of all, let's briefly review just a few real facts:",0_0
Extreme Assumptions Needed for Declining Discount Rates,0_0
100% of the WG2 chapters included at least 1 WWF affiliated scientist,0_0
The full text of this book is available here as an Adobe Acrobat PDF.,0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Fellow Steven Milloy on how misplaced concerns over tiny doses of radiation have created a $1 trillion mistake.,0_0
"Barbara Boxer wants the government to redistribute another 6,700 billion dollars",0_0
"The best fit for each instrument is illustrated; as are all the data. Currently, GISS gives the least negative trend; HadCrut gives the most negative trend. Other instruments provide intermediate results with UHA MSU giving results closest to the mean off individual instruments.",0_0
Second climate status report on the Baltic Sea Region: Medieval Warm Period was Half A Degree Warmer Than Today,2_1
Figure 6: Sea level rise around Tasmania over the last 200 years. Sea level rise slowed down during the second half of the 20th century. Source of diagram: Gehrels et al. (2012) .,1_6
"Let me show the details. Here are plots of the sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies (differences from normal) for four critical zones in the topical Pacific. They are warming, with many of them being the warmest over the past year. The usual definition for El Nino calls for a warm anomaly in the Nino 3.4 area of at least .5C for three consecutive months. We got that now.",0_0
"Climate Change, Email Privacy, and the CEI Podcast",0_0
"""Opinion is now becoming an accurate reflection of reality,"" said Dr. Hayward. ""We're gratified that the Index, now in its tenth edition, has helped contribute to this turnaround.""",0_0
"The three Indian researchers conclude that "" C. ciliaris grown in elevated CO 2 throughout the crop season may produce more fodder in terms of green biomass,"" which is a colossal understatement, to say the least; especially when a 240-ppm increase in the air's CO 2 concentration leads to a 193% increase in dry matter production (which translates into a 242% increase in dry matter productivity for the more standard 300-ppm increase in CO 2 by which we index worldwide study results in our Plant Growth Databases . Surely, such a response will be an enormous boon to the many people living in the arid and semi-arid tropics in the years and decades to come, as the air's CO 2 content continues its upward climb. Reviewed 8 August 2007",3_3
Tom Nelson finds the email that should bury the BBC and any pretense that it isn't hopelessly biased in favor of global warming.,5_2
"Update: As expected, Sprite continued to malfunction after the repairs and it was abandoned on day 44 . Hadow conceded that Mother Nature always has the final say.",0_0
"It seems, then, we are forced to believe in a real Right and Wrong .",0_0
"No, Greenpeace activists finally began to call out to Gabriel that he would quit, vnde the energy minister to the audience in the hall with the words:",0_0
"Did Professor Jones actually read, let alone strove to understand Montford and Newberys submission? That doesnt look likely. By the way, they were not granted a correction. The fact that they are not Lords of the Land has obviously nothing to do with that.",5_2
"Comment:In other words, the agency is stilltrying tofigure out how totweak the NSPS in light of detailed legal criticism so thattherulestillputs the kibosh on new coal generation without being tossed out in court.",0_0
"Party. The study is based on an impressive array of polling and meteorological data, with careful statistical analysis.",0_0
"If you input 1996-2010, the temperature is flat-lined, so the cooling started at least in 1997 in the U.S., and almost certainly everywhere else as well. And, the later you put the end date, the more pronounced is the downward, cooling slant of the temperature line.",1_4
"The case for this demand is hollow. It rests, in part, on the false proposition that developing countries have added almost nothing to current atmospheric GHG stocks. The reality is quite different. The group of currently poor countries and the group of currently rich countries have each placed about the same amount of GHGs in the atmosphere.",0_0
"According to Gray is the predominant reason for variations in the tornadoes' upptrdande to be in havsstrmmarnas changes on a flerrig time scale. The thermohaline circulation affects sea surface temperature, which has decisive importance for the Hurricanes arises.",0_0
"4.	Our research has raised issues with the robustness of the adjustments that are used to homogenize? surface temperature data. This includes adjustments made due to the time of observation, a change of instrument, the change in location, and from urbanization. Pielke Sr., R.A., T. Stohlgren, L. Schell, W. Parton, N. Doesken, K. Redmond, J. Moeny, T. McKee, and T.G.F. Kittel, 2002: Problems in evaluating regional and local trends in temperature: An example from eastern Colorado",0_0
This renewed production also reduced oil imports even as increasing ethanol mandates and a persistent drought have forced the U.S. to import ethanol from Brazil. So now we're importing oil and ethanol!,0_0
"There is a renewed debate in high places over whether university endowments should divest themselves of their stock holdings in fossil fuel companies. Thus far, most universitiesnotably Harvard, Yale and Brownhave opposed the demand for divestment. Others, like Stanford, have taken steps to reduce their holdings in coal companies, but not other fossil fuels, which like natural gas, pose far less danger to the environment. The University of California system announced that it was still on the fence regarding this key issue.",0_0
"By F. Bender, H. Rodhe, R. J. Charlson, A. M. L. Ekman and N. Loeb.",0_0
"There are several peaks in the graph. Since 1998 the temperature has neither risen nor fallen, because last year was tied with 1998 for top temperature. Its the same now as it was 12 years ago!",1_4
"Torinesi et al . report that, on average over the last 20 years, ""the cumulated product of the surface area affected by melting and the duration of the melting event, called cumulative melting surface ... has decreased by 1.8% 1% per year, a result that is consistent with a mean January cooling of the continent recently identified from infrared satellite data."" Putting this finding in perspective, they note that ""the surface affected by melt decreases over time, from about 1.6 x 10 6 km 2 at the beginning to about 1.0 x 10 6 km 2 at the end of the period (i.e., from 11.4% to 7.2% of the total continental surface)."" In addition, they say that ""no region shows any significant increase, except possibly the peninsula for the mean melt duration."" What it means",1_1
"Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, April 8th 2010 The Daily Bayonet",0_0
"Source: Richard Tol, 2012, Global climate talks: If at the 17th you dont succeed",0_0
Missing Ocean Heat Study Reported On By Climate Wire Response From Josh Willis,0_0
The allegedly sustainable energy sources championed by the Presidentare not self-sustaining. The main reason isthat theyare inferior to fossil fuels in terms of energy density ( bang for buck ) and in the case of wind and solar power reliability and dispatchability .,0_0
Addressing Criticisms of the UAH Temperature Dataset at 1/3 Century,0_0
US Tornado Count Plummeting to Record Low Levels Three Consecutive Years,0_0
"The academic at the centre of the ?Climategate? affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ?keeping track? of the information.",0_0
One can't unambiguously experimentally disprove the existence of a wormhole,0_0
"Aussies refuse to dump beer fridges for sake of global warming Putting forth a list of ""practical actions for NT households,'' the Government urges residents ""retire the second fridge or freezer''. According to a Power and Water Corporation brochure, Territorians can save up to 200 dollars a year by getting rid of their beer fridge. However, for Chief Minister Paul Henderson , it is a case of ""do as I say, not as I do'."" "" I've got a beer fridge -- as many Territorians do -- and I'm keeping it ,'' the Northern Territory News quoted him, as saying.",0_0
BECAUSE IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR BACK RADIATION FROM A COLDER ATMOSPHERE TO HEAT UP A WARMER EARTHTHATS WHY!,2_3
PART IV: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CLIMATE POLICY,0_0
"If current patterns continue for the next six weeks, a lot of 1-2 ice will become MYI in mid-September, and we will once again see an increase in MYI as we have every year since 2008. It appears that there may be a large increase in 3+ year old ice.",1_1
for the explanation of current global temperatures as in Fig 2.23. since,0_0
"If the science were as certain as climate activists pretend, then there would be precisely one climate model, and it would be in agreement with measured data. As it happens, climate modelers have constructed literally dozens of climate models. What they all have in common is a failure to represent reality, and a failure to agree with the other models. As the models have increasingly diverged from the data, the climate clique have nevertheless grown increasingly confidentfrom cocky in 2001 (66% certainty in IPCCs Third Assessment Report) to downright arrogant in 2013 (95% certainty in the Fifth Assessment Report).",5_1
"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.",3_3
"Model.ar1 = mle2(ar1.lik, start = list(b=.01),data=list(y=x,t=Year) );",0_0
"Not surprisingly, the USDA concluded that commercial use would have no significant environmental impacts. Departmental scientists prepared an Environmental Assessment for both varieties explaining their rationale, and the USDA approved them. That was not enough, however, for two federal judges in San Francisco who ruled that the Environmental Assessments were legally insufficient and revoked both approvals. Both decisions have proven to be a tremendous headache for farmers and seed breeders.",0_0
"To enter into force, at least 55 nations representing 55 percent of the industrial world's 1990 emissions must ratify the agreement. The United States is the pivotal actor. If the U.S. does not ratify, neither Japan nor the European Union will do so. In July 1997, the U.S. Senate passed, 95-0, a resolution sponsored by Senators Robert Byrd (D-WV) and Chuck Hagel (R-NE), opposing any agreement that exempts developing countries from emission limits. The Protocol does so exempt such countries. To rescue the treaty, Clinton-Gore negotiators have been urging developing countries to make ""voluntary commitments"" to limit their emissions. At COP-4, Argentina and Kazakhstan pledged to limit their emissions, but all of the ""key"" developing countries (China, India, Brazil, Mexico, and South Korea) refused to do so.",0_0
"The IPCC structure was designed to ensure one outcome warming due to human CO2. Working Group I of the IPCC is limited by definition and terms of reference to that result. They focus almost exclusively on human CO2 and assume an increase in CO2 causes a temperature increase. Their computer models are so programmed, which predetermines the outcome; despite all records showing the opposite relationship. As a result all their projections are wrong. They project warming, but the world cools.",5_2
"""Solar panels have always been expensive. As a result, only a small number of people have decided that the potential energy savings are worth the initial cost of buying and installing them.",0_0
"Western countries also need to remove obstacles such as IPRs to promote, facilitate and finance the transfer of technologies and know-how to developing countries in advance of any future climate deal;",0_0
"Although we usually don't associate energy with morality, Alex Epstein has. His book, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels ($27.95, Portfolio, an imprint of the Penguin Group), is the finest case for the role coal, oil and natural gas has played in our lives and the positive, emancipating impact they have had on humanity. Everyone should read it.",4_5
"""U.S. single-family home prices fell for a fifth straight month in November and could plumb new lows soon, a closely watched survey showed on Tuesday.""",0_0
"On the heels of that Economist story came a piece at the Huffington Post byDaniel Souweine, the campaign director for Forecast The Facts a recently cooked-up astroturf outfit that has engaged in a social media and letter-writing campaign against some of Heartlands corporate donors.",0_0
"Teira et al .'s final words on the implications of their findings are that the responses of both marine bacterial families ""would tend to increase the pH of seawater, acting as a negative feedback between elevated atmospheric CO 2 concentrations and ocean acidification."" And, of course, they also reveal the identities of two more sets of marine organisms that are in no way threatened by the seawater pH changes induced by the historical and still-ongoing rise in the atmosphere's CO 2 concentration.",3_2
"Although the four data sets employed in this study all show short-term accelerations in sea level rise near the end of the 20th century, the century as a whole was one of decelerating sea level rise, which is not exactly in harmony with the climate-alarmist contention that the 20th century experienced a warming that rose at a rate and to a height that were both unprecedented over the past millennium or more. However, the Australasian records do harmonize with those of the United States -- and much of the rest of the world -- as demonstrated by the recent analysis of Houston and Dean (2011), where slight decelerations also rule the century.",1_6
"Bathurst News, sport and weather | Western Advocate",0_0
"IPCC Second Report (1995), Summary for Policy Makers, p.23. Sea levels will rise by 95cm by the year 2100 (105 years-times). This is 9.0mm per year. Error to date is 532%",0_0
"More from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office activism files. This is a comment from Hannah Wood , the FCO climate officer last seen showing ""green"" movies to the natives in her posting in Tanzania. In this episode, she reports on a visit by Met Office staff:",0_0
"The extra heat found for Hadcrut US stations in comparison with both Hansen et al. 1999 and the results from the present paper amounts to approx. 0.42 K since the 1930ies. Far most of the Hadcrut temperature stations (77 out of 87 stations) are available unadjusted from GHCN, and thus it was possible to estimate that only approx. 0.12 K of the extra roughly 0.42 K heat trend in Hadcrut US temperature trend originates from adjustments. The remaining roughly 0.3 K of extra heat trend for Hadcrut US temperature stations seems to originate from the choice of temperature stations from GHCN included in the Hadcrut USA subset.",5_1
"Next to the left is a wee and poo plant, also tends to be warm stuff. I expect the sludge is tankered into the outer estuary for disposal. (used to be the case)",0_0
"Graham Beduze is a Louisiana native and member of CFACT's crack student organizing staff. I was with him at our recent ""Eco-Summit"" in Minnesota.",0_0
"Historically, there have been many tornado outbreaks that occurred well before climate change was on anyone??s radar. Here??s a few:",1_7
"The wonderful properties of water. People are a lot water. Water can be ice and liquid and vapor and it produces big time energy absorption and release with changing states. Water vapor is the most important Green house Gas, at 20 % of the green house gas presence and effect. And modelers cant model it? You cant make these things up.",0_0
"In summary, the GMT data for the last 130 years does not show any evidence of accelerated warming due to human emission of CO2. This is because the cyclic cooling & warming swing of 0.5 deg C shown in Figure 2 is obviously natural; and the persistent global warming of 0.06 deg C per decade is also natural, because it existed before mid-20th century, before widespread use of fossil fuels, as it is this warming that caused the 1940s GMT peak value to be greater than that of the 1880s by 0.36 deg C (=0.06 deg C/decade x 6 decade). Interestingly, the GMT peak value for the 2000s is also greater than that of the 1940s by the same 0.36 deg C.",2_1
"There are huge uncertainties in the model outputs which are recognized and unmeasured. They are so large that adjustment of model parameters can give model results which fit almost any climate, including one with no warming, and one that cools.",5_1
"""Historically, humans everywhere have interacted with and `disturbed' forests In purely economic terms, the actual stock of forestlands exceeded the stock desired by humanity, while the actual stock of farmland was less than desired. Thus there were incentives for adjusting those stocks by converting forestlands into more highly desired agricultural lands. This adjustment does not imply that the conversion trend will continue until all the forests are gone, however.",0_0
"Less ice in the Antarctic, it is mans fault for burning fuels",0_0
"11 Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, Unrestricted Warfare, 1999; Thomas Hammes, The Sling and the Stone: War in the 21st Century, 2004.",0_0
"Toxic Releases have declined since 1988, a sign of increasing efficiency and the ""de-materialization"" of our economy.",0_0
"29 Aug 2012 The arctic is melting, the 3rd runway remains on the agenda and the .... In the meantime, Australia will probably globally offset those German ...",0_0
"Of course sea level is going to rise. It has been rising for 20,000 years mostof that time faster than now. Sea level will stop rising when we enter the next ice age.",2_1
"This past summer was one of the coolest on record in the US. There is no drought in the midwest, and only a complete imbecile would believe that cold is caused by heat.",1_3
"As a 20-year veteran of the environmentalists' war against high-yield farming, I have become suspicious of ""progressive"" motives. The food yields from organic fields are only about half as high as those from high-yield farming. The first impact of an organic-only world would be massive famine. The second impact, says Rockefeller University, would be hungry people seeking more food by plowing down wildlife habitat equal to twice the land area of South America! Yet the very people who claim to be treasuring the wildlife and ""defending"" the poorest humans keep demanding organic-only farming.",0_0
"Finally, it is doubtful whether the acid rain program can be credited with SO2 reductions. Demographic changes in electricity demand, according to one researcher, may have lead to reductions even in the absence of the acid rain program. Others have pointed out that railroad deregulation greatly reduced the costs of using low sulfur coal, saving money for the electric utilities while reducing SO2 emissions. The On Point policy brief can be found at www.cei.org.",0_0
T(k) = F(k)(1 exp(-1/ ) + T(k-1) * exp(-1 / ),0_0
"You might think the blogs in your usual science circle are not Education, Topical, Group, Secret, or Business blogs, but when you look at the past finalists (eg for Education: Science is beauty , or AMS Graduate Student ) you will see that science blogs easily fit. In terms of science education, skeptical bloggers are doing more for the history and philosophy of science, the scientific method, statistics, rhetoric, and paleohistory than any national curriculum. Are skeptics blogs well known and promoted by the media, or are they all a best-kept secret? Which skeptic blogs started in 2014 and are new?",0_0
"Where is the test of the hypothesis that sulfates are indeed responsible for the lack of warming? In this paper, it?s simply ?modeled-in? as it fits the data well. That?s correlation, not causation.",0_0
"We can be sure, I think, that environmentalism studiously avoids a focus of attention on its cause not because speculative action can simply be brushed aside as being (interchangeably) outrageously immoral or unacceptably risky as is breathlessly claimed but because the application of such a required and reciprocal level of insight would result in the environmentalist sabotaging his own project.",0_0
"Now former Vice President Al Gore has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming. If he wins that and the Academy Award for his documentary based on his Power Point presentation, just think what his resume will look like. Who knows he may run for president.",0_0
"Each dispute added contentious pages to the climate text under discussion, which must now be whittled back down in the Tianjin talks in October. This ""tit for tat"" diplomacy, as the European Union's co-lead negotiator Artur Runge-Metzger described it, caused the working draft to double in size from 17 to 34 pages.",0_0
"Yet the U.S. federal government essentially subsidizes electric-car buyers with up to $7,500. In addition, more than $5.5 billion in federal grants and loans go directly to battery and electric-car manufacturers like California-based Fisker Automotive and Tesla Motors . This is a very poor deal for taxpayers.",4_1
"Climatologist Dr. Pat Michaels Mocks Heat Causing Cold Claims: ""It is the core problem of climatology attempting to explain everything even when everything becomes contradictory'",5_2
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"The description President George H.W. Bush applied to his 1988 election opponent, Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, also applies to Obama: ""He sees America as another pleasant country on the U.N. roll call, somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe.""",0_0
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"The mere presence of environmental activists undermines the integrity of scientific endeavours. Yet the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has long embraced Greenpeace personnel. Read the rest here . This blog has relocated . You can sign up to receive an e-mail each time a new post is added under the ""Email subscription"" bar a little below the photo.NoFrakkingConsensus now has a Facebook page. .",5_2
"George Osborne spent an hour in front of the 1922 this evening. 40 Tory MPs took the opportunity to promote their own Budget ideas to him. A big theme was the cost of living with three MPs including Rob Halfon pushing the Chancellor on fuel duty. Interestingly, the chairman of the Treasury Select Committee Andrew Tyrie argued that the Budget should reduce the cost of energy by scrapping various green levies. Im told Osborne was extremely receptive to this idea. --James Forsyth, The Spectator, 27 February 2013",0_0
"If the White House and the EPA is permitted to implement the MATS regulation, the economy will dramatically decline. Life in America will resemble that of third-world nations. It is entirely based on lies.",4_1
"The animation below shows their little problem. It alternates between the blue error map, and their current trend map. In their claimed high sea level rise areas, the error is almost as big as the trend in some places it is greater than the trend.",5_1
"One may take issue with various cost projections, but what is beyond dispute is that laws or regulations that put a high price on carbon will necessarily lead to higher energy prices. Penalizing (higher carbon) conventional energy sources in favor of (lower carbon) renewables forces businesses to divert resources to less-economically-efficient uses. This, in turn, raises the overall cost of producing energy. The result: less energy and more expensive energy, which ultimately raises consumer prices across a range of goods and services.",4_1
The Oceans Biological Deserts Are Expanding by Richard A. Kerr ScienceNOW Daily News 25 January 2008,0_0
Economist Mag. slapped down for 'clearly biased and misleading' climate reporting,5_2
"Remember too, that the tropics are relatively stable as far as temperatures go so if the worlds atmosphere cools, the potential energy transfer from tropics to poles increases. On the other hand, if the atmosphere is warmer than has historically been the case, then you can expect reduced wind speeds and less extreme precipitation events. If nothing else, JunkScience.coms Global Thermometer might turn out to be useful as a sell signal for wind energy stocks.",1_7
6 Jan 2012 Meltdown cuts Antarctic flights WARM weather has drastically cut the number of flights to Australias $45 million Antarctic ice runway. ... cut to just four flights over three weeks this summer as the runway surface keeps melting.,0_0
The study by climate change experts at the University of Exeter has important implications for international negotiators aiming to agree binding targets for future greenhouse gas emission targets.,0_0
there seems to be a weather disaster programme on every night these days,0_0
"The implication of choosing to allow any of these faulty assumptions to go unchallenged particularly the core proposition that wind energy is a technically sound, economically competitive and environmentally beneficial means of producing electrical energy is that it deprives us of the opportunity to question the fundamental benefits of such projects. Wind proponents are secretly thrilled when citizens avoid focusing on the core issue, as it limits them to just warning of their adverse consequences: a minor consideration in the big picture.",4_4
"Everything implying that the MAXIMUM wrong / misunderstood. He has not now, ochargumentet saknarnd importance for the actual sakfrgan despite marginal corrections (which also discussed the MAXIMUM) is the decay of C-14 to this approximativastady-stateniv remains characterized by a rate constant corresponding livslngden (in storleksordningen10 s) from a single carbon molecule in the atmosphere (which was finally taken up by the biomass, vrldshaven or weathering).",0_0
"Furthermore, the situation is changing rapidly. The balance ten years from now will be much different than that which prevails today. The latter is simply irrelevant to decisions about who should pay to reduce future emissions. To the contrary, attempting to interject claims about the historical record is more likely to lead to stalemate and endless wrangling than it is to build consensus. It is hard to see why the U.S. would want to give credence to this approach.",0_0
"One such ""utility scale solar"" company is Abengoa. The Spanish solar company was the single largest recipient of taxpayer funding through Obama's 2009 Stimulus Bill$2.8 billionbut has been beset with corruption and allegations that it routinely violates U.S. immigration, environmental, and workplace safety laws. The company is currently under investigation by U.S. Customs and Immigration Service and the Department of Labor. Abengoa creates spinoffs that enable it to move funds from one to the other, apparently hiding money and falsifying records.",0_0
"Ironically, settling with As You Sow buys businesses little. Settlements typically involve businesses agreeing to be continuously monitored by As You Sow and the posting of As You-Sow-drafted warnings to scare customers. Rather than enduring a brief public relations battle, As You Sow's targets sign-up for a permanent anti-business watchdog and perpetually frightened customers not to mention aiding and abetting the advancement of As You Sow's left-wing social agenda.",0_0
Prof Steffen said there was evidence that extreme weather events appear to be increasing.,0_0
"In the past century the sea level has risen twenty centimetres. There is no evidence for accelerated sea-level rise. It is my opinion that there is no need for drastic measures. Fortunately, the time rate of climate change is slow compared to the life span of the defense structures along our coast. There is enough time for adaptation.",1_6
"A fuels-management project to log and thin 4,800 acres in the Bozeman, Mont., watershed exemplifies the problem. This project has been held up since 2010 on grounds that the environmental-impact assessment did not adequately protect the habitat of the Canadian lynx and the grizzly bear, both listed as threatened species.",0_0
"The Little Ice Age lasted about 500 years, but the most severe period during the Little Ice Age occurred in Europe between 1550 and 1700, says Dr Baliunas. That was also probably the harshest period of weather in the last 1,000 years, if not longer.",0_0
"The process of discovery of this station was a long one, aided by a global discussion at Tallblokes Talkshop. This Bing Maps aerial view I found and posted at TBs confirmed to me that there was in fact a Stevenson Screen there:",0_0
New Scientist for 12 December 2009 wrote an editorial comment supporting the Climategate emailers and saying they were not part of any kind of conspiracy.,0_0
"In the words of the researchers, ""contrary to expectations, this US Corn Belt summer climate appeared to cause sufficient water stress under ambient CO 2 to allow the ameliorating effects of elevated CO 2 to significantly enhance leaf net CO 2 assimilation."" Hence, they conclude that ""this response of Z. mays to elevated CO 2 indicates the potential for greater future crop biomass and harvestable yield across the US Corn Belt."" References",3_3
"Not bullying? I doubt the Senators are so thick as to think that using the word ""demand"" twice at the top of an official government document constitutes a gentle suggestion. (Have I said ""government"" enough times?) Moreover, Piltz seems to see scientists as political advocates,",0_0
"arma1 1.lik<-function(b,y=x,t=Year) arima(y-b*t, order=c(1,0,1),method=""ML"")$loglik",0_0
I dont have much patience for people who deny climate change,0_0
"Religion brings with it unbelievers, apostates, and radicals. The debate on climate policy has long been polarized. Asking an utterly sensible question which of the many options is the best course of action is met with howls of derision from both sides. Some protest the idea of taking climate change at all serious. Others are convinced that the maximum action is not enough.",0_0
"The researchers then ran the data through a climate model, both a control run and a run with greenhouse gas and aerosol forcings, which did a decent job of simulating short-term, monthly changes in lapse rate, but failed to simulate decadal scale changes. The model shows a tighter long-term coupling between the surface and atmospheric temperatures than is observed in nature. As this study shows, our understanding of heat transfer between the surface and atmosphere is still incomplete, and until this problem is resolved there is little hope that climate models can tell us anything about what the climate may be like in 10, 50 or 100 years.",5_1
"on Monday, September 22nd, 2014 at 9:02 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Note that with considerable smoothing of the data, we see a peak imbalance around 0.6 W m-2 during the maximum warming rate around the year 2000.",0_0
"Does anyone think that Kerry Emanuel and Judith Curry each have an obligation to issue a report in Nature and/or Science on the 2006 hurricane season? Corporations can??t just issue financial statements when they have good years; they have to issue reports in bad years. And let there be no doubt ??? 2006 was a ???bad?? year for hurricane alarmists. I??ve collated all the storm track data to date. Storm and hurricane days are each off 30%; cat 3+ days by 50% and cat 4+ days by 54%. Hurricane days were at their lowest levels since 1989 and storm days at their lowest levels since Dvorak measurements were introduced in the Pacific in 1987. To my knowledge, this is the first quantitative report of these 2006 hurricane results. Emanuel had something in print using 2005 hurricane data in December 2005 (Reply to Landsea). What??s the over/under on when Emanuel and/or Webster/Curry will report on 2006 results in peer reviewed literature?",1_7
"Also, when it came to enforcing the Syria red line, he was worried about UN inspectors on the ground. And he was ticked that British Prime Minister David Cameron had failed to rally his Parliament behind military action. Finally, he couldn't be sure of total success. And then there's this gem: ""This falls in the category of something that I had been brooding on for some time. I had come into office with the strong belief that the scope of executive power in national-security issues is very broad, but not limitless.""",0_0
The smell of smoke is harmless but we are asking affected residents to keep their doors and windows closed to keep the smell out of their homes.,0_0
"Its also deep seated, which means that the fire is burning far below the surface.",0_0
"The mess is forcing struggling utilities to contemplate even more radical solutions. E.ON, Germany?s biggest energy company, is thinking of dismantling some of its European gas power plants, mothballed because they are no longer profitable, and relocating them outside the EU. Such farcical considerations become symptomatic of the unintended consequences caused by the rapid expansion of renewable energy.",0_0
"Those also aren't as large as the surface data would indicate, but TLT represents the average temperature in the lowest three miles or so of the atmosphere, not at ground level. Still, climate models predict that the TLT values ought to have a slightly higher warming trend than the surface temperatures, not the lower trend that the data indicates.",0_0
"We all know, at junkscience.com that education is the key to functional adults.",0_0
"In many statistical applications, there is a balance between minimising random sampling error and minimising systematic error (i.e. a trade-off between variance and bias). This issue arises in tree-ring chronology construction too, balancing the inclusion of more data to reduce the noise (i.e. the sampling error) against the inclusion of data from too large an area such that the signal becomes ambiguous or even incompatible. In this section we briefly evaluate some of the key aspects associated with this balance, as they apply to the Yamalia chronologies.",0_0
> Reader in Climatology tel: +44 1603 593162,0_0
"I dont care much for Facebook which is filled with trivia, nevertheless some eminent Skeptics have made use of it. So I must admit that I was both amused and flattered to be invited to be a Friend with Jim Peden, the Astrophysicist, and one of my absolute heroes. So two days ago I was lead by Jim on Facebook to an essay in Climate Change Dispatch by his colleague at Principia Scientific International, Dr Pierre R Latour.",0_0
"In 1946 he opened the Laboratory of Climatology in New Jersey and worked there until his death in 1963. John Mather joined him and they produced a revised system in 1955 that is the basis of most practical applications of climate work in the world today. Everyone from irrigators to hydrologists use variations of the model for their work. For example, a paper studied the viability of predicting stream flow in Costa Rica and concluded; ?These results indicate that the Thornthwaite method can be satisfactorily applied to estimate mean monthly stream- flow in the uplands of Costa Rica.?",0_0
Photograph taken at the Great Barrier Reef in April 2006 by Dave.,0_0
"However, as President Obama stated, despite the many differences there is an underlying ""spirit of partnership between our nations, that even as we honor the histories which in different times kept us apart, even as we preserve what makes us unique in a globalized world, we can recognize how much we can achieve together.""",0_0
"Because so small a fraction of global emissions will be abated by the scheme, simple calculations based on the IPCCs central assumptions about how much warming will occur this century (which, for the sake of argument, I simply accepted as correct) show that as a result of the full and successful operation of the scheme global CO2 concentration will fall from 410 to er 409.93 parts per million by volume by the end of the decade.",4_2
"Wind power is great, as long as you don??t expect to get jobs, power or return on investment. UK power bills will increase to fund the windy boondoggle. In the US even T. Boone the greenwashing opportunist cut his order for bird shredders by half .",4_4
"Among other things, you will find a free chapter from the book on that website much like MP3 files with various interviews. Enjoy!",0_0
"3. The modern increase in temperatures since the Little Ice Age represents #19 in the count of climate change swings over the last 10,000 years.",2_1
"Climate Science published a proposed test of the multi-decadal global model predictions (see A Litmus Test For Global Warming A Much Overdue Requirement ). Clearly, so far, the models are failing to skillfully predict the rate (and even the sign for the most recent years) of global warming. Andy Revkin should follow up his article to document what the models predict in terms of global warming (in Joules) over different time periods, and what do the observations actually show. This would beexcellent investigative (much needed)journalism.",5_1
"79 percent of all green-jobs funding inObama??s $800 billion stimulus package went to foreign companies,with the largest payment going to a bankrupt Australian company. For example, the Obama Administration spent $1.6 billion on Chineseand other foreign wind power. The practical effect of those subsidieswas to outsource American jobs. ABC News reported on the subsidies for Chinese wind turbines contained in the stimulus package:",4_1
"The increasing dollar cost of storm and other weather-related catastrophic insurance losses, erroneously cited as proof of increases in weather extremes in recent years, can be accounted for by the rise in property values, development and population, especially in hurricane-prone areas because hurricane losses dominate the weather catastrophe costs. A comparison over time of the average economic impact of storms can be made by adjusting property losses to current values. This calculation shows that the cost per large storm, adjusted for current conditions, has varied substantially from one decade to another, but that recent storm damage is no higher than in some earlier decades.30 Recent storm losses have not been exacerbated by increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide.",1_7
"Parameter fitting is a procedure that Im usually chary of. However, in this case each of the parameters has a clear physical meaning, a meaning which is consistent with our understanding of how the system actually works. In addition, there are two findings that increase my confidence that these are accurate representations of physical reality.",0_0
"Although most of the money for such positions may be on the green side. Larry Bell bemoans at Forbes: How can I get some of that big oil anti-global warming money? Given that the budgets at NGOs such as Greenpeace and WWF are almost two orders of magnitude larger than the likes of Heartland, the prospects for climate and green energy skeptics dont look to good for climate analyst positions.",0_0
"Another area where Republicans could bring a positive, market-friendly agenda to the climate change debate involves adaptation, a subject treated like an unwanted step-child by Democrats.",0_0
"Nor are we alone in concluding that climate sensitivity will be small. The following is a non-exhaustive list of papers in the reviewed journals of climate and related sciences concluding that climate sensitivity will be less than the canonical interval 3.0 K (Charney, J., Nat. Acad. Sci., 1979; IPCC, 2013):",3_1
"With increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, there is an imbalance in energy flows in and out of the earth system at the top of the atmosphere (TOA): the greenhouse gases increasingly trap more radiation and hence create warming (Solomon et al. 2007; Trenberth et al. 2009). Warming really means heating and extra energy, and hence it can be manifested in many ways. Rising surface temperatures are just one manifestation. Melting Arctic sea ice is another. Increasing the water cycle and altering storms is yet another way that the overall energy imbalance can be perturbed by changing clouds and albedo. However, most of the excess energy goes into the ocean (Bindoff et al. 2007; Trenberth 2009). Can we monitor the energy imbalance with direct measurements, and can we track where the energy goes? Certainly we need to be able to answer these questions if we are to properly track how climate change is manifested and quantify implications for the future.",0_0
"""We would like to apologise to residents for the inconvenience caused and thank South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue and the Environment Agency for their combined support. A full investigation into how the fire started will take place once the situation has been resolved.",0_0
"Global warming alarmism is rooted in the idea that ever-increasing manmade emissions of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, cause global temperatures to warm. This idea, however, doesn't match up very well against real-world observations.",5_2
"Date: April 21, 2010 Time: 6:30 pm Central DST",0_0
"""Good news from Down-Under -- Australia and the Cairns Group are taking the lead in trying to resuscitate the WTO's collapsed Doha Round. It may seem strange that a country on the Pacific Ocean is attempting to bridge the transatlantic gap between the U.S. and the European Union on agricultural issues. But the Cairns Group of 18 agricultural exporting countries has a 20-year history of being a key player in pushing for agricultural reform.""",0_0
U.S. slips to historic low in global corruption index:,0_0
This is same LA Times which publishes factual inaccuracies about the climate almost every day. They said in August that New Mexico would never recover from the drought right before New Mexico flooded.,5_2
"The difference in the radiation temperatures from the highest to the lowest GCMs global control runs (from 16.5C to 11.5C), on the other hand, is 27 watts per square meter ?? clearly, some of them are very, very wrong. Heck, look at the top red line. It changes by 1C, that??s 5.5 w/m2, when the forcings haven??t changed at all. Can this GCM tell us anything about a 1 watt/m2 change over 50 years? I don??t think so ??",5_1
"A recent re-posting on the SPPI blog from the HockeySchtick site, with the title, The 97% Consensus is only 75 Self-Selected Climatologists was a second look at the claim first made in January 2009, in a paper called Examining the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change by Peter Doran and Kendall Zimmerman, from the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois.",5_1
The main purpose of the interview was to establish if the government thought the recent and continuing pause in global temperatures meant it should re-think its policies in response to global warming.,1_4
"During the Cold War, the Atlantic Alliance had two geographic pillars: the Brussels-based Allied Command-Europe (ACE) for continental affairs, the Norfolk-based Allied Command-Atlantic (ACLANT) for maritime affairs. From 1991 to 2001, the maritime dimension, once identified with the Atlantic, became confined to the Mediterranean (Operation Sharp Guard). Yet, despite the shrinking of the maritime dimension at the operational level, ACLANT continued, at the intellectual level, to deliver outside-the-box, yet topical thinking on issues like ""Multinational Naval Cooperation and Foreign Policy into the 21st Century.""24",0_0
"Nicolas D. Loris, ""Government Energy-Efficiency Programs Are Subsidy-Laden Paternalism,"" Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2832, August 1, 2013, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/08/government-energy-efficiency-programs-are-subsidy-laden-paternalism.",0_0
"There are a number of ways to present how poorly climate models simulate global surface temperatures. Normally they are compared in a time-series graph. See the example here . In that example, GISS Land-Ocean Temperature Index (LOTI) data are compared to the multi-model mean of the climate models stored in the CMIP5 archive, which was used by the IPCC for their 5 th Assessment Report. The data and model outputs have been smoothed with 61-month filters to reduce the monthly variations.",5_1
"It is no use my saying that London Underground and bus networks are performing relatively well ? touch wood ? when Heathrow, our major international airport, is still effectively closed two days after the last heavy snowfall; when substantial parts of our national rail network are still struggling; when there are abandoned cars to be seen on hard shoulders all over the country; and when yet more snow is expected today, especially in the north.",0_0
"blandished with government money to convert food into energy. Pimentel,",0_0
Click here to read the rest of the original article at the Orange County Register's Orange Punch blog.,0_0
"Hunters and gatherers, he says, entered Amazonia from various directions at different times and undertook many activities in the rainforest. They ""burned grassland and scrub to flush game and kill small animals, thereby creating more open habitats,"" and created landscape changes that became more pronounced when ""large scale farming came on the scene. Maize has been cultivated in the Ecuadorian Amazon for at least 6,000 years and root-crop farming began long before that, particularly with cassava (manioc), sweet potato, and the New World yam. By the time the Europeans arrived, many parts of the Amazon basin were being farmed, and settlement was particularly dense along silt-laden rivers.""",0_0
"Second, the absolute value of the global mean temperature in a free-running coupled climate model is an emergent property of the simulation. It therefore has a spread of values across the multi-model ensemble. Showing the models anomalies then makes the coherence of the transient responses clearer. However, the variations in the averages of the model GMT values are quite wide, and indeed, are larger than the changes seen over the last century, and so whether this matters needs to be assessed .",0_0
"In reading over McCook et al., some 40 such discrepancies were noted and more detailed examination would surely reveal more. However, without going further it should be clear that PNAS has been badly used. The serious and obvious conflict of interest alone can neither be ignored nor credibly explained away. If not addressed, it makes a farce of the declaration of no conflict. It alone must surely be more than sufficient grounds to retract this study. Although doing this may be unpleasant it would be far less damaging than to try to examine and defend all of the sad and disreputable details.",0_0
"Whether we've properly safeguarded the freedoms they fought to leave us, may be a discussion best left for another day. Today we struggle to envision or, for a few of us, to remember how the world must have looked on Oct. 26, 1942.",0_0
A screwdriver often comes in handy. But not as a soup ingredient. Black pepper is essential in any cooking. But don't try repairing your bike with it.,0_0
"At the U.N. climate conference in Lima, Peru, in December, attendees were told that their countries should cut carbon emissions to avoid future damage from storms like typhoon Hagupit, which hit the Philippines during the conference, killing at least 21 people and forcing more than a million into shelters. Yet the trend for landfalling typhoons around the Philippines has actually declined since 1950, according to a study published in 2012 by the American Meteorological Societys Journal of Climate. Again, were told that things are worse than ever, but the facts dont support this.",1_7
Southern and Eastern U.S. - Get ready for the icebox,0_0
Comparing the southern California drought record against the global temperature record reveals the following:,0_0
"But for the gusher of new oil and the resulting drop in gasoline prices brought about by the fracking revolution, the political cost of stopping Keystone would have been prohibitive. And while environmentalists are loath to admit it, by unlocking a vast supply of natural gas from shale deposits, fracking is also playing a key role in helping reduce carbon dioxide emissions.",4_5
"If the ABC (and the report) were not desperate to paint an awful picture of a wasteland ravaged by man-made climate change (which they most certainly are), you could alternatively say that over 90% of the catchment areas were in either moderate or good condition . Well done.",5_2
"The key constitutional point, though, is this: We could end up with a regulatory regime more onerous and intrusive than any climatebill Congress has rejected or declined to adopt, yet without the peoples elected representatives ever casting a vote.",0_0
"The danger, says Hughes, is that without the right expertise, climate proxies can be mixed and matched to produce inaccurate pictures of the past. ""You have to compare like with like and you have to be able to calibrate the data,"" said Hughes. By calibrate, Hughes means tying tree rings or other climate proxies to real meteorological data, such as thermometer and rainfall records. This requires that the natural archive a scientist is using overlaps a period of time when thermometers and rainfall gauges were in use somewhere nearby a tall order in many parts of the world.",0_0
"8. For example, the original draft of the 2001 IPCC ""Summary for Policy Makers"" read as follows: ""From the body of evidence since IPCC (1996), we conclude that there has been a discernible human influence on global climate. Studies are beginning to separate the contributions to observed climate change attributable to individual external influences, both anthropogenic and natural. This work suggests that anthropogenic greenhouse gases are a substantial contributor to the observed warming, especially over the past 30 years. However, the accuracy of these estimates continues to be limited by uncertainties in estimates of internal variability, natural and anthropogenic forcing, and the climate response to external forcing."" This wording was changed to: ""In the light of new evidence and taking into account the remaining uncertainties, most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations.""",0_0
"FALSE ALARM: Why Almost Everything Weve Been Told About Global Warming is Misleading, Exaggerated, or Plain Wrong How the Hadley Centre spins the data on non-warming The Hadley Centres spin effort isnt exaggerating the data (far from it), nor is it plain wrong the true figures are on the site. But t he Centre is doing everything it can to mislead the public in hopes that the planet will start warming again before the peasants figure out that, maybe, the consensus climate science prophets are, in fact, plain wrong.",5_2
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"Ironically, these are the very people that Obama and EPA claim to care about the most. As African-American author and news analyst Deneen Borelli observes, President Obama ""is rewarding his overwhelming support by black voters with an energy policy that will significantly reduce their disposable income."" Indeed, she says, climate change is ""the green movement's new Jim Crow law.""",4_1
"I was rewatching Earth: Climate Wars the other day, and laughed at the section on the credibility of climate models, which essentially argued that because Hansen got the global response to Pinatubo correct we should believe what climate models tell us about the climate at the end of the next century. Of course, we'd shout it to the roottops if Hansen's model had got it wrong, but I think some recognition is due of what a small hurdle this was.",0_0
"With a changing of the guard in Washington, the question might be: Who's qualified to speak about the future of the Republican Partyand not too shy to do so before too long in Iowa or New Hampshire?",0_0
"Ackermann summarizes by writing we do not need a paternalistic, dictatorial state that decides everything for us, thus destroying the individual. Instead, she writes,we need a state that promotes allindividuals, their independence, and thus their pride and self responsibility. Only a society that can produce such individuals can expect to see prosperity, justice and equality. The Green Movement will deliver none of that.",0_0
"Axel Morner concludes that Australian government claims of a 1 meter sea level rise by 2100 are greatly exaggerated, finding instead that sea levels are rising around Australia and globally at a rate of only 1.5 mm/year. This would imply a sea level change of only 0.13 meters or 5 inches by 2100. Dr. Morner also finds no evidence of any acceleration in sea level rise around Australia or globally.",1_6
"Professor Phil Jones is a leading climate scientist and co-director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Angliain Cromwell country. Jones is part of a climate scientist cabal, not too distant in puritanical fervor from Cromwell's New Model Army. This cabal ignores all counter evidence and regularly pronounces with the certainty that only faith can give that human emissions are affecting the planet.",5_2
"A review article of solar effects upon climate was published in Nature Climate Change today and finds considerable uncertainlyin estimates of solar forcing of climate based upon the Total Solar Irradiance (TSI). The article also suggests that TSI may not be the best indicator of solar variability because solar UV has been found to vary much more than previously thought. Solar UV is the most energetic portion of the solar spectrum and causes the most significant heating of the oceans. The IPCC and climate models look only at TSI, without consideration of the significant variations in solar UV, and therefore likely underestimate the influence of the Sun upon climate change.",2_1
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In years to come people will look back and marvel at how primitive our models were...,0_0
"National sovereignty meaning the refusal of major powers like India, China and the United States to go along with sweeping global agendas was specifically indicted for the failure of the much ballyhooed Copenhagen summit on climate change. ""National sovereignty remains supreme,"" as one position paper noted.",0_0
"As you can see, the sea level rise rate widely varied during the 20th century. It reached about 4 mm/yeararound 1911, and again in the 1930s, 1950s and around 1980.It was much lower in the 1920s, 1940s, 1960s and mid-1980s.",1_6
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"Obama: ""After years of talking about it, we are finally poised to control our own energy future. ""We produce more oil at home than we have in 15 years"":",0_0
"""Still in London until the end of the week. The papers here have been chock full of NHS horror stories and health care cautionary tales as the British health care system marks its 63rd birthday.""",0_0
Or should we declare that the one and only acceptable solution is drastic worldwide emissions reductions starting now?,0_0
"This is a reflection of the fact that the global warming establishment is biased toward high climate sensitivity. It is a specific example of the tendency of natural scientists to view nature as fragile, full of tipping points and hobgoblins.",5_2
"Laboratory experiments find that more marine creatures thrive than suffer when carbon dioxide lowers the pH level to 7.8. This is because the carbon dioxide dissolves mainly as bicarbonate, which many calcifiers use as raw material for carbonate.",3_2
"I am returning the war decorations because I am deeply ashamed of having served a criminal organization which the NATO led by the U.S. is, and to its malformed interests across the world.",0_0
It could cost them votes in South Australia. So industry and community leaders leave it well alone.,0_0
"??? The GRACE gravitational-anomaly satellites are able to measure ocean mass, from which sea-level change can be directly calculated. The GRACE data show that sea level fell slightly from 2002-2007.",1_6
<4141> Minns/Tyndall Centre:,0_0
"This approach raises some fundamental questions about the role of non-specialists in critiquing science. Scientists would like to believe that their disagreements can be settled by evidence alone. However, the reality is that science possesses an underlying grammar which includes the rigorous use of opposing evidence, critical thinking, mathematics, logic, and internal consistency. Most of these elements are shared by other fields, including and especially- the legal profession.",0_0
"Whether by land or by sea, according to these results, all will need to be on the fly.",0_0
"Models might get it right in some places, but Australia is one of the hardest:",0_0
"The MSM do not consider the coming of the new ice age to be news, says Argiris. In the Netherlands we were not informed about the spring snow storms in the USA, but every little heat wave that happens gets a lot of attention because it proves the earth is warming (while it is actually cooling).",0_0
"But scientists pick at things, so I will tell him why Le Chatalier?s principle, which he raises there, doesn?t justify the notion of global temperaturenice try Garth. I might even mutter something skeptical about his comments on steady states. He will expect this from me, because he lives by the scientist?s code. I would love to discuss these with you too, but the great climate change fervor was never really about actual science, was it?",0_0
"In his inline comment , Osborn conceded that this was a reasonable point, but objected that I had raised this example of potential cherrypicking to a panel whose terms of reference including the examination of potential cherrypicking and which had requested submissions. (Not that the Muir Russell panel adequately investigated the matter, but thats another story.)",0_0
"The second article of interest is by a pair of scientists with the School of Earth Sciences at Australias University of Melbourne. Davis and Walsh dare to title the piece Southeast Australian thunderstorms: Are they increasing in frequency? The pair collected thunderstorm data for stations in southeastern Australia, and indeed, they conclude that There has been a significant increase in the number of thunderdays from 1941-2004 which must come as terrific news to the global warming crowd. However, the authors note but much of this increase may have been a result of changes in observing practices in the mid 1950s.",1_7
"Now that the Spanish government has dramatically curtailed these subsidies, even retrospectively, more than 50,000 solar entrepreneurs face financial disaster and bankruptcy.",0_0
"So-called climate skeptics, practicing proper science by disproving the hypothesis that human CO2 is causing global warming, achieved a great deal. This, despite harassment by formal science agencies, like the Royal Society, and deliberate neglect by the mainstream media. It combined with an active and deliberate Public Relations campaign, designed to mislead and confuse. Most people and politicians understand little of what is going on so the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) strategy of using created science for a political agenda moves ahead.",5_2
"Workers compensation insurance covers the cost of medical care and rehabilitation for workers injured on the job. It also compensates them for lost wages and provides death benefits for their dependents if they are killed in work-related accidents, including terrorist attacks.",0_0
"That is an unwarranted claim that originally appeared in The Guardian in 2007 and was attributed to the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program ( AMAP ), AMAP itself has distanced itself from that very same claim, for example writing in its 2009 SOAER report that",0_0
Pajamas Media: The VAT Man Cometh: It Will Happen. How Bad Is It?,0_0
Historical temperature charts. Other climate history postings. Modern temperature charts. List of peer-reviewed study postings.,0_0
"As a general rule, a 300 ppm increase in CO2 improves the productivity of herbaceous plants by 30-50% and of woody plants by 50-80%. Many plants respond even better. For example, lentils, peas and other legumes grown with 700 ppm carbon dioxide improved their total biomass by 91%, their edible parts yield by 150 % and their fodder yield by 67%, compared to similar crops grown at 370 ppm carbon dioxide, Indian researchers found.",3_3
"The warming we have seen in the late-20th century is not unprecedented, says reader Steve Foster. There was another peak temperature between 950-1050 AD. However, many people still believe there are not CYCLES.",2_1
"The real mystery, though, is how they arrive at the 1934 number. There are State Climatological Reports available from then, but no direct comparison can be made with current ones because there were less stations then and they were allocated to only three divisions instead of six. Also the majority of stations reporting in 1934 no longer report now. (For interest, the State temperature given at the time for July 1934 was 78.8F, i.e. 0.2F higher than now shown).",0_0
"The analysis in this Backgrounder uses the Heritage Energy Model (HEM), a derivative of the National Energy Model System 2015 Full Release (NEMS). NEMS is used by the EIA in the Department of Energy as well as by various nongovernmental organizations for a variety of purposes, including forecasting the effects of energy policy changes on a plethora of leading economic indicators. The methodologies, assumptions, conclusions, and opinions in this Backgrounder are entirely the work of statisticians and economists in the Center for Data Analysis (CDA) at The Heritage Foundation, and have not been endorsed by, and do not necessarily reflect the views of, the developers of NEMS.",0_0
"What other reasonable conclusion is possible?Building the1,700-mile, shovel-readyproject would create thousands of construction jobs, stimulate tens of billions of dollars in business spending, and generate billions of dollars in tax revenues. Once operational, the pipeline would enhance U.S. energy security, displacingoil imported from unsavory regimes withup to830,000 barrels a day of tar sands oil from friendly, stable, environmentally fastidious, democratic Canada. Canada already ships us more oil than all Persian Gulf states combined , andKeystonewould significantly expand our self -reliance on North American energy.",4_5
"Before we spend anything on mitigating a problem based on models, we need to know what empirical evidence supports the assumptions in the models. (Make no mistake, while CO2 causes warming it is the models that predict how much warming). I??ve been asking for since Jan 2010 and no one can name that mystery paper with strong observations. We need to understand how accurate those predictions are. It is only then that we can figure out which are the most important environmental concerns. As it happens the models are doing a really poor job of prediction (see also here ).",5_1
"The unrelenting war on carbon fuels has far greater risks, with some zealots advocating Zero Emissions, while also, incredibly, opposing nuclear and hydro-power. They would take us all back to the BC Era (before coal).Already urban environmentalists are polluting city air by burning wood (biomass) and briquetted paper in stoves and home heaters; and trying to prevent millions in Asia and Africa from getting cheap clean electricity.",0_0
"In a inlgg in February ((.lnk), I wrote that the AR 5 s IPCC has switched to the TCR as the main mttet p klimatknslighet. The BDA parameters have different frtjnster and svrigheter, I do not tnker treat now. Betrffande the BDA, sr the cynical rule of thumb that AGW-anhngare arguing for higher values as and critics fr lower.",0_0
"- The proposed climate amendment would effectively overturn S. Res. 98, the Byrd-Hagel resolution, by endorsing the Kyoto vision of an impending climate apocalypse, advocating Kyoto-style policies, and urging the United States to rejoin the Kyoto negotiations.",0_0
anyway which I copied onto private storage after the completion of the IPCC,0_0
"But the near-surface air temperature is +15 degrees C, and this is different from the global average temperature of -180C. Well, this isnt a big deal. The real global average temperature is measured from outer space, and so it includes all of the atmosphere above 1.5 meters altitude , which the near-surface air temperature thermometers never measure. All of the air above the 1.5 meter measuring stations has temperature which steadily decreases to about -70 degrees C at an altitude of 15 km (which is ten-thousand times higher than 1.5 meters!). Above this altitude hardly any molecules are left and non-ideal gas and plasma effects cause the temperature to increase again, but because the gas is so rarefied it contains a negligible amount of heat.",0_0
"""San Francisco's big push for low-flow toilets has turned into a multimillion-dollar plumbing stink.""",0_0
"At the same time, other vehicle emissions may increase as a result of greater renewable fuel use. Nationwide, EPA estimates an increase in total emissions of volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides (VOC + NOx) between 41,000 and 83,000 tons . . . . Areas that experience a substantial increase in ethanol may see an increase in VOC emissions between 4 and 5 percent and an increase in NOx emissions between 6 and 7 percent from gasoline powered vehicles and equipment.",0_0
It is not possible to take an average of this flux for the simple reason that it is constantly on the move. So the atmosphere is warming and cooling and shifting incessantly by contact with the earth. The gases of the atmosphere do not warm the Earth the Earth and Oceans warm and or cool the atmosphere.,2_1
"An investigation by Dr Benny Peiser, director, Global Warming Policy Foundation, has revealed that only 13 of the 1,117, or a mere 1 per cent of the scientific papers crosschecked by him, explicitly endorse the consensus as defined by the IPCC. Thus the very basis of the claim of consensus on global warming is false. And so deeply entrenched is the global warming lobby, the prestigious journal Science did not publish a letter that Dr Peiser wrote pointing out the lack of consensus.",5_1
Insurance Companies Blame Floods on Global Warming,0_0
"This approach has a very fundamental drawback the reliability of historical data relating to length and width. In Elsners provisional work , he seems to have used 1985 as his start point, but his paper now uses 1994 instead. Elsner told to me in May that the data had problems before the mid 1990s , a fact which is confirmed in his paper.",0_0
"At a time when painful public expenditure cuts are unavoidable, it makes no sense whatever to increase the scale of the cuts required in the public services by committing to spending, wholly unnecessarily and to no practical purpose, increasing sums on non-carbon energy subsidies.",4_2
Which States Lose From the Changes to the EPAs Clean Power Plan?,0_0
"Less than two months into his presidency, Obama announced that he would reverse the Bush policies by allowing research on cell lines created after the Bush ban. The president instructed the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop guidelines for the support and conduct of responsible, scientifically worthy human stem cell research.",0_0
"As for the declaration that we are experiencing the ???hottest?? year ??? this is a purely political statement. Lawrimore knows that these statistics are merely tenths of a degree or less. (See: MIT??s Richard Lindzen: ???For small changes in climate associated with tenths of a degree, there is no need for any external cause?? )",5_2
"""As a meteorologist and climate change (what happened to global warming?) investigator, I constantly hear the charge that we who do not kneel at the altar of Al Gore are simply hired hacks for ?Big Oil.? We are clueless stooges who will say anything for money. This old and tired argument is used over and over again by people who don?t do any research to back up that claim, they simply ?know it?s true? because they read it in the New York Times or Newsweek or saw it on some television program. I wonder how many of those making this charge drive a car, use plastics, fly on planes or use virtually any product that we in our hydrocarbon based society enjoy? I?d bet all of them.",0_0
the panic-evoking extinction-predicting paradigms of the past are rapidly giving way to the realization they bear little resemblance to reality. Earths plant and animal species are not slip-sliding away even slowly into the netherworld of extinction that is preached from the pulpit of climate alarmism as being caused by CO2-induced global warming.,3_2
"According to EPA, ""Our reforms will remove the obstacles to environmentally beneficial projects, clarify NSR requirements, encourage emissions reductions, promote pollution prevention, provide incentives for energy efficient improvements, and help assure worker and plant safety. Overall, our reforms will clarify and simplify the program so that industry will be able to make improvements to their plants that will result in greater environmental protection.""39",0_0
According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species there has been a 70 percent decline in the global population of female Leatherbacks in one generation.,0_0
"This effect can be seen in ""desired fertility"" statistics, a measure of the number of children people say is ideal. Among non-religious Americans, 21 percent say three or more children make the ideal family size. Among weekly churchgoers, 41 percent do. Last concludes, ""Religion helps marriage and marriage helps fertilitythe end result being that religiosity winds up being an even better predictor of fertility than either education or income."" Fertility rates prove Last's point. Observant Protestants and Catholics have a TFR of 2.25 compared to secular Americans' 1.66. The highest fertility rate in the U.S. is in Mormon Utah, at 2.60.",0_0
"High on the list of government agencies that engage in this is the Environmental Protection Agency, but others include Transportation, Agriculture, and Defense, along with the Fish & Wildlife Service, and the Army Corps of Engineers. One recent victory touted by Friends of the Earth is an EPA air pollution regulation is one that affects ships navigating along the coasts of the United States and Canada, out to 200 nautical miles, to ?significantly reduce their emissions.?",0_0
"Second, the vertical structure of the atmosphere was relatively stable (little mixing), with a stable layer (in this case one with temperature staying the same with height) from from roughly 925 hPa (about 2500 ft) to 850 hPa (around 5000 ft). Below is a vertical sounding at Quillayute on the Washington coast, provide temperature (right line) and dew point (left line) with height. The stable layer would act as a cap to keep pollutants in.",0_0
"16. Sen. Gaylord Nelson wrote in Look that, ""Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.""",0_0
"For ""most"" I'll assume ""more than half."" For ""observed increase in global temperature"" I'll assume the linear least-squares regression trend through the most recent version of the global temperature dataset compiled jointly by the U.K.'s Hadley Center and Climate Research Unit (dataset HadCRUT3). There are other global temperature compilations (most notably from NASA and NOAA) and while there are certainly notable differences over the short run, over the longer term, they are very similar. ""Since the mid-20th century"" I'll take as 1950. The EPA defines what it means by ""very likely"" in the Table I reproduced belowthey mean ""with a 90-99% probability."" And for ""observed increase in GHG concentrations"", I'll assume the greenhouse gases explicitly mentioned by the EPA (CO2, CH2, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6).",0_0
"One of the components discussed above is presented correctly: the volcanic aerosols component. After the two major explosive volcanic eruptions, global sea surface temperatures did cool and then warm back up gradually over a few years. Those dips and rebounds are tough to find in some parts of the global oceans, but in others you cant miss the effects of those volcanos. Additionally, the way the El Nio-La Nia component is portrayed is partly correct. Global sea surface temperatures do warm in response to El Nio events",0_0
"Agreement signed at Mexico City June 13, 2006; entered into force June 13, 2006.",0_0
"Washington, D.C., April 14, 2008 The tax burden borne by Americans goes well beyond April 15th's infamous income taxes.",0_0
"A new U.S. Geological Survey study predicts where 50 bird species will breed, feed and live in the conterminous U.S. by 2075. While some types of birds, like the Bairds sparrow, will likely lose a significant amount of their current U.S. range, other ranges could nearly double. Human activity will drive many of these shifts. The study was published today in the journal PLOS ONE .",3_2
"Already, the crops we have now, the herbicide-tolerant and the insect-resistant crops ... getting what amounts to higher yields. You can raise more food on less land, and all of that is good for ecology in general and the climate particularly.",0_0
"Kevin Fay, executive director of the International Climate Change Partnership, claimed that early action would not hurt small business. ""A successful early action program will reduce the overall level of reductions required under any regulatory program. Companies that don't make early reductions will thus have fewer reductions to make and will benefit from the lessons learned by the early actors and the innovations and new technologies that have resulted from these experiments."" But the Kyoto Protocol caps emissions at 7 percent below 1990 emissions for the U.S. Any credit that is awarded now will be one less credit available when the compliance period begins.",0_0
"New satellite data are starting to show but are quite convincing, I must say that both the Greenland ice sheet and the Antarctic ice sheet are losing net mass , not on the margins but as an ice sheet, he said.",0_0
"Now to the second fib. The Renewable Fuel Association (2013 budget: $8 million) says it wants to help America become ""more energy independent."" The reality: Ethanol has done effectively nothing to reduce oil imports. Over the past ten years, oil imports have fallen by more than half. But that decrease is due almost solely to the dramatic increase in domestic oil production over that time frame. How dramatic? Since 2005, just the increase repeat, just the increase in U.S. oil output, nearly all of it from shale deposits, equals more than five times the output of every ethanol distillery in the country.",0_0
"In this not quite friendly interview with Giuliani, Fox News' Megyn Kelly joined the Obama personality cult. Thankfully, Giuliani didn't behave like Matt Taylor after the feminists criticized his shirt.",0_0
"In referring to the current global warming alarms, Bastardi asks:",0_0
"In Italy many choices sullenergia, you would not be accepted dallopinione public, if it were not for the theory of greenhouse gases to make them plausible. For example, the Minister THE ENVIRONMENT A. Pecoraro Scanio has provided a plan of 100 million Euros for solar energy. Unfortunately, solar energy costs 10 to 20 times more than coal and nuclear power.",0_0
"Energy reality continues to set in for the government-dependent energy sector, industrial windpower. Part of the reckoning is economic???the increased competitive gap between electricity generated from natural gas versus wind. But the bigger part is the looming expiration of the Production Tax Credit (PTC) for wind. Twenty years of such political favor has not been enough for a product that is intermittent (read: sub-industrial grade).",4_4
"But this is not meant to be a blog post focusing on speculations. It's possible that these speculations are wrong and even if they are right, they don't really change much about the picture. Even if the basic biography is what we are told, it is very clear that Barack Obama grew up in an environment with lots of extreme left-wing activism and lots of Islam, too, and this almost certainly has implications for his thinking about the current America, too.",0_0
"In and of itself, though, this rebalancing will not bring the kind of maritime domain awareness that is so crucial for an understanding of both the Great Game and the Long War. Outside the Anglo-Saxon world, to be sure, Western policymakers and opinion leaders have rarely been literate when it comes to naval strategy. Though this is not the place for a comprehensive tour d'horizon of the military, political, diplomatic, and constabulary uses of seapower25, basic ""maritime domain awareness"" is necessary when discussing the future globalization of NATO.",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.",0_0
"Since humans began adding CO2 to the planets atmosphere, taking plants off their starvation rations by creating a planet-wide greenhouse, plants have thrived. Data from NASA satellites, which since the early 1980s have been tracking the amount of biota on Earth, vividly demonstrate the results. As CO2 emissions grew in leaps and bounds, so did plants the data shows planet Earth is now greener than when those satellite measurements began.",3_3
"Teamster, teacher, auto and service employee unions are paying their own employees minimal wages and benefits, and sacking them for trying to unionize, columnist Deroy Murdock chronicles while preparing to pump $50 million and legions of campaigners into ruling class Democrat reelection campaigns.",0_0
"Chapter 2, by Dennis AverySaving the Planet with Pesticides: Increasing Food Supplies While Preserving the Earth's Biodiversity",0_0
"In the words of the authors, ""acorns from CO 2 springs contained significantly higher sulphur concentrations than controls (0.67 vs. 0.47 mg g -1 dry weight in Q. ilex cotyledons and 1.10 vs. 0.80 in Q. pubescens ),"" indicative of the fact that the trees were indeed significantly affected by the H 2 S- and SO 2 -enriched air in the vicinity of the CO 2 -emitting springs. They also report that Q. ilix seedlings grown from CO 2 spring acorns showed elevated rates of chromosomal aberrations in root tips, suggestive of the presence of a permanent stress. Nevertheless, as demonstrated by the results of several studies conducted on mature trees from these sites, the CO 2 -enriched air - even in the presence of significantly elevated concentrations of phytotoxic H 2 S and SO 2 - tremendously enhanced the trees' photosynthetic prowess: by 26-69% ( Blaschke et al ., 2001 ), 36-77% ( Stylinski et al ., 2000 ), and a whopping 175-510% ( Tognetti et al ., 1998 ). What it means",3_3
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"Planet Gore on National Review Online What is it with Al Gore? Why is he compelled to exaggerate climate change (excuse me, the climate crisis), and then to propose impossible policy responses? Its like hes inventing the Internet all over again! OK, its pretty much standard rhetoric in Washington to say that if you dont do as I say, there will be massive consequences. But to say, as Gore recently did: The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk; and: The future of human civilization is at stake thats a bit much, even for the most faded and jaded political junkie. Heres how Gore works. Hell cite one scientific finding that shows what he wants, and then ignore other work that provides important context. Heres a list of his climate exaggerations from his well-publicized July 17 rant, along with a few sobering facts...",5_2
"Eric Shawn investigates the hit on Hoffa: 38 years later, the mystery endures | Fox News",0_0
"""Never use human beings as a means to end"" is a fundamental principle of ethics. This imperative is especially strong with regard to children, who are the most vulnerable to manipulation. It is shameful that the most prominent environmentalist special interestsincluding the Sierra Club and the American Lung Associationso frequently invoke children in order to level baseless allegations of abuse against those with whom they disagree.",0_0
Matt Dempsey Matt Dempsey@epw.senate.gov (202) 224-9797,0_0
"5. As discussed in the weblog of December 16, 2005 the raw surface temperature data from which global surface temperature trend analyses are derived are essentially the same. The best estimate we have seen is that 90-95% of the raw data is the same. That the four analyses produce similar trends should come as no surprise.",0_0
"Sure, he is large enough that he tends to play parts reserved for big and tall men, including Horton the elephant in a touring company of Seussical, the musical. But he says he is healthy and agile.",0_0
"How Do You Differentiate Between CO2 Cold And Non-CO2 Cold?' ""Given the incontrovertible evidence that evil humans made the weather cold (by making the earth hot) I was wondering how you tell the difference between -20C caused by CO2 and -20C caused by a lack of CO2. Do they make a thermometer which can tell the difference?'",0_0
"By Liz Hartman, US Department of Energy, Breaking Energy, Aug 12, 2015",0_0
"Sure, this is GISP ??? one ice core from Greenland and not global temperatures. The truth is we have no idea whether the current level of ???extreme?? hot days is much different to the hot spells 1,000 years ago, 2,000 years ago, or 7,000 years ago. It is completely disingenuous to pretend that a 15 year trend in a data set this noisy tells us something that matters.",5_1
"Also there will be a 10% efficiency loss in the inverters necessary to convert the DC solar energy generated by the PV arrays to the AC supply connected to the distribution grid. In addition there will be a further charge-discharge round trip Coulombic efficiency loss in the batteries of about 5%. To be generous, lets say an extra 25% of energy must be generated to cover these two efficiency losses as well as the plant margin.",4_4
"Publishing in the American Meterological Societys Journal of Climate , a new paper called An improved, objective Bayesian, approach for applying optimal fingerprint techniques to estimate climate sensitivity , Nicholas Lewis applies objective Bayesian techniques and uses more up-to-date observational data to derive his conclusions.",0_0
"And yet, some of the most exciting technological developments and significant reductions in U.S. and Canadian GHG emissions since 2009 have come from outside the process: from the natural gas industry.",0_0
"Beyond mere organizational problems are more fundamental factors. The nature of the issue and the history of past environmental alarms (e.g., the population bomb, resource scarcity, and so forth) meant that early on the issue broke down into rigid categories of ""true believers"" or ""alarmists,"" and ""skeptics""terms that carry a pejorative connotation when used today. The heat over the issue has tended to drive scientists toward one camp or the other, which is one reason why many open-minded scientists avoid the issue or decline to participate in the IPCC process. Hence the scientists and experts participating in each iteration have become increasingly self-selected toward those with a bias toward climate alarmism. Although the IPCC's reports pass through elaborate peer reviews, controversy surrounds many basic issues, and a number of errors or weak conclusions have gotten through.",5_2
"That range in modeled energy imbalances was so great, not only did I double check all of the spreadsheets and downloads, but I cross-checked the extremes. Those extremes in the modeled energy imbalances come from two modeling groups, the two highs from one and the two lows from another. To cross-check the results, I downloaded the outputs for the 4 model runs from those two groups (2 each) but this time using the outputs of the historic/RCP8.5 (worst-case) scenario. See Figure 14. The spread is a tick higher with the RCP8.5 scenario. As one would expect, the RCP8.5 scenario also causes the energy imbalances to rise faster in the future than with RCP6.0.",0_0
"Five crews and around 25 firefighters from South Yorkshire and Skelmanthorpe initially attended and four crews are still at the scene, due to the deep-seated nature of the fire, which is burning far below the surface of the huge stacks.",0_0
"Fred Dardick reported in 2011, We are in the midst of the convergence of three major solar, ocean, and atmospheric cycles, all heading in the direction of global cooling. Last year the Southern Hemisphere experienced its coldest winter in 50 years and Europe just went through two particularly cold winters in a row; the cooling has just begun. The likelihood of a repeat of the great frost of 1709 is growing every day. (6)",1_2
"At a breakfast talk, Michigan's deeply unpopular governor",0_0
And heres the link to Jon Samets declaration that there is no safe level of air pollution.,0_0
"Germany, in 2002 and 2003. I just refused to give an exclusive interview to",0_0
"which of course also the BDA is temperature dependent and d jmviktskonstanten. Someone might now associate with the concept of law of mass action, which one p my time had served p grundskoleniv.",0_0
"Eliot A. Cohen, a member of AEI's Council of Academic Advisers, argues that the United States has only two choices in this situation: to live with a nuclear Iran or strike against Iran now. Neither decision seems palatable. ""Understandably, the U.S. government has hoped for a middle course of sanctions, negotiations, and bargaining that would remove the problem without the ugly consequences,"" Cohen writes, but ""this is self-delusion."" The Iranian regime is ""corrupt, fanatical, ruthless, and unprincipled . . . unpopular, to be sure, but willing to do whatever it takes to stay in power."" Given Iran's leadership, Cohen agrees with Wolfowitz on the value of regime change, saying it is ""in the American interest to break with past policy and actively seek overthrow of the Islamic Republic. Not by invasion . . . but through every instrument of U.S. power, soft more than hard.""",0_0
"A new paper provides more evidence for the reality of the Little Ice Age in the Southern Hemisphere, as well as its increased storminess compared to that of the Medieval and Current Warm Periods??",2_1
"Selig told reporters at HoHoKam Park that it was a ""dangerous precedent"" to tax all ticket buyers primarily to benefit one team and that Major League Baseball has taken over negotiations for a new Cubs spring home.",0_0
"It's time for America to have its long overdue debate over global warming science and the painful economic impacts of anti-hydrocarbon cap-and-trade policies. A little honesty, transparency and robust debate would do wonders for the integrity of the legislative process and Americans' trust in Congress.",0_0
"Listing the bears under the Endangered Species Act is the wrong move at this time. My decision is based on a comprehensive review by state wildlife officials of scientific information from a broad range of climate, ice and polar bear experts.",3_2
"Despite a balmy February winter that many in the U.S. would consider a global warming benefit, the overall cooling trend during the last 15 years persists.",1_4
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And here you already see three fans of the U.S. next to the Greenpeace Totem : that's exactly the place where the radar should be built.,0_0
"I guess I should not make too much fun of our local paper, I know it must be hard to fill all those pages every day. But I have to laugh at the statistical insights our reporters provide:",0_0
"Steer, a UK national, returns to the World Bank after three years as Director General, Policy and Research at the UK Department of International Development (DFID) in London. In earlier years at the World Bank he held a number of positions including Country Director for Indonesia and Vietnam and Director of the Environmental Department. He was also Staff Director of the 1992 World Development Report on Environment and Development, the Bank?s Flagship report to the Rio Summit.",0_0
"I chose the lectures title largely in reaction to the sanctimonious tone employed by so many of those who advocate quite substantial, and costly, responses to what they see as irrefutable evidence that the worlds climate faces catastrophe, against people who do not share their view. To them the cause has become a substitute religion.",5_2
"The scale of the challenge in the 450 Policy Scenario is immense: the 2030 emissions level for the world as a whole in this scenario is less than the level of projected emissions for non-OECD countries alone in the Reference Scenario. In other words, the OECD countries alone cannot put the world onto the path to 450-ppm trajectory, even if they were to reduce their emissions to zero. Even leaving aside any debate about the political feasibility of the 450 Policy Scenario, it is uncertain whether the scale of the transformation envisaged is even technically achievable, as the scenario assumes broad deployment of technologies that have not yet been proven. The technology shift, if achievable, would certainly be unprecedented in scale and speed of deployment.",0_0
"First, the IPCC has already been compelled to reduce the radiative forcing at CO2 doubling by more than a sixth, from 4.4 W/m2 in the 1995 climate assessment report to 3.7 W/m2 in 2001. The CO2 forcing in the atmosphere cannot be measured directly. Also, laboratory experiments are of limited value because they cannot replicate the long optical pathway of the outgoing radiation through the rapidly-attenuating atmosphere.",5_1
story. They want the story to be a very strong one and don?t want to be made,0_0
"Here . Excerpt: One of my intuitive objections to the theory of global warming has been the role of carbon dioxide as a trigger mechanism, the driver of changes in the earth's atmosphere. Yes I recognize that levels of carbon dioxide have risen from around 260 ppm to 360 ppm, but I still can't grasp how a gas that represents less than 0.04% of the atmosphere dictates the climate for the whole planet. ... So why would a trace gas be so crucial? And when did carbon dioxide go from irrelevant to the dominant driver of climate? (For example: past geological records indicate carbon dioxide levels in excess of 7,000 ppm and no correlation with temperature; Gore's famous graph where carbon dioxide lags behind temperature changes by 800 years; and, the more recent disconnects of carbon dioxide levels from temperature changes throughout the past century).",2_3
"Europe can and should produce more of its own oil and gas. It has vast petroleum potential waiting to be tapped via fracking. Opposition to producing this petroleum is no more ethical than environmentalist demands that the United States keep its own enormous untapped petroleum supplies locked up, while we deplete other countries' assets and put their wildlife habitats at risk from production-related accidents.",0_0
"Policymakers should look for win-win policies in order to improve the environment that we live in (e.g., see). The costs and benefits of the regulation of the emissions of CO2 into the atmosphere need to be evaluated together with all other possible environmental regulations. The goal should be to seek politically and technologically practical ways to reduce the vulnerability of the environment and society to the entire spectrum of human-caused and natural risks (e.g., see Chapter E in Kabat et al, 2004).",0_0
"In an attempt to answer these important questions, Wahl et al ., as they describe it, ""investigated sea level changes in the North Sea region based on 30 tide gauge records and 19 years of altimetry data."" Based on their analysis of all the available data, the four researchers determined that ""linear long-term trends in the Inner North Sea (1.6 mm/yr) are similar to global trends (1.7 mm/yr) but smaller in the English Channel (1.2 mm/yr)."" And they report that ""although the recent rates of sea level rise were high, there is no evidence yet that sea level rise has accelerated over the last decades in the North Sea region.""",1_6
"In the new CEI Podcast, Warren Brookes Fellow Kathryn Ciano interviews Carrie Lukas from the Independent Women's Forum about the male-female pay gap.",0_0
"Sorry climate propagandists, floods are not increasing. Check out the facts at Climate Depot.",1_7
"The Executive Order therefore seeks to increase efficiency and cost savings in the work performed by parties that contract with the Federal Government by raising the hourly minimum wage paid by those contractors to workers performing on covered Federal contracts to: $10.10 per hour , beginning January 1, 2015; and beginning January 1, 2016, and annually thereafter, an amount determined by the Secretary of Labor.",0_0
"The Environmental Defense Fund (www.edf.org) is claiming that New York City could experience serious problems resulting from climate change. For example, sea level rise could threaten lower Manhattan with ""frequent flooding by the end of the next century."" The report gets even more specific. ""The foundations of Battery Park City and the World Trade Center would be flooded regularly. The East River would flood Bellevue Medical Center, the FDR Drive and East Harlem between 96th and 114th Streets. Storms would flood much of Coney Island, submerging or creating islands of residential communities there and in Staten Island nearly annually,"" and so on.",0_0
"Comcast, NBC deal opens door for online video:",0_0
"""Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's warning that refusing to increase the debt ceiling would plunge the nation into fiscal catastrophe is unfounded, at least according to some congressional Republicans.""",0_0
"In Alaska glaciers had been retreating from 100 to 200 years , the average rate of recessionbeing about 50 feet a year. The Antarctic ice- sheet also showed signs of recent retreat.",0_0
"The study's authors, Drs. Jan Esper and Fritz Schweingruber at the Swiss Federal Research Institute, and Edward Cook at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, state that ""Much of the current debate on the Earth's climate variability is driven by the observation of a modern, century-long temperature increase, culminating with the last decade of the 20th century as the warmest since 1856.""",0_0
"According to NOAAs new publication, Explaining Extremes of 2013 from a Climate Perspective, there is no discernible connection between global warming and 2013 extreme weather events such as the California drought, Colorado floods, the UKs exceptionally cold spring, a South Dakota blizzard, Central Europe floods, a northwestern Europe cyclone, and exceptional snowfall in Europes Pyrenees Mountains.",1_7
"I dont know how much a Tropical Airport exceeds the temperatures of nearby forests nor how much they exceed a Scandinavian Woods, but I do know they will be much warmer Certainly far warmer as a local phenomenon than the tenths and hundredths of a degree of AGW that we are supposed to be panicked about. Far more than anything attributed to CO2.",5_1
"Top two graphs show temperature proxies from two different lakes in Iceland. Bottom graph is a composite of the two lakes, and shows ~12C temperature decrease from 8,000 years ago to the end of the record in the year 2000.",2_1
"""What bookworm doesn't love the idea of Google's new project, Google Library? The ability to search the entire contents of the world's greatest libraries online seems to fulfill one of the greatest potentials of the Internet. Unfortunately, Google has glossed over some inconvenient details. Unless Google is willing to step back and think for a moment, the whole project threatens to come off the rails.""",0_0
"GDDs may be calculated using either Celsius or Fahrenheit, though they must be converted appropriately; 5 GDDC = 9 GDDF",0_0
"In other words, as I said, the warming of 1975-2000 was only half caused by man-made emissions and half by natural causes, according to their conclusions, and natural causes were enough to cancel man-made forcing in the years after 2000.",2_1
"Except that it isnt science, its fiction. Science fiction; it takes a vaguely plausible scientific possibility, extrapolates it, and makes it the situation in which some form of drama plays out. For every one degree rise in temperature, Lynas considers what might happen to life on Earth.",0_0
Polluted Drinking Water Was No. 1 Concern Before AP Report,0_0
"There is also something unfunny about this issue, which has now been taken up by a tabloid blog . There is much hilarity among commenters there about how anyone could be gullible enough to believe that a seemingly troubled and challenged person was actually, well, a troubled and challenged person. By some leap of logic this gullibility, in turn, somehow disproves the science underlying global warming.",0_0
"Surprisingly, similar movement rates are needed to out-run climate change. On land, movement of 2.7 kilometers (1.6 miles) per year is needed and in the oceans, movement of 2.2 kilometers (1.3 miles) per year is needed.",0_0
"Insecurity Blanket: Greens Preparing Kinder, Gentler Guilt Campaign",0_0
"has found that recent floods associated with the Indian monsoon are not linked to global warming, and that such events have occurred throughout the 200 year history of the monsoon.",1_7
"The government says that it wants a sustainable, secure and affordable energy system. Unfortunately, week-by-week since the general election, and now with the budget, it has made statements or policy changes that take us further away from that goal, and put us increasingly out of step with the rest of the world. Government support for ideological blue crap over rationality is putting the UK increasingly out of step with the global energy transformation. --Catherine Mitchell, The Guardian, 8 July 2015",0_0
"Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose! Dr. Eric Fleegler: Conclusions and Relevance - A higher number of firearm laws in a state are associated with a lower rate of firearm fatalities in the state, overall and for suicides and homicides individually. John Hinderaker: Conclusions and Relevance - ote that Fleegler's study covers all 50 states, but leaves out the District of Columbia. Why do you suppose he chose to do that? .... Now let's redo Fleegler's math, with the District counted as one of the ten strictest jurisdictions. We now have an average rate of 4.0 gun homicides per 100,000 in the ten most anti-gun jurisdictions, and a gun homicide rate of 3.5 per 100,000 in the ten jurisdictions with the fewest gun regulations, even if we include the outlier, Louisiana. But that's just tasting the icing of Dr. Fleegler's statistical upside-down cake.",0_0
"Under the most favourable assumptions for wind power, the Government??s wind policy will reduce emissions of CO2 at an average cost of 270 per metric ton (at 2009 prices) which means that meeting the UK??s renewable energy target would cost a staggering 78 billion per year in 2020.",4_1
"So even those most worried about the possibilities of climate change are beginning to realize that the Chicken Little attitude isn't working. Al Gore, call your office.",0_0
the level of uncertainty in the ocean data has not been emphasized. This post is to highlight this issue with respect to modeled uncertainty ofocean heat content changes.,0_0
"18 spectacularly wrong predictions made around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970, expect more this year",0_0
"Since just before the start of the 21st century, the Earths average global surface temperature has failed to rise despite soaring levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases and years of dire warnings from environmental advocates.",1_4
Most of the data series in most of the plots have just appeared on the CRU web site.,0_0
"""In the geologic past, atmospheric CO2 concentrations can be at least 2 to 5 times larger than 400 ppm. Therefore, crossing such a CO2 level in 2013/2014 is not unprecedented,"" Soon said.",2_3
"""Now with the tobacco settlement, there was an actual basis for that case. The tobacco industry had concealed things, it knew about the health effects of smoking tobacco for a long time, and it had lied under oath,"" Mr. Ebell said. ""This is entirely different, but you can see we're going down the same road here.""",0_0
"In Massachusetts v. EPA, the Supreme Court legislated from the bench, authorizing and indeed pushing EPA to control emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) for climate change purposes. This is a policy decision of immense economic and political magnitude that Congress never intended or approved when it enacted and amended the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act).",0_0
"Because Sterns conclusions endorsed policies adopted by both government and opposition and its highly tendentious assumptions were not explicit, it was initially accepted without public scrutiny.",0_0
"As vilification of Soon demonstrates, however, climate politics wont accommodate alternative views. With their motivating theory increasingly challenged by observation, proponents of extreme precaution have gone from name-callingdeniers, Neanderthalsto character assassination. Their tactics exude desperation and undermine their credibility.",5_2
"DOT Exempts Maker of ""Flying Car' From Road Vehicle Safety Specs:",0_0
"Of course, big-government does not like its climate orthodoxy challenged. That is why attorneys general across the country have begun focusing on those who challenge climate-change ""consensus."" CEI is the latest victim of the witch-hunt on climate change skeptics, but CEI is fighting back.",5_2
"With regards to climate science, IMO the key issue regarding academic freedom is this: no scientist should have to fall on their sword to follow the science where they see it leading or to challenge the consensus. I?ve fallen on my dagger (not the full sword), in that my challenge to the consensus has precluded any further professional recognition and a career as a university administrator. That said, I have tenure, and am senior enough to be able retire if things genuinely were to get awful for me. I am very very worried about younger scientists, and I hear from a number of them that have these concerns.",0_0
"While the focus on LOST is over the rules it establishes for ocean travel and deep-seabed mining as well as the submission to United Nations' taxing (fee levying"") authority, few are looking at the green pages interspersed among the others. With far less detail there is clearly as much environmental authority included to crush the US economy in LOST as there is in the Kyoto ""global warming"" treaty. Every reason the Senate has for not ratifying Kyoto applies to the Law of the Sea Treaty, but with even greater urgency because -- despite the rejection of LOST by President Reagan -- President Clinton signed it and now Bush is urging the Senate to ratify the pact before he leaves office.",0_0
"11. It is generally agreed that if greenhouse warming was occurring, the strongest warming would be in the upper atmosphere above the tropics. Recent research shows this is not occurring, which indicates that warming is not being caused by greenhouse gases:",2_3
Job Openings In IT Support At The CRU And Nature Publishing Group,0_0
"From what I have read, you swam in a perfectly normal gap in the ice at the North Pole last year, and got stuck in the ice close to Svalbard this year. While these acts are a testament to your personal strength, athletic ability and courage - they dont shed any light on the historical record or changes to earths climate. Well, I subscribe to this question even though I doubt that we will (or can) ever hear a sane answer to it.",0_0
I'm under no illusions. Free-market supporters will probably always have fewer stars on our side. We will always face a celebrity gap. But we can do a whole lot better in communicating our ideals to people who don't think like economists.,0_0
"Why? Because of (2) and (3). AR5s reduction of estimated increase in global average surface temperature 19512010 by nearly half, and its reduction of the lower limit of ECS by one-fourth, reflect huge revisions, first, in how scientists process temperature data from around the world, second, in observations (about 0.0C) versus expectations (about 0.3C to 0.4C) of warming over the past 15 to 20 years, and, third, in how modelers understand climates response to increased greenhouse gases.",5_1
"As long as they continue to practice what is, in effect, climate Realpolitik, the U.S. has only four options for attempting to construct a global GHG control pact. None of them is likely to have a more than marginal impact on emissions. ACESA seems to draw, in varying degrees, on all four approaches.",0_0
"Here . Update : Junk Science asks : ""A million bucks a head to relocate a subsistence village""?",0_0
"b) Ordinary Least Squares ( OLS )with the number of degrees for freedom adjusted using N eff /N = (1-)/(1+), where is the correlation of the residuals for the OLS fit.",0_0
Highest Court in DC Allows Second Amendment Challenges to Long-Ago Convictions for Violating D.C. Handgun Ban:,0_0
"This one mentions, obliquely the Kuznets curve of improvememnts in enviro conditions following economic prosperity.",0_0
"What's the Strange, Snake-Like Image Captured by Radar Off the Australian Coast?",0_0
"In the U.S., federal regulators are mandating power plants emit less CO2. Policymakers have also offered a slew of subsidies to make green energy attractive to investors.",0_0
"NASA has repeatedly altered global temperature data, causing a net doubling of 1880-1980 global warming since their 1981 version. Pre-1965 years keep getting colder, and post-1965 years keep getting warmer. (Note that prior to 2003, NASA did noteven pretend to know pre-1950 ocean temperatures.)",5_1
"Note that in this context applies concentrations not mngder. (Exception is the treatment of compartmental kinetic exchange of components between avgnsade behllare, such as living cells and surrounding vtska. Dr. INFR man from the gray modeling is more supple concentrations of reactants and products by entering their mngder together with the volumes of the different compartments).",0_0
"By Timothy Cama, The Hill, Aug 12, 2015",0_0
"Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said she is ""committed"" to keeping a $400 million program that reimburses states for jailing illegal immigrants, a task she called ""a total federal responsibility.""",0_0
"Under Article 12 (the clean development mechanism), the U.S. may earn credits by reducing emissions in developing countries. But such reductions may count only against ""part"" of our Kyoto obligation, and how large a part will not be determined until after the Protocol enters into force.27 Also, a project may qualify for clean development credit only if the investment would be ""additional"" to any that would occur otherwise. In short, like emissions trading and joint implementation, the CDM in practice may be far less ""market-based"" and ""flexible"" than it is cracked up to be.",0_0
18 Dec: Guardian: The Guardian lays claim to Antarctica in pictures Journalists Alok Jha and Laurence Topham have landed in Antarctica with the 2013 Australasian Antarctic Expedition Documentary filmmaker Laurence Topham lines up a shot from the bows. Photograph: Alok Jha/Guardian,0_0
"One of the fundamental principles, championed by Blair, and also in Rumsfelds famous known knowns speech, is the Precautionary Principle, which needs no further explanation here. It was this which allowed mere speculation to be presented as clear and present risk. Mitigation of risk being the thing which the terror and climate agendas have in common, and a great deal of other public policy, for that matter. Blairs favourite sociologist, Anthony Giddens is widely regarded as having pioneered this form of politics, as is discussed in recent posts.",0_0
"In December, as Climategate was developing, TWTW referred to a Russian report stating the CRU was ignoring data from colder regions of Russia, even though these stations were still reporting data. Thus, the data loss was not due to just the closing of stations as earlier thought, but due to decisions by the CRU to ignore them.",5_1
MOOSE: I dont know why I like smacking you around so much. Its that look on your face. Now say it again.,0_0
"Bangladesh Cyclone, November 1970. The greatest tropical system disaster this century occurred in Bangladesh in November 1970. Winds coupled with a storm surge killed between 300,000- 500,000people. These cyclones usually cause the most misery, loss of life, and suffering in low lying areas in Bangladesh and coastal India.",0_0
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev= t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skyfall.fr%2F%3Fp%3D1280&edit-text =,0_0
"For his part, Mr. Coles can't understand the hostility. ""I tell these groups that my concerns are your concerns. I have been protecting the environment here for decades, long before any of them became interested in this land."" He's received offers to buy his land for sums that would make him incredibly wealthy, but has turned them down. ""We love the land. My family has lived here for over 200 years. We're going to continue to live here. That's the reason we decided to keep it, as opposed to selling out."" He says Virginia Uranium will continue to push for the independent study.",0_0
"Remember the next time team warming tries to hype a hot summer's day, drought or flood as climate, rather than weather.",0_0
"Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain's culture, as warmer winters which scientists are attributing to global climate change produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries.",0_0
"Svensmark has laid out observational evidence of this chain of events in a paper that he and his colleagues published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters in 2009 and he is currently involved in the CLOUD (Cosmics Leaving OUdoor Droplets) experiment being conducted at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) which aims to gain more insight through laboratory simulations of these processes. Svensmark describes the progress being made in the CERN CLOUD study and how it impacts his hypothesis in a recent interview , stating I welcome the CLOUD results. They basically confirm our own experimental results since 2006, and does so within a larger variation of parameters and while admitting that of course there are many things to explore that the cosmic-ray/cloud seeding hypothesis is converging with reality.",2_1
"Denning: It is the amount of heat that goes in, relative to the amount of heat that goes out, that causes changes of temperature (Heat in minus heat out equals change of heat.) Likewise, it is the amount of cold that goes in, relative to the amount of cold that goes out, that changes temperature. This accounts for why every year winter is colder than summer and why nights are cooler than days. Change of heat is measured in the laboratory with the CO2 that is present.",0_0
"In terms of the broader audience, I have to say that I hope that this book leads to the discontinuation of the IPCC after the AR5 report (which is already well underway, and is arguably sufficiently tarnished that it is likely to have much less influence than previous reports.)",0_0
"Climate change is an area where consistent attempts are made to communicate the certainty of the science. As a result, a spotlight on scientific uncertainties may be seen as unwelcome. However, in the run-up to the United Nations climate summit in Paris, making climate change meaningful remains a key challenge and our analysis of the press conference demonstrates that this meaning-making cannot be achieved by relying on scientific certainty alone. When trying to engage the public about climate science, communicators should be aware that there is a tension between expressing scientific certainty (and focusing on longterm trends) and making climate change meaningful (by focusing on short-term trends) and, what is more, that this tension may be unavoidable. A broader, more inclusive public dialogue will have to include crucial scientific details that we are far less certain about and these need to be embraced in order to make climate change meaningful.",5_1
"Roska and Arum wrote, ""This lack of engagement is as troubling as their financial difficulties it can hardly be a good sign for a democratic society when many of its citizens, including highly educated ones, are not aware of or engaged with what is going on in the nation and world.""",0_0
Sen. John McCain delivers a major speech on global warming.,0_0
"As far as we can determine, during the period from 1943 to 1975 the Earth cooled by nearly a degree Celsius (although anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide were rising sharply), and this trend precipitated fear of a new ice age. However, following the switch in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation from cool to warm in 1975?76, global temperatures began to rise and the ice age scare quickly gave way to the global warming scare, and within thirty years or so to the situation where we were on the point of wreaking great harm on our nation.",2_1
"Arctic sea ice extent hasnt changed for several days, and remains just below the 2006 minimum.",1_1
"""Mainstream environmental groups, including the Sierra Club, the Wilderness Society, Defenders of Wildlife and the Natural Resources Defense Council, have been largely mute, having traded the picket line for a seat at the table when development plans were drawn.",0_0
"Whelan, Robert; Kirwan, Joseph, and Haffner, Paul. The Cross and the Rainforest: A Critique of Radical Green Spirituality. Grand Rapids, MI: Acton Institute, 1996.",0_0
Here is his plot comparing 19th century readings with ice core and Mauna Loa data.,0_0
"It was coal, and later oil, which created and still largely supports the populations, prosperity and industry of developed nations. With a backdrop of freedom under the law, they can do the same for the whole world.",4_5
"Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-Ky., pointed out to Jackson, who was also called to testify, that Congress had rejected federal regulation of greenhouse gases on no fewer than three occasions. ""Do you object to an up or down vote in Congress?"" he asked her.",0_0
Posted by Hockey Schtick on 25 Oct 2013,0_0
"Th e hockey stick graph dealt with all those by eliminating the MWP and the LIA. It inappropriately tacked on, as the blade of the stick, an upturn in temperature in the 20th century. Phil Jones produced the upturn that claimed a 0.6C 0.2C increase in 120 years. They claimed this rate of increase was beyond any natural increase, conveniently ignoring the 33% error factor.",5_1
"""I wonder how this rhetoric squares with his standard condescending line about Republican-leaning voters not thinking clearly because their minds are clouded by economic anxiety. Does economic anxiety also explain why Latino turnout isn't quite where the Democrats need it to be (although, per this new Politico poll, it's getting there)? Or is this the first, last, and only case this year of The One admitting that his own failures specifically, the failure to pass amnesty might be even partly responsible for the Democrats' predicament? And what about those supposed ""enemies"" that Latinos should be turning out to punish? Are they actual enemies like those shadowy bastards donating to the Chamber of Commerce or, as Obama himself once famously suggested, are they merely bitterly clinging to xenophobia to soothe their own economic frustrations?""",0_0
"If the Chronicle editorial board wants to know the weaknesses in the scientific case for climate alarmism, several hours of concentrated effort is all that it will take. If the editorial board wants to understand how Waxman-Markey is very expensive regulation for its own sake, without appreciable benefits, that is there for the taking too.",5_1
All of these projects are denigrated in their own country because they have one thing in common they rely heavily on carbon fuels such as coal and gas and thus are all threatened by the toxic carbon tax. None of these activities will cease because of our carbon tax. They will either pay foreign spivs for carbon credits or the business will transfer to other countries who will welcome our trashed industries.,0_0
"Now what? The right to voice your opinion on important public policies is entitled to the highest level of constitutional protection. That's why we are vigorously fighting this unlawful attack. We hope the court will agree by honoring our request for relief from Attorney General Walker's campaign of retaliation. This is about much more than the climate change debate; it's about protecting the inalienable rights of all Americans. To learn more about our legal battle for free speech, you can check out our page here. And, if you'd like to receive updates about our fight for economic and individual freedom, join our email list here.",0_0
Lindzen and Choi implies that the models are exaggerating climate sensitivity: warming from a doubling of CO2 would only be about 1C This modest warming is much less than current climate models suggest for a doubling of CO2. Models predict warming of from 1.5C to 5C and even more for a doubling of CO2( paper ),5_1
Vancouver will experience one of its coldest winters on record.,0_0
"""This ruling is welcome news for GHG emission sources, particularly large sources such as the electric power plants involved here, who are already facing EPA regulations of GHG next year, as EPA limits conventional air pollutants like mercury and microscopic particulate matter.",0_0
"Now, these days, there is getting to a lot made of the difference between the satellite, deep-layer measurements, and the surface thermometer measurements. Note that the surface thermometer measurements, point one-three is starting to approach the predicted warming of point one-eight degrees C per decade. The deep-layer doesn't show that warming. We are still trying to understand why - we don't yet understand why this is the case.",0_0
Samet J.The Clean Air Act and healtha clearer view from 2011.,0_0
"However, the warming is so far manifesting itself more in winters which are less cold than in much hotter summers. 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"".",0_0
"On October 12, 2011, Environment Ohio issued a reprehensible ad suggesting that Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio) hand fed a baby a jar full of poison. According to the left-wing eco group Environment Ohio, Rep. Stivers' wrongdoing was his vote for legislation that would ""gut"" the Clean Air Act. In fact, Rep. Stivers' had voted in favor of an amendment that would delay the implementation of a new EPA regulation, the Utility Maximum Achievable Control Technology rule (Utility MACT).",0_0
...so it would seem churlish not to remind readers of an excellent book for the geek in your life...,0_0
"No major action on climate is likely until after the Senate confirms McCarthy. But shes run into a brick wall among Republicans, who stalled a committee vote on her nomination and may filibuster her on the floor.",0_0
"U.S. Office of Management and Budget, ""Regulatory Analysis,"" Circular A-4, September 17, 2003, http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars a004 a-4/ (accessed September 11, 2014).",0_0
"Dr JENSEN (Tangney) (8.30 pm)The Prime Minister is a coward. He is a leader who takes his shots at people from a protected position yet lacks the courage to actually debate people directly. A little over a week ago the Prime Minister delivered one of the most outlandish speeches ever uttered by a senior politician in Australia. In that speech he made all sorts of bizarre allegations that anthropogenic climate change sceptics were being driven by vested interests, were out to destroy the future of our children and grandchildrenthe typical refrain of those who do not have the facts on their side and therefore resort to emotive terminologyhad a lack of knowledge and were cowardly. On the question of cowardice, I will debate Kevin Rudd on the science of climate change anywhere, anytime. I am very confident that he will be too cowardly to accept the challenge. It is far easier to resort to invective.",0_0
"Er, no, it cant. Im not sure that even the holy books of IPeCaC have ever suggested that runaway temperature feedback is even a possibility. In any event, elementary considerations in the mathematics of feedback amplification make runaway feedback an impossibility.",3_1
"Environmental News informs that it was nominating an end on January 12. Now, the jury along with the Environmental Aktuellts subscribers (* anml your interest by sending an email with a nice motivation for why you want to join the mikael.salo@idg.se later than 12 February) to review and rank the nominees utifrn FOLLOWING criteria : Urban commented actual environmental benefit, actually real influence, trovrdighet, commitment.",0_0
"To avoid any potential confusion, I stated this non-advocacy as clearly as I could in a post that took notice of Briffas initial response to the Yamal controversy:",0_0
"Al Gore's ""Tragic Indifference to the Human Consequences""",0_0
Antarctic sea ice underestimated by 50%.,1_1
"Scientists looked at 13 polar bear subpopulations and found ""much of the scientific evidence indicating that some polar bear subpopulations are declining due to climate change-mediated sea ice reductions is likely flawed by poor markrecapture sampling."" This means researchers aren't able to put together accurate ""demographic parameters.""",3_2
From CEI: Research Associate Adam Chamberlain on Canada's vast and underappreciated oil reserves.,0_0
"That??s an efficiency gap greens can??t account for. The coal and steel industries became far more efficient as they matured. Solar panels may yet become more efficient, it??s possible they might attain 40% efficiency soon. But they need to be replaced every 20 years, and they don??t make sense without generous subsidies.",4_4
"They published this graph, which shows that sea level rise has not accelerated since the 19th century. I added the red trend line.",1_6
"As the atmosphere's CO2 concentration continues to rise, most plants tend to exhibit increased rates of photosynthesis and biomass production, including those of various grassland ecosystems. This increase in productivity should increase the amount of forage available for grazing animals and possibly reduce the land area occupied by bare soil in certain environments. However, some people claim that global warming will negate the growth-promoting effects of atmospheric CO2 enrichment and actually stimulate the opposite process of desertification. This summary thus seeks to develop an answer to this important question by reviewing published scientific studies of the photosynthetic and growth responses of grassland plants to atmospheric CO2 enrichment when exposed to higher-than-normal temperatures.",3_3
"One could never read a Ken Smith column without learning something valuable. In meeting his end with calm and grace, Ken taught us a valuable and inspiring lesson about death and facing up to its inevitability with dignity and without fear.",0_0
"The contentious issues still on the table include three global warming titles in the Senate version of H.R. 4, the Senate's renewable portfolio standard for privately-owned electric utilities, differing versions of new CAF (Combined Automobile Fuel Efficiency) standards, the Senate's expanded ethanol mandate, and the House provision to allow oil exploration in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.",0_0
"It's just far more effective for gunmen to act individually if they want to achieve a similar ""goal"". Without backups, some of them may fail but indeed, they sometimes do. But if someone wants to have a decent enough chance to kill the president of the U.S., the best strategy is simply to try. Individually. It may even be better not to inform or ask anyone else because that could reduce the probability of the success. That's what happened according to all the evidence I see: a lone gunman. People who find it natural to believe that there should be several shooters and backups think like communists and would be lousy managers if they adopted the same philosophy in their management. Some jobs may simply be done by one person. Shooting a man and whether he's a president doesn't really matter is an example.",0_0
"The emissions limits the White House wants and continues to impose would constitute less than a faction of a single degree Fahrenheit over the course of a decade or more. In short, nothing.",4_2
"The full paper, Does the Agulhas Current amplify global temperatures during super-interglacials?, appears in the latest edition of the Journal of Quarternary Science . It can be viewed here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jqs.1423/abstract",0_0
"The glacier claim proved to be based on a 2005 World Wildlife Fund pamphlet, which in turn was based on a 1999 New Scientist interview with Indian scientist Syed Hasnain (see his joint interview with Richard North).",0_0
Looks like a cooling trend see plot in antarctic-sea-ice-sets-new-high-in-may,1_1
"Record temperatures hot and cold are set every day around the world; that's the nature of records. Statistically, any given place will see four record high temperatures set every year. There is evidence that daytime high temperatures are staying about the same as for the last few decades, but nighttime lows are gradually rising. Global warming might be more properly called, ""Global less cooling.""",1_4
"The red line shows the trend over the ~ 13 years of the record which is 0.01 W/m2 per decade, statistically no different from zero.",0_0
"To Gorbachev's prime minister Nikolai Ryzhkov, the ""moral state of the society"" in 1985 was its ""most terrifying"" feature:",0_0
"Singer noted that it is the Policymakers Summary, not the science, that is the impetus behind proposals to negotiate binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997 (PR Newswire, June 23, 1997).",0_0
"It is generally accepted that sea levels increased during the 20thC at a rate of about 185mm or about 7. Furthermore studies suggest that there was no acceleration in this rate during that time. One of the best known studies was by Bruce Douglas , who produced the above graph from Tide Gauge records for 23 geologically stable sites.",1_6
Obama Says He Has No Tolerance For Non-Believers In The State Sanctioned Religion,0_0
"It is not for a non-climatologist such as me to say which climate-sensitivity value is correct. On this brief analysis, however, it is evident that the models on which the IPCC relies are little better than expensive guesswork, and that no great reliance can be placed upon the IPCCs central estimates, still less on its high-end estimates. As a policymaker, I should be profoundly reluctant, given the current state of the science, to recommend to Ministers that they should take the drastic actions advocated in some circles to mitigate global warming.",5_1
"John fails to see that such conflicts of interest compromise balanced assessments in climate science, and, presumably also in other fields where we do not have expertise.",5_2
"New York Times: Remember when we told you that global warming causes warmer winters? We should have said that global warming causes ""colder' winters",0_0
A federal court strikes down efforts by the Securities and Exchange Commission to regulate the hedge fund industry.,0_0
"Ra ko hutu d dekotu ely trebomu emusohe, vdegar yd, stro reny er gryk kendy, alyv zvyde dezu, kvyndal fer teknu sely. Degto yl tre entvester kyleg gh: orka epyl y bodur depty-depe emete. Grojto af xedob yd, kyzem ner osonfterte ylem kho dent de det detrym gynfer bro enomuz fechtal agni laj kys defyj rokuroch bazuk suhelen... This text roughly says that the translation doesn't exist or shouldn't be reproduced. Because no one has ever learned ""ptydepe"", it became a synonym for the meaningless jargon of bureaucrats, despite its original well-definedness. ;-)",0_0
"Marlo, first of all, what potential significance does this Supreme Court decision to review the case have? Does it indicate evidence of a shift within the Court with regard to statutory boundaries of the EPA's regulatory authority?",0_0
"Children just arent going to know what snow is, he said.",0_0
New York Times estimate $ 21.0 billion 1997 USD or about $ 13.0 billion in 1982-1983 dollars.,0_0
"In other words, President Obama looks like he has been played for a fool by the Chinese, or that he played the role all by himself.",0_0
"NASA's James Hansen has estimated that the greenhouse gases already emitted into the atmosphere are likely to deliver about 1 of additional warming by the year 2100, regardless of what we do to slow the growth in greenhouse gas emissions today. That additional warmth could have a broad range of impacts, from slightly higher sea levels and coastal flooding, to increased drought in drought-prone regions, to increased water shortages in those areas dependent on winter snow deposits, and so on. Democrats and environmentalists are fond of pointing out that these disaster losses are a future cost of global warming.",0_0
"For example, the visibility program applies to facilities based on their emissions of ?any pollutant.? 42 U.S.C. 7491(g)(7). In the context of that program, EPA has interpreted the term ?any pollutant? to mean ?any visibility-impairing pollutant,? which obviously does not include greenhouse gases. 40 C.F.R. pt. 51, App. Y, II.A. Similarly, the nonattainment program applies to areas that have been designated as nonattainment ?for any air pollutant.? 42 U.S.C. 7501(2). In the context of that program, the term ?air pollutant? is logically limited to the NAAQS air pollutants, which are the only pollutants for which an area can be designated as nonattainment. Id. 7407(d)(1)(A).",0_0
Building a Better Canada U.S. Energy Dialogue with Natural Gas,0_0
"[Editor?s note: The following material was supplied to us by Dr. Richard Lindzen as an example of how research that counters climate-change alarm receives special treatment in the scientific publication process as compared with results that reinforce the consensus view. In this case, Lindzen's submission to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences was subjected to unusual procedures and eventually rejected (in a rare move), only to be accepted for publication in the Asian Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences.",5_2
"In the next 50 years there would be no temperature increase, but rather a slight temperature decrease is expected. In the decades before and after the year 2300 a powerful temperature drop could occur because both the 230-year cycle and 100-year cycle would be dropping rapidly together in parallel.",1_2
"One is gas turbines, to function as backup generators that can supply power whenever winds are not blowing at usable speeds. But unless shale gas development proceeds apace, this would increase Europes dependence on Russian gas supplies. It would also result in inefficient gas use and higher carbon emissions, as generators ramp up and down every time wind turbine output changes.",4_4
4) Meteorologists Blame Jet Stream For Unusual Weather Pattern,0_0
"The Preamble of the U.N. Biodiversity Treaty admits there ""is a general lack of information and knowledge regarding biological diversity,"" but says ""where there is a threat of significant reduction or loss of biological diversity, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to avoid or minimize such a threat.""",0_0
"Whether or not you believe that the burning of fossil fuels significantly affects the earth??s temperature, the ice core data offers no evidence to support that ??? no matter how big the graph is.",2_3
we need to have the ability to tell fact from fiction. This last mailing is an excellent example of fiction.,0_0
28.a. How much do you think the potential impact of global climate change is one of the leading problems for eco-systems,0_0
"The Wall Street Journal today ran a top-fold, front page news item about how China's insatiable demand for energy has stimulated a boon in the international trade of coal. This is more evidence that globalization makes a mockery of the best laid plans to fight climate change. So while Congress deliberates, and enviros agitate, big, bad King Coal is making money hand-over-fist selling coal to a growing China.",4_2
"Heid, T. and Kaab, K. 2011. Worldwide widespread decadal-scale decrease of glaciers speed revealed using repeat optical satellite images. Cryosphere Discussions 5 : 3025-3051.",0_0
"Nine million containers enter U.S. ports each year, and 80 percent of U.S. port facilities these days are owned by foreign companies. It is estimated that the detonation of a 10-to-20 kiloton nuclear weapon in a container would cause a disruption of trade valued at $100 billion to $300 billion, property damage of $50 billion to $500 billion, and the loss of 50,000 to 1 million lives. A mere dirty bomb smuggled in a container would kill very few people, but the disruption would cost $58 billion and it would take 19 days for ports to resume normal operations and 92 days to stabilize the container backlog by which time the disruption could well spawn a recession.",0_0
"Writing in Commentary, Jonathan S. Tobin, said that the new regulations on carbon emissions will have a potentially devastating impact on Americas more than 600 coal-fired power plants noting that the move was made possible by Supreme Court decisions that ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency had the right to regulate (CO2) emissions, giving the President virtual carte blanche to remake this sector of our economy without requiring congressional consent.",4_1
"According to a Sierra Club press release, the ad's goal was to ward off any attempt by Congress to rein in EPA's regulation of greenhouse gases. The ad tries to achieve this by linking climate change to childhood asthma. The climate-asthma association, in turn, is based on a hypothesis that global warming will cause longer growing seasons, which in turn would result in the release of more pollen, an asthma trigger.",0_0
"He has argued in his ???previous papers that the available climatic data would suggest an astronomical modulation of the cloud cover that would induce small oscillations in the albedo which, consequently, would cause oscillations in the surface temperature also by modulating ocean oscillations??",2_1
On the topic of multi-billion pound con tricks the UK is waking up to the news that wind turbines dont work well . Giant bird shredders have been sold on the easily misunderstood but optimistic capacity number rather than the actual generating performance. How does 22% efficiency sound . Anyone? Wind farms also do not create jobs.,4_4
"Cars are most vulnerable in side impact collisions. According to the institute, in fatal collisions involving cars that are hit on the side by SUVs, the relative risk that the death will be in the car rather than the SUV is an apparently lopsided 27-to-1. But when this relative risk is broken down by car weight categories, it turns out that car-SUV mismatches are frequently outweighed by other common collision disparities. For example, the occupants of a light car struck in the side by a heavy car face a greater relative risk of death than when a heavy car is side-impacted by an SUV. That is, there is a greater mismatch between light cars and heavy cars than there is between heavy cars and SUVs.",0_0
Ice cores reveal that CO2 levels rise and fall hundreds of years after temperatures change,2_3
"Previous investigations of the Climategate affair were pretty much whitewashes. Another one, led by Muir Russell, is expected to report soon. However, it is not charged with investigating the science either.",5_2
Location Length Trend Cook Is. 64 +13.7Samoa 64 -9.7Tonga 65 +29.1Tuvalu 62 -34.3Fiji 69 +10.3Kiribati 62 -21.4Marshall Is. 58 -11.7Vanuatu 55 +12.1Nauru 59 -26.4Solomon Is. 45 -41.3Papua NG 32 -43.6,0_0
"For addition commentary on Al Gore's approval of gas taxes, please contact Myron Ebell, Director of Global Warming Policy, or Emily McGee, Director of Media Relations, at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.",0_0
"Coal, oil and natural gas are labeled ?dirty? for propaganda purposes, but what the Sierra Club and others do not tell you and will never tell you is that they account for most of the electricity generated in America, along with nuclear and hydropower. Wind and solar power provide approximately 3% of the electricity and require government subsidies and mandates to exist. Their required use drives up the cost of electricity to consumers.",4_5
"Molly: Really, Heath? Really? That sounds kinda biophobic to me.",0_0
"Their next target perhaps the ideal target of CO2 was in their sights. Noise about global warming started in the late '80s, but it didn't really get much traction until the mid- to late '90s right after the CFC ban was a done deal.",0_0
"This issue was made very explicit by the title of the Scientific American article entitled Climate Heretic: Judith Curry turns against her Colleagues . Of all the issues raised by Climategate and the points I had been trying to make about overconfidence and uncertainty, transparency, engaging with skeptics, etc., the main issue of interest in all this was construed as me turning against my colleagues? It was hard for me to understand this at first, but then I realized that by talking about uncertainty and engaging with skeptics that I was following the playbook according to the merchants of doubt meme. So talking about topics that I regarded as efforts that were needed to rebuild the credibility of climate science was regarded by my colleagues as damaging to the consensus.",5_2
"The conclusion is stark the contribution of power from solar panels during winter months is effectively worthless, regardless of how many solar farms are built.",4_4
"Yet, there are some people out there who think that humanity as a disease on the earth that, unchecked, will use up all of its resources. They want you to turn off your lights for an hour this Saturday for ""Earth Hour"" in a show of support for enforced energy conservation. It's your right to choose to do this if you want. On the other hand, you can join the thousands of people around the world that will not shut off their lights during that hour, and instead will celebrate the innovations of humanity and advocate for the protection of our freedom to continue advancing.",0_0
"Such candidates have not fared well beyond Democrats' demographic clusters, especially since voters have seen the handiwork of the Obama administration. Republicans now hold majorities of governorships, Senate and House seats and control of state legislatures. Target states in presidential races have produced few if any Democratic officeholders competitive in presidential races.",0_0
"Professor Niklas Mrner, who was told in 2004 by a sea-level specialist at the University of Colorado that the data from the TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason satellites were tilted to create an artificial impression of a rate of sea-level rise that is not in fact occurring, says his central estimate is that sea level will rise this century by 5 15cm, or 2 6 inches. Spencer 6, Nuccitelli 0.",1_6
"Singer and the Marshall Institute complained to Newsweek editor Jon Meacham and to writer Sharon Begley, but Newsweek has never corrected its story. On the contrary, Sharon Begley has gone on to write other poorly founded stories about global warming and its skeptics.",0_0
"So has global temperature not increased? It has not, if by not increased we meanetc., etc.",1_4
> >> inter-decadal variability (very large for the Sahel) and multi-decadal,0_0
I fear that we??re headed into such a period of great cooling and repetitive catastrophic flooding right now.,1_2
"Photoshop, not diabetes from drinking soda caused Cleo Berry to lose his leg.",0_0
"Notice that the Obama administration has been unable to induce even a Democratic Congress to enact ""carbon' policies.",0_0
8. How much would you be willing to pay to forestall the risk of catastrophic climate change?,0_0
"86. The historical increase in the airs CO2 content has improved human nutrition by raising crop yields during the past 150 years on the order of 70 percent for wheat, 28 percent for cereals, 33 percent for fruits and melons, 62 percent for legumes, 67 percent for root and tuber crops, and 51 percent for vegetables.",3_3
"Your site, Spiked and a few others are very good at exposing the fallacious and fatuous logic of the Warmists arguments on CO2 and trends, and in revealing the strong links between politicizing scientists and global warming. As you point out above, one distinguished scientist postulates a link between obesity and global warming without a single shred of evidence.",5_2
"Double counting is prone to occur in a natural gas-to-electricity production chain where the same fuel is counted twice. Of course, natural gas is the major competitor to green power. Cap and Trade is supposed to work in the long-term by withdrawing permits, thus forcing industries to either buy increasingly higher-priced permits or reduce pollution. What CARB has done so far instead is to flood the market with permits and collect $396 million in permit fees while failing to reduce an iota of emissions. BCG Environmental Brokerage has raised the issue of whether this double counting might be considered fraud. Gov. Jerry Brown has diverted Cap and Trade revenues into the state General Fund in violation of the law that created the Cap and Trade program by calling it a loan.",4_2
"But UKIP members are a bunch of fruit cakes, loonies and closet racists? Well done for swallowing an establishment lie . Such people exist in all parties, though UKIP members are much more widely reported. We are the only party to ban anyone who has ever been a member of any extremist group from membership which is more than can be said for the Labour Party who have fielded a number of ex-BNP candidates and even have an ex-Nazi councillor in Milton Keynes! Were the only major party to have a Friends of Poland group after the collapse due to lack of interest in similar groups from the Labour and Conservative parties. We stood more black and ethnic minority candidates in the 2013 local elections than the Conservatives or Liberal Democrats, and as many as the Labour Party though still, may I add, not enough. And we were found to be the most favourably viewed party in Britain by a poll conducted for The Independent.",0_0
"The Briffa 2000 reconstruction, as shown below, has a highish MWP, whichis just a titch less than the modern values. The medieval values (averaged) are just a titch lower than 20th century and some years look as high.",2_1
"In discussing their findings, Winkler et al . report that lower rather than higher temperatures adversely affected Symbiodinium recruitment by reducing larval survival and settlement. Also, they found that low temperatures reduced Symbiodinium habitat choice and initial symbiont densities, both of which impact post-settlement survival. And even more intriguing, they discovered that at lower temperatures the coral larvae ""increasingly settle away from preferred vertical surfaces.""",0_0
"In his party conference speech on Tuesday, Ed Miliband, as well as promising to create a million new green jobs (perhaps he can wave his magic wand and create 1 million blue and red ones too!), also said, and I quote (from the New Statesmans full transcript):",0_0
"In short, the Grand Cherokee and Viper prove that an Italian auto executive is more in touch with the American people than their own president. What Marchionne & Co. realized is that SUVs and muscle cars are what Americans do best. And they are exporting them to the world. The Viper will go on the international sports car racing circuit against the best from Ferrari and Porsche. And Jefferson North will soon be building Maserati SUVs yes, Maserati trucks on a modified version of the Jeep platform.",0_0
"Restricting greenhouse gas emissions, whether unilaterally or multilaterally, would result in significant economic costs for the U.S. economy. This is a serious decision with grave consequences. The U.S. should not unilaterally assume these burdens as a symbolic gesture hoping that other countries might emulate our examplerepeated U.N. negotiations demonstrate the small likelihood of that outcome.",4_1
Editor's note: Roger Bezdek coauthored this piece.,0_0
"Ordinarily, she added, without fresh air coming in, it would become harder and harder for living things to thrive, ???yet in the case of the corals in Palau, we??re finding the opposite. Coral cover and diversity actually increase from the outer reefs into the Rock Islands.??",3_2
Learn more:The strange silence about climate policy and the looming apocalypse,0_0
"To produce that biofuel, we're also using massive quantities of pesticides, fertilizers, fossil fuels and water. The U.S. Department of Energy calculates that fracking requires 0.6 to 6.0 gallons of fresh or brackish water per million Btu of energy produced. By comparison, corn-based ethanol requires 2,500 to 29,000 gallons of fresh water per million Btu of energy and biodiesel from soybeans consumes an astounding and unsustainable 14,000 to 75,000 gallons of water per million Btu!",0_0
"These include small airborne particles known as aerosols from volcanic eruptions that have a cooling effect as they reflect sunlight back into space; the impact of the regular cycle of solar activity; the sensitivity of the climate to greenhouse gases, and the way the oceans absorb heat.",0_0
"""That wasn't the only nonsensical idea he presented,"" the scientists told me.",0_0
"It seems that each side felt there were things that they could not afford to lose and last year's bill contained them. On the Republican side, as well as certain measures to promote affordable energy, there was the consideration of giving the President some sort of energy bill to sign. On the Democrat side, Minority Leader Tom Daschle (S.D.) had already written to the President suggesting that the energy bill was dying and asking for some form of bill mandating the expanded use of ethanol as a gasoline additive. Clean Air Trust director Frank O'Donnell accused Daschle in an article for TomPaine.com on Aug. 5 of putting the price of corn (from which ethanol is manufactured) above environmentalist concerns.",0_0
"The standstill is a reality and is not the result of cherry-picking start and end points. Its commencement can be seen clearly in the data, and it continues to this day, said Dr David Whitehouse, the author of the new report.",0_0
"The July 2008 package is a stepping stone on the way to concluding the Doha Round. Consultations took place among a group of ministers representing all interests in the negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland, from Jul. 21 to Jul. 30, 2008.",0_0
"The precision achieved by the most advanced generation of radiation budget satellites is indicated by the planetary energy imbalance measured by the ongoing CERES (Clouds and the Earths Radiant Energy System) instrument (Loeb et al., 2009), which finds a measured 5-yr-mean imbalance of 6.5Wm 2 (Loeb et al., 2009). Because this result is implausible, instrumentation calibration factors were introduced to reduce the imbalance to the imbalance suggested by climate models , 0.85Wm 2 (Loeb et al., 2009).",0_0
"As researchers have come to a better understanding of the workings of climate, the projections have changed substantially. For example, the middle-range estimates of global temperature increase over the next 100 years from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have dropped significantly, from 3.3 C in 1990 to 2 C in the 1995 report.18",0_0
"Several bills related to global warming are being promoted on Capitol Hill. The most recent is the Administration's package of energy efficiency taxes, introduced by Rep. Bob Matsui (D-Cal.). The bill is a $3.6 billion plan to give tax breaks to consumers who buy energy efficient homes, cars, water heaters, and rooftop solar systems. It also encourages the use of other renewable energies (U.S. Newswire, June 29, 1990).",0_0
"Of course, there's nothing new about actors taking political stands. It's been going on at least since John Wilkes Booth. But lately the whole thing seems to have reached a new level. Just look at the last election. Carl Sagan would have had trouble counting the stars in Gore's campwhich included Cher, Ben Affleck, Martin Sheen, Whoopi Goldberg, and many more.",0_0
"Pauses as long as 15 years are rare in the simulations, and we expect that warming will resume in the next few years, the Hadley Centre group writes. Researchers agree that no sort of natural variability can hold off greenhouse warming much longer.",1_4
"The article, by Walter Pincus and R. Jeffrey Smith, purported to summarize the conclusions of a report by the Pentagon's inspector general, beginning with the news that..",0_0
"As a footnote, an impact with the ice sheet and its catastrophic effects could explain the other primary explanation of the source for the Younger Dryas. An asteroid strike leaving one or more craters in the Great Lakes area could have resulted in a rush of fresh water flowing either north into the Arctic or out the St Lawrence Seaway and shutting down the North Atlantic conveyor transporting heat from the equator. Thus, the two theories would merge into a progressive explanation of the sudden cooling, its long duration and the deaths of the megafauna.",0_0
News: Rumors denied by the Fermilab's spokesgirl,0_0
"As the models have improved, the amount of predicted global warming has gone down. In 1990, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), using then state-of-the-art models, forecast a 3.2 C warming by 2100. In 1995, the IPCC lowered that forecast to 2.0 C.",5_1
"Back in February 2009, when everyone thought a deep depression was imminent, Keynesian economists and their political boosters demanded big government spending. According to their calculations, a timely, targeted, and temporary infusion of taxpayer money would defibrillate our moribund economy, the growth of which would make the trillion-dollar price tag seem like small potatoes. It was elementary!",0_0
"""Since there is no permanent disposal facility, spent fuel from the nation's nuclear reactors""enough to fill a football field 17 meters deep' according to a 2012 Government Accountability Office reportis currently being stored at dozens of above-ground sites. The GAO expects the amount of radioactive waste to double to 140,000 by 2055 when all of the currently operating nuclear reactors are retired.""",0_0
"Top: Mann/IPCC view, bottom historical view",0_0
"The Houston Chronicle editorial page is one of the most biased in the nation when it comes to climate alarmism and associated public-policy activism. And it maintained that unenviable reputation with last Sundays op-ed, Cap-and-Trade-Off .",5_2
Czech army physician returns NATO medals,0_0
"5) Because of environmental issues, and the fact that it is not carbon free anyway, biomass is regarded as only a short term solution, and it seems unlikely there will be any more significant expansion beyond those already planned.",0_0
Evie Hudak resigns: Colorado state senator avoids recall election The Denver Post,0_0
"This post addresses why they peak at that time. But in order to show it, we have to discuss sea surface temperatures, not anomalies. Keep that in mind, please.",0_0
This makes it pretty useless to the great unwashed who still have not worked out how to program their video recorders.,0_0
"It is well known that Enron was a keen enthusiast for limits on carbon dioxide emissions under the aegis of a cap and trade scheme, which would enable companies to trade permits for the right to emit carbon dioxide. Enron documents released to the public reveal that executives thought such restrictions would, ""do more to promote Enron's business than almost any other regulatory initiative outside of restructuring the energy and natural gas industries in Europe and the United States."" We can now see why. In Europe, such a scheme has been introduced, and the energy companies and their advisers are very happy.",0_0
"THE WORD religion is often used, rather effectively, to demonise a category of people who hold a strong conviction about something and propose to translate that belief into action. Global warming is a new religion and blasphemy against that religion is not a laughing matter, Lord Lawson has said, adding that there is a great gap in Europe with the decline of any real belief in Marxism and any real belief in Christianity. This has filled the vacuum.",5_2
"Ocean Currents : Are the major ocean currents, such as the THC (Thermohaline Circulation), understood? Well we do know a lot about them ??? we know where they go and how big they are, and what is in them (including heat), and we know much about how they affect climate ??? but we know very little about what changes them and by how much or over what time scale. In summary ??? Understood? No. Contribution in the models : 0%.",5_1
"Carbon capture project is a big risk, says SSE boss",0_0
Check out the latest from the Salt Guru about the claim that 2.3 million die annually because of their dietary salt intake.,0_0
"Herein lies an opportunity "" for Republicans "" who should recognize that Democrats are overreaching. It s not simply that Democrats are missing the big issue "" the feverish rise of health-care costs "" but that they are prescribing a series of unhelpful measures.",0_0
"The Natural Resources Defense Council, for instance, was able to get an injunction on the U.S. Navy's use of ship-tracking sonar technology in training exercises because the noise allegedly disturbed whales and dolphins, and this adversely affected NRDC members' ""scientific, recreational, and ecological interests."" (The injunction would be later be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in Winter v. NRDC.) And in Massachusetts v. EPA, the Bay State was able to get standing for its suit to require the Environmental Protection Agency to limit carbon-dioxide emissions because of alleged injuries to the state in terms of land that would be lost because of global warming in approximately 100 years.",0_0
"The above chart plots the NOAA/NCDC U.S. dataset decade-end temperature changes, including the change over the 10-year period ending 2013. Stating the perfectly obvious, the infamous consensus experts' ""unequivocal"" warming is anything but. In spite of massive human CO2 emissions, a recent state of cooling changes dominate in the U.S. (see last two blue columns).",1_4
Lord Monckton said: ?The entire monthly satellite temperature record since January 1979 is 422 months long. For almost the entire second half of the record ? 210 months ? there has been no global warming.?,1_4
A British father has reportedly found copies of an unreleased Harry Potter novel in a field in southern England.,0_0
"18) How Important are Computerized Climate Models? I consider climate models as being our best way of exploring cause and effect in the climate system. It is really easy to be wrong in this business, and unless you can demonstrate causation with numbers in equations, you are stuck with scientists trying to persuade one another by waving their hands. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that climate models will ever produce a useful prediction of the future. Nevertheless, we must use them, and we learn a lot from them. My biggest concern is that models have been used almost exclusively for supporting the claim that humans cause global warming, rather than for exploring alternative hypotheses ? e.g. natural climate variations ? as possible causes of that warming.",5_1
Many of the devastating floods that occur in parts of Southeast Asia are also associated with typhoons or tropical systems. See the typhoon section for more information.,0_0
Buy Climate Hustle on DVD or Blu-ray now!,0_0
"Epstein's book is more than just philosophical opinion. It is based on documented facts regarding fossil fuel use. At one point he quotes Paul Ehrlich who, in his 1968 book, The Population Bomb, declared that ""the battle to feed humanity is over."" Epstein notes that in 1968 the world's population was 3.6 billion people. ""Since then it has doubled, yet the average person is better fed than he was in 1968. This seeming miracle was due to a combination of the fossil fuel industry and genetic science "" Farming today is mechanized and that requires fuel!",0_0
"""When the sea of societal ills is so shallow that ""phone calls I don't like"" is scraped from the bottom and added to the legislative agenda, when the public tolerance for disagreeable things has dropped so low that ""I have to hold my breath"" is a complaint worthy of the commiseration of 100,000 radio listeners, we have a problem.""",0_0
"Quoting the six scientists, ""among the 35 CGCMs, 14 models erroneously produce an upwelling dome in the eastern half of the basin whereas the observed Seychelles Dome is located in the southwestern tropical Indian Ocean."" In addition, they report that ""the annual mean Ekman pumping velocity in these models is found to be almost zero in the southern off-equatorial region,"" which finding, as they describe it, ""is inconsistent with observations, in which Ekman upwelling acts as the main cause of the Seychelles Dome.""",5_1
"The oil spill, of course, has even broader implications than climate change. There will be major economic fallout, which will add substantially to government costs for disaster relief and to ameliorate the economic effects of the spill, especially if it spreads across the Gulf and potentially up the East Coast. This will add to deficits for this year and next and make the budget plans for both chambers more complicated. And if, as some experts fear, the economic costs will be substantial and sustained, it could create another dip in the economy, requiring possibly another stimulus.",0_0
"Secondly, as I said in my talk, but as Abraham very carefully failed to point out in his, both sides of this particular argument have been carefully heard in the impartial forum of the British High Court. The British Government, unsuccessfully attempting to defend Gore on this point, had eventually been compelled when confronted with what the IPCC actually says about several millennia to concede that Gore's 20 feet of sea-level rise was a flagrant exaggeration.",0_0
"The Democratic party is comfortable talking about the issue and well positioned to address it. In some ways, the current debacle seems to vindicate their failed efforts of the early 1990s. Moreover, the party is by far the more trusted in this area: In the last Wall Street Journal/NBC poll on issues, Americans choose Democrats on health care over Republicans by a 37-percent margin (the largest gap on any issue, save global warming). Which is why Barack Obama "" and every other Democrat "" is talking about health care again.",0_0
"The model mean does not present that additional warming in the North Atlantic, which indicates that the recent additional warming of the North Atlantic has occurred naturally; that is, the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation is not a process forced by factors that are used to make the oceans warm in the models. Well discuss and illustrate this later in this post.",0_0
"Now, after the Clean Power Plan was announced, Abengoa is trying revive a project that previously failed to pass permitting in time to qualify for subsidies. With more money available, it likely wants the additional funding the Palen Solar Power Project would provide.",0_0
"The black line, on the other hand, is the change in downwelling radiation expected from the change in CO2 from 2000 to 2012, calculated at 21 W/m2 per doubling of CO2. As you might imagine because of its steady increase, there is little difference between the CO2 data and the CO2 trendline, so Ive left it off. For the same reason, there is virtually no error in the trend in downwelling radiation expected from CO2. The result is an expected increase in downwelling surface radiation of no less than 1.6 0.007 W/m2 per decade. Over the period of the CERES data, it totals almost 2 W/m2, which in terms of the precision of the individual CERES datasets should certainly be visible.",0_0
"Palls of smoke can still be seen billowing from the premises , which are based at the former Hepworth ironworks off the A616.",0_0
"Lost in this arithmetic is the reality that anything is toxic in too large a dose, including salt and sunlight. ?The dose makes the poison,? as Paracelsus told us 500 years ago.",0_0
SEIU Local 1000 exec argues for contract ratification:,0_0
"This diminishing influence of a new CO2 molecule over time is actually a function of known climate physics - the logarithmic effect of carbon dioxide. Essentially, from lab testing it was determined that increasing levels of CO2 caused a diminishing returns effect, which is better described here .",2_3
"I caught up with Fayyad on a Saturday morning in the village of Salfit, high in the hills east of Nablus. Accompanied by a caravan of perhaps a dozen vehicles, he was hopping from one small village to another, announcing government grants and sharing his hopes for better times ahead. He invited me to join him for the return drive to Ramallah.",0_0
"Raymond had ""an unabashed skepticism about the potential of alternative energy sources like wind and solar."" He saw ""Spending shareholders' money to diversify into businesses that aren't yet profitableand that aim to solve a problem his scientists believe may not be significant""",0_0
tan beta := H 0 u / H 0 d,0_0
Yet the videos have things in them I cant explain. Too many folks wiping a tear from dry eyes. Laughing until on camera to a camera that was already on. A photo that sure looks like the wrong dead girl quite alive on Obamas knee,0_0
"So, the simple question for Miliband is where will this back up come from, if not gas or other fossil fuels? Demand management, where heavy industrial users are paid to switch off during periods of high demand, may save a small amount of energy, but it is unlikely to be much. DECC statistics show that electricity supplied to all of industry in 2013 was 98TWh, which would equate to 11GW. Many of these are not heavy users, and others will not find it appropriate to join the scheme, so it is hard to see more than a couple of GW being shaved off at times of high demand. This would be a useful balancing tool for emergencies, but is no answer to the fundamental lack of reliable capacity.",0_0
"Climate change also had a role in Spains drought and torrential New Zealand rains, though natural weather variation was a leading culprit in each case, and no strong connection was found in other prominent 2012 weather events such as the US drought.",1_7
"Although ""sovereignty"" has many often contradictory meanings, for Americans, the idea is actually quite straightforward: Sovereignty rests in the Constitution's opening phrase ""We the People,"" meaning our control over our own government.",0_0
World Bank Climate Change web site,0_0
"Yes, that is ""the real question,"" and apparently, BP got the answer. Without subsidies, renewables cannot compete and so BP is bailing. Addressing wind energy's future, Amy Grace, a New York-based analyst at New Energy Finance, said: ""There's limited visibility beyond 2014 about what the assets will be worth as a tax credit supporting turbines is set to expire at the end of this year.""",0_0
"It made perfect sense. The Czech industry was screwed after 42 years of communism. Cheap labor has been the main comparative advantage that the Czechs had and the wages are still substantially lower than those in Germany. But can this paradigm of a ""cheaper sister"" work permanently? The evidence that VW simply shouldn't treat koda in this way is accumulating at a quick rate.",0_0
"We tend to be warmer than normal with less snow in the mountains (and much less snow in the lowlands). Less stormy. The good thing is that a typical strong El Nino year generally has more snow than the freaky year we just finished. But this is not good news for ski areas. On the positive side, El Nino years tend to bring more precipitation than normal to central and southern California. And guess what? The latest NOAA CFS model is showing exactly that for next October through December (see below).",0_0
71% Of The US Has Been Below Normal Temperature Over The Past Year,1_3
"""You would think that someone who is so sensitive about people criticizing or defaming himself, that he would be very careful about defaming and insulting others. Sometimes it seems like Mann spends half his day suing people for defaming him, and then the other half of his day defaming others on Twitter.",0_0
"All of the above addresses the two issues mentioned at the beginning. First, global climate models on average depict a relationship between the surface and upper air that is different than that observed, i.e. models depict an amplifying factor into the upper air that is greater than observed. Secondly, the average climate model depicts the warming rate since 1979 as much higher than observed with increasing discrepancies as the altitude increases (which is consistent with the first issue).",5_1
"But the risks of the cynical game were becoming apparent. To the populist Tea Party voters whose anger had carried the GOP to those majorities, the promises made to them by these leaders that Republican majorities in the House and Senate could bring Barack Obama to his knees, repeal Obamacare and Dodd-Frank, and blow up government as we knew it were starting to appear hollow. Whether through weakness or perfidy, the Republican establishment, by stirring up the base and fomenting rage among its voters, did betray the trust given it by those voters.",0_0
"How not to measure temperature, part 92 surrounded by science",0_0
"Government, however, can only play a supporting role. Private investments, private insurers and individual homeowners' need to take the lead in helping Florida ride out the coming storms.",0_0
Denmark ready to scrap offshore wind farms due to cost,0_0
"To mention just one flaw, Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act, the CPP's putative statutory basis, authorizes EPA to regulate ""particular"" ""stationary sources,"" not the wider marketplace, networked industry, or sector of which a source happens to be a part. Yet the CPP will compel states to revise their laws and regulations on electric dispatch policy, fuel mix policy, and demand-management policy.",0_0
"Significant centennial-length trends in the zonal SST and SLP gradients rivaling those estimated from observations and model simulations forced with increasing CO 2 appear to be inherent features of the internal climate dynamics simulated by all three models. Unforced variability and trends on the centennial time scale therefore need to be addressed in estimated uncertainties, beyond more traditional signal-to-noise estimates that do not account for natural variability on the centennial time scale.",2_1
"the Obama budget. In his first months in office, Franklin Roosevelt concentrated",0_0
"A thoughtful, quietly-spoken German was almost in tears.",0_0
"Whilst there is a general hysteria of global warming, increasing temperature and rising sea level, new records from Antarctica indicate the opposite: a significant increase in the extent of sea ice over the last 30 years (in the order of 1 million square km) and a decrease in sea surface temperature south of Lat. 60S (in the order of 0.4 C).",1_1
"Earlier this year, in South Sudan, I saw thousands of starving people suffering from war wounds, malaria, meningitis, hepatitis, vitamin deficiencies, cholera, and other diseases. Here in Uganda, I see hundreds trying to survive and recover from these diseases, heart attacks, diabetes, kidney failure, and cancer, receiving little or no medication and terribly inadequate care in hospitals and clinics that are falling apart and don't even have window screens or safe running water.",0_0
Workers Deserve the Right to Remain SilentBy Jack Mann,0_0
"The new EPA regulations are set to go into effect on Jan. 2, 2011. Read more on the EPA Tailoring Rule Read more on global warming at Globalwarming.org.",0_0
"Perhaps natural gas can displace petroleum-based fuels as the main transportation energy source. As Robert Bryce explains , new discoveries of vast resources, new technologies for tapping them, and the inherent physical superiority of natural gas presage a growing market share of transportation sector without subsidies becausewell, because its technologically superior, cheaper, and cleaner.",4_5
"The NRC report was more of a peer review than an independent assessment. Another potential ""Team B"" effort one might point to is the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, an offshoot of the U.S. Global Change Research Project, an ambitious national attempt to push ahead with research on a broad range of environmental issues related to climate. This in an interagency effort combining the talents of thirteen federal agencies from the Pentagon and Department of Agriculture to the Smithsonian Institution. It will undoubtedly produce important work and has already produced several policy assessments of climate issues.",0_0
"The IPCC report has failed to report on the implications of the real world radiative imbalance being significantly smaller than the radiative forcing. This means not only that the net radiative feedbacks must be negative, but they failed to document the magnitude in Watts per meter squared of the contributions to positive feedbacks from surface warming, and from atmospheric water vapor and clouds.",3_1
Review of Recent Scientific Articles by CO2 Science,0_0
"on Wednesday, December 29th, 2010 at 2:03 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Look again at that tiny Biomass, other line at the top. That is what would need to be expanded to be as large as the coal, oil, and natural gas lines combined. The compound rate of growth required to do that in any reasonable time period would be staggering. It just wont happen.",4_4
"This just showed up in my inbox. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), savior of climate legislation , says yesterday that (see video above), What I'm trying to do is make sure that the Markey-Waxman bill from the House is dead. Because it will have about an 800 dollar individual cost per person ... Expect clarifications soon.",4_1
Stories citing experts or the latest studies promoting alarmism get covered more than 8 times as often as critical experts and studies.,5_2
"As You Sow also filed a resolution to pressure cosmetic manufacturer Avon to stop using manmade ingredients in its products. Though the product ingredients are FDA-approved, As You Sow proceeded with its resolution as if the ingredients were untested and indisputably harmful. Needless to say, an overwhelming majority of shareholders (96 percent) voted against the resolution.",0_0
"Britain may have enough offshore shale gas to catapult it into the top ranks of global producers, energy experts now believe, and while production costs are still very high, new U.S. technology should eventually make reserves commercially viable.",4_5
"The world has warmed 0.05 degrees Celsius (0.09 degrees Fahrenheit) per decade over the past 15 years, a fraction of the 0.2C (0.36F) per decade rate confidently predicted by the U.N. six years ago, according to a leaked copy of the foremost climate report in the world.",5_1
"Anyway, I plotted Manhattan sea level versus GISS global temperature anomaly for the period 1893 to 1910, to make this relationship clear.",0_0
"China outperforms India in both of the main economic subindices because it provides greater economic certainty to investors, receiving far more foreign direct investment than India. Still, the over-all index implies that trouble is brewing for China as it loses out to India in all other subindices, especially in its lack of democracy and personal freedom. Consequently, this places India forty-fifth in the rankings, while China is a lowly seventy-fifth. Brazil does a bit better than India (forty-first) and Russia a bit better than China (sixty-ninth). Like China, Russia fails on indices related to freedom.",0_0
"Evidence is quickly mounting against the idea that Antarctic melt will contribute to global sea level rise during the 21st century. In fact, the real debate might be concerning the degree to which an increase in mass balance on Antarctica will counterbalance melt elsewhere across Earth.",1_1
"In his 15-minute segment, Pederson accused Murphy of breaching journalistic ethics in a July 24, 2009, Globe and Mail column entitled ""So where's that global cooling alert?"" Murphy's crime? He ignored what Pederson considers the global warming ""facts."" Pederson's point was that a newspaper columnist can have whatever opinions he/she wants, but these opinions must be based on facts, not just ideology. As a former columnist myself, for the Times Colonist, I also believe this is true.",0_0
"No hurricanes have made landfall in the US for over two years. In 1933, five hurricanes struck the US.",1_7
"with the most pronounced warming obviously in the Arctic, in stark contrast to the DMI data and the NASA/GISS Greenland Godthab weather station (graphs above, which is the only station in operation for Greenland during the entire 1881-2009 period)(the second longest running Antarctic station Angmagssalik also shows no significant change in temperature 1895-2009).",0_0
"* Polar bears are drowning because a warming planet is melting the Arctic. Fact: Four bears drowned during a particularly violent storm, and polar bear populations are actually increasing in Alaska and Canada.",3_2
"There are too many hysteric screeds written against men, blaming them for everything from climate change to a bad hair day. This essay is not meant to join those ranks. What it is, is an essay, an attempt, to understand cultural features of our present society that seem to make both men and women treat society itself as one great big scam, joke, or horror. The very surfaces of that culture, in things as seemingly harmless or trivial as clothes and workout regimens, tell a troubling tale of deep boredom and unhappiness.",0_0
"For example, a very recently discussed paper by German and Russian climatologists claims that it's normal for the climate to oscillate in the observed way at this place of the glaciation cycle, before a new ice age arrives: Register , paper .",1_2
"To show how wrong Murphy had been, Pederson presented a PowerPoint slide showing that, contrary to Murphy's column, July 2009 was quite hot in most of the planet, and suggestedto audience laughterthat Murphy was foolishly guilty of assuming the weather in Toronto represented the world. Below is the map Pederson used, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) website.",0_0
"Sorry, that's not good enough even for government work.",0_0
"The heliosphere, and the termination shock sphere within it, deflects cosmic radiation. The Earths geomagnetic field also deflects cosmic radiation. The strength of the heliosphere depends on the Suns activity levels. High levels of solar activity reduce the volume of cosmic rays entering the Earths atmosphere, contributing to global warming. High levels of solar activity generate more turbulence in the heliosphere scattering galactic cosmic rays before they reach the inner planets. Conversely, a greater volume of cosmic rays enter our atmosphere during times of low solar activity because the Heliospheric magnetic fields are smoother with less scattering of galactic cosmic rays, resulting in global cooling.",2_1
Large Number Of Dead Whales Wash Up. Offshore Windpark Construction May Be The Cause,0_0
But everyone who knows anything about climate history agrees that it is warmer now than in the mid-nineteenth century. Otherwise we would still be in the Little Ice Age.,0_0
"At any rate, David did a very good job - although he finally admitted that he had to sweat a lot because of all these questions. David also asked a question to Frank Wilczek: What are you working on now because we're not interested in all this past nonsense that you did to be awarded by the Nobel prize. OK, the wording was a bit different. ;-) Would you expect such a focus on the most up-to-date issues from a classicist? Miracles occur in this world.",0_0
"THE MISSING INGREDIENT: WHY 99% OF THUNDERSTORMS DO NOT PRODUCE TORNADOES Ive been trying to think of why some might assume a warmer climate would produce more tornadoes, and I suspect the main reason is that tornadoes are produced by thunderstorms, and thunderstorms require warm, moist air for fuel. Ergo, warming should lead to more tornadoes.",0_0
"This fantasy is so bizarre that Jonathan Swift could, using statements from today?s Royal Society without embellishment, write them into his account of the kingdom of Laputa. The citizens of Laputa lived on a cloud and threw rocks at rebellious surface cities beneath them. Using Laputa as a satire on the Royal Society, Swift portrayed the ruin brought about by the attempts by the scientists living in the clouds to impose their will on the helpless people living below them.",0_0
"Attribution of observed impacts in the WGII AR5 generally links responses of natural and human systems to observed climate change, regardless of its cause.",0_0
"Pansch et al . report that over a period of 20 weeks, the survival, growth, reproduction and shell strength of Kiel barnacles ""were all unaffected by p CO 2 , regardless of food availability,"" and that ""larval development and juvenile growth of the F1 generation were tolerant to increased p CO 2 , irrespective of parental treatment."" In contrast, they report that ""elevated p CO 2 had a strong negative impact on survival of Tjarno barnacles,"" with specimens from this population being ""able to withstand moderate levels of elevated p CO 2 over five weeks when food was plentiful,"" but which ""showed reduced growth under food limitation."" In addition, they found that ""severe levels of elevated p CO 2 negatively impacted the growth of Tjarno barnacles in both food treatments."" What it means",3_2
Dr Jan Esper is Prof. Dr. at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz,0_0
"Save the date. The Cooler Heads Coalition is sponsoring a seminar on ""The Impacts of Global Warming: a Scientific Appraisal"" from 10 AM to 1:30 PM on Monday, May 3. Speakers include: Paul Reiter of the Pasteur Institut on vector-borne diseases, Nils-Axel Morner of Stockholm University on sea-level rise, and Madhav Khandekar recently retired from Environment Canada on storms and severe weather events. Further details will appear in the next issue. For information, please contact Myron Ebell at (202) 331-2256 or mebell@cei.org.",0_0
"It is difficult to believe that any self-respecting scientist would have anything to do with the Climate Witness Panel after reading those eight pages. The WWF states baldly, right up front, that the purpose of the panel is to heighten the publics sense of urgency . That particular phrase is used four times on the final page.",5_2
"Whitman defended her environmental record and the program. Spokesman Joe Martyak praised the program as a voluntary effort ""designed to achieve air quality benefits earlier and at a lower cost than conventional approaches .The most important thing is that, both as the governor as well as the administrator of EPA, she's sought creative ways to reduce the air pollution out there"" (Newark Star-Ledger, September 17, 2002).",0_0
"Clearly from his chart one sees the millennial cycles that coincide with documented solar activity. And as Dr. Sebastian Lning showed yesterday in Chicago, we are not talking about fluctuations of a couple of tenths of a degree, but of fluctuations over 1, 2 or even 3C.",2_1
"As previously reported the 2003 European heat wave was statistically unusual and was a deep tropospheric phenomenon. However,",0_0
What the EPA is attempting to impose on America is a drain on our production of electricity coupled with an increase in its price. It is an obscene attack on our economy.,0_0
As we are testing EIR with the other climate audit org request relating to,0_0
NOAA's adjustments to previous ocean temperatures between 1998 and 2012 made recent global temperature changes appear more than twice warmer than the original records showed.,0_0
"As I have discussed before, the IPCCs neglect of natural variability in the climate system ends up leading to circular reasoning on their part. They ignore the effect of natural cloud variations when trying to diagnose feedback, which then leads to overestimates of climate sensitivity . This, in turn, causes them to conclude that increasing carbon dioxide concentrations alone are sufficient to explain global warming, and so no natural forcings of climate change need be found.",5_2
"SM: Well, this might not be too pleasing to some of your readers, but I'm not an unmitigated Clinton-basher. Let's face it, the eight years that Bill Clinton was president were some of the most prosperous years in American history.",0_0
"As the CO 2 content of the air rises, it is still unclear as to how antioxidizing enzymes in sugar maple seedlings will respond to the uptake of ozone, as some specific antioxidants exhibit increases in their activities while others display decreases. Likewise, without any photosynthetic or growth data, it is difficult to determine whether or not changes in antioxidizing enzymes are truly occurring to the benefit or the detriment of the plant. Thus, further research is needed to reach any solid conclusions on this topic with respect to sugar maple seedlings. However, elevated CO 2 has been demonstrated to decrease oxidative stress in other species (see our Journal Reviews on the Effects of Lifetime Exposure to Elevated CO 2 on Antioxidative Enzymes in Mature Oak Trees and the Effects of Elevated CO 2 and Nitrogen Supply on Antioxidative Enzymes in Beech Seedlings ).",3_3
"In the words of Fiorini et al ., ""our results confirm that the expected 3??C increase in the present seawater temperature will not strongly affect the physiology of this eurythermal species,"" and that ""the effect of an elevated pCO 2 in seawater will not be significant on calcification or on the PIC:POC ratio in either life stage."" And this no real news is definitely real good news for life in the world's oceans.",3_2
"Obviously Rahmstorf and Mann are unable to come to terms with the results derived from real observed data, and thus feel compelled to create another reality based of very fuzzy, indirect data that can be interpreted as desired.",5_1
"I am not saying that the local temperature data are unaffected by such adjustments they surely are (and I guess that most examples mentioned by Chris Booker plus similar examples probably really mean that the ""historical chronicles"" give us a more accurate picture than the adjusted temperature records). But when we talk about the global mean temperature, the effect of all these adjustments seems negligible.",0_0
"RFK, Jr. Wants Me Jailed as a War Criminal!",0_0
"For a moment, idealization of the working man, but not the middle-class striver, came into vogue. But in the postwar years, what Siegel calls ""the political and cultural snobbery"" of liberals returned.",0_0
"From the known laws of physics, CO2 has very little impact on both recent past, and future, global temperatures. The science of CO2 impact on temperatures, as depicted in charts below, is not disputed. Source for CO2 info here .",2_3
"Renewable energy hucksters ignore all of this, as they seek more grants, tax credits, production mandates, feed-in tariffs, production tax credits, and guaranteed annual returns on investments. They seek to claim the high moral ground, by chanting ""renewable"" while ignoring the environmental, economic and human costs of capturing and delivering energy from their preferred sources.",0_0
"Regardless, for progressives such as Dewey, with the ultimate end the ultimate given, the means only needs to be deemed scientific for it to be justified. From this, it can be reasoned that progressives may willingly accept any means justified by science ( eugenics anyone? ). 4",0_0
"Hitherto economic analysis of climate change has concentrated on what the Kyoto Protocol compliance costs might be, a subject that is not part of the IPCC process at all, while most attention on the IPCC process has been directed to narrowing the uncertainties of the climate models themselves. An independent economic analysis of the front end of the climate change process would be a useful starting point for finance ministries or a Team B to enter the fray.",0_0
"Armed more with an ancient myth about a lost natural paradise, the critics of GMO are keeping billions in the developing world from enjoying the nutrition and adequate food that Western elites take for granted. As Borlaug said before his death, such critics have ""never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for fifty years, they'd be crying out for tractors and fertilizer and irrigation canals and be outraged that fashionable elitists back home were trying to deny them these things.""",0_0
"The pH needs to be less than 7 to be acid, and this has not happened through at least the past 600 million years because it would dissolve limestones, and limestone have been deposited in the sea and not re-dissolved in the sea through all that time.",3_2
"The trouble does not end there. Cook has been reluctant to share his data for others to scrutinize. He has claimed that some data are protected by confidentiality agreements, even when they are not. He was claimed that some data were not collected, even when they were. The paper claims that each abstract was read by two independent readers, but they freely compared notes. Cook and Co. collected data, inspected the results, collected more data, inspected the results again, changed their data classification, collected yet more data, inspected the results once more, and changed their data classification again, before they found their magic 97 percent. People who express concern about the method have been smeared.",5_2
"""China announced last week that it opened the world's longest sea bridge and added a line to the world's largest high-speed rail network. Meanwhile, on this side of the Pacific, the United States is struggling to address its crumbling roads and creaky bridges.""",0_0
"As James B. Conant points out in Science and Common Sense, ""The dynamic view in contrast to the static regards science as an activity; thus, the present state of knowledge is of importance chiefly as a basis for further operations. From this point of view science would disappear completely if all the laboratories were closed; the theories, principles, and laws embalmed in the texts would be dogmas; for if all the laboratories were closed, all further investigation stopped, there could be no re-examination of any proposition."" Conant himself opts for the dynamic viewbut just as in economics, Al Gore is the modern standard-bearer of the static view of what he calls science. But it's not science at allit's a government-driven research agenda designed merely to strengthen the hand of politicians at all levels of government in controlling economic and social activity.",0_0
"The idealizations of nature remain powerful today. Much of the leftist critique of globalized capitalism recycles with a veneer of Marxist theory the demonization of technology and industrialism that first appears in the myth of the Iron Age. ""All natural,"" ""organic,"" and ""no GMO"" are labels that savvy marketers use to sell food. And of course, the stock-in-trade of dystopian science fiction is the mad scientist whose unnatural creations threaten to destroy the earth and the human race.",0_0
"I did not propose the results of these sensitivity studies as an alternative and more robust chronology. I am not arguing that the Yamal versions using the Schweingruber data provide the correct climate history for the region. I am arguing that the version constructed by Briffa, and relied on so extensively in the literature since then, is not robust in its late-20th century portion to a small and reasonable inclusion of additional data.",0_0
"Washington, D.C., March 29, 2006The Competitive Enterprise Institute is calling on the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury to reconsider his comments made during an interview on the BBC yesterday about global warming. During the interview, the Right Reverend Rowan Williams said that Christians have a moral duty to support reductions in greenhouse gas emissions because if they do not, it could cause ""billions of people to die.""",0_0
"When starting with the problem of conserving energy input and output to the Earth, you can do it in terms of units of energy, in Joules, or you can try to do it in terms of energy flux density, in Joules per second per square meter. The problem is that averaging only works in terms of plain energy, in Joules, but not in energy flux density. If you say that, every second, 1.22 x 1017Joules enters and leaves the Earth, and you identify where it enters and leaves the Earth, then youre fine, youre acknowledging reality, and the flux densities explain the processes we see in reality, such as the water cycle.",0_0
"The US Midwest is having its coolest summer, after its second coldest winter on record. During the winter of 1932, the average temperature was above freezing.",1_3
Those professing concern for the poor need to realise that Green Energy steals from the biosphere and that hydrocarbons are the real friends of the poor.,4_5
"Greens say we need sustainable energy, but solar and wind are not the answer. The wind may blow for free and the sun may shine for free, but current technology to capture and convert those resources into energy needs public money at an unsustainable rate. It??s inconvenient, but it??s the truth.",4_4
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"Read here . Globally, scientists with solid empirical-based backgrounds are saying there are severe problems with many of the 2007 IPCC predictions. Namely, that many of the predictions are flat-out false based on the IPCC's political agenda , or wildly inflated by failed climate models.",5_2
"Heck I even find myself thinking I have no reason to think our government would not do this as a manufactured crisis for effect. That was not true 5, 10, or 15 years back. Id have just flushed the whole idea on the face of it. Now? Now there is no reason to assume there is no conspiracy. Agenda 21 proves that there is a conspiracy (though they dont call it that. It is called coordination instead Another of those irregular English verbs:",0_0
"A great number of coral populations across the globe have been steadily declining due to the adverse effects of climate change. The NOAA even recently recognized 20 different types of coralas threatened species due to notable decline. However, some coral have found themselves an ally. Mangroves appear to be harboring a great number of coral species, protecting them from things like ocean acidification and elevated temperatures.",3_2
"/s/ Dr. George Mueller Hdq., Assoc. Adm., Office of Space Flight, 6 years",0_0
"Issues: Minimum wage, organized labor, international trade.",0_0
"The answer is that they probably will. What both Obama and the Russians know is that Obama doesn't have an alternative. If the Russians break the deal, will Obama unleash massive American support for an anti-Assad offensive? No. Will the White House assemble a coalition of regional allies to bring the war criminals to justice? Nyet. Will the U.S. force Russia to pay some dire price on some other issue in world politics? Almost certainly not.",0_0
Range et al. (2012) : There is no evidence of carbon dioxide-related mortalities of juvenile or adult mussels even under conditions that far exceed the worst-case scenarios for future ocean acidification.,3_2
"$7,000 for repair of a small dent and scratch that required no replacement of parts",0_0
"""The airline pilot who lost his federally-issued gun and badge for posting video on YouTube critical of airport security has chosen to go public with his identity.""",0_0
Reagan was of course reelected in 1984 and is remembered as one of the great tax-cutters in American history.,0_0
"If there was no feedback (which would indicate a borderline unstable climate system), then the ocean heat content-inferred radiative imbalance (0.2 W m-2) would equal the forcing (0.8 W m-2), which it clearly doesn't since there is a 4x difference.",0_0
"And without the extra silt brought from floodwaters, the shallows are subject to erosion and breakup. This would clearly warp the fossil record, but would also warp the tidal gauge record as well; the sea would appear to be rising when in fact the land is sinking, being washed away.",0_0
"RICHLAND, Wash. -- Atmospheric scientists trying to pin down how clouds curb the amount of sunlight available to warm the earth have found that it depends on the wavelength of sunlight being measured. This unexpected result will help researchers improve how they portray clouds in climate models.",0_0
"Newcastle lies approximately 160 kilometres north of Sydney. Newcastle is the seventh largest city in Australia and is the largest city which is not a state or federal capital. It has a population of approximately 300,000. Newcastle was founded on 30th March 1804 as a penal settlement, so has a selection of buildings old by Australian standards, as well as beaches, surf, impressive coastal scenery, bushland and a well-known lake. It is also an important port, especially for the export of coal, of which resource some 70 million tonnes passes through the city annually.",0_0
"Climate data show us that, while areas near the edge of the Antarctic continent have briefly reached above the melting point of snow and ice, it is rare and only during summer months, for temperatures to exceed the melting point of snow and ice.",1_1
"No Keystone XL pipeline. On Friday, Nebraska's Supreme Court allowed the pipeline's construction to proceed. But neighboring South Dakota is starting over in its permitting process. South Dakota approved TransCanada's TRP, +2.08% application to build the pipeline in 2010, but the construction permit expired in June 2014. The process in South Dakota could be more time-consuming than in Nebraska.",0_0
"Europe has found it needs to keep fossil and nuclear plants equal to 90% of its ""renewable"" power capacityin spinning reserve and burning fuel. Otherwise, factories may have to shut down and stop lights will quit working, not to mention hospital operating rooms. The public thus must build and maintain two power systems, both using up energy but with the ""renewable"" set far more costly.",4_4
"The fact of the matter is that climate change impacts are very poorly known, he told BBC News.",5_1
"The paper also finds a negative trend in precipitable water vapor, as do other global datasets , again the opposite of predictions of AGW theory that warming allegedly from CO2 will increase precipitable water vapor in the atmosphere to allegedly amplify warming by 3-5 times. Is the unexpected decrease in water vapor the cause of the decrease in downwelling IR?",5_1
"Obviously the climate of the region over the last thousands of yearswas everything but stable. Significant fluctuations occurred and their pattern urgently needs to studied further. Only when the natural pattern and its driving factors are clear will it be possible to determine mans industrial impact after 1850. Currently, however, every change occurring is being attributed to man, which is completely unscientific because of the evidence of strong pre-industrial climate fluctuations.",2_1
"The $3 billion pledge to developing countries is subject to Congressional appropriations. In a statement from Inhofe's office, he vows to work with his colleagues ""to reset the misguided priorities of Washington in the past 6 years."" He says: ""The President's climate change agenda has only siphoned precious taxpayer dollars away from the real problems facing the American people.""",0_0
"In fact, as seen, the atmospheric humidity is decreasing over time while CO2 levels increase - the exact opposite of all climate model and ""consensus"" expert predictions.",5_1
"An innocent reader would presume that a Nature ???News Feature?? reporting on Met Office decadal forecasts would include the current Met Office decadal forecast. However, this proves not to be the case. Tollefson showed an older decadal forecast issued prior to the downward revision of the Met Office decadal forecast to which Whitehouse had drawn attention. Tollefson showed the multi-model mean from Smith et al 2012 (Clim Dyn), which has negligible difference from the 2011 Met Office decadal forecast. Had Tollefson shown the ???decline?? in the current decadal forecast, Nature would not have been able to make the same unequivocal headline.",5_2
2. Do you think human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures?,0_0
Senior Counsel Hans Bader explains Obama's strategy.,0_0
"Funny how skeptics are portrayed in the press as being in the pay of someone. We were the only unpaid people in the room. In fact most skeptic scientists are retired or from different fields, free from the corrupting influence of climate science funding. Many alarmist scientists and bureaucrats would lose their jobs or funding if the belief that carbon emissions were causing global warming died, yet wenot theyare accused of vested interests. Very odd.",5_2
"What was the Earth's temperature yesterday? Nobody knows. In fact, it's a ridiculous question. Almost every place on Earth today has a different temperature from that of any other location. So, is our planet's temperature rising? Do we even know?",5_1
"The Court also brushed this aside, lecturing the EPA on the need to make a start at correcting the problem and commanding action. It left the EPA an out in that the agency can decline to list carbon dioxide as an air pollutant only if it has a scientific basis for this choice.",0_0
"In fact, he has also said some nice words about Barack Obama. Despite Klaus's extremely meagre expectations and despite their diametrically opposite ideologies, Klaus was always immensely pleased and surprised by conversations with Obama.",0_0
"Its amazing to me when I hear Climate Change skeptics talk about the misinformation from those who believe it is happening, that its primarily caused by man, and that the consequences will be significant. What would be the motivation for so many scientists, the vast majority of scientists, far more educated and intelligent than either of us, to spread misinformation? Do you believe theyre just stupid? More so than you? Is there some economic benefit for them? Do you discount what all scientists say? Also, give me a breakan engineering degree does not in any way qualify you to be a climate expert. I work with a lot of engineers and you dont have to be that bright to get an engineering degree, especially from some no-name university. MIT, maybe, but not the ones you attended.",0_0
"There is general agreement that other air quality programs, in particular the National Ambient Air Quality Standards Program and the Title IV Acid Rain Program, have had far greater impacts on emissions. As EPA says:",0_0
"""Mr. Gingrich: Please spare us the explanations for your gullibility and poor political calculations. What ""solution' does anyone need to ""offer' to the alleged problem Gore presents? Please stop trying to spin your low IQ moment with Pelosi and Gore. It is embarrassing,"" says Marc Morano, founder of the watchdog news site Climate Depot.",0_0
"When the best the warmists can come up with is an appeal to authority, their case is lost for good. That's why, just a few days earlier, climate realists gathered in triumph on this side of the pondat a Heartland Institute climate-change conference in Chicago. Eminent scientists presented a wealth of evidence suggesting nature is, in fact, a much more powerful factor affecting the climate than man. That realism suggests the need for moderation when it comes to political action based on climate data.",2_1
"The incidents also make the recent proposal by the Danish government to generate half the nations power from wind within eight years, up from less than a quarter currently look all the more ambitious.",0_0
"At some level, this discussion may be just about the accuracy of effective theories we use to describe the phenomena. Pinker chooses the more microscopic, more reductionist viewpoint, as physicists would naturally do. That's the approach to describe the phenomena most accurately. (If Pinker were fully principled in this reductionist struggle, he would surely continue up to string theory instead of mentioning Lee Smolin's crackpot theory of Cosmic Natural Selection although the latter didn't really play a role in Pinker's model of the world.) Some other people may prefer more macroscopic, emergent and therefore less accurate, more social-scientific or humanities-oriented, and more metaphorical descriptions working with greater, more composite building blocks.",0_0
"Additionally, Southern Hemisphere Sea Ice Area Anomaly has been above the 1979 ??? 2008 Average for the last two years:",1_1
"Those trends are likely to continue. As former Mexico Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda explains in his recent book ""Manana Forever?"" most Mexicans are now in the Wal-Mart middle class or above.",0_0
Dennis Avery (cgfi@hughes.net) is senior fellow for climate change issues at The Heartland Institute.,0_0
Margot Wallstrom of Sweden has been promoted in the new European Union Commission to head the commission's communications efforts. She has been replaced as Environment Commissioner by Stavros Dimas of Greece.,0_0
"Agreement signed at Kingston September 21, 2004; entered into force September 21, 2004. With attachments.",0_0
modeling world will be able to get away with this much longer,0_0
"This chart is a real head-scratcher for scientists trying to prove a causal relationship between CO2 and global temperatures. By theory, temperature increases from CO2 should be immediate, though the oceans provide a big thermal sink that to this day is not fully understood. However, from 1880 to 1910, temperatures declined despite a 15ppm increase in CO2. Then, from 1910 to 1940 there was another 15ppm increase in CO2 and temperatures rose about 0.3 degrees. Then, from 1940-1979, CO2 increased by 30 ppm while temperatures declined again. Then, from 1980 to present, CO2 increased by 40 ppm and temperatures rose substantially. By grossly dividing these 125 years into these four periods, we see two long periods totaling 70 years where CO2 increases but temperature declines and two long periods totaling 55 years of both CO2 and temperature increases.",2_3
"The authors state that heavy metal pollution in agricultural soils is receiving ever more attention, citing Tang (2006) and the IPCC (2007), while noting that China possesses more than 130 km 2 of cadmium (Cd) contaminated soil due to wastewater discharge from mining operations and industrial emissions, citing Xiong et al . (2004) and Yu and Zhou (2009). And knowing of the ability of atmospheric CO 2 enrichment to enhance plant growth and increase the amounts of various substances they extract from the soil, they decided to conduct a study of the potential for this phenomenon to serve as a means of phytoremediation of Cd-contaminated soils .",3_3
"If the earths climate were really responding the way that climate models project it should, the warmest year on record would be announced about every other year (factoring in the observed level of natural variation in annual average temperatures).",5_1
"Our ability to quantify the human influence on global climate is currently limited because the expected signal is still emerging from the noise of natural variability, and because there are uncertainties in key factors. These include the magnitude and patterns of long term natural variability 36",5_1
WEB CAMERAS INDICATE HIGHWAY 20 ACROSS SHERMAN PASS IS SNOW COVERED THIS MORNING. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE MINOR...BUT THE LATE SEASON ACCUMULATION WILL PRODUCE WINTER DRIVING CONDITIONS ON SLIPPERY ROADS FOR TRAVELERS ACROSS SHERMAN PASS TODAY.,0_0
"Even this new, drastically-reduced estimate may well be excessive. The monthly Global Warming Prediction Index (Fig. 6), now adjusted to show the lower IPCC projections, still shows the prediction running hot compared with observed reality.",5_1
It would seem the Sierra Club and the American Lung Association have both shilled for the gas companies they claim to loathe. This hypocrisy may explain why the Sierra Club disavowed its relationship with Chesapeake Energy after Time published its expos.,0_0
"It says damage to the marine food chain will result from the increasing acidity of the oceans, but the oceans are pronouncedly alkaline and, in any event, estuarial studies show calcifying organisms such as corals thriving even along coasts where rainwater that is pronouncedly acid pours into the sea. The corals survived a 1000-year period 55 million years ago when the entire ocean actually became acid. But the Pope doesnt care.",3_2
"Prior to the media and climate panel, the organizers put out a call for written questions. I sent in several questions. They were not answered by the panel, nor do I expect that the answers to any of them would have been anything more than obfuscation. But, for the record, here they are. If anyone has a sensible response to any of them, I'd love to hear it.",0_0
"In a message dated 9/20/2007 4:06:58 AM Pacific Daylight Time,",0_0
"In a review article published in the Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science , Rattan Lal of the Carbon Management and Sequestration Center of Ohio State University (USA) introduces the subject of his concern by writing that ""the world is faced with the trilemma of climate change, food insecurity, and energy demand,"" because (1) ""there still are more than one billion food-insecure people in the world (FAO, 2009a,b),"" (2) ""the world food supply will have to be doubled between 2005 and 2050 (Borlaug, 2009) because of the increase in population and change in dietary preferences,"" and (3) ""the world energy demand is also increasing rapidly and is projected to increase by 84% by 2050 compared with 2005."" And what makes the problem even worse is the fact that in an attempt to meet the anticipated increase in the global demand for energy, ""the emphasis on biofuels is strongly impacting the availability of grains for food and soil resources for grain production.""",4_4
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on how the research is stacking up:,0_0
"Guest post by Peter Pavlsek, Variable Variability, Aug 11, 2015",0_0
"By the way, string theorist Leonhard Euler would celebrate the 306th birthday today.",0_0
"Jason Box of Denmark is todays featured climate fraudster, as he is one of the principals pushing the Greenland melting scam. Jason claims that 2015 was a big melt summer in Greenland",5_2
"Whats interesting is that if you leave Kelburn out of the equation, Thorndon in 1910 is not far below Airport 2010. Perhaps that gave NIWA some confidence that the two locations were equivalent, but Im betting Thorndon a hundred years ago was very different from an international airport now.",0_0
"Statistically there has been no change in the average annual temperature of the globe since 1997 meaning that the standstill is now 16 years. The latest five-year average of Hadcrut3 and Hadcrut4 data shows a decline for the first time. Can anyone now have any doubt that the recent warming standstill is a real event of crucial climatic importance? ???David Whitehouse, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 24 January 2013",1_4
"All along, CEI has warned the gas industry that it was playing directly into the hands of environmental special interests, for whom all hydrocarbonsnot just coalare considered dirty. Its an ancient strategy: Divide and conquer. Today, its the greens and gas taking down coal; tomorrow, it will be the greens taking down gas.",0_0
"It was during the conclusion of Lord Monckton's remarks Global Warming: The Trojan that Menaces Global Freedom when not a dry eye was left in the room. In a dramatic presentation, Monckton quoted Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Not only did Lord Monckton tear up, but so did his attentive and enraptured audience, as Monckton passionately intoned its final words: "". . .that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.""",0_0
is about +1.5 deg C above the 1961-90 average,0_0
"Part 1: Al Gore's movie, ""An Inconvenient Truth,' Debated on its 10th Anniversary at Heartland",0_0
"We have even more dramatic evidence of creatures moving to stay at the right temperatures from the city of York, England. Excavations under the city find that the nettle ground bug was common in York during the Roman occupation in the first century, and during the Medieval Warming. In between those warm times, it has typically been found in the much-warmer south of England.",3_2
"Kullman notes that the rapidity with which the observed ecosystem transformations have occurred ""contrasts with earlier assumptions and theoretical generalizations, stressing significant time-lags or inertial adaptations to changed climatic conditions."" Indeed, his results demonstrate the tremendous capacity for earth's vegetation to rapidly respond to climate change in dramatic ways that need not result in species extinctions, but that can lead to huge increases in ecosystem species richness, which is typically considered to be a desirable property of vegetative assemblages. References",3_2
"2. Although there was a significant number (84) of violent tornadoes in 2011 (which generated responses like this in the Washington Post that claimed a link to climate change), there were actually more violent tornadoes in both 1957 (99) and 1965 (98).",1_7
"Typhoon Thelma, October 1991. Thelma was one of the most devastating tropical systems to affect the Philippines this century. Reports indicated that 6000 people died by catastrophic events including dam failure landslides and extensive flash flooding. The death toll exceeded that of the Mt. Pinatubo eruption. The highest casualties occurred on Leyte Island where widespread logging in recent years had stripped the hills above the port city bare of vegetation.",0_0
"Today we gather to discuss climate change. We will be privileged to hear from venerable leading scientists and experts. I am confident that anyone listening to these experts with an open mind, anyone exmaning the mountains of scientific data and evidence surrounding this issue will conclude that no climate treaty should be signed in Copenhagen this December!",0_0
"David Parker, at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in Berkshire, says ultimately, British children could have only virtual experience of snow. Via the internet, they might wonder at polar scenes or eventually ""feel"" virtual cold.",0_0
"Santer17??s decision to treat this effect as ???weather noise?? that averages out over all model runs (or all possible realizations of earth weather between forced by these two specific volcanos ) will tend to make their method of testing hypotheses about model means too strict : Assuming the model for the noise is correctly chosen (i.e., the noise is AR1), assuming all deviations from a linear trend are ???noise?? when a large portion is ???signal??, will tend make it too difficult to reject models that are wrong .",5_1
Quote of the week Andrew Bolt nails Fakegate,0_0
"So, contrary to the Court's expectation, the Endangerment Rule teed up several ""extreme measures"": 1) an orders-of-magnitude increase in the number of firms subject to Clean Air Act permitting programs; 2) the application of complex and costly permitting requirements to small non-industrial facilities, contrary to Congressional intent; 3) an overloaded permitting system that blocks construction activity throughout the land; 4) a multi-billion dollar expansion of environmental agencies that State governments can ill-afford, or alternatively, 5) EPA amendment (""tailoring"") of ambiguous statutory language a blatant exercise of legislative power.",0_0
"This indisputable fact is the best evidence that atmospheric global warming is not having a measurable effect on Antarcticas ice sheets and glaciers, and that the western portion of the continent is losing mass solely from powerful geothermal processes.",2_1
"This is exactly what happened in the other global warming fantasy, The Day After Tomorrow (left). On the Right, we can see the Whitehouse being smashed by aliens. This kind image is used to inform us that the threat is to the order of the world. Our values, laws, institutions, organisations, and security are all threatened by whatever it is the science-fictionalist is writing about.",0_0
"These estimates are also always in flux. For example, in 1980, the United States was thought to have roughly 30 billion barrels of oil reserves. Over the subsequent 30 years, the U.S. produced nearly 80 billion barrels.",0_0
"There is no historical trend in either the frequency or intensity of hurricanes, as Roger Pielke Jr. has pointed out in academic publications. And yet global warming has been blamed for specific storms, such as Hurricane Katrina, in a manner that is frankly antithetical to the principles of science.",1_7
Study after study shows no increase in extreme weather events over the past century. Or even in the last decade. That changed in the last five years when activists realized you cant raise money without a good dose of fear.,1_7
"UPDATE : In addition, a recent paper published in the Journal of Glaciology finds that ice accumulation of the interior of Greenland has increased 10% over the past 52 years, offsetting runoff from some outlet glaciers along the periphery. According to the authors, ""this implies that the increased water vapor capacity of warmer air is increasing accumulation in the interior of Greenland.""",1_1
"I am on the Friends of the Earth (FOE) email list and receive a steady stream of theirs and the Sierra Club's lies about the environment. A recent FOE mailing stating that, ""Devastation from climate change has become all too frequent.""",0_0
"Finally, even the EPA rejects the proposition that PSD/BACT automatically applies to ?any? air pollutant emitted in quantities meeting the ?major? source thresholds.",0_0
"Mr. Monckton said: The solar physicists you might take Scafetta and West, say, in 2008, they attribute 69% of all the recent global warming to the sun.",2_1
"Of course, the authors ignore the fact that there has been no warming for at least a decade - while anthropogenic greenhouse gases have been increasing more rapidly. According to Philip Jones, the IPCC's guru on Global Temperatures, there hasn't been any significant global warming for 17 years!",1_4
"There is some merit to these comments. Our feckless Congress renewed renewable energy tax credits that subsidize implementation of EPA's so-called ""Clean Power"" Plan, which is the largest single component of Obama's emission-reduction pledge to the UN. It is also the case that what EPA has adopted via notice-and-comment rulemakings cannot be undone by the stroke of a presidential pen.",0_0
"Feldstein earlier noted that President ""Obama's biggest proposed tax increase is the cap-and-trade system of requiring businesses to buy carbon dioxide emission permits. . .CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf testified before the Senate Finance Committee on May 7 that the cap-and-trade price increases . . . would cost the average household roughly $1,600 a year, ranging from $700 in the lowest-income quintile to $2,200 in the highest-income quintile.""",4_1
Comparing this with this average variance between the raw data and the GISS Homogenised shows the closer fit if the adjustments to the variance. Please note the difference in scale on Chart 6 from the above!,0_0
"Secondly, notwithstanding my past advocacy of Logo gauge initialization of Patriot balls, it isimplausible that thetwo balls in the 0 psi group were initialized pregame with the Logo Gauge, since their implied temperature would be too warm. (They would move well above the corridor in the right panel.) If these two ballswere initialized with the Non-Logo gauge and not deflated, they fit nicely. So is there any evidence or record of two Patriot balls being treated differently? How about this:",0_0
"I have learned much from my friends who overlook my disabilities, like Tony Lupo of Missouri and Roy Spencer of Alabama.",0_0
"The United States currently has over 40,000 turbines, up to 570 feet tall and 3.0 megawatts in nameplate output. Unpredictable winds mean they generate electricity at 15-20% of this rated capacity. The rest of the time mostly fossil fuel generators do the work. That means we need 5 to 15 times more steel, concrete, copper and other raw materials, to build huge wind facilities, transmission lines to far-off urban centers, and backup generators than if we simply built the backups near cities and forgot about the turbines.",4_4
"A decade ago the free-market community, as well as lovers of honest journalism, lost a good friend with the passing of Warren Brookes. A similar blow has been struck recently with the untimely death of Ken Smith, deputy editorial page editor of the Washington Times. Ken, along with young journalists like Jeff Jacoby and John Stossel, did much to fill the gaping void left by Warren Brookes' death. Ken was only 44 when he succumbed to liver cancer in early July.",0_0
"Now, Brand has written a new book, called Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto , in which he takes on these environmental shibboleths in a more concerted fashion. On American Public Radios Marketplace program yesterday , hostKai Ryssdal discussed the new book with Brand. Asked what prompted him to write the book, Brand said that,",0_0
Consumers could take a hit from Fed's debit card swipe fee decision:,0_0
"The UAH figures do pick up the fact that Northern band is very slightly warmer than the Southern section, but seem to indicate that the GISS/GHCN surface temperature in Africa is so grossly overestimated as to be worthless. We already know that GISS temperature anomalies in the Arctic , which again are not based on anything remotely resembling a proper temperature record, are much higher than what is shown by UAH satellites. It is beginning to appear that the whole GISS Surface Temperature Record is now utterly unfit for purpose and irretrievably damaged.",5_1
6. When over-complex math is used to distort temperature trends resulting in exaggerated warming. Advocate.,5_1
"""McCain said that ""A cap-and-trade policy will send a signal that will be heard and welcomed all across the American economy.' This is unlikely since cap-and-trade's economic harms have been exposed and condemned by the likes of the Congressional Budget Office, the Environmental Protection Agency and renown economists such as Alan Greenspan and Arthur Laffer. Even the Clinton."" administration warned of the economic harms that would be caused by cap-and-trade",4_1
So IPCC is not the only organization using WWF pamphlets as authority.,0_0
Global cap-and-trade plan for aviation CO2 moves closer: EC,0_0
"This means that most (1.71/1.98 = 86%) of the upward trend in carbon dioxide since CO2 monitoring began at Mauna Loa 50 years ago could indeed be explained as a result of the warming, rather than the other way around.",2_3
"EPA is determined to make our air not merely safe or healthy, but pristine, with no human pollutants. Since 1970, US cars have reduced tailpipe pollutants by 99% and coal-fired power plants have eliminated 92% of their particulate, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions. That's still not enough, says EPA.",0_0
"This undoubtedly will shock readers, but the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has a tendency to shade the truth. And only in one direction. It seems ... drumroll, please! ... that the member governments have their own agendas and aren't above lying to the people to achieve their ends.",5_2
"Most of the Mussolini fans of the 1920s didn't really want a dictatorship in America, and any fair reader of Thomas Friedman's oeuvre knows that he doesn't want an authoritarian government here either; the word limit of his column apparently left him no space to regret the Chinese one-party autocracy's Internet censorship, forced sterilizations, imprisonment of political dissenters, and the like.",0_0
terms about the investment and aid resources Saudi Arabia and China were both,0_0
"Alex Cull on April 26, 2015 at 2:42 pm",0_0
"Junk ad hoc climate science has no rules other than confirmation bias, and keeping the funding stream alive.",5_2
"The four Chinese researchers report that elevated CO 2 by itself ""did not significantly affect net photosynthetic rate, stomatal conductance, chlorophyll content, the maximum quantum yield of photosystem II, or the effective quantum yield of photosystem II electron transport after 90 days of gas exposure."" But they did find that it increased growth . Elevated O 3 by itself, on the other hand, ""decreased growth, net photosynthetic rate and stomatal conductance after 90 days of exposure,"" but they say that ""its negative effects were alleviated by elevated CO 2 .""",3_3
"The latest UN IPCC report deleted all references to this temperature standstill from the Summary for Policy Makers, and eliminated an IPCC graph that revealed how every single climate model predicted that average global temperatures would be up to 1.6 F higher than they actually were over the past 22 years. IPCC bureaucrats politicized the science to the point of making their report fraudulent.",5_2
"And there were lots of similar examples. In the Summary for Policy Makers, the scientists had said ???It is extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010 was caused by the anthropogenic increase in greenhouse gas concentrations and other anthropogenic forcings together.?? The politicians did not like this, so they added a juicy version ???It is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.?? Suddenly ???more than half?? had morphed into ???dominant cause.?? That way, no one might be left with the idea that the scientists had actually said there was a reasonable chance that quite a lot of the warming was entirely natural.",5_2
"We may reasonably wonder why they feel compelled to endorse this view. The IPCC??s position in its Summary for Policymakers from their Fourth Assessment (2007) is weaker, and simply points out that most warming of the past 50 years or so is due to man??s emissions. It is sometimes claimed that the IPCC is 90% confident of this claim, but there is no known statistical basis for this claimit??s purely subjective. The IPCC also claims that observations of globally averaged temperature anomaly are also consistent with computer model predictions of warming.",5_1
"""The Treasury will issue net medium- and long-term debt of 47.2 billion euros ($62.04 billion) in 2011, down from 62.1 billion in 2010, the Economy Ministry said on Wednesday.""",0_0
paper shows that London and Vienna (and also New York) are not affected in the,0_0
"By August 23rd, 2006, we have seen 4 storms: Alberto, Beryl, Chris, Debby. Neither of them has been a hurricane - not even a small hurricane. Debby is the first one that at least has a chance to become a minimal hurricane on Sunday or so - but be sure that it won't become one. 2006 is not only milder than 2005 but also than 2004, 2003, and most other years. Right now, in the middle of the season, 2006 is below the average. December 2006 update : Indeed, it seems that the number of tropical storms (9) as well as hurricanes (5) as well as (minimal) major hurricanes (2) will stay below the average of 1950-2000. The season officially ended at the end of November. The absence of any tropical storms from the early October can be partially explained by a new El Nino.",1_7
"Replacing this power generation with wind and solar will disrupt grid reliability, risk brownouts and blackouts, and bankrupt many businesses, families, and communities.",4_1
"Ideally, because were interested in the additional variations of the North Atlantic sea surface temperatures above and beyond the rest of the global oceans, those are the two datasets that should be used to determine the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. That is, the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation should be calculated as the North Atlantic data minus the data for the rest of the global oceans. Again, for long-term evaluation, it presents the problem when there is little source data for the rest of the global oceans (in the early part of the datasets), but at least were not subtracting a portion of the North Atlantic data from the North Atlantic data.",0_0
The switch seemed to be sound strategy. ExxonMobil didn't agree.,0_0
"Abraham says I displayed two graphs, both citing NOAA as the source, showing the downward global mean surface temperature trend since 2001, but by an elaborate point-by-point comparison he shows that the two graphs are slightly different from one another. Why, he asks, can't I even make sure that my own data agree with themselves? His implication is that presenting temperature data is something that laymen really can't be expected to get right.",0_0
And you thought K Street was bad? Read the whole thing.,0_0
"Before war broke out in South Sudan in 2013, there was some stability and a lot of nongovernmental organizations, companies like Ford Motor Company, private investors and other people arrived to do business. Many thought they could earn good profits, and some succeeded.",0_0
"His inelegant attempt to have it both ways on the issue was on stark display last spring during the Yemen crisis, when he tried but failed to twist the facts to fit his fierce his fierce opposition to LNG exports should be blocked. ""These natural gas supply problems highlight the importance of developing the domestic infrastructure that would allow all Americans to benefit from the low-price, abundant and secure supplies of natural gas now being produced in the United States,"" he wrote to DOE chief Chu in an extended rant against LNG exports. ""I believe that using our domestically produced natural gas here in America to reduce our dependence on foreign supplies should take precedence over any plans to export our natural gas,""",0_0
"There are many alternative forms of energy that people talk about that may be interesting. But they are not consequential on the scale that will be needed, and they may never have a significant impact on the energy balance. To the extent that people focus too much on thatfor example, on solar or wind, even though they are not economicwhat they are doing is diverting attention from the real issues.",4_4
"Within the limit of chronological uncertainties, some (but not all) of these cooling events at Moose Lake coincide with periods of reduced solar irradiance, such as the solar minima centered on the middle and late LIA (250 and 100 cal BP), 1400 cal BP, and 3400 cal BP (Steinhilber et al., 2009).",2_1
"Fracking, not Obama policies, responsible for carbon dioxide decline Antarctic glacier trends show nature's influence, not man's France may scrap carbon tax plan Who needs the Clean Power Plan? UK, other European governments back coal",0_0
Ethanol Comes Under Fire for Rising Food Prices,0_0
"""Hurricane Matthew, a record-shattering storm that is unusual for October, is a reminder of climate change's potential to turn seasonal weather events into extreme, year-round threats,"" echoed Huffington Post reporter Lydia O'Connor.",0_0
But is the Pause perhaps caused by the fact that CO2 emissions have not been rising anything like as fast as the IPCCs business-as-usual Scenario A prediction in 1990? No: CO2 emissions have risen rather above the Scenario-A prediction (Fig. T3).,1_4
I heard that Zichichi has links with the Vatican. A number of other greenhouse,0_0
"Under Bill Clinton's leadership in the 1990s, the Democratic Party tried to appeal to culturally conservative white working-class voters without abandoning its liberal convictions. During the middle of the George W. Bush administration, Democrats revived that approach, running candidates opposed to abortion and gun control in some rural districts.",0_0
"All over the world, poor people are discovering the blessings of bottom-up capitalism.",0_0
"Critics of the article entirely ignored its equally accurate statement that there is mounting evidence the Arctic sea ice retreat has in the past been cyclical: there were huge melts in the 1920s, followed by later advances.",2_1
Obama Administration Declares Green War on India,0_0
"Martin won't allow Canadian troops into Iraq to support a post-war fledgling democracy, but he'll send them into Sudan to prop up a post-democratic dictatorship in Canada. So, get out your scorecards. Now that Buzz Hargrove is Finance Motel Minister, and Kilgour is in charge of Foreign Affairs, Chuck Cadman should step up and take aim at the Defense portfolio. If the independant MP from British Columbia is a clever scamp, he'll announce to waiting reporters that he can support the Paul Martin Liberals - if he reverses the government's position on Canadian participation in Ballistic Missile Defense.",0_0
Washington sea level data. Click image to start animation in a new window.,0_0
The second part of their global warming definition is that it ?refers to the idea that the world?s average temperature ?may be increasing more in the future.?,0_0
"After Man Us shutout yesterday by the Canaries, it would be nice to see Berbatov send Fergie another thank you note for releasing him from the coal mine.",0_0
"Thanks to Anthony, Sue and many others who helped out in Newcastle. On behalf of David Stockwell, David Archibald, and myself, I thank you for your hospitality and efforts.",0_0
"Many thanks for your very kind comments. Not too much harm was done at Copenhagen. The truth is emerging now, and it will prevail. Christmas morn",0_0
"Ferguson concluded that Big Green is ""not about to allow the Environmental Protection Agency to try measuring the results of spending billions in mitigation money, because the results are negligible if they exist at all.""",0_0
"If that turns out to be true, then the actual sensitivity to CO2 doubling would be far less than the 2C to 5C or more projected by the IPCC. Indeed it could be 0.5C, or even less. As current CO2 levels are about 390 ppmv we are about 40% to a doubling from historic 280 ppmv levels, the actual temperature rise due to the human component of AGW could be 0.2C.",3_1
"Cinema audiences will learn more about the topic through a panel discussion with welcoming remarks by Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX), Chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, headlined by Governor Sarah Palin, 2008 Republican Vice Presidential Candidate and 9th Governor of Alaska, moderated by Brent Bozell, Founder and President of the Media Research Center and will also include other notable experts including renowned climatologist Dr. David Legates and a special appearance by Emmy Award-winning educator Bill Nye the Science Guy. This riveting discussion will focus on climate change and issues brought up during the event.",0_0
"Finally, the union could find itself weakened by internal factionalism. Thus far, 1199 has been able to rely on the loyalty of its members, but the history of organized labor suggests that rapid growth and ideological mission creep will eventually create challenges to current union leadership. Traces of factionalism may be seen both in 1199's past history and, more recently, in the Working Families Party's decision to endorse Governor Cuomo in 2014, which met with intense opposition from many of its members.",0_0
"There is clear, compelling evidence that many of the major conclusions of the IPCC, your new religions constantly-changing Holy Book, are based on evidence that has been fabricated. The hockey stick graph that purported to abolish the mediaeval warm period is just one example. So let me try to lure you away from feeble-minded, religious belief in the Church of Global Warming and back towards the use of the faculty of reason.",5_2
"The reconstructions, in the words of the authors, ""show clear evidence of multi-year to decadal variations in spring precipitation."" Nevertheless, they report that ""dry periods of 1-2 years were well distributed throughout the record"" and that the same was largely true of similar wet periods. With respect to more extreme events, the period preceding the Industrial Revolution stood out. They say, for example, that ""all of the wettest 5-year periods occurred prior to 1756."" Likewise, the longest period of reconstructed spring drought was the four-year period 1476-79, while the single driest spring was 1746. What it means",1_7
The Global Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) is one of the biggest frauds in climate science. They add 3mm/year to sea level rise rates based on the idea that the sea floor is sinking due to glacial rebound.,5_2
"A future German power market without nuclear power and significantly reduced coal-fired power capacity both according to government plans and topped with the shutdown of modern gas-fired power plants an unintended consequence of increased renewable energy integration may eventually lead to something resembling the Morgenthau Plan. Except in this scenario Germanys destruction would be implemented by the German government itself via German energy sector. --Roman Kilisek, Breaking Energy, 11 May 2015",4_1
"3,200 megawatts from a 250-acre facility (1 km2 or less than mile2)",0_0
"Members of Congress, especially those who claim to be fiscally conservative, should take heed of the blow against cronyism that took place this week when an avowed opponent of ethanol mandates and subsidies won the Iowa GOP caucus. Eco-cronyism isn't just bad policy. Increasingly, it is also bad politics.",0_0
"Agreement signed at Panama City August 19, 2004; entered into force August 19, 2004. With attachments.",0_0
Recall the discussion of the East Pacific response to El Nio events.,0_0
Alexis de Tocqueville InstitutionAmericans for Tax ReformAmerican Legislative Exchange CouncilAmerican Policy CenterAssociation of Concerned TaxpayersCenter for Security PolicyCitizens for a Sound EconomyCommittee for a Constructive TomorrowCompetitive Enterprise InstituteConsumer AlertDefenders of Property RightsFrontiers of FreedomGeorge C. Marshall InstituteHeartland InstituteIndependent InstituteJunkScience.comNational Center for Policy AnalysisNational Center for Public Policy ResearchPacific Research InstituteSeniors Coalition60 Plus AssociationSmall Business Survival Committee,0_0
"The world's boreal forests like rising carbon dioxide levels. Once again the dire warnings of the climate catastrophists have been shown to be exaggerated at best, and often just plain wrong. Rising CO 2 levels make forests grow faster, be more productive and actually use water more efficiently. Those are good things to rational people. This report also shows that when you actually measure what is happening in the environment, instead of using computer models, nature can surprise you. In other words, measure nature and real science happens. Be safe, enjoy the interglacial and stay skeptical.",3_3
"The soaring prices were actually exacerbated (as the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN confirmed) by the diversion of much of the worlds farmland into making motor fuel, in the form of ethanol and biodiesel, for the rich to salve their green consciences. Climate policies were probably a greater contributor to the Arab Spring than climate change itself.",0_0
"In summary, the reported land surface temperature trends over the land portions of the globe since 1978 are about +0.5 F/decade if measured directly, and they are around +0.3 to +0.4 F/decade if we use independent methods immune to urban heat islands. Ocean-only and land+ocean temperatures are rising, too, but at a somewhat lower rate.",0_0
"Free-market watchers might be surprised to find social-welfare and high-tax states at the top of the Prosperity Index. This indeed raises more questions than it answers. For example, do the homogeneous hard-working populations of Northern Europe overcome the high tax rates in those countries? Or do these countries, in fact, encourage entrepreneurs? Sweden notably finishes just behind the United States and the United Kingdom in friendliness to entrepreneurs, and all Northern European countries have very good education systems, which may be important, too. And what of social trust among highly homogenous, small populations? Is homogeneity the huge advantage for prosperity the data seem to indicate? It is not just the small countries of Europe that do wellBotswana, which has a small, ethnically homogenous population, is the second top African performer (after South Africa). Hong Kong and Singapore, also with quite homogenous populations, do well, too.",0_0
"Throwing good money after bad makes even less sensegiven theglobal financial crisis and the cutbacks Spain , Germany , France , Greece , Italy, and Ontario (Canada)have been forced to make in their FITs. Therenewable market increasingly resembles a bubble (over-investment relative to actual market demand). Yeatman cautions:",0_0
"It?s not just that the quasi-religious, pseudo-scientific ?Gaia hypothesis? ? the belief, taking its name from the pagan Greek goddess of the Earth, that the sum of the parts of the Earth?s ecosystems together make up a living thing ? is popular in certain environmentalist circles.",5_2
Peer-Reviewed Study Indicates Recent Warming Is Natural,2_1
"The article reports that over 90 percent of the responders agreed with the statement that mean global temperatures have risen relative to the pre-1800 levels (Question 1). But this is unremarkable. Everyone knows that in the 1700s and early 1800s the world was in the grip of the Little Ice Age, so a recovery toward normalcy alone would lead to global warming. No one I know and I know plenty of skeptics (not yet a criminal offense, I hope) has ever disputed this point. So the real surprise to me is that it wasnt 99 percentplus!",2_1
"The research was based on outputs from two models, including the Hadley Center Model, which reviewers admitted during the course of the National Assessment on Climate Change performed no better than a table of random numbers in predicting past climate.",5_1
"But temperatures have come down after El Nino faded, and now it looks like a La Nina is setting in. Some even expect the so-called ""hiatus"" in global warming to return after this year's La Nina ends.",0_0
"These hidden-forces theories are always popular with the mob, which is expected, but also in the intellectual slums of the academy, which isalso expected.",0_0
Range et al. (2012) : There is no evidence of CO2-related mortalities of juvenile or adult mussels even under conditions that far exceed the worst-case scenarios for future ocean acidification.,3_2
"That may be why such institutions often divest slowly, if at all, over 5 to 10 years, to maximize their profits. One is reminded of St. Augustine of Hippo's prayer: ""Please let me be chaste and celibate but not yet."" The ""ethical"" institutions selling fossil fuel stocks also need to find buyers who are willing to stand up to divestment pressure group insults and harassment. They also need to deal with hard realities.",0_0
"Current global temperatures are significantly below NASA's climate model and ""expert"" predictions - note the dotted red line on chart.",5_1
The warming that has been estimated to have occurred in response to the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is somewhat greater than the observed warming.,5_1
"14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:",0_0
"15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)",0_0
"It's not at all surprising that the Court drew that conclusion after petitioners assured them that mobile source provisions of the Clean Air Act (Title II) are separate from stationary source provisions (Title I).What the petitioners didn't tell the Court is that, although separate, Title I and Title II are linked especially as EPA reads the statute.",0_0
Several weeks after we submitted our contribution (included as PNASsubmission.pdf) we received the following email.,0_0
"In response to a video posted by a commenter on WUWT, I noted that Parmesan continues to misrepresent her 1996 study. So I wrote, What I find most disgusting and dishonest in this 2013 video is that she still repeats her old story that her butterfly (Edith Checkerspot) had moved upwards and northwards when 1) No such thing ever happened. Only the statistical center moved because more the butterflies had been extirpated due to urban sprawl mostly in southern California and 2) she has known for at least 5 years now that populations that she reported as extinct have now returned . Thats why she refused to let me replicate her study.",5_2
PART III: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CLIMATE SCIENCE,0_0
"Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis writes an open letter to Sen. Feinstein:""Like the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court global warming case (Massachusetts v. EPA, April 2, 2007), you apparently want EPA to issue a finding, under Section 202 of the Clean Air Act (CAA), that carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions endanger public health and welfarethe prerequisite for EPA to establish first-ever CO 2 emission standards for new cars and trucks. We believe an endangerment finding would have disastrous consequences for the economy, environmental protection, and the political process.""",0_0
frequency of temperatures above a certain limit (eg 30C) as the whole pdf,0_0
internationally well known newspaper SPIEGEL got the information about these,0_0
"As such, CEI also seeks records shedding light on the revolutionary decision to proceed in replacing a treaty with an even more stringent agreement which somehow isn't a treaty -- one which now contains a ""Climate Justice Tribunal"" and which by its own terms will renew and tighten every five years, unlike Kyoto which had one five-year compliance period.",0_0
"In the week prior to the administration signing what should constitute an international climate treaty, one think tank, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, was subpoenaed for casting doubt on the agreement's associated science of climate catastrophe.",0_0
Reprinted by permission of World Affairs. 2010 American Peace Society. All rights reserved.,0_0
"No wonder it is consistently a high temperature record breaker! On that day August 10 2003, it was warmer than Heathrow Airport where the temperature earlier registered 37.9C (100.2F).",0_0
"In addition to building a giant government funded telescope during a depression, the dear doctor also very much coveted a Nobel Prize. The problem was that at that time, astronomy was not considered a branch of any science that could receive the award. It is hard to speak out against your signature science and simultaneously promote that science as worthy of the worlds highest honor. Hubble was prevented from speaking against the Big Bang due to his vested interest in Palomar and HIS potential Nobel Prize. He was to be given the award in 1953, but a sudden heart attack and untimely death prevented that.",0_0
"It has now been seven years since a major hurricane hit the US, the longest period since the Civil War and seven years since our friends started blaming every single weather event on global warming.",1_7
"Our scientific method and traditions of free speech and open debate are under assault as never before, by intolerant inquisitors in our media, universities, government agencies, and even Congress and the Vatican.",0_0
Something like 90% of all the radiation from the ground is already stopped leaving 40 left available for additional IR active gases. Lets take a wild guess (based on seeing spectra) that CO2 is active in 10% of all IR bands. That suggests massive increases in CO2 might cause an addition 4 increase in captured radiation. Lets assume this were to happen and this is called catastrophic doomsday alarmists were right sceptics are deniers warming .,2_3
"Summer is rapidly winding down in Antarctica, and the continent is surrounded by record sea ice.",1_1
Now fading out is not an option. The Republicans with such an open goal left by the Democrats will be setting their phasors to kill and start gunning for it.,0_0
"This is not true. There are over 6 million Americans alive today who experienced summers as long and hot, with great periods of extreme heat in the mid-1930s, when the Palmer Drought Index was the same as current periods, and tens of millions more who saw the mid-70s, when drought conditions were almost as high. Drought is a cyclical event that is experienced throughout large sections of the United States and has done so since pre-historical times.",1_7
Two dozen public policy groups (including CEI) co-sign a letter to House Resources Committee Chairman Richard Pombo (R-CA) supporting reform of the Endangered Species Act.,0_0
"Average results are those obtained by applying Cochrane-Orcutt to the averaged temperature as my standard for determining the trend. The 95 uncertainty intervals are also calculated using Cochrane-Orcutt; I assume the uncertainty in the mean is t-distributed. (These give very slightly larger uncertainty intervals than the corrected OLS. So, it reduces the rate at which I reject the IPCC trends.)",0_0
"Misleading and incorrect conclusions about income distribution are used to support political demands for increased tax rates on high incomes to redistribute more to others. That's bad advice. The long history of U.S. growth shows that the middle class gains when their productivity increases. And that depends on investment, so reduced tax rates enhance productivity growth by increasing investment. And higher taxes on the groups that save and invest lower investment and productivity.",0_0
"""Putting People First,"" which had a full agenda for at least four years, if not",0_0
"Coincidentally, a Conservative MP described global warming in the following terms today:",0_0
"Yet, there were approximately 125,000 people who turned out for the People's Climate March in New York City. Why aren't there even more people marching against the poor economy and unemployment, since those are the biggest concerns?",0_0
"And that's why I can't and I don't want to wear my medals from the NATO operations anymore because they have been given to me by a criminal organization led by the U.S. As long as the U.S. and similar countries will be leading NATO, there is no room for these medals on the left side of my uniform.",0_0
"Under the bottom line: sea level risehas been pretty much constant over the last 80 years. Using the same rate, sea level can be projected to rise only 20 30 cm by the year 2100.",1_6
"I like to explain the preference for natural-gas backups this way. Suppose you are going to cook a hamburger. You can cook it over charcoal or natural gas/propane. To use charcoal, you mound up the charcoal in the grill, soak it in lighter fluid, and toss in a match. You then wait 30 minutes for the coals to get nice and hot. Once hot, you put on your burger and cook it for 5 to 8 minutes. You remove your burger and leave the coals to die downwhich could take several hours. On natural gas/propane, you simply turn it on and light the grill. After giving it 5 minutes to heat up, you toss on your burger. When your burger is cooked, you turn off the grill, and it is cool in minutes.",0_0
"Climate change and other weather related events do, however, present unique challenges that will require us to think in innovative ways. Often project and community-driven approaches like the interventions I mention above are critical to understanding local needs, keeping communities central to decision and planning processes. Yet, they alone are not able to address the greater landscape of environmental services that might be needed to contend with such challenges. For example, drainage issues, often one of the major causes of water logging in delta regions like Gopalgunj, cant be solved by a narrow focus on communities and may need us to look at regional scales and subnational, national or sometimes even international processes. Similarly, local community-based approaches will also need to address other system-wide activities like access to markets, seasonal migration as an income diversifying source, and trade that could be important resilience-building activities .",0_0
"The motion is unlikely to have practical consequences, however, because under Italian law the government may or may not take into account the message it received from the Senate. When asked about its opinion on the motion, the government said it had no opinion, so majority senators were left free to vote according to their own judgment. Regrettably, Environmental Minister Stefania Prestigiacomo didn't participate the debate in the Senate: that gave a chance to Sen. Roberto Della Seta, who spoke on behalf of the Democratic Party and voted against the motion, to blame the executive's behavior.",0_0
"Met Office, March 2009: Mean temperatures over the UK were 1.1 C below the 1971-2000 average during December, 0.5 C below average during January and 0.2 C above average during February. The UK mean temperature for the winter was 3.2 C, which is 0.5 C below average, making it the coldest winter since 1996/97 (also 3.2 C).",1_3
Spanish Utility blames renewables for 2.0bn loss,0_0
"Fast forward to the past two years, and we can see that this tension within the Democratic party is a factor in every major decision the administration and the congressional leadership has made. From the start, President Obama, with the enthusiastic backing of liberal progressives, declared that his would be a transformative presidency. This meant that his agenda would largely be that of the liberal progressives: health-care reform with a major emphasis on near-universal coverage, cap-and-trade, a large economic stimulus focused more on government projects than on tax relief, a consumer-protection agency to regulate financial instruments. Truly, this crisis would not be allowed to go to waste: Forty years of wandering in the political wilderness would finally be over.",0_0
"Jerry North told me just last week that he is more convinced than ever that the warming is at the very bottom of the IPCC range, which some top climate economists say makes CO2 a positive externality, not a negative one. We have peer-reviewed articles on how feedback effects are not the big amplifiers that the models (must) assume.",3_1
"However since the year 2000 a change has occurred: the CET record shows a marked reduction from its high levels loosing all the gains that it has made since 1850, even though at the same time CO2 levels have escalated further to ~400ppm v .",1_4
"At a November 13 breakfast presentation on ""the unconventional oil and gas revolution,"" Senior Director, Energy Insight IHS, Chris Hansen said: ""I expect to see action on the Keystone pipeline within the next few months."" While it is widely believed that Keystone would be an easy win in the Republican-controlled congress, the November 4 results are already making a difference.",0_0
"After pouring over years of mainstream literature, Johnston discovered numerous scientific uncertainties ""which are rarely if ever even mentioned in the climate change law and policy literature"" (8-9):",5_1
"There did not seem to be any other signs of a pre-revolutionary crisis either, including the other traditionally assigned cause of state failure external pressure. On the contrary, the previous decade was correctly judged to amount ""to the realization of all major Soviet military and diplomatic desiderata,"" as American historian and diplomat Stephen Sestanovich has written. Of course, Afghanistan increasingly looked like a long war, but for a 5-million-strong Soviet military force the losses there were negligible. Indeed, though the enormous financial burden of maintaining an empire was to become a major issue in the post-1987 debates, the cost of the Afghan war itself was hardly crushing: Estimated at $4 billion to $5 billion in 1985, it was an insignificant portion of the Soviet GDP.",0_0
"Comment: This is a distinction without a difference. No commercial coal plants with carbon capture and storage exist, and noneis being built without substantial taxpayer support . The levelized cost of new coal plants already exceeds that of new NGCC plants, and todays CCS technologies would add around 80% to the cost of electricity for a new pulverized coal (PC) plant, and around 35% to the cost of electricity for a new advanced gasification-based (IGCC) plant, according to the EPA (77 FR 22415). Since building an NGCC plant is far cheaper than building a coal plant with CCS, the proposed 1,000 lbs CO2/MWh standard is a de-facto requirement to fuel switch from coal to gas. Offering an alternative no one will choose because it is prohibitively costly does not make fuel switching optional.",0_0
The High Net Costs of the Draft Bill's GHG Reductions,0_0
"Due to the intermittent nature of wind power, traditional power plants have to adjust production in an extremely short time frame to balance the power grid. This ""cycling"" is inefficient and bad for the environment. Emissions offset by the installation of wind turbines appear to be surpassed by emissions from the need to cycle.",4_4
"As the CO 2 concentration of the air continues to rise, it is likely that this invasive mite, which negatively affects more than 150 crop species, will exhibit reduced reproductive success and subsequent colonization of bean foliage. If these results are typical of the mite's relationship with other agricultural plants, it is conceivable that yields of many crops will increase dramatically due to CO 2 -induced increases in plant growth and yield and concomitant decreases in damage caused by Tetranychus urticae .",3_3
"In a closing statement Casey reiterated, The global warming of the past decades was caused by the Sun. It is now over. It will not return based upon the SSRCs research, for at least thirty years. It will then return only because the Suns repeating cycles of activity are scheduled to pick up again at that time. We should not waste another minute, another penny in controlling something that simply does not exist, namely man made climate change and global warming. It is essential for the welfare of all Americans if not the world, that in light of these new and startling changes in the Earths temperature and the profound changes in the Sun, that the next administration initiate a top-down review and redirection of climate change policy as soon as President Obama takes office.",2_1
"Indeed, over the last two decades, 1199 has perfected a brand of politics that allows the union to get most or all of what it wants from New York governorseither by entering into mutually beneficial alliances or by organizing to quash reform plans that might be adverse to its members. George Pataki entered the governor's mansion in 1995 with bold plans for health-care reform, which focused on getting control of Medicaid costs.",0_0
"On Monday, Matt Lauer of Today interviewed Joe Arpaio, the Maricopa County, Ariz., sheriff who's made a national name for himself cracking down on illegal immigration. Lauer noted that Arizona's new immigration bill has the support of 70 percent of Arizonans. ""But get this,"" Lauer added, ""53 percent of those same people said they worry it could lead to civil-rights violations.""",0_0
"The Mega Millions lottery last month with its whopping $656 million prize captured the intense interest of Americans across the country. Estimates suggest that as many as 100 million people participated. No matter that the odds of winning the jackpot were known to be much less than being struck by lightning twice. Investing a few bucks (or in the case of Washington Wizards forward Chris Singleton, ten thousand) for the chance to become a centa-millionaire was irresistible for nearly half of the adult population of the country.",0_0
"Gore can't entirely be blamed for failing to turn into a live wireat 58, the man is what he is. So the fault mainly lies with the filmmakers. Director Davis Guggenheim, who has mostly worked on television series such as ""24"" and ""ER,"" follows Gore as the former Vice President goes on a world tour with his multimedia presentation on global warming. The lecture, which Gore calls ""the slide show,"" takes up the majority of the movie's running time, lightened only by occasional portraiture segments that fail to reveal much about the man at the film's center.",0_0
Replication (47) The committee almost sound like they are singing from the CRU hymnsheet here. Replication is not necessary because there are other groups reaching the same answer.,0_0
Here are some posts at Daily Caller by Herring on the Omaha Tri Faith insanity:,0_0
"Interestingly on the sixth page of this document , the Bureau both makes the point that 2013 was the hottest year on record for Queensland, while conceding that the period 2002-2013 shows short-term cooling.",1_4
"Also, by the way, global hurricane activity, measured in total energy (Accumulated Cyclone Energy), is actually at a low not encountered since the 1970s . In fact, the U.S. is currently experiencing the longest absence of severe landfall hurricanes in over a century. Wilma, the last Category 3 or stronger storm, occurred more than seven years ago.",1_7
"A new documentary features warmists and hippies fearlessly acting like spoiled brats. Among the feats celebrated on film climbing the UK parliament buildings and hanging about outside power stations. Actual fearless feats like anti-oil protests in Riyadh are next week, or something.",0_0
"The closest USHCN station to Washington is at Lincoln, Virginia. Since the mid-1990s, the thermometers say that Lincoln has cooled about three degrees (blue below) while USHCN carefully adjusts the temperatures in the opposite direction. Note that the adjusted (red) trend is up by two degrees since the mid-1990s.",5_1
"The event, according to the Wall Street Journal, set ""in motion a process to curb the impact of global warming."" The International Business Times said it was ""the latest in a series of steps to transform the global accord into an actual tool for combating greenhouse gas emissions and boosting the use of cleaner energy."" Newsweek reported: ""The leaders accepted the science of climate change and agreed to work together to do something about it.""",0_0
John: Home entertainment room Brian. A lot of houses have them these days.,0_0
"Ebell pointed to EPA whistleblower Alan Carlin, a longtime economist for the agency, who discovered this firsthand in 2009 when a report he co-authored questioned the science behind then-proposed global warming regulations under the Clean Air Act.",5_2
"Assuming that the Levitus record of global oceanic heat content increase is anywhere near accurate, what might it tell us about climate sensitivity; e.g., how much global warming we might expect from increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations? As we will see, the oceans have not warmed nearly as much as would be expected if the climate system really is as sensitive as the IPCC claims.",0_0
"scientists simply dont have time (and the audience typically doesnt have the interest) to lay out all the evidence, the arguments and counterarguments, in full detail. Isnt it legitimate, then, to simply note that almost all the experts have been convinced of a given point?",0_0
"Wind production does not follow demandit follows the wind. When wind production is high, demand is frequently low.",4_4
Lets start with an analysis of how the UKs electricity was supplied last year.,0_0
"swollen majorities that Franklin D. Roosevelt had from the beginning, the sense",0_0
"""The implication that I personally, or the club has taken Ms Dhalla's side is totally false""",0_0
"a reduction in, their charitable deductions to channel money away from charities",0_0
"Whether or not EPA has a policy in place won't matter until the agency is transparent about the data behind its science and decisions, said Myron Ebell, director of energy and global warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.",0_0
"The period from January 2001 to May 2013 is now 149-months long. Refer to the following graph of running 149-month trends from January 1880 to May 2013, using the NCDC global temperature anomaly product. The last data point in the graph is the linear trend (in deg C per decade) from January 2001 to the current month. It is slightly negative. That, of course, indicates global surface temperatures have not warmed during the most recent 149-month period. Working back in time, the data point immediately before the last one represents the linear trend for the 149-month period of December 2000 to April 2013, and the data point before it shows the trend in deg C per decade for November 2000 to March 2013, and so on.",1_4
"""The sacred cod."" On March 17th, 1784, Mr. John Rowe of Boston arose from his seat in the Hall of Representatives at the Old State House, and offered the following motion: ""That leave might be given to hang up the representation of a cod fish in the room where the House sit, as a memorial of the importance of the Cod-Fishery to the welfare of the Commonwealth .""",0_0
Green alarmist Ticky Fullerton on Lateline Business rings the lepers bell before interviewing warming sceptic Professor Ian Plimer:,5_2
"Keep in mind that the longitudes of 120E-80W stretch 160 deg, almost halfway around the globe. For a reminder of width of the equatorial Pacific, see the protractor-based illustration here .",0_0
"RSL reflects the actual sea levels, as measured by tide gauges, while the ASL takes out the effect of sinking land. As can be seen, apart from the anomaly at Cambridge, the other stations show ASL of 1.41mm/yr or less, about 5 inches/century. This is a far cry from the headline figures shown for Baltimore of 12 inches/century.",1_6
Social pessimism stands in the way of tackling the real challenges facing humanity. Growth skepticism has become a barrier to rediscovering the potential of human progress.,0_0
"Excess Canadian crude oil produced from oil sands is expanding at a rate of one million barrels a day every five years. The more that's produced, the less of a market there will be for oil from Venezuela and some other OPEC member countries with similar-quality oil, requiring them to either curtail production or lower prices. Even if oil prices rise in the medium term, we expect 2020 prices to be no more than $85 per barrel, compared with today's prevailing global price of $125.",4_5
"The four Australian researchers report that ""significant genotype by environment interactions for both stressors at gastrulation indicated the presence of heritable variation in thermal tolerance and the ability of embryos to respond to changing environments."" And they say that ""positive genetic correlations for gastrulation indicated that genotypes that did well at lower pH also did well in higher temperatures."" What it means",3_2
"So we have to get better, a lot better, at de-carbonizing our energy. As the Ecomodernist Manifesto correctly notes, "" rising energy consumption is tightly correlated with rising incomes and improving living standards. For that reason, any conflict between climate mitigation and the continuing development process through which billions of people around the world are achieving modern living standards will continue to be resolved resoundingly in favor of the latter.""",0_0
past changes provides the context for our scenarios of future greenhouse gas,0_0
"Well, with oil-for-food finally buried, we knew they'd be on the prowl for new bodies.",0_0
"The George C. Marshall Institute believes that public discussion of human-made global warming as a world encompassing problem may be a clear example of multiple ""detail solutions"" being proposed before a sound scientific definition of the problem, or even a recognition of the problem's existeence, has been established. Accordingly, the Institute has compiled a list of the questions commonly posed about global warming. The Institute, using well founded knowledge of the present state of the art, has composed a response to these questions that summarizes today's knowledge and assesses the task ahead to provide an answer. It is the Institute's hope that this effort will help the United States determine how best to acquire a valid scientific foundation that can then support sound public policy.",0_0
L1837 0.7 L1918 0.5 L2000 0.4 L2043 0.3 L2126 0.3 L2207 0.3,0_0
"WARNING #1: Do NOT watch this video if you wish to avoid portrayals of extreme violence, genocide, child murders, demonic practice and terrorism all in the name of environmentalism.",0_0
"No evidence exists for this claim. The mass-bleaching events of recent decades have coincided with surface water warming resulting from periods of extended calm associated with strong El Nio events. This impedes normal evaporative cooling as well as wave driven mixing. There is no evidence of any increase in the frequency or strength of El Nio events, and climate models project increased wind speeds from warming, not more calms. The report further states:",3_2
"Finally, regarding the billboard, after 15 years of being the target of vicious ad hominem attacks, we decided to punch back instead of stand back. Our billboard was factual: The Unabomber was motivated by concern over man-made global warming to do the terrible crimes he committed. He still believes in global warming. We simply put his picture on a billboard, pointed out the inconvenient truth, and asked, do you?",0_0
"Dr. Gilbert Ross, longtime medical director of ACSH, said Whelan ""was a trailblazer, taking on the establishment as a young woman and throughout her life, forcefully but always politely educating anyone of any position on the precepts of sound science, calling out agenda, ideology, and hypocrisy posing as science.""",0_0
"That group is headed by Congressional energy heavyweights Rep. Ed Markey (D-Ma), poised to succeed John Kerry as senator if the current Massachusetts senator is approved as Secretary of State; Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Ca), the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee; and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Or), the presumptive new head of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.",0_0
(Excerpts) ??? Antarctic sea ice reached record high levels this year. Antarctic sea ice extent broke 20 million kilometers for the first time since satellite recordings began.,1_1
"None of these hard realities seems to bother President Obama, though. In fact, he is determined to use the December climate conference in Paris to lock the United States into binding treaty commitments to slash the common folks fossil fuel use, CO2 emissions, economic growth and job creation even further.",4_1
"Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 07:01:06 PM at epicenter",0_0
Heartland Replies To Matthew England's Ugly and Dishonest Essay,0_0
"Arguments put forward to support ethanol and other biofuels hold water like sieves leaking billions of gallons of precious fresh water that are required to produce this expensive, unsustainable energy.",0_0
"The author of yesterday's story, ""In Northern France, Warming Presses Fall Grape Harvest Into Summertime,"" apparently missed the prior story, and gets front-page treatment in the process to go on about the horrors confronting vintners:",0_0
"This tallies with what Richard Betts has said in the past, namely that modellers are using the ""known unknowns"" to get the model into the right climatic ballpark, but not to wiggle-match. However, I'm not sure that users of climate models can place much reliance on them when there is this clear admission that the models are nudged or fudged so that they look ""reasonable"".",5_1
"Such predictions should prove crucial to American policymakers and energy producers, many of whom have pledged to make wind energy 20 percent of America??s total energy production by 2030. Currently only about 2 percent of American energy comes from wind.",4_4
"From Rwanda and Liberia to the Sudan and Uganda, we see every day the horrible effects of war crippled men, widowed women, orphaned children, and frail old people, without hands and legs, with slash marks all over their bodies. They struggle as scavengers, collapse and perish from hunger and disease, while politicians get rich.",0_0
"Although the A123 bankruptcy was the most obvious example of Obama's failed foray into the car business, Romney could have pointed to a number of other reports over the past few weeks to make the same, obvious point: the Obama administration should not be picking winners in the hypercompetitive business of making and selling automobiles.",0_0
"Meet the skeptics at CFACT's COP16 press conference Monckon, Spencer & Rothbard on Climate Science & Policy",0_0
"Human ingenuity keeps finding more oil and gas but we are close to running out of IP addresses , at least in the old IPv4 system, which all of your are probably using right now. This does not mean the world will shut down - already, for example, all the computers in your home probably share a single IP address to the outside world, and for many of you that IP address is dynamically assigned by your Internet provider to further save addresses. Many web sites on the same server will share an IP address (which is actually a good reason not to used shared hosting, because if one of the other accounts on your server is a bad actor, your IP address can effectively get banned from sites and networks trying to ban that other person on your server).",0_0
"One reason this cannot be contemplated is that it would involve giving up the urgent sense of crisis that still fuels too much of the environmental movement. This is leading to the slow trivialization and marginalization of environmentalism as a general public concern. Serious environmentaliststhe laboratory scientists, field biologists, and local conservationists doing the nitty-gritty and uncelebrated work to solve environmental problems one at a timeshould not stand for this cheap grandstanding. It may be, as WRI's Allan Hammond says, that ""no serious environmental institution subscribes today"" to Ehrlich-Speth-Limits to Growth doomsaying, but if so why do most environmental leaders decline to rebuke this kind of sensationalism and the diminishing effect it has on taking environmental problems seriously?",0_0
So that is what we would achieve if we stop the use of all gasoline-powered vehicles in America and if we replace them with a system producing no carbon dioxide.,0_0
"EPA has behaved in a similar fashion concerning the RMR&R; exclusion. After approving an expansive interpretation of the exclusion by state permitting agencies for the better part of two decades, in 1999 EPA claimed to be shocked to find some companies ""have tried to extend it to activities that are infrequently performed in the industry, alter the design or function of the equipment, or involve a significant capital cost . ...""32",0_0
"Here is a corresponding plot for the RSS T2 data. In this case, observations are about halfway between zero and the ensemble mean trend. If someone wishes to argue (a la Santer, Schmidt) that there is no statistically significant difference between observations and the ensemble mean, then they are also obliged to concede that there is no statistically significant difference between observations and zero trend even for RSS TMT.",0_0
Australias ABC News gets rather carried away and headlines with Global warming to cause mass extinction: report,5_2
Tide gauge data for the 20th century indicates that the average sea level rise rate was 1.8 mm/year. Satellite data from 1993 to present indicates a sea level rise rate of about 3 mm/year. This is part 3 of a series of posts looking for the acceleration necessary to reconcile those two facts,1_6
Michael Moore Propaganda Too Much Even for Castro,0_0
"John didnt grow rice during the recent drought because while he had a water licence, he didnt have a water allocation.",0_0
"We won't spend hours watching the World Cup or the Olympics because they aren't happening in 2015. Most of us won't spend Tuesday, Nov. 3, waiting for election returns, although citizens of Kentucky, Mississippi and Louisiana will elect governors and state representatives, and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel will find out if he has won reelection.",0_0
"On Earth Day in 2010, Paul Rubin, economics professor at Emory University, wrote an article in the WSJ titled ""Environmentalism as Religion: While people have worshipped many things, we may be the first to build shrines to garbage,"" here's an excerpt:",0_0
"One such is George Monbiot, a scribbler for the British Marxist daily propaganda sheet, The Guardian. What is Monbiot's qualification to write about climate science? Well, like Abraham, he is a ""scientist"". Trouble is, he's a fourteenth-rate zoologist, so his specialization has even less to do with climate science than that of Abraham, who nevertheless presents himself as having scientific knowledge relevant ""in the area"".",0_0
"For Delaware Democrat Chris Coons, it's fitting that Election Day comes two days after Halloween, running as he is against that sometime dabbler in witchcraft, Christine O'Donnell. For hundreds of his partisan brothers and sisters, however, another holiday reference is more appropriate: Mexico's Day of the Dead. Today, our neighbors to the south will begin celebrating the memories of their deceased family and friends. Tomorrow, our neighbors to the left will mourn the demise of hundreds of candidates whose careers will be consigned to the political graveyard, few of which will rise to take bodily form again.",0_0
"Castro's government apparently went on to ban the film because, the leaked cable claims, it ""knows the film is a myth and does not want to risk a popular backlash by showing to Cubans facilities that are clearly not available to the vast majority of them.""",0_0
"At least since the energy crisis of the early 1970s, the United States has wrestled with the difficult question of how best to ensure an adequate energy supply while protecting the environment. Today, this question continues to play a role in our political debates. Whether and how public policy might reduce reliance on imported oil, encourage lower-emission vehicles, or spur the development of new or cleaner sources of power are all regular matters of public discussion and concern.",0_0
"There are no perfect ways to measure indirect energy use. Some use greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a proxy, but this is far from ideal because different forms of energy are more or less GHG-intensive. Still, even a weak measurement is better than no measurement, and the GHG approach is a useful concept of which scientists and environmentalists lately have been taking note. For instance, the U.S. Green Building Council, which certifies buildings as ""green"" under its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating system, has been discussing how to take into account the embodied energy of building materials in its rating system.",0_0
"NCDC has turned Marylands sixth coldest January-July into the 36th coldest, through a spectacular hockey stick ofadjustments.",5_1
"In the meantime, theres a danger the shift is not only a step back in market delivery but in technology.",0_0
"Americans have reason to be optimistic about the nation's environmental progress and its future health, according to the Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, released by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). This tenth anniversary edition of the Index reveals that environmental quality continues to improve in many key areas, including air pollution, mercury emissions, wetlands, and forestlands.",0_0
"For example, growth is generally limited in high latitudes by temperature and in deserts by water. But regional limitations can very in their degree of impact on growth throughout the growing season.",0_0
"It is true that technologies known as fracking and horizontal drilling have made available huge reserves of natural gas and oil that previously eluded the drill bit. It is also true that inexpensive natural gas is giving foreign petrochemical companies and other companies that rely on that fuel an incentive to invest large sums in the United States, and that several American companies are finding the combination of relatively cheap energy and rising labor costs in Asia so attractive that we are seeing some ""on-shoring"" of production facilities, although whether this trend will prove to be as significant as on-shoring enthusiasts are predicting is not certain.",0_0
"Unfortunately for Hansen and McKibben as with so many previous prophets of the end of the world, reality isn't cooperating with their chiliastic fantasies. Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have increased by 4 per cent since the Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in 1997, but the global mean temperature has been flat since 1999. What they must have are some big disasters -- and soon.",1_4
"Pollution was unchecked and mostly unthought-of. Sewage was considered treated if dumped in a river. Personal hygiene was practiced, when at all, on the face, neck, and hands up to the wrists. One thing everybody forgets about old times is how the old-timers smelled.",0_0
"Pat??s Comment : The simple GHG-induced temperature projection goes right through the middle of the pack of GCM simulations, and closely tracks the GCM average. As the average of GCM projections is typically accounted to more accurately follow measured climate trends, the same criterion indicates that the simple GHG projection is more accurate than any of the GCM projections. It seems lots of money spent hasn??t gotten us much. One other thing of serious note: It is now obvious that GCM modelers assume that the only element driving net climate change is the level of GHG gasses in the atmosphere. This seems extraordinarily nae, physically.",5_1
"Furthermore, were nowhere near the peak reached by the interglacial of 125,000 years ago, when temperatures were 1-3C higher than today and sea levels up to 20 feet higher, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change itself. In other words, the Globe might as well have had a headline reading Signs of changing weather unmistakable.",2_1
"Moreover, there is good research suggesting that conflict in Dafur had nothing to do with climate change.",0_0
"Heath Hickory: I dont know, Molly, Im not really into that whole Earth Day thing. Whats it about?",0_0
"A lot of theories are being floated for what exactly caused the collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis. The real answer, of course, should have been clear all along: global warming. At least that's what the Center for American Progress is telling us.",0_0
"This week, I turn to the topic of workers comp. insurance. Never in 2 years at one of the more storied business schools in the nation, nor in nearly 20 years at the largest corporations in the world, did I once encounter the topic of workers comp. Now, since I bought my own business, I spend inordinate amounts of time dealing with it.",0_0
"But there was one player that the White House doesn't seem to have fully taken into account: Vladimir Putin. It's doubtful that at this point President Obama retains many of the optimistic illusions that marked the early stages of his Russia policy: the naive hopes that Medvedev might offer a serious alternative to Putin, the belief that Putin was angry only because of errors on our part, the belief that he is a geopolitical bumbler whose serial errors would soon trip him up. Those mists and fogs have (finally, after many lost months and years) burned away, but the White House may not yet understand the degree to which humiliating President Obama and making him look weak has become a principle driver of Russian policy.",0_0
"Chris de Freitas , Associate Professor, School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science, University of Auckland : There is evidence of global warming. But warming does not confirm that carbon dioxide is causing it. Climate is always warming or cooling. There are natural variability theories of warming. To support the argument that carbon dioxide is causing it, the evidence would have to distinguish between human-caused and natural warming. This has not been done.",2_1
"For this reason, environmental decisions in the face of scientific uncertainty must be understood to raise a mixture of ethical and scientific questions. Yet, the scientific skeptics on global warming or those denying connections between tornadoes and climate change often speak as if it is irrational to talk about duties to reduce greenhouse gases until science is capable of proving with high levels of certainty what actual damages will be.",5_1
"As the air's CO 2 content increases, it is likely that over-wintering strawberry plants will exhibit enhanced rates of photosynthesis and starch production, which will support more rapid and extensive growth in the spring. Such increases in carbohydrate availability at this critical time should allow strawberry plants in a CO 2 -enriched world to produce greater numbers of fruit per plant, thus increasing marketable berry yields.",3_3
"By Geoff Brown, The Australian Climate Sceptics, Aug 11, 2015",0_0
Wealthy people who want a Tesla as their third or fourth vehicle can pay the full market price. And they should.,0_0
Baseless nonsense. The summer of 2012 didnt even rank in the top ten for daily record maximums. The summer of 1936 had more than five times as many record daily maximums as summer 2012.,2_1
"around,"" as he told Joe the Plumber, even if there is less wealth to spread",0_0
Now lets examinethe climate change segment of Obamas inaugural speech :,0_0
Climate Disasters: New Baylor Study Explores How People Respond,0_0
"The following are town hall meetings being organized by Vice President Gore's office and the White House Office on Science and Technology Policy to ""examine the vulnerability of various regions of the US to climate variability and climate change and to aggregate information across regions to support a national scientific assessment:""",0_0
"Since proving the validity of long-term forecasts is difficult and the ultimate tests would take years, and since many scientists are alarmed at the dire scenarios, my colleagues are beginning to talk about whether it is O.K. to exaggerate and push forecasts that are not currently provable if the only way to get societies to act is to frighten people. I think it is not O.K. It is a short-term view, and even if it works, it will inevitably debase science and scientists.",0_0
Australias antarctic runway melting | Walcha News,0_0
"?We had a big drop in 2007, and since we?ve seen that decline continue,? Eicken said.",0_0
I downloaded the latest HadCRUT4 temperature and Mauna Loa CO2 data from Wood for Trees and global coffee bean production from FAOSTAT and it appears that coffee bean trees like warmer temperatures...,0_0
"Not too mysteriously, manmade greenhouse gases have had little impact on two (overlapping) portions of the largest ocean on the planet.",2_3
"Russia's representative at the G8 and chief economic adviser to President Vladimir Putin, Andrei Illarionov, attacked ""Kyotism"" in a speech in Moscow on February 19. According to the Moscow Times, Illarionov said, ""I have called my speech 'The Return of Gosplan,'"" . He went on, ""But the proposed mechanism would decrease quotas year by year.... So it may be more correct to call it the return of the gulag.""",0_0
"We were sampling with the largest chain saws we could find a chain-saw bar of seven feet, he said. We were hauling these slabs of wood two meters on a side as far as two kilometers to the road. We were using wheeled litters the emergency rescue equipment for people and put a couple hundred pounds on them.",0_0
"Postscript: I just finished reading the Royal Society assessment . Overall, I give it a much higher grade than the IPCC Summary for Policy Makers (SPM). I know about half of the scientists on the Working Group; they are absolutely top drawer. I dont disagree with anything they say for the first 7 pages. Then they characterize some statements as Aspects of climate change where there is a wide consensus but continuing debate and discussion. The wide consensus is not a good way of putting this, too bad they didnt have an Italian flag. A better way of saying it might have been our best judgement based upon current evidence and background knowledge and actually using the word uncertainty. The list of Aspects that are not well understood is far too skimpy. As a narrative, this makes much more sense than the IPCC SPM, and assesses a lower level of confidence, which is appropriate. Overall, I give it a B grade (compared to a C- for the IPCC SPM).",5_1
The slope is flat since November 1996 or 16 years and 11 months. (goes to September) RSS is 203/204 or 99.5% of the way to Ben Santers 17 years.,1_4
"EPAs Particulate Matter Rule is Cargo Cult Science, Doctor States",0_0
"I think that this is a useful way of looking at information on trends. (I doubt that 30 years is a relevant period to test for long-term persistence under fracdiff for example, theres been pretty much one PDO for the entire period, but have rendered it here as well for comparison.)",0_0
"These interest groups define ""progress"" as ever-expanding laws, regulations, bureaucracies and power, to bring air and water emissions of every description down to zero, to prevent diseases that they attribute to manmade pollutants and forestall ""dangerous manmade climate change."" Achieving those goals requires controlling nearly every facet of our economy, industries, lives, livelihoods and living standards.",0_0
"""I think there is a culture of obsessive political correctness"" Now Tom Ricks asks some seriously, er, moderate questions at his Foreign Policy blog, ""The Best Defense""... Another warning sign: Fort Hood gunman had told US military colleagues that infidels should have their throats cut ...",0_0
"2) A 2006 study by a team of scientists led by Petr Chylek of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Space and Remote Sensing Sciences found the rate of warming in 1920-1930 was about 50% higher than that in 1995-2005, suggesting carbon dioxide could not be the cause of warming.",2_1
The recent admission that natural changes are responsible for the California drought was not news to some of us. What is news is that some pretty big research names that would be assumed to be part of the global warming bureaucracy are the ones now saying it.,2_1
"Prevent excessively broad environmental review of coal export terminals. As the EPA makes it harder to use coal as a source of energy for electricity in the United States, there are opportunities to export coal to other nations. Removing excessive environmental reviews can help promote coal exports that will help keep coal jobs in the United States.",4_1
"The ballot measure is one of many facing voters at the 2 November elections which have been sponsored by corporations exploiting a recent relaxation of funding rules by the US Supreme Court, which gave private firms the right to donate money (anonymously, if they want) to single-issue advocacy groups. That ruling has led to an explosion in the number of negative advertisements flooding the airwaves in this election season. A record $3bn will have been spent on adverts, most of which endorse right-wing causes, by the time that voters head to the polls in nine days' time.",0_0
"To review the consequences of the EU's so-called ""20-20-20"" agenda, that calls for 20% emissions cuts, 20% more energy efficiency, and 20% renewables by 2020, as well as to obtain assurance that the targets will not be made more stringent (i.e., the emissions reduction target will not be raised up to 30% below 1990 levels);",0_0
"On Christmas day the expedition radioed for help after the ship became trapped in this years tremendous Antarctic ice, which may set a record.",0_0
"However, U.S. land-based surface temp. differences (NASA-GISS) = approx. zero",0_0
Renewable Energy Mandates will continue to failcosting us money and jobs,4_1
"Later in his career, he would work on optimization; Pontryagin's minimum principle is behind the bang-bang control. But string theorists primarily know him because of his earlier work on algebraic and differential topology.",0_0
"All of the above findings are of a positive nature. Crop growth was enhanced by the experimental doubling of the air's CO 2 content. There was no increase in the evolution of the greenhouse gas N 2 O from the soil. And the three Finnish researchers concluded that the high increase in the below-ground biomass indicates ""enhanced photosynthate accumulation in the soil as a response to the increased CO 2 concentration."" Reviewed 24 October 2007",3_3
"Just as a brand new book further exposes the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (whose scams I dissected here, and in more disturbing detail here), and on the heels of the weekend surprise of a 2005 memo showing President Obama's cooling/warming/population zealot of a ""science czar"" John Holdren is the kind of guy Mitt Romney turns to for developing his ""environmental""' policies, we've exposed the Obama administration and IPCC have cooperated to subvert U.S. transparency laws, operating domestically out of Holdren's White House office.",5_2
Ive lived through a 7.x quake where lots of the place was out of action for about a week. (We all just pitched in an fixed it ourselves. We didnt bitch about the folks who were already working hard to fix things; we helped.),0_0
Anders is having a discussion about Ed and Tamsins nature article on the pause in global warming.,1_4
"The big trouble with your piece, Daniel, is that its overall theme that Heartland is in decline and has brought about its own downfall is simply not true. Or, to borrow from Mark Twain: Reports of Heartlands demise are greatly exaggerated.",0_0
"Again and again, the data suggest, climate has impacted culture in dramatic ways. Unusually extreme and frequent shifts in weather patterns between 250 and 550, for example, coincided with a period of exceptional upheaval in Europes political and economic situations.",0_0
"the reliance of the multi-decadal climate predictions to provide accurate forecasts is further shown to be unjustified, since all of the important climate processes are not included accurately in the models, as acknowledged by Tom Karl.",5_1
"???THE Australian Workers Union has called for the aluminium industry to be exempted from the renewable energy target, a move that will increase pressure on Labor to negotiate a bipartisan deal with the Coalition on changes to the scheme. AWU national secretary Scott McDine warned that the RET maintained in its current form would lead to thousands of jobs shifting overseas with no environmental gain.??",4_1
"Current cosmology indicates that the total amount of dark matter may be five times the amount of normal matter. As reported by Freeman Dyson on the New York Review of Books, the LHC is expected to find that dark matter is composed of the supersymmetrical equivalents of ordinary matter.",0_0
"Concerning the most interesting time span of 10,000 years Holocene: We were able to identify 13 CIO events out of 24, which, according to impact mechanism dynamics, must send Holocene temperatures steeply down after each impact event. As the Earth orbital line oscillates, temperature recoveries follow after each cold temperature peak. The striking feature of this recovery pattern consists of a higher solar energy yield and higher GISP2 temperatures compared to the temperature level given for the date of any impact. We demonstrate this important feature in detail, because it remains left out in present GCMs, another modeling deficiency and obvious cause for GCM model-data mismatches.",5_1
"Just off the right of the previous image, north side of the river is another power station. Top of image here is the electricity output site.",0_0
"People are just being blinded by what they rightly see as a positive goal (helping millions of people) if they fail to see that the President issuing licenses to not be prosecuted for certaincrimes is a huge new precedent. Proprietorial discretion is supposed to be used to avoid patent unfairness in certain cases (e.g. the situation in Colorado with conflicting state and Federal laws on marijuana). It is not meant to be a veto power for the President over any law on the books. But I can tell you one thing -- it is going to be seen by future Presidents as just this. Presidents and parties change, and for those of you swearing this is a totally legal, normal, fully-precedented action, be aware that the next time 5 million wavers are issued, it may well be for a law you DO want enforced. Then what?",0_0
Ivan Osorio: No mention of guest worker programs re: immigration.,0_0
Dr. Yan said: This new paper adds further material to the substantial body of real-world proxy evidence establishing that todays global temperature is within natural ranges of past changes. Dr. Soon added: The UNs climate panel should never have trusted the claim that the medieval warm period was mainly a European phenomenon. It was clearly warm in South China Sea too.,2_1
The environmental movement isnt going to stop at putting coal out of business.,0_0
"I dont want to blame them, but typically the working group reports are managed by the co-chairs. Of course, the chair is there to facilitate things, but we have substantial amounts of delegation, Dr Pachauri said.",0_0
Examiner columnist Ron Arnold is Executive Vice President of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise. Portions of this article originally appeared in the Washington Examiner and are used by permission.,0_0
"Bombprovskurvan, Bernmodellen och kemisk kinetik - ngra kommentarer",0_0
The New York Times reports on Wal-Mart's funding of research groups.,0_0
The US depends on cheap fossil fuels to survive.,0_0
"Sheppard et al . write that ""given that examples of reefs without local impacts are rare, these results illustrate the importance of reference sites such as this that lack local, direct effects,"" and as we have long contended, Sheppard et al .'s findings indicate that earth's corals are much better equipped to successfully rebound from thermal-induced coral bleaching events when they are not exposed to the direct deleterious localized effects of humanity, which make it much more difficult for corals to successfully recover from periodic exposure to dangerously high temperatures. Hence, it would seem to us that if we want to preserve earth's corals in the face of possible further global warming -- about which we can really do nothing -- our focus should be on trying to reduce the many deleterious local effects of humanity on coral reef environments, about which we can do something ... but only if we really put our minds, mouths and money to it. Reviewed 1 October 2008",3_2
"Personally I think in the short term the sensible source for most of our power is gas. With some encouragement for conventional North Sea gas producers and with shale gas development coming on almost everywhere, gas will remain cheap and plentiful for years. Gas-fired power stations are cheap and quick to build.",4_5
"President Obama likes to brag about the increased U.S. production of oil and gas. In his post-election press conference he stated: ""Our dependence on foreign oil is down."" While the statement is true, it falsely implies that he had something to do with that fact.",0_0
"koda A-Plus, an SUV in preparation, formerly known as Snowman or Polar. A bigger brother of koda Yeti.",0_0
"""A Cost/Benefit Analysis of Reducing the Number of Additional Carbon Emitters""",0_0
"Disclaimer : I discourage all crackpots who routinely read ""Not Even Wrong"" and who have visited this weblog unintentionally to stop reading because the large numbers below could make them really sick.",0_0
"Consider Hamas's victory in the Gaza and West Bank elections of 2006, and the subsequent takeover of Gaza by the terrorist group. Rather than produce a general collapse of moderate Palestinian camps, the PA instead reacted in a mature fashion, concluding that its own failure to deliver the promised peace had been the source of many of its political problems and recognizing the benefits of cooperating with Israel. The resulting payoff came quickly: even during the high-intensity Israeli incursion into Gaza and the emotions it spawned, the West Bank remained calm, a tribute to the new security arrangements.",0_0
"Bear in mind that the representation of clouds in climate models (and of the water vapour which is intimately involved with cloud formation) is such as to amplify the forecast warming from increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide on average over most of the models by a factor of about 3. In other words, two-thirds of the forecast rise in temperature derives from this particular model characteristic. Despite what the models are telling us and perhaps because it is models that are telling us no scientist close to the problem and in his right mind, when asked the specific question, would say that he is 95% sure that the effect of clouds is to amplify rather than to reduce the warming effect of increasing carbon dioxide. If he is not sure that clouds amplify global warming, he cannot be sure that most of the global warming is a result of increasing carbon dioxide.",5_1
"A cap-and-trade scheme is a lobbyist's dream. For those of you unacquainted with how these boondoggles work, it goes something like this: (1) regulators assign an emissions quota to tens of thousands of individual industrial suppliers and users of energy (because emissions are synonymous with conventional energy use, an emissions ""cap"" is the same as energy rationing); (2) these businesses then purchase the right to emit their allotment in the form of permits disbursed by a government-run auction; (3) these businesses are allowed to trade permits among themselves (ie, a company that exceeds its emissions quota can buy permits from a company that emitted less than its quota); and (4) the government spends revenue raised in the auction of emissions permits-as much as $300 billion a year, according to the Congressional Budget Office-on green technologies and mitigation of the cap-and-trade's adverse economic impact.",0_0
"makes Members of Congress tick, knows the key leaders intimately, knows the",0_0
"""We have temporarily delayed work at the plant based on ongoing discussions with the DOE regarding funding for the Project Nina program,"" the company's statement said. ""As a result, we have laid off 26 people.""",0_0
"The report provides information on the state of our National water resources, major policy announcements and trading activity for the 2007-08 irrigation season, and provides some analysis on how these factors impacted the water market throughout the season.",0_0
"Dr Idso is clearly no believer in Gaia or Medea, but rather an empiricist with a knack for explaining the complex in plain English.",0_0
"In brief,the CPP is a plan to cartelize state energy policiesalong the product lines ofCalifornia??s Global Warming Solutions Act and the Northeast States?? Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).Households and businesses would no longer be able tovote with their feet againstprogressive?? (Blue State) energypolicies, removing an important check ??? a shrinking tax base ???onregulatory excess.Politicians still advocating pro-growth (Red State) energy policieswithin an EPA-administered policy cartelwouldbe marginalized and look quixotic.",4_1
The divergence in the Mann/Lamb graphs (Figure 16) at this point is due to the considerable differences in the interpretation of the extent and warmth and extent of the MWP (outside our period of study) and the cold and extent of the LIA.,5_1
"The film suggests that evidence from ice cores proves that rising CO2 causes temperature increases over 650,000 years. The Court found that the film was misleading: over that period the rises in CO2 lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2000 years.",2_3
"""In scenario B the growth of the annual increment of CO2 is is reduced from 1.5%/yr today to 1%/yr in 1990, 0.5%/yr in 2000 and 0 in 2010; thus after 2010 is constant, 1.9 ppmv/yr.""",0_0
"Even the richest of private companies blush at the prospect of buying Gulfstream V jets, the absolute top of the line in business jet luxury. Except, of course, for the ridiculously oversized Boeing Business Jet, of which Congress appears to be buying 3 (the BBJ is the business version of the 737). I am sure there is one, but I can't think of a single Fortune 500 company, and I have worked for and with a lot of them and flown on their jets, that has even one BBJ.",0_0
"Further, everyone has heard for years that middle class incomes have stalled. Is it true? A recent study by economists at the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank shows that changes in the median wage are pulled down by the retirement of older workers and their replacement by less experienced younger workers. That study removes much of the issue. Expect it to be ignored. The San Francisco Reserve Bank also found that 69 percent of households surveyed in 2015 said they were ""living comfortably."" That's an increase from the 62 percent found in 2013. That doesn't support the widespread claim of system failure. Expect that to be ignored also.",0_0
The climate scare has only lasted as long as it has because the truth that the models have failed and the world has scarcely warmed has been artfully hidden. Let it be hidden no longer.,5_2
"Washington, D.C., October 12, 2007The announcement this morning of Al Gore as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is an unfortunate and misguided move by the Nobel committee, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The Prize was shared with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.",0_0
"When will that day come? When will politicians and activists who say their care about the world's poor stop worrying about global warming, pesticides and GMO crops and start helping us get the energy, food, medical facilities, technology, jobs, and economic growth we need to improve our lives?",0_0
"A climate criminal vehemently objects to an El Nino on the left side of the graph, but excitedly reports the possibility of one on the right side of the graph.",5_2
"The bark of an environmental activist group is often far worse than its bite. Many businesses have steeled themselves against junk science-fueled activists and have prevailed. The public is not likely to stop buying iPods, for example, because As You Sow arbitrarily disapproves of Apple's recycling efforts.",0_0
"1. Some people hate the light that CFLs give off. Lots of people, in fact; not just the ones in that New Yorker cartoon.",0_0
"Model Overestimates: As posted by Judith Curry, in its Opinion & Comment section Nature Climate Change published a paper by three members of the climate establishment comparing observed surface warming with the results of 117 model runs of 37 models. The periods cover the last 20 years and the last 15 years. The authors write that for the 20 year period the models over-estimated decadal surface warming by more than 2 times and that for the 15 year period the models over-estimated decadal surface warming by more than 4 times. They state: uch an inconsistency is only expected to occur by chance once in 500 years, if 20-year periods are considered statistically independent.",5_1
"Even some environmental groups are now opposed to biofuels. ""Corn ethanol is extremely dirty,"" says Michal Rosenoer, biofuels manager for Friends of the Earth. ""It leads to more climate pollution than conventional gasoline, and it causes deforestation as well as agricultural runoff that pollutes our water.""",0_0
"A public release on all this will be made here in the near future. Whatever the decision of PNAS, it would be better made sooner than later.",0_0
No Consensus: Earth's Top of Atmosphere Energy Imbalance in CMIP5-Archived (IPCC AR5) Climate Models,0_0
Conclusions: solar power is uneconomic. Government mandates and subsidies hide the true cost of renewable energy but these additional costs must be carried by others.,4_4
"Returns periodically in vogue the never dormant required to bring US President George W Bush even before an International Tribunal to answer various charges of war crimes, dallinvenzione evidence against Saddam Hussein in the series of abuses against prisoners of American soldiers, in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay, hinted of torture to extract information and confessions from suspected terrorists.",0_0
"With a Jew-hating theocracy to vote for; There are a lot of illusions out there about how the exercise of power will moderate the Muslim Brotherhood and similar groups. To some degree, Morsi's record in office shows a pragmatic willingness to maintain a treaty he deeply loathes with the ""sons of apes and pigs."" But we would do better to think of this as caution rather than moderation. If a real opportunity presented itself to destroy the Jewish state, there can be little doubt that Morsi and the members of his movement would think it their duty to act.",0_0
"An interesting feature of the models is that almost all show greater year-to-year variability than observations (Fig. 1.) The average model annual variance (detrended) of anomalies is 60 percent greater than that of the observational datasets. This is a clue that suggests the models atmospheres are more sensitive to forcing than is the real climate system, so that an increase in greenhouse forcing in models will lead to a greater temperature response than experienced by the actual climate system. But saying the climate models are too sensitive only identifies another symptom of the issue, not the cause.",5_1
And what does the officially hottest station in the UK at Gravesend look like?,0_0
"After evaluating the successes and failures of the Kyoto Protocol in light of those elements, the authors propose a series of U.S. initiatives at the international and domestic levels, with the aim of engaging the United States and major developing country emitters such as China in the global greenhouse gas regulatory effort and correcting the remaining defects in the design of the Kyoto Protocol. Although several alternatives to the current Kyoto Protocol regime have been proposed, Stewart and Weiner argue that the best approach for surmounting the current global climate policy impasse is a new strategy that would lead, sooner or later, to simultaneous accession by the United States and China (and other major developing country emitters) to a modified and improved version of the Kyoto Protocol agreement.",0_0
Jennifer Marohasy: Ocean Acidification: Photographs from Bob Halstead and a Note from Floor Anthoni The shallows near Dobu Island off Papua and New Guinea have active underwater fumaroles pumping out virtually pure CO2. The sea grass is extraordinarily lush and healthy and there is very healthy coral reef a few metres away.,3_2
"""Divine Intervention"": Drilling Boom Revives Hope for Natural Gas, Prices Fall By 42% in Two Months",0_0
"To summarize: He is arguing that a hockey stick emerges as an artifact of the method used for screening proxies to include in a reconstruction (with specific reference of course, to *Mike Manns* reconstructions). The cause of this artifact production is supposed by him to be due to the fact that: The series are scaled and/or eliminated according to their best match to measured temperature which has an upslope. The result of this sorting is a preferential selection of noise in the calibration range that matches the upslope, whereas the pre-calibration time has both temperature and unsorted noise.",0_0
The EPA's agenda: Undermine capitalism and America,0_0
Australias antarctic runway melting | Riverina Leader,0_0
"The author presents a table with estimates of costs of electrical generation by type, based on estimates from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).",0_0
"President Dwight Eisenhower's 1961 Farewell Address includes one of the most quoted phrases in political rhetoric. He warned ""against the acquisition of influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial-complex, whose growing influence could have ""grave implications the very structure of our society."" Ike's warning remains relevant today, but much less heeded has been the speech's second warning. Ike noted that the government's need for ever more advanced defense technologies would mean a growing reliance on science and scientific advisors, noting:",0_0
"CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis, Jr. on the flawed assumptions behind Gore's views on climate change.",0_0
"John Thune: The tall, handsome South Dakota senator wins most any telegenics contest. If he wants to run in 2012, he has plenty of time to explain why he was the only member of his state's delegation to vote for the $700 billion Wall Street ""rescue"" package.",0_0
recognizing that the Colts balls were measured sometime in here (indicating).They are measured at a relatively flat partof the curve (indicating). And if you sample from a,0_0
"7 hours ago Australias antarctic runway melting. AUSTRALIAS $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a new air ...",0_0
IPCC cites robust source: green activist organisation WWF.,5_2
To sum up my todays simple message: empirical data are important; scientific discoveries are important; the disclosure of malpractices in the IPCC and other bastions of the GWD are important; but we have to take part in the undergoing ideological battle. The subtitle of my five years old book was What is Endangered: Climate or Freedom? There is no doubt that it is all about freedom. We should keep that in mind.,0_0
> >> case because we can generate better distributions of the,0_0
"However, observations show that outgoing longwave infrared radiation has increased over the past 62 years, not decreased as predicted by AGW theory:",5_1
He frklarade to Energiewende described as a failure abroad and that if Germany closes its coal plants now they liberated issue certificates to migrate to other countries.,0_0
"We skeptics are not afraid of anything the Big Scare Campaign Team can say, because weve got the evidenc e that they dont (see my debate with Dr Glikson) . We dont ask that anyone censor the anti-science team. (Yes, let the Hamiltons and Flannerys speak, but please dont use my tax dollars to support their stone age reasoning.)",0_0
"The Obama administration's criticisms drafted in often personal terms distilled to two main points, which we now know were politicized, lobbyist-assisted complaints. These were:",0_0
"Over the past three days, the overheated Arctic has been gaining sea ice at a rate of one Manhattan area every 30 seconds. Green below shows the three day gain in ice.",1_1
"But the media was not on board. Most journalists are ignorant of climate and weather science. I was fortunate in that I was not, so my editors passed on to me the great amount of work and I was busy enough as it was a police reporter as it was! Since my beat included covering the climate science community in the heart of it in Colorado, I was well-attuned to how events were shaping up by 1989.",0_0
"It's in 1996 that this story gets very curious. At that time Mann needed help to ""defend"" his Ph.D work in a documented but unexplained controversy at Yale. Inexplicably, this ""controversy' was peremptorily swept aside and between 1996-98 Mann was named as the Alexander Hollaender Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Fellow (DOE).",0_0
"Unfortunately, state and federal officials have employed this highly effective fire killer only sporadically. The results are predictable, as recounted above.",0_0
"It is possible to look at this cycle and see a modulation that might be the 2300 year cycle. If the 2300 year cycle is indeed connected to a cycle of alignments of the 4 gas giant planets, then there needs to be some explanation of why there should be a 208 year cycle because the shorter gas giant cycle should average 171 years with a possible 179 year component. There is a cycle of that period of 171.0 years but its amplitude is not very high.",2_1
Activists with President Obama's campaign are trying to dampen criticism from environmentalists who say global warming has been given short shrift in the 2012 presidential race.,0_0
"Lets start with the Western Equatorial Pacific (5S-5N, 120E-155W), Figure 5. The warm water volume and depth-averaged temperature data show the Western Equatorial Pacific had slightly less warm water or was slightly cooler this year than during the opening months of 1997. But 2014 had more warm water or was warmer than 1982. The warm water volume and temperature to depth in the west dropped as the Kelvin wave carried some water east, but it has since rebounded.",0_0
"Never forget, never forget, and I think its very important for Democrats especially to remember this, that if Hitler had not come along, Franklin Roosevelt would have left office in 1941 with an unemployment rate in excess of 15 percent and an economic recovery strategy that had basically failed.",0_0
"As everyone knows, the weather is becoming more extreme with increasing numbers of blizzards, hurricanes, droughts and other calamities caused by global warming, right? Well, while the media tends to hype these severe weather events as unusual and increasing in frequency, a new study by the Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project reveals otherwise. As reported in the Wall Street Journal, this project, which involved sophisticated supercomputers, created a dataset of global atmospheric conditions dating back to 1891. And what did they find? Well, contrary to what global warming proponents have been saying, they found absolutely no evidence of more extreme weather patterns occurring over that entire period.",1_7
"The graph was plainly labeled ""UAH"", which as a mere Bible-College lecturer in fluid mechanics might not know, but anyone with any real knowledge of climate science would of course know is the University of Alabama at Huntsville, one of only two organizations producing regularly-published satellite-based global temperature records.",0_0
"Of course, downwelling IR from the sky is going on 24-7-365, acting to keep daytime temperatures warmer than they would otherwise be, too.",0_0
"By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Aug 11, 2015",0_0
"Juliet Eilperin offers up this thumbsucker in Tuesday's Washington Post about how environmentalists are ""are engaged in their most profound bout of soul-searching in more than a decade."" Doesn't look like they are searching very far, for the answers they have come up with sound drearily familiar. Unlike some media analyses, you can't blame Eilperin for the wispy character of this story: she has to go with the material she's got.",0_0
"Would it be considered ""piling on"" to remind Congress that last year's hurricane season predictions that is, a 95 percent chance of a very active season turned out to be a total bust? If hurricane experts armed with supercomputers can't predict a regional storm season six months into the future, why would anyone think that they can project global climate trends for the next 100 years?",0_0
"Some 16 groups have sent a letter to the White House opposing a proposed LNG facility in Maryland on the grounds that approval runs contrary to the administration's effort to fight climate change. Ironically, the administration's attempt to curtail the use of coal here in the U.S. has resulted in a spurt in exports of this carbon-intensive fuel to overseas markets to which exports of natural gas are limited.",0_0
America as a whole awoke to the coldest it has been in November since 1976 38 years ago. The Lower-48 or CONUS spatially average temperature plummeted overnight to only 20F typical of mid-winter not November 18th!,1_3
"If positive feedback was actually a problem, anthropogenic H2O would be causing more feedback than anthropogenic CO2. Does the climate care which greenhouse gas molecule is making things hotter?",2_3
"This was a silly discussion, wasn't it? My point is that there exists an understandable answer and it dramatically differs from Brian Cox's answer.",0_0
Millard Public Schools will stop using a children's book about global warming but only until the district can obtain copies with a factual error corrected.,0_0
Obama Will Personally Attend UN Climate Summit- Will it be a Repaeat of Copenhagen?,0_0
"Experts say that hurricanes are getting more intense due to increasing CO2. At some point they may even become as intense as they were 75 years ago, when CO2 was 310 ppm.",1_7
"There are other reporters that make up history when it comes to congressional climate policy. Ezra Klein does it, too.",0_0
"Bali followed this generic script. As Fiona Harvey and John Aglionby reported in the Financial Times: ""At last, the world had agreed to talk again about the shape of a new international framework to avert dangerous climate change.""",0_0
Rosenberg scheduled the forum for 1 PM Tuesday beneath the golden dome of the Massachusetts State House in Boston.,0_0
"So the problem is that climate science went down the path of equating flux densities in their energy budgets, instead of the correct procedure of equating energy. If you equate energy youre fine; if you equate energy flux density, you create mistakes.",0_0
The Canadian statistics expert also writes that the proxies that Mann and Rahmstorf used do not contain any useful information on the past history of the AMOC .,5_1
> >> The global-mean surface air temperature anomaly for 1998,0_0
"Green Stimulus Fails To Be ""Timely, Targeted, and Temporary""",0_0
"However, despite these changes in the Europe he extols so often, President Obama says this is America's ""Sputnik moment."" He wants the United States to ""invest"" in ""the Apollo projects of our time"" spending countless billions of additional taxpayer dollars to ""stimulate"" pricey renewable energy, high-speed rail, climate change ""prevention"" and other projects. His April 13 budget speech reiterated this commitment.",0_0
Theres only one small problem: The lesson in living repsonsibly to protect the climate has backfired. The schools ventilation is so bad that it is making students and teachers get ill by the score. Hat-tip: EIKE .,0_0
"As I have presented on numerous occasions over the past 5 years, ocean heat content data and satellite-era sea surface temperature data both indicate that naturally occurring processes are responsible for the warming of the global oceans, not manmade greenhouse gases. If this topic is new to you, please refer to the free illustrated essay The Manmade Global Warming Challenge (42MB) for an introduction. The discussions and documentation are much more detailed in my ebook Who Turned on the Heat?",2_1
"There's an old adage that ""no news is good news."" In today's world of fear-injected reporting, the principle should perhaps be restated as ""good news is no news.""",0_0
Kenneth P. Green is a resident scholar at AEI.,0_0
"The punch line here is obvious: Numbers don't lie. And when it comes to discussions about energy and climate change, we need a lot more numbers and a lot less hyperbole and wishful thinking.",0_0
There are adjustments on top of adjustments. Homogenised records are being used to correct raw records. Some man-made adjustments can infect data for miles around,5_1
"If miracles happened for Mann, they came in the form of Barry Saltzman. You see, this struggling student's career was transformed the moment Saltzman became his Ph.D adviser. Only after Saltzman applied his influence were Mann's lofty credentials ""rushed through."" Mann then turned himself into a makeshift tree ring counter, and overnight became the iconic figure in the IPCC Third Report (2001). The rest is history, as they say.""",0_0
"Wind power will push up electricity prices, it shows a underskning made of Freningen Swedish Landscape Protection. Wind power's high production costs and irregular supply of electricity contributes to hjda electricity prices and smre million. To continue subsidizing this industry is economically and miljmssigt madness. Lt is not television hectoliters in the wall become a hole in the head.",0_0
"Armed individuals acting on behalf of the ""New Forests Company"" trying to earn carbon credits which are being routinely changed to cash through fraudulent schemes in many countries of the world came to a village in Uganda, shot a couple of children, and flattened the village. If you have the nerves, read the article to see details.",0_0
What right does the West have to dictate poverty to the rest of the world?,0_0
CO2 Science Videos Ask Key Questions about Copenhagen Climate Conference,0_0
"But that is only part of the story. What is more relevant is that an intense debate about climate change and the alleged solutions to temperature increase has been going on in Italy in the last few years, that led several policy-makers and other stakeholders to endorse non-alarmist, if not openly skeptic, positions with regard to climate policies.",5_1
"The struggle to preserve our constitutional system of liberty and representative government is a great unfolding political war, and the outcome is far from certain. Those armed with Fonte's analysis, however, will be well-armed and heavily armored for the battles ahead.",0_0
"Throughout the rest of the world, governments own all mineral resourcesregardless of who owns the landwhich discourages drilling. Foreign companies are building factories in the United States because our energy prices are one-third of the costs experienced throughout the rest of the world.",0_0
They also differ in their estimates about how much of the 0.8C rise in the past 150 years is caused by human activities and not natural variation.,5_1
Good numbers of polar bears are showing up in and around the Churchill area,3_2
"But, I also know the intercept of 78 units is not exact. So, I shifted the time and found the standard error in the best fit curve running through the central time point: 2.22 units. I used these to find my uncertainty in the expected value based on the fit. Thats shown in purple.",0_0
"Its justified on the basis that environmentalists are the good guys, while farmers exploit natural resources for profit.",0_0
The eco-themed science fiction movie Avatar helped cement James Cameron's standing as one of Hollywood's most strident environmentalists.,0_0
The infamous Hockey Stick Graph (Mann et al.) has been comprehensively discredited and has been removed by the IPCC from their 4th Report. It is therefore surprising to still find it inthe governmentssection on the scientific justification of Climate Change.,5_1
"7. WARMING CAUSES CO2 TO RISE, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND The rate of rise in atmospheric CO2 is currently 2 ppm/yr, a rate which is 100 times as fast as any time in the 300,000 year Vostok ice core record. And we know our consumption of fossil fuels is emitting CO2 200 times as fast ! So, where is the 100x as fast rise in todays temperature causing this CO2 rise? Cmon people, think. But not to worryCO2 is the elixir of lifelets embrace more of it!",2_3
Informing legislators and regulatory agencies of research findings.,0_0
"10. Video of the Day (below). Watch the ""Un-building of an ink jet printer,"" from Matthias Wandel's Woodworking for Engineers blog. As he tears down an HP ink jet printer/scanner, Matthias comments on the ingenious ways HP has removed costs through eliminating many small parts such as springs for buttons or clips for wires, and switching to cheaper DC motors with encoders versus the older stepper motors. Those innovative cost savings in production are passed along to consumers, who can buy an HP inkjet printer for as low as $29.99!",0_0
"Berresford ""Berry' Bingham, political director of the SEIU Local 1021, found slain in his home:",0_0
"Throughout the 1990s, this infatuation with globalization and a ""time-space compression"" in the virtual world led most Westerners to ignore the twofold epochal change taking place in the real world: the transfer of the center of gravity of the world economy from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with ""three billion new capitalists"" poised to put an end to three centuries of Euro-Atlantic economic primacy; and the rise of a ""second nuclear age"" in Asia and with it, the concomitant end of three centuries of Western military superiority.1",0_0
"In Matt Ridley's latest column, he explains how even though environmentalists claim the moral high ground, their policies actually defend the wealthy at the expense of the world's poorest people, here's an excerpt:",4_1
"Other new studies have debunked many of the dubious claims made by the global warming alarmists. For example, the claim that droughts would be more frequent, severe and wide ranging during global warming, has now being exposed as fallacious. A new paper in Geophysical Research Letters authored by Konstantinos Andreadis and Dennis Lettenmaier finds droughts in the U.S. becoming ???shorter, less frequent and cover a small portion of the country over the last century.?? www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2006/10/13/where-are-the-droughts",1_7
"In September 2009 the IPCC were caught promoting a Wikipedia graph . The Hanno graph was placed in the UN Climate Change Science Compendium, but in the cold light of day ended up being a Wikipedia graph done by an ecologist called Hanno Sandvik. It was based on data-sets already known to be deeply flawed, the Jones and Mann set (the Hockey Stick), and the Briffa set (the other Hockey stick). The Jones and Mann set used trees that grow faster when CO2 increases, Mann left out some data he said he included, and the statistical methods used were so erroneous and powerful they created a hockey stick even if they were used on random red noise data sets instead of real tree rings. The Briffa set turned out to be heavily influenced by just one tree in remote northern Russia. I??ve covered the flaws in the Mann graph here , and the Briffa graph here.",5_1
The importance of the vote on S.J.Res.26 is hard to exaggerate. Nothing less than the integrity of our constitutional system of separated powers and democratic accountability hangs in the balance.,0_0
"""This is huge. It means that Republicans are going to insist that climate and energy policy be made by the people's elected representatives rather than by non-elected judges, litigators, and bureaucrats. It means that EPA regulation of carbon dioxide (CO2) under the Clean Air Act will be an issue in the 2010 elections. It means that citizens will be able to hold accountable and punish at the ballot box any Member of Congress who votes against Barton's resolution of disapproval and in favor of the compliance burdens, rising energy costs, and litigation risks to the economy that EPA regulation of CO2 unavoidably entails.""",0_0
"Proof-stories are those that say The science predicted this-and-such, and here is the evidence verifying the prediction. These were common in the early days of the panic, back in the late 90s when temperatures cooperated with climate models, but are now as rare as conservatives in Liberal Arts departments.",5_1
BOTTOM LINE ON THE WARMING OF THE REST-OF-THE-WORLD SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES,0_0
The Windsor Star Google News Archive Search,0_0
"Additionally, Kerry acknowledges: ""We are all in this one together. No nation can stand alone."" After 15 years of supporters' best efforts, the global community has rejected the Kyoto Protocolwhich aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from industrialized countries on the theory that it would stop global warming. It expired December 31, 2012. The world's biggest emitters refused to sign on, the U.S. never ratified it, and Canada has since completely backed out. The U.K. is likely not far behind.",0_0
"By Bruce Edward Walker, Action Institute, Aug 14, 2015",0_0
"""Humans will need two Earths by 2030' (alternative headline: People need to read more Julian Simon):",0_0
"Here we explain that the root cause of the 2000-2015 western Pacific Ocean warming is increased heat flow from deep ocean volcanoes, hydrothermal vents, and heat emitting fault zonesnot man-made atmospheric global warming. Data supporting this contention are diverse, reliable, and abundant. A summary of key points substantiating a geological heat flow origin to warming in the western Pacific Ocean:",2_1
"And after the psychiatrists arrive, then what? Why - family planning, that's what . Lifesite ;",0_0
Early in the interview Schlchterreminds us that during Roman times in the Alps the forest line was much higher than it is today; there were hardly any glaciers. Nowhere in the detailed travel accounts from Roman times are glaciers mentioned . He criticizes todays climate scientists for focusing on a time period that is indeed much too short .,2_1
"""The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality.""",0_0
"Slowly but gradually, Europe is awakening to a green energy crisis, an economic and political debacle that is entirely self-inflicted.",0_0
"People whose mothers never went to church are twice as likely to cohabit than those whose mothers went more than once a week. The direct effects of churchgoing are even more dramatic. A woman who never attends church is seven times more likely to cohabit than one who goes weekly. Cohabitation in turn affects marriage and divorce, making marriage less likely and divorce more likely. Churchgoers have happier, more stable marriages, contributing to the chance they'll have more children.",0_0
"7 Richard Betts, ""Should Strategic Studies Survive?"" World Politics, 1997, and ""Is Strategy an Illusion?"" International Security (Fall 2000). William Anthony Hay and Harvey Sicherman, eds., Is There Still a West? The Future of the Atlantic Alliance, 2007",0_0
"/s/ Gerald C. Griffin JSC, Apollo Flight Director, and Director of Johnson Space Center, 22 years",0_0
"be groomed in turn, it receives only a brief grooming and usually",0_0
See links under Challenging the Orthodoxy NIPCC and Challenging the Orthodoxy.,0_0
"In short, the parable of the British, that of Beckham, Diana, but even Thatcher and also Blair, and 'always the same: Novita', Enthusiasm, Celebs', Idolatry, Doubts, Revelations, Criticism, Obsession, I hate (Regret and then, after his death). A comparison with the beautiful country can 'help you understand what may be the peculiar British attitude towards public figures.",0_0
"""Thank you, David Cameron, leader of ""the greenest government ever."" Thank you, Ed Miliband, father of the Climate Change Act, the most expensive suicide note in history. Between you, you seem determined to switch off our lights, lock the door and throw away the key. We owe you more than we can say.""",0_0
"The actual-to-future-potential method of estimating the change in emissions means EPA can disregard the actual change in emissions caused by modifications, virtually negating Congress's intent to have NSR apply only when modifications are likely to significantly increase emissions.29 Combined with EPA's narrow interpretation of RMR&R;, the actual-to-future-potential methodology means industries where changes in production practices must be made frequently to respond to seasonal changes in product demand or government regulations, such as refineries, face virtually continuous NSR permitting requirements. Two examples demonstrate the delays and costs imposed by this arrangement:",0_0
"15. Meadows, Rander, and Meadows, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update, 257258.",0_0
"Murray, an energy expert at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, lives a low-carbon lifestyle. He loves nature and the outdoors. He's practically a tree-hugger. Nevertheless, he makes clear, ""I am not an environmentalist.""",0_0
"We see a real plummet over the last few months, which by the way was anticipated at the beginning of the year as we reported here .",0_0
"colleagues are spending this week as I am: It is the first 100 days landmark,",0_0
"The panel is clearly right that climate change presents a gradually growing risk to the United States. In fact, though, the Risky Business report is a poor guide to managing that risk. The report's estimates, for instance, exclude America's great capacity to adapt to climate change, which is among the highest of all countries. The U.S. economy commands a vast stock of capital with which to prevent harm from climate change or to repair it. The openness of U.S. markets greatly augments the process of adjusting to a changing climate. And open access to the political process is already nudging state and local governments toward taking the needed countermeasures. By not quantifying the likely effects of these factors, the Risky Business study built-in a bias toward greatly overstating the actual risks.",0_0
He doesnt seem to recognize that a major hit on the US economy that is chump change for climate control isnt a good idea. Propaganda doesnt require a lot of though.,4_1
Illustration: The world in chains by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times.,0_0
"On the face of it, since Belinda said the reason Australian cities are warmer than the countryside is urbanisation, this work weakens the case for disastrous future warming caused by humanity. But it is a conditional conclusion which depends on the actual quantity of warming caused by the UHI effect.",5_1
"Because of this development, the reconstructions of the temperatures during the last 1,000 years suddenly speak against the idea that CO2 has a significant impact on the climate because they demonstrate that the climate has been doing the same thing for many centuries - changing by half a degree per century or so, in relatively random but not quite uncorrelated directions. And because this new argument is inconvenient, Gavin Schmidt tries to sling mud on the whole framework and all the logical arguments that have failed to confirm his predetermined conclusion. That's why he's slinging mud on the importance of ""unprecedentedness"", too.",2_1
"Erroneous Climate Science Statement By Tom Karl, Director Of The National Climate Data Center And President Of The American MeteorologicalSociety",0_0
"As the CO 2 content of the air rises ever higher, soybean plants should maintain higher rates of photosynthesis than they do now, even in the presence of environmental stresses including high temperature, water deficit or both of these growth-reducing phenomena. Of all environmental stresses, water stress may be the most important, as water limits the growth of plants in many areas around the globe. The results of this research suggest that, in the words of the authors, ""the deleterious effects of short-term water deficit on the rate of leaf carbon assimilation in future climates of elevated CO 2 could be rather less than at the present."" And it is just such a phenomenon that may allow plants of the future to recover quicker, following periods of water stress, and bring them back to an enhanced level of photosynthetic activity that allows them to sequester even greater quantities of carbon from the air than they do today. Reviewed 15 December 1998",3_3
"This post provides an update on the progress of the evolution of the 2014/15 El Nio with data through the beginning of August 2014. The post is similar in layout to the May , the June and the July updates. The post includes 3 gif animations and 13 illustrations so the post might take a few moments to load on your browser. Please click on the illustrations and animations to enlarge them.",0_0
From banning supersize drinks to banning supersize storms?,0_0
"1. Unlike annual compiled CO2 emissions and CO2 monthly atmospheric levels, recent sulfur emissions and SO2 atmospheric aerosol levels are guesstimates. This study is based on guesstimates, which are based on tenuous assumptions, which are likely not a reflection empirical reality.",5_1
"That they fancy themselves as objective is embarrassing to me. No, I don?t consider myself completely objective either. But at least I can entertain alternative possibilities regarding the sensitivity of the climate system. If a scientist entertains anything that smacks of ?skepticism?, however, they are not allowed to play in the IPCC sandbox.",5_1
Update #2 On GCCI Electrical Grid Disruption Chart,0_0
"There is, again not surprisingly, a very good temperature forecast made by a nave forecast model which is based upon the idea that the temperature next year will remain the same as that of the previous year (see Carter, pp. 128-129).",0_0
"Larger Image: GMST vs Time March 25, 2008",0_0
"This greatly reduces a bank's risk from making these loans, but can also create a substantial ""moral hazard"" because of the taxpayer backing. As I wrote in The Wall Street Journal in 2007, ""FHA-insured loans have also been at the center of some of the worst excesses of the housing boom, including mortgage fraud, loans made without income verification, and property ""flipping' with inflated appraisal."" The FHA received a $1.7 billion taxpayer bailout in 2013.",0_0
"If non-radiating O2is exchanged for absorbing/emitting CO2, emissivity, e, of planet to space must increase.",0_0
"It is a moral imperative to keep the power flowing. If our forefathers a century ago had worried about the side effects of using all that energy and set in place restrictions to stop it, millions no, billions would have suffered as a result.",4_5
Suspend disbelief for a moment and just assume that man-made CO2 causes global warming...,2_3
"""And after two and a half years they continue to target the American people with their job-killing radical socialist agenda. This week the extremists in the Obama EPA pushed new rules on 26 states that will kill thousands of jobs, cost billions of dollars and increase electricity rates for every family.""",4_1
"""My cover story for the March print edition on the California high-speed rail boondoggle is now available on the main site. This project is worth keeping an eye on, because it has already claimed $3.2 billion from the Obama administration and hopes to get at least $18 billion from federal taxpayers in the years to come. In the more immediate term, California is angling for some of the high-speed rail stimulus funds that Florida Gov. Rick Scott rejected. In a broader sense, the California high-speed rail effort is a case study in what happens when liberal fantasy confronts reality.""",0_0
"Higgins may only have a relatively small band of followers, but her plan to convince the UN to accept ?ecocide? as a fifth ?crime against peace?, which could be tried at the International Criminal Court, chimes with mainstream green thinking. As the Guardian reported, supporters of a new ecocide law believe it could also be used to prosecute ?climate deniers?.",0_0
"Other EPA rules are equally suspect. Its mercury regs are based on an imaginary group of US women who catch and eat 300 pounds of fish annually and whose children would supposedly improve their IQs by an un-measurable 0.00209 points if coal-fired power plants are shut down. As to soot, EPA's illegal experiments on 296 people found that even ""dangerous"" or ""lethal"" exposures harmed no one.",0_0
"Spending billions of dollars on a penal carbon dioxide tax fails the cost:benefit test. Such a measure acts only to reduce Australias wealth, and therefore our capacity to address the real-world problems of natural climate change and hazard.",4_1
"But I digress in short, when I wrote pieces on the climate, I refused to write on the theory that chlorofluorocarbons were the sole cause of worldwide warming because that had never been proved. Now, though there was evidence that the use of aerosols were clearly evident in the upper atmosphere; the data did not support that this was the cause of the fear-mongering on ozone holes which was all the rage in the climate community of the late 1980s and 1990s.",0_0
"In light of these several positive findings, Ginger et al . concluded that ""larval and post-larval forms of the C. gigas in the Yellow Sea are probably resistant to elevated CO 2 and decreased near-future pH scenarios."" In fact, they opine that ""the pre-adapted ability to resist a wide range of decreased pH may provide C. gigas with the necessary tolerance to withstand rapid pH changes over the coming century."" Reviewed 16 October 2013",3_2
01 Second Annual International Conference on Climate Change Podcast: Christopher Monckton,0_0
"The Guardian's John Vidal tried to find the thinnest sliver lining in the very dark clouds over Bonn. Referring to the controversial Danish text, which would have sidelined the UN and abandoned the Kyoto Protocol, and the nonbinding Copenhagen Accords that President Obama helped cobble together at the last minute of the previous climate summit, Vidal suggests that perhaps ""what we are seeing is the welcome, overdue correction to last year's kamikaze global diplomacy which fatally destabilised the global talks and ended in the Copenhagen fiasco. This analysis would say the negotiations are back on track, the majority of world countries are involved as opposed to just a few, and, with a fair wind and a raised level of ambition by everyone, it could lead to a much more balanced agreement.""",0_0
"Cut allowable mercury emissions by 69 percent - the first-ever national cap on mercury emissions. Emissions will be cut from current emissions of 48 tons to a cap of 26 tons in 2010, and 15 tons in 2018.",0_0
"* Kavavaugh seems to make this point but says that the language ?each pollutant subject to regulation under this Chapter? does not occur in the section on PSD permitting . It does. Thus, I think he meant that the ?any air pollutant? language of CAA 169 does not occur in the PSD permitting section.",0_0
"A quite recent headline in our news warned that Regions must brace for weather extremes: UN climate panel. Apparently this will be the after-effect of global warming caused by man-made greenhouse gases. We can expect more frequent extreme events such as the drought in Texas and the Thailand floods because of global warming, they said.",0_0
3) No nation is willing to pay the political price for the economic devastation that will occur if it seriously suppresses its energy use.,0_0
"National Research Council, 2010. Hidden Costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production and Use. National Academies Press, Washington DC, pp. 474. http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record id=12794",0_0
"Modelling the vertical structure of water vapour is subject to greater uncertainty since the humidity profile is governed by a variety of processes. The CMIP3 models exhibited a significant dry bias of up to 25% in the boundary layer and a significant moist bias in the free troposphere of up to 100% (John and Soden, 2007). Upper tropospheric water vapour varied by a factor of three across the multi-model ensemble (Su et al., 2006). Many models have large biases in lower stratospheric water vapour (Gettelman et al., 2010), which could have implications for surface temperature change (Solomon et al., 2010).",5_1
"Note the exposed dark mudflats. What sort of natural surface has the lowest albedo, and thus absorbs the greatest amount of solar radiation?",0_0
"For example, the Scandinavian countries, which have already implemented carbon taxes, could continue on that path. The United States and other countries interested in tradable permits, or a system combining permits with a cost cap, could use that approach. Other European countries might want to try a combination of command-and-control regulations and market-based approaches.",0_0
"And this question is far from decided. I won't get into all the arguments here, but to the extent there is any consensus, it is that man' CO2 is probably causing some warming. Whether this is a catastrophe or a nuisance depends on feedbacks which are not well understood.",5_1
"The lethal effects of existing fuel economy standards have been amply documented by the National Academy of Sciences and other authorities. But as the history of the air bag mandate demonstrates, dismissing CAFE-safety concerns as an ""industry argument' can be one very deadly mistake.",0_0
"The four researchers concluded that the phenomena they observed ""may contribute to nutritional feedback mechanisms to sustain tree growth when nutrients become limiting,"" such as some have hypothesized might occur over time in trees growing on low-fertility soils in CO 2 -enriched air (see Nitrogen (Progressive Limitation Hypothesis) in our Subject Index). The findings of this study, however, as well as those of the study of de Graaff et al . (2009) -- which was published in the same issue of Soil Biology & Biochemistry -- clearly indicate that earth's plants are well equipped to deal with this hypothetical roadblock to higher plant productivity in a CO 2 -enriched world of the future. Reference",3_3
Adjunct Scholar Fran Smith criticizes Immelt's proposal.,0_0
"Global sea ice area is also above normal, as it has been for much of the year.",1_1
"He added that, ""We can't accept selling the credits cheaply to the EU."" Aleksander Popov, head of the environment department at the Fuel and Energy Ministry, said, ""It will depend on how Japan responds. If we cannot secure buyers it will be meaningless.""",0_0
"Some 200 nations may sign a modest Kyoto II climate treaty, say December 2014 media reports from Lima, Peru. But will developing nations agree to stop using coal to generate electricity? No. Curtail economic growth? No. Cease emitting carbon dioxide? Maybe, but only a little, sometime in the future, when it is more convenient to do so, without binding commitments. Then why would they sign a treaty?",0_0
"1. We have shown that the Parker Nature study entitled Large-scale warming is not urban has serious issues on its conclusions, as well as demonstrated that an unrecognized until now warm bias occurs in nighttime minimum temperatures ( see Pielke Sr., R.A., and T. Matsui, 2005: Should light wind and windy nights have the same",0_0
"Speaking of fossil energy-thirsty China, Kerry has deftly negotiated a ""unique cooperative effort"" with the country to combat climate change. Speaking at a press conference at a Beijing car-making factory he said: ""I'm very pleased to report today that the leaders of China have agreed to join us in a mutual effort China and the United States will put extra effort into exchanging information and discussing policies that will help both of us to be able to develop and lead on the standards that need to be announced next year in the global climate change agreement.""",0_0
"6.	""Climate change is hitting humans and nature worldwide to an extent that is historically without an example."" When the ""green"" Greenland got its ice shelf, it was much worse!",0_0
"Yes, you can be happy that lots of folks have managed to get control of their domain (regulators, unions, politicians). That this then breaks the ability of a market system to adapt and respond to unexpected events is only natural To then complain about the system YOU have constructed is interesting theater but perhaps not in the way you think.",0_0
"Remember, emissions must be reduced below 1990 levels. That baseline was carefully chosen. Emissions in Germany and the Soviet Union were still very high in 1990. Germany had just swallowed up East Germany, then still using inefficient coal-fired plants. Now that they have been modernized and incorporated into Germany proper, the demand that emissions must be reduced below 1990 levels becomes, for Germany, a painless exercise in anti-American moralizing. The same goes for Russia. In the last eight years, economic activity in the former Soviet Union has fallen by about one-third. Today, therefore, Russia is way below its old emissions levelsalthough not because it has followed environmentalist prescriptions. Britain has shifted from coal to North Sea oil and gas, so that it, too, is safely below its former emission levels.",0_0
Actually my point is what has Boko Haram and ISIS got to do with Climate Change ? answer is f..k all.,0_0
"But thanks to drilling and fracking on private lands, under commonsense state regulations, U.S. oil and gas production is increasing, for the first time in 15 years, despite continued leasing and drilling moratoria on federal onshore and offshore lands. America is on the threshold of a manufacturing renaissance fueled largely by access to abundant, reliable, affordable fuels and petrochemical feed stocks, to power and supply raw materials for factories, refineries and chemical plants.",4_5
"six decades with the blood of our citizens and the strength of our arms."" In essence, the fundamental aims of American foreign policy are universal",0_0
Economy In Jeopardy As Budget Deal Affirms EPA Climate Programs,0_0
"The global temperature ?savings? of the Kerry-Lieberman bill is astoundingly small?0.043 C (0.077 F) by 2050 and 0.111 C (0.200 F) by 2100. In other words, by century?s 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
Environmental Policy: The administration should work towards extending market institutions that help conservation efforts by shoring up property rights.,0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Economic Policy Fellow John Berlau on why the court's verdict is a victory for investors:,0_0
"Temperature oscillations recorded in Greenland ice cores over the past 500 years (Fig. 2) are truly remarkable. At least 40 periods of warming and cooling have occurred since 1480 AD, all well before CO 2 emissions could have been a factor.",2_1
"But as Aaron Wildavsky, one of the great policy analysts of the 20th Century documented, some risks are unsuited to pre-emptive mitigation. Attempting to head risks off ahead of time generally fails unless the nature of the risk is extremely well known, and the efficacy of the proposed intervention is equally well known. Consider this: say that you're a batter, and you're 70% sure that you know the pitcher is going to throw you a fast ball. Your success hitting that particular pitcher's fast ball is also 70%. What's the probability you'll actually hit the ball? Only 49%. The other 51% of the time, either he throws a different pitch and you miss, or he throws the fastball and you miss.",0_0
"New York City is 1199's true power center, however. It's hard to overstate the significance of 1199 to the so-called progressive movement that now controls almost every major city office. City council speaker and leader of the Progressive Caucus Melissa Mark-Viverito is a former organizer for 1199, which has played an active role in her career from the beginning. The union suggested that the Puerto Ricanborn and Columbia Universityeducated heiress move from Greenwich Village to East Harlem to establish a political base. To help her launch her campaign for the city council speakership, 1199 threw a lavish party in San Juan. The union's political director, Kevin Finnegan, served on Mark-Viverito's transition team when she became speaker.",0_0
"In discussing the findings of their experiment, Hikami et al . say that the upward trend in the calcification of C. gaudichaudii in response to ocean acidification ""can probably be attributed to the increase in CO 2 , possibly through enhancement of symbiont photosynthesis, a phenomenon known as the CO 2 -fertilizing effect,"" citing Ries et al . (2009), although the concept was first described several years earlier by Idso et al . (2000). And in discussing possible causes of the two contrasting types of calcification response to atmospheric CO 2 enrichment (positive and negative), they speculate that ""the type of symbiont influences the strength of the CO 2 -fertilizing effect.""",3_3
"This microbial carbon dioxide production may cause a 2 to 3 degree Celsius rise in global temperatures over the next 100 years. He also says that, ""The failure to incorporate animals and their interactions with microbial communities into global decomposition models has been highlighted as a critical limitation in our understanding of carbon cycling under current and future climate scenarios.""",5_1
"Over some multidecadal periods, the sea surface temperatures of the North Atlantic warm faster than the rest of the global oceans, and during other multidecadal periods, the North Atlantic sea surface temperatures warm slower than the rest of the global oceans and can cool dramatically. For the period of November 1981 to February 2014, the sea surface temperatures of the North Atlantic were on one of their naturally occurring upswings.",2_1
I have plotted below the numbers of these tornadoes since 1970 using the data from NOAAs Storm Prediction Centre.,0_0
"Citigroups Energy 2020 report says the US petroleum industry could add as many as 3.6 million jobs by 2020 and increase the US gross domestic product by as much as 3 percent, while also generating billions of dollars in lease bonuses, rents, royalties and taxes for local, state and federal governments.",4_5
"I know someone who was killed doing this, in what I suspect was the same manner. The truck's hydraulics were functional, but the control levers to engage them were not. Thus, the box had to be raised by activating the hydraulics from under the truck. As it did, the weight of the sliding load caused the truck to suddenly move forward (the brakes were defective or disengaged) and he was crushed beneath the rear wheels.",0_0
"GM advocates have been slow to respond, or don't want to counter misinformation at all. A website, GMO Answers, was developed just last year, providing access to at least some experts on the technology. That's years too late for an issue that has been contentious for more than two decades.",0_0
"As just explained,GHG regulation of motor vehicles would activate PSD regulation of stationary sources, and PSD isan essential adjunctof the NAAQS program.PSDs central purpose is toprevent significant deterioration of air quality in areas that comply with NAAQS.",0_0
"In essence, what we have here is a new satellite using new tools to take measurements. The data recovered is analyzed using guesses and inferences. Their analysis is presented with a margin of error as large as the amount of ice they say is melting from Antarctica. The loss is is less than 1% of the normal annual melt.",5_1
"Besides making claims that overstate how much we know about the science of climate change, the Initiative's main claim bases its call for action on the notion that ""the consequences of climate change will be significant, and will hit the poor the hardest."" This ignores the extreme uncertainty involved, as the consequences depend on the projected temperature rises, which are themselves in dispute. There is significant uncertainty even within the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as to what the temperature rises will be. Rises of 1.5 C may not have much effect, whereas rises of 5.4 C may have a profound effect. But the actual data, as opposed to the models, suggest a modest temperature rise of just over 1 C.",5_1
"While better than the government controlling any of it, one can't help from realizing that the cultural and political views of Americans are somewhat shaped by a tiny group of people.",0_0
"Even my most antagonistic critics have nearly always understood that I have not attempted to offer my own reconstruction. Indeed, this annoys many critics e.g. here . On numerous occasions, Ive explained that reconciliation of inconsistencies between proxies especially between seemingly like proxies in the same region is, in my opinion, a prerequisite prior to any reconstruction being anything other than arbitrary. The inconsistency between various lines of evidence in the Yamal-Polar Urals region is a type case of such inconsistency.",0_0
"A Czech tractor driver died under eight tons of manure in a bizarre accident that has baffled his employers, local media reported. The 34-year old man, identified only as Martin T, suffocated after the load fell on him while he was dumping it in a field near the western Czech city of Karlovy Vary, news Web Site www.novinky.cz reported Sunday. ""It absolutely beats me how this could happen,"" said Vladimir Erps, chief of the company employing the victim. ""The truck is operated from the tractor cabin, using hydraulics. There was nothing for him to do under the truck, but it's tough to blame him now that he is dead,"" the news site quoted him as saying.",0_0
"We can expect the onset of a deep bicentennial minimum of total solar irradiance (TSI) in approximately 204211 and the 19th deep minimum of global temperature in the past 7500 years in 205511. After the maximum of solar cycle 24, from approximately 2014 we can expect the start of deep cooling with a Little Ice Age in 205511. Habibullo I. Abdussamatov, Russian Academy of Science, 1 February 2012",1_2
"UAW Speaks More Softly, Still Carries Big Stick",0_0
"Figure 10 is presenting the depth of the 20 deg C isotherm along a band from 2S to 2N. The positive anomalies, working their way eastward since the beginning of 2014, were caused by the downwelling Kelvin wave, which pushes down on the thermocline (the 20 deg C isotherm). Youll note how the anomalies grew in strength as the Kelvin wave migrated east. That does not mean the Kelvin wave is getting stronger as it traveled east; that simply indicates that the thermocline is normally closer to the surface in the eastern equatorial Pacific than it is in the western portion.",0_0
"Images: WA Parliament House Nachoman-au , Cottesloe Beach: WA Tourism",0_0
"In January 2015, a Greenpeace activist called for the beheading of a member of the House of Lords on the website of the Guardian. When challenged, he repeated the call, and again. People who questioned the wisdom of these remarks were attacked or banned. The Guardian actively moderates its comments, but even though Gary Evans calls to behead Matt Ridley caused a bit of a stir, it took the editors 32 hours to realize that death threats against political opponents is not really how we like to do things in Britain nowadays. (The Guardian has since worked hard to try to erase the past.) As if on cue, Natalie Bennett, Green Party leader, called for the decriminalisation of belonging to a violent terror group. The Guardian simultaneously carried stories about the beheading of a Japanese hostage by Islamic State.",0_0
"Not just Damon and Kunens (already mentioned here )by chance, I have found yet another Science paper (this time Broecker from August 1975 ) making it clear that, for a few years up to then, the general consensus among scientists had been that the world was cooling:",5_1
"""Staff attorneys at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are busy reviewing the legality of the proposed merger between giant wireless carriers AT&T; and T-Mobile.""",0_0
"Q. Even putting aside the fact that Exponentsresults were not statistically significant, are you",0_0
"Tree-ring expert Michael Mann had simply picked up Saltzman's thread. Mann's highly dramatic ""hockey stick' graph was to dress the scene very nicely for the launch of the 2001 Third Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Overnight Mann re-wrote the paleoclimatic record to the astonishment of solar physicists, geologists and historians worldwide.",0_0
Our tax code shows what happens when government's power to award special privileges swamps the public interest Let's not compound the error by bribing U.S. companies to acquiesce in the biggest global regulatory regime yet conceived. Kyoto must stand or fall (as we expect it will) on its merits.,0_0
"All of which is why I tried (badly) to make the counter argument that if (according to Oreskes) skeptics are motivated by their belief in defence of an ideology of laissez-faire governence, opposition to government regulation (sic), then the opposite might also explain the warmist viewpoint. Now I take your previous comment that it is not down simple party political faultlines but",5_2
"Other left-wing academics who understand the illogic of confident assertion, such as Mr. Obamas, say nothing rather than undermine positions that they personally support, ideals such as environmental protection and social justice. So they sell out philosophically, backing off from the skepticism they would normally practice.",5_2
"My name is David Kreutzer. I am Research Fellow in Energy Economics and Climate Change at The Heritage Foundation. The views I express in this testimony are my own, and should not be construed as representing any official position of The Heritage Foundation.",0_0
"I asked Professor Hegerl about the now embarrassingly large discrepancy between the IPCCs medium-term interval of temperature predictions made in 1990 and the observed outturn in the subsequent quarter of a century, which was only half the IPCCs central estimate. The IPCC had accordingly halved its predicted interval of medium-term warming from degrees per decade in 1990 to degrees per decade in 2013. Outturn since 1979, on all measures, had been closer to 0.1 than 0.2 degrees per decade.",5_1
KENNETH P. GREEN AND STEVEN F. HAYWARD,0_0
"Normally, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are in balance with levels of carbon dioxide in the ocean. However, if water and air were cut off by a thick layer of ice during Snowball Earth, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels could have increased drastically. In a phenomenon similar to the climate change Earth is witnessing in modern times, high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide would have created a greenhouse gas warming effect, trapping heat inside the planets atmosphere and melting the Marinoan ice. Essentially, the Marinoan glaciation created the potential for extreme changes in atmospheric chemistry that in turn lead to the end of Snowball Earth and the beginning of a new explosion of animal life on Earth.",0_0
"Figure 4. 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). ""Corrected"" temperature history with general influence of stratospheric water vapor (according to Solomon et al., 2010) removed and the influence of black carbon (according to Ramanathan and Carmichael, 2009) removed (blue line).",0_0
"The nitrogen factor. A team of Japanese scientists grew rice at ambient and elevated CO2 with variations in nitrogen (N) solution in the soil. The Yamakawa et al. team found that The dry matter of rice was increased by elevated CO2 and that the amount of N uptake seemed to limit rice growth. Assuming rice farmers of the future do not run out of nitrogen (which would be like running out of air), their yields will increase substantially.",3_3
"Since the ice extent dropped to a record level in 2007, heavy snowfall, much more abundant than normal were observed in vast areas of North America, continental Europe and China, according to the article, published on February 27.",1_3
The actual warming has been slightly less than Hansen's Scenario C,0_0
"Art exhibit portrays the wildly incoherent message from the climate science community, and the lemmings who follow them .",5_2
"What is most interesting about the Conference is the battle part of all this, which Heartland seems to be losing. Joe Bast describes the battle in this recent blog post :",0_0
"""Political funding has received the most attention, but the idea has now spread well beyond politics into the larger policy world. The goal is to eliminate business funding not only from politics, but from the entire intellectual world. Many major science and medical journals, for example, now impose financial disclosure requirements on their authors, stigmatizing research underwritten by business. Anti-business groups seek to bar from government advisory committees individuals who've consulted with business. And, as the fallout from the Abramoff scandal demonstrates, this assault has now extended to demonizing corporate support for conservative policy groups.""",0_0
"Mark Gillar who writes the Hootville Gazette has taken the initiative and arranged a set of radio interviews with the whos who of skeptics, like Lord Monckton, Patrick Michaels, Ann McElhinney, Marc Morano, Chris Horner, Steve Milloy, Joseph DAleo, and yours truly. The first one starts tomorrow morning (US time). You can e-mail or phone in questions. Some details are below, but most are on the Global Cooling Radio site and, of course, details may change in the future, so check in at his site.",0_0
The Department of Interiorcould list more species as threatened or endangered based on climate change concerns.,0_0
"In terms of overall landfast sea ice extent across the entire East Antarctic region (from 10??W to 172??E), as the five Australian researchers describe it, ""there has been a statistically significant increase (at the 99% confidence level) of 1.43 0.3% per year,"" and they say that the regional short-term trends for different sectors of the coast ""broadly agree with the longer-term (1979-2008) trend in overall sea ice (comprising both pack ice and fast ice) extent/area (e.g., Cavalieri and Parkinson, 2008; Comiso, 2009).""",1_1
"For example, as part of a parallel campaign by 17 state attorneys general to investigate fossil-energy companies for the alleged crime of delaying climate action, U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude E. Walker on April 7 subpoenaed the Competitive Enterprise Institute, demanding ten years' worth of communications, emails, statements, drafts, and other documents regarding CEI's work on climate change and energy policy, including private donor information.",0_0
www.eyretribune.com .au/story/.../australias-antarctic-runway-melting...,0_0
Short bio: John O'Sullivan is a legal analyst and writer who for several years has litigated in government corruption and conspiracy cases in both the US and Britain. Visit his Website: http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/johnosullivan,0_0
More work needs to be done to understand the upward trends in path length and width. The increases lead to an apparent increase in tornado intensity across all EF categories .,0_0
"So without having found anything thatsnevertheless they have astatement that begins in their report, therefore.",0_0
"The animation below shows how they reduced both the pre-1940 warming, and the post-1940 cooling. Neither are explainable by global warming theory, so government expertsmade both largely disappear.",5_2
"The role of capitalism and free markets in raising people out of poverty was acknowledged by Pope John Paul II in his Encyclical ""Centesimus Annus"" in 1981. He wrote: ""The obligation to earn one's bread by the sweat of one's brow also presumes the right to do so. A society in which this right is systematically denied, in which economic policies do not allow workers to reach satisfactory levels of employment, cannot be justified from an ethical point of view, nor can that society attain social peace.""",0_0
Texas Order in Exxon Case Flagged in CEI's Case Against AG Walker Over Subpoena,0_0
"Beaulieu didn't believe in Jesus, so he didn't care. However, the parrot continued:",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Fellow Dr. Henry I. Miller on the Vioxx scare and the problems with the Food and Drug Administration's approval process.,0_0
Why does that matter? Because the most powerful greenhouse gas (water vapor) does its thing at the top of the troposphere (around 200 hPa) ??? that??s where it radiates energy out to space. Below that level the energy is effectively ricocheting back and forward ??? bouncing between molecules or causing collisions and generally rarely getting out to space where it is then gone for good.,2_3
Randy has read your letter. We will seek the advice of one of the experts you approved.,0_0
"So, the next question is, what favors unseasonably cool weather over the West during tornado season? This is where the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) comes in.",0_0
"Biofuels cannot displace enough of the world oil market to cause economic hardship to enemy regimes (we are actually allies with most of our major suppliers), nor will renewables put a dent in the pocketbook of terrorists. As terrorism expert Colonel G. I. Wilson points out, ""most insurgencies are low-tech in nature. Terrorists don't need oil money. For terrorists, the money flow doesn't come from oil, it comes from drugs, crime, human trafficking and the weapons trade."" That should be self-evident, as many terrorist groups exist in countries that do not have oil wealth. The Tamil Tigers have used terror in Sri Lanka, the Basque separatist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna has used it in Spain, and the IRA has used it in Irelandand none of them needed petrodollars for their actions. Nor for that matter do the Taliban or the Palestinians. Osama bin Laden's family wealth was made in the construction industry.",0_0
January 2016: the U.S. Becomes a Global Energy Superpower,0_0
"The sun is almost completely blank. The main driver of all weather and climate, the entity which occupies 99.86% of all of the mass in our solar system, the great ball of fire in the sky has gone quiet again during what is likely to be the weakest sunspot cycle in more than a century. The sun??s X-ray output has flatlined in recent days and NOAA forecasters estimate a scant 1% chance of strong flares in the next 24 hours. Not since cycle 14 peaked in February 1906 has there been a solar cycle with fewer sunspots. We are currently more than six years into Solar Cycle 24 and the current nearly blank sun may signal the end of the solar maximum phase. Solar cycle 24 began after an unusually deep solar minimum that lasted from 2007 to 2009 which included more spotless days on the sun compared to any minimum in almost a century.",2_1
There are some interesting questions being posed at the Which Climate Change Consensus? (Part 2) thread. Following are two questions from Graham Young that interests me. They seems to have been lost amongst the more general policy and economic discussion about Kyoto.,0_0
"On the face of it, the scheme seems to be pretty successful. However, much of the downward trend was due to the global economic recession, not to the ETS. Moreover, both climate chaos proponents and climate disaster skeptics agree that the scheme will have no detectable impact whatsoever on worldwide temperatures perhaps 0.1 degrees though this crucial piece of information has been carefully and deliberately shielded from the public eye.",4_2
"Yet another significant paper finds low climate sensitivity to CO2, suggesting there is no global warming crisis at hand",3_1
The Beijing Normal University Earth System Model (BNU-ESM) (7 April 2015),0_0
"One thing to note here is how little Mike??s position is actually at odds with a solar explanation for late 20th century warming. Suppose the solar activity peak was not in 85, but several years later, as a straightforward reading of the data suggests. (As documented in Part 1 , solar cycle 22, which began in 1986, was more active than cycle 21 by pretty much every measure.) If the solar activity peak shifts five years then Mike??s temperature response formula says peak GMAST should have occurred by 2000, which is pretty close to when it did occur.",2_1
"When I ran the above graph for EF-5 tornadoes, I had left the zero fields blank. This apparently gives a false trend line, so I have now rerun it with zeros. The result, as below, now shows the true position, which is a declining trend.",0_0
"The author concludes that the results of his simulation suggest ""much of the observed climatic variability over the past millennium may just be a reflection of natural climatic variability within the actual climate system, with occasional anomalies associated, for example, with volcanic eruptions, being superimposed on this background of natural variability.""",2_1
"Research is beginning to show that climate change mitigation and adaptation actions can increase the risk of armed conflict, as well as compound vulnerabilities in certain populations (Bumpus and Liverman, 2008; Adger and Barnett, 2009; Webersik, 2010; Fairhead et al., 2012; Marino and Ribot, 2012; Steinbruner et al., 2012). This is based on robust evidence that violent political struggles occur over the distribution of benefits from natural resources (Peluso and Watts, 2001). Hence, in circumstances where property rights and conflict management institutions are ineffective or illegitimate, efforts to mitigate or adapt to climate change that change the distribution of access to resources have the potential to create and aggravate conflict.",0_0
"ar1.lik< -function(b,y=x,t=Year) -arima(y-b*t, order=c(1,0,0),method=""ML"")$loglik",0_0
"As the CO 2 content of the air increases, swards of perennial ryegrass will likely exhibit increased rates of photosynthesis and dry matter production. In addition, elevated CO 2 concentrations should favor the growth of belowground organs. Thus, the carbon sequestering prowess of grasslands dominated by perennial ryegrass is likely to increase with future increases in the air's CO 2 content.",3_3
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Analyst Steven Milloy on the relationship between obesity and consumption of sugar-sweetened soda:,0_0
"In GHG control, the Chinese government would have no real interest in transparency. Could the U.S., especially in that case, accurately determine how much coal China is burning? Could it know if a carbon tax has been enforced on state-owned enterprises in Qinghai? Could it ensure that such a tax had not been offset with concealed subsidies? Neither China's record, nor America's, reassures on these points.",0_0
"With the above background on nuances of variability, Ill now consider how the analysis in the Wells Report and Snyders criticism.",0_0
"If scientists cannot or will not explain the issue, then farmers have very little chance of protecting a technology that has immense value to consumers.",0_0
An analysis of geological records that preserve details of the last known period of global warming has revealed startling results which suggest current targets for limiting climate change are unsafe.,0_0
More Thoughts on Immigration -- Why I Think the Tiberius Gracchus Analogy is Particularly Apt,0_0
"Meanwhile, the Obama Administration continues to push to reduce supposed global-warming emissions. Last month, the President even signed an executive order establishing a Council on Climate Preparedness and Resilience that could dramatically expand government bureaucrats' ability to restrict Americans' use of their property, water, and energy to reduce so-called ""greenhouse gas emissions.""",0_0
"In July 2006, 46% of voters said global warming is caused primarily by human activities, while 35% said it is due to long-term planetary trends.",0_0
#5 Pr ( D > P & My patient like before | Trial Results & No Cheating & Patients Character),0_0
Many organisations in rural Australia behave like turkeys. They are happily taking money from government believing they will keep getting fed. Of course government is handing out a lot of money at the moment.,0_0
"Sea ice area is above normal in the Beaufort Sea, and unprecedented below freezing temperatures are forecast for most of the rest of the July.",1_1
More evidence backing up Ball?s position comes from the polar regions. New reports from the National Snow and Ice Data Center suggest Antarctic ice levels are at record highs. Ball said the southern hemisphere has been cooling for some time. He believes the clinching evidence comes from the Arctic Circle.,1_1
"I don't think it's a coincidence that Immelt is suddenly saying jobs are his biggest concern now that he's the chairman of the White House's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. If Immelt proved one thing during his long experiment with ""ecomagination"" it was that he sees no problem with gaming politics as part of his business model.",0_0
"Someone among them said it would establish a circle of the Northern League in Rosarno: c already in Pantelleria, and a girl of Scilla, Carmela Santagati, 29, the last European elections on 6 and 7 June 2009 with the League's candidate North Calabria and took almost two thousand votes. Probably will be nominated to the nearby regional elections in the list Calabrese of the Northern League, that strange but true in Calabria is the last one today presidium of the State against the Ndrangheta, the only foothold possible for ordinary people than the Ndrangheta, the only organization that in situations like the Ndrangheta similar chooses to side with the citizens.",0_0
"""The real damage caused by these scandals resulted from the lazy reporting done by most journalists on the subject. The media failed to report the real story of ""Climategate"" that a crime was committed by thieves who stole from a prestigious university in order to further an agenda of harassment against climate scientists. And while ""Glaciergate"" was an embarrassing screw-up by the IPCC, it didn't change the fact that glaciers are melting worldwide, causing sea level rise that is already affecting coastal communities.""",0_0
"An economist, who ""got $50,000 from Enron to serve on the company's phantom-like advisory board"" - that's that company that invented the global warming industry - derides an economist as having expertise on global warming in a column proclaiming, as an economist, to possess 'the truth' about global warming, unlike those silly lawyers, marketing professors (actually, statistician and forecasting expert) and, erm, economists.",0_0
"In the following photograph you can see vegetation black from the 2006-07 Lawsons Long Alley fire which burnt about 14,440 hectares of national park. There has been lots of rain recently and the undgrowth is recovering with many beautiful wildflowers.",0_0
"Anderegg, W.R., Prall, J.W. Harold, J.., Schneider, S. (2010) Expert Credibility in Climate Change, Proc Nat Acad Sci.",0_0
This April ??? 2013 ??? is seeing avg. temps at -4.8C! Right now we are a whopping 10 degrees below normal for this time of the year!,1_3
Sen. John Kerry blames global warming for recent tornadoes in the Southeast U.S.,0_0
"But considering how much attention would have been lavished on a comparable run of hot weather or on a warming trend that was plainly accelerating, shouldnt the recent cold phenomena and the absence of any global warming during the past 10 years be getting a little more notice? Isnt it possible that the most apocalyptic voices of global-warming alarmism might not be the only ones worth listening to?",1_4
Watch the latest video episode from the Bureaucrash Activist Network: Vodcrash #3.,0_0
"One possible cause of the linear increase may be that the Earth is still recovering from the Little Ice Age. World glaciers and sea ice in the Arctic Ocean have been receding since 1800 or earlier; these are not just recent phenomena. It seems to me that most climate researchers are so caught up in the CO2 effect, the Little Ice Age has been all but forgotten.",2_1
HAYDEN: Butbutisnt that a formal fallacy? That I should believe you just because you threatened me?,0_0
It is a mistake to then regard the atmosphere as radiating down to the surface because the atmosphere always radiates upward. Instead we should regard the atmosphere as being heated by energy scattering from the surface upward such that it is the temperature of the atmosphere just at or above the surface that passes energy back to the ground and not the sky as proposed by AGW theory.,2_3
"Now a new Paris climate treaty says the ""ultimate goal"" is to stabilize atmospheric CO2 and other greenhouse gas concentrations at levels that will ""prevent dangerous interference with the climate system"" under the assumption that CO2 now drives climate change and weather events.",0_0
"But we wondered if one could do better than the GHG proxy approach and offer Americans other options for reducing their energy consumption without incurring large upfront costs or giving up major conveniences like roomy houses and cars or even just pretty light fixtures. Using data from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis, we calculated how much energy Americans use in consumption of goods not normally thought of as energy consuming, including food, consumer goods, and transportation.",0_0
Yeah butthe proponents of anthropogenic global warming repeatedly sayYeah but,0_0
"In the Alaska experiment, they warmed the permafrost by 2C over a 20-yr period (10 times the actual rate of warming since the 1800s) and there wasn??t the slightest hint of an accelerated methane release.",3_1
Higher CAFE? Why Would Anybody Ever Want That?,0_0
"I was just as confident as Schmidt that CRUs planned publication would feature a chronology that would be more HS-like than the 2006 regional chronology. After all, CRU had ferociously contested production of their calculation, even under FOI. Osborn argued that release of the 2006 regional chronology would result in:",0_0
"Above: Danish Meteorological Institute Arctic Sea Ice Extent 30% or greater. Note that while this graph shows 30% concentration at the cutoff point, it is valuable to compare.",1_1
"Bill Kininmonth knows a lot about climate science, he is a meteorologist and he was the head of Australias National Climate Centre from 1986 to 1998. He is also a well known global warming skeptic and is particularly critical of the idea that the principles for sustaining the greenhouse effect are well understood. While this may seem like a ridiculous proposition, indeed the greenhouse effect is the underpinning science for the hypothesis of dangerous global warming, in a recent letter to the Federation of Australian Scientists and Technologists (FASTS) he explains how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are neither consistent in their explanation for the greenhouse effect nor provide a mechanism that accords with the global average earth energy budget.",5_1
"?There are large meanders in the jet stream, and they?re called blocking events because they block off the normal moist, mild winds we get from the Atlantic, and instead we get cold air being dragged down from the Arctic and from Russia,? he says.",0_0
"""Throughout his entire presidency,"" said Kish, ""Obama has promoted policies that have discouraged the use of our vast energy resources, including blocking the Keystone XL pipeline, slowing energy development on government lands and water, and forcing new restrictions on all forms of energy that Americans have used to become the number one economy in the world. Under this administration, even cows are not spared as emission sources that must be controlled in Washington.""",0_0
Review finds crustaceans adapt to ocean warming with increased diversity and range,0_0
"Bad news for the IPCC hypothesis. Rather than volcanoes counteracting the expected warming and decreasing the atmospheric transmission of sunshine over the period of record, we had a trend of increasing amounts of sunlight making it to the surface. The trend of this increase was 0.34 W/m2 per decade. Kinda blows holes in their theory about volcanoes, but all we can do is follow the data ...",0_0
Securitya safe environment in which people can pursue opportunity,0_0
Will the Party of No Foil the Half-Baked Greenhouse Machiavellis?,0_0
"Edgar L. Gaertner: Oeko-Nihilismus. Eine Kritik der Politischen kologie. ISBN 978-3-00-020598-9. 284p. Euro 24,50. Available from CFACT Europe.",0_0
"Schmidt and Osborns most recent comments were on July 2, the last day that comments were open on the thread, otherwise I would have attempted to respond at Real Climate. Unfortunately it takes more time to respond to their fantasies than it does for them to make them.",0_0
"Heres some breaking news: Its January and in many parts of America, it snows; sometimes a lot. When I was a kid I got my sled and, together with other kids celebrating the snow day, took to the hills. We threw snowballs and came home soaked and exhausted. Mother would hang my wet clothes on a radiator to dry.",0_0
"In the meantime, watch out for those ads that Minister Combet is going to run towards this end. After all, you're paying for them.",0_0
"As rainforests are cleared to make way for biofuels, their inhabitants evicted from their ancestral lands, as land is diverted from food to energy production, as hunger grips the poorest and most vulnerable people of the world, as havoc is wrought on the countryside and its wildlife, as money is handed to big business, as the old and less well-off worry about their ability to pay their energy bills, those whose work has been behind the change in approach to climate change must surely have pause for thought.",0_0
"Some quick background. Early last September, Shukla, Maibach, and 18 other climate advocates sent a letter to President Obama, Attorney General Lynch, and Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Holdren, urging the administration to launch a ""RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupted Organizations Act) investigation of corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change, as a means to forestall America's response to climate change.""",0_0
"These tax increases are breaches of Obama's campaign promise not to raise taxes on people making less than $250,000 a year, which he earlier broke by signing into law the regressive SCHIP excise tax increase.",0_0
I was almost certain that the moment would eventually arrive. It's here.,0_0
"McCook et al. state that, Another important observation emerging from this review is the extent of relevant data that are not published or readily accessible. A full picture of the effects and effectiveness of zoning on the GBR has required extensive use of gray literature, previously unpublished data, and collation of separate data sources . GBRMPA has been the sponsor of most of the research cited and, through the permit system, they exercise control over the terms of all other research conducted there. They are also a major publisher of GBR literature, both scientific and non-technical. The extent to which relevant data is not published or readily accessible is their direct responsibility.",0_0
"""America has won the lottery,"" Moore and White wrote. ""We have hit the jackpot. ... Achieving energy self-sufficiency will generate enough money in royalties and corporate income taxes to pay off much of the national debt without any other tax revenues.""",0_0
"EU emissions from international aviation are increasing fast doubling since 1990 as air travel becomes cheaper without its environmental costs being addressed, according to the EC.",0_0
"Lawmakers in the House last week added funds to buy those planes, and plus funds to buy an additional two 737s and two Gulfstream V planes. The purchases must still be approved by the Senate. The Air Force version of the Gulfstream V each costs $66 million, according to the Department of Defense, and the 737s cost about $70 million.",0_0
"In taking stock of what was found, elevated CO 2 had no negative effects and only one positive effect; but the latter was an important one on growth . Ozone, on the other hand, had multiple negative effects, but they were all alleviated by elevated CO 2 ; and these findings suggest a huge win for CO 2 in its battle with O 3 to impact the growth and development of Chinese pine trees.",3_3
"Alas, this display, too, is mere propaganda. Walking past the tree late at night, we saw not a single eco-zomb pedaling to keep the lights on, but they were burning brightly anyway. The Copenhagen Christmas tree is a monument to the dishonesty of the entire ?global warming? fraud.",0_0
"The broad conclusion is that the multi-decadal global climate models are unable to to accurately simulate the linear trends of surface and tropospheric temperatures for the 1979-1999 time period on the regional and tropical zonally-averaged spatial scale. Their ability to skillfully simulate the global averages surface and tropospheric temperature trend on this time scale is, at best, inconclusive.",5_1
Want to stay in Seattle? Just take the elevator ride to the Columbia Center's observation platform (around 1000 ft high) as Joseph Chan did today:,0_0
"MXD has a non-temperature signal in it, and also all pre-1881 or pre-1871 data",0_0
IPCC chief says it will be very difficult to limit temperature rise to 2 degrees C.,0_0
Update- Oct 2012: Journal of Climate now says (h/t WUWT) that the paper has been withdrawn:,0_0
"The group goes on to claim that ""millions of people could die in this century because of climate change, most of them our poorest global neighbors."" Therefore, ""The need to act now is urgent. Governments, businesses, churches and individuals all have a role to play in addressing climate changestarting now."" And the way do to this is to ""reduce the carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels."" Yet even if you accept the need for action, the logic driving the case for reduction in fossil fuel use is faulty.",0_0
Polar bears no longer on ???thin ice??: researchers say polar bears could face brighter future: ??? a combination of greenhouse gas mitigation and control of adverse human activities in the Arctic can lead to a more promising future for polar bear populations and their sea ice habitat ??,3_2
This period of widespread warmth is notable in that there is no evidence that it was accompanied by an increase of greenhouse gases.,2_1
I'd be inclined to adopt a variation on Wallace's catchphrase for whenever energy use or energy policy is being discussed: Numbers don't lie.,0_0
"Washington, DC, June 7, 2001 The National Academy of Sciences report, released today, has already been characterized as offering further confirmation of global warming alarmism. The Competitive Enterprise Institute points out the report actually confirms that major uncertainties still remain in the current scientific understanding of climate change.",5_1
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"OIRA should recast its review process, seeking to make regulatory review more akin to expenditure review. One approach would be for OIRA to develop better cost estimation procedures, to send to Congress for ""advice and consent"" all ""major"" regulations (say initially those costing the economy more than $100 million annually) and then gradually roll back this cap as the agency, OMB, and Congress became more familiar with the process. Within some phase-in period, each regulatory agency would face hearings on the Hill arguing that its impact on the economy was justified by the ""benefits"" it produced. That process would work as welland no betterthan the current expenditure program. But, at least, Congress would be held responsible for this impact and there would be less ""let's pretend"" analysis by the agencies.",0_0
17f. The ability of regional climate models to model precipitation values for the next 50 years,0_0
"As currently written, the regulation calls on unelected state environmental agencies to draft their own state plans and submit them directly to EPA for review and approval. Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin has signed an executive order blocking her state's environmental agency from submitting a plan. Other states have introduced legislation to the same effect. More should follow them into battle.",0_0
"* Constantly improving hydraulic fracturing technologies continue to increase production. For example, Cabot Oil & Gas refracked a 2013 Pennsylvania well, increasing its output to 30.3 million cubic feet of gas per day; thats four times the output from the best well drilled in 2003. Fracking is even being used in decades-old onshore and offshore wells, to keep them producing for many more years.",4_5
"The Independent , July 2013 Some people call it a slow-down, some call it a hiatus, some people call it a pause. The global average surface temperature has not increased substantially over the last 10 to 15 years, - Reading University, Scientist Rowan Sutton",1_4
"Waxman-Markey sets the ambitious target of reducing total U.S. GHG emissions by 83 percent below 2005 levels by the year 2050 (with intermediate benchmarks at 2020 and 2030). Thus, the cap and the allowances sold pursuant to it will be lowered from a peak of 5.4 billion tons in 2016 to just a little over 1 billion tons in 2050. Before considering how the allowances are being allocated, it is worth concentrating for a moment on the overall emissions target for 2050. In 2005, the baseline year, the United States emitted a little more than 6 billion tons of CO2 and another billion tons of other GHGs such as methane and nitrous oxide. But CO2, as the byproduct of fossil fuel consumption and the most abundant GHG, is the principal focus of policy. An 83 percent reduction in CO2 emissions in 2050 would be slightly over 1 billion tons.",0_0
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"One wonders how this area has changed over time, and how long the car park has been there, and how much it, and the tourist vehicles that park next to the fence have contributed to the Kelburn climate record. Someone familiar with the history of the observatory might be able to shed some light on this. Was the screen always in this location? When did the car park go in? How many tree have been cleared around the site over the years? How many new buildings (Like the Carter Observatory) have but put up nearby? These are all issues which affect the temperature record. Disentangling those influences is difficult without an historical context.",0_0
"Im watching Dortmund-Munich right now, and Munich looks even worse than Chelsea did against Newcastle.",0_0
The effects of snow-free winter in Britain are already becoming apparent.,0_0
"Clearly, there is a pattern here. Once we recognize these indirect criticisms, it should be apparent, even for those sympathetic to growth skepticism, that prosperity is hotly contested nowadays. From television programs to magazine articles to the Internet, we are constantly warned of the supposed downsides of growth. Less really is moreor so we are told.",0_0
"The Island of the Famous, infamous program Rai where some guys of varying fame 'are abandoned (alas, only for pretend) on a tropical island, manages to talk about' with the gossip about who fights with whom, on who It has trouble adapting to life outside the city ', and even of those who divorced' who live on television. It is a ""fun"" even more 'light whereas in the corresponding English ""I am a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here"" (I'm Famous Take me Away From Here) competitors should instead eat cooked and raw insects and arthropods of various species, then roll in the mud and worse, and generally competing to be taken in various poses nothing short of humiliating in front of the camera. The report of the day after the papers are clear, another race to describe the most shameful situations in a more detailed (and pleased).",0_0
"The ice core record is shown as a smooth curve achieved by eliminating extreme readings and applying a 70 year smoothing average. Eliminating variability is done with the Mauna Loa and all current atmospheric readings, which can vary up to 600 ppm in the course of a day. Information is lost with smoothing. Elimination of high readings prior to smoothing makes loss greater. Statistician William Briggs says you never smooth a time series.",0_0
"In fact, Olmert had plenty to say. He and Abbas met for face-to face talks some thirty-five times, with significant progress made on such key issues as the division of sovereignty in Jerusalem along religious lines (with holy places subject to international administration) and a broad right of way in the form of a tunnel linking Gaza to the West Bank. Had Olmert escaped the relentless criminal investigators, we might today be examining the provisions of a negotiated settlement, although like most Palestinian Authority veteran negotiators, Abed Rabbo bitterly recounts the impact of Israeli West Bank settlements on the issues under discussion: ""It's as though you ask me to sit and discuss the future of this table, but as we talk you are slicing away the pieces of the table.""",0_0
"Climate science, moreover, will do nothing to dispel doubts about whether an agreement would be enforced. Such doubts clearly diminish the perceived value of reaching agreement. And the grounds for such doubts are solid. They are especially so with respect to the developing countries. Today, China's government has a strong economic motive to assure the safety and purity of its exports. The U.S. government is also concerned, and yet the safety of toys and food imported from China clearly remains problematic.",0_0
And finally here is some evidence (from ice core analysis) that we may just still be recovering from a period that could well have been the coldest period in the last 5000 years (notice the regular millennial trend as well).,2_1
"If such emissions are taken into account, much of the ethanol produced from corn could fail to meet Congress's requirements.",0_0
"Weve recently heard from many loyal Apple customers who were disappointed to learn that we had removed our products from the EPEAT rating system. I recognize that this was a mistake, senior vice president of hardware engineering, Bob Mansfield, said in a letter on Apples website.",0_0
"The best-known U.S. carbon-cutting legislation provides a good idea of just how costly such plans run. America's Climate Security Act, also known as the Lieberman-Warner bill, called for emission reductions of 63 percent below the 2005 level by 2050 (President Obama's much more ambitious plan is to cut emissions 83 percent below 2005 levels by 2050.). The Environmental Protection Agency projected that Lieberman-Warner could, by 2050, lower GDP by up to 6.9 percent, increase average gasoline prices by $1.40 per gallon, and raise electricity prices by 26 percent. Many private economic estimates were considerably higher.",4_1
"Thus, I dont see any factual errors or unfairness in my commentary.",0_0
"Dont send Coal for Christmas, send Carbon Credits!",0_0
"In addition, these two data sets use entirely different measurement techniques. The modern data comes from thermometers and satellites, measurement approaches that we understand fairly well. The earlier data comes from some sort of proxy analysis (ice cores, tree rings, sediments, etc.) While we know these proxies generally change with temperature, there are still a lot of questions as to their accuracy and, perhaps more importantly for us here, whether they vary linearly or have any sort of attenuation of the peaks. For example, recent warming has not shown up as strongly in tree ring proxies, raising the question of whether they may also be missing rapid temperature changes or peaks in earlier data for which we dont have thermometers to back-check them (this is an oft-discussed problem called proxy divergence).",5_1
"For example, the accompanying spreadsheet shows that over the most recent warming period (since the late 1970s), the PDO, AMO, and El Nino/La Nina activity can statistically account for most of the recent warming of global average sea surface temperatures.",2_1
"And when it comes to the evidence on the effects of increasing greenhouse concentrations on climate phenomena, Ms. Macfarlane's ignorance is blatant. (Here is a detailed summary of the evidence that I prepared in advance of the Paris COP-21 meeting last December.)",0_0
"In fact, said Professor Speight, no caseis recorded of a region of the world in which there are present signs of an advance .",0_0
"Finally, there is a drop in household electricity expenditures. This decline is due to the more efficient and less expensive forms of energy dominating the market and becoming a commonplace form of electricity generation for American households. (See Chart 6.)",4_5
Atmospheric radiosonde temperature trend (Angell) = 0.3 F/decade,0_0
"The paper presents a detailed overview of the surface temperature measuring stations, with Europe covered for more than 150 years and the US for more than 110 years. From a historical perspective land mass is not well covered and, except for Europe, the US, and eastern China, the bulk of the land mass is not well covered today. Surface sea coverage is spotty, at best, distributed in a few areas in the world, mostly in the Northern Hemisphere. The paper also discusses the manipulation of the surface record by NOAA, but not the one in 2015. It suggests that one cannot use the surface data to define or calculate an average temperature.",5_1
L2248 0.4 L2328 0.5 H1840 5.7 H1959 5.5 H2129 5.6 H2241 5.8,0_0
"Heres why that 184,000 deaths from soda claim is bogus",0_0
"If CO2 in the atmosphere tends to provide a heating effect, do feedback effects (e.g. water vapor) tend to amplify (positive feedback) or damp (negative feedback) the resulting temperature change",0_0
"The finding that the 20th century was not the hottest of the last millennium is controversial in part because it undercuts the argument that burning oil and other fossil fuels is the leading cause of the current temperature increase. However, if the temperature was even warmer before large-scale use of fossil fuels, perhaps the current warm period reflects natural",2_1
"Farmers object to wind turbines, survey says",0_0
"As part of President Barack Obamas push to update the countrys electricity grid, NV Energy got a matching grant of $139 million through the federal stimulus. The utility began installing them in September 2010, after the Nevada Public Utilities Commission deemed them safe, secure, private and accurate.",0_0
"Many of the protesters who endured the cold to chant ""Stop Global Warming!"" said they didn't think the snowfall conflicted with their message. Davey Rogner, a 22 year old student at the University of Maryland College Park, beat on an African Djembe drum to rev up the crowd. He said the snow was a ""gift"" to remind eveyone about how rarely Maryland has been blanketed with beautiful white in recent years as temperatures have increased.",1_3
"The EPA is moving toward imposing these baseless regulations despite the fact that China and India have been building coal-fired plants to provide their nations with the energy to expand and compete in the global marketplace. China's CO2 emissions increased by 167% between 1999 and 2009, while the U.S., the second largest emitter of CO2, lowered its emissions by 17% over the same 10-year period.",4_2
"EPAs power grab picks the pockets of every American business and citizen, making it increasingly expensive to fill gas tanks, heat and cool homes and offices, run hospitals and factories, or buy food and consumer goods. The Employment Prevention Agencys $100-billion diktats are killing countless jobs, making America more dependent on foreign sources of energy and raw materials that we have in abundance right here at home, and endangering our economic health and national security.",4_1
Flop Green Passive School Is Suffocating Its Students,0_0
"It's SUPPOSED to be a commentary on people who don't believe in AGW killing themselves because the planet is supposedly doomed if we have lightbulbs that work and enjoy life and all its wonders to the fullest, instead of taking civilization back hundreds of years for no reason.",0_0
"But it's not just us here in America. How can the human race possibly achieve greater prosperity without bringing electricity to the billions of people on Earth who do not yet enjoy its blessings? The WWF's campaign doesn't say. Instead, it simply relies on the worn-out idea that humans once lived ""in harmony"" with nature and that ""the planet"" would be better off (for whom?) if we all returned to a simpler, less technologically dependent lifestyle.",0_0
Lead emissions are down more than 90 percent from 1970 levels.,0_0
"Pederson also accused Murphy not just of being foolish, but of being unethical as well in spreading climate skeptic lies.",0_0
Lucia tweets out that the SMC's remarks about climate sensitivity make no sense:,0_0
publications). Studies show that peer reviewers are motivated by tribal as well,0_0
"Mann, Charles. ""Extinction: Are Ecologists Crying Wolf?,"" Science, Volume 253, pp. 736-738.",0_0
"For additional information regarding the science behind our concern, we recommend that you contact Harrison Schmitt or Walter Cunningham, or others they can recommend to you.",0_0
"While I am annoyed by many attitudes of the Czechs, similar observations make me happier and prouder.",0_0
"In 2006, China passed the United States as the world's biggest carbon emitter, and its lead is growing daily. The EIA projects that China's energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide will exceed American emissions by almost 15 percent in 2010 and by 75 percent in 2030. In 1990, China and India together accounted for 13 percent of the world's emissions; in 2005, their contribution was 23 percent; and in 2030, they are expected to account for 34 percent of the world's emissions.",4_2
"In Greenland, glaciers with growth rates that have been found to be accelerating during a few years, decelerated in others. Some accelerating glaciers were in proximity to others that were decelerating. A variety of local factors are believed to control these individual behaviors, including: fjord, glacier, and bed geometry; local climate; and small-scale ocean water flow and terminus sea ice conditions.",0_0
"While it is true that this index has risen from a low point around 1970, it is also clear that it merely returned to values observed in the early 20th century. Did greenhouse gases raise the extremes index in the early 20th century? Obviously not.",1_7
"""I've gotta get there,"" Graham told me. So we dispatched him home with water and supplies and CFACT's own Cajun responder got to work.",0_0
It did: the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change took Saltzman's unified theory and used it in subsequent Reports as the template to blame the fossil fuel emissions of western nations for changing Earth's climate.,0_0
"The most important issues mentioned are beyond my own experience, at least to the point where its new information to me. What happened is Dr. Scafetta has noticed a coherence between measured climate data and the suns gravity center velocity which is difficult for me to discount. Im no climatologist and not a solar physicist but this seems from my reading to be unique to the discussion of solar forcing. In particular look at this plot of the power spectrum of global temps in relation to the plot of the suns linear velocity relative to the gravitational center of the solar system.",2_1
"In the fortwo collision, the institute said the Smart, which weighs 1,808 lbs, went airborne and turned around 450 degrees after striking the C Class, which weighs nearly twice as much. There was extensive damage to the fortwos interior and the Smart driver could have faced extensive injuries to the head and legs. There was little damage to the front seat area of the C Class.",0_0
"One year ago, the Tevatron published a paper ( arXiv , from my birthday) about the associated production of bottom and Higgses (where Higgses decay to taus) and claimed that everything was consistent with the background hypothesis, eliminating a big portion of MSSM.",0_0
"Matanuska is clearly in the same climatological zone as Anchorage. This is verified by the correlation between the two records, which is about 0.9. So it would be one of the nearby rural stations used to homogenize Anchorage.",0_0
Thanks to Marc Morano for passing along the news.,0_0
"The cooling effect of orbital shifting on the climate has been up to four times as powerful as anthropogenic (human-caused) warming pressures, the study concluded.",0_0
"There are many reasons why this COP meeting, like previous ones, was ineffective. For one, of the 189 countries that have representatives, the countries with major emissions did not send high-level officialsthe US President, Chinese Premier, and Indian Prime Minister were not in attendance. Australia sent neither its environmental minister nor its foreign minister. Moreover, the new Australian government elected in September has pledged to repeal the carbon tax enacted by the previous government. Carbon taxes have been an integral part of the agenda for controlling GHG releases for a long time.",0_0
"In reality, rather than a model, California energy policy is a cautionary tale. Yes, since 1980, per capita electricity consumption in California has remained flat while it has increased in most other states. However, holding per capita consumption flat is not the same as reducing overall consumption or emissions. As California's economy and population have grown, so have the state's aggregate electricity consumption and emissions. Today, California consumes 65 percent more electricity than it did in 1980. Coal-based electricity imports from other states grew by 60 percent from 1983 to 2005, and is now 10 percent of California's total generation, growing from 9 percent in 1983. Even if DSM policies contribute marginally to California's comparatively low per-capita electricity consumption, this in no way proves that America can afford to ban new coal plants.",4_2
"14 I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.",0_0
"Could the turmoil and discontent at Heartland eventually prove its undoing? Campaigners would certainly hope so. We are watching the consequences of organisation that acts quite randomly and that is actually an extremist organisation in the end, said Davies. They are not built to be at the hump of the climate denial movement.",0_0
"Consider again the graph of global temperatures in Figure1. We cannot tell if global temperatures are significantly increasing just by looking at the graph. Moreover, the process that generates global temperaturesEarth??s climate systemis extremely complicated. Hence determining whether there is a significant increase is likely to be difficult.",5_1
A reporter for a national newspaper covering the reaction to the stolen Heartland Institute documents asked me:,0_0
A Review of Garth Paltridge's Book: ?The Climate Caper?,0_0
"To be effective, a new set of institutions would have to be imbued with heavy-handed, transnational enforcement powers",0_0
"That's how bureaucrats remain powerful, unaccountable and immune from being fired or having to compensate victims for their incompetent or even deliberate falsifications and actions. We end up being protected from exaggerated and fabricated risks, years or decades from now by having jobs, companies, industries, families, communities, and our overall health and welfare hammered by over-regulation today.",0_0
"Static jet streams induced near-record high temperatures in parts of the United States and Russia, but extreme cold pummeled Seattle, England and much of the Southern Hemisphere. Perhaps Al Gore, Michael Mann and Rajendra Pachauri can turn this hodgepodge into ""catastrophic climate change,"" but most folks understand it as Mother Nature and weather.",1_3
"Facts, as they say, are facts. On the other hand, untrue representations presented as facts are either uninformed, intentionally disingenuous, or a combination of the two. Secretary of State John Kerry's statements attacking those who challenge the existence of a human-caused climate crisis likely fall into the third category.",0_0
2. You can??t get accurate CO2 measurements from samples taken on the side of an active volcano that is outgassing CO2.,5_1
"""Global warming is nowhere to be found,"" said David Deming, a geophysicist at the University of Colorado, in a January 16 commentary in The Washington Times. ""As frigid conditions settled over the nation, global-warming alarmists went into full denial mode,"" adding that ""weather extremes also seem to bring out the lunatic fringe."" That is why the public is being told that cold weather has been caused by global warming!",1_3
Climate Models Performing Poorly Compared to Actual Temperatures,5_1
"If the Court upholds the Timing Rule it will have lots of explaining to do. The Timing Rule is what triggers the ""absurd results"" and ""administrative impossibility"" that the EPA attempts to ""tailor"" away by playing lawmaker and amending the Clean Air Act's Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) pre-construction and Title V operating permits programs. If the Court upholds the Rule, it will have to explain how the Clean Air Act can be the statutory scheme Congress intended to regulate greenhouse gases its conclusion in Mass. v. EPA and yet lead to extreme measures and absurd results when used for that purpose. Logically, the Court has to choose between Mass. v. EPA and the Timing Rule, unless it wants to take ownership of the bizarre notion that the Clean Air Act was wired from the start to self-destruct four decades later.",0_0
"The top panel shows my emulation of the Mann NH and SH iHAD (land-ocean) reconstructions using the AD800 network (no splicing), together with the Mannian iHad instrumental (I haen??t parsed the relationship of this to HAD and am just using it as is). In the panel below that, I did the same thing using all proxies except the Tiljander sediments. As you see, there is a profound difference particularly in the SH, where the 20th century is not in the slightest anomalous according to this information. Another odd point in the bottom panel version is that the NH 11th century which is believed to be one of the ???warm?? centers of the MWP emerges, together with the late 17th century LIA, as one of the coldest times of the millennium ??? something that doesn??t make a whole lot of sense, even for MWP opponents. At present, I don??t know which proxies are leading to this result.",5_1
"I stopped watching commercial network news in the '80s, but still had PBS' MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and its trademark two-side analysis of major news. Gradually after 2002, the lack of global warming skeptic scientists offering rebuttal to their IPCC guests began bothering me, so I wrote and asked about it, starting in 2007. I also started writing to the Media Research Center this year, asking them to include PBS when they criticized broadcast news outlets' lack of balance in global warming stories. Long story short, the PBS Ombudsman answered on 12/17 (here, 2/3rds down the page at the headline ""Hot About Warming""), and Tim Graham at MRC's NewsBusters also wrote a nice 12/21 analysis of PBS' response.",5_2
I have reached my own conclusion a long time ago and I insist it is the right conclusion.,0_0
"The total amount of CO2 humans have added to the atmosphere in the last 100 years has upset the radiative energy budget of the Earth by only 1%. How the climate system responds to that small ?poke? is very uncertain. The IPCC says there will be strong warming, with cloud changes making the warming worse. I claim there will be weak warming, with cloud changes acting to reduce the influence of that 1% change. The difference between these two outcomes is whether cloud feedbacks are positive (the IPCC view), or negative (the view I and a minority of others have).",0_0
CEI Experts Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Eli Lehrer on how to improve health care for veterans:,0_0
"New Jersey's attorney general Zulima Farber is finally out of a job. She was appointed by New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine despite having two highly-publicized bench warrants out for her arrest for her driving. Now she has finally been forced to resign after abusing her position to cancel a traffic ticket issued to her paramour, himself a serial ethics violator and tax cheat who had been repeatedly disciplined for taking advantage of the clients of his law firm.",0_0
"???Water Vapor accounts for the largest percentage of the greenhouse effect, between 36% and 66% for clear sky conditions and between 66% and 85% when including clouds.??",2_3
"The two sceptics highlighted the ongoing hiatus in global warming, which has seen temperatures around the world remain basically the same for more than 15 years, following noticeable warming in the 1980s and early 1990s.",1_4
"As the so called pause in global warming continues, space scientists may be giving climate scientists some pause for thought.",1_4
"The inhuman acts are pretty much isomorphic to what the Nazis did in the Czech lands in 1942 after the blonde beast of Prague, Reinhard Heydrich, also known as the Hangman, was rightfully executed in the Czech capital by the Czechoslovak government in London. His Nazi colleagues started a wave of terror in which two villages, Lidice and Leky, were flattened.",0_0
"A paper published today in The Holocene reconstructs Mediterranean climate over the past 10,000 years and finds evidence for a Sun-climate connection including a ~900 year cycle. According to the authors, ""The ~900 yr periodicity has counterparts in numerous North Atlantic and Northern Hemisphere palaeoclimate records, and in solar irradiance proxies (14C and 10Be), and may relate to a Sunclimate connection during the early Holocene."" The paper also finds a link to the North Atlantic Oscillation, which in turn has been linked to solar activity . The paper adds to hundreds of other peer-reviewed publications demonstrating that tiny changes in solar activity can account for climate and temperature changes on Earth.",2_1
"But climate change sceptics do not claim there has been recent global warming. They claim there has been a levelling off, or fall in temperatures, over the last 10 years since the 1998 El Nino-driven peak.",1_4
They then quote an opinion poll commissioned by councils which found ?57 per cent agree that Britain rarely sees weather events as severe as those of 2009/10 and that it would be inappropriate to spend more money preparing?.,0_0
"Moderate progressives argued that Brown's election was a wake-up call. Pointing to many polls showing that Americans did not want the health-care bill to pass and that independents were growing more concerned about the deficit and moving against the Democrats, men such as Mark Penn and Doug Schoen argued that electoral disaster loomed unless the administration changed course. They pointed to the landslide of 1994 as an example of what could happen if the Speaker and the president persisted. In essence, moderate progressive argued that the Democrats lost in 1994 by trying to be three steps ahead of public opinion instead of one.",0_0
Ideas drawn from the works of Douglass North and those of other political economists suggest that institutions limit the extent to which efficient policies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are likely to be adopted. Most analyses of the costs of making steep GHG emission cuts conflict with these realities. Problems arise at both the international level and within nations.,0_0
"We believe the claims by NASA and GISS, that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated.",0_0
"KIEV, Feb 9 (Reuters) A fierce cold spell has killed most of the winter barley and winter rapeseed crops and seriously damaged wheat in Ukraines eastern and southern regions, while threatening winter crops and slowing exports in Russia.",1_3
"Which takes us to Dr. Hansen's presentations in Santa Feprimarily attended by sycophants carrying copies of his book: Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity. However, four scientists also attendeda meteorologist, a physicist, a biologist, and a geologist.",0_0
"It has been severely criticised for deliberately and grossly exaggerating and distorting the issues and I understand that the recently published Summary for Policymakers by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) contradicts a number of Mr. Gores major contentions. This, in contrast, has had virtually no publicity and no",5_2
"The UKs renewable energy sector has attacked Government plans to change the rules governing the Climate Change Levy a measure which was originally designed to promote the generation of clean energy. RenewableUK, the trade association representing the wind, wave and tidal energy industries, strongly criticised the Chancellors announcement in his budget speech that he is retrospectively removing the exemption for green energy. This measure is due to come into effect on the 1st of August and according to the REA such snap changes undermine confidence in the UK from the finance community, as well as making renewables less attractive compared to fossil fuel generation. -- Click Green, 8 July 2015",0_0
"The fading of global warming from the political agenda is a mostly American phenomenon, wrote Rosenthal, apparently unaware that the European Union is about to collapse because several of its member nations are so deeply in debt that makes the U.S. look like a paragon of prudent fiscal policy. Rosenthal appears to be unaware of the rapid political changes occurring across the northern tier of African nations called the Maghreb and elsewhere throughout the Middle East.",0_0
"Moreover, these studies are generally supported by studies conducted by government agencies. Mary Novak, Senior Vice President of WEFA Energy Services, evaluated five different government assessments of the costs of the Kyoto Protocol at a conference sponsored by the American Council for Capital Formation on October 13.",0_0
"Because the models fail to properly simulate those naturally occurring processes, they have to double the observed rate of warming of the surfaces of the global oceans in order to properly simulate the warming rate of land surface air temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere and to melt Arctic sea ice.",5_1
"Weve been swamped by bad economic news and you dont have to look at our survey results alone to see that the interest and focus on climate change has dissipated somewhat , said Yuen Pau Woo, co-author of the report.",0_0
Professor Calls For Climate Change Deniers To Be Imprisoned,0_0
April 15th Tax Burden Worsened by Hidden Taxes,0_0
"Given that the climate debate is about minuscule fractions of a degree, that measurement uncertainty is too large for comfort. It is one reason why we are able to say that over the past couple of decades the measured global warming is statistically indistinguishable from zero.",1_4
Proposing policies related to alternative fuels and other factors related to climate change.,0_0
"""In the peer-reviewed literature, they've tried to explain away this lull,"" said Morano. ""In the proceedings of the National Academy of Science a year or two ago they had a study blaming Chinese coal use for the lack of global warming. So, in an ironic twist, global warming proponents are now claiming that that coal use is saving us from dangerous global warming.""",5_2
"In reality, however, there is no such widespread assumption. Rather, there is a widespread body of knowledge that there is, in fact, a remarkable ""CO 2 -induced stimulation of tropical tree growth,"" much of which body of knowledge may be found in our website's Subject Index, under the heading of Trees (Types - Tropical) . There, one may read individual reviews of 29 such publications, which together cite a total of 72 pertinent scientific papers. And one may also peruse a brief Summary - based on all but the two most recent such reviews - which concludes as follows.",3_3
"As goes California, so goes the nation. Nowhere is this adage truer than in environmental policy, thanks to Democrats' eagerness to impose the Golden State's radical eco-agenda on all Americans. Yet it is exactly such policies that have helped lead California to financial ruin.",0_0
"The dire economic and social effects of plummeting birthrates remind us that marriage and childbirth are not just private lifestyle choices. A country with fewer children becomes, on average, increasingly older. Cities and towns begin to empty, while the cost of caring for retirees and elderly sick people skyrockets. Old people spend less and invest less, shrinking capital pools for the new businesses that create new jobs. Entrepreneurs do not come from among the aged: countries with a higher median age have a lower percentage of entrepreneurs.",0_0
Stomata readings are higher with greater variability as Jaworowski and Beck assert.,0_0
"Presumably somebody added the line and in doing so provided a general range for the MWP and the LIA. By eyeball the MWP covers A.D. 950 to 1350, and the LIA from A.D. 1350 to 1900. This does not match with the numbers in the text, particularly for the LIA with numbers attributed to Grove of 150 to 450 years ago or A.D. 1540 to 1840. There are a few interesting comments that needed correction for the politically motivated 2001 IPCC Report. In referring to the MWP, they note,",5_2
Dr. James Hansen of NASA GISS arrested,0_0
"Moreover, Abdussamatovs analysis of sun activity data has led him to conclude that the Earth is entering a prolonged cooling phase, because sunspot activity is currently in a phase regarded as a minimum.",1_2
"Many advocates have begun crying for more government investment in alternative energy sources. Others push for ""energy independence"" to supposedly avoid the high costs of oil, not to mention its alleged environmental effects. If these goals are not met, some predict major world wars will be fought over dwindling petroleum resources.",0_0
"/s/ Dr. James Visentine JSC Materials Branch, Engineering Directorate, 30 years",0_0
"When it comes to thinking about mitigating climate change, scientists such as Andreae, Caldeira, and many others are checking their scientific faculties at the door and unwittingly smuggling in their ideological policy preferences under the guise of dispassionate scientific analysis and authority.",0_0
value in probing for compromise even if nothing materializes because it shapes,0_0
"The temperature rise of 0.6C during the 1975-1998 period, which has triggered all the current climate hysteria, was of the same magnitude as the previous increase that occurred in the 1910 to 1940 period, which in turn had nothing to do with CO2 because back then the concentration in the atmosphere rose by only some 10 ppm (from 297 to 308 ppm). Also the temperature increase of 1.5C over the last 150 to 250 years is also nothing out of the ordinary or dangerous, as we are often told in the media. Instead it is only the natural recovery from the Little Ice Age (LIA) that had gripped the planet from 1400 to 1750. The LIA not only led to the Thames River and Baltic Seafreezing over, but resulted in severe hunger in Europe and caused a mass migration to America.",2_1
"Obama, by contrast, has operated the presidency in his first year in exactly the opposite direction. He wants the executive to be a domestic strongman who can speedily dismiss opposition to his health care and economic ambitions. His decisions to try KSM in federal court and to place the Christmas bomber in FBI custody represent an unprecedented effort to leave critical wartime decisionshere, final decisions on the disposition of enemy combatantsup to the other branches.",0_0
"Examining the Chinese effort to develop an electric vehicle market offers a window into the countrys economics and politics as it confronts these three challenges, write Henry Lee , senior lecturer in public policy and Jaidah Family Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program at Harvard Kennedy School, and his coauthors, Sabrina Howell and Adam Heal, both research associates at the Kennedy School, in Leapfrogging or Stalling Out? Electric Vehicles in China .",0_0
"Figure 2 illustrates the global SST anomalies from January 1935 to December 1974 for three datasets: HADISST, ERSST.v2 , and ERSST.v3b . The data has been smoothed with a 13-month filter to remove the rough edges. Note how the discontinuity now appears to be a gradual decrease from late 1944 to late 1946. Scaled NINO3.4 SST anomalies have also been provided for comparison. All three global SST datasets appear as if theyre responding to an El Nino event when none exists in the NINO3.4 SST anomaly data. Also note that there is also little agreement between NINO3.4 SST anomalies and the global SST datasets between 1943 and 1950, while global SST anomalies do appear to respond to NINO3.4 SST anomalies at other times.",0_0
"There also are thorny and unresolved questions of how payments of hundreds of billions of dollars from citizens of developed countries would be distributed among the populations of developing ones without creating enormous opportunities for corruption on the part of politicians and bureaucrats of recipient countries. Moreover, there is the question of timing, determining when developing countries join developed ones in cutting back their emissions and bear the costs of GHG controls. Finally, any agreement of course will be sensitive to macro economic conditions. If some countries fall into recession their populations and leaders will have little appetite for implementing or continuing costly GHG regulations. But if those countries do not adhere to any international agreement, GHG targets can only be met by stricter controls and higher costs in those countries that do comply.",0_0
"If you were to hear there was significant planetary warming which is causing a melting of the polar ice caps, you might think you were hearing about global warming. And of course, you would be right just not about earth, but rather Mars instead. This according to the Heartland Institute, which reports how recent NASA findings confirm that for the past three Martian summers, deposits of frozen CO2 from the Martian south pole have shrunk, indicating a significant planetary warming underway. Scientists attribute this Martian warming not to any manmade emissions, but to possible increases in the sun's solar output, which may mean as much as thirty percent of any warming that has occurred on earth could be attributable to this natural cause.",2_1
"Surveyed scientists agree global warming is real January 19, 2009",0_0
Projected Job Losses between 2013-2020:,0_0
"Its a simple question: What is the temperature of the earth? But for those who live here it has no simple answer, nor ever will haveonly approximations. For it not only depends on where you put the thermometer, but also, apparently, on who interprets it. For if you own the dataset, you can reduce older temperatures and increase recent ones, just as NASA has been doing, and give the impression of greater warming. Naughty, naughty. more",5_1
"I'm back at the dog shows this weekend, posting will be very light. Share you readers tips here, and I'll be back on Monday. In the meantime, check out the blogs on the sidebar - it always pays to expand your blog reading horizons!",0_0
The survey by the University of Michigan and Muhlenberg College says 62 percent of those asked in December think the Earth is getting warmer. Thats up from 55 percent in the spring of that year and 58 percent in December 2010. Its the highest proportion in two years.,0_0
"Which begs the question: How could it have been warm enough to grow giant trees 1,000 years ago in an area now covered in ice? We dont know why it was so warm 1,000 years agoclimate scientists dont like to talk about it because they cant explain it ??? but for some reason they are sure that your SUV is causing current warmth.",2_1
"It's surprising that Vongehr, a trained physicist whom I know from TASI-99 in Colorado (but I don't really remember him well), decided to argue against reductionism but I have already reduced this surprising attitude to Vongehr's Maoism (which brought us another piece of evidence in favor of reductionism).",0_0
"This video link here is an animation of how the windpark was constructed. The video shows how huge mono-piles with a wall thickness of 100 mm are pounded into the seabed . That certainly cannot be very pleasant for any marine wildlife nearby, and certainly represents a major disturbance of habitat.",0_0
"Back in the 1970s, when the elites were convinced that overpopulation would destroy the Earth, the Chinese acted as only a one-party autocracy or totalitarian state could: It limited women to one child. The result was that millions of female fetuses were aborted so that China now has about 120 males to every 100 femalesa potentially destabilizing imbalanceand a slow-growing population that means China will get old before most of its people grow rich.",0_0
"Anger at being disrespected: This is the flip side of their pride. Working-class voters are very cognizant of their status in American life. They rarely occupy executive positions in their jobs and are consumers rather than producers of ideas. They feel keenly this relative lack of control over important features of their lives, and resent being ordered about as if they were merely pawns in someone else's grand plan. They particularly dislike having their lives belittled as unsophisticated or inferior to the lives of educated or wealthy folk.",0_0
"Speaking about books on this topic, I?d like to mention another original Czech publication which just recently came out and which unfortunately ? for reasons I cannot understand ? went almost unnoticed. I?m referring to a book by Miroslav Kut lek, professor at the Czech Technical University in Prague, called ?Rationally about Global Warming? (Doko?n Publishers, Prague, 2008), which, as the title itself suggests, takes similar views, but at a more technical level.",0_0
The feds prefer front-loading washing machines. Government studies conclude that these horizontal axis designs like the machines in Laundromats consume less energy and reduced energy use means reduced carbon dioxide emissions.,0_0
"Elevated CO 2 stimulated rates of net photosynthesis by about 60% in the well-watered seedlings. Under drought conditions, however, the relative photosynthetic stimulation increased to as much as 180%, leading to CO 2 -induced increases in seedling dry mass of 33 and 31% for well-watered and water-stressed seedlings, respectively. The larger percentage enhancement of net photosynthesis in the water-stressed seedlings essentially ameliorated the negative effect of water stress on growth. In addition, elevated CO 2 increased whole-plant water-use efficiency by 51 and 63% in the well-watered and water-stressed seedlings, respectively. This enhancement resulted solely from the CO 2 -induced increases in photosynthesis, and not from reductions in stomatal conductance or total water use. What it means",3_3
"December 2010 is ""almost certain"" to be the coldest since records began in 1910, according to the Met Office. ?The Independent, 18 December 2010",1_3
"Recently, a college in Vermont found several students had repeated the same error on exam papers. The misinformation was traced to Wikipedia, and the college outlawed the site for its students' use.",0_0
as an Illinois state senator is also interesting as a preview of his,0_0
Now a one in 20 years rainout is NOT a freak event. Its a 1 in 20 unusual but normal event. What is odd is having a 1 in 20 freak rain event in what is supposed to be a Drought Of Historic Proportions Thus my complaint about the Palmer Drought Index when used with buggered temperature data.,5_1
"Some politicians in Washington say adding more carbon dioxide to the air is closing the window at the top of the atmosphere and allowing less heat to escape to space. The answer as to whether this is true or not is not going to come from looking at how much the earth has warmed up in the last 150 years. This planet has warmed and cooled so many times in the past that the current temperature trend is just a repeat of what has happened many, many times before. There are simply too many natural temperature cycles caused by too many forces of nature that will mask any underlying forcing mechanism. Thankfully there is a new way to find an answer. With the advent of the satellite era in the 1960s a revolutionary method of how to evaluate our possible impact on climate was born.",2_1
"Also, note that I have not even addressed any natural sources of warming. If Mother Nature was also involved in the ocean warming during 1955-2010, then this would imply an even LOWER climate sensitivity than I have estimated here.",0_0
The Colorado part of that article has the same end point: giant storms in Colorado are not increasing or decreasing; out in the Rockies it??s all el Nio. More at:,1_7
"Denying those men, women, and especially children the ability to improve their lives based on some professed concern about unborn generations doesnt sit well with me at all. The obvious response from their side is Easy for you to say, you made it already. Which is true. The West got wealthy by means which sustainable development wants to deny to the worlds poor.",0_0
"If making statements such as The Earths climate is now clearly out of balance and is warming is communicating clearly and objectively, then god help us. Such alarmist and unscientific language give all of us good reason to challenge statements like this. Which is unfortunately what didnt happen, back at the NYT blog.",5_2
"Finally, the Yale/George Mason University polls failed to ask the two most important questions in the whole debate:",0_0
"Within our federal system . . . the states have the lead responsibility for the protection of the environment and the judicious management of their energy and other natural resources. Regulatory practices should encourage net environmental improvements, while providing a stable planning environment for energy providers and consumers as well as a well-defined planning horizon. Unnecessary federal regulations, policies, and programs should be reviewed and revised as necessary.42",0_0
"Rare indeed, though, is the lie which is both of the mammoth society-destroying type and which has reached the level of Received Wisdom throughout an entire elite leadership structure, and then which suddenly and very publicly is revealed to all as the fraud it is, before extremes of destruction are reached. In fact, on reflecting through history, I can't think of an example.",0_0
"Climategate, and the dishonorable response to its revelations by some official scientific bodies, show that scientists are under pressure to toe the orthodox party line on climate change, and receive many benefits for doing so. That's another reason for suspicion.",5_2
"If the good fit between these tree-growth and temperature data is reflected at the longer timescales indicated by the smoothed chronologies (Figures 5c and S20d, available online), we can infer the existence of generally warm summers in the 10th and 11th centuries, similar to the level of those in the 20th century.",2_1
"Though globalization has increased the importance of maritime affairs, there has been both a relative and an absolute decline of U.S. seapower, with a U.S. Navy today at its lowest level in the post-World War II era. For the first time in 20 years, the U.S. is in the process of drafting a new maritime strategy, but with a considerably reduced force that went from 600 to fewer than 300 ships, and with new responsibilities in terms of nonmilitary maritime security. Hence the concept of the Thousand Ship Navy, which is meant to create a global maritime partnership with foreign navies.33",0_0
"The finding may force scientists to rethink current theories of the impact of global warming, writes Rob Waugh in the MailOnline.",0_0
"An example crossed my desk yesterday. (Thanks, Anthony.)",0_0
"Many observed that when Hurricane Katrina struck, politicians and the media tried to use images of the tragedy to question the competence of President George W. Bush, yet gave President Obama a pass when Louisianans suffered once again. We know the playing field's not level. That's why we work to level it.",0_0
That experience led me to think Its the water vapor that modulates surface warming and surface UV. Which sent me off to do a literature search. Surely someone else had bothered to look and noticed something similar?,2_3
"Millions will get laid off in coal mines, power plants, factories, shops and other businesses. Entire families and communities will be pounded and impoverished. Real people's hopes, dreams, pride and work ethic will be replaced by despair and dependency. Bread winners will be forced to work multiple jobs, commute longer distances, and suffer severe sleep deprivation, if they can find work.",0_0
What do you base your views on? Warming will probably lead to a greater,0_0
"As two further examples of selection bias from Thomas et. al. plants, the World Wildlife Federation estimates there are 80,000 plant species in the Amazon region (nobody really knows). Thomas et. al. selected 9 (but did not say which 0.01%), and modeled a 69-87% extinction risk for those. Those estimates became part of the simple plant averages for all 4 regions. Thomas et. al. selected 243 out of roughly 400 species of South African Proteaceae (afrikanns suikerbossie or sugarbushes, of which there are 80 generi and roughly 1600 species worldwide including the familiar macadamia nut). South African Proteaceae grow mainly in a specialized Cape Hope ecosystem known as the Fynbos, which covers just 6.7% of South Africa. The Queensland EBA trick was also applied to plants.",5_1
"After years of basking in a green glow as the cleanest fossil fuel and a favorite short-term choice to replace cheap-but-dirty coal, gas now finds itself under attack from environmentalists, filmmakers and congressional Democrats and even from some scientists who raise doubts about whether its total emissions are as climate-friendly as commonly believed. .",0_0
"The answer was devastating. Out of the 95 data series in the latest Mann paper that covered the entire last 1,000 years, only 25 carried the hockey stick signal. Three of these series are lake sediments in Finland which are corrupted by recent urban development and the rest are from bristle-cone pine trees in the US Southwest that have been challenged by other researchers.",5_1
It appears that the vertical profile of ocean warming could be a key ingredient in getting a better idea of how sensitive the climate system is to our greenhouse gas emissions. The results here suggests the warming has been considerably weaker than what would be expected for a sensitive climate system.,3_1
"Willis Eschenbach has an open letter at WUWT which absolutely excoriates Phil Climategate Jones for his lies to the public and to Willis. The letter is quite strongly worded, places the FOI lies in context and is worth a read. The critique is strong enough that it extends not only to Phil, but to his teammembers as well as to the kangaroo investigations of Climategate.",5_2
This piece originally appeared in Chief Executive Magazine,0_0
"The authors first derived an estimate of the expected number of North Atlantic tropical cyclones (TCs) that were missed by the observing system in the pre-satellite era (1878-1965), after which they analyzed trends of both reconstructed TC numbers and duration over various time periods and looked at how they may or may not have been related to trends in sea surface temperature (SST) over the main development region (MDR) of North Atlantic TCs. What was learned",0_0
Another feature is that the GCHNv3 data is very close to the GISS Homogenised data. So in looking the GISS H data used in the creation of the temperature data sets is very much the same as looking at GCHNv3 that forms the source data for GISS.,0_0
"Mr. President, you may remember that several weeks ago I came to the Senate floor to bring attention to a video of EPA Region 6 Administrator Al Armendariz admitting that EPA's ""general philosophy"" is to ""crucify"" and ""make examples"" of oil and gas companies. Today, I would like to highlight another video. It's a video of EPA Region 1 Administrator Curt Spalding admitting that the Obama EPA consciously and deliberately made the choice to wage a war on coal. Now, I'm going to quote exactly what he said so everyone can have the full effect. He said,",0_0
"My ex-colleague and fellow superhero , condensed matter physicist Subir Sachdev wrote a neat article for a mostly bad magazine called Scientific American ,",0_0
"Apparently happens in this model, nothing of the deep ocean koldioxidinnehll in 1000 r. Atmosfrens and the surface layer koldioxidinnehll makes the asymptotic values as the corresponding contribution of carbon dioxide to the entire system.",0_0
"As the great bulk of Antarctica continues to cool , so too does the amount of sea ice that surrounds the continent continue to increase, both of which observations provide little justification (actually, none at all) for the climate-alarmist claim that CO 2 -induced global warming is a reality, especially when most climate models predict it should be most evident in earth's polar regions, where it obviously is nowhere to be seen .",1_1
"I have posted many times on the numerous problems with the historic temperature reconstructions that were used in Manns now-famous ""hockey stick."" I dont have any problems with scientists trying to recreate history from fragmentary evidence, but I do have a problem when they overestimate the certainty of their findings or enter the analysis trying to reach a particular outcome. Just as an archaeologist must admit there is only so much that can be inferred from a single Roman coin found in the dirt, we must accept the limit to how good trees are as thermometers. The problem with tree rings (the primary source for Manns hockey stick) is that they vary in width for any number of reasons, only one of which is temperature.",5_1
"The WIMP-nucleon cross section seems to be \(1.9\times 10^{-41}\,{\rm cm}^2\), also very accurately determined.",0_0
Simplicity is Beautiful: How to Build a DemocracyRyan Young's op-ed in The Daily Caller,0_0
"I dont think the votes are there in the subcommittee, Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D., N.C.) said in an interview. Mr. Butterfield said he was particularly concerned about the bills impact on low-income Americans, adding What do I tell a single mom making eight dollars an hour?",0_0
"The EU's collective target is there because they put in place a burden-sharing agreement, hoping to take advantage of the inbuilt advantages of the UK, France and Germany in reducing emissions on 1990 levelsthe politically-driven phase-out of coal, heavy use of nuclear energy and the closing of East German smokestack industries respectively. By taking account of these advantages, other countries would not have to be as severe in their emissions policies as they would be under the original Kyoto agreement.",0_0
"As part of a DOE grant we are testing climate models against satellite observations, particularly regarding the missing hotspot in the tropics, that is, the expected region of enhanced warming in the tropical mid- and upper troposphere as the surface warms. Since 1979 (the satellite period of record), it appears that warming in those upper layers has been almost non-existent, despite some surface warming and increases in low-level humidity.",2_3
decades before that is sorted out I would think. So I would guess that it will,0_0
"The Washington Post explains why Obama is now seeking to go around Congress to enact anti-coal regulations by fiat: ""When Democrats controlled both the House and Senate, Obama could not get climate control legislation passed.""",0_0
"The Bartol Research Institute of the University of Delaware manages five real-time neutron monitors, at widely dispersed locations, all of which indicate that over the last six months cosmic rays are increasing. This would not support the hypothesis that we are past solar minimum and suggests that solar minimum has not yet been reached.",0_0
"The article, unfortunately, does not consider other environmental and social risks, relative to climate risks. In the Pielke et al 2012 paper we wrote",0_0
"Oh and I nearly forgot, Ill release my code for how I did this after Eric Steig releases his. (or tomorrow afternoon, whichever comes first)",0_0
"Finally, we are impressed by the administration's pledge to defer to state permitting authorities on several matters of implementation. As the National Governors Association states in its commentary on the need for NSR reform:",0_0
"At least, they could finally plant the 192 flags, except for the Hungarian one. Lewis Pugh is surely happy to finally get rid of Sam Branson who always hogs the best chair , as if he were a mollycoddled boy. :-)",0_0
"Hovmoller diagrams are a great way to display data. If theyre new to you, theres no reason to be intimidated by them. Lets take a look at Figure 10. It presents the Hovmoller diagrams of thermocline depth anomalies (the depth of the isotherm at 20 deg C) with 2014 on the left and 1982 on the right. GODAS, unfortunately, furnishes the illustrations (not the data) in different dimensions for the two years. The vertical (y) axis in both is time with the Januarys for both years at the top and Decembers at the bottom. The horizontal (x) axis is longitude, so, moving from left to right, were going from west to eastwith the Indian Ocean in the left-hand portion, the Pacific in the center and the Atlantic in the right-hand portion. Were interested in the Pacific. The data are color-coded according to the scales below the Hovmollers.",0_0
"The article is a bit old, but is worth rereading. Writing from Bali, Christopher Monckton, who contribiuted to the 2007 IPCC report, explained:",0_0
"Washington, D.C., October 6, 1999 This week marks the release of the second edition of Facts, Not Fear: Teaching Children About the Environment by Michael Sanera and Jane S. Shaw. The revised edition of Facts, Not Fear features non-technical treatments of 14 major environmental topics and strategies educators and parents can use to present them to children.",0_0
Jung replies that an evaluation indeed shows that there has been no real increase in storms over the past years. More the contrary is the case .,1_7
"Public speaking engagements, which earn him 100,000 a time, are estimated to have brought in another 9 million.",0_0
"A soberer, less silly, less politicized, and less excitable public figure, the UN's Right-to-Food Rapporteur, has also recently used the phrase ""crime against humanity"", but in the opposite context. Herr Ziegler has said, ""When millions are going hungry, it is a crime against humanity that food should be diverted to biofuels.""",0_0
"Between the offsets, allowance giveaways, generous assumptions about the cost and development of carbon sequestration for coal-fired electricity, and optimistic hopes for falling costs for other prospective energy sources, estimates of the cost of Waxman-Markey over the long run differ by more than an order of magnitude. Advocates of Waxman-Markey point to estimates from the EPA and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) showing average cost to households of less than $100 per year (in 2008 dollars) by 2020, down from a previous estimate of about $175 per yearroughly equal to buying one extra postage stamp a day. On the other end of the scale, the Heritage Foundation estimates the cost will be more than $1,800 per household (again in constant 2008 dollars) by 2020 and will rise sharply in the years after 2020 when the cap begins to be lowered and the allowances begin to be auctioned rather than given away.",4_1
"And note, a doctrine is a set of beliefs or principles quite separate from action.",0_0
Erroneous greenhouse effect assumptions are only the tip of the iceberg for the multitude of other climate model failings,5_1
"The maritime dimension is as important for the Long War as it is for the Great Game. Before the attack on the Twin Towers, the attack on the USS Cole gave the West an idea of what asymmetric warfare can accomplish (17 sailors killed and $250 million worth of repairs for a terrorist operation that cost $40,000 to launch). That asymmetric warfare at sea shows great promise has not been lost on the jihadists who, when all is said and done, are less interested in restoring a caliphate (a goal they know is beyond their reach) than in making the West bleed to death economically.",0_0
"Unfortunately, the election did not bring any change of policy in the UK, because the new Prime Minister, his inner circle and his coalition partners, are all signed up to Global Warming and the need to destroy the UK economy with high energy costs, as they follow the Yellow Brick Road to the Low Carbon Economy at the End of the Rainbow. However, only a few will access the Pot of Gold, not least those politicians and advisers who are directors of, or associated with, ""low carbon enterprises"" seeking public money.",0_0
"(1) EPA's uncertain and increasingly narrow interpretation of the ""routine maintenance, repair and replacement"" (RMR&R;) exclusion",0_0
"administration's national security record often hinge on its handling of Iran, the policy",0_0
70% of the public believes that we're almost running out of fossil fuel.,0_0
"Utilities will have to spend $130 billion to retrofit or replace older coal-fired units, says energy analyst Roger Bezdek and another $30 billion a year for operations, maintenance and extra fuel for energy-intensive scrubbers and other equipment, to generate increasingly expensive electricity.",0_0
Global warming computer models confounded as Antarctic sea ice hits new record high with 2.1million square miles more than is usual for time of year,1_1
"Security and Resilience both are areas where further U.S. Canada policy cooperation would be mutually beneficial. For example, the response to Hurricane Kartina and more recently to Hurricane Sandy revealed challenges providing mutual aid in a crisis skilled professionals should be able to efficiently cross the border with their equipment to help neighbors in need. While work is underway in this area, further efforts to address obstacles with mutual aid agreements could be boosted by their inclusion in the Clean Energy Dialogue. In particular, the two countries could do much more to improve monitoring and coordinated responses to cyber attacks on critical energy infrastructure, where natural gas is playing a growing role north and south of the border.",0_0
Ice coverage is slightly about last years record low but still well below the 30-year average.,0_0
"In this case, the models are showing an average energy deficit that is ten times that of the observations and remember, at four years the actual climate is back to pre-eruption conditions, but the models?? deficit is still increasing, and will do so for several more years before starting back towards the line.",5_1
"In Pittsylvania County, just north of the North Carolina border, the largest undeveloped uranium deposit in the United States ""and the seventh largest in the world, according to industry monitor UX Consulting ""sits on land owned by neighbors Henry Bowen and Walter Coles. Large uranium deposits close to the surface are virtually unknown in the U.S. east of the Mississippi River. And that may be the problem.",0_0
"Similar results were recently reported by other researchers who have set out to use real world observations of the climate response to the eruption of Pinatubo to determine the climate sensitivity. David Douglass and Robert Knox from the University of Rochester, reported in Geophysical Research Letters that, based upon their calculations and their fit of the observations, that the decay time for the temperature response to Pinatubo was several times shorter than the 37 months calculated by Wigley et al. using climate models, and that the resulting climate sensitivity to a doubling of CO2 was only about 0.6Cfar beneath climate model estimates.",3_1
"So, about that settled science on ocean acidification (that is actually a change to lesser alkalinity and NOT acidification) and about that settled science on CO2 in the ocean coming from the air via our burning fossil fuels Looking a bit moth eaten to me.",3_2
"""Oh, I know you care about the hazards of radioactivity. But you only care as much as you have to. I care all the time. I care so much I can't sleep. I can't eat. It wrecked my marriage. I care so much more than you do, I'm a better person than you are. And since I'm a better person than you are, I'm in charge!""",0_0
"Our celebration, which highlights the benefits of freedom and technological innovation, struck a nerve with environmentalists in the media. Some called it ""strange,"" many called it ""stupid,"" and others simply said we were ruining the world. The holiday also struck a chord with folks around the world who picked up on the idea of celebrating human intelligence. On his blog, ""Objective Extrospection,"" Rajesh in India wrote:",0_0
"I particularly liked the ocean acidification portion. The oceans are becoming more acidic due to CO2. Acid dissolves carbonate in sea shells. The pH scale is not mentioned so, unless you were versed in the scale, you might think pH 8 is acidic. The chart of pH from 1990 to 2012(?) has a 45 downslope. You get this if the ordinate is <0.1 pH unit and the decrease is 8.11 to 8.07. Terrific chartsmanship. If you put this on a chart with the pH scale (1 to 14) as the ordinate, the line is essentially flat. You dont see much slope with an ordinate of 1 pH unit (8-0).",3_2
"This is a column about energy and environment and why we must not let the poisonous debate about climate change so tie us in knots that we cannot have any energy policy at all, particularly one focused on developing much more efficient use of resources, through better designs and systems.",0_0
"Some Democratic politicians learned lessons from this. Bill Clinton pursued welfare reform and honored, in rhetoric if not always behavior, people who work hard and play by the rules.",0_0
"The animation below shows the huge increase in old/thick ice in the Beaufort Sea over the past twoyears. If this trend continues, ice will be back to 1980s levels in three or four years.",1_1
#3 Pr ( D > P | Trial Results & No Cheating & Patients Like Before) > 0.5.,0_0
"Those capacious definitions should certainly include prosecuting attorneys and staffs going after the growing number of shady dealers who got ""renewable energy tax credits"" for selling fuels that were not 100% biodiesel and others who sold fraudulent RINs (Renewable Identification Numbers) to refineries that face stiff penalties if they fail to buy mandated amounts of ethanol and blend it into gasoline.",0_0
realities and the charge popular among the president's political opponents that he views America as a declining power.,0_0
"The warming we have had the last 100 years is so small that, if we didnt have meteorologists and climatologists to measure it, we wouldnt have noticed it at all.",1_4
"In summary, r CO 2 and the other vxthusgaserna a p-term serious problem whatsoever br solved in the nearest 50-100 clean. It is safe is an important and exciting main task for future generations. Today there is hardly some reason for serious concern. What we bst can do is to encourage better science education and more incentives for basic research and development of less harmful energy. What that are needed are creative ideas mainly in energy research. What we dremot be frska avoid r vr time klimatkolportrer and Cassandraprofeter, uppmrksammade in the s effective but dessvrre non nogrknade media.",0_0
"These are practical, not rhetorical questions. As far as we can see, the only direct effect of decreasing CO2 levels via expensive renewable energy programs has been to cost more American and European jobs than would otherwise have been the case during the global economic recession.",4_1
Keep up the good work! Even though it?s been a mild winter in,0_0
"Climate change not the cause of Caribbean coral reef die off. From the NoTricksZone , a report by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature says that the main driver for coral reef die of is the loss of the two main grazers: parrot fish and sea urchins. An unidentified disease in 1983 caused a mass die off of sea urchins and 20th century over fishing has brought the parrot fish to near extinction in some areas.",3_2
"Nature here today has a commentary acknowledging that the warming pause is real and that it has grown into a full blown trend it is no longer just noise ! Sixteen years into the mysterious global-warming hiatus, scientists are piecing together an explanation .",1_4
"After all, that is ultimately what we are interested in: How do various forcings affect the radiative energy budget of the Earth? The results, I must admit, are enough for me to now place at least one foot solidly in the cosmic ray theory camp.",2_1
Polar bears no longer on ???thin ice??: researchers say polar bears could face brighter future,3_2
"But in her Supreme Court brief, Kagan maintained that Beckstead &Watts;, the small firm challenging the PCAOB, was required to perform just such a heroic task. The firm had not challenged as unconstitutional any specific rule or action of the PCAOB. It maintained that the PCAOB's structure under Sarbanes-Oxley violated the separation-of-powers principles of the Constitution because of the limits the law places on the president and his direct lieutenants in appointment and removal of the board's members.",0_0
"CEI has been a major voice in the climate change debate, debunking many of the ""facts"" offered by global warming hysterics.",0_0
"Thirteen Agencies, One Mission: Empower the Nation with Global Change Science.",0_0
"As we ridottida cradle of Mediterranean civilization, in the realm of paradoxes. We are forced to choose between the Northern League and the Ndrangheta because everyone else is against us.",0_0
"Of this latter warming, they say that it ""concurs with distinct continental-scale warming, consistently reaching unprecedented maximum temperatures after ~1990 AD."" Their use of the word ""unprecedented,"" however, is a bit misleading; for they subsequently state that ""the SST increase over the last three decades does not, or not 'yet', appear unusual compared to the entire 0-2.4 ka record,"" and that ""the warming trend over the second half of the 20th century has not yet reverted the late Holocene millennial-scale cooling."" In fact, their data clearly indicate that the peak temperature of the Medieval Warm Period was approximately 2.2C greater than the peak temperature of the late 20th century, and that the peak temperature of the Roman Warm Period was about 2.7C greater than that of the late 20th century.",2_1
"Now consider what I wrote in that introductory portion from my upcoming book: Its very obvious why the change in the ocean heat content is very important to the hypothesis of human-induced global warming. If the oceans could be shown to have warmed naturally, then the impacts of manmade greenhouse gases are much smaller than claimed by climate scientists.",2_1
I am pleased that my testimony was referred to in the Republican comment on the Proposed Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases Under the Clean Air Act issued by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA ).,0_0
"What potential consequences will result now that the Supreme Court announced in October that it will review the June 2012 D.C. Circuit of Appeals decision in Coalition for Responsible Regulation v. EPA, which upheld four of the agency's main greenhouse gas rulings. In the new case, Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA, the Court will limit its review to one question: ""Whether EPA permissibly determined that greenhouse gas emissions from new motor vehicles triggered requirements under the Clean Air Act for stationary sources that emit greenhouse gases.""",0_0
"Central Puget Sound residents do not frequently think about living in a rain shadow, like their friends in Sequim and Port Townsend. But more frequently that you might expect, Seattle IS in a rain shadow and this will happen later today.",0_0
"""The District of Columbia is becoming the first U.S. jurisdiction to allow Internet gambling, trying to raise millions of dollars from the habits of online poker buffs and acting ahead of traditional gambling meccas like New Jersey and Nevada.""",0_0
"So first and foremost, perhaps you ought to start running an education campaign on how to be self reliant? Add in some nice old fashioned free markets and the place would be humming with power generation and clean up crews. Think with a public announcement that for 3 months anyone could do business in those areas without a license might encourage a few thousand unemployed folks with gloves, shovels and pickup trucks to drive in with a truck bed full of generators, gasoline, and stoves /food?",0_0
"Why should you be interested? The 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 30 years, not manmade greenhouse gases. Ive searched sea surface temperature records for more than 4 years, and I can find no evidence of an anthropogenic greenhouse gas signal. That is, the warming of the global oceans has been caused by Mother Nature, not anthropogenic greenhouse gases.",2_1
"(Again, let me stress that I am describing the impacts on projected global temperatures. There is growing evidence that actual global temperatures are not evolving the way projections indicate that they should. So, the degree to which these temperature projections described above reflect what really will happen in the future, is far from certain.)",5_1
"CEI Expert Available to Comment: Editorial Director Ivan Osorio on the problems with the proposed ""card check"" rules:",0_0
Gia Dvali: 100 quintillion new particle species,0_0
"EU members states have spent about ?600 billion ($882bn) on renewable energy projects since 2005, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Germany?s green energy transition alone may cost consumers up to ?1 trillion by 2030, the German government recently warned.",4_4
"But as several researchers have pointed out, the higher costs resulting from coastal disasters such as tidal surges and hurricanes are not primarily due to environmental change, but from the increased property values found on coastlines and in forest areas. And that clustering of increased property value on coastlines is enabled by state and federal governments through a variety of storm and flood insurance subsidies.",0_0
"The rate of sea level rise varies form place to place and depends on a lot of factors. Changes in ice inventories, currents, and geological effects, such as glacial isostatic adjustment all contribute and are worthy of study and measurement. But they should no be used to foster panic for political ends.",5_2
Distress of the People Described as Exceeding That Caused by the Great Famine in India.,0_0
"Record low ice extent, record heat, record thin ice, hottest year ever. No doubt all the ice will be gone this summer.",1_1
Money Week had looked at Solar Panels back in February:,0_0
"Geoengineering to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere was not considered in the study. ""Ideas about taking the carbon dioxide away after the world puts it in have been proposed, but right now those are very speculative,"" said Solomon.",0_0
"The devastating Russian heatwave and Pakistan floods are caused by one unusual weather pattern the static jet stream, meteorologists say. In the past month, a ""blocking event"" has brought the jet stream to a halt, keeping weather patterns stationery over certain countries. But less is known about what triggers this abnormal activity. Glenda Kwek, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 August 2010",0_0
"Firstly No one wins anything while the people who slag off at scientists get their denigrating name-calling on the front cover of magazines. That said, Im smiling. Beaming. The man who doesnt know what science is, admits his team is failing. That has to be good. Real scientists everywhere, smile!",0_0
"The irony is of course that the demonstration that a regional reconstruction is valid takes effort, and needs to be properly documented. That requires a paper in the technical literature and the only way for Briffa et al to now defend themselves against McIntyres accusations is to publish that paper (which one can guarantee will have different results to what McIntyre has thrown together).",0_0
This is an optimistic moment in human history. But you could spend a long time listening to America's politicians and not hear this mentioned.,0_0
"During the election campaign, OSU President Edward Ray and other faculty and administrators improperly used the campus to campaign for DeFazio and against Robinson. Then, almost immediately after the 2010 election, they launched a series of despicable and unprincipled actions designed to ensure that Joshua, Bethany, and Matthew never receive their degrees regardless of their outstanding academics, examinations and research, or the thousands of hours and tens of thousands of dollars they had invested.",0_0
"on Thursday, September 9th, 2010 at 6:11 pm and is filed under News.",0_0
Remember a year ago when few days of July warmth with strong blocking over Greenland had the media abuzz over some melting ?,0_0
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is investigating the state-funded global warming research of a former University of Virginia professor to see if he defrauded taxpayers; UVA is refusing to cooperate.,0_0
"The actual sakfrgan frblir same refreshi took on how fast exchange reaction between television ltsastillstnd (carbon dioxide in atmosphere, and surface layer), coupled to a third ltsastillstnd (deep sea) with vsentligen mycketlngre jmviktsinstllning (between the surface layers and deep sea) and larger volume?",0_0
"These guys want the world to be like a big museum with no living people in it. No, actually they want a bubble, where they dont have to deal with real life and the fact that the air has stuff in it.",0_0
Was raw data available elsewhere? (31) Who cares? It is the raw data as used that is required for replication. I think I'm right is saying that Phil Jones' published list of stations used is not complete.,0_0
1984-2004: CEI's 20 Year Report,0_0
"Finally, it is a fact that people who have saltwater aquariums sometimes add CO2 to the water in order to increase coral growth and to increase plant growth. The truth is CO2 is the most important food for all life on Earth, including marine life. It is the main food for photosynthetic plankton (algae), which in turn is the food for the entire food chain in the sea.",3_3
"A recent review by the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) and CSIRO suggested that the line could shift as far as Clare Valley by 2070 under the most extreme climate change scenario. However, it is more likely that the line would stay roughly where it is now or move just north of Jamestown.",0_0
"On several previous occasions, I??ve observed that there is very strong paleoclimate evidence for the MWP in California ??? even, and perhaps, especially in the bristlecone-foxtail areas. Medieval treelines in California were higher than at present, discussed here and here . Post-medieval lakes have even submerged medieval trees. Miller (2006) discussed here and here estimated great warmth in alpine California as follows:",2_1
"How vulnerable are we to a changing climate? As vulnerable as weve ever been (apart from having electricity, antibiotics, radio, helicopters, cars, boats, planes, 24 hour satellite coverage, and more scientists and engineers today than existed in the whole of previous history.)",0_0
"Moreover, Congress has inserted language into the annual Department of Transportation (DOT) appropriations bill since 1995 prohibiting them from changing the current CAFE standards. Environmentalists want to prevent that from happening again this year. Their first move is to push for a ""sense of the Senate"" resolution that would force the Senate to negotiate with the House over the matter, and to convince the White House that a veto of the DOT appropriations bill would be sustained.",0_0
"Hansen's scenarios ""A"" and ""B"" predicted a temperature anomaly about 1.0 C by 2009. Scenario ""C"" predicted an anomaly of about 0.7 C by 2009. Since Hansen's publication, atmospheric CO2 levels have tracked Scenario ""A"" and CH4 levels have tracked Scenario ""C"". Even though CH4 is a more potent greenhouse gas, it accounts for only a tiny fraction of the greenhouse effect:",0_0
Projections by the National Weather Service and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers show that much of the five boroughs will be submerged if another strong hurricane hits New York in the year 2100.,0_0
"More filler leads to a 30-second clip about how global warming is causing polar bears to drown because they have to swim greater distances to find sea ice on which to rest. The judge ruled however, that the polar bears in question had actually drowned because of a particularly violent storm.",3_2
"In 1975, the National Academy of Sciences published the graph below showing that the 1930s were very hot in the northern hemisphere, and that there had been a sharp cooling trend since 1940.",2_1
"1 vacancy Washington DC Metro Area, DC",0_0
"Global sea surface temperatures have warmed over the past 30 years, but there is no evidence the warming was caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gases. No evidence at all.",2_3
"funny, you need at least two of the following elements:",0_0
?Nations must invest $37 trillion in energy technologies by 2030 to stabilize,0_0
Islam: Making a True Difference in the World One Body at a Time,0_0
"In assessing the legal sufficiency of the Dutch government's climate policies, a court might be expected to look to previous cases, if not the settled laws of the Netherlands. Instead, the court offers a long series of policy conclusions including, for example: ""the costs of the measures ordered by the court are not unacceptably high,"" ""as a developed country the Netherlands should take the lead,"" and ""it evident that the State has insufficient financial means to realize higher reduction measures."" And just for good measure, the court declares that it ""adopts an evolutive approach,"" meaning ""the Court is not bound by its previous decisions"" because ""the interpretation of the rights and freedoms is not fixed but can take account of the social context and changes in society.""",0_0
"There are well-developed criteria for establishing toxicity, Dunn writes, but EPA disregards them.",0_0
"The Pew Center on Global Climate Change (www.pewclimate.org) has also released a report claiming that temperature rise due to manmade greenhouse gas emissions could occur more rapidly than previously thought. According to the report, the presence of SO2 in the atmosphere serves to cool the planet. But SO2 is regulated to reduce acid rain deposition. As more countries restrict the emission of SO2, temperatures could rise.",0_0
"""Canada is a sovereign nation and we will develop our resources with appropriate regulations and enforcement to protect the environment,"" said Paula Caldwell St-Onge. The Consulate General of Canada, St-Onge was in Albuquerque to talk up, and answer questions about, the Keystone pipeline.",0_0
clear commitment to the timetable the generals gave President Obama during the,0_0
"And in an upcoming post, well illustrate how poorly the models simulate daily maximum and minimum temperatures and the difference between them, the diurnal temperature range. I should be publishing that post within the next week.",5_1
It's instructive that the opposition to genetic engineering is led by non-scientists.,0_0
But if you want to find REALLY bad air...getting close to Beijing levels...head to the Tacoma Tideflats where a startling peak of about 275 was observed. Folks...this is really bad for you.,0_0
"/s/ James Peacock JSC, Apollo and Shuttle Program Office, 21 years",0_0
Europe may have to be buried under a kilometer thick sheet of ice before people wake up to the hoax of global warming.,1_2
"Yass News, sport and weather | Yass Tribune",0_0
"Unfortunately, Schmidt and Sherwood seem overconfident in GCMs:",0_0
"Numerous, abrupt, short-lived warming and cooling episodes, much more intense than recent warming/cooling, occurred during the last Ice Age and in the 10,000 years that followed, none of which could have been caused by changes in atmospheric CO2 because they happened before CO2 began to rise sharply around 1945. This paper documents the geologic evidence for these sudden climate fluctuations, which show s remarkably consistent pattern over decades, centuries, and millennia.",2_1
"In the case of light-saturated net photosynthesis , they found an actual stimulation provided by the extra 316 ppm of CO 2 that ranged from 31% for cultivar Drysdale to 75% for cultivar Yitpi. In the case of aboveground biomass production , they also found a CO 2 -induced stimulation. In this case, it ranged from 0% for the cultivar H45 to 133% for cultivar Gladius. And in the case of actual grain yield , the six scientists found a CO 2 -induced stimulation that ranged from 0% for cultivar H45 to 98% for cultivar Gladius, with the other five cultivars sprinkled somewhere in between.",3_3
"In the minds of many of us who are gathered here, the most important question concerninggreenhouse gases is not whether they will produce a recognizable global warming, butwhen will they do so? Probably we take it for granted that, barring some catastrophethat halts or overwhelms the accumulation of carbon dioxide and other constituents, thewarming predicted by theoretical studies will eventually occur. The apparent upward trendof global-average temperature during the most recent century, and the unusually warm anddry weather that has invaded parts of the world during parts of the most recent decade,have led some of us to speculate that the greenhouse warming is already being felt. In thistalk I wish to examine the basis for speculating that the greenhouse effect is not the maincause of what we have been experiencing and, particularly, that the suggested warmingis due to processes purely internal to the atmosphere and its immediate surroundings.",2_1
"As scientists, Mr. Soon and his co-authors take pride in their ethical standards. Our integrity is our most important asset. We are not unusual; this is true for nearly all scientists.",0_0
"""Amid questions about its performance and billings, a public relations firm that won a $9-million contract to promote the state's high-speed rail project has resigned, stating that it had not developed a good working relationship with bullet- train officials.""",0_0
"The only sensible precaution that you can take in such a situation is to plan for a continuation of the present climate trend, and recognize and plan also for reasonable bounds of future climate variability. As the temperature trend for ten years now has been one of cooling, since the unusually warm El Nino year of 1998, this requires a precautionary response to cooling rather than warming.",1_4
It is perhaps not is absolutely crystal clear how these statements should be interpreted. However LGG to FOLLOWING from Euro Active:,0_0
"The consensus Cook considered was the standard definition: that Man had caused most post-1950 warming. Even on this weaker definition the true consensus among published scientific papers is now demonstrated to be not 97.1%, as Cook had claimed, but only 0.3%.",5_1
"When the push for ""voluntary"" initiatives comes from government, it usually amounts to thinly-veiled hypocrisy. If the government really believes there is a problem worth addressing, why not address it fair and square with policies that apply to everyone? If they do not believe there is a problem requiring intervention, then leave it alone. ""Voluntary"" programs attempt to straddle the ditch, but the government just ends up falling in. It is an attempt to seem concerned about a problem without actually addressing it, and everyone can see through that game. In the case of global warming, if the government dismisses regulatory intervention but calls for voluntary cutbacks, then agitators on behalf of emission reductions will rightly skewer the government for its hypocrisy. If you think emissions should be cut, cut them. If not, don't waste time with confusing symbolic gestures like voluntary emission reductions.",0_0
"The ""climate change community"" went straight into full reality denying mode.",0_0
Uninteresting Putz admits the US is cooling. One baby step at a time.,0_0
"There are also a wide variety of state laws regarding what types of employees qualify for workers' comp benefits. Some states exclude contractors and consultants, volunteer workers, farm workers, domestic servants, and certain other groups. States also enforce different rules about whether part-time employees qualify for benefits.",0_0
"Paper finds NE Atlantic sea surface temperatures have cooled ~3 C over past 2,400 years",0_0
"Oh, sorry, it's actually an upper bound on the amount of discrete symmetry. But surely it must be saturated in some sense. ;-)",0_0
"Gleick, who was forced to step down from the ""scientific ethics and integrity"" task force of the American Geophysical Union because of his fraud, failed -- the stolen memos revealed nothing untoward or even unexpected about Heartland's operations. But his actions show just how desperate climate scaremongers have become.",5_2
"The warming and drying that is predicted by climate alarmists to occur in many places would appear to be good news for largemouth bass, as well as for the people who love to fish for them and for many other types of fish, since an increase in temperature generally ""stimulates metabolism, and enhances growth rates of fishes,"" according to Rypel, who cites in this regard the studies of Beitinger and Fitzpatrick (1979) and Brander (1995). References",3_2
"Tom Pederson, director of British Columbia's Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, got some cheap laughs at the expense of Rex Murphy and Murphy's journalistic reputation at a University of Victoria panel on climate and the media in April.",0_0
Published This Month In The <em>Journal Of The Blatantly Obvious</em>,0_0
"In an effort to gain additional perspective on the issue, McClanahan et al . surveyed the coral reefs of northern Tanzania in 2004/05 with the aim of comparing them over an ~8-year period during a time of increased efforts at fisheries management and the 1998 El Nio Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Indian Ocean Dipole coral mortality event that caused 45% mortality in northern Tanzania and much of the Indian Ocean.",0_0
"Another obligation to posterity is not to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. Federal monetary and housing policies destabilized financial markets in 2008 , entitlement spending imperils Americas very solvency ,carbon taxes or their regulatory equivalentcould inflict huge job and GDP losses by makingaffordable energy costly and scarce, and thegreen crusade against coal mining , hydraulic fracturing , unconventional oil ,and energy exports threatens one of the few bright spots in the economy today.Posterity willnot thank us if policymakers foolishly try to tax, spend, and regulate America back to prosperity.",4_1
"Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow ( www.CFACT.org ), author of Eco-Imperialism : Green power Black death , and coauthor of Cracking Big Green : Saving the world from the Save-the-Earth money machine .",0_0
"The key factor in Asia's underlying instability, then, may not be the perception of China's rise relative to the United States' decline. Rather it may be China's rise relative to Japan's decline. The Chinese economy has now overtaken Japan's. China spends more on defense than does Japan. And within Japan as well as the rest of the region, there is a perception that Japan cannot shake its stagnation.",0_0
"""According to the Living Planet Report, human demands on natural resources have doubled in under 50 years and are now outstripping what the Earth can provide by more than half; and humanity carries on as it is in use of resources, globally it will need the capacity of two Earths by 2030.""",0_0
Leading German scientists are now spreading fear among children at schools. Is this the indoctrination part of the Masterplan?,5_2
(Received 10 April 2001 / Accepted 4 January 2002),0_0
"Technically, that's true. But carbon dioxide the focus of #ClimateAction is not one of those pollutants. Existing Clean Air Act rules aimed directly at safeguarding public health tightly control those pollutants today. One could tighten the rules or accelerate the shift toward natural gas, which emits significant carbon dioxide but little other pollution. But the president's climate agenda goes in a different direction.",0_0
"When contacted for this column, a spokesperson for As You Sow denied that the group's efforts circumvent science, but one of As You Sow's bread-and-butter tactics is the so-called ""bounty hunter provision"" of California's Proposition 65, a law notoriously prone to scientific controversy. Proposition 65 requires that consumers be warned about consumer products that contain chemicals that California has decided (often arbitrarily) may cause cancer or reproductive toxicity.",0_0
"As Vladimir Putin reminded the West in a very Russian way in his Munich speech earlier this year, one state's idea of ""projecting stability"" is another's idea of ""exporting subversion."" Enlargement has been a bold move that played a critical (and often underappreciated) role in the successful transition to democracy of the former captive Europe, but for every action there is a reaction, and the gradual enlargement of NATO to the East has been the main cause of Russia's gradual rapprochement with China. A bold move today would be to acknowledge that, for a host of reasons, this process has reached diminishing returns, and that projecting stability should from now on be achieved at less cost through other means, be it security cooperation or global partnerships.",0_0
"The dependence of executive power on the circumstances was not lost on early observers of the American system. In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville stated that the presidency would grow with the United States. ""The President of the United States possesses almost royal prerogatives, which he has no opportunity of exercising; and the privileges that he can at present use are very circumscribed. The laws allow him to be strong, but circumstances keep him weak."" That would change, Tocqueville predicted, as America became a great nation. It is in foreign relations ""that the executive power of a nation finds occasion to exert its skill and its strength."" If the security of the country ""were perpetually threatened, if its chief interests were in daily connection with those of other powerful nations,"" Tocqueville continued, ""the executive government would assume an increased importance in proportion to the measures expected of it and to those which it would execute.""",0_0
"In the end, Bry concluded, he is willing to jump back in the fray again if it means getting a shot at bringing into this world a person capable of saving humans from themselves.",0_0
"It all comes down to uncertainty in proxy records vs uncertainty in climate model output. Liu et al. dive into both in great detail and conclude that there are probable errors in both. They further note that the errors in the climate history data might propagate as errors through the models, since those data are used as inputs to drive the models. Even so, the authors conclude: ?Although the potential biases in the reconstruction may contribute to the data-model discrepancy, it is also important to recognize that the data-model discrepancy can be caused by potential biases in current models. Indeed, even after considering the seasonal bias effect, the models still fail to produce some important features in the reconstruction.?",5_1
The September UAH Lower Atmosphere Temperature Anomaly was.33 degrees C above the 30 year average and RSSGlobal Global Lower Troposphere shows a .133 degrees C increase per decade. ???Earth??s Temperature?? varies naturally by numerous degrees and has been significantly warmer than it is today:,2_1
Temperature data from NASA/GISS longest-running Greenland weather station (and others below):,0_0
The evidence of a lull in global warming casts doubt on the scientific consensus the U.N. asserts exists among scientists worldwide regarding whether or not the utilization of carbon-based fuels by humans is the cause of rising levels of carbon dioxide measured in the earths atmosphere.,1_4
"However, the sun can influence the earth in many other ways that the IPCC Report does not consider, in part because the mechanisms are not well understood. The ultraviolet irradiance changes much more with solar activity, ~ 10% at 200 nm in the band that forms ozone in the stratosphere and between 5% and 2% in the ozone absorption bands between 240 and 320 nm according to DeLand & Cebula (2012). Their graphs also show that these fluxes during the most recent solar minimum were lower than the previous two reducing the formation of ozone in the stratosphere and its absorption of the near UV spectrum. How this absorption can couple into the lower atmosphere is under current investigation, e. g. Haigh et al . (2010).",2_1
"That finding, they note, is consistent with other research suggesting that the sun may affect the strength of those mid-latitude winds through changes in stratospheric ozone over Antarctica.",0_0
"No doubt Tom Mann, Stu Rothenberg, Charlie Cook and others among my",0_0
"The Climate Change Subcommittee of the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Air Act Advisory Committee is holding a meeting to discuss policy issues with implementation of the Clean Air Act of 1990. The meeting will be held at the Marriott at Metro Center 775 12th Street NW, Washington, DC, July 26, 1999 at 1:00 p.m. Contact Lawrence W. Roffee at (202) 272-5434, ext. 14 for more information.",0_0
"If true and relevant, the observation would be just huge. But my prominent source who is skeptical about the observation recalls an observation two years ago or so when similar four bottom-quark events were used to claim something similar, with tan(beta) above 100. At those times, related events involving tau leptons helped to strengthen a consistent picture. But the claims faded away - they were never published, in fact.",0_0
"Economists love the carbon tax. The American public, not so much. More work is needed to get the idea off the blackboard.",0_0
"The ad targeted Missouri Senator Claire McCaskil (D), a mother, who had co-sponsored the legislation that would check EPA. Over images of a woman smoking while she gives birth, a narrator intones:",0_0
"I am grateful to John McLean for information on temperatures in the vicinity of the Wilkins Ice Shelf and Joe DAleo for other temperature data, and to Bill Kininmonth and Garth Paltridge for information on the Wilkins Ice Shelf collapse.",0_0
"The fact that we had both higher temperatures and an ice age at a time when CO2 emissions were 10 times higher than they are today fundamentally contradicts the certainty that human-caused CO2 emissions are the main cause of global warming, Moore said.",2_3
"your platter and the nation's, Buffett and Brooks and Galston say: the financial",0_0
"Well, as promised, I wanted to post our race day picture from the half marathon. This was done for my daughter's benefit, who set the goal to run a half marathon about 6 months ago and figured the promise of a Disney trip would be incentive to stay on top of her training.",0_0
"Girardin et al. report that their assessment of millennial-scale variations of seasonal wildfire danger, vegetation flammability and fire activity suggests that ""feedback effects arising from vegetation changes are large enough to offset climate change impacts on fire danger."" But will such vegetation changes actually occur?",0_0
"This is the same obsessive, deranged, mental illness the AGW cultists have.",0_0
"11 hours ago Australias antarctic runway meltingIt could be possible to build a year-round runway there big enough to handle the largest jet aircraft, ...",0_0
"That's right Mr. blgda synsttet as various environmental organizations and the Environmental Party in front I find a clue frbryllande. No, it is not possible to be without both coal and krnkraft in modern Europe. There's countless examples of statements and opinion articles from knowledgeable people who time after time tries n out and explain it here. Last a debate article in the Second Opinion was written by Per hlstrm.",0_0
"Based on my analysis above, I would say that the Times was definitely onto somethingglobal temperatures are rising at a pace so slow as to begin to raise questions as to whether they are being modeled correctly and are starting to suggest we have already left behind the world of possibilities portrayed in the panels report.",5_1
"Sea surface temperature differences (Victor Gouretski-GRL, 2012)= approx. zero",0_0
"According to these sjlvrttfrdiga vrldsbilder, is the science that bestmmer the only correct policy. Democratic decision-Fri sit in bakstet No the wise men who understands science demands sitting at the wheel.",0_0
"Nowhere in the universe does an input of -18 degrees C become +15 degrees C, by having -18 degrees C combine with itself or trap itself.",0_0
But he had a big problem: Bipartisan majorities in Congress refused to go along with the president's climate policies.,0_0
Various scientists attach different interpretations to this disparity between models and direct atmospheric observations. Some suspect the fault lies with the quality of the atmospheric temperature data; some blame the models; while others merely note that the disparity exists and do not attempt to reconcile it at all.,0_0
"So, in total, during 40 out of the 62 years there has been a cooling trend. They are comparing a statistically insignificant amount of warming since 1998, with three decades of cooling. The result is to make this small trend sound much more significant than it is.",1_4
"CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI's fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. Also included in the weekly newsletter is a brief description of CEI's weekly podcast and a feature on a major CEI breakthrough made during the week. To sign up for CEI Weekly, go to http://cei.org/newsletters.",0_0
"Unlike water, the gel does a kind of disappearing act underground. It reverts to vapor due to pressure and heat, then returns to the surface along with the natural gas for collection, possible reuse and ultimate resale.",0_0
"on Saturday, January 12th, 2013 at 12:34 am and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"The harm caused by Europe's self-inflicted shortage of affordable energy is all too real right now. For example, the European heat wave of 2003 was blamed for the deaths of thousands of people in France. But it wasn't the heat that caused those deaths, it was energy rationing. Americans have air conditioning to protect themselves from hot summer temperatures, but many Europeans do not, in part because energy is so expensive there. Thus, while the summer of 2003 was much hotter in the American west than in France, it was in France where people died from the heat. Even if human-caused global warming is occurring, it can't be appreciably slowed without a ""cure"" far worse than the disease.",0_0
"So, as the unseasonal cold settles in over the U.S. this week, don't be fooled by those who claim ""global warming causes cooling"". What we are seeing is natural variability, likely dominated by the oceans. The ""new weather norm"" might well be different from what anyone less than 30 years old has been used to.",2_1
"The Australian s editors are being attacked for questioning authority. Theyre supposed to be journalists who investigate everything, not a PR agency who promotes an ideology. In reply the Australian could have been roasting the other media agencies...",0_0
"> >> >All the best, and keep me in touch. I am working on a new climate",0_0
"So there are a lot of non-fit things here. But people are lousy at giving a good eye witness account. Leaping from inconsistent stories and confusion to a grand conspiracy is a bit more than I can do. Yet the guy at 14 minutes really has trouble keeping a strait story and a believable one? At 15-16 minutes there is a good case that the parents of the newly dead child are looking way too cheery. Yet in another clip I found what they were saying. It was remembering things she liked. Are these maybe just folks whove accepted death long ago, so having it be personalized isnt that much of a leap? Ive been accused of not enough or inappropriate emotional display. Some of us are that way. I can put on a very strong suppression of strong negative events and be normal for periods, leaving the crying for me time. Not everyone is slave to their emotional state.",0_0
The exponential ???hockey-stick?? curves of the IPCC et al emphasize just how much difference extra carbon supposedly makes. Few people realize that the exponential rising curves come from feedback factors (which are the fatal flaw of the science behind the scare campaign).,5_1
"What makes the magnitude of these shares determined? Will they remain constant? That's not safe. As a result of increasing the CO2 content of the atmosphere increases plant growth around the world gradually. Therefore, the CO2 absorption will increase by plants, but ultimately also the decomposition of dead plant parts. We can not accurately assess these developments. It may be so, that the 2% (which accumulate) gradually increase or decrease. In the latter case, the CO2 content can be constant (that is of course speculation).",3_3
"Climate models are known to poorly simulate clouds, and given clouds?? very strong effect on the climate systemsome types cooling the Earth either by shading it or by transporting heat up and cold down in thunderstorms, and others warming the Earth by blocking outgoing radiationit remains highly plausible that there is no net positive feedback from water vapor.",5_1
"If this weather forecast showing sub-freezing temperatures in the Beaufort Sea is correct, alarmists are in a world of hurt.",1_3
"If Americans these days tend to have forgotten something as basic as the security dilemma, Europeans for their part have serious difficulties remembering something equally basic that they used to perform with undeniable virtuosity: coercive diplomacy. Be it with Iraq yesterday or Iran today, an astounding percentage of the allegedly sophisticated EU elites have the hardest time grasping what any American redneck knows intuitively: namely, that the collective threat to use force is still the best way to avoid having recourse to actual force. Fifty years of increasing focus on intra-EU politics has led EU elites to mistake ""multi-level governance"" (read: horse-trading by capitals in Brussels) for the whole of statecraft. But genuine diplomacy always rests on the implicit threat to use force, and the EU mantra about force as last resort should logically lead Europeans to view coercive diplomacy as their preferred weapon.6",0_0
"While I've been pessimistic about the future of the Keystone pipeline, I've spoken and written optimistically about America's overall energy position and related politics. I've touted theincreased domestic oil-and-gas development. I've pointed out the general demise of the climate change argument and the failure of Europe's green energy policies. I've talked up the good-paying jobs provided by the energy industry. I've been encouraged by the changing politics in the other countries of the Anglosphere. I've said: ""With my ear to the ground, I see good things coming """,0_0
The CPP Will Cost More than EPA Estimates. EPA's estimated nationwide compliance cost of $7.3 billion to $8.8 billion in 2030 is implausibly low. Expert estimates put the cost to states at $41 billion in 2030 and $336 billion over 15 years.,4_1
"Sedjo and Clawson also said ""While the local effects of rapid deforestation may be severe, the evidence does not support the view that either the world or the tropics are experiencing rapid aggregate deforestation. Furthermore, the evidence shows that current rates of deforestation are quite modest in much of the world's virgin tropical forests, for example those of the Amazon; and therefore they are probably in little danger of wholesale destruction in the foreseeable future."" (Eco-Sanity, p.90)",0_0
"The study found that though there are large regional fluctuations in crop-hail losses, ???No statistically significant long-term trend of decrease or increase in crop-hail loss costs exists.?? For weather-caused insured property losses the study found that the increased weather-related losses that have occurred since 1950 ???were directly related to population growth.?? Other studies have confirmed this result.",1_7
None of these scares have a scientific leg to stand on and all have been debunked over the course of time.,0_0
"Christy and Spencer are best known for their work with the satellite temperature record, which is a record of tropospheric temperatures. They discussed the importance of that data. The satellite data, according to Spencer, should be the most robust data if global warming occurs. The global warming signal should be 30 percent higher in the satellite data than in the surface temperature data. Yet the satellites record a slight cooling trend over the last 20 years.",1_4
"Number of the Week: 926,900 tonnes per day",0_0
"If they did, they would know that Oregon has been cooling over the last 25 years and has dropped over two degrees during the last seven years. They would also know that 2008, 2009 and (soon) 2010 are three of the five coldest years in the last quarter century.",1_4
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"The theory of anthropogenic global warming is based upon the notion that increases in the minor greenhouse gasCO2 result in increases ofthe major greenhouse gaswater vapor, thereby supposedlyincreasing global warming to alarming levels of 2-5C per doubling of CO2 levels. Without this assumed and unproven positive feedback from water vapor, there is no basis for alarm. While the IPCC confidently stated in their 2007 report ,",3_1
"Last year, the U.S. reduced its emissions by 3.9 percent. That reduction was larger than that of any other major industrialized country. In contrast, China's carbon-dioxide output soared by 6 percent and India's by 6.9 percent, while Brazil's rose by 2.5 percent and Mexico's by 4.3 percent.",4_2
30-40: Depressive after-work meetings with co-workers,0_0
By coincidence I also got recently a paper from Rob which says ?London?s UHI,0_0
I conclude that there is no relationship between carbon dioxide and temperature at a pristine site like that at Mauna Loa. In conclusion the whole theory of radiative forcing allegedly arising from increasing concentration of carbon dioxide over time has no validity at pristine locations like Mauna Loa.,2_3
"Section IV sounds a cautionary note. Downsizing and down-weighting of cars is the least-costly means of increasing fuel economy and decreasing GHG emissions per vehicle mile traveled. Lighter, smaller vehicles are less crashworthy. Federal fuel economy mandates killed between 1,300 and 2,600 motorists in 1993, according to the National Research Council. To the extent that AB 1493 constrains vehicle size and weight, it will adversely affect auto safety.",4_1
"Well, for one thing the U.S. already has won some degree of global competitive advantage by abjuring Kyoto per se. Increasing the unit costs of energy is not likely to be a plus for nations competing in a highly-integrated global economy. Further, there is a big difference between shifting the existing tax burden more towards consumption, and increasing that tax burden in the area of energy consumption. There is no point in cleaning up the mess that is the U.S. tax code, merely to tack on an equally messy new revenue source, in pursuit of a shaky scientific hypothesis.",0_0
"A paper published today in Climate of the Past finds the low solar activity during the Dalton Minimum from 1780-1840 had a significant effect on climate and ocean heat content. According to the authors, ""Global and hemispheric mean surface temperatures show a significant dependence on solar irradiance at > 250 nm"" and ""Reduction of irradiance at > 250 nm leads to a significant (up to 2%) decrease in theocean heat content (OHC) between 0 and 300 meters in depth, whereas the changes in irradiance at < 250 nm or in energetic particles have virtually no effect.""",2_1
"""Monica Symes, a dentist in Lyme Regis, Dorset, says an NHS infection control worker warned her that keeping back issues of Country Life could make her fail health and safety inspections.""",0_0
"""The actions of Exxon Mobil in this regard can reasonably be seen as an insult to the climate science community, which has been making a heroic effort to communicate the nature of the problem in the face of extraordinary impediments thrown up by industry-funded operatives.""",0_0
"4. For the German Government, do the arguments made by Fred Singer and other arguments presented have merit and are they ???enlightening??? How do you assess the statements by Mr Singer that ???Politicians that are embedded in climate change are more dangerous than climate change itself???",5_2
"Other eco-zealots in attendance were Robert May (a zoologist) who is on record declaring the world was on a calamitous trajectory due to global warming.The BBC was recently forced to admit that the seminar was organised by the Cambridge Media and Environment Programme (CMEP), established by pro-green activist Joe Smith and BBC reporter Roger Harrabin(co-founder of CMEP). Harrabin is also on the UEAs Advisory board of the Tyndall Centre raising serious conflict of interest issues. Pointedly, not one of the attendees deals with attribution science, the physics of global warming.",5_2
"In Kerry's introductory comments he says: ""So our challenge is to offer even the most remote place on earth the same choices that have made us strong and free."" Later, he launches into his climate change litany, and talks about developing and deploying ""the clean technologies that will power a new world.""",0_0
6. Venn Diagram of the Day (above). Inspired by the wage disparity data in Item #5 above.,0_0
"President Obama has ""become a dictator"" and needs to face the consequences of his executive actions, ""whether that's removal from office, whether that's impeachment."" Iowa state Sen. (and U.S. Senate candidate) Jodi Ernst, one of a slew of elected officials calling for impeachment or at least putting it front and center.",0_0
"EPA's Tailoring Rule: A Temporary, Legally Dubious, and Incomplete Antidote to Massachusetts v. EPA's Legacy of Absurd Results",0_0
"If we continue using fossil fuels, there is a 0.0% chance that it will lead to a climate catastrophe. CO2 was much higher for most of the last 600 million years, and life thrived.",2_3
"For example, 18 years of sea level measurements from satellites suggested a trend of 3.2 mm per year until a drop in 2010, attributed to a shift from El Nio to La Nia, neither event accepted by the IPCC as a cause of climate change. The average has been about 3 mm per year, and may become less. This works out to an expected rise, based on observations, of no more than about 300 mm in 100 years ??? by 2100. Yet, several studies presented at the latest American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Conference emphasize that sea level will rise by about 1000 mm per century ??? one meter.",1_6
"Comment:McCarthyomits the first word of the quoted sentence: Ultimately.The unexpurgated sentence reads: Ultimately , a permitting authority retains the discretion to conduct a broader BACT analysis and to consider changes in the primary fuel in Step 1 of the analysis(emphasis added).Ultimately suggestssomething that might happen several years down the road, not the agencysnext move, and then only as a matter of discretion in individual cases, not as the industry-wide default position. The guidance documents weasel words, which occur in only one sentence out of a 96-page text, do not obviate the fact that McCarthy and the EPAmisledCongress and industry about the scope of the agencys regulatory ambition.",0_0
"He is culpably silent on Dr. Ryan Maues Accumulated Cyclone Energy index, which shows that since 2005 the combined frequency, intensity, and duration of all tropical cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons worldwide, expressed as a 24-month running sum, shows the least activity in the entire satellite record. Spencer 4, Nuccitelli 0.",1_7
"1. The promotional summary of Soylent Green reads as follows: ""The year is 2022. Overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society's leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Greenan artificial nourishment whose actual ingredients are not known by the public.""",0_0
Industry fires back at factory farming campaign | Great Lakes Advocate,0_0
"For Washington, the lesson is that the era of great power politics is far from over in Asia. Its finite diplomatic energy should be spent on the ""high politics"" among Asia's great powersissues of war and peace (or how to avoid the former and maintain the latter), rather than on the ""low politics"" of climate change and currency disputes. The diplomatic tasks with respect to Japan, one that should be carried out at senior and sustained levels, is to help shake Tokyo out of stagnation, and to help Japan become a more coherent and powerful strategic actor. Washington's future in Asia depends upon a rich, strategically active Japan.",0_0
"In Northumberland, researchers found sediments from 7,000 years ago five metres below, and others from 4,000 years ago at 1 metre above the present sea level. This indicates that the sea level rose above present levels from around 7,500 years ago to 4,500 years ago, and then dropped and is continuing to fall. Sea-levels in most of Scotland peaked even higher about 4,500 years ago and have been falling ever since because the land has risen.",2_1
A public debate on the damage being done by climate change policy is long overdue.,0_0
"One particular case that has gained worldwide attention involves Shell. The oil company cut its estimates of proven oil and gas reserves by one-third in the past year, drawing a wave of media attention. But two years ago, when Canada changed its estimated oil reserves by 35 times as much, there was barely any coverage by the press. How could this be? Could it be that while Shell's reserves sank, Canada's actually rose?",0_0
"relatively more nitrous oxide and other potent greenhouse gases than does gasoline. In contrast, the greenhouse gases released during the conventional gasoline fuel cycle contain relatively more of the less potent type, namely, carbon dioxide.",0_0
"The CPP has the potential to prematurely shutter hundreds of coal-fueled power plants when viable option exists for the plants' replacement. This winter, Massachusetts is experiencing a 37% increase in electricity rates over last year because plants closed without sufficient infrastructure for their replacement.",0_0
The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th Century.,1_2
"This finding contradicts an earlier study by Mann, et al. that appeared in Geophysical Research Letters in 1999. That study combined tree ring data and the instrumental temperature record and ""shows an almost linear temperature decrease from the year 1000 to the late 19th century, followed by a dramatic and unprecedented temperature increase to the present time,"" according to Esper, et al. That study served as the basis for claims in the Third Assessment Report of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that the current warming is greater than at any other time in the last 1000 years.",0_0
"MP: What is there to possibly like about biofuels like ""demon ethanol"" (unless of course, you're a rent-seeking corn farmer)? It ruins car engines, it's an inferior and costly fuel, it's bad for the environment, it's a political boondoggle, it stresses water supplies, it increases malnutrition in vulnerable populations, and it raises taxes, gas and food prices.",4_4
Russia Re-Emerges as a Great Power in the Middle East,0_0
According to the DMI plot it is running higher than 2012 and 2007. WE still have more than a month to go and storms and winds can compact the ice and push it out of the arctic so no promises can be made. The oceans play a role in temperatures in the US and arctic and explain the recent demise and suggest the ice will recover in the not too distant future.,0_0
"Both sides in the climate debate have made active use of opinion polls. In 1990, when I started to become seriously involved in climate-change arguments and incorporated the SEPP (Science & Environmental Policy Project), I decided to poll the experts. Having limited funds, and before the advent of widespread e-mail, I polled the officers of the listed technical committees of the American Meteorological Societya sample of less than 100. I figured those must be the experts.",0_0
"The Pontryagin class is a complexified even Chern class within a cohomology whose degree is a multiple of four. Needless to say, I don't really understand these matters well. The people for whom it's their cup of tea must think about many things in terms of vector bundles. It's probably great for them and it allows them to see and calculate many interesting things but despite a course by GM, I just couldn't learn to use those things. I need to translate bundles to some fields with some properties or physical conditions, otherwise I don't really understand them. In some sense, I feel that mathematics and not physics must be the ""mother tongue"" for those folks even though many of them are stellar theoretical physicists, too.",0_0
"Climate Depot's Marc Morano on One America News Network's ""Tipping Point with host Liz Wheeler. Broadcast October 27, 2015.",0_0
Path Is Sought for States to Escape Debt Burdens:,0_0
"43 EPA, New Source Review: Report to the President, pp. 31-32.",0_0
"And this wasn't your everyday increase. Oil reserves skyrocketed in Canada by 35 times their original amount. This is quite remarkable, since the massive jump in reserves, from about 5 billion barrels in 2000 to 180 billion barrels several years later, could provide the U.S. oil for decades to come.",0_0
"Better to look at the correct graph before making ridiculous comments. Sea level has risen 15 metres during the last 8,000 years. Over the last eight years it has hardly risen at all.",1_6
"President Obama called for ""hope and change"" when he first ran for office. We can only hope that a new Congress and President will bring about the change we need to shut down the EPA and return control over the nation's environment to its 50 sovereign states.",0_0
"When called out for his lying, look how he responded. No apology or regret, he simply shifts to a different mindless attack. These are the peoplewho are currently running this country.",0_0
"Northern US winters are far worse than even record-setters in Britain. Why would anyone want to impose costly and nightmarish energy and environmental policies on American families, rich or poor?",4_1
Projected global trend: 0.3 F/decade,0_0
"II. Multi-decadal oscillations plus trend hypothesis: 20th century climate variability/change is explained by the large multidecadal oscillations (e.g NAO, PDO, AMO) with a superimposed trend of external forcing (AGW warming). The implications for temperature change in the 21st century is relatively constant temperatures for the next several decades, or possible cooling associated with solar. Challenges: separating forced from unforced changes in the observed time series, lack of predictability of the multidecadal oscillations.",1_2
"Again, there almost certainly is a warming trend since 1850, and some of that trend is probably due to manmade CO2, but sensitivities in most forecasts that get attention in the media are way too high. A tenth of a degree C per decade over the next 100 years from manmade CO2 seems a reasonable planning number.",3_1
"In the end, the Committee basically took the UEA scientists? word for it, giving them the benefit of the doubt, and saying that the scientists were blameless. Even this committee, however, did find that ?The leaked emails appear to show a culture of non-disclosure at CRU and instances where information may have been deleted to avoid disclosure, particularly to climate change skeptics.? Finding an anti-scientific culture at CRU and also that the CRU?s Director?s reputation remained intact, as the Inquiry did, is political doublespeak of the highest order. Its finding should be viewed in that light.",5_2
Alzheimers data dispute gets even more tangled,0_0
"Many exaggerated early claims about the dangers of climate change have now been debunked. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has explicitly abandoned previous claims that malaria will likely get worse, that the Gulf Stream will stop flowing, the Greenland or West Antarctic Ice sheet will disintegrate, a sudden methane release from the Arctic is likely, the monsoon will collapse or long-term droughts will become more likely.",0_0
4. Some CFLs can't be used in totally enclosed fixtures or in base-up recessed downlights. They can also interfere with radios and televisions.,0_0
"""The diversion of food crops to biofuel production was a significant factor contributing to global food prices rocketing by 83% in the last year, and causing violent conflicts in Haiti and other parts of the world,"" reports African Energy News. ""Food riots have also taken place in Egypt, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Mauritania, Madagascar and the Philippines in the past month"" (and in Pakistan and Mexico, too).",0_0
"Moore and White do not mince words when describing the Marxist political philosophy, which they say has caused a great deal of damage to middle-income and poor people around the world when applied to energy policy.",4_1
"Africa is still battling ""transitional periods,"" from slavery and colonialism, to neocolonialism and eco-imperialism. Its wars, diseases, and suffering will never end until we stop having greedy leaders who only care about their families, cronies, and tribal members.",0_0
"""The numbers are staggering. In 1970 one in 400 American adults was behind bars or on parole. As of 2008, the number was one in 100. Add in probation, and it's one in 31. The number of people behind bars for drug crimes has soared from 40,000 in 1980 to about half a million today. States today spend one of every 15 general fund dollars on maintaining their prisons. According to the King's College World Prison Population List (PDF), the U.S. is home to 5 percent of the world's population but nearly a fourth of its prisoners. Judging by these official numbers, America's incarceration rate leads the developed world by a large margin, although it's doubtful that authoritarian regimes such as China's are providing accurate data, especially about political prisoners. But among liberal democracies, the competition isn't even close: As of 2008, the U.S. incarceration rate was 756 per 100,000 people, compared to 288 for Latvia, 153 for England and Wales, 96 for France, and 63 for Denmark.""",0_0
Scientific case for man-made global warming fears is dead,0_0
"As the CO 2 content of the air continues to rise, it is likely that wheat plants will exhibit significant increases in photosynthesis and yield even under less than favorable growing conditions characterized by elevated atmospheric ozone concentrations and/or pathogenic infections by rust-causing organisms. Thus, it is likely that such detrimental environmental and biotic factors will not threaten world grain production in the years to come, as long as the air's CO 2 content is allowed to increase unhindered by mankind's misguided legislative attempts to stabilize the atmospheric concentration of this vital life-supporting gas.",3_3
"Methane hydrates are the largest reserve of hydrocarbons in the planetary crust. The methane hydrates in sediment considered part of U.S. territory alone could supply U.S. natural gas needs for 1000 years. So far humanity has not devised a process to economically harvest this immense energy wealth. Todays DOE announcement may point the way to a new era in abundant energy to build out a bigger and better world economy. -- The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 3 May 2012",4_5
"At the 0:50 mark Schellnhuber is shown in an exclusive interview on ZDF German public television on October 30, 2009, explaining the risks of the globes third ice cap : the Tibetan Plateau, whose summertime melt water feeds a number major Asian rivers that help support 2.5 billion people in the region. Schellnhuber at the 2:06 mark:",0_0
"It is also unlocking oil wealth in the vast Bakken shale formation of Montana, North Dakota and Saskatchewan. Oil production there has already soared from 3,000 barrels a day five years ago to over 225,000 today. The US Energy Information Administration says it could reach 350,000 barrels a day by 2035; industry sources say it could top a million barrels by 2020. Related oilfield employment has soared from 5,000 to over 18,000 in the same five-year period, and could eventually reach 100,000 jobs. At $100 a barrel, even 350,000 barrels a day could mean $1.6 billion in annual royalties, from Bakken oil alone.",4_5
"Another instance: Abraham said I had done a search because I was bored, and had found that between the beginning of 2004 and the beginning of 2007 just 539 papers containing the search phrase ""global climate change"" had been published, and that not one of them had provided any evidence for any catastrophic consequence of any anthropogenic warming anywhere. However, he had searched Google Scholar and had found 628,000 references, a few of which, he said, showed catastrophic consequences of ""global warming"".",0_0
Dunedin : Moved from Leith Valley to the Botanical Gardens in 1913. Dr Salinger noted that these sites have widely varying thermal properties a complex pattern of local microclimates even though the move may be small in distance the homogeneity of the record will be quite dramatically disturbed.,0_0
"The ongoing rise in the air's CO 2 content would appear to have the capacity to totally thwart the adverse growth effects of any increase in air temperature it might possibly be causing, as we describe in detail in our major report The Specter of Species Extinction: Will Global Warming Decimate Earth's Biosphere? .",3_3
"Six years later, after still more dysfunction and acrimony, those objections are much less resonant. The idea of encouraging voting to provide more muscle for the broad center of America should be more appealing; the counterargument that we should not be bribing people to vote, less so. The experience of countries like Australia shows that there is no real downside to having near-universal turnout. And the idea of using a carrot to enhance turnout and depress the role of ideological extremists, instead of a stick like a fine for not showing up at the polls, may be more attractive now than it was in 2006. Enhanced voting in primaries, for example, would probably lead over time to fewer bomb-throwers and more problem solvers in state legislatures and in Congress.",0_0
"> >> think mean interannual variability (i.e., year-to-year). There is also",0_0
The report shows a planet that is awash in energy and also projects strong growth in new energy forms such as shale and oil sands (p. 20) which are thought to be abundant. On page 95 the report states (my emphasis):,4_5
"Paul and Sue Biggs are members/supporters of the Border Collie Trust GB , a Registered Charity (1053585) which relies on public support to assist Border Collies in the UK.",0_0
"On the other hand, recall that Trenberth et al. (2014) gave us an approximate range for the energy imbalance of 0.5 to 1.0 watts/m^2. There are 5 models that produce an energy imbalance greater than 1.2 watts/m^2 for the base period of 1996-2015. If theyre right, then theres even more heat than is presently unaccounted for. Theyll have to call out more search parties to look for all of that missing heat.",0_0
Theres something about the greenhouse effect /sky radiation / downwelling infrared / back radiation issue that keeps drawing me back to the subject.,0_0
"Climate dynamics of clouds: Could changes in cloud distribution or optical properties contribute to the global surface temperature hiatus? How do cloud patterns (and TOA and surface radiative fluxes) change with shifts in in atmospheric circulation and teleconnection regimes (e.g. AO, NAO, PDO)? How do feedbacks between clouds, surface temperature, and atmospheric thermodynamics/circulations interact with global warming and the atmospheric circulation and teleconnection regimes?",1_4
"If we equate the energy coming in from the Sun to that leaving from the Earth, in the proper units of energy which is Joules, then 1.22 x 1017Joules comes in and 1.22 x 1017 Joules goes out. There is no problem here.",0_0
"As far as I can tell, the only sentences that have any connection to Schmidts complaint are the following:",0_0
"Unfortunately, self-righteousness is much more than that: it is a tragedy and a scandal .",0_0
"Figure 1 and Figure 2 show that to a high degree of certainty, and apart from year-to-year temperature variability, the entire trend in global air temperatures since 1880 can be explained by a linear trend plus an oscillation.",2_1
"The agency is still actively considering a wide range of comments on this issue, and any final decision will reflect careful consideration of the issue.",0_0
"Athumani Juma doesn??t believe it. A guide who??s been hiking the mountain for the past seven years, he laughed when he was asked about the likelihood that Kilimanjaro??s snowcap would disappear soon. The glaciers, he claimed, no longer are shrinking, but growing.",1_1
"So the two sides of ER=EPR agree that the ""topological"" property of the physical system (entanglement or wormholeness) can't be associated with a well-defined linear operator.",0_0
to prepare for his presidency. He got the White House structure and staff in,0_0
associated revenue. The other recent dynamic has been the threat of an Israeli,0_0
"The world's great religions long ago ended the practice of offering absolution in exchange for cash. In the global warming age, however, large emitters of carbon, such as former Vice President Al Gore (whose 20 room eight bathroom mansion in Nashville consumes as much power as twenty average Americans) claim to use ""offsets."" Gore and the global warming elite have advocated purchasing carbon offsets which allow them to continue their rich lifestyles guilt free. They are also willing to sell these offsets to the rest of us.",5_2
"All gases in the atmosphere have an effect on global climate, usually a moderating one, reducing the intense heat of the midday sun and reducing the rate of cooling at night. But only in theoretical climate models does carbon dioxide drive global warming ??? real evidence contradicts them.",2_3
So Ben why dont you directly ask James Murray through Email or Twitter ask him his opinions on The Iraq Invasion or Western backed regime change in Libya or Egypt or North Africa.,0_0
13. Earths climate has always been changing and cycles of heating and cooling have been a standard feature of earth history for as long as geological and historical records exist. To suggest that man is suddenly causing every extreme weather event is unjustified scare mongering and not based on any factual evidence.,2_1
"The sun supplies the energy to warm the earth. The atmosphere, which is mostly transparent to the incoming sunlight, absorbs outgoing reflected or internal thermal radiation to keep the earth warmer than it would be otherwise.",0_0
"The third pillar of science is peer group assessment. This allows for validation of your thesis by fellow scientists and is usually done in confidence. However, the entire process was set aside by the IPCC while preparing the report. Thus, it has zero scientific value.",5_2
"Additionally, when methane cannot be captured and put in a pipeline destined for market, it is burned, or flared, at the wellhead, producing carbon dioxide and water. Pretending these technologies do not exist and that these mitigation procedures are not widely practiced is a dishonest depiction of methane emissions. Recent scientific studies have found much lower methane emissions than were reported by McKibben.",0_0
"Until 1985, the published CO2 readings from the air bubbles in the pre-industrial ice ranged from 160 to about 700 ppmv, and occasionally even up to 2,450 ppmv. After 1985, high readings disappeared from the publications.",0_0
"The different hemispheric records in the mid-twentieth century have never been convincingly explained. The most likely explanation is atmospheric aerosolsHowever, there are no aerosol measurements to confirm that interpretation. If there were adequate understanding of the relation between fossil fuel burning and aerosol properties it would be possible to infer the aerosol properties in the past century. But such understanding requires global measurements of aerosols with sufficient detail to define their properties and their effect on clouds, a task that remains elusive",5_1
"In December 2012, I had begun a series of posts about El Nio-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). This post starts the return to them.",0_0
"Other Deep Ocean Geological Heat Sources have been substantiated. Deep ocean geologically induced heating is proven to have occurred beneath the Arctic and Antarctic Ocean Ice Caps. NASA and NOAA scientists are what might be termed atmospherically biased. They force fit all data into an atmospheric context. Its what they know and what they were taught. Deep ocean geological forces are not well understood and almost completely unmonitored. Lack of geological data and an abundance of atmospheric data lend itself to narrow focused solution thinking. The NASA and NOAA scientists are very bright and dedicated folks, just biased. See also: Update On Geothermal Heat And Arctic Ocean Sea Ice Melt , West Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting From Geothermal Heat, Not Global Warming , Antarctic Volcano Mount Erebus Wakes Up .",0_0
"Stonyfield coupons feature a cow with a talk bubble that reads ""You are what I eat."" Below the cow, the label reads ""No Hormones. No Phony Ingredients. No Yucky Stuff.""",0_0
"Barton told me: ""You'll note that Senator Schumer still seems to think that subsidies for wind energy (electricity) will somehow ""reduce foreign imports,' and then references increasing ""efficiency' in response to a letter about inefficient, unreliable wind?"" She's picked up on one of my favorite soapboxes: we could cover every available acre with wind turbines and solar panels and it would do nothing to ""reduce our dependence on foreign oil"" or increase America's energy independence. Wind and solar produce electricity and, through our coal, natural gas, and uranium supplies, we are already electricity independent. We import oil to fuel our transportation fleet.",4_4
That is why Labour will have a world leading commitment in government to take all of the carbon out of our energy by 2030.,0_0
"U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions are falling largely because of a huge drop in coal consumption, which was down a whopping 11.9 percent in 2012. Domestic coal use is plummeting for several reasons. Among them are increasing regulatory burdens, on everything from coal mining to coal-ash management, and the Obama administration's threat of new regulations specifically on carbon-dioxide emissions. (Slow economic growth has also been a factor.)",0_0
Figure 3: The 230-year cycle over the last 165 years has been superimposed by a 65-year cycle as well as by other effects like the irregular ENSO events and large volcanic eruptions.,0_0
"Ill have more on the tomatoes and cold story coming up, a story about Mexico Anthony",0_0
"More on the Sun | Climate Skeptic I wouldnt say that I am a total sun hawk, meaning that I believe the sun and natural trends are 100% to blame for global warming. I dont think it unreasonable to posit that once all the natural effects are unwound, man-made CO2 may be contributing a 0.5-1.0C a century trend (note this is far below alarmist forecasts). But the sun almost had to be an important fact in late 20th century warming. Previously, I have shown this chart of sunspot activity over the last century, demonstrating a much higher level of solar activity in the second half than the first (the 10.8 year moving average was selected as the average length of a 20th century sunspot cycle).",2_1
"To set up a new governance for IPCC, in order to turn it into a truly scientific body, rather than a mostly political one;",0_0
The real let-down was the media's obsession with the mythology that scientists had somehow made up global warming by cooking the data. Anyone who took the time to review the emails or the glacial records knows that assertion is patently false.,0_0
15. Will global warming produce more violent storms?,0_0
"2. If people are concerned about the adverse impacts of extreme weather events, reducing CO2 emissions are not going to have any impact on policy relevant time scales, even if you accept the IPCC analyses. Resources expended on energy policy are in direct conflict with reducing vulnerability to extreme events.",4_2
Elegant. Simple. But what would Coase make of the idea? Mankiw's other writings suggests he assumes prohibitively high transaction costs for a property-rights solution to climate change. Imagine assigning global atmospheric property rights and trying to calculate gain and loss. Seems sort of silly. Maybe the Coase theorem doesn't apply in this case.,0_0
"As a note, I have never deleted a comment on this site (except for obvious spam), despite many that disagree strongly with my position.",0_0
"Temeln, launched 10 years ago, remains Europe's newest nuclear power plant!",0_0
"This one, the guy is all about folks looking way too happy and fake about the whole thing. Does seem odd that so many folks were filmed and they didnt have folks losing it. Starting about 2:30 in to it we have the Two Smiling Parents talking about their dead daughter, but you can get the words. Some folks DO have a wake attitude, celebrate the life, not mourn the death. But I dont think I could be that collected that quick (and Im pretty darned collected) At 10:30 for a bit we have the cry faced person doing sniffs, but sniffs are from tears being dumped into the nose. (There is a little duct in the lower eyelid to drain tears to the nose.) Yet there are no tears perhaps higher resolution might show them? Yet not even a glitter of reflected light.",0_0
Australias antarctic runway melting | Tennant & District Times,0_0
"""Breast cancer fundraising bracelets that proclaim ""I (heart) boobies!"" are not lewd or vulgar and can't be banned by public school officials who find them offensive, a federal judge in Pennsylvania said Tuesday in a preliminary ruling.""",0_0
"3) The only evidence now for the theory of dangerous carbon dioxide-induced global warming is the IPCC models, which assume, incorrectly it now appears, that clouds exacerbate the warming due to carbon dioxide.",5_1
Pictured: Huge smoke cloud spreads smell of Crow Edge blaze as far south as Sheffield,0_0
The party's acceptance of Trump as its standard-bearer exposed further a set of divisions and tensions inside the GOP that will linger. Some of those divisions are among and between leaders and elites; others involve deeper disagreements between party leaders and the broader party voter base.,0_0
I would like to thank Professors Carter and Kukla for their comments on an earlier draft of this lecture.,0_0
Following the logic of a carbon tax implies that CO2 emissions should be subsidized when the SCC is negative.,0_0
"The sad fact is, there are plenty of newer brand-name cancer drugs that do not cure anyone, but just extend life for a few months, at costs of up to $90,000 per patient. Only the older but curative cancer drugs drugs that can cost as little as $3 per dose have become unavailable. Most of these drugs have no substitutes, but, crazy as it seems, in some cases these shortages are forcing doctors to use brand-name drugs at more than 100 times the cost.",0_0
"That's where the poll data come in. A careful look at a recent major poll, the 2011 Beyond Red vs. Blue analysis from the Pew Research Center, explains why these governors sound like neo-libertarians but act like regular liberals.",0_0
"There still seems to be only three Osgoode students left to front the fight against Macleans/Steyn, so as they decline into almost comedic denial of their censorious tendencies, I propose that we rebrand them as ""The Osgoodies"".",0_0
World warns of disaster if no debt deal done:,0_0
From CEI: Adjunct Scholar Dana Joel Gattuso in the Washington Post on why e-waste recycling mandates are an expensive solution to an imaginary problem.,0_0
The 1995 document raises 2016 questions about the State Department's actions in the subsequent United National IPCC Assessment Reports. What did they do? Where are the correspondence and instructions to change the science in all the IPCC Assessments? What is the Obama State Department doing to corrupt climate science to its forward its radical social and political agenda? Some of that is obvious. It's the clandestine part we need to know.,0_0
"A new US Senate report on the EPA: Fraud, Deceit and Secret Science",0_0
"The ship is in the Australian Search and Rescue region, 100 nautical miles east of the French base Dumont DUrville.",0_0
Here is a graphic of West Australian rainfall note the sharp increase in the 1990s what caused that ?,0_0
"Chris Colose , an AGW advocate, attempted to criticize Richard Lindzen's demonstration that positive feedbacks cannot dominate . Well, the best thing he could do was to use some alternative graphs to argue that the current models underestimate the negative feedbacks by a factor of 2-3 rather than 5-7. This factor of 2-3 corresponds to no feedbacks. Well, a multiplicative discrepancy by a factor of 2-3 is still a pretty bad rating for the models, isn't it?",5_1
"Job creationas opposed to green job creationis the new North Star of the Obama administration, and Immelt is simply adjusting his sails accordingly.",0_0
Similar values were noted in suburban North Seattle at Lake Forest Park.,0_0
"From there, we rolled on south and had lunch with James Delingpole . James writes a blog for the Telegraph which I would describe as witty, incisive, and acerbic and thats just how he is in person as well. He fed us to the brim with his patented cheese toasties in the old country house where he resides, and then led us on a lovely countryside walk to a hill where we could see the old local manor house and the church. But all too soon, we were off again, heading back to Heathrow and a morning flight with only one final bright spot in view.",0_0
"""(A) Documents 1-7 in the list you provided appear to be copies of confidential documents produced by The Heartland Institute and stolen by the Pacific Institutes Peter Gleick. The eighth document in your list, titled 2012 Heartland Climate Strategy, is not an authentic Heartland document or draft document. Peter Gleick claimed to have received this memo from an anonymous source, then falsely represented it as having come from The Heartland Institute.",0_0
"However, the output of direct heat by the enterprises and industries of humankind is large enough at an average of around 0.1-0.2 Watts per square meter of the Earth's surface, a range that I calculated a couple of years ago from data supplied by the US Energy Information Administration to account for around 0.1-0.2 Celsius degrees (or roughly one-sixth to one-third) of all the ""global warming"" of the 20th century if and only if one believes that the temperature feedbacks imagined by the UN's climate panel are as very strongly net-positive as it suggests.",0_0
"Your right, I should have mentioned those elements that there are different reasons for the estimates coming down. But also, you got to point out that the people that read these reports, including the policy makers summary, what they are looking for is; how much warming do you expect in the next 100 years? How much per decade? And that has been revised downward. But you are right, part of the reason is they are assuming lesser CO2 emissions as well. So there is a combination of reasons. They still have full fledged positive water feedback though and I think that that's the next thing that needs to come down.",0_0
"The SSRC believes as long as the Sun continues its solar hibernation (a once every 206 year cold climate event) that we are on the precipice of a long term drop in global temperatures. It is entirely possible that the decades-long period of record global agricultural output that our world has enjoyed will soon be over, perhaps for many decades.",1_2
"In his excellent American Spectator article on ""America's Ruling Class and the Perils of Revolution,"" Angelo Codevilla calls these two antagonistic and irreconcilable groups the ruling class and the country party. Although I agree with Codevilla's outline of the two groups, I prefer to characterize them as the progressive aristocracy and the productive class. In fact, I think that it's vitally important for those in the productive class to understand that what Codevilla calls the ruling party is an aristocracy, albeit a corrupt one.",0_0
"Investors can get spooked when government declares regulatory warfare on an industry, and the Waxman-Markey bill does just that.Consider the gross disparity between the refining industry??sshare of covered emissions (43%) under Waxman-Markey and its shareofemission allowances (2.5%).",4_1
"""Social responsibility"" activists want universities and pension funds to eliminate fossil fuel companies from their investment portfolios. They plan to spotlight their demands on ""Global Divestment Day,"" February 13-14. Their agenda is misguided, immoral, lethal and racist.",0_0
"OK, one can't make an experiment that would prove or disprove that the two subsystems were entangled. After all, there is a simpler explanation. One may measure observables that obviously exist, e.g. the two spins separately, and the choice ""which measurement we make"" already implies whether the state will be entangled or non-entangled after the measurement.",0_0
"It makes you wonder how many colleges are doing their most fundamental job: teaching students to think and question, rather than merely to parrot politically correct mantras and whether they are preparing students to become intelligent, informed, active members in a functioning democratic society.",0_0
"In some cases, the water-use efficiency increases caused by atmospheric CO2 enrichment are spectacularly high. De Luis et al. (1999) , for example, demonstrated that alfalfa plants subjected to atmospheric CO2 concentrations of 700 ppm had water-use efficiencies that were 2.6 and 4.1 times greater than those displayed by control plants growing at 400 ppm CO2 under water-stressed and well-watered conditions, respectively. Also, when grown at an atmospheric CO2 concentration of 700 ppm, a 2.7-fold increase in water-use efficiency was reported by Malmstrom and Field (1997) for oats infected with the barley yellow dwarf virus.",3_3
"Senator Browns comments expose the Greens and his leadership as shallow and cynical; willing to peddle political propaganda in the face of a natural disaster , Senator Abetz said. ( source )",0_0
"Heartland President Joseph L. Bast opens the January-February 2009 issue of The Heartlander with thoughts on President George W. Bush's departure from office, the inauguration of President Barack Obama, and a few key public policy issues: the credit crisis, health care, and global warming.This issue also offers:a quick wrap-up from last year's Emerging Issues Forum and 24th Anniversary Benefit Dinner;a look ahead to the March 8-10 Second International Conference on Climate Change;and summaries of Heartland activities on our top policy priorities: budget and tax, tobacco, finance and insurance, health care, information technology and telecom, education, the environment, and urban affairs.",0_0
U.S. Senate. Roy Blunt MO (202-224-5721); John Hoven ND (-2551); John Thune SD (-2321); Lamar Alexander TN (-4944); Chuck Grassley (-3744).,0_0
"What, then, are the functions of government in this system of natural liberty? Adam Smith assigned a small, but what he considered essential, set of responsibilities to the political authority:",0_0
"The great man-made global warming debate is entering an interesting phase, as early snow blankets much of Britain. If this winter is anything like as cold and long as last year??s, my postbag will soon be bulging with cries for help.",1_3
"To paraphrase our fearless leader, that's all stupid shit.",0_0
"While politicians prepare a grand bargain on emissions limits that future politicians are unlikely to obey, a new generation of American nuclear scientists has produced designs for better reactors. Crucially, these new designs may finally overcome the most fundamental obstacle to the success of nuclear power: high cost. Designs using molten salt, alternative fuels and small modular reactors have all attracted interest not just from academics but also from entrepreneurs and venture capitalists like me ready to put money behind nuclear power.",0_0
"Gardelle et al . conclude by stating that their measurements ""confirm an anomalous mass balance in the Karakoram region and indicate that the contribution of Karakoram glaciers to sea-level rise was -0.01 mm/year for the period from 1999 to 2008,"" or ""0.05 mm/year lower than suggested before."" As for how this complete change of direction in the perceived mass balance history of the Karakoram glaciers could have occurred, Cogley (2012) writes - in a contemporaneous commentary on the work of Gardelle et al . - that ""by a quirk of the atmospheric general circulation that is not understood, more snow is being delivered to the mountain range at present, and less heat,"" which leads one to wonder if there might well be a whole lot of things that are ""not understood"" about earth's climate ... by even the most brilliant of the world's scientists.",0_0
"According to the most bloated alarmist numbers, sea level is currently rising 3 mm/year.But from 1930 to 1948, sea level rose almost 9 mm/ year.",1_6
"Mr. Paulson also maintains that the carbon tax is vital to persuading China to curb its emissions. This claim is crucial, because U.S. emission controls can have only a trivial direct effect on global climate. Since 2005, U.S. emissions have fallen while those of the developing countries have soared. Developing country emissions now exceed those of the entire industrialized world. China is by far the world's biggest emitter. This new reality implies that nothing Washington can do domestically will stop climate change.",4_2
"on Thursday, April 15th, 2010 at 8:41 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Overall, the results of this study support the hypothesis that published temperature data are contaminated with nonclimatic influences that add up to a net warming bias, and that efforts should be made to properly quantify these effects.",5_1
"THE reasonable thing to expect would be a modest cold event, followed by a warming event (DO Event), followed by significant cooling (Bond Event). And what have we had? A modest cold event in The Little Ice Age (with volcanoes, even), followed by a warming event into 1998, followed by a sleepy sun and the start of significant cooling.",2_1
"Ethanol is also bad for the environment. Science magazine published an article last year by Timothy Searchinger of Princeton University, among others, that concluded that biofuels cause deforestation, which speeds climate change. The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration noted in July 2007 that the ethanol boom rapidly increased the amount of fertilizer polluting the Mississippi River. And this week, University of Minnesota researchers Yi-Wen Chiu, Sangwon Suh and Brian Walseth released a study showing that in California a state with a water shortage it can take more than 1,000 gallons of water to make one gallon of ethanol. They warned that energy security is being secured at the expense of water security.",4_4
"Finally, let me note that CEI attended all eleven days of the Kyoto conference as an officially registered non-governmental organization. Fred Smith wrote daily commentaries that enjoyed wide distribution in the U.S. via e-mail and fax.",0_0
"In addition, ignore the fact that there have been more all-time U.S. cold records than heat records since the 1940s. And don't believe your lyin' eyes that tell you regarding that ""extreme weather"" we've been warned about that no category 3-5 hurricanes have struck the U.S. coast since October 2005, setting a century-long record lull since 1900.",1_7
"Before finalizing its response to the Court, EPA must figure out how recent statutory changes in EPA's responsibility regarding fuel economy and renewable fuel standards would affect the setting of auto emission standards for carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases--a possible outcome of Mass v. EPA.",0_0
"Lake Powell (Arizona and Utah) provides a good proxy for western slope snowfall, because much of the snow in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Northwestern New Mexico drains into the lake via the Colorado, Green and San Juan Rivers. The lake currently contains more than 4.5 trillion gallons of water and is 490 feet deep at the dam.",0_0
"In a very long sentence, the two researchers write that ""extreme temperatures (i) can be avoided (e.g. by accelerating hatching, by moving within the egg, by cooling the egg by enhanced rates of evaporation, or by hysteresis in rates of heating versus cooling); (ii) can be tolerated (e.g. by entering diapause, by producing heat-shock proteins, or by changing oxygen use); or (iii) the embryo can adjust its physiology and/or developmental trajectory in ways that reduce the fitness penalties of unfavorable thermal conditions (e.g. by acclimating, by exploiting brief windows of favorable conditions, or by producing the hatchling phenotype best suited to those incubation conditions.""",3_2
"Solar physicists from several major US sun-watching labs announced last year that they believe based on decades-long trends of declining sunspot activity and other indicators that the current sunspot cycle may be the last one for a long time, and that a ""Maunder Minimum"" like that seen in the 17th and 18th centuries is on the cards. The sunspot-less Maunder Minimum was accompanied by a so-called ""Little Ice Age"" of cold winters and ice-skating on the Thames.",1_2
"Who would have thoughtit seems that the largest mammal of North America, Ovibos moschatus or Musk Ox (actually, a big big kind of sheep) really does like it hot, even if its usually found around Canada and Greenland: to the point of disappearing from Europe, Asia and Alaska in the late XIX/early XX century due to climate change , a turn to cold that is.",3_2
"If psychologists want to be taken seriously, and want psychology to be called a science, they need to elect a director who knows what science is.",0_0
"But most troubling of all, according to the UN report in 2005, is that the largest public health problem created by the accident is the damaging psychological impact to a lack of accurate information as negative self-assessments of health, belief in a shortened life expectancy, lack of initiative, and dependency on assistance from the state. end of quote",0_0
"I downloaded the tide data for the outlet of the Thames, Sheerness for that day from the UK National Oceanography center . Times are local to the station, +1 GMT.",0_0
"To chal- lenge against wind power in rural areas are based on the visual experience, ie, they frfular landscape, or str experience of the landscape is probably obvious from many of those affected. The aesthetic dimension is often brushed aside by nringen as taste. No. Now chal- lenge out in settlements is growing and that FSL become an important factor framstr it is increasingly clear that this frga must be discussed more.",0_0
"However, significant barriers impede the transfer of existing and future technologies, and thus the improvement of overall economic conditions. One of the most important is lack of economic freedommarked by restrictions on personal choice, voluntary exchange and open markets The prospect of simultaneously reducing poverty, increasing energy efficiency and cutting pollution makes a compelling argument for developed countries to take a new approach to forging partnerships with developing countries: one centered on improving economic freedom in a way that encourages smoother technology transfers and faster economic growth.",0_0
"natural thermostats, including clouds, which can trap heat, turn up the temperature or reflect sunlight and help cool the planet. So why is none of this reflected in the modelling? It is situating the appreciation again.",5_1
"The early estimates of polar bear abundance are a guess. There is no data at all for the 1950-60s. Nothing but guesses. We are sure the populations were being negatively affected by excess harvest (e.g., aircraft hunting, ship hunting, self-killing guns, traps, and no harvest limits). The harvest levels were huge and growing. The resulting low numbers of bears were due only to excess harvest but, again, it was simply a guess as to the number of bears.",3_2
"Clinton began her remarks at the National Clean Energy Summit by laying out the problems climate change is already causing today, including extreme weather and droughts. the most consequential, urgent, sweeping collection of challenges we face, she said. No matter what deniers say.",0_0
"The current 11-year peak in solar action is the weakest seen for a long time, and it may presage a lengthy quiet period. Previously, historical records suggest that such periods have been accompanied by chilly conditions on Earth.",1_2
"The Wiki that describes Degree Days is not too bad (at least for now, but since Ive connected it to Global Warming watch out for the AGW Langoliers to start chewing on it):",0_0
"Video: Climate realism in a Texas elementary school; ""If there's global warming, there must have been global cooling follow this logic """,0_0
So there is only one remaining sentence in my post to which Schmidt might be objecting:,0_0
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON ABOVE 5000 FEET.,0_0
2014: The host of MSNBCs The Ed Show promoted Soviet-style re-education for climate skeptic politicians by conducting an on-air poll on the question Should climate-denying Republicans be forced to take a basic earth science course?,5_2
"Until such time as an independent inquiry actually addresses these concerns in a thorough and, yes, unbiased manner, Climategate will remain an open wound in the side of climate science.",5_2
"The inference is that climate model predictions should be used to drive global energy policy. This is the simple linear model of scientism, that has been resoundingly debunked particularly for a complex problem like climate change.",5_1
"What I find interesting about this map is the way the warmth is concentrated on and around nearly point sources. That one inland and North East from Seattle is a real hot spot. Those sources look to be largely the urban growth areas (with, perhaps, some very localized UHI impacts on small rural locations). There is a general warming in valleys, but the real hot spots are in or very near the urban areas. Most of the out back rural areas are neutral or cooler than average.",0_0
THE ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION IS NOT A FORCED COMPONENT OF THE CLIMATE MODELS,5_1
"Police and courts to secure each citizens life, liberty and property from domestic thieves and bandits, and to adjudicate the disputes that might arise among men;",0_0
www.couriermail.com .au/...antarctic-runway/story-fn6ck4a4-...,0_0
"""Wind power,"" the study reports, ""is the second most expensive. It costs nearly 6 cents more per KWH."" The study puts these additional costs in context: ""The average cost of electricity to U.S. consumers in 2012 was 9.84 cents per KWH, including the cost of transmission and distribution of electricity. This means a new wind plant could at least cost 50% more per KWH to produce electricity, and a new solar plant at least 200% more per KWH, than using coal and gas technologies."" The study concludes: ""Renewable incentives that are biased in favor of wind and solar and biased against large-scale hydro, nuclear, and gas combined cycle are a very expensive and inefficient way to reduce CO2 emissions.""",4_4
"Researchers Gabriel Vecchi and Brian Soden (from GDFL and the University of Miami respectively) examined how anthropogenic global warming may, at least according to climate models, alter the environment of the tropical Atlantic and thus possibly tropical cyclone statistics there as well. Recall that it is the tropical cyclones that form in the Atlantic Ocean that are the ones that cause the greatest impact the United States. And also recall that there is still an on-going, sometimes rather heated, debate about whether natural or anthropogenic (as if somehow we arent part of nature) causes are thought to be responsible for the increase in storminess since the early-1970s, as well as whether or not a continued enhancement to the earths greenhouse effect will lead to more and/or more intense hurricanes.",5_1
"I note also that Jeff ID states in the thread you mentioned: Even though I am certain this is one hundred percent correct, this changes little about the climate story. What it does do is make one wonder how math skilled individuals still refuse to acknowledge it.",0_0
"This article is an attempt to describe some of the early results from the Antarctic reconstruction recently published on the cover of Nature which demonstrated a warming trend in the Antarctic since 1956. Actual surface temperatures in the Antarctic are hard to come by with only about 30 stations prior to 1980 recorded through tedious and difficult efforts by scientists in the region. In the 80s more stations were added including some automatic weather stations (AWS) which sit in remote areas and report the temperature information automatically. Unfortunately due to the harsh conditions in the region many of these stations have gaps in their records or very short reporting times (a few years in some cases). Very few stations are located in the interior of the Antarctic, leaving the trend for the central portion of the continent relatively unknown. The location of the stations is shown on the map below.",5_1
"In the case of science, the motive is supposed to be the continued advancement of knowledge. In practice, scientists ARE motivated by that common goal, but they also have pressure from money, the future ease of publication, acceptance by peers, and in the case of climate science easy fame.",0_0
"Whether the threats are short-term (hurricanes, floods and blizzards), intermediate (droughts) or long-term (warm or cool eras), preparation must be specific and regional in scale, for the perils vary widely by geographic location and a nation's state of technological advancement. If governments prepare properly for natural hazards, their countries and communities will also be ready for human-caused climate disruptions, should they ever occur.",4_2
"Replication is more difficult than the ""follow the money"" narrative behind the attacks on the integrity of Mr. Soon and other skeptical scientists. But for those seeking truth, it is the only analysis worth conducting.",0_0
"An unseasonably cold weather system will move through the Northern Rockies tonight into Tuesday morning. Snow levels are expected to drop to around 6000 feet, leading to light snow accumulations over the higher terrain. Those planning to venture into the back country should be prepared for light snow and temperatures 15 to 20 degrees below normal.",1_3
"They focus on every weather event, declare it to be the worst ever, and ignore every place else in the world.The NorthernHemispherehas been experiencing record snow cover, so they focus on a lack of snow in Chicago (which is about to get a blizzard.) The Greenland Ice Sheet has a couple of hours above freezing, and they declare it to be a meltdown.",0_0
"The direct warming effect of doubling the CO2 in the air is generally agreed to be little more than 1 C. However climate models produce exaggerated warming forecasts by assuming that strongly positive or amplifying temperature feedbacks, such as the increased capacity of warmer air to carry water vapour, a greenhouse gas. They assume that these positive feedbacks will turn 1 C of direct warming into 3 C of imagined catastrophe.",5_1
"But neither henor Iare much swayed by this rose tinted view: ""More likely is that the level of ambition for Cancun will be reduced further with no more than a package of agreements negotiated and all the tough stuff put back until next year. Or 2013. Or 2014,"" Vidals concludes. That, he says, would be ""the nightmare scenario""an outcome that the squabbling in Bonn has made all the more likely.",0_0
"Heat waves occurred with high frequency in the 1930s, and these remain the most severe heat waves in the U.S. historical record (see Figure 1). Many years of intense drought (the Dust Bowl) contributed to these heat waves by depleting soil moisture and reducing the moderating effects of evaporation.",1_7
"Like Fred, I've stuck mostly to the data. Here's the data Fred relies upon, with the trends over the whole interval from 1979 to the latest available:",0_0
"At least 12 states will have to impose 40% to 48% reductions. Those states now get 50% to 96% of their electricity from coal, and nearly all their electricity from coal and natural gas. Further complicating matters, even replacing coal-fired units with natural gas turbines is highly restricted under the plan.",0_0
"?The global temperature ?savings? of the Kerry-Lieberman bill is astoundingly small?0.043 C (0.077 F) by 2050 and 0.111 C (0.200 F) by 2100. In other words, by century?s 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
"Much like the U.S. Historical Climatology Network database (see our Temperature Record of the Week feature), these temperature reconstructions derived from limnological data from pristine mountain lakes in Europe support the tenet of our Editorial of 1 July 2000 , i.e., that ""there has been no global warming for the past 70 years,"" in that it is no warmer now in these locations than it was in the 1930s and 40s.",1_4
"As I mentioned, our satellite temperatures are validated with radioson data, they're independent of the radioson data, this just shows our own calculations of monthly global temperature anomalies from the satellite from '79 through '94. Based from 97 radioson locations in the Northern Hemisphere and you can see they track each other very nicely. And the temperature trend in our dataset, in our radioson dataset -its about 200ths of a degree warmer in its trend than the MSU. That is the area that the satellite does see warming - its Northern Hemisphere, mid-latitudes. Where the land is. Where the people live. We do see warming in the last eighteen years for that area.",0_0
"Parameters	NST=506, Nph=514, Dmin=334 km, Rmss=0.65 sec, Gp= 25,",0_0
"Brian: Senator Wong, thanks for joining us and may I add how lovely you look tonight.",0_0
"We found that two key physical processes, which were often overlooked in previous process models, were actually essential for accurately describing whether sea ice loss is reversible, said Eisenman, a professor of climate dynamics at Scripps Oceanography. One relates to how heat moves from the tropics to the poles and the other is associated with the seasonal cycle. None of the relevant previous process modeling studies had included both of these factors, which led them to spuriously identify a tipping point that did not correspond to the real world.",5_1
"Early on in my statements about Climategate, I became aware that my statements were looked upon very unfavorably by some scientists, particularly those that were vocal advocates of the IPCC and UNFCCC policies. As an example, Peter Webster related a conversation at a professional meeting in 2010 with a young scientist who said something like: You know, Judy is REALLY unpopular among the scientists at lab. Im not sure, but I think she might be right. I can say that to you but of course I wouldnt dare say that at the lab.",5_2
"Sachdev makes some provoking points e.g. that he had to explain basics of condensed matter physics to some string theorists using the same caricatures as he's using, approximately speaking, for the kids in the kindergarten. ;-)",0_0
"Removing the series of assumptions about cost savings from emission trading, the cost of complying with the protocol increases from $7 billion in 2010 to $53 billion and permit prices increase from $14 to $193 per ton of CO2.",0_0
"James K. Glassman: Dr. Baliunas, we've heard that temperatures have increased on Earth over the last century. Were temperatures stable before that?",0_0
"""Abu Dhabi will host the first Eye on Earth Summit on December 12-15 2011, in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The summit will focus on the issue of greater access to environmental and societal data.""",0_0
"This could wreck the Governments present strategy, as this new gas capacity will be vital as coal power is progressively withdrawn via the Large Combustion Plants Directive and nuclear capacity closed.",0_0
"According to Crane, the first inkling of a problem (we should have seen it coming) turned up in 2007, when TXU was forced into the hands of private equity by a firestorm over planned coal-fired plants. My recollection is that TXU simultaneously misread the markets for coal, gas, power and capital and fully deserved its fate for wasting all that wealth. But lets believe Cranes claim that the crisis started there and was subsequently festering just below the surface.",0_0
"In setting the stage for their most interesting study, the authors say ""many scientists believe that a warmer climate will result in elevated summer temperatures and more frequent and intense heat waves,"" and that ""according to some predictions, heat-related mortality is expected to increase considerably as global temperatures continue to rise,"" which is, of course, standard climate-alarmist dogma. But must this necessarily be the case? What was done",5_2
"The best governments can do is ""help people have the children they do want."" Since low fertility correlates with education, we could stop the government-subsidized promotion of a university education for all. A college degree doesn't prepare people for specific jobs, but rather gives employers an idea of their intelligence and work habits, something that can be done more cheaply and efficiently. Making child-friendly housing more affordable, letting workers telecommute to lessen the career-costs of having children, welcoming more fecund immigrants, and ending the hostility to religion and the faithful, ""if for no other reason than they're the ones who create most of the future taxpayers,"" are some of Last's solutions. Unfortunately, they are as unlikely as they are sensible.",0_0
"johanna on April 27, 2015 at 5:19 pm",0_0
"That is incoherent. How exactly did ExxonMobil and other fossil energy companies ""deceive"" the public about climate change risk, according to the RICO 20? In their September 2015 letter to Obama, Lynch, and Holdren, Shukla et al. invoke the ""merchants of doubt' literature as the smoking gun that justifies a federal investigation. According to that literature, fossil energy companies have misled the public chiefly by funding ""climate denial front groups.' In other words, conservative and free-market organizations. Organizations staffed by the contrarian researchers and bloggers Shukla claims the RICO 20 have no interest in investigating.",0_0
"While the certainty isn't enough for a formal discovery, it's being claimed that the signal is equivalent to 3+ standard deviations or so, about 99.8% confidence level. The expected background was \(0.7\) events.",0_0
"CEI advises EPA not to adopt its Endangerment Proposal as a final rule. The science presented in the proposal and TSD is highly selective, ignoring the research, arguments, and assessments of so-called climate skeptics. EPA may regard the skeptics as quibblers or worse, but ignoring an argument does not refute it. Absent a serious consideration of opposing viewpoints, the public cannot have confidence in EPA's conclusions.",0_0
"For this to come true, multiple problems have to be solved before taxpayers run out of money or patience. Along the way, the alternative energy industry has to avoid getting sidetracked into the wrong technologies, as this will delay the eagerly awaited carbon-free future. (Forbes)",0_0
"""For while the world is a wonderful place, one we humans have made nicer for ourselves with wonderful inventions like books and record players, penicillin and pizza,"" Bry, the author of ""Public Apology: In Which a Man Grapples With a Lifetime of Regret, One Incident at a Time,"" wrote. ""It's also a really awful place, one we've ravaged with deforestation and smog, nuclear weapons and mountains of pizza delivery boxes and other garbage.""",0_0
"The administration has defended its efforts, asserting that there has never been any evidence that political influence factored into decisions about which companies would receive Energy Department loans. Republicans cited political connections between the loan recipients and the Obama administration as the fuel for their suspicions. For instance, a top Obama fundraiser was also a chief private backer of Solyndra, the solar panel company. Similarly, a major investor in Fisker is a venture capital firm that lists former Vice President Al Gore as a partner.",0_0
"When someone says that an issue is unworthy of discussion because of a supposed overwhelming consensus that just happens to support her position, then clearly that someone either knows little about the topic or is being dishonest. Or both. It is a modern form of know-nothingism masquerading as scientific objectivity, the purpose of which is to classify those offering certain arguments and asking certain questions as knuckle draggers deserving only of excommunication from polite society.",0_0
"Analysts are predicting a record spike in pump prices starting in June, with 50% of East Coast refinery capacity now shut down due in part to costly EPA regulations. And theres no quick way to resupply that lost gas via refineries in Louisiana and Texas, thanks to EPA restrictions on new pipelines.",4_1
"Blacktown News, sport and weather | Blacktown Sun",0_0
"Also, Mr Killion pointed out that much of Chinas manufacturing output was driven by the Chinese subsidiaries of US companies and was based around US-derived technologies, especially in fields such as electronics. Keeping score in a complex world is fraught with challenges.",0_0
AMSAs Rescue Coordination Centre Australia (RCC Australia) was contacted by the Falmouth Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) in the United Kingdom on Christmas morning.,0_0
The controversy over Hillary Clinton's emails and her unconvincing press conference at the United Nations have gotten many Democrats and others thinking the unthinkable: Clinton may not be the Democrats' 2016 nominee for president. And it has many asking the question scary for Democrats of who else could be.,0_0
"The scientific reality is that on virtually every claim, the scientific case for man-made climate fears has collapsed. The only thing ""worse than we thought"" is the shoddy journalism of the mainstream media, which parrots global warming activists' baseless talking points.",0_0
"Kevin D. Dayaratna, Nicolas D. Loris, and David W. Kreutzer, ""Consequences of Paris Protocol: Devastating Economic Costs, Essentially Zero Environmental Benefits,"" Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 3080, April 13, 2016, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2016/04/consequences-of-paris-protocol-devastating-economic-costs-essentially-zero-environmental-benefits.",0_0
"It turns out that the Earth actually is being attacked by cosmic rays. New research is strongly suggesting that warming trends on this planet can be explained by a similar warming trend on our neighbor, Mars, and the theory that both are linked. National Geographic gives us the lowdown:",0_0
"So there you go, the Talkshop , keeping it real-er than realclimate. Its all thanks to your support that we are still here and rockin forward into 2012. Keep those guest posts and comments coming and lets have a good one!",0_0
Add this result to the list of problems that seems to grow longer with each passing day as more IPCC gaffes are uncovered and Climategate emails are parsed. One has to wonder just how long it will be until the EPA is challenged to reconsider its Endangerment Finding.,0_0
"2 Climate Change Office, Ministry of Mines, Environment and Tourism, P.Bag 7753",0_0
"The bulbs aren't banned outright. Rather, beginning in 2012 a set of increasingly stringent lumen-per-watt standards will eliminate conventional incandescents. 100-watters will be the first to go. In their place we'll have to use compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) or other new-fangled lights.",0_0
"The direct component accounts for the shade provided by clouds and cools the earth. The second component accounts for the sunlight scattered between and under clouds, which makes the sky brighter, warming the earth.",0_0
"'Fakegate' has reminded the public of the prevalent fraud and deception perpetrated by global warming alarmism - the IPCC's hurricane ""science"" is one such example",5_2
"When OSTP produced the records on March 4, 2016 (they are at this link), they showed inconsistency in OSTP's position over time. Although OSTP told CEI in June 2014 that Holdren's claim was just his personal ""opinion,"" not ""information"" that is subject to the Information Quality Act (IQA), this was not the position it originally took in its draft response to CEI's request back in Spring 2014.",0_0
the success affects the group itself rather than its distant descendants,0_0
"Of course the last time that Canada as a nation emitted 80% below 1990 levels was in the 19th century, and that with Brazil, Russia, India and China looking to be the new global economic leaders and dead set against hampering their economies with arbitrary constraints on their carbon emissions, Canada, a country with 30 million people and 1.9% of global carbon emissions would be experiencing all pain and no gain for turning off the key to our success in providing a first world standard of living to our citizens the use of plentiful, efficient, and clean fossil fuels.",0_0
"Virginia is one of just four states that ban uranium mining. The ban was put in place in 1984, to calm fears that had been sparked by the partial meltdown of a nuclear reactor on Three Mile Island outside of Harrisburg, Pa. in 1979.",0_0
Deaths from cervical cancer could jump fourfold to a million a year,0_0
"Last winter they blamed all the cold and snow on missing Arctic ice. With Arctic ice extent now close to the highest in a decade, what lies will the experts fabricate for the cold weather in the coming winter?",1_1
"El Nios didnt only dominate during the 1990s. For some reason known only to Dana, he overlooked the fact that the 1976/77 El Nio started the period when El Nio events dominated the late 20 th Century. Thus, using Danas logic, El Nio events enhanced the observed global warming from the mid-1970s to the turn of the centurythe first 25 years of the past 40 years Dana chose for his discussion.",5_2
I look forward to reading how EPA responds to the issues that are raised in the comments bytheHouse Members.,0_0
"La Griffe du Lion & Prodigy: gender, race, and IQ non-gaussianities",0_0
"The office of attorney general is a powerful one. What will the effects of these taxpayer-funded investigations be? It's possible they may lead to skewed estimates of climate change, by intimidating researchers who raise legitimate questions about overly large predictions of warming. They are also a threat to oil companies' ability to engage in prudent contingency planning that takes into account the maximum possible projections of global warming, without having to publicly tout those projections, which will likely turn out to be inaccurate years later.",0_0
"Nonprofit hospitals had been exempted from labor law requiring private employers to recognize union representatives as workers' exclusive bargaining agents. But an 1199-led strike in 1963 forced Republican governor Nelson Rockefeller to sign legislation that incorporated New York City's nonprofit hospitals into the State Labor Relations Act. In 1965, this legal authority was extended statewide. (1199 had endorsed Rockefeller for governor in 1962.) According to Leon Fink and Brian Greenberg's comprehensive history, Upheaval in the Quiet Zone, by the end of the 1960s, three-quarters of the local hospital labor force was unionized and 1199 had quadrupled its membership.",0_0
"Coleman, a noted global warming skeptic, has long been countering claims by some scientists and liberal activists linking global warming to extreme weather. Liberals have already claimed Matthew was made stronger by global warming.",0_0
"True, the British Antarctic Survey disagrees with the IPCC and maintains that the WAIS is in imminent danger of collapse, but so far even the IPCC has not bought that alarmist story.",5_2
"Global warming, what warming? News coverage of the greatest threat to mankind since legwarmers has dropped off the map.",0_0
"There are still too many talking heads today whining about the fact that Americans are still too much from Mars, Europeans too much from Venus. You still have a metaphysical problem with that? Get over it. As Javier Solana reminded us in his inimitable way, Mars himself was from Mars, Venus was from Venus, and that sure did not prevent those two from getting down to business: ""I seem to recall that it was only in the arms of Venus that Mars found peace. And was their beautiful daughter not the goddess Harmonia?""41Tony Corn is currently writing a book on the Long War. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Paris and is a graduate of the U.S. Naval War College. The opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the position of the U.S. Department or the U.S. government.1 Clyde Prestowitz, Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East, 2007; Paul Bracken, Fire in the East: The Rise of Asian Military Power and the Second Nuclear Age, 1999.",0_0
"What rather matters is how much of this is wild fire and how much is agricultural fire. Indur Goklanys work looked specifically at biofuels, so related to man-made air pollution. From the actual Jacobsen paper its clear that this is mostly thought to be man-made fires:",0_0
"Government research funding for at least 25 years has hinged on the assumption of human causation, and as I have always said, if you fund scientists to find a connection, they will indeed find it. That's why the resulting research that is published also is dominated by explanations involving human causation.",5_2
"The general outcome of COP-13 in Bali seems to me to be remarkably similar to the outcomes of most previous COPs. What usually happens is that, at the last minute and on",0_0
"Ljungqvist used 120 proxy records ??? nearly 3 times as many proxies as previous studies and conclude: ???during the 9th to 11th centuries there was widespread NH warmth comparable in both geographic extent and level to that of the 20th century??. Their proxies included ice-cores, pollen, marine sediments, lake sediments, tree-rings, speleothems and historical documentary data.",2_1
"""Son, it gets worse. There was a film - a Danish film called Expedition To The End Of The World . It got reviewed very favourably in Salon . That was the moment when I knew for me that the Great Climate War was over. Frankly it made me feel like a rank amateur.""",0_0
The First American Prime Minister Orders Hors D'oeuvres,0_0
Their real agenda was disclosed in a Climatic Research Unit (CRU) leaked email dated December 2007 from senior writer Richard Littlemore to Michael Mann.,5_2
Many thanks to the reader who sent in the long summary who wishes to remain anonymous.,0_0
The paper calculates the direct affect of CO2 (without feedback mechanism) using a line-by-line calculations of each wavelength of sunlight and using this approach they arrive at a value of direct heating of 0.45C for a doubling of CO2.,3_1
"Perhaps more perverse is that these subsidies significantly obstruct the long-term success and viability of the very technologies and energy sources that they were intend to promote. Instead of relying on a process that rewards competition, taxpayer subsidies prevent a company from truly understanding the price point at which the technology will be economically viable. When the government plays favorites, it traps valuable resources in unproductive places. Companies will plead for ""business certainty"" when asking for special tax treatment or subsidies, but the political process of picking winners creates dependence, not certainty. True business certainty will occur when America ends federal policies that subsidize and mandate specific energy sources and technologies.",0_0
"But when one looks at the state of Republican public opinion (especially among the likely caucus and primary voters), at the consistent and persistent messages coming from the information sources they follow, and at the supine nature of congressional leaders and business leaders in countering extremism, it is not at all likely that what passes for mainstream, problem-solving conservatism will dominate the Republican Party anytime soon.",0_0
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"19 On Russia-EU relations, see Roy Allison, ed., Putin's Russia and the Enlarged Europe, 2006; on Russia-China, see Ming-Yen Tsai, From Adversaries to Partners? Chinese and Russian Military Cooperation after the Cold War, 2003, and Marcel de Haas, Russia-China Security Cooperation, Research Institute for European and American Studies (Athens, 2007); on NATO-Russia, Stephen J. Blank, The NATO-Russia Partnership: A Marriage of Convenience or a Troubled Relationship? Strategic Studies Institute (November 2006); on US-Russia, see Richard Weitz, Revitalizing US-Russian Security Cooperation, 2006.",0_0
16a. The ability of global climate models to reproduce temperature observations,0_0
"Could it be that Butterfield, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, is understanding the message that the Congress of Racial Equalitys Roy Innis has been delivering for so long now? If liberals have trouble supporting cap-and-trade, is there any hope for it at all?",0_0
"LetTexasSpeak has been doing a live broadcast from the rotunda where women have been sharing their abortion related testimonies. The pro-abortion crowd has responded with repeated chants of ""hail Satan."" It's taken us all day to get a video recording, but here it is...",0_0
"Given that CO2 levels, at 400 ppm (388, actually), are now twice 200 ppm, and half 800 ppm, at what point would you expect ""carbon saturation"" to set in and warming based on additional carbon dioxide to more or less cease (I know warming doesn't end entirely, but the additional warming per unit is miniscule). One gets the impression, reading the papers, that additional units of CO2 will create a lot more warming per unit, rather than a lot less.",0_0
"USHCN published only their adjusted data (F52) for August, and did not publish the raw (raw) data.",5_1
"However, since actual CO2 production is already below IPCC forecasts, we might take a more reasonable date of 2080-2100 for a doubling to 560. And, combining this with our derived sensitivity of 1C (rather than RealClimate's 3C) we will get 0.5C more warming in the next 75-100 years. This is about the magnitude of warming we experienced in the last century, and most of us did not even notice.",3_1
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"This years average temperature, 43.5 degrees, was the seventh-mildest on record warm, but not as warm as (starting with the warmest ever) 1889, 2006, 1931, 1949, 1982 or 1971.",2_1
"Comment: This response does not address the criticism that even if one sentence of the guidance documentanticipates that permitting agencies may ultimately exercise the discretion to require fuel switching in individual cases, the EPA gave no hint that next year it wouldrequire all new fossil fuel power plants to be either NGCC or non-economical coal with CCS. Note, too, that implemented at commercial scale is not the same as commerciallyviable , i.e., sustainable without taxpayer subsidies.",0_0
"What is rarely mentioned by climate alarmists is the incontrovertible fact that adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere has an ever-decreasing effect on global temperature. To illustrate this, compare covering a glass window with very thin paint. The first coat of paint cuts out some light, the second some more; but each subsequent coat has an ever decreasing effect on light shining through.",2_3
Decadal trends in solar irradiance are not yet detectable from uncertainties caused by instrument instabilities in observations: historical irradiance reconstructions are very uncertain,0_0
"Congress should hold hearings, demand an accounting of agency expenditures, require solid evidence for every climate claim and regulation, and cross-examine Administration officials on details. It should slash EPA and other agency budgets, so they cannot keep giving billions to pressure groups, propagandists and attack dogs. Honesty, transparency, accountability and a much shorter leash are long overdue.",5_2
Lt inte tv hl i v ggen bli ett hl i huvudet,0_0
"Sometime in 1939-1940, Franklin Roosevelt made up his mind that he would break the ancient American taboo and seek a third term as president. But he faced a serious problem: Many voters had wearied of the liberal domestic policies of the Roosevelt administration. In the congressional elections of 1938, liberal Democrats had lost power to an informal coalition of Republicans and conservative southern Democrats. A third presidential bid by Roosevelt seemed doomed to end in disaster.",0_0
13. Costa Rica - Agreement Regarding a Debt-for-Nature Swap Program Under the US Tropical Forest Conservation Act,0_0
"For more information contact NESDIS Public Affairs at (301) 457-5005. Posted December 13, 1999",0_0
UPDATE2: Gosh. Shouldnt Dr. Cullen know more than McKibben and Brad Johnson?! (h/t to Marc Morano) Anthony,0_0
"How do we stop the march of this neo-Fascist movement, with its crude denigration of opponents, breaking-up of meetings, taxpayer-funded propaganda at every street corner, and vast, expensive Nuremberg Rallies such as that which is now taking place at the Bella Centre?",0_0
"Effects of elevated CO2 on medicinal substances found in St. John??s wort CO2science.org, July 14 2004 180% increase in the air??s CO2 content more than doubled the dry mass produced by well-watered and fertilized St. John??s wort plants, while it also more than doubled the concentrations of both hypericin and pseudohypericen.",3_3
"The result of this undertaking, as they describe it, was their finding that even throughout the late Holocene , ""reef health and growth has fluctuated through cycles independent of anthropogenic forcing."" Thus, they concluded -- and rightly so -- that ""degraded reef states cannot de facto be considered to automatically reflect increased anthropogenic stress,"" noting that ""in many cases degraded or non-accreting reef communities may reflect past reef growth histories as much as contemporary environmental change.""",3_2
"The importance of refineries can hardly be overstated. Not only do they supply petrochemical feedstocks for plastics, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, and fuel for cars, trucks, ships and airplanes to transport people, food and products. They also create thousands of jobs and generate billions of dollars in payrolls and taxes. In Texas alone, the refinery and chemicals industry adds 73,000 employees, $6 billion in salaries and $105 billion annually to the economy.",4_5
"Last year, in the wake of the Queensland floods, Professor Steffen said the event was probably not the result of climate change but a natural part of climate variability. The floods across eastern Australia in 2010 and early 2011 were the consequence of a very strong La Nina event and not the result of climate change, he argued at the time.",1_7
"As if on cue, the IRS targeted numerous conservative groups and the Milwaukee prosecutor and police monitored emails, invaded homes, seized computers and records, and threatened jail for anyone who disclosed these abuses, to intimidate and silence Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's supporters.",0_0
"This points to a major challenge for free-market supporters. As regular readers of UpDate know, we need to move beyond proving the logic of supply and demand curves. We need also to show that economic freedom will actually help people. Do you want to reduce malaria in Africa? Reduce highway fatalities? Feed the hungry? The answer is less government, not more.",0_0
"The twentieth century indeed was warm. We know this to be so because temperatures could be measured using instruments designed for that purpose. What they indicate is that global temperature increased by about three-quarters of a degree Celsius. The question becomes: was that rate of warming unusual in a longer-term context? Well probably never be certain because there were no comparable instruments taking measurements in earlier centuries. Barring the unlikely discovery the Catholic Church operated a secret, well-calibrated global thermometric measurement campaign during the Crusades, for example, any comparison of contemporary measurements with those of the past will be, by definition, fraught with error.",5_1
Climate Change a very low priority to US citizens (Gallup Poll),0_0
"In reality, methane is not the monster it's made out to be, because emissions from oil and gas operations are generally low, and when leaks do occur, they are fixed quickly and easily.",0_0
"2. Chart of the Day II Vehicle Miles (above). US traffic volume set a new all-time record in October, according to the Federal Highway Administration's most recent Traffic Volume Trends report for vehicle-miles of travel through October. Americans drove an estimated 273.5 billion miles in October, which was a record high for the month. On a 12-month moving total basis, Americans drove 3.13 trillion miles in the 12-month period between October 2014 and October 2015, which established a new all-time 12-month traffic volume record for the US. Lower gas prices and an improving economy were certainly two of the main contributing factors to the new 12-month traffic volume record in October.",0_0
"From a previous CD post about Cheryl Crow's tour rider from The Smoking Gun, which commented ""When the global warming warrior hits the road, her touring entourage (and equipment) travels in three tractor trailers, four buses, and six cars. Now that's a carbon footprint!""",0_0
"Pielke's work was backed up by data and, in many cases, by the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But that didn't matter to Podesta's attack dogs at ThinkProgress. Long before his congressional testimony, Pielke had been the subject of a years-long smear campaign led by ThinkProgress's Joe Romm. In fact, Romm had what can only be described as an obsession with Pielke. In a recent Twitter posting, Pielke wrote: ""Propaganda works: I count more than 160 articles at the Center for American Progress trashing me over the years.""",5_2
"CO2 Science Even in the face of a warming trend that climate alarmists describe as having been unprecedented over the past one to two millennia, their predictions of more frequent and more severe concomitant drought have not been realized.",1_7
"The truth is that the first graph, plainly labeled ""scienceandpublicpolicy.org"", is the SPPI's well-known global-temperature index, compiled monthly from four separate global-temperature datasets, as Abraham well knew because I explained in my talk. It was not a NOAA graph, and was not labeled as such. Naturally, therefore, it differed at some points from the NOAA graph.",0_0
New research indicates that global oil production is not likely to peak anytime soon.,0_0
"This social pessimism has emerged over several decades. Its roots can be seen in the counterculture of the 1960s when the political Left, traditionally the most ardent supporters of social change, began to embrace green ideas. Rather than consider humans capable of reshaping nature for their own benefit, the outlook switched to one obsessed with natural limits.",0_0
"You cannot trust the UN's World Meteorological Organization which like the IPCC is just part of a vast matrix of groups that have been so severely corrupted by the global warming/climate change hoax that one must exercise caution when hearing its forecasts. If they are for anything beyond two weeks hence, you would be wise to be dubious.",5_2
"2) Furthermore heavy springtime ice forces movement outside the study area because it prevents local access to seal pups. Any movement outside the study area prevents subsequent recapture and can erroneously cause models to assume emigrant bears are dead. That false assumption creates lower survival estimates which then dramatically lower population estimates. Misinterpreting a temporary or permanent exodus away from a stressful local environment was the same critical error that led to bogus extinction claims for the Emperor Penguins . Coincidently one modeler, Hal Caswell, created both models falsely suggesting Emperor Penguins and Polar Bears are both on the verge of extinction.",3_2
"As a follow-up to this posting about the Costco Controversy in Bellingham, Washington, Roy Green will be starting off his radio show this weekend discussing the issue . Guests will include three women from Bellingham, including the Canadian wife of SDA commenter, Brian . The discussion will focus in on the issue at hand, but will also likely touch upon Canada's immigration policy, asking an important question: How long after an immigrant moves to Canada should they be expected to adopt our generally accepted standards of politeness, personal space, and courtesy? Another important question, which was raised by several SDA commenters, is this: Why are so many Canadians flooding down to the U.S. to buy milk and gas? Here are some recent prices that reveal the answer: NW Wash Costco Gas: $1.02/litre ($3.86/gallon) - - SW BC Costco Gas: $1.33/litre --> 30% more expensive",0_0
"If we are searching for new liability lawsuit targets, I'd suggest gest taking a look at the global scaremongering industry first. Since the early 1970s, the Club of Rome, Paul Ehrlich, the Worldwatch Institute and a host of others have been predicting that the world is on the verge of mass famines, plagues, running out of fossil fuels and a new ice age.",0_0
"How about using public transportation, driving carbon-friendly vehicles, living closer to work, or biking instead of driving? Suppose that the U.S. completely eliminated carbon emissions from transportation over the next four years. The IEA data show that world emissions would still rise because the reduction from the U.S. would not cover the increase in carbon emitted by the rest of the world. Without world-wide changes, there is limited gain, even from dramatic action by the world's second-largest emitter.",0_0
"10. The best summary of this work is Indur M. Goklany, Extending the Limits to Growth: Improving the State of Humanity and the Environment, forthcoming from AEI Press. One simple example, however, suffices to expose the shallowness of the I-PAT formula. Where, one asks, is there the most progress in reducing pollution, the largest gains in forestland (10 million acres over the last decade), the most aggressive steps being taken to protect species and habitat, and the most spending on climate research? The United States, the wealthiest and most technologically advanced nation in the world. Speth writes: ""If there is one country that bears the most responsibility for the lack of progress on international environmental issues, it is the United States,"" while the Ehrlichs write that ""sadly, our nation is also at present the biggest engine of ecological destruction on Earth, the chief (but by no means only) force keeping humanity on collision course with the natural world.""",0_0
"There has been no appreciable warming since 1998, as can be seen in the official forecast from the Met Office, the United Kingdoms national weather service , which the agency released on Christmas Eve. Presumably, the British governments climate scientists didnt want anyone to notice they had lowered their forecast from previous years, with temperatures in 2020 predicted to be no warmer than they were in the late 1990s. Websites such as Climate Depot and Watts Up With That had long ago reported the same phenomenon, only to be ridiculed by the climate-change establishment. It turns out these climate realists were right all along.",1_4
"Interestingly, Stern is now attempting to profit on his policy recommendations as he recently became Vice Chairman of IDEAGlobal group, whose IDEACarbon program ""is a leading professional services provider to the carbon finance community.""",0_0
"We discuss the adoption of a bottom-up, resourcebased vulnerability approach in evaluating the effect of climate and other environmental and societal threats to societally critical resources. This vulnerability concept requires the determination of the major threats to local and regional water, food, energy, human health, and ecosystem function resources from extreme events including climate, but also from other social and environmental issues. After these threats are identified for each resource, then the relative risks can be compared with other risks in order to adopt optimal preferred mitigation/adaptation strategies .",0_0
"Its difficult to claim the recent increases in manmade greenhouse gases are responsible for the warm sea surface temperatures off the New England coast, when the those values were regularly exceeded 70 to 80 years ago.",2_1
"With increased national Doppler radar coverage, increasing population, and greater attention to tornado reporting, there has been an increase in the number of tornado reports over the past several decades. This can create a misleading appearance of an increasing trend in tornado frequency. To better understand the true variability and trend in tornado frequency in the U.S., the total number of strong to violent tornadoes (EF3 to EF5 category on the Enhanced Fujita scale) can be analyzed. These are the tornadoes that would have likely been reported even during the decades before Doppler radar use became widespread and practices resulted in increasing tornado reports. The bar chart below indicates there has been little trend in the frequency of the strongest tornadoes over the past 55 years.",1_7
"Soothsayers have always tried to persuade people that they could predict the future. What is new today is that the incredibly powerful tools of science ? nuclear weapons, flights to the moon, computers, iPods ? have such huge implications for civilization that they may contain the seeds of their own destruction.",0_0
Didnt Hansen predict catastrophic sea level rise and increased hurricanes within 20 years in 1988? Doesnt anyone look at his record of prediction? Pushing the scare seems to be the thing.,5_2
"As with its polar counterparts, 90% of the titanic climate funding iceberg is invisible to most citizens, businessmen and politicians. The Lockheed action is the mere tip of the icy mountaintop.",0_0
"As the Bush Administration spends more and more time creating its legacy, the worst collection of initiatives are those that whittle away at American sovereignty. President Bush is many things to many people but he is most clearly a multinationalist. He is playing too nice with UN-types and Europeans eager to diminish our sovereignty in the name of supranational authority. This clearest example is the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), conceived back when socialism was considered the future. It now serves as the proxy for other, failed efforts, such as the Kyoto Protocol on ""global warming.""",0_0
Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore - Episode 3: Warming Rate,0_0
"Dr. Andrew Shepherd , an IPCC author who works at the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, said the UOB study used calculations that appeared to have overlooked shifts in snowfall , noting that the ""new estimates of ice loss computed (from the thinning of the ice) are far too high, because the glaciers in this sector just haven't speeded up that much.""",5_1
"To stop the solar boom, the government has reduced feed-in tariffs for photovoltaic schemes in the past few years. Since 2010, however, more than 5000 companies involved in the solar business have closed, shedding tens of thousands of green jobs.",0_0
"More available soon, including usable video, photography, news and commentary at CFACT.tv, CFACT.org and ClimateDepot.com. Local Brazil contact information is forthcoming.",0_0
"Much has changed in the last century, but in all cases the key to freeing us from these strictures has been widespread, affordable energy. A permanent flow of electricity and convenient access to gasoline have powered an explosion in wealth that has enabled millions to live long, fulfilling lives free from crushing hardship. The condition of life is no longer nasty, brutish, and short.",0_0
"However, these findings need to be interpreted in light of the analysis in Figure 1. The orange and red cells all occur in rows 1, 6 and 7, rows that correspond to the three balls in the two upper ellipses in Figure 1. In the analysis presented above, these three balls did not start the game at the same pressure as the other eight balls because of different gauging and selection, not because of washroom deflation.",0_0
"Despite this, people like Mann continue their climatological malpractice, and are even accorded respect. Such shoddy workmanship in any other field would put the principal into another line of work.",5_2
"The IPCC manufactures climate alarm by assuming CO2 controls water vapor to produce a runaway positive feedback system. Physicist Clive Best has posted his new paper showing that water vapor feedback is instead strongly negative, based on both the Faint Sun Paradox and a comparison of 5600 weather stations in the global CRUTEM4 temperature and humidity database. Peer-reviewed publications by Paltridge and others also find water vapor feedback is strongly negative. Without positive water vapor feedback, the IPCC's case for catastrophic man-made climate change collapses.",3_1
"Given the stability of the climate over the past half billion years, there is little danger that current anthropogenic perturbation of the climate will cause a runaway greenhouse effect. It is likely, therefore, that the IPCCs current estimates of the magnitude of climate feedbacks have been substantially exaggerated.",3_1
"Anyhow, thats how it goes to date. If the IPCC theory about 3C surface warming from a doubling of CO2 is true, we need to either a) come up with something else in the CERES data to explain the missing CO2 warming of 1.6 W/m2 per decade, b) back off on the IPCC climate sensitivity by a factor of about ten ... or my perennial favorite, toss out the idea of climate sensitivity entirely and recognize that at equilibrium, temperature isnt a simple function of TOA forcings because the climate system has emergent phenomena which respond and react to counteract the TOA changes.",0_0
"Everyone in the room knew that ""all major nations"" primarily meant China. From the beginning, China has steadfastly refused to accept outside monitoring and verification of its progress toward any promised targets. But the 11th-hour US proposal immediately isolated China. The onus was now on Beijing to agree to standards of ""transparent verification"". If it did not, poorer countries standing to benefit from the fund would blame China for breaking the deal.",0_0
"Of course she has no evidence to back up this valueless claim, which comes from the United Nations, but in fact previous centuries have shown considerable mortality from extreme weather events long before carbon dioxide became flavour of the month.",1_7
The New York Times notes world food prices increasing and blames weather and global warming but forgets that 41% of the US wheat harvest is burned as useless green fuel.,0_0
"What accounts for scientists' policy blinkers? It's hard to know for sure, since we're talking about what goes on inside people's heads. I suspect part of the answer lies in an implicit assumption, even by many scientists, that alternatives to fossil-fuel energy are just as cheap and convenient, but that dark corporate and government forces have prevented them from being disseminated. Never mind the countervailing evidence such as the fact that decades of $5 and $6 per gallon gasoline in Europe has failed to create economically viable alternatives to gasoline- or diesel-powered automobiles.",0_0
"In addition, Hennessey notes that Obama's action ""will accelerate EPA's regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources."" He continues: ""While Congress is futzing around on a climate change bill, EPA is getting ready to bring their ""PSD"" monster to your community soon."" He concludes:",0_0
"One cannot easily blame the economy for those earlier defeats. The economy was humming in the 1960s, and it was steadily recovering during the early 1990s. Nor can one easily blame political consultants and clever Republican tricks. As anyone who follows advertising and politics knows, a campaign succeeds only if it communicates messages its audience wants to hear. The only thread that runs through all four of the landslide reversals is the presence of liberal progressivism as the defining feature of the campaign.",0_0
"The authors show that ""there is mounting evidence suggesting that the variation in solar activity is a cause for millennial scale climate change,"" which is known to operate independently of the glacial-interglacial cycles that are forced by variations in the Earth's orbit about the Sun. They also review the evidence for two potential mechanisms by which the postulated solar-climate connection may be implemented, making a strong case for the validity of one or both of them. What it means",2_1
"Mexican birth rates plummeted 20 years ago, which means fewer young people will be needing jobsand with the U.S. economy struggling, they're not likely to look for them here. Nor are legal immigrants as likely to bring extended family members to the United States.",0_0
12. Paraguay - Agreement Concerning the Establishment of a Tropical Forest Conservation Fund and a Tropical Forest Conservation Board,0_0
"So two theories came together. Man-made CFCs could theoretically hasten destruction of stratospheric ozone, and British researchers observed greater thinning of Antarctic ozone than they ""expected"" (although at the time, this phenomenon was poorly understood, and no one knew what to ""expect""). Almost immediately, human health threats erupted, most notably the threat of an increased incidence of malignant melanoma. This is interesting, as melanoma is not influenced by UV-B radiation, but rather UV-A radiation (which is not blocked by ozone). In the early '90s, the EPA estimated an additional 200,000 cancer deaths by 2050. But even before this, the scam had found a voice and a message. Mankind was sowing the seeds of its own destruction. Does this sound familiar?",0_0
"And supposedly, one of the cures for global warming is to repower America with zero-carbon energy, especially electricity generated from wind turbines.",4_4
"It is clear that atmospheric concentration of CO2 were higher than the present level (~380 ppm) for most of the past 500 million years. During some periods, the levels were thought to be more than 10 times current levels. And corals survived. How does the NSF Report handle this fact? With a bit of handwaving.",2_3
"There is perhaps one major exception: Commitments by developed country Parties on providing finance, technology and capacity-building support to developing country Parties shall be of the same legal bindingness as their mitigation commitments.",0_0
"The media, of course, ate it up. In part, that was a healthy sign that there was nothing really important to report. But beyond their amusement value, these campaigns had some very real objectives: raising the federal government's fuel-economy standards, encouraging congressional legislation, and sticking some new voodoo pins into the demonized doll of automobility.",0_0
"Interestingly, however, the BBC recently did a report detailing concerns that we may be entering another Little Ice Age. As the sun remains conveniently out of the equation of global warming proponents, this is a rather eye-popping development.",1_2
"Marine life, including that part that fixes CO 2 as the carbonate in limestones such as coral reefs, evolved on an Earth with CO 2 levels many times higher than those of today, as reported by Berner and Kothaval. It may be true to say that todays marine life is getting by in a CO 2 -deprived environment.",3_3
"Weiss et al . report that "" H. undatus plants enriched with CO 2 demonstrated 52%, 22%, 18% and 175% increases, relative to plants measured in ambient CO 2 , in total daily net CO 2 uptake, shoot elongation, shoot dry mass, and number of reproductive buds, respectively,"" while corresponding responses for S. megalanthus were 129%, 73%, 68% and 233%. In addition, they found there was a slight (7%) increase in the fruit fresh mass of H. undatus and a much greater 63% increase in the fruit fresh mass of S. megalanthus , due to the extra 620 ppm of CO 2 enrichment of the air in which the plants had been grown. What it means",3_3
"After reading Who Turned on the Heat? you should have a better understanding of El Nio and La NiaANDyou should understand why global surface temperatures warm during multidecadal periods when El Nio events are stronger, occur more often and endure longer than La Nia events. The most recent period with ENSO conditions weighted toward the El Nio phase started in the late 1970s, and its no coincidence that global surface temperatures have warmed since then. Also not by coincidence, La Nia events dominated ENSO, but just a little bit, from the mid-1940s to the late-1970s, and global surface temperatures cooled slightly. Why did surface temperatures warm from the late 1910s to the mid-1940s? Yup, ENSO was skewed toward El Nio during that period, too.",2_1
"The authors looked at 750 years worth of the local ice core, especially the oxygen isotope. They claim to have found a very strong correlation between the concentration of this isotope (i.e. temperature) on one side and the known solar activity in the epoch 1250-1850. Their data seem to be precise enough to determine the lag, about 10-30 years. It takes some time for the climate to respond to the solar changes.",2_1
"Sadly, the page with the current conditions (click the ""body temperature"" link above) tells us that today in the morning, Ann Daniels spent several hours by ""sitting at"" and pre-heating a dead battery from the previous day instead of the correct, fresh one. ;-) On the positive side, she could finally throw away her sledging jacket for some time, one of the 15 or so pieces of clothes she wears.",0_0
"Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio . Tonight, for your delectation, here are Bunny Berigan , Fats Waller , and Tommy Dorsey performing Honeysuckle Rose (1937, 3:19, audio). Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.",0_0
"This is just wrong on any number of levels. The lamest part of this, beyond the sheer wrongheadedness of it, is it strikes me as a sign that these religious groups are unsure of their own teachings and moral standing. I will never be confused with a religious expert, but I would think that religious groups would be fighting for abstinence as a positive moral principal. Trying to deny vaccinations in order to make sexual intercourse incrementally more dangerous and threatening strikes me as a sign that the religious groups have given up on moral teaching and are now relying on bald scare tactics.",0_0
These are the relevant graphs from McIntyre showing what the newly available data demonstrates.,0_0
UPDATE: In the original graph posted at The Breakthrough Institute I showed ten-year growth rates for the Maddison dataset rather than the annual values as stated in the graph title. The annual values are shown below. There are no implications for the analysis -- the data is the same. Sorry for the error.,0_0
"driving up the price of everything else,"" he says. ""Youre taking corn",0_0
17. A toned-down version of the IPCC's press release is available at http://www.ipcc.ch/press/pr08122003.htm.,0_0
"Finally, trade regulations can and will be used to twist the arms of Third World countries and get them to join in the next round of the treaty, late in 1998. Countries will be lured with foreign aid bribes and threatened with trade sanctions if they decline to go along with the American position. And remember, all this will happen with little or no public scrutiny.",0_0
The effects of the stalled jet stream across Europe and the US have been catastrophic.,0_0
"""Counselling is the key thing as people have lost everything -- children, family, shelter... which is why the UN will launch these appeals,"" she said after visiting Sri Lanka's southern region of Galle.",0_0
"Because this correlation is studied in a quantum theory, we should really call it ""entanglement"", not just ""correlation"", but it's really meant to be exactly the same thing. Quantum mechanics is a different theory than classical physics so it says different things about the correlations of different quantities, and how correlations between some properties may co-exist with correlations in others and how strong these correlations may be. However, at the end, the interpretation is still the same: entanglement is a correlation between properties of two parts of a larger system.",0_0
"Van Haren et al . conclude their report by declaring that ""it is important that we improve our understanding of circulation changes, in particular related to the cause of the apparent mismatch between observed and modeled circulation trends over the past century,"" citing Haarsma et al . (2013); for if the models don't improve in this regard, neither will their precipitation predictions improve. References",5_1
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Center for Entrepreneurship Director John Berlau on how CEI is challenging a major element of the federal government's finance rules:,0_0
"When George W. Bush made his first trip to Europe as President in June, the anti-Bush U.S media, the anti-U.S European socialists, and the anti-growth green parties were all lying in wait to grab headlines at his expense. They zeroed in on Bush's withdrawal from further negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol, also known as the Global Warming Treaty.",0_0
Examining the occurrence of drought in southern California since 1900 is also illuminating.,0_0
"Some climate scientists, such as Professor Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, last week dismissed the significance of the plateau, saying that 15 or 16 years is too short a period from which to draw conclusions.",1_4
"And similarly, if you take Case 2 which is making a larger adjustment, the reported p-values in the neighborhood of .2, a little bit above .2. Again, if you do the analysis without imposing an equal variances assumption, you get a p-value thats below ten percent. So its statistically significant at the ten percent level, not at the five percent level. The other important point in thinking about statistical significance is that its not a black or white line at .05. And theres no direct way that you can connect .05 certainly to a legal standard for preponderance of evidence. So its not that if you are .04, its more likely than not, and if you are .06, its less likely than not. We have to be clear about that. So for all of those reasons, I think that first finding is without foundation.",0_0
"Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) bluntly summed up the effects of EPA's ""clean power"" rules. ""A lot of people on the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum are going to die,"" he said.",0_0
"Democrats have had their own battles. The radical populist William Jennings Bryan won control (and lost the White House three times) around the turn of the century. But the victory of the establishment with Woodrow Wilson ushered in an era of relative calm. However, a Democratic Party built on two disparate wingsSouthern rural conservatives determined to maintain segregation, Northern urban liberals determined to deploy and maintain the New Dealhad an uneasy alliance that enabled the party to keep a hammerlock on Congress for decades but began to unravel in the 1960s with the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts.",0_0
The U.S. consumes around 1.2 billion tons of coal a year; our coal reserves add up to centuries of coal use all of which the White House and the EPA is seeking to deny to all Americans.,0_0
"Germany has hardly beenimmune to the insanity. Its 130 billion in renewable energy investment will theoretically postpone global warming a whole 23 hours, read here . At that rate it would cost the world $4,745,000,000,000,000.00 (4.745 quadrillion) to delay global warming 100 years, provided the dubious theory were true. Thats a million dollars for every family on the planet (if I didnt lose or gain any zeros in that big number calculation).",4_1
The most troublesome issue and one that could still undermine even the limited ambition envisioned for Cancun was whether industrial countries would agree to further emissions cuts as spelled out in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.,0_0
"However, the first part of my thesis is easily proved; Ill prove the second part below.",0_0
Hear my prayer. (h/t Iowa Jim),0_0
"We now address three additional reasons why the conventional anthropogenic CO2 warming theory is flawed due to incorrect assumptions regarding the energy budget. In contrast, the mass/gravity/pressure alternative greenhouse theory is entirely compatible with Earth's energy budget, physical laws, and observations.",2_3
> >> Nairobi and maybe Morocco.,0_0
"Onward to superstorms. Roy Spencer had said there has been no increase in superstorms, which happen every year. Sandy was unusual only in that it happened over a built-up area. Nuccitelli cites Kerry Emanuels paper of 2005 showing an increase in hurricane strength over previous decades.",1_7
Understanding Conservative Religious Resistance to Climate Science guest post by David Gushee,0_0
<2428> Ashton/co2.org:,0_0
"B. There is an implicit assumption (not stated, granted, but not caveated either) that the proxy recons are historical records equivalent to the instrument period (thus allowing the point (1) examination). If the proxies are contaminated by CO2 or cherry-picked then that affects the results. Same issue with the instrumental record (if it is inaccurate)?????in particular, the instrumental record is based on ground stations, not on satellite or balloon measurements. That might be fine. But it should be noted.",5_1
CEI Expert Available for Comment: Adjunct Analyst Steven Milloy on the junk science behind the move to ban inhalers.,0_0
"In Australia, Abbott did not run on the platform of 1996-2007 Liberal Prime Minister John Howard. He called for an expensive parental leave program to encourage childbearing, for example.",0_0
"""The Keystone pipeline is crucial to the global carbon budget,"" that is, an effort to limit the use of fossil fuels to an amount that would yield a global temperature increase of no more than 2 C.",0_0
"The number of advanced solar plants required would be 710 billion watts required/112 million watts per Arizona solar plant or 6339 plants to power all of the US cars on solar power. At 7.7kilometers per plant times 6339 we get 48,812 square kilometers of power plant in Arizona.",4_4
"Federal land, resource and environmental agencies have unleashed tsunamis of regulations in recent years, and President Obama is poised to issue many more before January 20. The total cost of complying with federal rules was about $1 trillion annually in 2006. It has since doubled, raising the federal reporting and compliance burden to $6,000 per person per year, through late-2016.",0_0
Amherst Island (Ontario) group files wind energy lawsuit,0_0
"administration's policy. The speech not only warns against invading Iraq as ""dumb"" and ""rash,"" but draws a contrast with Afghanistan and the need to keep pursuing Osama Bin",0_0
"""Rather than new federal regulations, he should be encouraging more natural gas development and approving Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export licenses,"" states Kathleen Sgamma, Vice President of Government & Public Affairs for the Western Energy Alliance. ""By exporting LNG, not only would America benefit from huge job growth, but we would be providing a low-carbon solution to other nations and helping them to likewise reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Germany and Japan have increased their use of coal because they lack access to affordable natural gas, and their carbon emissions have risen. By stubbornly repressing exports, the President is standing in the way of a global solution to a global problem.""",0_0
So what's the legal solution to this dilemma if the Court is not going to disavow its opinion that Congress authorized the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases?,0_0
"In his blog article he starts by claiming that the stagnant temperature of the last 15 years: is nothing unusual: Also during the 20th century there were periods of stagnation, and even cooling. Even climate models show such behaviour also for the future. So they do not contradict the long-term global temperatures .",1_4
"He also said that there is always a temperature spike with the dispersal of El Nio that releases an enormous amount of energy into the atmosphere. It happened in 1983 (though moderated by the eruption of El Chichon) and again in 1988. The 1988 temperatures and the comment by James Hansen of the Goddard Space Flight Center to Congress that ""we can state with about 99 percent confidence that current temperatures represent a real warming trend rather than a chance fluctuation over the 30-year period"" started the global warming scare.",0_0
"It is hard to see how the EU countries can possibly meet any second period targets. This reality is starting to permeate the veil of rhetoric in some countries. In Spain, for instance, the newspaper La Gazeta de los Negocios reported on May 5, ""Given the circumstances, the Environment Minister, Cristina Narbona, had no alternative and recognized yesterday that the conditions where Spain stands in order to fulfill the mandates derived from Kyoto 'could not be worse'. However she promised that the Spanish government will continue working with the aim of reducing the cost of that bill."" This is a clear indication that at least one government has realized that Kyoto brings a severe economic cost with it, contrary to the protestations of the European Commission and Kyoto boosters around the world.",0_0
"The trauma caused by two planes crashing into the Twin Towers has made us forget that al Qaeda and its associates have a maritime strategy more sophisticated than blowing up the USS Cole. Before his arrest, the man responsible for the Cole attack himself had undertaken preparation to attack shipping in the Mediterranean with a four pronged-strategy: ""ramming, blowing up medium-size ships near other vessels or at ports, attacking large vessels such as supertankers from the air by using explosive laden small aircraft, and attacking vessels with underwater demolition teams using limpet mines or with suicide bombers. During his interrogation, Nashiri revealed that if warships became too difficult to approach, tourist ships could be targeted. The cruise ship industry, which in the U.S. alone carries nearly seven million passengers every year, is facing this new threat.""29",0_0
Who knows? Maybe even Sarah Jessica Parker will someday come around. Even if her relatives do lose their government aid.,0_0
Poll: German Concern about Global Warming Plummets,0_0
4.7 ENSO Events Run in Synch with the Annual Seasonal Cycle,0_0
The actual data indicate that the B2-type scenario is the worst case possibility if we keep business as usual.,0_0
"In fact, the actual temperature development has been slipping into the extreme lower parts of the predictions range. Then, couple that with NASAs claim of low sunspot numbers for several decades to come, and youll know what to expect in the future.",1_2
"The world has experienced a number of ice ages. Those were times when large parts of the North American and Eurasian continents were covered by a thick layer of ice, mostly one to two miles high. All that ice melted and began to disappear 20,000 years ago. By about 5,000 years ago, the ice was mostly gone and, since then, we are enjoying an interglacial period. Such interglacial periods of global warming (also known as climate change) had nothing to do with changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels. If there is any credible correlation at all, it shows the rise of CO2 levels lagging the rise in temperatures by 1,000 years or so.",2_3
"As with the regressivity issue, if you try to fix that with wealth transfers via the tax, you just exacerbate the economic damage, and undermine the entire enterprise.",0_0
ARKANSAS 40% of electricity; $70 million in annual payroll,0_0
"Morning is incredibly cold. If I take my mittens off, my hands are instantly numb. I have to watch them as I build a fire to boil water for oatmeal and hot chocolate.",0_0
"Ross Clark, Daily Express, 3 December 2010: ONE of the first tasks for the team conducting the Department for Transport?s ?urgent review? into the inability of our transport system to cope with snow and ice will be to interview the cocky public figure who assured breakfast TV viewers last month that ?I am pretty confident we will be OK? at keeping Britain moving this winter. They were uttered by Transport secretary Philip Hammond himself, who just a fortnight later is already being forced to eat humble pie If you want a laugh I recommend reading theResilience Of England?s Transport Systems In Winter, an interim report by the DfT published last July. It is shockingly complacent. Rather than look for solutions to snow-induced gridlock the authors seem intent on avoiding the issue. The Met Office assured them ?the effect of climate change is to gradually but steadily reduce the probability of severe winters in the UK?.",0_0
"Calabria adds that the amendment's vague standards for what is ""energy efficient"" will also lead to inflated housing appraisals, which were a factor in the housing bust. And there is no need to boost appraisals for energy-efficient homes, he says, because ""if indeed energy savings actually increased the value of the homes, that would be reflected in the price."" Calabria concludes, ""Not only does this proposal weaken FHA standards, and expose the taxpayer to greater risk, it takes us further down the path of an already politicized housing policy, where instead of relying on market prices, values are dictated by Soviet-style bureaucratic guesswork.""",0_0
"Oral argument in Michael Mann's libel case against Nat'l Review, Mark Steyn, and CEI, Rand Simberg postponed until June.",0_0
"He also believed that humanity's impact on earth is much worse than the ice age and even a comet's hitting on the planet. Without science and carbon dioxide, ancient people could live for 40 to 50 thousands of years, but current human being cannot make it any more. You could have guessed one culprit: it's global warming (and carbon dioxide), of course, However, the other villain is science itself. Good job, Mr Fenner.",0_0
"Lets start with tomatoes. A recent article in Pedosphere was produced by eight scientists from China and New Zealand. They grew tomato plants hydroponically in near ambient CO2 concentrations (near 350 ppm) and in elevated concentrations (near 800 ppm). Wang et al. reported in their abstract Compared with the control, CO2 enrichment significantly increased the dry matter of both shoot and root, the ratio of root to shoot, total root length, root surface area, root diameter, root volume, and root tip numbers, which are important for forming a strong root system. The elevated CO2 treatment also significantly improved root hair development and elongation, thus enhancing nutrient uptake. Obviously, elevated CO2 definitely makes tomato plants bigger and stronger, and we hope the First Lady is thrilled at these results.",3_3
They failed despite opening their meeting with (I kid you not) religious rites invoking the supernatural assistance of an ancient Mayan jaguar goddess.,0_0
"Last week, London's Daily Express featured a story titled: ""Blackout Britain: EU environmental directive puts millions at risk of power cuts""which concluded with the following: ""We are facing disaster on energy prices. The dynamic has changed, but the thinking hasn't.""",0_0
"In reality, Utility MACT will harm the public by increasing unemployment, a well-established risk factor for elevated illness and mortality rates. In addition to influences on mental disorder, suicide and alcoholism, unemployment is also a risk factor in cardiovascular disease and overall decreases in life expectancy. Further, higher electricity bills act like a regressive tax, hurting the poor and elderly the most by diverting funds from living expenses such as food, rent and medical care to pay for more expensive electricity. To be sure, those who won't feel any of this economic pain are President Obama's Hollywood elites.",4_1
"Policy makers, elected and otherwise, like to suppose the far future can be forecast with such precision that we should today engage concrete expenditures and policies to make that clear future happen sooner. Permit me to paraphrase Mark Twain's famously irreverent observation about Congressmen: Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a forecaster. But then I repeat myself.",0_0
"""The environmentalists consistently claim these are pristine areas, despite that there's been fishing there for 40 years,"" Borden said. ""Just set the boundaries deep enough so the fishing can continue.""",0_0
"Most of the warming took place in the northern extra-tropics at latitudes between 25N and 90N. This is consistent with the expectations one would have with the effects of greenhouse gases. However, lets take a look at the temperature series of the northern hemisphere extra-tropic region. Here we also see a pause since about the year 2000.",1_4
"First, there is an amendment from Sen Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), a former real estate agent, which would loosen credit standards for ""green"" homes backed by taxpayers through the Federal Housing Administration. The FHA, created during Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal in 1934 to help low- and middle-income borrowers obtain housing, now benefits many affluent borrowers as well by insuring from default mortgages up to a limit of about $625,000.",0_0
"The President's proposed Climate Change Technology Initiative (CCTI) would provide $2.7 billion in new R&D; spending and $3.6 billion in tax credits to promote products and technologies deemed to be climate friendly. ""The CCTI is transparently intended to alter business and consumer behavior in accordance with the treaty's emission reduction objectives,"" said Lewis.",0_0
?cos the temperature data may have a non-temperature signal in it!,0_0
"Waterfind has today publically released our 2007-08 Annual Water Market Report . As a part of Waterfinds dedication to providing an integrated water brokerage service, we strive to provide our clients with the most up to date and comprehensive information about the Australian water market.",0_0
"Despite the benefits of inexpensive energy, many otherwise reasonable people say that we should continue to invest in expensive green energy in order to become more self-sufficient, clean the air, and stave off global warming.",0_0
"/s/ Charles Duke JSC, Astronaut, Apollo 16, 10 years",0_0
"CEI, a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group founded in 1984, is dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. CEI has researched the science, politics, and economics of global warming policy for 10 years. For more information, please contact Emily McGee, director of media relations, at 202-331-1010, ext. 209.",0_0
"This trend has led some to conclude that the Sun has played a significant role in modern climate change. However, a discrepancy between two parallel series of sunspot number counts has been a contentious issue among scientists for some time.",2_1
"It was snowing in Big Bear and raining heavily in the Antelope Valley Thursday afternoon, May 22, as a low-pressure system passed throughSouthern California.",0_0
"Interestingly, reanalysis also do not seem to correctly reproduce the ocean warming rates and lie well outside the observation uncertainty at different depths and times. Both the hiatus and the net amount of heat absorbed by the ocean below 700 m are overestimated. Reanalyses are also inconsistent with ocean observations, in terms of the vertical and regional distribution of heating.",5_1
"including an astonishingly rapid rise up the ranks of the leadership, knows what",0_0
"The results of the authors' analysis support a link between long-term variations in cyclonic activity and trends in solar activity/GCR flux in the extratropical latitudes of the North Atlantic.?? Concerning how this relationship works, the authors hypothesize that GCR-induced changes in cloudiness alter long-term variations in solar and terrestrial radiation receipt in this region, which in turn alters tropospheric temperature gradients and produces conditions more favorable for cyclone formation and development. Although we are still far from a complete understanding of many solar/GCR-induced climatic influences, this study highlights the ever-growing need for such relationships to continue to be explored.?? As this study and others have shown, small changes in solar output can indeed induce significant changes in earth's climate.?? The empirical evidence for such phenomena continues to mount (see Solar Effects and",2_1
"In contrast, giving short shrift to the GCR-cloud theory is a lesser problem. So long as the IPCC??s predictive scheme attributes recent warming to solar activity in accordance with past patterns it isn??t a big deal whether a particular solar-temperature mechanism is modeled or not. At least the known explanatory variables are not being omitted and we are down to second order errors instead of first order errors.",2_1
"For both CT data and Jeff Ids NSIDC data presentation we see that its in fact it is mostly the years 2005, 2006 and 2007 that shows a large dip in global sea ice extent. Take away those years, and where is the decadal declining trend?",1_1
"When all was said and done, therefore, Yang and Wu were forced to conclude that (4) ""it remains a great challenge to improve model ability in simulating and predicting the North Atlantic climate variability.""",5_1
Comparison between global surface temperature anomaly datasets Take 2,0_0
"Precisely because the system of natural liberty excludes violence, theft, or fraud, the only way any individual can acquire from others what he desires is by applying his own knowledge, abilities, and resources in a manner that enables him to produce and offer to others what they desire, so they will give in trade what that first individual wants to obtain.",0_0
"When Gregg Easterbrook's voluminous book A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism was published in 1995, it received the predictable reaction from the environmental community: outrage. Despite or probably because of Easterbrook's bona fides as a mainstream-liberal writer for The New Republic, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and Newsweek, the environmental lobby swung into full distort-and-denounce mode. The Environmental Defense Fund, for example, alleged the existence of factual errors that ""substantially undermine his thesis that many environmental problems have been overstated.""",0_0
"21 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?",0_0
"Microsoft is bankrolling the inaugural. How generously? We don't know. The software giant was Obama's top corporate source of funds in the 2012 election employees and executives of the company gave $815,000 to his re-election, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.",0_0
"""The most significant atmospheric component in the radiative balance is water: as a homogeneous absorbing and emitting vapor, in its heat transport by evaporation and condensation; as clouds, snow and ice cover, which have a major effect on the albedo, and as the enormous circulating mass of",0_0
"Tornadoes have been at a record low for the last two years, and US hurricanes are close to a record low. This has greatly reduced disaster costs.",1_7
NOTE: A version of this content was originally published at Breitbart.com.,0_0
"It's official: Global warming is a Republican party issue, too, now that the Bush Administration has acknowledged its gravity. So something will be done. But what? To address global warming, we're going to do something that may surprise many in the save-the-planet camp: burn more fossil fuel less efficiently. Big oil will prosper. So will Saudi Arabia.",0_0
"The emails were unearthed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Republican officials are calling for an investigation; House Energy Committee ranking member Joe Barton sent a letter with pointed questions to Mrs. Jackson, which she's yet to answer. The EPA has issued defensive statements, claiming Mr. Carlin wasn't ignored. But there is no getting around that the Obama administration has flouted its own promises of transparency.",0_0
"A third problem I have with Ron??s article: he uses ???falsifiable predictions?? of the future as evidence supporting his case! Really? Well, we??ve already had abundant predictions of what would happen by now from modelers like James Hansen that have turned out to be wrong. There you go, skeptics have real falsified predictions they can point to?? .not predictions of what might happen 10 years from now.",5_1
You can see the moisture (precipitable water total water in inches in the atmospheric column) in this early Saturday analysis with the radar showing showers and thunderstorms.,0_0
"The most generous rewards will go to people who install solar panels. This will earn you 41.3 pence per kilowatt hour (kWh) generated, plus an extra 3p for every kWh sent back to the National Grid.",0_0
So why are we pouring all this taxpayersmoney to solve a the non-existing problem as currently defined when the world is near financial collapse and there are so many more pressing problems in our world today? Any prudent leader should see we need to change our priorities.,0_0
"The dry period in the 1960s, and again in the 1970s is evident, but the longer view shows that there is nothing unusual about recent years.",1_7
"roughts have, for the most part, become shorter, less frequent, less severe, and cover a smaller portion of the country over the last century.",1_7
"Successful science fiction requires at least a sliver of plausibility based on circumstances we think might be possible in the distant future. Soylent Green was the perfect expression of the mood of its time, which was suffused with the fear of the ""population bomb."" Indeed, Soylent Green might well be described as the cinematic vision of Paul Ehrlich, the famous author of a runaway 1968 bestseller, The Population Bomb. Ehrlich's critics have never tired of quoting back the prophecy that opens the book: ""The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now."" Later in the book Ehrlich predicted ""massive famines,"" with perhaps as many as a billion people dying of starvation.",0_0
"There is a discussion whether koda should be producing more upscale cars or sporty cars than so far. There may be different paths to success. koda's historical track record is undoubtedly more luxurious than Volkswagen's just recall what the word Volkswagen means but on the other hand, it's been successful thanks to the production of value cars with some cool ""simply clever"" details and it would be crazy to throw this recipe for success as long as it seems to work.",0_0
"For two decades, scientists have recorded the collapse of massive ice shelves in the Antarctic but the study by Laval University researchers published recently is the first evidence of a similar climate effect in the northern polar region. The Arctic is one of the few areas on the planet where there has been consistent warming over the past 30 years, about 1.5F above normal, and so any signs of ice change are immediately linked by the world's media to man's greenhouse gas emissions. But even the experts admit they don't really know why the ice shelf is changing. ""There are likely to be more surprises like this. We simply don't understand the sea ice system in the Arctic,"" said John Stone, a senior climate change expert with Environment Canada.",0_0
"These people are cynics, he says. Its clear to me that Morano doesnt mean me personally. He only wants to intimidate me. He wants to intimidate an entire field. Mann speaks softly, his face is pale.",0_0
"Think about that! The fifth largest ice field in the entire Western Hemisphere is growing ,, and no one is bothering to report it.",1_1
Northern hemisphere winter snow extent has been steadily increasing to record levels since the geniusesat the UN made their forecast.,1_1
Vinalhaven Electric Rates: Gone Up Since Wind Turbines Turned On,0_0
"Let's start this discussion with a simple fact. Since 1960, Democrats have simultaneously controlled the White House and Congress with large supermajorities four times: 1965-66, 1977-80, 1993-94, and 2009-10. In each of the three previous instances, Democrats suffered landslide reversals in Congress within four years of obtaining their supermajorities. They will do so again this year. The only time they did not also then lose the presidency was in 1996, when the triangulator Bill Clinton was reelected. Is this a coincidence?",0_0
The Independent's chart basically shows what the Thompson et al. paper describedabout a +0.3 C correction after about 1945 slowly declining to zero by the mid-1960s.,0_0
"NYTimes: Heat, Flood or Icy Cold, Extreme Weather Rages Worldwide",0_0
"3) The carbon-dioxide issue is not about the United States anymore. Sure, the U.S. is the world's second-largest energy consumer. But over the past decade, carbon-dioxide emissions in the U.S. fell by 1.7%. And according to the International Energy Agency, the U.S. is now cutting carbon emissions faster than Europe, even though the European Union has instituted an elaborate carbon-trading/pricing scheme. Why? The U.S. is producing vast quantities of cheap natural gas from shale, which is displacing higher-carbon coal.",0_0
"Figure it out, if 60 Minutes ran a story which gave exactly equal time to Michael Mann and Steven McIntyre, would the public become more, or less, convinced about the dangers on offer thanks to carbon? Precisely. If the Climate Establishment thought Michael Mann would win that debate, they would have organized it years ago. Likewise Gore and Monckton. If Al Gore rang the executive producers, offering to go head-to-head with a skeptic on camera, do you suppose they would turn him down?",0_0
"Either way, past support for cap-and-trade is a liability with a clear majority of GOP voters.",0_0
"""Contrary to the dominating hypotheses in the literature,"" in the words of Hargrave et al ., "" e CO 2 might have positive, bottom-up effects on secondary production in some stream food webs."" As a result, they conclude that their experimental findings, as well as ""the large literature from terrestrial and marine ecosystems suggests that future atmospheric CO 2 concentrations are likely to have broad reaching effects on autotrophs and consumers across terrestrial and aquatic biomes,"" which effects could well be hugely positive , as were those observed in their important study. Reviewed 27 January 2010",3_3
Fifty-two members of the global warming expedition which has been ice-bound off Antarctica since Christmas Eve have been airlifted to safety by a Chinese helicopter.,0_0
An article at the Live Science website says that we sceptics are putting far too much emphasis on the current high levels of Antarctic sea ice. The title is a bit of a straw man:,0_0
"It turns out the rights found to be violated by Dutch climate policy are rooted in: (1) an assortment of international agreements and the statutory and constitutional responsibility of the Dutch government to provide a ""healthy and safe living environment,"" (2) previous Dutch policy projected to cut emissions by 30 percent by 2020, and (3) an international scientific consensus, with which the Dutch government agrees, that 450 ppm of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is the maximum that can be allowed to assure that average global surface temperatures will not rise more that 2 degrees centigrade (from 1850).",0_0
"Today, however, the world's increasing connectedness, combined with the modern regulatory state's power to crush innovation, make ideas like this more dangerous than ever. Want to eat locally grown food, ride your bike to work, avoid unnecessary travel, eschew fossil fuels, unplug labor-saving devices, and generally consume less? Be my guest, I've always found the Amish cute. But when predilections for quaint lifestyle choices morph into political efforts to foist this way of life on the rest of humanity, we have a problem.",0_0
"When I refer to the IPCC dogma, it is the religious importance that the IPCC holds for this cadre of scientists; they will tolerate no dissent, and seek to trample and discredit anyone who challenges the IPCC. Some are mid to late career middle ranking scientists who have done ok in terms of the academic meritocracy. Others were still graduate students when they were appointed as lead authors for the IPCC. These scientists have used to IPCC to gain a seat at the big tables where they can play power politics with the collective expertise of the IPCC, to obtain personal publicity, and to advance their careers. This advancement of their careers is done with the complicity of the professional societies and the institutions that fund science. Eager for the publicity, high impact journals such as Nature, Science, and PNAS frequently publish sensational but dubious papers that support the climate alarm narrative.",5_2
"If so, can trace amounts (370ppm) of CO2 in the Earths atmosphere be enough to absorb meaningful amounts of radiation and if so, how much?",2_3
"The data on sea levels are more ambiguous: Sea levels have been rising at a more-or-less constant rate (about 3.3 mm per year) since the early 1990s despite increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. And even that observation rather begs the question, because the end of the little ice age around 1850 has yielded off-and-on warming, and thus some ice melt and thermal expansion of ocean water.",1_6
"Obama's policies leave Democrats weak candidates in 2016, except maybe Hillary Clinton",0_0
What are the odds of a three foot wave hitting an island in the middle of the Pacific? A million to one maybe? This never used to happen before *you* started generating CO2.,0_0
"Professor Jacobson; There has been a lot of attention paid to Arbys announcement that it no longer would advertise on the Limbaugh show. It was particularly interesting because Arbys did not advertise to begin with, so it purely was a political statement, and was the subject of a Limbaugh tweet on Friday. That has caused a lot of action on Twitter, with Arbys blocking conservatives who complained, only to unblock them after a firestorm erupted. I've always said that ""failing to show up to riot"" was a failed conservative policy. Nice to see people are waking up.",0_0
"Onemajorconclusion that should be reached from the unpredictedwide ranging severe cold and snow this winter, is that multi-decadal global climate modelshave demonstratedno skill in predicting such regional events which clearly have a major impact on society and the environment.",5_1
"The top graph in Figure 9 compares the evolution of the SOI values this year to those in 1982 and 1997, the development years of the strong 1982/83 and 1997/98 El Nios. The Southern Oscillation Index this year is lagging well behind the values in 1982 and 1997. Because the SOI data is so volatile, Ive smoothed them with a 3-month filter in the bottom graph.",0_0
"Regulatory Reform: Along with curtailing the ballooning federal budget and deficit, the administration should also make it a priority to scale back the $800 billion annual federal regulatory burden hampering the growth of the economy and small businesses.",0_0
"Obama inaugural donor United Therapeutics is a leading biotechnology company. Obamacare gave special lengthy exclusivity to biotech drugs, keeping generic versions off the market for 12 years. The law also directs billions in subsidies toward all prescription drugs.",0_0
"Like these ""environmental"" activists, African leaders do not care about the well-being of our citizens. They are incompetent, greedy, callous criminals, driven by ideologies and a love of power over people.",0_0
"Alarmists dont want to talk about that or about what is happening in Asia. BPs Energy Outlook 2035 report forecasts that Chinas oil, natural gas and coal use will increase by some 50% and its carbon dioxide emissions by 37% over the next 20 years. Indias energy production will soar 117% with fossil fuels accounting for 87% of all demand in 2035. Its CO2 emissions will also skyrocket. So even if the USA and EU eliminated fossil fuels, atmospheric carbon dioxide would continue to climb.",4_2
"Kimoto's prior papers & posts also discuss additional false assumptions of climate models including a mathematical error in calculation of the Planck response parameter, and limitations of the potential greenhouse warming of the top ocean layer due to penetration depth, and others, proving the climate models are overheated and far too sensitive to man-made CO2.",5_1
"NASA satellites have reported wide spread melting across Greenland which has the climate change alarmists all atwitter. But the NASA satellites are providing data never before available, so it is hard to say if the summer melting pattern is unusual. Meanwhile, some 80 year old scientific data has revealed that this is not the first time that there has been a period of glacial retreat in Greenland. This formerly lost data shows that many land-terminating glaciers underwent a more rapid retreat in the 1930s than in the 2000s. Even more interesting is that the two periods of retreat were interrupted by a period of widespread advance from 1943 to 1972. Greenlands glaciers seems to be oscillating with a period of around a century.",2_1
"The low tide of 0.7m was reached late in the afternoon, about 5:34PM.",0_0
"Whitmore, T.C. and Sayer, J.A. Tropical Deforestation and Species Extinction. London: Chapman and Hall, 1992.",0_0
The U. S. lacks pawns to be a leader in the foreign policy chess gameinsufficient oil and natural gas production. Years of neglect in pushing fossil fuel production left the country unable to assist allies in times of emergency.,0_0
"Noting that such warmer and drier conditions ""can already be found today in areas experiencing significant drought,"" the five researchers analyzed the width of the yearly growth increments laid down in the otoliths (earstones) of populations of a native fish species (the golden perch) living in two artificial impoundments (Lakes Mokoan and Eppalock) near their southerly distribution limits in central Victoria, Australia, over a 15-year period that both pre-dated and encompassed a significant supra-seasonal drought.",0_0
"The achievement of the human race and the last 5,000 years of so-called civilization is the way we have learned to adapt to Nature by creating habitats from villages to cities in which to survive and because we have devised a vast global agricultural and ranching system to feed seven billion of us.",0_0
"Jane advises she gets relief from going to a chiropractor. I told her to keep going and I would get to approve those visits, which said she would.",0_0
"A few years ago in the late 1980s, professor Aaron Wildavsky published the results of a class project for graduate public policy students at the State University of New York (SUNY). Each was required to pick an environmental topic and pose the question, ?Yes, but is it true?? The results were so interesting and uniform in their findings that Wildavsky published them in a book with the same title. Students could find little or no evidence to support the claims being made about the subject.",0_0
"The authors report that ""the optimal temperature of photosynthesis (Topt, the value where the photosynthetic rate was maximum) was significantly higher at elevated CO 2 : it ranged from 22 to 34.5C with an average value of 28.9C at ambient CO 2 , and from 29.5 to 37C with an average value of 33.5C at elevated CO 2 ."" As a result, since the increase in the air's CO 2 concentration employed in this study was only 200 ppm, the 4.6C mean increase in Topt observed in this experiment would roughly translate to a 6.9C mean increase in Topt for a CO 2 increase of 300 ppm, which is the concentration increase that is more commonly used in climate modeling studies of the effects of elevated CO 2 on planetary temperature. What it means",3_3
Observations do not show rising temperatures throughout the tropical,0_0
"There is no shortage of unpopular Obama policies. Obamacare, for starters, is unpopular and may be headed for a train wreck when it goes into effect next month. Blocking the Keystone pipeline irritates most everyone except hardline environmentalists. Then there's James Carville's phrase the economy, stupid. Big government isn't working as promised.",0_0
That amount of oil can satisfy U.S. oil demand for 250 years at current usage rates or it can fuel every passenger car in the United States for 430 years. It is also more oil than the entire world has used in all human history.,4_5
"Senator Wong said Australians faced a range of risks, including higher rates of infectious diseases, an increase in bushfire-related injuries, and more heat-related death and illness . By 2020, the number of heat-related deaths in our capital cities is projected to double to 2300 a year, we are likely to see more food-safety related illness and dengue fever is likely to spread southwards, she said.",0_0
"This statement is untrue even if Osborn and Briffa are granted the one stated qualifier and another unstated qualifier. The ???high temporal?? resolution qualifier is not defined; this qualifier excludes several series from Crowley and Lowery and Moberg et al 2005 and prefers tree rings. The second (unstated) qualifier is that the series go back to 1000. This excludes the majority of the series. (However, Briffa et al 2001 has a very large population of series and a serious ???divergence problem??. The Briffa et al 2001 network is one of two networks used in Rutherford et al 2005. The above statement is obviously false in respect to this population.) It is also false even with the long series used in these studies. There are many more than 14 series that cumulatively occur in these studies: there are Moroccan series used in MBH99, a number of oddball series in Crowley and Lowery 2000. I??m in the process of making a definitive count but it is far more than 14.",5_1
"Mitch did us all a service by calling attention to this most significant Farewell Address by that underappreciated ""dull, non-intellectual General."" His first warning has done much to restore an understanding of our Founders' skepticism toward centralized power and crusades to remake the world. Here Ike's words recall those of an earlier American president, John Quincy Adams, who, in 1821, while still serving as Secretary of State, said in a speech to the House of Representatives: ""America does goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.""",0_0
"If this is stock prices (or anything), before I gamble, Im going to want an idea of risk. So, even though Roger asked for a naive, I added uncertainty intervals. Of course, Im also going to give naive uncertainty intervals; Ill compute them using the same assumptions I applied to the least squares fit.",0_0
"Pachauri's February 24 speech invited traditional scientific give and take, yet Hansen refused additional discussion with the scientists. When Endlich showed data from the Vostok and the Greenland ice cores, Hansen blew him off, saying: ""you are wrong!"" End of discussion.",0_0
"It would mean that the probabilistic distribution for \(\Phi(y)\) would have to depend on whether or not we made the the measurement of \(\Phi(x)\). However, it doesn't depend because \[",0_0
"Hansen an accident-prone academic who has been something of an international scientific laughing-stock ever since he wrote an article in a UK scandal-sheet last year that sea level might rise 246 feet was not fired by NASA for saying, in effect, that the growing body of scientists who do not agree with his ill-founded, apocalyptic rodomontade should be killed.",0_0
"It is stunning that they parallel CO2 with a blanket, when anybody with a basic grasp of physics knows that the effect of a blanket, and indeed an actual greenhouse, is to block CONVECTION, which is a major process of cooling.",5_1
"My sister, Elizabeth, publishes a newspaper in the vicinity of Yellowstone and theyve got a very comprehensive piece on he caldera. In fact, my sisters nickname is Caldera Girl. So she really knows her Calderas.",0_0
"More to the point, I can?t help but suspect that these calls for sacrifice are, like the Gaia hypothesis, quasi-religious in nature, and at times plainly religious.",0_0
"The 1990 IPCC Report contains an explanation as to why they knew the effect of greenhouse gases on climate: ""measurements from ice cores going back 160,000 years shows the earths temperature closely parallels the amount of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere (see Figure 2). Although we do not know the details of cause and eect, calculations indicate that changes in these greenhouse gases were part, but not all, of the large (5-7 C) global temperature swings between ice ages and interglacial periods.""",2_3
"on Saturday, February 12th, 2011 at 8:31 am and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
That is since 1940 Canberra Airport data started in 1939 I can not find daily data from the Canberra city area before that can anybody help ?,0_0
"Q - Do you agree that according to the global temperature record used by the IPCC, the rates of global warming from 1860-1880, 1910-1940 and 1975-1998 were identical?",2_1
Why are polar bears populations higher today than in 1960 and Inuit children now in more danger from the bears than are the bears from climate change?,3_2
"Had I read everything I had on Podesta, I couldn't have started with: ""This is an exciting time to be alive!"" I couldn't have been my usual, positive, cheerleading self.",0_0
"The participants at Bonn issued their call as a clutch of post-Copenhagen financial hassles have left UN climate officials frustrated. Numerous states are accused of backtracking on their pledge to raise US$30 billion for poorer nations by 2012, particularly European states who have been forced to make swingeing domestic budget cuts. The economist panel also noted that loopholes in the Kyoto Protocol climate treaty risk wiping out emissions-reductions pledges by as much as 10 percent utilizing ""flexible clauses"" in the Protocol.",0_0
"The basis for the Engangerment Finding is contained in the EPA's Technical Support Document for Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act (TSD). The TSD does not describe any new, independent research carried out by the EPA (because they did not undertake any), but instead largely summarizes the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).",0_0
"Not only did the 3.1 inches of snow in Omaha break the previous May record of 2.0 inches from 1945, but also marked the city??s first measurable snow in 46 years.",1_3
"Furthermore, as of January 1, 2012, many foreign airlines are enraged at being forced to pay a new carbon-offsetting tax when entering EU airspace. The Chinese and Indian governments are both refusing to let their national airlines pay this tax to the EU, and other nations are set to join this boycott.",0_0
"In other words, ""quite different model physics"" of convection are used in high-resolution models to simulate clouds vs. the over-simplified physics of convection utilized by low-resolution global general circulation models (GCMs). The IPCC uses GCMs to create its global warming projections, and thus it is not reassuring that the primary heat transfer mechanism in the troposphere - convection - is oversimplified in these models .",5_1
"Easterling and Parmesans paper had also reported, Examination of drought over the 20th century in the United States shows considerable variability, the droughts of the 1930s and 1950s dominating any long-term trend. Recent investigation of longer term U.S. Great Plains drought variability over the past 2000 years with the use of paleo-climatic data suggests that no droughts as intense as those of the 1930s have occurred since the 1700s. However, before the 16th century some droughts appear to have occurred that were of greater spatial and temporal intensity than any of the 20th-century U.S. droughts. 8",1_7
"But the UN's official verdict that the Medieval Warm Period had not existed did not erase the countless schoolbooks, encyclopedias, and other scholarly sources that claimed it had. Rewriting those would take decades, time that the band members didn't have if they were to save the globe from warming.",0_0
Almost enough to get me to shut off the electricity here completely. Almost.,0_0
"With activists and politicians continuing to push draconian energy control schemes even with no net increase in temperature over the past decade, it is ever more important for the public to understand the myths being presented as facts.",1_4
University Begins Reporting All P2P Users to the Police:,0_0
"A period of high global temperatures near the beginning of the last millennium closely matches the warming witnessed, about one degree Fahrenheit, during the 20th century, according to a new study in the March 22 issue of Science.",0_0
Northern Hemisphere CO2 levels undoubtedly continued to climb monotonically on an annual scale over the period 1982 2006 and we can reasonably presume was accompanied by no significant attendant global warming since about 2000.,1_4
"The eastern slopes of the Cascades is a very beautiful and bountiful place (fragrant pine forests, apples, wind power and more), but it also has its vulnerabilities, including intense thunderstorms, powerful downslope winds, and lightning-induced wildfires.",0_0
Of note is that the adjustments in the early 1890s and around 1930 is about three times the size of the change in trend. This might be partly due to zero net adjustments in 1903 and partly due to the small downward adjustments in post 2000.,0_0
"Ethanol and Fresh Water Consumption. What may surprise many people is how much fresh water it takes to produce ethanol. In December 2006, scientists at Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico issued a report, Energy Demands on Water Resources, explaining that virtually all forms of energy production consume a lot of water. Petroleum refining, for example, consumes 1-2.5 gallons of water per gallon of refined product. Colorado scientists Kreider and Curtiss estimate that refining a gallon of corn ethanol today requires thirty-five gallons of water. But that is only the beginning. Kreider and Curtiss estimate that three times as much water is needed to grow the corn that yields a gallon of ethanol. That brings the tally to 140 gallons of water per gallon of corn ethanol produced. If their calculation is correct, the 5.4 million gallons of corn ethanol used in America in 2006 required the use of 760 million gallons of fresh water.",0_0
"ulse-like variation in local SST conditions and high SST (>1.0C) anomalies in the Midriff do not equate to global warming. In fact, the data provided by Velarde et al. contradict the press release.",0_0
"Hypocrisy Alert: Dont do as I do, do as I say, and thats especially true of the IPCC which wants us all to dismantle our economies in order to save the planet. Except those edicts dont apply to the IPCC head himself, old Pachy, as he clocks up half a million air miles in 19 months:",0_0
Western Forests Recovering from Mountain Pine Beetle Infestation,0_0
"We must ensure that regulatory agencies and their advisory councils become more honest and transparent; represent a broader spectrum of expertise, viewpoints, and interests than they do now; fully assess evidence for and against alleged ""dangerous man-made climate change""; and carefully evaluate the impacts of regulatory actions on jobs, living standards, health, and welfare.",0_0
"Sadly though for Joe, even Greenland has turned exceptionally cold this month. No place left for alarmists to hide.",1_3
"The United Mine Workers of America has estimated that the rule will result in 187,000 direct and indirect job losses in the utility, rail, and coal industries in 2020 and cumulative wage and benefit losses from these sectors of $208 billion between 2015 and 2035. The EPA rules hitting industry in rapid succession create uncertaintyand, as we've seen with Obamacareuncertainty thwarts investment and hiring. The same industries that will be taking the regulatory hit from the CPP, are expecting additional impacts from the follow-on rules that are yet to be promulgated. No wonder the economy is sluggish and the jobs picture is bleak.",0_0
"Due to a decline in solar activity and other factors, the Earth is cooling and has been since 1998. And a peer-reviewed study published in April by Nature predicts the world will continue cooling at least through 2015.",1_2
15d. Current state of scientific knowledge allow for a reasonable assessment of the effects of sea ice,0_0
"Response: That is a reasonable interpretation, and EPA continues to believe that its BACT guidance is reasonable for the specific purposes for which the guidance is intended.",0_0
"Figure 4 shows a clear relationship between GDP and electrical power consumption. If less electricity is generated, the cost of electricity will go up (due to the economic law of supply and demand), less will be used, and GDP will go down. The converse is, of course, more desirable: more power and reducing the cost, will result in a higher GDP. High priced wind and solar is not the answer. Let the market decide how to generate more power efficiently.",4_2
But then about a week after that study was released Professor Muller was forced to acknowledge that this BEST (Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project) data might also indicate that temperatures have not rise for about 13 years .,1_4
"Second, there is fuel-supply risk. The nation barely has enough current sources of fuel to continue to supply the 104 plants already in operation. It's unlikely that banks will offer 20- or 30-year debt to a new nuke project without a corresponding secure supply of fuel.",0_0
"Our own reasons for concluding that climate sensitivity is low are set out in some detail in Monckton of Brenchley et al. (2015) Why models run hot (Science Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 60(1), January: go to scibull.com , click on Most Read Articles and ours is the all-time no. 1). Further testing of the simple climate-sensitivity model therein presented by comparing its hindcasts based on IPCC estimates of net anthropogenic radiative forcings from 1750-1950, 1750-1980 and 1750-2012 with observed temperature change over these three periods, carried out for a follow-up paper currently under review by the journal, show the models predictions as very close to observation on all three timescales. Our simple model, using a choice of parameters that reflects the underlying physics better than those of the more complex models, predicts that the equilibrium response to a doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentration will be 1.0 K per CO2 doubling,",3_1
California's ability to slow growth in electricity demand is not due to interventions such as its Demand Side Management programs. California is not an appropriate model for other states or for the nation.,0_0
"If I am frail and debilitated, and prone to problemsand I get hospitalized and the hospital is going to be dinged for a re-hospitalizationis it possible I will receive inappropriate care or be refused readmission?",0_0
"Though the sunspots are affecting the radiation received from the sun, they are not the only thing affecting our climate. Much closer to home, there are thousands of volcanos and volcanic vents spewing volcanic ash and gases into the atmosphere.",2_1
"NSW Councils (e.g. Gosford, quoting the best international scientists including CSIRO and ANU) in 2011 was advising residents with water front properties that by 2100 (89 years-time) sea levels would rise by 90cm. This is 10.1mm per year. Error to date is 595%%",0_0
"Patriotism: Working-class voters are highly patriotic. They love their country openly in ways that often seem odd and embarrassing to the educated class. They are likelier to express open support of and deference to the military (while simultaneously recognizing that ""big military"" is wasteful); their children volunteer for the military in much greater numbers than those of any other class. This is partly economiclearning a trade in the military is a better opportunity for them than for people who think they can graduate from collegebut it is also genuinely patriotic.",0_0
"Figure 2. Top panel regional chronology as shown in CA post, May 6, 2012; bottom panel- regional chronology shown in Briffa et al 2013 GU1 (yamal raw).",0_0
"The bottom line remains Ed Hawkins figure that compares climate model simulations for regions where the surface observations exist. This is the appropriate way to compare climate models to surface observations, and the outstanding issue is that the climate models and observations disagree.",5_1
NRG Energy's David Crane: Energy Moralism Miscontrued,0_0
"The SPPI has also kept on hand a 37-page 2009 publication edited by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R.-Utah, and titled ""UN Climate Scientists Speak Out on Global Warming."" It's full of blunt quotes from respected scientists suggesting that global warming is a power grab racket.",0_0
"At low nitrogen, elevated CO 2 stimulated nodule numbers and nodule dry mass in nodulated soybeans by approximately 80 and 70%, respectively, while having no effect on these parameters at high nitrogen supply. In addition, it increased total plant dry mass by approximately 40 and 80% in nodulated soybeans grown at low and high nitrogen supply, respectively, while non-nodulated plants exhibited no CO 2 -induced growth response at low nitrogen but an approximate 60% growth enhancement at high nitrogen supply. What it means",3_3
"For the long run, we need more power. The state should move quickly to shorten the licensing procedures for new power plants. Environmental regulations should be reviewed to ensure that they are not unduly slowing the construction of new facilities. Although we would all prefer to avoid a power plant in our backyard, such facilities must be located somewhere, inevitably in someone's backyard. Last November, the city of San Jose initially turned down a proposed power plant in Silicon Valley. Under mounting pressure, the city has reversed its original decision and the plant will be constructed. Local politicians seem to have finally realized that unless more power is found, Silicon Valley may find itself a silicon desert.",0_0
"But as the new year comes in, so has the cold. At times like this I dream of global warming! Please, please, please drive away the cold.",0_0
I find it hard to equate the vast new supplies coming on line from shale gas deposits with the prices hikes we are seeing.,0_0
"Its been a frequent debating point from climate sceptics. Recent cold winters in Britain and Europe, they often say, undermine the case that the world is growing warmer. Scientists have tended to reply that that is to mix up the short-term effects of weather in a particular region with long term climate change, and that the cold winters therefore are of little significance.",1_3
William Connolley (Stoat) has a good post on Grijalvi inquisition,0_0
"This statement is entirely *false*, and it is so on several levels (including use of poor terminology such as sorted to mean screened). Not only is it false, it shows a phenomenal lack of attention to the most basic of facts, as presented by Mann et al in their 2008 paper in PNAS, both in the main paper and in the supplemental material. To wit:",0_0
Limousine liberals? Number of government-owned limos has soared under Obama:,0_0
"Dow's AEA appears so desperate to make its case that it's taken to exaggerating its support among high profile energy experts, who are almost universally supportive of expanding LNG exports. It lists Daniel Yergin, vice chairman of HIS, which now owns the firm he co-founded, Cambridge Energy Research Associates. In fact, Yergin recently wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal in support of LNG exports. ""How can America, having asked Japan to reduce Iranian oil imports, turn around and prohibit the export of surplus natural gas to this key ally?"" he wrote.",0_0
"EPA is also giving billions of taxpayer dollars to activist groups, to advance its agenda and dominate our media and hearings with false or misleading information about the costs and benefits of its programs.",0_0
"Northrops presentation promised funding from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation in the amount of $7 million per year. Named in the presentation were 12 participating environmental pressure groups, including theNatural Resources Defense Council, Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund and the Sierra Club.",0_0
"The problem alarmists have is that it is very, very difficult to reconcile past warming to high-sensitivity forecasts. It takes a lot of mathematical contortions, from time-delays to cooling aerosols to ignoring ocean cycles and natural recovery from the little ice age to make the numbers reconcile. Halving the actual historic warming by attributing the other half to measurement biases makes it even, uh, more impossible to reconcile high sensitivity models to actual history.",3_1
"Its a rant so feel free to say what you want, Im wrong a lot.",0_0
"For convenience I reproduces entire inlgget below. Dessvrre makes it unable to comment on Roy Spencer's blog, so we might have a little discussion hr in stllet.",0_0
Do you feel like you have been hiding your secret climate fear?,0_0
"""There has been none in the past,"" he said, ""and there is no reason to fear any in the future. Efforts to prove the theory that carbon dioxide is a significant 'greenhouse' gas and pollutant causing significant warming or weather effects have failed.""",2_3
"Zou collected the plant material at low tide in February along the coast of Chinas Nanao Island (if you can point to Nanao Island on a map, you are in a very small minority of Americans). The plants were reestablished in their new home in aquariums with near ambient (360 ppm) and elevated (700 ppm) CO2 levels. The plants were measured regularly to establish the biomass and relative growth rate. A seen in Figure 1, the relative growth rate of the plants was 50% higher when grown in the water with elevated CO2 concentrations. The author notes that prolonged exposure to the elevated levels of CO2 in seawater increased the growth rate of H. fusiforme . The findings were viewed as similar to what others had found when they conducted various experiments on elevated CO2 and seaweed.",3_3
Today I found a very interesting inlgg p Dr. Roy Spencer's blog. It's about sea temperature on the occasion of the recent El Nino-related heat.,0_0
"However, none of these new designs can benefit the real world without a path to regulatory approval, and today's regulations are tailored for traditional reactors, making it almost impossible to commercialize new ones.",0_0
"According to a document deposited at the Geneva-based U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in advance of a planned meeting next month, China now the worlds largest source of greenhouse gases insists that the U.S. and other developed countries endure most of the economic pain of carbon emission cutbacks, and need to make significantly more sacrifices in the months ahead.",0_0
Republicans attacked science and egged on conspiracy theories,0_0
The (Aus) weather bureau says the El Nio weather pattern could make a comeback this year.,0_0
"???There is no question that natural causes, such as changes in energy from the sun, natural cycles and volcanoes, continue to affect temperature today. Human activity has also increased the amounts of tiny, light-scattering particles within the atmosphere. But despite years of intensive observations of the Earth system, no one has been able to propose a credible alternative mechanism that can explain the present-day warming without heat-trapping gases produced by human activities.??",2_3
"What recent research says about fraud, errors, and other dismaying academic problems",0_0
"One wonders if Mann didn??t apply his ??? special Mannomatic math ???, as he did to his ???hockey stick?? to the Box and Colgan (2010) reconstructed data to get the large divergence between accumulation and loss we see in Mann and Rahmstorf??s Figure 6.",5_2
"Longer records show strong evidence for a drought that appears to have been more severe in some areas of central North America than anything we have experienced in the 20th century, including the 1930s drought. Tree-ring records from around North America document episodes of severe drought during the last half of the 16th century. Drought is reconstructed as far east as Jamestown, Virginia, where tree rings reflect several extended periods of drought that coincided with the disappearance of the Roanoke Colonists, and difficult times for the Jamestown colony. These droughts were extremely severe and lasted for three to six years, a long time for such severe drought conditions to persist in this region of North America.",1_7
He was bragging today that New York has lowered its carbon footprint. Keeping the electricity off in Rockaway is a crime. Mygrandmotherlived there for 70 years until two weeks before Sandy hit.,0_0
Satellite Data Show Clouds Have Cooling Impact,0_0
"Walter Starcks response is entitled, The Great Barrier Reef and the prophets of doom: Even the more extreme model projections only depict tropical oceanic warming still well within the limits that thriving reefs tolerate. Dr Walter Starck has a PhD in marine science including post graduate training and professional experience in fisheries biology. He is the editor and publisher of Golden Dolphin, a quarterly publication on CD focusing on diving, underwater photography and the ocean world.",3_2
"The US Senate's ""Gang on Eight"" are pictured during a news briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 18, 2013.",0_0
Climate activists seem to embrace faith and ideologyand are no longer interested in facts.,0_0
"The 2013 forest fire count has been the smallest on record, with half of normal burn acreage .",0_0
"In a typical ""cap and trade"" regime, allowable emissions and the initial distribution of credits among emitters are politically determined, making it unlikely either will be based on sound science. If emission credits are not given true protection as property rights, then businesses can be expected to hesitate to risk investing in them, and choose instead to bank what credits they have and make trades only internally, among units belonging to the company.36",0_0
"Roy Spencer, from the University of Alabama, discovered the error just a few days ago which according to meteorologist Anthony Watts, accounts for 24% of the 0.74 deg C global warming claimed for 1905-2005.",5_1
Detroit 3 automakers hope to reduce health care costs in next UAW contract:,0_0
"A.A. Boretti, an Australian scientist who has studied satellite radar altimeter data covering the past 20 years, discovered that the average rate of sea level rise is just under 3.2 mm a year. That rate would cause a sea levels rise of just under 32 cm (12 inches)by the year 2100, not the 100 cm that is currently being advocated.",1_6
"Antarctica: Something like 80-85% of the worlds ice is in Antarctica. And no one really thinks it is melting or going to melt. In fact, if you look at the marks on the IPCC chart above for the contribution of Antarctic ice to ocean levels, it has a net negative impact, which means the IPCC actually expects the Antarctic ice sheet to grow, not melt.",1_1
"OK, what is a constructor? You study the paper and you find out that it is a meaningless word that may represent anything and that may be inserted into any sentence for pompous fools to look even ""smarter"". Instead of saying that X does Y, you must say that X is a constructor that is prohibited to do things different than Y. It isn't really quite the same thing and the whole expansion of the sentence is bringing you nothing of value but you don't care. I can't resist to compare these awkward sentences to yet another quote by Feynman who was reading some ""smart"" texts by participants of an interdisciplinary conference.",0_0
"But the drought that began last fall has yet to eclipse the infamous dry spell of the 1950s, a bleak period when the skies stubbornly withheld moisture. It was the states worst drought ever.",1_7
"I had to provide medical history information, which probably is not required under Obamacare because of community rating (though I am not sure)",0_0
"Yet isn't it remarkable that Al Gore, who has recently become extremely wealthy, has never felt obliged to publicly disclose his large stakes in green market industries through his Generation Investment Management firm, or in Chicago Climate Exchange cap-and-trade legislation interests? Would you trust a financial advisor who committed the same ethical breach?",5_2
Mr. D??Aleo and Mr. Watts provide some amazing graphs showing that the jumps in measured global temperature occurred just when the number of weather stations was cut. But there is another bias that this change to more urban stations also exacerbates. Recorded temperatures in more urban areas rise over time simply because more densely populated areas produce more heat. Combining the greater share of weather stations in more urban areas over time with this urban heat effect also tends to increase the rate that recorded temperatures tend to rise over time.,5_1
"But addressed explicitly or not, it was clear that the other panelists simply did not consider this even to be a relevant question; their underlying assumption is that the bureaucracy is not an interest group, and that government- and government-funded researchers try to do research as objectively as possible. That this conceit is the same as that harbored by journalists their assumptions and biases do not affect their reporting because they are professionals is an amusing footnote that does not diminish the impressive backgrounds of the other participants.",0_0
"The Lake Baikal study shows that warming has occurred in the most recent century, but it is certainly nothing out of the ordinary and possibly to some degree explained by non-greenhouse forcing. The Osborn and Briffa proclamation that the 20th century was somehow out of the ordinary is certainly not confirmed by the incredible reconstruction from Lake Baikal.",2_1
"Week after week Boston was hit by blizzards, with literally no rain or warm temps to help melt the snow away. As the plows moved the snow to these farms, they piled up, became compacted, and turned what was once a light fluffy snow into a glacial mess of grand proportions.",0_0
"One promising research path is geoengineering. In a recent proposal presented at AEI, Lee Lane and J. Eric Bickel highlighted two methods or reflecting solar radiation back into space. The researchers estimate that for an annual cost of approximately $20 billion to $32 billion, it might be possible to counter a doubling of CO2 emissions and avoid trillions of dollars in future economic harm.",0_0
"Hard on the heels of the report of the one-day British Parliamentary inquiry into the Climategate scandal comes the report of the grandly-named International Science Assessment Panel set up by the University of East Anglia (UEA). Surprise, surprise, it finds nothing wrong except a few lapses in concentration caused by all the hard work climate scientists are doing to save the planet. Unfortunately for the alarmist cheerleaders who will treat these reports as complete exoneration, they suffer from exactly the same problems as the scientific reports Climategate centered around. They are sloppy and incomplete while pretending to be the comprehensive answer. As such, they damage the authority of science just as much as Climategate itself.",5_2
I can see that this new Shiny Toy is going to be having me running around for a while Doing a search for an Australian Degree Day map turned up this chart of vintage years degree days:,0_0
"held for millennia namely, that you increase food production by",0_0
Most of the key studies in the IPCC report have not archived their data and refuse to release their data or software code to any skeptic for replication,5_2
Bangladesh has certainly played its hand well on the international stage. Politicians have eloquently challenged Western nations to open up their borders to refugees. They write hardhitting op-eds in leading broadsheets and lay responsibility squarely at the feet of polluting nations. And they are at the front of the queue when it comes to adaptation funding.,0_0
SM: (laughs) No comment. I think I'll skip that one.,0_0
"My theory is that a natural change in cloud cover has caused most of the recent warming. Temperature proxy data from around the world suggests that just about every century in the last 2,000 years has experienced warming or cooling. Why should todays warmth be manmade, when the Medieval Warm Period was not? Just because we finally have one potential explanation CO2?",2_1
"""Wi-Fi Direct officially became a concrete technology today with several new laptop components certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance. That threshold was reached even before most people even understand what Wi-Fi Direct is.""",0_0
"out an overloaded agenda at the beginning of his presidency, causing gridlock on",0_0
"Anthony reports today on a NOAA Talking Points document which purports to rebut Anthonys Is The U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable ?, without deigning to cite",0_0
"Greens think these harms are a price worth paying to stop the warming. They want (other) people to bear such sacrifices today so that the people of 2100, who will be up to seven times as rich, do not have to face the prospect of living in a world that is perhaps 0.8 1.2 degrees warmer. And this is the moral high ground?",0_0
Mike's Nature Trick (66) The committee's conclusions are eyewatering:,0_0
"Giant hurricanes are rare, but they are not new. And they are not increasing. To the contrary. Just go to the website of the National Hurricane Center and check out a table that lists hurricanes by category and decade. The peak for major hurricanes (categories 3,4,5) came in the decades of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, when such storms averaged 9 per year. In the 1960s, there were 6 such storms; in the 1970s, 4; in the 1980s, 5; in the 1990s, 5; and for 2001-04, there were 3. Category 4 and 5 storms were also more prevalent in the past than they are now. As for Category 5 storms, there have been only three since the 1850s: in the decades of the 1930s, 1960s and 1990s.",1_7
13. Will the earth's climate change in other ways?,0_0
Gov't apologizes after raising nuclear crisis level to highest:,0_0
"I backed up my view with a quote from the December 14 New York Times regarding John Podesta's return to the White House: ""His very presence could influence Mr. Obama's thinking on the proposed pipeline from Canada's oil sandseven though Mr. Podesta has said that he will recuse himself from the final decision because the liberal think tank he founded 10 years ago, the Center for American Progress, has been unsparingly critical of the entire enterprise.""",0_0
The purpose of this floor show was to vilify and intimidate a hit list for the Democratic drafting committee's unanimously adopted platform calling for the Department of Justice to investigate those who disagree with their jihad against climate alarm-driven energy regulatory policies.,0_0
"National Academy of Sciences admits climate debate not over: ""Genuine and important uncertainties remain'",0_0
"Mr. Berry, 27, said he supported the citys efforts to educate people about the dangers of diabetes, but he said he disagreed with the use of a manipulated image of an able-bodied person, instead of an image of a real victim of the disease.",0_0
This Nashville residents search criteria would be something I can imagine Gore googling. And I can also imagine Gores reaction:,0_0
"In describing their findings the four researchers report - quite bluntly and very simply - that ""none of the early life-history stages we studied were consistently affected by reduced pH."" In light of these favorable findings, Chua et al . conclude - again in very blunt and forceful language - that ""there will be no direct ecological effects of ocean acidification on the early life-history stages of reef corals, at least in the near future."" And so it would appear that wave upon wave of new reef coral ""youngsters"" might well have a significant period of time during which they - and their descendants' descendants - could conceivably better learn to cope with slowly declining-pH seawater.",3_2
"I know why: Theyre lazy. Instead of digging into the details, most journalists are content to repeat that mantra about consensus among climate scientists.",0_0
"Rio+20 is the next, huge, misguided, harmful Green push.",0_0
We were here for spring break. The kids wanted to see the dinosaurs at the Museum of Natural History. I took them to see the dinosaurs in Congress.,0_0
1901 headline from Lachlander newspaper Mount Hope central New South Wales with modern ring to it An End To The Mining Boom snow reported in July too,0_0
"Apparently, in the Vaticans view, there is nothing to discuss only anti-fossil fuel laws and treaties to implement. Computer model predictions and other assertions of looming disaster are all the Pope and workshop attendees seem to need to support this agenda even though they are consistently and completely contradicted by real-world observations . Instead of protecting Earths poorest people from energy deprivation, disease, poverty and death imposed in the name of preventing global warming, Pope Francis seems more devoted to newly green Liberation Theology concepts of fairness and justice.",0_0
"According to the Role of Alternative Energy Sources: Natural Gas Power Technology Assessment, because of the existence of shale basins across the US, natural gas will continue to expand as a gas resource, while horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) will guarantee decades of domestic supplies.",4_5
"""At the top of the next hour, as I said, the big picture,"" said Cooper. ""These fires are really a piece of it. Fire, drought, global warming, climate change, deforestation, it is all connected. Tonight, 9:00 p.m. Eastern 'Planet in Peril' starts in just 30 minutes.""",0_0
Oh boy. BIG problem with Jeff IDs point that you quoted above.,0_0
New York Nanny Fraud: Anti-soda ads of amputee photoshopped,0_0
What is unusual is that were in a state where the Arctic does NOT completely melt during an interglacial. We can only get an interglacial when it is warm enough to melt the arctic ice. This time we barely got it done. (Look up your Milankovitch for confirmation).,1_1
"Thank you, Lord Monckton, our champion of Climate-gate! Merry Christmas, sir!",0_0
"Here too, Congress is headed in the wrong direction, adding new gas regulations instead of streamlining the existing ones. For example, the pending energy bill contains provisions requiring the addition of ethanol to gasoline. While a boon for Midwestern corn farmers and ethanol producers like Archer Daniels Midland, an ethanol mandate can only increase the price at the pumps. And Sens. John McCain, Arizona Republican, and Joseph Lieberman, Connecticut Democrat, recently introduced a bill designed to fight global warming that would further boost the cost of petroleum and other fossil fuels.",0_0
"And the final piece of the puzzle is how much to value the premature loss of life. The value of statistical life (VSL) has been variously determined by different researchers and methodologies. It is taken in both the Epstein et al. and the NRC report as being $7.5 million (in 2008 dollars)a value commonly used by the Environmental Protection Agency. However, there exists strong support in the literature for lower values (for example Mrozek and Taylor (2002), propose a VSL of $2-3 million (in 1998 dollars), more information on establishing a VSL can be found in Brannon (2004)). Obviously, using a lower VSL results in lower monetary costs from air pollution. As a sensitivity study, the NRC did consider the impacts of using the Mrozek and Taylor VSL value and found that it reduced the costs of coal-fired air pollution by nearly 2/3rds.",0_0
"The Republican majority, on a mostly party-line vote of 244-179, went on record as essentially saying that it no longer wishes to have the IPCC prepare its comprehensive international climate science assessments.",0_0
Quantifying the Lack of Consistency between Climate Model Projections and Observations of the Evolution of the Earths Average Surface Temperature since the Mid-20 th Century,5_1
"It may help here to think of prices on the stock market. The Dow-Jones index has more or less been level for the last several weeks, fluctuating between 15,000 and 16,000, showing essentially a zero trend; but it is at its highest level since the D-J index was started in 1896.",0_0
"As the continued failure of progressive candidates in Democratic presidential primaries shows, a majority of Democrats are not of this lineage. These moderate progressives place a very different interpretation on what went wrong in the '60s and '70s, and have adopted a very different view of how to engage in and shape American politics.",0_0
provides valuable insight into this issue. I posted on this paper in,0_0
"It really is just politics. To this White House, nuclear power is merely a horse to be traded. If it truly is the case that the administration is casually ambivalent about nuclear power and its potential for generating gobs of green energy, then it would seem Obama and company are even less worried about global warming than the so-called skeptics they chide.",0_0
"I was fortunate to meet with Yasir Abed Rabbo, the diminutive, chain-smoking Palestinian veteran of more negotiating sessions with Israelis than he can count. Referring to the productive 2007 talks between President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that were torpedoed by corruption charges, forcing Olmert's resignation, Abed Rabbo claimed that ""the offer from Olmert was the '67 borders with a 6.5 percent land swap. We offered about 2 percent, but Olmert didn't say anything.""",0_0
"A guest post today at a Dutch climate blogby Dr. John Christy notes that climate "" models, on average, depict the last 34 years as warming about 1.5 times what actually occurred"" and that the model predictions diverge from observations by even more in the atmospheric layers most affected by greenhouse gases . According to Dr. Christy, "" Since this increased warming in the upper layers is a signature of greenhouse gas forcing in models, and it is not observed, this raises questions about the ability of models to represent the true vertical heat flux processes of the atmosphere and thus to represent the climate impact of the extra greenhouses gases we are putting into the atmosphere"" and "" models, on average, have been overly sensitive"" to the effect of greenhouse gases.",5_1
"And it is often claimed that ocean acidification is happening as a result of increased atmospheric CO2 concentration. However, I have repeatedly pointed out that the opposite is also possible because the deep ocean waters now returning to ocean surface could be altering the pH of the ocean surface layer with resulting release of CO2 from the ocean surface layer. Indeed, no actual release is needed because massive CO2 exchange occurs between the air and ocean surface each year and the changed pH would inhibit re-sequestration of the CO2 naturally released from ocean surface.",3_2
"However, climate scientists are saying that sea level rise is not necessarily linear. I believe them. The Konsensus Krazies didnt help the level of discussion by saying that the Greenland Ice Cap could melt and that we should actually be concerned by it.",5_2
"This discrepancy between our analyses of the data explains why t he linear trend I calculate from 1950 to 2006 shows a tiny decrease , essentially no decline, contrary to his sharp decline graphed in red in the figure above. The graph at the top of this post shows data from FRED from 1960 (start of that dataset) on US per capita GDP (plotted on a log scale). Similarly, it shows no evidence of any stair-step decline in growth rates, certainly not a decrease by half illustrated in Gordon's graph.",0_0
"It is entirely appropriate, at this time in U.S. history, to re-examine the rules and regulations known to be ineffective or damaging to the manufacturing sector of the country's economy. EPA's recommendations and the Bush administration's Clear Skies Initiative are good places to start, but they do not mark the end of the need for reform.",0_0
"This is the opposite pattern to what would be expected if man-made greenhouse gases were the cause, as even alarmists claim the increase in greenhouse gases has only had a significant effect since 1950. Instead, this new paper demonstrates Eastern Arctic temperatures peaked in the early 20th century, followed by a declining trend to the end of the record in 2000.",1_4
"Where doesMr. Obamastand on creation care theology and Gores central organizing principle?I dont know but will loudly applaud anyjournalistwho, interviewing the President,has the curiosity and moxie to pursue this line of inquiry.",0_0
"Moreover, every responsible economist acknowledges that drastic action to reduce fossil fuel use would increase energy costs, which would in turn reduce household income around the world. Wealthier is healthier, and richer is cleaner. Limiting economic activity therefore can have a dramatic impact on quality of life, not least by reducing life expectancy. Researchers have found a direct correlation between income and mortality, with a disproportionate impact on poorer communities. Thus, policies that reduce societal wealth can be expected to induce premature mortalities, and increase disease and injury rates.",4_1
"Lehr: There is nothing we can do about it. Bleaching is a natural outcome, and Lehr described concern about the Great Barrier Reef as fear mongering. Bleaching has occurred in a small portion of the reef, but an underwater survey of the 1,000 mile long reef shows that it is thriving; there is no more bleaching than was present 20 years ago.",3_2
"I just think they dont understand the climate, he said of climatologists. Their computer models are full of fudge factors.",5_1
"This causes the cloud to dissipate. And because clouds reflect sunlight, cloud dissipation causes more sunlight to transfer to the ground and seas, ultimately resulting in warmer ground and air temperatures.",0_0
"""Night after night, year after year, this nightside reporter observed lights left on in federal government buildings. So I decided to see just how much taxpayers were spending to keep empty buildings illuminated.""",0_0
"Fig. 5 shows trajectories of person years vs. time in the United States, for ancestral females that are constrained to have exactly 0, 1, 2 or 3 children . . . .",0_0
"August 16, 2015 at 12:04 pm Edit",0_0
"As Dick Lindzen alluded to back in 1990 , while everyone seems to understand that the greenhouse effect warms the Earths surface, few people are aware of the fact that weather processes greatly limit that warming. And one very real possibility is that the 1 deg. C direct warming effect of doubling our atmospheric CO2 concentration by late in this century will be mitigated by the cooling effects of weather to a value closer to 0.5 deg. C or so (about 1 deg. F.) This is much less than is being predicted by the UNs Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or by NASAs James Hansen, who believe that weather changes will amplify, rather than reduce, that warming.",3_1
"Skeptics advancing alternative explanations (hypotheses) for climate variability represent the way the researcher community used to operate, before politics, policy outcomes, and billions of dollars got involved.",0_0
"As the international team of researchers from the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece, Sweden and Switzerland describes it, this history depicts ???a long-term cooling trend of -0.30C per 1,000 years over the Common Era in northern Europe?? (see figure below). Most important of all, however, they note that their temperature reconstruction ???has centennial-scale variations superimposed on this trend,?? which indicate that ???conditions during Medieval and Roman times were probably warmer than in the late 20th century,?? when the previously-rising post-Little Ice Age mean global air temperature hit a ceiling of sorts above which it has yet to penetrate.",2_1
"In the debate, Jette said that most people who cross illegally into Arizona are ""just trying to feed their families."" Brewer disputed that, saying, ""They're coming here, and they're bringing drugs.",0_0
There is a new paper which assesses global model skill at accurately representing albedo (thanks to Willie Soon for alerting me to it) . The article in the May 2006 issue of the journal Tellus (subscription required) is entitled,0_0
"The Americans have not seen a noticeable shift in French opposition to agricultural subsidy removal, and possible deals on trade seem far less likely than even yesterday evening. So while the greens and Euro-politicians bleat about action on climate, the policies Africans most need seem to be ignoredagain.",0_0
"Models are not ready to predict the climate. Misusing computers to spew out multiple ?what-if? scenarios is unscientific. This approach simply means ?if all our unproven assumptions are correct, this could happen.?",5_1
"Ive told this story before but it requires repeating because of awareness of climate science corruption. Even skeptics realize claims of incompetence are inadequate. Official Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climate science was completely orchestrated for a premeditated result. T.R.Wigleys 1983 paper The pre-industrial carbon dioxide level was pivotal in the evolution of climate science corruption. It was a flawed paper that cherry-picked data to claim pre-industrial CO2 level was 270 ppm. G.S. Callendar did the same thing (diagram), as Zbigniew Jaworowski illustrated in a paper to a 2004 US Senate Committee.",5_2
"When future generations try to understand how the world got carried away around the end of the 20th century by the panic over global warming, few things will amaze them more than the part played in stoking up the scare by the fiddling of official temperature data. There was already much evidence of this seven years ago, when I was writing my history of the scare, The Real Global Warming Disaster. But now another damning example has been uncovered by Steven Goddards US blog Real Science, showing how shamelessly manipulated has been one of the worlds most influential climate records, the graph of US surface temperature records published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).",5_2
"CEI is 20, and I am supposed to summarize two decades? To paraphrase Mickey Mantle, had I realized CEI would live this long, I would have kept better records! CEI's present activities are amply documented elsewhere in this report, and CEI's future is also clear: To boldy go, la ""Star Trek,"" where no free market organization has gone before. But reviewing CEI's past will require some dusting off of memories. If that triggers the requirement for an OSHA approved respiratory filterwell, that's one hazard of nostalgia.",0_0
"The resulting fires are not the ""forest-rejuvenating"" blazes of environmentalist lore. They are cauldron-hot conflagrations that exterminate wildlife habitats, roast bald eagle and spotted owl fledglings alive in their nests, boil away trout and trout streams, leave surviving animals to starve, and incinerate every living organism in already thin soils that then get washed away during future downpours and snowmelts. Areas incinerated by such fires don't recover their arboreal biodiversity for decades.",0_0
"3. Watts, M., July 29, 2012. New Study Shows Half of the Global Warming in the USA is artificial. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/29/press-release-2/",0_0
"""What the White House doesn't want you to know about global warming"" was the plug CNBC used to introduce its story about the news that the New York Times had broken that day: The White House had heavily edited the global climate change section of the Environmental Protection Agency's draft report on the state of the environment. Notably absent after the editing was any reference to the National Research Council (NRC) report that was conducted at the president's request in 2001. EPA staffjoined by outgoing Administrator Christine Todd Whitmanbalked at the White House's work. Whitman eliminated that section of the report altogether rather than publish the ""pablum"" that her staff and the White House had been able to agree upon, she told the Los Angeles Times.",0_0
"This common fingerprint is often misrepresented and misunderstood. In addition to the contradiction presented by the observed lack of warming of the troposphere compared to the surface warming over the last 20 years (see question 4), there are important unresolved questions. For example, computer models predict a cooling of the stratosphere from increased CO2, but this expected cooling is difficult to see among other, more dominant effects from volcanic aerosols to changes in stratospheric ozone and solar ultraviolet radiation.",0_0
"on Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 at 7:43 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"I am willing to accept the analysis of folks like Ilya Somin who say that the President's non-enforcement decision on immigration laws is legal. But I think his concept of ""precedent"" when he says there are precedents for this sort of thing is way too narrow. This is an important, dangerous new precedent.",0_0
This really is a serious effort to explain the realities of life.,0_0
"Thus, the wind industry wants to use more public land and of course, more public money so that it can continue killing the public's wildlife with impunity. But since the wind industry can claim that it is doing something no matter how insignificant with regard to carbon dioxide emissions, the Obama administration is willing to go along, and even help the industry hide the extent of its bird kills.",4_1
"Arctic ice has recovered from its September minimum so strongly, that extent is now back to the average for 2001-10, according to JAXA. Indeed, based on Version 1, that was withdrawn in September, extent is 11,000 sq km higher than the average in the last decade. ----Paul Homewood, Not A Lot Of People Know That, 2 December 2013",1_1
"The biggest story in American politics today is this: Andrew Jackson is mad as hell, and he's not going to take it anymore.",0_0
"Deadly Typhoons: Killer Cyclones strike coastal areas along the Bay of Bengal with periodic frequency much like the floods along the Yangtze River in China. They historically have also devastated the China coast, Korea, Japan, the Philippines and Southeast Asia.",0_0
"In stanbul, the snow could reach a depth of up to 30 cm (12 inches) throughout the week,Mayor Kadir Topba announced on Tuesday.",1_3
"According to the FSHP, a more ""accurate"" view of the healthcare experience of Cubans can be seen at the Calixto Garcia Hospital. ""FSHP believes that if Michael Moore really wanted the 'same care as local Cubans', this is where he should have gone,"" the cable states.",0_0
"""Sen. Snowe should be commended for trying to eliminate the worst aspects of the committee's initial proposal, but her efforts to produce a compromise are at risk of being for naught, since liberal Democrats remain committed to the public option and have even taken to demonizing Baucus for his willingness to compromise. Furthermore, the Congressional Budget Office's estimate that the Finance Committee bill would trim the federal budget deficit by $81 billion over ten years is laughable, since most Democrats still want to expand many other benefits and have made no serious attempts to control the growth of health care costs.""",0_0
(2) The ballooning of agriculture subsidies to farmers to push them into cultivating corn (despite everybody well knowing the environmental impact from corn fuel will be worse),0_0
New YorkMy teenage son and I put in a lot of hours together in Boy Scouts. Then girls came along and he quit just short of his Eagle. It's a sore point.,0_0
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"Indeed. But remove that line and the rest of the op-ed does a tremendous disservice to the anti-regulatory cause, fostering as it does needless climate alarmism, even adopting talking points straight from an Al Gore seminar. ""For the past 20 years, I have seen the ever-so-gradual effects of rising sea levels at our farm on the South Carolina coast."" Really? Sea levels rise 8 inches per century during the current inter-glacial period (10,000+ years), an historical rate that hasn't increased even according to the UN IPCC, and a pace which actually slowed down during the second half of the 20th Century. He must have quite an eye.",1_6
"The think-tank, which champions ""sound climate science,"" is known for its skeptical view of the catastrophic climate change narrative, raising fears that the attorneys general will target not just fraud but scientific disagreement on climate issues.",0_0
"Since May 1997, CEI has chaired the Cooler Heads Coalition, the climate change working group of the National Consumers Coalition, an alliance of some 28 pro-market public policy groups, headed by Consumer Alert. On behalf of the Cooler Heads Coalition, CEI publishes May Cooler Heads Prevail, a biweekly newsletter on the science, economics, and politics of the climate treaty debate. Also on behalf of the Coalition, CEI organizes a monthly science briefing for congressional staff and media.",0_0
New York Times Tries to Stoke the Fires of Global Warming,0_0
"NCDC shows that recent warming is identical to an earlier warming, when CO2 was much lower (310 ppm) and increasing slowly (3 ppm / decade.)",2_1
"Uncertainty about the problem (man-made climate change) is a given; but uncertainty about the chosen solution is inexcusable. This is to say, we should be confident that our solutions are going to be effective, and the more expensive the solution the more confident we should be. In short, big responses require high levels of confidence that they will work. There seems to be a lack of credible evidence to demonstrate carbon pricing passes this test.",0_0
simulating todays rainfall distributions) the frequency doesnt change half,0_0
Chinese Drought 1941-1942-Over 3 million perish from starvation,0_0
It has been estimated that the U.S. national commitments to the UN to reduce emissions by 28% will prevent threehundredths of a degree centigrade in warming by 2100.,4_2
George Russell is executive editor of Fox News,0_0
"I also do not understand how it can be said that this technology has never given results cost-effective, since it has a much higher return than, for example those of a photovoltaic plant of the same capacity.",0_0
"By the 1990s the agency had become highly politicized. Early hires began leaving and were replaced by more radical staff, a circumstance which rapidly rose to epic proportions when the new Obama Administration later swept through the EPA bureaucracy overnight.",0_0
"Im a fragile woman and I thought my blog, Verdant Hopes, might be a force for good in the world. Instead it has made me a victim once again.",0_0
"Current datasets indicate no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century No robust trends in annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes counts have been identified over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin",1_7
"Munday et al . state that their data suggest that the larval clown fish is ""capable of regulating endolymphic fluid chemistry even in waters with pH values significantly lower than open ocean values,"" and they thus conclude that ""the larval clown fish is robust to levels of ocean chemistry change that may occur over the next 50-100 years,"" which conclusion is about the same as that reached by Munday et al . (2011a), who they say ""detected no effects of ~850 ppm CO 2 on size, shape or symmetry of otoliths on juvenile spiny damselfish, a species without a larval phase.""",3_2
"take a look at the whopper of a correction the Post has posted, essentially recanting the entire thing.",0_0
"Fact 2. Between 2001 and 2010 global average temperature decreased by 0.05 degrees, over the same time that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels increased by 5 per cent. Ergo, carbon dioxide emissions are not driving dangerous warming.",2_3
A climate criminal alters their own data to makethe climate appear to be warming.,5_1
"According to one of the papers, the current generation of climate models (CMIP5) are worse at simulating past global climate than the previous generation of models (CMIP3); i.e., the models are making giant leaps, but in the wrong direction.",5_1
Rapid temperature switches of several degrees within a few years to a decade have long been known from evidence in ice cores and other ancient climate records.,2_1
"Besides the White House's extreme scare-mongering, the report's credibility is also D.O.A. due to its blatant falsehood regarding ""CO2-caused"" warming of the globe and the U.S.",5_2
"In the last analysis, history itself may be the most intransigent participant in the negotiations. For the better part of twenty years, Fatah and its PLO brethren dedicated their efforts to the eradication of the Jewish state, modifying their basic covenant only when physically expelled from contiguous territories or in response to game-changing regional conflicts. Meanwhile, Israel adopted a mindless settlement policy in the West Bank and elsewhere (much of it illegal under Israeli law) that created a new Israeli constituency, the settlers, now a fully empowered part of Israel's political landscape and as extreme in their religious claim to the land as any jihadists.",0_0
"ut in 2023, the infamous year of perpetual summer, lived up to its name, taking 500,000 lives worldwide and costing nearly $500 billion in losses due to fires, crop failures, and the deaths of livestock and companion animals. The loss of pet cats and dogs garnered particular attention among wealthy Westerners, but what was anomalous in 2023 soon became the new normal (p. 8-9).",0_0
"But there are bright spots. There are politicians on the central level who starts taking to no man living under the gallows s maybe it starts to be time to change the language, or tminstone to slow down the train towards financial ruin.",0_0
"""It is becoming increasingly clear that the state Legislature isn't interested in updating its eminent domain laws to better protect property owners against unwarranted seizure by the government.""",0_0
"If nothing else, finding a common cause amongst that lot is a major achievement!",0_0
"The answer? ""An enhanced political will is clearly needed to avoid return to status quo, to push forward regulatory mechanisms, and improve financial governance.""",0_0
"Let's check the numbers, provided the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency , a really excellent organization that works to keep our air breathable. I will be showing you concentrations of small particles (PM2.5, less than or equal to 2.5 microns in size, particles that can make their way deep into your lungs and cause all kinds of problems).",0_0
"It is astounding that the Japanese regulators think that your bedtime is government business. Then again, this is the same country that has a legally allowable maximum waistline.",0_0
"The United States is having better luck at controlling its emissions than most other countries, without the multi-billion-dollar mandates of Kyoto.",0_0
"NOAA recently announced that July 2012 was the hottest month on record for the CONUS. As the above map shows, though, only Virginia actually broke the state record for July, logging up 79.0F, beating the previous record set in July 1934 of 78.6F. Or, at least, thats what NOAA tell us, but what do the thermometers say?",0_0
Vaclav Klaus Joins Skeptics' Conference,0_0
"Dominic Lawson, The Sunday Times, 10 January 2010: A period of humility and even silence would be particularly welcome from the Met Office, our leading institutional advocate of the perils of man-made global warming, which had promised a ?barbecue summer? in 2009 and one of the ?warmest winters on record?. In fact, the Met still asserts we are in the midst of an unusually warm winter ? as one of its staffers sniffily protested in an internet posting to a newspaper last week: ?This will be the warmest winter in living memory, the data has already been recorded. For your information, we take the highest 15 readings between November and March and then produce an average. As November was a very seasonally warm month, then all the data will come from those readings.?",0_0
"G20 Stimulus, A Plan for Carbon Dioxide and Mark-to-Market Reforms",0_0
"on Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 at 7:52 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"The multi-model mean are not expected to present the year-to-year variations in sea surface temperature associated with the El Nio-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Some of the models simulate ENSO; others dont. The models that do attempt to simulate ENSO do a poor job of it. (This is documented in numerous peer-reviewed papers. Refer to the post Guilyardi et al (2009) Understanding El Nio in Ocean-Atmosphere General Circulation Models: progress and challenges ) Each model produces ENSO events on its own schedule; that is, the modeled ENSO events do not reproduce the observed frequency, duration, and magnitude of El Nio and La Nia events. Since the multi-model mean presents the average of all of those modeled out-of-synch ENSO signals, they are smoothed out. For this reason, we are only concerned with the disparity in the modeled and observed trends.",5_1
"RSS satellite data show only 0.2C global warming since 1990, considerably short of the 1990 IPCC threshold of an additional 0.5C warming to detect an anthropogenic ""enhanced greenhouse effect""",1_4
"Yes, but what about the ""consensus""? The IPCC states that it is likely that most of the warming over the past 50 years is due to man's emissions. How did it come about? Large models which could not simulate human behaviour supposedly described natural climate variations. According to the author, ""the fact that these models could not replicate the warming episode from the mid-seventies through the mid-nineties (was used) to argue that forcing was necessary and that the forcing must have been due to man.""",0_0
"Following on from this, the authors examine climate model development and testing, and both sections are interesting. For example, the section on tuning models includes this:",0_0
"Now consider Obama's ""green jobs"" plan, which includes regulations, subsidies, and renewable-power mandates. The ""broken windows"" in this case would be lost jobs and lost capital in the coal, oil, gas, nuclear, and automobile industries. Currently, these industries directly employ more than 1 million people.",4_1
Lets confirm a few things that were blatantly obvious in the trend maps in Figure 1.,0_0
"on Friday, October 29th, 2010 at 10:29 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Now, looking at Figure 2, it is clear that CO2 has little influence on global temperature over this longer timescale. Note also that from about -130,000 to -100,000 CO2??s contribution remains at around its highest level while temperature falls more than 8 degrees. Similarly from about -400,000 to -350,000. In all of the major temperature increases, CO2 contributes no more than about 1/6 of the temperature increase.",2_3
This is another indication of why leading climate economists such as Yale's William Nordhaus find that the drastic policies proposed by Sir Nicholas Stern would carry a net cost of one-and-a-half times as much as global warming.,4_1
"A pending maunder minimum? Well everyone is predicting a solar cycle decrease, with most other studies predicting more of a decrease than Wang, Lean, Sheeley 2005.",0_0
The global temperature report for July 2004 from the University of Alabama in Huntsville Earth System Science Center found that the month was the coolest month in four and a half years and the coolest July in a dozen years.,1_3
The Winnepeg Free Press here and Yahoo report here that Western Canada needs to brace for a brutal winter. Hat tip reader Matti Vooro.,0_0
"Instead of adopting the attitude of Candide's Dr. Pangloss that this is the best of all possible worlds and that any change is detrimental, we should reexamine ways in which our fears of the future impede our developing the resiliency we need to meet the challenges that the future may bring. If the world does become, say, warmer and wetter, agriculture would need to adapt. Seen in that light, the environmentalist's war against biotechnology justified by the anti-scientific precautionary principle is not only misguided, but deadly. As the late political scientist Aaron Wildavsky noted, the greatest risk is the attempt to make the world risk-free.",0_0
"So our biggest power station, the leviathan Drax plant near Selby in North Yorkshire, is switching from dirty, non-renewable coal. Biomass is far more expensive, but the consumer helps the process by paying subsidies via levies on energy bills.",4_4
"After a tremendous backlash from the vast majority of American farmers who want access to biotech crops as well as both Democratic and Republican farm-state politicians the USDA finally relented and approved Roundup Ready alfalfa without the planting restrictions at the end of January 2011. But this is hardly a case of ""no harm, no foul."" As Illinois farmer John Reifsteck wrote, ""The problem is that Vilsack let politics hijack the regulatory process. He very nearly capitulated to a small group of outspoken activists who think that the retrograde methods of organic farming should take precedence over just about every other form of agriculture, including highly productive methods that are essential if we're serious about keeping people fed and food prices in check.""",0_0
Gas Drilling Slowdowns But Gas Prices Are Rising: At What Price Do Drilling Rigs Head Back To PA?,0_0
"To the extent that Briffa et al 2013 is supposed to deliver on this expectation, it is a complete failure. Supplementary Material 9 is the only discussion of the regional chronology. It begins with a discussion of what appears to be the 2006 regional chronology, though this is not explicitly stated. On the contrary, they introduce the (2006) chronology as having been constructed to illustrate a statistical tradeoff between random sampling error and systematic error:",0_0
"Murphy, who is senior economist with the Institute for Energy Research, testifed before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works concerning the White House's recent estimate of the ""social costs"" of carbon emissions. Murphy notes, ""the public and policymakers have not been fully informed on what the economics profession actually has to say about climate change. Before justifying economically damaging regulations by reference to 'the' social cost of carbon, policymakers must realize the dubious nature of this concept."" Estimation of a ""social cost of carbon,"" or SCC, relies on computer models that can produce a wide range of results depending on the assumptions fed into them.",0_0
"Indeed, the study says that the ""modern maximum"" a peak in solar activity that lasted much of the last century corresponds very well with an increase in global temperatures.",2_1
"For years, certain natural gas producers, led by Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon, have pursued a myopic strategy of demonizing coal in an effort to seize a larger share of the electricity generation market.",0_0
"Jackson does, however, recall one interesting moment during the first half that has something to do with the latest controversy. He recalls, during a television timeout, there was an especially long delay that prompted him to approach an official.",0_0
"According to New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin, that is. In todays Science section, Revkin writes that there has been a slight increase in sea-ice area around Antarctica in recent decades. But in a Sept. 21 article, Scientists Report Severe Retreat of Arctic Ice , he reported that sea ice around Antarctica has seen unusual winter expansions recently, and this week is near a record high.",1_1
"According to the Paris-based International Energy Agency, in 2012 the world emitted a little over 31 gigatons of carbon dioxide. China was the No. 1 emitter, accounting for more than one-fourth of the carbon produced. The U.S. was second, emitting about one-sixth.",0_0
"In the words of the four German scientists, they observed ""reduced growth rates as well as weakening of barnacle shells only under very high pCO 2 (>1930 atm)."" However, they add that ""even under these highly acidified conditions, and corroborating other recent investigations on barnacles (e.g., McDonald et al ., 2009; Findlay et al ., 2010a,b), these impacts were subtle and sub-lethal."" And ""furthermore,"" as they continue, ""ocean warming as expected to occur in the future (IPCC, 2007) has the potential to mitigate the negative effects of ocean acidification (Brennand et al ., 2010; Waldbusser, 2011; present study).""",3_2
Don't expect to hear much on the way people in the Western world lifted themselves out of poverty: free-market capitalism.,0_0
"The National Interagency Fire Center data show an even more striking decline in wildfires when comparing the full 1970-1986 era versus the full 1986-2013 era. True, the number of acres burned each year, according to the National Interagency Fire Center, was approximately 67 percent higher during 1987-2013 than during 1970-1986 (though substantially less than the 600 percent figure claimed by Running), but even this small increase in acres burned merely reflects changes in federal wildfire suppression policy. Barely half as many wildfires occurred each year from 1987-2013 than from 1970-1986.",1_7
"As the adjacent chart depicts, global warming continues to be a non-issue over the last 15 years (180 months through July 2012).",1_4
"In January and again in April, the EPA bankrolled ""Post Kyoto"" conferences for State and local environmental agency heads and air quality regulators. ""Through such networking exercises, the Administration is recruiting pro-Kyoto lobbyists in bureaucratic power centers immune to Senate oversight,"" said Lewis, who attended both meetings. Nor is that all. ""If enough States adopt EPA-approved ""climate change action plans,' Kyoto will become the de facto law of the land, regardless of how (or whether) the Senate votes on ratification.""",0_0
"The FCC issues a new order allowing greater competition between cable, broadband and other video services.",0_0
Note that I will link to some more in depth tutorials at the end of the post.,0_0
"5. Any climate policy can be justified only on the grounds of rational expectations about future climate response to human activity. Models can provide those rational expectations only if they are validated by real-world observation. But in this case, the models not only are not validated but are invalidatedfalsified. The models are wrong. Therefore they provide no rational basis for predictions about future global temperature, and no rational basis for any policy whatever.",5_1
"Cabinet had discussed the idea of ratifying the Kyoto Protocol many times, ever since it was negotiated in 1997. Robert Hill had done a sterling job at the Conference in negotiating a target for Australia that frankly looked impossible at the outset. At the time I was surprised that, after investing so much effort in getting such a good outcome, we did not ratify it. The reason was that the protocol, by leaving out huge emitters in the developing world, was going to have little impact on global climate change. The protocol was flawed by the fact that it covered only the developed world.",4_2
"Two EPA lawyers criticized the cap-and-trade energy bill passed by the House as a scam, noting in The Washington Post that it will be manipulated to profit politically connected corporations and reward certain kinds of pollution, while not cutting greenhouse gas emissions. A similar scheme enacted in Europe in the name of fighting global warming enriched polluters, while not reducing emissions, which actually rose faster in most of Europe than in the U.S.MPAA: Net Neutrality Will Kill Film Industry",0_0
"We have written about the biological benefits of elevated temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels hundreds of times, and we will never run out of new material! Evidence the results of two recent article showing how CO2 improves the yield of wheat and the competitiveness of rice.",3_3
"By contrast, the American left always detested the space program as Cold War hubris and saw the Right Stuff as a danger zone filled with hazardously high levels of testosterone. The only value they saw was as a display of big government in action when, in fact, the program was really a coming together of American industrial knowhow, engineering innovation, scientific precision and sheer guts that a government could fund but never recreate.",0_0
"Email matt@wmbriggs.com or call (beginning Monday, 17 January) 917-392-0691.",0_0
"But Al Gore passionately wants Congress to enact punitive cap-and-trade legislation, because he detests the hydrocarbon fuels that provide 85% of the energy that powers America and because he stands to make hundreds of millions of dollars via carbon trading deals and subsidized renewable energy technologies.",0_0
"A review article appearing in Climate Research (April 9, 1998) claims that this number is too high. Dr. Sherwood Idso, of the U.S. Water Conservation Laboratory, discusses some of the research he has conducted which downgrades considerably the amount of warming that may occur from an increase of anthropogenic CO2 emissions.",0_0
"The ANPR outlinesseveral administrative remedies to shield small entities from PSD requirements, all of doubtfullegality.For example, the ANPR proposes to redefine major source as a source with a potential to emit10,000, 25,000, or even 100,000TPY even though the statute says 250 TPY. Under Chevron v. NRDC , EPA has considerable discretionary authority in interpreting the CAAwhere the statute is silent or ambiguous with respect to the specific issue. But there is nothing ambiguous about 250 TPY.",0_0
There is no statistical difference between the rate of warming over the 27 years from 1917-1944 and the 25 years from 1975/1976 to 2000:,2_1
"Many ""climate scientists"" built their entire careers on this funding; and so it is not surprising that they became so completely reliant on this conditional lifeline, that they became single-mindedly focused on achieving the ends for which they were commissionedand viciously attacking any intruders who may threaten that lifeline.",5_2
"That's because every Tesla Model S or X, which range in price from $66,000 to $150,000, qualifies for a $7,500 federal tax credit. And many states offer additional incentives for buying electric vehicles.",0_0
"By May 1, snowpack levels in many basins were in uncharted territory, higher than any recorded during the SNOTELera, since the late 1970s. The Tower site near Steamboat Springs, which on average receives more snow than any other SNOTELsite in the Colorado River basin, reached a record 202 of snow on the ground at the end of April, containing a record-tying 71 of water equivalent (Figure 1). Incredibly, as of May 23, the SWEat Tower has increased to 79. In Utah, all three river basins in the Wasatch region (Bear, Weber, and Provo) had record snowpacksfor May 1, all at over 200% of average for the date. On May 23, the Snowbird, Utah SNOTELwas recording 75 of SWE, which is about 180% of the average SWE for that site, which usually occurs in late April.",1_3
"Lift the ban on crude oil exports. The Department of Commerce should change the definition of allowable exports, and the President should determine that exports are in the national interest. Ultimately, Congress should end the ban by reforming the relevant provisions of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975, and the Export Administration Act of 1979.",0_0
"Now wake up from this nightmare. Last week, the Virginia-based Science and Public Policy Institute released a report showing, in chart form, the above results of Big Green's dream scenario. The SPPI study sports a cover graphic of a flaming dollar sign and a long title beginning ""Analysis of US and State-by-State Carbon Dioxide Emissions,"" but readers are already just calling it ""The Futility Report.""",0_0
The only relevant estimate of cap-and-trade legislation is that it would cause your energy prices to necessarily skyrocket .,4_1
"In a speech in late 2012, BP's general manager for global energy markets, Mark Finley, praised the rapid growth of renewable energyclaiming it had increased by 18% over last year, ""the tenth year in a row for double-digit growth."" However, he acknowledged ""renewables make up such a small slice of the world's energy portfolio nowonly about 2%that even at such a blistering growth rate they are unlikely to significantly displace fossil fuels in the next two decades.""",0_0
"When I noticed from the hydrographic data that the Pacific Ocean heat content has been decreasing since 2003 or so, I was very surprised and puzzled, Lee told Eos . And when I found a large heat increase in the Indian Ocean, I was almost convinced that there was something wrong with the hydrographic data.",5_1
"In the Pew Research Center's annual policy priorities survey, just 28% say dealing with global warming is a top priority for the President and Congress this year. In fact, the President's own research shows that his favorability rating ""plummeted"" with focus groups when he vowed to attack climate changeyet, promising to use executive action, he's pushed forward with plans he knows couldn't get through Congress.",0_0
"/s/ Paul C. Kramer JSC, Ass.t for Planning Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Div., Egr. Dir., 34 years",0_0
"Using more realistic assumptions CRA believes that permit costs of $170 are plausible ""even if there is a restricted form of international emissions trading."" This could lead to GDP losses 10 times greater than Administration estimates, increased household energy bills of $850 per year, and a rise in gasoline prices of $.50 per gallon.",4_1
(the following is a version of a letter recently sent by Walter Starck to PNAS; republished with the authors consent),0_0
"dominance. When a subordinate chimpanzee grooms a dominant one, it often",0_0
"Obamas climate policy is practically worthless, says Dr. James Hansen",0_0
"Ive used a handheld IR thermometer to directly measure its effect (the temperature of the surface of a thermopile in the device increases as you scan from pointing straight up in a clear sky to pointing at an angle voila! Downwelling sky radiation changing surface temperature!). But, no, thats not enough.",0_0
"Update: Eli Rabett observed that another description of the adjustments, additional to the link that I provided above, is here and states that:",0_0
"Trying to push China and India into going much beyond their current no-regrets policies will almost certainly prove futile, and it might well be counter-productive. On the one hand, it is possible that Chinese and Indian societies are destined to evolve in ways that will awaken internal demands for GHG controls. If they are, U.S. incentives could easily delay that progress. Sanctions could provoke resentment; bribes could induce a sense of entitlement and incentives for strategic behavior. On the other hand, if China and India are not destined to develop an indigenous demand for GHG controls, or if they will do so only very slowly, the U.S. can do even less to change the course of events. Climate is clearly an instance to which the president's call for a more humble U.S. foreign policy should be taken to heart.",0_0
President Obama's recently proposed policies will do little to combat climate change but they will do much for his political and economic objectives.,0_0
"More worryingly for Australias sovereignty, governance and parliamentary democracy, your false claims raise questions as to your sincerity and allegiance. Your position on climate was established and stated in my previous correspondence as unfounded and contradicting science. Your repeated failure to present empirical scientific evidence and especially your repeated failure to specify any errors in my work when combined with your continued pushing of unscientific policy reveals more worrying concerns.",5_2
"Hey all! I ask for urskt I been a little sparsdd with inlgg p lately. My job requires right now immensely time and in parallel with it, I have begun to write in a new book.",0_0
"If these actions were committed by a private corporation, EPA and Justice Department SWAT teams would come after its executives, with no intent, negligence or knowledge required. But Ms. McCarthy and her staff have not been held to any such Park Doctrine standards at least not yet.",0_0
"Making dire predictions is what environmental groups do for a living, and its a competitive market, so they exaggerate. Virtually every environmental threat of the past few decades has been greatly exaggerated at some point. Pesticides were not causing a cancer epidemic, as Rachel Carson claimed in her 1962 book Silent Spring; acid rain was not devastating German forests, as the Green Party in that country said in the 1980s; the ozone hole was not making rabbits and salmon blind, as Al Gore warned in the 1990s. Yet taking precautionary action against pesticides, acid rain and ozone thinning proved manageable, so maybe not much harm was done.",0_0
Tobacco Settlement Seen as No Windfall for Colleges The Harvest From Tobacco Lawsuits: Payments Due to the States Over 25 Years:,0_0
The Federal Trade Commission takes on Intel over allegedly anticompetitive practices.,0_0
Hansen kind of got the ball rolling in 1988 with his publication of a climate model that predicted dire global warming over the next 20 years if mankind did not stop burning fossil fuels Hansen et al. 1988.,0_0
"Tonight's amusement en route to the tips features some archival footage of what was almost certainly the most hotly-contested Presidential campaign in US history. The year was 1956, and Popeye, who was running under the banner of the Spinach Party, was neck and neck with Bluto, the head of the Blutocratic Party. Well into the election day vote count, while the respective candidates were still campaigning furiously, a scrolling news ticker on the side of a building brought a shocking and highly dramatic piece of news: Votes tied for Popeye and Bluto - no ballot yet from Miss Olive Oyl - only resident of Green Country - her vote will decide election. For amateur historians interested in campaign strategy and the politics of personality, it doesn't get any better than the riveting short film Popeye For President . The comments are open for your Reader Tips.",0_0
"The issue of what to do with vacant Senate seats exploded on the national scene in January, when there were five vacancies in the Senatethe seats of Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Joseph Biden (D-Del.), along with two Senators, Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Ken Salazar (D-Colo.), who resigned to take Cabinet posts in the incoming Obama administration, and the deadlocked seat in Minnesota eventually filled by Al Franken (D). With 95 Senators, the bar for cloture to block a filibuster fell from 60 to 57but because all five were Democrats, the ability to overcome the filibuster dropped dramatically.",0_0
"We shouldn't, of course, forget the other side of the coin. There are always cranks and conspiracy theorists. No matter how well founded a scientific consensus, there's someone somewhereeasily accessible onlinethat thinks it's all hokum. Sometimes these folks turn out to be right. But often, they're just cranks whose counsel is best disregarded.",0_0
"Even if Australia stopped emitting all carbon dioxide tomorrow, completely shut up shop and went back to the stone age, according to the official government climate models it would be cooler in 2050 by about 0.015 degrees. But their models exaggerate tenfold in fact our sacrifices would make the planet in 2050 a mere 0.0015 degrees cooler!",4_2
"As Syria war escalates, Americans cool to U.S. intervention: Reuters/Ipsos poll Yahoo! News",0_0
"""The anti-crisis measures that have been proposed and already partly implemented follow from the assumption that the crisis was a failure of markets and that the right way out is more regulation of markets,"" he said.",0_0
I then received the following somewhat cryptic response from May.,0_0
"Less radical versions of the de-carbonization agenda (Waxman-Markey, Obamas Clean Energy Standard, Kyoto-Copenhagen) would be less destructive. Nonetheless, those policieswould place substantial burdens on our ailing economy , impeding progress to a better world.",4_1
"It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Hillary has not the slightest idea what she is talking about, and is simply repeating the crap that has been fed to her.",0_0
Ann McElhinney has given a nice talk explaining that Avatar is a beautiful movie but it is complete rubbish created by a total idiot named James Cameron. ;-),0_0
"In the words of the authors, 'two distinct cold periods, following the 1809 'unidentified' volcanic eruption and the eruption of Tambora in 1815, the 1810s the coldest decade on record.' The warmest period, however, was not the last quarter century, when climate alarmists claim the earth experienced a warming that was unprecedented over the past two millennia. Rather, as Vinther et al . report, 'the warmest year in the extended Greenland temperature record 1941, while the 1930s and 1940s the warmest decades.' In fact, their newly-lengthened record reveals there has been no net warming of the region over the last 75 years! What it means",2_1
"Global sea ice area is second highest on record for the date after 1988, and closing in the #1 spot. Antarctic ice is melting very slowly this summer, due to record cold Antarctic temperatures.",1_1
1) Arctic temperatures are only slightly higher now than they were in the late 1930s.,0_0
"Ethanol will not bring us energy security, and it may well make us less secure because of the significant volatility in crop productivity from year to year.",0_0
"A decision on the monument designation is expected in early 2016. Entering his last year in office, and determined to leave behind an environmental ""legacy"" to augment his unilateral, anti-fossil fuel action on climate change, Obama can be counted on to give NOAA the go ahead to designate the Atlantic Marine Monument.",0_0
"This summer we have had confirmation that Arctic ice behaviour has everything to do with wind. During June, winds were circulating clockwise in an inwards spiral, which caused ice extent to diminish and ice concentration to remain high. Around July 1, the patterns reversed and we have seen counterclockwise winds pushing ice away from the pole. As a result, ice area/extent has scarcely changed and instead we see a gradual decline in average ice thickness. The video below shows June/July ice movement and thickness.",1_1
> >> >There should also be links to SARCOF and the other regional Forums and,0_0
"It bears repeating, though I know I mention this every time, that this is precisely what President Obama said he would do. He is systematically destroying the coal industry, and the toll on American jobs is extremely high.",0_0
"The working group, part of the UNFCCC process, is pulling together international positions to develop a consensus starting point for the Paris treaty negotiations, which will supposedly be unveiled at a meeting in Lima, Peru, in December. The Chinese paper, however, went to an earlier preparatory meeting slated to begin in Bonn on October 25.",0_0
"With direct light, the cooling caused by clouds was weakest on the violet end of the spectrum and strongest at infrared. With scattered light, warming caused by clouds was also weakest at violet and the strongest at infrared. Overall, the least cooling and warming occurred at violet, and the most cooling and warming occurred at infrared.",0_0
The Sun reports in Smart meters 101: Five things you need to know :,0_0
"The scientific method dictates that when the models aren?t working, it?s time to rework the models and assumptions, not double down by invoking unicorns and leprechauns to explain why up is really down. Instead, if we follow the logic of the scientists that ?cooling is really warning? to its conclusion, then the next ice age will be the definitive conclusion of decades of global warming.",5_1
"3. Pollution Control and Prevention Projects. Modifications that result in a net overall reduction in air pollutants, including when an emitter switches to a cleaner-burning fuel, would be excluded from NSR, subject to certain conditions. Currently, only modifications done for the purpose of reducing emissions are granted such an exclusion. Caps on emissions under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards program and other programs would remain in place.",0_0
"Regular readers of CO 2 Science will recognize the significance we attach to documenting the existence of the Medieval Warm Period, Little Ice Age and Little Medieval Warm Period throughout the world, the reality of which periods of thermal extremes is typically denied by the world's climate alarmists. Strangely enough, however, evidence for these distinctive warm and cold periods continues to be discovered almost weekly , and at a variety of places around the globe , supporting our thesis that the Current Warm Period is more a product of planet-wide natural forces (which have been operating with regularity throughout the Holocene and beyond), than of accelerating CO 2 -induced global warming. Reviewed 22 February 2006",2_1
"Americans stand to benefit from the increased economic activity. Chart 5 depicts this growth in terms of personal income for a family of four. As Chart 5 illustrates, annual income rises by thousands of dollars per family as a result of improved energy policy. In particular, by 2035, the average American family would enjoy a total gain of more than $40,000 in personal income. In terms of aggregate GDP, these gains translate into almost $3.7 trillion of increased aggregate GDP through 2035.",4_5
"Increasing food prices are, to some extent, caused by the fact that 40% of the American corn crop is being used for biofuels. This has jacked up the price of food grain all over the world. Your friends support biofuels, even though it has been shown that they do not result in any reduction in carbon dioxide emissions compared with fossil fuels.",4_4
"On the campaign trail in May of last year, Barack Obama chastised Americans for failing to make sacrifices to address global warming. Upon entering the White House, however, the new president seems to have forgotten about leading by example.""We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say ""OK.' ... That's not leadership,"" Obama said last May.According to The New York Times, Obama now has cranked up the White House thermostat, and staffers have jettisoned their suit coats.""He's from Hawaii, O.K.?"" Obama's senior advisor, David Axelrod, told the Times. ""He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there."" James M. Taylor",0_0
The global temperature has been rising at a steady trend rate of 0.5C per century since the depths of the little ice age in the 1700s (when the Thames River would freeze over every winter; the last time it froze over was 1804). On top of the trend are oscillations that last about thirty years in each direction:,2_1
Information Technology: The Unsung Hero of Market-Based Environmental Policies,0_0
"According to the GAO, stage 1 ""lacks a quantitative goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, does not have a specific performance plan, and contains incomplete information on expected outcomes and links to the protocol's target."" Therefore, ""stage 1 may not provide a firm foundation for stages 2 and 3.""",0_0
Environmentalism is a proselytizing religion. Skeptics are not merely people unconvinced by the evidence: They are treated as evil sinners. I probably would not write this article if I did not have tenure.,0_0
"As youll recall, Earths energy imbalance is determined by subtracting the outgoing shortwave radiation (reflected sunlight) and the outgoing longwave radiation (emitted infrared radiation) from the incident shortwave radiation (incoming sunlight). In other words, for the climate models, were basically subtracting two computer-calculated values from a computer input.",0_0
"John: A certified idiot Brian. And as of late, a highly respected and very well credentialed traveler on the gravy train as well.",0_0
mutations aren't random but often planned; natural selection is meant to be a process that selects the preferred mutations while the process of mutation itself didn't anticipate or plan its consequences,0_0
"""Former Gov. Gerald L. Baliles says it's time for Virginia to act on reforms his blue-ribbon panel recommended for a state commission that was defrauded of $4 million in tobacco-settlement money meant to improve education in the state's struggling tobacco belt.""",0_0
"Democrats are willing to trim up to $5 billion from the $3.8 trillion 2011 federal budget (0.15%), while Republicans insist that $57 billion (1.5%) should be ""slashed."" As to reducing the deficit by increasing revenues, most of that discussion still centers on raising taxes on whatever ""rich"" people are still out there. On the energy front, things are truly disconnected from reality.",0_0
"Your dad has lost his way, and you might be the only person in the world who can help him find it again. So talk to him.",0_0
The original paper is available here as an Adobe Acrobat PDF.,0_0
"The prospect of the pipeline was rejected by the Sierra Club. Friends of the Earth announced that it would join with the Rainforest Action Network, the Sierra Club, and other radical Green groups to hold vigils around the nation Monday to protest its possible approval and construction.",0_0
"Had he wished to be objective, he would have noted that, while there was indeed a modest increase in mean global temperature (of about half a degree Centigrade) during the last quarter of the 20th century, so far this century both the UK Met Office and the World Meteorological Office confirm that there has been no further global warming at all.",1_4
"By Craig Idso, Cato, Aug 14, 2015",0_0
Figure 1. Projected global temperature rise from the IPCC?s business-as-usual (A1B) scenario (black curve) and the Kerry-Lieberman emissions scenario (red curve).,0_0
"Curiously, while Meehl et al (2013) depends on El Nio and La Nia processes, they never use the terms El Nio or La Nia in the paper. They elected to present the effects of ENSO on the Pacific basin in an abstract form, the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation.The problem with that:If the climate models show no skill at being able to simulate the processes of ENSO on short-term bases, theres no reason to believe they perform any better on decadal or multidecadal bases.",5_1
"This Tellus trio of articles tells us that tropical cyclones could become less frequent in the future and the jury is still very much out on the question of whether more intense storms will develop in the decades to come. All told, there is still a lot of work to be done, and the debate is anything but over!",1_7
"The 1990 IPCC report hadsatellite data going back to the early 1970s, which shows that1979 was right at the peak, andtwo million km higher than 1974- meaning that current ice extent is about the same as 1974",1_1
President Obamas business tax reform plan released today says:,0_0
"Warmists were blessed for a second consecutive week when Profiteer Prophet Al Gore blogged . I know that posting on a blog isnt as dramatic as appearing on a mountain top with an armload of stones, but its greener, right? Anyways, back to the Goreacles post, which recommendeth the Grist:",0_0
"The ethanol industry is booming. . . . There are now ninety-seven ethanol refineries in our country, and nine of those are expanding, and thirty-five more are under construction. . . . But what's really interesting, there are new plants springing up in unexpected areas, like the Central Valley of California, or Arizona, or, of course, in the sugar fields of Hawaii.",0_0
"Obama's political shot at his predecessors vowing that ""the days of science taking a backseat to ideology are over"" has missed the mark by a mile. So has his commitment to create an unprecedented level of transparent openness in Government.",0_0
"By David Whitehouse, GWPF, Aug 14, 2015",0_0
"According to McKintyre, there was no response, but within about an hour, GISS pulled down the erroneous data, citing a mishap and pointing the finger of blame upstream to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA). NOAAs Deputy Director of Communications, Scott Smullens, tells DailyTech that NOAA is responsible only for temperature readings in the US, not those in other nations.The error not only affected October data, but due to the complex algorithm GISS uses to convert actual temperature readings into their output results, altered the previously published values for several other months as well. The values for August 2008, for instance, changed by 0.11C and the global anomaly as far back as 2005 increased by a hundredth of a degree.",5_1
"CAFE legislation, passed by Congress in 1975, has contributed to about half of the thousand pound decrease in the average weight of cars over the last twenty years, decreasing crashworthiness.",0_0
"Coaxing Nature to Reveal 1,000 Years of Earth's Climate",0_0
"The 'great humanitarian', Vladimir Lenin said the way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. The great philosopher, Bertrand Russell said western populations would gladly accept serfdom if it was packaged as saving the Earth.",0_0
"The Royal Society of New South Wales held a meeting on Saturday in Mittagong on Global Warming and The Cosmos. Speakers included the director of the Danish National Space Centre, Eigil Friis-Christensen, and Graeme Pearman, former head of the CSIRO Atmospheric Division and now a consultant with GP Consulting Pty Ltd and an advisor to Al Gore and Ross Garnaut.",0_0
"Interesting to note that Oklahoma minimum temperatures in 2011 were in the bottom ten,includingthe coldestOklahomatemperature ever recorded, -31F on February 10, 2011.",1_3
"Stalagmites*, tree lines and ice cores all confirm that it was significantly warmer 7000 years ago. Evidence from Greenland suggests that the Arctic ocean was probably ice free for part of the late summer at that time.",2_1
Patron is not alone. Reports across the country have alleged damages brought on by concentrated sunlight reflected off of energy efficient windows. The National Association of Home Builders is now conducting a study on the matter.,0_0
It is true especially for northern middle latitudes. There are not sufficient data for southern hemisphere and it is necessary to differentiate between the tropic and the polar regions.,0_0
"What happened? In March 2016, Al Gore and a coalition of state attorneys general held a press conference announcing plans to ""use all the tools at disposal"" to intimidate and prosecute organizations for simply voicing their opinions and publishing research on climate change. A week later, Attorney General Claude Walker of the U.S. Virgin Islands subpoenaed CEI for a decade's worth of communications, emails, statements, and other documents regarding CEI's work on climate change and energy policy, including private donor information from 1997-2006. The subpoena threatened CEI's rights to freedom of speech and freedom of association.",0_0
5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;,0_0
"Alternatively, we might also say thatif the Earth is in numerical flux equilibrium with the Sun, then that means that the Sun must deposit the same flux of energy as the Earth emits. Therefore the Sun must deposit 240 W/m2. However, this is only -18 degrees C if you check what the temperature of this flux is with the Stefan-Boltzmann equation, and that is not nearly high enough to melt ice into water let alone evaporate water into vapour. Obviously, the problem here is that Sun does not deposit its energy over the same surface area that the Earth emits energy.",0_0
"Before approving the new alfalfa and sugar beet varieties, which were crafted to be resistant to the herbicide Roundup, USDA scientists evaluated data from hundreds of government monitored field trials over a period of nearly a decade, along with numerous other studies of the real-world effects of other Roundup-resistant crops (marketed as ""Roundup Ready""). The trait is harmless to humans and other animals, and several other Roundup Ready crop varieties, including corn, canola, soybeans, and cotton, are grown annually on more than 60 million acres in the United States alone.",0_0
"""We could see temperature rises in the future of between 1-4 degrees as a result of greenhouse gases way beyond what humans on earth have experienced before, so local authorities have to take on the science and show leadership with new forms of energyas well as adaptation and mitigation measures.""",0_0
Singer Converges on ZERO Climate Carbon Forcing,0_0
"Once again in the words of the authors, ""our data provide plot-scale evidence linking changes in vascular plant abundance to local summer warming in widely dispersed tundra locations across the globe,"" as (as we always like to add) the greening of planet earth continues , thanks not only to global warming, but also to the aerial-fertilization and water-use-efficiency-enhancing effects of atmospheric CO 2 enrichment.",3_3
"Heres a quandary for the global warming crusade. The scientists state that Despite significantly cooler than modern SSTs in the Atlantic during the latter half of the Little Ice Age, the frequency of intense hurricane landfalls increased during this time. Had these two found an increase in hurricane activity given warmer conditions, they would be paraded right down Broadway. But finding increased activity in colder periods means no parade, but a feature in World Climate Report.",1_7
"It is now the end of third week of August, and extent has hardly changed since he made that forecast on August 12. Looks like a classic case of Dipolar Disorder to me.",0_0
"Thus, unless one either assumes a constant albedo with increasing CO2, or shows that incoming solar radiation is not significantly affected by CO2, temperature increases are not certain with increasing CO2. Given that the predicted GHG hotspot is not observed, which is inconsistent with GHG theory, neither of these assumptions would appear reasonable.",2_3
"Writing in The Wall Street Journal on April 22, Kenneth C. Hill, Director of the Tennessee Regulatory Authority, said ""Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) set off a firestorm when he advised states not to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan. Yet that advice isn't as radical as his detractors make it sound. As a state public utilities commissioner who deals with the effects of federal regulations on a regular basis, I also recommend that states not comply.""",0_0
"Butterfly populations could suffer population crashes as a result of the record-breaking wet weather this spring and summer, Sir David Attenborough has warned.Wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation is launching its annual survey of the insects amid concerns that the wettest April to June on record will have hit their breeding season. Prolonged cold, wet weather delays the butterflies emerging, reduces their life-span and hampers mating and egg-laying, Butterfly Conservation said.",0_0
I was beginning to think it was another white mans disease,0_0
"In Russia, an unprecedented heatwave has triggered about 557 wildfires and left the capital Moscow cloaked in heavy smog. Moscow's daily mortality rate has doubled to about 700, the city's health department head said, with city morgues almost full.",0_0
"But the latest figures released by BP and den Elzen's agency in June show China will hit that figure in a matter of months, rather than over the next decade.",0_0
"It threatens academic inquiry and excellence and assures mediocrity of content, conformity of thought.",0_0
The evidence suggests that investing in affordable energy in Africa will not only achieve great good in itself but will equip Africans better to cope with dangerous climate change if it happens: weather-related mortality correlates with poverty. A survey of more than two million Africans finds that climate change comes dead last of 16 concerns they were asked about.,0_0
"This frost was in the time of the Maunder Minimum (1645-1715) and for periods on either side of it, many European rivers which are ice-free todayincluding the Thamesroutinely froze over, allowing ice skating and even for armies to march across them in some cases.",0_0
"Presidential candidate Mitt Romney understands that achieving this goal requires unleashing American ingenuity, reducing excessive regulatory strangleholds on businesses and working capital, and allowing safe, proven technologies to tap and utilize our vast onshore and offshore deposits of oil, natural gas and other energy riches. He knows we can do all this without sacrificing important environmental values.",0_0
"Scott's second mistake is to claim that the vote in the House was defined by a ""partisan divide."" While it's true that ""just"" 8 republicans voted for the bill, it's also true that 44 democrats17% of the House party caucusvoted against the bill. In fact, the bill's narrow passage is attributable primarily to all the procedural tricks employed by its sponsors, which my colleague Myron Ebell described here back in 2009. Opposition to the bill was healthily bipartisan, contrary to what Scott reports.",0_0
"on Wednesday, September 21st, 2011 at 3:47 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"The Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) Chairmanship will change from one of the biggest supporters of Obama's climate change agenda (Senator Barbara Boxer ) to the biggest opponent of his policies (Senator James Inhofe ). On election night, Inhofe stated: ""I am looking forward to taking back the environment committee""a role that, according to Environment & Energy Publishing (E&E;): ""Already has Greens cringing.""",0_0
The decision by Energy Minister Michael OBrien came just hours after the government announced it would shed the states goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent by the end of the decade.,0_0
"However, these ""random waves in the vacuum"" also occur for wavelengths that are long. And if there is a wave in the field \(\Phi(x)\) whose wavelength is long, it means that the value of the field at two nearby points that are (much) shorter than the wavelength will be very close to each other. If they're nonzero, they will have the same sign. So there's this correlation between the values of quantum fields in the vacuum. I can make the statement that the correlation exists even though I can't say (in advance) what the shape of the random wave exactly is; in fact, the point of the term ""correlation"" is that it is used in the statistical context when we can't predict the individual outcomes.",0_0
"He stresses the importance of keeping land, air and water free of real pollution, particulates, heavy metals, pathogens and explains why CO2 should not be considered a pollutant:",0_0
"* The relevant/interesting tables start at 11a. On a scale from 1 = ""very inadequate"" to 7 = ""very adequate,"" scientists are asked to rank ""data availability for climate change analysis."" More respondents said ""very inadequate"" (1 or 2) than ""very adequate"" (6 or 7), with most responses ranging between 3 and 5. About 40% score it a 3 or less.",0_0
"Citing adverse market conditions, BrightSource Energy, a wholesale solar power generator, announced yesterday morning that it would shelve a long-planned initial public offering of 6.9 million shares that the company had hoped would fetch 21 to $23 each. The canceled IPO is a blow to the companys backers, chief among them the American taxpayer. In April 2011, the Department of Energy awarded BrightSource a $160 million subsidy, from the same program that blew almost half a billion on Solyndra. They sure know how to pick em at the DOE!",0_0
"Hansen, and the tiny handful of other climate scientists who realized the rogue equation came from electronic circuitry, had assumed it would work for all kinds of dynamical systems from electronic circuits to the Earths climate. But it doesnt.",0_0
flouting an essential international norm. The same goes for other global,0_0
"More than a hundred countries now support a French proposal to create a ""World Environment Organisation"" at the upcoming 20th anniversary conference of the Rio Summit, France's ecology minister said on Tuesday.",0_0
"Global coal use will continue to rise because global demand for electricity continues to rise, and that demand is being met largely with coal. In April, the International Energy Agency projected that global coal consumption will increase by about 12 million barrels of oil equivalent per day by 2017. If that occurs, coal use could surpass oil use in the share of global energy. That's a stunning development. The last time coal consumption in the U.S. was greater than oil consumption was 1949.",0_0
"One can pull out as many cases of bad weather in the 30s, 40s and 50s as they can now. I still believe the 3 greatest examples of how bad a hurricane can get in relation to latitude are the 1938 hurricane with 186 mph wind gusts at Blue Hill Mass, the 1944 hurricane that destroyed the Atlantic City boardwalk, and Hurricane Donna which gave hurricane force winds to every state from Florida to Maine. The 1944 hurricane had winds 600 miles in diameter and stripped 50% of the screws from a recon plane into it.",1_7
smarter presidents understand that every aspect of the presidency flows from the,0_0
"""Facebook has been caught secretly paying a top public relations firm to plant negative stories about Google in the US media.""",0_0
There is much published credible evidence suggesting that some fossil fuel companies and other organizations broke the law by lying to the public about climate risk. We ask our government to investigate this evidence. Organizations that knowingly mislead the public about a clear and present dangerthereby robbing many innocent people of their lives and livelihoodsshould be held accountable for their actions. Our government's investigation into the deadly lies of the tobacco industry provides a clear precedent for this sort of investigation.,0_0
"Elevated CO 2 consistently increased bulb size across all nitrogen and potassium concentrations, with initially larger bulbs yielding the greatest size of final bulbs. However, on a percentage basis, smaller bulbs were slightly more responsive to atmospheric CO 2 enrichment than were larger bulbs. Indeed, under optimal nitrogen and potassium fertilization, the 650-ppm increase in the air's CO 2 concentration increased the size of smaller and larger bulbs by about 18 and 14%, respectively. What it means",3_3
"The 1199 alumni network extends far beyond New York. Its most distinguished member is Patrick Gaspard, currently the Obama administration's ambassador to South Africa. A former colleague of Cunningham's and one of Mayor Bill de Blasio's close friends, Gaspard earlier served as Obama's White House political director and as executive director of the Democratic National Committee. Many 1199 operatives also go on to work for the national SEIU, whose president, Andy Stern, was President Obama's most frequent White House visitor during his first 100 days in office.",0_0
"They are building the so-called Summit Bridge that ""makes them uniters, not dividers"" (you can see that they like George W. Bush) and the police decided not to bother them in the forbidden area .",0_0
"Reading the various pronouncements from the partygoers at the Durban climate-related Conference of Parties, I was struck by the many uses of the words sustainable development and sustainability. Its pretty confusing. Apparently, paying high long-term subsidies for uneconomic energy sources is sustainable ... who knew?",0_0
"Many people rely on our profile on Wikipedia to provide an objective description of our mission, programs, and accomplishments. Alas, the profile they find there is a fake, filled with lies and libel about our funding, tactics, and the positions we take on controversial issues. Wikipedia refuses to make the changes we request. It even deletes and reverses all the changes made by others who know the profile is unreliable. We need your help! READ MORE",0_0
"In 15 years CO2 rose by about 30 ppmv, or 8.26%, which is a significant increase in a gas thats claimed to dominate global temperature. Yet the global temperature didnt notice and didnt develop a rising trend. It went up and down willy-nilly. Perhaps it was distracted by all the wild weather. Which wasnt caused by global warming cos there was none.",2_3
relax and take a few leisurely victory laps after the grueling campaign.,0_0
seems this expedition was more a BBC/Guardian/ABC CAGW exercise!,0_0
More and more likely that double CO2 means <2C: New study,0_0
He has told friends he needs 5 million a year to fund his lifestyle.,0_0
"Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) delivers his speech to the Faith & Freedom Coalition Road to Majority Conference Kickoff Luncheon in Washington June 13, 2013.",0_0
"Interestingly, this is happening at the same time as a period of economic weakness. So perhaps voters don't see the two goals in conflict. Of course, right after the 2007-2009 economic collapse, all groups saw a drop in their concern about the climate. Republicans are the only one to not yet return to their pre-recession levels.",0_0
"Im sure their (seemingly endless) climate model circle jerk is very fulfilling, but they should be preparing for the floods which will be coming down the Colorado River in a few weeks.",5_1
"(Figure 18.1) shows the history of temperatures prevailing in Central England from the mid 17thC to 1973. From about 1700 to around 1945, it is a one way story, a trend towards greater warmth, that was interrupted only by various shorter term fluctuations.",2_1
A minority of scientists question whether this means global warming has peaked and the earth has proved more resilient to greenhouse gases than predicted.,5_1
"As George W. Bush begins his second term as President, there are many challenging tasks confronting his Administration. From complications arising from the War in Iraq and the ongoing War on Terror to the newfound effort at overhauling Social Security, there is clearly much on the table to occupy his attention. Regrettably, however, there appears to be at least one area that is not receiving much focus at least to this point and that is the issue of the environment. With Republicans securing historic gains in both houses of Congress, the opportunity to tackle some long-standing issues and help change the direction of the current environmental debate is one that is well within the President's grasp. The question is, will his Administration have the ""idealism and courage,"" as he iterated in his inaugural speech, to take it?",0_0
"The reason why we need to use 2 temperatures is that the surface has reportedly warmed about 3.5 times faster than the 0-700 meter ocean layer does, and radiative feedback will be controlled by changes in the temperature of the sea surface and the atmosphere that is convectively coupled to it.",0_0
"Date: April 17, 2010 Time: 10:00 am Central DST",0_0
"Crichton claims CNN estimated there would be 3.5 million future deaths when in reality there were less than 4,000.",0_0
"The work is significant because the rate of global warming from 2000-2009 is lower than the 0.16C per decade trend seen since the late 1970s, a fact climate scientists have been keen to explain. Including the new sea surface temperatures, which push up global temperatures by 0.03C, the warming rate for the past 10 years is estimated at 0.08-0.16C. The new analysis of sea surface temperatures adjusts underestimates which arose from thechange from predominantly ship-based temperature measurements before 2000 to mostly buoy-based measurements afterwards.",0_0
Eric Holthaus blames damage from a cyclone on global warming,0_0
"...climate models, while imperfect, work well in many respects (that is to say, they provide useful skill over and above simpler methods for making predictions).",0_0
"If you look closely youll observe a few things: 1) There was a record high ice extent in April, 2) the ice indeed melted rapidly in May and June, but 3) the melting rate has slowed down considerably over the last 10 days, averaging only 59,000 sq km something the media forgets to mention.",1_1
"Well. So much for the Warmest Ever! hype. Nature, all on its own, made the Arctic so much warmer than today that all sorts of tundra turned into forests. Then we started getting colder, with cyclical wetter / drier events. Not a lot of CO2 activity then.",2_1
"Liberal progressives view these consistent defeats as examples of justice denied. Their consistent rejection by the voters is seen not as a rejection of their impatience or lofty ambitions, but as something more sinister. The voters were bamboozled by the Teflon Great Communicator, by Willie Horton ads, by triangulating good old boys, by corporate interests, and by blockheaded Texans backed by unscrupulous Mayberry Machiavellians. Something is the matter with Kansans if they don't back progressives; it must be devious politicians who divert middle- and working-class voters with the bread and circuses of phony social issues and unnecessary foreign wars. The solution: Organize new constituencies, particularly among the young and among ethnic minorities, through the internet (Daily Kos, MoveOn.org), local groups (ACORN), and D.C.-based interest groups (EMILY's List, Center for American Progress), and continue to press for progressive justice in bold colors, not pale pastels.",0_0
One example of the cold-weather-proves-global-warming argument comes from the The Los Angeles Times in a story published on Wednesday. That article focuses on the massive lake-effect snowstorm in Buffalo.,0_0
"These salient observations strongly suggest that the cause of Svalbard glacial acceleration is geological in nature, quite possibly caused by sub-glacial heat flow from a heretofore-unrecognized convective system that has lain dormant under the Austfonna ice cap until reactivated by recent fault and volcanic activity. This type of activity is known to exist across the entire region.",0_0
"johanna on April 26, 2015 at 2:11 pm",0_0
Obama's EPA Finalizes Latest Job-Killing Policies For 26 States Will Cost Taxpayers $1.6 Billion a Year & Thousands of Jobs:,4_1
The upper kilometre of the circumpolar Southern Ocean has warmed.,0_0
"Already, Medicare and Medicaid patients have trouble finding doctors to treat them. Enjoy the cozy feeling of being ""insured"" via Obamacare. Let's hope that when you are sick, there is a doctor who will see you.",0_0
"They found, ""60 birds and mammals are known to have become extinct between 1900 and 1950,"" ""actual extinctions remain low many species appear to have either an almost miraculous capacity for survival, or a guardian angel watching over their destiny,"" and not ""a single known animal species could be properly declared as extinct, in spite of the massive reduction in area and fragmentation of their habitats in the past decades and centuries of intensive human activity."" (Simon, Scarcity or Abundance, pp. 200-202)",3_2
"Tom Tanton, Master Resource , 26 July 2011",0_0
"The global warming legislation backed by President Obama would also drive jobs overseas, since it would impose a costly cap-and-trade carbon rationing scheme on American industry, while leaving foreign plants operated by multinational corporations unregulated. Thats one reason why many big companies with plants overseas are lobbying for the global-warming legislation , which would give them an advantage over competitors that make their products largely in America.",4_1
"In reality, the United States has vast storehouses of petroleum. Hydraulic fracturing alone has unlocked billions of barrels of oil equivalent energy, created 1.7 million jobs, generated hundreds of billions of dollars in economic activity and government revenues, and made America the world's number one energy producing nation. Opening up areas that are now closed to leasing would build on this record.",0_0
>> Subject: RE: The Climatic Variability and Climate Change Initiative for,0_0
17c. The ability of regional climate models to to model temperature values for the next 10 years,0_0
"""In a recent post at Balkinization, Sandy Levinson argues that the recent mostly government-funded rescue of the trapped Chilean miners proves the need for a large welfare state. He also issues a challenge to the Volokh Conspiracy:""",0_0
"Insufficient response and retribution, regulators and politicians howled. They played no role in uncovering the fraud, but they are hounding bank officials and demanding $185 million in fines.",0_0
"For hundreds of millions of the world's poor, however, coal is cleaner and more energy efficient than the alternative. This is one of the many inconvenient truths that environmentalists ignore in their dogged pursuit of a static global ecosystem.",4_5
"Under Kyoto, 37 nations and the European Union agreed to cut greenhouse gases by a total 5.2 percent by 2012. Those countries are on target to meet their obligations, but some of them have balked about accepting more mandatory cuts after 2012.",0_0
Impact of Continental Mass Change on Rate-of-Rise of Sea Level (9 Jul 2013),0_0
"It's not his money, after all, so why wouldn't he sacrifice it? Why wouldn't he give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety?",0_0
"The world exists, it has a time coordinate, and things are therefore inevitably happening, changing, and evolving. Whoever is scared by these things - by change in general - should commit suicide because death is the only way to stop the time for him or her.",0_0
"Back in November, when the Met Office was still doing its ""mild winter"" schtick, Corbyn said it would be the coldest for 100 years. Indeed, it was back in May that he first predicted a snowy December, and he put his own money on a white Christmas about a month before the Met Office made any such forecast. He said that the Met Office would be wrong about last year's mythical ""barbecue summer"", and he was vindicated. He was closer to the truth about last winter, too.",1_3
"Remarkably, because the NEPA obligation is purely procedural, courts are not permitted to consider the fact that genetically engineered crop varieties have offsetting benefits to farmers, consumers, and the natural environment. The mere fact that the USDA did not properly document its evaluation of theoretical negative effects is sufficient grounds for revoking the approvals.",0_0
"Moreover, without concerted commitments by the major economies, including those in the developing world, Congress would be foolish to impose unilateral restrictions on the U.S. economy and the past four years have demonstrated conclusively that there is no international consensus for action.",0_0
"And that is how a regulation yielding future changes in temperatures and sea levels approaching zero can be claimed to yield net benefits ""exceeding $100 billion, making this a highly beneficial rule."" In the EPA's benefit/cost framework, the actual effects of the policies literally are irrelevant; just compute the assumed reduction in GHG emissions, multiply by $36, and voila!",0_0
"The agency also says banning coal-fired power plants will reduce ""carcinogenic"" and ""lethal"" levels of microscopic particulate matter (soot) in America's air. But EPA has no medical evidence that what is still in our air poses actual problems. In fact, EPA-funded researchers illegally subjected human test subjects including elderly, asthmatic, diabetic and cardiac patients to 8, 30 or even 60 times more soot per volume (for up to two hours) than what EPA claims is dangerous or lethal. And yet, no one got sick.",0_0
"deniers attack everyone indiscriminately from the lowly blogger to the most imminent climate scientists in the world. In fact, the level of attack that the climate scientists receive are the greatest death threats, dead rats left on their door, legal harassment from conservative lawyers and ad hominem attack after ad hominem attack.",0_0
"When things go wrong for the left, and they always go wrong, you know whos to blame? Them, thats who the amorphous mass of unbeatable forces that thwart hippies with the same 11th hour regularity that meddling kids foiled a Scooby-Doo villain:",0_0
"""The fact is that the planet is changing faster than even pessimists expected,"" Krugman insisted. How fast the earth is changing is open to all kinds of debate, but short of an asteroid strike it won't change as fast as the global warming pessimists have claimed.",5_2
"The best explanation for the gap is that people's beliefs about climate change have become determined by feelings of identification with cultural and political groups. When people are asked for their views on climate change, says Dan Kahan of Yale University, they translate this into a broader question: whose side are you on? The issue has become associated with left-wing urbanites, causing conservatives to dig in against it.",0_0
The most recent estimates from observations suggest a transient climate response of 1.05 to 1.45 o C and equilibrium climate sensitivity of 1.2 to 1.8 o C ??,3_1
"For examples of recent estimates of climate sensitivity see Nicholas Lewis, ""An Objective Bayesian Improved Approach for Applying Optimal Fingerprint Techniques to Estimate Climate Sensitivity,"" Journal of Climate, Vol. 26, No. 19 (October 2013), pp. 74147429; Alexander Otto et al., ""Energy Budget Constraints on Climate Response,"" Nature Geoscience, Vol. 6, No. 6 (June 2013), pp. 415416; Magne Aldrin et al., ""Bayesian Estimation of Climate Sensitivity Based on a Simple Climate Model Fitted to Observations of Hemispheric Temperatures and Global Ocean Heat Content,"" Environmetrics, Vol. 23, No. 3 (May 2012), pp. 253271.",0_0
"Sciam.com is predicting an increase in cyclones and hurricanes after an almost 2 year lull. However, they are attributing it not to warming but to a cooler Pacific Ocean! Suggesting that its temperature differentials not overall heating that drives bad weather. Well see if temperatures continue to stay the same, or decline",0_0
"Who would have thought that Italian subsidies for building wind farms at the world's highest guaranteed rates would attract the mob? And yet, that is exactly what is alleged to have occurred. According to the Financial Times, in May, Sicily's anti-Mafia magistrates ""opened a sweeping investigation into the wind power sector where local officials, entrepreneurs, and crime gangs are suspected of collusion in the construction of lucrative wind farms before their eventual sale to multinational companies."" Think of it as a different shade of green.",0_0
"Instead the temperature fluctuations have been within normal ranges and are due to natural cycles. Indeed the atmosphere has not warmed since 1998 more than 10 years, and the global temperature has even dropped significantly since 2003.",1_4
"By Nicholas Staropoli, ACSH, Aug 7, 2015",0_0
Electricity prices rising 20 percent by 2017 and more than 30 percent by 2030.,0_0
"Michael Bastasch, writing for The Daily Caller on Saturday, confirmed D'Aleo's and other meteorologist's forecasts. ""The bitter cold that has hit the U.S. East Coast is expected throughout February, and on Jan 28the day of the addressthe Mid-Atlantic region is expected to be hit with freezing cold air that could drive temperatures below zero in big cities among the I-95 corridor.""",1_3
"Mr. Obama says that, The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult.Indeed.Inthe famous Crisis of Confidence speech of July15, 1979, President Jimmy Carter proposed a plan to obtain 20% of Americas energy from solar power bythe year 2000.More than three decades later, solar provides 0.25% of U.S. energy (solar contributes 2.5% of all forms of renewable energy combined, which in turn provide 10% of total U.S. energy ). Moreover, the piddling contributions of wind, solar power, and biofuelsdepend on a panoply of government favors : mandates, direct subsidies, and special tax breaks.",0_0
"The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is currently investigating how green energy undermines the reliability of the electrical grid. FERC believe there is a ""significant risk"" of electricity in the United States becoming unreliable because ""wind and solar don't offer the services the shuttered coal plants provided."" Environmental regulations could make operating conventional coal or natural gas power plants unprofitable, which could compromise the reliability of the American power grid.",0_0
But it is religion that asks us to have faith; science presents us with theories,0_0
"Another $2 billion in the bill was to be allocated per year for researching and developing effective carbon capture and see question method for coal plants kind of like creating a GITMO for dangers posed by Kerry's climate-ravaging carbon terrorist provocateurs. In addition, there was to be a multibilliondollar revenue stream for agriculture to finance a carbonoffset program.",0_0
"We have written so much about the link between climate change and hurricanes (a.k.a., tropical cyclones, TCs) that we sometimes wonder if there could be anything new to report. No sooner than we have such a thought, yet another article on the subject appears in some leading scientific journal. A sentence in the abstract from this new article really caught our eye as we read For the 1981/82 to 2005/06 TC seasons, there are no apparent trends in the total numbers and cyclone days of TCs, nor in numbers and cyclone days of severe TCs with minimum central pressure of 970 hPa or lower.",1_7
House moves to overturn FCC on Net neutrality:,0_0
"The key lesson to be learned is that not only must scientific knowledge about climate change be publicly owned the I.P.C.C. does a fairly good job of this according to its own terms but the very practices of scientific enquiry must also be publicly owned, in the sense of being open and trusted. From outside, and even to the neutral, the attitudes revealed in the emails do not look good. To those with bigger axes to grind it is just what they wanted to find.",5_2
"American Thinker; Next month, if all goes according to plan, the Environmental Protection Agency will launch the most serious assault on American business since the 1970's. New regulatiosn governing the release of Carbon Dioxide will hit every corner of the economy, causing your electric bill to skyrocket (as promised by candidate Obama) and adding billions in costs to manufacturers and other businesses that generate CO2.",4_1
"Finally, think about this question, posed by Ronald Bailey in 2000: What will Earth look like when Earth Day 60 rolls around in 2030? Bailey predicts a much cleaner, and much richer future world, with less hunger and malnutrition, less poverty, and longer life expectancy, and with lower mineral and metal prices. But he makes one final prediction about Earth Day 2030: ""There will be a disproportionately influential group of doomsters predicting that the futureand the presentnever looked so bleak."" In other words, the hype, hysteria and spectacularly wrong apocalyptic predictions will continue, promoted by the ""environmental grievance hustlers.""",0_0
"Scientists tell Congress that warming evidence is 'overwhelming' - The Hill's E2-Wire Twenty-five U.S. scientists issued an open letter to Congress today that calls evidence of human-induced global warming ""overwhelming"" and accuses opponents of emissions curbs of misrepresenting emails among climate scientists hacked from a U.K. research institute. ... ""Even without including analyses from the U.K. research center from which the emails were stolen, the body of evidence underlying our understanding of human-caused global warming remains robust,"" they write. Note that the letter is signed by ClimateGate scientist Ben Santer! 1. We were constantly told about an alleged ""consensus"" from 2,500 climate scientists. Why are there only 25 actual names on this list? 2. When people claim that the evidence is overwhelming, why don't they ever tell us specifically what that evidence is?",5_2
"Germans are always assumed to do things effectively and calmly look for high revenues and profits etc. And the right business practices to achieve such things are pretty much obvious. Except that there seem to be hints that at the VW Group level, there is some denial of the obviously correct algorithms one should follow in order to optimize a somewhat heterogeneous group of plants.",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on what everyone needs to know about global warming.,0_0
"The EPA acknowledges the problem, and has proposed a ""tailoring rule"" that substantially increases the emission levels allowed before regulatory requirements are triggered. The statute sets limits of as little as 100 tons per year of emissions. The agency wants to increase this to 25,000 tons per year of emissionsfor now (lower levels may be regulated later).",0_0
www.guyraargus.com .au/story/.../australias-antarctic-runway-melting...,0_0
Personal Freedomthe degree to which individuals can choose the course of their lives,0_0
New Book ECO-FREAKS Reveals Destructive Environmental Agenda,0_0
"Moreover, most of the discussion is highly politicized. For instance, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change undercuts its own credibility by allowing government-appointed non-scientists to write the well-publicized report summaries. Many of its predictions are no more reliable than guesses. Notes H. Sterling Burnett:",5_2
"Business groups, such as the Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute, have been challenging the revised estimate on various fronts.",0_0
But Mr Peever who is also a member of the Federal Governments business roundtable on climate change says cutting pollution will be expensive and in some cases the technology to cut it has not even been developed yet.,4_1
That would mean last year was about the coolest year that we have had in Australia for about 26 years.,1_3
Australias CSIRO has legal disclaimers for its scary projections:,0_0
"Bloomberg News, like the Times, has shown a disinclination to join in this kind of reasoning. Not only that, Bloomberg's editorial board questions the Schneiderman definition of a ""climate denier"":",0_0
"Most importantly, they are modest in their aspirations for themselves. They do not aspire to be ""type A business owners""; they want to go to work, do what's asked of them, not have too much stress in their lives, and spend time with their families. They want structure and stability in their lives so that things are taken care of and they don't have to worry.",0_0
"Institute for Energy Research, ""North American Energy Inventory,"" December 2011, http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Energy-Inventory.pdf (accessed July 1, 2016).",0_0
"As children playing on the beach, we discovered a fascinating behavioral pattern among hermit crabs. Place a dozen in a cardboard box, and within minutes the crabs exit their shells and try to occupy another. This mild stress-induced response probably reflects their life-long drive to continue growing by repeatedly commandeering larger shells, to protect their vulnerable soft bodies.",0_0
"The Supreme Courtcase of Massachusetts v. EPA (April 2, 2007)has set the stage fora policy disaster. Mass v. EPAs second anniversaryrapidly approaches, and in a Power Point presentation leaked to Greenwire last week,EPA reveals how it plans to respondto the Court.But first, some background on the case and the Pandoras Box it has created.",0_0
NOAA has placed a series of buoys along the equatorial Pacific to keep track of the ocean temperatures below the surface. These buoys show quite warm water extending 100-200 meters beneath the surface. This figure shows an east-west cross section across the central Pacific of the underwater temperatures. Red is much warmer than normal.,0_0
days although interestingly the RCM (which does a much better job of,0_0
"First, there is a widespread misconception that the reference to a decline refers to concealing an observed fall in global temperatures since a peak in 1998, the warmest year for some time. Instead, it really has to do with graphic trickery suggesting that man-made CO2 emissions over the past 40 years have produced a nearly vertical temperature escalation.",5_2
CET winter December ??? March temperatures have shown an even more significant loss -1.45C in the last 13 years of since 2000.,1_3
"During the mid-20 th Century flat temperature period, Figure 4, the models do reasonably good job between the latitudes of 60S-60N, but fail to capture the observed warming of the Southern Ocean and the polar-amplified cooling over the Arctic.",5_1
"Course change is one of the most essential maneuvers in politicsand also one of the most dangerous. A badly executed course change in 1979 wrecked Jimmy Carter's presidency: By retreating to Camp David and firing his economic team, he only confirmed his reputation as the worst economic manager since Herbert Hoover. But a cleverly executed course change in 1995 saved Bill Clinton: By declaring the age of Big Government over, and setting welfare reform as his top priority, he persuaded Americans that he was a sensible centrist, after all.",0_0
"The European Environmental Agency tracks Europe's performance regarding the reduction of CO2 emissions. Its latest report states: ""The European Union's greenhouse gas inventory report shows that emissions have not only continued their downward trend in 2008, but have also picked up pace. The EU-27's emissions stood 11.3% below their 1990 levels, while EU-15 achieved a reduction of 6.9% compared to Kyoto base-year levels.""",0_0
"The problem with these sorts of studies is that no class of proxy (tree ring, ice core isotopes) is unambiguously correlated to temperature and, over and over again, authors pick proxies that confirm their bias and discard proxies that do not. This problem is exacerbated by author pre-knowledge of what individual proxies look like, leading to biased selection of certain proxies over and over again into these sorts of studies.",5_1
"All three models generated robust annual mean warming (?0.5 C) throughout the Holocene (Fig. 1, black and yellow), resulting in a model-data inconsistency in global annual temperature of ?1 C. Discrepancies were different during last millennium and the start of the deglaciation. Over the last thousand years, climate models generate a global cooling toward the Little Ice Age (LIA)consistent with the M13 reconstruction only after adding realistic volcanic aerosols and solar variability (Fig. 1, Inset, gray line). During the early deglaciation both the proxy data and model show a large deglacial warming (3?4 C) overwhelming the data-model inconsistency.",5_1
French Asks Airlines to Cut Flights Ahead of Strikes:,0_0
"Climate Change / Global Warming: The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is called the worlds foremost authority on global warming / climate change. Using climate models, in 1990, the IPCC predicted significant, continuous global warming to 2012 and beyond. According to comprehensive satellite data, there has been no warming of the atmosphere for over a decade. According to the less comprehensive, but highly recognized surface data (from HadCRU), there has been no statistically significant surface warming for sixteen years. Should US government policy be based on predictions from models which are obviously failing? Why?",1_4
"Everyone should perceive flaws! To talk about ""sceptics"" as the ones who will ""seize"" upon ""evidence"" of flaws is unwittingly to make global warming into a matter of religion and not science. It's not the skeptics who look bad. ""Seize"" sounds willful, but science should motivate us to grab at evidence. It's the nonskeptics who look bad. It's not science to be a true believer who wants to ignore new evidence. It's not science to support a man who has the job of being a scientist but doesn't adhere to the methods of science.",0_0
"The deadliest cyclone in recorded history was Cyclone Bhola , which struck Bangladesh (then part of Pakistan) in 1970. Estimates for the number killed range from 200,000 to 1,000,000 people. Like Katrina, this storm was classified as a category 3 when it made landfall. But unlike Katrina it did not have minute by minute satellite tracking. What was its maximum wind speed while it was over the ocean? It was reported to be 185 mph the day it made landfall, but nobody knows for sure. Id like to show some large high resolution color pictures of the devastation and the suffering of the people, just like Al Gore did for Katrina, but there are few to be found. You can see several grainy low resolution black and white pictures here .",1_7
"The Committee has, willfully or inadvertently, become instruments for a political movement that will result in human suffering and grief. None of the Nobel science prizes have ever been given to climate related research. The Committee however, states in the press release that indications of changes in the earth's future climate must be treated with the utmost seriousness. They ought to leave evaluation of research on energy to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. They are entrusted with the Nobel Prize in Physics after all.",0_0
"Regardless, climate models are made interesting by the inclusion of ""positive feedbacks"" (multiplier effects) so that a small temperature increment expected from increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide invokes large increases in water vapor, which seem to produce exponential rather than logarithmic temperature response in the models. It appears to have become something of a game to see who can add in the most creative feedback mechanisms to produce the scariest warming scenarios from their models but there remains no evidence the planet includes any such effects or behaves in a similar manner.",3_1
"And as Dr Goklany goes on to explain, the WHOs results use climate modelresults that apparently overstate the warming trend three-fold compared toobservations despite using 27% less greenhouse gas forcing.",5_1
"Nicolas D. Loris, ""The Antiquated Act: Time to Repeal the Antiquities Act,"" Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2998, March 25, 2015, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2015/03/the-antiquated-act-time-to-repeal-the-antiquities-act.",0_0
Where's the global warming? asks major European media outlet,0_0
"The lack of climate skeptics on PBS's ""Newshour'",0_0
"A June 4, 2003, e-mail from Keith Briffa to fellow tree ring researcher Edward Cook at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in New York stated: ?I got a paper to review (submitted to the Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Sciences), written by a Korean guy and someone from Berkeley, that claims that the method of reconstruction that we use in dendroclimatology (reverse regression) is wrong, biased, lousy, horrible, etc?If published as is, this paper could really do some damage?It won?t be easy to dismiss out of hand as the math appears to be correct theoretically? I am really sorry but I have to nag about that review?Confidentially, I now need a hard and if required extensive case for rejecting.?",0_0
"As I mentioned previously, the real impact of the Kerry-Lieberman bill only emerges if it is applied to the rest of the world, and in particular the world?s developing nations.",0_0
Climate spin: Behind-the-scenes emails show profs evading questions,5_2
A few days ago I published an article about the new alarmist hockey stick by Marcott et al. My take?,5_1
"Third Assessment Report, a suite of recent global climate model experiments, and",0_0
"""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
"As laid out in the August 2000 report entitled ""Fear Profiteers"" that I helped edit, Fenton Communications has also been a key player in numerous scares, including those involving biotech foods, ""toxic"" chemicals in breast milk, toys and medical equipment made with PVC plastic, chemicals in the environment alleged to mimic hormones and, of course, rbST.",0_0
"Dr. Sallie Baliunas: The temperature of the Earth has increased over the last 100 years. . . . The warming began early in the 20th century, late in the 19th century. But before that, there was a very long, protracted cooling that began in the 14th century that continued to the mid-19th centurya 500-year relative cold spell called the Little Ice Age. Before that, 800 or 1,000 years agothe early part of the millenniumthe temperature was even higher than today, worldwide . . . .",2_1
28.b. How much do you think the potential impact of global climate change is one of the leading problems for humanity in terms of social and economic issues.,0_0
CARBON TAX OR CAP & TRADE? - OR GO ON LIVING?,0_0
"In his peer-reviewed 1980 paper Apparent Trends of Mean Temperature in New Zealand Since 1930 , JWD Hessell found that exposures of most New Zealand weather stations have been affected by changes in shelter, screenage and/or urbanisation, all of which tend to increase the observed mean temperature. A systematic analysis reveals that no important change in annual mean temperature since 1930 has been found at those stations where the above factors are negligible.",5_1
"7. ""It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,"" declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.",0_0
"Climate Hustle is hosted by award-winning investigative journalist Marc Morano. A former communications director for the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Morano is publisher of CFACT's ClimateDepot.com. The film is a production of the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and CDR Communications. See the movie. Bring your friends. Make it a party. www.ClimateHustle.com",0_0
"He also observed that EPA Director Lisa Jackson herself has acknowledged the Clean Air Act ""is not specifically designed to address greenhouse gases."" The House-passed Waxman-Markey did, but it died with Senate inaction and the election of a new Congress, an election in which it was an issue. Along with Obama-Care, the American people also rejected the idea of taxing and regulating carbon dioxide.",0_0
"In short, they are repeating all of their prior explanations for 40 years of political defeat. People are voting their pocketbooks, our voters won't vote unless they have something to vote for, and outside interests are once more conspiring to distract the voters with phony issues and slick ads. This, then, is the decisive point: Are liberal progressives right about recent American electoral history? Or do American voters fundamentally not want what liberal progressives have to offer?",0_0
The man who effectively shapes world policy on climate change was born in 1940 in a hill station in northern India.,0_0
"So much for the good news. As always in the case of energy resources, politics trumps economics or, at minimum, seriously affects economic outcomes. In Mexico, oil is regarded as the national patrimony, not to be plundered (i.e., developed) by foreigners. In much of the Middle East, oil is regarded as a ""weapon,"" to be unsheathed if nasty consuming countries need a lesson in the vulnerability of their economies to supply shortages and price spikes. In Russia, natural gas is a tool to be used in the reconstruction of something approximating the Soviet Union or Russian Empire. Here in America, administration policy towards oil and gas is affected by the conviction that fossil fuels are responsible for climate change, and must be phased out as the transition to renewables is completed. Everywhere and always, oil and politics inevitably mix.",0_0
"I also askedhow much the biological effects of oceanic nutrient enrichment from melting icebergs and ice shelves he had discussed might affect the results of model-projections he had told us were based only on the physics. He admitted this was a good question and that uncertainty was high. Increased nutrients (particularly iron), lead to drawdown of co2 by plankton and the permanent removal of co2 in the formation of their shell which sink to the ocean bed when plankton die.",5_1
"As the Climate Institutes report notes in small print, the Swedish carbon price is levied primarily on oil, coal, natural gas and petrol.",0_0
"In a letter to Reverend Williams, CEI Senior Fellow Iain Murray, who was baptized and raised in the Anglican Church, writes, ""There is a terrible opportunity cost to drastic action to reduce climate change, and that cost would likely weigh heavier on the world's poor than the effects of global warming itself.""",0_0
"Escaping climate change: one if by land, two if by sea? No, according to recent results.",0_0
"State's response is also somewhat unbelievable because the document that fell into my hands showed State's date-stamp, the signature of a State Department official and the names of persons still living along with 30 pages of detailed instructions on how to change the IPCC's science document and the summary for policymakers.",0_0
"In my private election-prediction memo two years ago, I wrote the following words: ""Democrats are split between progressives, who seek a radical and swift move to the economic left, and centrists, who want to re-regulate and ""spread the wealth around' but nowhere near the degree of the progressives. . . . Who will win these intra-party fights? We don't know, and which faction wins and to what extent will largely determine both the health of our nation and the possibility of a quick Republican resurgence.""",0_0
"Power companies are considering new nukes in part because federal regulations have changed for the better over the past few years. Today, companies can apply to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a single license to build and operate a plant, an improvement over the old two-step process. Companies also can choose from standard designs approved by the agency.",0_0
"To put it fairly but bluntly, the global-warming alarmists have relied on a pathetic version of science in which computer models take precedence over data, and numerical averages of computer outputs are believed to be able to predict the future climate.",5_1
"54: Roy Spencer has been wrong many times. 55: In research, we are usually wrong with our initial opinions. 55: It is much easier to be wrong than right.",0_0
Steve McIntyre is auditing Mann?s libel case. He has 3 recent posts:,0_0
"Other researchers used actual historical (real-world) data for land use, atmospheric CO2 concentration, nitrogen deposition, fertilization, ozone levels, rainfall and climate combined with their knowledge of plant physiology and growth to develop a computer model that simulates plant growth responses for grasslands, forests, wetlands and agriculture in the southern United States from 1895 to 2007. They determined that net primary productivity improved by an average of 27% during this 112-year period, with most of the increased growth occurring after 1950, when carbon dioxide levels rose the most, from 310 ppm in 1950 to 395 ppm in 2007.",3_3
All this and a double dose of hottie to kick off the 2011 round-up season awaits...,0_0
"grade, according to the proposal. Other proposed revisions include",0_0
"Typically the argument says growth may have been welcome in the past, but the time has come when the costs outweigh the benefits. America is reaching the stage, so the argument goes, where it is bumping against the limits to growth.",0_0
"In the same period, a boom in the production of shale gas through the use of hydraulic fracturing technology saw a rapid switch from coal fired electricity production to gas burning.",4_5
"The Met Office says the 15-year standstill is not unusual. This is true but again the Met Office is being economical with the truth. The IPCC concluded that the period 1960-80 marked the start of mankinds domination of the Earths climate via greenhouse gas forcing. The period before 1960-80 the IPCC regarded as being solely due to natural factors. In the pre 1960-80 period there was a standstill between 1940-80. In the post 1960-80 period there was warming between 1980 96 and a standstill thereafter. The mankind-dominated era has only one standstill, which is becoming the dominant global climatic feature of this era.",1_4
"Why should you be interested? The hypothesis of manmade global warming depends on manmade greenhouse gases being the cause of the recent warming. But the 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 32 years, not manmade greenhouse gases. Scroll back up to the discussion of the East Pacific versus the Rest of the World. Ive searched sea surface temperature records for more than 4 years, and I can find no evidence of an anthropogenic greenhouse gas signal. That is, the warming of the global oceans has been caused by Mother Nature, not anthropogenic greenhouse gases.",2_1
"""I firmly believe that we will need 20 to 30 new plants by 2030 if we are to have any hope of addressing climate change and en suring our future energy security,"" said John Rowe, CEO of Exelon, in a speech delivered in May.",0_0
"""Somalia was judged the most corrupt country, followed by Myanmar and Afghanistan at joint second-worst and then by Iraq, in the Berlin-based watchdog TI's annual corruption perceptions index (CPI).""",0_0
"Now, as an aside, the term ""carbon"" (or ""carbon pollution"") is political propaganda, a rhetorical device designed to assume the answer to the underlying policy question even as it demonstrates the user's moral superiority to him/herself, to the given audience, and to the larger community of the right-thinking. Carbon dioxide, a colorless, odorless greenhouse gas, is not ""carbon,"" which is soot, or particulates in the language of environmental policy. Not only is carbon dioxide not carbon, it is not a ""pollutant,"" as some minimum atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide is necessary for life itself.",3_3
"The Cooler Heads Coalition is sponsoring a science briefing for congressional staff and media on Friday, November 5, at noon, featuring University of Virginia climatologist Patrick Michaels on ""Why We Shouldn't Sweat Global Warming."" The briefing will be held in Room 366, Dirksen Senate Office Building. Lunch will be served. For further information contact Myron Ebell or Paul Georgia at (202) 331-1010.",0_0
"Angela Merkel can't be charmed and she lacks the inner compass for ideas that Thatcher used to have. Moreover, it seems that she hasn't lived in communism: at least, she has learned nothing from that era.",0_0
Maunder Minimum of sun spots caused Little Ice Age that occurred from the 16th to the 19th centuries.,0_0
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and Im not sure about the former.",0_0
Developing from an improved observational system the empirical information and theoretical knowledge needed to assess adaptation options.,0_0
"This effort has apparently been conducted with participation thereby direct assistance and enabling by the Obama White House which, shortly after taking office, appointed Holdren's office to the lead role on IPCC work from the Department of Commerce. The plan to secretly create a FOIA-free zone was then implemented.",0_0
This is why climate mitigation makes no economic sense: the cure costs more than the disease.,4_1
"If you were to scroll up to Figures 9, 6 and 4, youd note that the scales of the anomaly graphs are very different for the three components of the top-of-the-atmosphere energy imbalance. That is, the differences in the simulated TOA outgoing shortwave radiation are so great that the y-axis on Figure 6 spans 12 watts/m^2, while the y-axis for TOA incident shortwave radiation anomalies in Figure 4 only spans 0.7 watts/m^2. To put those metrics into perspective, for Animation 1, Ive used a common scale for the spaghetti graphs of the model outputs. And to help minimize the model noise and show the differences between the models, Ive smoothed them all with 5-year running-average filters.",0_0
"5. Richard Lindzen, ""Climate Alarm: Where Does It Comes From?"" remarks to the George C. Marshall Institute, December 1, 2004, available at http://www.marshall.org/article.php?id=264.",0_0
"Climate Change. Further I cannot find a physical link between CO 2 and climate change. Even when CO 2 is increasing and climate is relatively steady, unchanging, 1900 2014. Ice ages last about 100,000 years, between warm periods of 20,000 years. The cycle period is about 120,000 years, caused by planetary motion of solar system. Lucy walked Ethiopia around 3.6 million years ago, so humans have survived >3,600,000/120,000 = >30 cycles already, by evolution and adaptation. Since current warm period began about 18,000 years ago, keep your sweater handy. CO 2 and renewables wont help much, fossil fuels combustion and nuclear power will.",2_1
"Figure 1 below tells us an interesting story about the climate of the past 800,000 years including (a) the most recent 10,000 years have generally witnessed a warming (warmer conditions are towards the right, cooler towards the left), (b) cold periods dominate the last 800,000 years, (c) climate can change rapidly, and (d) there are many periods in the past much warmer than what we have there today.",0_0
My own personal reaction to the rather lengthy reviews (12 pages worth) is that all of the reviewers rejected the idea that IPCC model projections could be compared in such a way that led to the conclusion that indicate cause for concern regarding the consistency between climate model projections and observed climate behavior under conditions of increasing anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions.,5_1
"Copenhagen climate change talks must fail, says top scientist",0_0
"Furthermore, the model was run on the basis of data from the discredited SRES scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that predict countries such as Zimbabwe, Vanuatu and North Korea overtaking the USA in per capita income by 2100. There was no discussion of the appropriateness or robustness of these data choices in the published paper.",0_0
This is Page 8 & 9 The Skeptics Handbook II. 20 page PDF,0_0
"But not only is science-led politics difficult, if not impossible, it is also potentially dangerous. Sarewitz concludes:",0_0
"EPA has perverted the Clean Air Act by declaring carbon dioxide a pollutant, despite the plain intent of the laws authors to exclude such naturally occurring gases, and despite major flaws in the science used to claim carbon dioxide endangers human health.",3_3
"The danger in EPAs authority to regulate GHGs is amplified by the fact that EPAs source of regulatory authority is the CAA. To trigger regulation under the CAA, EPA must make a finding that GHGs may reasonably be anticipated to cause or contribute to the endangerment of public health or welfare. We learned again from yesterdays decision what a permissive standard this is. At oral argument, one of Judge Sentelles first statements to petitioners counsel was something to the effect of I hope youre not going to ask us to make a judgment on the science. Personally, I am a climate skeptic I have read through the climategate emails and have been appalled. But the courts continue to show reluctance to truly engage EPAs science findings (or even to allocate sufficient words to adequately brief these highly technical issues).",0_0
"Shell fish grow in water with varying pH, yet we seem to look at decreasing the mythical sea pH is by 0.1 standard unit is supposed to be very damaging. A number of the studies tend to look at one variable, pH, and ignore others, like pollution. Are they saying that for all the ranting and raving about water quality in the Chesapeake Bay, that all we need to do is raid the pH?",3_2
"Here is an approximate, preliminary look at the winter for the 90 days ending february 26, 2011. December/January was the coldest in Florida (winter vegetables) history and remember the frosts and freezes in California and south Texas.",1_3
"Climate scientists have determined that time began in 1979, and feel verycomfortable starting most of their trend lines in that year. When generating global warming propaganda, itis important to cherry pick the coldest year for starting your trend.",5_2
"Oh, one more thing. I was surprised to learn from a ""progressive"" blog, corroborated by a renowned ""scientist"", that the releases were part of a coordinated campaign receiving vast amounts of secret funding from shady energy industry groups.",0_0
"Fortunately, we have windmills in Ireland producing almost no electricity to compensate.",4_4
"Marc started by making his point that many news stories about global warming science apply uneven labels to the advocates vs. the skeptics of catastrophic global warming theory, and that some more marginal media outlets have gone much farther, explicitly comparing climate skeptics to Holocaust deniers. Despite Marc mentioning it repeatedly, no one on the panel would comment on whether they thought such an outrageous comparison was justified.",5_2
"A news story on heat waves has appeared the Washington Post entitled More Frequent Heat Waves Linked to Global Warming U.S. and European Researchers Call Long Hot Spells Likely . Excerpts from the article on August 4, 2006 by Juliet Eilperin, Post Staff Writer, are,",0_0
"Original Image, with captions and description. The original is interactive with clickable regions for close ups.",0_0
It takes a further act of faith to think that ocean temperature and icecap melting are in any way related to carbon dioxide.,0_0
"Should we trust that future generations will be smart, well-equipped human beings capable of taking care of themselves?",0_0
"Will the Hadley Centre attempt to flatten out the appearance of a 1943/44 and/or 1944/45 El Nino in the Global SST data. That rise and fall also appears in the COADS and MOHMAT Marine Air Temperature datasets, and, as illustrated above, in the CRUTEM3 LST data. Global Ocean Cloud Cover and Wind Speed datasets also indicate anomalous variations during the war years, and cloud cover and wind speed are major drivers of SST. Refer to my posts The Large 1945 SST Discontinuity Also Appears in Cloud Cover and Marine Air Temperature Data and Part 2 of The Large SST Discontinuity Also Appears in Cloud Cover and Marine Air Temperature Data .",0_0
"Nonetheless, virtually every major national environmental organization continues to reject nuclear energy, even after four leading climate scientists wrote them an open letter last fall, imploring them to embrace the technology as a key climate solution. Together with catastrophic rhetoric, the rejection of technologies like nuclear and natural gas by environmental groups is most likely feeding the perception among many that climate change is being exaggerated. After all, if climate change is a planetary emergency, why take nuclear and natural gas off the table?",0_0
"Science will release Dr. Andrew Dessler's new paper on cloud feedback at 2 PM (EST) on Thursday and Dr. Roy Spencer will release a statement at CFACT's press conference which raises serious questions about the study and details its flaws. ""Andy Dessler's study will not stand hard scrutiny. COP16 delegates worried about the ongoing credibility problems of climate modeling will find no solace in Dessler's work,"" Spencer said.",5_1
"such opportunities as access to credit, the establishment of systems of identification, the creation of systems for credit and insurance information, the provision for housing and infrastructure, the issue of shares, the mortgage of property and a host of other economic activities that drive a modern market economy.",0_0
"As every individual, therefore, endeavors as much as he can both to employ capital in support of domestic industry, and so to direct that industry that its produce may be of the greatest value; everyindividual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it.",0_0
It seems the problem is her injury occurred in CA and she's now in MO. The doctors in MO don't want to see her due to the paperwork and issues required under the CA laws.,0_0
See the original post for explanation of the methodology and the exact programs driving these lines.,0_0
The Clinton-Gore administration wants more GEF funding to implement the Kyoto Protocol. The Senate made it clear that it will not ratify the protocol unless developing countries participate. Funding of the GEF allows the administration to claim developing countries are participating by accepting money from the American taxpayer.,0_0
"There is value in measuring how much methane is escaping into the atmosphere, since doing so allows us to identify leaks in pipelines and flawed equipment that reduce efficiency as well as potentially damaging the environment. But using an inaccurate portrayal of methane emissions as a reason to push for a ban on fracking would be bad public policy. We need the energy provided by natural gas and oil, as renewable sources cannot meet that demand.",0_0
"America depends on abundant, reliable, affordable energy 85% of it hydrocarbons. C oal generates half of all US electricity, and up to 90% in its manufacturing heartland versus 1% from wind and solar. Newfound natural gas supplies promise a sea change in US energy supplies and electricity generation. However, oil still powers transportation, shipping and petrochemicals and in 2010 the United States exported $337 billion to import 61% of this precious liquid fuel.",4_5
"By Michael Patrick Leahhy, Breitbart, Aug 12, 2015",0_0
"Malaria and yellow fever were once common in non-tropical regions. During the Little Ice Age when it was much cooler than it is today, malaria was still a major problem in Europe.33 Earlier in this century, the Soviet Union, not known for its balmy weather, experienced a major malaria epidemic. At the same time, Alaska reported many malaria cases.",0_0
"The return of China alone would be enough to make the West ""live in interesting times."" To make things even more interesting, Islam too is back, this time in the form of a totalitarianism which manages to combine an ideological comprehensiveness (Salafism) unseen since Communism and an existential nihilism (jihadism) worthy of Nazism. A generation ago, the post-Vatican II Catholic world finally espoused the 20th century, and the Church went on to play a critical role in the collapse of communism; meanwhile, under the increasing influence of Wahhabism, the Muslim world was going in the opposite direction, and this great leap backward brought them back to the 14th century.40 If the Saudi caliphate does not soon undertake its own Vatican II, chances are the Muslim world will never make it back to the 21st century.",0_0
"Plants in a CO2 enriched atmosphere generally prefer warmer temperatures than those exposed to air with lower CO2, Idso said as he described a series of experiments. The doubling of the airs Co2 concentration typically boosts the optimum temperature for plant photosynthesis by several degrees centigrade and this also raises the temperature at which plants experience heat related death.",3_3
"Since I know many of my readers are aware of error. Many are aware that using test with high errors is a well know trick to claim something is proven, when in fact, all one has done is failed to disprove using very little data. Since my readers know this trick, know that I know it, and know that any competent statistician is aware of this issue , I prefer to use methods that minimize error, while holding the error at a specified value.",0_0
"Sandy was ""unprecedented,"" the result of ""weather on steroids,"" various ""experts"" insist. ""It's global warming, stupid,"" intoned Bloomberg BusinessWeek. ""Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality,"" New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared. We must protect the great NY metropolis from rising oceans, said the Washington Post. This storm should ""compel all elected leaders to take immediate action"" on climate change, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg pronounced.",0_0
"Climate activists have no problem trying to force the people of the world to spend trillions of dollars for CO2 reductions based on the presumption that climate models are accurate. But when it comes to ozone, NRDC pleads uncertainty and then chooses increases in future ozone-forming emissions that are grossly at odds with any plausible future scenario. If anything, the statement that ""there are no reliable estimates ... extending to the mid-21st Century"" is far more applicable to greenhouse gas emissions and climate models' predictive skill than it is for smog-forming emissions.",0_0
"They are already making great strides. Just as the President Obama promised, in the interest of ending billions of years of climate change the coal industry, which has provided 18% of America's primary fuel, is now bankrupt.",4_1
Recent news reports suggest that a new syndrome call it Climate Change Derangement Syndrome (CCDS) is on the rise.,0_0
"Using data from the Energy Information Administration and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, they found that existing nuclear plants generate reliable electricity, on average, at $29.60 per megawatt-hourone million watts expended for one hour. Existing hydro, coal and natural gas arent far behind, at $34.20, $38.40 and $48.90, respectively. These figures are derived from self-reported data the government collects annually from individual generators.",0_0
"Adam Smith was insistent that the economic relationships in society need no guiding and commanding hand from government. They arise quite naturally and spontaneously among people, without political orders or directives.",0_0
"But that is not deterring Toyota, Honda, Ford Motor and several European carmakers from introducing new hybrid and plug-in models.",0_0
Extreme drought occurs in Texas during more than 25% of years. Below are all the years since 1900 which experienced Palmer Drought Index extreme drought for at least one month during the year.,1_7
"That component is the sensitivity of our atmosphere to a doubling of the concentrations of CO 2 . The activists who have tried to dominate the discussion of climate change for more than twenty years have insisted that this sensitivity is high, and will amplify the warming caused by CO 2 by 3, 4 or even 10 times the 1C of warming provided by a doubling of CO 2 alone. The Skeptics who oppose them dispute the models that have shaped Alarmist views of sensitivity and argue instead that sensitivity is only about 1C or even less.",3_1
Sea Level Rise Less Than 0.7 mm/Year And Falling,1_6
"Environmentalism, on the other hand, is deeply political. It asks for the reorganisation of the world (and other comments to that effect)",5_2
"There is already a well established system for measuring the strength of tornadoes, and a well established database to back it up. Yet Elsner has attempted to replace this with a statistical model, based on a small amount of potentially unreliable data.",0_0
Declining Discount Rates and Economic Growth Rates,0_0
"Time then for me to dig out some slides that Ive used off and on in lectures since 1999 as an illustration of Henrik Svensmarks cosmic rays in action, controlling our climate. But first, just to show that Im not being kooky, heres a graph from a 2000 paper by E. N. Lawrence of the UK Meteorological Office. TheTitanicdisaster a meteorologists perspective, related iceberg abundance at low latitudes to a scarcity of sunspots (see image top right).",0_0
"The two researchers report that ""in the context of prolonged severe droughts,"" the 20th century ""has been relatively moist compared to preceding centuries,"" and they say that their PDSI reconstruction and the Uinta Basin precipitation reconstruction indicate that ""the early to mid 17th century in particular, and portions of the 18th and 19th centuries, experienced prolonged (>10 years) dry conditions that would be unusually severe by 20th century standards,"" noting that ""the most striking example of widespread extended drought occurred during a ~45-year period between 1625 and 1670 when PDSI only rarely rose above negative values."" What it means",1_7
The opposite is occurring. Why this test was not performed eludes me. Perhaps that is because it provides yet another piece of evidence supporting the hypothesis that we have simply overstated the sensitivity of surface temperature to changes in carbon dioxide.,0_0
"Flashback 1977: CRU Director Hubert Lamb of U. of East Anglia: Climate Change Is Natural: ""Nature doesn't know what ""normal' means' Lamb: ""The idea of normal weather is an unfortunate legacy resulting from the idea that grew up in the early days of this century that the climate was constant. Nature doesn't know what ""normal' means'",0_0
"I have had over 21 inches of snow at my house, here on the valley floor, at no elevation at all. For over a month now, every morning except one or two has been below freezing. And we all remember the arctic cold just before Christmas.",1_3
"But for the last 15 years, Earths surface temperatures have failed to rise, despite rising atmospheric carbon dioxide. All climate models predicted a rapid rise in global temperatures, in conflict with actual measured data. Todays models are often unable to predict weather conditions for a single season, let alone long-term climate trends.",5_1
"NASA in 1999: ""Winter in the Northern Hemisphere will continue to warm' Warmists in 2010: ""Global warming means colder and snowier winters in Europe and North America' Nostradamus Science: Warmist predict anything could potentially happen then any climate event is conveniently ""consistent' with their global warming theory!",0_0
"What is far from clear is the influence, if any, from CO2. Its influence must be very small, for it seems easily overwhelmed by natural influences such as the PDO and the three phenomena studied by SteveF.",2_1
Al Gore testifies before committees in both the House and Senate today on global warming.,0_0
A LEADING global warming expert believes the latest UN warning on man-made climate change is a ???big gamble?? as temperatures have not increased since 1997.,1_4
"By Brent Kendall and Amy Harder, WSJ, Via GWPF, Aug 9, 2015",0_0
"Where classical liberals see molehills of individual responsibility, politics can make mountains of government accountability. Look what the Soviet Union's Himalaya of a government was able to do with atomic power at Chernobyl.",0_0
Chitons Facing Ocean Acidification Grit Their Teeth and Prosper (6 April 2015),0_0
"Well, the mainstream American media, predictably enough, have totally ignored the entire scandal. There is, however, that small phenomenon of which they may not be aware, and for which they can thank none other than His Greenness Al Gore. Yes, that's right: a surprising number of Americans are now using the Internet, and are finding that the newspapers of England are as engaged by the Climategate scandal as ours are ignorant of it.",0_0
"The GangesBrahmaputra delta is the dumping ground of the Himalayas. As wind and rain erode the mountain range, massive rivers carry more than a billion tonnes of sediment into the Bay of Bengal each year; in some places, the layer deposited since the most recent ice age is more than one kilometre thick. As in all deltas, this loose material compacts easily, causing the land to sink slowly and the relative sea level to rise. In the past, sediment carried downstream each year would have refreshed the delta. But agriculture, industry and hydroelectric dams have diverted water and choked the flow of sediments, so the land is no longer being rebuilt.",0_0
"Unfortunately for the politicians and spin-meisters, the facts do not support this obscene posturing.",0_0
"Europe's economy has contracted and, after a mild winter, continent-wide demand for energy has declined. Thus, power utilities have been operating at lower capacity levels, resulting in less carbon dioxide and other airborne pollutants being released into European airspace. Recent economic data shows the European economy worsening this spring, which could mean even lower demand from utilities and industry for tradable emission permits, leaving the long-term viability of the EU ETS in doubt.",0_0
"""Since its passage, an ever increasing number of academics, politicians, and industry members have come out against the . The arguments of those opposing UIGEA have varied, but a popular and effective argument in light of the economic crisis is the potential for tax revenue that congress might draw from the lucrative online gaming industry. Barney Frank who will reintroduce a measure to repeal UIGEA, legalize and tax internet gaming as any other legitimate business, again had principled words for his fellow lawmakers using tax revenue as an excuse.""",0_0
"Here is just one more indication that despite what some would like you to believe, the MWP was not a regional non event.",0_0
"As the air's CO 2 content rises, water losses via evapotranspiration from wheat fields will likely be reduced. Consequently, wheat will likely fare better under drought conditions and should additionally display increased water-use efficiency.",3_3
"So if they are using temperature and salinity to come up with pH, how can they determine that the ???ocean acidification?? they claim in the PR is truly a function of dissolved CO2, and not just part of the normal regional and seasonal salinity pattern? That concern is backed up by one of the images in a photo collage they present with the paper , which shows what seems to be a salinity image from the Aquarius instrument, note the arrow:",5_1
"Moreover, as the members of Congress gear up for the 2014 election cycle, their attention will be on fundraising.",0_0
"This is legislative thuggery, andenergy realists shouldpounce it whenever it rears its ugly head. Our response should be always, Take that gun away fromour head, and then well debate the merits of your cap-and-trade bill.",0_0
"Yes, not even that. According to the IPCC the global temperature has risen by about 0.74 degrees C. In jmfrelse with Linderholm's data is not much to react ver. Especially as we have not seen someone tempera Turkish accession in the 2000s.",0_0
"Easily one of the most important stories of 2008 has been all the evidence suggesting that this may be looked back on as the year when there was a turning point in the great worldwide panic over man-made global warming. Just when politicians in Europe and America have been adopting the most costly and damaging measures politicians have ever proposed, to combat this supposed menace, the tide has turned in three significant respects.",0_0
"According to the Spanish scientists who conducted the work, their data suggest that ""under future environmental conditions, barley species will be able to succeed in salinized areas in which growth is not currently possible."" This phenomenon, quite obviously, should prove a great blessing to humanity. Reviewed 7 April 2010",3_2
Focussing our scientific and policy efforts onclimate model simulations that are able only to predict (at best) the response to increasing greenhouse gases and carbon mitigation policies are strategies with diminishing returns and likelihoods.,0_0
"In the mutli-decadal climate battle, organizations like Heartland have only recently erected a forum for scientists who do not embrace catastrophism, so that they may present their results and bypass what had been a media blackout. The initial, hockey-stick phase of the catastrophists response, while making use of tangential slurs about their opponents purportedly corrupt motivation, consisted largely in attempts at scientific counter-argument.",5_2
"Claims that the only way to stop methane from having a greater warming impact on the planet is to stop fracking entirely are not supported by the scientific data. It is true the science of measuring methane is an evolving science that utilizes progressively less-flawed methods, but few studies have as many shortcomings as the ones promoted most by Bill McKibben.",0_0
Attorneys General Global Warming Lawsuit: A Desperation Ploy,0_0
"PR from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, Dec 25th, 2013:",0_0
It turns out that few people understand how the IPCC makes some of its most important decisions.,0_0
"First, carbon taxes are not strictly a tax on bads (i.e. greenhouse gases), they are a tax on economic inputs: virtually all economic activity relies on energy consumption. In that regard, carbon taxes are taxes on both bads and goods. Sure, they tax greenhouse gases, but they also tax food, medicines, clothing, housing, transport, etc.",0_0
"In the words of the authors, ""virtually all of the heat transport in the southern hemisphere is confined to a shallow circulation in the upper 500m,"" while ""in the northern hemisphere a contribution by a deeper circulation is still present and represents the contribution of North Atlantic Deep Water."" However, they say ""it only amounts to 0.4 PW out of the total , the rest being surface intensified."" What it means",0_0
"We need to do that, and can do it without hurting the environmental values we all cherish.",0_0
"FURTHER READING: Andrew Biggs exposes ""The Protected Class,"" Robert McHenry discusses ""Culture and Its Discontents,"" and Jay Richards explains ""Greed Is Not Good, and It's Not Capitalism."" Kevin Hassett argues ""Obama's Obsession Drives Progress in Reverse"" while Arthur Brooks and Peter Wehner make ""The Moral Case for Capitalism.""",0_0
"Days after being challenged here to come out of the closet, Craig Emerson peeks out:",0_0
Natural Gas Rig - Suncor Energy (Photo credit: Suncor Energy ),0_0
"The trend of the warming since circa 1650 A.D., the nadir of the LIA, was well within natural variability.",2_1
"Although, much remains to be learned on this subject, it is clear that many corals will not succumb to the presumed negative impacts of rising temperatures and ocean acidification. And when adaptive and evolutionary responses are considered, it may be that few, if any, corals will actually suffer harm from increases in these two phenomena. In fact, many coral species could well benefit from the warmer ocean temperatures and higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations predicted for the years and decades ahead.",3_2
"One of the standard excuses for the team to ignore Antarctic sea ice has been the Arctic is losing sea ice much faster than the Antarctic has been gaining it. As is normally the case with climate experts, they have no cluewhat they are talking about. The graph below shows Antarctic sea ice in red, and Arctic sea ice in green.",1_1
"Not one of these people did their jobs: the professor did not write the book himself, the assistant plagiarized instead of researching, the dean and the committee did not hold the professor accountable, and all ended up rewarded. By contrast, for example, learned papers and distinguished careers in climatology at MIT (Richard Lindzen) or UVA (S. Fred Singer) are not enough for their questions about ""global warming"" to be taken seriously. For our ruling class, identity always trumps.",0_0
Clouds have an albedo effect that exceeds the green house effect so the net effect of clouds is cooling.,0_0
"And it has the standard picture of stacks with white smoke coming out of them, so we will see the carbon pollution.",0_0
"Getting higher crop yields per unit of water used in the process of obtaining them will be a key element of mankind's struggle to feed our ever-increasing numbers over the next four decades, when our food needs are expected to double (Parry and Hawkesford, 2010); and with both land and water shortages looming on the horizon, we are going to need all of the help we can possibly get to grow the extra needed food. Fortunately, the results of this meta-analysis coming out of Belgium point to one important avenue by which such very substantial help can come, but it will only come if the air's CO 2 content is allowed to rise unimpeded .",3_3
"Even so, Australians now know that China has a charming and formidable leader who visited the country and offered something of value to Canberra.",0_0
"A major conclusion of our analysis is that there are large uncertainties associated with the surface temperature trends from the poorly-sited stations. Moreover rather than providing additional independent information, the use of the data from poorly-sited stations provides a false sense of confidence in the robustness of the surface temperature trend assessments.",5_1
"Dow, through AEA, now writes on its website that it opposes ""unfettered"" free trade and urges ""caution."" It's hoping to indefinitely delay a final decision by the DOE and the Administration.",0_0
?Subsequent evidence? Need to convince readers that there really has been,0_0
Global Warming / Environment / Energy:,0_0
"However, the exclusion stipulates that all large-scale field tests, as well as any field release of biotech organisms involving unusual species or novel modifications, still generally require an Environmental Assessment or EIS. But the list of excluded or included activities could be modified via notice-and-comment rulemaking in which the agency sets forth the complete analysis and rationale for excluding the activity. The USDA could propose categorical exclusions for some of the classes of genetically engineered crops with which it now has more than two decades' of pre-commercial and commercial experience, including herbicide-tolerant varieties of common crop species. But such carve-outs would leave intact NEPA's fundamentally flawed, process-based approach to biotechnology.",0_0
"Lew said that the economy is strong and more resilient after 40 months of growth but the economic recovery is not fast enough, which led Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday to ask whether approving the pipeline would help speed up job growth.",0_0
China had doubled its 2015 solar power goal to 10 GW after the Japanese nuclear power crisis.,0_0
"Russia is demanding that it receive guarantees from the European Union and Japan that they will buy Russian carbon dioxide credits before it will agree to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, according to the Japanese newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun (March 28, 2002). Kyoto supporters want the protocol to come into force before the World Summit on Sustainable Development in late August.",0_0
The fact that we found it difficult to discern warming trends at many stations that are not located in rapidly developing urban areas may indicate that the actual increase in global temperature caused by anthropogenic perturbation is less pronounced than estimated in the last IPCC Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change .,5_1
"AR5 gives a likely (1783% probability) range for TCR of 1.02.5C, pretty much in line with the 595% CMIP5 model TCR range (from fitting a Normal distribution) but with a downgraded certainty level. How does that compare with the observational evidence in AR5? Figure 10.20a thereof, reproduced as Figure 2 here, shows various observationally based TCR estimates.",0_0
"""The unemployment rate and the nation's increasingly precarious fiscal position its enormous budget deficits and its ballooning debt will be the dual points of emphasis in President Obama's second State of the Union address on Tuesday.""",0_0
"have eluded others for health reform, entitlement reform, climate change? Those",0_0
"Put in such stark terms the choice isn't that difficult, Murray notes. ""Marxism brought us the Gulags. The worst that most commentators can say about free enterprise these days is that it brought us McDonalds.""",0_0
Elected: I'm now vice chair at my local UKIP branch,0_0
"That's an odd position to take about the only viable technology capable of producing reliable, industrial-sized amounts of zero-emissions power. Either it betrays a fundamental misunderstanding about energy basics, or it suggests the president's pledge to move to a green economy is more about serving Democratic constituencies (environmentalists and labor unions) than about curbing emissions to save us from global warming and rising sea levels.",0_0
"Unemployment will bring reduced nutrition, increased stress and higher rates of heart attack and stroke, spousal and child abuse, alcohol and drug abuse, suicide and premature death. The social, economic and health care costs will further ""fundamentally transform"" America, as President Obama says he is determined to do.",0_0
"Rahmstorf is a real piece of work. When it comes to global sea level, he happily chucked the tide gauge data and instead used the 1992-2005 subset of the satellite data. But when it comes to local sea level data like the northeastern US, he happily ignores the satellite data and sticks religiously to tide gauge data.",5_2
"Nice disection of the moral argument. However, it is surely best defeated by pointing out that CO2 is a fertilizer and good for the planet.",0_0
"A linear fit to anomalies show warming from the 1971 through 2012 was approximately 0.16C/decade. In contrast the recent decadal trend ending in 2012 was -0.05C/dec. Moreover, the 11 and 12 year trends ending in 2012 are -0.05C/dec and -0.02 C/decade respectively. All 13-year or longer term trends ending in 2012 are positive.",1_4
Assessing the Agenda for Congress' First 100 Hours,0_0
"""While Senator Claire McCaskil works to roll back the Clean Air Act",0_0
"My own experience makes me skeptical of how environmental forecasting is being used. In 1991, several colleagues and I drew national and international attention when we used a computer model to forecast possible effects of global warming on an endangered species. Our computer program forecast that the Kirtland?s warbler, the first songbird in America ever subjected to a complete census, would likely face extinction by 2010. Its habitat, jack pine trees, would be unable to thrive in conditions that climate computer programs forecast for southern Michigan, the only place and only trees where the bird nested.",0_0
"Bendigo News, sport and weather | Bendigo Advertiser",0_0
"Nature CAN cope with climate change: Unusual behaviour of plants and animals suggests we??ve underestimated their ability to adapt, claim studies",3_2
"If someone is still wondering why anyone would take these risks, or sees only a breach of privacy here, a few words",0_0
"Instead of thinking as economists, we should think as international relations realists. In the realist school of thought, a man comports with another?s will only in proportion to the cudgel wielded over his head. We will not, solely through moral suasion, convince others to act against their own national interests.",0_0
"There is a lot more 3+ metre thick ice than there was two years ago, when David Barber declared that all the multiyear ice was gone.",1_1
"In Figure 2 of the blog article , CRU had displayed two chronology variations, falsely asserting that I had heavily promoted these versions as follows:",0_0
"As of 1974, climate experts showed a strong temperature spike around 1940, followed by plummeting temperatures until the 1970s, with 1970 actually cooler than 1900.",2_1
"Update January 24 2012 : There are other insightful discussions of this paper, including",0_0
3. INABILITY FOR GCM MODELS TO PROPERLY RESOLVE REGIONS OF OCEAN UPWELLING WHOSE COLD WATERS CAN ENHANCE THE OCEANIC UPTAKE OF CARBON DIOXIDE,5_1
"(*This column has been edited lightly for clarity, May 22, 2013.)",0_0
"6) Imports are constrained by the ICTs to France and Holland, which already running close to capacity. Unless investment is made to expand this capacity, then there is little room for increased imports. In any event, there is the question of how much spare capacity France or Holland would have during periods of high demand or low wind output.",0_0
"He will argue that the 2008 Climate Change Act, which ties Britain into stringent targets to reduce the use of fossil fuels, should be suspended until other countries agree to take similar measures. If they refuse, the legislation should be scrapped altogether, he will say.",4_2
"Kenneth P. Green, Steven F. Hayward, and Kevin A. Hassett, ""Climate Change: Caps vs. Taxes,"" Environmental Policy Outlook, June 1, 2007. (Washington: American Enterprise Institute). Available at http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.26286/pub detail.asp.",0_0
"A&N; then adds the excuses of trade winds, volcanic activity and solar activity give us cooling that hides the warming. As I recall volcanoes were an afterthought to explain the pause that the warmists denied. I seem to recall a number of denials of solar activity having any influence on the climate, except when they need it. Then we have excess heat being buried in deep ocean waters. All based on the theory that water, being less dense than cold water, sinks to the bottom.",1_4
"The close of the cooling event is coincident with a major transition from zonal to mixed flow in the North Pacific, indicating once again a global-scale association between Antarctic and North Pacific climate. It was also coincident with the onset of the modern rise in CO2, which has been followed by the warmest temperatures of the last 700 years in West Antarctica, indeed possibly the warmest of the past 10,000 years.",0_0
"Both domestic programs that subsidize risk-taking and international aid programs that subsidize risk taking should be phased out as quickly as possible, replaced with fully-priced insurance regimes. Eliminating risk subsidies would show people some of the true cost of living in climatically risky areas, and would, over time, lead them to move to climatically safer places where they can afford to insure their property and safety.",0_0
"Still, Akasofu doesnt completely deny the existence of climate change, so much as question what causes it. One culprit he suggested is the recent lack of sunspots.",2_1
Heres the clip from todays World Bank media event announcing its new report on climate:,0_0
"Moreover, measurement of carbon content, which would be required for tariffs or sanctions to be implemented, is costly. Most major products include components from many different countries involving many different production practices. Which ones should be the benchmarks? It seems obvious that there is great potential for protectionism and the loss of the many gains generated by international trade.",0_0
Australias antarctic runway melting | Island of Contrast,0_0
"The roller coaster ride actually looked for a day like it might cross the 2009 line, but soon turned down again, ending this week at 5,142,813. Heres the recent JAXA data",0_0
The report says EPAs proposed new source performance standard for hydraulic fracturing could cut unconventional natural gas production by up to 11 percent and unconventional oil production by as much as 37 percent by 2015,4_1
"Heres the reasonwhen you are sick you are susceptible to infections, and I am here to assert you are not a sterile thingyou have bugs everywhere, on your skin, in your nose, mouth, throat, and respiratory tract, certainly in your intestines, and in female genital tracts. Male urinary tracts are relatively free of bugs.",0_0
"The DN writes Omar Daham enthusiastic about the German energiewende and how individual hushll and villages around puts up their own solar collectors and Gnar up for biotervinning. Although the subsidies cost a lot, but ND.",0_0
"A recent study (Idso, 2013) reviewed a large collection of such literature as it applies to the worlds 45 most important food crops (making up 95% of the worlds annual agricultural production). Idso (2013) summarized his findings on the increase in biomass of each crop that results from a 300ppm increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide under which the plants were grown. This table is reproduced below, and shows that the typical growth increase exceeds 30% in most crops, including 8 of the worlds top 10 food crops (the increase was 24% and 14% in the other two).",3_3
India to build observatory to study neutrino particles:,0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Energy & Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell on the action in Congress needed to increase access to domestic energy sources:,0_0
"Jacobson noted that some carbon particles specifically white and gray carbon, the variants associated with some types of ash can exert a cooling effect because they reflect sunlight. That must be weighed against the warming qualities of the black and brown carbon particles and CO 2 emissions generated by biomass combustion to derive a net effect.",0_0
"CO 2 emissions due to human activity rose gradually from the onset of the Industrial Revolution, reaching ~1 billion tonnes per year (expressed as carbon) by 1945, and then accelerated to ~9 billion tonnes per year by 2007. Since ~1945 when CO 2 emissions accelerated, Earth experienced ~22 years of warming, and ~40 years of either cooling or absence of warming.",2_3
Some Democrats seem to be convinced Romney doesn't stand for that ? and therefore want him to be the one to face President Obama in November 2012.,0_0
"All of which proves we're far from down and out in the space race, and that even old technologies work when we're committed to their success.",0_0
"fired on 5-of-6 humor elements, which is virtually unheard of.",0_0
Obamacare beneficiaries have also funded Obama's inaugural committee.,0_0
"A more complex matter is whether mature technologies should be subsidized. My instinctive response is no, but there is a case to be made that if low cost and reliable energy sources can be made even less expensive to homeowners and businesses, then there can be genuine societal and business benefits to be gained from that. Again, this is not the case for wind or solar.",4_4
"Ms. Figueres lectured, ""To be a success, Durban needs to address further commitments of developed countries under the Kyoto Protocol.""",0_0
"Robert Bradley, CEO and founder of the Institute for Energy Research, said: ""BP put form over substance and took their eye off the ball."" Bradley called ""Beyond Petroleum"" ""a failed corporate strategy . BP went after an environmental fad, basked in the glow of the Left environmental movement, and now may have destroyed itself in the process.""",0_0
"Latest figures, available for 2012 from the EIA, show that fossil fuels accounted for 82% of electricity generation, with wind/solar contributing less than 3%.",0_0
"As a result of these various phenomena, Darbah et al .'s gas exchange measurements indicated that whereas the CO 2 -induced stimulation of net photosynthesis in aspen clone 42E was about 31% over the leaf temperature range 32-35C, it was approximately 218% over the temperature range 36-39C, while for aspen clone 171 the corresponding enhancements were 38 and 199%, and for the birch trees they were 95 and 297%.",3_3
"One of the big lies of 2012 is that March and July were the hottest ever in the US. According to GHCN HCN daily temperatures, those records were actually set more than 100 years ago, in 1910 and 1901.",1_7
Greenland did have a warm period ten years ago but temperatures have been plummeting ever since.,1_2
"Read More: Swedish Church's episcopal letter about the climate. Lena Krantz, Climate Enlightenment 2014-08-01.",0_0
Threat of Kyoto is leading to wholesale deforestation in New Zealand.,0_0
"This is the same EPA leading the effort to shut down coal-fired plants that produce electricity. It is the same EPA seeking to stop the Pebble Mine, described as ""a natural resource project in Alaska that could yield more copper than has ever been found in one place anywhere in the world.""",0_0
"Heartland Institute Conference: CO2 Rise Increases Biodiversity, Crop Yields",3_3
"Romney also has no economic plan to speak of, and liberal New Republic writer Jonathan Chait blogged Monday it's because doing so would ""undercut the political salience of his managerial reputation."" In other words, ""he'll be running as the advocate of a specific program rather than the guy who will do for America what he did at Bain Capital"" as a successful ""turnaround artist.""",0_0
"Though climate models have proved to be an obvious inconvenient truth, alarmists continue to ignore this elephant in the room.",5_1
"Here's the thing. All of the sciences are becoming increasingly specialized. So most ""scientists"" Abraham and, a fortiori, the accident-prone Monbiot among them have no more expertise in predicting or even understanding the strange behavior of the complex, non-linear, chaotic object that is the Earth's climate than the man on the Clapham omnibus.",0_0
Miliband's Decarbonisation Policy Won't Work,0_0
"In conclusion, the EPA Endangerment findings is the culmination of a several year effort for a small group of climate scientists and others to use their positions as lead authors on the IPCC, CCSP and NRC reports to promote a political agenda.",5_2
"Both of these questions are poorly formulated also because each assumes that respondents accept that global warming is happening. But the U.K. Met Office data released earlier this month demonstrates that there has been no overall warming for 16 years. Since all of the events listed as choices for question #2 occurred in the past two years, ?global warming? could not possibly have made them worse.",1_4
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on what such a reduction would entail:,0_0
"Hansen drew comments from a report released by the WWF in the summer of 2002 titled, Polar Bears at Risk. This report also fingered climate change as the major threat to polar bear well-being.",0_0
"Along with Minister of Planning Jarbawi and others who think deeply about the state they hope to see emerge from the negotiating process, Fayyad has been developing the literature that will inform and instruct his constituencies. For example, the Palestinian National Authority official program document outlining its agenda, Palestine: Ending the Occupation, Establishing the State, proclaims that ""the state will forever be a peace-loving state that rejects violence; it is committed to peaceful co-existence with the world community of nations."" The leadership further pledges a democratic state that ""respects human rights and guarantees equal rights for all citizens. Its people live in safety and security under the rule of law, safeguarded by an independent judiciary and professional security services.""",0_0
"We can identify such hostility as a stated aversion to the risk-of-loss and as a withering contempt for the achievement-of-gain. Both, of course, being the corresponding sides of the same speculative coin which environmentalism preoccupies itself with in its project to circumvent the process and thereby disenfranchise the external power requiring it.",0_0
"8,200 years ago, the post-Ice Age interglacial warm period was interrupted by a sudden global cooling that lasted for a few centuries (Fig. 3). During this time, alpine glaciers advanced and built moraines. The warming that followed the cool period was also abrupt. Neither the abrupt climatic cooling nor the warming that followed was preceded by atmospheric CO 2 changes.",2_3
Yet this startling growth has not produced so much as a twentieth of a Celsius degree of global warming. Any warming below the measurement uncertainty of 0.05 C in the global-temperature datasets is statistically indistinguishable from zero.,1_4
"An incredible oil boom is underway, destroying the governments measely estimates for production and getting the US to the point where we will soon challenge Saudi Arabia for the worlds biggest producer",0_0
"Another member of Gorbachev's very small original coterie of liberalizers, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, was just as pained by ubiquitous lawlessness and corruption. He recalls telling Gorbachev in the winter of 1984-1985: ""Everything is rotten. It has to be changed.""",0_0
"That wasn't the end of it. Dr. Carlin was then directed not to spend any more EPA time on climate change, and was even forbidden to speak with anyone outside the agency regarding endangerment issues.",0_0
"hen the extra N2O emission from biofuel production is calculated in ""CO2-equivalent"" global warming terms, and compared with the quasi-cooling effect of ""saving"" emissions of fossil fuel derived CO2, the outcome is that the production of commonly used biofuels, such as biodiesel from rapeseed and bioethanol from corn (maize), depending on N fertilizer uptake efficiency by the plants, can contribute as much or more to global warming by N2O emissions than cooling by fossil fuel savings.",0_0
"A plethora of peer reviewed studies provide absolute confirmation that prior periods were indeed warmer than our modern era; that both warming and cooling affected the entire globe and not just the European/North Atlantic region; and, that the significant prior climate change was entirely natural, not from human CO2 emissions.",2_1
"Brian Christley, a resident of Abergele, Wales, wrote to the Daily Telegraph : Over the weekend just gone, the coldest of the year so far, all 100-plus off-shore wind turbines along the North Wales coast were idling very slowly, all using grid power for de-icing and to power their hydraulic systems that keep the blades facing in the same direction.",4_4
"Americans Hit by Excessive Federal Regulations, Threatened by New Energy Rationing",0_0
and the key to winning that support is to show clearly which party is,0_0
national security policy execution; he watches President Obama and his advisers,0_0
"Popular in the 1970s, disaster movies now fail to capture the public's interestfew people want to see films in which the plot revolves around something big and impersonal going really wrong. Quite simply, these movies have no real plotno villains, no moral conflicts, and no struggles beyond survival. Sure, we've had Twister and Armageddon in recent years, but reappearances of this genre are rare.",0_0
"In reality, the cost penalty for the participants would be higher than Nordhaus has estimated because the compliance cost of carbon monitoring, reporting, policing and disputation has not been included. The compliance cost per unit of GHG emissions would escalate as smaller and smaller emissions sources are included.",0_0
"Truly these days, in more ways than one, are we moving towards a new dark age. Fortunately, however, the latest available data show the downward trend in global temperatures continuing, At least the one thing we dont need to worry about, it seems, is global warming.",1_4
"Just as important, the image of Congress is far more that of a dysfunctional body riven with partisanship than a well-oiled, or even marginally oiled machine working hard to help the country and its people with their daily challenges. On this front, the blame is widespread, going both to an irresponsible minority and an insensitive majority.",0_0
Federal global warming program director of Environment America,0_0
"Researchers at the University of Alabama-Huntsville have published evidence supporting Richard Lindzen's iris theory, which says that when the Earth's surface warms, cirrus clouds open up to let the heat out. They have analysed data on rainfall and cloud cover and the heat escaping to space. They find a strong negative feedbank , confirming Lindzen's theory and directly contradicting the alarmist case.",3_1
"According to the RSS satellite data, since September 1996 there has been no global warming for 210 months (17 years 6 months). NOAA?s 2008 State of the Climate report said 15+ years without warming would show a discrepancy between prediction and observation. There has been no warming in central England for 25 years.",1_4
"Sea level is not rising as predicted. In some interpretations of the sea level data, it has not been rising since 2004.",1_6
"Petitioners in Mass v. EPA denied the case posed any risks to the U.S. economy,claiming, for example, that, The NAAQS program is entirely separate from the mobile source program at issue in this case( Initial Brief of Petitioners , August 31, 2006, p. 28). Not so.",0_0
"Where do these people come up with this crap? The last 13 months has been barely above average, and almost half a degree cooler than 1998",0_0
"Massachusetts v. EPA held that the general term ?air pollutant? includes greenhouse gases, but that doesn?t mean it can never be used in a narrower sense in specific statutory contexts. In a law as complex as the CAA, identical words can be employed differently in different programs. For example, Kavanaugh observes, in Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy Corp., 549 U.S. 561, 574 (2007), the Supreme Court ruled that the EPA could interpret the term ?modification? differently for the New Source Review (NSR) and New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) programs, even though ?the terms share a common statutory definition.?",0_0
Rudman offensive but NZ temp record dubious,5_1
"By Judith Curry, Climate Etc. Aug 13, 2015",0_0
"And who is George Lucier? Hes a senior bureaucrat who has spent 28 years as a ward of the taxpayers at the National Institute for environmental Health Sciences. His only awards are from the federal agency that employs him. He is a toxicologist, and there is no reason to think he knows as much about the science of global warming as Seitz.",0_0
"Growth skepticism's rise to orthodoxy has tremendously damaging consequences for America and the world. Within the developed world, it means accepting as permanent a situation in which many people struggle to get by. Many people live in poverty, and many more struggle to maintain an apparent middle-class status.",0_0
"After this exchange, I lst part of a recent SPPI report by William M. Gray, who strongly criticize precisely the section of the IPCC AR4 that is about hurricanes. He has genomfrt own extensive research over more than 55 years and has supervised an impressive number of graduate students in the hurricane research. He cites, among other things one of Maues figures, showing hurricane development since the 1970s. ACE (= Global A cumulated C yclon E nergy is an index based on the cyclone squared wind speed was 6 hours as long hurricane lasts.",0_0
"""This is a trade barrier in the name of environmental protection, and it constitutes an attack on the interests of travellers and the international aviation industry,"" it said in an editorial. ""It will be difficult to avoid a trade war focused on a ""carbon tax' for airlines.""",0_0
"The link is the putting the evidence in context. It is weighing the argument against the counter-arguments, the significant facts. It happens not just in the judicial system, but in religion, in politics and in our work and in our personal life. If we are not always on our guard against putting the evidence in context, then wrong decisions will be made just as easily as the juries made the wrong decisions in these two cases.",0_0
"At the current sea-level-equivalent ice-loss rate of 0.05 millimeters per year, it would take a full millennium to raise global sea level by just 5 cm, and it would take fully 20,000 years to raise it a single meter.",1_6
"Cop driving pick-up truck runs over woman, 21, sleeping on the beach | Mail Online",0_0
"Atmospheric carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. It is a non-toxic, non-irritating, and natural component of the atmosphere. Long-term CO2 enrichment studies confirm the findings of shorter-term experiments, demonstrating numerous growth-enhancing, water-conserving, and stress-alleviating effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on plants growing in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.",3_3
"However, he predicted bushfires would burn far less area in central Australia by 2070 as hotter, drier, weather reduced the amount of fuel blazes had to feed on.",0_0
All countries act in unison to increase the optimal carbon price periodically and continue to maintain the carbon price at the optimal level for all of this century (and beyond).,0_0
"Thanks to Lyn Jenkins,Dean Koehler and Laurel for these links",0_0
"The Republican Party has become an insurgent outlier in American politics ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.",0_0
"He recounts the derision of historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and economist John Kenneth Galbraith Cambridge neighbors after the war for Harry Truman, the onetime haberdasher and member of veterans' groups and service clubs.",0_0
"An approximate 180% increase in the air's CO 2 content more than doubled the dry mass produced by well-watered and fertilized St. John's wort plants, while it also more than doubled the concentrations of both hypericin and pseudohypericen found in their tissues, which means that the CO 2 increase more than quadrupled the total production of these two health-promoting substances. This study thus joins several others we describe in our Major Report - Enhanced or Impaired? Human Health in a CO 2 -Enriched Warmer World - as an excellent example of what elevated levels of atmospheric CO 2 can do for medicinal and health-promoting plants: a lot! Reference",3_3
"Radio Free Europe; With the Winter Olympics less than six weeks away, the security spotlight has been focused on host city Sochi, nestled uncomfortably close to Russia's volatile North Caucasus republics and their ongoing Islamic insurgency. But Andrei Soldatov, the editor of agentura.ru, a Russian site dedicated to terrorism and intelligence, says the Volgograd attacks -- which took place 650 kilometers northeast of Sochi -- throw such planning into disarray. Related?",0_0
"""As the snow of the coldest March since 1963 continues to fall, we learn that we have barely 48 hours' worth of stored gas left to keep us warm, and that the head of our second-largest electricity company, SSE, has warned that our generating capacity has fallen so low that we can expect power cuts to begin at any time. It seems the perfect storm is upon us.",0_0
"Peter S on April 29, 2015 at 2:40 pm",0_0
"The coalition alleged that the method used to collect national temperature records, which show a national warming trend of almost one degree Celsius in the past century, almost 50 per cent above the global average, had been unscientific. That had created an unrealistic and unreliable indication of climate warming, it said.",5_1
"Independent data analyst Steven Goddard recently released a study of the officially adjusted U.S. temperature records used by NASA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other scientists who say they prove we are dangerously warming. (You didn't even know they adjust the raw data, did you?)",5_1
"That's right, kids in their early-to-mid-twenties with precious little experience in the real world have figured it out. With the grad students' criteria in hand, cities can be monitored for the seriousness with they are meeting their commitment to battle the scourge of climate change.",0_0
"Cogley, J.G. 2011. Present and future states of Himalaya and Karakoram glaciers. Annals of Glaciology 52 : 69-73.",0_0
"Thus, he advocated ``restraint in speculating on the meaning of the convention or on possible differences between the convention and customary law.''",0_0
The problem is not that the mathematical theories are wrong; they almost never are. But because the math is right does not imply that it is applicable to any real-world problems.,0_0
"TCR represents the increase in 20-year mean global temperature over a 70 year timeframe during which CO 2 concentrations, rising throughout at 1% p.a. compound, double. More generally, paraphrasing from Section 10.8.1 of AR5 WG1,TCR can be thought of as a generic property of the climate system that determines the global temperature response T to any gradual increase in (effective) radiative forcing (ERF see AR5 WGI glossary, here ) F taking place over a ~70-year timescale, normalised by the ratio of the forcing change to the forcing due to doubling CO 2 , F 2xCO2 : TCR = F 2xCO2 T/F. This equation permits warming resulting from a gradual change in ERF over a 6080 year timescale, at least, to be estimated from the change in ERF and TCR. Equally, it permits TCR to be estimated from such changes in global temperature and in ERF.",0_0
"A keynote presentation entitled the Road to High Noon included the following graphic (also linked in Anthonys article) as authority for the claim that Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate",0_0
Where might that ``dynamic and evolving body of law'' end up? The U.S. Senate must answer that question before it considers ratifying LOST.,0_0
"By the end of 2012, just 750 MW of wind energy was installed in New England although thousands of wind megawatts have been proposed. Most projects are small, averaging under 40 MW. Without substantial public support including the federal production tax credit and RPS mandates, most of the installed wind would not have been built at all.",4_4
"Michael Jeacock, a Cambridgeshire local historian, added that a generation was growing up ""without experiencing one of the greatest joys and privileges of living in this part of the world open-air skating"".",0_0
"Coming from the UK, CEI Senior Fellow Iain Murray knows a little something about the history of political empires. Today, however, we find ourselves faced with a new era of eco-imperialism, particularly in the field of global warming policy. Iain explains:",0_0
"Polar Bears are used so frequently by the warmers that it??s become accepted wisdom that they are threatened . In fact, the polar bear population has doubled to over 25,000 in the past 20 years. The US Government??s recent decision to list the species as threatened was a political decision to avoid a court battle, and has no foundation.",3_2
"As a curiosity, I can also name a Professor Erik Svensson in Lund also written a small blogginlgg about Climategate.",0_0
Carbon cuts: first world vs third world,0_0
"EMMA ALBERICI: And tomorrow night, in the second part of this special report, could the British Antarctic explorer Robert Scott have lived? We look at how Professor Turney discovered that choosing the right team can be a matter of life and death.",0_0
"So, if we take what the best science gives us, we find that pretty close to half of the warming that is currently indicated by the extant global temperature datasets may be from influences other than anthropogenic greenhouse gas increasesperhaps a bit less, perhaps a bit more.",0_0
"Blocking Keystone hasn't prevented Canadian oil from coming into the USA. Back in 2008, when the pipeline was proposed, the U.S. was importing 2.5 million barrels of oil per day from Canada. By August of this year, it was 3.9 million barrels per day. In other words, since 2008, just the increase in Canadian oil coming to the USA amounts to more than 1.5 times the capacity of Keystone XL, which was designed to carry 830,000 barrels a day.",0_0
"With those preliminaries out of the way, here are the global temperature trends in the two most well-known global analyses, from 1978 to the most recent time available:",0_0
"Congressman Grijalva and Senators Markey, Boxer and Whitehouse sent letters to universities, think tanks and companies, demanding detailed information on skeptics funding and activities in an attempt to destroy their funding, reputations and careers, while advancing crony climate alarm science . Equally intolerable, Democrats and the White House are blocking efforts to ensure that environmental regulations are based on honest, unbiased, transparent, replicable science that accurately reflects real-world evidence.",0_0
"Contrary to speculation that tropical forests could be devastated under these conditions, forest diversity increased rapidly during this warming event. New plant species evolved much faster than old species became extinct. Pollen from the passionflower plant family and the chocolate family, among others, were found for the first time.",3_2
"Finally, the above-mentioned ""Your baby doesn't want it either"" ad states that ""pediatricians recommend milk that doesn't come from cows treated with synthetic bovine growth hormone.""",0_0
"In the future, 1199's power is most likely to be checked from three sources. First would be further closings of redundant hospitals, which would reduce 1199's ranks and resources. Second, some future governor might apply Cuomo's general model of labor relations to 1199. Cuomo's continuing support for 1199 is at odds with his otherwise antagonistic relations with public unions and amicable relations with private unions; 1199 is a government union in all but name. Other governors, such as Chris Christie in New Jersey and Gina Raimondo in Rhode Island, have successfully split private unions and public unions.",0_0
"Yet as we have seen time and time again, with the exception of a -0.05C cooling applied for UHI (which is woefully under-represented) all ???adjustments, improvements, and fiddlings?? to data applied by NCDC and other organizations always seem to result in an increased warming trend.",5_1
"But, guidance isnt entirely lacking on the climate front. There is still a general lack of evidence that shows a statistically significant relationship between anthropogenic climate change and weather-related damage (estimates of past, present, and future damages are grossly dominated by demographic changes rather than climate changes). And the rise in global temperature is poking along at a rather less-than-anticipated rate (which could mean that future rates of model-projected temperature increase are on the high side). Together, this suggests that we ought be giving a bit more credence to the left side of the Table (i.e. relatively low damages from global warming) than to the right side (i.e., higher damages).",0_0
"Gore Lied has a video you should see , wherein a certain Mr. Gore is, well, skewered.",5_2
"In one of the most obvious, architects, city planners, mayors and governors alike thought nothing of placing generators in the basements of hospitals and skyscrapers built in areas that are barely above sea level. Past storms have brought surges12 to 18 feet high onto Long Island, and studies have warned that a category 3 direct hit could put much of New York City and its key infrastructure under 30 feet of water. Sandy's 9-foot surges (plus five feet of high tide) flooded those basements, rendering generators useless, and leaving buildings cold and dark. Perhaps if Mayor Bloomberg had worried less about 32-oz sodas and seas that are rising a mere foot per century, he could have devoted more time to critical issues.",0_0
Obama takes over another large swath of ocean and fisherman are LIVID,0_0
This diminution effect is probably the reason there was no runaway greenhouse warming caused by CO2 in earlier eons when CO2 levels were known to be at levels of several thousands ppm v . The following simplifying diagram shows the logarithmic diminution effect using tranches of 100ppm v up to 1000ppm v and the significance of differing CO2 concentrations on the biosphere:,2_3
"For a more succinct discussion, see my TCS column here: http://www.techcentralstation.com/040805B.html.",0_0
"My way is physics, the Stefan Boltzmann Law of radiation intensity from all matterproportional to its temperature and emissivity.",0_0
"In the IPCC view, says Page, the planet was cooler during Roman times and the medieval warm spell. Overall the temperature is headed up perhaps wildly up, according to the famous/infamous hockey stick graph.",0_0
"And the ANE magazine brings some examples of planned reorganization at the VW Group whose very goal seems to be to make kodas less successful. If that were true, it would be really insane from any commercial viewpoint.",0_0
"Then along came an announcement by Mr Watts last Sunday that he had documented, and had ready for publication, the proof that the U.S. temperature record had been diddled. In particular his new analysis demonstrated that the reported 1979-2008 U.S. temperature trends are spuriously doubled, with 92% of that over-estimation resulting from erroneous NOAA adjustments of well-sited stations upward . What Mr Hammer was explaining three years earlier, and for a longer period.",5_1
Reserve Lieutenant Colonel Marek Obrtel MD,0_0
www.waginargus.com .au/story/.../australias-antarctic-runway-melting...,0_0
But warmth and sunshine was close at hand-- you just needed to gain about 1000 ft.,0_0
"Attending a speech by S. Fred Singer in Helsinki, Finland, Robert Reinstein, former chief State Department negotiator on the climate treaty under the Bush administration, confirmed that the Policymakers Summary of the IPCC report did not reflect the views of the scientists but was negotiated by international delegations. ""Because of this,"" he stated, ""the summary must be considered purely a political document, not a scientific one.""",0_0
"AEI Public Opinion Study: Polls on the environment, energy, global warming, and nuclear power",0_0
"In the end, the most rational thing for the country to do on GHGs is for Congress to enact legislation that gets EPA out of the GHG regulatory business entirely. Peter Glaser",0_0
"After some time, the homeowner would decide to hire an independent, non-governmental agency with no obvious indications of a bias and no manifest links to the strange clique of nuts that were being sent to his house so far (and with no links to the companies that produce the new wiring). And it just happens that this new agency would determine that there can't be any big fire caused by wiring in the bulk of the building and there is only one wrong power outlet in the kitchen that should be replaced for $40, besides a $10 fuse in the living room.",0_0
"This week scientists from around the world leapt to the defence of the IPCC, insisting that despite the errors, which they describe as minor, the majority of the science presented in the IPCC report is sound and its conclusions are unaffected.",0_0
MR. ADLER: All right. We are getting ready to start back up again. If you folks could please take your seats.,0_0
"Getting the message out to the wider world is what we do here at WUWT, happy to help.",0_0
"Reuters took the hyperbole a leap further by claiming that the East Coast study shows sea levels from Cape Hatteras to Cape Cod are rising at a faster pace than anywhere on Earth. This assertion appears to be completely fabricated. The study compares global average sea-level accelerations to those on the coastlines of the continental U.S. and southernmost portion of Canada. It says nothing about any other specific locations, and an email to one of the studys authors confirms that the study does not make comparisons to anywhere on earth.",1_6
we found the effect is pretty big in the areas we analyzed.,0_0
"And even if all those adjustments were right, the warming trend would still be significantly lower than was projected by the collection of climate models cited in the most recent U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.",5_1
Whatever happened to the romance between the environmental lobby and natural gas?,0_0
"""The Clean Air Act (CAA) provides distinct grants of authority to administer specific programs for specific purposes. It authorizes EPA to administer a national ambient air quality standards program, a hazardous air pollutant program, a stratospheric ozone prevention program, and so on. Nowhere, however, does it mention carbon dioxide or climate change prevention, except for one mention in the context of non-regulatory provisions. Moreover, the one provision mentioning carbon dioxide explicitly admonishes EPA not to infer authority for carbon dioxide pollution control requirements.""",0_0
"Money for Nothing - Growers Push for Carbon Cash Harvest - GLG News Agricultural production is a significant net source of carbon emissions. Reducing planted acreage in the name of climate change may further tighten food supplies and keep prices high. Climate Change Capital cuts staff in U.S., Britain | Markets | Markets News | Reuters LONDON, March 26 (Reuters) - Clean energy project investment manager Climate Change Capital said on Thursday it was reducing the headcount at its offices in the U.S. and Britain.",0_0
"Guest essay by Clyde Spencer, WUWT, Aug 11, 2015",0_0
"John Berlau, director of CEI's Center for Investors & Entrepreneurs and a leading advocate for relaxing mark to market rules, said ""it is heartening that on this issue, Republicans and Democrats worked together to push for this common-sense free-market reform that will do much to get our economy going and could save taxpayers billions in avoiding the need for bailouts."" The stock market rallied in response to the news.",0_0
America's Deadliest Natural Disaster 114 Years Ago Today,0_0
"The Canadian government has announced that it will ratify the Kyoto Protocol, but will seek credit for reductions that aren't allowed under the pact. Under Kyoto, Canada must reduce its emissions to six percent below 1990 levels, meaning that it must eliminate about 240 megatons of greenhouse gas emissions per year.",0_0
"Before a measurement, the state vector or the density matrix describe the state of your subjective knowledge about the physical system. Whether you call it ""information"" or not is up to you. But whatever you do, the meaning of the density matrix in particular is the same as the meaning of its classical counterpart, namely the probability distribution on the phase space . It's straightforward to see that the probability distribution on the classical phase space is what one may get out of the density matrix in the classical, \(\hbar\to 0\) limit, assuming that we plan to measure the observables that are coordinates on the phase space. (In the classical limit, it doesn't matter much what we plan to measure because the commutators of the observables we care about go to zero: they are proportional to \(\hbar\).)",0_0
"The period since has been the quietest on record for US hurricanes, with no major (category 3-5) hurricanes.",1_7
Link to the report: Extreme weather and resilience of the global food system,0_0
"Soon after the widespread blackouts of 2003, the Electric Reliability Organization was established, and it recently issued its first report. That report makes for grim reading because the nation's electric power infrastructure is on the brink of collapse.",0_0
"And despite claims that global warming is now heating this land like never before, Victorias highest recorded temperature is still the 50.7C measured in Mildura 103 years ago.",1_7
A rctic sea ice poised to undergo record decline in mid-Augus t,0_0
"It's well known that if man-made global warming is happening, it's happening slowly, he says, and it's probably stronger during the winter months.",0_0
"""Politicians, business leaders, urban planners and academics converged on New York City Monday for a two-day symposium on the state of efforts to upgrade America's train infrastructure and make high-speed rail a reality.""",0_0
"The max and min of net adjustments are consistent with Euan Mearns graph safrica deltaT when flipped upside down and made back to front. It shows a difficulty of comparing adjusted, where all the data is shifted. For instance the maximum figures are dominated by Windhoek, which I looked at a couple of weeks ago . Between the raw data and the GISS Homogenised there was a 3.6 o C uniform increase. There were a number of other lesser differences that I have listed in note 3. Chart 5 shows the impact of adjusting the adjustments is on both the range of the adjustments and the pattern of the average adjustments.",0_0
"Impressive though the panel was as a whole, it really was rather shabby for the scientists who surely know better to have sat there in silence while Ms. Macfarlane peddled her snake oil about a ""scientific consensus."" Are they worried about being excluded from the right cocktail parties? If so, that is a display of moral cowardice unworthy of serious intellectuals.",5_2
"At some point, the climate became cooler and the actual trees were snapped at the stump level, then buried in the glacier's ice for centuries. Finally, the stumps were revealed as the climate returned to warmer temperatures in the rebound from the Little Ice Age.",2_1
"Vice President Wayne Crews talks about where the writers of the ""Pledge"" should go from here.",0_0
"In most fields of science, people would be laughed out of the room for making adjustments to the data which consistently support the authors well known bias. Nevertheless, we see this going on at USHCN and GISS. The effect of these adjustments is that the data is rotated counter-clockwise, as seen in video below for Laurel, Mississippi.",5_1
"Whether or not the exclusion of reduced costs of existing plants are intentional, these lower costs must be considered when estimating costs of electrical power when government forces power plants to shut-down, as called for in the Administrations CCP. Though not discussed in the study, equally important are the inclusion of the costs of maintaining existing, reliable power plants or, if new capacity is added, the cost of constructing reliable power plants to serve as necessary back-up, if major sources of electricity are to come from unreliable solar and wind.",0_0
"Above all, though, the Environmental Protection Agency's reason for being, for wanting to steadily expand its budget and personnel, for seeking to regulate our farms, factories, homes and energy supplies, for trying to drive entire industries into bankruptcy is its assertion that humans are causing catastrophic climate change, thereby endangering human health and welfare. The claims do not withstand scrutiny.",0_0
"Where A1 is the area of ice less than one metre, A2 is the area of ice less than two metres, etc. The 2010/2008 volume ratio came out to 1.24, which means there has been approximately a 25% increase in volume over the last two years. The average thickness has increased from about 2.0 metres to 2.5 metres. That means an extra 20 inches of ice will have to melt this summer. So far, this seems unlikely with the cold Arctic temperatures over the last couple of weeks.",1_1
"Rather than using an enormously complex global circulation model (or 22) to come up with a figure for climate sensitivity, Sherwood Idso does calculations from eight completely different natural experiments which all arrive at similar figures. In short, he reviewed 20 years of work to arrive at a prediction that if CO2 is doubled we will get 0.4C of warming at most , and even he admitted, it might be an overestimate. Basically by the time CO2 levels double, he says we ought expect 0 ??? 0.4C of warming, after feedbacks are taken into account. Idso started off assuming that the feedbacks were largely positive, but repeatedly found that they were negative.",3_1
"Global warming is a tragedy of the commons, carbon emissions are a negative externality, and reducing CO2 in the atmosphere is a global public good. These types of problems have been well-studied by economists, and solutions to them are known. Unfortunately, these solutions require a sovereign power to enact them, and in this world there is no global power to enforce economically optimal solutions, no benevolent dictator, no organ of international government capable of superceding national sovereignty and its attendant self-interest. The international system is not cooperative ? it is best defined as anarchic and follows the Thucydidean maxim: the strong do as they can the weak suffer as they must.",0_0
Heartland Amicus Curiae Response Brief in Support of Deseret Power Electric Cooperative,0_0
"In the prior chart, much of around 7000 to 8000 years ago was particularly warm, more so than now. Such was part of the Holocene Climate Optimum. Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory remarks (bolding added):",2_1
"If you look at the third graph, you see that there was no warming on the Southern Hemisphere in the last 25 years even though the ""global warming theory"" and the corresponding models are predicting even faster rise of the tropospheric temperatures than for the surface temperatures. The decadal trend is quantitatively around 0.05 degrees which is noise whose sign can change almost instantly.",1_4
"The shift is therefore 60, 61 (most likely), or 62 days which is 5,6 or 7 modulo 7. For 1963-2013, the case 62 i.e. 7 occurred. So even the same day of the week isn't too shocking the day of the week is almost as likely to agree as it is to disagree after 50 years. These two paragraphs were preemptively included to fight another conspiracy theory about the day of the week. ;-)",0_0
"Ninety degree days in the US midwest occur less than half as often now as they did eightyyears ago, with 2014 being the coolest summer on record. In 1934, hot days were eighteen times more common than this year. CO2 was 310 PPM at the time.",1_7
"Aim and Purpose of the Fund: The aim and purpose of the Fund is to build capacity in the understanding and management of Climate Change in Developing Countries, through Providing opportunities for young scientists from Developing Countries to under take studies That would not otherwise be possible without the the intervention of the Fund.",0_0
"As importantly, this approach is also undesirable for tackling climate change. An alternative approach would involve developing technology to address what should be seen as a practical problem rather than a moral issue: investing in the large-scale use of less carbon-intensive forms of energy such as renewables and nuclear; adapting through such measures as building higher sea walls; and high technology solutions, perhaps including developing machines that suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.",0_0
"2. The US Weather Bureau wrote a 1922 article describing drastic Arctic warming and ice loss. In that article, the author wrote that waters aroundSpitzbergenwarmed 12C over just a few years and that ships were able to sail in open waters north of 81N. This agrees with theGISSrecord, which would seem to imply that the Arctic can and does experience significant warming unrelated to CO2. Do you believe that what we are seeing now is different from that event, and why?",2_1
"""I like Leonardo DiCaprio as an actor. He seems like a great guy to have a beer with, but there is much he is not hearing from his conversations with Obama,"" Lewis told The Daily Signal. ""He thinks only climate change is a threat, but isn't thinking about the threat of climate policy. To say we are going to bear any burden, pay any price, he doesn't realize the cure can be worse than the disease.""",4_1
"As an oceanographer, Id been around the world, once or twice, and I was rather convinced that I knew the factors that influenced the Earths climate. The oceans, by virtue of their enormous density and heat-storage capacity, are the dominant influence on our climate. It is the heat budget and the energy that flows into and out of the oceans that basically determines the mean temperature of the global atmosphere. These interactions, plus evaporation, are quite capable of cancelling the slight effect of man-produced CO 2 .",2_1
"PepsiCo India, which received first prize in 2009 for its business response to Aids, pays Teri for a project studying water quality in a local community.",0_0
"I asked Nancy Lamb, Dow's chief spokesperson, to arrange an interview with Blitz or any Dow executive to explain the background on AEA or a host of other puzzling contradictions: Dow's ties to Markey, its ownership of an LNG export facility whose benefits it extols, what appears to be the abandonment of its commitment to limiting global warming and its apparent inside/outside maneuvering on a range of issuesbut she said Dow declined.",0_0
"To avert administrative disaster and a political firestorm, the EPA adopted its June 2010 Tailoring Rule which exempts all but the largest greenhouse emitters from PSD and Title V permitting. It does so by revising the ""major"" source applicability thresholds from 100-250 tons per year to 75,000-100,000 tons per year. In other words, to avoid a debacle of its own making, the agency effectively rewrote the statute.",0_0
"""Then, from the center of the glowing ring of fairies, Magi Lune spoke. `Since the beginning of time, we have been the guardians of the forest. But we have grown lazy. We have forgotten the magic of nature.'"" Dialogue from children's movie: ""Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest""",0_0
"This need arises since even state-of-the-art weather and climate models cannot resolve all necessary processes and scales. Stochastic parameterizations have been shownto provide more skillful weather forecasts than traditional ensemble prediction methods, at least on timescaleswhere verification data exists. In addition, they have been shown to reduce longstanding climate biases, whichplay an important role especially for climate and climate change predictions.",5_1
"But it is also possible that the vegetation which will be able to grow when the ground thaws will absorb the carbon dioxide. We still know very little about this. With the knowledge we have today we cannot say for sure whether the thawing tundra will absorb or produce more greenhouse gases in the future, says Margareta Johansson.",5_1
"SM: I think you'll have a hard time arguing against Alan Greenspan's record. One of the reasons we've had such spectacular growth over the last decade has been really a spectacular monetary policy. Now, there've been some errors in the last year or so that have caused too much tightening of the economy. But, for the most part, when it comes to monetary policy, you can't beat price stability. We want a policy where the dollar is as good as gold and is the world currency, and that's what's happened under Greenspan's regime. I would have to give him very high marks, although I like his record a lot more than I like his rhetoric.",0_0
"At the very least, how can Pederson, with a straight face, accuse Murphy of lack of ethics, thereby slandering Murphy's journalistic reputation, when Murphy is simply basing his opinion on scientific data? In other words, at least in my opinion, Pederson slandered Murphy and owes him an apology.",0_0
"This time, Mann relies on the unpublished Mann et al 2006. I presume that this will be published in Hockey Team house organ Journal of Climate.",0_0
"The federal probe was closed in February, but USADA announced in June it had evidence Armstrong used banned substances and methods and encouraged their use by teammates. The agency also said it had blood tests from 2009 and 2010 that were fully consistent with blood doping.",0_0
"Santorum has the benefit of never supporting emission-pinching programs, a distinction that some GOP operatives say is a valuable comparison among todays conservative electorate.",0_0
"Reality is, as a Congressional Research Service report makes clear, while oil production has increased 61% on state and private lands, it has decreased 6% on federal land where the Administration has authority. Additionally, the report points out, applications to drill on federal lands take nearly twice as long to process under the Obama Administration than they did previously.",0_0
"Walker's full, non-redacted subpoena reveals that the AGs intend to cast a wide net. Walker is demanding that ExxonMobil provide all climate-related documents and communications between the company and more than 100 universities, think tanks, and academics, over a 40-year period. Each named person or entityand any other contrarian who may have temporarily escaped the AGs' attentionnow faces the risk of having to fund a legal defense for having defied the ""consensus."" How could that prospect not have a chilling effect on speech and association?* The investigation called for by the RICO20 would do so as well.",0_0
"Most skeptics arrived at their doubts in the carbon dioxide theory of global warming by noting the discrepancies between that theory and empirical evidence. They are empiricists. Consequently, many skeptics are unaware of the basic model, or its power, because it has been irrelevant to them.",5_1
"At this point it is tempting to write: Its hard to imagine a case where politics trumped science more decisively than in the case of Yucca Mountain, where 20 years of research were traded for five electoral votes and the support of a powerful senator, which seems basically correct, but taken out of context it could be viewed as a criticism of President Obama, which it is not. But the point I want to make is only slightly more subtle: Faced with a complex amalgam of scientific and political factors, President Obama chose short-term political gain over longer-term scientific assessment, and so decided to put an end to research aimed at characterizing the Yucca Mountain site. This decision can easily be portrayed in the same type of language that was used to attack President Bushs politicization of science.",0_0
I am hoping that among my faithful readers there is somebody that knows somebody who might know a guy whos looking for a statistician.,0_0
"A paper published today in the Journal of Geophysical Research finds that a natural atmospheric oscillation, the Southern Annular Mode , is correlated to significant increases in cloud cover resulting in ""large scale"" local cooling of approximately -2.5C. All climate models falsely assume clouds result in net positive feedback and increased temperatures, however this new paper and several others show clouds instead result in net negative feedback and cooling.",3_1
"To keep this in perspective, this inhomogeneity incurred by this move of a few hundred meters is substantially more than the entire amount of global warming experienced to date. So when people are thinking in terms of signal and noise, heres an example of the type of noise that is introduced by a seemingly innocuous station move. So a move from the roof top of the Boulder fire station to the NIST building may well introduce a discontinuity as well. If all your stations have discontinuities, the estimation process would appear to become very formidable very quickly. There is some recent literature on these sort of adjustments, but the entire topic bears examination by third-party statisticians of Wegman calibre.",0_0
"President Obama released a sweeping climate plan (Plan) on June 25, 2013, using his authority to both address greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to prepare for the impacts of climate change. The plan, which consists of a wide variety of executive actions, has three key pillars: (1) cut carbon pollution in America; (2) prepare the United States for the impacts of climate change; and (3) lead international efforts to combat global climate change. While the Plan contains proposals to promote such measures as energy efficiency and advanced transportation technologies, much of the focus of the Plan is on the electric generation sector.",0_0
"So a ""trick"" is just scientific shorthand for a ""good way to deal with a problem,"" not something ""secret."" But RC ducks the real issue. Is the ""trick"" Phil Jones learned from Hockey Stick author Michael Mann a form of trickery? Does it create a false impression, as an illusionist does on stage, right out in the open, in front of an audience?",5_2
"We cant let the climate wars continue to derail efforts to have an energy policy that puts in place rising efficiency standards, for buildings, windows, traffic, housing, packaging and appliances, that will drive innovation which is our strength in what has to be the next great global industry: energy and resource efficiency.",0_0
"Ive posted before about the growing food crisis, and its potential effect on the worlds poor.",0_0
"Global Warming Linked to Anger Outbursts, Obscenities",0_0
"Furthermore, although the Obama Administration was not the first to implement federal fuel efficiency standards, the President's EPA and Department of Transportation required the first-ever greenhouse gas emissions standards for vehicles. The Obama Administration recently finalized new fuel-efficiency rules for cars and light trucks for model years 20172025 that require a near doubling of the current standards. Combined with the more stringent rules for 20112016, the new standards will increase the average cost of a new car by $3,000 by 2025.",4_1
"The question is whether, after the extras burdens and bureaucracy involved cause businesses to relocate and after energy restrictions cause brownouts and blackouts, the administration's opponents and the general public will be able to join the dots. If they do, environmentalism could be a major factor in any backlash.",0_0
"The three Japanese researchers report that plant dry weight increased monotonically with each increase in CO 2 , to where the CO 2 -induced increase in plant shoot dry weight in the 10,000 ppm environment was 274% greater than that in ambient air at 45??C and 286% greater than that in ambient air at 60??C, while plant root dry weight in the 10,000 ppm environment was 5,533% greater than that in ambient air at 45??C and 4,960% greater than that in ambient air at 60??C. What it means",3_3
"Remember the criterion of science? Only falsifiable predictions yield the meaning of observations. Climate models do not give falsifiable predictions, especially not at the resolution of CO2-forcing. Therefore, they can give no causal meaning to increased atmospheric CO2. They cannot explain the warming climate. They can not predict the future climate. The observation of rising atmospheric CO2, alone, is not enough to certify anything except a rising level of atmospheric CO2. Knowing causality and predicting outcomes requires a falsifiable theory. Dr. Morrison hasn??t one, and neither does anyone else. Those who predict torrid climate futures literally do not know what they??re talking about. But that hasn??t stopped them from talking about it anyway. Dr. Morrison??s position on climate is indistinguishable from an intuitive alarm grounded in subjective certainties.",5_1
"And when the accompanying chart showed that fully half of all volcanoes in the Cascade Range had erupted around the same time, well, it looked obvious that volcanic activity correlates with low sunspot activity.",0_0
"The University of Colorados Sea Level Research Group decided in May to add 0.3 millimeters -- or about the thickness of a fingernail -- every year to its actual measurements of sea levels, sparking criticism from experts who called it an attempt to exaggerate the effects of global warming.",0_0
"loss based on transient phenomena, while not acknowledging the possibility of",0_0
"No one source really has specific ""reliable"" numbers and it varies anywhere from 23% to 40% depending on where you get your information. The reason more people are not falling for the global warming hoax is because many are taking the time to examine the overall picture.",5_2
"Clearly geologically induced heat flow is a tenable alternative explanation to recent glacial acceleration on the Svalbard Islands. Disappointingly, this possibility is never mentioned in worldwide press releases, but the much more speculative notion of man-made global warming is mentioned in nearly all media coverage.",0_0
"A paper published by the Danish Meteorological Institute finds a remarkable correlation of Arctic sea ice observations over the past 500 years to ???the solar cycle length, which is a measure of solar activity.A close correlation (R=0.67) ofhigh significance (0.5 % probability of a chance occurrence) is found between the two patterns,suggesting a link from solar activity to the Arctic Ocean climate.?? The paper adds to several others demonstrating that Arctic sea ice extent and climate is controlled by natural variations in solar activity, ocean & atmospheric oscillations, winds & storm activity , not man-made CO2.",2_1
"""New' energy, high-speed rail stars of speech:",0_0
"Global warming Idiots: ""Sunspot and temperature correlations do not prove causality.""",0_0
"Illustration of increased trade winds in the Pacific and Indian Oceans during the recent warming hiatus, which enhanced the flow of ocean water through the Indonesian archipelago. This resulted in an abrupt increase of Indian Ocean heat content. Credit: Sang-Ki Lee",1_4
"It is also this latter difference that will make my next policy substantially more expensive. In standardizing options, the Congress standardized on the most expensive options (broadest possible benefits, smallest possible deductible).",0_0
"Anyone who lives in the nation's capital knows that it has been FREEZING, with well below average temperatures. Even today, inauguration day, started out with the wind chill in single digits. It's good to know that the president already is seeking to fulfill his promise to halt global warming. After all, as candidate Barack Obama told us in his June speech celebrating having locked up the Democratic Party nomination",1_3
"The position papers from Ban's conclave make clear that Ban and his team are deeply concerned that momentum toward the MDGs, as they are known, is faltering, although one paper notes that ""with the right policies, adequate investment and reliable international support, the MDGs remain achievable.""",0_0
"What Mr. Lazear wants the U.S, to do is limit ""carbon emissions"" but admits that ""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.""",0_0
"CAA 165(a)(3) , also cited by the majority, provides additional contextual evidence that BACT does not encompass GHGs. The provision stipulates that the owner or operator of a major source may not cause, or contribute to, air pollution in excess of any ?(A) maximum allowable increase or maximum allowable concentration for any pollutant in any area to which this part applies more than one time per year, (B) national ambient air quality standard in any air quality control region, or (C) any other applicable emission standard or standard of performance under this chapter.? There are no area-specific allowable GHG increases or concentrations. There are no GHG air quality standards or control regions. The EPA?s GHG tailpipe standards are not ?applicable? to stationary sources, which in turn cannot cause or contribute to exceedences of mobile emission standards.",0_0
"In 2007, Obama explained he was running for president ""because I don't want to wake up one morning four years from now . . . to see that the oceans rose another few inches and the planet has reached the point of no return because we couldn't find a way to stop ourselves from buying oil from dictators. I don't want to see that."" Given how he deals with nuclear power, one can only conclude he didn't mean a word of it.",0_0
"The Professor looked very closely at the diagram showing the anomalies in short-wave and, separately, in long-wave radiation, and noticed that, though both had run level until 1997 (and, indeed, there had been no ???global warming?? from 1980 to 1997), they had been sharply dislocated until 2000, when short-wave radiation ran level at a new and lesser flux, while long-wave radiation ran level at a new and greater flux.",1_4
"That's bad news for our refineries along the Gulf of Mexico, which could be refining Canada's heavy crude and blending it with light crude from North Dakota.",0_0
"To be fair, President Xi had an inherent advantage during this recent trip Down Under. In addition to attending the G-20 meeting, the Chinese leader was there to sign the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement one hailed by many Australians as the most comprehensive FTA China has signed.",0_0
"In this Saturday, July 31 file photo a field of unidentified cereals burning near the town of Voronezh some 294 miles south of Moscow, after weeks of searing heat and practically no rain. A severe drought destroyed one-fifth of the wheat crop in Russia, the worlds third-largest exporter, and now wildfires are sweeping in to finish off some of the fields that remained.",0_0
"Therein lies a principle. So theoretically if the molecules of Carbon Dioxide gas are hotter than the other gases, then theoretically it might be possible for the teeniest-weeniest warming to occur. But it is as remote as swimmers off the coasts of the Riviera who might occasionally piddle while bathing; it is as remote as the possibility that they are warming the Mediterranean!",2_3
"But sometimes, the King Bull says no, not good enough. No one knows why. The smell? Bad taste? In that case, in another few days the mother will try again. And it may or may not be accepted that time.",0_0
"Baliunas: No, those observations have been overturned. . . . Ice can change for reasons other than temperature. It can change because precipitation's changed. Some of the models, in fact, say that sea ice should be growing as you warm a little bit because it's so cold at the North Pole that you warm a little bit and get more precipitation.",0_0
"Abraham again artfully distorts or carefully omits what I actually said. First, he says that the IPCC predicts 20-50 cm of sea-level rise this century, not 6 cm. Well, yes it does, but the reason for the difference is that the IPCC's figure (which still amounts to below 2 feet, not 20, and it's actually rising at just 1 ft/century at present, if that) is for sea-level rise from all sources, chiefly thermosteric expansion, not just from ice-melt.",0_0
"This blog has relocated . You can sign up to receive an e-mail each time a new post is added under the ""Email subscription"" bar a little below the photo.",0_0
"Lower energy prices, end dependence on conflict oil, generate jobs and cash for the American and Canadian economies.",0_0
Big-Government grows one law at a time,0_0
Check out the National Consumer Coalition's Cooler Heads website at www.globalwarming.org.,0_0
"Finally, some appeasement conservatives seem to think that agreeing to a carbon tax will let them shed the climate denier label that has dogged them in the past. But theyre engaging in wishful thinking. Conservatives will not be able to take the climate issue off the table with a carbon tax, because efficient taxation of carbon emissions is not what environmentalists actually want.",0_0
"As the hostilities between the current government and the Tea Party movement have become increasingly rancorous, the division of American society into two cultures holding thoroughly incompatible worldviews has become obvious. In fact, the two forces are clearly on an unavoidable collision course. Although many people may understandably be most interested in knowing which side will prevail, I think an equally important and troubling question is precisely by what means the matter will be resolved. Will reason prevail and the people in power either have their agenda confirmed or step aside gracefully? Or will there be intransigence, increasing conflict, and even violence?",0_0
"The Chinese submission is part of the paperwork submitted by a variety of nations in advance of negotiations on a new global climate treaty, which is slated to be unveiled at a grand climate summit meeting in Paris at the end of 2015. This weeks ballyhooed climate summit in New York City was intended to kick-start the diplomatic process that will wend toward the Paris finale.",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Associate Director of Technology Studies Ryan Radia on the FTC's misguided efforts:,0_0
"As my latest book describes, I contend that they have been fooled by Mother Nature, and that in fact warming alters clouds in ways that mitigate not amplify ??? the small amount of direct warming caused by increasing atmospheric CO2.",3_1
Please dont hesitate to contact me or Jim Lakely if you have questions or suggestions.,0_0
"Of course, this war on coal comes from the same administration that put the ""crucify them"" Administrator Al Armendariz in charge of the biggest oil and gas producing region of the country. In fact, EPA's crucifixion philosophy is so obvious now that even the left leaning Washington Post said that the Obama EPA is ""earning a reputation for abuse."" But I think Kim Strassel of the Wall Street Journal put it best when she said that Armendariz was ""a perfect general for Mr. Obama's war against natural gas"" and ""on the front lines"" of President Obama's battle to end fossil fuels and affordable energy.",0_0
"Every once in a great while when our moon's orbit takes it closer to Earth something quite remarkable can happen, a government official tells the truth. Apparently the increased gravitational force of the closer moon wrenches the truth from the unwitting official's mouth. Before you know it he or she has blurted out something that in a moment, changes the entire landscape. With the last full moon being closer to earth since 1993 just such a thing happened in Australia.",0_0
antarctic runway melting antarctic runway melting australias $46 million antarctic airstrip melting leaving scrambling find link frozen continent dreamers cast ...,0_0
"Many Europeans blame the United States for this lack of progress. In Europe, the social demand for action on climate appears to be stronger than it is in the United States. Yet, even in Europe, GHG reductions have not been nearly as sharp as those stipulated by the Kyoto Protocol. European leaders harshly criticized America's rejection of the Kyoto Protocol. Economically, though, for the U.S., the Protocol's costs would have more than outweighed its benefits. Politically, its high costs clearly exceeded the rather low U.S. national willingness to paya mismatch that doomed its chances for acceptance. The experience raises a question about whether the conditions that would permit a better outcome are yet in place.",0_0
"The math often is applicable, of course; usually for simple problems and in small cases the results of which would not be in much dispute even without the use of probability and statistics. Take, for example, a medical trial with two drugs, D and P, given to equal numbers of patients for an explicitly definable disease that is either absent or present. As long as no cheating took place and the two groups of patients balanced, then if more patients got better using drug D, that drug is probably better. In fact, just knowing that drug D performed better (and no cheating and balance) is evidence enough for a rational person to prefer D over P.",0_0
"The climate science field, and the broader community of academics, have received an enormous black eye as a result of defending the hockey stick and his behavior. Its time to increase the integrity of climate research particularly with regards to increasing transparency, calling out irresponsible advocacy, and truly promoting academic freedom so that scientists are free to pursue research without fear of recriminations from the gatekeepers and consensus police.",0_0
"I hope that you are following the lively discussion about Burger and Cubasch at Climates of the Past here , where Mann aka Anonymous Referee #2 is carrying on in a quite extraodinary way. Ill probably try to weigh in over there at some point. The dialogue has exploded fairly quickly and Ive collated some of the discussion in the post here.",0_0
"Well, might i suggest that warming only compromises defense if silly projects are proposed to weaken our economic and military posture.",0_0
"Conservation is part of the answer. Higher electric prices will induce consumers to conserve, thus reducing demand, but supply must be addressed as well. While dismaying consumers, higher electric rates will also encourage suppliers to find new sources of energy. For a price, more power can be bought from elsewhere. In this emergency, environmental rules that limit electric power output should be temporarily lifted.",0_0
"Plentiful and inexpensive fossil fuels are the preferred energy source, whether it be to run your car, heat your home, or generate electricity. Oil, gas, and coal are relatively safe, readily portable, fairly efficient, and relatively energy dense. While fossil fuels perhaps are not the perfect energy source, they do go a long way towards meeting our current needs, and the infrastructure (and know how) is in place to allow for rapid expansion into the future. So, all in all, fossil fuels are pretty darn good nowand as far as the eye can see.",4_5
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark New Zealand. A judge has disregarded as inadmissible expert evidence from a statistician who showed that the adjustment method NIWA claimed they used only give a 0.3C/Century rise in temperature and ruled that NIWA (now a limited company) can adjust the temperature record as they see fit without having to demonstrate the use of a method based on any accepted science. heres the graph:,5_1
"Reservations among member governments continued at the meeting of environment ministers on March 2. Environment Daily reported, ""At a ministerial meeting in Brussels environment minister Altero Matteoli made a prolonged attempt to force a declaration from his colleagues that future emission-cutting action should depend on the treaty being ratified by Russia and thus entering into force. The move follows increasing unrest in Italian industry circles at the imminent prospect of the greenhouse gas curbs under the EU climate emissions trading system. The Italian government first reflected this last December when it tried to characterize Kyoto explicitly as a threat to business at a summit of EU leaders.",0_0
"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.",0_0
"Michael Mann, a climatologist who directs the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University said ""If you're a betting person or the insurance or reinsurance industry, for that matter you'd probably go with a prediction of greater frequency and intensity of tornadoes as a result of human-caused climate change.""",0_0
"Whether ratified or implemented through the back door, Kyoto will have serious destructive consequences. Energy rationing will devastate employment in the steel, chemical manufacture, petroleum refining, cement, and paper industries. Rising consumer energy prices will squeeze working families and the poor. Slower growth in the world economy will imperil millions of desperately poor people in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. ""Those are enormous costs to pay to combat an unproven problem,"" said Lewis.",4_1
"When I re-examined the De Bilt data, I was intrigued both by the size of the adjustment for a seemingly innocuous move of a couple hundred meters from a pagoda hut to a Stevenson hut and by the large discrepancy between the adjustments applied in 3 standard versions of the data. If the KNMi adjustment is right, then errors in the GISS and GHCN adjustments are up to 0.5 deg C in the 20th century and up to 1 deg C in the 19th century extremely large errors in a well-studied site.",5_1
Cutting Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Exporting Technological Solutions to Developing Countries,0_0
"""I think they would have preferred the term ""ironic"". They were those kind of people.""",0_0
"Carswell's advice to British Conservatives and, by implication, American Republicans, is to ""stop drifting to the soggy center."" Tony Abbott shows you can win.",0_0
"Round these 'ere parts there is much excitement over the possibility of a Grand Match , when Scottish lochs freeze over to a sufficient extent to allow for a curling tournament. There have only been three of these since the war, but the ice on some of the likely lochs are now within a whisker of the seven inches required to mount the tournament. Unfortunately, it looks like there may be too much snow sitting on the ice here at Loch Leven, but the Lake of Menteith is apparently looking good.",0_0
"Now that we've considered the benefits the EPA claims Utility MACT would bring, let's consider the costs. The EPA's own estimates say the rule will cost $10 billion annually, making it one of the most expensive regulations ever. More than 20 states are suing the EPA to stop the regulation, which they fear would endanger electric reliability. These states, in short, worry their lights may go out.",0_0
". . .the Massachusetts decision was a real travesty. It is impossible to review the history of the public debate on GHG regulation in this country beginning in the 1980s, when potential climate change first came to prominence, and conclude that authority to regulate GHGs was always available, hiding in plain sight in the CAA as first enacted in 1970.The Supreme Court said in the 2001 American Trucking Associations decision, in language that is often cited, that Congress does not hide elephants in mouseholes. Evidently, in the case of EPA GHG regulation, Congress did.",0_0
x=x-mean(x);year=c(time(x))/10;Year=year-mean(year),0_0
"The study was written by Peter Schwartz, former head of planning at Royal Dutch/Shell Group, and Doug Randall of the California-based Global Business Network.",0_0
5. Al Gore's extreme proposals on climate change are smart politicsand bad policy.,0_0
"Americans increasingly understand that even sending US carbon dioxide emissions back to 1870 levels, as congressional climate bills would do, will not reduce global atmospheric CO2 levels, because emissions from China, India and other nations will rapidly offset our painful reductions. Those countries have made it clear that they will not sacrifice improved living standards for assertions that we can stabilize global temperatures by keeping atmospheric CO2 levels below 0.035-0.045% (350-450 ppm).",4_2
"NASA proposes to launch space-based lasers that would, over several years of operation, gradually push the asteroid into a safe trajectory. They warn, however, that radically new technologies will have to be developed at enormous effort and cost. A coordinated world effort is urgently required.",0_0
"Environmental stresses induced by exposure to pollutants, drought, intense solar radiation and high air or water temperatures generate highly-reactive oxygenated compounds that damage both terrestrial and aquatic plants. Ameliorating these stresses typically involves the production of antioxidant enzymes that scavenge and detoxify the highly-reactive oxygenated compounds. Hence, when stresses are present, concentrations and/or activities of antioxidants in plants are generally observed to be high; and a good question to ask, therefore, is how atmospheric CO2 enrichment impacts this relationship and what the observed results imply",0_0
"I write this while seated at a table where a certain shop proprietor is happy to stash the bored husband of an enthusiastic shopper. This may seem an odd way to begin a discussion of global catastrophe perhaps, but the incongruity of this mundane snapshot of real life juxtaposed with apocalypse raises a crucial question. Which is more important, the end of the world or a 25% off sale? Formerly I could answer easily, but the shopkeepers have developed an edge that the purveyors of doom have lost. The shopkeepers keep changing their offerings to retain human interest, while their apocalyptic competitors cut their offerings and oversell what?s left well past ?best-before? dates. In fact their offerings have been cut to a single doom.",0_0
"Nuccitelli ends by saying, Overall, Spencer made very few factually correct statements in this interview. On any other subject but this, where true-believers such as Nuccitelli now routinely get away with outrageous falsehoods that smear the reputations of any scientists bold enough to raise even the mildest questions about the New Religion, that remark would have led to a libel suit.",5_2
"Washington officials are also hopeful that the Guadalajara meeting might produce a common front on global climate change that the North American countries could press for together at the upcoming UN-sponsored climate change negotiations in Copenhagen. European countries have been working under an emissions cap and trading regime and this experience has fostered greater unity of perspective; in Asia, China and India have been the most vocal developing countries arguing against radical action that might hurt their economies. North America, in the middle, would make a real contribution if it could articulate a position acceptable to a developing economy (Mexico), a major energy producer (Canada), and a high-consumption country (The United States).",0_0
Anyone who has studied the history of science knows that scientists are not immune to the non-rational dynamics of the herd.,0_0
"""The region is a welter of putrefaction, where men die like flies. Even with all the money in the world and half its population it is impossible to finish this railway."" The Public Works Company, 1873",0_0
"Nah, it is of course all the food we best and the songs that stands for about 25 percent of the average Swede klimatpverkan according arrangrerna. We can output has been not change our eating habits and reduce klimatpverkan 25 percent less n we stop taking verhuvudtaget. Besides, it was the GT outside festivalomrdet, like sausages guys that nobody complained p.",0_0
Figuring out what to make of the climate change talks recently held in Paris isn't as easy as you might think. Talk about a confusing atmosphere.,0_0
"on Saturday, February 22nd, 2014 at 3:57 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"As illustrated and discussed, while global surface temperatures rose slightly in 2014, the minor uptick did little to overcome the growing difference between observed global surface temperature and the projections of global surface warming by the climate models used by the IPCC.",5_1
"Finally ???more than 97% of all actively publishing* climate scientists agree that climate change is real and human caused?? is probably an underestimate, as virtually everyone acknowledges that the surface temperature is warmer than it was, and that multifarious human activities have some influence on climate. Rather, he misses the point well-made by the original Journal article, which is that the rise in surface temperature is clearly below the values first forecast by the UN in 1990. The coreunsettledissue in climate science is the ???sensitivity?? of temperature to carbon dioxide, and there are several independent lines of evidence, including the surface temperature history and the water vapor problems, that argue that it has been substantially overestimated.",3_1
"""In his dissenting opinion, Judge Robert Smith argued the court was being too prudish in what it considered art even though he finds lap dances 'distasteful.' 'Perhaps for similar reasons, I do not read Hustler magazine,' Smith wrote. 'I would rather read the New Yorker. I would be appalled however, if the state were to exact from Hustler a tax that the New Yorker did not have to pay on the ground that what appears in Hustler is insufficiently ""cultural or artistic.'""",0_0
Thats the way I learned it from the big boys of climate/meteorology.,0_0
Asian Droughts. Numerous drought related disasters have occurred over the Asian mainland this century. The most notable include:,0_0
"Computer model simulations of complex, chaotic systems often are massive failures producing worthless prediction output.....all the climate models used by the IPCC and the major climate research agencies are no different - with that said, there are times when a simpler and more elegant model approach can produce superior results despite the chaos at hand, and for a fraction of the cost",5_1
The could learn a lot about di-hydrogen oxide.,0_0
"This illustrates the non-intuitive nature of climate. As the global temperature was climbing from 1985 until 1998, global sea ice was increasing. Since then it has decreased, and currently is where we were at the start of the satellite record. Variation in the average is 2%. Nothing unusual here.",1_1
"EPA's constantly changing and increasingly narrow interpretation of NSR enforcement policies has had major negative effects on businesses, workers, consumers, and the environment. Evidence to this effect was presented at hearings and in written petitions to EPA and is referenced in EPA's Report to the President. This section briefly reviews some of that evidence and EPA's own evaluations of it.",0_0
"The problem with the IPCC process, however, is that the scientists and experts participating in each iteration have become increasingly biased toward climate alarmism. It is getting harder to separate the ideologically motivated alarmists from the honestly worried scientists. Past assessment reports, especially the 2nd AR in 1995, were badly politicized by U.N. bureaucrats, misrepresenting what the report actually contained. Skeptics qualified to participate have found the IPCC process too frustrating and have dropped out; for example, Richard Lindzen, a participant and chapter author in the 3rd AR, is not participating in this round. More and more, the IPCC is becoming an echo chamber for just one point of view, and is closing itself to outside criticism. Its members, in the fashion of environmental activists, have taken to demonizing their reasonable critics.",5_2
"They claim the model we used was ???bad?? (even though it is commonly used in many previous studies, and recommended to us by one of the leading climate modelers in the world), and that is was ???tuned?? to match the data. The last claim is absolutely hilarious, since the more complex climate models they use are constantly being re-tuned by small armies of scientists in efforts to get them to better agree with the observed behavior of the climate system.",5_1
"By Timothy Cama, The Hill, Aug 14, 2015",0_0
"Although manufacturing employment declines in certain years, that change is simply a result of the American free market at its best. As a market expands, new jobs replace old jobs and the economy grows. Chart 4 provides the impact on manufacturing employment.",0_0
"Pollen is disseminated by the wind. Organic farmers and activists have long argued that plants on an organic farm cross-pollinated by a neighbor's genetically engineered crops would no longer be considered organic and therefore would be denied the higher price such foods command in the marketplace. Therefore, organic producers have demanded mandatory minimum planting distances and even a government-administered fund that would compensate organic farmers who were financially harmed by cross-pollination.",0_0
"Read here . UK ocean experts, using the best tidal gauges available, discover that sea level rise is not accelerating. In fact, it has been decelerating since 1960, as the below graph indicates. (click on image to enlarge)",1_6
"It shows general warming from 1680 following the cold of the Little Ice Age (LIA) that was coincident with the Maunder Minimum of sunspots. This warming shows why charges that others and I were global warming deniers were false. What we questioned was the claim that humans were the cause. Dickens Winters relate to Charles Dickens and the cold weather, poor harvests, and hard economic times typified by A Christmas Carol . The period correlates with the Dalton Minimum of reduced sunspots. Conditions of that time are similar to those anticipated for the next 3040 years.",2_1
"Over the past 50 years southern Australia has lost about 20 per cent of its rainfall, and one cause is almost certainly global warming. Similar losses have been experienced in eastern Australia, and although the science is less certain it is probable that global warming is behind these losses too........Desalination plants can provide insurance against drought. In Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane, water supplies are so low they need desalinated water urgently, possibly in as little as 18 months. Of course, these plants should be supplied by zero-carbon power sources",0_0
"First, get the MSU tropical T2LT series and then for convenience, center the data and the time series (dividing by 10 to yield changes per decade):",0_0
"This principle applies well beyond Halloween. It is present when people worry about the effects of genetically engineered food, now that food borne disease is under control. It is present when people worry about chemicals when chemicals have done so much to improve our lives. And it is present when we worry about the wrath of nature as a result of global warming when our societies have become more resilient to the effects of bad weather.",0_0
"""Good Science Prevails': Renowned Scientist Fred Singer Talks Climate Change",0_0
"Note the precision in the probabilities. Very impressive. However, Dr Jones unfortunately appears to suffer from xenophobia. Heres a communication from Prof Phil Jones (for it is he) gleefully relating in a Climategate email about our Dr David Jones",5_2
1000 years (900-1100) Suess cycle with +/- 0.65C,0_0
"The combined land and ocean surface record (Figure 1) shows a warming trend of about 0.11 C per decade (1958-1998) and 0.19 C per decade (1979-1998), while the satellite temperature records (Figure 2) since 1979 show a warming trend of 0.05 C per decade.4 The contrast in temperature trends between the surface and satellite measurements of the lower atmosphere is puzzling because the computer models say the CO2-produced warming trend in the lower atmosphere should be larger than at the surface, but it is not.5 This important disagreement remains unexplained.",0_0
"The Four Corners area, which is made up of Northwestern New Mexico, Southwestern Colorado, Northeastern Arizona and Southeastern Utah, contains the San Juan Basin which is one of the premier natural gas deposits in the United States. The San Juan Basin has contributed more than eight percent of the nations current natural gas supply. Our area has produced more than 370 million barrels of oil and nearly 38 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. There are currently more than 20,000 producing wells with a prediction of up to 5,000 additional wells targeting natural gas in the upcoming years. The United States Geological Survey projects possible undiscovered resources at more than 50 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, 148 million barrels of natural gas liquids and between 7 and 35 million barrels of oil.",4_5
"That wasntalarmingenough either, so they bumped the numbers up to 3.1 mm per year, almost triple the 1990 number without any evidence that sea level rise had accelerated.",1_6
"In spite of the British ban on slavery from the early 19th century, Mr. Kerwick points out it was not outlawed in India until the 1940s not outlawed in Saudi Arabia until the 60s.",0_0
Sir Davids comments were made in an interview in The Guardian.,0_0
"Early action crediting is being promoted as a way to protect industry in the event that the Kyoto Protocol or some other program to limit greenhouse gas emissions is implemented. But Jack Kemp, a distinguished fellow with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told the House Government Reform Subcommittee on July 15 that early action crediting is an attempt to create a pro-Kyoto lobby within the business community. Credits acquired under early action would be worthless unless Kyoto is ratified.",0_0
3. Understanding how heat trapped in the ocean will be transported into the deeper layers and how that might affect global temperatures in the future.,0_0
"However, data indicate that the rise in the heat stored at depth of the tropical Pacific, in the form of warm water, was created by temporary increases in sunlight caused by La Nia eventsnot by an increase in infrared radiation from manmade greenhouse gases. Well discuss that later in this post, and Ill provide a quote from Dr. Trenberths earlier research that contradicts his recent speculation.",2_1
"Specifically, the fluctuations in the halftime pressures of Patriots footballs exceed in magnitude the fluctuations that can be attributed to the combined effects of the various physical, usage, and environmental factors we examined. Therefore, subject to discovery of an as yet unidentified and unexamined factor, the most plausible explanation for the variability in the Patriots halftime measurements is that the 11 Patriots footballs measured by the officials at halftime did not all start the game at or near the same pressure.",0_0
"$100,000 for The identified issue for this project is exposure to diesel emissions and other environmental hazards associated with inappropriate land use within West Oakland.",0_0
"/s/ Kenneth Suit JSC, Asst Mgr., Systems Integration, Space Shuttle, 37 years",0_0
"""An ironic bookend to that Richard Cohen column I linked earlier accusing the GOP of being a ""cult"" that can't face unpleasant realities. Look out here for actual chanting about how allegedly un-broke we are. (Even The One is more reality-based than that.) You've seen this schtick before remember Michael Moore's disgusting speech in Wisconsin about the ""400 little Mubaraks"" who have stolen ""our"" money? but watch it anyway to see how slippery Jones is with the actual numbers. Turns out there's ""a lot"" of wealth out there that could be used to reduce the deficit; not enough wealth to keep up with a metastasizing government, especially with entitlement spending set to explode, but still, it's ""a lot."" No need to sweat the details.""",0_0
"IPCC Reports say little , but acknowledge lack of data and understanding. There are very limited direct measurements of actual evapotranspiration over global land areas. Over oceans, estimates of evaporation depend on bulk flux estimates that contain large errors. The problem is this is the major mechanism of transferal of heat energy in the global system.",5_1
"In a sharp escalation of tensions over Brussels' move to bring aviation into its emissions trading system from January 1, Hilary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State, has written to her European Commission counterpart, Catherine Ashton, and other top commissioners, to ""strongly urge"" the EU to halt or suspend its plan.",0_0
"Solution: As noted here , ""an ad hoc assumption, not supported by any factual evidence, solved the problem: The average age of air was arbitrarily decreed to be exactly 83 years younger than the ice in which it was trapped (Jaworowski 1994 & 1992)."" I have added the red arrow to illustrate the arbitrary data shift of 83 years to match up ice core data with modern measurements of CO2 at Mauna Loa, an active volcano with elevated levels of CO2.",5_1
"Developing countries know increased energy use is a prerequisite for the economic development needed to combat the major problems they face today, including poverty, disease, famine, unemployment and violent conflict. Can improved technologies help them reduce energy use per unit of economic output, and thus lower greenhouse gas emissionsto produce greater wealth, health and environmental quality? If so, what policy changes are necessary to encourage technology transfers and increasing partnerships with developed countries?",0_0
"Now this is interesting. We brought several pair of socks, but no extra boots.",0_0
"Gasoline prices rising $0.20 by 2016 and $0.30 before 2030, and",0_0
"The Environmental Protection Agency's proposed Clean Power Plan (CPP) aims to reduce U.S. carbon dioxide emissions 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. In a thoughtful piece for The Monitor, Texas State Geologist Scott Tinker notes 2015 carbon dioxide emissions from the U.S. electric power sector were already 20 percent below 2005 levels. He asks why we need CPP to meet the emissions reduction goal:",0_0
A simultaneous drop in the land data? This leads to the question,0_0
we notice the mean of all this can be looked at to be slightly cooler but still very hot,0_0
"espite the strong mechanistic or physiological basis for a role of warming in coral bleaching and coral growth, a robust demonstration of a direct causal link between global warming and global coral bleaching over decadal time scales has not yet been produced.",3_2
"Post-Moderns like unions (50 percent favorable), Obamacare (only 16 percent think it will have mainly a bad effect), and the U.N. (60 percent favorable). They are much less likely than Libertarians to say government should be smaller (85 percent vs. 55 percent), and are significantly less likely to say that cutting major programs should be the main way to cut the deficit (47 percent vs. 8 percent). They much prefer expanding alternative energy (79 percent) to producing more fossil fuels (13 percent). And they are more likely than Libertarians to support gun control (54 percent vs. 18 percent) and government efforts to fight childhood obesity (62 percent vs. 24 percent).",0_0
"* Nighttime marine air temperature (NMAT) is taken by thermometers at the decks of ships, well above the sea surface. The relatively minor warming of the ocean surface (71% of the Earth's surface), stands in contrast to the reported global warming between 1970 and 2000. It suggests that land surface warming has been greatly overestimated.",0_0
They made a little mistake though. Great Lakes ice extent was at an all-time record high for the date at the end of January.,1_1
"The National Research Council has released a hard-hitting report about global sea level, and in particular, sea level along thewestern coast of the United States. Yup, they really nailed it down. They predict the sea level along Californias coast to rise somewhere between4 and 30 cm (between 1.5 and 12 inches)between 2000 and2030 (see page 5 ).",0_0
"Please str hr and soothes your ecological conscience and verlter for others to take responsibility for 50,000 workplaces in kolverksamheten, there is a arbetsfrdelning I Carefully said would call antiquated, Gabriel said.",0_0
"Seven of the last 10 years have produced above-average freezing in the waters west of Alaska, Cole said. Last year, seasonal sea-ice cover and thickness in the Bering Sea were higher than any time since record-keeping began four decades ago.",1_1
"As my presentation had pointed out, the very small fluctuations of just 1% in absolute global temperature either side of the long-run mean over the past 420,000 years, notwithstanding substantial astronomical forcings, are inconsistent with the notion that strongly net-positive (i.e. temperature-amplifying) feedbacks are in operation.",3_1
"But if we quit the fight now, there is no assurance we will win these battles. The forces against freedom and for tyranny in each case are enormous, well-funded, and powerful. We are David against Goliath, confident and hopeful but still battling heavy odds.",0_0
"Yet the actual plotted global temperature results on Chart #2, through June 2013, reveal that global warming has died and world temperatures are well below the NASA ""business as usual"" scenario. In fact, the actual temperatures are practically below the NASA model's 'Scenario C' (the cyan/aqua curve on chart) that assumes CO2 emissions had been reduced to year 2000 levels.",1_4
"M-pesa has in turn improved access to capital even more, and technology businesses are thriving all over Kenya as a result.",0_0
"A new paper published in The Cryosphere finds the largest ice cap in Tibet had approximately equal gain and loss of ice mass between 2000 and 2012, such that ""Overall, our results show an almost balanced mass budget for the studied time period. Additionally, we detected one continuously advancing glacier tongue in the eastern part of the ice cap."" The findings stand in stark contrast to alarmist claims of a ""meltdown"" in "" the climate front line of Tibet .""",1_1
"Over on WUWT, there was an interesting comment burried down in yet another long discussion thread.",0_0
Brian Lilley with Alex Marlow on Benghazi. Brian Lilley recently released CBC Exposed available at your bookstores. Interview with John Gormley available here .,0_0
"Indian monsoon rainfall has dropped since the 50s, but climate change should increase it. Whats going on?",5_1
"Seal pups have been drowning because of thin and melting ice due to warmer than usual weather. So, the Canadian government has reduced the hunting quota by about 20 percent according to Doug Struck writing for the Washington Post :",0_0
"Also reported here is that Arctic sea ice volume has increased by a third in 2013 and that this growth continued into last year. Compared to the average of the period between 2010 and 2012, a 33 percent increase in sea ice volume was found in 2013 and and in 2014 there was still a quarter more ice than during that period. As Jim Lakely, director of communications at the Heartland Institute, writes today: ""The fact is, current ice extent on the North Pole is within the normal range of what satellites have accurately measured"" since 1979.",1_1
"Finally, what of corruptionwhat role does it play in undermining prosperity? In a very simple regression of Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index on the Legatum Index, we find an R-squared of 0.74. This shows a strong positive association between low corruption and high prosperity.",0_0
"Canadian winter, summer and annual temperature departures from 1961-1990. Averages for the years 1998 -2011",0_0
"By the time most 'significant in the history of the Kingdom, after the execution of King Charles I arrive rule dellaristocratico Oliver Cromwell, not a popular leader and even a homo novus. More recently, the blame could be said to have been diBonaparte and his failed attempt to cross the English Channel. Nothing Napoleon, the French Revolution and then nothing, nothing aside dellAncien regime and officially citizens who are not ""citizens"", but ""subject to the Crown,"" that 'subjects, which is required to promptly and follow to the letter the instructions of the Government.",0_0
An Agenda for the Monday a.m. Obama and Bush Meeting,0_0
"""They are hitting that level earlier than expected because of their rapid growth the last decade,"" den Elzen said. ""For meeting a 2-degrees target (of increasing global temperatures) such a high emissions rate is definitely bad news.""",0_0
Hahn picks up SEIU endorsement in California's special House election:,0_0
"Which raises the question: why the extreme response? China has long been engaging in a dangerous game of manipulating important economic numbers and concealing domestic commercial realities. Despite all its progress over 30 years, Beijing is afraid to shine too bright a light in dark places, and even more afraid that outsiders might be allowed to do so. In important respects, the government actually embraces opaqueness as a perceived advantage. The thought of ""transparent verification"" was seen as the thin end of the wedge, allowing outside experts broad authority to peer into the workings of middle China.",0_0
"Gas shales are formations of organic-rich shale, a sedimentary rock formed from deposits of mud, silt, clay, and organic matter. In the past these have not been seen as exploitable resources, however, advances in drilling and well stimulation technology has meant that unconventional production of gas from these, less permeable, shale formations can be achieved. In the US, shale gas has grown from 1.4% of total gas supply in 1990 to 14.3% in 2009. Estimates of recoverable reserves increase each year and production is forecast to increase by 266% by 2035. Furthermore, the cost of shale gas is much lower than imported gas.",4_5
"I need to gain an improved physical understanding of the regpar value. As I understand it now, a higher number gives more degrees of freedom to the linear fit. If my interpretation is reasonably correct, there should be a section in the paper describing these results and explaining them away with overfitting of trend using higher regpar.",0_0
"4. Michael Grubb, ""Relying on Manna from Heaven?"" Science (November 9, 2001): 1,285.",0_0
"27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?",0_0
"""In comparing the vast array of past climate changes in the Arctic with what climate alarmists claim to be the ""unprecedented"" anthropogenic-induced warming of the past several decades, White et al. conclude that ""thus far, human influence does not stand out relative to other, natural causes of climate change."" In fact, they state that the data ""clearly show"" that ""strong natural variability has been characteristic of the Arctic at all time scales considered,"" and they reiterate that the data suggest ""that the human influence on rate and size of climate change thus far does not stand out strongly from other causes of climate change.""""",2_1
> >> not know the cost of global warming damage because our,0_0
"Incidentally, this became a common refrain. After the Spanish study embarrassed the White House, prompting substantial media attention and even questioning at a press conference, Obama swapped out Denmark for Spain for later references to an enacted ""green jobs"" program.",0_0
"As the Proliferation Security Initiative in Asia shows, though, this twenty-first- century naval diplomacy presents formidable challenges in terms of redefinitions of ""sovereignty."" Though the TSN concept is still a work in progress, it is worth noting that naval representatives from 72 countries have already taken part in the first symposium on the subject. NATO would do well to examine if the indirect approach of ""going global"" through a Thousand Ship Navy path is not also the best way to avoid making self-defeating waves in Asia.",0_0
"Finally . Maurice Strong is plopped front and center in the Kyoto debate, and in a Canadian newspaper. That said, there's the sense of an editorial black pen at work;",0_0
"The reason I think Tiberius Gracchus is a good analog is that Gracchus too took actions that were technically legal. Tribunes always technically had the legal power to bypass the Senate, but in hundreds of years had never done so. Despite their technical legality, his actions were seenat the timeas extremely aggressive and plowing new Constitutional ground, ground that would soon become a fertile field for authoritarians to enhance their power.",0_0
"Some of the speakers are measurably better now than they were years ago, because they continue to grow and hone their rhetorical skills. That is probably one reason we cant get the warmers to debate.",5_2
SST and LST anomaly data used in this post is available through the KNMI Climate Explorer:,0_0
"In the current economic climate, knocking the lifestyles of the rich and famous is likely to strike a chord. And given the brouhaha that greeted revelations about Al Gore's carbon footprint, the makers of ""James Cameron ? Hypocrite"", who in 2009 produced a contentious documentary disputing climate change called Not Evil Just Wrong, may be tapping a rich rhetorical vein.",5_2
RMS residual error 0.16 0.26 C,0_0
"Even some Democrats are finally questioning their party's ""steadfast support"" for policies that promote ""renewable"" energy over oil and gas: Senators Ben Cardin (MD), Robert Casey (PA), Kay Hagan (NC), and several colleagues have openly expressed concern about renewable mandates. One has to wonder why so many Republicans still can't say no to ethanol.",0_0
"2. These global multi-decadal predictions are unable to skillfully simulate major atmospheric circulation features such the Pacific Decadal Oscillation , the North Atlantic Oscillation , El Nio and La Nia, and the South Asian monsoon .",5_1
Climate change is a useful tool in that fear of catastrophe can be used to compel economically destructive actions that would otherwise be unacceptable.,4_1
"Our paper by Peters et al, 2004 entitled Cross-scale interactions, nonlinearities, and forecasting catastrophic events discussed the issue of nonlinear scale interactions. In terms of the climate system, a nonlinear perspective of this type is certainly needed, but has been lacking in assessments. The vulnerability framework that we have proposed (see and see ) is much more inclusive with communicating to policymakers the environmental and societal threats associated with the nonlinearity of the climate system.",0_0
"If we had started the process twenty, ten or even five years ago, wed have enough oil flowing to slash imports and cut world crude and US pump prices significantly. If President Obama had approved the Keystone XL pipeline, within two years over 800,000 barrels of Canadian, Montana and North Dakota crude would be flowing daily to Texas refineries with similar effects on imports and prices.",4_1
"Simply put, the Kyoto accord will have an impact only if it effectively taxes energy use, either directly (e.g. carbon tax) or indirectly (trading rights in emissions, assuming regulatory caps on those emissions). The Kyoto tax effect can manifest itself in a number of ways, but most obviously it taxes energy use, a specific category of consumption. Because energy is such a fundamental input of the modern economy, Kyoto's costs will manifest themselves in costs of production as well as at the level of consumer costs.",0_0
"On Dec 22, Pielke Jr and Anthony Watts both covered the story, referencing a blog post by Nielsen-Gammon here .",0_0
"However, this nonzero value of the Feynman propagator, while proving correlation, doesn't mean that any faster-than-light communication is possible. The correlation is nonzero not because the regions would be communicating ""right now"". Instead, it is nonzero because the fields at the two points \(x,y\) have evolved from fields at earlier points and one may find ""common ancestors"", i.e. points \(z\) that belong to the past light cones of \(x\) as well as \(y\). As the quantum field was trying to minimize the energy by sending all excitations and excessive local disturbances away (this is just a different way of saying that particles in the region were escaping) it was establishing a particular correlation between different points that is characteristic for the ground state of the quantum field, the vacuum.",0_0
"As blogger Tom Nelson has correctly observed, NASAs Gavin Schmidt is referee and commentator, along with his paid job as coach and cheerleader for one side.",0_0
"John: Not much point really, is there Brian? Blind Freddy can see its a crock of it. A total waste of taxpayers resources and governments time. Government exists to maintain and expand the social and economic well-being of its population not to legislate natural events. No responsible government would even contemplate such a thing.",0_0
"And, I think the theory linking human activities to climate change is plausible, and that humans may have contributed to some of the surface warming seen since about 1970.",0_0
"When I wrote Red Hot Lies ,I backed up the claim with specifics and evidence. Sadly if typically, a new talking point has emerged among the cap-n-trade cheerleading Left which as I showed at two town hall meetings with Rep. Michele Bachmann last Thursday excludes the non-financially financially vested Left, to their credit.",5_2
"Even someone with the IQ of a vegetable would realize that if you want to know the rate at which temperature changes in the sub box, you want these thermometers distributed evenly; failing that, if all 5 ???fast trend?? thermometer were in one tight region, and the 5 slow warming spread out, you want to weight the various thermometers to avoid over sampling the ???fast trend.?? Climate scientists actually try to do that by using area weighting and gridding. But for now, we??ll just focus on the sub-box and what happens to it??s computed temperature.",5_1
"If anthropogenic forcing has had any effect on sea levels, it should be evident in the latter half of that plot but there is no acceleration.",1_6
"Look down at the eastern United States the next time you fly over it, "" says U. of Oklahoma zoologist Dr. Michael Mares. ""It used to be solid forest all the way to the Mississippi. Now it's patches of isolated forest, exactly what we fear will happen to the tropics. But we didn't have a massive die-off."" (Science, p. 738)",0_0
"The new energy sector is not short of private funding; its ""cocktail party"" popularity and the pressure of the Kyoto climate change agreement has produced an ever increasing devotion of resources to research, and a huge boom in speculative investment in the last couple of years. Private equity investments alone in the New Energy sector (excluding investments by existing corporations or government or fund-raising by publicly listed companies) totaled more than $1.6 billion in over 150 transactions in 2005, double the level of the previous year.As always with such explosive growth, much of the development in the sector is ill thought through. Indeed the popularity of the sector appears to be producing yet another bubble, and has undoubtedly attracted many sharp operators and indeed outright crooks. A boom/bust cycle appears to be inevitable, which is a pity because it could set back genuine progress in the field for a decade.",0_0
"In a statement yesterday, Mr Blair said: ?Solving the climate crisis is more than just a political agenda item; it's an urgent priority that requires innovation, creativity and ambition.?",0_0
When Al Gore rose to the vice-presidency by 1993 Wirth and Hansen were already well out in front of the man-made global warming pack extending the man-made ideology to other federal agencies and the university-level climate community with federal dollars.,0_0
"Climate Horror Stories That Wont Die: The Case of the Pika (Stewart, 2015)",0_0
"Simon, Julian L. and Myers, Norman. Scarcity or Abundance? A Debate on the Environment. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1994.",0_0
"The four researchers say that for the Mediterranean zooxanthellate coral, ""an increase in CO 2 , in the range predicted for 2100, does not reduce its calcification rate,"" and that ""an increase in CO 2 , alone or in combination with elevated temperature, had no significant effect on photosynthesis, photosynthetic efficiency and calcification."" However, they report that a 3C rise in temperature in winter resulted in a 72% increase in gross photosynthesis, as well as a significant increase in daytime calcification rate. What it means",3_2
"Here are four energy wishes for 2014, and four rebuttals to those who want America to focus on green energy.",0_0
This much is certain: We have turned the tide on statism in each of these three important areas. We've risen to the call to come to freedom's defense and have fought a good fight indeed. Let's finish what we've begun: Win these battles ... and the others likely to come our way ... and then the war.,0_0
"Counsel for Special Projects Hans Bader joins this chorus. ""Under this bill, a blogger like Emile Zola, the courageous writer who exposed an anti-semitic witchhunt a century ago in the infamous Dreyfus Affair through his repeated and ""vehement public' denunciations of public officials, would be subject to prosecution,"" argues Bader. ""His ""severe, repeated, and hostile' denunciations resulted in many public figures being discredited and removed from office, which no doubt caused them ""substantial emotional distress.'""",0_0
"Things got nasty. Someone came up with the brilliant but insidious idea of using the term ???denier?? to describe a person who remained agnostic or sceptical about the exact human contribution to the 0.7 degree global warming of the past 100 years. This malicious rhetoric came to be adopted by climate activists, media reporters and politicians up to head-of-state level. Many distinguished scientists such as Paul Reiter of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT, and Bill Kininmonth, former head of our National Climate Centre, were casually defamed in this way. The same label was applied to world-renowned theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson and Australia??s distinguished Professor Bob Carter.",5_2
"This dataset's superior length allows analysis of long-term climate change since the LIA, including the widely accepted 60-year cycle of global temperatures.",2_1
"Professor Richard Tol, one of the reports authors who is based at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin, Ireland, said: These are essentially a collection of anecdotes.",0_0
"Alternate links (since this video has an annoying habit of ""going",0_0
Jason-1 shows sea level falling along most of the US East Coast. It is also quite clear from this map that cherry-picking one location isnt going to fly.,1_6
"The graph above plots the five year running mean of the PDO (turquoise line) on top of the five year running mean ENSO (red and blue.) When the PDO is negative, La Nia dominates. When the PDO is positive, El Nio dominates.",0_0
"Wetlands continue to multiply, with a growth of 26,000 acres a year.",0_0
"For a treaty to have any validity, it must be honored by both parties. That is why Ronald Reagan used to famously say, ""trust, but verify.""",0_0
"The boss of American oil company Breitling Energy took out a full-page ad in this week's Sunday Telegraph, trying to persuade us all to get behind shale gas.",0_0
Heres the essay by Nagel that convinced me to read his books and his essays whenever possible.,0_0
"In Figure 7, Ive smoothed the model outputs of outgoing shortwave radiation with 5-year running-mean filters to help show the differences in the shapes of the individual model curves.",0_0
"This brand of ""free and honest debate"" seems to be one in which the Mountain State comes out as a big beneficiary. You can't deny that.",0_0
"Without embarrassment, Vice President Al Gore went to the climate change meeting in Kyoto, Japan, last winter and said that ""we have reached a fundamentally new stage in the development of human civilization."" This new stage is a crisis stage, and its ""spiritual roots"" are ""pridefulness and a failure to understand and respect our connections to God's earth and to each other."" Gore was talking about the emission of greenhouse gas. Worrying about it is the latest religion. But as Paul Gigot of the Wall Street Journal said, the scary part is that Gore really believes this stuff. This is a religion most decidedly not separated from the state, and therein lies both the danger and the opportunity. Fanatics are dangerous because nothing deters them. At the same time, Gore is so much the true believer that his fanaticism could put his political future at risk.",5_2
An Illustrated Introduction to the Basic Processes that Drive El Nio and La Nia Events,0_0
"There may be economic justification for doing something now. While estimates of the costs and benefits of climate change are highly uncertain and changing all the time, economic models suggest a modest carbon taxon the order of 1 to 10 cents per gallon of gasolinemight make sense, assuming most countries cooperate in an agreement.",0_0
"42 How can you say to your brother, `Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye, when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brothers.",0_0
"The key issue in the pending case over the quest for Mann?s e-mails involves the extent of Virginia?s state freedom of information laws, which ATI is using to request Mann?s documents. That issue has galvanized a coalition of 18 heavyweight press groups ? including the Reporter?s Committee for Freedom of the Press, the Associated Press, Reuters, NPR, Dow Jones, Politico, The Washington Post and others ? who somewhat quietly penned a friend-of-the-court or ?amicus? brief favoring disclosure of this type of e-mail.",0_0
Brief Overview Of Several Climate Science Research Findings,0_0
"Plans for large-scale wind power collided with the reality that prevailing winds at nearly all the campuses are too weak to generate much electricity. To date, a single wind turbine has been installed, as a demonstration project. It spins too slowly in average winds to power a 60-watt light bulb.",4_4
"First we can remember Tiljander which was simply flipped to improve the high number of correlated series, from memory, this counts for 3? of 484 series but it is worse than that. Luterbacher, which included 71 series of ACTUAL physical temperature data, also skewed the results so subtract another 71 bs proxies from 484 as the portion of the proxy Mann checked for correlation to temperature was actual temperature.",5_2
Got that? Nuclear is part of the ancien r gime like oil and coal and natural gas that Obama's green revolution would overthrow.,0_0
"I know that these comments sound like conspiracy theories and most people who say similar things are simply nuts. But I can't help myself: Yes, I do think that the appearance and their way of thinking makes it very likely that Frank Marshall Davis was the actual biological father of Barack Obama . I can't give you any proof that would be better than what you may find elsewhere. But Davis and Obama's mother did meet in the communist movement, could have done certain things 9 months before Obama's birth, and the similarity between Obama and Davis simply looks much more obvious than the similarity between Obama and Obama Sr.",0_0
"A paper published today in the journal Geophysical Research Letters finds, "" In the pentad since 2006, Northern Hemisphere and global tropical cyclone ACE (cyclone energy) has decreased dramatically to the lowest levels since the late 1970s. Additionally, the global frequency of tropical cyclones has reached a historical low.""",1_7
"In fact, farmers have managed to keep different crops separate for centuries. Although weed seeds are spread by birds and by weather, pollen moves much smaller distances. Farmers have already agreed on buffer zones between crops that might cross-pollinate, and seed comes with guarantees against the presence of weeds and undesirable species. Trace amounts of foreign seeds and materials are typically allowed. Farmers have legal recourse against neighbors who damage their crops, and insurance companies exist to provide liability coverage against herbicide drift where one farmer's crop abuts another's. No matter, the important point here is that GMO opponents demand another level of purity, because, just like with my friend in the Ozarks, we are having a religious disagreement here, and the legal protections and custom that have allowed all kinds of producers to solve differences sensibly and ""coexist"" are as passe as iambic pentameter.",0_0
"The summit in Cancun failed to produce a binding deal or even a concrete renewal of the Kyoto Protocol. However, the UN climate dignitaries did finally reach an ?agreement? of sorts, citing the accord as evidence of progress and vowing to expand the climate regime later. Almost every government in the world signed on to what the global body is calling the ?Cancun Agreements.? And similar to the process used to create the COP15 Copenhagen Accord last year, wealthier regimes simply bribed rulers of poor nations with continued promises of free technology and at least $100 billion per year by 2020 to fight ?climate change.? Exactly where the money will come from has still not been determined, however.",0_0
"Further, Figure 2 gives you an indication of just how meaningless the IPCC statement about the paleo-temperature history of the Northern Hemisphere really is. True, even in this proxy reconstruction, the temperatures during the second half of the 20th century were very likely higher than during any other 50-year period in the last 500 years and even likely the highest in at least the past 1,300 years. However, for the major portion of the millennium previous to that, the average proxy temperature was not much different from that observed during the latter half of the 20th century and in fact was probably higher on at least several occasions. Which means that what the IPCC is attempting to get you to inferthat human GHG emissions have pushed the temperature up to unprecedented levelsfalls flat when a slightly longer historical time period is brought into the picture.",2_1
"The Week That Was: 2015-08-15 (August 15, 2015) Brought to You by SEPP ( www.SEPP.org ) The Science and Environmental Policy Project",0_0
"Worst of all, politicians are increasingly and intentionally obscuring and misrepresenting the nature, frequency and severity of storm, flood and surge risks, so that they can promote and permit more construction in high-risk areas, and secure more money and power. They insist that they can prevent or control climate change and sea level rise, by regulating CO2 emission while they ignore real, known dangers that have arisen before and will arise again, exacerbated by their politicized decisions.",0_0
"That contradicts the findings of the DOE consultants, as well as Ebinger and Levi, who all concluded there would be many winners and very few losers. Because of the net benefits to the economy, consumers would be among the biggest beneficiaries.",0_0
"The single most frequently asked question I get after I give my talks is, Why didnt you mention the sun? I usually answer that Im skeptical of the cosmic ray gun theory of cloud changes controlling climate. But I point out that Svensmarks theory of natural cloud variations causing climate change is actually pretty close to what I preach ??? only the mechanism causing the cloud change is different.",2_1
Seattle Voters Reject Fees on Grocery Bags,0_0
"Market-based alternatives to emission trading can be found in the work of a growing number of academics and policy experts advocating so-called free-market environmentalism.37 While are controversial, they at least illustrate the variety of promising alternatives to the now quarter-century-old NSR.",0_0
"Much of my vision for CEI emerged from my apprenticeship at the Council for a Competitive Economy. As the Council came to an end, friends encouraged me to create my own organization. They assured me that, with my alleged energy and enthusiasm, it would be easy. They lied. Our first year was incredibly difficult. One day, dejected, I told Fran that we might have to shut CEI down because we hadn't raised any money after three months of existence. She said, ""But Fred, that was part of your business plan."" ""I know,"" I replied, but now it's actually happened!""",0_0
These omitted processes may well have important consequences for future African,0_0
Antarctic global warming expedition airlifted from the ice,0_0
"""The magnificent moral impulse, the search for truth and goodness, is only a necessary but not a sufficient condition for the successful remaking of a country.""",0_0
"8 hours ago AUSTRALIAS $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a new air link to the frozen continent.",0_0
"The last time there were 15 landfalling hurricanes in a four-year period was back in the 1880s. Even so, the entire 1880s ended up having only one or two more landfalling hurricanes than the preceding and subsequent decades. History, therefore, cautions us against jumping to rash conclusions about whether the opening decade of the Third Millennium will likely become a record-breaker. We'll have to wait and see -- but history suggests it's somewhat unlikely.",0_0
"Imagine hundreds of world leaders and nongovernmental organizations, science groups, and United Nations functionaries gathered for a meeting heralded as the most important conference since World War II, in which ""the future of the world is being decided."" These officials seem to agree that institutions of ""global governance"" need to be established to reorder the world economy and massively restrict energy resources. Large numbers of them applaud wildly when socialist dictators denounce capitalism. Strange philosophical and metaphysical activism surrounds the gathering. And we are told by our president that all of this is based, not on fiction, but on sciencethat is, a scientific consensus that human activities, particularly greenhouse gas emissions, are leading to catastrophic climate change.",0_0
"The substance of what Murray says we know in fact turns out to be mere speculation. And highly contested speculation at that, with much criticism of the putative links between climate and conflict emerging from within the green camp itself. It is even contested by the IPCC",0_0
"The climate models upon which most of the dire predictions of global warming rest, also contain erroneous assumptions and ignore many of the natural variables that govern our climate. They were artificially tuned to match the warm trend from 1978-1998, using water vapor to amplify the perceived warming by CO2. This was a false strategy, because the assumed positive feedback was offset by clouds and precipitation. Prof. Richard Lindzen, MIT and Roy Spencer, Ph.D. showed that the feedback should be close to zero or even negative. The models cant possibly make accurate predictions, unless solar wind variations and ocean oscillations can be accurately predicted and included. The same is true of volcanic eruptions, aerosol concentrations, and other unknowns. Cloud variations of just 1-2% could account for all the temperature changes in the 20 th century.",5_1
Agency expects new rule to boost oil extraction technique that critics say negates emissions reductions,0_0
"As the air??s CO2 content rises in response to ever-increasing anthropogenic CO2 emissions, and as more and more carbon dioxide therefore dissolves in the surface waters of the world??s oceans, theoretical reasoning suggests the pH values of the planet??s oceanic waters should be gradually dropping. The IPCC and others postulate that this chain of events, commonly referred to as ocean acidification, will cause great harm ??? and possibly death ??? to marine life in the decades and centuries to come. However, as ever more pertinent evidence accumulates, a much more optimistic viewpoint is emerging. This summary examines the topic of the potential impacts of ocean acidification on fish.",3_2
Opinion: UN-Backed Scientists Call For Mega-City Population Lockup,0_0
Members of The Heritage Foundation staff testify as individuals discussing their own independent research. The views expressed are their own and do not reflect an institutional position for The Heritage Foundation or its board of trustees.,0_0
41: The consensus is only that humans are contributing to warming. 42: Roy Spencer agrees with that consensus. 43: Only a small number of scientists know enough about climate sensitivity to have an informed opinion. 44: Only a few of us work on the question how sensitive is the climate system. 45: Only a few of us know how much uncertainty there is.,0_0
Connecticut Legislature Rejects Ban on GM Grass,0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President Iain Murray on why we should privatize Amtrak.,0_0
4. IPCCs 5 th assessment report (AR5) shows lower temperature predictions than the previous report (AR4) and has even increased the range of uncertainty for climate sensitivity (see item 7 below) yet it has increased its claimed level of certainty of future higher temperature-rise predictions over that claimed for previous reports in direct contradiction of its own results.,5_2
"Is Chicken Little going around telling all the other chickens that the sky is falling out of the goodness of his heart? Or is there something Chicken Little wants? And once Chicken Little has the other chickens convinced that the sky is falling, will there be a Federal Department of Falling Sky? And will Chicken Little be appointed Secretary of Things That Hit You On the Head? A cabinet post is an excellent springboard to higher office.",0_0
"As more states approve applications for an Article V convention, opponents of constitutional reform continue to object to any potential changes to the all-important document. But as constitutional scholar Rob Natelson writes in this new Heartland Policy Brief, James Madison and other Founders ""emphasized state officials' obligation to interpose in a constitutional manner when the people are threatened by federal overreaching."" READ MORE",0_0
"Warmist energy and climate website CO2-Handel reports here that once again global CO2 emissions have increased, reaching a record level in 2012! Yet CO2 Handel forgets to tell us that global temperature hasnt risen in almost 15 years:",1_4
"Many peer-reviewed papers (e.g. Douglass et al., 2004, 2008, 2009; Schwartz, 2007; Monckton, 2008; Lindzen & Choi, 2009) show that the IPCC has exaggerated the warming effect of greenhouse gases up to 7-fold. Without that exaggeration, there is no climate crisis.",5_2
"Following the pledge in a May 13 letter to CEI's attorney, U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker (AG Walker) has withdrawn the District of Columbia subpoena action against the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), yet the original Virgin Islands subpoena remains, meaning AG Walker can move at any moment to continue his unconstitutional intimidation campaign against the free market group and others who oppose his view of climate change. CEI's motion for sanctions against AG Walker is pending in court and the group continues its pushback against the AG's wrongdoing.",0_0
Bill Frezza: Alternative Energy's Alternate Reality,0_0
"Orange News, sport and weather | Central Western Daily",0_0
"Steven F. Hayward reviews The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, by Amity Shlaes.",0_0
"The Affordable Power Alliance will urge the new Congress to honor its constitutional duties, and prevent the Obama administration from imposing excessive regulations inspired by extreme ideologies. Congress, including Democrats up for reelection in 2012, needs to heed the overwhelming public demand that America's economy no longer be held hostage by an elitist environmental network even if that network includes the President of the United States.",0_0
"/s/ Richard Gordon JSC, Astronaut, Gemini Xi, Apollo 12, 9 years",0_0
"Answering the how-much-warming question is difficult. Models overemphasize radiative transports, undervalue non-radiative transports such as evaporation and tropical afternoon convection, and largely neglect the powerfully homoeostatic effect of the great heat-sinks ocean and space that bound the atmosphere.",5_1
"Science is a process. The results of that process do not depend on whether scientists are good or bad, altruistic or selfish. The issue is whether they follow the scientific process.",0_0
"Richard North, the professor who brought to light the financial irregularities in a write-up co-authored with Christopher Booker, has also said in a TV interview that, ""If Dr Pachauri does not resign voluntarily, he will be forced to do so.""",0_0
"Hansensays that each doublingof CO2 causes a 3C temperature increase. Venus has 97% (0.97 mole fraction) CO2. In order to get to 97% on Earth, wewould require less than 13 doublings. That would raise temperatures by about 35degrees, using Hansensown exaggerated theory. Nowhere near 600 degrees.",5_2
"People around the province woke up to snow Monday morning, after an ???unseasonably cold Arctic airmass?? descended over the province.",1_3
"Now, as I'm sure people will argue, not everyone can do this. If predictions of strong sea-level rise come to pass, low-lying areas, many of them in poor countries, will be inundated, potentially leading to mass exodus. The same is true if desert areas become sharply dryer.",0_0
Were the struggles of this campaign season a precursor to future uncertainty regarding party identity and leadership?,0_0
"Finally, the recent financial crisis and economic bust are typically blamed on our lust for material betterment. Greedy bankers lent money recklessly, and lax regulators let them get away with it. But behind them all, it is alleged, stood the gluttonous American consumer with rapacious demands for ever more goods and services.",0_0
"I?m not opposed to moderation and frugality, and we certainly should put aside our avaricious and materialistic ways. Sacrifice, too, is virtuous and meritorious, as long as it is voluntary and sincere.",0_0
"The latest USA Global Forecast model shows a landfalling tropical cyclone near the Tampa are next week. The forecast position is shown above. If this verifies (as either a tropical storm or a hurricane), it will add another layer to what already will be an interesting potlical event!",0_0
"One of the Fascists, distracted as I had intended, began trying to offer a commentary on what I was saying. Using my elbow, I kept her away from the microphones and continued talking. Eventually, the squad marched out of the room and rapidly dispersed before the police could round them up.",0_0
"Campbell, I.D. and Flannigan, M.D. 2000. Long-term perspectives on fire-climate-vegetation relationships in the North American boreal forest. In: Kasischke, E.A. and Stocks, B.J. (Eds.). Fire, Climate Change, and Carbon Cycling in the Boreal Forests. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, USA, pp. 151-172.",0_0
"Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio . Tonight, for your delectation, here are the Luis Russell Orchestra performing Goin' To Town , in 1931 (2:55). Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.",0_0
"The APS notes that the models seem able to reproduce the Arctic declining ice trend, but not the Antarctic rising ice trend. Moreover, the APS has spotted that the IPCC had done its ice graphs using only 17 out of its 40 models, these 17 happening to produce reasonable fits with the data. The APS says,",5_1
"In their Reply to Mann, B and C will point out that Mann et al 2005 deals with pseudoproxies in a tame network (using my terminology here).",0_0
"It also came as the state government released a report on future impacts of climate change in Victoria, finding average temperatures could increase by 1 to 4.2 degrees by 2070 relative to 1990.",0_0
"That was largely the logic behind the faltering Kyoto Protocol, in which China pledged only to reduce the carbon intensitythe relative greenhouse gas efficiency of its industrialization, without any effort at actual cutbacks.",0_0
Recently Xstrata announced plans to cease smelting and refining copper in Queensland. Then Blue Scope Steel decided to reduce production and shed workers. Now Rio has signalled the sale of its aluminium processing empire. Next we can expect that a large coal fired electricity generator will be unable to repay its debts. Cement plants will be squeezed and rail and port costs will increase.,0_0
"Congress plans to spend $550 million to buy eight jets, a substantial upgrade to the fleet used by federal officials at a time when lawmakers have criticized the use of corporate jets by companies receiving taxpayer funds.",0_0
"For the Left, here be dragons. Getting truth directly from the Internet is habit-forming just in time for elections in England, the United States, and perhaps Australia.",0_0
"Despite the continued increase of greenhouse gas emissions from us, rise of global surface temperatures has been easing since 1998.",1_4
"Meanwhile, Finland and France are probably the most technologically advanced European countries as far as nuclear energy is concerned. And Britain, Lithuania, Switzerland, and Slovenia are the other countries where nuclear power plants may be built soon.",0_0
The most shameful aspect of the developed worlds rush to implement climate change mitigation policies is that they have often been justified by reference to ethics. Yet the results have been the very opposite of ethical. said Mr Montford.,4_1
"5 See Robert Jervis' classic Perceptions and Misperceptions in International Politics, 1976.",0_0
"But when one examines my actual post , it does not contain any statements that contain the assertions about which Schmidt complains. Precisely what Lucia warns against when dealing with Schmidt.",0_0
"Once again, perhaps his speechwriters were aware of claims of falsified records and the besmirched Charles Monnett (whose observations of drowned polar bears helped galvanize the global warming movement), and reports of rebounding polar bear populations. While they dont get much mainstream press coverage, several scientists are reporting an unprecedented increase in the worlds polar bear population.",3_2
"On longer time scales, ocean mixing caused by deep ocean currents causes long term changes in ocean temperatures. These changes also affect long term carbon dioxide trends. Carbon dioxide held in large quantities in cold deep ocean water is slowly released as ocean currents mix this cold water with warmer surface water. The reverse occurs as the sea surface cools, absorbs carbon dioxide and the cold dense water sinks to the ocean floor.",2_1
"Again, in the words of the authors, ""both coral and fish assemblages demonstrated resilience to large-scale natural disturbance ? with most taxa approaching the asymptote of abundance and species richness that existed prior to the disturbance."" They note, however, that ""this outcome may not necessarily be the case in more isolated systems or those impacted by anthropogenic disturbances,"" specifically mentioning over-fishing and destructive fishing practices. Hence, their work gives hope that if the direct deleterious effects of human activities can be mitigated, earth's coral reef ecosystems may yet be saved from the destruction so often decreed for them by environmental extremists.",3_2
"The temporal extent of modern observations is too short to properly measure natural ENSO variations: averaging together at least 200 years is required to obtain robust ENSO statistics in a stable climate . Using paleoclimateproxies to extend the observational record is another option, but is complicated by the uncertainties involved in translating between model and proxy signals. Coral oxygen isotopes, the most commonly used ENSOproxy, are shown to be governed by nonlinear dynamics: a more accurate forward model or coral 18Ois needed. Even using such a model, at least 4-5 contemporaneous records will be required for accurate ENSO amplitude estimation.",5_1
"Average Radiative Forcing from CO2, aerosols, volcanoes: 0.8 W m-2",0_0
"Multiple large corporations are now working with Obama and Democrats to pass the infamous 'cap & trade' legislation, which will result in the the consumer and small businesses absorbing the trillions of dollars of direct/indirect costs it will generate. These big corporations are working behind the scenes for their own benefit, without regard to their customers or suppliers. Any consumer or small company that does not want more of their hard-earned dollars going to ""skyrocketing"" energy costs, and gigantic CO2 taxes, passed down from the large corporations, should avoid the services and products from these corporations, as much as possible. Below the fold is a list of corporations to avoid when at all possible:",5_2
"Wind Power Prices Rising, Defying Predictions of Renewable Power Apologists",0_0
See press release from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany):,0_0
"On the other hand, if Speaker Ryan, filling his fiduciary responsibility as a constitutional officer and his heartfelt vow to become a party of ideas and policies, moves to enact constructive policies, or simply to keep the government operating, it is hard to see how he could avoid the fate of his predecessor John Boehner: retirement.",0_0
"In fact, the productivity of private industry has provided governments with billions of dollars for the remarkable environmental cleanup of the past three decades. And it has poured additional untold billions into private and nongovernmental environmental projects.",0_0
"Ring bases his predictions on lunar cycles in particular drawing on five of the lunar cycles known most to astronomers on the basis each creates an orbiting pattern that influences weather. He writes that these cycles feed into each other and fit like cogs in a gearbox with such celestial precision that after each lunar cycle of around 130 years, the moon returns to the same place in the sky with respect to the background of stars.",2_1
"Precedent on Environmental Pacts: Treaty or ""Executive Agreement""?",0_0
"In a very comprehensive study of the western Arctic Kaufman and coauthors from the US, UK, Canada, Norway, Iceland, and Russia (2004), studied proxies from over 140 sites in the western hemisphere part of the arctic. Their abstract notes Paleoclimateinferences based on a wide variety of proxy indicators provide clear evidence for warmer-than-present conditions at 120 of these sites. At the 16 terrestrialsites where quantitative estimates have been obtained, local HTM temperatures (primarily summer estimates) were on average 1.6 0.8 C higher than present",2_1
"I applaud Chris Mitchell for fighting back, and not caving in to the bullies. I dont think defamation threats are as good as getting even , but its much better than letting them get away with it.",0_0
"The third front involves Congress reasserting its lawmaking authority. Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution says, ""All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress."" Much of that power has been given away to federal agencies. Congress passed 285 laws last year, compared to 3,830 final rules from agencies. The alphabet soup of agencies should answer to Congress for the regulatory burdens they impose.",0_0
"The dramatic transformation to a supposedly green economy still largely undefined will not be cheap. In fact, according to the UN, the price tag will be in the trillions of dollars per year. And consumer prices will have to increase across the board, too, with food, energy, and housing at the top of the list.",4_1
"The basic political and economic calculations behind Byrd-Hagel are still in place today, despite the changes in the membership of the Senate since 1997 that has moved that body to the left. There is zero chance that a Kyoto II treaty can achieve the consent of two-thirds of the members of the United States Senate. Note, just to take one example, that Ohio's liberal Senator Sherrod Brown has expressed his opposition to an emissions trading bill because of its impact on Ohio's industry. So the climate campaigners are arguing that President Obama should eschew the route of a formal treaty and instead pursue a series of international agreements in the form of executive-congressional agreements similar to ""fast-track"" trade promotion agreements such as NAFTA. Such an approach would allow Obama to pass binding international climate obligations that piggy-back on Kyoto II with only a simple majority vote of both houses of Congress and thus bypass the two-thirds vote hurdle.",0_0
"Starting a new debate on such a significant issue at this point in the election cycle is a recipe for really bad legislation: to suggest writing a major bill that will touch on virtually every sector of the U.S. economy in an election year will be inviting every special interest in the country to a party where the taxpayers get to play the role of the piata. Deliberation, not speed, is what we need.",0_0
Benjamin Zycher is the John G. Searle scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.,0_0
"But the commission also wants to measure sustainability, environmental degradation, and climate change while admitting measurement of these factors is highly subjective, difficult, and possibly impossible. The difficulty of making guesstimates operational is made worse by the report's implicit assumption that all environmental changes over time will be bad, especially in relation to issues such as energy use and population growth. But things are not that simple. Resource depletion can drive better management of resources, which can then result in an increase of those resources. Iceland's fisheries are a great example. Overfishing of cod and other fish stocks in Iceland led to a new policy of Individual Transferable Quotas, a legal property rights transfer system, which led to better management of the resource to the economic advantage of most fishermen and the recovery of some fish stocks.",0_0
"Wunsch wrote that, ""The Gulf Stream's existence is a consequence of the large-scale wind system over the North Atlantic Ocean, and of the nature of fluid motion on a rotating planet. The only way to produce an ocean circulation without a Gulf Stream is either to turn off the wind system, or to stop the Earth's rotation, or both."" He added, ""The occurrence of a climate state without the Gulf Stream any time soonwithin tens of millions of yearshas a probability of little more than zero.""",0_0
Government eyes crippling climate-control measures,4_1
"According to an MSNBC article one of the scientists while speaking about human populations worldwide, stated:",0_0
"IPCC AR5 WG2 wrote 2, 4, 7 and 8.",0_0
"Initially, Antarctic ice cores were proof of CO2 creating temperature increase and low pre-industrial levels. Then we learned temperature increase preceded CO2 increase and levels were similar to today. The former was widely accepted and contradicted the major assumption of the hypothesis, so recently Shakun et al tried, unsuccessfully , to reassert the claim. The latter claim was contradicted by Jaworowski but essentially ignored.",2_3
"And for that to happen, the paper continues, ""it will be necessary to deeply reflect on the substance of sovereignty, and accept that changes in our perceptions are a good indication of the direction we are going.""",0_0
"Carbon dioxide has been suspected as an important factor in ending the last Ice Age, but its exact role has always been unclear because rising temperatures reflected in Antarctic ice cores came before rising levels of CO2, said Shakun, who is a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Post-doctoral Fellow at Harvard University and Columbia University.",2_3
"And yes, I did help make the tutu, with the aid of this video . It is videos like that that remind me there are whole worlds of which I am virtually unaware. Note the number of views - 1.4 million, on making a tutu.",0_0
"A new paper by Kim, Webster, and Curry in Science (2009) has arrived. The paper is accessible to the general reader without training in tropical meteorology or an exhaustive knowledge of the rapidly evolving state of El Nino science.",0_0
"In fact, in recent years, important work has been done comparing the predictions that models have made about warming that should have already occurred with actual observations. The NRC report looked at the evidence that was available in 2001 and concluded that, in fact, the models had overestimated warming.",5_1
"December 16, 2015 | Commentary on Energy and Environment, Sovereignty",0_0
"Hethen set about rebuilding it and then filling it with the most amazing, idiosyncratic, eclectic collection of objects that one could ever imagine tripled. For example, we walked into one room to find an antique tripod-mounted (and doubtless inactivated) Vickers machine gun mixed in with a variety of medieval weapons. Bizarre. Inside and outside the castle you can find well everything and anything. For example, there are two cannons in the courtyard that Sir Humphry saidwere stamped with the markings of Nelsons favourite flagship, the Foudroyant, captured from the French in the 18th century with the name retained to add gall to subsequent attack.",0_0
"Dear Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, We, the People of the Earth, request You to act judiciously and expeditiously to protect the Earth from anthropogenic climate change. Respectfully, People of the Earth.",0_0
"Paleo-Climate Scientist Examines Recent Peer-Research, Determines All N. Hemisphere Regions Had Large Medieval Warming",2_1
"Gia Dvali argues that if you have ""N"" stable particle species that are conserved because of ""N"" $Z 2$ symmetries or something similar, they can't be heavier than",0_0
"It's the ocean : He says that ""oceans have been warming"" which completely misses the point of the sentence ""it's the ocean"". The sentence ""it's the ocean"" clearly meant that the internal dynamics of the oceans, similar to the turbulent dynamics that he believes to be responsible for climate change on Jupiter in point 48, is responsible for the changes of the Earth. He has given us no counter-argument against this point whatsoever.",2_1
"Spencer tells OneNewsNow, however, that you can't have it both ways.",0_0
it's gotten a little colder). Theories that do not retrospectively explain,0_0
"As country after country abandons, curtails or reneges on once-generous support for renewable energy, Europe is beginning to realise that its green energy strategy is dying on the vine. Green dreams are giving way to hard economic realities.",0_0
"Significantly, ?the President offers no suitable replacement for the lost generating capacity beyond pointing toward wind and solar which is not up to the task.? When Obama took office, coal-fired plants provided 50% of U.S. electricity. It is now down to 40% and headed lower if Obama has his way.",0_0
"July 29 - August 7, Aspen, CO. Meeting at the Aspen Global Change Institute to assess national impacts of climate change.",0_0
"So alarmists began talking about climate change, blaming extreme weather events on human emissions and manipulating temperature data . They say terrible things are happening at unprecedented levels, when they are not.",5_2
"Global warming and climate change are the biggest scam of all. This continues despite disclosures about the falsity of the science, corruption of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the manipulations of the people at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU). Now we have another fiasco presented as an attempt to show the official science has legitimacy.",5_2
"This new book is the finest history of the Great Depression ever written. Hold onthis is supposed to be a review, not a dust-jacket blurb; but it can't be helped. Although there are several fine revisionist works about the Great Depression and the New Deal, Shlaes's achievement stands out for the devastating effect of its understated prose and for its wide sweep of characters and themes. It deserves to become the preeminent revisionist history for general readers.",0_0
"The scientific work on which the last IPCC report rests is now more than three years old, and in the intervening period several significant research reports have appeared that cast serious doubt on its conclusions.",5_1
One of the energy firms hoping to exploit the UKs resources of shale gas says it may be sitting on significantly more gas than previously thought.,4_5
"A carbon tax, whether imposed by the United States unilaterally or by the industrialized world, would have virtually no effect on temperatures over the course of this century.",4_2
"As U.S. NATO Ambassador Victoria Nuland argued, ""if the divisive debate over Iraq taught us one thing, it is that NATO must be the place where we talk about all the issues affecting our future the Middle East, Iraq, North Korea, China, Iran, just to name a few."" The North Atlantic Council has recently broadened its range of consultations to include global issues ranging from energy security to transnational terrorism. But increased consultation, in and of itself, will not mechanically lead to better conceptualization. Enhancing the strategic literacy of NATO's stakeholders should be the logical prerequisite to a debate about the future NATO strategic concept.",0_0
"Two weeks ago, McKitten blamed the lack of storms on global warming. Now he blames thesuperstormonglobalwarming.",0_0
"The purchases will help accommodate growing travel demand by congressional officials. The planes augment a fleet of about two dozen passenger jets maintained by the Air Force for lawmakers, administration officials and military chiefs to fly on government trips in the U.S. and abroad.",0_0
"One wonders how familiar the 240 authors of the 2013 draft National Assessment are with Karl Popper's famous essay on the nature of science and its distinction from ""pseudoscience."" The essential difference is that science only explains some things and that its hypotheses forbid others, while a theory that is not refutable by any conceivable event i.e., one that is universally and comprehensively explanatory is pseudoscience. For Popper, science is characterized by risky predictions (such as gravitational lensing of light in relativity), while pseudoscience does not lend itself to such testing. His favorite examples of pseudoscience were Marxism and Freudian psychology.",0_0
"On Saturday (September 3, 2016), Obama deposited with the United Nations the U.S. ""instrument of acceptance"" of the Paris Agreement. All 25 other nations that have formally decided to become parties to the agreement have deposited ""instruments of ratification."" They fear not the R word (ratification) because they fear not the T word (treaty).",0_0
"After conducting their several analyses, Lauer and Hamilton concluded that ""the simulated cloud climate feedbacks activated in global warming projections differ enormously among state-of-the-art models,"" informing us that ""this large degree of disagreement has been a constant feature documented for successive generations of GCMs from the time of the first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment through the CMIP3 generation models used in the fourth IPCC assessment."" And they add that ""even the model-simulated cloud climatologies for present-day conditions are known to depart significantly from observations and, once again, the variation among models is quite remarkable (e.g., Weare, 2004; Zhang et al ., 2005; Waliser et al ., 2007, 2009; Lauer et al ., 2010; Chen et al ., 2011).""",5_1
"As a conference participant, I would like to comment about two of the guest speakers. One of them, James Delingpole, was the only non-scientist in the group of seventy three. He is an author, broadcaster, and blogger who helped break the Climategate story in the United Kingdom. Having earned an English degree from Oxford University, Delingpole ""felt like a shepherd boy who had been transported to Mt. Olympus.""",0_0
PHILIP: There are none so blind as those who wont listen.,0_0
"""Excluding Commercial Fishing Activity from Certain Segments of the Ocean""",0_0
"With almost 50% of the bay still covered in ice , Hudson Bay has the third highest coverage this week since 1992 (after 2009 and 2004); Davis Strait has the highest coverage since 1992; and Foxe Basin and Baffin Bay have the highest coverage since 1998.",1_1
"5. More Objective Definition of the RMR&R; Exclusion. EPA proposes to set cost-based thresholds below which projects would automatically qualify for the RMR&R; exclusion. The thresholds would be set on an industry-by-industry basis and would exclude costs incurred for installing and maintaining pollution control technology. EPA would also attempt to codify activities that qualify for the RMR&R; exclusion, possibly relying on industry groups for advice on what activities are common practice. The agency proposes to consider energy efficiency improvements ""routine"" and eligible for the RMR&R; exclusion.",0_0
"Many empirical relationships have been reported between GCR or cosmogenic isotope archives and some aspects of the climate system (e.g., Bond et al., 2001; Dengel et al., 2009; Ram and Stolz, 1999). The forcing from changes in total solar irradiance alone does not seem to account for these observations, implying the existence of an amplifying mechanism such as the hypothesized GCR-cloud link.",2_1
"How can it be that PM2.5 particulates are dangerous or lethal for Americans in general, every time they step outside but harmless to human guinea pigs who were intentionally administered pollution dozens of times worse than what they would encounter outdoors? How can it be, as EPA-funded researchers now assert, that ""acute, transient responses seen in clinical studies cannot necessarily be used to predict health effects of chronic or repeated exposure"" when that is precisely what EPA claims they can and do show?",0_0
"Hundreds of people registered to vote out of their law offices, medical offices, accounting offices, and Government of Canada offices - in some cases these may be genuine errors, but in other cases, entire families are registered to vote out of high rise office space",0_0
"The fallacious recommendation that emanates from the incomplete data is that the U.S. has no chance to remain a viable society and economy if we continue to rely on all this foreign (onshore, Alaska, ethanol, Saudi Arabia, Russia, what??s the difference?) and offshore supply. ???Therefore, we have no alternativebut to turn to . . . wind, solar, biomass??? The agenda pushers never want to let a good crisis go to waste. But very quietly, mostly out of sight of the energy policy crowd in Washington, we have seen the emergence of major new sources of domestic energy production ??? natural gas from coalbeds and shale formations. So great has been the rise in domestic gas production that it has weakened gas prices worldwide, benefitting users in homes and industry.",4_5
His original video found here while I links to the Pierre Gosselin blog from Heartland presentation.,0_0
"But the reality is that having personally committed to this policy, Clintons massive spending commitment and illegal use of presidential power will have outraged all those Americans who might not have cared much about the climate and might have just turned a deaf ear to sceptics thinking to themselves we should help the environment. Now, these people can see the real cost, they can see that the Democrats are hell bent on this political power grab . Clinton and Obama will just galvanised the Republicans and many of their own (previous) supporters to fight against them. Complete disaster politically!",0_0
"Fair enough! To test how the red king crabs respond to various water temperatures, Stoner et al. reared red king crabs for 60 days with water temperatures ranging from 1.5C to 12C. Some of the crabs were cultured in populations while others were grown in isolated cells. The key figure below tells much of the story the red king crabs grow best in warm water the warmer the better from their perspective! Not only are the growth rates in terms of size impressive at high temperatures, but the growth rates in terms of weight are just as impressive. Weights for red king crabs at 12C averaged nearly seven times more than the weights for the crabs reared at 1.5C.",3_2
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This would allow public involvement through judicial review but hold opponents accountable. This might lead to a more responsible form of environmentalism.,0_0
"It's worth noting that, when Obama took office, 50% of America's electrical energy was supplied by coal-fired plants and, just 6 years later, that has been reduced by 10%. What kind of President would deliberately reduce American's access to affordable power?",0_0
"When the Sun is approximately on the opposite side from the Earth than the Moon and if we can see the Moon, we can see ""our side"" of the Moon (it's night right now because the Sun is beneath the horizon) which is the same side that is illuminated by the Sun, too. We see the full moon; the whole Moon is a bright disk. As the Moon keeps on orbiting around the Earth (and the Earth plus Moon revolve around the Sun, but the latter motion is slower than the lunar motion), the lunar phases alternate. So we may also see something in between a ""C"" and a new moon, i.e. a thin banana, and so on.",0_0
"Unfortunately for the EPA, a major pillar of support of the Endangerment Findingthat ""most"" of the ""observed warming"" since the mid-20th century is from greenhouse gas emissions from human activitieshas been shown by recent scientific research in major peer-reviewed scientific journals to be largely in doubt.",0_0
"PUPAGANDA: Hunting, not global warming, affected polar bear population Dr. Mitch Taylor, a Canadian polar bear expert who tracks polar bear populations, says bear populations will show increases, not decreases, in the 2009 census now underway.",3_2
"Theres nothing like a devastating Hurricane Sandy and a follow-up noreaster to get people thinking that climate is changing, but the simple unadorned fact is that the Earth has been in a cooling cycle since 1998. Its getting colder all over the world.",1_4
"For ""well-paying,"" read ""union jobs."" With over 14 million Americans unemployed, and an unemployment rate of 9.7%, organized labor, one of Mr. Obama's most important constituencies, is getting restive. Furthermore, Congress has yet to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, top on unions' wish list. The election of Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown, a Republican, to the seat of former Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy has made it even less likely that the union-favored bill will make it into law.",0_0
"One of the successes of US law vs. European is that we have generally maintained the inventive to work -- in other words, we have been able to relieve economic hardship while still making unemployment uncomfortable enough to provide incentives to find work.",0_0
"In the left panel, Ive showed the implied temperatures (pressures) using the half-time Non-Logo measurements. In the right panel, Ive shown the implied temperatures (pressures) after applying the hypothesized deflation (inflation) shown for each ellipse in the left panel. In each case, Ive guessed the amount of deflation/inflation to apply. Algorithms for many inverse problems begin with a guess, so this is not quite as ad hoc as it looks.",0_0
"to prevent reciprocal cooperation (or ""pal review""): I'll be nice",0_0
Neither of these interventions seems to have stopped the flood of speculation on whether adherence to the protocol is wise. The influential UNICE business group said in a letter to the presidency that member state environment ministers should ask the European Commission to launch a review of climate change policies for 2008-2012.,0_0
"The Day After Tomorrow is being released by Twentieth Century Fox, a division of the News Corporation -- yes, that News Corporation, headed by Rupert Murdoch, the conservative Australian-American media magnate who serves as poster boy for scolds who warn about the dangers of the Federal Communications Commission liberalizing media ownership rules.",0_0
"One of the first things I did was to install other browsers. Generally I use Firefox or Opera. I avoid Chrome due to the tendency for Google to suck up all possible information about you and what you do, and sell it to folks or use it against your privacy. Internet Explorer gets used when some web site writes bad code that depends on I.E.isms to work. Other than that, I avoid it. At this point, Im not even going to use it for that",0_0
"The even bigger problem is that lowering U.S. emissions is, itself, far from risk-free, and Mr. Paulson's plea for a carbon tax exemplifies the problem. The Paulson piece never explicitly acknowledges that a carbon tax entails an economic cost. But by substituting more costly resources for cheaper fossil fuels, a tax would lower U.S. productivity. Instead, he throws up a cloud of rhetoric promising that a tax will lead to great innovation, and of course ""jobs.""",0_0
It is snowing and minus 9.5 degrees C at Casey this morning ?,0_0
"As for the party leaders, consider some of the things that are now part of the official Texas Republican Party platform, as highlighted by The New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg:",0_0
"Overarching the 12 modules is the Integrating Module, which consistently cycles, iteratively executing and allowing these various modules to interact with each other. Unknown variables that are related, such as a component of a particular module, are grouped together, and a pertinent subsystem of equations and inequalities corresponding to each group is solved via a variety of commonly used numerical analytic techniques, using approximate values for the other unknowns. Once a group's values are computed, the next group is solved similarly, and the process iterates. Convergence checks are performed for each price and quantity statistic to determine whether subsequent changes in that particular statistic fall within a given tolerance. After all group values for the current cycle are determined, the next cycle begins. HEM provides a number of diagnostic measures, based on differences between cycles, to indicate whether a stable solution has been achieved.",0_0
"With the CO 2 content of the air increasing on the planetary scale, we take these findings to suggest that the aerial fertilization effect of the ongoing rise in atmospheric CO 2 concentration is providing a very real impetus for increased net primary production everywhere on earth and, hence, an increased impetus for preserving - and even enhancing - the species richness of both plants and animals over the entire globe. This conclusion further suggests that we not attempt to restrict anthropogenic CO 2 emissions via Kyoto-style interventions (see our Editorial Biodiversity, Productivity and CO 2 ); for with all of the other assaults on the biosphere produced by the activities of our burgeoning population, earth's plants and animals are going to need all the help they can get to maintain enough ""critical biomass"" to preserve their unique identities in the days and years ahead.",3_3
"Drought has for the most part, become shorter, less frequent, and cover a smaller portion of the U. S. over the last century. Globally, there has been little change in drought over the past 60 years.",1_7
"When the renewable energy bubble bursts, the global industry leader will be the biggest loser. With that in mind, the supposed race with China for green technological supremacy is one the U.S. would be wise to forfeit.",4_4
Weather Channel : UK Summer To Be A Scorcher Especially The First Half,0_0
The two parties became more internally homogeneous and distinct from each other. Partisan identities adjusted to reflect these changes. People became more comfortable living and socializing with those sharing similar values and group identities. Parties in government became more unified and strategic in the legislative arena.,0_0
"Jack Dunavant, head of the Southside Concerned Citizens in nearby Halifax County, is another outspoken critic. He paints a picture of environmental apocalypse. ""There will be a dead zone within a 30 mile radius of the mine,"" he says with a courtly drawl. ""Nothing will grow. Animals will die. The radiation genetically alters tissue. Animals will not be able to reproduce. We'll see malformed fetuses.""",0_0
"Tenure is an amazing privilege for academics. And now we see in the Mann/UVa case, that the establishment academics are worried about fear of embarrassment by public disclosure and fear that those who dislike their findings will conduct invasive fishing expeditions in search of a pretext to discredit them. Come on, big boy pants please. We are talking about publicly funded research, and a primary concern is supposed to be avoiding embarrassing the scientists?",0_0
We have concluded that the Greenland and West Antarctica ice caps are melting at approximately half the speed originally predicted.The average rise in sea levels as a result of the melting ice caps is also lower.,1_1
"And that makes this all the more interesting: ""I present four reasons below that document why this temperature fails to accurately diagnose global warming.""",0_0
"Moser explains: ""Manufacturing has the highest multiplier effect among the major sectors. Every job created in manufacturing creates additional jobs in other sectors that supply, support and service manufacturers.""",0_0
"Once more, the relationship in Figure 3 illustrates that multidecadal variations in the frequency and magnitude of El Nio and La Nia events cause the multidecadal changes in SST anomalies. But how do I verify that this is the case, and how do I illustrate it for those without science backgrounds? Again, for those who need to brush up on El Nio and La Nina events, refer to the post An Introduction To ENSO, AMO, and PDO Part 1 .",2_1
"Global governance, the next new thing in trendy international thought, has been typically portrayed as the nearly inevitable evolution upward from the primitive nation-state and its antiquated notions of constitutionalism and popular sovereignty.",0_0
Data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) show the United States reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by 12 percent between 2005 and 2015. Switching from coal to natural gas in the power sector was responsible for 68 percent of the total energy-related CO2 reductions during that period. Burning larger quantities of natural gas for electricity generation is the main reason the United States has reduced its CO2 emissions more than any other country in the world since 2005.,0_0
"Lomborg is a statistician and was challenging the misapplication and misuse of statistics. He knew little about climate as evidenced in his book. In fact, Lomborg?s book was little different than Wildavsky?s because he proved that nothing in science, and especially environmental science, bears examination. He added the attention grabbing point that better priorities could be made and money better spent if research and analysis were improved.",0_0
"Ive always wanted my photo in an ad all over the city, but I was hoping it would be for a TV show or something, not this, Mr. Berry said.",0_0
"Johnathon Nott studied storm surges in North Queensland over the last 5,000 years and found that things have been fairly quiet for the last 200 years compared to the past.",1_7
Dalai LamaBuddhist mystical pantheistgot to go green with Red Popey,0_0
"""Today's paradigm is that human emissions of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, will produce dangerous warming of the globe....When tested against empirical evidence this hypothesis fails."" link",2_3
49 former NASA scientists and astronauts sent a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden last week admonishing the agency for its role in advocating a high degree of certainty that man-made CO2 is a major cause of climate change while neglecting empirical evidence that calls the theory into question.,0_0
"Ben Santer, the scientist who rewrote the main conclusions of the UN's 1995 Climate Assessment Report so as to change them from a statement that humanity was having no measurable effect on global temperature to a statement that humanity was affecting temperature.",5_2
"The term nihilism was coined by French writer Albert Camus and refers to people who believe in things that do not exist. Most modern-day nihilists also consider certain policies more important than freedom and dignity, and according to Gaerter there are strong nihilist tendencies among many of today's environmentalists.",0_0
"Critique of Monckton, Soon et al. paper",0_0
"Plants grown in CO 2 -enriched air exhibited rates of net photosynthesis that were approximately 50% greater than those displayed by ambiently-grown plants, regardless of soil nitrate availability. These increases in photosynthetic carbon uptake contributed to CO 2 -induced increases in aboveground organ dry weights that were 1.6-, 1.4-, and 1.3-fold greater than dry weights observed in control plants receiving one-half, standard, and three-fold levels of soil nitrate, respectively. Root weights, however, were less responsive to atmospheric CO 2 enrichment, displaying 10 and 30% increases in dry weight at one-half and standard nitrate levels, while no significant response was detected at the high soil nitrate concentration. What it means",3_3
Hiroko MIYAHARA: Effects of Galactic Cosmic Rays on Weather and Climate,0_0
"Thats not because I dont think air quality is an issue requiring constant attention. But to holier-than-thou lefties, the right-wing Fraser Institute is pure evil. And they invariably savage anyone politically incorrect enough to mention its name, snuffing out reasoned discussion.",0_0
"Because the main patterns of results persist across the revised tables, the original discussions as worded in our paper need only minor modification, and our overall conclusion, re-stated here, is unaffected:",0_0
And the borrowers who benefit most may not necessarily be poor struggling homeowners on the brink of foreclosure. http://www.openmarket.org/2011/10/24/obama-fannie-regressive-refinance-ripoff-for-taxpayers-and-middle-class-investors/y,0_0
Apparentincreases inone type of extreme weather ??? flooding ??? may haveaneven simpler explanation:more people living in places where floods occur.,1_7
"The Heartland Institute of Chicago, Joseph L. Bast, President, held its Fourth International Conference on Climate Change in Chicago at the Marriott Magnificent Mile Hotel on Michigan Avenue from May 16 l8. The Heartland Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan Chicago-based research organization founded in 1984. Its purpose is to discover, develop and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems. For more information about the Heartland Institute, visit http://www.heartland.org/ or call 312/377-4000.",0_0
"Graph and fitted spline curve from 1979 through to February 2008, from Professors John Christy and Roy Spencer, University of Alabama, Huntsville",0_0
"This years wet weather could lead to a repeat of 2007 , when the UK was hit by widespread flooding following torrential rain, causing butterfly numbers to plummet. The charity is urging the public to take part in the Big Butterfly Count to help assess the impact the rainy weather has had on butterflies.",0_0
It is absurd to subsidize the expansion of energy that only works d is not needed. Is it really hard to understand that the sun does not shine at night?,0_0
High Tech Continues To Prove UN's Global Warming A Pseudo-Crisis: Satellites Find Global Temps Well Below IPCC Hype Level,0_0
"Unusually cold and wet conditions across the middle of the country led to several snowfall records. Cheyenne, Wyoming observed 28 inches of snow during October, making this the city??s snowiest October on record. North Platte, Nebraska recorded 30.3 inches of snowfall, making October 2009 the snowiest month of all months on record for the city. The previous record was 27.8 inches, in March 1912.",1_3
"The full Wilkins 6,000 square mile ice shelf is just 0.39% of the current ice sheet (just 0.1% of the extent last September). Only a small portion of it between 1/10th-1/20th of Wilkins has separated so far, like an icicle falling off a snow and ice covered house. And this winter is coming on quickly. In fact the ice is returning so fast, it is running an amazing 60% ahead (4.0 vs 2.5 million square km extent) of last year when it set a new record. The ice extent is already approaching the second highest level for extent since the measurements began by satellite in 1979 and just a few days into the Southern Hemisphere winter and 6 months ahead of the peak. Wilkins like all the others that temporarily broke up will refreeze soon. We are very likely going to exceed last years record. Yet the world is left with the false impression Antarcticas ice sheet is also starting to disappear.",1_1
"The most the furnace could do is heat the air to the temperature of the fire inside it, and no insulation will make this temperature higher, because the temperature of the fire is determined by the flux density of the energy release from the combustion of natural gas. You cant make this combustive release of energy hotter by reflecting or trapping its own energy on itself the maximum temperature is determined by the source supply of energy, coming from a chemical reaction (natural gas oxidation).",0_0
"ED FACES all round among the profiteers of doom. A wrong equation that falsely triples the tiny direct warming caused by doubling CO2 concentration has been discovered and exposed in a major peer-reviewed paper just published in the Science Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, one of the worlds top learned journals. No rogue equation, no climate crisis.",0_0
* The ship-engine cooling-water intake method collects and records ocean temperatures at depths of several meters.,0_0
"We can allrecall the climate hockey teams similar reaction. Andrew Montford wrote a whole book on it. First they tried to hide the numbers, claiming they were lost. Then they said the numbers were out there and anyone could see them. When the numbers were exposed, they had other experts bogusly confirm that they were right. And when these were shown to be flawed, they made up new phonycurves. In the end, it was all about hiding an ugly truth. Today, except for the fabricators themselves, nobody believes the climate hockey stick curves anymore.",5_1
16g. The ability of global climate models to model sea level rise for the next 10 years,0_0
Rebecca Burgess is the manager of the American Enterprise Institute's Program on American Citizenship and a PhD (ABD) in politics from the University of Dallas.,0_0
> >> >>would be a useful point of reference and could serve to justify,0_0
"35 T.H. Tietenberg, Emissions Trading: An Exercise in Reforming Pollution Policy (Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 1985).",0_0
"After the election, the new administration was happy to comply with the directive, but, perhaps out of eagerness to comply with the Court's mandate, it rushed the job. The result is an agency decision that has no chance of withstanding judicial review, unless all normal legal doctrines designed to provide quality control are suspended.",0_0
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has been issued a subpoena by the attorney general of the Virgin Islands to hand over all communictions between 1997 and 2007 on climate change.,0_0
"Many families are moving their homesteads and fodder stores onto raised platforms to keep out of the rising floodwater. They have built small hills with corals and feed stations on top to keep their cattle dry. Similarly, they use chicken houses and portable ovens that can be picked up and moved to dry land during floods.",0_0
"In a provocative paper they entitled ???Food for Thought: Lower-Than-Expected Crop Yield Stimulation with Rising CO2 Concentrations,?? Long et al. (2006)1 suggested that future increases in crop production caused by the fertilization effect of the atmosphere??s rising CO2 concentration may be only half as large as what had long been believed would be the case, due to confounding influences they claimed were inherent in all experimental assessments of the growth-promoting effects of atmospheric CO2 enrichment except those employing Free-Air CO2- Enrichment or FACE technology. Quite to the contrary, however, there is a strong possibility that just the opposite could well be true, i.e., that future increases in crop production caused by the aerial fertilization effect of the atmosphere??s rising CO2 concentration may well be twice as large as what FACE experiments suggest.",3_3
"I'm therefore slightly bemused that Hay et al think that there is still an enigma that needs to be solved, unless they are referring to the 20th century only. But more interestingly, if the astronomical data is saying that the change in sea level due to mass changes is less than 5cm/century, how can this be consistent with the GRACE satellite data saying it is 20cm/century or so? What does the astronomical data say now and is it consistent with GRACE? Does anyone know?",5_1
"Incidentally, NOAA's ""corrections"" to suggest warming between a huge 1998 El Nio and another big one last year contradict data provided by other wider-coverage and higher quality measurements.",0_0
"Rs who strongly feel the impulse to do somethingneed merely wait untilJanuary 2011, when they are widely expected to hold more seats in both the House and Senate, and when Waxman-Markey will no longer be in play.",0_0
"Briefly put, when I had to balance the interests of my own safety, privacy\career of a few scientists, and the well-being of billions of people living in the coming several decades, the first two weren't the decisive concern.",0_0
"That is unquestionably a formula for reducing U.S. autonomy and our authority over government. Most Americans feel we don't adequately control government now, so it is no wonder that, once aware of the scope of the threat, they will refuse to cede even more authority to distant bodies where U.S. influence is reduced or uncertain.",0_0
"OPT Report: Fewer Emitters, Lower Emissions, Less Cost.",0_0
"The only problem is nothing humans did 150 years ago could have caused this. CO2 didnt start rapidly rising until much later. Phil Jones has attributed the 1860-1880 and 1910-1940 warming to natural causes, like the sun.",2_1
"The biggest turnaround will come on the climate change agenda. While Obama will not back down, committees have significant influence, as previously mentioned, through the appropriation process. Also, expect oversight on Obama Administration policies.",0_0
"Agreement signed at Washington December 21, 2004; entered into force December 21, 2004.",0_0
"13 hours ago AUSTRALIAS $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a new air link to the frozen continent.",0_0
"""I just started driving around town, particularly to the areas I knew had been hit the hardest,"" Graham said. ""I partnered with some people who were just doing the same thing I was-helping whoever needed help without ever having met them before. It was really emotional, seeing how many folks came out to help the community. It's a terrible disaster but we'll always be here for our fellow Louisianans."" You can follow Graham's efforts at CFACT Campus.",0_0
"But if no one died, doesn't that mean EPA is lying when it says there is no safe level, that all PM2.5 particulates are toxic, that its regulations are saving countless lives, and that the direct and ancillary benefits vastly outweigh their multi-billion-dollar annual costs? And if that is the case, shouldn't EPA officials be prosecuted for lying to Congress and public, and imposing all those costs for no real benefits?",0_0
"23 Edward Luttwak, ""The Middle of Nowhere,"" Prospect (May 2007); James Zogby, ""Arab Attitudes in 2005,"" Arab-American Institute; Joseph Joffe, ""A World Without Israel"" Foreign Policy (January/February 2005); Eytan Gilboa, ""Public Diplomacy: The Missing Component in Israel's Foreign Policy,"" Israel Affairs (October 2006).",0_0
New study: tropical forests are using far more CO2 and so growing far faster than previously believed.,3_3
"It should be remembered that we have had accurate satellite measurements of sea ice only since 1979, a period which has been entirely during the positive (warming) phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO, see graph below). The PDO is an index of weather patterns over the North Pacific Ocean that flips every 30 years or so. The coincidence that the satellite era started right after the ???Great Climate Shift of 1977?? has probably biased what we consider to be normal for global climate. In fact, based upon the 2,000-year temperature graph shown previously, one might argue that there is no such thing as normal climate.",2_1
"On the other hand, federal, state, and local taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel average 48 cents a gallon. The federal 18.4 cents gas tax and 24.4 cents diesel tax raised $35 billion in 2014, which is used to fund mass transit as well as highway projects. Electric vehicles make no contribution to maintaining our roads or our mass transit systems.",0_0
"7. Aggregation. EPA proposes to consider modifications to be separate and independent projects unless they are dependent upon another project to be economically or technically viable or the project has been intentionally split from other projects to avoid NSR. EPA says it ""generally would defer to the States to implement the Agency's aggregation rule.""",0_0
"In either event, shouldn't the researchers and universities be compelled to return the hundreds of millions of dollars they received for these deceptive, unethical, illegal human experiments and compensate the test subjects for subjecting them to emotional distress when they realize they received ""lethal"" doses? Shouldn't EPA officials be fired and prosecuted for their roles in all of this?",0_0
But it would be irresponsible to not mention how incredibly irresponsible key members of the climate science community have become.,0_0
"The types of fuel that are the main sources of energyThe main uses of energy suppliesWhich countries supply the U.S. with the most oilThe extent of oil reservesThe rate of global warmingThe terms of the Kyoto Protocol international environmental treatyThe environmental record of nuclear power plantsThe extent of urban air pollutionThe effects of conservation and increases in energy efficiencyHerein we report on what might be called the ""energy myths"" to which many Americans subscribe ""and their correctives. ""Energy Myths, Energy Facts"" is intended as a primer for educators, journalists, and public officials ""for concerned citizens generally ""as we seek twin goals: an energy supply sufficient to fuel continued economic growth; and environmental policies that will protect the public health and the quality of our lives.",0_0
"During last year??s summer drought, NASA scientist James Hansen made a big splash with a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and a Washington Post op-ed arguing that global warming was the cause ofthe four biggest hot spells of the past 10 years. However, as noted in skeptical blogs, meteorological analyses of the European heat wave of 2003 , the Russian heat wave of 2010 , the Texas-Oklahoma drought of 2011 , and the Midwest drought of 2012 attribute those events principally to natural variability.",1_7
"Daschle thwarts ANWR vote, unveils own proposal",0_0
"Or so reason the people who lately claimed that the U.S. heat over the past 13 months was only a one in 1.6 million event. After making this dubious calculation, it was argued that because the result was so incredibly tiny, something-that-could-only-be-global-warming caused the temperature to take the values it did.",5_1
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is coordinating a search and rescue for a Russian passenger ship beset by ice approximately 1500 nautical miles south of Hobart.,0_0
"Mo nukes, mo nukes, mo nukes. The inevitable outcome of green activism is more nuclear power its the gift that keeps on giving. Jennifer Marohasy has the Aussie version of this hippie head-popper .",0_0
"Delegates from around the world gather in Bonn this weekend to chart the future of a new global-warming treaty they hope to sign in Mexico this fall or in South Africa in 2011 at the latest. This treaty would lock our nation into massive new taxation, regulation, subsidies and redistribution; take unprecedented control of our economy; and radically alter our way of life. Laws and regulations that increase the power of government are seldom repealed. Treaties are tougher still. The costs and burdens of the treaty these delegates hope to sign are so extraordinary, they cannot be justified unless every link in the chain of logic supporting the treaty is beyond reproach.",4_1
"Like the cloud trails seen in the Wilson cloud chamber, cosmic ray ionization trails in our atmosphere can act as cloud seeds. Some studies suggest that ions play a central role in creating aerosols. Aerosols are minute but important atmospheric particles that can serve as the cores of growing cloud droplets. Aerosols can cause clouds to form in the upper atmosphere, after the particles collide with other atmospheric particles in the troposphere and conglomerate into larger particles.",0_0
"Let us look at the last three decades average global temperature but update the Met Office graph to Hadcrut4. You will notice it is essentially the same showing a steady increase the unchanging underlying rate of global warming. Now, bearing in mind the imposed constraint in the Met Office approach of decades with arbitrary start and end points, take the same Hadcrut4 data but this time use all the available and work backwards in 5-year integrations. You will see it tells a very different story. There is now no consistent increase in temperature seen in this data. The data, displayed this way, reveals that far from showing a steady underlying rate of warming the global temperature has had two standstills, with curiously, the 1998 super El Nino delineating them. David Whitehouse, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 23 October 2012",1_4
"Happer mentions that 12,000 years ago, the Earth cooled and warmed by 10 degrees in just 50 years. Kraken says that the temperature change wasn't global: well, most of the important temperature changes are not global, either. The temperature change in the last 100 years isn't global, either: 30% of the HadCRUT3 stations display an overall cooling trend. This fact only reinforces Happer's point: the climate has always been changing and the life on Earth easily dealt with many and many degrees of temperature change, even in short periods of time.",2_1
"Environmental activists have already filed new lawsuits challenging the alfalfa re-approval and the sugar beet partial deregulation. They have also challenged the experimental field testing of a genetically engineered variety of eucalyptus, modified to increase tolerance to cold temperatures. Any of the dozens of fully approved biotech crop varieties now grown in the United States, or others currently being field tested, could be the activists' next target. Moreover, every other new variety now being developed and future varieties yet to be created will be subject to a lengthy, expensive, redundant, and wholly unnecessary EIS.",0_0
"You would think that demonizing electricity would be a tough sell to a populace devoted to smartphones, gaming consoles, DVRs, flat screen TVs, iPhones, tablets, and the next ""must have"" gadget. But you'd be wrong. Earth Hour, an annual ""turn off your lights"" media event sponsored by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), continues to grow, despite the inherent contradiction between its purported goal of conservation-by-denial and how we and the developing world aspire to live today.",0_0
"The main point I am making here is that, no matter whether you assume the climate system is sensitive or insensitive, our best satellite measurements suggest that the climate system is perfectly capable of causing internally-generated radiative forcing larger than the external forcing due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Low cloud variations are the most likely source of this internal radiative forcing. It should be remembered that the satellite data are actually measured, whereas the CO2 forcing (red lines in the above graphs) is so small that it can only be computed theoretically.",3_1
"The UK has been experiencing the coldest winter in several decades, and hopefully policymakers have learned a few basic lessons from this. Here is my wish list, which seem painfully obvious.",1_3
"Over the past week, Australia hosted the Group of 20 (G-20) meeting in Brisbane, and the public heard speeches from a number of leaders including those from the United Kingdom and Germany. But eyes were mostly trained on the words and deeds of presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping.",0_0
"It has been observed many times in the past that there are many aspects of the global warming debate that reasonable people should be able to agree on: carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, the temperature has gone up a bit, that sort of thing.",0_0
"Sea level rise certainly poses problems for the US east coast, but to a large extent this is due to subsidence. The naive belief that we can somehow halt the rise of the oceans carries the very real danger that we ignore the geological side of the problem.",1_6
upside the head with a two-by-four to understand that little can be accomplished,0_0
"During the 20th century, both CO2 and temperatures increased, but not necessarily together. The correlation is poor. For several multi-decadal periods during the 20th century temperatures fell while CO2 increased.",2_3
"At issue is ethanol, a fuel distilled from corn that can be used to run cars, but which shouldn't be used to run cars.",0_0
Job Wanted: Tall Statistician Seeks Match,0_0
"The results of this study clearly indicate, at least for this particular part of the world, that cyclone frequency and intensity do not respond to changes in temperature as predicted by climate alarmists, who say they base their claims on the output of state-of-the-art climate models. Hence, there is little reason to believe that tropical storms will respond to global warming in the ways they claim, i.e., that they will intensify and become more frequent.",1_7
"How has the MWP almost disappeared again, just in time to perhaps go missing in IPCC AR5? Science supplemental information says the average resolution of the 73 paleoclimate series is 160 years, and the median is 120. The proxy selection was deliberately weighted toward low frequency resolution, since the entire Holocene was being assessed. Figure S18c (below) shows there is no statistically valid resolution to the combined proxy set for anything less than 300-year periods. The paper itself said, our temperature stack does not fully resolve variability at periods shorter than 2000 years",5_1
"\] It's the expectation value of the product of fields at these two points \(x,y\). Well, these two operators should be time-ordered by \(T\); it's a technicality saying that the field at a lower time i.e. lower value of \(x^0\) or \(y^0\) should appear on the right side. But if \(x,y\) are space-like-separated, the ordering doesn't really matter because the operators commute at space-like separations. In fact, this vanishing of the commutator at space-like separations is the key fact that prohibits ""instant communication"" envisioned by Cox in his diamond story.",0_0
"Attempting to apply current interpretations of rules retroactively is a violation of due process. It also is unlikely to be effective regulation, since it occurs too late to change the behavior in question. By punishing, after the fact, those who at the time were thought to be operating within the law, this enforcement policy discourages new investment and innovation.",0_0
Said by Dr Heidi Cullen in testimony to the US House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment a few days ago (h/t WUWT ).,0_0
"They want me to stop? They have set Run my speech, and now makes me up with the position they fretrder. I tnker: That from the pieces out with!",0_0
"""A year on, global warming alarmists are still exploiting Hurricane Katrina and the intense hurricane season of 2005 for political purposes. Contrary to what they say, the science linking global warming with hurricanes remains a field of active inquiry and dispute. Moreover, diverting precious resources into policies designed to reduce global warming rather than strengthen our resiliency in the face of hurricanes actually harms people in hurricane-prone areas. Instead, government policies should concentrate on reducing perverse incentives that encourage development in hurricane-prone areas.""",1_7
"When we talk about the evolution of the Earth's temperature, we are talking about the increase or decrease. The simple question ""is the temperature rising?"" is too ill-defined because there isn't just one temperature (consider many places on the globe and above the globe) and there isn't just one time scale (and one particular position in time) in which the question may be addressed. All these details have to be added to the question.",5_1
"100 Years Ago, The Father Of Global Warming Said Antarctica Would Have Millions Of People",0_0
"Besides an overall growth of nesting Elegant Terns in Isla Rasa and southern California colonies as a result of successful conservation efforts, since year 2000 whenever Elegant Terns have confronted poor oceanographic conditions, indicated by high SST (>1.0C) anomalies in the Midriff , breeding pairs have abandoned Rasa, a behavior that is further augmented by high sardine fishing effort and landings in the Midriff. This oscillatory migration dynamics between distant nesting sites suggests that Elegant Terns can make fast decisions and dynamically adapt to rapid changes in the global environment. The adequate maintenance of a healthy fish community in both the Gulf of California and the Pacific is an important priority that will help support healthy seabird communities, as well as healthy marine ecosystems in general and sustainable fisheries.",0_0
"The IPCC freely admits not knowing which scenario is most likely. But we should bear in mind theres NO EVIDENCE that these amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere will cause any harmful effects. Theyre guessing. Theres no knowing whether 1200 ppm of CO2 (three times what is there now) will produce 0.52 to 0.98 m of sea-level rise, or whether 380 ppm will produce only 0.26 to 0.55 m.",5_1
"8.	When the signal (results) is in the range of the noise (background natural variability) the reliability of the research is compromised by the signal to noise confusion. In studies with small effects like the US EPA air pollution premature death studies, confirmation bias (also called tunnel vision) energized by intellectual passion and commitment to a political agenda produce studies that do not justify the policies proposed and pursued or the regulatory regimes imposed. P 84.",5_2
"There are currently 85,870 climate change analysts in the United States, with 4,840 new climate change analyst job openings created each year.",0_0
> >> techniques I believe we can present the range of future climate,0_0
"Note to Skydragons: Exercises such as Postma that use (or misuse) the planetary energy balance equationcannot disprove the existence of the Earths greenhouse effect. If you want to disprove the existence of thegreenhouse effect, you need some sort of alternative explanation for a whole lot of fundamental physicsthat explains the infrared emission spectra as measured at the Earths surface and high above the emittingportion of the atmosphere (see Pierrehumbert ). With regards to the magnitude of the Earths greenhouse effect, for a given atmosphericthermodynamic state and gaseous composition, the clear-sky (cloudless) radiative fluxes areaccurately calculated using sophisticated radiative transfer models that have been validated extensively bythe Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program (see this previous thread ).",0_0
"Not only mountain tops were covered by a layer of snow during the night. In regions of Liberec, Karlovy Vary, Hradec Krlove, Pardubice and st snow fell even at lower elevations.",0_0
"The reduction in climate pollution even as Congress failed to act on climate change brings America more than halfway towards Barack Obama's target of cutting emissions by 17% from 2005 levels over the next decade, the Bloomberg analysts said.",0_0
"Thirty years from now, we will probably not be interested in today?s specific computer forecasts, but we may have lost our faith in science, a deeper and, to me, a more important problem.",0_0
"""The future of climate change legislation in the United States could rest in California, where voters will decide on Nov. 2 whether to pass Proposition 23, a ballot measure that would roll back the state's ambitious greenhouse gas emissions targets. With some polls showing voters in California split over the issue, former Vice President Al Gore released a video today explaining his opposition.""",0_0
"Long ago I collected a few observations about the fall of Communism that I thought ought to be immortal, but that I've hardly seen mentioned in recent years. Here's my attempt to resurrect them.",0_0
"The NOAA chief said climate change is already raising sea levels, lengthening growing seasons, prompting earlier spring snowmeltsand shifts in river flows, causing more intense drought and increasing the incidence of extreme weather.",0_0
"Andrew Montford draws attention to another paper just published by Gavin Schmidt, et al., that the failure of the earth to warm is one incredible, incredible coincidence. From the preview: Climate models projected stronger warming over the past 15 years than has been seen in observations. Conspiring factors of errors in volcanic and solar inputs, representations of aerosols, and El Nio evolution, may explain most of the discrepancy. See links under Un-Science or Non-Science?",1_4
"ANDREW DARBY AUSTRALIAS $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a new air link to the frozen continent.",0_0
"But up on Capitol Hill, there appears to be progressbipartisan progress, eventoward changing our immigration laws to reflect current and emerging realities.",0_0
"Researchers are keen on maintaining a record of the trends into the future. For one reason, plants act as a carbon dioxide sink, and shifting plant productivity is linked to shifting levels of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. Also, stresses on plant growth could challenge food production.",0_0
"So given never let a crisis to to waste it is a very short stroll over to manufacture a crisis as needed. The thing that surprised me was how many folks some of these videos had that watched them, and how many videos there were. Large chunks of the world culture are clearly quite willing to embrace the Conspiracy Conjecture. (Conjecture as it isnt even a hypothesis, never mind a thesis or theory. Hypo meaning below or less than a thesis. Theory being generally accepted as true.)",0_0
President Bush makes access to affordable energy the focus of his Labor Day speech.,0_0
"1) I agree with the Burger and Cubasch results and conclusions in general. Indeed, all NH reconstructions published to date gives a qualitative information only: For example, MWP and the Current Warming are warmer than LIA. But it is impossible to conclude with a certainty: either CW or MWP is warmer. It is even more so as concern centennial and decadal variations because these latter variations usually are of regional character.",5_1
"The most recent eruptions of Mount Hood the tallest peak in Oregon took place about 220 years ago and 1,500 years ago, according to Professor Adam Kent of Oregon State University and Associate Professor Kari Cooper of University of California-Davis.",0_0
"Indeed, these fears were justified. The twin totems of liberal progressivismlofty ambitions and impatiencehave been on full display when liberal progressives discuss the administration's decisions. Paul Krugman decries a too-small stimulus, a bill whose near-trillion-dollar price tag shocked middle-class Americans. Jon Stewart tells the president that he has been too timid. While most polls show that Americans view President Obama as too liberal, liberal progressives view him as not liberal enough.",0_0
"To the extent that the recent literature produces a more accurate estimate of the equilibrium climate sensitivity than does the climate model average, it means that the projections of future climate change given by both the IPCC and NCA are, by default, some 40% too large (too rapid) and the associated (and described) impacts are gross overestimates.",5_1
"We agree with them on this point; for their work must also imply that it does not disprove the existence of a slowly-evolving non -anthropogenic warming signal, such as whatever it is that drives the well-established millennial-scale cycling of earth's climate that has alternately brought the planet into and out of the Roman Warm Period, the Dark Ages Cold Period, the Medieval Warm Period, the Little Ice Age and the initial phase of the Current Warm Period, which phenomenon appears to have operated over the eons , throughout glacial and interglacial periods alike (Oppo et al ., 1998; McManus et al ., 1999).",2_1
"Strategic considerations aside, there is an additional reason for Global NATO to get associated with the Thousand Ship Navy. Hard as it is to remember today, there was a time when NATO captured the imagination of Western audiences: Until the mid-sixties, in fact, the prospect of an Atlantic Union was seen in Europe as the wave of the future, while the idea of a European Union was associated mainly with coal, steel, and the standardization of electric plugs.34 Today, hard as they try, the 700 million people of the West can't really bring themselves to get exited when the ""deliverables"" of NATO Summits amount to the purchase of three C-17s? If that is NATO's level of ambition these days, no wonder that even the EU is beginning to look good. NATO will require nothing less than a Thousand Ship Navy if it is to recapture the imagination of public opinion.",0_0
"Early next week, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to finalize the crown jewel of the president's Climate Action Plan, a suite of regulations to control greenhouse gases from the electricity sector, including:",0_0
"John Berlau: Obama is right to praise Congress for passing ""part of"" his American Jobs Act, because Congress passed the right part. The modest but significant deregulatory provisions for startup and emerging growth companies. The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act that Obama signed in April exempts newly listed companies from some onerous Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank provisions for five years. We've seen a slight uptick in initial public offerings as a result. May we build on this bipartisan deregulation.",0_0
"Whatever CRUs original purpose in constructing the 2006 regional chronology, one feels confident that it was not constructed merely as an illustration of the tradeoff between variance and bias. SupMat 9 then more or less concedes that the sites in the 2006 regional chronology meet the common signal test of Briffa et al 2008, but adduce arguments against their inclusion that are nowhere in evidence in Briffa et al 2008:",0_0
CRUs False Claims about Advocacy and Heavy Promotion,0_0
UCSF Chancellor Rejects Narrow View of Conflicts of InterestGreg Conko's post on Medical Progress Today,0_0
Advocates of immediate precautionary actions often state there is nearly unanimous agreement among scientists that the globe is warming at an unacceptably rapid rate and that society is to blame. But the claim of a scientific consensus on the causes of global warming is not supportable. Consider these two points.,5_1
"Darwin, say what? How could Charles Darwin, whose On the Origin of Species was published in 1859, and who died in 1882, have anything to do with the 1929 science of the Big Bang Theory? Well, in 1925 a high school science teacher, John Scopes was tried by the State of Tennessee for violation of the states, Butler Act. Yes, John had dared to teach evolution to his students. He was acquitted in a nationally publicized trial.",0_0
"All of them need to be in the same folder, because the CO2 and CERES.R file calls the setup file, which loads the data files and the function file. If youve downloaded the CERES 13 year file, it is unchanged, no need to reload. Open the CERES Setup.R file to see the names of all of the datafiles loaded, and open the CERES Functions.R file for functions and constants.",0_0
"That's in line with what President Obama said when he was running for President (""Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.""), but a lot less than what EPA and the White House have been saying about the Waxman-Markey bill.",0_0
"Yet, the climate scientists who prepared the 5 th Assessment Report for the IPCC create illustrations like their SPM.10 (my Figure 1), which amusingly use climate models as proof that past global warming was caused by carbon dioxide emissions and that global temperatures will continue to warm in response to future CO2 emissions. The climate scientists unwavering belief that carbon dioxide drives global warming, despite the climate models clearly showing otherwise, is evidence of their delusions about CO2 or their need to misrepresent their models (for any number of reasons). Personally, I think its a combination of the two.",2_3
"The Pacific Ocean covers almost 33% of the surface of the globe. It covers more of the Earth than the continental land masses combined. And climate models overestimate the warming there by 2.4 times. Yet somehow were supposed to believe all of the IPCCs predictions of gloom and doom when, after more than 2 decades of modeling efforts, the best the modeling agencies around the globe can do is have their models more than double the warming rate of the surface of the largest ocean on this water-covered planet.",5_1
And they said that only 100 bombs could wipe out civilisation!,0_0
"By Staff Writers, China Daily, Aug 6, 2015",0_0
"At the end of the table value is thus also the cooling effect with clouds and these certainly belong to the difficulties in climate science due to the interaction of several factors.The evaporation from a liquid surface falls within the field of fundamental physics and chemistry, and it can be determined using controlled experiments.It is therefore particularly noteworthy if they choose the wrong numerical value for such a fundamental process!",5_1
"Economists debate the ""message"" being sent by the choice of recipients for this year's Nobel Prize in Economics.",0_0
"And the fact that ""climate change has sped up sea level rise that was supposed to take centuries has recently been projected as taking just decades,"" he wrote, only complicates his decision to have children.",0_0
"Clearly, the weight of real-world evidence continues to suggest that it is the recurrent millennial-scale cycling of earths mean global air temperature that has been responsible for the bulk of the warming of the 20th century, which could yet continue its upward course, level out, or begin a slow decline; for this phenomenon has created such warmings and subsequent coolings time and time again without any help from mankind. And if its done so before innumerable times, in fact it can do it again. In fact, it has actually got to be expected that it would do so, and at about this point in earths history.",2_1
Kilimanjaro's link retreat and global warming,0_0
"Richard Tols article reveals it was predicted back in 1991 the world would not agree to legally binding international agreements, such as carbon pricing or targets and timetables for emissions reductions with penalties for breaches of commitments.",0_0
"Unfortunately, however, good news doesn't earn headlines. If you want to write a bestseller and get invited to all the best symposia, you're better off finding a new scare that allows you to shout, ""The end is near!"" And when one doomsday prediction goes up in smoke, simply find another one. Think I'm kidding? WWF has been doing it for years.",0_0
"It was, at the least, a logical stretch to try to redefine the physical greenhouse effect or to create an alternative version of it, but the attempt was certainly an obvious one to take given the position climate science had put itself in with this previous postulate of solar heating being too cold. The logical propagation goes back from the radiative greenhouse effect being incorrect, to the previous postulate that solar heating is so feeble. By incorrectly modelling the solar heating as so cold, there was no possible way, by simple logical propagation, that any math, science, or physics based on that postulate would subsequently be correct or represent reality.",5_1
and using his popularity and momentum to capture enough Democrats to overcome,0_0
"Following the super La Nina of 2010/11, we had a period of extremes ??? snow and cold to start, then floods and drought, tornadoes and heat and a landfalling hurricane.",1_3
Probiotic is a method of introducing benign intestinal bacteria to provide good flora.,0_0
"Tucson, AZ. Extremely costly rules that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is imposing on industry, especially users of diesel engines, have no sound scientific basis, writes John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., in the spring issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.",0_0
"""It's no secret that some congressional Democrats aren't particular thrilled that the Constitution was read on the floor of the House of Representatives on Thursday. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, objected on the grounds it was being read ""like a sacred text.""""",0_0
"Many of us are old enough to remember the scare stories from the 1970s, a time when climate scientists were warning that Earth was returning to an ice age.",5_1
"Question 6 (for Pederson): In his textbook Earth's Climate: Past and Future, William Ruddiman writes: ""Earth's temperature reacts strongly to small changes in CO2 values at the lower end of the range (less than 200 ppm), but changes much less at the high end of the range (greater than 800 ppm)"" (page 134). Some sources say that CO2 does most of its warming in the first 20 ppm.",0_0
"Jay Lehr, Cooling looms as Earths climate calamity, Environment & Climate News, July 2013",0_0
"How many times have you heard that we humans are ""using up"" the world's resources, ""running out"" of oil, ""reaching the limits"" of the atmosphere's capacity to cope with pollution or ""approaching the carrying capacity"" of the land's ability to support a greater population? The assumption behind all such statements is that there is a fixed amount of stuffmetals, oil, clean air, landand that we risk exhausting it through our consumption.",0_0
"Without a doubt, the melting glaciers of Mt. Kilimanjaro serve as one of the most public symbols for those concerned about global warming. But is this valid? Well not according to the Center for Science and Public Policy, which notes in a recent paper how the glacial retreat on Kilimanjaro is much more complex than the storytellers admit. For starters, the melting of the Kilimanjaro ice field was recorded back in the mid to late 1800's, well before the buildup of greenhouse gases. Secondly, satellite readings of Kilimanjaro and the surrounding region have shown a temperature decline since 1979, thus indicating that atmospheric temperatures could not explain the melting. It appears, then, that any link to global warming is nothing but hot air.",0_0
"On call, officials stress public options in health care shift:",0_0
"For every nation, this coerced energy and economic deprivation will make it increasingly difficult to adapt to future climate changes that nature inevitably will bring our way. So much for the modern era. Mankind ought to have the wealth and technology to adapt far more easily than our ancestors were able to do.",0_0
"Given such findings, for this particular portion of the planet, it should be very clear that relative coolness , as opposed to relative warmth, typically leads to more extreme storms, which is just the opposite of what the world's climate alarmists continue to contend.",1_7
How can we believe in global warming when the temperature records providing the evidence for that warming cannot be trusted?,5_1
"Having established some reason to doubt the accuracy of the CRU data, we turn now to the now you see it, now you dont aspect. Here is my first attempt to gather data from CRU. It overlaps with Warwicks requests. This is not in the Climategate emails, it is personal.",5_1
"There is no scientific evidence to back up the assertion of a ???disappearing Grrenland Ice Sheet. For a detailed explanation as to why the Greenland ice sheet cannot collapse under any AGW scenario, see Ollier & Pain, 2009 .",1_1
"With instantaneous inputs, the Sun creates the water cycle and drives the entire climate. It heats up the surface to very high temperature, such as you can feel scalding your feet on a nice beach on a sunny day!",0_0
"Vongehr accuses Pinker of rejecting evolution. That's a very bizarre accusation as you will realize once you will swallow the totally crisp and highly conservative explanations of the evolution paradigm, as communicated by Pinker. Vongehr just likes the idea of evolution that is applied at many levels multilevel selection but he doesn't offer any truly rational argument for his sentiment and he also claims that facts arising from biological research such as a variable mutation rate undermine Pinker's claims. It's not clear to me why Vongehr thinks so (the mutation rate and even its dependence on the parameters of the environment is just another quantity encoded in the genes and is subject to natural selection applied to the genes the mutation rate in your body isn't controlled by the government, for example); his text is pretty much unintelligible so that's everything I want to say about it.",0_0
"Moulin et al . conclude that ""sea urchins inhabiting stressful intertidal environments produce offspring that may better resist future ocean acidification."" And they add that the fact that ""the fertilization rate of gametes whose progenitors came from the tide pool with higher pH decrease was significantly higher,"" suggests ""a possible acclimation or adaptation of gametes to pH stress."" References",3_2
"(All my posts tagged Matt and Janet Thompson , & Peter Spencer )",0_0
"Pinker says that even though the bees' behavior wouldn't be evidence in favor of group selection because it may be explained by the propagation of genes, the humans behave nothing like the bees, anyway. The human trait that group selection theory depends upon doesn't really seem to exist. And when some people do happen to sacrifice themselves suicide attacks are Pinker's natural ultimate examples of self-sacrifices, of course they lead to negative consequences for the individuals who do such things and people connected to them. The military history would look very different if suicidal attacks were benefiting the groups.",0_0
WEST GLACIER REGION...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM TUESDAY TO,0_0
10 old climate change controversies - Josh 290,0_0
"There is quite a bit of confusion about the nature of hockey stick temperature constructions. Currently, many non-paleo climate scientists seem to want to avoid the discussion altogether. However, these studies are still freely passed through review, which seems to me a very biased point of view. I reported here , on an open review of a paper written by Ammann on a different method for scaling proxies to correct for variance loss in proxies. As I read it, it looks like a method which will get closer to a proper solution but not fix the problems. It seems that some climate scientists have fully recognized the problem of Mannian style reconstructions and are interested in improving the results.",5_1
"Normally they put in fresh water pipelines ,irrigation systems drill bore holes or build the Hoover Dam",0_0
"But for all of the sturm und drang about climate change, what has actually happened? It's time to acknowledge five obvious truths about the climate-change issue:",0_0
"Symmetry Magazine , Universe Today , TAMU (stories added later)",0_0
"edmontonsun.com - Alberta - Stelmach complains of environmentalist 'hidden agenda' Premier Ed Stelmach launched into a scathing attack against Alberta's environmental critics today, saying some may have ulterior motives to attack the provincial economy.",0_0
"Require congressional approval for major regulations. A number of major regulations in addition to the Obama Administration's climate change regulations threaten natural resource development in the United States. Two of the most threatening are the EPA's proposed Waters of the United States (WOTUS) and more stringent ozone standards. The WOTUS rule is an attack on private property rights and would significantly limit land use, including energy production. More stringent ozone standards would choke off energy and economic development throughout the country and could become the most expensive regulation in history. America needs a check on unelected bureaucrats. Congress should require congressional approval of new major regulations issued by agencies.",4_1
"Around the globe, the worst part of this is that we are being victimized by people we are told to respect from the President of the United States to the Pope of the Catholic Church. Their environmentalism is pure socialism.",0_0
"Obama economic report focuses on women, ignores ""Great Mancession':",0_0
Figure 13 presents the simulated energy imbalance in absolute form. There is a 5 watts/m^2 span between models for the base period energy imbalances. Four of the models energy imbalances for the base period are negative.,0_0
"By Jo Nova, Her Blog, Aug 11, 2015",0_0
"Nye's not the first to lament how cheap oil, gas and coal have gotten since summer 2014 when oil was more than $100 a barrel. One of the world's top energy authorities told reporters cheap energy was endangering the fight against global warming.",0_0
"First, slaves and fossil-fuelled machines play(ed) similar economic and social roles: energy slaves (machines powered by fossil fuels) now do the work in our homes, fields and factories, which used to be carried out by slaves and servants in the past. Both slave societies and developed countries externalise(d) labour (labour came from slaves in the former case and work is provided by machines in the latter), and both slaves and modern machines free(d) their owners from daily chores.",0_0
A LEADING Chinese government economist has confirmed what a slew of economic data had already shown that Chinas long-booming economy has slowed dramatically and the era of double-digit growth is officially a thing of the past.,0_0
"Khosla Ventures confirmed it was hiring him, but declined to confirm his salary, which was estimated by industry sources.",0_0
"Hillary Clinton, for example, supports reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050; imposing a 55 mpg fleet standard for automobiles by 2030; generating 20% of electric power with renewables by 2020; reducing energy use by 10% by 2020; and supports investment in coal power only if it reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 20%. The other major candidates, John Edwards, Chris Dodd, and Barak Obama share similar targets, though there are minor variations seen in their calls for improved vehicle fuel economy. The only significant outlier in the Democratic field is Bill Richardson, who seems to be trying to out-Gore Al Gore, pushing for a 90% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050; a 50% share for renewables by 2040; and a call to ban coal plans outright unless they can capture and store their carbon emissions, a capability that, at present, does not exist.",0_0
"Selectively withholding key geological data, observations, and relationships allows global warming advocates to spin a pseudo-scientific explanation for polar ice melting, to efficiently provoke people to incite impassioned responses, to garner headlines, and to sway national and worldwide environmental policies.",0_0
"Just as old-fashioned hereditary aristocracies in their corrupt mode enjoyed the privilege of breaking laws and social codes with impunity, so it is with ours today. Codevilla documents a vivid example in which the aristocracy kept its own from being held accountable for their misdeeds:",0_0
"In the words of the authors, ""the difference in effects of elevated CO 2 on green leaf tissue and leaf litter presented in this study confirms that the litter quality hypothesis of Strain and Bazzaz (1983) may not be realized in a high CO 2 atmosphere,"" as has also been noted by Norby et al . (2001) . Hence, they conclude that ""potential increases in desert productivity with elevated CO 2 thus may not be limited by reduced leaf litter quality."" This finding is extremely good news for the biosphere, for it means, as the authors also report, that ""deserts are expected to be among the most responsive ecosystems to elevated CO 2 , with increases in productivity leading to potential increased C sequestration."" References",3_3
"And finally, the scientific pitfalls of mitigation have been clear all along. There are a dozen things humans do that can alter the climate, and we know very little about most of them, and even less about what we'd accomplish by changing any of them. We could easily make things worseand in fact, we probably did, when we eliminated sulfur aerosols from the atmosphere that were cancelling out some of the warming of the 1960s and ""70s. Nobody was going to invest serious money voluntarily based on so little assurance of success.",0_0
"Tonight's entertainment en route to the tips features one of Kris Kristofferson's best: here's The Silver Tongued Devil And I . The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.",0_0
Heartland doubled the number of individual donors since Peter Gleick's Fakegate scandal,0_0
"Earth could recover from global warming faster than scientists once thought but it will still take tens of thousands of years, new research shows.",0_0
"David Ward has a PhD in Landscape Ecology, was formerly a Senior Research Scientist with the West Australian Department of Conservation and Land Management, and also a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. He has been involved in research into bushfire behaviour, bushfire ecology, and bushfire history for over forty five years. He has also occasionally held a fire hose in his hands, and is writing a book called Our Dangerous Friend: Bushfire Philosophy in South-West Australia. His email is mumpnpop at iinet.net.au",0_0
"I think the characterisation of the discussion of the issue in the Third Assessment Report as ""open"" is not a reasonable one. Here is what the report had to say on the issue",5_2
The key point here is that GHE believers can point to no modern discoveries (only models) to overturn what has long been known to chemical scientists carbon dioxide is an extremely efficient cooling gas.,2_3
"The defence of windfarms put forward by Mark Lynas and Chris Goodall, which was discussed a couple of days ago, has now had a response from Gordon Hughes. Hughes is less than impressed with the two greens table manners. He seems even less impressed with their analysis of the electricity grid. Andrew Montford, Bishop Hill, 28 September 2012 ( http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2012/9/28/ouch.html )",0_0
the three researchers conclude that ???this species would benefit from global warming and be able to withstand the predicted decrease in ocean pH in the next century during their earliest life stages.??,3_2
"By Andrew Montford, Bishop Hill, Aug 15, 2015",0_0
"China has won plaudits for investing in clean energy, making it the world's biggest wind power market last year, but a big majority of its energy will continue to come from high-carbon coal, at 69 percent and 64 percent in 2009 and 2015 respectively, according to national forecasts.",0_0
"4.	The Climate Alliance's appeal ""to take the gloves off for climate protection"" must also be energetically opposed.",0_0
Shadow Chancellor Alan Johnson has said the government was not adequately prepared for the bad weather.,0_0
"Well, apparently President Obama's definition of ""clean coal"" is no coal. In his 2013 budget request, the President cut funding for coal research and development at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) by nearly 30 percent. This is at the same time EPA has proposed greenhouse gas standards for coal-fired power plants that require Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) a technology that is not ready to operate on a commercial scale. So on the one hand we have Obama issuing standards in which utilities can't comply without using CCS. On the other, we have him handicapping that very technology.",0_0
Hidden effects of climate change may threaten eelgrass meadows,0_0
"FIRE in the landscape, or bushfire, is Australias most lethal and costly natural hazard. Big, uncontrollable bushfires can kill millions of trees and wild animals, thousands of farm animals, and sometimes humans too. Apart from deaths, bushfires incinerate property, such as bridges, farm fencing, homes, and even, a few years ago, an astronomical observatory. The cost to the economy is significant. So bushfire management is, for Australians, no trivial matter. Yet, despite many enquiries since the 1930s, we still have serious bushfires, which seem to be increasing in extent and intensity. Image courtesy of http://bushfirefront.com.au",0_0
"However, I asked him whether the draft Copenhagen Treatys proposal for what amounted to a communistic world government reminded him of the Communism under which he and his country had suffered for so long.",4_1
"Reagan did this in both word and deed. His State of the Union addresses often featured a reference to a person in the audience. This person was invariably an ordinary man who had had a moment of extraordinary heroism, not a captain of industry or a great entrepreneur. When Reagan went to Normandy, he did not laud the genius of Eisenhower or the courage of Patton; he praised ""the boys of Pointe du Hoc."" His celebration of average men and women who did their duty, and oftentimes more, reassured and inspired them.",0_0
Open Letter on Credits for 'Voluntary' Greenhouse Gas Reductions,0_0
"From 2021, gas prices are between 2% and 4% lower if Lancashire shale gas production proceeds as projected.",4_5
"The New Scientist (July 3, 1999) reports a different mechanism for the ill health of coral reefs. Dick Barber of Duke University says that drought in the Sahel region of Africa has increased atmospheric dust fivefold. The dust carries viruses, bacteria, and fungi that can kill coral. The dust also carries iron that stimulates the growth of algae that can smother reefs. Barber does not claim, however that his theory contradicts the theory that global warming is killing reefs. He argues that ""warming leaves the coral more vulnerable to disease.""",0_0
"If you want a laugh I recommend reading the Resilience Of England?s Transport Systems In Winter, an interim report by the DfT published last July. It is shockingly complacent. Rather than look for solutions to snow-induced gridlock the authors seem intent on avoiding the issue. The Met Office assured them ?the effect of climate change is to gradually but steadily reduce the probability of severe winters in the UK?.",0_0
"""I don't want to get into the debate about climate change. But I'll simply point out that I think in academia we all agree that the temperature on Mars is exactly as it is here. Nobody will dispute that. Yet there are no coal mines on Mars. There's no factories on Mars that I'm aware of."" Kentucky state Sen. Brandon Smith (fact-check: the average temperature on Mars is -81 degrees).",0_0
"I have tried to get to discuss and explain their rejection of my analysis, Rossiter told Climate Depot . When I countered a claim of rapidly accelerating temperature change with the IPCCs own data, showing the nearly 20-year temperature pause the best response I ever got was Caleb, I dont have time for this.",1_4
"Excerpts from The Register, coverage of the Nic Lewis paper.",0_0
"Klaus appeared to be responding to the address of the Swiss president of the General Assembly, Joseph Deiss, who said on Thursday at the opening of the annual gathering of world leaders in New York that it was time for the United Nations to ""comprehensively fulfill its global governance role.""",0_0
"First, the largest group of balls imply deflation of 0.38 psi using the Non-Logo gauge an amount that, by coincidence, is exactly equal to the bias between Andersons Logo Gauge and Non-Logo gauge. An alternative explanation for these particular observations is that these balls were measured pregame using the Logo gauge.Exponent (and the NFL) rejected the possibility of Logo gauge initialization of Patriot balls, because Andersons pregame measurements were more or less consistent with pregame measurements by the two teams themselves. This topic has been discussed before. Ill return to it after discussing the other groups.",0_0
"For the longest time, this industry's well-funded disinformation campaigns have duped reporters into practicing a profoundly distorted form of journalistic balance. In the early 1990's, the coal industry paid a tiny handful of dissenting scientists (with little or no standing in the mainstream scientific community) under the table to deny the reality of climate change.",0_0
"The book, new to the Millard curriculum this year, was part of ""Plugged in to Non-Fiction,"" a collection of books on a variety of subjects. Parts of the book were required reading for sixth-graders in Millard reading and language-arts classes.",0_0
"by Barry Brill, Chairman of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition",0_0
"Moreover, the energy, manufacturing, employment and economic benefits will be unencumbered by worrisome environmental impacts. Hydraulic fracturing has been utilized since 1949, and has been carried out more than 2.5 million times, safely and without causing any serious harm.",0_0
"Nicolas D. Loris is Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, of the Institute for Economic Freedom and Opportunity, at The Heritage Foundation.",0_0
"Greenhouse gases, are not so much trapping heat, as acting by tapping heat. They are acting as a vector (tap) enabling the flow of energy between the adiabatic controlled atmosphere and the IR radiation that eventually leaves the atmosphere. And it is because the adiabatic cooling reduces the temperature, that the apparent temperature of earth from space is cooled. This may reconcile the Dragon slayers with mainstream skeptic views.",2_3
"Hearing: Full Committee: Vice President's Al Gore's perspective on global warming, Wenesday march 21, 2007.",0_0
"Every time a serious problem occurred for IPCC official climate science or those promoting it, they hired professional spin doctors. Why do official climate scientists need spin doctors? Answer, because they practice politics not science. Climategate, like its namesake Watergate, became exposed by the cover up, in this case disgraceful, atypical behavior disclosed in the emails.",5_2
"We can never have zero pollution. The laws of diminishing returns increasingly come into play: getting rid of the last 10% can cost as much as eliminating the initial 90% and is rarely needed. And we cannot control nature's pollution: volcanoes, forest fires, poisonous algae blooms, deep ocean vents, erosion of rocks bearing mercury and other toxic substances, and other sources.",0_0
"I worked with Trenberths NCAR as a hardware/software contractor for many years, looking at ways tospeed up their weather and climate models. During autumn 2009, I had a contract with them to look into accelerating their radiative transfer model RRTM, which isused in both the weather and climate models. After two weeks of research, the project was put on hold because ( Trenberth) had lost confidence in their radiative transfer model",5_1
"[These events took place roughly between 5:30 and 6:30 AM, November 13th in Terminal 2 of the San Diego International Airport. I'm writing this approximately 2 1/2 hours after the events transpired, and they are correct to the best of my recollection. I will admit to being particularly fuzzy on the exact order of events when dealing with the agents after getting my ticket refunded; however, all of the events described did occur.",0_0
The Nevada program is a huge breakthrough for the school choice movement and was a long time coming. The Heartland Institute has been advocating education savings accounts since 1992 and I am proud to say has done more to promote the idea to state legislators than any other think tank or advocacy organization in the country.,0_0
"""Thousands of Kaleida Healthcare workers made their presence felt Monday outside Buffalo General Hospital.""",0_0
In the first section he refers to the earlier work by Eigil Friis-Christensen and Knud Lassen who showed a connection between the length of a solar cycle and temperature in the northern hemisphere.,2_1
"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.",5_1
"have a chance to recover,"" Martin said. ""Getting a bad grade or",0_0
Rapidly Melting Arctic Ice Right At 30 Year Mean,0_0
"Much visited by convention participants were thirteen Conference Exhibitors. All thirteen deserve recognition, but to list all would not be practical in this format. Pajamas Media deserves special recognition because of its ""on location"" coverage from the Copenhagen Climate Conference. Its online video arm of the new media company, Pajamas Media, has also been in the forefront and broken many key stories on the global warming controversy from both the scientific and business perspectives. Pajamas Media videotaped the entire Heartland Conference. http://www.pajamasmedia.com/",0_0
"Antarctic sea ice extent continues to break records. Extent at 31st January, of 4.540 million sq km, beat the previous record set in 2008. This is 26% higher than the climatological average for this date of 3.598 million sq km.",1_1
Under the Nature Conservation Act it is an offence to knowingly disturb a platypus habitat.,0_0
"The deep-ocean theory is one of a half-dozen explanations that have been proffered for the warming plateau. Perhaps the answer will turn out to be some mix of all of them. And in any event, computer forecasts of climate change suggest that pauses in warming lasting a couple of decades should not surprise us.",1_4
"What incentives do policymakers have to choose an ""efficient' carbon tax?",0_0
"In addition,some biofuel policies can increase food prices and world hunger, fostering instability and strife, especially if scaled up enough to make a meaningful difference in global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.",4_1
"These actions will benefit American companies, workers, families, consumers, balance of trade, environmental quality, and government revenues. We must not let anti-hydrocarbon ideologies or misinformed policy positions perpetuate this antiquated ban.",0_0
"With touching candour, the UN, in the latest IPCC climate report AR5, published this graph of world temperature observations (AR5 WG1 Chp 2 p.193). It reassures us that theres been insignificant global warming in about the last 20 years, while atmospheric CO2 concentrations became the highest in human history. Of course, since the temperature has not risen, it did not cause any extreme weather in the last 20 years. It has all been entirely natural.",1_4
"Thankfully, some of the tea partiers were friends of CEI, so they were able to stack the tea bags to the ceiling in our conference room. It took some effort to get them all in there. As our resident Briton Iain Murray said afterward, ""That's a lot of tea!""",0_0
> University of East Anglia web site:,0_0
"Ian Marchant, chief executive of SSE, warned that the government must invest more money in the project and said he would be happy to make sure no profit was made from using public funds.",0_0
"""California's largest public- employee union, Service Employees International Union, launched a seven-figure television advertising blitz pressuring GOP legislators to back Gov. Jerry Brown's tax extensions.""",0_0
"This document , outlining how DECC should respond to Lord Turnbull's GWPF report on climate policy is fascinating. The scientific briefings that ministers get from DECC officials are indistinguishable from Greenpeace press releases.",5_2
1. The processes that drive La Nia events are not the opposite of El Nio events.,0_0
"Russia is enduring its harshest winter in over 70 years, with temperatures plunging as low as -50 degrees Celsius, reports Russia Today. Dozens of people have already died, and almost 150 hospitalized.",1_3
"According to all reports, the rule, which will be voted on during tomorrows FCC meeting, falls drastically short of earlier pledges by President Obama and the FCC Chairman to protect the free and open Internet.",0_0
There isan interestingdissertation being defended on November 14 2011 at the Univeristy of Colorado. The announcement is given below. I have highlighted key sections.,0_0
"""Earlier today, I posted excerpts from Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio's excellent floor speech about President Barack Obama's proposal to address the deficit with tax hikes. Among other things, Rubio asked just how many jobs the president's proposed tax on oil companies would create. Turns out, energy analysts at consulting firm Wood Mackenzie have the answer.""",0_0
"News for the alarmists is worse from their favorite model, that from the UK's Hadley Centre, which proved no more capable of predicting past climate than a table of random numbers when used for the flawed National Assessment on Climate Change. Wu et al. report in Geophysical Research Letters that their examination of thermohaline circulation (THC) was expected to show a weakening of the stream. ""However,"" as they write, they ""do not find a decreasing trend of the North Atlantic THC."" Instead, ""Accompanying the freshening trend, the THC unexpectedly shows an upward trend, rather than a downward trend."" In other words, according to the Hadley Centre model, global warming may well strengthen the Gulf Stream.",5_1
Misuse of climate models as false prophets of doom is costly in lives as well as treasure.,5_1
"I first wrote about Teske a year-and-a-half ago. I pointed out that, when a Greenpeace protest vessel shut down Europe?s largest coal port in 2005, Teske was on board.",0_0
"Postmodern journalism maintains that the science of climate is like a toothpaste commercial where a consensus of dentists determines what toothpaste you should use. If you support their commercial's thesis, you are scientific; if you don't, then you are an enemy of the state, a Republican, or even a Trump supporter. That's the climate science of postmodern journalism: 100% pure fake news, top to bottom.",5_2
"""All Americans have the right to support causes they believe in and the CEI subpoena is an abuse of the legal system and an effort to intimidate and silence individuals who disagree with certain attorneys general on the climate debate. Disagreeing with a government official is not a crime; abusing government power to take away Americans' rights is.""",0_0
"Quoting the two U.S. researchers, ""these findings indicate that juvenile massive Porites spp. are resistant to short exposures to OA in situ ,"" and that ""they can increase calcification at low pH and low ?? arg if is elevated,"" while this latter finding leads them to also suggest that juvenile Porites spp. may actually ""be limited by dissolved inorganic carbon under ambient pCO 2 condition.""",3_2
I wasnt too shocked last week by the distinctly cool response to the Fraser Institutes big report on the state of Canadian air quality (though the Suzuki Foundation coughed up a surprisingly well-written response).,0_0
"""Freedom, it turns out, has a taste, and it has a smell. The taste is that of Bazooka bubble gum, large wads of it stuffed into my mouth until my cheeks jowl out.""",0_0
"This chart represents the 15 years (180 months), starting September 1, 1997 and ending August 31, 2011. Per the latest NOAA/NCDC U.S. temperature data records, the 12-month period ending Augut was the 6th coldest August-ending period for the last 15 years. In terms of a single month, August 2011 was the 2nd warmest since 1895 (August 1983 was the warmest.)",0_0
History of temperature scales and their impact on the climate trends,0_0
"To promote its claim that any soot and dust particles are deadly, the agency employs ""epidemiological"" studies that attempt to link slightly higher death and pollution rates in different locales and attribute the difference to manmade particulates. However, it is impossible to distinguish health effects due to vehicle, refinery or power plant pollutants from scores of natural pollutants, or to tell whether a death was caused by pollution or by bacteria, obesity, smoking, diabetes or countless other factors.",0_0
"Oh, please. Pachauri has systematically misled the entire world about how his organization writes its reports. He has insisted that these reports are based only on peer-reviewed literature when this is simply not the case.",0_0
"Sources:German Eon Netz (E.ON) Wind Report 2005, Windenergy and WiseEnergy.org ( Wind Energy Facts and Fiction: A Half Truth is a Whole Lie p 7 )",0_0
"In the past two weeks many U.S. media gave supportive coverage to two public opinion polls about global warming. However, reporters were duped. The surveys released on October 9th and 18th by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication were hopelessly biased. They therefore cannot be meaningful measures of American public opinion.",0_0
"This spate of problems, as they continue, can (8) ""be easily found in fully coupled GCMs as the atmospheric, oceanic and coupling processes could all introduce errors and even amplify the errors from each other,"" citing the studies of Delecluse et al . (1998), Grenier et al . (2000), Cai et al . (2011) and Gupta et al . (2013). And they thus remind us that (9) ""current state-of-the-art CGCMs do not resolve oceanic meso-scale dynamics.",5_1
The situation is little better in the rest of the world. There are no records for the entire Arctic Basin. The problem was exacerbated when they reduced the number of stations assuming satellites would provide a replacement. The problem is you cannot determine if precipitation occurred or if it was rain or snow.,5_1
"The main conclusion drawn from the body of work reviewed in this paper is that distinguishing between natural and externally forced variations is a difficult problem that is nevertheless key to any assessment of decadal predictability and decadal prediction skill. Note that all the techniques are limited by some assumption intrinsic to their analysis, such as the spatial characteristics of the anthropogenic signal, independence of noise from signal, or statistical stationarity.",0_0
"It seems that the Met office now NTT's Stalingrad. It has not SNAT's much in England since Queen Victoria's time. Met Office will not give up s ltt.Vi can expect that researchers Vicky Pope going to demand a stop from private individuals hold thermometers. Ordinary of people do not understand to read the thermometers. Only Official adjusted temperature data, distributed via the Internet are allowed.",0_0
"""This temporal clustering,"" in the words of Ntegeka and Willems, ""highlights the difficulty of attributing 'change' in climate series to anthropogenically induced global warming,"" and they say that ""no strong conclusions can be drawn on the evidence of the climate change effect in the historical rainfall series."" We find this negative or null result to be extremely interesting, especially in light of the fact that climate alarmists -- who argue that global warming should produce both more floods and more droughts -- typically contend that the warming of the earth over the past century or more has been unprecedented over the past one to two millennia . Perhaps their worries are not all that well founded. Reviewed 1 October 2008",1_7
Amid the rolling hills and verdant pastures of south central Virginia an unlikely new front in the battle over nuclear energy is opening up. How it is decided will tell us a lot about whether this country is willing to get serious about addressing its energy needs.,0_0
"In a world where glaciers are believed to be shrinking almost everywhere, the authors note that at the west end of the Himalayan arc, where China, India and Pakistan meet, ""an anomalous gain of mass has been suggested for the Karakoram glaciers,"" citing the findings of Hewitt (2005) - who first wrote about the ""Karakoram anomaly"" - as well as the subsequent studies of Zemp et al . (2009), Cogley (2011) and Scherler et al . (2011).",0_0
Roundup of wisdom regarding the current weather icebox and the global warming debate,0_0
"The study, commissioned by the Office of Net Assessment, looked particularly at the possible effects of rapid cooling following the shutting down of the Gulf Stream because of global warming. The study admitted it was ""imagining the unthinkable"" and that its scenario was extreme in both its global reach and its magnitude. The Pentagon reacted that the $100,000 study did not meet its needs and took no action.",0_0
"If temperature variations in space have essentially no impact on the carbon sequestration prowess of earth's peatlands, as is suggested by the two studies described above, there is little reason to believe that temperature variations in time would be much different in this regard. Hence, there would appear to be little real-world support for the climate-alarmist claim that in response to future global warming, ""peatlands may become a net source of greenhouse gases which will accelerate warming of the atmosphere."" Reference",3_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.",5_1
"Averaged over the two years of experimentation, elevated CO 2 increased crop yield by 15% in the dry soil moisture plots, but had no effect on the yield of plants grown in plots receiving adequate levels of soil moisture.",3_3
"The fundamental question before the United States Senate will be whether my colleagues will have the courage to stand up to President Obama and put the brakes on his abusive, out of control EPA that has openly admitted that ""if you want to build a coal plant you got a big problem"" or if they are going to stand with President Obama and his administration's ""crucify"" agenda.",0_0
"During her chat with reporters, Zichal claimed that the White House is embarking on an effort to ""turn this issue from a red-state, blue-state issue to an American issue."" She went on to say that the administration is launching ""a sustained focus on depoliticizing the climate on climate policy.""",0_0
"With respect to climate, the two researchers determined there had been a significant increase in the daily mean temperature during the vegetation season (May-September) between 1944 and 2008, when the temperature rose at a rate of 0.015C per year, yielding an increase of almost 1C over the 64-year study period. With respect to insect responses, they found that the total number of bumble bee, butterfly and moth species increased from 52 in 1944 to 64 in 2008; but they say that for wild bees, which only increased from 15 to 16 species, the increase was not statistically significant. For butterflies and moths, on the other hand, the combined species number increase (from 37 to 48) was statistically significant.",3_2
"Across the U.S., summer temperatures were cooler than normal. Aberdeen, S.D., experienced its coolest August in 115 years with an average temperature seven degrees below normal (63.4 vs. 70.5).",1_4
"In his response , Dewey agrees with Trotsky in the rejection of moral truths and absolutist ethics:",0_0
"THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)",0_0
"Liette Vasseur, a climate change scientist at Brock University, says that as temperatures rise in the ocean, lobster growth seems to be affected.",0_0
"Phil has changed the data at a rate of 0.8 degrees per century, equal to the rate they claim the earth has warmed.",5_1
"A few weeks ago, I was violently ill and wasnt sure I was going to make it. I have lost 30 pounds since late June.",0_0
"""Thanks to the industry's investment of $188 billion, major emissions from coal-fueled power plants have been reduced by nearly 90 percent,"" said Sheehan. ""The industry plans to invest another $100 billion over the next decade to develop and deploy clean coal technology further reducing emissions.""",0_0
His first initiative also failed because utility companies would have had to make nearly 20-year commitments to buy offshore wind energy.,4_2
"Until the 1990s, scientists thought that the Alps glaciers had been more or lessconsistentlyintact and only began retreating after the end of the Little Ice Age. Schlchters findings showed thatglacial retreats of the past also had been profound.",2_1
"In fact, it is overwhelmingly clear in my work that I am arguing about the existence of an ADDITIONAL climate forcing which is related to solar/astronomical changes: a forcing that is not currently included in the climate models adopted by the IPCC. Essentially I am not talking only about a direct solar irradiance forcing, which is the only thing Kramm is thinking about.",2_1
Where's the Warming? Unusual Weather Does Not Equal Climate Change,0_0
A Shot Of Growth In The Arm Of The Body Politic: An Interview With The Club For Growth's Steve Moore,0_0
"Failures of peer review are examples of what Nobel chemistry laureate Irving Langmuir called ""pathological science""the ""science of things that are not so.""",0_0
"The Independent Institute held a briefing at the National Press Club on July 28 to launch a new report (available at http://www.independent.org ) on recent developments in climate science. As well as examining the recent debates over changes in climate over the past millennium and what the satellite records are telling us that have been extensively covered in this newsletter, the report also looked at two other areas: what research is telling us about urban mortality at higher temperatures and the institutional culture of the EPA and other public bodies.",0_0
"Many of the failed harvests of the past decade were a consequence of weather disasters, like floods in the United States, drought in Australia and blistering heat waves in Europe and Russia. Scientists believe some, though not all, of those events were caused or worsened by human-induced global warming. Completely unmentioned are the many (most?) scientists who believe that evidence is lacking to connect recent floods and heat waves to ""human-induced global warming."" In fact, the balance of evidence with respect to floods is decidedly contrary to the assertion in the article, and recent heat wave attribution is at best contested. More importantly, even in the face of periodic weather extremes, food prices -- which link supply and demand -- exhibit a long-term downward trend, despite recent spikes .",1_7
"In this clash, the ruling class holds most of the cards: because it has established itself as the fount of authority, its primacy is based on habits of deference. Breaking them, establishing other founts of authority, other ways of doing things, would involve far more than electoral politics.",0_0
"Measuring the global temperature is only reliably done by satellites, which circle the world 24/7 measuring the temperature over large swathes of land and ocean. But satellite temperature records only go back to 1979. Before that, the further back you go the more unreliable the temperature record gets. We have decent land thermometer records back to 1880, and some thermometer records back to the middle of the 1700s. Prior to that we rely on temperature proxies, such as ice cores, tree rings, ocean sediments, or snow lines.",5_1
"Others continue to trumpet studies that paint terrifying environmental fairy tales if world governments do not immediately criminalize carbon, ban fossil fuels, and ration energy.",0_0
"There was little cheer either for passengers stranded at Gatwick and Edinburgh airports, or those stuck in their cars on blocked roads.",0_0
We pay three times. We pay for wind output; we pay for nuclear to not generate; and we pay to sell the excess power. Wind is not economically justified.,4_4
"While Kyoto's failure may be news to the public, it's not to former vice president and global-warmer-in-chief Al Gore, who smugly admitted on Jan. 4 at a political gathering that included yours truly, ""Did we think Kyoto would work when we signed it ?... Hell no!""",0_0
The findings indicate that water flea populations can adapt quite rapidly to rising temperatures. The study is the first to show that animal populations can adapt and already have adapted to higher temperatures and increased heat wave frequencies ??? two results of climate change ??? by means of evolutionary changes in their heat tolerance.,3_2
"What methods do they use to achieve their unusual conclusion? Using observational data collected over the last 50 years and complex climate models, the team has established that low-level stratiform clouds appear to dissipate as the ocean warms, indicating that changes in these clouds may enhance the warming of the planet. Well, they use some data but also ""complex models"". It's clearly a basic logical error to try to show that the models represent a feature of the climate incorrectly, while using the same models to derive this conclusion. ;-)",5_1
The average global temperature of the earth has increased roughly 0.5 C over the last 100 years. The instrumental surface record of temperature sampled worldwide and going back over 100 years is shown in Figure 1. The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has also increased in that period.,0_0
"As displayed in Figure 2, the time-integral of sunspot numbers alone appears to show the estimated true average global temperature trend (the net average global energy trend) during the planet warm up from the depths of the Little Ice Age.",2_1
"This brings us to another fact, which is that the core of the Earth is hot. How do we know this? Very simply by volcanic eruptions throwing up rivers of red-hot lava; by geysers throwing up boiling water and by the above-mentioned hydrothermal vents. Nobody that I know of has yet claimed that man has caused the internal heat of the Earth. And yet we still have a substantial body of people who hold a sort of religious belief that Man is causing Global Warming and thereby causing the Climate of the Earth to change.",5_2
"Forcing Unrealistic Hikes Endangers Drivers, Zaps the Economy",0_0
May Free Speech Reign and Scientific Inquiry Prevail,0_0
"Copyright 1998 Dow Jones Industrial, Inc.",0_0
"If the committee upholds the complaint, the UN has the power to require the UK and EU to adhere to its ruling, as they are signatories to the international treaty known as the arhus Convention. Legal experts predict that if the tribunal finds in her favour, the decision could have a big impact on all wind farm projects throughout the country, as developers will be forced to make far more comprehensive benefit statements with their planning applications, and governments will have to back up claims about the alleged benefits.",0_0
"The UN IPCC Fouth Assessment Report (2007) famously concluded thatmost of the observed increase in global average temperature since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations. However, recent studies attribute components of the observed warming to other factors. Adding up those contributions, Pat and Chip calculate that greenhouse gas concentrations account for less than half of the observed warming since 1950.",2_3
It was suggested that the AMOC might be capable of influencing Arctic sea ice on this time scale through the inflow of Atlantic Water into the Arctic Ocean.,0_0
"It is too early to tell if the recent decade marks the beginning of a longer term trend in plant growth related to long-term climate change. Climate is defined by patterns seen over longer periods of time, at least 20-30 years. In the previous 20 years (19821999), plant growth and the related carbon uptake increased as much as six percent. Regardless, the observed decrease in plant growth between 2000 and 2009 helps researchers better understand how plants might respond to a changing climate.",0_0
Victory as WV School Board allows students to debate global warming,0_0
"Renewable sources cannot be relied on solely, he believes, and it becomes a choice between coal and nuclear for baseload power.",0_0
"A quote from an IPCC lead author: There are far too many politically correct appointments, so that developing country scientists are appointed who have insufficient competence to do anything useful.",5_2
"13. Jared Diamond, ""Environmental Collapse and the End of Civilization,"" Harper's (June 2003).",0_0
"Meantime, Massachusetts AG Maura Healey filed court documents declaring she won't enforce her subpoena against Exxon until the oil giant's countersuits against the AGs are settled. Exxon has sued Ms. Healey in Texas federal court to quash her subpoena as a violation of its First and Fourth Amendment rights. Mrs. Healey clearly sensed the political dangers of dragging her office on a long, anti-free-speech march and is putting the investigation to the side.",0_0
hand. In terms of the substance of guaranteeing Iran does not conduct a,0_0
"In fact, NOAA and even the UN's alarmist IPCC have admitted that there have been no increases in the severity or frequency of droughts, floods, thunderstorms, or tornadoes in decades.",1_7
"Of the 112 studies that examine the Medieval Warm Period (between 800 and 1300 A.D.), 103 showed evidence of such a period, while only 2 did not and 7 were equivocal.",2_1
"But the tide seems to be turning. The Climate Conference fiasco in Copenhagen, Climategate scandal and stabilization of worldwide temperatures since 1995 have given rise to growing doubts about the putative threat of ""dangerous global warming"" or ""global climate disruption."" Indeed, even Phil Jones, director of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit and one of the main players in Climategate, now acknowledges that there has been no measurable warming since 1995, despite steadily rising atmospheric carbon dioxide.",1_4
"This is inconsistent with abundant other evidence including that which is presented in the report itself. Only one reef area of the 8 featured in the report showed a 2-fold increase and that area had the lowest level to begin and lowest difference between fished and unfished reefs. In 5 of the 8 areas featured in the report the protected reefs actually showed a decline in coral trout numbers. On fished reefs, three areas showed increases in biomass while 5 showed declines. This is hardly the extraordinary 2-fold increase in protected areas being bannered.",0_0
"President Obama, an increasingly leaky White House tells us, fears irrelevance. I am still relevant, the president all-but declared at his recent press conference. And to prove it, he told us about his constitutional authority to issue executive orders and to veto bills that he finds in conflict with his progressive agenda. Perhaps.",0_0
"A new paper to be published in Ethics, Policy & Environment proposes a series of biomedical modifications that could help humans, themselves, consume less. Some of the proposed modifications are simple and noninvasive. For instance, many people wish to give up meat for ecological reasons, but lack the willpower to do so on their own. The paper suggests that such individuals could take a pill that would trigger mild nausea upon the ingestion of meat, which would then lead to a lasting aversion to meat-eating. Other techniques are bound to be more controversial. For instance, the paper suggests that parents could make use of genetic engineering or hormone therapy in order to birth smaller, less resource-intensive children.",0_0
"Soon, the Obama administration published a five-page talking points memo assailing the economic assessment written by two young, non-economist, pro-wind activists from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Boulder, Colorado.",0_0
"In response to intense questioning from Rep. Mike Pompeo, Kansas Republican, during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Sept. 18, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy admitted that the new regulations are unlikely to have measurable impact on world climate. She then explained the real reasons for the rules: ?What we are attempting to do is put together a comprehensive climate plan across the administration that positions the U.S. for leadership on this issue and that will prompt and leverage international discussions and actions.?",4_2
"Produced in the unique, entertaining and informative style that CFACT and Marc Morano are known for, Climate Hustle will tear the cover off of the global warming debate to further investigate this multi-billion-dollar issue. This event will look at the history of climate scares, examine the science on both sides of the debate and dig into the politics and media hype surrounding the issue.",0_0
"For example, it is often asserted that global warming already kills 150,000 people per year worldwide. Yet a recent econometric study by Johns Hopkins epidemiologist Harvey Brenner found that replacing U.S. coal with higher-cost fuels for energy production would result in at least 195,000 additional premature deaths in the United States alone. Given that recent ""Kyoto-lite"" measures proposed in the U.S. Senatesuch as the Climate Stewardship Act sponsored by Sens. John McCain (R.-Ariz,) and Joseph Lieberman (D.-Conn.)would result in the replacement of about 78 percent of coal with high-priced fuels, it is entirely plausible that even ""baby steps"" towards climate mitigation would kill more people in the U.S. than global warming kills worldwide. The effects of such strategies adopted across the globe could be far more devastating than global warming even if alarmist predictions come true.",4_1
Congress says yes to high-skilled immigrants,0_0
"Gina McCarthy President Obamas pick to succeed Lisa Jackson as EPA Administrator is often described as a straight shooter and honest broker . As my colleague Anthony Ward and Iexplain in Forbes , McCarthy has a history of misleading Congress about the EPAs greenhouse gas regulatory agenda.",0_0
"At his recent press conference, President Obama, in response to a question, said You know, as you know, Mark, we cant attribute any particular weather event to climate change. What we do know is the temperature around the globe is increasing faster than was predicted even ten years ago. That is a flat out lie. The temperature of the Earth has been cooling for at least sixteen years.",1_4
Verizon challenges FCC's net neutrality rules:,0_0
When the decadal rates of change are integrated over the entire twentieth century we obtain the figure on the right. Sea level can be seen to have risen around 170 mm on average over the past century. The mean rate for the twentieth century calculated in this way is 1.67.04 mm/yr. The first half of the century (1904-1953) had a slightly higher rate (1.91.14 mm/yr) in comparison with the second half of the century (1.42.14 mm/yr 1954-2003).,1_6
"One may reconstruct the trajectory of the second bullet from the holes in the bodies. The Texas governor John Connally was closer to the center of the car and at a lower height and his chest was just turned to the right side. One may still trace the holes in their bodies and they agree with a straight single shot whose origin (from the back) is moreover compatible with the 6th floor of the building where Lee Harvey Oswald is located. The direction where the brain fragments appeared (front) and the direction of the momentum transfer to the body agree with the predictions of physics, too, although the momentum transfer is a bit subtle issue.",0_0
Gingrich climate book coming post-election,0_0
"Because ENSO is the dominant mode of climate variability at interannual time scales, the lack of consistency in the model predictions of the response of ENSO to global warming currently limits our confidence in using these predictions to address adaptive societal concerns, such as regional impacts or extremes.",5_1
"One of the favorite lies is the charge that fossil fuel companies are funding the climate change skeptics, even with zilch empirical evidence to back it up. The Heartland Institute decided to call out a U.S. Congressman (a Democrat) on the blatant mis-truths and rumors that he his staff published.",5_2
The big one is that temperatures have nearly stopped rising this century so far. There has been very little to no rise whatsoever according to the main temperature metrics. We were supposed to rise substantially yet it didnt happen.,1_4
"Combined with the rather unrestrained positive spin on the benefits and cost effectiveness achieved by GBRMPA management, the appearance of this report is that of a promotion piece which the most productive and respected beneficiaries of their research funding have been invited to endorse. In such case, it would have been very difficult for them to decline or to offer much objection to the claims made. At the same time, their names and status would provide credibility and deterrence of criticism while greatly increasing the prospect of acceptance for publication in a prestigious journal such as PNAS.",0_0
"The problem is that there is no technology in existence which can extract enough energy to eliminate fossil fuel usage. Biofuel is a complete joke, solar isnt ready, nuclear fission works but we cant store the energy for cars. Geothermal works but is too limited in many areas and again none of this can be stored for use in cars. The technology doesnt exist yet. Lets assume Im right on this for the purpose of this post.",4_4
But the shock that I had experienced reverberated within me for a while. Because what I had been led to believe about Chernobyl was not merely wrong-it was astonishingly wrong. Lets review the data.,0_0
"What I want to treat r instead of in March, published a GWPF report A sensitive matter by Nicholas Lewis and Marcel Crok, which extensively describes and criticizes the MTT and step IPCC taken from to avoid landing on clearly lower klimatknslighetsvrden, as new results justify (.lnk). GWPF is the English foundation with Benny Peiser as frestndare, and whose scientific rd Lennert Bengtsson a short time was a member before the bullying from obedient climate scientists forced him to avg.",0_0
MOOSE: What are you? Deaf as well as stupid? I said get over here.,0_0
I wasn't aware of the arrangement but warmly welcome their decision to support my project. For that end I opened a bitcoin address: 1HHQ36qbsgGZWLPmiUjYHxQUPJ6EQXVJFS.,0_0
"Bless Diane Francis and whatever God granted her the ovaries lacking in the rest of Canadian media. Even our local radio talk hosts cut callers off when they try to bring his name into the debate, citing ""conspiracy theories"". They must not read the Wall Street Journal.",0_0
"In tonight's amusement en route to the Tips, a scene from the 1964 Austrian film ""Unsere tollen Tanten in der Sdsee"", German actress/singer Trude Herr , in character as the zestful Aglaia Schultz, goes to energetic lengths to ensure that no one feels completely excluded from her Hula Twist . The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.",0_0
"This short note was inspired by Viscount Monckton writing on 13 th June on WUWT about the leveling of global temperatures since 1997 or so, and the increasing mismatch with a number of climate models.",0_0
"CRUs 2006 regional chronology has been a longstanding interest at CA and was the topic of a partly successful, partly unsuccessful FOI request. In April 2012, I was successful in obtaining a list of sites used in the unreported 2006 regional chronology. On May 6, I reported the results of my emulation as shown below:",0_0
"A crazed Islamofascist with amphetamine courage pounding in his veins loads a taxi with explosives, and hurtles into a clearly marked military convoy and the arms of 72 heavily recycled virgins. Allah Akbar. The CBC reports; Translation:",0_0
"Wind companies estimate the eagle rules are holding up $68 billion in investment, and they complain that they are stalled because the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has yet to finalize permit requirements.",0_0
"MICHAEL C. OSBORNE: ""Michael Shellenberger to climate activists: It's not the end of the world""",0_0
"on Thursday, November 17th, 2011 at 1:53 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Last April, I put up this post about an ambitious ""Corridor of Hope"" web page (with logo) on the Arkansas Game and Fish site. Without explanation, that page appears to have been removed recently. Here is the Google cache for the page as of 12/12/06.",0_0
"Finally, pariah status is a bogeyman. President G.W. Bush proved it's possible to oppose a UN climate treatyin his case, the Kyoto Protocoland win re-election to a second term.",0_0
"What is astonishing is climate scientists' obliviousness that the exact same concerns apply to policies to ration, tax or otherwise restrict access to fossil-fuel energy.",0_0
Climate Change Skeptics are Stooges for Big Oil,0_0
> >> copy in a few weeks time when we have finished the first draft.,0_0
"Spain is a particularly cautionary tale. By failing to control the cost of guaranteed subsidies, the country has been saddled with ?126bn of obligations to renewable-energy investors.",4_4
"None of the data was normally distributed (Table 1), hence none-parametric regression analyses was conducted to assesses how well the relationship between difference and time can be described using a monotonic function. It follows from figure 1, that the land-based GSTA datasets compared here follow the same general trend over time; increasing positive divergence with UAH, whereas the other satellite-based GSTA dataset (RSS) shows an opposite and even stronger trend.",0_0
"It should be noted that the lead author is employed by the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) and all of the 20 additional authors are either employed by them or are recipients of substantial funding from them. It is incongruous in the extreme that all these employees and repeated recipients of generous GBRMPA funding, could, declare no conflict of interest when they are in fact assessing the benefits of their own work and that of the organisation which supports them.",0_0
"Climate change policy presents investment risks, opportunities",0_0
"Several observers have noted the hypocrisy of tens of thousands of politicians, bureaucrats, and environmental activists traveling from all parts of the globe to the World Summit on Sustainable Development, where they will huff and puff about the evils of emitting carbon dioxide. In response, summiteers have come up with a plan to offset the carbon emissions that will result from the conference.",0_0
"vociferous opposition at home. That was the situation Obama's less ""arrogant"" approach was designed to change as a way of increasing America's power, not reducing it.",0_0
The World Health Organization confirms a new case of human-to-human transmission of the avian flu virus.,0_0
"Dr Mllers work on infrasound, the low frequency sounds emitted by wind turbines, has frequently brought him into conflict with Denmarks wind industry, with representatives accusing him of misleading the public.",0_0
"Section II challenges the legal basis of AB 1493 and ARB's regulatory proposal. ""Maximum feasible"" greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions cannot be achieved without mandatory engineering and design modifications to increase new-car fuel economy. However, the federal Energy and Conservation Act of 1975 prohibits States from adopting laws ""related to"" fuel economy.",0_0
"Eleven years ago, in 2004, Crater Glacier already contained more ice than before the 1980 eruption, and was growing thicker at the rate of 15feet (5meters) per year.",1_1
"Figure 2. Predictions from the IPCCs First Assessment Report compared with outturn since 1990 (RSS & UAH). The world has been warming at exactly half the predicted rate, and the trend falls wholly outwith the prediction interval (orange region).",5_1
"On Tuesday evening, Competitive Enterprise Institute staff live-blogged President Barack Obama's 2013 State of the Union address. Experts on immigration, communications, banking and finance, energy and the environment, labor, consumer issues and more reacted in real time to the president's remarks.",0_0
"If school choice is off the table, then I would be very supportive of a program to increase starting teacher pay, funded by larger class sizes and substantial reductions in useless administrators and assistant principals. Anyway, it is kind of an interesting study, though you may find the pdf file format really irritating to try to read. Lots of funny formatting.",0_0
"Distances	335 km (210 miles) WNW of Chichi-shima, Bonin Islands, Japan",0_0
"Since failures in climate science claims are on the rise, can we start naming climate prediction failures after scientists and activists? I can think of a few: The Hansen Hiatus , for example.",5_1
"""Protesters blockaded Marseille's airport, Lady Gaga canceled concerts in Paris and rioting youths attacked police in Lyon on Thursday ahead of a tense Senate vote on raising the retirement age.""",0_0
"The authors grew five aspen ( Populus tremuloides ) clones with varying tolerance to ozone for three years in 30-m diameter FACE plots located in Wisconsin, USA, receiving atmospheric CO 2 concentrations of 360 and 560 ppm with and without exposure to elevated O 3 (1.5 times ambient ozone concentration) to study the interactive effects of these parameters on this deciduous tree species.",0_0
"Note: 1 Method 3, that is taking the average of the 5 individual trends results in reject/reject for the IPCC 2C/century trend. However, as I noted, that is meaningless, as the uncertainty intervals only include the variation due to measurement uncertainty and fail to properly include weather.",5_1
"No scientific evidence indicates these products have caused any harm and the settlements with As You Sow provide no benefit to public health or the environment but that is irrelevant. By simply pretending otherwise, courtesy of Proposition 65, As You Sow has made junk science a reality and turned a pretty profit by doing so. Public records show that Proposition 65 reaped As You Sow $324,708 in 2004 (about 45 percent of its revenue) and $872,739 in 2003 (79 percent of its revenue).",0_0
"The film even quotes one of America's founding fathers as being worried about climate change. In the late 1700s, Thomas Jefferson wrote: ""A change in our climate is taking place."" Then, in 1817, The President of the UK Royal Society, Joseph Banks, addressed the melting polar ice. It's doubtful that either Jefferson's or Banks' concerns were the result of fossil fuel use.",0_0
Slsar our politicians and AP funds away our pension money on green (s) dreams?,0_0
The appeal of the late Stephen Sugar against the decision of the appeal court that the BBC is exempt from FOI has been unanimously rejected by the Supreme Court . The corporation is to remain beyond scrutiny.,0_0
"The farmers association said the government had failed to deliver on its election commitment to protect land and water resources by quarantining some areas from mining, saying the draft plan pulled up short on delivery.",0_0
"World Resources Institute. ""Keep Tropical Forests Alive,"" Informational Pamphlet, Undated.",0_0
Life on Earth will look dramatically different by mid-century,0_0
"Some of the organizers of ?Planet under Pressure? are founding their plea on the notion that we (as humanity) have entered the ?Anthropocene?: a new geological era in which humans- not natural conditions- are the main drivers of geological and meteorological processes. Citing a website devoted to this concept, Martin Rees of the Royal Society stated at the conference:",0_0
"Knutti and Tomassini (2008) : This study used initial estimates of aerosol forcing totalling 1.3 W/m in 2000, in line with AR4 but far higher than the best estimate in AR5. Although it attempted to observationally-constrain these initial estimates, the studys use of only global temperature data makes it impossible to separate properly greenhouse gas and aerosol forcing, the evolution of which are very highly (negatively) correlated at a global scale. The resulting final estimates of aerosol forcing are still significantly stronger than the AR5 estimates, biasing up TCR estimation. The use of inappropriate uniform and expert priors for ECS in the Bayesian statistical analysis further biases TCR estimation.",0_0
"the very real threat of the approaching and inevitable Ice Age, which will render large parts of the Northern Hemisphere uninhabitable, is being foolishly ignored.",1_2
"Note that not only was 1998 demoted, but also many other years since 1975 ??? the start of Tamino??s ???modern warming period.?? By demoting 1998, they are now able to show a continuous warming trend from 1975 to the present ??? which RSS, UAH and Had Crut do not show.",5_1
"James Kelly, who directed the nuclear engineering program at the University of Virginia for many years, says that fears about uranium mining are wildly overblown. ""It's an aesthetic nightmare, but otherwise safe in terms of releasing any significant radioactivity or pollution,"" he told me. ""It would be ugly to look at, but from the perspective of any hazard I wouldn't mind if they mined across the street from me.""",0_0
"The committee went to great lengths to defuse the money line from the Climategate e-mails i.e., ""Mike's Nature trick to hide the decline."" While explaining how ""trick"" could merely refer to a ""clever device,"" the committee failed to even mention ""hide the decline,"" a phrase referring to Mann's still-unexplained deletion of temperature data contradicting the climate alarmism hypothesis.",5_2
The big stink 93.9 million years ago blame CO2,0_0
"But killing the Keystone pipeline will not stop tar sands development. The Canadian government is committed to production, and if shipments to refineries on the Gulf Coast are blocked, then the heavy crude will be diverted to Asia. With world demand for oil expected to continue to grow and prices to remain lofty, tar sands production will suffer no shortage of customers for years to come.",0_0
"The Sierra Club is not only lying to its members, it is lying to all of us when it says: ""Getting all of the energy we need without using fossil fuels is no longer a question of whether we canbut whether we will."" We can't, we shouldn't, and we won't but we must wait until Obama is no longer in office and, as early as the 2014 midterm elections, we must rid our nation of his supporters in Congress.",0_0
"One paper has been published in Nature, which has been critical of our satellite intercalibration. But, Nature has just accepted for publication, our rebuttal to that article which had several serious factual errors in it. I do want to point out that the satellite measurements do have independent validation, which the surface measurements don't. The other way you can measure deep-layer temperatures is with weather balloons and there is two other weather balloon datasets for global temperatures. One from the UK Met office; Jim Angle from NOAA - and you can see that they agree with the satellite temperature trend. So why there should be a difference in trend in the deep troposphere versus the surface, we don't know its something that the global climate models, GCMs don't produce and we are still trying to understand that, but I suspect it has something to do with water. And I will get back to that in a minute.",0_0
"Professor Richard Tol, a long time advocate for carbon pricing and a leading world authority on estimating the damages of global warming, estimates the probability of achieving a global agreement at a UN climate conference He said in November 2012:",0_0
Predictions that the world would run out of food and resources turned out to be wrong. In the 1970s people were told global cooling was inevitable. Now it's global warming.,0_0
"DR. SPENCER: I'm sorry four-hundredths of a degree C per decade. And probably this cooling from Pinatubo is a large portion of that cooling signal. It probably wouldn't have happened otherwise. Now I also put on here, the surface temperature measurements from thermometers. There are a few groups in the world that are doing monitoring of global temperatures with thermometers. Obviously, the temperature data over the ocean isn't very good. And there's different data sets. Here's climate prediction center for the land -- they have an upward trend since 1979 of fourteen-hundredths per decade. The IPCC, which is sort of the international official temperature trend, its data set is plus .13 C per decade. And then Jim Hansen at GIS has folded in NOAA's sea service temperatures data with his data. He gets about nine-hundredths warming per decade.",0_0
"The author of the \(\pi=3.0\) paper rightfully remarked that the Santa Fe conference was ""notable for the breadth of opinion and the span of credibility of its speakers."" But those who know the first 100 digits of \(\pi\), much like your humble correspondent does, will probably figure out that Boslough's implicit opinion that the climate skeptics were sitting at a lower end of the credibility spectrum than himself is slightly upside down: it's rotated by \(\pi\) radians relatively to the truth and be sure it's more than \(3.0\) radians.",0_0
Complementary theories as to why this calculation works have been described previously 10 . The most significant theory appears to be: Fewer sunspots; reduced solar magnetic shielding; increased galactic cosmic rays penetrating the atmosphere; increased low-level clouds; lower average cloud altitude; higher average cloud temperature; increased cloud-to-space radiation; declining AGT.,2_1
"Anyhow, it did not seem to matter to Wirths office, Hansen, or the growing careerists at NCAR and NOAA; because whomever was pushing man-made global warming on the United States, were also doing it at the international level too.",0_0
"The Wall Street Journal today published a selection of the leaked emails and an editorial concluding that the emails ""give every appearance of testifying to concerted and coordinated efforts by leading climatologists to fit the data to their conclusions while attempting to silence and discredit their critics.""",5_2
"If the observed warming over the last half century can anywhere be claimed to be unusual, it would have to be where it was greatest in the Arctic. Both satellite and surface station data show a warming of about two degrees Celsius since the 1970s. But the surface station data show that warming in context. Recent warming was very similar to the previous warming from 1900 to 1940, reaching virtually the same peak.",2_1
"Two years ago, climate experts told us that the mild winter in the US was proof of global warming. Now they tell us that the US and Canada aretoo small to be important.",5_2
"This weekend, I sent an email to Lord Monckton to thank him for his hard work and to inquire as to his injuries. Below is his kind response which I share with the American Thinker readers:",0_0
Almost every American will be injured in a car crash during his/her lifetime.,0_0
"Sandy was merely the latest ""confluence"" (tropical storm, northeaster and full-moon high tide) to blast the New York-New Jersey area. It was never a matter of if, but only of when, such a storm would hit.",0_0
"On the face of it, the observational study TCR estimates in Figure 2 offer reasonable support to the AR5 1.02.5C range, leaving aside the Tung et al. (2008) study, which uses a method that AR5 WGI discounts as unreliable. However, I have undertaken a critical analysis of all these TCR studies, here . I find serious fault with all the studies other than Gillett et al. (2013), Otto et al. (2013) and Schwartz (2012). Examples of the faults that I find with other studies are:",0_0
"One question still remains open: Why didnt Rahmstorfs science-colleagues even lift a finger when the Foster & Rahmstorf 2011 paper appeared? Did it really have to take 2 years to discover that the simplistic methodical approach was incomplete? Other than scientific reasons, could other reasons be involved here?",5_2
"But denying the existence of downwelling IR radiation from the sky (which is measured continuously at many sites around the world) is, in my opinion, a losing strategy.",0_0
"I??ve pointed out before that Ammann and Wahl??s submission to GRL was rejected and was only taken out of the garbage can after they got the editor replaced. (Compare the silence on this to the hysteria about Soon and Baliunas at Climate Research.) It is disquieting in the extreme that a corporation, like the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, should issue a press release announcing the submission of an article and then not announce the rejection. That would be a breach of securities laws requiring ongoing full disclosure for Canadian mining promotions, but seemingly not in climate research. It??s amazing the number of references that were immediately made to the UCAR press release to the U.S. Congress. I formally complained to Richard Anthes, President of UCAR about their handling of the Ammann press release and got a very unsatisfactory reply, but that??s another story.",5_2
"After a year of humiliating setbacks, United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-Moon and about 60 of his top lieutenants the top brass of the entire U.N. system spent their Labor Day weekend at a remote Austrian Alpine retreat, discussing ways to put their sprawling organization in charge of the world's agenda.",0_0
"TodayisInternational Polar Bear Day 2015and environmentalists will be marking the occasion with petitions, calls to action and alarmist claims about the threat to the very existence of these iconic animals.",5_2
"June of 1933 also had a heatwave, and Hartington, Nebraska was very hot. In fact it was so hot, that high temperatures during June 1933 averaged 9.2 degrees warmer than June 2012 .",1_7
"July 14-16, Seattle. NOAA co-hosting with Univ. of Washington",0_0
"Climate is driven by the sun, as a recent NASA study has confirmed. Now the suns about to enter an extended period of cooling, of that the experts have little doubt.",2_1
Politico's Morning Energy reports on the subpoena sent to CEI by an attorney general in an attempt to silence the debate on climate change.,0_0
Of course my high opinion of Monckton is well known.,0_0
"???There have now been several major ice core surveys, and everyone of them says the same thing. CO2 clearly does not cause temperature changes, it follows temperature changes.??",2_3
"The claim comes in three flavors, overlapping and intentionally muddled to prevent teasing apart fact from propaganda. First there's the claim that climate change is worsening air quality and leading to problems like asthma. Thus, the president speaks of ""doctors and nurses and parents who see patients and kids grappling with the health impacts.""",0_0
Global cooling started 2 million years ago write that down!,0_0
"First of all, nearly all crop plants grow bigger and better - and produce greater yields - when exposed to higher-than-current atmospheric CO2 concentrations; and they use water more efficiently in doing so. The former of these facts can readily be verified by a perusal of the data we have archived within the Plant Growth Database of our website, while the latter phenomenon is profusely illustrated in the collection of Journal Reviews of papers demonstrating this fact that we have archived under the heading of Water Use Efficiency (Agricultural Species) in our Subject Index.",3_3
"As for UK winters, the sort of drop envisaged would return temperatures to the bitter winters of the 1960s, the coldest period since the 19thC. It is inevitable that spring temperatures will also be similarly affected, with a disastrous impact on the length of the growing season.",1_2
"What both of these views have in common is the belief that any statement can be given a precise, quantifiable probability. Frequentism does so by assuming that there always exists a class of eventswhich is to say, hard datato which you can compare the A before you. Subjective Bayesianism, as we have seen, can always pull probabilities for any A out of thin air. In every conceivable field, journal articles using these techniques multiply. It doesnt help that the many times probability estimates are offered in learned publications, they are written in dense mathematical script. Anything that looks so complicated must be right!",0_0
"Since the petition was made public in April, the climate treatys backers have been in damage-control mode. The lawyer-filled Union of Concerned Scientists branded the petition as a deliberate attempt to deceive the scientific community with misinformation. The New York Times and St. Louis Post-Dispatch have published stories and editorials attacking Seitz and other petition signers.",0_0
"The Obama administration has a new environment and energy policy advisor Nathaniel Keohane. Keohane was the chief economist at the Environmental Defence Fund, so its like asking the fox to mind the henhouse. Or business as usual under Obama, if you prefer.",0_0
"""This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.""",0_0
"""The coming year will be an important one for space weather as the Sun pulls out of a trough of low activity and heads into a long-awaited and possibly destructive period of turbulence.""",0_0
German Utility blames renewables for2.7bn loss,0_0
"It was also interesting that the media condemned the addition of newer, more reputable science to the outdated report. The New York Times suggested that reference to one study had been challenged only so it could be replaced by a study backed by the oil industry. In fact, the 1999 study that was deleted is junk science at its worstbased on models that it is agreed do not predict the climate better than do tables of random numberswhich is why the Competitive Enterprise Institute has petitioned the administration to stop disseminating it.",0_0
"All these points confronted and contradicted the political agenda of blaming human CO2 for global warming and latterly climate change. Refutation began in the 1995 Second Assessment Report (SAR) and hit full stride with the 2001 Third Assessment Report (TAR) and its central feature, the Hockey Stick. Accurate determination of the onset and termination dates for the MWP and LIA, the relative homogeneity, was essential to identifying the underlying mechanisms. The Hockey Stick solved the problem by eliminating the events completely and tacking on a modern blade with an error factor that made the numbers meaningless. Welcome to IPCC climate science.",5_1
"Yes, you can fix the regressivity problem by redirecting revenue to the poor. But if you fix the regressivity problem, you just distort the economy more, and on top of that, you undermine the incentive to conserve among the very people who emit a lot of greenhouse gas emissions.",0_0
"Paul Martin signaled Thursday that Canadians will pay whatever price necessary to keep his corrupt Liberal government in power. With pre-election bribery of the cities and other useful fools at over $8 billion and rising, Martin is now promising to send the Canadian Armed Forces into harms way to corral David Kilgour's vote. CBC:",0_0
El Nio and La Nia events are the dominant mode of natural ocean-atmosphere variability on Earth. They have long-term impacts on temperature and precipitation patterns globally. Those long-term impacts have been one of the primary focusses of my research over the past 5 years. An introduction to those findings are presented in the illustrated essay The Manmade Global Warming Challenge and they are discussed in minute detail in my ebook Who Turned on the Heat?,2_1
We do not know if the ACT??s 90% renewables target by 2020 is even technically possible or what new gas fired capacity would be essential near the ACT to help the NSW grid cope with the huge random fluctuations inherent with greatly increased wind power near the ACT.,4_4
"""San Francisco's already done it, and now New York may follow suit. New York City Councilman Leroy Comrie thinks the city should consider a ban on ""Happy Meals"" and similar fast food promotions aimed at kids unless those meals meet certain nutritional standards, Jay Dow reports.""",0_0
"In problems of this kind, the more diverse are the interests of the parties, the poorer are the prospects for success. Contrasting value judgments often cause conflict. With GHG controls, the differing interests of rich and poor nations have emerged as especially problematic.",0_0
"Moreover, DSM policies have created razor-thin supply margins, resulting in price volatility and rolling blackouts during periods of peak demand. During the summer of 2007, California utilities actually told people to turn off their air conditioners on hot days. That is not efficient. It is a good way to get heat stroke.",0_0
Hansens hottest year ever is nonsense. He shows a sharp rise in temperatures after July just as the coldest La Nina on record set in. This is horrifically bad science.,5_2
Studysuggests that global sea level is less sensitive to high atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations than previously thought.,1_6
"clean 2004-05 US was hit by eight major hurricanes including the frdande Catherine. These hurricanes are likely background to the sekundra peak in 2004-06 from the lower curve in the graph above. The major damage vckte course, great attention, and Gray gives an NST next research sociological description of how this triggered the publication of a few haussade scientific articles in Nature and Science with unhappy fljder from historiography. Gray believes that the quality of these rs lg, he ifrgastter that these have been examined scientifically. A avsevrd part of the report is detailed polemic against these works, which uncritically accepted in the IPCC AR4.",0_0
"You have not only shrugged off that abuse, you have also survived the scorn and ridicule of your fellow West Australian Joanne Nova (I found that while googling your email address). It is a species of bravery I do not know if I can tap.",0_0
"Climatologist Pielke Sr. counters claim of ""more moisture' causing more extreme weather: ""Stratospheric water vapor concentrations decreased by about 10% after year 2000'",0_0
"Global Warming ended more than a decade ago as shown here, and in Reference 4 and also Reference 2.",1_4
"Activists and even some scientists will tell you that the science behind the expected major warming of the globe is rock solid. In fact, the projections of temperature increases in coming decades are based on entirely unproven forecasting systems which depend on guesses about crucial aspects of the atmosphere behaviour and the all-important oceans. In addition, these forecasts use carbon dioxide emission scenarios that have been generated by economic calculations rather than from science, and parts of which are already hopelessly wrong less than a decade after they were made.",5_1
"The latest round of tension between Japan and China reveals the underlying instability in East Asia. The Chinese are in high dudgeon over Japan's arrest of a Chinese fishing captain, whom Japanese officials claim rammed Japanese vessels in disputed waters in the East China Sea. They have apparently shut off exports of rare earth materials (though China denies it) to Japan and threatened greater sanctions unless Japan complies with its demands to release the captain (the Japanese did).",0_0
Hansens 2001 paper exposedhow NOAA and NASA massively corrupt the US temperature record. The image below shows the various steps of data tampering..,5_2
Four Decades of Subsidy Rationales for Uncompetitive Energy,0_0
The 2014/15 El Nio Part 15 August 2014 Update An El Nio Mulligan?,0_0
"Something is wrong. I just dont know if it is the state of our government, or the conspiracy conjecture videos being faked. In any case, there are interesting puzzlements.",0_0
"The paper is titled: On the relationship between global, hemispheric and latitudinal averaged air surface temperature (GISS time series) and solar activity .",0_0
"Also known as Hatfield Earthworks, there is not much to see but bank and ditch. Plenty of atmosphere though.",0_0
"The mle2 function works by calculating profile likelihoods; to calculate the log-likelihood of a slope, it requires a function yielding the log-likelihood of the slope given the time series. Here I applied a useful attribute of the arima function in R that the log-likelihood is one of its attributes. I defined a function ar1.lik as follows (note the minus sign):",0_0
"(1) The ice core isotope data were hugely significant because they showed that the Younger Dryas, as well as the other late Pleistocene warming and cooling events, could not possibly be caused by human emissions of CO 2 because they occurred thousands of years before such emissions had any effect on atmospheric CO 2 .",2_1
Environmental laws since the 1970s require public input into federal land-use decisions including logging on national forests. This has led to lawsuits challenging efforts by the U.S. Forest Service to prevent forest fires by thinning out trees (most of which are dead or diseased) and brush by machines and carefully controlled burns. This dead wood is the fuel that feeds catastrophic wildfires.,0_0
"UPDATE #1 (10.01.2010 @ 6:45am): Due to immediate negative response, 10:10 has already removed the video from their website, and Google (?) has made it ""private' on Youtube.",0_0
"Congressman Henry Waxman, the ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, argued recently that ""It's important for the president to act because the Congress is still denying the science and is not about to pass any legislation. The president has broad authority to accomplish many reductions through regulation on his own, without Congress."" Whether the president in reality has that authority is an issue that is certain to occupy the courts. But the implementation of policies and other measures not approved by Congress is deeply problematic in the context of the separation of powers and technicalities such as the consent of the governed. Like the environment, our institutions also can be ""polluted,"" an outcome to be resisted regardless of the assumed merits of the policies themselves.",0_0
"Climate change is already having sweeping effects on every continent and throughout the worlds oceans ice caps are melting, sea ice in the Arctic is collapsing, water supplies are coming under stress, heat waves and heavy rains are intensifying, coral reefs are dying, and fish and many other creatures are migrating toward the poles or in some cases going extinct.(New York Times)",0_0
Firefighters are spending a third day tackling a major blaze at a wood recycling plant in South Yorkshire.,0_0
"Many people erroneously think economic growth unavoidably leads to environmental degradation, but Moore and White show major improvements in air quality occurred as our use of fossil fuels doubled. New coal plants, for example, emit 90 percent less sulfur dioxide than plants built 50 years ago. Moore and White rightly point out most of the advances that have been made are the result of efforts undertaken by private businesses to improve efficiency, not laws imposed by the national government.",4_5
"OK, so is CO2 the limiting nutrient? Id assert that it often was. Yes, for some lands and crops adding Nitrogen or Phosphorus increases growth (so they are the limiting nutrients). And farmers have gone out of their way to assure that their lands are not rate limited on those common fertilizer components. But Greenhouse operators regularly add CO2 to the space to increase production. That strongly implies that CO2 is a rate limiting nutrient in many / most cases of farm lands as well. The CO2 bump in growth tends to work up to about 1000 to 2000 ppm of CO2.",3_3
"More interestingly, the article quotes Mark Serreze of NSIDC as follows:",0_0
"According to Mio the fatal assumption made by the IPCC is that the atmospheric concentration of the 13C isotope (distinctive in prehistoric plants) are fixed. They also assume C3-type plants no longer exist so would need to be factored into the equations. Indeed, as Miso points out such plants, make up 95% of the mass of all current plant life.",5_2
"We all know that global warming has been on hiatus ? set on pause ? however you like to characterize the lack of significant warming, for over 15 years. Depending on how you do the statistics, the vast majority of the climate models used to guide our energy policy have over-predicted the surface warming trend since the satellite record began way back in 1979.",1_4
"""Greece is likely to default over the next three years because budget-cutting won't be enough to reduce the nation's debt burden, Pacific Investment Management Co. Chief Executive Officer Mohamed A. El-Erian said.""",0_0
"By saving an hour's worth of lighting and other electricity use every day, the Morning Challenge campaign says the average household can emit 85 fewer kilograms of carbon per year. Staying up late ensures mankind's doom.",0_0
I en tnkvrd artikel i The Globe and the Mail skriver Margaret Wente om det dilemma som CO 2 -hysterin har samkat miljengagemanget.,0_0
"In Figure 4, the climate model outputs of TOA incident shortwave radiation are presented as anomalies, with the base years of 1996-2015. With the model outputs in anomaly form we can better see the similarities and differences in the curves. Two models from one modeling group really stand outtheyre the models that started with the lowest absolute incident shortwave radiation. Those models show a much stronger increase in solar forcing during the hindcast and they show a curious decrease in incoming sunlight from the early 2000s to 2100. The other models tend to agree with one another during the hindcast (1861-2005), but then run out of synch during the projections.",0_0
"Here in Britain, where we had our fifth freezing winter in a row, the Central England Temperature record according to an expert analysis on the US science blog Watts Up With That shows that in this century, average winter temperatures have dropped by 1.45C, more than twice as much as their rise between 1850 and 1999, and twice as much as the entire net rise in global temperatures recorded in the 20th century.",1_4
"This is an interesting graph that anyone interested in climate change should know. Most scientists dont believe that solar variance causes all of the change we see, yet most also will tell you that this is some of it. In reality nobody really knows.",5_1
"""With the double verification of this phenomenon provided by both weekly biomass and periodic net photosynthesis determinations,"" the four researchers concluded that ""atmospheric CO 2 enrichment may be capable of preventing the deaths of some plant species in situations where their demise is normally brought about by either the direct effects of unduly high temperatures or by associated debilitating diseases."" Consequently, it is clear that in trying to determine how plants will respond to higher temperatures in a CO 2 -enriched world of the future, old concepts that do not include phenomena (either known or unknown) related to the positive effects of elevated CO 2 on plant physiological processes will likely present an unduly pessimistic picture of what to expect. Reviewed 4 October 2006",3_3
"Virtually everything about progressive politics today is about liquidating the Jacksonian influence in American life. From immigration policy, touted as ending the era when American whites were the population of the United States, to gun policy and to regulatory policy, President Obama and his coalition aim to crush what Jacksonians love, empower what they fear, and exalt what they hate.",0_0
"Now, under my administration, America is producing more oil today than at any time in the last eight years. (Applause.) Thats important to know. Over the last three years, Ive directed my administration to open up millions of acres for gas and oil exploration across 23 different states. Were opening up more than 75 percent of our potential oil resources offshore. Weve quadrupled the number of operating rigs to a record high. Weve added enough new oil and gas pipeline to encircle the Earth and then some.",4_5
"The meters are tested by the manufacturer, by NV Energy and the UNR, through a contract with the utility. Through 2011, when 500,000 meters were installed, there were 60 requests to have meters tested. NV Energy determined all 60 had been accurate, Smith said.",0_0
"?David Holland?. Everything we found was cc?d to you and/or Dave Palmer, which",0_0
He figures ``the specter of litigation'' might affect member government policy.,0_0
"The ratio of Te to T0 provides an indication of the magnitude of the infrared optical depth, which is referred to as n. n includes contributions from both clouds and gases.",0_0
"and a check of the typical weather does make it look like this is a bit late for snow. Perhaps we have someone Czech reading who could comment on how usual, or not, this kind of May Snow might be?",0_0
In November the Environmental Protection Agency announced a reduction in 2014 biofuel mandates to 15 billion gallons from 18 billion. This decision was made because gasoline consumption has fallen and fuel mixes made with over 10% biofuels can damage car engines.,0_0
"According to Sedjo, 76 percent of the tropical forest zone is still covered with forest. (True State of Planet, p. 199)",0_0
"""With many Michigan cities facing budget crises and residents fleeing the state at a rate of 15,000-20,000 people a year, politicians in the state are frantically drafting proposals to control premium rates. Most of the proposed solutions simply limit how much insurers can charge. That is similar to forcing restaurants to sell all customers that $200 bottle of champagne but only charge $20 for it.""",0_0
"The United Kingdom's initial assessment of carbon emission allocations under the government's scheme has been criticized for containing ""basic errors."" According to the Independent (Feb. 29), ""The oil industry's trade body, the UK Offshore Operators' Association (UKOOA), said officials had made basic errors in estimating oil companies' carbon emissions. Some onshore installations, such as National Grid Transco's transmission systems, had been incorrectly included in the offshore oil industry's allocation, a spokeswoman for the association said. Some refineries had been double counted, while others appear to have been forgotten altogether, she added.",0_0
"Including all 18 contributions gives a September ice extent minimum of 4.8 +/- 0.77 million square kilometers, with a range of 2.5 to 5.6 million square kilometers.",0_0
"As usual, he has cooled the past and warmed the present. Hansen has created a 0.15C additional warming between 1910 and 2012, which didnt exist in the February 20, 2012 version of the same file.",5_1
"Referring now to J. Budziszewskis masterpiece, The Revenge of Conscience . In response to the question, Why are things getting so much worse so quickly?, he divides matters of conscience into the following zones:",0_0
"""Google on Monday was among investors pumping $42 million into a climate change inspired technology startup that calculates the chances of crops being ruined by weather.""",0_0
"The burdens from these climate policies fall overwhelmingly on the worlds poor. This is because rich people can easily afford to pay more for their energy, whereas the poor will be struggling. It is surprising to hear that well meaning and economically comfortable greens often suggest that gasoline prices should be doubled or electricity exclusively sourced from high cost green sources.",4_1
An analysis of BEST data for the question: Is Earth Warming or Cooling?,0_0
"GISSuses an insidious trick to hide their data tampering. They cool pre-1963 years, and warm post-1963 years. This makes their data tampering look much less severe than it actually is. A better visualization is to normalize the graphs to the most recent common data, and show the total magnitude of the tampering. The animation below shows that.",5_2
"Vasseur spoke at the Fishermen and Scientists Research Societys annual meeting in Truro, N.S., last weekend and said ocean conditions are changing faster than expected.",0_0
"Perhaps they would like to return to the climate of the 19thC, when the North Chinese Famine of 1876-79 killed 13 million.",0_0
"What does Barack Obama think of McCain's conviction on climate change? | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist From Obama's remarks to his campaign staff: "" Those of you who are concerned about global warming? I don't care what he says, John McCain is not going to push that agenda hard .""",0_0
"How much easier it would have been for climate scientists if reality did support their assertions and predictions. Instead the scientists engage in contortions worthy of a Cirque du Soleil performance in order to cling to their preordained conclusions about the world?s climate. A honest scientist would question their original hypotheses and predictions, admitting that the planet is not warming and that there is still much we don?t understand about climate.",5_2
"The public is evenly split over its perceptions about media coverage of global warming. Thirty one percent believe that the media's reporting of the problem is ""generally exaggerated,"" while 32 percent believe it is ""generally correct"" and 32 percent believe it is ""generally underestimated."" The full analysis of the poll can be found at www.gallup.com.",0_0
New paper finds climate models fail to accurately predict clouds over the ocean critical for climate projections,5_1
It would be fun to watch a cinematic spoof of this sort of thing. Maybe along the lines of South Parks Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow?,0_0
"Latitudinal Gradients in Turtle Species Richness, Size and Range",0_0
"Both the right's fear of government and the left's fear of technology have jointly stunted our nuclear energy policy, but on this issue liberals hold the balance of power. Like Nixon's going to China, this is something only Mr. Obama can do. If this president clears the path for a new atomic age, American scientists are ready to build it.",0_0
"A recent World Bank report (Climate Risks and Adaptation in Asian Coastal Megacities, October 2010) examined the impact of climate change on Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, and Manila, under a range of different scenarios through to 2050. It concluded that the costs from major flooding events on infrastructure and the economy can be expected to run into the billions of dollars, with urban poor populations the hardest hit.",0_0
"Some form of government funding will be necessary to call it forth. Government, though, has often short-changed basic energy science in favor of large demonstration projects. It has also found it difficult to avoid wasteful stops and starts in funding. There may be a productive role for properly structured demonstration projects, but the premature move to that stage has often been associated with costly failures. Making large public investments in plug-in vehicles before it is clear that carbon capture and storage can be economic has at least the appearance of just such a rush to demonstration. There is also a serious risk that the high costs of demonstration projects will generate budget pressures that will cause the politically less appealing basic research to be starved for resources.",0_0
"But lest we forget one of the largest Green groups on the issue, the Rainforest Action Network, they say all these numbers are too low and claim almost two and a half acres per second are wiped out (two U.S. football fields) with 150 acres per minute, 9,000 per hour, about 214,000 per day (an area larger than all of New York City), and 78 million acres per year (an area larger than Poland).",0_0
"David Rothbard is president of the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) a public policy organization he co-founded in 1985. He co-hosts a daily radio commentary called Just the Facts, which airs on over 100 radio stations. His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Times and many others. He has particpated in over a dozen UN conferences.",0_0
"Following a press release from the World Meteorological Society , a regular commentator at this blog Sid Reynolds questioned whether the WMO has infra-red rose coloured glasses and can only see when warm records are broken, having previously listed an impressive slew of recent record breaking cold events.",5_2
"First, our environment is already clean and safe not sure we need more environmental snake oil salesmen.",0_0
"Challenged that critics call them Frankenfoods, Brand replied,",0_0
The article (and his Figure 1 reproduced below) explains why a meaningful global agreement is unlikely to be achieved. For example he says:,0_0
"The debate has, of course, its scientific dimension but this part of the debate doesn?t belong here. I also do not intend to play the role of an amateur climatologist.",0_0
"Thus one could argue that for 400 years, the earth was cool, in some way due to a prevalence of La Nias, and this reversed in the 20 th century during which there were two major periods of El Nio dominance in which all the global warming of the 20 th century took place.",2_1
"CO2 is also a biogeochemical forcing, so when you increase CO2, plants can respond. All plants like CO2, but some plants like CO2 more which may use water more efficiently. Thus there are complex nonlinear interactions due to increasing CO2. That really complicates how CO2 affects the climate system. Our work suggests that the biogeochemical effects of adding CO2 may have more effect on the climate system than the radiative effect of adding CO2. But the models have inadequately dealt with the biogeochemical effect of CO2.",3_3
"That's actually not surprising. Credit for early action was an issue of recurring controversy during 1998-2005, and the one thing virtually all stakeholders eventually agreed on is that current law does not authorize any federal agency to implement a greenhouse gas (GHG) early action program.",0_0
"Read here . Earth's climate and environment has suffered from a wide range of extremes over billions of years. Yet climate models extrapolate their predictions from conditions experienced during mid-1970's to late 1990's - definitely, an incredibly microscopic view of actual Earth climate history.",5_1
"The UK biofuels industry stands to be devastated by draft proposals being developed by the European Commission, renewables chiefs have warned. The great irony is we have been repeatedly asking for a clear pathway to 2020, not least to secure investment in technological advancement. Nobody listened. Now Europe is planning a quantum leap which threatens to wipe us out. It is a double whammy and an absolutely galling prospect for companies that have invested millions in good faith. Farmers Guardian, 28 September 2012 ( http://www.farmersguardian.com/home/renewables/biofuels-industry-would-be-devastated-by-eu-plans-rea/50036.article )",0_0
WHO: Time running out to solve E. coli outbreak:,0_0
Projected trend over oceans: 0.3 F/decade,0_0
"Once again, we have yet another experimental demonstration of the fact that atmospheric CO 2 enrichment generally enables plants to find the extra nitrogen they need to take full advantage of the aerial fertilization effect of elevated atmospheric CO 2 concentrations, with the result that total ecosystem carbon content is increased , resulting in a negative feedback to anthropogenic CO 2 emissions. References",3_3
"Americas 104 nuclear plants generate enough electricity for nearly 75,000,000 homes and produce about 2,000 tons of spent uranium fuel annually. So Yucca will be able to hold all the used fuel from the past 50 years, plus another 35 years of used fuel, without expanding on the original design.",4_5
"Professor Mike Hulme, of the UK's Tyndall Centre, has been conducting research on people's attitudes to media portrayals of a catastrophic future.",0_0
There was global warming on the order of about 1F during the twentieth century. There is disagreement as to its cause.,5_1
"EPA is corrupt, and Beale, whom we have discussed here before, was in charge of the air pollution rule making while stealing almost a million and claiming to be a CIA agent.",0_0
NRLs general linear climate model: ENSO + volcanic aerosols + solar activity + anthropogenic effects explains 85% of the CRU temperature variance for the period 1979-2010.,0_0
"How successful Ban and his chieftains will be at pushing that agenda may soon be seen, as the secretary general hosts the lead-off event of the fall diplomatic season, a two-day summit starting September 20 on the so-called Millennium Development Goals.",0_0
In light of the natural cooling cycle the Earth has been in that is good news and it will be even better news when the planet emerges from the cycle that reflects the lower levels of radiation from the Sun.,2_1
Overall message of the metals is duck and cover and risk off in $US.,0_0
"The analysis is an example of the value of synthesis research centers, Garrison says, in addressing societys environmental challenges.",0_0
"Paris To Test Banning Gas-Guzzlers (Yes, SUVs!) In City Core:",0_0
"The public's trust in the supposed scientific consensus took a blow when a vast body of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia came to light in what has been dubbed ""Climategate."" Climate scientists derided their critics, blocked access to peer-reviewed literature, withheld data from examination, planned to ""hide the decline"" in past temperatures and generally revealed themselves to be shaping their science to their politics rather than the other way around. Anyone who tells you climate science is settled is selling something. The climate is a vastly complicated system. The science that studies it is prone to error and was politicized before it could mature.",5_2
"A while back, New Hampshire Republican Senator Judd Gregg told me that America should build 100 nuclear power plants by 2030, a proposal endorsed by the Senate Republican Conference. ""This will clean up the air,"" he said, ""and reduce reliance on foreign oil. This is a much more constructive approach than the climate change bill.""",0_0
"Exhibit A is the Corker-Cardin legislation, passed unanimously in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, providing for limited congressional review of negotiations with Iran over its nuclear weapons program. Exhibit B is the legislation combating human trafficking, passed unanimously by the Senate last Wednesday. Exhibit C is the elimination of the annual ""doc fix,"" engineered by Speaker John Boehner and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.",0_0
"As I have explained elsewhere Mann is attempting to legally punish any attempt to ""question his intellect and reasoning""?that's from the DC Superior Court, which preposterously backed his argument?on the grounds that Mann's scientific claims have been investigated by multiple government panels, which have exonerated him.",0_0
"on Monday, April 13th, 2015 at 7:28 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
Sunnier skies over Antarctica in turn mean that more solar radiation is reflected by high-albedo snow and ice instead of being absorbed in the cloud cover. Thus Antarctica has cooled.,1_1
"Europe?s strategy was founded on two fears: first, that global warming was an urgent threat that needed to be prevented imminently and at all costs; and second, that the world was running out of fossil fuels, which meant oil and gas would become ever more expensive. Both conjectures, however, turned out to be wrong.",4_5
The silent media ignore a Colorado Democrat who says women dont need firearms to defend themselves from predators and a patronizing vice president who says women cant handle an AR-15 anyway.,0_0
"Incidentally, Backreaction reviews some at least superficially clever attempts by Cliff Burgess and others to solve the cosmological constant problem within the large extra dimensions scenario. A cosmic string or, more generally, a co-dimension-2 brane induces a deficit angle in the surrounding spacetime but leaves the cosmic string essentially undisturbed. Such co-dimension-2 branes on a sphere may conspire to produce a rugby ball geometry which adjusts itself so that the effective 4D curvature seems to be (nearly?) zero.",0_0
"In fact extreme weather events such as tropical cyclones (hurricanes, in the US) have been at historic lows with atmospheric carbon dioxide at contemporary highs. Jimmy is seriously full of it.",1_7
"For this spring the Australian BOM predicted it would be dry and warm, instead we got very wet and quite cold. The models are so bad on a regional basis, its uncannily like they are almost useful if they call things dry, expect wet.",5_1
"Those are the reflections you can make when reading your paper in the deserted, and yes, rather relaxed and pleasant, city. And as the late Gilbert Becaud, I'll wait until September to do my ususal European holiday tour. Have a nice summer. Now it's time to head out in the rain and find that paper and cosy corner.",0_0
"UN IPCC 2001: ""Milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms' Also, The UN IPCC Draft in 1995: ""Shrinking snow cover in winter' Analysis: ""In 2010-2011, heavy snow was due to global warming. Then in 2012 the lack of snow in the Eastern US was due to global warming, and now in 2013 heavy snow is again due to global warming'",5_2
No they arent. Ice extent just took a large jump up and ice now fills most of the Beaufort Sea.,1_1
"Others being peddled at the Bali conference are that man-made ""global warming"" threatens polar bears and coral reefs, caused Hurricane Katrina, shrank Lake Chad, expanded the actually-shrinking Sahara, etc.",0_0
"That's all this study is that's all it's meant to do is scare people. It actually says in the study that without action to prevent climate change What is the action? Carbon taxes, regulations, UN treaties, EPA regulations its political lobbying disguised as science.""",0_0
FACT: Global temperature has not risen at all in the last 10 years.,1_4
"So, what does it mean to ""deal with"" climate change? Well, I'd argue that there are basically two options, and we've been wasting a huge amount of time, money, and energy on an approach that was doomed from infancy, that being mitigation, or the rollback of greenhouse gases to pre-industrial levels.",0_0
"German meteorologists say that the start of 2013 is the coldest in 208 years ??? and now German media has quoted Russian scientist Dr Habibullo Abdussamatov from the St. Petersburg Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory, who says it is proof that we are heading for a ???Mini Ice Age.??",1_2
Figure 2. Projected global sea level rise from the IPCC?s business-as-usual (A1B) scenario (black curve) and the Kerry-Lieberman emissions scenario (red curve).,0_0
"By Robert Johns, Master Resource, Aug 13, 2015",0_0
"But this month fellow Queensland University researchers admitted in a study that reef coral had once more made a ???spectacular recovery??, with ???abundant corals re-established in a single year??. The reef is blooming.",3_2
"Now, because of Secretary Vilsack's trial-ballooned planting restriction policy and his continuing insistence that some type of coexistence plan be developed, even products that do reach the marketplace could eventually be subject to the vagaries of politically driven limitations that serve only the interests of the organic food industry and biotech's opponents. At best, his dithering creates uncertainty among agribusiness companies, which is anathema to expensive long-term research and development.",0_0
"The former chancellor Lord Lawson has urged the Government tokeep Britains coal-fired power stations working for as long as wasneeded to avoid any short-term power shortages. In a House of Lords debate on energy policy and electricity generationLord Lawson also called on ministers to give every encouragement it can to the quickest possible development of shale gas supplies. Lord Lawson urged energy and climate change minister Baroness Verma toassure the House that if the need arises our coal-fired power stationswill be kept open as long as is necessary, regardless of the Europeancombustion plants directive. -- The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 27 February 2013",0_0
"Sources say, the Environmental Protection Agency will propose a regulation Monday that will cut carbon-dioxide emissions from existing coal plants by up to 30 percent, compared with 2005 levels, by 2030. It is",0_0
"Economist Robert Higgs has ripped apart the notion that war is good for an economy. And, in particular, he has focused on World War 2. On release of Higgs book, Depression, War, and Cold War: Challenging the Myths of Conflict and Prosperity , the publisher wrote :",0_0
"We know this thanks to some excellent reporting this week by Dina Cappiello of the Associated Press. The wind industry, says Cappiello, reports bird kills only on a voluntary basis, and ""the Obama administration in many cases refuses to make the information public, saying it belongs to the energy companies or that revealing it would expose trade secrets or implicate ongoing enforcement investigations.""",0_0
The States' Duty to Defend Against Federal Excess,0_0
"Under this approach, an OMB Office of Information and Spending Affairs would request each agency to indicate the ""costs"" and ""benefits"" of their various expenditure programs. Smart agencies would soon report glowingly high benefit/cost (B/C) ratios. Imagine further that OMB were to argue that many of the expenditure programs were in areas where markets were lacking (defense and national parks) or weak (welfare and highway development) and that, therefore, in those areas, the agencies would be allowed to assert a whole array of non-use values (existence values, contingent valuation) to ensure a ""balanced"" B/C analysis. Would OMB be able to credibly argue against any spending decision?",0_0
"Strike two : Summer ice (June, July) is 80-90% of what it was 30 years ago, not half.",1_1
"As the atmospheric CO 2 concentration continues to rise, it is likely that this plant species, and possibly others, will exhibit larger-than-predicted CO 2 -induced increases in photosynthetic rates. Indeed, the author's final sentence states that ""it is premature to conclude that the relative stimulation of photosynthesis by rising atmospheric will necessarily be less in cool climates or at cool times of the year,"" as many plant scientists, including we, have long believed. If this conclusion holds up under further scrutiny, the productivity of the totality of earth's vegetation may be even more stimulated by atmospheric CO 2 enrichment than has been anticipated by many of its most ardent advocates, due to possibly larger-than-expected CO 2 -induced increases in photosynthesis at low air temperatures.",3_3
"That a warmer, drier climate will spawn more frequent forest fires and fires of longer duration is almost a tautology. Nonetheless, some studies find no changein global fire activity over the past century and more. Ocean cycles and forestry practices also influence the frequency and extent of wildfires. Whether recent U.S. wildfires areprimarily due to global climate changeor other factors is neither obviousnor easily determined .",1_7
"The adaptation measures being taken in Mitradanga are fascinating; not only are they effective, but they actually make sense in context of the local culture. The rest of the world can learn something from Bangladesh.",0_0
"Good to see no caveats about the availability of the data and also interesting to note that he says that the scientists have been cleared of ""many"" of the allegations. Perhaps I'm reading too much into that, given his later responses though.",0_0
"In any case, more reliable satellite data reveal that 2015 was only the third warmest year since recordings first began in 1979. Other than major 2015 and 1998 El Nino ocean spikes, there has been no statistically significant warming in nearly two decades. Yet although weather balloon (radiosonde) measurements closely agree with satellites, no temperature monitoring systems were designed to measure such small changes over decades.",1_4
"Chinese weather stations were seriously flawed, or could not be located.",5_1
"For most economic sectors, the impacts of drivers such as changes in population, age structure, income, technology, relative prices, lifestyle, regulation, and governance are projected to be large relative to the impacts of climate change",0_0
Table 1: Statistics of the 12-mra from the difference between several GSTA data sets and the UAHs GSTA data set.,0_0
"The reason for this incredible jump was the Canadian government's addition of the Alberta ""tar sands"" to its previous oil reserve estimate. From the tar sands, a form of heavy oil can be removed by relatively unconventional processes. These processes, often compared to a gigantic crock pot, separate out the bitumen (the heavy oil) and turn it into lighter, usable petroleum. Since these technologies are steadily improving, all the available oil from the sands (more than 1 trillion barrels) might eventually be removable.",0_0
SHOCK: Meet President Gore; Supreme Court overturns Bush vs. Gore,0_0
"Well, Kyle Swanson of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee says, temperatures should have gone up. But nobody told the temperatures. Isaac Held of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Princeton said, warming might possibly slow down or even stagnate for a few years before rapid warming commences again. Not to worry, well have explosive warming Held says.",1_4
"Read here . Almost all scientists agree that an increase in atmospheric CO2 will only raise global temperatures from 1.0 to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The IPCC is well aware of this established science, so they had scientists add a hypothetical positive feedback to the climate models, which would then produce predictions of much higher temperatures.",3_1
"Over the past 30 years, the sea surface temperatures of the Rest-of-the-World warmed during the major El Nio events but did not warm before them, between them or after them. Therefore, the long-term warming of the Rest-of-the-World sea surface temperatures occurred during and was caused by the strong ENSO events. Further, because ENSO is a natural process, and because the long-term warming of the Rest-of-the-World sea surface temperatures was caused by ENSO, then the long-term warming of the Rest-of-the-World sea surface temperatures is natural, too. In no way is that a stretch of the imagination.",2_1
"It??s a good job that smart meters will save UK households 28 a year, because wind farms will cost them 500 a year.",4_4
"Brger, G., 2007. Comment on The Spatial Extent of 20th-Century Warmth in the Context of the Past 1200 Years. Science , 316 , 1844a.",0_0
"2. Had an email from David Jones of BMRC, Melbourne. He said they are ignoring anybody who has dealings with CA, as there are threads on it about Australian sites",0_0
"Solid empirical evidence continues to accumulate, demonstrating that (1) the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) was an interval of elevated global temperatures that were equally as warm as, and in many cases even warmer than, those of the Current Warm Period, and that (2) the MWP's elevated warmth was likely solar-induced, which suggests that the Current Warm Period may well be deriving its warmth from the same source, as it is likely nothing more than the most recent manifestation of the warm node of this ever-recurring climate cycle.",2_1
Union curbs rescue a Wisconsin school district:,0_0
"Codevilla and Limbaugh believe that such a party can indeed achieve political power and turn things around. Many others join them in that belief. If the contemporary American aristocracy can be forced out without such a terrible confrontation, it will be impressive proof of the Founders' wisdom and the success of the American experiment. If not, the nation may well be headed for a struggle that will make the tumult of the 1960s look like a mild tiff in comparison.",0_0
Hot Takes: The Top Climate Change Reporting of the Past Year,0_0
South Carolina Supreme Court Hearing Arguments in 2006 Poker Conviction (not same url from yesterday):,0_0
"That Real Climate (RC) should feel special solicitude for the Hockey Stick is no accident, comrade. Two of the five principals at RC -- Michael Mann and Raymond Bradley -- were among the three researchers (Mann, Bradley, and Malcolm Hughes) who authored the Hockey Stick.",5_2
"The journal International Socialism has a column that contains every warmist talking point in one easy to remember place. Oh, and capitalism is bad, very bad.",0_0
Pew Center Says U. S. Emissions Will Rise Under All Scenarios,0_0
"Lewis Page, Earth may be headed into a mini ice age within a decade, theregister.co.uk, June 14, 2011",1_2
"What is indisputable is that storms do much more damage than in the past. This has nothing to do with worse weather but is due to the fact that population has surged, with ever more people living in low-lying and storm-prone areas, so the number of people and the amount of infrastructure being affected is far higher than in the past.",1_7
You can not simultaneously say that you want to promote a debate while equating the other side to terrorists and mass murderers. Ross McKitrick,0_0
"""An Inconvenient Truth purports to be a non-partisan, non-ideological exposition of climate science and moral common sense. In reality, it is a colorfully illustrated lawyer's brief for global warming alarmism and energy rationing,"" said CEI Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis. ""It is an accusation hurled at modern industrial civilization.""",5_2
"Like the pagans of old thought they could appease the angry gods or win their favor through sacrificing the things most dear to them ? their livestock, and if that didn?t work, human beings, even their own children ? so it appears that Global Warmingism demands that we sacrifice. And it?s not really sacrifice because it?s moral or sensible or good for us, but sacrifice to appease the offended ecosphere.",5_2
"We are not told, in short, that nearly all of the imagined sea-level rise since satellite altimetry began in 1993 arises not from measurements of real sea-level rise but from a combination of intercalibration biases and arbitrary and excessive glacial isostatic adjustments.",1_6
"Allow all energy projects to form master limited partnerships. Master limited partnerships (MLPs) are taxed as limited partnerships, but are publicly traded on the stock market. In the energy sector, the ability to form MLPs is available for mineral extraction, natural gas, oil, pipelines, geothermal, and the transportation and storage of ethanol, biodiesel, and other alternative fuels. Other renewable energy generation and commercial nuclear activities do not qualify. The next Administration should end the practice of using the tax code to pick winners and losers.",0_0
"In a revealing paper published in the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate , Lauer and Hamilton (2013) report that numerous previous studies from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 3 (CMIP3) showed quite large biases in the simulated cloud climatology affecting all GCMs (Global Climate Models), as well as ""a remarkable degree of variation among the models that represented the state of the art circa 2005."" So what's the case today? The two researchers provide an update by describing the progress that has been made in recent years by comparing mean cloud properties, interannual variability, and the climatological seasonal cycle from the CMIP5 models with results from comparable CMIP3 experiments, as well as with actual satellite observations.",0_0
> >> about future local climate change is insufficient for the purpose of,0_0
"We already know that the government had not sought advice on how much difference the Act would make on temperatures, either globally or nationally. But presumably they would not have passed this legislation unless the effects of climate change in the UK were already becoming noticeable and damaging. So lets take a look at how the effect that climate change has had on the UK in recent years.",0_0
"And of course, government climate policies are all based on such unvalidated climate modelswhich have already been proven wrong. Yet the latest UN-IPCC report of Sept 2013 claims to be 95% certain about DAGW! Aware of the actual temperature data, how can they claim this and keep a straight face?",5_1
"Even after these tweaks, the backcasts were still coming out too high. So, to make the forecasts work, they asked themselves, what would global temperatures have to have done without CO2 to make our models work? The answer is that if the world naturally were to have cooled in the latter half of the 20th century, then that cooling could offset over-prediction of temperatures in the models and produce the historic result. So that is what they did. Instead of starting with natural forcings we understand, and then trying to explain the rest (one, but only one, bit of which would be CO2), modelers start with the assumption that CO2 is driving temperatures at high sensitivities, and natural forcings are whatever they need to be to make the backcasts match history.",5_1
"Denning said he prefers to talk about climate change through three words, which he labeled the ""3 S's of Climate Change"":",0_0
Sometime you even stop to get directions and pick up a soda or coffee. Occasionally you try the local dive for lunch and find the people not really all that bizarre after all. Soon you are wondering if maybe you ought to stay a while and see what these folks do every day? Then you notice the two big guys on the other side if the street as one points at your car Time to go,0_0
"I suppose the problem with this is that I am thinking of routers like telephones. Most folks know that if we dial more than 10 digits, the extras are just ignored. My guess is that routers are more finicky and precise than this, and they can't just ignore the fact the IP address they are getting are too long. But I still would imagine there could be a simple hardware hack to cheaply strip off the last part of a longer IP address so that older IPv4 infrastructure could still work in an IPv6 world. Or is this hopelessly misinformed and naive?",0_0
The EPAs new anticarbon rule is full of redistribution to offset its harm to the poor.,0_0
"Columnists and bloggers are spewing lists of what will happen in 2015, what should happen in 2015 and what Congress' priorities should be for 2015. It's far easier to say what won't happen in 2015.",0_0
"""Stemming from the fallout of a peace deal"". Well, that's putting a shine on things. Let's take a closer look at Sudan, courtesy of the BBC; Sudanese demand death for editor :",0_0
"In light of their several findings and the analogous results of several other scientific teams, Crawfurd et al . conclude in the final sentence of their paper that ""if all diatoms respond in a similar fashion to T. pseudonana , acidification of this magnitude in the future ocean may have little effect on diatom productivity.""",3_2
"1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.",0_0
And why so? The first explanation that comes to mind and that the migration of the X century AD Slavoni dallattuale Serbian-Croatian border must have been really important,0_0
"""Akin to the submarines that DCNS has been making for the French navy for 40 years, Flexblue is a cylindrical unit 100 metres in length and 12 to 15 metres in diameter. Inside would be a small nuclear power reactor and well as steam generators, turbines and a generator to produce 50 to 250 MWe.""",0_0
Michael Crichton to Appear on C-Span 2 on February 12th & 13th,0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on what every citizen needs to know about global warming:,0_0
"In the case of freshwater ecosystems, Joint et al . report that ""Maberly (1996) showed that diel variations in a lake can be as much as 2-3 pH units,"" and that ""Talling (2006) showed that in some English lakes, pH could change by >2.5 pH units over a depth of only 14 m,"" while noting that ""phytoplankton, bacteria, archaea and metazoans are all present in lakes, and appear to be able to accommodate large daily and seasonal changes in pH.""",3_2
CEI Experts Available to Comment: Adjunct Analyst Steven Milloy on the disputed link between dietary fat and cancer:,0_0
With the 19.5 inch two-day snowfall total measured at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall airport?? the seasonal snowfall total in Baltimore stands at 79.9 inches. This would break the previous all-time seasonal snowfall record for,1_3
"The Obama administration?s record of bad loans to companies providing renewable power?wind and solar?is testimony to the waste of billions of taxpayer dollars. In September, the Department of Energy made $66 million in green-energy subsidies to 33 companies, half of it to companies by a single venture capital firm with close ties to the White House.",0_0
"Reviews are pouring in at amazon.com : 38 out of 46 reviewers give it 5 stars. Peter Gleick gives it 1 star, stating This book is a stunning compilation of lies, misrepresentations, and falsehoods about the fundamental science of climate change. It is difficult to believe that Gleick has read the book from the statements in his reviews; the book is not about the science of climate change. Rather, it is about the IPCC as an institution: the use of graduate students, WWF and Greenpeace sympathizers as IPCC authors; the use of gray environmentalist literature in IPCC (especially WG2); lack of conflict of interest oversight; the review process and the process producing the executive summaries; etc.",5_2
"EPA's ""Clean Power Plan"" is Costly, Illegitimate, and Unlawful, CEI Experts Argue in Public Comment",4_1
"The White House proposes freezing ""subprime"" mortgage rates for five years.",0_0
"Meanwhile, David S. Chapman, Marshall G. Bartlett, and Robert N. Harris of the University of Utah, published in the April 7 edition of Geophysical Research Letters an examination of how Mann's imputation of temperatures from boreholes contradicts their work. Mann argues that borehole records of ground surface temperature (GST) do not accurately reflect surface air temperature (SAT) because of the effects of snowfall. Chapman et al., however, have found that ""(1) GST tracks SAT extremely well at time scales that are appropriate for climate change considerations . (2) Snow cover can either warm or cool the ground relative to a """"no snow'' case and need not lead to any bias. (3) Finally, our observations have not revealed any physical process that would explain the supposed preconditioning of GST by a prior season SAT.""",0_0
"It is common sense that climate change would not happen in a neat, linear away but instead in fits and starts.",0_0
"I regularly rotate between machines, browsers, etc. party to assure that no given platform has much of interest on it if it gets hacked. Partly just as I like to play on different platforms. Partly because some platforms have particular bits of software that I need. In general, Ive preferred Linux or Macintosh. The first for what it lets me do, the second for being about as secure and easy to use and you can get. For about the last year, Ive been on an HP Laptop with Windoz its pretty good but has issues. I wont go into all of them here ( the only HP one is that the keyboard had letters wear off inside 6 months. Now Ive got maybe 1/3 of the keys blank. Good thing I touch type)",0_0
SPPI note: see paper by Joanne Nova: http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/climate money.html?Itemid=0,0_0
"The Antarctic minimum extents, which are reached in the midst of the Antarctic summer, in February, have also slightly increased to 1.33 million square miles in 2012, or around 251,000 square miles more than the average minimum extent since 1979.",1_1
"Never mind the abuses of fact and reason. Many find Murrays words disgusting because his short-cut through the complexities of the world is so cheap. It makes instrumental use of other peoples suffering, to service a political agenda, and turns it into a marketing opportunity. It hides behind authorities like the defence establishment and Kofi Annan, but flies in the face of empirical evidence and even the scientific consensus, to make claim that other peoples lives would be better there would be no war if only wed buy solar panels from Business Greens clients.",0_0
"Ice extent was also higher than average in Baffin Bay, between Greenland and Canada, and the Sea of Okhotsk, north of Russia.",1_1
"Note to Commenters: Many, many of you have disagreed with me vociferously on immigration. Please, I would love to see reasoned comments defending Brewer, particularly with data. In particular, please use the laws of supply and demand to explain how the majority of 8-12 million people are able to earn a living in the illegal drug trade in the southwest. To help you out, there are about 6.6 million people in Arizona. Based on national rates of 8% of over age 12 being users, about 500,000 of those are illegal drug users. One estimate is that there are 500,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona.",0_0
"As for more detail on magic numbers for lipids and cholesterol and the debate about statins, read this essay by Dr. Miller, who is published by Dr. Orient and the Journal of the American Association of PHysicians and Surgeons, good info for you old duffers who worry about these things. I am a young at heart duffer/emergency physician and I dont worry so much:",0_0
YouTube - Global Cooling: Coming Ice Age This video gives background about the 70s ice age scare with an update about some the principal figures.,5_1
"As already mentioned, there has been a steady increase in temperatures, albeit oscillating around the trend line. Although it could be argued that we are currently about half a degree above the trend, it is also noticeable that the present temperatures are no higher than they were for several years during the 1730s, when the rate of increase exceeded anything seen in recent years.",2_1
"Sediment cores were extracted from thirteen small lakes distributed across a 20,000-km 2 region in Vermont and eastern New York, after which several techniques were used to identify and date terrigenous in-wash layers that depict the frequency of storm-related floods. What was learned",0_0
"Hussein et al . conclude that ""coastal marsh ecosystems tend to sequester C continuously with increasing storage capacity as marsh age progresses,"" and that ""C sequestration in coastal marsh ecosystems under positive accretionary balance acts as a negative feedback mechanism to global warming,"" much as we have suggested in the past . References",3_1
"Another says ""Tropical treetops were the womb and nursery of humankind It comes as no surprise to me that we have a deep aesthetic love of forests; in our desire to preserve them, we are also preserving something of ourselves."" (Lessons, Donald Perry, p.27)",0_0
"Next, there is the recently-delayed but still-on-track EPA effort to further tighten air quality standards for ozone. As perhaps the most expensive EPA rule ever, it threatens to kill 7+ million jobs by 2020 and cost $1 trillion per year in compliance between 2020 and 2030.",4_1
Kyoto and Oslo: The failed legacy of Clinton-Gore,0_0
Global warming and Mann have been worth millions of grant dollars and lots of publicity for Penn State. But one would think the institution's integrity is worth more.,0_0
"(Although operational at the time, the original records for 1934 are not available for Bremo Bluff and Piedmont, so figures for both years have instead been sourced from GISS).",0_0
"Is this how Id like to do the analysis? Not at all. Id rather that everything were measured but this is the best we have, and the various climate scientists involved have used all of the available observational data from a variety of satellites to determine the various values, and have ground truthed the surface data in a variety of ways. So until we have better data, the CERES datasets are the closest we have to actual measurements and as near as I can tell they show no sign of the claimed 2 W/m2 increase in downwelling radiation that we are assured is going on over the period of record.",0_0
"talking goes on beforehand, the big decisions are made at the eleventh hour by",0_0
"And here's another lovely reason for hating CFLs, if you typically clean up the mess when a bulb breaks rather than call in your servants:",0_0
"Guys, fyi...were looking to lend the Premier a bit of support in his commitment to taking action on property rights this year. If you have been affected by Native Vegetation Clearing Bans, Groundwater Protection Notices, Heritage Listing, Planning Regulations, Licencing Impositions, or other assaults on what you thought was your private property, come along and lend your support to this important PEACEFUL demonstration.",0_0
"During his long and infamous career, Holdren has warned that the end is nigh on account of ???ecocide,?? global warming due to direct heating from power plant, global cooling due to particulate aerosol emissions, nuclear winter, population growth, and now, global warming due to greenhouse gases. Needless to say, Holdren has been proven wrong time and time again.",5_2
"The leftmost image reveals the current condition of the modern ""accelerating"" global warming that both the IPCC and MSM claim is happening. This objective empirical evidence (from NASA / GISS - James Hansen's - climate research unit clearly indicates that over the last 15 years, through April 2012, that global warming is basically non-existent and that human CO2 has had little impact.",1_4
"Online searches of media coverage of the ice-bound warming expedition reveal efforts by the warming compliant media to bury the lead, with little or no mention of the nature of the expedition. The irony of global warming researchers stuck in ice is so dramatic, however, that it seems unlikely that they will be able to contain the damage.",0_0
"When you think about energy reserves, think about the hundreds of thousands of jobs they represent. Then think about the huge revenue in leases and taxes they represent to the government that needs to reduce its debt. Ultimately, though, try to imagine a nation that does not utilize petroleum in thousands of ways or fails to tap its enormous coal and natural gas reserves to generate the electricity upon which that everything depends.",4_5
"Mark Steyn reacts in a post Rigor mortis, excerpts:",0_0
"Updated data from NASA satellite instruments reveal the Earths polar ice caps have not receded at all since the satellite instruments began measuring the ice caps in 1979. Since the end of 2012, moreover, total polar ice extent has largely remained above the post-1979 average. The updated data contradict one of the most frequently asserted global warming claims that global warming is causing the polar ice caps to recede.",1_1
"Obama has made the answer to the last of these questions clear by attending the Guadalajara summit, and plans to announce he will attend the next North American leaders meeting as well, which Canada will host in 2010. NAFTA and North American relations figured prominently in Obama's foreign policy statements during the presidential campaign, and this former ""community organizer"" has shown that he recognizes the importance of neighbourhood issues. Between his inauguration and the meeting in Guadalajara, Obama will have met with Prime Minister Stephen Harper eight times and with Mexican President Felipe Calderon six times, including presidential visits to each country and at international summits both attended.",0_0
"On adjustments: For example, simply shifting from liquid-in-glass thermometers to electronic maximum-minimum temperature systems led to an average drop in maximum temperatures of about 0.4C and to an average rise in minimum temperatures of 0.3C. In addition, observers switched their time of observation afternoon to morning. Both of these changes would tend to artificially cool the U.S. temperature record.",5_1
"The commander of the world's most powerful military reveals that he is skeptical that military power is a solution to what ails the world. Obama, in Goldberg's words, ""believes that Churchillian rhetoric and, more to the point, Churchillian habits of thought, helped bring his predecessor, George W. Bush, to ruinous war in Iraq."" Obama clearly fancies himself as an anti-Winston Churchill or, alternatively, a more successful Neville Chamberlain, a calm, dispassionate peacemaker. And seven years into his presidency, Obama clearly also still defines himself as the anti-George W. Bush. One thread that emerges in this portrait of the president is that seven years in, when confronted with a challenge, he still silently asks himself, ""What would Bush do?"" and then does the opposite.",0_0
"""We are using 50% more resources than the Earth can sustainably produce, and unless we change course, that number will grow fastby 2030, even two planets will not be enough,"" says Jim Leape, director general of the World Wide Fund for Nature International (formerly the World Wildlife Fund).",0_0
See more about CEI's climate subpoena fight here.,0_0
"At every single meeting I attended in two years, the only topic was funding, she said.",0_0
"Mark Lynas first drew significant attention to himself for his views on climate change in 2001, when he threw a custard-pie into the face of Bjorn Lomborg, during a book launch.",0_0
"The preliminary review included the Climategate e-mails themselves, an interview with Mann, and documents submitted by Mann. While one committee member did informally endeavor to get external views on Mann, they only came from Texas A&M;'s Gerald North and Stanford University's Donald Kennedy.",0_0
Iain Murray and James C. Bennett's op-ed in The Wall Street Journal Europe,0_0
"It's not a strong field. Vice President Joe Biden is 72 and has low poll ratings. Elizabeth Warren inspires the Democratic Left, but says she's not running perhaps for fear of exposure of her dubious claim, when seeking prestigious law school jobs, of Cherokee ancestry.",0_0
"K. M. Murphy, ?Some Simple Economics of Climate Change,? Paper at the Mont-Pelerin Society General Meeting, Tokyo, September 2008.",0_0
"In Canada, they have a much shorter growing season than in California, and depend on more cold tolerant crops, so use lower reference points than the 50F for nighttime and have an interesting take on the night vs day temps:",0_0
"Respected unpaid climate analyst, Malcolm Roberts, of Brisbane, Australia compiled the 'CSIROh! Report' on the invitation of ABC Radios Steve Austin. Across 29 pages Roberts details a litany of evidence proving that the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia's national science agency, corruptly and unlawfully misrepresented science, climate and Nature.",5_2
"Alarm grew over the unrelenting Midwest drought on Tuesday, as one of the top corporate leaders in agriculture warned that the government must act quickly to reduce the amount of corn going to ethanol to prevent a sharp spike in food prices.",0_0
CEI Experts Available to Comment: General Counsel Sam Kazman on the results of the poll:,0_0
"Against a backdrop of harsh winter weather across much of North America and Europe, the concept of rising global temperatures might seem incongruous.",0_0
"Isnt it relevant to the debate about global warmingwhat to do about global warmingthat the alarmist side engages in this systematic campaign consisting of intimidation and threats, wheels falling off cars, abuses being inflicted on schoolchildren, demands of censorship, revising history, and telling flat-out lies?",5_2
Parts of the private correspondence can definitely be interpreted as researchers did not want to let go until colleagues stller skeptical about global warming or do not believe it is caused by mnniskan. The researchers lr hardly have ingtt in someone vrldsomfattande conspiracy from the dlja obekvma climate facts. Dremot have their jargon scientists with a more skeptical Adjustment damaged trovrdigheten for climate research. An investigation of a possible mrklggning p East Anglia were on their location.,0_0
"> >> scenario paper for Africa, requested by the IPCC, and I will send you a",0_0
"""We don't use this as a refutation of greenhouse warming,"" Edward Cook told CBS News. ""But it does show that there are processes within the Earth's natural climate system that produce large changes that might be viewed as comparable to what we have seen in the 20th century. Greenhouse gases were not a factor back in the Medieval Warm Period.""",2_1
"Taking climate modeling back to basics to address the interplay between atmospheric water and the atmospheric circulation, and the complex couplings between the atmosphere and ocean, require going back to basics and looking at a hierarchy of models and a range of model structural forms. Better understanding and simulation of the climate requires that improve our understanding and treatment of these processes in climate models. It is pointless to worry about aerosols, carbon cycle etc in the context of climate models until these more fundamental issues are addressed.",5_1
"Doh! NASA's James Hansen in 2008: Warm UK winters ""are a clear sign that the climate is changing'",5_2
Carbon-intensive sectors such as coal would be the biggest losers under the new tax. Lawmakers from coal-producing regions are influential and would demand a share of the revenues.,0_0
"In their final chapter, ""A Declaration of Energy Independence: America's $50 Trillion Opportunity,"" Moore and White turn their attention to the United States' good energy fortune. According to the authors, America has more recoverable oil and gas than Russia, twice as much as China, and three times as much as Saudi Arabia.",0_0
"Climate change analysts use research and analysis to make recommendations for climate-related legislation, fundraising, and awareness campaigns.",0_0
The State Department encourages you to join the debate as follows:,0_0
"The sound and the fury that has characterized the public discourse on global warming often obscures a basic economic fact: we are in the situation we are in because it requires fewer resources to generate electricity with coal or propel automobiles with petroleum than it does to accomplish those same goals with solar cells and biofuels. The ?green economy? our politicians have placed on a pedestal is not an improvement over our existing one ? there is no gain to be had in producing with the effort of three men what we previously accomplished with two. We should tolerate this inefficiency only insofar as it helps us avoid some other, greater harm.",0_0
"A New Marshall Plan for Africa? AEI's R. Glenn Hubbard and Columbia lecturer William Duggan""s new book The Aid Trap (Columbia Business School Publishing, September 2009) argues for a Marshall Plan for Africa. Recognizing that current aid efforts are not producing intended results, Hubbard and Duggan explain how restructuring aid money so it goes through businesses, as the Marshall Plan to Europe after World War II did, might lead to better outcomes.",0_0
This is the exact opposite of the 100% fraudulent NCDC climate extremes index (CEI) which reports that the region of the country with unusually hot days has increased to record levels.,5_2
"To counteract all this reverence and submission, but there a widespread delight in seeing yesterday's heroes as villains or failed today, and periodically choose a character like idol of the moment, to be preserved in order to vent their contempt more ' the '(and mourn his tragic demise in most cases) ..",0_0
"Hurricane Sandy was asuper storm not because it was an intense hurricane (Sandywas a category 1before making landfall), but because it was massive in area and merged with a winter frontal storm. The combined storm system contained more integrated kinetic energy (IKE) than Hurricane Katrina . Scientistssimply do not know howglobal climate change affectsthe formation of such hybrid storms .",0_0
NASA's Hansen admits sulfates are a 'wild card',0_0
This is a tough one. The above plot seems to suggest that the observations favor a low climate sensitivity?? maybe even less than any of the models. But the results are less than compelling.,3_1
"One of them said, ?I am a Jew. How could you accuse me of being a member of the Hitler Youth?? I said, ?If you behave like the Hitler Youth than I will call it as I see it. And if you ever break up someone else?s meeting again and trample on other people?s freedom of speech, I will say it again.?",0_0
"Alas, not so for some of the major environmental groups. This is because due to its hosting a folk ""life"" festival, the Smithsonian presents all aspects of rural living, including (gasp!) cars and (horrors!) machinery used for resource extraction. The technology that has improved rural life greatly doesn't fit today's enviros' definition of an idyllic rural culture. Last year, green groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council actually protested the Folklife Festival because of one exhibit that focused on oil exploration in the tar sands of Alberta, Canada.",0_0
"One can begin to arrive at the political problem of liberal progressivism when one notes that each of those reversals saw the white working class abandon Democrats in record numbers. Nixon's Silent Majority, Reagan Democrats, angry white malesthese catchphrases from those past elections are merely euphemisms for the white working class. In each election, it was their defection that cost the Democrats their majorities and gave victory to the GOP, and polls and casual observation suggest that the white working class is in revolt against President Obama. You can read my NRO article ""GOP Heaven, West Virginia?"" for the full argument, but suffice it to say that President Obama's approval rating among white working-class voters is in the neighborhood of 30 percent. By comparison, this is only a few points higher than Nixon's approval rating on the eve of his resignation.",0_0
The West Virginia Board of Education voted yesterday to put an end to months of controversy and open up teaching standards to permit students to consider both sides in the climate debate.,0_0
"A committee of five middle school parents, three teachers and one administrator met to determine whether the book and video served a proper purpose within the curriculum.",0_0
"After the modification of the photo was exposed last week, city officials defended the practice as common in advertising.",0_0
"For the past decade the world has not warmed. Global warming has stopped. Its not a viewpoint or a sceptics inaccuracy. Its an observational fact. So we are led to the conclusion that either the hypothesis of carbon dioxide induced global warming holds but its effects are being modified in what seems to be an improbable though not impossible way, or, and this really is heresy according to some, the working hypothesis does not stand the test of data.",1_4
"When only a few firms engage in rent-seeking, the rent seeker's concentrated benefits will far outweigh his portion of the diffuse costs imposed on the economy as a whole. But each rent seeker's success encourages others to get in the game. In time, the costs of government adversely affect millions of bottom lines. Worse, interventionist policies (for example, subsidized lending via Freddie Mac and Fannie May) can create systemic risk and crash entire economies.",0_0
"The real-world data-based results of Holgate and Boretti, as well as those of other researchers (Morner, 2004; Jevrejeva et al., 2006; Wppelmann et al., 2009; Houston and Dean, 2011), all suggest that rising atmospheric CO2 emissions are exerting no discernible influence on the rate of sea level rise. Clearly, SCC damages that are based on model projections of a CO2-induced acceleration of SLR must be considered inflated and unlikely to occur.",1_6
"A central conceit in the climate change debate is not just that experts can forecast the planet's weather a century from now. It is the implicit, and explicit, assumption that anyone might forecast technology in the year 2110. The world's future energy choices and appetites are the central features of all climate mitigation schemes. But it is not today's technology that is relevant here, but the technology of the 22nd century that will determine how we will then obtain energy and what kind, how it is used, how much is used and for what.",0_0
"On March 13, 2013 someone with the pseudonym Mr. FOIA released the remaining 220,000 emails leaked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) to a select few. Since then we have heard nothing. Mr. FOIA suggested there was more useful information with examples, such as origin of the term deniers applied to those who questioned Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) science. Why hasnt more information appeared? Has threat of legal action or other intimidation silenced further release and analysis of these emails?",5_2
"Germany, which has prepared an energy plan for the next 100 years, is investing not only sulleolico and biogas, on clean coal, the energy source cheaper. Moreover, Germany, France and Britain, in addition to coal can enjoy dellenergia nuclear, after coal, the least expensive.",0_0
"Ive shortened the span of the weekly data. As noted in the mid-April 2013 update , Ive started using January 2001 so that the variations can be seen AND so that you can see how flat global sea surface temperature anomalies have been since then.",1_4
"My sometime unorthodox views, and insistence on remaining in New York City when going would have been wiser, have made it difficult to discover a position in a research university. Despite some earlier opportunities, I stayed put until the two young gentlemen who Im responsible for could be booted onto the streets without me incurring legal penalties.",0_0
"In most applications of (1), T is not a radiative temperature, but rather the temperature at a single level of the atmosphere, usually close to the ground. The CCSP report presents three separate analyses of the global surface temperature trend that use land- and ocean-based observations to evaluate T. As they reported,",0_0
A junk science-fueld attack on insecticides continues.,0_0
"One section, noting that ""conflict-related activities emit significant greenhouse gas emissions,"" calls on all parties to ""cease destructive activities"" like warfare and then channel the money that would have been spent on war and other defense projects toward ""a common enemy: climate change.""",0_0
"However, the project collapsed last year after the company said it would need at least 1.5bn to be viable, something the government refused to sanction. Shell then teamed up with SSE and hopes to use its Goldeneye gas field in the North Sea to store the liquified CO2.",0_0
Scenario 1: The earths average temperature during each year of the period 2014-2030 remains the same as is average temperature observed during the first 13 years of this century (2001-2013). This scenario represents a continuation of the ongoing pause in the rise of global temperatures.,1_4
"""We want to have the whole thing collapse and be found by future generations in the dustbin of history,"" said Ebell, whose group is backed in part by the fossil fuel industry.",0_0
The statement about the absence of trends in impacts attributable to natural or anthropogenic climate change holds for tropical and extratropical storms and tornados,1_7
Lawsuit delays video gaming law's implementation:,0_0
The records show that changes in global temperature do not always follow changes in atmospheric CO2 levels.,2_3
"One might argue that these quotes are highly selectivebut they are only a tiny sampling (not a single one from Michele Bachmann, only one from Gohmert!). Importantly, almost none were countered by party officials or legislative leaders, nor were the individuals quoted reprimanded in any way. What used to be widely seen as loony is now broadly accepted or tolerated.",0_0
"In contrast, here??s a graphic from Richard Muller??s 2011 lecture. Unlike Allen, Muller understood Hide the Decline, which is shown here in one of its manifestations. (This is the WMO graphic; the more important Hide the Decline was in the IPCC Third and Fourth Assessment reports.) Hide the Decline is not 0.02 deg C in the 1870s; it was Briffa, Mann and Jones deleting the inconvenient portion of the Briffa reconstruction after 1960. And it wasn??t a microscopic difference. This difference is large enough that it might well have ???diluted the message?? that Houghton and others wanted to convey.",5_2
"""The reasons for the increase are a two per cent rise in total demand for energy compared to the previous year and a switching from gas to coal, which produces between two and three times more carbon dioxide."" This last statement is incorrect: coal produces less than twice as much CO2 per Btu than natural gas.",0_0
"But what about the bribed doctors? Some may think twice about accepting honoraria again, but most will just go on to the next opportunity. And for all those physicians who would even attend such educational events, let alone be influenced by them: Once a brown-nosing nerd, always a brown-nosing nerd.",0_0
"China gives back in the climate game. No US sndebud come with demands jmfrs he with a pig in a saga that krmar himself in front of the mirror. The United States requires, addressed to China, to tillvxtlnder should not avoid mandatory utslppsgrnser.",0_0
"One year later, acoustical study at a standstill",0_0
"New technology for cleaner, cheaper energy will shape the future more than politics.",0_0
The BOM: Homogenizing the heck out of Australian temperature records,0_0
"I have no problem with private people spending money however they want, but after throwing around sums of this magnitude, it seems amazing they feel the need to stop Heartland from spending a couple of million dollars in opposition. It's like a rich guy telling you that your Chevy Nova is in the way of his Ferrari and could you please get it off the road.",0_0
"Ethanol produces a large water footprint : According to Environmental Science & Technology magazine, the amount of ethanol needed to fuel a vehicle for one mile is 50 gallons, a high number when you tally what??s used for an entire crop. Of course, the water use comes almost entirely during the agricultural cycle. With the expansion of irrigated agriculture in dry Western areas, many are concerned about the potential impact that would come with a major demand for ethanol.",4_4
"workplace: Generally, junior professors write long and unsolicited emails",0_0
"Climate experts often argue that we need to purchase the insurance policy of action on greenhouse gases. They say that energy taxes are like buying fire and theft insurance for your house. But this analogy, like much of their alarmism, is false. If anything, climate science acts as a fire alarm (to alert us to any potential climatic dangers), but it's the capitalist system that is the real insurance policy. The richer we are the better we can adapt to dangers (man-made and natural). Perhaps climate policies (e.g. energy taxes) tell us how much a fire extinguisher would cost, and the answer is an awful lotespecially one acknowledged to be near-useless. Until the climate science fire alarm shouts much louder, buying that fire extinguisher at the expense of more flexible capitalistic insurance is folly.",5_2
"on Thursday, February 11th, 2010 at 3:36 pm and is filed under News.",0_0
"Following this methodology, since none of the known forcing functions are able to accurately reproduce the observed temperature rise (0.6-0.7C/100 years), the modelers tune? parameters associated with the greenhouse effect (with some justification) and claim that their models can reproduce reasonably well the observed temperature rise of about 0.6-0.7C during the last 100 years in terms of the greenhouse effect. An important point here is that the answer (0.6-0.7C/100 years) is given at the start. In the past, much of the criticism of climate modeling has focused on this tuning? procedure.",5_1
"Antarctic sea ice extent has been growing for 30 years,and is near a record high .",1_1
"ols.lik< -function(b,y=x,t=Year ) -arima(y-b*t, order=c(0,0,0),method=""ML"")$loglik",0_0
"If, as you work, you feel you know the source of the data, please dont tell the others.",0_0
"Lost in the vexatious interpretations of the nonstandard language, used for arrangements in academic soft money positions, are some simple facts. The Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics employs Dr. Soon, paying him wages through money that it receives from grants, as it does for many others it employs. The grants that have been singled out by activists were like all of the others, not paid to Dr. Soon, but his employer. The Smithsonian is the sole source of his very modest living; there are no pay offs. Suggesting otherwise is false, if not a political lie. This red herring is so effective because even contesting the charges ensures that no one actually looks at the contents of the publication that set the whole thing off. Its diabolical.",0_0
"Whoa, that cant be right! Mr. Gore showed those videos of ice retreating in Antarctica. Well, yes, sort of. Scientists expect that global warming will make the sea currents that circle Antarctica a bit warmer, leading to more precipitation and more snowfall on the continent. Besides, Antarctica is so damn cold that raising temperatures a few degrees is not going to melt anything.",1_1
"LOST has a more immediate prospect of imposing its terms on us including Kyoto-style ""global warming"" provisions that we have elected not to adopt. This is found in Section 207, ""Pollution from land based sources"", requiring that we ""shall adopt laws and regulations"" to prevent, among other things, ""global warming"" or otherwise emissions of compounds that could, e.g., increase ocean acidity. This is followed by other lengthy environmental Articles and an even more detailed Section 6 mandating enforcement of LOST's requirements.",0_0
"As Injuries Rise, Scant Oversight of Helmet Safety:",0_0
"So to criticize there would be a little above tantoma could justify hatred current? The truth '' that the company 'English and' sick of Iconoclastofiliail pleasure of creating icons, myths, then coupled with the pleasure of destroying them. And this is probably a reflex reaction to the fact that in the ancient land of the Britons, there 'never was a popular revolution successful. Control means for centuries to be accepted by the Establishment, and no person of humble origins and 'never climb ancient English throne, or to powerful modern premiership, unless you agree to be done by those who already commanded. The servants dellEssex came to invade the Tower of London in 1381, but soon returned home the young Richard II perjury on all its recent promises and send to death the leaders rebels.",0_0
"So let's thank the Canadian Senate, for killing this ""Carbon"" bill, and for bringing some sanity to our energy policy.",0_0
"The issue of loyalty to colleagues came starkly to the forefront in response the release of the Climategate emails. I was criticized for my early essays by colleagues because talking about even the broad issues of uncertainty, transparency, losing trust etc was viewed as insensitive to the feelings of the individual scientists involved (and not helping the cause). Jerry North stated publicly that he would not read the emails out of respect for the scientistists involved.",5_2
So does the observational evidence in AR5 support its/the CMIP5 models TCR ranges?,0_0
NPR Affiliate Managers Voice Discontent with Firing of Juan Williams:,0_0
"Boeing announced a major restructuring of its defense division on Wednesday that will cut 30 percent of management jobs from 2010 levels, close facilities in California and consolidate several business units to cut costs.",0_0
"Inexpensive energy attracts manufacturing: Energy-intensive companies are expanding in order to take advantage of low-cost natural gas, which boosts GDP and creates employment. Since 2009, the German chemical company BASF has invested more than $5.7 billion into North America, including a formic acid plant under construction in Louisiana. BASF officials say that energy prices in America are lower than in Europe, where fracking is discouraged.",0_0
"But what if those learned people?s papers can?t get published in the respected journals because they contradict views of influential orthodox mainstream gatekeepers who attack their merit ? the exact circumstances exposed in the U.K. East Anglia University Climate Research Unit?s ClimateGate e-mails? In this case, those scientists wouldn?t win grants and contracts (from tax and tuition money we supply) to gain tenure and promotions at leading universities and research laboratories, or gain credentials needed to get hired by the agencies and surrogate organizations that distribute and administer the funding. Others who play the game by the rules of politics and ideology are likely to fare much better.",0_0
"Finally, after more than a year of erratic diplomacy, the Obama administration appears to appreciate the necessity to the peace process of face-to-face negotiations. Issues such as the move of Israeli Jews into contested East Jerusalem may rankle, but the White House seems to realize that at this stage of affairs, giving the parties excuses for avoiding such talks is counterproductive.",0_0
"""Talks imploded Thursday between DFL Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican legislative leaders in the final hours before a midnight deadline, and Minnesota began a historic government shutdown.""",0_0
"koda Vision C concept. The new generation of kodas got pretty close to that. The design contributed by the koda chief designer Jozef Kab who is Slovak may beat other brands by its similarity to BMW etc. The vertical ribs on the front grille belong among the details that make it sexier, I think. The horizontal ribs of VW, Opel etc. help to make these brands mediocre.",0_0
Medieval Warm Period seen in western USA tree ring fire scars,0_0
"Cause gasoline prices to increase by up to $0.50 gallon, or by 10 percent on an average gallon price; and",0_0
"A compilation of at least 30 published studies based upon satellite and ocean observations demonstrate climate sensitivity to a doubling of CO2 levels after all feedbacks is only about 0.5 C, which is ~7 times less than the 3.2C claimed by the IPCC AR5 modelled mean estimate.",3_1
"The irony is that the Supreme Court, which jealously guards against any hint of a religious symbol on public property lest a religion be established, has gone a long way toward making the Earth Cult the official religion of the United States.",5_2
"""The average global temperature has risen, which has pushed up average humidity. This in turn leads to flooding,"" said Pamela Heck, a climate risk expert at the Zurich-based company. Scientists disagree with Heck's assessment of the situation (see below), but that hasn't stopped the company from fanning the global warming flames. It seems that Swiss Re is looking for somebody to sue (Xinhua News Agency, August 13, 2002).",0_0
"My policy-analysis, on the other hand, is not value-neutral: I hold environmental protection in very high regard (I wouldn't have spent 16 years in college studying biology and the environment if I didn't), but I believe that environmental protection must complement, rather then displace, other values such as fiscally responsible governance; personal freedom; economic opportunity and prosperity; free enterprise; limited government; and so on. I also believe that our best actions abroad are to help people develop the institutions of liberal democracy that allow them to rise out of poverty.",0_0
"It is the job of research scientists, like Bill, to challenge the fashionno point to the job otherwise, is there. If the fashion has the answers, then there is no reason to find new things out through research. Thus Bill, in the best scientific tradition, naturally found himself outside of fashion and the kind treatment afforded by it, including any potential largesse of government research funding. It has always been this way. It is human nature. But with CTBS such prejudicial attitudes, normal to science fashion have been enormously heightened.",0_0
"The AGGI is a pseudoscientific metric that cant possibly measure what it purports to measure since no one (including NOAA) understands the effect of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, much less that they are harmful.",5_1
"Tanzanias great central plateau, which sprawls across Dodoma, Singida and parts of Tabora regions, has suffered from drought for years, and maize has not been widely cultivated here because it cannot withstand the arid conditions.",0_0
"Apparently there were different interpretations of the recommendations. See Figure 3, which presents the model outputs of TOA incident shortwave radiation in absolute form. There are three primary groupings. The 2 models from one modeling group start about 338.5 watts/m^2. Theres the middle grouping of 5 models that start around 340.25 watts/m^2. Then there is the grouping of the other 14 models starting about 341.5 watts/m^2.",0_0
"Thus, the contribution of the minimum land surface temperatures to the construction of a global average surface temperature trend is NOT tightly coupled to that thermodynamic state of the Earths climate system. It insertion into the diagnosis of Equation (1) will introduce an error which we have shown in our paper",0_0
"A White House memo that noted the danger of imminent bankruptcy at the end of August 2011 says, OMB, DPC and NEC have been working with press and OLA to be prepared for this news to break.",0_0
"If Europe chooses a solo effort through a one-sided climate protection target of 40% less emissions, it would mean billions in losses for us that our global competitors would not otherwise have gained. The damage done to competitiveness among energy-intensive companies in the EU would be considerable.",0_0
"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.",5_1
"NOAA generated their fake map through an amazing hockey stick of adjustments of 3.5 degrees in Michigan. By massively cooling the past and warming present, they tried to fool Great Lakes ice into believing that the freezing point of water has changed.",5_2
"Meanwhile, a coalition of more than 40 island nations was claiming that, without big money and drastic regulations, it would soon be ?the end? for them. ?We are facing at this moment the end of history for some of us,? claimed Antonio Lima, vice-chair of the Alliance of Small Island States. ?All these countries are struggling to survive. They are going to drown.? The solution, according to another alliance representative: ?dramatically increase funds for the smallest and poorest of us.?",0_0
"PG&E;, Exelon, Duke -- progressive companies or energy-rationing profiteers?",0_0
"Obama's second and even more significant reversal of the presidency's constitutional position is his hesitance toward, and even retreat from, its core role as the protector of the nation's security.",0_0
"He also fails to explain how the global warming from 1860-1880 and again from 1910-1940, which occurred at exactly the same rate as the warming from 1976-2001, did not cause any loss of sea-ice extent. Spencer 2, Nuccitelli 0.",0_0
"There are many possible causes of sea level rise, including tectonic deformation of the sea floor, or production of new water at the hundreds of undersea volcanoes, but it is generally attributed to two mechanisms.",0_0
"No. The radio frequencies emitted by the smart meters are 15,000 times lower than the limit set by the Federal Communications Commission, said Gary Smith, NV Energys director of the smart meter program.",0_0
"Lauer and other commentators seem to think that there's something of a contradiction here. I don't see it, perhaps because it describes my own position so well. I support the Arizona law, but I'm also worried that it could lead to civil-rights abuses.",0_0
"The document also asserts the ""rights of mother earth,"" a concept that environmental activists have been pushing for.",0_0
"S hr I interpret the situation. OH has blogginlgg and p Twitter facing a false accusation against an KVA colleague. He bedmer sjlv that thing he accuses his colleague from is extremely serious. He wants nmligen that the colleague will leave KVA which would be a very unusual and poignant event facilities. What transparencies made stmmer in my opinion vl verens with Swedish law definition of frtal Since the accusation according OH sjlv applies an extremely serious thing's would even be rough frtal to jail in the range of punishment. In any case, seeing this for me out to be frga of walk-through and illicit morality.",0_0
"Even if we agree that greenhouse emissions need to be reduced to save the world from global warming, subsidizing electric vehicles makes no sense.",0_0
ONCE upon a time there was a turkey that lived in a pen. Every morning a farmer brought food and water and talked to the turkey with soothing words.,0_0
4. But what about birds and forests. Doesn't DDT do a lot of damage there?,0_0
"I must admit, it astounds me how some scientists can be so sure of theories which involve events in the distant past that we cannot measure directly. Yet we measure the entire Earth every day with a variety of satellite instruments, and we are still trying to figure out from that abundance of data how today??s climate system works!",5_1
"Which is why the Democrats' sudden decision to push for ""comprehensive"" immigration reform is so disappointing. If this were a sincere effort at reform, it would be laudable. But it's almost impossible to find anyone in Washington not paid to spout Democratic talking points who believes this is anything but a naked political ploy. Even such reliably liberal bloggers as Josh Marshall and the Washington Post""s Ezra Klein concede that this is first and foremost a partisan stunt and wedge issue intended to split the GOP and woo Latinos, particularly in Nevada, where Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid needs a game-changer to avoid crushing defeat in November.",0_0
"In many ways, the question was as surprising as revealing. It assumes that climate change only matters to conservatives, that those individuals cannot be scientists, and that the only reason for challenging the climate orthodoxy is to prevent some national legislation. All of those assumptions are wrong.",0_0
"If the movie were simply boring, An Inconvenient Truth might still be worth enduring if only to mine the extensive data and whatever environmental information might unfold. But environmentalism isn't Guggenheim's real concern. Presiding over the ""rebirth"" of Al Gore is. You get the feeling the director would be fine with global warming so long as Gore got to be the next President.",0_0
"(edited March 12) Soledad OBrien and her CNN panel manage to stumble into Contessa Brewer territory in this appearance by attempting to paint Breitbart.com editor-in-chief Joel Pollak as a racist for making a point about Barack Obamas support for a proponent of critical race theory during his days at Harvard Law School. Joel ends up in an argument with a woefully unprepared OBrien on the theory itself, but the actual facepalm moment goes to one of her panelists, who asks Joel why hes so afraid of black people: Hot Air provides the punchline. Update: Bill Whittle Responds to Soledad OBrien",0_0
"Similarly, the report doesnt include data from other large emitters. Carbon price data from key competitor countries such as Chile and China are excluded. So is the carbon price from the carbon-backsliding Canadians.",0_0
"If one conveniently ignores the extremely quiet 2013 and 2014 wildfire seasons and compares 1986 to 2012, wildfires in 2012 burned nearly four times as much acreage in 1986, but there were fewer wildfires in 2012 than in 1986.",0_0
"""The directive applies only to patients from the US and Canada who come to Zurich for elective, non-essential health treatments,"" said Zurich University Hospital spokeswoman Petra Seeburger.",0_0
"The White House will seek new public comment on the ?social cost of carbon? (SCC), a metric that helps regulators estimate the benefits of rules that cut greenhouse gas emissions.",0_0
The impact of the Iraq War had been such that foreign leaders in countries like,0_0
Tackling Poverty is Best Response to Climate Variance,0_0
"Writing in the Guardian, Nick Clegg reveals 1,600 companies on the London Stock Exchange will publish greenhouse gas figures from April",0_0
"The nice thing about businesses conspiracies is that you always know the motive- Money! You already know what the other guy wants to do before you begin negotiation. You also know that if it doesnt work out for either one of you, the relationship wont last. What you dont know is, whether the other party gives a crap whether you make a dime or survive as a company at all. Thats where we get into gray areas.",0_0
"Rick Piltzs take on this is that the know-nothings are in the saddle. As Piltz further notes, The Senate can put a stop to this.",0_0
"Excerpt: Carter: The accepted global average temperature statistics used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show that no ground-based warming has occurred since 1998. Oddly, this eight-year-long temperature stasis has occurred despite an increase over the same period of 15 parts per million (or 4%) in atmospheric carbon dioxide. Second, lower-atmosphere satellite-based temperature measurements, if corrected for non-greenhouse influences such as El Nino events and large volcanic eruptions, show little, if any, global warming since 1979, a period over which atmospheric CO2 has increased by 55 ppm (17%).",1_4
"Glaciers have been disappearing for 20,000 years when Chicago was buried under a mile of ice.",2_1
Obama: I Dont Have Much Patience for People Who Deny Climate Change | The Weekly Standard,0_0
"As documented by previous temperature charts , the global atmospheric temperatures have been on a declining trend over the last 15 years. The adjacent chart depicts similar results with a change: instead of CO2 levels (ppm), this chart shows the recent human CO2 emissions in gigatons.",1_4
National defense to protect against the aggressive attacks of other countries that would threaten the citizens freedom and security;,0_0
"Different estimates of recent trends in the average temperature of the earth vary widely in precision, depending on how and when they were made. Calculating the average surface temperature for a single year requires averaging local temperatures recorded at thousands of points all around the globe at different times of day and night throughout the year. Estimating trends in temperature in order to separate human-made from natural temperature effects requires precise record keeping over many decades. But precise land-based instrumental records are available only for a limited part of the earth's surface and only since the middle of the last century, a comparatively short time span from which to assess natural climate changes.6",0_0
"These actions are intended to increase the cost of the hydrocarbon energy that powers our economy. Yet raising the cost of transportation fuels, electricity, lighting, heating and air conditioning will raise the price of food, materials and equipment. This will severely impact the bottom line for factories, utilities, offices, farms, shops, airlines, shippers, hospitals, schools, churches, charities and government offices. The poorest families may get rebates for their increased energy costs, but institutions will not. They will be forced to reduce wages, hours and benefits, hire fewer full-time employees, lay off people, outsource operations to countries where energy costs are lower or even close their doors.",4_1
"on Monday, October 24th, 2011 at 7:37 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
He also said there was no danger of sea level rises swallowing Pacific islands or coastlines and former US vice president Al Gore had exaggerated 100 per cent about sea level rises.,1_6
"The IPCC report, which is published every six years, is used by governments worldwide to inform policy decisions that affect billions of people.",0_0
"So neither the warm climate that sustained high Andean plant growth 5,000 years ago, nor the subsequent frigid climate that caused the glacierization, could possibly have been caused by human activity.",2_1
"Obama can make plans for his inauguration, the weather gods appear to be in his corner.",0_0
A new paper just published and available for preview for the upcoming issue of Nature demonstrates that hyped claims that drought has increased aren??t founded in science. Plotting the Palmer Drought Severity Index globally over the past 60 years they show little change in drought.,1_7
"At the outset, lets be quite clear: There is no consensus about dangerous anthropogenic global warming (DAGW)and there never was. There is not even a consensus on whether human activities, such as burning fossil fuels to produce useful energy, affect global climate significantly. So whats all this fuss about?",5_1
"That's an increase of more than 300 percent in the number of global warming lobbyists since 2003, when Congress previously voted on climate change legislation, and means that Washington can now boast more than four climate lobbyists for every member of Congress.""",0_0
"A recent study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences investigated sources of fugitive methane emissions in the Four Corners region in the southwestern United States and found 250 point sources of methane emissions. Researchers found 4966 percent of the methane escaping into the atmosphere came from only 10 percent of the point-source emitters. This is good news, because it means methane emissions can be cut by more than half by simply fixing the top 10 percent of leaking equipment.",0_0
"Alarmists made huge news out of last years warmth, and forgot to mention that five out of the last six years started out with below normal temperatures. (The 2013 numbers will probably rise a little before the month is over.)",1_3
"The peace process falls under Abbas's jurisdiction, and there have been rumors of dissension, or at least coolness, between Abbas and Fayyad. Nor is Fayyad, a member of the ""Third Way"" splinter party, certain to win the support from Fatah that he will need to serve another term. What is important is that Abbas and Fayyad present Palestine as a viable state, able to navigate the rapids of independence and find a way to reunite Gaza with the West Bank.",0_0
"""It is generally agreed that doubling CO2 alone will cause about 1C warming due to the fact that it acts as a blanket. Model projections of greater warming absolutely depend on positive feedbacks from water vapor and clouds that will add to the blanket reducing the net cooling of the climate system. ... This, however, is not the case for the actual climate system where the sensitivity is about 0.5C for a doubling of CO 2 .""",3_1
1) UK Businesses Face Wave Of Green Taxes,0_0
"The timing of these climatic changes can also be deduced from observations of abandoned Adelie penguin colonies along the coast of Victoria Land. This is because penguins depend on sea ice extent. Research into penguin rookeries suggest a """"penguin optimum'' associated with a warmer climate and less sea ice between 4000 and 3000 years ago. This ""optimum'' ended abruptly 3000 years ago, as the inland lakes began to fill and the coastal lakes began to decrease in size. It seems the abandoned rookeries were reoccupied between 1200 and 600 years ago, also suggesting warming along the southern Victoria Land coast.",0_0
"MP: There's just one small, inconvenient problem with making a connection between climate change and an increasing frequency of violent tornadoes the link doesn't actually exist. The chart above displays the annual number of ""strong to violent tornadoes"" (F3 to F5 on the Fujita Scale) in the US from 1954 to 2012 based on data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center. Here are some weather-related facts:",0_0
"The federal Energy Information Administration, the Department of Energy's independent research arm, recently provided a reality check on the costs of GHG reduction requirements. EIA estimated that reducing national GHG emissions 11 percent below business-as-usual by 2025 would cost a total of $620 billion nationwide during the next 20 years. California has a somewhat different GHG mix than the nation, but assuming similar unit costs for California, the state's pro-rated cost would be about $40 billion, or an average of $2 billion per year.",4_1
"The Kyoto Protocol also spells out what happens to countries that breach their commitments. There is a 130 percent penalty in the second Kyoto period for each ton by which the targets are breached. That means that the second-period targets will be considerably larger than the first period's targets, which the EU countries are already finding impossible to meet.",0_0
"To better understand the context of global warming since the industrial period started in 1850, it is also important to study pre-industrial temperature development when atmospheric CO 2 concentrations were low and fairly stable at about 280 ppm. Obviously any change in climate during those pre-industrial times would essentially have to be owing to natural factors. Geological studies from all over the world have documented the occurrence of significant climate fluctuations during the last 10,000 years. Warm phases and cold phases alternated about every thousand years, often in sync with changes in solar activity. For example 1000 years ago, during the Islamic Period in Portugal, average global temperatures were at or above the present-day level. This period is referred to as the Medieval Warm Period and coincides with a phase of high solar activity.",2_1
"?To me, the most significant thing that the Climategate emails show is that the deck is stacked against the publication of research results that are critical of the established scientific consensus, and the skids are greased for papers that run in support?. Not a good situation for the advancement of science.?",5_2
"CHRIS TURNEY: The Southern Hemisphere westerly winds encircle Antarctica, and over the last 20 or 30 years or so, theyve been pushing further south. Now so actually in a way its almost like Antarcticas withdrawing itself from the rest of the world",0_0
"The adjacent chart from a new peer-reviewed study makes this very clear. Not only were the Medieval Warming temperatures some 2.9 degrees higher than the recent current modern warming, those unprecedented temperatures existed at atmospheric CO2 levels significantly below the claimed ""tipping point"" of 350ppm.",2_1
"Overall, temperatures are increasing. This statement is unscientific because the starting and ending dates are not specified. Temperature has declined since the Holocene Climate Optimum 6000-10,000 years ago. The Old Kingdom, Minoan, Roman, and medieval warm periods were also warmer than the present.",2_1
"Unfortunately for Markey, his point Athe critical importance of upgrading our natural gas infrastructurewould be undermined by his point Bblock new exports on the grounds that it would be a overall net plus to consumers and world stability.",0_0
"But, again, who knows? The only thing that is certain, as Cohen et al. describe it, is that traditional radiative greenhouse gas theory and coupled climate models forced by increasing greenhouse gases alone cannot account for this seasonal asymmetry. And so we have yet another reason why so many scientists are so skeptical about the ability of even the most sophisticated of todays climate models to adequately portray reality.",5_1
"It??s not human activity that??s to blame for the sea surface temperatures on the Great Barrier Reef but the ENSO, a very natural and well recognised climate phenomenon.",2_1
"The highest recent rate of warming based on its linear trend occurred during the 158-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 late-1970s was the last time there had been a 158-month period without global warmingbefore recently.",1_4
Stats tampering puts NOAA in hot water,5_2
"Children just aren't going to know what snow is. Dr David Viner, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, 20 March 2000",0_0
"Now, opening up ""previously inaccessible"" areas to oil and gas development could also be a font of economic and national security benefits. One thing we know for sure about Arctic mineral resources--they aren't owned by Saudi Arabia, Iran, or Venezuela, and never will be controlled by OPEC.",0_0
"A graph over 1000 rpm, with concentrations p y axelnbekrftar it is jmvikt (lines from ythav and deep sea verlappar, s only one visible):",0_0
"Tree hugger explains. Global warming makes non-existent record cold Arctic air hold more moisture. The Arctic has been warming out of control for decades, so the record cold air you think you are feeling doesnt really exist, and even if it did you are an insignificant pipsqueak on the planet compared to Moscow or Tuvalu.",0_0
"""It's a well-kept secret, but 95 percent of the climate models we are told prove the link between human CO2 emissions and catastrophic global warming have been found, after nearly two decades of temperature stasis, to be in error,"" he said, without providing evidence.",5_1
"Nonetheless, there is no doubt that the proponents of ""lawfare"" have used this strategy successfully against Israel, and increasingly against the United States. By threatening U.S. officials with prosecution for alleged war crimes or human rights abuses, asserting jurisdiction over them when they travel abroad, for example, the globalistas seek to impose their version of international law over our own constitutional authorities. The American response should be that we recognize no higher earthly authority than the Constitution, which no valid treaty can supersede or diminish. And we certainly do not accept that ""customary international law"" which we do not voluntarily follow can bind us, especially today's variety, formed not by actual custom but by leftist academics who hardly have our best interests at heart.",0_0
"I cam across this interesting piece, published by NOAA in 1999:",0_0
"If the climate shifts hypothesisis correct, then the current flat trend in global surface temperatures may continue for another decade or two, with a resumption of warming at some point during mid-century. The amount of warming from greenhouse gases depends both on the amount of greenhouse gases that are emitted as well as the climate sensitivity to the greenhouse gases, both of which are associated with substantial uncertainties.",5_1
rsringar from uniting in Tibet and pines in Jmtland shows that climate ndrades properly on pure 400 and 600. The average temperature can have svngt as much as television degrees p ten years.,0_0
"This working paper paper was revised and expanded from its original form on August 2, 2010. The original version of this working paper was published on November 1, 2008. Both versions are available as PDFs below.",0_0
An analysis of nuclear genes suggests that the polar bear is old enough to have survived through several periods that were warmer than today between the Middle Pleistocene and the early Holocene.,3_2
"Even taking it as given that greenhouse-gas emissions are altering the climate in potentially dangerous ways, still, we must ask whether there are negative health and mortality effects from higher energy prices; whether restrictions on fossil-fuel energy would make us poorer; and whether a poorer-but-cooler world is better for humankind than a richer-but-warmer world. Likewise, could some geoengineering technique mitigate human-caused climate change without the need to give up the benefits of fossil-fuel energy; or buy us a few more decades to find new ways to produce abundant energy as or more cheaply, but without undesirable climate changes? Most climate scientists jump over these questions or assume the answer without any apparent awareness that they've failed to subject their preferences to scientific scrutiny.",0_0
"Heinzow calculates that water equivalent to Lake Constance (13 cubic miles or 55 cubic kilometers) must be pumped 1,165 feet (350 meters) high, just to buffer the supply-demand discontinuity caused by the thousands of wind turbines that are already planned for the North and Baltic Seas. There are only two alternatives to this.",4_4
"Back in summer 2002, when the original WWF report on polar bears was released, we performed an analysis between observed climate changes in the Arctic, and polar bear population trends, as given by the WWF.",0_0
"Owens and Lyons were joined in the study by UCRs Steven M. Bates; Benjamin C. Gill at Virginia Tech. and a former Ph.D. student with Lyons; Hugh C. Jenkyns at the University of Oxford, the United Kingdom; Silke Severmann at Rutgers University, NJ, and a former postdoctoral researcher with Lyons; Marcel M. M. Kuypers at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Biology, Germany; and Richard G. Woodfine at British Petroleum, the United Kingdom.",0_0
Daniel Ben-Ami is the author of Ferraris for All. He has worked as a financial journalist and economics writer for more than 20 years.,0_0
"You have already heard that there has been increased seismic activity at Yellowstone National Park over the last few days. Since December 26th, there have been several earthquakes a day, some jut over 3.0 magnitude, in the vicinity of the north side of Yellowstones lake. This is a seismically active region, but the level of earthquake activity being seen now is much greater than seen in perhaps decades (though the data are still not sufficiently analyzed to make positive comparisons yet).Volcano experts have absolutely no clue as to what this means. A major reason for virtually total uncertainty is that Yellowstone sits on top of a very large caldera of the type that is formed by a so-called super volcano and the last super volcano to erupt was a few years (like, 70 or so thousand years) before any seismic or other geological monitoring station were set up anywhere. Indeed, the first really serious data collection at Yellowstone began just over 30 years ago.",0_0
"We used the HEM to analyze the economic effects of instituting the BoxerSanders proposal. HEM is appropriate for this analysis, as similar models have been used in the past to understand the economic effects of other carbon tax proposals. In particular, we conducted simulations running a carbon fee that started in 2014 at $20 (in 2013 dollars) and increased by 5.6 percent per year and compared this against a baseline model without any carbon tax. We chose a revenue-neutral carbon tax where 100 percent of the carbon tax revenues are returned directly to taxpayers. We ran the HEM for 12 cycles to get consistent feedback into the Macroeconomic Activity Module, which provided us with the figures presented in this study.",0_0
Brewer's remarks are an expansion of comments she made last week during a televised debate between the four Republican gubernatorial candidates....,0_0
"The cable describes a visit made by the FSHP to the Hermanos Ameijeiras hospital in October 2007. Built in 1982, the newly renovated hospital was used in Michael Moore's film as evidence of the high-quality of healthcare available to all Cubans.",0_0
"In other words, each proxy may have its distinct frequency response function, which could confuse the interpretation of climate variability. Finally, another concern is the lack of understanding of the air-sea relationship at the multidecadal timescale, even in the reasonably well observed region of the North Atlantic (Hkkinen 2000, Seager et al. 2000, Marshall et al. 2001, Slonosky & Yiou 2001, von Storch et al. 2001).",5_1
"By Larry Kummer, Editor of the Fabius Maximus website, from which this is reposted, WUWT, Aug 8, 2015",0_0
"The conclusion is inescapable: The U.S. temperature record is unreliable. The errors in the record exceed by a wide margin the purported rise in temperature of 0.7 C (about 1.2 F) during the twentieth century. Consequently, this record should not be cited as evidence of any trend in temperature that may have occurred across the U.S. during the past century. Since the U.S. record is thought to be the best in the world, it follows that the global database is likely similarly compromised and unreliable.",5_1
"Now, for the global mean temperature, there exist some regulating mechanisms that prevent the Earth from deviating by more than 10 ??C or so from some normal value - like 15 ??C. It's plausible that the global mean temperature hasn't left the 5-25 ??C interval for billions of years. Moreover, most of the changes of the temperature may be ""explained"" or ""attributed"" to some causes.",3_1
"Evidence points to growing frequency and intensity of extreme weather worldwide due to global warming, but an effort to detect changes in the intensity of tornadoes has yet to be made.",0_0
"Environmental groups will assuredly become much more influential within the new administration, but it is an open question how much political capital President Obama will be willing to spend on their behalf. Easy issues like removing some of the restrictions placed around the listing of the Polar Bear under the Endangered Species Act will please environmentalists while outraging industry but not the public. Incremental moves aimed at making coal use more expensive will also be quite easy to achieve. Large amounts of money will be directed at energy and vehicle technology development. Influential leaders within the environmental movement will be given positions of power within the EPA, Interior and Energy departments. In short, establishment environmentalism will suffuse the new administration, even if major environmental initiatives are not pushed as quickly as some would like.",0_0
"6 EPA, New Source Review: Report to the President, pp. 3-4.",0_0
I posted earlier todayon areport regardingthe Earths heat balance; see,0_0
"GREENIE WATCH However, as we all know it is in the nature of orthodoxy to ignore `minor issues'. However, this time seems an even bigger dog has come to bite! So far it has not been seen with the scientific AGW establishment that one single paper comes along to destroy more or less the whole basis of many careers (yet) but I'd say this new Nature paper looks to be getting very close to such an occasion. Expect a firestorm of rebuttal, dissembling, and (dare I use the term?) denial.",0_0
"in their lifetimes. Or as Stuart Taylor, another moderate critic of the Obama",0_0
"Ive told the Government and the Opposition that I see it as virtually impossible to get this legislation through by the end of June, he said. I think its better to come back after the winter break and well have a better idea then whats happening in the US .",0_0
"Tuesdays focus is on writing big cheques for centralised power-generation including carbon capture and storage (CCS) and nuclear, which may be necessary in the short-term, but there was scant detail on how to exploit advances in grid connectivity, flexibility and energy efficiency.",0_0
"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
"It is now six months since I reported on what even environmentalists are calling ""the biggest environmental scandal in history"". Indeed this is a scam so glaringly bizarre that even the UN and the EU have belatedly announced that they are thinking of taking steps to stop it. The essence of the scam is that a handful of Chinese and Indian firms are deliberately producing large quantities of an incredibly powerful ""greenhouse gas"" which we in the West ? including UK taxpayers ? then pay them billions of dollars to destroy.",5_2
"Feldstein, a Harvard economist who has advised Obama, earlier warned that ""the barrage of tax increases proposed in President Barack Obama's budget could, if enacted by Congress, kill any chance of an early and sustained recovery."" He compared Obama's tax increases to the ones that contributed to the Great Depression and the ""Lost Decade"" of economic stagnation and decay in Japan.",0_0
"So according to Dessler the only way clouds can affect surface T is by absorbing energy on its way out of the Earths climate system. But Andy, what about the energy that clouds reflect which thereby never gets into the Earths climate system? No wonder Dessler thinks cloud feedback is positive, he ignores more than half of their effect. Doh! FAIL",3_1
"It is essential to understand that every one of the ""global warming"" predictions made in the 1980s and the decades since then has been WRONG. Every one of the computer models on which those predictions were based was WRONG.",5_1
"As the primary factor driving climate, Malberg believes it is the sun. The following charts shows the mean value for sunspot activity since 1679 along with mean Central European temperature anomaly:",2_1
"Sachs's not-so-subtle shift of emphasis from the pipeline itself to the ""carbon budget"" belies his denial that he and his allies simply oppose fossil fuels. Given his reliance on the worst-case RCP8.5 scenario, it is axiomatic that the use of fossil fuels must be reduced dramatically in order to adhere to the ""carbon budget."" At the end of his response, Sachs asserts the existence of a ""globally agreed objective of avoiding dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system."" Really? Unless this is just a tautology driven by the term ""dangerous,"" the agreed objective to which Sachs refers is entirely obscure. We have just observed the end of the 19th(!) Conference of the Parties in Warsaw, at which the only ""agreement"" was on the restaurants to be patronized at the 20th and 21st COPs in Lima and Paris. Professor Sachs would be well advised to adhere to scholarly standards of skepticism and a close alliance with evidence rather than ideology.",0_0
The GISS temperature graph is nonsense. The 1940s were just as warm as the warmest recent years,5_1
"31 Aug 11 ??? Following the coldest June in nearly 40 years and the coldest July in 50 years, this month is now one of the coldest Augusts since records began in 1851.",1_3
"While the White House is at fault for refusing to allow the EPA to discuss the 2001 NRC report, EPA scientists similarly have a lot of explaining to do over their reported refusal to allow the White House to include references to the recent work by Willie Soon and Sally Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Their study takes up a central claim of environmental advocates, that the warming observed in the twentieth century was historically unprecedented, and therefore must have been man-made (or at least human-influenced). In fact, studies that Soon and Baliunas reviewed found ""strong evidence that the climate of the 20th century was not unusual, but fell within the range experienced during the past 1,000 years"" during, for instance, a period known as the ""Medieval Warm Period.""",2_1
"The bottom panel of following graphic shows what most meteorologists already know: there has been a downward trend in strong (F3) to violent (F5) tornadoes in the U.S. since statistics began in the 1950s. As seen in the top panel, this has also been a period of general warming. For those statistics buffs, the correlation coefficient is -0.31. Obviously, the conclusion should be that warming causes fewer strong tornadoes, not more. (Or, maybe a lack of tornadoes causes global warming!)",1_7
Photos of melt glass known as trinitite formed at the ground surface from the melting of sediments and rocks by the very high temperatures of the Trinity nuclear airburst in New Mexico in 1945. This material is very similar to the glassy melt materials now reported.,0_0
"When an agency is faced with two initially plausible readings of a statutory term, but it turns out that one reading would cause absurd results, I am aware of no precedent that suggests the agency can still choose the absurd reading and then start rewriting other perfectly clear portions of the statute to try to make it all work out. And just recently, the Supreme Court reminded the Executive Branch and the lower courts that this is not the proper way to interpret a statute: Instead of ?reading new words into the statute? to avoid absurd results, as the Government had urged in that case, the Court said that the statute should be interpreted so that ?no absurdity arises in the first place.? Kloeckner v. Solis, No. 11-184, slip op. at 13 (U.S. 2012).",0_0
"No matter how you adjust and tweak, the models just don't get it right. This caused the researchers to ask some fundamental questions about what drives the climate models?the ?forcings? in climate speak. They focus on the usual suspects: rising greenhouse gases and the change in Earth's albedo caused by retreating northern hemisphere ice sheets.:",0_0
"""SEN. RAND PAUL (R-KY): ""With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have realize what that implies. It's not an abstraction. I'm a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery.""""",0_0
"A proposal by Professor Kevin Anderson, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in the U.K., made a splash at Cancun. Anderson authored a paper for the Royal Society urging the adoption of a draconian World War II-style rationing system ? for carbon emissions. ?The Second World War and the concept of rationing is something we need to seriously consider if we are to address the scale of the problem we face,? he explained in the article, urging world rulers to limit electricity and prohibit food imports, among other things. His suggestion would involve a total freeze on economic growth in developed countries and ?carbon rations? for every person on the planet. Unbelievably, at least one of his ?Royal Society? colleagues said even that would not be enough.",0_0
"Global temperature projection for the coming century, based on warming/cooling cycles of the past several centuries. A projection based on assuming next cool phase will be similar to the 1945-1977 cool phase. B projection based on assuming next cool phase will be similar to the 1880-1915 cool phase. The predicted warm cycle from 2030 to 2060 is based on projection of the 1977 to 1998 warm phase and the cooling phase from 2060 to 2090 is based on projection of the 1945 to 1977 cool cycle. See larger image here",1_2
"Pursuant to the Anti-Kickback Act, it is unlawful to knowingly offer or pay any remuneration in cash or in kind in exchange for the referral of any product (including a prescription drug) for which payment is sought from any federally-funded health care program. Daiichis kickbacks took the form of honoraria payments, meals, and other remuneration to physicians who participated in Physician Opinion & Discussion programs (PODs) from Jan. 1, 2005 through March 31, 2011, and other speaker programs from Jan. 1, 2004 through Feb. 4, 2011.",0_0
"But Reed's amendment calls for the SEC to specifically adopt the measures advocated in ""Climate Strategies and Metrics,"" a manifesto put forth by the World Resources Institute and the United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative. This document says companies should be required to put down specific numbers for ""carbon footprinting"" and ""green/brown metrics."" Needless to say these measures are arbitrary, and hard to determine with a specific number.",0_0
The next graph shows the ten year running mean of violent tornadoes vs. the GISS US anomaly. Warmer years have fewer tornadoes.,1_7
"Somin includes the following, which I think is an example of where defenders of the President's process (as different from the outcomes) are missing reality. He writes:",0_0
"He has about 416 days to go before the planned delivery of the signatures to the Comrade General Secretary of the U.N. So far, he has about 1,100 signatures; 999,998,900 additional signatures are undoubtedly in the pipeline. ;-) The question is a sociological one but you can't fail to notice the complete detachment of this psychiatrically ill man from the real world, his complete lack of common sense.",0_0
"Current measured long term warming rates range from 1.2-1.6 C/century. Some climatologists claim 6+C for the remainder century, based on climate models. One might think that these estimates are suspect, due to the empirically observed limitations of thecurrent GCMs.",5_1
"And, please note, not a single advisor, nor any of their climate science ""experts"" foresaw this lengthy cooling trend that is contrary to the ""settled-science"" warming predictions.",1_2
"William Yeatman, FoxNews.com , 1 April 2010",0_0
Google Near Deal in Drug Ad Crackdown:,0_0
"Four of the 15 methods of determining climate sensitivity the amount of warming to be expected if CO2 doubles are based on looking at recent trends in global temperature. Warming since 1950, when CO2 emissions began in earnest, has occurred at a rate of 2 F per century. Again, comparing the warming since 1950 with the radiative forcings, climate sensitivity works out at just 2 F. Doing the same comparison since 1750 also gives a climate sensitivity of 2 F. And if the maximum rate of warming that lasted more than a decade since global temperature records began in 1850 were to become the average rate of warming for the next 90 years, global temperatures would rise by yes, 2 F.",3_1
"This month, after a three-year investigation, Harvard University suspended a prominent professor of psychology for scandalously overinterpreting videos of monkey behaviour. The incident has sent shock waves through science because it suggests that a body of data is unreliable. The professor, Marc Hauser, is now a pariah in his own field and his papers have been withdrawn. But the implications for society are not great no policy had been based on his research.",0_0
"We are beginning to understand that natural variability is pretty high in #5. Alarmist might be call ""sun variability deniers"" as they refuse to admit that Mr. Sun might have substantial effects on the Earth. They are kind of in a hole, though. They are trying to simultaneously claim in #3 that the climate is dominated by positive feedback, but the same time in #5 claim the climate without man is really, really stable. These two in tandem make no sense.",2_1
"The 2020 CAFE standards are ambitiousthey require efficiency improvements at nearly two-and-a-half times the historical rate. Yet they weren't ambitious enough for liberal California legislators, who passed a law to accelerate Congress's timeline by four years.",0_0
This is quite banal and shows the desperation of those involved in this unbiased survey of a large and broad group of Earth scientists.,0_0
"""acting director of the National Labor Relations Board for Region 32 in Oakland -- has rejected 88 of 118 objections filed by the National Union of Healthcare Workers over an October election to represent Kaiser Permanente employees. The union vote involved NUHW and the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West. The 30 remaining objections will be the subject of a hearing scheduled for Feb. 7.""",0_0
"It should be noted that these new papers, as well as others such as the one showing a 2,000 year general cooling trend with significant variation, do not disprove the hypothesis that human emissions of CO2 are causing global warming. But, they show that climate science, as practiced by the IPCC, is inadequate and that the models used fail to account for major natural influences, and have no predictive skill.",5_1
INCLUDING HIGHWAY 20 WAUCONDA SUMMIT... SHERMAN PASS,0_0
"So there are two aspects to Hansen??s assertion that Scenario B was ???more plausible?? ??? the handling of CFCs in near time and exponential vs linear in deeper time. In the vituperative debate in 1998 and thereafter, no one seems to have focused on the impact of CFC doubling. Does it make sense to say that doubling CFC11 and CFC12 concentrations as a way of modeling the OTGs is ???Business as Usual??? Not doubling these concentrations may very well be ???more plausible??. Indeed, as events turned out, it seems that it was ???more plausible?? not to double CFC concentrations.",5_1
"1. Major northern water storages above the NSWQLD border line were not adversely affected by the current drought conditions being experienced in Australia, holding on average 90% of their capacity compared to 20% on average for major southern storages.",0_0
Ive been telling Java that I did NOT want an update for a while now (not liking the idea of going into brave new worlds of recently released bugs and holes; liking to stay with known good levels); so maybe in a few weeks I can let it go ahead and update,0_0
"A former Nazi bunker located in the Wilhelmsburg district of Hamburg, Germany is about to get a full-scale makeover. The building, which sorta looks like a giant LEGO, is set to become Europes largest renewable energy power plant.",0_0
"Because the range of leatherbacks is so great, national legislation on long lines will not be sufficient to save the animals.",0_0
"The press release does not explain what caused the warm periods over the past 10,000 years, some warmer than today, during which time the IPCC asserts carbon dioxide concentrations were quite stable until the 20th Century.",2_1
Reducing emissions globally will require a massive investment in ???clean technologies?? ??? an estimated $2.1 trillion in wind turbines and $1.5 trillion in solar voltaic panels by 2030. These investments will create many green jobs.,4_1
"The core of the human caused global warming proposition is that an increasing level of greenhouse gases acts to reduce heat loss from the planet making the atmosphere here warmer. But is the greenhouse effect occurring as the IPCC models propose? This study analysed two important factors directly associated with the greenhouse effect, atmospheric temperature and outgoing radiation and finds that outgoing radiation has not declined. The missing heat has gone back to space as usual.",2_3
(https://web.archive.org/web/20040719102733/http://sealevel.colorado.edu/2004 rel1.2/sl ib ns cu2004 rel1.2 global.txt) differs from the current one:,0_0
"The summer temperature reconstruction revealed the presence of warm conditions from the beginning of the record in AD 951 up to about AD 1350, which the authors associate with the Medieval Warm Period. Thereafter, temperatures declined and an extended cold period known as the Little Ice Age ensued, which persisted until approximately 1850 ... with one brief exception. For a few short decades in the mid- to late-1500s, there was an uncharacteristically warm episode, the temperatures of which were only exceeded at the beginning and end of the 1052-year record, i.e., during the Medieval and Current Warm Periods. What it means",2_1
"Grist magazine reporter David Roberts called to host ""war crimes trials for these bastardssome sort of climate Nuremberg.""",0_0
Oregon Degree Days Deviation Map 41 F,0_0
"Notably, over 50 percent of currently-active wind capacity is located in only five states; over 75 percent is located in just 11 states. Under the federal wind PTC, however, taxpayers in the states without RPS mandates pay approximately 24 percent of the PTC funding, even though they receive no direct economic benefit. As such, the current federal PTC structure unfairly shifts the cost of wind energy development from taxpayers in the RPS states to those with little or no wind development, forcing taxpayers across the country to support an industry concentrated in a few states.",4_1
Alexander et al. published a peer-reviewed study that found storms in the southeast region of Australia showing a significant reduction since the late 19th century.,1_7
Mr. Kazman is general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington.,0_0
"The climate scientists are not only just wrong, but are now criminals who are intentionally committing fraud. Large parts of the public believe them.",5_2
"Ceduna News, sport and weather | West Coast Sentinel",0_0
"On the other side of the opinion spectrum, Roger Pielke Jr. , a University of Colorado political scientist, believes that journalists have been too obsequious to climate scientists to the detriment of climate science.",0_0
"Now that the global warming ""hiatus"" has expanded to a new record length of 18 years and five months, the RSS satellite temperature record shows a sub-zero trend. But if El Nio conditions occur this year, this may interrupt the warming pause, though the discrepancy between prediction and observation continues to widen. According to Christopher Monckton , who has studied the climate extensively, ""the divergence between the models predictions in 1990 ( Fig. 2 ) and 2005 ( Fig. 3 ), on the one hand, and the observed out-turn, on the other, also continues to widen.""",1_4
"Orange County Register editorial, 29 March 2010",0_0
"These apocalyptic events are so tiring that there is a great temptation to adopt the method of an ancient Chinese Emperor who would generously pay for predictions, but if they would not come true, would have the fortune tellers and their families executed.",0_0
"""We're from the Earth Guardians group, and we're working on fracking and how it's going to affect our future and our health. So we wrote this song for all the gas companies that are putting their profits ahead of our future.""",0_0
US House Committee to Examine Obama Administrations Approach for Enforcing Wildlife Laws and Impacts on U.S. Energy,0_0
"Bringing climate change into the Syria issue does a great disservice to the innocent victims of that tragic conflict. Civil war in Syria is about people seeking to rid themselves of a bloody tyrant. Sadly, it has been exploited by religious fanatics whose endgame does not include benign democracy under rule of law.",0_0
"The Met Offices figure for a rise of 12 cm in the English Channel during the 20th century comes from a paper by Wahl et al (2013) ( here ). However, these results which are for absolute sea level - show almost no acceleration in sea level rise. At 0.13 cm/year, the trend over 1993-2009 was only 0.1 cm/year higher than the trend over 18802009. Moreover this figure for the most recent rate of sea level rise may be inflated by a non-anthropogenic factor;. it looks from the Gregory et al (2013) 20th century global mean sea level rise paper that recovery from the cooling following the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption accounts for a slightly higher rate of sea level rise during 1993-2009, and indeed the post-1993 rate of increase tailed off after 2000.",1_6
"Up to now, EPA has said and done whatever it deems necessary or convenient to advance its regulatory agenda. The health, environmental and societal costs are unjustified and can no longer be tolerated. It's time to clean house and start enforcing laws against human experiments and fraudulent research.",0_0
"The response from the defenders of Mr. Mann and his circle has been that even if they did disparage doubters and exclude contrary points of view, theirs is still the best climate science. The proof for this is circular. It's the best, we're told, because it's the most-published and most-citedin that same peer-reviewed literature. The public has every reason to ask why they felt the need to rig the game if their science is as indisputable as they claim.",5_2
"The focus on direct energy use obscures the fact that Americans have many choices when it comes to reducing their energy and environmental footprint besides cutting back on the direct use of oil, natural gas, and electricity. Those who want to reduce their energy consumption but are unable or unwilling to forego the roomier house or car can cut down on discretionary medical purchases; minimize pharmaceutical waste; cut back on air travel; and replace high-energy foods (beef and refined grain products) with lower-energy foods such as poultry, legumes, and fresh fruits and vegetables. Can we both preserve consumer choice and expand options for energy conservation? Yes, we can.",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Robert H. Nelson in the Wall Street Journal on how the federal government's disastrous land management policies have led to increasingly destructive wildfires:,0_0
"Mr Ramesh said the rate of retreat of glaciers in the Himalayas varied from a couple of centimetres a year to a couple of metres, but that this was a natural process that had taken place occurred over the centuries. Some were, in fact, growing, he said.",1_1
"As you can see, the future holds nothing to fear. There will be a few El Nios in the next ten years, then a moderate cooling as we come off the peak of the 62 and 204 year cycles. There will be more of those in mid-century, as the AMO rises again, then more cooling for a period at the end of the century as both of those cycles bottom out. No extensive warm periods will appear until late in the twenty-second century, as both peak again.",1_2
(rate constant for the reaction tergende) x (concentration of the reaction product),0_0
"CEI Response: Our ad did not deny that global warming is happening. It took issue with the prevalent journalistic malpractice of selective reporting to alarm the public into supporting Kyoto-style, all-pain-for-no-gain, energy-suppression policies. If global warming is thickening the ice in Antarctica, then one effect of warming is to mitigate potential sea level rise.",0_0
"The Danish Meteorological Institute has been tracking Arctic ice extent since 2005. They use the more meaningful30% concentration standard, and as of today show 2010 as the highest on record for the date.",1_1
"* Attitudes toward global warming have changed little in recent years, remaining highly polarized. The proportion saying the seriousness of global warming is exaggerated was 42 percent in a March 2012 Gallup poll.",0_0
"""The partisan divide started in 1997,"" says Jon Krosnick of Stanford University. That was when a Democratic president, Bill Clinton, threw his weight behind the UN effort to introduce mandatory caps for greenhouse-gas emissions. It has since widened. YouGov, a pollster, found in 2013 that 70% of Democratic voters saw evidence of man-made climate change in recent weather patterns, whereas only 19% of Republican voters did. A similar, though smaller, divide was found in Britain.",0_0
"""Thieves stole credit and debit card PINs from thousands Barnes & Noble customers, not by breaking into the company's website, but by hacking the keypads sitting right on their store counters.""",0_0
Approximately $3.1 billion in direct expenditures; and,0_0
"Each of these issues is critical to the future of the country. They can't be put on the back burner. It is time for some of our lawmakers to show some backbone and look for genuine cross-party solutions or at least interim steps, and not leave Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) twisting alone in the wind.",0_0
"A few days ago, Marc Morano received some credit from a Joe Romm - the cheerleader-in-chief at recent wild orgies celebrating the death of Michael Crichton - for having determined that Steven Chu, the future U.S. secretary of energy, is not quite psychiatrically OK (much like many similar participants of the Pozna conference) when it comes to warmophobia and related disorders.",0_0
"Considering the above, Earth's plants are gradually being freed from the environmental fetters that have for so long held them back and prevented them from exhibiting their true productivity potential, thanks to the life-giving carbon dioxide that has been emitted to the atmosphere by mankind's historic and ongoing burning of fossil fuels.",3_3
Josh writes:heres my take on that well known scam thats been in the news this week.Astonishing.,0_0
"Those in favor of pushing forward argued that the reason the Democrats lost in 1994 was not that they were too far ahead of public opinion, but that by failing to pass Clinton's health-care bill they had not heeded public opinion enough. Democrats were punished in 1994 for not governing, not for being out of step with public opinion. Thus in March 2010, liberal progressives were saying, Pass the bill and the people will reward you for tackling a tough problem. By November, these men argued, Republicans will no longer be able to distract the voters with wild claims about ""death panels,"" and the president could make the case himself. The political calculus, they said, favored bold actionnot triangulation.",0_0
"I was appalled when they showed a 10-minute film on Pachauri, said the",0_0
"In Climate not to blame for African civil wars , Halvard Buhaug argues,",0_0
"As you will see in this post, the range of the climate-modeled energy imbalance has a much larger range, about 10 times the 0.5 watts/m^2 range mentioned by Trenberth et al. (2014). And there is no agreement about how the imbalance was created in the past, or might be created in the future.",0_0
A review of polar microalgae studies suggests that both Arctic and Antarctic phytoplankton are resilient to temperature increases up to 6 C greater than normal Read More,0_0
What I would like to know is where is the funding coming from for these lawsuits?,0_0
"Nuccitelli then turns to the embarrassing increase in Antarctic sea-ice extent mentioned by Roy Spencer, and produces various papers saying more sea-ice in Antarctica is what we should expect from global warming.",1_1
"The problem with the Michael Mann sort of scientist is that, rather than practicing science quietly behind the scenes, they want to participate in the public debate. They?re perfectly entitled to do so, on an equal footing with everyone else. Yet the minute anyone disagrees with them, they play the ?I?m a famous scientist and should not be gainsayed? card.",0_0
"Temperatures could start to rise again as we continue to add CO 2 to the atmosphere or they could fall as suggested by the present weak solar activity. Many climatologists are trying to address the issues described here to give us a better understanding of the physical processes involved and the reliability of the predictions. One outstanding issue is the location of all the anthropogenic CO 2 . According to Table 6.1 in the 2013 Report, half goes into the atmosphere and a quarter into the oceans with the remaining quarter assigned to some undefined sequestering as biomass on the land.",5_1
"Trump's bombastic rhetoric aimed at minorities, including Hispanics, African Americans, and Muslims, among others, including his pledge to build that wall on the southern border, will make it even more difficult than it was after the 2012 loss for Republican leaders to make any gesture on immigration that might broader the party appeal beyond white working-class voters.",0_0
"But, when the part of the detrended sea level that is correlated to ENSO3.4 is removed, the remaining orthogonal part of the rise rate appears to be lower at the end of the century than during the 1940s, and not particularly high compared to the rest of the century. So if my removal of the ENSO effect is correct, then there was nothing unusual about the rise rate at the end of the century",1_6
"Are human-induced changes to the environment causing global warming? Policy-makers and the general public want to know now whether increased amounts of ""greenhouse gases' such as carbon dioxide are permanently altering our climate. Their sense of urgency is understandable, given what is at stake. A warming of even a few degrees could have serious implications for weather patterns and water resources. But in the rush for fast answers, it's tempting to overlook what the science reveals.",0_0
"The how climate change might make some land unsuitable model was built from the IPCCs totally bogus emissions scenarios. The modeled scenarios A1B, A2A and B2A.",0_0
"Validation of Climate Models: Writing in Watts Up With That? , Tim Ball reviews a book by Vincent Gray, The Global Warming Scam and the Climate Change Super Scam. Gray is an expert reviewer of all five major reports of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), submitting thousands of comments.",0_0
"Dr Bill Gray from CSU is a good friend, the most widely recognizedhurricane forecaster, and one of themost senior global warming skeptics. He recognized the problems of global warming theory decades earlier than most former true believers like myself. In 1996, CSUs Bill Gray correctly predicted weak cooling for the next 20-30 years.",1_2
Here is a map of the SST anomalies for the past month. Warm water (dark orange and red) stretching from the central Pacific to the coast of S. America. You can also see the crazy warm water off our coast.,0_0
"Then there are the arguments about happiness. Growth skeptics point to opinion polls showing that rising prosperity is not making Americans happier. Some go even further and liken the drive towards prosperity to a mental illness. Many names disparage such acquisitiveness, including ""affluenza,"" ""luxury fever,"" and ""stuffitis."" Our growth fetish evidently threatens a shopacalypse.",0_0
"More than half of the world?s solar panels are installed in Germany. On June 6, Germany?s solar power production touched a new record of 23.4 gigawatts, meeting almost 40 per cent of the country?s entire peak electricity demand. But to understand that this record is quite meaningless, consider the grid?s narrow escape last winter. For many weeks in December and January, Germany?s 1.1 million solar power systems generated almost no electricity. During much of those overcast winter months, solar panels more or less stopped generating electricity. To prevent blackouts, grid operators had to import nuclear energy from France and the Czech Republic and power up an old oil-fired power plant in Austria.",4_4
"M-type=moment magnitude from initial P wave (tsuboi method) (Mi/Mwp), Version=B",0_0
"The HadCRUt4 warming rate from 1976-2001 was equivalent to almost 1.8 C/century (compared with warming at just 1.1 C/century from 1979-1996), but from 2002 to the present HadCRUt4 shows cooling at a rate equivalent to almost 0.5 C/century (compared with warming at almost 0.5 C/century from 1997-2012).",1_4
"In a speech at the National Press Club on April 13th, Climate Minister Combet revealed again that he is receiving unbalanced scientific advice, and that his understanding of the problem of hypothetical dangerous global warming is inadequate. His predecessor, Senator Penny Wong, exemplified the same weaknesses and so does the government.",0_0
Key Tool for the Scare Campaign: Censorship. How bullying critics keep editors from straying.,0_0
While there are a number of good and fun ideas but the contents of the book which describes providing nd a walk-through taste in the mouth. The reason is the political context that frutstter to Gteborgs future should be subordinated to a green planned economy.,0_0
"At the 4:30 mark the documentary tells us that glaciers in the Alps melted and allowed the Romans to expand their empire all the way to Scotland. The warm period also took hold globally, says the ZDF documentary, and was not a regional phenomena. The ZDF documentary shows at the 5:40 mark how the Chinese Empire blossomed at around 200 BC. All thanks to the sun.",2_1
"Most people think the poles are melting theyre not,?? says Dr Benny Peiser.???Global sea ice is at a record high.??",1_1
"If you chose to believe that our life is just a random accident, then the same probability is that there MUST be many equal locations, with equal, and probably MANY locations with superior life forms. So much for the No Superior Being debate, something superior must exist.",0_0
"Moreover, higher temperature must produce higher evaporation from the oceans and thus more rainfall. If this is combined with more abundant carbon dioxide, the aerial plant food, earth would have another green revolution.",3_3
"German meteorologists say that the start of 2013 is now the coldest in 208 years - and now German media has quoted Russian scientist Dr Habibullo Abdussamatov from the St. Petersburg Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory as showing it is proof as he said earlier that we are heading for a ""Mini Ice Age."" Talking to German media the scientist who first made his prediction in 2005 said that after studying sunspots and their relationship with climate change on Earth, we are now on an ""unavoidable advance towards a deep temperature drop."" -- German Herald, 31 March 2013",1_2
Western Business Leaders Pile Pressure on China and India,0_0
"In the past years the fight was financed by US auto manufacturer Chrysler, and oil companies ExxonMobil and Chevron, and others. The story of the PR manager is a story of a planned confusion. It is a didactic play on the art of lying. Doubt is now spreading across the world from America.",0_0
Regional diabatic heating can also cause atmospheric teleconnections that influence regional climate thousands of kilometers away from the point of forcing.,0_0
"Other products like sugar, peanuts, and sesame seeds are thought to have their origin in tropical habitats, and for products like corn, rice and bananas, tropical forests ""offer genetic improvements of several major crops In 1970 the U.S. corn crop was hit with a blight that destroyed half the crop in many areas. The costs amounted to $2 billion in one year the crisis was remedied through interbreeding an immune form of corn that originally derived from the ancestral home of corn, Mexico.""",0_0
This setting is characterized by very few degrees of freedom and leaves the regression susceptible to nonsense predictors.,0_0
"Many distributional analyses of carbon pricing focus on the uses-side incidence of carbon pricing. This is the differential burden resulting from heterogeneity in consumption across households. Once one allows for sources-side incidence (i.e. differential impacts of changes in real factor prices), carbon policies look more progressive. Perhaps more important than the findings from any one scenario, our results on the progressivity of the leading cap and trade proposals are robust to the assumptions made on the relative importance of uses and sources side heterogeneity. . . .",0_0
UAH MSU satellite records have released the December 2008 data. The anomaly shows 0.074 ??C of cooling since November which is pretty substantial (100 ??C per century haha).,1_3
"Another fearmongering Stonyfield ad reads, ""Earth to mom! Yogurts made without the use of antibiotics, hormones and toxic pesticides.""",0_0
"Conceding the relevance to climate change in the planning decision-making process is still in an evolutionary phase, the tribunal ruled there was a reasonably foreseeable risk from rising sea levels and increased storm severity that would make the proposed developments unacceptable. Im going to assume that this property met all other conditions for zoning, planned use, set-backs, etc. to gain an approval to start construction. So this Administrative Tribunal can just unilaterally scupper the entire development? This is the sort of nanny-state thinking that so many Warmers want to adopt as a solution to the so-called AGW and it terrifies me that your property rights can just be kicked to the curb.",0_0
"9.	""The increase of global average temperature has to be limited to 2 degrees Celsius compared to the pre-industrial level."" Again, this temperature increase is principally of natural origin. Unfortunately humans cannot end sunspot activities.",2_1
"Now lets compare the models to the observations in Figure 5. The models overestimate the rate of warming in maximum temperatures from about 45S to 5N and from 35N to the Arctic. The models underestimate the rate of warming slightly from 5N to 35N, but grossly underestimate the polar-amplified warming in the Arctic. Hmm. Were often told that polar amplification is consistent with climate model projections, while, in reality, the multi-model mean shows little polar amplification by comparison to the data.",5_1
"Forget the ""Americans are from Mars, Europeans from Venus"" mantra that gave the Brussels Eurocracy the vapors in the summer of 2002.8 Though the slogan captured well a moment of transatlantic relations, over time this mantra has obscured the issue. The truth is, for the past 15 years, and on both sides of the Atlantic, there have been two major attempts underway to get rid of the strategy problematique altogether.",0_0
"The Locavores Dilemma - ...a controversial new book that argues that, far from making our communities healthier and more self-sufficient, the local food movement will destroy our economies, ruin our environment and probably lead to more wars, famine and incidences of food poisoning.",0_0
"But now its March! So, February data are in. Also, due to interest in this exercise, other bloggers are now performing variations on this analysis. So, naturally, I am extending my analysis. I think the variety of results will give various people more information to consider when forming their opinions about the predictive ability of IPCC projections.",0_0
"The process of a cosmic ray particle colliding with particles in our atmosphere and disintegrating into smaller pions, muons, and the like, is called a cosmic ray shower . These particles can be measured on the Earths surface by neutron monitors.",0_0
"Just before the storm began, the weather models (about 10 of them) were predicting 8-12 of snow for downtown DC. Even the most bearish model predicted 5. Same models likewise predicted 12-18 for western suburbs with the most bearish predicting 10. They shut down the government, all the schools, etc.",5_1
"on Friday, July 30th, 2010 at 12:36 am and is filed under News.",0_0
"President Obama's decision to reduce offshore drilling restrictions is an important move in the right direction. The U.S. needs a comprehensive energy program to bridge the country's adjustment to cleaner fuels that reduce carbon emissions. This includes green energy and nuclear energy, as well as clean coal, oil and natural gas. By adopting a broad ""do it all"" type energy program, the U.S. can move toward its political objective of energy independence that will also help reduce the country's trade deficit.",0_0
"Europe Environment Agency. 2004. Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emission Trends and Projections in Europe 2004, http://reports.eea.eu.int/technical report 2004 7/en/Analysis of GHG trends and projections in Europe.pdf.",0_0
"What is necessary for international action on GHG to move forward? A major requirement is a more credible demonstration of the benefits of costly emissions reductions. As noted above, public-opinion surveys suggest that individuals are most concerned about local effects. This suggests that reducing scientific uncertainty about regional climatic reactions to GHG accumulations and associated economic damages are critical.",0_0
"Indeed, on Monday, BP released the latest edition of its BP Statistical Review of World Energy, and that document shows that once again, the global energy story of today isn't wind, solar, or ""clean energy,"" it is coal. The numbers put the lie to the ongoing story being pushed by the Obama administration, the Sierra Club, and their many allies on the green Left.",0_0
"Apologies for the crushing disappointment I know you feel. Now, wheres my hammer?",0_0
"Yet, instead of converting America to the green religion, Marchionne has gone native. Auto website Jalopnik calls the Viper straight up car porn. The Snake has tempted Marchionne and he has eaten the apple whole. His conversion is the untold story of Chryslers remarkable turnaround from bankruptcy just three years ago.",0_0
"As the undeniability of the problems in climate science exposed in these emails is beginning to be grasped by the public, scientists in the field have begun to speak out. Today on a thread at Watts Up With That , a post from climate scientist who studied at Harvard was featured. Sean is very clear, pulls no punches, and is worth the time of anyone whos interested in climategate to read.",5_2
"The resulting global average temperature of the Earth is then subsequently -18 degrees C. There is no cold being amplified to hot, anywhere. The furnace in your house doesnt work by running at -18 degrees C, then being amplified by insulation to room temperature, +22 degrees C. Imagine if things worked that way. Why run the furnace at -18 degrees C since you could engineer a better system to run at only -100 degrees C and be amplified by backradiation or heat-trapping to +100 degrees C? As a simple matter of engineering, you could use as near to zero energy input as you want, and get however high of temperature you wanted. This has never been done because it is a violation of thermodynamics, because reality doesnt behave this way. If reality did behave this way, nothing would be stable because cold things would always be accidentally heating themselves up to destruction.",0_0
"If the president and Congress want to avoid such debacles in the future, they will need to reform or systematically work around NEPA's traps and pitfalls and deny activists the ability to interfere with the legitimate, appropriate actions of government agencies.",0_0
"To reach an agreement on collective action, the parties must believe that the new distribution of property rights offers them benefits that will exceed the sum of the new arrangement's costs to them plus the costs needed to negotiate, monitor, and enforce the agreement. (Economists call the latter ""transaction costs."") By inference, high transaction costs can scuttle agreements on readjusting property rights in ways that, were it not for the transaction costs, could yield net benefits for all parties. It is precisely this problem that has caused the failure of many attempts to curtail exploitation of the common-pool resources.",0_0
"My ebook Who Turned on the Heat? goes into a tremendous amount of detail to explain El Nio and La Nia processes and the long-term aftereffects of strong El Nio events. Who Turned on the Heat? weighs in at a whopping 550+ pages, about 110,000+ words. It contains somewhere in the neighborhood of 380 color illustrations. In pdf form, its about 23MB. It includes links to more than a dozen animations, which allow the reader to view ENSO processes and the interactions between variables.",0_0
"The discovery comes from an analysis of plant productivity data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Terra satellite, combined with growing season climate variables including temperature, solar radiation and water. The plant and climate data are factored into an algorithm that describes constraints on plant growth at different geographical locations.",0_0
"Synopsis: Polar bears have survived much hotter and colder periods. Continued polar bear hunting is the primary danger to polar bear species. Source here . ""Polar bears have survived changes in climate that exceed those that occurred during the twentieth century or are forecast by the IPCCs computer models. Most populations of polar bears are growing, not shrinking, and the biggest influence on polar bear populations is not temperature but hunting by humans, which historically has taken a large toll on polar bear populations.""",3_2
"In general, Americans today are sympathetic to, but not active in, the environmental movement. In Gallup's latest question, asked in 2014, 18 percent said they were active in the movement, while 42 percent said they were sympathetic but not active. As for evaluating the impact of the environmental movement, 76 percent told Gallup in 1992 that the movement had definitely or probably done more good than harm. In 2010, 62 percent gave that response. In 1971, 42.9 percent of college freshmen said that being involved in programs to clean up the environment was an objective considered essential or very important for them. In 2014, 26 percent gave that response. There is no indication from this poll or others that young people's commitment to a clean and healthful environment has lessened. They, like most Americans, simply attach less urgency to it than in the past.",0_0
"By Noaki Schwartz and Jason Dearen, Associated Press",0_0
"Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey has given the clearest indication yet that he expects gas to continue to play a major role in the UKs energy mix for at least the next two decades, revealing 20 new gas-fired power plants are likely to built over the next few years. Business Green, 27 September 2012 ( http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2213148/davey-20-new-gas-power-plants-in-the-pipeline-for-the-uk )",0_0
"The paper corroborates the NOAA 2012 Sea Level Budget which finds sea levels have risen at only 1.1-1.3 mm/yr over the past 7 years from 2005-2012 , and the paper of Chambers et al finding ???sea level has been rising on average by 1.7 mm/year over the last 110 years.??",1_6
"Curiously, in an earlier work (Mann and Jones 2003), Mann had used an Antarctic isotope series covering the past two millennia (Law Dome), but, despite the shortage of long SH proxies, this series was not used in Mann et al 2008. The reasons for its omission were not stated. As CA readers realize, the Law Dome isotope series has a rather elevated medieval period, a feature that led to an AR4 controversy seen in Climategate emails. AR4 wanted to illustrate long SH proxies, but refused to show the Law Dome series (with its warm medieval period).",5_1
"But nature often doesnt follow quite that kind of exponential decay. Instead, it quite often follows what is called a fat-tailed, heavy-tailed, or long-tailed exponential decay. Figure 1 shows the difference between two examples of a standard exponential decay, and a fat-tailed exponential decay (golden line).",0_0
"People send me stuff. Today it is a PowerPoint presentation from NASA JPL that touts the new GRASP ( G eodetic R eference A ntenna in Sp ace) satellite project. I??d say it is more than a bit of a bombshell because the whole purpose of this new mission is to ???fix?? other mission data that apparently never had a stable enough reference for the measurements being made . This promises to rewrite what we know about sea level rise and acceleration, ice extent and ice volume loss measured from space.",5_1
"So, you may be asking why we are paying such close attention to 2.8% of the globe. It does seem surprising that this small region would have a noticeable affect on global surface temperatures, but it seems to according to Cowtan and Wrays analysis. In terms of the broader climate dynamics, the Arctic Ocean has an outsized influence on Northern Hemisphere climate dynamics (as per the Stadium Wave analysis).",0_0
"As people have finally begun to realize the significance of this latter problem, Lal indicates that crop residues are being ""widely considered as a source of lignocellulosic biomass."" However, he says that removal of crop residues for this purpose ""is not an option (Lal, 2007) because of the negative impacts of removal on soil quality, and increase in soil erosion (Lal, 1995),"" as well as the loss of the residue's ""positive impacts"" on ""numerous ecosystem services."" Therefore, in yet another shift in tactics, Lal reports that degraded soils are being considered as possible sites for establishing energy plantations. However, he notes that with their extremely low capacity for biomass production, the amount of biofuel produced on globally-abandoned agricultural land cannot even meet 10% of the energy needs of North America, Europe and Asia, citing the work of Campbell et al . (2009) in this regard. Yet even these considerations are only half the problem.",4_4
"It states that reductions in mountain ice have been observed from the loss of ice climbs in the Andes, Alps and in Africa between 1900 and 2000.",0_0
"According to Canadian writer and researcher Vivian Krause , U.S. foundations have poured more than $300 million into Canadian environmental groups since 2000. One foundation, endowed by Intel co-founderGordon Moore, has been single-handedly responsible for $92 million of that total, Krause wrote Jan. 17 in Canadas Financial Post. Foundations flush with the wealth of computer pioneersWilliam Hewlett and David Packard, she added, sent another $90 million to wage green-politics wars in the Great White North....",0_0
Two studies lessen concerns of Antarctic warming,0_0
"Our suspicions that something fishy was going on were confirmed when top secret satellite data was leaked to us from a highly confidential source . The data was generated by sophisticated sensing techniques known as taking a picture in space to form an image of the surface of the Earth. When we got it, complex algorithms called Photoshop running on a supercomputer called a Pentium P5 at Climate Resistance HQ processed the data to make the image readable by humans, and to reveal the truth to the claims that the world faces water shortages.",5_2
"PNAS papers must also, make materials, data, and associated protocols available to readers",0_0
"As noted in the abstract, Antarctic sea ice has confounded the models by instead increasing over the satellite era. In fact, it is currently at a record extent that is more than 2 standard deviations above the 1979-2000 average.",1_1
"What is the bias in degrees Celsius introduced as a result of aggregating temperature data from different measurement heights, aerodynamic roughnesses, and thermodynamic stability?",5_1
"At this meeting Profs. H. Flohn of Germany, H.H. Lamb of the United Kingdom and Reid Bryson of the United States developed a highly persuasive demonstration that there has been a steady cooling of northern hemisphere temperatures during the last 30 years, with the strongest cooling at the higher latitudes.",1_4
"Global warming is real. It is predominantly anthropogenic. Left unchecked, it will likely warm the earth by 3-7 C by the end of the century. What should the United States do about it?",0_0
"The patterns of warming and cooling in Iceland were not always well correlated with similar changes in NW Europe, indeed often the opposite. This automatically renders any attempt to homogenise Icelandic temperature data with stations hundreds of miles away in NW Europe utterly meaningless.",5_1
"CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis, Jr. on the what the Clean Air Act says about carbon dioxide:",0_0
"According to Metcalfe, ""Companies, individuals, and governments can sponsor this offset by making donations to a dedicated trust fund and, in so doing on this world stage, make one of the most important commitments in modern history to a sustainable future. There is a web site where delegates can calculate how much CO2 their trip will generate and offset it. Ten dollars will offset one metric tonne of CO2 emitted by the summit"" (Electricity Daily, August 20, 2002). The summit begins in Johannesburg on August 26 and ends on September 4.",0_0
Voters seem to understand that. Gallup reports that 60 percent of Americans,0_0
"But the American people have not had their final word on Obama's decisions here (as on so much else). Certainly, any Republican presidential candidate who promised to revive the space shuttle would send a powerful signal to the country that the spirit of JFK and Reagan lives and that America's day of leadership is not done.",0_0
"Twice-ambient CO 2 concentrations increased plant daily net carbon uptake by nearly 50%, while reducing daily transpirational water loss by approximately 24%. Together, the two phenomena led to a 110% increase in plant water-use efficiency . At the same time, however, prolonged exposure to atmospheric CO 2 enrichment induced measurable photosynthetic acclimation , as indicated by an 11% reduction in rubisco activity and a 34% reduction in the activity of PEP-carboxylase . Nevertheless, the plants grown in elevated CO 2 produced 88% more biomass than the plants grown in ambient air. What it means",3_3
"CEI is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. For more information about CEI, please visit our website at www.cei.org.",0_0
"The correspondence of public university faculty should not be open to anyone who wants to read it. Nor should the cost of reviewing, producing and/or redacting such correspondence fall on the public university. A contrary ruling on either point would do unique damage to America?s public universities. Failure to protect the interests of public universities and their faculty to be free to research controversial or divisive topics and to exchange and express thoughts and ideas in a zone of privacy, without fear of embarrassment by public disclosure, will damage an essential quality of American public universities.",0_0
incredibly quiet tornado seasonthere just arent any storms.,0_0
"Stewart and Weiner argue it is in the national interest of the United States to participate in such a regime, provided that it is well designed. They discuss the elements of sound climate regulatory design, including maximum use of economic incentives, the comprehensive approach, and other flexibility mechanisms; participation by all major emitting countries, including developing countries; regulatory targets based on longer-term emissions pathways set to maximize net social benefits; and effective arrangements to ensure compliance with regulatory obligations by nations and sources.",0_0
"Back in September, I warned that this was going to be an extremely bitterly cold winter . I wrote another article that warned about how cold this winter would be in early December .",1_3
"The first paragraph seems unarguable to me, though Schmidt would undoubtedly use different words to describe the Real Climate post in September 2009. Eeven Schmidt cannot reasonably dispute that the September 2009 Real Climate post was extremely antagonistic. Indeed, CG-2 clearly demonstrated Schmidts intent to be as antagonistic as possible. Even though Briffa recognized that there were substantive technical issues relating to inhomogeneity, on Sep 29, 2009 (CG2-4564), the day before the antagonistic RC post , Schmidt told Jones, Osborn and Mann that the issue was propaganda:",0_0
"What actually hurts consumers are government and environmentalist opposition to leasing, drilling, fracking, pipelines, and hydrocarbons and their support for expensive, land-intensive, water-hungry, lower-energy-content ethanol and biofuel ""alternatives.""",0_0
people have received SS retirement benefits as an expensive PR campaign,0_0
"It will be so tiny we cant even measure it. Its going to be less than .02 of a degree for the next several decades,?? Christy said.We measure the global temperature through satellites, my colleague Roy Spencer and I, here at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. And we see changes ofmore than that from day to day.It would be impossible to detect and attribute a .02 degree change to any regulation that was proposed.",4_2
"7) Jared Olar: A Pagan Mindset Informs Global Warmingism Echo Pilot, 17 December 2010",0_0
House structure in place beginning right after the election. Most important is,0_0
"A minority of scientists who doubt that mankind's emissions have much impact say that natural swings are the main cause of rising temperatures in recent decades. If true, that would make it less urgent to invest in measures to cut emissions.",2_1
"In discussing their findings, Weinkle et al . say their long-period analysis ""does not support claims that increasing TC landfall frequency or landfall intensity has contributed to concomitantly increasing economic losses."" And they conclude with the reassuring fact that their quantitative analysis of global hurricane landfalls ""is consistent with previous research focused on normalized losses associated with hurricanes that have found no trends once data are properly adjusted for societal factors (e.g., Pielke et al ., 2008; Crompton and McAneney, 2008; Neumayer and Barthel, 2011; Barthel and Neumayer, 2012; Bouwer, 2011; Raghavan and Rajesh, 2003)."" References",1_7
"UPDATE (April 6, 2014): Ive added a link to a follow-up post about the cause of the observed C-shaped warming pattern in the Pacific.",0_0
"If youre thinking the reasons for the wide ranges in hindcast trends and, similarly, the wide ranges in the forecast trends of outgoing longwave and shortwave radiation have to do with modeled representations in clouds, youre likely correct.",0_0
"Michaels examined the plethora of recent claims concerning anthropogenic climate change and its possible link to past, present, and future species shifts and extinctions. Michaels overarching conclusions? 1.) Climate affects species distribution. 2.) Plants and animals adapt, evolve, or perish under changes in climate. 3.) That process may be slowed or accelerated by human activities. 4.) Little evidence exists to suggest anthropogenic climate change is leading to mass extinctions, nor should in the future.",3_2
<0813> Fox/Environment Agency:,0_0
"Higher electricity prices will further strain refineries already struggling with soaring electricity costs and EPA's sulfur and other regulations, restrictions on refinery upgrades and construction, constraints on moving crude oil to East Coast refineries, and other compliance costs all for dubious environmental or health benefits. Three East Coast refineries have already closed, costing thousands of jobs and causing the Department of Energy to warn that pump prices are likely to soar even higher in Eastern states.",4_1
"in unionization elections. And, they might have added, for higher taxes on, and",0_0
"Fresh off the contrived controversy of Michael Moore accusing Disney of censorship for refusing to distribute his anti-Bush celluloid screed comes another politically charged film. The Day After Tomorrow, a flick that purports to warn about destruction wrought by global warming, crashes into multiplexes across the land on May 28. Already, Al Gore and the lefty Internet clearing house MoveOn.org are planning to exploit the movie's New York premiere with a rally the same day. MoveOn.org is calling it ""the movie the White House doesn't want you to see.""",0_0
Segment 3 is the debunking of the many claims of impending climate catastrophes Al Gore??s movie ???An Inconvenient Truth??.,5_2
"It is to be hoped that reason will reassert itself, but this is far from certain, because no institution has such a difficult time confessing error or backtracking as the Supreme Court; and, having already decided to ignore normal rules of rationality in its initial decision, it might double down.",0_0
"In light of these many observations, therefore, it would appear that there is a plethora of natural and anthropogenic-induced negative feedbacks to purported global warming that are more than capable of maintaining the climate of the globe within a temperature range conducive to the continued well-being of all forms of life currently found upon the face of the earth ... and in the sea, and in the soil, and in the air.",3_1
"During the review process, suspend and defund implementation of regulations and programs that raise serious questions about their honesty and validity. Terminate rules and programs found to be based on fraud, junk science, doctored data or concocted evidence and penalize or terminate agency personnel who have engaged in deceptive or fraudulent practices.",0_0
"The point is more than semantic, because Fonte is not simply defending national sovereignty in the abstract (and indeed the concept has a plethora of sometimes contradictory definitions). Instead, he is defending how America has developed the concept, resting on the Constitution's opening phrase, ""We the People.""",0_0
"This fall Congress will debate who should pay what to shrink America's carbon footprint, in order to fight climate change. Yet it might surprise you to learn that international law entitles the State of Mississippi to an exemption from any climate policy that would harm its economic growth.",0_0
"what physical processes or modes of variability are important for the decadal predictability and prediction problem, and whether their relevance may evolve and change with time;",0_0
Microsoft patent division taking cash from at least 5 Android vendors:,0_0
"Cuomo's collaborative strategy has pushed health-care policy back into the quiet zone and avoided the epic public battles with 1199 that his predecessors fought and lost. However, getting a grip on the state's Medicaid spending, which had grown at more than twice the rate of inflation between 2000 and 2010, wasn't cost-free. The union fought off cuts to nursing homes, secured a wage floor for home health-care workers while expanding their numbers, and pressured the governor to extend a tax increase on high earners to lessen the need for other changes. Cuomo also agreed to continue the Medicaid enrollment expansion that began under Spitzer and Paterson. In the long run, the governor's cost-containment strategy hinges on getting Washington to grant New York more administrative flexibility under the Affordable Care Act.",0_0
"Lies, Damned Lies, and Embarrassed Global-Warming Liberals",0_0
22 views of the global albedocomparison between 20 GCMs and two satellites,0_0
FoodPolitik: Hypocrite Bloomberg behind latest salty Big Apple campaign:,0_0
"Now, I don't think that these particular questions are the most essential ones for a president. But I suspect that he is out of touch with many more important questions associated with the citizens of the country in which he wants to become the president.",0_0
"NATO is today paying less attention to potential maritime threats affecting its own civilian populations than to making the non-Western world safe for democracy (or sharia, since the jury is still out). If NATO wants to survive another 30 years, it will have to focus a little more on the concerns of its own population.",0_0
"The IAMs used by the IWG to estimate the SCC are grounded on the specification of such an ECS distribution. Since 2010, the IWG has used an ECS distribution based on an academic paper by Gerard Roe and Marcia Baker published seven years ago. Since then, a number of updated ECS distributions have been estimated, suggesting lower probabilities of extreme global warming.",0_0
"But the editorial goes on to state that the climate alarm is overwhelmingly persuasive and that NASA scientist James Hansen, the leading alarmist scientist in the world, is not an ideologue.",5_2
"In principle, collective action could solve the problem by changing property rights to limit access. In practice, such collective action has often not materialized, or it has done so only after much harm has taken place.",0_0
"This isn't just a ""war on coal"" it is a war on America. One free market think tank, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), has been joined by six major unions to ensure that the EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) rules proposal does not become a regulation that CFACT can call ""nothing less than industrial sabotage by regulatory means.""",0_0
"An adjoining firm, Wavin, who make heating, plumbing and drainage products, have been allowing fire crews to use its water reserves normally used for the manufacture of the companys clay pipe products. This will continue until the fire is finally put out.",0_0
"Well leave aside the obvious fallacy that a few isolated events constitute some sort of trend, and look at what the facts tell us.",0_0
"The U.S. can and should take action on climate change, but, as in other policy areas, it should tailor its steps to fit its limited resources. One key to realism is to adopt a patient but serious approach to GHG control. Another is to pay close attention to options that can protect the nation from whatever harmful effects of climate change may unfold. A combination of these approaches can do a good job of protecting U.S. national interests without incurring excessive costs or causing undue conflict with other global powers such as China, India, Japan, and Russia.",0_0
This is a mostly official version of my previous report about the invalidity of the 115 GeV Higgs with 30-fold enhancement of the diphoton decays.,0_0
"There's an old legal proverb: If you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. If you have the law on your side, argue the law. If you have neither, attack the witness. When proponents of a scientific consensus lead with an attack on the witness, rather than on the arguments and evidence, be suspicious.",0_0
Even China cant jump-start the electric car,0_0
"Exponent rejected Snyders criticism on this (and other points) on two grounds. First, their analysis was not limited to the comparison of variability between Patriot and Colt balls, but also included comparison to their simulations.",0_0
"Not only has the Antarctic sea ice been increasing in recent years, but scientists have likewise witnessed a similar growth of the continental land ice, particularly in the eastern half of Antarctica.",1_1
The Obama administration has for months now been grappling with political attacks targeting its efforts to finance green energy start-ups. The financial meltdown of Solyndra has been the focus of a Republican-led Congressional investigation and millions of dollars in attack ads by conservative groups.,0_0
"The panel members were Pederson, Lucinda Chodan, editor of the Victoria Times Colonist, Peter Calamai, a science journalist, and James Hoggan, author Climate Cover-up, which claims that unscrupulous right-wing think tanks are trying to brainwash the public against belief in global warming. There was, thanks to Pederson (see why below), no one representing the skeptical side of the issue.",0_0
THE USE OF GLOBAL DATA AS A METRIC FOR GLOBAL WARMING CAN BE DECEIVING,0_0
"Moreover, the commonwealth's new policy only incrementally changes existing practice. All of Virginia's counties already follow the federal Secure Communities program, which requires they check the immigration status of all individuals arrested against the Department of Homeland Security database. Allowing law enforcement to inquire about immigration status won't add much to that already existing program.",0_0
"In summary, when reality shows that Anatarctica is not contributing to sea level rise, then just fudge the models until theres a net positive sea level rise contribution. With the right assumptions, you can showanything!In this case they simply assume that changes in the ice-flow dynamics (yes, precisely!) more than offset the ice growth from precipitation.",5_1
"In her view, the science as reported by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has institutionalized overconfidence. The overconfidence has resulted in disagreements based on: insufficient observational evidence; disagreement about the value of different classes of evidence (e.g. models); disagreement about the appropriate logical framework for linking and assessing the evidence; assessments of areas of ambiguity and ignorance; and belief polarization as a result of politicization of the science.",5_1
It seems like a clumsy effort by Norway's socialist government to meddle in domestic American politics by giving a boost to a left-of-center politician whose views are more in sync with Scandinavian socialism.,0_0
"Carrington's problem is that the UNFCCC document linked only asserts that temperature rises above 2C would be dangerous. There is no citation. Fortunately a more complete record of the target is to be found in this recent paper from the Potsdam Institute, which notes that the 2C target can be viewed in many ways, few of which are truly satisfactory. The authors conclude that the target actually has more to do with politics than science.",0_0
"Attacks on the integrity of global-warming skeptics are nothing new. As a co-author of two papers with Mr. Soon, I've been subjected to them myself. This time, however, the attacks have reached a feverish pitch. In addition, the government has gotten involved. Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva of Arizona has requested information from seven universities about funding for research by global warming skeptics, while Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer of California, Ed Markey of Massachusetts and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island asked for similar information from 100 corporations.",0_0
"My assumption is that if they caught 400 with enough evidence to survive civil service grievance procedures, at least 4000 must be stealing. It's like Goodfella's II.",0_0
"Fact : we already know how to make groups of atoms behave as one quantum entity, by cooling them very near absolute zero until they become a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC).",0_0
"Many will blame the economy for this situation, arguing that no party in the midst of the worst economic crisis in at least 30, and perhaps 80, years could have satisfied the electorate. There is truth to this, as the party in power always suffers at the polls during a significant recession.",0_0
"The same year, by convenient coincidence, Chesapeake Energy started giving millions of dollars to the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign, which then produced controversial media of the exact kind that Chesapeake Energy had abandoned due to Congressional outrage. The timing of these donations suggests the gas giant outsourced its dirty work to the green giant.",0_0
"Since I have a finite amount of data, the trend of 1.20 units/time cant be exact, right? Excel tells me that using the assumptions above, the standard error in this trend is 0.15 units/time.",0_0
"The next 24 hr? More thunderstorms, particularly over the north Cascades and southern BC.",0_0
"Every presidential candidate is going to come into the 2012 race with baggage. But Newt Gingrich has what, for primary voters, could be a doozy in his closet three years ago, he cut an ad with Nancy Pelosi for Al Gore's climate change group.",0_0
"Glenn Beck's ""Restoring Honor"" rally on the National Mall drew 300,000 people. Meanwhile, ""CarnivOil"" events in Wisconsin drew more yawns than people, as desperate Big Environment groups struggled to regain their momentum, by ranting about global warming, the Gulf oil spill, and ""evil"" oil companies.",0_0
"The only thing all negotiators seemed to agree upon was that their efforts in Bonn had been unsuccessful. ""These negotiations have if anything gone backwards,"" said the EU's climate action commissioner Connie Hedegaard. ""All parties seem to be having a difficult time coming to convergence and the text is larger than it has to be,"" America's Pershing told the press. He claimed that during the talks some countries had been ""walking back from progress made in Copenhagen."" Dessima Williams of Grenada, who served as the spokeswoman for the 43-nation Association of Small Island States, concurred: ""There seems to be some backsliding. This is very lamentable and very unhealthy.""",0_0
Satellite data shows that Arctic Sea ice extent is now the greatest for mid-June since at least 2005.,1_1
"A new paper published in Climate of the Past finds climate models are unable to reproduce the climate change of the past 6,000 years found by temperature proxies. According to the authors, ""Independently of the choice of the climate model, we observe significant mismatches between modelled and estimated SST amplitudes in the trends for the last 6,000 years,"" and climate model ""SST trends underestimate the SST trends by a factor of two to five. For , no significant relationship between model simulations and proxy reconstructions can be detected."" The paper adds to many other peer-reviewed papers finding climate models are unable to reproduce the known climate of the past , much less the future.",5_1
"A theoretical checksum: In Kiehl & Trenberth (1997), total forcing from H 2 O, CO 2 , CH 4 , O 3 , and N 2 O is given as 125 W m 2 in clear skies and 86 in cloud, or ~101 W m 2 overall. Holding insolation and albedo constant, the difference between surface temperatures with and without these GHGs is 288 255 = 33 C . Ignoring minor forcings, climate sensitivity of the whole atmosphere is (5.35 ln 2)(33/101) = 1.2 C , which, divided by 0.7 to allow for non-CO2 forcings, gives total warming at CO2 doubling by 2100 of 1.7 C , or 50% of IPCCs central estimate, more than halving the cost-effectiveness of the regulations.",3_1
"Windmills and solar panels sound wonderful. Except that the UK wind isnt blowing and the German sun isnt shining. --Donna Lamframboise, No Frakking Consensus, 3 March 2013",4_4
"Biologists are again predicting massive species losses as the world warms. But where are the corpses? There have been few findings of extinctions among continental bird and mammal species over the past 500 years. The species extinctions have been virtually all on islands, as humans have brought such alien predators as rats, cats, and Canadian thistles to places where they had no natural enemies.",3_2
"In any event, errors and exaggerations such as that which is evidenced in the IPCCs defective graph do not inspire confidence in the reliability of the IPCCs scientific case. Given this and other mistakes that an international body of this nature ought not to have made, and given your numerous and direct conflicts of interest that have, in our opinion, been insufficiently disclosed, we are also copying this letter to the delegations of the states parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change with a request that you be stripped of office forthwith.",5_2
"By Peter Roff, US News, Aug 12, 2015",0_0
"Chapter 4 of my book was devoted to the importance of proper discounting. Nigel Lawson did something very similar in his Chapter 7 with the title ?Discounting the Future: Ethics, Risk and Uncertainty.? For him, ?the choice of discount rate is critical in assessing which policies might make sense, and which clearly do not.? I agree with him that ?with a higher discount rate, the argument for radical action over global warming now collapses completely? (p. 83).",0_0
"Reaching consensus about climate change, recognizing that these statements emerge from processes of deliberation and discussion rather than from pure observation, experimentation and falsification, can therefore be an uncomfortable thing for scientists and public alike. Scientists need to be prepared to argue about their ""considered opinions"", to embrace consensus but without closing down argument or suggesting that matters are settled.",0_0
"The well-heeled environmental lobbying groups have massive operating budgets compared to groups that express global warming skepticism. The Sierra Club Foundation 2004 budget was $91 million and the Natural Resources Defense Council had a $57 million budget for the same year. Compare that to the often media derided Competitive Enterprise Institutes small $3.6 million annual budget. In addition, if a climate skeptic receives any money from industry, the media immediately labels them and attempts to discredit their work. The same media completely ignore the money flow from the environmental lobby to climate alarmists like James Hansen and Michael Oppenheimer. (ie. Hansen received $250,000 from the Heinz Foundation and Oppenheimer is a paid partisan of Environmental Defense Fund)",5_2
"Consequently, Speziale and Ezcurra further write that ""it is important to plan protected area networks that maximize local environmental heterogeneity, including the protection of rock outcrops both as refugia for cold-adapted species and as potential stepping stones that would allow dispersal of these species between supportive environments through unfavorable ones."" Such findings lessen concerns of future flora species extinctions due to global warming.",0_0
"By Terry Jones, IBD, Aug 8, 2015",0_0
"Simple models presented here which are driven with two types of assumed internal radiative forcing have also shed light on some features of observed climate variability which have not been adequately explained before. These include: the large magnitude of satellite-observed radiative variability on interannual time scales compared to climate models; the low and highly variable correlations between global, time-averaged temperature and radiative fluxes; the tendency for model-produced feedbacks to be more positive than those observed in the climate system; and even the potential role of internally generated radiative forcing as a partial explanation for the major low frequency features of the global mean temperature record since 1900.",5_1
"For example, for a 0.2 m moist soil layer (about 8 inches thick), starting at 80 deg. F, the rate of energy loss over 12 hours is enough to cool that soil layer down to 25 deg. F.IF you dont assume any downwelling IR from the sky (the SDS-recommended setting):",0_0
"If one reads the paper, one sees that it is hardly likely to represent the last word on the matter. One is working with data that is far from what one might wish for. Moreover, the complexity of the situation tends to defeat simple analyses. Nonetheless, certain things are clear: models are at great variance with observations, the simple regressions between outgoing radiation and surface temperature will severely misrepresent climate sensitivity, and the observations suggest negative rather than positive feedbacks.",0_0
"But already in 1989 there was talk that we only have ten rp us to stop global warming before kuststder versvmmas and political chaos arises. That's often doom came even this warning p shame. Twenty years later, to my knowledge, no city versvmmats. And political chaos we have always had.",0_0
"Recently , about one-third of Americas 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 cropsand 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
"Mike Haseler known to many through his pseudo-name ""Scottish Sceptic"" and through his work on the Scottish Climate & Energy Forum has been selected by the UK Independence Party in Scotland to be their spokesman on Energy and Climate.",0_0
"America needs more economic growth, domestic manufacturing, jobs and secure, affordable energy to make those things happen.",0_0
"It's all to stop ""dangerous manmade climate change,"" rising seas, warmer and colder weather, wetter and drier seasons, and other ""unprecedented"" calamities. Now the Feds want us to believe worsening forest fires threaten communities, wildlife, and wildlife habitats because we burn fossil fuels.",0_0
"Lest we forget the big picture, Kyoto can't pass the Senate because it forfeits our economic sovereignty to unaccountable international bureaucrats, imposes huge job-destroying costs on our economy, and implies massive wealth transfers among countries, industries and companies.",4_1
"Speth gamely concedes that ""some projections, like those on the prices of food and minerals, Global 2000 got wrong, and the report had many shortcomings."" It would be a useful exercise for Speth to ponder these ""shortcomings"" for what they might tell us about how to revise long-term forecasting. Instead, Speth insists that, for all its errors, Global 2000 was essentially correct: ""We have entered the endgame in our traditional, historical relationship with the natural world."" But the authors have at least learned one thing from their previous specific errors: do not make firm predictions about the future. The new genre of doomsday books eschews specific forecasts, such that it will not be possible in the future to say they were wrong.",0_0
"Though the Obama Administration is forcefully pushing its carbon regulations, the quantitative basis for these rules, the social cost of carbon (SCC) is fundamentally flawed. Quantitative measures of CO2 policy, such as the likely impact on world temperatures, provide little support for any of the policies offered to date. Ignoring this evidence, the Obama Administration appears resolute in its stance to promote its policy goals even at the detriment of those adversely impacted by these misguided policies.",4_1
"""The American people have spent 30 years and $15 billion to determine whether Yucca Mountain would be a safe repository for our nation's civilian and defense-related nuclear waste."" That's a quote of Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) reported in the April issue of The Heartland Institute's Environment & Climate News.",0_0
"There are no current indications that any similar patterns are set to affect Australia, Mr Fisher said.",0_0
"The study, conducted by James Rippe, MD, Founder and Director of the Rippe Lifestyle Institute and Professor of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Central Florida, examined sixty-four individuals who consumed low-fat milk sweetened with either HFCS or sucrose with the added sugar matching the 25th, 50th and 90th percentile population consumption levels of fructose for ten weeks.",0_0
"The Danubes freezing is just one of many severe winter events in the continent this year. Heavy snowfall has blocked roads and stranded towns in central Italy. A train in Montenegro was stranded on the tracks for three days due to heavy snow. EvenVenices famous canals froze, a rare feat.",1_3
"""For the first time in four years, the U.N. Security Council debated Wednesday whether climate change should be considered a priority worthy of the council's attention, but it failed to reach agreement on the politically charged issue.""",0_0
"Even though Giuliani has just said something that I believe about 1/3 or 1/2 of Americans find obvious, he was immediately attacked and bombarded as a heretic. Left-wing activists (including those pretending to be conservatives) have written lots of texts intended to be character assassinations. MSNBC aired more than 10 minutes of tirades making it sound like if a critical observation about Giuliani, and not one about Obama, is at the root of this story.",0_0
For this reason any cooling outfall from the station nominally downstream will flow back upstream and cooling upstream will stagnate in a pool of water.,0_0
"In practice, Texas windpower offers much less energy than first appears. Texass wind farms are concentrated in the Texas Panhandle, far from the focus of the states electricity demand along the I-35 corridor. In addition, Texas wind tends to blow hardest at night and during off-peak (non-summer) months, when there is less overall demand absent air conditioning load.",4_4
"No wonder they had previously blacked out that information. And some people have claimed that these global warming policies would only cost Americans a postage stamp a day. The background behind this story is from the Director of Freedom Action, also Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy at CEI. From the Cooler Heads Digest, 18 September 2009:",0_0
"Philosophers may be interested in bushfire epistemology, logic, ethics, aesthetics, and ontology. Bushfire epistemology is very diverse, including traditional Aboriginal knowledge; historical records from early European settler diaries, letters, and journals; recent scientific research; economics, politics; law, and even psychology. Logic is needed to pull these together and arrive at rational policy on bushfire.",0_0
It seems fairly clear that the homogenisation process has achieved bringing the Southern Africa data sets into line with the wider data sets. Whether the early twentieth century warming and mid-century cooling are outliers that have been correctly cleansed is a subject for further study.,0_0
defended. He is investing too much personal stuff in this and not letting the,0_0
Deiss suggested the world body should get more involved in economic and financial issues and not leave them solely in the hands of forums like the Group of 20 club of key developed and developing nations.,0_0
The House of Representatives approves a 90% income tax for executives at AIG and other firms that received bank bailout funds.,0_0
"After all, what if Justice would never come to an end? Knowing the truth 'and much better, even perchepermette dreaming that certain mistakes will never be more committed.",0_0
"""The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer ( ) Reports all point to a radical change in climate conditions. ( ) Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, while at many points well-known glaciers have entirely disappeared.""",0_0
"Forest fires also contribute significantly to atmospheric carbon. A 2007 study by the federally funded Center for Atmospheric Research found that ""large wildfires in the western United States can pump as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in just a few weeks as cars do in those areas in an entire year."" Scientists at Stanford University and the National Snow and Ice Data Center believe that carbon soot from wildfires is adding to the greenhouse effect and contributing to this summer's unusual thaw in the Arctic and Greenland.",0_0
Multiple US agencies adjusting climate data to show global warming,0_0
"William Yeatman, Daily News Record , 31 March 2010",0_0
"Such charcoal-based fire histories can extend much further into the past than most tree-ring-based fire histories, he said. The charcoal history of fire in the giant sequoia groves extends back more than 8,000 years.",0_0
"And as far as whether we should be focusing on the top or the bottom of the Table (i.e. which discount rate is appropriate) this is an ongoing field of battle that basically pits the supporters of Nicholas Sterns (infamous) 2007 analysis (which relies on using low discount rates resulting in huge future damage valuations), verses the backers of the analyses done by William Nordhaus and by Richard Tol (which use higher discount rates and produce much lower climate change damage projections). See the NRC report or the Wikipedia page for economic details and comments on this debate.",0_0
"Snow did not even bypass the south. This is abnormal for early October, says reader Argiris Diamantis.",0_0
"Base Metals, particularly copper, may be forming a bit of a base, so it would be reasonable to look at the metals MINERS. Even if the metals just lay there for a while (and the ETNs have some loss of time value) the company stock may be paying a worthwhile dividend. So on the ToDo list is look at miners.",0_0
"The past four years have seen successive annual U.N. conferences (Copenhagen in 2009, Cancun in 2010, Durban in 2011, and Doha in 2012) frantically trying to reach agreement among nearly 200 countries on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. In essence, these conferences have succeeded only in wresting vague pledges from developed countries to reduce emissions, contribute funds to help developing countries adapt to climate change, and meet again to try to negotiate a binding treaty by 2015.",0_0
"National Black Chamber of Commerce President Harry Alford accurately called EPA's carbon dioxide regulation ""a slap in the face to poor and minority families.""",4_1
"Adaptation is an effective means of reducing climate related damages. The benefit-cost ratios of adaptation expenditure are larger than one in all scenarios, and for high and low climate damages and discount rates. Nonetheless, benefit cost ratios, and consequently global welfare, are even larger when adaptation and mitigation are implemented jointly. Even though a clear trade-off between adaptation and mitigation has been quantified, they are strategic complements and both contribute to a better control of climate damages. Mitigation prevails in the short-run and/or if the discount rate is low.",0_0
"Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow ( www.CFACT.org ), author of Eco-Imperialism : Green power - Black death , and coauthor of Cracking Big Green : To save the world from the Save-the-Earth money machine .",0_0
?Medieval Climate Anomaly? or MCA period) was more regionally extreme (mainly,0_0
Defense is one such area; space is another. And the two are closely related.,0_0
"By Meredith Angwin, Northwest Clean Energy, Aug 7, 2015",0_0
"As a student of the IPCC since December 2009 (yes I was defending the IPCC until that point), Ive looked at many of these issues myself. Ive made some of the same points raised in this book. Here are some comments on passages from the text that struck me in some way, and provide a flavor of the parts of the book that I think are most significant:",0_0
"Al Gore claims: Most of the outgoing infrared radiation is trapped by the thin layer of atmosphere that is being thickened by global warming ""pollution,"" so the atmosphere heats up.",0_0
Increased flooding awash in global warming hype,0_0
There will be an optimal carbon price and it is implemented globally in unison,0_0
California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer used part of her Monday floor speech to connect the Oklahoma tornadoes to climate change.,0_0
"1. Plantwide Applicability Limits (PALs). Regulated emitters would be allowed to modify their plants without obtaining a major NSR permit provided their emissions do not exceed a plantwide cap based on an actual emissions baseline. Such ""Plantwide applicability limits"" (PALs) would have the effect of expanding the RMR&R; exclusion and resolving conflicts over de-bottlenecking and aggregation.",0_0
"This is a more inclusive way of assessing risks, including from climate variability and climate change than using the outcome vulnerability approach adopted by the IPCC. A contextual vulnerability assessment, using the bottom-up, resource-based framework is a more inclusive approach for policymakers to adopt effective mitigation and adaptation methodologies to deal with the complexity of the spectrum of social and environmental extreme events that will occur in the coming decades, as the range of threats are assessed, beyond just the focus on CO2 and a few other greenhouse gases as emphasized in the IPCC assessments.",0_0
Can Tomatoes Take Any More Global Warming? By Marlo Lewis,0_0
"Michael Mann pretends to be an involuntary ""public figure'; Posturing for libel suit filed against Steyn, CEI?",0_0
"David Ridenour, vice president of the National Center for Public Policy Research, and also representing the Cooler Heads Coalition, said that early action crediting would help big business at the expense of small business. ""Since most small businesses and family farms lack the political contacts and clever lawyers necessary to negotiate credit deals with the Clinton administration and lack the financial wherewithal to make immediate reductions in their emissions, large businesses would likely garner the lion's share of early credits.""",0_0
"There are other power stations a little further away, at least two major ones to the east. (there because of the river, coal delivery)",0_0
"on Monday, February 15th, 2010 at 2:54 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
All time record cold January morning in Canberra,1_3
"Indoctrination Alert as yet another teacher outs herself as a climate alarmist, having learned all the necessary propaganda from Al Gore himself. The Warrnambool Standard is gushing about it (well it would be its part of Fairfax):",5_2
The flight of the planets is nothing nobler; all the arts lose virtue,0_0
"The thermometers show that US temperatures are declining thenNCDC and GISS tamper with the data, and tell the public that we are heating out of control.",5_2
"Greg Page, chief executive of global grains trading giant Cargill Inc, joined a chorus of critics of biofuels by urging the U.S. government to temporarily curb its quotas to produce corn-based ethanol fuel.",0_0
"Of course, maybe the people that run it really didnt want a wind turbine in their coal town, and this torch lighting is their form of silent protest. Or, maybe they are proud of it and felt it needed to be illuminated all hours of the night. Maybe the lights are to warn off birds and small planes. Nobody seemed to know. Whatever the reason, I couldnt help but be amused.",0_0
"In the Viscount Monckton article there was a significant contribution by rgbatduke now elevated to a post titled The ensemble of models is completely meaningless, statistically whose comments can be read with reference to this spaghetti graph (with thanks to the authors of it).",0_0
Obama clings to climate alarmism with National Climate Assessment,5_2
"""Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he would use weekend meetings of G-20 finance ministers to advance efforts to ""rebalance"" the world economy so it is less reliant on U.S. consumers, to move toward establishing ""norms"" on exchange-rate policy, and to persuade others the U.S. doesn't aim to devalue its way to prosperity.""",0_0
"A report dellEnel estimated at 30 billion euro, the economic loss that Italy has undergone renounce nuclear. The damage will be even greater in the coming years.",0_0
"Republicans, who have the better arguments on the merits of the pipeline, have unfortunately exaggerated the likely number of jobs it would create and even portrayed it as essential to economic recovery.",0_0
"""The pro-treaty side would have us believe that the underlying science is clear, that the consensus of scientists has spoken, and all the rest of us need to do is get on with saving the planet,"" explained Marlo Lewis, vice president for policy and coalitions at CEI. ""But in science, isn't over until a hypothesis has been validated, either by an experimental test or by observations about the real world.""",0_0
"In a statement, a Plevin and Sons spokesman said the firm expected the situation to be ""fully resolved as soon as possible"".",0_0
"For now the focus is supply, but a sharper focus is needed on demand curbs and the grid.",0_0
"These arguments are made with the best of intentions from sincere, well-meaning individuals. They have inspired a generation to ""go green."" And their concerns deserve a response.",0_0
"Were already seeing and feeling the signs of the Little Ice Age, the article continues.",0_0
predictions based on theories . . . theories that have not done a very good job,0_0
"Nowadays we can hardly count our blessings. One of which is that we don't have to do any counting, computers do it for us. In our world, information is easily had, education is readily obtainable. Opportunity knocks, it jiggles the doorknob, it will try the window if we don't have the alarm system on.",0_0
"The resultpainfully predictable when businesses try to buy off environmentalist activistsis that the radicals, having succeeded in major harm to one industry, next turn on their corporate enablers in the other industry. As the Wall Street Journal recently observed, the Sierra Club has started a ""Beyond Natural Gas"" campaign in hopes of shutting down another industry. Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, has boasted, ""We're going to be preventing new gas plants from being built wherever we can."" The campaign's new website declares, ""The natural gas industry is dirty, dangerous and running amok.""",0_0
"America is reaching the stage, so the argument goes, where it is bumping against the limits to growth.",0_0
"Climate scientists have been baffled by the 17-year pause in global warming. At least eight explanations have been offered to explain the lapse in warming, including declining solar activity and natural climate cycles.",1_4
"During the period 1900 to 2005, moderate-to-severe drought conditions occurred in Southern California during 34 of those 106 years that is, about one-third of the time.",0_0
"When drafts of chapters come for AR5, we can??t review the chapter as we can??t get access to the data, or, the authors can??t refer to these papers as the data haven??t been made available for audit.",5_2
Main Diary Entries according to ones age,0_0
"Europe?s manufacturers are rapidly losing ground to international competition. Instead of putting money into the energy-expensive EU, investors are pouring money into the US, where energy prices have fallen to one-third of those in the EU, thanks to the shale gas revolution.",0_0
"The good news is that all of this is not inevitable. A recent Supreme Court decision held that EPA should have considered these and other enormous costs from its ""mercury and air toxics"" regulations, before imposing the rules. The decision should give governors and federal and state lawmakers every incentive to resist EPA's harmful and dictatorial actions, and not wait for the CPP regulation to go into effect.",0_0
"Marchant told MPs on the energy select committee last week: I think we should be much more focusing CCS on capital support, at the lowest cost to the state, because I am not looking for a return on the capital I am putting forward.",0_0
"There were some political games that were played, that took it off the trail and path to completion, where Republicans put it out there as something that was put on a timetable that it could not be resolved. It caused a delay, Lew said. Playing political games with something like this was a mistake.",0_0
"That's media speak for ""hiding under their desks with the lights off"". Via MK Braaten .",0_0
"Finally, most of these forms of fossil fuels occur in combination and can be converted into one another. Coal, for example, can be converted to a liquid fuel, or to a gas.",0_0
"The job listings pages on Craigslist in Austin show more than 1,400 new listings in the last three days. They may not all be the most desirable of jobs, to be sure, but still, 1,400 listings in three days is a lot of listings.",0_0
"I got to thinking about the (non) adjustment of the GISS temperature data for the Urban Heat Island effect, and it reminded me that I had once looked briefly at Anchorage, Alaska in that regard. So I thought Id take a fresh look. I used the GISS (NASA) temperature data available here .",0_0
"In today's Washington Times, Robert Stacy McCain recounts Christopher Buckley's appearance at last night's CEI Dinner.",0_0
"A facility equipped with boilers that currently burn fuel oil wanted to change its boilers so they could burn natural gas, which would reduce emissions of SO2 and NOX. It may also result in a fuel cost savings. Although emissions of SO2 and NOX would decrease significantly, the facility projected emissions of VOCs and CO would increase slightly. These increases could trigger NSR and expensive retrofitting, and the facility is likely to conclude the project is no longer viable and continue to burn oil.",0_0
"YET HERE IS A GIANT counterexample. The Fox Network, which is a vital part of the News Corporation, is helping to promote the film. On May 12, Fox featured a 10-minute preview of The Day After Tomorrowon prime time. This film is being used as an overtly political project to promote a green agenda, as even a casual look at the ""Weather Gone Wild"" section of the film's official website shows (it doesn't feature meteorologists getting drunk on Daytona Beach, alas).",0_0
The preamble continues by defining global warming as ?the idea that the world?s average temperature has been increasing over the past 150 years ??,0_0
"Dr. Michaels: If you take a look at the IPCC??s latest volume, by the year 2100,they have two inches of sea-level rise resulting from the loss of Greenlandice. Nottwo feet. Not 20 feet. Two inches! That??s the ???consensus of scientists,?? okay. Whether or not we believe in consensus science, that??s what they say.",1_6
"An outspoken critic of the Obama administration's energy and climate policies, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) said, ""This report is part of the game the president is playing to distract Americans from his unchecked regulatory agenda that is costing our nation middle class jobs, new economic opportunities, and our ability to be energy independent.""",0_0
"According to Kent and Coopers chart, only two maybe three volcanoes erupted in the Cascade Range during the Maunder Minimum.",0_0
"There are exceptions. When the Czechoslovak government in London needed to execute a blonde beast called Reinhardt Heydrich, perhaps the main father of the Holocaust and a gangster who acted as if he were a leader of 2/3 of Czechoslovakia for almost a year (1941-1942) just because a nutcase with one testicle told him that he was one, they sent several parachutists including two shooters. This ""backup"" is what governments or companies do when they want to be ""insured"" that the maneuver will work. And indeed, the first executer's gun got jammed which is why the second one was ready and useful because he could throw the hand grenade that killed the beast after some delay in the hospital. It worked fine. Thousands of Czech lives (including two whole villages) were terminated in the hysteria afterwards but it was needed for the Czechs not to be a nation of complete cowards and collaborators.",0_0
"On Sunday, CBS claimed that Antarctica is melting. In fact, once small portion of the Antarctic peninsula is warming and may be losing snow, while the rest of Antarctica has not been warming and in fact has been gaining ice cover. The show visits an island off the Antarctic Peninsula which has about as much weather relevance and predictive power to the rest of Antarctica as Key West has to the rest of the United States. Absolutely absurd.",1_1
"""The first sentence in Marion Clawson's Forests for Whom and for What? begins, `Forests serve the American people in many ways and have the potential to serve more people in better and more generous ways.' This same insight can be expanded to include all of humanity and all the world's forests."" (True State of the Planet, pp. 204-205)",0_0
"Cook the books has a favorite small-boy yah-boo tactic. He condemns anyone who raises any question about global warming, however sensible, as perpetrating or perpetuating what he calls climate myths.",0_0
"Data supporting the link between consumption of red meat and cancer are, as Kelly and Stier point out, ""flimsy at best,"" with the IRAC admitting that ""there is limited evidence for the carcinogenicity of the consumption of red meat"" and ""no clear association was seen in the high-quality studies."" Nevertheless, IRAC made a big splash in the media with its announcement about red meat and cancer and its equally weak conclusions about processed meat and cancer.",0_0
"provides clear evidence FDRs New Deal actually prolonged the Great Depression and that World War II did nothing to create prosperity...Higgs also demonstrates how little-known changes in weapons procurement policy in 194041 transformed the role of defense contractors in the political economy, why the U.S. civilian economy foundered during the Second World War, and how historians and economists have disregarded or misunderstood the economys rapid postwar return to genuine prosperity.",0_0
"For the past decade, scientists have come to the defense of Michael Mann, somehow thinking that defending Michael Mann is fighting against the ?war on science? and is standing up for academic freedom. Its time to let Michael Mann sink or swim on his own. Michael Mann is having all these problems because he chooses to try to muzzle people that are critical of Mann?s science, critical of Mann?s professional and personal behavior, and critical of Mann?s behavior as revealed in the climategate emails. All this has nothing to do with defending climate science or academic freedom.",0_0
"Now, what I do not fully understand is why the IPCC claims that the ocean heat content increases indeed ARE consistent with the climate models, despite the relatively high sensitivity of all of the IPCC models. While some might claim that it is because warming is actually occurring much deeper in the ocean than 700 m, the vertical profiles I have seen suggest warming decreases rapidly with depth, and has been negligible at a depth of 700 m.",0_0
NW Wash Costco Milk: $2.50/gallon - - SW BC Costco Milk: $4.45/gallon --> 78% more expensive There is more at issue than just the volume of Canadians heading to the city. The notion of striving to act like a good ambassador while in another country seems to have been discarded in favour of rushing for good deals (think Black Friday). Here's but one example . You can listen live beginning at 11:05am PT (2:05pm ET) here . You can also participate in the discussion by calling 1-877-399-9898 or you can e-mail Roy Green ahead of time with your thoughts & questions. Update: Those who missed the discussion can listen to it here .,0_0
A Serious Problem With The Use Of The Global Averaged Surface Temperature Trend To Diagnose Global Warming and Cooling,0_0
"The first thing they will do, and the one thing I think they were always going to succeed in doing at this conference is to agree to establish what will be delicately called the institutional framework. Now that is a code word for world government.",0_0
"Plentiful gas from the Marcellus shale formation has persuaded Shell to plan a $2-biillion ethane ""cracking"" plant near Pittsburgh creating 10,000 construction jobs and 10,000 permanent jobs. Steel plants, electric utilities and countless other industries will also benefit from shale gas.",4_5
"AndrewMontford,author of The Hockey Stick Illusion (2010), blogs at Bishop Hill .",0_0
Clean Energy Incentive Program: Why It Makes EPA's Power Plant Rule Even More Unlawful,0_0
"A year and a half ago, the Climate-gate scandals showed that ""scientists"" ? actually, government-funded global warming activists ? were skewing climate data and trying to silence climate change skeptics.",5_2
"""""They warned us at first that we had to move the vegetables from the front, that no vegetables were allowed in the front yard. We didn't move them because we didn't think we were doing anything wrong, even according to city code we didn't think we were doing anything wrong. So they ticketed us and charged me with a misdemeanor,"" Bass said . . .""",0_0
"So, the EU Climate Minister saying it doesn't matter whether the global warming science is wrong. She seems to think that higher costing energy will help raise people out of poverty. How How does that make sense?",0_0
"Following up on Anthonys comments, I have been digging a little, using Tims links. The Littlebrook power station just to the west of the QE Bridge does discharge warm water from its condenser into the Thames. The intake and outflow are the two circles in the Thames, visible in the Bing ariel view if you scroll left. The PDF document on the site that Tim linked says:",0_0
"Twenty years later came a new development. The demagogic UNESCO projects about a New World Information and Communication Order did not disappear when the US and the UK left the organization in protest and UNESCO, as a result, lost one fourth of its budget. The NWICO project was simply quietly transferred from Paris to New York, from UNESCO headquarters to UN headquarters. Over the years, the UN-New York developed its radio and TV station and its global network of 60 centers. It has provided ""training"" to Third World journalists (with a particular predilection for Palestinians) and built both a formal and informal media empire on which the sun never sets. By 1998, the UN spent a greater share of its budget on self-promotion and propaganda through its Department of Public Information (5.37 percent) than on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs (4.96 percent) or International Justice and Law (2.10 percent).",0_0
"The clouds and precipitation is cooling western Washington, but temperatures are surging over the Columbia Basin--some folks are already over 100F. Expect many temps above 105F, some reaching 110F",0_0
"Full-throated presidential support for nuclear would not only help with the funding and regulatory issues, but also public acceptance. Venture capitalist Sam Altman has said that he believes that just as ""the 20th century was clearly the carbon century the 22nd century is going to be the atomic power century. It's just a question of how long it takes us.""",0_0
"Figure 11 presents the 2014-to-date and 1982 Hovmollers for wind stress (not anomalies) along the equator. The simplest way to explain them is that theyre presenting the impacts of the strengths and directions of the trade winds on the surfaces of the equatorial oceans. In this presentation, the effects of the east to west trade winds at various strengths are shown in blues, and the reversals of the trade winds into westerlies are shown in yellows, oranges and reds.",0_0
"Quoting one journalist, a George Mason University analysis found that U.S. media outlets pretty much agree that climate change is real, its happening, and were responsible. That debate is over. As a result, critics are no longer being interviewed, the study said. In the view of mainstream media outlets, seeking or presenting both sides on the climate issue is a false balance. At least one news organization now has an explicit editorial policy discouraging reporters from quoting climate change deniers in environment or science coverage, the Washington Examiner noted.",5_2
"> >> of interest here at CRU, although IRI in the States would also be well",0_0
Figure 1.) Photo of the Western Pacific Ocean Kavachi sub-marine Volcano eruption plume as it breaks through to the surface (January 2014).,0_0
"Also in April, the Environmental Protection Agency held a conference to address a problem many had thought confined to the past: bedbugs. ""Don't let the bedbugs bite,"" is a cute saying with a troublesome past. In the past, tiny, flesh-eating bugs would often live inside wooden bed frames and feed on unsuspecting people as they slept. Bedbugs had been essentially eradicated in the U.S. and much of the developed world, but now they're making a comeback. Why?",0_0
"???We need more. We need more of everything ??? wind power , renewables, hydro. But we will certainly need more coal,?? said Milton Catelin, CEO of the World Coal Association. He argued that with 1.5 billion people still living without access to electricity, coal needs to grow.",4_5
"The main forms of human disturbance are the river-control structures such as dams and levees, the dredging of canals, and draining and filling.",0_0
"On rainfall, there is almost always one model that is right because there are so many models and they all say different things.",5_1
"The whacky world of climate alarmism is falling apart . The leading acolytes of the movement will continue to wail that its all the fault of those evil energy interests that supposedly make fellows like me question the theology of AGW theory, but in reality they have no one to blame for their increasing irrelevance but themselves.",5_2
The first part of Dr. Christy's testimony concludes:,0_0
"Instead of complaining politely about the plan on the basis industry might lose some water, what about rural leaders pointing out the obvious: that the plan will deliver no environmental benefit until something is done about the 7.6 kilometres of concrete barrage that sits across the bottom of the Lower Lakes?",0_0
Climate change and renewable energy movements falter,0_0
"EPA currently employs some 20,000 people at an annual budget of over $8 billion. The new hires alone would cost taxpayers another $24 billion annually plus hundreds of billions of dollars in economic pain, manufacturing shutdowns, and new job losses that EPA's CO2 regulations would inflict.",4_1
Genentech is another biotech giant funding the inaugural. One aspect of Genentech's pro-Obamacare lobbying in 2009 came to light in a New York Times article revealing that many members of Congress supporting Obamacare provisions read from a script prepared by Genentech's lobbyists.,0_0
www.nvi.com .au/.../corporal-smith-remembered-as-a-great-leader/?cs...,0_0
"Phil, thanks for your thoughts ? guarantee there will be no dirty laundry in",0_0
"Carbon dioxide emissions from non-Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countriessuch as China and Indiaare projected to grow by 9 billion tons per year. The Partnership for a Better Energy Future reports: ""for every ton of CO2 reduced in 2030 as a result of EPA's rule, the rest of the world will have increased emissions by more than 16 tons."" Our reduction in 2030 would offset the equivalent of just 13.5 days of CO2 emissions from China. The CPP will become the definition of ""all pain and no gain."" Or, as economist Thomas Sowell calls it: ""replacing what worked with what sounded good.""",4_2
"""Bracing for an election cycle that will be marked by heavy outside spending, massive voter registration drives, and 16 months of presidential politicking, the American labor movement confronts a daunting slate of demographic changes and other trends that could make 2012 a rocky year for unions.""",0_0
"But Climategate was only the tip of the iceberg. An AR4 warning that unchecked climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 was found to be lifted from an erroneous World Wildlife Federation (WWF) report and misrepresented as peer-reviewed science. IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri attempted to parry this ???mistake?? by accusing the accusers at the Indian environment ministry of ???arrogance?? and practicing ???voodoo science?? in issuing a report disputing the IPCC. But one in his own ranks, Dr Murari Lal, the coordinating lead author of the chapter making the claim, had the astoundingly bad manners to admit that he knew all along that it ???did not rest on peer-reviewed scientific research.?? Apparently , so had Pachauri, who continued to lie about it for months so as not to sully the exalted AR4 immediately prior to Copenhagen.",5_2
"The amount of electricity produced from green energy sources in Scotland fell by almost half for a period earlier this year because it was not wet or windy enough. The figures prompted opposition concerns that Scotland could be left in the dark if the wind isnt blowing. Scot MacNab, The Scotsman, 28 September 2012 ( http://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/scotland-not-windy-enough-for-green-power-1-2550478 )",0_0
"At the 4.47 mark Ottmar Edenhofer, deputy director of the PIK, forgets about what his boss had said was very easy to calculate , and shifts the blame for the Himalayan blunder on the IPCC overall peer-review process:",0_0
"If youre so interested in creating more jobs, why not approve the Keystone pipeline, which will create tens of thousands of jobs? Wallace asked of the pipeline under review.",0_0
"used the Treasury Department's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, which he headed since its",0_0
"""The long-term change for the Arctic sea ice has been very consistent. It shows a decline over these (past) three decades especially in the summer. In the past 3-4 years Arctic sea ice has been below the average for the last 30 years."" That's great but the Arctic is not the globe. It's one percent of it or so. There are other places of the world where no ""consistent"" warming has occurred at all. The simplest example is the object on the other side from the Arctic, the Antarctica. Have you heard of that continent? It's not enough to find one place on Earth that's consistent with your hypothesis. Quite on the contrary: it's enough to find one place that's inconsistent with it to falsify it.",1_1
"Over the past two weeks or so, several hundred protesters assembled outside the White House to oppose the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which is designed to transport bitumen produced from oil sands in Alberta to refineries on the Gulf Coast. During the protest, actor Daryl Hannah, climate scientist James Hansen, and author and activist Bill McKibben were among some 1,200 people who were arrested.",0_0
"The United States should be taking steps to ensure a sufficient supply of electricity to cope with the lower temperatures, but has been wasting billions to support renewable energy, wind and solar, that is costly and ineffective. The U.S. Energy Department projects that solar power will make up 0.6 percent of total U.S. electricity generation in 2015. Wind power which is funded in part by taxpayer subsidies to stay in business has received $7.3 billion over the past seven years, but produces a minimal amount of electricity to justify its cost.",4_4
he is presented as a co-author of the Berkeley Earth temperature record (BEST). He criticizes the climate skeptics who want to interpret every adjustment as something criminal.,0_0
Frozen $46m runway melting shouts the news on dozens of Fairfax sites from newspapers in towns large and small across our wide brown land.,0_0
1. The science that predicts the extent of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is not settled science. (Jan 2013),5_1
"Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) cites the White House's plans to apply the Clean Air Act to global warming as an excuse for Congress to pass ""cap and trade"" legislation.",0_0
"""As the expedition descended the Coca watershed towards the Napo river, their provisions and their Andean Indian bearers gave out Disheartened and starving, Pizarro ordered the construction of a raft, sending his second-in-command Orellana ahead to find food. Orellana and his fifty companions never returned. Instead they became the first white men to descend from the headwaters to the mouth of the Amazon. Incensed by the treachery of Orellana and frustrated in his attempts to seek out the kingdom of El Dorado, a furious Pizarro made his return to Quito."" (The Fate of the Forest, Cockburn, pp. 6-7)",0_0
"Obama should take a lesson from his political hero, the last truly great Democratic president, Franklin D. Roosevelt. If World War II had not come, FDR might have ended up an average president. His New Deal, we now know, did not end the Great Depression, though it did wreck his own political party. But FDR joined the pantheon of Washington and Lincoln by foreseeing and preparing for the existential threat posed by Hitler and the Axis powers. As FDR himself said, ""Dr. New Deal"" had to give way to ""Dr. Win the War.""",0_0
"S. Raghavan is also an author with A.K. Sen Sarma of the Chapter entitled Tropical cyclone impacts in India and neighborhood in Pielke, R.A., Jr. and R.A. Pielke, Sr., Editors, 2000: Storms, Volumes I and II, Routledge Press, London. His work is obviously of significance in the context of the impacts of Hurricane Katrina in the United States.",0_0
"Scientists, Czymzik et al., analyzing 450 years of data from Germany, found the IPCC's increased flooding prediction to be the total opposite of reality. Instead, it was determined that colder climates have a greater frequency of floods.",1_7
"Global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have increased markedly as a result of human activities since 1750 and now far exceed pre-industrial values determined from ice cores spanning many thousands of years.",0_0
Frigid Spring Freezes Global Warming Claims,0_0
"The issue of separating natural from anthropogenically forced variability, particularly in context of the attribution of 20th century climate change, has been a topic of several previous threads at Climate Etc. The issue of natural vs anthropogenically forced climate variability/change has been a key issue of contention between the climate establishment and skeptics. There are some encouraging signs that the climate establishment is maturing in their consideration of this issue.",0_0
"Paradoxically enough, the first Persian astronaut has paid her trip herself. Anousheh Ansari has also become the first Muslim woman in space and the first female space tourist in the world. Congratulations.",0_0
"""The most pessimistic model projects five to seven times as many heat-related deaths in Los Angeles, with six to eight times as many heat waves. Snow pack and high altitude forests would shrink up to 90%. The scientists' temperature projections are higher than previous estimates, particularly in summer. Their predictions of an extreme decline in snow pack, alpine forests and the spread of desert areas all exceed earlier projections.""",0_0
"While certainly the burning of coal for power generation produces some costs that lie outside the market forces acting to establish the price of electricity, the magnitude of those externalities is anybodys guess. Epstein et al. have extended their wild guess. Last year, the National Research Council extended theirsit was about half that of the Epstein groups best estimate. And, from judicious use of the scientific literature, yet lower estimates can be justified. In fact, there are even some estimates that the externalities from coal-fired electricity may prove to be positive.",0_0
"Of course there is a spectrum of views on climate as she points out which range from outright disbelief that temperatures are rising at all to acceptance of a measurable human signal in the global temperature record. However, she portrays this range of views in a very simplistic manner in an attempt to ridicule those who dare question the consensus.",0_0
"Mr. Bloomberg's Arverne by the Sea initiative transformed what he called ""a swath of vacant land"" into a ""vibrant and growing oceanfront community,"" with ""affordable"" homes starting at $559,000. (The land was vacant because a 1950 storm wiped it clean of structures.) The new homes were built on 167 acres of land raised five feet above the surrounding Far Rockaway area. Those Arverne homes mostly survived Sandy. But the high ground caused storm surges to rise higher and move faster elsewhere than they would have on Rockaway lowlands that are always hit head-on by northward moving storms.",0_0
"A careful analysis of global temperature graphs from each of the measurement agencies confirm that ??? despite variations between them ??? there has not been any notable warming since 2000. Depending on which graphs you use, global temperatures since 2000 have been more or less flat. Some, such as the GISS data, show a modest rise, while others show negligible movement and even a small fall in recent years.",1_4
"The researchers hypothesize that long-term warming may change the community of soil microorganisms so that it becomes more efficient. Organism adaptation, change in the species that comprise the soils, and/or changes in the availability of various nutrients could result in this increased efficiency.",3_2
"If government spending were a poker game, we'd be entering uncharted high-stakes territory around now. President Obama has seen President Bush's $3 trillion budget, and raised him another trillion. We need a breather to take it all in: TARP, a $787-billion stimulus bill, and a projected $1.845 trillion budget deficit. But lost among all the spending commotion is yet another trillion-dollar handfederal regulation.",0_0
"By ignoring these realities, Obamas policy prescription is found to be erroneous. The taxation or regulation of CO 2 emissions is an unnecessary and detrimental policy option that should be shunned. Why would any government advocate to increase regulations and raise energy prices based on flawed computer model projections of climate change that will never come to pass? Why would any government advance policy that seeks to destroy jobs, rather than to promote them? Why, in fact, would they actually bite the hand that feeds them?",4_1
One of the first things I noticed is the beautiful countryside. But something that really jumped out at me were the help-wanted signs. Help-wanted signs everywhere.,0_0
"Are we prepared for the new green future where jobless Australians survive from backyard vegie gardens, poaching kangaroos and wild pigs from carbon credit forests and cooking with biomass on a wood stove? Of course we will enjoy pirate movies downloaded at the speed of light using the NBN (as long as the sun is shining or the wind blows).",0_0
Please pass this along to anyone you know who has had enough of the arrogance and ineptitude of a government that is supposed to serve the people.,0_0
"As the science of decadal prediction is in its infancy, one would like to assess and understand the following:",0_0
"In the spirit of the season, I thought Id try to find out whos been naughty, whos been nice, and whos been torrenting at work.",0_0
"concentrations will result in broad-scale decreases in the concentrations of all elements essential for plant function and animal nutrition,"" as proposed by Loladze (2002). They also say their generally opposite results for non-essential trace elements (some of which can be toxic) ""may be applicable to contaminated systems,"" stating that ""elevated CO 2 may, through dilution effects, alleviate aluminum toxicity."" In general, therefore, one could say that elevated CO 2 tends to increase the availability of helpful trace elements, while it tends to decrease the availability of harmful ones. References",3_3
Full Expensing of Capital Will Reduce Carbon Intensity,0_0
"Many people participating in the World Wildlife Fund's Earth Hour are honestly motivated by their personal desire to live in a clean and beautiful environmentwhich is understandable. However, they are unknowingly lending their support to a movement that wants to clamp down on human progress. The implicit idea behind Earth Hour, Earth Day, and similar efforts is that human beings, through our exploitation of natural resources and the waste we produce, are an unnatural and negative force in the world and that our existence should be controlled, limited, and ultimately reduced.",0_0
"2. Melting of the icecaps yet the icecaps in Antarctica and Greenland are actually increasing. Sea ice does not affect global sea level as it floats (Archimedes Principle). But the fact that Antarctic sea ice reached the greatest extent ever recorded in June 2014 suggests that this part of the world at least is getting colder, not warmer .",1_1
"During the height of immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, our ancestors had no hesitancy in tossing millions of new arrivals straight into the melting pot, and no one was embarrassed by Americanization. Because the melting pot directly forms the shared values of citizens who see themselves as ""We the People,"" when assimilation is disrupted or frustrated, the unifying bonds of citizenship are similarly weakened. These are critical issues regardless of one's views on the broader question of who should be let in and who excluded.",0_0
"""Denmark has announced that by the end of this decade, it will produce a third of its energy from renewable sources - wind power, in particular, but also solar power and the burning of 'biomass.' More ambitiously, the Danish Government has set a goal of running the entire country on renewables by 2050.""",0_0
"The problem with Australias $23 carbon tax isnt just that it is internationally high, it is also applied broadly.",0_0
"The temperatures from each source individually. This results in 5 trends. Because the lack of precision due to each instrument, these will have the largest uncertainty intervals. Making conclusions based on these maximize error . That is: we increase our risk of failing to reject the IPCC projections when they are wrong .",0_0
"Charles Anderson PhD, a materials physicist, has a new post today which calculates the cooling effect of CO2 and other ""greenhouse"" gases to be 100 times greater than the heating effect.",2_3
"There was a lot more choice. If the process was ""harder"" in any way before, it was because there were far more choices. It was harder in the same way that it is generally harder to shop in the US than, say, in the old Soviet Union. Obamacare circumscribes policies such that a large package of benefits are mandated, not optional (I have to pay for mental health coverage and probably aromatherapy) and the size of one's deductible is capped.",0_0
"But many Inuit communities said the researchers were wrong. They said the bear population was increasing and they cited reports from hunters who kept seeing more bears. Mr. Gissing said that encouraged the government to conduct the recent study, which involved 8,000 kilometres of aerial surveying last August along the coast and offshore islands.",3_2
"As a result of their experimental manipulations and measurements, the two researchers found that adult corals, as they describe the situation, ""are capable of acquiring increased thermal tolerance and that the increased tolerance is a direct result of a change in the symbiont type dominating their tissues from Symbiodinium type C to D,"" and they report that ""the level of increased tolerance gained by the corals changing their dominant symbiont type to D is around 1-1.5C."" What it means",3_2
Go to data then to paleoclimate. Did this to stop getting hassled by the skeptics for the,0_0
"Obama proposes that Washington cover large medical bills, leaving taxpayers on the hook for the most expensive care. He offers a plan that wouldn t fundamentally alter the underlying economics of the health-care system. Costs are likely to keep rising under this proposal, albeit with a heavier taxing of the treasury, pushing the U.S. towards a Europeanization of health care.",0_0
Will UK get towers of power ... or a load of hot air?,0_0
"Zhou et al . conclude that ""vegetation variability on the Tibetan Plateau might be mostly driven by thermal impacts (i.e., surface air temperature), whereas precipitation impact is less clear."" Overall, they say ""vegetation activity demonstrates a gradual enhancement in an oscillatory manner during 1982-2002,"" suggesting a significant positive impact of what climate alarmists call ""unprecedented"" global warming over what Zhou et al . describe as ""one of the most prominent features on Earth."" This good-news story is the type of thing that is generally not ""shouted from the housetops"" in our ""new age of enlightenment,"" but it is typical of what is happening worldwide on a long-term basis, as the inexorable greening of the earth continues. Reviewed 14 November 2007",3_2
"Other fraud is evident through public exposure of e-mail files retrieved from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at Britain's University of East Anglia. Scandalous exchanges among prominent researchers who have fomented global warming hysteria confirm long-standing and broadly suspected manipulations of climate data. The communications also reveal conspiracies to falsify and withhold information, to suppress contrary findings in scholarly publications, and to exaggerate the existence and threats of man-made global warming. Many of these individuals have had major influence over summary report findings issued by the IPCC. Still other evidence comes from mouths of government officials, international climate summit organizers and leading science spokespeople recorded in candid public admissions.",5_2
"Finally, satellite measurements show a statistically significant cooling since 1979. These measurements perfectly match weather balloon data. Computer models predict a 0.35 degree Celsius warming over the same period.",0_0
"The book argues that far from cutting down on Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions, this gas, which every human being and member of the animal kingdom exhales night and day, could (and should) naturally increase from the current supposedly dangerous 350 parts per million (ppm) to 1,000 ppm in order to make Earth a truly green planet.",3_3
"And of course Australia is not the United States. Abbott was helped by ferocious splits in the governing Labor party. Nothing similar is happening, yet, with America's Democrats.",0_0
Australias antarctic runway melting | The Grenfell Record,0_0
"After all, he wrote, ``It is essential to measure what we say in terms of its effect on the goal. Experienced international lawyers know where many of the sensitive nerve endings of governments are. Where possible, they should try to avoid irritating them.''",0_0
"The real story is that so many Chamber and NAM members are standing firm, and that most observers do not expect the Senate to pass a cap-and-trade bill this year.",0_0
President Should Declare Global Warming Victory and Go Home,0_0
The result of a fear-driven gamble with the Continent?s industrial future is a costly shambles that threatens to undercut Europe?s economic and political position in a world that is sensibly refusing to follow its lead.,0_0
"""Richmond's short-lived role as a mecca for allegedly illegal Internet gambling cafes may be a thing of the past.""",0_0
"Instead of addressing these concerns, Hansen responded with insults.",0_0
A suggestion to Dr. James Hansen: go protest coal in China:,0_0
"Since the algae and lichens that are major components of BSCs are typically stimulated and grow ever better as the atmosphere's CO 2 concentration is experimentally increased (see Deserts (Algae and Lichens) in our Subject Index), it logically follows that as the air's CO 2 content continues to rise, so too will the productivity of BSCs continue to rise, hastening the encroachment of vegetation onto the world's deserts, as the CO 2 -induced greening of the earth continues. Reviewed 5 March 2008",3_3
"21 IPCC 1995, p. 40 and Chapter 6.",0_0
"Twelve hundred more Americans will die on the nation's highways if the Federal auto fuel economy requirements known as CAFE are raised to 40 mpg, according to a new study, CAFE's ""Smashing Success': The Deadly Effects of Auto Fuel Economy Standards, Current and Proposed, released by the Competitive Enterprise Institute. ""The latest rush to join the global warming bandwagon is in the form of proposals for greater fuel economy standards,"" said study author, CEI Policy Analyst Julie DeFalco.",0_0
"As a close associate of Secretary General Kofi Anan, Strong was appointed to chair the panel that created the UN's Iraq office for its ""Oil-For-Food"" program. Introduced by the Clinton Administration in 1995 under a UN Security Council Resolution, the program's intended purpose was to allow Iraq to sell oil on the world market in exchange for food, medicine, and other humanitarian needs of its needy citizens without allowing Saddam Hussein's regime to boost its military capabilities. As it turned out, however, the program also provided lots of humanitarian aid to some very non-needy financial recipients, and was later ended after revelations of corruption hit the press.",0_0
"The committee apparently made no effort to obtain, much less consider, the volumes of available news reports, analyses (including from Congress) and commentary about Mann, the hockey stick and/or Climategate.",0_0
Al Gore's Strange Nobel Prize,0_0
Bars show 595% uncertainty ranges for TCR.,0_0
"At the beginning of the climate conference in Bonn, Germany, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres called on delegates to do what was ""politically possible"" and make ""incremental"" progress. By most accounts, the Bonn talks fell short of even these modest goals. Rifts between poor countries and rich nations that were papered over in Copenhagen reopened leaving delegates with more to debate at the final climate conference in Tianjin, China before the year-end Cancun summit and less common ground from which to begin discussions.",0_0
"Bipartisanship is busting out on other issues too. Agreement was reached on extension of the children's health insurance program, first passed as part of a bipartisan agreement between Democrat Bill Clinton and Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich.",0_0
No doubt these Antarctic findings are continuing to chill concerns about catastrophic man-made global warming.,0_0
"So, to save your benefits, you are going to have your taxes increased. And since Social Security, like every government program, is leaky, and since it pays a negative rate of return, you are going to have to pay present value of more than a dollar of taxes to save present value of a dollar of benefits. That is a bad investment. If you are still in your productive years, be ready to see your benefits go bye-bye and fight like hell to keep taxes down. And save, save, save.",0_0
"Dow Chemical's recent resignation from the powerful National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) in a dispute over liquid natural gas (LNG) exports underscores its expanding split over this issue with the broader business community. But in a less visible way, it also suggests the nation's largest chemical company is retreating from its long-stated commitment to address climate change.",0_0
"Since 1991, when global temperatures rose slightly past the 1940 levels, there have been 7 years of drought.",1_4
Bringing natural gas into the U.S.-Canada Clean Energy Dialogue by placing it on the agenda of the third action plan won't guarantee progress amidst all of these political distractions but it will reassert the spirit of cooperation between our two countries in time for the next U.S. president whomever he or she may be to mention Canada more than once and in a favorable way when talking about energy and environmental policy four years from now.,0_0
"""Independently of the method used,we find no significant upward trend in normalized disaster loss.This holds true whether we include all disasters or take out the ones unlikely to be affected by a changing climate. It also holds true if we step away from a global analysis and look at specific regions or step away from pooling all disaster types and look at specific types of disasters instead or combine these two sets of dis-aggregated analysis. Much caution is required in correctly interpreting these findings. What the results tell us is that, based on historical data, there is no evidence so far that climate change has increased the normalized economic loss from natural disasters.""",0_0
"More recent was the March 11, 2011 shutdown of the Fukushima reactor in Japan as the result of an earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Three of its cores melted in the first three days, but there have been no deaths or radiation sickness attributed to this event. That's the part you're not told about.",0_0
Every movement has its nutters. Climate warriors have long ago stopped being civil. But we seem to be entering a new level of radicalisation.,5_2
"From the NOAA data, the computed monthly anomalies in exactly the same Manner In computed themwith the AMSR-E data That is, relative to the June 2002 through July 2009 period of record. The results (shown below) were so surprising, I had to go to my office this Saturday morning to make sure I didnt make a mistake in my processing of the AMSR-E data.",0_0
"Unfortunately, what will likely emerge a few months into the Clinton presidency is a deep desire by Republicans to recapture the party mojo by once again prevailing in the forthcoming 2018 midterm elections by using the old scorched-earth strategies. Following the road maps of 2010 and 2014, party leaders will want to demonize the president, delegitimize Washington and the policy process, and block any meaningful policy action that could lead to a Clinton signing ceremony, feed on the anger at the grassroots.",0_0
"10. The story is ably told by Richard Pipes, ""Team B: The Reality Behind the Myth,"" Commentary (October 1986).",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship John Berlau on why the bill is a terrible idea:,0_0
"This ""slow boat to Kyoto"" is less defensible than business-sanctioned high tax rates, since we need some system for raising revenues.",0_0
"Congress and states must reassert their legislative roles, restore federalism and separation of powers as the foundation of our American system, and address the extreme deference that courts too often give ""agency discretion.""",0_0
"The intensity of the radio frequency is 5,000 times less than a cellphone, 3,200 less than a cordless phone in a home and 26 times less than a wireless router in your home.",0_0
you're Al Gore or a Hollywood liberal) flying in private jets. And we are told,0_0
"(i) If e >> 1, the dynamic time scale is much greater than the radiative time scale, and hence radiativeprocesses dominate. This regime is characteristic of Mars. Consequently, on a planet with e >> 1,the equator-to-pole temperature gradient is very large, in response the latitudinal variations of solar radiation.Also, as the radiative cooling of the atmospheric parcel is so efficient, a very large diurnalvariation of temperature is expected.",0_0
"The real issue is what steps countries should take to control greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming. At the negotiations in Kyoto, Japan, more than 150 countries have been focusing on ""targets and timetables."" While such discussions can provide good political theater and photo ops, they miss a fundamental point: Carrying out significant reductions in greenhouse gases will require an institutional capability that simply does not exist now.",0_0
Well discuss and present what is called the phase locking of ENSO events to the seasonal cycle in this chapter.,0_0
"In the 1970s and 80s, environmental policies rose to prominence as environmentalists scored many political victories. But our successes in cleaning rivers and air pollution were unfortunately followed by an environmental populism that led to an intellectual and economic downward spiral, often driven by fears of approaching ecological cataclysm. This devolution of the environmental movement is what German journalist and environment expert Edgar Gaertner has recently written about in his new book Eco-nihilism: A critique of a Political Ecology.",5_2
"Drew Shindell, an atmospheric physicist at NASAs Goddard Institute for Space Studies who attended Della-Martas presentation, said the European findings are especially significant because they draw on long-term surface temperature records.",0_0
(3.) An El Nio- and La Nia-related component to explain the year-to-year wiggles above and beyond the anthropogenic global warming component (1.).,0_0
"Knappenberger and Michaels quantify the mismatch between models and observations. From Cato at Liberty, AGU 2014: Quantifying the Mismatch between Climate Projections and Observations",5_1
New governors usher in era of labor union reform:,0_0
"The New York Energy Plan estimates that the eight wind farms, with a combined 250 wind turbines, would produce approximately 900,000 kilo-watt hours (kWh) of electricity per year. But this is a drop in the bucket compared to the state's total electricity demand. For example, this amount equals 58/100 of 1 percent of the total electricity imported into New York in 2000. It is only 15 percent of the energy that will be produced from a single gas-fired combined cycle plant that is scheduled to come online in Athens, NY in 2003.",4_4
Can anyone possibly believe that emission reductions of 80 percent are anything other than a fantasy?,0_0
a particularly juicy target. With US$6 billion worth of annual,0_0
"An Inconvenient Truth predictably thrilled audiences at this year's Sundance and Cannes film festivals. That has much to do with the politically receptive crowd, and also much to do with the current conception of the ""documentary."" Nonfiction movies have never been completely impartialeven the cuddliest nature film usually carries a conservation messagebut in recent years the very concept of objectivity has become anathema to many documentary filmmakers.",0_0
"I'm scared of big government just because it's big. The government is going to spend $2.8 trillion next year. Two-point-eight-trillion anything is scary. How about coming home to find out that your cat had 2.8 trillion warm, fuzzy kittens?",0_0
"One geoengineering possibility involves injecting sunlight-reflecting sulfate particles into the stratosphere, intended to mimic what large volcanic eruptions already do every once in a while. In a more science-fiction-like vein, another proposal would place numerous small ""sunshades"" in orbit to prevent a small amount of sunlight from reaching the Earth's surface. For many climate scientists, however, the goal of studying geoengineering isn't to determine whether any particular proposal is practical or safe, but ""to show, with authority, that all such paths are dead-end streets,"" and that the focus needs to be on requiring large reductions in people's fossil-fuel energy consumption.",0_0
"Two, the very large climate modeling overestimates of global warming are primarily a result of the assumed positive water-vapor feedback processes (about 2 o C extra global warming with a CO 2 doubling in most models). Models assume any upper tropospheric warming also brings about upper tropospheric water-vapor increase as well, because they assume atmospheric relative humidity (RH) remains quasi-constant. But measurements and theoretical considerations of deep cumulonimbus (Cb) convective clouds indicate any increase of CO 2 and its associated increase in global rainfall would lead to a reduction of upper tropospheric RH and a consequent enhancement (not curtailment) of Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) to space.",5_1
"Dutch engineer develops autonomous quadcopter vehicle Reuters ""Online retail giant Amazon hopes to offer delivery by drone in the United States by the end of 2016. Now a Dutch software engineer is working on a quadcopter that he says will be able to deliver much more. Thorstin Crijns envisions a quadcopter that can transport passengers autonomously, without manual control.""",0_0
"This is similar to what happened with the El Nio in 1998. Also don't be surprised to see it soon followed by a La Nia cooling. Although not well understood, there is no evidence linking these naturally occurring reversals of Pacific trade winds and deep-ocean currents to any man-made influences.",0_0
"To extricate themselves from the dismal probabilities of the previous paragraph, proponents of declining discount rates appeal to the possibility of correlated discount rates. In essence, the coin flips stop early in the game and we are stuck with the rate chosen on that last flip, which at the time of analysis is unknown.",0_0
This archive contains some 5.000 emails picked from keyword searches. A few,0_0
"BAZELL: How do they know? Dr. Michael Mann and his team analyze human historical recordstree rings, glaciers, and all sorts of other evidence from as far back as the year 1400. Their conclusion: The earth has never been as warm as it is now. The reason: We burn things. And everything we burn from a match, to gasoline for cars, to coal for plants that generate electricity, pours the invisible gas carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, where it traps the suns heat, the greenhouse effect.",0_0
This measurement is the thickest ice recorded for a late March/early April date since detailed record keeping began in 1964.??,1_1
"Budiansky, Stephen. ""The Doomsday Myths,"" U.S. News and World Report, December 13, 1993, pp. 81-91.",0_0
"Europe 4 : An upwards trend of forest NEP ( Net Ecosystem Productivity ) of 1 0.5 g C/m 2 /year between 1950 and 2000 across the EU 25,?? ending with ???a mean European forest NEP of 175 52 g C/m 2 /year in the 1990s.?? And that ???61% of the change in NEP was attributed to changes in CO2, 26% to changes in climate, and 13% to changes in forest age structure.??",3_3
"Error budgets are also bothering AJStrata , who views the so-called homogenisation adjustments as science fiction.",5_1
"Led by Earthjustice, the Conservation Law Center, Natural Resources Defense Council, National Geographic Society, and the Pew Charitable Trust, environmentalists are urging the White House to use the 1906 Antiquities Act to designate a 6,000-square-mile area in the Gulf of Maine and off the coast of Massachusetts as a National Monument. The area is home to spectacular geological formations, including Cashes Ledge, an underwater mountain system, and the New England Coral Canyons and Seamounts, an undersea chain of formations about 150 miles off the Massachusetts coast.",0_0
"NOAA s nearest tide gauge shows sea level rising in that region at 0.54 mm / year , which means that would take nearly 2000 years for sea level to rise one meter. See the plot below:",1_6
"The creator of the infamous ""hockey stick,"" Michael Mann of the University of Virginia, came out swinging when the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing July 29 on whether the last century was the warmest in the past thousand years. Responding to the devastating refutation of his claim, Mann resorted to personal attacks and wild charges of scientific incompetence.",5_2
Study finds increased CO2 will greatly enhance productivity of world's major crops,3_3
Western provinces can expect a fifth-consecutive deep freeze to move in and stay.,0_0
"Wind turbine rotors can be turned to maximize wind capture. But this is the extent of what the technology can achieve by way of ???control.?? Wind production for electricity is otherwise uncontrollable, except through turning the machines offcurtailment, which is also the one way of making the technology predictable. How can such machines usefully complement the portfolio of extremely reliable machines, so that the latter don??t have to work so hard or so much? The answer: they can??t.",4_4
"However, with respect to the uncertainty of the multi-decadal global model predictions, when run in a hindcast mode, the paper",5_1
"Yesterday I posted the satellite-based global-average monthly sea surface temperature (SST) variations since mid-2002, Which was When The NASA Aqua satellite was Launched Carrying the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSR-E). The AMSR-E instrument (Which I serve as the US Science Team Leader for) Provides nearly all-weather SST measurements.",0_0
"""Neither the absorption nor the reflection coefficient of glass for the infrared light is relevant for this explanation of the physical greenhouse effect, but only the movement of air, hindered by the panes of glass.""",0_0
"But if you subtract all the ""special characteristics"" of Sandy that are related to its random path, there is almost nothing left. In fact, by the Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE), Sandy isn't even the largest storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season . It's not even the second one. It's not even the third one: Sandy is just the fourth largest Atlantic tropical storm of 2012. That shouldn't be shocking because it has made it to the Category 2 and only marginally and for a short time.",1_7
"At the same time, the scandal of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's attempts to sell the Senate seat vacated by Obama (and the ham-handed efforts of Roland Burris to grab the prize), along with the embarrassing fandango of New York Gov. David Paterson (D) as he sought to fill Clinton's vacant Senate seat, caused a backlash against appointments, and a vigorous effort by Sen. Russ Feingold (D) of Wisconsina populist haven where no appointments are allowedto amend the Constitution to ban any appointments at any time.",0_0
"North America's northeastern coast has been battered by hurricanes and other major storms throughout history. A 1775 hurricane killed 4,000 people in Newfoundland; an 1873 monster left 600 dead in Nova Scotia; others pummeled Canada's Maritime Provinces in 1866, 1886, 1893, 1939, 1959, 1963 and 2003.",1_7
Maybe the New York Times can dig up Walter Duranty to report about this 5-year plan.,0_0
"Ivan Osorio: ""Ask any CEO where they'd rather locate and hire."" Answer: Right to work states.",0_0
"In March 2012 President Barack Obama stated, ""We can't just drill our way to lower gas prices."" He said the same thing earlier that year on the campaign trail. He said it a lot. Perhaps the line polled well, but it was not true. The U.S. did drill its way to lower gas prices over the past several years (for both natural gas and gasoline) and broke the back of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in the process.",0_0
The typical old-fashioned diet was almost as bad as being a modern vegan.,0_0
9. Mexico - Agreement to Promote Technical Cooperation in Environmental and Natural Resource Areas,0_0
"Now, what about ecosystems? The best thing we can do to protect ecosystems is to make sure they're healthy and resilient, and there's only one way to do that, which is to build wealth around the world. Only wealthy countries can afford to leave biological resources untapped, reduce the strain on local ecosystems and help build up their resilience. We need to figure out how to spread the wealth-building institutions of liberal democracy around the world.",0_0
134.Plaintiff?s lawsuit was designed to have and has had the effect of inhibiting legitimate debate on the issues and public policy surrounding the theories expounded by Plaintiff and others and of restricting the free flow of ideas concerning the merits of those theories?,0_0
So have their precipitation predictions had anything to do with their recent camera shyness? Possibly. Heres Prof Tim Flannery in New Scientist in 2007,0_0
"A series of international meetings on climate policy were held starting in 1990 and culminating in the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, which called for significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Since then substantial differences have developed between the American and European Union approaches to Kyoto. Dr. Thorning will discuss the economic, political and cultural fctors leading to the differences in climate change policies favored by the U.S. and the E.U. She will also discuss recent changes in the E.U. climate change policy and explore options for a global solution to the potential threat of climate change.",0_0
"The Clean Air Act requires that the Carbon Pollution Standard be based on an adequately demonstrated technology, which the courts have interpreted as being commercially demonstrated. In a recent post for Master Resource, I compared the state of CCS technology today to past pollution control technologies whose commercial viability was adjudicated by the courts. The results of this analysis are summarized in the chart below and demonstrate that CCS is not adequately demonstrated.",4_4
"""Ken Salazar can no longer avoid issuing deep-water drilling permits in the Gulf of Mexico. Though the secretary of the interior recently said he would not bow to political pressure on lifting the de facto drilling moratorium in the gulf, rumors that he would crack under that pressure were confirmed Monday evening when the first deep-water permit since the BP oil spill was issued.""",0_0
Mr. President there is no real climate knob the government can use to turn the temperature down. Weve seen the simple calculation using the IPCCs own formula and assumptions lead one to believe that this entire effort is less about trying to control our planets climate and more about using scary scenarios as an excuse to put most human activities under government control.,4_1
"Those subpopulations have been of concern to scientists who said their numbers are declining. Inuit in those areas have disputed the scientific claims, saying they have seen more bears.",3_2
"39 EPA, New Source Review Questions and Answers.",0_0
"For a short background from my perspective, Dr Zorita, co-authored a paper in 2004 which pointed out the loss in variance created by methods used in Michael Manns hockey stick as demonstrated in the hockey stick posts linked above. The VonStorch and Zorita paper had a mistake in replicating Manns results in that they did the math correctly whereas Mann had it wrong so they were in the odd situation of correcting a correct paper to make it match an incorrect paper. All that aside, they demonstrate that Manns hockey stick handles are mathematically inclined to be straight.",5_1
"$300 BILLION ! Lets just pause and think about that for a moment more than global software AND biotech sectors combined that is a phenomenal statistic. If there had been no global warming scare over the past twenty years, most of these companies wouldnt even exist!",5_2
#3. The oceans are not going to be boiling from CO2 emissions as predicted by NASA's top climate expert.,5_2
"A zero day attack is one that is done when a bug is found, but not yet known to the public and fixed by the vendor. The first day it shows up is in an attack on day zero",0_0
"Piltz simply dismisses the Journal's charge of Sens. Rockefeller and Snowe acting as ""bullies"" in admonishing ExxonMobil to stop funding groups that disagree with their climate change agenda. Why? He gives no reason -- even though these are government officials initiating communications with a private party while brandishing their government credentials. The letter is published on Snowe's official government website, with a press release with headline (all-caps in the original) and subhead (emphasis added):",0_0
"Models often differ from theory, though. Climate models used by the IPCC are notorious for not properly simulating even the most basic of ENSO-related processes. See Bellenger et al. (2012) ENSO representation in climate models: from CMIP3 to CMIP5 . One of the known problems is that they underutilize sunlight (downward shortwave radiation). See Guilyardi et al (2008) Understanding El Nio in Ocean-Atmosphere General Circulation Models: progress and challenges .",5_1
"Congressional reaction to EPA's decision to proceed with the ""appropriate care and attention this complex issue demands"" rather than ""rushing"" to regulate CO2, was predictable.",0_0
"""Similarly, the Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil have been cut to about 12 percent of their original size, yet a team of Brazilian zoologists that combed the forests could not confirm a single case of extinction. Instead, they rediscovered several birds and six species of butterfly considered extinct 20 years ago. And a survey by the Flora Meso-Americana project found increased abundance of some species considered threatened.",0_0
"SM: That's a good question. We ask the question throughout the book that despite the irrefutable evidence that things are getting better, why do people think things are getting worse? I think one reason is the media. The media inundates us with bad news. We say in the book that good news to the media is a contradiction in terms. If it's good, it's not news. So, when you are just being bombarded with stories of someone being murdered, or a plane crash, or a war, or child abuse, you think this is happening all over, and we are at the saturation point in these things. Part of the explanation when Americans think things used to be better is that we all used to be younger, and when we were younger, when we were kids, it never seemed to rain. I think it's a kind of false nostalgia.",0_0
In the past 300 years there has been major changes in what appears to have been a significant shift in atmospheric circulation above the entire trans-Antarctic region between about 1700 and 1850. Concurrently there has been abrupt climate change in the North Atlantic as well as a significant change in atmospheric circulation in the North Pacific.,0_0
"The course of apocalyptic movements is generally similar. In order to keep the enthusiasm of its followers at a fever pitch and to attract new followers, it is necessary to keep stoking the fires with more and more outlandish claims. The hysteria peaks as doomsday is moved closer and closer to the present, and then -- poof -- it collapses. It appears to me that the global warming bubble has gone about as far as it can go before it descends into ranting and writhing on the ground or random outbreaks of mob violence.",0_0
UK Environmentalists Hope To Destroy The Entire Countryside By 2050,0_0
"From the grasping at straws file, Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm has been talking for a while about remaking Michigan as an alternative energy powerhouse. Henry Payne reports on her breakfast talk yesterday morning at the DNC Convention:",0_0
"But such recourse cannot account for the recurring white-working-class swings toward the GOP in prior years. Issues change, yet the same pattern has recurred for over 40 years. Something deeper must be at work, something that operates at the level of values rather than that of ideas. To discern what those values are, we must make inferences from these past elections rather than rely on contemporaneous data; we must turn off our computers and rely on the Force.",0_0
"DCC/CC scientists have also included fundamentally flawed literature reviews such Oreskes 2004, Anderegg et al 2010, and Cook et al 2013 as robust measures of 97-98% scientific consensus for CAGW. All three of these studies has been heavily criticized in the scientific literature for flawed methodology which distorted the results.",5_1
"Ill make one prediction: If Obama does not veto the Keystone XL Pipeline after talking the talk on climate change, green groups will go ballistic (even though, Cato Institutescholar Chip Knappenbergercalculates , full-throttle operation of the Keystone XL Pipeline wouldadd an inconsequential 0.0001C/yrto global temperatures). My colleague Myron Ebell reasonably speculates that Obamas tough talkon climate was a signal to green groups to organize the biggest anti-Keystone protest ever.",0_0
"A global perspective is developed on a number of high impact climate extremes in 2010 through diagnostic studies of the anomalies, diabatic heating, and global energy and water cycles that demonstrate relationships among variables and across events. Natural variability, especially ENSO , and global warming from human influences together resulted in very high sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in several places that played a vital role in subsequent developments.",0_0
So using the 20th c for tuning is just doing what some people have long,0_0
CNN is reporting on TV that many firefighters say fires burn hotter than they used to.,0_0
"Hoyer joins Obama in calling past vote on debt ceiling ""a mistake':",0_0
1. The rate of warming over the past 15 years (1998-2012; 0.05 deg. C/decade) is smaller than the trend since 1951 (1951-2012; 0.12 deg. C/decade) (SPM-3).,1_4
"Bipartisanship is not necessarily a good thing. Strong partisans often dislike the results, and some bipartisan compromises are bad policy. But like it or not, bipartisanship is suddenly busting out all over.",0_0
Can Coastal Marine Fish Evolve to Tolerate Ocean Acidification?,0_0
"Stephen McIntyre, who debunked the Hockey Stick temperature reconstruction by Climategate-implicated Michael Mann, disputed the Committees judgment with respect to the infamous trick to hide the decline.",5_2
"But its only if we include a strong warming effect from Mans CO2 emissions that we can reproduce the observed warming of the past 60 years. We cannot think of any other reason for the warming. That argument from the UNs climate panel, the IPCC, is the argumentum ad ignorantiam, the fallacy of arguing from ignorance. We do not know why the warming has occurred. Arbitrarily to blame Man is impermissible.",5_1
"This is a continuation of the theme of my last 2 blog posts, dealing with the fact that a greater number of strong to violent tornadoes occur in unusually COOL years, not warm years.",0_0
"The Obama Environmental Protection Agency and environmental activists frequently claim that climate change will disproportionately affect poor and minority communities. In their view, this justifies unprecedented environmental regulations, like EPA's pending ""Clean Power Plan"" (CPP) to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas-fueled power plants 30% by 2030.",0_0
Corporate Welfare on a Vast Scale: Obama's Cap-and-Trade Scam Threatens Economy,0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on the mostly hidden costs of federal regulation:,0_0
"Whether Spencer is right or wrong, the claim CO2 is not the only cause of the warming is different than, humans are not to blame for the increase . Mann??s portrayal is a clear exaggeration of what his source actually says.",5_2
"But a bigger gaffe is Hansens claim that Earth absorbs only 240Wm^2, averaged over the surface of the planet. In this number fudge Hansen applied a bogus averaging technique to illuminate a flat Earth by a constant frigid twilight. As such he deliberately omits to account for the fact Earth is a rotating sphere subject to the constant heating and cooling effects of night and day.",5_1
"Note that no one is suggesting that Lunar cycles are the dominant drivers of climate, just that they change conditions on Earth in ways that may favor certain kinds of climate patterns, and may explain the magnitude of some of the extremes. The message is that climate models will not be complete without factoring in the lunar cycles.",2_1
"The brief, which lists Kagan as ""counsel of record,"" argued that the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ""lacked jurisdiction because petitioners failed to exhaust the exclusive statutory review procedures"" at the agency. Directly attacking the reasoning of Judge James Robertson, appointed to the D.C. District Court by President Clinton, Kagan maintained that Robertson's decision to even let the case proceed was ""contrary to bedrock principles of judicial review of administrative action."" Standing is indeed one of the bedrock elements of judicial review under our Constitution. Article III requires that there actually be a ""case"" or ""controversy"" before federal courts can rule on the legal merits of a law or regulation, and the plaintiff has to show a sufficient injury or the likelihood of one from the policy at hand to give him standing to sue. This edict keeps the courts from being a pure policymaking body.",0_0
"Since 1 January 2001, the dawn of the new millennium, the warming trend on the mean of 5 datasets is nil. No warming for 13 years 5 months.",1_4
Members of the IPCC met in Kuala Lumpur last week to discuss the consideration of the Greenland and Antarctic data for the IPCCs next report its fifth. Analysis of the extent of reduction in mass of the two major ice sheets will be the reports main focus.,0_0
"The four researchers first note that "" A. laticollaris is an appropriate species to predict the response of shallow-water thecate Foraminifera to predicted increases in atmospheric CO 2 , given its isolation from a shallow-water semi-tropical setting."" Hence, they go on to say their results indicate that ""at least some foraminiferal species will tolerate CO 2 values that are one to two orders of magnitude higher than those predicted for the next few centuries."" And, last of all, they say that A. laticollaris will also tolerate CO 2 values that are one to two orders of magnitude greater than those predicted to occur for the ""extreme case"" of burning all fossil fuels in the crust of the earth , which observation validates the title of our brief review: That's one tough protist! Reviewed 8 July 2009",3_2
Pictures: National Snow & amp; Ice Data Center,0_0
"But for Murray, the main message was not the internal and external factors which have produced conflict across the Middle East and North Africa and the deaths of refugees It was climate change.",0_0
"Floods are notoriously difficult to predict, particularly flash floods. Coarse resolution global climate models do a dreary job of simulating the local distribution of rainfall events. Apart from the actual physics of precipitation and the complex interactions between the cloud microphysics and small scale turbulent and convective dynamics, getting the regional distribution of rainfall events depends on accurate simulation of the statistics of weather events, ENSO, blocking patterns, etc. Coarse resolution climate models do not do a particularly good job in simulating the dynamics that are relevant for formation of extreme precipitation events.",5_1
"However, the conclusion must be that drawn that warming was more widespread in the Arctic not just the Atlantic side than is currently noted in the official sea ice data bases covering 1920-1945/50 and that the official records appear to very substantially overstate the ice area extent during this period.",5_1
"In the simplest of terms, Robredo et al . conclude that ""elevated CO 2 mitigates many of the effects of drought on nitrogen metabolism and allows more rapid recovery following water stress.""",3_3
"In the blog article , CRU made another untrue assertion about Climate Audit with reckless indifference:",0_0
"Around the world, meanwhile, record low temperatures continue to make a mockery of global warming theories. While anecdotal, to be sure, Cairo, Egypt, just saw its first snowfall in more than 100 years . In the United States there have been thousands of new records for cold temperatures and snowfalls just in the month of December. In an extremely bizarre twist, some climate scientists have even started claiming that the freezing temperatures are actually more evidence of global warming.",1_3
> >> >From: Mike Hulme,0_0
The study notes that this ridge which has resulted in decreased rain and snowfall since 2011 is almost opposite to what computer models predict would result from human-caused climate change.,5_1
"Feel-good actions won't make a dent. For example, it is fashionable to favor locally grown produce in part to reduce the carbon from transport. But transport from producer to retailer is a trivial partless than 5%of energy used in the life cycle of produce. Almost all of the emitted carbon is associated with production, which means that growing a tomato bound for Chicago in an Illinois winter hothouse rather than outdoors in Florida is not a carbon-saving strategy.",0_0
"Polar bear populations are at near record levels and seem healthy, and even I have seen them playing around on floating ice chunks in the Arctic summer. They are a terrestrial animal, after all, as anyone can see who visits the Churchill area in the summer and takes a polar bear cruise on one of their giant bear-proof buses.",3_2
No Master Lock on Job CreationRyan Young's quote in The Washington Times,0_0
"The first principle to keep in mind is context. While it is true that global temperatures have risen somewhat during the past 100-plus years since the Little Ice Age ended, there was little room for temperatures to go at the time but up. The Little Ice Age, lasting from approximately A.D. 1300 to 1900, brought the planets coldest extended temperatures during the last 10,000 years. Saying that temperatures have risen by one degree or so since the end of the Little Ice Age tells us little about the long-term temperature context because the arbitrary baseline of the Little Ice Age was an exceptionally cold climate anomaly.",2_1
"A similar heavy precipitation event happened in the same area in late September of this year, but it was about 15 degrees warmer, which resulted in heavy rainfall but no blizzard, said Dennis Todey, a climatologist at SDSU.",0_0
Massarenti writes not necessarily eugenics the monstrous forms adopted by the Nazis,0_0
"Interpreting the PSD provisions to encompass GHGs makes no logical sense, Kavanaugh argues:",0_0
"While most aktrer, tminstone in theory, stdjer the Mertonska standards governing scientific research communalism, universalism, disinterestedness, originality and skepticism knner many pressured to stdja extreme prospects when it comes to climate science. As a result there is a tendency in this area for the stta political practicality or the latest fashion front of openness and honesty.",0_0
"Some scientists propose, therefore, to use modern technology to create a carefully engineered analogue to this effect. Proposals to seriously study geoengineering are gaining adherents among climate policy experts. In late 2006, NASA and the Carnegie Institution jointly sponsored a high-level expert workshop on the subject. Scientists such as Ralph Cicerone, Paul Crutzen, and Tom Wigley and prominent economists such as Scott Barrett, William Nordhaus, Thomas Schelling, and Lawrence Summers have argued that the concept warranted further exploration. Recently, an expert conference conducted at Stanford added the voices of several more distinguished economists to this list. John Holdren, the president's new science advisor, recently added his voice to this cause while also noting the many uncertainties that still surround these approaches.",0_0
"CEI general counsel Sam Kazman said he would fight to quash the subpoena on First Amendment grounds. The subpoena was issued by Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude E. Walker, a leader of the prosecutors' climate change campaign.",0_0
"The IPCC states that anthropogenic influences on the climate dominated natural ones sometime between 1960 80.The recent episode of global warming that occurred after that transition began in 1980. The world has warmed by about 0.4 deg C in this time. This analysis indicates that all of this warming occurred between 1980 and 1997. Whilst we live in the warmest decade of the instrumental era of global temperature measurement (post-1880), and the 90s were warmer than the 80s, the world has not got any warmer in the last 15 years.",1_4
"Read here . Climate modeler scientists needing to make their ""global warming"" case - adjust temperatures until desired result is met.",5_2
CLICK HERE to buy the book on Amazon. (ISBN: 1595550674),0_0
Study claimed in 2009 that sea levels would rise by up to 82cm by the end of century but the report??s author now says true estimate is still unknown,5_1
"In fact, there has been a cooling, and a rather fast one that would subtract 2.7 ??C per century if it continued by the same rate (and it surely won't).",1_4
The recent bout of wintry weather and the overall political climate have almost certainly killed climate-change legislation this year.,0_0
"MV Akademik Shokalskiy ( Russian : ) is an Akademik Shuleykin -class ice-strengthened ship, built in Finland in 1982 and originally used for oceanographic research. In 1998 it was fully refurbished to serve as a research ship for Arctic and Antarctic work. It was named after the Russian oceanographer Yuly Shokalsky . The ship has two passenger decks, with dining rooms, a bar, a library, and a sauna, and accommodates 54 passengers. It is currently operated by Aurora Expeditions, an Australian expedition cruise line. In 2011, the Akademik Shokalskiy sailed cruises along the coast of Russia and to East Antarctica . Her sister ships are Akademik Shuleykin , Arnold Veymer , Akademik Gamburtsev , Professor Molchanov , Professor Multanovskiy , Geolog Dmitriy Nalivkin , Professor Polshkov , Professor Khromov .",0_0
Carlo Stagnaro is Research Director of the Italian think tank Istituto Bruno Leoni www.brunoleoni.it,0_0
"on Monday, December 6th, 2010 at 7:43 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Lets examine some of the legal elements of this case. Fragoules is Kathleen Fragoules, who was employed by Daiichi Sankyo as a sales representative from approximately March, 1997 until January, 2010. The case was filed in March, 2010, and is a qui tam action.",0_0
"Al Gore Sells Out to Big Oil & Gas: ???Al-Jazeera received its initial funding through a decree from Emir of Qatar, & Qatar, gets its wealth from its vast oil & natural gas reserves??",5_2
New emissions policy will force biggest UK firms to reveal CO2 figures,0_0
"By Staff Writers, CO2 Science , Aug 11, 2015",0_0
Its not in the air. Atmospheric temperature readings show global temperatures have been flat for more than a decade .,1_4
"In this documentary, Al Gore fudged the Vostok Ice core temperature and CO 2 line graphs so it would show a CO 2 spike coming first but alas the real graph showed just the opposite. See data, in a shorter time frame (240,000 Years Before Present rather than 420,000 years) to make it easier to see which came first, Figure 1.",2_3
"Doesn't it also mean there really are safe levels and PM2.5 particles are not really toxic or lethal? Doesn't it mean EPA's draconian standards should be significantly modified, and companies and communities should be compensated for their costs in complying with excessive, unjustified particulate regulations?",0_0
"The Asia-Pacific treaty occupies that field until something more attractive comes along for the 155 nations that have rejected Kyoto's cuts. Finally, it is Kyoto's death knell to all but the most intransigent because it accomplishes what Kyoto failed to do: It brings together the top emitters, prominently including the two major advanced economies (Australia and the United States) that refused to ratify and the two major developing economies that did ratify, but on the condition that they be exempt from any rationing (China and India).",0_0
"""Once a year I will do one of these shocking actions to raise awareness about climate change.""",0_0
"Like Obama, Hickenlooper using heavy-handed tactics on climate policy",0_0
An Effective Global Deal on GHG Control Is Unlikely,0_0
"Markowsky, an executive vice president for American Electric Power until 2000, certainly understands that the quickest and most economic way to reduce carbon emissions from the 1,445 existing coal-fired power plants in the U.S. is to increase the efficiency and net power produced of a facility. Remember, CCS will require as much as 25% to 35% of the plants electrical output to run the chemical plant used to capture the carbon and therefore decimate the plants operating economics so perhaps this is Markowskys way of throwing sweetening the bad medicine that comes with CCS retrofits.",4_4
"Fact two: natural processes are responsible for most if not all if the warming over the past 30 years, a warming that you continue to cite as proof of the effects of greenhouse gases.",2_1
"Hansen writes as if we all live in Lake Woebegone where every child is above average and every household can beamong the 60% that receives more in dividends than they pay in higher energy costs. But, as noted in my earlier post on Hansens testimony,fee-and-green-check confers windfall profits on some and inflicts windfall losses on others simply by reason of the nature of their jobs or industries.For example,if youre an independent trucker, you consume far more motor fuel than the average household. Yet your share of the carbon tax revenueswould bethe average (per capita) share. Hansens scheme would transfer wealth from you to your neighbor with a white-collar job, not because you waste gasoline but because you haul freight for a living.",4_1
"This section of the agenda fits neatly into other UN-sponsored activities that are afoot. In October, a few weeks after the release of 2030 Agenda, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) part of the World Health Organization (WHO), an arm of the UN released a report concluding that red meat, like beef and pork, is ""probably carcinogenic"" to humans, and that processed meat, like bacon and sausage, pose an even greater cancer risk.",0_0
"Similar difficulties surround other elements of the Administration s scenario. Under Article 6 (joint implementation), U.S. firms may earn emissions credits by helping companies in other industrial countries reduce their emissions or enhance greenhouse gas-absorbing ""sinks."" But here again, only projects ""supplemental"" to domestic actions would qualify implying an upper limit to the credits attainable from joint implementation. Moreover, to earn credits, joint implementation projects must be ""additional to any that would otherwise occur."" Yet those that would ""otherwise occur"" are apt to be the most profitable investments. If credits can only be earned through economically unattractive ventures, then ""joint implementation will have very limited value.""26",0_0
"By the way, Mr Boslough fails to have a unified ideology with his fellow LFCSes such as James Hansen, Michael Mann, Al Gore, and many others as well. That's because those other LFCSes actually claim that the ""deniers"" do have a unified motivation: they're hired by the Big Oil to lie about the climate in order for Philip Morris to sell even more cigarettes, or whatever is exactly the most current explanation of all the ""contrarians"" by Al Gore.",0_0
"In the Senate, the subsequent anthrax scare showed its vulnerabilitybut there, at least, some devastating attack would have resulted in a more supple response, with most states enabling governors to pick temporary replacements to replenish the body and get it up and running quickly. The 2004 move by Massachusetts, the populist drive in many other states, and the concerted effort by Feingold have pushed us closer to a Senate that, like the House, cannot have appointments even as stopgaps until an election many months off. Meaning no Senate at all after a catastrophe.",0_0
"Republicans at the top of the ticket were missing in action; Republican voters returned the favor. Nationally, in the 2008 election, GOP turnout fell by more than 4 percent while Democratic turnout rose by over 9 percent, according to American University's Center for the Study of the American Electoratenot enough to change the final outcome, but perhaps the difference in a razor-thin swing state such as Indiana, where McCain fell short by a mere 26,000 votes, or North Carolina, which Barack Obama carried by 100,000 votes, or less than 1 percent.",0_0
Scientists On Trial? Retired Lawyer?s Blogsite To Examine Earlier ?Predictions? Made By Climate ?Experts?,5_2
"This is a satellite measurement of ground temperature, free of all the errors which make ground stations unreliable.",0_0
Temperatures taken by satellites are very precise; those taken from ground stations are less so.,0_0
"8. Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, ""Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions .By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.""",0_0
"Bonus Podcast: In The Tank (ep45): Texas Public Policy Foundation, Article V, Privatization, and the Fourth of July",0_0
"In a study of cyclic behavior of the Sun, Russian scientists now predict 100 years of cooling.",1_2
New paper at SPPI: Flood Activity in Asia,0_0
"See also another related Tuesday article, What a light Higgs would mean for the future of particle physics .",0_0
"France also escapes. All along, that country has relied on nuclear power, which is clean and does not emit greenhouse gases. The United States could follow suit and replace old power plants with nuclear ones. But needless to say, our home-grown enviros rule that roost, too. Nuclear power has been thoroughly demon-ized (even though, as France has shown, it is clean and harmless), and it will not be revived.",0_0
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"As the fight over the PTC points out, wind energy cannot survive without the tax credits.",0_0
"United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) in 1988 predicted sea levels would rise two metres by the year 2100 (112 years-time). This is 17.9mm per year. Error to date is 1,050%",0_0
"2) Between 1980 and 2012, Arctic temperature anomalies have increased from 0.22C to 0.79C, an increase of 1.01C. During the same period, however, Antarctic anomalies have fallen by 0.87C.",0_0
"In concluding, the Norwegian, Swedish and UK researchers say that ""based on such evidence we urge some caution in assuming broad-scale extinctions of species will occur due solely to climate changes of the magnitude and rate predicted for the next century,"" reiterating that ""the fossil record indicates remarkable biotic resilience to wide amplitude fluctuations in climate.""",3_2
"All actual data indicate that if there is an underlying trend beneath the noise of the weather data, it is currently less (and probably much less) than 1 C per century, i.e. certainly much less than 0.5 C in a ""few decades"".",0_0
"Because of this ""doublespeak,"" say the experts, ""The dangers of global warming are not getting through to the public."" I have a better explanation. Blaming SUVs for hurricane Katrina sets off the public's B.S. detector, as do implausible scenarios of sea levels rising 20 feet and the climate ""tipping"" into an Ice Age in our lifetimes or those of our children.",0_0
"It's the same kind of President that believesor says he doesthe pronouncements of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC's ""Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report"" claims that world will face ""severe, pervasive, and irreversible damage"" if coal-fired and other carbon-basedcoal, oil, and natural gasenergy sources are not replaced with ""renewable energy sources""wind and solarby 2050. It wants fossil-fueled power generation ""phased out almost entirely by 2100."" Now this is just insanity, unless your agenda is to destroy the world's economic system and kill millions. That would be the only outcome of the IPCC recommendations.",4_1
"Meanwhile, the National Snow and Ice Data Center has acknowledged that due to a satellite sensor malfunction, it had been underestimating the extent of Arctic sea ice by 193,000 square miles ??? an area the size of Spain. In a new study, University of Wisconsin researchers Kyle Swanson and Anastasios Tsonis conclude that global warming could be going into a decades-long remission. The current global cooling ???is nothing like anything we??ve seen since 1950,?? Swanson told Discovery News. Yes, global cooling: 2008 was the coolest year of the past decade ??? global temperatures have not exceeded the record high measured in 1998, notwithstanding the carbon-dioxide that human beings continue to pump into the atmosphere.",1_2
"The critical issue is not climate sensitivity (to a doubling of atmospheric CO 2 levels) or how much global warming is due to CO 2 , because none of it is.",2_3
"Using data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a Science and Public Policy Institute paper published last month found that if the United States eliminated all carbon dioxide emissions, the overall impact on global temperature rise would be only 0.08 degrees Celsius by 2050.",4_2
"Air Pollution has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded. Virtually the entire nation has achieved clean air standards for four of the six ""criteria"" pollutants regulated under the Clean Air Act (carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and lead). In addition, air quality in the 10 largest metropolitan areasfive of which are in Californiahas improved by more than 53 percent since 1980.",0_0
Joel also pokes fun at Lashof's excuse that NRDC had to use 1996 emissions because who the heck knows what emissions will be 50 years from now. This is emphatically not what NRDC says about the CO2 emissions that allegedly control our climate destiny. Can you even imagine NRDC saying that climate models must use 1996 CO2 emissions to estimate CO2 concentrations in 2050 or 2080 because mid-century estimates of CO2 emissions are uncertain? Joel comments:,0_0
"Workers compensation systems vary from state to state. State statutes and court decisions control many aspects, including the handling of claims, the evaluation of impairment and settlement of disputes, the amount of benefits injured workers receive and the strategies used to control costs.",0_0
"Our hysterical anti-science friends claim that Arctic warming and melting caused the decline in multi-year Arctic ice, which was occurring prior to 2008.",0_0
"Ethanol can be made in a variety of ways, but the usual way is still the most common: yeast is fed sugar molecules isolated from fruits or vegetables, and it produces ethanol as a byproduct. The ethanol is then distilled from a dilute solution by controlled heating in order to drive off ethanol vapor. In the United States, the primary raw material for producing fuel ethanol is corn, while in other countries, such as Brazil, the primary source is sugar cane.",0_0
"Much of CRUs prominence exists because of IPCC activities by its employees. Much of the Climategate dossier, including some of the most controversial emails, arise out of IPCC activities by CRU employees. These include the emails arising from the September 1999 IPCC Lead Authors meeting in Arusha, Tanzania (up to and including the notorious trick email) and the Wahl-Briffa correspondence in July and August 2006, together with requests to delete this correspondence in May 2008.",5_2
"Democrats have been most successful when their national leaders pursued policies appealing to different parts of the party's diverse coalitions. But President Obama's coalition and policies are almost entirely of the political left. That's left his party with few, if any, candidates (except perhaps Clinton?) who can duplicate his electoral success.",0_0
"There are good reasons people buy mini cars. Theyre more affordable, and they use less gas. But the safety trade-offs are clear from our new tests, said Adrian Lund, the institutes president.",0_0
"European leaders, like the big re-insurance companies, have been quick to link the catastrophic flooding this month in central Europe to global warming. And some have then used that to blame the United States. According to an August 15 Reuters story, German Environment Minister ""Juergen Trittin, a Green, said higher global temperatures in recent decades had led to rising sea levels and increased rainfall and were at least partially to blame for a bout of unpredictable weather seen in recent years.""",0_0
The environmentalists succeeded in discovering a new ?noble cause.? They try to limit human freedom in the name of ?something? that is more important and more noble than our very down-to-earth lives. For someone who spent most of his life in the ?noble? era of communism this is impossible to accept.,4_1
"Apologies to Mark Perry for quoting his whole post, but if you are not reading Mark Perry, you should be. The second example comes from Overlawyered :",0_0
Other modern temperature charts. Historical and fabrication-temperature charts.,0_0
"Morano noted that other GOP candidates and officials have modified their stance on climate change and energy regulation in recent years particularly former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who at the first presidential debate last week recanted an old environmental ad he cut.",0_0
"""The Justice Department is putting together subpoenas as part of its probe into allegations of criminal misconduct by News Corp., the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday night. The subpoenas are a sign that the phone hacking crisis surrounding the company is becoming a more serious problem in the U.S.""",0_0
"Sooo, the real risk derives from the ruling class, idiot-elites who authored the recent global financial meltdown, are in the process of destroying the states of California, Illinois and New York, and are driving the U.S. economic machine into a banana republic destitute condition of galactic-sized debt. The good news is that expert firms like Mercer are warning the public where the real risk comes from - your elected officials and overpaid bureaucrats, not the climate.",4_1
Florida's $2 Billion for High Speed Rail Goes Elsewhere:,0_0
Limbaugh describes this process as the aristocracy circling the wagons:,0_0
"More than two centuries of scientific research have failed to make the duration or magnitude of monsoons predictable. Monsoons depend on sea and surface temperatures and wind conditions in the Indian and Western Pacific oceans, the timing of El Ninos in the equatorial Pacific, variations in Eurasian and Himalayan winter snow cover, and even wind direction in the equatorial stratosphere.",0_0
Keith Briffa who has succeeded in persuading the conspirators that in order to achieve the desired result of pretending that today's temperatures are exceptionally wrong that they should rely upon the measurement of tree rings from a single tree in rural Russia.,5_2
The gulf between the hard realities of the global energy market and the Obama administration's energy policies grows wider by the day.,0_0
""" homogenation practices used until today are mainly statistical, not well justified by experiments, and are rarely supported by metadata. It can be argued that they often lead to false results: natural features of hydroclimatic times series are regarded as errors and are adjusted.""",5_1
"Once there was modern science, which was hard work; now we have postmodern science, where the quest for real, absolute truth is outdated, and ?science? is a wax nose that can be twisted in any direction to underpin the latest lying narrative in the pursuit of power.",0_0
"As we approach the end of October, Arctic sea ice continues to grow well above the level of recent years. Unfortunately, NSIDC systems have been down for the last week, but all the other datasets are in pretty good agreement.",1_1
"It follows that warming had a natural origin, the contribution of CO2 to it was insignificant, anthropogenic increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide does not serve as an explanation for it, and in the foreseeable future CO2 will not be able to cause catastrophic warming. The so-called greenhouse effect will not avert the onset of the next deep temperature drop, the 19th in the last 7500 years, which without fail follows after natural warming.",2_3
"With the bombast and hubris that have characterized its 70 years of existence, the United Nations recently embarked on what it says is a ""collective journey"" to ""free the human race from the tyranny of poverty and want and to heal and secure our planet.""",0_0
"And if you enjoyed this post or learned something from it, I would very thankful for a contribution to my tip jar .",0_0
"Regulatory compliance costs in excess of $1 trillion annually are a rarely acknowledged ""hidden tax"" on job creation and enterprise. Moreover, the Obama administration supports legislation that would heap billions in additional hidden taxes on energy despite the current economic slump.",0_0
"As it happens, the tree-ring proxies match up with the thermometer measurements up until about 1960, when there is a ""divergence"" between the two sets of data. The tree rings indicate a global cooling after 1960, while the thermometer data indicates a sharp warming. The CRU scientists decided to simply stop using the inconveniently non-warming tree-ring data after 1960. In one email, this is discussed as a ""trick"" developed by Michael Mann, the creator of the infamous climate ""hockey stick chart,"" that would ""hide the decline"" shown by the tree-rings, and emphasize the recent spike in thermometer data, preserving the sanctity of the hockey stick.",5_2
"The gist of this propaganda piece is that anthropogenic CO2 causes global warming, which heats the oceans and causes thermal expansion. Along with melting glaciers, the hotter oceans cause sea level rise. And the SLR is the coastal flooding projections from the Union of Concerned Scientists . Not very original, but if you are just inundated with bad news, any old projection will do. The UCS projection doesnt even start with actual flooding, because there really hasnt been enough to have an almost zero start point. None of these climate expert worriers seem to be aware that the rate of sea level rise has been constant for about 150 years.",1_6
As a sidebar note: Freshwater clams and other shell formers are happy to make shells at pH up to 4.5 or so. Leads me to wonder if they care about pH or Alkalinity https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/clams-do-fine-in-acid-water/,3_2
"If the tropospheric ozone concentration rises in the years ahead, it will likely impose a significant stress on regenerating aspen clones that will reduce their growth. However, if the atmospheric CO 2 concentration continues to rise, the negative impact of elevated ozone on aspen growth will be greatly reduced.",0_0
"The eastern half of England, Cornwall, Scotland and Northern Ireland is in for temperatures above the 3.7C (38.6F) average, more than 2C warmer than last winter.",0_0
"The most energy wasteful plants have mostly already been shut under that plan, and achieving further improvements will require more refitting of factories and plants and other more expensive measures, said Deborah Seligsohn, a Beijing-based climate policy expert working for the World Resources Institute.",0_0
France and Germany were unwilling to collaborate with the United States,0_0
"At the same time, Trumpist populists inside and outside Washington will attribute any Trump loss to the perfidy of the party establishment. Aided by the bevy of cable TV hosts, talk radio impresarios, and bloggers who thrive on chaos they will spread the belief that Americans have been betrayed both by Democrats and by weak-kneed and corrupt Republican establishment leaders. They will continue to push nativist and protectionist policies.",0_0
"In the HadCRUT3 temperature record, the world warmed by 0.07C0.07C from 1999 through 2008, not the 0.20C expected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Corrected for the natural temperature effects of El Nio and its sister climate event La Nia, the decades trend is a perfectly flat 0.00C.",1_4
"""There is an unfortunate adage for the unemployed: The longer folks are out of a job, the longer it takes them to find a new one.""",0_0
"(9) When ""scientists say"" or ""science says"" is a common locution.",0_0
Yesterdays print edition of Germanys high-brow weekly Die Zeit has a full three-page feature story on thegrowing climate science skepticism in the USA and Germany titled The Climate Warriors authored by Kerstin Kohlenberg and Anita Blasberg.,0_0
"In 1995 everyone agreed the world was warmer in medieval times, but CO2 was low then and that didnt fit with climate models. In 1998, suddenly Michael Mann ignored the other studies and produced a graph that scared the world tree rings show the 1990s was the hottest decade for a thousand years. Now temperatures exactly fit the rise in carbon! The IPCC used the graph all over their 2001 report. Government departments copied it. The media told everyone.",5_2
"""'Americans have sipped and slurped their way to fatness by drinking far more soda and other sugary drinks over the last four decades, a new scientific review concludes,' reported the Associated Press this week. It's too bad that the AP didn't report the full story as told -- and yet, not told -- in the review itself, rather than apparently just regurgitating the researchers' media release.",0_0
"Most business insurance agents deal with workers comp., but they can sometimes be fussy about what business they take on, especially in states with workers comp. messes like California and Florida . So, there are a couple of things that you will be asked for in the first 30 seconds of a phone call, so you might as well be ready.",0_0
"For years now, more and more scientists have been warning that fewer observed sunspots could mean the Earth is heading for a cooling period.",1_2
"To recap, then: Teske appears to have no more than a Masters degree. He has been a Greenpeace activist and employee for the past 17 years. Depending on which press release you read he is either an expert in renewable energy or on nuclear matters (in the Greenpeace world, these are not the same thing).",0_0
Segment 4 is the breaking news of Climategate coming to the US.,0_0
"As result of diminishing public support in the U.S., the revelation of extreme Green-energy crony-corruption, tightening budgets, and a slow economic recovery, government support for renewable energy is under fire. The Daily Caller reports: ""States across the country are aiming to scale back or eliminate laws that require certain amounts of power be purchased from renewable energy sources, including wind.""",0_0
"Increased frequencies of abnormally warm waters in the Gulf of California, possibly as a result of globally warming oceans , coupled with extremely high fishing pressure, are delivering a combined blow to the legendary productivity of the Gulf of California, forcing seabirds to fly away in search for more suitable environments, even if that means abandoning their ancestral nesting grounds and moving into highly transformed industrial landscapes such as the San Diego Saltworks or the LA Harbor Container Terminal.",0_0
"The most obvious way for warming to be caused naturally is for small, natural fluctuations in the circulation patterns of the atmosphere and ocean to result in a 1% or 2% decrease in global cloud cover. Clouds are the Earths sunshade, and if cloud cover changes for any reason, you have global warming or global cooling.",2_1
"""It may cost you a bit up front, but the cash from the government means you should have earned back the cost of the solar panels within ten years, says Miles Brignall in The Guardian. Banks are also beginning to get wind of this, and some say they may be prepared to lend money towards installation.""",0_0
transformed politics during the first months of the new president?,0_0
"A July 2004 communication from the U.K. East Anglia Climate Research Unit?s director Philip Jones to Michael Mann referred to two papers recently published in Climate Research with a ?HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL? subject line observed: ?I can?t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow?even if we have to redefine what the peer review literature is?. Jones and Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, were joint lead authors for a key chapter of that 2007 report. Mann was an originator of the infamous ?hockey stick? graph suggesting accelerating human-caused global warming since the Industrial Revolution.",0_0
The papers conclusions state that the EF Scale is not adequate for analyzing tornado intensity. I am not sure if the tornado experts at NOAA would agree.,0_0
Exhibit 2: The New Answer to Climate Change: Genetically Engineered Dwarf Vegans with Cat's Eyes:,0_0
"The number of actual weather observation points used as a starting point for world average temperatures was reduced from about 6,000 in the 1970s to about 1,000 now. ""That leaves much of the world unaccounted for,"" says D'Aleo.",0_0
"Living a speculative life necessarily involves chance of either loss or gain as part and parcel of an acceptance of powers beyond the reach of our own and to which our only civilised affect upon their influence over an outcome can be through negotiation. A person frustrated by the fact of this power might, therefore, express hostility towards the speculative process its presence necessitates and to which his desired outcomes must (to varying degrees) be surrendered.",0_0
"Readers of CA are familiar with the fact that key data sets used over and over by the Team in multiproxy studies ??? Yamal, Taymir etc. ??? are not archived and that Briffa refuses to disclose the data. These problems were brought to the attention of the NAS Panel. Indeed, I specifically confronted two presenters to the NAS PAnel, D??Arrigo and Hegerl, about the unavailability of data and asked the NAS panel to get it. The NAS panel did nothing. Instead of reporting on these issues, North cited a 1997 study saying the following:",5_2
"This figure of 10% reminds me of the IPCC: the reality (warming etc.) is also approximately 10% of their dreams only. These people have no sense of reality. That's probably why Lewis Pugh was awarded for his failure (and for the falsification of his silly opinions about the climate) and asked to speak to the U.S. Congress about ""climate change and security"". ;-)",0_0
"(1) The transfer of billions of euros from European taxpayers to Big Oil/Big Energy firms , under the emission trading scheme",0_0
"If I had the code, this analysis wouldnt have required all three R, Matlab and Excel.",0_0
"At the People?s Climate Conference, which was held in tandem with the 2009 Copenhagen Summit, Higgins explained that we need a paradigm shift, a change in approaches to addressing climate change. She said we need to stop looking at planet Earth as an ?inert thing? that can be commoditised, since this only benefits businesses. Instead, we should view the planet as a living being that has intrinsic value. Only when such a mindset prevails can we really ensure that humans will start taking responsibility for the planet.",0_0
"The authors write that ""global warming is predicted to induce desiccation in many world regions through increases in evaporative demand,"" but they say that ""rising CO 2 may counter that trend by improving plant water-use efficiency."" However, they are very forthright in noting that ""it is not clear how important this CO 2 -enhanced water use efficiency might be in offsetting warming-induced desiccation because higher CO 2 also leads to higher plant biomass, and therefore greater transpirational surface.""",3_3
"The national office of the Sierra Club has had to quash local chapters' opposition to some solar projects, sending out a 42-page directive making it clear that the club's national policy goals superseded the objections of a local group. Animosity bubbled over after a local Southern California chapter was told to refrain from opposing solar projects.""",0_0
Australias Labor government has what many claim to be a relatively modest target: a reduction in emission of between 5 and 15 percent. But even these reductions would be impossible to meet without a switch to nuclear energy or the development of a new source of base load energy supply see for example Energy Technology for Climate Change a report from the Australian Academy of Technical Sciences and Engineering.,4_5
"Prior to the Industrial Revolution, it is likely that rice had a more difficult time growing than it does today. At lower atmospheric CO 2 concentrations, it is likely that rice plants had to reallocate valuable resources into rubisco and other photosynthetic proteins just to ensure that net carbon uptake could prevail for plant survival. Thus, it is likely that plants were smaller and produced less yield than they do today. Therefore, it logically follows that the rise in the air's CO 2 content, beginning with the Industrial Revolution and still ongoing, is making carbon uptake and biomass production easier and more efficient for this important agricultural species.",3_3
package were amplified by the failure to get top Treasury people in office,0_0
"""The merger between Bwin Entertainment and PartyGaming will be finalized in the next couple of months, and when the deal is complete, Bwin shareholders will hold a slight majority stake in the newly formed company. PartyGaming shareholders, however, will have plenty of stake in the new brand.""",0_0
"Mathematical physicist Dr. Frank J. Tipler, Prof. of Mathematical Physics, astrophysics, at Tulane University: ?Whether the ice caps melt, or expand whatever happens the AGW theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology. It is obvious that anthropogenic global warming is not science at all.?",5_2
"The result, by almost any account, has been a fiasco. Pouring corn into our gas tanks has led to a spike in food prices worldwide. Those high prices have caused food shortages and even riots in other countries (several in just the last month). While people starve, biofuels are creating an environmental disaster as well. In places like Indonesia, forestland is being cleared at alarming rates in order to plant palm oil crops and cash in on the artificial demand for biofuels. The result is a holocaust for many endangered animals. ""The orangutan is being crucified on a cross of green,"" Murray notes.",4_4
CEI Expert Available to Comment: General Counsel Sam Kazman on why the EPA should now reconsider its findings on climate change:,0_0
Seitz is as bad as the tobacco industry? Lets get real.,0_0
"There is a massive problem with photo-voltaic solar power. Modern cities and industries require power 24/7 but solar panels can only deliver significant energy from 9am to 3pm on a clear day a maximum of 25% of the time. Even within this time, energy production peaks at midday and falls off steeply on either side.",4_4
"FURTHER READING: Zycher also writes ""Would a Carbon Dioxide Tax be ""Efficient'?"" and ""Earth Day and Four Decades of Fear."" Kenneth Green describes ""The Continuing Failure of Green Conceit"" and takes on the task of ""Dissecting the Carbon Tax."" Mark J. Perry opines ""Natural Gas and Nuclear Power Need to Share the Lead in Power Generation for the Future"" and joins Thomas A. Hemphill to explain ""How Obama's Energy Policy Will Kill Jobs."" James Pethokoukis wonders if it's ""Time for the GOP to Take the Lead on Climate Change?"" while Andrew Rugg blogs about ""Natural Gas: The Free Agent of Energy Sources"" and Jonah Goldberg writes ""All (Green) Thumbs.""",0_0
"At the Earth Day gathering, UN secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared: ""We are in a race against time.""",0_0
This follows a seismic reply to a surprise public relations stunt that shook loose many of the Heartland Institutes funders.,0_0
"So conventional oil, by ancient hallowed convention handed down through the millennia, is found in tar pits and oil seeps on the surface. Which means that people being so rash as to drill for oil, by definition, would be pumping up unconventional oil but of course, life is not that simple.",0_0
"And finally, I return to the issues raised in the preceding post, 20 tips for interpreting scientific claims. Some commenters seemed to think this was pretty much kindergarten stuff and of course policy makers (or their staffers) understand this stuff. Well anyone taking seriously the White House?s SCC numbers needs to go back to kindergarten and pay attention to the 20 tips.",0_0
"The expenditure debate swirls around the question of whether an agency's objectives (say, the Department of Defense, or DOD) would be better advanced by spending more in category A (say, a new air mobile division) than in Category B (say, a new battleship). An agency will, of course, fight for the highest possible budget, but it does so largely on political grounds, as would a regulatory agency in a similar situation). The difference, however, is that attention in the expenditure case focuses on the question of whether one believes the Defense budget is too high, too low, or just about right. DOD has most to say about how that money is to be allocated between the services or between technologies or between weapon systems and trainingor, more often, between one congressional district and another.",0_0
Ms Morris quotes from Ms Wheelers book about,0_0
"The Economist, which initially played down the scandal, is almost as astonished by the refusal of the Climategate inquiries to examine the science:",0_0
Over 200 peer-reviewed papers demonstrating solar control of climate published since 2010,2_1
"Reminder: the TOA outgoing longwave radiation component of the Earths budget represents the infrared radiation emitted to space. Like outgoing shortwave radiation, outgoing longwave radiation is a model-calculated value, not an input like incident shortwave radiation.",0_0
"Whatever the President has to say about ""climate change"" should be taken as just one more example of 5 years of lies to advance policies that have nothing to do with the welfare of Americans needing jobs or the execrable Obamacare attack on the U.S. healthcare system.",0_0
"Last Monday, April 4th was one of the most active days in recent memory for the Storm Prediction Center and folks who live in the southeast with 1347 severe weather reports (1220 high wind, 89 hail and 38 tornado) from the Ohio River southeast to northern Florida. Virtually everyone in the southeastern United States felt the fury.",0_0
"(1.) An anthropogenic global warming component that is supposed to explain the warming trend of the global sea surface temperatures. Thats the part they portray as evil, but it doesnt exist so theres nothing sinister behind the warming of the global oceans. Then there are the two natural factors;",0_0
"The IPCC-projected rise of up to 1m by the end of this century would require an average rate of up to 12mm/yr for the rest of this century, some four times the current rate, and an order of magnitude larger than implied by the 20th century acceleration of0.01mm/yr found in some studies. What drives the projected sea level rise? To what extent is it dependent upon a continued rise in Global Mean Surface Temperature?",1_6
"In this satellite image the blue colour in the northern hemisphere represents low carbon dioxide emissions from the industrial nations of the US, UK and EU. The red colour in the southern hemisphere represents high carbon emissions from forested vegetation areas in equatorial regions. This is precisely the opposite of what an alarmist and quiescent mainstream media would have you believe.",5_2
Heres how the Anchorage data has been homogenized. Figure 1 shows the difference between the Anchorage data before and after homogenization:,0_0
"So, are polar bears really threatened with extinction? All the evidence says they are not in any trouble right now: the classification of polar bears as threatened with extinction is based completely on predictions made by computer models about what might happen by 2050. However, the results of recent polar bear research have disproved, or called into question, many of the assumptions used to make those models work. That leads me to conclude that polar bears are not endangered.",3_2
"And thus the debate stood, until a Danish scientist named Henrik Svensmark suggested something outrageous -- that cosmic rays might seed cloud formation. The implications, if true, hadpotentiallyenormous implications for the debate about natural causes of warming.",2_1
"Surprisingly, we found that the indirect energy component of America's total energy consumption is almost as large as the direct energy component. As stated earlier, indirect energy consumption represents about 46 percent of all consumption, while direct energy represents the remaining 54 percent.",0_0
"""Federal Deposit Insurance Corp Chairman Sheila Bair said she did not believe legislation would be needed to address concerns over whether the paperwork was properly done so long as investigations show the issue was mostly ""procedural.""Greece Likely to Default By 2013 as Debts Remain, El-Erian Says:",0_0
"""What we know is that, as human beings are placed under strain, then bad things happen,"" Mr. Obama told CBS. ""And, you know, if you look at world history, whenever people are desperate, when people start lacking food, when people are not able to make a living or take care of their families, that's when ideologies arise that are dangerous.""",0_0
"Then in Italy the famous person and 'matter of gossip, Britain becomes the victim of a hate physical and very little latent, especially if he is discovered to be a person from the long-term success. And who detest then more 'if not who and' became famous, there 'remained and even won three elections in a row, Tony Blair as Margaret Thatcher? Other than stopping the natural phenomena! The Prime Minister who could do no wrong in 1997, can not name one right in 2005, and an archaeologist of the XXV century he found The archive of the British media today you might be wondering why it was in power a type described as shady, surrounded by friends servile or corrupted, disconnected from its electorate, poodle servant of the US and with no morals.",0_0
"Britains laws on climate change that push up energy bills for millions of households have been spared, despite George Osbornes plea for a reduction in expensive green regulations.",4_1
"Decrease average household purchasing power by $730 in 2015, $800 in 2020, $830 in 2030, and $940 in 2050.",0_0
"At EconLog, Bryan Caplan sums up succinctly the method whereby President Bush this week was able to sound more predisposed toward a global treaty to limit greenhouse gas emissions -- that is, ration carbon-based energy -- without really being so:",0_0
Geithner's Goal: Rebalance World Economy:,0_0
"The biggest tuning knob for getting models to match reality is the one labeled forcing from aerosols. This knob is especially useful because we really dont know where exactly it should be setthus different modeling groups can set it just about anywhere they would like to get their models to produce the right answer. The knob was installed in the first place because without it the models produce too much warming from greenhouse gas increases alone. So, add a knob that can be used to counteract some of that warming (taken together aerosols in the models produce a cooling), and you get the right answer without having to make any other major changes to the model!",5_1
"Current policies plainly have the unintended consequences of discouraging worthwhile investments and maintenance activities that would benefit companies and consumers as well as the environment. Many of these investments and activities were once correctly understood to be outside the scope of NSR, and ought once again be put beyond NSR's reach.",0_0
"On a recent visit to Utah, Professor Hajo Eicken, one of the leading experts in the study of Arctic ice melt, explained some of the findings of his research.",0_0
"Tesla Motors received $256 million to produce electric cars for wealthy elites who receive $2,500 to $7,500 in tax credits, plus free charging and express lane access. From 2007 to 2013, corn ethanol interests spent $158 million lobbying for more ""green"" mandates and subsidies and $6 million in campaign contributions for a fuel that reduces mileage, damages engines, requires enormous amounts of land, water and fertilizer, and from stalk to tailpipe emits more carbon dioxide than gasoline. General Electric spends tens of millions lobbying for more taxpayer renewable energy dollars; so do many other companies. The payoffs add up to tens of billions of dollars, from taxpayers and consumers.",0_0
"However, it's very hard to credit that a minister of the crown would be persuaded that the panels were independent and that the science stands - how would we know when it hasn't been examined? My impression is that the civil service are playing Willetts like a fiddle.",0_0
"The perspicacious Ambrose did not stop there. He gave a clear example of a suspect syllogism, in which the statement that sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man (major premise), followed by the statement that one man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds (minor premise), leads to the unavoidable mathematical conclusion that sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second. Those who have, at one time or another, actually had a shovel in their hands, may find this questionable.",0_0
"The Progressives he depicts as Protestant reformers, determined to professionalize institutions and tame the immigrant and industrial masses. Progressive projects included women's suffrage and prohibition of alcohol.",0_0
"One of the basic tenets of the scientific method is that work should be reproducible by other scientists. In order for climate scientists' work to be reproduced it is necessary for their data and the computer programs which transform it into results to be freely available. There are many instances of climate scientists refusing to release data, or ""losing"" it . This has happened with prominent scientists and key scientific papers. So some of the most important scientific work of recent years - work which underpins the IPCC process and the doom-laden results which it announces to the world - is not capable of being replicated. A reputable scientific body would disassociate itself from suspect papers of this kind. The IPCC embraces them.",5_2
"a. Capital costs. Wind farm capital costs are much higher than the capital costs associated with conventional generating facilities such as those powered by natural gas. The high capital costs of wind farms include the engineering costs, cost of turbines, towers, blades, reinforced concrete tower bases, substations, controls, road and site work, construction equipment, construction labor, construction overhead, and, in some cases, cost of capital.",4_4
"The Academy authors must have found it hard to carry off, with a straight face, this fiction of perfect knowledge. The paper itself acknowledges that there are significant uncertainties in the impact of water vapor, clouds, aerosols, the carbon cycle, the sun, the catch-all internal fluctuations etc (the Academy doesnt even mention the king-sized uncertainties about the influence of multi-decadal Pacific and Atlantic oscillations). And whatever validation of the models occurred with respect to past temperatures, it was achieved by endless tweaking of parameters using the benefits of hindsight.",5_1
"Unilateral imposition of such a tax would offer little to no climate benefit. The idea that China and India would follow the US lead on this issue is absurd. As I like to say, China is as likely to follow the example of the U.S. on carbon controls as it has with regard to human rights, civil rights, religious freedoms, etc. China and India will act on their economic interests, and theyve been quite honest about that.",4_2
"11.	""The industrialized countries have to decrease their emissions by 80% until 2050 "" For what purpose? No, they don't have to do that, they cannot do that, and they won't do that.",0_0
"Robert Repetto, vice president and senior economist at the World Resources Institute, argued that these predictions are ""gross simplifications of the real world."" Though Repetto agreed that a stabilization of emissions would lead to a 1 to 2.4 percent loss of GDP in 2020 for the U.S. he disputed the warnings of trade disadvantages. He also conceded that without commitments from the developing nations it would be impossible to stabilize emissions. But, he argued, developing countries have already taken steps to reduce greenhouse emissions.",0_0
"Bureau of Land Management, ""EPCA Phase III: Questions and Answers,"" http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/energy/oil and gas/EPCA III/EPCA III faq.print.html (accessed July 6, 2016), and Institute for Energy Research, ""Oil and Natural Gas Booms on Private and State Lands,"" April 14, 2015, http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/analysis/oil-and-natural-gas-production-booms-on-private-and-state-lands-plummets-on-federal-lands/ (accessed July 22, 2016).",0_0
"In Praise of CO2: Earth is the Greenest its been in Decades, Perhaps in Centuries Written by Marc Morano",3_3
"The cooling of the air causes an increase in the extension of glaciers and of snow fields, furthering lowering temperatures with their highly reflecting (high albedo) surfaces. Glaciers therefore increase even more, in a positive feedback that will bring us to a new Ice Age in a hundred years or even less .",1_2
"Unlike their voters, who are in the country party and adhere tenaciously to their values, Republican politicians are eager to join the aristocracy, Codevilla observes:",0_0
Rock Outcrops Provide Biodiversity Refugia in Northern Patagonia,0_0
Another Example of Climate Model Failure: Actual Ozone In Wealthy Countries Does Exact Opposite of Predictions,5_1
"Nor, of course, did Abraham mention the slide in which I showed a picture of the St. Regis Tower, San Francisco, with a map showing it to be just feet from the allegedly-rising ocean at Fisherman's Wharf, and a statement that in 2005, the very year in which Gore was making up his alarmist movie, he had spent $4 million buying a condo there. Would he have bought that condo if he had seriously thought sea level would imminently rise by 20 feet? That, as my Latin Grammar would put it, is ""a question expecting the answer ""No'"".",1_6
The first glimpses I got behind the scenes did little to garner my trust in the state of climate science on the contrary. I found myself in front of a choice that just might have a global impact.,0_0
"In light of their amazing findings, Norikane et al . conclude their paper by stating ""there is great hope for using super-elevated CO 2 enrichment under cold cathode fluorescent lamps for more efficient and higher-quality commercial production of clonal orchid plantlets, which is a key objective of orchid biotechnology,"" citing Hossain et al . (2013) and Teixeira da Silva (2013). References",3_3
"Proponents also claim ACESA can revive the economy by creating millions of ""green jobs."" The CRA study agrees that ACESA would lead to ""increases in spending on energy efficiency and renewable energy, and as a result that significant numbers of people would be employed in 'green jobs' that would not exist in a no carbon policy world."" However, proponents ignore both the fossil energy-related jobs ACESA would destroy and other job losses due to rising energy costs and lower productivity:",4_1
"on Monday, October 7th, 2013 at 3:51 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
dH/dt = f T/lamda (1-1),0_0
"The LBT telescope uses adaptive optics to make ""adjustments"" and achieves a sharper image than the Hubble Space Telescope. Almost all the distortion caused by the atmosphere is basically removed.",0_0
"One of Briffa??s regional chronologies was AVAM-TAIMYR, which was produced by merging the Taimyr chronology with another site, Bol??shoi Avam, located no less than 400 kilometres away. While the original Taimyr site had something of a divergence problem, with narrowing ring widths implying cooler temperatures, the new composite site of Avam???Taimyr had a rather warmer twentieth century and a cooler Medieval Warm Period. The effect of this blending of datasets was therefore, as so often with paleoclimate adjustments, to produce a warming trend.",5_1
Germany?s green energy strategy is likely to change significantly after federal elections on September 22; Merkel has promised voters to drastically curtail the ?20bn burden they have to pay renewable energy investors every year should she win.,0_0
EPA moves to fix air pollution rule after Supreme Court loss,0_0
"As I mentioned above, we were accompanied on the cattle-viewing expedition by Sir Humphry Wakefield, who lives with his wonderful wife Katharine in Chillingham Castle. After our trip to see the cattle, Sir Humphry gave us a guided tour of the Castle itself.",0_0
"7. When this theory was actually tested, the same researchers, Jensen et al (2008) discovered that global warming will have a positive effect on the suitability of Svalbard for nesting geese in terms of range expansion into the northern and eastern parts of Svalbard which are curently unsuitable.",3_2
This would be reasonable if only southern hemisphere sea ice were actually in decline rather than increase.,1_1
Common sense is emerging on Human Rights Commissions,0_0
It appears that the accidental sale of 14 copies of the latest Harry Potter book at a Coquitlam store last week may have been a marketing blessing in disguise.,0_0
"2) Continued improvements in energy efficiency can reduce the intensity of energy use but not enough to offset the need for more energy to meet the economic aspirations of the world?s current 6.2 billion people, let alone 7.5 billion in a mere 20 years? time.",0_0
"By Natalie Obiko Pearson Jul 16, 2013 2:49 AM ET",0_0
"Regardless of this report, is the vlknt is that klimatknsligheten br snkas is why that in AR5 given aerosols cooling effect a lower value, you AR4. These were utilized d ad hoc for reducing the impact of carbon dioxide. If you enter a lower cooling effect from aerosols, sr obvious that you have a need to reduce vein klimatknsligheten No. Now the CO 2 content must vats, and the global temperature turk no to p kpet made content.",0_0
Issues related to religion (particularly Evangelical Christianity) and the global warming issue have been discussed previously here:,0_0
"Again, LOST supporters say don't worry, but it is not clear they are being straight with us. The World Wildlife Federation and Don Kraus of Citizens for Global Solutions have been telling environmentalists that LOST could stop Russian from polluting the Arctic.",0_0
"The results of the present study were low compared to those of other such studies of French forests, which have shown productivity increases on the order of 100% over the 20th century. Nevertheless, the authors' results still portended significant growth enhancements throughout the current century. Under a doubled-CO 2 scenario of enhanced greenhouse and aerial fertilization effects, for example, they calculated NPP increases for 14 of the 21 stands studied, obtaining enhancements that ranged from 8 to 55%.",3_3
"Stated more plainly, the historical temperature record does not agree with what computer models say should have happened. The upshot is that, if the models get the past 10 thousand years or so wrong, how can we trust them to predict the future? The answer, of course, is that we can not. The situation is made clearer in the graphic from the paper referenced in the quote above.",5_1
"United Nations climate envoys have proposed the creation of a global ""climate court"" that would be responsible for enforcing a sprawling set of rules requiring developed countries to cut emissions while compensating poorer countries in order to pay off a ""historical climate debt.""",0_0
"Is this destruction and poisoning of the natural world, this trampling of human rights, the legacy that climate campaignerswant to leave the world? Is this really the only ethical way to deal with the question of global warming? Is it even ethical at all?",0_0
"Further, in the presence of multidecadal oscillations with a nominal 60-80 yr time scale, convincing attribution requires that you can attribute the variability for more than one 60-80 yr period, preferably back to the mid 19th century. Not being able to address the attribution of change in the early 20th century to my mind precludes any highly confident attribution of change in the late 20th century.",5_1
Conservative Groups Criticize Senate Climate Title,0_0
"The books' subtitles hint at the authors' shared questions of interest but also their divergent styles and methods. Sanger's book is about Obama's ""surprising use of American power,"" whereas Mann focuses on a struggle to ""redefine American power."" Sanger, who is the New York Times chief Washington correspondent, takes readers more deeply into the workings of",0_0
"The editors of the journal remonstrated. They said that despite the article's admittedly poor methodology and the strenuous objections of the paper's referees, they published it to make constructive progress in the debate among scientists, the media, and the general public about a highly charged issue. Unleashing it has proved anything but constructive, because its publication is frequently cited as a presumptive validation of its spurious conclusions. The rationalization by the editors makes a mockery of the peer-review process.",0_0
"SM: We were very pleased. The last election was the first we were engaged in. We were involved in 16 congressional races and we won 10. So, we felt good about that-- especially because, with the exception of one or two of them, all the rest were highly competitive, very close races, where we really feel that the money that our members raised for these candidates had a decisive influence. We took on some incumbent Republicans and Democrats, and by doing so I think we really put the fear of God in some of these people, and hopefully changed their voting in Congress.",0_0
"As ever more anthropogenic CO 2 is emitted into the atmosphere and the air's CO 2 concentration rises ever higher, so too does the photosynthetic prowess of earth's terrestrial vegetation grow ever stronger, as the great global greening of the earth gains ever more momentum and sucks ever more CO 2 out of the air and incorporates it into living biomass and soil organic matter, thereby muting the rate of global warming that would otherwise prevail in the absence of this important negative feedback phenomenon. References",3_3
"Simple arguments allow us to understand why there are differences in horizontal temperature gradients among the planets. There are two fundamental time scales that determine how a planetary atmosphere transfers heat. The radiative timescale, t rad , is the time it would take for an atmosphere above some pressure level p 0 to reduce its temperature by 1/e of its initial value via radiative cooling if solar radiation were turned off. The dynamic timescale, t dyn , is the time required to move a parcel over a characteristic distance in the atmosphere and, in so doing, transport heat from one location to another.",0_0
"My conclusion (which, is different from that of the authors) based upon the research presented by Santer et al.?that the models are on the verge of failing?is further strengthened by the results of another paper published in 2011 by Foster and Rahmstorf.",5_1
"The second largest henge structure known to exist in Britain or Continental Europe is Durrington Walls Henge in Wiltshire, Southern England, second only to Marden Henge further NNW.",0_0
"Where??s that positive feedback that is supposed to manifest itself in water vapor, the most potent natural greenhouse gas?",2_3
"In short, the careerist climate AGW scientists and their political insiders conspired to convince the world that humans had to pay dearly for exhaling the carbon gases that the natural world and our trees inhales to flourish.",5_2
"Most Americans even think that on cultural issues things are getting worse: things like crime rates and infant mortality rates and the number of illegitimate births and so on. And we find in the last 15 or 20 years that even these trends show improvement. The crime rate is down, the abortion rate is down, the rate of drug use has declined from its peak in the 1970s. These are good times, and Americans and people around the world tend to resist that message. But we think that the book provides a very powerful refutation of the idea that things are getting worse, not better.",0_0
Wanted or Not: Alternative-Fuel Cars Flood Auto Show,0_0
"on Sunday, January 10th, 2010 at 11:22 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"In the context of motor vehicles, the decision probably does not matter much. The statute contains a safety valve that allows the administrator consider ""cost, energy, and safety factors."" For practical purposes, the agency discretion that was rejected in the initial decision returns through the medium of drafting specific standards.",0_0
Germany has told its folks to just bail on I.E. and move on. I agree.,0_0
Dead bodies demand organic food moratorium,0_0
Here is the basic assumption and aim of the study. Consider exactly what their basic premise implies:,0_0
"Of greater concern to the system's advocates is that prices of tradable emissions permits in the EU ETS have declined to record lows in the commodities marketplace. While the European Union just released preliminary (and incomplete) data showing that its carbon emissions have fallen at a greater-than-expected volume in 2011 (by 2.45 percent), this positive news has also had a negative effect on the marketplace for carbon emissions. A total of 1.88 billion tons of carbon were emitted in 2011, down from 1.94 billion tons in 2010. The 2011 emissions level was 144 million tons below the EU ETS cap. This is the sixth time in the last seven years there has been an oversupply of carbon offset allowances.",0_0
"The results of this study ???indicate that seawater chemistry can drive phenotypic plasticity in coralline algae,?? and that ???the ability to change the energy allocation between cell growth and structural support is a clear adaptive response of the organism,?? which they say ???is likely to increase its ability to survive in a high CO 2 world???? Read More",3_2
"The latest news, as reported by Myron Ebell, the director for energy and environment of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, is that ""Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) this week introduced a bill to block the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rules to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing power plants. S. 1324, the Affordable Reliable Energy Now Act, has 26 original co-sponsors, including Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee Chairman James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), and Democrat Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.).""",0_0
"A further study on North American drought story appeared in mid-2013 in PNAS by Asmerom et al. Interestingly, these authors describe a long-lasting mega-drought that over three centuries took place in the Little Ice Age. Yemane Asmerom and colleagues see a connection with the low solar activity at this time, which had changed the monsoon. Here is the short version:",1_7
Why the Medicaid Mandates on States Violate the General Welfare Clause:,0_0
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"The Norwegians' past decision to give a Nobel Prize to Jimmy Carter, which was a poorly-veiled attempt to sway American voters in favor of John Kerry and against George Bush, failed to achieve its objective. Similarly, giving Al Gore the prize will not likely have any lasting effect on American politics.",0_0
"Fortunately, we have solved this problem before. In 1949 the federal government built a test facility at Idaho National Laboratory to study and evaluate new nuclear reactor designs. We owe our nuclear power industry to the foresight of those New Dealers, and we need their openness to innovation again today. Earlier this year, the House of Representatives passed a bill calling for reform of our national laboratories; recently, the White House hosted a summit meeting to support nuclear energy. However, now that the speeches are over, we still lack a plan to fund and prototype the new reactors that we badly need.",0_0
Britain's winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives.,0_0
"Unfortunately for their credibility, since at least the year 2000 global temperatures have trended level despite significant increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide.",1_4
"I am fully aware of the fact that I am making many assumptions here. For example, I am assuming the average human emissions of CO2 over the next 6000 years will the same as for the last 60 years. As a result, rising temperatures in the oceans could accelerate if it were not for the logarithmic affect of additional CO2. This also assumes that there will be enough fossil fuels to last that long.",2_3
To order the study contact CEI at (202) 331-1010.,0_0
How to Talk About Climate Change So People Will Listen: A Skeptic's View,0_0
"You certainly know the jig is up when the New York Times finally recognizes that the feverish climate fervor is overheated. They reported on June 6 that The rise in the surface temperature of Earth has been markedly slower over the last 15 years than in the 20 years before that. And that lull in warming has occurred even as greenhouse gases have accumulated in the atmosphere at a record pace. Reporter Justin Gillis went on to admit that the break in temperature increases highlights important gaps in our knowledge of the climate system, whereby the lack of warming is a bit of a mystery to climate scientists.",1_4
"Graeme Pearman Claims Antarctica is Warming (Global Warming and The Cosmos, Part 1)",0_0
"It is known that low-altitude clouds have an overall cooling effect on the Earths surface. Hence, variations in cloud cover caused by cosmic rays can change the surface temperature. The existence of such a cosmic connection to Earths climate might thus help to explain past and present variations in Earths climate.",2_1
The economic cost of the expansion of renewable energy could become prohibitively expensive. Subsidies in the EU for solar and wind power should be phased out as quickly as possible.,4_4
New paper: GISS temps and solar activity,0_0
"This morning I read a terrific recounting of the the fact that a whole section of the scientific establishment is defending Gleick on the grounds that it??s OK to lie to promote their cause?? from the intellectual heights of the establishment and specifically from those who have proclaimed themselves to be experts on scientific ethics. (Fake But Accurate Science, TIA Daily , subscription required). Following on my post Fakegate: Its what they do , and Anthonys continuing elaboration of the noble cause corruption, this recalled for me a recent experience that had nagged at the back of my mind, bothersome for what it indicates. And it all fits together.",5_2
"More pertinently, exploitation of previously inaccessible resources could significantly diversify U.S. oil and gas--a longstanding objective of U.S. energy security policy.",0_0
"The problem: Meehl et al (2013) are using a climate model ( NCAR CCSM4 ) that doesnt properly simulate the coupled ocean-atmosphere processes that drive El Nios and La Nias. As far as I know, there are no climate models that properly simulate El Nio and La Nia processes. Weve discussed this numerous times, and as a reference on those occasions, Ive presented Guilyardi et al (2009) Understanding El Nio in Ocean-Atmosphere General Circulation Models: progress and challenges . Guilyardi et al (2009) is a detailed overview of the problems climate models have in their attempts at simulating ENSO, and it cites more than 100 other papers. I introduced Guilyardi et al (2009) in my post here . Later in this post, well also present one of the very obvious failures that occur because models cant simulate El Nio and La Nia processes.",5_1
"Gaia's indulgences printed by CFACT, The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, state, ""This indulgence serves as a remittance for all your carbon sins. You are hereby forgiven for: flying where you choose, machine washed clothes, driving your vehicle, your computer and electronic conveniences, taking hot showers, exhaling carbon dioxide, making things in factories, growing food with tractors, eating meat, watching your favorite TV shows, refrigerated food, Edison's light bulb, air conditioning and heating and attending international conferences.""",0_0
The scientific facts indicate that all the temperature changes observed in the last 100 years were largely natural changes and were not caused by carbon dioxide produced in human activities.?? ??? Robert Jastrow,2_1
"It's called All Models are Wrong , the corollary of course being that some are useful. I predict that this will become a must-read.",0_0
"A chief complaint of Lomborg's many critics is that his ""Litany"" was a straw man. Allen Hammond of the World Resources Institute, for example, argued at an AEI forum in October 2001 that Lomborg's Litany ""paints a caricature of the environmental agenda based on sometimes mistaken views widely held thirty years ago, but to which no serious environmental institution subscribes today"" (emphasis added). Michael Grubb of Cambridge University, one of Britain's leading environmental figures, wrote in a Science magazine review of Lomborg that ""to any professional, it is no news at all that the 1972 Limits to Growth study was mostly wrong or that Paul Ehrlich and Lester Brown have perennially exaggerated the problems of food supply.""",0_0
"on Thursday, August 11th, 2011 at 10:47 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"The latest target of the Warmists: Viscount Christopher Monckton begin of the skype highlighting end of the skype highlighting of Brenchley, a mathematician and leading critic of the global warming theory, a.k.a. ""climate change."" Monckton was recently mocked and browbeaten in a 115-slide presentation by John Abraham, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. His ""hit and run"" slide-show attack was an attempt to discredit a presentation that Monckton had given in St. Paul, Minnesota, in October 2009.",0_0
Figures 13 and 14 reminded me of two things:,0_0
"In May, researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that the rate of manmade carbon dioxide emissions was three times greater during 2000 to 2004 than during the 1990s. But while humans may be burning more fossil fuels than ever before, that ever-increasing activity isn't having any sort of discernible or proportionate impact on global temperatures.",0_0
"Economic growth is a major issue in this presidential campaign. Research has done much to uncover the factors that contribute to growth. Secure property rights, rule of law, open markets, and limited trade restrictions all play important roles. But the Trump and Clinton campaign messages are all critical of freer trade. It is falsea lieto claim that freer trade has hurt us as a nation, as my Hoover colleague David Henderson has pointed out.",0_0
"Im pulling it up here as I found it interesting, but a little unclear, and doubt that it will be clarified there.",0_0
"Professor Denning had mixed feeling about the 10-year-old documentary and was surprised that the movie was not exactly as he had remembered it to be when viewing again in preparation for his Heartland appearance. Although surprised that the film had aged fairly well, Denning said he disagreed with the film mostly on emphasis rather than the accuracy of the movie.",0_0
Calls for an independent inquiry into what is being dubbed Climategate are growing as the foundation for man-made global warming implodes following the release of emails which prove researchers colluded to manipulate data in order to hide the decline in global temperatures.,5_2
"Because people knew that with Satans help one could cook the weather, the extreme weather and harsh conditions during that period contributed to mass executions and Witch Trials.",0_0
Quote of the week #9 negative thermometers,0_0
"?This was the year that even one scientist at NASA predicted that the Arctic ice in the summer would be gone completely,? he said. ?Well, there?s 60 percent more ice this year than last year and the reason is because of the cooling sun and the cooling temperatures.?",1_1
"Everybody understands that suburban sprawl, snow removal, pavement, brick, dark roofs, huge amounts of fuel being burned, etc. causes temperatures to rise. It defies explanation how scientists could accept a finding that UHI is not affecting the temperature record.",5_1
"The big winner in the climate change money train is the National Science Foundation. They are requesting $1.616 billion dollars. They want $766 million dollars for the Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Program. This is a 15.9% increase from their last budget. They also need another $370 million for the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) an increase of 16%. They say they also need another $480 million for Atmospheric Sciences an increase of 8.1% and Earth Sciences up 8.7%. Oh, and not to be left out we need $955 million for the Geosciences Directorate, an increase of 7.4%. That?s a mighty hefty sum of money to dig into if you?re doing climate change research.",0_0
"A statistician, who up to then had nothing to do with climate science, described Mann as the mastermind of an international conspiracy, aformer industry consultant who claimed Mann did not do his work properly.",0_0
"The data show that the environment is not an issue on the front burner for most Americans today. In Pew's 2016 question about priorities for President Obama and Congress, 47 percent said ""protecting the environment"" should be a top priority. As a point of comparison, 75 percent said strengthening the nation's economy and, separately, defending the country from terrorism should be a top priority. Still, more people in 2016 said protecting the environment should be a top priority than gave that response about dealing with global climate change (47 and 38 percent, respectively). Thirty-eight percent said global warming should be a top priority.",0_0
"Bloggies nominations are open but only til Sunday this week. There is still no Science and Technology category, after 2013 when 4 out 5 finalists were skeptics. Protest by nominating science blogs for all the other categories that apply. As Ive asked before :",0_0
"The impact on energy prices, national economies, jobs, and people's lives has been profound and negative. For example, in response to the unfounded alarmism, Germany moved aggressively toward wind and solar energy over the past 15 years both politically and with taxpayer and investment spending. It also shied away from more nuclear power and saw its economy contract and energy-intensive companies shed jobs and threaten to move overseas. Now Germany is burning more coal and building new coal-fired power plants, in an attempt to reverse the economic disaster its ""Green"" and ""climate protection"" policies unleashed, but its actions are still sending shock waves at investors around the world.",4_1
"The past few years have seen several countries, including the Netherlands, Argentina, Brazil, Kuwait, Thailand, the UAE and Indonesia, once the world's largest LNG exporter, join the ranks of natural gas importers. More than a dozen other countries are considering or constructing import facilities. The market for US exports is potentially huge. And the potential to reconfigure geopolitical alliances in America's favor are immeasurable, say foreign policy and energy experts.",0_0
"Our assessment of the intermodel spread in the instantaneous forcing from CO2 is similar to that obtained by Collins et al (2006) for both the shortwave and longwave components. Collins et al (2006) documented that at the top of model the range of instantaneous forcing for a doubling of CO2 is 1.2Wm2 for the longwave part of the electromagnetic spectrum and 0.5Wm2 for the shortwave part. These ranges, respectively, correspond to 2.4Wm2 and 1.0Wm2 for a quadrupling of CO2 if the curve of growth of forcing withCO2 holds. This agreement further supports the validity of the kernel methodology. The spread is significantly larger than that obtained by Collins et al using line-by-line calculations, indicating that the spread in forcing calculations does not reflect uncertainties in radiative transfer theory, but in the fidelity of its implementation in climate models.",5_1
"17 The satellite MSU (1979-1998) and balloon radiosonde date (1958-1998) show no net warming in the high (60 -90 N) northern latitudes. See ftp://wind.atmos.uah.edu/msu/t2lt and J. K. Angell, Comparison of surface and tropospheric temperature trends estimated from a 63-station radiosonde network, 1958-1998, Geophysical Research Letters 26, 2761 (1999).",0_0
"""In an address before the National Forum on Biodiversity in 1986, Dr. Ariel Lugo pointed out that according to the only available study of the rate of increase in tropical secondary forests, almost half of the 11.3 million hectares of virgin tropical forest cut annually were turned not into wasteland the equivalent of water in biogeographical calculations but secondary forest."" Thus many species were able to survive quite well. (Science, p.737)",0_0
"In January, my friend, Robert Carter, an Australian scientist born in New Zealand, died suddenly. Bob was a former university department head and a geologist, known internationally for his work in paleoclimatology. He fought against the social irrationalism of CTBS for years. After he publicly questioned it, he lost his status as an internationally known expert nearly overnight, and was tossed into a nether world where he would be regarded as an unqualified climate denier, even being stripped of library privilegesevery petty indignity a blow for virtue in the eyes of arrogant narcissistic fools, blind to the distinction between political and scientific thinking.",0_0
"Missing the Sept 30 deadline will mean an immediate 5,000 fine, and 500 for each day after that, up to a maximum of 45,000.",0_0
rice and other cereals over the past six months has generated a $120,0_0
"Whats more, James Camerons movie Titanic has been remastered in 3D for the centenary.",0_0
"- Entropy (all exchanges of heat on Earth and the atmosphere require entropy to increase, which is incompatible with a hypothetical ""greenhouse effect"" -which requires entropy to decrease in order for heat to flow from cold to hot)",2_3
"If this cooling trend were to continue, it would spell disaster for the world's hungry. Let's hope ' the pause ' in global warming does not last much longer since it unfortunately seems to project a cooling regime over the U.S.",1_4
"As CO2 has increased, the number of F3-F5 tornadoes has decreased. Extrapolating the trend, we can see that at 480 ppm there would be zero severe tornadoes.",1_7
"Curiously, the post-World War II period of increasing fossil fuel use and associated increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide is concurrent with the most sustained lull in landfalling hurricane activity throughout the record. While this doesn't disprove any association between global warming and landfalling hurricane frequency or intensity, it lends no support to the contention either.",0_0
"Now, just last week, we discover that the new Chief Scientist, Ian Chubb, believes too that ""scientific consensus . . . provides the best guidance we have for decisions that are informed and rational"", and that ""the science is in on climate change"".",0_0
"The real scientific debate, Professor Carter noted in his book Climate: the Counter Consensus and other works, is about the direction and magnitude of global human effects, and their likely significance in the context of natural climate change which has been occurring ever since Earth developed its oceans, atmosphere and climate. Indeed, modern temperatures are not unusually warm, compared to many previous periods in the historic and geologic record. My friend's other insights are equally important.",2_1
"However, she did propose that the AMS establish what amounts to a global warming litmus test for meteorologists seeking AMS certification. And given the importance professional societies put on continuing education, it is hard to see how in practice Cullen's proposal would not threaten the credentials of meteorologists who are skeptical about the alleged perils of global warming.",0_0
Marlo Lewis Jr.Vice President for Policy & Coalitions,0_0
"Temperatures dropped to -3C in West Salmi, -2C in north Abdaly, and 3C at Kuwait International Airport. Temperature reached below freezing in desert areas, the center noted.",0_0
"""The rhetoric,"" reports US News, ""has struck home with Americans across the countryparticularly those currently or formerly employed in the embattled U.S. goods-producing and manufacturing sectors, who have repeatedly borne the brunt of corporate efforts to move work overseas.""",0_0
"Thirty-three years later, the area of sea ice on Earth is almost exactly the same as 1980",1_1
"Regarding the EPA's new plan, the letter calls the coordination needed between multiple state agencies, public utility commissions, regional transmission organizations, and transmission and reliability experts: ""Unprecedented, extraordinary, and extremely time consuming."" The Senators ask for more time so that states and stakeholders can ""fully analyze and assess the sweeping impacts that the proposal will have on our nation's energy system."" It also points out: ""The EPA proposal provides no mechanism for adjusting the state emission rate targets once they are adopted""which makes it imperative that the states can fully ""digest"" the rule, review the 600 supporting documents, and collect the data and justification for the states' responses.",0_0
"Sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions are down roughly 37 percent from 1970 levels, and are lower today than at any time since the Great Depression.",0_0
"So, the picture of changes in ENSO, when viewed in terms rainfall response patterns, may be limited by errors and biases that have been long-term features in climate models. Research is required to test the potential impact of SST biases on the change in average precipitation in the tropics. We must improve models, but we must also to better understand the processes whereby biases in present-day simulations link to future projections. Until we get a better handle on these issues, the prediction of an overall increase in rainfall in the eastern tropical Pacific, and its year-to-year variability, remains uncertain.",5_1
"Denning: Claimed that about one-third of the coral reef is now bleached, although Denning admitted that the biggest damage from global warming was not about the health of the coral reef but about a decline in the economy. According to Denning, replacing fossil fuels would reduce the Global GDP by 1 percent over the next few human generations. This is a far cry from the 25 percent reduction that he said economists estimate if 10 times more fossil is burnt than we burn today.",0_0
Climate: The Counter Consensus by Robert M. Carter,0_0
"Whole books oneach of these issuesfrom the market-failure viewpoint conclude that mankind is on a perilous path, and government-engineered energy transformation is necessary. But students of energy history and energy policy must ask: Has a political makeover of any industry ever worked well for consumers and taxpayers? Or has it had the opposite effect? Naturalmakeover from shifting consumer demand, revered in the term creative destruction , is one thing; government carrots-and-sticks to pick winners and losers is quite another.",4_2
"And when the models dont resemble the global temperature observations, inasmuch as the models do not have the multidecadal variations of the instrument temperature record, the layman becomes wary. They casually research and discover that natural multidecadal variations have stopped the global warming in the past for 30 years, and they believe it can happen again. Also, the layman can see very clearly that the models have latched onto a portion of the natural warming trends, and that the models have projected upwards from there, continuing the naturally higher multidecadal trend, without considering the potential for a future flattening for two or three or four decades. In short, to the layman, the models appear bogus.",5_1
"Typically at events like this some police are assigned to keep access open, especially for the medical folks. This scene does have a much more staged look, or out of control look. Lousy police control? Staged? Police just a bit shocked, too, so: late in the process not caring much?",0_0
"Climate realists have long been aware that global average surface temperature had stopped sometime around 2000, and even a few years before. Lately alarmists had to admit it . The period with no warming is now as long as was period of warming on which fears were based 17 years according to a leaked draft of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5)despite continued rise of atmospheric carbon-dioxide concentration.",1_4
Century-Long Trends in Water Use Efficiency of European Forests (6 April 2015),0_0
"communications with other academic colleagues, I think that we would weaken",0_0
"The diagram below summarizes my estimates of how much deflation would be required to yield the observations all measurements are based on the Non-Logo gauge, which was calibrated as being relatively close to the Master Gauge. Theres a lot of information in the diagram (and Ill post a script deriving the diagrams as documentation). In each panel, Ive converted pressures to ball temperature using the Ideal Gas Law. This facilitates direct comparison of information from Colt balls to Patriot balls. Ive also shown a negative exponential corridor from the upper and lower Colt measurements to halftime temperatures for dry and wet footballs. The corridor is presented here as a rough-and-ready but plausible guide.",0_0
"The diplomatic task with respect to China, one that should also be carried out at senior and sustained levels, is not to paper over the many disagreements and clashing political objectives that characterize China-U.S. relations. The task at hand is to manage the growing Sino-U.S. security competitiona competition that increasingly appears to be about two very different visions for Asiaso that rivalry does not lead to conflict. With its economic coercion in blocking the export of a strategic commodity, mixed with its use of gunboat diplomacy, Beijing is looking, as security expert William O'Neil has said, a bit too much like Imperial Japan.",0_0
"If theres anything Ive learned in the past year, Ive learned that the science of climate isnt settled. The politics however, are a different story.",5_1
"Working within this ethical framework, governments have taken expensive policy steps to prevent the costs of climate change falling on future generations, for example by fixing energy markets in favour of renewables or by instituting schemes to cap and trade carbon emissions.",0_0
This is a sample of many articles on the subject of power outage problems in New Jersey and New York:,0_0
"Global warming activists, while mustering genuine outrage for media interviews, must have been delighted. If they had written the EPA report themselves, they could hardly have done a better job of convincing the public that the scientific consensus on global warming is overwhelming. Scientists, we were to believe, had proved that man-made climate change is destroying the earthonly to be silenced by the Galileopersecuting Bush administration.",0_0
"How does Brazil's future look with biofuels? As reality finally overcomes media bias and political correctness, the naive excitement of a few years ago when anything ""Green"" was portrayed as lower in cost, clean, and superior in every technological sense has given way to more rational thinking. Brazil is now going more for oil and gas, via conventional drilling and hydraulic fracturing, onshore and offshore.",0_0
"After all, the importance of those natural influences shouldnt be that surprising given that history shows that temperatures have been higher when CO 2 levels were lower, and vise versa. In fact, the past century has witnessed two generally accepted periods of warming The first occurred between 1900 and 1945. Since CO 2 levels were relatively low then compared with now, and didnt change much, they couldnt have been the cause before 1950.",2_1
The Republicans waged a 3-decade war on government. They got Trump.,0_0
"It has always been true that some lose as a result of trade agreements. We gave up textile jobs to gain jobs elsewhere, in services for example. Trade agreements including NAFTA raised income in the aggregate and provided some of the funding for retraining displaced workers. Trump is wrong or badly advised to oppose trade agreements and Clinton was badly advised when she shifted her position on the Pacific trade agreement. Of course, the agreements are complicated, so it is always possible to claim that a better agreement for the United States is possiblebut it's not accurate to claim that trade restrictions will benefit Americans.",0_0
Temperatures in Minden this week are forecast to be 30-40 degrees cooler than they were in 1936. President Barack Obama says that the US is heating out of control.,1_3
"Coral bleaching is not all gloom and doom, it can have benefits . So say the authors of this study who wrote that ???bleaching is a prime regulator for the settlement of new recruitment of scleractinian corals which leads to diversified reef area,?? while further noting that ???the adaptive features of bleaching can be seen as a mechanism that enables the exchange of symbionts in a better fit of the holobiont to a changed environment???? Read More",3_2
"Using a clone of the EIA's National Energy Modeling system, Heritage Foundation analysts looked at the impact of the High Resource Case on income and employment, as well as the impact on energy markets.",0_0
"Progressivism was repudiated in the landslide election of Warren Harding in 1920, at which point disenchanted liberal thinkers turned their ire against middle-class Americans who, in the ""roaring '20s,"" were happily buying automobiles, refrigerators, radios and tickets to the movies.",0_0
"Predictions in May 2006 were for 8-10 hurricanes (4-6 Cat 3+). So far this year we??ve had 3 ""named storms"" and the Atlantic is quiet as of today . A ""named storm"" has a minimum wind speed of 40 mph, so one may presume that comparative early 20th century statistics for ""named storms"" are unlikely to be comprehensive. On Aug 6, 2006, predictions were revised slightly down to 7-9 hurricanes (3-4 Cat 3+).",1_7
"CEI: George Gilder, one of the Club's advisors, recently stated that he thinks it's politically pointless to focus on cutting government--beneficiaries of government largesse are too passionate and will fight to the death to preserve their subsidies. It's basically not worth the effort, as long as you don't grow government additionally. What do you make of Gilder's comments?",0_0
"Kjorven and the UN say they want ""expanded use of techniques that reduce soil erosion and run-off."" No-till farming is now being used on millions of hectares of vulnerable lands around the world, cutting soil erosion by up to 95 percent, and virtually eliminating runoff. But the system can't work without herbicideswhich the UN would discard.",0_0
"Dr Post said in January there is no evidence linking drought to climate change in eastern Australia, including the Murray-Darling Basin.",1_7
"15. Harrison Brown, a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, published a chart in Scientific American that looked at metal reserves and estimated the humanity would totally run out of copper shortly after 2000. Lead, zinc, tin, gold, and silver would be gone before 1990.",0_0
"In the past five years, the dynamic of the global warming debate has shifted away from exaggerated acceptance of the worst possible implications of what a majority of climate scientists tell us, towards a more balanced, and questioning approach.",0_0
"where tau is the time constant and e is the base of the natural logarithms, 2.718. The time constant tau and the variable t are in whatever units you are using (months, years, etc). The time constant tau is a measure that is like a half-life. However, instead of being the time it takes for something to decay to half its starting value, tau is the time it takes for something to decay exponentially to 1/e 1/2.7 37% of its starting value. This can be verified by noting that when t equals tau , the equation reduces to e ^-1 = 1/ e .",0_0
"Right now, many European countries prohibit fracking, and EU climate and renewable energy policies have sent business and family energy prices into the stratosphere, killing jobs and preventing families from heating their homes properly.",4_1
A paper published in the August 13 issue of Science magazine made the headlines when it predicted more heat waves in Europe and the USA as a result of global warming.,0_0
"unilateral in approach and less reliant on American military power."" Applying the same approach as his earlier book about President George W. Bush's foreign policy team (The Vulcans), Mann focuses on the perspectives and ideas that policymakers bring with them",0_0
"Schwarzenegger's asthma-air pollution link is also spurious. Asthma prevalence has more than doubled in the U.S. since the early 1980s, but during the same period, air pollution of all kinds declined.",0_0
"The kind of business approach that is implicitly encoded in this statement is weird, indeed. If the competitiveness of VW Group depends on introducing improvements such as the MQB architecture, then VW Group simply has to do these things. The whole group has to do it. If someone manages to do it more quickly, he should serve as an example for others and he should be praised, not viewed as a guy who robbed or discriminated others. After all, all the profits go to the whole VW Group. It's very strange if Mr Winterkorn speaks as a social justice warrior who wants to impose some egalitarianism or justice. His task should be to achieve excellence, not egalitarianism or mediocrity, and maximize the overall profit and its growth rate, not the uniformity with which the profit is geographically distributed!",0_0
"In fact, at Dartmouth University, Thomas Lovejoy was recently giving a lecture and showing pictures of Amazon land that had been deforested only four to five years before. The regrowth in these areas was ""verdant and vigorous; the canopy had ascended to a height of nearly 25 feet. In order to study an `island' of rainforest, it must remain isolated, surrounded by cleared land. So when asked if the second growth interfered with his project, Lovejoy jokingly admitted, `Well we have a chain saw.'"" (Dartmouth Review, p.8)",0_0
"This not only destroys jobs, economic growth and national energy security, but it does so by bypassing the U.S. Congress and representative government.",0_0
Politician Smith politely makes multi-disciplinary arguments assuming the best intentions of his opponents. Academic Sass goes ad hominem on the Keystone XL pipeline issue and refers vaguely to a scientific consensus for his position.,5_2
2. My 2-part YouTube videos titled The Natural Warming of the Global Oceans. YouTube links: Part 1 and Part 2 .,2_1
"OPT Report: Fewer Emitters, Lower Emissions, Less Cost. Appendix A: Terms of Reference.",0_0
"I can't tell at this point whether the catastrophic oil spill increases the chances of a climate change bill moving forward, or kills it dead. Certainly, the hope of finding some modest bipartisan support for the Graham/Kerry/Lieberman plan rested on the president's willingness to entertain an expansion of offshore drilling (as well as movement on nuclear power). The need to step back from that pledge, via a moratorium for now, may limit GOP support for any bill, while any proposal that might expand offshore drilling could cause some Democrats to disavow the legislation.",0_0
Jim Hansen concluded in 2005 thatthe decadal mean planetary energy imbalance at the end of the 1990s was,0_0
"NASA temperature figures show agency reworking recent numbers upwards, older numbers downwards",5_2
"The station that got all this started with an errant temperature, Gravesend , is east of London along the Thames. I theorized then that that Thames itself might be a source of heat for that station, and given the density of power plants along it shown above, there might be some truth to that theory.",5_1
"All told, from the start of the winter season to the very end, Boston received a record 110.6 inches of snow (which even the global warming experts have said is NOT supposed to happen, until it does). Much of it was due to a continuous stream of frigid air channeling down from the Arctic and colliding with the warmer air of the lower 48 states.",0_0
"With respect to the ocean heat data specifically, Sen Gupta et al write that",0_0
"The scientists cored trees in the headwaters of the Yellow River and statistically linked the ring widths to historical flows of the river. The tree rings extend back 593 years, and just like magic, the trees allow for a very accurate reconstruction of the total flow of the all-important Yellow River. Examining the plot below (Figure 2), and we just dont find anything curious going on recently that hasnt occurred in the past. The Guo et al. team note that There are several particularly dry periods indicated during the past 593 years, namely, 14801490s, 15901600s, 17001710s, 18201830s, and 19201930s and that he reconstruction demonstrated that 14801490 is the driest decade. Further, they note that The streamflow at Tangnaihai increased during much of the twentieth century. However, since the 1980s, Yellow River streamflow has decreased significantly. Nevertheless, it is not yet out of the range of earlier streamflow fluctuations reconstructed for the past several centuries.",2_1
"According to data maintained by the federal National Climatic Data Center, drought conditions are no stranger to southern California.",0_0
"If the crucifixion scandal isn't enough of a revelation of this war on natural gas, remember that the Sierra Club which recently gave the President its most enthusiastic endorsement has just rolled out its newest campaign: ""Beyond Gas,"" a spin-off of its decade-old ""Beyond Coal"" campaign to phase out coal-fired power plants. As Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune explained ""As we push to retire coal plants, we're going to work to make sure we're not simultaneously switching to natural-gas infrastructure. And we're going to be preventing new gas plants from being built wherever we can.""",0_0
"Agnotology, then, is a two-edged sword since either side in a debate may claim that general ignorance arises from misinformation allegedly circulated by the other. Significant questions about anthropogenic influences on climate remain. Therefore, Legates et al. appropriately asserted that partisan presentations of controversies stifle debate and have no place in education.",0_0
If global warming is happening ? and the clear downwards trend in temperatures in Britain over the past three years certainly doesn?t add to the evidence ? it is a pretty slow process and one which a rich country such as Britain ought to have little difficulty coping with.,0_0
"To expose this lie, politicians can have their staff look at the many stagnant or failing countriesGreece, Argentina, Venezuela, France, and Italywhere anti-capitalist policies have been tried and failed. We should not want to join them.",0_0
"As Food Riots Continue, Finance Ministers Criticize Ethanol Subsidies",0_0
"I resisted the urge to say ?Duh!? and instead simply said, ?Yes, Tabitha. That is exactly what it seems like.?",0_0
Cross Country: Virginia Is Sitting on the Energy Mother Lode,0_0
India's Future Climate: No Cause for Alarm,0_0
"The IPCC and most anthropogenic believers want to maintain the belief that global warming during the past 100 years has been caused by human activity alone, and this is why most of their climate talks and lectures do not even mention prior global warming cycles.",5_2
"When St-Onge took the platform, she pointed to me and, in a jovial manner, said: ""Marita, I hope you are wrong."" I called out: ""I hope I am too! And, I hate to be wrong.""",0_0
"In fact the report had been made public by the Pentagon, made clear that it was a scenario, not a forecast, and made no mention of the threat being greater than terrorism (that being a reference to the statement by Sir David King see recent issues).",0_0
"Yet, as the film demonstrates, scientists don't want to talk about their failed predictions.",0_0
"The six scientists state that the great increase they observed in plant water use efficiency ""could be a major physiological advantage to growth under elevated CO 2 in this CAM bromeliad,"" and that this fact further suggests that CAM species should ""be considered in an agronomic context as potential sources of biomass production on arid, marginal lands."" Reviewed 1 October 2008",3_3
"UN Launches ""2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development""",0_0
"Why should you be interested? Sea surface temperature records indicate El Nio and La Nia events are responsible for the warming of global sea surface temperature anomalies over the past 30 years, not manmade greenhouse gases. Ive searched sea surface temperature records for more than 4 years and ocean heat content records for more than 3 years, and I can find no evidence of an anthropogenic greenhouse gas signal in either dataset. That is, the warming of the global oceans has been caused by naturally occurring, sunlight-fueled, coupled ocean-atmosphere processes, not anthropogenic greenhouse gases.",2_1
"Regardless, Obama is right insofar as Arizona's effort is the inevitable consequence of Washington's inability to take illegal immigration seriously.",0_0
"Outlandish and misleading claims by global warming alarmists such as Running explain why the public increasingly tunes out the alarmists' unending predictions of doom and gloom. If they want people to take them seriously, they must begin speaking truth rather than propaganda.",5_2
"It seems certain that Kyoto -- if ratified -- would ultimately prove enforceable (against the U.S.), pursuant to a 1920 Supreme Court decision in Missouri v. Holland which held that that treaties trump state law. This would be done domestically, in U.S. courts, which is admittedly not great comfort.",0_0
"Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars worth of damage in 13 U.S. states.",0_0
"""The problem with tree rings appears to be that their variations reflect more than year-to-year climate differences (temperature and/or precipitation). As the trees age, tree-ring production changes and introduces a spurious trend in the tree-ring series. This aging effect differs among tree species, as well as within species, depending on the trees' growing conditions (soil type, elevation, slope aspect, etc.). It becomes difficult to separate trends due to aging from those due to climate.",5_1
"The Chinese government institutes a monthly ""no car day"" to combat air pollution.",0_0
"For example, the model range could be much tighter, indicating that the models were in better agreement with one another as to what the simulated trend should be. As it is now, the model range during the period 1951-2012 extends from 0.07C/decade to 0.21C/decade (note that the observed trend is 0.107C/decade). And this is from models which were run largely with observed changes in climate forcings (such as greenhouse gas emissions, aerosol emissions, volcanoes, etc.) and for a period of time (62 years) during which short-term weather variations should all average out. In other words, they are all over the place.",5_1
"President Obama's January 28, 2014, State of the Union address declared: ""But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact. And when our children's children look us in the eye and ask if we did all we could to leave them a safer, more stable world, with new sources of energy, I want us to be able to say yes, we did.""",0_0
?Some people say that global warming made each of the following events worse. How much do you agree or disagree??,0_0
Global Lukewarming: A Great Intellectual Year in 2011,0_0
"Once again, we have evidence of considerably warmer temperatures than those of today over much of the past few thousand years - including a period of time coeval with the Medieval Warm Period - in the southeastern Barents Sea, which conditions are said to be reflective of conditions throughout northwestern Eurasia. And once again, therefore, we have the testimony of the very-real world refuting the climate alarmist claim that it is currently warmer than it has been at any time during the past millennium. Ah, there's nothing like DATA!",2_1
"During the 2016 election, both candidates promised to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. Donald Trump made the recovery of jobs lost to China and Mexico a cornerstone of his campaign. Hillary Clinton's website states: ""While too many politicians and experts in Washington gave up on American manufacturing, Hillary never did.""",0_0
"A portion of rainfall is evaporated, what remains goes into the ground and is available for the plants. Koppen divined what was effective, that is available for the plants, by identifying three different annual patterns: rainfall year round, 70% in the summer or 70% in the winter. Each may have the same annual total but the amount left for the plants varies considerably.",0_0
"There is something disquieting, however, about a liberal like Gore issuing a public bravo for the Republican front-runner. Could it be that Democrats fear Romney's more ideas-focused rivals for the GOP nod? Do they want Romney to stay strong so a Chris Christie or Rick Perry doesn't enter the race, generating excitement for Reaganite grass-roots voters?",0_0
"We were a bit late getting there due to airplane scheduling snafus, and as we rushed from the airport at 6:15 pm we passed the coal loading terminal at Newcastle. There, as if there was some madcap attempt at sustainability, was one of those huge wind turbines like Ive seen on the US plains. I attempted to get a photo, but my camera misfired with bad focus due to the car window, and I missed the shot.",0_0
"Aussies refuse to dump beer fridges for sake of global ""warming""",0_0
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
Irradiance decrease from 1996 to 2008 solar minimum claimed to produce global cooling . . . but decrease in PMOD and ACRIM composites could be instrumental,2_1
"The other problem ? and climate flatliners hate me for pointing this out ? is that the beginning of the period of ?no warming? includes the warmest year in the instrumental record, caused by the great El Nino of 1997-1998. In a modestly warming world, starting off at or near an anomalously high point pretty much assures little or no warming for years afterward.",0_0
"Though the evidence of climate change has, if anything, solidified, Ms. Rosenthal lamented that Mr. Obama now talks about green jobs mostly as a strategy for improving the economy, but not the planet.",0_0
"So the story leading to the letter begins with the development and approval of the APS Statement. There is evidence that the process itself that produced the Statement was at least highly questionable if not downright illegitimate. It is known that a small group of individuals, not satisfied with the degree of alarm contained in the original draft produced by the officially charged committee, acted unilaterally and without authority to raise the level of alarm. A senior APS professional confides in writing that",5_2
New Zealand marks end to coal power,0_0
"Well, not that new after all, seeing that the peer-reviewed Climate Consensus and Misinformation: A Rejoinder to Agnotology, Scientific Consensus, and the Teaching and Learning of Climate Change by David Legates, Willie Soon, William Briggs, and Christopher Monckton of Brenchleythe same team that brought you the peer-reviewed Why models run hot has been e-vailable in Science and Education for a year and a half ( pdf ).",0_0
"Ridiculous. There is hardly a skeptic alive who doesn??t think that human activity is causing some climate change, and in particular, some amount of warming. The question is whether one accepts the IPCC??s claim of extreme certainty that the human release of greenhouse gases is responsible for most late 20th century warming, and is on course to cause a dangerous amount of warming over the next century. Skeptics see this as unlikely, or as unsupported by the evidence, but it all comes down to the size of the human warming effect.",5_1
"A report by the International Energy Agency claims that emissions which will be saved by COP21 / Paris climate pledges currently on the table, will only delay Climageddon by 8 months.",4_2
Inconvenient fact: The USA is currently enjoying the longest streak ever recorded without an intense hurricane landfall .,0_0
"But while more mainstream corporate entities are deserting Heartland, others are stepping into the breach, including the coal lobby and conservative groups such as the Heritage Foundation.",0_0
"(Update: When I updated, I added someone elses naive projection from Rogers blog. It was made using minitab.)",0_0
But what about the glaciers? Three years ago The Guardian was hysterical about an iceberg calving from the Petermann Glacier.,5_2
"???scenario B assumes a reduced linear growth of trace gases, ?? ?? Hansen??s predicted temperature increase, from 1988 to 2012, is 0.75 C, OVER THREE TIMES HIGHER thanthe actual increase of 0.22 C.",5_1
"Should this come as a big surprise after Energy Secretary, Steven Chu called upon his counterparts around the world to promote the widespread affordable development of clean coal technology?Well, maybe not. It seemsthat in addition to receiving at least $682 million in federal subsidies and tax credits, along with an unspecified amount of federal loan guarantees, the project has nearly doubled in cost over original estimates. Like Solyndra and other vaunted green government marvels, taxpayers get hit by the overruns, ratepayers get stuck with higher electricity costs, and shareholders get the green.",4_4
"The vote on my resolution will clearly demonstrate to the American people which Senators will ""hold the line"" and stand with their constituents for jobs and affordable energy, and which Senators want to kill coal in favor of President Obama's radical global warming agenda that will be devastating to people in their states.",0_0
I saw the Nick Ross TV programme about weather disasters earlier in the week,0_0
New Jersey Attorney General Zulima V. Farber resigns after an ethics investigation.,0_0
"One of the most infamous of these ""schemes"" was the vast Polonoroeste settlement program in Rondonia, funded by the international capital of the World Bank (with Thomas Lovejoy one of the advisors). ""Before 1989, tax credits, subsidies, and inexpensive loans were given to people who carved farms out of the Amazon rainforest. Laws required owners to clear their properties to receive title to the land, encouraging property owners to clear much greater areas than they expected to farm many of these policies have been repealed or reformed since 1979 the rate of deforestation in Brazil thus has fallen dramatically."" (Eco-Sanity, p.89)",0_0
"Abbott opposes abortion and same-sex marriage, he is a skeptic on global warming and he wants to end immigration of asylum-seekers. The left-wing Oz commentariat said that made him unelectable. Yet he won big.",0_0
The Goddard article is here - so you can judge for yourself whether the bit is actually something Goddard said or not.,0_0
"In Africa, drought continues for the sixth consecutive year, adding terribly to the toll of famine victims. During 1972 record rains in parts of the U.S., Pakistan and Japan caused some of the worst flooding in centuries",0_0
"The above headline in the British tabloid newspaper The Sun was certainly apt for much of the British summer just past. The 10th of August was the hottest day ever registered in the UK, 101.3 Fahrenheit (38.5 Celsius) at Faversham in Kent. And the average in 2003 is around 10.65C. The previous highest on record was 1990 (10.63C) and in 1999 (10.62C).",0_0
"S. 139 does not have the votes to be passed out of the Environment and Public Works Committee, yet McCain secured a vote for it on the Senate floor last October 30, when weaker version of the bill was defeated 43 to 55. McCain forced Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) to schedule this vote on S. 139 in exchange for McCain's agreement to allow the Domenici energy bill to be replaced by the Daschle energy bill from the previous Congress. That switch required unanimous consent under Senate rules.",0_0
"What is the problem with receiving such funding? Apparently oil companies give handsome sums to climate activist organizations that do not find it taboo to take oil money. Those very recipients simultaneously damn others for taking such funds, even when none were received, sought, or offered. Why should oil companies fund skeptical groups to say what they would say anyway? Theyd get nothing but a kick in the pants for their trouble from the dogmatists.",0_0
"The press release states that Al Gore is one of the world's leading environmental politicians, even though the administration he was the vice president of did not even manage to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. His one achievement was a public policy stunt full of scaremongering and misrepresentation.",5_2
"Currently, a hybrid can cost from $3,500 to $6,000 more than a comparable gasoline vehicle. A typical hybrid doesnt come close to recouping this additional expense through fuel savings for many years. With an annual mileage of 15,000 miles and gas costing $4 a gallon, a hybrid would save between $650 and mid $700 a year in gas . If the hybrid saved $675 a year in fuel cost, it would take roughly 5 and half years for the hybrid to reach a fuel savings of $3,500, which is the low end of the additional cost incurred for owning a fuel-saving vehicle. The average American only owns a car for 6 years though. This means that gas would have to reach $8 a gallon for the hybrid to warrant spending the extra money.",4_4
"The bottom line on this is simple: I can??t pretend to know the temperature within a few kilometers of my house right now to within a couple of degrees C without making basic scientific errors in everything from measurement and imagined precision to application ??? and when people like Jones and Hansen announce in all apparent seriousness that the entire earth is now 0.5C degrees warmer than it was during the period from 1961 to 1990 they??re asking us to accept a very precise number on the basis of data that??s much worse than mine and in the face of applicability, measurement, and computational ambiguities that are orders of magnitude greater.",5_1
"The AGW-alarmist frenklade the world of s seems the Antarctic ice tillvxttrend as a great mystery. Or perhaps as an annoyance. Why grows the sea ice in Antarctica No global temperature reservoirs, and No. their models says that it should decrease? Evidently's make it good to blame on global warming when it is about the Arctic, but it gets more complicated No trend gr for second hole in Antarctica.",1_1
"The administration has handed out $2.4 billion in grants to the EV sector, as well as nearly $2.6 billion in loans. None of those bets has paid off. Car buyers are staying away from all-electric vehicles in droves. And yet, for some reason, Romney avoided the subject in the debate.",4_2
"China has further revised up its solar power development target for 2015 by 50 percent from its previous plan, state media reported on Thursday.",0_0
Nuclear engineering professor Higginbotham has been at OSU 24 years; he is president of the OSU Faculty Senate and director of a large NASA program on the campus. His inside knowledge of what the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics deans and certain faculty were doing to railroad the Robinson children made him Public Enemy Number One to the department Torquemadas who are trying to destroy his career and get him fired for his impertinence.,0_0
"The rational is that sun spot activity increases electromagnetic emanations from the sun to interfere with cosmic rays from the universe that cause ionization of water vapor and encourage cloud formation. More sun spots, less clouds.",2_1
"Of course, the negative PDO/more tornadoes connection will not necessarily hold every year, just as the La Nina/more hurricanes connection does not hold every year.",0_0
"In Spiegel Online writes Matthias Schulz of Germany plans to build an additional 60,000 wind turbines in forests, p alpsluttningarna and even in protected areas The question is how many forests that have to be sacrificed, how many horizons that must flckas of wind turbines from Germany to n their new klimatml?",0_0
"Aside from incompetent ideologically driven hacks such as himself who have no idea about climate science, or any science for that matter, there have been some serious scientists attending the conference. In particular, the conference was ""remarkably well run"", using Boslough's own words, by Dr Petr Chlek of LANL who has a degree from the same Charles University in Prague as your humble correspondent (it's my undergrad Alma Mater). Dr Chlek's advantage in the number of citations over Mr Boslough is about one order of magnitude .",0_0
"Most authors use values close to k = 0.269 at the characteristic-emission level in the upper atmosphere: however, Kimoto is not the only author to question whether that value is applicable at the surface. Indeed, he says the value of k should really be as little as 0.15 K/W/m2, to make proper allowance for non-radiative transports in the atmosphere, such as evaporation from the Earths surface, which exercises a considerable cooling effect. In general, the models relied upon by the IPCC parametrize non-radiative transports very poorly, if at all.",5_1
"With increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, there is an imbalance in energy flows in and out of the earth system at the top of the atmosphere (TOA): the greenhouse gases increasingly trap more radiation and hence create warming (Solomon et al. 2007; Trenberth et al. 2009). Warming really means heating and extra energy, and hence it can be manifested in many ways. Rising surface temperatures are just one manifestation.",0_0
"Most do not have a megalithic character, in fact, they tend to just be the ditch and mound around the outside. This, to me, tends to confirm the notion that they had some simple sighting apparatus, probably just some simple wooden poles, for local use in calendaring. It also points up the special character of Stonehenge and that is why I think it was the Henge College. The NIST or Standards Bureau of its day.",0_0
"During the period 1941-1975, when global temperatures cooled, giving rise to concerns of a looming ice age, there were 11 years of moderate-to-severe drought.",0_0
"3. Most significantly, the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 adopted the UNFCCC treaty on the basis of a 30-year cooling trend followed by only 12 years of warming. That treaty dogmatically redefined climate change as being anthropogenic and eventually committed over 190 countries to combat dangerous warming.",5_2
"4. Langley, SP, 1876: Examination of the direct effect of sun-spots on terrestrial climates. Mon. Note. R. Astron. Soc., 37, 511.",0_0
There is no such match between the steady rise in atmospheric CO2 concentration and the often dramatic ups and downs of surface temperatures in and around the Arctic.,2_3
"Since when is valuing personal freedoms, many of which are protected by the Constitution, and being suspicious of those scientists who have been claiming were all going to die, or questioning sweeping government intervention anything other than a deeply embedded American tradition and a very good idea under any circumstance?",0_0
"Allowing this flaw in judgment to stand would set an unworkable precedent for future elections and cause irreparable harm to the impartiality of this court, said Chief Justice John G. Roberts in his majority opinion. Furthermore, let me be the first to personally congratulate President Gore on his remarkable come-from-behind victory. May he guide us wisely into this new millennium. Added Roberts, The system works. Moments after the courts noontime announcement, Gore was flown to Washington, D.C. aboard Air Force One, sworn in on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, and immediately escorted to a brief victory rally at the National Mall. By 4:30 p.m., his 15 cabinet appointees had been vetted, contacted, and brought to Washington, where they were all simultaneously approved by a majority vote in the Senate. Gore then delivered the first of seven consecutive State of the Union addresses. .",0_0
"Of course, in order to give Fits to the UK public, it is necessary to have smart meter technology, the roll-out of which is being accelerated under the new coalition government headed by David Cameron.",0_0
"So if it was so much warmer at 400 ppm CO2 then, why is it so much cooler at 400 ppm CO2 now?",0_0
"This graph of outgoing longwave radiation shows that since April of 2009, space aliens have been stealing the Earths heat. Now we know where Trenberths missing heat is hiding.",0_0
"Ah, yes, not only are they going to tweak the mid-century temperatures, but they are also going to make recent temperatures warmer than they are currently being reported. This will kill two birds with one stone.",5_1
"As Roy Spencer and John Christy have pointed out, all 73 climate models are forecast higher temperature trends in the atmosphere above the tropics, than what is being observed. Many of the models forecast trends that are more than twice of what is observed. A further issue with the study is that the period coinciding with the ending of the Little Ice Age is hardly the proper place to start the base. See links under Communicating Better to the Public Exaggerate, or be Vague? and http://www.drroyspencer.com/2013/06/still-epic-fail-73-climate-models-vs-measurements-running-5-year-means/",5_1
"In one of the many documents released, Shukla denies he and his collaborators were attempting to silence dissent on climate change.",0_0
"To be sure, Australians did not confuse a well-crafted speech with action. Take for example, President Xi's pledge to Australia's Parliament that China will always address its maritime disputes peacefully. It would have more credibility if China were less obstructionist in moving forward on a long-promised binding China-Asean Code of Conduct in the South China Sea, and stepped back from engaging in increasingly frequent and coercive behaviour in contested maritime zones in that body of water. Indeed, President Xi's pointed reminder in his speech that Beijing will ""firmly uphold core interests of China's sovereignty, security and territorial integrity"" was not overlooked.",0_0
"5. Over the last 120,000 years, there have been 25 periods of warming where temperature rose by up to 8 deg C. These were not driven by human emissions, were natural and were neither irreversible nor catastrophic.",2_1
"Finally, Jacobson said, carbon particles released from burning biomass settle on snow and ice, contributing to further warming.",0_0
"And maybe while we're exchanging ideas with China about jointly addressing any climatological weapon of mass destruction threat, they can give us a hand with some other global dangers as well. China's assistance in arresting WMD terrorism threats posed by Iran, North Korea, and Syria immediately come to mind as examples of climate changes in global security cooperation we can all wish for.",0_0
"Four years ago, Obama's PIC mostly matched his reformer rhetoric: He barred corporate money and capped contributions at $50,000. George W. Bush and Bill Clinton both took large corporate contributions for their PICs.",0_0
L1753 0.9 H1220 5.8 H1258 5.9 H1335 6.0 H1413 6.1 H1453 6.2 H1533 6.2,0_0
"Hail, bounteous May, that doth inspire mirth",0_0
"Had he wished to be objective, he would have pointed out that the polar bear population has not been falling, but rising.",3_2
"This is an opinion about opinions of experts who use models that we know cant predict temperatures. Not only is this fact already piled three layers of nonsense deep, the most abjectly stupid point is the fourth layer, the pretense that these models might , in their wildest dreams, be able to predict rainfall which is an order of magnitude harder than just predicting global temperature. Predicting bushfires is dependent on knowing not just total rainfall in one region, but how that rainfall is spread throughout the year. Not to mention that bushfires depend on wind speed, wind direction, land-use (fuel load), and humidity.",5_1
UC Riverside-led study points to an ancient oxygen-free and hydrogen sulfide-rich ocean that may foreshadow our future,0_0
Search and rescue of passenger vessel trapped in ice underway,0_0
"I found this comment from a reader who calls him(her)self wordsmith, posted under my Contact sidebar. Because its Christmas Eve and things are a little hectic, I thought maybe some readers could give me a hand and help out this poor warmist. Heres his(her) comment:",0_0
Yet another reason that climate change may be more complicated than you think,0_0
"Obama's added 553 million acres worth of national monuments during his time in office, more than any other U.S. president. Most of these designations have put federal waters under increased protection, according to the Post.",0_0
"So the Congressman had asked me to write proving my result, and I had done so by preparing the second graph, from Tom Karl's own NCDC (it was labeled as such), which had also showed a pronounced downtrend in global temperatures.",0_0
"Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson strongly criticized the lawsuit recently launched by eight state Attorneys General against several electricity generators for creating a ""public nuisance"" by contributing to global warming (Aug. 11).",0_0
"Now, if I take HadCRUT4 back to the beginning of 1997, I get this...",0_0
"Drought and forest fires happen. We have no reason to think that we can do anything to prevent the former, but we know that can do a lot about preventing and controlling the latter if only the environmentalists will let us.",0_0
"""Snowmageddon"" threatens Massachusetts global warming forum",1_3
"In their determination to reduce GHG emissions in the near term rather than the long term, climate campaigners could have achieved a vastly better result with less cost and little bureaucracy through a simple, revenue-neutral $15-per-ton carbon tax. But perhaps the creation of a vast energy bureaucracy is really the main point of the exercise. After all, a $15 carbon tax will only generate, according to several models, about a 10 percent decrease in CO2 emissions by 2020, which is more than Waxman-Markey will deliver. But it will still be far short of the goal the climate campaigners seek of an 83 percent reduction by 2050, implying that future carbon taxes would have to be much higher. But this also points to the inevitability of turning our policy attention to measures other than carbon suppression, such as geoengineering or ""air capture""that is, technical methods of removing carbon content from the air.",0_0
"Of course, even these issues are not slam-dunks to be passed by both houses. On the N.S.A., there is a potent set of forces on the other side, including Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, who are intent not to damage national security by hampering intelligence collection. And on both issues, it is not at all clear that the House Republican leaders see these issues in the same way, or would be inclined to give them priority or floor time.",0_0
"The two questions most highlighted in their first poll, Climate Change in the American Mind, were:",0_0
"Ironically, a report of the National Academies just yesterday found that, Despite extensive investment in nanotechnology and increasing commercialization over the last decade, insufficient understanding remains about the environmental, health, and safety aspects of nanomaterials.",0_0
"Even though they have been working on their PhDs for almost five years at OSU, and have about a year to go, Joshua has been forbidden access to the equipment he built for his PhD work, while Bethany has been told she will be dismissed from school. Matthew, who turned down a nearly ""full ride"" from MIT to go to OSU, has been there for two years but now is waiting for the ax to fall on his work, and on his thesis professor, Dr. Jack Higginbotham, who came to the students' defense.",0_0
"First, some background. Pielke, a professor at the University of Colorado since 2001, holds degrees in mathematics, public policy, and political science. He has authored or co-authored seven books. He has won several awards for his academic work. For about two decades, he was a prolific writer and speaker on climate issues. In 2013, he testified before Congress and declared that there is ""exceedingly little scientific support for claims found in the media and political debate that hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and drought have increased in frequency or intensity on climate timescales either in the United States or globally."" During that same testimony, he said that global weather-related losses have not increased since 1990 as a proportion of GDP. He went on, saying that there were also no observable increases in floods, tornadoes, or droughts.",1_7
There are many factors to cause the climate changes particularly in regional and local scales. Considering only greenhouse gases is nonsense and harmful.,2_3
Russian energy officials seek to expand their access to natural gas supplies in Africa.,0_0
"Bernhard et al . report that the protist they studied ""is able to survive 10-14-day exposure to elevated CO 2 as high as 200,000 ppm."" In fact, they say that ""both ATP data and microscopic examination indicate that considerable populations of A. laticollaris survived exposure to all experimental treatments of elevated CO 2 , even both replicates of the 200,000-ppm CO 2 experiments ."" And they found that ""at least three specimens reproduced during exposure to either 90,000 ppm or 200,000 ppm CO 2 ,"" while ""such reproduction was observed only once in an atmospheric treatment."" What it means",3_2
"In the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover raised marginal tax rates to 63%, and went on a deficit spending binge. Similarly, Obama has proposed higher marginal tax rates, which will produce another $1.9 trillion in tax increases.",0_0
"In response to the President's Climate Action Plan, Senator Lisa Murkowski (AK-R) was talking about Obama's African tour when she quipped: ""I encourage him to note what life looks like in parts of the continent where people do not haveor cannot affordaccess to energy.""",4_5
"In the afternoon, the experimenters released lots of details officially (including a relevant preprint ) and I added this paragraph and the picture above which I find rather amazing. Does the picture convince you that the three colorful babes don't belong among the rank-and-file blue background lads but instead, they must belong to a separate hyperbola-like curve?",0_0
"Nationwide, 319 coal-fueled power plants totaling 42,895 megawatts (13% of the nation's coal fleet and enough for 40 million homes and small businesses) are already slated to close, the Sierra Club joyfully proclaimed. Illinois families and businesses could pay 20% more for electricity by 2014, the Chicago Tribune reports. Chicago public schools may have to find an extra $2.7 million a year to keep the lights and heat on and computers running.",0_0
"Yep, you read that correctly. The tropical hotspot trends are lower than the global atmospheric trend and the global surface trend - a magnificent and spectacular fail of IPCC climate ""science.""",5_1
"Given the studies already done on wind energys deleterious impact on wildlife, combined with the energy sprawl that will come with the industrys continuing expansion, it is virtually certain that as the wind sector adds more turbines, more federally protected wildlife including more bald eagles, an animal that has been on the Great Seal of the United States since 1782 ??? will be killed. And thanks to the production tax credit, taxpayers will be subsidizing the slaughter.",4_1
"The hate and the disdain don't spring from anything as trivial as pique. Historically, Jacksonian America has been the enemy of many of what President Obama, rightly, sees as some of America's most important advances. Jacksonian sentiment embraces a concept of the United States as a folk community and, over time, that folk community was generally construed as whites only. Lynch law and Jim Crow were manifestations of Jacksonian communalism, and there are few examples of race, religious or ethnic prejudice in which Jacksonian America hasn't indulged. Jacksonians have come a long way on race, but they will never move far enough and fast enough for liberal opinion; liberals are moving too, and are becoming angrier and more exacting regardless of Jacksonian progress.",0_0
No wonder their projections are so often so far removed from reality,0_0
"After the tour, we were treated to a lovely dinner in an equally eccentric and equally impressive family dining hall in the private section of the castle. The evening had turned cold, and Ill tell you, the castle would be a nightmare to heat. Its not much more than a drafty pile of stones, and in this case the stone walls are about four foot thick. Well, except for the walls on the vulnerable north side, which Sir Humphry said were built out from 8 foot to 20 foot thick in the early 1500s, to protect against cannon fire. Thats great for cannon fire ... but not for heating fires, build a fireplace on one side of those walls and see how long it takes for the other side to get warm ... brrr.",0_0
"If you live in any state except Texas (where the requirements are optional), you MUST purchase workers compensation insurance for your employees. As noted above, some may be exempt from coverage (owners, senior officers, some contractors) but if you have any paid workers at all, you will likely need a workers comp. policy. In most states, you will call a broker, though in a few, like Washington, Wyoming, Ohio, W. Virginia and N. Dakota, you will call the state workers comp office because there are no private carriers allowed to compete with the monopoly state fund. In other states, like Arizona, there is a state fund but it competes with private carriers.",0_0
"The contributions of Thornthwaite to practical applications of climate were summarized in a 1996 biography, The Genius of C. Warren Thornthwaite, climatologist-geographer.?",0_0
"I was a casual non-believer of this hypothesis because of the mere improbability of such an Earth state, Bao said. There was nothing rational or logic in that belief for me, of course. I remember I even told my job interviewers back in 2000 that one of my future research plans was to prove that the Snowball Earth hypothesis was wrong.",0_0
"Climate change is an issue that needs to be discussed thoughtfully and objectively. Unfortunately, claims that distort the facts hinder the legitimate evaluation of policy options. The rhetoric has driven some policymakers toward costly regulations and policies that will harm hardworking American families and do little to decrease global carbon emissions. The Obama administration?s decision to delay, and possibly deny, the Keystone XL pipeline is a prime example.",4_1
"Ms. Macfarlane: I am not going to get into a discussion on this issue. It has been settled science for years, supported by an overwhelming consensus of scientists. I am not going to discuss it.",0_0
This post provides an initial look at climate model simulations of the top of the atmosphere (TOA) energy budget and its three components. It includes the outputs of the climate models stored in the CMIP5 archive (used by the IPCC for the 5 th Assessment Report).,0_0
"In my review of their book four years ago, I noted: ""By the end it becomes clear that Nordhaus and Shellenberger aren't just trying to save environmentalism; they are trying to save liberalism, which they consider nearly as intellectually dead as environmentalism."" Lately this ambition has taken wing, with their modest think tank, the Breakthrough Institute (based in Oakland, Calif.), sponsoring a conference called ""Modernizing Liberalism"" and launching the quarterly Breakthrough Journal. I attended the conference as the conservative provocateur; it seemed to be concentrated wholly on ideas, with no grubby calculations about how to keep liberal interest groups happy.",0_0
Are politicians born stupid or do they develop that skill in Law School?,0_0
"It's troubling that American business would buy into this global industrial policy scheme, lining up to pledge non-hostility to Kyoto in return for the prospect of legislation that might give them relief from Kyoto's potentially massive costs.",0_0
"Instead, Burger and Cubasch have simply analyzed the sensitivity of the procedure to the introduction of subjective, and erroneous alterations. Their results are consequently statistically meaningless. This view was recently endorsed by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in their report ""Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2000 Years"" which specifically took note of the inappropriateness of the putative significance estimation procedures used by Cubasch and collaborators in their recent work .",0_0
"Big jumps? Ive been studying global warming for quite a while and never before has a climate scientist mentioned periods of no warming followed and preceded by big jumps in global temperatures. The first thing that should enter anyones mind after reading that is: what caused the big jumps in global surface temperatures? Dr. Trenberth identified when they happened: before 1977, around 1986/87, and after 1996. But Dr. Trenberth failed to explain them. On the other hand, for four years, I have been presenting and discussing the natural, not anthropogenic, causes of those big jumps. Thats right, Dr. Trenberth admitted to periods of no warming between big jumps, and the data show the big jumps are caused naturally. One might think that undermines the hypothesis that manmade greenhouse gases caused most of the global warming over the last 3 decades. I dont believe that was Dr. Trenberths intent with his article, but as you will see, thats what it suggests.",2_1
The windpark was just completed and is operated by energy giant EnBW .,0_0
"???If temperatures go up, there is going to be more evaporation, and that will produce more clouds,?? Professor Lambeck said. ???That could produce a negative feedback, but to quantify that is a very difficult thing.",3_1
"40% of the about 0.5 0C warming between 1715 and 1970 is accounted by direct solar forcing, the remainder by indirect solar forcing in which the GCR flux plays an important role.",2_1
"In other words, the NSF would like us to believe that the theory that increasing ocean acidification will slow coral calcification rates is correct, even though it is not readily observed because other confounding variables are involved. However, given time, these other confounding variables could be overwhelmed by the increasing acidification.",5_1
"Flanagan and Syed conclude that ""in the absence of fire or other major disturbance, significant net carbon sequestration could continue for decades at this site and help to reduce the positive feedback of climate change on increasing atmospheric CO 2 concentration.""",3_1
"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. Today, on energy security issues, we unfortunately have less to worry about from external enemies, than from our own elitist politicians, bureaucrats and pressure groups. In this critical election season, let us hope enough voters step up to defend our liberties, jobs, civil rights and children's future.",0_0
"During his first inaugural address, in the depths of the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt told the American people, ""the only thing we have to fear is fear itself nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.""",0_0
"Using a touch of humor and a three-card monte theme, Morano likens the crisis marketing to a sleight of hand; a Climate Hustle. He says: ""when the people pushing you to get into the game, the ones predicting a calamitous future due to global warming, don't show their cards, it is a hustle."" The film shows the cards so the viewers can decide if ""they are playing it straight or if you are being hustled.""",0_0
"TITLE: The Past, Present and Future of the El Nino/Southern Oscillation",0_0
"The citizens seem to prefer some sort of an incinerator. However, designing an incinerator/thermal oxidizer that can safely feed the propellent granules and maintain stable temperatures, get one on site and get the necessary approvals seems like a tall order in, now, less than 90 days. In my opinion, the EPA has not really gotten away from the open burning plan. It has just allowed a delay to remove some of the heat they are taking.",0_0
"This is awfully tendentious, since he takes it as a given that Arizona's effort to take some responsibility for a problem is best understood as ""irresponsible""as if continuing to do nothing at the local level while too little is done at the federal level would be more responsible. Of course, ""irresponsible"" is lavish praise compared with the charges of ""apartheid"" and ""Nazi"" coming from some opponents of the law, including Los Angeles cardinal Roger Mahony.",0_0
"New research results suggest that magma sitting 4-5 kilometers beneath the surface of Oregons Mount Hood has been stored in near-solid conditions for thousands of years. The time it takes to liquefy and potentially erupt, however, is surprisingly shortperhaps as little as a couple of months.",0_0
"20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.",0_0
h/t The Register ??? the UK MET Office has published a report which suggests the pause in global temperatures might continue for many years to come. Or the pause might not continue. They??re not really sure.,1_4
"NIWAs analysis of measured temperatures uses internationally accepted techniques, including making adjustments for changes such as movement of measurement sites. For example, in Wellington, early temperature measurements were made near sea level, but in 1928 the measurement site was moved from Thorndon (3 metres above sea level) to Kelburn (125 m above sea level). The Kelburn site is on average 0.8C cooler than Thorndon, because of the extra height above sea level.",0_0
Click here to hear Fred Smith's response to the AGs.,0_0
"According to our result, the rapid warming during 1970-1990 contains a large fraction of unpredictable natural variability due to the AO. The subsequent period of 1990-2010 indicates a clear trend of the AO to be negative. The global warming has been stopped by natural variability superimposed on the gentle anthropogenic global warming. The important point is that the IPCC models have been tuned perfectly to fit the rapid warming during 1970-1990 by means of the ice-albedo feedback (anthropogenic forcing) which is not actually observed. IPCC models are justified with this wrong scientific basis and are applied to project the future global warming for 100 years in the future. Hence, we warn that the IPCC models overestimate the warming trend due to the mislead Arctic Oscillation.",5_1
giving students more time to make up incomplete assignments while,0_0
"This is a curious move of the goalposts, since the IPCC claims a bogus 95% confidence that ""most"" of the warming since 1950 is anthropogenic on the basis of temperature rise since 1950 , not on the basis of sea level rise, and thus opposite to the claims of this new paper. In addition, this new paper claims climate models predict allegedly anthropogenic ""sea level rise signals can arise as early as 2020 over half the global ocean regions."" If that's the case, there's a lot of sea level rise catching up to do, since global sea levels have been naturally rising for ~20,000 years and have decelerated over the past 8,000 years , decelerated over the 20th century , decelerated 31% since 2002 and decelerated 44% since 2004 to less than 7 inches per century. There is no evidence of an acceleration of sea level rise , and therefore no evidence of any effect of mankind on sea levels. Sea level rise is primarily a local phenomenon related to land subsidence, not CO2 levels.",1_6
"John also mentioned sea surface temperatures (SST), which avoid urban heat island influences. These measurements, covering (imperfectly) 71% of the planet's surface, are taken by four different methods, each introducing unique problems and uncertainties as well as referring to different depths of the ocean:",0_0
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"Our research has raised several issues on the robustness of the global surface temperature trend analyses. I am summarizing the questions raised over the last several months in this weblog, along with brief peer reviewed background material where available. Other weblogs, such as RealClimate.org, are invited to respond to these questions.",0_0
"As of 1990, the IPCC didnt see any Mann-made global warming.",0_0
"(2) Negative consequences of substituting ""actual-to-future-potential"" for ""actual-to-future-actual"" in the rules for estimating changes in emissions",0_0
"...In tropical regions, the models are too dry in the lower troposphere and too moist in the upper troposphere, (p763)",5_1
science suggests ways we can adapt and cope with change. It makes sense to,0_0
"Evidence for the superiority of the Resiliency Strategy is suggested by the fact that while in 1992 all the developed countries agreed to voluntary reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, only Germany and Great Britain were successful. It is ironic that these two countries, which most avidly support stringent international political controls over the world s energy consumption, achieved their reductions by liberalizing and de-politicizing their energy markets. Germany ended support for the inefficient East German energy sector, and Great Britain stopped subsidizing her coal industry.",0_0
"Then allow me to smile on the concept of clean coal plant, the premise that there is a phenomenon that does not involve combustion emissions, while retaining, as she asserts 99% of PM10 (which I doubt strongly) point is emissions CO2, deposits of nuclear waste did not teach us anything? Where should we locate these deposits? They are dangerous? How do you see the problem would not be solved but only shifted a bit as sweeping and then put the dust under the carpet.",0_0
"Historically, temperature rises precede atmospheric CO 2 increases; so global warming produces more CO 2 , released from warming oceans, never the opposite.",2_3
"As the Senate takes up health care reform, it is hard to focus on anything else. There are plenty of other worthy topics, like Sen. Robert Byrd's (D-W.Va.) milestone of service (and the absurdity of his position high up in the line of presidential succession). Or the fascinating struggles among Democrats over the proper role of the Federal Reserve System (and the appropriate level of Congressional meddling in the Fed's deliberations and operations). Or the effect of the hacking of climate scientists' e-mails on climate change legislation in Congress. Or the struggle over how to pay for Afghanistan, including how many ways we can parcel out tax increases on the wealthy.",0_0
"She has gone through all kinds of left-wing institutions, labor unions, Socialist Forum, and so on. A decade ago, she wrote the rules of affirmative action within the Labor Party. She did a good job because these rules elevating female reproductive organs in politics have just promoted her into the first Australian female prime minister.",0_0
#ols 0.0531 -54.1221 0.0200 0.0863 0.0253 0.0810 0.0332,0_0
"If all of that is only on livestock or food consumers, it really makes the burden disproportionate. What we see are 3 or 4 percent declines in supply lead to 40 to 50 percent increases in prices, and I think the mandates are what drives that, he said.",0_0
"> >> then of course there is national expertise in some countries. Indeed,",0_0
"Am I the lone dullard who doesnt believe them? More precisely, does anyone else doubt the theory that levels of carbon dioxide (specifically, our tiny emissions of it) dominate the temperature of the oceans, and therefore of the lower atmosphere?",2_3
The Antarctic troposphere has warmed during winter while the stratosphere has cooled all year-round.,0_0
"PSI have also shown that despite their huge complexity, the global temperature output of the models can be emulated to a 98% accuracy by a simple one-line equation. This means that their estimate of the ???climate sensitivity?? is entirely a function of their choice of forcings meaning, of course, that even on a good day with a following wind they can tell us nothing about the climate sensitivity.",5_1
Schmidt presciently observed that his readers would not worry about the details:,0_0
"It would appear that many of Earth's higher-latitude terrestrial ecosystems might well be able to sustain considerably greater primary productivity, as well as much larger numbers of higher trophic-level consumers, in a CO2- enriched and warmer world.",3_3
A talk by Vaclav Klaus highlighted at WUWT seems to articulate best what is going on at the Heartland Conference:,0_0
"Beyond that, we know very little. All the dire predictions that we hear so much are based on a series of ""ifs,"" embodied in computer models and unlikely assumptions. Moreover, since the IPCC reported last, the scientific picture has gotten even hazier. All the accumulated scientific research points to more and more uncertainty about what we know in the area of climate change.",5_1
"Geoengineering includes reforestation, biomass burial, ocean fertilization to stimulate the growth of plankton, and carbon sequestration. A low-cost, high-return form of geoengineering is solar radiation management, which diminishes the warmth caused by the sun's rays.",0_0
"But the good news continued as long-range forecasters predicted a baking summer comparable with 2003 which saw Britains all-time record 38.5C (101.3F) temperature and 2006, the hottest on record at an average of 15.8C.",0_0
"University of Virginia climatologist Pat Michaels points out, for example, that, ""Glaciers have been receding ever since John Muir first publicized them in the 19th century""well before the advent of significant manmade greenhouse gas emissions.",0_0
"Conflict Of Interest, Data and Funding Hiding, Flimsy and Misleading Claims",0_0
"One last thing about Santer: he might want to review LLNLs Mission, Vision and Values statement that guides the way we accomplish our work and the way we interact with each other, our colleagues, sponsors and stakeholders, and the public. Included among the values:",0_0
"""On one hand our politicians are committing us to spending unimaginable sums on wind farms, emissions trading schemes, absurdly ambitious biofuel targets, and every kind of tax and regulation designed to reduce our ""carbon footprint"" - all based on blindly accepting the predictions of computer models that the planet is overheating due to our output of greenhouse gases. On the other hand, a growing number of scientists are producing ever more evidence to show how those computer models are based on wholly inadequate data and assumptions - as is being confirmed by the behaviour of nature itself (not least the continuing non-arrival of sunspot cycle 24)."" LINK",5_1
"Cleve News, sport and weather | Eyre Peninsula Tribune",0_0
"Prohibit any new funding. The next Administration should make clear that no taxpayer dollars will go directly to energy production, storage, efficiency, infrastructure, or transportation for nongovernment consumers, including the extension of existing programs. A market-based energy sector would benefit consumers by delivering reliable, affordable energy while eliminating government favoritism to special interests.",4_2
"Pick one GMST data set, ignore evidence from other data sets.",0_0
"""Kanwar agrees. He says the time has come for the Canadian government to tell new immigrants 'once you're in Canada we expect you to be totally devoted to Canada -- no divided loyalties.' ""'This country,' added Kanwar, 'is a democracy and democracy is founded on Christian principles. "" 'Canada is -- like it or not, take it or leave it -- a country founded on Christian principles where the vast majority of citizens are Christians,' said Kanwar. ""'Yes, there's separation of church and state but even that was a principle founded by Christians and Christianity. If Muslims, or anyone else, doesn't like living in a land filled with Christians or in a democracy they should get the hell out.""",0_0
"I admire her colleague for his lack of political and intellectual pretension. But Cullen found it unacceptable, and proposed a remedy: ""If a meteorologist has an AMS Seal of Approval, which is used to confer legitimacy to TV meteorologists, then meteorologists have a responsibility to truly educate themselves on the science of global warming."" She elaborated: ""If a meteorologist can't speak to the fundamental science of climate change, then maybe the AMS shouldn't give them a Seal of Approval.""",0_0
3. Has the earth's temperature increased over the last 100 years in step with increasing atmospheric CO2?,0_0
"Our latest result of plant growth responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment obtained from experiments described in the peer-reviewed scientific literature is for Barley (Perez-Lopez et al., 2014)",0_0
"This, and other great videos, are also available at the new online multimedia destination CEI On Demand.",0_0
DiCaprio Climate Catastrophe Film Boosts Clinton Campaign,0_0
The report also states that the section is intended to assess studies that have been published since the TAR (Third Assessment Report) of observed changes and their effects.,0_0
"Penn State University just exonerated Professor Michael Mann for wrongdoing related to Climategate. While that good news for Mann is no surprise, it came at a dear cost to Penn State its integrity.",0_0
"If I gave the impression that CRU used an inadequate dataset, so be it. CRU did use an inadequate dataset. Their recommended Polar Urals chronology had only two trees during part of the 11th century.",0_0
"""The U.S. Department of Justice and an organization representing police chiefs from around the country renewed calls on Tuesday for legislation mandating Internet Service Providers (ISP) to retain certain customer usage data for up to two years.""",0_0
EL NIO EVOLUTION COMPARISONS WITH TAO PROJECT SUBSURFACE DATA,0_0
"With such a huge difference between the Atlantic cod numbers of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and those of the Current Warm Period (CWP), it would appear that the MWP was significantly warmer than the CWP has been to date.",2_1
"GMO technology promises to be the next agricultural revolution, one that can increase yields even further, reduce the use of pesticides, roll back deforestation, and provide not just calories but needed nutrition to billions across the planet. Are there possible risks and unforeseen consequences? Of course there are, for nothing humans do is risk-free. Our network of roads and highways confers numerous social and economic benefits, yet it costs 33,000 deaths and many more injuries every year. Hospitals save millions of lives, yet medical mistakes and misdiagnoses kill over 100,000 people a year. Those are costs we accept and risks we run every day, most of us without noticing, let alone obsessing over them. The rational approach is to weigh benefits against risks, always with the fundamental aim of improving life for the greatest number of people both now and in the future.",0_0
"The book that sprung forth from that conference, The Costs of Kyoto: Climate Change Policy and Its Implications, explored the economic and social costs of an international climate treaty, the scientific basis for a treaty, and the broader implications the global warming issue has for environmental policy in the United States and abroad. Taken as a whole, these essays demonstrate that the risks of global warming may be less than the risks imposed by global warming policy.",0_0
"In Slovakia, the government stopped issuing solar licenses barely six months after launching its program. After unaffordable subsidies were sharply reduced, new solar installations in the Czech Republic fell 76% (from 2800 MW in 2009 to 400 MW in 2010); in Spain they plummeted 98% (from 2800 MW to 69 MW between 2008 and 2009). Private investments in these government-supported programs also cratered.",0_0
Remember climate hawks ? A previous CE post discussed climate pragmatism . Two new voices on the climate pragmatism front,0_0
"Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio . Tonight, for your delectation and following on our previous studio version of this song, here are Sade Adu , Tony Momrelle, Leroy Osbourne, Karl Vanden Bossche, Pete Lewinson, Ryan Waters, Paul S. Denman, Andrew Hale, and Stuart Matthewman performing Smooth Operator (and Redeye ) at their Lover's Live concert in 2002 (8:18). Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.",0_0
"upon submission of the revised final draft), so that should help the cause a",0_0
"For that claim to be credible, the plaintiffs must have preexisting rights that are violated by their government's failure to enact the policies favored by plaintiffs. How are the rights of Dutch citizens infringed by their government's choosing policies that will achieve at best a 17 percent reduction in carbon emissions as opposed to policies that would achieve a 25 percent reduction, bearing in mind that these projections of future carbon levels are highly speculative? Would a projected 20 percent reduction in emissions be sufficient, or must the predicted reduction be at least 25 percent?",0_0
Low sunspot activity means Earth chilling until at least 2030,1_2
"CHURCHVILLE, VAThe African Biofortified Sorghum project centered in South Africa, is striving to breed sorghum with extra lysine, vitamin A, iron, and zinc to help millions of African small farmers meet their families' nutritional needs. The project is funded by the Bill Gates Foundation, collaborating with Du Pont and Pioneer Hi-Bred Seeds. Unfortunately, the project has been unable to get South African regulatory approval for its field trials. The test planting will now have to be done in the U.S., though African trials would be a better test.",0_0
"David Bier: President Obama talks a lot about reducing regulations on immigration and attracting highly-skilled immigrants, but he's done a lot to obstruct that over his first few years:",0_0
Intelligence provided by former undersecretary of defense Douglas J. Feith to buttress the White House case for invading Iraq included 'reporting of dubious quality or reliability' that supported the political views of senior administration officials rather than the conclusions of the intelligence community . . .,0_0
"3. Is carbon dioxide a pollutant? Lawyers might say, Yes, this is what the Supreme Court ruled in 2007 , but scientists are not so sure. A pollutant, by definition, must produce harmful effects. CO2 is a natural constituent of the atmosphere, non-toxic, invisible, having no physiological effects we know of ??? even at high concentrations. Its definition as a pollutant relies entirely on its alleged causation of significant global warming and on the additional assumption that a warmer climate is damaging.",3_3
"So how does Running justify his claim that global warming is making wildfires worse? Running cleverly slips in the term ""major"" wildfires, which allows him to blame global warming for recent forestry management policies that allow small wildfires to become large wildfires. During recent years, U.S. wildfire policy has emphasized allowing wildfires to burn without human suppression until and unless the wildfires threaten human population centers. This is a dramatic change of policy after decades of government policy to extinguish wildfires whenever and wherever they occur. Accordingly, even though there were approximately half as many wildfires in 2013 as in 1986, the total number of acres burned increased by more than 50 percent in 2013.",0_0
"Published scientific studies on the Russian heat wave indicate this claim to be false. Our own study on the Texas heat wave and drought, submitted today to Journal of Climate, likewise shows that that event was not caused by human-induced climate change. These are not de novo events, but upon scientific scrutiny,one finds both the Russian and Texas extreme events to be part of the physics of what has driven variability in those regions over the past century. Not to say that climate change didnt contribute to the those cases, but their intensity owes to natural, not human, causes.",1_7
"""Mr. Matteoli claimed after the meeting he had been supported by Spain and to a lesser extent Finland, where doubts over EU climate policy have recently surfaced. Nevertheless, the final text was adopted unanimously.",0_0
"According to the Chinese, all of the additional Western action is necessary because developing countries have already done their part at greenhouse gas cutbacksor, as the position paper has it, in typical U.N. climate-speak, have already communicated and implemented ambitious nationally appropriate mitigation actions.",0_0
This would give us total nuclear capacity of about 12GW.,0_0
"""Renewable energy"" is a deliberate false labeling strategy, designed to curry favor with trendy urbanites who are ignorant about energy and economic reality. The real cost to U.S. economic growth, jobs and living standards from following the Green Brick Road to ecological paradise is equally beyond their ken.",4_1
"Reader Emeritus, Department of Geography formerly Senior Research Fellow, Sciecne Policy and Tech nology Unit, Sussex University",0_0
"That conclusion appears to largely draw on the fact that China believes that Western countries are responsible for the current and future concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere because of their historical, current and future emissions, while developing countries have the right to equitable development opportunities and sustainable development.",0_0
"That leaves California's Kamala Harris and New York's Eric Schneiderman as the two remaining AGs with outstanding Exxon subpoenas. Mrs. Harris joined this escapade to burnish her progressive bone fides as she runs to replace retiring Senator Barbara Boxer, and her office has done little investigating. Mr. Schneiderman has the most prosecutorial leeway under his state's egregious Martin Act, which doesn't require proof of intent in civil cases. But he has also been on the political defensive for trying to punish policy disagreements.",0_0
"Morano said: ""In the peer-reviewed literature we're finding hundreds of factors influence global temperature, everything from ocean cycles to the tilt of the earth's axis to water vapor, methane, cloud feedback, volcanic dust, all of these factors are coming together. They're now realizing it wasn't the simple story we've been told of your SUV is creating a dangerously warm planet.""",2_1
"As our ice cover has thinned, some of our old rules are changing , said Stroeve.",0_0
"be particularly important.The CAM-SP shows strongly negative net cloud feedback in boththe tropics and in the extratropics, resulting in a global climatesensitivity of only 0.41 K/(W m-2) , at the low end of traditionalAGCMs (e.g. Cess et al. 1996), but in accord with an analysis of 30-day SST/SST+2K climatologies from a global aquaplanet CRM runon the Earth Simulator (Miura et al. 2005). The conventional AGCMsdiffer greatly from each other but all have less negative net cloudforcings and correspondingly larger climate sensitivities than the",3_1
"There are many things I do not like about the Environmental Protection Agency, but what angers me most are the lies that stream forth from it to justify programs that have no basis in fact or science and which threaten the economy.",0_0
"3. The day after the first Earth Day, the New York Times editorial page warned, ""Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.""",0_0
"* ""There seem to be significant problems with the measurement of global surface temperatures over both the relatively short run late 20th century and longer run past millennium problems that systematically tend to cause an overestimation of late 20th century temperature increases relative to the past;",5_1
"First, the winds were relatively light last night...as suggested by the following wind plot for 10 PM July 4. Circles with no wind barb indicate calm winds. A bard with a single small line indicates only a few knots. Low winds mean less turbulence and vertical mixing. Thus, less clean air being mixed down and less dispersion of the smoke.",0_0
"Christian Azar and Henning Rodhe argue in Science (""Targets for Stabilization of Atmospheric CO2,"" June 20, 1997) that scientists should play a role in determining what amount of human interference in the climate system should be considered dangerous even though, they admit, that it is ""ultimately a question of value judgments that can only be settled in the political arena.""",0_0
"Space power. While lending support to Russia's ludicrous posturing on NATO missile defense, China is experimenting with antisatellite weapons a disturbing trend given the reliance of modern military (especially navies) on space power.",0_0
"The author's of the study argue that the countries higher on this list also have better student results. Now, I will confess that this is a pretty interesting finding in the study -- that starting teacher pay is more important than teacher pay in later years, because the key is to attract talented people right out of college away from other professions. Interesting.",0_0
Scientific Uncertainty As Weapon: Kemp Column Distributed by Copley News Service,0_0
"""Good for Mitt Romney,"" Gore blogged Wednesday afternoon. ""While other Republicans are running from the truth, he is sticking to his guns in the face of the anti-science wing of the Republican Party.""",0_0
New paper finds rapid-transgenerational adaptation of corals to changes in temperature & pH,3_2
"The third thing Democrats should do is to move aggressively to more debate, and not only between Democrats and Republicans. Now is a perfect time to revive the idea of regular prime-time debates on important issues. Take one evening a week, in special orders, and structure a lively debate on something of concern to the country. Have two or four Members lead the way in debate, and follow with a free-for-all discussion. In some cases, say global warming or trade, have both majority and minority Members on each side. Add to that a regular process of having real debate on bills that reach the floor whenever possible.",0_0
"The person credited with the first, most credible denouncement of man-made global warming is MIT Professor Richard Lindzen, who presented a paper in 2005 called ""Is the Global Warming Alarm Founded on Fact?""",0_0
"Five time IPCC expert reviewer Vincent Gray takes these calculations a bit further. He compares the average energy loss over a year for an average of eleven hurricanes lasting one week with the heat from a supposedly increase in warming from the enhanced greenhouse since 1750. Gray concludes that hurricanes, alone, conceal any possible much smaller effects of greenhouse gases which could never be identified. The models are not only wrong. They are irrelevant. See link under Changing Weather.",5_1
"It applies only to certain systems whose output (in a circuit, the voltage) does not operate to bring the system back into balance after an overload. But in the climate rising temperature restores the balance between incoming and outgoing radiation. Warming acts against the feedbacks. It damps them down.",0_0
"This last point leads to a question that should be at the heart of the global warming debate. Which type of societal insurance policy is likely to deliver the most protection? Should we try to prevent global change by rationing energy and further politicizing economic and technological development? Or should we try to increase mankind s ability to adapt to change by reducing political barriers to enterprise, invention, and innovation?",0_0
"Yet in addition to farm state foes, Coburn faced powerful opponents from his own party including Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform, who argued that eliminating ethanol's favorable tax treatment would constitute a tax increase, something the GOP caucus has pledged to avoidBut significantly 34 of 47 GOP Senators were not swayed by this argument, marking a potential shift on the caucus' view not just of corn ethanol, but on whether eliminating special-interest tax breaks in the tax code (so-called tax expenditures) qualifies as a tax increase.",0_0
"""Why are we arguing the issue?"" Grantham asks. ""Challenging vested interests as powerful as the oil and coal lobbies was never going to be easy. Scientists are not naturally aggressive defenders of arguments. In short, they are conservatives by training: never, ever risk overstating your ideas. The skeptics are far, far more determined and expert propagandists to boot. They are also well-funded . . . The obfuscators' simple and direct motivationmaking money in the near term, which anyone can relate tocombined with their resources and, as it turns out, propaganda talents, have meant that we are arguing the science long after it has been nailed down.""",0_0
"The Energiewende is still on the political agenda in Berlin, but there is also a firm amount of backtracking going on in the German capital.",0_0
"In 1954, average July maximum temperatures were three degrees higher (106F) than last month (103F) in Hennesey. A number of years in the 1930s and 1950s had temperatures over 100 degrees in both July and August, and that does not appear likely to happen in 2011, with cooler weather in the forecast.",1_3
"We urge people to examine evidence on competing hypotheses of long-term climate change. If you suspect we are biased, replicate our papers in question, ""Polar Bear Population Forecasts,"" and ""Validity of Climate Change Forecasting for Public Policy Decision Making.""",0_0
"See also the peer-reviewed Legates, D. R., Soon, W., & Briggs, W. M. (2013). Learning and teaching climate science: The perils of consensus knowledge using agnotology. Science & Education , 22, 20072017 ( pdf ).",0_0
"However, both the reconstructed winter temperatures as well as indirect indicators of summer temperatures suggest the Medieval period before the 1200s was at least as warm as at the end of the 1990s in Svalbard.",2_1
"(8) When the subject matter seems, by its nature, to resist consensus.",0_0
"A New Yorker cartoon from several years ago shows a vast, cubicle-filled office, with a manager explaining that the ""dim fluorescent lighting is meant to emphasize the general absence of hope.""",0_0
"I have often groused about the lack of security in Microsoft products. While looking to get a Raspberry Pi, I wandered down a set of links that ended up on Yet Another Microsoft Security Hole",0_0
"Meanwhile, Obama's energy policies have matched environmentalist contributions dollar for dollar.Obama may not have much understanding of America's energy needs, but he can add.Hedoes understand how much environmental groups contributed to his campaign and what they expect in return.The irony is that by distorting the free market, Obama's energy policies are stifling innovation and harming both the environment and the economy.Corn ethanol may be great for Iowa, but it is a killer for the rest of us.",4_1
Under the Administration's assumptions of worldwide emission trading the U.S. would purchase between 82 and 88 percent of its permits from abroad. The European Union and others wish to restrict that number to 50 percent.,0_0
"In describing the intrusion of foreign actors into U.S. domestic policy, Fonte uses a phrase of former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, ""global domestic politics,"" which neatly captures the problem. In the globalista view, there is no room for national variation from their norms, or tolerance for contrary majorities in different countries. This attitude explains the ongoing efforts to homogenize E.U. member states, and the growing tendency to second-guess what have been seen historically as entirely domestic issues. Fonte focuses primarily on how various seemingly innocuous international ""human rights"" conventions, and numerous U.N. bodies (such as the United Nations Human Rights Council), have been used to criticize and harass the United States in recent years.",0_0
"President Barack Obama's decision to open up portions of the U.S. coastline to offshore drilling is a move in the right direction. Proponents of offshore drilling will argue that the proposal does not go far enough, since drilling will be limited to areas south of New Jersey on the Atlantic Coast, certain sections of the Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska. Critics will argue that the decision will increase the U.S.' carbon footprint and dependency on fossil fuels and contribute to global warming. But the decision reflects reality. Fossil fuels will continue to be an important source of energy for the U.S. economy over the next several decades as global economies gradually shift to cleaner, renewable sources of energy.",0_0
Scary stuff two inches of sea level rise over the next 100 years. For reference. sometimesthe incoming tide changes sea level forty inches in less than one second in the Bristol Channel.,1_6
"""A poker game may be friendly in South Carolina -- but it's still illegal.""",0_0
"The second branch was subjective Bayesianism . To this group, all probabilities are experiences, feelings that give rise to numbers which are the results of bets you make with yourself or against Mother Nature (nobody makes bets with God anymore). To get the probability of A you poll your inner self, first wondering how youd feel if A were true, then how youd feel if A were false. The sort of ratio, or cut point, where you would feel equally good or bad becomes the probability. Subjective Bayesianism, then, was a perfect philosophy of probability for the twentieth century. It spread like mad starting in the late 1970s and still holds sway today; it is even gaining ground on frequentism.",0_0
Manitoba conservation officials have stumbled across a pleasant surprise a large number of polar bear dens along the Hudson Bay coast near the Ontario boundary.,3_2
"The second emphasis should be on developing and deploying new energy technologies. That has been President Bush's position since 2001, and it was given institutional form with the creation of the Asia-Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate. Special attention should be given to reducing the tax and regulatory policies that discourage investment in new technologies. As new technologies become commercially viable, they will be adopted without requiring regulatory mandates.",0_0
"Instead, volunteers were told they would face only ""minimal risks,"" the kind they would ordinarily encounter in daily life, in performing routine physical activities. Others were told they might experience claustrophobia in the small study chambers, or some minor degree of airway irritation, shortness of breath, coughing or wheezing. There is no way such advisories can lead to ""informed consent.""",0_0
"The first is that when I went from a regular to a fat-tailed distribution, the climate sensitivity did not change for either the NH or the SH. If they had changed radically, I would have been suspicious of the introduction of the variable c.",0_0
"So, it comes down to trying to find an Orthopedic Doctor who will take her and comply with the CA requirements, which the Drs. don't like.",0_0
"During the 2006 congressional campaign Democrats denounced the Republican majority for its wastrel ways. It was a fair criticism: the GOP lavished money on pork as well as entitlements. There was, it seemed, no program which the Republicans didn't want to increase! Now the Democrats are in charge, and, well, nothing much has changed. The symbol of congressional waste and corruption is the earmark, an appropriation typically directed by one legislator to a major constituent or campaign contributor. Alas, the supposedly reformist Democrats have joined ranks with the supposedly reformed Republicans to support every earmark that comes to a vote.",0_0
"The fires can certainly be far worse in drought years. But droughts are nothing new, either. We all recall the seven-year drought that brought Joseph to prominence in pharaoh's Egypt, and the eight-year-long Dust Bowl during the 1930s. Historians describe a 50-year ""water famine"" that drove Anasazis out of the American Southwest, the 200-year drought that ended Mayan civilization, and other parched periods in China, Africa, Mesopotamia, and other regions.",1_7
"Far worse, more than 5.5 million households will be plunged into ""fuel poverty"" by early 2011 forced to spend more than 10% of their family incomes on energy National Energy Action and other charities said. That's over one-fifth of all UK households and a major increase from 4.5 million families in 2008. Most in these households are over age 60, but working families are also struggling to keep the heat on, as prices soar.",0_0
"Newcastles only big wind turbine seems to be reaching up to the sky for the breezes to keep the city running during the approaching night! Is this the future of energy, free renewable and non polluting. For a city which has been based on technology we are slow to move on from the old coal based power structure. People want their power but what is the cost? Later generations will have to put up with the results of our excessive use and pollution it causes.",0_0
"/s/ Dr. Henry P. Decell, Jr. JSC, Chief, Theory & Analysis Office, 5 years",0_0
"But the eclipses are very rare. They don't even occur once per month because the plane in which the Earth orbits the Sun and the plane of Moon's orbit around the Earth don't coincide; they're tilted relatively to one another so the celestial bodies which is why they usually miss the ""conjunction"".",0_0
"Our government is planning to construct a pipeline from western Uganda to Tanzania. The project could employ over 15,000 people. Along with other oil operations, it will boost our economy and give us more critically needed energy. But some agencies and organizations oppose it because it would ""contribute to global warming,"" and they would rather see us remain poor beggars to the West.",0_0
"But since temperature is an important part of climate, this is like saying that climate change may result in climate change.",0_0
"What's with all this panic and alarm? Why are America's politicians whining? They whine because it works. When your were a kid, and your read the Chicken Little story, did you ever wonder if Chicken Little had an agenda?",0_0
"We should be of good courage, because theres probably another reason Obamas EPAwill issue a stand-alone endangerment finding. The Obama team has to know thatEPAcannot control the regulatory cascade once it starts. They also must know that theeconomic repercussions could be devastatingand that they wont be able to blame G.W. Bush.",0_0
"If more of this new natural gas were devoted to generating electricity instead of just backing up 40,000 U.S. wind turbines millions of birds and bats would not be slaughtered every year, and vital species would not be driven to the brink of extinction in wildlife habitats that have been blanketed by turbines.",4_1
New research questions the forecasting methods scientists have been using to predict future global warming,5_1
"Perhaps that is because international efforts have not succeeded thus far. Gwyn Prins of the London School of Economics and Steve Rayner of Oxford University say the Kyoto Protocol, ""as an instrument for achieving emissions reductions, has failed . . . It has produced no demonstrable reductions in emissions or even in anticipated emissions growth."" Meanwhile, the United States is having better luck at controlling its emissions, without the multi-billion-dollar mandates of Kyoto.",0_0
Bill Hennessy: Global Warming Dying Fast,0_0
"The increase in Antarctic sea ice extent is entirely consistent with increased global temperatures due to high solar activity as explained by Henrik Svensmarks theory. This theory holds that high solar activity produces a lower neutron flux in the lower troposphere from intergalactic cosmic radiation, in turn providing fewer nucleation sites for cloud droplet formation and thus less cloud cover.",2_1
"I remember as a young boy in England, huddling with my family round a coal fire that was our only source of heat and light (bar a few candles) during the power disruptions of the 1970s. A world without power is not a pleasant place.",0_0
"?? Not even ignorance could be responsible for a thing like that. ?? So tide gauges, you have to treat very, very carefully. Now, back to satellite altimetry. From 1992 to 2002, was a straight line, variability along a straight line, but absolutely no trend whatsoever. We could see those spikes: a very rapid rise, but then in half a year, they fall back again. But absolutely no trend, and to have a sea-level rise, you need a trend.",1_6
"* The IPCC does not even study climate change in its entirety, or all the complex, interrelated forces that cause periodic warming, cooling and other changes. It analyzes only variations allegedly caused by humans, and assumes that all recent and future changes are human-caused and dangerous. Its analyses, conclusions and recommendations therefore do not form a credible basis for public policies.",5_1
"Baos group went about investigating the post-glaciation period of Snowball Earth by looking at unique occurrences of crystal fans of a common mineral known as barite (BaSO4), deposited in rocks following the Marinoan glaciation. Out of the three stable isotopes of oxygen, O-16, O-17 and O-18, Baos group pays close attention to the relatively scarce isotope O-17. According to Killingsworth, there arent many phenomena on earth that can change the normally expected ratio of the scare isotope O-17 to more abundant isotope O-18. However, in sulfate minerals such as barite in rock samples from around 635 million years ago, Baos group finds large deviations in the normal ratio of O-17 to O-18 with respect to O-16 isotopes.",0_0
"EPA??s proposal is short-sighted, the MIT researchers suggest.Althoughfuel-switching can achievenear-term CO2 emission cuts,greater reductions in the future ???will not be possible without technologies that emit less carbon than natural gas.?? EPA policy should aim at improving the cost and performance of CCS technology to the point where it is economical to deploy with NGCC power plants. But without investment in coal with CCS,industry will never gain the ???commercial scale?? experience required to apply CCS to NGCC power plants.",4_2
"Response: As explained in responses to related questions, the statement that EPA stated that fuel-switching from coal to natural gas would not and could not be considered BACT is not entirely correct. While EPA did not propose that CCS represented BSER , EPA stated in the preamble of the proposed NSPS rule that CCS is technologically feasible for implementation at new coal-fired power plants and its core components (CO2 capture, compression, transportation and storage) have already been implemented at commercial scale. .",0_0
A security company announces it will offer password-generating chips in credit cards to bolster data security.,0_0
"""In 2012, as compared with the base year of 1990, their concentration will increase by 18 PPM, if the Kyoto measures are not carried out, or by 16-17 PPM, if they are implemented. It transpires that the effect of these measures on the climate is a mere 1-2 PPM. This fact allows the critics of the Kyoto Protocol to describe it as ineffective. But experts maintain that a reduction by even 1 PPM is quite good, considering that the task of stabilizing greenhouse emissions in the atmosphere has been set for a hundred years, not for five.""",0_0
I can see the linear trend and Im prepared to trust that one third of the warming has occurred in the 700-2000 m layer of the ocean. But the last claim: that the warming can only be explained by the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gases. This is an extremely speculative claim.,2_3
"Robyn Terry, the congressman's wife, had described the video as a ""political commercial.""",0_0
"Last but not least, soft power. On the military side, China is focusing on developing security cooperation within the ASEAN Regional Forum framework with the intent of marginalizing America. On the civilian side, China is peddling ""Asian values"" from Africa to Eurasia and from Latin America to Southeast Asia. For the past six years, China has been promoting autocracy through soft power while America has been promoting democracy through hard power, and the verdict is in: China today has a more positive image worldwide than America.14",0_0
"Let us celebrate our progress, and turn our attention to real problems that still must be corrected. Let us also examine claims used to justify regulations and roll back rules that don't pass scientific muster.",0_0
CFACT's Morano holds Gingrich's feet to fire for climate position,0_0
In THER seems to record the ice in Antarctica and a declining hope for a super-el-nine be what glder antagonists and protagonists of most concern from the moment of.,0_0
This will reduce the 1940-1970 cooling in NH temps. Explaining the cooling with,1_3
"The entire world was being asked to change the way it lives on the basis of pure hyperbole. Propriety, probity and transparency were routinely sacrificed.",0_0
"Making an argument broadly accepted among economists, Sita Slavov, my colleague at the American Enterprise Institute, recently wrote that a carbon tax ""set to reflect the spillover costs of carbon emissions"" would be a policy more efficient than such interventions as light-bulb bans and energy consumption standards for appliances, sometimes called ""command-and-control"" policies. The tax would allow consumers to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) attendant upon their energy consumption patterns in ways that minimize the costs of doing so. Bans and performance standards, on the other hand, allow for far less flexibility, and thus would achieve a given GHG reduction at a cost higher than necessary.",0_0
Here are the just published global temperature data sets for UAH (University of Alabama) and RSS (Remote Sensing Systems) and the 20 year time-line. Dr. Hansen if you are reading can you kindly point out where in the time-line the crimes occurred and tipping points are?,0_0
"While American utilities are switching from coal to gas, electricity generators around the world are swarming to the coal market. The BP data show that between 2002 and 2012, global coal consumption grew by the equivalent of about 26 million barrels of oil per day. That's nearly as much as the growth in oil, natural gas, hydro power, and nuclear power combined.",4_5
"In contrast, there is the paper of Abatzoglou, Rupp, and Mote (2014) that suggests greenhouse gases are the dominant source of warming. Specifically, they stated that anthropogenic forcing was ""the leading contributor to long term warming."" In their paper, they used a technique called multiple linear regression to determine the forcing of temperature by several forcing mechanism (natural variability, volcanoes, solar variability, and human greenhouse gas forcing). Their results suggested that anthropogenic contributions (greenhouse gases) were dominant. But unfortunately, their approach has some critical problems that make their conclusions insupportable. Problems so severe I am surprised they got through the review process.",5_1
"Industry, States Set to Fight EPA Greenhouse Gas Rules GWPF",0_0
"The effect is quite clear. The recent ???spurious?? measurement remains unchanged, and the past gets colder.",5_1
"If I were Chicken Little what I'd try to do was build my support base in places that are most prone to natural disasters, especially places where the populace is completely incapable of taking care of itself. The location of Hollywood on a major earthquake fault is this kind of planning at its best. Another possibility would be to move Howard Dean, Al Sharpton, Al Franken, Michael Moore, and Hillary Clinton into house trailers in Kansas during tornado season.",0_0
"Will Senators Webb, Warner Stop the Green Police?",0_0
"The effect on California's economy has been disastrous. Heavy manufacturing in the state is dead. The industries it has leftentertainment in Hollywood and technology in Silicon Valleyare not enough to supply the tax base the state needs to support its expansive social welfare programs, which in turn have seen demand spike because of high unemployment caused by the energy policy.",0_0
"It shouldn't, but it will. Among the reasons winter storms will make this issue more politically challenging are overreach and simplification - on both sides of the debate. ""An Inconvenient Truth"" brought the issue of climate change to the fore, but many of the charts implying that the world's end is near were overly dramatic.",0_0
"Private emails between two or more parties: These are sent and delivered between personal email accounts such as those set up for individuals and private businesses on services like Google and Yahoo! You know, like the personal accounts that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin utilized last year that were illegally hacked .",0_0
"For a whole host of reasons, many Americans want to reduce their consumption of energy. They may care about the environment; they may want to reduce America's foreign energy dependence; they may want the moral satisfaction of knowing they have done what they can to deny their dollars to petro-barons; or, in today's troubled economy, they may simply want to live more frugally. But the main emphasis in public discussion of reducing energy use has been on the big but hard-to-change itemshousing, vehicles, and so onthat people in highly developed economies have historically proven reluctant to forego.",0_0
"Now, the climate science community acknowledges the importance of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. The climate scientists who run the blog RealClimate note on their Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation webpage:",0_0
"Not impressed yet? Here is a higher resolution radar image (from Camano Island radar) five minutes earlier (8:54 PM). WOW. Look closely and you will see the color blue in the center of this storm. Very rare. The figure indicates the highest composite reflectivity (the highest reflectivity in a vertical column) was 69, which is associated with hail and torrential rain. You will also notice more showers to the south.",0_0
APPENDIX: Preface to the Czech edition of Nigel Lawson?s ?An Appeal to Reason?,0_0
Get all the information on his main Global Cooling Radio Page,0_0
Yet the document also calls for a guaranteed end to warfare altogether for the sake of curbing climate change.,0_0
"Electric power is the quickest, surest, cheapest way to lift people out of poverty, disease, subsistence agriculture and childhood death ? thereby stabilizing India?s population, which may soon overtake China?s.",0_0
"Regardless, the component thats very obviously missing is the anthropogenic global warming component. Sea surface temperature anomalies for the East Pacific havent warmed in 30 years. A trend of 0.007 deg C per decade is basically flat. Thats 7 one-thousandths of a deg C per decade, or based on the linear trend, theyve warmed 2.1 one-hundredths of a deg C over the past 30 years. Its foolish to think in terms that small when dealing with a body of water thats about 120 million square kilometers or about 46 million square miles. Its better simply to say the data shows no evidence of warming.",1_4
There's another reason to put aside the Obama budget plans.,0_0
"Part of the answer to this question undoubtedly resides in the nature of the photosynthetic responses of the grassland plants to atmospheric CO 2 enrichment. It is interesting to note, for example, that the CO 2 -induced stimulation of the maximum photosynthetic rates of the plants did not taper off, as might have been expected, as the air's CO 2 content rose, even at the highest CO 2 concentration investigated . Rather, the photosynthetic response was linear , just like that of the change in soil organic carbon content. What is even more interesting - even fascinating - in this regard, is that the linear responses were maintained in the face of what Gill et al . say was a ""threefold decrease in nitrogen availability"" as the air's CO 2 content went from its lowest to highest level.",3_3
"Having sown the wind, EPA risks reaping a whirlwind of angry opposition from governors, mayors, congressional appropriators, small business, unions, talk radio, etc. No agency likes to surrender power, and for EPA there is no power more seductive than the power to regulate CO2, which would expand the Agency??s reach to virtually every nook and cranny in the economy. Once unleashed, however, the coveted power is subject to the vagaries of litigation. EPA may find itself responsible a regulatory chain reaction it cannot control.",4_1
"There is no certainty regarding when a tipping point might occur, but Vasseur said the processes have already begun, and fishermen and scientists should watch lobsters as an indicator of climate change.",0_0
"This, surely, was the low point in the Bush administration's handling of this subject. While rejecting the Kyoto Protocol and refusing to impose mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants were more controversial, even critics would admit that those actions were consistent expressions of administration policyunderstandable, if debatable. With this latest turn of events, however, the president's goal of crafting a new approach to climate change seems to have succumbed to internal divisions so deep that the administration became literally unable to say anything about an issue that all partiesregardless of where they stand in the debaterecognize as one of the leading global environmental issues. Even the president's most ardent supporters must wonder why the administration cannot even discuss this topic in its report on the state of the environment.",0_0
That the sun keeps us warm (I was getting desperate) and that our temperature is affected by our distance to the sun.,2_1
The principle is simple: Any country that asks you to trust them under a UN climate treaty without verification is lying. It's a pity President Obama didn't understand that when he pledged to throttle down American energy production today in exchange for unverifiable pledges by China to start worrying about its emissions in 2030.,0_0
"Just to be sure, having no defining ideology or motivation (except for finding the truth, whatever it is) is a rudimentary prerequisite for any community to be called a scientific community. By the completely unmasked sentence, Mr Boslough makes it very clear that he considers it to be normal for a community in a scientific (?) discipline to be driven by the same ideology or by the same motivation and to guarantee ""consensus about the science"" for everyone, too.",0_0
"Undaunted, he formed his own ""counter-conference"" in Copenhagen, concurrent to the ""main event,"" with 60 climate experts.",0_0
"The first effort is to remove the incentives that lead people to live in climatically fragile areas, that is to say, at the water's edge, in drought-prone locations, in flood-prone locations, and so on. At present, our government, and other governments, serve as the insurer of last resort. When people who live at water's edge or in a flood plain are hit by storms or floods, governments intervene not only to rescue them and their property if possible, but then provide rebuilding funds to let the people build right back where they are at risk. The United States is currently doing this in New Orleans, where people are re-building in an area that is still at risk from storm surges and levee failure.",0_0
Democratic attorneys general mounted a dogged defense Tuesday of their effort to prosecute climate skeptics amid signs that the 4-month-old campaign is deteriorating into a legal and public relations flop.,0_0
"Regarding the Economics of Environmentalism, A Response to CAP's Brad Johnson",0_0
An unexpectedly precisely suggested mass: \(8.6\GeV\); your humble correspondent totally persuaded by the graph,0_0
"The most important feedback was loss of polar sea ice, which was theorized to amplify global warming. This hasnt happened. In fact the amount of sea ice on Earth may challenge record levels later this year.",1_1
CU lecture on solar activity and climate change,0_0
"Danish consumers already pay more than the European average for their power, and the Danish Parliament still must approve the target amid concerns that realizing the plan would be expensive and could damage competitiveness.",0_0
Need to Research Geoengineering as a Possible Means of Adaptation,0_0
"Even according the IPCCs faulty models, if Australia stopped all emissions of carbon dioxide from tomorrow, the total effect on the temperature in 2050 would be to theoretically lower it by 0.0154 C.",4_2
"They have some nice photos, maps, et al of Durrington Walls too.",0_0
"Not a lot of marine critters have been able to keep up with that, says paper co-author John Bruno, a marine ecologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Being stuck in a warming environment can cause reductions in the growth, reproduction and survival of ecologically and economically important ocean life such as fish, corals and sea birds.",0_0
"Connie Hedegaard, the EU Climate Minister, recently told the London Telegraph, ""Say that 30 years from now, science came back and says, ""Wow, we were mistaken then, now we have some new information so we think it is something else.' In a world with 9 billion people, even 10 billion at the middle of this century, where literally billions of global citizens will still have to get out of poverty and enter the consuming middle classes, don't you think that anyway it makes a lot of sense to get more energy and resource efficient?""",0_0
"Speaking at a February 16 press conference in a U.S. Embassy-run American Center held at a shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia, Kerry described climate change as the world's ""most fearsome weapon of mass destruction."" He also referred to those who don't subscribe to that hell-in-a-hand basket global warming apocalypse as ""Flat-Earthers.""",0_0
"According to that index, in 2002 the influence of greenhouse gases on surface temperatures was 1.166 of that in 1990. In 2013 the index is 1.338. This represents an increase in the warming index of 0.172, or 15% during a period in which the atmosphere has not warmed. In 1997 the index was 1.089. Thus, in 2013 the index was 0.249 larger than in 1997, or the calculated greenhouse effect was 23% greater than in 1997 over a period in which the surface has not warmed!",1_4
"The fruit-seller Mohamed Bouazizi, whose self-immolation set off the Tunisian uprising that began the Arab Spring of 2011, did so ""not because he was jobless,"" a demonstrator in Tunis told an American reporter, but ""because he went to talk to the responsible for his problem and he was beaten it was about the government."" In Benghazi, the Libyan revolt started with the crowd chanting, ""The people want an end to corruption!"" In Egypt, the crowds were ""all about the self-empowerment of a long-repressed people no longer willing to be afraid, no longer willing to be deprived of their freedom, and no longer willing to be humiliated by their own leaders,"" New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman reported from Cairo this February. He could have been reporting from Moscow in 1991.",0_0
"This surprised those of us who remember the abnormally cold winter of 2009, followed in 2010 by the coldest December since records began.",1_3
I agree w/ Susan that we should try to put more in the bullet about,0_0
"Al Gore's ""Live Earth"" concert series will host a previously cancelled performance this weekend in Washington, D.C.",0_0
Denmark pays neighbors to take excess wind energy,0_0
"In 1974, they blamed drought and flooding on global cooling. Now they blame drought and flooding on global warming.",0_0
"In the past Russia needed liberty to live ; it must now have it in order to survive. The challenge of our times is an overhaul of the system of values, the forging of new consciousness. We cannot build a new country with the old thinking. The best investment is Liberty and the Rule of Law. And respect for man's Dignity.",0_0
"Obama Administration Disregards Congress, Gives $500 Million to U.N. Climate Fund",0_0
"Yes, there can be development and environmental protection. Sure many parts of the rainforest have soils that are not best for agriculture. But soil scientist Dr. Edward Krug contends rainforest soil is not ""unique"" and is ""very similar to that of the southeastern U.S."" which may not offer optimal conditions but has proven value for many crops.",0_0
"It is significantly colder globally, colder even than the significant drop to -0.046C seen in January 2008.",1_3
Research suggests climate change target not safe,0_0
"Nevertheless, a July 22 Washington Post feature breathlessly announced: ""Inaction on climate change would cause billions, major EPA study finds."" The article quoted EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy saying: ""The results are quite startling and very clear. Left unchecked, climate change affects our health, infrastructure, and outdoors we love. But more importantly the report shows that global action on climate will save lives.""",0_0
"What Roy Spencer found was confirmation for the twentieth time that the models are wrong about this their major, most important feedback.",5_1
"The fact that The Age responded in such a way is, I suggest, obvious evidence of a clear editorial agenda at work to support the alarmist viewpoint, and to dismiss anything which challenges it.",5_2
"Do you, dear readers, remember during the George W. Bush administration that ""dissent is the highest form of patriotism""? I do. That was then; the politicized climate debate is now.",0_0
"Approximately 300 people including scientists, engineers, and other experts, about half with doctorate degrees, have petitioned U.S. House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) to carefully investigate suspiciously overheated climate temperature book-cooking by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).",5_2
"End government-imposed threats to coal exports. Coal export terminals should go through the proper environmental review and permitting stage, but opponents of coal production want the Army Corps of Engineers to consider a cumulative, programmatic environmental impact statement (EIS). This comprehensive review would assess the environmental impacts and greenhouse gas emissions not only from the actual terminal, but also from the mining, rail transportation to the terminal, and end use of the coal. Adding these extra layers of regulatory review would create more fodder for groups that want the coal to stay in the ground, and it sets a dangerous precedent for exports of goods and services that environmental activists feel have too large of an environmental footprint. The next Administration should prohibit agencies from conducting cumulative EISs.",0_0
"Caption: The NCDC oceans (blue) and global (brown) monthly temperature anomalies (relative to the 1900-2000 average tempera tures) since 1980. The observed Temperatures Compared to the predictions made in the first IPCC report. Note That The width of the predictions is 0.1C, Which is Roughly the size of the month to month Fluctuations in the temperature anomalies.",0_0
Hmm . . . I wonder how deep the pockets are that are supporting Mann. $10M deep?,0_0
"Read here . The large list of studies that prove Earth's climate is naturally variable and prone to extremes, while confirming that periods prior to modern warming were warmer, just keeps on growing.",2_1
"Walkies in the Spring Snow, 6th April 2008:",0_0
"Hoskins: The models are not in the position to predict the hiatus, because of lack of initial conditions. You would not expect them to predict that behavior. You would hope that in long runs of the model they would show this, but models do not have enough of that kind of variability. That is a decadal prediction problem for which adequate initial conditions are not available",5_1
"""We are not merely holding a counter-protest,"" Epstein said, ""we are holding a counter-education. Everyone wearing a yellow Light Brigade shirt will be ready to provide hard facts and debunk propaganda. Our passion for energy will be on full display.""",0_0
"Trend, you say? Doesnt a 100-year high temperature in and of itself imply warming? Certainly not. I believe this will prove to be an exaggeration, but for a moment lets assume that this heat wave has created the hottest June in 100 years for half the Continental US. That seems pretty extreme, right? But the Continental US is about 2.5% of the worlds land mass. Just by math, in a stochastic system with a stable mean, a land area of this size somewhere should have a 100-year high month about five times a year! One data point about one small patch of the Earth having a hot month tells us nothing about trends.",1_7
"The January to April sea surface temperature anomaly data for the years of 1983 to 2014 are provided in the Supplementary Material for Velarde et al. (2015) . See their Table S3 Oceanographic data. Ive plotted their data for the Midriff of the Gulf of California and Baja Californias Pacific coast at the same latitude. See Figures 1 and 2. Both show cooling since 1983, based on the linear trends.",0_0
"First, mainstream solar physicists have themselves been predicting an imminent and sharp decline in solar activity. A physicist at NASA contacted me about this as far back as 2006, pointing out that there had been a recently-unprecedented slowing to walking pace of the magnetic convection currents beneath the solar surface. When a solar cycle is much prolonged, as the last one was, records of previous solar cycles show that subsequent cycles tend to be pronouncedly inactive. What is interesting, therefore, about the papers you have tried to kill is that they posit an admittedly unexplained link between cyclical variability in the planetary orbits and cyclical variability in solar activity, which in turn may have an impact on the climate.",2_1
"There's another obstacle in the face of a Jacksonian rising: Jacksonians have been hard hit by the changes in the American economy. The secure working class wages that underpinned two generations of rising affluence for the white (and minority) industrial working class have disappeared. That isn't just about money; the coherence of Jacksonian communities and family life has been seriously impaired. These are the points Charles Murray makes in his harrowing Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010; they have been recently reinforced by studies documenting a holocaust of lower and lower middle class whites.",0_0
The almost circular feature has a diameter of almost 40 miles (64.5 km) and the topography seems to indicate relatively steep slopes down to a central depression. A higher resolution view of the anomaly is shown in Figure 2 and comes from the Great Lakes Rescue Project at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/greatlakes/lakemich cdrom/html/images.htm .,0_0
"""We are recklessly, mindlessly destroying the Earth. As Lincoln said, ""We must disenthrall ourselves. And then we will save our country.' And our planet,"" Gore said in a statement.",0_0
"4) A new UN climate treaty would limit fossil fuel use by developed countries, place no binding limits or timetables on developing nations, and redistribute hundreds of billions of dollars to poor countries that claim they have been harmed by emissions and warming due to rich country hydrocarbon use. Even IPCC officials now openly brag that climate policy has ""almost nothing"" to do with protecting the environment and everything to do with intentionally transforming the global economy and redistributing its wealth.",4_2
"Even eco-radical George Monbiot says he is ""dismayed and deeply shaken"" by the emails, because, ""There appears to be evidence here of attempts to prevent scientific data from being released, and even to destroy material that was subject to a freedom of information request.""",0_0
"The renewable electric power division of Lincoln Electric System in Nebraska is facing mounting financial losses, according to Electricity Daily (March 26, 2002).",0_0
"CO2 by itself does not trap enough heat to account for 20th century warming. The CO2 warming theory depends on a strong water vapor amplification mechanism, where the initial CO2 temperature forcing evaporates water into atmosphere whichg traps yet more heat, creating yet more water vapor, etcetera. As Roy notes, it is this warming and humidifying of the global atmosphere and the resulting acceleration of the hydrologic cycle that creates the upper troposphere hotspot. Ergo, no hotspot means no powerful water vapor amplification mechanism and no CO2-based account of late 20th century warming.",2_3
"The Associated Press reports the United States' carbon dioxide emissions have fallen substantially, with 2016's emissions expected to be the lowest in 25 years. President Barack Obama's signature effort to reduce emissions, the Clean Power Plan, has been stayed by the courts. So what's behind the decline? A dramatic increase in our use of cleaner-burning natural gas. ""We are leading the world in carbon reductions today, and it's driven primarily by cleaner-burning, affordable natural gas that was brought to you by innovation and technological advances in the oil and natural gas industry,"" said Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute.",0_0
"Read here . For the oceans to become sufficiently ""acidified"" to have any impact on coral larvae, it would require an atmospheric CO2 level that exceeds 2100 ppm. The likelihood that level of CO2 will be attained due human emissions is extremely low, and very far into the future if it were to happen. The possible impact would be a reduction in size of larvae but would also include a positive increase in survivorship.",3_2
"The growth of the vegetation in these middle and high latitude areas is mainly limited by temperature. Many studies correlating NDVI with land surface temperature indicate warming might be the most important factor accounting for the LAI increase in this area. Warming, causes longer active growing season length and higher growth magnitude, therefore leads to increase in LAI in this area.",3_2
"The long term records, the ice cores, show that temperatures rise and fall before CO2 ??? 800 years before, on the way ???up??, and 2000-3000 years before on the way ???down??. In other words, the ice core graph shows that temperature controls the carbon dioxide levels. It??s possible that CO2 provides some extra push (amplification) but if it does, its effect is so small that it can??t be seen in those graphs. See this page for close-ups of the famous Vostock Ice Core graph . See the lag for yourself. CO2 can??t be a major driver from 800 years in the future.",2_3
"The Treasury Department??s admission contradicts claims by Democratic leadership that a cap-and-trade energy rationing scheme would boost the economy. In fact, a massive new energy tax (Department officials suggest that a cap-and-trade would cost consumers hundreds of billions of dollars) would depress economic growth by increasing utility bills and gasoline prices.",4_1
"By Fred L. Smith, Jr. and William Yeatman",0_0
"Then there is the 60-month plot of CO2 emissions (black dots), which obviously tells a different story then the press fabrication that the ""rapid"" global warming we are ""suffering"" from is a direct result of human CO2 emissions.",2_3
"""There has been a clear message from some parties, and that would certainly be very good news,"" he told reporters on Sunday.",0_0
Latest Obama half-billion-dollar green energy debacle,0_0
"In contrast to the satellite data, which exhibit a slight increase in SIE , the mean SIE of the models over 19792005 shows a decrease in each month, the report explained.",5_1
The effects of climate change have been dramatically over-estimated. Future global climate change caused by human activity will be much less than feared and be largely benign for viticulture??. ???The 21st Century will be wine??s golden age??.,3_2
"Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 16:07:57 -0500",0_0
"On a supercomputer model for 2006. Interesting model video. And eventually, they may be able to combine the model with real data.",0_0
"Ken entered journalism while a student at Washington and Lee University and worked stints at papers throughout Virginia before joining the Times five years ago. Along the way, Ken honed a healthy skepticism of government and politicians that served his craft well. Though an editorialist and essayist, Ken was always a reporter first, and his columns were filled with facts and news. His efforts left his fellow journalists' work suffering by comparison. Ken's fierce reporting on issues such as the environment, global warming, and the Endangered Species Act uncovered numerous instances of government folly and provided ample ammunition for those of us who have never been convinced that the government, though here, is here to help.",0_0
"Adjustments are a good thing and the instinctive criticism of all adjustments as a matter of principle is simply not right. I agree with Mosher: these ""principled"" critics of all adjustments are surely throwing the baby out with the bath water. And by the way, I do agree with the description of those who get crazy whenever somebody mentions the word ""adjustment"" as anti-science nut jobs , and yes, I do think that a large number of such people exists among the WUWT regular readers (but probably among most laymen in the world, too, and maybe they are a majority among the TRF readers as well, sorry).",0_0
"...An additional and important discrepancy between the models and reality extends into the lower atmosphere as well. In the lower atmosphere, climate models expectations are that the degree of warming with increasing greenhouse gas concentrations should be greater than that experienced at the surface, with the lower atmosphere warming about 1.4 times faster than the average surface temperature. Despite claims that observations and models are in agreement (Santer et al., 2008), new analyses incorporating a large number of both observational datasets as well as climate model projections, clearly and strongly demonstrate that the surface warming (which itself is below the model mean) is significantly outpacing the warming in the lower atmosphere contrary to climate model expectations . Instead of exhibiting 40% more warming than the surface, the lower atmosphere is warming 25% lessa statistically significant difference (Christy et al., 2010).",5_1
"This is becoming a more and more common feature of environmentalist rhetoric. The violent imagery has even seeped into the pronouncements of the eco-priests at the Environmental Protection Agency. Recently, a video surfaced of EPA Region VI Administrator Al Armendariz admitting that his agency's philosophy is to ""crucify"" oil and gas companies: ""It was kind of like how the Romans used to, you know, conquer villages in the Mediterranean. They'd go in to a little Turkish town somewhere, they'd find the first five guys they saw and they'd crucify them. Then, you know, that town was really easy to manage for the next few years.""",0_0
"Given that both NANSEN and NSIDC use the same SSMI sensor data, and calculate the extent based on 15% concentration, that half a million square kilometers difference in the ???normal?? sure seems significant in the context of the magnified extent view NSIDC presents. A half million here, a half million there, and pretty soon we are talking about real ice extent differences.",5_1
"The Russian news agency Novosti took a charitably long-term view of Kyoto noting, ""Many people question the effect of the measures outlined by the Kyoto Protocol on the climate. Today, the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is approximately 370 PPM (units of these gases per million units of the air).",0_0
"17 George Kennan, Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin, 1960",0_0
"Update: Evan Mills, apparently one author of the analysis, responds and I respond back .",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Energy & Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell on what to expect from the Bali negotiations:,0_0
"Moreover, even if CO2 does drive climate change, slashing US greenhouse gas emissions would bring no benefits, since China, India and other developing nations will not be reducing their enormous emissions.",4_2
Federal Agency Headquarters Leave Lights On In DC:,0_0
"The solution to dealing with the global economic crisis, Klaus told the U.N. General Assembly, did not lie in ""creating new governmental and supranational agencies, or in aiming at global governance of the world economy.""",0_0
"""Before Los Alamitos High School science teachers can tackle topics such as global warming, they will have to demonstrate to the school board that the course is politically balanced.""",0_0
"Perhaps its time to ask why this story being revealed overseas with new revelations almost daily in the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, the Timesonline, and other Fleet Street publications can??t get any traction here. Blogs like Watts up with That and Climate Depot are keeping us informed of the latest from England but we hear crickets chirping when it comes to stories from major newspapers and ??? outside of Fox News ??? the cable nets.",5_2
"Great News : Earth Only Doomed For 40,000 Years",0_0
"At least that's what Glauber's family says. Beaulieu says that he has nothing to do with the medal. His defense sounds logical: when you break into the home of a Nobel Prize winner, it's inconceivable that you could actually steal the Nobel Prize medal - especially if they also own a kitchen blender.",0_0
"This did not stop alarmist sources from reacting as if the Joint Chiefs had become global warming catastrophists. The Observer's story was titled (and subtitled), ""Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us. Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war, Britain will be 'Siberian' in less than 20 years, Threat to the world is greater than terrorism.""",5_2
"Temperatures were in the middle 60s through the day on Wednesday, which likely sent it to therecord books for the cold?? The coldest high temperature ever recorded on this date was 70 degrees back in 1896. If Wednesday stays at or below 67 degrees, that will make July 16th the coldest July day Toledo has had since 2003.The average high this time of the year is 85 degrees. The average high does not fall to the middle 60s until the middle of October.",1_3
We are told to fear global warming even if temperatures increase only tenths of a degree over a decade. So what are we supposed to think when the globe cools 0.56C in just four days ?,0_0
"When you return to high but not too high values of tan(beta), it's very natural for this quantity to be reasonably high - for several reasons. In MSSM, the up-type quarks only obtain masses from the interactions with the up-type Higgs. Similarly for bottom-type quarks. Because the top quark is near the electroweak scale and the bottom quark is about 40 times lighter, it's natural to think that the couplings are actually comparable - of order one - and the mass differences come from the difference of the Higgs vevs.",0_0
"Sources of solar irradiance variability are spectral dependent, which is much more difficult to measure than TSI. Spectral variations are seen on the 27 day solar rotation cycle and also on the 11 year sunspot cycle.",0_0
"MR. ADLER: Thank you, Dr. Spencer. If you'll give him a round of applause.",0_0
"Liar Loans, Rising Sea Levels and Gambling Online",0_0
"Experience mods take into account your premiums paid and your losses as compared to other companies in the same job class code. A modifier of 1.2 means you are 20% worse than average in claims history than others in your job code. Note that all history is not the same - I do not know the exact formula, but I do know that 10 claims for $5000 each will be treated as worse than 1 claim for $50,000, even though the total amounts are the same. Given this, it would really help if workers comp insurance policies could have a deductible, but many states do not allow this ( I posted on this problem here ). NCCI has a description of this whole rating process here .",0_0
"If the economy of a region, a country, a city, etc. deteriorates, what happens among the poorest? Does that usually improve their prospects? No, they will take the hardest hit. No amount of magical climate thinking can turn this one upside-down.",4_1
"Modern greenhouse hypothesis is based on the work of G.S. Callendar and C.D. Keeling, following S. Arrhenius, as latterly popularized by the IPCC. Review of available literature raise the question if these authors have systematically discarded a large number of valid technical papers and older atmospheric CO2 determinations because they did not fit their hypothesis? Obviously they use only a few carefully selected values from the older literature, invariably choosing results that are consistent with the hypothesis of an induced rise of CO2 in air caused by the burning of fossil fuel.",0_0
"Tamsin Edwards points us to the talk she wants to give at Google's prestigious SciFoo conference . It's called "" Tea with the Enemy "".",0_0
While writing other media about the looming energy catastrophe in Germany as fljt p this energy policy.,0_0
The congressional shopping list goes beyond what the Air Force had initially requested as part of its annual appropriations. The Pentagon sought to buy one Gulfstream V and one business-class equivalent of a Boeing 737 to replace aging planes. The Defense Department also asked to buy two additional 737s that were being leased.,0_0
Liberal Christie Hefner ties Chicago murder rate to climate change | The Daily Caller,0_0
"In sum, ACESA represents an ambitious attempt to grapple with a real problem. The draft bill's recognition that more is needed to tackle the problem than just GHG controls is welcome. In principle, the bill is certainly correct to stress the importance of technology in seeking a long term solution to climate change. In practice, the rush into multiple demonstration projects is likely to carry real risks.",0_0
"The Newsweek allegation was completely untrue. The New York Times had published the original misinformation, and later retracted it when it was shown to be incorrect.",0_0
"Therefore, the envelope of model expected trends shrinks as the period of time over which the trend is determined expands (yellow area in Fig. 2). What this means is that the observed trends in this figure begin to become much more unusual compared with model expectations as the trend lengthens.",0_0
These are just a few examples of lies and misleading statements that we encounter every day. Clinton lies frequently and Trump shouts a falsehood a dayand probably moreas a major part of his campaign. This is not what citizens of a free country should expect and demand. And these examples are part of a much larger set.,0_0
AEI scholars will follow the discussion and offer insights on how the United States should proceed as the situation develops.,0_0
"Indeed, more recent studies confirm that the IPCC overestimated the level of greenhouse gas emissions humans are likely to create in the rest of this century, and may also overestimate overall population growth, economic growth, technological progress, and other factors that drive aggregate greenhouse gas emissions.",5_1
"What is the ""public interest""the notion supposedly guiding the government's independent final decisioncan be highly politicized. Public advocacy groups, Congressmen and self-interested corporations can all play a role in a decision that's supposed to be guided by science and economics.",0_0
"Watch Sean Hannity feature the first clips of CFACT's ground-breaking new film ""Climate Hustle."" Warm, cold, more snow, less snow, dry, wet, you name it, the global warming crowd attributes it to ""climate change."" They've gotten away with this double talk long enough. It's time to take them down.",0_0
His Linderholm would not drag someone's conclusion that mnniskans INFLUENCINg climate would be verdriven.,0_0
"This means that the pause in global warming has now lasted for about the same time as the previous period when temperatures rose, 1980 to 1996",1_4
"Between January 2007 and July 2008, he took more than 120 long-haul flights and 43 short-haul trips , taking in countries such as New Zealand, America and Fiji.",0_0
as we know the polar bear depends on sea ice for survival,0_0
"If a Religion of Global Warming follower asks you why the US won't sign the Kyoto treaty...show them this graph. It should shut them up immediately. Hat Tips to Red State and WILLismsOf course, it probably won't shut them up. So make sure you have a copy of the Index of Leading Environmental Indicators: 2008 report written by Stephen F. Hayward at the Pacific Research Institute.",5_2
India's CO2 emissions to triple by 2030,0_0
"Americans undoubtedly take access to affordable, reliable energy for granted. Turning on the light switch or filling up a car with gasoline is second nature. Temporary power outages cause a great deal of frustration for families and businesses. Much worse, Americans realize the importance of reliable energy when a major natural disaster hits and they cannot power their schools and hospitals, keep their food from spoiling, or heat or cool their homes.",0_0
"It is important to recognize that the relationship between slow growth and growth skepticism is not straightforward. Hostility to growth never became the mainstream outlook in the 1930s, even though the Great Depression was much more severe than today's downturn. Although some drew conservative lessons from the experience, most came to favor more ambitious attempts to tackle the problems of the time. There is certainly ample room to criticize President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, but at least it represented an attempt to tackle the crisis rather than a capitulation to economic collapse.",0_0
"In the face of another diplomatic disappointment in Cancuns climate change talks, we approach the end of the hottest year on record. While experts again try to ring alarm bells, our media still gives voice to the pseudo-intellectual pursuit of climate skepticism. Perhaps while Rome burned, some bravely questioned the finer qualities of fire. Perhaps on Easter Island, as the last trees fell, some elders courageously debated the necessity of wood.",0_0
"The consistent positive relationships between temperature and ring width chronologies are a very different pattern than we observed with the Dulan junipers. There are a couple of possibilities: this site is a magic thermometer; the correlation, while seemingly significant, is nonetheless ???spurious?? ??? a topic discussed on many occasions on this blog, the type example being the ???99% significant?? correlation between alcoholism and Church of England marriages reported by Yule in the 1920s. Or maybe there??s something about the location of the site that makes it a better but non-magic thermometer. Regardless, the positive correlations at site HBL don??t alter the results of Zhang et al 2003, which are the ones that apply to the south-facing Dulan junipers used in Yang et al 2002.",5_1
A truck engine is tested for pollution exiting its exhaust pipe in California. REUTERS/Mike Blake,0_0
"To adapt that old legal aphorism, when you've got decisive scientific evidence on your side, you argue the evidence. When you've got great arguments, you make the arguments. When you don't have decisive evidence or great arguments, you claim consensus.",5_1
"Diane Lanier, science teacher, Huntsville Middle School, Huntsville, Alabama",0_0
"The claim of unprecedented speed in modern climate change is false. At the end of the Younger Dryas cooling event 11,500 years ago, temperatures near Greenland rose 15 degrees C in less than a human lifetime! Ocean temperatures and sea ice conditions apparently moved even faster. The polar bears obviously survived this.",2_1
"In a separate story in the Independent (May 13), King said that he thought the upcoming sci-fi movie, The Day after Tomorrow, would make a valuable contribution to the public debate on global warming. He even praised certain aspects of the film as realistic: ""The opening scenes setting up the key scientific factors and introducing the viewer to the scientists and the scientific-political interface are in my view remarkably realistic. I think palaeoclimatologists can closely identify with the discussion. The sceptical reactions that the scientists received are also rather well depicted.""",0_0
Imagine you this. How many do you think will be conscientious and sort right every time? It rs easy to a gldlampa slip into the ordinary waste.,0_0
"An even more blatant example of union featherbedding came shortly after September 11, 2001, when Pataki and 1199 president Rivera negotiated a secret pact (later ratified by the state legislature) that set aside $1.8 billion in pay raises for health-care workers. In exchange, Pataki got his first 1199 endorsement. The dealmakers counted on dubious funding sources to pay for the new obligations, which included the hope that Washington would increase its contributions to the state's Medicaid program by $4.5 billion, an expected $1 billion from the conversion of nonprofit insurer Empire BlueCross BlueShield into a for-profit company, and a cigarette-tax hike. But the federal monies failed to come through, the proceeds from the insurer conversion took seven years to materialize, and cigarette-tax proceeds declined as more people quit smoking.",0_0
"The foundation of the greenhouse theory is that 'greenhouse' gases absorb infrared radiation from the earth and then 'back-radiate' this energy to the earth to cause global warming. Several prior posts have illustrated that the concepts of greenhouse gas 'back-radiation,' 'heat-trapping,' 'heat capture,' and 'radiative forcing' are essentially all referring to the same unphysical, fundamental error of the greenhouse theory that cannot be found in textbooks of physics. Several commenters have indicated that they think it is impossible to explain the temperatures of the earth and atmosphere without incorporating 'greenhouse gases' and 'back-radiation' in diagrams of the Earth's energy budget, such as the famous Kiehl/Trenberth/IPCC Energy Budget , which shows 'back-radiation' to be a very significant 324 W/m2 (95% of the average solar input!) at all times 24/7/365.",2_3
"Allow states to manage energy development. Permitting fracking on federally owned land will result in even more oil and gas extraction and create jobs in areas that would otherwise not see such economic growth. Congress should explore ways to sell federal lands to states and private individuals who are in a better position to reap the benefits from energy production while protecting the environment. Short of that, however, Congress should grant authority to states for environmental review and permitting of energy projects on federal lands within their borders.",4_5
"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. Using a standard F-test (and Levene test), this difference isnot statistically significant. Snyders second criticism was that this finding should have been an end to this particular line of argument. However, this was not what happened. One of Exponents most important technical findings indeed, it is the finding that directly precedes their conclusions was thatthe higher variability of Patriot footballs relative to Colt footballs was most plausibly explained by the footballs not starting the game at or near the same pressure:",0_0
The $800 billion stimulus package is using taxpayer subsidies to replace U.S. jobs with foreign green jobs. It is also destroying jobs in America's export sector.,4_1
"Anyways, I got to thinking about how Ive never been sure what sustainable development means, and of how much it reminds me of the sailors saying.One of the first uses of the term was in the UNs 1987 Brundtland Report, which said:",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 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
"And as already noted, secondary forests often provide better habitat for a multitude of species. In fact, ""there are some cases in the Amazon where creation of reserve areas in an effort to protect rain forest is leading to a simplification of the ecological systems and to a loss of biological diversity."" (de Miranda, p.163)",0_0
"If Mann really wanted to spread truth rather than propaganda, he would have noted that a recent survey of American Meteorological Society (AMS) atmospheric scientists found only 38 percent of AMS scientists believe future warming will be very harmful, and an even smaller 30 percent are very worried about global warming. This is a far cry from Manns unsupported assertion that 97 percent agree we must respond to the dangers of a warming planet.",5_1
Temperatures are lower than Hansen forecast they would be if humans disappeared off the planet twelve years ago.,5_1
It turns out that a busy team of economists hired by Bush Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to devise a better cap-and-trade program were fully aware that it would be very costly for consumers. Treasury's upper end estimate works out to $1761 for the average household per year.,0_0
"Alaska Squeeze: Washington continues to squeeze the oil industry in Alaska, which once provided 10% of the oil consumed by the US. Washingtons policy threatens the Alaskan pipeline. At its peak of 1988, the throughput of the pipeline averaged 2,032,928 bbl. per day. In 2013, the average was 534,480 bbl. per day, a drop of almost 74%. If volume drops to about 300,000 bbl. per day the pipeline will freeze and cannot be restarted. By law, once it stops, this valuable national asset would have to be disassembled.",4_1
"As NASA data indicates, ""global warming"" has been pretty sparse over the last decade, especially in the U.S. and the Southeast region. In fact, the National Climate Data Center (NCDC) reports the Southeast region has experienced slight global cooling since 1895 through September, 2010.",1_4
"Total US installed capacity of natural gas (442GW) plus renewables (187GW) is now at 629GW (58% of the total power generating mix) up from 605GW (56%) in 2011 and 548GW (54%) in 2007. Between 2008 and 2012, the US nearly doubled its renewables capacity from 44GW to 86GW (excluding hydropower, which itself is the single largest source of renewable power, at 101GW as of 2012).",0_0
"how to continue to try to make global redistribution of wealth the real basis of that climate agenda, and widen the discussion further to encompass the idea of ""global public goods"";",0_0
"Of course, saying that things are getting better overall does not mean that we live in a perfect world. Far from it. There is still an immense amount of poverty, as well as other challenges to overcome. But finding solutions to these problems demands generating more growth rather than exercising restraint.",0_0
"Current CO2 levels mean an increase in ice volume ???would not be possible,?? says this article on Reuters , while at the same time showing photo of a GROWING glacier.",1_1
"To me, that's impressive consistency from lots of independent data.",0_0
"Their own graph shows that Arctic sea ice extent is just below normal, and melting unusually slowly.",1_1
"Environment Canada issued a snowfall warning for Ottawa and Gatineau, saying the region could expect up to three cm (1 inches) of snow per hour, to a maximum of about 15 cm (6 inches).",1_3
"(i) There is an important stochastic component in the modern temperature series, the lower frequency component of which by happenstance approximates over the instrument period to the sum of two sinusoidal series with periodicities of about 61 years and 21 years.",2_1
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the Copenhagen Conference in December 2009 revealed to everyone willing to see the existing heterogeneity of views and the apparent contradictions of interests.,0_0
"Diana Wang accepted a job. The terms of that employment were very clear up front -- like most interns, she would be paid in skills and experience and resume fodder rather than money. The employer provided exactly the promised terms. So Diana Wang sued her employer. Now she is having trouble finding anyone to hire her . Wow, that is sure unexpected. Maybe she could go work for Obama's OFA, except (lol) they don't pay their interns either.",0_0
"The notion that the Sun is dimmer when there are few sunspots goes right back to William Herschel at the beginning of the 19th Century. The trouble is that the variations in solar brightness, as measured by satellites, are too small to explain the strong influence of the Sun on climate as recorded over thousands of years, and continuing into the 21st Century. Thats where Svensmarks discovery of 16 years ago comes in, with the amplifier. Cosmic rays coming from the Galaxy are more intense when there are fewer sunspots and they increase the global cloud cover, so cooling the world.",2_1
"Figure 1. Emulation of CRU regional chronology, as shown in CA post http://climateaudit.org/2012/05/06/yamal-foi-sheds-new-light-on-flawed-data/",0_0
This is what the current sea ice coverage looks like at the south pole with the approximate ship location marked:,0_0
"Youll note that Ive listed the average, maximum and minimum values for the base period of 1996 to 2015. There is almost a 3 watts/m^2 spread in the TOA incident shortwave radiation among the models during our base period.",0_0
"Actually Danish wind energy is usually most abundant when its least useful and consequently sold for near-zero return to neighbors while energy when its needed is bought from those neighbors generated by their hydro, coal-fired thermal and nuclear plants. While Denmarks wind generation figures look good on superficial examination Denmarks wind miracle is actually a wind mirage",4_4
"And so the Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP) arose. It is also a coal syngasification, CCGT generation, CCS facility. Estimated cost is now $3.5 billion (up from an original $2.5 billion), $8750/MWe. It relies on a $450 million federal grant plus $637 million in investment tax credits. It is only 400MW, but would supposedly capture 90% of CO 2 combustion gas. It would sell the CO 2 for enhanced (tertiary) oil recovery in nearby Permian Basin oil fields. TCEP isnt going well either. On 1/13/14, contracted electricity buyer CPS Energy (a San Antonio utility) pulled out citing the much lower capital cost of natural gas fired CCGT ($800-1300/MWe). In May TCEP requested yet another years extension for re-evaluation before construction. A massively subsidized un-built plant without a utility customer is what the EPA now principally relies on to justify its proposed clean coal rule. The administration is in effect buying justification.",4_4
"Nobel Physics laureate Ivar Giaever has called global warming (aka, climate change) alarmism a ""new religion"" . . . a temple built on grounds of faith rather than upon scientific foundations. In this church, all unfortunate events that occur are attributed to human causation. Eco-elitist doom prophets and profiteers perpetrate dogma and intimidation to extract offerings of penance in exchange for promised salvation from fossil-fueled hellfire.",5_2
"For nearly ten years it has been suggested that heat flow from a geological feature was the likely reason for this local ice sheet melting. Recent publications strongly support, if not prove, that this is in fact the case.",2_1
"Saleska et al . used Terra satellite data -- Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) derived from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) -- to determine whether or not the widespread Amazon drought of 2005, which peaked during the dry season onset (July-September), did indeed reduce whole-canopy forest photosynthesis as predicted, which they say ""should have been especially observable during this period, when anomalous interannual drought coincided with the already seasonally low precipitation."" What was learned",0_0
And the policy toward Iran has played out just as Clinton indicated. One pivotal,0_0
"Ultimately, the conferees backed a plan, hashed out by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, that would exempt EU heavy industries from emissions controls, so that they can compete on a level playing field in the global marketplace. Brown supported Merkel's proposal in exchange for her support of his climate scheme, which entails the manipulation of the tax code to give European businesses an incentive to reduce emissions.",0_0
"VILLAGER #1: If... she.. weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood.",0_0
"Soon, along with astronomer Sallie Baliunas and others, integrated more than 240 paleoclimatic studies in order to better understand weather extremes of the past 1,000 years. The team reviewed four decades of research, including work on ancient tree rings, glacier ice cores, sediments from lakes, rivers and seafloors, historical records, coral reefs, stalagmites, fossils, dust, pollen, and many other natural indicators that vary depending on the temperature, precipitation, and other climate factors.",0_0
All this begs the question of how long it will take the warmist crew to readjust their scare story to win back the public. The majority firmly rejects their socialist prescription to solve an imaginary problem.,0_0
"In short, the probability of getting 484 sites that pass the p < .128 screening by chance, is very small, and his argument is utterly wrong. The only way it could be true is if somehow the temp-ring relationship magically arose in 1850 but didnt exist beforehand, which of course is ludicrous.",0_0
"From its opening images, which view Gore only from behind, as if he were some powerful figure about to spin around and reveal his greatness, An Inconvenient Truth lionizes the man more than his cause. The movie means to paint him as a misunderstood prophet, trudging through airports and convention centers bringing the unpopular word of God to the sinful masses.",0_0
EARTHS ENERGY IMBALANCE (ABSOLUTE) IN CMIP5 MODELS,0_0
An alternative approach would involve developing technology to tackle what should be seen as a practical problem rather than a moral issue.,0_0
"Consider, for example, the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, which were a top priority for NRDC during President Obama's first term. The rule costs $10 billion annually and threatens to shutter 17% of the nation's fleet of coal-fired power plants (just as NRDC and EPA intended). Given these costs, you'd expect that the rule would lead to big public health gains, but you'd be wrong. The ridiculous justification for the rule is to protect a putative population of pregnant, subsistence fisherwomen who consume more than 200 pounds of self-caught fish, from exclusively the most polluted bodies of fresh inland water. The average American no doubt would consider this rule to be a waste; to NRDC, it was a policy success.",0_0
INTERNET - Judge Rules That Sharing Porn Is Okay,0_0
"CC: Mr. John Grunsfeld, Associate Administrator for Science",0_0
Finally they mention sea-level rise . The observed increase in sea-level at our ports is equivalent to the width of my thumbnail every ten years.,1_6
CLIMATE OF FEAR | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog Vote Green in Western Australia this Saturday or face the pants-wetting consequences...,0_0
"Therefore, we use five models that have more than 10 members of the historical and RCP4.5 simulations to take a closer look at the recent SATg linear trends (Figure 2). Two model ensembles (CNRM-CM5 and CanCM4) exhibit a narrow spread, which means that they may not encompass a sufficient range of natural uctuations. The remaining three ensembles (CSIRO Mk-3.6, HadCM3, and MIROC5) include the observed SATg linear trend for 19912000 (0.26 K per decade) in a 50th percentile, and for 20012010 (0.03 K per decade) in a lower 5075th percentile. The discrepancy appears small, but it becomes larger when we include the latest two years of 20112012 in the estimate. The large spread of more than 0.3 K in the three ensembles suggests that the observed hiatus was due to a large natural fluctuation and/or the GCMs are systematically biased to produce a warmer surface for a particular reason.",5_1
"More market-oriented strategies, such as emissions trading, have a better track record for cost-effectively reducing emissions. Such programs attempt to mimic real market incentives by allowing companies with high compliance costs to buy emission credits from companies with low compliance costs, thereby directing spending to where it can do the most good. Even emission trading, though, may not come close enough to real markets to achieve the most cost-effective air pollution strategy.",0_0
"He also wasnt paid more because the Aether didnt exist, his revolutionary concept of spacetime provided the missing structure. As well as Einsteins scientific integrity, world governments were not spending trillions of dollars to prove the existence of the Aether and then tax it.",0_0
As the DfT?s last report affirms one reason we have been so unprepared for the past three winters has been the obsession of our government and other authorities with global warming. They kept listening to climate change campaigners warning that Britain will heat up four or five degrees and believed we would never have cold weather again.,0_0
"The record has actually been broken twice today. The first place to beat the previous record of 37.1C (98.8F), set in Cheltenham in 1990, was Heathrow Airport where the temperature earlier today registered 37.9C (100.2F).",0_0
"Temperatures have been directly measured for a little over a century. The number of locations at which temperature is taken has gradually increased, reaching something like full coverage only in the last thirty to forty years. It is certain that at many individual stations mankind has caused changes in measured temperature. Mankind caused both warming, due to the urban heat island effects, and cooling, such as by land use changes.",5_1
"Hey, when you lose the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists . Anyway, given the Doomsday Clock's track record, maybe we should all feel pretty good about the state of the world. The Clock is hardly a precision timepiece. It was created to highlight the dangers either growing or ebbing of the Cold War between United States and Soviet Russia. But the clockmakers, blinded by ideology, got it badly wrong. In 1981, the Clock moved to four minutes from seven, and then to three in 1984 with blame placed on Ronald Reagan's Evil Empire rhetoric and military buildup especially the Strategic Defense Initiative. (It was a worry shared by Watchmen writer Alan Moore, who riffed on the Doomsday Clock in that classic 1980s graphic novel. The above cover image is by artist Dave Gibbons.)",0_0
"Bao credits his research ideas, analytical work and pleasure of working on this project to his two graduate students, Killingsworth and Hayles, as well as his long-time Chinese collaborators. Bao brought Killingsworth and Hayles to an interior mountainous region in South China in December 2011, where the group succeeded in finding multiple barite layers in a section of rocks dating to 635 million years ago. This discovery formed a large part of their analysis and subsequent publication in PNAS .",0_0
"Based on simulations provided by mathematical models, climate alarmists generally predict more frequent and more severe floods in response to global warming. In this summary we examine real-world data relative to this claim as it pertains to Asia.",5_1
"This document is clearly written, up-to-date, and well illustrated with charts and graphs, making it an ideal hand-out or reference for high school and college students looking for an authoritative presentation of the ""skeptic"" view on climate change.",0_0
"Lewis Page, Climate change made sea levels fall in 2010 and 2011, The Register, August 20, 2013",0_0
"If history is any guide, the window of opportunity for action will probably last for two years as the party ""out of power"" will likely make gains during the interim election. This provides Bush plenty of time, but his political capital must be focused and applied vigorously if the inertia that has deadlocked several important issues is to be moved. A proper prioritizing and elevating of several key items will help the Bush Administration make the case that it is serious about tackling the issue of the environmentand if applied wisely may yet remove this issue as a blot on its legacy for those looking back in the future.",0_0
"Every bit as troubling as the monument designation itself is the use of the Antiquities Act to bring it about. Originally crafted to protect Native American sites of historical and cultural significance, the Antiquities Act has been used by the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations to declare an area a National Monument for environmental reason via executive action, with little if any local input. ""There shouldn't be a couple of people sitting around a table in the West Wing deciding this kind of thing,"" Saving Seafood's Vanasse told the AP.",0_0
"The EUs plan to regulate the output of carbon dioxide, as part of the effort to combat global warming, has stirred concern in the European aviation industry. Airbus which employs more than 50,000 people across Europe argues the proposals will damage competitiveness at a time of economic weakness, wants the EU to put on hold the extension of the scheme to airlines until a global plan for regulating carbon emissions by airlines can be agreed.",4_1
"But the political collapse of Republicans at the end of the Bush administration and demographic changes favorable to liberalism made this kind of trimming seem unnecessary to Democrats. In the Obama years, the Democratic Party seemed to be able to move left while enjoying an enduring advantage in presidential politics. In the early months of President Obama's second term, he concentrated on issues such as climate change, same-sex marriage, legalization for illegal immigrants and gun regulation, without much concern for bringing these voters back into the Democratic coalition.",0_0
"In effect, Team Obama and Waxman are saying, ""You had better provide us with bipartisan cover to raise gasoline prices and destroy jobs, or we'll sic EPA on the economy, and won't you be in trouble with your voters then when EPA raises their energy prices and destroy their jobs!"" Cap-and-trade Democrats are setting the stage for a political backlash that Republicans can later exploit. All Republicans need to do now is keep opposing cap-and-trade as an energy tax, and keep saying that Congress never intended for the Clean Air Act to morph into Kyoto on steroids.",0_0
"The graph below shows the absolute difference between Fort Collins temperatures and Boulder temperatures since 1930. There is some sort of discontinuity around 1940, but the UHI imprint is clearly visible in the Fort Collins record. The Colorado State Climatologist, Nolan Doesken manages the Fort Collins Weather station. He has told me that it has never moved or changed instrumentation. and that he believes the increase in temperature is due to UHI effects.",5_1
"Lake, P.S. 2003. Ecological effects of perturbation by drought in flowing waters. Freshwater Biology 48 : 1161-1172.",0_0
Drivers are asked to refrain from distant journeys and not to leave their cars where they could interfere with the passage of emergency vehicles.,0_0
"So any minute now I expect environmentalists around the world will start a Boycott Biomass campaign. Clearly any truly compassionate green could do nothing less since biomass is a net killer, and warms the planet too.",0_0
"Like the touted benefits of wind and solar power, ?clean coal? is another environmental myth that is costing billions. Recently, the Global Warming Foundation reported that ?The world invested almost a billion dollars a day in limiting global warming last year, but the total figure$359 billion?was slightly down on last year, and barely half the $700 billion per year that the World Economic Forum has said is needed to tackle climate change.? The report cited was generated by the Climate Policy Initiative.",4_1
"One problem with that conclusion, according to some climate scientists, is that the U.N.s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has limited the hiatus to 10-15 years. Anastasios Tsonis, distinguished professor at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, believes the pause will last much longer than that. He points to repeated periods of warming and cooling in the 20th century.",1_4
"Congress and the courts must end the constant collusion and sue-and-settle lawsuits between the EPA and radical pressure groups. Congress must cut agency budgets, especially the billions of dollars the EPA and other agencies give to anti-energy advocacy organizations and rubber-stamping advisory panels.",0_0
"Global environmental change began to become a political issue in the 1980s. Climatologists and astrophysicists showed that a nuclear war could put so much dust in the air that disastrous cooling would occur, the infamous nuclear winter. With the end of the Cold War, the focus shifted to global warming. At that time, climatologists explained that their computer models were crude approximations of the real atmosphere and pushed the limit of computer technology, requiring months of computing for a single simulation. You could accept either the results of these crude models or the less-formal projections by the most experienced meteorologists. The primary focus continued to be on the implications of what we knew.",0_0
"Climate Treaty Negotiators Put U.S. in No-Win Situation, Experts Say",0_0
"In what is destined itself to become a much-derided quote in future years, Connor protests that snowy winters are weather not climate and therefore prove nothing, before immediately pointing to Russias hot summer as proof of global warming:",5_2
"Well, yes. DOE, under authority delegated to it in the 1987 National Appliance Energy Conservation Act (NAECA), can set energy efficiency standards for clothes washers, among other household appliances. And DOE is in the process of creating standards that would effectively regulate new top loaders out of existence in three years. The NAECA was initially enacted as a belated response to the energy crisis of the 1970s, but is now being used to advance the global warming agenda. Thus, they argue that front-loading washing machines and other efficient gadgets will use less energy and help curtail this potential disaster.",0_0
"That the earth is currently in a long-term warming phase is not in dispute. It has been since the end of the last Ice Age, and in particular since the end of the Little Ice Age a couple of hundred years ago. It is therefore not surprising, nor alarming, that temperatures today are higher than they were a century ago.",2_1
"State legislatures are starting to repeal mandates to use alternative fuels such as wind and solar, which can be 10 and even 20 times as expensive as fossil fuels. The ""fracking"" revolution has made natural gas and oil plentiful and cheap, making the contrast with expensive and unreliable wind and solar even more apparent.",0_0
Stealth advocacy on climate change: A catastrophic failure of science,5_2
"""Maryland's Gov. Martin O'Malley who is well-regarded by environmentalists for consuming and metabolizing the green Kool-Aid on global warming supports the Calvert Cliffs expansion. O'Malley apparently realizes that Maryland needs the electricity given the fact that the state is facing rolling blackouts on summer days starting as early as 2011. Moreover, nuclear power is emissions-free, another plus for Maryland's warmer-in-chief. His support is even more remarkable since he recently barred the installation of wind turbines on public lands. The governor's picking nukes over wind must have sent the greens into meltdown. So in response, the desperate greens came up with a bizarre new argument: nuclear power causes global warming.""",0_0
Sited at a radar station with waste heat exhaust systems clearly visible,0_0
Australias antarctic runway melting | The Guyra Argus,0_0
"These observed developments have prompted the U.K.s Met Office Climate Center (the national weather service) to quietly revise its projections. They now say: The latest decadal prediction suggests that the next five years are likely to be a little bit lower than predicted from the previous prediction. The predicted increase from 2013 through 2017 was 0.43 degree Celsius above the 1971-2000 mean, while the previous prediction said temperature would increase 0.54 degree from 2012 through 2016. Simply stated, it will be cooler than they expected!",0_0
"Australias proposed carbon tax would have reduced worldwide temperatures by 1/20,000 th of a degree after ten years. (One twenty-thousandth .)",4_2
"Tell me one single place that heat is trapped. Heat has to be generated. Heat is always flowing from hot to cold. Heat is only maintained while heat is being constantly generated. Watch a bonfire. As the smoke rises up, so does the carbon dioxide. Within barely 100 feet it has lost its heat. Are these cold and rapidly cooling molecules supposed to re-radiate a heat that they have not even got? Heaven preserve us from such chicanery!",2_3
"Oregon State is a prime example of what happens when educational institutions fall under progressive-socialist control, and dependency on taxpayer handouts from political overseers in Washington. DeFazio and his fellow congressional Democrats gave OSU a reported $27 million in earmark funding during the last legislative cycle alone. That's $9 million per Robinson student denied a PhD.",0_0
"The authors write that ""sea-level rise is a high-profile and important aspect of climate change,"" noting that ""in the last two Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessments, the sum of observed contributions to sea-level rise has consistently been less than the observed rise over multi-decadal periods, thus reducing confidence in the sea-level projections."" Therefore, they made a new attempt at achieving what had been so elusive in the past.",5_1
"Their accounts are externally audited and annually submitted to the government of India, he said.",0_0
"It examines the science on both sides of the issue presents often hilarious planetary Armageddon prophecies of Al Gore, Leonard Nimoy, and other doomsayers and lets 30 scientists and other experts expose the climate scares and scams, explain Real World climate science, and delve deeply into the politics and media hype that have surrounded this issue since it was first concocted several decades ago",0_0
Obese dads pass on predisposition to obesity and metabolic disorders to their kids,0_0
"/s/ Dr. Joseph Kerwin JSC, Astronaut, Skylab 2, Director of Space and Life Sciences, 22 years",0_0
"Well, lets see what the facts tell us.",0_0
"Following in the heels of Corbyns forecast was the release of a new report by Dr. David Whitehouse , published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, and what makes it fairly extraordinary after decades of global warming propaganda is that he concludes that there has been no statistically significant increase in annual global temperatures since 1997. Thats seventeen years of atrocious lies about a warming earth.",1_4
"In this one, at about 2 minutes, even with the resolution turned up high, we have a dramatic tear wiped from what looks like a dry eye.",0_0
Global Warming Reducing Temperature Stress on Chinese Rice,3_2
I wonder what she might teach her students at TAFE? A balanced view of climate science enabling the students to use their own minds to evaluate the various arguments? Or ramming Gore-based propaganda down their throats? I wonder,0_0
"How is it possible that so many politicians, their huge bureaucracies, important groups in the scientific establishment, an important segment of business people and almost all journalists see it differently? The only reasonable explanation is that ? without having paid sufficient attention to the arguments ? they have already invested too much into global warming alarmism. Some of them are afraid that by losing this doctrine their political and professional pride would suffer. Others are earning a lot of money on it and are afraid of losing that source of income. Business people hope they will make a fortune out of it and are not ready to write it off. They all have a very tangible vested interest in it. We should say loudly: this coalition of powerful special interests is endangering us.",5_2
"But we didn?t learn the lesson. Half of the U.S. Senate thinks it needs corn ethanol subsidies to get re-elected. President Obama thinks corn ethanol is ?rural development,? not realizing that half the increase in corn farmers? profits comes from the pockets of their neighbors who are paying double for the grain they feed to chickens, hogs and cattle.",0_0
"In the concluding paragraph of their paper, Wu et al . thus indicate that their results suggest ""future increases in CO 2 would favor increased growth rates of larger diatoms, especially in productive regions, which may act to increase the rate and efficiency of carbon export from the surface to the deep sea."" And this phenomenon, in turn, would obviously help to slow the rate-of-rise of the atmosphere's CO 2 concentration, which is the ultimate goal of the world's climate alarmists, which facts further highlight the greater fact that nature itself can take care of itself , without a bit of ""help"" from global regulators, as a detailed search of our website reveals a number of different ways by which a number of natural phenomena can accomplish this very task, while doing it all by themselves (see the subheadings under Feedback Factors here .",3_1
"Competitive Enterprise Institute General Counsel Sam Kazman said after the ruling that ""as the government's course of action here demonstrates, there's a clear pattern when it comes to this administration: In dealing with global warming issues, agencies tend to act illegally.""",0_0
"With erect posture and clear gray eyes, Chuck Provini still looks like the Marine who graduated from the Naval Academy in 1969 and was repeatedly decorated for bravery in Vietnam.",0_0
"Suddenly this ""aristocracy based on talent and sensibility,"" in Siegel's words, seems to be discrediting its own policies and its conceit that it is uniquely fit to govern.",0_0
I've written this week's column with the specific intent of giving you verbiage that you can simply cut and paste into the comment form.,0_0
"Another German in the audience said this was the saddest day of his life. He, too, had hoped that mindless, compulsory agreement with the State and disruption of discussions by anyone who disagreed had been swept away from Europe forever at the end of the Second World War.",0_0
Midwesterners Leery of DOE Greenhouse Gas Program,0_0
"Eliminating Tall Tales from Fat Tails: On her web site, Climate Etc., Judith Curry discusses the issue of climate sensitivity, the temperature response of the climate to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide. The fat tails are the significant error ranges on the high-end of possible temperature increases from enhanced CO2, usually from a doubling. These error ranges are not empirically derived, but are estimated, guessed, usually by the modelers. They may have little relation to the earths climate history.",5_1
"137. Such improper chilling of free, robust and uninhibited public debate over climate change taints and skews the democratic process and distorts the resulting governmental public policy response to alleged global warming.",0_0
"Further, we should mention the possibility of confusing the public, and often many scientists as well, by clever use of words. I will give just two examples:",0_0
50-60: Pension advisers. More doctor appointments,0_0
"In more detail, the ACORN-SAT Melbourne minimum temperatures before 1990 are shifted up relative to the raw data. The stepped adjustments would suggest instrument changes but the BOM records show thus is not the case. Further, there is no sign of the step changes in the direct Melbourne temperature records. An upward correction is also applied to the maximum temperatures, but is applied only to the past, before 1990, and not the present.",5_1
"It was inevitable that sooner or later a court would be persuaded to declare that the threat of climate change requires judicial intervention. But whatever one thinks about climate change science and the severity of the threat to human populations, the Dutch court decision is a clear usurpation of the policymaking role of the legislature.",0_0
"The result was an overall cooling effect that completely contradicts claims made by NASAs own climatology division that greenhouse gases are a cause of global warming. As illustrated by data collected using Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER), both carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitric oxide (NO), which are abundant in the earths upper atmosphere, greenhouse gases reflect heating energy rather than absorb it",2_3
> >> thinking about these issues in Africa. For the first of the two,0_0
"As the atmospheric CO 2 concentration increases, it is likely that young mint and thyme plants will exhibit increases in photosynthesis and biomass production. Thus, the yields of these species in commercial herb farms should rise right along with future increases in the air's CO 2 content. The results of this study also indicate that the two plants respond favorably to atmospheric CO 2 concentrations that are much higher than anything realistically anticipated to result from the burning of fossil fuels.",3_3
"As he explained in the UN's world Commission on Environment and Development (UNCED) August 28, 1991, report: ""It is clear that the current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, ownership of motor vehicles, small electric appliances, home and work place conditioning and suburban housing is not sustainable A shift is necessary towards lifestyles less geared to environmentally-damaging consumption patterns.""",0_0
"At the time, there was a unanimous consensus that the Earth was cooling, but James Hansen is just plain smarter thanthe NASA scientists in the 1960s who were still able to put a man on the moon.",1_2
1878 : Universal Drought Across Australasia And The South Seas,0_0
"Another of the repellent tricks of Nazism and Fascism is to poke fun at the physical disabilities of one?s opponents. The Guardian, the British equivalent of Der Sturmer, the in-house journal of Hitler?s Sturmabteilung, has been running a rather childish hate-campaign against me for three years, ever since I successfully compelled it to publish a stinging letter of rebuke for its hapless environment correspondent, George Monbiot.",0_0
"Another way of analyzing the Stern Review's conclusions was provided by Sir Partha Dasgupta, the Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics at Cambridge University. Sir Partha noted that Stern's estimated costs of only 1% of total global economic output to 2200 would have to be paid by 2050. Thus the costs should have been averaged over the next 43 years rather than the next two centuries. Since the model Sir Nicholas used projects much higher global economic output in the 22nd century than in the 21st, the effect of paying for emissions reductions between now and 2050 is a massive re-distribution of wealth from the current relatively poor generation to much wealthier future generations. Sir Partha estimated that it would require a 97.5% savings rate in the current generation to pay for the necessary emissions reductions. As my colleague Marlo Lewis has remarked over the years, this truly is a policy of all pain and no gain.",0_0
The full text is available here as an Adobe Acrobat PDF.,0_0
"Climate change is now quite clearly a purely political issue. So, when will a politician emerge possessing the temerity to stake out a position daring to state the truth about the US and climate change, that our rate of increase of CO2 emissions is among the best and maybe even the very best in the developed world over recent years (when considering ""Europe"" as a wholethe EU-15as does the Kyoto Protocol), possibly even since Kyoto was agreed in 1997? That we far surpass our moral hectors the Europeans on this matter over which they are so noisy and even quite often remarkably nasty?",0_0
"This peer reviewed essay, which is heavily footnoted/referenced, addresses global warming and the possibility changes in policy would lessen its effects. The global warming impact of substituting natural gas for coal and oil is currently in debate. The paper compares the reduction of warming that would result from substituting gas for coal and some oil to the reduction which could be achieved by instead substituting zero carbon energy sources. The substitution of natural gas reduces global warming by 40% of that which could be attained by the substitution of zero carbon energy sources.",0_0
"America and the world will be cleaner, greener and more prosperous with an abundant supply of energy. It was heartening to hear President Obama acknowledge this reality saying, ""the bottom line is this: Given our energy needs, in order to sustain economic growth and produce jobs, and keep our businesses competitive, we are going to need to harness traditional sources of fuel."" Unfortunately, as the President took a step forward and finally permitted us to tap new areas of our offshore energy resources; he also took a step backward by closing off other areas that offered much potential. While we dither, other countries race to tap their oil and gas to sell to us. Russia is preparing to drill off the coast of Cuba, right outside our back porch.",4_5
"Nothing can beat the intellectual excitement and satisfaction you get from research in the field and in the laboratory, Bao said.",0_0
"This suite of ""aragonitic cold-water coral species,"" as the eleven researchers describe them, ""collectively show an overall trend of higher ??pH values that is anti-correlated with seawater pH, with systematics generally consistent with biologically controlled pH up-regulation."" And this result indicates that, ""like symbiont-bearing tropical corals (Trotter et al ., 2011), they have the ability to ameliorate or buffer external changes in seawater pH by up-regulating their pH cf at the site of calcification.""",3_2
"As to why the form of El Nio is changing to El Nio Modoki, thats not entirely clear yet, said Webster.",0_0
"Solomon cites a particular volunteer editor who goes by the pseudonym of ""Tabletop"" (real name Kim Dabelstein).",0_0
"If there's something wrong about the weather record, it must affect pretty much ""most"" of the raw data from the weather stations. Those raw data are used in pretty much all the datasets mentioned in the previous paragraph which could explain the high degree of their agreement (even if all of them are very inaccurate). But the global averages seem to be rather robust with respect to the omission of a substantial percentage of the weather stations etc. so I tend to believe that the graph of the surface global mean temperature isn't mainly determined by several ""bad apples"".",5_1
"The Arctic is getting greener as plant growth increases in response to a warmer climate. This greater plant growth means more carbon is stored in the increasing biomass, so it was previously thought the greening would result in more carbon dioxide being taken up from the atmosphere, thus helping to reduce the rate of global warming.",3_1
"Once a major storm makes landfall, it tends to sweep across the state, leaving destruction in its wake. With hurricane season well under way, it's time to devote some attention to ways that Florida can make itself more resistant to a cycle of storm damage that won't ease any time soon.",0_0
"As shown in our figure, the increase in Antarctic ice extent has been quite impressive, especially since approximately 2000.",1_1
"As previously discussed here , prior to 2001, the similarly embattled U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change??s position on the prior millennium was that global temperatures had fluctuated drastically with not one but three radical shifts occurring over the period. The MWP which was several degrees warmer than today ??? was followed in circa 1300 by the abrupt cooling of The Little Ice Age (LIA), which lasted until approximately 1850. And then began the modern warming period, which was by no means unique and apparently ended with the millennium itself.",2_1
Just look at what the CO2 alarmists say as soon as their predicted warming fails to show up (April 2008 ):,5_2
"all present reconstructions, yet sounding like a pro greenhouse zealot here!",0_0
"As analyst Roger Bezdek explains, water heaters that now cost $675-1,500 will soon cost $1,200-2,450 with newfangled exhaust fans, vent pipes and condensate removal systems. Pickup trucks with more fuel efficiency and less power will nearly double in price. Microwaves, cell phones, vacuum cleaners, hair dryers, toasters, coffee pots, lawn mowers, photocopiers, televisions and almost everything else will cost far more. Poor and middle class families will get clobbered, to prevent perhaps 5% of the USA's 15% of all human CO2 emissions toward 0.04% of atmospheric CO2, and maybe 0.00001 degrees of warming.",4_1
"In short, whatever ""hotter, drier, longer"" forest fires we are witnessing today have nothing to do with fossil fuels, plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide, or ""dangerous manmade climate change."" They have a lot to do with incompetent forest mismanagement policies and practices.",1_7
Horner Op-Ed in Tech Central Station,0_0
"Energy demand is expected to increase by about 40 percent over the next 20 years. And to meet the worlds growing demand, we will need all forms of energy including oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear, renewable and alternative fuels. Virtually all credible forecasts show oil, gas, and coal will continue to represent 7580 percent of the worlds energy mix in 2035.",4_5
"The bottom line is that if the EPA had not dissembled on fuel switching and not obfuscated on fuel economy, more Senators might have voted for legislative measures, sponsored by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in 2010 and Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) in 2011,torein in the agency. In addition to their well-publicized transparency concerns about the EPA under the leadership of Lisa Jackson and Gina McCarthy, Senatorsshould also have separation of powers concerns.",0_0
"Just last week, the IPCCs (and thus EPAs) primary assertion 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 GHG concentrations was shown to be wrong . This argument isnt included in the Petition.",2_3
"With many analyses suggesting cooler times are on the way, this year may be exceptional in recent experience, but how many ???just one year??s would it take for us to notice the effects?",1_2
"If cost issues weren't enough to make you a wind energy opponent, think of the health issues.",0_0
"And from the same source, here he is looking much more like the man who put on his boots and accompanied us to the Chillingham cattle field and told us fascinating stories about the history of the herd.",0_0
"""If the European Commission really wanted to signal that it didn't give a monkey's about the environment then it would probably choose as its new environment commissioner an old, rightwing free-marketeer lawyer who used to work for the World Bank and had responsibility for Africa in the bad old 1970s. Impossible? Not in the slightest. Welcome Stavros Dimas, 62, Greek economist, Wall Street banker, and conservative lawyer. The fragile hopes of Europe's mountains, rivers, climate and forests rest on you.""",0_0
"4 Ronald Asmus and Richard Holbrooke, ""Re-reinventing NATO,"" Riga Papers (November 2006). On Kosovo, see Henry Kissinger, ""New World Disorder,"" Newsweek (May 31, 1999). It is worth nothing that by summer 2001, there were more than 200 books written in the English language alone not a good sign for a 78-day war. See Jamie Shea, ""Instant History,"" NATO Review (Summer 2001).",0_0
It is becoming a trend in the journal Science that of publishing articles stating that there is no hiatus in annual average global surface temperature.,0_0
"An opportunity to get the climate alarmists case before a court to be cross-examined in a judicial environment sounds too good to miss. The claimants will have to prove an extremely long chain of causation, namely that the rising sea levels are a result of rising temperatures, which are themselves a result of increased CO2 emissions, which are a result of mans burning of fossil fuels.",5_2
"Virtually all economists agree that a carbon tax would be regressive: poor people live in older, less insulated spaces, use older and more energy-consuming appliances, drive older, lower-mileage vehicles, drive long distances to work where they cant afford to live, etc. So, the poor spend more of their money on power than the better-off as a share of annual earnings. That means if you hike power prices, the pain is felt by the poor more than the rest of society.",0_0
Chicago River Freezes As Historic Cold Batters the Nation,0_0
"c) If it were not for Revellefaktorn would distinguish a further factor of about 10 in frdelningen between the atmosphere and ocean (like the carbon dioxide-air and distilled water, Dr. partitionsjmvikten according to Henry Lagligger p about 1 part in air and 50 water) .Revellefaktorn will not the p Another way of reasoning, because the (experimental) livslngden for a carbon dioxide molecule in the atmosphere already include its effect.",0_0
"Furthermore, I predict that the GOP will gain nine Senate seats, giving it 50 members. That means the Republicans will nearly capture the slate in the seats up for grabs, losing only West Virginia in a nailbiter among the close seats in the polls. I would not at all be surprised if one Democratperhaps Jim Webb of Virginiasubsequently switches parties or changes which party he caucuses with to give the GOP operational control of the Senate.",0_0
"Where he's wrong is that we can never give up the fight, the intellectual and moral case against big government, partly because if groups like CEI and Cato and the Club for Growth weren't making the case for smaller government, it would be even bigger than it is. It would grow even faster. If we were to walk away from that fight, we'd see, not six or seven percent growth in spending, but nine or ten percent growth in spending. But I agree, it's discouraging to see what's happening. I mean, we've had a Republican President and practically an entire Republican Congress for the first time in a long time, and the government is going to grow by 7 or 8 percent this year. This is awful, it's a bigger growth in spending than when the Democrats controlled things.",0_0
"The European Commission continues to assert that the EU will meet its Kyoto targets with ""continuing and additional measures"". This is highly unlikely without a major economic recession. The EU's principal continuing measure is its Emissions Trading Scheme. A recent exhaustive analysis by Open Europe, a London-based think tank, concluded that the ETS had failed miserably in its first commitment period and was almost certain to continue to fail in the 2008-12 Kyoto compliance period. Open Europe's report, ""Europe's Dirty Secret: Why the EU Emissions Trading Scheme isn't Working,"" also details how some special interests are making huge profits at the expense of consumers.",0_0
"It must be ?dangerous? change that is being asked about. If it is not dangerous then, while it is an interesting issue for researchers, it should not be a public policy concern at all, let alone worth billions of dollars trying to fix. 2. ?How much of an increase in your cost of living would you accept to reduce carbon dioxide emissions?? Until these questions are asked in a bias-free way, no public opinion poll about global warming, least of all this month?s surveys, should be taken seriously.",0_0
"Levas et al . report that ""independent of temperature, DOC fluxes decreased significantly with increases in pCO 2 in both species, resulting in more DOC being retained by the corals and only representing between 19 and 6% of TOC fluxes for A. millepora and T. reniformis ,"" while at the same time POC fluxes were unaffected by elevated temperature and/or pCO 2 . And, thus, they were able to conclude that ""these findings add to a growing body of evidence that certain species of coral may be less at risk to the impacts of OA and temperature than previously thought.""",3_2
"For the model-data comparison of the Pacific (60S-65N, 120E-80W), see Figure 2. The HADGEM2-ES simulated a warming rate of about 0.19 deg C/ decade for the sea surface temperature of the Pacific from January, 1982 to August, 2013, but the observed Pacific sea surface temperatures warmed at a rate that was less than 1/3 of the rate guesstimated by the UKMO??s HADGEM2-ES.",5_1
"Much of this post discussed and illustrated that there was no agreement among climate models about what caused the Earths assumed energy imbalance and how those factors might change in the future. To help drive that point home, Ive prepared Animation 3. It includes the energy balance and its three components in anomaly form for each of the models included in this post. All outputs have been smoothed with 5-year filters to minimize the noise inherent in the models.",0_0
""" ...analyzed storminess across the whole of southeast (SE) Australia using extreme (standardized seasonal 95th and 99th percentiles) geostrophic winds deduced from eight widespread stations possessing sub-daily atmospheric pressure observations dating back to the late 19th century...The four researchers report that their results ""show strong evidence for a significant reduction in intense wind events across SE Australia over the past century."" More specifically, they say that ""in nearly all regions and seasons, linear trends estimated for both storm indices over the period analyzed show a decrease,"" while ""in terms of the regional average series,"" they say that ""all seasons show statistically significant declines in both storm indices, with the largest reductions in storminess in autumn and winter.""",1_7
"Dr. Patrick Minnis, one of Wielicki?s collaborators at Langley, is agnostic on the issue, and would be a much better choice.",0_0
"But, the big question was this: will it fade away, go out with a big bang, or will this scam have to be dragged kicking and screaming to the execution chamber.",0_0
"Atmospheric radiosonde temperature differences, 1979-1997= approx. zero",0_0
"There is also no sign of acceleration in sea-levels for the last 50 years . (How much should Europeans spend to stop a 1mm annual rise that was already going in 1890 and has not changed much since then?) If anything, Nils work shows how difficult it is to measure true sea-level rise on land that shifts.",1_6
"they could be cut off from the U.S. banking system, but because Tehran is",0_0
"5) Governments should utilize, not hamper, corporations that have strong commitments to advancing technology.",0_0
"In the end, we got nothing. Known as a bear on standing, Judge Sentelle did not dissent from the panel decision that none of the petitioners had standing to challenge EPAs tailoring of the statutory thresholds, since (in the panels view) none are injured by EPA narrowing the class of sources subject to GHG regulation. Hence, petitioners strongest argument and the most glaring legal defect of the rules never got decided on the merits. I dont think the Court correctly characterized industry petitioners arguments as to standing and therefore never confronted those arguments head on, but by the time the opinion got around to that issue the overall direction the Court was going was clear.",0_0
Climategate 3.0: MetOffice rebukes UEA for claiming global warming causes extreme weather,0_0
Weather isnt climate (as we all know) but the number of stories about extreme cold in the Northern hemisphere this last few months has been staggering (see here for a recent example). And now it appears the Southern hemisphere may be about to follow suit:,1_3
"In early July in the eastern states of the US and Canada, a heatwave caused numerous deaths and power cuts.",0_0
Human produced carbon dioxide is unlikely to cause dangerous climate change in the foreseeable future.,0_0
"Shift responsibility for nuclear waste management from the federal government to nuclear waste producers. Like other commercial for-profit endeavors, nuclear power companies, not the government, should be responsible for the waste that they produce. This has been the key to success in other countries. At the very least, private companies should be allowed to compete with a government-operated waste management service. Market-based pricing would allow the true costs of nuclear power to be known, spur innovation in waste management, and enable nuclear power companies to choose services that make the most sense for their customers.",0_0
"The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, or NIPCC, is an international panel of scientists and scholars who came together to understand the causes and consequences of climate change. NIPCC has no formal attachment to or sponsorship from any government or governmental agency. It is wholly independent of political pressures and influences and therefore is not predisposed to produce politically motivated conclusions or policy recommendations.",5_2
"Yes, of course, energy is absorbed and then immediately emitted by CO2. But your GHE theory infers CO2 then traps or delays the release of such energy to cause some warming. Please cite any peer-reviewed science paper that applies empirically gathered data that proves/quantifies the trapping/delay you say occurs.",2_3
"Much has been said by Mr. Gore and other climate alarmists about rising ocean temperatures and sea levels as a result of rising CO2. If there is anything you can conclude about the tropical oceans from these calculations is that if external energy is supplied to the warmer oceans and air, most of it is expended evaporating water rather than raising the temperature. It is very difficult to raise the ocean temperatures in the tropics because of the much higher vapor pressures involved with the higher temperatures. And because the Clapeyron equation makes the vapor pressure rise as a function of an exponential increase in the reciprocal of temperature, it becomes a very powerful brake in mitigating a warming temperature by adding energy from any external source.",3_1
"Instead of thinking of clouds as a result of the climate, its actually showing that the climate is a result of the clouds, because the clouds take their orders from the stars. This is GORE LIED must-see-TV. The videos are in order from top-to-bottom #1 is on top & #5 is on the bottom.",2_1
"Compared to thyme plants grown in air of 350 ppm CO 2 , thyme plants grown in air of 3,000 ppm CO 2 produced 160% more fresh weight.?? Likewise, the fresh weights of spearmint and water mint plants rose by 150% and 220%, respectively, when grown at an atmospheric CO 2 concentration of 10,000 ppm as opposed to a concentration of 350 ppm. What it means",3_3
The Missing Science from the Draft National Assessment on Climate Change,0_0
"In response the report suggests, as many of the institutes reports do, that Australia is once again lagging behind the rest of the world in combating climate change.",0_0
"What I can say from the standpoint of applying the scientific method to a robust response-feature of models, is that the average model result is inconsistent with the observed rate of change of tropical tropospheric temperature - inconsistent both in absolute magnitude and in vertical structure (Douglass and Christy 2013.) This indicates our ignorance of the climate system is still enormous and, as suggested by Stevens and Bony, this performance by the models indicates we need to go back to the basics. From this statement there is only a short distance to the next - the use of climate models in policy decisions is, in my view, not to be recommended at this time.",5_1
"Two Graphs are presented, one with CO2 concentration from 1880 to 2014, and a second with temperature during this same period. What is not shown is a temperature graph from 1997 to 2014. which would reveal that there has been no temperature increase at all.",1_4
"And when one considers that land surface temperatures are in part a product of sea surface temperatures, one wonders how climate scientists/modelers could ever attempt to simulate land surface temperatures when the oceans are modeled so poorly.",5_1
"After all these years, IPCC still doesnt get itweve been thawing out from the Little Ice Age for several hundred years but still are not yet back to pre-Little Ice Age temperatures that prevailed for 90% of the past 10,000 years. Warming and cooling has been going on for millions of years, long before CO 2 could have had anything to do with it, so warming in itself certainly doesnt prove that it was caused by CO 2 .",2_1
"Oil prices are still set in world markets, fracking oil is too light and too sweet (low in sulfur) for use in U.S. refineries, infrastructure to get fracked oil from well to refinery is inadequate. So we continue to be major importers of crude oil, dependent on unstable regimes for steady supplies at tolerable prices.",0_0
Watkinson revealed that some scholars thought the global population could shrink from six billion to one billion if the worst effects of climate change came to fruition and parts of the southern hemisphere became inhabitable.,0_0
"Assuming that dewpoint sensor design changes over the years have not introduced a diurnally varying measurement bias, a natural question arises: what would cause afternoon dewpoints to not rise in the face of warming both day and night? (Note I have not made any adjustments for sensor changes, siting changes, or urbanization in the above plot).",0_0
"Everyone wants cleaner air, and America's air has been getting steadily cleaner. Most families also want the security of employment that comes from economic activity. Most would agree on the need to strike the right balance between the economy and the environment. The question is what that balance should be.",0_0
"* Likewise, U.S. land-based surface temperature trend (NASA-GISS) = 0.5 F/decade",0_0
"a comprehensive, well-written, and highly interesting book. I strongly recommend it to all atmospheric scientists, to students in the atmospheric sciences, and to those in the environmental sciences interested in understanding weather and climate issues. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society",0_0
"The costly cap-and-trade energy bill supported by Obama would lead to big tax increases , administration officials privately have conceded , even though they publicly claim otherwise. Officials at the Treasury Department think cap-and-trade legislation would cost taxpayers hundreds of billion in taxes, according to internal documents circulated within the agency and provided to The Washington Times by CEI . It could raise household taxes by $1761 per year , equivalent to a 15 percent tax increase. It would also result in loss of steel, paper, aluminum, chemical, and cement manufacturing jobs. (Obama earlier admitted that under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket .)",4_1
"That's not the only example of compromise. Although the big island of Hawaii has outlawed GMOs, the local law excludes the papaya plant, which has been genetically modified to resist a species-threatening virus. I guess the principle here is: we're against the genetic modification of seed, unless we really need it.",0_0
"Toward the end of the past decade, China set itself an ambitious goal: to dramatically ramp up its electric vehicle production and surpass the rest of the worlds automobile industries in this important new market. It was a policy intended to play a crucial role in the countrys economic development and long-term energy strategy and in solving some of its important environmental and health problems.",0_0
"Bear in mind that this reassessment explicitly won't address EPA's May 2010 ""Tailpipe Rule,"" which established first-ever greenhouse gas emission standards for motor vehicles, much less the December 2009 Endangerment Rule, which represents the fountainhead of all greenhouse gas regulations. Still, a determination that nullifies EPA's authority to regulate stationary sources can represent a major political and policy setback for EPA.",0_0
"Instead, Pugh at CNN informs you that global warming is even worse than he thought! What a deluded liar.",0_0
"The response in the House of Representatives has been a bipartisan push for more green card slots for STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) graduates of American universities.",0_0
"During the past few days, I??ve been assessing the GHCN-Daily dataset , which is a very large data set and plan to do a number of posts on this topic, including a description of the data set. It turns out that literally hundreds of stations that expire around 1989 or 1990 in the NASA data set are alive and thriving in the GHCN-Daily parallel universe. More on this over the next few days.",5_1
rationale core to the Obamian outlook and under-noticed in analyses of Obama foreign,0_0
"Among the many ongoing lawsuits that the Sierra Club is pursuing is one against Navajo coal mining, the Keystone XL pipeline, one seeking penalties for ?ongoing violations? at Montana?s Colstrip power plant. They filed a suit against the power rate increase for Mississippi?s Kemper County coal plant.",0_0
"""Microsoft said today that the final version of its Windows Intune cloud-delivered PC management solution for businesses will be available for purchase or the start of a free 30-day trial on March 23 in 35 countries.""",0_0
"> >> >Sorry for the delayed reply, but things have been very",0_0
"Like other wind energy projects, Cape Wind is dependent on the PTC extension. It is time for everyone who opposes government intervention in markets to contact his or her representativesas Mary Kay Barton didand voice opposition to the PTC extension. Call and say: ""Stop supporting wind energy. It is an inefficient system that leads to perverse outcomes. The massive expansion of wind energy that we've seen in the past six years would not survive on a level playing field.""",0_0
"Never mind hurting the feelings of flora and fauna, tree-hugging, censorship-demanding greens are denigrating the devastating experiences of victims of mass murder by putting them on a par with things like tree-felling and desertification. That is the natural consequence of their putting nature on a par with ? in fact even higher than ? humankind.",0_0
"Second, an insurance policy worthy of the name should help make the insured whole after some unfortunate event has struck. Kyoto can do nothing of the kind. Quite the contrary, whatever resources we apply to prevent climate change are resources we cannot use to adapt to climate change if and when it occurs. Kyoto is all premium and no coverage.",0_0
What's Wrong With Regulating Carbon Dioxide Emissions?,0_0
"Schwarzenegger declares fiscal emergency in Calif. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a fiscal emergency Monday and called lawmakers into a special session to address California's $11.2 billion deficit. The state's revenue gap is expected to hit $28 billion over the next 19 months without bold action. The emergency declaration authorizes the governor and lawmakers to change the existing budget within the next 45 days. Without quick action, the state is likely to run out of cash in February. Possibly California has too many climate change bureaucrats? The landscape is vastly more complex than we thought, Sayles said. Others have a big head start and a lot more resources. California has 120 people working on this full-time .",0_0
"This data can be communicated through the WAN to a proposed central data and communications entity (DCC), which may then provide the data to authorised third parties.",0_0
17b. The ability of regional climate models to reproduce precipitation observations,0_0
I presume Prof Lewandowsky did not mean to forget the original link to the Alene gotcha page he is referring to: http://verdanthopes.blogspot.com/2011/03/tomorrow-belongs-to-us.html,0_0
"Wind power. States are reducing or terminating Renewable Portfolio Standards and programs. Kansas, West Virginia and Indiana repealed their mandate, Ohio froze its standard at 2.5% renewable electricity, and North Carolina may freeze its RPS. Wildlife groups are finally recognizing and objecting to the serious habitat destruction and bird and bat slaughter that is a hallmark of wind and solar facilities.",4_1
7 Apr 2015 Thick drifts of snow in Korca.,0_0
"??? The Fox Basin encompasses the northern end of the Hudson Bay. In 1996 studies estimated the bear population to be 2119 and then was raised to 2300 bears in 2004. The results from a recent aerial survey published in 2012 now estimate that the Fox Basin embraces about 2580 bears. Instead of listing this population as increasing, or at least stable, Derochers PBSG hid their thriving population with an odd data deficient designation.",3_2
"There are curved brass Viking horns on the table, along with a variety of halberds and pikes and medieval weapons on the wall but in true Sir Humphry fashion, mixed in with the horns and plates on the table is a very lovely and apparently authentic antique Fijian war club who knows why? Because Sir Humphry, my daughter said ... that made sense to me. I take my hat off to the man, he indeed has the eye for quality. At the end of the hall above you can dimly see a fully caparisoned horse and rider, heres a closeup. Its full-size, and up on a stand but doesnt even start to dominate the huge hall ... like all of Sir Humphrys works, from the exquisite gardens to the windvaneon top of one of the towerswith the golden bat that is the symbol of the Grey family, the hall and all of its contents was very, very impressive.",0_0
"Based on this Mises Institute post , this may no longer be true. If a family is comfortable with $45,000 a year, or doesn't think it has the prospect of earning more than that, there appears to be little incentive to work.",0_0
"how to keep growing U.N. peacekeeping efforts into missions involved in the police, courts, legal systems and other aspects of strife-torn countries;",0_0
"Contrary to the lies of climate experts, US drought is near historically low levels. The animation below flashes between December 2014 and December 1963",1_7
"Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea), but also the lingering association of the",0_0
This is a spoof on the xkcd.com/1321/ cartoon that was doing the Twitter rounds the other day.,0_0
"This blind spot for the human-welfare effects of climate-mitigation policies also shows up in assessing the risks of geoengineering. Scientists rightly note that geoengineering could itself have unintended and undesirable spinoff effects. For example, the Nature article highlights work by Alan Robock of Rutgers, which concluded that sulfate from the 1783 Laki volcanic eruption in Iceland weakened the Indian monsoon and also reduced rainfall in Africa's Sahel. Nature goes on to note,",0_0
"Verification of the forced component of twentieth- century climate trends simulated in model experiments depends on the existence of accurate estimates of these trends in observations. Given the limited sampling in both space and time of the observations and proxy records, these verifications must be handled carefully. In particular, knowledge of the spatial patterns and magnitudes of climate trends over the oceans is hampered by the uneven and changing distribution of commercial shipping routes and other observational inputs as well as different approaches to merging analyses of the observations (Rayner et al. 2011).",5_1
Changing Cryosphere Land / Sea Ice,0_0
"In The Guardian, it is argued that people believe in conspiracy theories because conspiracies actually sometimes happen . This differentiates the believers from believers in telepathy and so on.",0_0
"And now oceanic cycles have switched to a cold mode , where data shows that the amount of Arctic summer sea ice has increased by more than a quarter since 2007.",1_1
"Labels Like ""Alternative Medicine' Don't Matter. The Science Does. NY Times",0_0
Global Warming Policy Experts Available for Interviews,0_0
"And therefore more than welcome the proposal of Nicholas D Kristof from the pages dellInternational Herald Tribune: forget the parliamentary committees, let alone the courts, let us not quibble on the legality of presidential decisions in favor dellistituzione of a Commission of Truth (Vatican City) modellatasu that Cheh helped Sudafricaa become democratic without bloodshed.",0_0
"Where has global warming gone? Onto the ash heap of the history of the last twenty-plus years of bad policies, wasted billions of the public treasure, and all of it driven by the UNs mendacious science.",5_2
"Examples of documented questionable climate record adjusting by the climate agency officials are not hard to find: Melbourne , U.S. western areas , 1997 global versus 2014 , winter 2014 , U.S corn belt , Texas winter temps , Paraguay , Africa , Iceland , GISS land temps , northern hemisphere pre-1940 , Alice Springs (Australia) , Bolivia , U.S. temperature trends , Arctic adjustments , Antarctica , New Zealand , Australia , Germany , and many others .",5_1
"These are among the reasons Congress has rejected nearly 700 climate bills. The Clean Power Plan is the result of the EPA colluding regularly with radical environmentalist pressure groups and circumventing our legislative process, laws and Constitution.",0_0
"The Dangers of California's ""Investment Authority' Bill",0_0
"A worldwide agricultural model constructed by Searchinger et al. (2008) finds that the increases in crop prices that follow from the increased demand for ethanol will induce a global change in the pattern of land use. Those land use changes produce a surge in GHG emissions that is only dissipated by conventional life-cycle emissions savings many decades hence. Although Searchinger et al. modeled ethanol production increases that were beyond those mandated in existing law, the emissions from land-use change per unit of ethanol would be similar regardless of the ethanol increase analyzed.",4_4
"That polar bears have survived through previous warm periods is not to say that polar bears will have an easy time of it this time around. Obviously, humans have constructed barriers that may impinge upon the bears preferred methods of adaptationwe hunt them, we relocate them, we destroy them if they become a nuisance to our civilization, a situation which may increase in frequency and intensity as the bears are forced to spend more time on land and less on the ice floes. But, nevertheless, the bears will do their best to keep up with a changing climate, just as they have done since their species grew separate from brown bears some 200,000 years ago.",3_2
"The International Civil Aviation Organization is forming a plan for a global aviation CO2 emissions trading system, which the EU can work into its current Emissions Trading System, the European Commissions director general for climate action Jos Delbeke said Thursday evening.",0_0
"The second ""expert"" would be discarded soon afterwards because the sane homeowner would realize that this ""expert"" had predicted in ""The Progressive"" (1970) that during the 1980s, 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the "" Great Die-Off "" because of hunger. Fortunately, the homeowner knows a very good psychiatrist whom he could recommend to this ""structural expert #2"" who is still employed by the Stanford University. Let's hope that he will never have dreams about billions of people dying in hunger again.",0_0
"Higher-than-average temperatures, easily and obviously explained by referring to weather patterns, are instead the fault of AGW",1_7
"CEI bases its challenge on the Federal Data Quality Act (FDQA). The FDQA requires that data disseminated by the government meet basic scientific standards for ""objectivity"" and ""utility."" CEI contends that the National Assessment on Climate Change (2000) fails this test. The FDQA prohibits taxpayer funding of dissemination of such junk science, and last week CEI filed suit.",0_0
The trick may be to decide on the main message and use that to guid what?s,0_0
"Hadley Centre. HadCRUT4 tropical temperature data downloaded on February 27, 2013 from Wood for Trees.",0_0
"Of course, had Rogers advocated energy policies that encouraged economic growth as opposed to economic contraction, energy efficiency wouldnt be so much of a threat to Duke Energy. Now Rogers will no doubt jump on the decoupling bandwagon (if he hasnt already) to preserve his profit margin.",0_0
"I've seen the desire to save the earth. I mean, obviously, that's a commendable desire. And that's sort of related to this last point that I've got on the list. Let's jump down there, world view. This is maybe the most important thing which influences a scientist's perception. People that traditionally work the climate change issue aren't meteorologists. Meteorologists deal more with daily weather, and they have a feeling for what weather systems do and why they do it. If you go back about 30 years, the original climate scientists were more experts in radiation or physicists who didn't know that much about weather. And those first researchers ended up overestimating the amount of global warming there would be in response to increasing levels of greenhouse gases. That's because they didn't understand the ways in which the atmosphere responds to a forcing.",0_0
"Harrelson batted cleanup, encouraging the crowd that America's youth are not a lost cause on climate and energy issues and then detailing how CFACT is successfully educating and mobilizing college students from coast to coast as part of its Collegians program.",0_0
"Indeed, earlier this year David Whitehouse from the Global Warming Policy Foundation concluded that there had been no global warming for 15 years .",1_4
"Figure 2. Trend in TOA Solar Radiation, 2000-2012. Red line shows trend, a decrease of 0.15 W/m2 per decade.",0_0
"The TCRs of the 30 AR5 CMIP5 models featured in WGI Table 9.5 vary from 1.1C to 2.6C, with a mean of slightly over 1.8C. Many projections in AR5 are for changes up to 20812100. Applying the CMIP5 TCRs to the changes in CO 2 concentration and other drivers of climate change from the first part of this century up to 20812100, expressed as the increase in total ERF, explains most of the projected rises in global temperature on the business-as-usual RCP8.5 scenario, although the relationship varies from model to model. Overall the models project about 1020% faster warming than would be expected from their TCR values, allowing for warming in-the-pipeline. That discrepancy, which will not be investigated in this article, implies that the mean effective TCR of the AR5 CMIP5 models for warming towards the end of this century under RCP8.5 is in the region of 2.02.2C.",0_0
The EPA has used non-public data to justify 85 percent of $2 trillion worth of Clean Air Act regulation benefits from 1990 to 2020. The agency also uses such datasets to assert that Clean Air Act regulation benefits exceed the costs by a 30:1 ratio originates from the secret data sets.,5_2
"Dr. David Malmquist, Assistant Research Scientist at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research will be addressing the subject of sea level rise at a Capitol Hill briefing this Thursday sponsored by the Cooler Heads Coalition. ""Current sea level rise can be explained by natural processes,"" according to Malmquist. Claims that global warming will cause sea level rise to accelerate is unfounded, he says. ""Observations show that current rates of sea level rise preceded any substantial inputs of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.""",0_0
"But not any old multilateralism. The other major theme of the position papers is that the world organization, a haphazard array of at least 37 major funds, programs, and institutions, and a proliferating number of regulatory and other authorities, should be knitting itself into a much more close-knit global system, with greater control over its own finances, along with a stronger role in setting the international agenda.",0_0
inadvertently mislabeled during production. We take very seriously the accuracy and vetting of all books published by Scholastic and will correct the label adjacent to the illustration showing the relationship between climate temperature and CO2 concentration in the atmosphere in subsequent printings.,0_0
"The consensus agrees that humans are driving the increase in temperatures, except for the minor detail that temperatures arent increasing.",1_4
Some argue that tax or emission permit auction revenues could be made revenue neutral with the funds dedicated to compensate the poor by lowering their income taxes. The amounts involved are potentially very large. The Congressional Budget Office estimates $1.25 trillion could be raised over 10 years from a carbon tax of $20/ton applied in 2013 and rising in real terms at 4% annually. This amount is equivalent to 54% of the total revenues ($2.3 trillion) collected by the federal government in fiscal year 2011.,0_0
"I looked through the metadata for all of the stations in Wisconsin, and only found one which lists a morning time of observation for much ofthe 1930s. This should cause the temperatures to be recorded too low.",5_1
"A few others took advantage of the situation, the newspaper GT stllde itself outside the area and BJD participants on a piece of sausage and a kttbulle. The aim was to ifrgastta and of course also that f (almost) free advertising.",0_0
MATH NOTES: The standard exponential decay after a time t is given by:,0_0
AGW True Believers Debunk NOAA's Pause-denying Research,0_0
"Why then single out the Republican Party as an insurgent outlier? Newt Gingrich, first among other Republican leaders, took this polarization to a new level. He was key in the transformation of the party into a destructive and delegitimizing force in American politics (which makes his recent bonding with Trump very fitting).",0_0
"The holiday spectacle of feckless warmists on ice should prove a lasting image. It distracted from the annual warming campaign of getting the media to label the year gone by ""one of the warmest ever"" to distract from the fact that the world has not warmed at all since the nineties. ""Warmest ever"" depends on splitting hundredths of a degree as though they were significant. The media never seems to get around to reporting that all the fuss is really over an occasional year about 0.45 degrees above average. Actual world temperatures have reflected nothing like the warming predicted by climate computer models for most of the time the models have existed.",0_0
"Boatner responded: ""You won't find them on the fire line in the American West anymore, because we've had climate change beat into us over the last 10 or 15 years. We know what we're seeing, and we're dealing with a period of climate, in terms of temperature and humidity and drought, that's different than anything people have seen in our lifetimes.""",0_0
A few who jumped on this direction from the city was arrangrerna of the festival Way Out West which was held in the Castle Forest every year. This year was all that was served within festivalomrdet vegetarian.,0_0
"Declining Snow Cover Causes Record Snow Cover: ""This winter (December-February) will almost certainly be in the top two snow cover years for the northern hemisphere. Right now it is positioned as the snowiest winter on record. As our top climate scientists explain it, the shortage of snow cover is the cause of the record snow cover.'",0_0
Links to the Bartol Research Institute of the University of Delaware:,0_0
"But the major point here is that it is NOT the lack of warm air that inhibits tornado formation during tornado seasonit is the lack of sufficient wind shear to cause thunderstorms to rotate. And it is the persistence of unseasonably cool air, over most of the U.S., that produces these wind shear conditions.",0_0
"Even at the low experimental pH of 7.5 (corresponding to 2,000 ppm atmospheric CO2) chitons suffer no ill. Having been around for over 300 million years they obviously have learned how to cope with fluctuating changes in their environment",0_0
"So, if it is indeed sulfates cooling the warming, given that there is no net change in global temperature, then the northern hemisphere should be cooling since 1998 (the first year in Kaufmann?s paper) while the southern warms. Here are the sad facts:",0_0
Longstanding Mystery of Sun's Hot Outer Atmosphere Solved:,0_0
"Suppose there is a $3,000,000 per gallon tax imposed on dairy products and with this tax in place a single gallon of ice cream is purchased each year. The tax revenue (direct burden) is $3,000,000. The excess burden is the value lost by destroying the dairy industryfarmers, processors, vendors, etc.minus any gains by those who produce and sell whatever substitutes replace a portion of the lost dairy products. In addition the excess burden would include the lost value to consumers who give up ice cream, milk, cheese, etc. for less appealing alternatives.",0_0
"Molly: Well, we could start by not producing so many seedlings. Also, do you ever think about all of the vines, flowers, and shrubs that we displace? They have rights, too, you know.",0_0
Testimony before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming,0_0
Price Drop Points to Likely Double Dip in Housing Market:,0_0
And heres what they look like in the Steig et al paper:,0_0
"In completing his analysis, Boretti thus concludes, quite logically, that the ""rise of sea level in the bay of Sydney by 2100 is therefore more likely less than the 50 mm measured so far over the last 100 years, rather than the meter predicted by some models,"" the latter of which would appear to be the source of ""inspiration"" for the Australian government's pronouncements.",1_6
Temperature trends in C/decade. Models with multiple runs have separate boxplots; models with single runs are grouped together in the boxplot marked singleton. The orange boxplot at the right combines all model runs together. The default settings in the R boxplot function have been used. The red dotted line shows the actual increase in global surface temperature over the same period per the HadCRUT4 observational dataset.,0_0
"The most recent climate change documents of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations Body of scientists) project increasing frequency of extreme weather events like droughts/floods, heat waves, escalating sea level rise etc. as the earth's surface continues to warm due to increasing concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) resulting from world-wide human activity.This article summarises the present state of the global warming and climate change science and concludes that for India as a whole, climate change impacts in future would be minimal and can be sustained with suitable adaptation strategy. The article further suggests (as an adaptation strategy) more efforts to be directed towards development of operationally useful technique for seasonal prediction of monsoon rainfall which is the most important climate event for the country as a whole.",0_0
"""The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) launched a new television ad Thursday blasting Nevada Republican Sharron Angle.""",0_0
"These leaders also thought that an attack on climate change and, more broadly, evidence-based policy analysis would fuel suspicion and demonization of not just liberal politicians but the broader liberal establishment. The conspiracy theories and over-the-top attacks on Obama and Democrats repeated regularly on cable TV news shows, talk radio, blogs, and social media were not created or directly condoned by GOP establishment leaders although they were repeated by rank-and-file lawmakers.",0_0
"The result of that push has, it seems, been an increase in fossil fuels.?? For the latest on this, see Corned grief: biofuels may increase CO2 at Watts Up With That?",4_4
>Perhaps you could send me the draft so I kno the context.,0_0
He said its hard to indicate if a single weather event is linked to climate change because of the variability of weather.,0_0
"The domestic coal industry has already taken a beating. The advent of cheap natural gas, which is itself creating thousands of new jobs, is one of the culprits. Another is the Obama administration. Even as Obama's EPA quietly develops new regulations on hydraulic fracturing (""fracking"") that will impede the natural gas boom, it wants to further appease environmentalists by delivering a coup de grace to domestic coal use. It is a silly idea that will ultimately have no environmental benefit, but it is sure to drive up electricity costs.",4_1
"This is the situation today in Northwest as well as in Northeast and Southeast Greenland. All other animals in Greenland, in the sea as well as on land, are affected by the same climatical fluctuations, which are reflected in a regular shift between Arctic and Atlantic conditions (or Continental and Atlantic) over a period of 56 to 66 years; they are more marked every second time the period culminates. The climatic situation of today, with intense movements in the drift ice in summer, is very similar to that 110-120 years ago. For the polar bear, especially in East Greenland, that means unstable living conditions, more roaming, and probably greater loss of animals by drowning in scattered drift ice off South Greenland.",2_1
"The second thing Democrats should do is to accept the possibility of defeat on the floor as something short of a disaster. The biggest failing of the GOP in the 109th was an unwillingness to lose no matter what. Of course, you don't want to lose, and can't afford to lose on some basic important issues and priorities. But in other cases, amendments can be constructive or no great disaster (and in some cases, amendments the majority doesn't like can be allowed to pass and jettisoned in conference).",0_0
The following sections explain why: carbon pricing cannot succeed unless it is global; and global carbon pricing is unlikely to be achieved.,0_0
"Frigid temperatures are blasting the northeast and in the Rockaway section of Queens one of the areas worst hit by Superstorm Sandy some 8,200 homes and businesses remain without power and many also living without heat are improvising, often dangerously, to stay warm.",0_0
It also became apparent that there was always a local ?reason? for the,0_0
"Why now? New leadership enables a reboot of the Clean Energy Dialogue: Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy have recently won U.S. Senate confirmation, and Canada's new Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq joins Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver, who has been in his position since 2011 and is the veteran in this foursome.",0_0
"This week Monbiot decided to have yet another go at me, and ? like the Fascist he is ? he decided that he would have some fun at the expense of my own disability, Graves? Disease, which causes the eyes to protrude markedly. He took pleasure in repeating another hack?s description of me as ?swivel-eyed?. Heil Hitler, George.",0_0
"Excess GHG emissions are an example of a fairly common kind of market failure, a failure often called the ""tragedy of the commons"". It can arise when property rights allow open access to a valuable resource. Instances include open access to grazing land or fishing grounds or to oil and gas reservoirs. Open access can cause under-investment in the resource and too much consumption of it.",0_0
"Because Earths atmosphere also reacts much like the ionization trail effect seen in the Wilson cloud chamber, scientists such as Svensmark have postulated that galactic cosmic rays can affect the earth by causing changes in weather and possibly long term climate. Moving at close to the speed of light, these nuclear fragments smash into air molecules hard enough to knock electrons loose. This well-documented process creates negatively and positively charged ions.",0_0
"Smith, Nigel J.H. ""Human Induced Landscape Changes in Amazonia,"" Global Land Use Change: A Perspective from the Columbian Encounter. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 1995.",0_0
"With the GangesBrahmaputra delta sinking, the race is on to protect millions of people from future flooding. Quirin Schirmeier",0_0
"As for thawing permafrost, Alaskan villages have been sinking into permafrost for 70 years, and the United States army has been struggling to ""keep the frozen north frozen"" as seen in this news item from 1946. And in 1927, an Arctic trip was ruined by ""extreme heat, fires, and melting permafrost"" according to The Examiner newspaper . For more newspaper clippings showing that melting permafrost has been worrisome as far back as 1880, check out this resources page maintained by Steven Goddard.",2_1
"UKIP is a party that wants the UK to leave the EU and is rapidly growing both within the UK and Scotland. As Mike put it, he joined UKIP because, ""European Union diktats are the route cause of this ridiculous energy policy. The only way to end this policy is to end these EU diktats. UKIP is not only the only party to have consistently opposed the senseless global warming inspired energy policy destroying the British and Scottish landscape with these bird mincers, but they are also the only party working to end this tyranny of the Euro Diktats for good.""",0_0
Figure 4: Extrapolating the 1000-year and 230-year cycles 700 years into the future.,0_0
"But of course who can reasonably claim that the American economy or public health is better off since the Obama regulatory machine gun started firing? Moreover, we have far more than enough regulation to ensure the safety of the public health and our economy needs far less regulation in order to return to growth.",4_1
"In Die Zeits view, there is no doubt that humans are causing the climate change, and that it will be catastrophic. The science and data are clear andthe consensus is greater than ever. As far as Die Zeit is concerned, the scientific debate has long been over a survey of 928 papers from 1993 to 2003 says so, they write. Whats left now is a struggle between the good warmists and the evil industry-paid deniers who are maliciously spreading doubt. There are no real skeptic climate scientists left.In the perception of Die Zeit, its nowa struggle between David (honest climate scientists who are only doing their jobs) and Goliath (Morano leading an army of industry-funded PR mercenaries). Tragically, David is losing, Die Zeit frets.",0_0
"For many folks in the lowlands of western Washington and Oregon, the day was dismal, dark, foggy, and cold. Here is an example, taken at 4 PM at the top of my building at the UW in Seattle.",0_0
"First, lets settle something. The world has warmed since 1850. While there always is an error bar on nearly every statement about nature, I think there is little point in questioning this past warming. There is ice core data that suggests that the little ice age, which ended some time in the very early 19th century, was perhaps the coldest period, or one of the two or three coldest periods, in the last 5000 years (ie in nearly the entire span of human civilization). Temperatures are inevitably warming from this low point.(*1)",2_1
"The other area of contention involves the human costs of particulate emissions (or its precursors) from the burning of coal for electricity. While the levels of emissions of this type of air pollution have been greatly reduced in the U.S., nevertheless, some level of emissions continue.",0_0
"By John Hinderaker, Power Line, Aug 12, 2015",0_0
"Put me in charge of food stamps. I'd get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho's, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job . Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I'd do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and piercings. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get tats and piercings, then get a job . Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks? You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your ""home"" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your own place.",0_0
"Looking back in 1981, the world had just barely started warming, despite years of rising CO2 levels.",2_3
"The E&E; report projects: ""Among the topics Inhofe would likely zero in on: EPA's rules to clamp down on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, a controversial EPA proposal to clarify the scope of the Clean Water Act, and the science underpinning federal environmental rules. EPA management could also be the topic of some oversight hearings."" Wheeler added: ""I think his climate work will probably be focused more on the EPA regulation.""",0_0
The fact that carbon emissions are going up inexorably in spite of many projects across the globe already raises a simple question What are we getting for our money?,0_0
WELTWOCHE: The IPCC consensus is that man-made greenhouse gas CO2 leads to a warming of the climate. But this relationship is observed only over the last 150 years.,2_3
Image depicting the heating and cooling trends over and around Antarctica (1982-2003). Blue indicates cooling trends and red indicates warming trends.From NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.Data provided by Larry Stock.,0_0
And with a low-end temperature rise comes along low-end impacts. Seemingly good news for all!,3_1
"Lewis said poverty, not climate change, is the largest cause of preventable illnesses and premature death. And, he said, fossil fuels have provided more energy and more food by making agriculture more efficient.",0_0
Now the fun part. Here is the predicted rainfall for the 24h ending tomorrow (Sunday) at 4 PM PST. Wow...heavy precipitation in the mountains (as much as 2-5 inches) but a very strong rain shadow from Seattle westward over the Kitsap. Only a few hundredths of an inch in some places.,0_0
The inconvenient Heartland facts that tear asunder the Democrat lies and the climate change hoax :,5_2
"The National Journal states: Republicans ""want nothing less than to send money to poor countries to fight climate change.""",0_0
"We also discussed the scenarios in which our civilization would be completely destroyed, much like the civization of the dinosaurs. The main question was whether any traces would be left for the future civilizations composed of robots or new kinds of birds. :-)",0_0
"If we want to keep oil (and coal) in the ground, we need to make other forms of energy cheaper. That means nurturing technologies such as natural gas extraction. It also means promoting another technology that environmentalists love to hate: nuclear energy.",0_0
"In summary, the WWF report Worlds Top 10 Rivers at Risk which is making news today, is about 20 years out of date at least with respect to the Murray River. Indeed while numbers of native fish have on average, probably declined since European settlement, with a crash in Murray Cod populations in the early 1960s, there is evidence to suggest numbers of native fish, including the Murray Cod, are now on the increase while invasive species are on the decline. So the WWF has got it all the wrong way around. Then again, they are perhaps more interested in hand-waving than river ecology.",5_2
"Thanks to President Obama, we have lost another six years on the Yucca Mountain project. That fits with his refusal to permit the Keystone XL pipeline. No energy project that might actually benefit America will ever see his signature.",0_0
"And for more priceless clicking fun, youll have to leave here, and transport yourself to The Daily Bayonet for Part 2 through 5 . Dont miss Part 5, theres a beautiful global hottie waiting for you.",0_0
"If a particular measure is inconsistent with one of the core provisions of the GATT (e.g. Articles I, III or XI), it could still be justified under Article XX. Article XX lays out a number of specific instances in which WTO members may be exempted from GATT rules. Two exceptions are of particular relevance to the protection of the environment: paragraphs (b) and (g) of Article XX. According to these two paragraphs, WTO members may adopt policy measures that are inconsistent with GATT disciplines, but necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health (paragraph (b)), or relating to the conservation of exhaustible natural resources (paragraph (g)).",0_0
The average temperature for first 27 days of January at Indianapolis is20.4 F (-6.44 C) degrees?? the coldest for January since 1985.,1_3
The 2006 legislation underpinning the do-not-call list appears to be a hucksters dream. The process of investigating complaints and meting out penalties is dawdling along at such a leisurely pace that its hardly a deterrent to flouting the rules.,0_0
"As reported by CNS News in January, ""The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has released the final two volumes of a five-volume safety report that concludes that Nevada's Yucca Mountain meets all of its technical and safety requirements for the disposal of highly radioactive nuclear waste."" Five volumes!",0_0
"It seems crazy that one of the Patriot balls was actually a Colt ball, but the extra pressure in ball #7 requires an explanation. The idea of McNally inflating ball #7 in the washroom seems even crazier.",0_0
"Under the scheme, any company or public sector organisation that consumes more than 6,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of energy a year meaning a power bill of about 500,000 must register its energy use by the end of next month. From April, firms will need to buy permits for each tonne of carbon dioxide emitted. For those using 6,000MWh, that could mean 38,000.",0_0
"Dr. Hoerling contended that Dr. Hansens new paper confuses drought, caused primarily by a lack of rainfall, with heat waves.",0_0
"Its a bumper edition this week, so a well padded seat and extra-large beverage is recommended.",0_0
"Scientists warn us that climate change could accelerate beyond our control, threatening our survival and everything we love. We call on you to keep global temperature rise under the unacceptably dangerous level of 2 degrees C, by phasing out carbon pollution to zero. To achieve this, you must urgently forge realistic global, national and local agreements, to rapidly shift our societies and economies to 100% clean energy by 2050. Do this fairly, with support to the most vulnerable among us. Our world is worth saving and now is our moment to act. But to change everything, we need everyone. Join us.",0_0
"""The petroleum geologist response is not too surprising, but the meteorologists' is very interesting,"" he said. ""Most members of the public think meteorologists know climate, but most of them actually study very short-term phenomenon.""",0_0
"22 57 Fed. Reg. 32314, 32327 (July 21, 1992).",0_0
"Now throw in the transcendental issue. On Sept. 11, 2001, United Flight 93 was headed for the Capitol Dome; if it had not crashed in Pennsylvania, it would have struck at around the same time as the plane that hit the Pentagon. The House was in session doing morning business; the devastation could easily have killed or incapacitated more than half the Members. With no ability to replace them until special elections months in the future, and with the Constitution explicitly requiring half the Members to do any official business, the result would have been no Congress, and the equivalent of martial law, at the most dangerous time in modern memory.",0_0
"CHURCHVILLE, VAOn the 10th birthday of the UN's Millennium Development Goals, officials are lamenting that the world has made little progress in meeting them. No one should be surprised.",0_0
AMSA is now coordinating the response to a ship beset by ice about 1500nm south of Hobart. http://t.co/P4zO9RUMth http://t.co/S5ST1wgwbN,0_0
"Via the FOIA request, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has learned that the Department of Energy specifically the office headed by Al Gore's company's former CEO, Cathy Zoi turned to George Soros' Center for American Progress and other wind industry lobbyists to help push Obama's wind energy proposals.",0_0
"What works, say environmental pollsters and researchers, is focusing on popular solutions. Climate advocates often do this, arguing that solar and wind can reduce emissions while strengthening the economy. But when renewable energy technologies are offered as solutions to the exclusion of other low-carbon alternatives, they polarize rather than unite. One recent study, published by Yale Law School's Cultural Cognition Project, found that conservatives become less skeptical about global warming if they first read articles suggesting nuclear energy or geoengineering as solutions. Another study, in the journal Nature Climate Change in 2012, concluded that ""communication should focus on how mitigation efforts can promote a better society"" rather than ""on the reality of climate change and averting its risks.""",0_0
* SNOW ACCUMULATIONS?? 6 TO 12 INCHES OF SNOW POSSIBLE?? WITH 10TO 14 INCHES IN HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE EASTERN CATSKILLS?? BERKSHIRES AND SOUTHERN GREEN MOUNTAINS.,1_3
"The European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), launched with much fanfare in 2005, is the world's first and only major mandatory global emissions trading scheme. Designed to combat climate change, it currently regulates more than 10,000 installations in the EU's energy and industrial sectors, which together are responsible for close to half of its carbon dioxide emissions and some 40 percent of the continent's total greenhouse gas emissions.",0_0
basically angling for the largest and longest operation he could get.,0_0
"At ambient temperatures, the approximate 60% increase in the air's CO 2 concentration significantly increased latewood density by 27% and maximum wood density by 11%, while in the elevated-temperature treatment it significantly increased latewood density by 25% and maximum wood density by 15%. These changes led to mean overall CO 2 -induced wood density increases of 2.8% in the ambient-temperature treatment and 5.6% in the elevated-temperature treatment. What it means",3_3
"It will not be an easy task. However the IPCC chooses to deal with the problem the repercussions are unpleasant. They might try to explain away the warming hiatus in some way: the in-vogue explanation is that the heat that should have been in the atmosphere has escaped, undetected, to the deep oceans. Evidence to support this idea is, however, scant at best, and going down this route is going to involve the IPCC admitting that there is much about the climate system that is not yet understood. This will be a hard act to carry off while simultaneously claiming that they are certain that mankind caused most of the recent warming.",5_1
"CEI has attempted to impose a sort of ""etiquette of freedom"" and ""chivalry of common sense"" upon government. CEI debunked the genetically altered food scare. There's only one thing that's scary about foodnot having enough of it, as the hungry half of the world can tell you.",0_0
Federal judge rules political favoritism lawsuit against DOE can proceed,0_0
"the number of copies isn't what measures the success ; instead, we often talk about one society in its own category and its size, wealth, or longevity etc. matters; the statistical aspect is absent",0_0
"In the meantime, the natural gas boom has led to cleaner power and greater energy independence. Thats why my Administration will keep cutting red tape and speeding up new oil and gas permits. But I also want to work with this Congress to encourage the research and technology that helps natural gas burn even cleaner and protects our air and water.",4_5
"The U.S. State Department released its draft report on the proposed pipeline (Full report here) concluding that the pipeline will have little impact on the climate or the environment, but building it will create a jobs bonanza.",0_0
"Debunking every IPCC climate prophesy of war, pestilence, famine, drought, impacts in one line",0_0
"Science has never established the cause of that 1910 to 1940 warming. If the early century warming happened without CO2, how do we know that the late century warming was caused by CO2? Various attempts have been made to explain the early century warming, for example by a change in the suns output, but the embarrassing truth is that the early century warming remains unexplained. As long as the cause of the early century warming is unexplained it is not reasonable to try to blame the late century warming exclusively or mostly on CO2.",5_1
"(4) For all the hype about the bleaching events on the GBR, most of the reef did not bleach and almost all that did bleach has almost fully recovered.",3_2
"Why would any sane families or nations consign their fates to such insane, perverse arrangements? The arrangements are being imposed on them, through force, fabrication and fraud.",0_0
Obama's Attorney General Says She's Considered Using An Old Law To Silence Global Warming Critics,0_0
"A set of pro forma ""investigations"" claim to have exonerated PSU's Mann. The internal PSU inquiry with no impartial truth-seekers involved was not going to harm their grant-getting cash cow Mann; instead, it whitewashed the evidence to ensure the preferred conclusion. Professional science groups that relied upon public funding for their financial survival fell in line behind a huge Tom Sawyer campaign of ""exoneration."" There was no exoneration.",0_0
America Can't Afford to Be Lost in Space,0_0
Geologist: IPCC Confuses Prognoses With Facts 15-Year Climate Development No Longer Agrees With IPCC Models,5_1
"Almost everyone will agree that Mr Myneni is a loon if he really expects to collect one billion of signatures. But similar loons have actually begun to influence the economic and other policies of advanced nations in the world. They have no clue about anything but they are already (mis)directing billions of dollars. Instead, they should be hermetically confined in safe rooms of psychiatric asylums.",0_0
"Then, in arguably the greatest bureaucratic overreach of all time, upon claiming that carbon dioxide is a pollutant subject to regulation under its Clean Air Act, the EPA declared war on emissions from stationary sources on the premise that it causes unhealthy climate change. Try to explain that to your begonias and those rain forests that depend upon the stuff.",3_3
AUSTRALIAN diplomats have been accused of helping turn UN climate talks in Poland into groundhog day by failing to support a proposal that rich countries look to the advice of climate scientists when setting greenhouse targets.,0_0
Experts say that the Arctic will be ice-free in seven months.,0_0
"Leaked IPCC reports, reviewing forecasts made in 2007, have called into question how much climate change has taken place by concluding that, even with a doubling of carbon emissions from 1990 levels, the global temperature has risen little or more slowly than predicted over the last 10-20 years.",1_4
"By John Hinderaker, Power Line, Aug 9, 2015",0_0
"Moreover, they are featuring prominent skeptic scientists who are warning of a potential little ice age and dismissing CO2 as a major climate driver. And all of this just before the release of the IPCCs 5AR, no less!",1_2
The Evolution of Plants ... Right Before Our Very Eyes (1992-2010),0_0
"Despite the Hype, NAS Report Confirms Uncertainties in Global Warming Science",5_1
"Wind Turbine Bird Killings, Disinformation Continues in California",0_0
"Under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), federal government agencies are required to consider the effects that any ""major actions"" they take may have on the ""human environment."" The obligation is triggered by all manner of decisions, such as proposing a new regulation, building a new federally funded highway, or approving a new agricultural technology.",0_0
"Region	NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA",0_0
"The media, with nothing new to report for ten minutes, is calling all sorts of troublemakers for their idiotic opinions. Tony Juniper, of Friends of the Earth, told the BBC: ""The least tangible result of the meeting was the most important, that is a considerable increase in public awareness of the issues of global warming and climate change.""",0_0
"In the lecture reproduced below, technology analyst Mark Mills reveals that the Kyoto crusade is very much a case of deja vu all over again. Many of the same people and organizations that today warn of an impending climate catastrophe, warned in the 70s and 80s of imminent energy shortages and oil depletion. Their earlier predictions flopped. Far from the earth running out of oil by the year 2000, proven reserves are at record levels; far from topping $100 a barrel, petroleum prices fell to under $17 a barrel. Now as then, the gloomy forecasts are based on computer models. The big difference is that whereas oil depletion was supposed to occur in 20 years, catastrophic warming is supposed to occur in 50 or 100 years. But, asks Mills, why should we trust the 100-year forecasts of those whose 20-year forecasts were so spectacularly wrong?",0_0
But now the real heavy lifting begins. Is the agenda too overloaded for his,0_0
"What I deny is the catastrophe the proposition that man-made global warming** will cause catastrophic climate changes whose adverse affects will outweigh both the benefits of warming as well as the costs of mitigation. I believe that warming forecasts have been substantially exaggerated (in part due to positive feedback assumptions) and that tales of current climate change trends are greatly exaggerated and based more on noting individual outlier events and not through real data on trends ( see hurricanes , for example).",5_2
"It's perhaps too easy to laugh off the whole GMO issue: the opponents so over the top, the proponents, including Monsanto, so earnest and ineffective. Because the scientific evidence is so overwhelmingly in favor of GMO safety, many mainstream scientists have essentially checked out of the debate, disgusted by the tactics of GMO opponents. Although Monsanto and others have finally realized there is a problem, it really is late in the game. Robert Fraley, Monsanto's chief of technology, admitted as much: ""I never thought in the early stages that we would still be talking about acceptance and the consumer challenges we are talking about today."" Marc Van Montagu, the founder of the Institute of Plant Biotechnology Outreach, agrees:",0_0
"Media write about the report of the Second Working Group of the IPCC (focusing on ""impacts of the hypothetical climate change"") that will release its fifth report next Monday.",0_0
"Australia is a great place to study sea level at the present time. Fremantle, along with Sydney has the longest record of sea level measurements in Australia, going back to 1897 .",0_0
"After 8 and a half years and won three elections, the former legendary Tony has in fact its catalog of promises and its failures, especially those who were to be the cornerstones of its policy, public services and education, where situations paradoxical are created continuously by its approach all image and little substance always allinseguimento the front page of newspapers, and the contradictions of those who combines a dirigiste mentality to an apparent inability to anticipate, understand and deal with the details of the initiatives announced in bursts in a grandiloquent.",0_0
That kind of thing will put a chill up any American's spine if you think about it.,0_0
"But that wasnt going to scare anyone out of their money, so they simply altered the data. The graph below shows the difference between todays NCDC published US temperatures, and the thermometer data which it is based on.",5_2
Shock news. Antarctic just like it was 100 years ago.,1_1
"(Ive read that the junket was taxpayer-funded, but havent yet verified that.Now taxpayers are certainly paying to rescue them.)",0_0
"In an illuminating Commentary article in a recent issue of New Phytologist, Tissue and Lewis (2012) write that ""atmospheric CO2 over the past 800,000 years has varied generally as a function of glacial periods, with minima (c. 170-200 ppm) during glacial periods and maxima (c. 280-300 ppm) during inter-glacial periods,"" citing Luthi et al., 2008). More specifically, they indicate that ""during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, 18,000-20,000 years ago), atmospheric CO2 ranged from 180-200 ppm, which is approximately half the current CO2 (392 ppm), and among the lowest CO2 observed during the evolution of vascular land plants over the past 350 million years.""",0_0
"However, that only applies to the part of their paper about ER=EPR. Outside the main thread of their preprint, they also want to endorse some criticisms of the PR (Papadodimas-Raju) state dependence and these criticisms are wrong, as explained in several blog posts. In these ""by the way"" remarks of the new paper, these Caltech physicists imitate the completely wrong attitude by folks like Polchinski that ""when things become hard, one has to talk about nonlinear operators all the time"".",0_0
"He finds that 55% of the warming in that data from 1970 to 200 can be explained by the natural PDO cycle and that there is a natural climate cycle of 59 years (which is all the more pointed when you think about warmers using a 30 year baseline smack dab in the bottom of the cold half cycle, then screaming for 30 years that its getting warmer Well Duh! comes to mind).",2_1
"ACESA will consume more resources to achieve its projected GHG reductions than would be required through its cap-and-trade system alone. Several of the bill's provisions apply to activities that are also directly or indirectly subject to the proposed GHG cap. At a minimum, these include the renewable electricity standard, the coal-fired power plant performance standard, and the energy efficiency resource standard.",0_0
"These percentage differentials are quite substantial with respect to the overall economy, which has an average differential of 0.5 percent annually between the baseline and alternative scenario. These results are not surprising, as certain components of the economy will benefit tremendously not only from the reduced energy prices but also from the increased demand as the quest for cheaper and more affordable energy continues.",0_0
"Across Great Britain, household energy bills could double by 2020, to $3,900 ( 2,500) a year, market expert Mark Todd of EnergyHelpLine.com has warned. Gasoline prices are likewise climbing to unaffordable levels, and the majority of United Kingdom companies will see their natural gas and electricity prices skyrocket by 100% between 2012 and 2016 on top of a carbon tax bill of ""at least"" $65,660 ( 42,000) annually according to the analytical firm Carbon Masters.",0_0
"Yet, as we learned in the 2008 election, young voters have the power to select a President. If their political choices are based on a lack of knowledge or even worse, on propaganda the nation is in peril.",0_0
Cronyism Lawsuit Against Energy Departments $25 Billion Green Energy Program Advances,0_0
Global land-based surface temperature differences (UN-IPCC)= approx. 0.5 C,0_0
"Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose! Barack Obama, Sept.12, 2011 - ""And when you look at what independent economists are saying about the American Jobs Act, my jobs plan, uniformly what they are saying is this buys us insurance against a double-dip recession."" Barack Obama, Sept.26, 2011 - ""Obviously, it is never fun to lose your job. And it's always hard in this kind of really deep recession."" Related - another missed memo.",0_0
Why a leading French atmospheric scientist and socialist politician recanted.,0_0
"The fifth Conference of the Parties (COP-5) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is under way in Bonn, Germany. Some of the issues to be considered include the use of flexible mechanisms, such as emission trading, and developing country participation.",0_0
"For their analysis, the researchers collected seafloor mud samples, now rock, from multiple localities in England and Italy. They then performed chemical extraction on the samples to analyze the sulfur isotope compositions in order to estimate the chemistry of the global ocean.",0_0
"On the other hand, according to the climate models used by the IPCC, the East Pacific sea surface temperatures SHOULD HAVE warmed roughly 0.42 to 0.45 deg C over that period, IF they were warmed by anthropogenic greenhouse gases. Obviously, they havent been warmed by greenhouse gases. Shouldve, wouldve, couldve.",5_1
"Zimmermans Masters thesis, the foundation of the EOS paper, apparently did not appear on line until September 2011, two years and eight months after the EOS paper was published (how media and others could trumpet the results presented in the EOS paper without first examining the survey methodology and raw data is a topic for another blog posting). Zimmermans thesis can now be downloaded here for $1.98. It is well worth reading, not only to note the apparent researcher bias revealed in the introduction and the obvious flaws in much of the survey methodology, but also as an interesting summary of the problems in the research on consensus among climate experts to that point. Even more illuminating are the thesis appendices which include hundreds of comments from the scientists being polled. Therein, it is revealed that many of the very serious problems with the survey questions and methodology were pointed out repeatedly by the scientist respondents while the poll was being run.",5_1
"""The city of San Bernardino filed for bankruptcy protection three months ago, and shortly afterward was reported to be under investigation by the federal Securities and Exchange Commission, allegedly for hiding deficits by diverting money intended for sewers, roads and construction to pay ongoing bills instead. Now, the Wall Street Journal reports the Inland Empire city of about 210,000 residents ;has stopped making its regular payments to the California Public Employees Retirement System' and owes $5.3 million toward its employees' pensions.""",0_0
"A Danish university has fired one of its professors who was critical of wind farms. Acoustics expert Henrik Mller, who is internationally recognised in his field, was ostensibly sacked because he did not generate enough revenue for the university, although some are questioning this explanation.",0_0
"Accordingly climate alarmists have circled the wagons and refused to debate with climate skeptics, preferring hit pieces such as Years of Living Dangerously. Climate modeler Gavin Schmidt and Michael Manns side kick on the RealClimate website, would only appear on John Stossels show if there was no face to face debate and skeptic scientist Dr. Roy Spencer removed himself while Schmidt was on stage. And Michael Mann, the creator of the hockey stick interpretation of climate change not only calls everyone who disagrees with his viewpoint a denier but anti-science . But it is only via thorough skeptical examination that challenges every hypothesis does a scientific opinion become trustworthy. But climate alarmists like Mann demean any and all who question CO2 as deniers, as if the truth has been already determined. They promote their view on websites and op-ed pieces encouraging a new intellectual tyranny aimed at shutting down all skeptics.",5_2
"""Over the past decade and a half, Mr. Limbaugh has been at times almost a lone media voice correcting misinformation about DDT and also pointing out its life-saving benefits against diseases like malaria. Mr. Gore, by contrast, has continued to spread DDT myths as well as misleading information about the causes of the malaria epidemic. Before I go further, let me add this caveat. It would be perfectly understandable to me if neither Mr. Gore nor Mr. Limbaugh became the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize recipient. There are many worthy of this honor in America and around the world. But if Mr. Gore is under serious consideration as a Nobel candidate, Mr. Limbaugh should also be considered under the same criteria.""",0_0
"I wonder how many of these thousands of the global warming scientists developed and/or supported the warming model published in 1995 by the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the worlds leading agency for global warming, that predicted a rise of 2.780 C for the century and a rise of 0.70 C for the decade. This has been demonstrated to be absolutely wrong (see attached Chart 2) even though CO2 concentrations have continued to increase. Even the IPCC had to admit that they were wrong and modified its model in 2005 to show a significantly lower 10-year temperature rise of 0.170 C for the decade and a 1.670 C rise for the century.",5_1
"Mark Steyn notes that the leftists are on to his cunning plan to crowdsource his legal defense to bloggers?which strikes me as an excellent strategy, likely to be both cheaper and more effective than a traditional law firm. So consider this my contribution to that crowdsourced defense of free speech.",0_0
Diurnal Trends in Dewpoint Averaged over the U.S. Since 1973,0_0
"Apple has in the past year touted its own green credentials, most recently by announcing an internal initiative to use cleaner energy sources for its data farms in North Carolina.",0_0
Jane Orient offers this release to the press on the article.,0_0
"Auckland : Moved from the Museum to Albert Park in late 1909, and was affected by rapid tree growth and urbanisation during the next 20 years.",0_0
"The environmental movement of today, by contrast, is preservationist, obsessed with preserving and restoring a landscape unaltered by humans that may have never existed. It operates on the premise that untrammeled nature is always benign. Paradoxically, because we have been so successful at overcoming nature's ravages, too many people attribute everything from rough weather to diseases -- forces of nature that have plagued the world for centuries to human activities. To focus on the ""environment,"" the ""planet"", or the ""ecosystem"" obscures and often worsens specific threats to humans, animal, and plants. And many times, environmentalist prescriptions have been in conflict with public health.",0_0
"But rather than consider gas tax relief, Reps. Don Young, Alaska Republican, and James Oberstar, Minnesota Democrat, just announced a proposal to increase the federal tax by a nickel a gallon.",0_0
"There is no smoking gun available, no hurricane called Climate Change: yet, this fact is not important because, in the subculture of Global Warming, every atmospheric phenomenon is obviously caused by our misbehavior",5_2
"Sanford, R.F. (1992): Environmentalism and the assault on reason. In: Lehr, J. (Ed.): Rational readings on environmental concerns. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 16-31.",0_0
"Several of theamendmentsin the Bill of Rights, notably the second and the tenth, are no longer treated by many folks as ""real."" Just old TJ kidding around.",0_0
All the delegation consulted felt it important That the fund was used in a Way That Provides a long-term legacy. This Can Be Achieved in two ways:,0_0
"The extra CO 2 eliminated the need for any sugar to be supplied to the plantlets, with shoot dry weight in the CO 2 -enriched air exceeding that in the ambient air by 120% in the non-sweetened treatment at the end of the in vitro period, and with root dry weight in the CO 2 -enriched air exceeding that in the ambient air by 350%. Likewise, at the end of the ex vitro period, the CO 2 -induced shoot and root dry weight increases in the non-sweetened treatment were 55% and 86%, respectively. What it means",3_3
"Whats missing from this picture? Any acknowledgement that there has been a pause in warming which was not expected or predicted by the climate models, despite the headbangers claiming that warming is accelerating.*",1_4
"A couple of weeks ago The Washington Post ran a story about the recent correction of surface temperature measurements the wonderful Steve McIntyre brought to NASA's attention. Actually, as is to be expected with the Post, they didn't report on the correction, but instead weighed in some time after it broke to report complaints by the alarmists that some skeptics had gone too far with claims about how much this proves or disproves. Distractions aside, we do know that the correction dramatically revised some of the global warming alarmists' money quotes, like Al Gore's claim that nine of the 10 ""hottest"" years on record were in the past decade. Of course now we know that of the 10 (warmest) years, four occurred in the 1930s, three in the 1990s, and one each in this decade, the 1950s and the 1920s.",2_1
"To protect our climate and our collective security, we must call together a truly global coalition, the president said, just six days after his inauguration, in a ceremony in the East Room of the White House.",0_0
Link to the paper from skyfall is to an authors copy and is broken. Ive dug out a proper copy.,0_0
Sierra Club Propaganda Campaign an Affront to Religion,0_0
JC comments: It is difficult to argue against Howards 5 broad conclusions regarding climate policy; they seem eminently sensible.,0_0
"Driessen encouraged the crowd not to cede the high moral ground on these issues, to challenge the regulations wherever possible, and to publicly hammer the regulators for impairing the health and welfare of millions of Americans.",0_0
The Danish Meteorological Institute reports that Greenlands ice sheet has seen more growth so far this year than in the last four years. Greenlands ice sheet growth in 2015 is also higher than the mean growth for 1990 to 2011.,1_1
"This set-up is designed to provide a two-way communications channel between smart meters and a central communications hub to which smart meter data users (suppliers, network companies and other authorised third parties) will have access.",0_0
"In Black Swan Climate Theory II we explain, in depth, why, in my opinion, I believe this is not an accident. I have concluded American basic climate data has been hijacked and corrupted within NOAA through the use of a simple master computer algorithm that I have repeated here.",5_2
"In the above graphic combining 4 autocorrelation schemes, I used 4 different likelihood schemes as follows (fracdiff requiring the fracdiff package):",0_0
"Freezing Alaskan blogger: ""Whereas as the spectre of global warming once was quite appalling, today it's quite appealing! Bring it on says I!""",0_0
To my great frundran discovered that I nominated for the Swedish miljmktigaste.,0_0
"Originally, politicians embraced ethanol subsidies as a supposed means to reduce global warming and to provide energy independence, plus Obama's team claimed the subsidy would increase the nation's ""green job"" employment. As this corporate welfare program continued to suck money out of taxpayer wallets, it became obvious that ethanol production/use had no discernible impact on global warming or energy independence or overall employment.",4_4
* Climate model projections of increases of global average surface temperature (due to a doubling of atmospheric CO2) above about 1 degree centigrade arise only because of positive feedback effects presumed by climate models;,0_0
"In sum, not only is claim that LOST's Kyoto-style provisions are ""merely hortatory"" unsupportable, but the U.S. is firmly on record arguing against there being any such thing as ""mere hortatory language"" when it comes to these agreements. It seems a safe bet that the UN's LOST Tribunal will agree.",0_0
"38 R. A. Kerr, Greenhouse Forecasting Still Cloudy, Science 276, 1041 (1997). Even these assessments are highly optimistic because the necessary observing systems with demonstrated capabilities to detect the climate effect of increasing anthropogenic CO2 are not yet in place.",5_1
"A paper published today in Geophysical Research Letters finds that El Ninos were more common during the frigid Little Ice Age, and conversely, La Ninas were more common during the Medieval and Roman Warm Periods. This finding is the opposite to claims by the IPCC and climate alarmists such as KevinTrenberththatglobal warming, if it resumes, will make El Ninos more frequent.",5_2
Since Arrhenius made his forecast of warmth in Chicago Illinois temperatures have plummeted and are the coldest on record this year. They peaked in 1921,1_3
"DeGregori also documents how anti-biotechnology activists have kept genetically engineered Golden Rice off the market, resulting in as many as 350,000 deaths annually from vitamin A deficiency.",0_0
"Temperature adjustments such as those due to change in instrumentation are, of course, necessary. However, the results shown in this paper demonstrate that the lack of correctly and consistently sited stations results in an inherent uncertainty in the datasets which should be addressed at the root by documenting the micrometeorological deficiencies in the sites and by adhering to sites which conform to standards such as the GCOS Climate Monitoring Principles ( http://gosic.org/GCOS/GCOS climate monitoring principles.htm ). A continued mode of corrections using approaches where statistical uncertainties are not quantified is not a scientifically sound methodology and should be avoided, considering the importance of such surface station data to a broad variety of climate applications as well as climate variability and change studies.",5_1
"???I replicated her study in order to assess the accuracy of its results. All abstracts listed on the ISI databank for 1993 to 2003 using the same keywords (global climate change??) were assessed. The results of my analysis contradict Oreskes?? findings and essentially falsify her study: Of all 1117 abstracts, only 13 (1%) explicitly endorse the ???consensus view??. However, 34 abstracts reject or question the view that human activities are the main driving force of the observed warming over the last 50 years??.",5_1
"Carter carefully describes the attempts by Michael Mann and his colleagues to wipe out the Medieval Warm Period as an historical event through the invention of the ?Hockey Stick?. The consequent unmasking of this fraud is an exciting story, well told here, with careful attention to the details and with references to a wide range of papers. In Australia, members of the Climategate conspiracy, notably David Karoly, kept on supporting the Hockey Stick well beyond 2007, a defence which might be seen as heroic under the circumstances, but which for the conspirators was a necessity, given the crucial role of the Hockey Stick in defence of the IPCC?s arguments about the unprecedented nature of late-twentieth-century global warming.",5_2
"This was the only ""evidence' he presented that the current drought was caused by climate change. He fails to note that the famine of 1973 came at a time when global temperatures were at their lowest for most of the past century. Popular opinion notwithstanding, the link between man-made emissions and drought in Niger is largely theoretical and tenuous.",0_0
"EPA asserts ""NSR does result in significant environmental and public health benefits,"" but admits ""there is no tracking by any government agency of the reductions in emissions that sources make due to the NSR program.""14 The largest documented reductions in emissions attributable to the program come from requiring BACT and LAER technology on new natural gas-fired electric generating units. With regard to existing sources, foregone emission reductions from new investments and modifications discouraged by NSR (discussed in detail below) may offset whatever reductions the program requires.",0_0
"Environmentalists in rich countries excoriate coal as an evil. At this very moment, Greenpeace-niks are assembling a giant model of the earth in rural Poland, as a focal point for opposition to the expansion of coal in Poland and the world.",0_0
"Not ""world government,"" wildly unpopular among knuckle-draggers in America, but a rebranded alternative, more nuanced and sophisticated, would creep in on little cat feet before the Neanderthals knew what was up.",0_0
"""Besides, if global warming is settled science, like gravity or the Earth not being flat, why isn't the agreement 100 percent?"" Spencer asked. ""And since when is science settled by a survey or a poll? The hallmark of a good scientific theory is its ability to make good predictions.""",5_1
"""No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change"" declared President Obama in his most recent state of the union address last January. Environmental activists applauded, but they are not satisfied. Despite the Obama Administration's executive initiatives, including aggressive new limits on carbon emissions from power plants, there is widespread agreement in the climate action lobby that governments everywhere are not doing enough.",0_0
"The challenges faced by most of the emerging economies today are similar. Their domestic sources are often inadequate to meet their growing demand for energy. And developing domestic sources involves huge capital investment. Like other emerging economies, India needs adequate supplies of energy at affordable prices to meet the demand of its rapidly growing economy. Hydrocarbons will continue to be our major source of energy for quite sometime in the future. Most of our requirement of hydrocarbons is met through imports. In India, the demand over the next 10 years will increase by over 40 percent whereas the increase in the supply from the maturing oil-fields is expected to be around 12 per cent. The Indian Government is therefore encouraging national oil companies to pursue equity oil and gas opportunities overseas. India currently has 400 million people who lack access to electricity ( PDF ).",4_5
"During the last ice age, the East Coast got pushed upwards by a huge mass of ice depressing the interior of Canada and raising the surrounding regions. Now that the ice has melted in Canada, the East Coast is sinking back to its original elevation. The apparent rise in sea level has nothing to do with global warming. If it were global, we would see the effect on the Pacific Coast as well and we dont.",1_6
none of our work is propaganda. More than 100 academics and 150 elected officials participate in our research and education programs.,0_0
"Going through the NSR permitting process can cost more than $1 million and add a year or more to the time needed to preview proposed plant modifications.3 Installing BACT or LAER technology can cost tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars for a single plant. A typical turbine efficiency improvement project at a power plant that would cost less than $1 million for a 250 MW unit and generate additional revenues of $21.5 million (present value) would cost an additional $68.4 million (capital cost only) if subject to the BACT or LAER requirements imposed by NSR, making such projects financial losers.4",0_0
"* IPCC computer climate models have thus far not been able to predict warming or other climate changes accurately for even short, 10-year periods. It is therefore highly unlikely that they can do so for 100 years in the future. Therefore, they should not be used as the basis for energy and economic policies.",5_1
Computer model predictions of 1.4-4.5 C global warming per CO2 doubling have remained unchanged for 36 years: yet the IPCCs medium-term global warming predictions made 25 years ago have proven exaggerated by a factor of two. Would it not have been appropriate at least to mention the models continuing exaggerations?,5_1
"doctrine of counterinsurgency aims to gain enough of local citizens' trust that they will help find rebel fighters and build governance structures,",0_0
"Unfortunately market forces were not favorable to Mr. Pickens, and in December 2010 he announced that he is getting out of the wind power business . What does he plan to do with his $2 billion worth of idle wind turbines? He is trying to sell them to Canada , because of Canadian law that mandates consumers to buy more renewable electricity regardless of cost.",4_4
"Wherever I served in the world, I have never avoided the contact with the local populaces both contacts related to my healthcare services or simple conversations sparked by random encounters with the people or mutual visits. That's why I never depended exclusively on the NATO-related information sources but I could also analyze and evaluate the situation from all conceivable perspectives. On the former Yugoslav territory, I had the extra advantage of having quickly mastered the local language at a level that has allowed me basic communication. All these events (and others) have allowed me to understand (and convince myself about) the meaninglessness and the monstrosity of the NATO and especially the U.S. actions in the context of many artificially ignited conflicts whose goal was to destabilize all the countries that didn't want to be satisfied with the roles of obedient puppets and vassals of the U.S. Unfortunately, I was becoming a component in this machinery myself.",0_0
Let's not kid ourselves: Someone will want to turn the planet's minerals into energy until every last bit of coal and oil is gone.,0_0
"The four fast-track projects in jeopardy of losing stimulus funds due to eagle issues would alone generate about 416 megawatts of clean energy, enough to power roughly a half million U.S. homes during peak usage.",0_0
"This week was a true roller coaster ride with Arctic Sea Ice. It is best summed up by looking at the JAXA graph for extent, shown below:",1_1
"Now the EPA's ""observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century"" has dropped from 0.702 C down to 0.486 Cand about 31% of increase from anthropogenic GHGs is gone.",0_0
"My main results are: Looking at the data 12 possible ways, I get 9 results that say reject the IPCC best estimate to a confidence of 95%.",0_0
"Four years ago, Republicans were riding high. The Bush re-election was the first since 1936 in which both the incumbent president won and his party gained seats in both houses of Congress. Republicans had also done well in 2002winning back control of the Senate. It was the first time since 1934 that a president's party had gained seats in both the Senate and the House midway into the president's first term.",0_0
"In early January, Mark D. Green, the editor of Energy Tomorrow, a project of the American Petroleum Institute, examined the reality of our vast energy sources. Keep in mind that every product we purchase is dependent in some way on oil. ""Every day 143 U.S. refineries convert an average of 15 million barrels of crude oil"" that provide power for our vast transportation needs and thousands of other uses. Oil is the basis for the creation of plastic. Try to imagine living without anything that does not utilize plastic in some fashion.",4_5
"The ongoing rise in the airs CO2 content is causing a great greening of the Earth, the report adds. There is little or no risk of increasing food insecurity due to global warming or risingatmospheric CO2 levels.",3_3
"Via Instapundit ""The University of East Anglias Climategate inquiries were not sufficiently transparent and failed to properly investigate some key issues, the Commons Science and Technology Committee has concluded.",0_0
"While the excitement from solar proponents is palpable, it is surprising how shameless they are about sucking the government teat while bemoaning the low price of natural gaswhich Solar Industry Magazine calls ""a fly in the ointment"" and ""inconvenient."" It blames ""new technologies for oil and gas extraction"" (no wonder they keep trying to kill hydraulic fracturing). Gilpin states: ""in all its 1,560 pages, the Clean Power Plan doesn't directly address the actual deployment of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. It does, however, give states and utilities an incentive to create and enhance mechanisms that will increase deployment of solar."" (Italics added)",0_0
Global Warming: Melting Down the Facts About this Overheated Myth,0_0
"""This fifth generation of Soviet leaders was more confident of the regime's resilience. Gorbachev and his group appeared to believe that what was right was also politically manageable.""",0_0
Allan Sherman sincerely doubts that the world could do without his Good Advice . The comments are open for your Reader Tips.,0_0
"I often point out that the one-percenters already give back much more than they get. And we all (including Occupy Wall Street-ers) happily make that happen when we voluntarily exchange our money for iPhones, TVs, cars, microwaves, etc. Even our health insurance. We kick in a few extra percent for those entrepreneurs, risk-takers, and experts-in-their-field as our way of saying, ""thanks for all the cool stuff, and for our kids actually living to be teenagers!""",0_0
"The Pew poll broke down the electorate into component groups based on respondents' demographics and political attitudes. Two of the eight voting groups they identified help to explain why libertarians often think there is an easily reachable new constituency for limited government. These two groups were called Post-Moderns and Libertarians. Libertarians make up 10 percent of registered voters, while Post-Moderns make up 14 percent.",0_0
"Markey's immediate response to the DOE studyreiterating stale, year-old talking points illustrates what can happen when politicians put ideological priorities ahead of independent science and economic analysis.",0_0
"The blaze is reminiscent of an earlier fire at the yard at the end of April, which took five days to put out.",0_0
High-Speed Rail: The Wrong Road for America:,0_0
"After being nominated , Whitman was asked: Global warming, what is your thought on what the state of science is and what can be done to address it? She responded: Still somewhat uncertain. Clearly theres a hole in the ozone, that has been identified. But I saw a study the other day that showed that it was closing. Its not as clear, the cause and effect, as we would like it to be.",0_0
A comprehensive environmental review by USDA scientists had concluded that a genetically engineered alfalfa variety was substantially equivalent to other conventional varieties and posed no genuine risks. Vilsack chose to ignore those findings and pandered to the organic food lobby by announcing that the Agriculture Department might forbid farmers to plant the alfalfa variety on huge swaths of American cropland.,0_0
"When I passed by, one called out: ""That's Marita Noon! She supports the oil-and-gas industry! She doesn't believe in climate change!"" Basking in my newfound celebrity, I turned, smiled, and waved as if I was greeting adoring fansand entered the building.",0_0
"In the last month, the Arctic Oscillation Index (AO) has gone strongly negative. You can see that it headed to its negative peak right about the time the Copenhagen Climate Conference started, so it is no wonder that they ironically experienced cold and snow there. It is also a setup for the record snow and cold Canada and the USA has seen recently.",1_3
"The time has come to question the IPCC's status as the near-monopoly source of information and advice for its member governments. It is probably futile to propose reform of the present IPCC process. Like most bureaucracies, it has too much momentum and its institutional interests are too strong for anyone realistically to suppose that it can assimilate more diverse points of view, even if more scientists and economists were keen to join up. The rectitude and credibility of the IPCC could be best improved not through reform, but through competition. The model for how climate science might be improved perhaps can be found in the field of intelligence in the 1970s.",0_0
"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 IPCC claims in their reports also CO2 effects of climate models for the IPCC based are exaggerated.The net effect of CO2 is thus so modest that it can not be seen in this data.",2_3
"When capital is sufficiently available, would-be entrepreneurs at the bottom of the pyramid have demonstrated a willingness to launch new ventures and invest in their futures that is, to embrace free-market capitalism to the benefit of all concerned.",0_0
"Ice and snow are white, and reflect sunlight very effectively, Jacobson said. But because carbon is dark it absorbs sunlight, causing snow and ice to melt at accelerated rates. That exposes dark soil and dark seas. And again, because those surfaces are dark, they absorb even more thermal energy from the sunlight, establishing an ongoing amplification process.",0_0
"So, in todays post, Ill explain my results. But first, I will explain why I prefer to use merged data when comparing IPCC projections to data.",0_0
Obama Admin Hides Official IPCC Correspondence from FOIA Using Former Romney Adviser John Holdren,0_0
"At a World Economic Forum in Davos, Vclav Klaus observed that all the participants of the meeting took man-made global warming for granted and convinced of its dangerous consequences. ""Politicians fully subscribe to the idea that the Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change (IPCC) publications represent ""the"" climate science. We know that is not true and that there is no scientific discipline of climate science "", said Klaus.",0_0
"The word ""rainforest"" was coined in 1898 by a German botanist to describe forests that grow in constantly wet conditions, with an average annual rainfall of 80 inches per year or more. There are differing kinds of rainforest including ""flooded mangrove forests along the salty coastline of SE Asian islands, high-altitude cloud forests of S. American, temperate rain forests of the U.S. Pacific Northwest,"" and the ""tropical rain forests that form large pockets of green along the earth's equator"" the major focus of this paper. Tropical ""rainforests grow in more than 50 countries but about half of the total is in just three: Brazil with 33%, and Zaire and Indonesia with 10% each,"" and 57% of total is in Latin America. (National Wildlife Federation Educator's Guide)",0_0
The IPCCs remit is to provide an authoritative assessment of scientific evidence on climate change.,0_0
"100,000 terminally ill ""do not get proper palliative care':",0_0
"Often focused on century-long trends, most climate models failed to predict that the temperature rise would slow, starting around 2 000. Scientists are now intent on figuring out the causes and determining whether the respite will be brief or a more lasting phenomenon.",1_4
Our analysis shows that fewer extremely hot days were recorded over the past five years at both Observatory Hill and Parramatta than in the preceding five years of observation or the five years before that.,1_7
"An intriguing alternative has been floated by Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.): a national nonprofit plan, not run by the government but with funding seeded by the federal government, available where private plans don't cut the mustard.",0_0
"McCarthy and the Post apparently neglected to notice that no UN category 3-5 hurricanes have struck the U.S. coast since October 2005, setting a more than century-long record lull since 1900. In fact, NOAA and even the UN's alarmist Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported that there have been no increases in the severity or frequency of droughts, floods, thunderstorms, or tornadoes in decades.",1_7
Of course this is not the first time scientists have been caught leaving out inconvenient data tending to disconfirm their pre-conceived conclusion humans are causing dangerous climate change.,5_2
Internal EPA Document May Foreshadow Tax and Regulatory Actions,0_0
Europe Adds Headache to Blair's Post-Election Hangover,0_0
"Organizations that receive government funding for climate research are surprisingly reluctant to have any public scrutiny or input. For example, the University of Virginia, Penn State and the University of East Anglia are using the courts to block disclosure of information relating to work paid for by taxpayers. These organizations and many like them scorn sunshine laws, Freedom of Information Acts (FoIA) as well as the concept of accountabiliy. This strategy is working for the most part, backed up as it is by a string of disgraceful ?Investigations?.",0_0
"The world?s governing elites, however, no longer care about poverty. Climate change is their new focus.",0_0
"So, how many years does it take for a climatologist to accept that climate change, as opposed to weather fluctuation, has occurred (is ""statistically significant"")? The generally accepted time is 30 years. How long has the planet been warming? From the mid-1970s to no later than 1998. That's 23 years of warming, followed by 12 years of non-warming (so far). In other words, this warming that we're told is so ""unequivocal"" and ""settled"" and ""certain"" has not passed the crucial 30-year mark. The warming of 1975-1998 is therefore not ""statistically significant.""",0_0
Phony Science Begets Phony Public Policy,0_0
"Not only is Mr. Weaver an IPCC insider. He has also, over the years, generated his own volume of climate advocacy that often seemed to have crossed that dangerous line between hype and science.",5_2
"SCOTUS review of EPA's ""Timing Rule"" could deflate regulatory overreach",0_0
"The White House on 21st September released a Presidential Memorandum on Climate Change and National Security. Section 1 states its purpose: ""This memorandum establishes a framework and directs Federal departments and agencies to perform certain functions to ensure that climate change-related impacts are fully considered in the development of national security doctrine, policies, and plans.""",0_0
"This study demonstrates the ability of certain corals to cope with the environmental stresses of sub-aerial exposure, including high substrate and air temperatures and solar irradiance. The authors noted that ""tissue retraction in this species results in marked paling of color which has previously been interpreted as a bleaching response."" Hence, it is possible that some reports of coral bleaching, particularly those based solely on satellite reflectance measurements, may not be real bleaching events.",3_2
"Its a knockout in the latest thriller in Manila where the President has axed his Office of the Presidential Adviser on Global Warning and Climate Change. Were saved, apparently.",0_0
"""Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor continues to hear cases in U.S. appeals courts, while also playing a role in public policy issues. Her critics say she should do one or the other, but not both.""",0_0
"The whole theory rests on the ???coincidence?? of a CO2 dip of 7ppm in 1610 with the depth of the Little Ice Age, er, apparently 180 or so years later (according to their graph). Greenhouses gases can absorb infra red at the speed of light, and they drive the climate, we just don??t see the correlation, right? Yeah, baby.",2_3
"Spending fifty cents on a fancy bottle of soda water ""guaranteed to cure all ills"" is one thing. Spending more than our entire national economy on chasing an ephemera well, that's the sort of malfeasance of which impeachment charges are made. Before this scandal broke, a majority of Americans wanted no part of the ""cap-and-trade"" bill. And now?",0_0
"Since at least the 1840s when sunspot cycles were discovered, scientists have proposed that solar variability could affect the climate, but direct evidence of that relationship and understanding of a mechanism have been lacking.",0_0
"As illustrated and discussed in If the IPCC was Selling Manmade Global Warming as a Product, Would the FTC Stop their deceptive Ads? , the IPCCs climate models cannot simulate the rates at which surface temperatures warmed and cooled since 1901 on a global basis, so their failings on a zonal-mean basis as discussed in this post come as no surprise.",5_1
"Nor is Hansen part of the hallowed scientific ""consensus"" on global warming. He's much more apocalyptic. He still predicts faster and much greater sea-level rises, ice-sheet meltings and species extinctions than the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.",5_2
"But this is not to say that we may not raise other obstaclessome even in the name of doing something about climate change. For instance, a new study by Indur Goklany (2011) concluded that in 2010 alone the biofuels policies of the developed world caused 192,000 excess deaths in the developing world, from malnutrition and poverty exacerbated by resulting increases in food pricesa seemingly worse outcome than that posed by the problem that such policies were trying to address in the first place.",4_4
I wonder how sea life manages to outrun El Nio and La Nia ENSO events without being cooked in place? These have far greater temperature variability in shorter time spans than climate change.,0_0
"Additionally, our estimates of climate sensitivity using our SCM and the four instrumental temperature records range from about 1.5 C to 2.0 C. These are on the low end of the estimates in the IPCCs Fourth Assessment Report. So, while we find that most of the observed warming is due to human emissions of LLGHGs, future warming based on these estimations will grow more slowly compared to that under the IPCCs likely range of climate sensitivity, from 2.0 C to 4.5 C. This makes it more likely that mitigation of human emissions will be able to hold the global temperature increase since pre-industrial time below 2 C, as agreed by the Confer- ence of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Cancun.",3_1
"In short, most of the forcing predicted by the IPCC is either an exaggeration or has already resulted in whatever temperature change it was going to cause. There is little global warming in the pipeline as a result of our past and present sins of emission.",3_1
"(A) They proclaim the results and declare success before an experiment is completed (at 12m10s, the mp3 file above). In AGW, just look to the countless documents that take lAGW same as established truth, although the debate itself on the attribution of observed changes still very open.",0_0
"Prof. Lindzen critiques climate model calculations. We are expected to swoon over the fact that climate models, which are run on supercomputers, are state-of-the-art achievements in science. But ???state-of-the-art?? does not always mean accurate, or even useful, if the art is still in its infancy.",5_1
"Fire at R Plevin & Sons, Crow Edge on Wednesday",0_0
"On Thursday, the Met Office launched its new report on global warming, UK Climate Predictions 2009 otherwise known as UKCP09 . This is based on the output of Hadley Centre climate models that predict temperature increases of up to 6C with wetter winters, dryer summers, more heatwaves, rising sea levels, more floods and all the other catastrophes that one would expect from similar exercises in alarmism.",5_2
"Bottom Line: The statistical evidence on violent tornadoes, although frequently ignored by the media, politicians, and others claiming a link between violent weather and climate change, suggests that the frequency of violent tornadoes like the recent one in Moore, Oklahoma, has been declining over time, not increasing.",1_7
"The first report comes from the London School of Economics, and was sponsored by the neo-Malthusian organization, the Optimum Population Trust (OPT, patron: Sir David Attenborough).",0_0
"Ball also rejects the contention that climate change brings on more extreme weather events, not just higher temperatures. He said hurricane season was very quiet this year and tornadoes were down as well. He chalked up record high and low temperatures to the jet stream shifting from a west-east flow to more of a north-south line.",1_7
"After all, the late 1650s were quite warm years during a long cooling period in Europe that lasted from 1525 to 1800, and encouraged the establishment of the Central England Temperature Record in 1659. Indeed, in 1658 the Lord Protector (Britain's all powerful head of statea monarch in all important respects), Oliver Cromwell, died from malaria, in a balmy September, preceding a very cold winter.",0_0
"On the same day of one of NASAs proudest achievements, the landing of the rover Curiosity on Mars , Dr. James Hansen and PNAS went on a media blitz to push a paper that is so technically flawed, that if it were a spacecraft, it would surely have burned up in the atmosphere due to a faulty understanding of that atmosphere. Unfortunately, as Dr. Michaels points out, it was never tested and Dr.Hoerling points out that it isnt science, but perception. NASA used to deal in facts and testing, because if they didnt, people died. Now NASAs image has been tarnished on the day of one of its greatest triumphs by a rogue scientist with unsupportable ideas and a global media megaphone.",0_0
"KUSI-TV meteorologist, Weather Channel founder, and iconic weatherman John Coleman will present these findings in a one-hour special airing on KUSI-TV on January 14 at 9 p.m. EST. A related report will be made available on the Internet at 6 p.m. EST on January 14 at www.kusi.com.",0_0
"Also, catch the date on emails withheld as being correspondence to Phil Jones and others in the deliberative processof drafting IPCC 5th Assessment Report, written before there was an AR5 deliberative process (for whatever that is worth: Arizona??s law recognizes no such exemption; also, IPCC acknowledges performing no scientific research). There are also some fun claims of privilege for, e.g., a workshop concepts paper, an AGU meeting abstract, and a UCS summary??. Thats just the Overpeck index of withholdings; the Hughes index crafts dozens of categories or reasons why emails should be exempt (e.g., not merely correspondence between authors, and between colleagues, but between collaborators?? ).",5_2
"The news release is largely based on a statistical analysis of rainfall data. Few details are given, but it is obvious that the analysis did not properly model autoregression. When proper modeling is done, I am confident that there will not be a significant increase in either rainfall or extreme rainfall events. Indeed that would be obvious to anyone knowledgeable in time series.",5_1
"Summarizing, neither meltwater forcing nor volcanic forcing is likely an able candidate to generate a significant global cooling trend. The biases in current models, if they exist, are more likely to be related to their sensitivity to the orbital forcing and additional feedbacks in climate models. Whatever the biases, the model biases have to exhibit a common warming bias across all of the current models with a total magnitude of at least ?1 C, such that removal of this model bias can generate a global cooling of ?1 C, which overcomes the 0.5 C warming by GHGs and ice sheets to leave a net cooling of 0.5 C as in the M13 reconstruction.",0_0
"Parts of the green movement have become hijacked by a political agenda and now operate like multinational corporations, according to two senior scientists and members of the House of Lords.",5_2
"That will undoubtedly change sooner or later. The Democratic Party, dating to the 1832 national convention engineered by Martin Van Buren to nominate Andrew Jackson for a second term, is the oldest political party in the world. It has had fallow periods some rather long in the past, and has come back to win again.",0_0
"Unless, that is, you dare to question the idea of man-made global warming. That, apparently, puts you beyond the pale. You can insist the 1969 Apollo moon landing was staged, or that 9/11 was an ""inside job,"" and it's ""live and let live"" time. But disagree with the view that climate change is not only occurring but is caused by human activity, and you invite a stay in a rubber room.",0_0
"Dissenters also see little evidence that Hamas can be made to knuckle under. Israel's former ambassador to Germany, Shimon Stein, said, ""The real question is, if we sign an agreement with Abbas, can he deliver? Can he live up to it? Can he make Hamas comply? I don't think so.""",0_0
"Also, there is nothing in the ocean heat content records or satellite-era sea surface temperature data to indicate greenhouse gases were responsible for their warming. That is, the data indicate the oceans warmed naturally. If that topic is new to you, refer to the illustrated essay The Manmade Global Warming Challenge .",2_1
"Longer term the sun is behaving like it did in the last 1700s and early 1800s, leading many to believe we are likely to experience conditions more like the early 1800s (called the Dalton Minimum) in the next few decades. That was a time of cold and snow. It was the time of Charles Dickens and his novels with snow and cold in London (hmmmm).",1_2
"""Children just aren't going to know what snow is,"" he said.",0_0
"So, knowing Fred Singer, for example, helped me understand what makes for warm periods and cooling interspersed related to sun cyles.",2_1
"Molly Maple: Hey, Heath, you gonna participate in Earth Day activities this year?",0_0
The return of both China and Islam in world history after a three-century-long eclipse has been the defining feature of the international stage since 1979.,0_0
"One topic on their agenda is the fate of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which was meant to curb our carbon emissions and which expires in 2012.",0_0
"But this considerably understates therisks. Ifjust 1% of the 1.2 million facilities that would become major stationary sources of CO 2 undertake new construction ormodifications,EPA and its state counterparts would have to process 12,000PSD permits per year. The ensuing administrative quagmire would bring new construction and economic development to a screeching halt.PSD for CO 2 potentially turns the CAA into a gigantic Anti-Stimulus package.",0_0
"is 351 ft tall , or 107 meters, or over 30-stories",0_0
"Meet David Crane , president and CEO of NRG Energy , the nations biggest independent power producer (IPP). This companysdiversified generation interests are fueled by every energy source from coal to wind.",0_0
Ben you are gonna need a bigger sick bag,0_0
"Temperatures are plummeting across the globe, but the models are heating up. They probably sense a threat to their funding with the new Congress, and are responding by generating even more nonsensical scenarios.",5_2
"Worst, all this fakery pales next to what the full Energy and Commerce Committee had blessed as proof of imminent Climate Armageddon in April 2009. The Democrats' superstar witness was renowned climatologist Al Gore, who had earned a C and a D in the only science courses he took in college.",5_2
"The Heartland Institute's second Women in Politics Event, held just days before the 2016 election in our Andrew Breitbart Freedom Center, was simply fantastic. Speakers included Illinois Lt. Gov. Evelyn Sanguinetti; Illinois state Senate Minority Leader Christine Radogno; and Linda J. Hansen, deputy chief of staff for Herman Cain's 2012 presidential campaign. It was an inspiring evening with strong women who are shaping free-market governing policies in America. WATCH IT NOW",0_0
Now the issue is front and center again because of Kennedy and the extended search by Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) to fill the seat vacated by Mel Martinez (R)a seat Crist himself is seeking in the November 2010 election.,0_0
"The second front is installing sunset provisions. Like a carton of milk, every newly created regulation should have an expiration date, beyond which it gets discarded unless renewed by Congress. Obsolete rules should not be on the books at all.",0_0
"Although some ice researchers believe that it all lies within the natural variability, s like second green have it that istillvxten some way must have been caused by global warming. The stronger the winds could easily have been caused by a warmer climate, they say. And it fits ice cases well into The IPCC storyline where absolutely everything depends on the frdande carbon dioxide that we have produced p of people lately.",0_0
"Low temperature records are falling by the hundreds this winter. This is occurring despite the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicting that extreme cold outbreaks will become less frequent and less severe. When a theory's predictions are contradicted by real-world events, sound science requires us to re-examine the theory.",1_3
"Here's what Jon Entine, visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, has to say about the scientific consensus on GMOs:",0_0
George Will??s statement is essentially that the blue the dot at the end of 2008 represents more ice than the dot at the end of 1979. This is true as factoids often are.,1_1
"This new peer-reviewed research regarding the Hudson Bay sea ice issue indicates there is actually no trend of earlier sea ice breakup in the area. The data analysis does show, though, a one-time shift to an earlier breakup date during late 1980's, but no trend prior or post to that event that can be attributed to AGW causes.",0_0
"In a sane world, this exhibit would be considered to be satire.",0_0
"First, they claimed that Mitchell had deleted all the emails concerning AR4. (This excuse came on June 2, 2008, three days after Jones had sent an email asking Mann, Briffa, Ammann and Wahl to delete their emails concerning AR4. We know that Jones and Briffa had corresponded with Mitchell in March about Holland??s request to the Met Office for Review Comments. We do not know when Mitchell was supposed to have deleted his emails.)",5_2
"What Sierra Club focused on was Obama's call for ""new sources of energy"" other than the traditional ones. He was referring to solar and wind energy. A recent news article on CNSNews noted that ""Solar power, which President Barack Obama promoted accounted for 0.2% of the U.S. electricity supply in the first nine months of 2013, according to data published by the U.S. government's Energy Information Administration.""",0_0
"So how would a proxy for cold water become one of the most important contributors to the Moberg (And Juckes) reconstructions of NH temperature? The shortest answer is that it has a hockey stick shape ??? indeed, the HS-ness of the proxy was observed in an early publication of this data in which it was actually overlaid against the MBH hockey stick as shown below. (Overpeck, the second author of this article, has been rumored to be the person who told David Deming about ???getting rid of the MWP??.)",5_1
"The development of this sentiment was not inevitable. President Obama took power with the strong support of most Americans, who hoped and believed he could make America whole again. Instead, in his deeds and in his words, in what he has done and in what he has failed to do, he has alienated the vast American middle.",0_0
And here is one thing that was better for me but I guess must be worse for the Left since they complain about it so much,0_0
"The figures also show that all three climate cycles reached their maximum shortly after the end of the last millennium. With that in mind, we actually should have expected even higher temperatures than those seen in previous warm periods. Here perhaps the fact that the global temperature has seen a negative overall trend since the Holocene Maximum plays a role. That means that the global temperature has fallen by 2C over the past 8000 years.",2_1
The record shows no trend. Even the long warming fromt he Little Ice Age has stopped.,1_4
"Normally, a supply barge arrives in the Amundsen Gulf in early summer to replenish stocks of fuel and other necessities, says the CBC. But this year, that trip is being held up by ice. As much as 30 to 40 per cent of the Arctic Ocean remains covered in ice.",1_1
"Modern coal-fired power stations with efficient pollution controls do not release detectable particulates or noxious gases. Bans on dirty combustion and more clean electricity will clear the smog of Asian cities.All gases in the atmosphere have an effect on global climate, usually a moderating one, reducing the intense heat of the midday sun and reducing the rate of cooling at night. But only in theoretical climate models does carbon dioxide drive global warming - real evidence contradicts them.",0_0
"Question: What is the degree of overlap in the data sets that are used to construct the global average surface temperature trend analyses? To frame this question another way, what raw surface temperature data is used in each analysis that is not used in the other analyses?",0_0
"author's name is known, but the reviewers remain anonymous. This is",0_0
"America is now engaged in a significant reappraisal of foreign policy, true to Ike's first warning. Our challenge now is to take to heart, to defend ourselves against the utopian quest to remake the world not only abroad, but at home as well. With equal fervor, we need to heed Ike's second warning, to gird ourselves for the fight against the equally utopian crusade led by that other complex the scientific-technocratic elite to forcibly create Heaven on Earth.",0_0
"As for the NAS, it has distanced itself from its former president and touted its own 91 report that gave credence to global-warming hysteria. Ironically, the NAS will release a report in spring 99 about what additional research might reduce the scientific uncertainty about global warming.",0_0
The EPA could finally act on a December 2009 petitionby the Center for Biological Diversity and 350.Org to establish national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for carbon dioxide (CO2) and other GHGs.,0_0
"Experts say such winds today would rip windows from skyscrapers and cause a deadly blizzard of flying glass, masonry, chairs, desks and other debris from high-rise offices and apartments. People would seek safety in subway tunnels, where they would drown as the tunnels flood.",0_0
"In 2007 he worked for Current TV, where he edited over 50 short-form documentaries for terrestrial broadcast",0_0
"There is an interesting chart that shows typical baselines used for a sample of crops. In particular, note that the USDA zone maps are based on degree days with a very high baseline:",0_0
"Eric Pooley of Bloomberg Businessweek also dismissed the legitimacy and importance of the e-mail revelations. ?When the next climate scandalette comes along,? he said, ?some news organizations will surely play to hype and get carried away with their coverage- in effect, becoming a handy transmission belt for the professional deniers.?",0_0
"Stuart Varney interviews scientist Pat Michaels , with the CATO institute, who was the target of physical threat from Climate Scientist Ben . He also DESTROYS Dan Weiss , from the Center for American Progress.",0_0
"Accordingly, it is much more difficult to predict future regional climates and the benefits of GHG abatement for specific populations and countries across the planet than to predict global patterns. Yet, what matters for local populations in deciding whether to support GHG controls and their costs is the anticipated impact on regional water supplies, crop yields, sea levels, temperatures, health, and other related outcomes. Regional climate uncertainty makes it very difficult for local and national leaders to forge a political consensus for joining any multilateral action.",0_0
"The graph above plots the ten year running mean of US hurricane strikes vs. atmospheric CO2. As you can see, there is no correlation between increasing CO2 and increasing hurricane strikes.",1_7
The study was part of a larger nationwide study commissioned by the American Meteorological Society to look at extreme weather events in 2013 from a climate perspective.,0_0
"However, during a winter break in 2006, Bao obtained some unusual data from barite, a sulfate mineral dating from the Snowball Earth period that he received from a colleague in China.",0_0
"Further, the Arctic has been referred to as a bellwether for global warming, owing to the observed amplification of warming in the Arctic in the last quarter of the 20th century. Hence, the importance of sorting out exactly what is going on in the Arctic Ocean and why is of outsized importance relative to its 2.8% effect.",0_0
"Then this one has the cop in charge having participated in a crisis training drill, so clearly he could have staged one. OK, and I guess anyone who trains for nuclear preparation could start a nuclear war too?",0_0
"Other commentators have pointed out recently that, while Arctic ice is at record low levels since 1979, Antarctic sea ice levels are at or close to record highs. I thought, therefore, that this might be a good time to look at satellite temperatures for the two poles.",1_1
"Not only did Arctic ice make a spectacular recovery this year, but the remaining ice is relatively thick and the water is cold.",1_1
"It is hard to convey just how bad this decision is; five members of the nation's highest court signed off on an opinion that, were it submitted as an answer to a first-year law exam on statutory interpretation and administrative law, would get a failing grade.",0_0
"the president of the Royal Society of London drafted a resolution in favour and circulated it to other academies of science inviting co-signing. The president of the RSC, not a member of the Academy of Science, received the invitation. He considered it consistent with the position of the great majority of scientists, as repeatedly but erroneously claimed by Kyoto proponents, and so signed it. The resolution was not referred to the Academy of Science for comment, not even to its council or president.",5_2
"Vice President Al Gore threatened to shut down the federal government if Congress does not approve President Clinton's environmental funding requests. ""We are putting Congress on notice,"" said Gore. ""We will not tolerate stealth attacks that do unacceptable harm to our environment or threaten public health.""",0_0
"I sent an e-mail to EIKE to get their opinion on DIE ZEITs perception of the skeptic movement. They replied, addressing the warmist movement in general:",0_0
"Twenty years ago this week, Bill Clinton put us on the path which kept temperatures below Scenario C.",0_0
"At the end of 2011, federal ethanol subsidies worth 45 cents a gallon expired, in place since the 1980s, along with protective tariffs. But, the recently reduced mandate remained and it continues to provide farmers with benefits at the expense of American consumers.",0_0
A COOL LATE SEASON STORM SYSTEM WILL PRODUCE WINTER DRIVING CONDITIONS OVER SHERMAN PASS TODAY.,0_0
"Dozens of people registered to vote out of office towers, but who did not list a suite number, causing the address to read similarly to ordinary residences - in many cases, these people are also registered to vote in other ridings using their home addresses, and in other cases, voters living in other ridings are only registered in Edmonton Centre",0_0
3. Renewable energy sources should always be used when it makes economic sense to do so. The less that governments intervene the more likely it is that this will happen.,0_0
"Over century-long time frames, a lot can change. In 1910 the idea of global air commerce was a gleam perhaps in a poet's imagination, but hardly forecast. Global air miles exploded by 1960, and continued ballooning for the next 50 years. The central challenge is not forecasting how many air miles we'll fly in 2110, or gigabytes of bandwidth grandsons-of-iPhone will consume (a lot by the way--data centers already consume more energy than civil aviation). We can only dimly guess--never mind plan nor create--a specific technology future.",0_0
"Genetic engineering serves as a proxy for what many latter-day Luddites find repulsive. The notion that the production of food is just as much science as art is disquieting to many people. Genetic manipulation serves as the most visible example of the type of cellular-level impersonality they cannot abide in modern farming. To these romantics, food should be produced as a labor of love by peasants in straw hats and artisans of the soil. That vision has no room for PhDs in lab coats.",0_0
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"7. Herman Kahn and Anthony J. Weiner, The Year 2000: A Framework for Speculation on the Next Thirty-Three Years (New York: Macmillan, 1967).",0_0
"Today there is so much installed capacity, Bild writes, that on days with lots of sunshine and wind, the green power has to be sold to foreign countries even if they dont need it. When that happens the highly subsidized power gets sold at negative prices. The result? Huge losses for power companies. This is how disfigured the electric power market has become.",4_4
"Useful ones might be Baldwin, Benestad (written on the solar/cloud",0_0
"The era of big government is definitely not over, but the era of top loading washing machines and freedom of choice apparently is.",0_0
"""The man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan 30 years ago is being granted additional time away from the Washington psychiatric hospital where he lives.""",0_0
Earth has the same amount of sea ice as it did when Hansen made that forecast in 1984,1_1
"A new study, ""Emissions pathways, climate change, and impacts on California,"" published in the August 24 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences garnered considerable press coverage in California and the rest of the nation on August 17. The Associated Press coverage was typical:",0_0
"While some other bloggers and journalists insist that recent winter snows are proof of global warming effects, they miss the fact that models have been predicting less snow in the norther hemisphere. See this 2005 peer reviewed paper:",5_1
The data suggests that changing solar activity is influencing in some way the global climate causing the world to get warmer.,2_1
"Simple - Heat in, heat out equals climate change. This is why heat into water changes the temperature. The same is true for cold in/cold out and why winter is predictable every year.",0_0
"It seemed far more likely to us, with 17 candidates in the race, a new money system that made it easier for more to stay in longer with the help of one or two ""sugar daddies"" running Super PACs, a delegate selection process that would keep a race going longer, and a more radical populist zeitgeist, that Trump and Cruz would be the last ones standing and that Trump could indeed prevail.",0_0
"Individual responses were based on a range of methods: statistical, numerical models, comparison with previous observations and rates of ice loss, or composites of several approaches.",0_0
"At The American Spectator, Shawn Macomber has very good article on Warren Brookes, after whom CEI's journalism fellowship is named. He highlights Brookes's debunking of radical green hokum:",0_0
"Researchers at the Ohio State University Survey Research Unit have taken a unique approach to understanding public opinion on global warming. Between Sept. 1 and Oct. 5, 1997, before President Clinton launched the White House Conference on Climate Change on Oct. 6 at Georgetown University, they conducted a national telephone survey on attitudes about global warming.",0_0
"There's an interesting illustration of the intellectual class zeitgeist in the Fox story as well. Note how Friedman goes out of his way to point out that he isn't one of those horrible deniers. It's the 21st-century equivalent of ""Some of my best friends are black.""",0_0
A problem with this approach is that GCM projections are relatively poor scenario generators.,0_0
"Mitt Romney: He says he's not interested in 2012, but the former Massachusetts governor's Free and Strong America political action committee donated to seventy-five GOP candidates nationwide, plus efforts to stop same-sex marriage in California and marijuana decriminalization in Massachusetts.",0_0
"In concert with the ads, several Green pressure groups are releasing ""studies"" about global warming. The World Wildlife Fund for Nature, released a report that warned of flooding in New York and Tokyo, droughts in Latin America, and the destruction of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. ""Evidence for the warming of our planet over the last 200 years is now overwhelming,"" claims WWF. With no action to curb emissions, the climate on earth over the next century could become warmer than any the human species has lived through"" (ABC News, October 19, 1999).",0_0
"Considering the long years of media-driven drivel about global warming, the hoax should have been over by now, given the exposure in 2009 of thousands of emails between the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)conspirators and growing body of evidence that everything they asserted was a great steaming pile of horse manure.",5_2
This is a serious problem which has not been addressed by any existing climate change assessment.,0_0
"Is the Presidents renewed emphasis on climate changejust a sop to his environmentalist base? Doubtful.As a second termer, Obama has less reason politically to restrain his progressive impulses.Several regulatory options are now in play:",0_0
"Elsewhere they note the Newport, Rhode Island, tide gauge provides a 0.9-mm/y rate as well. The residual sea-level trend shows no apparent agreement with that of atmospheric CO2. When a Guilford marsh reconstruction is detrended and compared to the CO2 record of the same period, there is no indication of an exponential increase in the rate of sea-level rise. They present many other sites that simply do not show the expected accelerated rise in sea level over the past 100 or so years when the greenhouse gas buildup increased.",1_6
A Clinton victory could inspire a return to the old playbook,0_0
"/s/ Al Worden JSC, Astronaut, Apollo 15, 9 years",0_0
There are two factors that suggest Hopewells record may not be totally reliable.,0_0
"Stott isnt alone. Within the past two years, at least seven peer-reviewed studies published in the scientific literature have concluded that the influence of doubling the amount of CO 2 in the Earths atmosphere is likely to be substantially lower than IPCC has determined and have ruled out the high-end projections.",3_1
"To hear the Obama Administration explain it, Russia and the United States have common interests in Syria, difficult though it may be to reach an agreement based on them. We both want a stable Syria. Neither one of us wants the jihadi radicals to end up in charge of the country. We both want religious and ethnic minorities protected. We both want the killing to stop.",0_0
"As Nunavut government biologist Mitch Taylor observed in a front-page story in the Nunatsiaq News last month, the Inuit were right. There arent just a few more bears. There are a hell of a lot more bears.",3_2
"""The EPA claims that global warming will lead to catastrophic sea level rise, inundating parts of Florida, but the science does not support these alarmist claims,"" commented CEI's Paul Georgia, environmental research associate and managing editor of the Cooler Heads a bi-weekly newsletter covering global warming issues. ""Such scare mongering has no place in an essentially scientific debate.""",5_2
Alan Caruba has good advice for humanity get over ourselves :,0_0
"None of whats going on today is outside long term variations in ice cover and thickness . On November 20, 1817 the President of the Royal Society proposed a letter to the British Admiralty:",1_1
"one of America's great manufacturing states is absurd on its face, but",0_0
"The Economist has a response to Howards talk, titled: Global Warming and Religion: Faith Upon the Earth. This essay is on the Economistss Erasmus Blog, which considers the intersections between religion and public policy. Excerpts:",0_0
"Second, the issue of less egregious bullying where people outside the predominant leftist consensus are considered beyond the pale. This one is rampant in climate science. The ostracism of non-consensus scientists (most recently Lennaert Bengtsson, see also the recent article on John Christy ), both publicly and privately is bullying.",5_2
"?(The summary for policymakers) is a document written to scare to public and scare the politicians into providing more funding for their own research and their own political agenda,? he said. ?The actual science report, which it supposedly is based on isn?t going to be released right away. They?ve always done it his way because the summary for policymakers completely disagrees with what the science report is saying. They know that the media and the public are not going to read the science report. And they also know that if any of them get into it, they won?t understand it anyway.?",5_2
"Since Barack Obama took office in January 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a suite of anti-coal regulations, collectively known as the ""war on coal,"" which to date has lead to the loss of 26,000 megawatts of coal-fired electricityenough to power 20 million to 26 million homes. And that's just the beginning: According to an analysis by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, EPA regulations will ""likely"" retire almost an additional 55,000 megawatts of coal-fired electricity by 2018.",0_0
"Noting that ""many predictions of the impact of climate change on biodiversity assume a species-specific response to changing environments,"" Seebacher et al . proceed to argue, on the basis of their results, that ""this resolution can be too coarse and that analysis of the impacts of climate change and other environmental variability should be resolved to a population level,"" since their findings suggest that some populations of a species may indeed be able to cope with a change of climate with which others cannot, thereby preventing the otherwise inevitable climate-induced extinction of the species.",3_2
"To calculate the trends I used the OLS method, both from the formula and using the EXCEL LINEST function, getting the same answer each time. If you are able please check my calculations . The GISTEMP Southern Hemisphere and global data can be accessed direct from the NASA GISS website . The GISTEMP trends are from the skepticalscience trends tool. My figures are:-",0_0
Greenlands surface gained mass yesterday for the first time this summer. The net surface gain over the past year has been 300 billion tons.,1_1
Bob Greenes postings on the M6 have some factual inaccuracies:,0_0
"Nicolas Loris, The Foundry , 25 July 2011",0_0
said that MJ restricted their use of paleo series to those that had correlations with,0_0
"Desperation Breeds Contempt for Free Speech, Freedom Itself",0_0
"The most valuable contribution U.S. scientists can make is to continually question basic assumptions and conclusions, promote clear and careful appraisal and presentation of the uncertainties about climate change as well as those areas in which science is leading to robust conclusions, and work toward a significant improvement in the ability to project the future. In the process, we will better define the nature of the problems and ensure that the best possible information is available for policy makers.",0_0
We could also use a bit more skepticism regarding claims about human contributions to climate change. These claims depend on the output of climate models that purport to demonstrate a causal link between the observed atmospheric buildup of greenhouse gases and surface temperatures. But these models do a poor job of reproducing the Earth's actual climate. For example:,5_1
Adjacent is another study confirming the lack of prediction skill emanating from the IPCC. India still is hammered by monsoons but rainfall amounts are no different than in the past.,5_1
"Let's walk through the numbers. In 2005, domestic ethanol output totaled about 170,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, and domestic oil production was about 5.2 million barrels per day. By 2014, thanks to federal mandates that require its consumption, domestic ethanol output had nearly quadrupled to 620,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. But that increase in energy output was a fraction of what was produced thanks to horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing in places such as the Bakken shale in North Dakota and the Eagle Ford shale in south Texas.",0_0
"Over at Tallblokes Talkshop , moderator Tim Channon wondered about this regularly hot station reported in the news:",0_0
"Dr. Roger A. Pielke Sr. is Senior Research Scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado in Boulder and Professor Emeritus of the Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins. His books include Mesoscale Meteorological Modeling (1984; 2nd edition 2002), The Hurricane (1990), Human Impacts on Weather and Climate with W.R. Cotton (1995; 2nd Edition 2006), and Hurricanes: Their Nature and Impacts on Society with R.A. Pielke, Jr (1997). He has published over 330 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 50 chapters in books, and co-edited 9 books. Dr. Pielke is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union in 2004 and has served as editor for numerous scientific publications.",0_0
"This is laughably false and illustrated by over 3,000 peer-reviewed published scientific papers cited, analyzed, and referenced on this little unpaid-volunteer blog alone, not to mention many others, The NIPCC Report , and blogs by top climate scientists . The UCS is clearly projecting it's own shameful tactics of ""trying to confuse us all"" ""not with facts or reasoned argument - but with disinformation.""",5_1
"Divesting fossil fuels portfolios is also financially imprudent. Fossil-fuel stocks are among the best for solid, risk-adjusted returns. One analysis found that a 2.1% share in fossil fuel companies by colleges and universities generated 5.7% of all endowment gains in 2010 to 2011, to fund scholarship, building, and other programs. Teacher, police, and other public pension funds have experienced similar results.",0_0
"Christopher M. Taylor, Richard A. M. de Jeu, Franoise Guichard, Phil P. Harris & Wouter A. Dorigo Afternoon rain more likely over drier soils will be published in Nature on 12 September 2012. www.nature.com DOI 10.1038/nature11377",0_0
"Their paper - now known to be seriously flawed (click the hockey stick graph for an article by an esteemed physicist) - was going to argue that there were virtually no natural variations of the climate in the past 600 years (and in 1999, millenium) or so and only in the industrial era of the 20th century, the temperatures suddenly started to skyrocket. The medieval warm period was eradicated. For example, on this graph , the red curve is IPCC 1990, the blue curve is MBH99, and the black curve is Moberg 2006. Quite a difference!",5_1
The structure of ACESA virtually assures that it will impose higher than necessary costs to achieve the climate benefits for which it aims.,0_0
"Governments have funded thousands of scientists to study one sort of problem. The unwritten rules of climate science research are fairly clear: workers will be rewarded if they find one kind of answer, and called a denier, defunded, sacked, and basically exiled in the tea-rooms of universities around Australia if they find any other kind of answer.",0_0
"... was disappointed, however, that the poster abstract submitted with Lloyd Keigwin (WHOI), Misrepresentations of Sargasso Sea Temperatures by Global Warming Doubters, was rejected. It had to be truly disappointing when LFCS named Mark Boslough learned that Dr Chlek didn't want incompetent aggressive crackpots to exploit their incredible presence at the conference to attack actual scientists. Let me ignore the long and vacuous Curry-bashing by LFCS Mark Boslough and jump to the most important point of his article:",5_2
"on Saturday, January 21st, 2012 at 5:51 am and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"""The next administration, the Congress, and the courts"" could argue ""you can't repeal the Environmental Protection Agency regulations or overturn them in court, we made an international commitment,"" Ebell said.",0_0
"Undaunted, Davis set out to organize workers at these hospitals and then threaten strikes if management refused to acknowledge the union. His first conquest was Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, which 1199 organized in 1958. Seven other voluntary hospitals caved, following a 46-day strike against them that began in May 1959.",0_0
Zeke has a post at Skeptical Science: Understanding adjustments to temperature data,0_0
"Finally, there is the problem of enforcement of any international agreement. If countries do not adhere, then global mitigation objectives cannot be met, and new rounds of negotiations become necessary. Global GHG emissions-detection technologies may be insufficient to identify breaches when there are many sources of the GHG that vary in size, location, timing, production technologies, and sectors. National economic recessions could mask a lack of compliance that would be revealed during an economic rebound. There are the politically-sensitive issues of migration of firms and jobs from developed economies to less-regulated developing ones. There is also the issue of greater carbon intensity in developing countries encouraged by falling fossil fuel prices when demand for them is reduced in developed economies.",4_2
"""An elderly Upper East Side woman claims a sanitation agent chased her, threatened her with arrest and slapped her with a ticket for putting day-old newspapers in a city trash can.""",0_0
valuable thing to do is to tell the story about abrupt change as vividly as,0_0
"With our nation drowning in debt, energy prices skyrocketing, and unaccountable pseudo-scientific agencies like EPA and Interior hobbling economic growth with endless delays and red tape, Dr. Robinson decided to run for Congress. As a scientist and thoughtful, Christian family man, with proven math and budgetary skills he felt he could bring much needed expertise and perspectives to the House of Representatives.",0_0
Why we argue climate change: Settled science isnt necessarily so,0_0
"The incident reveals that Beijing is willing to use its increased economic strength as a tool of coercion, no matter the consequences for its own standing in international markets. But that is not all it reveals. Indeed, this is one in a series of arguments and incidents between China and Japan over the last decade related to sovereignty, territory, rights to natural resources, and China's expanding maritime capabilities in and around Japan.",0_0
"The focus on greenhouse gas mitigation, both domestically andinternationally, has been misplaced, and the money and attention ofworld leaders toward greenhouse gas mitigation efforts would be bestdirected elsewhere.",4_2
"The column by Frances Beinecke (Despite misinformation effort, U.S. is targeting climate change, July 11) recites all the tired myths and cliches of the global warming movement but offers not one iota of evidence. One would have hoped the leader of an organization with an annual budget of more than $100 million would be better informed about an issue as important as climate change.",5_2
"Certainly, if the method wereas Burger and Cubasch claimprone to using nonsense predictors when applied to multiproxy network with the signal-to-noise attributes of the Rutherford et al (2005) proxy network, and calibrating over intervals with trends similar to those in the actual observations, there would be at least some hint of this in tests using networks with even lower signal-to-noise ratios, and calibrated over intervals with even larger trends? But there is no such evidence at all in the experiments detailed by Mann et al (2005).",0_0
"Don't get me wrong. I am quite hawkish when it comes to the exertion of an expansive federal power to combat genuine national security threats. But my tolerance for such authority only reaches ""national security"" challenges as they are fairly traditionally construed (e.g., dealing with the threats presented by people who might actually attack us). It makes me nervous to inflate that conceptual currency, and it probably should make you nervous too.",0_0
Australians would be well advised to watch this green train wreck very closely if they wish to avoid a repeat of the fiasco that is unfolding in Europe.,0_0
"NEW YORKFormer President Bill Clinton and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a new climate initiative Monday to help cities measure their risk for severe weather and natural disasters. The hope is to help curb the impact of deadly storms like Superstorm Sandy, which devastated parts of New York City last October.",0_0
"The five Chinese researchers report that ""both plant species grown under elevated CO 2 showed shoot and root dry weight biomass stimulation ranging from 6 to 102% and an increase of shoot and root Cs content ranging from 6 to 150%.""",3_3
"Professor Mann is currently under investigation by Penn State University because of activities related to a closed circle of climate scientists who appear to have been engaged in agenda-driven science. Emails and documents mysteriously released from the previously-prestigious Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom revealed discussions of manipulation and destruction of research data, as well as efforts to interfere with the peer review process to stifle opposing views. The motivation underlying these efforts appears to be a coordinated strategy to support the belief that mankinds activities are causing global warming.",5_2
"""The much paraded reform of financial governance institutions has not gone far enough,"" the position paper for the U.N. leadership's keynote session asserts, and the voting power of emerging players and developing world, in general, which demand a greater say on these matters, remains inadequate.""",0_0
"FoodPolitik: Controlling Your Food, the Trojan Horse of ""public health':",0_0
"In fact, up until very recently President Obama's campaign website had a section devoted to the President's goals for every energy resource except coal. Only after facing intense criticism, and disappointing primary results in coal states, the Obama campaign attempted quietly to add a ""clean coal"" section to its site.",0_0
"The admission is paucity of high-resolution palaeoclimatic evidence, meaning no direct measures of temperature and precipitation exists. Thus, the reliance I emphasize the wordon tree-ring data as a stand-in for what was not measured.",5_1
This idea was introduced by the previous Labour government and is already widespread in Europe.,0_0
Jack Kemp is co-director of Empower America and Distinguished Fellow of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.,0_0
"Horizontal axis is thousands of years before the present. Second graph shows a decrease in El Nino intensity since the Minoan Warm Period 3,000 years ago. Bottom graphs show modern droughts are not unusual or unprecedented.",1_7
"An email conversation provided additional information on this site. First, the Minden Press-Herald was recommended as a good site for the local view on the problem. This link contains a summary of the EPAs decision to defer the action date by 90 days . The EPA basically agrees that communication is a great thing and that Louisiana Military Department has 90 days to come up with an (acceptable) alternate method of disposal. EPA did not, as many in the community have requested, provide better estimates of emissions. An additional link is the EPA Request for Approval for a Time-Critical Removal at the site.",0_0
"The National Snow And Ice Data Center in Colorado has still failed to mention this on their web site. They continue to discuss the record Arctic minimum, and until recently were featuring an article about penguins being threatened by decliningAntarcticsea ice, even though Antarctic sea ice has been steadily increasing throughout the satellite record.",1_1
There are nineteen USHCN stations in Virginia . NOAA tell us :-,0_0
"""President Obama and labor unions are entering a new and difficult stretch in their relationship as the White House looks to find common ground with Republicans on issues like trade and the deficit.""",0_0
Related stories auf Deutsch at Readers Edition and eigent mlich frei.,0_0
"On Sep 28, 2005, (CG1- 590. 1128000000.txt), Rob Wilson emailed Osborn and Briffa, both IPCC Authors, and complained about my email to ODowd (which had been copied to Wilson). Osborn immediately replied, calling the request that the data be archived an abuse of my position as an IPCC peer reviewer. Rosanne D??Arrigo (CG2-2590) wrote to Osborn and Briffa, advocating that I be ???fired?? as an IPCC reviewer. D??Arrigo urged the Climategaters to be ???very cautious about our emails as Lord V will stop at nothing??:",5_2
"Obama believes the president should lead a revolution in society, the economy, and the political system, but defer on national security and foreign policy to the other branches of government. This upends the Framers' vision of the presidency. They thought the chief executive's powers would expand broadly to meet external challenges while playing a modest role at home.",0_0
"Call it an economic train wreck, a constitutional crisis, orlegslative thuggery. Litigation-drivenregulation of carbon dioxide (CO2)under the Clean Air Act (CAA) is all of the above.",0_0
"It's the nature of media (and, perhaps, society in general) that it often works to build controversy where none exists. Few places is that more evident than political races. When Texas Governor Rick Perry official entered the presidential race last week, he made comments about climate change and the adequacy of the science. Candidate Mitt Romney then contrasted Perry's take with his own view that human beings contribute to global warming.",0_0
"The following salient observations, many geological in nature, may help you put recently published and overly dramatic press reports of shockingly rapid glacial acceleration on the Svalbard Islands into a more naturally occurring context.",0_0
"But even after the USDA's subsequent environmental review concluded that coexistence was not a problem, Vilsack nevertheless sowed confusion and concern among American plant breeders and farmers by proposing geographic restrictions as well as minimum separation distances from other crops for the commercial cultivation of the genetically engineered alfalfa variety. This would have signaled an abandonment of any semblance of a scientific underpinning of regulation, and it would have been disastrous news for the vast majority of American farmers who have eagerly embraced genetic engineering technology that has delivered substantial economic and environmental benefits over the past two decades.",0_0
"Meanwhile, Bjorn Lomborg has his own take on things at Project Syndicate, looking at the IPCC's cost estimates, the attempts to adjust them to help the green movement and the embarrassing chasm between current and earlier estimates like those of Lord Stern:",5_2
"Of course, it is quite possible that human emissions will cause the climate to change. If it does so, and where danger is posed due to that change, it is likely to harm only the most poverty-stricken on the planet. Much like the example of malaria above, extreme weather, and disease-enhanced warmth are only threatening to those with no ability to adapt and overcome the danger. When Cromwell caught malaria no one knew the cause, and there was no cure. There was no technology at any price. Today, malaria is prevalent in relatively poor countries, like Malaysia, but non-existent in its rich neighbor, Singapore, where capitalist-driven technologies have solved the problem.",0_0
"""Over the last week, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) spent at least $200,000 on billboard signs, direct mail and radio ads, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records. Those funds were for attacks against Republican opponents of several vulnerable House Democrats as well as against Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), who is running for retiring Sen. Kit Bond's (R-Mo.) seat.""",0_0
"On January 8, 2014, the White House posted a curious video claiming that global warming causes more severe winter cold. Called ""The Polar Vortex Explained in 2 Minutes,"" it featured the director of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), John Holdren, claiming that a ""growing body of evidence"" showed that the ""extreme cold being experienced by much of the United States as we speak is a pattern that we can expect to see with increasing frequency as global warming continues.""",0_0
"???This paper??s results concerning average seawater salinity and acidity show that, on a global scale and over the time scales considered (hundreds of years), there would not be accentuated changes in either seawater salinity or acidity from the observed or hypothesized rises in atmospheric CO2 concentrations.??",3_2
"1. Observed natural variation, which has produced periods of warming statistically indistinguishable from the warming which ended in 1998.",2_1
"Firstly, hundreds of tide gauges show sea level rising at about a third of the rate than satellites do . Worse, the original satellite raw data showed the same slow rise, until it was suddenly adjusted. The real scandal is that the rapidly rising trend was largely created by adjustments in the first place. These latest corrections just adjust down part of the rate which had been created by adjusting up. On top of all that, the long paleo-history of sea levels done by people like Nils-Axel Mrner show that the current rise is not unusual or unprecedented at all. Could it get more pointless? It can: the acceleration Watson et al found is so small its less than the errors. (See the graph below).",5_1
"According to the White House website, President Obama has only made public reference to nuclear energy three times before last night. Two of those were cursory observations that the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill could be a boon to development of low-carbon technologies, including nuclear power. The other was a puzzling mention in a major address delivered last April in Newton, Iowa. Obama stated that we will need supplies of oil and natural gas in the short term, because we won't transform our energy economy overnight. To that he added, ""We also need to find safer ways to use nuclear power and store nuclear waste.""",0_0
"The Audi ad tells preening, greener-than-thou progressives 'here is the car for you.' At the same time, it lampoons the authoritarianism of green busybodies, allowing the rest of us to admire the car's mpg rating without feeling we have to identify with Al Gore or the Sierra Club.",0_0
"CEI: Is the Club for Growth taking into account government regulations, which seem to us to be taxes on people's behavior, if not their wallets?",0_0
"Gregory Melleuish is right when he says that ?climate change has become an issue only because it has been seen to have practical policy implication? (p. 9). G. Melleuish, ?The Dubious Future of History,? Quadrant, May 2010;www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2010/5/the-dubious-future-of-history.",0_0
Y2Kyoto: We Don't Need No Stinking Giant Fans,0_0
"According to official data, average sea level rose by 18 centimeters during the 20th century (i.e., less than two centimeters per decade) and the first 10 years of the 21st century show no accelerating trend. The average forecasts of the IPCC for the current century report an increase of 30 centimeters, or three centimeters per decade.",1_6
"Indeed, given the rather tepid estimates of actual 'global warming reduction' the Kyoto Protocol might achieve if everyone does everything they have pledge to do (increasingly unlikely), there is a strong argument that a tax reform that reduces tax rates across the board (personal and business) and reduces the tax burden on saving and investment, would do a lot more to advance the stated goals of Kyoto than Kyoto itself. As Asia surges ahead in the global economy, the peoples of Asia are demanding more and more energy to drive their economies, and the efficiency of their energy use will become a truly vital international concern: a concern the Kyoto Protocol doesn't even pretend to address.",0_0
"Say what? What could possibly justify that kind of adjustment, seven tenths of a degree? The early part of the record is adjusted to show less warming. Then from 1973 to 1989, Matanuska is adjusted to warm at a feverish rate of 4.4 degrees per century ... but Matanuska is a RURAL station. Since GISS says that the homogenization effort is designed to change thelong term trend of any non-rural station to match the long term trend of their rural neighbors, why is Matanuska being adjusted at all?",0_0
"According to this index, the 8 most severe droughts at the 6-month time scale for the summer rainfall region of South Africa happened in 1926, 1933, 1945, 1949, 1952, 1970, 1983 and 1992. There is considerable decadal variability and an 18 to 20 year cycle is only found in the number of dry districts.",1_7
"And researchers at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., reported this week that nighttime summer temperatures across the country have been unusually high for the past eight years, a record streak. Its just incredible, when you look at this thing, said Richard Heim, a research meteorologist at the center. He added that only the Dust Bowl period of the mid-1930s rivaled recent summers for sustained heat levels.",0_0
"Back around 18,000 years ago during the deepest part of the last Ice Age, a period known as the Wisconsin, sea levels were about 400 feet lower than now. That was because lots of the water was bound up in land ice. Then about 15,000 years ago huge ice sheets covering North America and Eurasian land masses began to rapidly melt, causing sea levels to rise at the rate of roughly 16 feet per century up until the beginning of the Holocene Optimum. Between about 8,000 to 5,000 years ago the rate of rise declined precipitously, and has been relatively stable ever since.",1_6
"3,000,000 North Americans are seriously injured annually in car crashes.",0_0
"""The court's decision today voiding the SEC's hedge fund registration rule is a victory for all shareholders. Hedge funds have been a major force in holding corporate CEOs accountable, ensuring they deliver value to investors. This market force for practical corporate governance benefits not just hedge fund customers, but the entire investing public.""",0_0
"Prize lecture, ""The United States of America has helped underwrite global security for more than",0_0
"So far this month, the US is having its10th coldest January on record, and the coldest since 1982",1_3
CSIRO. 2014. State of the Climate 2014. Australian Government.,0_0
"Across the country, there are 104 commercial nuclear reactors. They consume 67 million pounds of uranium annually, the vast majority of which is imported from Australia, Canada and former Soviet republics. The 200-acre Coles Hill deposit (Mr. Coles's family has lived on the spot since 1785) is thought to contain nearly twice that amount. For Messrs. Bowen and Coles, with the long-term price of uranium near $80 per pound, that means they are sitting on about $10 billion worth of ore. But for the rest of us, it means they are sitting on an opportunity to make the U.S. more energy self-sufficient.",0_0
"He didn't know what the first sentence of a text could have possibly meant. He must have been stupid! However, he didn't give up and finally figured out what the sentence meant.",0_0
"A coalition of environmental groups on Friday challenged state Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens over a new technique to extract underground natural gas using propane, rather than water.",0_0
"...the scientists say, pauses in warming were always to be expected. This is new - at least to me.",0_0
"Tech Central Station has a team on location in Johannesburg, South Africa to cover the World Summit on Sustainable Development, August 26-September 4.Jim Glassman and editor-in-chief Nick Schulz are heading the team. Their up-to-the-minute coverage includes commentary and interviews on such wide-ranging issues as climate change, water rights, AID vs. trade, biotechnology, and corporate responsibility.For more information, click here or point your Web browser to http://www.joburg.techcentralstation.be/2051/specwrapper.jsp?PID=2051-500.",0_0
Among the longest records of active hurricane zones is on the US east coast. NOAAs Hurricane Research Division has data back to 1851. No major hurricane (category 3 or more) has hit the continental US since Wilma in October 2005. That is the longest pause on record. NOAA says It is premature to conclude that human activities and particularly greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane activity.,1_7
Making summits that advance Canada's interests produce results that justify the time and expense invested in them should be a foreign policy priority.,0_0
The mass media conveyed in many cases the perception that these tropical hurricanes were a result of the greenhouse effect. But there are no indications of an increasing trend in the intensity or number of tropical hurricanes . The large increase in damage caused by severe storms in different parts of the world is caused mainly bypeople increasingly living and working in more exposed locations.,1_7
"The study concludes, ""Given her assumptions, Dr. Yellen's analysis is internally consistent and compatible with mainstream economic analysis. However, her costs estimates include only direct costs . . . and very optimistic assumptions . . . about the economy's ability to reduce emissions at low cost."" Furthermore, the study concludes that, ""If these assumptions fail to materialize, the Administration's estimates of permit prices and GDP costs will need to be adjusted upwards by a factor of ten or more."" Download at: www.api.org/news/980603ChasRiver.pdf.",0_0
17a. The ability of regional climate models to reproduce temperature observations,0_0
"When correlating CO2 with temperature trends in various periods of cyclical warming and cooling the last 110 years we find a negative correlation from the late 1800s to 1917 (-0.35), positive from 1917 to 1940 (+0.43), negative during the WWII and post WWII boom from 1940 to around 1975 (-0.40), positive from 1975 to around 2000 (+0.36) and negative in the short period to 2009 (-0.56).",2_3
"The only reason we have seen any temperature change on Earth is because the ocean surface warmed a little. In fact, the measured ocean surface makes up most of the measurement in global average temperature. I found this cool plot of ocean temperatures on line:",2_1
Alternative-Fuel Cars Flood Auto Show,0_0
"""Especially at a time when many American businesses and families are hurting financially, Congress ought to scale back burdensome and ineffectual regulations,"" Crews said. ""Ours is the age of Spending Stimulus; what we need instead is a ""Deregulatory Stimulus' to jumpstart small business formation and job creation, and get the government off our backs.""",0_0
"Heres an email which like many others, makes the point:",0_0
"In Coalition for Responsible Regulation v. EPA, petitioners ? a coalition of industry groups, states, and non-profit organizations ? sought to overturn the EPA?s endangerment, tailpipe, triggering, and tailoring rules for greenhouse gases (GHGs). In June of last year, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the EPA, upholding the four GHG rules. In August, coalition members petitioned for an en banc (full court) rehearing of the case. On Dec. 20, 2012 the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the petitions by 5-2.",0_0
"The total weight of 4,000 turbines themselves (mostly steel, and without the concrete pads they sit on) would be 888,000 tonnes or 1,958,040,000 lbs (a lot of GHG). The Centennial Project was placed in the best wind producing area in the province (south of Swift Current) so its abilities cannot be reproduced elsewhere, so the farm would need to be even larger than described. See this link for wind averages/resource in SK",0_0
"But first, lets illustrate how badly the climate models used by the IPCC simulate global surface temperatures in light of the recent slowdown in global surface warming.",5_1
"You may notice that we run into so many problems of ambiguity at the basis of climate science. For example the ambiguity of whether they are conserving energy or energy flux, and the ambiguity of what happens if you take the incorrect approach. But one of the biggest ones is this idea of a global average temperature or global average surface temperature . When climate science refers to global average temperature, it is actually referring to a numerical value of +15C which corresponds to the average near-surface air temperature at an altitude of 1.5m above ground (not above sea-level) from a bunch of temperature stations randomly distributed around the planet. So this isnt a surface temperature and isnt global.",0_0
IPCC doesnt write scientific reports for their own sake. Those scientists are there for a purpose. That purpose is to produce material useful to the UNFCCC.,5_2
"Highly paid experts tell us that sea ice is rapidly disappearing, which explains why global sea ice area has been averaging above normal for the past two years.",1_1
"dire warnings maintain that global warming poses catastrophic dangers to mankind. On the other hand, real science and a strong economy are the best tools we have to deal with whatever challengeithefuture holds.",0_0
"October 14, 2012. Advanced search. Mount Shasta glaciers growing, despite warming. Kilimanjaro glacier bad example of global warming.",1_1
"responding, ""Well, I'm not going to give them more time."" Nor did it help matters when a Rolling Stone profile on McChrystal reported an unconcealed disdain in his camp for its",0_0
"Agreement 4 is a bilateral between the United States and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) to cooperate on activities and facilities supporting access to timely, usable, environmental data and satellite imaging technology.",0_0
"Some of the coal being burned overseas is coal that is not being burned here. In March, the U.S. set a record for coal exports in a month, 13.6 million tons. Indeed, on the same day that Zichal was talking about Obama's legacy on climate issues, the Energy Information Administration released a report showing that U.S. coal exports are likely to set another record this year, after setting a record of nearly 126 million tons in 2012. The EIA pointed to increased Asian demand as a major reason for the rise in U.S. coal exports.",0_0
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Focuses on High-Speed Rail in Florida:,0_0
Calculation of pressure change need to induce ice-age cycle,0_0
"Goklany (2011) estimated that the increase in the poverty headcount due to higher biofuel production between 2010 and 2004 implies 192,000 additional deaths and 6.7 million additional lost DALYs in 2010 alone.",0_0
"However, as discussed above, simply assuming Logo gauge calibration doesnt solve the problem of variability and, in particular, it creates real interpretation problems for three balls that end up being too warm, for which Ive proposed other alternatives.I recognize that reasonable people may regard these alternative explanations as themselves implausible. But, when the details are examined, erratic washroom deflation is not nearly as plausible an explanation for the observed variation as Brady critics assume.",0_0
"In 2003, two Harvard-Smithsonian Professors, Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas, published a peer-reviewed paper in the scientific journal Climate Research which identified solar activity as a major influence on Earths climate. This paper also concluded that the twentieth century was not the warmest, nor was it the century with the most extreme weather over the past thousand years. These two scientists reviewed more than two hundred sources of data. The paper specifically examined climate variations observed to coincide with solar variations. One of the more notable correlations cited in this paper is the well-documented coincidence of the Little Ice Age and a solar quiet period from A.D. 1300 to A.D. 1900. Soon and Baliunas asserted that the lack of solar activity resulted in cooler temperatures across the globe. The evidence they compiled also indicated that as the sun became more active global temperatures began to rise and the Little Ice Age ended.",2_1
"1. Canada's oil production is rising, Mexico's is falling. For many years, the U.S. has relied most heavily on crude imports from Mexico and Canada. Over the past ten years, Canadian crude production has risen by 600,000 barrels per day while Mexico's has fallen by about that same amount. I'd rather have a reliable, long-term supply of crude from Canada than rely on overseas suppliers, whether they are part of OPEC or not. How long can we rely on the Canadian oil sands? Probably for decades. The resources there are estimated at over 100 billion barrels.",0_0
Kyoto Economics: The Costs and Follies of Eco-Energy Planning,0_0
"Buy Fonte's book ""Sovereignty or Submission: Will Americans Rule Themselves or be Ruled by Others?""",0_0
"The primary myth about ENSO is the La Nia phase of ENSO is the opposite of El Nio. It sounds like it might be true, but its nonsense. There is nothing in the instrument temperature record that supports it. Ill show you how the differences present themselves in the data later in the post.",0_0
"Scientists, however, have increasingly been questioning alarmists, like Gore, and the U.S. government for listing the bears under the ESA. For starters, there are way more polar bears alive today than 40 years ago.",3_2
"Social security may send you more accurate payments adjusted for inflation, adaptive optics improves some telescopes as well as Ronald Reagan's Star Wars, eyeglasses adjust some vision disorders, and similarly adjustments may be applied to remove as accurately as we can the spurious effect of various biases that affect the weather stations those arising from location changes, the time-of-observation bias, a detectable change of the instrument, and others.",0_0
"Energy flow is driven by differences in energy, not absolute energy. Global warming should produce fewer and weaker storms, not more and stronger storms.",1_7
"Finally, ethanol boosters claim their fuel improves ""overall environmental quality."" A bigger fiction is difficult to conjure up. In December, a report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by researchers from the University of Minnesota found that while corn-ethanol-fueled vehicles emit marginally less greenhouse gases than those fueled by gasoline, ""the combined climate and air quality impacts are greater than those from gasoline vehicles."" Jason Hill, one of the authors of the report, said flatly that ""If we're using ethanol for environmental benefits, for air quality and climate change, we're going down the wrong path.""",0_0
"In early October, The Wall Street Journal published an article, ?Mississippi Plant Shows the Cost of ?Clean Coal?.? It is testimony to the nonsense about ?clean coal.? The plant, the reporters note, was meant to demonstrate that Mississippi Power Company?s Kemper County plant was ?meant to showcase technology for generating clean energy from low-quality coal? but it ?ranks as one of the most expensive U.S. fossil fuel projects ever?at $4.7 billion and rising.?",0_0
"This new type of El Nio is more predictable, said Webster. Were not sure why, but this could mean that we get greater warning of hurricanes, probably by a number of months.",0_0
"Founder, Chairman of the Asian Studies Center, and Chung Ju-yung FellowFounder's Office",0_0
"Yet green activists, grant seeking researchers, and self-serving politicians continue to spread climate alarmist lies. Lies based on fiction, not fact. To believe in such unsubstantiated tripe substitutes wishful thinking for logic, and hubris for the humility that science demands of all who study nature. This forces even the worst scientist to the ultimate realization, that nature is always right and science is most often wrong.",5_2
"There has been a slight, but meaningless increase in heaviest rainfall events. Most of the 20+ cm rainfall events occurred before 1960",1_7
"And why? Because, they claim, the skeptics have ""knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change."" It's their contention that certain companies and industries know that their activities are causing global warming, but are determined to cover it up because it would hurt them financially.",0_0
"Even in Scotland, where wind power has been promoted as having potentially large economic benefits, more people favour the protection of picturesque landscapes than developing wind power.",4_4
"IT MAY be time to stop describing south-eastern Australia as gripped by drought and instead accept the extreme dry as permanent Perhaps we should call it our new climate, said the Bureau of Meteorologys head of climate analysis, David Jones. January 4, 2008 The only uncertainty now was whether the changing pattern was 85 per cent, 95 per cent or 100 per cent the result of the enhanced greenhouse effect",0_0
"Taking these statements one at a time, yes, of course, We, the people acknowledge obligations to posterity. Among those obligations is to secure the blessings of liberty. Liberty is endangeredwhen non-elected officials like those at the EPA enact climate policy and erode the separation of powers .",4_1
"So do they get a skeptic to fill the daily ???Another View?? slot they offer to rebut their editorial? No ??? they get another alarmist ! Under the panicky-but-now-tired headline ???We need to act quickly!??, Melanie Fitzpatrick of the Union of Scientists Concerned About Their Grant Funding writes:",5_2
"The ???Multi-proxy study of sediment cores retrieved from lakes below modern glaciers supports the first detailed Neoglacial chronology for Glacier National Park (GNP)?? and shows ???maximum reconstructed retreat rates 1930?? of about 125 meters per year, compared to near zero in ~1975 and about 20 meters/year at the end of the record in ~2005. The authors report, ???Results indicate that alpine glaciers in Glacier National Park advanced and retreated numerous times during the Holocene after the onset of Neoglaciation 6,500 years before the present?? and ???Retreat from the Little Ice Age maximum was the most dramatic episode of ice retreat in at least the last 1000years.??",2_1
Australian Psychology Society uses biases and fallacies to accuse skeptics of bias and fallacies,0_0
The campgrounds we operate for the US Forest Service in Wisconsin does not seem quite ready to open,0_0
"Basal geothermal heat flow melts/collapses Hagafellsjkull Glacier in Iceland West Antarctica, Greenland, the central Arctic Ocean Basin, Iceland, and now the Svalbard Island Chain have one thing in common: powerful and currently active geological forcesspecifically geothermal heat flow and associated fluid releaseare melting their glacial ice masses. This contention is supported by previous postings here , here , here , and here .",0_0
"Thank you, Mr. Obama and all you progressives out there, for turning yet another Independent into a Conservative!",0_0
"It started in 2008, when Chesapeake funded an unsigned Dirty Coal advertising campaign. It featured black and white photos of children, with coal smudged faces, looking sad. Having set the table with anti coal propaganda, McClendon then teamed up with the Sierra Clubs Carl Pope to implement a legislative strategy. The pair traveled around the country, pitching natural gas as the bridge fuel to a green energy future.",0_0
"Many empirical relationships have been reported between GCR or cosmogenic isotope archives and some aspects of the climate system (e.g., Bond et al., 2001; Dengel et al., 2009; Ram and Stolz, 1999). The forcing from changes in total solar irradiance alone does not seem to account for these observations, implying the existence of an amplifying mechanism such as the hypothesized GCR-cloud link. We focus here on observed relationships between GCR and aerosol and cloud properties.",2_1
"James Stafford: Renewable energy is more expensive than fossil fuels, so how can people be persuaded to choose the less economical option of renewables over the likes of coal and natural gas?",4_4
"Gov. Sanford also disappoints in his common but still flawed inherently implicit perspective that we must start innovating, that we are not already. This is absurd, and demonstrable in the US's relative carbon dioxide (CO2) performance relative to the rest of the world since the issue gained currency in the late '90s. Nowhere, however, does he acknowledge that the efforts, ""rom light bulbs to automobiles"", nothing ever proposed would under any scenario have a detectable impact on climate. This is the critical argument to make.",0_0
"Many of the so-called solutions the green movement proposes consist of turning back the clock and relying on technology we left behind decades, even centuries ago: They want us to use windmills and railroads, use more land for crops (and thereby less for forests), and burn plants to make energy. Now, there has come along a fellow who thinks air conditioning is a bane rather than a boon and hankers for the offices of the 1940s.",0_0
"First, the producers of coal, oil and natural gas have provided an immense boon to mankind. Cheap and abundant energy has created the- wealthiest, best fed, most mobile society in history. And wealthy, energy-rich societies are much better prepared to deal with future challenges of all types than traditional subsistence economies.",0_0
"For alfalfa, the Association of Official Seed Certifying Agencies, which sets standards for the purity of nearly all seed crops, requires buffer zones of just 165 feet in order to maintain the genetic integrity of certified seed and 900 feet for so-called foundation seed, where genetic standards are most exacting. That is sufficient to prevent nearly all cross-pollination but, of course, no amount of isolation would be perfect.",0_0
"JC message to Marcia McNutt : You have an important and influential position as Chief Editor of Science . You also have the power to damage Science and science through your activism and advocacy of climate change policy, particularly your declaration in a Science editorial that the time for debate has ended .",5_2
"Pipelines have been used to transport natural gas and oil, including from Canada to the U.S., for three-quarters of a century. Two-and-a-half million miles of pipelines crisscross America, carrying crude oil, petroleum products, and natural gas to businesses and consumers.",0_0
"When the public cares deeply about something, as they do about the environment, they often give answers that are designed to keep the pressure on legislators. That doesn't mean they are paying close attention to debates in Washington. The public rarely gives specific legislative advice about complex environmental policy debates.",0_0
"We took the more scientific approach of using physics, not curve-fitting. But when the climate campaigners demanded that we should verify our models skill by hindcasts, we ran four tests of our model one against predictions by the UNs climate panel in 1990 and three against recent data. All four times, our model accurately hindcast real-world warming.",5_1
"I repeat, for the sake of clarity that the entire carrier tnkt as an illustration of the chemical kinetic principles and uppfrande, with koldioxidomsttningens kontroversersom background association.",0_0
"As I noted earlier, Taminos post is simply a distraction from my post 17-Year And 30-Year Trends In Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies: The Differences Between Observed And IPCC AR4 Climate Models , which showed the divergence between the trends of the IPCC AR4 model mean for global Sea Surface Temperatures and the observed Sea Surface Temperature trends.",5_1
"In January, de Blasio appointed John Adler director of the Mayor's Office of Pensions and Investments and chief pension investment advisor. Adler spent 23 years with SEIU, as an 1199 organizer and later as a retirement- and pension-policy official. His appointment likely stemmed from his 1199 connectionsit couldn't have owed to his financial wizardry: the union's pension fund recently showed up on the federal government's watch list of endangered multiemployer funds.",0_0
"At the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, virtually all of the world's countries signed the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), establishing the basic blueprint for global collective action to mange the threat of the greenhouse effect.",0_0
"State and federal courts already make it difficult to challenge specific regulatory actions, citing the ""exhaustion doctrine"" that plaintiffs must seek every possible administrative remedy at the agency before they can get judicial review. But this typically hasn't applied to constitutional challenges to provisions of the statutes that created or gave power to the agency in question. As the California Supreme Court has remarked, ""It would be heroic indeed to compel a party to appear before an administrative body to challenge its very existence and to expect a dispassionate hearing before its preponderantly lay membership on the constitutionality of the statute establishing its status and functions.""",0_0
"So by pure counting, it is simply much more likely that the shooter is someone who isn't famous at all. Famous people are just too rare. Moreover, they are more visible. So I would think that a famous man probably has a smaller chance to organize something that remains completely secret than an ordinary man.",0_0
"Zemp, M., Hoelzle, M. and Haeberli, W. 2009. Six decades of glacier mass-balance observations: A review of the worldwide monitoring network. Annals of Glaciology 50 : 101-111.",0_0
"Over the years, McIntyre has advanced a number of other criticisms of our tree-ring work in northwestern Eurasia. We note here that these too are also wrong.: 1) the original Polar Urals chronology was not wrongly cross-dated as claimed in a 2005 submission to Nature by McIntyre and McKitrick. When we demonstrated this in our response, Nature decided to publish neither their comment nor our response. It is worth noting that this rejection, nor any acknowledgement of his erroneous conclusions, were ever mentioned by McIntyre on his blog.",0_0
"Findings: There is a mixture of results depending on site location. Perth has more heatwaves since 1956, than before then. Adelaide has the opposite, with many more heatwaves before 1950, than after 1950.",1_7
"According to the 9NEWS Weather Team, the front will cause temperatures to drop 15 to 30 degrees through the weekend.",1_3
The PTC extension: More taxpayer dollars for green energy?,0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on the message the assembled leaders are sending:,0_0
"Whether a subsidized company goes bankrupt or becomes a huge success, special treatment that benefits one subset of the economy is a waste of taxpayer dollars. The government has repeatedly demonstrated its ineptitude as an investor, losing billions of dollars in bad bets such as the now defunct solar manufacturer Solyndra and battery manufacturer A123 Systems. Yet even if a project receives government investment and remains profitable, attributing that company's success to the federal government's investment is a mistake. In these instances, the taxpayer dollars have offset private-sector investments that would have been made without the government's help, and the program is nothing more than corporate welfare.",0_0
"Calculation of GDP is, not only among laymen like myself, but also among skilled economists, regarded as a tricky tool indeed. Still, it' very useful, also for the general public, in trying to grasp all sorts of economic facts and development.",0_0
"They say, Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plan and animal environments of the Earth.",3_3
"Abdussamatov concluded Earth is no longer threatened by the catastrophic global warming forecast by some scientists, since warming passed its peak in 1998-2005.",1_4
"Poor Climate Science Article In The Economist On Glaciers - - By Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. ...Thus, despite the high expectation of quality articles from the Economist, with respect to the topic area of climate change, they are clearly biased and misleading in their coverage. (Via Marc Morano)",5_2
A string of bankruptcies among German solar panel producers has led many to question the wisdom of Germanys renewable energy policies.,4_2
"The problem would seem to be the methodologies engendered in treatment for a mix of urban and rural locations; that the adjustment protocol appears to accent to a warming effect rather than eliminate it. This, if correct, leaves serious doubt for whether the rate of increase in temperature found from the adjusted data is due to natural warming trends or warming because of another reason, such as erroneous consideration of the effects of urban warming.",5_1
GREENS leader Bob Brown is facing mounting condemnation after calling on coal companies to foot the bill for the Queensland flood recovery.,0_0
"I was invited as a critical voice to participate in a conversation about wind power and aesthetics along with Matilda Afzelius, environmental lawyer p Stena Renewable, Karin Hammarlund, geographer p SLU and Aase Berg, poet and critic in the newspaper Expressen. Moderator: Fredrik Sjberg, writers and biologist.",0_0
"The government has promised up to 1bn for companies willing to develop the first successful commercial-scale CCS pilot, and was approached by several interested parties when it launched the scheme in 2007.",0_0
"These changes are indicative that sunshine durations, rather than increased greenhouse gases, were the ""control knob"" which decreased maximum temperatures and decreased daily temperature ranges throughout China, and opposite of the predictions of AGW theory and climate models.",2_1
"As an exercise, I located digital versions of the data used in the original Yule (1926) article Church of England marriages and mortality per 1000. I fitted the relationship in a calibration period and ended up with an RE statistic of 0.97.",0_0
"The study's preliminary findings are similar to those from a study that Alberta's provincial government conducted last year, said Taylor. That study found that the cost of Kyoto to the Canadian economy would be about two to four percent of GDP, or about $20 to $40 billion per year. The alternative plan is designed to help persuade the federal government not to ratify the Kyoto protocol and to give it another acceptable option.",0_0
INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE EL NIO AND LA NIA AND THEIR LONG-TERM EFFECTS ON GLOBAL SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES?,0_0
"Of the finished desalination plants, 63.35 percent are for industrial purposes, and the rest are for household water use",0_0
This cross-section of a giant sequoia tree shows some of the tree-rings and fire scars. The numbers indicate the year that a particular ring was laid down by the tree. (Credit: Tom Swetnam),0_0
"Note: Box, et al in 2009 claim to have found from 1-1.5C of warming since around 1900 when this chart leaves off. It is very, very , very dangerous to splice data sets together, but one probably has to add a degree or so to the tail of the chart to bring it up to date, putting current warming about at the Medieval level but below earlier Holocene temperatures.",0_0
"Clean coal, which is designed to reduce emissions of sulphur, nitrogen and mercury, is still in the nascent stage in India. Last year, according to PEI, coal accounted for 160 GW of capacity, so an extra 103 GW over the next decade would increase this by 64%.",0_0
"It is as if these people are mere weather voyeurs, only looking when it fits their purpose and only at the area it does. Look at this",0_0
"On April 2, Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) introduced a bill to address the supposed problem of ""cyberbullying,"" H.R. 1966. Under this bill, bloggers would face up to two years in prison if they ""harass"" public figures by criticizing them in a ""severe, repeated, and hostile"" manner, and thereby cause them ""substantial emotional distress."" Many constitutional scholars, including UCLA's Eugene Volokh, have objected to the bill on constitutional grounds.",0_0
"The approval process for the Keystone XL pipeline has been delayed by Republicans playing political games, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew says.",0_0
"Yet Nuccitelli, in a fine illustration of that blind faith that TH Huxley denounced in 1860 as the one unpardonable sin, asserts that We absolutely do know that the planet is currently warming.",5_2
"The heroes in LOTR resist Boromir's blandishments. Guided by Gandalf's wisdom and Frodo's courage, they defeat Sauron by taking the less obvious, but ultimately more successful, course. Conservative Republicans looking for political heroism and success would be well served by following their example and ignoring Paul's pyrite.",0_0
"The theory is, of course, that if you are well prepared you will suffer less. In many ways Bangladesh is better adapted than even the US, he says. Take Hurricane Katrina. Thats a technologically advanced and rich country watching the thing coming but not being able to protect its own citizens particularly the poorer citizens.",0_0
"Claude Shannon developed some theory of classical information based on logarithms that is useful especially whenever one is quantifying how many bits may be transmitted through one communication channel or another. Ask Shannon in the comment section if you want to know details. ;-) Do we have corresponding things for a Universe governed by a quantum mechanical theory? You bet. After all, our world is a quantum world so if Shannon's classical theory of information works, we must have an explanation for that. And we have one, of course. Shannon's information is linked to the entropy and this logarithm-based formula has a completely natural quantum counterpart, the so-called von Neumann entropy.\[",0_0
Climategate: Caught Green-Handed! Written by Christopher Monckton,5_2
Edward Kennedy's Gift to the Senateand the Country,0_0
INLAND WATERS CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS UNDERESTIMATED,0_0
"""Oil prices have surged in the last few days and are now less than a dollar from where they were when President Obama made the controversial decision to tap the nation's strategic reserve last Thursday.""",0_0
I present asthma and air pollution trends for California in slide 10 of the following presentation: http://www.joelschwartz.com/pdfs/AWMA Bakersfield 4 05.pdf.,0_0
"CEI: Let us throw a couple of names at you, and quickly tell us your thoughts. Let's start with Paul Ehrlich.",0_0
"We don't have to imagine that scenario, of course. It happened in Copenhagen, in December. Now, none of this disproves the hypothesis of catastrophic, human induced climate change. But it does describe an atmosphere that would be highly conducive to misrepresentation. And at the very least, when policy consequences, which claim to be based on science, are so profound, the evidence ought to be rock solid. ""Extraordinary claims,"" the late Carl Sagan often said, ""require extraordinary evidence."" When the megaphones of consensus insist that there's no time, that we have to move, MOVE, MOVE!, you have a right to be suspicious.",0_0
A COLD FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL USHER COOLER TEMPERATURES AND PRECIPITATION INTO THE AREA LATE TUES THROUGH WEDS. SNOW LEVELS WILL BE LOWERING WHILE SNOW DEVELOPS IN THE MOUNTAINS BY LATE TUES AFTERNOON. SNOW LEVELS WILL CONTINUE TO LOWER TO ABOUT 4000 FEET WEDS MORNING WITH ACCUMULATING SNOW OVER HIGHER TERRAIN.,0_0
"Postscript: If Brewer is in fact correct, then there is a dead easy solution for the illegal immigration problem -- legalize drugs. She and I both agree that the worst criminal elements of illegal immigrants would be much less of a problem without the illegal drug trade. The only difference is that I think that segment makes up less than 1% of the population of illegal immigrants, and she thinks its everyone.",0_0
"Nonetheless, some still argue the Clean Power Plan is needed, perhaps on philosophical or moral grounds. But if the goal is actual reductions in CO2 emissions, the road to green is not always a federal highway.",0_0
Example: Imagine that a warming after decades is accompanied by 10% more trees surviving in an area and eventually demands their ???place in the sun??. By measuring tree rings for an individual tree you are not measuring the overall tree growth of the area. And measuring 10.000 trees does not change anything as all trees would have the same problem. Measuring tree pollen or isotopes etc in sediment cores avoids these problems and it makes me wonder how come so much energy has been used for tree ring analyses.,5_1
Additional severe weather postings. Multiple severe weather charts. Other peer-reviewed postings.,0_0
"And this brings us back to Murray, who doesnt understand how or why anyone could object to his article and its headline.",0_0
"Significantly, in December 2012, the Met Office produced a new and totally different forecast, which totally overturned their earlier ones. This effectively predicts no increase in global temperatures for the next five years.",1_4
"Even if that were reduced to zero, the planet wouldnt give a sh*t.",0_0
"Cohen argues that the EPA's ozone/particulate standard was a ""regulatory scheme that would also allow it to control emissions of greenhouse gases, even without Senate ratification of the global warming treaty."" This is right in line with other actions by the administration and the EPA. Cohen reminds us of an internal EPA document, titled Climate Change Action Plan that ""contained no fewer than 39 different taxes and fees on energy the administration could impose under existing statutes, without having to get Congressional approval."" And the administration continues to try and bypass the Senate ratification in its attempts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.",4_1
"You will see that the first part only of the graph is shown. The object of the exercise is to use the information content of the shown data, to calculate projections of each of the series out to 23 time spans . The correct answer, as derived from experiment, is known. It is with the WUWT team.",0_0
New research published in Environmental Research Letters indicates the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by inland waters could be significantly higher than previously believed or assumed in climate models.,0_0
"One of you asked about the snow in the mountains...well, the snowpack has recovered quite nicely the last week or so...take a look at the map. Southern and central Cascades..western slopes and crest..are now above normal. The northern Cascades and Okanogan have gotten some...but still are about 25-35% below normal. We had a cold winter and the spring is no better. Look at the temps at Sea Tac versus climo...generally below normal temps. In fact, of the last 100 days, approximately 75 have been below normal. So the complaints I have heard are well founded. I really hope we don't repeat last spring, which according to my Barbeque index, was the coldest since 1918! Two cold springs in a row will not only be bad for my vegetable garden, but would really be a downer. Good for water supply and late season skiing though.",1_3
"But there is another more vexing dilemma facing the IPCC. Since publication of the AR4, nature has thrown the IPCC a curveball there has been no significant increase in global average surface temperature for the past 15+ years.",1_4
"""The company said it would spend less than it previously expected on medical costs as a percent of revenue, helping boost its 2011 profit projection, which was tempered by planned investments in its Medicare business. Shares rose 5.5 percent in premarket trading.""",0_0
""" In the ongoing global warming debate there is often a significant difference between the perception of what is going on with the Earths climate when compared to what is actually going on. There is no greater example of this than the summer temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere...A recent study is probably the highest resolution reconstruction using temperature and precipitation records from the region and then correlating to tree-ring data to create a high resolution reconstruction of the summer temperatures for North-Central China...it is clear that the peak of the modern warming cycle for the summer months took place 70-80 years ago. It should be noted that the United States set the all time temperature record for 50% of the states back in the 1930s.""",2_1
Comparing the 204-month and 360-month hindcastand projected Sea Surface Temperature anomaly trends of the coupled climate models used in the IPCC AR4to the trends of the observed Sea Surface Temperature anomalies is yet another way to show the models have shown no skill at replicating and projecting past and present variations in Sea Surface Temperature on multidecadal bases. Why should we believe they have any value as a means of projecting future climate?,5_1
"In other words, researchers have yet to find evidence of more-extreme weather patterns over the period, contrary to what the models predict. ???There??s no data-driven answer yet to the question of how human activity has affected extreme weather,?? adds Roger Pielke Jr., another University of Colorado climate researcher.",1_7
"Another thing they try to do is tamper with the temperature datasets to for example prove there is no pause. That is frankly ridiculous! The pause is the discrepancy between what was predicted and what occurred. And because it is a prediction it can only be based on the datasets available at the time. They can fabricate whatever new datasets they like which they in their crazy minds believe prove the predicted warming occurred, but the predictions were that the datasets available at the time would show warming. None of the datasets which were predicted to warm have shown even the lowest predicted warming (e.g. IPCC 2001).",5_2
"WSP Environment & Energy, a consultancy firm, estimated that a total of 7,500 businesses would miss the deadline.",0_0
"The electricity generated by the speakers was felt by the 700-plus individuals who registered to attend the conference. As examples of the caliber of distinguished guest speaker, I've arbitrarily chosen those that I came in contact at the conference and whose names are known to many: Howard Hayden, PhD; Christopher C. Horner, J.D.; Paul C. ""Chip"" Knappenberger; Jay H. Lehr, PhD; Ben Lieberman; Richard Lindzen, PhD; Stephen Mcintyre; Patrick J. Michaels, PhD; Lord Christopher Monckton; Ian Plimer, PhD; S. Fred Singer, PhD; Roy W. Spencer, PhD; and James M. Taylor, J.S. To view the names of all speakers and conference events go to: http://www.heartland.org/events/2010Chicgo/program.html",0_0
"Since all routes of the international financial system run through the U.S., for",0_0
None of the issues addressed in the Obama budget was in any way a cause of,0_0
"Nevertheless, should a blogger with a particularly point-of-view accidentally select a temperature record that happens to be the outlier that gives the result that blogger is known to prefer, using that particular one data set fosters suspicions of cherry picking.",0_0
"""As we become increasingly dependent on computers to manage our lives and businesses, our money and privacy become less and less secure. But now, Cornell researchers offer a way to build security into computer systems from the start, by incorporating security in the language used to write the programs.""",0_0
"Submitting well-researched public comments had no effect on EPA policy or attitude, he writes. EPA continued to make absurd claims that this or that air pollution regulation would save lives.",0_0
"The authors determined that growth at elevated CO 2 reduces the amount of rubisco required to maintain enhanced rates of photosynthesis, and that this phenomenon occurs as an indirect consequence of elevated CO 2 reducing leaf nitrogen content, and not as a direct effect of CO 2 on leaf photosynthetic components. Furthermore, the amount of excess rubisco declined with decreasing nitrogen supply regardless of CO 2 concentration. What it means",0_0
"He is the ultimateDemocrat couldnt care less about actual people, or doing his job. What a total jackass Michael Bloomberg is. He can always blame it on Bush.",0_0
"Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 11:36:54 AM",0_0
Limiting Open Access Property Rights Is Difficult,0_0
Heavy Thunderstorm Rain Closes State Route 20,0_0
"Not only has the intensity of hurricanes fallen, but, as George H. Taylor, the state climatologist of Oregon has pointed out, so has the frequency of hailstorms in the U.S. (see Changnon and Changnon) and cyclones throughout the world (Gulev, et al.).",1_7
"Fracking, a process in which pressurized liquid is used to break up hydrocarbons deep within the earth to gather natural gas, may bring jobs and boost economies in states like North Dakota and elsewhere, but the environmental effects (which include lowering air quality and groundwater contamination) which can ultimately affect human health are worrisome.",4_5
"Operates 90% of the time at full capacity or 2,880 MW",0_0
"If those reefs are surviving low aragonite and low pH conditions then that is definitely cause for optimism about the worlds tropical coral reefs and would be an exciting scientific breakthrough. the pH is low there due to the CO2 bubbling, then thats really important, and somebody should go and have a look, because that would refute what weve found We need to go out there and measure the chemistry of the water Id love to check that out. If there are a lot of bubbles coming up, and theres hard coral there, then its likely that my study is flawed.",3_2
"Not so in environmental policy. Experts make predictions of the future that are hard to verify. Indeed, public policy advice is full of self-defeating prophesies. Bad things will happen if we dont change our ways. We often act on such information, and thus deny ourselves the opportunity to check whether the prediction was accurate. We trust the expert, take her word as gospel.",0_0
"In light of the differences among climate model projections, our work stresses the need for more accurate prediction of SST trends in these sensitive areas, and not just the overall amplitude of the Tropical Ocean warming, in order to reduce the uncertainty in global climate forecasts.",5_1
"It is now July 31, 2018. You are sitting by a stream, thinking back to Nov. 23, 2012 the day the U.S. stopped emitting carbon dioxide altogether, permanently. It's been a very rough six and a half years without carbon, and it's about to get a lot rougher. Because today is the day you realize that it's all been for naught the day that someone explains to you that all of the emissions America was making in 2012 have been completely replenished by new emissions from rest of the world's growing nations.",0_0
"Over the last 3o years of satellite measurement, the growth of the ice amount in the Southern Ocean which surrounds Antarctica was more than 4 percent .",1_1
"Fracking is vital to national security, in other words never mind the environmental benefits that would come from replacing a billion tons of coal with natural gas, which would produce about 1.5 billion fewer tons of CO2 a year.",4_5
"Compliance costs from thousands of regulationspouring out from over 60 departments, agencies, and commissionsamounted to $1.17 trillion in 2008. The federal government spends another $49.1 billion just to administer and enforce its rules. This figure is on par with federal income tax revenues ($1.2 trillion) and Canada's entire 2006 GDP ($1.265 trillion).",0_0
It has not to be that way. After all it is hard to hear about Christians that truly keep to Matthew 6:3-4 :,0_0
"Nuccitelli begins by condemning Roy Spencer for saying, No one knows whether it is currently warming, because we only see warming in the rear-view mirror, after it has occurred. This truism is characteristic of Roy, who gently nudges the language of climate science in the direction of greater rigor. One cannot measure that it is warming, only that it has warmed.",0_0
"Every month, the Earth has yellow (warm) spots and purple (cold) spots. It has been like that for billions of years.",2_1
"The only waygreenhouse gas regulationscould stop oil spills is bymaking deep water drilling unprofitable. That, however, would make America more dependent on IMPORTEDoil (duh!). Is that want opponents of S.J.Res.26 want?",4_1
"Likewise, regardless of whether temperatures rise in the future, this will not increase air pollution. For particulate matter, higher temperatures are associated with lower pollution levels. For ozone, most ozone-forming pollutants will be eliminated over the next 20 years, making future climate virtually irrelevant for ozone levels. Observations of the recent past should also put to rest any concerns about future air pollution levels in a changing climate. Despite rising urban temperatures over the last few decades, air pollution of all kinds has drastically declined.",0_0
"But even with such big efficiency gains, China's expected rapid economic growth will push its absolute volume of emissions to between 9.6 and 10.1 billion tonnes of CO2 per year by 2020, compared with 5.2 billion tonnes in 2005, according to a study from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.",0_0
"What a strange editorial is Automotive News' April 24 offering about corporate average fuel economy, ""Face it, makers: Sooner or later, CAFE must rise.""",0_0
"Amusingly enough, \(8.6\GeV\) is also one of the two lower bounds on the WIMP mass that appear in this paper . On the contrary, you can't find this figure in the newest CDMS II paper from Friday .",0_0
"So other than sunlight, wind, and rainbows ... just what is sustainable development supposed to be built of? Cell phones are one of the most revolutionary tools of development ... but we are depriving future generations of nickel and cadmium in doing so. Thats not sustainable.",0_0
"As scholars who had worked for more than four decades with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, we faced a ton of scorn from sitting Republican lawmakers and outside observers for making this argument and denial from most of the mainstream media. For reporters, professional norms and concerns about accusations of partisan bias dictated that the parties be treated equally, whatever the underlying reality. The safe haven of false equivalence led the press to ignore one of the most consequential developments in contemporary American politics: the radicalization of the Republican Party.",0_0
"Abengoa, which went public (NASDAQ) on October 17, 2013, at an opening share price of $12.37, once enjoyed a ""top pick"" and ""safest"" moniker, hit a high of $28.88 on September 3, 2014, but has now nosedived to $6.50. The law firm Levi & Korinskywhich claims it has ""extensive expertise in prosecuting securities litigation involving financial fraud, representing investors throughout the nation in securities lawsuits, and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders""is now investigating Abengoa and its Board of Directors for possible violations of federal securities laws.",0_0
"* The Council for the National Interest WA (CNI) is a non party political group who recently hosted Professor Cliff Ollier with a presentation titled Rising Sea Level Forecasts: Fact or Fiction? Professor Ollier's address was so comprehensive and well received that his speech was the basis of CNI's most recent newsletter. The CNI regularly promotes discussion on topical subjects covering a broad range of issues effectingAustralia's national interest.CNI prepares policy papers for distributionto influential policy makers that can be viewed at www.cniwa.com.au . For participation or commentary, contacttheExecutive Committee at admin@cniwa.com.au",0_0
"In addition to leaving General Motors and Chrysler saddled with excessive costs and union ownership , Obama harmed them by radically ratcheting up federal CAFE fuel-economy standards , which affect them more than their foreign competitors. 50,000 jobs could be lost. And his global-warming regulations will destroy countless jobs and cut ??? household purchasing power ,?? reducing auto sales and Chrysler??s chances of survival.",4_1
"Director, Center for the Study of Science, Cato Institute",0_0
"Second, the President re-asserted the primacy of terrorism as the most important direct threat to the nation, though he derided those who would advocate a strategy of "" invading every country "" harboring terrorists (whoever they may be). This position again plays to the crowd, to Americans who can still remember devastating terrorist attacks on our soil but who have forgotten the horrors of great power competition. He defended the right to pursue terrorists wherever they may be, under certain conditions of course. Among those conditions appears to be the notion of not creating more enemies than we take off the battlefield. How this is measured, I cannot with certainty say. This is clearly a reaction against what the Obama Administration views as the fallout of his predecessor's policies. As a hard and fast rule enforced absent context, this condition might put one at a disadvantage against an opponent without the same sensitivities.",0_0
"Now it is energy crunch time. The ""Greenest"" nations all over Europe are trying desperately to renege on their expensive ""renewable energy"" commitments. Nevertheless, they must backtrack without alienating the same voters they had earlier convinced to ""save the planet"" with recycling, biofuels, etc. One misstep will see them thrown from office.",0_0
"As you can see, Hansen has clawed back most of the gains of the 1930s relative to recent years ??? perhaps leading eventually to a re-discovery of 1998 as the warmest U.S. year of the 20th century.",5_1
"Roy, a Ph.D economist who has been dragged through the ad hominem mud , is right to put the onus on David Appell now that the latters fishing expedition backfired rather badly. One might also challenge Joe Romm, the bully of bullies as documented at the Breakthrough Institute by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus .",5_2
"In addition, computers and mobile phones both mjliggjort an exchange of information and ideas that would have been otnkbart from just 30 years ago, and contributed to the development of knowledge that also would have been regarded as a future utopia.",0_0
"The Kyoto Protocol calls for U.S. taxpayers to make similar contributions -to Third World nations. Funds distributed by the GEF have already been used to curtail. energy use in India, for example. If Congress continues to fund the GEF, the Clinton administration will claim that enough developing countries are participating in the Kyoto treaty to warrant Senate ratification.",0_0
The Anomaly axis is hundredths of a degree C or 40 = 0.4C. So the total temperature rise from this ground based measurement is about 0.7. Now without getting into the endless problems with ground based measurements this isnt too much compared to what happens all the time.,0_0
military leaders clearly assumed they would work with the White House on,0_0
There are currently Australian special forces along with NATO and Arab coalition partners fighting with the Kurdish Resistance and the regular Iraqi army against ISIS. Eventually we are going to need Challenger tanks to drive ISIS out of Iraq and back across the Syrian border .Worked for Rommel and the Africa Corp.,0_0
"South of the Svalbards, a recently discovered 200-mile-long string of very active deep ocean hydrothermal vents indicates that this portion the rift system Nicknamed Lokis Castle is wellheating up (see Figure1). Norwegian scientists refer to this region as Norways Yellowstone at the bottom of the sea.",0_0
"Much has been written both in favor and against the notion that in the 1970s, the consensus among climatologists was that global cooling was on its way (strangely, foretelling similar disasters as with global warming nowadays, including refugees in the millions, crop failures, droughts and extreme weather throughout).",5_1
How Precaution Kills: The Demise of DDT and the Resurgence of Malaria,0_0
The post has been updated to include brief discussions of the other datasets in which the 1945 discontinuity appear.,0_0
"These economic gains arise for a variety of reasons. First, there is an increase in job creation directly associated with producing shale oil and gas not otherwise under current policy. In addition, the resulting energyused all across the economybecomes less expensive. Cheaper energy lowers the cost of doing business, making American companies more competitive and enabling them to invest and expand.",4_5
"Remember all those stupid graphs where someone with an axe to grind against democracy, or people, or civilization, would point to a steep rise as irrefutable evidence that this cant go on and something must be done?",0_0
"Also, a large value of tan(beta), above 30 or so, is desirable to solve the soft CP-problem in sufficiently minimal models of gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking.",0_0
Now its 2 C climate change target not safe,0_0
Lindzen Summarizes Current State of Climate Science,0_0
"What is the reason for the lack of warming observed at the surface of the Earth since about 1997? Many causes have been proposed, and with increasing frequency, but most only represent partial explanations. There are clearly more putative causes than can possibly be the case. --David Whitehouse, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 26 March 2014",1_4
Antarctic Sea Ice Sets New Record For Jan 31st,1_1
"The first group of thunderstorms are now passing through western Washington and more are coming tonight. The left panel below shows the 11 AM radar, the heaviest showers are west of the Sound, with some fairly heavy (yellow colors). An infrared satellite image shows the area of clouds associated with an upper level trough, with recent lightning shown by the red crosses.",0_0
The Washington Times discusses the attorneys general shake down of Exxon Mobil with Myron Ebell.,0_0
Now lets beclear about this: a complete meltdown of the Greenland ice sheet would raise the planets sea level 7 meters (7000 mm). The sea level rise rate today is about 3 mm per year and decreasing according to satellitedata. A rationalreading the tide gauge data is even less.,1_6
"The world awaits answers, based not on writings of sundry freelance journalists and non-experts, but on actual verifiable data on whether the globe is warming at all, and if so by how much. Only then can policy options be calibrated. As things stand, there is little doubt that the IPCC will need to be reconstituted with a limited mandate. This mess needs investigation and questions need to be answered as to why absurd claims were taken as gospel truth. The future of everything we know as ""normal' depends on this. The real danger is that the general public is now weary of the whole thing, a little tired of the debate, and may not really care for the truth, convenient or otherwise.",5_2
"This highly recommended lecture by atmospheric scientist Dr. Joseph Fletcher, former NOAA Deputy Assistant Administrator for Labs and Cooperative Institutes, provides multiple lines of evidence that climate is primarily forced by changes in solar irradiance which are amplified by various solar amplification mechanisms . Changes in solar irradiance in turn control the variable size of the Pacific Ocean Warm Pool at the equator (from which the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) originates). The size of the Warm Pool in turn controls deep convection, the Hadley Circulation, wind strength, evaporation, precipitation, cloudiness, sea surface temperatures, and air temperatures:",2_1
"By Andy West, Climate Etc. Aug 14, 2015",0_0
"Anyone who knows anything about global climate knows the Earth has generally warmed since the 1680s. Politics has made that period, which covers the Industrial Revolution, of climatic interest as people wanted to prove that human production of CO2 was causing warming. The problem, ignored by proponents, is that it has warmed naturally since the nadir of the Little Ice Age in the 1680s. The issue isnt the warming, but the cause.",2_1
"A paper for the scientific journal Climate Dynamics co-authored by B.N. Goswami, recently retired director of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, shows why the models relied upon by the U.N. climate panel?s recent assessments predict monsoons inaccurately.",5_1
MICHIGAN 60% of electricity; 10th in coal use,0_0
"At night the soil cools by loss of infrared radiation. The Stefan-Boltzmann equation lets us estimate the rate at which IR energy is being lost based upon surface temperature and emissivity, and simply dividing that by the product of the soil depth and soil bulk heat capacity gives us the rate at which the soil layer temperature will fall. Basic physics and thermodynamics.",0_0
"Might I, not nearly so smart as Rayne, suggest its because of the death of the Northeast? out-migration of manufacturing and energy intense activities. The developement of an energy usage decline to a service economy with a declining economic base?",0_0
"Multiple researchers have investigated how flood activity has changed over the recent past and how this extreme weather event has responded to the global warming of the past several decades. Their analyses provide a means of evaluating climate-alarmist claims that CO2-induced global warming is leading to more frequent and intensified flooding around the globe; and they indicate there is nothing unusual about the flooding of the modern era. Large flood events occurring in recent timeshave many historic analogs in the past, when airs CO2 concentration was much lower than it is presently. Taken together, the material presented in this section strongly suggests that rising atmospheric CO2 is having no measurable impact on modern flood events.",1_7
the big questions facing America as a global power. Campaigns serve as crucial,0_0
"price of meat, milk and eggs has gone up 10 to 20 per cent. The price",0_0
"If the effects in #4 are net negative, and they are large enough even to be recognizable against the backdrop of natural variations in #5, do they outweigh the substantial costs, in terms of increased poverty, slowed development, lost wealth, etc. in substantial CO2 abatement.",4_1
"Well, I suppose you can hope for that big earthquake that your report says ( page 7 )could cause the sea level to rise by an additional meter. Youdhave it madeif you could blame atmospheric CO2 for earthquakes. Your elite thinkers should start working onthat paper now.",0_0
Canada Says Google Wi-Fi Sniffing Collected Personal Data:,0_0
"Unlike last year, this year well be hearing next to nothing about Arctic sea ice in the media. In fact the most recent NOAA report about the Arctic was about 2012! Thats how desperate they are.",5_2
"Climate change has long been thought to be the main culprit in coral degradation. While it does pose a serious threat by making oceans more acidic and causing coral bleaching, the report shows that the loss of parrotfish and sea urchin the areas two main grazers has, in fact, been the key driver of coral decline in the region . An unidentified disease led to a mass mortality of the sea urchin in 1983 and extreme fishing throughout the 20th century has brought the parrotfish population to the brink of extinction in some regions. The loss of these species breaks the delicate balance of coral ecosystems and allows algae, on which they feed, to smother the reefs.",3_2
"Yes, but only just. I also calculated the trend for the period 1995 to 2009. This trend (0.12C per decade) is positive, but not significant at the 95% significance level. The positive trend is quite close to the significance level. Achieving statistical significance in scientific terms is much more likely for longer periods, and much less likely for shorter periods.",1_4
"Since late Friday, the country has experienced uncommonly cold weather as temperature dropped below freezing in many areas, Kuwait Meteorology Center said yesterday.",1_3
"Taking the aerosol or volcanic emanation, it doesnt matter which as cooling factor, means that CO2 forcing was overestimated during the post 1975, pre-98 period, and overestimated during the post-98 period. The difference in model vs actual radiative forcing is equal to the reduced reflectivity of the atmosphere of pre-98 and increased reflectivity of post-98.",5_1
"( see footnote 1 SPM, page 3).",0_0
"With your energy policy frdriver you not only basic industries, but the entire chain of vrdeskapande operations out of the country. One can not at the same once step out krnkraften and coal power in any case if one wants to survive economically, he added.",0_0
"Lieberman tried but failed to persuade Senate colleagues to support a version of the 1992 Energy Policy Act that included a GHG early credit program. Instead, House and Senate conferees established the Section 1605(b) voluntary reporting of greenhouse gases program, which does not award or certify credits.",0_0
This range for Gillett et al. (2013) excludes an outlier at either end; doing so does not affect the median.,0_0
"rather than particular to our own country. Returning to the Iranian example,",0_0
"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 i.e. destroy what is left of free enterprise and private property.",5_2
"Well, now a economics blog has taken them on at their own game and produced their own graph showing the use of the word sustainable is reaching terrifying proportions and simply cant go on:",0_0
"Yet while the world has been embracing the atomic bomb, the U.S. nuclear mission degraded. Only the U.S. and UK, among all declared nuclear powers, are not currently modernizing either their weapons inventory or delivery systems. Contrary to President Obama's dream of a ""global zero"" future without nuclear weapons, proliferation of the world's most dangerous weapons is increasing. The Pentagon must revitalize its strategic forces or face the dangers becoming increasingly unable to respond to a more unstable world of nuclear powers.",0_0
Under the title Lindzen lors de laudit de lAPS : Milankovitch et lArctique,0_0
"The Conclusions of Press Releases Should Match the Scientific Study, Don't Ya Think?",0_0
"""No judge should try to impose new policies. These issues belong in the political arena, not the courts. But even if the United States embraced tough anti-global warming policiesand other industrial countries did the samethe effect would be offset unless developing countries joined. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has projected that greenhouse emissions will more than triple over the next century under ""business as usual' assumptions. Virtually all the increase occurs in developing countries.",0_0
"That sort of distance is much larger than the size of a typical piece of cloud. As a consequence, simulation of clouds requires a fair amount of inspired guesswork as to what might be a suitable average of whatever is going on between the grid-points of the model. Even if experimental observations suggest that the models get the averages roughly right for a short-term forecast, there is no guarantee they will get them right for atmospheric conditions several decades into the future. Among other problems, small errors in the numerical modelling of complex processes have a nasty habit of accumulating with time.",5_1
"JC comment: with all these uncertainties in the observations of ocean temperature, unequivocal and very likely in the AR4 seem over-confident.",0_0
The \(2\TeV\) LHC excess could prove string theory,0_0
"In April 2014, CEI sent a request for correction of this statement under the federal Information Quality Act, citing peer-reviewed scientific articles debunking it. In June 2014, OSTP rejected this request, claiming that Holdren's statement was his ""personal opinion,"" not the agency's position, and that they thus did not constitute ""information"" subject to the Information Quality Act, which excludes ""subjective opinions"" from its reach.",0_0
"Fox News reports the Audubon Society is nearly alone among national and state environmental organizations in supporting the measure. Speaking with Fox News, Gail Gatton, executive director of Audubon Society Washington State said, ""I think for us, I-732 isn't about money. It really is about what are the market-based incentives that will drive people to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.""",0_0
"Empower families and businesses to drive energy efficiency by eliminating government mandates. Washington should realize that the economy does not need government mandates, rebate programs, or spending initiatives to make businesses and homeowners more energy efficient. Consumers will make those choices by themselves, and the government should not override their choices by nudging them toward the government's preferred outcome. Ultimately, Congress should eliminate existing efficiency mandates or restructure them as voluntary standards under which businesses and consumers can choose their level of participation.",0_0
"The Arctic sea ice concentration reached its minimum around September 15th this year. Figure 2, below, from the Polar Research Group at the University of Illinois, shows the distribution of ice in the Arctic on that day. As you can see, the North Pole was not even close to being ice free. Figure 3 shows the Arctic Basin sea ice area for the last 365 days. Note that in mid-September the the sea ice area anomaly for the Arctic Basin was about negative 0.75 million square kilometers, but there were still 2.5 million square kilometers of ice yet to melt. Again, not even close to zero.",1_1
Evolutionary Biologist Shows Polar Bears Resilient to Climate Change,3_2
Drill cores taken from Greenland??s vast ice sheets show that Earth??s climate is capable of very rapid transitions and abrupt climate change.,2_1
John: (Laughing) Course not Brian. When do you want to start the interview?,0_0
"Frost is coming from the White House, and therefore also from NATO",0_0
"5. If this global atmospheric cooling trend persists much longer, the greens and the MSM ""journalists"" will pirouette 180 degrees and claim human CO2 causes cooling (and climate change)",1_4
"We have on occasion, criticised our fellow sceptics. Our arguments are that environmentalism isnt a new form of Left-wing ideology, and that the climate debate wont be settled by science, because environmentalism is a political phenomenon. Were not particularly interested in challenging sceptics arguments, because they dont have any influence over the political agenda. Climate scepticism is inconsequential in this respect. Environmentalism, on the other hand, is deeply political. It asks for the reorganisation of the world. We also argue that dividing the debate into sceptics/deniers and scientists is really very unhelpful, and it lumps people together who really dont share much. Would you really lump Franny Armstrong, or, for that matter, the likes of George Monbiot, in with respected climate scientists, for instance?",5_2
"Russias chief climate negotiator said the country will never sign up to extend the Kyoto Protocol for a second implementation period, casting further doubt on chances of a deal at the international climate conference in South Africa at the end of this month. We will never sign Kyoto 2 because it would not cover every country, Oleg Shamanov, director of international cooperation on the environment at the Foreign Ministry, said late last week. Roland Oliphant, The Moscow Times, 13 November 2011",0_0
Obama and Feinstein aredeterminedto deny Americans their God given right to defend themselves from tyranny.,0_0
"Doiron was quite harsh on the logic used by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and on the NCA. In essence, the IPCC states that the cause of recent warming must be CO2, because its unvalidated computer models cannot account for the observed warming unless it assumes strong amplifying anthropogenic warming feedback relations in the models. Doiron bluntly states this is not proof in the school of hard knocks.",5_1
"""Renewable energy"" is a sexy term used to drive public policies and spending.",0_0
"(p9) Projected changes in climate extremes under different emissions scenarios generally do not strongly diverge in the coming two to three decades , but these signals are relatively small compared to natural climate variability over this time frame . Even the sign of projected changes in some climate extremes over this time frame",2_1
"An aerospace company proposed to speed up its manufacturing process for parts and subassemblies by using a new adhesive that would dry or cure faster. The company says the project would have reduced VOC emissions and overall energy consumption. However, by improving efficiency, the project would have increased utilization of other production equipment at the plant, potentially triggering NSR. The company declined to make the change.",0_0
"Indeed, the authors of this paper find that "" CF is a primary modulator of warming (or cooling) in the atmosphere"" and that the net effect of more clouds produces a net negative-feedback cooling effect.",3_1
"Whatever the weather is, they will rationalize it as being caused by global warming. The incredibly low (non-existent) standards of climate science make this possible.",5_1
"To look at the charts as they are today, click the links. The rest of this posting will be my evaluation of those charts as they stand today. They will change over time, so if this posting is read some weeks or months in the future, this analysis will not match the charts.",0_0
"Bob Carter is a geologist, David Evans a mathematician and computer modeller, Stewart Franks a hydrologist and engineer, and Bill Kininmonth a meterologist and former Director of the National Climate Centre.",0_0
"It's a record that would seems to largely prevent any simple conclusions from being drawn that is, rising temperatures with few drought years, followed by falling temperatures and increasing drought frequency, followed by temperatures rising back to the original levels with increased drought frequency, followed by a leveling off of drought occurrence despite higher temperatures.",1_7
At this time there was also no relation between the cooling period and the sharply increased levels of CO2 in the atmosphere that were measured by chemical methods. In their reporting the IPCC have adopted the data published in G. Callendar's 1958 paper On the Amount of Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere (Figure 9).,2_3
"Plus, Oh, Nebraska. So what exactly was different about what Rod Blagojevich did?",0_0
"So they have taken two, count them, two records and averaged them!",0_0
"The bulk of the Cisneros article relies on computergenerated climate and economic predictions. A good scare story might benefit insurers by justifying higher insurance premiums. However, the track-record for long term climate change computer modeling is a failure.",5_1
"When you divide the NODC OHC data (0-700m) into logical subsets, David, its very easy to illustrate the natural causes for the warming of ocean heat content. Are you aware that without the natural warming associated with the 1973-76 and 1995/96 La Nina events, tropical Pacific OHC cools, David?:",2_1
California officials issue a West Nile virus public health alert.,0_0
Governancean honest and effective government that preserves order and encourages productive citizenship,0_0
"In his recent post, Global Warming Hanger-On Says Ends Justify The Means , Briggs noted that, A progressive is an academic who looks upon a fallen world and would fix it by Theory, by preaching that the ends justify the means (emphasis in the original). How true.",0_0
"The Presidential Inaugural Committee is effectively an extension of Obama's campaign. It is not funded by taxpayers but by contributions, and it pays for aspects of the inaugural weekend not covered by the government. For instance, Obama's PIC will pay for official inaugural balls but not for the swearing-in at the Capitol. After the inauguration, the PIC can use leftover funds however it pleases.",0_0
"Now consider the results of a paper published just a few weeks ago in Science magazine by Susan Solomon and colleagues. They report that variations in the water vapor content in the lower stratosphere (apparently largely unrelated to GHG changes) have a large influence on the rate of global temperature change for periods of a decade or more. In fact, since 1980 (the start of the data analyzed), an overall increase in stratospheric water vapor content as been responsible for perhaps 15% of the overall temperature increase.",0_0
"Global warming took a vacation last year and there was more than a foot of snow on the ground. As we motored up the highway the thermometer registered a balmy 35 degrees, but the radio said a cold front was moving in. Our final destination was an open log shelter a mile up the mountain.",1_3
"It's tempting to step back from the fight and take a victory lap or two. After all, we are on the brink of repealing expensive alternative energy mandates and subsidies, bringing school choice to every family in America, and finally empowering patients to find and use the medical care services they feel are best for them.",0_0
"None of the early life-history stages we studied were consistently affected by reduced pH. Our results suggest that there will be no direct ecological effects of ocean acidification on the early life-history stages of reef corals, at least in the near future.",3_2
"20 year trends are dubious, but we don??t have enough data for certainty on seriously long frames that we need to avoid confounding things with the decadal cycles. Sea levels around Australia appear to be rising at about 2mm a year, and that??s nothing like the 12 mm required to get a 1 m or more rise by 2100. There is no acceleration. Things are not getting worse.",1_6
"The public does not seem to be buying it either.For the last several years Gallup has asked folks to rank the urgency of about 16 public issues. Climate change almost always comes out at the bottom for both Republicans and Democrats, educated and uneducated. Considerably higher in the urgency ranking comes The Availability and Affordability of Energy.",0_0
"When we have removed our cattle, sheep and goats, when water buy-back has diverted our irrigation water to Environmental Flows, and Australia is covered by regrowth brigalow, carbon credit forests, ethanol crop farms, protected remnant vegetation, Wilderness No-Go areas, National Parks, aboriginal reserves, World Heritage Areas, marine parks and Wild Rivers Reserves, I have just one question: What are we going to eat?",0_0
This is not the first time Russian scientists predict cooling ahead. In 2006 Chabibullo Abdussamatow of the Pulkovo Observatory and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences said global warming had already reached its peak and that reduced solar activity would start the Earth on a cooling phase. According to Ria Novosti here :,1_2
"JC comments : With substantial efforts in the U.S. to move away from coal, this article reminds of the global energy dynamics and economics that are in play. I checked the spot price of carbon on the EU TS, and it is about 5 Euros. The political feasibility of a global carbon market with a carbon price of 40 Euros per ton is probably zero.",0_0
"According to SmartGridToday, the TVA is planning a $400 million smart meter pilot program, including $200 million of Obama stimulus money, that would allow the TVA to turn off appliances when people are away from their homes and businesses.",0_0
"This is, unfortunately, not a news article with a scientific basis. Dr. Staudt presents no evidence that this flood event is due to warmer air and an increase in atmospheric water vapor.",1_7
"The great lesson of modern public choice theory is that democratic political institutions cannot resist the pressures of faction on their own. In some cases, there are no judicial remedies for those abuses, but in these critical cases, the simple shift from measuring inputs to taxing outputs can avoid these losses: the billions in wasted expenditures over 45 years; lost energy efficiency; and higher pollution-related deaths and ailments. It is this reform, not divesture of fossil fuels, that the environmental activists should promote.",0_0
"> >> >As for the second Phase 1 activity, then this falls well",0_0
"The model-data comparison for the tropical Pacific (24S-24N, 120E-80W) is shown in Figure 20. The surface of the tropical Pacific shows very little warming in 33 years. According to the models, if manmade greenhouse gases were responsible for the warming of the surface of the global oceans, the tropical Pacific should have warmed at a rate of 0.18 deg C/decade, but the tropical Pacific has warmed very little.",1_4
"In the second scenario, ""Technology triumphs,"" all the wishes of environmentalists for state intervention and alternative technologies come to pass. State governments set ""rigorous"" efficiency standards for appliances, enact caps on CO2 emissions from power plants, and introduce more renewable portfolio standards. They also subsidize fuel cell research and effectively raise federal fuel economy standards by requiring new cars, minivans, and light trucks to reduce emissions of CO2 per mile traveled. These actions, combined with breakthroughs in solar photovoltaic manufacturing and a shift in consumer preference from ""sprawling"" to compact residential development, slow the growth of vehicle miles traveled, expand markets for hybrid cars, accelerate power sector fuel switching from coal to natural gas, and lay the building blocks of a hydrogen economy. Nevertheless, US carbon emissions rise 15 percent by 2035, 35 percent above the Kyoto target.",0_0
"Finally, the degree of CO 2 -induced growth stimulation at which the aerial fertilization effect of atmospheric CO 2 enrichment eventually stabilizes is often significantly larger than the 12% value suggested by Bloom et al . for a doubling of the air's CO 2 content. In the still-ongoing long-term sour orange tree study of Idso and Kimball (2001) , for example, a smaller 75% increase in the air's CO 2 content has ultimately led to a stabilized CO 2 -induced growth enhancement of fully 80% (down from a peak value in excess of 200% experienced at the 2.5-year point of the study), which has been maintained for the past five years.",3_3
"Thirty-five kilometers per day wouldn't be that hard for OK athletes. But these people may be exhausted, mostly due to their terrible planning. I wish them good luck - but not necessarily miraculously great luck! ;-)",0_0
"Meanwhile, politically-connected corporations would make a bundle, since the ""bill would give away some 85 percent of the permits"" to emit carbon dioxide to favored ""businesses instead of selling them at auction.""",0_0
?Mounting evidence begins to start to make you wonder whether there is some fundamental problem between climate models and reality.?,0_0
"""In the end, the exploitation of anti-government sentiment by Republican leaders, and the active efforts on their part to make all government look corrupt and illegitimate, reached its logical conclusion.""",0_0
"There is a methodology to reduce the amount of biofuels that is mandated in the U.S, Page said.",0_0
Our next paper will do a direct apples-to-apples comparison between the satellite-based feedbacks and the IPCC model-diagnosed feedbacks from year-to-year climate variability. Preliminary indications are that the satellite results are outside the envelope of all the IPCC models.,5_1
"Noted physicist Freeman Dyson has ruffled feathers in recent years by coming out as a skeptic about catastrophic climate change. Given his reputation, even the NYT magazine had to give him a reasonable hearing on his views.",5_1
"The basic physics tells us that greenhouse gases have some warming effect. How material, how lasting, how much offset or accentuated by natural influences is unknown at this stage of scientific understanding the temperature record certainly suggests no immediate cause for alarm.",5_1
"When all is said and done, they report that their results ""show no significant trend in potential intensity from 1980 to 1995 and no consistent trend from 1975 to 1995."" What is more, they report that between 1975 and 1980, ""while SSTs rose, PI decreased, illustrating the hazards of predicting changes in hurricane intensity from projected SST changes alone.""",1_7
Fermented whales tail doesnt taste the same when the ice cellars flood.,0_0
"Both would leave the country poorer , he said. Rather, the debate should focus on the prospects for adapting to the negative impacts of climate change should they arise .",4_2
A SoCal woman says the energy efficient window installed in a neighbors condominium is melting the plastic components on cars parked in her carport,0_0
The third claim is both the most valid and the most specious: Climate-related efforts to shutter coal power plants have the side effect of reducing actual pollutants that affect health.,0_0
"There is a lot of work to do. But after all, the Senate has a full three and a half weeks before Christmas to do it.",0_0
"Clearly, most proponents of man-made global warming theory are very sincere, often well-informed, people. Here, honest debate based upon facts and logic should be openly welcomed, and nothing in the foregoing should be interpreted to suggest otherwise. Some, holding strong viewpoints on both sides of the issues, may be inclined to challenge base motives and affiliations of those who disagree, and responsibility for full disclosure of any serious conflicts of interest should be expected. In this regard, being part of any science community that depends on funding from biased sponsors (including government agencies and industries), doesn't make those individuals or their work corrupt. The vast majority of all science professionals are in that situation.",0_0
The 2014/15 El Nio Part 3 Early Evolution Comparison with 1982/83 & 1997/98 El Nio Events,0_0
One thing I think stmmer well with what HVS says is the conversation between the skeptical climate Professor John Christy and climate professor Kerry Emanuel belongs head from climate science. John Christy hr to group climate skeptic climate scientists who have suffered from pure personal attacks from the groups that I guess Hans von Storch mean by benmningen alarm lard (other renowned names in this vulnerable group of climate scientists is like Richard Lindzen and Roy Spencer). These alarms lard mean that one should not discuss with SUCH s called frnekare but Kerry Emanuel has therefore been not bothered about this and he made himself even besvret the bitterness John Christy on its universities in Alabama for conversation's sake:,0_0
"12. More recently, in response to the data showing no warming for the last 10 years, I have seen new claims that global land temperatures are now deemed irrelevant. The newly discovered measure of importance is the rise in ocean temperature, since it is now claimed that this is by far the largest planetary heat sink. If that claim is true, it makes all the previous data claiming to show strong global warming over the period 1975 to 1998 also irrelevant. To suggest that from 1975 to 1998, the energy went into warming the land and air and then abruptly in 1998 it stopped doing that and the heat instead went into heating the oceans is, to me, completely absurd. Nature simply does not work that way. It is like claiming you put the kettle on, for the first minute the energy goes into heating the water and then abruptly it stops heating the water and starts heating the room instead.",1_4
"As for the supposedly ""extreme"" weather year of 2012, things were also not as they appeared. Strong tornadoes have been on the decline in the U.S. since the 1950s, and climatologist Roy Spencer pointed out that since there was warming during this time ""Obviously, the conclusion should be that warming causes fewer strong tornadoes, not more (Or, maybe a lack of tornadoes causes global warming!).""",1_7
"An email sent to environmentalists Sunday evening, obtained by The Hill, tallies numerous instances of Obama talking about climate change on the stump.",0_0
insurgents from significant swaths of the country. To keep the operation from,0_0
"China has no alternative to coal, with its domestic gas output limited and liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports more costly than coal. William Durbin",0_0
"Inhomogeneity between sample populations are a very serious problem in Briffas RCS methodology. B13 asserts that need to test subpopulations for homogeneity, but are completely and irredeemably at sea in actually carrying out statistical tests for homogeneity procedures on which many statistical specialists could have assisted.",0_0
"Dimas, from the Greek conservative party New Democracy, is believed to be less personally committed to environmentalism than Wallstrom. Recent months had seen Wallstrom argue publicly with Energy Commissioner Loyola de Palacio of Spain over the economic effects of the Kyoto Protocol.",0_0
"???We, the undersigned, having assessed the relevant scientific evidence, do not find convincing support for the hypothesis that human emissions of carbon dioxide are causing, or will in the foreseeable future cause, dangerous global warming.??",2_3
"Yet amidst the hardship and suffering something extraordinary happened. As the waters rose up, so did the people.",0_0
"Mr Blair secured the job thanks to his ?influence? and high level international contacts, whom he will be expected to lean on to open doors.",0_0
Accurate spin axes and solar system dynamics: Climatic variations for the Earth and Mars,0_0
Big thanks to Steve and Anthony and many others. My contribution would never have happened without your work (whether or not you agree with the views stated).,0_0
I appreciate all that you do in bringing sound science to the discussion of global warmingand indeed for courageously making it a discussion where it was once a monologue. Were making a difference.,0_0
"The authors write that ""information on the timing and magnitude of floods is required in many practical applications of water resources engineering,"" since such data are used ""for estimating design flood values required in engineering design, in operational hydropower forecasting for optimal reservoir management, in floodplain management and water infrastructure operation,"" while adding that ""change in the timing and magnitude of hydrologic extremes may be one of the most significant consequences of climate change."" What was done",0_0
"ABSTRACT: Predicting how the strength and character of the El Nio/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) will change as the climate warms is crucial for a number of societal impacts, yet there are fundamental limitations to our understanding of ENSO dynamics . The major obstacles are related to sampling length, physical adjustments to climate changes, errors in model physics and uncertainties in forcing projections . This dissertation uses these issues to assess what we currently can and cannot say about future ENSO variability.",0_0
"The Koutsoyiannis studies showed that predictions didnt just fail on the continental scale, they failed on the regional and local scale as well, and they were talking about 30 years, not 60.",0_0
"This is not science. It is political science, rooted in an ideological loathing of fossil fuels, economic growth and humanity itself.",0_0
"Flood in Vietnam, 1971. Heavy rains caused severe flooding in North Vietnam, killing 100,000.",0_0
"The study found significant variation between decades in both the raw and adjusted data, with the years between 1908 -1934, 1977 1988 and 1998 2013 featuring a relatively high numbers of reported floods.",1_7
"Judge Brown chiefly addresses the ?interpretative shortcomings? of the Mass. v. EPA Supreme Court decision, which authorized the EPA to regulate GHGs via the Clean Air Act (CAA). Kavanaugh directs his fire at the opinion, shared by the EPA and the five-judge majority, that the CAA?s Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) preconstruction permitting program applies to GHGs, and at the agency?s attempt to ?tailor? away the consequent ?absurd results? by rewriting the statute.",0_0
"Subsequent to my original September 27, 2009 post, I never employed or even illustrated Scenario A in any presentation or blog article, other than an incidental use in a May 15, 2012 pos t where I ironically observed that a Yamal chronology incorporating fresh data from Hantemirov was remarkably similar to Scenario B. My position on Espers Polar Urals version has been similar: that the inconsistency between proxies need to be reconciled before either can be relied upon, a position that I expressed in my submission to Muir Russell as follows:",0_0
"Decrease the federal estate. The federal estate is massive, consisting of some 635 million acres. The effective footprint is even larger because limitations on federal lands often affect the use of adjacent state and private lands because government agencies lock up lands through informal designations and study areas. Regulatory pushes threaten to put almost all of the United States under some form of federal jurisdiction. Federal ownership and federal regulation of public lands restrict economic activity and in many instances have created environmental problems due to mismanaged lands and lack of a proper incentive structure to maintain the properties.",0_0
"Sorry, but Keystone is not a silver bullet for our sluggish economy. It should be supported, yes, because its benefits at least in its revised configuration appear to outweigh its possible costs. But a few thousand construction jobs, as desirable as they might be, do not a recovery make.",0_0
"1) How much CO2 has been needlessly emitted from this fire, in the name of decarbonisation?",0_0
"The most deadly risk from pesticides is that Indian farmers will use them to commit suicide when they can't pay their debts. Such suicides account for almost all of the 100,000 ""pesticide deaths"" per year. Accidental ingestion is the other factor.",0_0
"Who Turned on the Heat? is intended for persons (with or without technical backgrounds) interested in learning about El Nio and La Nia events and in understanding the natural causes of the warming of our global oceans for the past 31 years. Because land surface air temperatures simply exaggerate the natural warming of the global oceans over annual and multidecadal time periods, the vast majority of the warming taking place on land is natural as well. The book is the product of years of research of the satellite-era sea surface temperature data and ocean heat content data that are available to the public via the internet. It presents how the data accounts for its warmingand there are no indications the warming was caused by manmade greenhouse gases. None at all.",2_1
"Taiwanese sculptors have carved an eight-metre-long wooden penis, hoping to set the world record for the longest sculpture of the male genitalia, Taiwan television reported on Friday. Eight sculptors in Pingtung, in southern Taiwan, spent half a year carving the wooden penis. Now their artwork - weighing 12 tons - is on display at an amusement park in Pingtung, Taiwan Television Enterprise (TTV) reports. The sculptors plan to apply to the Guinness Book Of World Records to have their creation declared the longest in the world, TTV says.",0_0
"Read here . The infamous Climategate (and other 'Gate') scientists and government agencies, which have been exposed as scientific charlatans and false prophets of climate doom, have devised a coordinated, PR propaganda campaign that puts a public face on their continuing denial of the exposed scientific malfeasance associated with global warming science. This public exposure of malfeasance has resulted, for climate scientists, climate agencies and global warming activists, an immense credibility loss, and hasseverelydamaged the reputation of the overall science community. Here is how a relatively small group of climate scientists and their facilitators (i.e., IPCC, Al Gore, George Soros, etc.) managed to accomplish this almostimpossible to doachievement: 1. Willfullysensationalized global warming hypothetical, catastrophic scenarios.",5_2
State governments take an increasingly aggressive approach to regulating auto insurance.,0_0
"The take-home message of the findings of Landes and Zimmer is well described in the closing sentence of the abstract of their research report: ""Further experiments exploring the impacts of warming and acidification on key ecological interactions are needed instead of basing predictions of ecosystem change solely on species-specific responses to environmental change ."" Nature is complex; and our studies of it must be directed to gaining a better understanding of that species-interactive complexity, along with its implications for potential future global change. Reviewed 29 August 2012",5_1
"Dr. Walt Meier at NSIDC has told me that the Arctic was ice free several times during the the last 15,000 years. Yet somehow, the bears survived without us coddling them. Im guessing too that Neanderthals were in no way responsible for the ice-free Arctic, because they didnt own any Winnebagos.",1_1
"This post contains graphs of running trends in global surface temperature anomalies for periods of 13+ and 17 years using GISS global (land+ocean) surface temperature data. They indicate that we have not seen a warming halt (based on 13 years+ trends) this long since the mid-1970s or a warming slowdown (based on 17-years trends) since about 1980. I used to rotate the data suppliers for this portion of the update, also using NCDC and HADCRUT. With the data from those two suppliers lagging by a month in the updates, Ive standardized on GISS for this portion.",1_4
"Elsner, however, has taken a different approach, and uses a combination of tornado path length and width to estimate wind speeds. (The logic being that the strongest tornadoes tend to have the longest/widest paths).",0_0
The globally averaged surface temperature is projected to increase by 1.4 to 5.8 C (Figure 5d) over the period 1990 to 2100.,0_0
"Senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman have just unveiled their latest/greatest attempt to reign in U. S. greenhouse gas emissions. Their one time collaborator Lindsey Graham indicated that he did not consider the bill a climate bill because ?here is no bipartisan support for a cap-and-trade bill based on global warming.? But make no mistake. This is a climate bill at heart, and thus the Kerry-Lieberman bill sections labeled ?Title II. Global Warming Pollution Reduction.?",0_0
"""But know right now, we are, we are struggling. We are struggling because we are trying to do our jobs. Lisa Jackson has put forth a very powerful message to the country. Just two days ago, the decision on greenhouse gas performance standard and saying basically gas plants are the performance standard which means if you want to build a coal plant you got a big problem. That was a huge decision. You can't imagine how tough that was. Because you got to remember that if you go to West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and all those places, you have coal communities who depend on coal. And to say that we just think those communities should just go away, we can't do that. But she had to do what the law and policy suggested. And it's painful. It's painful every step of the way.""",4_1
"1) Climate research. The US government spends $2.5 billion per year on research that focuses on carbon dioxide, ignores powerful natural forces that have always driven climate change, and generates numerous reports and press releases warning of record high temperatures, melting icecaps, rising seas, stronger storms, more droughts and other ""unprecedented"" crises. The claims are erroneous and deceitful.",5_2
"In these two short videos, Dyson makes the case for adaptation as a primary response to climate change (I make my own case here at AEI, and made it back in 1998 here at Reason), but what I particularly like is his slap down on climate forecasting (at 2:58 in the first video clip):",0_0
Research suggests frames are a key influence in shaping peoples response to science and technology. But there is no agreement on who should be allowed to do the official framing.Read more here .,0_0
"Further, it conspicuously ignores the fact that doubling the life expectancy of some 200 million Americans who lived in the 20th century is the same as saving 100 million lives. The society that achieved this powered itself on the combustion of fossil fuels. Does this community of experts understand that the number of lives that it effectively saved is orders of magnitude above and beyond it could possibly cost? It seems, given the panoply of horrors due to start pronto, to prefer that we not have emitted carbon dioxide in the first place. Perhaps they ought to look a place that didn't. Surely part of the $3.5 billion that the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) consumes per year could finance a field trip to Chad, so they can see the world without cheap and abundant energy.",4_5
"EPA also wants to regulate all ponds, puddles, creeks, ditches and other ""waters of the United States"" (WOTUS) that are even remotely connected to a navigable waterway. That way it can control nearly all land uses and family, farm and industrial activities in the USA based on equally specious ""science"" regarding supposedly dangerous pollutants that might get into drinking water or wildlife habitats.",0_0
"In particular, we have the problem of the urban heat islands. While it is obvious that the urban heat islands do add a temperature change comparable to 1 C which may depend on time (we know this effect from the Prague-Klementinum station that has been recording the data for more than 200 years; and this downtown Prague weather station is the warmest one in all of Czechia today), I have never believed that this issue was treated very badly or neglected by the folks who evaluated the surface temperature record. For this reason, while I found Anthony Watts et al. project mapping the weather station near asphalt to be amusing, I've never believed that this was really deciding about the ""big questions"" of the climate debate. My near-certainty that the bulk of the 20th century global warming shown by the surface weather record is not due to the asphalt was growing over the years.",0_0
Changes in global atmospheric CO 2 are lagging about 9months behind changes in global lower troposphere temperature.,2_3
Dept of Energy) in the past and they are happy about not releasing the original,0_0
Unless more CO2 could increase total atmospheric density it could not have a significant effect on global tropospheric temperature. Instead the speed of the hydrological cycle changes to a miniscule and unmeasurable extent in order to maintain sea surface and surface air temperature equilibrium. As I have explained previously a change limited to the air alone short of an increase in total atmospheric density and pressure is incapable of altering that underlying equilibrium.,2_3
"This would be laughable if it weren't so risible. The Environmental Defense Fund spent somewhere in the neighborhood of $300 million on a climate change ad campaign with the Ad Council. Do they think they'll do better if they double down and spend $600 million on ads reaching the public? The climate campaign has spent probably well north of a billion dollars in total on behalf of this issue, yet Bill McKibben of 350.org moans that ""since we're never going to compete with Exxon in money, we better find another currency, and to me bodies, spirit, creativity are probably our best bet.""",0_0
"Mr. Blair has said that his G8 chairmanship will concentrate on climate change and Africa, but it is the EU that will give him a headache on this score. While the United States has wisely opted out of the restrictions of the Kyoto Protocol, the EU has made a song and dance about its willingness to fight global warming now. It is even taking the lead in suggesting what should be done to achieve more in the next Kyoto period, post-2012. Yet, as so often with the EU, the public utterances mask a troubling reality.",0_0
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"The sun may be entering a period of reduced activity that could result in lower temperatures on Earth, according to Japanese researchers.",1_2
"In three separate experiments, the authors grew spring wheat in growth chambers receiving 360 or 700 ppm atmospheric CO 2 and low or high nitrogen supply, to study how these parameters influence photosynthetic acclimation . Specifically, they studied how nitrogen availability influences the amount of rubisco required to maintain observed rates of photosynthesis at 700 ppm CO 2 . What was learned",0_0
"The motion presented by Senators Antonio D'Al (chairman of the Environment Committee) and Guido Possa (chairman of the University and Education Committee) as well as many other center-right colleagues, asks the government, among the other things:",0_0
We show that there is a very modest degree of negative water-vapor feedback of 0.1 to 0.2 o C. With this occurring we should expect that the real amount of global warming that will occur from a doubling of CO 2 would be only about 0.2-0.3 o C or about 5-10 percent the amount projected by the many global models of 2-4 o C. The AGW threat and especially the catastrophic AGW (or CAGW) threat cannot be a realistic assertion of how the planets climate system functions.,3_1
"""Ten years ago climate scientists forecast warm winters and lack of snow, because we were having warm winters and a lack of snow. Now they forecast cold winters and lots of snow, because that is what is occurring'",0_0
"If you dont believe in global warming, the terrorists win . Either way, man-caused disasters are to blame.",0_0
"What do the 42 record temperatures for Kansas tell us when we look at them more closely? There are 20 official weather stations in Kansas of which 19 appear to be at airports. Record temperatures, however, have only been set at 8 of these . All of these 8 stations are airport based . Two of these are in Topeka and so are arguably double counted! These are listed below :-",5_1
The 2006 Weblog Awards continue -- this year we are in the blogs ranked 1751-2500. Please cast your vote for Coyote Blog here . Remember that you can vote once per day!,0_0
Arizona Bill Would Limit Participation in the Western Climate Initiative,0_0
"Now onto the BoM, which, as Jo Nova points out , has hit the jackpot with a trifecta of duff predictions, which are no doubt a result of models which are skewed towards the global warming narrative:",5_1
"The underdeveloped world is ripe for capitalism. The ""unemployed"" protestors of the Arab Spring were, in fact, small businessmen who were pushed to the breaking point by continually having their capital and profits expropriated by corrupt government officials, as De Soto points out. So, while the Western media portrayed the protests as being mostly about politics and freedom of expression, they were as much if not more about the freedom to do business.",0_0
"China, which hosts U.N. climate talks next week for the first time, is promoting what it calls ambitious plans to boost energy efficiency and curb emissions. But its supercharged growth means even with rapid efficiency gains it cancels out other global efforts to combat climate change.",4_2
"This is not unprecedented. China and other developing countries resisted participation in the Montreal Protocol that banned a crucial air coolant until the industrial nations agreed to fork over more foreign aid. Though China was recently awarded $420 million to deprive its people of affordable air conditioning, Beijing claims it will need $860 million to complete the job. As hundreds of millions of poverty-stricken Chinese suffer through summer heat without air conditioning, this aid will pay for communist bureaucrats, NGOs, and Western consultants who will teach them how to buy expensive substitutes for freon.",0_0
UN's World Bank Seeks More International Wealth Transfer,0_0
"Obama Readies the Military for Climate Change, Our No. 1 Global Threat",0_0
"Given their interest in grapes and elevated CO2, the team grew grapes in open-top chambers for three years (2004, 2005, 2006) with ambient (365 ppm) and elevated (500 ppm) atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Among many other findings, the team found that the elevated CO2 concentration increased net photosynthetic rate, intrinsic water use efficiency and leaf thicknessthe grapevines loved the higher levels of CO2! We know what you are thinking what about the yield? Well, in 2004, the elevated CO2 increased the yield by 50%, in 2005 by 27%, and in 2006 by 50%. Moutinho-Pereira et al. conclude The yield per vine showed a clear tendency to increase in elevated in the 3 growing seasons (P < 0.1) and this increase was mainly due to an increase in the average cluster weight. Well drink to that great news!",3_3
"The CO 2 emissions since 2000 to about 2.5 percent per year has increased, so that we would expect according to the Hansen paper a temperature rise, which should be stronger than in model A. Figure 1 shows the three Hansen scenarios and the real measured global temperature curve are shown. The protruding beyond Scenario A arrow represents the temperature value that the Hansen team would have predicted on the basis of a CO 2 increase of 2.5%. Be increased according to the Hansen??s forecast, the temperature would have compared to the same level in the 1970s by 1.5 C. In truth, however, the temperature has increased by only 0.6 C.",5_1
"Many of us had perhaps ""heard"" of the Copenhagen climate summit in recent years, but knew only that it was some sort of kooky follow-up to the Kyoto Treaty, which President Bush had refused to sign.",0_0
"The authors grew mint ( Mentha sp . L.) and thyme ( Thymus vulgaris L.) shoots in tissue culture tubes exposed to several atmospheric oxygen concentrations and atmospheric CO 2 concentrations of 350 and 10,000 ppm to determine the influence of these two gasses on the growth of these herbaceous species. What was learned",0_0
"14. Ecologist Kenneth Watt declared, ""By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate that there won't be any more crude oil. You'll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ""er up, buddy,' and he'll say, `I am very sorry, there isn't any.'""",0_0
"Legal online poker getting closer, game of skill debates continue:",0_0
"Unfortunately, however, anti-energy politicians and government bureaucrats have instituted a variety of policies and regulations that have rendered at least 60 percent of recoverable oil inaccessible. Many of these regulations are based on concerns regarding the safety and potential contamination of water. However, a multi-year study recently conducted by the EPA found that fracking has not significantly or systemically impacted drinking water. Proper enforcement of property rights, in conjunction with appropriate regulations implemented by state and local governments, not only enable the extraction of potentially valuable resources, but also have remarkable ability to protect the environment.",4_5
"The Fremantle tide gauge result, the only other tide gauge operational in Australia over more than a century, shows the same modest sea level rise and about zero acceleration in perfect agreement with the worldwide result and the result of Sydney.",1_6
"The solar session was very informative to me. The comments and discussion were also interesting. Graeme Stephens argued that the solar forcing was one of the better understood parts of the record, with uncertainties of a several W/m2 at most. Whereas the uncertainties in the surface energy budget were on the order of 20 W m-2.",5_1
Most geologists beg to differ with such pessimistic accounts of the end times because they say humans and plant life typically evolve before they go extinct.,0_0
"There was no doubt that elevated O3 was bad for the plants, but the Burkey et al. team showed over and over that elevated CO2 restored the damage from caused by the ozone. From the perspective of the peanuts, O3 was definitely a pollutant while CO2 was a white knight ameliorating the damage from O3. If you are concerned about the quality of the nuts, relax as the researchers report Gas treatment effects on peanut market grade characteristics were small. No treatment effects were observed on the protein and oil contents of seeds. In their conclusions section, they reinforce the idea that elevated CO2 will increase yield without any decline in quality.",3_3
"By the way, this is not proven yet but there is probably one other way my Obamacare policy will be worse than my last one: the doctor network in my policy will very likely be a LOT smaller. We could almost be sure this would happen precisely because Obama promised it wouldn't (his promises on health care are pretty good ""tells"" that the opposite will happen).",0_0
"As I live in California, it makes it easier for me if I keep them in the list where I can see whats shaking near me.",0_0
"During an El Nio event, warm water that had been below the surface of the western tropical Pacific sloshes into the East Pacific Ocean on the surface, impacting the sea surface temperatures of the East Pacific and the NINO3.4 region directly. When the El Nio is done, the leftover warm water sloshes back out of the East Pacific.",0_0
"A blog post about alarmist Richard Somerville is here . Excerpt: In an email exchange, I asked Dr. Somerville what he thought was needed in order to spark the changes the letter seeks. He responded, I think a dramatic shocking surprising climate event that is unambiguously due to global warming may be the only thing that motivates people and governments. Maybe a big chunk of ice sheet destabilizing and producing a significant sudden sea level rise. Unfortunately, then it may be too late, because its essentially irreversible; you cant cool the world enough to make the ice re-form quickly. Somerville was a member of an alarmist team that lost an NPR debate on global warming last March.",5_2
"In particular, the suggestions that koda's success hurts the whole VW Group are absolutely irrational. The success may breed jealousy but it surely doesn't reduce the overall profit. If you imagined that koda were not a part of the VW Group, the group's profits would surely be lower than they are now. You can see that, can't you? koda is a competitor for VW but it's an internal competitor whose success counts positively to the results of the VW Group. There are many other competitors whose success counts negatively to the results of VW Group. When koda sells by 100,000 cars more than in the previous year, it may reduce the number of sold VW cars, but surely by less than 100,000. A part probably an overwhelming majority of those 100,000 sold cars that koda ""stole"" were ""stolen"" from brands outside the VW Group! The suggestion that the success of a part of the whole hurts the whole is idiotic it's some form of a communist myth.",0_0
"He took a very select series of proxies, and essentially pasted them onto the 1083 of the 1209 total proxies.",5_1
"its toll, especially if his popularity declines? Can he square the circle with",0_0
"Over most of Antarctica, near-surface temperature and snowfall have not increased significantly.",0_0
"Yet it is another shift that makes the most compelling argument for addressing natural gas in the U.S.-Canada Clean Energy Dialogue in 2014: the recent fall in bilateral natural gas trade. Canada remains the largest foreign supplier of natural gas to the United States, and the United States is Canada's largest export market for gas, but volumes have been falling as new U.S. natural gas supplies come into the market. Producers in both countries are exploring export markets outside North America.",0_0
he threat of environmental extremism in a vast new area provides the biggest reason to reject the treaty. The Kyoto Treaty was rejected as national policy for good reason. LOST is Kyoto with a court attached.??,5_2
"If this is true, it's much more accurate and much more juicy than Tommaso Dorigo's version of the same rumor ! Your humble correspondent would also be likely to win a $10,000 bet with Jester at Resonaances (without losing $100), among other bets. But needless to say, the real value of the discovery would be priceless.",0_0
"This month, the attorneys-general of 16 US states issued subpoenas against a think tank, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in an attempt to silence its climate dissent. The Bloomberg View columnist Megan McArdle lambasted this decision, saying: ""I support action on climate change . . . But that doesn't mean I'm entitled to drive people who disagree with me from the public square.""",0_0
"Eos, Vol. 79, No. 28, July 14, 1998",0_0
Sahara Desert Greening Due to Climate Change?,0_0
"Since 1998 the global mean temperature has not risen significantly. While the global temperature rose by about 0.5C from the 1970s until the end of the 1990s, it has stagnated for the last 15 years, though at a high level. The stagnation surprised a lot of experts, who are now searching for possible causes for this development.",1_4
"I think I'm right in saying that there has been another paper published recently which reconstructed sea ice levels from old satellite photos and showed that the Met Office figures were too high, but I can't lay my hands on it at the moment.",0_0
> >> >>concerned with better adaptation to the current climate in,0_0
"The Sun may have contributed as much as 66% of the observed twentieth century warming, and perhaps more.",2_1
"""So the joke begins like this: An economist, a lawyer and a professor of marketing walk into a room. What's the punch line? They were three of the five 'expert witnesses' Republicans called for last week's Congressional hearing on climate science.""",0_0
"Weather Services International, part of the Weather Channel , said the pressure blocking system which made recent summers cool and wet has disappeared.",0_0
The sharp upward swing of the graph was due to one single tree in Yamal.,0_0
"Example: Without the agreement, ice caps will melt and ""huge lowland areas in the United States, including big portions of central Florida, could be completely flooded."" (Now do you think the Senate should ratify? Duh.) Actually, that wasn't the New York Times but Bill Clinton on the evening news, engaging in pure demagoguery. Pollsters might now use those same words, preceded by ""The President of the United States says that if the treaty is not ratified . . ."" The point is that, depending on the wording, any public opinion can be elicited. Like a good conjurer, the New York Times had us looking the wrong way with its irrelevant pollster patter (""a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points"") but preserved a careful silence about the factual basis and precise wording of the questions.",0_0
"One major challenge is that real uncertainties often turn out to have been underestimated. In many applications, 20%45% of results are surprises, falling outside the previously assumed 98% confidence limits. A famous example is measurements of the speed of light, in which new and more precise mea- surements fell outside the estimated error bars of the older ones much more frequently than expected. This effect arises in predicting river floods and earthquake ground motion and may arise for the IPCC uncertainty estimates .",5_1
The fact of the matter is that the climate of the western United States features periods of very droughty conditions. Figure 3 shows the complete 108-year history of the PDSI for the Southwest. The current conditions were rivaled in the mid-1950s and exceeded in the first several years of the 20th century (and in case any of the editorial staff of the Times are readingglobal temperatures were quite cooler then than they are now!).,1_7
"I, and a number of other scientists, believe that nature has a thermostatic control mechanism that pushes back against a warming influence, such as the relatively weak warming from more atmospheric carbon dioxide. (The direct warming effect of more CO 2 would amount to little more than 1 deg. F by late in this century, and is generally not the subject of debate.)",3_1
"The Grantham Research Institute is chaired by Sir Nicholas Stern, author of the infamous Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change which demanded an ""urgent global response"" to climate change. The called-for response includes a ramped up ""emissions trading"" of greenhouse gases.",0_0
All estimates (OHC and TOA) show that over the past decade the energy imbalance ranges between about 0.5 and 1 Wm -2 .,0_0
"???However, in Palau wherever the water is most acidic, we see the opposite. There??s a coral community that is more diverse, hosts more species and has greater coral cover than in the non-acidic sites.",3_2
"Scenes of disaster are not unusual in Bangladesh. About 6,000 square kilometers of the massive GangesBrahmaputra delta, the largest delta in the world, lies less than two metres above sea level. On average, 6,000 people in Bangladesh die each year in storms and floods. In April 1991, a single cyclone, the worst in recent decades, wiped out well over 100,000 lives in the delta and left millions of people homeless.",0_0
WHY ARE THE DIFFERENCES IN THE TRENDS OF OUTGOING LONGWAVE AND SHORTWAVE RADIATION SO LARGE?,0_0
"And part of that debate, I believe, requires calling attention to Exxon-Mobil's funding of a pseudoscientific community whose purpose is to prevent us from tackling global climate change.",0_0
"Fortunately the antidote for this stink is straightforward: think with your own head. What was in the research paper that made the savages so upset? Check the research, but leave the scientists themselves alone!",0_0
"Sure enough, the Climategate emailers, who effectively but invisibly control the UN's climate panel to a dangerous extent, pretended that Professor Reiter's nomination papers had not been received. He then threw all his toys out of the stroller, produced the recorded-delivery slips, and made it plain that he would name the four defalcating bureaucrats to whom his nomination papers had been delivered unless the climate panel changed its mind.",5_2
"on Monday, February 1st, 2010 at 7:38 am and is filed under News.",0_0
"Furthermore, from 1940 to 1970, carbon dioxide built up rapidly in the atmosphere, and according to the computer projections of climate, the temperature of the earth should also have risen rapidly. Instead, as the chart shows, the temperature dropped.",2_3
"The population around the Laverton station has changed significantly since the station was first opened. ABS statistics indicate a population increase from 7853 in 1933 to over 132,000 in 2008. It is also clear from aerial photographs that there has been significant urban development around the station since its inception, with significant growth in residential development over the last three decades.",5_1
"Easily the largest and most lucrative component in the CDM market is a peculiar racket centred on the manufacture of CFCs, chlorofluorocarbons, classified under Kyoto as greenhouse gases vastly more damaging than carbon dioxide. The way the racket works is that Chinese and Indian firms are permitted to carry on producing a refrigerant gas known as HCF-22 until 2030. But a by-product of this process is HCF-23, which is supposed to be 11,700 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2. By destroying the HCF-23, the firms can claim Certified Emission Reduction credits worth billions of dollars when sold to the West (while much of the useful HCF-22 is sold onto the international black market).",0_0
"The love affair with carbon taxes stems from a concern that carbon dioxide, a byproduct of energy use, is raising global temperatures and causing global warming. By taxing carbon dioxide, Congress would take action to reduce energy use. Many academic economists favor the carbon tax for restructuring the tax system, seeing it as an alternative to an individual income tax, a corporate income tax or a European-style cap-and-trade system.",0_0
"The second system is the impact on the biosphere itself. While carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that tends to trap the sun??s radiation, it is also a vital fertilizer that stimulates plant growth and consequently enhances the food supplies for all the animals, insects, funghi and bacteria which live on and around them.",3_3
"It turns out that far from being a stable pH, spots all over the world are constantly changing. One spot in the ocean varied by an astonishing 1.4 pH units regularly. All our human emissions are projected by models to change the worlds oceans by about 0.3 pH units over the next 90 years, and thats referred to as catastrophic",3_2
"Looking ahead, the ""Clear Skies Initiative"" announced by the Bush administration would require cuts in power plant emissions of what EPA calls ""the three worst air pollutants"" by roughly 70 percent.16 According to EPA, the Clear Skies Initiative would:",0_0
Cloud Telecomputers to Exhibit Glass Platform at AstriCon 2010:,0_0
Scientists are studying this question with great care. It now seems that the sun has a significant influence on climate.,2_1
"There were plenty of worthy candidates, doing actual work to build peace between quarreling parties and reducing standing armies, but this years choice was a populist attempt to influence the political discourse on climate change.",0_0
Advocates of individual liberty and limited government can easily become depressed reading about President Barack Obama's latest exercise of unconstitutional power or the tragicomedy of the upcoming presidential election. But looking behind the headlines reveals something very different and positive: We are turning the tide in favor of freedom.,0_0
"If we entered another Dalton type minimum post 2019, the present positive Global Temperature Anomaly would be completely eliminated.",1_2
"A promised $100 billion in annual climate financing that Western nations have already pledged to developing countries for carbon emission control and other actions by 2020 is only the ""starting point"" for additional Western financial commitments that must be laid out in a ""clear road map,"" which includes ""specific targets, timelines and identified sources;""",0_0
Willie Soon in 2009 found a ten year delay from TSI to sea surface temperature changes in the tropical Atlantic. Moffa-Sanchez et al in 2014 found a lag of around 12 years from TSI to North Atlantic surface temperatures over the last thousand years. Usoskin et al in 2004 found that the correlation coefficient between northern hemisphere temperature and reconstructed sunspot numbers from 850AD was greatest when the temperature lagged the sunspot numbers by around 12 years. Greg Goodman finds a peak in the correlation between sea surface temperatures and sunspot numbers when the former lags by 10.1 years (though sunspot numbers would correlate a little like that with white noise).,2_1
"""Imagine turning your car's steering wheel, or giving it a gentle tug, and having it break away from the steering column. Now you're speeding along holding the suddenly useless wheel.""",0_0
"To stay warm, thousands of elderly are using travel passes to ride buses all day, while others seek refuge in libraries and shopping centers, the Sunday Express noted. Others are ""putting their health at risk, in an attempt to keep costs down,"" by bundling up and turning the heat down or off entirely, said Age UK Charity Director Michelle Mitchell.",0_0
Marc Morano at Climate Depot writes a lengthy article on this issue. Apparently Rep. Leutkemeyer read aloud a report of more than 700 dissenting scientists that was prepared by Morano in 2009. An updated version of this report (which includes 1000 dissenting scientists) can be found here .,0_0
"(By convention, a failed to falsify result should be accompanied by an estimate of the error, or statistical power. I havent seen these discussed in the climate blog wars, but I do intend to extend my spreadsheet to include these at some point. Reporting both and errors are important if people are to draw inferences about statistical results.)",0_0
A recent study of tide gauges showed a slight decrease in sea level rise rates since 1970,1_6
"Lewis Deane on October 9, 2013 at 10:09 pm",0_0
"During 2014, sea ice extent has been above normal for 245 days, at an average of 295,000 sq km.",1_1
Furthermore the Death et al. 2012 study states: The disturbance data for COTS and cyclones show periodic and random fluctuations but no systematic long-term variation over the 27 year observation period.,1_7
"In any case, time is up. Real life intrudes. I am told that shopping in this store is complete. There are fabulous bargains to be had elsewhere, and I should come along because, I?m told, I can ponder doom anywhere. Thus shopping really does trump apocalypse.",0_0
"moves up, but we dont know if the pdf itself will change. There are clear",0_0
"the brink of failure, triumph is snatched from the jaws of defeat by the extraordinary negotiating efforts of the UNFCCC secretariat and the government ministers attending. The triumph is embodied in a document, the substance of which is that a new consensus has been reached that represents a breakthrough or a conceptual agreement or the way forward or a road map. When this consensus is examined a little more closely, it is almost always found to consist of the intention to continue negotiating plus a pledge to reach agreement on all outstanding issues by a date certain.",0_0
"Economic impact estimates completed over the past 20 years vary in their coverage of subsets of economic sectors and depend on a large number of assumptions, many of which are disputable, and many estimates do not account for catastrophic changes, tipping points, and many other factors. With these recognized limitations, the incomplete estimates of global annual economic losses for additional temperature increases of ~2C are between 0.2 and 2.0% of income (1 standard deviation around the mean)",0_0
"Paul O'Sullivan, Deputy Chief of Mission at the Australian Embassy, explained why Australia is fighting against a treaty that imposes an undue burden with minimal return.",0_0
"The IPCC ARs list levels of agreement in the literature on a constellation of issues. The IPCC does *NOT* issue a single statement that constitutes the consensus, per Cook et als attempt.",5_1
"Indeed, much of our new-found energy is drawn from lands and waters that we, the public, own together. So tonight, I propose we use some of our oil and gas revenues to fund an Energy Security Trust that will drive new research and technology to shift our cars and trucks off oil for good. If a non-partisan coalition of CEOs and retired generals and admirals can get behind this idea, then so can we. Lets take their advice and free our families and businesses from the painful spikes in gas prices weve put up with for far too long. Im also issuing a new goal for America: lets cut in half the energy wasted by our homes and businesses over the next twenty years. The states with the best ideas to create jobs and lower energy bills by constructing more efficient buildings will receive federal support to help make it happen.",0_0
"Washington, D.C., November 10, 2010 The Obama Administration's Environmental Protection Agency finally today released its ""guidance"" for how power plants and oil refiners will be forced to comply with new greenhouse gas emissions regulations.",0_0
"4. High costs of seed. If the farmer doesn't make more from the biotech seed than from saving his own seed, he won't buy it. If the seeds increase his food security and/or profits the cost will be covered. 5. Legal restrictions on farmers saving biotech seed for replanting. Seed sales are the only way for biotech companies to fund their research. More and more biotech crops, moreover, are coming from non-profit organizations such as Gates, universities, and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center",0_0
IPCC's Policymakers Summary: A Political Document,0_0
"Certified Consulting Meteorologist Mike Smith of WeatherData Inc. in Wichita, KS, a world renowned expert on severe weather, talks about the issues of trying to connect weather and climate and where these issues fail.",0_0
"A paper published today in Geophysical Research Letters titled "" The Arctic Ocean warms from below "" finds that geothermal heat at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean caused slight warming of 0.004C per year from 1993-2010. The authors find a temperature inversion with higher temperatures at the bottom of the ocean than the interior, which indicates the heat had to arise from geothermal sources; the opposite temperature profile would be expected if the Arctic Ocean was heating from above due to greenhouse gases. Other than the fact that heat rises, the paper throws more water on Trenberth's claim that his 'missing heat' allegedly from greenhouse gases has sunken to the bottom of the ocean.",2_1
Since the 1950s the world's temperature has risen by 0.12C per decade - but since 1998 it has slowed to 0.05C per decade.,1_4
"We conclude that at the global scale, this suite of climate models has failed. Treating them as mathematical hypotheses, which they are, means that it is the duty of scientists to reject their predictions in lieu of those with a lower climate sensitivity.",5_1
"People often talk about colonial masters, capitalists, and politicians as the sources of evil and inhuman acts. But most of us are not told that such things are happening today and their culprits are sometimes the same people who paint themselves as symbols of morality in the Western societies.",0_0
"First clips of ""Climate Hustle"" air on Hannity, devastate warming hype",0_0
"For further information or to obtain a copy of this study, please visit http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/journal/apnm",0_0
There are all kinds of conspiracy theories on the web. ANYTHING can be done with video and photoshop to make any visual you want. Just a question of time and talent. Folks get paid for videos that go viral. The result is a lot of crap. Alien spacecraft shown flying over The City and who knows what all else. Some quite good. (Though fake). But Im committed to watching due to the power of the Chiefio-spouse number.,0_0
"The Antarctic Sea Ice Extent on Sept 13 2014 may have set a new all time record (at least for the satellite era, we don??t have data prior to that).",1_1
Because sunspot activity has historically predicted periods of global warming and global cooling lots of sunspots translates into lots of warming and vice versa Hathaways study presented at a December 2006 meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco acted to support global warming theorists and to discredit the various solar scientists who believe that Earth is about to enter a prolonged period of cooling.,2_1
But we shouldnt clobber the economy. Thats why Ive always been against a carbon tax or emissions trading scheme because it harms our economy without necessarily helping the environment.,4_1
Horrors! Now an Aussie Scientist Doubts the Climate Doomsayers,0_0
"Virginia has been thrust into the center of the immigration debate recently. Del. Robert Marshall asked Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to issue an opinion about whether the state's law enforcement officers could determine the immigration status of persons stopped or arrested. Cuccinelli's opinion that they can is probably legally correct, but may still backfire. Americans across the political spectrum are rightly concerned over our broken immigration system. Still, in today's super-heated political climate, moves that seem to treat all undocumented immigrants as criminals will likely worsen the situation.",0_0
"It used to be thought that the sun controlled the Earths climate, but the IPCC and the CSIRO ignore the sun and relate climate change to CO2 and so-called greenhouse gases. Outside that group many still think that the sun controls climate. There is a very good correlation between sunspot cycles and climate. We have entered sunspot cycle 24, and if things happen as they did in the past we are in for global cooling, which could lead to a fall in sea level. For those keen on the precautionary principle, we should take the necessary precautions for cooling and a drop in sea level.",2_1
"Marc Morano, a former aide to U.N. agitator and Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe, told FoxNews.com the document shows the climate talks are intended to create more ""taxing and regulatory authority.""",4_1
"Equally important, the big computer models of global weather patterns have cut their projections of warming from about 5 degrees Celsius to less than 2 degrees Celsius.",5_1
"In his June 26, 1997 address before the United Nations President Clinton defended his environmental record, citing several ""successes"" such as toxic dump cleanup and his recent decision to implement new air quality standards.",0_0
Minnesota Legislators Invite Heartland Staff to Lead Climate Change Seminar,0_0
"Februarys Update news: According to revised official Met office 1 figures, January 2008 was still the coldest month globally in 14 years 2 . At only 0.056 C higher than the nominal reference 3 We must look back to February 1994 to find a colder month. Global temperatures peaked in February 1998 at 0.75C and with February coming in at 0.194 C there is a definite and accelerating cooling trend of -0.1 C /decade.",1_2
"After four years of this aggressive barrage of rules designed to kill coal, many in the heartland, states that rely most heavily on coal, are not amused.",0_0
"And when one examines the last 17-years, the satellite global temperature trend becomes slightly less than zero (i.e. global cooling). As a prominent climate alarmist scientist determined recently in a peer reviewed paper:",1_4
"In 2005, they would tell us that every season would bring its ever increasing number of hurricanes. The number of Katrinas would skyrocket and they would eventually kill everyone. However, a sequence of average and below-the-average hurricane seasons has led the climate cultists to change their preferred doomsday scenario dozens of times in recent years. One could say that every time the weather changed, their holy scripture was rewritten, too.",1_7
"""Right now in a caf in Beirut an educated man, a chemist by trade, schooled in the ways of the West, is reading an article about how the US will only spend $15 billion on AIDS and probably won't reduce its carbon emissions to 1817 levels, and he throws down the paper in disgust: bastards! I must join Al Qaeda, move to Iraq and kill the contractors who are upgrading their outmoded infrastructure!""",0_0
Globalwarming.org: Say It Isn't So! Exxon Supports a Carbon Tax,0_0
If it benefits a political agenda to find a culprit that needs to be tamed and controlledguess whatthe results are ordained.,0_0
"As of this writing, environmental nonprofits are funding two green advertising campaigns with a national scope. One, titled ""Red Carriage,"" is paid for by the American Lung Association. The other, ""What if Polluter Lobbyists in Washington Were Replaced with Asthmatic Children,"" is a joint production by the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Both ads feature babies or toddlers in distress. In ""Red Carriage,"" it's a coughing baby; in the Sierra Club/NRDC ad, it's children with inhalers strapped to their faces. Each ad insinuates that a vote to ""gut"" or ""weaken"" the Clean Air Act is akin to inflicting harm on children. In each case, the accusation is entirely without merit. Unfortunately, these two ads reveal the environmentalist movement's public relations strategy. It is now standard operating procedure for green groups to produce ads that associate jarring imagery of suffering children with a vote in Congress to rein in the Environmental Protection Agency.",0_0
instrumental rather than solar in origin is a bit controversial. Similarly IPCC,0_0
"Of course, it couldnt possibly be anything else but CO2 causing this , right?",0_0
"The oil and gas industry is in the crosshairs of the administrations eco-agenda, even if Shell gets its Arctic drilling permit.",0_0
"Since it is apparently acceptable practice for Science magazine to accompany an article extolling the evils of anthropogenic climate change (and the need to take action) with an picture of a polar bear (or two) stranded on an ice floe (even though polar bears were not mentioned in the article), perhaps well accompany all of our articles with a photo of a thriving Trumpeter swan. After all, whats good the goose (or, er, swan)",5_2
Famed hurricane forecaster Dr. William Gray has issued his hurricane season forecast for 2012 and predicts below-average probability for major hurricanes making landfall.,1_7
"Even if some savings are managed to be squeezed out by the presence of wind, it is important to remember that the effect of such for an electricity system will be very small to negligible. This will be true regardless of how much wind is installed. The costs to realize these small gains, again if somehow they can be realized, are large in many terms, including the price of electricity and other forms of taxpayer support, the misdirection of industrial/economic activity into non-productive channels, the impact on local environments and economies, despoilment of natural settings, health and safety issues, distraction from better approaches to meet societal goals, and the divisiveness created within communities and even families.",4_4
"CEI reminds OSTP that this practice was described as ""creat non-governmental accounts for official business"" and ""using the nongovernmental accounts specifically to avoid creating a record of the communications"" in a recent analogous situation involving lobbyist Jack Abramoff. CEI expects similar congressional and media outrage at this similar practice to evade the applicable record-keeping laws.",0_0
"Mr. Bush won despite 1,000 American deaths in Iraq, an economy that is generating new jobs at a tepid pace, a faltering performance in the presidential debates and the nearly unanimous opposition of the media. It was a triumph, and Europeans needs to recognize that its effects will probably endure. The Republican party of Ronald Reagan, which followed a half-century of Democratic dominance in American politics, is consolidating its power.",0_0
"In conclusion, all five GSTA datasets analyzed here show an average GSTA over the past 35 years of between 0.01C to 0.42C above their respective baseline period temperature, depending data set (1). The land-based data sets report in all most all cases monthly GSTA that are higher than the satellite based GSTAs (1). In addition, the land-based monthly GSTAs analyzed here (GISS, NCDC, HadCRUT4) are increasingly positively diverging from the two satellite-based GSTAs used (RSS, UAH) over time, whereas the two-satellite-based data sets are increasingly negatively diverging from each other. These trends, and especially the opposing trend with RSS, warrant more in-depth analyses, continued scrutiny and attention.",0_0
"have less of a cooling effect than previously estimated, the climate models need to be re-worked. The models incorporate a high cooling effect to counter-balance their high warming effect for CO2.]",5_1
"$30,000 for minor fender and door damage",0_0
"Thats what makes the major outbreaks of West Nile virus in the U.S. this summer so scary. So far, nearly 700 cases have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), including 26 deaths the biggest nationwide outbreak since 2004. The situation is particularly bad in and around Dallas, where the virus has killed 10 people and sickened more than 200 so far this summer. The city has declared a state of emergency and, for the first time in 45 years, has begun aerial spraying of pesticide to kill the mosquitoes that are the virus delivery system even in the face of residents heated concerns that the pesticide could be more dangerous than the disease. I cannot have any more deaths on my conscience because we failed to take action, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings told reporters recently.",0_0
The key question here is clearly what fraction of the observed impacts of climate change that the IPCC identifies is human-caused and how much natural. Lets see if we can put some probabilities on this.,0_0
"The authors conclude that ""the combination of higher root yields at elevated CO 2 combined with a decrease in root decomposition will lead to a longer residence time of C in the soil and probably to a higher C storage."" These facts, they say, ""should be taken into account in models predicting the fate of C under different scenarios for climatic change."" And so they should; for this is a phenomenon that cannot be ignored in this most important enterprise.",3_3
"Well, perhaps such people exist; prigs and bullies can be found on almost any side of any dispute. But at their best, religion and environmentalism interconnect in a much more positive way. Both invite people to think far beyond the particular physical space and moment in time which they happen to occupy. Both encourage virtues such as caution and self-restraint in the face of uncertaintyvalues which are absent from most political discourse, and are hard to fit into any electoral cycle. Traditional societies used to have rites and beliefs which affirmed a sense of connectedness with past generations and responsibility for future generations; such a sense is absent from the short-term calculus of secular politics and economics. Lord Lawson may be quite right to say that the decline of Marxism and organised Christianity has pushed people towards concern for the planet. But that doesnt mean the concern is foolish.",0_0
"At its most tightly coupled, T is the radiative temperature of the Earth. However, the outgoing longwave radiation is proportional to T**4. A 1C increase in the polar latitudes in the winter, for example, would have much less of an effect on the change of longwave emission than a 1C increase in the tropics. The spatial distribution matters, whereas Equation (1) ignores the consequences of this assumption. A more appropriate measure of global heat content would be to evaluate the change of the global average of T**4",0_0
"One consequence of the nations non-attainment with NAAQS for GHGs is that EPA would have to regulate major stationary CO 2 sourcesunder the Non-Attainment New Source Review (NNSR) pre-construction permitting program, which is more stringent than PSD. The NNSR cutoff for regulation as a major source is 100 TYP, not 250 TPY as would be the case for most PSD-regulated stationary sources.NNSR-regulated entities must comply with Lowest Achievable Emission Rate (LAER) standards, the most stringent in EPAs arsenal. Moreover, major sources would haveto offset any emissions increase from a new or modified source by reducing emissions from an existing source somewhere else. Roughly speaking, nothing could be built or expanded anywhere in the United States unless something else shuts downa de-facto moratorium on growth.",0_0
"At any rate, the LFCS called Mr Boslough has bashed the ""contrarians"" and especially Judith Curry, a renegade, who was given an exemption and she could explain the detailed reasons why LFCS named Michael Mann is an... Apologies, this whole sentence had to be completely omitted because there's no way to be more than 3% honest and to preserve at least 3% of the usual standards of politeness at the same moment.",0_0
"This derivation of (t) does not assume any given equilibrium between ingress and egress; the only hypothesis made is that the absorption grows with due to fertilization of the air by CO 2 : more food, bigger plants and quicker growth, more leafs and so on; see on notice n2 in the footnotes the references of some observations made during the last fifty years.",3_3
"Four years ago, the UK Climate Change Act was passed, committing the UK to huge economic upheaval and a cost, on the governments own figures, of 18 billion a year.",0_0
"Clive Hamilton who breaks tenets of science, good manners, and any semblance of reason spins up a preposterous claim that The Australian is attacking science, and strangely the national masthead almost seems to be hurt by it.",0_0
Fewer Americans See Solid Evidence of Global Warming,0_0
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Reacts to U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on Greenhouse Gases,0_0
"ExxonMobil took a different course. In 2005, then-CEO Lee Raymond, said: ""What all these people are thinking about doing, we did 20 years agoand spent $1 billion, in dollars of that day, to find out that none of these were economic."" ""In the late 1970s, as oil prices skyrocketed, Exxon diversified into an array of fossil-fuel alternatives, including nuclear and solar energy."" ""After several years, Exxon still couldn't see prospects for renewable energy turning into a moneymaker, especially since oil prices were falling in the 1980s. In the mid-1980s, the company decided to get out of the business.""",0_0
"If McKitrick et al shows that the IPCC global computer models cant model the present and therefore the future, Professor Demetrius Koutsoyiannis and his team show those models cant even model the past",5_1
"""Specifically, in scenario A CO2 increases as observed by Keeling for the interval 1958-1981 and subsequently with a 1.5%/yr growth of the annual increment.""",0_0
"Setting out to update that analysis, Zhao and Running expected to see similar results as global average temperatures have continued to climb. Instead, they found that the impact of regional drought overwhelmed the positive influence of a longer growing season, driving down global plant productivity between 2000 and 2009. The team published their findings Aug. 20 in Science.",0_0
"Let's begin with the case that libertarian Republicans make, a tale that often starts with blue-state governors. They remind us that states well outside the reach of GOP presidential candidates have in the last decade elected pro-choice Republicans as governors. Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Pataki, Mitt Romney, and Linda Lingle have won statewide in California, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, and even Barack Obama's Hawaii. All ran as fiscal conservatives and social moderates, and all succeeded where GOP presidential nominees got creamed.",0_0
"Methods 1 & 2 have identical (alpha) errors. So, I consider the method with the minimum error superior, as it is gives the least, overall, number of errors. This is why I average over all instruments. Method 3 is deficient as method to test the IPCC hypothesis, and merely gives some sense of the uncertainty due to measurement noise without regard to weather noise.",0_0
"Accelerating sea levels swamping the world's coastal regions is the ""bread & butter"" fear of global warmista scientists - tide gauge station empirical evidence however does not support the CAGW predictions (hysteria)",1_6
Do these people ever get tired of being complete morons?,0_0
Great news from Van Jones: America is not broke:,0_0
"Eventually, other astronomers recalculate the asteroid?s path and find serious mistakes in the original work. They conclude that the likelihood of an impact any time in the next few centuries is minuscule. By this time, however, the ?stop asteroid impact? movement is highly popular among opinion leaders, and international consultations are well underway. The Bureau of Asteroid Deflection is fully funded, and money is pouring into science and engineering research establishments. Not surprisingly, the trajectory corrections are ignored.",0_0
"If I need my car repaired, I do not take it to a dentist. If I am seeking advice about the climate I check out what climatologists and meteorologists are saying, at least those who have not sold their souls to the global warming/climate change hoax.",0_0
"Steve, Im horrified by your slipshod work. You did not define what you compare, what dataset used in each case, how data were processed, and what was the reason for that, what limitation there are, what kind of additional information you need to know. Why didnt you ask me for all the details? You even arent ashamed of using information from stolen letters. Do carelessness, grubbiness, dishonourableness are the necessary concomitants of your job? With disrespect",0_0
"Yet the inefficient, intermittent, and uneconomical ""clean technologies"" are not what made America ""strong and free."" America became a superpower on the basis of energy that was abundant, available, and affordable. Now, in the cause of climate change, we want to deny developing countries the same benefits we've had?",4_5
"Barely twelve months after its Meteorological Office said the 2009-10 winter was the coldest in three decades, Britain endured its coldest December-January since 1683. Because the United Kingdom's ultra green energy policies have driven heating costs into the stratosphere, British pensioners rode buses or spent all day in libraries to stay warm, then shivered all night in their apartments. Tens of thousands risked hypothermia, trying to control costs by bundling up and turning the heat down or off. Many died.",1_3
"Regardless of your position on any policy issue, the right to voice your opinion is a unique and fundamental element of American democracy. But today, Americans' right to free speech is under attack by government officials.",0_0
"This lack of accountability and transparency strikes at the heart of China's credibility in any global climate change agenda. Wen would not want foreign experts reporting to political masters in America and Europe that Beijing's capacity for compelling local officials and locally managed, state-controlled enterprises some 120,000 companies and countless other subsidiaries to implement climate change initiatives is extremely low. This would simply strengthen suspicions that decentralised China cannot actually honour future commitments despite promises that it intends to.",0_0
"A novelty from the ocean's depths is that some species seem to benefit from more carbon dioxide is absorbed by the oceans, just tvrtemot previously emerged.",0_0
"As a precursor to a potentially very costly competition, Reagan's proposed Strategic Defense Initiative indeed was crucial but it was far from heralding a military defeat, given that the Kremlin knew very well that effective deployment of space-based defenses was decades away. Similarly, though the 1980 peaceful anti-communist uprising of the Polish workers had been a very disturbing development for Soviet leaders, underscoring the precariousness of their European empire, by 1985 Solidarity looked exhausted. The Soviet Union seemed to have adjusted to undertaking bloody ""pacifications"" in Eastern Europe every 12 years Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, Poland in 1980 without much regard for the world's opinion.",0_0
"Markey has actually called for the construction of new pipelines to bring gas from Pennsylvania but its falling on deaf ears in the natural gas industry, which has been the focus of his relentless attacks for years. Such are the real-life consequences of anti-shale gas politics.",4_5
"Today the door has been pushed back somewhat, with a new paper in Energy Economics by a multinational team of authors led by Zuzana Irsova of Charles University in Prague (there is a preprint here ). She and her colleagues have been looking into published estimates of the social cost of carbon and find good evidence of a strong publication bias. You can probably guess which direction the bias is in:",5_2
"On Monday, newly arrived government ministers begin applying political weight to talks being held in Cancun, as the 193-nation U.N. climate conference moves into its decisive final week.",0_0
"By Jo Nova, Her Blog, Aug 12, 2015",0_0
"EPAs Punitive, Fraudulent Clean Power Plan",0_0
"Dear Steve, the satellite record measures a different quantity than the weather-station-based global mean temperature, so there is no good reason to think that their graphs and trends should agree. In other words, the disagreement between these two different types of datasets doesnt imply that there is a mistake in either of them.",0_0
"The NSR policy changes recommended by EPA, if put into practice, would not compromise air quality. We are skeptical that NSR has had a major positive effect on air quality since 1977, so predictions that EPA's proposed reforms would result in substantial increases in emissions41 strike us as partisan rhetoric, not analysis. The air quality goals and standards for protecting public health and the environment remain intact, and those aspects of the current program that unintentionally increase emissions by discouraging investments in energy efficiency would be avoided.",0_0
How the Center for American Progress campaigned to suppress speech,0_0
"You can say that again! Climatologists are no Einsteins . But it wasnt me that said it, it was a successor of Einstein himself at Princeton University, Freeman Dyson.",0_0
"Evidence abounds that the Administration is pursuing a strategy of implementation without ratification. During the Kyoto conference, Vice President Gore said: ""Whether there is an agreement in Kyoto or not, the United States is prepared, under President Clinton's leadership, to unilaterally take steps that we believe should be taken to deal with this problem."" If Mssrs. Clinton and Gore were prepared to take unilateral steps before there was a Kyoto Protocol, why should we suppose they are not willing to do so now?",0_0
"By spring 2011, we should see a large increase in multi-year ice. The remaining blue ice in the map above will become green multi-year ice. The only things which could prevent this now would be an asteroid impact or strong winds which blow the ice out into the North Atlantic over the winter.",0_0
This approach is a more robust and inclusive approach than by relying on the global models as the tool to use for planning. The costs of using the global models as the assessment tool should be redirected to these other assessment approaches given by #1 through #3.,5_1
"Paul Chesser of North Carolina's John Locke Foundation has a useful article in today's Washington Times about how one advocacy group, funded by leftist foundations, is taking over state policy decision-making on global warming:",0_0
"Scientists predicted summer sea ice would shrink, but they underestimated the trend. Now in late summer, much of the Arctic Ocean is open water; summer ice covers about half what it did 30 years ago.",0_0
Prohibiting the EPA and other agencies from regulating greenhouse gas emissions and prohibiting the EPA and other agencies from using any funds to promulgate or enforce any regulation intended to mitigate global warming unless it is expressly authorized to do so by Congress.,0_0
"Over the last three decades, five IPCC assessment reports, dozens of computer models, scores of conferences and thousands of papers focused almost entirely on human fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide/greenhouse gas emissions, as being responsible for dangerous global warming, climate change, climate disruption, and almost every extreme weather or climate event. Tens of billions of dollars have supported these efforts, while only a few million have been devoted to analyses of all factors natural and human that affect and drive planetary climate change.",5_2
"Proclaiming that the study affirms the reality of catastrophic global warming will only further confuse the issue. As with other reports on climate issues, most notably the United Nations' Third Assessment Report, the qualifications and uncertainties in which scientists couch their claims go unnoticed or ignored when the findings are repeated for the benefit of policy makers and the general public.",0_0
"As a reminder, the outgoing shortwave radiation represents a portion of the incoming sunlight thats reflected back to space, primarily by clouds and volcanic aerosols. Where incident shortwave radiation is basically an input, outgoing shortwave radiation is a model-calculated value.",0_0
"Think about what Curry vs. Mann would accomplish. As Curry admits, ?I have at least as good a case against Michael Mann for defamation as he has against Steyn.? So this would put Mann is a bind: if he wins against Steyn, he establishes a precedent for his own loss to Curry. If no one can criticize him under the Bill Murray rule??Back off, man, I?m a scientist??then he can?t criticize others.",0_0
"This example is from Victoria, not New South Wales, but sea level must have roughly the same rises and falls all over the world. So the whole world should be alarmed, not just New South Wales. Indeed the IPCC and CSIRO try to alarm the world with stories of drowning of low islands, like Tuvalu. But detailed mapping has shown that Tuvalu, and many other coral islands, have actually grown over the past 20 years.",1_6
"Oh, and it's all taking off! Greg Laden weighs in here . Briggs reports that he has posted a comment on it (it hasn't appeared yet though). Oooh!",0_0
And we can see the direct impact of that as a big jump in OLR OUTGOING IR. CO2 be damned.,2_3
"Corporate managers should not allow themselves to be bullied and extorted by a small group of manipulative, ill-willed, and know-nothing activists. CEOs owe it to their shareholders, employees and customers to stand up to eco-intimidation. They should insist that environmental controversies be resolved with the actual facts rather than activist pretensions.",0_0
"We know from Climategate emails that CRU were reading CA posts at the time. Further, the contemporary responses of Briffa and Melvin first conceded that I had raised a number of valid points that require further investigation and then, in their second much more detailed response shortly before Climategate, Briffa and Melvin stated that it is important to examine the robustness of RCS chronologies, involving the type of sensitivity testing that McIntyre has undertaken. This latter article repeatedly used the term sensitivity to describe my analyses.",0_0
"DR. SPENCER: Well, I think that this has got to contribute to it. Although I couldn't find where they explicitly mention this. That the cloud forcing has gone way down. I don't know why they didn't mention that, because the graph indicates it. This value here of one on this scale is where the cloud forcing equals the CO2 radiant forcing so if basically doubles the effect. And clearly the average cloud forcing has gone way down, although they don't mention that in the summary.",0_0
"In 20th- and 21st-century simulations, antarctic sea ice cover is projected to decrease more slowly than in the Arctic (Figures 10.13 c,d and 10.14 ), particularly in the vicinity of the Ross Sea where most models predict a local minimum in surface warming. This is commensurate with the region with the greatest reduction in ocean heat loss, which results from reduced vertical mixing in the ocean (Gregory, 2000).",0_0
"To me, the most significant thing that the Climategate emails show is that the deck is stacked against the publication of research results that are critical of the established scientific consensus and that the skids are greased for papers that run in support. It is little wonder why the literature is as one-sided as it is on the issue. The folks who are responsible for establishing the consensus have also taken it upon themselves to be the protectors of it. Not a good situation for the advancement of science.",5_2
I pay more and this is going to prevent global warming? Yeah right. Wrong bill at the wrong time for all of the wrong reasons.,4_2
"Previous efforts at flood defence in Bangladesh have not solved the problems. In 1990, the first flood action plan called for barriers to be built along main rivers: in less than 10 years, some 3,500 kilometres of embankments sprang up. In 2000, the countrys focus shifted towards constructing more storm shelters and improving warning systems but even so, about three-quarters of Bangladeshs population remains exposed to severe flooding.",0_0
"""What if climate change appears to be just mainly a multi-decadal natural fluctuation? They'll kill us probably.""",0_0
"Bruce Walker, frequent contributor to American Thinker discusses the problem we have put up at Junk Science many times, Federal Judges who usurp the Constitution by their pretense that they shall decide what the constitution means.",0_0
"SM: Our A-Number-One issue is taxes. But we also stand for smaller government, and reducing regulation is certainly part of smaller government. I'll give you just one example of an issue that we're very interested in getting involved in, and that's this really insidious movement in Washington and California to regulate the prices of electricity and energy. This is a fundamental assault on capitalism. If you think about it, the price system is sacred. It's what makes the capitalist system work. It's extremely important that as a movement, we do everything to make the strongest possible case that price control is going to be a very destructive policy if it's allowed to stand.",0_0
"The most interesting thing about the documents Chris obtained from Treasury are the bits that are redacted (see above). For example, a paragraph headed Overview says: ""t will raise energy prices and impose annual costs on the order of ."" Perhaps the folks in the FOIA Compliance Office at Treasury didn't get the January 21st memo from President Obama on increasing transparency in his administration. The memo says in part: ""The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails. The Government should not keep information confidential merely because public officials might be embarrassed by disclosure, because errors and failures might be revealed, or because of speculative or abstract fears. Nondisclosure should never be based on an effort to protect the personal interests of Government officials at the expense of those they are supposed to serve.""",0_0
"One of Ronald Reagan's favorite quotes was Victor Hugo's observation that ""no army can stop an idea whose time has come."" And the idea Reagan had in mind was a less-interventionist government creating ""a climate in which the entrepreneurial genius of the private sector can do what it does best ? namely, create new wealth, new possibilities of employment.""",0_0
"The Heartland Institute recognized the 10th anniversary of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth on Wednesday, August 31, 2016, when internationally renowned scientist, speaker, author and Heartland Institute Science Director Dr. Jay Lehr debated six of the film's claims with Dr. Scott Denning, atmospheric science professor at Colorado State University. (View the debate here.)",0_0
"One ``sensitive nerve ending"" is LOST's authority over land-based pollution. Article 207 of the treaty mandates: ``States shall adopt laws and regulations to prevent, reduce and control pollution of the marine environment from land-based sources.'' States also ``shall take other measures as may be necessary to prevent, reduce and control such pollution.''",0_0
"The Team. Phil Jones, head of the CRU; Peter Thorne of the UK Met Office (the national weather service, originally the Meteorological Office) was joined by Kevin Trenberth, climate analysis section head of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); Tom Wigley, also of NCAR; and the litigious Penn State University Hockey Stick originator, Michael Mann.",0_0
"Electricity from existing coal plants costs $38 per megawatt-hour; from new wind facilities, $106.",0_0
"For the Obamians themselves, Iran was a challenge they anticipated during the 2008 campaign and recognized as a test of their approach. And since judgments of the",0_0
"A little doggerel never hurt anybody. Thus, I have no compunction dedicating this poem to Anne Ehrlich , who has taken up her fathers burden of telling the world that it is nearly finished.",0_0
"Mr. Weaver, after all, has been a major IPCC science insider for years. He is Canada Research Chair in Climate Modelling and Analysis at the University of Victoria, mastermind of one of the most sophisticated climate modelling systems on the planet, and lead author on two recent landmark IPCC reports.",0_0
"Thanks to the Chief Toxicologist for Texas, Dr. Mike Honeycutt, for tipping me off.",0_0
"Perhaps the most common assaults on growth relate to the environment. From a green perspective, the drive to accumulate more stuff strips the planet of scarce resources and poisons it with waste. Overconsumption is said to fill our homes with needless goods and even swell our bodies with cheap but unhealthy food. The American dream of plenty has become the American nightmare. Even worse, the planet's survival is said to be threatened as a result of runaway climate change.",0_0
"CCLPs report directed its sharpest criticism at the programs high costs and limited emissions reductions. According to the report, the program by 2008 had reduced the nations carbon dioxide emissions by only 0.015 percent, at an average social abatement cost of $257 Australian to $301 Australian per ton of reduced carbon dioxide emissions. CCLP noted if a primary object of PVRP-SHCP was to increase public awareness and acceptance of renewable energy, it could have been obtained at a fraction of the cost through other strategies.",4_2
"In 40 years the house at 48 Oceanside Drive has been rebuilt 9 times by National Flood Insurance . The Globe says thats sea level rise, even damage from the blizzard of 78. Sea level rise is the popular alarmist scare, but even the Globe ought to realize the term can be overused. Build on the seashore and you should expect storm damage every now and then.",5_2
"Unfortunately, the Sarkozy team postulates variables for which no country currently collects data because data are simply not measurable. We should stick with what can be measured robustly and include subjective personal and social evaluations with care. But we should not embrace speculative valuations of our environment because history suggests the ""values"" generated will be used by elites to drive policies they like at others' expense.",0_0
Does Global Warming Cause Severe Cold Spells? Court Orders Release of Concealed Records,0_0
Coldest winter in at least 25 years in the US,0_0
"""Next week, the House of Representatives will vote on H.R. 2, a measure to repeal Obamacare in its entirety. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today released a report stating that repealing the health care law would increase the deficit by $145 billion between 2012 and 2019.""",0_0
"11. Barry Commoner predicted that decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America's rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate.",0_0
"The buyer's remorse felt by so many in the party establishment including the pathetic #NeverTrump movement went nowhere. Only a handful of significant Republican officeholders, led by Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, emphatically rejected Trump. Other conservative figures, including the columnists George F. Will, Charles Krauthammer, William Kristol, Kathleen Parker, and Michael Gerson, have been deeply and eloquently disdainful, but many of these same people had missed repeated opportunities over the years to identify and condemn the party's drift to radicalism.",0_0
"V. Klaus, D. T? ska, ?Ke kritice pou? vn konceptu solidarity a diskriminace v intertemporln anal ze tzv. globln ch problm?? (To the Critique of Using the Concepts of Solidarity and Discrimination in the Intertemporal Analysis of so called Global Problems), Politick ekonomie, No. 6, 2007. Document in Czech language is avalable here. (pdf, 400kB)",0_0
Gore is hot -- will the Peace Prize follow the Oscar?,0_0
"The first and second email batches contained conversations among ""scientists"" who appear to have dishonored a once respectable discipline, documenting that their claims of a ""man-made global warming crisis"" look exactly like deliberate contrivances for academic career gain, research funding and positions of political power in ""the cause.""",5_2
"Looks like I picked a good time to live in Saskatchewan, where the words ""global economic collapse"" translate to ""12 month hunting season"". Meanwhile... (I know, I know. Lots of new boats. So, it's probably nothing.)",0_0
"Although long-term fertilization of nine years decreased plant diversity, it increased plant productivity; and this phenomenon caused an increase in arthropod species richness by significantly increasing the numbers of parasite and predator species. Short-term fertilization also increased plant productivity, but without reducing plant diversity; and it too significantly increased arthropod diversity by increasing the species richness of herbivores, parasites, and predators. These results demonstrate that increases in plant productivity lead to increases in the diversity of organisms higher up the food chain, such as herbivores, parasites and predators. What it means",3_3
FCCC Tel.: (49-228) 815-1000,0_0
"John F. Kennedy spent his first year as president trying Keynesian economics, seeking economic growth through increased government spending. That didn't work, so he advanced supply-side tax cuts that led to an economic boom. Hillary Clinton has her own school of economics, to the left of Keynes, where tax rate cuts inexplicably cause recessions. Neither she, nor President Obama, has any concept of how to promote economic growth and prosperity which is why we've experienced the slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression. READ MORE",0_0
"Indeed, as CEI and several of its free-market brethren explained in a recent amicus brief and in coalition letters to President Bush and Senator Dianne Feinstein, EPA regulation of CO2 from new cars and trucks under Section 202 of the Clean Air Act could compel the agency to regulate CO2 emissions from potentially hundreds of thousands of small- to mid-sized farms, factories, and buildings under the Act's Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) program--a result Congress clearly did not intend when, in 1970, it enacted Section 202, a provision dealing solely with emissions from new motor vehicles.",0_0
"A Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the Poor: An Evangelical Response to Global Warming",0_0
"WARNING #2: This is not a one-off situation. This is NOT a ""movie' that's Orwellian speak. This is a full-blown climate change ad campaign sponsored by numerous large corporations.",0_0
"Next, the Hayhoe chapter is of concern in light of Gingrichs green wobbling this week .",0_0
"We combine satellite data with ocean measurements to depths of 1,800 m, and show that between January 2001 and December 2010, Earth has been steadily accumulating energy at a rate of 0. 50 +/0.43 Watts per meter squared(uncertainties at the 90% confidence level). We conclude that energy storage is continuing to increase in the sub-surface ocean.",0_0
"We think, ovviamentemente, Diana, destined not to be the queen of a new King Charles but to quickly become a symbol of life rich, glamorous and style, only to be transformed in a few years into an object of continual attacks on comic books and magazines , always hungry for compromising photos included gems like ""Diana comes out of the gym"" and ""Diana put the skis"", all ready to describe it as a social climber cold, manipulative and libertine (the ones who then vied with those who wept with more ' after the accident in Paris).",0_0
"According to the supposition of anthropogenic global warming, the end result of those three components is the warming of the global sea surface temperature anomalies over the past 30 years with all of its yearly variations. See Figure 2. It assumes there is an anthropogenic component thats responsible for all of the long-term warming, and it assumes there is a volcanic aerosols component to explain the dips and rebounds caused by of the eruptions of El Chichon in 1982 and Mount Pinatubo in 1991. It also assumes that the global sea surface temperatures respond proportionally to El Nio and La Nia events, which explain the large year-to-year variations above and beyond the long-term warming trend caused by manmade greenhouse gases. That is, it assumes global sea surface temperatures will cool in response to La Nia events and warm in response to El Nio events and do so proportionally.",0_0
That was the powerful message CFACT spokesmen and I delivered last week in Dallas to a standing-room-only crowd of state legislators and other policy experts from across the nation.,0_0
"If Back Radiation actually reached and heated the Earth as Trenberth shows, then Parabolic Mirror Solar Ovens would produce heating Day and Night!",2_3
"According to The Associated Press, the U.S. and India have backed down a bit on their objections, while China continues to put up resistance.",0_0
"The New Left and today's liberal progressives, then, interpret America's political history very differently from the way conservatives and moderate progressives do. They see the victory of Richard Nixon in 1968 and 1972 as catastrophic. As much as conservatives see Nixon as a liberal because of his imposition of wage and price controls and his failure to even seriously try to dismantle much of the Great Society, liberal progressives see his victory as a watershed, because he stood as an impediment to the rapid attainment of their goals. If Nixon's victory was catastrophic, Reagan's victory was epochal. Reagan and his heirs promised not just to stand in the way of achieving liberal progressives' deepest dreams; they stood pledged to question the very assumptions of the progressive project and roll them back if they could.",0_0
"But before declaring victory, it is worth noting Richard Blacks expectation that governments will be pressing for different conclusions because money is at stake. The good news about the leaked document is that efforts to alter the text will be noticed. Based on Blacks report, it seems that the IPCC has at long last done the right thing on extreme events and climate change. It will be most interesting to see the reactions. -Roger Pielke Jr, 14 November 2011",0_0
"One factor that is hard for Washington to influence is the market price of oil, which is set by global supply and demand. Strikes in oil-producing Venezuela and uncertainty surrounding Iraq increased the price per barrel of crude by 50 percent since Jan. 1. Unfortunately, episodes of instability in oil-producing regions are unavoidable, as are the resultant price spikes.",0_0
The Russian crew stayed aboard the trapped ship.,0_0
"AUSTRALIAS $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a new air link to the frozen continent. The Wilkins runway ...",0_0
"According to the klimamanifest site, the above video was inspired by comments Schellnhuber had made on German public television on May 27, 2013, where he once again warned of a planet warming by 4C by the end of the century.",0_0
"The lawmakers accuse firms like ExxonMobil of working ""to undermine mainstream scientific research"" by donating to the think tanks. It all comes under a grand conspiracy theory dubbed #WebOfDenial.",0_0
"The delayed oscillator mechanism of ENSO, Chapter 4.9, must also be considered when discussing the end of ENSO events.",0_0
"""Anti-Lobbyist' Obama Administration Recruited Left-Wing Lobbyists to Sell Bogus ""Green Jobs'",5_2
"A relatively new product called FireIce smothers fires, by taking heat and oxygen away from combustible materials. Dropped directly onto a fire from airplanes, it penetrates through smoke, fire, and treetops down to burning timber and trees and brush in a fire's path. It can also be carried to blazes in standard fire and tanker trucks, or blended on location using dry FireIce powder and on-site water. Homeowners can brew up their own batches, adding water to the dry chemical, and use the concoction to coat their houses, shrubs, and other property protecting them against onrushing flames.",0_0
"One of the favorite boogeyman arguments used in climate alarmism is that climate has been stable for thousands of years, and that our recent industrialized era emissions will result in climate tipping point. However, this study in the Proceeding of the National Academies of Science suggest that climate disruption caused people in the Central Andes to migrate to find a better climate over a thousand years ago.",2_1
CEI Expert Available to Comment: General Counsel Sam Kazman on the liberating effects of car ownership.,0_0
"A new and broader climate deal is out of reach for now and instead nations need to focus on how to replace the ailing Kyoto Protocol before 2020, Britains minister of state for energy and climate change said on Monday. The view is recognition that agreement on a pact that commits all major greenhouse gas polluters to curbing the growth in planet-warming emissions is slipping further away, in part because of sluggish economic growth and a mounting debt crisis. Henry Foy and Matthias Williams, Reuters, 14 November 2011",0_0
"Moreover, the purpose of the scare was fundraising for environmental activists. The head of Fenton subsequently acknowledged that the scare ""was designed so that revenue would flow back to the NRDC from the public.""",0_0
He said that all you can do is disable Java Plugin in the web browser and wait for the patches from Oracle.,0_0
"The world is unlikely to agree to carbon pricing. It cannot succeed unless it is global but global carbon pricing is unlikely to get implemented, let alone sustained for the time required to deliver the projected benefits.",0_0
"I have some doubts whether the dual AdS-like description of condensed matter physics and related problems may ever be considered an ""ultimate reliable description"". But string theory surely gives us a new perspectives from which one may look at various physical situations and Subir Sachdev is among those who are exploiting these new opportunities very often.",0_0
Top 10 Things You Didnt Know About Wind Power,0_0
Weather Bureau Blows Budget on New SuperComputers,0_0
Electricity provider Constellation Energy seeks permission to build a new nuclear reactor at Calvert Cliffs in Maryland.,0_0
"Dr. Robinson is well known for the Oregon Petition Project, which says ""there is no convincing scientific evidence"" that humans are causing ""catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere"" or disruption of its climate. It urges Congress to reject the Kyoto global warming agreement and has been signed by more than 32,000 Americans with university degrees in physical sciences (including yours truly and over 9,000 PhDs).",5_1
"Jim Hansen calls Cap and Trade the ""Temple of Doom""",0_0
"Under some conditions, drilling wells in offshore waters can reduce the amount of oil released from natural seeps by reducing the pressure in the oil traps.",4_5
"This comes at the heels of last months reports from Britain where long-range forecasters warned of below average temperatures from October through February, along with lots of whites stuff, which just a few years ago was said would be rare and exciting in the future because of global warming.",1_3
Here are two web references to support the above evidence of global cooling in North America: http://wattsupwiththat.com and http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs .,1_2
"In North Redfield, when it finally stopped at around 9:45 Friday morning, Carol Yerdon had measured 72 inches (185 cm) of snow that had fallen out of the sky for an impressive snow base of 41 inches.",1_3
The new coal power standards proposed by the previous Labor government and supported by the Coalition would have capped emissions from new coal-fired power plants at 0.8 tonnes of carbon dioxide for every megawatt hour of electricity generated. They would also have required new plants to be ready to install clean coal technology if it became viable.,0_0
"Korner, C. 2003. Alpine Plant Life: Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems . Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.",0_0
"The data in this paper suggest that future increases in the air's CO 2 concentration will enhance photosynthesis and biomass production in many C 4 grass species, regardless of their photosynthetic sub-type. In addition, atmospheric CO 2 enrichment should enhance C 4 grass water-use efficiency, perhaps allowing C 4 grasses to expand their ranges into more arid habitats where their survival is currently limited by insufficient soil moisture availability.",3_3
"Our newfound ability to extract hydrocarbons from shale has also been a net win in the effort to cut carbon dioxide emissions. Again, the numbers tell the tale. In August, U.S. natural gas production hit nearly 91 billion cubic feet per day. That's an increase of about 27 billion cubic feet per day since August 2006. That increase is roughly equal to the combined gas output of three OPEC members: Algeria, Iran and Venezuela.",4_5
"Putting it all of the above togetherand throwing in some other minor damages estimates for good measure and greater shock value (e.g., number of people run over by trains transporting coal, excess mental retardation from mercury emissions, etc.)Epstein et al. arrive at low, best estimate, and high values for the annul size of the negative externalities in the U.S. from coal-fired electricity production. They are $175 billion, $345 billion, and $523 billion, respectively.",0_0
"And so it was in Soviet Russia. The lines to newspaper kiosks sometimes crowds around the block that formed at six in the morning, with each daily run often sold out in two hours and the skyrocketing subscriptions to the leading liberal newspapers and magazines testify to the devastating power of the most celebrated essayists of glasnost, or in Samuel Johnson's phrase, the ""teachers of truth"": the economist Nikolai Shmelyov; the political philosophers Igor Klyamkin and Alexander Tsypko; brilliant essayists like Vasily Selyunin, Yuri Chernichenko, Igor Vinogradov, and Ales Adamovich; the journalists Yegor Yakovlev, Len Karpinsky, Fedor Burlatsky, and at least two dozen more.",0_0
Executive Director Craig Rucker is an expert writing about the UN Conference on Climate Change for the National Journal's Copenhagen Insider.,0_0
"The NIPCC also destroys the false IPCC claims that computer models prove recent global warming is due to human CO2 emissions, and can forecast future global temperatures, climates and events. In reality, the models greatly exaggerate climate sensitivity to carbon dioxide levels; assume all warming since the industrial revolution began are due to human carbon dioxide; input data contaminated by urban heat island effects; and rely on simplistic configurations of vital drivers of Earths climate system (or simply ignore them), such as solar variations, cosmic ray fluxes, winds, clouds, precipitation, volcanoes, ocean currents and recurrent phenomena like the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (El Nino and La Nina).",5_1
"EPA's new automobile mileage standards alone will result in thousands of additional serious injuries and deaths every year, as cars are further downsized to meet its arbitrary 54.5 mpg requirements. Its anti-coal and anti-fracking rules will severely impact electricity generation, reliability and prices; factory, office and hospital operations and budgets; American industries' competitiveness in global markets; employment, hiring and layoffs; and the well-being of families and entire communities. Especially for areas that depend on mining and manufacturing and the 26 states where coal-based power generation keeps electricity rates at half of what they are in states with the least coal use and toughest renewable energy mandates (6-9 cents versus 13-17 cents per kilowatt hour) it will be all pain, for no gain.",4_1
"All this is little more than blatant scare mongering, and FOE was calling on its members and others who received its email to ""Call on President Obama to ensure that all Americans are protected from climate disasters.""",0_0
"We dont know if its weather or climate. But we have seen a trend in the ice conditions in the last four or five years, said Phil Jenkins, a spokesman for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. The pups cant swim for very long. They need stable ice. If the ice deteriorates underneath them, they drown.",0_0
"Meanwhile, Einstein worked under the strictest security to develop the refining methods and the first sustained nuclear reaction using Uranium at the University of Chicago. His correspondence with the Robert Oppenheimer who headed actual weapons team are still classified. It is doubtless that Einstein had many involvements which prohibited his free discussion of the Big Bang.",0_0
200-300% ofnormalprecipitationearns Georgia the exceptionaldrought prize from the climate buffoons in Washington.,0_0
"Gaertner also maintains in his book that certain activists appear to care more about imposing their solutions to hypothetical environmental threats, such as global warming, than the very real problems being fostered through implementation of their agenda (such as increased energy and food prices on the poor). Such approaches undertaken by nihilists ultimately deteriorate the conditions for innovation, economic growth and new technologies which are important for modern society to advance.",0_0
"Today's conventional wisdom holds that the political organs of government must correct the fundamental design mistakes that they previously created. That conclusion rests on the belief that the United States Constitution places no strong constraint on Congress or the states. That result is surely correct under the low ""rational basis"" standard, entrenched by the New Deal revolution of 1937, and currently used to review to legislation on complex forms of economic regulation. The underlying attitude was that the courts should not act as a super-legislature on economic matters properly confined to the legislative and executive branches. Thus the major constitutional transformationthe word ""achievement"" is inappropriategot courts into the business of deciding which forms of regulation advanced genuine interests in health and safety and which were forms intended to upset the competitive balance among firms.",0_0
"""And if they continue with and expand President Obama's climate agenda, we'll negative growth,"" said Ebell.",0_0
"Arctic sea ice may be more resilient than previously thought, according to new research. Satellite data reported in a new paper shows that sea ice volumes in the spring months have been stable over the four years from 2010 to 2014 and that Autumn sea ice volumes in 2013 and 2014 were significantly up on prior years. -- Reporting Climate Science, 20 July 2015",1_1
"Aside from the ludicrous hyperbole, the choice of example is an incidence of the Inigo Montoya effect (""You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means""). Dunkirk was actually an example of government knowing when it couldn't cope. The evacuation of the Allied forces from Northern France was only achieved by private owners taking a fleet of 700 'little ships' including yachts and dinghies across the English Channel. Without that private, voluntary action the Allies would have been doomed. The miracle of Dunkirk was NOT achieved by politicians, but by the resolve of individuals.",0_0
"In contrast, a doubling of CO2, which is supposed to occur late in the next century, has a radiative forcing about one percent of normal. Now there are different kinds of radiant forcings. This was turning the sun off. This cooling effect due to Pinotuba was basically shading the sunlight. Increasing concentrations of CO2 don't affect that. They affect the other radiation which is the earth's cooling radiation, the infrared radiation that escapes out to space and balances all of the incoming solar. Now climate models tend to react the same way with whichever kind of forcing is used. They can turn up the sun by a percent. And they can turn up the trapping of infrared radiation by a percent. And the model acts the same. But I personally -- and some other scientists don't believe that -- because the way solar energy and infrared energy are transferred in the atmosphere are very, very different.",0_0
"Speaking of elections, Ontario Wind Turbines Slice Liberal Politicians",0_0
"More immediately, the theme of close cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian security officials is echoed by senior figures on both sides. United by a common enemy (i.e., Hamas), the two longtime adversaries appear to be building a de facto alliance even before the old epithets go out of style. My military intelligence source expressed concern that the failure to reach agreement with moderate Palestinians on a future state could bring vital Israeli facilities within range of hostile fire: ""We are very close to a Palestinian state, so we cannot fail again. If we get two rockets every day at Ben Gurion, we are done.""",0_0
"We already know that stronger tornadoes were more common in the period upto the mid 1970s, but Roy comes up with the reasons why this should be so.",0_0
"Will this create a groundswell of new support from American voters?: Obama's climate swindle wins coveted endorsement from Fidel Castro HAVANA Barack Obama's call for action on climate change and his admission that rich nations have a particular responsibility to lead has received strong praise from an unusual source U.S. nemesis Fidel Castro. The former Cuban leader on Wednesday called the American president's speech at the United Nations ""brave"" and said no other American head of state would have had the courage to make similar remarks.",5_2
Figure 3. HadCRUT4 GLB (black) versus CMIP5 ensemble average (red). Note the lengthy hiatus from the 1940s to 1980. Also note the divergence between models and observations in the 21st century.,5_1
"The atmospheric humidity levels that NOAA researchers publish continue to trend lower than climate model predictions - however, the mythical runaway global warming that catastrophic global warming (CAGW) alarmists promulgate requires atmospheric humidity to increase",5_1
The United Mine Workers of America is encouraging its members to speak out against the Obama administration?s proposed regulations on carbon-dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants.,0_0
"Meanwhile, population growth is already solving itself, and much more rapidly than the UN admits. The Deutsch Bank says human numbers will stabilize and start shrinking in the near futurepeaking at 8.7 billion about 2055, and falling to 8 billion by 2100. By contrast, the UN recently raised its projected population growth; it now expects 10.9 billion people in 2100, 2.9 billion more than the Deutsch Bank. The difference between the two estimates equals the planet's whole population as recently as 1959!",0_0
"NASA states that significant heating does not occur in the Atlantic Ocean, or for that matter in any other ocean. This is extremely telling because global man-made atmospheric warming occurswell globally. So all of this supposedly hidden warmed atmospheric energy has to be somehow captured, concentrated, and then transported to one specific location in the mid-range depths of the western Pacific. Note that the Atlantic Ocean does not show significant trends at any depth, with warming temperatures in one place counter-balanced by cooling in others.",0_0
San Francisco mayor vetoes happy meal ban:,0_0
IER is an educational non-profit under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; AEA is an advocacy non-profit under Section 501(c)(4) of the code. I am founder and CEO of IER.,0_0
"Why is this significant? Well, because its a reclaimed open-pit coal mine. I was impressed.",0_0
"In my last post I wrote about natural, non-scientific indicators for winter forecasting, which are often more accurate than models. The Telegraph piece is just another one to add to that list. So far I havent seen many signs that the coming winter will be warm, except that is for the worn out warnings propagated by the warmists and their goofymodels.",5_1
"So far, so good, but as we know that temperature of the earth can and does vary independently of CO2 concentrations, how do you know that the rise was due to CO2 alone? And if it wasnt, then in fact you may have overshot or undershot by more than the 0.5 degrees. If you overshot, your modelling was completely unsuccessful, and if you undershot, then things are a lot worse than you thought.",0_0
Sunday was a beautiful day in Washington. The temperature hit the high 60s and I wore shorts. I dreamed it was spring.,0_0
"Additionally, despite the claim that ""the report is about measurement rather than policies,"" it gives the impression that some of the authors want to use the data to change our behavior. It says at one point: ""some members of the Commission believe that the crisis provides heightened urgency to these reforms."" It then suggests governments should provide ""alternative valuations when market prices for assets are not available or are subject to bubbles and bursts."" But as with the environmental guesstimates, the worry is how governments will value these assets and when they will say a bubble is over. Even worse, such speculation might not be based on current valuations alone. According to the report, ""It is no longer a question of measuring the present, but of predicting the future.""",0_0
Ls press release from Freningen Swedish Landscape Protection,0_0
"""Biofuels such as biodiesel from soy beans can create up to four times more climate-warming emissions than standard diesel or petrol, according to an EU document released under freedom of information laws...Chief among those fears is that biofuel production soaks up grain from global commodity markets, forcing up food prices and encouraging farmers to clear tropical forests in the quest for new land...Burning forests releases vast quantities of carbon dioxide and often cancels out many of the climate benefits sought from biofuels...Biodiesel from North American soybeans has an indirect carbon footprint of 339.9 kilograms of CO2 per gigajoule -- four times higher than standard diesel ...""",4_4
"With the case law on GHG regulation hopelessly botched by the Supreme Court, only Congress can rein in the EPA and only if there is a change of management in the White House and the Senate in November.",0_0
"Many of the frightening scenarios about global warming come from large computer calculations, general circulation models, that try to mimic the behavior of the earths climate as more CO2 is added to the atmosphere. It is true that climate models use increasingly capable and increasingly expensive computers. But their predictions have not been very good. For example, none of them predicted the lack of warming that we have experienced during the past ten years. All the models assume the water feedback is positive, while satellite observations suggest that the feedback is zero or negative.",5_1
The Obama Administration still hasn't gotten the message voters sent Washington on November 2.,0_0
11c. The state of theoretical understanding of climate change phenomena,0_0
"Since his inauguration in January, Obama has been on the road for nearly a week every month. Domestic policy advisers, pointing to the president's daunting domestic agendastimulating the economy, sorting out banks and auto companies, enacting climate change legislation, remaking the U. S. health-care sector, and tackling immigration reformcomplain that Obama's foreign travel makes him unavailable for lobbying Congress and the American public, as only he can do.",0_0
"Second, many proponents of U.S. GHG controls have proposed to allow the U.S. government to clap trade sanctions on countries that fail to cap their GHG discharges. ACESA also follows this strategy, albeit somewhat hesitantly. There are better grounds for the bill's hesitancy than there are for believing that trade sanctions will change Chinese and Indian policy.",0_0
"Also note, we previously calculated the adiabatic lapse rate and temperature distribution in a theoretical Earth atmosphere of 100% Nitrogen, a non-greenhouse gas, and found the adiabatic lapse rate and troposphere temperature distribution almost the same as our Earth, surface temperature warmer on the theoretical 100% Nitrogen atmosphere Earth, thus proving greenhouse gases act as cooling agents rather than warming.",2_3
"Given Mr Watts had the article ready for submission for peer-review, why didnt he just get on, and get it published?",0_0
"Growth skepticism presents a flawed but powerful assault on prosperity. It is enormously influential across the developed world, including among America's political leaders. It must be examined and understood if it is to be effectively challengedespecially as we are threatened with a new age of austerity.",0_0
"This is what the UN's 2030 Agenda is all about. It lays out goals and targets on agriculture, natural resources, the climate, eradication of poverty, etc., urging that all these issues be dealt with in a ""sustainable"" fashion. Yet nowhere in the document is the term sustainable ever defined; just as we are never told in what way the climate is changing, much less presented with evidence showing why it is changing. Instead, we are urged to take ""action,"" the sooner the better.",0_0
"Seven percent (7%) attribute global warming to some other reason, and nine percent (9%) are unsure in a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.",0_0
"Moreover, high expectations about the rate of future innovation should imply smaller GHG cutbacks in the program's early years. The more one believes that innovation will lower future control costsand without dramatically lower costs the bill's 2050 target is wholly fancifulthe larger the share of the total GHG cutbacks that should be deferred until the program's later years. In short, ACESA misses a chance to lessen total abatement costs by spreading them through time in a smarter way. Two prominent economists have recently made the broad point that should be heeded in this regard, "" the climate change problem is a marathon, not a sprint, and there is little environmental justification for heroic efforts to meet a short-term target. Such heroic efforts might not only waste resources, they risk souring our appetite to confront the more serious long-term problem.""",0_0
"Repeating a familiar administration talking point, Pershing stated that the 195 governments that negotiated the Paris treaty believe climate change is a ""big problem,"" so ""no matter who is president, it's going to be part of what they have to deal with.""",0_0
"It should be paid for by those who want it, not by captive taxpayers or electricity consumers.",0_0
"Forecasters keep eye on looming ""Solar Max':",0_0
Alexis de Tocqueville InstitutionAmericans for Tax ReformAmerican Policy CenterAssociation of Concerned TaxpayersCenter for Security PolicyCitizens for a Sound EconomyCommittee for a Constructive TomorrowCompetitive Enterprise InstituteConsumer AlertDefenders of Property RightsFrontiers of FreedomGeorge C. Marshall InstituteHeartland InstituteIndependent InstituteNational Center for Policy AnalysisNational Center for Public Policy ResearchPacific Research InstituteSeniors Coalition60 PlusSmall Business Survival CommitteeThe Advancement of Sound Science CoalitionThe Heritage Foundation,0_0
"The University of Colorado Sea Level Research Group is coming to their rescue. The NASA-funded group claims glacial melt is removing weight that had been pressing down on land masses, which in turn is causing land mass to rise. This welcome news mitigates sea-level rise from melting glacial ice and shows another of the Earth?s remarkable self-adjusting processes.",0_0
"The first two months of 2000 were virtually free of significant snowfall in much of lowland Britain, and December brought only moderate snowfall in the South-east. It is the continuation of a trend that has been increasingly visible in the past 15 years: in the south of England, for instance, from 1970 to 1995 snow and sleet fell for an average of 3.7 days, while from 1988 to 1995 the average was 0.7 days. London's last substantial snowfall was in February 1991.",0_0
"At the time, environmentalists supported ethanol, because they labored under the mistaken notion that it is a ""green fuel,"" which results in fewer greenhouse gas emissions thought to cause climate change.",0_0
"A paper published to day in Quaternary Science Reviews finds another non-hockey-stick from a tree-ring temperature reconstruction over the past 6,100 years in North Siberia. The authors find, "" The recent warming is not unprecedented in the Siberian north. Similar climatic conditions to the present warming were recorded by about ."" The data shows the t ree ring index of relative temperature was ~1.0 at the end of the record in 2008, and warmer in the 1950's, warmer throughout most of the Medieval Warming Period 917- 1150 A.D. , and warmer during the Climatic Optimum Period 41113806 B.C. .",2_1
This year has been the quietest Atlantic hurricane season for decades. No Category 3 or stronger storm has made landfall in the US since Katrina in 2005 the longest hurricane 'drought' on record.,1_7
"As for recent deforestation, there are currently three main factors: ""(1) agricultural and livestock expansion (human population growth leads to expanded needs for crop and grazing lands); (2) increased demand for commercial forest products (national economic development and international trade stimulate mainly timber harvesting); and (3) increased demand for noncommercial forest products (fuel wood, fodder, and others). (de Miranda, pp. 156-157)",0_0
"A short piece entitled ""Frigid Southern Hemisphere Winter: A Preview Of A Cold Winter Coming In The Northern Hemisphere?"" is here . (It looks like the winter in question is June through August, 2007). An excerpt: Santiago, Chilean capital, had its coldest winter since the Little Ice Age. The last time it was so cold there was in 1885 (see Padahuel plot from NASA GISS). ... By the way, much of Australia, too had a cold winter, with a record cold June.",1_3
"4. Nuclear energy must be part of the long term response. It is a clean energy source, has the capacity to provide base load power as an alternative to fossil fuel, and modern nuclear power stations have a sophisticated level of safety.",4_5
"This means fossil fuel use and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels will continue to climb and U.S., EU, Canadian, and Australian sacrifices will have no effect on stabilizing atmospheric CO2 levels, much less controlling Earth's ever-changing climate or weather, again assuming CO2 does determine climate.",0_0
others a more modest operation targeted against terrorist forces. The military,0_0
"The House-Senate conference committee on the energy bill is scheduled to start taking up the big issues this week, and Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.) has said that he plans to finish negotiations on the compromise bill September 27.",0_0
# coef logLik cil95 ciu95 cil90 ciu90 ci95,0_0
"History confirms adaptation to cold is a bigger challenge and that is where the temperatures are heading. Global temperature and sunspot activity are related through variations in cosmic radiation reaching the earth and changing cloud cover. More sunspots relate to warmer temperatures and fewer to colder. Currently sunspot numbers are the lowest since a previous cold spell associated with the Dalton Minimum between 1790 and 1830. There was an even lower number of sunspots during the Maunder Minimum between 1645 and 1710 coincident with an even colder spell, known as the Little Ice Age. Some, including me, think that such a low cycle is increasingly more likely.",1_2
"Bloomberg reports that the reason for the August 3 drop75.70% from its high on September 3, 2014, is that the ""company's plan to shore up capital failed to reassure investors that it can stop burning cash."" Reuters adds: ""(S)ome analysts are concerned the company is over committing to cash-intensive projects in countries like Brazil and Mexico rather than focusing on cutting debt.""",0_0
"In concluding their report, Uthicke et al . write that they found support for the likelihood that ""increased land runoff since the start of land clearing and agriculture in the catchment of the Whitsunday Region of the GBR has left a signature in the foraminiferal assemblages of inner and intermediate areas of the study area,"" when previously the assemblages of these areas had been ""persistent for at least several thousand years."" In addition, and based on the fact that ""no changes were observed on outer reefs located away from land runoff,"" they propose that ""changes observed on inner and intermediate reefs were mainly driven by enhanced agricultural runoff after European settlement."" And topping off everything else, they affirm that ""the hypothesis that global forcing, such as sea temperature increase or ocean acidification, altered the foraminiferal community found little support."" In fact, it found none.",3_2
"As a result, storms like Sandy or the Long Island Express send monstrous volumes of water up ever more confined corridors. With nowhere else to go, the surges rise higher, travel faster and pack more power. It's elementary physics which governors, mayors, planners and developers ignore at their peril.",0_0
"""For over a decade, the FDA has treated the Internet as just another form of print advertising. Internet ads have had to comply with rules that simply don't make sense in the Internet Age, where the amount of text available in a banner ad or sponsored link is strictly limited, but the required information can be ""one click' away on the landing page to which those ads direct the user.""",0_0
"The SPPI takes a different approach to this issue, looking at The Positive Externalities of CO2. Excerpt:",0_0
"Since temperatures have not been rising for over a decade, projections of increasing temperatures from increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) are not valid. There is no logical reason to accept assertions that projections from models that failed to predict the pause or plateau in temperatures are capable of projecting future temperatures.",1_4
"You and I are one of those tens of millions. So the immediate question: With this newfound power, how long before it mutates beyond original scope, and websites that are critical of the government begin to be shut down, or simply IP throttled out of meaningful existence?",0_0
"Irrespective of whatever mechanisms may have been involved in eliciting the responses observed, Bunce logically concludes that ""the parallel responses of translocation and nitrate reduction for both the temperature and CO 2 treatments make it unlikely that the response of respiration to one variable was an artifact while the response to the other was real."" Hence, there is every reason to believe that the typically observed decreases in dark respiration experienced by plants exposed to elevated levels of atmospheric CO 2 are indeed real and not the result of defects of the measurement system. This being the case, it can be appreciated that plant growth is not only enhanced by CO 2 -induced increases in photosynthesis during the light period of the day, they are also enhanced by CO 2 -induced decreases in respiration during the dark period. Reference",3_3
Perhaps the good Doc thinks I need to take his matlab class ;),0_0
"/s/ Richard McFarland JSC, Mgr. Motion Simulators, 28 years",0_0
"As the CO 2 content of the air continues to rise, winter wheat seed production will likely increase without exhibiting any changes in seed viability. And if air temperatures also rise, seed viability may actually increase .",3_3
"(Siddons, Hertzberg and Schhreuder, ""A Greenhouse Effect on the Moon?"")",0_0
Prof. Tom V. Segalstad is Head of the Geological Museum within the Natural History Museum of the University of Oslo (Norway) and a Scientific Advisor to CFACT Europe. He was an official Expert Reviewer to the IPCC Third Assessment.,0_0
"The plants will do fine. After all, they will enjoy the extra CO2 (plant food) and the daily effluence of bilge (fertilizer) from scaremonger AGW propagandists.",3_3
"It began, The Heartland Institute, a conservative group funded by Exxon Mobil and Charles Koch Whoa! Mr. Chairman, we rise to question why the Center for American Progress would engage in an outright lie? Answer: Thats what progressives do because they are immune to the truth.",5_2
"Unlike Copenhagen, which was deluged with Presidents, Prime Ministers, and high-level Cabinet officials, heads of state and top officials mostly stayed away from Cancun. UN bigwigs even downplayed the significance of the talks, dampening hopes of any major deal being reached. In comparison to the 2009 confab, where more than 5,000 journalists instantly reported every little detail to the world as it happened, large swaths of the world press basically ignored, or even ridiculed, the Cancun conference. The UNFCCC did not even fill the smaller quota of 2,000 slots it had allotted for the world press corps at COP16.",0_0
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.,0_0
"Is the Kyoto Protocol, the global warming treaty negotiated in December 1997, any closer to being ratified by the world's industrial nations today than it was a year ago? Not really, despite a fortnight of diplomatic palaver at the recent UN climate conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Still, reports of the treaty's demise are exaggerated. Kyoto foes have yet to define and occupy the moral high ground.",0_0
"By Tom Stacy and George Taylor, Institute for Energy Research, June, 2015",0_0
"If the government charged a fee for each emission of carbon, that fee would be built into the prices of products and lifestyles. When making everyday decisions, people would naturally look at the prices they face and, in effect, take into account the global impact of their choices. In economics jargon, a price on carbon would induce people to ""internalize the externality."" the new revenue to reduce personal and corporate income tax rates.",0_0
"""This is the latest example of EPA politics running roughshod over the scientific evidence,"" concluded Georgia.",5_2
"Heavy snow fell with high intensity in the region of Korcs, the thickness of which has reached 10 cm (4 inches), while Dardh reaches 20 cm (8 inches).",1_3
"The coupled ocean-atmosphere processes of El Nio and La Nia, the largest contributors to natural variations in global temperature and precipitation on annual, multiyear, and decadal timescales. (Recall that the 1997/98 El Nio was determined to be the cause of extreme weather around the globe. For years we heard that every weather event was caused by El Nio or La Nina. Not long thereafter that shifted to greenhouse gasessolely for political reasons.)",1_7
"Global warming theory posits that greenhouse gases emissions and temperature are closely linked. When one increases, says this theory, so will the other. But that isnt how the real world has behaved.",2_3
"Then there is the law of conservation of energy, which means that we can change the form of energy, but not destroy it. So one is left to wonder if theyve properly modeled the change from kinetic energy (heat) to potential energy (altitude) and the heat flows into evaporation and condensation. Perhaps we can give the climate modelers a practical demonstration",5_1
"The conference opened with a speech by German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who called for ratification of the Kyoto Protocol by 2002. He told the delegates that the industrialized nations must set an example for developing countries. Michael Zammit Cutajar, executive secretary of the convention, applauded Schroeder's speech and that the proposal is ""an encouraging goal"" (Greenwire, October 26, 1999).",0_0
"The errors in the record exceed by a wide margin the purported rise in temperature of 0.7 C (about 1.2 F) during the twentieth century. Consequently, this record should not be cited as evidence of any trend in temperature that may have occurred across the U.S. during the past century. Since the U.S. record is thought to be the best in the world, it follows that the global database is likely similarly compromised and unreliable.",5_1
"Larry, only time will tell. The Court's grant of ""certiorari"" to reassess the lower court's ruling could simply mean that some of the Justices want to end litigation attempting to roll back or limit the regulatory consequences of the Supreme Court's earlier finding in Massachusetts v. EPA that the agency could determine that CO2 was a pollutant subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act. Accordingly, the EPA then claimed regulatory authority premised upon claimed climate impacts asserted in its Endangerment Rule.",0_0
"Your host Richard Morrison sits down this week with special guest co-hosts Michelle Minton and William Yeatman for LibertyWeek 37 (regular co-host Cord Blomquist is on the road). We start off with a profile of visionary physicist and global warming skeptic Freeman Dyson, then spend some time WILBing around to improve our productivity at the office, and move on to sixteen full ounces of barkeeper honesty. Finally we take a look at the Chicago factor in Olympic News.",0_0
"The panel is to release a report on Friday in Paris forecasting global temperatures rising by 2 to 4.5 Celsius (3.6 to 8.1 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels by 2100, with a ""best estimate"" of a 3C (5.4 F) rise.",0_0
Now let's compare these 2 numbers for the period 1955-2010:,0_0
"?So if the Obama administration and all these environmentalists really care about the environment and want a cleaner planet,? she said, ?and if they really believe emissions and exhausts from our factories are what?s causing global warming?why would they encourage even one of our oil or mining companies to move overseas??",0_0
Beneficiaries of Obama's policies bankroll inauguration,0_0
"In the last decade, the Arctic ice and snow cap has expanded 12 per cent, and for the first time in this century. ships making for Iceland ports have been impeded by drifting ice.",1_1
"And things do not look much better for ethanol made from cellulose crops, such as switch grass. Kreider and Curtiss estimate that switch grass would require between 146 and 149 gallons of water per gallon of ethanol produced from cellulose depending on the scale of production. Thus, meeting the Bush administration's target of 35 billion gallons of renewable and alternative fuels production in the United States by 2017 with cellulosic ethanol would require about 5 trillion gallons of water per year. That is a bit more than the average annual flow of the Colorado River, which the Southern Nevada Water Authority lists at 15 million acre-feet, or a little under 5 trillion gallons.",0_0
If my name were Ken Cuccinelli I would want to chase down one or two grant and funding sources; with proof of collusion a case for fraud holds water. That's treble damages and Virginia's taxpayers will be sitting $1.5 million better off plus expenses.,0_0
"Trees are growing at an accelerated rate due to global warming, scientists conclude in a new peer-reviewed study. The study documents faster tree growth in recent decades and concludes longer growing seasons and rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are stimulating the benefits.A team of European forestry scientists analyzed growth rates of Norway spruce and European beech trees ??? the dominant tree species in Central Europe ??? since 1870. The scientists discovered both species are growing substantially faster since 1960 than in the decades before 1960. Norway spruce trees are growing a healthy 32 percent faster since 1960, while European beech trees are growing an astounding 77 percent faster since 1970. Boosted by this accelerated growth, the volume of Norway spruce stands is increasing 10 percent faster than prior to 1960, while the volume of European beech stands is increasing 30 percent faster than prior to 1960.",3_3
"But that doesn't stop an enviro-predator like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from writing on the Huffingtonpost website: ""Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence which Barbour and his cronies have encouraged. Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East andnowKatrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children.""",0_0
"It is a unique pattern of changing climate whose detection would suggest that recent warming is caused by greenhouse gases from human activities, as opposed to natural processes.",0_0
(Note: 1 Mega electron Volt = 1.60217646 10 -13 joules),0_0
"The ultimate First World roadblock: Africa spends virtually no money on developing new high-yield seedsbut thanks to Europe it already has a complete set of environmental regulatory hurdles ready to block biotech crops on the grounds of unproven risks to ""food and environmental safety."" The regulators seem to ignore the obvious potential benefits such as food security and wildlands preservation.",0_0
"Losing Green Jobs September 19, 2010 by Al Gore",0_0
"""Limousines, the very symbol of wealth and excess, are usually the domain of corporate executives and the rich. But the number of limos owned by Uncle Sam increased by 73 percent during the first two years of the Obama administration, according to an analysis of records by iWatch News.""",0_0
===> The greatest warming (acceleration) trends ever recorded took place during the 1870s; the largest cooling trends occurred during the late 1870s and early 1880s.,2_1
"WEFA, Inc. has released its analysis of the cost of complying with Kyoto. U.S. citizens in the year 2010 would see job losses, lower incomes and price increases across the board. Food prices would increase 11 percent, medicine 14 percent, and housing 7 percent. Real income for a household of four would drop by $2,700 in 2010. And 2.4 million jobs would disappear. Gasoline would rise by $.65 per gallon and home heating oil would rise by 70 percent (Investor's Business Daily, June 15, 1998).",4_1
"A member of Russia's Duma, Vladimir Grachev, told the BBC (March 22, 2002) that, ""The Kyoto Protocol for industrial gas emission cuts has turned into ""a smoke screen' for diktat in international trade and it no longer promotes improvement of the ecological situation in the world.""",0_0
"Surface temperatures will continue to increase Lower stratospheric temperature will remain at about current levels Total ozone will increase, exceeding 1980 levels as soon as 2025",0_0
"Canada Says it Will Ratify, Oil Chiefs Attack",0_0
"The security dimension of the U.S.-India partnership is also critical as reflected in the death of American citizens in the deadly Mumbai attacks of November 2008. The two countries have military-to-military ties, deepening arms sales and a common desire to defend the domains of cyber and outer space. Counter-terrorism cooperation is at an all-time high, and American intelligence support was appreciated at the recent Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.",0_0
"After 2.5 years of atmospheric CO 2 exposure, seedlings fumigated with air containing 700 ppm CO 2 exhibited rates of net photosynthesis that were 128 and 31% greater than those of control seedlings growing on soils containing high and low nitrogen contents, respectively. Neither elevated CO 2 nor soil nitrogen content, however, had any significant effects on seedling stomatal conductances . In addition, rates of dark respiration were increased by 22 and 9% in CO 2 -enriched seedlings growing on soils containing high and low nitrogen contents, respectively. Nonetheless, the net direction of carbon flow was into and not out of seedlings, as indicated by 34 and 13% increases in total dry mass production for seedlings growing on nitrogen-rich and nitrogen-poor soils, respectively. In addition, elevated CO 2 increased seedling stem density by 23 and 13% at low and high levels of soil nitrogen, respectively.",3_3
"Donald Trump plans to ""roll back progress"" on climate change, energy and the environment, activists, regulators and their media allies assert. The claim depends on one's definition of ""progress.""",0_0
"""Thick spring ice near shore drives seals to give birth elsewhere because they cannot maintain their breathing holes in the ice,"" Crockford wrote on her blog. ""This leaves mothers emerging from onshore dens with newborn cubs with nothing to eat at a time when they desperately need food: cubs die quickly, mothers more slowly.""",0_0
"There were no surface observations under that storm. But we can see the total precipitation for the entire thunderstorm period (based on radar) in the following figure. Keep in mind that radar-based precipitation totals are rough estimates and that the north Cascades blocked a lot of the radar echo. Clearly, the eastern side of the Cascades was hammered, with some places getting 4-6 inches over a several day period. I cannot imagine what happened under that intense thunderstorm over the North Cascades.",0_0
"And we did. My experience at the Council gave CEI its basic structure: an emphasis on regulation, an activist approach that would bridge the gap between the think tank and political worlds, and a soup-to-nuts organization modeled explicitly on the aggressive environmental groups I'd encountered. As much as I rejected their policies, I still admired their tactics. I envisioned an organization that would publish studies and organize path-breaking seminars, aggressively market these ideas to the relevant interest groups, and seek policy change by pushing legislators and regulators to "" do the right thing""and sue when they wouldn't.",0_0
"Back in April, a new scheme was launched whereby the government(?), via the utility companies, pays cash to anyone generating energy from a small-scale renewable scheme at a set level for a long period (25 years in the case of solar). (and just where does the government get its money from?)",0_0
"Based on real-world knowledge of how earth's plant life responds to increases in air temperature and atmospheric CO 2 concentration (or the best approximations of it available at the time), this study predicts dramatic increases in biospheric prowess , as recent historical trends of these two parameters continue into the future. Hence, it is not surprising that the authors state that ""caution should be taken in using these NEP results in policy discussions relevant to anthropogenic CO 2 emissions and carbon taxes."" Sure . If they were included, it would indicate that carbon taxes to reduce CO 2 emissions are totally absurd , as CO 2 emissions - and even temperature increases - are a tremendous help to the biosphere. And that admission would not be politically correct.",3_3
President Obama and other world leaders are in Paris for talks to limit climate-altering emissions.,0_0
"We went out into the night, where on every public building and in every city square there are lurid green banners and vast, costly, wasteful, electricity-guzzling displays, accompanied by the hilariously improbable slogans that are the hallmark of totalitarianism everywhere ? for instance, the mawkishly messianic ?Brad Pitt Saves The Planet?.",0_0
"After his wife died in 1988, Robinson raised and home-schooled his six children all of whom became remarkable scholars, collaborating on research and a popular DVD series on math and science for home-schooled students and their parents. Five of the children have BS degrees in chemistry; one a degree in mathematics. Two earned doctorates in veterinary medicine; one a PhD in chemistry.",0_0
"The claimed melt areas of Antarctica (Larsen, WAIS) have excess sea ice, indicating the water and air is persistently colder than normal and nearor below the freezing point.",1_1
"No doubt that is why, although the models predicted that global warming would accelerate during the first decade of the 21st century, so far this century there has been no recorded global warming at all.",1_4
"* Floating surface buoys (""drifters""), record temperatures within a meter below the actual sea surface. The temperature data is collected by satellite, and should show a post-noon maximum.",0_0
"Dr. Hoerling has published research suggesting that the 2010 Russian heat wave was largely a consequence of natural climate variability , and a forthcoming study he carried out on the Texas drought of 2011 also says natural factors were the main cause.",1_7
"So cosmic rays are ionizing and increase clouds, and clouds have an albedo effect. Clouds are water so they have circulatory effects created by temperatures. Thunderstorms, for example are big venting events.",0_0
"MOOSE: What truth? All I hear are insults. You think by makin me look bad in front of Spunky, here, that well forget you dont have an argument. Noting but distractions.",0_0
> >> Climatic Research Unit fax: +44 1603 507784,0_0
"I agree that transparency is ???crucial?? to the IPCC process. As discussed elsewhere, IPCC has opposed transparency in favour of confidentiality, with the situation getting worse with the furtive adoption of the Jones-Stocker amendment. In addition, it would be easy enough to add back the reviewer name when the review comments were published. The present system is designed not for transparency, but to enable authors to decide how to respond, depending on who the reviewer was.",5_2
"Also, in a circuit, when the feedbacks reach a threshold value the current suddenly changes direction and goes around the circuit the other way. A positive current instantaneously becomes a negative current. In process engineers jargon, the current flicks from the positive to the negative rail. But in the climate rising feedbacks cannot flick temperature down when they were driving it up just before.",0_0
"Global warming has recently become both a symbol and a prototype of the tension between the truth and propaganda. One politically correct truth has taken over and it is not easy to oppose it although a significant number of people, including top scientists, see the climate change issues, its reasons, and its impact very differently. They are scared by the arrogance of the advocates of the global warming hypothesis and the related conjecture that connects this warming with particular acts of Man. They are afraid of the consequences that it will have for all of us. The best environment for humans is the environment of freedom. It is the only right criterion to judge all environmentalist visions and all their categoric demands. The current debate about global warming is thus inherently a debate about the freedom.",5_2
"The bottom line is that the President is giving the American people what they want to hear. They want to hear that we are exceptional and great, and that this status is a birthright and does not require cross-generational devotion of effort to sustain. They want to hear that we are world leaders without having to consider what world leadership requires. They want to believe the narrative, the narrative that our President is ably providing us.",0_0
"""Regulatory compliance costs rival estimated 2008 individual income taxes of $1.2 trillion, and they dwarf corporate income taxes of $345 billion,"" said Wayne Crews, author of the annual report, Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State. The new and updated 2009 report is due out this spring.",0_0
"U.S. high school students, who are currently being bombarded with a steady stream of radical environmentalists' lies, should read this book.",0_0
The blue and red are warmer and the green and tan are cooler. Uncolored is the same as the 30 year average.,0_0
First I tried everything I could with stats until the RegEm program began converging. Ive been able to use the Automatic Weather Station data (AWS) combined with the surface stations to recreate an AWS reconstruction. Without the actual implementation code or appropriately detailed descriptions Im forced to guess at actual parameters for implementation.,0_0
"is expensive and yet it is not effective in cutting CO2 emissions. If it were not for the renewables targets set by the Renewables Directive, wind-power would not even be entertained as a cost-effective way of generating electricity or cutting emissions. The renewables targets should be renegotiated with the EU.",4_4
"Arctic ice shrinks annually when Earth is too warm, but Siberian and Canadian snowfall increases, increasing Northern Hemisphere solar reflectivity, causing Earth to cool and ice to grow again. A plausible mechanism for these regular 40,000-year ice age cycles has been related to the shallowness of the Barents Sea south of Spitsbergen where the Gulf Stream can break through to the Arctic Ocean. Data indicate another regular ice age began since 2000. CO 2 is not involved.",1_2
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"While shuttering coal-fueled power plants, the Climate Action Plan calls for more ""clean energy"" which will ""cut our dependence on foreign oil."" He's directing the Department of Interior to ""green light"" wind and solar projects on public lands and wants Congress to ""invest in the clean-energy companies.""",0_0
"However, this conclusion indicates that there exist two things that are worse than global warming and science, namely senility and gullibility.",0_0
"With an energy input of 1.22 x 1017Joules over a hemisphere in one second from the Sun, and an energy output from the Earth of 1.22 x 1017Joules from the entire globe, i.e. both hemispheres, it is not physically correct to equate these energy values in terms of flux. These values are true and totally correct in terms of energy. They can not be made to be equal in terms of flux.",0_0
"Additionally, areas can be developed for particular purposes that can benefit people while reducing impact on more primary forests. In one case, a company has developed a eucalyptus tree that when grown in the rainforest, grows quickly, has a minimum of side branches (which reduces the amount of room it needs), matures in only seven years instead of the 12 it takes in Spain and Portugal or 35 in northern Europe, and can be used for paper production. Said one company spokesman, ""We do not cut the Amazon and replace it with eucalyptus we plant on land which has already lost biodiversity By giving this land an economic function, we are preventing further incursion into the Amazon."" (Financial Times, 1/8/92)",0_0
"The new snowfall brought the depth of accumulated snow to 65 centimetres (26 inches), setting an all-time record for April.",1_3
"Your SUV has overheated the planet, and caused one of the coldest years on record in the US.",1_3
"Today, we can still see the clouds of smoke, and smell them.",0_0
"During the last 2 billion years the Earth??s climate has alternated between a frigid ???Ice House??, like today??s world, and a steaming ???Hot House??, like the world of the dinosaurs.",2_1
"Still, the IER study is the first of its kind to compare the cost of electricity from existing sources with that of new sources. Previous studies only compared the cost of electricity from new sources. That is, if a new facility is being constructed, what technology can produce electricity over the life of the plant at the lowest cost? Now a price tag can be put on policies that force power plants to retire early.",0_0
"Particularly for the past decade, climate models have been running too hot, predicting more warming than has been observed (refer to the figure on page 6 of my testimony http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/comparing-cmip5-observations/ .",5_1
"NSIDC ignores satellite data from before 1979, which allows them to pretend that Arctic ice is decreasing linearly due to man-made CO2.",0_0
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ready to unleash its first wave of carbon-dioxide regulations. Some members of Congress want to tax hydrocarbon use and carbon-dioxide emissions. Moreover, United Nations climate alarmists are trying to devise a new treaty to regulate energy use at the international level. Even one of these government actions would send shock waves through the economy. If all three are imposed (or worse, imposed in conjunction with Obamacare and other tax increases on job and wealth creators) the impacts will be devastating.",4_1
"(This essay will form, when re-written more intelligently, part of Chapter 15, the final Chapter, of my book. Which is coming.soon? The material below is not easy nor brief, folks. But it is very important.)",0_0
"Chantrill, very able writer at American Thinker and prolific, shows how Piketty is just plain ignorant of the value of time in markets, why discounting and interest are part of any sensible discussion of free markets. Why the market rewards service and product and people rise to wealth by providing something of value.",0_0
melt being due to recent warming (let alone man-made warming)?,0_0
"The Competitive Enterprise Institute will be holding a one day conference, ""The Costs of Kyoto,"" on Tuesday, July 15 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. For more information contact Nicole Hamilton at (202) 331-1010.",0_0
"Hr p TCS presented a gstinlgg of a vlknd climate scientists, Professor Lennart Bengtsson, who Besides at Uppsala University, rr working at ISSI in Bern and University of Reading.",0_0
"I doubt that Julia Slingo of the Met Office knows much about the Hockey Stick controversy based on actual personal knowledge of the issues. Nonetheless, she saw fit to weigh in on the controversy at the UK Parliamentary Committee hearings. A few days after the hearings, I emailed her asking her for citations/references for two highly questionable assertions that she made to the Parliamentary Committee. A couple of days ago, she replied. Instead of providing the requested citations/references, her reply ??? in all-too-familiar re-framing climate scientist style ??? failed to answer the question. Rathering than answering the question, she pontificated about irrelevant issues, pontifications that were themselves inaccurate.",5_2
The Senate Finance Committee approves major new health care legislation.,0_0
"The incident was the first of its kind, and lasted only a few hours. Low temperatures were an aggravating factor, because Denmarks combined heat and power plants were also running full bore and generating a lot of electricity.",0_0
"From the regime's point of view, the political circumstances were even less troublesome. After 20 years of relentless suppression of political opposition, virtually all the prominent dissidents had been imprisoned, exiled (as Andrei Sakharov had been since 1980), forced to emigrate, or had died in camps and jails.",0_0
"""The coal industry is crying foul over new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations which they say will be among the most be costly rules ever imposed by the agency on coal-fueled power plants.""",0_0
Maybe these modelers should contact them for advice or even on line education programs for wannabe climate modelers.,0_0
Thanks to Speedy for sharing his talent. Hes captured the pairs voices and genre to a tee (even though Id actually be shocked speechless if I heard them say this on the ABC).,0_0
"following the template of President Bush's Iraq War surge, forces would be cut to pre-surge levels within two years. From",0_0
"Several utilities estimated the impact a narrow interpretation of the RMR&R; exclusion would have had on their ability to produce electricity, had the policy been consistently enforced during the past 20 years.25 The results are stunning: the TVA would have lost 32 percent of its coal system's energy capability; the Southern Company said it would not have been able to meet 38 percent of its customer demand; First Energy estimated it would have lost 39 percent of its coal-fired generating capacity, and so on. Negative environmental effects would also have occurred because reducing the utilization of highly efficient low-cost baseline generators would mean having to use less-efficient and dirtier units more often.26",0_0
"Hillary Calls Out Deniers Well, I'm Here And Waiting, Hillary!",0_0
17. Is there a consensus among climate scientists that greenhouse warming from human activities is a major threat?,0_0
"* Editor's note: This week's lead essay is a guest essay by Isaac Orr (iorr@heartland.org), a Heartland research fellow specializing in fracking, and is excerpted from a forthcoming Heartland Policy Study. For more information, see Heartland's Fracking Facts page at https://www.heartland.org/topics/energy/fracking-facts/.",0_0
"... sneaking out between Bodega Rock and Bodega Head itself, the little shallow passage the fishermen call between the rock and the hard place, where once my heart almost stopped with fear, or at least it started with fear, but other emotions got involved. The channel there is shallow, the sport fishing boat Mary Jane was capsized in 1986 with the loss of nine souls by a sneaker wave, full fathom five thy fishermen lie, of their bones are coral made ...",0_0
* Executive Summary (pdf) Lilley-Stern Executive Summary,0_0
"By Steven Hayward, Power Line, Aug 13, 2015",0_0
"the appointees who ""serve at the pleasure of the president"" work alongside career officers responsible for every aspect of diplomacy, development, warfare, and intelligence and the bureaucracy's levers for decision-making and implementation.",0_0
"For the current study of the Yamalia region, the problems of a biased RCS curve and a temporally inconsistent chronology clearly outweigh the benefits of reduced sampling error, and therefore this strategy is not adopted in the main part of this study.",0_0
"Finally, Krupp argued that by retiring emission credits EDF would not be profiting from its role as a third party verifier. But, as Ridenour pointed out, ""the incentives such a system would provide to corporations to give and give generously to the EDF or similar organization,"" should be of grave concern.",0_0
"Previously, the fluctuating amount of radiation given out by the sun was thought to play a large role in the climate.",2_1
"(a) Concerning ICCC-7, we set a record for the number of cosponsors (60), 12 speakers asked to speak after only 2 withdrew, and the mood was decidedly upbeat. Opponents (including Forecast the Facts and Occupy Wall Street) promised to disrupt the conference and failed utterly fewer than 50 people showed up for their rallies. Those who did show up wore boots on their heads and refused Christopher Moncktons invitation to debate.",0_0
"The theory was that a deliberate strategy to make all government action in Washington look disastrous, whether by stopping legislation or delegitimizing the process and its products, would work against the party in power: the Democrats. Scandal politics, which vaulted Gingrich to prominence in the first place, could be hyped and exploited; see Benghazi. The ""birther"" movement was not explicitly embraced by party leaders, but it was encouraged; it was an indirect way to criticize the ""African"" president while also, incidentally, vaulting Donald Trump to prominence in the political realm.",0_0
"6) What about rising sea levels? I must confess, I don?t pay much attention to the sea level issue. I will say that, to the extent that warming occurs, sea levels can be expected to also rise to some extent. The rise is partly due to thermal expansion of the water, and partly due to melting or shedding of land-locked ice (the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and glaciers). But this says nothing about whether or not humans are the cause of that warming. Since there is evidence that glacier retreat and sea level rise started well before humans can be blamed, causation is ? once again ? a major source of uncertainty.",2_3
"Nightly television pictures of the tragic destruction from tornadoes over the past months might make one wonder if the frequency of tornadoes is increasing, perhaps due to the increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. But as one can read at Andrew Revkin's New York Times blog, dotearth, ""There is no evidence of any trend in the number of potent tornadoes (category F2 and up) over the past 50 years in the United States, even as global temperatures have risen markedly.""",1_7
"However, consider that for this exercise you have 18 models that have each yielded 20 years of data. Let us all see how well you can project to end of year 23. In a week Ill post the full graph and full set of figures, then Ill make some comments on your methods of solving this problem.",0_0
"The chief driving force of the policy is the EU?s requirement that, within 10 years, 30 per cent of our electricity must come from renewables, mainly through thousands more wind turbines. This would be so expensive that the Government accepts it could only be made economical by massively rigging the market against any form of electricity derived from fossil fuels, such as the coal and gas which were last week supplying more than 80 per cent of our electricity. By a complex new system of regulations, including what in effect will be a tax of 27 a ton on CO2 emissions, the Government thus hopes to make renewables ?competitive? with conventional power.",0_0
"This year, American farmers will divert a third of the corn crop into the production of corn fuels that are more expensive and environmentally harmful than regular gasoline. Naturally, this has increased demand for corn, which, in turn, has pushed prices to historic highs. American farmers set the global price for corn, so the impact of our foolish ethanol prices is felt worldwide. American corn is one of the largest crops in the world, and by displacing land given to other crops, the ethanol mandate also increases the price of wheat and soybeans on the international market.",4_4
Rising CO2 will increase plant growth leading in turn to increased water vapour. This appears to be one of the best candidates for substantial positive feedback.,3_3
"Polar bears are extremely unlikely to go extinct. But imagine, just for the sake of an argument, that the Arctic is going to warm up sufficiently for them to get drowned. Can we save them?",3_2
"Solving the Crisis, One Drum Circle at a Time",0_0
CEI Sues Administration Over Climate Change Junk Science,0_0
"Serious questions about the funding of ?policy-relevant? science should now be asked. The belief that the emission of greenhouse gases, especially from energy use, has been enshrined as ?fact? in international law since 1992. Scientific research was required to support this claim and hence its associated ?solutions? or responses. To the best of my knowledge, the CRU-hack story is not over yet and serious implications for climate ?alarmism? are still possible. Any enquiry should go beyond the people directly involved and include senior government figures responsible for funding and advocacy of a cause science was expected to serve.",5_2
"In commenting on their primary findings of reduced percentages of leaves experiencing asymmetry in the presence of elevated levels of atmospheric CO 2 and the lesser degree of asymmetry exhibited by affected leaves in the elevated CO 2 treatment, Cornelissen et al . say that ""a possible explanation for this pattern is the fact that, in contrast to other environmental stresses, which can cause negative effects on plant growth, the predominant effect of elevated CO 2 on plants is to promote growth with consequent reallocation of resources (Docherty et al ., 1996)."" Another possibility they discuss ""is the fact that CO 2 acts as a plant fertilizer,"" and, as a result, that ""elevated CO 2 ameliorates plant stress compared with ambient levels of CO 2 ,"" which is one of the well-documented biological benefits of atmospheric CO 2 enrichment (Idso and Idso, 1994).",3_3
Via TVHE NZ . Hat tip: Not PC .,0_0
"One can't have laws that force the Texas or U.S. federal officials to ""control and preserve the atmosphere"" above their lands because this goal is totally beyond their abilities. It is as impossible to realize as preserving a beautiful sunset for 12 more hours.",0_0
The data manipulation that has been most seized upon by bloggers involves the choice of which sources of temperature data should be used to reflect climate trends after 1960.,5_2
"Well, they hadnt. On all five global temperature datasets, the rate of global warming in the 25 years since 1990 has been half of the central business-as-usual estimate which the IPCC had so confidently but misguidedly predicted, even though CO2 concentration has risen faster than the IPCCs then prediction. As Professor Feynman used to say, If it disagrees with experiment, its wrong.",1_4
"???Charles the Moderator?? writes to inform us that there??s another multiproxy study published, with flat blade and a somewhat limp hockey stick combined with that ???unprecedented?? claim that has become almost a red flag for bad proxy studies when they are that certain. From the SI PDF file , it looks like it is another splicing study, where they have added CRU data to the paleo reconstruction using tree ring, ice core, and varve data.",5_1
Hank Johnson Explains The Cause Of Guam Tipping Over,0_0
"However, one Australian professor of biology, apparently dismissing history, wrote a letter to the prestigious journal Nature, titled Dont Fight Fire with Fire. This may have reinforced his appointment as a bushfire adviser to the New South Wales government, from 1996-2004. In that time there were many uncontrollable bushfires. We should not, of course, allow ourselves to be misled by the old logical error of post hoc, ergo propter hoc, but we can still ponder. That professor now holds an academic appointment in the United Arab Emirates, where I would imagine there are few bushfires. Again, we should avoid assuming that his presence there has brought about that situation.",0_0
"VIRGINIA more than 31,000 jobs; 13th in coal production",0_0
"In the words of Cesana and Chepfer: (1) ""low- and mid-level altitude clouds are underestimated by all the models (except in the Arctic),"" (2) ""high altitude cloud cover is overestimated by some models,"" (3) ""some models shift the altitude of the clouds along the ITCZ by 2 km (higher or lower) compared to observations,"" (4) ""the models hardly reproduce the cloud free subsidence branch of the Hadley cells,"" (5) ""the high-level cloud cover is often too large,"" (6) ""in the tropics, the low-level cloud cover (29% in CALIPSO-GOCCP) is underestimated by all models in subsidence regions (16% to 25%)"" and (7) ""the pronounced seasonal cycle observed in low-level Arctic clouds is hardly simulated by some models.""",5_1
"Global warming activists 10:10 Global take the idea of eco-terrorism to a whole new level. Hoping to generate more buzz for their 'cause,' we hope they get more than they can handle the kind that will completely redirect their efforts. We posted their video to shed more light on the true ""spirit' of progressives who continue to peddle global myth at the expense of humanity.",0_0
"And since man-made global warming is a real concern for future generations, ""what kind of world would my great-great-grandchildren inhabit?"" he wrote.",0_0
In the words of physicist Prof Howard Cork Hayden:,0_0
"Funded by Renaissance Technologies hedge fund founder James Simons and his son, Nathaniel, Sea Change gave away $120 million between 2008 and 2010 in connection with energy-related issue activism. More than $18 million more of the Simons philanthropic funding in 2009 and 2010 went to organizations named in Northrops 2008 presentations, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club, the World Wildlife Fund and Ceres, Inc., although Sea Change did not disclose the specific purpose of those grants.",0_0
A group of green activists is proposing to take more direct action against those of us who disagree with them.,5_2
The National Weather Service even extended a winter weather advisory for several counties until Saturday morning.,0_0
"According to Bloomberg, ???Germanys push toward renewable energy is causing so many drops and surges from wind and solar power that the government is paying more utilities than ever to help stabilize the countrys electricity grid.??",4_4
"The debate over the minimum wage has moved to the states, and any further increases over the next two years will come from state legislatures or from ballot initiatives. This is less harmful than a federal law, because costs vary by state, and states should have the right to decide on their minimum wages. It is not surprising that it is states with higher minimum wages than the federal level, such as California and Massachusetts with their $9 hourly rates, that are seeking equivalent or higher rates for the rest of the country, so that the high-wage states can regain competitiveness.",0_0
"If it?s a drought, or a long spell of hot and dry weather, they think we must be doing something to nudge up the Earth?s thermostat. If it?s a nasty hurricane or a notably destructive line of tornados, it?s our fault for driving SUVs. If riverside communities get flooded, that?s also the result of global warming. And if we get an unusually harsh and lengthy winter, yes, that, too, is proof that the Earth is getting warmer.",5_2
"This is not to say that I agree with Gavins May 11 criticism of my emulation of the regional chronology. Only that I had not raised the issue of the regional chronology, a topic which I had not yet considered in connection with Briffa et al 2013 and which I will now briefly consider.",0_0
Lets take two examples from the BoM online Timeseries Australian Climate Variability and Change.,0_0
"In contrast to the hype, Dr. Andrew Smith, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature pika expert, has testified that pikas are thriving in California and should not be listed. Although an avid defender of the Endangered Species Act, he argued that incorrectly listing the pika as endangered ( see his letter here ) would only subject the ESA to greater criticism and denigrate conservation science.",0_0
"climate-related changes that are outside of recent experiences, as the Medieval Warming and Little Ice Age demonstrate,2, 3, 4 and therefore it is not unusual nor unexpected in ordinary life. If this is to be interpreted to be human-induced, then the evidence just discussed demonstrates that this kind of change cannot be attributed to human actions and therefore the statement is false.",2_1
"Several years ago, Wells Fargo Bank discovered that employees had boosted sales, by opening some 2 million deposit and credit card accounts without customer knowledge or authorization. Over the next few years, the bank fired more than 5,000 employees for misconduct and reimbursed customers $2.6 million in fees that they may have incurred on the bogus accounts.",0_0
"Conceivably, EPA might claim the CEIP is kosher because it is based on the Clean Air Act, not the 1992 Energy Policy Act. That won't cut it. Section 111 does not contain any of the terminology associated with an early action program (""early,"" ""voluntary,"" ""credit,"" ""allowance,"" ""allocation,"" ""transfer,"" ""award,"" ""participant"").",0_0
AGW petition by Ranga Myneni: 1 billion signatures left,0_0
Tony Blair to earn millions as climate change adviser,0_0
"The Ross Ice Shelf retreated 15 feet per day from 1900 to 1930. As far as I can tell, New York and LA are still there.",1_6
"Nigel Lawson has responded to Paul Nurse's wild accusations of cherrypicking , accusing the Royal Society president of lying:",5_2
Australias antarctic runway melting | Southern Cross,0_0
"That refers to the U.N.-sponsored compact among nations to halve the number of the world's poorest people, achieve global primary schooling, reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS and enhance the standing of women, among other goals, by 2015.",0_0
"Of course, the answer to #1 is ""risen"", if you consider ""pre-1800"" to be around 1800 or a couple of hundred years of so before, because we were int he little age age, and there's little doubt we have warmed form that time.",0_0
"The details of the goal include some highly questionable assertions. From 1880 to 2012, average global temperature increased by 0.85C. As pointed out by the Socit de Calcul Mathmatique, we do not have the ability to calculate average global surface temperatures today, much less in 1880.",5_1
"We are told that we must repent of our misdeeds, for driving SUVs or (unless",0_0
"""Consider the Marxist idea of ""from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.' What an incentive for people to minimize their abilities and maximize their needs. Can you imagine a better formula for destroying society?""",0_0
"Michael Kundu, Board President of Marysville (Washington State, USA) District #25 has written to colleagues to urge them to trash a free science resource that discusses logic, reason and evidence, and the core of science. The Skeptics Handbook has arrived at school board presidents desks around the US.",0_0
"MOOSE: Besides, you cant tell me Im wrong because Im givin Spunky what he needs. Thats youre own fallacy. A grade-A ad hominem .",0_0
"But it seems that we don?t live in normal times. Because Polly Higgins, an environmentalist barrister and the initiator of the Planetary Rights campaign, was not only included in The Ecologist?s 2009 list of Top 10 Visionaries, but in 2008 she was even invited to address the United Nations. When Higgins launched a campaign last Friday to have ?ecocide?, the destruction of the natural world, recognised as an international crime, some commentators argued that this confirmed her brilliance and heroism.",0_0
"The first slide of mine that Abraham criticizes is one in which I show the table of contributions to observed sea-level rise from various sources as published in the IPCC's 2007 report, and draw from it the conclusion that the measured contribution of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets to ""global warming"" is 6 cm/century, while Al Gore's mawkish sci-fi comedy horror movie predicts 610 cm (20 feet) of imminent sea-level rise.",0_0
"In honor of the 33rd International Geological Congress being held in Oslo this summer, GEO' 04/08 issue is published in English, so the editorial is legible for people other than the maybe 5 million that speak Norwegian.",0_0
"At the beginning of the climate conference in Bonn, Germany, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres called on delegates to do what was ""politically possible"" and make ""incremental"" progress. By most accounts, the Bonn talks fell short of even these modest goals. ""More likely is that the level of ambition for Cancun will be reduced further with no more than a package of agreements negotiated and all the tough stuff put back until next year. Or 2013. Or 2014,"" John Vidals concludes. That, he says, would be ""the nightmare scenario""an outcome that the squabbling in Bonn has made all the more likely. Corbin Hiar, UN Dispatch, 11 August 2010",0_0
What a load of BS. It has been cold all month and lots of snow. The albedo of the Greenland ice sheet is very high. These people have got to stop lying at some point.,1_3
"The climate alarmists may offer lots of models and data but none of them ever correctly predicts the behavior of the climate for longer periods of time than two months. On the other hand, particle physicists use theories that perfectly match the observations. The experimenters are producing hundreds of diverse papers and each of them confirms nontrivial quantitative predictions made by the theories in particle physics. Let me emphasize that there are two ways to obtain each of these results ??? from theory or from the experiment ??? and they just match. Suggestions that the situations in particle physics and climate science are analogous are totally preposterous.",5_1
Australias antarctic runway melting | Tamar Community Times,0_0
"He was kind enough to speak with me at length. He emphasized that working-class voters do not fit neatly on the traditional left-right continuum. They are fiscally conservative, wanting low rates of taxation and wanting government to live within its means, but economically populist, suspicious of trade, outsourcing, and high finance. They are culturally orthodox but morally moderate, in the sense that they don't feel their lives will change much because of how social issues play out. They are patriotic and supportive of the military, but suspicious of foreign adventures.",0_0
"The global warming movement is reeling from serial revelations of scientific incompetence, outright fraud, bullying and rogue idealogues masquerading as scientists, but Al Gore has addressed none of these inconvenient truths beyond a glib denial that Climategate was a storm in a teacup.",5_2
Pessimism about growth often increases in times of economic difficulty.,0_0
"The document itself consists of a three-page cover letter to Sir John Houghton, head of IPCC Working Group I (Science), from Day Mount, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Acting, Environment and Development, United States Department of State, along with the thirty-page instruction set with line-by-line ""suggestions,"" written by scientist Robert Watson and others.",0_0
"I have a friend in Omaha, Joe Herring, who is politically active and a writer/speaker/advocate on many issues.",0_0
"""Germany finishes southern Afghan road without insurgent attack""",0_0
The far-fetched nature of these investigations suggests that they are not really intended to uncover legal wrongdoing but to harass. The state of New York wants to subject Exxon to bad publicity and impose on it the costs of producing thousands of pages of documents in response to endless subpoenas. The process is the punishment. That violates the First Amendment.,0_0
"According to NYSERDA , the average NYS residential electricity rate in 1999 was 13.3 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh). The first NYS wind factories went up in 2000 (Wethersfield & Madison). 20 wind factories later, and the average residential electricity rate in NYS as of February, 2015, is now 19.8 cents per kWh (according to the EIA, as cited by NYSERDA) one of the highest rates in the nation, and nearly a 50% increase since New York State began mindlessly plastering countrysides with redundant generation of industrial wind factories. (Of further interest ??? only 2% of NYSs electricity comes from coal.)",4_4
"I was beyond shocked, Mr. Berry said, recounting his reaction to seeing himself portrayed as ailing and crippled. I cried at my computer screen for, like, a minute.",0_0
IPCC Climate Science Is Fundamentally Wrong: Carbon Footprint is All Wet,0_0
"If something unusual happens with the composition of the atmosphere, the oxygen isotope ratios can change, Killingsworth said. We see a large deviation in this ratio in minerals deposited around 635 million years ago. This occurred during an extremely odd time in atmospheric history.",0_0
"In a study published in Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Indur Goklany calculated the additional mortality burden of biofuels policies and found that nearly 200,000 people died in 2010 alone, because of efforts to use biofuels to reduce CO2 emissions.",0_0
"We recommend that if the DGAC insists on including a discussion of greenhouse gas emissions (and thus climate change) in it 2015 Dietary Guidelines, that the current discussion be supplemented, or preferably replaced, with a more accurate and applicable one one that indicates that carbon dioxide has widespread and near-universal positive benefits on the supply of food we eat, and that attempting to limit future climate change through dietary choice is misguided and unproductive. These changes must be made prior to the issuance of the final guidelines.",3_3
Selling your soul for a narrative: understanding the Gleick fraud,5_2
An emerging El Nino event suggests the best chances for significant heat during the first half of summer,0_0
This guy thinks the owl in the dollar bill is just the background pattern overlay artifact.,0_0
"As Johnston demonstrates from the scientific literature, the complex and chaotic processes underlying these mechanisms, especially as they relate to cloud formation and precipitation, constitute anything but straightforward physics. The issue of feedbacks and climate sensitivity is probably the greatest question facing climate science. But policymakers are left blissfully ignorant of these controversies.",5_1
"In one paper Professor Kevin Anderson, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, said the only way to reduce global emissions enough, while allowing the poor nations to continue to grow, is to halt economic growth in the rich world over the next twenty years.",4_1
"Didn't he fear discovery? ""When I had to balance the interests of my own safety, the privacy and career of a few scientists, and the well-being of billions of people living in the coming several decades millions and billions already struggling with malnutrition, sickness, violence, illiteracy, etc. the first two weren't the decisive concern.""",0_0
"That is why the current hypothesis is bonkers, without actual temperature records for the past, we have no real idea what was happening in such short periods of a few decades a la the period the warmists are currently relying on.",5_1
Sea Level Debate is Flooded with Misinformation: Research scientist is cool to EPA's global warming claim,0_0
"Greenhouse gases have warmed the land by approximately one degree Celsius since 1960. That rate is roughly three times faster than the rate of ocean warming. These temperatures have forced wild populations to adaptor to be on the move, continually relocating.",0_0
"Nevertheless, the satellite data for tropospheric temperatures, which are confirmed by weather balloon observations, fail to show the sort of warming required to support the researchers' conclusions. Wigley and Santer believe that their research indicates that those data are incorrect. ""The increase in the height of the tropopause appears to support the data set that shows the troposphere is warming,"" Wigley told Environmental News Service. (Boston Globe, Aug. 5)",0_0
"She told the conference about the need to plan for seas with changing currents, more frequent storms, and higher tides which will demand more robust boats, bigger wharves and stronger breakwaters.",0_0
"U.S. and European Union envoys are seeking more clarity from the United Nations on a slowdown in global warming that climate skeptics have cited as a reason not to panic about environmental changes, leaked documents show.",1_4
"Working Group I , remember, was supposed to tell us the scientific case for man-made global warming. If our emissions arent driving the climate towards a catastrophe, then we dont need to analyze what happens during the catastrophe we probably wont get. This applies equally to War, Pestilence, Famine, Drought, Floods, Storms, and Shrinking Fish (which, keep in mind, could have led to the ultimate disaster: shrinking fish and chips ).",0_0
"""We have also found that climate proxy record shows cyclic variations similar to stretching/shortening Schwabe/Hale solar cycles in time, suggesting that both Schwabe and Hale solar cycles are playing important role in climate change. In this paper, we review the nature of Schwabe and Hale cycles of solar activity and cosmic-ray flux during the Maunder Minimum and their possible influence on climate change. We suggest that the Hale cycle of cosmic rays are amplified during the grand solar minima and thus the influence of cosmic rays on climate change is prominently recognizable during such periods.""",2_1
"From 2005-2007, Chesapeake Energy secretly funds the ""Face It: Coal Is Filthy Campaign,"" which featured a controversial image of a girl with a coal-smudged face. The ads were an effort to win market share for the gas industry from the coal industry.",0_0
"both a professor and a primatologist (and a primate). His book , called ""Games Primates Play,"" is devoted",0_0
"Critics accuse GMO of being unhealthy, increasing chemical pollution, threatening other species, causing dangerous side effects, and harming the environment. But as plant molecular biologist Robert Goldberg of UCLA points out, ""In spite of hundreds of millions of genetic experiments involving every type of organism on earth, and people eating billions of meals without a problem, we've gone back to being ignorant.""",0_0
"Has there been recent warming? Yes, the global climate has definitely warmed since the Little Ice Age (about 1400-1700 AD), and it will likely continue to warm for another 200-300 years, in fits and starts, towards a max temp roughly matching that of the Medieval Warm Period. That time followed a colder period before the founding of Rome between about 750 BC to 200 BC. By 150 BC the climate had warmed enough for the first grapes and olives to be cultivated in northern Italy. As recently as 1,000 years ago, Icelandic Vikings were raising cattle, sheep and goats in grasslands on Greenlands southwestern coast.",2_1
"The current demonization of Russia in some American quarters is thus incomprehensible, unless one keeps in mind the particular conceit of democracies at war that Kennan, following Tocqueville, pointed out long ago: ""There is nothing in nature more egocentrical than the embattled democracy. It soon becomes the victim of its own propaganda. It then tends to attach to its own cause an absolute value which distorts its own vision of everything else. . . . People who have got themselves into this frame of mind have little understanding for the issues of any contest other than the one in which they are involved.""17",0_0
"Since the beginning of 2015, the SPC has issued only four tornado watches and no severe thunderstorm watches, which is less than 10 percent of the typical number of 52 tornado watches issued by mid-March. The approximately 20 tornadoes reported since January 1 is well below the 10-year average of 130 for that time period.",1_7
"There is a warming of the surface by infra-red active gases, the so-called greenhouse gases, but that effect was maximized at lower concentrations of those gases than we now have.Increases in those gases now cause small decreases in surface and general tropospheric temperatures.This is because the mean free length for infra-red absorption by these gases is now too short for them to move the upper troposphere radiative equilibrium altitude to higher altitudes in the dense troposphere.With that space radiation shell at the top of the troposphere relatively stabilized, the increased role of the gases in transporting heat energy upward from the surface means they are stronger coolants than they are greenhouse heaters.",2_3
"But I really really wanted to get a ground level view to absolute ascertain the placement of the Stevenson Screen. Lots of web searches turn up nothing. I found pictures of the observatories, pictures of the Krupp gun , pictures of the skyline, but no pictures of the nearby weather station. After all, other than myself and surfacestations.org volunteers, who takes pictures of weather stations while on vacation? Still I figured, this is a major tourist spot, within walking distance of the top of the famous Wellington cable car , surely somebody had snapped a photo?",0_0
"The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History will be holding a six-part series beginning July 1 titled, ""Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast."" The event is free, no tickets needed. For information call (202) 357-2700.",0_0
James D. Johnston is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington. He retired in 1994 as General Motors vice president for industry-government relations.,0_0
"Curry discusses major issues regarding the treatment of uncertainty, including that the often used Bayesian statistical methods, which have difficulty in dealing with true uncertainty, are subjective, and may lead to biased results.",5_1
"Since we live on land, we often think of manmade global warming as a land surface air temperature concern. But",0_0
"2. While laboratory values for Henrys coefficients require approximating thermodynamic equilibrium, Henrys Law does not predict thermodynamic equilibrium, and its coefficients must therefore be used advisedly. Neither climate, the ocean, the surface layer, nor Earths primary heat source, the Sun, is ever in thermodynamic equilibrium. IPCC and Salby refer to equilibrium, which is false if they mean thermodynamic equilibrium, and otherwise they supply no definition for their peculiar meaning of equilibrium.",5_1
"Attempts to resolve the arguments are plagued with problems, a lot of which are inherently insoluble. There are many aspects of the behaviour of the natural climate system and of human society that are unpredictable in principle, let alone in practice. But perhaps the biggest of the underlying problems, and it is common to both arguments since it inevitably exists when there is large unpredictability and uncertainty, is the presence of strong forces encouraging public overstatement and a belief in worst-case scenarios.",5_1
"Rising CO2 levels are not causing an increase in extreme hot weather temperatures in South America - another of those irrefutable ""global warming"" science facts",2_3
"Dr David Reiner, Course Director of the MPhil in Technology Policy at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge and author of the report, said: ""There is a real engagement among the British public on questions of energy and environment, particularly over climate change. There is a willingness to support government policies, but even those groups that are the strongest supporters of policy action do not translate this support into their personal energy saving behaviour. They show a clear divergence between their views as citizens and their actions as consumers.""",0_0
"Three parents, including Robyn Terry, complained to the district. The Terrys' 12-year-old son attended Beadle Middle School last year. Mrs. Terry said that the materials used in his class portrayed global warming as fact when scientists disagree.",0_0
Weather experts: Cattle-killing blizzard not climate change,0_0
"Finally, and probably most important, is the demise of believing in social progress. For a long time, economic growth was closely linked to the more general idea of progress, including scientific and cultural advances. A more prosperous society was also seen as having the potential to be more humane. But as social pessimism has gripped America, the vision of the progressive potential of economic growth has also diminished.",0_0
"And what a way feasible? It depends. That the war in Iraq in 2003 was built on nothing I do not think there can be no doubt; and abuse and torture are certainly not happened while I was in command. If Bush were a private citizen whatever, the situation would already be in the hands of judges and lawyers to establish the boundary between law, crime and incompetence.",0_0
"That, and there??s no tropospheric hot spot (which would also expand the atmosphere) as expected from warming, from:",2_3
"The only Kjorven goal that might work is #4: ""Reduce average animal protein intake among rich people by 20 percent."" I'm not sure eating somewhat less meat would hurt us rich people. But livestock eat huge amounts of stuff humans can't digestgrass from the huge natural grasslands, cottonseed hulls, citrus rinds, rice straw. Along with whatever high-yield corn escapes becoming ethanol. The ecological gains from Meatless Fridays are likely to be as ephemeral as the environmental gains we're supposedly getting from corn ethanol and Jimmy Carter's solar panels on the White House roof.",0_0
"Al Gore's blog entry today claims that due to 'deniers' we are losing 'green jobs' to China, by pointing to a NYT.com article about a US company that was able to find venture capital in China . He neglects to mention the looming global warming catastrophe. Hefails to mention the inconvenient truth that solar panels have an energy payback time of 8.7 years and thus are facilities for energy dissipation , and only provide intermittent power generation. He fails to mention that wind power does not reduce CO2 emissions and is also intermittent and impractical . Or that to supply the world with 'clean energy' would require 456,000 square miles of solar panels or 146,000,000 wind turbines covering an area equivalent to 1.5 times the size of the United States.",4_4
Looking for acceleration in sea level data can be like looking for a needle in a haystack. The average global sea level rise rate for the 20th century was about 1.8 mm per year. But the fluctuations from year to year or even month to month at any particular site or region can be hundreds of times greater than the yearly average.,1_6
"If the above is confirmed, it may be the first step towards making the world we experience as vanishing and irrelevant as a ghost in the desert at midday.",0_0
"Bismarck once said that the whole of the Balkans is not worth the bones of one Pomeranian grenadier. I riff on that when I say that the rainforests, or blue whales or any other green grail isn't worth the bones of a single human being. Humans first.",0_0
"""Popular anonymous photo-sharing message board 4Chan.org is experiencing downtime at this very moment. The cause of the outage? A DDOS, or distributed denial of service attack something 4Channers are all to familiar with but not in the way you would think.""",0_0
"The wired.com article concluded, ""The inflated EPA numbers have been a public relations conundrum for Honda and Toyota, which are caught between hyped expectations and detracting from one of the cars' main selling points better mileage.""",0_0
"Svalgaards ppt file is less easy to interpret in stand alone form, with little text, but I reproduce his conclusions here:",0_0
Professor Mike Lockwood says that even in a warming world we could have one or two centuries of frigid winters to come here in the UK. He even says it with a straight face.,0_0
"Use of Word ""Sustainable"" Reaches Unsustainable Levels.",0_0
"Another issue is the position of gas power plants within the current capacity market mechanism. The present strategy is to pay gas power plants, and others, to provide standby capacity. Some of this can be supplied by mothballed plants, but it is also hoped that it will encourage new plants to be built. Any hint that all fossil fuel plants will be taken out of the equation by 2030 will surely discourage any new plants from being built, as they will need much longer than a decade to recoup capital costs.",0_0
"Establishing market pricing of all infrastructures would quickly steer people away from climatically fragile areas, dramatically reducing the costs of dealing with climate variability.",0_0
Data and Station Information for NEW YORK ( THE BATTERY),0_0
"Reciting his boilerplate clean-energy language in the State of the Union address Wednesday night, President Obama managed to say one thing that stood out. He called for ""building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country.""",0_0
"plotf1(Working=Model,info=Info,v0=santer$trend)",0_0
"If we run this model, we can adjust the feedback parameter until we get the kinds of radiative imbalances inferred from the ocean heat content changes. The following shows what seemed to provide a reasonable match:",0_0
"Seattle, with roughly 37 inches a year in annual precipitation, is far drier than the Washington coast, even places away from any terrain. For example, Westport, on the central Washington coast, gets about 74 inches....about twice a much as Seattle. The Long Beach Peninsula gets 81 inches.",0_0
"For a 300-year time horizon, the simplest split of equally likely one-percent and seven-percent discount rates would be 150 years at 1 percent and 150 years at 7 percent. Discounting $1,000 for 150 years at one percent gives a present value of $224.79. Discounting this value for the remaining 150 years (for a total of 300 years) at 7 percent gives an ultimate present value of $0.0088. Note that using the average discount rate of 4 percent for the whole 300 years gives a present value of $0.0078. In fact, for the present value to even reach as high as $1.00, the one percent discount rate has to apply to at least 232 of the 300 years. If one and seven are equally likely for each of those years, the probability of this occurring is 2.05 x 10-22.",0_0
The Doran U of Illinois Survey was reported to state:,0_0
"I might suggest that you are assuming that people asked the questions Gavin says they asked, and that Gavins answer to their questions is adequate because Gavin tells us his answer is adequate.",0_0
Mammoth Lakes / Long Valley Volcano,0_0
Expect global cooling for the next 2-3 decades that will be far more damaging than global warming would have been.,1_2
Here are the results using the regular exponential decay calculations,0_0
"To explain the added warming in the North Atlantic, I refer to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, but I use the paleoclimatological reconstruction as a graphic instead of the normal detrended North Atlantic SST anomalies since the 1800s. More on this in a subsequent post.",2_1
"By Marlowe Hood, Paris (AFP), Aug 10, 2015",0_0
"And while they are doing the right thing, they should sign the Rivers Need Estuaries petition of the Australian Environment Foundation www.listentous.org.au .",0_0
202-331-2279 / iosorio@cei.org,0_0
"The misconception that famous men may only be ""challenged"" by famous challengers helps. Let me articulate a related, more religious point: Many people probably feel that death and sacrifice should always have a meaning and it must always be possible to find a fair, comparably large ""revenge"" for any crime (Oswald's death isn't a good enough revenge). But it's unfortunately not the case. The laws of physics guarantee neither afterlife nor the meaning for our lives nor universal justice.",0_0
"As the CO 2 content of the air rises, it is likely that the photosynthetic rates of soybeans will also rise, leading to significant increases in seed yield. In addition, if plant breeders utilize the highly CO 2 -responsive ancestral cultivar identified in this study in their breeding programs, it is possible that soybean seed yields could be made to rise even faster in the days and years ahead.",3_3
"All this comes with the caveat that inasmuch as most experts accept that seas were rising by 3mm a year in the 1990?? s, the raw satellite data showed next to nothing until it was adjusted. Hence the rate changes discussed in this paper could be an artefact of those adjustments. Sea levels might not have slowed their rate of rise, it may be that it was not rising very quickly in the first place, and is still not rising very fast. Either way, it doesn??t support the theory that pumping out CO2 makes much difference.",5_1
"Strike six : Utah has been receiving record snowfall in recent years, and winter temperatures have been plummeting",0_0
"In Cobb County, Georgia, hundreds shivered outside to apply for heating assistance from a welfare agency that may not have enough money for every family that needs help. Along the Canadian border, in St. Lawrence County, New York, over 8,000 households were approved for heating aid by cash-strapped local, county and state governments that wonder where the money will come from while Albany has blocked drilling for shale gas that could fuel homes and power plants, and generate billions in revenue.",0_0
Low-flow toilets cause a stink in SF:,0_0
"Those who think oil production is about to precipitously decline see their views confirmed by companies which, like Shell, have downgraded their reserve estimates.",0_0
"In the Tasmanian climate, the future scenario for 2070 which is warmer and drier suggested a ... 70 to 100 per cent increase in area burnt, he said.",0_0
"Abraham went on and on about how a graph shouldn't have been labeled with the name of an institution such as ""scienceandpublicpolicy.org"" unless it was that institution that had compiled the graph. That, of course, as he could have discovered if he had bothered or, rather, dared to check, was indeed the institution that had compiled the graph, taking the arithmetic mean of the global-temperature anomalies from the HadCRUt, NCDC, RSS, and UAH datasets.",0_0
"Appointments that can last for two years, with many being made by governors of the opposite party of the departing Senator, with most appointees seeking the seat in the forthcoming election, and with often embarrassing politicking (and occasionally bribery) surrounding the appointment process, have many wrongheaded and even loathsome qualities. But moving to no appointments period is a huge step backward when it comes to ensuring that our first branch of government is up and running quickly in the event of a catastrophe.",0_0
"CEI's FOIA request details how the UN informed participants that it was motivated by embarrassing releases of earlier discussions (""ClimateGate"" key among them) and, to circumvent the problem that national government transparency laws posed, the group itself.",5_2
Texas and Surrounding 41 F Degree Days Deviation Map,0_0
"""He looks at me and now his jaw drops. Then I feel something click in this 17-year old brain.""",0_0
"Meanwhile, China, India, Germany, Poland and other countries are building some 1,200 new coal-fired power plants, and numerous gas plants, to spur economic growth, preserve jobs and lift people out of poverty. So the sacrifices Mr. Obama is imposing will do nothing to reduce global CO2 levels, which the evidence increasingly shows plays only a minor to trivial role in climate and weather fluctuations.",4_2
"12,500 years ago: The Younger Dryas. After only 1,500 years of recovery from the Ice Age , the Earth suddenly shifts back into a new, short-lived ice age . The dramatic cooling seems to have occurred within 100 years or less. Another 1,000 years or so of ice age follow before another sudden shift back to climate warming .",2_1
"This claim was questioned by many scientists and commentators on all sides of the global warming debate. (See, e.g., Jason Samenow, Scientists: Don't make ""extreme cold"" centerpiece of global warming argument, Washington Post, Feb. 20, 2014 (linking to objection by five well-known climate scientists in the Feb. 14, 2014 issue of Science magazine); Patrick J. Michaels, Hot Air About Cold Air, Jan. 16, 2014 (former state climatologist of Virginia rejected Holdren's claim).)",0_0
"In Standing with Giants, 14 scientists pay tribute to Whelan by providing sound science on topics on which Whelan devoted her life. I am proud to be among those scientists.",0_0
Colorado gaming regulators to review tax loophole for casinos:,0_0
"Since satellites began monitoring surface temperatures in the last thirty years, there has been no statistical increase in warming. The IPCC predicts a 2C rise by 2100, or as little as .3 and 4.8 at the most.",1_4
"Spalding's statement that ""if you want to build a coal plant you got a big problem"" reminds us a lot of President Obama's own statement about coal in 2008 when he wasn't so afraid to explain his real intentions. Remember he said, ""if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them.""",0_0
"clearly, some tuning or very good luck involved. I doubt the",0_0
"Al Gore blogged, Bollywood rocked and maybe John DeLorean was a genius.",0_0
"Below is what I wrote in the comment section below Souweines piece. The response to my dousing of rain on their parade brought predictably lame counter-comments which have added amusement to my weekend. Anyway, on to what I wrote:",0_0
"The father of the ""green revolution,"" Norman Borlaug, saved perhaps a billion lives across the globe with his high-yield agricultural techniques using artificially engineered plant varieties and inorganic fertilizers. In India, the yield of wheat per acre went from 800 pounds in 1963 to 6,000 pounds today. As a result, 100 million acres of virgin land did not have to be cleared and farmed to feed a growing population. Yet the international environmentalism movement constantly opposed Borlaug, just as it is today blocking the development of GM crops in Africa.",0_0
A reader of this web-log was carefully following the dire predictions and sent in the following summary:,0_0
"A Chinese ice breaker steamed in to the rescue, but found the ice too thick to reach the trapped warmists who are now hoping an Australian ice breaker might be able to get through.",0_0
"The revelation, contained in a confidential US embassy cable released by WikiLeaks , is surprising, given that the film attempted to discredit the US healthcare system by highlighting what it claimed was the excellence of the Cuban system.",0_0
"Lake Powell will hit 3660 feet elevation this weekend. It has been rising at a rate of 60,000 mm/year.",0_0
"on Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 at 6:03 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
2) The global hydrological cycle is not taken correctly into account in the models (too small).,5_1
"models, then much of the 19th to mid 20th century warming can be explained from",0_0
"And as this allegedly apolitical group of scientists took the world stage they smiled while standing hand in hand with the politicians. They expressed joy as they politicians peddled what can only be described as socialist global wealth redistribution, combined with the voluntary destruction of our capitalist world economies. All accomplished through FACTUALLY unreachable emission standards.",0_0
"Figure 3 shows the observed and modeled sea surface temperature trends for the Pacific Ocean (longitudes of 125E-90W) on a zonal-mean basis. At and near the equator, observed sea surface temperatures cooled since January 1982. And the highest observed warming in both hemispheres occurred at the mid-latitudes in the Pacific. The models, unfortunately, do not create that spatial pattern. The models show much more warming in the tropics than observed. The models also overestimate the warming at the high latitudes of the North Pacific and they show warming in the Pacific portion of the Southern Ocean, while the observations show cooling there over the past 32+ years.",0_0
New version of the False alarm is to read and download,0_0
Thats why the Productivity Commission highlighted in its Carbon Emission Policies in Key Economies report last May that most countries have adopted sector-specific policies.,0_0
"To be good citizens, some companies are voluntarily buying electricity from expensive wind and solar sources. Shareholders accept this profit-reducing activity, believing this contributes to slowing man-made global warming. But according to the International Energy Agency, wind and solar supply less than one percent of global energy needs, and coal-fired energy is growing.",4_2
"Broken deals, bitter words and a state shuts down:",0_0
"Co-ordinating policies, working out differences in regulation and inspection standards to improve North American competitiveness, and forming common, continental positions to take to global forums: these were the tasks that the SPP was designed to facilitate. There were notable successes. The co-operative effort by Mexico, Canada, and the United States in response to the outbreak of the H1N1 swine-flu virus is one example, since it followed a pandemic response plan that was developed by SPP working groups. Similarly, food safety officials in all three countries showed that they had learned from the BSE crisis when, using an SPP-developed protocol, they responded to evidence of salmonella contamination in Mexican tomatoes and peppers last summer with far less disruption to agriculture and trade.",0_0
"Bates, B.C., Kundzewicz, Z.W., Wu, S. and Palutikof, J.P. (Eds.) 2008. Climate Change and Water. Technical Paper of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. IPCC Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland.",0_0
"In October 1999, a gaggle of environmental groups led by the International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA) petitioned EPA to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissionsfrom new motor vehicles under CAA Sec. 202.",0_0
"But in the last several weeks, we have stumbled upon clear and convincing observational evidence of particularly strong negative feedback (low climate sensitivity) from our latest and best satellite instruments. That evidence includes our development of two new methods for extracting the feedback signal from either observational or climate model data, a goal which has been called the holy grail of climate research.",3_1
"In fact, I repeat, global temperature hasnt risen at all in 15 years . How come? Natural factors stopped playing a role, remember?",1_4
"""Heat waves have actually diminished, not increased. There is not an uptick in the number or strength of storms (in fact storms are diminishing).",1_7
"Steyn is trying crowdfunding, would be interesting to see how he is doing.",0_0
How can LOST bind Russia but not America? One advocate recently sent an e-mail which ended up in my hands worrying about the consequent difficulty in allaying fears of LOST being ``some kind of green Trojan Horse.'',0_0
"While I have emphasized that the CO2-temperature relationship is mostly caused by the influence of temperature on the gas concentrations (as seen through the 800-year lag in the Vostok data ), let us assume that this whole relationship is caused by the greenhouse effect. And let us calculate the climate sensitivity - warming per CO2 doubling - from the 11 geological data points above. Download the geological notebook Let us define the CO2 concentration and temperature vectors: ppm = {4500, 4200, 4500, 2200, 800, 900, 1750, 1950, 1700, 500, 280};",2_3
"This has gotten a fair amount of play around the Internet, but it's crazy enough to re-link in case you have not seen it. A proposal in Australia to earn carbon credits by shooting wild camels . Because when living, breathing creatures are dead, the environment is protected. Take that to its logical conclusion. All that time those folks were clubbing harp seals, they were saving Mother Nature!",0_0
"A strain of anti-humanism has always run through population paranoia, a notion that human beings are a problem rather than a resource. But as Jonathan Last documents in his new book What to Expect When No One's Expecting, it is not overpopulation that threatens the well-being of the human race, it is under-population. As Last writes, ""Throughout recorded human history, declining populations have always been followed by Very Bad Things."" Particularly for our modern, high-tech, capitalist world of consumers who buy, entrepreneurs who create wealth and jobs, and workers whose taxes fund social welfare entitlements, people are an even more critical resource.",0_0
"Since 1860, human activity has greatly reduced the extent of fires. He and his colleagues commend the National Park Service for its recent work reintroducing fire into the giant sequoia groves.",0_0
"As one of the great women of science, Beth Whelan would be very proud of this volume created in her memory.",0_0
"In AR4 IPCC projects warming of 0.2C per decade for the next two decades in a variety of its climate change scenarios. That will take a lot more warming than weve seen in recent decades. And with the leveling off of the trend in recent years, even if an upward trend resumes, at present it seems highly unlikely that we will see a rise of 0.4C over the next two decades. Of course, the future has a way of humbling all forecasts. But perhaps the apocalypse is not as near at hand as some fear.",1_4
"The CFACT video of the Cancun attendees signing these farcical petitions has been posted all over the Internet, powerfully demonstrating the mindset of the green true believers who are demanding to control the planet.",0_0
"12 J. D. Mahlman, Uncertainties in projections of human-caused climate warming, Science 278, 1416 (1997).",0_0
"Furthermore, most people understand that fossil fuels have been necessary for the prosperity that we all enjoy (at least those under political systems allowing people to benefit from their labors). Energy which currently is dominated by fossil fuels, and will be for decades to come.",4_5
"A long-term study rebuts the Progressive Nitrogen Limitation Hypothesis, revealing that there is good real-world experimental evidence to suggest that the growth-enhancing effect of atmospheric CO 2 enrichment will not gradually wind down with the passage of time due to declining availability of soil nitrogen, in strong contradiction of what many climate alarmists have suggested?? Read More",3_3
"Im not jonesing to visit that particular emotional place again, once was enough for any man. And on a cold night like tonight, Im glad Im not rolling out at four am. I fished the Bering Sea as well, and these days Im just as happy to see the bergy bits and watch the Bering ice on the Deadliest Catch TV show from the safety of my couch ... but ah, dear friends, mostly Ive just moved my ocean madness to warmer waters, and I wouldnt have missed it for rubies and pearls ...",0_0
"In other words renewables recieve more than double the subsidy rate per unit of energy supplied as fossil fuels. When you consider that hydropower, which rarely requires or recieves subsidy, accounts for the vast share of global renewable energy production, the relative subsidy rate for wind, solar and other renewables per unit of energy produced is much higher.",4_4
"The late era Druidic schools that Julius Caesar commented about, undoubtedly, had a pedigree back to similar schools maintained during the Neolithic and Bronze Ages*. British historian, Isabel Hill Elder, commenting on the Druidic schools, writes:",0_0
"There are other satellites that measure the skin temperatures of the global oceans twice daily, and theyve been doing so since late in 1981. There are also ships and other buoys measuring sea surface temperatures around the global oceans.",0_0
"The discrepancy with the other data sources is larger than Hansen??s claimed 0.08 record. Is it a record temperature, or is it good old fashioned bad data?",5_1
"The Great Game at sea is only beginning. However fanciful they may be given the current international legal regime, Putin's claim in June 2007 to a chunk of the North Pole holding twice the oil reserves of Saudi Arabia gives an idea of the challenges ahead as global warming increases the areas available for offshore drilling.",0_0
"Chernobyl was a tragic event, but nothing remotely close to the global catastrophe I imagined. About 50 people had died in Chernobyl, roughly the number of Americans that die every day in traffic accidents. I dont mean to be gruesome, but it was a setback for me. You cant write a novel about a global disaster in which only 50 people die.",0_0
"It says, ""While the higher oil prices have dampened economic growth, they do serve two useful purposes . They're another wake-up call that available crude-oil reserves are expected to decline by mid-21st century. And they're a reminder that the best incentive for switching to alternative energy sources or better conservation is to keep oil prices highand, most of all, steadily high.""",0_0
"This new religion does not yet have any martyrs (although maybe Professor Phil Jones at the University of East Anglia comes close), but it has plenty of evangelists foremost amongst them being former Vice-President of the U.S.A. Al Gore and His Royal Highness Prince Charles of Great Britain.",5_2
"But RPS laws dont even reduce emissions of carbon dioxide. Installation of wind systems creates stop-and-go electrical utilities. Output from wind turbines is erratic, forcing back-up coal and natural gas plants to inefficiently ramp power up and down to maintain continuity of energy supply. Studies of utilities in Netherlands and Colorado show that combined wind and hydrocarbon systems use more fuel and emit more CO2 than stand-alone hydrocarbon-fired plants.",4_4
"For Lieberman-Warner, the estimated household cost in 2020 was as much as $386 per household per year, rising to as much as $2,268 in 2050 (again in constant 2008 dollars). The difference is simple: in the analysis of Lieberman-Warner, the EPA ""assumed the full cost of allowances are passed on to consumers,"" while its analysis of Waxman-Markey concludes that the cap-and-trade ""policy has a relatively modest impact on U.S. consumers assuming the bulk of revenues from the program are returned to households. . . . A policy that failed to return revenues from the program to consumers would lead to substantially larger losses in consumption.""",0_0
* Your loss of plentiful food to eat is just a side-effect of their climate policy (most agricultural production in the world today requires the use of hydrocarbon energy; beyond that enough food is currently being converted to biofuels to feed tens of millions of people each year.),4_1
If this email seems slightly disjointed it's probably my linguistic background and the problem of trying to address both the wider audience (I expect this will be partially reproduced sooner or later) and the email recipients (whom I haven't decided yet on).,0_0
"NASA has massively and repeatedly altered their own published data, to cool the past and warm the present. The animation below show their published 1981 surface temperatures in black, and subsequent 1999 and 2014 versions in red. This is consistent with an increase in propaganda, but not consistent withan increase in temperature.",5_2
"With that inconvenient truth, perhaps it is time to start looking at the climate-energy nexus in a different way:",0_0
Infanticide advocate Pete Singer to speak. Said babies arent people until 1 month-old.,0_0
"Fifteen-year-long hiatus periods are common in both historical records and in computer models, the technical summary says. But scientists were caught out in one computer model, 111 of 114 estimates over-stated recent temperature rises.",5_1
You believe that the atmosphere has continued to warm for the last 17+ years despite rapid growth of CO2. 97% of real climate scientists acknowledge that it hasn??t. They call it the ???pause?? or ???hiatus?? although there is no scientific evidence that warming will pick up again or when.,1_4
"While local volunteers provide most of the weary fire fighters, they are under the ultimate direction of salaried fire officers, who are public servants, wear white shirts, big hats, many medals, and appear on television, looking worried. Budget and big hats may be central to their thinking. Policy and budget are largely dictated by leading politicians, who may have budgets and metaphorical big hats of their own, and usually appear by helicopter in the aftermath, dispensing sympathy.",0_0
"Am I the only one who noticed that the Kyoto Protocol (imposing artificial constraints on energy use to regulate atmospheric carbon dioxide to reduce the 'greenhouse effect' to, supposedly, reduce the hypothetical rate of theoretical global warming) came into effect the same day the President's Tax Reform Commission held its first meeting? Maybe I was. If so, more people should be thinking about the relation between these two events.",0_0
"While timing has some effect on the variability, in my opinion, it is a secondary issue, and does not explain the actual variability.",0_0
The STOCK Act and the SECJohn Berlau's op-ed in National Review,0_0
"Update: Libertarians are making the case that the Constitution never gave Congress the power to restrict immigration . I could not agree more. However, I fear that will have zero impact on the precedent that will be inferred from all this. Because what matters is how the political community as a whole interprets a precedent, and I think that this will be interpreted as ""the president may issue mass waivers from any law he does not like."" Now, since I dislike a hell of a lot of the laws on the books, perhaps over time I will like this precedent. But the way things work is that expansive new executive powers seldom work in favor of liberty in the long run, so I am skeptical.",0_0
"Citing the potential for financial harm, the University of East Anglia last week denied a Freedom of Information request by Hockey Stick debunker Stephen McIntyre for the controversial Yamal temperature data. This is the third time he has been rebuffed by the University, which was scandalized by last years Climategate controversy over, among other things, inappropriate avoidance of FOI requests.",5_2
"But Roger wants a naive estimate, and this is mine: Naive, but accounting for a feature that is strongly indicated by available: This is the statistically significant positive trend.",0_0
"Did the new president understand the importance of Congress, and plan",0_0
Obama's climate action plan: a millstone around America's neck?,4_1
"""Rising corn seed sales helped Monsanto Co. boost its second-quarter profit by 15 percent compared to last year.""",0_0
"From this article, we learn from the actual data that (a) sea level is generally rising, (b) the rate of rise decelerated during the 20th century, (c) the rate of sea level rise over the past two decades has been both positive and negative, (d) the rate of sea level rise has been quite small over the last few years, and (e) stations can witness an increase or decrease of sea level quite independently of one another.",1_6
"AB 32: Cost now, benefits later maybe",0_0
"All of us are firm skeptics of claims that humans are causing catastrophic global warming and climate change. We are not climate change deniers. We know Earths climate and weather are constantly in flux, undergoing recurrent fluctuations that range from flood and drought cycles to periods of low or intense hurricane and tornado activity, to the Medieval Warm Period (950-1250 AD) and Little Ice Age (1350-1850) and even to Pleistocene glaciers that repeatedly buried continents under a mile of ice.",2_1
"Question 4 (for Pederson): You appear to be ""certain"" that the anthropogenic hypothesis has complete empirical support; for you the science is ""settled"" and beyond dispute, and there is no need to keep an open mind on the issue (I was present at your 15-minute talk before the online debate). Yet Mike Hulme, a leading IPCC contributor, has written:",0_0
Hulmes recent work) of this in the obs. But on the real crazy waether stuff,0_0
This report of growing a food crop among solar cells just makes me breathless. What a special thing.,0_0
"1 42 U.S.C. 7470-7479 and 42 U.S.C. 7501-7515. Part C is the ""Prevention of Significant Deterioration"" or PSD program and Part D is the ""Nonattainment New Source Review"" or NSR program. This memo uses a layman's convention of referring simply to NSR, even though it might sometimes be more accurate to speak of PSD, NSR, or PSD/NSR.",0_0
"The four researchers report that the 84% increase in the atmosphere's CO 2 concentration stimulated the growth of S. maritima by about 65% in all three salinity treatments, while the graphical representation of the halophyte's water use efficiency indicates that this important property of the plant was enhanced by approximately 10%, 100% and 160% in the 0, 170 and 510 mM salinity treatments, respectively, due to the fact that ""increasing CO 2 concentration has a positive effect on the photochemical apparatus, helping to counteract salt stress experienced by plants at current CO 2 concentrations.""",3_3
"Kumar et al. reviewed precipitation records over the period from 1871 to 2005. In summary, there was no significant trend for rainfall across India during this period of ""unprecedented"" warming that the IPCC contends was wreaking rainfall havoc on India and the world.",1_7
Via the Guardian . No commentary really necessary ( via Q&O ),0_0
Establishing a Minimum Wage for Contractors; Proposed Rule,0_0
"The prospects for even a small package are dismal. The United States, through its ambassador to the WTO, Michael Punke, stated in July that a ""so-called Early Harvest package is not happening and is not going to happen."" Punke urged WTO negotiators not to spend more time on this effort, but rather concentrate in the lead up to the December Ministerial on issues that look beyond the current Doha stalemate and forward to the future of the WTO itself. Punke is halfway to a sensible position-but unfortunately, he and the Obama administration stopped short of biting the bullet by calling for a definitive end to the Doha Round.",0_0
"Of course, we should never judge a book by its cover. It would be unfair to claim that Jonathan Ashmore is wrong to claim that Lynass book isnt hysteria, just on the basis of the book cover. Though, having said that, the cover does quote the Sunday Times, who say I tell you now, is terrifying. We havent the time to review the book here. So heres a couple of clips from the book, made into a film, featuring Lynas himself, to tell us what he imagines us to be facing.",0_0
Sandra Day O'Connor Faulted By Critics on Ethics:,0_0
"Revolution Threatens to Falter: Is Germanys Green Energy Plan Failing? Germany has set higher targets for renewable energy usage than any other industrialized nation. Angela Merkels government plans to decommission its nuclear plants by 2022 and to obtain 80 percent of all energy from renewables by 2050. So far, though, too many promises from Berlin have gone unfulfilled. (Spiegel)",4_2
"Cows eating feed enriched with the garlic compound called Allicin release 40% less gas without interference to their normal digestive fermentation, according to the research.""",0_0
"Union of Concerned Scientists, Choosing Our Future: Climate Change in California.",0_0
"So where do the 1934/1998/2010 warm years rank in the long-term list of warm years? Of the past 10,500 years, 9,100 were warmer than 1934/1998/2010. Thus, regardless of which year (1934, 1998, or 2010) turns out to be the warmest of the past century, that year will rank number 9,099 in the long-term list",0_0
"In discussing their findings, Darbah et al . state that they agree with those of Veteli et al . (2007), who ""reported that elevated CO 2 ameliorated the negative effects of high temperature in three deciduous tree species,"" as well as those of Wayne et al . (1998), who ""reported that elevated CO 2 ameliorated high temperature stress in yellow birch trees,"" and that all of these observations are ""in agreement with Idso and Kimball (1992), who reported that elevated CO 2 (ambient + 300 ppm) increased net photosynthetic rate in sour orange tree leaves exposed to full sunlight by 75, 100 and 200% compared to those in ambient CO 2 concentration at temperatures of 31, 35 and 42C, respectively, suggesting that elevated CO 2 ameliorates heat stress in tree leaves."" Hence, they conclude that ""in the face of rising atmospheric CO 2 and temperature (global warming), trees will benefit from elevated CO 2 through increased thermotolerance.""",3_3
The result of this temperature decrease is to increase the difference between the global temperatures of the 1990s and the 2000s. Removing this volcanic dip reduces quite significantly the temperature increase seen over the 1990 2013 period. When the errors are taken into account it is not impressive.,0_0
"All I can determine from this article is that if you have a tame network, you usually get a decent reconstruction. Also note the apples and oranges comparison for the MBH method for the simple average, they use 12 pseudoproxies, while for MBH98 they use 104 pseudoproxies. Obviously 104 pseudoproxies will do better with white noise. I dont see any results here for 12 pseudoproxies using MBH methods. Another odd point, they dont report calibration RE results saying they are ""not available in RegEM"". I dont understand that at all. I presume that the values will be about 0.99999, but you could still report it.",0_0
The doomsday scenario of depleted oil reserves gets postponed again. PROCESS writes that the price of oil is poised to fall below 70 dollars a barrel. The primary reason for the downward crude oil prices is the increasing number of global oil reserves that are resulting from improved drilling methods. The Roland Berger study writes that currently there are an estimated 2.6 trillion barrels of crudein easily accessible reserves and 3.3 trillion barrels in unconventional reserves like oil sands and shale.,4_5
"However, people like Jose Barroso, Javier Solana, and Angela Merkel didn't do so well. Their speeches are made out of empty formalities. They were probably written by their aides and the propositions don't logically follow from each other: they speak ""ptydepe"" that drove Prof Klaus up the wall.",0_0
"A multidecadal (50-80 year timescale) pattern of North Atlantic ocean-atmosphere variability whose existence has been argued for based on statistical analyses of observational and proxy climate data, and coupled Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Model (AOGCM) simulations. This pattern is believed to describe some of the observed early 20th century (1920s-1930s) high-latitude Northern Hemisphere warming and some, but not all, of the high-latitude warming observed in the late 20th century. The term was introduced in a summary by Kerr (2000) of a study by Delworth and Mann (2000).",0_0
"Progressives simply make up nonsensical pieces of information, and then declare themselves to be superior based ontheir dishonesty and ignorance.",0_0
"The ethanol mandate encourages farmers to plow wildlife habitats and fallow fields to grow corn, releasing millions of tons of carbon dioxide. Ethanol gets one-third less mileage per gallon than gasoline, so motorists get fewer miles per tank and per dollar. It produces ozone, attracts water and corrodes car and small engine components, forcing us to spend billions on repairs.",4_4
"It has been argued that the inhomogeneity of Antarctic climate change in space and time implies that recent Antarctic climate changes are due to a combination of strong multidecadal variability and anthropogenic effects, although when this opinion is tracked back to its origin it is more of a feeling than something based on unequivocal evidence.",0_0
The almost total absence of such intense storms in the last two decades is notable.,1_7
"Rising temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels do not pose a significant threat to aquatic life. Many aquatic species have shown considerable tolerance to temperatures and CO2 values predicted for the next few centuries, and many have demonstrated a likelihood of positive responses in empirical studies. Any projected adverse impacts of rising temperatures or declining seawater and freshwater pH levels (acidification) will be largely mitigated through phenotypic adaptation or evolution during the many decades to centuries it is expected to take for pH levels to fall.",3_2
"Organic farmers who produce less than one percent of the nation's agricultural output have long complained that the cultivation of biotech crops jeopardizes their own production because plants of the same species can cross-pollinate with one another. Organic farmers may not use the products of biotechnology, but unintended cross-pollination by a neighbor's genetically engineered plants could in certain circumstances ""contaminate"" organic crops. A federal court even rescinded the USDA's initial approval in 2005 of a biotech alfalfa variety on the grounds that the department failed to complete an Environmental Impact Statement addressing the issue of ""coexistence"" between genetically engineered and conventional varieties.",0_0
"He tries to present the topic in as apolitical a manner as possible (although he hasn't avoided the ideological ramifications of these ideas elsewhere). That's perhaps also why he connects the idea of group selection with the promotion of conservative values. However, I personally think that Pinker realizes that the dominant advocates of group selection in the present world are leftists people on the left side from him, to be more accurate such as Sascha Vongehr , a Maoist and trained physicist from whom I learned about Pinker's essay.",0_0
9. Climate modelers discovered that the Earth is not warming nearly as fast as their models predicted. A multi-billion dollar effort is now underway to make the climate system warm even faster.,5_1
"Climate change is a big issue these daysyou may have heard a thing or two about it in the news mediabut it is a confused and increasingly chaotic scene, with many moving parts. I believe the trajectory of the issue is changing in real time right now, but I do not want to get bogged down too far in the details and lose sight of the central point of this Hillsdale series, which is the ways in which the climate change issue highlights the constitutional defects of the modern administrative state.",0_0
"The four Department of Forestry researchers from the University of Missouri suggest that as the atmosphere's CO 2 concentration continues to rise, aided by continued nitrogen deposition, it will likely ""stimulate further increases in the rates of stand development and carbon storage,"" and that ""some tree species historically selected against in the uplands of this system ( Acer rubrum L. or Acer saccharum Marsh.) could compete more effectively."" Reviewed 7 March 2007",0_0
"We've got two problems here. First, wind and solar don't cut our dependence of foreign oil. The two have no connection to one another. The wind and the sun can be harnessed and, as a result, do produce electricityalbeit inefficient, ineffective, and uneconomical electricity. Foreign oil that we import is for our transportation fleet. It does not, with very few exceptions, produce electricity.",4_4
"Now you can see why I repeatedly emphasized that part of the evidence that usually gets no emphasis: no cheating and patients like before. Incidentally, it might appear that I am discussing only medical trials and have lost sight of the original thread. I have not, which will become obvious in a moment.",0_0
"2 EPA, New Source Review: Report to the President, June 2002, p. 3",0_0
"This means a select unelected elitist group of European white guys, would have the final say on global decision making. Clearly the green movement is well on its way to something of quite another color. Ackermann asks:",0_0
"2010 is the hottest year ever, which explains why US winter temperatures have been dropping at a rate of more than 30 degrees per century since 1998.",1_3
"The report also indicates that using a net present value calculation (discounting) the cumulative discounted impacts are larger in the early start cases. Using a 7 percent discount rate the EIA finds that impacts by 2020 will be nearly $1.3 trillion for the 2005 start and over $1.4 trillion for the early start. The report concludes, ""although the cumulative impacts on GDP are similar, the early start cases involve a tradeoff. The peak impacts are less severe in the early cases, but they occur earlier."" There is little difference in the overall costs of the two scenarios. The report can be downloaded from www.eia.doe.gov.",0_0
More photographs here of John andmy good friend Catherine amongst the rice.,0_0
"Oh, and in related news, Java has a critical hole in it, too so folks are being advised to turn off Java for a while",0_0
"If one accepts the IPCC radiative forcing values of anthropogenic radiative forcings of +1.6 (+0.6 to +2.4) Watts per meter squared and/or the solar radiative forcing of +0.12 (+0.06 to +0.30) Watts per meter squared as correct, what the Levitus et al data shows is that theglobal radiative feedback isnegative(and this necessarily would include the water vapor, sea ice etc radiative feedbacks). That is",3_1
"Open access, however, is not only good for domestic markets. It includes empowering energy enterprises to capture opportunities abroad. Borders should not dictate whether or not an individual can sell a product. Nor should borders result in individuals paying artificially higher prices for goods in the form of tariffs. Yet laws can restrict opportunities, whether prohibitions on exporting crude oil or tariffs on solar technology. Freely importing and exporting energy and energy technologies would yield tremendous economic benefits, providing Americans with more opportunities to sell products to more customers and to buy cheaper goods and services from abroad.",0_0
"The basic idea is to take the MIN-MAX average for the day, difference it from a base value for your crop, then sum up how many heat units you have as a running total. For each crop there is a total number that says Im Ripe Now and you must reach that number before you run out of growing season. As the total racks up, it also lets you know how soon to schedule the harvesting crews. Not too surprisingly, various insects also develop based on degree days and emerge as pests right on queue with plant growth stages.",0_0
"Surveys have shown that thousands of businesses are unaware they are supposed to be taking part, or even that the scheme exists at all.",0_0
"If the Atlantic alliance is to genuinely ""go global,"" it will have to achieve a better balance between ""toolbox"" and ""think tank"" and to focus more than has been the case so far on increased strategic literacy, broader situational awareness, and state-of-the art strategic communication.",0_0
"Note further that the dreaded (and entirely arbitrary) +2.0 C warming is not achievable with CO 2 increases and this is easily calculated. 2.0/0.1 = 20 so we know we need 20W/m 2 to increase the surface temperature that much and 20/3.7 tells us we need to double atmospheric CO 2 5.4 times to achieve it. Quick calc then since doubling is simply powers of 2, 2 8 = 256 ppm CO 2 , approximating our pre-Industrial Revolution level, plus 5 more doublings to raise the temperature +2.0 C, 2 13 = 8,192 ppm CO 2 . Whoops!",3_1
"2) Why Do Some Scientists Say It?s Cooling, while Others Say that Warming is Even Accelerating? Since there is so much year-to-year (and even decade-to-decade) variability in global average temperatures, whether it has warmed or cooled depends upon how far back you look in time. For instance, over the last 100 years, there was an overall warming which was stronger toward the end of the 20th Century. This is why some say ?warming is accelerating?. But if we look at a shorter, more recent period of time, say since the record warm year of 1998, one could say that it has cooled in the last 10-12 years. But, as I mentioned above, neither of these can tell us anything about whether warming is happening ?now?, or will happen in the future.",0_0
"Otto et al. (2013) : There are two TCR estimates from this energy budget study included in Figure 10.20a. One estimate uses 20002009 data and has a median of 1.3C, with a 595% range of 0.92.0C. The other estimate uses 19702009 data and has a median of slightly over 1.35C, with a 595% range of 0.72.5C. Since mean forcing was substantially higher over 20002009 than over 19702009, and was also less affected by volcanic activity, the TCR estimate based on 20002009 data is less uncertain, and arguably more reliable, than that based on 19702009 data.",0_0
"We note that one of two co-authors of the above-cited NREL paper, which paper attests that ""This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States government,"" is on record in an E&E; News story announcing of the project, ""DOE requested the analysis be performed.""",0_0
Read William Yeatman's On Point: EPA's Illegitimate Climate Rule,0_0
"The 2010 State of the Union address nicely summed up Obama's topsy-turvy approach to the presidency. He pressed for a new jobs bill, more domestic spending, and health care nationalization. He attributed his political setbacks not to broad opposition to his domestic ambitions but to ""a deficit of trustdeep and corrosive doubts about how Washington works that have been growing for years.""",0_0
"The major objective of this study is to collect and assess information about the opinions and attitudes of professionals within the field of geosciences (earth sciences) regarding global climate change, and the climate ""consensus"" debate, as well as to understand the rationale the participants use when forming their opinions by directly surveying a large number of earth scientists. In particular, this study endeavors improve on past survey attempts and provide a more rigorous dataset from which to draw conclusions on the global climate change debate.Once survey data had been collected, the responses of various participant groups were analyzed and compared with other participant groups, as well as similar responses from the general U.S. public. This master's thesis presents the results of the survey in an effort to advance the understanding of the global climate debate among scientists.",0_0
"The one thing which has become very clear, is that the GHE doesnt actually have a consistent explanation or description. We have seen it as the backradiation active heating mechanism, where radiation from a cold source adds serially with the radiation from the Sun in order to amplify the temperature generation; we have seen it as the delayed cooling mechanism, where GHE advocates wish to be in compliance with the Laws of Thermodynamics, and so backradiation does not cause active heating, but merely serves to reduce the rate at which energy is lost, particularly during the nighttime. In my last paper , we proved that neither of these things actuallyoccur because, by definition, these things should be quantifiable and observable in their effect on the temperature, and they were not.",2_3
this statement ? Chris Folland at least seems to think this is possible.,0_0
Tony Blair is to lead a new international team to tackle the intractable problem of securing a global deal on climate change which would have the backing of China and America.,0_0
Luckily for us all Dr Latour does not have that false modesty that afflicts so many Englishmen brought up in Public Schools to play cricket. His American lack of modesty is entirely refreshing I would have said music to my ears but that would be to mix metaphors.,0_0
"Some believe that Blair and others have little but optimism to support their view. Critics note, for example, that Egypt strove for months to produce a document setting forth the conditions by which Hamas could return on good terms to the Palestinian Authority. Alas, the ""Egyptian Document"" remains unsigned by the group.",0_0
The Met Office report includes a new study which shows that sea surface temperatures were higher than initially thought because of a change in the way the temperatures were measured after 2000. The new analysis significantly increases the warming scientists think was seen globally over the past decade.,0_0
"Although not many significant interactions of elevated CO 2 on tree growth were found, elevated CO 2 still increased whole plant and root biomass in all species studied from 19 to 56%, relative to control trees grown at ambient CO 2 . In addition, atmospheric CO 2 enrichment increased the number of root tips per plant by 56, 38, and 49% for birch, hemlock and pine saplings, respectively. This phenomenon clearly presented fungal organisms with increased root areas to colonize. CO 2 -enriched birch and pine saplings, for example, had 13 and 38% more root area colonized by ectomycorrhizal fungal species than their ambiently-grown counterparts, and CO 2 -enriched hemlock exhibited 47% more arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal colonization than its respective controls.",3_3
Institute Founder To Testify Before House Subcommittee On Energy And Environment,0_0
"A similar thing happened from 1940 to 1980 during the post-Second-World-War industrial boom when carbon dioxide increased rapidly, but was accompanied by 40 years of global cooling.",2_3
"Of course, the chance of this is nil, as India and China unapologetically beckon to the world, ""Send us your over-regulated, energy-starved manufacturing."" A good name for this is ""the 'yeah, but' way of saying No.""",0_0
"Congress recognized that requiring all existing sources of emissions to install BACT or LAER equipment would be prohibitively expensive and disrupt supplies of energy and manufactured products. Moreover, retrofitting existing plants is often more expensive than incorporating BACT or LAER in new plants. For these reasons, Congress did not expect NSR to carry the huge burden of protecting the nation's air quality by itself. Sources not covered by the NSR program would still be subject to controls under other air quality protection programs. As EPA says:",0_0
"Yet none of the dozen or so companies financed or controlled by Khosla over the last decade has produced commercially viable ethanol. Some failed or, hamstrung by unproven technology and insufficient capital, remain behind schedule. Others bet on new technologies.",4_4
"Arroyo to meet with Gore before flying to China - Latest Philippine News Outgoing President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will meet former US Vice President Al Gore when he visits the country on June 8 for a lecture on global warming and climate change. When to declare palms dead | HeraldTribune.com A:As the cold weather came to an end, the advice from the University of Florida researchers was to be patient and give the palms six months to determine their fate. - TwinCities.com The price tag for the 9,000-square-foot roof is about $500,000, said Dave Nelson, St. Paul project manager for the fire department building. A traditional roof would have cost about $100,000, he said.",0_0
"What this means, is that the observed rate of global temperature change has been quite slow during this time, and while perhaps not totally unprecedented in the realm of model projections, at the very least, it is starting to become pretty unusual.",1_4
John Christie pointed out that the models with the highest climate sensitivity are also the ones which are the worst at predicting future temperatures.,5_1
"Analysis of the suns varying activity in the last two millennia indicates that contrary to the IPCCs speculation about man-made global warming as high as 5.8C within the next hundred years, a long period of cool climate with its coldest phase around 2030 is to be expected.",1_2
The Energy Department has too much arbitrary power to decide where a company may export natural gas. Congress should remove the department from the natural-gas-permitting process.,0_0
"Let It Grow, Let It Grow, Let It Grow",0_0
"The National Park Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, Mountain Home Demonstration State Forest and Calaveras Big Trees State Park provided funding.",0_0
The ideas is that because there are Platypuses there should be no supermarket. Indeed according to ABC Online :,0_0
"In the Turkish strait in 1996, the nine pro-Chechen gunmen who hijacked a Turkish ferry and held 255 passengers hostage for three days had first considered the possibility of sabotaging one of the two suspension bridges with explosives to bring down the bridge and close shipping traffic. The worst case scenario, now that the Russian Duma has passed a bill to transport 20,000 tons of nuclear waste through the straits in the next ten years, is the possibility of one of these tankers being hijacked in the vicinity of Istanbul, a city of 12 million inhabitants. It is expected that traffic on the Bosphorus will be 50 percent higher in 2010 than it was in 2005, and so will the opportunities to create catastrophic mischief.",0_0
"An additional irony of Japan's disaster is that had we not abandoned nuclear power 30 years ago, we might have begun deploying new-generation nuclear designs, such as small modular thorium reactors or light pressurized water reactors that either can't melt down or have passive redundancy features that do not depend on human action to shut down in the event of earthquakes or other disasters. Instead, we have extended the use of the large old light-water reactors, like the Fukushima Daiichi, long after their intended life span.",0_0
"As the petition states, there is no convincing evidence that carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases are causing a catastrophic heating of the Earths atmosphere and disruption of the Earths climate. To date, more than 17,000 scientists have signed on.",2_3
"Chapter 10, by Indur M. GoklanyRicher is Cleaner: Long Term Trends in Global Air Quality",0_0
Image Credit: Dianna Ingram/Bergman Group; Photo by Maddrat/Shutterstock,0_0
"In concluding their discussion of their findings, Allen et al . remark that ""undisturbed arid shrublands may not fix comparatively large amounts of carbon, but they may sequester a large fraction of that carbon."" Noting that ""carbon allocated to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi forms a large part of the macroaggregate structure in the form of glomalin (Rillig et al ., 2002),"" and that those aggregates ""may be protected from decomposition,"" they conclude that the enhanced formation of such aggregates in CO 2 -enriched air forms ""an important sequestration pathway"" in chaparral ecosystems. Hence, we have another example of ""biological pessimism"" being far removed from reality. References",3_1
"In these several studies, the authors all conclude that both summer and winter temperatures over much of the Medieval Warm Period throughout many parts of Finland were significantly warmer than they are currently. In this part of the world, therefore, the climate-alarmist claim that current temperatures are unprecedented over the past one to two millennia rings rather hollow. References",2_1
"Jonathan Adler, a professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, looks at free-market approaches to dealing with climate change in The Atlantic:",0_0
"""In the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth District, for example, an abbey of Benedictine monks is currently challenging the constitutionality of a Louisiana state law that restricts the sale of 'funeral merchandise' to licensed funeral establishments. (The monks would like to sell handmade wooden coffins directly to the public but have no interest in taking on other funerary services such as embalming or transporting bodies.) In states unimpeded by the sort of economic protectionism the monks are seeking to abolish, the Web has had a dramatic impact on casket prices. The wholesale discounter Costco has been selling caskets on its website since 2004, with the least expensive model going for just $949.""",0_0
"On top of that, there is diffusion which is much faster. When you donate a million of tons of Nature's most vital nutrient, carbon dioxide, to the atmosphere in Denver, this amount of gas will be distributed almost uniformly over the whole surface of the Earth within weeks or earlier.",0_0
"No carbon tax. Despite the hopes of many environmentalists and academics, the U.S. will not implement a carbon tax in 2015. Neither House Speaker John Boehner nor Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell support the tax. This is good news for the economy, because a carbon tax would raise the cost of goods produced in the U.S., making it more advantageous to buy cheaper imports from countries without such a tax. Proponents of the tax suggest putting tariffs on imports in proportion to their carbon content so that U.S. companies would not be at a disadvantage, but the quantities are hard to calculate and tariffs might be illegal under WTO regulations.",0_0
"Other times this vague company of scientists becomes ""SCIENCE,"" as when we're told ""what science says is required to avoid catastrophic climate change."" ""Science says"" is an inherently weasely claim. ""Science,"" after all, is an abstract noun. It can't say anything. Whenever you see that locution used to imply a consensus, it should trigger your baloney detector.",0_0
"What is clear, on the other hand, is that government is an engine of wealth redistribution. Policies making some energy sources more expensive inexorably will create such redistribution because states and regions differ in the proportions of their energy use derived from alternative technologies. In particular, the president's proposals will penalize areas and industries disproportionately dependent on coal-fired power. A recent MIT study concludes that under a policy to reduce GHG emissions ""California, the Pacific Coast, New England, and New York generally experience the lowest cost while the South Central , Texas, and Mountain States face the highest cost.""",0_0
"Meanwhile, Europe's obsession with climate change and fossil fuel eradication has caused it to spend $882 billion on wind and solar power since 2005. Over 800,000 Germans have had their electricity cut off, because they could not afford to pay their soaring electricity bills; millions of British families have been driven into fuel poverty; and millions remain jobless in a stagnant EU economy.",4_1
"By Thomas Pyle, WSJ, Aug 9, 2015",0_0
"Solomon found the Wikipedia site actually accused Dr. Singer of believing in Martian extraterrestrial beings. Singer told Solomon that was nonsense, but that he'd been unable to correct it on the Wikipedia site. Every time he put in the correction, it was immediately reversed by ""Tabletop.""",0_0
"Bear in mind, if the models correctly simulate the trend in the earth??s GMST, we??d expect to find 5% of the simulated trends inconsistent at p=5%. In contrast, using the test applied in section 5.1.1 of Santer17 we find roughly 1/3rd of all 38 model runs result in trends that are inconsistent with the observed trend to p=5%. If we screen out the runs that use unrealistic volcanic forcings, the inconsistency between models and observations worsens. In contrast, results improve if we include the cases that fail to include the forcings due to volcanic activity. However, even for the cases that with physically unrealistic forcings, 18% of the individual cases fail at p=5%.",5_1
"Hansen forecast peak ice loss for the Weddell Sea. Instead, it has seen peak ice gain and is at an all time record this year. Another inverted Hansen prediction.",1_1
"6) Christopher Booker: Chris Huhne Has A Blueprint For A Green, Cold, Dark Britain The Sunday Telegraph, 19 December 2010",0_0
> >> >>current climatic variability in Africa. Much relevant,0_0
Then I will follow up with observations which run counter to his (and his co-authors) claim that an increase in ocean surface wind-driven mixing has caused the recent lack of global warming.,1_4
"Lest anyone see a greenhouse fingerprint in the larger number of hurricanes since 1975, 16 were remants of tropical storms. In contrast, only one remnant is identified for 1950-1974 and none is identified for 1900-1949. No doubt New York experienced many hurricane remnants that were not identified as such before the advent of weather satellites and hurricane hunter aircraft.",1_7
"The basis for these preposterous machinations can be laid at the door of generations of empire-building USDA bureaucrats. Genetically engineered crop varieties have been a huge boon to farmers, consumers, and the natural environment because they produce higher yields with lower inputs and reduced environmental effects. Last year the European Commission published the second report from a 25-year-long study that found that biotech crops are as safe, and sometimes safer, for consumers and the environment as conventionally bred plant varieties. It also concluded that biotech varieties can help farmers globally to meet the needs of a rapidly rising world population while also addressing the related challenges of climate change in a sustainable way.",0_0
"There has been global warming for 300 years, but we could have influenced just 20 years of warming the 1980s and 90s and even then only in theory. For even if the IPCC were correct in its wildly-exaggerated estimate that CO2 caused 0.8 Watts per square meter of radiative forcing, a fall in cloud cover during these two decades caused more than five and a half times as much forcing, at 4.5 W/m2.",2_1
"In the end, every unit of wind electricity produced requires at least two units of gas fired electricity to create a theoretical hybrid dispatchable resource. So a 10% wind mandate essentially becomes a 20% gas mandate which in turn can be seen as a 30% anti-coal and nuclear mandate. Since existing base load electricity is cheaper and more energy efficient than new load following generation, this suggests winds costs go beyond its internal costs to impose external costs on both base load generators and the environment .",4_4
CEI is awaiting a ruling from the D.C. Superior Court on its sanctions motion against AG Walker.,0_0
"We find that the proxies do not predict temperature significantly better than random series generated independently of temperature. Furthermore, various model specifications that perform similarly at predicting temperature produce extremely different historical backcasts. Finally, the proxies seem unable to forecast the high levels of and sharp run-up in temperature in the 1990s either in-sample or from contiguous holdout blocks, thus casting doubt on their ability to predict such phenomena if in fact they occurred several hundred years ago.",5_1
"Physicist Daniel Sweger refutes thecatastrophicAGW hypothesis in his paper The Climate Engine , showing that CO2 has a negligible effect upon climate and that water vapor acts as a negative feedback to global warming. Dr. Sweger uses data from 3 locales to show an inverse relationship between humidity and temperature. He notes,",2_3
"On August 24 the Australian BoM had pretty much no idea that any unusual wetness was headed their way. Toss a coin, 50:50, yes or no. Spring 2010 was going to be average, except in SW Western Australia where they claimed a wetter than normal spring is favoured. What follows were 100 year floods, or at least above average rain to nearly every part of the nation bar the part that was supposed to be getting more rainfall. In the chart below, all shades of blue got above average rainfall. The dark blue? Thats the highest rainfall on record .",0_0
"on Monday, September 22nd, 2014 at 5:33 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"The strong effect of cloud processes on climate model sensitivities to greenhouse gases was emphasized further through a now-classic set of General Circulation Model (GCM) experiments, carried out by Senior and Mitchell (1993). They produced global average surface temperature changes (due to doubled atmospheric CO2 concentration) ranging from 1.9C to 5.4C, simply by altering the way that cloud radiative properties were treated in the model. It is somewhat unsettling that the results of a complex climate model can be so drastically altered by substituting one reasonable cloud parameterization for another, thereby approximately replicating the overall intermodel range of sensitivities.",5_1
"Climate Variance No Crisis, Says Senate Committee Chair",0_0
"During the frantic final two days of negotiations at Copenhagen over the weekend, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton set a clever trap for Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao. Having just announced that the US would establish and contribute to a $100bn international fund by 2020 to help poor nations cope with the challenge of climate change, they added a non-negotiable proviso: all major nations would first be required to commit their emissions reduction to a binding agreement and submit these reductions to ""transparent verification"".",0_0
"Political activist David Suzuki on a cross-country tour urging Canadians and politicians to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions may want to look in his own backyard before lecturing Canadians on how theyre destroying the Earth. With all the alternative-energy modes of transportation out there, Suzuki and his entourage are crossing Canada in a sprawling, rock-star-style diesel-burning tour bus, emitting more greenhouse gases during his 30-day tour than many of us do in a year .",0_0
"5) Isnt the Melting of Arctic Sea Ice Evidence of Warming? Warming, yesmanmade warming, no. Arctic sea ice naturally melts back every summer, but that meltback was observed to reach a peak in 2007. But we have relatively accurate, satellite-based measurements of Arctic (and Antarctic) sea ice only since 1979. It is entirely possible that late summer Arctic Sea ice cover was just as low in the 1920s or 1930s, a period when Arctic thermometer data suggests it was just as warm. Unfortunately, there is no way to know, because we did not have satellites back then. Interestingly, Antarctic sea ice has been growing nearly as fast as Arctic ice has been melting over the last 30+ years.",1_1
"In his May 11 article , Schmidt sneered at this insta-reconstruction and stated that he could guarantee that Briffas eventual reconstruction would have different results than my emulation:",0_0
"The reality as shown by the numbers is far different. Coal, oil, and natural gas continue to supply about 87 percent of all global energy because those sources are able to provide the vast amounts of energy the world needs at prices consumers can afford. And for developing countries in particular, coal remains the fuel of choice because it is cheap and abundant, deposits are geographically widespread, and its price is not influenced by an OPEC-style cartel.",4_5
"The authors are Mayewski, Kirk A. Maasch, Eric Meyerson, Sharon Sneed, Susan Kaspari, Daniel Dixon, and Erich Osterberg, all from UMaine; Yping Yan of the China Meterological Association; Shichang Kang of UMaine and the Chinese Academy of Sciences; and Vin Morgan, Tas van Ommen and Mark Curran of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC in Tasmania.",0_0
"Conservatives have a tendency to agree with the first proposition, while progressives have a tendency to agree with the second. But for progressives there is a second, pragmatic question to answer: Should necessityin the form of voter opinion and economic factorssignificantly constrain the pursuit of justice? Progressives differ among themselves on this question, and it is this difference that forms the heart of the battle between the ""moderates"" and ""liberals"" within the Democratic party.",0_0
"The bottom line is that humans do influence climate, but the issue is hardly as black and white as many special interest groups claim and assertions about ""scientific consensus' are greatly overblown. While Governor Perry may have used political hyperbole in stating his position, he is right in being skeptical about claims of a climate disaster.",0_0
"The IPCC believes that water vapor increases with temperature, acting as a positive feedback, further increasing temperature. But this is not happening. Global weather balloon data shows that water vapor has been decreasing over time, not increasing.",3_1
"Heat waves like those that have scorched Europe and the United States in recent weeks are becoming more frequent because of global warming, say scientists who have studied decades of weather records and computer models of past, present and future climate.",0_0
"Two distinctly different forms of tropical Pacific Ocean warming are shown to have substantially different impacts on the frequency and tracks of North Atlantic tropical cyclones. The eastern Pacific warming (EPW) is identical to that of the conventional El Nio, whereas the central Pacific warming (CPW) has maximum temperature anomalies located near the dateline. In contrast to EPW events, CPW episodes are associated with a greater-than-average frequency and increasing landfall potential along the Gulf of Mexico coast and Central America. Differences are shown to be associated with the modulation of vertical wind shear in the main development region forced by differential teleconnection patterns emanating from the Pacific. The CPW is more predictable than the EPW, potentially increasing the predictability of cyclones on seasonal time scales.",0_0
makes no sense to cripple a struggling economy in order to prevent damage that,0_0
"on Friday, October 1st, 2010 at 12:00 am and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"It seems clear that the first mutant born blond and somewhere in central Sweden and southern Finland. Among the curiosities': Galicia (northwest of the Iberian Peninsula) where we see that the Celts there really were (as in Britain, in Wales, in the southwest English); the sharp jump between Lombardy and Veneto (in spite of the fancies of the League's propaganda); and Puglia, more mysteriously blonde of almost all the rest of the Peninsula.",0_0
Tisdale: The Warming of the Global Oceans Are Manmade Greenhouse Gases Important or Impotent?,0_0
"The problem is, reports like those from ACIA and WWF have one intended conclusion: Climate change is bad (especially for polar bears). Thus, any observed associations between polar bears and climate change are typically ignored if they dont show the intended patterns. That is precisely the case in this instance.",0_0
"Comment: RIA Novosti, August 25, 2006: Khabibullo Abdusamatov said he and his colleagues had concluded that a period of global cooling similar to one seen in the late 17th century when canals froze in the Netherlands and people had to leave their dwellings in Greenland could start in 2012-2105 and reach its peak in 2055-2060.He said he believed the future climate change would have very serious consequences and that authorities should start preparing for them today.",1_2
"The Washington Post Sunday edition devotes a page to the discussion of what impact the current cold snap and immense amount of snow (a record in the nation's capital) has and should have on the global warming debate generally and legislation specifically. Most of the space goes to the liberal but often thoughtful Dana Milbank, with snippets to others.",0_0
"Brannon, I., 2004-2005, What is a life worth? Regulation , Winter, 61-63,",0_0
"I??ve commented before on the lack of independence between authors in the supposedly ""independent"" multiproxy studies: Mann et al , Jones et al , Mann and Jones , Crowley and Lowery , Briffa et al . I??ve mentioned in passing that the proxies themselves are not independent, but not provided lists to show the extent of overlap. I??ve provided this information below for a few of the Hockey Team Studies. MORE",5_1
All the climate models consistently predict a hot-spot in the upper troposphere which is just as consistently missing in real-world observations. This shows the lack of skill of the models and allows us to dismiss them as reliable indicators of future climate.,5_1
"This article originally appeared in the Washington Times on April 9, 2010.",0_0
However a headline of 0.73% of climate scientists think that humans are affecting the climate doesnt quite have the same ring as 97% does it? This CNN posting was typical of the Press coverage at the time:,0_0
"And while there is a drought in Russia, Canada has problems from too much water:",0_0
"If f is net-negative, sensitivity falls still further. Monckton of Brenchley, 2015 (click Most Read Articles at www.scibull.com ) suggest that the thermostasis of the climate over the past 810,000 years and the incompatibility of high net-positive feedback with the Bode system-gain relation indicate a net-negative feedback sum on the interval 0.64 W m 2 K 1 . In that event, applying Eq. (1) at the surface gives climate sensitivity on the interval 0.7 K.",3_1
"By Bailey, et al, The Global Food Security programme, UK, February, 2015",0_0
Kyoto's Goal = Kick the U.S.,0_0
"Finally, global sea ice area is close to 1 million sq km above the 1979-2008 mean. It is indeed remarkable just how normal global sea ice has been throughout this year, bobbing up and down around the mean.",1_1
"Hurricane strength is said to be increasing. This can likely be attributed to increasing satellite coverage and resolution, which tends over time to more accurately capture the hours when a storm is at maximum strength. A study that corrects for storm detection ability over time (Vecchi and Knutson 2011) finds no trend in Atlantic hurricanes over the period of 1878 to 2008. Studies of landfall hurricanes (Balling and Cerveny 2003) also show no trend. The last cat 3+ landfall hurricanes to hit (i.e., with the hurricane eye) the continental US were in 2005",1_7
the important thing is to make sure they?re loosing the PR battle. That?s what,0_0
"Looking at the currencies, we see the Euro Double Short rising. Earlier we saw that the Euro Double Short tends to move in opposition to gold (at least recently). IMHO, some large traders or hedge funds are moving out of gold and Euros and into something else. It is also likely that sales of the GLD ETF are putting downward pressure on gold prices as well.",0_0
"THE worlds peak scientific body on climate change will almost inevitably make an increase in its predictions of sea-level rises due to global warming in its next landmark report in 2014, the vice-chair of the UNs Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says.",5_2
"And if you look at a 30-hour window, Hawaii experienced a whopping 45,000 lightning strikes. Once again, residents were out with cameras and smart phones.",0_0
"""Absent such willingness on the part of the EU, we will be compelled to take appropriate action,"" Mrs Clinton said. The EU had become ""increasingly isolated"" on the issue, she said.",0_0
"According to the computer simulations of climate, three major features of the greenhouse fingerprint are:",0_0
the urbanization effect has been removed as well as possible by statistical,0_0
"By Paul C. Chip Knappenberger and Patrick J. Michaels, Cato, Aug 12, 2015",0_0
"In January 2015, I was in Kampala's Mulago Hospital caring for my friend and mentor, Cyril Boynes (photo), who was dying from a stroke and kidney failure. The doctors and nurses tried to save him, but they had old, broken equipment and constantly battled electricity failures. Many times, the power went out, the lights and equipment stopped working, and people died before the electricity came back on.",0_0
But the many pro-German Progressives were appalled when Woodrow Wilson led America into World War I and by Wilson's brutal suppression of civil liberties.,0_0
"Pocklington raised serious questions about Dr. Wallace Broecker's ""conveyor belt"" theory. Broecker projects that global warming would increase rainfall and river water discharge into the North Atlantic. This would lower the density of oceanic surface water in the North Atlantic. This water would not sink, and so would not ""pull"" warm surface water from the Equator up towards Europe. The paradoxical result: global warming would plunge Europe into another Ice Age!",0_0
"The purple line indicates is my uncertainty in the best curve that describes the data. It does not yet describe the noise or variability not explained by the trend. Even the most naive person can see there is a lot of noise around the best fit trend. I estimate the noise around my fit from the residuals from the straight line and get: 16.2 units. I added these to the uncertainty in the trend (i.e. the purple lines) and show the bounds for my naively estimated uncertainty with a dashed orange trace. When gauging what might happen in the future, I expect that, more likely that not, the future values will fall within the dashed orange lines rather than splat on the brown crosses.",0_0
"""The ban comes after 16 students having been hospitalized with at least half of dozen involving the drink known by the nicknames ""liquid cocaine"" and ""blackout in a can,"" reports CBS 2 HD's Kathryn Brown.""",0_0
"As was only too predictable, the overall theme of Mr Huhne's message was that ""climate change is the greatest global challenge we face'.",0_0
"As you can see, there has been an unprecedented increase in visits recently. According to my PCA analysis, and by checking the tea-leaves at the bottom of my cup, I have been able to determine that this is due to a strong upsurge in scepticism regarding the Anthropogenic Global Warming Hype-othesis. The way this correlates with the number of Christmas presents bought over the same period is strong evidence that Santa Claus exists and hasnt sunk through rotten ice after all, despite David Suzukis best efforts to remodel himself as the Grinch who stole Christmas by scaring children into thinking otherwise.",0_0
"If American fixation on Central Asia is questionable, European fixation on the Palestinian question as the panacea of the Greater Middle East is downright irrational. As Edward Luttwak pointed out recently: ""Yes, it would be nice if Israelis and Palestinians could settle their differences, but it would do little or nothing to calm the other conflicts in the Middle East from Algeria to Iraq, or to stop Muslim-Hindu violence in Kashmir, Muslim-Christian violence in Indonesia and the Philippines, Muslim-Buddhist violence in Thailand, Muslim-animist violence in Sudan, Muslim-Igbo violence in Nigeria, Muslim-Moscovite violence in Chechnya, or the different varieties of inter-Muslim violence.""",0_0
"I note that weve seen the pattern of periodic climate catastrophes many times in the ancient records, so this is just more of the same old natural cycles and periodic Bond Event type collapses. That the populations moved north and north west is telling and suggestive of who these folks were, given that we know who shows up later in the northwest from there. In particular, there is the 5.9 kiloyear event that would have been just about the right timing:",2_1
"Poland is racing to develop shale gas, using hydraulic fracturing methods developed by American companies to unlock trillions of cubic feet of methane for its homes and factories. Exploratory drilling is also underway, or about to begin, in Britain, Germany and other countries, as engineers evaluate the extent and economics of developing their own vast shale gas deposits.",0_0
Heartland's Horace Cooper on The O'Reilly Factor,0_0
"Adding to the reasons the RFS deserves an F on its report card, ethanol gets 30% less mileage than gasoline, so motorists pay the same or more per tank but can drive fewer miles. It collects water, gunks up fuel lines, corrodes engine parts, and wreaks havoc on lawn mowers and other small engines.",4_4
"So glacier retreat is a symptom of Global Warming, unless the glacier is advancing, then THAT is a symptom of Global Warming.",5_1
"Additionally, the researchers found that sunlight scattered by clouds the reason why beachgoers can get sunburned on overcast days is an important component of cloud contributions to the earth's energy balance. Capturing such contributions will increase the accuracy of climate models, the team from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory reported in Geophysical Research Letters earlier this month.",0_0
"on Monday, January 11th, 2010 at 1:18 am and is filed under News.",0_0
"* Historic vulnerability to episodes of drought, including two years with zero precipitation 1870-71.",0_0
positioned to take advantage of alternative energy manufacturing,0_0
"Some 30 states will have to slash their power plant CO2 emissions by more than 32% and at least 12 will have to implement 40-48% reductions. That is a tall order, since all those states now get 50-96% of their electricity from coal, and all of them depend on coal plus natural gas for nearly all their electric power. Imposing that transition and a conversion to 20% or more expensive and unreliable wind and solar energy by 2030 will be disastrous. It will bankrupt families, businesses, industries, communities and even states.",4_1
"What complicates policymaking even further is that what motivates public perceptions and thus decision makers the most are weather events. Hurricane Sandy. A snowy winter. We end up blaming these on the only thing we thing we think we understand increasing CO2 should cause some change, so it must be responsible for all of the change we see.",0_0
"During the past few hours (Saturday AM), a warm front has passed through our area (sorry skiers), bringin warm air and a shift to westerly flow. To illustrate this, here is the forecast heights, winds, and temperatures (shaded) at 850 hPa (about 5000 ft) for 4 PM Saturday (today). The wind are parallel to the height lines and the closer the lines are together, the stronger the winds. What you see is very strong westerly flow surging into our area, with red colors indicate very warm air. You can get strong Puget Sound rain shadow with such a pattern, as well as heavy rain on the western sides of the coastal mountains and the Cascades.",0_0
"Second, because of the models are biased toward the Northern Hemisphere in an attempt to recreate the higher warming rates there, the climate models almost triple the observed warming rate of the surfaces of the Southern Hemisphere oceans. See Figure 3.",5_1
"So, this explains why the People's Climate March was dominated by crazies and political leftists. The mainstream media mostly avoided coverage of the event. Maybe they realized how embarrassing the march would be for the more rational elements of the environmental movement.",5_2
"Without transparency, the agency is free to conform science to its own agency and force out anyone who dares to disagree, Ebell said.",0_0
They are the most widely distributed sea turtle. They swim from 50 degrees south to 50 degrees north. Trying to regulate their interactions with fisheries out in international waters is really difficult.,0_0
"By the way, many states have broken workers comp. To give you a hint at the problems, the number of injuries per hour worked has fallen for decades, but the workers comp costs per hour worked still keep going up. The reason is that the cost to treat a given injured worker has risen at more than twice the overall rate of inflation for health care. But we will delve into this in a future post.",0_0
"However, the science is not done because we do not have reliable or regional predictions of climate.",5_1
The only way Ruiz-Barradas et al could have been clearer would have been to state point blank that climate climate models will only have value if and when they can ever simulate the decadal and multidecadal characteristics of natural ocean processes. Ruiz-Barradas et al (2013) then describe the many problems with climate model simulations of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. And the paper ends with (my boldface):,5_1
The figure shows sea level falling through the Maunder Minimum due to the lack of sunspots and then fluctuating in a band about 60 mm wide before increasing rapidly from 1934. It then shows sea level peaking in 2003 before declining 40 mm to 2040.,2_1
"Nuccitelli may like to look at the second-order draft of the IPCCs 2013 Fifth Assessment Report, to which I have added the trend-line through the real-world observed temperature change since 1990:",0_0
Here is his short essay on why originalism is not in effect in con lawjudges do what they damn well please and then dress it up with excuses and tortured analysis.,0_0
"So Im noticing that the one that I think is the one in question has some things that actually are a bit problematic. Was the part where the little girl shot at Sandy Hook who is then shown in a photo op with the President really an accidental exposure of the conspiracy / fraud? Or just some other blond kid and a photoshopped dress? No way to know without a full on forensic analysis and access to the original materials. Was the part where the Dad comes in laughing then enters character of sadness and concern prior to his shot evidence of an actor entering character; or just a person having a momentary happy emotion at being in the presence of important people and being picked to be on the news, reentering reality and letting his loss overtake him again?",0_0
"The reason to be verbose in writing out the probability conditions is that it puts the matter starkly. It forces you, unlike the old ways of frequentisim and subjective Bayesianism, to specify as completely as possible the circumstances that form your estimate. Since all probability is conditional, it should always be written as such so that it is always seen as such. This is necessary because it is not just the probability from equation #3 that is important, equation #4 is, too. If you are the doctor, you do notyou should notfocus solely on probability #3 because what you really want is this:",0_0
States Should Defy Unlawful EPA Carbon Dioxide Rules,0_0
"Intrigued by this oddity, I looked at the nearest rural station, which is Matanuska. It is only about 35 miles (60 km) from Anchorage, as shown in Figure 2.",0_0
"Now, I want to discuss another scholarly issue that is related to groups: group selection. It's the idea that natural selection applies to groups and societies as well. In particular, societies composed of members who are willing to sacrifice themselves in ways that benefit the society prevail because of analogous rules as the natural selection that is routinely applied to individuals or genes. In an Edge.org article called",0_0
"This is not arcane knowledge for the select priesthood, this is science and we can read scientific papers and apply quality judgements to them, whether we be specialists or not.",0_0
"""Rosenberg said the state has already seen how climate change is manifesting itself in the state with stronger storms, extreme temperatures, and a changing environment.'",0_0
book buzz as well as controversy the cyberwarfare used to sabotage Iran's uranium enrichment centrifuges are the fruits of this method.,0_0
"""Soviet-style bureaucratic guesswork"" could also describe the results of an amendment put forth by Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.). Reed's measure would have the Securities and Exchange Commissioncharged with investor protect ionmandate that publicly-traded companies include United Nations-endorsed measures of ""carbon risk"" and ""climate friendliness"" in annual reports to shareholders.",0_0
Can Environmental Advocacy Organizations be Good Stewards of the Environment?,0_0
"Climate also seems to have played a role in the epidemic of Black Death, which killed about half the population of Central Europe by 1347. For decades leading up to the outbreak, the new study found, wetter summers and a major cold snap corresponded with the onset of a Little Ice Age. Those conditions may have contributed to widespread famine and overall poor health, predisposing people to catch the plague.",0_0
"Nuccitelli adds, We know that the planet will continue to warm as long as we continue to increase the greenhouse effect. Again, he would have benefited from a more careful use of language. We know that adding CO2 or other greenhouse gases to the air will cause warming, but that cannot prevent natural factors from causing a countervailing cooling from time to time, which is why we have had the 17-year pause in global warming that Railroad Engineer Pachauri has now admitted. Spencer 1, Nuccitelli 0.",1_4
"Indoor air pollution, caused mainly by cooking over wood fires indoors, is the worlds biggest cause of environmental death. It kills an estimated four million people every year, as noted by the nonprofit science news website, SciDev.Net. Getting fossil-fueled electricity and gas to them is the cheapest and quickest way to save their lives. To argue that the increasingly small risk of dangerous climate change many decades hence is something they should be more worried about is positively obscene.",0_0
accepting an invitation to contribute a chapter to an Australian book,0_0
"Additionally, when methane leaks do occur, they can be effectively managed by using equipment that detect leaks in real time.",0_0
"In fact, the EU is almost certain to miss its collective targets for the first Kyoto period. While the EU as a whole is committed to an eight percent reduction in emissions (on 1990 levels), the EU itself admits that policies currently in place (other policies are unlikely to be adopted) will lead to a reduction of only 1 percent in 2010. The implications of this are huge.",0_0
H/T: Based upon the comment by Steve Case in this article :,0_0
"P. Gosselin, Cooling polestop 3 coldest Arctic summers will have all occurred in the past 5 years, notrickszone.com, July 28, 2013",0_0
Gia Dvali uses his insight to offer a truly radical solution to the hierarchy problem.,0_0
Renewable Energy Expert: Offshore Wind has Over Promised,4_4
"(3) "" There is ... little evidence from CMIP5 that our ability to constrain the large-scale climate feedbacks has improved significantly .""",5_1
"UCS makes this claim based on the same PNAS study cited above. But the study's conclusions are based on the output of a climate model that does no better than a table of random numbers in predicting measured U.S. temperatures during the 20th Century. Furthermore, the model results don't appear to jibe with other key data. For example, data for the last hundred years show no correlation between average winter temperatures in California and subsequent Sierra Nevada water runoff during the spring. There's also no correlation between average temperatures and average winter precipitation in California. And despite rising temperatures during the late 20th Century, the last decade has had the wettest California winters of any decade during the last 50 years, and the 3rd wettest of the last 100 years.",5_1
"Note also that the Academys metric was global temperature trends. Since this metric now shows a warming halt, true believers are instead citing (unmeasurable) deep ocean heat content. Will the Academy stick with its original temperature metric? And which of the 66 excuses in the recent literature (as of last November) will it use to explain the lack of CO2-caused warming (other than that the theory about the CO2 control-knob is wrong)?",1_4
"So what are the key players in Climate Change? The major driver is the sun. Warming depends on the sun. Cooling is due to the lack of suns energy. Radiant energy enters the earths atmosphere. Air (on a dry basis) consists mainly of nitrogen 78.08% and oxygen 20.94%. Of the 0.98% remaining, 95% of that (ie 0.934%), or almost all is the inert gas argon. Carbon dioxide CO2 is a trace. It is less than 400ppm (parts per million) or 0.04% of all the atmosphere (on a dry basis). Surprisingly, less than a fifth of that is man-made CO2 (0.008% of the total), and that is only since the beginning of the industrial era and the rapid increase in world population.",2_3
Remember when this kind of thing was routinely featured on front pages?,0_0
"Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Wind Turbines Being a ""Human Health Hazard'",0_0
"Climate Depot Resonse : Superstorm Sandy linked to man-made global warming?! Please Mr. President, read up on science before you embarrass yourself. See: Prof. Roger Pielke Jr.: 'Remarkably, the U.S. is currently experiencing the longest-ever recorded period with no strikes of a Category 3 or stronger hurricane' Sandy was terrible, but we're currently in a relative hurricane 'drought', Pielke Jr. explained ..",1_7
Open access to energy exploration of federal waters and lands. The next Administration should open all federal waters and federal lands that are not part of the national park system or congressionally designated areas to exploration and production for all of America's natural resources. Congress should require the Department of the Interior to conduct lease sales if a commercial interest exists.,0_0
"The Climategate emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England have revealed how the normal conventions of the peer-review process appear to have been compromised by a Team of global warming scientists, with the willing cooperation of the editor of the International Journal of Climatology, Glenn McGregor.",5_2
"Irony of ironies, Mass v. EPA unexpectedly gives Republicans an opportunity to clarify party differences and hold Democrats accountable for the economic fallout from either cap-and-trade or Clean Air Act regulation.",0_0
"Reuters today reported that rain and late-season snow continues to affect corn, soybean, and winter wheat crops across the U.S.",1_3
"Because the possible range of sensitivities has been virtually the same, it means that the predictions made in the first IPCC report in 1990 should still be valid. That is, according to the writers of all the IPCC reports, the temperature today should be within the range of predictions made 22 years ago. But they are not!",5_1
"So, who are the criminals against humanity? The brave and diligent scientists whose research in many different fields now amply demonstrates that the chief conclusions of the UN's climate panel are nonsense, or the pietistic true-believers whose policies allegedly designed to address the non-problem of ""global warming"" are already killing millions by starvation?",0_0
"Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Jan 6th 2011",0_0
"Temperatures across much of the north-central U.S. on Tuesday were 20 to 40 degrees below average in many areas, the National Weather Service said.",1_3
All of this will be in the report. What won't be there is a more thorough explanation for the supposed decline in warming.,1_4
"How can we reconcile this? The not-so-obvious short answer is that the overall warming of the atmosphere is actually creating cold-weather extremes. Last winter, too, was exceptionally snowy and cold across the Eastern United States and Eurasia, as were seven of the previous nine winters.",0_0
"Dow's flip-flops and inside-outside strategy make sense from a crude, self-interested business perspective. With economists and environmentalists on the left and the right challenging its lonely position, its reacting more like a caged animal than a responsible corporate citizen. Their reactions, as clumsy as they have been, are at least understandable.",0_0
"Yet, the first people who welcomed us into the village were a group of women that had formed a successful cooperative to address the challenges the floods have brought. Their model is dispersing loans to other women in the village from their collective savings and charging interest on them. Loans in turn are used to buy livestock and other assets that could improve income over the longer term.",0_0
"Therefore, those who are anxious to believe that the long pause in global warming is what the models expected, or at least allowed for, can take a crumb of comfort from that.",1_4
"""It wasn't that long ago that Digg was a thriving online community. Publishers longed to be on Digg's coveted front page because it translated into many page views, but over the last couple of months something went terribly wrong with Digg.""",0_0
"Indeed, some commentators have speculated that America's supposedly unilateralist approach to the global warming issue may have spurred hatred among terrorists. This prompted mid-Western satirist James Lileks to fulminate on his web log (www.lileks.com):",0_0
"1. Mexico - Protocol Amending Agreement of November 16 and 18, 1993 concerning the Establishment of a Border Environment Cooperation Commission and a North American Development Bank",0_0
Now begins to end something happen with deep sea curve. We prvar to make deep-sea rate constant further 10 times faster:,0_0
"Frank Fenner is an 95-year-old Australian scientist who helped to eradicate smallpox. He wrote a 3.5-kilogram book on it, too.",0_0
"When I first started this blog, I promised myself I would take the time to post featurettes on small business topics for which business school really did not prepare me. The first such feature was on buying a business .",0_0
"The EU High Noon webpage also relied on the WWF article directly, citing it as authority as follows:",0_0
"""Warming is accelerating and sea levels will rise more than expected."" The IPCC mid-range 10 year projection is 1.26 inches and may not clearly be distinguished from the change registered since the ice age ended, ie for some 10,000 years.",1_6
"According to the Fresno Bee (April 1, 2002), carmakers say the ""technology doesn't yet exist to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Unlike previous bills to regulate toxic emissions such as ozone and diesel soot, the bill requires carmakers to begin limiting natural byproducts of the internal combustion engine.""",0_0
"Here's a great example. From the report - ""millions to go hungry, waterless"" - you'd think that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had found that global warming was intensifying.",0_0
"1. Tuvalu and many other South Pacific Islands are not sinking, claims they are due to global warming driven sea level rise areopportunistic",1_6
"Even if we consider the worst case scenario, there is no economic case for reducing CO2 output. The basis of the economic analysis appears flawed and seems sensible to wait till there is evidence of specific problem and deal with these, rather than basing policy on unsupported speculation about what may happen.",5_1
"overseas and found that even when they wanted to do so, they faced determined and",0_0
"Morisset News, sport and weather | Lakes Mail",0_0
"The macroeconomic seeds of failure were also clear. Energy use and economic growth are at the very least co-dependent, if not a matter of straight dependency. It was a foregone conclusion that governments that rationed energy or raised energy costs would make their national economies less economically competitive against countries that didn't, and would be forced to back away from the controls by companies fleeing to less-regulated places, and people voting their pocketbooks.",0_0
"Social psychologist Jose Duarte has a series of blog posts that document the ludicrousness of the selection and categorization of papers by Cook et al., including citation of specific articles that they categorized as supporting the climate change consensus:",5_1
"Die Zeit portrays Michael Mann as a humble andinnocent scientist who today is being relentlessly tormented and persecuted by Morano and the skeptics just because his results are unpopular. While Morano lives in a big Victorian home , is chauffeured around in a limousine and eats steak at the exquisite Capital Grill , Mann lives in a humblelittle home, lit up by wind power,and is worried about his 7-year old daughters future. (Theres no mention he won a Nobel Peace Prize).",0_0
"No one could predict that the bill's narrow passage in the House in June 2009by a vote of 219-212would be the high point for a bill that died a year later without even a vote on the Senate floor. And in a harbinger of the partisan divide on climate change that has only deepened in the years since, the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act garnered just eight Republican votes.",0_0
"The leaders of the House and Senate are barely on speaking terms with each other. There?s plenty of blame to go around, of course, and neither party is innocent.",0_0
"It isa scandal, as by shouting out (in the example above) against homosexuality, priests and Christians of all kinds of denominations are actively trying to deny other people the possibility of Salvation.",0_0
"When wide-scale devastation failed to materialize, though New England was hardest hit, those same forecasters explained that snow is unpredictable and began backtracking faster than a four-wheel drive pickup on an icy road.",0_0
"Professor Will Steffen , a member of the climate change committee set up by the Gillard government in September last year, told AAP he was working on a report covering the floods.",0_0
"The melting was first caused by more solar radiation, not changes in carbon dioxide levels or ocean temperatures, as some scientists have suggested in recent years.",2_1
peer review is plagued by the opposite problem-spiteful criticism,0_0
"For example, the ANPR estimates thatdesignating CO 2 asa regulatedair pollutantwouldproduce a tenfold increase in the number of PSDpermit applicationsfrom about 200-300 per year to 2,000-3000 per year. This, the ANPR acknowledges,could overwhelm the administrative resources of EPA and otheragencies, andfirms seeking to build or modify sources would face new costs, uncertainty, and delay.",0_0
"Newsreader: The Met Office has revised downwards its projection for climate change through to 2017. The new figure suggests that although global temperatures will be forced above their long-term average because of greenhouse gases, the recent slowdown in warming will continue. More details from our environment analyst Roger Harrabin.",1_4
"The EPA's dereliction of duty also leads to bad policy. For starters, it is the sine qua non of ""sue and settle."" The Clean Air Act empowers environmental litigation groups to sue the agency to compel performance of non-discretionary duties like deadlines. Because the agency is missing virtually all of its deadlines, winning these suits is like shooting fish in a barrel. The unfortunate consequence is that environmental special interests dictate which duties should take precedence over others, which affords these groups the power to set the agency's agenda. Needless to say, unelected ideologues should not have such an outsized say in how the EPA spends its limited resources.",0_0
Ive lived in the country where we had power outages every winter.,0_0
"""University of Utah geophysicists made the first large-scale picture of the electrical conductivity of the gigantic underground plume of hot and partly molten rock that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano. The image suggests the plume is even bigger than it appears in earlier images made with earthquake waves.""",0_0
"In comments, boballab posted a link to a picture of the undersea topology with volcanoes marked.",0_0
"So we have a constant warming rate of 0.17 degrees Celsius per decade, and we have a majority of computer models predicting a constant rate of warming.",0_0
Lead Authors we have. Paleo is in a different section this time led by Peck and Eystein,0_0
> >> variability. Important to discriminate between these different,0_0
Global Warming Bill Progresses in California Senate,0_0
"""In February, for five nights and five days I was locked in an igloo in a German ski resort and everything I did was streamed live on the internet like a mini Big Brother.",0_0
"Over the past two decades, the dominant pattern in OECD countries is one of a fairly widespread increase in income inequality with strong rises in Finland, Norway, Sweden (from a low base) and Germany, Italy, New Zealand and the United States (from a high base). In these cases medians and means would give different pictures of what is happening to societal well-being.",0_0
For the last twenty years the Greens and their scientists have been telling us the islands of the Tuvalu and Maldives were sinking into the ocean. In 2011 aerial photographs taken 60 years apart show the land area of all Tuvalu islands have grown by 5-30%. No discernible change in the Maldives. Very large Error,0_0
"As U.S. oil and natural gas production booms, the Obama administrations energy policy has been fluid by necessity to adapt to the huge economic opportunities and climate challenges posed by growth, the top White House energy and climate adviser said on Wednesday. In a speech to a room packed with energy analysts and lobbyists, Obama adviser Heather Zichal acknowledged that U.S. energy policy might not look perfectly pretty from the outside as it evolves to shifting supply-and-demand scenarios. --Roberta Rampton, Reuters, 28 February 2013",0_0
"The bright side of Katrina, concludes Tritten, is that it will force President Bush to face facts. ""When reason finally pays a visit to climate-polluter headquarters, the international community has to be prepared to hand America a worked-out proposal for the future of international climate protection.""",0_0
"The challenge of forecasting 2110 is readily illustrated by looking back 100 years ago to 1910. Consider what sages a century ago might have guessed about the impact of just a handful of technologies invented circa 1910: the washing machine, vacuum cleaner, vacuum tube, air conditioner, central telephone exchange and airplane.",0_0
Dennis T. Avery's Official Challenge to Al Gore,0_0
"Prosser edging Kloppenburg in votes, recount all but assured:",0_0
"New peer reviewed study: Surge in North Atlantic hurricanes due to better detectors, not climate change",1_7
"Thus, 4.7 ln(390/388) = 0.043 Fahrenheit degrees less than a twentieth of a Fahrenheit degree of global warming every year. That is all. Putting it another way, it would take almost a quarter of a century with no carbon-emitting activity at all not a single train, plane, automobile, or fossil-fueled power station to forestall just 1 Fahrenheit degree of global warming.",4_2
"Figure 2 shows that the impacts on future sea level rise projections are equally insignificant. Instead of a projected sea level rise of 15.1cm by 2050, the Kerry-Lieberman bill produces a rise of 14.9cm. By 2100, the BAU projected rise is 37.1cm and the Kerry-Lieberman rise is 36.0cm. A centurys end sea level rise savings of 1.1cm, or 0.43 inches. Too small to be of consequence.",4_2
"Some scientists, however, have been arguing the world is indeed headed for a cooling phase based on solar cycles. Scientists from Germany to India have argued that weakening solar activity could bring about another Little Ice Age.",1_2
""" So instead of identifying why there has been less global warming over the past 10-15 years than climate models have projected, Solomon et al. have found that climate models have missed the mark even furtherfor had they properly included the effect of volcanoes and background stratospheric aerosols, they would have projected even a greater rate of warming than they already do. And since observations show that there has been relatively little, if any, warming over this same time period, the results from Solomon et al. means that climate models are doing worse than even the model lovers have realized.""",5_1
"Then there's the new Al Gore moviea documentary production of his global warming lecture and slide showthat was recently screened at the Sundance Film Festival. The movie's promotional material features penguins trekking as in the hit documentary ""March of the Penguins""but across a desert rather than Antarctic ice.",0_0
"Meanwhile, thanks to well-meaning but ill-thought-out regulation, utilities are unable to use flexible pricing strategies to incentivize efficient energy use. If electricity were to cost more during periods of high demand, such as the evening, then customers would probably use less of it then, remembering to switch off lights when not needed. Such pricing structures have tended to work. A highly regulated grid is not conducive to the efficient flow of electricity.",0_0
"If the planet was actually warming, like it did from 1917 to 1936, I wouldnt be able to construct a graph which was flat for 19 years. It would look like the graph below.",1_4
"A symbolic cod was placed in the hall, and was later moved to the new State House building in 1798. There it has remained ever since.",0_0
Dr. Sallie Baliunas discusses the Little Ice Age and the history of peoples superstitious reactions to extreme weather.,0_0
"Schneiderman began investigating Exxon last fall, subpoenaing documents from the company after learning that Exxon researchers were concerned about climate change decades ago even as Exxon publicly expressed uncertainties about it. (Philip Hamburger's post on Law and Liberty about the original subpoena is here.) These researchers expected massive increases in temperature over the last 30 years that never came true, as Marlo Lewis and David Middleton have written. But Schneiderman believes Exxon committed fraud by not trumpeting their projections as fact. Following in Schneiderman's illogical footsteps, his California counterpart Kamala Harris opened an investigation in January, and in March, so did their counterparts in Massachusetts and the U.S. Virgin Islands.",0_0
The only period in 600 million years when CO2 levels were equal to the present was over 300 million years ago. Since that time CO2 levels averaged 1000 to 1200 ppm or 3 to 4 times current levels. How did the plant and animal life survive those levels? It makes a mockery of the claim that even a doubling of atmospheric CO2 is a problem.,2_3
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA-GISS) : +0.3 F/decade.,0_0
"Vclav Klaus, The Global Warming Policy Foundation Annual Lecture, London, October 19, 2010.",0_0
"In contrast to the Live Earth entertainment extravaganza, the Folklife Festival was a venue that really celebrated our rural roots and the so-called simple life. And the attendees practiced conservation in action, as I saw barely a scrap of trash on the grounds of the Mall. (There were also lots of recycling bins, but whether recycling is always beneficial is another story.) One would think this would be an event a good Green would love.",0_0
"The community is also adapting their use of natural resources. They have built a raised well to stop the floods from polluting fresh groundwater, and we met the woman who manages it and ensures this water is distributed fairly in times of need. New drought- and flood-resistant crops have been planted in the floodplain, and the community also have a resources centre with posters on the walls and a meeting space to encourage learning about sound management of fisheries, forests and agricultural land.",0_0
"But there is a more subtle link. The case against Barry George was strengthened by the fact that a number of photographs of Jill Dando were found in his home. It turns out that Barry George had loads of old newspapers in his home. The police had searched through them, and, not surprisingly, found a number of pictures of a well-known and popular TV personality. There was no evidence presented that Barry George has marked these pictures, just that he had them in his possession. The case against Sean Hodgson was based around his confession, on a number of occasions, to the crime. This is clear-cut, until you learn that he was a pathological liar, who had confessed to a number of other murders, which he could not have committed.",0_0
"They have to spend way more in terms of respiration, heart rate meaning they have less energy for feeding and less energy for growth and reproduction, she said.",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Center for Entrepreneurship Director John Berlau on the misguided motives behind the Bush plan:,0_0
"Pie-man Mark Lynas said he was unable to ignore Lomborgs comments on climate change. I wanted to put a Baked Alaska in his smug face, said Lynas, in solidarity with the native Indian and Eskimo people in Alaska who are reporting rising temperatures, shrinking sea ice and worsening effects on animal and bird life.",0_0
"Unfair might be taking a statement I made in that post (on May 11 2012 note the date), pointing out that Briffa et als results would be different from what McIntyre had put up (on May 6 2012 ) (as the figure below demonstrates), and then using a calculation made on May 15 2012 to claim I was wrong .",0_0
"One company, American Electric Power, admits that its primary motivation for joining a business group that has ""moderate"" views on global warming is to be able to influence future standards. ""Once you realize that you can't kill this thing, then it's incumbent upon you to try to be a player in the process of shaping policies,"" said Dale Heydlauff, the utility's vice president of environmental affairs.",0_0
"A survey of more than 3,000 scientists found that the vast majority believe humans cause global warming.",0_0
"According to the computer simulations, the temperature of the earth should have increased by at least 1 C since the beginning of the century because of increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases. In fact, the temperature actually increased by only 0.5 C, and, as noted above, much of that increase occurred prior to 1940, before some 80% of the CO2 had entered the atmosphere. Only a few tenths of a degree at most could have been caused by increases in atmospheric CO2. That is 3-4 times less than the computer models predicted. If the predictions exaggerated the warming to date by a factor of 3-4, they are unreliable for projecting the future climate change.",5_1
We are told that all argument about global warming must end. We must have faith!,0_0
"The New York Times on December 27, 2012, featured an OpEd with the headline : Bundle Up, It's Global Warming",0_0
"For example, wild ocean fish stocks are being seriously depleted. Even within national territorial waters, restraints on over-fishing have often been eroded over time. Curbs on over-pumping of oil and gas resources have sometimes worked, but often they have only done so after a great deal of economic waste had already occurred.",0_0
"In the grown-up world, whenever important decisions and large amounts of money are involved conflict-of-interest mechanisms are firmly in place. . . well into the 21st century saw no need to even discuss conflict-of-interest.",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Policy Analyst Marc Scribner on what's wrong with concession projects.,0_0
"There are two separate questions here: (1) defining events and estimating their probability of occurring and (2) estimating what will happen given those events occur. Going through both of the steps is called computing a risk or decision analysis . This is an enormously broad subject which we wont do more than touch on, only to show where more uncertainty comes in.",0_0
"Global warming is the biggest threat to our future health. This isn't a message that has yet seeped into the public consciousness. It isn't a message that most doctors and nurses think is relevant to health. But it's time that health professionals stood on the front lines of political debate to explain why climate change is the most serious danger to our wellbeing, even to our survival. The threat of climate change is with us now.",0_0
"The Affordable Power Alliance held a press conference on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to release a report on the potential economic impacts of the EPAs Endangerment Finding on low income groups and minorities. The report shows that higher energy prices will disproportionately harm poorer people. Thats because they already pay a higher percentage of their incomes on energy than better-off people. Blacks and Hispanics will also suffer major job losses as the result of higher energy prices. As a result of paying more for energy and job losses, the report predicts that poverty rates for African Americans and Hispanics will increase by 20% and 22% respectively.",4_1
"Abraham then trots out various papers he found in his Google Scholar search, one of which says that the world is warming because of human activities: but that was not the point made in my slide. My point was that not a single one of the 539 papers searched by Schulte had provided evidence for catastrophe.",0_0
"The sharp rise in UK temperatures, which effectively began in the 1980s, is widely known about, but, (and I may be wrong here), has never been satisfactorily explained. Indeed, I am not sure anybody from the Met Office, Hadley Centre, etc has ever seriously attempted to explain it.",5_1
"After the El Nio, the warm leaves the East Pacific and it winds upyou guessed itin the area weve been calling the Rest-of-the-World. And through phenomena called teleconnections, that leftover warm water causes the warming of land surface temperatures and the temperatures of other ocean basins, like the North Atlantic, that are not directly and immediately impacted by the leftover warm water. In simple terms, the leftover warm water counteracts the effect of the La Nia on temperatures outside of the tropical Pacific.",0_0
A quote from a team member from a developing country: The team members from the developing countires (including myself) were made to feel welcome and accepted as part of the team. In reality we were out of our intellectual depth as meaningful contributors to the process.,0_0
""" at the heart of the science of climate change and the orthodoxy that recent rises in temperature are largely man-made.""",0_0
"In 2000, Britains Met Office said cold winters would be a thing of the past, and children just arent going to know what snow is. The 2010 and 2012 winters were the coldest and snowiest in centuries. In 2013, Met Office scholars said the coming winter would be extremely dry; the forecast left towns, families and government agencies totally unprepared for the immense rains and floods that followed.",5_2
"The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change calls for a stabilization of greenhouse gases below ""dangerous"" levels. But, states Azar and Rodhe, no one really knows what that level is since the potential impacts from any given level of greenhouse gas is uncertain. The IPCC has estimated that a doubling of CO2, for instance, would lead to a 1.5 degree to 4.5 degree Celsius rise in temperature, a rather large range of uncertainty. Because of the uncertainty, Azar and Rodhe argue that scientists must participate in the debate or ""decision makers and social scientists, like economists, in an even more difficult position.""",0_0
"Additionally, and besides refusing to commit itself to any binding target, modelling by American and Chinese researchers suggest that ""business as usual"" will lead to China's emissions reaching a peak by around 2030 in any event, as a result of current urbanisation, demographic and energy trends.",0_0
"Back to the facts. And when comparing the left axis of both charts, it becomes abundantly clear that all those small changes done on a monthly basis by NOAA starts accumulating to become ever larger changes over a few years. Obviously, Obamas team believes in man-made warming, especially when they simply accomplish it on their PCs.",5_1
"In an op-ed touting their Climate Stewardship Act that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle August 1, Senators McCain and Lieberman made an extraordinary claim about the deleterious effects of greenhouse gases. They asserted, ""According to a United Nations' study, every ton of greenhouse gas emitted into the atmosphere costs each American up to $160and we are emitting billions of tons each year.""",0_0
"The Heartland Institute recently received a collection of letters written to us by 6th graders in a California public school condemning us for not believing in global warming.The nine letters, apparently written by about 25 students (teamwork, you know ) reveal the students were all quite expert on the subject, having read ""10 articles"" on the effects of air pollution on fetuses, natural disasters quadrupling in the past 10 years, and ""Global Warming Denier Group Funded by Big Oil Hosting Climate Change Denial Conference.""The letters collected here were sent to us by Michael Steria, an earth science teacher at David A. Brown Middle School.",0_0
"By Ian Plimer ??? ???Read this book. Read it carefully. Then read it again. Open your mind to theories that challenge orthodoxy, or you become nothing more than a shrill evangelist, jumping up and down on the spot, yelling ???LA LA LA LA LA!?? whilst holding a finger firmly in each ear.?? -Reader??s review",5_2
"I disagreed with Hantemirovs comments in an inline comment. Although this was only a blog article, I provided considerable detail on the calculation, including turnkey code to generate all graphics and results cited in the post. In addition, I have a good record of responding to requests for clarification. So I didnt and dont accept Hantemirovs criticism. That the later Briffa et al 2013 Yamal chronology was similar to my calculation is further support that I had replicated the most important ingredients of their methodology. Be that as it may, the first part of the sentence reported Hantemirovs intervention and is factually correct.",0_0
So 11% of worlds land ice shrinking Front page headlines. 89% of worlds land ice growing. Silence.,1_1
"When the Board voted in December to amend teaching standards to allow students to consider both sides in the climate debate, global warming pressure groups were apoplectic.",0_0
"I was also struck by how the community supported by the local nongovernmental organisation, GSK has developed a range of strategies and activities to cope with longer floods, higher floodwater levels and the erosion that each year washes away more and more of their crop and homestead land into the nearby Padma River. There was no drama here. And I was deeply affected by the industrious positive way the people of Manikganj District meet these challenges and carry on with daily life.",0_0
"Lord Monckton was a credentialed representative to the Copenhagen conference this month, but upon arrival learned he and other ""non-believers"" were dis-invited. He was struck and knocked to the ground by Danish police as he attempted to enter.",0_0
There are good reasons to doubt that the EPA understands how a modern power system works. Such are the fruits of regulatory zealotry and the haste driven by the prospect that the next administration might place a greater emphasis on economic growth.,5_2
"Thus, as if by an invisible hand, each individual is led through pursuit of his own personal gain and betterment to simultaneously improve the conditions of others in society. Or as Adam Smith famously stated:",0_0
"* Climate changes without any help from us has for millions of years and as we can expect, always will with Ice Ages occurring during about 90 percent of the time.",2_1
"A national exchange would be the best way to do thisRepublicans are right that forcing consumers to buy plans within a given state stifles competition and leads to wide variation in price and coverage; at the same time, a national exchange could reduce or eliminate the kinds of wide variation in protection for consumers, including many with none, that exist in states.",0_0
"Cleaning the nation's air and water is a public health activity, but denying Americans access to the nation's vast reservoirs of coal, oil, and natural gas is an attack on the nation's economic growth and a denial of the energy it requires to recover from the 2008 financial crisis, providing jobs and keeping energy costs under control.",0_0
"After all, much of the abuse that is hurled across the climate divide comes from those who like to believe that it is they who are dealing in a currency of proper science bias and ideology is what the opposition does. Hence the vitriol aimed at Bjrn Lomborg over the years.",5_2
"Most regional industry relies on adding value to the products of primary industries smelters, refineries, processing plants, cement plants, sawmills, flour mills, abattoirs and rail and port infrastructure. These facilities require cheap reliable electricity, which will never be supplied by green energy toys.",0_0
Is Cycle 24 the Beginning of a Dalton-Like Minimum? M. Lindholm Nielsen and H. Kjeldsen,0_0
"CO 2 is a greenhouse gas and the warmistas blame it for man-made warming. They call it the greenhouse effect. Inconveniently, physicist R.W.Wood disproved the existence of any such effect . In 1909 .",2_3
"In closing, Lauer and Hamilton indicate there is ""only very modest improvement in the simulated cloud climatology in CMIP5 compared with CMIP3,"" and they sadly state that even this slightest of improvements ""is mainly a result of careful model tuning rather than an accurate fundamental representation of cloud processes in the models.""",5_1
"Last October, the Daily Mail (London) announced that temperature data from the United Kingdoms Meteorological Office showed no global warming for 16 years. In December, an advance chart from the upcoming Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change showed a divergence between model projections and actual global temperatures. In January of this year, the Met Office revised its forecast of temperatures down to almost no increase over the next five years.",1_4
"I just returned from the dinner in the Society of Fellows which was fun, after a long time of having no such dinners. Andy Strominger confirmed my hypothesis that he is the center of the Universe if the metric is defined by the collaboration distance that we recently discussed on this blog. Several years ago, he was actually the #2 but it is more or less guaranteed that he became the #1.",0_0
"The previous record in Union de Reyes was set on February 18, 1996, at 2.5 degrees. The absolute record in the town for any month of the year was also one degree, and happened on January 21, 1971.",0_0
"You've probably heard about carbon taxes on automobiles and power plants, but how about on cows and pigs? Well believe it or not, if the EPA has its way, farmers who own more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle, or 200 hogs may be taxed between $20 and $175 for each animal because of their alleged contribution to global warming. Yes, you heard it right, in an effort to lower methane emissions, which is a greenhouse gas, the EPA has proposed taxing farmers for their carbon output, which could cost the owner of a modest-sized ranch somewhere around $30,000 per year. Since farmers say this will push many of them out of business, one can understand why they think this tax, even more than their pig pens, simply stinks.",4_1
"NCDC accomplishes theirfeat of destroying the US temperature record, through a phenomenal hockey stick of data tampering- which cools the past by almost two degrees relative to the current year.",5_2
"Our temperature records are very short, and a 16-year period of warming ended about the time today's high school graduates were born. The President could just as accurately said there hasn't been any warming since Bill Clinton was President and that one of his own agencies released data this month showing the United States has cooled slightly over the last decade , but that didn't fit his political agenda.",1_4
"2016 Democratic Party Platform, July 21, 2016: https://www.heartland.org/policy-documents/2016-democratic-party-platform",0_0
"""A combination of strong thunderstorms, followed by violent and destructive winds, will make for one of the Midwest's most dangerous storms in 70 years.""",0_0
The Senate passes the Restoring American Financial Stability Act.,0_0
"Reagan understood that the desire to put Americans into space was part the frontier spirit that had spurred creativity and innovation since the country's founding, and that historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued was the fuel of American exceptionalism.",0_0
"To recapitulate, progressive thought is only different from Marxist thought in the justification of the means given their jointly agreed up ultimate endthe differences resolve to their science or ours . Morals just gets in the way.",0_0
"All the while, the protesters were outsideat first pressing their signs against the windows (until the blinds were closed) and then shouting through a megaphone in a failed attempt to disrupt the meeting.",0_0
"Dr. Roy Spencer, principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, says both sides of the debate use climate models. The global-warming believers, he says, use models that include both warming and cooling, and water vapor evaporating from the ocean surface.",0_0
"""Tropical rainforests are also important because they supply a great variety of commercial and noncommercial products: timber (some highly prized woods such as teak, mahogany, and rosewood), fuel wood, fruits, vegetables, nuts and spices, medicines (a quarter of all medically-active substances come from tropical plants , and around 70% of the 3,000 plants identified by the U.S. National Cancer Institute as having anti-cancer properties are tropical rain forest species."" (de Miranda p.156)",0_0
"Needless to say, prominent alarmist scientists and the UNs Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have not taken this view. They argue instead that the planet was cooler during both Roman times and the Medieval warm period.",5_2
"?I never thought I would see this in my lifetime,? he said, sadness and anger competing on his face. ?The last time young people politicized and indoctrinated by the State broke up a meeting of their opponents here in Copenhagen by chanting mindless, repetitive slogans was during the Nazi occupation of Denmark during the Second World War.?",0_0
All of the post-1975 years of alleged CO2 effects on temperatures would still be included.,0_0
"Thanks to Joe Herr, Cary Ellis, Bill Sellers, David Swineford, John V. Kampen, Laurent, Peter Lamb, AtSimon, George Fitzsimmons, Dr F Kirk Millward, AK Raven, Del Hilber and Steven Woodcock for these links",0_0
"I think this is pretty remarkable stuff: said his energy policy would put caps on the emission of greenhouse gases, generating billions of dollars from polluters who are releasing carbons, and then investing that money in wind, solar, biodiesel, and other green energies . Addressing climate change and capping greenhouse gases are going to lead to a spike in electricity costs ... were actually going to have to provide some help to low-income and fixed-income individuals to cover higher electricity prices on the front end.",4_1
"He has thought long and hard about being the un-Bush and realizes that he strayed from that mantra twice: Once in aiding in the ouster of Libyan dictator Muammar al-Qaddafi, and once in threatening military action against Syria's Bashar al-Assad for his use of chemical weapons. In the first case, the president clearly blames both Hillary Clinton and America's much-disdained allies in Europe: "" didn't work,"" Obama complains. ""When I go back and I ask myself what went wrong, there's room for criticism, because I had more faith in the Europeans, given Libya's proximity, being invested in the follow-up.""",0_0
"In the latter category, for example, the acknowledgment that the uptake of CO2 by the land and oceans is very poorly understood is tantamount to saying that it is not possible to predict with any confidence the future concentration levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. It certainly leaves open the possibility that the uptake of CO2 by land and oceans will be considerably higher than the extreme 25% rate projected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (it is currently 50%). If that happened it would mean that concentrations of CO2 (and other greenhouse gases) would reach supposedly dangerous levels at a significantly later date than the alarmists are predicting and temperatures would rise less.",3_1
A paper published last week in the journal Climate of the Past examines the climate of central China over the past 1800 years using two different types of proxies. The paper finds higher temperatures and precipitation were present during the Medieval Warming Period (960-1100 AD) than at the end of the 20th century. This paper adds to the published work of 986 scientists who have documented that the Medieval Warming Period was as hot or hotter than the present and was a global phenomenon. This study also shows both the rate and magnitude of the rise in temperature from the year ~ 700- 880 AD were much greater than over a comparable period including the 20th century.,2_1
"Then there is the issue of official press releases, and the propensity of too many in the media to recycle PR claims with little or no scrutiny.",0_0
Alternative Headline: Guy wastes power to protest wasting power:,0_0
McIntyre ends by assigning readers little homework. The answers arent that tough.,0_0
"Despite Real Climates predictable take on the situation, many long-time students of Antarctic climate change ( including usns here at WCR ) yawned. It has been known for decades that there is a net warming in Antarctic surface temperature that began during the International Geophysical Year in 1957. However, what is also well known, is that the vast majority of the observed warming in Antarctica took place from the late 1950s through the early 1970s and that since thenduring a period going on 40 years nowthere has been very little net temperature change over Antarctica taken as a whole.",1_1
Most likely American Thinker readers are aware that the Heartland Institute held its Fourth International Conference on Climate Change earlier in the week May 16 18. I'm still feeling electrified from the impact the event had on me.,0_0
"The looming prospect of an era of litigation-driven Clean Air Act regulation is an important subtext of the debate over the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill. Proponents are pursuing a legislative extortion strategy. Their not-so-subtle message: Support the bill (which precludes greenhouse gas regulation under the PSD, NAAQS, Title V, and HAP programs, although not under NSPS and Title II), or we'll sic EPA and the eco-litigation lobby on the economy.",0_0
"Soil particulate organic carbon content was increased under atmospheric CO 2 enrichment, as was the potential for the sequestration of a greater proportion of unstable carbon. Also increased were the amounts of dissolved carbon and humic and fulvic acids present in the soil solution. Elevated ozone levels tended to produce the opposite effects; but they were usually overpowered by the effects of elevated CO 2 . What it means",3_3
"My suspicion is it doesn't work. Eco-activists are likely offended by the ad, whether because it mocks them or because it comes too near the mark of what life would be like in a society that heeds Al Gore's injunction to make ""rescue of the environment"" the ""central organizing principle for civilization."" On the other hand, people who resent officious bureaucrats may remember little about the ad except that Audi has something to do with ""green police.""",0_0
Scientistssay that disappearing Antarctic sea ice threatens penguins.,0_0
"Should you spot a Tesla electric car on the road, see if the driver is smiling. He should be smiling at you for contributing $7,500 to the purchase price of his luxury automobile.",0_0
IPCC Obsession With Temperature Distorts Climate Change Science,5_2
Eight hundredths of a degree? These people are hyperventilating over eight hundredths of a degree? I spent eighteen buck to read their !@#$%^ paper for eight hundredths of a degree? That trivial change in forcing is supposed to have ??? played a role in the Younger Dryas cooling event?? ? ?? I weep for the death of science.,5_2
"As the temperature increasing effect of atmospheric CO2 is known to diminish logarithmically with increasing concentration, these notes clarify the actual amount of warming that might result from additional CO2 released into the atmosphere by man-kind and the temperature reduction impact of any policy actions to control CO2 emissions.",2_3
Keystone XL Pipeline Approval taking Five Times Longer than Average,0_0
"If the Met Office is right, and temperatures rise to record levels in the next 5 five years, then the sceptics will have no-where to hide. If the Met Office is wrong, and in the next few years we have not exceeded 1998 temperature levels, then this would cause big questions to be asked remember their simulations rule out zero trends for 15 years or more.",1_4
"The four researchers report that ""none of the plants grown under high levels of CO 2 for 90 days presented either significant differences in fresh weight and dry weight compared with controls, or macroscopic alteration of morphogenesis (number and length of nodes/internodes, branching, leaf area and chlorosis, etc.), at any of the sampling times."" However , they did find that ""in plants grown under elevated CO 2 , a relative increase in oil yield of 32, 34 and 32% was, respectively, recorded in the first, second and third sampling-time (July, August and September),"" and they observed a ""general depression of the oxidative stress under elevated CO 2 "" that led to a ""down-regulation of leaf reactive oxygen species-scavenging enzymes under elevated CO 2 ."" What it means",3_3
"In 1906, forecasts depended on 28 unknowns. By 2007, scientists from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology were using 73. So insisting that just one variable ? atmospheric carbon-dioxide levels ? will drive future monsoons is unscientific.",0_0
"Alex Cull on June 18, 2008 at 12:27 pm",0_0
The science that will be put forward will be as unremittingly bogus as we have been hearing and reading since the late 1980s when the global warming hoax was launched.,5_2
"The rise in dissent in the corridors of power is matched by a new willingness among impartial observers to review the very cornerstone of climate alarmism, the so-called greenhouse gas theory which researchers at Principia Scientific International (PSI) say is also refuted. One of PSI's leading climatologists, Professor Ole Humlum of the University of Olso recently published a telling study in the respected Global and Planetery Journal that used only approved government-sourced data to prove that temperatures rose before levels of carbon dioxide (CO2). Professor Humlum and his team concluded: ""Changes in ocean temperatures explain a substantial part of the observed changes in atmospheric CO2 since January 1980. Changes in atmospheric CO2 are not tracking changes in human emissions.",2_1
"John: Climategate, Copenhagen, conflict of interest, Glaciergate. Blizzards in the northern hemisphere. Anything to do with Climate Change, actually. Its all gone to custard.",0_0
"By Paul Homewood h/t Sunshine Hours http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/09/why-is-antarctic-sea-ice-at-record-levels-despite-global-warming According to Professor Turner, expanding Antarctic sea ice was the last thing climate scientists expected. Meanwhile, the Guardian also report: Dr Guy Williams, a sea ice scientist at the Tasmanian Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (Imas) , In some ways its a bit counterintuitive for people trying to understand how global warming is affecting our polar regions, but in fact its actually completely in line with how climate scientists expect Antarctica and the Southern Ocean to respond. And they wonder why people dont take them seriously.",1_1
"Should the actual recorded data of world temperature, sea levels, storms, droughts, floods and all the rest be banned from our classrooms? Is comparing this data to the pronouncements of highly funded global warming pressure groups heresy?",0_0
"IPCC wanted to prove human CO2 was causing global warming as part of their belief that industrialized populations would exhaust all resources and had to be shut down. Their only objective was to show human production was steadily, inexorably increasing. Their calculations predetermine that, because human CO2 production is directly linked to population increase. A population increase guarantees a CO2 increase. It is another of their circular arguments that has no basis in science.",5_2
"Vsevolod Gavrilov, head of the department of natural resources at the Russian Economic Development and Trade Ministry, said, ""We will try to ratify the pact within a year, but we cannot make it by the time the World Summit on Sustainable Development is held.""",0_0
John Tierney puts together a good summary of the discoveries from the emails and code that is worth reading. Here are some thought-provoking remarks from his conclusion.,0_0
"\] Whenever this inequality holds, there is some correlation. Entanglement means that there is a correlation, using the language of quantum mechanics. An entangled state in combination with the laws of quantum mechanics produces or predicts correlations in various quantities that couldn't be extracted from any classical model . But that shouldn't be shocking. Classical physics is a fundamentally different kind of a theory so it gives fundamentally different predictions than quantum mechanics does. So there is absolutely no reason to expect that their predictions should agree with the other side, that one framework should be easily ""emulated"" by the other. Quantum mechanics cannot be emulated by classical physics; classical physics may be just approximately emulated by quantum mechanics in a classical limit.",0_0
Expect global cooling for the next 2-3 decades that will be far more damaging than global warming would have been??,1_2
Date: 11/06/ 2013 Dr David Whitehouse,0_0
"""... Found little or no evidence for on-going positive sea level acceleration for the tide gauges located in the North Sea in between 1870 and the late 1980's of the sort suggested for the 20 th century Itself by climate models. """,1_6
President Obama has picked Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren to run the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection--but he's managed to bypass a Senate vote on her nomination through a technicality.,0_0
"Not anymore. The ozone hole closing is counter-acting the warming affect. But this study is still using models, read here . The models depend on the temperature increasing. What if the temperature doesnt follow the rules? And it has not over the last decade plus.",1_4
1. A winning short-term strategy for politicians in developed countries is to talk tough on climate change but do relatively little. The appearance of doing something can go a long way toward assuaging the concerns of most citizens while helping to neutralize pressures from environmental groups.,0_0
"Now correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it the aerosols that were supposed to have prevented warming taking off at the predicted rates in the past? And now their influence is slight?",5_1
"The adjacent chart plots the scientific empirical evidence - the globe naturally cycles through periods of extreme cooling and warming. And as the evidence reveals, the Obama/Kerry climate-porn duo exist during a period of cooling, not the extreme accelerating global warming that they claim.",2_1
"Pupils and teachers being used as human guinea pigs to test the green experiment. Despite all the complaints, authorities have taken no action and are playing down the problems. According to teacher and administrator Andrea Eisenbltter:",0_0
Chaos artificial reservoir correction to sea level . This correction to Church and Whites sea level dataleads t0a (supposed)larger sea level rise during the 20th century. But this correction has some critical flaws.,5_1
But I suppose thats just not good politics. Better to curse someone else for the darkness than to light a candle,0_0
Canadian Forest Company Seeks Millions from Greenpeace in U.S. Courts,0_0
"Now, I know that Curry doesn't want to win against Mann. She doesn't want to set the precedent that thin-skinned scientists can run around bullying their critics. So she should sue with the goal of making a settlement: that she will drop Curry vs. Mann?if he drops Mann vs. Steyn. It's a kind of mutually assured destruction for censorship.",0_0
"Yet Taylor also points out that there are few environmental benefits accruing from such government orders. The Energy Information Administration has calculated that 80 percent of renewable energy needed to comply with such mandates will come from biomass fed into existing coal-fired plants. A recent survey by Thomas Sundqvist and Patrik Soderholm found that every kilowatt of energy produced from biomass has an external cost of 7 cents worth of environmental damage. This compares unfavorably to nuclear energy (4 cents), is about the same as for energy from natural gas, and only slightly less than coal-fired electricity (9 cents).",4_1
Barking madness in the New York Times: Global warming blamed for coldest winter in China in 30 years and many other extreme cold events; story illustrated with a photo of snow on the palm trees of Jerusalem,5_2
"Putin disagrees, but hopes Obama goes on thinking as he does.",0_0
Rothbard warns that ?Global warming campaigners see this presidency and the Paris U.N. Summit as the best chance they are likely to see to take control of American energy. The ramifications are disastrous for American freedom and prosperity.?,4_1
"Bear in mind that a proportion of those comments is orchestrated and for all we know there are only a handful of people with multiple electronic personas each, who are paid to create disproportionate noise.",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: General Counsel Sam Kazman on CNN on the debate over SUV safety:,0_0
These historic changes in land level-dramatic or gradual- will have been taken into account in academic studies (although there is not unanimity over the rate of change). However all these factors demonstrate that accurate sea level reconstruction is problematic.,5_1
Figure 1:Sine wave characteristic of the 60/65-year ocean cycle(Source: Bob Tisdale atWUWT).,0_0
"Baliunas: Yes, the correlation is very strong. For the temperature records going back on Earth, we can reconstruct the Northern Hemisphere about 250 years or so. And the ups and downs of temperature match almost exactly the ups and downs and change in magnetism, and so, the energy output of the sun. . . .",2_1
"Once again, we have another example of climate-alarmist (IPCC) contentions widely missing the mark when it comes to predicting which temperature extreme - hot or cold - produces both more frequent and more intense precipitation events, as well as the flooding that accompanies them.",5_1
"The Wall Street Journal editorial's concluding comment is spot on: ""In the department of inconvenient truths, this one surely deserves a closer look by the media, the U.S. Congress and other investigative bodies.""",0_0
"To some extent, her policies were motivated by politics: with a candidate running to her left, she banked left. But she isn t the only one to favor government solutions. Sen. Barack Obama supports mandates too (if not quite as expansively) and a major expansion of government.",0_0
"First, congrats to many millions of people who can remain in this country, a status they should have always have had. We can argue whether anyone who makes his or her way over the border should be able to vote or draw benefits, but there is no doubt in my mind that they should be able to live anywhere they can pay the rent and work anywhere that there is an employer willing to pay them.",0_0
"Residents of Pretoria, named after an early war hero of the white Afrikaners who later invented apartheid, won a battle last year to keep the capital city's name on the map, albeit as part of a broader metropolitan area called Tshwane. Next year those towns celebrating British royalty and other figures will be under scrutiny, and several may face the chop. Two that look set to go are the industrial city of Port Elizabeth, named after the wife of a Cape Colony governor, and George, a sleepy town on the south coast, more famous for its lush golf courses than the English king to whom it pays homage. National Geographical Names Council chairman Tommy Ntsewa said: ""Personally, I would support such a move, because why should we be honouring King George? For what? For colonising us?""",0_0
Synthetic bovine growth hormone (also known as rbST) is widely administered to dairy cows to increase milk production. According to the Food and Drug Administration but contrary to the Stonyfield ad rbST is safe to humans and cows. Milk from cows given rbST contains no more bovine growth hormone than milk from cows not treated with rbST.,0_0
The Science and Public Policy Institute has been asked to comment on the apparent inconsistency between the news that July 2012 was the warmest July since 1895 in the contiguous United States and the news that the Meteorological Office in the UK has cut its global warming forecast for the coming years. The present paper is a response to that interesting question.,0_0
"Even under the worst case scenario warming, when the usual method of comparing the cost and benefit of policy is used, it is more cost effective to deal with any problems that occur than to pay to try to stop them.",4_2
"The climate change causes war argument is the nexus of the two main preoccupations of risk- and security-obsessed politics, also known as the politics of fear. The surprising outcome of the politics of fear is that it produces more of what its agents claim to eliminate. The Bush-Blair doctrine of eliminating the risk of terrorists seems instead to have unleashed a horrific and savage Islamic movement that has capitalised on the chaos and power vacuum left in their wake. A similar paradox emerges from the arguments of those who want to eliminate the risk of climate change. As has been explained here, environmentalism is a self-fulfilling prophecy . That is to say that incautious attempts to mitigate climate change risk increasing societys vulnerability to the climate.",0_0
"Well start with the energy imbalance in anomaly form. We presented the outgoing shortwave radiation (Figure 6) and outgoing longwave radiation (Figure 9) as anomalies to show the differences between the individual models. But for the energy imbalance, Figure 11, theyre presented as anomalies to show how similar the curves are. That is, there were amazing differences in the basic curve shapes and trends of the individual model simulations of outgoing longwave and shortwave radiation, but remarkably, though not unexpectedly, the basic curves of the modeled TOA energy imbalance are much more similar in shape.",0_0
Dr. MANN: This very unprecedented warmth of the 20th century had ahad ahad a very close relationship with the increase in greenhouse gases during the past century.,0_0
"133. As with his previous legal threats and actions, Plaintiff has brought this lawsuit for the purpose of wrongfully interfering with critics? statutorily protected right of advocacy on an issue of great public interest and constitutionally protected free-speech rights.",0_0
"Newt Gingrich: Even if he's not a presidential contender, the former House speaker is still the best political ideas man in the business. As such, he's a powerful draw on the speech and lecture circuitand a force for other Republicans to reckon with.",0_0
"Many people have urged me to sue Mann; I can?t be bothered and I don?t have money to throw away on such stuff?. Further, I would like to stand up for Michael Mann?s right to make insulting and defamatory tweets, statements in op-eds, etc. As an American, I am pretty attached to the right to free speech.",0_0
"Also, there are controversial studies linking cosmic ray fluxes to cloudiness and climate change on Earth. That link may be tested in the years ahead.",2_1
The host of the interview starts by telling the audience that climate scientists have come under pressure because the average temperature indeed has not risen in 15 years . Kirchhof:,1_4
"""The agency estimates a 20 percent increase in global nuclear generation until the end of 2020, followed by a decrease, resulting in global nuclear generation in 2030 that will be only 12 percent higher than in 2002. Nuclear power's share of global electricity generation is projected at 12 percent in 2030, compared with 16 percent in 2002, the IAEA said.",0_0
"When the winds are from the west, air rises on the western side of the Olympics (producing heavy rain) and descends on the eastern slopes (causing drying).",0_0
"An isolated observation? From a 2007 PDF file, ""ExxonMobil's Tobacco-like Disinformation Campaign on Global Warming Science"" at the Union of Concerned Scientists' site:",0_0
So Global Warming causes droughts up until a week ago. No doubt they are working on a paper that proves that Global Warming can cause a flood now and then. A peer reviewed article in Nature will appear soon. Data freely available on request except of course to anyone who has dealings with CA. Thats the way science is done after all.,5_2
Snowcover hangs toughwith warm Gulf of Mexicospells spring trouble,0_0
I'm starting to think that not occupying schoolyards with pitchforks and burning tires is a failed parent-teacher night.,0_0
"In relation to the wider world, however, most people's support for economic growth and its resulting prosperity is likely to be heavily qualified. Indeed, it is remarkable how many lines of attack against prosperity exist.",0_0
"""Even if only a few of the proposed projects are built, hundreds of square miles of wild land will be scraped clear. Several thousand miles of power transmission corridors will be created.",0_0
"Implying that it might not be, the eight researchers note that ""broadleaf deciduous stands are characterized by higher leaf moisture loading and lower flammability and rate of wildfire ignition and initiation than needleleaf evergreen stands,"" citing the work of Paatalo (1998), Campbell and Flannigan (2000) and Hely et al. (2001). And they therefore speculate that the introduction of broadleaf trees into dense needleleaf evergreen landscapes ""could decrease the intensity and rate of spread of wildfires, improving suppression effectiveness, and reducing wildfire impacts,"" citing the studies of Amiro et al. (2001) and Hirsch et al. (2004). But to be more confident about this line of reasoning, they proceeded to conduct their own study of the subject.",0_0
TIME Magazine June 1974: Another Ice Age? Follow The Money,0_0
"US climate expert Professor Judith Curry said last night: In fact, the uncertainty is getting bigger. Its now clear the models are way too sensitive to carbon dioxide. I cannot see any basis for the IPCC increasing its confidence level.",5_1
"This is a defense commonly employed against FOIA requests when seeking to withhold certain communications with, for example, paid consultants.",0_0
"This makes ""arguments in support of intelligent design sound rigorous by comparison"".",0_0
"Next, Monckton discusses the Stefan-Boltzmann equation and the huge range of temperature changes published in the literature for a doubling of CO2. Moncktons own calculation, based on IPCC 2007, is 1.6C for a doubling of CO2, but the IPCC says 3C. He points out that Svante Arrhenius calculated a 4C to 8C temperature change for a doubling of CO2 in 1896, but in 1906, he had the Stefan-Boltzmann equation available to him and re-calculated everything to give 1.6C.",3_1
"Carbon cycling was much smaller during last ice age than in todays climate Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the most important greenhouse gases and the increase of its abundance in the atmosphere by fossil fuel burning is the main cause of future global warming. In past times, during the transition between an ice age and a warm period, atmospheric CO2 concentrations changed by some 100 parts per million (ppm) from an ice age value of 180 ppm to about 280 ppm during warm periods.",2_3
Dem AG Backs Down in Exxon Climate Fight,0_0
UK likely to miss its emissions reduction targets.,0_0
"HAYDEN: Okay, Moose. We can go. But I have to see mother first.",0_0
"The major enforcement mechanisms that have emerged in international discussions are carbon tariffs and related trade sanctions on non-adhering exporters in international trade.The use of trade policy to enforce GHG mitigation agreements, however, could strain the international trading structure that has been so globally valuable, yet very difficult to assemble in the first place. Consider how long it takes to negotiate multilateral or even bilateral trade agreements, such as those ongoing between the US and the EU.",0_0
"To the extent that the world did implement some kind of internationally harmonized carbon tax regime, as my friend and colleague Ben Zycher at AEI has argued, it would almost certainly result in a tax set too high, and undermined by offsetting competitive behavior (auto industry subsidies, for example) among different regimes.",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell on the implications of the G8 communiqu.,0_0
"The primary weakness of ACESA is its GHG reduction program. The U.S. should, indeed, put a modest price on GHG emissions, but ACESA's abatement costs are likely to be far too high. Its regulatory mandates can only increase the net costs, and ACESA's goals are at odds with the strategic logic of the GHG control problem, which is essentially the subject of an international bargain about cost sharing.",0_0
"The WTO's able and indefatigable Director General, Pascal Lamy, has acknowledge that after a decade of intense deliberations, Doha Round negotiations are in ""paralysis."" Rather than picking over the bones of Doha, the December Ministerial should be devoted to clearing the decks and then beginning the complicated process of planning for a future agenda-if and when the elusive ""political will"" ever reappears among the political leaders of WTO members.",0_0
The skepticism is up from an already high 48 percent of pastors in 2008 who somewhat or strongly disagreed with the strong scientific consensus on manmade global warming.,0_0
"Following on from the no snow by 2050 story earlier today , the ABC gleefully reports more doom and gloom on the state of the alpine catchments. Perhaps they thought nobody would check:",0_0
"Housing. Housing turns out to be a relative bargain in terms of indirect energy consumption, accounting for less than 10 percent of all indirect energy consumption (see table 6). This includes the use of not only the physical structure of the dwelling, but items like home furnishings, furniture, china, glassware, tableware, utensils, kitchen equipment, and cleaning and polishing solutions. In fact, maintenance (cleaning, polishing, and preparation) is the second largest indirect energy consumption component after the housing unit itself.",0_0
But temperatures may also fall in the future so this is not a definition of anything.,0_0
It is more likely that the cost of climate action will end up costing upwards of twice as much as climate inaction in this century areasonable estimate could be 2.8% of GDP towards the end of the century.,4_1
Carlo Stagnaro of Istituto Bruno Leoni reports:,0_0
NASA is constantly cooling the past and warming the present in order to make it appear that Hansens theories arent the miserable failure which they actually are.,5_2
"Using data collected between 1976 and 2008, the authors conclude that a longer growing season has boosted marmots?? individual size, overall strength and general population. The average weight of fully grown marmots jumped from 6.82 pounds in the early years of the study to 7.56 pounds in the later half of the study.",3_2
"On April 1, the California Senate's Environmental Quality Committee approved a bill that would limit carbon dioxide emissions from car tailpipes on a 5 to 2 party-line vote, with Democrats voting in favor and Republicans against. The bill passed the California Assembly on January 31.",0_0
"As the cost of government measures to combat climate change hit households and businesses, a new study published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation casts grave doubts on the validity of the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change which the government relies on to justify its policies.",0_0
"The Minoan Warming period had temperatures that possibly exceeded current temperatures by 1C, in spite of lower CO2 levels.",2_1
accordingly? Smart presidents don't wait until they are hit upside the head with,0_0
Bloomberg's Low Carbon Footprint Plan,0_0
"Date: April 28, 2010 Time: 7:00 pm Central DST",0_0
"Consistency across indicators is important to finishing high in the rankings; there is much lower variance on subindices for top performers than for worse performers. In fact, the worst performers often do well in one or two subindices, rather than fail in all of them. The top fourteen countries have consistently high ratings. Only two countries, Yemen and Zimbabwe, have consistently poor indicators.",0_0
"Mad as it may sound, Danish researchers have announced a theory that may not only explain why people all over the world are getting fatter and fatter, but also warn of the serious consequences for life on Earth of continued pollution of the atmosphere by CO2 emissions. In itself, the theory is quite simple: CO2 contributes to making us fat.",0_0
"The Australian Daily Telegraph for instance writes that, ""as he waited for a helicopter to winch him out, team leader Professor Chris Turney was clinging to credibility like the black knight in Monty Python. ""It's so warm it's actually raining!' he tweeted yesterday.""",0_0
It is also important to understand that the equilibrium average surface temperature calculated by radiative forcing is not a measurable climate variable. It has no existence outside of the equilibrium Earth that resides only in the universe of computerized climate fiction found inside these radiative forcing models. .,5_1
This piece originally appeared in National Review Online,0_0
"Ten years later, it is clear that just as NATO enlargement to the East has sent Russia into the arms of China, Western energetico-military forays in Central Asia have led China, in turn, to increase its activities in the backyards of Europe (Africa) and America (from Cuba to Panama and Venezuela). America's fixation on Central Asia has been based on probable reserves, which were then contrasted to proven reserves in Persian Gulf, though never with probable reserves offshore worldwide. Since Caspian Sea oil now seems to combine all the problems associated with landlocked transportation and offshore extraction, not to mention geopolitical entanglements, it may be time for a reappraisal.",0_0
"They pointed out, without too much ado, the innocent fact that since the beginning of the observations in 1979, the year 2013 has seen the greatest increase of the Arctic sea ice area relatively to the previous year's summer minimum.",1_1
"However, when I signed the letter, I was unaware of the seriousness of the allegations of abuse. I was feeling sick at that time and was not properly informed. I was misled by not being provided with sufficient information to make an appropriate decision. I wish to retract that letter. The implication that I personally, or the club has taken Ms Dhalla's side is totally false. I hereby request that Ms Dhalla stop claiming that she has the support of the Brampton Filipino Seniors Club and me. Both claims are false and should not be used in her defence in this inquiry. Thank you very much.",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Risk & Environmental Policy Angela Logomasini on the regulatory barriers to fighting diseases like West Nile:,0_0
"an appeal for other nations to shoulder greater international responsibilities,",0_0
"CO 2 -induced increases in plant biomass ranged from 13 to 100%, depending on root temperature and nitrogen amount and source, with the greatest responses being recorded in the nitrate-fed plants. What it means",3_3
"That does not mean going back to an Eisenhower-era or even Nixon-era GOP, when centrists were key forces; it means a very conservative party by any reasonable measure. As such, we sympathize with Republicans like David Frum who have been harshly critical of the party's course but refuse to leave it, believing their presence is necessary to fight to yank the party back to a problem-solving state.",0_0
"Why do I hear nothing about the effects of all of the-environmental-agency-mandated ""cooling towers"" dumping heated water vapor into the atmosphere? They must have some effect on the Earth's temperature. The water vapor adds heat to the atmosphere, equal to at least the power generated by the power station, and forms clouds in the area which make the surrounding area cool less at night. The water vapor itself is a greenhouse gas. The towers started out as building coolers. Now they are on every large building and every power plant.",0_0
The environmental movement suffers its biggest defeat since Climategate,0_0
"???Multivariate regression methods are insensitive to the sign of predictors??. Mann et al seem to be saying their methods are invariant to the data??s orientation ??? perhaps to linear translation? ??? anyway it means the data can??t be upside-down. Now if the mathematical interpretation placed on the data by their methods conflict with physical information from other sources, it does raise questions. Presumably the next sentences in Mann et al??s reply l refer to this, I can??t see anything in Kaufman et al that illuminates this and it would seem to require detailed knowledge of the field to judge the importance of these issues. And as you said, we (you, me, Steve McIntyre,?? ) are not professionally qualified to engage in the substance of such a debate.",5_1
"CEI filed with the D.C. Superior Court a copy of an order issued last week by a federal judge in Texas, in Exxon's challenge to the Mass. AG's subpoena to Exxon.",0_0
"Noting its final due date in June, that refusal would impose a Federal Implementation Plan on states ""that risks even greater harm,"" said Hill. ""But the problem for the EPA is that the federal government lacks the legal authority under either the Constitution or the Clean Air Act to enforce most of the regulation's ""building blocks' without states' acquiescence.""",0_0
"A quote from Mark Twain: . . . peoples beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.",0_0
"Date: May 1, 2010 Time: 10:00 am Central DST",0_0
The Great Lino speaks in an essay for a Con Law colloquium for the Law Journal of the Federalist Society:,0_0
From the new National Academy of Sciences report on climate modeling:,0_0
Butterflies are often mentioned as being particularly sensitive to climate change. Yet a recent one-day record for butterfly diversity in northwestern Connecticut suggests current climate is more hospitable than ever.,3_2
"2. Some alternate techniques that determine CO 2 concentration over time contradict the slow changing ice record, but this may in fact be due to 1). This could mean present levels are not quite so extremely high or unusually fast changing as thought.",5_1
"A 2009 article in MacLife magazine acknowledges that, while ""solar-powered gadgets have become de rigueur in our attempts to shrink our carbon footprint,"" there is a rarely discussed ""dark side"" to solar energy. Many solar panels are made with cadmium, a highly toxic carcinogen, and when these panels are decommissioned after about 20 years there will be a huge accumulation of ""e-waste."" Manufacturing polysilicon (a key component in sun-capturing wafers) generates four tons of toxic silicon tetrachloride for every ton of product and Chinese firms that produce the bulk of this material and rare earth metals for solar panels and wind turbines have been dumping their wastes on farmlands and wildlife habitats.",4_1
"And the shale revolution has yet to go global. When it does, oil and gas in tight rock formations will give the world ample supplies of hydrocarbons for decades, if not centuries. Lurking in the wings for later technological breakthroughs is methane hydrate, a seafloor source of gas that exceeds in quantity all the worlds coal, oil and gas put together.",4_5
"If air temperature is holding steady and air quality improving, it is hard to understand how, per White House senior advisor Brian Deese: ""This is not just a future threat this is a present threat.""",0_0
"Arizona will be entering the new year ahead on rainfall for the first time since 2010 as well as above-average temperatures, according to the National Weather Service.",0_0
"Finally, there is an underlying arrogance about the concept that I find disturbing. Forty percent of the worlds people live on less than $2 per day. In China its sixty percent. In India, three-quarters of the population lives on under $2 per day.",0_0
"And it appears that the chairman of the full Judiciary Committee, Lamar Smith of Texas, is interested. This is noteworthy because Smith has been an implacable opponent of any bill containing legalization or amnesty provisions.",0_0
",..0.85 Watts per meter squaredis the imbalance at the end of the decade.",0_0
"Here we go again, the modelers cant model clouds. These people need to listen and pay attention.",0_0
"Still, the government could still use the conference to promote its own emissions curbing goals, to be incorporated into a five-year economic plan that starts from 2011.",0_0
Approximately $2.05 billion in employee earnings;,0_0
"As the release of the final Harry Potter novel approaches, the growing frenzy around the title is being fuelled in part by a host of internet spoilers that allegedly reveal the fate of the teen wizard.",0_0
"This new edition of Human Impacts on Weather and Climate examines the scientific and political debates surrounding anthropogenic impacts on the Earths climate and presents the most recent theories, data and modeling studies. The book discusses the concepts behind deliberate human attempts to modify the weather through cloud seeding, as well as inadvertent modification of weather and climate on the regional scale. The natural variability of weather and climate greatly complicates our ability to determine a clear cause-and-effect relationship to human activity. The authors describe the basic theories and critique them in simple and accessible terms. This fully revised edition will be a valuable resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in atmospheric and environmental science, and will also appeal to policy makers and general readers interested in how humans are affecting the global climate.",0_0
"""Along both temperate and tropical rocky shores,"" in the words of the five scientists, ""there was a reduction in sea urchin abundances alongside a proliferation of Padina spp., as CO 2 levels increased."" In the case of sea urchins, in fact, they discovered that the predators were actually absent in locations having the highest CO 2 levels (lowest pH); while in the case of the Padina spp., they found that ""even in the lowest pH conditions, P. pavonica and P. australis were still able to calcify, seemingly from the enhancement of photosynthesis under high levels of CO 2 ."" What it means",3_2
"High-speed rail authority, PR firm go separate ways:",0_0
Maybe because it corresponds with the period of post WWII cloud seeding experiments. Sorry not PC.,0_0
"Above are some graphs for those of you interested in the remarkable, ongoing drought in intense hurricane landfalls in the US, which is stretching close to 10 years. The top graph shows the days in between intense (category 3+) landfalls in the US since 1900. The bottom graph shows the same information, but only for Florida landfalls.",1_7
The board estimates that the excess rains have left 4.25 million hectares unseeded and ruined the prospects for another one million hectares that did get in the ground.,0_0
"By studying eelgrass meadows on a ecosystem level, we were able to observe how plants and animals interact under changing climatic conditions. This also allowed us to measure the indirect effects, meaning the effects of climate change on an animal or a plant mediated through another organism.",0_0
Skeptics were considered sorcerers or witches and were tortured until they confessed. Then they were executed.,0_0
"military compelled Obama to remove McChrystal from his command. (Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings's book on the war in Afghanistan, The Operators, is an important and troubling document of the sense of untouchability felt by",0_0
The Committee leadership already had a course of action in mind even when we were appointed.,5_2
"Obama has spent on an unprecedented scale, such as for a stimulus package that has actually shrunk the economy and destroyed thousands of jobs, and an auto bailout that forces cash-strapped taxpayers to bail out high-paid union auto workers, whose pay remains much higher than that of the typical taxpayer, while saddling the car companies with politically-correct mandates that may kill their chance of survival.",0_0
Ovanstende is new for me and Yet another reason not to use the lgenergilampor. Thanks Jonas and Ida from you tnker sjlva and dare point out the apparent madness.,0_0
"What they arent showing is that more than 80% of the glaciers documented retreat occurred before 1940, and that between 1794 and 1879, the glacier retreated eight feet per day.",2_1
All methods strongly underestimates the amplitude of low-frequency variability and trends. This means that it is almost impossible to conclude from reconstruction studies that the present period is warmer than any period in the reconstructed period.,5_1
"Eleanor Coner, SPTC's information officer, said, ""It's dangerous when the Internet is littered with opinion and inaccurate information which could be taken as fact,"" she told the Scotsman for a June 21 article.",0_0
"Labor and manufacturing officials warned the Senate on June 26 against signing a climate change treaty without requiring compliance by developing countries (BNA Environment Report, June 27, 1997). Officials claimed that reducing greenhouse emissions to 1990 levels would require a 50 percent increase in the price of natural gas and electricity and a twofold to fourfold increase in the price of coal. They also warned that such a treaty would send 1 million U.S. jobs to developing countries. According to David Montgomery, vice president of Charles River Associates, the industries hardest hit would be producers and miners of cement, aluminum, ferrous metals, iron ore, paper, stone and clay, fertilizers, chemicals, and glass.",0_0
China eyes stake in California high-speed rail system:,0_0
"26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?",0_0
"The Annual Energy Outlook 2014 (the most current edition) also has a $25 per ton carbon-tax side case. Again the GDP losses are significant, exceeding $150 billion for many years, and the jobs losses are severe, with employment in some years falling below the no-carbon-tax reference case by more than one million jobs.",4_1
"The outages were shrinking by Friday night, with Duke Energy down to 300,000 customers affected at about 10 p.m.",0_0
"Instead, its focus is on reducing ""carbon intensity"" the amount of the main greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2), emitted for each dollar of economic activity. It plans to reduce this by 40-45 percent by 2020 compared to 2005.",0_0
"Its interesting to actually look at the table of results. For the MBH98 network (here they use 104 locations), the RE score is very high for all 5 cases (as are the CE and verification r2 scores). Given that the issue with MBH is negligible verification r2 and CE scores, this hardly proves the point that is supposedly being made.",0_0
"And then we could get aggressive about things. We could put our critical infrastructure on a market basis, rather than having it run by inefficient governments. Look at California and New York, facing blackouts now years after the deficiency in energy infrastructure were laid bare by a series of energy crises from California to the eastern seaboard.",0_0
"Climate Change in Copenhagen, Intel and Antitrust and Rep. Barton Takes on the EPA",0_0
This makes it very clear that the low CO2 values in the Antarctic ice cores during the Holocenecould easily be the result of diffusion and do not constitute valid evidence of a stable pre-industrial atmospheric CO2 level of ~275 ppmv.,5_1
But it isnt just that environmental threats have a habit of turning out less bad than feared; its that the remedies sometimes prove worse than the disease.,0_0
"Four months later, the committee's investigation charade has concluded. Most shocking, however, is that Penn State remains openly unabashed by the investigation's shoddiness.",0_0
"Could the Earth be cooling its heels? One thing could quash the debate over global warming real quick global cooling and it could be on the way. This brave, against-the-grain prognostication that the Earths average temperature could be actually starting to decrease comes from agricultural meteorologist Drew Lerner, who in circles of the global warming in-crowd is known as a denier....",1_2
The EPA is the instrument of those who want to undermine capitalism in any way it can. Only that can explain why entire books have been written about its impact on the economy of the nation and the deceptive way it has imposed regulations responsible for it.,0_0
"First of all, Ries et al . observed that ""following the initial acclimation phase, survivorship in each experimental treatment was 100%,"" while last of all, in regard to the corals' rates of calcification and linear extension, they say that ""no significant difference was detected relative to the control treatment (?? A = 2.6) for corals reared under ?? A of 2.3 and 1.6,"" which latter values correspond to pH reductions from current conditions of 0.08 and 0.26, respectively. And it is enlightening to note that the 0.26 pH reduction is approximately twice the maximum reduction derived from the analysis of Tans (2009) that would likely result from the burning of all fossil fuels in the crust of the earth . What it means",3_2
"The four Korean researchers concluded that ""plantlets grown under CO 2 enrichment"" -- and without the help of any applied sugar -- ""developed completely viable photosynthetic apparatus ready to be efficiently transferred to ex vitro conditions,"" a fact that they say has ""far-reaching implications"" for the micropropagation of Phalaenopsis , and possibly other plants as well. Reviewed 18 March 2009",0_0
"The Obama Administration has thus far imposed some $743 billion of those new costs, via 4,432 new rules requiring 754 million hours of paperwork, according to a new American Action Forum analysis. The $2 trillion cumulative annual tab is more than all federal individual and corporate taxes collected in 2015; includes 10 billion hours dealing with paperwork; and does not include state or local regulations. Land use and environmental compliance costs account for a sizable and growing portion of this total.",0_0
"9. Most hurricanes ever in one day: On August 22, 1893 , four hurricanes were occurring simultaneously: storm #3 approaching Nova Scotia, Canada, storm #4 between Bermuda and the Bahamas, storm #6 northeast of the Lesser Antilles, and storm #7 west of the Cape Verde Islands. Storm #4 would end up making a direct hit on New York City as a Category 1 hurricane two days later and storm #6 ending up hitting Georgia and South Carolina as a Category 3 hurricane (the ""Sea Islands Hurricane"") and killing 1000-2000 people. The only other known date with four hurricanes occurring at the same time was September 25, 1998 , when hurricanes Georges, Ivan, Jeanne and Karl were in existence.",1_7
The plot for Sunday 8-10-2003:,0_0
This is what the climate models predicted Siberian temperatures in the desert southwest.,0_0
"It is about 120 series that would pass if you accept Manns incredibly generous autocorrelation assumptions. Far, far, higher if you do not. One of the most difficult scams of the paper is the determination of the correct autocorrelations to use for this particular correlation value. Jim apparently accepts it with a hand wave and zero consideration but climate science isnt known for statistical prowess. It becomes even more fuzzy when you realize that the autocorrelations of individual series are so widely different that several wont even converge with Rs arima fit function.",5_1
"""`Despite extensive inquiries, we have been unable to obtain conclusive evidence to support the suggestion that massive extinctions have taken place in recent times,'"" writes Vernon Heywood, a former chief scientist of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources."" (U.S. News, pp. 82-86)",0_0
"First, there is a difference. Cap-and-trade can do a very good impersonation of a carbon tax when we know the demand for emissions with certainty, when we do a great job of regulating, and when we auction off all the emissions permits. If we're uncertain about the demand for producing emissions, if it is hard to keep tabs on what various emitters are doing, or if politics intrudes into the process of handing out emissions permits, then the two approaches veer apart.",0_0
"To conclude: the less warming, the more confident the IPCC about its claims to policy-makers.",5_2
US deficit up 15.7% in first half of fiscal 2011:,0_0
"Reporters seeking first-hand insight into the Rio+20 negotiations or looking to balance their reporting with solid facts to counter radical Rio pronouncements should look to CFACT. Our featured commentators are well known for cogent, insightful, informative and witty analysis that will add solid value to any account of Rio+20. CFACT's delegation is available to all media.",0_0
"China's government has vigorously denied that it is attempting to illegitimately manipulate the scheme. But the point is that there is no system for independent and external verification; nor is Beijing proposing to allow one. Meanwhile, China had previously pledged that 15% (and possibly 20%) of its energy would come from renewable sources by 2020 and that special efforts would be made to close dirty power plants and impose world-class vehicle efficiency standards and proposed various other measures to cut emissions. Again, developed countries suspect that China will receive plaudits and concessions from any future carbon emissions regime without actually keeping its promises.",4_2
"In the early days of the post Cold War, there were, on both sides of the Atlantic, great hopes that the UN could finally play the role it was initially designed for. A former ambassador to the UN, the elder Bush in particular hoped to make the UN the cornerstone of a New World Order. In Europe as well, as the EU was toying with the idea of transforming itself from an Europe-espace to an Europe-puissance, many thought that an EU military force could constitute the military arm of the UN, and that the EU, in turn, could use the UN as a force multiplier to provide a ""counterweight"" to the US.",0_0
"During the period 1900-2005, precipitation seems to have actually increased in areas above 30 degrees north latitude including California and the rest of the U.S. according to the most recent assessment from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.",0_0
"Fisker Automotive , the maker of an exotic electric sports car that is being built with help from a $529 million federal government loan guarantee, has announced layoffs at its Delaware plant as it tries to persuade the Department of Energy to send it more public funds.",0_0
Researchers quantify toxic ocean conditions during major extinction 93.9 million years ago,0_0
"Not only are these politicos picking winners and losers through subsidies and mandates favoring selected ""green"" industries and technologies, they are roping in housing and finance agencies into their ""environmentally correct"" schemes. At best, this would divert the agencies away from their missions at a time of great economic volatility. At worst, it could cause a financial crisis of its own.",0_0
The energy cost is much lower in Europe dellItalia and the difference in time will be more and more. Lenel is estimated that the clean coal could lower the cost dellenergia 30%.,0_0
"There is a remarkable lack of understanding with respect to the sensitivity of the minimum temperature overnight to relatively slight changes in surface conditions. Thispost illustrates one example of this sensitivity. The implication ofsuch influences is that the use of the minimum temperature as part of the construction of the global average surface temperature trend is seriously flawed, as we discussed in our paper",5_1
"One thing to remember -- NCCI uses the amount your insurance company has reserved for a particular claim, not the actual payouts to date. In many cases you will find, on an open claim, the insurance company may have paid out $5,000 to date, but may have say $15,000 total reserved, meaning they estimate the payouts might reach that point some day. Check with your broker to make sure your insurance company is closing claims in the system. Once the claim is closed out, then the experience mod will use the sometimes lower actual rather than reserved number. Also note that experience mods are built up over a three year period, and often the last year is not included. So, for a renewal date of June 1, 2005, your experience mod probably includes claims from June 1, 2001 to June 1, 2004.",0_0
"His close links to Islam even if Obama isn't a full-fledged member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda's parent organization, and he may be , he has still filled the U.S. government offices with tons of members of the Muslim Organization prevent him from clearly stating that it's the radical Islam that is significantly threatening America (and others) these days. He emits lots of fog about the identity of folks like the members of ISIS.",0_0
"Obama on Being a One-Term President, Solyndra Watch Video",0_0
blogs.crikey.com .au/.../the-heat-is-on-australias-antarctic-ice-runway/,0_0
"Time magazine reported that focusing on the health effects of climate change, particularly on children, ""produces the most emotionally compelling response."" But that makes it no less illogical only more manipulative. Air quality and children's asthma are not reasons to #ActOnClimate, and the claim only adds to the bad information and confusion characterizing the climate issue.",0_0
The UK is expecting the heaviest snow in about 20 yearstomorrow . ??? Snow and freezing weather threaten to shut down BritainArctic blizzards are set to cause a national shutdown on Monday as forecasters warn of the most widespread snowfall for almost 20 years.?? ??? Now is the time you??d expect to see the daffodils coming out but we??re not expecting them for two or three weeks at best if it warms up. ??,1_3
"Particular concerns have been raised about ?? the high latitude Eurasian trees (which have and anomalously low growth anomaly in the late 20th century ??? Tornetraesk, Fennoscandia, Yamal, Northern Urals in Table 1)",5_1
"The NGO said the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy refused to release documents to back up director John Holdren's claim that global warming was making winters colder, a statement refuted by most scientists.",0_0
"If you are criticizing Professor Mann, that is. But if he is criticizing you?well, then, that?s a different story.",0_0
"El Nio generally brings hotter, drier weather to Australia and was responsible for the decade-long drought.",0_0
"The actual rate of warming is modest and non-accelerating. A better title for a documentary about global warming would be: ""Apocalypse Not!""",0_0
"It writes that according to the German Marine Museum, 12 cadavers have appeared so far. According to whale researcher Stefan Brger:",0_0
"Read here . As we have written about before , ethanol and other biofuels are not only economic disasters, they are also very harmful to the environment. As the actual science of biofuels is slipping out, these fuels actually can cause more CO2 emissions than the fossil fuels they are supposed to replace.",4_4
"In a statement Friday, IPCC officials confirmed the authenticity of a leaked draft of the forthcoming Fifth Assessment Report on climate. Skeptics seized upon a chart within the document that compares past IPCC predictions with actual temperature readings. The scientific models of 1990s First Assessment Report forecast temperatures would rise fast, reaching alarming levels by 2010. The mercury refused to cooperate with the warming hypothesis that year. In 2012, temperatures also were frostier than the generous assumptions in each of the groups four previous reports.",5_1
"The extreme variability of rainfall at Wakool is managed bygovernmentissuing irrigation licenses which are subject to seasonal allocations. When water is short, allocations are minimal or zero.",0_0
"All this comes on top of last years revelation of the Climategate e-mails, which revealed equally shoddy practices (and efforts to suppress criticism) by scientists at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia perhaps the single most important source of data that supposedly proved the most alarming claims of global warming.",5_2
"The governor deflects accusations of an executive grab by claiming the executive order is nonbinding, but that defense doesn't square with the plain wording of the order, which stipulates that ""Colorado state agencies shall implement strategies to achieve"" greenhouse gas reductions.",0_0
"With one day to go, February 2015??s average temperature is 14.5 degrees. That??s the coldest since 1875, when the average temperature was 12.2 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.",1_3
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"Amplifications and Corrections : Last weeks TWTW discussed sea level rise, the uncertainty, and the possible acceleration of the rate of rise. Physicist Donald Rapp send a set of papers a making a powerful argument that It is possible that all (or most) of the claimed acceleration is due to ground water depletion, not global warming. He may be right. We appreciate all those who take the time to send amplifications and corrections.",1_6
"It is important to understand at the outset that those of us who are skeptical of mankind?s influence on climate have a wide variety of views on the subject, and we can?t all be right. In fact, in this business, it is really easy to be wrong. It seems like everyone has a theory of what causes climate change. But it only takes one of us to be right for the IPCC?s anthropogenic global warming (AGW) house of cards to collapse.",0_0
"We again see that pull to the middle effect. Perhaps simply because more thermometers can be created where there has been a thermometer longer? If so, that would bring into the present all that bias from the early years when there were not very many thermometers. As we saw in earlier pages, it takes time for the thermometer count for a location to rise high enough and to stabilize and start giving valid averages for an area. To the extent this stretch and reach infill process drags the past into more of the data set, and into the future, it will be dragging historical bias into the present more representative data.",5_1
"If we open up more North American resources for development, we may very well shift long-term expectations on domestic supply and receive the benefits of lower prices even before the supplies come to market. We may even get some pleasant surprises, such as what we recently experienced with the shale gas revolution. New discoveries of shale gas, and breakthroughs in the technology of extraction, have pushed down natural gas prices between $4-$6 per thousand cubic feet (mcf) over the last three years. These lower prices have saved American consumers over $50 billion a year, according to data from the federal Energy Information Agency.",4_5
The abrupt climate change commencing 1200 1000 years ago is the most significant Antarctic climate event of the past 5000 years. Its onset is characterised by strengthening of the Amundsen Sea Low and the southern circumpolar westerlies with cooling both at Siple Dome. It is this event that provides the underpinning for centennial and perhaps shorter-scale natural variability upon which future climate change over Antarctica might operate.,0_0
"Tantalisingly, a low band of grey sky to the Northeast suggests clear water lies not so many kilometres away. The grey colour is light reflected from open water. The early Antarctic explorers named this colour phenomenon water sky and used it to navigate their route through the treacherous pack ice",0_0
More headlines: Listen to the new CEI Weekly Podcast here.,0_0
"The Democratic leadership falls short of promises to rein in ""earmark"" spending on pet projects for legislators' home districts.",0_0
U.S. cities confront the peak summer season for transmission of West Nile virus.,0_0
"So when presented with warmer and drier conditions, trees in the Pacific Northwest appear to use less water and therefore the impact on streamflow is reduced, she added. In other parts of the country, forest regrowth after past logging and hurricanes thus far has a more definitive signal in streamflow reduction than have warming temperatures.",3_2
"12 hours ago Wilkins runway near Casey Station, about 3,400 kilometres south-west of Hobart. AUSTRALIAS $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving ...",0_0
A moments digging on Google shows that said Ms Frew rose to national prominence in Australia on the Sydney Morning Herald as environment correspondent. And that was primarily because her views are those of a climate change/greenie fanatic.,5_2
"April and May should keep forecasters busy. In my first WeatherBell post, I discussed the potential for some very big severe weather days as is the case in La Nina years in a cold PDO (Pacific Decadal Oscillation). The Palm Sunday outbreak in 1965 and the Superoutbreak in 1974 were just two prime examples.",0_0
"The second falsehood lie is that we must use clean energymeaning that which does not produce CO2. This premise is based on the theory that CO2 causes global warming, global warming is human-caused, and stopping CO2 emissions will save the planet.",2_3
The Earth has proven much less succeptible to runaway warming than previously believed. The so-called indirect trapping by evaporated water has been overstated by warming alarmists. (Source: Alaska in Pictures),3_1
"Japan, the world's fifth largest emitter, announced November 15 that it will back off on earlier pledges to reduce GHG emissions by 25% of 1990 levels with a new target that will result in 3% more GHG releases by 2020 than in 1990. China, the world's largest emitter, is embarking on the construction of large-scale, coal-fuelled synthetic natural gas (SNG) plants with far greater GHG releases than conventional natural gas plants. Finally, the Polish government is partnering with the World Coal Association to hold a major coal summit while the COP 19 talks are in session. Eliminating coal has been a major objective among past COP delegates.",0_0
Question: What is the magnitude of this bias in the analyses of the global surface temperature trends?,0_0
A list of the 15 Bush environmental executive agreements follows.,0_0
"Rising sea levels threaten every coastline. Reality: sea levels have been rising on and off since the end of the last ice age 13,000 years ago. The rate of sea level rise has not increased in recent decades over the nineteenth and twentieth century average.",1_6
"Until and unless major oscillations in the Earth System (El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) etc.) can be predicted to the extent that they are predictable, regional climate is not a well defined problem. It may never be. If that is the case then we should say so. It is not just the forecast but the confidence and uncertainty that are just as much a key.",5_1
"Strong has never left any doubt where he places greatest blame for global climate and environmental problems, stating that ""The United States is clearly the greatest risk to the world's ecological health.""",0_0
The school building SeeCampus in Niederlausitz becomes completely overheated on summer days and is badly ventilated. Headaches and cardio-respiratory problems with pupils and teachers are the result. The number of sick days is climbing rapidly.,0_0
Climate Science Uncertainties Still Cloud Kyoto,5_1
"In my paper I show that if this astronomical forcing modulates the cloud system in such a way that the albedo oscillates with amplitude of just 1-2%, this can explain most of the observed climate change also from an energetic point of view. The data show the existence of such modulation in the cloud cover and in the periods of solar dimming and brightening.",2_1
"Meanwhile, Chinas new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, is stepping in as the Americans and Europeans step back. Its willingness to fund coal projects is one of the reasons other Asian countries are rushing to join the project, to the irritation of Washington. The Australian government is joining forces with Japan to push for the construction of clean coal plants in the developing world power stations that burn coal more efficiently.",0_0
"First, Seattle in the Duwamish Valley. Big spike from a background level of roughly 10 (micrograms per cubic meter) to 60, getting well into the range of being unhealthy for sensitive groups. (click on this or subsequent figures to enlarge).",0_0
"I n the words of He et al . (2013), ""understanding of climate variability under natural conditions could help improve projections of future climate change,"" while noting that the majority of temperature records from around the globe ""show more or less similar patterns"" that ""can be roughly divided into a few warm and cold periods, such as the Current Warm Period after AD 1850, the Little Ice Age (LIA) between AD 1850 and AD 1400, and the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) or Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) between AD 1400 and AD 800 (e.g. Esper et al ., 2002; Mann and Jones, 2003; Moberg et al ., 2005; Mann et al ., 2009; Ge et al ., 2010),"" while still longer records ""show another warm/cold oscillation, namely the Dark Ages Cold Period (DACP) and the Roman Warm Period (RWP, Lamb, 1985).""",2_1
CEI Global Warming Lawsuit Draws Ire of Northeast State Attorneys General,0_0
"Here . Excerpt: OTTAWA (Reuters) - Leaders of Canada's Arctic Inuit people denounced U.S. environmentalists on Monday for pushing Washington to declare the polar bear a threatened species, saying the move was unnecessary and would hurt the local economy.",3_2
"If there was ever a reason for the U.S. to stop funding the U.N., this is it.",0_0
"Instead of real energy for real jobs and revenues, President Obama wants to redouble spending on green energy extracting billions of dollars from still productive sectors of our economy, and transferring the money to crony corporatists and campaign contributors, whose operations are exempted from endangered species and other laws that are imposed routinely and punitively on oil, mining and other companies.",4_1
"A 2007 visit by the FSHP to this ""dilapidated"" hospital, built in the 1800s, was ""reminiscent of a scene from some of the poorest countries in the world,"" the cable adds.",0_0
Reality Check: Winter of 2008/09 Coldest Winter For A Decade,0_0
The National Climate Centres Dr Andrew Watkins says a new El Nio could be on the way.,0_0
"Graph at left side shows temperature variations over the past 15,000 years, temperatures ~2C higher than the present during the early to mid Holocene.",2_1
"My purpose here is not to comment on the merits of the EPA's proposals. Rather, it is to point out that these current disputes could have been avoided as far back as 1970 by following one simple maxim: The EPA should regulate outputs, not inputs. That approach derives from the sensible rules governing private lawsuits against polluters under the judge-made law of nuisance, which operates on a strict liability standard that does not allow a polluter to defeat liability by claiming that its emissions are cost justified. Instead, in all cases, the Court measures damages to victims solely by the amount of harm that the pollution causes, without considering the cost that private parties must incur to reduce or eliminate that pollution.",0_0
"Right now, only 0.5% of the U.S. electricity is extracted from solar energy ??? and this number stayed this low despite the recent hysterical growth of this weak energy source. The wind energy yields a significantly greater fraction of the U.S. power, one approaching 5 percent.",4_4
But during the last few months the situation has altered substantially with temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific surging upwards. NOAA and Australian forecasters are now saying we are in an official El Nino and it appears it will become moderate or strong this year.,0_0
"We were told that the mild winters we experienced in Europe were due to global warming. Now, suddenly, we are getting hit with yet another nasty cold winter.",1_3
"Granting more authority to the states will speed up development, increase GDP growth, and lower consumer costs. Over the past five years, the 30% increase in domestic oil production has occurred overwhelmingly on private and state lands. The amount of federal land leased for mineral rights decreased 20% since 2008. Only 38 million acres of federal land are now leased, compared to 131 million in 1984.",0_0
"a) If the surface layers and deep sea is verladdade compared with tillstnden corresponding chemical jmvikt from one course a lngsam tergng to jmvikt vein in the atmosphere, but it does not depend on the carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere but on the tillfrs from the oceans.",0_0
"Ice coverage on the Great Lakes reached 85.4 percent on Feb. 18, marking the second winter in a row that ice coverage has exceeded 80 percent. This figure has fluctuated up and down slightly since then and was at 88.8 percent as of Feb. 28. Of course, last year the Great Lakes went on to record their second highest total ice coverage in records dating to 1973.",1_1
What are the prospects for a bipartisan approach to U.S. involvement in the major international initiatives?,0_0
CEI Experts Available to Comment: Adjunct Scholar Zachary Courser on how public perception has shaped the history of Wal-Mart.,0_0
"As a result, unsuspecting business and home owners continue to buy, build and rebuild in areas that are increasingly at risk from hurricanes, northeasters and ""perfect storms"" of natural and political events. And as the population density increases in this NY-NJ area, the ability to evacuate people plummets, especially when roadways, tunnels and other escape routes are submerged. Let the buyer beware.",0_0
"But if ice covered the earth all the way to the tropics during what is known as the Marinoan glaciation, how did the planet spring back from the brink of an ice apocalypse? Huiming Bao, Charles L. Jones Professor in Geology & Geophysics at LSU, might have some of the answers.",0_0
"The continent has a long history of rainfall fluctuations of varying lengths and intensities. The worst droughts were those of the 1910s, which affected east and west Africa alike . They were generally followed by increasing rainfall amounts, but negative trends were observed again from 1950 onwards culminating, in West Africa, in 1984 .",1_7
"But that's not the main issue. The main issue in the suit is Mann's appeal to authority in the first place. He cites the various government investigations as reasons why, as the DC Superior Court put it, ""to question intellect and reasoning is tantamount to a accusation of fraud."" Mann's goal is to make it a legally punishable offense to question a scientist's honesty or even his thinking method.",0_0
"At the start of the analysis in 1984 the CO2 level was 344 ppmv, and at the end of 1997 it was 363 ppmv. If we take the IPCC value of 3.7 W/m2, this is a change in forcing of log(363/344,2) * 3.7 = 0.28 W/m2 per decade. If we assume the sensitivity determined in my analysis (0.08C per W/m2 for the NH), that gives us a trend of 0.02C per decade from CO2. This is smaller than the trend error for either the NH or the SH.",0_0
"James Edward Kamis is a Geologist and AAPG member of 41 years and who has always been fascinated by the connection between Geology and Climate. Years of research / observation have convinced him that the Earths Heat Flow Engine, which drives the outer crustal plates, is also an important driver of the Earths climate.",0_0
"It's not that this time members of the intellectual class have been swept away by passion and become votaries of anger and loathing. Alas, intellectuals have always been prone to employ their learning and fine words to whip up resentment and demonize the competition. Bush hatred, however, is distinguished by the pride intellectuals have taken in their hatred, openly endorsing it as a virtue and enthusiastically proclaiming that their hatred is not only a rational response to the president and his administration but a mark of good moral hygiene.""",0_0
"Not according to international law, by which the nations of the world have ""common but differentiated responsibilities"" to fix global warming. That's a diplomat's way of saying that 30 developed countriesout of 193 statesare responsible for global warming, because they have been emitting GHGs longer than the other 160 countries.",0_0
"I cannot speak for The News Hour, but I do know that for me and most other journalists covering climate change, there came a time when scientists like Singer and Michaels no longer were credible.",0_0
"Maybe. More than anything, it brings to mind the joke that a New York Times headline on Armageddon would read: ""World Ends, Women and Minorities Hit Hardest.""",0_0
"Of course, it is possible that EPA simply doesn't have enough resources to meet its congressionally-directed responsibilities. I investigate this possibility in the study by reviewing EPA's priorities as set forth in the budgeting process. The evidence demonstrates that the EPA never has given priority to timely performance of its date-certain duties. Instead, the EPA's budgets over the last 15 years have placed increasing importance on fighting climate change, which is largely a discretionary choice.",0_0
"The actual implementation of the rules would not apply to cars and trucks made before the 2008 model year."" Pavely argues that ""We need to do our fair share as the fifth-biggest economy in the world,"" especially since President Bush has refused to submit the Kyoto Protocol to the Senate for ratification.",0_0
"Conscience is not a passive barrier but an active force; though it can hold us back, it can also drive us on. Moreover, conscience comes not from without but from within: though culture can trim the fringes, the core cannot be changed. The reason things get worse so fast must somehow lie not in the weakness of conscience but in its strength, not in its shapelessness but in its shape.",0_0
"But the point of PR isn't to talk about nonlinear operators; instead, the state-dependent operators are meant to be completely linear. But their precise form matrix elements vis-a-vis a basis someone gave you depends on the ""situation"". You may try to ""beat"" this state-dependence by defining operators that apply to all situations and that are allowed to be nonlinear. But you should not do such a thing because this goes totally against the lesson you should have learned from the state dependence. The lesson is that you should only use some field-like operators for a neighborhood of a microstate only for a limited subspace which is obtained from a given microstate by a simple action of a polynomial or another simple function of field operators.",0_0
"These arguments have merit but must be measured against the reality of carbon growth. Consider China: Its carbon emissions increased by an average 8.6% a year between 2002 and 2012. Were China to continue at this pace for 27 years until it reaches today's U.S. GDP per capita, it would emit 99 gigatons of carbon in 2041 alone, or three times the world's current emissions.",0_0
"If the EPA proceeds with the regulation of heat-trapping gases, factories, small businesses and institutions would be subject to costly regulation...",4_1
"In a telephone interview, Smith summed up these facts by simply saying that ""while we can talk about mature or relatively undisturbed rainforest, there is no such thing as virgin tropical rain forest any more.""",0_0
"And furthermore, Hockey Schtick reports on a new paper that shows an ice sheet on the northern tip of Greenland has remained unchanged or grown slightly in the last few years:",1_1
Romm Man Made CO2 Equals 36.5 Billion Nuclear Bombs Per Century,0_0
Consider some of the ways in which environmental behaviors echo religious behaviors and thus provide meaningful rituals for Greens:,0_0
"It appears that Osborn had no valid answer to these questions as his answers were either unresponsive or evasive or attacks on me. First, here is Osborns answer as to why they didnt use the Shiyatov data:",0_0
Adjusting facts to fit the theory: road to harmony or hypocrisy?,0_0
"The costs of regulations are factored into the products we buy everyday. As regulations become more and more burdensome on businesses, the more expensive our products become. From high tech electronics, such as smartphones, to grocery store purchases like deodorant, the cost of regulations are passed on to us, the consumer.",0_0
"5. CFLs contain tiny amounts of mercury, and so EPA has a four-step program on how to clean up a broken CFL! First step: ""Open a window and leave the room for 15 minutes or more."" I suspect EPA is overdoing it, but who am I to argue?",0_0
"Although considerably colder, Antarctica ice cores reveal a slight warming over the last 1,300 years. Yet the Vostok ice core indicates that over the last 5,000 years there were periods when temperatures were above present time, considerably (below chart).",2_1
reconstruction??? It would help the cause to be able to refer to that,0_0
Higher Carbon Dioxide Levels Benefit Sea Stars,0_0
alters the cost-benefit balance in favor of competition;,0_0
I hope that at least one more reader will find the required spare time to watch it.,0_0
"In his presentation to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Hans von Storch outlines a number of issues with the IPCC and suggests possible solutions. I thought these were pretty interesting, particularly the bit where he discusses dealing with dissent - I've added emphasis to the ""ouch"" bit.",5_2
"In natural sciences, knowledge is obtained by validating the content of one's mind according to the facts of reality. Truth then corresponds to reality. In philosophy the world is largely artificial, and truth is redefined to mean coherence among ideas much along the views of the philosopher Immanuel Kant. Hence a dogma can be constructed by ignoring reality, and rather appealing to authority or consensus as invalid substitutes for reason. In philosophy hypotheses can be proposed, validated, and accepted without reference to facts (Sanford, 1992). We see that most often the treatment of what is normal or natural is lacking from the environmental ""dooms,"" and that we only are told what is ""abnormal"" or ""unnatural"" without an indisputable baseline reference.",0_0
"?They are standing alone here, as ourselves and other independent forecasters are all predicting a colder-than-average winter.",0_0
"This leaves the single cold outlier. Its implied deflation (Non-Logo initialization) is about 0.76 psi a typical amount observed in Exponents deflation simulation. Ironically this illustrates a major problem in Exponents deflation simulations: if the12 Patriot balls had been deflated according to the Exponent simulations, they would all be in this range. Instead, eleven of 12 balls are way above this level. On the other hand, the pressure (temperature) is too low to be explained simply by the use of the Logo gauge.",0_0
"the unambiguous failure of the atmosphere to warm anything like as fast as predicted by the vast majority of climate models over the past 35 years""",5_1
Australias antarctic runway melting | Maribyrnong Weekly,0_0
The Hadcrut3 average anomaly so far for 2013 is 0.388. This would rank 12th if it stayed this way. 1998 was the warmest at 0.548. The highest ever monthly anomaly was in February of 1998 when it reached 0.756. One has to go back to the 1940s to find the previous time that a Hadcrut3 record was not beaten in 10 years or less. The anomaly in 2012 was 0.406 and it came in 10th.,1_4
"Therefore, because the factors were not correctly considered in the past, we can immediately conclude that the scary projections made by the IPCC for the 21st century were falsely calculated and are thus likely grotesquely exaggerated.",5_1
A Perspective on Weather and Climate Science by S. Raghavan,0_0
"Yet the climate models used by the IPCC for their 5 th Assessment Report cannot simulate the additional warming of the North Atlantic, as shown in Figure 27. As a result, they have to more than double the warming rate for the rest of the global oceans. See Figure 28.",5_1
"The nonsense predictor mentioned above (number of available grid points) scores RE=46% (and CE=23%), which is more than any of the flavors ever approaches in the 100 random samples. And it is not unlikely that other nonsense predictors score even higher. On this background, the originally reported 51% of verification RE are hardly significant. This has already been claimed by McIntyre and McKitrick (2005b) in a slightly different context. In addition to that study, we have derived more stable estimates of verifiable scores for a whole series of model variants, the optimum of which (1120) scoring with RE=25%7% (90% confidence).",0_0
"Figure 2.Projected changes in temperature and precipitation for the 2050s. Left: United Kingdom Hadley Center. Right: Canadian Center for Climate Modeling and Analysis. Source:Rosenzweig and Solecki, Climate Change and a Global City , 2001.",0_0
Note that Imagining 10 dimensions is also a blog.,0_0
"Isis Solar is hoping to change that. Last month it hit the headlines by announcing that it is to start handing out the panels for free saving you the full 11,000- 15,000 the average PV solar panel system costs to install. And that's not all: Isis will fit them and maintain them for 25 years too. All you need to qualify for this fabulous sounding deal is 24sqm of south-facing, completely unshaded roof space.""",0_0
"Given the remarkable similarity between my emulation and the actual 2006 regional chronology, one wonders whether CRU might have been better off merely producing the regional chronology. CRU purported to justify its refusal on the grounds that they had been working on the regional chronology since 2006 and were still working on it. Schmidt purported to justify their regional chronology work as follows:",0_0
"?Notwithstanding the carefully orchestrated propaganda to the effect that nothing much will be decided at the UN climate conference here in Cancun, the decisions to be made here this week signal nothing less than the abdication of the West,? declared science-policy expert Lord Monckton after reading one of the draft documents. ?The governing class in what was once proudly known as the Free World is silently, casually letting go of liberty, prosperity, and even democracy itself,? he added. ?No one in the mainstream media will tell you this, not so much because they do not see as because they do not bloody care.?",0_0
Global Yinyang: Lack of snow proves warming as does prolific snow,0_0
"""Speeding along at 206 mph, dairy products salesman Ji Qiyuan said he appreciated the convenience of the high-speed train that was getting him to this booming manufacturing center in a half-hour.""",0_0
"What unites these two groups according to HVS is that is that they see the scientific bestmda truth as the highest authority. There is no grskala, no opportunity for deviation from this truth. I interpret HVS's that he believes that the BDA these groups have avlgsnat themselves from the basic principle that scientific knowledge is provisional and always ifrgasttas (a basic principle that I sjlv find vldigt important). He continues:",0_0
"""The Sierra Club and its allies don't just want to outlaw the Keystone Pipeline (which would be in itself a horrible economic blow), they want to outlaw all fossil fuels."" Epstein said. ""Incredibly, they also want to shut down nuclear and hydroelectric power, which are the only sources of affordable, reliable energy that don't emit CO2. They push solar and wind, but these are expensive, unreliable energy sources that are not up to the task of powering the American economy.""",4_4
I plan to write a few words about the insightful and entertaining colloquium by Frank Wilczek - once I have some time.,0_0
"The report is now entering a 45 day public comment period. You can be sure, Hansen, McKibben, Brune and the rest will see this as a 45 day propaganda period. They will deny the facts, deny reality and do anything to deny Americans and Canadians the many benefits that will flow through this pipeline.",0_0
The NOAA Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean (TAO) Project website includes data for two temperature-related datasets for the equatorial Pacific. See their Upper Ocean Heat Content and ENSO webpage for descriptions of the datasets. The two datasets are Warm Water Volume (above the 20 deg C isotherm) and the Depth-Averaged Temperatures for the top 300 meters (aka T300). Both are available for the:,0_0
Democrat in Missouri to Oppose Health Care Law:,0_0
CEI Experts Available to Comment: Technology Director Clyde Wayne Crews and Policy Analyst Brooke Oberwetter on how private solutions can provide the best cybersecurity.,0_0
an unknown variable that climate scientists still do not understand,0_0
"Despite the fact that over half of the town's households participated, electricity use actually rose by 8 percent. Once people realized they could keep their lights on at lower cost, they kept them on longer.",0_0
"These scientists came to the same conclusions the global warming trend is done, and a cooling trend is about to kick in.",1_2
Martin BODKER ENGHOFF & Henrik SVENSMARK: Effects of Cosmic Ray Decreases on Cloud Microphysics,0_0
"The moral of the story is that in American politics, change and rejuvenation are the nature of the beasteven a Republican elephant that's feeling weary these days.",0_0
"I am committed to furthering technological research to find other ways, other sources for ethanol. We're working on researchstrong research to figure out cellulosic ethanol that can be made from wood chips or stalks or switch grass. These materials are sometimes waste products that are just simply thrown away.",0_0
"Roughly 83% (biomass and hydro) of the ???renewable?? energy touted above isn??t favored by many present day environmentalists. Hydro-electric power production, while having low carbon dioxide emissions, upsets environmentalists for other reasons ??? so throw that out, noting that hydro was not included in California??s renewable energy targets. Wood-biomass is hated by many environmentalists as well, and ethanol (included by the EIA as a subset of biomass) is hated by almost everyone. Roughly 90% of the energy included in biomass came from those sources.",4_4
"Casting serious doubt upon alarmist U.N.-IPCC projections that the Alps will be nearly glacier-free by 2100, Schlchter poses several challenging questions: Why did the glaciers retreat in the middle of the 19th century, although the large CO2 increase in the atmosphere came later? Why did the Earth tip in such a short time into a warming phase? Why did glaciers again advance in the 1880s, 1920s, and 1980s? . . . Sooner or later climate science will have to answer the question why the retreat of the glacier at the end of the Little Ice Age around 1850 was so rapid.",2_1
"A wind chill of minus-17 degrees greeted senior environmental officials from the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan and the South Pacific in Ottawa last Wednesday as they went behind closed doors for two days of talks to try to reignite burned-out negotiations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Over the next week, more talks are expected in Oslo, Norway. The aim appears to be an agreement in time for French President Jacques Chirac's meeting with President Clinton when they meet in Washington Dec. 18.",0_0
"Source: Cancun: Global Hysteria, Wealth Redistribution",0_0
"Were certainly not the only ones criticising the emphasis on catastrophe in science reporting. The Tyndall Centres Mike Hulme an eminent and high-profile climate scientist, and certainly no denier (although we wonder how long it will be before he is labelled as such) has been saying it loudly for a year or two. In his new book, he also laments how political ideologies, beliefs and arguments hide behind science in climate debates. This is one reason we are so surprised that this all comes as such a surprise to you.",5_2
"The three Chinese researchers concluded that because ""both the number and the size of turion, the most important storage and reproductive organ, increased significantly"" in the elevated CO 2 treatment, this phenomenon would enhance the ""population-increasing rate of V. spinulosa ... in the next growth season and would benefit its dominant species role."" Reviewed 22 March 2006",3_3
"Carl Sagans Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence comes to mind with regard to the Younger Dryas claims but I have to admit, based on the global warming consensus, that this fundamental principle of science seems to have been trumped by politics and media attention in the past. I do remember the long struggle involved in getting the Alvarezs theory of a catastrophic asteroid impact causing the end of the Cretaceous and extinction of the dinosaurs accepted. No matter how much physical evidence was gathered from around the world, acceptance (a much stronger word to me than consensus) didnt happen until the smoking gun of the Cretaceous impact was located at Chicxulub in the Yucatan. Once the crater had been found, resistance to the asteroid theory rapidly crumbled and it is generally accepted as fact by most scientists today, though there is still a small minority of deniers.",0_0
A Cost/ Benefit Analysis of Reducing the Number of Additional Carbon Emitters aswell as Average Per Capita Carbon Emission,0_0
"While both sides agree that Hamas must be dealt with, however, the question of tactics remains touchy. Most of the Israeli leadership maintains that the Palestinians themselves must dislodge Hamas before any final settlement can be achieved. But the more reflective Palestinians suggest that Israel is once again asking the PA to treat the symptoms while ignoring the disease.",0_0
Shova has another suggestion: Take us to your country if it gets bad here. Evan Sarkar prefers Canada: Theyve got more space.,0_0
"RealClearPolitics - Articles - Panel on Friday's Events in the House ""The Wall Street Journal"" had a poll a couple of weeks ago that Fred was lampooning me about, but it was correct, that Obama had a 65-35 lead on the energy issue. Last week--this week, the Quinnipiac organization came out in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida, and said it's now 1/3, 1/3, 1/3. In other words, the climate has changed in McCain's direction, and now you're seeing Obama realizing that he's menaced by this energy issue, and I think he's making adjustments--not big adjustments. And it will be fascinating to see how the environmental community responds to this yielding, and to the position of the gang of ten. I mean, what they want to do--the gang of ten senators are willing to drill only 50 miles offshore, which is much closer to shore than the Republicans' position. Now, I would say that the environmental movement will go crazy about that, and come out against the measure.",0_0
"""Europe and its children, the white-skinned cultures of the temperate zone, began to confront the tropical world more than five hundred years ago, driven by a craving for profits. Commercial capitalism spread worldwide from northwestern Europe, promoted by gunboats and colonial bureaucrats."" (Lessons, Richard P. Tucker, pp. 39-40)",0_0
"The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak on April 11, 1965 involved 47 tornadoes (15 significant, 17 violent, 21 killers) hitting the Midwest. It was the second biggest outbreak on record. In the Midwest, 271 people were killed and 1,500 injured (1,200 in Indiana). It was the deadliest tornado outbreak in Indiana history with 137 people killed. The outbreak also made that week the second most active week in history with 51 significant and 21 violent tornadoes. The tornado which hit Midway trailer park is disputed to be an F5, as 25 homes were literally and figuratively wiped off the face of the earth, with no signs of them ever found.",0_0
"UN scientists said today they are '95 per cent' certain that climate change is man made, but still could not explain why the world has barely got any hotter in the last 15 years.",1_4
Google's growth online reflected by expansion in Mountain View:,0_0
"An assumed radiative forcing of 4 W/m2 would thus lead to a warming of 4/15 C, which is less than 0.3 C, thus a factor 10 smaller than IPCC's most likely value of 3 C.",3_1
"During the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover damaged the economy, and impoverished the American people, with costly, artificial attempts to stimulate the economy through increased government spending, financed by heavy taxes like the Revenue Act of 1932.",0_0
Empirical evidence shows that Earth is currently greening significantly due to additional CO2 and a modest warming.,3_3
"What a difference that extra 120 ppm has made for plants, and for animals and humans that depend on them. The more carbon dioxide there is in the atmosphere, the more it is absorbed by plants of every description - and the faster and better they grow, even under adverse conditions like limited water, extremely hot air temperatures, or infestations of insects, weeds and other pests. As trees, grasses, algae and crops grow more rapidly and become healthier and more robust, animals and humans enjoy better nutrition on a planet that is greener and greener.",3_3
"Global warming and climate change are usually thought to mean that world sea levels will rise, perhaps disastrously. But according to US government boffins, in recent times (2010 and 2011, to be precise) phenomena driven by human carbon emissions have actually caused world sea levels to fall.",1_6
"His experience reveals how easily regulatory agencies can be corrupted by minority interest views using an alleged ""crisis"" of their own making to propel themselves into positions of even greater power and influence at great involuntary expense to the rest of us.",0_0
"In a paper Global warming preceded by increasing carbon dioxide concentrations during the last deglaciation , Shakun et al .( Nature 2012) contend that rising temperature at the end of the last Pleistocene glaciation were preceded by increasing atmospheric CO2. In his usual masterful fashion, Willis Eschenbach has dug deeply into the data used in the paper and shredded the conclusions in it (see http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/04/06/a-reply-shakun-et-al-dr-munchausen-explains-science-by-proxy/",5_1
"The trend difference means, that from 1979 to 2008 the CO2-rise per year compared to the global temperatures has fallen 0,5 ppm/year, or the other way around: It now takes approx. +0,15 K global temperature anomaly more to achieve the same level of CO2 rise/year as it did in 1979.",2_3
less self-serving than the role traditional great powers have played. U.S.,0_0
There is a clear pattern of repeated death threats and hate speech from very high profile people attacking sceptics. Plus individuals have received hate mail just for being sceptics. In January 2013 David Bellamy revealed that the:,5_2
"On a completely different issue, I've heard that there's a rumor going around Aspen that the Tevatron will be announcing discovery of gluon + b b + Higgs, which would then require large tan( beta ), which would fit the MSSM. I guess we'll find out in a couple of weeks. At 5:50 pm, this rumor was confirmed to me in a private communication with a particle physicist who is even more famous and whose name will remain secret but if you omit ""a"" and ""the"", the titles of his newest 6 papers at SPIRES begin with ULGDSL (starting from the newest one). ;-) He is skeptical about the rumor but heard it, noting that the statistics is supported by 3 bottom-quark events.",0_0
Government suffers first setback as arbitration court says it is competent to judge claims,0_0
However reality and comon sense are absent when climate panicmongering is afoot. So Jersey run off is due to climate change even though there has been no warming for 18 years? And Sierra shows no trend to increased rainfall at all?,1_4
"The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) has learned of a UN plan recently put in place to hide official correspondence on non-governmental communication accounts, which a federal inspector general has already confirmed are subject to FOIA requests. This ""cloud"" serves as a dead-drop of sorts for discussions by U.S. government employees over the next report being produced by the scandal-plagued IPCC, which is funded with millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars.",0_0
"In 2007, Chesapeake Energy discontinued the ""Face It: Coal Is Filthy"" campaign, due to Congressional pressure.",0_0
But that is not enough to generate the climate crisis the IPCCs founding document orders it to demonstrate: so the IPCC assumes the existence of several temperature feedbacks additional forcings f n demonimated in Watts per square meter per Kelvin of the direct warming that triggered them. The IPCC also imagines that these feedbacks are so strongly net-positive that they very nearly triple the direct warming we cause by adding CO2 to the atmosphere.,5_2
"""In his final days as Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger bestowed a goodbye gift to the High Speed Rail Authority (HSRA), he used a line item veto to remove most performance requirements for the HSRA to obtain budget funding. Bottom line what Schwarzenegger is proposing is to skip the planning and go straight to doing.""",0_0
"Not content to report the weather, the Weather Channel's Heidi Cullen has become a global warming pundit, recently appearing on Larry King Live, where she seemed to say (incorrectly) that melting sea ice contributes to sea level rise.",0_0
Australias antarctic runway melting | Bombala Times,0_0
terrified that it might fall into the hands of the Rat-People. They,0_0
"Bill Gray was also a famous climate realist who passed away in April. He was a professor at Colorado State University who was a world renowned expert in hurricanes. Of course it was not possible to dwell on the physics of hurricanes if it got in the way of CTBS. Naturally the baloney storm called for more destructive and frequent hurricanes caused by CT. Bill would have none of that, which put him on the wrong side of the fashion that CTBS induced.",0_0
"To sum up, the IPCCs anthropogenically-forced CMIP5 climate models can broadly explain observed air temperature trends on land but fall woefully short of explaining observed SST trends in the oceans, where over 99% of the heat in the atmosphere and oceans is stored. Others may disagree, but I think this invalidates the models. Again.",5_1
"His Linderholm, associate professor of physical geography at Gteborgs University, says that large and rapid svngningar climate is nothing unusual. He has underskt rsringar from trees which remained buried in the mud on the bottom of the Swedish fjllsjarna and compared them with trees from Tibet, writes Gteborgs-Posten.",0_0
"THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER: ""San Bernardino halts pension fund payments""",0_0
"It turns out that the belief in a sensitive climate is not because of the observational evidence, but in spite of it. You can start to learn more about the evidence for low climate sensitivity (negative feedbacks) here .",3_1
"House Global Warming Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey (D-MA) was outraged that a renegade freelance lobbyist had sent a dozen phony letters to members of Congress, urging them to vote against cap-and-trade legislation.",0_0
"We live on an ocean-covered planet, yet somehow the hows, the whens, the wheres, and the extents of the warming (and cooling) of the surfaces of our oceans seem to have eluded climate modelers. For the past few years, we have been presenting how poorly the climate models (used by the IPCC) simulate sea surface temperatureslong-term comparisons (example here ) and for the satellite-era. But in those cases, we presented modeled and observed sea surface temperature anomalies . In this post, we presented satellite-era sea surface temperatures, not anomalies, and this has pointed to other climate model failings, which further suggest that simulations of basic ocean circulation processes in the models are flawed.",5_1
"Snow accumulated to a depth of more than one meter in places ??? Pyrnes-Atlantiques in Haute-Garonne (Aspe Osseau). Above 1800 meters, snow thickness reached 1.50 meters and 3.10 meters at Gavarnie station located 1850 meters.",1_3
"Since Virginia is already a nuclear-friendly state that properly manages the risks of nuclear power, what sense does it make for the state to ban the safest step in the nuclear fuel cycle?",0_0
"However, those other countries have for the most part massively increased their emissions from 1990 levels, wiping out the big nations' reductions. If the EU does not meet its collective target, as seems almost certain, then under Article 4 of the Kyoto Protocol itself, each individual country becomes responsible for a reduction of eight percent. At least 12 of the 15 EU countries concerned are on target to breach this target, nine of them spectacularly (having emissions increases of between 20 and 77 percent).",0_0
"Only, until now, very little has materialized $18 million to be precise. Most of the money coughed up by industrialized nations has gone to large economies like China and India to finance mitigation in the form of energy efficiency (translation: slightly less polluting coal-fired power stations than before).",0_0
As you can see (if you click image for the closeup) the boatyard to the SW is completely dry. Mudflats are around the station every direction except SE.,0_0
"The mismatch between rising greenhouse-gas emissions and not-rising temperatures is among the biggest puzzles in climate science just now. It does not mean global warming is a delusion. Flat though they are, temperatures in the first decade of the 21st century remain almost 1C above their level in the first decade of the 20th. But the puzzle does need explaining.",1_4
have retreated a lot in the last 20 years yet the MSU2LT data would suggest,0_0
"There was, in fact, a fairly rapid decrease in Arctic sea ice extent sea ice extent over the last few years.But thelosses werealmost entirely recovered in an unprecedented ice build-up of Arctic sea ice in the last months of 2007 and the first months of 2008",1_1
"Several readers have asked me to respond to recent comments about me at Real Climate : briefly, Osborn has made one misrepresentation after another and made statements with seemingly complete indifference as to whether he has any basis for making the claims.",0_0
1) the relationship between air pollution levels and human health/mortality,0_0
"But here Obama made a troubling transition. The next sentence out of the president's mouth was: ""But the bulk of our efforts must focus on unleashing a new, clean-energy economy that will begin to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, will cut our carbon pollution by about 80 percent by 2050, and create millions of new jobs right here in America.""",0_0
"I wanted to add realclimate.org to the graph but these days Alexa doesnt bother to hold graphical stats for them anymore. Their rank in the US is currently 73,088 a whisker behind the Talkshop which is currently at 70,588. :) :)",0_0
"""It is not because treatment is not financed; it is because of different legal systems."" In a statement the hospital said it was ""not prepared to risk astronomical damages or a massive increase in premiums."" Seeburger emphasised that the restrictions only affected people not domiciled in Switzerland.",0_0
So some geological shifting can happen (has happened many times) and the global sea level can be modulated by 10 m or 33 feet? The entire freeze / thaw cycle can be shifted by salinity changes? Oh Dear! Talk about your climate change!,2_1
"The global warming debate has been cast by Green activists as a moral battle between greed and profit versus saving the planet. The dynamics of the debate are slowly changing, however, as businesses are beginning to pay lip service to the claim that the production of goods and services is destroying the planet. Businesses that make the switch are transformed from public enemy, in the eyes of Green activists, to venerable icons. Few commentators suggest, however, that the profit-seeking impulse that drives businesses' initial resistance to government regulation may be at work in their apparent change of heart.",0_0
"Even if you have no scientific background whatsoever this is clearly wrong. Any observed increase in temperature at these stations must surely be due to the local, man-made heat sources rather than any purported change in the climate. It is extraordinary that these stations have found their way into the IPCC's temperature records without being noticed corrected.",5_1
"Of course, you wont be told any of this by the BBC, Joe Romm or the rest of the Team.",0_0
"And policies in these new and old forests are harming humans and wildlife. Bans on cutting down most ""old-growth"" or mature trees results an abundance of big trees with leaves that deer can't reach. The trees also block sunlight for other vegetation that deer could eat. This necessitates deer ""eat out"" more often, heading through traffic to rummage through gardens.",0_0
"on Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 at 10:41 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
In this case all the latest web browsers with the latest Java SE software will have to do the same thing.,0_0
"U.S. Climate Scientists ""Adjusting"" Surface Temps To Make Global Warming Theory ""Work"" Are Not Alone",5_2
He fills the false journalistic need for balance on the topic,0_0
"The shutdown ofthe seven reactors, which were deemed completely safe just a few months earlier, and so were granted extended operating times,will now result in much more coal-burning, which of course will increase Germanys CO2 emissions by a staggering 4% .",4_5
"We can also ignore the second. It's a free country and anyone who wants to reduce their CO2 emissions is welcome to do so. But you don't need regulation for that. In fact it is a contradiction in terms to seek new regulations that would ""impose"" voluntary controls. When the push for voluntary action comes from industry it inevitably disguises either a plea for subsidies or jockeying for the formation of a state sanctioned cartel. We will discuss the problem of the ""Carbon Cartel"" below.",0_0
"The assumption that temperature feedbacks would double or triple direct man-made greenhouse warming is the largest error made by the complex climate models. Feedbacks may well reduce warming, not amplify it.",5_1
At present the worldwide burden of human ill-health from climate change is relatively small compared with effects of other stressors and is not well quantified.,0_0
Mitch McConnell Wins Praise In Unlikely Corners Back Home,0_0
"And if the proposed actions offer the potential of sizeable wealth transfers to political allies? That is far more than mere icing on the cake. Whatever the weakness of the evidence on greenhouse gases (GHG) and climate effects, the real goal of carbon policy is a regional redistribution of wealth, a reality that explains the inability of Congress to enact such policies since the Clinton administration, when a ""Sense of the Senate"" resolution rejecting the Kyoto Protocol was approved by a margin of 95-0. President Obama too was unable to convince even a fully Democratic Congress to adopt such policies, and so he now proposes that his Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy implement regulations reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (GHG).",0_0
New EPA rules to devastate coal industry:,0_0
"For any objective reader and citizen of the world, this sort of bullying ought to inform everyone that science and its practice are now no longer free and willing. In fact, we are constantly being terrorized and threatened by the research funding gravy trains and large resources needed for science to progress and prosper. This is a scientific dark age we are living in because no more scientists of Professor Rossiters caliber are speaking out and telling the whole truth on any matters scientific. The idea of atmospheric CO2 being the one sure control knob for climate and future disasters is profoundly wrong not only on scientific grounds but also on the moral and ethical grounds that Professor Rossiters op-ed in WSJ has exemplified. Thank God that the United Nations and various scientific institutions will not be able to silence us because we will never let them do that .",5_2
"The best way to implement this idea is to provide some empirical tests. It would be nice if, say, Mayor Bloomberg's foundation kicked in $10 million as a prize for the next New York City election in 2013 to see what impact that had on turnout in New York. Or perhaps a small state or a city could try its own version of a vote lottery, using a combination of public and private funds. If people are willing to stand in line for hours to get a precious Mega Millions ticket, it is reasonable to assume that they would take the steps necessary to vote to have a chance at the same dream. Plenty of Americans go the extra mile, sometimes literally, to cast their vote. But lots of others do not. Adding an incentive to bring more of the latter to the polls would enhance democracy, not trivialize it.",0_0
He said he would like to see scientists settle the question of what would happen to sea-level rises and the polar icecaps as a result of climate change.,0_0
Jones (2005) examined the geological (and other) aspects of coastal erosion in the region. He concluded:,0_0
"Of course, 1980 might not be a representative place to start. What we really need to look at are the trends leading up to that year. So what do the GISS records tell us for the period leading up to 1980?",0_0
"The hypothesis of man-made global warming has existed since the 1880s. It was an obscure scientific hypothesis that burning fossil fuels would increase CO2in the air to enhance the greenhouse effect and thus cause global warming. Before the 1980s this hypothesis was usually regarded as a curiosity because the nineteenth century calculations indicated that mean global temperature should have risen more than 1C by 1940, and it had not. Then, in 1979, Mrs Margaret Thatcher (now Lady Thatcher) became Prime Minister of the UK, and she elevated the hypothesis to the status of a major international policy issue.",5_1
"Rachel Marsden, Human Events , 24 July 2011",0_0
"Next, volcanoes. The IPCC says that the effect of volcanoes over the period was to cut down the amount of sunshine hitting the surface, reducing the total downwelling radiation.",0_0
"During high temperatures, heat-sensitive pika will seek refuge beneath the cooler talus. However Stewart argues such behavior reduces critical foraging time and thus possibly reduces winter survival. Perhaps. During extreme warm days, pika are known to become crepuscular, restricting their foraging to the twilight hours. However if that is the key mechanism, then using the average temperature is simply wrong. The average temperature is amplified by minimum temperatures of the early morning when overheating is not a problem. If Stewart was sincerely concerned about induced heat stress, then the correct metric would be the afternoon maximum temperatures. But maximums were not even considered in Stewarts choice of models.",0_0
"To understand why temperatures have gone up in the last couple of decades, you need to understand why they went down in the first place. And to understand that, you also need to understand the great ocean cycles, the PDO and AMO.",0_0
"Statement from Pachauri: everything that we look at and take into acount in our assessments has to carry the credibility of peer-reveiwed publications, we dont settle for anything less than that.",0_0
"By Colin Fernandez, Daily Mail, UK, Aug 6, 2015",0_0
way he uses the quotation ignores the entire point of the article. For,0_0
"The UK researchers determined that ""the majority of the largest and most widespread recorded floods in Great Britain have occurred during cool, moist periods,"" and that ""comparison of the British Holocene palaeoflood series ... with climate reconstructions from tree-ring patterns of subfossil bog oaks in northwest Europe also suggests that a similar relationship between climate and flooding in Great Britain existed during the Holocene, with floods being more frequent and larger during relatively cold, wet periods."" In addition, they say that ""an association between flooding episodes in Great Britain and periods of high or increasing cosmogenic 14 C production suggests that centennial-scale solar activity may be a key control of non-random changes in the magnitude and recurrence frequencies of floods."" What it means",1_7
"Environmental protection has come a long way since the early 1970s. Pollution is much reduced, and care for the environment is widely shared and supported at least in Europe. Sensible policies and respectable pressure groups are the best way forward to solve the remaining environmental problems. Green radicals risk throwing that away.",0_0
"Here's an interesting presentation by Dr. R. Steve Nerem, who is well quoted in the article: ""Why has an acceleration of sea level rise not been observed during the altimeter era?"" R. Steven Nerem (University of Colorado) Here's the link: http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com/fileadmin/documents/OSTST/2011/oral/02 Thursday/Splinter\%203\%20SCI/04\%20Nerem\%20ostst 2011 nerem.pdf One has to wonder what all the excitement is about if for the last twenty years there has been no acceleration of the rate. Couple that with the fact that it's rather easy to determine that there's been a good deal of inflating the rate of sea level rise by those same CU Sea Level Research Group scientists. Simply put the URL of their home page (http://sealevel.colorado.edu/) into the Internet WayBack Machine (https://archive.org/) and see for yourself. This archived time line:",0_0
GDP loss of $146 billion in 2030,0_0
NORTH DAKOTA 85% of electricity; 9th in coal production,0_0
"455 km (285 miles) NNW of Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, Japan",0_0
"There are no computer models that can be created to prove GW beyond any doubt. The earth, the atmosphere, the ocean, other planets, etc. are far too complicated for any scientist to create a computer model that takes in all aspects of our universe.",5_1
"In concluding the report of their research, the five Portuguese scientists say they ""can state that although C. siliqua seedlings exhibit clear signs of oxidative stress under drought and high temperature, they retain a remarkable ability to quickly restore normal physiological activity upon rehydration, which let us believe that they can satisfactorily deal with predicted climate warming and increased soil drying in the Mediterranean area.""",3_2
"The comparison in Figure 3 shows that observations particularly since 2005 are on the low end of the envelope that contains 90% of the climate model simulations. Extrapolation of the current flat trend would place the observations outside of the 90% envelope within a few years. While the observations remain within the substantial range of the climate model simulations, the trend in the model simulations is substantially larger than the observed trend over the past 15 years.",5_1
"For example, Babcock et al., found that the time to initial detection of direct effects on target species was 5.13 1.9 years . Note that this was the time to initial detection, not the even longer time required to reach a doubling of population. When compared to the much greater effects claimed for the GBR over two years, the latter do indeed appear to be extraordinary .",0_0
"One key problem is the sheer difficulty in building new power plants in America today. Politically powerful green lobby groups object to the building of any new plant that does not use some form of renewable energy, yet renewable energy cannot meet demand for power on its own. They also object to nuclear power stations because of their supposed danger, even though modern nuclear plants have an impeccable safety record. And they oppose coal-fired plants because of their alleged contribution to global warming.",4_4
"Pummeled by Obama policies that have helped send regular gasoline prices skyrocketing from $1.85 a gallon when he took office to $4.00 today many motorists will welcome any perceived bargain gas. E15 will likely reduce their obvious pump pain by several cents a gallon, thus persuading people to fill up their cars, trucks and maybe even boats, lawnmowers and other equipment with the new blends.",4_1
"So whats the basic thing that were actually trying to conserve in regards to solar input and terrestrial output? The real physical quantity we want to conserve is energy , not flux. Energy is a fundamental unit of physics, while flux always depends upon the particular, real-time, local situation. So if we assume that, on average, the input and output energies are equal, which they should be, then we can consider such energies for any particular second. Considering any particular second is convenient since this allows us to directly convert the energy into flux later on.",0_0
"The accelerated warming interpretation by the IPCC shown in Figure 1 was based on the comparison of the global warming rate of the recent warming period with the global warming rates of longer periods that consist of this warming period and previous cooling-followed-by-warming periods. As the global warming rate for the current warming period is necessarily always greater than those of all the other longer periods with greater denominators, the IPCC was comparing oranges to apples.",5_2
"While EV promoters may argue the environmental merits of their favored vehicles, they cannot argue the industry's lousy economics. Those troublesome numbers are the reason why Shai Agassi, founder of an electric-car company called Better Place, is now out of a job. In July 2008, Thomas Friedman of The New York Times dubbed Agassi, a former executive at SAP, ""the Jewish Henry Ford,"" who was launching ""an energy revolution"" that would end the world's ""oil addiction.""",0_0
"Curiously, Paul Voosens October 2011 article Provoked scientists try to explain lag in global warming includes quotes from a handful of well-known climate scientistsincluding Kevin Trenberth. Voosen had this to say about Trenberths opinion of ARGO:",1_4
adverse reputational consequences for the individual scientists involved in this work and the University itself if disclosure had been effected.,0_0
"In 2006 less CO2 was added to the atmosphere than in 1983. In 1980 more CO2 was added to the atmosphere than in 2004. Why is that? Im sure that the worlds human population has increased its output of CO2 significantly since the 1980s. Where did it go? Why does the growth rate change from year to year? Biology? Algae in the sea? I dont know, just asking. And why does nobody else ask this?",5_1
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has no effect on climate above 50 parts per million (ppm).,2_3
The Washington Times: Internet sales taxes attack states' rights,0_0
"""Farmer John Tos proposed three alternate options for the California high-speed rail line at a community forum Thursday.""",0_0
"Lest that seem overly skeptical, let me read the opening paragraph for a brand new book by the National Academy of Science, titled: Completing the Forecast: Characterizing and Communicating Uncertainty for Better Decisions Using Weather and Climate Forecasts:",0_0
Time magazine suggested that the reason the winter is so cold is because the Arctic reflects sunlight. Except the Arctic doesnt get much sunlight during winter. Oops.,0_0
"""Reckless"" and ""mindless"" are certainly some of the terms that occurred to me after watching Gore's slide show. Some glaciers are receding, but others (omitted from his slides) are advancing. No one knows what causes glaciers to advance and retreatthe physics are complex and much more is involved than simply air temperature.",0_0
"As you can see, rather than increasing, the rate of sea level rise has dropped in recent years. And while it may well start to rise again, it is certainly not accelerating as the AGW hypothesis requires.",1_6
"L.A. Police Union Urges Members to ""Stand in Solidarity' With SEIU and MoveOn.org:",0_0
"It's a go! The frequency of freeze overs has historically been around once every 20 years. Now, in the last decade, we have seen two ...""",0_0
"""The U.S. government has 15 different agencies overseeing food-safety laws, more than 20 separate programs to help the homeless and 80 programs for economic development.""",0_0
"In Hurricane Sandy's aftermath with millions freezing hungry in dark devastation Mayor Bloomberg sidetracked police and sanitation workers for the NYC Marathon, until public outrage forced him to reconsider. While federal emergency teams struggled to get water, food and gasoline to victims, companies, religious groups, charities, local citizens and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie worked tirelessly to raise money and organize countless relief efforts.",0_0
"The situation has come to a head recently with the debate over the new regulations proposed by the Obama Administration's EPA to restrict greenhouse gas emissions from coal-powered plants. The new EPA action requires a regulatory catch-up that could well shut down a large fraction of the existing facilities, many of which should have, and would have, been shuttered years ago. The political landscape is further complicated by a fierce response from companies who operated in reliance on the old regime and are now fighting the EPA's regulatory initiative.",0_0
Nearly half the people who say they believe in global warming base that on personal observations of the weather. Climate researchers say thats reaching the correct conclusion for reasons that arent quite right.,0_0
"Converting millimeters into inches, in 2005, the net contribution of Greenland ice mass changes to sea level rise is about 0.009 inches. This rate of ice mass loss translates into about 1 inch of sea level rise per century. Therefore, CEI's message is correct: When both sides of the story are presented, the case for alarm collapses.",1_6
"Fayyad's internal reforms and endorsement of international nonviolence play well with many Israelis. Many cite him as the sort of Palestinian who will be necessary to the development of good bilateral relations. A number of Israeli officials have even compared him to Israel's own founding father, David Ben Gurion, who is credited with developing the political, military, economic, and social institutions of nationhood before full statehood itself became possible. But he has also shown a sharp tongue in criticizing Israeli actions in Gaza and at the negotiating table. He has called for Palestinian laborers to reject work on Israeli settlements, led a ban on Israeli settlement products in the Palestinian economy (making it illegal to sell hundreds of Israeli brands in Palestinian-controlled areas), and sought to mobilize European sentiment against admitting Israel to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. None of this has endeared him to Israeli officials.",0_0
Let's look at the concerns Africans raise about biotech:,0_0
"Thus T is the global average surface temperature and T is a departure from that temperature in response to a radiative forcing f. It appears in Equation (1) as a thermodynamic proxy for the thermodynamic state of the earth system. As such, it must be tightly coupled to that thermodynamic state. Specifically, changes in T must be proportional to changes in the radiation emitted at the top of the atmosphere on climate time scales. However, where is this temperature and its change with time, T, diagnosed and is it closely coupled?",0_0
"It has been 27,658 days since the most powerful hurricane to ever hit the US struck. CO2 was well below the safe level of 350 ppm at the time.",1_7
"Third, the aim of ""Earth-system stability"" is scientifically absurdundefined, unnatural, and unachievable. Natural systemsespecially coupled non-linear chaotic fluid-dynamic systems like Earth's climateare not, never have been, and never will be stable. Nobody knows what ""Earth-system stability"" would look like. Climate change is Earth's natural state; climate stability is science fiction.",2_1
"It is hard to see poorer countries maintaining and even improving their growth records without vibrant economies in the West. The developed world, with America at its core, remains a key market for their goods and the most important center for global innovation.",0_0
Global WarmingThe Great DelusionMatt Patterson's op-ed on Fox News & RealClearPolitics,0_0
"""Canada's privacy commissioner said Tuesday that Google's recent Wi-Fi sniffing was a serious violation of Canadians' privacy rights and included the collection of personally identifiable information.""",0_0
"Let's look at the numbers. As I wrote in these pages on June 3, the EPA's proposal aims to cut U.S. carbon dioxide emissions by about 720 million tons over the next 16 years. But that reduction will amount to a drop in the global carbon dioxide bucket. According to the new BP numbers, in 2013 alone, global CO2 emission rose by 630 million tons. In other words, in one year, global CO2 emissions rose by nearly 90 percent of the reductions being proposed by the EPA.",0_0
The framework of this study provides an excellent approach to assess the importance of teleconnections due to human alterations in regional diabatic heating such as documented in,0_0
"Google Trends: ""climate crisis"",""watts up with that"" At this point, staking your political career on this hoax is beyond insane.",0_0
<5315> Jenkins/MetO:,0_0
"By Robert MacPherson, Washington (AFP), Aug 11, 2015",0_0
"In addition, the reef tour industry regularly uses only about 2 dozen out of the 2500 reefs of the GBR and, on those which are used, the actual area visited would only be about 1% of the area of even those reefs. Unfished reefs to optimize scenic value for tourism could easily coexist with an order of magnitude greater fishing effort, and no detriment at all to tourism. The attribution of total tourism value to the reef is no more justifiable than attributing it to the similar numbers who visit the rainforest or who eat seafood meals while visiting the region.",0_0
"""In the face of high energy prices and concerns about global warming, environmentalists and planners offer high-speed rail as an environmentally friendly alternative to driving and air travel. California, Florida, the Midwest, and other parts of the country are actively considering specific high-speed rail plans.",0_0
"As the atmospheric CO 2 concentration increases, it is likely that wheat plants will begin to reap benefits from this phenomenon almost immediately after seedling emergence. Rising CO 2 levels should increase cell division and elongation, thus spurring leaf expansion and biomass production to a greater degree than what is occurring under today's ambient CO 2 concentration. Thus, it is likely that these collective responses will result in larger plants, which should also produce greater harvestable yields, as the CO 2 content of the air continues to rise.",3_3
"on Monday, June 6th, 2011 at 8:45 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Hokitika : Was noted for grossly inaccurate readings in 1912, as well as 1919 and 1926. The enclosure was twice criticised as too small and was greatly expanded in 1928.",0_0
"For many reasons, Keyness eminently sensible idea never caught on and instead, around the same time his book was published, probability theory bifurcated into two antithetical paths. The first was called frequentism : probability was defined to be that number which is the ratio of experiments in which A will be true divided by the total numbers of experiments as that number of experiments goes to infinity 1 . This definition makes it difficult (an academic word meaning impossible ) to answer what is the probability that Joe , our Joe, likes Butterfingers. It also makes it difficult to define the probability for any event or events that are constrained to occur less than an infinite number of times (so far, this is all events that I know of).",0_0
The US government says that the country has warmed significantly over the last 50 years due to rising greenhouse gases.,2_3
"The talk-ocracy: The combined voices of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham reach millions of Republicans five days a week, morning, noon, and night. As they proved during the failed immigration debate of 2007, they can torpedo ideas with great ease.",0_0
Chart 3 shows some of the industries that would see significant job gains as a result of a federal pro-energy policy.,0_0
EPA runs enormous political risks leading the charge for GHG regulations not approved by Congress. It is in the Agency's best interest not to oppose legislative action to overturn the endangerment finding and Mass. v. EPA.,0_0
"13 But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, `God, have mercy on me, a sinner.",0_0
"The problem with the ECGs is much the same as that with bridge. There are many variations of normal that can be influenced by all kinds of factors that have nothing to do with the heart. Nearly identical looking patterns can result from very different pathological conditions. So, once again, judgment comes into play with practically every ECG interpretation. It will always be so and I doubt that the computer programs will ever be able to achieve a level of accuracy much beyond what they offer now.",0_0
"The commission is funded by several major foundations known for promoting the interests of the wealthy elite: the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and its partnersThe Pew Charitable Trusts, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the Energy Foundation.",0_0
"12. Richard Lewontin, ""Dishonesty in Science,"" New York Review of Books (November 18, 2004): 39.",0_0
"For example, when scientists analyzed the relationship between atmospheric CO2 levels and temperatures dating back 250,000 years, inferred from ice cores drilled in Greenland and the Antarctic, they found that sometimes the concentration of CO2 was high when the temperature was low, and sometimes the CO2 was low when the temperature was high.9 Moreover, a careful analysis showed that some of the atmospheric CO2 changes did not precede the temperature changes, as the greenhouse warming theory would predict. Instead, changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide followed the temperature changes. The atmospheric CO2 changes were not the cause of the temperature changes; the CO2 changes were likely driven by vegetation changes in response to natural variations in air and sea-surface temperatures.",2_3
The Corn Ethanol Boondoggle Continues -- See the EPA's Latest Rule,0_0
How and why will temperature change in the next few decades? Future near-term climate change will vary because of both natural and anthropogenic influences. Her model predicts a warming of 0.4C by 2030.,0_0
to prevent competitors from getting funded or published. Like,0_0
Here is how a polar bear chooses inside a team of walruses . And another video shows how a seal needs some air . Bad luck.,0_0
"Under what circumstances would politicians commit to leaving these funds to compensate a politically heterogeneous and unorganized constituency like the poor, rather than using them to finance narrow and more rewarding political agendas? Indeed, some far more cohesive and powerful industrieslike transportation and manufacturingwill be negatively affected by any GHG regulations. Local politicians will be quick to respond to their concerns. Any preferential regulations and exemptions to such harmed constituencies within countries in turn will undermine any global agreement.",0_0
"Question: What are the quantitative trends in surface absolute humidity for the sites used to construct the global surface temperature trends, and what is the uncertainty that is introduced if this information is not available?",0_0
"There are better, more cost-effective ways to improve and protect the nation's air quality.",0_0
"Regardless, the empirical temperature observations that NASA documents clearly indicates that the monotonous increase in atmospheric CO2 levels have had little impact on long-term (30 years) temperature change.",2_3
"Many developing countries are growing far more rapidly than are the developed ones that are asked in COP meetings like the one in Warsaw to assume most of the abatement costs. Those growing economies, however, are the major sources of new emissions. Populations in developing countries also are increasing, while in developed ones, population growth is far less and populations are aging with important implications for future economic growth, GHG emissions, and abilities to bear the costs of regulation.",0_0
"by Bob Carter, David Evans, Stewart Franks & Bill Kininmonth",0_0
I felt she believed what she was saying but was left with the impression that she was pushing her own theory of arctic amplification and also the oceans absorbing the recent warming without any realisation that the statistics of extreme events appears to contradict much of where she is coming from.,0_0
What kind of circulation change could lock Europe into deadly summer heat waves,0_0
"The recent paper of Allen et al. does a careful job of estimating errors in forward projections of global temperatures from earlier calculations on global circulation models of the atmosphere. Given the simple question are the models doing a good job or not the increasing level of sophistication needed to defend them is of concern. For many of us, a temperature stasis of 17 years is enough to suggest that the models are not as robust as some of their advocates maintain.",5_1
"Droughts, famines, and heatwaves and much harder to quantify. The effects are devastating and impacts can span just a couple months or stretch to a decade or more. Some historical drought/ famines with loss of life include:",0_0
"At any rate, their musings have nothing to do with the actual technical questions or the truth value of the energy conservation law or any other scientific question, for that matter.",0_0
"Warmer winters have significant environmental and economic implications, and a wide range of research indicates that pests and plant diseases, usually killed back by sharp frosts, are likely to flourish. But very little research has been done on the cultural implications of climate change into the possibility, for example, that our notion of Christmas might have to shift.",0_0
"Saleska, S.R., Didan, K., Huete, A.R. and da Rocha, H.R. 2007. Amazon forests green-up during 2005 drought. Science xpress : 10.1126/science.1146663. Background",0_0
"The Transport Secretary, Philip Hammond, is seeking the opinion of the chief scientific adviser about whether the government should be planning for more severe winters in future.",0_0
"The second disadvantage cannot be eliminated. Selecting one data set when 5 are available increase error. Period. There are some valid reasons for discounting available data. For example, if some data are known to be of poor quality or in error, one can justify leaving it out of an analysis. So, for example, had NASA GISS failed to correct the Y2K error recently discovered in their data, this might be good reason to leave it out of the analysis. However, if reasons are valid, the reasons can be stated up directly, and should be.",0_0
"It was similar in the Soviet Union, he said. Who could doubt Marxist economics was the future? Everything else was in the dustbin. ( source )",0_0
"Horn quite rightly points out that if so much money was being directed to skeptics, then there would have been more success in challenging the propaganda.",0_0
"""Serious question: Is this just desperate eleventh-hour excuse-making or is she actually starting to believe it?""",0_0
"The policy they propose ""is an international system of emissions permits and fees for the use of fossil fuels."" The authors propose that governments give businesses a certain number of permits. If a business needs more permits, it can purchase them. The authors suggest that the permits be sold at $10 per ton of carbon, which would translate into $6.50 per ton of coal and $1.40 per barrel of crude oil. The ""user fee"" would be set by international agreement. The authors argue that this is a sensible policy because it gives a clear economic incentive to reduce emissions. Businesses that reduce emissions sufficiently can sell their permits.",0_0
"For ease of use and immunity from political meddling, the carbon tax is the clear winner.",0_0
"More importantly, the 2008 PIC website disclosed donors' names and employment, along with the amount of their donations. The Federal Election Commission's deadline for disclosing this information was not until April, but the 2008 PIC did it in real time.",0_0
"Finally, some of the richest ore bodies are found in the Amazon including iron, manganese, cassiterite, bauxite, gold, copper and nickel. And there is also great hydroelectric potential in the area with 45% of Brazil's hydro potential in the Amazon basin. (de Miranda, p.159)",0_0
"Manufacturers will be particularly hard hit due to their reliance on low cost electricity and because of their dependence on natural gas as a raw material, as both electricity rates and natural gas prices increase. According to Nucor steel, a 1 cent increase in electricity rates costs the firm $120 million. These extra costs could endanger a million manufacturing jobs outside of the coal and utility industries. Utility MACT will also have a negative ripple effect. Just to bring up one example, in Avon Lake, Ohio, the closure of the local GenOn power plant will cost the school system 11% of its budget annually. Besides the 80 high-quality jobs lost at the plant and many indirect jobs lost in the community, the city will have fewer resources for its paramedic and firefighting services. This story will be replicated at communities across the country.",4_1
"Heidelberg Professor Ulirke Ackermann Warns German Green Movement Is ""Paternalistic, An Enviro-Dictatorship""",0_0
"In the end, I see nothing that says CO2 caused global warming in the Asia data and I see little changed between v1 and v3. That increased slope in the Northern Hemisphere data can now only be carried by either North America or Europe or both. Asia didnt change.",2_3
I spent WAY too much time in business school and as a consultant deconstructing businesses and industries into processes and frameworks. It is interesting to see something we geeks think of as unstructured and creative (e.g. humor) deconstructed scientifically as well.,0_0
How Californias Green Policies Create Energy Poverty,4_4
The net temperature change over the period is zero. There has been no warming or cooling during US summers since the start of records in the 1890s. The 1930s were by far the hottest decade.,1_4
"WITHIN the scientific community it has generally been accepted that as a continent, Antarctica, has been getting colder or at least not warming. Those who subscribe to the general consensus that climate change is driven by manmade carbon dioxide emissions, and that the world is generally getting warmer, have claimed this is not inconsistent with their greenhouse gas theory or the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) models. They have explained that Antarctica is a general exception to the global trend because of a loss of ozone in the polar stratosphere.",1_1
"In April, our AEI colleague Newt Gingrich wrote an article called ""We Can Have Green ConservatismAnd We Should"" in which he discussed a number of values which he classified as green conservatism. Among these were the belief that economic growth and environmental health are compatible, and that positive environmental outcomes will be realized faster by working within market structures than via regulation and litigation. And Newt is not alonewhile many will argue that Governor Schwarzenegger has failed when it comes to adopting market-friendly means to environmental ends, he has certainly shown the political viability of embracing the values and the outcome goals of his environmental constituents.",0_0
Click for Tim Balls legal defense fund.,0_0
"Here is an updated version of my 2000 prediction. My qualitative prediction was that extrapolation of past temperature and PDO patterns indicate global cooling for several decades. Quantifying that prediction has a lot of uncertainty. One approach is to look at the most recent periods of cooling and project those as possibilities (1) the 1945-1975cooling, (2) the 1880-1915 cooling, (3) the Dalton cooling (1790-1820), (4) the Maunder cooling (1650-1700). I appended the temperature record for the 1945-1975 cooling to the temperature curve beginning in 2000 to see what this might look like (see below). If the cooling turns out to be deeper, reconstructions of past temperatures suggest 0.3C cooler for the 1880-1915 cooling, about 0.7C for the Dalton cooling (square), and about 1.2C for the Maunder cooling (circle). We wont know until we get there which is most likely.",1_2
"Heres the full relevant text from Thomas Jeffersons Notes on the State of Virginia, query VII (1781):",0_0
"Recent research suggesting this includes A. T. De Laat, et al. 2004. ""Industrial CO2 emissions as a proxy for anthropogenic influence on lower tropospheric temperature trends.""",0_0
RealClimate Raises the Bar AGAINST Climate Models The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE,0_0
"The ClimateGate affair the publication of e-mails and documents hacked or leaked from one of the worlds leading climate research institutions is being intensely debated on the web. But what does it imply for climate science? Here, Mike Hulme and Jerome Ravetz say it shows that we need a more concerted effort to explain and engage the public in understanding the processes and practices of science and scientists.",5_2
"I shall elaborate on the presentation by Dr Christensen in Part 2, to be posted in the next day or two.",0_0
"10 hours ago Australias $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a new air link to the frozen continent. The Wilkins ...",0_0
"""Climate Astrology' Takes Hold: Japanese scientist Kanya Kusano, a Program Director and Group Leader for the Earth Simulator at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology, has publicly declared that man-made climate fear promotion is now akin to ?ancient astrology.?",0_0
A new report written by Dr David Whitehouse and published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation concludes that there has been no statistically significant increase in annual global temperatures since 1997.,1_4
"Morano: ""Climate activists think we need more taxes & regulation to somehow stop bad weather...Mayor Bloomberg said we need to take immediate action to prevent bad weather. This has now reached the level of the Mayan Calendar and Nostradamus.",5_2
"Ball briefly discusses some of the difficulties of validating a climate model, and points out that some of the problems are stated in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), and have not been resolved after 25 years of IPCC reports. Yet, Western governments are on a push to reach an agreement of carbon dioxide emissions, even though the leaders, who ignore critical elements of the reports, and their scientists have failed to complete the basic science. See links under Challenging the Orthodoxy.",0_0
"This should make the policy calculation a simple one. Given that increasing the price of energy is among the most regressive regulatory/tax burdens, policymakers truly concerned about ""catastrophic anthropogenic global warming"" and also about human standards of living, should advocate the approach less harmful to seniors and the poor and simply propose higher energy taxes. Instead, however, policymakers tend to promote more complex, far more expensive approaches for appearance purposes, regardless of the ancillary costs of that decision.",4_1
Sierra Rayne performs a complex economic analysis/comparison on Northeastern Carbon trends. He hit on something.,0_0
"Opponents of the development of a major supermarket at Maleny, in south-east Queenslands Sunshine Coast hinterland, are hailing extensive research they believe may sound the death knell for the development.",0_0
"Background. From November 2 to 14, 1998, delegates from 160 nations gathered at the Fourth Conference of the Parties (COP-4) in Buenos Aires to debate the operational rules for implementing the Kyoto Protocol. The Protocol would require the United States to reduce its energy-related emissions 30-40 percent below levels otherwise projected for the years 2008-2012. Almost everything about the treaty is controversial including its scientific underpinnings, estimated costs, and political feasibility.",0_0
"David Bier: Based on the number of words, the president is twice as committed to gun control as immigration reform. Might be good prediction of his efforts for the next term.",0_0
A recent NASA report throws the space agency into conflict with its climatologists after new NASA measurements prove that carbon dioxide acts as a coolant in Earth's atmosphere.,2_3
"The observed warming trends at mid-latitudes, with no warming near the equator, suggest that warm water was distributed poleward by ocean currents. In the Pacific, that happens when El Nio events dominate, which was the case during this period, causing the excessive distribution of warm water toward those latitudes. Refer to this comparison of Pacific trends on a zonal-mean basis for the periods of 1944 to 1975 and 1976 to 2011. Its Figure 8-32 from my ebook Who Turned on the Heat? From 1944 to 1975, El Nino and La Nia events were more evenly matched, but slightly weighted toward La Nia. During that period, less warm water was released from the tropical Pacific by El Nios and distributed toward the poles. But from 1976-2011, El Nio events dominated, so more warm tropical waters were distributed to the mid-latitudes.",2_1
"In the words of the authors, ""the relationship between landslides and climate, namely more cold and humid conditions, has been known and described long ago, and is once again evidenced in this paper."" In addition, their latest findings serve to strengthen the now-voluminous real-world evidence for the millennial-scale cycling of climate that has most recently ushered in the Modern Warm Period and its welcome respite from the ""slip-sliding away"" Swiss slopes of the Little Ice Age.",2_1
"* Water is a precious resource. So, conservationists should smile at how little water fracking requires compared to other energy sources. According to the U.S. Energy Department and the Ground Water Protection Council, it typically takes three gallons of water to produce 1 million British thermal units of energy from deep-shale natural gas/fracking.",4_5
> >> >>sectors and Bank investments. A report which summarizes,0_0
Recently the Pentagonlapdogs at the Pentagon made the preposterous and poorly founded claim that warming was a national defense problem of major proportions.,0_0
"A recent IHS Global Insight report documents that, in the United States alone, fracking has already created 1.7 million new direct and indirect jobs, with the total likely to rise to 3 million jobs over the next eight years. It's added $62 billion to federal and state treasuries, with that total expected to rise to $111 billion by 2020. And by 2035, it could inject over $5 trillion in cumulative capital expenditures into the economy, while generating over $2.5 trillion in cumulative additional government revenues.",0_0
"After more than three decades of being told that the Earth was dangerously heating up by people like Al Gore and the UNs Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, there are more voices warning that the current cold cycle that will last, at a minimum, several decades.",1_2
"To say that Marx must be turning in his grave would be to flatter Higgins, whose New Ageism hardly amounts to any substantial supposition. Whatever the usefulness of natural things like flowers, trees and rocks, they are only valuable in so far as they satisfy the needs and wants of human beings ? whether that involves cutting down trees for wood, picking flowers to decorate our homes, or climbing rocks to enjoy the view.",0_0
"In looking at the unrealistic trends presented by the models, consider that climate models do not simulate the processes of El Nio and La Nia properly. See the discussion of Guilyardi et al (2009) here .",5_1
"It shows general trends between model and observations reaching more or less the same end point, but with significant divergences along the way. Youd probably get a better feel for this by graphing a rolling average.",0_0
"The ref 2 uppstller Abreu et al a model for how the interaction between gravity from the planets in the solar system causes a force moment on the sun. It postulates that there is an ellipsoidal shell in the sun, being massaged by this moment of force, and this affects the solar magnetflt. If the layer is a sfriskt shell has no torque sdan effect. Pongen years ago that the strength of torque reservoirs on television or several planets is on the line. I have not fully grasped the mechanics of Abreus model, but it seems beslktat that we get spring tide on earth (.lnk) No mnens and solar gravity interact. Abreu from peaks in periods from 88, 104, 150, 208 and 505 r, and concludes that there is a causal link between the planets moments on the sun and the observed magnetic activity on the solar surface. Observed intended in this case p from 9 to 400 r backwards in time, and bokfrt ldersbestmt frekomsten of the radioactive isotopes 10 Be and 14 C formed by the cosmic strlningen.",0_0
I reviewed the climate sensitivity estimates of the Fourth Assessment Report and noted that only Forster and Gregory 2006 was free of the influence of models. I then observed that once one had replaced the IPCC's fiddled figure for the Forster and Gregory estimate with the value those authors had actually calculated one could see that the range of estimates used in the the PAGE model (the one used by Stern) did not even include the range of Forster and Gregory.,3_1
Natural components account for <15% of warming since 1890. Claims that the sun has caused as much as 70% of recent warming presents fundamental puzzles. It requires that,2_1
owns the global monopoly of calibration of all CO2 measurements.,0_0
Additionally Dr. Christy??s testimony addressed the hundreds of years long natural climate variation of severe droughts in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California and the Rocky Mountain upper Colorado River basis. His testimony showed that the western U.S. will likely see increasing droughts in the coming years because of natural climate variation reflecting patterns long exhibited in the regional paleoclimate drought record as noted below from his testimony.,1_7
"DR. SPENCER: From what little I've looked at that, I haven't been real convinced of the connection between the sunspot number and the temperature records. I think the correlation -- you know, when you've only got a couple of cycles to look at, you've got, you know, you've have the possibility for just an accidental correlation. Also, you know, the change in solar radiation during the solar cycle is only a tenth of a percent which is just awfully small. You know, what we are talking about here is forcings more on the order of a percent. So I just don't see what the connection would be. Although I never say that something's impossible unless, you know, I've really studied it. And even then it's a matter of how much I'm convinced rather than when I'm totally convinced. But, no, I don't place much emphasis on solar variation.",0_0
"Declaring that science is politics in climate change; climate science is politics, Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday urged Indian scientists to undertake more studies and publish them vigorously to prevent India and other developing countries from being led by our noses by Western (climate) scientists who have less of a scientific agenda and more of a political agenda . ??? Indian Express, 9 June 2011",5_2
"And third, I dont think the AGW enthusiasts consider the costs and benefits of AGW amelioration versus the other possibilities . If preventing a sea level rise of one meter means dooming future generations in the Third World to sickness, hunger, and darkness, its not worth it.",4_1
"Are land temperatures really rising that rapidly? Let's take a look at what some independent experts from UC Berkeley came up with. Their ""BEST"" project calculated that land temperatures are rising at a rate of +0.5 F/decade. Really, no matter how you slice and dice the actual temperature observations, you get roughly the same answer.",0_0
"JC comments: Stevens and Bony make the important point that adding complexity to Earth Systems Models (e.g. carbon cycle, atmospheric chemistry, more complex land surface processes) doesnt help improve the fundamental deficiencies of climate models.",5_1
"15.	""The deactivation of atomic power plants as fast as possible."" No, nuclear energy is the electricity source of the future.",0_0
"GPP is Gross Primary Production , a measure of the daily output of the global biosphere ???the amount of new plant matter on land. NPP is Net Primary Production, an annual tally of the globe??s production. Biomass is booming. The planet is the greenest it??s been in decades, perhaps in centuries.",3_3
"Hence, S.J.Res.26 would ""roll back"" and ""undermine"" the Clean Air Act.",0_0
The most serious concern is a major conflict of interest involving all of the 21 authors.,0_0
"on Tuesday, October 29th, 2013 at 10:36 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"In Article # 1, SEPP Chairman Fred Singer discusses some of the issues regarding sea level rise and why it is difficult to be precise. In summary, unless solid observational evidence is offered otherwise, there is no reason to assume that 21 st century sea level rise will be greater than 20 th century sea level rise namely about 7 inches (18 cm).",1_6
These facts infer that the acceleration is not regional in nature as would be expected if related to regional atmospheric or ocean warming. Geological surface maps of the Svalbard islands show a highly faulted and folded terrain created by geological forces associated with the nearby world-class rift system.,0_0
It was warmer in the Middle ages* and medieval climate change in Greenland was much faster.,2_1
iied has a blog post on adaptation in Bangladesh Reality check: climate change and the poor . Excerpts:,0_0
Republicans the First to Introduce Mercury Reduction Legislation,0_0
"He had a deep calming voice that always carried a stabilizing message of rationality and realism. I'll miss that. We both wondered in our many email dialogues about the strange phenomenon where CTBS induces anti-science authoritarian bullies to pretend to represent science. He never complained about his lot in this, always keeping his courage, but he did wonder, like me, when the madness would end.",0_0
"Pelejero et al . report ""there is no notable trend toward lower ?? 11 B values"" over the 300-year period investigated. Instead, they say that ""the dominant feature of the coral ?? 11 B record is a clear interdecadal oscillation of pH, with ?? 11 B values ranging between 23 and 25 per mil (7.9 and 8.2 pH units),"" which ""is synchronous with the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation."" Furthermore, they calculated changes in aragonite saturation state from the Flinders pH record that varied between ~3 and 4.5, which values encompass ""the lower and upper limits of aragonite saturation state within which corals can survive."" Despite this fact, they report that ""skeletal extension and calcification rates for the Flinders Reef coral fall within the normal range for Porites and are not correlated with aragonite saturation state or pH ."" What it means",3_2
Germany and the Netherlands were gripped by near-record lows this past winter. People suffered frostbite and some froze to death in Poland and Russia.,0_0
"""The phenomenon of ""atmospheric backradiation' is presently advanced as an explanation of thermal conditions on Earth, and as the basis of some statements about climate change. However, scientific evaluation in strict accord with the laws of physics and mathematics suggests that ""atmospheric backradiation' is physical nonsense.",0_0
"Hansen's claims challenged: See Hansen takedown & ""The ten worst floods in history'",0_0
"I don't go to the movies. Normally, that would be sufficient reason to ignore the topic. However. I'm finding myself becoming quite irritated with the breathless media reports about the premature/accidental/clandestine release of every new book in the series. I mean, are they really this goddamned stupid? May 6, 2003 ;",0_0
"A court document issued Wednesday evening says Claude Walker, attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands, has agreed to withdraw his subpoena demanding documents and emails from the oil company related to its discussion of the risks posed by climate change.",0_0
Haley Barbour: The Mississippi governor earned high marks for his handling of Hurricane Katrina. The thickest accent either side of the Mississippi doesn't hurt in a party that likes its presidential nominees to come from the Sunbelt/Dixie.,0_0
"Plus then there??s the error problem. For example we saw this summer that Honolulu set new record highs, but they turned out to be in error . The kicker is that NOAA let the records stand anyway! The problem is that a number of climate stations are at airports. Watch this NWS employee say on record that these airport weather stations are ??? placed for aviation purposesnot necessarily for climate purposes.",5_1
"But is Haiyans destruction the result of man-made global warming? Most likely not. The U.N.s own Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes 2012 report on managing the risks of extreme events reported, Low confidence in any observed long-term (40 years or more) increases in tropical cyclone activity, and noted that there is low confidence in attribution of any detectable changes in tropical cyclone activity to anthropogenic influences. Additionally, the report stated that it is likely the global frequency of tropical cyclones will either decrease or remain essentially the same in response to global warming. The report also suggested that average wind speeds may increase later in this century, but not necessarily in all regions.",1_7
"Why is this important? Under a UN timetable, nations have an informal deadline to submit national plans for limiting greenhouse gas emissions of March 31, 2015. This is the date set by UN bureaucrats to give them time for a thumbs up or down review before the big Paris summit.",0_0
"In the United States, the oil and gas industry does get approximately $4 billion per year in federal handouts. These payments should be eliminated.",0_0
"Trenberth pointed to a study published in March by the Journal of Geophysical Research that showed that for more than 70 percent of the land researchers had surveyed worldwide, the number of warm nights each year had increased and the number of cold nights had declined, between 1951 and 2003. The researchers, led by Hadley Centre scientist L.V. Alexander, concluded, This implies a positive shift in the distribution of daily minimum temperature throughout the globe.'",0_0
"Ice Ages and Sea Level Watts Up With That? According to these calculations, the Earth is at the beginning of a 20,000 year plunge into the next ice age. Re: Now They Tell Us - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online I was at an investing conference where one of the panelists basically said: all this talk about electric cars and solar panels and such is great, but what we're talking about here is ""a 50-year solution, not a five-year one."" Just in time for Malia Obama's inauguration.",1_2
"Rudolf Kipp at the skepticalwebsite Science Skeptical here writes about one of the incredible (but very real)absurdities of Germanys EEG renewable energy feed-in act, which forces power companies to buy all green power that gets produced, whether needed or not, and even power that doesnt get produced.",4_2
"The effects of weak solar activity have been notable. The United Kingdom just suffered through a winter with temperatures 5 to 10 degrees C below normal, and German meteorologists report that 2013 has been the coldest year in 208 years. (1)",1_3
"Even Christina Figueres, DeBoers successor at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, could proclaim victory. She wants to keep the planets temperature from rising more than the internationally agreed maximum of two degrees Celsius. That goal has arguably been reached already. There has been no detectable increase in average global temperatures for 16 years.",1_4
"The hottest days measured in Sheffield were 1976 and 1990, when a record of 34.3 was set. in contrast, the highest temperature in the last decade was 31.4C.",1_7
"The emissions-reduction commitments by developed countries in the Cancun pledges cannot effectively curb climate change, nor does it reflect their historical ethical responsibility, which still accounts for greater than half of the total climate change impacts by 2005, despite the rapid growth in emissions from the developing world, they say.",4_2
"How can a young man without even a Masters degree become an IPCC lead author? Good question. . . Rather than recruiting real experts like Reiter the IPCC enlisted young, inexperienced, non-experts instead.",0_0
"But whereare carbon tax proponents, particularly conservatives, wrong about carbon taxes? The answer provides a much longer list.",0_0
"All that probability can do for you in cases like this is to clean up the estimates of how much better D might be than P in new groups of patients. As long as no cheating took place and the patients were balanced, the textbook methods will give you reasonable answers. But suppose the disease the drugs treat is not as simply defined. Lets write what we just said in mathematical notation so that certain elements become obvious.",0_0
"This observation, of course, is a crisis for CAGW alarmism and therefore must be solved by a computer model. The authors simply create a hydrological model programmed to say that the reason why sea levels have decelerated is because it must be raining more over land due to ENSO and therefore the land ate the 31% decrease in sea level rise . The authors admit there is no data to support land water stores prior to GRACE since ~2003, therefore they just fabricate estimate the comparison data for the period 1994-2002 of how much sea level rise was ameliorated by land precipitation. Abracadabra, the land must have more than eaten the sea level rise from AGW, allowing it to decelerate, and the AGW ""missing heat"" is still very much alive somewhere in the ocean.",1_6
"For instance, the Media Access Project, citing that other big-media bogeyman Clear Channel, argued that loosening up media ownership rules would allow the radio company to ""select music based on whether artists pay Clear Channel promotional fees or""here comes the kicker; italics added ""whether Clear Channel agrees with their politics or message.""",0_0
"Texans might be elated at their good fortune; however, the IER study points out that individual consumers ""still lose from the existence of the wind subsidies."" It states: ""It's not as if the IRS takes the population of Texas and divides $394 million among them, evenly. Rather, the wind subsidies are concentrated in the hands of a small group of wind producers."" As a result, wind serves as a tax shelter for large corporations.",0_0
"In his research, Lu discovers that while there was global warming from 1950 to 2000, there has been global cooling since 2002. The cooling trend will continue for the next 50 years, according to his new research observations.",1_2
"Kosciusko-Morizet said the new agency was a key to the success of the ""Rio+20"" conference, designed to assess the two decades that have elapsed since the Rio Summit which nailed the environment to the political agenda.",0_0
"There have been computer programs available for about thirty years that provide ECG interpretations. Our hospital purchased one of them when they first became available. The thinking was that this would replace the interpretations that my partners and I had been supplying before. But the diagnoses provided by the computer were so inaccurate that someone in the legal department advised the administration that they needed to be overread by qualified humans. That has continued to this very day. So I have been looking at ECGs and the computerized interpretation thereof for many years. And just like the situation with the computerized bridge games, there has been very little improvement in the accuracy of these computerized ECG interpretations. I would estimate that I have to make corrections on at least 80% of the computer readings that I review. Some of these are rather minor but at least 20-30% of them are serious errors that could have some clinical importance.",0_0
"?If cities can develop in height rather than in width that would be much more preferable and environmentally not as harmful?, Fragkias said.",0_0
"Another useful website, featuring a 17-expert online debate discussing the credibility of the IPCC report, can be found at http://www.law.pace.edu/env/energy/",0_0
"An upward shift in global surface temperatures would definitely help the models for a few years, but, because the global surface temperatures warmed in a step, the hiatus period that followed would again cause a continued divergence between the models and the real world. See Figure 3 for a model-data comparison starting in 1979 and running through 2030.",5_1
the ISSI workshop. All this leaves the IPCC almost entirely dependent on CO2,0_0
?How much do you agree or disagree with the following statement: ?Global warming is affecting weather in the United States??,0_0
"The IPCC concedes for the first time that a 15 year-long period of no significant warming occurred since 1998 despite a 7% rise in carbon dioxide (CO2). It also acknowledges that on a longer (more climatic) time scale the rate of global warming has decelerated since 1951, despite an accompanying 80 ppm or 26% increase in carbon dioxide (312 to 392 ppm).",1_4
"Remove impediments to liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. Currently, companies must obtain approval from both the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Department of Energy (DOE) before exporting natural gas. A facility is automatically authorized if the recipient country has a free trade agreement (FTA) with the U.S. In the absence of an FTA, the DOE can arbitrarily deny a permit if it believes the volume of natural gas exports is not in the public's interest. The decision to export natural gas should be a business decision, not a political one. The U.S. trades regularly with a number of non-FTA countries, and natural gas should be treated like any other globally traded good.",0_0
"As I like to say, taking measurements of the climate system is much easier than figuring out what those measurements mean in terms of cause and effect. Generally speaking, it?s not the warming that is in dispute?it?s the cause of the warming.",0_0
Pachauri's flights stretch to the moon (and back),0_0
"The CO2 data come from the Physics Institute of the University of Bern, from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Australia, and from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the USA.",0_0
"As a result, conventional oil is not from the conventional method of dipping it up in a bucket from a seep, but by the decidedly unconventional and at that time unheard of method of drilling a hole in the earth to get it to come out ...",0_0
"In a nutshell, why would any alleged ?environmentalist? or ?progressive? want to allow something as clean as a U.S. company to move to an unregulated, unchecked, ?dirty? place overseas?",0_0
"The results of this study, plus those of the prior studies that provide input for it, suggest that continued increases in the air's CO 2 content and temperature imply nothing but good for the world's semiarid grassland ecosystems. References",3_3
"Perhaps most important is solar activity as measured (inversely) by the cosmic ray flux (which many think is mechanism by which solar activity drives climate). Here cycle 22 is THE most intense in the 60 year record, stronger even than cycle 19, the sunspot number king. From the Astronomical Society of Australia :",2_1
"From July 2011 to the present, the American Lung Association has been running an ad in several media markets that features a red carriage at various Washington, D.C. monuments, from which a baby is heard suffering respiratory distress. The voiceover of the ad states,",0_0
"Gray also reminds Chris Country Seas defection from the IPCC in January 2005. It was after Trenberth suddenly denied his conclusions that hurricanes are not depended p seekers CO2 content, and in a press conference tillknnagivit opposite. It upprrande in this context that Landsea was responsible huvudfrfattare to this section and had a strong scientific background in hurricane research. This is in contrast to Trenberth, but he had a stronger stand in the IPCC hierarchy that utva power from.",0_0
"But then, just like the global cooling of the ??70s, the warming stopped and was replaced by (wait for it!) more cooling. ???Despite the original forecasts, major climate research centers now accept that there has been a ???pause?? in global warming since 1997,?? the UK??s Daily Telegraph reported just last September.",1_4
No less serious is the failure of politicians to tell us the truth about the promises that they have made that cannot be honored. Careful studies put the cost of government promises for pensions and future healthcare benefits at more than $100 trillion. There is no way that anything close to that amount will be available.,0_0
This snowy winter will extend over three months and spread into the flatlands. And it is going to be bitter cold. For Germany the fourth colder-than-normal winter in a row lies ahead. The fourth below normal winter in a row would be a small sensation.,1_3
"Since Hansens article in September, were starting to hear the phrase warmest in 12000 years- google warmest 12000 years and youll see recent coverage. This immediately raises the question of the Holocene Optimum a period from about 8000 to 5200 BP in which there is undisputed evidence of significant NH warmth. The Team has taken a preditable position on the Holocene Optimum: that its a regional and restricted event. realclimate :",0_0
Click this link for survey results (refresh the results page to update numbers).,0_0
"It certainly raises the cost of doing business when your arch-enemies or a very vocal segment knows what you are up to in every little detail, said Marc Morano, who runs the contrarian website Climate Depot and spoke at the conference.",0_0
"How much of the observed increase in sea levels is natural versus anthropogenic is something that no one knows, notwithstanding Ms. Macfarlane's confident assertions of a ""scientific consensus."" (The evidence is clear that the anthropogenic temperature effect is not zero.) An example: The University of Colorado data show a close correlation between changes in sea levels and the El NioSouthern Oscillation.",0_0
"The authors of an intriguing research report, which was recently published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta , write that ""for cold-water corals, which are already living at low levels of carbonate saturation, the shoaling of the saturation horizon as carbonate saturation states decrease has the potential to cause dramatic declines in rates of calcification, or the dissolution of the carbonate skeletons of those living at or close to the saturation horizon."" But since these corals are indeed living there , they speculate that ""they may have evolved adaptive strategies to counter the effects of low carbonate saturation states,"" one of which is to up-regulate their internal pH to a value that allows calcification to occur.",3_2
"They are trying to put out a fire in a smouldering pile of wood chippings at R Plevin and Sons in Whams Road, which caught fire at 8.10am on Monday morning.",0_0
The result is a green industry that??s allowed to do not-so-green things. It kills protected species with impunity and conceals the environmental consequences of sprawling wind farms.??,4_1
It's a phone-in item for programme guest Prof. Brian Cox.,0_0
"Kroeker et al . report that ""although high CO 2 significantly reduced mussel growth at 14??C, this effect gradually lessened with successive warming to 20??C, illustrating how moderate warming can mediate the effects of OA through temperature's effects on both physiology and seawater geochemistry."" In addition, they found that ""the mussels grew thicker shells in warmer conditions independent of CO 2 treatment,"" and that ""together, these results highlight the importance of considering the physiological and geochemical interactions between temperature and carbonate chemistry,"" especially when assessing a species vulnerability to OA.",3_2
"The six scientists say that the coldest period of the LIA occurred ""between 1660 and 1760, an interval that broadly corresponds with the Maunder Minimum in solar activity,"" which they say ""is also consistent with the timing of the coldest northern hemisphere temperatures during the last millennium,"" citing Jones and Mann (2004) and Matthews and Briffa (2005). As for the more recent past, they say that ""biological assemblages that showed rapid changes during the LIA have remained relatively stable during the last few decades."" They also report that these modern assemblages ""resemble those in the lake ~500 years ago, during the MCA."" And they say that ""no clear evidence of modern, human-induced environmental change was recorded."" What it means",2_1
"Both the sunspot index and northern Pacific temperatures (which are known to drive global temperature trends) are now predicting a 25- to 30-year cooling. Pacific Rim tree rings say there have been 10 of these 50- to 60-year cycles since 1623, and recent history indicates the Pacific Decadal Oscillation accurately mirrors global temperature changes.",2_1
"The Warmist position is fixed because it was achieved by corruption of the science and the scientific method. Science advances through proposing a hypothesis. Scientists then function as skeptics and challenge the assumptions on which they are based. The hypothesis became fact through the design of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Its the pattern of science driven by environmentalism as a political agenda. Deliberate personal and professional attacks sidelined the few who tried to be scientific skeptics. These attacks were reinforced by mainstream media, who also accepted and promoted the hypothesis.",5_2
"Carbon emission cutbacks by China and other developing countries, the document says, will be dependent on the adequate finance and technology support provided by developed country parties to any new climate accord.",0_0
The family has found that the climate and heavy clay soils suit rice.,0_0
CEI Distinguished Fellow Jack Kemp is a co-director of Empower America.,0_0
"Where no one place stands out, but there is just what looks like a lot of smaller to medium stuff all over the place.",0_0
"2). Any calibration of proxy data is impossible if the target is decadal (and longer) temperature variations. The first reason consists of the general nonstationarity climate, in particular during the period used for a calibration. This reason is discussed in the Band C paper. The second reason consists of more or less large inertia of all kinds of proxies even including the higher-resolution proxies like tree-rings, corals and others with formally annual lamination. The effective number of degrees of freedom for the instrumental time period is very small by this reason, and so any calibration is an illusion.",5_1
"The alarming rise in global temperatures from about 1980 to 2000 gave much concern around possible serious future climate changes, global warming, that could result from the increasing levels of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere. However, as shown in the strong rise in global temperatures faded after year 2000 and was replaced by a rather steady level or even small decreases in the global temperatures from around 2001 to present (2013). This development took away some of the incitement to cut down on human-induced growth in greenhouse gasses.",1_4
Do volcanic eruptions coincide with low sunspot activity?,0_0
"In November, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation or PDO dropped to its lowest level since 1961 at -2.33. The 1961 level was -2.69. PDO is an after effect of the ENSO signal and reflects a spatial pattern of the amount of cooler water in the north Pacific. Negative levels are accompanied by muchcooler weather in the Northern Hemisphere especially in North America. This indexstarted to go negative in 2007 andbased on historical patterns, it could be negative for the next 20-30 years, signifying cooler weather for the same period.This has already been apparentthe last four yearsinthe North American weather especially the winters.",1_2
"Climate alarmists continue to claim that global warming will lead to more extreme (both high- and low-volume) river flows, characteristic of more extreme drought and flood conditions. However, river flow records in southern South America, according to the authors, ""extend for only a few decades, hampering the detection of long-term, decadal to centennial-scale cycles and trends,"" which are needed in order to ascertain the degree of validity of climate-alarmist claims for that part of the world.",5_1
"Our attempts at domestic emissions savings will have only minimal direct climate impact, but instead they will serve as an example for the developing world of what, or what not, to do. So if Kerry and Lieberman were interested in directly tackling the climate change issue, they would be working with China?s National People?s Congress to draft legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, not the U. S. Senate.",4_2
"Basically, Dolinar et al. acknowledge that a large source of the uncertainties in outgoing longwave and shortwave radiation in GCMs is clouds.",0_0
"Earlier this year, a group of 13 GOP lawmakers released a report, which called for an ESA overhaul, though CBS News called the changes ""unlikely given the pervasive partisan divide in Washington, DC."" CBS continues: ""The political hurdles to overhaul are considerable. The ESA enjoys fervent support among many environmentalists, whose allies on Capitol Hill have thwarted past proposals for change.""",0_0
"For all of those reasons ? the statutory text, the absurdity principle, the statutory context as demonstrated by related statutory provisions, the overarching objectives of the statute, the major unintended consequences of a broader interpretation ? the Prevention of Significant Deterioration statute as a whole overwhelmingly indicates that the permitting requirement is based on emissions of the NAAQS air pollutants.",0_0
Bringing Democracy Back to the WorkplaceVincent Vernuccio and Rep. Phil Gingrey's op-ed in The Washington Times,0_0
"The ambitious rules hope to remake the nations electricity system by closing hundreds of heavily polluting coal plants while rapidly expanding the use of natural gas plants, wind and solar power. Officials at electric utilities say that as they make that transition taking the nations largest but dirtiest source of electricity offline and replacing it with a mix of cleaner power sources they may face power failures.",4_4
"The over all 15 levels - with different registration periods - average Relative sea-rise (RSLR) for the German Bight is from 1843 to 2008 about 32 cm, the secular increase in the 20th century around 20 cm. The GIA-corrected values (see also Chapter 3) obtained for the above mentioned periods ASLR one of about 22 or 13 cm. There is no secular acceleration, the polynomial in Fig.5 other hand, shows even a slight weakening of the secular increase. A CO2-climate signal (AGW) can not be found.",1_6
"First up, today's decision that if cops have some reason to think valuable evidence is being destroyed, they can bust down your door without a warrant. Toilet flush? Must be getting rid of drugs. Can be seen in the window at the computer? Must be deleting child porn. Silence? Must be destroying evidence really quietly.",0_0
"The answer to many if not most of the problems outlined in the U.N. papers is, as the opening session paper puts it: ""multilateralism is instrumental to the success of our response to global challenges.""",0_0
"Water vapor, thanks to the sheer quantity of it in the atmosphere, is the most important of the greenhouse gases, accounting for 65-85% of the natural greenhouse effect without which the Earth would be an ice planet. Since 71% of the Earth's surface is covered in water, evaporation, convection, advection, subsidence, and precipitation are occurring somewhere on Earth all the time. Precisely because the concentration of water vapor in the atmosphere the ""absolute humidity"" is so high, adding just a little more with cooling towers from power stations and other industrial sources has virtually no influence on the greenhouse effect.",0_0
"In my column last week at The Breakthrough Institute on Robert Gordon's analysis of US per capita economic growth, I identified what I believe to be an error in his calculation of post-1950 growth rates. Such an error matters because Gordon's recent discussion paper has been called the summers most talked about working paper in economics and argues a data-based case for US decline. My view is that such discussions should at least start with a solid empirical basis and re-checking assertions grounded in data claims is fair game (not all agree, however).",0_0
"The findings are based on in-depth statistical analyses of observed data from 1850 up to the present time, Professor Lu's cosmic-ray-driven electron-reaction (CRE) theory of ozone depletion and his previous research into Antarctic ozone depletion and global surface temperatures.",2_1
"To contradict the myth about La Nia, the sea surface temperatures for the Rest-of-the-World do NOT cool proportionately during the two La Nia events that followed the two very strong El Nio events of 1986/87/88 and 1997/98. They warmed in response to those two El Nio events, but they failed to cool in response the La Nia events that followed. Ive highlighted those divergences in brown. If they cooled proportionally during those two La Nia events, the dark blue line would follow the ENSO Index shown in purple. The detrended Rest-of-the-World data mimics the NINO3.4 data at other times, but not after the two major El Nio events.",0_0
"Junk Science: Al Gore's documentary on climate disaster has been ruled a work of fiction by a British judge. In legal terms, his global warming hysteria has been assuming facts not in evidence.The judge ruled that the film could be shown to British students, but only on the condition it be accompanied by new guidance notes for teachers to balance Gore's ""one-sided"" views. Judge Burton documented nine major errors in Gore's film (see chart above) and wrote that some of Gore's claims had arisen ""in the context of alarmism and exaggeration.""",5_2
"7. We should be getting as much oil as we can from as close to home as we can. But we can no longer rely on Mexico. Pemex, the country's national oil company, is not investing enough money in new drilling projects even though its most important field, Cantarell, is declining rapidly. Nor can Pemex count on getting more money from the Mexican government, which is spending heavily on its war against the drug cartels. Indeed, Mexico may already be a failed state. The cartels are under siege by the federal police and federal soldiers, but the slaughter just a few weeks ago of more than 50 people at a casino in Monterey shows that the narcos are still running wild. Canada, meanwhile, has an ultra-stable government. And given its enormous oil deposits, it's apparent that Canada can be an essential player in America's effort to secure reliable energy supplies.",0_0
"The CBO report roughly coincided with the announcement by Toyota Motor Co., the world's biggest automaker, that it would effectively quit making all-electric cars and instead focus on the hybrid-electric market. As Toyota vice chairman Takeshi Uchiyamada bluntly explained: ""The current capabilities of electric vehicles do not meet society's needs, whether it may be the distance the cars can run, or the costs, or how it takes a long time to charge.""",0_0
"If you hesitate too much, he and his IPCC comrades may come to your house, flatten it, and burn it with your kids.",0_0
"Somehow we have to leave the thinking OK, climate change is extremely",0_0
"Last year about this time, the media was abuzz about a Super El Nino that would hit over the past winter (2014-2015). Dramatic predictions were made for drought in the Pacific Northwest and heavy rains over southern California.",0_0
"In a report with wide-reaching political implications, U.S. EPAs inspector general has found that the scientific assessment backing U.S. EPAs finding that greenhouse gases are dangerous did not go through sufficient peer review for a document of its importance. . .",5_1
"""We suggest that the qualitative projections for dramatic reductions in population numbers and range are overly pessimistic given the response of polar bears, climate, and sea ice to the present,"" scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the University of Alaska Fairbanks wrote in a study published in January.",0_0
"NIPCC: ""Flood frequency and severity in many areas of the world were higher historically during the Little Ice Age and other cool eras than during the twentieth century. Climate change ranks well below other contributors, such as dikes and levee construction, to increased flooding.""",1_7
"A credit scheme would be a zero-sum game where one company's gain is another's loss. Every credit awarded in the voluntary early action period is one that won't be available during the mandatory period. Companies that don't or can't ""volunteer"" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions now will be penalized later under the mandatory cap, which means that the program isn't really voluntary.",0_0
2. Regression analyses do not support the idea that regional heat waves are increasing with time.,0_0
"the global mean temperature dropped to 2.725 K by now (outside the urban heat islands such as stars, plus minus the fractions of the degree from the image above), confirming worries about global cooling ;-)",1_2
"Back in the early '70s, chemists at the University of California began studying CFCs in the atmosphere. They theorized that eventually, CFCs could migrate to the upper atmosphere. After fifty to a hundred years, they could be broken down by UV radiation, releasing a reactive chlorine atom which could catalyze the degradation of ozone (O3). It is significant to note that this was not proven, but was based on other work that showed the potential of nitric oxide (NO) to catalyze ozone. It was theory only, and it was hotly disputed by scientists working for CFC manufacturers at the time. In reality, it remains theory to this day. Note: To date, the concept of man-made CO2 emissions causing global warming remains theory only. There exists no empirical evidence to support the theory.",0_0
How exactly wouldcap-and-traders pull it off?Samuelsohn summarizes thestrategy as explained byan unnamed spokesman for a major advocacy group:,0_0
"In April, the Minnesota Department of Public Safety sent written notices to 11 Internet service providers ordering them to block Minnesotans' access to 200 gambling websites. State officials are claiming that ISPs and network providers are subject to ""common carrier"" regulation, citing a 1961 federal law that restricts wagering over the telephone. But it appears Minnesota officials didn't bother checking recent federal case law. Following the 2005 Brand X Supreme Court decision, the Federal Communications Commission treats network providers as ""information services,"" which explicitly are not subject to common carrier regulation.",0_0
A paper published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation and written by Professor Michael Kelly (University of Cambridge) shows that most of the ambitions to decarbonise the UK and global economy have not been put through an engineering reality test.,0_0
"Here is a series of essays on Common Core by Michelle Malkin, who has taken up the cause to defeat it. It is well funded and supported, including Gates money. Melinda Gates is the usual limosine liberal with a large opinion of her superiority.",0_0
"Mannes argument appears to rest entirely on his mistaken belief that science is What The Gods Declare it To Be. For Manne, the Gods are official climate scientists. Apparently, only those who are anointed by Government funding have access to The Truth and their declarations must be obeyed. Manne is so completely under their spell, he is incapable of figuring out how anyone could think anything else.",0_0
"Let me just mention one graph ??? the only ""apparently non-trivial"" argument against Pielke's assertions that I have seen anywhere in the hurricane of vitriol directed against his self-evident assertions. You see that the ""number of natural catastrophes"" has more than doubled over the last 30 years. But one must be careful about the definition of a ""natural catastrophe"". Note that in 1980, the world population was less than 4.5 bilion, so it has ""almost"" doubled since that time, too. Moreover, the people are much wealthier and they have many more things that may be damaged or insured and damages of these things count as ""natural catastrophes"".",1_7
"That makes the idea that ""these tariffs are going to generate rates of return that will beat high-street savings accounts by a mile"", as suggested by Jeremy Leggett, the chief executive of solar energy supplier Solarcentury, in The Times, laughable. You can't possibly compare the two. With a high-street savings account you don't lose access to your initial investment.",0_0
"New findings indicate the rate of sea level rise over the past two decades in on the order of 1.7 0.8 mm/year, which is far less than that projected by climate alarmists Read More",1_6
political masters; the disregard for the principle of civilian control of the,0_0
"Rapid melting of polar ice sheets may be due to short-lived natural events rather than climate change, scientists said. New research suggests more time is needed to predict the likely impact of global warming and ice loss on sea levels. ???John von Radowitz, AFP, 15 July 2013",2_1
"Easterbrook argued the climate has actually been cooling in recent years, and that carbon dioxide does not contribute to global warming. He said his climate numbers were different from those used by other scientists because, he argues, federal agencies NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration tamper with the data and artificially inflate temperatures.",5_2
G-8 Failure Reflects U.S. Failure on Climate Change,0_0
"EPA gets away with this by having activist groups posing as scientific bodies rubberstamp its pseudo-science. Since 2000, it has paid the American Lung Association more than $25 million, given its ""independent"" Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee members over $181 million, and let CASAC deny membership to industry or other experts who might question EPA findings.",0_0
"But if the climate models are correct, Dr. McKitrick calculates, within a decade his formula would cause the tax to at least double and possibly sextuple with further increases on the way if the atmosphere kept heating. The prospect would give immediate pause to any investors trying to decide today what kind of cars, power plants and other long-range energy projects to finance. To estimate future profits, they would need to study climate.",4_1
"For the past six years, the Heartland Institute has sponsored International Climate Change Conferences, the last in Washington, D.C., June 30-July 1. Havent heard about them? Maybe thats because the mainstream media has gone out of its way to ignore them. The conferences, however, have contributed to the growing body of knowledge disputing global warming to the point where, even in the nations capitol, the topic has become little more than the slow revelation of the utter mendacity of the hoax and its perpetrators.",5_2
"This warming hiatus happened despite the loud and hysterical shrieking by the climate scientists on the public dole that current CO2 emissions would cause rapid, unequivocal, irrefutable accelerated warming.",1_4
"Henrik Svensmark (born 1958) is a physicist and professor in the Division of Solar System Physics at the Danish National Space Institute (DTU Space) in Copenhagen, says Wikipedia.He is known for his theory on the effects of cosmic rays on cloud formation .",0_0
"Although cap-and-trade backers claim it will cut greenhouse gas emissions, it may perversely increase them and also result in dirtier air, as well as harming forests and water supplies . It would enrich politically-connected corporations, and result in massive destruction of the worlds forests. By expanding ethanol subsidies and mandates, it would cause enormous damage to water supplies, soil health and air quality. Ethanol subsidies have already resulted in forests being destroyed in the Third World, and by diverting cropland to fuel production away from food production, they have already caused famines that have killed countless people in the worlds poorest countries .",4_1
"The truth is entirely different. First, I am never bored when I am present. What I actually said in my talk and Abraham knows this, because he spent eight months trying to take it apart was that ""I'm boring that way I check things"". And I had checked the climate-extremists' claims of catastrophe by consulting a paper by Klaus-Martin Schulte, published in 2008. The extract from the paper was labeled ""Schulte, 2008"" on my slide, in quite large letters.",0_0
"The scheme is intended to create a financial incentive to cut energy use, and those organisations that record the biggest reductions will get bonuses, funded by penalties imposed on those with the worst record.",0_0
"The debate over Common Core has had the opposite effect Obama hoped for. The public learned the national government doesn't belong in the school curriculum business, and that activist groups on the left use schools to indoctrinate rather than educate their children. Parents are fleeing public schools for private schools or are homeschooling their children rather than risk exposing them to Common Core.",0_0
"Next, consider CO2 levels. With huge, green subsidies showing up on our electricity bills, you would be excused for believing that we have managed to cut CO2 substantially. You would be wrong. Global CO2 has risen relentlessly since 1950. In 1997 the Kyoto protocol put legally binding limits on rich-country emissions. But Kyoto and all our fine policies have had no real impact. The only indication of a CO2 reduction was in 2009 when the global recession put us on track to fulfil Kyoto. Had the recession continued, we might have been able to achieve Kyoto.",4_2
"Starting in 1979, the temperature of the lower atmosphere (from the surface up to roughly 8 km) has been measured by satellites (See Figure 2). Instruments (Microwave Sounding Units ) mounted on satellites take daily temperature readings by measuring the microwave radiation emitted by atmospheric oxygen molecules. The precision of the satellite temperature measurements is confirmed by the fact that they are in excellent agreement with temperatures measured independently by a worldwide network of radiosonde instruments carried aloft by balloons. Compared to the spotty coverage of the surface measurements, especially over the oceans, the satellite record provides essentially global coverage.",0_0
"The report went on, ""Sir David says that there is ""plenty of evidence' to back up his warning. Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere the main ""green-house gas' causing climate change were already 50 per cent higher than at any time in the last 420,000 years. The last time they were at this level 379 parts per million and rising was 60 million years ago during a rapid period of global warming in the Palaeocene epoch, he said. Levels soared to 1,000 parts per million, causing a massive reduction of life on earth.",0_0
"Delingpole seems above such intimidation. He is the role model for everyone to follow: learn the stuff as if it is your right, or stop talking about it! And that goes double for the postmodern fake-news environment reporters out there who have never heard of the Navier Stokes equations!",0_0
"Last week the CEOs of Europes ten largest utilities finally cried uncle and called for a halt to wind and solar subsidies. Short of that, they want subsidies of their own. They want to be paid, in essence, not to produce power. Thanks to mandates to use electricity from wind and solar Europes energy costs increased 17% for consumers and 21% for industry in the last four years.",4_1
"That leaves 21 models, including BCC-CSM1-1, BCC-CSM1-1-M, CCSM4 (6 runs), CSIRO-MK3-6-0 (10 runs), FIO-ESM (3 runs), GFDL-CM3, GFDL-ESM2G, GISS-E2-H p1, GISS-E2-H p2, GISS-E2-H p3, GISS-E2-R p1, GISS-E2-R p2, GISS-E2-R p3, HadGEM2-AO, HadGEM2-ES (3 runs), MIROC5 (3 runs), MIROC-ESM, MIROC-ESM-CHEM, MRI-CGCM3, NorESM1-M, and NorESM1-ME.",0_0
"As long as metals prices are this low, the miners will have shut in capacity. That means fewer orders for the giant trucks, cranes, and the tires that those use. Those stocks will likely be down for a while too.",0_0
"Comment: The EPAs Carbon PollutionRule proposes NSPS for CO2 from fossil fuelelectric generating units. The standard is 1,000 lbs CO2/MWh. The EPA estimates that most NGCC power plants already meet that standard, whereas the most efficient commercial coal power plants emit 1,800 lbs CO2/MWh (77 FR22417).",0_0
"Based on the flood of AGW rubbish coming out of Britain, one wonders if the UK's elites and ruling class have taken a blood oath to assure their country is viewed as the island of messianic idiots and imbeciles ; or, are they just attempting to enrich themselves by impoverishing their subjects?",0_0
"Maple acquired Ben Lomond mine, near Charters Towers, from French multinational Cogema earlier this year for a bargain $1 million, before Canberras decision last month to take over the Northern Territorys administration of uranium mining.",0_0
CEI State of the Union Live Blog 2013,0_0
"View a webcast with David Randall, professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University.",0_0
"Recently we have all learned of the emails that emerged from the University of East Anglia, a scandal that has come to be known as Climategate. To me, it seems abundantly clear that the proponents of global warming have been cooking the science to produce the results they wanted. They've supressed data, colluded, stifled debate, threatened scientific journals that published opposing viewpoints and placed climate propaganda ahead of climate science. We're talking about such names as James Hansen, Kevin Trenbirth, Ben Santer, Phil Jones, Michael Mann, Tom Karl, Gavin Schmidt, Keith Briffa among others. These are not a small, isolated band of insignificant scientists, as our friends at the BBC, Washington Post, Guardian and other media sources would like to assert. These are literally the founding fathers of global warming.",5_2
AFL-CIO Breaks With Administration on Climate Change Treaty,0_0
Sounds a bit like their tree-ring research.,0_0
I believe that the climate is always changing and what we are currently observing is just natural fluctuation. Neutral,2_1
The Goreacle will also be thrilled to learn that his global warming climate crisis ticks a lot of the requirements to be classified as a cult .,5_2
Canadian enviro groups snub good-news climate study,0_0
"The impact of this slight emissions difference on the resulting future global temperature savings is not manifest until the third digit past the decimal point?in other words, thousandths of degrees C. Climatologically, in other words, the bills are identical.",4_2
A Frozen Britain Turns The Heat Up On The Met Office,0_0
"Thus, if the 'simple basic physics' of radiative forcing from CO2 are correct, this forcing is overwhelmed by net-negative feedbacks, contraryto the net positive feedback predictions of climate models . Alternatively, the radiative forcing from CO2 may be greatly exaggerated. Either way, observations show that the net effect of increased CO2 levels is about 8 times less than predicted by the 'simple basic physics' of the anthropogenic global warming theory.",3_1
"Fred L. Smith, Jr., Competitive Enterprise Institute",0_0
"In 2002, Esper et al. published in Science magazine a temperature record for the Northern Hemisphere over the past 1000 years that looked quite unlike the hockey stick. Both the Medieval Climate Optimum and the Little Ice Age were evident. In the March 23 edition of Eos, Esper and other colleagues examine why this should be so. According to the Greening Earth Society, Esper ""basically eliminates all the possibilities except the technique used to process tree-ring data sets the primary information relied on to construct early portions of the temperature reconstructions.",5_1
"Since the mid-1980s, what I saw were articles like the one Anthony posted from 1986 were becoming more common. What I observed as professional reporter was that the ozone-layer press releases from NOAA and NCAR and other climate centers were beginning to use the same talking points in their different releases to news desks. Sometimes, these went out on the wire which were then placed into newspapers across the country without the resources to assign reporters to cover the climate.",0_0
"Because of the fact that ""the relative stimulation of total plant biomass in response to elevated CO 2 levels was higher in salt-stressed plants than in non-stressed ones,"" Perez-Lopez et al . state that ""barley plants subjected to elevated CO 2 levels will likely overcome mild saline conditions."" And with the need to produce approximately twice the amount of food that is produced now to adequately feed the projected human population of the planet by mid-century (Running, 2012), we are going to need all the help we can get; and the boost in barley productivity (as well as that of many other crop plants) provided by mankind's CO 2 enrichment of the atmosphere will be crucial if we are to be successful in this endeavor.",3_3
"What can we conclude from all this? Obviously the models do not even come close to properly reproducing the reconstructed temperatures of the past. This brings us to a fork in the road, with each path leading to a completely different destination: 1) geologists would likely trust their temperatures and have doubts concerning the reliability of the climate model. Or 2) mathematicians and physicists think the reconstructions are wrong and their models correct. The latter is the view that the Lohmann troop is initially leaning to. We have to point out that Gerrit Lohmann studied mathematics and physics, and is not a geo-scientist. Lohmann et al prefer to conjure thoughts on whether the dynamics between ocean conditions and the organisms could have falsified the temperature reconstructions, and so they conclude:",5_1
"Use less technology (cars, intensive agriculture).",0_0
"Dr Akasofu, experienced analyst with the International Arctic Research Center, points out that the temperature have been rising steadily at a trend rate of 0.5C per century since the end of the little ice age in the 1700s (when the Thames River would freeze over every winter; it last froze over in 1804). On top of the trend are oscillations that last about thirty years in each direction:",2_1
"Clouds around the world may be falling in response to rising global temperatures and having a cooling effect on global warming, according to analysis of satellite data by Auckland University scientists.",3_1
"According to Ed Miliband, (former Minister for Energy and Climate Change), who announced this ""Feed-in Tariff' (FIT) system last week, anyone fitting a typical 2.5kW solar panel system to their existing home should earn 900 in the first year, plus a 140-a-year saving on their bills.",0_0
"Expedite the sunsetting of targeted tax credits for all energy sources and technologies. Special tax treatment serves the same purpose as a subsidy that favors one industry. Congress should not create any new tax credits for energy production, energy infrastructure, transportation production and consumption, or energy-efficiency initiatives. Congress should expedite the sunsetting of existing tax credits and reduce taxes by the amount of revenue generated by eliminating the tax credits.",0_0
"The talk included a lot of classic material about QCD, the spectrum of hadrons, pictures of jets from the LEP, pictures of workers from the LHC - our civilization's answer to the age of pyramids (which is moreover driven by curiosity instead of autocratic rule and vanity), bubbling animations involving the averave topological density ""Tr (F/\F)"" as a function of space and time computed from lattice QCD, and justifications of the statement that 95% of the observed mass is due to QCD effects. We have also heard various jokes - for example, Frank Wilczek mentioned that the eye was only designed to see distances much longer than 1 fermi. Later he corrected himself that he should have said that the eye had evolved rather than having been designed. ;-)",0_0
"In order to reach unanimous consent to bring last year's bill to the floor for a vote, the Republican leadership also promised Senators Joe Lieberman (D.-Conn.) and John McCain (R.-Az.) to allow an up-or-down vote on their legislation to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Reports suggest that Lieberman and McCain intend to offer only the first phase of S. 139 in order to make the costs seem lower. The vote may occur as early as the week of September 15.",0_0
agreeing to write a research paper about the SLAPP phenomenon (strategic lawsuits against public participation),0_0
"Uh? You mean, not only has the new IPCC report found less warming, but it finds less warming since pre-industrial times (ie around 1800) to 2100 than the last report said would happen from 1990 to 2100.",0_0
"A few weeks ago, I wrote that opposition to the Keystone was never about the Ogallala Aquifer. Polluting the water was a simply aconvenienttalking point that might play better with the American public than the true goal, which is to shut down the development of new sources of North American oil. I got a lot of comments and email that I was making this up, but in fact its pretty clear that opposition to the pipeline pre-datedknowledgeeven of its route. Here is a environmental group's presentation from 2008 which advocates opposition to all pipelines (without any reference to their routes) out of the Canadian tar sands as a strategy to halt their development.",0_0
"I had hoped, not very confidently, that the various Climategate inquiries would be severe. This would have been a first step towards restoring confidence in the scientific consensus. But no, the reports make things worse. At best they are mealy-mouthed apologies; at worst they are patently incompetent and even wilfully wrong. The climate-science establishment, of which these inquiries have chosen to make themselves a part, seems entirely incapable of understanding, let alone repairing, the harm it has done to its own cause.",5_2
"The problems of assessing the costs and benefits of action under these circumstances are sometimes referred to as deep uncertainty whereby scientists do not know or cannot agree on key scientific models and the value of alternative outcomes. Analysts rely upon historical weather and climate data and climate models, but climate models cannot provide the equivalent of historical data for future projections. A major challenge is that future GHG emissions will be tied to demographic and socio-economic patterns that will vary across the planet and across time in complex ways.",5_1
Visit Heartland's #OurAmerica page to find other memes to share and,0_0
Antarctic sea ice coverage at an all-time record high,1_1
"Jay Lehr, Ph.D. (jlehr@heartland.org) is science director for The Heartland Institute.",0_0
"Arctic sea ice extent is at a 10 year high, and very close to the 1981-2010 average.",1_1
"The ""Definitions"" section of the Clean Air Act says:",0_0
"First, California's mild climate aids dramatically in reducing consumption for heating and cooling of homes and businesses.",0_0
"People's Climate March Wants to Change the System, Not the Weather",0_0
Obama Officials Spin Paris Treaty as Done Deal,0_0
"The scores are estimated from strongly autocorrelated (trended) time series in the instrumental period, along with a special partitioning into calibration and validation samples. This setting is characterized by a rather limited number of degrees of freedom. It is easy to see that calibrating a model in one end of a trended series and validating it in the other yields fairly high RE values, no matter how well other variability (such as annual) is reproduced...",0_0
"Meanwhile, a group of Democratic lawmakers late Friday urged colleagues in both the House and Senate to support the inclusion of a one-year extension of the stimulus deadline in any tax-package agreement that makes it through this lame-duck session. Still, it was uncertain whether the extension for renewable energy project cash grants would make it into any final bill.",0_0
"With unemployment at its highest levels in more than 25 years, the Obama Administration is trying to show that it is focused on jobs. Last week's White House ""Jobs Summit"" brought together business, labor, academic and environmental leaders to talk about how the government can foster job creation. Unfortunately, the summit agenda repeated much of the same nonsense we've been seeing from the Administration for the last year.",0_0
5. Republic of Congo - Agreement for Cooperation in the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program,0_0
"Based on radiocarbon ages of marine shells and reworked terrestrial organic material incorporated into historical moraines, environmental conditions registered in lacustrine sediments, and submerged coastal features, it has been suggested that the Greenland Ice Sheet receded tens of kilometers within its present day margins during the early and mid Holocene (e.g., Kelly, 1980 and references therein). This ice sheet recession was likely a response to the warmer temperatures of the Holocene Thermal Maximum (9-5 ka) (e.g., Kaufman et al., 2004), which is registered by Greenland ice cores as ~2.5C warmer than at present (Dahl-Jensen et al., 1998).",2_1
Is Australian ideas television actually a form of forced trolling? Damon Young .... airstrip melting away. Australias $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting away.,0_0
"The results of the analysis, summarized in Table VII-37, demonstrate that relative to the reference case, by 2100 global mean temperature is estimated to be reduced by 0.0026 to 0.0065 C, and sea-level rise is projected to be reduced by approximately 0.023 to 0.057 cm.",0_0
"Some scientists predict that the Sun is heading for a long slump in solar activity known as a Grand Solar Minimum. If this happens, it is possible that Britain could return to conditions similar to those 350 years ago when sunspots vanished during the Little Ice Age, when ice fairs were often held on the frozen Thames in London. ???Paul Simons, The Times, 10 October 2011",1_2
"In the Yaris test, the institute said the mini car sustained damage to the door and front passenger area. The driver dummy showed signs of head injuries, a deep gash on the right knee and extensive forces to the neck and right leg.",0_0
"Koutsoyiannis, D., Efstratiadis, A., Mamassis, N. & Christofides, A. (2008) On the credibility of climate predictions. Hydrol. Sci. J. 53(4), 671684. changes",0_0
The Clinton White House will brook no dissent in its efforts to get the Kyoto climate treaty ratified. Just ask Frederick Seitz.,0_0
"FURTHER READING: Zycher also writes ""The Climate Change Climate Keeps Changing, but the Carbon Tax Is Eternal,"" ""The Unbearable Lightness of the Climate Change Industrial Complex,"" and ""The ""Science' of Global Warming."" Michael M. Rosen reveals ""Greens' Irrational Fear Flies Again."" Steven F. Hayward investigates """"Environmental Justice,' EPA Style.""",0_0
"Arctic cold blast, freezing rain/snow expected for New Years Day",1_3
"Newsbusters discuss comments by former Newsweek editor Howard Fineman who says that the climate skeptics must be religious, so the climate wars represent a conflict between the ""nice atheist alarmists"" and ""evil religious skeptics"".",5_2
"Some research has shown that the effects of changes in the climate may be weak or even non-existent. This makes it easy to conclude that climate change will ultimately have less impact than previous warnings have predicted. But it could also be explained as direct and indirect effects cancelling each other out, as scientists from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, show in a paper recently published in PNAS , the esteemed US scientific journal.",0_0
Effects of Elevated Atmospheric CO2 on Soil Microbial Organisms,0_0
"Let us ed from a case where the atmosphere contains 1 unit concentration of carbon dioxide, which in str jmvikt with ythavet, and in turn, the deep sea, both of which contains 10 units. We assume also that ythavet and deep sea ri jmvikt.",0_0
"Next, the increase in globally-averaged temperature for 2012 of about1 o F is quite small by comparison with the mid-20th century baseline. I was an official weather observer early in my atmospheric-science career (starting more than 35 years ago). I know from personal experience that temperature measurements, which were typically made once per hour, were made by ""eyeball averages"" based onthe meniscus levelin the thermometer. So, in practice, measurements were made within about + or -0.5 o F accuracy. Notably, a1 o F increase is small indeed, taking measurement limitations into account.",5_1
"Figure 21: Comparison of temperature with human emissions of carbon dioxide. Human emissions were negligible before 1850, so how could they have caused the global warming from 1700 to 1850? Source: Temperature as per Figure 17, emissions see text. ...",2_1
"Synopsis: It was significantly warmer in the past without human CO2 emissions. Source here . ""The IPCC claims to find evidence in temperature records that the warming of the twentieth century was unprecedented and more rapid than during any previous period in the past 1,300 years...temperature record shows temperatures around the world were warmer during the Medieval Warm Period of approximately 1,000 years ago than they are today, and have averaged 2-3F warmer than todays temperatures over the past 10,000 years.",2_1
"During his 2013 inaugural address, President Obama told Americans that the United States ""will respond to the threat of climate change"" and will take the lead for other countries to follow suit. Even assuming the accuracy of climate change models, unilateral action by the U.S. is a costly symbolic gesture that would do nothing to successfully resolve climate challenges. However, there are sufficient questions about the underlying climate change assumptions, evidence and predictions to justify caution before implementing a policy response.",0_0
"Cells c and d present some interesting information about many of the models. The model mean for the outgoing shortwave radiation (Cell c) increases during the hindcast, which indicates, from 1861 to the turn of the century, clouds and volcanic aerosols allowed less sunlight to pass through the TOA to the Earths surface. And, even though modeled surface temperatures warmed from 1861 to 2000, outgoing longwave radiation decreased (Cell d). However, also based on the model means, the trends of both metrics reverse during the 21 st Century. That is, during the 21 st Century, outgoing longwave radiation increases as global surfaces warm. And some of that warming is caused by an assumed future increase in sunlight reaching the Earths surface. (That is, if less sunlight is being reflected to space as the future progresses, and if there is no assumed increase in the amount of sunlight reaching the top of the atmosphere, then the sunlight reaching the Earths surface is increasing.)",0_0
"The 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall was widely remembered this past November, the 20th anniversary of one of the most momentous events in the history of human liberation. But as this year draws to a close, bear in mind that 2009 is the 20th anniversary of something even grander in the saga of Communism's collapse: the culmination of a remarkable series of Soviet Bloc revolutions, all unexpected, all surprisingly peaceful, and all amazingly swift. A popular joke at the time summed up the length of those revolutions this way: Poland10 years; Hungary10 months; East Germany10 weeks; Czechoslovakia10 days; Romania10 hours.",0_0
"Many Jacksonians, for example, are not evangelicals and not even Christian at all. While some are strongly anti-abortion, others believe that individual freedom makes abortion nobody's business but their own. Some stand strongly behind the drug war; many indulge in recreational drugs and some Jacksonians grow or manufacture them, much like the moonshiners who have been evading ""revenuers"" since the Washington administration.",0_0
Fear of a serious factual discussion: Climate alarmists pressure BBC to censorship of the public climate debate,5_2
"The science is in that we are experiencing climate change and we need to act to deal with it, Dr Emerson told The Australian.",0_0
"Green hypocrisy: Fighting climate change by slaughtering eagles, financed by taxpayers",0_0
"Sen. Kennedy, in an admirable statesman-like gesture, has underscored why that trend ought to be reversedand why his plan, to allow appointments only until an expedited election can occur, with the appointees declaring themselves non-candidates for the election should be universally applied. The way Massachusetts made its law, and the consequences of it, are cringe-worthy. Now, thanks to Kennedy, Massachusetts can be a model for the rest of the states.",0_0
"Our lives have become safer, so we invent imaginary fears to replace those that we have conquered. How scary is that?",0_0
"1. An international team of 33 researchers found that, with warming, when species were rare in a local area, they had a higher survival rate than when they were common, resulting in enrichment for rare species and increasing diversity with age and size class in these complex ecosystems.",3_2
"The fact that natural gas is only given cursory mention, rather than being an integral part of Obama's National Climate Action Plan, exposes his true motiveswhich, I believe, are not really about carbon emission reductions, but rather furthering America's declining international status. Why else would he emphasize what has proven to not to work and eschew what we know to be effective?",0_0
"Arctic ice melt has dropped to almost zero. Comparing current ice vs. mid-September 2012, there is more than 100% more ice than at last years minimum. A rapid freeze between now and mid-September could make this number much larger.",1_1
"""Jennifer Haberkorn reports that President Obama's move to allow states flexibility in spending health care funds is the ""most significant change"" since the law was enacted, and a potential gesture toward critics.""",0_0
"There is no question that this is nuclear energy's worst moment. Will we have the maturity to learn from this catastrophe and move forward, as we did after Apollo 1 and the two space shuttle disasters and the early failures of commercial jet aircraft design like the British Comet of the 1950s? Over the last decade opinion polls have shown steadily rising public support for nuclear power in the United States following two decades of strong public opposition. The aftermath of the Japanese nuclear crisis will reveal how robust this shift is.",0_0
"FURTHER READING: Hemphill also writes ""Just How Dangerous Is Talking and Driving?"" Claude Barfield discusses ""The First Carbon Trade War?"" Kenneth P. Green contributes ""Not Free to Choose: The Reality behind Clean Energy Standards"" and ""Voters Beware Carbon Tax Seductions."" Representative Fred Upton authors ""Rethinking America's Energy Policy."" Jonah Goldberg describes ""Cooling on Global Warming.""",0_0
"This is amazing, because the IPCC was completely unaware of this phenomenon in 1990. Apparently the world was heating out of control and the climate was collapsing since the middle of the 19th century, but the IPCC completely missed it. They thought that the world warmed much faster coming out the LIA. How could the worlds top climate scientists have been so ignorant?",5_2
"Feb 12 Update - Less an error than an agenda. The inside story on what happened doesn't look good on Walter Pincus, or the Post.",0_0
Computerized Medicine: Fantasy vs the Real World,0_0
"In Figure 4, the situation is the same as the other regions: flat from 1900 to 1930, a sudden warming to the warmest year, 1934, cooling until 1980, warming to 2000, then cooling in the last decade.",1_4
"Coral reefs suffer mass mortality because of coral bleaching, disease, and tropical storms, but we know much more about when, where, and how rapidly these ecosystems have collapsed than we do about their recovery. Gilmour et al. (p. 69 ; see the Perspective by Polidoro and Carpenter ) studied a highly isolated coral reef before and after a climate-induced mass mortality event that killed 70 to 90% of the reef corals. The initial recovery of coral cover involved growth and survival of remnant colonies, which was followed by increases in larval recruitment. Thus, in the absence of chronic disturbance, even isolated reefs can recover from catastrophic disturbance.",3_2
"Our proposed national energy slogan is All of the Sensible (in contrast to the absurd All of the Above). Once legislators have grasped that concept, the foolishness of the leveling the playing field idea also becomes apparent. (Should the 18-wheeler trucks and golf cart playing field be leveled?) Additionally we should be using the term unreliables when speaking of renewables. Please pass these on.",0_0
"Ross Gelbspan, in a particularly egregious, almost giddy piece in the Boston Globe that was reprinted in the International Herald Tribune, wrote that the hurricane was ""nicknamed Katrina by the National Weather Service, its real name was global warming."" He also finds global warming responsible for droughts in the Midwest, strong winds in Scandinavia and heavy rain in Dubai. The reason for all this devastation, of course, is that the Bush Administration is controlled by coal and oil interests.",0_0
"The first graph below (click to enlarge) shows the 30 tree-ring time series with the best correlations to the instrumental temperature record. Each of these correlations has been matchedwith the correlationto the CO2 level. The first thing to jump out is that for 23 out of 30 cases, the CO2 correlation is better than the temperature correlation!",5_1
"This graph demonstrates whats really happened in the past 2,000 years:",0_0
"Esperance News, sport and weather | The Esperance Express",0_0
I have a feeling that he did. I just noticed this visitor noted by my FEEDJIT gadget on the bottom of this page:,0_0
"From a 1973 short story by Harold Brodkey, describing the blond-haired beauty who has captured the narrator's heart. Does any other single sentence in the English language so succinctly describe the triumph of romantic love over the ideological demand of subservience to the State?",0_0
"As I started by saying. Sea ice is expected to decline because global temperatures were reported to be higher. However, it appears I was wrong. Because now sea ice is back to normal whilst global temperatures are being reported as high.",1_1
Walter Duranty: The NY Times reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize for lying about the outcome of Stalin's 5-year plans.,0_0
"The blaze could take another two days to put out, South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said.",0_0
Here is the title page and abstract of the draft journal article. It is part of,0_0
"From September 2001 to November 2014, the warming trend on the mean of the 5 global-temperature datasets is nil. No warming for 13 years 3 months.",1_4
"To understand why there are such huge uncertainties in the computer simulations, consider that the additional energy added to the climate system by the doubling of atmospheric CO2 is about 4 watts per square meter (W/m2) a small amount of energy compared to the amount of the sun's radiation (342 W/m2) at the top of the atmosphere. But 4 W/m2 is also small compared to the uncertainties in the climate change calculations. For example, knowledge of the amount of energy flowing from equator to poles is uncertain by an amount equivalent to 25-30 W/m2. The amount of sunlight absorbed by the atmosphere or reflected by the surface is also uncertain by as much as 25 W/m2. Some computer models include adjustments to the energy flows of as much as 100 W/m2. Imprecise treatment of clouds may introduce another 25 W/m2 of uncertainty into the basic computations.19",5_1
"Aviation demanded and received a separate, special deal in the Kyoto Protocol, but several governments and the European Union are now actively exploring ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes. The goal is to reduce airline passenger demand, and the methods being considered are additional taxes on air travel or including airlines in a cap-and-trade system.",0_0
"You chose to depict the one based on C14 solar data, which kind of stands out",0_0
"According to one study, 75% of the nutrients found in rain forests is located in the plants, 17% is in decomposing matter, and only 8% is in the soil itself. Therefore, they have developed as closed systems where ""anatomical, physiological, biochemical, and ecological mechanisms guarantee little loss, little uptake from the sources, and thus, conservation of nutrients."" (deMiranda p.155)",0_0
"Recent examinations by analysts Paul Homewood, Tony Heller and others confirm that a wide variety of official temperature datasets have been excessively manipulated by climate ""scientists"" - to the point where policymakers can no longer be sure if climate records can be trusted.",5_1
"A version of this article originally appeared in Investor's Business Daily on October 16, 2013.",0_0
"In this case, it's hard to know which is wrong: the models, the surface data, or the satellite data. Most likely, they're all wrong to some degree: no data are perfect, and no models are perfect. The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle.",0_0
"At the other end of the globe, the models failed miserably. The models indicate that the surface of the Southern Ocean (Figure 22) should have warmed over the past 32+ years, but the sea surface temperatures there cooled in that time.",5_1
"Sex sells, as any ad guru or pornographer will tell you. So why not market global warming with nudity? The good news is that naked hippies is about the last gasp of the global warmers desperate attempts to save the hoax.",0_0
"Available from the Hoover Press is Breaking the Environmental Policy Gridlock, Terry L. Anderson, editor. Also available from the Hoover Press is the videotape ""The Heat Is On,"" an episode of the weekly television program Uncommon Knowledge, jointly produced by the Hoover Institution and the San Jose PBS affiliate KTEH, which features a discussion on global warming. To order, call 800-935-2882.",0_0
"> >> uncertainties, these uncertainties are not unbounded and with new",0_0
"2. Keep a sense of proportion, especially when it comes to generational burden-sharing.",0_0
"I can recommend the book to anyone concerned to understand the present debates with regard to climate change on both a local and global scale. The style of writing makes for easy reading, and the layout of the book is such that sections of particular interest can be found easily. Open University Geological Society Journal",0_0
"assembling and testing software, green screen technology, and lighting intended to turn my home office into a mini broadcast studio (2014 is the year I try to learn to love video)",0_0
"Canon 1D, ND400 filter, Hoya G filter, telephoto lens.",0_0
"Now once again, dubious science is pushing pikas as another canary in the climate coal mine. the evidence has not supported the pikas demise, Stewart (2015) constructed a model that would and published their projections in Revisiting The Past To Foretell The Future: Summer Temperature And Habitat Area Predict Pika Extirpations In California . These researchers predict that by 2070 pikas will be extirpated from 39% to 88% of Californias historical sites. And once again the media is hyping that pikas are being pushed up the mountains to their doom.",3_2
"And has this 3-month spell been unprecedented? Nope, not even remotely so, I am afraid. As I have been pointing out for the last few weeks, there was a much wetter period during the winter of 1929/30. But, not only that, it also turns out that there were wetter periods in 2001/01 and 1960/61.",1_7
The article is Small cars get poor marks in collision tests and reads,0_0
"When a court decision leads to ?absurd results,? there are only two possibilities. One is that the court brought to light a flaw previously hidden in the statute. The other is that the court misread the statute.",0_0
"The released material is not highly sensitive. So one wonders why the government bothered to redact it in the first placeand fought its release in court for over a year. Upon assuming office, Holdren's boss, President Obama, and his attorney general, Eric Holder, issued guidance telling agencies not to withhold information just because they can, or based on technicalities, and to err on the side of disclosure, rather than secrecy. As Holder once noted, ""On his first full day in office, January 21, 2009, President Obama issued a memorandum to the heads of all departments and agencies on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The President directed that FOIA ""should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.'""",0_0
Those would be the polar ice caps which have the fourth highest extent on record.,1_1
"If a hypothesis does not agree with the data thats used to support it, then the hypothesis is flawed. According to the climate models used as marketing tools by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), only greenhouse gases can explain the warming over the past 30 years. If the IPCC had evaluated sea surface temperature data for that time period by breaking the data into logical subsets, theyd have discovered the warming can be explained naturally. Maybe some contributing authors/scientists/computer modelers do understand and they have elected not to express it.",2_1
Another sign is Central Europe refusing to warm further. Meteorologist Dominik Jung at Wetter.net here reports that Germanys 2013 year was the 2nd coldest in a decade. The mean temperature was only 0.4C over the 1961 1990 mean. Only 2010 was a bit colder.,1_4
"The 2030 Agenda provides a handy blueprint for the kind of global structure the UN and its allies want to erect. Focusing on what it says are the areas of critical importance over the next 15 years, the document cites what can be called the UN's ""Five Ps"": people, planet, peace, prosperity, and partnership. A closer look at what it says under ""planet,"" shows that behind 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development there really is an agenda. Thus, we are told:",0_0
"Advantages: a) Appear more trustworthy, b) reduce error, c) reduces uncertainty in the mean results.",0_0
"So how can we check this independently ourselves? We could use microwave satellite retrievals of temperature from the lowest few miles of the atmosphere. That's not exactly surface data, but the two are strongly connected. Most computer models indicate that the trend in the lower atmosphere ought to be just a little bit larger than the surface temperature trend.",0_0
"It is baffling that newspapers and magazines have failed to publicize the increase in Canada's oil reserves, of more than 100 billion barrels, while rushing to cover one oil firm's negative reassessment of less than 6 billion barrels. Numerically speaking, the Alberta tar sands' numbers tower over the Shell statistics by almost 170 billion barrels.",0_0
The IPCC and other warmists rely heavily on computer models for the dire predictions of what will happen to our planet unless we all stop exhaling. It??s a pity then that the models are likely to be full of bugs. How badly might errors like these affect results? How about by 400%?,5_1
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA JUN 9 2012,0_0
Another graph detailed the temperatures in America's corn belt since the year 1900. This one showed that climate models came nowhere close to the real temperatures and that more recent models were far and away hotter than the real temperature ever was.,5_1
"leading to more crazy weather. I cant remember your words, but it came",0_0
"This looks good at first blush, and the authors say that the GCM results (red) are ???consistent?? with the observations. However, closer examination reveals issues. What struck me immediately about their results is that the actual observations of both the shortwave and longwave anomalies show clear signs of overshoot. After being knocked down by the volcano, after 1994 they both come back higher than pre-eruption. This worked to quickly restore the pre-disturbance state.",5_1
And the researchers by their own admission can??t even fit GHG feedbacks into the Hadley cell migration equation successfully. It is just more evidence of uncertainty in the ???settled science?? of AGW.,5_1
"* What might be the solutions; the way ahead, globally, nationally, and individually?",0_0
"My personal reaction as a scientist is to be very thankful that I am not involved in the IPCC. I already feel duped by the IPCC (Ive written about this previously), I am glad that I was not personally used by the IPCC.",5_2
"People live better and the environment is cleaner in free, prosperous societies. The people of the developing world are entitled to continue their advance into energy and economic self-sufficiency. How dare we propose to trap them in poverty and deny them the high standards of cleanliness, education, nutrition, healthcare, and energy we take for granted. Our prosperity is good for them as theirs is for us.",0_0
"Astonishingly, the predictions have been adopted uncritically as the basis for local planning. This is equivalent to introducing new housing regulations for the heating and cooling of Australian dwellings based upon global average temperature. Well, now that we have learned about the unsuitable nature of its sea-level speculations, what else do we know about the IPCC? Does it have form?",1_6
prosperous international order. As President Obama put it in his Nobel Peace,0_0
"While airlines can apply for free permits to cover CO2 emitted, these will likely fall short of requirements, and they will have to buy allowances in the market to make up any shortfall.",0_0
"Despite acknowledged large gaps in understanding of the drivers and impacts of decadal climate change, the authors express confidence Earth is steadily warming due to increasing human greenhouse gases emissions. In response, Judith Curry writes, ""Until these issues and knowledge gaps are sorted out, we don't have the basis for making the above statement with high confidence.""",0_0
"What the older statistical methods and the strict reliance on hard data and fancy mathematics have done is to create a system where there is too much certainty when making conclusions about complex events. We should all, always, take any result and realize that they are conditional on everything being just so. We should realize those just so conditions that obtained in the past might not in the future.",0_0
Global Tropical Cyclone Activity of the Past Five Thousand Years,0_0
"""This new version of the party eschewed any serious effort to bargain and compromise with the opposition party, an essential activity within the American constitutional system.""",0_0
"Iran announced this week that its made its first oil discovery in the Caspian Sea in more than 100 years. The semiofficial Fars News Agency reports the find, in ultradeep waters, may hold the equivalent of 7 percent of the countrys known national reserves.",0_0
"Hansen's Teflon credibility wasn't even scratched after the August revelation that since 2000 he and his fellow scientists had been incorrectly crunching the data from about 1,200 ground weather stations that NASA uses to take the country's annual average temperature -- and which the unquestioning mainstream media used as ""proof"" the country has been getting hotter every year since 1998.",5_1
"To address global warming, we're going to do something that may surprise the save-the-planet camp: burn more fossil fuel less efficiently. Big oil will prosper.",0_0
"Here, social progress ? great leaps forward that have provided us with material wellbeing, longer life spans, more leisure time and opportunities to pursue individual interests ? are reconstituted as ?pollution?. Man?s interventions in nature are regarded as simply corrosive, hubristic acts of nature-murder that are as abhorrent as the concerted, state-sanctioned extermination of human beings.",0_0
"RES now stands to lose an estimated $45 million in federal stimulus funding. ""This new regulation to a degree pulls the rug out from under us,"" said Scott Piscitello, vice president of development.",0_0
"The only way Americans will be protected against the EPA's attack on our economy will be a Congress controlled by the Republican Party and a Republican President that will support the oversight that is needed and the reversal of its vast output of regulations. It will have to do this as well for NOAA, NASA, and other governmental departments and agencies that, until recently, spewed forth all manner of ""data"" supporting the global warming hoax.",5_2
Carbonic acid does not however make the water more acidic easily. Don??t forget that pH measures the concentration of hydrogen ions in solution. So of the 1.2*10^-3 moles of carbonic acid/ mole of CO2/liter only 2.5*10^-4 moles/mole/mole of hydrogen Ion are produced. This forms the bicarbonate Ion.,3_2
> >> >>variability to the continent as a whole or on particularly vulnerable,0_0
(h/t: Benny Peiser of the Global Warming Policy Foundation),0_0
Leutkemeyer: The international panel the last year or two has been funded at the rate of about $12.5 million per year. The President has it in his 2012 budget at $13 million a year.This group has been in the headlines for their activities with regard to how they are trying to tinker with the data they put out. Why would we want to fund a group of folks who are nefarious and give us incorrect information? Its beyond me.,0_0
"We sure would like to know what curative drugs hes got in mind. We arent aware of any drugs that cure cancer. And if Big Pharma has stopped selling cheap drugs that dont work, well, whats the problem? They dont work.",0_0
"(Photo Stephen Orsillo) The record-shattering snow that has shut down Boston's public transit system threatens to white out a global warming forum organized by Massachusetts Senate President Stanley Rosenberg (D, Amherst).",1_3
if we loose the chance to make climate change a reality to people in the,0_0
"On borders, the parties have been within striking distance of a deal for nearly a decade. Even allowing for the sensitivity of the right-to-return issue and its ability to blow up negotiations, it is not too much to hope that a compromise can be found if the right atmosphere prevails in talks.",0_0
"In fact, thanks to its reliance on natural gas that covers around 60% of the electricity generation, the country is among the least carbon-intensive countries in Europe, and yet it has to meet goals that are comparable with those of other, more carbon-intensive countries.",0_0
"WASHINGTONIn an unexpected judicial turnaround, the Supreme Court this week reversed its 2000 ruling in the landmark case of Bush v. Gore, stripping George W. Bush of his earlier political victory, and declaring Albert Arnold Gore the 43rd president of the United States of America. The court, which called its original decision to halt manual recounts in Florida a ruling made in haste, voted unanimously on Wednesday in favor of the 2000 Democratic nominee. Gore will serve as commander in chief from Dec. 10 to Jan. 20.",0_0
"The Supreme Court, which jealously guards against any hint of a religious symbol on public property lest it establish a religion, has gone a long way toward making the Earth Cult the official religion of the United States.",5_2
August 2015 ENSO Update Another Westerly Wind Burst in Late July Should Help El Nio Evolve,0_0
"We are almost half way through his 60 year, 1,000 mm forecast and sea level has risen zero mm near Canberra. Only 1,000 mm left to go in the next 30 years.",1_6
"Based on a lengthy review of all of this, and notwithstanding the court's admission that it ""does not have independent expertise in this area,"" the court concludes that existing Dutch climate policy constitutes a negligent breach of a duty of care owed the plaintiffs and all Dutch citizens.",0_0
"But there have been ups and downs. For example, there was cooling for several hundred years after the medieval warm period through to about 1900. Then there was warming until about 1945 followed by cooling through until 1975-76. The United Nations IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) predicted in 1990 that there would be continuous warming well into this century driven by rising levels of carbon dioxide. But in fact there has been cooling again over the last decade.",1_4
"Among the studies not cited by the EPA are two that examine the feedback issue empirically and find support for a conclusion opposite to that made by the GCMs (see Lindzen, p.4; Carlin, pp.13-27). It looks like the models have the wrong sign on the feedbackit is not positive but negative, which reduces any warming by carbon dioxide rather than amplifying it. In short, carbon dioxide may not be an air pollutant after all.",3_1
"$25,000 to evaluate indoor air interventions to reduce diesel particulate matter in West Oakland, Ca.",0_0
"This situation is compounded, in the present example, by the absurdly lax standards applied to papers supportive of climate alarm. In the present example, there existed an earlier paper (Lindzen and Choi, 2009) , that had been subjected to extensive criticism. The fact that no opportunity was provided to us to respond to such criticism was, itself, unusual and disturbing. The paper we had submitted to the PNAS was essentially our response which included the use of additional data and the improvement and correction of our methodology.",0_0
"Some Senatorswonderhow they can trust Gina McCarthy to be a straight shooter as EPA administrator given the agencys FOIA failures , reliance on secret data in rulemakings , and use of private email accounts to conduct official business . These issues are significant but so is the agencys trickery on greenhouse gas regulation of stationary sources.",0_0
"A new report from Scotland found that renewable energy kills 3.7 traditional jobs for every ""green"" job it creates. Wind power mandates also cost British energy consumers an extra $1.8 billion in higher electricity costs in 2009-2010. Rebellion is in the air, and belief in dangerous manmade global warming has plummeted.",0_0
"London, England. Three years ago today .",0_0
CYBERSECURITY - Credit Card Hackers Strike at Barnes & Noble,0_0
Obama is now using BP's oil spill to push the global-warming legislation that BP had lobbied for.,0_0
Judith LEAN: Variations in Solar Irradiance and Climate,0_0
"""There is not a single passage in that book that I disagree with, or would change.""",0_0
"Climate change is different. President Obamas plan to cut U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions from electricity plants by 32% (from 2005 levels) by 2030 would cut global emissions by about 2%. By that time, according to Energy Information Administration data analyzed by Heritage Foundation statistician Kevin Dayaratna, the carbon plan could cost the U.S. up to $1 trillion in lost GDP. The measures needed to decarbonize world energy are going to be vastly more expensive. So we had better be sure that we are not exaggerating the problem.",4_1
"By the way, when is Tom C going to formally publish his roughly 1500 year",0_0
Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic GHG concentrations.,0_0
"The sea surface temperatures in that NINO3.4 region warm and cool directly in response to the El Nio and La Nia events, so the swings in temperature there are quite large, much greater than the variations in the other datasets well illustrate. To accommodate the differences, the monthly values of the NINO3.4 data are multiplied by a common factor to reduce the variations. That simple process is called scaling. Ive also shifted the NINO3.4 data back in time in one graph to better align the wiggles in the two variables. That was done to account for the time lag between the changes in temperature in the NINO3.4 region and the responses of the Rest-of-the-World sea surface temperatures. The scaled NINO3.4 sea surface temperatures are the purple curves in the following graphs.",0_0
Congress considers legislation changing the rules for union organizing.,0_0
"Carlin's internal research report conclusions were ignored with an explanation that: ""The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward on endangerment, and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision.""",0_0
"spreading around their regions: ""they sure do have a lot of money to throw around."" Mann noted that it was an observation others used to make about the United",0_0
Climate change contrarian: How green hysteria will hit the US,0_0
"In both studies, we can certainly see evidence that extreme precipitation events are on the rise. But in both cases, when we explore just a little deeper into the story, we find no evidence of any unusual upward trend in the frequency of extreme precipitation events. The more we learn, the more skeptical we become.",1_7
"""Here, we reconstruct the last 1,000 years of central Greenland surface temperature from isotopes of N2 and Ar in air bubbles in an ice core. This technique provides constraints on decadal to centennial temperature fluctuations. We found that northern hemisphere temperature and Greenland temperature changed synchronously at periods of 20 years and 40100 years. This quasi-periodic multi-decadal temperature fluctuation persisted throughout the last millennium, and is likely to continue into the future.....The data show clear evidence of the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age in agreement with documentary evidence.""",2_1
"*Brace for Impacts, editorial (Nature, Vol. 508, April 3, 2014, p. 7) reports the release of IPCC WG-II report. Oddly, it doesnt mention the release of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), another sign of blatant bias, but oh well. The editorial repeats the highlights of the IPCC report without any critical thought, an unfortunate example of news release journalism common in the environment field. It ends with the obligatory call for more funding for researchers. The editors conflict of interest is so obvious it is blinding to everyone except the editors, and I suppose, and many of the researchers buy subscriptions to Nature.",5_2
"Lindzen thinks the true number is closer to -1, which is similar to the number I backed into from temperature history over the last 100 years . This would imply that feedback actually works to reduce the net effect of greenhouse warming, from a sensitivity of 1.2 to one something like 0.6C per doubling.",3_1
More & more research results clearly indicate that solar activity has an impact on how the climate varies over time,0_0
"States, Amtrak vying for high-speed train money:",0_0
4. Has the earth's temperature increased over the past two decades?,0_0
"And tell me what other area of science finds it necessary to take pathetic polls on a ""consensus.""",0_0
"Despite the disappointing decision yesterday, it would be well to remember that the real damage was done in the Supreme Courts 5-4 Massachusetts decision, where EPA was found to have authority to regulate GHGsunder the CAA so long as it determined that GHGs endanger the public health and welfare.",0_0
"Fake news!? Fake news!? I'll tell you about fake news! For decades, scientists like me have been drowning in it.",0_0
Australias antarctic runway melting | Central Midlands & Coastal ...,0_0
"Of all of the world's chemical compounds, none has a worse reputation than carbon dioxide. Thanks to the single-minded demonization of this natural and essential atmospheric gas by advocates of government control of energy production, the conventional wisdom about carbon dioxide is that it is a dangerous pollutant. That's simply not the case. Contrary to what some would have us believe, increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will benefit the increasing population on the planet by increasing agricultural productivity.",3_3
"If you are interested in this sort of thing, it was a great event , going through two of their parks. The only problem is that it has to take place before the parks are open, so we had to set the wake-up call for 3:15 AM. Uggh. The butt-crack of dawn, as my sister calls it.",0_0
"It is a matter of great public concern that our government continues to take exclusive advice on global warming from an unelected, unaccountable international political body (the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; IPCC), as translated for Australian consumption by the CSIRO and by the Department of Climate Changes advisor, Professor Will Steffen.",0_0
"The recent period of global warming from 1950 to 1998 is one of seven warm-cool periods of natural climate change that have occurred since 1000 AD. Before the false anthropogenic Greenhouse gas alarm, these were considered normal and given names. Starting and ending dates were estimated from historic records and proxies such as tree ring patterns, ice cores, etc.",2_1
"Oops. UK Met Office in 2006: ""We are expecting milder winters' Head of predictions, Dr. Geoff Jenkins, the ""believes the mild, wet winter is almost certainly a sign of global warming'",0_0
That sandbox bypass means they can escape from the Virtual Machine in Java and get into the real world of your computer and operating system and files and networking and,0_0
Are you telling me my house now gets hotter than it it would 20 years ago because there??s now more carbon dioxide in it?,2_3
"4 EPA, New Source Review: Report to the President, p.15.",0_0
"""It's a small neighborhood, and a rough one at that. Security is a shared interest, definitely.""",0_0
I thoroughly recommend the thoughtful essay by Tony N at Harmless Sky for a review of where we stand on climate change at present.,0_0
"EPA has concluded that ""the current NSR program is having an adverse impact on energy efficiency by discouraging projects that may improve energy efficiency, or may increase capacity and reliability without actually increasing pollutant emissions. In some cases it may be discouraging projects that decrease emissions because of the ""actual-to-potential' test used for these industries.""30",0_0
Figure 2: The generally linear pattern of climate is clear.,0_0
"Mississippi's ""right to development"" is especially important in light of its extensive coastline. Along the Gulf of Mexico, residents will have to adapt to a gradual sea level rise of about an inch per decade.",0_0
"Over the period 1901 to 2000, forest intrinsic water-use efficiency increased by 28%. The largest increases were observed in the temperate forests of Central Europe, in a region that experienced a decrease in summer soil-water availability. Thank goodness for rising CO2, which is the major driver of this trend!!!",0_0
Sacramento Bee Seeks to Out-Alarm New York Times,0_0
"The shale gale and the resulting drop in domestic carbon-dioxide emissions is a remarkable story. Thanks to market forces, not government regulation, the U.S. is reducing its emissions faster than Europe is, even though the European Union has imposed a myriad of regulations aimed at cutting them. Indeed, last year carbon-dioxide emissions rose by 1.3 percent in Germany, the EU's largest economy.",0_0
"1- Adding cost to power production reduces the economic output of a country 80 percent reductions will result in massive massive cost. Even if its only a big cost, the ensuing economic downturn reduces CO2 production in the short timeframe but it also leads to substantial poverty globally which of course the government will happily subsidize. However, in a subsistence mode less people are able to go to school, less people are actually working and overqualified people do menial jobs to put food on the table. You should see the very high quality of people were hiring for a front office position. The net result is less money for technological development, something seen all across America for the past 20 years. The world is catching up and often develops the latest technology.",4_1
"They then go on to describe the results of their study of AMIP models, which may help future CMIP models. Dolinar et al. (2014) end the abstract with (my brackets):",0_0
never have been published. I don?t want to be associated with that 2000 year,0_0
"Again I will emphasize, some very smart people who consider themselves skeptics will disagree with some of my views stated above, particularly when it involves explanations for what has caused warming, and what has caused atmospheric CO2 to increase.",0_0
"Vice President Al Gore has not yet presented the Senate with the global-warming treaty he negotiated last December in Kyoto, Japan, but it??s a ticking time bomb for farmers in the United States and the rest of the First World.",4_1
"(However, the 2000 paper above only uses the ""gg"" or ""qq*"" initial states; the mixed ""gq"" initial state (from the rumor) is omitted in the 2000 paper, for reasons that seemed to be a negligence to me.)",0_0
"4. The pipeline will help America's balance of trade. Refining is manufacturing. The U.S. is importing unfinished goods (in the form of Canadian crude), finishing them, and exporting them. That's a good thing.",0_0
Figure 3. Transient climate response distribution for CMIP5 models in AR5 Table 9.5,0_0
"Unfortunately for the models, during the last 17-year period, Figure 2, the rise in observed global sea surface temperature anomalies (0.04 deg C per decade) is only 26% of the rise projected by the models (0.155 deg per decade). Thats not too good when we consider the rise in Sea Surface Temperature is supposed to be forced by Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gases and that the model mean is supposed to represent the forced component of the all of the models, without the noise caused by the internal variability inherent in the individual model ensemble members.",5_1
"""New Internet video services from companies such as Netflix and Apple are offering a glimpse of a home entertainment future that doesn't include a pricey monthly cable bill.""",0_0
Athens' ability to stay course in doubt:,0_0
"Giuliani has balls so he refused to apologize and instead, offered lots of additional ideas and observations to support his view, and that's exactly what he should have done (and what many others have failed to do). Nevertheless, it's sad to see that people who say similar things that pretty much every sensible person must see as self-evident are exposed to the harassment that Giuliani experienced in recent days (which also included lots of death threats , of course).",0_0
"So we have to offer up some scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts we may have . . . each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective, and being honest.",0_0
"Rivera's alliance with the state Republican Party, which controlled the governorship and state senate throughout 1199's surge to dominance in the 1990s, was equally shrewd. The 1199 leader used campaign funds and a personal touch to woo the Republican leadership, bonding with Joseph Bruno, senate majority leader from 1994 to 2008, over a shared love for horses and Bruno's liberal sympathies on health-care policy.",0_0
"So, Al Gore and his enviro-fanatics could still prevail, absurd though their claims are. One danger is that Republicans will persist in their feeble response. Fred Smith of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who attended the Kyoto meeting, characterizes the GOP position this way: ""We accept that the environment is going to hell. But it's too expensive to fix."" Conceding the facts and responding as penny-pinchers is of course the way Republicans have been trained to behave in many situations, and they seem to enjoy it. It is the position that the political class in Washington wants them to adopt: Concede the moral high ground and don the green eyeshade.",0_0
"Indeed Tara Brown responded, Its not my position to correct you Prime Minister but Ive been told that in fact during the middle ages the global temperatures were two to three degrees warmer than now. Certainly weve had the hottest 12 years in recent history but the planets been a lot hotter.",2_1
"Whatever alternative technologies they support comply with their precautionary principle. Whatever they oppose violates it. They trumpet alleged risks of using frackingand hydrocarbon technologies, but ignore even the most obvious benefits of using them and most obvious risks of not using them.",4_5
"But their work on environmentalism remains the point of the spear in this effort. Stewart Brand, of Whole Earth Catalog fame, is an ally, speaking enthusiastically of nuclear power, genetically modified crops, reviving extinct species through genetic engineering, and other ""environmental heresies,"" as he put it at a conference. Brand delights in pointing out that a single organic farm in Germany has recently killed more people than have all the nuclear power plants Germany is rushing to shut down. Peter Kareiva, the chief scientist of the Nature Conservancy, and two co-authors have a paper slated for the next issue of Breakthrough Journal that will smash many of the established icons of the standard-issue environmentalism, such as the clich about the ""fragility"" of nature ""an obsolete paradigm of traditional conservation.""",0_0
163 Google headlines all wrong about 400 ppm CO2 and only one right ours!,0_0
"John Stewart continued, It is clear the birds of the time of Neanderthals have changed in a way that is almost as dramatic as the change we have seen in mammals",0_0
"The coal plants in India??s pipeline ??? almost 100 more than China is preparing to build ??? would deliver 519,396 megawatts of installed generating capacity. That is only slightly less than pending new capacity in China, which remains the undisputed king of coal consumption.",4_2
CNatFluct I believe that the climate is always changing and what we are currently observing is just natural fluctuation. (R),2_1
"From the Wikipedia: CSLD is funded entirely through private donations. As of January 2011, CSLD has received $25,000 in donations.",0_0
The conclusions of Velarde et al. (2015) are (my boldface):,0_0
"There is no long-term trend in normalized extreme weather damages (losses adjusted for increases in wealth, population, and the consumer price index).",1_7
"In contrast to the modern era, this study, by Gunnarson et al., revealed that there were similar temperature increases from 1910 to 1940's, and one that started in the late 1990's. Neither of these very short-term warmings have MDX temperature reconstructions exceeding the Medieval Period.",2_1
Donna Laframboise details how the WWF infiltrated the UK Met. Office . We live in serious times but without serious leaders. What could possibly go wrong?,0_0
"In 2005 data from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey missions revealed that the carbon dioxide ""ice caps"" near Mars's south pole had been diminishing for three summers in a row.",0_0
"Not only are the glaciers advancing, 87 of the glaciers have surged forward since the 1960s, says a recent article in Discovery News.",1_1
"More subtly, I mentioned this is lower reaches, the Thames is a small river with low flow: it is tidal.",0_0
The actual expected CO2-induced warming is close to 0.5 C which corresponds to 60 km per century.,0_0
Every scientific study confirms that global warming will cause the amount of water in the Colorado River to decline,0_0
"Regardless, what we have is evidence that models estimates of the variability of 8 year trends during periods with no volcanic eruptions is noticably higher than those seen on the real physical earth.",5_1
"This is a protest of producers who are all busy, committed and have no spare time its much harder to get masses of people from far distant places and within tight schedules, but where producers are short of unemployed student rent-a-crowds, we own machinery. Lets make that difference work for us. Anyone who has to turn up in a ute, a truck, or a tractor (road rules permitting) please bring that capital equipment and allow it to add its weight to the protest.",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of the Center for Investors and Entrepreneurs John Berlau on what's wrong with the bill.,0_0
"Liberal progressives would contest this interpretation. They place the blame for the Democratic defeat on the economy, noting that unemployment is at historically high levels, levels that have particularly affected the working class. They further note that they were unable to deliver on immigration reform, cap-and-trade, don't-ask-don't-tell, and other measures that would excite the base. They would argue that the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United opened the floodgate to unprecedented influence by corporations and billionaires who could now spend unlimited amounts of money on campaigns guided by clever and unscrupulous Republican operatives.",0_0
Read more at the Wall Street Journal (subscription may be required).,0_0
"Using hemispherically- or zonally-resolved temperature data to estimate aerosol forcing fails to avoid contamination by the AMO when the analysis period is insufficiently long. Many AR4 era ECS and TCR studies used the 20th century as their analysis period. The1900s started with the AMO low and ended with the AMO high. Gillett et al (2012) found that, despite its uses of spatiotemporal patterns, their detection and attribution study??s estimate of warming attributable to GHG was biased ~40% high when based on 1900s data compared to with when the longer 1851-2010 period was used. ECS studies affected by this problem include Gregory et al (2002), Frame et al (2005) and Allen et al (2009).The Stott and Forest (2007) TCR estimate is also affected.",5_1
"And what does the President mean by the overwhelming judgment of science anyway?Mr. Obama implies that recent fires, drought, and storms would not have occurred but for anthropogenic climate change. That is ideology talking, not science.",5_2
"Global warming has evaporated the glacier ;-) so thousands of tons of ash are flying above Europe. Yes, of course: volcano eruptions are caused by climate change , much like everything else .",5_2
"Stringent limitations on tiny particles less than 2.5 microns in diameter (PM2.5), like those found in diesel exhaust and dust, are based on what Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feyman called cargo cult science fake science that looks like science. This develops when government money is lavishly given to people in the academy to support a political agenda built on a false threat of public harm, Dunn writes.",0_0
"""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...Climatologically, the Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act, in and of itself, is a meaningless bill. To make it effective, it must involve the worlds developing counties."" Additional current temp",4_2
Earlier this year she was one of 300 people chosen to take part in a training session to enable her to present environmental campaigner and former US vice-president Al Gores slideshow on the climate crisis .,5_2
"But seriously, what about ocean acidification? Its worth noting that fears of ocean acidification are largely theoretical and calculated, rather than based on empirical evidence. Some corals grown in very high levels of CO 2 thrived. When one research team reconstructed ocean pH levels with boron isotopes in corals, they found no noteable trend over the last 300 years or the last 6000 years. Atmospheric CO 2 levels may have risen 30% recently, but at least in that marker, theres no clear relationship between ocean acidity and atmospheric CO2. Other researchers found warmer temperatures increased calcification along the full length of the Great Barrier Reef.",3_2
"Other methods of calculating moisture developed since Thornthwaite are mostly directed to assessing drought. These include the Palmer Drought Index, which estimates dryness from precipitation and temperature data. It is used by the US and Canadian governments among others and NOAA publishes a weekly Palmer Index.",0_0
A Global Climate and Energy Project Big Ambitions at Stanford,0_0
"Pupils and teachers dread every school day at the SeeCampus. If the deodorant of just one person fails to work, then half the classroom goes into a coma. The ventilation in the exemplary passive building is a catastrophe. Theres an extreme lack of fresh air on hot days. Because of concern over the health of the children, who complain about headaches and fatigue, parents are threatening to stop operation of the school through legal action.",0_0
"Claim underlying statistical nature framstr clear if it amuses itself of exhibiting kra FOLLOWING educational software, drreaktionshastigheter and jmviktskonstanterfr to create green balls from the RDA and, among other things through molecule collisions are modeled entirely statistically somprocesser with a certain probability. In grnsfallet extremely mngabollar (1mol is the nearly 10 ^ 24 pieces), treatment is precise, and the approach has actually anvntsforskningsmssigti context.",0_0
"Meanwhile, the EPA and White House ignore even the most obvious benefits of using fossil fuels.",0_0
"Liberal progressives say necessity should have a minimal role in constraining the pursuit of progressive justice. If voters don't agree with a progressive view of rights, recourse to the courts to overrule them is proper. Voters' desire, and especially well-off voters' desire, to keep taxes low and the economy growing ought not to be a significant factor in bringing medical care to poor people or saving the planet from greenhouse gasses.",0_0
"Skepticism about the motivations and actions of those in government is healthy. But for criticism to be credible, it should be consistent, even if not wholly apolitical. It is instructive, therefore, to ask: During the Clinton-Gore years of egregious excesses and abuses, where were those who now accuse the Bush administration of politicizing science? Henry I. Miller, a fellow at the Hoover Institution, was the founding director of the Office of Biotechnology at the FDA from 1989 to1993. His latest book, ""The Frankenfood Myth: How Protest and Politics Threaten the Biotech Revolution,"" co-authored with Gregory Conko of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, will be published later this year.",0_0
"John Cook of un SkepticalScience quotes Ghandi, and feels like a victim too:",0_0
8. Why should liberals and leftists be skeptical of the environmental movement?,0_0
Research Fellow in Energy Economics and Climate Change,0_0
"Further, there is a clear tendency for urban and valley areas to be anomalously hot (such as in Washington and Oregon, though oddly in California the Central Valley is cooler than usual I would guess due to the extra clouds weve been having).. IMHO, this warmth is most likely because that is where the people are, where they run heaters and air conditioners, and where there are millions of cars on black tarmac and tons of aviation fuel being burned for take-offs at all the airports. Given that, the placement of the majority of GHCN thermometers at airports and in or near urban and low elevation locations introduces a clear bias to the basic data used in all the climatology studies.",0_0
I visited Wakool rice farmer John Lolicato today and he showed me his rice crop.,0_0
"""the IPCC argues that feedbacks from increased water evaporation will lead to enhanced warming. This is not observed in those regions most effected by water vapour. In fact the opposite seems to be the case implying negative feedback.""",3_1
"The per century cooling trend of this period, a minus 3.2F, 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 .",0_0
"They just carry on as usual, ignoring any challenges along the way. They have to go for it in a different way, with the likely non-renewal of Kyoto. Global Governance here we come.",0_0
"""The United Nations Population Fund, the UNFPA, is calling for US $28 million in donations to re- establish 'reproductive health services,' in the Tsunami-stricken regions of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives, according to a UNFPA press release published Thursday.""",0_0
"But seriously, MNNs photos supposedly depicting melting glaciers on the Matterhorn proves nothing in their effort to debunk Glaciergate theyve only proven that any schmuck can cherry-pick photos.",5_2
"With my new job, work on my next book is progressing slowly. The new working title is Fundamentals and Failings of Human-Induced Global Warming . Ive written and produced illustrations for about 20-25% of it so far. An expanded version of this post will appear in it.",0_0
"The scientific antidote to advocacy is to test multiple reasonable hypotheses. With respect to long-term global mean temperatures, there are proponents of the global cooling hypothesis as well as those who predict no change. For example, in 2007 I offered to bet former Vice President Al Gore that the no-change hypothesis would provide more accurate forecasts than the dangerous warming hypothesis presented by him and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). My offer was meant to test the relative accuracy of these competing hypotheses. (See TheClimateBet.com for the results to date had Mr. Gore accepted the bet).",0_0
"As a result of market freedoms, market innovations, and the classical liberalism that the market enforces, this is an optimistic moment in human history.",0_0
"The Cooler Heads Coalition will hold a congressional and media briefing by Professor Richard S. Lindzen of MIT on September 30 from noon to 1:30 PM in Room 345 of the Cannon House Office Building. Lunch will be provided. Reservations are required. Those wishing to attend should e-mail their name, affiliation, and phone number to mebell@cei.org or telephone Myron Ebell at (202) 331-1010, ext. 216. Dr. Lindzen will be speaking ""On the meaning of global warming claims.""",0_0
120 Agriculture Groups Oppose Waxman-Markey,0_0
"Which is interesting since I think we can agree since I joined this little forecasting battle the past 3 years, I have hit the cold over in Europe. Part of the reason is the model and computer has a warm bias since the PDO ( Pacific Decadol Oscillation flipped to cool). Now I wonder why that would be?",5_1
"Lets carry that discussion farther. In the 2008 paper Seasonal CycleEl Nio Relationship: Validation of Hypotheses , Xiao and Mechoso presented three hypotheses, two of which they confirmed with climate models. Lets discuss those two. The first hypothesis they confirmed was:",0_0
"""Supporters of the changes, including board members Wade Linger and Tom Campbell, argued that ""science is never settled' and that debate will lead students into a deeper understanding of the issue,"" the paper added.",5_1
"Tom Karl the director of the national climatic data center of the US NOAA, who compiled another global temperature record who's errors and exaggerations of recent warming have caused concern.",5_1
The Bush Administration's position on global warming is affirmed at the G8 Summit.,0_0
"Thankfully, the Obama Administration, environmentalists and (mostly Democratic) politicians take this situation very seriously, and are doing something about it according to their parallel universe.",0_0
"CO 2 is clearly up to the task of ameliorating the negative effects of SO 2 pollution on leaf photosynthetic rates of soybeans and then some , as it boosted rates even higher than they were in the total absence of the pollutant. References",3_3
Connolley is a software engineer and sometime-climatologist who used to work for the British Antarctic Survey. He also once ran for office representing England's Green Party.,0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Global Warming and Energy Policy Myron Ebell on how Americans feel about the price of gas.,0_0
"For all their caterwauling about fossil fuels, environmental groups have resisted the expansion of the use of nuclear power that emits no so-called ?greenhouse gas? emissions. The Friends of the Earth recently declared that ?The quickest way to end our costly fossil fuel dependency is through energy efficiency and renewable power, not new (nuclear) reactors that will suck up precious investment and take years to complete.?",0_0
stuff going on is natural variability. In addition to the 4 hurricanes hitting,0_0
"And that is because they couldn't use Dieldrin, an insecticide banned by the UN Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). Dieldrin was sprayed across the path of the approaching hoppers and its persistence meant that a single spray of a thin barrier strip was enough to wipe out vast swathes of hoppers for weeks. There are alternatives, but none are anywhere near as cost-effective (on a useful lifecost basis alternatives are at least eight times as expensive), and for debt-laden cash-strapped countries of the Sahel lack of Dieldrin meant not stopping the hoppers.",0_0
"Such measures include subjecting tens of thousands of previously unregulated buildings and facilities to Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) pre-construction permitting requirements, and establishing National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for greenhouse gases that even outright de-industrialization would be insufficient to attain.",0_0
Auto Cafe Standards: Unsafe and Unwise at Any Level,0_0
"Countering his views, founding member of the Tyndall Centre professor Andrew Watkinson told delegates that 10 years was too short a period to identify weather trends and this explained the stabilisation in temperature.",0_0
"The waves of the tsunami had hardly receded before environmental alarmists linked the tragedy to . . . global warming ! One newspaper, the Independent , quoted a British environmental activist saying that ""here again are yet more events in the real world that are consistent with climate-change predictions."" On New Year's Eve, Sir David King, Britain's chief science adviser and top climate-change fanatic, told the BBC, ""What is happening in the Indian Ocean underlines the importance of the Earth's system to our ability to live safely. And what we are talking about in terms of climate change is something that is really driven by our own use of fossil fuels."" It was almost as if environmentalists were trying to vindicate Michael Crichton's scenario in State of Fear, where eco-terrorists attempt to start a tsunami in the Pacific to scare people about global warming.",5_2
"Mann accepts that some of the measurements he used do not directly represent temperature change. His argument is that, for instance, coral records showing rainfall records in the Pacific are proxies for El Nino cycles and so for changes in ocean temperature. Jacoby is not convinced??",5_1
"Jack Spencer, ""Capability, Not Politics, Should Drive DOD Energy Research,"" Heritage Foundation WebMemo No. 3299, June 22, 2011, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/06/capability-not-politics-should-drive-dod-energy-research.",0_0
(5) When dissenting opinions are excluded from the relevant peer-reviewed literature not because of weak evidence or bad arguments but as part of a strategy to marginalize dissent.,0_0
"The AP article points out Obama had little to do with the fracking boom, except to be slow to regulate fracking.",0_0
"He challenged DeFazio, who initially figured he would have a cakewalk against this political neophyte. But Robinson raised $1.3 million from over 5,000 individual donors (against DeFazio's $1.5 million from special interests, MoveOn.org and other contributors), gave numerous speeches and ran a highly effective campaign. With polls showing his lead narrowing, an increasingly desperate DeFazio struck back.",0_0
Maumbury Rings in Dorset (later reused as a Roman amphitheatre and then a Civil War fort).,0_0
High/Low: Is There Now Reasonable Agreement on the Costs and Benefits of Waxman-Markey?,0_0
"From Andrew Bolt at Australia??s Herald Sun below, some sharp evidence in a new paper that the ???coral bleaching?? scare of the Great Barrier Reef is unfounded and mostly made up.",3_2
"Tragedies happen, and my daughter and her family are happy just to be alive. Their losses and those of hundreds of thousands of other innocents deserve mourning, prayer and respect.",0_0
"The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels.",0_0
"Thus, the photo-op still happened. The Washington Independent reported that, ""espite steady, driving rain,"" the Lafayette Park protest was ""more than twice as large as the February 27 protests at the same site."" Well over 1,000 people attended (however, the event ended early when some rogue protester lobbed a few tea bags onto the White House lawn, which sent the Secret Service scrambling).",0_0
"McChrystal amplified his views through press leaks and public remarks,",0_0
A new study suggests that some coral reefs could be protected from bleaching by a natural ocean thermostat that regulates sea surface temperatures in the western pacific warm pool.,3_2
"Cosmic rays are energetic particles that originate in space and our sun and collide with particles as they zip through our atmosphere. While they come from all directions in space, and the origination of many of these cosmic rays is unknown, they has recently been shown that a larger percentage emanate from specific deep space sources . Cosmic rays were originally discovered because of the ionization they produce in our atmosphere. They cause ionization trails in the atmosphere much like you see in a simple science project called a cloud chamber, shown below:",0_0
Why would such an ambitious conclusion follow from such a seemingly innocent bump on the road? We need just a little bit of patience to understand this point.,0_0
Results in the Island of St. Vincent Worse Than Reported.,0_0
> >> >>I hope that all is well with you.,0_0
"The last time global surface temperatures warmed at this low a rate for a 203-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
"In the recent blog post Climate indices to watch at RealClimate , contributor Rasmus Benestad writes (my boldface):",0_0
"""The North County Gazette, a regional paper covering upstate New York, offers its articles online with a sort of an honor system instead of a standard paywall. OK, but instead of a straight-up honor system or ""tip jar"" (you read stuff, then drop a micropayment in the bucket), they are totally aggro and threatening about it..",0_0
"""corn-based"" ethanol, instead of producing a 20% savings, nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years and increases greenhouse gases for 167 years. Biofuels from switchgrass, if grown on U.S. corn lands, increase emissions by 50%.",0_0
"Carrington's response is essentially to argue that ""everyone says so"",",0_0
"Should NATO care? When you put together the territorialization of the seas and the nationalization of oil companies, the Great Game at sea becomes worth examining (e.g., the 2006 decision of the Cuban regime to hire Chinese NOCs for offshore drilling 45 miles off the coast of Florida). China's interest in Cuba, Panama, and Venezuela shows that the ""string of pearls"" strategy of China goes beyond the Persian Gulf to the South China Sea and the Gulf of Guinea, extending into the Western Hemisphere all the way to America's Caribbean backyard. Since Chinese NOCs are present in 50 countries and play with different rules than regular international oil companies, one would think that the geopolitics of the NOCs could be a suitable topic of discussion in the NAC.",0_0
To some this will be seen as more evidence of man-made global warming due to the burning of fossil fuels. To others it is more evidence of natural climate variability the route was open during previous warm periods when man was not burning fossil fuels.,2_1
"The four researchers report that ""no model"" - that's right, no model - ""reproduces the process of Antarctic bottom water formation accurately."" Rather, ""instead of forming dense water on the continental shelf and allowing it to spill off,"" they indicate that ""models present extensive areas of deep convection, thus leading to an unrealistic, unstratified open ocean.""",5_1
"Sea ice surrounding Antarctica is witnessing record growth, say scientists from NASAs Jet Propulsion Laband the British Antarctic Survey.",1_1
"The bottom line of those two quotes: ocean heat content data before the ARGO floats are of very limited value, and ocean heat content data based on ARGO floats are so riddled with problems they too are questionable.",5_1
The fundamentally intractable GCM resolution problem is nicely illustrated by a thunderstorm weather system moving across Arizona. 110??110 cells are the finest resolution computationally feasible in CMIP5. Useless for resolving convection processes.,5_1
"This lag would indeed kill the causal relationship between cosmic rays and clouds if the cosmic rays were the only effect influencing the clouds. However, there are other effects, too. Only crazy people would like to argue that there only exists one cause of climate change and Nir Shaviv is not one of these crazy people. More Shaviv on this blog Nir goes well beyond the handwaving above. In fact, he quantitatively estimates the lag and his prediction turns out to be compatible with observations. The essence of his calculation is simple. The cloud cover oscillations are assumed to have two components. One of them is a direct consequence of the cosmic rays, as dictated by cosmoclimatology. It has virtually no lag and induces changes of the cloud cover by roughly 1.5% (Nir shows that this follows from the sensitivity corresponding to 1 - 1.5 per CO2 doubling).",2_1
"The United Nations will officially warn that growing crops to make ""green"" biofuel harms the environment and drives up food prices. A leaked draft of a UN report condemns the widespread use of biofuels made from crops as a replacement for petrol and diesel. It says that biofuels, rather than combating the effects of global warming, could make them worse.",4_4
"Figure 8 . Climate models predict a hot spot of enhanced warming rate in the tropics, 8 km to 13 km altitude. Radiosonde data shows the hot spot does not exist. Red indicates the fastest warming rate. Source: http://joannenova.com.au",2_3
Introduce a new fast scheme for determining solar radiation at surface,0_0
"How high was this monster? The radar suggested about 40,000 ft, very high for our neck of the woods (see figure)",0_0
"In his administration's first months, President Obama doubled the U.S. military presence from 34,000 to 68,000 troops. Even after these increases, though, he saw the need later that year for",0_0
"We know that climate models cannot simulate the sea surface temperature anomalies of the past 31 years. See here . So why should we have any confidence in a climate model-based study of hurricanes that depends on flawed simulations of sea surface temperatures? We shouldnt. Also, tropical cyclones are strongly impacted by El Nio and La Nia events, and climate models still cant simulate El Nios and La Nias. Kerry Emanuels new climate model-based paper is nothing more than computer-aided speculation, using models that cant simulate fundamental components of the study.",5_1
"Anyway, to get back to the cherry-picking and selection bias issue, the study is pretty clear that it thinks that ""more spending"" is a failed strategy for improving public education",0_0
"The second wrong messagein the articlewas that the warming between 1970 and 2010 was due to global warming when it has clearly been shown by climate scientists, includingthe Met Office,that natural planetary cycles ENSO(stronger ElNinos)were behind the recent warm phase.",2_1
"Such failed projections should come as no great surprise. As the IPCC's own 2001 Assessment Report concludes: ""The climate system is a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.""",5_1
Over the past ten years the world has invested more than $600 billion in wind power and $700 billion in solar power. Yet the total contribution those two technologies are now making to the world primary energy supply is still less than 2 per cent. Ouch.,4_4
Figure 2: Global temperature over the last 3200 years shows a distinct 1000-year cycle along with the 230-year cycle.,2_1
"He was preceded earlier in the month on this topic by former Republican congressman Sherwood Boehlert, in a Washington Post Op-ed, attacking the climate stance of the GOP in Congress. He is an honorary board member of Republicans for Environmental Protection, (REP), an organisation that seems to be a cheerleader for the EPA.",0_0
What are the major international efforts to stopping global warming?,0_0
"The best advice I can give Europeans is: Live with it! President Bush is no fluke, and there's no wishing him away. The good news is that Mr. Bush isn't devious or unpredictable. He's entirely open and obvious. A major theme of his campaign was that he does what he says.",0_0
"Robert Endlich, the meteorologist, reported: ""One item after another struck me as being completely at odds with measurements. For instance, Hansen claimed Earth's energy balance is out of balance, and we are warming rapidly, but recent global surface temperatures of land and water have not increased and, in fact, many measures show cooling over the past 17-19 years. In the U.S., there has not been a new state maximum temperature record set since 1995, and, in spite of the claims to the contrary, July 1936 is still the warmest month on record, set when CO2 was less than 300 parts per million. CO2 is now 395 PPM.""",1_4
"But Western policies that perpetuate aid rather than trade do cause direct harm, however worthy the original intentions. And this is also true for the environmental policy that banned the only viable form of protection against the locusts which have caused such devastation. The desert locust, which changes color as it develops, can devour its own weight (about an ounce) in fresh food in 24 hours. A ton of locusts, which is a tiny part of the average swarm, eats the same amount of food in a single day as ten elephants, 25 camels or 2,500 people.",0_0
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"""Cloud Telecomputers, a software innovator in business applications and IP telephony, today announced that it will be exhibiting Glass, its unique Android-based platform for desktop business smartphones, at AstriCon 2010 in National Harbor, Maryland from October 26-28.""",0_0
10. Paraguay - Agreement Concerning the Establishment of a Tropical Forest Conservation Fund and a Tropical Forest Conservation Board,0_0
"Thats true. The picture above shows how low the islands are to the surface of the sea. Theres no question theyre vulnerable to sea level rise, as they have been for several hundreds or thousands of years, since their ancestors arrived there. But what does the Australian expert not tell us? He doesnt say that it will take 200 to 600 years for the sea to rise another 600 mm, during which time the coral will grow and push the islands higher. Thats why coral atolls are still at the sea surface, even though the sea level has gone up about 130 metres (426 ft) since the last ice age.",3_2
The experts concluded that the recent increase in impacts from tropical cyclones (including hurricanes) has largely been caused by rising concentrations of population and infrastructure in coastal regions.,1_7
"Recent innovations have enabled the development of microfinance access to small amounts of credit for specific purposes. Today, microfinance institutions all over the developing world provide small loans, access to savings, and microinsurance to families or small businesses.",0_0
"""While Americans struggle to pay higher gas prices, the Senate left for its August recess after refusing to take votes on two outstanding bills passed by the House of Representatives that would significantly increase domestic oil and natural gas production. Instead, the Senate pretended to do something by voting to open a tiny area of the Gulf of Mexico to explorationan area currently under a moratorium that expires next year.""",0_0
No doubt these scientists genuinely believe in their own perception of the climate change story. But why do mainstream scientists go along with the inevitable overstatement associated with the activism business?,5_2
the 1960s by changes in the atmospheric circulation. The warming prior to 1940,0_0
a three-month-long intensive policy review. The review was spurred by the,0_0
Expedition vessel hired by group of global-warming scientists.,0_0
"Howard Shelanski, the top White House regulatory official, said in a blog post late Friday afternoon that the administration was making new changes to the estimate, and would launch a public comment period ?in response to public and stakeholder interest.?",0_0
"In 1985, ice cores extracted from Greenland revealed temperatures and CO2 levels going back 150,000 years. Temperature and CO2 seemed locked together. It was a turning pointthe greenhouse effect captured attention. But, in 1999 it became clear that carbon dioxide rose and fell after temperatures did. By 2003, we had better data showing the lag was 800 200 years. CO2 was in the back seat.",2_3
"A strong high pressure system with a central pressure of 1035 mb has developed over the Arctic north of Alaska, and will bring clear skies and warm southerly winds to northeast Siberia and the Arctic during the coming week, accelerating Arctic sea ice loss. Widespread areas of northeastern Siberia are expected to see air temperatures 4 12C (7 22F) above average during the coming week, and the clockwise flow of air around the high pressure system centered north of Alaska will pump this warm air into the Arctic. Arctic sea ice extent , currently slightly higher than the record low values set in 2007, should fall to to its l owest extent for the date by the third week of August as the clear skies and warm southerly winds melt ice and push it away from the coast of Siberia. This weather pattern, known as the Arctic Dipole, was also responsible for the record sea ice loss in 2007, but was stronger that year.",0_0
"""The world is experiencing a rapidly rising frequency of extreme climate-related events such as heat waves.""",0_0
"Expanding natural gas use has also reduced carbon dioxide emissions, which should encourage people who still worry about ""dangerous manmade climate change.""",0_0
"What these andseveral similar (though less blatant) examples in the ANPR reveal is that EPA cannot regulate CO 2 under the CAA and avoidthe risk of severe economicdamagewithout assuming legislative powers andeffectively amending the Act. Mass v. EPA has set the stage for a constitutional crisis, because EPAmay have to violate the separation of powers in order to avoid wreaking havoc on the economy.",0_0
"Yet, critics of Exxon's approach, in 2008, feared ""that the company's reluctance to explore alternative energy will prove to be bad business judgment in the long run.""",0_0
"Prominent among them was John Fonte, then at the American Enterprise Institute, now at the Hudson Institute. His latest effort, Sovereignty or Submission, has as its subtitle the sobering question: Will Americans Rule Themselves or Be Ruled by Others? That is, indeed, the question.",0_0
"In its publication, ""Keeping Tropical Forests Alive,"" the World Resources Institute says, ""Every year, at least 27 million acres of tropical forests are lost an area the size of Pennsylvania, Ohio or Virginia. That's almost 74,000 acres a day 3,000 acres an hour."" (Which by the way also equals 50 acres per minute, or just under one per second). This number apparently good for Richard Nalley who wrote in Science Digest ""man is currently slashing and burning away our rain forests, each year gouging a chunk larger than Virginia from an area roughly the size of the continental U.S. At this rate, all but the most remote lowland rain forest will be stripped bare within 30 years.""",0_0
"It was clear from Fayyad's answer to my first questionhow he intends to use the power that comes with international celebritythat he sees the task of leading his people out of four decades of occupation as paramount: ""People respond to the occupation and the adversity under the occupation in two ways: one is to react with complete submission, in which case you can't do much of anything, and the other is belligerence. In my view, they are two sides of the same coin: defeatist."" He embraces a doctrine of nonviolence in international affairs, and democracy at home undergirded by strong security forces responsible to the national government. ""Yes I say to political pluralism, but definitely no to security pluralism,"" he said with emphasis.",0_0
"The climate models used in this post are from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, Phase 5 (CMIP5) archive . The source of the model outputs is the KNMI Climate Explorer , specifically from the Radiation variables on the Monthly CMIP5 scenario runs webpage. The TOA Incident Shortwave Radiation (incoming downward solar radiation) is identified as rsdt on that KNMI webpage, the TOA Outgoing Shortwave Radiation (reflected solar radiation) as rsut , and the TOA Outgoing Longwave Radiation (emitted infrared radiation) as rlut . Ive used the higher of the middle-of-the-road scenarios, RCP6.0, and downloaded the outputs individually for each model.",0_0
"Another remarkable proposal came from media baron Ted Turner. Like the climate delegation from China, Turner urged planetary overlords at a luncheon in Cancun to adopt a global one-child policy modeled after the brutal communist Chinese system. ?If we?re going to be here 5,000 years from now, we?re not going to do it with seven billion people,? claimed Turner, who has five children of his own.",0_0
The bulk of the emission p 395 Gtons sedan1750 has ended up in the atmosphere with 24010 and 15530 in vrldshavet with Gtons.,0_0
"The brown Zune 30 GB is #1 bestseller in electronics at amazon.com, ahead of all iPods. It is not so shocking because this particular color only costs USD 134, much less than the price of much weaker iPods. I am simply amazed how they can produce it for this ridiculously low amount of money.",0_0
"3. The IPCC's climate-model alarmism regarding dangerous, accelerating sea levels due to human CO2 emissions is without empirical merit - summarily, an IPCC fantasy.",5_2
Does anyone else detect any indication of media bias here? Maybe it?s just me.,0_0
Report from the Heartland Institute Climate Change Conference,0_0
Tenth International Conference on Climate Change a Smashing Success,0_0
"They appear to think they own the university, and ""academic freedom"" means they are entitled to deny academic degrees to children of parents whose politics differ from their own. As more alumni join this effort, however, and the university's reputation becomes increasingly radioactive, OSU appears to be wavering. Perhaps a dose of sanity may yet take center stage.",0_0
"""Corporations,"" said Ridenour, ""will be tempted to pay tribute to environmental groups knowing full well that they are the final arbiters of who does and does not deserve emissions credits."" Crony Capitalism can be downloaded from http://users.erols.com/npap/crony.html.",0_0
Suffice it to say that Climategate is just the tip of the iceberg of misbehaving mainstream climate scientists whose personal agendas and lack of humility have misled not only themselves but many others. We all deserve better.,5_2
"Contrasting evidence of past temperature variations at Law Dome, Antarctica has been derived from ice core isotope measurements and from the inversion of a subsurface temperature profile (Dahl-Jensen et al., 1999; Goosse et al., 2004; Jones and Mann, 2004). The borehole analysis indicates colder intervals at around 1250 and 1850, followed by a gradual warming of 0.7C to the present. The isotope record indicates a relatively cold 20th century and warmer conditions throughout the period 1000 to 1750.",5_1
"Just a little honesty there, too. Just one off-the-cuff suggestion (volcanoes, which have not been particularly active globally in the past decade), but no fewer than three possible modeling errors are suggested.",5_1
"Is flooding becoming more common in Europe as a result of global warming? Well not according to a recent study in the publication New Scientist, which examined this issue and found such claims to be awash in hype. According to scientists at the University of Leipzig in Germany and Reading University in the U.K., the historical record dating back over 1,000 years indicates no statistical upward trend of note, even when factoring in the devastating floods that left cities from Prague to Dresden awash with high water in 2002. While flooding hasn't increased, the study says, damage claims have. But this is because of changes in land use near rivers, not global warming. So it seems the claims linking flooding and global climate change are all wet indeed.",1_7
"In terms of severity and geographic extent, the 2000-4 drought in the West exceeded such legendary events as the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. While that drought saw intervening years of normal rainfall, the years of the turn-of-the-century drought were consecutive. More seriously still, long-term climate records from tree-ring chronologies show that this drought was the most severe event of its kind in the western United States in the past 800 years. Though there have been many extreme droughts over the last 1,200 years, only three other events have been of similar magnitude, all during periods of megadroughts.",1_7
"More to the point, unilateral action will not mitigate climate change. The U.S. is only a small fraction of total emissions. Even if all of the Annex I countries of the Kyoto Protocol agreed to binding constraints, they would account for less than half of the world?s total emissions, and a far smaller fraction of the expected growth in emissions between now and 2100. To act unilaterally, or even in conjunction with the rest of the developed world, would mean paying the full measure of mitigating climate change while receiving only a fraction of its benefit.",4_2
"They argue that there are natural cycles, over which we have no control, that dictate how warm the planet is. But what is the evidence for this?",2_1
"Heading back to the EPA's Description of Likelihood Table (above) we find that instead of ""very likely,"" probably the most apropos descriptor is found a couple of lines down, the one that encompasses a 33 to 66% probabilityor ""about as likely as not.""",0_0
"The miners? union accepts, and at times supports, the primary reason for EPA carbon-dioxide regulations; namely, fears of dangerous man-made climate change.",0_0
"If you strip away the ex-socialist workers party policy threads that infiltrated the Greens platform and look at what they want for the natural environment, it can make appealing reading.",0_0
"It is well known thatnighttimesurface temperatures have risen over the last century. This is primarily due to the Urban Heat Island effect. Asphalt, heaters, air conditioners, irrigation they all keepnighttimetemperatures up.",5_1
"Sherman next admitted that yes, the stations showed a slight end-to-end drop over the time theyve run. That was nice to see. But he then argued the very brief temperature uptick in 2011-2012 means the long-term temperature trend may end up oscillating while remaining rather flat rather than being one of long-term cooling. OK, that may or may not turn out to be the case, but where did I claim that Shermans admitted 10-year cooling portends a longer-term cooling trend? Which part of Of course, 10 years is hardly enough to establish a long-term trend was Sherman incapable of understanding? Moreover, even if a long-term oscillating temperature stagnation does indeed occur, that would also support my larger argument that the temperature data contradict claims of accelerating warming.",1_4
"Lewis Deane on October 5, 2013 at 1:35 am",0_0
"""Interestingly,"" as Appelhans et al . conclude, ""the enhanced vulnerability of mussels seems to be neutralized by the decreased consumption of the predators under high acidification."" And they say that ""these results illustrate that different stress effects on interacting species may not only enhance but also buffer community level effects,"" further emphasizing that ""when stress effects are similar (and weak) on interacting species, biotic interactions may remain unaffected.""",3_2
"In his earlier movies, Emmerich recognized the need for conflict in a story: In Independence Day there were aliens to fight; in Godzilla a giant lizard; in The Patriot, redcoats. Who are the heroes of The Day After Tomorrow up against? An angry Mother Nature revolting to point out the folly of men (to paraphrase Blue Oyster Cult on the protagonist of an earlier Emmerich flick). A short list of such follies might include driving SUVs and failing to endorse the Kyoto Protocol.",0_0
"Because a few days ago, the Arctic team saw the carbon footprints of the local landlord, a male polar bear whose private territory they have violated, they may want to watch the video above to improve their mood. ;-)",0_0
"Would federal investment in renewable energy technologies make Kyoto feasible and affordable? Not even remotely, says Mills. Just to meet 30% of the expected growth in U.S. electricity demand over the next 20 years, wind and solar power would have to expand output 37,000-fold! No combination of tax preferences, outright subsidies, or Apollo-style R&D; programs could accomplish such a miracle. Kyoto can't be ""done smart.""",0_0
"""For Gilly and many other Frenchmen and women, social benefits such as long vacations, state-subsidized health care and early retirement are more than just luxuries: They're seen as a birthright an essential part of the identity of today's France """,0_0
"The following is reported in a United Mine Workers of America/Bituminous Coal Operators Assn. climate change briefing paper, From Rio to Kyoto, 1997: ""A 1996 U.S. EPA study concluded that massive life-style changes such as requiring new vehicles to achieve 63 mpg by 2010 and retrofitting existing homes with state-of-the-art appliances and other energy-saving technologies would not allow the U.S. to reduce emissions below 1990 levels.",0_0
"either the frequency of tropical or extratropical cyclones over the North Atlantic are projected to appreciably change due to climate change, nor have there been indications of a change in their statistical behavior over this region in recent decades, Hoerling told environmental writer Andrew Revkin.",1_7
"Sure, there are corners of the Earth that have gotten colder, and some that haven't changed much. There are also some places that have warmed much more than the global average. Overall, though, all lines of evidence point in the same direction: warming.",0_0
Australias antarctic runway melting I4U News,0_0
"Referring to the pleading submitted by the 300 petitioners, he responded that ""This letter shows that hundreds of respected scientists and experts agree that NOAA's efforts to alter historical temperature data deserve serious scrutiny.""",0_0
"El Nio: A warming of parts of the tropical Pacific indicates that an El Nio may be building. Although largely ignored by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), El Nios and the opposite La Nias apparently have a significant impact on global temperatures, hence global warming. Strong El Nios warm, La Nias cool. The great temperature spike in 1998 was from a super El Nio. Physicist Donn Rapp has a lucid historical explanation on Climate Etc. Some alarmists are calling for a strong El Nio, as it would restart global warming. Based on the historic data, Joe Bastardi of WeatherBELL Analytics asserts that if it materializes, it will not be strong.",2_1
"Studies involving 28 million weather balloons, thousands of satellite recordings, 3,000 ocean buoys, temperature recordings from 50 sites in the US and a 1,000 years of temperature proxies suggest that the Global Climate Models overestimate positive feedback and are based on poor assumptions. Observations suggest lower values for climate sensitivity whether we study long-term humidity, upper tropospheric temperature trends, outgoing long wave radiation, cloud cover changes, or the changes in the heat content of the vast oceans.",3_1
A kind reader from Holland has sent me this short but informative extract from the German Manual of Global Climatic Geo-Engineering,0_0
Please note that articles not linked easily or summarized here are reproduced in the Articles Section of the full TWTW that can be found on the web site under the date of the TWTW.,0_0
Leaked United Nations report reveals the world's temperature hasn't risen for the last 15 years,1_4
"Second, a ???clean energy standard?? (CES), like the failed Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill,is just another way of?? skinning the cat ,??as President Obama put it. A CES is another way to ???bankrupt?? coal power plants and cause electricity rates to ??? necessarily skyrocket .?? Obama??s CES proposal aims at almost exactly the same mix of electricity fuels that the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill would have created. A CES resembles a Soviet-style production quota and would probably be less efficient than cap-and-trade. Why should Republicans andBlue Dog Democrats who oppose cap-and-trade feel obliged to support something even worse?",4_1
"This is a stunning finding in and of itself, to be sure, but heres the Drinking the Kool-Aid part: These findings may provide further support for recent guideline revisions with even lower LDL goals and for developing effective treatments to raise HDL.",0_0
"An even better solution might be to build some new power plants, for example nuclear ones.",4_5
"Iain Murray, Senior Fellow, International Policy",0_0
b) Asian women working full-time earned only about 3% less per week ($841) than the average full-time male worker ($871) in 2014.,0_0
"""Verizon Communications Inc. on Thursday filed a legal challenge to new federal regulations that prohibit broadband providers from interfering with Internet traffic flowing over their networks.""",0_0
"One of the most interesting, if unsurprising, findings of the Prosperity Index is that higher-income countries have diminishing returns to life satisfaction (see figure 1). In crude terms, this means that if you live in one of the poorest nations on earth, an increase in income is vitally important to improved prosperity, so driving growth is a critical ambition for those living in such regions. In wealthier parts of the world, however, greater secur-ity, better governance, and personal freedom are more important to life satisfaction than are small increases in wealth. In the figure, one can see that a hypothetical increase in income from $3,000 to $6,000 would increase life satisfaction much more than an increase in income from $23,000 to $26,000 would.",0_0
COMPARISONS OF HOVMOLLER DIAGRAMS OF THIS YEAR (TO DATE) WITH 1982,0_0
"Sam Karnick, Chris Monckton, provide some push back to warmer claims",0_0
"Voters made their preference clear: Republicans won more seats, and with bigger majorities, than anyone predicted.",0_0
caused by factors (as food or a traumatic factor) or an agent (as a disease-producing organism) from outside the organism or system.,0_0
"On the military side, the importance of the maritime dimension begins with the fact that, for all the talk about airlift capabilities, 90 percent of military lift remains sealift. But what is more noteworthy about the post-Cold War period is the fact that the decline of ""maritime domain awareness"" within the Atlantic Alliance took place precisely at the time when globalization was significantly increasing the importance of the maritime dimension on the commercial side (85 percent of world trade volume and 60 percent of oil and gas travels by sea) and of maritime security, all too often confused with and reduced to maritime safety.",0_0
"Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump introduces his wife Melania during the opening session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., July 18, 2016. REUTERS/Rick Wilking",0_0
"The Zeit also tells the story of how Mann once received a letter containing white powder, how he got a threatening e-mail, and that today his life is no longer how it once was . The underlying message Die Zeit conveys here is that climate scientists are being hounded, tormented and persecuted by a ruthless, industry funded mob.",0_0
"Latour: I agree the K-T diagram shows what you say. I said CO 2 and you said atmosphere. Atmosphere is only 400 ppmv CO 2 , so they are different. My statement stands. I said if CO 2 absorbs incoming and emits in all directions, it would cool the surface. Since you did not take exception, I am glad we agree again. I suspect you do not know the difference between radiation intensity given by S-B Equation and radiant heat transfer from a hot body to cooler surroundings, given by the law of radiant energy transfer. Just because they have same units, w/m 2 does not mean they are the same phenomenon. This is a source of your confusion.",2_3
"One such study states: High-resolution records from Antarctic ice cores show that carbon dioxide concentrations increased by 80 to 100 parts per million by volume 600 +/- 400 years after the warming of the last three deglaciations. Despite strongly decreasing temperatures, high carbon dioxide concentrations can be sustained for thousands of years during glaciations; The last part goes to the unanswered question that with the onset of an ice age, why do temperatures fall when carbon dioxide levels remain high? CO2 concentrations are not the control knob of climate the Climate Establishment asserts. Please see: Ice Core Records of Atmospheric CO2 Around the Last Three Glacial Terminations, By Hubertus Fischer, et al. Science, 1999, http://www.climate.unibe.ch/~hfischer/Publications files/fischer99sci.pdf",2_3
"After the United Nations conference on global warming in Kyoto in early December 1997, the researchers went into the field again with another national survey, conducted between Dec. 20, 1997, and Feb. 13, 1998. The surveys, which enabled researchers to look at how opinions changed during a period of heightened attention to the issue, were funded by the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and were sponsored by Resources for the Future.",0_0
"By James Owen, National Geographic News, Jul 31, 2015",0_0
"The eight Spanish researchers report that ""no apparent pH-driven effects were observed in the skeletal growth rate, micro-density and porosity of both species compared to control conditions after six months of exposure,"" which results they say ""are in accordance with two previous mid-term studies assessing the effects of OA on these same species, where no differences were observed after 6 months in L. pertusa (Form and Riebesell, 2012) or 9 months of exposure in L. pertusa and M. oculata (Maier et al ., 2013).""",3_2
Cap and trade schemes around the world aren't working.,0_0
"Schwartz (2012) : This study derived TCR by zero-intercept regressions of changes, from the 18961901 mean, in observed global surface temperature on corresponding changes in forcing, up to 2009, based on forcing histories used in historical model simulations. The mean change in forcing up to 1990 (pre the Mount Pinatubu eruption) per the five datasets used to derive the TCR range is close to the best estimate of the forcing change per AR5. The studys TCR range is 0.851.9C, with a median estimate of 1.3C.",0_0
"About 1.3 billion people in the world have no electricity, Lewis said, so energy should be made more plentiful and available.",0_0
"Recently, Felix began crying when his mom went to pack his lunch in a resealable plastic bag. When asked what the trouble was, Felix told his parents that his kindergarten class had had a draw for a stuffed toy, but that he had been excluded from the contest because his teacher had found a plastic sandwich bag in his lunch kit. So he pleaded with his mom not to make him an enviro-criminal again.",0_0
"CHURCHVILLE, VA?The cable network MSNBC is warning that the world food chain ?has been stretched to the limit? by rising world demand and a series of crop failures in several countries. The TV network?s warning is premature. The U.S., in fact, could ease the current global food price spike with one administrative action?limiting the amount of U.S. corn that gets turned into corn ethanol.",0_0
New Material Posted on the CO2 Science Web site 8 January 14 January 2015,0_0
"Earlier this week, Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee,released a 123 page document containing McCarthys responses to hundreds of questionson a wide range of issues.In todays post, I comment on McCarthys responses to Sen. Vitters questions about fuel switching. In Part 2 of this series, I will comment on McCarthys responses regarding the administrations motor vehicle program.",0_0
"In the month after the EPA environmental quality report was issued, controversy about the Soon-Baliunas study grew, with climate change activists mounting an extraordinary campaign to discredit their work and pressure the journal that published it to rescind its endorsement of the work. The newly appointed editor in chief of the journal resigned, although his decision seems to have been driven more by internal management issues than over principled or practical objections to the Soon-Baliunas study. But activists seized upon this as evidence that the intersection of science and politics had driven him from his post. Lost in the furor was any serious examination of the merits or flaws of the study itself. Once again, controversy succeeded in overshadowing science.",0_0
"And Lino Graglia is a great man indeed, and recognized as one of the con law experts of all time.",0_0
"On the lack of warming over the last 15 years, Brnnimann admits that they were unusual, blaming it on the unexpected lack of strong El Nino events in the tropical Pacific . Yet he claims that this and the unusually cold European wintersover the last few years do not refute the CO2 greenhouse gas effect .However Brnnimann is forced to concede:",1_4
"Corals have survived such warmth and worse many times in the past, including the Medieval Warm Period, Roman Warm Period, Holocene Optimum, as well as throughout numerous similar periods during a number of prior interglacial periods; and there is no reason to believe they cannot do it again, if the need arises.",3_2
"The U.S. is the worlds most endowed energy country, followed by Russia, Saudi Arabia, and China. At current consumption rates, we have hundreds of years of domestic oil and gas, and thousands of years of coal.",4_5
"Meteorologically this is sheer absurdity. For more than 100 years we have known that the atmospheric circulation is subject to unpredictable cyclic fluctuations. Simply said: the atmospheric pressure gradient between the Azores and Iceland changes chaotically over the years, which in Europe leads to a series of warmer or colder winters. It has nothing to do with polar ice melt, climate change, and absolutely nothing to do with CO2. Why do climate catastrophists, who claim they can foresee the climate 100 years in advance, always come up with such explanations after the fact?",2_1
"The First Amendment shields Americans engaged in corporate lobbying and making donations, and even groups that misinform the public about important issues are afforded this protection. In Pfizer v. Giles (1994), a federal appeals court ruled that the maker of an asbestos product could not be held liable for joining and financially supporting a trade association that represented makers of asbestos products, even though that association allegedly ""disseminated misleading information about the danger of asbestos in schools directly to"" the plaintiffs, where ""at least some"" of the association's ""activities were constitutionally protected.""",0_0
"Whereas estimates of ""future actual"" emissions are based on mechanical analysis of the modification being made and actual emission records, the ""potential to emit"" is based on hypothetical projections of the modification's impact on a plant's overall efficiency, reliability, and output. A modification that reduces emissions may nevertheless be scored as increasing the emitter's PTE if it allows the facility to run longer or at a higher capacity. EPA uses the unrealistic forecast that modified facilities would operate at full capacity for 24 hours a day, seven days a week 8,760 hours a year. Hence, even small improvements in efficiency can generate large increases in PTE relative to current emissions.",0_0
"USFS surveys provided more damning evidence that would lead to rejecting the CBDs lawsuits. The benchmark for wildlife abundance and distribution in California had been Joseph Grinnells surveys from the early 1900s. Contrary to global warming theory, the USFS survey found many new active pika colonies several hundred meters lower than Grinnell had documented. In total, 19% of the currently known populations are at lower elevations than ever documented by any study during the cooler 1900s. Further north in the Columbia River Gorge, another independent researcher also found pikas at much lower elevations, surviving at temperatures much higher than the models had predicted.",0_0
"Milloy got wind of what was going on. He and four other experts sought and received an unprecedented opportunity to testify before the NAS on August 24. Their presentations and other information used in this article can be found here, here and here. Will their efforts bring change? Time will tell.",0_0
"Goodbye Dear Old Friend, We'll Always Miss You",0_0
"Even the New York Times seems to view this effort as constitutionally dubious. ""Many legal experts have questioned whether the actions and statements by Exxon Mobil can be construed as criminal and outside the protections of the First Amendment,"" wrote John Schwartz of the Times.",5_2
"I have always fulfilled my duties as well as I could and as my strengths allowed me, in agreement with my opinion that similar activities can't be done at a ""50% capacity""...",0_0
"In fact, German CO2 emissions have been rising for two years in a row as coal is experiencing a renaissance. But CO2 emissions in the EU as a whole are likely to rise because of increased coal burning at power stations. The revelation has embarrassed the German government and dumbfounded the public, which cannot understand how a nation that has expanded renewable energy more than any other country is building 20 coal-fired power stations.",0_0
"elected. He responded by pointing to his new comprehensive policy guidebook,",0_0
"Here Id like to point out another curiosity: while the dewpoint temperature has increased in step with air temperature at 12Z (around 6 a.m.), it has increased much less so at other times of the day, and even decreased slightly at 21Z (around 3 p.m.), during the period 1973-2012:",0_0
"According tothe Director of the German Marine Museum in Stralsund, Harald Benke, inthis n-tv report here :",0_0
"Much like other anti-Semites, he would claim that he wasn't one he was just an anti-Zionist, everyone was told. Good try but my suspicion isn't quite gone (although I made a different conclusion 5 years ago).",0_0
"Since 2008, in the western part of Texas, fully 10 percent of the time wind operators paid the electrical grid to take their electricity.",4_4
"Here is an interesting interview of Barron while he was director of NCAR, on climate modeling. I tried to find any congressional testimony on climate change, I spotted one in 2001 . As far as I can tell, Barron has not been very visible in the public or scientific debate on climate change over the past decade.",0_0
"The more-than-reasonable underlying assumption for the next 50 to 100 years is that technology progress will continue, even accelerate as it has over the past century. But exactly what technologies lurk below the radar screen, soon to emerge? What will flower and dominate new products and services? Hindsight will make picking the impactful inventions easy. Likely many will emerge from things like genetic engineering, quantum computing, single-atom-thick grapheme materials, cloud computing (the emerging knowledge, never mind phone, exchange), remote-piloted vehicles, holographic storage, and meta-materials.",0_0
"In a synthesis of long term ecological monitoring data across old growth Amazonia, Phillips et al (2008) find that from approximately 1988 to 2000 not only that the biomass of these tropical forests increased but that they have become more dynamic, that is, they have more stems, faster recruitment, faster mortality, faster growth and more lianas. These increases have occurred across regions and environmental gradients and through time for the lowland Neotropics and Amazonia. They note that the simplest explanation for this suite of results is that improved resource availability has increased net primary productivity, in turn increasing growth rates, which can all be explained by a long-term increase in a limiting resource. They suggest that this no-longer-limiting resource might be CO 2 , although other factors (e.g., insolation or diffuse radiation) may also play a role.",3_3
"No one has worked more tirelessly to create this impression than Hillary Clinton. The woman behind the party s colossal embarrassment in 1994 became a spokesperson for a series of inoffensive health-care causes, like cosponsoring legislation with Sen. Bill Frist on standardizing medical records, or writing opeds with Newt Gingrich deploring the high number of medical errors.",0_0
"But given what is going on now, the past 5 days, plus the forecasted upcoming 16, with another record cold air mass coming this weekend into the areas ( another because we had one this past weekend) that was in the heart of the NOAA Hot July area, this should be one of the greatest, if not THE NUMBER ONE GREATEST, July to August turn arounds in temps in US history. The 16 day means of over 5 degrees C below normal seem to cold to me ( I cant believe it can be 10 below for over 2 weeks, if it is, that could be the coldest 2 week period in US history in August for the plains, though I have not looked back at all of them",0_0
"The Greens are hardly worthy of the title political party, just a rag-tag bunch of Marxist environmental fruitcakes.",0_0
"At the same time, the GRACE gravitational-anomaly satellites, the most accurate method of measurement we have, showed sea level actually falling from 20032009.",1_6
"The Center for American Progress claimed , climate change may have affected the snowstorm may have made it more likely, may have made it worse than it would have been without so much greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.",0_0
"People who know people at the IPCC have their yet-to-be-published work taken into account, but researchers without these sorts of connections are out of luck.",0_0
Another interesting post from William M. Briggs is here .,0_0
"Well be discussing and illustrating the input values and the climate-model-created values of the components at the top of the atmosphere, and their difference, known as the Energy Imbalance.",0_0
This result indicates why one can not use tree rings for any periods warmer than the calibration perioda situation which is difficult to know a priori . The same issue could affect certain other types of temperature proxies (besides tree rings) as well.,5_1
Models also failed to replicate the 60-year and 200-year cycles in monsoon rainfall linked to solar cycles that are reflected in studies of ocean sediments from the Arabian Sea.,0_0
"Question 3 (for Pederson): The 2007 IPCC report states that evidence of warming in the 21st century is ""unequivocal."" On the other hand, Phil Jones, former head of the Climatic Research Unit and a strong supporter of the AGW hypothesis, admitted in a Feb. 13 interview with the BBC that there has been no ""statistically significant"" warming since 1995, and evidence of slight cooling since 2002. Clearly the planet can't be both cooling and warming at the same time. Which position, Jones's or the IPCC's, is wrong?",0_0
"HAYDEN: Hey! Theres no need to hit me. I heard you. If P, then Q. Q. Therefore P.",0_0
"Just to get sub-Saharan electricity consumption up to the levels of South Africa or Bulgaria would mean adding about 1,000 gigawatts of capacity, the installation of which would cost at least 1 trillion. Yet the greens want Africans to hold back on the cheapest form of power: fossil fuels. In 2013 Ed Davey, the energy secretary, announced that British taxpayers will no longer fund coal-fired power stations in developing countries, and that he would put pressure on development banks to ensure that their funding policies rule out coal. (I declare a commercial interest in coal in Northumberland.)",0_0
As Steve Goddard has interestingly pointed out recently using RSS data going back to 1990 the Mt Pinatubo eruption in 1991 had a very important effect on global temperatures.,0_0
"The IPCC has framed the climate change problem in the context of anthropogenic forcing, and national funding has followed suit. There has been far too little emphasis on understanding the sun and solar-climate interactions, I see a few signs that this situation is improving.",0_0
"132. At the same time, Plaintiff continues to evade the one action that might definitively establish its respectability ? by objecting, in the courts of Virginia, British Columbia and elsewhere, to the release of his research in this field. See Cuccinelli vs Rectors and Visitors of the University of Virginia?",0_0
"In the 1970s (I am not saying, for the whole decade) there was a consensus about global cooling. How is such a conclusion reached? By asking the right question.",5_1
"Europe has already tried this experiment and found it to be economically devastating. In April, the European Parliament voted against saving the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)Europe's flagship environmental program. Roger Helmer, a member of the European Parliament, explained that propping up the ETS would ""make energy more expensive; undermine European competitiveness even further; drive even more businesses and jobs and investments offshore (known in the jargon as ""carbon leakage'); and force more households and pensioners into fuel poverty.""",4_1
"Would anyone promoting such a film ever not expect Al Gore and MoveOn.org to try to exploit it to score political points? And yet, according to groups opposed to media ownership rule liberalization, controversial content will nearly always be trampled under the boot of the boss's politics.",0_0
"The Presidentalludes to the great clean energy race that America supposedly cannot afford to lose. But as my colleague William Yeatman points out, the race is itself a creature of mandate and subsidy. China subsidizes its solar panel manufacturers, for example, becauseU.S. states establish Soviet-style production quota for renewable energy and EU countries subsidize renewable electricity via feed-in tariffs (FITs).Chinas subsidies, in turn, are the official justification forthe Stimulusloans to companies like Solyndra. But Beijing is flush with cash; Washington, deep in debt.We cannot outspend China in a subsidy war.",0_0
"In what sense is 400 parts a million a milestone and what does the word add, save opinion, to the intro? By whom are these conditions 'expected to return in time' and who says the consequences will be 'devastating'? By whom is catastrophic warming 'thought to be unstoppable' at 2 degrees (and does this mean that at 1.99 degrees it is stoppable)? it may well be that everything in this piece is true. But it is not enough for the reporter to assert that on his own authority without citing sources.",0_0
"That all federal ""enforcement activities"" in Texas ""must be conducted under the auspices of the county sheriff with jurisdiction in that county."" (That would leave the FBI, air marshals, immigration officials, DEA personnel, and so on subordinate to the Texas versions of Sheriff Joe Arpaio.)",0_0
"President Obama recently demonstrated his willingness to ignore public opinion and force a health care bill through Congress while his party's majorities are still strong. It would be a mistake to do this on climate. The process must be reformed, public confidence restored and every link in our climate chain proved beyond reproach before we should agree to a climate treaty.",0_0
"In The Age of Disruption, Customer Love Is More Important Than Ever TechCrunch ""Innovation has a funny way of wreaking havoc on markets where once-dominant industries are suddenly forced to compete for business. Very often, however, these companies have taken customers for granted, having controlled the market for so long. When a disruptive agent enters the scene, customers happily flock to the alternative, leaving the incumbents struggling to play catch-up on multiple levels.""",0_0
"A 2007 University of Michigan study claimed organic farming could produce all the food the world will need, by getting nitrogen from green manure crops. Unfortunately the study overestimated the nitrogen such green manure crops could contribute by at least three-fold. Across the developing world, crop plants remain starved for nitrogen, and Africa is headed for a truly massive Dust Bowl famine.",0_0
The upward spikes show the impacts of volcanic aerosols on the outgoing shortwave radiation.,0_0
"A key problem in determining changes and influences of water vapor concentrations in the Earths atmosphere is that they are extremely variable. Differences range by orders of magnitude in various places. Instead, alarmists sweep the problem to one side by simply calling it a CO 2 feedback amplification effect, always assuming that the dominant feedback is positive (warming) rather than negative (cooling). In reality, due to clouds and other factors, those feedbacks could go both ways, and no one knows for sure which direction dominates climate over the long run.",3_1
"The natural sciences have terms for that kind of hypothesis. ?Unfalsifiable? is one of them. ?Unscientific? is another. An idea may be true, but if it is incapable of being ?falsified? or proven wrong, then whatever else that idea is, it certainly isn?t science.",0_0
"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. T10) and by Spencer & Braswell (2010, 2011) that climate sensitivity is below and perhaps considerably below 1 C per CO2 doubling.",3_1
"As the system GAINS energy (and warms) from forcing, it LOSES energy from feedbacks: e.g., changes in clouds, water vapor, and most importantly the extra loss of IR energy directly to space from warmer temperatures (which is usually not considered a feedback per se, but it is THE main climate stabilizing influence, and for purposes of discussion I will treat it as a ""feedback"").",0_0
"Basically, Tabitha rolled the entire Green movement debate into a very neat, easy-to-understand package.",0_0
"In a paper recently published in the journal New Phytologist, Girardin et al. (2013) write that many people have supposed think Al Gore, for one that ""global wildfire activity resulting from human-caused climatic change is a threat to communities living at wildland-urban interfaces world-wide and to the equilibrium of the global carbon cycle."" But is this really the case?",0_0
"When Tony Blair was reelected British Prime Minister last Thursday, he was entitled to a celebratory glass of champagne. Despite all the sound and fury over the Iraq war, the British people returned him to office with a majority with which any Prime Minister would be happy. He has successfully ridden out the foreign policy problem that threatened to unseat him. Yet another problem awaits as Mr. Blair ascends center stage in the world's eyes when he hosts the G8 meeting and assumes the Presidency of the EU.",0_0
A very good letter from the American Meteorological Society on Grijalvas witch hunt,0_0
"BREAKING: Steven McIntyre reports that 649 Berkeley stations lack information on latitude and longitude, including 145 BOGUS stations. 453 stations lack not only latitude and longitude, but even a name. Many such stations are located in the country , but a large fraction are located in United States. Steve says: Im pondering how one goes about calculating spatial autocorrelation between two BOGUS stations with unknown locations. (Jo Nova)",5_1
"My local Wendys has a sign up saying tomatoes are scarce and will be offered only by request, and this is in California. So, this article by Marlo Lewis about sandwich shops in DC illustrates a nationwide effect. Anthony",0_0
"News outlets quickly pounced on the story, including the UK Guardian, Rolling Stone, The Washington Times, E&E; News' Climatewire, and Fox News (see excerpts below).",0_0
"""Even where a semblance of stability is achieved,"" the paper by Ban's peace-building support office argues, the achievement of peace may involve more than ""adopting a constitution or holding elections."" It adds that ""more fundamental change may be needed in a country's institutions and political culture as well as in public perceptions and attitudes.""",0_0
"It is ironic that only genetically engineered varieties, which are more precisely crafted than ""conventional"" ones and whose development and environmental impacts are carefully scrutinized by the USDA and EPA, are subject to the extra burden of compulsory EISes. Indeed, the asymmetrical burden exists only because the USDA rejected the advice of the scientific community some 25 years ago and chose instead to require a mandatory, discriminatory pre-approval process for genetically engineered plants, thereby spawning the ""major actions"" that trigger the EIS obligation.",0_0
"John is a third generation rice grower in the Wakool District. His grandfather began growing tomatoes, later they tried millet, tobacco and even cotton.",0_0
"And the infection obsessed think that its all because of nurses and doctors failing to wash their hands? Give me a break. We have bugs on our skin, in our respiratory and intestinal tract and nurses and doctors are causing us to get infections when we have catheters sticking in us from many directions? We are on ventilators that invade our respiratory tracts and infections occur because of physicians and nurses who see us dont wash frequently enough?",0_0
Save the planet? Marchionnes bumpersticker should read: SUV the planet.,0_0
This exercise produced an interesting result: Roughly half of the AMS experts believed there must be a significant human influence on the climate through the release of carbon dioxidewhile the other half had considerable doubt about the validity of climate models.,0_0
"These kind of explanations, by leading climate modelers, suggest that climate models do not in fact reflect understanding of the key physical climate processes well enough to generate projections of future climate that one could rely upon. It seems unlikely that climate model projections would be accorded much policy significance if the way in which they were able to reproduce past climate was generally understood. It seems more than plausible that policymakers (let alone the general public), take a models purported ability reproduce past temperatures as an indication that the models assumption about climate sensitivity is correct.",5_1
"Some nice people are just too nice, which is the reason most societies are populated by sheep and need sheepdogs. Regular people are blinded by their own good intentions and delusional hopes in the face of violent bullies and intimidators. Churchill was right, though, when he said a scorpion or a viper cant be trusted, its in their nature.",0_0
Mikey's Model Puts Us In An Ice Age In 1960,0_0
Kremlin Aide Advises Putin to Kill Kyoto,0_0
"About 60 percent of Americans surveyed said the United States should not intervene in Syrias civil war, while just 9 percent thought President Barack Obama should act .",0_0
"Smith goes so far as to state, ""In spite of the development push that began in the 1960's, it seems unlikely that the area cleared today is any larger than it was in 1500 the area of forest is probably greater now than when the Europeans arrived."" (Smith, pp.231-245)",0_0
"Another interesting point that the chart reveals is that the largest decadal temperature increase did not occur during the modern late 20th century, or 21st century for that matter. The biggest increase took place during the decade of the 1930s.",2_1
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"Last but not least, my act is meant as a sign of my support for the Czech president Milo Zeman and his effort to objectively analyze crucial internal and international political questions and his struggle ""against everybody"" to protect the sovereignty and identity of the Czech nation and its global security.",0_0
"Katrina has nothing to do with global warming. Nothing. It has everything to do with the immense forces of nature that have been unleashed many, many times before and the inability of humans, even the most brilliant engineers, to tame these forces.",1_7
"The Medieval Warm Period, which followed the meanness and cold of the Dark Ages, was a great time in human history it allowed humans around the world to bask in a glorious warmth that vastly improved agriculture, increased life spans and otherwise bettered the human condition.",0_0
"MasterResource was named for the fact that energy is the master resource , as termed by the late Julian Simon . American Products. American Power. elucidates the resource of resources on the demand side, which brings to bear the fact that abundant, affordable, reliable energy makes all the difference . This is where good public policy comes in, with private property and free markets offering the performance that consumers demand.",0_0
"As for the weather, John Christy, the director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama, says he cringes ""when I hear overstated confidence from those who describe the projected evolution of global weather patterns over the next one hundred years, especially when I consider how difficult it is to accurately predict that system's behavior over the next five days.""",0_0
"P a global scale speaks the most from this trend will continue during verskdlig future. It is indeed very possible that oil prices will continue to rise, but because the oil frmodligen will largely ersttas of natural gas, s will STATEMENT This jack may be less important than what most people think.",0_0
"(At the same time, as another paper makes clear, ""some"" U.N. peacekeepers come from countries ""where the armed forces and police are seriously implicated in human rights violations,"" including sexual crimes. While such actions ""cannot be tolerated,"" the paper makes clear the U.N. has no clear answers on how to police its own behavior.)",0_0
"A post by Steven Goddard today shows how James Hansen's GISS data was tampered to create 0.35C artificial global warming. Since the total alleged global warming since 1850 is only 0.7C , this single tamper alone accounts for half of that trend. So, in a sense, the IPCC attribution statement is finally vindicated with 95% confidence that over 50% of global warming is Mann-made.",5_2
"In contrast, L. pertusa was capable to acclimate to acidified conditions in long-term (six months) incubations, leading to even slightly enhanced rates of calcification . Net growth is sustained even in waters sub-saturated with respect to aragonite. Acclimation to seawater acidification did not cause a measurable increase in metabolic rates . This is the first evidence of successful acclimation in a coral species to ocean acidification, emphasizing the general need for long-term incubations in ocean acidification research. To conclude on the sensitivity of cold-water coral reefs to future ocean acidification further ecophysiological studies are necessary which should also encompass the role of food availability and rising temperatures.",3_2
"1. AFTER DECADES OF CLIMATE MODELING EFFORTS, WHY DOES THE CURRENT GENERATION OF CLIMATE MODELS SIMULATE GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURES MORE POORLY THAN THE PRIOR GENERATION?",5_1
"I have to say, however, that I am not sanguine about such a fund for several reasons. First, I doubt that it would be paid into fairly: based on their unwillingness to adopt binding emission reduction targets, and their demands for wealth transfer from the developed countries to the developing, I very much doubt that the semi-developed countries will agree to contribute, any more than they are likely to agree to binding emission reductions. Second, I am also dubious about government's ability (any government) to keep its hands out of the funds, rather than spending them today, and replacing them with IOUs, as is a common practice in such ""trust funds."" And third, I am concerned that it would simply make the problem worse: the establishment of such a trust fund would lead to greater risk-taking around the world, with less self-insurance by individuals or governments, under the assumption that if anything goes wrong, the world will step in to make things all better.",0_0
"Yangtze River Flood , 1931.The summer flood along the Yangtze during July- August 1931 was the most severe, with over 51 million people affected (1/4 of Chinas population). 3.7 million people perished from this greatest disaster of the century due to disease, starvation or drowning. This flood was preceded by a prolonged drought in China during the 1928- 1930 period.",0_0
"A new World Bank study by scholars has this summary of the hysterical, Lord Stern AGW climate-impact ""research"":",0_0
"Working with a smaller group of nations through informal arrangements such as the Major Economies Forum to undertake appropriate steps that are cost-effective, verifiable, and effectual.",0_0
"Don't skip this one. Update - by pure coincidence, a few hours after posting this link, Drudge features this development . Which I believe, answers some of the questions posed by commentors.",0_0
U.S. says Chinese businesses and banks are bypassing U.N. sanctions against Iran:,0_0
"John Fund lists several cases of significant voter fraud in the US, and wonders where the outrage of Democrats went;",0_0
"The GOP presidential field would also do well to remember energy boom times and the role one played in the rebound from Carters first term, then to consider the changes needed to roar out of this second Carter term the same way. The United States possesses the worlds largest combined oil, coal and gas resources; therefore, our energy woes stem not from any shortage of raw materials but merely from restrictive policy.",4_1
Michael Barone on the changing demographic of urban America;,0_0
"Atmospheric physicist and Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT, Richard Lindzen, posted an article in the fall 2013 issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons characterizing global warming as an alarmist religion. Furthermore, he accuses alarmist orthodoxy of adjusting both data and theory to accommodate politically-correct positions that are costly to society.",5_2
"That will only ""destroy the markets and together with them the chances for economic growth and prosperity in both developed and developing countries,"" he said.",0_0
"Closer to the present, some researchers believe that the 1980s were the hottest decade in 100 years and that some years in the 1990s may have been hotter still. However, the trend in surface temperature is one or two tenths of a degree occurring over a decade or two. Such a change is well within the range of the climate's natural variations whose mechanisms are not all understood. It is safe to conclude ""the natural variability of climate adds confusion to the effort to diagnose human-induced climate change. Apparent long-term trends can be artificially amplified or damped by the contaminating effects of undiagnosed natural variations.""12",2_1
"Ad Hominem, My Sweet , a mini-play in one act.",0_0
"When populism exploded again with the 2008 financial collapse and TARP bailout, the next generation of Republican leaders led by Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy, and Paul Ryan, the self-named Young Guns took the Gingrich playbook and ran with it, exploiting and fueling populist anger at the political establishment and the new black president to take back power.",0_0
"But most of what Pershing and Holdren say is spin. Both EPA's Power Plan and theprerequisite regulation imposing carbon dioxide emission standards on new coal power plants have immense legal flaws. If courts overturn those rules, Obama's emission-reduction ""commitment"" would ring hollow regardless of which party wins the White House. Moreover, if elected, Trump could submit the Paris Treaty to the Senate for ratification, where the treaty would almost certainly die for want of the requisite backing of ""two thirds of the Senators present.""",0_0
Yet another winter storm!Gov. Pat McCrory declares a state of emergency.,0_0
"The Clear Skies Initiative presumably would achieve these goals by using caps and emission trading, ending the costly and unpredictable permitting route required by the NSR program. For nonutility regulated emitters, not included in the Clear Skies Initiative, and for utilities pending adoption of the Initiative, the Bush administration proposes to adopt EPA's recommended NSR reforms. Note that Clear Skies would not cover particulate matter (soot), which would continue to be covered by the National Ambient Air Quality Standards Program.",0_0
Pravda Suggests A Timeless Solution To The Global Warming Scare,0_0
"Two weeks ago, the Czech government decided to end all subsidies for new renewable energy projects at the end of this year. ?The reason for this law amendment is the rising financial burden for electricity consumers,? Prime Minister Jiri Rusnok said. ?It threatens the competitiveness of our industry and raises consumers? uncertainty about power prices.? In recent years, almost all EU member states also have begun the process of rolling back and cutting green subsidies.",0_0
"With 80% of the worlds oil shale, our potential sources of crude are three times the size of the recoverable oil reserves of Saudi Arabia.",4_5
"It doesn't appear that Grantham the investor is profiting from climate alarmism yet. ""Global warming will be the most important investment issue for the foreseeable future,"" he writes. ""But how to make money around this issue in the next few years is not yet clear to me."" But Grantham the philanthropist is making big investments in climate science alarmism. And in that way he's guilty of what die-hard contrarians consider the biggest sin on the Streettalking his own book.",5_2
"Existing parameterization of cloud amounts in GCMs are physically very crude. When empirical adjustments of parameters are made to achieve verisimilitude, the model may appear to be validated against the present climate. But such tuning by itself does not guarantee that the response of clouds to a change in CO2 concentration is also tuned. It must thus be emphasized that the modeling of clouds is one of the weakest links in the GCM efforts.",5_1
"Climate changed in response to natural processes that are active also at present, including variations in solar activity and the galactic cosmic ray flux and ocean current oscillations.",2_1
"Sounds pretty definitive, doesn't it? But wait. Astrophysicist Sallie Baliunas of the Wilson Observatory (a real scientist) argued recently in the Wall Street Journal that there is a close correlation between warming and cooling trends and the pattern of sunspot activity. Baliunas tracked this correlation back to the 18th century, pointing out that climate change models that assume carbon dioxide causes warming have failed to predict what is actually going on in the atmosphere, and indeed are contradicted (and constantly revised) by real-world measurements of temperature in the upper and lower atmosphere as well as on the earth's surface.",2_1
"The final snkan for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is vergng to calcium carbonate, CaCO 3, through chemical reaction with various silicate rocks for finally through strmmande water ending up in the sea. This is a process on a time scale of millions of years. The efficiency of this process depends on the hydrological cycle which in turn frstrks temperature. P a very long time scale, one can say that atmosfrens carbon dioxide acts as a kind of thermostat, d at a high temperature, the hydrological cycle is more active and CO 2 disappears faster from the atmosphere and omvnt. A summary of these processes can be seen in Figure 3 where one berknat how long it takes for a certain multitude of carbon to vanish from the atmosphere.",0_0
"Quoting the authors, their results ""show convincingly that the present drought is not unique and that drought has recurred on a centennial to interdecadal timescale during the last 1500 years."" What it means",1_7
Forbes continued: Its time to end the mollycoddling of wind and solar energy toys before this stupidity does irreversible damage to Australias electricity supply and costs.,4_4
"Speaking of Tamino, he presented a post about the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, see his post here , and I replied to it in my post Comments on Taminos AMO Post . In another of his posts , Tamino took exception to a comment I made that climate models cannot reproduce the multidecadal variations exhibited in the temperature record, and in my response , I presented the outputs of all of the CMIP3 climate model simulations in a gif animation to show that the vast majority of the model simulations do not present the multidecadal variability that exists in the data.",5_1
"In addition, the GOP-led House recently passed a bill that would prevent the EPA from using the metric in major energy rules.",0_0
Pat Michaels of the University of Virginia shows this here: www.co2andclimate.org/wca/2004/wca 17bpf.html.,0_0
"Here is a succinct discussion by an emeritus prof of surgery U of Washington School of Medicine. Published by my favorite editor, Jane Orient MD, Internist and exec of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons.",0_0
"There are many problems, but a couple suffice to show pre-selection and manipulation. Solar activity increased to 2000 and volcanic forcing, presumably from volcanic dust levels, are essentially unknown. If important, why wasnt volcanic forcing in the Natural portion of the diagrams? Their claim that only models with anthropogenic forcing simulate observed patterns of warming is pre-determined by the variables and data they chose, and how model programming. If you leave out almost all natural forcing and the one you include is serious limited and misrepresented then you control the results.",5_1
Film clip #2: The Coral Reefs Off the Coast of Australia Are Being Bleached and Destroyed Due to Global Warming,0_0
"For climate alarmists, climate change has become what logicians call a ""non-falsifiable hypothesis."" Every weather anomaly is said to be a sign of climate change. After the near-record January 1996 blizzard hit the northeastern U.S., Newsweek ran a cover story attributing the storm to climate change. A year later, when an unusually warm winter led to early snow melt and floods in the upper Midwest, Vice President Al Gore and others attributed it to climate change. And the three hurricanes that struck Florida in close succession last summer were a bonanza for the climate-change chorus, even though serious climate scientists readily admit that ascribing today's extreme weather events to global warming is scientifically insupportable. In fact, the intensity of hurricanes and cyclones has diminished slightly over the past 30 years.",5_2
"In other words, it must stop trying to prove manmade carbon dioxide is the sole or primary factor in climate change and seek evidence-based answers to what drives climate change, what we might expect in the future, and how humans can better adapt to warmer, colder, wetter or drier futures.",0_0
"As for the radicals in elected office or in control of party organs, consider a small sampling of comments:",0_0
JAXA AMSR-E Sea Ice Area click to enlarge,0_0
Showbiz Sandbox 112: Why Netflix Had To Raise Its Prices:,0_0
"Over the course of what climate alarmists call a century of unprecedented global warming, and contrary to the implications of nearly all 2xCO 2 GCM experiments, there has been no net change in either South African rainfall variability or the mean value of the Southern African Rainfall Index.",1_7
"But once we measure something in a quantum world, you obtain the same ""classical"" information that you obtain by a measurement in a classical world that happens to have the same number of potential outcomes (the same spectrum). You may know something or not to know something; you may extract \(n\) bits from the measurements or another number. You may use more natural units of information, nats. One may also measure continuous observables. Such measurements naively yield an infinite amount of information (because there were infinitely many potential outcomes a priori) but due to some unavoidable errors, the effective information is actually finite. All these things are true in classical physics as well as quantum mechanics.",0_0
"You'd think that NHTSA, an agency whose middle name is safety, would have brought this issue to the forefront of public attention. But instead NHTSA has repeatedly claimed that CAFE has no safety effect. In a 1992 court case brought by the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Consumer Alert, a panel of federal appeals judges blasted NHTSA's position as ""fudged analysis,"" ""statistical legerdemain"" and ""bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo.""",0_0
"The economic value cited includes the total value for all tourism in the region when half of all tourists do not even visit the reef. For those who do, the reef component of the large majority is a one day, one time participation in a reef tour and the value of reef tours is similar to the value of commercial fishing. If one also considers the economic value of recreational fishing, retail fish sales and seafood meals in restaurants, the total value of fishing is closer to twice that of reef tours.",0_0
"It was the same intellectual and moral quest for self-respect and pride that, beginning with a merciless moral scrutiny of the country's past and present, within a few short years hollowed out the mighty Soviet state, deprived it of legitimacy, and turned it into a burned-out shell that crumbled in August 1991. The tale of this intellectual and moral journey is an absolutely central story of the 20th century's last great revolution.",0_0
"* The primary temperature records relied on by the IPCC and the EPA cover far too short a time to be a useful tool for policy making and are inadequately corrected for the urban heat island effect and other errors. One analysis of these records found errors of 1 -5 C (1.8 -9.0 F) for 1969 data in certain regions, when the claimed warming for the entire twentieth century was only 0.7 C (1.3 F); errors for records in the early century are likely even greater. Reliance on these records is thus misplaced.",5_1
"At first, it was funny to read about how kittens, redheads and the Loch Ness monster were allegedly affected by climate transmogrification (CT). (The term ""climate change"" really doesn't cut it for true activists, does it?) Eventually even the people at Number Watch stopped keeping track of the more than 800 items on their list of things allegedly caused by CT because they were blown over by the scale of the journalistic baloney storm (BS) that fills human news bandwidth on climate.",5_2
"What does a state get? A process in which the conclusion is pretty much determined from the outset. CCS arrives at ""stakeholder"" meetings with all the rules and voting procedures in place. They have a prepared list of dozens of options to be considered for recommendation by the governor-appointed stakeholder group. No cost-benefit analysis is provided for any of the options instead CCS supplies numbers that highlight the benefits in amount of greenhouse gases reduced, rather than their actual effect on the climate. Analysis is limited to the ""cost effectiveness"" of implementing the policy options (like smart growth or a renewable fuels portfolio). Meanwhile important factors such as influence on the state's economy, impacts on health and safety, and effects from increased regulation on businesses and consumers are not taken into account.",0_0
"A new study of tree-ring data has concluded that not only has our climate often been noticeably hotter than today, temperatures have actually been on a falling trend for the past 2,000 years.",1_2
"As Lamb identified, lack of data was and remains the most serious limitation. The situation is completely inadequate for temperature, supposedly the best measured variable. How can two major agencies HadCRUT and GISS produce such different results,",5_1
"As Anthony Watts says, Ding-dong, the stick is dead. Watts provides a nut-shell explanation of long and tortured history of the notorious global warming hockey stick, and its demise:",5_1
"""With an earlier start date,"" says the study, ""the economy experiences a loss in gross domestic product beginning in 2000 as higher prices increase the prices of goods and services throughout the economy; however, the early start date smooths the transition of the economy to a longer run target."" The study finds that the ""projected cumulative impacts"" on actual GDP between the years 2000 and 2020 is over $2.6 trillion if reductions begin in 2005 and just under $2.5 trillion under an early start scenario.",0_0
"In my absence, here is an open thread for any climate and energy news today.",0_0
"Unfortunately, energy consumers are not quite as happy. A report last June by investment bank UBS found that ""CO2 is now the key driver of electricity prices in Continental Europe,"" with CO2 costs representing about 20 percent of the cost of energy. The energy companies are simply passing on the cost of the emissions permits to their customers. As the companies are allocated permits for free, this represents a significant gain to those enterprises. The World Wildlife Fund considers this an abuse of the market. UBS itself concluded that there is a significant risk of a windfall profit tax being placed on the industry. Others have suggested auctioning the permit rights rather than allocating them. For the moment, however, energy companies have been the prime beneficiaries of Kyoto and the energy consumer the prime loser.",0_0
"As shown in my newstudy for the Global Warming Policy Foundation, there has been an unfortunate and bewildering array of unintended consequences that refute the ethical label for the framework:",0_0
"Although the Antarctic has a lot of missing data for 1938, (hence the grey), the temperature changes in the Arctic are quite clear, with most of the region about a degree colder in 1980 compared to 1938. So lets combine the two periods.",0_0
"A 3,000-year record from 52 of the worlds oldest trees shows that Californias western Sierra Nevada was droughty and often fiery from 800 to 1300, according to a new study led by University of Arizona researchers.",0_0
"As for revenue-neutrality, well, color me dubious. Governments are notorious for raiding dedicated funds whenever they face revenue shortfalls. Governor Jerry Brown recently raided Californias dedicated green fund raised through its cap-and-trade system. Technically, he borrowed $500 million from Californias Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund for general revenue.",0_0
"Good people everywhere need to rise up, speak out and fight back, if they still believe in individual rights, freedom of thought and expression, and honest, transparent, trustworthy, accountable government and religious institutions. Otherwise, these fundamental values will disappear and with them will go modern society and living standards, and efforts to improve the lives of billions of people who still lack the lifesaving energy and technologies so many of us take for granted.",0_0
The concept of equilibrium is a foreign one to academic climate experts.,0_0
"Market adjustments can substantially attenuate initial negative impacts. Nevertheless, equilibrium climate change damages remain substantial at the global level, particularly in developing countries. Accordingly, the distributional and scale implications of climate-related damages must be addressed by adequate policy-driven mitigation and adaptation strategies",0_0
"At the end of the first 100 days, it is worth asking questions like",0_0
"In contrast, the environmental executive agreements adopted by President G.W. Bush were small potatoes. None entailed commitments or risks affecting the nation as a whole. Moreover, all were clearly authorized by Congress, other treaties, or the President's inherent powers as commander-in-chief or chief executive representing the United States in foreign affairs.",0_0
The 74 green lemmings in Parliament have given us certainty the certainty of capital flight and job losses.,0_0
just trying to find if weve done anything wrong. I sent one of them loads of series,0_0
"There is something wrong with the math in the cost of a postage stamp comparison, which the USPS will fix by increasing the price of each stamp to $7.00.",0_0
"The authors write that ""according to a range of modeled scenarios, many arid and semiarid regions across the world are likely to become warmer and drier over the next century due to human-induced climate change,"" citing the IPCC (2007) and Bates et al . (2008). And they note, in this regard, that the information reported in the review of Lake (2003) suggests that ""more frequent and longer duration droughts will potentially have detrimental impacts on aquatic species.""",0_0
"Figure 10 is a map that shows how the data for the additional discussions were subdivided. Basically, this was done to isolate the North Atlantic from the additional ocean basins in the Rest-Of-The-World data. And the observed Sea Surface Temperature anomalies for those two subsets are shown in Figure 11. As illustrated, the linear trend of the North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature anomalies is significantly higher than the linear trend of the South Atlantic-Indian-West Pacific subset. This higher trend in the North Atlantic data is caused by the additional mode of natural variability known as the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. And as we will see, the forced component of the models (the model mean) does not account for the additional variability in the North Atlantic attributable to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.",5_1
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Policy Analyst Michelle Minton on the increasing number of people calling on Congress to reform laws on Internet gambling:,0_0
"The Virgin Islands probe all but collapsed in June after Attorney General Claude E. Walker agreed to drop a subpoena issued against Exxon, a month after he said he would withdraw subpoenas of the free market Competitive Enterprise Institute. Both Exxon and the institute had fought the subpoenas.",0_0
"Though as I mentioned, I don't believe in predictive modeling, that doesn't mean we can't tie up our camel. For that reason, as a third effort, I support re-directing government research and development spending away from greenhouse gas mitigation technologies and into geo-engineering, and carbon air-stripping technologies.",0_0
"As previously reported here , Obama has pledged that the United States will cut emissions by 26 percent by 2025, even though the largest emitter of CO2, China, will get a free pass until 2030, and will only comply if it chooses to abide by the new rules.",4_2
"Upsizing, however, would entail relaxing CAFE rather than tightening it -- a move that would be totally alien to this administration and to its environmentalist supporters. The Sierra Club, for example, claims that higher CAFE standards would be ""the biggest single step to curbing global warming."" In their 1992 campaign book, Bill Clinton and Al Gore recommended raising CAFE to 40 mpg by 2000 -- a level whose potential safety consequences add more than a little irony to the book's title, ""Putting People First.""",0_0
What would a statistician and Wharton School forescasting expert know about models? Or a lawyer about EPA's proposed regulations? Sheesh.,0_0
"Last November a report by the Office of Inspector General that I requested confirmed that EPA, through its own actions, has been deliberately and systematically slowing the pace of permit evaluations for new plants in Appalachia. These findings were concerning enough that Inspector General did a follow up review and again, in February of this year, OIG found that EPA did not have a consistent, official recordkeeping system, which was exacerbating permit delays.",0_0
"As for the Republican presidential candidates, most are calling for construction of an ever-higher border fence and opposing anything with a whiff of amnesty. They're attacking Rick Perry because he opposes the fence in Texasit's hard to build one along a riverand backs in-state tuition for children of illegals in state colleges and universities.",0_0
"Clearly, Obama will now have a far less compliant Congress, so there is every prospect he will use the international route to achieve his objectives.",0_0
"They accomplish this through a spectacular hockey stick of data tampering, which cools the past and warms the present.",5_2
In the open letter to the defense minister and the Czech government,0_0
"The average temperature for each month, computed by averaging the temperature from each of 5 reliable data sources. 1 . This gives a one trend based on an average. Done this way, the uncertainty intervals on the mean trend include the uncertainty due to weather noise ; however, uncertainty due to measurement error , which arises due to lack of precision from each data source is mimized.",0_0
"A new study by Canadian scientists once again debunks the notion polar bears are currently being harmed by global warming. Researchers with Canada's Lakehead University found ""no evidence"" polar bears are currently threatened by warming.",3_2
Link to book: The Global Warming Scam and the Climate Change Superscam,5_2
I don??t think so. The solar activity measured in sunspot number obviously correlates well with the TSI and it correlated quite well with the surface temperature anomalies throughout most of the record up until the end of the 1970s too. We can see it prima facie:,2_1
Emission Credits: The Supply & Demand Gap,0_0
"Some scientists have reported that we are perhaps headed towards a mini ice age. Back in 2011 US solar physicists announced that the Sun appears to be headed into a lengthy spell of low activity, which could mean that the Earthfar from facing a global warming problemis actually headed into a mini ice age. The announcement came form scientists at the US National Solar Observatory (NSO) and the US Air Force Research Laboratory. Three different analyses of the Suns recent behavior all indicated that a period of unusually low solar activity may be about to begin. (5)",1_2
"Clermont in central Queensland had record-low temperatures on Friday, July 11, but broke records again on Saturday morning July 12, with the temperature dropping down to minus 4.5 degrees Celsius.",1_3
"The map is misleading because each station dot is proportionally about 200km across but still the change is dramatic. Gaps are so great they make analysis meaningless, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) does it anyway. As DAleo and Watts explain,",5_1
"This new data clearly reveals that both the Medieval Warming and the Little Ice Age cooling were significant climate events across the entire northern portion of the globe. In the majority of regions, modern temperatures are yet to reach the level and extent of the MWP.",2_1
"Ray Evans is Secretary of the Lavoisier Group, which was formed in Australia in 2000 to promote debate on the science of climate change.",0_0
"America has barely begun to tap its vast shale gas and conventional natural gas deposits. It has not yet touched its methane hydrates. Together, these deposits will likely last a century or more. In addition, other countries are racing to develop their own conventional, shale and hydrate deposits while still others will eventually recognize the folly of keeping their own deposits off limits. All this will gradually reduce demand for US natural gas exports, slow and prolong extraction, and keep gas prices low.",4_5
"The EPA projected that America's Climate Security Act could, by 2050, lower GDP by up to 6.9 percent, increase average gasoline prices by $1.40 per gallon, and raise electricity prices by 26 percent.",4_1
"Bottom line: Until climate models can simulate the observed warming spatial patterns, and the observed multidecadal variations in sea surface temperatures, they have no hope of being able to simulate climate on continental land masses.",5_1
"Despite billions being spent on research to prove that the 'CO2-causes-global-warming' hypothesis has merit, the actual global temperature observations, as shown in the adjacent chart, confirm the spectacular prediction failure of CO2-based climate models.",5_1
"5. Chart of the Day V Wages by Race and Gender (above). The data displayed above on weekly earnings for full-time workers in 2014 by race and gender are from the Women in the Labor Force: A Databook that was released last month by the BLS. Since reports like this from the BLS contain detailed data for both male and female workers (with approximately equal coverage), wouldn't it be more accurate for this report to be titled Men and Women in the Labor Force? Putting that snarky question aside, here are a few interesting observations:",0_0
"De Bilt metadata is discussed here which includes some interesting pictures (see also pictures at other Dutch sites). In the late 19th century, the station was at Utrecht, not De Bilt, moving in 1898 from Utrecht to the De Bilt pagoda hut, shown in the picture (top left below). In 1950, the station was moved again, this time several hundred meters away (see bottom left map from Hans Erren) and re-located in a Stevenson hut (see top right picture this is the figure from Eli Rabett.) In 1993, an electric sensor replaced the thermometer. The adjustments are shown in bottom right and are discussed below the pictures.",0_0
Better air-quality report bad news for green fundraising.,0_0
"Second, the United States needs to adopt the same positive approach rather than continuing to insist that no second round of mandatory emissions reductions can be agreed unless China, India, and the other major developing nations also agree to some level of mandatory reductions. I think that Senator John Kerry was correct when, as reported by the Associated Press, he remarked in Bali that the United States Senate would probably never ratify a deal that didn't require America's growing economic rivals to make comparable sacrifices. A recent study produced by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for the Department of Energy demonstrates conclusively that pursuing emissions reductions in the U. S. without requiring reductions by the major developing economies would in fact be pointless. That is because emissions growth in the developing economies is going to swamp proposed reductions in the developed economies.",0_0
"US CAP member PG&E; pulled out of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce last week citing ""irreconcilable differences"" over climate change policy. Today's Bloomberg.Com reports that US CAP member Exelon has announced it will not renew its membership in the Chamber, and that US CAP member Duke Energy will not renew its membership in the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM).",0_0
"Olavi K rner also passed in March. He was a patient soft-spoken even-tempered scientist from the Estonian Astrophysical Observatory near Tartu, whom I greatly respected.",0_0
"AccuWeather.com: Global Warming News, Science, Myths, Articles Scientists from the University of Quebec at Montreal looked at pollen within the sediment ice cores dating back almost a million years and they indicate that Greenland was much greener than it is today with several warm periods over the million-year span.",2_1
"if CO2 plays this role it is surprising that climatic proxies indicate that Antarctica seems to have warmed prior to the Northern Hemisphere, yet glacial cycles follow in phase with Northern insolation",2_3
"Observed global average temperatures (GAT) are, in fact, below IPCCs 2007 Assessment Reports lowestand most confidenttemperature predictions . The new view in the leaked AR5 shows a complete reversal of the AR4 view, which still touted catastrophic, anthropogenic global warming.",1_4
I first used the R scripts provided by CA to download the data at CA for the aws and surface data. I placed them side by side with the 63 AWS data sets on the left and the surface stations on the right being careful to align the data by time. Then I used R and excel to process the graphs into the correct sized and oriented matricies for RegEm as shown on the internet.,0_0
"PRINCETON, NJ -- Although a majority of Americans believe the seriousness of global warming is either correctly portrayed in the news or underestimated, a record-high 41% now say it is exaggerated. This represents the highest level of public skepticism about mainstream reporting on global warming seen in more than a decade of Gallup polling on the subject.",0_0
"Dr. Held discusses the difference between Arctic temperatures and sea ice (receding) and Antarctic temperatures and sea ice (advancing). He believes that the Arctic and Antarctic are very different and will not behave the same. But, none of the models show Antarctic ice advancing, which is what is happening. He claims that the sea ice thickness is very thin and that it is mostly wind-blown ice. Unfortunately observations do not support this assertion.",1_1
"Since the nighttime temperatures are rising three times as fast as the daytime temperatures (Karl et al., 1993), it implies a non-climatic signal in the nighttime data equal to about one half of the total warming. It implies the reported global warming of 0.6 C in the twentieth century should be reduced to about 0.3 C.",5_1
"Hollywood likes to remake classic movies from a generation ago, like Planet of the Apes, The Manchurian Candidate, and The Ladykillers. Why, it might be asked, has there never beenand never will there bea remake of Soylent Green? For readers who have forgotten or not seen the movie, Soylent Green was the 1973 sci-fi/horror film starring Charlton Heston that featured an overpopulated, food-short world of the early-twenty-first century where organized cannibalism had become necessary. But Soylent Green today is clearly too ridiculous even for Roland Emmerich, the moving force behind the remakes of War of the Worlds (Independence Day) and Godzilla, as well as this year's eco-disaster flick, The Day after Tomorrow.",0_0
"Sorry, I dont find that convincing in the slightest. All three have been shown to have errors. All that shows is that their errors roughly match, which is meaningless. We need to throw all of these adjusted datasets in the trash can and start over.",0_0
Recent events suggest that we should listen more attentively to the Europeans.,0_0
"I started to develop my own method to explore this utterly strange world, Bao said. Now, it seems that our LSU group is the one offering the strongest supporting evidence for a Snowball Earth back 635 million years ago. I certainly did not see this coming. The finding we published in 2008 demonstrates, again, that new scientific breakthroughs are often brought in by outsiders.",0_0
"over the next 8 years a third of our coal-fired capacity, two-thirds of our oil-fired capacity, and nearly three-quarters of our nuclear capacity will be closed down either through age or the impact of the European Large Combustion Plant Directive. Absent a massive and immediate programme of building new power stations, with concrete being poured in the next two years, we will be in serious danger of the lights going out.,",0_0
"As an amusing postscript: After the event, having interrupted me at least twice, and figuratively telling me to shut up by refusing to engage on the relevant empirical question, Ms. Macfarlane then accused me of being ""rude."" And so it is clear that a ""rude"" individual is anyone who challenges her assumptions. Wow again.",0_0
"JJN, Nickle, was higher at the top and is now lower at the bottom. It is a more volatile, so faster to react, ticker. It may well move to positive trend first, and watching for it to cross over JJC copper might be an interesting indicator.",0_0
"The Sea Surface Temperature anomalies of the East Pacific Ocean, or approximately 33% of the surface area of the global oceans, have shown little to no long-term warming since 1982 based on the linear trend. And between upward shifts, the Sea Surface Temperature anomalies for the rest of the world (67% of the global ocean surface area) remain relatively flat. As discussed in my book, anthropogenic forcings are said to be responsible for most of the rise in global surface temperatures over this period, but the Sea Surface Temperature anomaly graphs of those two areas prompt a two-part question: Since 1982, what anthropogenic global warming processes would overlook the Sea Surface Temperatures of 33% of the global oceans and have an impact on the other 67% but only during the months of the significant El Nio events of 1986/87/88, 1997/98 and 2009/10?",1_4
That's a lose-lose-lose for everyone except for the special interests and their influential backers in Congress.,0_0
It used to be that warm winters and cool summers proved global warming. Now it is the other way around.,5_1
"The IPCC scientists and global warming alarmists predicted that increasing CO2 emissions would lead to a catastrophic permafrost tipping point, unleashing gigatons of methane gas - they were wrong",5_2
The Australian National Universitys Dr Will Steffen warned of surprises in the climate system where abrupt climate change may occur in just a few years. Such surprises appear to already exist in the paleo-climate records.,0_0
"Eco-Imperialism On the international level, the Bush Administration has made overtures to help those in developing countries secure better lives. This was done ostensibly in Afghanistan and Iraq with their liberation, providing relief to the victims of the tsunami in Asia, as well as the ongoing commitment to tackle the scourge of AIDS in Africa. While these efforts are indeed noble and likely to gain us favor (maybe over time) with many in the developing world, it would also be worthwhile for the President to examine environmental policies as a means to bolster U.S. international standing.",0_0
Wilkins runway construction and maintenance Australian Antarctic ...,0_0
And then I do not see how leugenetica can ever have applications not monstrous in the human,0_0
"Stott and Forest (2007) : This TCR estimate is based on the analysis in Stott et al. (2006), an AR4 study from which all four of the unlabelled grey dashed-line PDFs in Figure 10.20a are sourced. It used a detection-and-attribution regression method applied to 20th century temperature observations to scale TCR values, and 20th century warming attributable to greenhouse gases, for three AOGCMs. Gillett et al. (2012) found that just using 20th century data for this purpose biased TCR estimation up by almost 40% compared with when 18512010 data was used. Moreover, the 20th century greenhouse gas forcing increase used in Stott and Forest (2007) to derive TCR (from the Stott et al. (2006) attributable warming estimate) is 11% below that per AR5, biasing up its TCR estimation by a further 12%.",0_0
"Wednesday Marc Morano, founder of CFACT's Climate Depot, released a 321 page report listing over 1,000 scientists who dissent over man-made global warming which Morano termed a ""consensus buster.""",5_1
Sea level appears to have risen about 8 inches since 1880. Have people moved? Have storm surges been more damaging? We saw with Sandy that timing is importantthe storm hit at high tide and that didnt help. But was it made even worse by the sea level rise due to global warming?,1_6
"Although only the bottom of his face is shown in the ads, Mr. Berry said he was immediately concerned about the effect this depiction could have on his career as an actor.",0_0
"To put things into even starker perspective, consider that from August 1954 through August 1955, the East Coast saw three different storms make landfall Carol, Hazel and Diane that in 2012 each would have caused about twice as much damage as Sandy.",1_7
"A group of Geesthacht coastal researchers, together with engineers from the University of Siegen, has recently carried out an analysis of the rise in sea levels in the German Bight. All reliable water level measurements were evaluated for the first time, in order to determine how the mean sea level of the German Bight has changed. According to this evaluation, the sea level rose by approx. 20 centimetres in the last century, in recent times higher than in the years around 1960. However, similarly high increases in levels also occurred in the first half of the 20th century. They are, therefore, not unusual .",1_6
"I guess they should have asked about their chances for snow in the nation??s 4th-largest city on December 4th . Of course this is not evidence that discredits global warming trends. After all, it??s only a local event, and localized phenomena are only capable of proving global warming , not disproving it.",1_3
I know plenty of people who havent been to church much but know their good lipid numbers and bad lipid numbers and such.,0_0
"There is little to indicate any upturn in global manufacturing, and global inflation vs deflation fears look more or less in balance (thus the precious metals being flat / down).",0_0
"Lilleys study demonstrates that the benefits of curbing emissions now and henceforth will not be five times the cost of action, as Stern claims. It is achieved by verbal virtuosity combined with statistical sophistry. In fact, even on Sterns figures, the cumulative costs of reducing greenhouse gases will exceed the benefits until beyond 2100, Lilley points out.",4_1
"A member of the UK parliament, MP Peter Lilley, has written a scathing rebuttal study to the 2006 Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change which has been used a a basis for UK government to move forward with climate policy. The number of errors and distortions he has uncovered is quite extraordinary and brings the validity of the Stern report into serious question, if not outright falsifying it. Anthony",5_2
"Ever since the litigation began, and since the Obama Administration took office in January, it was generally assumed around Washington that the threat of regulating greenhouse gases through the Clean Air Act was a purely political tactic to put pressure on Congress to pass a more comprehensive but flexible approach to GHG emissions such as emissions trading. But with the prospects of an emissions trading bill fading, it is suddenly becoming more likely that the Obama Administration will use Clean Air Act regulations as a fallback position, and Congress may acquiesce because it will excuse them of the responsibility for the high cost and chaos it may generate.",0_0
"Not all gases in the atmosphere absorb outgoing infrared radiation. Nitrogen and oxygen, which make up most of the earth's atmosphere, have no blocking effect. The gases that absorb the infrared radiation and create the greenhouse effect are mainly water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. Water vapor and water in clouds absorb nearly 90% of the infrared radiation, while carbon dioxide, methane, and the other minor greenhouse gases together absorb little more than 10% of the infrared radiation.",0_0
"The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, October 30, 2006; available online at: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ + www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/stern review report.htm",0_0
"Salby's paper is due to be published soon, and I have yet to see his charts, so I am certainly not endorsing his view here. Till now I had thought the attribution of CO2 increases to fossil fuel emissions was a firmly settled aspect of climate science. But I once thought that about the hockey stick graph and the attribution of climate change to CO2 levels in the Vostok core, too. So I am prepared to consider Salby's case open-mindedly. The biggest obstacle he has to overcome is to explain why CO2 levels are so much higher today than in other warm periods, such as the Holocene Optimum and the previous interglacials.",5_1
"Canadians remember our brave soldiers who have died every November 11th. Americans remember their fallen on the last Monday of May, in what they call Memorial Day . A year ago at this time I was fortunate enough to be over in Hawaii. I made a point of driving up to the magnificent and sacred Punchbowl National Cemetery to witness the events first hand. Here's a video I put together to commemorate that solemn day:",0_0
"rmit program. Thus, when EPA's Tailpipe Rule took effect on January 2, 2011, ""major"" greenhouse emitters became subject to PSD and Title V regulation. This leads straight to the extreme and counter-intuitive measures the Court assumed would not occur. Here's why.",0_0
"Just the opposite is demanded in the dead of winter when there is no sun and when the wind dies down. During the week, energy demand soars and their is often not enough supply to meet the demand. And because many power companies are finding it unprofitable to run conventional systems part-time, many are simply mothballing such plants completely, thus making supply even rarer. As a result, the risk of blackouts is becoming a real increasing threat in Germany with each coming winter.",4_4
"Two recent climate science papers deal a savage blow to the climate alarmists' dogma that human caused greenhouse gas emissions will result in dangerous climate change. One paper suggests that the projected warming was not masked by sulfate aerosols, and the second paper argues that less of the recent warming was due to a human influence than posited. Combined the two papers provide further evidence the climate models the U.N. and the U.S. rely upon are deeply flawed.",5_1
"And, Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner Philip Moeller said: ""The country is undergoing an unprecedented energy shift in a very short time frame."" And added: ""Grid operators in the Midwest are struggling to gauge whether they will have sufficient capacity to handle peak weather during the next 5 years."" While these comments are about the 2014 severe cold, Texas experienced a similar scare in 2011, when a protracted heat wave resulted in razor-thin reserve electric capacity margins.",0_0
"To provide an even greater margin of protection, farmers wishing to plant Roundup Ready alfalfa had even volunteered to implement their own planting restrictions that would put the onus on commodity growers to extend buffer zones up to a mile from non-genetically engineered seed breeders. Predictably, the organic industry rejected that offer, preferring restrictions that would essentially ban biotech crops from huge swathes of American cropland. Ronnie Cummins, director of the Organic Consumers Association, said ""there can be no such thing as coexistence"" with genetic engineering.",0_0
"Despite the fact that so little of the stimulus has yet been spent, House leadership already wants more. This week, powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Michigan Representative Sandy Levin (D) is pushing a bill that would extend Stimulus green energy tax incentives, to the tune of $20 billion. So it seems that temporary was also a sham.",0_0
"But when a womans kids are hungry, she wont see the logic of not feeding them to avoid compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.. She wont understand that logic at all.",0_0
"on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 at 10:04 pm and is filed under News.",0_0
"This Friday, Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) demonstrated exactly this contempt for the most basic fact of the market when he responded to a CEI press release that opposed a bill to reduce immigration. Mehlman scoffs at the notion that ""without massive infusions of foreign STEM workers our most vital industries would wither and die."" We never argued such a thing rather, we argued new foreign workers would expand (almost by definition) America's industries, increasing Americans' wealth.",0_0
"But wait! Just when you thought life couldn't get more dangerous, and thank the lord for EPA, the agency changed its rules and health advisories though not its regulations for permissible particulate levels.",0_0
"???Since (today??s) temperatures aren??t higher than earlier temperatures, it doesn??t look like ???global warming,'?? Christy said, ???but more like a problem we still wrestle with: unpredictable natural variability.?? Christy said no one knows what causes these natural shifts in climate.",2_1
"Listen to environmentalists speak about the rainforest and you get the idea that it is an ancient and natural paradise, untouched and unspoiled by human hands until recent times. The first point in a ""visions of the rainforest"" essay in a Sierra Club book flatly states, ""The rainforests are fragile, nonrenewable resources."" (Lessons, p.7)",0_0
"Environment Magazine: ""Back When it Snowed': ""Losing Winter: As Climate Change Takes Hold, Our Coldest Season is the first Casualty'",0_0
"For many years, environmental activists have pushed for bans, moratoria, or other restrictions on hydraulic fracturing (fracking), alleging the process is a threat to public health and the environment. But in recent months, increasing numbers of environmentalists have distanced themselves from the ban fracking agenda. Many have even embraced shale gas on environmental grounds, revealing how extreme and marginalized the campaign to restrict hydraulic fracturing has become.",4_5
"""All new therapies carry risks, and sometimes those risks cannot be discovered until after clinical testing. If we set a goal of zero unexpected risks, then the only way to meet that goal is through zero new therapies. As the results of this latest survey indicate, from a public health standpoint that could well be the riskiest approach of all.""",0_0
"This year's wildfire season may end up being even quieter than 2013. On the same day Running's claim was quoted in the Billings Gazette article, the Washington Times reported only 38,000 wildfires have occurred so far this year. The 2014 wildfire season will almost certainly be one of the three quietest since 1984, and may well end up quietest of them all.",0_0
"No crisis should go to waste, an eternal truth highlighted in bold by a purported climate change apocalypse that is now the target of actions newly proposed by President Obama. This so-called ""crisis"" will flood not various coastlines, but instead the front pages, replacing other, less flattering political headlines for the administration.",0_0
IPCC Warning on Climate Risk: Worst is Yet to Come,0_0
"First, the actual story seems so straightforward that I wouldn't normally spend much time with it. The best movie of the incident was captured by the amateur Abraham Zapruder. There were probably exactly 3 shots and The Zapruder film shows everything you need:",0_0
"We are constantly told about the risks of what climate change might bring in the distant future. In response, governments have adopted a series of policy measures that have been largely ineffective but have brought with them a bewildering array of unintended consequences.",4_2
My warning to you is that research that is politically motivated always lands where it wants to land.,0_0
GLOBE International has just issued a report on climate change legislation around the world. Rather dull stuff.,0_0
Dr. Sally Satel summarizes ACSH's efforts to provide sound science on the effects of tobacco smoking in the face of corporations' efforts to disguise its horrendous impacts.,0_0
"Central Europeans right now are scratching their heads, wondering how on Earth they are still shoveling snow past Easter. March in Germany, according to the German Weather Service DWD , was the 6th coldest since measurements began in 1881. Britain has just seen its coldest March in 100 years. In fact over the last few winters hundreds of cold and snowfall records have been shattered.",1_3
"According to IPCC models, if everyone in Wyoming traded in their pickup truck for a hybrid, it would slow global warming by about 0.00000001 degrees.",4_2
"So, it is now almost certain we will see this scam blow up in the run up to US presidential election with a massacre of the Democrats and any other climate extremists caught into the crossfire will just be collateral damage!",0_0
MOOSE: Dont give me any of that fallacy malarkey. You just do what I tell you and youll get through this.,0_0
41 Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brothers eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?,0_0
"The industry has every incentive to capture methane emissions because its also a valuable energy source that can be used to produce electricity and heat. The more methane that drillers capture, the better the return on their investment. The industry has already unleashed an array of technologies to prevent leakage from drilling, transportation and processing, and innovation is improving those tools.",0_0
"The timelineof these actions iscritical. In June 2010, the Senate voted on Sen. Murkowskis resolution ( S.J.Res.26 ) to overturn the EPAs Endangerment Rule, the prerequisite for all EPA global warming regulations. The resolution fell short by four votes (47-53). In April 2011, the Senate voted on Sen. Inhofes legislation to overturn all EPA global warming regulations except those auto companies had already made investments to comply with. The bill failed on a 50-50 tie vote. Had McCarthy and the EPA been candid about their anti-coal agenda in 2010 and 2011, more Senators might have voted for those measures.",0_0
"The constitutional and legal issues make the parallel less than perfect, but the principle remains the same. Indeed, I'd wager that the costs of illegal immigrationeconomic, social, and environmentalon Arizona dwarf the costs on California from global warming, at least so far.",0_0
"There has been a rise in temperature of a full degree since 1976. Note, though, how temperatures have flatlined in the last decade.",1_4
"on Saturday, November 24th, 2012 at 3:20 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Christopher Monckton has already spoken about the draft treaty with its message of setting up a new form of global governance, but without any mention of voting. He spoke again yesterday to Alex Jones and pointed out that in a sense Copenhagen succeeded , despite what everyone is saying. After all, it was never really about saving the environment was it? It was about setting up a world government, and they got the odd $30 billion dollars . Not bad for a failure.",5_2
"Proponents of Internet sales taxes are asking the lame-duck Congress to bless their state tax cartel as part of a larger tax reform package by passing the Marketplace Equity Act (H.R. 3179) and its companion in the Senate, the Marketplace Fairness Act (S. 1832). These aren't your average tax increases, but grim blueprints for government's future relationship with the online world. Long after we've either swerved at the last minute or gone off the ""fiscal cliff"" a la ""Thelma and Louise,"" we'll have to live with the harmful consequences of expanding government to every corner of the Internet. >",0_0
"Not that these studio meteorologists were making the elementary mistake of confounding weather with climate, for this is a distinction familiar now even to kindergartners.",0_0
Jonathan H. Adler Competitive Enterprise Institute,0_0
"Water vapor feedback exactly fits the feedback alteration of the input shown in the feedback schematic. The greenhouse-gas (ghg) atmospheric heat from CO2 produced water vapor can also heat the atmosphere by its own ghg effect. But its production removes more heat from the atmosphere than its added ghg effect can replace. Its presence also cools the atmosphere (see Figures 5, 6 and 7). It has its own negative saturation feedback and also augments CO2s negative saturation feedback. The analysis presented here shows that it has a universal and significant negative feedback.",3_1
"However, it seems to me that Schmidts May 11 post additionally implied that little credence could be given to my emulation of the 2006 CRU regional chronology, which Schmidt described as an insta-reconstruction and said that I had thrown together. The next graphic compares my insta-reconstruction with information provided in the SI to Briffa et al 2013. Despite Schmidts sneering, I think that even my severest critic must concede that there is a very close resemblance between my emulation and the actual 2006 regional chronology.",0_0
THE DATA FOR THE EARLIER WARMING PERIOD REVEALS THE CURRENT ARCTIC AMPIFICATION IS NOT UNUSUAL,2_1
"Within six days after planting, photosynthetic rates of second leaves of CO 2 -enriched plants were 37% greater than those of second leaves of ambiently-grown plants. This CO 2 -induced photosynthetic enhancement slowly declined over the growing season, stabilizing around 15% for the time period between 23 and 60 days after planting. In addition, when measuring photosynthetic rates at reduced oxygen concentrations of 2%, the authors observed 16 and 9% increases in photosynthesis for ambient and CO 2 -enriched plants, respectively, indicating that elevated CO 2 was reducing photorespiratory carbon losses. Even so, this phenomenon could not fully account for the CO 2 -induced stimulation of photosynthesis. Thus, after further investigation, the authors suggested that elevated CO 2 might have decreased CO 2 leakage from specialized bundle sheath cells, which concentrate CO 2 internally to promote photosynthetic carboxylation reactions by the enzyme rubisco . What it means",3_3
"This is all part of the 60 year patterns in the weather cycles, and can be explained as such. Now that the outer planet synod conjunctions of the Earth with Neptune and Uranus are moving into the fall and early winter, we can expect them to produce the increased snowfall events and cold polar blasts being seen in both hemispheres.",2_1
The nexus between religion and global warming is an interesting one. The dogma associated with global warming was discussed in a number of my previous posts:,5_2
"Eilperins story is certainly is in the running. Study Says Polar Bears Could Face Extinction obviously was aimed at the heartstrings: Assuming the current rate of ice shrinkage and accompanying weight loss in the Hudson Bay region, bears there could become so thin by 2012 they may no longer be able to reproduceOnce the population stops reproducing, thats pretty much the end of it. Eilperin attributed this information to Lara Hansen of the World Wildlife Fund.",0_0
"The national security challenges arising from these climate impacts include: ""threats to stability of countries, heightened social and political tensions, adverse effects on food prices and availability, increased risks to human health, negative impacts on investment and economic competitiveness, and (get this) potential climate discontinuities and secondary surprises."" I look forward to seeing how the Climate and National Security Working Group is going to plan how to handle potential climate discontinuities and secondary surprises.",0_0
The statement that In March a team of climate scientists at Kiel University predicted that natural variation would mask the 0.3C warming predicted by the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change over the next decade is scientifically incorrect.Heating cannot be masked.,5_1
From Digital Diatribes of a Random Idiot The best measured temperature trend site on the web. Completely unbiased!,0_0
"That should worry all Americans, because California energy policy is an unmitigated disaster. California's expensive energy has driven industries out of the state. According to the Energy Information Agency, California has some of the highest electricity prices in the country, due in part to the laughably misnamed ""deregulation"" of California's electricity industry. Californians were actually left with an overregulated energy supply that cannot deliver energy at the affordable prices the rest of the country can. No wonder, then, that it has exported most of its electricity generation to other states.",0_0
"The foundation arguments on which this entire nonsense-structure is built are very simple. First, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide control the sun?s energy flow to and from the Earth and thus control global temperatures in particular and global climate generally. Second, anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide are driving atmospheric concentrations of this gas inexorably higher and higher, and the consequence will be climate catastrophe.",0_0
"All the evidence points in the same direction there has been no warming in or around Antarctica since 1979. On the contrary, if there is any trend, it is to a cooler climate.",1_1
"Today, we'll sign off with a brief round-up of Global Warming Oops Moments, failures and some of the movement's most persistent foolishness. This would be funnier, if it didn't cost you so much, and enrich so many schemers.",0_0
"As demonstrated here, and in numerous additional reviews of other experiments posted on our website (found under the topics ??? and sub-topics ??? of Ocean Acidification and Ocean Acidification and Warming in our Subject Index ), for many species, ocean acidification will be a non-problem ?? and maybe even a blessing!",3_2
"National Climate Assessment Report: Alarmists Offer Untrue, Unrelenting Doom and Gloom",5_2
Judge Scolds White House for Bad Faith in Global Warming Case,0_0
"The ideology driving the sceptics is most obvious in the exchanges over the impact on future generations. US Tea Party activists and their bombastic British representative, Niall Ferguson now delivering the Reith lectures like to terrify their audiences with how much public debt today's generation is leaving its children. Yet the same argument is not applied to the planet. At the end of his first lecture Professor Ferguson was asked if he applied the same logic on future generations to climate change: he was flummoxed, and dodged the question.",0_0
"The graph above plots the ten year running mean of the number of category five hurricanes making landfall . As you can see, the peak occurred during the 1930s and it has been relatively level since. There were four category five hurricanes which made landfall between 1924 and 1935, but only two during the past decade. It has been 18 years since a category five hurricane struck the US.",1_7
"Unfortunately, while HeiQ came to EPA to have its product registered, other nanosilver manufacturers have not. The unregulated and untested use of nanosilver in such products as food storage containers and hair dryers continues to grow, despite potential dangerous health effects.",0_0
"In the tropics right now, ""the large part of wood harvested comes from plantations."" Brazil is adding almost 500,000 thousand acres of forest plantation each year, and although these ""account for only 2 percent of its forests, they provide 60 percent of the wood harvested."" According to Roger Sedjo, ""The world's current industrial wood consumption requirements could be produced on about 500 million acres of good forestland, an area only about five percent of the world's current forestland Natural forests no longer serve as a major source of industrial wood."" (Cross and the Rainforest, p.146)",0_0
"Instead, forecasters expect hot and dry high pressure systems, comparable with patterns which delivered the 2003 and 2006 scorchers.",0_0
"In Weingarts view, climate science has abused its position in goingfar beyond policy advising. They now insistthatthe rest of the world dance to its tune. Weingart cites examples of humans alreadybeing forced to alter their behaviour: carbon trading, changing light bulbs, basing purchasing decisions on climate impact, to name a few.",4_1
The Great Storm of 1703 was the most severe storm or natural disaster ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain. The Royal Navy lost 13 ships and 1500 seamen. Up to 15000 people died overall.,1_7
"CEI, a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group founded in 1984, is dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. For more information, please contact the media relations department at pr@cei.org or 202-331-1010.",0_0
"A recent open-access paper in GRL by Chylek et al, here , throws further light on the behaviour of three of the models used by Shindell. The authors conclude from an inverse structural analysis that the CanESM2, GFDL-CM3and HadGEM-ES models all strongly overestimate GHG warming and compensate by a very strongly overestimated aerosol cooling, which simulates AMO-like behaviour with the correct timing something that would not occur if the models were generating true AMO behaviour from natural internal variability. Interestingly, the paper also estimates that only about two-thirds of the post-1975 global warming is due to anthropogenic effects, with the other one-third being due to the positive phase of the AMO.",5_1
"That was vindication for a man who was termed a civil heretic in a New York Times Magazine article on his contrarian views. Dyson embraces that label, with its implication that what he opposes is a religious movement. So does his fellow Princeton physicist and fellow skeptic, William Happer.",0_0
But the whole disappearing sea ice threatens polar bears survival story is in reality a farce.,3_2
"The eight researchers, all from Portugal, report that the growth of the mussels, measured as relative increases in shell size and body weight during the 84 days of the experiment, ""did not differ among treatments."" In fact, they say that a tendency for faster shell growth under elevated CO 2 was apparent, ""at least during the first 60 days of exposure."" In the case of calcification , however, they indicate that this process was reduced, but by only up to 9% . Yet even here they state that ""given that growth was unaffected, the mussels clearly maintained the ability to lay down CaCO 3 , which suggests post-deposition dissolution as the main cause for the observed loss of shell mass."" Last of all, with respect to mortality , Range et al . write that ""mortality of the juvenile mussels during the 84 days was small (less than 10%) and was unaffected by the experimental treatments.""",3_2
"Because the two experiments yielded nearly identical results, we will focus our discussion on experiment two, since it was of greater duration.?? Elevated CO 2 apparently reduced rates of transpiration in all seedlings shortly after the start of the experiment.?? After 30 days of differential CO 2 exposure, seedlings growing at 700 ppm displayed shoot water potential values that were nearly 40% higher (less negative and thus less stressful) than those measured in seedlings growing at ambient CO 2 .?? At the end of the 82-day dry-down, elevated CO 2 had significantly increased seedling root and shoot biomass by 37 and 46%, respectively, regardless of the region from where the seeds they sprouted originated.?? Moreover, atmospheric CO 2 enrichment more than doubled seedling survivorship under drought conditions without significantly favoring one genotype over another. What it means",3_3
"In Vanishing Ice Most Likely All Natural (transcipt here) I argued that Greenlands glaciers would soon stabilize and sea ice in the Barents Sea would soon recover based on trends in the transport of warm Atlantic water into the Arctic. Although a one-year recovery is much too short a period from which to derive reliable projections, it is exactly what natural climate dynamics predict.",1_1
"If you are wondering, what about cooling of the atmosphere in contact with the ground?, well just make the soil layer deeperit turns out that 0.2 meters of soil is equivalent in bulk heat capacity to about 200 m of atmosphere.",0_0
"The report comes with a statement by the OPT which recommends that climate change negotiators recognize that population restraint is a vital part of tackling global warming and says, in part:",0_0
"Excuse me? What ""journalistic balance""? If the NewsHour""s ultimate explanation is that they did avoid such a ""distorted form of journalistic balance' for years, did they first check the veracity of accusations against skeptics?",0_0
"The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has estimated the potential savings from a nationwide 25% renewable electricity standard, a goal included in the Waxman-Markey energy bill that narrowly passed the House last year. Best-case scenario: about 306 million tons less CO2 by 2030. Given that the agency expects annual U.S. carbon emissions to be about 6.2 billion tons in 2030, that expected reduction will only equal about 4.9% of emissions nationwide. That's not much when you consider that the Obama administration wants to cut CO2 emissions 80% by 2050.",4_2
"Julian Morris discusses the economic impact of various changes of the climate rationally, as an economist. He compares the wealth of the future generations in poor nations with the riches of the present generation in rich nations: the first group will be wealthier. He argues that they will have enough resources to adapt to any change except for a global collapse.",4_2
"But regardless of the cause, if you believe all of this, then enhanced greenhouse gases are inconsequential compared to the tremendous increase in solar energy hitting the surface. Apparently few want to admit to this.",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
"Comparing measured values for cloudy sky to the calculated values for clear sky, the researchers found that, on average, puffy fair-weather clouds cool down the earth's surface by several percent on a summer day. Although clouds cool overall, two components that the researchers looked at from direct and scattered sunlight had opposite effects.",0_0
Some legislators thought the situation called for more bureaucracy and requiring Cajun navy and marines to obtain certificates and pay a fee before permitting them to help would be just the ticket.,0_0
"???At this time, we believe the scientific understanding of the global climate is inadequate to justify drastic control policies and needs to be better developed to support limiting greenhouse gas emissions ??? limitations that would damage the economic well-being of most of the world??s population.",4_1
"I could see the light turning on in Tabitha?s head as she slowly said, ?It?s almost like they have another agenda behind this Green movement stuff?.",0_0
"They certainly are, writes Lewis Page in the Register . If it is the case that actually the climate has often been warmer without any significant CO2 emissions having taken place suggesting that CO2 emissions simply arent that important the case for huge efforts to cut those emissions largely disappears.",2_1
"How can a scientific conclusions that emerge from ""processes of deliberation and discussion rather than from pure observation, experimentation and falsification"" be considered ""settled"" and ""certain""? And do you agree or disagree with Hulme that climate scientists should not suggest ""that matters are settled""?",5_1
H/t to Pat for the correction of George Pells status: current Archbishop it is.,0_0
"In 1999, NASA showed US temperatures falling. That didnt meet their funding requirements , so they simply altered the data to make the cooling disappear, and turned it into warming. Straight out of Orwell.",5_2
"Not only is EPA continuing to stall the permitting process, they are trying to stop permits that have already been granted. In January 2011 EPA took the drastic and unprecedented step of revoking a lawfully issued mining permit that the Bush Army Corps of Engineers had granted to the Spruce Mine project in Appalachia. Fortunately, the courts recognized EPA overreach in this case. March 23, 2012 the U.S. District Court ruled that EPA exceed its authority and as the Judge said, EPA's claim that it can veto a permit already issued by the Army Corps of Engineers is a ""stunning power for an agency to arrogate to itself.""",0_0
MACD Not only is it red on top but it has crossed the zero line to a negative value. Gold Bear Market is what its saying. While we had a counter trend rally in October (DMI and MACD both blue on top) thats ended.,0_0
"Be all that as it may, the next IPCC report is now being produced. It will attempt to reflect what the various committees and advisors believe to be the scientific consensus on various matters including sea levels. But it appears that there simply isn't any scientific consensus on the Antarctic and Greenland melt rates - and therefore there isn't one on sea levels either.",5_1
"But count on Maurice to come back Strong when there's a good opportunity to cash in on fossil-fueled climate alarm, reentering through the Green curtains of the anti-carbon scam stage as chairman of the China Carbon Corporation, and vice chairman of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX).",0_0
"The state regulates the public utilities. The state certifies the public utilities. Their performance in this operation I believe is germane to their regulatory status, he continued. If the state believes they were not diligent and aggressive in their activities to restore power, they could be subject to monetary penalties. They could even lose their certification. I have communicated this orally to most and we are also releasing a letter that I sent them today. I believe, as I said, most of the companies are working very hard and are trying their best. But this is not just about effort and good faith effort, this is about getting the job done because a lot of New Yorkers are relying on them. If they want to be a utility in this state, if they want consumers to pay the bill, if they want to be licensed by the state, certified by the state, then they have to perform.",0_0
"12.	"" that Germany has to decrease its emissions until 2020 by 40%."" No, Germany doesn't have to do that, cannot do that, and won't do that.",0_0
"So what does this really mean? What impact will such a ruling have depending upon whichever way it goes? I have asked my good friend Marlo Lewis, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., to discuss the implications regarding whether petitioners win or lose.",0_0
"Since the 1970s, the south-western corner of Western Australia has suffered a dramatic decline in their winter rainfall, so rapid and so extreme that its like, somewhere, a giant tap is being turned off.",0_0
"I'd say they're about 90% talk, and about 10% actions that barely nibble at the edges of greenhouse gas emission growth. Even at that, the costs of nibbling are revealing themselves to be as high as critics said they'd be, and more of the talk is turning to back-peddling, rather than pouring on more money.",0_0
"Surely the responsibility for using the most comprehensive available data rests with CRU and the journal reviewers. If they neglect to do so, they deserve criticism. It is ludicrous for Osborn to attack me because they were negligent.",0_0
"So EPA needed additional studies, to back up its expansive, bogus epidemiological assertions. The new studies, JunkScience.com director Steve Milloy discovered, involved human test subjects. They raised numerous new legal, ethical and scientific problems.",0_0
"Its time for skeptics to smile again, the regular round-up of all things warm, toasty and positively hoaxy is here.",0_0
"Among many examples, see Union of Concerned Scientists. 2004 Climate Change: Choosing Our Future, http://www.climatechoices.org/data/.",0_0
Note: NOAA/ OGP survey of Global Impacts caused by the 1997-1998 ENSO warm event was $ 25.0-33.0 billion,0_0
"Suppressed Critical Knowledge. Phil Jones wrote, ""I've been told that IPCC is above national FOI Acts. One way to cover yourself and all those working on the IPCC 5th Assessment Report would be to delete all e-mails at the end of the process. Any work we have done in the past is done on the back of the research grants we get and has to be well hidden. I've discussed this with the main funder in the past and they are happy about not releasing the original station data."" The U.S. government was colluding with the hiders, who received tens of millions of dollars over the years. Jones wrote to Mann, ""Mike, can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith Briffa re AR4 ? Keith will do likewise. We will be getting Caspar Ammann to do likewise.""",5_2
"Finally, America's mayor didn't make it through the primaries. You know, your humble correspondent probably isn't the most canonical guy who would have picked Giuliani but I would find him highly natural in the office, anyway. He's still a symbol of the mainstream America's leader who has everything that seemed necessary in those old years when I couldn't think about a single major complaint against America these days, I have way too many.",0_0
"Today, counting the E.U. as a single entity, perhaps fifteen to twenty nations around the world are major sources of GHG discharges. Agreement is already difficult, but the real test lies in the future. Economic growth will swell the number of major sources. Eventually, participation has to be nearly universal, or countries without controls are likely to become magnets for GHG-intensive activities. Essentially, a great many nations have, or will eventually gain, an effective veto over global GHG control efforts.",0_0
"The province of Alberta, Canada will propose a greenhouse gas reduction plan as an alternative to the Kyoto Protocol, according to its Environment Minister, Lorne Taylor. The plan will resemble the one proposed by President George W. Bush, in that it will rely on financial incentives to develop technologies that would emit fewer greenhouse gases.",0_0
"On Thursday, September 15, The Heartland Institute will celebrate its 32nd anniversary with a reception and dinner at The Cotillion, a fine banquet hall in Palatine, Illinois. Our keynote speaker will be political satirist and author P.J. O'Rourke, who will deliver an incisive and funny address about the 2016 election and the state of politics and culture in America today. Early bird rates end July 31 and seats will fill up fast, so don't hesitate to buy your tickets today! READ MORE",0_0
Will the Supreme Court Review EPA?s Greenhouse Gas Regulations? Part II,0_0
"It often is stated that water vapor is the chief greenhouse gas (GHG) in the atmosphere. For example, it has been asserted that about 98% of the natural greenhouse effect is due to water vapour and stratiform clouds with CO2 contributing less than 2%",2_3
"Actually, ENSO is an integral part of the sea surface temperature record. As such, the effects of ENSO cannot be removed from the surface temperature record. ENSO represents a natural coupled ocean-atmosphere process, not some outside factor. The events that initiate an El Nio are weather related, making El Nio basically random events, but theyre still part of normal and natural global climate. By labeling ENSO as noise or an exogenous factor, the scientists and statisticians are attempting to conceal its long-term effectsjust another way to misinform the public.",0_0
"Yesterday, the high temperature in New York, 59 degrees Fahrenheit, tied the record set in 1911 for the coldest August high ever and was 23 degrees below the normal high: The New York Sun The record cold high of 64 degrees Fahrenheit for August 21st, set in 1999, had to be edited, too. The new record is 5 degrees cooler than the previous one: CBS Summer 2007 is on its way to become one of the coolest summers on record: July was 1.5 degrees below the normal and August is so far 1 degree below the normal. Participants of the Simons Workshop on Long Island such as Aaron Bergman are freezing, too. But you won't hear these stories from RealClimate.org. The temperature in the Arctic is way more important for the society than the temperature in Manhattan, as long as it is warmer than average. ;-) These court jesters deny global warming and look how they dress up in August: how funny. ;-)",1_3
"There are also exciting opportunities that could arise for the public recording and utilization of such capital through the distributed public-ledger system known as the blockchain, best known for its role in the development of bitcoin. Development of the blockchain for property recording and titling would significantly reduce both the transaction costs and the widespread corruption associated with government-controlled titling systems. Significantly, De Soto's ILD is promoting these initiatives.",0_0
"Americans belief in global warming is on the rise, along with temperatures and surprising weather changes, according to a new university poll.",0_0
"In order to trsta their carbon faithful readers p Washington University's Zhang also says that when it gets warmer NNU's will probably trend seekers multitude of sea ice in Antarctica to be broken. The scheme will sledes to terstllas says Zhang, and politicians can continue to their climate policy threaten the safe frvissning that everything makes for hell unless they gr something drastically",0_0
"2) To my quick scan, more of the stations are cooler. It would be best to do some sort of statistical plot of the data, but right now, this is hot off the presses. More importantly, from personal knowledge of the locations, those stations that are more suburban and a bit closer to the original environment are the cool ones. The warm ones are nearer to development, concrete and roadways. Its pretty clear to me that the development around and at the airport cuts a degree or two off the lower temperatures on cold clear nights. Just the pattern we see in the data. Cold clipping.",5_1
"Soon, Denmark produced a study (""Wind Energy: The Case of Denmark "") through the think-tank CEPOS. This paper also revealed tremendous costs, and that Obama's claim about Denmark's ""renewables"" experience was also steeped in mythology.",0_0
"In summary cyclic Earth eccentricity causes Earth cooling and warming, not the availability of excess Greenhouse gases.",2_1
"NOAA Says U.S. Cooling Over Last 15 Years: -3.2 F/Century Rate, As of August 2011",1_4
"These three points are that (1) ""rapid evolution is common,"" that (2) ""genetic divergence occurs along a variety of gradients, including those affected by global change,"" and that (3) ""genetic divergence in a variety of species can impact ongoing species interactions, community structure, biodiversity and ecosystem function.""",3_2
A prominent paper examining the issue was published in 2011 by Dr. Benjamin Santer and a long list of colleagues including some of the bigger names in climate science. These researchers set out to see just how unusual the rather low warming rate in the lower atmosphere is when compared with climate model expectations of the evolution of the temperatures when run with a combination of the observed (through the year ~2000) and projected (through 2010: from the IPCC?s SRES A1B scenario) anthropogenic enhancements to the atmosphere?s chemical and physical composition.,0_0
"Oil, Climate Change, and Security: A Bipartisan Approach",0_0
Europe-wide Next 3 Days Accumulated Snow,0_0
"Willie Soon is a solar physicist and climate scientist based in Cambridge, Mass. Lord Monckton is a former expert reviewer for the Fifth Assessment Report of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2013) of the U.N.?s climate panel.",0_0
The real moral of this story is that scientists are merely human. They can be as short-sighted and as political and as dishonorable as the rest of us.,0_0
Judge Issues Mixed Ruling on Cape Wind,0_0
"As you can see, that 56 F high is closer to the normal low of 51 F than to the normal high of 68 F. Were looking at 10 15 F below normal, depending on location. And a good 31 F below the record. Record heat we dont have But I notice that were trending toward that record low of 45 F set during the last cold phase of the PDO Our low is set to be all of 4 F above that, and the PDO shift is young",1_3
"The social cost of carbon (SCC) is, in theory, a measure of the damage done to future economies from the emission of another ton of CO2 for the year in which the CO2 is emitted. In concept, the CO2 emitted adds a warming effect to the atmosphere for the year in which it was emitted as well as subsequent years (to varying degrees) for centuries to come. The added warming in each year will have economic impacts from the warming and from sea-level rise. The present value of these damages is summed to get the social cost of carbon for the year of emission.",0_0
Surely it could not be anything to do with the Govt ship Aurora Australis being icebound ? (see yesterday post below) A sort of counter story.,0_0
"Tuesday's headlines gave Mitt Romney a golden opportunity to attack President Obama and his ""green"" energy agenda during the second presidential debate. A123 Systems, the electric-car-battery maker that got a $249 million grant from the Department of Energy in 2009, filed for bankruptcy in a Delaware court.",0_0
"One casualty of the massive expansion of wind power will have to be Longannet coal fired power station which I imagine will close before 2020. The plan is, after all, to get rid of fossil fuel powered generation even although coal is likely to be the cheapest form of power production for many decades.",4_5
The paper is behind a pay wall but there is a comprehensive summary here.,0_0
"And you need to educate yourself to avoid being afflicted by various government policies intended to advance the hoax. To start with, do not vote for any politician who talks of global warming/climate change or uses the term ""sustainability.""",0_0
Mikey Manns c limate of doom in 2036 model puts us in a full blown ice age in 1960,0_0
"Fonte provides several case studies of the global-governance philosophy at work, including international efforts to direct U.S. domestic policy; transmogrifying the laws of war to constrain U.S. options and practices; the International Criminal Court (ICC); isolating and delegitimizing Israel; and international migration and assimilation policies. The globalista agenda is lengthy, including major issues such as climate change, but Fonte's examples certainly rank among their top priorities.",0_0
"Needless to say, investors would lose out as companies would have to divert resources to compliance with these mandates, on top of the horrific regulations from corporate ""reforms"" such as Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank. One consequence would be that this would simply accelerate the trend of companies leaving or staying off of the public markets, and ordinary investors will lose out on options to boost their portfolio with profitable companies.",0_0
"Many critics have complained that the biggest problem with the IPCC Third Assessment Report, which was completed under Watson's chairmanship, is advocacy and not science.",5_2
"And as I mentioned at the outset, if climate sensitivity is low, then the warming effect of more CO2 (as well as the cooling effect of any geoengineering fixes to the problem) will have little effect on global temperatures, anyway.",3_1
"This lag is one of the reasons that we have recommended ocean heat content changes as a more appropriate climate metric for global warming and cooling, as there are no lags involved; just an accounting for the Joules of heat in the climate system, as discussed in",0_0
"Read here . Actual real world research of peer reviewed literature finds that island atolls continue to gain shore line - ""reef islands exhibit a degree of physical resilience."" Virtual climate model predictions are incorrect.",3_2
12. How much will the earth's temperature rise if the amount of human-made CO2 in the atmosphere continues to increase in the next 100 years?,0_0
"It turns out that there is a much more fundamental and unambiguous check of the role of feedbacks in enhancing greenhouse warming that also shows that all models are greatly exaggerating climate sensitivity. Here, it must be noted that the greenhouse effect operates by inhibiting the cooling of the climate by reducing net outgoing radiation. However, the contribution of increasing CO2 alone does not, in fact, lead to much warming (approximately 1 deg. C for each doubling of CO2).",3_1
"Now that we've answered the first question, let's focus on the second and what lies ahead for the GOP. But first, some historical perspective.",0_0
Thats it: 2.77 mm (about a tenth of an inch) per year for the last 150 years. No acceleration ofthe sea-level-rise-ratehas accompanied increasing atmospheric CO2 levels. To get three feet in the next 40 years the sea level must rise an average of about 23 mm per year between now and 2050. That is a sea-level-rise-rate increase by a factor of nine. Something like this,1_6
"Indeed. Just last October Professor Muller released a study claiming that he had checked out the concerns raised by sceptics, including the risk of data selection bias and, temperatures really were rising .",0_0
"It's more likely than not at during 2012 or at the beginning of 2013, we will actually see an RSS climate record that will display a cooling trend during the most recent 15 years ??? partly because of the expected 2011/2012 La Nia, partly because the warm 1998 year will emerge at the beginning of the 15-year interval. Recent years increasingly paint the story that the ""global warming"" stopped more than a decade ago.",1_4
"To cut a long story short, the 95% certainty of Working Group I boils down to climate models and 98% of them didnt predict the pause in surface temperature trends (von Storch 2013) . Even under the most generous interpretation, models are proven failures, 100% right except for rain, drought, storms, humidity and everything else (Taylor 2012). They get cloud feedbacks wrong by a factor 19 times larger than the entire effect of increased CO2 (Miller 2012). They dont predict the climate on a local, regional, or continental scale (Anagnostopoulos 2010 andKoutsoyiannis 2008). They dont work on the tropical troposphere (Christy 2010, Po-Chedley 2012 , Fu 2011 , Paltridge 2009). The fingerprints they predicted are 100% missing.",5_1
A growing body of evidence clearly shows that hydroclimatic variability,0_0
"The term carbon pollution is a pejorative term that displays ignorance by those who use it. In reality, the public debate is about the magnitude of the warming effect exercised by human carbon dioxide emissions. Carbon dioxide from whatever source is an environmental benefice that sustains most of the ecosystems on planet Earth.",3_3
"Homeowners who care about their own property should do what they can to reinforce it against hurricanes: roof tie-downs, storm-resistant windows and deep-rooted plantings pay for themselves through improved safety, increased property values and lower insurance rates.",0_0
"The true global average temperature is that measured from outer space, and this has a value of -18 degrees C. We do not actually know what the average surface temperature is because we simply dont have thermometers placed on the actual ground surface. If we did, climate science would see the Sun heating the surface to very high temperature, as we did in that linked paper above, and then they would have to abandon the flux-averaged models that create a greenhouse effect because they assume that the Sunshine is too cold to heat the ground by itself.",0_0
"Public emails subject to open scrutiny and broad dissemination: These only need to be sent by, or delivered to, at least one email address that is a public, government institution funded by taxpayers. An example in Great Britain would be the University of East Anglia, where Phil Jones was once director of the CRU. Another example, in the U.S., would be the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where every employee has a llnl.gov email address. That dot-gov suffix is a dead giveaway.",0_0
"Working with two species of oak ( Quercus velutina Lam. and Quercus coccinea Muench.) and one of pine ( Pinus echinata Mill.) in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, USA, the authors cross-dated a large number of increment cores and aligned the ring-width data by pith date for accurate age-constant assessments of growth over the past 150 years, thereby circumventing ""changes in growth trend associated with differences in physiological functioning during development, as well as the need for statistical detrending that removes an unknown degree of long-term environmental signal, the so-called segment length curse that applies to standard dendrochronological investigations."" In addition, they similarly analyzed previously acquired data for P. echinata stretching back in time to nearly AD 1600. What was learned",0_0
"The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Plumbers and Pipefitters, whose presidents joined Mr. Obama on Tuesday, are desperate to get more work and members, because the Labor Department lists their pension plans as in ""critical"" status - meaning that they have less than 65% of assets needed to fulfill their obligations to current and future retirees. The Building Trades United Pension Fund has postponed bringing its funds into actuarial balance due to financial difficulties.",0_0
"Move over David Crane. Enter Alex Epstein, the author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels .Might Crane debate Epsteinand soon? Thats an event that I would be sure to watch, and you should too.",0_0
"However any account of their role would make the book much longer, and perhaps less accessible. He is clearly aware of these forces, as he describes incidents impossible without them. Moreover he speaks to it directly through the following:",0_0
"Apart from ecology, lawyers have their own philosophy, called jurisprudence. Like Ambrose Bierce, some medieval Scottish lawyers may not be recognised as philosophers, but showed perspicacity in taking the Latin verb reptare (to crawl or creep) and forming the legal terms subreption and obreption. These mean, respectively, to crawl under the truth, and to crawl over it; in other words to mislead by telling less than the whole truth, or by telling more than the whole truth. In bushfire debate, as in courtrooms, we need the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.",0_0
"5. U.S. oil demand may be relatively flat, but it's not going away. Opponents of the pipeline claim that there's no need to build the Keystone XL, because U.S. oil demand is sluggish. That's true, but the U.S. will continue to need lots of oil for decades to come. Here's the latest prediction from EIA: ""U.S. consumption of liquid fuels, including both fossil fuels and biofuels, rises from about 18.8 million barrels per day in 2009 to 21.9 million barrels per day in 2035.""",0_0
"There is a very interesting passage on that Durrington Walls link above. Ill quote it here, but its probably better read in the context of the original article:",0_0
"The first sentence here, citing unspecified ???empirical relationships?? between cosmogenic isotopes (a proxy for solar activity) and ???some aspects of the climate system?? is the only reference in the entire report to the massive evidence for a solar driver of climate. Not a word about the magnitude of the correlations found, nothing about how these correlations are much too strong to possibly be explained by the slight variance in solar irradiance alone, and almost nothing (???many??) about the sheer volume of studies that have found these correlations. And that??s it: one oblique sentence, then the report jumps immediately to looking at the evidence for one proposed mechanism by which solar amplification might be occurring.",2_1
"Switzerland covers coal, oil and natural gas. The report is littered with similar caveats for other countries.",0_0
"on Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 at 2:49 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
WikiLeaks Exposes Podesta-Steyer Climate McCarthyism,0_0
"Climate models are the basis for much of the gloom and doom predictions of warming. The problem is that the models are terrible even at hindcasting , which somewhat detracts from their predictive credibility.",5_1
"Photosynthetic rates of sub-ambiently-grown seedlings measured 12 to 22 days after transfer to 350 ppm CO 2 tended to be greater than those displayed by control plants raised exclusively at 350 ppm CO 2 , while seedlings grown at 800 ppm CO 2 and transferred to 350 ppm CO 2 exhibited photosynthetic rates that tended to be lower than those observed in the control seedlings. Nevertheless, seedlings initially grown at elevated CO 2 concentrations attained whole plant dry mass values that were 14% greater than those reached by control plants, while seedlings initially grown at the subambient CO 2 concentration attained values that were 24% lower than those measured in control seedlings. What it means",3_3
"""Berresford ""Berry"" Bingham, the political director of SEIU Local 1021, was found dead in his West Oakland home and investigators are treating the death as a homicide, police said.""",0_0
Good heavens! Since 1997 the planet (or at least the U.S. portion of it) has been cooling! Just like Murphy said in his column. And this cooling is not just a 2009 phenomenon.,1_4
"Climate science has transformed itself from a research backwater a few decades ago into one of the greatest public-good scientific cash cows ever devised. In Australia, for instance, there is a separate federal Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency specifically devoted to implementing (buying?) the social change required to limit global warming. The livelihood of many of the climate scientists within the CSIRO and elsewhere is now dependent on grants from that department. It is not a situation conducive to sceptical outlook and balanced advice. When a tendency toward postmodern science is mixed with a single, generous and undoubtedly biased source of money, it is not surprising that things can go very wrong very quickly.",5_2
"Politicians and administrators as well as the public have to evaluate the impact on society of the various phenomena and take decisions in the face of uncertainties. Apparently scientific but incorrect or sensational information is often fed to them. The meteorologist has therefore a responsibility in bringing a correct appreciation of the nature of the meteorological phenomena and the factors which determine their impact, on the part of politicians, administrators and society in general and in removing misconceptions.",0_0
"Elizabeth May on the hidden talents of Stephen Mesmer-Harper : Murray Dobbin: ""Do you think Harper has deliberately set out to discourage people from voting?"" Elizabeth May: ""Absolutely. People thought that Harper had become more popular between the 2006 and 2008 elections but not so: 170,000 fewer people voted for a Conservative candidate in 2008 than in 2006. His larger seat count is a tribute to his ability to discourage people from voting ."" Apparently his special powers work best against potential Green Party voters.",0_0
"The frosting on environmentalists' cake came when the Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced it would divest shares in companies producing fossil fuels. It could not be determined whether John D. Rockefeller, the fund's founder who also founded the modern petroleum industry, is spinning in his grave or, as his heirs contend, would be a leader in the switch to renewables. But it is certain he would have noticed that the family's $2 million investment in renewables was wiped out.",0_0
German scientists Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch have released their latest international survey of climate scientists. The data is reported here:,0_0
"British consumers were forced to use eco-friendly water heaters by the last Labour government. Unfortunately, the boilers work poorly or not at all in cold weather :",0_0
"Sometime late in the next century, our heirs will discover whether global warming produces dramatic changes such as the disappearance of coastlines and an upsurge in tropical diseases. The task facing us now is how best to address the possibility of human-induced climate damage on a global scale.",0_0
"One proviso, is that we must use this estimate over similar periods, but as the post cooling scare is less than 30 years and the pause is now longer than 18 years, we are using similar length periods.",1_4
"Subsequent polls, for example those by Hans von Storch in Germany, have given similar resultswhile polls conducted by activists have consistently shown strong support for AGW. A classic case is a survey of the abstracts of nearly 1000 papers, by science historian Naomi Oreskes (UC San Diego); published in 2004 Science , she claimed a near-unanimous consensus about AGW. However, after being challenged, Oreskes discovered having overlooked some 11,000 abstractsand published a discreet Correction in a later issue of Science .",0_0
Obama used the Hawaiian monument creation to talk about how global warming could wipe out natural landmarks.,0_0
"""You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and industries,"" al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden wrote in a 2002 ""letter to the American people"".",0_0
"Obama's ""New"" Doctrine: What Americans Want, but Not What They Need",0_0
"""It became so easy, I got complacent,"" Brown said. Almost 400 TSA officers have been fired for stealing from passengers over the past decade.",0_0
"Problems with surface measurements are notorious. Recording stations are sparse, even nonexistent in vital global locations, most particularly throughout the Southern Hemisphere and in remote polar regions. After 1970 the number of reporting stations dropped suddenly and drastically. (Stations at airports have seemed to be unaffected, and may even have increased in number.) And as John noted, urban heat islands have developed over time, not to mention problems resulting from faulty placements of temperature recording instruments which have to be ""corrected"" by applying subjective ""homogenizing' (tuning) procedures.",5_1
"Figure 1 presents maps of the modeled and observed warming and cooling rates of the surfaces of the global oceans for the period of 1982 to 2013. The color-coded contour levels are presented in deg C/year. The model mean is presented in the left-hand map and the observed warming rates are presented in the right-hand one. There are no similarities between the spatial patterns of the modeled and observed trends. The models show the greatest warming near the equator, while in the real world, the greatest warming has occurred at mid and high latitudes. The North Atlantic in the real world warmed at the highest rate. That warming of the North Atlantic is associated with the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.",5_1
More on patient safety part 3hospital acquired infections,0_0
"If Hansen was a reasonable concerned citizen he would immediately disavow this book and discourage all who call for similar illegal potentially dangerous action. Likewise, the climate change topic is owned by NASA and the IPCC???where are their moderating responses? Silence is tacit approval. Are they really happy to ignore the safety of the same public who funds them?",4_1
"As this most recent video of Region 1 Administrator Spalding confirms, there are plenty of green generals like Armendariz going into battle for the Obama EPA. We have several more videos of EPA officials making similar statements, but I will talk about those at a later date, because today I would like to focus my remarks specifically on President Obama's war on coal and what members of this body will choose to do about it.",0_0
"Email management boffins, and more or less anybody that has ever fathomed the extremely-complex (or not) world of how to archive messages using MS Outlook or any other email package , are urgently sought at world-famous UEAs CRU and at the Nature Publishing Group, following a plea for help by a computer-challenged climate modeler and a critical-thinking-challenged scientific journalist :",0_0
15. The Climate-gate scandal revealed that a scientific team had tampered with their own data so as to conceal inconsistencies and errors.,5_2
"Glikson then digs deeply into the handbag of IPCC quick-fix-glue and resorts to the ritual lines about how the IPCC has looked at every possible cause and ruled all the rest out. Its known as argument from ignorance: we cant think of anything else it could be. Never mind that they are searching for answers with the same models that cant find the Medieval Warm Period, the Roman Warming, the cause of the Little Ice Age, the warm period in the 1940s, or the cooling of the 50s and 60s either. Never mind that even the IPCC admits they cant model cloud cover well, and cant explain why theres been no statistically significant warming since 1995.",5_1
"""Climate sensitivity estimated from the is 1.1 0.4 C ...compared with the IPCC central value of 3 C.""",3_1
I agree with their conclusion in the very narrow language in which it is expressed language in which each word matters:,0_0
"Okay. I thought I'd give you the IPCC's estimate. As most of you probably know, this is the UN-sponsored, intergovernmental panel on climate change, the official, international word on what the future of global warming is. And their first official report came out in 1990. I'm a member of this group, this 2,500 scientists that are involved in the IPCC process.",0_0
"In the middle of the greatest world economic crisis since the 1930's, the bill would have committed the families of Canada to the following: ""The Government of Canada shall ensure that Canadian greenhouse gas emissions are reduced, subject to the ultimate objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, (a) as a long-term target, to a level that is 80% below the 1990 level by the year 2050.""",0_0
"Instead, the onus should be on the developers to prove the positive. No wind farm developer has ever had to explain the benefits of wind. Evidence tells us that wind power performance shows not only no reduction in CO 2 and other harmful emissions, but the very reverse. But Alex Salmond is driving an aggressive green agenda like an express train across Scotland, bludgeoning anyone who gets in the way as being a Luddite and anti-green.",4_4
"Apparently it was quite a day in Lochmaben. The ice had been checked by the local council and was 7-8 inches, and solid. However, someone phoned the police to say there were lots of people on the ice and they didn't think it was safe. Anne tells the story, ""Six police officers arrived but they couldn't go on ice to warn people because of health and safety so they passed the buck to the Nith rescue who came with a rescue boat but because of heath and safety they couldn't go on ice either. So the Coast Guard arrived, lights flashing! But guess what? Because of health and safety he couldn't go on the ice either! A great day was had by all.",0_0
"But Gore's prediction of a 20 ft sea-level rise is, as his movie makes quite clear, based on ice-melt alone. Abraham says Gore was right to worry about a very large rise in sea level because the IPCC specifically excludes ice-melt from its calculations, saying it cannot yet be quantified. No, the IPCC specifically includes ice-melt in its calculations, as the table on my slide showed, but it does add that ""dynamic"" effects of unpredictable but theoretically-possible large-scale failure on the ice sheets are not taken into account.",0_0
"The vote represents a significant victory for student rights and for science. The scientific method demands consideration of all data, without regard for the impact this may have on a cherished theory. Open minds and free debate are essential to science and climate science is no exception.",0_0
"Already an unnecessarily expensive abatement policy, it has been turned into a vehicle for funding the most expensive forms of abatement at a cost running into the hundreds of millions of dollars, paid by all electricity users, she said.",4_1
But the reports mind-numbing length hasnt stopped people from interpreting it the way they think it should be interpreted. And because no one bothered to read the fine print everyone thinks the IPCC is saying that the adverse impacts of human-caused climate change are already being felt:,0_0
"The experiment also taught us the importance of investigating climate change using several different approaches, in order to fully understand its effects and to predict future impacts, says Christian Alsterberg.",0_0
Rising Outgoing Long-wave radiation with more than 3.7 W/m^2 per C SST cannot be the effect of rising CO2 or of the increase of other greenhouse gases. Rising OLR/SST with 8.6 W/m^2K means that the atmosphere has become more transparent to IR radiation in the past 60 years. The greenhouse effect has become less.,2_3
I needed a little information Santer trends (already collated):,0_0
"Judith Curry wrote a revealing summary of reflections on the fifth anniversary of Climategate. It references an early Curry commentary on Steve Mcintyres site titled, On the credibility of climate research. In that article Curry provides examples of Ivory Tower thinking.",5_2
"If you missed it Sunday, the Audi Super Bowl ad is on Youtube, and it's a hoot. The ad promotes the Audi A3 TDI clean diesel. The main selling point, surprisingly, is not that this car, which won a ""Green Car of the Year"" award, is good for the planet, but that if you drive it, you won't be hassled, bullied, and jailed by the ""green police.""",0_0
"The EPA could finally act on petitions pending from the Bush administration to set GHG emission standards for marine vessels, aircraft, and non-road vehicles.",0_0
"Basically rgbatduke argued that model methods to create spectra for chemical elements such as carbon had limitations; that there was a history of improvement of models; the average of such successive models was meaningless; they did not succeed without some computational judgment; and even then, they were not as good as the measured result. The same comments should be applied to the various climate model comparisons shown in the spaghetti graph, particularly the meaningless average. Climate models were stated to be far more complex than atomic spectral calculations.",5_1
"41 For example, see Earthjustice et al., ""Smokestack Rollback: How the Bush administration's Clean Air Act proposals will increase toxic refinery pollution and jeopardize public health,"" February 2002.",0_0
"In the ongoing debates about the nature of the global warming threat there has been a lot of attention paid to some core scientific issues such as natual variabilty, the validity of climate models, the quality of atmospheric temperture data, the connection between climate and extreme weather, and so forth. ... (read more)",0_0
"Climatologist Dr. Eduardo Zorita, one of the authors of the recent paper rejecting the climate models at a confidence level >98% over the past 15 years , has a new post in which he states that the model vs. real-world discrepancy is even greater during the winter months , with only 0.2% of 6,104 climate model runs projecting the observed negative trend in winter temperatures over the past 15 years. Climate models instead predicted that the most warming would occur during the winter months, the opposite of observations.",5_1
"The headline aims p that today I best Christmas lunch with the editors on the world today. Otherwise is the world like himself, Besides a ovntad kldknpp. Slowly but safe spreads Climategate in the Swedish media. Today's editorial in DN, signed Rikard Westerberg, is a frsiktig ppning from DN's side.",0_0
Alice Bell has posted an interesting collection of articles on what she terms 'new' climate change controversies. They seem fairly well established sceptic topics to me - perhaps she has been reading the wrong sort of blogs. But it did make me think that the Road the Paris is looking rather sceptical in its approach. Maybe the message is finally getting through.,0_0
"The report concludes, ""In the absence of a mandatory carbon cap, none of the base case scenarios examined in this study achieves a reduction in U.S. carbon dioxide emissions by 2035 relative to current levels."" And it emphasizes, ""This is true even in the scenario with the most optimistic assumptions about the future cost and performance of energy technologies.""",0_0
"Hurricane expert Dr. Ryan Maue reported last week that the 5-year running sum for tropical cyclones globally hit a 45-year low. Maue wrote that in the pentad since 2006, Northern Hemisphere and global tropical cyclone ACE has decreased dramatically to the lowest levels since the late 1970s and the frequency of tropical cyclones has reached a historical low.",1_7
"The study notes that ""People in some groups are especially vulnerable to energy cost increases, such as older people living on fixed incomes."" Eleven percent of California's population is made of people 65 or older, many of whom live on fixed incomes. ""A larger share of their income would have to go for higher energy and energy tax costs."" For a copy of the study, contact Consumer Alert at (202) 467-5809.",0_0
"But while excess hospital capacity weakens the ability of the system as a whole to make people healthier, many hospital workers' jobs depend on it. It is this threat to 1199's interests that provides the backstory for one of the stranger episodes of the last mayoral campaign. During his quest for the Democratic nomination, de Blasio capitalized on the publicity he garnered when he was arrested at a protest organized by 1199 to stop the closing of Long Island College Hospital (LICH) in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. LICH, which employed some 1,200 workers, had severe financial problems, many empty beds, and cost the state $10 million a month in subsidies. De Blasio simultaneously showed his solidarity with 1199 and bolstered his activist credentials. Nonetheless, the hospital wound up being sold to developers, who plan to demolish it and construct luxury condos, while retaining a small emergency clinic run by NYU-Langone. Activists now accuse de Blasio of using LICH as a political pawn.",0_0
"Here too, the wild, dangerous sea-level rise was mostly associated with the rise of Hitler and World War II, less so with CO2. Indeed in Newcastle, the seas are still not rising as fast as they were in 1942.",1_6
"Almost the entire Tube system was running yesterday and we would have done even better if it had not been for a suicide on the Northern Line, and the temporary stoppage that these tragedies entail. Of London's 700 bus services, only 50 were on diversion, mainly in the hillier areas. On Saturday, we managed to keep the West End plentifully supplied with customers, and retailers reported excellent takings on what is one of the busiest shopping days of the year.",0_0
"Indeed, Mann's recent New York Times op-ed begins with a blanket defamation of anyone who has ever questioned his global warming orthodoxy, people he describes as a ""a fringe minority"" which ""clings to an irrational rejection of well-established science,"" promoting a ""virulent strain of anti-science.""",5_2
"The video of the recent lecture given by Nobel Laureate physicist Dr. Ivar Giaever at the 2012 meeting of Nobel Laureates is now available online . In the highly recommended lecture, Dr. Giaever explains why global warming is a ""pseudoscience"" that begins with an emotionally-appealing hypothesis, and ""then only looks for items which appear to support it,"" while ignoring ample contrary evidence. Dr. Giaever explains why ""global warming has become a new religion - because you can't discuss it - and that is wrong.""",5_2
"Cunningham also worked as a staffer for Sheldon Silver, the former longtime speaker of the state assembly, and she's the ex-wife of current attorney general Eric Schneiderman. She advised Christine Quinn in her campaign for mayor and Andrew Cuomo in his gubernatorial campaign, even as some of her colleagues lent their services to more left-wing candidates. Now with the prominent lobbying and consulting firm SKDKnickerbocker, Cunningham has advised Governor Cuomo on his Medicaid Redesign Team, tasked with cutting payments to hospitals.",0_0
"Scientists are experts in science. Judges are experts in interpreting the law and doctors are skilled at keeping us healthy-provided we take their advice. But parliaments composed of elected politicians are the experts at public policy making, and neither expressly or impliedly should they ever surrender that role to others.",0_0
"Maybe. It's hard to imagine how the Court can review a rule that leads to ""absurd results"" and ""administrative impossibility"" without examining its opinion in Mass v. EPA that an Endangerment Finding under Section 202 of the Clean Air Act won't lead to ""extreme"" or ""counterintuitive"" measures, but only to a cost-constrained modification of the motor vehicle emission standards.",0_0
"In January 2012 we again warned of ethanol's environmental threat. We wrote about how the ""increased biofuel cultivation hurt the environment through increased use of pesticides, farmland expansion and agricultural runoff polluting our rivers and coastal waters.""",4_4
"I won't give a blow-by-blow of everyone's comments (you can watch the whole thing on Google Video if you like, shaky camera work and all), except to say that the standout comments of the evening came from Andy Revkin. He drew an excellent difference between reporting on the science (a new study on hurricanes just came out) and reporting on the politics (Tony Blair calls on U.S. to embrace Kyoto Protocol). There are different standards and expectations for each, and those are sometimes forgotten.",0_0
"Long term, continuous and uncorrupted temperature records are difficult to find. One such record does exist at an agricultural experiment station, known as Rothamsted Experimental Station, in southeastern England. The station has been taking temperature readings every day at 9 a.m. since 1878 using thermometers very similar to the ones we use today. The 121-year record is continuous with no missing data and the landscape has remained largely agricultural over the entire period.",5_1
"So the climate-establishment and their willing minions crave censorship and why wouldnt they, theyre practical people. They know that if skeptical writers were allowed to publicize their opinions along side the professors who keep spouting logical errors and baseless insults, then the grand facade of the carbon scare would be cremated by Christmas, captured in comedy by New Year, and forgotten by Australia Day.",0_0
"The report manages to stay away from endorsing the wackiest evaluation ideas, but it still gives them plenty of oxygen. Take its ""threshold"" hypothesis that ""sustainability is already far behind us, and we have already entered a phase of decline."" There is also no criticism or qualification of the apparently ""well-known"" view that we have ""exceeded the Earth's biocapacity by approximately 25 per cent."" Such statements are often used as the intellectual support for the dystopian drivel of the worst kind in Hollywood movies.",0_0
"(g) The billboard, which cost $200, generated more than $5 million in earned media so far, and that figure doesnt include television, radio, and tens of millions of page visits and online commentaries. Was the MSM coverage overwhelmingly negative? Of course. How could it be otherwise? There has been no positive coverage of skeptics since Fakegate broke, none at all, and reporters have made it clear that they will not report the debate fairly, so there is no longer any point in trying to appeal to their ethics or honesty. Thanks to the billboard, 37 million Americans now know that the debate over climate change continues.",0_0
SD: Deadwood casino group may seek changes in law:,0_0
"Pilmer claims that the warm periods (such as the Medieval Warm period and the Roman Period) had were times of plenty. Southern Italy had rain all the year round in the 2nd century AD (now only winter rain). North Africa, Central America and Central Asia were warmer and wetter. (p.59) This was a time of population increase, with crop failures and famine becoming a rarity.(p.60). A simliar story for the MWP, where England and China (p.68) flourished. It was warm enough for a Viking colony to establish on Greenland, growing crops.",2_1
"CEI is a non-profit, non-partisan research and advocacy institute dedicated to the principles of free markets and limited government. For more information, contact Emily McGee at 202-331-1010.",0_0
"This year, the Jan-Mar temperature is -2.17 F cooler than for example 1907 . And if we compare this years Jan-Mar temperature with 1921 it is -4.17 F cooler.",1_3
"""International Monetary Fund (IMF) President Dominique Strauss-Kahn has warned that hundreds of thousands of people will face starvation if food prices keep rising.""",0_0
"Mr Bowen said: I am surprised that they have cited an article from a climbing magazine, but there is no reason why anecdotal evidence from climbers should be disregarded as they are spending a great deal of time in places that other people rarely go and so notice the changes.",0_0
> >> >- also CSERGE here at UEA and UCL have done some interesting work on,0_0
"Record Antarctic Ice Extent Throws Cold Water On Global Warming Scare ... Antarctic polar ice extent has set another new record, defying alarmist global warming claims. Surpassing the greatest month-of-April ice extent in recorded history, the new record throws cold water on alarmist claims that the Antarctic ice cap has crossed a melting point of no return. Forbes",1_1
"It finds that the gap between rhetoric and reality is dangerously wide, on the basis of some of the simplest premises of engineering and technology.",0_0
"The function of climate change I suggest, is not as a lower-case environmental phenomenon to be solved?It really is not about stopping climate chaos. Instead, we need to see how we can use the idea of climate change ? the matrix of ecological functions, power relationships, cultural discourses and materials flows that climate change reveals ? to rethink how we take forward our political, social, economic and personal projects over the decades to come.",0_0
"They failed to note that Truman was a serious reader of history and had, in supposedly backward Independence, Mo., studied piano under a teacher who had studied under Ignacy Paderewski.",0_0
"I then selected Ordnance survey mapping and confirmed that this was indeed a place with a micro climate as the banks are clearly marked on the OS map. But it gave one other vital piece information, the location is Broadness Salt Marsh.",0_0
"Strap yourselves in, folks, its gonna be one hell of a ride.",0_0
"The terms ?ecocide? and ?climate denial? of course bring to mind the Holocaust and those revisionist cranks who question its veracity. Environmentalists constantly conjure up Holocaust imagery ? on the one hand to stress that climate change is an indisputable evil, and on the other hand to shut down debate on the matter. Anyone who dares to demand that the claims of greens be scrutinised, anyone who questions the severity of the climate threat or argues that how humanity should handle it is up for debate, is put on a par with Holocaust-denying fraudsters. Greens are making use of the fact that the campaign to criminalise Holocaust denial has grown in recent years, consciously putting ?climate change denial? on a par with Holocaust denial so that those who question environmentalism can be prosecuted, too.",5_2
"A cosmic ray, especially a high energy one from deep space, can cause an entire family tree of smaller particles and ionization trails. See this animation below created by the Cosmus group at the University of Chicago.",0_0
"It is only now that many hundreds of lives have been lost in the Mediterranean Sea as people flee the chaos unleashed in the region in no small part by such incautious intervention, that Miliband wants to make it an election issue.",0_0
"Such statements are of course why sceptics such as James Delingpole and Lord Monckton have become all the fiercer in their criticism of climate change activists in recent years, seeing in climate change activism a threat not just to prosperity but to liberty.",0_0
"Now, Olav Kjorven, the UN's Assistant Secretary General, is proposing new goals for ""The World's Richest Billion People."" (Read: everyone in the First World.) Should these new goals fare any better?",0_0
"The flaw in the UN reasoning is clear, however. The alarmists claim the global warming since 1976 has been too rapid to be caused by natural forces, and therefore must be man-made. However, the earths Industrial Revolution went global after 1945releasing the first big flush of CO2 emissions. That burst of greenhouse gases should have sharply boosted the earths temperatures. Instead, the earths temperature declined from 194075.",2_3
"The House of Representatives passes the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), which would withhold funding from schools and public libraries that refuse to block social networking websites.",0_0
The unprecedented warming is plainly visible in satellite data which shows an increase of 0.00 degrees since the start of the year 2000.,1_4
"How well do current state-of-the-art climate models perform in this regard? The four researchers who conducted this study state that ?until the full range of deep convective processes in the tropics is more realistically represented in climate models, they cannot be used to predict the changes of extreme precipitation events in a changing (warming) climate? Read More",5_1
"Postscript: The followingAMS policies adopted in 2010 would appear to discourage such buddy review (and also enemy review), but also seem to leave discretion with the editor to override the policy:",0_0
"Nor is Professor Morner worried about island nations drowning. He and his team did an exhaustive investigation of the claim made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that the Maldives in the Indian Ocean are at risk from sea level rise accelerated by global warming. He found considerable evidence that the sea level in the islands has fallen over the past 30 years, and that the islands and their people survived much higher sea levels in the past.",1_6
"""Most green energy policies undermine human progress,"" wrote Moore and White. ""They are regressive, disproportionately hurting low and middle income families by driving energy prices higher, thus eroding their standard of living.",4_1
Can anyone seriously expect that of the millions of cars on the road (potentially with either liquid or compressed hydrogen as fuel) none would ever develop any fuel leak that would lead to powerful explosions?,4_4
"Since 2000, water vapor in the stratosphere decreased by about 10 percent. The reason for the recent decline in water vapor is unknown. The new study used calculations and models to show that the cooling from this change caused surface temperatures to increase about 25 percent more slowly than they would have otherwise, due only to the increases in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.",3_1
"Optimists now believe that China will move in the new round of climate negotiations toward an actual trajectory of cutbacks, but there is no sign of that ambition in the current position paper.",0_0
"Then there is this guy spending 15 minutes showing a bunch of folks in some family look a whole lot like folks from the event. Then again, folks of similar minority genetics often look similar. That hes picked out the Jews to pick on doesnt sit well with me either. OTOH, its a more genetically closed community in some ways so more likely to have folks with a similar look. (While various sub populations are quite different, inside individual groups, they often lived in the same areas for a long time in the past.)",0_0
"Contrary to popular belief, ethanol fuel will do little or nothing to increase our energy security or stabilize fuel prices. Instead, it will increase greenhouse gas emissions, local air pollutant emissions, fresh water scarcity, water pollution (both riparian and oceanic), land and ecosystem consumption, and food prices.",0_0
"The series would start in 1930. As this is one of the coldest years in the entire record, the start date should help the warming trend NIWA is seeking.",0_0
"So like any proper solid state physicist, Sachdev doesn't care about the right theories at the Planck scale or any other scale that is more fundamental than the characteristic scale of the phenomena in the common materials, for that matter. But even in this seemingly mundane realm that looks as non-fundamental as Radiohead, one may apply relationships that were found by physicists who analyzed a consistent description of quantum gravitational phenomena who studied string theory in its familiar regime.",0_0
"The National Post also reported on March 29 that Prime Minister Jean Chretien ""appeared to be softening his commitment to ratifying the Kyoto Protocol.""",0_0
"The rumors about Antarctica losing mass are from some fatally flawed gravity studies from the University of Texas a few years ago, done by people who were too stupid to know that glacial rebound causes the bedrock below the glaciers to change elevation. Their legacy of junk science continues to grow and expand.",5_1
"Of all 1208 series, there were only a small fraction which were not artificially infilled prior to screening. Yup, only a few percent gave the dog its wag.",0_0
"A second objection has to do with the Second Law of Thermodynamics. It is claimed that since the greenhouse effect depends partly upon cooler upper layers of the atmosphere emitting infrared radiation toward the warmer, lower layers of the atmosphere, that this violates the 2nd Law, which (roughly speaking) says that energy must flow from warmer objects to cooler objects, not the other way around.",2_3
"White House internal communications during the companys final days include an email about a planned meeting to discuss Solyndra on August 29, 2011. Heather Zichal, a senior energy policy aide, and Deputy OMB Director Jeffrey Zients were slated to brief other officials.",0_0
"So how do we know that the US used to be hotter? Over the past century, the percentage of maximum temperature readings over 100 degrees has dropped precipitously.",2_1
"Heres another one, about six months after being refilled with the overburden (or the muck as its known in Northumbria, and pronounced mook):",0_0
"""Actually, this contains considerable distortion. In truth, no one knows how much the world will warm, exactly when or with what consequences. Any self-respecting judge will dismiss this suitand do more. Because the only point is political self-promotion, the judge ought to require the attorneys general to pay court costs and defendants' costs from their own pockets. There's a name for what the attorneys general are making of themselves: a public nuisance.""",0_0
"Agreement 8 is a bilateral between the U.S. and Swedish armed forces to collaborate on ""environmental protection in defense matters."" The parties seek to share and develop information and technologies to eliminate or reduce the environmental impacts of military bases and operations, mitigate the noise effects of military exercises, and remediate defense-related environmental damages, among other similar purposes.",0_0
"Once the intraparty finger-pointing subsides, the GOP can get down to the business of improving its ""brand."" That won't begin until spring, when the party has voted on new congressional leadership and a new chairman of the Republican National Committee.",0_0
"If I can restore the computer from its current paperweight status, the round-up will happen tomorrow.",0_0
"Dr. Judith Curry, in a very long assessment of lessons learned since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, notes that there is still uncertainty of exact causes of frequency and intensity. But, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation (NPGO) have dominant impacts on hurricane variability in the Pacific, and modulates the frequencies of El Nino/La Nina. Curry says, I suspect that the combination of the PDO and NPGO can explain much of the variability in Ryan Maues analysis of Accumulated Cyclone Energy diagram, given that the majority of global hurricanes occur in the Pacific. In the Atlantic, the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), and Atlantic Meridional Mode (AMM) have all been invoked to explain variability in the Atlantic",1_7
Security researchers think that Vole will have an update for its browser in about a week.,0_0
"Some people's idea that quantum mechanics actually ""sends signals faster than light"" or ""instantly influences space-like separated regions or electrons"" is just flawed. It is typically a result of these people's trying to imagine a ""classical model"" that ""emulates"" quantum mechanics. Such a classical model may indeed require nonlocal interactions and they would violate the principles of special relativity.",0_0
"on Friday, January 8th, 2010 at 6:22 am and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"As the CO 2 content of the air rises, most plants respond by increasing their photosynthetic rates, which results in greater leaf carbohydrate concentrations, including starch. It has been suggested that starch accumulation may signal photosynthetic acclimation in response to growth in elevated CO 2 conditions. However, in the present study, transformed potatoes lacked the ability to accumulate starch, yet they still displayed reduced rates of photosynthesis. This observation suggests that rates of starch synthesis can influence rates of photosynthesis. Thus, as the CO 2 content of the air continues to rise, the enhanced ability of plants to synthesize starch from increased photosynthetic products should allow them to maintain their higher rates of photosynthesis, which ultimately should stimulate their growth and biomass production.",3_3
"The same abhorrence of rapid change that fuels working-class fear of liberal progressivism works against rapid conservative political action. In that 1964 article, Reagan argued that conservatives lost not because of their ideas, but because liberals portrayed them ""as advancing a kind of radical departure from the status quo."" Today's Tea Party enthusiasts have displayed a desire for rapid transformation of public policy nearly as strong as that of the liberal progressives. Moving too far, too fast down this road will alienate the very voters who just came over to the GOP.",0_0
"This makes it absolutely clear what Bryson was referring to. As far as India is concerned, global warming brings less drought, not more.",1_7
"They observed global temperatures from oceans (blue curve) is well below the disaster scenario since over a decade, and temperatures globally by country inrknat (brown line) is below then half a decade. And P latter rs sliding the observed sea temperatures in the vein lgsta nivn p forecast. Shaviv believes that now is the time to totally scrap the disaster scenarios and adjust down klimatknsligheten.",0_0
"The authors also offer a valuable and complete history of environmentalists' fraudulent global warming arguments, and they explain how there is a lack of scientific evidence available to support the claim humans are responsible for catastrophic global climate change. Moore and White also show how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) misled the Supreme Court concerning the safety of carbon dioxide in order to get the Court to declare it a pollutant, which allows EPA to have the power to regulate it.",5_2
Examiner Columnist Ron Arnold is executive vice president of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise.,0_0
"Empirical evidence does not lend much support to the notion that climate is headed precipitately toward more extreme heat and drought. The drought of 1999 covered a smaller area than the 1988 drought, when the Mississippi almost dried up. And 1988 was a temporary inconvenience as compared with repeated droughts during the 1930s Dust Bowl that caused an exodus from the prairies, as chronicled in Steinbecks Grapes of Wrath.",1_7
"Climate change is real, just like Al Gore, James Hansen and the worlds other climate alarmists vehemently contend. In fact, its the norm. And in the most recent manifestation of this change, Earths climate has shifted over the past century or so from the coldest period of the current interglacial to a significantly warmer state, but one that may still not have achieved the level of warmth characteristic of the prior Medieval Warm Period or the earlier Roman Warm Period?? Read More",2_1
"Johanna As jamspid pointed out, what on earth have Boko Haram or ISIS got to do with Bush and Blair? I doubt that most of their members have ever heard of Bush and Blair, or their doctrine.",0_0
"Spooky close if they are not the same. Yet Ive had my mother tell me that my cousin looked just like me, so it happens.",0_0
"Here we have a Professor of Systematic Music (makes me wonder what Unsystematic Music sounds like probably rock n roll) speaking as an expert for the scientific consensus on climate. This, of course, should simply be ridiculed. If you accept Consensus Climate Science, and you are a musicologist, you must acknowledge that you have no right to your opinion. You are not a climatologist; you are not an ethicist. You have nothing at all to say that anyone other than a Denier of Consensus would listen to.",5_2
"It was considerably warmer than the present in nearly all of the past 600 million years; warmer by up to 6 Celsius degrees in each of the past four interglacial warm periods over the past 650,000 years; warmer in at least 7500 of the past 11,400 years since the end of the last Ice Age; warmer in the Holocene, Bronze Age, Roman and medieval warm periods, warmer (in the most reliably-recorded parts of the world, such as the US and the Arctic) in the 1930s.",2_1
"Schneiderman complains that Exxon noted that ""switching over to renewables by the end of this century would raise energy costs"" substantially, and that the company ""essentially ruled out the possibility that governments would adopt climate policies stringent enough to force it to leave its reserves in the ground, saying that rising population and global energy demand would prevent that."" The smoking gun he points to is Exxon's statement that ""Meeting these needs will require all economic energy sources, especially oil and natural gas.""",0_0
"The two Chinese researchers determined that ""the ~21-year, ~115-year and ~200-year periodic oscillations in global-mean temperature are forced by and lag behind solar radiation variability,"" and they report that the ""relative warm spells in the 1940s and the beginning of the 21st century resulted from overlapping of warm phases in the ~21-year and other oscillations,"" noting that ""between 1994 and 2002 all four periodic oscillations reached their peaks and resulted in a uniquely warm decadal period during the last 1000 years,"" which latter time interval represents the approximate temporal differential between the current Global Warming Period and the prior Medieval Warm Period.",2_1
"The updated outlook also lowers the overall expected storm activity this season. The outlook now includes a 70 percent chance of 6-10 named storms (from 6-11 in the initial May Outlook), of which 1-4 will become hurricanes (from 3-6 in May), and 0-1 will become major hurricanes (from 0-2 in May). These ranges ??? which include the three named storms to-date (Ana, Bill, and Claudette) ??? are centered well below the seasonal averages of 12 named storms, 6 hurricanes and three major hurricanes.",1_7
"At the climate activist website Desmogblog, writer and author Chris Mooney says he is appalled at this Washington Postarticle for what he regards as its tarring of climate scientists as radicals or political operatives.",0_0
"Environmentalists are therefore de facto blocking or hindering the construction of rigasificatori, although the country does not have the certainty to meet the needs of natural gas and energy for the coming winter. Methane can carry only in liquid form, with the tankers, then serve rigasificatori to return it to gaseous form. Plants are very inexpensive, non-polluting, and very safe. And since 1930 that an accident does not occur in thousands of rigasificatori around the world. Blocking of rigasificatori no scientific reasons, only unattivit policy, to make necessary a colossal investment on solar power plants, which will never have an economic advantage.",0_0
"About 40% of U.S. grown corn is used for ethanol, not food or livestock feed. When the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) examined the effect of ethanol subsidies on food prices, it found that 10% to 15% of price increases could be attributed to ethanol subsidies. Food accounts for 16% of all expenditures for those in the lowest fifth of income-earners, so the ethanol mandate is highly regressive.",0_0
"UPDATE : My apologies to those who are new to this discussion. I tried to limit the time of the video and that meant I couldnt include a detailed explanation of the mechanisms that cause the natural warming of the oceans. However, I should have provided links to additional information in the post. The primary mechanism for the natural warming of the global oceans is El Nio-Southern Oscillation. It is discussed in detail in the following two-part video series titled The Natural Warming of the Global Oceans. Links: Part 1 and Part 2 .",2_1
The really funny thing is that Holman's complaint about my,0_0
"Changes in Arctic and Antarctic annual mean sea ice extent (a) and volume (b) at the end of the 21st century. For each model the left (right) bar represents Arctic (Antarctic). The model FGOALS-g1.0 was excluded from the model average. The extent projections, which is what Live Science are discussing, doesn't seem to make the case.",0_0
"Alexander said over the last 150 years, data shows surface temperatures have increased and the associated impacts on biological and physical systems have become more evident. Some of the more notable changes that have gradually occurred are sea level rise, shifts in climatic zones, changes in precipitation patterns and increases in frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events like droughts, floods and storms.",0_0
"It therefore follows, that if the alarmists predict 0.2C warming per decade then, when we get a pause, it proves that there is sufficient natural variation to have caused all the post global cooling scare warming. Therefore:",2_1
"The following statement in the Economist article bears repeating: But at their best, religion and environmentalism interconnect in a much more positive way. The Creation Care movement among Evangelicals is a good example of this.",0_0
Could This Email To Paul Ceglia Cost Mark Zuckerberg 50% of Facebook?:,0_0
"The other was a dissertation written by a geography student, studying for the equivalent of a masters degree, at the University of Berne in Switzerland that quoted interviews with mountain guides in the Alps.",0_0
"So, the long and short of it is, if youre looking for a job, you might want to consider Texas.",0_0
"Lucky turned out to be a great dog. On his walks he played alternately with a plastic, squeaky boomerang (boomy) and a ball. Everyone who knew him liked him, and he liked them too. He didnt like most other dogs, not helped by the fact that he was attacked by two Staffordshire Bull Terriers as a young dog. For 12 years he gave us the unconditional love, entertainment and companionship. So many happy memories.",0_0
"Since 1998, the warmest year of the twentieth century, temperatures have not kept up with computer models that seemed to project steady warming; theyre perilously close to falling beneath even the lowest projections.",1_4
This is referring to the Wilkins Aerodrome which is located about 70km SE of Casey Base and is scraped out of glacier ice about 700 metres thick.,0_0
"This past decades net decline in terrestrial productivity illustrates that a complex interplay between temperature, rainfall, cloudiness, and carbon dioxide, probably in combination with other factors such as nutrients and land management, will determine future patterns and trends in productivity, Wickland said.",0_0
"The worldwide crash of green energy companies New apparent record for govt. waste: $24.4 million per 'green job' Obama's green energy scorecard: $2.7 billion in losses After blowing $593 million on failed solar companies, Obama plans to blow $622 million more on new solar companies The Cellulosic Ethanol Debacle Nevergreen Solar: Taxpayers blow another $58 million on 'green' energy Latest Obama green energy scandal wastes $142 million from taxpayers Latest Obama half-billion-dollar green energy debacle More",4_1
There has been a good deal of research over the years aimed towards assessing the impacts of human health from air pollution from coal-fired utilities. And empirical relationships have been developed which attempt to link atmospheric levels of various air pollutants to changes in the human mortality rate. The sensitivity portrayed in these concentration-response curves varies largely from research study to research study.,0_0
"On the path to this noble target, adult citizens are being treated like children. The program is in easy language that is especially designed for people with learning difficulties, reading impairments and speech problems, and so verily pushes infantilism to a new high.",0_0
"Britain's Future Lies With America, Not Europe",0_0
"Clearly, even if the observed uncertainty was as small as concluded byLevitus et al 2012 any attempt tousethe multi-decadal climate model predictions to provide an explantion forthis warming at depth (even if real)is not robust scientifically.",5_1
"Notwithstanding the failure of models to get the tropical troposphere right, when discussing fidelity to temperature trends the SPM of the AR5 declares Very High Confidence in climate models (p.15). But they also declare low confidence in their handling of clouds (p. 16), which is very difficult to square with their claim of very high confidence in models overall. They seem to be largely untroubled by trend discrepancies over 10-15 year spans (p. 15). Well see what they say about 55-year discrepancies.",5_1
"The second bad assumption is that the relationship between species number and geographic area is linear or exponential, implying that an infinite increase in area would result in an infinite increase in the number of species. But research by Dr. Patrick Kangas at the U. of Maryland found as you continue to increase area, the numbers level off and there is a sort of diminishing return to area increase. (Center for the Study of American Business report on Endangered Species Act, p.40)",0_0
Very interesting new poll from Rasmussen that suggests a significant reversal in public opinion over the causes of global warming.,0_0
"In my own research, I have been unable to find a substantiated report of a child being killed or seriously injured by a contaminated treat picked up in the course of trick-or-treating.",0_0
"High volume pumps from as far as Nottingham have been deployed to tackle the huge wood chippings blaze, which started on Monday morning",0_0
"So, while we really dont know which storm had higher winds, we do know that more affluent societies are much less affected by even the strongest storms. As Indur Goklany, (who writes frequently for Cato) has pointed out, if left to develop, the entire world will be much more resilient to climate change than it would be if the ineffective policies to stop it slowed economic growth.",4_2
"However little Eli Rabbitt seems to have quickly retreated from the USHCN garden and decamped overseas, where his latest carrot pick is the De Bilt weather station in Holland, a site that is incinerator and barbecue free. The De Bilt station has moved a couple of times in the past century, but each move is relatively well-documented; there are photos not just of the current location but of the location in the 1930s and even the 19th century.",0_0
"Solomon tried to correct misinformation he found on Wikipedia regarding S. Fred Singer, a preeminent U.S. scientist who taught at the University of Virginia, served in the U.S. Department of Commerce and at the Environmental Protection Agency, and for five years was vice-chair of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Oceans and Atmospheres. Singer has published dozens of papers and several books on atmospheric science and global warming in particular.",0_0
"17 See, for example, Corporate Environmental Enforcement Council, NSR Enforcement White Paper, May 23, 2001, p. 25.",0_0
"On 22 September, the winter maximum ice sheet extent across the Antarctic reached its greatest area since satellite measurement of the ice extent began in 1979 .",1_1
Myths of Global Warming Cited as Kyoto Nears,0_0
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negative trends) between 500 and 700 hPa? No models with significant surface,0_0
"Below is a link to an awful piece by Legates. He told me he is a writing a paper, but",0_0
"Meanwhile, the Indians are just not going to tell the EU how much they emit:",0_0
"HEM is based on well-established economic theory as well as historical data, and contains a variety of modules that interact with each other for long-term forecasting. In particular, HEM focuses on the interactions among (1) the supply, conversion, and demand of energy in its various forms; (2) American energy and the overall American economy; (3) the American energy market and the world petroleum market; and (4) current production and consumption decisions as well as expectations about the future. These 12 modules are:",0_0
The year 2007 is now very likely to become RSS MSU's 9th warmest year on record which really means one of the coldest years of our times. It will end up colder than all other years in the 21st century so far as well as 1998 (by 0.4 ??C) and 1995. We explained that 2006 was very cold but 2007 will be shown as 0.1 ??C colder.,1_3
"Within a mere nine years, global warning could produce temperature spikes so elevated as to generate massive cat mortality? The idea is so ludicrous that I hardly know where to begin. Domestic cats, as anyone who has spent any time around them surely understands, are heat-seeking creatures; native to the Middle East and North Africa, they thrive in the worlds hottest environments. Yet Oreskes and Conway expect us to believe that within a few decades normal temperatures across much of the West will exceed the tolerance threshold of the house cat? ...",0_0
"During recent years, there have been a number of Category 4 hurricanes that might have only been classified as weak hurricanes or even tropical storms if they had taken place at the same location during the late 1940s and early 1950s.",1_7
Activists to rally in favor of Wis high-speed rail:,0_0
"Well, apparently Mr Watts was keen to trump Richard Muller, from Berkeley University, who was about to announce that he had an article ready for publication. But Professor Mullers article proved that not only were temperatures rising, and the official temperature record accurate, but that the temperature rise could be attributed to carbon dioxide.",0_0
"Fenton also was a major force in the silicone breast implant scare, serving as the PR firm to the trial lawyers in implant litigation.",0_0
But consider the alarmism in Houghtons comment about why we need to deal with climate change.,5_2
"the mixtures of birds that lived together were different from anywhere in the world today. Birds exotic to Britain, such as species normally expected in the tundra to the north (like skuas, and hawk owls), the Mediterranean to the South (like alpine swifts) or the Eastern steppes (like demoiselle cranes and long-legged buzzards) lived together with birds expected in the region today (such as grey herons and wood pigeons).",0_0
"Jumping back and forth from dramatic claims to scientific fact, Climate Hustle helps thinking people see past the fear mongering of the current climate change narrative and examine the global warming evidence for themselves.",0_0
"By Dave Rutledge, Climate Etc. Aug 10, 2015",0_0
"In the end, Briffa and other members of the band overcame their doubts and settled on their dogma. With the help of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the highest climate change authority of all, they published what became the icon of their movement the hockey stick graph. This icon showed temperatures in the last 1,000 years to have been stable no Medieval Warm Period, not even the Little Ice Age of a few centuries ago.",0_0
"This raises some interesting questions: Why would anyone go to the trouble of creating an artificial persona, only to engage in correspondence under the pretence of being a real person?",0_0
"The union's clout can be assessed by several measures: the sheer size of its membership, its spending on campaigns and lobbying, and the depth and breadth of its connections with New York's ruling elite. With well over 300,000 members in Massachusetts, Maryland, Florida, Washington, D.C., and New York (where over half of that total resides), 1199SEIU is the largest union local in the nation, and possibly the world. (The union's current name stems from 1199's merger with the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, in 1998. For brevity's sake, we will refer to that entity as ""1199"" throughout this article, except when referring to the national SEIU.)",0_0
"A paper published today in the journal Geophysical Research Letters finds that decrease in sea ice leads to an increase in cloudiness in the Arctic. Clouds increase the reflection of sunlight (albedo) thereby cooling the Earth and acting as a strong negative feedback to global warming. Although diminshed sea ice decreases albedo, the resulting increase in cloudiness may act as a natural homeostatic mechanism to stabilize Arctic temperatures.",3_1
place quickly and chose wisely for the top spot.,0_0
"Meanwhile, China's emissions jumped by 123% over the past decade and now exceed those of the U.S. by more than two billion tons per year. Africa's carbon-dioxide emissions jumped by 30%, Asia's by 44%, and the Middle East's by a whopping 57%. Put another way, over the past decade, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions ""about 6.1 billion tons per year ""could have gone to zero and yet global emissions still would have gone up.",4_2
"Remember, too, that Garnaut's recommendation is that the tax rate should be increased at 4 per cent a year, which would result in a cost doubling in less than 20 years.",0_0
CU satellite sea level data for San Francisco also shows no rise in sea level.,1_6
"The proposed act included a $7 billion annual ""linked fee"" added to gasoline prices to ""improve U.S. transportation inefficiency."" The plan was to have producers and importers of gasoline and jet fuel purchase non-tradable carbon allowances paid according to a fixed price established by trading auction rates. While the language of the bill wasn't actually referred to as a linked fee or tax, you probably wouldn't recognize any difference when paying the added cost at the gas pump.",0_0
The consumer impact of America's massive land and petroleum resource lockdowns is much higher.,0_0
"That is because proposition 2 is far from settled. The notion that a long-term stable system can be dominated by very high positive feedbacks offends the intuition of many natural scientists, who know that most natural processes (short of nuclear fission) are dominated by negative feedbacks. Sure, there are positive feedbacks in climate, just as there are negative feedbacks. The key is how these net out. The direct evidence that the Earths climate is dominated by strong net positive feedbacks is at best equivocal, and in fact evidence is growing that negative feedbacks may dominate, thus greatly reducing expected future warming from greenhouse gasses.",3_1
"And as Jonathan was alluding to, researchers do sometimes disagree. And that's confusing sometimes for the public because scientists are just to supposed to work with the facts, right. We just deal with facts. Unfortunately, it's the interpretation of those facts that we tend to disagree on. And I thought it might be useful to point out that in areas of science that are controversial that there are other things which influence a scientist's judgment. And I listed some of them that I have personally seen from other scientists including myself -- okay, I'm not saying I'm immune to these influences.",0_0
"When we look at the temperature rise over the 130 years we have physically measured, being not sophisticated enough as a species to measure and record temperature accurately only 130 FN YEARS AGO!!!! (sorry lost my temper again). We see a total maximum peak min to max of 1C. Realistically, what does this mean in comparison with the huge spikes we see in the ice core record, and the fact that only 3000 years ago, people were living in animal skins where now we only have glaciers!!",0_0
"Inadequacies of modeling the Hadley Cell, a major mechanism in producing global weather and climate, are enough to invalidate the models and cause the failed predictions. The IPCC claim 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 GHG concentrations. In IPCC jargon Very likely means more than 90 percent certain, but inadequate modeling of the Hadley Cell alone makes that a false claim.",5_1
"But in the following comment Ian Castles argues that most experts would consider the IPCCs more alarming predictions to be exaggerated, and that the Panel has failed to consider possibilities that would result in much slower growth in carbon dioxide concentrations.",5_2
"Sure enough, his latest characteristically malevolent hatchet-job is entitled Roy Spencers Catholic Online Climate Myths . It appears next to a sidebar headed Most-Used Climate Myths. You will also find plenty of other alleged Myths at Cook The Books website, including Monckton Myths.",0_0
"The classification of oil from fracking as unconventional oil shows clearly the ludicrous nature of the dividing line when we are discussing peak oil. Regarding the putative peak, why is oil from a horizontal well unconventional and oil from a vertical well conventional? It is all gotten by technology, and none of it is any more unconventional than the drilling of the first oil well, a most unconventional act ...",0_0
"It appears that Katharine Hayhoe still does not get it. When the Director of the Texas Techs Climate Science Centre was interviewed on local TV , she had this to say:",0_0
"* This survey, like the previous one, provides us with a fascinating ANATOMY OF A SCIENTIFIC DELUSION. When asked, majorities of climate scientists say they do not believe the scientific claims that underlie the theory and predictions of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change, yet large majorities of those same scientists say they nevertheless believe in the theory and its predictions. This cognitive dissonance is, I believe, what gives rise to and sustains popular mass delusions.",5_2
"4. ""Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,"" Paul Ehrlich confidently declared in the April 1970 Mademoiselle. ""The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.""",0_0
"due to the reasons I elaborate upon on the attached 3-page letter which is an attachment to this document, I urge you deprive me of the badges of honor from the military operations of the Army of the Czech Republic performed under the NATO umbrella.",0_0
"""All the carbon emissions reductions throughout the world are effectively canceled out by China's increase.""",4_2
The resource is called the science br be used sparingly. Society br ensure that scientifically proven knowledge is used to inform decision making. Decisions br be the result of a careful vgning of options and social values as.,0_0
"""The presently available palaeotemperature proxy data records do not support the assumption that late 20th century temperatures exceeded those of the MWP in most regions.....Previous conclusions (e.g., IPCC, 2007) in the opposite direction have either been based on too few proxy records or been based on instrumental temperatures spliced to the proxy reconstructions. It is also clear that temperature changes, on centennial time-scales, occurred rather coherently in all the investigated regions Scandinavia, Siberia, Greenland, Central Europe, China, and North America.....Assumptions that, in particular, the MWP was restricted to the North Atlantic region can be rejected.""",2_1
"The issue here is not where you stand on any one of these particular issues, but who gets to decide them: us, or the rest of the world ""voting"" in our decision making. This is the core issue of American sovereignty and the threat to it represented by the Obama worldview.",0_0
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"The Arctic ice cap grows each winter as the sun sets for several months and shrinks each summer as the sun rises higher in the northern sky. Each year the Arctic sea ice reaches its annual minimum extent in September. It hit a new record low in 2012. This summers low ice extent continued the downward trend seen over the last thirty-four years. Scientists attribute this trend in large part to warming temperatures caused by climate change. Since 1979, September Arctic sea ice extent has declined by 13.7 percent per decade. Summer sea ice extent is important because, among other things, it reflects sunlight, keeping the Arctic region cool and moderating global climate.",1_1
"9. James Gustave Speth, Red Sky at Morning (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004), 7.",0_0
Sunspot history suggests recent climate change not due to solar trends,0_0
"After Obama spent the day yesterday bragging about how he won, I got this E-mail from the White House titled No Winners :",0_0
"The absurd hand-wringing and washed-out arguments relating to water shortage are challenged by a new film produced by WORLDwrite . Here is a trailer from the film, which puts the mealy-mouthed effluent from the panic-mongering misanthropists into context.",0_0
"climates, especially at regional scales. We conclude by discussing the value of",0_0
> >> >- the 2nd sentence is ambiguous; rainfall varies by +-40% You I,0_0
"The uncertainty in the science makes it difficult for policy-makers to see how much investment is justified, and what kind, says van Scheltinga. Were only beginning to understand how the delta works but we know enough to do a bit better, says Goodbred.",0_0
"Plant modifications that resolve production bottlenecks and allow for higher rates of utilization of other plant components or units are discouraged when NSR is interpreted to include the extended or aggregate effects of each modification, even when the intended modification reduces emissions, improves plant safety, or improves energy and resource efficiency. Two examples of this effect are:",0_0
"The most meaningful lesson from the unusually cold and snowy recent winters is that global warming is so minor as to be barely noticeable. When temperatures rise merely a fraction of one degree, the polar ice caps wont melt, the oceanic conveyor belt will not shut down, alligators will not take up residence in Montana, cats will not start living with dogs , and winters will not suddenly disappear. We will still have very cold and snowy winters. We will still have hot summers. Your grandfather will still claim that to make it to school each day he walked barefoot through the snow, uphill each way .",0_0
"He's not arguing that climate science is a waste of time; rather, he sees value in studying the climate so we can better adapt to change whether it's toward warmer or colder climate conditions;",0_0
"The tornado count excluding EF-0 was 412 last year, making it the 12th lowest year since 1970. (Although tornado records go back to 1950, many tornado experts, such as McCarthy & Schaeffer, regard the data prior to 1970 as unreliable).",1_7
statement. Since that day I have tried to include it whenever I can.,0_0
"So, about as far as I'm willing to go in predicting the future is to trust in Newton's observation that objects in motion tend to remain in motion, and so, I'd guess we can expect similar changes for the next decade as we saw for this last one, which would be about 3 tenths of a degree Fahrenheit. Now, if that were to hold all the way through 2100, we'd see another 3 degrees Fahrenheit added to the global averageprobably not a global catastrophe, but regionally, probably enough to cause serious problems.",0_0
"The original Czech version of the book: Modr, nikoli zelen planeta. Co je ohro?eno: klima nebo svoboda?, Doko?n, Prague, 2007. The English version: Blue Planet in Green Shackles. What is Endangered: Climate or Freedom? Competitive Enterprise Institute, Washington D.C., 2008. The book has until now been published in 16 countries in 16 different languages. Last year, I put together an additional collection of my texts devoted to this subject Blue Planet Endangered, Doko?n, Prague, 2009 (in Czech language).",0_0
"Add to that the fact that more than 2/3rds of the worlds stations (most rural) have dropped out and or are often missing monthly data, 69% of the first nearly 600 US stations evaluated by Anthony Watts surface stations.org are poor or very poorly sited with only 4% meeting official standards and no changes were made for the known biases of new instrumentation.",5_1
Figure 2 High Resolution Bathymetry of Southern Lake Michigan (GLRP),0_0
"Before they mature and can fly locusts proceed through various stages and can be attacked most easily when they are ""hoppers' the stage before flight. Once locusts mature and can swarm, only crop-duster-style spraying of massive amounts of insecticide can stop them, which is expensive too much for these poor nations. Chad and Algeria have been hit by swarms and all their domestic politicians could fund, with the help of the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation, was occasional aeroplane spraying. But Cape Verde, Senegal, Mauritania, Libya and Niger have all had massive hopper presence and could have significantly reduced the future swarms, but they couldn't afford to do very much.",0_0
"Expand free trade for energy sources. Owners of energy resources should be allowed to seek the best options for selling their products and assets. In a similar vein, consumers should be free to choose the supplier that offers the best combination of price, quality, and convenience. Freedom to trade is one of the great strengths of the American economy. The federal government should treat energy sources like all other goods that companies trade regularly, and lift restrictions on energy exports and imports.",0_0
"The five researchers report that (1) ""the simulated relationship between changed annual rainfall amounts and the number of rain days or their intensity varies strongly from one model to another,"" that (2) ""the climate models' simulations do not show any consensus in the trends of the annual rainfall amount over the West African Sahel during the 21st century, even when they are run under the same climate change scenario at a high spatial resolution,"" and that (3) ""some changes do not correspond to what is observed for the rainfall variability over the last 50 years."" What it means",5_1
"The authors write that the response of low-level clouds has long been identified as ""a key source of uncertainty for model cloud feedbacks under climate change,"" citing the work of Bony and Dufresne (2005), Webb et al . (2006), Wyant et al . (2006) and Medeiros et al . (2008). And they state that ""the ability of climate models to simulate low-clouds and their radiative properties"" plays a huge role in assessing ""our confidence in climate projections.""",5_1
"This is not borne out by the known major aberrant events, however. They show that the Earth system is quite tolerant to large swings in atmospheric CO 2 concentrations. Furthermore, even when perturbed by sizable injections of greenhouse gases, be it CO 2 or the more potent CH 4 , the climate recovers fairly rapidly (at least in geological terms). History also indicates that equatorial temperatures do not rise significantly when the globe warms, rather the majority of the warming is seen at higher latitudes and the poles. This makes senselife has gotten on marvelously with much higher temperatures than today and no ice sheets at the poles.",3_1
"Climate guru puts ""global warming' on ice",0_0
"El Nio events, using NINO3.4 sea surface temperatures (not anomalies) are in phase with the seasonal cycle in the eastern tropical Pacific, the cold tongue region, for the evolution and secondary decay portions of the events. The seasonal peak and decay of the El Nio are in phase with the late year cycle in the western equatorial Pacific. La Nia events appear to simply exaggerate the normal seasonal cycle in the eastern tropical Pacific.",0_0
"Heres a short editorial by Dr. Pat Michaels, former Virginia State Climatologist:",0_0
"Oh, and whom do we have to thank for funding this study? The postscript tells us it was supported by NASA through contract 1206715 administered by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. What is NASA doing funding a study into the benefits of reducing the population? Who knows?",0_0
"Although the architects of the Paris Treaty expect much of the climate finance to come from private funds, little of that would be raised without substantial seed money from ""public coffers."" There is virtually no chance President Trump would ask Congress to shell out tens of billions to the Green Climate Fund.",0_0
"But Dr. Jones went even further recently. He said in The Independent newspaper that the changes in 2003 could not be accounted for by natural climate variability, and can be attributed to global warming caused by human actions. ""The temperatures recorded in Europe were out of all proportion to the previous record,"" he said. To make such an unequivocal statement is not only unscientific, but smacks of desperation. The Kyoto Protocol is floundering without Russian support, and with growing European business resentment of the cost of compliance, the climate alarmists are in danger of losing the battle. It is therefore not surprising that they are resorting to such extremism. We are approaching the end game for this Protocol and with it, hopefully, the end of policy driven by climate alarmism.",5_2
There's a rumour circulating in Washington that President Bush will use his State of the Union address next month to announce a new initiative on global climate change.,0_0
"Internationally, no third party institutions exist to enforce agreements, and nations differ widely in their interest in restricting GHG emissions. Therefore, high transaction costs will attend efforts to reach and maintain broad GHG controls. So far, those transaction costs have blocked agreement, and there seems little reason to expect that these constraints will soon vanish.",0_0
"As one underlying theme of the sessions, the top U.N. bosses seemed to be grappling often with how to cope with the pesky issue of national sovereignty, which according to the position papers, anyway continued to thwart many of their most ambitious schemes, especially when it comes to many different kinds of ""global governance.""",0_0
"5) UK Government Begins To Shift Freeze Blame Onto Science Community BBC News, 19 December 2010",0_0
"Today's Rimland is a 400-mile wide amphibious area. In contrast to 1904, the Heartland today is an empty shell, and not just because of Russia's demographic decline. In China, the population is deserting the Heartland and moving to the coast. Worldwide, today's Rimland is both leaner and meaner than a century ago; no longer the ""buffer zone of conflict"" described by Mackinder or Spykman, this overpopulated Rimland, with 4 billion people living within 200-mile wide coastlands, is the ""epicenter of all conflicts.""",0_0
"Now that sound will only be a folk memory. As space shuttle Atlantis touches down for the last time, it closes out an era that began with John Kennedy's dedicating America to going to the moon and stretched through Alan Shepherd, John Glenn and Neil Armstrong to Christa McAuliffe and Mark Kelly.",0_0
"In other words, the craze for ""renewables"" is driven by religious zeal, not science or economics. Capturing, converting and transmitting energy from any source requires an infrastructure which involves construction, maintenance and eventual replacement, all of which require land disturbance, raw materials extraction and processing, energy and investment. There is no pure fountain from which to drink only limited options, each with its own upsides and downsides.",5_2
"Judge OKs extra releases for Reagan shooter, Hinckley:",0_0
"The heaviest snow yesterday hit northeastern Asia, which is suffering its worst winter weather for 60 years. More than 25 centimetres (10in) of snow covered Seoul, the South Korean capital the heaviest fall since records began in 1937.",1_3
There are emerging bipartisan coalitions on prison and NSA reforms,0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of the Center for Investors and Entrepreneurs John Berlau on how this reform will help struggling markets:,0_0
"The six Co-chairs of the three IPCC Working Groups and the IPCC Chair or his nominee, serving as a Science Board, would set the priorities for the selection of scholars and would make the final selection of scholars. This Science Board will be aware of the current science landscape, of the Gaps bothering the science and the national capacity, and have a developed / Developing country balance.",0_0
"In my hypothetical production forecast, I projected Green River oil shale production to reach 15 million BOPD by 2096. Am I being overly optimistic in projecting more than 15 million barrels per day (BOPD) of production from oil shales by 2100? Shell estimates that they could be producing 500,000 barrels per day from the Picenance Basin with a very small footprint using an in situ recovery process (5):",4_5
"There are no discernible trends in rainfall patterns. The average UK precipitation for 2002-11 is 1150mm p.a., and compares to the long term 1971-2000 average of 1126mm. There has been little change either in seasonal or geographical distribution.",0_0
"4. Chart of the Day IV Police Officer Deaths by Gunfire (above). According to data from the Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP) there were 31 US police officers killed by gunfire in the line of duty last year (this figure of 31 officers excludes the 4 K9 deaths and 4 Puerto Rican officers reported on the ODMP website). Except for 2013 when 26 US police officers were killed by gunfire (again excluding 4 K9 deaths and one officer in Puerto Rico), that makes 2015 the safest year for US police since 1887, and that's not adjusted for the increasing size of the US population. After adjusting for the US population, 2013 was the safest year in US history for America's law enforcement officers, followed by 2015 as the second safest year in US history. On the other hand, US police killed 1,200 citizens last year according to this source.",0_0
"The possibility is based on the idea that global warming will cause a freshening of the waters in the North Atlantic, so causing the Gulf Stream to weaken or even shut down. This would mean warmer waters would not be present in the North Atlantic, causing a drastic lowering of temperatures in the areas that rely on the Gulf Stream to maintain a temperate climate (temperate Great Britain is on the same latitudes as inhospitable Labrador in Canada).",0_0
"As politicians, consumers, and manufacturers fret over the price of oil, there's good news on the energy front: Natural gas production is booming from ""huge shale beds found throughout North America,"" reports The New York Times. The improving technology of underground horizontal drilling and fracturing has opened up trillions of cubic feet of gas that had formerly been thought unobtainable. And natural gas can also be used to run automobiles (after about $2,000 in conversion costs). These and other alternative methods of lowering fuel prices could dramatically reshape not only energy policy but the global economy.",4_5
"With winds like that, expect to see complete devastation as it makes landfall. That of course will be hyped into an AGW caused storm, just like Katrina. Al Gore and Bill McKibben are already testing lies language on Twitter. Bear in mind that we have a very short historical record of Typhoon strength, and any claims that this is the strongest storm ever need to be qualified with that fact. Nobody has any credible record of typhoon strength back more than a few decades.",1_7
"Klaus said that was a ""mistaken assumption"" and it was impossible to prevent future crises through regulatory interventions and similar actions by governments.",0_0
"Clearly, observed temperature trends are predicting a future temp that resembles the IPCC projection if CO2 was held constant - the actual trends are multiple times below the ""runaway"" and ""accelerating"" global warming that Obama and the IPCC still push.",5_2
"* Confidence in climate models based on their ability to causally relate 20th century temperature trends to trends in CO2 may well be misplaced, because such models do not agree on the sensitivity of global climate to increases in CO2 and are able to explain 20th century temperature trends only by making arbitrary and widely varying assumptions about the net cooling impact of atmospheric aerosols;",5_1
"The Czech media began to discuss an increasingly urgent issue recently raised by the prestigious Automotive News Europe magazine (ANE): the VW-owned Czech subsidiary, koda, is doing much better than the other brands in the corporation.",0_0
Elsners conclusions seem to be heavily influenced by the EF-5 tornadoes in 2011.,0_0
"Christopher Horner, Senior Fellow, Environmental Policy",0_0
"Global demand for oil is rising, as is its global price, as energy-hungry economies such as China, India and Brazil scour the earth for oil they know will be the energy of the present for some time to come.",4_5
<4923> Stott/MetO:,0_0
"CEI: Now that you're in the business of electoral politics, what do you make of John McCain's vote against the tax cut?",0_0
"While science can inform policymakers, it can't determine policy. Policymakers must do cost/benefit analysis, taking into account tradeoffs, such as balancing risks from climate change against those from poverty, and as Hans von Storch points out, ""judgments of the value of costs versus benefits is a highly subjective, value-laden calculation.""",0_0
"But one source from a major advocacy group said Wednesday that another option is for the Senate to pass a pared back energy measure now and then go to conference during a lame-duck session with the House-passed climate bill that includes greenhouse gas limits across multiple sectors of the economy. At that point, the source said, anything is possible.",0_0
Global Government: The Third Ring in the Climate Change Circus,0_0
Environmental organizations are the enemies of energy in America and worldwide. Without its provision third world nations cannot develop and the ability to provide the energy America needs is put in jeopardy.,0_0
"So when governments subsidise generation of energy, such as wind, wave and tidal so that the producer gets far more than the actual price of energy, as determined by the free market for energy, what this added cost represents is a higher energy usage in producing that energy source than economic energy sources.",4_2
Recouping cost of wind turbine may take more than a lifetime (Consumer Reports confirms micro-wind diseconomies),4_4
"Congress should respect Mississippi's ""right to develop"" vis- -vis the rest of the country. Mississippi's per capita income is just below $25,000, which is almost $9,000 less than the average American. That's 49th in the nation.",0_0
"Those who are interested in mathematical aspects of string theory and the newest twists and turns in topological string theory in particular should look at the KITP weblogs , especially",0_0
"John Cook, of Skeptical Science fame, has an article in The Age, in which he is very rude about Bob Carter :",0_0
It was the lowest temperature ever recorded in Cuba during the entire month of February.,0_0
Download the very readable 4.2Mb paper ???Testing an astronomically-based decadal-scale empirical harmonic climate model versus the IPCC (2007) general circulation climate models??,2_1
"34 Indur M. Goklany, supra note 8, p. 37.",0_0
Windows users rejoice the .wwf document format that just wont print is now available for use on PC.,0_0
"A second figure in the article (our Figure 2) caught our eye as well showing the drought reconstructions along a transect from New Mexico to Alberta. We have examined all six reconstructions, and we cannot find anything unusual going on in terms of drought frequency, duration, or variability. Every reconstruction shows that droughts in the past were every bit as severe as anything seen over the most recent 100 years. In many cases, the trend of the past 100 years is toward a moister regime, not the drier regime promised by the global warming advocates.",1_7
Early arrival of spring is a sure sign of global warming.,0_0
"The good news is the tax credits, which were included in the 2009 stimulus bill with support from President Barack Obama, only apply to the first 200,000 electric vehicles sold by each manufacturer.",0_0
"The weekly round-up will not be published today, due to a laptop that will. not. boot.",0_0
"Climate Depot, with the AGW of: are strongly disliked Marc Morano, has a very interesting genomgng of many so-called Tipping points as it warned from the clean. Fr apparently British Met Office just gone out with NNU a warning. We have 10 years on us to change VRT behavior, or else.",0_0
19. Is there a clear policy on climate change and CO2 emissions which makes sense based on our current knowledge?,0_0
"Unfortunately for them, front loaders remain unpopular with consumers. Today, they comprise less than 5 percent of the American market, and, despite heavy green hype over the last several years, DOE estimates that sales will increase only slightly. So, if most people don't want front-loading washing machines, what can Washington do, mandate them?",0_0
"And weve already seen the future of this in the U.S., which recently raised the social cost of carbon (SCC) estimate from $22/ton to $36/ton, which would have to be, almost certainly, the basis by which the initial tax rate would be set. The SCC was originally set at $21/ton in 2010, and its up to $36/ton only 3 years later a 67% increase.",0_0
"By Andrew Montford, Bishop Hill, Aug 10, 2015",0_0
"early statements because I expressed my opinion in several talks, mainly in",0_0
"It's a BBC news story, so it can't be stupid",0_0
"No wonder LOST supporters discourage full disclosure. Bernard Oxman of the University of Miami acknowledged that the text ``is amply endowed with indeterminate principles, mind-numbing cross-references, institutional redundancies, exasperating opacity and inelegant drafting.''",0_0
"""Be assured, ye faithful CBC masses, that there is no similarity whatsoever between this misguided and disoriented Taliban, that, but for the tragic coincidence that internationally revered Canadian Peacebringers crossed its path, would have detonated harmlessly in an explosion of chick peas and goat meat - and those brave militants who struggle heroically to evict Bush's fascist agents of BIG OIL from the Sacred Land Of Saddam.""",0_0
"Idso pointed out that there is a huge body of literature on the biological impacts of rising temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels that the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ignores. He emphatically stated that atmospheric CO2 is not a pollutant. In fact, increased levels of CO2 reduce the negative effects of a number of plant stresses including: high salinity, low light, high and low temperatures, insufficient water, air pollution, and protects against herbivores i.e. being eaten by animals and insects.",3_3
"Hantemirovs objection to my calculation was expressed in a threaded comment ) to my May 15, 2012, in which Hantemirov complained very angrily about my post as follows:",0_0
"So let's examine just how false and misleading are the ad campaigns produced by MoveOn.org, the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Environment Ohio, and the American Lung Association. Each advertisement equates abused children (including toddlers smoking, babies coughing, and even an infant being fed a spoonful of poison) with a vote to rein in the Environmental Protection Agency. And each ad also lacks a factual foundation.",0_0
"But even here in the U.S., which is Tornado Central for the world, 99 out of 100 thunderstorms do NOT produce tornadoes. Why is this?",0_0
"You may recall that CAIR was implicated in funding and supporting terrorist organizations, but it is stupid to think that Islamists are peaceful people. Islam is about conquest, then and now.",0_0
"Fortunately, I'd had major plumbing problems at my home that morning. I am not happy that I had to leave two plumbers in my house when I headed off to speak at the Keystone meeting, but dealing with the problems prevented me from reading the pages of research I'd printed out on John Podesta and his views on the Keystone pipeline. I read them later in the day, on the plane on the way to join my family for Christmas.",0_0
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"That average rates of environmental change in the oceans and on land are similar is not such a surprise, says Henry Gholz, program director in NSFs Division of Environmental Biology.",0_0
"If radiative transfer is the only process occurring in a planetary atmosphere, the surface temperatures of the planets would be determined solely by the net radiation at the top of the atmosphere. Thus, the equatorial regions would be warmest and the poles would be extremely cold. Whereas this is the case on Mars and to a lesser extent on Earth, other planets such as Venus and all of the Jovian planets have little or no equator-to-pole temperature gradients at the surface or deep in their interiors.",0_0
"China has become the worlds top manufacturing country by output, returning the country to the position it occupied in the early 19th century and ending the USs 110-year run as the largest goods producer.",0_0
Across on the Queensland coast the Bellenden Kerr range is an ecological island a refuge of a species assemblage from a cooler and moister Australia of 20 million years ago. A two degree rise would see the wet tropics ecosystem start to disappear with animals needing move upslope to beat the heat. With a 3.5 degree rise 65 species unique to the area would vanish into extinction. If you live at or reach the top of the mountain there is nowhere to go. These is debate about past warm periods but these may have been wetter than today so providing some relief. Can animals genetically adapt to their new environments? Unfortunately it appears that breeding cycles are too long. Some species dont even breed every year and only have a few offspring. The other combinative effect is a change in the cloud forest with the cloud base rising each year. This may not affect water supply to the forest but also affect the water supplies in the Cairns regions.,0_0
Double Standard: Warmist climate scientist fails to disclose conflict of interest funds from green billionaire,5_2
"A check of the underlying geological explanation for the formation of the SCB is classical geological speculation with no real data. The belief is that easily eroded Devonian shale overlay a more resistant Silurian dolomite (the same or a similar formation to the one that forms Niagara Falls). The glacial front scooped out this almost circular feature by differentially eroding the shale while in doing so leaving behind steep escarpment walls into the basin and a shallow plateau just to the north. The story seems somewhat weak to me and, as far as I can tell, no samples of what lies beneath have ever been obtained from the SCB. I really feel it would be a wonderful idea to find out just what happened to form the SCB.",0_0
"The science literature is always alive and well, and we are fairly certain you have not seen this classic in many places before visiting us at World Climate Report . The elephant seal ( Mirounga leonina ) has an interesting story to tell us about the Hockey Stick and the global temperatures over the past few thousand years. In a recent article in the very prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of scientists from the United States, United Kingdom, and Italy reveal an amazing discovery that further challenges the shape of the hockey stick.",5_1
"Professor Richard Ebeling is a leading authority on Austrian School economics and the freedom philosophy. He currently teaches at Northwood University in Midland, Michigan. This essay was originally published at EpicTimes .",0_0
The board points out that the only factor that humans can affect is the composition of the atmosphere. But the Earth has always been affected by the amount of energy coming from the sun that reaches the planet. And for several million years changes in the Earths orbit called Milankovitch cycles have caused cycles of global warming and cooling. Were humans changing the composition of the atmosphere millions of years ago?,2_1
"So, what next for the trougher? How long will his greencrap (TM David Cameron) interests sustain him? His portfolio has been looking a little grubby snce he leaned too far over the pigswill and fell in. Something of a toxic asset to any greenco still hoping to secure govt subsidy I would have thought.",0_0
"As a RC myself, it is not yet clear to me if the Vatican takes that view, or restricts the sin to the actual sexual intercourse between consenting adults of the same gender. Officially, they say thelatter is true. However, this would clearly contradict Matthew 5:27-28 :",0_0
"According to the researchers, the importance of their study is elevated by the large amount of previous work on the same interval and thus the extensive availability of supporting data and samples. Yet despite all this past research, the team was able to make a fundamental discovery about the global conditions in the ancient ocean and their impacts on life.",0_0
"Read More: Talks between climate Professors John Christy and Kerry Emanuel. Pehr Bjrnbom, Climate Enlightenment 2014-04-11.",0_0
Warmists propose that colder Northern Hemisphere winters since 1988 are due to global warming,0_0
"Move Polar thermometers onto airports, often military bases, and they warm up. Add a bunch of thermometers at tropical airports and you measure an increasing average of temperatures.",5_1
"In short, Congress never authorized the crediting scheme EPA now plans to implement. The CEIP makes the final CPP unlawful in a whole new way.",0_0
"Sedjo, Roger. ""Forests: Conflicting Signals,"" The True State of the Planet. New York: The Free Press (Division of Simon and Schuster, Inc.), 1995. (ed. Bailey, Ronald)",0_0
"This combination of factors reflects the view that while prosperity necessarily implies wealth, genuine prosperity is based on more than money alone for individual citizens and for individual countries. It also reflects an understanding that a growing economy is necessary, but not sufficient, for national prosperity and that without additional factorssuch as accountable governments, healthy citizens, strong social capital, and respect for civil and political libertiesa nation cannot achieve sustainable prosperity. See table 2 for the top ten countries by subindex.",0_0
28 out of 44 chapters (two-thirds) included at least one individual affiliated with the WWF,0_0
"In their guidance establishing what could be considered Best Available Control Technology (BACT) for regulating GHGs in the permitting process, EPA stated that fuel-switching from coal to natural gas would not and could not be considered BACT: Since NSPS are traditionally interpreted to set the BACT floor for permitting purposes, how can a NSPS that eliminates the ability to construct new coal units without the implementation of commercially infeasible carbon capture and storage (CCS) be consistent with EPAs previous guidance?",0_0
"For those wanting a closer look at the more recent wiggles and trends, the second graph starts in 1998, which was the start year used by von Storch et al (2013) Can climate models explain the recent stagnation in global warming? They, of course, found that the CMIP3 (IPCC AR4) and CMIP5 (IPCC AR5) models could NOT explain the recent slowdown in warming.",1_4
Except for the fact that every climatologist knows the earths temperature varies by 3 degrees C. From the ice core data it happens quite often. (Our current warming is 0.4. ),2_1
Mammoth Mountain - Long Valley Super Volcano,0_0
"Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Statistics Division. Coffee bean data downloaded on Feb. 27, 2013.",0_0
"As you can see from the data, the low tide was about 1.08 meter at 5:15PM local time.",0_0
"Current weather extremes across the Prairies are because of the cooling since 2000. The researchers are going to Chile, Argentina and Colombia. Why? These regions simply experience the same patterns associated with the Southern Hemisphere version of the Polar Front.",1_4
"There was also loss of livestock and similar levels of snowfall, Bunkers said.",0_0
"Suppose a company wasnt happy with their financial reports, so they subtracted money from past earnings and added them to present earnings. What would happen to the people in charge?",0_0
CEI Experts Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on the impulse to elevate scientific disagreement to the level of criminality:,0_0
Assume that human greenhouse-gas emissions are causing dangerous changes in the Earth's climate. What should we do about it? Public debate on climate change has focused almost solely on requiring large reductions in fossil-fuel energy consumption. Enter the journal Nature with a new feature article on another potential means of dealing with climate change.,0_0
Fax: +44 1344 85 4898,0_0
"Twenty years is a short time for an organization seeking to redeem the American Dream, but we've had a great start. At 20, CEI still operates in a target-rich environment. There are massive battles still to be waged and won. With your help, CEI will keep on fighting creatively and enthusiastically.",0_0
"The research showing the effects of carbon on marine organisms was published in the journal Geology in 2009. The study, led by Ries and co-authored with Anne L. Cohen and Daniel C. McCorkle, and found that crabs, lobsters and shrimp grew bigger more rapidly as carbon pollution increased. Chesapeake blue crabs grew nearly four times faster in high-carbon tanks than in low-carbon tanks.",3_3
"According to aerial surveys released by the Government of Nunavat this month, their numbers are at least 66% higher than expected. This region, which straddles Nunavat and Manitoba, is critical because its considered to be a bellwether for how well polar bears are faring elsewhere in the Arctic.",3_2
"The pressure on David Cameron to row back on subsidies for the sector, which are among the most generous in the world, has increased as austerity bites. Last year the number of fuel poor households, those where more than 10% of income goes on energy bills, was revealed to have hit 5.5m in 2009. The increase came after the average annual household bill hit 1,345, caused by high gas prices and green subsidies.",4_1
"But as the authors point out, this will only happen if the government allows leasing, drilling, and production on federal lands and does not restrict oil and gas exploration on state and private lands.",0_0
"Of course, not everbody sees it that way. In a recent letter urging Senators to vote against the Murkowski resolution, former EPA Administrator Russell Train contends that Congress did intend for EPA to regulate greenhouse gases through the Clean Air Act. His argument may be summarized as follows:",0_0
"He was asked about survival of corals in the warm Eocene. He said that corals would not go extinct in a warmer world, but suggested that they would survive as individuals and not form attractive reefs.",3_2
Tel: +44 1344 85 6653,0_0
"As I showed in a recent report for the Manhattan Institute, the Renewable Fuel Standard now imposes about $10 billion annually in additional fuel costs on motorists over and above what they would have paid for gasoline alone. Since 1982, when measured on an energy-equivalent basis (ethanol contains two-thirds as much heat energy as gasoline does), ethanol has always been more expensive than gasoline.",0_0
"For now, the Great Game at sea affects the Pacific more than the Atlantic, and as such has not directly affected NATO. But it certainly affects NATO's new global partners (Australia and Japan, Korea and New Zealand), who all happen to be maritime powers in the Pacific, and this is something that NATO will have to factor in when deciding the nature of its relationship with non-Atlantic powers. Global partnerships will have to be a two-way street, or there will be no global partnership.",0_0
"Let me re-state my view on these temperature series again: personally I have no doubt that temperatures are warmer today than in the 19th century. Are they warmer than the 11th century? I dont know. Is it warmer now than the 1930s? Probably, but the size of the difference seems to depend to an alarming extent on adjustments. Thats not to say that the adjustments are wrong, but, if one is going to rely on specific estimates of the difference, one needs to understand the nitty-gritty of the adjustments that underpin the conclusion and why the adjustments are so different between KNMI, GISS and GHCN.",5_1
"Speaking to an audience of government officials, business leaders and NGOs in Jakarta, the Nobel laureate cited devastating floods in Australia and Pakistan and last years drought in Russia as evidence that unchecked global warming threatened famine, poverty and wide-scale destruction",0_0
"Campaigns of misleading and harmful innuendo stifle science. Proposals that governments should require ""full disclosure"" would, if implemented, simply feed those who wish to suppress research that challenges their beliefs. As we know from experimental studies (e.g., see the recent book ""More Than You Wanted to Know""), mandatory disclosures are harmful. They are also inconsistent with the First Amendment.",0_0
"Hyperbole aside, Hansen cannot credibly claim to have been censored on global warming. He first sounded the climate alarm in 1988 congressional testimony and has since been quite outspoken on the topic. He gives more speeches than the agency's head, according to NASA.",0_0
"Facts : It has been 9 years since the last Category 3 hurricane (Wilma, 2005). Thats the longest periodby farin records that extend back to 1900. There have been no hurricanes during the Obama administration (Sandy was not technically a hurricane when it came onshore).",1_7
"The authors also refer to sodium data from Siple Dome ice cores that have been reported by Karl Kreutz, director of UMaines stable isotope laboratory. Changes in sodium appear to be associated with air pressure changes over the South Pacific.",0_0
"Our ability to forecast future system dynamics is severely constrained unless we can account for spatial nonlinearities, threshold behavior, and cascading effects . Even then, skillful predictions may not be possible .although we can identify vulnerabilities of systems to thresholds. Research will need to adopt approaches that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries to address system dynamics. Collaborative efforts among ecosystem ecologists and atmospheric scientists have made considerable progress in explaining broad-scale patterns and dynamics in the Earth System ., and human behaviors are increasingly being recognized by ecologists as integral to explaining system dynamics..More intensive cross-disciplinary studies that identify the pervasive role of cross-scale interactions are essential to understanding and forecasting changes in the various components of the Earth System. Our framework represents an initial step in seeking generalities among disciplines.",0_0
"According to NOAA, July 2012, the hottest month in Nebraska in recent years was still not as hot as either July 1934 or 1936. Comparison with 1934, for instance shows:",2_1
"More fundamentally, the Administration's estimate assumes that the supply of emission credits will be adequate to meet the demand. What if the actual demand outstrips the potential supply? To shed light on this and related matters, CEI invited Robert Reinstein, President of Reinstein Associates International, Inc., to address an audience of congressional staff, journalists, and industry representatives.",0_0
"Clinton announced that he would convene a White House Conference on Climate Change, ""to convince the American people and Congress that the climate change problem is real and imminent . . . to lay the scientific facts before our people to understand that we must act, and to lay the economic facts there so that they will understand the benefits and costs"" (New York Times, June 27, 1997).",0_0
"I am very thankful to all the support that I have received this week, from the Denizens, people on twitter, and email from colleagues.",0_0
"Wind cannot be relied upon to provide firm generation at full capacity coincident with peak demand. Wind might be capable of contributing to the peak demand requirements of the system at some times. However, this will rarely happen, and when it does it will be for brief periods. In these circumstances, the expectation of the number of households served will be just over 49,000. To calculate this it is necessary to introduce the factor representing the statistical expectation of wind production at peak demand times. This is capacity credit, or capacity value, which brings a number of considerations into play, but typical experience, and the figure used by the Texas system operator, is 8.7 per cent.",4_4
candidate Bill Clinton. I asked him how he would approach his first 100 days if,0_0
1974 was the record year for violent tornadoes year prior to 2011. It was also the peak year of the global cooling panic.,1_7
"There is only one true measure of a models value: whether or not it works. That it is theoretically sound, or that it uses pleasantly arcane and inaccessible mathematics, or that it matches our desires, or that only PhDs can understand it are all very nice things, but they are none of them necessary. Many complex models which are in use are loved and trusted because of these things, but they should not be. They should only be valued to the extent that they accurately quantify the uncertainty of the real-life stuff that happens (climate models anyone?).",5_1
"HEM is identical to the EIA's NEMS with the exception of the Commercial Demand Module. Unlike NEMS, this module does not make projections regarding commercial floor-space data of pertinent commercial buildings. Other than that, however, HEM is identical to NEMS.",0_0
"The Science and Public Policy Institute has published an analysis of the leaked climategate emails. This 149-page document takes the emails in chronological order and shows, with comments on each message, how science was perverted.",5_2
"There is no sign of any acceleration in sea level rise. What is noticeable is that sea levels fell sharply between 2005 and 2007, making the subsequent recovery greater. Since 2010 sea level has actually fallen by 58mm! Indeed, sea levels in 2013, (the latest available data) were actually lower than in 2005.",1_6
Study and debate on Probiotic for colic. Italian Study said it was good for colic in babies.,0_0
"An investor at the conference applauded Hearn's strong words. ""The industry has been too quiet on this issue,"" he said. ""It was about time someone stood up and really spoke out on Kyoto. We all want to help the environment, but this isn't going to help anyone"" (Financial Post, September 12, 2002).",0_0
"Theres a lot more activity at the proposed Woolworths site than Ive seen in many regions beforethe burrow activity at Maleny is just phenomenal, he said.",0_0
Forestland in the eastern half of the United States is increasing at a rate of one million acres a year.,0_0
New Book Brings Balance To Environmental Education,0_0
"So much for the Greater Middle East, then. When all is said and done, globalization has not so much led to the ""spiritualization of borders"" (as the flute-players would have it) as to the partial ""virtualization of geopolitics."" The Great Game and the Long War are global and generational, but the geopolitics of oil, of Islamic banking, of Islamic media, etc. only partly overlap, and the geopolitical mapping required is a multi-level mapping including both the real and the virtual worlds.",0_0
> >> >>Lasse,0_0
"She advocates the political position of the Administration in forcing reductions in carbon dioxide emission (CO2) by stating ""The United States has pledged reductions of 26 to 28% below 2005 levels by 2025..."" Of course, there is no such pledge by the American people and its representatives in Congress. The Administration's pledge is arbitrary and authoritarian. Ms. McNutt concludes with a description of the nine circles of Hell found in Dante's Inferno.",4_1
"Most of the sources tell us about the catastrophes that will cripple Asia, Australia, and any other random piece of the globe. You have seen this stuff 1,000 times in the past so you may imagine what they have to offer.",0_0
Figure 1 Modelled versus observed decadal global surface temperature trend 19792013,0_0
Greenland : The historical context shows that warming and cooling by several degrees is not without precedent. Recent warming is less than the 1930s. The statement of warming since the 1980s gives the false impression that this is unprecedented.,2_1
Humidity acts as a blanket. Water vapor is a potent greenhouse gas the is very active in the infrared part of the spectrum. It absorbs IR radiation emitted by the surface and re-emits IR radiation back to the ground...thus contributing to warming at the surface.,2_3
But this isnt about one ambitious politician smearing another ambitious politician. This is about the President of the United States a non-scientist making a grossly dishonest mischaracterization and analogy at the expense of expert scientists and then encouraging our nations best and brightest to shout down those scientists utilizing further dishonesty and McCarthyism to further political agendas. And the moment somebody questions the President about such reprehensible conduct no matter how calmly the question is asked the political left goes into conniptions about how appalling and reprehensible it is to disrespect the Office of the President of the United States in such a manner.,5_2
"I have previously mentioned that ISH surface data shows U.S. warming since 1973 (primarily a winter phenomenon, due to unusually cold winters in the 1970s), and a curious decrease in surface wind speed .",0_0
"But scientists use a very different methodology. Climate science is made out of thousands of distinct technical questions. The answers to many of them are completely unknown and mostly uncorrelated to each other. There's no ""big-picture"" way to answer all of them as long as people are doing science. So as long as one studies things that are close to the cutting edge, he will inevitably find scientists who will disagree about the answers to these technical questions. If a community agreed about all things they're researching, it would mean that they're not doing any real research: they're either participating in a parroting exercise to support a predetermined uniform ""ideology or motivation"", or they're just repeating true tautologies that have been previously established.",0_0
"Other researchers disagree with Soon's conclusion that the Middle Ages may have been warmer than the 20th century, noting that reconstructing the climate record is a matter of interpretation.",0_0
"Shouldn't EPA officials be prosecuted for imposing unnecessary regulations that cost billions of dollars, kill thousands of jobs, shut down electricity generation, reduce living standards, raise prices for food and construction projects, and actually lower health, welfare and life spans for numerous people?",0_0
"A paper published today in Atmospheric Science Letters effectively rules out volcanoes as the main cause of the 'pause' in global warming over the past 17 years. According to the authors, "" We deduce a global mean cooling of around 0.02 to 0.03K over the period 20082012. Thus while these eruptions do cause a cooling of the Earth and may therefore contribute to the slow-down in global warming, they do not appear to be the sole or primary cause.""",1_4
"The melt season in Greenland normally starts in mid-April, but this year is nearly a month late.",1_1
"Testimony before the Committee on Small Business, Hearing on the Kyoto Protocol",0_0
"Unfortunately for the climate science consensus experts, this latest release of NOAA temperature data confirms that they are essentially clueless when it comes to predicting regional and global temperature changes. Likewise, it also confirms that one of the scientists' favorite concepts - that human CO2 emissions are similar to a world ""control knob"" or thermostat for climate temperatures - is simply idiotic, not even plausible.",5_1
"From the National Science Foundation , more nuttiness from the reef alarmist Ove Hugh-Goldbergs sea-buddy John Bruno, who I encountered in Brisbane last year .",5_2
"As Britain suffered through its coldest December in a century, families were forced to choose between keeping homes warm and feeding their children nourishing meals thanks to climate policies that have forced extensive reliance on wind power and deliberately driven energy prices skyward.",4_1
"They're wrong about their numbers (many climate scientists disagree with them), but surely they believe it. If so, why worry? If they enjoy an ""overwhelming majority,"" why urge the president to prosecute the tiny fringe that opposes them?",5_1
THE SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE DATA FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD DOES NOT AGREE WITH THE ASSUMPTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS-DRIVEN GLOBAL WARMING,2_3
"Moderate progressives take the contrary view. Justice can be secure only if it is secure in the hearts and minds of the people, they believe. They place more faith in, and pay more deference to, voters' desires, not because they don't believe in progressive aspirations, but because they believe those goals can best be achieved through incremental measures that receive broad popular support.",0_0
"Urban heat islands and irrigated agriculture can inject false warming biases into instrumental data that are absent from proxy data taken from remote forests or sediment cores at the bottom of lakes, for example. Improper placement of temperature sensing equipment near local heat sources (e.g. air conditioning vents, asphalt parking lots, waste water treatment plants) also generates significant false warming signals, as retired meteorologist Anthony Watts documents in gory detail.",5_1
"Should we be alarmed about that? No. People experience far more dramatic climate change when they retire and move from Albany to Miami, or Chicago to Phoenix.",0_0
"The scientific method demands that theories be tested by empirical observation. By that test, the models are wrong. They therefore provide no rational basis to forecast dangerous human-induced global warming, and therefore no rational basis for efforts to reduce warming by restricting the use of fossil fuels or any other means.",5_1
"Chicken Little says, ""We've got big problems, we need a big government to solve them."" I say, ""We've got big problems, and government is the biggest.""",0_0
"The current temperature in Westminster, MD is 56.9 degrees. The previous cold record for the date was 57.02 degrees.",1_3
"In Praise of CO2: ""Earth is the Greenest its been in Decades, Perhaps in Centuries' Written by Marc Morano",3_3
"In an interview with ClimateWire ($) on 5th July, reported the same day by The Hill, U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Jonathan Pershing said foreign diplomats and ministers ask him ""at every turn"" how a Trump presidency might affect the Paris Climate Treaty. Citing new technologies, appliance efficiency standards, and congressional support for renewable energy tax credits, Pershing assures his counterparts ""there's more likely to be continuity no matter who's in office.""",0_0
"The Met Office, using data generated by a 33million supercomputer, claims Britain can stop worrying about a big freeze this year because we could be in for a milder winter than in past years. The new figures, which show a 60 per cent to 80 per cent chance of warmer-than-average temperatures this winter, were ridiculed last night by independent forecasters. Positive Weather Solutions senior forecaster Jonathan Powell said: ?It baffles me how the Met Office can predict a milder-than-average winter when all the indicators show this winter will have parallels to the last one. ?They are standing alone here, as ourselves and other independent forecasters are all predicting a colder-than-average winter. Nathan Reo, Daily Express, 28 October 2010",5_1
Winter weather advisory West Glacier area of Montana,0_0
Are we to believe that this is in contrast to Senators Rockefeller and Snowe? Rockefeller betrays his own clear interest in the same editorial:,0_0
"The flaw, which allows a zero day attack to be carried out on machines using IE9, surfaced over the weekend.",0_0
"Scientists reconstructed the 3,000-year history of fire by dating fire scars on ancient giant sequoia trees, Sequoiadendron giganteum, in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park . Individual giant sequoias can live more than 3,000 years.",0_0
"But as Gerlich and Tscheuschner observe, the science of climate change is fraught with uncertainties and unknowns that make a mockery of the predictive powers of laboratory computer models:",5_1
"Is it improper to label the people responsible for this costly, miserable catastrophe as ""eco-thugs""? And should we worry that the latest no-real-energy ""energy security"" proposal from the White House is telling us that President Obama has become America's ""Eco-thug in Chief,"" who will continue to peddle fraudulent science and nearly worthless renewable energy to further his agenda? It's worth pondering.",5_2
"He goes on to establish it completely and in all its parts, without any regard either to the great interests or to the strong prejudices which may oppose it; he seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board;",0_0
Correlating New York Sea Level To Global Temperature,0_0
"However, Im now fairly confident that cooling is more likely than warming over the next few years and as I looked to see when we might begin to see cooling, a rather ironic scenario occurred to me:",1_2
"No word yet on whether the ""environmental activists, local health",0_0
"We are told by progressives that climate scientists are gods, and that you may not question their words so please do not attempt to interpret the images below. They are above your pay grade.",0_0
"Heartland has lost the plot. I would think that the plot is really about preserving freedom and libertarian values, as Vaclav Klaus states. If so, then Heartlands tactics are flat out ineffective. Its hard to imagine Cato reacting to all this in the way that Heartland has. Heartland has become caught up in fighting relatively meaningless battles with fringe individuals on environmental side.",0_0
"The primary critics constitute an unlikely coalition: Dow, which spearheads a handful of companies likely to take a short term hit from higher industrial natural gas prices; and a cadre of anti-hydraulic fracturing liberals, who traditionally have opposed almost all measures that could lead to increased shale gas exploration.",0_0
There are variations of the myth that La Nia is the opposite of El Nio. One variation: the response of global surface temperatures to a La Nia is similar to an El Nio but of the opposite sign. Thats just as wrong as the original. The differences in the aftereffects of El Nio and La Nia are very obviousyou cant miss themespecially after the strong El Nio events that took place during satellite era of sea surface temperature records. Thats the 30-year period well discuss in this post.,0_0
"At the same fall meeting four years ago, Al Gore spoke to ten thousand assembled scientists. The scientists treated him like a rock star. Why would the scientists love Al Gore? His movie, An Inconvenient Truth , was full of scientific errors . But this is about not biting the hand that feeds you. When Al Gore spreads global warming hysteria, financial and political support for climate science increases. Scientists become guests on TV shows instead of lab drones.But a dark cloud is gathering over climate science. Public fear of global warming is declining. Most of the activist scientists gathered in San Francisco were blind to the possibility that there is any defect in their scary product. It must be that forces of darkness (perhaps Republicans or coal companies) are financing skeptics. Apparently the skeptics, cleverly disguised as grassroots activists, have an uncanny knack for propaganda.",5_2
"In our editorial of 17 August 2011 , we discussed the paper of Pandolfi et al . (2011a) that was published in Science on 22 July 2011, wherein we briefly reported the many ways in which they suggested Earth??s coral reefs might successfully respond to the dual challenge of projected rapid increases in temperature and ocean acidification. As might have been expected, however, their optimistic analysis was not well received by the world??s climate alarmists, who in the 16 December 2011 issue of Science ??? via the persons of Hoegh-Guldberg et al . (2011) ??? cast many aspersions on it. Fortunately, Pandolfi et al . (2011b) were given the opportunity of responding to them and deflating their arguments.",3_2
"Reality Check: December 2010 ""Almost Certain"" To Be Coldest Since Records Began",0_0
"The last of those is obviously the most serious. Michael Mann began receiving a large amount of attention after he published two papers in the late nineties, creating his ???hockey stick.?? A few years later, his work was criticized by the authors Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, leading to a controversy that would rage on for years. Eventually, two reports were commissioned by the United States Congress to study the controversy. The lead author of one of those reports was Edward Wegman, a distinguished statistician from George Mason University.",5_1
"A Billings Gazette article last week quoted University of Montana global warming activist Steve Running claiming major wildfires have quadrupled since 1986, but the facts show wildfires are actually declining.",1_7
"Even assuming the global warming crisis is not as spurious as the energy crisis, there are serious doubts that a nation of front loaders will use any less. energy. People always seem to find more uses for energy, notes energy analyst Herbert Inhaber, author of ""Why Energy Conservation Fails!""",0_0
"Who said, We must tax, tax, tax, I insist!",0_0
"The result of this dishonest political tampering with the science was that the sum of the four items in the offending table was more than twice the IPCC's published total. Until I wrote to point out the error, no one had noticed. The IPCC, on receiving my letter, quietly corrected, moved and relabeled the erroneous table, posting the new version on the internet and earning me my Nobel prize.",0_0
"But the Malaysia story is of a piece with every part of Goldberg's deep look into what drives Obama, the man. The president confuses the reality of the world with his own prejudices about it: Venezuelan leader Hugo Chvez wasn't worth his attention because he was all talk. Saudi Arabia is only trying to use US power to win its petty war with Iran. Tribalism is what drives the modern Middle East, and we shouldn't get into that fight. Think tanks in Washington aren't driven by ideas, but by Jewish and Muslim money. Russia doesn't matter. Climate change is huge. Getting Malaysia on board in the fight against the Islamic State is key. And then there's the United States: America is a nation with bad instincts, whose hubris should be ""regulated"" and propensity to manage the challenges of the world constrained by outside forces. (Other than the weather, which he believes Americans ought to be able to manage.)",0_0
"An English judge previously ruled that Gore's book is partisan, biased, and contains many factual errors, even though he shared Gore's belief that man is causing global warming.",5_2
"In their attempts to disguise the fact that 2012 will likely turn out to be one of the colder years this century, NOAA have made the ludicrous, and frankly dishonest, claim that this year is set to be the hottest La Nina year on record.",5_2
"Thomas Friedman, whom I previously regarded as a climate hawk, seems to take on the pragmatist mantle with his piece on Take the Subway . Some excerpts:",0_0
"Thats typical of a La Nina, but (blasts) dont last very long; they come and they go,",0_0
"RSS is still using the old NOAA-15 satellite which has a decaying orbit, to which they are then applying a diurnal cycle drift correction based upon a climate model, which does not quite match reality.",5_1
"They may have axed the Science and Technology Category because too many skeptics kept winning it, but that only meant skeptical blogs won in other categories . The blogs you visit every day may not be just science blogs, but politics, education, entertainment, and topical blogs. They may also be New, Secret, Humorous, Groups, and they may be well designed, and well written. What Ive said before still applies:",0_0
"A new review paper from SPPI and CO2 Science finds "" that as the air's CO2 content rises, grassland plants will likely exhibit enhanced rates of photosynthesis and biomass production that will not be diminished by any global warming that might occur concurrently. In fact, if the ambient air temperature does rise, the growth-promoting effects of atmospheric CO2 enrichment will likely rise right along with it, becoming more and more robust in agreement with the experimental observations reviewed by Idso and Idso (1994).""",3_3
"After applying this test, I find that using the method I prefer (averaging first, then fitting the trend), I the best estimate by the IPCC is rejected to a confidence of 95%. It is too high to be consistent with the weather data we have experienced.",0_0
"However, I??m far from convinced that the satellite records are revealed truth. It seems quite possible to me that quite different satellite trends could emerge if there were a couple of inter-satellite adjustment errors. I don??t know right now how one would estimate the potential magnitude of the adjustment errors, but, as soon as one introduces potential step adjustment errors, it becomes pretty hard to estimate trends. More on this on another occasion.",5_1
How much boodle can a rent seeker make these days? A recently leaked non-public report reveals that Exelon expects Waxman-Markey to generate hundreds of millions of dollars annually for the company.,0_0
"To that end, the elements, materials and beings found in nature should be used and ?abused? for the benefit of mankind ? we should not be forced to protect nature for nature?s sake. Deserts and meadows cannot feel hurt, assaulted or denigrated ? they are material things and it is impossible for them to have individual rights. (I?m sure the trees of the world do not mind me saying this.)",0_0
These angry picketers are the threat. They undermine Americas share of the Arctic Oceans estimated 30 percent of the worlds undiscovered natural gas and 13 percent of its oil reserves. That fuel could power the military as well as civilians.,4_5
"Examining the table, we see that the IPCC projections of 2C/century are rejected to the 95% confidence level using most the methods I tested. If we average the data, and then test, the trend is rejected to the 95% confidence level using both C-O and OLS. (Note however, that when the two methods disagree, C-O is more accurate.) Using each individual instrument, it is rejected under 7 out of 10 possible test methods. The ambiguous result fail to reject arises in 3 out of 10. However, due to the small sample time, we know that error is large so, fail to reject is best interpreted as not enough data to tell for sure, rather than IPCC projections are likely correct.",0_0
Mr. Metrosexual has been out-fashioned. His toppling begs a different question: is society frivolizing itself to death?,0_0
Obama's Sputter-nik moment: Cash for Education Clunkers:,0_0
"on Sunday, July 17th, 2011 at 5:01 am and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
Initially it was assumed that constantly increasing atmospheric CO2 created constantly increasing temperature. Then it was determined that the first few parts per million achieved the greenhouse capacity of CO2. Eschenbach graphed the reality,2_3
"Also to the point is that temperatures have fallen since 1950 in the interior of the dominant East Antarctic Ice Sheet, the volume of which is either stable or growing slightly, as is the extent of peripheral Antarctic sea ice (NIPCC, Chapters 4 and 5).",1_1
"2. The largest volume of water stored in Australia was in Lake Argyle in Western Australia, with over 10 million ML of actual water storage, more than the other 9 largest water storages in Australia combined.",0_0
"So, carbon taxes will drive up energy costs, reduce employment, and cut income.",4_1
"Not surprising, Thursday morning will be coldest day of year for CONUS w/freezing line probability to Mexico. http://t.co/7AQgdjMJk6 Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) December 28, 2014",0_0
"Thats why expending at least one-third more energy to capture, compress, transport and inject carbon dioxide rather than simply venting to atmosphere where it is a valuable resource for green plants and hence all aerobic life on earth is not worth it and never can be.",3_3
"But let us ignore that. Maybe the U.S. acting alone cannot do much, but cooperation at the international level would be meaningful. That is the advertised rationale for the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, which has been holding meetings, traveling on jets and feasting at upscale restaurants for 25 years, the forthcoming climax of which will be the 21st ""Conference of the Parties"" in Paris in December. Let's assume that the agreement between the U.S. and China that was announced last November will be implemented fully, even though the Chinese effectively disavowed it almost immediately, and did so smack dab in the middle of the 20th Conference of the Parties in Lima, Peru. That agreement calls for an additional 10 percent reduction by the U.S. by 2025, with no actual reduction by the Chinese; this additional cut in U.S. emissions gets us another temperature reduction of one one-hundredth of a degree.",4_2
A Disgrace to the Profession The Worlds Scientists own words on Mann and his Hockey Stick,0_0
"Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney unveiled his new climate protection plan on May 6. The plan calls for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions within the state of Massachusetts to 1990 levels by 2010 and by an additional 10 percent by 2020. Containing 72 specific suggestions, the plan is supposed to reduce pollution, cut energy demands, and nurture employment growth for the state.",0_0
"Oo-er! Instead of a zero trend, we now have a terrifying increase in global temperature, at a rate equivalent to a shockingly sizzling er 1.24 C per century. That is below the 1.7 C/century near-term warming predicted in IPeCaCs 2013 Fifth Assessment Report. Well below the 2 C/century predicted in the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report. Scarcely more than a third of the 3.5 C/century mid-range estimate in the 1990 First Assessment Report. A quarter of the 5 C/century predicted by the over-excitable James Hansen in front of Congress in 1988.",5_1
"Throughout his first year, Obama has placed the national security second to his ambitious plan to remake the American economy and society.",0_0
17g. The ability of regional climate models to model sea level rise for the next 10 years,0_0
"Brisbane Times Brisbane News, Queensland News & World News",0_0
"Dr. John Christy of UAH said, ""This was the coolest July since 1992, when global temperatures were cooled by dust thrown into the atmosphere by the Mount Pinatubo volcano."" A color map of temperature anomalies will be available at http://climate.uah.edu.",0_0
16i. The ability of global climate models to model extreme events for the next 10 years,0_0
"But the baseless bullying apparently works. People like Flannery and Hamilton use it against everyone who dares speak against the reigning cult. The term denier is not scientific, not good English, and not even appropriate name-calling, but every news outlet repeats it, as if it were a term of taxonomy.",0_0
"Jesse Hathaway, managing editor of Budget & Tax News, talks with Diane Goldstein, a former lieutenant commander with the Redondo Beach, California government police department. Goldstein is executive board member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), an international nonprofit organization of current and former law enforcement agents promoting rational criminal justice policies. She and Hathaway talk about civil asset forfeiture reform efforts in California and Ohio, and how lawmakers in other states can better protect taxpayers' property rights and prevent government abuse. LISTEN TO MORE",0_0
"Climate Change: Channeling King Canute, G-8 leaders agree to wreck the worlds economy, and ours, by pledging to prevent temperatures from rising more than 4 degrees by 2050. What if the Earth has other plans?",4_1
"Youd think that by now global warming would have made harsh winter weather a thing of the past. Alas, no. Our tomatoes, and the health and welfare benefits they bring, are still endangered.",1_3
World Bank Appoints Andrew Steer as Special Envoy for Climate Change,0_0
"The original number contacted was 10,157 and of those, 69% decided they didnt want any part of it, but they were the original target population. When the figure of 75 believers is set against that number, we get a mere 0.73% of the scientists they contacted who agreed with their loaded questions.",0_0
"At the risk of getting egg on my face again (!), NSIDC figures show that Arctic sea ice extent has now grown for the last two days.",1_1
"There is no warming trend since the Industrial Revolution, in fact, the linear trend is negative.",1_4
"Bill DiPuccio served as a weather forecaster and lab instructor for the U.S. Navy, and a Meteorological/Radiosonde Technician for the National Weather Service. More recently, he was the head of the science department for Orthodox Christian Schools of Northeast Ohio.",0_0
"Perhaps in England, where Simpson resides, this trickled down version only manifests itself in the ""spornosexual,"" with all its implications of being more couture and less college frat house. But a sweeping visual of America's sidewalks, cubicles, gyms, and watering holes indicates that the phenomenon has trickled down into a second, less posed, much more familiar, and seemingly harmless, form. This second form often looks awfully similar to a superannuated frat boy, and smells remarkably similar to the ""bro.""",0_0
"Following the questions raised by Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick over the quality of the data employed by Dr. Michael Mann of the University of Virginia in compiling his now infamous ""hockey stick"" graph, Mann's interpretations of proxy temperature data are now coming under fire from within the community of paleoclimatologists.",0_0
"Yomiuri Shimbun noted that, ""Observers said that Russia's attempt to gain a promise from Japan to buy Russia's emission credits before agreeing to sign the protocol is taking advantage of Japan's situation. Japan is not likely to meet its reduction targets by domestic means. It is believed that Russia intends to try to sell the emission credits at high prices. However, EU countries do not plan to buy emission credits from non-EU countries and it is likely that Japan will become the sole buyer of Russia's emission credits.""",0_0
"Michael Kundu has no evidence or logical reason to back his claim. He exhorts everyone to use good sources (then uses Wikipedia), and make intelligent decisions to spot the propaganda, and gives nothing except logical errors. All he can offer is the typical, low base ad hominem attack. So on a science topic, he reasons by smear.",0_0
"Meteorologist Joe D'Aleo of WeatherBell Analytics and editor of http://www.icecap.us says that, as the President addresses the nation on Tuesday, every State will have freezing temperatures and parts or all of 27 States will be below zero.",1_3
"If these ideas were right, we could observe megatons of stringy physics with finite-price colliders!",0_0
"History has repeated itself as the German government, famous for giving Firefox a leg up a few years ago, has told users to abandon Internet Explorer for something safer.",0_0
"When you see your workers comp rates, you may be tempted to self insure (we, for example, pay over $200,000 a year, and that is with a good experience mod). Be forewarned that in most states, this is very hard to do. There is just too much history of small companies failing to make required payments. You CAN do it in many states, but it requires credit checks and bonding, and as a small business you will probably need to hire a third party to do the claims processing.",0_0
"As a result of the changes in the lower troposphere, from calm with no clouds to increasing numbers of circulation cells with cumulus clouds, in the central and western Pacific the temperature actually starts dropping. This is happening despite the continuing increase in the amount of incoming solar energy (negative climate sensitivity, go figure). In the eastern Pacific, the air (and the ocean) is much cooler. As a result the cumulus coverage is less complete and develops more slowly, and the temperature rise is not reversed, but the temperature rise is significantly slowed.",3_1
"The air is dry. Because of the lack of oxygen, many students constantly have headaches. Concentration is near zero. How is anyone supposed to get proper grades?",0_0
"Writing in the Wall Street Journal and on the web site of Anthony Watts, Matt Ridley reports he has seen a key prediction in the new documents the IPCC will reduce the most extreme projection of warming from a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide somewhat, 30%, as compared with its 2007 projections.",5_1
"They also object to nuclear power stations because of their supposed danger, even though modern nuclear plants have an impeccable safety record. And they oppose coal-fired plants because of their alleged contribution to global warming.",0_0
"We do not expect lawyers to argue both for and against their clients, nor do we expect ""balance"" from political party leaders. However, although Gore reminds usin the film version of An Inconvenient Truththat he ""used to be the next President of the United States,"" and concludes both the book and the movie with a call for ""political action,"" he presents AIT as the work of a long-time student of climate science, a product of meditation on ""what matters."" He asks his audience to expect more from him than the mere cleverness that can sway juries or win elections.",0_0
"So far, neither side has been able to prove their case. That uncertainty even exists on this core issue is not appreciated by many scientists!",0_0
"EPA estimates that applying permit programs as written to greenhouse gases would increase the number of PSD applications from 280 to 81,000 (a 300-fold increase), and Title V permit applications from 14,700 to 6.",0_0
"NOTE: CMIP5-based sea surface temperature outputs had been available through the KNMI Climate Explorer. I was hoping to use it in this post. It, unfortunately, was removed from the KNMI Climate Explorer. Hopefully it will return in the near future so that I can include it in the next update, to serve as a preview of how badly the newest models simulate sea surface temperatures in advance of the IPCCs upcoming 5 th Assessment Report.",5_1
"Many factors must be influencing Antarctic climate, and there are bound to be many unknown influences. Known ones include: Orbital insolation, Greenhouse gases, Solar variability, Ice dynamics and aerosols. Also, the relation between the ice sheets and climate is not simple.",0_0
"1. Data from GISS Land Ocean , UHA MSU , NOAA , RSS , and HadCrut",0_0
">I regularly mention in ENSO posts that there was little SST sampling in the eastern equatorial Pacific prior to the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914, that the reader needs to keep that in mind when viewing early NINO3.4 data.",5_1
"The environmental future, however, looks better. Past research on global warming was based on a long-term United Nations projection, issued in the early 1990's, of 11.6 billion people in 2200, far more people than we're ever likely to see. The new projections show the global population rising from just over six billion now to just under nine billion in 2050, followed by a decline, moving downward in a geometric progression.",0_0
"To suggest that climate science money trickles down from government would be a gross understatement. Actually, it cascades from mountains on high, presided over by agencies and their federal and state minions we generally assume to be knowledgeable and objective. But often we might be wrong. This occurs when a particularly orthodox or partisan view becomes inculcated into government leadership and surrogate organization power structures ? yes, exactly like man-made global warming, for example. Then follow the rivers, streams and creeks as those influences spread.",0_0
"H.L. Mencken once wrote, ?Explanations exist; they have existed for all times, for there is always an well-known solution to every human problem ? neat, plausible, and wrong.? Such is the economist?s explanation of climate change.",0_0
New York State Geologist Supports Shale Gas Extraction,0_0
"Jan Brewer Jumps the Shark, Slides into Outright Prejudice",0_0
The warm surface waters returning in the western basin from the Northern to the Southern Hemisphere toward the end of the calendar year (November January) favor the demise of ongoing El Nio events.,0_0
Recent work has concluded that there has been significant warming in the tropical upper troposphere using the thermal wind equation to diagnose temperature trends from observed winds; a result which diverges from all other observational data. In our paper we examine evidence for this conclusion from a variety of directions and find that evidence for a significant tropical tropospheric warming is weak. In support of this,2_3
High-speed rail crash sets reform in motion:,0_0
"Wind power is not reliable. No one can make the wind blow when the energy is needed in fact, wind farms produce, on average, less than 30% of their nameplate capacity, often at times of lower demand.",4_4
"A coalition of Green activists petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate CO2 emissions from new cars and trucks under the Clean Air Act on October 20. The coalition claims that cars and light trucks in the U.S. are largely responsible for global warming, and threatened to file suit against the EPA to force them to regulate automobile emissions. The EPA has the discretion under the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon dioxide, according to the coalition.",0_0
"All those IPCC computer models that have been predicting global warming were wrong, are wrong, and will remain wrong for all time until the Earth actually begins to warm again.",5_1
Canadian winter temperature departures from 1961-1990. Averages for the years 1998-2011,0_0
ABC Catalyst TV show warped view of SW West Australian rainfall,0_0
Dan Weiss from the Center for American Progress seems to have more than a little trouble with this interview. I wonder why they didnt ask Joe Romm to be on?,0_0
"Public apathy on climate change is a cause for celebration, not concern",0_0
"And an extra bonus from the weather is not climate department January 29, 2010 at 39.9 degrees was ten degrees below normal and the second coldest on record.",1_3
"The authors report ""there is a common perception in the media, and even government and management circles , that is due to an increase in tropical cyclone frequency and perhaps in intensity, probably as a result of global climate change."" However, as they continue, ""studies all over the world show that though there are decadal variations, there is no definite long-term trend in the frequency or intensity of tropical cyclones."" Hence, they conclude that ""the specter of tropical cyclones increasing alarmingly due to global climate change, portrayed in the popular media and even in some more serious publications, does not therefore have a sound scientific basis."" References",1_7
"U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall Dramatically, Again, in 2013",0_0
"Half a billion dollars gone, just like that, after a decade of no global warming.",1_4
The Gillard governments decision to exclude firms that significantly contribute to the production of petrol ensures Australias scheme falls short of being completely economy-wide.,0_0
"At the end of part 1 on Curry's site, Tony makes reference to how Science Daily edited out key information from a study they reported on thus leaving their readers with an impression that previous sea levels were not higher. Interesting. Confirms why today's science journalists are no longer easily trusted.",5_2
My final point here would be pretty simple: With the rather dramatic variation over very short geographical scales we would need far more than the slightly over 1000 thermometers used by GHCN to get any kind of accuracy in the global temperature picture. The GHCN data set is just not fine grained enough to avoid selection bias issues given the wide variation of temperatures on these graphs over very short geographic scales.,0_0
The Heartlander: May-June 2010 (full text PDF),0_0
"Modern global warming is a fact; it has continued, with stops and starts, since about 1850, the end of the Little Ice Age.",2_1
"For instance, Robert Pindyck says that ""IAM-based analyses of climate policy create a perception of knowledge and precision, but that perception is illusory and misleading."" Robert Pindyck, ""Climate Change Policy: What Do the Models Tell Us?"" Journal of Economic Literature, September 2013, pp. 860872. Also see Anne Smith et al., ""A Review of the Damage Functions Used in Estimating the Social Cost of Carbon,"" American Petroleum Institute, February 20, 2014, http://www.afpm.org/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=4111 (accessed September 11, 2014).",0_0
"Let us not forget the other rapidly aging and shrinking superpower, Russia. It has a fertility rate of 1.3, and an average life expectancy of 66 years. By 2050, its population will be a third smaller than it is today. Russia's current global belligerence under Vladimir Putin in part reflects the fact that, as Last writes, ""the country has very little to lose."" A ""wounded bear,"" as Last calls Russia, armed with nuclear weapons is likely to remain a serious font of global disorder.",0_0
Report: Energy-efficient windows melt cars,0_0
"Agreements 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 are bilateral agreements to promote forest conservation via debt-for-nature swapsan activity Congress authorized through the 1998 Tropical Forest Conservation Act.",0_0
"If one believes that we should reverse longstanding policy, both of the past two administrations and a decade of Senate inaction, to now become subject to Kyoto-style terms, then submitting to the Law of the Sea Treaty makes perfect sense.",0_0
"EPA promulgated regulations to implement the NSR program in 1978, and revised regulations were promulgated in 1980 in response to litigation (Alabama Power Co. v. Costle). Except for a 1992 rule concerning how utilities measure future emissions, also promulgated in response to litigation (Wisconsin Electric Power Co. v. Reilly), no new regulations concerning NSR have gone through the formal rulemaking process since 1980.",0_0
"The bizarre saga gets even stranger when viewed alongside Dr. Manns kneejerk lawsuit against Dr. Tim Ball , a Canadian scientist, historical climatologist and retired professor who has frequently voiced his skepticism about claims that hydrocarbon use and carbon dioxide emissions are the primary cause of climate change and present an imminent risk of widespread planetary cataclysms. Dr. Ball has analyzed Canadian and global climate history, and does not regard computer models as much more than virtual reality scenarios that should never be the basis for real-world public policy.",5_1
America's actual health and welfare crisis,0_0
"Finally, the preliminary report dismissed the accusation that Mann conspired to silence skeptics by stating, ""one finds enormous confusion has been caused by interpretations of the e-mails and their content"" but shouldn't the committee have attempted to eliminate that confusion?",0_0
"Ice Age Ended By Deep Ocean Heating, Not By CO2 Increases, Scientific Research Reveals",0_0
JC comments: I strongly agree with the following assessments:,0_0
"""Chukchi Sea and Southern Davis Strait bears, for example, are doing very well contrary to all predictions despite marked declines in summer sea ice because they have ample food during their critical spring feeding period when sea ice is abundant.""",3_2
"Klaus, a free-market economist who oversaw a wave of privatization in the 1990s after communism collapsed in his homeland, also said the world was ""moving in the wrong direction"" in combating the economic crisis.",0_0
"Moreover, Annex III, Article 21(2) states that LOST tribunal decisions ``shall be enforceable in the territory of each state party.'' Treaty advocates say don't mind the text, LOST obligations won't be enforceable in national courts.",0_0
"As it stands now, the treaty that the Clinton Administration is trying to sell to the American public would have far reaching negative consequences for a minimal benefit. Each speaker addressed the potential impacts that a global warming treaty would have, and urged caution before implementing any global agreement",0_0
"The controversy over Common Core has made parents and legislators more interested in school choice today than they were before. In June, Nevada adopted the country's most comprehensive school choice program. That program deposits about $5,100 into personal education savings accounts for nearly every child in the state, to be used to pay for tuition or fees charged by the education service providers chosen by parents.",0_0
"Fifth, how much will it cost? Council of Economic Advisors Chairman Janet Yellen maintains that the net costs of Kyoto ""are likely to be small"" if the Administration s diplomatic and domestic policy initiatives carry the day. Specifically, she claims that with developing country participation, robust emissions trading, federally-stimulated energy conservation improvements, joint implementation and the clean development mechanism, Kyoto should cost the United States only $7 billion to $12 billion per year in 2008 to 2012. For the average household, energy costs would rise by no more than $70 to $110 per year.20 Commenting on Dr. Yellen s analysis, one witness at an earlier hearing could not help recalling the old Depression Era jest: ""If we had some ham, we could make ham and eggs if we had eggs."" It is questionable whether any of the ingredients presupposed in the Administration s estimates will ever materialize.",0_0
"Institute director Gary McFarlane said a cautious approach must be adopted and, while it was not anti-fracking, there was insufficient current evidence to confirm that all the potential risks can be suitably reduced or managed within acceptable levels.",0_0
"According to Lord Monckton, even if all economic activity were closed down to forestall global warming for a period of 100 years, the temperature reduction would only amount to 1 degree Fahrenheit. This would be the height of folly and cruelty!",4_2
"Global coal consumption is expected to rise by 25 percent by the end of the decade to 4,500 million tonnes of oil equivalent, overtaking oil at 4,400 million tonnes, according to Woodmac in a presentation on Monday at the World Energy Congress.",0_0
"Perry, Romney, and Climate Change Consensus in the Presidential Race",0_0
The penetration of marine air masses has become more pronounced over parts of West Antarctica.,0_0
1. Extreme warm and cold anomalies both occur regularly and occasionally exceed the magnitude of the 2003 warm anomaly.,0_0
"By John Slater, Quadrant, Aug 14, 2015",0_0
"Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt owners are killing the planet . Wait, what? You mean energy has to come from somewhere, even if hippies cant see it?",0_0
"They visualize a U.S.-China bilateral deal to limit emissions (mainly of carbon dioxide from fossil-fuel burning) that would operate in parallel with the Kyoto Protocol (which neither country plans to ratify). In their plan, the United States buys emission rights from an arbitrary excess quota allotted to China. The authors call it headroom but I call it a subsidy. The United States pays, China gets, and the atmosphere does not benefit because emissions continue essentially unabated.",4_2
The percentage of days with extreme heat or cold in the US has declined sharply since the 1930s.,1_7
"With respect to the glacial oceans , the nine researchers say that (1) ""most models overestimate the ocean cooling,"" that (2) ""they do not capture the heterogeneity seen in the reconstructions,"" that (3) ""spatial patterns in reconstructed LGM annual SST anomalies ... are not well predicted by the models,"" and that (4) ""the seasonal SST anomalies show no correlation with the reconstructions.""",5_1
"Why should you be interested? Sea surface temperature records indicate El Nio and La Nia events are responsible for the warming of global sea surface temperature anomalies over the past 30 years, not manmade greenhouse gases. Ive searched sea surface temperature records for more than 4 years, and I can find no evidence of an anthropogenic greenhouse gas signal. That is, the warming of the global oceans has been caused by Mother Nature, not anthropogenic greenhouse gases.",2_1
"Now that the Bali conference is over and climate scientists have warned us again about the dire predictions of their climate models, a question remains: Will their forecasts come true? Given the current international focus on global warming, you would think that, in 10, 15 or 20 years, many people will want to know whether today?s predictions proved accurate.",5_1
"In essence, as another paper observes, the U.N. peacekeeping effort is transforming into a new kind of supervisory organism in which not only conflicts but also national institutions and cultures must be regulated for longer and longer periods of time.",0_0
"The dedicated-to-detail researcher reports that ""from the decadal to the secular scales (up to 110-year intervals) the tide gauge accelerations oscillate significantly from positive to negative values mostly following the PDO, AMO and NAO oscillations,"" adding that ""the influence of a large quasi 60-70 year natural oscillation is clearly demonstrated in these records.""",2_1
"USUAL REQUEST: If you disagree with something that I or someone else said, please QUOTE THE EXACT WORDS YOU DISAGREE WITH. Then, and only then, let us know what you disagree with. I can defend my own words. I cannot defend your interpretation of my words.",0_0
"Not much new here. But the letter does contain a ""special word on the right-leaning think tanks"" that's worth addressing. ""As libertarians,"" he writes, ""they abhor the need for government spending or even governmental leadership, which in their opinion is best left to private enterprise . . . But global warming is a classic tragedy of the commons . . . and the problem desperately needs government leadership and regulation. Sensing this, these think tanks have allowed their drive for desirable policy to trump science. Not a good idea.""",0_0
"was the election one of change or of continuity, both in party and public mood;",0_0
"EPA's 2002 reform recommendations promise to restore common sense to the New Source Review program, thereby avoiding the excessive costs, uncertainties, and counterproductive incentives resulting from recent enforcement deviations. The reforms do not put at risk recent gains in air quality.",0_0
"Mr. Anderson is president of Property and Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Mont., and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.",0_0
How the heck do I explain the cratering of my position and still maintain some shred of my reputation?,0_0
"There are two main features of the Clean Air Act that will come into play. First, the Clean Air Act requires the EPA to determine a National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS, pronounced, ""nacks"") for CO2 that protects the ""health and welfare"" of Americans. For ozone, to take an example of a conventional noxious pollutant, it is .075 parts per million over an 8-hour period. But unlike ozone, which is a local and evanescent pollutant, CO2 levels are determined globally, not within the borders of the U.S., and if the climate campaigners are to be believed are already above a ""safe"" level. Even if U.S. CO2 emissions fell to zero, global CO2 levels will still rise unless every other nation matches our performance. Let me restate that in other words: even a maximum effort at reducing CO2 emissions by the United States would not change the ""danger"" to health and welfare in the U.S.",0_0
"Either way, its plain to see that a savings of 27 parts per million over 87 years is trivial, particularly in comparison to its cost (shutting down the entire economy) and would make no meaningful climatic difference even if atmospheric carbon dioxide was the driver of global climate that the alarmists claim it is.",4_2
"In the words of the seven researchers who conducted the analysis, ""these results suggest that forests may suffer less damage during each ice storm event of similar severity in a future with higher atmospheric CO 2 ."" In addition, they say that ""the lessening of crown breakage by ice storms in a future CO 2 -enriched atmosphere may allow loblolly pine to expand its range northerly."" Reviewed 13 December 2006",3_3
The only place you will find proof of global warming these days is in computer models.,5_1
"So far this millenium, temperatures have dropped. If the current trends continue, people can expect to be freezing their butts off in the year 2100.",1_4
We all owe a debt of gratitude to the skeptics who have courageously disputed the global warming/climate change hoax and to The Heartland Institute that has provided a platform for them to gather to continue their efforts to educate a public that has been deluged by a massive deception.,5_2
"CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman said, ""While publicly these AGs have claimed to be uniting to combat climate change, these emails show that behind the scenes this is just another targeted and coordinated campaign from extreme environmentalists to come after their enemies. Instead of calling themselves ""AGs United for Clean Power,' perhaps they're actually ""AGs United for More Power.'""",0_0
"But from the looks of his whiny letter , hes of a completely different mindset. He thinks that while hes on the public payroll that he has the right to intimidate dissenters, and to keep everything he writes in his LLNL role a secret. Clearly he hates accountability to his bosses.",0_0
"I will use to basic analytical to test the hypothesis, both using two-sided 95% confidence intervals (i.e. &alpha=5%). The two methods are:",0_0
"This contempt for ordinary Americans mostly persisted in changing political environments. During the Great Depression, many liberals became Communists, proclaiming themselves tribunes of a virtuous oppressed proletariat that would have an enlightened rule.",0_0
"Ethanol and Land Consumption. In a February 2008 Science article, researchers calculated that producing 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol to meet U.S. ethanol goals would require the diversion of corn from 12.8 million hectares of U.S. cropland and would, in turn, bring 10.8 million hectares of additional land into cultivation. Locations would include 2.8 million hectares in Brazil, 2.3 million in China and India, and 2.2 million here in the United States.",0_0
"Dr. David Whitehouse, The GWPF Observatory, 9 August 2010",0_0
"Russian President Vladimir Putin's chief economic adviser, Andrei Illarionov, has formally recommended that Russia reject the Kyoto Protocol. Ratifying Kyoto, he said, would mean setting up bodies to ""limit economic growth not only on a national level, but also on a supranational level. An organ of legal interference in the internal affairs of the country would be created.""",0_0
"If the Court decision goes against the plaintiffs, does this mean ""game over"" insofar as future challenges to EPA's greenhouse gas regulatory binge?",0_0
"Even without an absolute cap, China's carbon intensity target will be tough, government officials and advisers say.",0_0
"Virtually every chapter in the Assessment perseverates on extreme weather, despite the U.N.s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change statement that:",0_0
Heavy blizzards that paralyzed Central Europe in February 2012 may have been part of a larger pattern.,1_3
"This absorbing property of the atmosphere is the greenhouse effect.1 Gases in the atmosphere that absorb infrared radiation, thereby preventing some of the outgoing energy from returning to space, are called greenhouse gases.",0_0
"The standard procedure for conserving energy and then creating an energy budget and subsequent greenhouse effect is by numerically equating the terrestrial flux output with the solar flux input . This numerical procedure is done with the justification that on average, the input and output must equal if the system is in equilibrium. But this is done numerically on paper, not physically in reality, because the physics of reality reactsinstantaneouslyto forces, and doesnt wait around for averages.",0_0
* Renewable fuels reduce carbon dioxide emissions and dangers of catastrophic climate change. Bunk. Ethanol production and use in fuels actually increases CO2 output and airborne ozone levels.,0_0
"The trend is also striking regarding Northeast U.S. hurricanes. Major hurricanes routinely struck the U.S. Northeast during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. ( see Past Tracks of U.S. Landfalling Major Hurricanes ) From 1960 through 2010, however, just one major hurricane struck the U.S. Northeast. Hurricane Sandy brought merely 80 mph, Category 1 winds at its New Jersey landfall, which pales in comparison to prior hurricanes, such as Hurricane Carol which struck Long Island as a Category 3 hurricane in 1954. When people say, We never used to have hurricane events like this here in the Northeast, it is only because those people either werent alive or dont remember the much stronger and more frequent Northeast hurricanes before our recent global warming.",1_7
"So although renewables have (finally) gotten to 2.7% of the electricity production, they still only represent 1.3% of the global energy consumption. And this is with heaps of subsidies.",4_4
ability to operate in the United States or elsewhere around the world.,0_0
"journalists' inclination to provide political ""balance"" leads to inaccurate media reporting on scientific issues. Far from making news stories more balanced, quoting ExxonMobil-funded groups and spokespeople misleads the public by downplaying the strength of the scientific consensus",0_0
"Regarding the second allegation, did Dr. Mann engage in, or participate in, directly or indirectly, any actions with the intent to delete, conceal or otherwise destroy emails, information and/or data, related to AR4, as suggested by Phil Jones, how does the Jury find?",5_2
this etc. will obscure the message of a short EOS piece.,0_0
"These kinds of failures of peer review corrupt the traditional process by which scientific knowledge is obtained and reported; they are examples of what Irving Langmuir, the 1932 winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, called ""pathological science""the ""science of things that are not so."" Pathological science inflicts irreparable harm on the reporting and archiving of scientific developments for policy makers, the media, the public, and the scientific community. Within weeks of the publication of the flawed PNAS article, for example, European Union environmental regulators had cited it as justification for banning the sale of GM corn seeds. And such spurious findings only encourage conspiracy theorists who think that wider evidence of harm from GM plants is being suppressed.",0_0
"First is that people who drive small cars in order to save the climate are seriously putting themselves at risk, or even dying if involved in aserious accident. Thats the result of newly conducted crash tests reported here at Spiegel . Citing crash test results fromthe US Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) and the EuroNCAP Test 2014,Spiegel tells us that the Mazda 5 fared the worst.",4_1
"I cannot remember any issue where one side has so insistently and effectively monopolized a discussion while stifling and excluding diverse viewpoints. This is not how science is designed to operate. For the scientist, questions, examination, indeed skepticism are the building blocks of the quest for truth.",0_0
"For the physical reasons why only the Sun and not greenhouse gases can heat the oceans, see the post Why greenhouse gases won't heat the oceans.",2_1
"No amount of economic or political analysis can contradict the following basic, scientific premises:",0_0
"High fuel import costs and nuclear issues will support coal use throughout Northeast Asia, while in North America coal is still competitive in many locations despite abundant low-cost shale gas.",4_5
"Peru, for instance, is home to around 30,000 species of plants; Columbia, a country as big as New Mexico and Texas combined, has more than 1,550 bird species (twice the number round in North America); a single river in Brazil harbors more species of fish than all the rivers in the U.S .A world record was established in 1988 by Alwyn H. Gentry who identified about 300 tree species in each of two one-hectare (2.47 acres/hectare) plots in Iquitos, Peru."" (de Miranda, pp. 155-156).",0_0
"In the context of what appears to have been a one-degree Fahrenheit rise in mean global temperature since 1900, the observed relationship between temperature and precipitation in North America does not favor the hypothesis.",0_0
Should we focus the bulk of our attention on shoring up seawalls and on ensuring that adequate water supplies are available to those most at risk of drought?,0_0
"Secondly, Exponent looked at the variationand the measurements between the Patriots balls andthe Colts balls at halftime. They compared thevariances. And despite conceding that there was nostatistically significant difference between thetwo, they went ahead and drew conclusions, but thoseconclusions are improper.",0_0
"This is very important because of the oft-repeated AGW claim that surface temperature is a linear function of forcing, and that when forcing increases (say from CO2) the temperature also has to increase. The ocean proves that this is not true. There is a hard limit on ocean temperature that just doesn??t get exceeded no matter how much the sun shines.",5_1
"How Chretien, as the leader of a large, cold, northern, oil-exporting country, could have committed Canada to an emissions treaty that excluded the U.S. and required nothing of China, defies explanation to this day.",4_2
To substantiate his case Roberts refers to the fact that the IPCC has found no specific scientifically measured real-world evidence of any causal relationship between human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and Earth??s latest modest cyclic warming.,2_3
"In short, look for Europe, confronted by reality, to see the wisdom of the American approach to combating a threat. Tony Blair can be excused if his blurred vision makes him think that he's been down this road before.",0_0
"Professor Jarich Oosten, an anthropologist at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, says that even if we no longer see snow, it will remain culturally important.",0_0
"Heart of Neolithic Orkney, the UNESCO World Heritage Site on the Mainland, one of the islands of Orkney, Scotland;",0_0
"Businesses, workers and families face unemployment, injustice, bankruptcy and worse at the hands of their government, if this regulatory power grab continues.",0_0
Pachauris travails were prominent in an excellent Times feature story .,0_0
Lobster growth cited as climate change indicator,0_0
"""The communiqu holds that, ""We start from the belief that prosperity is indivisible; that growth, to be sustained, has to be shared"" and to ""do whatever is necessary.' In clause after clause, this pro-government rather than pro-prosperity declaration embraces new burdens on a limping financial sector in the form of expanded global regulation, and effectively requires that all look toward government before acting in the future. At no point does the communiqu recognize that government action can and does distort market action to the point of significant harm.""",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on the challenges faced by the company's previous Google Library project:,0_0
"In May 2001, an inter-agency team convened by the Bush administration in response to California's ""energy crisis"" called for evaluation and possible reform of ""regulatory restrictions that do not take technological advances into account.""38 Among its specific recommendations was that EPA, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy and other federal agencies, ""review New Source Review regulations, including administrative interpretations and implementation, and report to the President within 90 days on the impact of the regulations on investment in new utility and refinery generation capacity, energy efficiency, and environmental protection."" On June 13, 2002, EPA issued the report extensively cited above.",0_0
"You can read the rest here . Basically this looks like a lame attempt to make king tides look like they are enhanced significantly by sea level, and make sea level an elevated issue so they can argue with North Carolina to re-enact the sea level laws they gutted this in 2012 .",1_6
"Evidently, solar activity is on the decrease. In this respect, we could be in for a cooling period that lasts 200-250 years.Yuri Nagovitsyn, Pulkovo Observatory St.Petersburg.",1_2
"Lgg now on a pulse of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, equivalent to a doubling of the concentration:",0_0
"This is apparently an image tweeted by somebody on-board the Akademik Shokalskiy, showing the ice around it:",0_0
"Bottom line: we have now entered El Nino territory . Based on a collection of models, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) is going for El Nino conditions the remainder of this year (see their probabilistic forecast below). Roughly 70% chance this summer and about 60% chance next winter. But this time of the year you have to be careful, with the quality of the winter forecasts improves radically by July and August.",0_0
The next graph overlays the IPCC graph in red on the 1975 National Academy of Sciences graph at the same scale. Our scumbag friends have knocked half a degree off most of the 20th century.,5_2
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Fellow Steven Milloy on the opposition from environmental groups:,0_0
"But there is a crisis that international leaders need to address at Copenhagen. The real planetary emergency is that 1.5 billion people do not have access to modern, affordable, and reliable forms of energy or the electricity they produce.",0_0
"But if the trend continues, she warned, the water could get too warm, altering the lobster habitat.",0_0
"In Haiti, the poor are now living on mud pies made with real mud. They cannot afford anything else to eat. So they take earth, carefully remove the stones, grit, and weeds, mix it with water, add a tiny pinch of salt and a small knob of butter, and knead it and pound it and stir it into a paste, which they make into mud pies. They bake the mud pies in the sun for a few hours, then eat them or sell them to their neighbours for 3 US cents each. And somehow some of them stay alive.",0_0
"A defining characteristic of Simpson's Spornosexual Man is his proclivity to swap the high-end urban mallthe metrosexual's havenwith the gym. It's not just as superficial a link as Mr. Spornosexual pumping iron next to the ""bro"" in the gym that marks the two of them as offspring of the same parent. Both are overwhelmingly single, younger, professionals, and urban dwellers. But where the metrosexual has seen well-cut and expertly tailored clothes as a visual art experience to patronize as also to indulge in, the two iterations of the spornosexual see clothes as a fine indulgence of frivolity compared to the art of their own body, which is best exhibited nude. Or nearly nude.",0_0
"""There is danger brewing in Rio that has not been adequately covered,"" Rothbard said. ""There is also a tragic likelihood that an historic opportunity will go to waste a chance to wake up and change direction. Freedom, prosperity, science and technology what we like to call ""constructive sustainability' is the only genuine path to achieve all that is best for our planet and people too.""",0_0
"For example, the models predicted increasing global air temperatures (the measured rises have been much less than predicted), increasing ocean temperatures (there has been no change since 2003, when we started measuring it properly with Argo ocean-diving buoys) and the presence of a hot spot caused by humidity and cloud feedback at heights of 8km-12km in the tropical atmosphere (entirely absent).",5_1
"""Climate does not change uniformly: The Earth is very large and the expectation definitely would be that there would be different changes in different regions of the world,"" Parkinson said. ""That's true even if overall the system is warming."" Another recent NASA study showed that Antarctic sea ice slightly thinned from 2003 to 2008, but increases in the extent of the ice balanced the loss in thickness and led to an overall volume gain.",1_1
"The German Environment Ministry is arguing that government regulation is a necessity and has suggested that aviation be included in the EU's proposed carbon cap-and-trade system. On the other hand, the British Airports Authority has reacted to speculation by insisting that it would only enter an emissions trading system if it were on a global scale. Caroline Corfield, head of media relations for BAA, has stated, ""If you put prices up, it will have an impact on demand.""",0_0
Australias antarctic runway melting | Moyne Gazette,0_0
Is he somehow expecting duck hunters to reverse the massive psychological damage being done by the looney left to the youth of America?,0_0
Help Us Stop Wikipedia's Lies!,0_0
"Again in Sheffield, the number of days over 30.0C are on the decline, and in the last decade has been less than the 30s, 40s and 70s.",1_7
"Meanwhile, some 3,300 people remain stranded by snow and ice in rural areas, where they can only be reached by helicopter.",1_3
"Honorable Mr. Edward J. Markey, Chairman",0_0
"A research team led by Ohio University geologist Gregory Springer examined the trace metal strontium and carbon and oxygen isotopes in the stalagmite, which preserved climate conditions averaged over periods as brief as a few years. The scientists found evidence of at least seven major drought periods during the Holocene era, according to an article published online in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.",1_7
Record Cold Linked to Global Warming: The Urban Legend Grows,0_0
"Joel also cites a more realistic appraisal of global warming's impact on air quality--an article in the Journal of Geophysical Research by researchers from NESCAUM (Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management) and Georgia Tech. These analysts project that, from the year 2000 to 2050, ""The combined effect of climate change and emissions reductions lead to a 20% decrease (regionally varying from -11% to -28%) in the mean summer maximum daily 8-hour ozone levels over the United States."" They also project a 23% decrease in mean annual fine particulate (PM2.5) concentrations. Joel comments that these estimates are conservative, because ""pollutant emissions and ambient levels are dropping much faster than they assume in their study (a fact which I show here).",0_0
"Skeptics Global Warming Blog Archive NASAs Temperature Adjustments Too Convenient If you study the graph in the article, you can clearly see that negative adjustments have been applied negatively the further back in time you go. Conversely, youll see that adjustments to temperature data have grown into the positive almost consistently since about 1970. With satellite data saying the planet is cooling, the Argos buoys showing the ocean not warming and climatologists saying the planet is cooling, why does NASA continue to modify base temperature data?",5_1
"A recent paper published in Nature Climate Change finds a disconnect between man-made CO2 and atmospheric levels of CO2, demonstrating that despite a sharp 25% increase in man-made CO2 emissions since 2003, the growth rate in atmospheric CO2 has slowed sharply since 2002/2003. The data shows that while the growth rate of man-made emissions was relatively stable from 1990-2003, the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 surged up to the record El Nino of 1997-1998. Conversely, growth in man-made emissions surged ~25% from 2003-2011, but the change in the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 has flatlined since 1999 along with global temperatures. The data demonstrates temperature drives CO2 levels due to ocean outgassing, man-made CO2 does not drive temperature, and that man is not the primary cause of the rise in CO2 levels.",2_3
"Its sad when claims made in a press release are not supported by the conclusions of the paper its advertising, even sadder when data supplied as part of a scientific study contradict that press release.",0_0
"After GISS??s embarrasing error with replicating September temperatures in the October analysis, the NASA GISTEMP website was down for awhile today (at least for me).",5_1
A Professor of Climate Change at Adelaide University thinks we should halve Australias domestic ruminant numbers within two years.,0_0
So how can we explain the difference between NOAAs figures and the evidence from the USHCN stations?,0_0
"The rest, some 220.000, are encrypted for various reasons. We are not planning",0_0
"Kerry's Kyoto, Cap-and-Trade and Climate Confusion",0_0
"More likely, the tilt has deeper causes. It's not just Hollywoodthe arts have never been a hotbed of free-market economics. (Just try saying ""Gingrich"" at a community theater cast party.) One explanation may lay in the nature of the field and those drawn to it. Acting is a profession where emotion and feeling are at a premium. The cold, hard deductive logic that may appeal to engineers just doesn't go as far.",0_0
"Letter to the Editor by Harrison Schmitt, Craig Idso, David R. Legates, Art Robinson, Noah Robinson, Willie Soon",0_0
Head of the Russian WWF climate program: 60-year ocean cycle is expected to make in the next two decades for cooling,1_2
"The IPCC controlled results of rising atmospheric levels with data from warming advocate Charles Keelings, and later his son Rogers, measurements at Mauna Loa. There is fascinating, but disturbing correspondence on this issue between Ernst Georg Beck and Roger Keeling. Beck had to be dismissed because his work showed that 19th century levels of atmospheric CO2 were much higher than used by the IPCC and created by Guy Callendar and Tom Wigley. The IPCC controlled the annual increase in human production of CO2 by producing it themselves.",5_2
New limits on carbon dioxide emissions in California could slow down industrial production.,0_0
"The following plot shows that the positive phase of the PDO, which predominated roughly from the late 1970s up until just a few years ago, was also a period of depressed strong tornado activity in the U.S. Conversely, more strong tornadoes seem to be associated with the negative phase of the PDO.",0_0
"Mike Huckabee: The darling of the GOP's ""theo-con"" faction now hosts a weekly show on Fox. As Reagan showed via his radio commentaries in the years leading up to the 1980 election: Beware a charming man with access to an open mike.",0_0
"Second, their claim that Alaska has ???warmed by 4 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit?? is not true. The largest trend to 2009 in the Alaska temperatures is 1954-2009, which is 3.24 degrees.",5_2
"It's also true that just because UFOlogists have entirely failed to produce ET, it doesn't necessarily mean that extraterrestrial aliens aren't among us. After all, how can you absolutely prove a negative? But until the alien-abduction brigade can bring a crashed flying saucer, decaying alien corpse, or working ray-gun to a press conference for all to see, we aren't going to reorganize our entire global economy to meet the impending threat of an invasion from Mars.",0_0
"When asked an open-ended question about why they thought the Earth was warming, one-quarter of those surveyed pointed to temperatures they experience and another quarter cited other weather changes. One in 7 mentioned melting glaciers and sea ice, and 1 in 8 noted media coverage. Only 8 percent mentioned scientific research",0_0
"Even if you thought that the only moral approach is to preserve the 2008 temperatures in every corner of the world forever, an assumption that Mike Griffin of NASA would call arrogant, your prejudices won't matter. What's much more important is that people in Russia are certainly going to think rationally about these issues. They ""okay"" various fashionable comments about the climate regulation today because it doesn't cost them anything and it's better for them to please zealots in other countries.",0_0
"Exposed: Anti-Meat Crusaders Spread Myths, Distortions",0_0
in Medieval times. It would be much nicer to show the version driven by Be10,0_0
"This is a refinement of the previous possibility. I put this forward because of the obvious daily change in climate sensitivity in the tropics, with the sensitivity dropping as the day progresses and the temperature increases. Sincethat variation in the climate sensitivity occurs daily over about a third of the planet, the part of the planet where the energy enters the system, it is not unreasonable to think that the global climate sensitivity should be a function of temperature. (Note that even here the sensitivity is unlikely to be a linear function of temperature, as the natural situation contains clear thresholds at which the climate sensitivity changes rapidly.)",3_1
"DETROIT In the race to claim ever-higher fuel-economy numbers and keep up with government regulations, automakers are rolling out hybrids and electric cars aplenty at this weeks Detroit auto show.",0_0
"The cure for the pandemic spread of summits and global confabs will involve serious triage, and meetings that fail to produce change will be the first to be eliminated. Canada has historically used bilateral meetings, regional organizations, and global forums to enhance the reach of its policies.",0_0
"This year, the recent 12 Month period temperature is -12,6 F cooler than for example 1931 . And if we compare with 1990 it is ??? 13,8 F cooler .",1_3
"$223,675 to make use of a broad-based multistakeholder group (i.e. the West Oakland Toxic Reduction Collaborative) to assess conditions, develop solutions and support and leverage their implementation as related to environmental and public health burdens from air and other toxics.",0_0
"Hence, Mr. Obama is turning his attention not to creating just any job, but to creating jobs for union members. Making a virtue of necessity, he is taking energy policy in a direction that unions, centrists, and conservatives have advocated, for good reasons, and one that some environmentalist allies of the Democratic Party have resisted. What used to be a coalition between blue-collar union workers and green environmentalists is splitting, with the greens losing ground.",0_0
Administration's Plan to Advance Climate Science,0_0
"The chart also shows that observed temperatures, rather than climbing ever upward, are where they were 15 years ago.",1_4
"Given that climate change has been going on for millions of years, mitigating it is going to be a very tall order. Besides, consider that all of that mitigation, even if it could be accomplished, might bring about conditions that are a whole lot worse. For example, what if that 17-year-long global warming pause we have been experiencing turned cold again as occurred during the Little Ice Age between about 1400-1859AD, certainly not my idea of an improvement. Remember hearing about Washingtons troops freezing at Valley Forge in 1777-78, and Napoleons bitterly cold retreat from Russia in 1812? No, give me some of that good ol global warming any day!",2_1
"Scientists have been basing their global warming predictions on the assumption that the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will accelerate. Now they have discovered that the growth rate has declined by about 25 percent since 1980, which throws a kink into their projections. This has occurred even though CO2 emissions continue to increase.",0_0
"Hurricane Mitch, November 1998. One of the strongest late season hurricanes on record formed in the western Carribean in October 1998. Although the system eventually weakened before landfall, its slow passage westward over the mountainous regions of Central America unleashed precipitation amounts estimated as high as 75 inches. The resulting floods devastated the entire infrastructure of Honduras and also severely impacted other countries in the area. The final estimated death toll was 11,000, the greatest loss of life from a tropical system in the western hemisphere since 1780.",0_0
"In early January, EPA proposed the Carbon Pollution Standard , a regulation that would effectively ban the construction of new coal-fired power plants by requiring them to install a technology, known as carbon capture and sequestration, that isnt yet market ready. As Ive explained here , the Clean Air Act stipulates that EPA cannot require a technology that is not adequately demonstrated. This is key distinction; courts will strike down the rule if carbon capture and sequestration is not commercially viable.",4_4
""" Eme et al. conclude , in their words, that ""terapon and mullet demonstrate exceptional tolerance to high temperatures,"" and they say ""it seems likely that shallow-water sea surface temperatures would have to be much higher to adversely affect these and other shallow water marine fishes...they write that ""despite diverse independent origins across taxa, fishes may share a common suite of physiological adaptations allowing them to survive periodic exposure to high environmental temperature ...""and that ""exceptional thermal tolerance may be common throughout the biodiverse shallow waters of the Indo-Pacific."" Thus, in the final analysis, they conclude that ""tropical marine fishes inhabiting fringing nursery environments may have the upper thermal tolerance necessary to endure substantial increases in sea temperatures.""",3_2
"The northern hemisphere jet stream, a fast-moving high-altitude air current, circles the earth from west to east.",0_0
"In 2015, unchecked climate change, global nuclear weapons modernizations, and outsized nuclear weapons arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity, and world leaders have failed to act with the speed or on the scale required to protect citizens from potential catastrophe. These failures of political leadership endanger every person on Earth. In 2015, with the Clock hand moved forward to three minutes to midnight, the board feels compelled to add, with a sense of great urgency: ""The probability of global catastrophe is very high, and the actions needed to reduce the risks of disaster must be taken very soon.",0_0
"The incidence and severity of extreme weather has not increased. There is little evidence that dangerous weather-related events will occur more often in the future. The U.N.s own Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says in its Special Report on Extreme Weather (2012) that there is an absence of an attributable climate change signal in trends in extreme weather losses to date. The funds currently dedicated to trying to stop extreme weather should therefore be diverted to strengthening our infrastructure so as to be able to withstand these inevitable, natural events, and to helping communities rebuild after natural catastrophes such as tropical storm Sandy.",1_7
"The CPP Is Unlawful. EPA's Carbon Pollution Standards Rule the legal prerequisite for the CPP is itself unlawful because it establishes a new source performance standard for coal power plants that can be met only through a system of emission reduction carbon capture and storage that is not ""adequately demonstrated.""",0_0
"What's more, ""the wave's continued evolution portends a reversal of this trend of declining sea ice.""",1_1
"2 The IPCC was apparently warned of the lack of basis for the claims prior to publication of AR4, however the warnings were rejected. I need someone to provide a citation for this.",5_2
"Davis's second tactical bequest was his discovery that the most effective way to win over hospital management was via government bailout. The turning point at Montefiore came when city government offered to raise the subsidy it had been providing for ward patients from $16 a day to $20. Similar deals were struck during subsequent organizing campaigns. A game emerged, in which 1199 would push management to the brink of a strike, and then city or state government would swoop in with an 11th-hour offer of funds to secure ""labor peace.""",0_0
"The latest data has been added to the Aviso site, and sea level is dropping through the floor. Europes Envisat satellite has been collecting data since 2004, and now shows that sea level is the lowest it has been since they started collecting data.",1_6
"The Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) from Australias Bureau of Meteorology is another widely used reference for the strength, frequency and duration of El Nio and La Nia events. We discussed the Southern Oscillation Index in Part 8 of this series . It is derived from the sea level pressures of Tahiti and Darwin, Australia, and as such it reflects the wind patterns off the equator in the southern tropical Pacific. With the Southern Oscillation Index, El Nio events are strong negative values and La Nias are strong positive values, which is the reverse of what we see with sea surface temperatures. The July 2014 Southern Oscillation Index value is -3.0, which is still well within ENSO-neutral conditions. The BOM threshold for El Nio conditions is an SOI value of -8.0, so theres a long way to go. Figure 8 presents a time-series graph of the SOI data.",0_0
"However, the reason behind the current pause in rising temperatures remains a mystery, and there are said to be more than 30 theories attempting to decipher what caused this stability.",1_4
A nice post by Lucia on why the data matters and why the ridiculous RC response page is a good start yet completely inadequate to fix the problems.,0_0
"Despite being co-sponsored by Solidarity, the Left-leaning Polish union and political party which fought so courageously for independence from Soviet domination during the Cold War, the conference attracted attention from the radical Left. These global warming extremists pelted the building with red dye making the building appear as if it was dripping with blood. The Polish attendees took this in stride as they've seen this kind of thing before, so no one seemed particularly alarmed or distracted just amused. Clearly this was another sign of the growing desperation on the warming left as their cause continues to lose credibility with the public each day.",0_0
"Can we find another year with similar ice distribution as 2010? I can see Russian ice in my Windows. Note in the graph below that 2010 is very similar to 2006. 2006 had the highest minimum (and smallest maximum) in the DMI record. Like 2010, the ice was compressed and thick in 2006. Conclusion : Should we expect a nice recovery this summer due to the thicker ice? You bet ya.",1_1
Firearm Legislation and Firearm-Related Fatalities in the United States,0_0
Expect Pelosi to cave and permit the farm lobby to write an amendment to the bill that forces the EPA to exclude indirect emissions from its calculations. That would saddle American consumers with a climate bill to raise their utility bills and more ethanol to inflate the price of food and fuel.,0_0
"George Monbiot is angry that people live in houses with more rooms than they need . Except him, because lefty journalists living alone in 4-bedroom farmhouses are more equal than you.",0_0
"7 hours ago AUSTRALIAS $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a new air link to the frozen continent.",0_0
"HEM is identical to the EIA's NEMS with the exception of the Commercial Demand Module. The Commercial Demand Module makes projections regarding commercial floor-space data of pertinent commercial buildings. Other than HEM not having this module, HEM is identical to NEMS.",0_0
"The idea, of course, is to save America the world from dreaded climate change by switching away from ""dirty"" plant-fertilizing CO2 emissions to clean, renewable ""alternatives.""",0_0
"This policy has been restated by EPA in letters and proposed rules several times since.23 The matter of ""aggregation"" has also come up repeatedly. EPA attempts to combine separate projects and claim the aggregate effect on emissions is sufficient to trigger NSR. When industries protest, EPA alleges regulated emitters split projects for the purpose of evading NSR. Once again, the result of EPA's latest interpretation is to make more modifications subject to NSR.",0_0
"The online Salzburg Austria ORF site here writes: Despite climate change, winters in the Salzburg mountains over the past 30 years have not gotten warmer, rather they have gotten colder .",1_4
"Yet the models on which climate alarmists rely for their catastrophic scenarios do not agree on the effects of global temperature rise on the Gulf Stream. Researchers R. Bleck and S. Sun, writing in the journal Global and Planetary Change, tell how they revisited their model of the ""meridional overturning circulation' (MOC). ""In view of evidence presented in IPCC (2001),"" the researchers ""had expected the Atlantic MOC to weaken in response to a doubling of atmospheric CO2."" They found that ""the Atlantic overturning stream function appears to be stable,"" concluding that, ""It is insensitive to global warming resulting from gradual CO2 doubling.""",5_1
One part of the discussion of peak oil that has always bothered me is the division of oil into conventional oil and unconventional oil. Heres why I think that division makes no sense with regards to peak oil.,0_0
Julian Morris is vice president of research at Reason Foundation.,0_0
"Congressman says #Weinergate cybersecurity investigation vital in order to ""ensure our national security':",0_0
"""It's a different activity to put all of them together and reconstruct the climate of North America as a whole,"" said Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. It takes a lot of collaboration. A tree ring specialist, for instance, knows the strengths and weaknesses of their natural archive, while a climate modeler can piece it all together into simulations that incorporate interactions of the oceans, atmosphere, land surface, ice, vegetation, and water cycles so that it all makes sense.",0_0
3.	The energy policies of the federal government must be vigorously protested because they are disastrous to the economy.,4_1
"I would like to single out two Breitbart luminaries for special kudos. First, I mention Milo Yiannopoulous particularly because he has boldly stood up to the most sophomoric outbursts in public forums this year. Having endured such things personally (to a lesser extent), entertaining as they are, I know it takes considerable nerve: kudos! And, Milo, if you are interested in the vulgar details of feminist fluid mechanics, give me a call.",0_0
"Simply put, the GCM models are completely incapable of attributing forcing to CO 2 and completely incapable attributing forcing to global temperature. The entire climate change issue has been fabricated on the basis of these models through the introduction of a CO 2 forcing parameter that has no physical basis and was fraudulently created for the sole purpose of relating CO 2 emissions to global temperature when no such relationship possibly existed.",5_1
"Conclusion: Extreme climate change as represented by significant global cooling and global warming periods over the past 2,000 years, is a natural phenomenon. Thus, modern global warming that took place over the late 20th century is not "" unprecedented .""",2_1
It's a live chat! Today we will be discussing the viability of electric and natural gas-powered vehicles as potential replacements for petroleum Except they're not. They're screening out the skeptical comments. (Update - session is now ended.),0_0
Europeans sign Warsaw Declaration: want no part of UN climate treaty,0_0
"The most obvious way for warming to be caused naturally is for small, natural fluctuations in the circulation patterns of the atmosphere and ocean to result in a 1% or 2% decrease in global cloud cover. Clouds are the Earth??s sunshade, and if cloud cover changes for any reason, you have global warming ??? or global cooling.",2_1
"In what is probably the silliest comment on climate since a Ukip councillor blamed floods on gay marriage, a green journalist opined of the refugees dying in the Mediterranean: This is what climate crisis looks like . . . We know there is evidence that the violence triggered by the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 were in part fuelled by protests over soaring food prices.",0_0
"Turtles will eat the bait and get caught on the hooks, or simply get entangled in the lines.",0_0
"Using the methods employed by Nuccitelli, Ive identified the 15 strongest positive anomalies and classified them as El Nios in Figure 5, and Ive done the same with La Nias. According to the Nuccitelli ENSO Index, the threshold for El Nios is +0.45, while the threshold for La Nias is -0.32. The Nuccitelli ENSO Index makes it easier to qualify as a La Nia than El Nio. What nonsense!! Another was way to look at it, the Nuccitelli index shows that ENSO was skewed toward El Nio conditions during the period he chose to examine. Why didnt Nuccitelli present that at SkepticalScience?",5_2
"Possibly turned off by Steyer's murky past as a financial beneficiary of Big Coal, those liberal billionaires Tom was hoping to suck up to have proven reluctant when asked to donate to his political slush fund. The world's stubborn ongoing failure to show any sign of global warming since 1997 might also be playing a part in Steyer's failure to launch. There is an old joke that goes, he was so ugly as a baby we had to tie a pork chop around his neck to get the dog to play with him. It seems that Saint Tom's $50 million pork chop isn't enticing enough to win him any money donating new friends from among the left coast intelligentsia. So, for proving that money and political correctness can't buy love or respect among progressive eco-wackos, this Crank of the Week is for you: Tom Steyer.",0_0
"""The world is on a trajectory to raise the mean global temperature by at least 3 degrees C by the end of the century.""",0_0
"The Mercury-News of San Jose, California advocates nation standards for recycling the used electronics and computer components known as ""e-waste.""",0_0
"HAYDEN: You should be nice to Moose, mister. He doesnt take disagreement well.",0_0
"Will that make any difference legislatively? Probably not.In the House, Republicans opposed to cap-and-trade, EPA regulation of greenhouse gases (GHGs), and carbon taxes are still in charge.",0_0
"The climate change mafia, led by Dr Rajendra K Pachauri, chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), almost pulled off the heist of the century through fraudulent data and suppression of procedure. All the while, they were cornering millions of dollars in research grants that heaped one convenient untruth upon another. And as if the money wasn't enough, the Nobel Committee decided they should have the coveted Peace Prize.",5_2
"Social Benefits of Carbon: We are receiving more reports that enhanced atmospheric carbon dioxide is promoting greening of deserts, tree growth using less water, and flowering in the Tropics. The report on flowering in the Tropics suggests the cause is a slight increase in warming of the Tropics. But as reported by Roy Spencer and John Christy, the atmospheric warming over the Tropics is not statistically significant, and, based on experiments, it is more plausible to attribute the increased flowering to enhanced atmospheric carbon dioxide. Please see links under Social Benefits of Carbon.",3_3
Study results appear online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences .,0_0
"The scariest parts of the planetary emergency narrative ocean circulation shutdown triggering a new ice age, ice sheet disintegration raising sea levels 20 feet, malaria epidemics in industrialized countries, runaway warming from melting frozen methane deposits are implausible and not supported by scientific research.",5_1
"The observed sea-surface temperature (SST) variations and proxy climate records in theSouthern Ocean (50S-70S) suggest the existence of pronounced global scale centennialvariations, with the most recent maxima around the mid-1870s and mid-1970s. In one climatemodel, these long time scale variations originate from the slow accumulation of North AtlanticDeep Water in the Weddell Sea at mid-depth, which destabilizes the water column from belowand eventually stimulates deep convection there. The accumulation of heat during the quiescentregime and its subsequent release to the atmosphere during the convective regime acts as arecharge oscillator in that model.",2_1
"Given all of this, it is not surprising that some of the lowest performers in the Prosperity Index rankings are from sub-Saharan Africa. These countries not only have poor governance scores in the Prosperity Index, but they also have some of the worst education and health scores. In fact, the only area in which sub-Saharan countries perform well is in social capital, which measures the extent to which community networks support each other. With poor scores in almost all other areas, life would be even worse were it not for these social networks.",0_0
"And for those who were puzzled, the administration offered various explanations. In contrast to Whitman's ""pablum"" charge, White House Council on Environmental Quality chairman James L. Connaughton had a different interpretation: ""Ultimately, E.P.A. made the decision not to include the section on climate change because we had these ample discussions of the subject already,"" he told the New York Times. In other words, there was just nothing left to say. The administration, it seems, had simply talked itself into a state of climate exhaustion.",0_0
"Antarctic sea ice is also increasing. According to Australian Antarctic Division glaciology program head Ian Allison, sea ice losses in west Antarctica over the past 30 years have been more than offset by increases in the Ross Sea region, just one sector of east Antarctica.",1_1
"For years as a broadcast meteorologist, I kept silent about the issue of global warming. Declaring skepticism labeled you (and still does) as an anti-environmentalist. After former VP Gores movie hit the big screen, I could remain silent no more. An Inconvenient Truth was filled with so many gross distortions and outright scientific misrepresentations; I felt it was my obligation to speak out.",5_2
and which reads The probability that A is true given the evidence E. (The vertical bar | means given.),0_0
"Well, your humble correspondent would like to modestly inform everyone that it is me, and not Marc Morano, who has figured it out. ;-) Thanks!",0_0
"Caseys book reflects his mission to educate the public to the dangers of a sun whose low number of sunspots (magnetic storms) is well known among solar scientists and generally under-reported. This particular solar cycle (#24) peak is one of the lowest since cycle #14 in 1906 which had approximately 64 sunspots, Casey told me. We measure each solar maximum every eleven years to determine the average of solar activity by sunspot count. We have had solar maximums in the past there were over 200 sunspots and some as low as 50. The relevance of information about the number of sunspots is that when the count goes below 50 we enter a much colder climate era.",1_2
"You have probably heard President Obama and other administration notables feverishly lament that 2015 was the hottest year ""on record"" following a previous one set in 2014.",0_0
"Now a wildfire threatens the watershed, burning over 10,000 acres and costing more than $2 million to fight. As one firefighter put it, ""fire is the environmentalist's way of thinning the forests.""",0_0
"Botkin, D. B. and R. A. Nisbet, 1992, Projecting the effects of climate change on biological diversity in forests, pp. 277 ? 293 in R. Peters and T. Lovejoy, (Eds.) Consequences of the Greenhouse Effect for Biological Diversity, Yale University Press, New Haven.",0_0
"Or, maybe you can convince people that most of our infrastructure is right at sea level, and so is about to be flooded:",0_0
"I, too, was addressing the folks who'd come in support of the controversial pipeline.",0_0
"Chinese scientists only looked at sea ice projections until 2005. Had they kept going, they would find more than a trend of slightly increasing sea ice levels. Last year was the first year on record that Antarctic sea ice coverage rose above 7.72 square miles.",1_1
"As illustrated and discussed in If the IPCC was Selling Manmade Global Warming as a Product, Would the FTC Stop their deceptive Ads? , the IPCCs climate models cannot simulate the rates at which surface temperatures warmed and cooled since 1901 on a global basis, so their failings illustrated in this postare not abnormal.",5_1
These studies all find that the energy sector would be required to make massive reductions in carbon emissions. They also argue that CO2 emissions are closely linked to all aspects of economic growth and that energy use is essential to improving economic well being.,4_5
"Phrased differently, because the satellites were inaccurate, climate scientists had to rely on the outputs of climate models and assume they were correct.",5_1
"Washington, D.C., August 11, 2003In an attempt to discredit the Competitive Enterprise Institute's lawsuit against the White House over the Administration's failure to implement a sound-science law in regard to global warming reports, the state attorneys general of Maine and Connecticut have asked U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft to investigate an alleged ""sweetheart suit"" relationship between the Bush administration's Council on Environmental Quality and CEI.",0_0
"The entire document is too convoluted and technical to summarize here, so it is posted here in PDF form for your detailed examination. The document posted here is unchanged and unaltered in any way from exactly what I received from a well known and credible source that must remain anonymous to avoid harm or retribution.",0_0
"* The last scene is a soccer field. A new coach has arrived and thinks his team is a bunch of pansies. Which they are. And there's an 80 year old goalie so it's no wonder they needed a new coach. He asks the team what drills they have been running and instead they start telling him about new flourescent lightbulbs installed in the stadium. He tells these hosers that he's the coach and wants to hear about soccer, not nonsense, and the old guy whips out his wait for it button, pushes it, and murders the coach. Problem solved! All non-believers am dead now. Drink Kool-Aid, cult happy!",0_0
"Since the piece ran, it has come to light that some of the documents the Times cited were obtained by an activist who, by his own admission, perpetrated a fraud on Heartland.One of the documents, a purported cover memo, is now widely regarded as wholly fabricated a view supported by what both we and Heartland have separately told the paper.",5_2
"Researchers in the UMaine Climate Change Institute ( http://www.climatechange.umaine.edu/ ) have focused on the relationship between solar variability and climate, particularly the use of isotopes in tree rings and ice cores to provide an indication of the suns strength. The ice core data reported in the paper demonstrates a direct atmospheric consequence associated with changing solar radiation.",2_1
"ACESA could only harden their resolve. As other countries adopt GHG limits, China and India will make competitive gains by simply standing pat against controls. Over time, energy-intensive industries will migrate to the nations that reject controls. The growth in these states of energy-intensive capital and jobs will add to the political costs of any future move toward controls. This outcome is the very opposite of the one that the U.S. should be seeking.",0_0
"Clearly the Earth goes through very natural cycles of warming and cooling all the time, and by amounts far greater than anything seen in the last couple of thousand years.",2_1
"In any case, regarding the third allegation, did Dr. Mann engage in, or participate in, directly or indirectly, any misuse of privileged or confidential information available to him in his capacity as an academic scholar, how does the Jury find:",5_2
"Thomas DeGregori does the best job I've ever seen of explaining the threat the idea of ""sustainability"" poses to U.S. society, describing it as a dangerous religion.",0_0
"On average, a major hurricane made landfall in New England every 3.5 years from 1938 to 1966. Since 1966, its been just every 9.2 years with none since 1999. New norm?",1_7
"Fred Singer: With regard to those drought conditions in Texas, it's very apparent that ocean cycles have had an important influence. The Pacific Ocean has shifted to a cooler phase while the Atlantic is still in a warm phase. This circumstance is similar to what occurred in the early 1950s when the drop in tropical Pacific temperatures caused less moisture to be present in the atmosphere here in the U.S. then when that ocean is in its warming state. That causes conditions to be drier, especially near and east of the Rockies, as well as in the Deep South. As a result, we see hotter, drier summers, and winters tend be warmer earlier, and colder later. We're also seeing colder spring temperatures caused by a multi-decadal warming temperature shift in the Atlantic which has greatest influence in the late winter and spring.",0_0
"The book requires a good opening chapter that lays out the facts on global climate change, but I would like this chapter to be framed with optimism, not gloom and doom, Maple said in an email to Hayhoe in October 2007. All that is needed from you is to provide a sense of what needs to happen. What is the window of opportunity and what does the science tell us about our chances for remediation?",0_0
L1734 0.7 L1830 0.4 H1253 6.1 H1336 6.1 H1415 6.1 H1451 6.1 H1524 6.0,0_0
He does have some concerns. He points out that graduates with doctorates are far more productive than those with just master's degrees. And he cautions that diploma mills could make profits grinding out degrees to foreigners intent on gaming the system.,0_0
"The billions of dollars spent by government and others to fund science just perpetuates problems rather than solving them. Funding only continues if research shows what those funding it wish it to prove, otherwise funding is discontinued.",0_0
"ACESA makes a valuable contribution in highlighting the importance of adaptation. Fortunately, much can be done to minimize the social costs that climate change might otherwise cause. Indeed, for the next century, adaptation to climate change is likely to do more to reduce its costs than will GHG controls. America is especially well-endowed with the human and other capital required to make the needed adjustments.",0_0
"On the occasion of kvllens debate on krnkraften SVT Debate ltit make a opinionsunderskning and frgat Swedish people what we want to do with krnkraften. For ovanstende image SVT Debate chosen title: Be fourth Swedish: Phase out krnkraften. Had I choose FTT's, I had written: The majority of the Swedish people want to keep krnkraften. But perhaps it is just my interpretation.",0_0
Responsibilities for climate change analysts often include:,0_0
"Postscript: unsurprisingly, Rahmstorf et al has many interesting booby traps. As homework questions. (1) why is the most recent value of the gyre reconstruction shown in Rahmstorf Figure 3 (middle panel) ends in approximately 1995, when the underlying gridded reconstruction of Mann et al 2009 goes to 2006. (2) why are the reconstructions only shown back to AD900, when the underlying gridded reconstruction of Mann et al 2009 begins in AD500.",5_2
"In late June, the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) took President Obama up on his ""so sue me"" challenge and filed a lawsuit over his administration's modification of the 1940 Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act that now allows wind energy producers a 30- year permit to kill the majestic birds. According to ABC spokesman Bob Johns, ""the Obama Administration has gone too far with incentives for the wind industry."" The Washington Times quotes Johns: ""Since the 1980s, wind turbines have killed an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 eagles, but the industry has paid only one fine.""",4_1
"As empirical data about global warming continues to roll in scientists become more and more aware of just how little they know about the climate system. Data from Australia's National Tidal Facility of recent sea level trends in the Pacific area, for example, give a mixed picture. The following are sea level measurements from several sites in the Pacific:",5_1
"Here we see yet another climate institution, manufactured by governments, to produce evidence that they will wave during negotiations in favour of the policies they have already determined they want. Policy-based evidence-making can now be seen as an institutional process. It is an absurd charade, which is made necessary because truly independent research organisations i) no longer exist, and ii) would not write such a document, and there is no trust for the organisations behind the new initiative. Thus it is necessary to produce research for the needs of the upcoming negotiations.",5_2
"Still, talk of a so-called sixth extinction is not fading away.",0_0
"Yes, Mr. President, we do produce more oil at home than we have in quite a long time. We could actually be producing a lot more than we currently are. See that decline in Federal Gulf of Mexico production from ~1.7 MMbbl/d to ~1.4 MMbbl/d since early 2010? You actually did build that.",4_5
"Despite widely held beliefs, there continues to be very little correlation between regional air pollution rates and asthma rates. In fact, while air pollution rates have consistently declined, asthma rates have increased. In the United States, asthma rates in children under the age of five rose more than 160 percent between 1980 and 1994a period when air pollution rates fell from 25 to 80 percent.",0_0
I introduced a Mexican meteorologist at a Heartland Climate meeting 2 years agohe was predicting cooling.,0_0
The IPCC AR4 is given a failing grade by the hard-working Donna LaFramboise and her team of volunteer helpers.,5_2
"Another absurdity which is pushed with the vehemence of an absolute is that if the oceans get more acidic than pH 8.1 ocean life will be destroyed, because calcium carbon precipitates above that pH and dissolves below it. There is no precipitation reaction anywhere in biology. All biological effects are under control, usually with enzymes which do not produce precipitation. The reason why the oceans are pH 8.1 (Scientists have never found any other pH in the oceans outside sheltered estuaries or related effluent.) is because calcium carbonate acts as a buffer holding the oceans at that pH. Fake scientists have been projecting future pH of the oceans to be more acidic and then proclaiming the guess to be a fact of science. They also estimate the 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.",3_2
> >> >>(See attached file: climatic variability and change initiative for,0_0
"Today our leading rivals understand this, even if the current administration doesn't.",0_0
"Atmospheric phenomena are complicated so people's opinions about what matters in the climate inevitably reflect this complexity. If, in some subcommunity, it doesn't, it shows that this subcommunity isn't really scientific: it's a group of fascist *beep* *beep* LFCSes struggling to *beep* *beep* and *beep* *beep* and we should better *beep* *beep* to *beep* *beep* to protect the elementary values of science and the modern civilization in general. So *beep* to all the LFCSes.",5_2
"Now polar conditions have stopped cooperating, and sea ice looks poised to defy the projections. A couple of days ago I wrote here about how natural cycles are now aligning to lead to more sea ice cover over the next one or two decades, and that global sea ice levels are back to normal levels a fact that the end-of-world obsessors are finding difficult to come to terms with.",1_1
The Arctic Ocean covers about 2.8% of the total Earths surface area The Encyclopedia of Earth,0_0
"By using available radiometric dates from areas near layers of barite deposits, Baos group has been able to come up with an estimate for the duration of what is now called the Marinoan Oxygen-17 Depletion, or MOSD, event. Baos group estimates the MOSD duration at 0 1 million years.",0_0
"Wrong. The British Antarctic Survey, working with NASA, last week confirmed ice around Antarctica has grown 100,000 sq km each decade for the past 30 years.",1_1
"Now Huybers 2005 demonstrated nothing of the sort. There was no ""error"" in our time series standardization. Our simulations reported in MM05a used a regression fit (which was in keeping with what was known about MBH methods at the time) and did not include a re-scaling step identified by Bger and Cubasch as a methodological ""flavor"". However, they showed the existence of spurious RE statistics in an MBH-type context. In our Reply to Huybers, ignored here by Mann, we responded fully to Huybers by showing an identical effect with re-scaling in the context of a network of 22 noisy proxies. Its too bad, in my opinion, that B and C did not discuss Reply to Huybers in more detail as its still ahead of the curve.",0_0
"* Recent warming trends in Greenland and the Arctic are not alarming in rate or magnitude compared to other similar and totally natural warming periods over the past 250 to 10,000 years, as recorded in explorers' log books and geological evidence.",2_1
The Waxman-Markey Global Warming Bill--Is the Economic Pain Justified By the Environmental Gain?,0_0
"Donald Trump, for now, is serving as a kind of blank screen on which Jacksonians project their hopes. Proposing himself as a strong leader who ""gets' America but is above party, Trump appeals to Jacksonian ideas about leadership. Trump's Jacksonian appeal has left the Republican Party in deep disarray, demonstrating the gulf between contemporary conservative ideology and Jacksonian nationalism. Indeed, one of the reasons that Trump hasn't been hurt by attacks that highlight his lack of long term commitment to the boilerplate conservative agenda (either in the social or economic conservative variant) is that Jacksonian voters are less dogmatic and less conservative than some of their would-be political representatives care to acknowledge. Jacksonians like Social Security and Medicare much more than most Republican intellectuals, and they like immigration and free trade much less.",0_0
"S. Fred Singer, physicist at George Mason University and founder of the Science and Environmental Policy Project. He states: The Earth currently is experiencing a warming trend, but there is scientific evidence that human activities have little to do with it. Instead, the warming seems to be part of a 1,500-year cycle (plus or minus 500 years) of moderate temperature swings.",2_1
* Global land-based surface temperature trend (HadCRUT4) = 0.5 F/decade,0_0
Another contrary view is provided by Media Matters WSJ Contradicts Experts on Social Cost of Carbon. Punchline:,0_0
"The Climate Drudge (aka Marc Morano) just sent out this link to a Wall Street Journal blog post which explains how difficult it has been for House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman to buy enough votes to get his global warming legislation out of a key subcommittee. The Journal reporters explain how skeptical moderate Democrats are having qualms about the bill, but then they quote very liberal Rep. G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina about the challenges:",0_0
"The road map for abundant energy supplies, competitive prices, more innovation, and a better standard of living is centered on open markets and less government intervention. The next President can accomplish some of these objectives through the executive branch. Others will require working with Congress. Establishing a framework now that relies on market forces and eliminates favoritism will indicate that the next President will not be beholden to special interests, lobbyists, or Members of Congress with specific pet projects. The American people, businesses, the energy sector, and the economy at large will be much better off because of it.",0_0
"While Arctic sea ice has been diminishing in recent decades, the Antarctic sea ice extent has been increasing slightly. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology provide an explanation for the seeming paradox of increasing Antarctic sea ice in a warming climate. The paper appears in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science the week of August 16, 2010.",1_1
Why did he do and say what he did? Why did those words and deeds alienate the American middle and working classes? Is there something inherent in progressive politics that is out of sync with American attitudes and aspirations?,0_0
"""A recently released OpenOffice.org marketing video from Microsoft tries to highlight prospective issues for companies considering alternatives to Microsoft Office. Although the video suggests OpenOffice.org is increasingly becoming a viable alternative to Microsoft Office, the video also presents insights into Microsoft's business growth strategy.""",0_0
"AccuWeather's Joe Bastardi presses case against global warming theory In the video, Bastardi lays out a case that many in the scientific community have come to press that solar activity is a primary driver of the earths climate. Showing charts of solar activity in relation to historical temperatures, he pointed out that there were periods in the not-so-distant climate history that were much warmer than today. Click here to view Joe Bastardi's video on the AccuWeather.com website. Next Stop for ACE|GlobalWarming.org Just what the public schools exist for: letting advocacy groups in to take kids out of their classes to get recruited for a movement.",2_1
"the UK, much of the rest of the world seems coolish ? expected though given the",0_0
Solar particles interact with Earth's magnetosphere. (Source: NASA),0_0
"On June 2, the temperature in Stockholm rose only to 6C, the coldest high in 84 years, read more here . Earlier in the month one town recorded a temperature of 6C below zero the coldest June temperature in Sweden in 20 years. Snow even blanketed parts of northern Sweden.",1_3
Record-High Antarctic Sea Ice Levels Don't Disprove Global Warming,0_0
"The Center for Health and Global Environment is a hot bed for climate alarmism and anti-coal propaganda. The latest paper, with so much missing in its analysis, builds in that tradition.",5_2
"This is why I have trouble trusting GISS data. We keep finding instances like this one where the historical temperature record has been adjusted for no discernible or apparently logical reason. Cedarville, CA, which I previously highlighted is another prime example of a rural station with a long history, little growth, no UHI, but with an artificially enhanced positive temperature trend .",5_1
"Bush a Piker at Manipulating Science, Compared to Clinton, Gore",0_0
Not using fossil fuels is tantamount to not using energy. It is economic suicide and eco-manslaughter.,0_0
Questions Arise Concerning Whether GOP Candidates Remain Climate Skeptics,0_0
"Now it is fair to say I havent verified the quality of these trends or the quality of match to the reconstruction presented, that is for tomorrow. I also dont know what is was used as a reasonable value for regpar. What I do know is that this effect apparenlty isnt mentioned in the paper and makes a substantial difference in the final result. From my trends above I have 6 of 9 graphs with values in the required range of Steig et al that produce flat or negative trends. Had I plotted regpar of 3 through 9 in the last two neigs=10 graph, rest assured I would add another 6 negative trends.",0_0
"Unless stopped, EPA will be in a position to determine the stringency of fuel economy standards for the auto industry, set climate policy for the nation, and even 'amend' portions of the Clean Air Act (to avoid some, but not all, absurd results). These are powers Congress never delegated to EPA.",0_0
"By Staff Writers, Climate Change Predictions.org, From National Observer, Aug 11. 2015",0_0
Beware of warmists making predictions that they won't live long enough to be accountable for,0_0
"john a. bailo on May 31, 2008 at 11:21 pm",0_0
New type of El Nino could mean more hurricanes make landfall,0_0
"7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:",0_0
"The New Scientist headline for the spaghetti graph proclaims that ??? all suggest that it is warmer now than at any time in the past 1000 years??. Now several of these series do not extend to the MWP and shed no light on the matter one way or another: Oerlemans (only to 1600); Huang (only to 1500); Briffa 2001 (only to 1402) and Hegerl 2006 (only to 1251). The deletion of post-1960 Briffa 2001 values removes an inconvenient divergence in which the series reaches very low levels in the latter part of the 20th century. As discussed in connection with IPCC, the deletion of recent values makes these series look more unanimous in their ability to record temperatures than they truly are. The Wilson spaghetti graph in the 1961-1990 calibration period has all series below the zero mark, which surely can??t be right and suggests some peculiarity in his re-scaling method.",5_1
"Nothing above, as far as I can tell, is an attempt to explain barbarous and murderous behaviour of any kind. However, if it can be taken for granted that such tendencies will exploit a power vacuum, and that such vacuums are invariably the predictable consequence of poorly-conceived military interventions, then we can say that those who instigate such action are culpable to some extent for the consequences. Middle class guilt has nothing to do with it.",0_0
Why is the moon sometime round and sometimes looks like a banana? (As near as I can remember the exact question),0_0
"Obama dodged global warming during his reelection campaign, only to make it his ""legacy"" issue after he won a second term and no longer faced voter scrutiny.",0_0
"The same thing holds for other topics in which skeptics' disagreement is pointed out by LFCS Mr Boslough's rant. Dr Petr Chlek disagreed with Dr Fred Singer's usage of uncorrected UAH MSU satellite data which used to show a much smaller warming trend which was pretty much zero in the mid troposphere. Now, the question whether the correction made things more accurate and I am inclined to believe that it did is once again an extremely technical question that can have both answers. Once again, there's no ""cheap way"" to answer this difficult question.",0_0
Bottom line: good weather on election day over virtually the entire country.,0_0
"Much is opaque to non-specialists, but persistent inquiry and study can produce useful clarifications, similar to the nine errors identified by the British High Court in Al Gores propaganda film, An Inconvenient Truth.",5_2
the financial crisis. We did not have a housing bubble collapse because we don't,0_0
"Part 1, above,was released last Monday andthe remaining 9 parts will follow each Monday for the next 9 weeks. NoTricksZone will report on each episode as they are released.",0_0
"Thats right. Regardless of its cause. Working Group 2 isnt claiming that these observed impacts are necessarily a result of human activities. They could equally well be the result of natural climate change the IPCC makes no distinction. And if they are, then President Obama, the New York Times, the Guardian and all the others who believe that the adverse impacts of human-caused climate change are already being felt have got it wrong.",0_0
"Meanwhile, as the nation turned its attention to the upcoming presidential election, the GOP, which prides itself as ""the party of ideas,"" was losing its identity from an ideological standpoint.",0_0
"Except that loose-lippedschemers are half-baked Machiavellians.The Party of Nocan and should have the last laugh.All Senate Rs have to do is resist the temptation to do something. They now have a compelling and easilyexplained reason topostpone further consideration of energy legislation until the next Congress. It is simply that the greenhouse gang, by its own admission,does not intend to play fair or respect the wishes of the electorate.",0_0
and it lets you pick any of 3 major temperature points for your type of crop and see a map of Washington State for degree days to date. OR the variance from the 30 year average. This is the deviation chart:,0_0
"In my own country, The Netherlands, for instance, it has even received some official recognition, thus dissolving the information monopoly of climate alarmists. The Standing Committee on Environment of the Lower House even organized a one-day hearing, where both climate chaos adherents and disaster skeptics could freely discuss their different views before key parliamentarians who decide climate policy.",5_2
"Esper uses a method aimed at retaining long-period (greater than a century or so) variations in the tree-ring records, whereas Mann uses a method that virtually eliminates all long-term variation.",5_1
"President Obama is emphasizing global warming ahead of the November elections, but a new poll suggests he faces an uphill climb.",0_0
60-70: Boules (or Poker). Even more doctor appointments,0_0
lambda 0.05 0.10C per W/m2,0_0
"Whereas it is not our purpose here to discuss detailed links between the NAO and storminess, it will be immediately apparent that the two stormiest periods in Figure 1.14, in the 1920s and 1990s, coincide with decades of sustained positive NAO index, whereas the least stormy decade, the 1960s, is a time when the smoothed NAO index was most negative.",1_7
"If they want to delay the emissions trading scheme to after Copenhagen, then I am on that side at this stage, he said. The Rudd Government hasnt convinced me that we should be pushing through an emissions trading system before Copenhagen .",0_0
Beaufort Sea polynyas open two weeks before 1975 open water is good news for polar bears,3_2
"The theory does not judge anyone's honesty or dishonesty, but implies that the structure of incentives scientists face must create a bias of distortion, in which problems must be exaggerated to garner funding. The magnitude of the threat also provides an aura of virtue to the scientists and supportive politicians.",0_0
"Ive been reading the paper by Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas that basically proves the present it not at all unusually warm, that the Little Ice Age was real and global, and that the Medieval Warm Period was also global and quite real. It is worth having a copy just for the 5 1/5 pages (!) of references in it. Full paper at this link:",2_1
"Another rhetoricalshift is a subtle revision in the concept of climate sensitivity. Climate sensitivity used to mean how much global warming you get from a given increase inCO2 concentrations.However, since 2001, although CO2 concentrations have increased at an accelerating rate , global temperatures have been stagnant or even declined slightly . To my knowledge, no scientist in the late 1990s predicted a roughly 10-year period of no warming at the start of the 21st Century. This suggests that the climate is less sensitive (less reactive to CO2 emissions) than the alleged ???scientific consensus?? has been telling us.",1_4
"President Obamas new climate-change rule requires that utilities move rapidly to increase production from solar and wind power, which can only be competitive if natural gas costs rise sharply. The methane rule continues the assault, which is one more reason that the 2016 presidential election is crucial for continuing U.S. energy production.",0_0
"The big chill extended to parts of the country much less accustomed to it. Parts of Nevada were at 18F below zero; in Flagstaff, Arizona, the temperature dropped to 7F; temperatures as low as 27F were expected in usually mild Las Vegas and surrounding areas, and the National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings for Riverside and San Bernardino counties in ???sunny?? Southern California.",1_3
"SM: The restrictionists, from the Peter Brimelows to the George Borjas's to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, have all been proven spectacularly wrong over the past 20 years. These were people who predicted that if we continued to let immigrants in at the pace that we have, we would see mass unemployment and mass poverty and American competitiveness declining. Guess what? We've had just the opposite. We've had the greatest period of growth in the history of western civilization, even as we've been letting in record numbers of immigrants. This has been very inconvenient to people like Borjas and Brimelow and my friends at National Review who keep saying that immigrants are bad for the economy. Where's the evidence of that?",0_0
"Our latest topical graph shows the least-squares linear-regression trend on the RSS satellite monthly global mean lower-troposphere dataset for as far back as it is possible to go and still find a zero trend. The start-date is not cherry-picked so as to coincide with the temperature spike caused by the 1998 el Nio. Instead, it is calculated so as to find the longest period with a zero trend.",1_4
"The reports key point was that air quality in Canada had improved greatly since the 1970s. And, of course, good news about the environment is the last thing B.C.s eco-warriors want to hear",0_0
"The supposedly mindless 1950s, Siegel recalls, were actually a time of elevated culture, with thousands of Great Books discussion groups across the nation and high TV ratings for programs like Shakespeare's Richard III, staring Laurence Olivier.",0_0
"The Antarctic sea ice area anomaly is approximately +1.2 million squared kilometers (more ice than what is normal for the season), almost matching the peak reached in June 2008. Combined with a minor negative Northern sea ice area anomaly , the global sea ice area anomaly approaches huge +1.0 million squared kilometers.",1_1
"Urabe and Waki say their results imply that ""algal diets composed of multiple species can mitigate the adverse effects of elevated CO 2 on herbivore performance,"" and that ""in environments with high CO 2 , herbivores may find a new diet producer or a combination of producer species to best meet their nutritional demands."" Interestingly, the advice that nutritionists often give to people -- to eat a wide variety of foods -- would appear to apply to aquatic herbivores as well (and maybe even terrestrial herbivores), especially in a high-CO 2 world of the future. And maybe we should retain that wisdom too, for variety , it would seem, may be more than just the spice of life. Reviewed 6 May 2009",3_2
A virtual Green Army has been deliberately deceiving and misleading the citizens of planet Earth for four and a half decades.,5_2
"The four researchers conclude that ""the close correlation between White Lake and the North Atlantic suggests that, in response to the decreased temperatures, the White Lake area climate expressed as periods of reduced moisture abundance,"" and, therefore, that ""the Holocene 1500-year lake level fluctuations of White Lake probably represent responses to the broad-scale climate variability in the continental North Atlantic region."" Consequently, it is clear that broad-scale periods of warmth (in both space and time) have occurred over and over again throughout the Holocene - and beyond (Oppo et al ., 1998; Raymo et al ., 1998) - forced solely by variable solar activity, which suggests that the Current Warm Period was also instigated by this same recurring phenomenon and not the CO 2 output of the Industrial Revolution. References",2_1
"Moreover, the anti-hydrocarbon global warming ""solutions"" the Obama Administration is imposing will bring no real world benefits even assuming carbon dioxide actually drives climate change. That's largely because China, India and other developing countries are increasing their use of coal for electricity generation, and thus their CO2 emissions far beyond our ability to reduce US emissions. These nations rightly refuse to sacrifice economic growth and poverty eradication on the altar of climate alarmism.",4_2
"DotEarth profiles Jonathan Foley, Director of the Institute for the Environment at the University of Minnesota.",0_0
"So basically, Mann wants a legal guarantee that he can dish it out, but he doesn?t have to take it. What a jerk.",0_0
"As good a newsman as Ken wasand he was a journalist of the first stripeKen Smith was an even better person, a truly good man whose passing seems neither just nor fair to those he left behind. He was one of the finest friends many of us at CEI ever had, a paragon of kindness and compassion, an exemplar of loyalty.",0_0
"We also see an unambiguous response to warming in the environment: glaciers, combined Arctic and Antarctic sea ice, ocean heat storage, the ranges of species and so on. On a multi-decade time scale, there's no global indicator that presently shows cooling.",0_0
"The report goes on: Until his sacking, Mller had 38 years of distinguished service at the university.",0_0
"The long-term hope for many greens is that we can get beyond hydrocarbons and burn just the first half of those compound fuels, the hydrogen. Hydrogen is abundant, they remind us; it's part of water. But water is what you end up with after you burn the hydrogen in the hydrocarbon-steam goes out the tailpipe and up the smokestack, alongside the carbon dioxide.",0_0
"Why did they say it? In part, because it was convenient. And in part because the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said it in its Fourth Assessment Report (2007). Now the IPCC is saying, ""Whoopsie!""",0_0
"While natural gas prices are rock bottom in the US, they remain exorbitant in Europe and Asiafour to five times as highwhere a lack of a geological industry infrastructure to support sophisticated new mining techniques and political opposition to fracking have paralyzed politicians. Europe remains heavily dependent on dirty coal, Russia's Gazprom and Middle East supplies while Asia relies on coal, nuclear energy and massive foreign oil imports.",0_0
Talent-matching platforms and co-working spaces are just two leading trends behind a freelancer economy that's growing more robust by the day. Other models and services are bound to spring up to bridge more gaps between consultants and companies in more flexible ways than ever before.,0_0
"One problem is that we really don?t know how much cooling is exerted by sulfates, or whether they are just a convenient explanation for the failure of the forecasts of dramatic warming. The United Nations? Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which grants itself climate authority, states that our ?Level of Scientific Understanding? of the effects range between ?low? and ?very low,? with a possible cooling between zero (none) and a whopping 3.5 degrees (C) when the climate comes to equilibrium (which it will never do). That?s a plenty large range from which to pick out a number to cancel about as much warming as you?d like.",5_1
"In fact, the increase in global average temperature over the past century has been about one degree Fahrenheit, which is less than the normal annual variability in North America. In other words, temperature changes naturally year-on-year more than from man's effect on it over a century, assuming man is responsible for all of the change, which is unlikely.",2_1
"For example, Massachusetts Institute of Technology climate scientist Richard Lindzen, who was a U.N. IPCC lead author and reviewer, said, ""Controlling carbon is kind of a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life.""",0_0
"1. Warming of the ocean causes expansion of water and therefore a sea level rise. Since 2004 we have the ARGO scheme where over 3,600 buoys measure temperatures down to a depth of two km. They reveal no warming of the oceans. This, of course, is consistent with the lack of global warming over the past 17 years.",1_4
"The slowdown hasnt gone away, however, and The results of this study still show the warming trend over the past 15 years has been slower than previous 15 year periods.",1_4
It is statistically appropriate to point to this year??s frigidity as evidence that the theory of man-made global warming is suspect.,1_3
"The new study shows the Stern Review to depend critically on selective choice of facts, unusual economic assumptions and a propagandist narrative which would never have passed peer review.",0_0
Just who will buy Mr. Martin's version is still unclear. He is pinning his hopes on emergency workers who need to get somewhere in a hurry. Good luck with that.,0_0
"Therefore, most of the greenhouse effect is natural and caused by the different forms of water in the atmosphere. However, human activities over the last 100 years, like burning wood, coal, oil, and natural gas, have increased the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by an amount equivalent to a fifty percent increase in carbon dioxide alone. According to some projections, the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from human activities will be effectively equal to a doubling of CO2 in the next 100 years.",2_1
"Codevilla notes that this ruling class is nothing like the American leaders of the past, who came from truly diverse backgrounds and held a variety of beliefs while accepting the nation's founding values. And unlike most past aristocracies, which were based on heredity, the progressive aristocracy is based on commitment to a set of ideas. Foremost among these is hostility toward Christianity: ""While the unenlightened ones believe that man is created in the image and likeness of God and that we are subject to His and to His nature's laws, the enlightened ones know that we are products of evolution, driven by chance, the environment, and the will to primacy,"" Codevilla writes.",0_0
"That could once again result in both sizable GOP gains in the House and a renewed Republican majority in the Senate, but it would also mean a repeat of the vicious cycle that led to Trump in the first place.",0_0
"During the decade, large-scale droughts, primarily in the Southern Hemisphere, were strong enough to overwhelm increased plant growth in other places, resulting in decreased plant growth overall. While 65 percent of the Northern Hemispheres vegetated land had increasing growth, 70 percent of the Southern Hemispheres vegetated land had decreasing growth. Added together, global plant growth decreased slightly in the decade, reducing carbon uptake by an estimated 0.55 petagrams, a one percent decrease.",0_0
"The classic tornado situation involves a longwave low pressure trough over the western U.S., caused by an unusually cool atmosphere in the lowest 5-10 miles of the atmosphere. This has remained true for this years enhanced tornado activity. I suspect the persisting mountain snowpack from a very snowy winter has played a role in this.",0_0
"These bugs affect hundreds of millions of tons of CO2 emissions that someone got paid for: that's billions of dollars. However, no CO2 emissions were even reduced (and we don't even have to discuss whether such reductions would have any impact on the environment: surely not a detectable positive one). India only witnessed reductions that would be ""achieved"" even if the Europeans didn't participate at all.",4_2
SALT LAKE CITY ? Recent dramatic changes in the Arctic will have a significant effect on our weather in Utah. That?s the conclusion of a top scientist studying Arctic sea ice.,0_0
"Finally, does anyone else think that averaging high mountain tundra temperature anomalies with lowland plains anomalies, in order to adjust foothills anomalies, is a method that might work but that it definitely would take careful watching and strict quality control?",5_1
"Many bloggers instantly denounced Cullen for proposing to decertify meteorologists who don't espouse global warming alarmism. She denied doing any such thing, and if we consider only the letter of her remarks, that is correct.",5_1
"SM: I think these rebate checks are going to be extremely popular with people. A lot of the press has been dismissing this as, oh, it's only $300, and people just don't care. People will care, and they will be very pleased when they get these checks. This will be a big political winner for Bush. Economically, it will have very little effect. The problem in our economy today is not too little consumption, but too little investment and savings. The cost of capital is too high. The tax rebate does nothing to reduce the cost of capital. If you really want a stimulus for the economy, you'd get much more bang for your buck by cutting the capital gains tax. That would have a much more dramatic impact on investment and the capital costs than a rebate.",0_0
Environmentalist Zealots Indoctrinate Students at Taxpayer Expense,0_0
"Harris et al. (2013) : This perturbed physics/parameter ensemble (PPE) studys TCR range, like its ECS range, almost entirely reflects the characteristics of the UK Met Office HadCM3 model. Despite the HadCM3 PPE (as extended by emulation) sampling a wide range of values for 31 key model atmospheric parameters, the models structural rigidities are so strong that none of the cases results in the combination of low-to-moderate climate sensitivity and low-to-moderate aerosol forcing that the observational data best supports nor could perturbing aerosol model parameters achieve this.",0_0
"Significantly, that warming occurred during the period when climate modelers developed their models, and since they assumed all warming was manmade, they had to increase the models sensitivity. Now, they are between a rock and a hard place, continuing to publish overly-sensitivity models they know are wrong (based upon both surface AND deep ocean warming rates).",3_1
"One year ago, Roy Spencer released his new book, The Great Global Warming Blunder, in which he argued that the influence of the natural cloud cover variations on the temperature has been misinterpreted as the opposite influence and, therefore, a positive feedback. That has greatly and spuriously inflated the predicted sensitivity of the climate to carbon dioxide and similar drivers.",3_1
"140. As a result of Plaintiff?s campaign to silence those who disagree with him on a highly controversial issue of great public importance, wrongful action and violation of the Anti-SLAPP Act, Steyn has been damaged and is entitled to damages, including but not limited to his costs and the attorneys? fees he has incurred and will incur in the future in defending this action, all in an amount to be determined at trial, but in any event, not less than $5 million, plus punitive damages in the amount of $5 million.",0_0
"Households have far higher electricity bills using alternative energy than natural gas. This disproportionately affects the poor, who spend a higher share of their income on energy. For the U.S., data from the Labor Department show that individuals in the lowest fifth of the income distribution spend an average of 24 percent of income on energy, compared with 10 percent of income for those in the middle fifth, and 4 percent of income for those in the top fifth.",4_1
"Unfortunately, we do not yet have the institutional know-how and political will to implement such a cost-effective approach for reducing greenhouse gases on a global scale. Instead of rushing to go global, we should be looking to set up modest multi-country testscall them ""case studies""that might be applied globally in the decades ahead.",0_0
"Thinking of this horrific, apocalyptic scenario makes it difficult for Bry to decide whether to sire another child Bry is already a father to an 11-year-old son.",0_0
"Austrian weather expert Alexander Orlik from the central weather institute ZAMG said: ???It is true the snow is very early this year and that is an indication that it will be a long hard winter, but not proof.??",1_3
"An excellent example of how the aristocracy rules the realm is the global warming issue. All the money, profit, power, and prestige are on the side of the alarmists, and they wield their power ruthlessly, blatantly throwing their weight around in silencing those who try to tell the truth about the science of climate change. Al Gore is a multimillionaire who knows nothing about science, whereas S. Fred Singer is a brilliant scientist who continually endures a firestorm of slanders and harassment for trying to uphold scientific standards. These two men encapsulate the opposing forces of the aristocracy and the productive class.",5_2
"The frequency of extreme floods also increased during the early and middle portions of the first millennium AD, many of which coincided ""with glacial advances and cool, moist conditions both in the western U.S. and globally."" Then came a ""sharp drop in the frequency of large floods in the southwest from AD 1100-1300,"" which corresponded, in her words, ""to the widespread Medieval Warm Period, which was first noted in European historical records."" With the advent of the Little Ice Age, however, there was another ""substantial jump in the number of floods in the southwestern U.S.,"" which was ""associated with a switch to glacial advances, high lake levels, and cooler, wetter conditions.""",1_7
"All 16 models examined have the same fatal flaw: They predict rain too easily, by artificially elevating air and water masses in the atmosphere.",5_1
"I'm less convinced that we know enough to quantify how much humans have contributed to the warming, via which activities, or how much change we could avert by modifying those activities.",5_1
"In its Report to the President, EPA ""concludes that concern about the scope of the routine maintenance exclusion is having an adverse impact on projects that affect availability, reliability, efficiency, and safety.""27 Concerning nonutility companies, EPA says ""concern about the scope of the routine maintenance exclusion is having an adverse impact on industries outside the energy sector. It also is credible to conclude that projects have been discouraged that might have been economically and/or environmentally beneficial without increasing actual emissions.""28",0_0
Hansen is the politicized NASA climate scientist who virtually invented the global warming issue in the broiling summer of 1988 when he was the star doomsayer at Senate hearings called by Al Gore.,5_2
"But Michael Mann has been a voluntary public figure since at least 1998. He first volunteered to be a public figure as early as April 22, 1998 when he appeared on NBC Nightly News to discuss his hokey stick study.",0_0
"A quote from an IPCC participant: After being several times, I still have no idea how I was selected. This is unacceptable.",0_0
"Britain has recorded its hottest day ever as the temperature soared to 38.1C (100.6F) in Gravesend, Kent.",0_0
"The document, an update on Solyndras $535 million Energy Department (DOE) loan guarantee, notes that $527 million had been disbursed and that DOE believed no more funds should be alloted.",0_0
"Environmentalists campaigned to include these ""indirect"" emissions in the Environmental Protection Agency's calculation of ethanol's ""lifecycle emissions."" It's an important distinction, because in 2007, Congress also imposed a requirement that most new ethanol production should produce 20 percent less ""lifecycle"" greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline.",0_0
"If there is no tropical upper troposphere hotspot, then there is no positive feedback, and thus, no climate change crisis as predicted by the IPCC. If there is no hotspot, then the IPCC hypothesis of CO2 caused global warming (AGW) is essentially proven false.",2_3
"Yet data of observed reality collected from the U.N.s International Panel on Climate Change and the U.S. National Climate Data Center does not show increasing frequency of extreme weather across the globe, whether you look at hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, or floods.",1_7
"(click to enlarge) Source: Svend Erik Hendriksen, Greenland Art Review, Greenland",0_0
"There are a number of ways to present the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. The NOAA ESRL simply detrends the North Atlantic sea surface temperature anomalies. Thats the most common way. Another way: Trenberth and Shea (2006) subtracted global sea surface temperature anomalies, excluding the polar oceans (60S-60N), from sea surface temperature anomalies of the North Atlantic (0-60N, 80W-0). That method accounts for the additional variability of the North Atlantic data above the variations in the global data. Unfortunately, the North Atlantic is included in the global data so theyre subtracting a portion of the North Atlantic from itself, and that becomes a problem in the early part of the data. Sea surface temperature data sampling is best in the North Atlantic, especially in the 1800s and early 1900s, so a greater portion of the global data is from the North Atlantic then.",0_0
"Dig a bit deeper, and it is obvious that voters are tired of the partisan bickering and ideologically driven rancorthey want problems solved in Washington, not yelling or posturing or revenge killing that only results in gridlock. The latter is what they see coming out of Congress.",0_0
CEI Weekly: Cuomo's Antitrust Witch Hunt,0_0
Villagers fight plans for huge 'eco towns',0_0
Indian Drought of 1965-1967-Over 1.5 million perish in India,0_0
TCR calculation based on AR5 forcing estimates,0_0
"Congressional committees and our next President must subject secret data, computer codes, models, and studies to full review by independent experts to determine which assertions, policies, and regulations are reasonable and legitimate, and which are based on serious error, deceptive claims, or outright fraud.",5_2
Utility MACT Resolution: Stopping President Obama's War on Coal,0_0
I am contacting you regarding your contributed paper. Attached is a letter from Randy Schekman.,0_0
"Fort Denison , an old penal colony in the middle of Sydney Harbour, has one of the oldest tide gauges around, having been located there for 128 years. During this period, the sea level has risen just 6.5 cm, or about two and a half inches.",1_6
"UN And Met Office Experts : ""low-altitude destinations are no longer getting enough snow""",0_0
"Jacobson said the sum of warming caused by all anthropogenic greenhouse gases CO 2 , methane, nitrous oxide, chlorofluorocarbons and some others plus the warming caused by black and brown carbon will yield a planetary warming effect of 2 degrees Celsius over the 20-year period simulated by the computer. But light-colored particles white and gray particles primarily reflect sunlight and enhance cloudiness, causing more light to reflect.",0_0
"White House, Greens target Atlantic fishing grounds",0_0
Benjamin Zycher is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.,0_0
"The total amount of fossil fuel burned to date (historically to 2010) by humans is 3.7 x 10^14 kg-C, less than half of the carbon contained in the atmosphere as a minor constituent gas",2_3
"Some rule makers are more active than others. Out of 61 rulemaking agencies, just fivethe departments of Treasury, Agriculture, Commerce, and Interior and the Environmental Protection Agencyaccount for 46 percent of all rules in the pipeline.",0_0
The snow and ice by contrast are here now. They are stopping people getting to school and work. It is time our authorities shook off their can?t-do attitude and started investing in the means to do what much colder countries seem to achieve effortlessly: keeping the nation moving.,0_0
"Study: Neither HFCS nor table sugar increases liver fat under ""real world' conditions",0_0
"Eugene Trisko, United Mine Workers Association",0_0
"And impressive they are. The moderator was Jeffrey Mervis, a senior correspondent at Science. There was Rush Holt, a former research physicist, a former congressman, and now CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). There was Dahlia Sokolov, the minority staff director for the Research and Technology Subcommittee of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. There was Al Teich, now a professor at GWU, and formerly the director of science and policy programs at the AAAS. Perhaps less impressive, there was little old me.",0_0
"Basically, sending your photos to these sites is a bit like sending someone to North Korea - they go in but never come out. Someone just shared a shutterfly album with me and God forbid you want to actually save some of the full-resolution images rather than just buy prints from them. At best these sites have some kludgy way to download full resolution photos one at a time, but it is never, ever easy and none have, as far as I have been able to see, a batch download function. Flickr is the best in several ways due to its API that lets me automatically share albums and photos pretty easily in WordPress, but its core interface is now so ugly with the revamp a few years ago that I can barely stand to open it (and they tend to change names for the same damn thing - set, album, collection, etc - depending on which menu or context you find it).",0_0
"Elevated CO 2 preferentially stimulated belowground growth in seedlings growing in nitrogen-poor soil, which increased their root to shoot ratios. However, elevated CO 2 increased both the above- and below-ground biomass of seedlings growing in nitrogen-rich soil. In fact, the CO 2 -enriched seedlings in the nitrogen-rich soil produced 217 and 533% more stem and coarse-root biomass, respectively, than their ambiently-grown counterparts subjected to high concentrations of soil nitrogen. Overall, elevated CO 2 enhanced total seedling biomass by approximately 140 and 30% under nitrogen-rich and nitrogen-poor soil conditions, respectively.",3_3
"Finally, he is a scientist, and doesn't place his faith in soothsayers: he reminds people that we can not predict the future.",0_0
"Climate researchers do not know nearly as much about the causes of climate change as they profess. We have a pretty good understanding of how the climate system works on average?but the reasons for small, long-term changes in climate system are still extremely uncertain.",0_0
I am a mean R programmer (I curse the computer a lot) and am eager to demonstrate the usefulness of predictive statistics to some adventurous firm.,0_0
"In the past model-data comparisons of satellite-era sea surface temperatures (see the posts here and here ), Ive compared the data and model outputs for the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. For this post, Ive divided the global data into three subsets: the tropical oceans (24S-24N), and the extratropical oceans of the Northern Hemisphere (24N-90N) and the Southern Hemisphere (90S-24S).",0_0
"Just to be clear, my statement that polar bears can survive climate change but for mans greed, does not translate to not threatened by climate change. Certainly, if not for the decline in sea ice, polar bears would have a better future. The contraction of polar bear populations will indeed follow the loss of sea ice habitat. The survival of a great many bears will be threatened. This threat is a clear and present danger directly attributable to climate induced sea ice reduction.",3_2
"This regression produces a global warming signal which is about half of that predicted by the global warming models. The F statistic at 4,308 passes a 99.9% confidence interval.",5_1
"Now that Russia is rich with oil money and has paid its debts to the West, what Russia wants from the West is respect.16 Russia's nuisance capacity should not be underestimated, even though threats to withdraw from the CFE Treaty, or to turn the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) into a ""natural gas OPEC,"" are intended primarily for domestic consumption and to signal that NATO has enlarged far enough.",0_0
"a) Cochrane-Orcutt (CO) , with two-sided confidence intervals, calculated assuming the uncertainty in the mean is t-distributed and",0_0
"Marlo Lewis, MasterResource.org , 30 March 2010",0_0
NASA GISS: Science Briefs: Whither U.S. Climate?,0_0
Tonight: Snow could be heavy at times. Low around 22. South southwest wind between 13 and 18 mph. Chance of precipitation 100%. New snow accumulation of 12 to 18 inches possible.,1_3
"Oh Dear! So a long term declining trend was removed before Mann merged ? That sounds like a very serious issue in the Mann hockey stick, and Keith is not keen on recognizing it I think I like this Esper guy. Truth first, consequences to be accepted.",5_1
"Perhaps the most damning assessment of EVs came from the Congressional Budget Office in a September report (PDF). The CBO estimated that the lifetime cost of owning an electric vehicle or plug-in hybrid is $16,000 to $19,000 more than that of a conventional car. Despite those higher costs of ownership, the CBO estimated that federal subsidies for EVs will total $7.5B over the next seven years.",4_4
"In that respect, it is worth remembering that, in its day, SEATO included non-Asian countries like the UK and France, whose threat perceptions over time evolved differently from those of Australia and New Zealand (not to mention Thailand or the Philippines), and eventually SEATO went the way of the dodo.28 Therefore, when talking about NATO's global partners, one cannot avoid raising SEATO-related issues: Do allies and would-be partner nations have the same threat perceptions? What kind of ""added value"" will the concept of global partnership offer not only to the former, but also to the latter? In what ways can global partners become a force multiplier for the Atlantic Alliance, and in what way can it lead instead to an ""entangling alliance""?",0_0
"Fossil fuels have provided the energy to improve farming yields, grow manufacturing and business, and are now powering data servers and even the Cloud, Mr. Duncan said. And while we have all benefited from reliable, clean coal electricity, there are still those who seek to end this American form of power. More and more, this Administration has abdicated its energy policy to the EPA whose regulations will shutter existing coal power plants and thwart the construction of new ones. We would hope that evidence in support of the benefit of fossil fuels, including clean coal, will help bring common sense to the regulatory process.",4_5
"This long-term study of oak trees growing in a natural setting provides strong parallel evidence for the reality of the large CO 2 -induced growth stimulation that has long been evident in the sour orange tree study of Idso and Kimball (2001) . It also provides strong evidence for the observation of Curtis et al. (2003) that the meta-analysis of Jablonski et al. (2002) suggests that drought does not diminish the positive effects of atmospheric CO 2 enrichment on plant growth and development. Indeed, it indicates that it actually tends to enhance this stimulatory phenomenon, as was earlier demonstrated by the meta-analysis of Idso and Idso (1994). References",3_3
1) Climate models overwhelming expected much more warming to have taken place over the past several decades than actually occurred; and,5_1
I believe that there has never been a socially relevant area examined by science that has been more meticulously checked for errors than climate science.,0_0
S. T. Karnick is director of research for The Heartland Institute and editor of The American Culture.,0_0
"I'd like to remind my colleagues that this resolution will likely be the vote on coal for the year so this is our one chance. Many of my Democrat colleagues have gone on record saying they want to rein in the Obama-EPA. The senior Senator from Missouri is one of them: she said back home that she is determined to ""hold the line on the EPA."" Does that mean she, and other Senate Democrats who have made similar statements, will vote to stop the centerpiece of Obama's war on coal?",0_0
"In his June 26 op-ed, ""ExxonMobil's climate-change smoke screen,"" Yale Law School Dean Robert Post called me and others who invoke the First Amendment to question the prosecution of those who dispute the legitimacy of climate change ""grossly irresponsible."" He called global warming ""perhaps the single most significant threat facing the future of humanity."" But human-induced global warming is unproven, not an undisputed fact. Mr. Post claimed that if ExxonMobil or others had committed ""fraud,"" that trumped the First Amendment. However, ""simply labeling an action . . . ""fraud' . . . will not carry the day,"" the Supreme Court explained in 2003.",0_0
"In a recent report, US Energy Scenarios for the 21st Century, the Pew Center on Global Climate Change looked at three possible scenarios for future US energy use and found that in all of them greenhouse gas emissions would remain significantly above the US targets under Kyoto. This is especially notable in that the Pew Center is a front group for multi-national corporations that hope to profit from energy rationing.",0_0
"1: Roy Spencer has a PhD in meteorology. 2: Roy Spencer has been doing climate research for over 20 years. 3: His research has been mostly under contract to NASA, NOAA, and DOE. 4: He has testified in Congress several times on the general subject of climate change. 5: He has published two popular books on the global warming issue.",0_0
"Moreover, the people who EPA claims are most at risk, most susceptible to getting horribly sick and even dying, from exposure to these particulates were precisely the same people recruited by EPA and its EPA-funded research teams: the elderly, asthmatics, diabetics, people with heart disease, children. And to top it off, the test subjects were exposed to eight, thirty or even sixty times more particulates per volume for up to two hours than they would breathe outdoors, and what EPA claims are dangerous or lethal.",0_0
Walker is part of a group of 17 state attorneys general who said they would use their prosecutorial powers as law enforcement officials to go after those that have sought to cover up the evidence of climate change that is placing the public at risk.,0_0
"A book that raised hackles and experienced personal attacks from the environmentalists was Bjorn Lomborg?s The Skeptical Environmentalist. UN IPCC chief, Rajendra Pachauri, compared him to Hitler. It is typical of Pachauri?s lack of understanding and undiplomatic reactions, but he wasn?t alone. Almost everyone, including most skeptics, misunderstood what Lomborg was saying, especially about climate. People on both sides of the climate issue were fooled by Lomborg?s use of ?skeptic? in his title. Too many people designated climate skeptics by the warming alarmists and those questioning extreme environmentalism were desperate for a public relations victory.",5_2
Lake Powell Water Levels as a Proxy for Western Snowfall,0_0
"FactCheck: A more recent study in Science, published in February, reports that Greenland's glaciers accelerated their movement to the sea between 1996 and 2000. It concluded, ""As more glaciers accelerate farther north, the contribution of Greenland to sea-level rise will continue to increase.""",0_0
"In addition to Proposition 65, As You Sow uses the federal securities laws to accomplish its agenda. As You Sow buys small amounts of stock in a number of companies in order to file shareholder resolutions that pressure corporate managements. Though these nuisance resolutions are always soundly defeated by shareholders, they make some CEOs wobbly-kneed.",0_0
"The two graphs below show what temperatures used to look like in the US and Iceland, before they were tampered with at GISS. The 1930s was the hottest decade, and temperatures were declining. This disprovedHansenstheories, so he had to get rid of the graphs.",5_2
"Fourth, some may be tempted simply to pretend to believe that a mix of Chinese or Indian ""no-regrets"" policies constitutes serious action on GHG controls. (No-regrets policies are those that would be rational to adopt even in the absence of concerns about climate change.) China and India, for reasons unrelated to climate, are very likely to adopt such policies. Their economies exhibit very low energy efficiency. They enjoy many options for making energy savings that will be cost-beneficial quite independently of concerns about climate. Chinese and Indian actions to reduce this waste are, therefore, properly regarded as corrections to the estimates of their baseline GHG growth; as such, they are welcome. They are, however, not done in response to U.S. action, and they will affect GHG growth paths only at the margin.",0_0
"A review of those articles shows that the vast majority of them were written by Romm. In reply to Romm's increasingly shrill attacks, Pielke was civil, even gentlemanly. In 2010, Pielke challenged Romm to a public debate in Romm's hometown, at a date and venue of his choosing offering to contribute up to $10,000 to the winner's favorite charity. Romm, to his eternal discredit, refused. Furthermore, on his blog, Romm routinely deleted comments he didn't like, including those that called him out for ducking Pielke's challenge to debate.",5_2
"So, Schmidt and Sherwood is an interesting read, but I'm not sure that the poor policymaker will draw much comfort from it.",0_0
"The latest effort came last week when the Environmental Protection Agency issued its new rule to slash emissions of methane, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling. The industry will be required to cut methane emissions by 40% to 45% over the next decade from 2012 levels. The rule spares existing wells that make no changes, but all new or modified wells will have to install costly new methane mitigation systems.",0_0
"May, 2009 shows the greatest ice extent in the AMSR-E record, which seems to contradict Hadow??s highly publicised remarks about Arctic ice health.",1_1
"Global warming theory proponents have ,resorted to the politics of fear to drive their point home. They argue that man-made greenhouse gases are already causing the world's glaciers to melt, causing sea levels to rise and threatening humanity with a multitude of economic and environmental calamities. A recent Smithsonian Institution exhibit on climate change, for instance, included a depiction of the Washington Monument partially submerged in the Atlantic Ocean, leaving visitors with the distinct impression that we must reduce greenhouse gas emissions now if we want our descendants to be able to visit the famous monument. But such scenarios belong in the realm of science fiction, not science fact.",5_2
"In the last post was an explanation of the difference between energy and energy flux. Energy is generally a simple static scalar quantity, while flux refers to an instantaneous expenditure of energy.",0_0
"Pierre Latour goes on to discuss back radiation and repeats the fundamental 2 nd Law of Thermodynamics with the words Heat does not flow from cold matter to hot matter, heating hot further; only from hot to cold.",0_0
"Making energy cleaner in the present context means banning (rapidly phasing out) the carbon-based fuels that currently supply 82% of U.S. and world energy consumption, and are projected ??? absent additional market-rigging interventions ??? to supply 80% of U.S. energy in 2040.",4_1
"Most troubling, under CAA 110(a)(2)(D), sources in one state are prohibited from contributing to NAAQS non-attainment in another state. Given the long residence time of GHGs in the atmosphere, an argument could be made that almost any quantity of emissions anywherecontributes to NAAQS non-attainment everywhere. Hence, to avoid contributing to NAAQS non-attainment in other states,most sources would simply have to shut down!",0_0
"/s/ Dr. Lubert Leger JSC, Asst. Chief Materials Division, Engr. Directorate, 30 years",0_0
"However, Ostlund said incinerating the garbage may be a better plan than leaving it in a landfill.",0_0
"The emails which are now public reveal that Mr Holland??s requests under the Freedom of Information Act were not dealt with as they should have been under the legislation. Section 77 of the Freedom of Information Act makes it an offence for public authorities to act so as to prevent intentionally the disclosure of requested information. Mr Holland??s FOI requests were submitted in 2007/8, but it has only recently come to light that they were not dealt with in accordance with the Act.",5_2
"Chlorofluorocarbons were primarily used as refrigerants, propellants, and in fire control systems. They were uniquely well-suited to these applications. CFCs are non-toxic, chemically inert, non-corrosive, non-flammable and roughly four times heavier than air. Their physical characteristics makes them ideal refrigerants. Because they are so chemically inert, non-toxic, and non-flammable, they are excellent aerosol propellants. They are inexpensive to produce and easy and safe to handle. CFCs made modern refrigeration and air conditioning affordable and widely available.",0_0
"new un sanctions resolution several months later. Indeed, the inconvenient fact for",0_0
"""Two U.N. studies and even Myers agree closely in their estimates of the Brazilian deforestation rate between 0.0025 and 0.004 percent per year even Lovejoy's ""low"" assumption would be perhaps 10 times too high.""",0_0
"Those interested in additional information should find the following items useful. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce provides an excellent literature summary on global warming and air pollution in its detailed review of EPA's endangerment proposal and TSD. Joel Schwartz's book, No Way Back, explains why air pollution will continue to decline in the decades ahead. Finally, Joel presents his critique of the warming-will-destroy-air-quality scare in this video from the Heartland Institute's first annual International Conference on Climate Change.",0_0
"In my post last week, Greenland Glaciers Melting Faster? , I suggested that there was no evidence that sea levels at Reykjavik have been rising at a faster rate in the last decade than before.",1_6
"Instead, the evidence now points to the IPCC and its Climategate scientists conspiring to mislead. Thankfully, the vast majority of the world's scientists do not believe in the IPCC's climate political-science proclamations and thus continue performing/producing empirical research to determine the science truth.",5_2
"To show how uncivil this crowd can get, Happer e-mailed me an article about an Australian professor who proposes quite seriously the death penalty for heretics such as Dyson. As did Galileo, they can get a reprieve if they recant.",0_0
"This images indicates Yellowstone earthquake from the past week. One of the most intense siesmic ""swarms"" in the national park's history has been shaking the north end of Yellowstone Lake. Since Dec. 26, 900 quakes, 111 measuring magnitude 2.0 to 3.9, have been recorded. Image by the U.S. Geological Survey.",0_0
"Meanwhile, global sea ice area is normal.",1_1
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, this concludes my testimony. I would be happy to try to answer any question that you or other Members of the Committee may have.",0_0
"Elser writes, for example, that ""Hietz et al . (2011) gathered data in tropical rainforests of Panama and Thailand,"" and he says the results indicate that ""increasing levels of nitrogen deposition in the tropics have alleviated forest nitrogen limitation."" And as a result, this phenomenon has allowed the aerial fertilization effect of the ongoing rise in the air's CO 2 content to significantly stimulate tropical forest growth nearly everywhere on earth, as has been demonstrated by the host of studies we have reviewed on our website and archived under the general heading of Forests (Tropical) in our Subject Index.",3_3
"Not long ago some climate scientists announced winters with snow would be a thing of the past in Europe. Global warming, they said, would be especially noticeablein the wintertime. But then in the late 2000s and early 2010s, a string of harsh winters gripped the old continent and the trend in Germany went downhill: colder and snowier winters.",1_3
"Continuing, Trenberth states that ???confidence in model results for changes in extremes is tempered by the large scatter among the extremes in modeling today??s climate, especially in the tropics and subtropics (Kharin et al ., 2007), which relates to poor depiction of transient tropical disturbances, including easterly waves, Madden-Julian Oscillations, tropical storms, and hurricanes (Lin et al ., 2006).?? These phenomena, in his words, ???are very resolution dependent, but also depend on parameterizations of sub-grid-scale convection, the shortcomings of which are revealed in diurnal cycle simulations,?? wherein ???models produce precipitation that is too frequent and with insufficient intensity (Yang and Slingo, 2001; Trenberth et al ., 2003; Dai and Trenberth, 2004; Dai, 2006).??",5_1
"The union puts that power to a host of political uses, starting with state-level lobbying, which consumes by far the largest portion of its political budget. State filings show that 1199 and its affiliate, the Healthcare Education Project, have spent $30.7 million over the last decade, a sum that surpasses even the lobbying expenses of a perennial Albany powerhouse, the New York State United Teachers.",0_0
"Once this global network has declared an issue to be of paramount importance climate change being the most prominent current example it can team up with elements of the global business community, eager to take advantage of whatever regulations, subsidies, and other measures are adopted to promote the latest fad. The result is the rise of a formidable coalition of power-hungry regulatory bureaucrats and rent-seeking companies, working with, and often funding, friendly non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for the purpose of transforming the world to suit their interests.",5_2
"""But, Dad. That sounds to me like a bear doing what bears will always do. Eating easily available stuff in preference to less available stuff. It's hardly a sign of imminent climate doom.""",0_0
"The sizable government largesse helped forge a pragmatic bond between top Dow officials and Markey, an outspoken campaigner for climate change initiatives and against shale gas development. They haven't always been on the same page. For example, Markey has opposed a chemical security measure, which Dow has backed. But that issue is small potatoes compared to climate change, one of Markey's signature issues.",0_0
"6. De-bottlenecking. EPA proposes to clarify that, when calculating actual emissions associated with a modification, emitters generally will need to look only at the unit undergoing the change. Emissions from units ""upstream"" or ""downstream"" of the unit being changed would be considered only when the permitted emissions limit of the upstream or downstream unit would be exceeded or increased as a result of the change.",0_0
This essay is available here in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.,0_0
"Now its necessary to scrutinize the figure very carefully. Looking across the wavelength scale at the bottom, H 2 O absorbs strongly in the 3-micron region, and again between 5 and 7 microns; then it absorbs to some degree beyond about 12 microns. CO 2 has absorption bands centered around 2.5 microns, 4.3 microns, and has a broad band out beyond 13 microns. Consequently, CO 2 adds a small contribution to the greenhouse effect. Notice that sometimes CO 2 bands overlap with H 2 O bands, and with vastly more H 2 O present, CO 2 doesnt matter in those bands.",2_3
"In fact, he implicitly called for an eventual ban on virtually all forms of energy. The only forms of power generation Gore supported as truly green were wind, solar, and geothermal energy???which today produce a meager and extremely expensive 2% of our nations electricity.",4_4
"Cheap gas makes it difficult for rival forms of fuel to compete, said Sam Brothwell, a senior utility analyst with Bloomberg Industries, in a telephone interview. Historically, gas-fired generators have been the least expensive to build, offset by a higher fuel cost, Brothwell said. With gas falling below $3, it makes all other forms of producing electricity look less competitive by comparison, he said.",4_5
"Writing recently inJournal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Dr Richard S. Lindzen, Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said of those with political agendas who found it useful to employ science, This immediately involves a distortion of science at a very basic level: namely science becomes a source of authority rather than a mode of inquiry. The real utility of science stems from the latter; the political utility stems from the former.",0_0
"The United States produces well over 5 billion tons of CO2 alone every year. At $160 per ton, this means that the total cost is $800,000,000,000 each year, which is more than the gross domestic product of every state except California. To say the least, this seems unlikely.",0_0
"Again, the solid red lines are the observations of cloud radiative effect. CM2 looks ???decent?? for the net effect, but it only gets a decent estimate because it underestimates the short wave radiation (by up to 70W / m2) and overestimates the longwave radiation. HadGem is ???less awful??.",5_1
"It's true that, unlike the era of John Glenn and Neil Armstrong, the new age of space offers plenty of room for commercial ventures, whether it's by Elon Musk's SpaceX or Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, and whether the aim is to launch satellites or to send tourists into space. The days when only a government agency could operate these advanced technologies safely or frequently are long gone.",0_0
About one-half of Blunder is a non-technical description of our new peer reviewed and soon-to-be-published research which supports the opinion that a majority of Americans already hold: that warming in recent decades is mostly due to a natural cycle in the climate system not to an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning.,2_1
only yield well under a dollar (present value) in benefits. So give up,0_0
"""The idea that the Constitution grants only limited and enumerated powers and leaves the remainder to the states is foreign to those who believe that the national government should or even could address voters' every concern. But contrary to the view widely shared by the political class, Washingtonin particular, Congressdoes not have the power to pass any law it wants in the name of the 'general welfare.'""",0_0
"The EPA could issue GHG performance standards for existing (as distinct from new or modified) coal power plants, as well as GHG performance standards for other industrial categories (refineries, cement production facilities, steel mills, paper mills, etc.).",0_0
"Consumers have experienced the Prius and had a look at the future Chevy Volt and other EV??s, but inconveniently are rejecting these choices in favor of affordable vehicles . Big ones.",4_4
"If you doubt this will happen, look at the wind and solar industries, which have used the same argument to extend their subsidies successfully half a dozen times, most recently in December.",0_0
"As I forecast a couple of months ago, CET figures just released confirm that 2012 was the second coldest for sixteen years, second only to 2010. The provisional figure is 9.70C, which is 0.27C colder than the 1981-2010 average.",1_4
Maybebut only via serious venues like PBS's the NewsHour and The New York Times.,0_0
"Manns reply to this (his ""review"") depends on Mann et al 2005 (J Clim 2005 available at his website) and Mann et al 2006 unpublished. (Isnt amazing how often the Teams supposed refutation of a point is in the still unpublished article?)",0_0
Delingpoles article (not written by him) was incorrect in many aspects. Certainly more dams should have been built even if they might have put pressure on the rare lesser spotted tadpole in the catchment area. The Greens of course and local landowners put an end to that and will continue to do so as long as the Greens exist. However more dams wouldnt have stopped the current severe floods unless an unrealistic number had been built. They may have saved some properties but the rivers do need to flow.,0_0
Although some of the stuff in the analysis is unanswered the most important trend is per capita figures for comparison.,0_0
"Yeatman: In 2008, candidate Obama promised 5,000,000 green jobs. $90 billion stimulus later, he's talking about ""tens of thousands of jobs""?",0_0
"Safety. Right now most of the oil from Canadas oil sands and North Dakotas Bakken shale deposits moves by railroad and truck fuel tanks, often through populated areas. Truck and rail accidents have forced towns to evacuate and even killed 50 people in Lac-Megantic, Quebec. Corporate executives and federal regulators are working to improve tanker designs and reroute traffic. But even despite occasional accidents, pipelines have a much better safety record. KXL would be built with state-of-the-art pipe, valves and other components, to the latest design, manufacturing, construction and inspection specifications. It has been configured to avoid population centers, sensitive wildlife areas and the Ogallala Aquifer.",4_5
"Simply put, white corals were physiologically healthy when compared to dark and light-brown colonies, which would lead to the ""potential overestimation of coral bleaching"" by nearly twice as much . One reason for this overestimation is that traditional coral monitoring is unable to detect between white and bleached (dead) colonies. Video transects from reef monitoring surveys off the coast of Brazil showed that the ""proportion of bleached and white colonies is similar, thus suggesting that current coral reef surveys may be overestimating the bleaching of M. cavernosa by nearly twofold.""",3_2
"Judge Rules ""I Heart Boobies' Bracelets Are OK For Students to Wear:",0_0
"""Sens. Cruz and Rubio have slightly different understandings of climate science, but their policy positions are very close,"" said Ebell. ""Cruz and Rubio have both said that they will overturn the EPA's greenhouse gas rules.",0_0
"In other words, if you are a scientist funded by global warming research money, you make up whatever lie best suits your current funding requirements.",5_2
Potential crop failure due to drought led China to buy wheat on the international market and contributed to a doubling of global wheat prices,0_0
New report: Obesity promotes global warming,0_0
The most worrisome aspect of environmental lies is that they are used to justify governmental policies.,0_0
"Kevin Long, a long-range weather forecaster based in Bendigo, Victoria, went on to explain that he believes we are at the beginning of another mega-drought in the Basin because of the solar minimum and phase of the current lunar cycle.",2_1
15b. Current state of scientific knowledge allow for a reasonable assessment of the effects of surface albedo,0_0
"(1) Barbale (1970) and Madsen (1971, 1975) found that a tripling of the atmosphere's CO 2 concentration produced modest increases in the vitamin C concentration of tomato fruit, while Kimball and Mitchell (1981) found that atmospheric CO 2 enrichment enhanced the vitamin A content of tomatoes,",3_3
Heres his analysis (sic) where he struggles for the word satire:,0_0
"it is easily argued that betting the monsoon on the ability of models to accurately capture such subtleties would require a foolhardy level of trust, a remarkable lack of concern for hundreds of millions of livelihoods or a startling desperation in the face of the alternative.",0_0
So you can see that degree days matter and that if you get it wrong you have Big Problems.,0_0
"Now this shall describe proposals for how solcykeler arise. It is d not just about the 11-riga -Schwabe cycle and 22-year-old variation in solflcksintensiteten. It has been observed longer periods, eg 88 years Gleissberg and 208 r de Vries. This is a problem in astrophysics who apparently lively discussion in recent years. In one of the works thanks to a klimatforskniongsprogram from grants, but primrt is not a klimatfrga. The classic treatment of The question regarded the sun isolated, and cally find a harmonious variety in the merger process, which is energikllan in soldynamon. This has apparently not given something completely convincing result, but there is room for second suggestions.",0_0
"Despite predictions that the temperature on the globe should rise with a huge speed, nothing has really happened the last 10-15 years, says the August 7 print edition of the Danish Jyllands-Posten , the famous daily that published the Muhammad caricatures .",1_4
"What about the claim that researchers must hold smog-precursor emissions constant to isolate the global warming impact on future ozone concentrations? EPA offers the same rationale on p. 78 of the Technical Support Document (TSD) for its proposed finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare (EPA's official response to the Supreme Court's decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, 2007). However, the only accurate way to isolate the ""global warming effect"" on ozone concentrations would be to compare ozone levels in warming and non-warming scenarios based on plausible projections of precursor emissions in the 2020s, 2050s, and 2080s.",0_0
"The following will probably just demonstrate my total ignorance of networking protocols, but I am not sure why IPv6 couldn't be written in a way that the extra bytes would just be ignored by IPv4 systems. It could be assumed that all IPv4 addresses of the form www.xxx.yyy.zzz map to www.xxx.yyy.zzz.000.000 in IPv6, but this may be wildly simplifying what is going on.",0_0
"\] He thinks that it's an argument in favor of his original statement that by playing with a diamond, he instantly changes the energies of all electrons in the Universe because such a change is demanded by the Pauli exclusion principle. However, the Feynman propagator proves nothing of the sort. Instead, the nonzero value of the Feynman propagator at space-like separations means that there's an entanglement, i.e. correlation, between the fields at the two points. Why? Note that the Feynman propagator is \[",0_0
"The Heartland affair has shown not merely that some climate alarmists (namely Gleick) will stoop to outright deception, and most of his peers will close ranks to defend him in a sort of Green Wall of Silence. Perhaps more disturbing, it reveals that these people really have no idea how their opponents on the climate issue actually view the world. So when they dismiss skeptics as having no legitimate arguments, it should make outsiders take pause.",5_2
The IPCC and other climate institutes have done their work. For 20 years temperatures have remained steady with a slight downward trend. The IPCC and the PIK Potsdam Institute can now be disbanded.,1_4
The Hansen Model: Another very simple disproof of Anthropogenic Global Warming.,0_0
"There??s some very very curious relationships between Rutherford et al. and MM03. Rutherford et al. was submitted to Journal of Climate on July 23, 2003, at around the same time as MM03. As outlined below, I??ll bet dollars to doughnuts that the file ""pcproxy.txt"", the file at Mann??s FTP site (in Rutherford??s subdirectory) to which we were directed and now supposedly the ""wrong file"", was used in the original submission of Rutherford, Mann et al. and was fixed up after MM03 pointed out problems with it.",5_1
Pursuit of Climate Truth Comes at High Cost,0_0
"During the Medieval Warm Period extensive fires burned through parts of the Giant Forest at intervals of about 3 to 10 years, he said. Any individual tree was probably in a fire about every 10 to 15 years.",0_0
"""How much would it cost to download the same amount of data as you get bundled with your home broadband on a mobile roaming tariff? About the same price as a three-bedroom house in Surrey. """,0_0
"""An assessment conducted in the light of the Second Law of Thermodynamics and the principles of vector algebra of the key greenhouse theory concept of ""atmospheric backradiation' suggests that it is simply a mirage. The only ""Backradiation Phenomenon' that needs explaining is how this physical nonsense maintains its place in numerous earth sciences textbooks at both school and university level.""",0_0
None of this would be necessary. View Larger Map I must go away now and give my poor head a rest. Even Steyn got suckered by this one.,0_0
"CRU still wants scientists to trust its conclusions on which even more climatology is based although it now admits that during an office move, it discarded computer tapes and paper records containing years of original weather-station observations. This is like telling an IRS auditor, Just read my tax return; I chucked my receipts. Proper science relies on generating reproducible results. Since these climate data now likely are locked in a landfill, CRUs results are, by definition, irreproducible. This means, ipso facto , they are non-scientific.",5_1
"According to the radiative convective equilibrium concept, the equation for determining global average surface temperature of the planet is",0_0
"We must do everything we can and more to cut down very drastically on our ""carbon emissions', as we are now legally committed to do by the Climate Change Act at a cost of 18 billion a year.",0_0
"Current climate models tend to underestimate the occurrence of the clouds ICECAPS researchers found, limiting those models?? ability to predict cloud response to Arctic climate change and possible feedback like spiking rates of ice melt.",5_1
"Sure, energy will become really expensive if (i) you prohibit the production of economical forms of energy, such as domestic oil and gas; (ii) you force us to purchase very expensive and unreliable energy from wind; (iii) you jack up the price of the legacy energy output of coal and gas plants with carbon taxes; (iv) you prohibit the deployment of advanced combustion technologies for coal that reduce carbon (and other) emissions by 15-35%; and (v) you have missed a massive revolution in US energy supplies, brought to us by hydraulic fracturing of shale gas reservoirs.",4_1
forcing Senators to go on record for for against sensible climate policy,0_0
systematic damage from long-term climatic/environmental change Such a,0_0
A new study suggests that increasing the use of biofuels like ethanol in the name of combating global warming may actually make the situation worse.,0_0
"The population bomb and its resource-scarcity corollaries have a quaint ring now, like bellbottoms, gas lines, Jimmy Carter's grin, and other totems of 1970s sensibility. It is this kind of ecoapocalypticism that Bjrn Lomborg called ""The Litany"":",0_0
ENVIRONMENTAL campaigner Rebecca Phyland has been educating the south-west about climate change and now shes taking her message to the world.,5_2
"The great cat catastrophe of 2023 is by no means the only instance of risible fear-mongering found in the book. It would seem that there is no limit to the horrors that global warming will spawn, including a resurgence of bubonic plague (p. 30) and the creation of viral and retroviral agents never before seen (p. 25). Even typhus is predicted to make a major comeback owing to explosive increases in insect populations",0_0
"Hmm. Worked in what sense, John? Added costs to every business in New Zealand? Check. Raised electricity prices for every Kiwi in the land? Double Check-a-rooney. Made everything that they buy in the shops more expensive? TripleCheck-a-doodle-doo.",0_0
"In any event, Gummer is being disingenuous as the whole global warming scare was based on 17 years of warming. I dont recall him suggesting at the time that we wait another 13 years before jumping to conclusions.",5_2
"Emperor penguins at risk of extinction, scientists warn | Environment | The Guardian",0_0
"Global warming alarmists are predictable. If they see elevated sea surface temperature anomalies on a map anywhere close to a weather event, they immediately claim manmade global warming contributed, or will contribute, to the weather. They erred that way with Hurricane Sandy sea surface temperatures along Sandys storm track havent warmed in 70+ years and theyve done it again with the blizzard threatening New England today. Refer to the WattsUpWithThat post Propagandist Brad Johnson of Forecast the Facts tries to make the pending East Coast blizzard about the ocean warming Fails .",1_4
Kevin Trenberth is head of the large US National Centre for Atmospheric Research and one of the advisory high priests of the UNs Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).,5_2
"The Mail on Sunday ran an article by David Rose a couple of weeks ago, pointing out just how woeful most climate models had been in predicting global temperatures in the last decade or so. Added to other media reports in recent months, the public at large, at least in the UK. are now gradually becoming aware that temperatures have flatlined for several years.",1_4
"And that transformation will require public support. But even Altman concedes he finds nuclear power a bit unsettling: "" I know all of the physics, I know a lot about the engineering, and I know that it's totally safe. And I do not want a nuclear power plant on my block. I really don't. And it's totally irrational, but I understanding why people feel that way."" As we have seen with other controversial issues, persistent use of the bully pulpit can sway opinion.",0_0
"By Steven Hayward, Power Line, Aug 12, 2015",0_0
"According to its most recent filings with the U.S. Department of Labor, 1199's annual budget is about $185 million, derived mostly from members' $18 to $75 monthly dues. Adjusted for inflation, annual revenues between 2002 and 2014 grew from $118 million to $180 million as the union's membership ballooned from 225,000 to 354,000, mainly through mergers with other unions.",0_0
"Do freshwater species fare as well as marine species? Based on the results of this study it would appear the answer is yes, as continued increases in the airs CO2 content should significantly enhance the wellbeing of various species of phytoplankton... Read More",3_3
"True, methane concentration has not risen as predicted in 1990 (Fig. T4), for methane emissions, though largely uncontrolled, are simply not rising as the models had predicted, and the predictions were extravagantly baseless.",5_1
The conclusion is inescapable: The U.S. temperature record is unreliable. The errors in the record exceed by a wide margin the purported rise in temperature of 0.7C (about 1.2F) during the twentieth century.,5_1
"Two larger cultural trends have reinforced the effects of technological developments and industrialization. As Last points out, fertility rates among the educated classes began falling in the middle of the eighteenth century, which was about the same time as the rise of capitalism. The pursuit of individual initiative and self-interest contributed to the erosion of community and family. Economic advancement requires mobility and fewer obligations; constraints hamper self-improvement and risk-taking, after all. Having children, perhaps the greatest constraint of all, became less and less a factor in people's calculations of their self-interests. Something else would be required to get people to procreate.",0_0
"In this piece she says: charged subatomic particles from outer space, or cosmic rays, might significantly impact the type and quantity of clouds covering the earth, providing a clue to one of the least-understood but most important questions about climate. Heavenly bodies might be driving long-term weather trends.",2_1
"The question answers itself. Of course not. But that is the effect of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), more commonly known as the ethanol mandate.More than 1 billion of the worlds people live in absolute poverty. When prices for staple commoditiessoar,millions ofpeoplecan be pushed to the brink of starvation.",4_4
"The bottom line is that we still need coal, and all those who dream of doing away with it will not be able to escape the reality that coal will continue to provide much of our electricity for the foreseeable future. So we need to be implementing policies that improve air quality without destroying coal and millions of good American jobs, and imposing skyrocketing electricity costs on every American.",4_5
"Pretty much says that Gold has had a bubble top just like silver did. Notice how silver had a recovery after the bubble, failed to make new highs, then fell after a sideways pause? Notice how gold had a recovery from its dip and is now in a sideways pause? Think about it Ill wait",0_0
UK backs off buying wind energy from Ireland,0_0
"Seeing these charts, you might wonder how the extremely high temperatures of the 1930??s came about. Were we releasing too much CO2 by burning fossil fuels?",2_1
Lawsuits would challenge rules requiring significant cuts in power-plant carbon emissions,0_0
"Read here . The global warming scientists, major climate research centers, the IPCC, environmental NGOs, and global warming activists and pundits have all claimed that the ""robust & rigorous"" climate models prove that when human CO2 increases, then global atmospheric temperatures will have to increase, which will then cause surface water evaporation to increase, that subsequently causes water vapor in the atmosphere to increase, which finally sets in motion a positive feedback system that causes all the previous items to even increase more, ad nauseum. Unfortunately, the ""expert"" climate scientists are now discovering those models might not have it quite right, since atmospheric water vapor is doing the exact opposite of what the climate models predicted! Gee, what a surprise . ""Current climate models do a remarkable job on water vapor near",5_1
"Paul Georgia and James Sheehan, director of international environmental policy, have studied global warming and its implications for years and CEI representatives are regular attendees of UN Conferences on Climate Change. To schedule an interview or for more information, please contact Emily McGee, director of media relations, at 202-331-1010, ext. 209, or 703-728-0138 (cell).",0_0
"Under American constitutional government, congressional rejection of a major policy should limit the president's authority to implement that policy. Yet Obama unilaterally turned the Constitution on its head.",0_0
"The Bureau of Meteorology was strong on message that a climate trend was definitely on in Australia: Australia has experienced its warmest start to a year on record (since 1950), with the January-to-October temperature averaging 1.03 degrees Celsius above the 30-year average (1961-1990). As the year nears an end, a record-breaking year is looking likely another indicator of climate change. Annual mean temperatures have generally increased throughout Australia since 1910, particularly since the 1950s, says Mike Coughlan, head of the National Climate Centre within the Bureau of Meteorology. As the average temperature has risen, we have also seen an increase in the incidence of hot days and hot nights, and a reduction in the number of cold days and nights. This warming is mirrored in the oceans around Australia.",0_0
"Global warming ends: in the years to come the temperature drop across the planet, although its nature and will be sparing. So the forecast today with a shared corr. Tass, scientists from the Physics Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences / LPI /.",1_2
"The results just presented beg the following question: If the satellite data indicate an insensitive climate system, why do the climate models suggest just the opposite? I believe the answer is due to a misinterpretation of cloud behavior by climate modelers.",5_1
"Bast set forth the following debate rules: 1) Denning and Lehr would each receive time for a 5-minute initial presentation. 2) After the five minute presentations, six film clips would be shown on screen from An Inconvenient Truth and be evaluated for validity and substance. 3) Following the evaluation of the six film clips, Denning and Lehr would be given five minutes to clarify or add to their argument positions. 4) A question and answer session would end the program.",0_0
"But for the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Yes, its true that no single event makes a trend. But the fact is, the 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15. Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and floods all are now more frequent and intense. We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence. Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science and act before its too late.",0_0
The IPCC graph at http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc tar/wg1/figspm-4.htm is interesting.,0_0
"In May, 2012 at WUWT, Paul Homewood led an interesting discussion on whether sea level rise accelerated during the recent decades when compared to the 20th century. He concludes that satellite measurements may be flawed.",5_1
"Ten years later, the very opposite has happened: Germanys CO2 emissions have been increasing, electricity prices have skyrocketed, the green jobs bubble has popped, and tens of thousands of jobs have disappeared. Worse: tens of billions are being redistributed from the poor to the rich.",4_4
"As noted above, the sea surface temperature anomalies of a region of the eastern equatorial Pacific are commonly used as an indicator of El Nio and La Nia eventsaka an ENSO Index. That region with the coordinates of 5S-5N, 170W-120W is called NINO3.4. Well use the sea surface temperatures of the NINO3.4 region as a reference in the following graphs for how often El Nio and La Nia events occur, how strong they are and how long they persist. Keep in mind, though, while the NINO3.4 sea surface temperatures indicate an ENSO event is taking place in the eastern equatorial Pacific, it is only measuring the effects of the El Nio or La Nia on the surface temperatures in that region. That may seem obvious, but people lose track of that fact and forget to account for the effects an El Nio is having outside of that region on temperatures and other variables.",0_0
"Climate skeptics have seized upon the change in world weather patterns, some citing it as evidence that global warming itself has decelerated or even stopped. Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, said the slowdown was a far larger issue than the report shows.",1_4
"In the concluding words Bignami et al ., ""this study demonstrates that cobia is unlikely to experience a strong negative impact from CO 2 -induced acidification predicted to occur within the next several centuries,"" which consequence they speculate ""may be due to the naturally variable environmental conditions this species currently encounters throughout ontogeny in coastal environments,"" which they further suggest ""may lead to an increased acclimatization ability even during long-term exposure to stressors.""",3_2
"By Marita Noon, Oil Pro, Aug 10, 2015",0_0
"This fraud is nothing new for them, as they have been altering their own data for decades to create the impression of imaginary global warming. They have doubled 1880-1980 warming since Hansen 1981.",5_2
"? A home area network (HAN) to link meters in customer premises, the communications module and the IHD ? and potentially other consumer devices, such as microgeneration and load control devices",0_0
"Their actions destroy our fundamental First Amendment rights of free speech, assembly, association and debate. Worse, they severely impair the unalienable rights of people to enjoy affordable, reliable energy and the quality jobs, living standards, health and welfare it brings.",0_0
"So the IPCC is right about the solar. And from having to explain 1.6 W/m2, weve explained 0.15 W/m2 of it which leaves 1.45 W/m2 of missing warming.",0_0
"Hansen claims that global warming is associated with increased drought in the US. This is a testable hypothesis which he chose not to test, and, because PNAS isnt truly peer-reviewed for Members like him, no one tested it for him.",0_0
"The results of this study comprise but one additional example of the findings of many investigations that have documented the significant effect of solar activity variability on earth's climate, as may be verified by perusing the materials we have archived under the general heading of Solar Effects (Centennial-Scale Cycles) in our Subject Index, as well as the materials we have posted under the many other sub-headings grouped beneath the ""Solar Effects"" umbrella. Reference",2_1
"Some counter that if America will lead, China and others will follow; but we should not delude ourselves into thinking that 80 percent of the world's population cares more about cutting carbon than joining the ranks of richer, industrialized nations.",0_0
"Along with planting a new flag in the field of international financial regulation, the U.N. chiefs also contemplated the further growth of the U.N. as the world's policeman. As another paper notes, U.N. peacekeeping operations ""will soon have almost 17,000 United Nations police officers serving on four continents"" little more than two years after establishing what one papers calls the institutions ""Standing Police Capacity.""",0_0
"That refers to a projection that by 2050, the world's population will reach an estimated 9 billion (50 percent higher than today), at the same time that the U.N.-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change producer of the scandal-tainted 2007 Global Assessment of global warming is calling for a 50 percent reduction in world green house gas emissions.",0_0
"Agreement signed at Asuncion June 7, 2006; entered into force July 17, 2006.",0_0
"Vacant pika territories are natural and to be expected. Pika are very territorial and each year they drive their young away. Because pika live no longer than 7 years, (averaging 3 to 4 years in the wild), there is constant turnover at each site. A site remains vacant until a young pika, driven from another territory, randomly scampers into that vacancy and claims ownership. Without knowing how often a talus pile alternates between occupied and vacant, simply reporting observations of a vacant site tells us nothing about 1) why it is vacant, 2) when it was vacated, and 3) if it will soon be recolonized. Unfortunately vacancies have been misleadingly called extinctions. To illustrate, in the most recent paper by Stewart, his team initially found 15 vacancies, but a resurvey the following year, found that 5 of those sites were now recolonized, a 33% reduction in extinct locations in just one year.",0_0
"Senators John McCain (R., Ariz.) and Joe Lieberman (D., Conn.) are deeply concerned about the issue of global climate change. So much so that they are cosponsoring the Climate Stewardship Act in the Senate this month, a Kyoto-like measure which would impose extra costs on greenhouse-gas-emitting industries such as energy and manufacturing, and will set up a whole new welfare agency to compensate those whose heating costs go up as a result.",0_0
"Modelling for 2020 and 2050 shows that the resort with the most remaining snow will be Perisher, in NSW, followed in order by Falls Creek, Mount Hotham, Thredbo and Mount Buller. The smaller resorts of Mount Buffalo, Mount Baw Baw and Lake Mountain become marginal for skiing at 2020, even in the most optimistic scenarios. A report for the Australian Greenhouse Office says further global warming will reduce biodiversity and seriously decrease populations of endemic species. The loss, the report says, will be very significant at a regional, national and international scientific level.",0_0
"Media reputations are at stake. Theyve been in bed so long with the Climate Chaos complex that acknowledging the critical role of natural forces, the expertise of climate realists, the debate that still rages, or the Grand Canyon between climate crisis claims and real-world evidence would destroy what little credibility the media still has. It would also start the collapse of the Climate Chaos house of cards.",0_0
"Could a warming of the ocean lead to the destruction of our world??s coral reefs? Well such is the assertion of global warming advocates, but according to the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide, such contentions regarding coral are pitted with many small holes. Among them is a recent study in India, where researchers examined coral reefs experiencing a significant warming trend. While they observed a nearly 50 percent bleaching of the reefs initially, within a couple years the corals began to quickly recover ??? and today the successive incarnations of coral reefs are even more resistant to warming induced bleaching. Little wonder the Indian scientists concluded, quote, ???any disturbance is only temporary?? and ???the coral will resurge under the sea.??",3_2
"""The Obama administration has concluded that Chinese firms are helping Iran to improve its missile technology and develop nuclear weapons, and has asked China to stop such activity, a senior U.S. official said.""",0_0
"The scientists addressed the claims of deniers head-on. Thursdays panel featured a member of the investigative panel convened by the University of East Anglia and led by Lord Ron Oxburgh to review the stolen emails from that schools Climactic Research Unit. The Oxburgh Inquiry exonerated the scientists who were attacked following the emails, saying they saw no evidence of any deliberate scientific malpractice in any of the work.",0_0
"Predispatch practices used for conventional resources cannot effectively accommodate the variability of wind and solar generation according to hourly schedules because of potentially limited capabilities (i.e., fast ramping capabilities). This becomes more challenging as wind and solar products increase beyond the 20 percent RPS milestone. It creates a potential need for increased regulation reserve.",4_4
"And heres the logical clincher... the use of sock puppets supports the argument that climate sensitivity to CO2 is high: ( h/t Mattb) Heres the grand irony, the man who stoops to ad hominem attacks (theyre paid hacks) and denies 850 peer reviewed papers (skeptics dont have evidence) and 28 million weather balloons (the science is unassailable) thinks sceptics are the ones seeking refuge from reality.",0_0
"The hockey-stick graph usurped the traditional, apolitical climate graph of Earths recent temperature changes. The traditional graph showed dramatic warming during a medieval warm period (about 950 to 1250 A.D.) and distinct cooling during a little ice age (about 1400 to 1850 A.D.). However, the hockey-stick shaped graph displayed temperatures over the past several hundred years fluctuating only a little from year to year (the relatively flat handle of the hockey stick) until the 1900s when the temperatures began to rise dramatically (the blade of the stick). This graph helped to convince many in government that human carbon emissions were behind an unprecedented increase in global temperatures and that drastic, immediate action was necessary to once again save the planet. The graphs construction was challenged by scientists and statisticians who had a very different and also valid view of climate data selection and analysis.",5_1
"The United States has signed over 400 treaties that the Senate has decided against ratifying. This number is too high and the practice of gesture-signatures must stop. But the number should not be reduced by ratifying what is likely the worst among all of them, the Law of the Sea Treaty.",0_0
end. (Both Sanger and Mann note that in the summer of 2009 Obama and many of,0_0
"8 Indur M. Goklany, Cleaning the Air: The Real Story of the War on Air Pollution (Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 1999), p. 4.",0_0
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) decision arrives amid criticism from industry groups and Republicans who say the Obama administration?s May 2013 upward revision of the SCC earlier lacked public input.,0_0
"The authors report that ""observed CAPE has mostly statistically significant positive trends over the period of 1958-1997 in the tropics, yet a modern climate model is not able to reproduce these trends."" They thus state, in an implied challenge to climate modelers to correct this situation, that ""ensuring future models can faithfully reproduce such trends is perhaps quite important for enhancing confidence in model predictions of future climate changes.""",5_1
Ask any person on the street what they think of when they hear ???rising sea levels?? and they??ll tell you the water level is rising relative to the land . Tell that same person on the street that land masses are rising at about the same rate as the sea and suddenly there??s no panic. How much funding goes away when the problem isn??t a problem?,1_6
"3. Why the hell did you wait 10 years to release the data? You did yourself no favors by deferring reasonable requests to archive data to enable replication. It was only when you became backed into a corner by The Royal Society that you made the data available. Your delays and roadblocks (such as providing an antique data format of the punched card era), plus refusing to provide metadata says more about your integrity than the data itself. Your actions make it appear that you did not want to release the data at all. Your actions are not consistent with the actions of the vast majority of scientists worldwide when asked for data for replication purposes. Making data available on paper publication for replication is the basis of proper science, which is why The Royal Society called you to task.",5_2
"And the differences between the observations-mean and the forcings-driven multi-model mean do not get any better in the Southern Hemisphere (Figures 10, 11, and 12) during the early warming and cooling epochs. The plus for the Southern Hemisphere: the late warming period started about a decade earlier, so the model and observed Sea Surface Temperature trends in the Southern Hemisphere align for a little longer.",5_1
"A simple plan: In Thailand, fossil-fueled trucks will transport elephants as part of an effort to convince the US president that carbon dioxide is harmful",0_0
"Perhaps the content and tone of Secretary Kerry's pronouncements will strike some people as familiar, dating back to the UN's 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro aimed at ginning up Kyoto Protocol support. Speaking at the opening ceremony, its organizing chairman, Canadian billionaire Maurice Strong, said ""Every bit of evidence I've seen persuades me that we are on a course leading to a tragedy.""",0_0
"Taken together, these new studies, plus a host of other studies we have reviewed on our website (see Millennial-Scale Oscillations of Temperature in our Topical Archive), clearly demonstrate that the warming experienced over the past century or so is in no way unusual, unnatural or unprecedented, nor that it need to have been driven by anthropogenic CO 2 emissions. Earth??s climate, for a very long time, has simply been doin?? what comes naturally ?? and doin?? it well!",2_1
"With UKIP's success in the English local elections, and growing party support in Scotland, this appointment is a huge boost for all those sceptical of catastrophic climate change and In UKIP he is joining perhaps the worlds most prominent climate sceptics Lord Christopher Monckton who already sits on UKIP's National Executive Committee.",0_0
"This photo is from a Royal Meteorological Society publication, they apparently didnt want the world to see the other nearby issues related to the radar station.",0_0
"Mount Isa was very cold, dropping below freezing for only the second time this year and registering its coldest morning in 10 years. It was a staggering 11 degrees below average, reaching minus one.",1_3
"As we approach the elections of 2008, a clear gap has emerged between the major Republican and Democratic candidates on the issue of environment. Call it the ""climate gap.""",0_0
"The research and analysis firm IHS Global Insight has released a new study looking into the unconventional gas sector, and predicts that the shale gas boom will create nearly 1.5 million new jobs by 2015.",4_5
"""The Supreme Court has long had the role of declaring what the law is. That's becoming a harder and harder task thanks to the White House and Congress concocting laws so complex that no one knows their meaning before, during or after they're passed. In an era when people expect transparency and abhor complexity, three days of skeptical Supreme Court hearings on the president's health law showcased a complex law collapsing under its own weight. Information is supposed to flow freely, but consumers of health care operate in the dark, including without any understanding of how the law is supposed to work. And they are not alone.""",0_0
"In describing their findigns, the eight researchers report that variations observed in the last 60 years are not particularly anomalous when assessed in a multi-century context, noting that both extreme high and low snowpack values have not been unusual when assessed in the context of the past eight centuries. Indeed, they say that the most extreme dry decades are concentrated between the late 16th century and the mid-18th century, and that there were decade-long periods of high snowpack levels that equaled or probably surpassed those recorded during the past six decades.",2_1
"Figure 3 shows an evident mismatch between the observational best estimate and the model range. Nevertheless, AR5 states (Box 12.2) that:",0_0
EPA expects to formally adopt the preceding four recommendations as quickly as possible. It further recommends making three changes to NSR that the Clinton administration did not approve. These would need to go through the formal rulemaking procedure (including public comment) before being implemented. They are:,0_0
"In Canada*, Steve McIntyre, the mathematician who bit by bit exposed the shocking story of the hockey stick and runs climateaudit.org.",5_1
"Projected confidently by the models, this signature was expected to be represented by an exceptional warming in the upper troposphere above the tropics. The experiments, carried out during twenty years of research supported by The Australian Green House Office as well as by many other well funded Atmospheric Science groups around the world, show that this signature does not exist. Where is the Enhanced Green House Effect? No one knows.",2_3
"It is also possible that the institutional innovation that has been the I.P.C.C. has run its course. Yes, there will be an AR5 but for what purpose? The I.P.C.C. itself, through its structural tendency to politicize climate change science, has perhaps helped to foster a more authoritarian and exclusive form of knowledge production .",5_2
"We started hiking. The drifts were deep. As we neared the top, the wind had leveled all the snow and there was no telling what was beneath. Step on a perfectly flat spot and you were hip-deep in snow, wrestling through a vat of molasses. It took us two hours to reach the sheltertwice normal. Still, we had an hour of daylight to pitch our tent and start a fire.",0_0
This is from the CEO of Climate Central. She has strong credentials in climatology and weather forecasting. Her comment is surprising and deeply concerning because she should have a better understanding of the difference between weather and climate than this comment reveals. From her bio :,0_0
"By Colin Macilwain, Nature, Aug 12, 2015",0_0
"on Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 at 11:20 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"After all, Katrina was a relatively average Category-3 hurricane when it struck the New Orleans area. And even if 2005 saw a record hurricane season, neither that nor the duds of 2006 and 2007 can be used as evidence for or against Climate Change.",1_7
"Summer temperatures in Arizona peaked in 1896, and recent summers have been among the coolest on record.",1_3
"What's most bizarre about Grantham's letter, however, is when he advances a ""plausible ""conspiracy theory': that fossil energy companies, driven by the need to protect hundreds of billions of dollars of profits, encourage obfuscation of the inconvenient scientific results.""",0_0
"The widespread snow cover is due to cold, not the imaginary warmth inside your computer model.",1_3
"So what??s really causing the endless cycles of warming and cooling, if it isn??t a constantly changing ???Greenhouse Effect?? ??? with man to blame? Man wasn??t producing much CO 2 in the past million years, so he hasn??t simply been turning the greenhouse up and down at will. Just look up ??? one of the most likely culprits is our old friend, the Sun.",2_1
"Figure 3. Global temperatures (from various compilations of the surface (GISS, NCDC, CRU) and the lower atmosphere (RSS, UAH)) after the natural signals have been removed, 1979-2010 (from Foster and Rahmstorf, 2011).",0_0
Are your tax dollars helping hide global warming data from the public? Internal emails leaked as part of Climategate 2.0 indicate the answer may be Yes.,5_2
Stringy origin of diboson and dijet excesses at the LHC,0_0
NAO (solar min) AO (solar max) (Kodera 2003),0_0
"* The rate and magnitude of the reported 1979-2000 warming are not outside normal natural variability, nor are they unusual compared to earlier periods in Earth and human history. There is likewise no unambiguous evidence that humans have caused adverse changes such as melting ice, rising sea levels, rainfall or droughts, or ""extreme weather"" over the past 50 years.",2_1
We know that states tend to fail when they cannot feed themselves. We know that climate change increases the risk of disruption to food supplies in a region. We know that numerous societies throughout history have collapsed due to their failure to adapt to environmental change. We know that in 2007 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described the war in Darfur as the worlds first climate change conflict. We know there is evidence that the violence triggered by the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 were in part fuelled by protests over soaring food prices. We know recent research has suggested climate change played a role in sparking the Syrian War that in turn has played such a big role in fuelling both the rise of ISIS and the humanitarian crisis off Europes southern coast.,0_0
"Though it is rare for anyone to recommend that lawmakers hit the bottle, in the case of ethanol, the balance of virtue and vice is fairly clear. America's motto should not be ""Ethanol for Energy Independence."" It should be ""Ethanol: Drink It, Don't Drive It.""",0_0
NANNY STATE - Dentist told to bin magazines due to 'infection risk',0_0
"Mann and his lawyers doctored a quote and put their own version of it in direct quotation marks. That?s bad enough. But they did it for a specific reason. Because the original makes clear that Sir Muir?s findings apply only to the ?CRU scientists? ? that?s to say, employees of the University of East Anglia, who are the only people the Russell panel was charged with investigating, and were therefore the only people it was in a position to exonerate. So, as evidence of Michael Mann?s ?exoneration?, the best his lawyers can come up with is a fake quote from a report exonerating some people he happens to be acquainted with.",0_0
They came up with a best-case scenario that predicts a 38 per cent reduction in land capable of yielding Arabica by 2080. The worst-case scenario puts the loss at between 90 per cent and 100 per cent.,0_0
"They want the news media to ignore us but cannot put the internet genie back in the bottle. The White House is trying, though. It even sent picketers to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's home, to demand that he knuckle under and apply 1930s' telephone laws to the internet, as a first step in content control",0_0
"It means that there should be no disjunction, no blemish in concept or communication and nothing obscured when it comes to public decisions and action.",0_0
3 Left unmentioned is the basis for the ranking of meansimpossible in the absence of moral absolutes.,0_0
"Over the past few years, conventional washing machines have become politically incorrect. Federal bureaucrats and government-funded environmental activists have spent millions of tax dollars critiquing them. They determined that the popular top-loading design uses too much water and, more importantly, too much energy to heat that water. Energy use, particularly fossil fuels burned by utilities to provide residential electricity, results in emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. Thus, the Department of Energy (DOE) believes that, among other environmental evils, these energy-guzzling washers contribute to raising the global temperature via the greenhouse effect.",0_0
Their laughable answer: 95% of climate models agree; therefore the observations must be wrong! One can only shake ones head sadly at such a display of science.,5_1
"Therefore, webeing McGoo and Ihave totaled the nominating votes and declare Real Climate a Best Religious Blog Weblog Award Finalist for 2009.",5_2
"Policies that operate from the four pillars of economic freedomrule of law, limited government, regulatory efficiency, and open marketswill do more than stimulate economic growth and innovation. They will expand access to energy and improve the environment. The United States has shown what can happen with open access to resources, private property rights, and opportunities for domestic and foreign investment. Within the broad scope of economic freedom, the next Administration should pursue three fundamental objectives in energy policy: establishing open markets, eliminating favoritism, and reducing the regulatory burden.",0_0
The study found that a threefold increase in the number of nuclear reactors worldwide (including increasing the number of American reactors from 100 to 300) could reduce incremental carbon emissions by up to 25 percent. The report recommended granting a limited production tax-credit to 'first movers' (private sector investors who successfully build new nuclear plants). The credit would be extendable to other carbon-free electricity technologies but would not be paid unless the plant was in operation.,0_0
"This one does 2 minutes on a single person. High res and slow advance; there are a lot of detail matches, even things like neck and eye wrinkles and tooth shape / positions (made harder by different exposure of tooth length with different smile depths).",0_0
PS Do you want to get involved in IPCC this time? Im the CLA of the atmospheric obs.,0_0
"Climate models, unfortunately, are still unable to provide skillful predictions of changes in regional climate statistics on multi-decadal time scales at the detail desired by the impacts communities. Even on the global scale, the annual, global-averaged radiative forcing predicted by the models is significantly greater than has been observed based on the accumulation of Joules in the climate system. The summer arctic sea ice extent, in contrast, has been significantly under predicted by the models, while the summer Antarctic sea ice extent increase has been missed by the models. Also attribution of specific extreme weather events to multi-decadal changes in climate has not yet been shown, and is likely not even possible.",5_1
"I??ve plotted the actual differences between the two series below (for whatever that??s worth) together with a 50-year smooth. I wouldn??t characterize this plot as showing a discrepancy arising in the 19th century and then leveling off in the 20th century. On the right, I??ve limited the plot to the period of the actual Jacoby-D??Arrigo chronology 1601-1980, to minimize the rhetorical effect of the 15th century where there are only 1-2 trees involved. In this case, one would surely characterize the plots not as showing remarkable similarity prior to 1800, but as the bristlecone PC1 gaining relative to the Jacoby reconstruction, with the relative gain reversed only during the HS-pulse of the Jacoby series in the early 20th century.",5_1
The absence of both tropospheric warming and stratospheric cooling since 1996 is remarkable consideringthat more than 31% of all industrial CO2 emissions since 1750 occurred during the past 18 years.,1_4
Life in a Cold and Dark Place: Can It Long Be Maintained in a Warming World? (9 Jul 2013),0_0
"With such discrepancies as these existing among real-world reconstructions of the effects of mean global temperature on the ratio of El Ni?os to La Ni?as, it would appear that we don't even have the means for determining which of the similarly-divergent scenarios of current state-of-the-art climate model simulations is correct, or how close or how far from reality they each may be, which surely does not make for a solid foundation for divining what a future warmer world might be like with respect to ""the leading mode of interannual climate variability in the global climate system,"" which sure sounds like something one would want to get right. References",5_1
"I happened by chance into a conversation with a program officer for one of the major liberal foundations in New York a few months ago, and asked, ""So what do you think of Shellenberger and Nordhaus?"" He responded: ""They're a couple of a*******!"" Pause. ""But they're very smart.""",0_0
"""We have a program in this country of federal fuel economy standards for new cars. It's nickname is CAFE, and one consequence of CAFE has been to downsize the fleet of passenger cars, because one of the easiest ways to make a vehicle more fuel-efficient is to make it smaller and lighter, which gives you perhaps better miles per gallon, but also means you have a smaller, less crash-worthy vehicle.""",0_0
Solar influence on climate on shaky ground if we dont even know solar input,0_0
"If the GFZ research is correct, a new solar minimum could have a direct impact on Earths climate cooling our planet drastically, and knocking the predictions of global-warming alarmists out of whack.",1_2
"Now this is interesting. As readers here know, there are almost no temperature stations in the Arctic and the gaps are therefore infilled by extrapolation.",0_0
"Chapter 1, by Nicholas EberstadtPopulation, Food, and Income: Global Trends in the Twentieth Century",0_0
"RECOMMENDED CORRECTION: These previous national U.S. assessments, as well as those for normalised Cuban hurricane losses (Pielke et al., 2003), did not show any significant upward trend in losses over time, and this remains the case following the remarkable hurricane losses of 2004 and 2005.",1_7
"In his hit-and-run speech, delivered hours before leaving the country, President Obama issued a directive for the EPA, instructing them to begin drafting new rules governing emissions from power plants. Current EPA regulations are already closing coal-fueled power plants at an alarming ratewhich New Mexico Public Regulations Commissioner Pat Lyons calls ""the real energy crisis that no one is talking about.""",4_1
"To gather samples from the Giant Forest trees, the researchers were allowed to collect cross-sections of downed logs and standing dead trees, he said. It turned out to be a gargantuan undertaking that required many people and many field seasons.",0_0
"""At the very least, if the Bush Administration plan is truly voluntary, it's unnecessary. Loan holders and servicers have plenty of incentive to do that themselves. No one sitting in a central office can hope to set the right mortgage terms for millions of borrowers, lenders, and investors.""",0_0
"The rise of 1199 from a small union of pharmacists and drugstore clerks to the political force that it is today should be seen as part of the decades-long shift in organized labor's power base from private industry to government. In 1932, when 1199 was founded, the dominant labor unions represented workers in manufacturing and the skilled trades. As labor historian Joshua Freeman has noted, ""1199's expansion into hospitals and nursing homes was, with the exception of the unionization of public employees, New York labor's most important organizing success of the postWorld War II era.""",0_0
"CFACT is a UNFCCC accredited NGO and the veteran of numerous UN conferences. CFACT is your ""go to' source for news and information for those seeking to balance coverage with reporting which challenges climate and sustainability orthodoxy. CFACT is available to all media. Call to schedule an interview.",0_0
Coming Next Week: Property Rights in 21st-Century America,0_0
"79) Since the cause of global warming is mostly natural, then there is in actual fact very little we can do about it. (We are still not able to control the sun).",2_1
"I've long drawn that same line, about where legitimate climate ""science"" stops, and climate panic-mongering begins, and it's at that point where you start predicting the future.",0_0
he Climategate Emails describe how a small band of climatologists cooked the books to make the last century seem dangerously warm.,5_2
"2) His apocalyptic predictions are all based on climate models, which have consistently failed to match up with real world observations.",5_1
"Entine believes opinion leaders across the developed world have finally accepted the technology. I've visited with other astute observers of agriculture and technology who make the same observation. According to them, what we are seeing is nothing more than the kind of ruckus that surrounds any new technology, and we are well on our way as a society to accepting modern plant breeding.",0_0
"Vocal actors within policy and practice contend that environmental variability and shocks, such as drought and prolonged heat waves, drive civil wars in Africa. Recently, a widely publicized scientific article appears to substantiate this claim. This paper investigates the empirical foundation for the claimed relationship in detail. Using a host of different model specifications and alternative measures of drought, heat, and civil war, the paper concludes that climate variability is a poor predictor of armed conflict. Instead, African civil wars can be explained by generic structural and contextual conditions: prevalent ethno-political exclusion, poor national economy, and the collapse of the Cold War system.",0_0
"What does that mean? Well, they (Paltridge, Arking and Pook) pulled out old weather balloon observations and had another look at them. They discovered that over 35 years, instead of rising, the humidity in the high atmosphere has been falling. We should not underestimate the significance of this discovery because, if true, it destroys the possibility of catastrophic man-made global warming. Really, its that important!",3_1
"A paper published today in the Journal of Geophysical Research illustrates the ' travesty 'of relying on climate computer model projections, finding 19 different models had 'no model consensus' and a 'large spread' ' with both large positive and negative anomalies' in projections of future Australian tropical climate. Furthermore, the authors conclude that since model projections are all over the map, that indicates there is ""large internal or natural variability in tropical Australian precipitation relative to the climate change signal"" .",5_1
"Climate Audit On Rahmstorf/Mann: ""Dreck"" ""Reputable Science Community Should Cringe With Embarrassment""!",0_0
"What a different nation America could be were it not for Obama's deliberate attack on the coal industry in particular and other fossil fuels, oil and natural gas. In the name of reducing emissions, Obama deliberately ignores the increasing use of coal in Europe and nations that include China, Japan, and India.",4_2
"The lesson I take from the overpopulation scare is to be wary when media, university and corporate elites warn that we must change our ways or face disaster 50 years hence, and when they insist, as Al Gore does and Friedman seems to, that the time for argument is over. In our two-party democracy it never is. And shouldn't be.",0_0
"Dr. Michael Coffman explains that island biogeography was first postulated in 1967 and "" is a set of theories of how population and genetic dynamics are affected when stressed on isolated islands in the South Pacific .It postulates that, like isolated islands separated by oceans, forested ecosystems that are separated or ""fragmented"" by ""oceans"" of cut-over land, housing tracts, parking lots, and roads are therefore isolated from each other."" To prevent this, corridors and reserves must be created to allow genetic material for the varied species to flow in and out of the natural habitats stabilizing the species populations."" (Coffman, ""Biological Diversity,"" p.2-3)",0_0
"This is not merely shatteringly unfair. It is unconstitutional. Yet that is what the Australian Government, conspiring with the administration in New South Wales, has done to Peter Spencer, a farmer who was told his land could no longer be worked because it was a ""carbon sink"", and who is now on hunger-strike halfway up a mobile-phone mast on his land.",0_0
Media Claim Cold and Snow Prove Global Warming,0_0
"19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,",0_0
"It is of course huge crap that such errors go through the entire IPCC. I thought they all worked to check everything a thousand times. Personally I was always skeptical about this melt warning. Ice at 7000 or 8000 meters elevation, why would it melt? Its way too cold. At most it could sublimate if it stopped snowing. But the India monsoons bring new snow every summer. I just dont understand it.",0_0
"13) If Not Humans, What could Have Caused Recent Warming? This is one of my areas of research. I believe that natural changes in the amount of sunlight being absorbed by the Earth ? due to natural changes in cloud cover ? are responsible for most of the warming. Whether that is the specific mechanism or not, I advance the minority view that the climate system can change all by itself. Climate change does not require an ?external? source of forcing, such as a change in the sun.",2_1
"David Suzuki: ""It's time that climate-change deniers were exposed'",0_0
Two of catastrophic climate change's staunchest supporters have been out on the stump promoting their causewith conflicting statements.,5_2
CEI: Like 90 percent marginal rates?,0_0
"Opponents accuse Mr. Obama of attempting to bypass the Senate's constitutional role in treaty making. Responding to such criticism, presidential climate advisor Brian Deese claims Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush ""joined important international environmental agreements by using executive agreements,"" the Washington Times reports.",0_0
"And you know why? Because they say its too expensive. NoIm not making this up! Pressure groups led by the Sierra Club have filed a barrage of lawsuits to revoke approval of a $4.3 billion clean coal power plant in Kemper County, Mississippi that will demonstrate commercial CO 2 removal technology to help save the planet from dreaded climate change because according to Mississippi Sierra Club President Louie Miller: We cant allow struggling families to be charged for a $4 billion plant that doesnt operate as promised.",4_4
It quickly refroze in a few days even before the flurry of news stories hyping it stopped.,0_0
"Global Warming's ""hockey-stick"" graph, believed to be one of the leading indicators of global warming, is now being called ""rubbish."" Scientists have shown that the graph's underlying equation would generate the same result for any series of random numbers.",5_1
"On January 22, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released the deposition transcript of former senior EPA official John Beale. After defrauding the agency of nearly $900,000 and spending weeks and months away from his office by claiming he was on assignment for the CIA, the transcript contained a bombshell.",0_0
"On the contrary, famous people like politicians are probably much more likely to be shot simply because many more people know them and either hate them or consider them to be symbols of something they hate. The Earth is a large place and it's often difficult even for the best agent to perfectly protect such a politician. You don't need a very contrived theory to explain such data.",0_0
"For those models with multiple runs, the ensemble members are averaged before being presented in this post and before being included in the multi-model mean.",0_0
"The Paris conference gathered several hundred representatives from national and local government, thinktanks and civil society with the declared aim of gingering up a programme, called ""draft zero,"" that is being hammered out for Rio.",0_0
"EPAs recent experiments that unethically expose human subjects to substances that the EPA has declared to be lethal, in a search for evidence of harm, is basically an admission that corrupted, unreliable epidemiology is being misused as a false portfolio of evidence of air pollution toxicity, he writes.",0_0
"At some point, U.S. continental warming will resume, but the extended decade-long plus global coolingtrend persists, contradicting the experts. None of the IPCC climate models, nor ""consensus"" experts predicted this cooling, let alone a minus 9.4 degree trend for the continental U.S. This trend has persisted since the super 1997-98 El Nio warming event and continued through the major 2009-2010 El Nio event.",1_2
"But there are some notable exceptions. The BBC chose an interesting title, Dissent among scientists over key climate impact report . But The Sydney Morning Herald has the most upbeat article.",0_0
"Steve McIntyre picks up my critique on the electrical grid disruption chart ( here and here ) and takes it further. Apparently, this report (which I guess I should be calling the Climate Change Synthesis Report or CCSP) set rules for itself that all the work in the report had to be from peer-reviewed literature. McIntyre makes a grab at the footnotes for this section of the report for any peer-reviewed basis, but comes up only with air. He also references a hurricane chart in the report apparently compiled by the same person who compiled the grid outage report. Roger Pielke rips up this hurricane report, and I have it on my list to address in a future post as well.",0_0
". much of the temperature variability during 20002010 was due to ENSO , we conclude that ENSO-relatedtemperature variations are partly radiatively forced. We hypothesize that changes in the coupled ocean-atmosphere circulation during the El Nio and La Nia phases of ENSO cause differing changes in cloud cover, which then modulate the radiative balance of the climate system. As seen in Figure 3(b) for the ocean-only data, the signature of radiative forcing is stronger over the oceans than in the global average, suggesting a primarily oceanic origin .",2_1
"remaining 26 miles and 285 yards. Conversely, a runner could set the world",0_0
"Some natural scientists say that bushfire history is anecdote; or mythology; that little is known about Aboriginal burning; or even that such burning is impossible; and that frequent, mild fires destroy biodiversity (however that slippery word may be defined). They say that history is unreliable, and only natural science can lead to the truth about bushfire. I suspect that the philosopher Robin G. Collingwood might have strongly disagreed with that view, since he saw history as an essential part of human understanding. Scientists should be aware that there is a history of science.",0_0
"Anyone who has taken historical geology, a freshman course, knows that the temperatures and sea levels have fluctuated drastically hundreds of times in the Earth??s history. We are just in another cycle. Just as we have day/night, winter/summer, why would anyone presume that we do not have longer cycles of fluctuation to deal with also?",2_1
"1) CCS, or Carbon Capture & Storage, will not be available by 2030 in any commercially viable sense. We cannot know this for certain one way or the other. However, it is clearly not sensible to base the countrys energy strategy on unproven technology.",4_4
"In the concluding paragraph of their paper, Li et al . write that the dwarf bamboo plants could adjust their ""physiology and morphology to enable the capture of more light, to increase water use efficiency and improve nutritional conditions."" However, they also indicate that elevated temperature had just the opposite effects on water use efficiency and nutritional traits of leaves. But in the end , they report that ""the combination of elevated CO 2 and elevated temperature showed no significant interaction effect on the nutritional traits of leaves."" And, therefore, their ultimate conclusion was that if and when ""the dwarf bamboo confronts warmer climate for a long term, elevated CO 2 will be beneficial,"" as it will lead to the production of more equally-nutritious dwarf bamboo tissue.",3_3
"For this particular plant, as well as many other species that have been similarly tested (see Growth Response to Very High CO 2 Concentrations in our Subject Index), several-fold increases in the air's CO 2 concentration pose no problem at all to their growth and development. In fact, the more CO 2 there is in the air, the more biomass the tested plants have typically produced. Reviewed 28 June 2006",3_3
"Mayewski founded the International Transantarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE) and is the co-author of The Ice Chronicles: The Quest to Understand Global Climate Change, published in 2002 with Frank White. The United States ITASE office is located at UMaine. Antarctic locations used in the paper include: Law Dome, a 4,576-foot high ice mound located about 68 miles from the coast facing the Indian Ocean and the site of an Australian research station; Siple Dome, a 2,000-foot high ice covered mound located between two ice streams that flow out of the Transantarctic Mountains into the Ross ice shelf, and the site of a U.S. research station; and two ITASE field sites west of Siple Dome where ice cores were collected during field surveys in 2000 and 2001.",0_0
(3) A substantial increase in food prices especially for very poor people in many parts of the world,0_0
"The Readfearn reasoning amounts to saying that Newman is either wrong because he is an old white guy (let??s be ageist, sexist and rascist eh?), or he is wrong because he cited Roy Spencer who is wrong because he??s a Christian. Thus and verily, ergo, ergot and a truffle too, climate sensitivity on Planet Earth is 3.3 degrees C.",5_2
"Richard Harris from NPR believed that ClimateGate reporting ?was not a product of journalism, but activism?crafted by people with a desired objective.?",0_0
"All the while, at the behest of environmental groups, Commonwealth and State governments, whether Coalition or Labour, have continued in the past decade or two to enact regulation and legislation that undermines food production.",0_0
"The Bush administration is working with Democrats, reliable multinationalists such as Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), and apparently newcomers looking to make a name such as Corker to push LOST thru to the floor. It currently waits approval by the Foreign Relations Committee. Further hearings, as Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) is likely to request, would put the lie to such assurances, and reveal that ""hortatory"" language is found not in mandatory Articles but, say, the ""Preamble"". So they are being resisted.",0_0
"Hybrid sales waned as gasoline prices ebbed in 2011, declining to 2.2 percent of the market from 2.4 percent a year earlier, according to the research firm LMC Automotive. Meanwhile, sales of the Nissan Leaf electric car and the Chevrolet Volt plug-in each fell short of expectations.",0_0
"Two organizations emerged in short succession from the 1941 Atlantic Charter: the United Nations in 1945 and, when the UN proved ineffective in a Cold War context, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949. For the next 50 years, NATO's role in waging and winning the Cold War was as central as that of the UN was marginal.",0_0
The following now-familiar plot of ocean heat content change for the surface 700 meter depth layer is the result of a layer average temperature increase of about 0.17 deg. C over the 55 year record:,0_0
"I find the author to be right on target when he remarks that ?if the UK wishes to back its leadership claim in the global climate change debate, its target should be in terms not of greenhouse gas production, but of greenhouse gas consumption? (p. 57). With this, the author says that it?s no great achievement to outsource all industrial production to China, import the majority of things British people consume from China, and then criticize China for having excessive CO2 emissions.",0_0
"Within 3/4 of a mile from the shores of Cape Vincent there already is an operational 86 turbine wind power plant on Wolfe Island, Canada. The Wolfe Island post construction bat mortality report determined that an estimated 1720 bats are killed per turbine per year. Cape Vincent can expect the same numbers because of similar habitat and shared species with Wolfe Island.",4_4
"So they turn to changes in orbital forcings, cloud effects, or other, unidentified feedbacks. Liu et al. also consider other, less probable forcings, casting about for a good reason for the models to be so wrong. In the end they return to Earth's orbit and those pesky feedbacks.",0_0
"Since Al Gores climate movie An Inconvenient Truth was launched in January 2005, global cooling has occurred at the equivalent of 10F (5.5C) per century. If this rapid cooling were to continue, the Earth would be in an Ice Age by 2100.",1_2
"What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better to buy if of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage.",0_0
"In my previous role as an investment manager, we also used computers to predict probability of profits and losses. Just as these models failed to predict the global financial meltdown we are currently experiencing, the carbonistas computer generated models have not been able to predict or explain the climate we have experienced over the past decade or so.",5_1
"He described how an energy boom in places like Texas, Oklahoma, and North Dakota is revitalizing growth in those areas, but how environmental extremists and the Obama administration are pursuing policies to de-develop the U.S. and eventually eliminate all fossil-fuel use.",0_0
"Khim et al . (2002) likewise analyzed a sediment core removed from the eastern Bransfield Basin just off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, including grain size, total organic carbon content, magnetic susceptibility, biogenic silica content, 210 Pb geochronology, and radiocarbon ( 14 C) age, all of which data clearly depicted, in their words, the presence of the ???Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm period, together with preceding climatic events of similar intensity and duration.??",2_1
How Large Has The Global Warming Impact Been On The Amazon For The Last 7 Decades? Try Zilch Versus Idiotic Predictions,0_0
"Radiation only moves 10 meters before being absorbed by CO2. Moving heat around is not increasing it. The planet is cooled by radiation which goes around greenhouse gases. It doesn't matter what the wavelength is; the heat leaves at a variety of wavelengths until the amount of heat leaving equals the amount entering, where it stabilizes-an effect called equilibrium.",2_3
"Rogelj et al. (2012) : This study does not actually provide an observationally-based estimate for TCR. It explicitly sets out to generate a PDF for ECS that simply reflects the AR4 likely range and best estimate; in fact it reflects a slightly higher range. Moreover, the paper and its Supplementary Information do not even mention estimation of TCR or provide any estimated PDF for TCR.",0_0
"In some cases this has made for lively, provocative cinema, as when Morgan Spurlock subjected himself to a McDonald's-only diet for the fast-food expose Super Size Me. But mostly the trend has transformed documentaries into hectoring screeds, the defining example being Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. The brainwashing style of An Inconvenient Truth, though, makes Moore look like a sober, impartial journalist.",0_0
"Smaller cars, however, are less crashworthy than similarly equipped large cars in practically every type of accident. According to a 1989 Harvard- Brookings study, CAFE-induced downsizing has increased car occupant fatalities by between 14% and 27%; that translates to between 2,000 and 4,000 extra deaths a year.",0_0
"Today I present a clear example of the use of the National Academy of Sciences to promote a particular set of policy actions, where climate science,as percievedby the authors of the PNAS,is used as the reasoning.",5_2
"How African poverty is considered to be less of an issue than alleged dangerous climate change, shows which planet Mr. Juniper inhabits. In any event, ""the discussions on climate change have gone very well,"" said Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, referring to talks held in the absence of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair who had temporarily traveled to London for police briefings. And as he returned last night security has been stepped up in Gleneagles and across Scotland after Thursday's blasts. But the London bomb attacks will not damage the chances of leaders reaching agreements at the G8 summit, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has said.",0_0
"Suppose the outcome of applying a sophisticated probability algorithm gave us the estimate of 0.72 for equation #3. Does writing this number more precisely help if you suppose you are the doctor who has to prescribe either D or P? Assume that no cheating took place in the old trial, then drug D is better if the patient in front of you is like the patients from the old trial. What is the probability she is so (given the information from the old trial)?",0_0
"The glacial-interglacial temperature data from the past 400,000 years shows each of the previous four interglacials significantly warmer than at present. In fact, a careful analysis of the ice cores from East Antarctica, published as a letter in Nature, shows that maximum temperatures from previous interglacials were at least 6C/10F warmer than present-day temperatures, with CO2 values then about 280 PPM, and todays values near 400 PPM. Leaving one to ask: if CO2 is such a strong cause of warming, why is it so cold today?",2_1
29 This is the position EPA argued in its enforcement action against the Tennessee Valley Authority in September 2000.,0_0
"Fourth, California's high residential property prices tilt the housing market towards smaller homes and apartments and encourage more people to live in the same household.",0_0
"Paul Homewood assisted me in re-analyzing the data by showing how to adjust a GSTA data set to the same baseline/reference period, for which I am very thankful. In addition, it needs to be restated here that this is not an exercise to determine which dataset is better than the other, it is merely assessing how (well) each compare and if there are temporal trends in the difference between each data set.",0_0
"So now the greens want to emphasize getting back to the ""grassroots,"" which, the story explains, means principally lobbying against new power plants before state public utility commissions. Of course, the last time EDF embarked on a ""grassroots"" program, they got caught ""astroturfing""they paid people to phone elected officials. (By the way, can EDF please settle on what they want to be called? For a while, they dropped the ""F', and went by just ""ED."" But as the Sourcewatch.com entry on EDF explains: ""Environmental Defense Fund was recently known as ""Environmental Defense' or ""ED' before changing its name back to its original name, EDF, when the new acronym ED became synonymous with a medical condition."" Apparently the marketing geniuses at EDF didn't contemplate the ignominious face plant of the AYDS Diet Plan back in the early 1980s. Where is Evelyn Waugh when you need him?)",0_0
The most prominent of these are the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO).,0_0
"The models attempt to simulate a three-dimensional atmosphere, but there is virtually no data above the surface. The modelers think we are foolish enough to believe the argument that more layers in the model will solve the problem, but it doesn??t matter if you have no data.",5_1
"In any given second, the Earth absorbs 1.22 x 1017Joules of light energy from the Sun. This is calculated with the Stefan-Boltzmann equation for the Sun, factored for the distance to the Earth and the Earths cross-sectional area, and its albedo.",0_0
"The authors write that ""climate change is likely to produce more extreme precipitation events,"" citing Allan and Soden (2008); and they say that ""for the Mediterranean basin, several studies indicate a possible amplification of precipitation extremes associated with a decrease of precipitation totals (Gao et al ., 2006; Giorgi and Lionello, 2008),"" which ""could lead to an increased probability of occurrence of events inducing both floods and droughts (Gao et al ., 2006)."" So what has happened in this regard over the past half-century, in response to the supposedly unprecedented global warming that climate alarmists contend has occurred as a result of steadily rising anthropogenic CO 2 emissions?",5_2
"NOAA data shows that major (category 3-5) hurricanes hit the US about half as often as they did eighty years ago. They used to hit the US about once per year, but now hit about once every other year. The last one to hit the US was hurricane Wilma in 2005.",1_7
"However, Pederson refused to answer the second part of my question on Jones's comment about possible cooling.",0_0
CEI convinced the Bush Administration not to declare carbon dioxide a pollutant. We could all breath a bit easier after that.,0_0
"So with this historical peak in climate heating CO2 air pollution, why have not actual earth temperatures risen accordingly?",1_4
"I'm still in the process of reading your articles about corals and CO2, but I long ago understood that the record of paleoclimate history demonstrates that very high atmospheric CO2 and temperature levels have occured in the past and it did not result in coral extinctions.",2_1
"Here's a reality check: During the same decade that Mr. Gore and the IPCC dominated the environmental debate, global carbon-dioxide emissions rose by 28.5%.",5_2
Bonus Podcast: Diane Goldstein: Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform,0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Energy Policy Myron Ebell on the costs of Sen. Bingaman's latest greenhouse gas proposal:,0_0
"Finance & Investment: Much of Bush's agenda, from Social Security reform to continued economic recovery, hinges on a vibrant stock market in which entrepreneurs having access to capital. This is threatened by regulations and laws like Sarbanes-Oxley.",0_0
"Vikings farmed southern Greenland 900 years ago during the Medieval Warm Period, but the climate is much too cold now to support farming.",2_1
"Perhaps President Obama can have a vision that imparts wisdom and he reverses his job-killing and nation humbling energy policies. In the future President Obama can truly say, ""yes, we did.""",0_0
". Weitzman argues that when there is uncertainty about future discount rates, the lowest discount rate is the appropriate rate for ""the far-distant future."" In practice this has led to the case for using declining discount rates (DDRs). That is, the farther in the future a cost is incurred or a benefit is received the lower should be the discount rate.",0_0
The True State of the Planet: Ten of the World's Premier Environmental Researchers in a Major Challenge to the Environmental Movement,0_0
"The Administration's upside-down approach to job creation isn't limited to the Green Jobs mirage. In his opening remarks at the jobs summit, Obama once again hailed Cash for Clunkers as a success the Administration should build on for future job creation. The program was a ""success"" inasmuch as the government successfully got consumers to accept $3 billion in free money. It was not a cost-effective economic growth or job creation measure - in fact, Edmunds.com estimates that it cost taxpayers $24,000 for every new car sale generated.",0_0
"There will be a need for a trial, in this case a Royal Commission with terms of reference which will allow it to bring to light the full story of how this once respected organisation betrayed the principles on which it was founded by Ian Clunies Ross in the 1940s and 1950s. As his book demonstrates, Bob Carter will be an invaluable witness at this Royal Commission.",0_0
"(c) Concerning Heartlands financial health, weve raised more money since the Fakegate incident than in the previous 11 months, and are on track to double our income this year. Weve doubled the number of current donors since February. With only one exception so far, the donors weve lost either didnt give in 2011 (or even in 2010) or have agreed to fund spin-off organizations we are creating, such as the R Street Institute, so the result is no net loss of our effectiveness, and actually an increase.",0_0
"By the time of the 2006 NATO Riga summit, two eminent Americans argued in no uncertain terms in favor of a re-invention of the Alliance: ""It is time to stop pretending that everything is fine in Brussels and Mons. NATO will never generate the political impetus and leadership to reinvent itself unless we face that truth and openly debate what this Alliance can and should become. . . . NATO leaders have thus far demonstrated neither the vision nor the political will to reinvent the Alliance.""4",0_0
"ps Am I suggesting Christian Churches should stop talking about their beliefs? No, I am saying Christian Churches should concentrate on the souls theyve been gifted with, rather than pontificate about the ones they are currently refuting to accept. The commandment to love ones neighbour as oneself carries no conditions.",0_0
"It is highly entertaining to see people who have never even worked in, much less have run, a real business (including Obama, Clinton, and about everyone else on the DNC rostrum) express the hubris that only they know what the right industrial investment plan for the US is and that only they know how to build a major new industry. In particular, we saw last night the repetition of Obama's ridiculous made-up 5 million jobs number that I critiqued in depth several days ago .",0_0
?We certainly don?t want them strolling about the entire countryside. We want them to save land for nature by living closely .?,0_0
Spain cuts debt issuance plans in 2011:,0_0
"What can you do? If you want to end dependency on oil from tyrants, want to see America and Canada prosper, want a clean environment without the propaganda and want to create a job for your unemployed neighbor at a great wage, speak up now!",0_0
Experts Reject Notion that Global Warming Is Causing More Floods,1_7
"Southern Co. is the biggest beneficiary of Obama's push for loan guarantees for nuclear power plants, with an $8.3 billion guarantee in the works for a new Georgia plant.",0_0
"Perception about climate change and weather patterns played a key role in determining whether a household prepares adequately for a harsh weather event. For instance, 57 percent of households believed that storms today are more intense than they were five to 10 years ago, the household is more likely to prepare when weather forecasters predict threatening weather.",0_0
Avoid Energy and Global Warming Policies that Pose Greater Risks than Global Warming,0_0
Among the environmental quality improvements highlighted in the Index are the following:,0_0
Prominent Warmists Urge Allies to Support Nuclear Power,0_0
"So Republicans would do well to listen to advice even from unlikely political quarters and from the far corners of the earth. Two articles in the past week warrant attention, even though they seem to propose opposite courses.",0_0
"Air quality should improve today, although I suspect there will be some more fireworks tonight, which will keep the levels above background.",0_0
Limits on U.S. Influence on Global GHG Control,0_0
"The panel also noted another example of Schatten putting his name to a paper where he seemed to have little or no input. In a Hwang paper on the cloning of a dog, Schattens only contribution as co-author was to suggest that a professional photographer take the dogs picture, the panel said. Independent tests indicate Hwangs claims to have cloned a dog are true.",0_0
"Sometimes people read, sometimes they listen to the radio.",0_0
"They note: ""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.""",5_1
"record than his recent predecessors on getting sub-Cabinet officials in office,",0_0
Changes in Diurnal Temperature Range and Human Mortality (10 Jul 2013),0_0
"Until you kick off a trade war. As the New Year approaches, one of Europe's more controversial greenhouse gas control policies is causing a serious case of heartburn in diplomatic circles.",0_0
"Signers included 25 climate or atmospheric scientists, 23 geologists, 51 engineers, 74 physicists, and 12 economists.",0_0
"So we have a model that is not very sensitive to carbon dioxide, and which appears to reproduce past temperature history. But if Stevens' aerosol estimate is correct, then it's still too sensitive.",3_1
"health insurance, forced unionization, higher taxes on high earnershave the",0_0
But here's what NASA/GISS shows on their websit e for the public as the global temperature anomalies 1881-2009:,0_0
Climategate Whitewashers Squirm Like Maggots on Bishop Hill's Pin,0_0
"Rather than worrying about our great-grandchildren, we should instead be worrying about our brothers and sisters. The lesson of the ERO report is that we must take measures now to ensure the power keeps flowing.",0_0
Good post from Victor Venema:Stop all harassment of all scientists now,0_0
"(Revised Feb. 10, 2010. My conclusion was rushed, because I wanted to leave the office before the snowstorm suspended bus service from D.C.-area metro stops. Revisions below are in italics.)",0_0
"Dear Editor: The lead editorial in the June 14 Washington Post contains several misguided statements, but the one that made me re-read a few times says, ""What Congress should do is find the courage to put a price on carbon and then let the market determine how best to limit emissions.""Courage has nothing to do with it. Sound science and economics--both in short supply in the debate over climate change--should dictate what Congress does or doesn't do. The Post's recommendation is the worse sort of top-down regulation masquerading as a ""market"" solution. Markets can determine what is worth achieving at what price, not simply attaining goals determined by politicians.Jim Eiden (jeiden@heartland.org) is legislative specialist on environment and energy issues for The Heartland Institute.",0_0
"The request for removal indicates that the M6 powder has been removed from its aluminum storage containers (one tube for each round fired) and placed in tote sacks and paper containers destroying lot integrity and identification. The propellent is now in 97 bunkers stored wall-to-wall and ceiling-to-ceiling. There is no place can handle 15 million pounds of powder and other explosives. It cant be reprocessed. And, oh yes, the Army says this powder is losing stability and needs to be done away with by August.",0_0
"In the words of Craine et al ., ""our findings suggest that diverse grasslands throughout the globe have the potential to be resilient to drought in the face of climate change through the local expansion of drought-tolerant species,"" citing as an example of this phenomenon the fact that ""plant productivity in Kansas and Nebraska grasslands was maintained during drought in the 1930s not by the immigration of drought-tolerant species, but by local expansion of those species after less-tolerant species perished,"" citing Weaver et al . (1935) and Weaver (1968).",3_2
"Even then, it would take of the damning evidence. It is true that slowly even Congress is putting out reports highly critical of the choices and behaviors of members dellAmministrazione Bush, as for example the result of the Commission sullIntelligence led by Senator John Rockefeller IV, published about a month ago. But behind all this there first fight between the two sides, Democrats against Republicans in a fight which definitely affects just the veracity of the allegations to the President, and so the possibility of being re-elected or not in the next round at the polls.",0_0
"Peter F. sent me a link to this video, Imagining 10 dimensions .",0_0
"on Sunday, August 11th, 2013 at 12:40 am and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"December 9, 2010 (+521) 998 225 9854",0_0
"In my experience, global warming freezing is already a bit of a public",0_0
some fundamental limitations to knowledge with regard to future African climate.,0_0
"The is a somewhat outdated term used to refer to a sub-interval of the Holocene period from 5000-7000 years ago during which it was once thought that the earth was warmer than today. We now know that conditions at this time were probably warmer than today, but only in summer and only in the extratropics of the Northern Hemisphere. This summer warming appears to have been due to astronomical factors that favoured warmer Northern summers, but colder Northern winters and colder tropics, than today (see Hewitt and Mitchell, 1998; Ganopolski et al, 1998). The best available evidence from recent peer-reviewed studies suggests that annual, global mean warmth was probably similar to pre-20th century warmth, but less than late 20th century warmth, at this time (see Kitoh and Murakami, 2002).",2_1
"During my career within the military operations, I would get familiar with the Bosnian and Herzegovinian matters as well as issues of other successor states of former Yugoslavia, with Afghanistan, very shortly with the questions surrounding the Iraq conflict, and especially with Kosovo.",0_0
"She'd done media interviews prior to her arrival at the University of New Mexico Science and Technology Park where a smattering of aggressive, sign-waving Keystone opponents awaited. Security escorted St-Onge from the parking lot to the meeting room.",0_0
The 2014/15 El Nio Part 6 Whats All The Hubbub About?,0_0
"A computer reconstruction etc., 4 minutes. See 10 minutes .",0_0
"The video was based on an approach pioneered by Lean and Rind (2008) and Foster and Rahmstorf (2011), by determining the contribution of known influences on global temperature to best explain those temperatures. However this approach can give misleading results if significant influences on temperature are missing from the analysis, or if wrong influences are included.",5_1
"We??ve noted that Briffa??s gridded MXD has high correlations to temperature, much higher than run-of-mill proxies. We??ve also noted that Mann (like Briffa) truncated this data at 1960 because of divergence. At the time that Mann et al 2008, the gridded MXD data was not available anywhere ??? Mann cited a webpage as follows:",5_1
"For convenience in making the above graphics, I collected the relevant outputs from the mle2 stages as follows:",0_0
"But it's a hard number to get. Fair-weather clouds are big puffy white objects that bounce a lot of light around. They can make the sky around them look brighter when they're there, but they float about and reform constantly. Cloud droplets and aerosol particles in the sky tiny bits of dirt and water in the air that cause haziness scatter light in three dimensions, even into cloud shadows.",0_0
"Democratic postmortems on Barack Obama's disappointing first year in the Oval Office have emphasized, as the president himself did, difficulties inherited from ""the last eight years."" Republicans, for their part, credit public opposition to Obama's overreaching policies. But a full explanation goes much deeper. Obama is failing because he has turned the constitutional functions of the presidency upside down.",0_0
But the multi-model means are not the focus of this post. Our interests are the wide ranges in the model simulations of Earths Energy Imbalance at the top of the atmosphere and its components. Lets start with the incident shortwave radiation.,0_0
"Whats next for the EPAs all pain, no gain Clean Power Plan?",0_0
"Instead, substitution of one tax for another is a classic redistribution process, one that is likely to require an expansion of government so as to compensate the losers, even if only partially. Accordingly, even in Slavov's conceptual framework, not all of the revenue would be used to ""lower other taxes."" Instead, net government revenues or, more broadly, government allocation of resources would have to increase, and unless one believes that government resource use is more productive than that of the private sector, ""efficiency"" writ large is not prominent among the likely outcomes.",0_0
"Although the authors did not find a strong correlation with the 11-year solar cycle, they found a very significant correlation in the 22-year Hale cycle band. The abstract states:",0_0
Positive Weather Solutions senior forecaster Jonathan Powell said: It baffles me how the Met Office can predict a milder-than-average winter when all the indicators show this winter will have parallels to the last one.,0_0
"Canberrans felt the worst of the cold on Wednesday, when temperatures fell to minus 6.1 degrees, 6 degrees colder than the long-term July average of minus 0.1.",1_3
That being the world view of Canada in decline under the Harper Gov't. Fear? Imagine Trudeau was the one at the helm. Yeah.,0_0
"Its certainly not unprecedented. Rather than limiting the perspective to a mere 34 years, how about looking at the last 1200? Two years ago, Edward Cook and several colleagues reconstructed the Wests drought history back to 800 A.D. They wrote that Compared to earlier megadroughts that are reconstructed to have occurred around AD 936, 1034, 1150, and 1253, however, the current drought does not stand out as an extreme event, because it has not yet lasted nearly as long.",1_7
"Modern-day Chicken Littles would like you to believe that the sky is falling - or, more precisely, that the atmosphere is dangerously overheating. But they are wrong. The steady stream of scary sceanarios about global warming and its supposed cataclysmic consequences hasn't abated.",5_2
"But rather than be just a branch of the UN, the proposed agency would help implement international environmental standards and include grassroots groups and business, according to the proposal.",0_0
So there you have it: One of Podesta's highest-profile operatives is bragging to one of America's richest climate activists that he and his team have silenced a prominent academic for the sin of disagreeing with Mann and other climatologists.,5_2
There is no magic price at which shale gas drilling rig counts will rise again in Pennsylvania. But more companies will increase drilling the closer the gas price gets to $4 and above.,0_0
My next step was to use matlab to cram the data through RegEm to generate some outputs as determined by Steig et. al guessing at parameters to find what makes the algorithm converge.,0_0
"During that speech and in numerous later interviews (and a yesterday's op-ed in WSJ ), he clarified that Obama spends much more time by criticizing what he perceives as flaws of America than by praising its virtues. Previous presidents were different.",0_0
"The work of Groisman and his co-authors shows that elements of the cryosphere across northern Eurasia did decline over the past 50 years (1956-2004). However, the work clearly shows that over the last decade the declines were diminished, and over the greater period of the past 69 years (1936-2004) the length of time with snow on the ground across northern Eurasia actually increased (Figure 1). The increases were on the order of 3-5 percent, or 5-12 days per year. Groisman et al. state that this is in agreement with other findings and that it cannot be associated with Arctic warming, as there was no warming apparent during the period.",1_1
"Paul Driessen does an outstanding job of summarizing the benefits of DDT and showing how false claims it is dangerous cost the lives of literally millions of malaria victims around the world. More than 200 million people are infected with malaria due to the fearmongering of misanthropic environmentalists and gullible politicians, Driessen writes.",0_0
"16. See Ian Castles and David Henderson, ""The IPCC Emission Scenarios: An Economic-Statistical Critique,"" Energy and Environment 14, no. 2 (2003): 159185; and Ian Castles and David Henderson, ""Economics, Emissions Scenarios and the Work of the IPCC,"" Energy and Environment 14, no. 4 (2003): 415435, available at http://miranda.ingentaselect.com/vl=2058055/cl=146/nw=1/rpsv/cw/mscp/0958305x/conp1.htm. The IPCC responded in several articles: Nebojsa Nakicenovic, et al., ""IPCC SRES Revisited: A Response,"" Energy and Environment 14, no. 2 (2003): 187214, available at http://miranda.ingentaselect.com/vl=2058055/cl=146/nw=1/rpsv/cw/mscp/0958305x/v14n2/s5/p187; and Arnulf Gr bler, et al., ""Emissions Scenarios: A Final Response,"" Energy and Environment 15, no. 1 (2004): 111, available at http://thesius.ingentaselect.com/vl=5780684/cl=26/nw=1/rpsv/cw/mscp/0958305x/v15n1/s3/p11.",0_0
Parent Frank Klonowska from the town of Lauchhammer says:,0_0
Earlier today German Radio reported that an uusually large number of dead whales have washed up on the North German Baltic beaches over the last 2 weeks.,0_0
"Tesla has now sold more than 85,000 cars in the U.S. With the introduction in late 2017 of the Model 3, which has a tentative base price of $35,000, Tesla will soon reach 200,000 vehicles sold, and the subsidy will then be phased out.",0_0
"Its all part of Polands ambitious goal to exploit Europes biggest estimated deposits of shale gas. Beginning in 2014, Warsaw wants to tap an estimated 5.3 trillion cubic meters of recoverable reserves of gas enough, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, to supply Poland with more than 300 years of its domestic energy needs.",4_5
"Reich reports that at the ambient soil N concentration elevated CO 2 had minimal impact on observed species richness (-2%), while at the ambient atmospheric CO 2 concentration elevated N decreased species richness by fully 15% over the last seven years of the ten-year-long study. When the elevated soil N concentration was combined with the elevated atmospheric CO 2 concentration, however, species richness declined by only 5%, leading Reich to conclude that ""elevated CO 2 reduces losses of plant diversity caused by nitrogen deposition,"" which finding was so important that he made it the title of his paper . What it means",3_3
"Above I summarized the countries for which there are stations that are not matched at GHCN. Remarkably, these include virtually none of the countries where Jones said that they had received data subject to confidentiality agreements ??? so that the confidentiality agreement excuse cannot apply for any of these countries. And for each of the countries for which Jones said that there was a confidentiality agreement (Bahrain, Oman, Algeria, Japan, Slovakia, Mali, India, Pakistan, Poland, Indonesia, Zaire and Sudan), I was able to cross-identify all CRU stations with GHCN identifications so that the confidentiality excuse didn??t affect anything.",5_2
"Next time modelers tell us that they can??t produce the modern warm period without a major effect from CO2, just smile and remind them that their models don??t include solar magnetic effects, nor any potential lunar forcing, so it??s not surprising that they can??t predict our climate.",5_1
"FURTHER READING: Richards wrote ""Greed Is Not Good, and It's Not Capitalism"" and ""The Miser versus the Entrepreneur"" on why Ayn Rand is so popular today. The American Enterprise Institute's Steven Hayward explains why many are ""In Denial"" about Climategate, while Kenneth Green suggests ""The Beginning of the End for Cap-and-Trade?""",0_0
"In many cases, adding fracking to the equation would expand supplies even further, by making otherwise marginal plays more economic to produce, reinvigorating old oil and gas fields, prolonging oil field life, and leaving fewer energy resources behind in rock formations.",4_5
Colorado Lawmakers Ousted in Recall Vote Over Gun Law NYTimes.com,0_0
"Same in Austin. When we visited Austin, we saw new construction everywhere. New subdivisions being cleared. New roads. New sidewalks. New houses. New high-rises. We toured a few subdivisions, and even on Saturday they were abuzz with workers. Masons, painters, framers, electricians, plumbers, all trying to keep up. The city is on overdrive!",0_0
"I do completely agree with you that the models are very valuable to inform us on climate processes (e.g. the Hadley cell, ITCZ, etc). However, this does not mean they can skillfully predict the multi-decadal changes in these features. That is climate prediction and it must be validated against real-world data.",5_1
A spokesVole said attackers can exploit the bug to infect the PC of somebody who visits a malicious website and then take control of the victims computer.,0_0
Leif SVALGAARD: The Long-term Variation of Solar Activity,0_0
"President Obama, the biggest recipient of campaign cash from BP, is using BP's oil spill to push for a global warming bill that is chock full of corporate welfare and environment-destroying ethanol subsidies. The bill was crafted by lobbyists for big companies like BP: ""For years, BP has lobbied for climate change legislation, until recently running around with the U.S. Climate Action Partnership."" BP has a much worse safety and environmental record than most oil companies, which drill safely and avoid oil spills.",0_0
MP: Dr. Evans joins this long list of skeptical scientists who are questioning the global warming hysteria.,0_0
"When these stick together, they can form powerful national majorities. When they come into conflict, the party can be a disorderly rabble.",0_0
"After the meeting was over, CFACT received a call to brief the president of a major Peruvian political party, the Christian Popular Party, and is scheduled to meet with him before the close of the UN climate conference on Friday.",0_0
"Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has declared a state of snow emergency and has shut down ""non-essential"" state services and buildings in four counties on Tuesday, including Suffolk County where the Boston global warming forum is scheduled to take place.",0_0
"Britain's Foreign Secretary echoed Blair's concern, ""I don't have a problem with the American Administration. The American public have not come to terms with their energy consumption."" Britain and Germany's posture is a bit disingenuous, however. Though they will successfully meet the voluntary emission targets agreed to at Rio, this is a result of economic conditions, not environmental policy. According to Nature magazine (June 12, 1997), Tony Blair can declare success mainly because Margaret Thatcher ""crushed"" the power of the coal miners, Labour's strongest supporters. Germany's success results from being able to shut down extremely inefficient and polluting factories and power plants in East Germany.",0_0
"In spite of the Administration's policies, the energy sector thrived because of production on private and state-owned lands. As companies in the U.S. drilled their way to low petroleum prices, oil production from the federal estate was stagnant or declining. So, it is reasonable to ask: What sort of energy powerhouse could the U.S. be with an energy policy that unleashes America's total energy potential?",0_0
"A ""Cajun Navy"" formed as people took to their personal boats and ferried their neighbors to safety. A ""Cajun Marine Corps."" followed as local people joined their professional responders to lend a helping hand.",0_0
"The tool that Microsoft is suggesting is known as the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit, or EMET, is available through an advisory on Microsofts website: blogs.technet.com/b/msrc /",0_0
"Indeed, EPA says all but a sliver of the hundreds of billions of dollars in health and environmental benefits that it claims result from its mercury, climate change and ""clean power"" regulations are actually due to the ""ancillary"" benefits of reducing PM2.5 emissions from power plants, factories, refineries, petrochemical plants, cars, light trucks, and diesel-powered trucks, buses and heavy equipment.",0_0
"We can see that the administration again largely accepted the liberal-progressive view of the world. Legislative attention was focused on financial regulation, a bill that was superficially popular but which clearly was not a priority for any segment of the electorate. Little serious attention was paid to the deficit, and the administration's reaction to the Gulf oil spill was to shut down offshore drilling, an act that thrilled environmentalists but surely was noticed by working-class Americans already worried about their jobs. It was as if the administration felt that directing popular anger against Wall Street and big businessa staple of the Democratic party since Andrew Jackson and 1832, as progressives John Judis and Ruy Teixeira noted in their book The Emerging Democratic Majoritywas sufficient to bring working-class Americans back on board.",0_0
"The Hillarys to Yanchep sector does not appear to be susceptible to erosion over the next century as Tamala Limestone is preserved above sea level along the majority of the coast, and the beaches are well sheltered by three lines of offshore reefs.",0_0
"It has allowed climate-crisis rhetoric to be used publicly as scientifically samples truth, with only the occasional grumbling.",0_0
"The study adds to the major problems with wind, as compared with traditional sources of reliable power. Wind power: 1) is capital intensive major costs are up-front; 2) is erratic, requiring a dependable alternative when it fails (why not build a dependable alternative instead); 3) significantly increases infrastructure cost for the collection and balancing system (grid); 4) lowers the capital recapture of the dependable alternative, thereby jeopardizing its credit worthiness and increasing its costs; and 5) has a short life, requiring significant replacement costs. Please see links under Questioning European Green.",4_4
"The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity responded to the latest climate report in a comparable, direct manner. Laura Sheehan, a Senior Vice President of the ACCCE, said, ""Instead of flying his cabinet members around the world, President Obama and his deputies should take time to visit communities impacted by a much more dangerous threat; this administration's costly regulatory crusade.""",0_0
Belief in global warming soars as mercury rises,0_0
"I??m thinking that the ???coldest December on record?? in Siberia could be significant. Not just one day, mind you, but the entire month so far.",1_3
"Just a few steps later and a Google of Broadness Salt Marsh and I had the picture and all the information required to see that this weather station is a dud. Note the banking, brick power building with ventilation equipment and the weather station.",0_0
"Crane reminds us of once-progressive Amazon, its headquarters once picketed by folks protesting its use of ordinary power. It takes a lot of sensitivity to see a crisis in an item that I couldnt find on Dow-Jones Factiva. Big, but it doesnt come close to what Crane sees coming. The carbon divestiture campaign isnt big in itself, but its the canary in the coal mine (a clich Crane does not use).",0_0
"If the U.S. is to expand nuclear power's role in a time of energy insecurity and climate change worries, we will have to confront the hysterical antinuclear pronouncements that have been the currency of environmentalists for nearly 30 years. The Old Dominion could be a good place for a new start.",0_0
"The water level in the worlds oceans had been rising steadily over quite some time. Ever since the last ice ages great ice masses in the northern hemisphere started to melt in earnest, some 15,000 years ago, all that melt-water flowed into the oceans and resulted in a rapid rise of 100+ m. Beginning some 7,000 years ago, most of the ice had melted and the ocean level rise slowed to a trickle. Over the last 200 years it rose less than 30 cm. Claims of a renewed acceleration of sea level rise have largely been shown to be false .",1_6
"""It is surprising to see large parts of the scientific community including academies of sciences embracing a hypothesis of global warming from atmospheric CO2, without any convincing scientific support. It appears that the mere mentioning of Stefan-Boltzmann's Radiation Law has been enough to annihilate any further demands of scientific evidence.",0_0
It has been determined that during pile driving work for offshore windparks when the foundation is anchored to the seabed extremely intense shock waves are produced under water.,0_0
"It is also a tragedy, as the recurring appearance in history of a certain kind of rigid, unloving and definitely uncharitable attitude of self-righteousness among the Christians, leaves the nagging doubt: is there something intrinsically un-Christian in Christianity itself?",0_0
CRUs Failure to Use or Disclose the Shiyatov Dataset,0_0
"Im quite confident that most ""classical"" spurious regressions will have high RE statistics. I think that one can prove that this particular statistic has negligible power against common unrelated trends. We showed examples of spurious RE statistics in MM05a and Reply to Huybers, but both sets of examples were framed in MBH contexts and, in retrospect, the argument would have benefited by simply showing ""spurious"" RE statistics in garden variety contexts of ""classical"" spurious regressions.",0_0
Google backs climate-change weather insurance startup:,0_0
"That startling headline is followed by the sub-headline: Defying all predictions, the globe may be on the road towards a new little ice age with much colder winters.",1_2
"A paper in press for the journal Tellus finds the ""best estimate"" of climate sensitivity to CO2 is about 33% less than estimated by the IPCC. According to the authors, the best estimate of transient climatesensitivityis 1.5C for a doubling of CO2 levels, and equilibrium climate sensitivity about 2C. The paper finds a lower bound on equilibrium climate sensitivity of 1.16C per doubling of CO2. The paper a dds to many recent peer-reviewed papers finding climate sensitivity to CO2 is significantly less than claimed by the IPCC .",3_1
"And neither do I. Certainly, I think we should live as lightly as possible on this marvelous planet. And yes, use rates and R/P ratios are an issue. But nothing is sustainable. So lets set the phrase sustainable development on the shelf of meaningless curiosities, go back to concentrating on feeding the children we already have on this Earth, and leave the great-grandchildren to fend for themselves. Everyone says theyll live to be a thousand and be a lot richer than I am and have computers that can write poetry, so Im sure theyll figure it out.",0_0
"It is also informative to put this in the context of the lesser, but opposite, tendency of increasing sea ice coverage around Antarctica over the same period.",1_1
"Millions of workers will lose their jobs, leaving more families destitute and welfare-dependent. Many will have to choose between buying food and gasoline, paying the rent or mortgage, visiting doctors, giving to charities, or saving for retirement. Those still working will pay for everyone else.",0_0
"But talus area is the more critical variable, and the average summer temperature is highly questionable. Larger talus areas sustain more pika territories, and provide protection for dispersing young looking for vacancies. With more adjacent territories, there are more young pika who can immediately occupy any abandoned territory. In contrast the smallest talus areas, often sustaining just a single territory, are islands that lack connectivity to other territories. Vacant territories must wait to be randomly colonized by dispersing young from some distance talus. As the distance between isolated territories increases it is less likely that randomly dispersing young will recolonize a vacated territory. But the degree of connectivity was also never considered in Stewarts model. As seen in his diagram below (I added the red lines for reference), the vacancies can be readily explained just by the talus area and random dispersal.",0_0
"The Durban gathering is another effort to combat global warming by reducing carbon consumption, an approach that could dampen economic activity just when there is risk of a new European recession.",4_1
"You can see in the JAXA graph above that the 2007 divergence occurred in late July after Arctic insolation was already shutting down, essentially nullifying the Arctic albedo feedback argument. The Arctic minimum comes too late in the summer to have a significant impact on the radiation budget, due to the very low angle sun at that time. In fact, CERES has measured that during September 2008, the Arctic net radiation balance was strongly negative. The open water loses heat to the atmosphere (because it is not insulated by ice) meaning that declining ice cover is probably a negative feedback, not a positive one. NASA??s Earth Observatory explains :",3_1
"""Our review of the program at the outset of the McGreevey administration has led me to conclude that the program has failed,"" said Campbell in an August 13 letter to the U.S. EPA. ""The program's ostensible clean air benefits were limited by the failure to include safeguards to ensure that the program would in fact reduce emissions.""",0_0
"There also exist serious doubts whether the expedition can get to the North Pole at all. See Steve Goddard's text . After 40 days, they have only made 240 kilometers. April 30th is the last day to recover the people safely from the North Pole region so they have roughly 20 days for the remaining 685.61 kilometers (as of today: yes, this figure actually increased by 2 km from Friday). As the summer is approaching, the areas with missing ice should start to spread.",0_0
"All in all, the notion of ?post-normal science? seems like a complete contradiction in terms or a perversion of the standard definition of science as commonly understood. It appears to be an elaborate and dishonest attempt to pass off the preferences of a single group as some kind of pseudo-science. There?s a much simpler term for this dishonest phrase: politics.",0_0
"The reason: ""USAID officials said that a 41 percent surge in prices for wheat, corn,",0_0
"The UN economists clearly see a new ""indirect"" green-tax regime as a way around the acrimonious international impasse and the tardy response in meeting national pledges. The taxes they suggest include new carbon levies, international air fare taxes, auctioning the right to pollute and cross-border financial deals, as well as taxes on government grants and loans, each potentially raising US$10 billion annually.",0_0
NOAA and the other ground based data centers would have more credibility if one of the changes resulting in a reduction of the warming trend and not an exaggeration which has been the case each time.,5_1
"The University of Colorado used to have this error map on their sea level web site, which showed that most of their fake 3 mm/year sea level rise is due to error.",1_6
"Hans Labohm is an economist and co-author of Man-Made Global Warming: Unravelling a Dogma. He is a former professor at the Dutch Institute of International Relations and guest teacher at the Netherlands Institute for Defense Studies. He has been an IPCC reviewer and served in many international roles, including Deputy Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the OECD.",0_0
"The Buddhas of Bamiyan were blown up by the Taliban in 2001. In 2014, Greenpeace activists damaged the Nazca Lines. Greenpeace has often broken the law, but their actions have always been directed against those who harm the environment. They appealed to a moral authority higher than the legal ones. Nazca, however, was wanton vandalism. And it was not a solo action. Twenty people trampled over ancient heritage. The Greenpeace media team happily beamed pictures across the world. And when it emerged that the world was not amused, Greenpeace' response was closer to damage control and cover-up than remorse and cooperation with the Peru government.",0_0
"Last night climatologist Gareth Jones tweeted that there had been two dozen papers on the pause this year. In response, I wondered how many would have been published if David Whitehouse hadn't have written his groundbreaking report on the subject. This prompted Doug McNeall to comment ""About two dozen"", a sentiment that was endorsed by Gavin Schmidt.",1_4
"Britain's position is at odds with the previous Conservative government's pledge to phase out coal power by 2025. Various exemptions in EU's existing pollution requirement currently enable more than half of Europe's coal power plants to exceed limits for various pollutants. Poland and the Czech Republic rely heavily on coal for their electricity, while Finland, Greece, and the UK all have other types of plants covered by EU emissions directives. Germany has also shown growing support for coal, with its Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel telling attendees at an energy conference in Berlin the country would continue using brown coal for electric power production through at least 2040.",0_0
The number of stations gives a clue in Chart 2 .,0_0
"Of course, I have to say--as a warm weather person, I think we've had a bit too much planet healing lately!",0_0
power has served as a foundation for a stable and relatively peaceful and,0_0
"Indeed, Mann?s recent New York Times op-ed begins with a blanket defamation of anyone who has ever questioned his global warming orthodoxy, people he describes as a ?a fringe minority? which ?clings to an irrational rejection of well-established science,? promoting a ?virulent strain of anti-science.?",0_0
"Its an anti-science position. The surveys he quotes are ones like Anderegg , and Doran and Zimmerman . The latter was a two minute survey sent to 10,257 scientists, but the figure of 97% of climate scientists only came from 75 of those people. Comments from scientists outside the 75 are scathing at times. The former study (Anderegg) was a blacklist of scientists, is useless for understanding feedbacks, though works as a proxy for government funding: it shows that more funding of one side of the debate means more papers published from that point of view. To complete the trifecta of trivia, he also quotes Oreskes , whose work was equivalent to a google search on words. Again, confused researchers study proxies for grants instead of proxies for temperature.",5_1
"Research of Hundreds More Scientists Shows the Natural 1,500-Year Climate Cycle",2_1
"None of these things are consistent with hottest year ever. NASA has known for decades that satellite data is more accurate, and their current willful ignorance of their own satellite temperatures, indicates that they are engaged in propaganda, not science.",5_1
"This entire report assumes global warming to exist, assumes it is man-made, and assumes its future levels are as large or larger than those projected in the last IPCC report. The first four or five pages merely restate this finding with no new evidence. The majority of the report then takes this assumption, cranks it through various models, and generates scary potential scenarios about the US and it would be like if temperatures really rose 11F over the next century.",5_2
A leading group of economists advising UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for a raft of new green taxes to raise the US$100 billion a year committed by the 110 participant nations who signed December's Copenhagen Accord. The call won't come as music to the ears of taxpayers globally and particularly Canadian taxpayers.,0_0
"Most people would invariably say yes if you ask whether they want a more prosperous life for themselves and their families. But ask them about the consequences of rising prosperity for society as a whole, and doubts will quickly start to creep in.",0_0
"But Obamas EPA will propose endangerment on both health and welfare grounds. This inevitably will encourage litigation to establish primary as well as secondary NAAQS for GHGs, with all the economic peril that entails.",0_0
"In their comprehensive analysis of the Kyoto Protocol and climate policy, Richard B. Stewart and Jonathan B. Wiener examine the current impasse in climate policy and the potential steps nations can take to reduce greenhouse gases. They summarize the current state of information regarding the extent of global warming that would be caused by increasing uncontrolled greenhouse gas emissions. They explain why participation by all major greenhouse gas-emitting countries is essential to curb future greenhouse gas emissions and also note the significant obstacles to obtaining such participation.",0_0
"This document proposes regulations to implement Executive Order13658, Establishing a Minimum Wage for Contractors, which was signed by President Barack Obama on February 12, 2014.",0_0
"Regarding metrics used in the validation step in the reconstruction exercise, two issues have been raised (McIntyre and McKitrick 2003, 2005a,b). One is that the choice of significance level for the reduction of error (RE) validation statistic is not appropriate. The other is that different statistics, specifically the coefficient of efficiency (CE) and the squared correlation (r2), should have been used (the various validation statistics are discussed in Chapter 9). Some of these criticisms are more relevant than others, but taken together, they are an important aspect of a more general finding of this committee, which is that uncertainties of the published reconstructions have been underestimated. Methods for evaluation of uncertainties are discussed in Chapter 9.",0_0
Figure 2. Anchorage (urban) and Matanuska (rural) temperature stations.,0_0
North Africa : Ground Zero For Global Warming,0_0
"The draft plan is being overseen by Harris Sherman, undersecretary of agriculture for natural resources and the environment. Sherman insists that the planning rule takes timber sales into consideration, but his background and close ties to environmental groups raise serious questions. Before joining the Obama administration, he served as Director of Colorado's Department of Natural Resources, where he was instrumental in drafting the state's controversial roadless rule. Furthermore, according to his bio on the Department of Agriculture's website, he has worked for years on land conservation issues with such groups as the Nature Conservancy, Colorado Open Lands, and the Trust for Public Lands.",0_0
"What is striking about the trailer is that, even in just a few moments, it exposes the absurd thinking behind cynicism towards development and its possibilities, and its disregard for the abilities and lives of those living in the developing world. These problems are much bigger problems than scarcity. In fact, they actively cause scarcity, and the problems associated with it.",0_0
"It's also worth noting that most computer climate models predict that, once warming from greenhouse gas emissions starts, it continues at a constant rate, not an accelerating rate.",0_0
"international leadership, the working level implementation of the sanctions has",0_0
"In order to demonstrate that the increase in temperatures since the mid 1950s is not due to random fluctuations, it is necessary to do valid statistical analysis of the temperatures. The BEST team has not done such.",5_1
"In rural coastal areas, Goodbred adds, one solution might be to return to the kind of low, flexible embankments that people in this region built before the 1960s. Locals could raise them in the dry season to keep salty water away, and cut them down in the wet season to allow sediment in. Tidal water must, from time to time, be allowed to flush embanked land, he says, to deposit sediment and thus prevent the polders from sinking over the long term. Homes in these polders, he notes, tend to be on land that sits half a metre or more above the polder basins, so would be protected from the influx.",0_0
07-27 07-28 New 07-29 07-30 07-31 08-01 08-02,0_0
"At the very least, Congress should take the time to review the most onerous rules. Over-delegation allows Congress to shift blame to the agencies for excessive or unpopular regulations. But the people's elected representatives should perform their rightful duty and approve all new laws, not just 285. In this age of trillions, we cannot afford the regulatory state as it now stands. It is a hidden trillion-dollar tax on consumers, on top of what they already pay. A deregulatory stimulus is in order, the sooner the better. In the game of government poker, perhaps it is time to fold.",0_0
"Two British-born Pakistanis were among eight gunmen seized by Indian commandos who stormed buildings to free hostages, Vilasrao Deshmukh, the chief minister of Mumbai, reportedly said.",0_0
"""Any significant changes in the abundance, distribution, or existence of sea ice will have effects on the number and behavior of these animals and their prey,"" according to FWS. ""This loss of habitat puts polar bears at risk of becoming endangered in the foreseeable future, the standard established by the ESA for designating a threatened species.""",0_0
THE EAST PACIFIC SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE DATA DOES NOT AGREE WITH THE ASSUMPTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS-DRIVEN GLOBAL WARMING,0_0
"Recent attempts to openly attack prominent scientists have crossed a line, raising this destruction to new heights, making real scientists think twice about working on climate. The attacks are carried out with a particularly pungent red herring that makes it nearly impossible to keep the hounds from distraction.",0_0
His string of failed predictions were supported by the British Met offices sixty six million dollar (AU) computer modeling. They both incorrectly predicted 2009 would be one of the five warmest years ever. The world has just experienced two of the coldest and snowiest winters in decades.,1_3
"I dont think theres any cause for alarm as far as fall blizzards of that severity go, said Laura Edwards, a climate field specialist at SDSUs Aberdeen Extension office.",0_0
"Mars, too, appears to be enjoying more mild and balmy temperatures.",0_0
"The Central Great Plains drought during May-August of 2012 resulted mostly from natural variations in weather, the report said.",1_7
"No fixed plans have been formulated for how Britain can meet decarbonisation targets, either by Miliband when he pushed through the Climate Change Act as Energy Secretary, or by the current Government. And I am quite sure that Miliband has no such plans now either. Instead, DECC have laid out a number of scenarios, a sort of mix and match of what may be achievable as technology and economics change.",0_0
"This claim is already hotly disputed. US climate expert Professor Judith Curry said last night: In fact, the uncertainty is getting bigger. Its now clear the models are way too sensitive to carbon dioxide. I cannot see any basis for the IPCC increasing its confidence level.",5_1
"Over the last 15 years, we've been told that human CO2 emissions would cause global warming to accelerate to new dangerous levels, and this ""unequivocal"" warming would generate fantastic, catastrophic climate change disasters - the IPCC's climate models told us this, and truth be told, they were absolutely and spectacularly wrong",5_1
"The state attorneys general of Maine, Connecticut, and Massachusetts filed their own lawsuit in June against the Environmental Protection Agency, claiming the agency is required under the federal Clean Air Act to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. ""CEI was highly critical of the AGs lawsuit seeking to tighten regulatory restrictions on energy, since carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, and the case for draconian global warming policies remains unproven. Our opposition to the earlier AG action, we suspect, motivated this attack,"" says Fred Smith, president of CEI.",0_0
"The German Association of Energy Consumers estimates that up to 800,000 Germans have had their power cut off because they couldn?t pay the country?s rising electricity bills; among them, German newspaper Der Spiegel reported last October, are 200,000 long-term unemployed.",0_0
"Professor Nils-Axel Morner, head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics Department at Stockholm University and past president of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution, delivered an amusing and enthusiastic presentation examining sea level change. He pointed out that what has been predicted by computer models is not backed up by empirical evidence. Satellite measures, for instance, show no change in sea level over the past decade, which has led him to write in a peer-reviewed journal, ""This implies that there is no fear of any massive future flooding as claimed in most global warming scenarios."" Much of the supposed rise, it seems, has actually been a shifting of the amount of water from one area of the globe to another.",1_6
Shrub Proliferation Throughout Low Arctic Ecosystems (9 Jul 2013),0_0
"""Youngsters can get drunk for half the price of a bar of chocolate, a worrying new study has found.""",0_0
The graph below plots the number of years between major hurricane strikes in the US. They occur half as often now as they did in the 1940s.,1_7
These contradictions and mysteries mark NIWAs latest attempt to hoodwink the public over the national temperature record.,5_2
"Our goal is to quantify the consequences of the child bearing decisions of an individual. The appeal of our weighting scheme is that it provides an accounting of the extent to which a parents genetic material propagates through subsequent generations, and it allows the emissions of any individual to be unambiguously traced back and assigned to ancestors from any preceding generation.",0_0
"The Kyoto advocates point to warmer ocean temperatures, but they ought to read their own favorite newspaper, the New York Times, which reported yesterday:",0_0
"middle of his calibration, when we?re throwing out all post-1960 data ?cos the",0_0
"The same problems impact on Health. Another example: a day long gone, for who knows what reason, Blair and his government have decided that family doctors should always make an appointment within a few hours, under pain of severe penalty, instead allocate their time to be here in a few days depending on the severity of the request. The result is that it becomes more difference between the young man with the ear flushed and lanziano or child with a high fever, and all have to wait hours nellanticamera dellAmbulatorio.",0_0
"In this particular part of the world, longer-lasting floods and droughts of equal or greater magnitude than those of modern times occurred repeatedly prior to 1800.?? Hence, one must search elsewhere for evidence that would support climate-alarmist claims of more frequent and/or severe floods and droughts occurring in response to global warming, for there's none to be found here. Reviewed 22 June 2005",1_7
"* The report consists of 120 graphs (the numbering system includes, e.g., 11a and 11b, so the exact number is different from the 73 that identifies the last table) and contains no interpretation or discussion of the results. Discussion of the results apparently appears (or will appear) in an article in Environmental Science and Policy. The abstract of that article (presented on page 12 of the current report) seems to completely miss the obvious implications of the survey. No surprise, since Bray and von Storch tried to hide the plain results of their past work in a similar fashion.",0_0
"Obama's Clean Power Plan: Solar companies win, taxpayers lose",0_0
Less publicized is that it could affect us all. The disappearing ice itself is accelerating global warming.,0_0
"""Attorney-General John Hatzistergos said the NSW Law Reform Commission would conduct a review to close a legal loophole.""",0_0
"Fran wasn't going to let me off that easily. ""No you don't,"" she said. ""You got us into this, and you're going to keep going.""",0_0
"The Indian Ocean Sea Level data is shown in Figure 3. Based on the smoothed data, the Indian Ocean Sea Level remained flat from early 2007 to early 2008, then rose again since then. Also note the multiple swings in sea level during 1996 and 1997, leading up to the El Nino of 1997/98.",1_6
"(1) Contrary to what the Editor Charlene M. Anderson writes in the opening column, the Earths climate is not being recorded as undergoing a steady warming. There has been no warming in the past 10 years. Previous decades have seen warming and cooling episodes. If we are undergoing a warming, its definitely not steady",1_4
"""Attempting a police omniscience seen in only about 20 U.S. cities, the Ogden Police Department is gearing up for a ""real time crime center"" to be operational soon after its Crime Blimp launches.""",0_0
Newborn reef fish can cope with changed water conditions if their parents have already adjusted,3_2
"The extreme snow event in New Zealand that is forecast this weekend is noteworthy in the context of climatology since, according to the IPCC-type predictions, such events should be becoming less common. The forecasts for this event are quite serious. The newsagency TVNZ just released the article",1_3
The satellites reveal the inconvenient truth that there has been no global warming for approaching two decades.,1_4
"To prioritize the EU and UN policies with respect to more urgent environmental challenges, such as air and water pollution, waste management, etc.",0_0
"But turnabout is fair play. In the same State of the Union speech in which Bush advocated approval of trade treaties with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea -- which union-friendly Democrats have stalled claiming the need for such provisions -- Bush offered on climate change policy to ""let us complete an international agreement that has the potential to slow, stop, and eventually reverse the growth of greenhouse gases."" But...""This agreement will be effective only if it includes commitments by every major economy and gives none a free ride.""",0_0
"Despite relatively little centennial variability, Briffas reconstruction had a noticeable decline in the late 20th century, despite warmer temperatures. In these early articles , the decline was not hidden.",5_2
"There's never a real ""third way,"" though. Early credits create a new class of stakeholders in a Kyoto-like regime, divide the business community between ""winners"" and ""losers"" in the emissions reduction game, and alter the political dynamic in favor, of Kyoto.",0_0
Summary of Sea Level Predictions by N.J. Ford,0_0
"Professor Mike Lockwood, a space environment physicist at Reading University UK has studied ice cores going back tens of thousands of years. He thinks there?s a very good chance that the Sun is heading for an extremely quiet period. Speaking to the BBC he said that it was",0_0
"out her assumptions. Charles River Associates (CRA), an econometric modeling firm, has taken those assumptions and reproduced the Administration's analysis. According to CRA:",0_0
"on Monday, April 13th, 2015 at 8:38 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Jerry Clark, the physicist, who has spent 30 years tracking data from the relay satellite system, talked to one of the organizers before the meeting. The young man was surprised to learn that not all scientists agreed with Hansen. Clark feels frustrated because ""the opportunity for opposing views to receive equal time and billing with Dr. Hansen does not exist; nor will the apologists engage in data comparisons."" Instead of the short-term charts Hansen presented, Clark wants to see the data and the real records. Drawing from his experiences on his college debate team, Clark was surprised that ""Hansen didn't even try to justify his thesis of man-made global warming.""",0_0
"Google and NRG now want a $539-million federal grant to bail them out of $1.6 billion in taxpayer loans for the bird-roasting Ivanpah concentrated solar power project in California, because it does not work and needs so much natural gas to keep its water hot that it doesnt meet state renewable energy standards. Other Obama greenbacks energy investments have also drowned in red ink , leaving taxpayers to pay the tab: Solyndra, Abound Solar, Solar Trust, Ener1, Beacon Power, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera .",4_4
"Currently, the Konsensus has introduced a new line of argument into the climate debate. They have de-emphasized the focus on sensitivity of the atmosphere to a doubling of CO2 concentrations, probably because all the new studies show that sensitivity is far lower than the Konsensus has claimed. Now they are just saying we must leave fossil fuels in the ground. Its about as content heavy as Nancy Reagans Just Say No.",3_1
"Before accounting for the way in which allowances are allocated or revenues are redistributed, lower-income households are disproportionally affected by a GHG cap-and-trade policy because they spend a higher fraction of their incomes on energy-intensive goods.",0_0
"The press and global warming enthusiasts have been hyping the loss of Arctic sea ice, but the models simulate it so poorly that the authors concluded that natural variability causes the bulk of the ice loss.",2_1
"The fine weather continued into the middle of August when another frost occurred over interior New York and all of New England damaging many crops. Then on the 20th a strong cold front crossed the Northeast with violent thunderstorms. Reports of temperatures falling 30 degrees after frontal passage were not uncommon. Frost was reported the next day as far south as Massachusetts with snow reported on Mt Moosilouke in New Hampshire. Corn was destroyed from Albany to Boston. If that cold spell wasnt enough, it all came to an end on the 28th when another strong cold front crossed the Northeast with severe frost that ended the growing season in most of Northern New England.",1_3
"For these reasons, geoengineering merits widespread attention. Even if other countries did nothing to reduce carbon use, successful geoengineering would have global effects and largely eliminate any need for carbon caps and the regulatory burden of monitoring and enforcement.",0_0
"Particulate matter (PM, or soot) is down roughly 67 percent from 1970 levels, and is lower now than at any time since measurements began in the 1930s.",0_0
Empirical analyses of the emissions avoided in electricity grids in the U.S. and Europe indicatethat (1) wind turbines are significantly less effective at avoiding emissions than is commonly assumed and (2) effectiveness decreases as the proportion of electricity generated by wind turbines increases.,4_4
Hansen Compares Conservatives and Climate Change Skeptics to Neanderthals,0_0
"The Economist confidently waffles that The mystery of the pause in global warming may have been solved, in Davy Joness heat locker.The oceans may be absorbing the warming.",1_4
"The question is not really whether the forecasts are scientifically valid, but how much impetus they can provide to influence society.",0_0
"The sea ice data, cited from NSIDC, stops in 2007. 2008 and 2009 sea ice data and imagery, available to even the simplest of curiosity seekers at the publicly available NSIDC or even Cryosphere Today websites, is not included in the graphic. Mr. Scott chooses the historical satellite record minimum of 2007 as the endpoint for comparison. This leaves a reader who is ???not in the know??, with the false impression that sea ice has not recovered in any way.",1_1
One of the numerous Goebbelian propaganda artifices deployed by the now-retreating climate extremist movement has been the careful avoidance of any debate with anyone on the skeptical side of the case who happens to know anything about climate science or economics.,5_2
"Human civilization readily adapted to the seven inches of sea level rise that occurred during the twentieth century. Alarmists, however, claim global warming will cause sea level to rise much more rapidly during the present century. United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) computer models project approximately 15 inches of sea level rise during the 21st century. Thats more than double the sea level rise that occurred during the twentieth century. A more mainstream prediction among alarmists is 3 feet of sea level rise this century. Some alarmists have even projected 20 feet of global sea level rise this century.",1_6
"Goldberg identifies this ""moment"" of cowardice as, in Obama's mind, his ""liberation day, the day he defied not only the foreign-policy establishment and its cruise-missile playbook, but also the demands of America's frustrating, high-maintenance allies in the Middle Eastcountries, he complains privately to friends and advisers, that seek to exploit American ""muscle' for their own narrow and sectarian ends.""",0_0
"""To these Enron clones, global warming is about money and power,"" Ferguson remarked. ""It has nothing to do with measuring the effectiveness of devastatingly expensive mitigation efforts. It requires unquestioning belief and confessing your CO2 sins, which justifies you in demanding that everybody else confess and pay up.""",0_0
"The Bush administrations unorthodox stance on climate change and stem-cell research led to widespread accusations that it conducted a war on science. The Democrats response has been to promise to let science guide us, not ideology, to make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology, and that the days of science taking a back seat to ideology are over.",0_0
"Should Michael Manns infamous 1,000-year temperature reconstruction look less like a hockey stick and more like a city skyline? New research on natural climate variability suggests that may in fact be the case.",5_1
"It was record snow for this time of year, says reader Alex Tanase. ???We had over 10cm in Muntenia Ilfov, Giurgiu, Teleorman, Calarasi and Ialomita Counties(a region in South-East Romania).??",1_3
"Cholesterol, heart disease, statins, Update and Review on the debate",0_0
"on Thursday, September 9th, 2010 at 5:49 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Natural gas has two major benefits over coal: it has less carbon emissions per unit of chemical energy, and can be converted into electricity at a higher efficiency (less energy is lost as waste heat). These two combined mean that the CO2 emissions from new natural gas power plants can be as little as one third of the emissions of existing coal plants.",4_5
"View to Govetts Leap, December 5, 2007",0_0
"His success is manifest. For nearly 30 years, politicians have labored to define themselves in the light of his legacy. Even President Obama was said he wants to be transformative like Reagan. Thanks to him, conservative sentiments are today stronger among the American people than at any time since the Great Depression.",0_0
"Nuccitelli moves on to condemn Roy Spencer for saying, The consensus is only that humans are contributing to warming, and to announce (blind faith again) that Humans are Causing Global Warming.",0_0
"But even if you managed to win the war for a world government, such a world government will still be unable to change the composition of the atmosphere in a way that significantly deviates from predictions arising from natural processes and man-made contributions tightly linked to the people's prosperity. The reason is that winds and diffusion are not the only two foes of yours. There are lots of other laws of physics you need to violate in order to realize your pathological dreams and it won't be easy.",0_0
"Of 191 bird and mammal species recorded as having gone extinct since 1500, 95% were on islands, where humans and human-introduced predators and diseases wrought the destruction, notes ecology researcher Dr. Craig Loehle. On continents, only six birds and three mammals were driven to extinction, and no bird or mammal species in recorded history is known to have gone extinct due to climate change.",3_2
Kerwick following up on a discussion pointwhy talk about correcting history on the issue of race and slavery?,0_0
Kerwick follow up on a more truthful History of Race/Slavery,0_0
"By Ian Plimer, Catallaxy Files, Aug 11, 2015",0_0
"The popular values in the supersymmetric model building go between 2 and 50 - they can be relatively small but also very high. It's been believed that the interval 2-50 is needed for the couplings to remain perturbative up to the Planck or GUT scale. However, the uplifted supersymmetry region , recently promoted by Dobrescu and Fox, can go well above 50. Note that the uplifted SUSY was also mentioned as a natural explained of the recent D0 claims about a new source of CP-violation ...",0_0
"In the evening we had dinner at Matts house with his good lady Anya and their son Matthew. Anya is another one of those amazing folks, a neurobiologist with both a PhD and an MD, and the dinner guests were there for a neurobiology conference. Glamorous surroundings, glistening candelabras, and glittering conversation made it a most memorable evening.",0_0
"Gore's friends in Congress, namely Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, then tried to bail out Gore's lack of planning with a thoroughly impractical alternative: putting the concert on the Capitol building's West Lawn. With rare exceptions, the only large public gatherings there are the National Symphony Orchestra concerts on the 4th of July and Memorial Day. Much attention was paid to Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-OK, who regularly challenges Gore's views on humans role in global warming and the effects of climate change, calling the concert a ""partisan political event"" that shouldn't be held on Capitol grounds. Gore shot back, with his oft-repeated claim that climate change is a ""moral issue.""",0_0
"The findings reveal that warm waters may be the cause behind these shifts. This, in turn, could be a result of globally warming oceans.",0_0
"A range of factors have been pinpointed for what has come to be called the hiatus or pause in warming, which the scientists said they expected to be temporary.",1_4
"The ads warn Americans of the causes and consequences of global warming, claiming that it will lead to more hurricanes, droughts, fires, and so on. One ad even claims that global warming will cause an increase in childhood asthma. ""Asthma,"" begins the ad, ""It's striking more and more of our kids. In just 13 years, the number of children with asthma has more than doubled. Scientists know that global warming is real and heating up the planet. More heat means more smog, and smog can trigger asthma attacks for our kids.""",0_0
"Carbon dioxide is a plant fertilizerthe more of it there is in the atmosphere, the better plants grow. Aspects of climate can act in a similar way. More sunshine in cloudy areas, more rainfall in dry areas, and higher temperatures in cold areas can all act to boost plant growth. And it is precisely these types of climate changes that have taken place over the past 20-30 years. And as a result, the worlds plants have responded positively. Figure 1 shows the trends in net primary productivity (NPP)the ultimate measure of how much plant growth is taking place. Upward trends in NPP (green areas in Figure 1) mean that plants are growing better. This is occurring across most land areas across the globe.",3_3
"What he really means, as his press release clarifies, is that Building a new fleet of nuclear power stations could reduce bills by more than 75 a year in 2030, compared to a future where nuclear is not part of the energy mix.",4_5
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Center for Entrepreneurship Director John Berlau on the burden of the regulations:,0_0
"The results of this study highlight the need to improve our understanding of mechanisms controlling sun-atmosphere-monsoon linkages.?? Clearly, as we have often indicated in other Journal Reviews (see the many items we have posted in the various sub-headings of Solar Effects in our Subject Index), the sun plays an important role in climate change on earth; and that role must be fully understood before we can determine the degree of influence of any anthropogenic forcing that may be playing a similar role. Reviewed 31 August 2005",2_1
"The chart shows estimates as high as 3.5 million, or 500,000 deaths, when the actual number of delayed deaths is less than 4,000. Thats the number of Americans who die of adverse drug reactions every six weeks. Again, a huge error.",0_0
"The Paris accord stipulates that developed nations must reduce their emissions, regardless of impacts on economies, employment, or families. This means they must de-carbonize, de-industrialize and de-develop while they give trillions of dollars in cash and free technology to developing countries like Brazil, China, India, and Indonesia, for climate ""reparation"" and ""mitigation.""",0_0
"14. As The Economist magazine put the question: ""You might think that a policy issue which puts at stake hundreds of billions of dollars of global output would arouse at least the casual interest of the world's economic and finance ministries. You would be wrong."" From ""Hot Potato Revisited,"" The Economist (November 8, 2003): 96.",0_0
"Global Warming Alarmist Rhetoric, Propaganda and Dishonesty Heats Up in Paris",5_2
"""For EPA to impose carbon-pollution standards that by design will make the introduction of new coal-fired power plants all but impossible is to adapt a policy that by design will drive up the cost of electricity by limiting America's sources of power,"" said Cohen. ""The EPA is engaging in a complete fabrication, one that will put an end to an industry that supplies the U.S. with 37% of its electricity."" When Obama took office in 2009, coal-fired plants were providing nearly 50% of U.S. electrical energy.",0_0
"Much of the discussion thus far has been concerned with the typical disputes over estimates of the cost of such a program, but there has been little notice of how an approach that is supposed to be an alternative to command-and-control regulation will involve a massive interagency bureaucracy to execute it, with undoubtedly substantial compliance costs for the private sector. Waxman-Markey contemplates a primary administrative role for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); the bill requires the EPA's administrator to perform over six hundred tasks in connection with the operation of the law. One wonders whether the EPA administrator will have time for any other environmental issues.",0_0
"Further afield the situation is considered to be just as dire. A recent study by University of Oxford scholar Stephen Harrison said that African glaciers would disappear within 20 years if trends continued. Most worrying is the impending demise of the glaciers at the headwaters of the River Nile. Furthermore, in central Asia Kazakhstan's glaciers have lost 125 billion cubic yards of water in the past fifty years.",0_0
The new Congress will fight the president over the pipeline and block minimum-wage and carbon-tax bills,0_0
The same cannot be said of cap-and-trade. It would take some $600 billion out,0_0
"Second, new and stronger environmental guidelines will be required for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) to encourage responsible investments. OPIC will be required to make annual reports on its power sector project and OPIC will not be allowed to finance mining, drilling or infrastructure projects in ecologically sensitive areas. Third, the President urged increased use of new energy-saving technologies, such as automobiles that are three times more fuel efficient. He also pledged to have solar panels on one million roofs by 2010 (BNA Daily Environment Report, June 27, 1997).",0_0
"But for Americans who spend their time building businesses as well as going to parks, Kagan would apparently try to shut the courthouse door. Mark W. Smith, founding partner of the New York law firm Smith Valliere and Martinez PLLC and author of Disrobed: The New Battle Plan to Break the Left's Stranglehold on the Courts, notes that Kagan appears to be selective in her principles on standing and in her empathy for plaintiffs. ""It is ironic how liberal jurists like Elena Kagan seem willing to allow all sorts of liberal plaintiffs to get redress in the courts,"" Smith says. ""But if you are a small business caught in the web of the government's bureaucracy, forget about it.""",0_0
"Cowboy of Teplice City, a 1995 song by Mr Kamil Stihavka (CZ) that happens to describe the health of a Texas district judge, too.",0_0
"The Independent, 18 December 2010: December 2010 is ""almost certain"" to be the coldest since records began in 1910, according to the Met Office.",1_3
"We therefore seek documents revealing the origins of the effort and clarifying the alternating, mutually exclusive claims of NREL saying DoE told me to do it and DoE telling Congress that it was all NREL's idea, fully aware of of DoE's extant protestations to congressional offices that the above-cited paper is of like kind with other NREL products (noting here that no paper DoE cites is comparable on any level ).",0_0
"Among the many interesting findings, the surveys revealed growing partisan divisions on the issue. In September and October 1997, 75 percent of people who identified strongly with the Democratic party thought that global warming would happen in the future, compared to 67 percent of strong Republicans (an 8-point gap). In the December-to-February survey, 77 percent of these Democrats and 55 percent of the Republicans felt that way (a 22-point gap).",0_0
Some would argue that the CO2 reductions create benefits from reduced global warming and the value of these benefits more than offsets the cost of a million lost jobs and trillions of dollars of lost income. There are several ways of looking at these suggested benefits.,0_0
"During question period at the media and climate panel, I asked Pederson about Jones's comment on the lack of ""statistically significant"" warming since 1995 and the possible cooling from 2002 on. Pederson replied that the 1995 non-warming was just that, a statistical artifact, and that the current decade had been the warmest on record. Which may be true, but that doesn't mean the decade is warming.",1_4
"The map below overlays the 1+ ice (turquoise/green) on NSIDCs most recent extent map (white.) You can see that there has been minimal effect on the older ice. Some of the ice in the Beaufort and Chuckchi Seas melted, and some blew over into the East Siberian Sea and Arctic Basin.",1_1
"The Charleston Daily Mail editorial page recently featured ""Rockefeller is Out of Line"" a critique of the Senator's ""intemperate attempt to squelch debate."" Sen. Rockefeller responded by noting that:",0_0
"Bristling with a sense of entitlement, the congressman ran print, television and radio ads, painting Robinson as a nutcase who would promote racism, put radioactive wastes in drinking water, end Social Security and Medicare, close schools, repeal taxation of oil companies and destroy Oregon jobs. With help from Rachel Madow and MSNBC, DeFazio claimed Robinson lived off Social Security in a survivalist compound and was funding his campaign with cash from money launderers and drug dealers.",0_0
"4. For UAH , the slope is flat since June 2008 or 6 years, 2 months. (goes to July using version 5.5)",1_4
"Oops. Ed Morrissey looks at what the report does say; ""They Were For Dissent And Alternative Analysis Before They Were Against It""",0_0
"The most extreme year was 1936, when the hottest summer on record (even after adjustments) followed the second coldest winter. I wonder how their models account for that?",1_7
"Over the past 25 years, January temperatures in Maryland have dropped nearly three degrees C. This has been one of the worst cycling months I can remember continuous ice on the bike paths.",1_3
"The authors state that ""forest production is strongly nutrient limited throughout the southeastern US,"" and that there is a ""clear limitation"" of net primary production at their site. Nevertheless, they report ""there were significant increases in canopy N and P contents under elevated CO 2 "" (26 and 50%, respectively), and that ""canopy biomass was significantly higher under elevated CO 2 during the first 4 years of this experiment."" What it means",3_3
He and/or his lawyer may feel that his status as public figure will have adverse implications in the libel suit he filed against Mark Steyn and the Competitive Enterprise Institute.,0_0
"Still, it can not be the government radicalism; the unions have preferred the less revolutionary party of the Workers, the Labour Party, in fact, rather than rely on the Communist Party. The figures are placed on the door too controversial in one way or another, and not 'a case that the King who first within the fashionable salons and more' late almost sympathize 'for Hitler, quell'Edoardo VIII was forced to abdicate even after 11 months of reign.",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. As Curry wrote on her blog:",0_0
"Fossil fuels produce far more energy per acre than biofuels, notes analyst Howard Hayden. Using biomass instead of coal or natural gas to generate electricity for one U.S. city of 700,000 people would require cutting down trees across an area the size of Rhode Island every year. Making corn-based ethanol to replace the gasoline in U.S. vehicles would require planting every single acre of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and Wisconsin in corn for fuel. Wind and solar currently provide just 3 percent of global energy consumption, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reports; by 2040, as the world's population continues to grow, hydroelectric, wind, solar, biomass, and geothermal energy combined will still represent only 15% of the total, the EIA predicts.",0_0
"To sum up: the precise values of the CO2 radiative forcing, the Planck parameter, and all five relevant temperature feedbacks are unmeasured and unmeasurable, unknown and unknowable. The feedbacks are particularly uncertain, and may well be somewhat net-negative rather than strongly net-positive: yet the IPCCs error-bars suggest, quite falsely, that they are known to an extraordinary precision.",5_1
"Why would we blindly assume or agree to the torrent of lies that humans dominate the climate? The answer is that on Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22, we will be deluged with the propaganda of countless organizations worldwide that we are, in fact, endangering a ""fragile"" planet Earth. We hear and read that every other day of the year as well.",0_0
"It may already be happening. The four major agencies tracking Earth??s temperature, including NASA??s Goddard Institute, report that the Earth cooled 0.7 degree Celsius in 2007, the fastest decline in the age of instrumentation, putting us back to where the Earth was in 1930.",1_2
"For example, due to increased upwelling, marine life off the California coast would have to move south to remain in its preferred environment.",0_0
"Basically, we need a new data set and it needs to be a very fine grained one with full representation of the rural and high altitude areas. The present GHCN data set is polluted with selection bias that preferentially puts thermometers in lower elevations, near coastlines, and at airports in or near urban areas. Exactly the kinds of places shown to have abnormal warming in the above fine grained maps.",0_0
"By the time we arrive in Mitradanga it is late afternoon. The sun is beginning to dip over bamboo trellises that trail ripening squash over a mass of water hyacinth. Birds fly low over the surface of the water, black against a peach-pink sky.",0_0
"Prof Steffen said he would produce an update on the science for the committee , as part of the Garnaut climate change review update, as well as write his own independent report . ( source )",0_0
"Bush had risen to the presidency as a ""compassionate conservative."" Think of it as a Republican version of Bill Clinton's ""triangulation,"" with Bush offering himself as conservative on taxes and most social issues, less to the right on matters such as the federal role in K12 education, and not as wild-eyed as the Republican revolutionaries who seized control of Congress in the mid-1990s.",0_0
Lindzen-Choi ?Special Treatment?: Is Peer Review Biased Against Nonalarmist Climate Science?,5_2
"""Both Majority Leader McConnell and Chairman Inhofe have said that they are determined to stop the EPA's greenhouse gas rules, so I expect quick action to move Capito's bill. In the House, a bill to block the rules, H. R. 2042, the Ratepayer Protection Act, was voted out of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on 29th April and is awaiting floor action.""",0_0
The US Southwest 41 F Degree Day Deviation Map,0_0
"From their analysis, the scientists found 263 estimates of the conditions when sediments and ice were laid down during the Last Interglacial, allowing them to reconstruct past temperatures around the globe. To compare the reconstructed estimates with today, they took the Last Interglacial values away from modern temperatures averaged over the period 1961 to 1990.",0_0
"According to Environment Canada, the highest recorded snow fall for Williams Lake todate had been 42.7 cm on Jan. 7, 1961.",0_0
"???The mitigation targets currently adopted by governments all around the world do not yet address the important non-CO2 climate impacts of aviation, such as contrails, which may cause a climate impact as large, or even larger, than the climate impact of aviation CO2 emissions.",4_2
The 1930s were by far the hottest decade in the US. Maximum temperatures were about two degrees warmer. Afternoon summer temperatures are no warmer now than they were in the 19th century.,2_1
"Search for truth: I figured I'd better put that at the top as the biggest motivation. You know, scientists want to understand how things work and hopefully put some of that understanding to good practical use. But also I've seen that scientists are motivated to a greater or lesser extent by the quest for research funding. Certainly global warming is a good area for submitting proposals to get government funding to do government-funded research. And I agree that the threat of global warming is sufficient to where we should have that funded activity.",0_0
"To me, that??s the Occam??s Razor explanation of why, after thirty years, millions of dollars, millions of man-hours, and millions of lines of code, the computer models have not improved the estimation of ???climate sensitivity?? in the slightest. They do not contain or model any of the emergent phenomena that govern the climate , the phenomena that decouple the temperature from the forcing and render the entire idea of ???climate sensitivity?? meaningless.",5_1
"The other major 3 crop regions all show similar type of cooling rates over the last 17 years ending 2013. (see: soybean temperatures, map ; spring wheat temperatures, map ; and winter wheat temperatures, map )",1_4
NASA is constantly tampering with their data to cool the past and warm the present in order to make the hiatus disappear.,5_2
"Nor is there any doubt that the politics of energy use have increased the probability that some sort of deal will be cut in Paris that can be dubbed a success from zero into positive territory. Developing nations, accounting for over half of the world's emissions, will have to be placated and China, which accounted for more of the recent increase in CO2 emissions than the rest of the world combined, will have to be convinced that any deal does not interfere with its current struggle to recharge its growth engine. The regime, recognizing that it cannot continue on its present path without seriously reducing livability in its major cities, is experimenting with a cap-and-trade emissions reduction program and, according to Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli, ""will make an even greater effort to address climate change and take on international responsibilities.""",0_0
I guess they really dont have a full handle on the science and consensus after all.,0_0
Any work we have done in the past is done on the back of the research grants we,0_0
"As for whether the activities of people can only be a detriment to the natural order, Dr. Michael Mares, in a phone interview, asserted that ""pristine habitat being disturbed can actually increase the number of species found in that area."" Lugo notes that secondary forest can ""constitute a landscape with greater species richness than found in a landscape dominated only by climax forests."" (Lugo, p. 67) And Smith says that through ""widespread interaction with the forest and intimate knowledge of its resources indigenous groups have enriched the forest with various useful plants, particularly fruit and nut trees"" and created what some refer to as ""cultural forests"" within the Amazon.",0_0
Allowing for this exaggeration knocks back this centurys anthropogenic warming to not much more than 1 K about a third of the 3-4 K that we normally hear so much about.,3_1
And then RSS present three model-data comparisons that show the models failing to simulate lower troposphere temperatures globally and in the tropics and that only Arctic lower troposphere temperatures are warming as predicted by models.,5_1
and from ABC Rural: Goyders line could shift to Clare,0_0
"I dont have a strong opinion on which of these possibilities (sensor problems, deeper convection, or a dryer mid- and upper troposphere) is more likely. Too little information, too many questions.",0_0
"By unilaterally adopting emissions cuts while India and China go on belching out ever greater amounts of greenhouse gases, Congress implicitly endorses the twin pillars of international climate law: ""common but differentiated responsibilities,"" and the ""right to develop."" Rights and responsibilitiesthe stuff of ethicsdo not dissolve at state borders. Therefore, Congress should make its climate scheme optional for Mississippi.",4_2
"The ambitious move may have been encouraged by a rapid increase in solar power installation in recent months after the government unified grid feed-in tariffs for solar projects for the first time in July, and offered a higher price for projects that would be put into operation before the year end.",0_0
"Burton Richter is a Nobel Prizewinning scientist who has served on many US and international review committees on climate change and energy issues. He provides a concise overview of the knowledge and uncertainties within climate change science, discusses current energy demand and supply patterns, and the energy options available to cut greenhouse gas emission. This book assesses the sensible, senseless and biased proposals for averting the potentially disastrous consequences of global warming, allowing readers to draw their own conclusions on switching to more-sustainable energy provision.",0_0
"And after nearly 30 years in operation, it is unclear what Heartland stands for when it comes to climate change beyond resistance to putting any kind of restraint on business.",0_0
"Notice the spike in the '07 El Nino, then the fall after; the spike in the '09-'10 El Nino, the fall after. The overall trend though is unmistakably down. But another round of heat hysteria is certainly on the way. Problem is, as I said, it will mean a cold winter for the US for one, and a bigger drop after. But how much you want to bet the cold winter next year will be twisted into something it's not (caused by CO2)? Do you think any of them will possibly acknowledge what global temperatures will do after the spike? They don't even want anyone to look at this now.",1_2
"""The certainty among many scientists that humans are the main cause of climate change, including global warming, is not based on the replication of observable events. It is based on just two things, the theoretical effect of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, predominantly carbon dioxide, and the predictions of computer models using those theoretical calculations. There is no scientific ""proof"" at all.""",5_1
The press release also says that the precautionary principle should be utmost on our minds. The kind of society that will result from applying the precautionary principle is a stagnant society with constant conflicts over scarce resources. How does that promote peace and the security of mankind?,0_0
"The BBC is a bubble. Its broadcasting departments are bubbles. The scientific establishment is a bubble. Perspectives from without the bubble are met with ire much like Robertss and Nurses: challenges to the authority and the claims of the establishment are met with derision, the critics belittled as anti-science. Like the phenomenon of environmental journalism, the BBCs science output is scripted and filmed inside the bubble. To the extent that there is communication with the world outside the bubble, science is prescriptive of how the world should be, rather than a description of how the material world is.",5_2
"Let us suppose, ad argumentum, that the main reason for sea-level change is temperature change, and that Grinsteds sea-level reconstruction is plausible. In that event, the small sea-level response to the large temperature change between the medieval warm period and the little ice age suggests the possibility that even a global warming far greater than what is now likely might not have much impact on sea level.",1_6
"More importantly, the comments provide furtherdocumentation in the public recordas to major issues with regulating CO2 and several other well-mixed greenhouse gases as pollutants. Of particular relevance to my expertise, the EPA Findings are not scientifically robust; e.g. see",0_0
"Several satellites measure the global sea level elevation. The European satellite, Evisat, provided possibly the best available data. It showed falling sea level since its launch in 2002, and for the last two years the decline was 5mm/yr. Unfortunately. Evisat broke down on April 8 th 2012.",1_6
"I know that trust and distrust are feelings that last. So, for this reason, I prefer to include a variety of respected data sets in my analysis and report on as many results as possible. That way, when the temperatures do warm, and my updated plots and trends show the renewed warming, I think my audience will trust my plots are not simply attempts to present a tendentious argument in favor of a theory I believe to be true.",0_0
"?If you want to go back to see when the Sun was this inactive? you?ve got to go back about 100 years,? he says.",0_0
"After carefully studying the book, I came to the conclusion that I need to be even tougher and more merciless with my opinions than I have been until now. While for most people ? including me ? the bible of the current hysteria around global warming is Al Gore?s book ?An Inconvenient Truth?, for Nigel Lawson it is Nicolas Stern?s infamous ?Review,? which was prepared at the request of Tony Blair.",0_0
"Ending this lethal energy deprivation will require abundant, reliable, affordable energy on unprecedented scales, and more than 80% of it will have to come from fossil fuels. Coal now provides 40% of the world's electricity, and much more than that in some countries. That is unlikely to change anytime soon.",0_0
Rising Sea Level Forecasts: Fact or Fiction?,0_0
15c. Current state of scientific knowledge allow for a reasonable assessment of the effects of green-house gases emitted from anthropogenic sources,0_0
"In a 1983 study into vegetal species by Kimbal (1983) published in Carbon Dioxide Fertilizing Effects on Plant Biomass production and Water-Use Efficiency showed that, A doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentrations increased biomass production by an average of 33% in the vegetal species.",3_3
"Due to the damaging effects green energy has had on Germany's grid, the government plans to cap the total amount of wind energy at 40 to 45 percent of national capacity, according to a report published last month by the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung. By 2019, Germany will get rid of 6,000 megawatts of wind power capacity.",0_0
"Other colors besides brown are more expensive. And the 2nd generation Zune (above) costs USD 250, with 80 GB of disk space.",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Center for Entrepreneurship Director John Berlau on why Rush Limbaugh would be a better choice:,0_0
"The Long War promises to be a thinking man's war. As a full-fledged Alliance, NATO possesses the kind of staying power that mere ad hoc coalitions cannot deliver; but NATO still has to come to terms with the fact that thinking power will matter more than fighting power. If NATO is to avoid the twofold danger of the SCO becoming a NATO of the East while NATO becomes a mere SEATO of the West, the Alliance will have first of all to downgrade its ""toolbox"" dimension and beef up its ""think-tank"" dimension.",0_0
"Lets also be quite clear that science does not work by way of consensus. Science does not progress by appeal to authority; in fact, major scientific advances usually come from outside the consensus; one can cite many classic examples, from Galileo to Einstein. In other words, the very notion of a scientific consensus is unscientific.",0_0
Its also obvious from the ANPR that EPArelishes the prospect of dominatingfederal fuel economyregulation (GHG emission standardsbeing de-facto mpg standards ) andis hot toestablish New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for CO 2 emissions from power plants and refineries.,0_0
"We all have heard many times that summer sea ice minimums have declined in the northern hemisphere over the last 30 years. As mentioned above, this causes more sunlight to reach the dark ocean water, and results in a warming of the water. What is not so widely discussed is that southern hemisphere sea ice has been increasing, causing a net cooling effect. This article explains why the cooling effect of excess Antarctic ice is significantly greater than the warming effect of missing Arctic ice.",1_1
"Remarkably, the death of young men is never recorded as a notch against GDP, but the building of bombs that are dropped in far off lands is alwayscounted as a plus for an economy.",0_0
"Throughout the four-year study, seedlings grown in elevated CO 2 displayed photosynthetic rates that were 60-130% greater than rates exhibited by seedlings grown in ambient air during the warmer summer months. During the colder winter months, atmospheric CO 2 enrichment continued to boost seedling photosynthetic rates by 14 to 44%. These persistent increases in net carbon uptake led to a mean biomass accumulation in the CO 2 enriched seedlings that was 90% greater than that attained by the ambiently-grown controls after four years of treatment exposure. What it means",3_3
"What about the probable ~1 C, unnaturally 7.7 sigma, increase in global air temperature between the Little Ice Age, 1650, and 1900? Humans couldn??t have done it. Climate gremlins, maybe?",2_1
Die Welt writes that global warming is currently advancing considerably more slowly than assumed a few years ago and has stalled over the last 15 years and that scientists are unable to explain why .,1_4
"The seven scientists report that the elevated CO 2 treatment increased the above- and below-ground biomass of Zhonghuang 13 by 18.3 and 11.1%, respectively, while it increased the above- and below-ground biomass of Zhonghuang 35 by 15.6 and 20.0%, respectively. They additionally note that the high-CO 2 treatment also boosted the percentage of N derived from the atmosphere (%Ndfa) for Zhonghuang 13 from 59% to 79%, corresponding to an amount of N fixed ranging from 166 to 275 kg N ha -1 ; but they say that the elevated CO 2 treatment ""had no significant effect on either parameter for Zhonghuang 35."" What it means",3_3
"Mark Killion, IHSs head of world industry services, said, however, that the findings from the latest data were far from bleak for US manufacturing. The US has a huge productivity advantage in that it produced only slightly less than Chinas manufacturing output in 2010 but with 11.5m workers compared to the 100m employed in the same sector in China.",0_0
"Marlo Lewis, Jr.Vice President for Policy & Coalitions",0_0
"Listening to the environmentalists, one might get the impression that the Clinton Administration completely backtracked on its commitment to sign a treaty in Kyoto, Japan. Statements by the administration following the Earth Summit, suggest otherwise:",0_0
"If an agency concludes that its action will have no significant impacts, it issues a relatively brief Environmental Assessment that explains the basis for that decision. But if significant effects are likely, the agency must prepare a comprehensive and voluminous Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that details every conceivable effect, runs to hundreds of pages, and requires thousands of bureaucrat-hours.",0_0
"According to the BP Statistical Review of World Energy dataset, the global proved reserves of oil have increased steadily since the dataset began in 1980. Similarly, global oil production has increased steadily since the dataset begins in 1965, with an approximately linear increase since the early 1980s.",4_5
"More recently, the Environmental Working Group has found that corn ethanol produces more carbon dioxide than would Keystone XL presuming, of course, that the beleaguered pipeline ever gets built.",0_0
"Of course, the warmists early on coined the term deniers, associated sceptics with death trains, accused them of genocide, threatened them with war crimes tribunals and produced a video showing even children being blown to pieces if they doubted dangerous man-made climate change.",5_2
"Nevertheless, insisting that ""climate chaos"" was real, former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson wailed that her agency would need at least 240,000 new EPA employees (each making some $100,000 per year, plus benefits) that she said would be needed just to administer new CO2 regulations and control nearly everything Americans make, drive, ship, and do!",0_0
"CEI, a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group founded in 1984, is dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. For more information, please contact Richard Morrison, Associate Director of Media Relations, at (202) 331-1010.",0_0
"The most important recent scientific work concerns the Global Climate Models (GCM). Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas in that it absorbs outgoing radiation on particular wavelengths, with a resultant warming effect. However, looking at carbon dioxide alone, any effect would be quite small. To get to the predictions of doom, and thus to justify the destruction of industrial civilization, one must build computer GCMs based on the assumption that a small initial effect of carbon dioxide is amplified by positive feedback mechanisms. A score of such models exist, all of which assume that feedback is positive, and that in consequence a small amount of carbon dioxideinduced warming will indeed trigger an upward cascade in temperature. No empirical support for this assumption exists, and if it is erroneous and thus there is no positive feedback, then the effects of carbon dioxide become negligible.",3_1
"Global warming could end sooner then once thought in 40,000 years time",0_0
"As this deadline approaches, our elected officials should determine how best to confront and resist EPA's latest power grab. They should remember that the jobs, economic well-being, health and very lives of millions of minority and blue-collar families hang in the balance.",0_0
"However, even Soon's critics agree that studies such as his, which bring together a variety of measures to flesh out climate history, are rapidly coming of age. Over the past eight to 10 years what's called multi-proxy mapping has become more common, says Malcolm Hughes of the University of Arizona's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research. Hughes and his colleagues have just published in the International Journal of Climatology a 1,000-year climate record for New Mexico and Arizona based on two methods of analyzing a set of 19 long-lived trees.",0_0
"Coal-reliant states currently pay 8 to 9 cents per kilowatt-hour. Their rates will likely go well beyond the 15 to 17 cents per kilowatt-hour that families, hospitals, factories, schools, and businesses now pay in ""green energy"" states such as California and Connecticut. They could skyrocket to the 36 to 40 cents that Germans and Danes are paying or 70 to 80 cents when taxpayer subsidies are included.",4_4
"There is no way current climbers and mountain guides can give anecdotal evidence back to the 1900s, so what they claim is complete nonsense.",0_0
"This year, the recent 12 Month period temperature is -3.3 F cooler than for example 1911 . And if we compare with 1935 it is ??? 3.6 F cooler.",1_3
Ontario sets record for daily wind production pays to export it.,0_0
"No matter what Zichal might say, climate policy will always be political, because so much money is at stake. What's troubling about the Obama administration's approach to carbon-dioxide issues, however, isn't the presence of politics. It's the absence of math.",0_0
"Perhaps just as significant is the fact that DMI only count ice concentration of 30% and over, unlike NSIDC and others that use 15%. This would suggest that the thicker, more concentrated ice is becoming more predominant.",1_1
"The United States and the Soviet Union are mounting large-scale investigations to determine why the Arctic climate is becoming more frigid, why parts of the Arctic sea ice have recently become ominously thicker and whether the extent of that ice cover contributes to the onset of ice ages.",1_1
"Still, Im not sure yet so as in politics, I reserve the right to revise and extend my remarks.",0_0
"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.",0_0
"The warming trend since 1990, when the IPCC wrote its first report is equivalent to 1.1 C per century. The IPCC had predicted two and a half times as much.",5_2
"So many good intentions were packed into the encyclical, how could the Lama go wrong?",0_0
"Nonetheless, as Christy points out, thetropical troposphere isthe portion of the atmosphere where models project a highly consistent and significant warming response to rising CO2 concentrations. If the models do not show a discernible human influence in the tropical troposphere, how can they show that more than half the warming is anthropogenic for the planet as a whole?",5_1
"Wind chills were as cold as minus 20 in parts of western Montana. By Wednesday morning, wind chills could drop to minus 35 in some spots.",0_0
"If the purpose of this statute were in part to address global warming by requiring preconstruction permits for facilities that emit greenhouse gases, as EPA?s reading suggests, why would the statute target the construction of facilities only in areas that are in compliance with the NAAQS ? and not elsewhere in the United States?",0_0
"The amount of data that would need to be maintained and managed is boggling. And the security would be a headache and a half. (Just think how handy it would be to track all your competitors car movements, or your ex-wifes, or your employees. Just think how many people would like to track you too? Hackers would come, and then theyd know where you went too...)",0_0
Atmospheric circulation over the interior has remained in a similar state for at least the past 200 years.,0_0
"I found this paper change was 1.7 days over 50 years. There are cyclic changes in temperature. The beginning year in this study was 1954, a relatively cool year for the twentieth century. If the study had begun 20 years earlier, the change would have been smaller, see here . The earth has been slowly warming since the end of the Little Ice Age. Seasons were much longer during the Medieval Warm Period, when grapes were cultivated in Scotland, as they can be cultivated now (with proper care, its still not as warm as southern England). In the last two thousand years, there have been two other periods when the growing season in northern Europe was as long as now: the Roman Warm Period, and the Medieval Warm Period. The cycle is now turning colder and will repeat learn about it here .",2_1
"Last week, I wrote about how the EPA was warring with industry, one can only assume in an attempt to destroy jobs. As that war continues, I thought it might be helpful to put some actual numbers in front of our readers so they can get the clearest picture possible about just how many jobs are being lost in the name of environmental protection against the man-made theory of global warming.",0_0
The incidence and severity of extreme weather has not increased..the hypothesis that our emissions of CO2 have caused or will cause dangerous global warming is not supported by the evidence.,1_7
War on coal? Forget about it! Its a war on natural gas,0_0
"Scientist A gets paid by Person B to say something scientific, C. If A does not believe in C, then A is dishonest. There is a commandment about bearing false witness, so this is as basic a sin as there is. Person B is complicit. The larger the payment, the worse it appears. But what if Scientist A believes in C, then there is no lie. Moreover if B only gives money to help A express C, then B supports a truth, even more so if B does not care one way or the other about C.",0_0
"The majority of the Mandurah to Fremantle sector does not appear to be susceptible to coastal erosion over the next century, despite the fact that the Tamala Limestone is preserved below sea level across the majority of the area. This is due to the fact that this sector has been the primary depositional province for the Swan coast over the last 8,000 years.",0_0
"The American Interest; The global solar industry is in shambles. Consumers can find Chinese panels for relatively cheap (though of questionable quality), but every step of the production chain is being propped up by government subsidies. American panel makers are folding, but so too are Chinese manufacturers, and Beijing's central planners won't be able to keep them afloat forever.",0_0
"Half the models follow a wetter trend, and half a drier trend.",0_0
He doesn?t want to ?transform? America. He wants to destroy it.,0_0
"Climate ""Consensus"" Opiate, The 97% Solution",0_0
"Unlike other oil companies, which have good records of safety and avoiding spills when it comes to oil drilling, BP has a bad record, earning it the label of ""serial environmental criminal"" from critics. The Obama administration granted BP a waiver of environmental regulations in April 2009, yet it blocked Louisiana from protecting its coastline against the oil spill by delaying rather than expediting regulatory approval of essential protective measures. It has also chosen not to use what has been described as ""the most effective method"" of fighting the spill, a method successfully used in other oil spills. Democratic strategist James Carville called Obama's handling of the oil spill ""lackadaisical"" and ""unbelievable"" in its ""stupidity.""",0_0
So to say there is a consensus about some global warming is true; to say there is a consensus about dangerous global warming is false.,5_1
"Sea level has been rising at 0.0 mm per year in California, leading to the complete collapse of the real estate market.",1_6
Dr. Roy Spencer from The University of Alabama at Huntsville presented a special seminar at CU Boulder in the CIRES Auditorium today Theabstract and pdfof hispresentation are available below.,0_0
"Bauman et al. published a peer-reviewed study regarding corals in the southern Persian Gulf area, which found corals to be hardy and resilient to extreme temperature fluctuations. Their research confirms what other coral studies have found:",3_2
"During the cool PDO mode, ocean surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific are cool. This was typical of the global cooling from 1945 to 1977. During the warm PDO, ocean surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific are warm. This was typical of the global warming from 1977 to 1998. The abrupt shift of the Pacific from the cool mode to the warm mode in a single year (1977) and the beginning of the last warm cycle has been termed the Great Pacific Climate shift. There is a direct correlation between PDO mode and global temperature",2_1
"Read here . Recently, NASA's James Hansen rounded up some exceptionally gullible and dim-witted teenagers to do legal battle for him in court . Hansen speculates that human CO2 increases will raise global temperatures so much that positive feedbacks occur causing a runaway global warming ""tipping point.""",5_2
"The Romney vision, by contrast, actually works. Bain Capital investments brought us Staples, The Sports Authority, Steel Dynamics and many other success stories. More recently, on the energy front, America's private sector ingenuity, sweat and perseverance launched new technologies and discoveries that abruptly ended the myths of ""peak oil"" and ""imminent depletion"" of U.S. and global petroleum.",0_0
"So, to me, just looking at the Degree Day map explains a great deal about our Global Warming. Weve moved the thermometers to where the people are located, down in the valleys, and put them at the airports where solar heating works really really well on black tarmac. But go out in the country and its not so hot and as in the case of Washington, its even below average and quite cold.",0_0
"It is hard to be too confident about the temperature record from 1850, to mention an example. I am not sure whether it's almost correct or almost completely wrong. But the agreement between the different datasets that treat the homogenization and other issues differently NASA's GISS, NOAA's NCDC, the Japanese global dataset, BEST, and Hadley Centre + Met Office's HadCRUT4 leads me to believe that all the methods that these surface weather station scientists apply to the raw data are basically right.",0_0
"One more interesting note - this story started out as a post on the Baltimore Sun's environment blog. When Drudge linked to it, the result was the now familiar Drudge-a-lanche of mostly like-minded readers. It seems that those readers left so many comments calling the protesters idiots that the Sun felt the need to add a disclaimer at the end of the post: ""(Note: this story was featured on the Drudge Report soon after it went online this evening, and so many of the comments you'll see below are from readers who came to this blog from that web page)."" Thanks for the warning - we wouldn't want anyone to think that real people were leaving those comments. Just Drudge Report readers.",0_0
"Sign of the times: In today's St Paul Pioneer Press , yesterday's global warming scare propaganda rates only a paragraph on page 16A, after the octuplet mom and before layoffs at Billy Graham One of the authors, Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, said, ""The more we learn about the problem, the more severe the risk becomes and the nearer it looms. Cutting emissions of the greenhouse gases promptly is the surest way to reduce the risk, and that's how governments should be responding.""",0_0
"2 There is obviously a lot more to say on this subject, but well leave it for another time.",0_0
"Figure 5 presents in absolute terms the TOA outgoing shortwave radiation of the 21 individual CMIP5-archived models with historic and RCP6.0 forcings. The thing that stands out most is the wide range of model-manufactured values. Based on the 1996-2015 averages, theres about a 10 watts/m^2 span from the model with the minimum average to the model with the maximum, while there was only a 3 watts/m^2 span in the amount of incoming sunlight (Figure 3).",0_0
UPDATE: The Australian groupthink machine (otherwise known as the ABC) desperately tries to find an alarmist story to keep Durban relevant and the Cause alive despite all the collapsing wreckage of climate hysteria strewn around them.,5_2
Indur Goklany examinesthe World Health Organisations recent report on climate change and findsthat its estimates of future mortality from global warming are grossly exaggerated. Full paper (PDF),0_0
"""We are, in effect, bulldozing the Gardens of Eden."" Al Gore, Earth in the Balance, p. 144",0_0
"David Bier: Real reform for legal immigration means making it easier particularly for short-term workers, and the only way that will happen is if Obama stands up to unions. But is he really willing to do that? Not so far. Unions want regulated immigration, not free market immigration.",0_0
"The five researchers report that changes associated with both management, its absence, and the 1998 ENSO were found, but they say that the changes were generally small and that ecological measures indicated stability or improvements over the period of their study. In fact, they state that northern Tanzania reefs have exhibited considerable resilience and in some cases improvements in reef conditions in the face of dire global predictions for overfishing, climate change, and their interaction.",3_2
Joe DAleo shows the relationship between these ocean cycles and US temperatures.,0_0
"This would explain why sea ice around Antarctica has been growing, reaching the greatest-ever recorded extent in 2010, it suggested.",1_1
"Abundant CO2 also increases the biomass, numbers and total surface area of lateral roots and fine-roots, enabling plants to absorb more water and soil nutrients, and obtain sufficient phosphorus even when it is in short supply in soils. Carbon dioxide also stimulates nitrogen fixation, helping plants to form stronger symbiotic relationships with nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria, further increasing photosynthetic rates.",3_3
"The global warming pause was first identified by sceptics such as Mike Haseler (aka Scottish Sceptic) as early as 2005 but is first recorded in the climategate submissions of 2009. The pause was used to refer to the lack of predicted warming in the available temperature datasets. For example, by mid 2015, the satellite record showed no warming in 18 years and none of the available datasets showed even the lowest predicted warming of the IPCC report in 2001 (0.14/decade). The pause was hugely important because it showed that the temperature predictions were not coming true. This, together with the failure of predictions of increasing severe weather, flooding droughts and the refreezing of global sea ice leaving no overall trend in the period of available data, suggested that either the predictions were wrong, or that large amounts of long term variation were present in the real atmosphere and not included in the models, or both.",1_4
"According to a paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters ice melting in the Arctic Ocean will cause a large decline in winter rain and snowpack in California, resulting in future water shortages. These results were based solely on the output of the National Center for Atmospheric Research's climate model. Unfortunately, the authors of that research didn't check their modeled results against actual data. If they had, they would have found that there is no correlation between the amount of Arctic sea ice and winter precipitation in the western U.S. In fact, even as global-average surface temperatures have risen during the last few decades, U.S. precipitation has been rising as well.",5_1
Todays post is at Pajamas Media: The VAT Man Cometh: It Will Happen. How Bad Is It?,0_0
"The benefits of the rainforest First and foremost, tropical rainforests ""are home to a vast biological array of living organisms and support more plant and animal species per unit area, as well as overall, than any other ecosystem on earth."" Current estimates of the total number of living species on the planet range from five to 30 million or more, of which only 1.4 million have been described by scientists. More than two-thirds of these species come from tropical rain forests, basically because the forest are home to the most species-rich groups in the world anthropods and flowering plants.",0_0
"There is one linear chaotic climate state, however, that all can predictably count on. Don't expect any good news so long as many billions of taxpayer dollars reward agenda-driven political science fear mongering.",0_0
"The IPCC-projected rise of up to 1m by the end of this century would require an average rate of up to 12mm/yr for the rest of this century, some four times the current rate, and an order of magnitude larger than implied by the 20 th century acceleration of 0.01mm/yr found in some studies. What drives the projected sea level rise? To what extent is it dependent upon a continued rise in Global Mean Surface Temperature?",1_6
"""I have over 400 players now who are members of Global United Football Club, the likes of Pavel Nedved, Zinedine Zidane, George Weah and Lothar Matthus.""",0_0
Dirty Facts Behind Obamas Clean Power Plan,0_0
"TRD is no accurate thermometers, but we have indications on that it was very large svngningar during the same periods, says Hans Linderholm.",0_0
"That will hammer everything we make, grow, ship, eat and do. It will impair our livelihoods, living standards, liberties and life spans. And these destructive rules are being imposed by callous, imperious, unelected, unaccountable federal bureaucrats who are circumventing our laws and Constitution; disregarding the clear will of Congress, which has rejected nearly 700 climate bills; and colluding regularly with radical Big Green pressure groups on sue-and-settle lawsuits and new regulatory edicts.",0_0
You can dive deeper into this historic beer milestone by viewing the Brewers Association's interactive timeline of US breweries from 1873-2015.,0_0
Case of high-speed rail grows only stronger:,0_0
"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Interior, and the Department of Labor are all promulgating stringent emission standards for new power plants that would effectively prohibit construction of new coal-fired electricity generating capacity unless it is equipped with carbon-capture technologya prohibitively costly technological requirement.",0_0
"Earlier today, I was wondering if the motivation was to get more Hollywood glamour in their lives. The old world glamour of royalty, heavy crystal, and gowns must be getting old, but this is the political cynic in me speaking.",0_0
"Lubchenco said her agency already receives millions of requests each year for the type of information the proposed climate service would provide, and we fully expect requests for information to grow explosively.",0_0
"It is not in our national self-interest to try and bear the costs of global warming by ourselves. For a wealthy, cold, non-agrarian, stable country such as ours, it is unclear whether we even stand that much to lose from a rise in temperatures. There have been several studies that suggest the costs of mitigating climate change exceed the benefits in a country such as the United States ? work by William Nordhaus and Robert Mendelsohn of Yale, Richard Tol of Carnegie Mellon, Melissa Dell and Benjamin Olken of MIT, and others, suggest this outcome is likely.",3_3
"The UAH satellite-based global temperature dataset has reached 1/3 of a century in length, a milestone we marked with a press release in the last week (e.g. covered here ).",0_0
"The Environmental Protection Agency ?protects? us from ?toxic chemicals? by moving their goalposts. The EPA can multiply the ?no effect level? in rat tests by 100 or even 1000 to set the ?acceptable daily intake.? Thus, they can declare just about any chemical they choose too toxic for our children.",0_0
The bar heights show how many models in Table 9.5 exhibit each level of TCR,0_0
"When updated to 2006, the trends in ice extent and area in the Antarctic remains slight but positive at 0.9 0.2 and 1.7 0.3% per decade.",1_1
"So why tout nuclear power now? Former Democratic National Committee chairman Ed Rendell told Sean Hannity last night that the nuclear line was a bone thrown to Republicans in the name of bipartisan outreach. Along with opening up limited areas offshore for oil and gas drilling, saying yes to nuclear power is a bid to attract some GOPers to support the president's manifestly unpopular initiatives, such as cap-and-trade.",0_0
How can climate scientists/modelers hope to simulate the patterns of warming on land when they cant simulate the warming patterns of the largest ocean on this planet?,5_1
"Despite official opposition, underground markets for consumer goods in Cuba continue to flourish.",0_0
"6 Alexander George, Forceful Persuasion: Coercive Diplomacy as an Alternative to War, 1991.",0_0
"The Hooker 100 inch telescope was then showing farthest light sources to be moving at 25,000 miles per second. Dr Hubble, during his 1936 interview, stated that he was willing to abandon the expanding universe to mathematical cosmologistspending erection of the 200 inch Palomar telescopewhich may finally settle the question.",0_0
"Will courts overturn the CPP? That may well depend on whether judges decide the case on the merits oras in recent Obamacare rulingsconclude that presidential legacy policies are ""too big to fail.'",0_0
"Rather than re-examining the climate data and concluding there really isnt an imminent catastrophe coming, the alarmists still continue to insist its real and are now coming togetherto produce positive visions in group therapy a sort of Alarmists Anonymous . The TAZ quotes psychologist Gerd Weling of the Transition Town Bielefeld:",5_2
"Mr. Chairman, Kyoto apologists would have us believe that the ""consensus of scientists"" has spoken, that global warming poses a ""mortal threat"" to human life,7 and that we must therefore waste no time making preparations and plans to de-carbonize the U.S. and other national economies. In reality, the case for an international climate treaty rests on an ensemble of hypotheses that are highly questionable.",5_1
"Meanwhile, the British government has cut funding for its Warm Front heating assistance program from $470 million this year to $172 million in 2011, Consumer Focus campaigner Jonathan Stearn angrily noted. And because the winds barely blow during the coldest weather, Britain's ""shiny new green"" turbines were able to supply only ""one-500th of the exceptionally large demand"" for electricity during the frigid weather of early December, Sunday Times columnist Dominic Lawson ruefully observed.",0_0
15a. Current state of scientific knowledge allow for a reasonable assessment of the effects of turbulence,0_0
January 2008 Environment & Climate News: Special Edition!,0_0
"The fact is that America's immigrant ""problem"" is a prime example of government failure. Immigrants have historically been among the most hard-working and valued members of American society. Yet thanks to a variety of perverse incentives -- from welfare systems to incompetent immigration bureaucracies -- immigrants are now far more likely to seek an undocumented route into this country. Their illegal status drives them into a shadowy world where interaction with authorities is discouraged, where antisocial activities like drug smuggling thrive.",0_0
"According to Al Gore in ""Earth in the Balance,"" ""Wherever rain forests are found, they are under siege. They are being burned to clear land for pasture; they are being clear-cut with chain saws for lumber; they are being flooded by hydroelectric dams to generate power."" (Gore, PP. 117-118)",0_0
"The models all reckon the feedbacks amplify the warming, but three independent sources of empirical evidence suggests the opposite occurs, and that the feedbacks are negative (ie. they dampen). In that case the headline threat reads Half a Degree .",3_1
"Heres the ugly truth. Its simple, blunt, and bitter. Nothing is sustainable. Oh, like the sailors say, the wind is free. As is the sunshine. But everything else we mine or extract to make everything from shovels to cell phones will run out. The only question is, will it run out sooner, or later? Because nothing is sustainable. Sustainable Development is just an airy-fairy moonbeam fantasy, a New Age oxymoron. In the real world, it cant happen.I find the term sustainable development useful for one thing only.",0_0
"on Monday, July 11th, 2011 at 4:37 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"As legendary crime-fighting Police Chief William Bratton stated, tough immigration enforcement hurts local police ""because immigrants living and working in our communities are afraid to have any contact with the police . . . can't prevent or solve crimes if victims or witnesses are unwilling to talk to us for fear of being deported.""",0_0
Switch to carbon-free energy sources as much as possible and adapt to changes already underway.,0_0
A review of Steyns scathing new book about Michael Mann: A Disgrace To The Profession,0_0
"Thanks to that program, and you can make a list of items similar or shared between the biology and genetics of Soviet Lysenko and ideas to us contemporaneee about a global warming of anthropogenic origin (commonly referred to with the acronym AGW):",0_0
any extra CO2 is already increasing the fertility and reducing water needs of all plant life and thus enhancing world food production.,3_3
Polar bear habitat more Arctic sea ice in Canada this week than in early 1970s,3_2
"There must be something unique to the concerns of the white working class, then, that liberal progressivism rubs the wrong way. What might that be?",0_0
"Actually, yes. Both are outspoken public advocates of alarm, and Wielicki has gone so far as to retract results once they were shown to contradict alarm.",0_0
"How is it that the IPCC's numbers show a nice clear ""hockey-stick"" warming trend where other research shows the world getting colder? Prof. Phil Jones succinctly explains in one of the leaked emails:",5_2
"Just remember when you hear people complaining about cuts to government spending, that we can still afford to help Tanzanians make ""climate change awareness"" films.",0_0
"In 2006, As You Sow pressured Apple Computer via shareholder resolution about its supposedly ""insensitive"" recycling program. Though Apple CEO Steve Jobs disputed the allegations and the resolution was soundly defeated by Apple shareholders, the company nevertheless began kow-towing to environmental activists on the recycling issue. But Apple's appeasement hasn't bought it anything; As You Sow re-filed the same resolution for 2007.",0_0
SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.,5_1
"""This is just lobbying by science and press release all leading up to this big UN climate summit coming in December.",0_0
"If your engine needs to deliver energy output at a certain level, the ethanol biofuel mandate is actually diminishing the available energy output from the ethanol-type fuel. The reason is easy to understand: both bio-ethanol and bio-diesel are, energetically speaking, already partly combusted hydrocarbons. Therefore, they cannot possibly deliver the same amount of energy as un-combusted fuel. Your fuel consumption will increase to compensate for that. Even if that were not a critical issue, ethanol in fuel can cause other problems in your vehicle.",4_4
A Comparison of the Cell Phone Driver and the Drunk Driver,0_0
(Ill try to head off an argument: The title of Booth et al. (2012) Aerosols implicated as a prime driver of twentieth-century North Atlantic climate variability explains their findings. Refer to the discussion of Booth et al. (2012) under the heading of ON THE HADGEM2-ES AMO SIMULATION in the post here . The HADGEM2-ES model used by Booth et al. (2012) does a pretty poor job of simulating the AMO as shown in the illustration here from that post. Booth et al. also failed to account for a couple of other factors that drive the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.),0_0
"To reduce global greenhouse gas emissions in a less costly manner, America could assist China and India in developing shale gas from hydrofracturing and building natural gas-fired plants to reduce their reliance on coal. Or America could ship coal to China, because U.S. coal burns more cleanly.",0_0
"This article first appeared in the New York Post, December 5, 2013.",0_0
"5.	""Time is pressing. Climate change has begun already."" Climate change has existed for millennia, because climate is always changing.",2_1
"- New research findings on the sun, including records of changes in the sun's magnetism (and therefore its energy output) reaching back some 1,000 years, suggest a major natural influence on surface temperatures of the earth.",2_1
Chambliss said he recently spent time with NSA officials and was assured that the programs Greenwald describes have been exaggerated.,0_0
* 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
"Ideally, such a fund should be paid into by all developed and semi-developed countries on a fair basis, such as an equal fraction of GDP. If climate change is shown to be a non-threat, or a modest one, or some cheap ways of removing carbon from the air turn up, those monies could be returned to the tax-payers of the donating countries.",0_0
"Peter Lang is a retired geologist and engineer with 40 years experience on a wide range of energy projects throughout the world, including managing energy R&D and providing policy advice for government and opposition. His experience includes: hydro, geothermal, nuclear, coal, oil, and gas plants and a wide range of energy end use management projects.",0_0
CO2-induced Greening of the Earth: Benefiting the Biosphere While Lifting the Poor out of Poverty,0_0
"Essential MTT for living r lskunnighet and barnaddlighet. And where it's just to note lskunnigheten has never been higher and barnaddligheten has never been lower. In short, we are not only more n ngonsin, but we mr also better n ngonsin.",0_0
2012: 6 companies controlled 90% of the media consumed by Americans,0_0
The global warming of this century is exactly in phase with the normal climatic pattern of cyclic warming and cooling and we have now switched from a warm phase to a cool phase right at the predicted time (see graph below).,2_1
"Whaling crews in this Arctic coast village store six feet of tail skin, blubber and bone underground from spring until fall. The tail freezes slowly while fermenting and taking on the flavor of the earth.",0_0
"It started in December 1911 and continued into late February 1912. February and March continued the unrelenting freeze. Both months were unusually cold, and March was the coldest on record for many states in the Midwest and Northeast. Parts of North Dakota saw their coldest March readings to date. Some cities saw their coldest weather that winter since the Little Ice Age. 1912 itself was a very cold year.",1_3
"Favoring hospitals and nursing homes tends to favor health-care providersincluding 1199 membersover patients. The goal of health-care policy should be to make people healthier, but the high price tag of New York's health-care system has never correlated with its performance. New York ranks 19th in the nation in the quality of care, according to the Commonwealth Fund, though it spends more on a per-capita basis than any other state.",0_0
"The federal government is redoubling its efforts to reduce the uncertainties in our understanding of the global climate and develop a science-based policy, but with each new chapter in this debate it becomes increasingly clear that politicsfrom all sideswill continue to obscure the facts that should be driving the debate. (That, of course, is the lesson of the administration's handling of the EPA report: At the end of the day, although the report presented compelling evidence that environmental quality is improving in America, media accounts focused almost exclusively on the controversy over the climate change section, largely ignoring the substantive findings of the report.)",0_0
"And to make your cruise even more enjoyable, you only have traverse several thousand miles of ice, with Arctic ice extent the highest it has been in a decade",1_1
"Guadalajara looks to be something of an agenda-setting exercise with the new U. S. president. However, pre-summit discussions suggest several indicators of the road ahead. First, given the interconnections among the three North American economies, the leaders hope to coordinate national stimulus efforts so that they don't work at cross-purposes. This means addressing Canadian and Mexican concerns over ""Buy American"" provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that the Obama administration thought were fixed. Energy was another mutual concern: The U. S. has committed to ""clean energy dialogues"" with both Canada and Mexico, and it makes sense to bring these two dialogues together to share research and ideas and leverage public investment in this area.",0_0
"A second part of their problem involved a paper by Soon and Baliunas titled Proxy climatic and environmental changes of the past 1,000 years (Climate Research, 23, 89110) that detailed worldwide evidence of existence of the MWP. The personal attacks on Soon and Baliunas are now exposed, particularly the role of John Holdren when at Harvard.",2_1
"Almost everyone can see that more money offers not only more material things but greater opportunities: the ability to pursue another educational course for themselves or someone in their family, the chance to travel abroad, or the possibility of taking an extended break from work. Even committed greens are amazingly adept at demanding resources for personal travel or their organizations.",0_0
"As far as England & Wales are concerned, there is nothing in the data which provides evidence that The increases in days of heavy rain and the greatest annual 5-days precipitation amounts suggest a tendency for an increasing likelihood for extreme heavy rainfall events . Even winter months show no such trend, as I showed in an earlier post here .",1_7
"As the amount of CO 2 in the atmosphere continues to rise, soybean plants will likely exhibit enhanced rates of photosynthesis, which will lead to greater synthesis of starch and other carbohydrates for supporting increased growth and development. In addition, if the atmospheric ozone level continues to rise, the rising CO 2 content of the air will likely protect soybeans and other crops from the adverse effects of ozone that reduce productivity, growth, and yield.",3_3
"This plot shows data from the Climax, Colorado neutron monitor operated by the University of Chicago. The cosmic rays show an inverse relationship to the sunspot cycle because Suns magnetic field is stronger during sunspot maximum and shields the Earth from cosmic rays.",0_0
"activity over the last century give a CO2 initiated warming of 0.2 C and a solar influence of 0.54 C over this period, corresponding to a CO2 climate sensitivity of 0.6 C (doubling of CO2) and a solar sensitivity of 0.5 C (0.1 % increase of the solar constant).",2_1
"Unfortunately, many media representatives have been unable to depart from their long-loved climate catastrophe. Catastrophes are interesting for readers, viewers and audiences, and they boost ratings and circulation. How on earth would the otherwise empty pages and radio shows be filled if the catastrophe disappeared? As we have been able to show in numerous analyses of recent media reports on the topicof climate at this blog, media reporting is often one-sided, tends to be and is even at times plainly false.",5_2
"According to the UN figures, measuring factories, power stations and the like, New Zealand supplies about 1.1% of human emissions; when you include forestry, farming and land use changes, we supply only about 0.3% of human emissions. By either measure, our contribution to alleged dangerous man-made global warming is minuscule.",4_2
"""Environmental pressure groups have also claimed that ANWR contains very little oil and natural gas,"" continued Ebell. ""The U. S Geological Survey's best estimate is 10.4 billion barrels of recoverable oil. That is equivalent to about 30 years of imports from Saudi Arabia, one of our major foreign suppliers. And if the experience of Prudhoe Bay is any guide, there could be much more oil under the coastal plain. The USGS estimated 7 billion barrels at Prudhoe Bay. They have now pumped 13 billion barrels and are still pumping.""",0_0
"Models get cloud feedback wrong, but *only* by 70W/m2 (thats 19 times larger than the CO2 effect)",0_0
"Daprile was beginning of 1997, when the coming to power of the feared political opponent, the Labor Anthony Charles Lynton ""Tony"" Blair, was celebrated by the pro-conservative British newspaper The Daily Telegraph with a cartoon of the award-winning cartoonist Matt, with a child He asked his astonished parents: Pope, but because 'Tony Blair allows machine comes in earthquakes?",0_0
"Tomorrow, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on the national security threats from melting Arctic ice. Greenwire (subscription required), the Online environmental news service, explains the rationale for the hearing:",0_0
"They find that when their proposed natural radiative warming effect of El Nino is included, the climate sensitivity to CO2 is reduced substantially to 1.3 deg. C. This is below the IPCC estimate of 1.5 deg. C to 4.5 deg. C.",3_1
Putin's gift to America's energy independence,0_0
"Does this tattling make any sense? This is the climate fervor. Sense has nothing to do with it. The tattling is sleaze over sense, and soap opera over substance. But lets burrow into the internal logic of it, anyway, without implying any external coherence.",0_0
The Daily Caller discusses with Myron Ebell the outcome of the approaching United Nations' global warming summit in Paris.,0_0
"how to make ""clever"" use of new technologies to deepen direct ties with what the U.N. calls ""civil society,"" meaning novel ways to bypass its member nation states and deal directly with constituencies that support U.N. agendas.",0_0
"Friday, February 04, 2011 to Thursday, February 17, 2011",0_0
"Some environmental elitists may say: Let them use solar panels. But the moral imperative of the 21st century is to liberate the master resource of energy from the politics of these reactionary enemies of democratizing progress, prosperity, and quality of life.",0_0
Estimates are that there are 8-12 million illegal immigrants in the US (Brewer's hispano-phobic allies would put the number much higher). They are mostly all drug dealers and criminals? Really?,0_0
The George Marshall Institute's report Climate Change Science: A Review of the Draft Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan was designed to provide insights into and recommendations for the U.S. climate science programs.,0_0
Global Warming Why Carbon Dioxide Plays No Role,2_3
"Working-class Americans share classic American beliefs very strongly. They value economic growth because they believe they personally benefit from it. Unlike Continental Europeans, working-class voters do not envy the rich. They believe that Bill Gates has earned his billions, and while they do not believe they can become billionaires, they believe their children can.",0_0
"There are studies with different conclusions. Perhaps the most famous is the Seralini study, which purported to show that Roundup, the herbicide used with genetically modified crops, causes tumors in rats. First published in 2012, it was withdrawn later by the journal where it appeared, after near unanimous opprobrium from the scientific community. It recently re-appeared in an ""open access"" journal, but the authors had done nothing to correct the errors in the original study.",0_0
"You'll do more than pay lip service to saving the planet with your purchase of Lip Action. One dollar of each $3.49 sale of Kiss My Face's Lip Action line of lip balms supports the Alliance for Climate Protection , founded by Nobel Peace Prize-winner Al Gore. With eco-aware names like Berry Warm and Glacial Mint, the SPF 15 balms shield against the blast of UV rays while aloe and cocoa butter help smooth and soothe. kissmyface.com",0_0
"It is disingenuous to now use the climate scientists as a new population sample size. The response figure of 3,146 is the figure against which the 75 out of 77 should be compared and in this case we get not 97% but just 2.38%.",0_0
"I downloaded three lots of data raw, GCHNv3 and GISS Homogenised (GISS H), then replicated Mearns method of calculating temperature anomalies. Using 5 year moving averages, in C hart 1 I have mapped the trends in the three data sets.",0_0
"Rising demand in China and India will push coal past oil as the two Asian powerhouses will need to rely on the comparatively cheaper fuel to power their economies. Coal demand in the United States, Europe and the rest of Asia will hold steady.",0_0
"Another real-world observation that casts doubt on the Wilson theory actually comes from an island, Puerto Rico, where according to Lugo, human activity reduced the area of primary forest by 99%. ""But because of extensive use of coffee shade trees in the coffee region and secondary forests, forest cover was never less than 10 to 15% in an analysis of bird fauna, concluded that seven bird species (four of them endemic) became extinct after 500 years of human pressure and that exotic species enlarged the species pool. In the 1980's, more birds were present on the island (97 species) than were present in pre-Columbian times (60 species) Secondary forests in Puerto Rico have served as refugia for primary forest tree species as well."" (Lugo, ""Biodiversity,"" p.66)",0_0
"""Global warming could cause dramatically hotter summers and a depleted snow pack in California, leading to a sharp increase in heat-related deaths and jeopardizing the water supply, according to a study released Monday .",0_0
"After a comprehensive examination of the peer-reviewed literature, the author concludes that there is a tendentious use of evidence by the IPCC, revealing ""a systematic tendency of the climate establishment to engage in a variety of stylized rhetorical techniques that seem to oversell what is actually known about climate change while concealing fundamental uncertainties and open questions regarding many of the key processes involved in climate change"" (1).",5_2
"Most research on the effects of ocean acidification are flawed according to a Nature article. But we still believe the evidence? From Nature, Crucial ocean-acidification models come up short",5_1
Fred Baileys studies refute the fundamental assumption that the solar energy received on earth is sensibly constant and has no influence on variations in the earths climate. The opposite is true. It is the dominant cause of these variations.,2_1
"Despite the cold winter this year, the trend to milder and wetter winters is expected to continue, with snow and frost becoming less of a feature in the future. The famously cold winter of 1962/63 is now expected to occur about once every 1,000 years or more, compared with approximately every 100 to 200 years before 1850. Peter Stott, Climate Scientist at the Met Office, 25 February 2009",0_0
"Entitled Orbital forcing of tree-ring data, the new study was published in the journal Nature Climate Change . View that article here:",0_0
"Since 1812, the CO2 concentration in northern hemispheric air has fluctuated exhibiting three high level maxima around 1825, 1857 and 1942 the latter showing more than 400 ppm.",0_0
CNBC's Santelli rants about NY Times and other critics of congressional Constitution reading:,0_0
"In the context of climate change, our level of information about where specific harms will manifest is far, far lower than 70%, and our understanding of whether our mitigation efforts will negate any particular harm is virtually nil. Clearly, the focus on greenhouse gas mitigation, both domestically and internationally, has been misplaced, and the money and attention of world leaders toward greenhouse gas mitigation efforts would be best directed elsewhere.",0_0
"We could not read every one, but tried to cover the most relevant topics such",0_0
"?We?re heading toward what occurred around the year 1800. It was called the Dalton Minimum of low sunspot activities,? he explained. ?We certainly are down to that in number of sunspots this year. That means the cooling will continue at least until 2030 and yet the government is preparing for warming, which is outrageous. Some people think that this cycle of sunspot activity and global cooling will take us down to as cold as it was around 1680, which was the nadir of the Little Ice Age.?",1_2
"I can see weather each day, but Smithsonian scientists seem to have the unique ability to see climate change. I like the Smithsonian when it sticks to its purpose as a natural history museum. But, with the government dumping billions into climate change and each element of the government coming up with its own climate agenda, what can you expect? You expand climate change outside just science and get on with the propaganda.",5_2
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on what Al Gore said about global warming and tornados in An Inconvenient Truth:,0_0
"Finally, a vestigial government-funded program actually worth cutting gets taken out as Denmarks new regime change is opting to excise Bjorn Lomborgs $1.6 million in funding for his Copenhagen Consensus Center. Its been very strange that particular researchers have received special treatment due to ideology. Were going to run fiscal policy differently, said Ida Auken from the Socialist Peoples Party. -Laurel Whitney, Desmog, 28 September 2011",0_0
"Even assuming it were true that Alar slightly increased cancer risk in laboratory rats no small assumption given the well-known limitations of laboratory animal studies in determining human cancer risk a human would have to consume 19,000 quarts of apple juice per day for life to get the same dose of Alar as the rats.",0_0
"Note: Writing in Nature Senevirnate (2012) argues with respect to global trends that, there is no necessary correlation between temperature changes and long-term drought variations, which should warn us against using any simplifications regarding their relationship.23",1_7
"Ben Rhodes, a National Security Adviser in the Obama administration, bragged recently about the lies officials told to support a major foreign policy decisionthe nuclear agreement with Iran. That agreement permits Iran to possess nuclear weapons in about ten years. Rhodes publicly admitted that the Obama administration claimed that the new Iranian government was a moderating influence despite the fact that experts at the Central Intelligence Agency warned that the new government in Iran was not moderate. According to Rhodes, that false claim was critical for getting the deal approved by Congress. He and his colleagues suffered no consequence for having lied.",0_0
"Experience your America and build a fulfilling career by joining the National Park Service. Become a part of our mission to unite the past, our cultures and our special places, to establish important connections to the present and build a rich and lasting legacy for future generations.",0_0
"In a 2013 law review, I argue that environmental special interests have captured environmental policymaking during the Obama administration. Consider the Natural Resources Defense Council and the EPA. Green groups often are thought to be the David against industry's Goliath, but that's not true anymore. Far from being the ""little guy,' NRDC has annual revenues of $130 million and assets greater than $300 million, according to its most recent tax filings.",0_0
"V.I. Lenin basically viewed all capitalists as rent seekers. Capitalists are so fixated on short-term gain, he mused, that they will ""sell the rope"" by which their enemies will hang them. This much is clear -- there is no honor among thieves. The more businesses depend on political predation, the easier it is for anti-market interventionists to divide and conquer.",0_0
"Under normal circumstances, you could expect that those people will at least try to lie to their readers and pretend that they're impartial and un-corrupt and that they could a priori reach conclusions of either sign; they could a priori agree or disagree with others. But the likes of Mr Boslough haven't even tried to pretend such a thing. The idea that they should try to be impartial, at least for a while, sounds so utterly extraterrestrial to them that they haven't even considered such an option.",0_0
"Yet Hansen's not even close to being an objective scientist. He is openly ideological and rabidly partisan. His political pals and financial patrons are liberal Democrats -- Gore, John Kerry and left-wing groups funded by George Soros and Teresa Heinz.",5_2
"By Environmental Working Group, EcoWatch, Aug 12, 2015",0_0
CEI Today: SOTU reaction & analysis,0_0
Why were so many thermometers believed to be overestimating temperatures in the first half of the 1900?? s?,5_1
"The claims that Epstein debunks are accompanied by the fundamental truths about fossil fuel use and science. His book, comprehensible to anyone whether they have any knowledge of science or not, should be on everyone's reading list.",0_0
"Study looks into the interaction of knowledge, risk perceptions and action as it relates to climate events",0_0
Oil prices rising a week after SPR release:,0_0
"You can see the Stevenson screen is surrounded by astronomical science, such as the historic Dominion Observatory and the Carter Observatory to the west (off screen). But from a climate science perspective, it is also surrounded by asphalt, with a car park to the east. According to the Google Earth measurement tool, vehicles are parked within 6 meters of the Stevenson Screen.",0_0
"The new koda Superb, an upper-class model, is increasingly reliably beating its proper German brother, Volkswagen Passat. In the U.K., the ""advantage koda"" has been obvious for years. But even in other countries, koda's victory became pretty much the rule. Two days ago, the Dutch Autoweek declared Superb as the winner, too. Most commenters agree. It's larger, better in many respects, still cheaper, and it seems to look better. The Passat is too bland in comparison. And all these ""simply clever"" gadgets in koda, automatic this and that, two umbrellas just like in a Rolls-Royce, seatbelts for dogs , and 100s of others.",0_0
"As the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change observed years ago, researchers attempting to construct long-term (centuries to millennia) temperature records should ""finish the dance"" with the (proxy) data they started with.",0_0
I have no particular comment to make about the model itself. WUWT has covered this issue well already.,0_0
"Now, amid the Christmas and New Year holiday, two million homes, schools and hospitals face fuel rationing. Some families could wait weeks before they can get their fuel oil tanks refilled, as more snow falls across Great Britain.",0_0
"Skeptical scientists have literally hundreds of samples. Unskeptical scientists have one tree in Yamal, and a few flawed bristlecones",0_0
Veteran meteorologist and Weather Channel founder John Coleman has been following Hurricane Matthew and has a message for environmentalists linking the storm to global warming.,0_0
"For those of you who either missed that report, or may have since forgotten about it, you can find it here , as an issue refresher, in hopes that our readers may gain some insight into the types of information that was not included in the ACIA report. For those who are interested in additional examples of scientific oversight in the ACIA report, please see our previous WCR on this topic .",0_0
"Page said on CNBC that the U.S. biofuel mandate needs to be addressed through existing policy tools. Otherwise, the spike in U.S. corn and soybean prices to record highs will ration demand in ways that will hurt food production too much.",0_0
Mauna Loa does not represent the typical atmospheric CO2 on different global locations but is typical only for this volcano at a maritime location in about 4000 m altitude at that latitude.,0_0
"The GHE is supposed to increase lapse rates, but Earths lapse rate (6.5K/km) is lower than predicted (9.8K/km), so the greenhouse theory is wrong.",2_3
"In speaking about Cap and Trade, Monckton warned how any measure to curtail global warming would result in abject failure. Monckton then listed three current approaches that are doomed to failure because they would have no effect on climate change: Kerry-Lieberman Bill, EPA regulations, and an attempt to push a new treaty at Cancun to replace the failed Copenhagen one.",4_2
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the president wanted to help us get out of the mess. There will be times when,0_0
"PG&E;, Exelon, and Duke preen themselves as progressive companies who put principle (planetary rescue) ahead of profit. In reality, they seek political rents at the expense of the public interest in limited government, economic growth, and affordable energy. Waxman-Markey sets aside the biggest chunk of free emission permits -- 35% -- for electric utilities. And their industry representative, the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), is lobbying the Senate to increase the booty to 40%.",0_0
"This observation is just another example of the fact that great portions of the world, including most of the Arctic, most of the Antarctic and much of North America, are no warmer now than they were some 50 to 70 years ago .",1_4
"Mr Chu, I don't know what the second and third expert will tell you about your situation but I am telling you that you should try to medically treat your warmophobia, otherwise it can lead to serious problem for you and your country, whose secretary of energy you are going to become, in a couple of years. Many people with milder anxiety disorders - such as claustrophobia - are being medically treated, too.",0_0
"Tropospheric water vapor has been on a long-term declining trend, and is the source of all stratospheric water vapor as noted by Dessler above. However, if tropospheric water vapor has declined, how could stratospheric water vapor increase 1980-2000 according to Solomon, or have a ""long-term increase"" according to the IPCC, or have no long-term trend according to Dessler?",5_1
"Delegates to the UN climate talks in Bonn entered their plenary session today holding indulgences absolving them of their carbon sins. Gaia the earth goddess, wearing her trademark green frock and crown of leaves welcomed the delegates and bestowed her indulgences.",5_2
I have never been a climate change skeptic and until the release of emails from UEA/CRU I had paid little attention to the science surrounding it.,5_2
The Worst Economic Recovery Since The Great Depression,0_0
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"They pretend otherwise, of course. Almost four years ago, when I wrote a 2500-word article in the Sunday Telegraph pointing out that the notion of a very large climate warming attributable to future increases in CO2 concentration was scientifically ill-founded, Monbiot wrote a scathing 1800-word response in the Daily Kommissar, in which he made a dozen laughably elementary scientific errors.",0_0
"This applies not only to the northern areas, but also the south. In the Omsk and Novosibirsk regions the average daily temperature is below normal by 4 degrees, reaching temperatures normally seen in October.",1_3
"The first part of Minster Combets address covered a number of scientific points, which we review in a parallel article . As for earlier audits that we have made of government statements on global warming, we find that the government is ill advised and has embarked on a political course of action that lacks sound scientific foundation.",0_0
"E. Corals in warm, tropical seas around the world are thriving as the ocean waters around them get warmer.",3_2
"Washington, D.C., January 4, 2007With the opening of the 110th Congress, the new majorities in the House and Senate are preparing to embark on an ambitious domestic policy agenda. A higher minimum wage, lower Medicare drug prices, changes to oil and gas royalties and subsidies for renewable energy are all on the front-burner.",0_0
to abandon bias and extreme statements and to embrace debate,0_0
"As the graph's red plot depicts, global warming trends have been on a deceleration path for an extended period, indicating a strong likelihood that global warming by 2050 will be nowhere close to he current official predictions.",1_4
"While as process studies, there is merit in this research, but to transfer the results as skillful projections to policymakers is inappropriate and misleading. Now only is there no value added in regional downscaling of mult-decadal projections beyond what can be achieved by just interpolating downscale a global model to finer scale surface terrain information , the global models themselves have not demonstrated skill at accurately predicting historic changes in the global climate.",5_1
"As computer simulations have become more sophisticated, projections of rising sea levels have become much smaller.",1_6
"On August 23, 2006, Mr. Corcoran published an article in the National Post entitled Hockey sticks and hatchets: Inside the Globes 4,200-word hatchet job on climate skeptics. The article made a number of factual assertions about Dr. Weaver and noted, in 2004 , Dr. Weaver dismissed the original hockey-stick research debunking the 1,000-year claim as simply pure and unadulterated rubbish.",5_1
"Now one can read convoluted explanations about how rising CO2 in the atmosphere can cause land surface heating which is then transported over the ocean and causes higher SST. But the interface between ocean and air is well described and measured. Not surprisingly it is the warmer ocean water sending heat into the atmosphere, and not the other way around.",2_1
Andrew Montford: I think there??s absolutely no doubt that there was no conspiracy. All the inquiries were deficient for their own reasons. So if I was running the country there would be a public inquiry into Climategate because the people who have been tasked with investigating it have failed to do so.,5_2
Temperatures are above 0F (-18C) in the middle of the Urban Heat Island.,0_0
"The Pause in ???Earth??s Temperature?? appears in many of Earth??s observational records, with The Pause lasting for at least a decade, and in reasonable portion of the records, it appears to have begun with the strong 1998 El Nino. The questions now are how long will The Pause last and where will ???Earth??s Temperature?? go from there?",1_4
"So, based on that discussion, the modeled and observed satellite-era Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) data are shown in Figure 27, where the short-term AMO is determined by subtracting the data (and model outputs) for the rest of the global oceans from the North Atlantic data (and model outputs). And once again, the data (and model outputs) for the rest of the global oceans were determined by subtracting the scaled North Atlantic data (and model outputs) from the global value (the same method for the rest of the global oceans shown in Figures 25 and 26). As shown in Figure 27, the models do not capture the additional natural warming of the North Atlantic associated with the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.",0_0
> >> University of East Anglia web site:,0_0
"Rahm Emanuel knows the White House well from his time there under Clinton,",0_0
better diagnostics (e.g. betas) than his original method. So we will still not,0_0
"Although the NOAA report noted that in 2012, the Arctic continues to warm with sea ice reaching record lows, it also stated that the Antarctica sea ice reached a record high of 7.51 million square miles on Sept. 26, 2012.",1_1
"No ""scalable"" alternative fuels currently exist to replace fossil fuels. To avoid the economic, social, environmental, and human health catastrophes that would follow the elimination of hydrocarbons, we would need affordable, reliable options on a big enough scale to replace the fuels we rely on today. The divestment movement ignores the enormity of current and future global energy needs (met and unmet), and the fact that existing ""renewable"" technologies cannot possibly meet those requirements.",4_4
"That's the most important statement so far in the decades-old climate debate: You're forcing us backward into poverty and ignorance for nothing, except to further your careers, funding and power.",0_0
"Clearly, the energy infrastructure involved would be massive and hugely expensive. Not only would there need to be an enormous increase in wind and solar farms, something like a quadrupling from current German levels, but there would also need to be maybe hundreds of plants built to produce, and a new grid built to distribute and store, all of this new biogas.",4_4
Another negative climate feedback: more CO2 = more plants = more aerosols = cooling,3_1
Yesterday's blog was on the hype about heat waves--the claim that people will drop like flies from heat stress in U.S. cities unless urgent action is taken to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.,0_0
"TPA seems likely to pass the Senate, but passage in the House is uncertain. In 1993, Clinton pushed through the NAFTA agreement with Mexico with 234 votes in the House 132 from Republicans and 102 from Democrats. In 2002, the House passed trade promotion authority by just a 215-212 margin, with aye votes from 190 Republicans and only 25 Democrats.",0_0
Empirical evidence shows that Earth is currently ???greening?? significantly due to additional CO2 and a modest warming.,3_3
"This year it is hot in Texas and cold in Vancouver, and they are blaming that on global warming.",5_2
"Anyone who has studied the history of science knows that scientists are not immune to the non-rational dynamics of the herd. Many false ideas enjoyed consensus opinion at one time. Indeed, the ""power of the paradigm"" often shapes the thinking of scientists so strongly that they become unable to accurately summarize, let alone evaluate, radical alternatives. Question the paradigm, and some respond with dogmatic fanaticism.",0_0
"BrightSources setback stands in stark contrast with this weeks ultra-successful IPO by Forum Energy Technologies , an oil-services provider. The company had hoped to sell 16 million shares, but demand far exceeded expectations, and almost 19 million shares were sold, at the high end of Forum Energys hoped-for price. Because the services provided by Forum Energy Technologies engender a productoilthat people actually want to buy*, the company does not need government handouts.",0_0
"A crucial measure of our knowledge of feedbacks is climate sensitivitythat is, the warming induced by a hypothetical doubling of carbon-dioxide concentration. Today??s best estimate of the sensitivity (between 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit and 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit) is no different, and no more certain, than it was 30 years ago. And this is despite an heroic research effort costing billions of dollars.",5_1
"In fact, it is almost certain that the wind-generated electricity cost more when the consumer payments, taxpayer subsidies, and the cost of the backup gas generation are added together. There is no doubt that it cost significantly more to generate electricity from wind than from natural gas .",4_4
"A former Transportation Security Administration agent who spent three years in jail for stealing from passenger luggage told ABC News that the practice was very commonplace. Pythias Brown, who worked at Newark International Airport, said he stole more than $800,000 worth of goods from luggage and security checkpoints. He was finally caught when he tried to sell a stolen CNN camera on eBay but forgot to take off all the stickers that tied the camera to the news network.",0_0
"Their letter would be more convincing if they werent so dismissive of the costs involved. They cite unnamed recent studies that claim emission cuts could create 150,000 jobs in Michigan. I put more stock in the analysis by the Energy Information Administration of last years Lieberman-Warner bill (which is similar to the Waxman-Markey bill now before Congress). The EIA pointed out that cutting carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions requires driving up energy prices, and this will shrink the economy. U.S. manufacturing would decline by 3% to 7%, depending on how lucky the United States is at developing alternative energy sources, and manufacturing employment will fall between 3% and 10% (p. 39). Of course the professors wont lose their jobs, but they should still be concerned about these things.",4_1
"For years, one of the problems I have had with the way CO2 cap and trade systems were structured was a fear that these systems would devolve into cronyism, with the companies best able to lobby the government getting allocations while less connected companies had to pay. It seems this is already occuring in California:",4_2
One of the most lucrative segments of the global warming money tree is consulting:,0_0
"It is the Clinton administrationspast and futurethat provide the Competitive Enterprise Institute with a moral lodestonebecause every compass needle needs a butt end. And whatever direction the Clintons are pointingtoward regulatory interference, health care reform, Kyoto treaty, or inappropriate personal relationships (such as Hillary and Rupert Murdoch)we can go in the opposite direction with a clear conscience.",0_0
"""For the second time since he became chairman in 2006, Ben S. Bernanke is leading the Federal Reserve into uncharted monetary territory.""FDIC Head Sounds Alarm on Foreclosure Litigation:",0_0
"By the time you get to trend lengths of 30 or so years, the observed trend is threatening the lower limit of the 95% confidence range of climate model expectations. Such mounting evidence begins to start to make you wonder whether there is some fundamental problem between climate models and reality.",5_1
JAXA sea ice area has dropped to 2008 levels:,0_0
"There are now elements in the environmental movement who are so worried about the state of the planet that they have lost all sense of proportion. This is alarming for those at the receiving end of their mindless wrath. It does not help to protect the environment either. Just like Boko Haram does not endear anyone to Muslims, green radicals taint all environmentalists. But whereas Islamic leaders immediately distance themselves from any new outrage, environmental leaders pretend nothing happened.",5_2
"They found a pH range from ~8.0 to ~7.6 standard units and -aragonite ranges from ~3.7 to ~1.9. They found some species variations that couldnt really be assigned to pH differences and were similar to other reefs. In general, they found a healthy, thriving coral system. The negative seems to be increased macrobioerosion with decreasing pH.",3_2
"During an interglacial period sea levels normally rise and ice melts, and the system inertia lasts thousands of years until the onset of the next ice age. During the last interglacial, sea levels were up to 43 feet higher and Greenland was 8C warmer with a much smaller ice cap ; there is no evidence this interglacial is any different. Theres no evidence of acceleration, therefore no evidence of anthropogenic influence on sea level rise for the past 20,000 years.",2_1
"By the time the Clean Air Amendments of 1970 had federalized air pollution control, smoke had been conquered in most urban areas, and air quality was improving substantially in the most polluted areas -- particularly for the very pollutants perceived to be causing the worst problems.8",0_0
"With these two guys leading, what could possibly go wrong?",0_0
This theory was used to make predictions by at least 73 computer models. Thirty years of observations has proven every prediction wrong. Therefore their theory is wrong. That is how science works.,5_1
Globally tropical storms show no correlation with our CO2 emissions. Their global energy levels are no different to what they were 40 years ago.,1_7
"""We may need to think well beyond this political pledge; What kind of society is sustainable over centuries? How about over thousands of years? Whatever the requirements, we have to make sure that America is the kind that can survive. Even with creeping government growth and paternalism, a handful of centuries is enough to wipe out precious freedoms if government is not restrained. So we want to see packages like this pledge, but also serious, fundamental extensions of it that ask questions not driven merely by responses to the antics of an opposing party.""",0_0
"The Science Media Centre is best known to readers here for its press release about the Oxburgh inquiry, in which they managed to quote only scientists implicated in wrongdoing over Climategate.",0_0
"Many critics of the EPA's evaluation system point to flaws in the EPA's measurement process. ""The test needs to include more fundamental engineering,"" said John H. Johnson, the co-author of a 2002 National Academy of Sciences report on fuel efficiency standards. He added, ""They haven't been updated to encompass hybrids.""",0_0
"Hereward Corley pointed out that the reference to Shaviv (2008) should have been Shaviv (2005). Nir Shaviv another genius of a mathematician had originally sent me the paper saying it was from 2008, but the version he sent was an undated pre-publication copy. Mr. Corley also kindly supplied half a dozen further papers that determine climate sensitivity empirically. Most of the papers find it low, and all find it below the IPCCs estimates. The papers are Chylek & Lohman (2008); Douglass & Knox (2005); Gregory et al. (2002); Hoffert & Covey (1992); Idso (1998); and Loehle & Scafetta (2011).",3_1
"The lowly concept of private property has to be ignored. What if the New Orleans levees had been owned by the people whose property they protected? Or what if just New Orleans taxpayers, instead of all of us taxpayers, had had to pay for those levees? There would have been no problem evacuating people from New Orleans. They would have been gone already.",0_0
Sure American food production causes a net increase in some air borne things. Thats called human activity. The 3rd world would like to saythanks.,0_0
"Ocean currents have taken the heat down to the deep sea , insists Sebastian Mernild of the Glaciology and Climate Change Laboratory Center for Scientific Studies in Chile.",0_0
1980 vs 2008 1990 vs 2008,0_0
"A refinery concluded that changes to the Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit (FCCU) riser design to allow better catalyst-crude mixing would result in more gasoline being produced from the FCCU. While the change would not increase emissions at the FCCU, it would likely increase emissions from the gasoline loading dock and would lower emissions from diesel loading. Analysis has not yet been done to show if the increase would be significant (i.e., > 40 tons/year); however, using the potential-to-emit methodology, the project would trigger the PSD permitting requirement since the facility is under the permit cap limit by more than 40 tons/yr. The project, if completed, would not cause the facility to exceed its state permit facility cap for VOC, NOx, SOx or any other pollutant.31",0_0
"To draw any conclusions about Arctic ice or temperatures, using data that begins at the coldest point of the cycle is utterly worthless and grossly misleading. But this is climate science we are talking about.",5_1
"While it might be overreaching to bundle certain dishonest players within various categories into a unified conspiracy theory, many of these organs of misinformation clearly do appear to be joined at a common colon. Either way, the end results are much the same.",0_0
"Imagine if the increase of 1 degree was real, I would say, good for usgood for the health of the planet, and the increase in carbon dioxide is improving the planet, greening what were previously not productive areas.",3_3
"""The eagles were not flying over the site,"" LaPre said. ""I thought they'd be OK.""",0_0
"""House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer has joined President Obama in conceding that he blundered by voting against an increase to the government's debt ceiling. """,0_0
The absence of a temperature rise over that decade is often used by climate sceptics as grounds for denying the existence of man-made global warming.,1_4
View CEI's comments to EPA by Marlo Lewis,0_0
"This is an encouraging start and its inclusion would improve models significantly. Clearly it would reduce very substantially thecurrently IPCC calculated temperature sensitivity to CO2 . He now also needs to add into the models the iris effect of the GCR modulation of the global incoming radiation flux via clouds ,possibly related natural aerosols, and resulting albedo changes on global temperatures.When this is done the sensitivity to doubling CO2 will be 1 degree or less similar to separate calculations by Lindzen, Spencer and Bjornbom:",3_1
"Sydneys huge Warragamba dam was completed in early 1960 when the population was about one million. We have had rapic population growth and now, with no new storage facilities being built, we suffer occasional water shortages.",0_0
"When testing data, it is obviously possible to take two approaches: a) Select a data set and use only that data set or b) Use a collection of all data thought reliable by practitioners. I prefer the second approach. As I see it, the advantages and disadvantages of each approach are as follows:",0_0
"We can put a note in that something will be there in the next draft, or Kevin",0_0
American physicist Richard Muller is one climate sceptic who has recently changed his mind after reviewing the evidence.,0_0
"Mills also notes that today's global warming policies are a replay of 1970s ""energy crisis"" policies. Now as then, ""saving the planet"" means enacting energy efficiency and fuel economy standards, mass transit programs, energy taxes or rationing, and subsidies for wind and solar power. Whatever the crisis du jour whether the problem is suppose to be a world running out of oil or a world a wash in fossil fuels, the ""solutions"" remain the same.",0_0
"""Prescription medicines may harm children. We'd better do test on kids and see if we can get some to die.""",0_0
www.areanews.com .au/story/.../australias-antarctic-runway-melting/?...,0_0
"In other words: pay-as-you-go on climate change means that so far as China is concerned, the U.S. and other advanced countries should do all the paying, and most of the going.",0_0
"There is, of course, a lot of interest in whether the warm temperatures this summer were associated with global warming. It does not appear so. The warming was caused by anomalous high pressure over the eastern Pacific last fall and there is no reason to believe that has anything to do with warming the planet from the greenhouse gases mankind emits.",2_1
Leader of Anglican Church Should Consider Effects of His Comments on World's Poor,0_0
"Met Office, 25 February 2009: Peter Stott, Climate Scientist at the Met Office, said: ""Despite the cold winter this year, the trend to milder and wetter winters is expected to continue, with snow and frost becoming less of a feature in the future.",0_0
"""Free speech,"" says George Will, ""has never been more comprehensively, aggressively and dangerously threatened than it is now. Today they are attacking the theory of free speech the desirability of free speech and indeed the very possibility of free speech .""",0_0
"SM: I think if Milton Friedman is not the most influential economist of the 20th century, he's second only to Keynes in terms of his impact. So he is a living legend. When you talk about the free-market revolution that's happening all over the world, and I think it is happening--Milton Friedman is really the intellectual inspiration for that.",0_0
"The CEIP is an early action credit program. By ""early,"" EPA means the CEIP authorizes states to award regulatory credits for new renewable power provided before the CPP compliance period (2022-2030). EPA will, in addition, award up to 300 million tons worth of extra credits to ""early actors' on a matching basis.",0_0
A former employee who spent two years at Teri said Dr Pachauri was continually concerned about funding.,0_0
"Secondly, we see that the relationship is the strongest over the western U.S. This pattern is consistent with a longwave low pressure trough over the western U.S., which favors more tornado formation for the reasons outlined above.",0_0
Pielke Jr. on Hurricane Sandy not the new normal,0_0
"Just two weeks ago, however, Huntsman delivered the keynote address at the annual dinner of the Republicans for Environmental Protection, which my web site JunkScience.com, protested as RINOs for EPA Protection. REP, after all, has been defending the EPA in response to Congressional GOP efforts to rein in the out-of-control agency.",5_2
White House staffer to Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush; chairman of BGR Group,0_0
"Extreme cold warning s for the Fond-du-Lac, Stony Rapids and Black Lake, Uranium City Camsell Portage and Wollaston Lake Collins Bay regions.",1_3
"The implied linkage between oil and gas development and President Obamas clean-energy policies is particularly fanciful. There is no cost-benefit analysis that could justify the administrations clean-energy investments in renewables, efficiency, transportation and infrastructure. Any sector can grow if tens or hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are thrown into the mix. Now Mr. Obama and his green-energy friends hope to receive credit for the wonders of hydraulic fracturing, an energy revolution that occurred in spite of Obama administration antidrilling policies. It is an audacious claim and one that is fundamentally dishonest.",4_1
"9. In January 1970, Life reported, ""Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half .""",0_0
"Another Stonyfield ad reads, ""Because very few recipes call for antibiotics and toxic persistent pesticides.""",0_0
"Even though this was merely a blog post, I provided all measurement data as used, together with code that, in a turnkey method, uploads the data as used and produces the chronology and graphics. The code shows the precise calculation for a an interested critic. The blog post included a graph of core counts, together with the computation. In contrast, no measurement data for the three chronologies of Briffa 2000 (Taimyr, Tornetrask, Yamal) was archived. Nor was it archived for Briffa et al 2008 until I convinced the journal to require it. New measurement data for Esper et al 2009, which addresses Siberia, is not archived. (I recently requested that it be archived, but have received no acknowledgement from either Esper or Hantemirov.)",5_2
"Dr. Madhav L. Khandekar, who recently retired from Environment Canada after a 25-year career as a research scientist, and who recently edited a special issue of the international journal Natural Hazards on extreme weather events, presented his views concerning the lack of connection between severe weather events and global warming. Khandekar specifically examined heat trends from Canada, thunderstorms and tornadoes in North America, and monsoons in Asia. He concluded that there has not been an increase in severe weather events and that the likelihood of increased incidences of extreme weather events in the next ten to twenty-five years remains very small at this time.",1_7
"The second noteworthy feature about Obama EPAs endangerment finding is that it will be the first ever not to be accompanied by proposed regulation.In part,the Obama Administration wants to use the prospect (threat) of future CAA regulation as a spur for Congress to enactcap-and-trade legislation. Energy realistshave worried for some timethatthe greenhouse lobby would use thespecter oflitigation-driven CO 2 regulation under the CAAtofrighten industry and congressional fence-sitters into supporting cap-and-trade legislation.The message to cap-and-trade opponents would go something like this: Pretty nice economy you used to have. Shame if something bad were to wreck whats left of it. Everybody needs protection. You need protection. Its called Lieberman-Warner.",4_1
"In an interview with The Washington Times on Monday, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) announced he would probe whether the U.N.s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) cooked the science to make this thing look as if the science was settled, when all the time of course we knew it was not.",5_2
"If you can make it (I know its a work day) or just pop in, it would help so much, and its a rare chance to meet people who are true gems, and to let our representatives know we wont stand by and let the injustices pile up.",0_0
"Should NATO care? As a military alliance, NATO cannot afford to ignore the increasing covergence of littoral warfare, amphibious warfare and urban warfare an issue to which the U.S. Navy, Coast Guard, and Marine Corps are devoting increasing attention. As a security organization, NATO's reasons for caring should be based on a recent report produced by the Center for Naval Analyses entitled ""National Security and the Threat of Climate Change,"" describing a number of not exactly rosy scenarios regarding the political-military consequences of rising sea levels in the next 30 years. The hard security consequences of soft-power issues: This is the kind of outside-the-box thinking that NATO should itself promote.26",0_0
?Forecasters produced seasonal forecasts by using the computer projection combined with values for changes in factors after October.,0_0
"John F. Olson, president and CEO of Whelen Engineering Company, of Charlestown, NH, and Chester, CT agrees. In a letter to the editor, Olson wrote: ""Manufacturers are in competition with other U.S. manufacturers, or even worse, offshore competition in China. New Hampshire manufacturers have the most expensive electricity in the country.""",0_0
"To put it bluntly, the great man-made global warming catastrophe that was predicted has been canceled! And that is a victory for science.",0_0
"China's rapid economic growth is helping underpin a fragile global recovery, but it is also increasingly at odds with safe levels of greenhouse gases.",0_0
"That trend, he noted, might change the nature of the ""free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery."" Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity."" Economic and power considerations might influence scientific research and the reporting of its findings, leading to the ""domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money"" a trend that should be ""gravely regarded."" Thus, while we should continue to hold ""scientific research and discovery in respect . . . we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.""",0_0
"One of the key features of Hansen??s global warming theory is that the polar regions are supposed to warm much faster than the rest of the planet. The image below is from his classic 1984 paper , and shows that Antarctica is supposed to warm up 6C after a doubling of CO2. If the cooling trend which UAH shows continues, it will take Antarctica a very long time to warm up six degrees.",1_1
"Studies demonstrate ""an association"" between ""premature mortality and fine particle pollution at the lowest levels measured,"" EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy told Congress. They have not found a level ""at which premature mortality effects do not occur."" Reducing emissions and exposure always yields health benefits.",0_0
Associate Director of Technology Studies Ryan Radia was on The Laura Ingraham Show this week to explain why current privacy laws are inadequate.,0_0
"Colorado State University recently completed a study on the economic feasibility of increasing the usage of renewable energy. The results of this study were published in the world-renowned science periodical, The Coloradoan. Another stimulus-funded study of the obvious? No, what we have here is simply a heavy dose of reality for academicians who arent willing to match their rhetoric with their pocketbook. Some of the quotes in this article are quite humorous. Fort Collins campus President Tony Frank acknowledges that the 2008 plan to rapidly become carbon-neutral wont be a reality for decades because the university cant afford to make major changes right now. It took them two years to figure this out?",0_0
Central-station solar power is expensive window dressing compared to nuclear according to Hansens math.,4_4
"Richmond News, sport and weather | Hawkesbury Gazette",0_0
"Everybodypoor and minorities hardest hit. And our government does not have a vaccine against this disease, because there is no such diseasea typical uncaring Bush Administration response.",0_0
"The seven scientists determined that ""the positive effect of elevated CO 2 on gross N 2 fixation was large (~50% increase) under mid and/or low irradiances compared with that at high light (~20% increase),"" noting that data from Kranz et al . (2010) and Levitan et al . (2010) corroborate their findings. In fact, they report that in the Kranz et al . study, ""under low light, gross N 2 -fixation rates were 200% higher in a high-CO 2 treatment (900 ppm) compared with a low-CO 2 treatment (150 ppm), whereas under high light, gross N 2 -fixation rates were only 112% higher under elevated CO 2 ."" In the case of CO 2 fixation, on the other hand, they found that CO 2 -fixation rates increased significantly ""in response to high CO 2 under mid- and high irradiances only.""",3_3
"There are two groups in the climate debate: those who believe human CO 2 is causing global warming/climate change and those who dont, respectively labeled Warmists and Skeptics. Warmists try to deny the difference, arguing skeptics are simply wrong. They refuse to debate, claiming the debate is over, which is like saying the science is settled. Both sides believe CO 2 is a greenhouse gas causing warming, but disagree on the amount. Warmists claim it explains 90 percent, Skeptics an insignificant amount. Both avoid the real issue that CO 2 is not a greenhouse gas, as demonstrated in the book Slaying the Sky Dragon . Warmists claim their computer models prove it. Skeptics do it by talking about climate sensitivity . They are both wrong, but the Skeptics are still practicing science and will adjust their views. Its the difference between the science and political science of climatology.",2_3
"If successful it will extinguish liberty and freedom, and promote censorship and tyranny of ideas.",0_0
"Still, by 1989, the AGW science did not make sense to me in light that it would violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Which I remind everyone remains in effect to this very day.",0_0
"This is very simple: if the atmosphere increases its power output, which is exactly what happens if it increases in temperature since power emission goes as temperature to the fourth power, then for PSunto remain constant, PSurfmust decrease which means that the Earths surface must decrease in temperature. Note how different this ontological result is from the greenhouse alarmists botched equation we analyzed above its the exact opposite result.",5_2
"Understanding of such events, and the associations between the abrupt climate change recorded in both hemispheres, is important in predicting the impact and timing of future abrupt climate change possibly forced by anthropogenic changes in greenhouse gases and aerosols.",0_0
"Capitol Hill and frittering away his early opportunities, Clinton",0_0
"While stories of the Arctic record fall in sea-ice have been all over the news, all over the world, it??s almost as if the Southern Hemisphere didn??t exist. Right now, this week apparently, the sea ice is at or near record highs (bearing in mind that we??re still only talking 30 years of satellite records, but then, these are the same satellites lapping over the arctic, and if the records are longer there, I expect it??s only by an hour and a half).",1_1
CEI Expert Available to Comment: President Fred L. Smith reacts to the announcement:,0_0
"So why is Markey suddenly feeling such sympathy for Dow and other chemical manufacturers, about the only segment of American industry likely to take a serious short term hit if exports are greenlighted and artificially low gas prices rise to more stable levels? Is it pure coincidence that Dow has two large plants in or near his district, in Marlborough and North Andover, both purchased from Rohm & Haas in 2009? They are key hubs in the company's $14 billion chemical and materials business, and employ approximately 1500 workers.",0_0
"One of the sessions even dealt with the role of video games in enhancing climate awareness in urban settings. Really? Wow. Come up with a video game where a seven-year-old can figure out how to save his town from rising sea levels, and you are well on your way to indoctrinating the next generation of climate warriors.",0_0
"Which is why I invite those of you who believe that the human race still has a bright future to join us in celebrating Human Achievement Hour this Saturday, March 29, from 8:30 to 9:30 pm no matter what efforts to turn back the world's technological clock we encounter. What does this counter-celebration entail? Quite simply, leave your lights on, watch TV, play a computer game, go to a movie, or partake in whatever activity you choose made possible by affordable energy and human ingenuity. For we are also celebrating freedom.",0_0
"Who are they? Methane is a short-lived gas in the atmosphere and, like carbon dioxide, there is no hard evidence that it causes dangerous global warming.",2_3
"The story then comes to the present day. Look around you, they say. You all know people just like yourselves: educated; hard workers; makers, not takers. They like low taxes and smaller government. But your friends think conservatives are weird. Why? Because they are turned off by the GOP's fondness for foreign military adventure and disagreements on gay marriage. Remove those barriers and voil ! an instant new voting bloc appears, just as it did for the blue-state GOP governors.",0_0
Galileo has lots of modern-day companions. Woe be unto those who dare to doubt that the sun orbits around Planet Gore as pontiffs of doom have decreed.,0_0
"* This is the second time I have done this in a week, dropping a decade in the math. I think it is some subconcious process fighting aging.",0_0
"No one knows exactly how much Earth??s climate will warm due to carbon emissions, but a new study this week suggests scientists?? best predictions about global warming might be incorrect. The study, which appears in Nature Geoscience , found that climate models explain only about half of the heating that occurred during a well-documented period of rapid global warming in Earth??s ancient past. The study, which was published online today, contains an analysis of published records from a period of rapid climatic warming about 55 million years ago known as the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum, or PETM.",5_1
"As the CO 2 content of the air continues to increase, loblolly pine trees will likely display significant increases in their photosynthetic rates. Enhanced carbohydrate supplies, resulting from this phenomenon, will likely be used to increase seed weight and lipid content. Such seeds should consequently exhibit significant increases in germination success, and their enhanced lipid content will likely lead to greater root lengths and needle numbers in developing seedlings. Thus, when these seedlings become photosynthetically-active, they will likely photosynthesize and produce biomass at greater rates than those currently exhibited by seedlings growing under ambient CO 2 concentrations.",3_3
"Brief Comment On The Nature Geoscience Paper ""Observed Changes In Top-Of-The-Atmosphere Radiation And Upper-Ocean Heating Consistent Within Uncertainty"" By Loeb Et Al 2012",0_0
"There are no temples, but there are sacred structures. As I walk around the Emory campus, I am continually confronted with recycling bins, and instead of one trash can I am faced with several for different sorts of trash. Universities are centers of the environmental religion, and such structures are increasingly common. While people have worshipped many things, we may be the first to build shrines to garbage.",0_0
"Now there's a social problem that's gone seriously underreported. While everyone's been focusing on trivial things like the economy, education, and health care, there are relatives of gazillionaires desperately in need of help. How can we live with ourselves knowing that the downtrodden of Bel Air are just a Bush budget cut away from personal disaster?",0_0
"Will solar panels pay for themselves?) Feb 12, 2010",0_0
"enforcement efforts, you should be worried that it could go too far.",0_0
"Anyone thinking about De Bilt needs to visit Hans Errens webpage , especially here where he has examined the De Bilt data from a variety of angles and Im sure that Hans will correct any mis-steps here.",0_0
Susan Crockford shows that virtually all of the research reports on polar bears over the last few years have contained good news.Who then is to blame for hyping the polar bears are dying meme? Full paper,3_2
"To me this indicates that people who do not have the faculties to care for themselves as responsible adults are particularly attracted to Green promises. Green sympathizers probably can be classified in 3 primary categories: 1) people who want to nanny and boss everyone around, 2) people who want to be nannied and bossed around, and 3) the many gullible who actually believe the climate catastrophe scam.",5_2
"This tunnel vision, and the incapacity to distinguish between the essential and the peripheral, is all the more surprising when it comes from the neoconservative side. Among the new generation of neocons, many seem to have forgotten the lessons of the older generation, as captured in Jeanne Kirkpatrick's celebrated 1979 essay on ""Dictatorships and Double Standards."" Simply put: when all is said and done, there is a difference in kind between totalitarianism and authoritarianism. If Islamist totalitarianism is the main enemy, as the neocons rightly claim, then it follows logically that Russian authoritarianism, however unpalatable to democratic sensibilities, is something we can live with. In that respect, the arch-realist Kissinger is paradoxically closer to Kirkpatrick than some of today's neocons in arguing:",0_0
Khartoum has been governed by strict Islamic Sharia law since 1983 - but our correspondent says that in recent years courts have shown a degree of flexibility in their interpretations of Islamic law. The introduction of Sharia exacerbated a rebellion that had begun in the south earlier that year. The war officially ended with a peace agreement in December.,0_0
"The new talks, conducted furtively behind closed doors rather than in the open as they were in the Netherlands, apparently start where the old talks fell apart. Five senators, all Republicans, even sent a letter this week to Mr. Clinton urging negotiators to keep in mind that the Senate is clearly on record, by a vote of 95-0, regarding what kind of climate-change treaty would be acceptable. It cannot cause serious harm to the U.S. economy and it must include binding commitments from all nations to limit or reduce ""greenhouse gas"" emissions.",4_1
"Lord Lipsey, chairman of the Parliamentary Group on Statistics, has fired a shot across the bows of Damian Carrington, accusing him of making wild claims about the climate without citing any sources:",0_0
"2) At least until recently, the positive phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) which has predominated since the late 1970s has suppressed strong tornado activity.",0_0
"Dewey objects. As one under the sway of progressive scientism , he chides Trotsky for not submitting the supposedly historical concept of class struggle to further scientific analysis and testing. It is possible that Marx was wrong. And, according to Dewey, additional analysis and testing may have revealed a more justifiable means. 3",0_0
Individual Rights Must Be Preserved Without Interference From The Government,0_0
"These uncertainties in modeling climate processes are many times larger than the 4 W/m2 input of energy resulting from a doubling of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. It is difficult to see how the climate impact of the 4 W/m2 can be accurately calculated in the face of such huge uncertainties. As a consequence, forecasts based on the computer simulations of climate may not even be meaningful at this time. A comparison of nearly all the most sophisticated climate models with actual measurements of current climate conditions found the models in error by about 100% in cloud cover, 50% in precipitation, and 30% in temperature change. In addition, even the best models give temperature change results differing from each other by a factor of two or more.20",5_1
"Then there was PachauriGate , showing that the man in charge of the IPCC was chairman of boards of companies that profit handsomely as the scare-factor is ramped up.",5_2
"Claim two is that children will suffer disproportionately from climate change. ""Certain people and communities are especially vulnerable, including children, the elderly, the sick, the poor and some communities of color,"" reads a White House fact sheet. The EPA warns that children are ""more affected"" by climate change because they ""breathe, eat and drink more for their size compared to adults"" and ""rely on adults for their care.""",0_0
What my objection to the Canadian Press article and its headline was that itimplies tothe Canadian public that Canadian winters are getting milder when theyhave not for the last 13 years. That is significant.You cant ignore that if you are going to write an article about changes in Canadian winters. The article compared winter data sets between 1970s and today. I however compared 1998 and 2010/2011 which is much more current and up to date.,1_4
"on Tuesday, January 20th, 2015 at 4:48 am and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"If these people were actual scientists, they would conclude that CO2 alarmism is a thing of the past.",5_2
Gore's message is being conveyed via so dull and didactic a presentation.,5_2
"Last week we had quite a row about temperature and temperature adjustments in Wellington New Zealand . One of the stations cited was the Kelburn district of Wellington, NZ.",5_1
"Unfortunately, the Obama administration has prevented the United States from realizing its energy potential. It has essentially prevented shale development on federal lands, driving virtually all shale operations to private lands, where the owners also own the minerals below and can reap the benefits from their development.",0_0
"President Obama and environmentalists often say America should follow Europe's lead on energy, climate and economic matters.",0_0
"Paul Hudson, BBC Weather, 9 January 2010: Which begs other, rather important questions. Could the model, seemingly with an inability to predict colder seasons, have developed a warm bias, after such a long period of milder than average years? Experts I have spoken to tell me that this certainly is possible with such computer models. And if this is the case, what are the implications for the Hadley centre's predictions for future global temperatures? Could they be affected by such a warm bias? If global temperatures were to fall in years to come would the computer model be capable of forecasting this?",5_1
"Green alarmists' fervent efforts to demonize fossil fuels and impose carbon taxes or cap-and-trade have little to do with science. Affordable energy, the automobile, and the entrepreneurial ability to provide those innovations on a large scale have given us the freedom to live and work over much larger regions than in the past and have democratized privileges once reserved to the wealthy. Europe invented the automobile, but Henry Ford put the world on wheels!",5_2
"Of course carbon pollution sounds pretty scary, doesnt it, even though carbon dioxide is not toxic? Carbon dioxide only has a negative effect if it crowds out oxygen and causes in increase in carbon dioxide that cause respiratory acidosis. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant and it is not toxic except as an asphyxiant.",3_3
"The reduction in Arctic ice corresponded to an unusually active period of El Ninos, which occurred after the PDOshiftin 1977.",0_0
"But North America will soon be the leading oil producer in the world, and new hydrofracturing technology has made it possible to access 200 years' worth of natural gas. Developing our inexpensive energy sources allows us to offset the power of Russia and Venezuela by selling oil and gas to our friends. This will make it more difficult for Russia to cut off supplies of gas to its eastern European customers in order to gain political favors, as it has done in the past.",4_5
Using the 3 percent discount rate chosen by the IWG.,0_0
"To determine the net cloud effect, researchers need two numbers. First they need to measure the total amount of sunlight in a cloudy sky. Then they need to determine how bright that sky would be without the clouds, imagining that same sky to be blue and cloudless, when aerosols are in charge of a sky's brightness. The difference between those numbers is the net cloud effect.",0_0
"Read here . The Democrats have the unique capability to frequently spread blatant falsehoods and rumors, and for the most part, manage to get away with it .",0_0
"Its hundred year mission, to predict new strife and constrain civilization;",0_0
"Climate models have been programmed to raise modeled surface temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures as the simulated energy imbalance increases in response to the numerical representations of manmade greenhouse gases and other climate forcings. Climate models have also been programmed to create number-crunched changes in numerous other metrics so that they show rising sea levels, decreasing sea ice, ice sheet and glacier mass, increasing precipitation, and so on as the energy imbalance increases. As a result, there is a general agreement among the models that, as the energy imbalance increases in value, the Earth will gain heat and extra energyand that the heat and extra energy will be manifested in many ways.",0_0
"It is strange that the IPCC panel should link recent extreme weather events to global warming because quite simply there has been no global warming to speak of for 10-15 years now based on the official climate data from the governments of the world [US /NCDC, ENVIRONMENT CANADA and THE EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY. Recently US meteorologist Anthony Watts showed that the continental U.S. has not warmed in the last 10 years, and in fact has grown cooler in the summer and colder in the winter. The climate data numbers come from the National Climatic Data Center.",1_4
"Unlike King Canute, who knew he couldn't command the tides, King Gray Davis seems to believe that he can override the laws of economics. Apparently he thinks he can order both that the rates be kept down and that the lights be kept on. We all might wish for a world free from economics, bad weather, accidents, or deaths, but we must face reality. When Jimmy Carter imposed price controls on gasoline, we had shortages and long lines at the filling stations. When Ronald Reagan removed the controls, the lines disappeared and, within a short time, prices started falling.",0_0
"Department of Energy officials said they understand that Fisker has experienced production delays, but said they are not uncommon for a new company. And the department remains hopeful about the company's future, in part because it has successfully raised more than $650 million in private sector investment to support its ongoing operations.",0_0
"Geoengineering science is in its infancy and will not now attract the support of venture capital and private markets. Like national defense, climate change is at this stage a job for government. Yet it is astonishing how little federal funding is dedicated to it.",0_0
"Global Warming Crusaders Lose Steam, Tempers",0_0
"When I pointed out to him that he sounded a lot like Jimmy Carter, who put",0_0
"And so in 1982, the administration decided it had to raise revenues by increasing excise taxes, removing corporate tax deductions, and so on: a huge peacetime tax increase. And yet somehow Reagan persuaded the country that he opposed this tax increase, that it was forced on him, that it was the work of Democrats in Congress.",0_0
I was meaning to write about the cringe-inducing website called Skeptical Science and todays Revkins piece at dotEarth finally pushed me forward.,5_2
"As of May 2015, 15.5 million people in the U.S. were self-employed, according to the Bureau of Labor Statisticsan increase of roughly 1 million since May 2014. That number is expected to keep growing at a steady clip. By 2020, a separate study estimates that more than 40% of the American workforce, or 60 million people, will be independent workersfreelancers, contractors, and temporary employees.",0_0
2nd largest wind facility in Canada when opened in 2006,0_0
Climate science history: The Original Climate Skeptics,0_0
"Clear Skies apparently didn't cause enough economic pain. It reduced real pollutants; it didn't address President Obama's pet cause of climate change. It did not achieve the goal they really want to impose: ending coal. So now instead of having a reasonable and effective mercury reduction plan already in place and working for the American people, President Obama wants to implement EPA's Utility MACT rule in order to kill coal.",0_0
"SM: I think he's just a pop economist who likes to be a contrarian. If you read some of the things he's been saying recently, he's become kind of a class warfare crusader on tax cuts. I feel like he doesn't really have any economic philosophy or guiding post. He likes to be controversial and likes to take potshots at free-market people like Milton Friedman and Fred Smith.",0_0
"McCulloch et al . make a good case for their conclusion that their IpHRAC model indicates that ""ocean acidification combined with rising ocean temperatures should have only minimal effects on coral calcification,"" which they say is ""a direct outcome of their ability to up-regulate pH at the site of calcification."" In fact, they say that the enhanced kinetics from increasing sea surface temperatures more than compensates for reduced calcification from declining seawater saturation state, ""consistent with recent findings for long-lived Porites corals from Western Australia,"" citing Cooper et al . (2012). References",3_2
"On the surface, de Boer's rethink is welcome, but it is actually an example of green imperialism. Developing nations must be allowed to develop, and this laudable goal of the original Kyoto agreement must not be forgotten. Taken literally, de Boer's suggestion forces the developing world into environmental welfare dependency, remaining poor to keep the world's emissions low.",0_0
"As Robin Pagnamenta, Energy Editor at The Times puts it, Government claims that Britain already supports nearly one million green-collar jobs have been exposed as a sham :",5_2
There is no systematic causal relationship between carbon dioxide levels and climate change simply because the greenhouse conjecture is not based on real world physics.,2_3
"Its definitely time to get that sun screen out as Gravesend is officially one of the hottest places in the UK today.Temperatures reached 28.6C this afternoon, making it Kents warmest September 30 ever!",0_0
"This, in other words, was a Soviet Union at the height of its global power and influence, both in its own view and in the view of the rest of the world. ""We tend to forget,"" historian Adam Ulam would note later, ""that in 1985, no government of a major state appeared to be as firmly in power, its policies as clearly set in their course, as that of the USSR.""",0_0
"This week in Durban, South Africa, delegates from 194 countries are meeting at the UN-sponsored World Climate Change Conference to discuss, again, combating climate change by reduction of carbon emissions, which may be a cause of global warming.",0_0
"By the year 2050, however, the United States is expected to have a population of 420 million, according to Census Bureau projectionsmore than four times the population of 1910. In order to reach the 83 percent reduction target, per-capita CO2 emissions will have to be no more than 2.4 tons per persononly one-quarter the level of per-capita emissions in 1910.",0_0
"Ballarat News, sport and weather | The Courier",0_0
Various key claims are contradicted by other more extensive work by the same researchers with no acknowledgment or discussion of this.,0_0
"""You are my kind of crowd,"" Mr. Buckley told the crowd of more than 600. ""Pro-smoking, pro-drinking, coal-burning.""",0_0
"As to what the ""observed increase in global average temperature since the mid-20th century"" has been, I present Figure 1the annual HadCRUT3 global temperature record from 1950 to 2009. The trend line has value of 0.117 C/decade which amounts to a total temperature increase of 0.702C over the 60 years from 1950.",0_0
"Lord Monckton expressed climate change alarmism rather humorously. One hundred percent of scientists agree climate change is real. That is why we have weather forecasts. The climate has been changing for 4,567 million years since that first Tuesday on which the earliest wisps of the atmosphere formed. But less than a third of published climate scientists say they think global warming is man-made; only 0.3 percent of them think most of the past 50 years modest warming is our fault; and so far, no one seems to have asked them whether they think it is potentially catastrophic.",5_1
"CEI Response: We never denied that ice melt is occurring at the edges. That has been widely reported, and our ad cited a study that reports accelerated ice loss (calving) at Greenland's coastal glaciers. Our point was that the thickening in the interior has not received anywhere near comparable coverage. Why is only scary news fit to print?",0_0
Inhofe: Senate Will Vote in Next Two Weeks on Effort to Stop Obama War on Coal,0_0
"The irrational battle against GMO is just one front in a larger environmentalist war against the modern world. Climate change is another, one equally reflective of the dislike of industrialism and capitalism, which have created and distributed more wealth to more people than was even imaginable a century ago. The attack on hydraulic fracturing, part of the war against carbon, irrationally harms its own goal to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide, for the switch from coal to natural gas, which emits half the carbon of coal, to generate electricity can ""green"" the environment more than anything the environmental lobby does. Particularly in the developing world, economic development, which for now is dependent on carbon-based energy, is the best way to protect the environment in the long run. Spending money on improving the environment is the luxury of those who aren't worried about their children eating for one more day.",0_0
"How credible is this chain of reasoning? Although it is true that some peer review literature suggests a link between asthma and pollen, other literature contests such a link. For example, a 1993 peer-reviewed study stated that, ""No association was found between visits for asthma attacks and airborne pollen levels.""",0_0
OIRA is an heroic effort to gain control over the regulatory state. It must continually refine its ability to achieve that goal. It should not become part of the problem. The current report would not advance that mission.,0_0
"Pride in their lives: Working-class voters are generally not a despondent group. Life is harder for them in many ways, but they take pride in who they are. They are not ""bitter people, clinging to religion or guns""; they celebrate their lives and crave respect from the educated and wealthy classes. They flock to politicians who show genuine respect for their lives, and turn on those who display contempt or disdain.",0_0
"""I've written previously about Mann's defaming me as a ""serial climate misinformer' and ""anti-science.' In recent weeks he has gone after Anthony Watts, Patrick Moore (founder of Greenpeace), and Bill Gates .",0_0
"As can be seen, only three stations out of the thirteen show this year as being warmer. You will also note that I have indicated the climatological division for each station. There are six such divisions for Virginia, as listed below, so all divisions are represented. NOAA currently work out state temperatures by averaging temperatures across all stations within a division, and then weighting each divisions temperature according to its area. We can therefore repeat this logic with the differences calculated above.",0_0
This finding has evident repercussions for climate change and solar physics. Increasing TSI between 1980 and 2000 could have contributed significantly to global warming during the last three decades . Current climate models have assumed that the TSI did not vary significantly during the last 30 years and have therefore underestimated the solar contribution and overestimated the anthropogenic contribution to global warming.,2_1
"""Even a cursory glance at the EPA guidance document makes one thing crystal clear -- the permitting process to reduce or control carbon dioxide emissions is costly, complex, and time-consuming,"" said Marlo Lewis, CEI Senior Fellow. ""It would crush small businesses, if applied to them. However, before small businesses applaud EPA's ""Tailoring Rule,' which temporarily exempts them from certain mandates, they should remember that Congress never authorized EPA to make climate change policy in the first place.",4_1
"Florida, there has been a record number hit Japan 10?? and I saw a report",0_0
"Anyway, I wanted to see if the Hill Country might be a good place to live as we head into the coming ice age.",0_0
Atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe told OneNewsNow in 2014 that cold and snowy weather can occur in global warming.,0_0
Social cost of carbon estimates from the Interagency Working Group's 2013 technical support document are simply not credible and cannot justify the million lost jobs and trillions of dollars lost income from a carbon tax.,0_0
"To do this, either past temperatures should be adjusted upwards, or current ones downwards. This would then offset the fact that, over the years, UHI has added a warming bias. But when we look at Reykjavik, we find that the opposite has occurred; past temperatures have been reduced instead of increased.",5_1
"And these model predictions use underlying parameters highly favorable to the policies under examination; that is, assumptions that increase the predicted effects of the policies. The most important is a ""climate sensitivity"" (the temperature effect in 2100 of a doubling of GHG concentrations) assumption of 4.5 degrees, a number 50 percent greater than the median reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its latest assessment report. And even the latter is about 40 percent higher than the median of the estimates published in the recent peer-reviewed literature.",0_0
""" using the tax code to punish these firms' employees is seriously wrongheaded. Many firms, unfortunately, have received government subsidies even before the was created. Sports teams frequently receive subsidies for new stadiums, but we don't tax athletes at 90 percent! We should end government subsidies to all these firms, but not punish individual employees who compete for the salaries the market will bear. The tax system is not the way to remedy an ill-conceived bailout. There is no way to separate firms receiving government money from the economy as a whole. This is a big foot in the door for confiscatory taxes that will produce anemic economic growth.""",0_0
"While the majority of journalists are still awakening from their intellectual slumber regarding climate science, the latest empirical global temperature measurements (RSS atmosphere temps and CO2 chart on the left) confirm what The Economist is essentially reporting global warming has gone AWOL and a slight cooling trend has developed over the last 10 years (a minus 0.42 degrees by 2100 if the trend persists).",1_4
2) UN Economists Propose Fast-Track Green Taxes For $100 Billion Climate Fund,0_0
"Post Climategate, this worldwide trade, estimated at about $30 billion in 2006, is finding few takers. It is under attack following the renewed uncertainty over the role of human-generated CO2 in global warming. In the US, which never adopted any of this to begin with, there is a serious move now to finish off the cap-and-trade regime globally. It's a revolt of sorts. Six leading Democrats in the US Congress have joined hands with many Republicans to urge the Obama Administration to back off from the regime.",0_0
with the still controversial question of large-scale acid-rain-related forest,0_0
May the administration concluded a partnership agreement as a roadmap for,0_0
"Phrased another way, manmade greenhouse gases in the climate models were expected to warm the surfaces of the global oceans at a rate of 0.16 deg C/decade for the past 32+ years, but the observed warming was only 0.08 deg C/decade. Thats an atrocious modeling effort. Now consider that this time period includes naturally occurring upswings in the surface temperatures of the North Atlantic and North Pacific (see the post here ) and youll begin to understand the full extent of the model failings.",5_1
"Thus what there is to conserve in the nation's institutions is largely unappealing to the productive class. The modern aristocrats are the ones who want to conserve the political, social, and cultural institutions of today, for they rely on these forces for their comfortable existence. What is needed, then, is not conserving but reform. The problem is that the aristocracy has so strong a grasp of the levers of power that the means of reform scarcely exist.",0_0
"For the fat-tailed distribution, I used a very similar form by replacing t/tau with (t/tau)^c. This makes the full equation",0_0
"In a major review of ???temporal fluctuations in weather and climate extremes that cause economic and human health impacts?? ??? as they titled their study of the subject ??? Kunkel et al . (1999) analyzed empirical data related to historical trends of several different types of extreme weather events and their societal impacts. This work revealed, in their words, that ???most measures of the economic impacts of weather and climate extremes over the past several decades reveal increasing losses.?? However, they found that ???trends in most related weather and climate extremes do not show comparable increases with time,?? suggesting that ???increasing losses are primarily due to increasing vulnerability arising from a variety of societal changes, including a growing population in higher risk coastal areas and large cities, more property subject to damage, and lifestyle and demographic changes subjecting lives and property to greater exposure.??",1_7
"Of nearly 12,000 abstracts analyzed, there were only 64 papers in category 1 (which explicitly endorsed man-made global warming). Of those only 41 (0.3%) actually endorsed the quantitative hypothesis as defined by Cook in the introduction. A third of the 64 papers did not belong.",5_1
"Nonutility industry spokesperson also testified to EPA that the threat of imposing a new, narrower interpretation of RMR&R; has prevented them from making investments that would improve energy efficiency and plant safety or that would reduce emissions. Here are just three of the many case studies presented during EPA's hearings:",0_0
HAVE you ever wondered what happens when corals grow so tall they are above sea level or whether the Great Barrier Reef could extend its range further south with global warming?,3_2
"There is a growing backlash against this policy. The Republicans want to reverse it . Yvo de Boer, head of the Global Green Growth Institute, says: You really have to be able to offer these countries an economically viable alternative, before you begin to rule out coal. And Donald Kaberuka, president of the African Development Bank, says it is hypocritical for western governments, made rich by fossil fuels, to say to African countries, You cannot develop dams, you cannot develop coal, just rely on these very expensive renewables. African countries will not listen.",0_0
"Furthermore, the suppression of votes in the Sandy destruction area will not change the electoral college totals since damage has been mainly in overwhelmingly blue states, but will greatly increase chances Obama will win the electoral vote but not the popular vote.",0_0
Senator Fielding says he would support any move by the Coalition to defer the vote .,0_0
Don't Put Eco-Finance Measures in Energy Bill,0_0
of two baboons when one is dominant. (A new member of a committee on which I served once asked me why,0_0
"The relevant, loud experiment is CDMS (Cryogenic Dark Matter Search) in the Soudan Mine in Minnesota. Recall that in late 2009 , CDMS informed us about two dark-matter-like events and it has placed itself among the ""dark matter is seen"" allies in the ""is the dark matter seen?"" war on the new particle's existence .",0_0
"Today, the World Trade Organization, together with the UN Environment Programme posted a report on trade and climate change that outlines how carbon border taxes may be consistent with WTO rules. It is a very careful discussion of relevant articles, their intent and interpretation, and related WTO cases (though no case has specifically dealt with climate change).",0_0
"8. The sea ice cover for which the bears are uniquely evolved has been shrinking under climate change, forcing the bears off of the ice for longer periods and away from their main food source: seals. Only the summer ice extent is shrinking markedly. Ice in the spring has changed very little over the last 30 years, as has early summer ice . Spring and early summer ice is the most important for feeding on young seals, which there are more of because of longer ice-free periods. Ringed seals in the Chukchi are doing better than they were in the 1980s, meaning there are more seals for polar bears to eat.",3_2
"The Fox said, Come, all! Lets join the queue!",0_0
"Congressman Robert Kennedy, Jr. claimed ""This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors.""",0_0
"Climate alarmists contend that global warming brings with it greater variability in all types of extreme weather conditions, drought being one of the primary phenomena they cite in this regard. Throughout the entire course of the 20th century, however, over which period of time they claim the earth warmed at a rate and to a temperature unprecedented over the past thousand to one million years (Hansen et al ., 2006), drought variability in north-central Minnesota was nowhere near 'unprecedented.' In fact, it was anomalously low . Reference",1_7
"Europe, though, has had the opposite problem with their cap-and-trade system. In the first phase of the program, they printed more permits to pollute than anyone wanted. That drove the price of permits near zero, deeply annoying anyone who had paid up for the right to pollute. It also meant that the system was ineffective in restraining pollution. That would be hard to do with a carbon tax.",0_0
"On the other hand, independent polls by newspapers, by Pew, Gallup, and other respected organizations, using much larger samples, have mirrored the results of my earlier AMS poll. But what has been most interesting is the gradual decline over the years in public support for DAGW, as shown by these independent polls.",0_0
I know a similar graph went up a couple of days ago around the web. The skeptics Handbook II was published on Friday Nov 20.,0_0
"Crank of the Week - November 21, 2010 - Eric Schmidt",0_0
"With fewer people than expected, pollution should decrease from expected levels, as should consumption of oil. Clean water and clean air should be more plentiful. We know that many of these people will be richerdriving more cars, consuming more resources. We also know that wealthy countries tend to be better at cleaning up their pollution than poor nations. With fewer people, open spaces should also be more abundant.",0_0
"Williams Lake has never seen more snow fall in a 24-hour period than it did last Friday between Nov. 15 and Nov. 16, says this article in the Williams Lake Tribune.",0_0
"This scattershot strategy has recently borne fruit in the Netherlands. In a ruling dated June 24, 2015, the Hague District Court (Chamber for Commercial Affairs) ordered the government of the Netherlands to implement climate change mitigation measures sufficient to achieve at least a 25 percent reduction (from 1990 levels) in Dutch carbon dioxide emissions from all sources (public and private) by 2020. Current government policies are projected to achieve a 14-17 percent reduction by 2020, with an 80 percent reduction by 2050. Indeed, the government is in full agreement with the plaintiffs and the court that an 80 percent reduction by 2050 is necessary to assure that carbon dioxide concentrations do not exceed 450 ppm by 2100.",0_0
"Question: What is the level at which this temperature is monitored? Is T height invariant near the surface, if the lowest levels of the atmosphere are used to compute T?",0_0
"Obama wanted to transform K12 education in America by nationalizing the curriculum. That would be illegal if done directly so he launched Common Core State Standards, a set of learning goals tied to achievement tests intended to force every K12 school, public as well as private or religious, to teach the left's perverse vision of English literature and dysfunctional theory of math instruction.",0_0
Three themes are emerging from the newly released emails: (1) prominent scientists central to the global warming debate are taking measures to conceal rather than disseminate underlying data and discussions; (2) these scientists view global warming as a political cause rather than a balanced scientific inquiry and (3) many of these scientists frankly admit to each other that much of the science is weak and dependent on deliberate manipulation of facts and data.,5_2
"Q. And in your experience, as a statisticalmatter, is it a sound practice to draw conclusionsfrom an analysis which doesnt reach statisticalsignificance?",0_0
"Yes, how much of frstrda miljvrden and economics, the DN acclaimed energiewende f cost?",0_0
"Japan (#5), wants to keep open its options to burn more fossil fuels since the nuclear disaster at Fukushima.",0_0
"In recent years snows have fallen in unusual places like Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Buenos Aires, southern Brazil. Johannesburg, South Africa, southern Australia, the Mediterranean Coast and Greece. All-time record snows fell in many locales across the western and northern United States from Washington State and Oregon and Colorado to Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Vermont and Maine. All-time records were also set in southern Canada.",1_3
There really is a trade-off: denying aid for fossil fuels hurts the poor,4_1
"Irelands deputy chief medical officer warned in March that people who live near wind turbines risk having their health and psychological well-being compromise by the infrasound emissions, in a condition she called wind turbine syndrome.",0_0
think of a good way to argue this. I am hopeful of finding something in the,0_0
"However, the real world isn't a classical model of quantum mechanics. The real world is an intrinsically, genuinely quantum system. It's not a classical caricature, it's the real quantum thing, stupid. It doesn't need (and it doesn't allow) any superluminal communication whatsoever. The contradictions with special relativity only exist if we demand that the world isn't quantum; it's a classical model of a quantum world. But the world isn't a classical model and that's why these contradictions evaporate. For this reason, special relativity and quantum mechanics are ""on the same side of a barricade"". Special relativity is another argument why we must accept that quantum mechanics with its positivist, probabilistic rules is the only right description while any attempt to ""emulate"" quantum mechanics by something that isn't truly quantum is just wrong.",0_0
"Heavy snow will return occasionally, says Dr Viner, but when it does we will be unprepared. ""We're really going to get caught out. Snow will probably cause chaos in 20 years time,"" he said.",0_0
"Nuclear Fission: Atomic Power Looking Better and Worse Bloomberg View ""It's a collision between long-term concerns over global warming which gives nuclear power appeal as a practical form of carbon-free energy and anxieties heightened by three reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima plant in northern Japan on March 11, 2011. Nowhere are the conflicts more evident than within Japan, which in early August prepared to begin operating its first nuclear reactor in almost two years even though much of the public is still opposed.""",0_0
"The University of Colorado claim that the rate of sea level rise since 1992 is 3.1mm/year, but this includes an isostatic adjustment of 0.3mm/year, meaning that the sea level, as measured on our coastline, is only rising by 2.8mm/year. (Basically, they argue the sea floor is sinking: more information here ). Taking this along with the Pinatubo factor, it is clear that the underlying rate of rise is not much greater than the generally accepted 20thC rise of about 190mm.",1_6
"I am sure that history will file your names alongside such credentialed luminaries as Hwang Woo-suk, Luk Van Parijs, Jon Sudbo, and William Summerlin.",0_0
It will be interesting to see how predictions by the government-funded Met Office compare with independent forecasters. ( source ),0_0
"Info=data.frame( sapply (Model,function(A) coef(A$model) ) );names(Info)=coef",0_0
"Just as the second half of the 20th century was characterized by America's Atlantic partnership, the India-U.S. relationship will be the defining feature of the 21st century.",0_0
"The consequent enviro-rage will be swift and merciless, of course. As Air Force bomber crews know, ?If you?re not taking flak, you?re not over the target.? Coal proponents must have the courage to attack the real reasons for the EPA rules.",0_0
"So, I decided to have a look at that tidal issue. Again Bing aerial view is our friend:",0_0
""" If no Germans were hurt or killed in the construction of Route Summit , it's because the guys who kicked your asses all over Europe in two world wars showed up to defend them this time around. A little gratitude wouldn't hurt, Asshat.""",0_0
"The intermittent power of wind towers plays havoc with electricity grids. Power black outs in India are so bad, they cut off the supply to 600 million or so people for two days last year. To make the grid more stable, an official somewhere decided it would help to have at least one days warning of how much electricity will flow from those towers. (Why not two days I say?)",4_4
"Meanwhile, over in Japan, diplomats met to discuss climate policy and industry. This was Tony Blair's first public appearance in his new role as a roving, international climate ambassador, and he took the opportunity to urge all nations to agree to reduce emissions. This is essentially the U.S. position, and it has proven unpopular, so you have to admire the former Prime Minister's temerity.",0_0
"An investigation of Australia's national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), and a review of their document titled ""The Science of Tackling Climate Change."" Through the use of methodically solid data and sound analysis, this report finds CSIRO comments, behavior, and publications to be, on the topic of climate, unscientific and blatantly political, and thus, threaten Australia's national governance.",5_2
"Others on the WUWT sea ice page suggest it could go either way. What isn??t debatable though is that there has been a dramatic slowing of loss of Arctic ice extent in the past couple of weeks, as shown below, and that the current extent is well within the +/- 2 standard deviation.",1_1
"Nevertheless, nuclear power plants and big dams are negative symbols for the environmentalist ideologues, much like the wind turbines and solar panels are their positive symbols. All green people are obliged to worship the wind turbines and to criticize dams and nuclear power plants.",5_2
"So the real problem is CAFE, not SUVs. The next time you hear the term SUV, remember: The ""S"" might as well stand for scapegoat.",0_0
"Editorial, WSJ, Via The Hockey Schtick, Aug 12, 2015",0_0
"The question ""which time are you lying?"" came to mind, though it was not at all clear that the answer could not be ""both."" The FOIA documents 900 pages, so far show great internal concern among high level DoE political appointees when this question was pressed, and a resistance to put the answer in writing.",0_0
"The Competitive Enterprise Institute has produced a book and a highlights video based on The Costs of Kyoto conference held in July 1997. Both the book and the video are available for $15 or buy both for $25. To order call CEI at (202) 331-1010, or e-mail to info@cei.org.",0_0
Suppose that the US decides to implement a policy to reduce CO2 emissions. There are six basic options:,0_0
1983: 50 companies controlled 90% of the media consumed by Americans,0_0
"So far the temperature is around 0 C so it melts rapidly. But that should change during the following days. For Tuesday, the temperature is forecast to go to -12 C . Brrr. Do you have deja vu? Yes, see 2007 .",0_0
Quantification of long term tornado trends has been hampered by the fact that many more tornadoes are reported today than was the case in the past. NOAA summarise this well:-,0_0
"As a result of that press release, a Capital Weather Gang blog post by Andrew Freedman was dutifully dispatched as damage control, since we had inconveniently noted the continuing disagreement between climate models used to predict global warming and the satellite observations.",5_1
"Steve Runyun of Willow Alaska : Here in Willow, Alaska, we are mired in a cold snap entering its 13th day. After one of the coldest summers in Alaskan history, we are seeing a winter reminiscent of the 70s and 80s. Temps at our house have averaged -25*F, dipping into the low minus 30s and getting as high as -19, for a very brief moment yesterday. Temps in Anchorage have also been below zero for this same time frame, very unusual for them, and interior Alaska has been in the 60s below zero. Over Christmas break, airports across the country were closed due to snow and ice. Even Las Vegas got snow! Whereas the spectre of global warming once was quite appalling, today its quite appealing! Bring it on, says I! If I really could spur it a little, I think I would, at this point!",1_3
"Mrner, N.-A. 2012. Sea Level Is Not Rising. SPPI Reprint Series , December 6, 2012.",1_6
"This Washington Post headline from earlier this month illustrates one of worrisome side-effects of authoritarian rule. Political freedom is denied the citizenry but the pressures to allow some form of dissent remain. Religious dissent often is treated more liberally and the eco-theocratic values of today are the dominant religion of our secular society. The risk the Russians face is that in their effort to escape Red tyranny they may rush into the hands of the Greens. That would be tragic Virginia Postrel noted long ago that she preferred the old Reds to the new Greens. Both restricted economic and individual freedom but, at least, the Reds aimed at helping humanity. That goal is rarely given much priority by green zealots.",0_0
"We know the US government uses sock-puppets, one fan of the Big Scare admitted to using spam bots to generate fake comments, and though I cant prove anything, there have been plenty of anonymous commenters here who returned with different names to write hate-filled messages with unsubstantiated insults. There was also even one commenter who wrote 440 comments on this blog under his real name, in business hours, from a government office.",5_2
"The results show that increased carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels causes an inconsequential impact on world temperature. The most significant conclusion, however, is that increased moisture, the presumed cause of feedback, causes a decrease in the warming effect of CO2 (negative feedback).",3_1
"(They mention lots of other possible hurdles; I don't want to copy their paper here, however.)",0_0
"Repeatedly throughout the past couple of decades, we've been pummeled with dire predictions and told ""time is short."" In 1989, the UN predicted that ""Global warming would destroy entire nations by 2000."" In 2007, we were told: ""Scientists believe we have less than 10 years to bring emissions under control to prevent a catastrophe."" In 2008, Britain's Prince Charles said we only had 100 months left to solve the problem. Gore, in 2009, said: ""We have to do it this year.""",5_2
"85) Ice-core data clearly show that temperatures change centuries before concentrations of atmospheric CO2 change. Thus, there appears to be little evidence for insisting that changes in concentrations of CO2 are the cause of past temperature and climate change.",2_3
"In conversations with colleagues who bemoan the President's seeming disinterest in assertive American leadership, I often remind them that he is very effectively broadcasting on the carrier frequency of American public opinion. The foreign policy of the Obama Administration is designed not to protect, advance, and sustain the position of the United States in the world, but to do as little damage to the President's domestic agenda as possible. Indeed, for weeks now the White House has been leaking that President Obama's foreign policy mantra is ""don't do stupid stuff."" And it seems to stop there. Helike the country as a wholeis focused inward. He and his approach are far better tuned to the political environment in the United States than the more assertive and engaged policy that I and others might prefer. It is we who are out of step with the country, not the President. Time will tell whether the President's political judgment is matched by his strategic judgment.",0_0
"The Williams Lake Airport received 51 cm (20 inches), with the next highest being the Coquihalla Summit where they received 35 cm (14 inches), and Allison Pass which received 32 cm (13 inches).",0_0
"The effects on the Sun and on the Earth??s climate were not due to the Galactic cosmic rays themselves, but to the cosmic dust that these cosmic rays transported into the Solar System. Observations have shown that the Solar System is presently immersed in a dense cloud of cosmic dust, material that is normally kept at bay by the outward pressure of the solar wind. But, with the arrival of this Galactic cosmic ray volley, the solar wind was overpowered and large quantities of this material were pushed inward. The Sun was enveloped in a cocoon of dust that caused its spectrum to shift toward the infrared. In addition, the dust grains filling the Solar System scattered radiation back to the Earth, producing an ???interplanetary hothouse effect?? that substantially increased the influx of solar radiation to the Earth.??",2_1
I have mentioned the effect of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) below . The Alaska Climate Research Center have just released their update to the Alaska data. Heres that information:,0_0
"If, for example, you are Laurence Tribe in 1984, Harvard professor of law, leftist pillar of the establishment, you can ""write"" your magnum opus by using the products of your student assistant, Ron Klain.",0_0
"Participants at the UN's Habitat III conference in Quito, Ecuador are exhorted on blue and white (the UN's colors) billboards to do their best for the world's cities. Our personal favorite read ""Compact Cities.""",0_0
"Although there was essentially no acclimation or down regulation of photosynthesis in this long-term study, no significant increase in soil carbon content was detected over the experiment's duration.?? However, as demonstrated in our Editorial of 5 Mar 2003 , it is sometimes necessary to conduct studies of biological responses to atmospheric CO 2 enrichment for considerably longer than a decade in order to determine their true ultimate impact.?? Indeed, the study of Schneider et al . (2004) on the identical L. perenne plots studied here suggests the very same thing with respect to the slowly increasing (though non-significant) trend in harvestable biomass observed in the low soil nitrogen treatment. References",3_3
Figure 2. Reproduction of Figure 10.20a from AR5,0_0
"It is appropriate that the theme of this year's conference was Reconsidering the Science and Economics, as much has happened since Heartland's Third International Conference on Climate Change held in Washington, D.C. in June of last year. Among the happenings: It was in November of last year that emails and other documents from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia revealed a pattern of mismanagement of temperature data, interference with peer review, and an effort to suppress academic debate on global warming (Climategate). In December of 2009, negotiations in Copenhagen, meant as a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, collapsed, leaving the world without a binding international agreement after Kyoto expires in 2012.",5_2
"Last year was declared the warmest on record, but only by 0.05 degrees Celsius. Satellite temperature records, however, show that 2014 was at most the third warmest year on record 00 but it could be the sixth warmest as well.",5_1
"If, as the President seems to assume, all weather anomalies are due to global climate change,then how would he explain the extraordinary 7-year drought ofintense landfalling U.S. hurricanes?",0_0
"Not all the arguments in favor of such reconceptualizations of ""national security"" are necessarily disingenuous special pleading, of course. It might well be that traditional paradigms of ""national security"" sometimes neglect important issues that really do have dramatic security implications, and which will later with hindsight clearly be understood as having had genuine and direct importance in this regard all along. (If you think our security boffins are omniscient and infallible, you haven't been paying much attention. Let us stipulate, at the very least, that they do indeed miss things from time to time.) If rising sea levels eventually force population migrations or even erase certain island nations, there could be international security implications. And I'm willing to believe that obese soldiers indeed cannot fight as well as fit ones.",0_0
DOJ seeks mandatory data retention requirement for ISPs:,0_0
The following excerpt from his PNAS paper tells you everything you need to know about James Hansens paper:,0_0
"With figures of $2,000,000,000,000 being banded about as the cost, Ive got to wonder where Clinton and Obama might not understand the different between a billion ($1,000,000,000) and a trillion ($1,000,000,000,000) after all it is very easy to mistake one for the other! The difference is that rather than a few dollars for each American, the cost is a few 10s of thousands per household.",0_0
Yet the biggest challenges may be more technical than financial.,0_0
"So the three unimpeached studies in Figure 10.20a support a median TCR estimate of about 1.35C, and a top of the likely range for TCR of about 2.0C based on downgrading 595% ranges, following AR5.",0_0
"But let's suppose the rumour is true. If so, it would raise all kinds of profound policy questionsand also a question of crass politics. The Bush administration has, until now, taken a skeptical view toward climate change. What is the best way for an administration to change course like this?",0_0
"Figure 9 compares the approximated HadCRUT4 land plus sea surface temperature data to the 4 RCP-based hindcasts from 1901 to 2006. The end date of 2006 is dictated by the HADSST3 data, which still (as of now) has not been brought up to date by the Hadley Centre. The models appear as though they are capable of reproducing the rate at which global temperatures warmed during the late warming period of 1976 to 2006, but it looks like they are still not capable of reproducing the rates at which global temperature anomalies warmed and cooled before that. Lets check.",5_1
"""The Obama administration is crediting its anti-recession stimulus plan with creating up to 50,000 jobs on dozens of wind farms, even though many of those wind farms were built before the stimulus money began to flow or even before President Barack Obama was inaugurated.""",0_0
"I have in the past, called for Dr. Hansens firing after his arrest episodes where he acts as an activist and protestor. I repeat that call today and will continue to do so. NASA administrator Bolden, fire Dr. James Hansen. He is an embarrassment to NASA, and an embarrassment to science. Show him the door.",0_0
This is the second time Walker was forced to withdraw a subpoena in the climate fight. Walker had gone after the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute a few months ago for its ties to the oil company. The think tank responded with threats of sanctions and Walker withdrew.,0_0
Poll shows public doesn't fear global warming,0_0
"from 1951 onwards, KNMI shifted from so-called climatological temperature measurements to synoptical measurements. However, the climatological measurements continued to 1970. For the 1951-1970 period these measurements may be considered as more reliable than the synoptical measurements. Therefore, in the homogenized series the climatological measurements extend to 1970.",0_0
Can require pressure change be explained by drier conditions in ice-age?,0_0
The United States is also unhappy about the idea of U.S. airlines having to pay new taxes to European governments.,0_0
"In February 2012, Time's Bryan Walsh broke news that Chesapeake Energyone of the largest natural gas companies in North Americagave $26 million to the Sierra Club from 2007 to 2010. Walsh reports that the donations helped fund the Sierra Club's ""Beyond Coal"" campaign, the avowed purpose of which is to eliminate coal-fired electricity in America. Chesapeake Energy's $26 million in donations was a significant component of Sierra Club's total revenues during that period. The Sierra Club's total assets were $50 million in 2010, according to Politico.",0_0
"According to MarketWatch.com, the percentage of people who work in manufacturing is at a record low of 8.5%which compares to ""20% in 1980, 30% in 1960 and a record 39% during World War Two.""",0_0
"For months President Obama has been in the uncomfortable position of straddling a barbed-wire fencedoes he appease his ardent environmental supporters or advocate for economic growth that will help all of America? In his speech outlining his Climate Action Plan, he made his choice clear. He's abandoning what is best for America and has bowed to the political pressure from environmental lobbyists like the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council.",0_0
"The story here is mostly that base metals have stopped dropping. We had a quick swing trade up, but thats ended as metals took a dip. Prices are still below the SMA stack, which has gone flat but is not yet in a weave. That means the prior falling trend is still the one we follow. While its likely a bottom, or a bottom soon, its not yet a confirmed bottom and could fall away at any time. In that context, you swing trade the ripples on a very fast chart.",0_0
"Interestingly, neither seawater warming nor seawater acidification (caused by contact with CO 2 -enriched air) had either a positive or a negative effect of sea urchin fertilization, suggesting, as the five scientists concluded, that ""sea urchin fertilization is robust to climate change stressors."" References",3_2
"Immigration from the Third World will not provide a long-term solution, as fertility rates are declining there as well. The average fertility rate for Latin America was six children per woman in the 1960s; by 2005, it had dropped to 2.5. At that rate of decline, within a few decades, Latin American countries will likely have a fertility rate lower than that of the United States.",0_0
"This is basically the regional breakdown of the U.S.-average relationship shown in the first plot above, which demonstrates that the increased frequency of strong tornadoes with cooler, not warmer, temperatures. This is no doubt an indirect effect, mirroring the more frequent intrusion of unseasonably cool air masses, which cause the wind shear conditions more conducive to tornado formation.",0_0
"The figure below is a portion of a screen capture from the Heat-Related Deaths section of the EPAs new Climate Change Indicators website . It is labeled Deaths Classified as Heat-Related in the United States, 19792010.",0_0
"So what is that? Met site is top right. Four piles at the base, is a large power grid pylon, can look bizarre from an aircraft (these are aerial photos, not satellite).",0_0
"That makes for expensive power. Experts have estimated that electricity from giant solar projects will cost at least twice as much as electricity from conventional sources. But neither the utilities that have contracted to buy the power nor state regulators have disclosed what the price will be, only that it will be passed on to electricity customers.??",4_4
Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power. Crown. 496 Pages. $28.,0_0
"Americas natural gas boom has been a rare economic bright spot, and even President Obama likes to take credit for it. But as his term winds down, the Administration is waging a war of regulatory attrition to raise drilling costs and reduce its competitive advantage over wind and solar power.",0_0
"They scored one major success, in Colorado. There, ex-Governor Bill Ritter had made the New Energy Economy, the centerpiece of his administration. As such, he was receptive to fuel switching as a way to meet his Climate Action Plan, a non-binding mandate to reduce the states greenhouse gas emissions 20% below 2008 levels. As Ive written about at length here , the Ritter Administration engaged in a number of deceptions to carry Chesapeakes water.",0_0
"ACESA considers the problem of leakage and proposes a number of measures in Title IV, Part 2, Section 412. In the next section, Section 413, the draft wisely concludes, ""Congress finds that the purposes described in Section 412 can be most effectively addressed and achieved through agreements negotiated between the United States and foreign countries."" Actually, that finding should be applied to the entire scope of Title IV. That is to say, effective GHG control regime, by its very nature, requires international agreement. Yet ACESA, as domestic legislation, can mandate only U.S. action.",0_0
"They accomplished this through a spectacular hockey stick of adjustments, which increases post 2000 temperatures by more than one degree, and decreases pre-2000 temperatures by as much as two degrees.",5_1
Weaver Suggests Buddy Review for Mann et al 2005,0_0
"In 2010, Sir Alex Ferguson had the topscorerin the BPL and didnt play him in his humiliatingChampionsLeague smack down by Barcelona.",0_0
>> I am putting the finishing touches to my new scenario paper for Africa and,0_0
"In contrast, climate models all show RH staying constant, implying that specific humidity is forecast to increase with warming. So climate models show positive feedback and rising specific humidity with warming in the upper troposphere, but the data shows falling specific humidity and negative feedback.",3_1
"In the 1984 movie Red Dawn communists invaded Colorado, and the first thing they did was disarm the citizenry. Then a gang of patriots the Wolverines fought back against the communists and ran them out.",0_0
"Theyre thawing and filling up with water, Point Hope Mayor Steve Oomittuk said as he lifted a small wooden door to a cellar, surrounded by plastic sheets shielding the remaining snow cover from the sun. This spring, residents had to take some meat and blubber out and make room for it in their freezers at home.",0_0
"President Bill Clinton signed the agreement in 1997, but the Senate refused to ratify it, citing potential economic damage. In 2001, President George W. Bush withdrew the United States from the Kyoto Protocol.",0_0
"I was able to price shop policies online without creating an account, without giving up my social security number. The websites to do so worked and operated quickly",0_0
"One problem, McIntyre writes, is that Rahmstorfs and Manns results are not based onproxies for Atlantic current velocity, but on a network consisting of iffy proxy series which are statistically indistinguishable from white noise . McIntyre comments: Its hard to understand why anyone would seriously believe (let alone publish in peer reviewed literature) that Atlantic ocean currents could be reconstructed by such dreck.. ..",5_1
"Oh, what a difference a year makes in Greenland melting",0_0
"The situation is rich with irony as well as uranium. While you can't mine yellowcake, it is perfectly legal in Virginia to process enriched uranium into usable nuclear fuel, which is somewhat dangerous to handle. A subsidiary of the French nuclear giant Areva operates a fuel fabrication facility in Lynchburg 50 miles from Chatham. It has been praised by Gov. Tim Kaine, a Democrat, as a good corporate citizen. The state is also home to four commercial nuclear reactors, which provide Virginians with 35% of their electricity. And, of course, the U.S. Navy operates nuclear ships out of Norfolk, Va.",0_0
But the thing for which I'd like to thank CEI most is its optimism.,0_0
"We see this as a bit of a surprise, and potentially significant on a policy level because previous interpretations suggested that global warming might actually help plant growth around the world, Running said. This is a pretty serious warning that warmer temperatures are not going to endlessly improve plant growth.",0_0
"National Journal reported last month that 19 of the 20 serious GOP Senate challengers declared that the science of climate change is either inconclusive or flat-out wrong. Many newly elected Republican House members take that position. It is a stance that defies the findings of our countrys National Academy of Sciences, national scientific academies from around the world and 97 percent of the worlds climate scientists.",0_0
"Since we know that the Arctic was about 5C warmer during the Eemian/Sangamonian (MIS-5e) than it currently is and that there is no evidence of widespread permafrost melt above 60N, it??s a pretty good bet that the MIS-11 Arctic was 6-10C warmer than the Holocene Climatic Optimum.",2_1
"I wish I could disagree with him, but I can't find fault in what Mark Steyn is saying . Is it not mind-boggling that after the conservative Tea Party revolution in the Republican Party that the two leading contenders ending up being Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich? Related: The gents at Ricochet discuss the situation with Glenn Reynolds.",0_0
"It was minus 1.0 degrees in Gulmarg, two degrees below normal, while Pahalgam recorded minus 3.0 degrees today (Monday), three degree below normal.",1_3
"""Obama spouts brazen lies,"" says astrophysicist",0_0
"And now, during the past few months, EPA has been trying to use the prestigious National Academy of Sciences to cover-up and whitewash the agency's illegal experiments on humans. In secret, and with no public notice or opportunity to comment, the agencies held meetings and issued a draft report.",0_0
"The level of warmth during the peak of the MWP (Medieval Warm Period) in the second half of the 10th century, equaling or slightly exceeding the mid-20th century warming, is in agreement with the results from other more recent large-scale multi-proxy temperature reconstructions.",2_1
"Water quality has also skyrocketed. Along the river where I grew up in Wisconsin, a dozen pairs of bald eagles now nest where there were none when I was a kid, when you couldn't eat the fish or swim in the polluted water. The same thing happened across the USA. Other problems remain to be addressed.",0_0
dH/dt = f T/lamda (1),0_0
"On July 7, environmental activist Cedric C. Keith came to The Heartland Institute's Andrew Breitbart Freedom Center in Arlington Heights, Illinois to discuss his new book The Dying Fish: A Sojourn to the Source. At this interesting event, Keith spoke about his incredible 4,000-mile walk through the wilds of the Appalachian Trail to help preserve a supposedly endangered species: the brook trout. If you were unable to attend or watch the live-stream, you can see the whole presentation on our YouTube page. WATCH IT HERE",0_0
"Yes, but not as much as you would think, or hope. More of the physics is now known, but it is impossible (see this review ) to completely insert this new physical understanding into the models. Many of the models subroutines are based on parameterizations , which are educated, but not infallible, guesses of how certain processes (like clouds) work. Other model components, such as how the atmosphere interacts with the ocean, land, and outer space, are increasingly crude approximations (the later, outer space, is related to orbital forcing, and is usually ignored). Other parts of the models are based on nothing more than assumptions of how the physics works in certain situations.",5_1
"The 31-page summary for policymakers is based on a more technical 2,000-page analysis which will be issued at the same time. It also surprisingly reveals: IPCC scientists accept their forecast computers may have exaggerated the effect of increased carbon emissions on world temperatures and not taken enough notice of natural variability.",5_1
"In past updates, in the following Hovmoller diagrams, Ive used the development of the 1997/98 El Nio as a reference for this years El Nio. That now seems to be overkill, because the feedbacks never kicked in this yearwhere all of the feedbacks freakishly aligned for the 1997/98 El Nio. The 1982/83 El Nio was a late bloomer; that is, it didnt really start to take off until later in the year, and it was a very strong El Nio too. So Ive switched reference years for this post.",0_0
"One of the most publicized faces of the alleged global warming crisis is that of the polar bear, which some say is going extinct because a loss of habitat. But according to a new report by the National Center for Policy Analysis, coastal stations in Greenland actually show a cooling trend, Russian stations also show none of the predicted warming, and temperatures at the summit of the Greenland Ice Sheet have decreased 4 degrees Fahrenheit per decade since measurements began in 1987. When you also consider that of the 20 known polar bear populations, only two are decreasing, while 10 are stable, and two are actually increasing, it appears polar bears may not be on such thin ice, after all.",3_2
Computer models as proof? Thats an adventurous claim. Even the IPCC reminds us that computer models only depict scenarios and can never be used as proof. Not a good start.,5_1
"In agriculture, they worry about how well plants will grow. They worry about this a lot. So they develop ways to track and predict plant growth. Well, one of THE most effective methods uses something called Degree Days (or sometimes Crop Heat Units or Growth Heat Units or)",0_0
"1) The missing ingredient for tornado formation is not a lack of warm moist air, but a lack of synoptic (large) scale wind shear .",0_0
"Its announced goal of imposing global limits on greenhouse gas emissions will not be mandatory and ?President Obama has effectively gutted any meaningful agreement among the major industrialized nations, by having granted to the planet?s largest CO2 producer, China, free license to build as many coal power plants as they wish, and emit as many gigatons of greenhouse gases as they wish until 2030.?",0_0
"Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) stated: ""For nearly eight years, this Administration has tried to duck its obligation to address global warming pollution. A year ago, the Supreme Court ruled that greenhouse gases are covered under the Clean Air Act. Now, instead of action, we get more foot-dragging.""",0_0
"In his conclusion, Page says Often the signal for a climate direction change is a see-saw effect between Arctic and Antarctic sea ice. The Arctic is still reflecting the peak in the warming trend with low summer ice values. The first indication of a cooling event is however the increase in Antarctic sea ice which has already occurred. (See my post: The Arctic-Antarctic seesaw )",1_1
"To believe in it, one must be a person with an almost metaphysical faith in the existence of the original Garden of Eden (the Earth unspoiled by men), in the fall of man from the Garden, in the final days of the world coming because of men who have spoiled it through their economic activities based on their insatiable demands, and in the necessity of spiritual renewal of all of us as the only way to save the Earth. This may be a possible and even respectable creed for an individual but an impossible and unrespectable position when it comes to public policy.",0_0
"I was the first speaker, followed by Bill Eden, international representative of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada. St-Onge rounded out the trio.",0_0
"Lacher also discusses the second factor which is that deforestation rates are not fixed. He notes that most of the deforestation in the Amazon has taken place ""along peripheral areas"" of the basin and has not been in the heart of the rainforest. He contends there are not roads and other ways to get into the deeper interior ""no way to get in, so it's not going to happen."" .",0_0
"The response from windmill advocates in Denmark was similar: such studies threaten Danish industry by reducing the chances that the U.S. will serve as the hoped-for massive new market to make inefficient energy sources profitable for their foreign manufacturers (Danish Radio TV News, Thursday, February 25, 2010).",0_0
Science: And that study has been debunked. The numerous attempts by meteorological agencies around the world to depress temperatures in the early 20 th century to make the centennial warming rate seem larger than it is have far outweighed any failure to measure temperature change in one tiny region of the planet.,5_1
"Abandoning all pretence of objectivity, Sen. John McCain (RAZ) used his tenuous connection to the climate change issue to hold a stacked hearing on the subject before the Senate Commerce Committee on March 3.",0_0
"""Al Qaeda and the Taliban haven't been able to bring down the CIA's Predator drones. But a new lawsuit alleging parts of their targeting software are pirated (and faulty) could.""",0_0
"Johnston is not attempting to arrive at a scientific conclusion regarding the global warming hypothesis. Rather, he is cross examining the ""established climate story"" by asking ""very tough questions, questions that force the expert to clarify the basis for his or her opinion, to explain her interpretation of the literature, and to account for any apparently conflicting literature that is not discussed in the expert report"" (6).",5_1
"?Our analysis also leads to a relatively low and tightly-constrained estimate of Transient Climate Response of 1.3?1.8 C, and relatively low projections of 21st-century warming under the Representative Concentration Pathways.?",0_0
"As a political organization, the Alliance rushed to invoke Article 5 within twenty-four hours of 9/11; as a military organization, NATO turned out to be as ill-prepared to do counterinsurgency in Afghanistan as the U.S. military in Iraq. It would be a mistake, however, to claim that NATO's credibility is at stake in Afghanistan. Afghanistan may have been the graveyard of empires in the past, but it won't be the graveyard of the Alliance for a simple reason already pointed out by one European observer:",0_0
"Clinton proposed several measures to be taken to address global warming. First, he promised a billion dollars in foreign aid over the next five years to help promote energy efficiency, better resource management and economic growth in developing countries. $150 million per year will be direct aid focused on technical assistance and training to improve forest and energy sector management. $25 million per year will be in the form of USAID credit financing for climate-friendly development projects.",0_0
"By Robin KcKie, The Guardian, UK, Aug 9, 2015",0_0
"There are still three weeks until the scheduled Java Oct Critical Patch Update, so it might be possible that the bug will be addressed by the company on 16 Oct 2012, he said.",0_0
"Amtrak, which loses money annually, is now embroiled in legal troubles.",0_0
"The five Australian researchers report that ""for 6 years, recruitment rates were <6% of those prior to the disturbance,"" and ""on the basis of these rates of change,"" they say that ""recovery was projected to take decades."" However, within a mere 12 years , they indicate that ""coral cover, recruitment, generic diversity, and community structure were again similar to the pre-bleaching years."" And they say that the coral recovery ""may have been even faster if not for a series of more moderate disturbances, including two cyclones, an outbreak of disease, and a second bleaching."" What it means",3_1
Global coal use rises with the global demand for electricity.,0_0
"More specifically, only if Western taxpayers ante up. Among other things, the Chinese communist regime insists that the incentive payments it demands must come from new, additional, adequate, predictable and sustained public funds"" rather than mostly private financing, as the U.S. hopes.",0_0
"To understand the answers to these questions, we must understand that this election is only the latest battle in what I have called the Fifty Years' War between progressives and conservatives for possession of America's political soul. One can understand the president's words and deeds only if we understand both what the war is about and how Democrats themselves differ about how to fight the war. So it is to that issue that I now turn.",0_0
"Its really heartwarming (without even having to surround ones internal organs with greenhouse gases!!) to find that people that want to save the world by running complex computational models on supercomputers, are so (un)familiar with using common features of simple apps; and that people assigned by major international scientific publications to keep us informed about a problem that might engulf the planet, are (in)capable of showing much intelligent reasoning and to probe a situation with thoughtful questions and unprecedented insight.",0_0
As to the Arctic here on Earth: there are more polar bears and walrus now than recorded ever before and they dont look to be starving.,3_2
"The chances are certainly now stacked against the sortof heavy snowfall in cities that inspired Impressionist painters, such as Sisley, and the 19th century poet laureate Robert Bridges, who wrote in ""London Snow"" of it, ""stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying"".",0_0
"The authors write that ""current state-of-the-art climate models fail to capture accurately the path of the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Current,"" which model failure ""leads to a warm bias near the North American coast, where the modeled Gulf Stream separates from the coast further north, and a cold anomaly to the east of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, where the North Atlantic Current remains too zonal.""",5_1
"Most climate model simulations show a larger warming in the tropical troposphere than is found in observational data sets (e.g., McKitrick et al., 2010; Santer et al., 2013).",5_1
"Climate models predict that rising atmospheric CO2 should cause temperatures in the lower atmosphere to increase more rapidly than at the surface. But just the opposite has happened. Surface, balloon, and satellite temperature trend data show no change in lower atmosphere temperatures during the last few decades, even as surface temperatures have risen. One potential explanation is that the surface temperature increases may be largely due to increasing urban heat island effects, rather than to greenhouse-gas buildup.",1_4
"Assuming that nothing currently unforeseen happens, I have the following posts planned for the coming week:",0_0
"After all, where there is a ""national security"" challenge, how could it be inappropriate to involve our ""national security"" institutions in solving it? If it has become the job of the CIA and the National Security Agency to worry about climate change making its potential impact a subject for their analysis and presumably therefore also their clandestine information collection what role should these organs play in working on childhood obesity, cell phone use, or the U.S. federal debt? (Actually, that example is too easy, since our intelligence agencies, at least, are generally barred from domestic activity. A more interesting question might concern the military, some elements of which we do often permit to have an operational role in domestic affairs in the face of significant threats, crises, or disasters.) Where there is a ""national security"" threat, why not a ""national security"" response?",0_0
Beck explained that Charles Keeling established Mauna Loa readings using the lowest afternoon measures. Beck notes,0_0
"Global warming is a pivotal environmental and social issue of the 21st century. Its long time scales, diverse consequences, and direct ties to our global energyproduction infrastructure make it challenging for societies around the world to grapple with and threaten humanitys ability to mount an effective response. This challenge is compounded by the complexity of the Earth-human system. The fundamental science of greenhouse gas-induced climate change is simple and compelling. However, genuine and important uncertainties remain (e.g., the response of clouds,",0_0
"A NOAA boffin knows what is wrong with the planet too many people and too much economic growth. Dr. Miller is in the fortunate position to do something about both on a personal level but will he be the change he advocates? After you, doc.",0_0
"In a normal field, these results would pretty much wrap things up, but global warming/climate change has developed so much momentum that it has a life of its ownquite removed from science. One can reasonably expect that opportunism of the weak will lead to efforts to alter the data (though the results presented here have survived several alterations of the data already). Perhaps most important, these results will of necessity ""offend the sensibilities of the educated classes and the entire East and West Coasts,' and who would want to do that.",0_0
"Kerry told the audience: ""We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts. The science is unequivocal, and those who refuse to believe it are simply burying their heads in the sand. We don't have time for a meeting anywhere of the Flat Earth Society.""",0_0
"Of course, tugs-of-war between establishment forces and ideological wings are nothing new with our political parties. They have been a continuing factor for many decades. The Republican Party had deep-seated struggles between its Progressive wing, led by Teddy Roosevelt and Robert La Follette, and its conservative establishment, led by William Howard Taft and House Speaker ""Uncle Joe"" Cannon, going back to the turn of the 20th century.",0_0
"A new paper finds computer models of extinction risk failed to consider that tropical species can adapt to climate change and that the models have therefore exaggerated extinction risks. Alarmists, such as James Hansen, have claimed that 21-52% of species could become extinct due to global warming , but this new paper suggests computer models have exaggerated risks of extinction by not considering species adaptation.",3_2
"Reduce employment by 2.3 million jobs in 2015, 2.7 million jobs in 2020, 2.5 million jobs in 2030, and 3 million jobs in 2050;",0_0
"A new report by the Business Roundtable (BRT) agrees that technology is the key, but only in the long run. The report reaffirms BRT's opposition to the Kyoto Protocol. The protocol, says the report, ""does not include developing countries, it would have a negative impact on the U.S. economy and it would bring no significant global environmental benefit.""",0_0
"The U.S. has officially thrown its support behind the Indian nominee, Dr. Rahendra K. Pachauri, an engineer and economist. The State Department received an e-mail from Dr. Ralph J. Cicerone, an atmospheric scientist who is currently serving as the chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, urging it to at least replace Watson with another atmospheric scientist. But, since the position is entirely administrative, its not clear why it must be filled by an atmospheric scientist.",0_0
"In fact, as I told several members of the the editorial board in person a few weeks ago, and as first posted here at MasterResource, the global impact even assuming a perfect Waxman-Markey bill (a 83% emission reduction by 2050) would be less than one-tenth ofone degree Fahrenheit in that year . And that analysis, and the bills estimated substantial costs, have not been refuted . Pending further review, in fact, Waxman-Markey badly flunks conventional economic cost/benefit analysis.",4_2
"We see this as a bit of a surprise, and potentially significant on a policy level because previous interpretations suggested that global warming might actually help plant growth around the world, Running said.",0_0
"And, finally, piloting the intellectual caboose was the ineffable Allison Macfarlane, now a professor at GWU, and the former chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, an amazing fact given her performance at the event. At some point the topic of climate policy emerged, and Ms. Macfarlane made her view clear that reductions in ""carbon"" emissions are necessary.",0_0
The best Hope and strongest foundation is the work of thousands of less publicity-prone people that actually do love God and their neighbours.,0_0
"Then yesterday, up early, off to Heathrow, the joys of security, the long, long ten and a half hour non-stop flight back to San Francisco, the two-hour bus ride, then forty-five minutes by car to our house at the end of a dead-end road in the redwoods. This morning I woke up at 4 AM, which is noon GMT, and couldnt sleep now that the suns up, heres what the view from my place looks like ... warm, lovely, and very peaceful.",0_0
"Between 1998 and 1999, the World Health Organization revised the international codes used to classify causes of death. As a result, data from earlier than 1999 cannot easily be compared with data from 1999 and later.",0_0
"Theres quite a bit of information in this graphic. Four different autocorrelation structures are shown here: none (OLS), AR1, ARMA(1,1) and fracdiff. For each autocorrelation structure, the log likelihood is shown for a profile of different slopes.",0_0
"And second, the volcano-adjusted Sea Surface Temperature anomalies for the Rest of the World (90S-90N, 80W-180) rise in very clear steps, and those rises are clearly in response to the significant 1986/87/88 and 1997/98 El Nio/La Nia events. It also appears as though the Sea Surface Temperature anomalies of this dataset are making another upward shift in response to the more recent 2009/10 ENSO event. For those who are interested in the actual trends of the Sea Surface Temperature anomalies between the 1986/87/88 and 1997/98 El Nio events and between the 1997/98 and 2009/10 El Nio events refer to Figure 4 in Does The Sea Surface Temperature Record Support The Hypothesis Of Anthropogenic GlobalWarming? I further described (at an introductory level) the ENSO-related processes that cause these upward steps in the post ENSO Indices Do Not Represent The Process Of ENSO Or Its Impact On GlobalTemperature .",2_1
"""Analyzed relative to the economy as a whole, the current subprime crisis appears likely to have a significantly smaller overall impact than the S&L; crisis or the housing foreclosures that took place during the Great Depression. Analyzed in isolation, economic statistics mean little. The United States, for example, has more unemployed citizens than does France, even though France has an unemployment rate about twice as high as America's. Raw numbers mean almost nothing: To measure the economic impact of financial events, it is important to look at them in context.""",0_0
"Santa Claus is just back from the North Pole, and reports that Nobel Laureate Albert Arnold Gore wasincorrectabout hisice-free Arctic in December 2014 prediction. In fact, Arctic sea ice extent is at a 10 year high for the date.",1_1
"The shale revolution has changed the energy scenario in the United States from a situation of shortage to that of plenty. The worlds biggest energy consumer may soon become the largest producer of hydrocarbons. The US gas boom is already impacting global energy relations. The impact will be felt even more keenly when it starts exporting gas- the first LNG exports are expected to start around 2017. Exporting gas to friendly countries in Europe, as well as India and China is being seen as a new way of extending the US sphere of influence, and cutting the dominance of the middle-east and Russia. Shale has begun replacing oil as the agent of the new great game. ???Cuckoo Paul, Forbes India, 8 May 2013",4_5
The warming trend at Rutherglenis essentially achieved by progressively dropping down the minimum temperatures starting in 1973 by 0.5 degree C. The amount by which the temperatures is adjusted down increases back through time to 1913 when there is a massive 1.8 degree Celsius difference between the recorded temperature and the homogenised value.,5_1
"But he'll still camp with meincluding winter camping in New York state's sometimes-deep snow. Last year we did an overnight at Harriman Park, a sublimely beautiful section of wild mountain 50 miles above New York City. Drive an hour from Times Square and you're in 360 degrees of primeval forest. It's also about 15 degrees colder.",0_0
"To understand where it all went awry let's start with one of the biggest errors committed within the infant science of climatology; starting from the false assumption that outer space is 'cold' and that heat-trapping 'greenhouse gases' have always kept our planet warmer than it would otherwise be. To believe this nonsenseis to thenmake other false assumptions, as we shall see below.",2_3
"No problem, says Kagan's brief: All a business has to do is simply break the law. ""Beckstead and Watts (or any other firm) could challenge the Board's authority to conduct an inspection or investigation by refusing to comply and raising its constitutional challenges . . . in a disciplinary action brought by the Board,"" the brief declares.",0_0
Washington Degree Days 41 F Base,0_0
Track Hurricane Ike with near realtime satellite imagery,0_0
"Further, CEOs may be experiencing just the beginning of the power-price squeeze, because any serious effort to constrain carbon dioxide emissions through a cap and trade program, an increasingly popular idea in Congress and state capitals, will push prices even higher by forcing power-plant operators to reduce their dependence on traditional coalfired, but carbon-intensive, power plants, the cheapest kind to operate.",4_1
"VILLAGER #3: Well, she turned me into a newt.",0_0
"In the words of the two researchers, ""the evidence for a significant increase in Atlantic storm activity over the most recent 125 years is mixed,"" even though they note that the SST of the MDR ""has warmed significantly."" What they are left with, then, is the suggestion that ""aspects of climate have changed"" in such as way as ""to make the North Atlantic more favorable to cyclogenesis, while at the same time making the overall environment less favorable to TC maintenance."" Consequently, as Vecchi and Knutson see it, ""the crucial issue of the response of Atlantic TC behavior to increasing greenhouse gases remains unsettled."" Reviewed 22 October 2008",0_0
"That same year, Chesapeake Energy starts funding Sierra Club's ""Beyond Coal"" campaign.",0_0
"Since 2010, the U.S. has added about 12,000 miles of new oil pipelines. That's more than 10 times the length of the contested section of Keystone XL, which was to span 875 miles.",0_0
"I have a very high regard for the hardiness of corals. The GBR was borne at a time of rapidly rising sealevel, very high turbidity and very rapidly rising temperature. Presently, they live in areas of extreme temperature (40 degree), in muddy embayments and in regions continuously affected by runoff. Provided they are not grossly overfished, as has happened in the Caribbean, they are very adaptable systems.",3_2
"Obama: ""and the amount of renewable energy we generate from sources like wind and solar with tens of thousands of good, American jobs to show for it"":",0_0
Effects of Elevated CO2 and Light on Four Weedy Species,0_0
"It is now apparent that the Kyoto Protocol is a dead end. The reality is that, since Kyoto was agreed in December 1997, greenhouse gas emissions have continued to increase in every nation that undertook commitments to reduce emissions. In many countries that ratified Kyoto, emissions have actually increased at a faster rate in percentage terms than in the United States, which did not ratify Kyoto. In Canada, neither the current government nor its more pro-Kyoto predecessor has developed a plausible plan to meet Kyoto's targets. The United States and Canada have had similar rates of population and economic growth from the Kyoto baseline year of 1990 through 2005, but Canada's greenhouse gas emissions have increased 26%, while those of the United States have only increased by 16%. Japan has had little population growth and far less economic growth than the U. S., yet Japanese emissions are up 7%.",4_2
Embattled AFL-CIO big to step down from top job:,0_0
"A paper published today in the Journal of Climate finds that cooling, not warming, of the mid- to upper troposphere increases the development of tropical cyclones. The mid- to upper troposphere mythical ""hot spot"" is predicted to warm the most from AGW, but despite millions of weather balloon and satellite measurements, has not been found in observations. Thus, if the mid- to upper troposphere missing ""hot spot"" ever does form, this paper implies that the probability of tropical cyclones would decrease, not increase as claimed by alarmists.",2_3
"As natural gas increases its share of electric power generation in the United States, largely at the expense of coal, demand for coal is still high, especially in developing countries. Unfortunately, misguided environmental extremists have been successful so far in blocking the expansion of coal export terminals needed to increase coal exports. Coal exports would be good for the economy and good for the environment, actually decreasing the threat of global warming.",4_5
Emissions are in millions of metric tons (CO2 equivalent). Emissions are estimated actuals through 2001 and forecast afterward. Data are from the California Energy Commission. CEC forecast emissions through 2020. I extended the 2020 forecast out to 2050 based on the assumption of linear growth.,0_0
"Although Schekman?s rejection could be interpreted as mildly encouraging, our experience has been that any attempt to resubmit a revised paper simply leads to further delay culminating in re-rejection. Our final letter to Schekman (Letter to Schekman.pdf) is attached. As already noted, we chose to respond in detail to each review, and these responses are attached (Response.pdf). The revised paper (as well as the original version submitted to the PNAS: Lindzen-Choi-PNASSubmission.pdf) is also attached (Lindzen-Choi-APJAS.pdf). The final version is accepted (following review) by the Asian Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences.",0_0
"Natural climate events and change are Australias greatest natural hazards, and our society needs to be better prepared for them in advance, and better at adapting to them when they occur;",0_0
Note that this media item Cold snap sets new record low temperatures,0_0
"Commentators tried to blame Western policies for contributing to Niger's famine. David Loyn of the BBC even cited man-made climate change as a contributor: ""Climate change has made Niger a more precarious place to live,' he wrote.",0_0
A study by scientists at Germanys Max Planck Institute for Meteorology found that man-made aerosols had a much smaller cooling effect on the atmosphere during the 20th Century than was previously thought. Why is this big news? It means increases in carbon dioxide emissions likely cause less warming than most climate models suggest.,2_3
"Although the authors do not claim to have ???unambiguously established??the MWP in the Antarctic Peninsula (AP),they conclude that their ???ikaite record builds the case that the oscillations of the MWP and LIA are global in their extent and their impact reaches as far South as the Antarctic Peninsula, while prior studies in the AP region have had mixed results.??Their research also indicates that the APmay have beenwarmer during theMWP thanin recent decades:??Our most recent crystals suggest a warming relative to the LIA in the last century, possibly as part of the regional recent rapid warming, but this climatic signature is not yet as extreme in nature as the MWP ?? (emphasis added).",2_1
Improved CCM & GCM ability to reproduce responses to solar cycle: validation and improvements still needed,0_0
"That might be enough, he adds, to disqualify Gingrich from the Republican nomination.",0_0
"The sea surface temperature anomalies for the NINO3.4 region in the eastern equatorial Pacific (5S-5N, 170E-120E) are a commonly used index for the strength, frequency and duration of El Nio and La Nina events. We keep an eye on the sea surface temperatures there because El Nio and La Nia events are the primary cause of the yearly variations in global sea surface temperatures AND they are the primary cause of the long-term warming of global sea surface temperatures over the past 30 years. See the discussion of the East Pacific versus the Rest-of-the-World that follows.",2_1
"Just as in medieval times when the people were expected to (and often did) believe everything they were told by the priest, now we see that it is the scientist whose word is gospel. Even today panellists on programmes such as BBC Question Time who question climate change can be booed and jeered at by people who read scientific papers on the issue even less than illiterate medieval peasants read the Bible, at the time still un-translated from the Latin.",5_2
"This conflict is not about the buzzword ""globalization"" and its implications for commerce and culture, but a sharp confrontation about power and government: our power and our government.",0_0
The 12-month period from May 2012 to April 2013 was remarkable for the absence of tornado activity and tornado impacts in the United States.,1_7
"Second, all mainstream climate models predict a hotspot, a warming in the upper troposphere (about 10 km or 6 miles up, in the tropics) caused by an ascending water vapor emissions layer, during periods of warming such as the 1980s and 1990s. This is crucial, because two thirds of their predicted warming is from water vapor; only one third is directly due to increasing carbon dioxide. So no hotspot means not much cause for alarm. Our only suitable instruments for detecting the hotspot are weather balloonsthirty million of them since the 1950s, released from hundreds of locations, twice a day. They show no hotspot, and indicate that the water vapor emissions layer descended slightly instead. Satellites are unsuitable because they intrinsically aggregate information from several vertical kilometers into each data point, but the predicted ascent is only tens of meters.",2_3
"I had another interesting experience around the time my paper in Science was published. I received an astonishing email from a major researcher in the area of climate change. He said, ???We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period.??",5_2
This one is allegedly so bad that users were advised to disable Java on their browsers if they wanted to avoid it.,0_0
"The findings described by the three researchers represent good news for the biosphere , since ""marine phytoplankton contribute to about half of the global primary productivity,"" and this phenomenon, in their words, ""promotes the absorption of CO 2 from the atmosphere."" Consequently, both the micro- and macro-algae of the world's oceans should be able to do an even better job of performing these vital functions in the brave new (and CO 2 -enriched) world of the future. Reviewed 1 July 2009",3_3
"The recent cold 2010 and hot 2011 were not, bad math. There is a trivial explanation: 2010 had two winter cold snaps, 2011 had none. Remember, much of the cold winter of 2010/11 came in December 2010, an early instance.",1_3
"Under the system, each regulated utility or industrial installation is allocated emission allowances from national allowance plans; if one falls below the emission allowance, it may profitably sell its emission trading permits in the commodities exchange to other companies that have exceeded allowances. The goal of the EU ETS is to encourage capital investment in low-carbon energy technologies and fuels.",0_0
"For those of you interested in keeping a closer eye on the BOM Southern Oscillation Index, see the BOM Recent (preliminary) Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) values webpage. For the past month, the 30-day running-average of the SOI has been cycling in the -1.5 to -8.0 range, never quite reaching into El Nio conditions.",0_0
"Inconveniently, Boston is in the midst of its snowiest winter in a century. The city hit 73 inches of snow on Monday placing this year on the top ten list for snowiest winters on record, surpassing the 72.9 recorded during the winter of 1903-1904.",0_0
"Sen. Rand Paul: Right To Health Care Is Like Believing In ""Slavery"":",0_0
The Weekend Australian reported last month a claim by Bureau of Metereology senior climatologist Andrew Watkins that monitoring at Australia??s Antarctic bases since the 1950s indicated temperatures were rising. A study was then published by the British Antarctic Survey that concluded the ozone hole was responsible for the cooling and expansion of sea ice around much of the continent.,1_1
Take for example the whole debate about homosexuality as a sin.,0_0
"In your view, will the case re-open any issues in Mass. v. EPA even though the Court's review narrowly focuses on the Timing Rule?",0_0
"Gerson describes Second Life as ""large-scale experiment in libertarianism,' citing the game's lack of community structure and long-term consequences. He describes this ""libertarian' world as one in which there is not human nature, only human choices. This doesn't describe a libertarian world, but one of fantasy. Libertarianism, as envisioned by the founding fathers or Friedrich Hayek, is predicated on an understanding of the world that's very different from Second Life. Common sense agrees with this libertarian understandingthe world is one of consequences, community institutions are vital to human life, and human beings have an innate nature that we should harness, not deny.",0_0
"Reliable projections of the Indian monsoon would help India better prepare for, and address concerns of, water and food security. Yet because of the failure of general circulation models, ""using CMIP5 multi-model projections of Indian summer monsoon rainfall for adaptation planning may lead to incorrect policies""",0_0
How the Dodd-Frank Act Harms the U.S. Energy IndustryCEI's citation in U.S. News & World Report,0_0
"Bloomberg is obsessed with a low carbon footprint for New York, and taking guns away from people in Wyoming. Meanwhile, his own people are freezing in the dark in New York without electricity or heat for three months.",1_3
"In 2001, a paper in the British journal Nature proved a case in point. It purported to show that genes from a pest-resistant, GM variety of corn had migrated into native corn plants in Mexico. Months before the article was even submitted for publication, colleagues of the authors had pointed out serious flaws in the methodology and results. When the article appeared, it attracted a wave of criticism from major research groups that the journal duly published. Eventually the paper was condemned by the editor in chief: ""Nature has concluded that the evidence available is not sufficient to justify the publication of the original paper. "" No other research group was able to confirm the findings.",0_0
"It reminds me of the California Air Resources Board's attempts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by regulating heavy, diesel-powered construction equipment. Overnight, robust trade in heavy, diesel-powered construction equipment began between California, and Mexico, Central and South America.",4_2
"Voosen was correct in this. He took her supportive article and used it to question the premise of planetary overheating due to anthropogenic carbon dioxide additions. But he was wrong in saying she misinterpreted the comments he provided. Indeed, they demonstrate that the science of AGW is not settled, and the remaining questions of the power of CO2 are fundamental to whether we have a crisis of not.",5_1
"Roys seminal contributionon this topicis that variations in cloud cover as a result of long-term temporal variability in atmospheric circulations can result in significantvariations in the global annual average top-of-the-atmosphere radiative imbalance. Skeptical Science should recognize this scientific achievement, even though they disagree with his political views.",5_2
"Unless the EPA backs down on its harsh regulations and coal-fueled power plants get a reprieve, blackouts are almost guaranteedespecially in light of the projected cold winter. About the 2014 ""polar vortex"" that crippled the U.S., Alaska Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski, at an April Senate hearing on grid reliability, stated: ""Eighty-nine percent of the coal electricity capacity that is due to go offline was utilized as that backup to meet the demand this winter.""",0_0
"Winkler, N.S., Pandolfi, J.M. and Sampayo, E.M. 2015. Symbiodinium identity alters the temperature-dependent settlement behavior of Acropora millepora coral larvae before the onset of symbiosis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: 282: 20142260.",0_0
"As the atmospheric CO 2 concentration rises, it is likely that this Mediterranean forest species will exhibit significant gains in photosynthesis and growth. Moreover, this tree species should display significant improvements in its water-use efficiency, allowing it to better cope with periods of water stress, which commonly occur in its natural habitat. It is likely that these enhancements in photosynthesis and growth will lead to greater carbon sequestration by this species, which should help reduce the rate of rise of atmospheric CO 2 .",3_3
"Such events are, however, terribly inconvenient for the global warming narrative. In 2000 climate scientist David Viner of Britain's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) famously proclaimed that snow was increasingly a thing of the past, saying ""children just aren't going to know what snow is."" Fourteen years later Boston's schoolchildren have run out of snow days. Officials are considering cutting short their spring breaks to compensate.",0_0
"Lukewarmers have found the world to be a lonely place. But favor (think physical processes of global climate) smiled for us in 2011. Several scientific studies produced results, when considered in combination, provide evidence that the general warming of the earth?s climate is proceeding at a rate that lies in the lower half of the IPCC?s projected temperature change during the 21st century.",3_1
"Recently a High Court judge in the UK listed nine of the 35 major scientific errors in Gore's movie, saying they must be corrected before innocent schoolchildren can be exposed to the movie. Gore's exaggeration of sea-level rise was one.",5_2
"Lockheed Martin, a recent Washington Post article notes, is getting into renewable energy, nuclear fusion, ""sustainability"" and even fish farming projects, to augment its reduced defense profits. The company plans to forge new ties with Defense Department and other Obama initiatives, based on a shared belief in manmade climate change as a critical security and planetary threat. It is charging ahead where other defense contractors have failed, confident that its expertise, lobbying skills and ""socially responsible"" commitment to preventing climate chaos will land it plentiful contracts and subsidies.",0_0
"My readers already know I computed the trend in Global Mean Surface Temperature (GMST) four data sets using data from Jan 2001 through Jan. 2008. I compared that result to the IPCC projections, and found the IPCC projections.... erhmmm... not so good? ( That is: a hypothesis test using Cochrane-Orcut, and confidence intervals computed using a t distribution, indicated that the IPCC projections should be rejected to the 5% confidence intervals when compared to the data.)",0_0
"Using weekly sea surface temperature anomalies for two NINO regions, Figure 2 updates the comparisons of the evolutions of this El Nio with the 1982/83 and 1997/98 events. The NINO3.4 and NINO1+2 comparisons were originally provided in the post Part 3 Early Evolution Comparison with 1982/83 & 1997/98 El Nio Events . As a further reference, Ive also included the evolutions of the two other years during which sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific rose into El Nio conditions early in the year (1993 and 2012), but then failed to remain there and become an official El Nio. The evolutions in 1993 and 2012 were first presented in Part 11 Is the El Nio Dying?",0_0
"First, like a lot of other HR type issues, many states require certain workers comp related materials to be posted in the workplace, along with minimum wage posters, etc. You insurance company should provide you with these posters as well as with claims forms and a claims process. Make sure to use thei insurer's claims process, and teach your managers to carefully document all injuries. Not only will you need detail about how the injury occurred, but you will also need to keep track of the days of work the worker missed due to the injury. Give the insurance company the facts and get out of the way. There is a lot of potential liability today from denial of deserved workers comp benefits, and you do not want to be in this loop. It is your insurance company's job to determine the validity of the claim and benefits. Leave that to them. If you suspect fraud, detail that to the insurance company but then let them run with it.",0_0
"???Antarctic sea ice hasn??t seen these big reductions we??ve seen in the Arctic. This is not a surprise to us,?? said climate scientist Mark Serreze, director of the NSIDC.",1_1
"Game theory suggests that attempts to negotiate an international environmental agreement, aiming to provide a global public good such as greenhouse gas emission reduction, are bound to fail (Barrett 1991, Carraro and Siniscalco 1992, Carraro and Siniscalco 1993).",0_0
A new report on childhood obesity finds waist sizes rising among kids in the U.S.,0_0
"while most climate model simulations show low biases over Europe, inter-model variations in bias over Australia and Amazonia are considerable. Mehran et al.",5_1
"Tom Harris is executive director of the Ottawa, Canada-based International Climate Science Coalition.",0_0
"/s/ Dr. Harold Doiron JSC, Chairman, Shuttle Pogo Prevention Panel, 16 years",0_0
"CO2 is the ""Big Kahuna"". Even if CH4 has 20X the greenhouse effect of CO2. 1800 ppb is 0.46% of 390 ppm 20 X 0.46% = 9.2%. At most, CH4 accounts for only about 10% of the greenhouse effect of CO2 in Earth's current atmosphere.",0_0
"The trends mirror the feeling among Americans that the overall state of the environment is improving. According to an April 2005 PRI Harris Interactive poll, 56 percent of respondents revealed they are optimistic about the state of the environment and future progress on environmental quality.",0_0
"Here in Tanzania we have also been happy to welcome the UK Met Office, working alongside the Tanzanian Meteorological Agency to provide advice and guidance on future plans. We were delighted to welcome two UKMO staff emembers David Robinson and Tim Donovan.",0_0
"However, I will say that the mandarins like the idea of nosocomial (hospital acquired) infections as a way to blame hospitals for infections and they set up their research so that any infection can be blamed on the hospital and its staff.",0_0
"It's not as if those in the Northeast have not experienced bone-chilling cold or that it is predicted to extend from the Midwest down into our southern States. There may possibly be a snow storm that will require the National Football League to reschedule the Sunday, February 2nd, Superbowl at the MetLife stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. Crews spent 18 hours working to remove the snow from last week's storm.",0_0
"Recognition of this interest has already produced significant cooperation in such matters as intelligence, the apprehension of suspected terrorists, and the training and equipping of Palestinian security forces.",0_0
"The result of the error is that I have underestimated the sensitivity slightly, while everything else remains the same. Instead of the sensitivities for the SH and the NH being 0.04C per W/m2 and 0.08C per W/m2 respectively in the both the current calculations, the correct sensitivities for this fat-tailed analysis should have been 0.04C per W/m2 and 0.09C per W/m2. The error was slightly larger in the previous thread, increasing them to 0.05 and 0.10 respectively. I have updated the tables above accordingly.",0_0
"After OSTP persisted in keeping these records secret, CEI sued it in federal court in October 2014, one of many FOIA lawsuits against the Obama administration. (The Huffington Post says that the ""White House denies more FOIA requests than ever"" these days. Former New York Times editor Jill Abramson says she has never seen a more secretive administration.)",0_0
Shows the part that disproves Al Gore false assumption on the relationship between CO2 and temperature.,2_3
"MOOSE: I got something to tell you, and I dont want no argument about it. You ready? Listen good, cause I aint gonna repeat it, and you better have itor else. Got me? Here it is. If P, then Q. Q. Therefore P. Now say it back.",0_0
A Swedish industry association said the country may have to start importing waste from other countries to keep its power plant incinerators in operation.,0_0
"Oh, I miss the days when you got a radiology report that said, ""fracture right 3rd rib, no pneumothorax"". Because of frivolous lawsuits radiologists have learned to be vague, noncommittal and to pass the buck of possible litigation. So now you get a 2 page report that says ""linear lucency in right 3rd rib, clinical correlation recommended, underinflated lung fields cannot exclude underlying interstitial disease and or masses. CT recommended for further evaluation, if condition warrants."" along with several other paragraphs of lawyer imposed legalmedspeak"".",0_0
"Because of this mismatch of private and social costs, agents maximizing private net benefits will overuse the atmosphere's GHG disposal capacity. Cumulatively, emission levels exceed those at which the additional risk of climate change would just balance the value of the gases' disposal. And investments in carbon ""sinks' like forests or carbon stored in soils are falling below optimal levels.",0_0
"Most important, it would reduce warming even if certain countries who shall remain nameless did not agree to reduce their emissions.",0_0
"Coral atolls have proven over thousands of years that, if left alone, they can go up and down with any sea level rise. And if we follow some simple conservation practices, they can continue to do so and to support atoll residents. But they cannot survive an unlimited population increase, or unrestricted fishing, or overpumping the water lens, or unrestrained coral mining.",3_2
"The World's Population Reaches 7 Billion, But Don't Let the UN Scare You",0_0
"Richard Lindzen of klimatknsligheten, iris hypothesis and the politicization of Climate Change: The facts",0_0
"A blockbuster Chinese study of Tibetan tree rings by Liu et al 2011 shows, with detail, that the modern era is a dog-standard normal climate when compared to the last 2,500 years. The temperature, the rate of change ??? it??s all been seen before. Nothing about the current period is ???abnormal??, indeed the current warming period in Tibet can be produced through calculation of cycles. Liu et al do a Fourier analysis on the underlying cycles and do brave predictions as well.",2_1
"For ease of use and immunity from political meddling, the carbon tax is the clear winner. Taxes can be applied early in the fuel distribution process, which makes the logistical task much easier. That sort of upstream application would make attempts at political interference much more transparent, as well. So what about uncertainty? The big critique of a carbon tax is that it cannot guarantee a country will come in under a pre-set emissions cap. If the desire to pollute is really, really high one year, we could find that a given tax won't serve as a sufficient deterrent, and we'll blow past our limits.",0_0
"So how do they create this fraud? They constantly cool the past and warm the present. All temperatures before 1967 have been cooled since their 2001 version, and all post-1967 years have been warmed. Based on the 1992 to 1998 inflation rate, it seems likely that 2014 is being inflated by several tenths of a degree relative to 1998, in the currentversion.",5_2
"Press Release No:2010/505/ WASHINGTON, June 25, 2010 World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick today announced the appointment of Andrew Steer as Special Envoy for Climate Change, a new position created to ensure focused leadership and representation of the World Bank in the international discussions around climate change.",0_0
"As for drought, there is no long-term trend in U.S. soil moisture such as might be correlated with the increase in atmospheric GHG concentrations.",0_0
"We held our local UKIP branch AGM last night where I was elected as vice chair and webcomms officer. Im looking foward to working more closely with my committee colleagues Craig Sweaton (chair & media comms), Anne Murgatroyd (secretary) and Phil Banks (treasurer). The mainstream media is mis-portraying what UKIP stand for, so I thought Id republish this short piece fromStuart OReilly at Oxford University to counter the misinformation:",0_0
"In todays The-Scientist pity-me piece , Michael Mann goes out of his way to assert is an accidental public figure. Why?",0_0
"The British government is looking into cutting subsidies, feed-in tariffs and other incentives for solar projects, to prevent the boom-and-bust seen in Spain and predicted for the Czech Republic. Wind turbines, small hydroelectric plants and biomass projects are also on the block, as the government attempts to revive the UK economy, raise its competitiveness, radically reduce rising debt burdens, and chart a more economically and politically realistic course.",4_4
"Does the Wada groundwater correction make any difference? Look at figure 4 and notice that around 1985 the groundwater depletion correction overtakes the reservoir correction. Before 1985 the combination of the two corrections yield a sea level rise rate that is greater than the plain Church and White data, but after that the sea level rise rate is lower. The groundwater depletion data only goes to the year 2000, but if the exponential extrapolation holds, then by 2010 the reduced sea level rise rate will be even more pronounced.",1_6
The widely used number of 3.1 mm/year is a complete joke.,1_6
"* Americans like an ""all-of-the-above"" approach to energy development, including continuing to develop nuclear energy. Most prefer that the U.S. emphasize conservation over production to solve the nation's energy problems.",0_0
"When he first became Governor of California, Arnold created high expectations with his talk of ""blowing up the boxes"" of government bureaucracy. Unfortunately, California's regulatory bureaucracy remains intact. And with his foolhardy greenhouse activism, the Governator has handed his constituents yet another raw deal.",0_0
"More pertinently, Mrs Metcalfe claims that some communities in Scotland are being driven to a state of civil war: Wind farms are splitting communities and dividing friends. Some land-owners are being so generously rewarded for selling or leasing their land to developers that they are turning a blind-eye to whats really happening. Others, she said, who have the temerity to question the alleged benefits, are being subjected to death threats, insults, and burglaries, right across the country",0_0
"The study is significant because plants soak up carbon from the atmosphere as they grow. As growth slows, the amount of carbon plants take up slows as well, leaving more carbon in the atmosphere to contribute to climate change. It is also a warning that a warming climate could bring a decrease in food and biofuel production.",0_0
"But what if this supposed natural ocean fluctuation, which is supposedly cooling the surface, was reversed?",1_4
"Cockburn, Alexander and Hecht, Susanna. The Fate of the Forest. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1990.",0_0
"Now, by way of comparison, how much radiative forcing does James Hansen (GISS) estimate the climate system has undergone during the same period of time? The following plot shows the various forcings Hansen has assumed:",0_0
John also provided earlier surface data compiled by NASA-GISS and the Hadley Centre/University of East Anglia (Hadley-CRU). The close agreement between those trend results does not indicate independent confirmation. This shouldn't be at all surprising when we consider that they use mostly the same raw data.,0_0
"seen in the 20th century, except perhaps for the Sahel. So in certain ways the",0_0
"For more on Google, The Invention of Alphabet is the Ultimate Larry Page Move Fast Company",0_0
"The Vatican City would be an expression of the US itself, without international interference problems; the only principle which would increase and that the Presidents are responsible for what they do, and what they leave; many of the crimes would be out in the sunlight because it's better to be honest in front of the Vatican, who find themselves having to answer for crimes they did not have.",0_0
"Well, with two years of said ""no-call"" legislation under the nation's belt, it seems that it isn't having the intended effect;",0_0
"The result should be adjusted to allow for the finding in Michaels & McKitrick (2007) that urban heat island effects and other extraneous influences over the past 30 years have led to overestimation of the warming rate over land by as much as double. On the assumption that this bias may have existed since 1850, the true warming rate since then is equivalent to just 0.4 C (0.7 F) per century.",5_1
"But there is a better more efficient system for taxing carbon emissions, and with the exquisite sensitivity of being directly connected to the exact amount emitted, Governments could just tax... fuel (and its not like they havent thought of that already).",0_0
Expedition vessel hired by global warming scientists,0_0
"No wonder President Ray and the Nuclear Engineering deans have given new meaning to ""payback,"" while DeFazio smirks in silence in the congressional office that he seems convinced should be his for life.",0_0
"This method calculates daily accumulation of GDDs as the average daily temperature (degrees F) minus 50. The modification refers to the limits imposed on the daily maximum and minimum temperatures allowed in the calculation. Daily maximums greater than 86 degrees F are set equal to 86 in the calculation of the daily average temperature. Similarly, daily minimums less than 50 degrees F are set equal to 50 in the calculation.",0_0
"> >> >At 21:55 22/03/99 -0500, you wrote:",0_0
"Clearly, the greater weight of real-world evidence in this controversy resides with Simms et al . and the many other researchers who have identified and dated a Little Ice Age in various parts of Antarctica that coincides in time with the Little Ice Age of the Northern Hemisphere. And that dating of the Little Ice Age, plus the comparing of its temperature with the temperatures that both preceded and followed it, also pretty much confirms the existence of the Medieval and Current Warm Periods in Antarctica, which are thus found to have occurred contemporaneously with the Medieval and Current Warm Periods in the Northern Hemisphere.",2_1
"Although it may surprise many politicians, a few economic laws remain immutable. One of the most obvious and the most often ignored dictates that a price held below what supply and demand would prescribe will produce shortages, such as we see now causing rolling blackouts.",0_0
"The truth is that Gore's desires for a huge concert on the Mall were actually thwarted not by Republicans, but by a very talented group of Irish Riverdance cloggers, Vietnamese folk artists, and African-American gospel singers. They were performing as scheduled at the acclaimed annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival and at a gospel show sponsored by the predominantly black Christian organization Together One Unity. It seems the ""nefarious right-wingers"" who organized these folk and gospel fests had the temerity to schedule their events with the National Park Service, which runs the Mall, weeks and months before Live Earth's organizers ever contacted the agency, and then not call them off when Gore let out a sneeze.",0_0
"The revelations, uncovered by The Sunday Telegraph , have raised fresh questions about the quality of the information contained in the report, which was published in 2007.",0_0
"Figure 2 presents the October sea surface temperatures (not anomalies) from 1938 to 2012 for Sandys entire storm track. Working back in time, sea surface temperatures in 2007, 2005 and 1939 were warmer than they were in 2012, while in 2002, 1957, 1952 and 1941 sea surface temperatures were comparable to those in 2012. That is, the October 2012 sea surface temperatures along Sandys storm track were NOT unusually warm.",1_7
"The more modern CAG value uses the CDs to build the state value (this is a factor if stations are distributed unevenly within the state), it incorporates the late-arriving (in 1934) stations, several QA tests, etc.",0_0
"Before you wrecked the climate, Indio and Brawley, CA recorded 117 and 116 degree temperatures on May 3/4 1947.",1_7
"Some science has a bad relationship with the public: in particular, climate science and many life sciences. Whether due to misinformation or misunderstanding, controversy or contested results, politicisation or fear - or all of these - such scientific ""hot potatoes"" are dangerous because non-experts must engage with, trust, and understand scientific results to make well-informed decisions about themselves and society. They can also damage the reputation of science in terms of its impartiality or aim to improve human understanding and quality of life.",0_0
There is no evidence in the temperature record to support this claim. The three worst heatwaves in Texas history all occurred before 1935.,1_7
"De Soto estimates that up to $10 trillion of capital worldwide is locked away unused because of inadequate titling systems. A recent study by the Peru-based Institute for Liberal Democracy (ILD), which De Soto heads, estimated Egyptian workers' real estate holdings to be worth around $360 billion, ""eight times more than all the foreign direct investment in Egypt since Napoleon's invasion.""",0_0
"The unvalidated IPCC (including CSIRO)computer climate models that project significant human-caused warming in the future are faulty, with many known inadequacies; not surprisingly, therefore, these models have proved to be incorrect when compared with real-world temperature data;",5_1
"Amstrup diligently followed up his earlier study on the apparent survival of South Beaufort Bears using radio-collared bears over a 12-year period. It turned out that his high-end apparent survival estimate of 94% was still too low. If only natural deaths were used, polar bears had a 99.6 % biological survival rate. 4 Most bears died at the hands of hunters. If death at the hands of hunters was also considered, then biological survival was still higher than apparent survival, but fell to 96.9%. In 2001 Amstrup concluded that the South Beaufort Sea population was increasing and the current hunting quotas insured a growing population.",3_2
"But when one looks at the details objectively, it is not so obvious that water vapor feedback in the context of long-term climate change is positive. Remember, its not the difference between warmer tropical air masses and cooler high-latitude air masses that will determine water vapor feedback?? its how those air masses will each change over time in response to more carbon dioxide. Anything that alters precipitation processes during that process can cause either positive or negative water vapor feedback.",3_1
"A whopping 45 studies have examined the effects of CO2 enrichment on the garden tomato (lycopersicon eculentum). On average, garden tomatoes gain 32.",3_3
"because they may see it as a licence to engage in premarital sex,""",0_0
A Guide to Global Warming Questions and Answers on Climate Change,0_0
North Carolina Takes Center Stage in Sea Level Debate,0_0
"So the nonzero Feynman propagator at space-like separations isn't a consequence of some ""action at a distance""; instead, it is a result of a mutual contact of the two ""regions"" in the past. In the same way, the nonzero value of the quantum field isn't a prerequisite of a nonlocal behavior, either. Assume that \(x^0\lt y^0\) and the measurement of \(\Phi(x)\) makes some impact on the properties of the field around the other point, \(\Phi(y)\), which is space-like-separated.",0_0
"Currently the weather pattern dominating Central Europe is bringing unusually cold air over the continent, and early this morning regions in a number of countries were hit by ground surface frost.",1_3
"President Obama, supported by the Environmental Protection Agency, is seeking to deprive America of the use of its enormous reserves of coal in coal-fired plants that produce the electricity on which the economy and all life in America depends.",4_5
"Heres Junk Science on Judicial arrogance and misconduct and why the constitution should be inviolable, particularly against the whims of modern law school grads and their faculties.",0_0
"Antarctica's climate has never been stable, and there have many significant changes in the past few thousand years, indeed the past few hundred as well. Proxy indicators from ice cores show abrupt alterations in atmospheric circulation and temperature. One of the most dramatic changes was the intensification of the circumpolar westerly winds between 6000 and 5000 years ago and between 1200 and 1000 years ago.",0_0
"While the environmental extremists and utility and oil companies benefit, the public will get harmed by a massive energy tax that will cut jobs, reduce personal income, and have a disproportionate impact on the poor.",4_1
"Outflow (water usage) has greatly increased over the last few decades due to massive population increases in Phoenix, Las Vegas and Southern California not to mention the large and ever increasing amount of water being used by the biofuels industry. (It has been estimated by the University of Twente in The Netherlands that the manufacture of one liter of biodiesel requires 14,000 liters of water).",0_0
"Third, the satellites that measure the worlds temperature all say that the warming trend ended in 2001, that 1998 was the warmest recent year, and that the temperature has dropped about 0.6C in the last year (to the temperature of 1980).",1_4
It is possible that the green alarmists may be correct that this recent drought and famine is exacerbated by man's emissions of greenhouse gases. But what is certain is that these same alarmists pushed a treaty which is causing death.,5_2
With respect to global warming it seems to be a paradox that this year sea ice in the Southern Ocean has reached the highest extent in the last decades. It was only in the mid 1970s that a similar sea ice extent had been observed .,1_1
Note: Original graphs had instrumental temperatures superimposed on top of proxy reconstruction during 20th century period. The instrumental data was removed and a reconstruction of the proxy reconstruction was done in order to make them visible - our re-do is close enough for NASA/GISS government work. ;-),0_0
"""Matthew has already set a number of records and global warming is giving it a boost,"" Joe Romm, ThinkProgress' climate editor, wrote.",0_0
"Intriguing Habitats, and Careful Discussions of Climate Change",0_0
"Over the years, businesses and individuals have ""bought into"" this high-rate system by embracing these grants of special tax relief. The result is an economically destructive, intrusive tax regime, plus a tremendous transfer of power to the federal government. As the Kemp Commission on tax reform found, ""The history of our tax code, in economic terms, mirrors the course of most addictions: advancing dependence, diminished returns and deteriorating health of the afflicted.""",0_0
"The four researchers' reconstructed record of intense hurricanes revealed that the frequency of these ""high-magnitude"" events ""peaked near 6 storms per century between 2800 and 2300 years ago."" Thereafter, it suggests that they were ""relatively rare"" with ""about 0-3 storms per century occurring between 1900 and 1600 years ago,"" after which they state that these super-storms exhibited a marked decline , which ""began around 600 years ago"" and has persisted through the present with ""below average frequency over the last 150 years when compared to the preceding five millennia.""",1_7
"Electric cars are expected to need a replacement battery. Once the emissions from producing the second battery are added in, the total CO 2 from producing an electric car rises. Disposal alsodoubles the emissions because of the energy consumed in recovering and recycling metals in the battery.",4_4
"The blaze, which can be seen and smelled from miles away, involves a large pile of wood chippings",0_0
"Musk's claim is highly misleading. True, the International Energy Agency in 2014 estimated that total global subsidies for motor vehicle fuels were $550 billion annually. However, most of that goes to keeping fuel prices low in countries with nationalized oil companies like Saudi Arabia, which recently raised gasoline prices by 50 percent in January to 90 cents a gallon.",0_0
"A recent review of sea level change is provided by Morner (2012), including analysis of satellite data. He writes that the raw data from the TOPEX/POSEIDON sea-level satellites, which operated from 1993-2000, show a slight uptrend in sea level, but if the distorting effects of the Great El Nio Southern Oscillation of 1997/1998 are excluded the sea-level trend is zero. The GRACE gravitational-anomaly satellite data shows that sea level fell slightly from 2002-2007.",1_6
"IPCC Fourth Report (2007), Summary for Policy Makers, p.7-8. Sea levels will rise by 59cm by the year 2100 (93 years-times). This is 6.3mm per year. Error to date is 373%",0_0
"But because the ABC is about 20 years behind in the real news on Global Warming, Clark and Dawe work with the disadvantage of being ABC viewers, and so when the Liberal Party disintegrated over the Emissions Trading Schememost everyone on the ABC had no idea why it was happening. This is a real handicap for comedians, since to be funny, you have to be one step ahead of the audience.",0_0
Nighttime marine air temp (NMAT) differences (Hadley Center)= approx. zero,0_0
"In 1904, Mackinder had made the grandiose pronouncement: ""Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World Island; who rules the World Island commands the World."" The Cold War was to prove Mackinder wrong and Spykman right: For 50 years, the Soviet Heartland did rule Eastern Europe; if it fails to command the world, it's because it failed to rule what really matters, i.e., the Rimland.",0_0
"The EPA's October 16 deadline will be upon us before you know it. Take a few minutes now to send them your comments. Pick any of the above suggestions, customize them as you please, and send them on to the EPA. For America to grow, we need energy that is effective, efficient, and economical, rather than that which is threatened by the EPA's flood of excessive and burdensome regulations.",0_0
"The paper has been put on hold, while an issue with the data processing and methods that we have identified is checked. The paper has not been withdrawn nor has it been retracted .",0_0
"Needless to say, the most famous concept named after him is a characteristic class now known as the Pontryagin class. (Although the Pontryagin duality for the Fourier transform on locally compact groups is also deep.) If you search through Google Scholar for papers mentioning both ""string theory"" and ""Pontryagin class"", you get 276 hits dominated by papers written by Witten, Vafa, Harvey, Moore, Sethi, Mukhi, and a few pals.",0_0
"We must drill safely, use fuel more efficiently in vehicles and power plants, and get more from every underground reservoir. And we could do so, if government would allow it.",0_0
"Ball told WND the deception of the IPCC and its allies can be seen in how the reports are released, with the policy statement drawing headlines while the scientific information comes later and is largely ignored.",0_0
"We think even the famous footballer David Beckham, probably the former idol-hero-turned-villain less dangerous world. He hailed when young showed his talent at Manchester United, idolized in every sense of the word when I start 'to wear a sarong to mo' of male skirt to go out with Posh Spice of the Spice Girls pop diva, and now the object of various scorn and contempt despite the fact that without a few of its goals would not be England recently went to the world finals, European and probably not to those of the oratory. Mr. Beckham, now in force at Real Madrid, spends his life extracalcistica to fight against those who try to regularly publish details of family life, or accusations of infidelity 'to his wife, or who knows' how many more gossip (not even take care of that two small children can live a day without a flash of a photographer in the face).",0_0
Gingrich Tears a Strip Off of John King & CNN,0_0
"3- Years go by. McIntyre is still stymied trying to get access to the original source data so that he can replicate the Mann 1998 conclusion. In 2008 Mann publishes another paper in bolstering his tree ring claim due to all of the controversy surrounding it. A Mann co-author and source of tree ring data (Professor Keith Briffa of the Hadley UK Climate Research Unit) used one of the tree ring data series (Yamal in Russia) in a paper published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 2008, which has a strict data archiving policy. Thanks to that policy, Steve McIntyre fought and won access to that data just last week.",0_0
"WEST VIRGINIA 2nd in coal production; more than 80,000 jobs",0_0
"Once outcasts on the fringe of the scientific community, these individuals braved the ridicule of the self-appointed ""enlightened"" members of society to dismantle systematically the hockey sticks and other frauds crafted by leftists over the years.",5_2
"As forests regenerate in future atmospheres of greater CO 2 concentration, the increases in root growth and mycorrhizal root colonization that result from elevated CO 2 will likely enable seedlings and juvenile trees to acquire greater amounts of soil nutrients more effectively than they presently do. This enhanced acquisition of nutrients should allow regenerating forest trees to support the increased tree biomass that typically results from atmospheric CO 2 enrichment.",3_3
"What it means The final geocenter-corrected result of Baur et al . is most heartening, as Chambers et al . (2012) indicate that ""sea level has been rising on average by 1.7 mm/year over the last 110 years,"" as is also suggested by the analyses of Church and White (2006) and Holgate (2007). Concomitantly, the air's CO 2 concentration has risen byclose to a third. And, still,it has not impacted the rate-of-rise of global sea level!",1_6
"If these conditions are not met, the projected benefits of carbon pricing would not be achieved.",0_0
"""In the 1990s most Americans believed environmental quality was declining,"" said Dr. Hayward. ""But now, with a decade of compiled research in the Index, we've found that it is nearly impossible to paint a grim, doom-and-gloom picture anymore. The facts speak for themselves, and the facts are hugely encouraging.""",0_0
"In that sense, the secretive session in Alpbach was not only a planning session, but also the equivalent of a half-time locker room huddle.",0_0
"Well, as discussed in an essay by Stephen Jay Gould on the cultivation of flowers, we must follow two basic principles if you want to practice uneugenetica serious (capable of improving a species, and not just some representatives):",0_0
"This, however, does not constitute proof of global warming-enhanced, landfalling hurricane activity.",0_0
"Tamsin's first post is about the travails of coming up with a blog name that wasn't going to bring down the wrath of one side or other of the global warming debate. I think All Models are Wrong is fine, although I couldn't help but be reminded of this . :-)",0_0
"4) Where records are available back to 1934, they show that temperatures in both 1934 and 1936 were considerably higher for the month as a whole than 2011. This is true for average maximum, average mean and high maximum.",2_1
"Potential, not actual crop failure led to a policy decision, which pushed up prices. Here are those prices, from Index Mundi .",0_0
Earths climate be insensitive to well-measured increases in greenhouse gases at the same time that it is excessively sensitive to poorly known solar brightness change,0_0
Moreover producing ethanol from corn by fermentation also produces more carbon dioxide during the fermentation process. And then the dilute ethanol produced by fermentation (about 12%) has to be concentrated using a distillation process which requires more energy and more emissions. Burning ethanol rather than petrol thus probably increases the production of carbon dioxide.,4_4
This may allow corals and their symbiotic algae a better chance to adapt and survive.??,3_2
"Since the Keystone pipeline crosses the U.S. border, the State Department under Kerry's authority will (at least officially) have final say on permitting. And it's not as if the project is being rushed through without careful attention to environmental safeguards. After a 5-year wait, Keystone XL has met 57 specific pipeline safety standard requirements created by the State Department and the Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA). It passed all with flying colors, including acceptance by the State of Nebraska where it passes over the sensitive Ogallala Aquifer.",0_0
"20 Corporate Environmental Enforcement Council, supra note 17, p. 10. Detroit Edison's plan to replace its turbine blades with a more energy-efficient design was eventually approved without triggering NSR.",0_0
Film clip #1: Solar Radiation in the Form of Light Waves Passes Through the Atmosphere,0_0
"That's exactly the 17th Century time warp scenario that played out last week on the Senate floor as Chief Inquisitor Sheldon Whitehouse (D, RI) and 18 fellow jurists intoned judgments against dozens of organizations for sins of ""denial blocking action on climate."" Most of those sinful deniers are nonprofit conservative think tanks, including several that I am sinfully very proud to associate with.",0_0
"Most of the time we hear how competitive and cheap renewable energy is. But as soon as the subsidies are cut, the truth comes out.",4_4
"It has meanwhile spread that global warming paused for 16 years. Contrary to the IPCC's forecasts are stagnating temperatures, it is simply no longer getting warmer. How could this happen? The researchers devised a variety of hypotheses. The most widely used model says here that the surface temperatures of the Earth stagnate though, but in silence the waters of the deep sea would heat up strongly. And if these accumulated heat could eventually fight his way to the surface, then we are threatened with the warming disaster!",1_4
"Paper finds a decrease of IR radiation from greenhouse gases over past 14 years, contradicts expected increase ??? cloudiness blamed for difference.",2_3
Please buy a copy . Credit/Debit Card through PayPal. You do NOT need to open a PayPal account . Simply scroll down to the Dont Have a PayPal Account purchase option. Its only US$8.00,0_0
"A PSD source is major if it is in one of 28 listed categories and has a potential to emit 100 tons per year (TPY) of a CAA-regulated air pollutant, or if it is any other type of establishment and has a potential to emit 250 TPY.",0_0
"If that 110-month IPCC overshoot were to continue for 100 years, the IPCC?s prediction would exceed the measured trend by almost 1.5 C . Though the IPCC projects that the world should have warmed by 0.12 C (1.33 C /century) since 2005, the mean of the RSS and UAH satellite datasets shows cooling of 0.01 C (0.15 C /century). The predicted and actual trends continue visibly to diverge.",0_0
"According to the Met Office, last years drought was not unusual by historical standards, and was not as intense as the drought of 1975/76.",1_7
"There are two versions one shorter, a second longer with more detail.",0_0
"It was especially disappointing that no one else on the panel thought that the Holocaust denial comparison was worth commenting on, because it has emboldened the rise to an even nastier and more offensive rhetorical trick. Not only have climate skeptics been referred to ""deniers"" in order to generate the (frequently) unconscious mental association, but recently one publication went further and called for Nuremberg-style war crimes trials for people who challenge the alleged ""consensus"" on climate change. See how that works? In one bold move Holocaust deniers become Holocaust perpetrators. Is that really the level of debate to which we've descended?",0_0
"Their land only temperature record has been tampered with for decades, and now shows twice as much 1880-1980 warming as it did in 1981.",5_2
"However, after the Climategate dossier proved the existence of a Yamal-Urals regional chronology, the principal issue was the failure to use the Yamal-Urals regional chronology in Briffa et al 2008 or to otherwise report it (not a beauty contest between Yamal and Polar Urals). As noted above, CRU had noted their use of ???common high-frequency variability?? as their test whether to include data in a regional chronology. Polar Urals and Yamal have strong common high-frequency variability, expressed by Hantemirov and Shiyatov (2002) as follows:",5_2
"EPA understood that it would be absurd to require pre-construction permits because of emissions of any airborne compound, including emissions of airborne compounds that have not been deemed harmful and regulated under the Clean Air Act. To avoid rendering the Prevention of Significant Deterioration statute an absurdity, EPA construed ?air pollutant? to mean certain air pollutants ? in particular, ?any regulated air pollutant.?",0_0
"""I don't see any significant changes in the GOP candidates' positions on climate change,"" said Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. ""I have no idea what Donald Trump may do on climate and energy policy if elected president, since he says a lot of things, but his deeds don't often match his rhetoric.""",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Special Projects Counsel Hans Bader on how the L.A. City Council is out of control:,0_0
Schwarzenegger of undermining recent legislation on greenhouse gas emissions.,0_0
"In The Wall Street Journal this week, Arnold Schwarzenegger urged lawmakers to take climate change dangers more seriously.",0_0
"John: Of course. Its about as useful as tits on a bull right now Brian. Yep. Disband the department, resign from parliament and then I think Ill renovate the en-suite and put in a home entertainment room.",0_0
"But, then, the IPCC itself said, in its 2001 report: ???In climate research and modelling, we should recognize that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.??(6)",5_1
"The paper before that Lu (2010, Phys. Rep.) has now come in for a real spanking from Groo and Mller (2011) in Do cosmic-ray-driven electron-induced reactions impact stratospheric ozone depletion and global climate change?. From the abstract:",2_1
data series. Mike Mann refuses to talk to these people and I can understand why. They are,0_0
"There is evidence from these records of rapid warming ~11,500 calendar years ago. Central Greenland temperatures increased by ~7 deg C in a few decades (Dansgaard et al; 1989; Johnsen et al 1992; Grootes et al 1993). There are indications of an even more rapid change in the precipitation pattern (Alley et al 1993) and of rapid reorganizations in the atmospheric circulation (Taylor et al 1993a,Majewski et al 1993). Changes in SST, associated with sudden changes in oceanic circulation, also occurred in a few decades, at least in the Norwegian Sea (~5 deg C in fewer than 40 years: Lehman and Keigwin 1992). ??",2_1
"Clever, but perhaps not clever enough. As Machievelli infamously advised princes long ago,one shouldnot say to someone whom onewants to kill, Give me your gun, I want to kill you with it, but merely Give me your gun, for once you have the gun in hand, you can satisfy your desire.",0_0
"He said scientists at the conference had advanced other explanations, such as the relationship between solar activity and solar energy hitting the Earth to explain climate change.",2_1
"More seriously, let us academically ask: Would life and a prosperous economy be possible in the year 2108 if the temperature were 5 C higher than today? Well, we happen to be familiar with different temperatures. Look at the average annual temperatures over the globe:",0_0
"http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/save not the planet but this boy#63033 If someone with influence over him or his family is reading this, please step in. I'm not saying this is another case of "" climate change delusion "", but I see here a man in the grip of an irrational, religious rapture, seemingly convinced that the world's fate really does lie on his plate.",0_0
"The electric Reliability Organization (ERO), established with statutory authority after the widespread blackouts of 2003, has issued its first report. It makes for grim reading. The nation's electric power infrastructure is on the brink of collapse.",0_0
"1) NOAA do not take TOBS adjustments into account when calculating state temperatures (although they do when working out national figures). This is due to change next year when the new GrDD system (Gridded) is introduced. Therefore TOBS cannot be the reason for the difference between the USHCN records and NOAAs. (And of course, there are no allowances for UHI either).",0_0
"But wait a minute. Given the usual progress of science, won?t forecasting methods in the future always be better than in the past? What this suggests is that today the primary uses of, and interest in, such forecasts are political, not scientific ? that scientists as well as politicians are using forecasts for political and ideological purposes to influence public behavior here and now.",0_0
There are two other graphs spanning over five hundred million years by R. A. Berner and C. R. Scotese which show that there is no correlation at all between CO2 and temperature. These well publicized graphs were conveniently omitted from this section.,2_3
"The second implication is an odd one, and quite important. Consider the fact that their temperature change hindcast (in degrees) is simply 0.3 times the forcing change (in watts per meter squared). But that is also a statement of the climate sensitivity, 0.3 degrees per W/m2. Converting this to degrees of warming for a doubling of CO2 gives us (0.3C per W/m2) times (3.7 W/m2 per doubling of CO2), which yields a climate sensitivity of 1.1C for a doubling of CO2 . This is far below the canonical value given by the GISSE modelers, which is about 0.8C per W/m2 or about 3C per doubling.",3_1
"Art Horn isn't joking, at a Press Conference in August 2010, at the Bonn Climate Change negotiations, the Bolivian Ambassador, Pablo Solon, said:",0_0
"Threats to U.S. sovereignty are both imminent and long-term. They have varying characteristics, and they are often not necessarily immediately obvious as threats. One element that runs through many of them, however, is the concept of international ""norming,"" the idea that America should base its policies on the global consensus rather than making our own decisions as a constitutional democracy. ""Norming"" is a way to constrain U.S. sovereignty by moving our domestic political debate to align with broader international opinion.",0_0
"across as pretty certain to me (and, more importantly, to my mum Mrs",0_0
"It is clear that Miliband has not thought through this policy, simply preferring to spout meaningless sound bites. Unfortunately, the UK will have to pay for the consequences.",0_0
"As the atmospheric CO 2 concentration continues to rise, it is likely that sorghum will require less water than it currently uses to produce equivalent, or even greater, grain yields. In addition, with lower total water requirements for this crop, its production in areas that are subjected to drought and low levels of soil moisture is likely to increase.",3_3
"The authors report that experiments have shown that atmospheric CO 2 enrichment positively influences several external quality characteristics of chrysanthemums. Specifically, it increases stem length, number of lateral branches, number of flowers and size of flowers. What it means",3_3
"I am not absolutely convinced, however, that carbon dioxide is the culprit. I think that remains to be proved. Carbon dioxide is complicated, and I believe that there could be other both human induced and natural causes for global warming.",2_3
"Jones, A. 2005. Potential coastal erosion of the Swan coastal plain. Ch. 7 in Natural Hazard Risk in Perth, W.A. Geoscience Australia.",0_0
New Study: EPA Regulations Hurt Poor the Most,4_1
"But what if the warming was caused by fewer clouds, rather than the fewer clouds being caused by warming? In other words, what if previous researchers have simply mixed up cause and effect when estimating cloud feedback?",5_1
"Within the green movement, Peter Gleick is a renowned environmental scientist specializing in the negative impact of global warming. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, co-founded the Pacific Institute, served as chairman of a task force on scientific ethics and integrity in the American Geophysical Union, and received a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship (aka genius grant) in anticipation of exceptional achievement in his field of research. Peter Gleick is also the self-admitted perpetrator of a recent fraud.",5_2
"Hint to green wastrels in the Energy Department and elsewhere: when even the New York Times thinks the green madness has gone too far, it has. Putting green lipstick on a pig doesnt turn that pig into Ralph Nader.There may be a dumber mass movement in the country than the fuzzy minded sentimentalists of the great green herd, but it isnt easy to figure out which mass movement that would be. Walter Russell Mead, Via Meadia, 13 November 2011",0_0
"Thousands of climate dignitaries representing almost every national government on Earth flew to Cancun, Mexico, for the great event. Security precautions were extensive: Battleships could be seen from the beach while thousands of soldiers and police lined the jam-packed roads. It was time for the 16th ?Conference of the Parties,? or COP16 for short. The annual summit, which was held this year from November 29 through December 10, is an extravaganza of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC. The previous year?s COP15 in Copenhagen was massive ? over 50,000 attendees in all, not counting protesters. It was well publicized, too. But after the spectacular failure of COP15 to deliver a binding climate treaty, and with little hope of securing one this time, expectations for COP16 were purposefully set low.",0_0
"Schlegel et al . opine that their results suggest that (1) ""some individuals will exhibit enhanced fertilization success in acidified oceans, supporting the concept of 'winners' and 'losers' of climate change at an individual level."" And they say that if these differences are heritable, it is likely that (2) ""ocean acidification will lead to selection against susceptible phenotypes as well as to rapid fixation of alleles that allow reproduction under more acidic conditions,"" which phenomena ""may ameliorate the biotic effects of climate change if taxa have sufficient extant genetic variation upon which selection can act.""",3_2
""" essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the atmospheric system.",2_3
"But it's on the regulatory front that the duplicity, exaggeration, fabrication and betrayal of our public trust are really outrageous and used to amass more power and control over our energy, economy, job creation and living standards, close down companies and industries that regulators detest, and advance crony corporatist deals with favored entities, regardless of costs or impacts on jobs, health and welfare.",0_0
"Some may be tempted to attribute Vilsack's missteps to inadvertent bumbling by his advisers within the Agriculture Department. But a likelier explanation is the malevolent influence of USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan, who boasts a long and unsavory history of pro-organic, anti-biotechnology advocacy and actions. While a staffer on the Senate Agriculture Committee during the 1980s, Merrigan was instrumental in obstructing the approval of bioengineered veterinary drugs and in excluding genetically engineered crops from the ""organic"" rubric. Her record of anti-biotechnology activism constitutes an obvious conflict of interest that should have required her recusal from biotech-related deliberations and meetings at the USDA (or better still, prevented her appointment to the department).",0_0
"Heres a similar plot for annual CRU NH 1850-2008, showing more texture in the differences between the various autocorrelation models. Zero trend (under fracdiff autocorrelation) is not precluded at a 95% level. However, these graphs show more clearly than the bare statistic that this is a two-edged sword: double the observed trend is likewise not precluded at a 85% level.",0_0
But what about the drought? The 1936 drought was at least as bad as the 2012 drought.,1_7
"The Arctic sea ice has probably reached its greatest extent for this year. It usually occurs at the end of March last year it was March 21st. There have been some reports that this years maximum extent was the lowest since satellite monitoring began in 1979, and it certainly looks low hovering around 13 million km2 for over a month, see Fig 1 (click on image to enlarge). But looking back over past behavior its maximum extent was similar last year and in 2011 and 2005-7 (Fig 2). Hence this years extent is not that unusual being similar to that observed ten years ago!",1_1
Can the presence of CO2 be shown in a lab to increase absorption of incoming radiation?,0_0
"It is summer in the southern hemisphere and yet there is still signifiicantly above normal amounts of sea ice present as the passengers and crew of one tour ship discovered. The icebreakers Xue Long and Aurora Australis , and a French research vessel Astrolabe are cruising towards the Akademik Shokalskiy at full throttle for rescue. Photos and maps follow.",0_0
"Probably no single issue damages the reputation of the climate science community more than the refusal to show the data that supports their work, even under an FOI request. The public believes that scientists who purport to be concerned about the future of the planet should not place their own financial interests, including future grants, ahead of this concern, particularly when their research has been done with public funds.",5_2
served as CEO to Al Gore's: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/03/zoi-goes-to-dc.php,0_0
"I have previously written that plastic bags can kill marine turtles particularly Leatherbacks, click here .",0_0
"According to David Collins, professor of physical geography at the University of Salford, European glaciers melted more this year than at any time in his professional experience. In the long run ""when the glaciers disappear, there will be no meltwater at all, and it will reduce as the glaciers get smaller and survive only on the highest mountains,"" he said.",0_0
Worn out after playing on the beach during his last trip to North Wales in May 2006.,0_0
"The monsoon 2010 was also predicted to be a normal monsoon by most climate models. In reality, the monsoon rains were deficient in June 2010 by 16% but later in July and early August heavy rains in the northwest led to massive flooding in Pakistan (August 2010) and also in thenearby Indian States of Punjab & Rajasthan. Overall, monsoon 2010 was declared a flood monsoon with about 110% of rains country-wide, while northwest regions received as much as 125% of normal rains.",5_1
The 2014/15 El Nio Part 12 July 2014 Update The Feedbacks Need to Kick in Soon,0_0
It's time to show the world that America's leadership in this vital area of science and national security hasn't crashed and burned.,0_0
Summer cyclone chewing up Canadas Arctic sea ice | CTV News,0_0
The climate models can explain neither the past nor the present. It is far from obvious that policymakers should have faith in their predictions about the future.,5_1
"This new scientific finding helps explain why the climate models have been such miserable failures regarding global warming predictions, as noted by these charts:",5_1
"The theory of ???Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming?? (CAGW) is based on a string of inferences that begins with the assumptions that carbon dioxide is a ???greenhouse gas?? and that we are slowly driving up the atmospheric concentration by burning fossil fuels. It is therefore claimed as self-evident that the Global Average Surface Temperature (GAST) has already risen significantly and will continue to do so. Higher GAST is then presumed to lead to all sorts of negative consequences, especially Extreme Weather. They promote their ???Climate Models?? as a reliable way to predict the future climate. But these models dramatically fail basic verification tests. Nowhere do they admit to these well-known failures. Instead, we are led to believe that their climate models are close to perfection.",5_1
"Since the 1990s, Dow Chemical, America's largest chemical company, has tried to brand itself as forward thinking on energy and environmental issues. It reduced the carbon footprint of its manufacturing processesa win-win situation that actually saved the company money while gathering plaudits from activists.",0_0
"What if warming was set on fast forward, rather than pause? What if surface warming was progressing faster than 95% of the climate models had predicted, rather than slower than 95% of the models? How would the global warming establishment be playing it?",0_0
"So what I have documented is a collection of observations and analyses that together is telling a story of relatively modest climate changes to come. Not that temperatures won?t rise at all over the course of this century, but rather than our climate becoming extremely toasty, it looks like we?ll have to settle (thankfully) for it becoming only lukewarm.",3_1
"The energy and climate sections of the Democratic Party's 2016 platform, approved at the party convention in July, calls for a national mobilization to fight climate change.",0_0
"""The financial crisis has disrupted the consumption of gasoline, which will have an effect on prices. However, we expect the prices that Georgian gasoline station owners receive at the pump to be in line with changes in consumers' incomes and the prices of substitutes and complements. We will not tolerate consumers taking advantage of Georgian business owners during a time of emergency.""",0_0
"Recently, Sierra Club members were told that they, ?supporters, partners, and allies have worked tirelessly to retire 150 coal-fired power plants since January 2010?a significant number in the campaign to move the country beyond dirty and outdated fossil fuels.?",0_0
Record snowfall takes Canadian city by surprise,0_0
"More than 20 years ago, climate scientists began to sound the alarm over the possibility that global temperatures were rising due to human activities, such as deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels. In 1988, the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Program created the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in order to study and better understand this potential threat. The IPCC's mission was to provide a ""comprehensive, objective, scientific, technical and socio-economic assessment of human-caused climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.""",0_0
"Brown and Black coal provide electricity in Australia at less than 4c /KWhr, while Solar costs nearly 20c. Figures thanks to Alan Moran: Submission to the Renewable Energy Target Review Panel, IPA, 2014",4_4
"It may seem like arcane bureaucratese, but an ???endangerment?? finding is actually a big deal that would hurt virtually every facet of the American economy. Under the Clean Air Act, an endangerment finding serves as a tripwire for a regulatory chain-reaction that would subject small businesses, farms, and any building larger than a mansion to costly red tape and endless paperwork.",4_1
Britain ends liberalised power prices: Gerard Wynn,0_0
"I would also like to emphasize Lawson?s much needed criticism of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) for its claim that the solution for China and India would be ?investment in attractive public transport facilities and non-motorized forms of transport? (p. 68). For me, non-motorized forms of transport would be a bicycle, a rickshaw, a donkey, or an elephant. Or perhaps a hang glider. That?s blatant communism and, on top of that, incredible arrogance. I remember very well from my youth the official propaganda saying that private cars didn?t belong to a communist society.",0_0
Download PDF Climate Change and Public Policy,0_0
a partnership of major donors interested in solving the worlds energy problems. Our mission is to advance energy efficiency and renewable energynew technologies that are essential components of a clean energy future.,0_0
"First, we see in ALL regions a negative correlation between temperature and the total number of strong to violent tornadoes in the U.S.",1_7
"""""Card check' circumvents a secret ballot election because it requires only that a majority of employees sign cards showing that they support union representation. Employees are often urged to sign cards publicly and in the presence of union organizers, which exposes them to high-pressure tactics that the secret ballot is intended to avoid.""",0_0
"The American Enterprise Institute is sponsoring a conference, The Greening of Global Warming, featuring Robert Mendelsohn of Yale University. Mendelsohn claims that global warming will not be as harmful as previously claimed. The conference will be held on July 26 at 1150 17th Street, NW, 12th floor, Washington, D.C. Registration begins at 1:45 p.m. Contact Amy Wendholt at (202) 862-5847 for more information.",0_0
"Yes, Hansen actually made these forecasts (degrees C) in the year 1988 . We should be baking already, and Manhattan should be drowning .",5_2
"In addition, I give my greatest appreciation and thanks to those people who I was lucky enough to actually meet and spend time with. These included Benny Peiser; Tim Daw; Nick Luke; the Old Seadog; the Bishop Andrew Montford; Christopher Monckton; Matt, Anya, and Matthew Ridley; Sir Humphry and Katharine Wakefield; Richard Marsh, the Chillingham Game Warden; David the Northumberland fishing guide; James Delingpole; and Josh the cartoonist. If Ive forgotten any, my apologies, youre included too. All of them without exception gave freely and generously of their time and energy to show the marvels and mysteries of their local countryside to three rather benighted and bemused Colonials you all have earned a special place in my pantheon of heroes, come and visit us when you have the chance and well return the favor.",0_0
Climate sensitivity is large in the vicinity of tipping points but moderate otherwise. A variable sensitivity as must be the case in such a finely balanced system as the Earths climate. While this is necessarily a simplified approach to a new mathematics of climate sensitivity it is nonetheless a vastly more sophisticated concept and overwhelmingly likely to be truer than back of the envelope constant high or low sensitivity calculations.,3_1
"The American Meteorological Society (AMS) and Journal of Climate among others posthumously gave Saltzman the ultimate accolade, ""father of modern climate theory"" on the publication of his ground breaking ""Theory of Climate' (2002).",0_0
"As best we can determine from the Chinese scientists' graph, over the period of time depicted - when climate alarmists claim the world warmed at a rate that was unprecedented over the past millennium or two, and when the atmosphere's CO 2 concentration rose to values not seen for millions of years - the two ""fatal threats to coral reefs,"" even acting together , could not prevent coral calcification rates on Meiji Reef from actually rising by about 11% over the past three centuries.",3_2
"Rather than expand government, public policy should end preferential subsidies for politically favored energies, depoliticize access to public-land resources, and privatize such assets as the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Multi-billion-dollar energy programs at the U.S. Department of Energy can be eliminated. Such policy reform can simultaneously increase energy supply, improve energy security, reduce energy costs, and increase the size of the private sector relative to the public sector.",4_2
It's official: Federal inmates now have more rights than truck drivers .,0_0
"This suggests that in the ice ages, the 8C lower temperature could be explained by a 30% drop in pressure. That is equivalent today of an altitude rise of 3200m. For us living in Scotland where our highest mountain (Ben Nevis) is around 1300m that sounds high.",0_0
"Don't miss this Climate Skeptic post. Excerpt: This is a project my son did for Science Fair to measure the urban heat island effect in Phoenix. The project could also be called ""Disproving the IPCC is so easy, a child could do it."" The IPCC claims that the urban heat island effect has a negligible impact, even on surface temperature stations located within urban areas. After seeing our data, this claim will be very hard to believe.",5_1
"""I am shocked and deeply distressed by the apparently deliberate targeting by Israeli Defence Forces of a UN observer post in southern Lebanon,"" - UN Sec. Gen. Kofi Annan: This week, an article in the Sept.4 issue of The Weekly Standard drops a bombshell;",0_0
"CFACT will be there: exposing, debunking and offering constructive solutions.",0_0
"Yes, I did write that. The trouble for Holman's argument is that the",0_0
AGU 2014: Quantifying the Mismatch between Climate Projections and Observations,5_1
"The Nordic scientists say ""the increase in SOC with temperature and precipitation is interpreted as an indirect effect of higher net primary production.""?? More specifically, they say that, in Europe, ""increasing site productivity has been reported in both nemoral forests and in boreal forests at higher latitudes (Eriksson and Karlsson, 1996; Skovsgaard and Henriksen, 1996; Cannell et al ., 1998),"" and that this increase ""could be attributed to increased atmospheric CO 2 concentrations along with the fertilizer effect of nitrogen deposition, and management regimes optimizing forest production."" In light of these broad-based findings, it can be appreciated that just the opposite of what Bellamy et al . claim to be occurring in the top 15 cm of soils in England and Wales is happening in the top 100 cm of soils throughout much of the rest of Europe, producing a negative feedback to both rising air temperatures and CO 2 concentrations. Reference",3_3
"There is good reason for this cooling climate consternation. As David Whitehouse at the Global Warming Policy Foundation points out : If we have not passed it already, we are on the threshold of global observations becoming incompatible with the consensus theory of climate change. Whitehouse notes that there has been no statistically significant increase in annual global temperatures since 1997. He goes on to say: If the standstill (lower temperatures) continues for a few more years, it will mean that no one who has just reached adulthood, or younger, will have witnessed the Earth get warmer during their lifetime. (Since 1997, atmospheric CO 2 has increased from 370 ppm to 390 ppm. )",1_4
"Environmentalist Lawrence Solomon wrote in the Financial Post, Now an increasing number of scientists are swinging back to the thinking of the 1960s and 1970s. The global cooling hypothesis may have been right after all, they say Earth may be entering a new Little Ice Age.",1_2
"Pundits and scholars had seen the establishment play along with Glenn Beckstyle radicalism and conspiracy-mongering before, only to engineer a nomination for a ""regular"" Republican leader. They assumed history would repeat itself, with a Bush, Rubio, Kasich, or Walker. We did not.",0_0
"Example: The climate scientists at the British Met Office. They have always issued false alarms, and today we can even say systematic false alarms. Of all the annual forecasts on global temperature made this century, 14 in total, the scientists have wound up landing above the actual value 13 times. Paul Hudson, climate and weather expert of the BBC , points this out.",5_2
"With average data looking like that, even Bond would be proud. Individual series often looked like this realistic piece of RegEMd jewelry. Imagine the pride you would feel presenting this piece of augmented data to your professor in college.",0_0
"Similar motivation was the debate about the rights of future generations, excellently summarized recently by O. M. Hartwich, ?The Rights of the Future,? Policy, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2009; www.oliver-marc-hartwich.com/publications/the-rights-of-the-future. I agree with him that ?the very idea that there are some resources that we have borrowed from the future leads us into a logical dead-end? (p. 7). The question he raises: ?Do we owe the future generations a specific set of resources? Or do we simply owe them our best efforts to leave them a free and prosperous society in which they can make their own choices?? (p. 8) is very appropriate. It is, of course, not only about resources, it is about intertemporal decision-making in general. I am also convinced that the best thing we can do now is to leave our successors a free and democratic society.",0_0
"Now we are giddy with confidence. We slip and slide down the mountain. A hundred yards from the road the zipper on one sleeping bag breaks. When we reach the car, though, my feet are warm and dry.",0_0
"To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the worlds weather. The central fact is that after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earths climate seems to be cooling down.",1_2
Its wrong for a tax-paid scientist writing in a tax-supported publication to smear another scientist. Seeing such tactics used against a scientist of Seitzs caliber is clearly a warning to others who would consider opposing officially sanctioned science. Genuine science will suffer from this attempt to suppress dissent.,5_2
"Cutting our emissions by 10% or more below 1990 levels would require huge reductions of industrial and transportation energy use, extensive residential energy conservation programs, and elimination of coal use. Coal represents 30% of domestic energy production, and provides more than half of total U.S. electricity. The U.S. does not have adequate supplies of natural gas or alternative fuels to replace coal use by electric utilities (emphasis in original).""",0_0
"Error 2. CAP and George Will have it wrong. Will wrote that it hasn??t warmed in ???more than a decade,?? while Brad Johnson claims that ???global warming is continuing.?? According to data from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, compiled by NASA??s Dr. Roy Spenser, there has been no statistical warming of lower atmosphere temperatures over the past seven years, despite the fact that global greenhouse gas emissions have increased.",1_4
Facebook paid PR firm to smear Google:,0_0
"3 Third, the climate models predict a particular pattern of atmospheric warming during periods of global warming. In particular, the most prominent change they predict is a warming in the tropics about 10 km up, the so-called hotspot. But we have been measuring atmospheric temperatures by weather balloons since the 1960s, and millions of weather balloons say there was no such hotspot during the last warming from 1975 to 2001. The hotspot is integral to their theory, because it would be evidence of the extra evaporation and thickening of the water vapor blanket that produces two thirds of the warming in the climate models the carbon dioxide itself produces only one third of the projected warming, but is amplified in the models by water vapor. But in reality there is no hotspot, so there is no amplification, which is why the climate models have exaggerated temperature increases.",2_3
National Assessment on Climate Change makes a poor first impression,0_0
"Skeptical Science can accuratelystate that the climate system is warmer today than it was several decades ago. However, the weblog is in error in stating thatthe most recent satellite data show that the earth as a whole is warming. There has not been warming significantly, if at all, since 2003, as most everyone on all sides of the climate issue agree. The real world evidence in these two figures document their erroneous statement.",1_4
"Victorias Civil and Administrative Tribunal has scuppered the building of six coastal homes due to the threat of increasing storm severity and rising sea levels caused by climate change, in the first decision of its kind in Australia. In a ruling with implications for coastal developments, VCAT deputy president Helen Gibson and member Ian Potts concluded that climate change would make the land unsuited for the proposed development",0_0
"John Fonte deserves our thanks and praise for wading through the morass of globalista writings, conference papers and speeches, U.N. resolutions and reports, and the panoply of studies written over decades while many in the United States proceeded blithely on their way, unaware of the mounting challenges to ""Philadelphian sovereignty.""",0_0
"* Americans have grown increasingly dissatisfied with the position of the United States in the world today. Sixty-four percent in Gallup's March 2012 poll are dissatisfied. Like Japan in the late 1980s and early '90s, China is now seen as the economic powerhouse.",0_0
It's peak North Atlantic hurricane season again and much is being made of a supposedly increased hurricane threat due to man-made global warming.,1_7
And so who knows how many people have been persuaded by their local priest or bishop to become atheists!,0_0
"The difference between the poles and the equator - 80 C - corresponds to roughly 10,000 kilometers. Divide it by 16 and you will obtain 5 C and 600 km.",0_0
They ridiculed the Board and demanded it drop its revised standards and ban facts which question the man-made global warming narrative from the classroom.,0_0
"Perhaps the Governor is not skilled in math. Perhaps long division escapes him. Take the number of downed lines, flooded switches, blown transformers. Take the total hours to repair. Divide by the staff hours available per day ( there are only so many licensed and approved linemen and electricians who are also members of the right unions in your state, so allowed to do the work). Thats how many days it will take to complete. Oh, and like it or not, somebody has to be the last person connected.",0_0
"Whether she can be prevailed upon or not, Professor Curry?s case highlights the importance of this battle and the need to make sure that free speech is not just for members of the global warming establishment, but also for the rest of us.",0_0
"With this confirmation, one could assume that all warming since 1850 was due to human CO2 emissions, but then the logical conclusion is cast in concrete science - CO2's impact is shrinking towards zero, as observed, and likely will have even a smaller global warming impact in the future.",2_3
"Even though it may seem that there is a whole range of institutions both here and overseas which bring together and support those who openly express doubts about the currently prevailing dogma of man-made global warming and who dare to criticize it, it apparently is still not enough. We are subject to a heavily biased and carefully organized propaganda and a serious and highly qualified forum here, on this side of the Atlantic, that would stand for rationality, objectivity and fairness in public policy discussion is more than needed. That is why I consider the launching of the foundation an important step in the right direction.",5_2
"Analysis of 20 years of satellite data has revealed the total amount of vegetation globally has increased by almost the equivalent of 4 billion tonnes of carbon since 2003. This is despite ongoing large-scale deforestation in the tropics. , we found unexpectedly large vegetation increases in the savannahs of southern Africa and northern Australia. The increase in Australia occurred despite ongoing land clearing, urbanisation, and big droughts across other parts of Australia. The main cause of this strong growth over the savannahs came from higher rainfall, particularly in recent years, although higher levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may have helped plants there to grow more vigorously. ( Link )",3_3
"My preferred comments about the similar questions are different. I say that to establish that two black hole interiors are connected by a wormhole, one has to see that these two black hole interiors contain ""the same objects"". But one may only measure the properties of the objects, e.g. spins of the electrons, and they may ""happen"" to look the same in both black hole interiors. But if two observers see objects (or sequences of spins) that look the same in two black holes, it doesn't prove that they are the same objects, anyway. If you find two caves in Afghanistan and each of them contains a terrorist, it doesn't mean that the caves are connected by a wormhole, or that it is the same cave. There may also be two twin Afghani terrorists over there.",0_0
"Here is another way he can show the Chinese that when he has a goal he intends to pursue it, and if they try to thwart him, they will pay a high price indeed.",0_0
"A similar abuse of the laws of physics is to be found in the arguments of creationists. Evolution cannot be true, they say, because it contradicts the law of entropy. Like them, environmentalists are resorting to the same tactic of hiding a political argument behind the authority of science. (Although of course, the creationists are hiding their own politics behind *bad* science.) So far, your argument boils down to the claim that the current scientific knowledge provides a comprehensive support of the environmentalist position. This is equivalent to the faith that you criticise Trotskyists for.",5_2
The $15 Billion Failure to Store Nuclear Waste,0_0
"""Wikipropganda,"" by Lawrence Solomon, National Review Online, July 8, 2008: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/224785/wikipropaganda-lawrence-solomon",0_0
"Dr. Nigel Smith, a professor of geography at the University of Florida is a leading expert on the issue of the Brazilian rainforest and in his landmark paper, ""Human-Induced Landscape Changes in Amazonia and Implications for Development,"" he begins by saying ""One of the most persistent myths about Amazonia is that it has long been a wilderness, virtually untouched by humans until relatively recently. Amazonian forests are often portrayed as sparsely settled or essentially empty until modern times."" As a result, he claims ""The perception of Amazonia as raw, untamed nature awaiting modern development with few precedents has led to some inappropriate policy decisions.""",0_0
<0445> Torok/CSIRO:,0_0
"With increased national Doppler radar coverage, increasing population, and greater attention to tornado reporting, there has been an increase in the number of tornado reports over the past several decades . This can create a misleading appearance of an increasing trend in tornado frequency. To better understand the variability and trend in tornado frequency in the U.S., the total number EF1 and stronger, as well as strong to violent tornadoes (EF3 to EF5 category on the Enhanced Fujita scale) can be analyzed. These are the tornadoes that would have likely been reported even during the decades before Doppler radar use became widespread and practices resulted in increasing tornado reports.",1_7
"McCullough, David. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977.",0_0
"2 Rest assured, the concept of man over nature does not imply the domination and spoliation of nature by man. It simply means the removal of scarcity that is a product of capitalismor so the Marxists say. You could easily incorporate the reduction of capitalist waste and its effect on global climate change into the liberation of man without offending Trotskyas long as the control of the means of production was held by the masses and their unifying party, the Bolsheviki.",0_0
"There are already 170,000 miles of pipeline in America, moving oil and natural gas to fuel our cars and trucks, warm our homes and apartments, and, in the case of oil, to be turned in the zillion uses of plastic and other products such as asphalt to pave our streets and highways.",4_5
"NAM, along with another powerful industry group, the American Chemistry Council, endorsed the DOE findings, even though most of its members, particularly chemical companies, could see modest natural gas price rises, a marginal cost in manufacturing processes.",0_0
"Because politicians get to play with other peoples money, hope continually triumphs over experience, andthey neverlearn what three MIT scholars learned from the Carter administrations energy programs :",0_0
But that funding is only available to those who toe the consensus line that human activity is causing dangerous amounts of global warming. Telling the world that mankinds big climate break came when global temperatures were several degrees higher than today would needlessly put a paleoanthropologists academic and television career at risk.,5_2
"Magnitude 6.1 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA",0_0
"Reporter Scott Pelley prompted chief federal firefighter Tom Boatner with the statement, ""You know, there are a lot of people who don't believe in climate change.""",0_0
"So far, the only email on which RC has seen fit to comment is one from CRU director Phil Jones dated Nov. 16, 1999, 13:31. It's gotten a lot of buzz on the Internet, because it appears to advocate the use of a ""trick"" to ""hide"" a ""decline"" in global temperatures.",0_0
Average Radiative Imbalance from increasing ocean heat content: 0.2 W m-2,0_0
Availability of data The committee report that CRU was bound by confidentiality agreements (32) and was therefore unable to release its station data. They do not discuss how CRU was able to make the data available to sympathetic scientists like Peter Webster.,0_0
"The issue of where Sahel climate is going is contentious, Some models predict a wetter future; others, a drier one. They cannot all be right.",5_1
"UPDATE: The ABC are running scared from real debate again. My polite comment with links to the original Composta article, and links to my analysis of Lewandowsky is another ABC Reject. (My comment was essentially the words between - and - above.)",0_0
"Diplomats from the world's major greenhouse-gas emitters met recently at the State Department to discuss a potential U.N. agreement to fight global warming. Commenting on a lack of attention paid by the Bush administration to the urgent need to address global warming, U.S. special envoy for climate change Todd Stern said, ""They were not fundamentally looking for an international agreement.""",0_0
"Replication can also reveal whether researchers have properly disclosed their data. For example, in preparing my testimony for Mrs. Boxer's 2008 U.S. Senate hearings on polar bear populations, I requested data from government-funded research that led to a dire forecast. My request was refused.",0_0
"This is one of those statements that are technically true, but totally obtuse at the same time. Issuing formal get-out-of-jail-free cards to 5 million people is unprecedented. Think of it this way: Imagine a Republican President who is opposed to the minimum wage. The Executive branch is tasked with enforcing that law, so wold the folks defending the President's methods also arguehat the government can issue permits to 5 million businesses allowing them toignore labor law? Or emissions standards? Or insider trading laws?",0_0
"After many, many years of trying, the goal has yet to be reached Read More",0_0
The difficulty for them is to maintain their own minority status while insisting in public that the skeptics ? are very few. (page 68),0_0
"Haigh claims that the evidence about cloud formation being induced by cosmic rays points to a weak mechanism, then simply ignores the report??s admission of substantial evidence that some such mechanism must be at work:",2_1
"As the concentration of CO 2 in the atmosphere continues to increase, rice plants will likely display higher rates of photosynthesis, regardless of nitrogen availability. This phenomenon should enhance carbohydrate production in rice and allow plants to attain greater size, weight, and yield. And the greater the availability of nitrogen in the soil, the greater the anticipated growth increase.",3_3
"One factor is a form of loyalty to colleagues. Another, bearing in mind the singular nature of the funding source, is the need to eat. But mostly it gets back to the uncertainty of the science. The typical climate researcher is reluctant to go public with contrary opinion not backed by something very close to real proof.And there is very little real proof on either side of the climatechange story. Contrary opinion in an era where postmodern science is almost respectable can be dangerous to a research career.",5_1
Airlines that fail to cover emissions with allowances face a penalty of Eur100 for each mt of CO2 not covered.,0_0
"Nearly 28,000 people died in Britain last winter, most of them pensioners who could not afford adequate heat. Charities say this is the highest winter death rate in northern Europe, worse even than much colder nations like Finland and Sweden. And this winter has already seen the coldest December night for Wales in 169 years of record keeping. It was Britain's coldest December in 120 years.",1_3
"""In the words of the authors, they ""examined the distribution of flood peaks for the eastern United States using annual maximum flood peak records from 572 U.S. Geological Survey stream gaging stations with at least 75 years of observations."".....Of even greater interest to the climate change debate, however, were their more basic findings that (1) ""only a small fraction of stations exhibited significant linear trends,"" that (2) ""for those stations with trends, there was a split between increasing and decreasing trends,"" and that (3) ""no spatial structure was found for stations exhibiting trends."" Thus, they were literally forced to conclude, most importantly of all, that (4) ""there is little indication that human-induced climate change has resulted in increasing flood magnitudes for the eastern United States.""""",1_7
"To put it in other terms, our own government has engaged in lying to Americans, and the result has been the expenditure of billions of taxpayer dollars on something that was not happening and is not happening.",0_0
"In Australia, the maximum electricity demand occurs at about 6.30 pm in mid-winter in the big southern cities. However, the maximum solar power is generated at noon in mid-summer in clear northern deserts. If the nightly solar curfew is to be supplied by solar power, this necessitates a vast area of collectors to provide daytime grid power as well as charging a storage backup which supplies power at night. The scattered solar collectors also need a huge new transmission network. Such a system is inefficient and very costly.",4_4
Global Warming's New Clothes Written by Rosslyn Smith,0_0
Read that again: never seen more snow fall in a 24-hour period.,0_0
"The NSW Farmers Association says its shocked the states planning minister has labelled the lobby group as almost irrelevant to consultation on coal seam gas development, saying the government has not listened to them.",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Energy Policy Myron Ebell on the folly of,0_0
"Finding himself unable to defend the proposition that approval of Keystone XL would have any measurable effect on temperatures even in the extreme case, the marginal GHG emissions from the pipeline would raise temperatures by something on the order of one ten-thousandth of a degree Sachs attempts to change the subject by tying Keystone XL with a global ""carbon budget"" that purportedly would limit temperature increases to 2 C. Based upon somewhat dated analysis by Professor Richard S.J. Tol of the economic effects of climate change, the carbon budget, however much a political construct, nonetheless is irrelevant in terms of Keystone XL, since the GHG emissions from the pipeline, again, would be trivial.",0_0
Bill Gates attacks traditional capitalism as not doing enough to help people in the poorest countries of the world.,0_0
"H. Leighton Steward, chairman of the non-profit Plants Need CO2, noted that many of the former NASA scientists harbored doubts about the significance of the C02-climate change theory and have concerns over NASAs advocacy on the issue. While making presentations in late 2011 to many of the signatories of the letter, Steward realized that the NASA scientists should make their concerns known to NASA and the GISS.",0_0
"These are hyper-partisan times, but both parties in Congress can agree that they don't like being pushed around by the President. In the Senate, Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) has joined with Democratic colleagues Blanche Lincoln (Arkansas), Ben Nelson (Nebraska), and Mary Landrieu (Louisiana) to sponsor legislation that would strip the Environmental Protection Agency of the authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. This is the same legislation that Sens. Conrad and Burns are considering, the so-called ""Dirty Air Act."" In the House, North Dakotan Democrat Rep. Earl Pomeroy is offering similar legislation.",0_0
"Lost in the debate is the fact that polar bear numbers have dramatically increased over the past forty years a fact even liberal environmental activists are forced to concede. According to Canadian scientists, 11 of the 13 bear populations are stable, with some increasing. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service now estimates that there are currently 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears. These numbers are substantially up from lows estimates in the range of 5,000-10,000 in the 1950s and 1960s. Credit should be given to protection already provided the polar bear by way of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the several international conservation treaties including the 1973 Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears and the U.S.-Russia Polar Bear Conservation and Management Act of 2006, as well as conservation, education, and outreach agreement with native peoples.",3_2
"Even the clause guaranteeing ``protection of intellectual property rights'' is of little value, since governments routinely use compulsory licensing to override foreign patents (just ask the pharmaceutical industry).",0_0
"NASA??s blatantly, bogus temperatures (lies?) are an attempt to scare the public into thinking the ice sheets of Greenland are quickly melting away because of unprecedented ???high?? temperatures, including those maximum high temperatures forecasted for the ice sheet this week: an average of a -35F (yes, minus) for the daily high temps . Obviously, the northern ice sheets are safe despite the bogus NASA and Monbiot Arctic alarmism.",1_1
"Our rain shadow is most evident when the winds along the coast are westerly (from the west), because of their interactions with the Olympics.",0_0
"""Moments before he was to stand trial for bilking The Meadows Racetrack and Casino out of nearly a half-million dollars in fraudulent jackpots, a Swissvale man was arrested Monday by federal authorities, who say he actually may have stolen as much as $1.4 million from casinos in the U.S. and abroad.""",0_0
"Obama: ""We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas,"":",0_0
"Failure to take due account of relevant published work which documented the above lapses, while disregarding IPCC criteria for inclusion in the assessment process;",5_2
"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports about two major hurricanes, on average, make landfall somewhere along the Gulf or Atlantic coast every three years. The year with the most is 2005, when four major hurricanes made landfalls in the United States (Dennis, Katrina, Rita, and Wilma), with Wilma setting records as the strongest Atlantic hurricane on record. As Roy Spencer said, "" after the record-setting 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, with a whopping 27 named tropical storms, the bottom pretty much dropped out of hurricane activity since then.""",1_7
"But hasn't Mr. Bush been hypocritical? It's true that, during the first term, he let expediency in domestic politics influence decisions in international economics. I'm thinking of the steel tariffs he imposed in March 2002 and lifted two years later. Don't expect that sort of cynicism in the second termsince Mr. Bush can't run for a third. Instead, anticipate that Mr. Bush will push hard to open new markets and to lower barriers in the United States. He has no doubts about the benefits of free trade.",0_0
Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow in Energy and Environmental PolicyThomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies,0_0
"No, it wasn't a conspiracy plotted by Big Oil or Republican operatives using mercenary hackers after all. And unless you happen to get all your news from the mainstream media, you will undoubtedly recognize that by ""Climategate"", I'm referring here to the thousands of leaked email communications between prominent international researchers within the U.K.'s University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU) network. That person (yes, single individual) has come forth to shed light on a real conspiracy one to spread false alarm about a concocted global warming crisis.",5_2
"on Wednesday, September 15th, 2010 at 6:51 pm and is filed under News.",0_0
"So what's going to happen next? There's no current ban on exports of natural gas. Supplies are exported to a limited number of countries with which the US has a free trade agreement. However, regulations passed when the country faced a severe shortage and high prices still require the government to determine whether an export permit is in the ""public interest."" The DOE report was considered the next to last step in that process. The final decision is now in the hands of the Administration.",0_0
"Obviously this was a bit of a problem for the Scare Campaign. Much of the amplifying feedback created in the models also creates the hot-spot, so without any evidence that the hot-spot is occurring, there goes the disaster (and the urgent need for funding and junkets).",2_3
German Utility Criticizes EU Emissions Plan,0_0
"Undoubtedly this result would have taken place without the CAA, given the higher cost of running inefficient older plants. But the CAA's heavier controls on new plants increased the relative price of energy produced from new sources, giving existing coal companies a strong incentive to keep their older plants in service long past their economically useful life. The companies found it easier to modify existing facilities than to put a new plant on line. The higher new plant standards also blocked off new entrants into the energy business, unnecessarily increasing industry concentration levels and further raising prices.",0_0
We were told that Austin is growing by 100 to 150 people per day. Per day!,0_0
Bjorn Lomborg's ongoing publicity campaign for his new film makes it obvious that the fight against the delusion of dangerous man-made global warming remains an uphill struggle.,5_2
"There are wonks on our side, believe it or not, who support penalizing hospitals for return admissions. I would say it is another example of finger pointing that is finding misconduct when there may be perfectly good reasons for why people have return hospitalizations.",0_0
"The headline at Science Daily is that wildfires and other burns lead to climate change. The paper itself asks: As such, particle burn-off of clouds may be a major underrecognized source of global warming. For me what matters are the deaths in the here and now:",0_0
"Puls: That is one of the worst myths used for generating climate hysteria. Polar bears dont eat ice, they eat seals. Polar bears go hungry if we shoot their food supply of seals. The polar bear population has increased with moderately rising temperatures, from 5000 50 years ago to 25,000 today .",3_2
"The advertisement doesn't identify what Washington is doing to ""weaken the Clean Air Act,"" so it's impossible to know what legislation or regulation the American Lung Association intends to protect. But it is demonstrably false that ""more pollution means more childhood asthma attacks,"" which is the fundamental claim made in the advertisement.",0_0
"So the Colorado legislature expressed its intention to tap the brakes on the EPA's climate plan, and now Hickenlooper wants to put the pedal to the metal in order to accelerate past federal targets. In effect, the governor is acting in contravention to the stated intent of the people of Colorado's elected representatives, just like Obama is doing to Congress.",0_0
"every so often. The most recent example is today, in an article by Charles Holman of The Washington Monthly,",0_0
"A smoking gun. This particular one is a smoking gun of someone else than string theory, however.",0_0
Full Frontal Nudity Doesn't Make Us Safer: Abolish the TSA:,0_0
"Gingrich and Terry L. Maple have something of a sequel in the works to their 2007 book, A Contract with The Earth, tentatively titled Environmental Entrepreneurs.",0_0
"In all three enforcement areas, current EPA policy has led to confusion and delay as EPA issues conflicting letters and decisions and state agencies, which are given NSR permitting authority in most states, attempt to interpret and apply those policies. One result is conflict between federal EPA and state agencies.",0_0
"No one can claim that the answer is that the Chinese and Indian governments have signaled their readiness to respond in kind to U.S. GHG curbs. To the contrary, they continue to insist that the developed countries must commit to pay them for any control costs that they incur. The Chinese and Indian governments' statements are consistent with their behavior. These countries are clearly more interested in dodging the costs of GHG curbs than in capturing the gains from a global control regime.",4_2
"The media never seemed to report the real economic impact of the CFC ban. Replacing CFCs was not at all easy. There really are no suitable, safe, and affordable replacements for Halon fire control systems. Most propellants were not too difficult to replace (although many are flammable). One notable exception is the CFC propellant used in metered dose inhalers of asthma medication. CFCs were ideal for this application because they are both chemically and biologically inert. Eventually, the pharmaceutical industry found a solution: hydrofluoroalkanes (HFA). Of course, this new delivery method meant that previously inexpensive generic drugs (e.g., albuterol) suddenly became expensive proprietary drugs. The CFC ban effectively tripled the cost of managing asthma.",0_0
"Fishermen and seafood-dependent communities in New England are battening down the hatches, fearing that an Obama administration move to create a giant Atlantic Marine Monument will spell the end to their way of life.",0_0
"Dr Pearman referred to 95 and 99 percentiles as measures of the proof of an hypothesis in the same breathe claiming that that there was more than 90 percent proof that global warming is a consequence of greenhouse gas emission. Yet this 90 percent figure, sometimes used by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is not from the testing of a falsifiable hypothesis but rather a political expression of the strength of opinion.",5_2
"Im positive that this window is what is causing the damage to my car, says Patron.",0_0
EPA statistics regarding the six principal sources of air pollution in 199811 show:,0_0
Court accuses EPA of filibustering on pesticide safety,0_0
"In southeastern Massachusetts on February 25, 2015. The U.S. Coast Guard warned mariners of severe ice conditions in coastal waterways and noted that its ice-breaking capabilities were limited by the thickness of the ice. Many navigational buoys and other markers were knocked off their locations or submerged by sea ice, and the Coast Guard encouraged ships to sail by daylight and in visibility of at least one mile.",1_1
"I cannot reconcile Gordon's claim with the actual data on the US economy. The data on growth rates (from BEA and US Census , which Gordon has confirmed to me as the correct datasets to use) shows the following rates of change in per capita GDP growth at the break points identified by Gordon:",0_0
"The trustworthiness of the scientific community's global warming data pool is being called into question as the scandal over climate data continues to unfold.The latest revelation came on Sunday with the publication of a report by The Sunday Times of London that scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit in the United Kingdom confessed to throwing out most of the raw temperature data on which the theory of global warming is founded.The discarded data isn't lost permanently, since archives exist in other locations, notably servers at the Global Historical Climatology Network. Yet CRU's actions make it more challenging for other scientists to cross-check the facts.",5_2
"Global Warming Panel to Earths Rescue, on UNs Dime?",0_0
"In his comment, Brian Cox wrote lots of wrong things about locality in quantum mechanics and the Pauli principle but he also mentioned the lunar story:",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on the nature of record temperatures:,0_0
"If I had one thing to do over again I would not have talked so much about green. Even though I believe in global warming and I believe in the science, it just took on a connotation that was too elitist; it was too precious and it let opponents think that if you had a green initiative, you didn't care about jobs. I'm a businessman. That's all I care about, is jobs.",0_0
"The probability models fit the old data well, but nobody can ever know how well they will fit future data. The result is that over reliance on hard data means that probabilities of extreme events are underestimated and mundane events overestimated. The simple way to state this is the system is built to engender overconfidence. 2",0_0
of messy ground wars and lengthy occupations that have drained America's treasury and spirit for the past decades.,0_0
"After a poll released this week showed President Barack Obama only beating his Democratic primary opponent John Wolfe Jr. by seven points, 45 percent to 38 percent, in Arkansas's Fourth Congressional District, state Democrats moved to practically disenfranchise Arkansas voters. ""elegates Wolfe might claim won't be recognized at the national convention,"" national party officials are telling state Democrats. Wolfe is being accused of not following the party rules. They want a coronation, Wolfe tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD. Theyre conflating with the party. Are we supposed to call him Dear Leader? Is this some kind of North Korea thing? Related! h/t Bemused",0_0
"These ?scientists? have already reached their conclusion that global warming is real and progressing, despite the inconvenient truth that global temperatures have not risen over the past 15 years, even with increasing carbon dioxide emissions. ?Who pressed the pause button?? on global warming, asks The Economist.",1_4
"Although a few environmental activists have attempted to back away from these ludicrous and embarrassing statements, the predictability with which climate change was linked to a geological event shows the difficulty of taking climate change seriously. Climate change is a legitimate issue, but between the shabby way environmentalists and the Left exploit it, and the faulty record of so many past predictions of the eco-apocalypse, deep skepticism remains the sensible default position.",0_0
Wall Street Journal article A Reprieve From Climate Doom no reason not to disband the useless and harmful IPCC,5_2
I would only add that policy makers should show due diligence and assess the source and quality of their data.,0_0
"So our long and wonderful hegira through the British cities and countryside is all over, and for me its back to pounding nails on Monday. The gorgeous ex-fiancee returns to being a Family Nurse Practitioner, and the summer is over for our college lady, shes jumping in her car and heading off to Uni today.",0_0
the public the right message even if its a load of unsexy boring,0_0
"Low solar activity has already been linked to an increase in cold winters in Europe, with activity on the sun declining since 1985, Professor Mike Lockwood of the University of Reading said in findings published in April.",0_0
U.S. students suffering from Internet addiction: study:,0_0
"That is why it is so important that Fred Singer has now publicly declared that CO2 does not affect Global temperature, and Pierre Latour has helped him along the way by providing an algebraic proof.",2_3
"When the Sun is approximately behind the Moon, it only illuminates the half of the Moon that we can't see anyway (because it has turned away from us) so the half of the Moon on our side remains dark; that's the new moon. However, when the Sun is located in the same direction from us as the Moon (however, the Sun is much further), it's usually a day over here and the direct sunlight beats the light reflected from the Moon so we don't see any Moon, anyway. If the new moon is ""exact"", which rarely takes place, we get the solar eclipse.",0_0
"date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 10:22:12 +0100",0_0
What that would accomplish is to divert resources and talent from getting on with the serious work of developing alternative power sources.,0_0
"In contrast to the crazed, paranoid, lefty-loon rants of an obviously disturbed, anti-science journalist, what do actual scientists say about global warming....let's summarize with a favorite...",5_2
"A recent report by the California Air Resources Board claims that the state??s plan to reduce global warming emissions will save consumers $14 billion in fuel costs, thanks to increased fuel efficiency. But according to an article in the Orange County Register by policy analyst William Yeatman, the costs have been underestimated, while the benefits are overblown. For starters, the California board used the highest possible estimate for future gas prices, even through increased fuel-efficiency would lower the price of fuel. In addition, since lower fuel costs are an incentive for more driving, this plan would likely increase air pollution and traffic in California cities, and would even lead to more deaths on the highway due to lighter cars.",4_1
"???Coldest start to May for more than 70 years.?? In fact, temperatures could hit the lowest ever recorded for May.",1_3
anticipation that by the time of the 4th Assessment Report we?ll have withdrawn,0_0
"Yeah, Im finding this about 10 days late. Somehow I think most folks are still just finding out",0_0
"The World's Population Reaches 7 Billion, But Don't Let the UN Scare YouUN is wrong on food shortages and climate change",0_0
Red Cross Sees Global Warming Green,0_0
"Your editorial suggests that a moderate increase in CAFE would be a part of the ""best of all worlds.""",0_0
"America depends on abundant, reliable, affordable energy 85% of it hydrocarbons. Coal generates half of all US electricity, and up to 90% in its manufacturing heartland versus 1% from wind and solar. Newfound natural gas supplies promise a sea change in US energy supplies and electricity generation. However, oil still powers transportation, shipping and petrochemicals and in 2010 the United States exported $337 billion to import 61% of this precious liquid fuel.",4_5
"Looking at 1,000 years of temperature records, researchers found that natural variability in surface temperatures over the course of just a decade can account for increases and dips in warming rates. Researchers said that variability could be caused by interactions between the ocean and atmosphere, or other natural factors.",2_1
"Nevertheless, there is a point hidden in Sen. Lieberman's testimony. The Kyoto Protocols so beloved by Sen. Lieberman call on America to reduce its carbon emissions below 1990 levels. Emissions from manufacturing industry actually did dip below those levels last yearthanks to the recession in America's manufacturing sector. The Kyoto target has been reached by those industries, but at a cost of millions of jobsthree million jobs have been lost since 1998 alone. To meet our Kyoto targets, America would need similar recessions in other sectors, and the sort of lifestyle changes that accompany lower incomes. The Climate Stewardship Act would be a good first step in achieving that, as the statutorily independent Energy Information Agency (EIA) reckons it would cost the American economy $507 billion over the next 22 years.",0_0
"Working Group 2 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released the final version of its contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. The WG2 report contains 1,731 pages of text, figures, boxes, footnotes and references, the first 832 of which list every negative impact climate change is having or could conceivably have on the Earth, its physical state, its ecosystems and the people who populate it. I doubt that anyone has ever read it from beginning to end. I certainly havent.",0_0
"In addition to her responsibilities as interim CEO and Director of Communications, Dr. Heidi Cullen serves as a research scientist and correspondent for Climate Central. Dr. Cullen currently reports on climate for PBS NewsHour, Time.com and The Weather Channel. Before joining Climate Central, Dr. Cullen served as The Weather Channels first on-air climate expert and helped create Forecast Earth, the first weekly television series to focus on issues related to climate change and the environment. Prior to that Dr. Cullen worked as a research scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO.",0_0
"The picture below is my UHImeasurementlocation. On a still clear night, temperatures are typically 5-10F cooler near the fire station on the right, than they are at the Safeway parking lot across the intersection (traffic light is inside the red circle.)",5_1
"Now, the sensible and latent heat loss is a parasitic loss, which means a loss in a heat engine that costs efficiency. And as any engineer can testify, parasitic losses are proportional to temperature, and as the operating temperatures rise, parasitic losses rise faster and faster. In addition, the 100 W/m2 is the global average, but these losses are disproportionately centered at the hot end of the system. At that end, they are rising as some power factor of the increasing temperature.",0_0
They don't get it. We're glad Graham and his neighbors do.,0_0
"Bush EPA chief calls Senate GOP ""sore losers' for opposing EPA nominee",0_0
"Over the last twoweeks, Arctic sea ice extent has taken a sharp turn towards the median, and is now nearly the highest in a decade for the date.",1_1
The United States would gain little in trying to forestall climate change,0_0
"This is a really interesting post at WUWT by J. Storrs Hall . It reminds me of one of those powers of ten films. He looks at data from a Greenland ice core ( archived at NOAA here ) going back over 50,000 years. He begins looking at the last few hundred years, and then pulls back the view on larger and large time scales. Highly recommended.",0_0
> >> >>any suggestions:,0_0
"The provided documents conclude with emails citing late-night phone calls to get the story straight, and calling with ""high importance"" a meeting at 9:00 a.m., September 22, 2009, in the office of Ms. Zoi's chief operating officer, Steven Chalk. The meeting was called to ""huddle up"" face-to-face to put things straight.",0_0
Scientists are struggling to explain a slowdown in climate change that has exposed gaps in their understanding and defies a rise in global greenhouse gas emissions.,1_4
"> >> >Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 10:14:36 +0100",0_0
"""Labor activists and supporters of high-speed rail are planning a rally in Milwaukee in favor of the imperiled project.""",0_0
"The 20th century may not have been so extraordinarily hot after all, according to a climate study of the last thousand years, which confirms historical accounts of fig trees growing in Germany and early grape harvests in England during medieval times.",2_1
"This is Figure 11.25 from the IPCC AR5 (discussed previously on Implications for climate models of their growing disagreement with observations ). Ed Hawkins has added a blue line to show Cowtan and Ways global temperature analysis. While Cowtan and Way is slightly warmer than HadCRUT4 for the past decade, their analysis doesnt change the pause story very much when shown in this context.",0_0
"Beyond these issues of politics and semantics, the entire ethanol quandary illustrates a powerful point about the current climate for energy subsidies and innovationmoney tends to flow to politically popular but inefficient programs such as corn-based ethanol productionBut even if, on their own terms, they could address energy security needs (and one should be very dubious of corn ethanol's role here) as soon as they actually are implemented at large scale, they become too politically visible to continue.",4_2
"It affects Java 5, 6 and 7 while most of the previous problems with Java have effected its latest version 7.",0_0
"Al Gore Once Again Suggests ""Fertility Management' To Fight Global Warming",0_0
"Although far more forthcoming thanpetitioners in Mass v. EPA , theANPR repeatedly downplays the economic risks of applying CAA regulatory provisions to CO 2 .",0_0
"""I want to use football as an engine to fight against global warming. I believe the role model of footballers is still very big worldwide. If somebody can get into the heads of the youth or the normal man in the street then it's the football players.",0_0
Solicitor General Kagan urged against letting a small firm challenge a regulatory agency in court. Would a Justice Kagan do the same?,0_0
key was the office's access to information the intelligence community collected about financial,0_0
"Since the 2005 hysterics from the experts, the US has experienced the quietest period on record for hurricanes.",1_7
"By Joe Schoffstall, Washington Free Beacon, Aug 6, 2015",0_0
"Conversely, a ""game-changer"" could have a beneficial effect encompassing a similar scope.",0_0
80th Ontario municipality to pass a resolution opposing wind turbine development,0_0
"Ocean heat content differences, 1979-1997 average (NODC)= less than 0.1 C",0_0
"In analyzing responses by sub-groups, Doran 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. Petroleum geologists and meteorologists were among the biggest doubters, with only 47 and 64 percent respectively believing in human involvement. Doran compared their responses to a recent poll showing only 58 percent of the public thinks human activity contributes to global warming.",0_0
"We taxpayers pay for these studies, payoffs and propaganda. And we will get stuck with the regulations, soaring prices and lost jobs that result. We have a right to review and analyze the data and claims. We have a right to be heard, in a fair and honest process that truly takes our concerns into account.",0_0
"Note, comparing truly global climate model simulations with a truly global observational data set (e.g. Cowtan and Way) is better than comparing with HadCRUT4 with missing data regions. Note, this is why Ed Hawkins previously compared ( fig ) the HadCRUT4 observations with climate model simulations where the missing regions were held out from the simulation data set.",0_0
"UPDATE: The Reuters correspondent confused climate sensitivity with temperature projections. That means that this post is, well, just plain wrong. I should have spotted that. Sorry.",0_0
Figure 4: Annual Arctic sea ice volume loss (thousands of cubic km) according to PIOMAS (blue) compared with the mean value 1980-2013 (black) and standard deviation (gray).,0_0
"Its like weather prediction for tomorrow; you only believe it when you get to tomorrow. Weather is very difficult to predict; climate involves weather plus all these other components of the climate system, ice, oceans, vegetation, soil etc . Why should we think we can do better with climate prediction than with weather prediction? To me its obvious, we cant!",5_1
"Well, here are the facts. The IPCC said in 1990, at page xii, Under the IPCC business-as-usual (Scenario A) emissions of greenhouse gases, the average rate of increase of global mean temperature during the next century is estimated to be about 0.2-0.5 C/decade. The observed warming rate from 1990-2013, according to HadCRUt, is about half that.",0_0
"Meanwhile, as Dear notes, ""South Korea is building four nuclear reactors in the United Arab Emirates. The Russian company, Rosatom, is building power plants in Turkey, Belarus, Vietnam, and elsewhere. The China National Nuclear Corporation is scheduled to build over twenty nuclear power plants.""",0_0
CNN; Another animal rights group is shopping for drones it will use to watch for animal abuse -- and gun owners are setting their sights in anticipation.,0_0
"Celebrating Human Achievement, Taxing AIG Bonuses and Cap and Trade in the Senate",0_0
"The ideal1000-year cycle is varied by the 230-year cycle, which in turn gets varied by the 65-year oceanic cycle, which is depicted in Figure 1. Added to these cycles are the various typically non-cyclical events such as the ENSO, volcanic eruptions, etc. Figure 3 shows the temperature curve for the last 165 years along with the 230-year cycle and the effect of the 65-year ocean cycle. The current temperature values fluctuate by plus/minus 0.2C due to the effects of ENSO, sunspot activity, volcanic eruptions, etc.",2_1
"As one organisation after another jumps, or is pushed, into producing public assessments of the climate change issue, we see the same small group of activist-scientists in the background. We see them providing briefings to federal and state politicians. We see them as primary advisers to supposedly independent organisations such as the Australian Academy of Science. We see them involved in programs to introduce school children to the dangers of a carbon footprint. Generally we see them in what agricultural science used to call extension activities although in the case of climate change much of the extension effort is devoted to convincing the various audiences that there is indeed a problem worth doing something about.",5_2
"Most of all though, we know that even if climate change is not the primary factor behind the current tragedy this humanitarian disaster and the seemingly intractable geopolitical challenges, nationalist tendencies, and crushing grief it invokes is precisely the kind of disaster security analysts expect to see worsen in a world afflicted by escalating climate change.",0_0
"The reasoning, apparently, is that the public on its own is too dumb to realize what a great thing CFLs are, given that their energy savings far outweigh their higher prices.",0_0
"2.	There are photographed major problems with the microclimate exposure of a subset of surface observation sites ( see Davey, C.A., and R.A. Pielke Sr., 2005: Microclimate exposures of surface-based weather stations implications for the assessment of long-term temperature trends.",0_0
"Indeed, the language in the announcement back then ""We are poised to bend the arc of history toward a world free of nuclear weapons"" echoed some of Obama's favorite phraseology. But it was not to be, thanks to ""failed leadership"" from unnamed politicians. From the Bulletin's statement:",0_0
"Policy research in the Beltway offers numerous attractions, among them the opportunity to exchange views and engage in back-and-forth challenges with other experts, in settings both formal and informal. Such activities are more than merely fun: Intellectual atrophy is the inexorable result of living in an echo chamber, an effect that can be avoided through a disciplined approach to serious work and a consistent effort to confront opposing arguments.",0_0
"Economic historians will have plenty of time to debate how the trading system got into this mess-and there will be lots of recriminations that will accompany this ""conversation."" But the short-term question is how to move on. The argument advanced here is that a decisive act to formally end the Round is the best solution and means for a viable path forward.",0_0
"Uncertainty behind climate projections could be cut in half by 2030, study shows",0_0
"Scott Armstrong of Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, has issued a public $20,000 challenge to Al Gore on the accuracy of climate forecasting. link",5_2
"Dr. Moniz understands the clear environmental benefits associated the safe development and use of clean-burning American natural gas, a Marcellus Shale Coalition spokesman told The Washington Examiner.",4_5
"In a report last year, the European Commission warned that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization must be prepared for an intensified ""scramble for resources"" as melting glaciers and sea ice open up previously inaccessible areas to exploitation. The report explicitly expressed concerns over ""long term relations with Russia,"" (ClimateWire, April 2, 2008).",0_0
"At a minimum, the order sends a clear message to Colorado's largest investor owned utility, Xcel Energy, that the state's executive urges its compliance with the EPA's climate regulations and strongly encourages the governor-appointed Public Utilities Commission to approve Xcel's plans. At worst, it's a power grab.",0_0
"This is no mere rhetoric on the part of Obama and Kerry: they believe what they are saying, and that other policy goals should be subordinated to their goal of a carbonless future. For them, natural gas is at best a ""bridge fuel"" to take us to the day when the world relies completely on solar, wind and other non-fossil fuels to operate highly energy-efficient cars, factories and homes. From which it follows that encouraging exports of natural gas is undesirable, putting in place infrastructures here and in importing countries more reliant on climate-changing fossil fuels, and reducing Europe's incentive to continue down the expensive path to a fossil-fuel-free future. Key Democrats up for re-election in November don't have as green a view of the future: they see fracking and natural gas exports as job creators and, now, an essential piece of any strategy to contain Putin.",0_0
"Once upon a time, and for millennia before then, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere were low and stable. Then came the industrial revolution and CO2 levels began to rise. The more man industrialized, the more that CO2 -- and the temperature -- rose. In the last half century, with industrialization at unprecedented levels, CO2 reached levels unprecedented in the human history. This is the story of global warming.",0_0
OUTGOING SHORTWAVE RADIATION (REFLECTED SUNLIGHT) AT TOA,0_0
It's payback time for the UK's insane energy policy,0_0
"However, any such survey would be of no more scientific value than that of Cook. As the planet continues to fail to warm at anything like the rate that the usual suspects have so confidently but unwisely over-predicted, it will eventually become apparent to all that science was not, is not, and will never be done by mere headcount.",5_1
"An article on the Asian Brown Cloud is here . An excerpt: This phenomenon also might help explain why carbon dioxide emissions and global temperatures don't track very well, if at all.",0_0
"""But, Dad. That makes it sound like the Citizen Kane of crappy eco documentaries!""",0_0
"Rough road ahead for Obama, unions as compromises loom:",0_0
"By way of answering the question: ""Why are the costs of wind and solar so much higher, and the benefits not much different from other low-carbon alternatives?"" the Brookings study states: ""The benefits of reduced emissions from wind and solar are limited because they operate at peak capacity only a fraction of the time.""",4_4
I have invited Gordon to address the discrepancy in our datasets and help me to identify where I have made a mistake or perhaps if his data is in error. Readers are welcomed to chime in.,0_0
"Those who instilled this remarkable ""break in consciousness"" were no different from those who touched off the other classic revolutions of modern times: writers, journalists, artists. As Alexis de Tocqueville observed, such men and women ""help to create that general awareness of dissatisfaction, that solidified public opinion, which creates effective demand for revolutionary change."" Suddenly, ""the entire political education"" of the nation becomes the ""work of its men of letters.""",0_0
"By this gesture, I also want to unambiguously express my complete disagreement with the U.S. policies towards Russia, the EU member states, and all free and sovereign countries in the present as well as the past and especially with the consequences of these policies.",0_0
"When arguing for scenario (B)ullshit theyclaimthat CO2 emission trends have been reduced linear , but when it suits their needs they change thestoryto super exponential.",5_2
"By Lachlan Markeay, Washington Free Beacon, Aug 7, 2015",0_0
The summary: Tevatron Higgs 404 error: file not found,0_0
"CO2 concentration, meanwhile, continues its upward trend. And it is this disconnect between rising CO2 concentration and stable near-surface temperatures that makes the present long hiatus in global warming more significant than the previous periods of a decade or more without warming over the 163 years of global mean surface temperatures. In none of the previous periods was CO2 concentration either as high or rising as fast as it is today.",2_3
"Bradys expert witness, Edward Snyder, argued that it was improper to proceed with further comparison of variations, once the initial comparison had not yielded a statistically significant result:",0_0
"At issue is a sweeping so-called ""planning rule"" that would guide land-use decision on 198 million acres of federal forests and grasslands across the country. Released in February as a proposed rule, the plan has come under a barrage of criticism for emphasizing species preservation and climate change over the well-being of rural Americans.",0_0
"As I reported in my FOXNews.com column of January 5, 2001 (see below):",0_0
"When confronted with themajor issues I havepresented, the Berkeley Earth, NASA and NOAA people demonstrate that their only interest is producing graphs showing warming while maintaining some appearance of plausible deniability.",5_2
"Thus, in answer to the question that headlined this Climate Science weblog, the Washington Post article, while it did include some diversity in its presentation, failed to adequately assess other sources of information that provide a different view. It is also interesting that since the hurricane season has had a slow start so far, that the focus has now shifted to using heat waves as the climate metric to advocate a particular perspective on climate variability and change.",0_0
Flashback: 1974 Tornado Outbreaks Blamed On Global Cooling,0_0
"The NCPA study, ???compares the worldwide benefits of U.S. reduction of CO 2 emissions with the worldwide costs.?? The benefits are ???the economic value of the avoided environmental damage that might arise from global warming,?? and the costs are the ???economic opportunities lost as a result of using less fossil fuel.?? According to the study, the benefits of reducing energy use only justifies a reduction of CO 2 emissions equal to 14 percent of that required by the Kyoto Protocol. That is, Kyoto requires seven times more CO 2 reduction than can be justified.",4_1
"As discussions about climate change continue, one critical factor about this phenomenon has remained largely unknown to the public: the important but enigmatic role of clouds in climate change. The role of clouds is important because at any given time about 70 percent of the Earth is covered by clouds. The role of clouds is enigmatic because clouds can exert opposing forces: Some types of clouds help cool the Earth and some types of clouds help warm it. Which effectwillwin outas our climate continues to change? So far, no one is certain.",0_0
"Its very hard to overlook the fact that, over the past decade, climate models are simulating way too much warming and are diverging rapidly from reality.",5_1
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Don't Bank Russia's Credits Just Yet,0_0
"3. Keep the record in front of you. Temperatures have plateaued, albeit at a high level, despite vast increases in emissions.",1_4
"In short, the country would be better served if NSR were changed to clarify and make more certain the scope of the routine maintenance exclusion and the method used to measure future emissions. Even better would be a move away from the costly and often counterproductive style of end-of-the-pipe regulation represented by NSR.",0_0
"But this explanation goes only so far. The anger, disappointment, and disgust that the voters will shower on the Obama administration and the Democratic congressional leadership is unusually deep. The electorate is reacting at a much more visceral level.",0_0
"Further, to the extent that some illegal immigrants just trying to support their families are ""ensnared"" by drug cartels (whatever that means) it is because of their immigration status. Make them legal residents of the country, and no one has any particular leverage over them.",0_0
"Don't bring a drone to a anti-aircraft missile fight; Photos provided by the animal rights group show the multicopter smoking on the ground, with its lithium polymer battery supply smoldering. Another photo shows the drones video camera smashed. The drone, dubbed Angel, was a Cinestar 8 octocopter estimated at $4,000. This wasnt the first time SHARK has been shot out of the sky. This is the fourth drone that the group has lost while investigating pigeon shootings. One drone landed on club property, and is the subject of an ongoing lawsuit. h/t Punch My Ticket",0_0
Details Revealed of Fisker's Waste and Mismanagement,0_0
"Every revolution is a surprise. Still, the latest Russian Revolution must be counted among the greatest of surprises. In the years leading up to 1991, virtually no Western expert, scholar, official, or politician foresaw the impending collapse of the Soviet Union, and with it one-party dictatorship, the state-owned economy, and the Kremlin's control over its domestic and Eastern European empires. Neither, with one exception, did Soviet dissidents nor, judging by their memoirs, future revolutionaries themselves. When Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party in March 1985, none of his contemporaries anticipated a revolutionary crisis. Although there were disagreements over the size and depth of the Soviet system's problems, no one thought them to be life-threatening, at least not anytime soon.",0_0
"MOOSE: Whadda ya mean, it isnt right. I told you. That should be enough for you.",0_0
This piece originally appeared in Wall Street Journal,0_0
"So much for land use. As far as our GHG emissions are concerned, there is evidence that they increase the temperature a little. But the warming effect of carbon dioxide is a reducing one, meaning that as its level increases, more and more CO2 is required to produce a unit of warming. More and more CO2 will not warm the planet more and more, but less and less.",2_3
"By 7:30 the group had swollen to around a hundredtoo many to fit inside the chapel of Maria Heimsuchung, or Mary of the Visitation, so a makeshift altar was erected outside.",0_0
"After one year of atmospheric CO 2 enrichment, the growth rate of dominant canopy pine trees was about 24% greater than that of trees grown in ambient CO 2 , in spite of the likelihood of soil nutrient limitations and a severe summer drought (rainfall in August 1997 was about 90% below the 50-year average). In addition, atmospheric CO 2 enrichment increased the biomass of canopy pines by about 14%. However, elevated CO 2 had no significant impact on the growth rate or biomass of the four most abundant understorey species (loblolly pine, sweetgum, winged elm and red maple) located within the study plots. What it means",3_3
"The Great Pause may well come to an end by this winter. An el Nio event is underway and would normally peak during the northern-hemisphere winter. There is too little information to say how much temporary warming it will cause, though. The temperature spikes of the 1998, 2007, and 2010 el Nios are evident in Figs. 1-4.",1_4
"In crash tests released Tuesday, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that drivers of 2009 versions of the Smart fortwo, Honda Fit and Toyota Yaris could face significant leg and head injuries in severe front-end crashes with larger, mid-size vehicles.",0_0
NASA has released its latest sea ice report . These are tough times for climate alarmists. The truth is: Theres a lot more sea ice out there this year than they ever imagined .,1_1
"The larger point is that the scientists on the panel are bright and honest with one blatant exception but they are not adept at thinking through the implications of political incentives. If science is to affect policymaking, an inherently political undertaking, research conducted or funded by government cannot be separated from politics. That is an eternal truth with respect to which the question ""How can objective science be used to inform policymaking?"" is blind.",0_0
"She also indicated that the episode would showcase the potential for oil drilling in Alaskas Article National Wildlife Refuge. Youll also see us hunting at the edge of ANWR, Palin promised, where you can see the uninhabited lands that warehouse billions of barrels of American energy supplies underground just waiting for the political will to allow responsible resource development.",4_5
"?It is a great honor to have been appointed to this new role? said Steer. ?Climate change is a major threat to poverty reduction, and a central development challenge for our generation. I look forward to working with external partners and colleagues at the World Bank to help advance international progress on low carbon and climate resilient development, and to deepen that Bank's capacity as a cutting edge contributor.?",0_0
"Second, the federal government should seek to identify and reduce barriers to the development and deployment of alternative technologies. Whatever the economic merits of the Cape Wind project, it is ridiculous that it could take over a decade for a project such as this to go through the state and federal permitting processes. This sort of regulatory environment discourages private investment in these technologies.",0_0
"If Abraham had had the courtesy to check either with me or by looking up Mr. Schulte's paper on the Web of Science database, to which his Bible College subscribes, he would have found that Mr. Schulte used this phrase because Naomi Oreskes, a science historian, had previously used the same phrase in researching climate papers up to the end of 2003. Schulte had carried her research forward to mid-February 2007, and his paper had been published in 2008.",0_0
"Finally, ""The Kerry plan will establish the Energy Security and Conservation Trust Fund to invest in the hydrogen economy and other promising technologies, with clear targets for increasing the number of hydrogen powered cars and trucks on the nation's roads . Because of the importance of coal to our energy mix, the Kerry Administration will actively support technologies that separate and sequester CO2 when extracting the energy from coal.""",0_0
Less ice in the Arctic it is mans fault for burning fuels to stay alive.,0_0
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"""Even relatively transparent forms of Western aid, such as anti-AIDS assistance, have sometimes backfired, resulting in increased child death rates and harm to countries' health-care systems through brain-drain from critical primary care areas. Foreign aid also has distorting macroeconomic effects even on the few countries that make good use of it, like Uganda, where it resulted in increased inflation and interest rates, harm to its export industry from changes in exchange rates, and other economic problems. In many African countries, aid agencies siphon off so much of the country's scarce skilled manpower that industrial development cannot take off.""",0_0
(2) Regretted that discussion Particularly in climate research suffers from alltfr heavily politicized and wants to work for that open new communication channels. .,0_0
"His Holiness, the Green Pope (Al Gore) predicted that the Arctic see would be ice-free this year . The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) also gives a lot of attention to the unprecedented melting of the North Pole.",5_2
"As readers here know, the claims of statistical significance in the global temperature records are based on an assumption that the Earth's temperature can be approximated by the AR1 statistical model, an assumption that can apparently be readily shown to be incorrect. As Doug Keenan points out in an email, Slingo's final claim - that the overwhelming majority of leading climate scientists agree that the Earth is definitely warming - is 'technically true, but irrelevant if none of those scientists knows how to determine whether such warming is significant'.",5_1
"We believe the Canadian public and government decision-makers need and deserve to hear the whole story concerning this very complex issue. It was only 30 years ago that many of todays global-warming alarmists were telling us that the world was in the midst of a global-cooling catastrophe. But the science continued to evolve, and still does, even though so many choose to ignore it when it does not fit with predetermined political agendas.",5_2
Suzanne Goldenberg enjoys (if that's the right word) a certain reputation among BH readers and her latest offering will do nothing but enhance (if that 's the right word) her position in our estimation.,0_0
"Professor Bengtssons resignation shows that the alleged consensus on dangerous global warming involves suppressing dissent by academic bullying. He emphasises that there is no consensus about how fast and how far greenhouse warming will go, let alone what can be done in response.",5_1
Someone who (of course) responded with full indignation was Lorentz Tovatt (Super Million blog). He seems to have misunderstood how much difference our choices really can do.,0_0
"Aid agencies should also consider forgone economic development. The U.N. and the World Bank want to redistribute trillions of dollars to create new ""green"" energy infrastructure, whereas in the free market these scarce resources would be allocated to create wealth. In a globalized world, inefficiencies of this magnitude lower all boats.",0_0
"As table 1 shows, the largest components of indirect energy consumption are health care (27.5 percent) and food (23.7 percent), which together comprise about half of total indirect energy consumption. This is confirmation of similar findings published in the economic literature. Transportation by vehicles that consumers do not fuel directly (such as air travel, taxis, and buses) and transportation-related consumption (auto parts, motor oil, and vehicle parts) represent 12 percent of total indirect energy consumption. Activities using the least amount of indirect energy include beauty care, religion, and education.",0_0
PENNSYLVANIA 52% of electricity; 5th in coal use,0_0
"These distinguished senators believe there is a ""third way"" between pro-Kyoto and anti-Kyoto forces. For the global warming crowd, advance credits for emissions reductions might help abate ""greenhouse gas"" production while Kyoto is pending; for businesses, credits could reduce long-term compliance costs under a Kyoto-like arrangement, and squeeze tangible value from abatement steps already planned.",0_0
Most of all and here is the second point of agreement the center-right victories in Australia and in Norway two days later owe much to the unpopularity of center-left government policies.,0_0
"the Afghan side, President Karzai announced that by 2014 his government would no longer need nato.",0_0
16d. The ability of global climate models to model temperature values for the next 50 years,0_0
"As I said to Andy Revkin (and he published on his blog), the additional decade of temperature data from 2000 onwards (even the AR4 estimates typically ignored the post-2000 years) can only work to reduce estimates of sensitivity, and that??s before we even consider the reduction in estimates of negative aerosol forcing, and additional forcing from black carbon (the latter being very new, is not included in any calculations AIUI). It??s increasingly difficult to reconcile a high climate sensitivity (say over 4C) with the observational evidence for the planetary energy balance over the industrial era.",3_1
"But it gets worse! On top of GHCN adjustments, GISS have substantially INCREASED the warming trend at Reykjavik for UHI, instead of REDUCING it. The Iceland Met confirm there have been no station changes etc that would justify this. But when I challenged Reto Ruedy, he was unable to explain it either.",5_1
"In dagslget is unclear what will be pieces of the text to be produced in Cancn, Mexico, in December and nobody knows what will happen with the current agreement, the Kyoto Protocol, that progressively in 2012",0_0
We will continue to create and tell new stories about climate change and mobilise these stories in support of our projects.,0_0
"Briffa and Osborn 1999 contain a number of sensible caveats about the Mann and other reconstructions, raising caution about the role of bristlecones ( the ???amplitude series relating to the first principal component of a group of high-elevation tree-ring chronologies in the western United States??) in the Mann reconstruction and readers are referred to the original here .",5_1
"* What does this mean? For two-thirds of the questions asked, scientific opinion is DEEPLY DIVIDED, and in half of those cases, most scientists DISAGREE with positions that are at the foundation of the alarmist case. There is certainly NO CONSENSUS on the science behind the global warming scare.",5_1
"Less Carbon, Higher Prices: How Californias Climate Policies Affect Lower-Income Residents",4_1
The Israelis and the majority Fatah wing of the PLO now share a vital interest in the containment of Hamas.,0_0
"Europe, and especially Germany, is threatened by an industry exodus due to its higher energy costs that have been created by its move to increase Green energy. Germany's pharmaceutical and chemical giant Bayer is already making significant investment in its Chinese manufacturing operations, with expansion also taking place in Brazil and India. If industry continues to leave the U.S., the CPP will have the opposite effect. Emissions will increase as companies move to countries with lower labor costs, cheaper energy, and lax environmental policies. An additional unintended consequence will be more jobs lost in manufacturing.",0_0
"Even eliminating carbon dioxide emissions entirely and assuming the highest sensitivity of world temperature to carbon dioxide levels (which happens to be the sensitivity that is furthest from that in recent research) would project a temperature moderation of less than 0.2 degree centigrade. Of course, eliminating CO2 emissions entirely, if possible, would have much higher costs than even those of the $25 carbon tax modeled by the EIA or the Boxer-Sanders tax modeled by Heritage.",0_0
"Which is why today's Russia appears once again to be inching toward another perestroika moment. Although the market reforms of the 1990s and today's oil prices have combined to produce historically unprecedented prosperity for millions, the brazen corruption of the ruling elite, new-style censorship, and open disdain for public opinion have spawned alienation and cynicism that are beginning to reach (if not indeed surpass) the level of the early 1980s.",0_0
The climate police would do more for their cause if they spent more time persuading the public on the merits of climate risks and policy. Their resort to abusive government power suggests that they think they have a weak case.,0_0
"Richard Keen at the University of Colorado was the first to notice the changes. On December 5, he published this report comparing his own research into the climate of Alaska with the official version of the UN Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). He found no evidence of warming in Alaska over the past three decades, and no substantial difference in average temperature between 1935-1944 and the present time. Overall he found a warming trend of 0.69 Kelvin per century over the span of the twentieth century???while the GHCN dataset projects a warming trend of 2.83 K/century. (The Kelvin is the International System equivalent of a Celsius degree.)",1_4
"When the models have been tested by looking backwards and trying to reproduce past climate which we know, they fail miserably. The observed 20th-century temperature increase was 0.6 C. However, the UN climate models predict a 20th-century increase of 1.6 C to 3.75C more than 2.5 to 6.3 times the observed rate of change.",5_1
"We secured the services of one of the experts you approved, but that person suggested we also consult Drs. Bruce Wielicki or Dennis Hartmann to help evaluate the radiation budget data upon which he relies. Please let us know if you have specific concerns with us consulting either of these two experts.",0_0
"""President Obama, hip person that he is, will hold a town hall today in which he'll answer questions to him submitted on Twitter with an #AskObama hashtag. Obviously, the Republicans have been having some fun with this. Speaker of the House John Boehner asked Obama, ""With 9.1% unemployment & 'shovel ready' jobs a bust, will you admit the 'stimulus' was a mistake?"" Okay.""",0_0
"The expedition is being led by Chris Turney, climate scientist, who has set up a carbon refining company called Carbonscape which has developed technology to fix carbon from the atmosphere and make a host of green bi-products, helping reduce greenhouse gas levels. The purpose of the expedition is to discover and communicate the environmental changes taking place in the south.",0_0
"CEI is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. For more information, please visit our website at www.cei.org.",0_0
"The authors note that ""the longevity and persistence of clonal plant populations are believed to enhance community stability and ecosystem resilience to climate change,"" citing Steinger et al . (1996), Grabherr and Nagy (2003), and Guisan and Thuiller (2005), while adding that ""stability and resilience are thought to be high in arctic and alpine ecosystems, where more than 50% of the plant species are able to reproduce clonally (Korner, 2003)."" Thus, ""to better understand their ecology, as well as their persistence through past climatic oscillations and their potential resistance to future climate change,"" de Witte et al . say they ""chose to investigate diversity, structure and age in arctic-alpine clonal plant populations.""",3_2
Greens Want Funds to Offset Summit Greenhouse Emissions,0_0
"Since the Earth hit 350 ppm, temperatures in Dublin have been falling faster than four degrees per century.",1_3
"The Obama Administration has been implementing an anti-energy agenda since coming to Washington. From day one, Obama and his ???dream ???green?? team?? have worked to increase the cost of traditional energy to reduce usage and try to make uneconomic consumer-rejected energy (wind, solar, ethanol, electric vehicles) more economic.",4_1
"In a joint press conference NOAA and NASA have just released data for the global surface temperature for 2013. In summary they both show that the pause in global surface temperature that began in 1997, according to some estimates, continues. Statistically speaking there has been no trend in global temperatures over this period. Given that the IPCC estimates that the average decadal increase in global surface temperature is 0.2 deg C, the world is now 0.3 deg C cooler than it should have been. ???David Whitehouse, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 21 January 2014",1_4
"They published 2 papers on the subject in the journal European Geophysical Union (EGU) , . According to the 2 scientists, climate is often cyclic. The first study appeared in February 2013 and it examined six of the longest existing thermometer data seriesrecorded in Europe, as well asone dataset from an Antarctic ice core and another from a data series extracted from stalagmites. The datasets were covered the period of 1757 2010.",2_1
"We need to be dealing with the debt, and jobs and energy security. Instead we got four more years of a messiah complex from someone who has no understanding of energy or business or America.",0_0
> >> >Subject: Re: The Climatic Variability and Climate Change,0_0
"Antarctic sea ice extent at the end of July was the highest on record for that day, growing to 18.077 million sq km. The previous record of 17.783 was set in 2010, whilst the 1981-2010 average was 16.869.",1_1
"by 2050, mainly in developing countries. This could be prevented by",0_0
"Meanwhile, gallant scientists have passed away in 2016.",0_0
I encourage you to help stop it by spreading the word about the famine threat.,0_0
"Google is now part of ""Alphabet,"" Sundar Pichai steps up as CEO, Updated ArsTechnica ""This is no mere rebranding. As Page writes, ""Alphabet Inc. will replace Google Inc. as the publicly-traded entity and all shares of Google will automatically convert into the same number of shares of Alphabet, with all of the same rights. Google will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet. Our two classes of shares will continue to trade on Nasdaq as GOOGL and GOOG.'""",0_0
"Today in her column, The Wall Street Journal's Kimberley Strassel explains the Obama EPA's censoring of an internal study that questioned the scientific foundation for the administration's climate change policies. The report, written by Alan Carlin, a senior analyst at the EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics, was released last week by CEI last week.",0_0
"This claim, by the way, is already falling apart. As Steven McIntyre explains, one of the examples Mann cites is a British panel that did not actually investigate Mann?its focus was on the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, the epicenter of ""Climategate""?and in its announcement of its results criticized Mann's methods as ""inappropriate"" and his results as ""exaggerated."" At the time, Mann felt so exonerated that he sent harassing e-mails to the scientist who made that remark, demanding a retraction and an apology. Mann then went on to tell the BBC that such a retraction was forthcoming. It wasn't. All of which tells you a great deal about Professor Mann's credibility.",5_2
"Don Easterbrook, writing on Watts Up With That , shows a graph of a Greenland ice core derived temperatures for the last 10,000 years, which shows that the majority of that period was warmer than today (2010 ranks about 9000th):",2_1
We need to keep a close eye on this dangerous situation.,0_0
The company collapsed at the end of August 2011 and filed for bankruptcy in early September. The Hill has reported previously on the administration decision not to attempt a last-ditch financial rescue.,0_0
"High-speed rail dead, development project continues:",0_0
"Wind turbines hurt more than birds. On June 16, a Michigan judge agreed with residents who live near the 56-turbine Lake Winds facility and who complained of health problems that began just after the turbines began operating. A lawsuit filed on April 1, 2013 argued that noise, vibrations, and flickering lights emanating from Lake Winds were adversely affecting their health.",4_4
"But the public is being told otherwise by global-warming alarmists, who in recent years have tried to ramp up the fright factor of their message with claims that an increase in global temperatures will also result in a dramatic increase in heat-related deaths. This motive may have provided the impetus for recent reporting on the climate death map.",5_2
"Third, that other tide gauges, scattered around Australia as part of the national tidal network, mostly record rates of long-term rise between about 0.5mm and 2.5mm a year with no change in behaviour in the late 20th century that might reflect a human (global warming) influence.",1_6
"Such intransigence belies the organic industry's and Secretary Vilsack's claim to want peaceful coexistence. After all, coexistence implies willingness for two parties to exist alongside one another. Forbidding the cultivation of biotech plants in such a large area could therefore only be seen as sacrificing the needs of conventional agriculture to the supposed interests of organic growers. More important, it would sacrifice a highly useful technology on the altar of green intolerance while actually causing harm. Genetically engineered crops have proven to be superior to organic in numerous ways that benefit humans and the natural ecosphere.",0_0
"Massachusetts' Democratic legislative leaders were long reluctant to discuss changing their law while Kennedy was still aliveto do so would acknowledge his impending demise. At the same time, they knew that efforts to reverse the law would highlight their own hypocrisy. But Kennedy transcended the whispers about this problem and confronted it directly, writing a letter to Patrick and the leaders of the state House and Senate asking them to pass a law to provide continuity in the Senate seat in the event of a vacancy. He offered a specific plan, a gubernatorial interim appointment until a special election can be held, with a twist in his request, that the temporary appointee pledge not to run for the seat. Kennedy's letter changed the political dynamic. The change is to be welcomed for much larger reasons.",0_0
"In recent 12 months, koda saw a big drop in the Chinese, Ukrainian, and especially Russian market but the VW Group has experienced much steeper drops in these markets, anyway.",0_0
"(Dr. Martin Hertzberg, combustion research scientist)",0_0
"On that occasion it took 10,000 years for the temperature to rise by 6C. There were mass extinctions, but the timescale gave some plants and animals time to adapt and move north and south to survive. Many species evolved quickly dwarfism being one of the most widespread and successful strategies.",3_2
public and for informed decision makers in order to get a) a debate started and,0_0
"Conservatives often speak in language and propose policies that the working class perceives as threatening. Conservatives celebrate freedom, opportunity, achievement, being our own boss, entrepreneurship. Working-class voters want these things, but in moderation. They know that not everyone can graduate from college or own a business. They want a political and economic system that rewards and supports their modest vision for their own lives, rhetorically and practically. Conservatives must figure out how to reconcile their core principles with working-class desires if they are to form a lasting, stable political coalition.",0_0
"But, even assuming that the data since 1994 is accurate, we are still only left with a trend of just 18 years. Is Elsner seriously suggesting that reliable trends can be calculated over such a short period of time?",0_0
"Hilariously, the Telegraph has published an article promoting Stephan Lewandowsky's ""conspiracy theorist"" paper - you know, the one that surveyed readers at all the main non-sceptic blogs and discovered that sceptics were all conspiracy theorists (see first comment here ).",5_2
"All kidding aside, I can and have physically demonstrated that the number of M08 proxies passing correlation cannot be stated to be biased toward having an upslope signal, let alone a temperature signal. It is a misnomer, promoted by duped reviewers and a scientific community sporting a lack of diligence and Jim has jumped two feet into the hole. It may not be his fault as the paper is obtusely written with more puzzles than the New York Times, but skepticism should be the core of a good scientist.",0_0
"Very timely transmission In Our Time on BBC Radio 4, about Lysenkoism, biology Soviet disguised as science but in reality pure propaganda, that Trofim D. Lysenko, Stalin's agricultural consultant, managed to pass off as truth from 1928 until at least 1962 . This is the original description of the program (my translation dallinglese)",0_0
"Also, Im independent inasmuch as Im not tied to consensus opinions so that my findings will pass through the gauntlet of peer-review gatekeepers. Truth be told, its unlikely the results of my research would pass through that gauntlet because the satellite-era sea surface temperature data contradicts the dogmas of the consensus.",0_0
"And now, even though CO2 levels continue to rise, temperatures have stayed steady or even declined.",1_4
"3. The price of water in Australias largest water markets in the Southern Murray Darling regions experienced extreme volatility during the 07-08 season, peaking at $1200 per ML in November 2007 only to drop to below $300 per ML in February 2008. This was influenced by water resource availability and major policy/allocation announcements during the season.",0_0
"while ignoring that there is no evidence that climate has become more variable or extreme , paleoclimate evidence shows extreme weather is more common during cold periods,and many climate models predict less extreme weather in a warmer climate.",1_7
IPCC Relied On Study Which Used Tiny Sample.,0_0
"""As confrontation mounted over a contentious plan to reform the retirement system, the French civil aviation authority said on Monday it was asking airlines to cut flights into French airports by up to 50 percent on Tuesday because of possible strikes by airport personnel.""",0_0
"""The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to the acquisition of property on just terms from any State or person for any purpose in respect of which the Parliament has power to make laws.""",0_0
"The Green-energy emphasis was sold as a job creator for unemployed Americans, as a cure for global warming, and as a way to slow a perceived energy shortage. It sounded so positive in the many speeches President Obama gave as a sales pitch to the American public.",0_0
Spencer gives us a graph of temperatures from 1950 to 2010 that shows an increase of about 1.8 degrees centigrade over 60 years for a DT/dt = 0.03 Degrees Centigrade per year. He then presents a chart documenting a decreasing trend that shown US F3 to F5 tornadoes dropping from 43 to 27 in a fairly consistent linear progression. This gives us a DN/dt = -0.267 F3 to F5 tornadoes per year.,1_7
"It might be time to bring out the special ""I hug myself"" jackets.",0_0
"Phew thats OK then. Seriously, this guy is so compromised he shouldnt be let anywhere near an independent enquiry.",0_0
"ICSC chief science advisor, Professor Bob Carter of James Cook University in Queensland, Australia and author of the best selling book, Climate: the Counter Consensus explained, Science has yet to provide unambiguous evidence that problematic, or even measurable, human-caused global warming is occurring. The hypothesis of dangerous man-made climate change is based solely on computerized models that have repeatedly failed in practice in the real world.",5_1
"The tests involved head-on crashes between the fortwo and a 2009 Mercedes C Class, the Fit and a 2009 Honda Accord and the Yaris and the 2009 Toyota Camry. The tests were conducted at 40 miles per hour, representing a severe crash.",0_0
"When people say the science is settled, they generally mean greenhouse gas theory. But that means only the nudge is settled. What is far from settled is the second theory of strong net positive feedback in the climate, ie the theory the climate is perched on top of a hill. It is unusual for long-term stable but chaotic systems to be dominated by such strong positive feedbacks. In fact, only the most severe contortions allow scientists to claim their high-sensitivity models of catastrophic warming are consistent with the relatively modest warming of the past century.",3_1
"7.	""Climate change is no destiny; it is a consequence of a lack of responsibility "" No, climate change is most likely a consequence of natural solar radiation variations.",2_1
"In conclusion, I guess what surprised me the most was how stale the data was in GHCN v2. In answer to Willis?? FOI request, the University of East Anglia said that all the Jones station data was available online at GHCN v2. If that??s the case, is CRU also using stale station data? With so much stale data, I wonder how many series are actually driving the temperature results in this area.",5_1
"The current biofuel craze is another case in point. Greens have long favored government mandates to convert corn into motor fuel. They claim this will cut into our supposed addiction to oil, while minimizing harmful greenhouse gas emissions from our tailpipes. The Greens got their wish, and in recent years Congress has ordered billions of gallons of ethanol to be introduced into our fuel supply. European nations have passed similar biofuel mandates to fight global warming.",4_4
"And what that means is that if the IPCC claim of three degrees of global warming per doubling of CO2 is true, when the top-of-atmosphere radiation goes up by a doubling of CO2, an additional TOA 3.7 watts per metre squared, the surface downwelling radiation needs to go up by no less than 21 W/m2 per doubling. And although I was surprised by the size of the number, to me was very good news, because it meant that if it were there, it should be large enough to be quite visible in the CERES data. So I took a look and Figure 1 above shows what I found.",0_0
Climate scientists are claiming that 2003 was the hottest year Britain has seen since record-keeping began in 1659; most blame man's emissions of greenhouse gases as the prime cause. The truth is that we still don't know that the warmer summers of recent years are due to man's handiwork. The variation could be natural and there's no saying that the current trend will continue.,0_0
"the most out of the first part of their terms avoid the temptation to coast,",0_0
New York Post reports on Democrat Senators attacking organizations that disagree with them on the climate change debate.,0_0
"With regard to glaciers, their individual flow rates are recognized to be complex and varied, both in location and time. In any case, ice melts only after a certain delay and does not respond to short-term temp fluctuations.",0_0
3. There was an Ice Age 450 million years ago when CO2 was about 10 times higher than it is today.,2_1
"The insights of these two scientists would seem to be unknown to far too many advocates of AGW/climate change who seem incapable of confronting anomalies spawned by increasing knowledge of phenomena like cloud cover, sun spots, and cosmic radiation.",5_2
"""Unknown plants and insects may touch our hearts less than the whales or jaguars, but in the long run they might have been more useful to people and central to the functions of their ecosystems in ways that we cannot imagine. At the present rate, many of them are dead for the rest of history, extinguished by fire, mercury, dioxin, and the loss of the agents of their survival, whether a pollinator, a dispersal agent, a particular type of soil, or a particular tree."" Alexander Cockburn, Fate of the Forest, p. 58",0_0
"Nevertheless, it is absolutely clear that there is no evidence that there is a trend of growing extremes and more disasters, and that fits with what scientists have long said about global warming.",1_7
"So are todays temperatures unprecedented? Monckton talks about the Medieval Warm Period. The UN IPCC report of 1990 showed a clear Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and a Little Ice Age (LIA), but the IPCC 2001 report showed the Hockey Stick graph 6 times in colour with no MWP. So how was this achieved? Data showing a hockey stick shape from Sheep Mountain in California was given 390 times the weighting of the data Mayberry Slough in Arizona, which had a MWP.",5_1
"Expanding wind is a good investment if energy prices increase more than we forecast, and there is a significant risk of that happening, he said.",0_0
"One doesn't have to be a great expert in political science, sociology, military matters, politics, or related issues to figure out who is the aggressor and why he is doing it and who is defending himself. Common sense, a modest amount of intelligence, and the ability to connect the dots is, along with hours of the research of available sources and materials from several sources, enough.",0_0
"GFS 00z heaviest snowfall New Years Eve for Nevada & Arizona (at elevation) & frz rain for Texas New Years Day. http://t.co/DWwJ3Gd2xz Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) December 29, 2014",0_0
An Inconvenient Truth: Liberal Climate Inquisition Can't Explain Past Temperature Changes,0_0
"The Fourth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention (COP-4) is being held in Buenos Aires from November 2-13, 1998. Organizations interested in applying for accreditation to the conference as an NGO should write a letter stating their interest to:",0_0
Pennsylvania wind project cancelled after local opposition,0_0
"During the 1920s, observe historians Sandra Opdycke and David Rosner, patients' fees accounted for 69 percent of the voluntary hospitals' revenue, though fiscal stability remained elusive for them. The hospitals' boards continued to take their charitable mission seriously. They resisted unionization, believing that the services that hospitals provided were too vital to submit to union demands, let alone to permit slowdowns or strikes. The hospitals also feared that unionization threatened their already-uncertain fiscal situation. This antiunion mind-set helped make health care the ""quiet zone"" of labor relations for generations.",0_0
"The normalization of TA and DIC to a constant salinity subdues the buffering provided by salinity; while amplifying the acidification effect of increasing CO2. A realistic treatment of salinity, yields an insignificant lowering of pH from a doubling of pre-industrial CO2. Chicken Little of the Sea does not appear to be very dangerous.",3_2
He also failed to mention that the U.S. has made no such pledges as regards the 1992 ?Kyoto Treaty? which was resoundingly rejected by the U.S. Senate when then Vice President Al Gore brought it back from the U.N. conference.,0_0
"Then some how you end up diverted into a side street, that has a traffic jam, so you turn onto a sort of an alley and then you find yourself in a strange part of town on not-quite a street. Surrounded by people eying your looks and your ride with a Like what brought your sorry ass down here? and you are wondering that too. You start to think you really just want the next freeway onramp, to anywhere, but dont know where it is.",0_0
"Angry crowds have demanded the death penalty for a Sudanese newspaper editor over an article allegedly questioning the parentage of the Prophet Muhammad. Hundreds of people waving banners and chanting ""God is great"" protested outside a court as Mohamed Taha Mohamed Ahmed was charged over the article. Ali Shumi, the head of Sudan's Press Council, said the article insulted the Prophet Muhammad. He denied the charges were an assault on press freedom. ""Freedom of the press stops when it comes to respect for religions. Not just for Islam - if you said the same things about Jesus there would be the same punishment,"" he said.",0_0
"But to turn the health-care debate their way, Republicans need to do a simple, elemental thing "" which they have been loathe to do for much of the past 14 years: talk about the issue.",0_0
"Thanks to the efforts of Green patron saint Rachel Carson, environmentalists have succeeded in curbing the use of DDT, which, Murray writes, is ""highly effective in controlling malaria and thereby lifting millions out of poverty."" While it's unclear if banning the pesticide has had much in the way of environmental benefits, it has been unquestionably harmful to humankind. Unchecked malaria has killed tens of millions of people, particularly in Africa, and continues to cost people their lives each year. ""In 2005 alone, across Uganda, 50,000 children died from malaria,"" Murray notes. ""That is the true Silent Spring.""",0_0
"The Supreme Court ruled that the EPA could regulate greenhouse gases, not that the EPA must regulate. Former President George W. Bush administration had the good sense to let sleeping dogs lie. President Obama, on the other hand, thought he could leverage the Supreme Court's decision. He had campaigned on a promise to deliver a ""cap-and-trade"" program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but he is having trouble getting it through Congress. So the President devised a high-stakes game of chicken: He is threatening to unleash the EPA in order to coerce climate legislation out of Congress.",0_0
"For example, if we say that the Earth is in numerical flux equilibrium with the Sun, and mistake this for conserving energy, then that would mean that the Earth must emit the same flux of energy as it receives the Sun. Therefore the Earth must emit 480 W/m2on average since that is what it receives from the Sun on an instantaneous basis.",0_0
"Om miljrrelsen: Den strsta frloraren r miljrrelsen. I mnga r har dess aktivister negligerat allt utom klimatfrgan Ingen intressegrupp i modern tid har varit s befriat frn skepticism, kritisk granskning och ansvar som miljetablissemanget.",0_0
"With most of the October 18th report and survey based on this Alice in Wonderland-like definition of global warming, we have no choice but to dismiss as meaningless the answers to their subsequent question ?Do you think that global warming is happening??",0_0
"Writing in the well-known science blog ""Watts Up With That,"" CATO's Center for the Study of Science Director Patrick Michaels, Assistant Director Paul Knappenberger, and Distinguished Senior Fellow-MIT Professor Emeritus of Meteorology Richard Lindzen agree that the lax standard of NOAA's study should prompt questions by members of the scientific community.",0_0
"""While the recession has hit men far harder than women so much so that some pundits have dubbed this economic downturn",0_0
"For a fuller account see Andrew Montfords The Unintended Consequences of Climate Change Policy . The Danish statistician/economist, Bjorn Lomberg , believes in AGW but also believes that resources used to deal with it would be better expended for the Third World poor by improving water supplies, agricultural resources and dealing with disease.",4_2
"Question 2 (for Times Colonist editor Lucinda Chodan): IPCC reports are subject to ""review by governments."" This does not mean that government does what it wishes after the IPCC reports are published, as is proper; governments get to determine what the scientific results will be before they are published. In other words, the IPCC is subject to a political agenda. My question is: Would you agree to be the editor in chief of a newspaper that was subject to ""review by governments""? Would you trust such a newspaper?",5_2
The answer lies in his promise to ?fundamentally transform? a nation that does not need transformation except for the reduction of the size and scope of the federal government. Its economic system is the best in the world. Its military is the strongest. Its agriculture feeds Americans and is exported to other nations.,0_0
"Following massive aboveground destruction caused by both fires and hurricanes , atmospheric CO 2 enrichment is able to bring scrub-oak ecosystems back from the brink of death , so to speak, to once again flourish, as the life-giving gas stimulates root production and the acquisition of needed-but-scarce soil nutrients?? Read",3_3
"on Saturday, September 25th, 2010 at 9:14 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"As an example, when demand is 40GW, and nuclear/hydro/bio are contributing 20GW, only 20GW will be needed from wind, less than a third of the implied capacity. Wind farms simply will not find it economical to operate at such low levels, which presumably means they will be paid huge subsidies, on top of existing ones, to switch off. All of which, of course, will have to be paid for by the long suffering consumer.",4_4
"But for 18 years, despite the Met Offices increasingly desperate attempts to claim otherwise, those cussed temp-eratures have simply refused to rise in tandem, as their computer models predicted they should have done.",1_4
"""European leaders have been slow to heed calls for a diversification of the continent's energy sources. Meanwhile, Russia's state-owned energy giant, Gazprom, has been consolidating control over the regional supply. In May, 2007, Russian and Central Asian leaders came to agreement about the transport of natural gas from the Caspian Sea on terms favorable to Moscow. Algeria, the second largest provider of natural gas to Europe, has talked with Gazprom about better coordination, which has stoked fears of a possible natural gas cartel, like OPEC. And now, Russia is making moves on Nigeria's promising reserves.""",0_0
"On Earth Two, this is Romney's climate change policy",0_0
The Efficiency of a Carbon Tax: Broadly Accepted and Broadly Wrong,0_0
The EPA is on the regulatory rampage as lawyers salivate on the sidelines. Can it be stopped?,0_0
Global Warmth In 88 Is Found To Set a Record New York Times,0_0
"This is what happened in July 2012. Then, NCDC records indicated that the United States was less cool at night than in July 1936, therefore, the average they computed for July 2012 was higher than in 1936. Yet, Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama at Huntsville demonstrated that NCDC records show daytime high temperatures in July 1936 far surpassed those of 2012. July 2012 was not the warmest month in the American 118-year instrumental record.",2_1
"I also agree with Nigel Lawson that ?doing nothing is better than doing something stupid? (p. 95). If we want to save our blue planet, it shouldn?t be from climate change, but ? as the author says in the last sentence of his book ? from entering ?a new age of unreason? (p. 106). I spent most of my life in such an age.",0_0
Climate change lobby wants to kill free speech,5_2
"Voelker et al . report that since 1850 the stem growth of the three species has risen ""coincidently with increases in atmospheric CO 2 ,"" such that the overall trend in ring-width in recent years is ""nearly two times that"" experienced prior to 1850. In addition, they note that the ""long-term increases in radial growth appear unrelated to historical disturbance levels for the region, to long-term changes in relevant climatic variables, or to productivity of sites sampled."" What it means",0_0
"Last years blizzard was bad timing, too. Temperatures were lower than usual, which caused what was supposed to be heavy rain to become heavy snow.",0_0
But the green argument is more complex There is a global dimension to food production the market as this research argued,0_0
Two federal laws are cited in the complaint: The Anti-Kickback Act (1934 and amended) and the False Claims Act (1863 and amended).,0_0
"Going back further, to 1964, Lyndon Johnson beat Barry Goldwater by 22 percent. Four years later, Richard Nixon began an era of Republican domination of national elections.",0_0
"While President Obama challenged China at the United Nations to follow the U.S. lead in pushing for drastic reductions in national carbon emissions to save the planet from climate change, it appears that China has dramatically different ideas. As in: no.",0_0
"Rebuttal: Bob Tisdale shows how ""Forecast the Facts? Brad Johnson and now Dr. Heidi Cullen are fecklessly factless about ocean warming and the blizzard Dear Chicken Little: ""The Sky Is Falling (It's Snowing) But Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies Off New England Are NOT Unusual'",5_2
"That's a highly regressive tax increase, since lowest-income earners don't make a third of what highest-income earners make, but they would incur a third as much cost. It's regressive in the same way as the 1932 excise tax increase by Herbert Hoover that deepened the misery of the Great Depression.",0_0
"CFACT is headed to Brazil to expose these dreadful, potentially devastating policy proposals and inject some much needed common sense and attention to people's needs into the deliberations.",0_0
"who's reviewing whose papers and grant applications, then not only",0_0
"Meanwhile, Ms. Yates wants prosecutors to employ the Responsible Corporate Officers Doctrine (or Park Doctrine) more often, to hold executives individually accountable for the actions of company employees, without requiring that the government prove the execs intended to break any laws or even that senior managers were negligent or didn't even know someone in the company was violating a law.",0_0
It offers a similar depiction of the world into categories of right and wrong to that adopted in Anderegg et al.s 2010 equally poor study in PNAS: dividing publishing climate scientists into believers and non-believers. It seems to me that these people are still living (or wishing to live) in the pre-2009 world of climate change discourse. Havent they noticed that public understanding of the climate issue has moved on?,0_0
"The currency lines are interesting, with a clear August intervention start by the Swiss Central Bank (probably coordinated with the other central banks.) A great example of why you dont want to ride a strong Swiss Franc too long. The Euro is dropping (no surprise there) and the dollar is rising. (The UUP is largely a Euro short so tends to move in opposition to the Euro. EUO is a Euro double short, so is more leveraged. You can see that both lines have the same shape with different amplifications.)",0_0
"So, a few months ago a website called Scholars and Rogues published an incredibly lame attempt by Brian Angliss to show why nobody needed to read The Hockey Stick Illusion, citing the low number of emails that were leaked as evidence that we didn??t have enough evidence. When Steve Mosher pointed out that a crooked accountant probably had numerous accurate transactions to his credit, but that only one was needed to prove him criminal, Mr. Angliss and Scholars and Rogues sort of went away.",5_2
"Introducing their intriguing study, Reef and Lovelock (2014) write that specific leaf area or SLA - which is the ratio of leaf area to weight - is ""a key indicator of CO 2 -induced changes in photosynthetic activity and growth,"" citing Cornelissen et al . (1999), Medlyn et al . (1999), Yin (2002) and Poorter and Navas (2003), due to the fact that ""species that respond more strongly to elevated CO 2 (e.g. grow more rapidly or assimilate more carbon) also show steeper declines in SLA as CO 2 increases,"" citing Cornelissen et al . (1999). And they also note, in this regard, that ""tree species with initially higher SLA values respond more strongly, in terms of photosynthesis and/or growth to elevated CO 2 than tree species with initially lower SLA,"" once again citing the study of Cornelissen et al . (1999) as well as the newer work of Ali et al . (2013).",3_3
"Die Zeit tells the story of a little round man namedMichael Mann and his hockey stick chart, which they sayis proof that humans are at fault for climate change . Die Zeit however blames Morano and the Heartland Institute for undermining the hockey sticks credibilityand fanning skepticism and lies. The hockey stick was attacked by Willie Soon who, Die Zeit explains, received over 1 million dollars from ExxonMobil and other corporations .",0_0
"Over 13.7 million Americans remain unemployed; another 8.3 million are involuntarily employed only part-time; black unemployment stands at 15.3 percent; and gasoline prices have hit $4 per gallon, foretelling more rough waters ahead for the still fragile US economy.",0_0
Hide the lies generated lawsuits between climate science believers (what kind of real science requires belief ?) and skeptics of dangerous man-made planetary warming along with ridiculous conspiracy theories such as Big Oil hired evil hackers in a plot to discredit angelic climate scientists.,5_2
"Although he admitted Greenpeace had released inaccurate but alarming information, Leipold defended the organizations practice of emotionalizing issues in order to bring the public around to its way of thinking and alter public opinion.",5_2
"The challenge to the IPCC community, now that their duplicity has been exposed, is to communicate to all of us why the peer-reviewedpapers thatwe documented, and that were available in time for the IPCC review process,were considered bad papers and thus ignored in the IPCC report. A balancedassessment would comment on these papers, and provide the reason they disagree with their results.",5_2
"We already know that none of the officials at half-time paid any attention to which gauge they were using and inattentively switched gauges between Patriot and Colt measurements. Once Anderson put his gauge back into his pocket, it would be random which was gauge was used next. Suppose that Anderson measured eleven Patriot balls using the Logo gauge, finding two underinflated even with this gauge, and then put his gauge back into his pocket, making a fresh draw when it was time to re-gauge the two Patriot balls. But this time, he drew the Non-Logo gauge and deflated the Patriot balls to 12.5 psi (Non-Logo gauge), yielding the two balls in this second group.",0_0
"230 million years ago, when the land was dominated by dinosaurs, the oceans were controlled by coccolithophores , one-celled marine plants (a kind of phytoplankton). Tomorrow, a peer-reviewed paper in Science M. Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez, Paul R. Halloran & their 11 disciples: Phytoplankton Calcification in a High-CO2 World will argue that according to lab tests as well as direct observations of the sea bed, coccolithophores thrive. Over the past 220 years, their volume has increased by 40% or so. They are a cornerstone of the ecosystem. For example, they help to remove carbon and lock it in rocks as they die and sink.",3_2
"He cites many liberal Democrats' opposition to trade agreements, which they claim is ""qualified,"" not because they're opposed to liberalized trade per se, but because they think it should be made ""fair"" through a morass of side agreements and provisions dealing with potential adverse effects from the increased trade.",0_0
"""Energy policy"" is a term of interest primarily to politicians, not to ordinary Americans. Ordinary Americans want lots of energy at low prices. They don't want to foot the tab through taxes to subsidize one form of energy over another. They don't want to block pipelines bringing jobs and energy to America. Energy in America today is plentiful at lower prices not because of the wisdom of politicians to implement a clever ""energy policy,"" but despite the repeated stupidities of our government which has implemented polices at war with oil, gas and ordinary Americans.",0_0
"Global warming policies championed by former Vice President Al Gore, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and several Members of Congress clash with America's long-term economic and energy interests. These policy makers advocate 70-, 80-, and even 90-percent reductions in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by mid-century. Yet the federal Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects a 34-percent increase in U.S. emissions by 2030. Emissions tend to increase along with increases in population and economic output. Is it possible to reduce emissions by 70 percent or more without severe cutbacks in either economic or population growth?",0_0
"""Ohio's concealed-carry law requires anyone stopped by police to immediately notify the officer if they are armed. Failure to do so is a first-class misdemeanor that can result in a six-month jail term and a thousand-dollar fine, as well as losing the license to carry. It's usually not considered a death penalty offense, unless one gets pulled over in Canton, Ohio, in a case highlighted today by Ohioans for Concealed Carry:""",0_0
The relevance to Michael Mann?s situation is that Penn State?s new President started his career at Penn State in the same position Mann now holds: Director of the Earth System Science Center. Hard to imagine that Barron won?t take an interest in lawsuits involving Mann.,0_0
other nations should help bring pressure not because America asked them to or,0_0
>> Sent: 16. juli 1999 20:08,0_0
"The relationships between wine consumption, clinical endpoints, and circulating biomarkers were evaluated in 6973 patients with chronic heart failure enrolled in a multicenter clinical trial. Whereas objective clinical endpoints did not differ significantly based on wine consumption, patients who consumed wine more frequently perceived themselves to be healthier and experienced less frequent symptoms of depression. Those who consumed wine more frequently also had lower levels of circulating biomarkers of inflammation.",0_0
"""Wow, Dad. How could your Concerto for Gamelan and Nose Flute possibly compete with such rampant pretentiousness and pseudery?""",0_0
"Figure 2. A comparison between modeled and observed trends in the average temperature of the lower atmosphere, for periods ranging from 10 to 32 years (during the period 1979 through 2010). The yellow is the 5-95 percentile range of individual model projections, the green is the model average, the red and blue are the average of the observations, as compiled by Remote Sensing Systems and University of Alabama in Huntsville respectively (adapted from Santer et al., 2011).",0_0
"The Italian Senate stands for climate realism. A motion passed on last Wednesday commits the Italian government to promote a sound discussion on climate policies with the European Union and the United Nations, with particular regard to the major changes that have occurred after the economic recession, the Climategate scandal, and the failure to reach a global deal in Copenhagen. In fact, the Senate asks both that the current commitments under the EU climate and energy package are re-negotiated, and that an independent investigation is started on the IPCC process.",0_0
Yet the landscape is far from bleak. Opportunities beckon for real pro-gress in the development of Israeli-Palestinian relations.,0_0
What is the problem with raising suspicious of cherry picking? Of course no one cherry picks.,0_0
"According to the temperature records kept by the UK Met Office (and other series are much the same), over the past 150 years (that is, from the very beginnings of the Industrial Revolution), mean global temperature has increased by a little under a degree centigrade according to the Met Office, 0.8C. This has happened in fits and starts, which are not fully understood. To begin with, to the extent that anyone noticed it, it was seen as a welcome and natural recovery from the rigours of the Little Ice Age. But the great bulk of it 0.5C out of the 0.8C occurred during the last quarter of the 20th century. It was then that global warming alarmism was born.",5_2
"Patrick Moore, co-founder and former president of Greenpeace",0_0
"Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) was left bemused recently when it became apparent he cannot even build a solar power plant in the middle of the Mojave Desert. And when demand gets really high and the state's remaining hydropower plants are offline because of drought, rolling blackouts like those of 2005 will be inevitable. This is the energy policy that President Obama is now trying to impose on the rest of the nationto cut out all affordable sources of energy and cause bills to, as he said, ""skyrocket,"" to encourage development of alternative energy sources.",0_0
"Obama won less than 20% of US by area, so the press corps his Pravda corpse has been rapidly ramping up the lies about his mandate . This is needed to begin dismantling the US constitution and allow a few coastal cities to destroy the rest of America.",0_0
Australian Meteorologists Caught Fudging Temperature Measurements,5_2
"Which leads to Impossible Outcome 3. In greenhouse physics, the sky responds to the surface by matching its temperature and emission. The surface then responds to the sky by getting warmer and radiating twice as much as it would without the influence of greenhouse gases. But then, why is it that these gases cease to respond to the surfaces higher temperature and emission? Facing a body thats radiating 478 W/m, this infrared-absorbing layer should supposedly stay in character and radiate 478 W/m back to the surface and another 478 W/m out to space. Yet it stubbornly remains at -18 although the surface it responds to has reached 30.",2_3
"And Norman Myers says that ""Given that we are witnessing a mass extinction of exceptional scope, should it not be sufficient to make a best-judgement assessment of what is going on should the burden of proof not be shifted onto the shoulders of the skeptics and have them prove their point rather than the reverse?",0_0
"The CFC ban empowered and emboldened the eco-left. It paved the way for their next big scam. The environmentalists scored a big win when they finally banned DDT and doomed millions to a bleak death. Their subsequent eco-scares were not so successful. They were never able to affect global action in their belief in zero population growth. Widespread starvation and scarcity of resources has not happened. Pesticides and herbicides have proven not to be deadly to children. Acid rain has not resulted in widespread deforestation. High power transmission lines do not cause cancer. The use of chlorine produces more safe, potable water than any other intervention. The CFC ban gave them a ""win,"" and it was based on some of the most specious, tenuous science one can imagine. But it proved a point: Proven science need not trump environmental ideology.",0_0
"No new ml for a reduction of carbon dioxide emissions in 2030 will be announced frrn after the next elections to the EU Parliament in 2014, says a topptjnsteman.",0_0
"EU Commission President Romano Prodi had to intervene personally (Feb. 25) to reiterate the EU's commitment to the Kyoto Protocol in the event of Russian non-ratification. The Commission then released a document (Memo/04/43, Mar. 4) restating its public position.",0_0
"CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Eli Lehrer on Castro's presidential legacy: ""While centrally planned communism has never helped any nation's economy in the long run, Cuba seems to have had it particularly bad: Between World War II and the 1960s, indeed, communist Eastern Europe rebuilt at roughly the same rate as the West only to see economic growth nosedive after that. Cuba, on the other hand, has seen its living standard drop from the third highest in the Americas (after the U.S. and Canada) to one of the lowest.""",0_0
"Please spread the word in any way available to you. If you have questions, my contact details are below, but please do not ring just to chat.Were flat out fighting for our own survival, in addition to attempting to organize details for this event.",0_0
"There are substantial shorter term fluctuations in temperature, and since about 1850 world temperatures have been recovering from a Little Ice Age up by about +0.7C up until the year 2000. These fluctuations have correlated well with solar activity observable by the number of sunspots. There was a particularly active solar period from about 1970 onward coinciding well with sunspot cycles 21 22 23: it led to comparatively rapid warming.",2_1
"One of 1199's most celebrated victories came in 1999, when an extraordinary $13 million lobbying campaign persuaded lawmakers to spend over $1 billion to expand Medicaid through a program called Family Health Plus, which would extend coverage to 600,000 previously uninsured adults. The union paid its lobbying bill by redirecting money from the 1199 pension fund, which was, at the time, overfunded.",0_0
"By Judith Curry, Climate Etc. Aug 12, 2015",0_0
"In fact, if the chart went further back, you??d see that temperatures have been warmer than today for most of geologic history.",2_1
"When you get down to it, folks, it's all about money. Always follow the money. The left and the ruling class love to say that they do things out of altruism, out of compassion, big hearts, and these people are a bunch of lazy SOBs who have no business in the private sector 'cause they can't succeed there. The only way they can succeed is to be a bunch of brownnosers in the ruling class and try to move their way up that ladder and get whatever they can out of the public trough. The ruling class has gotten rich off of government.",0_0
"What to expect for the lobster? It may benefit at the beginning in terms of faster growth due to warmer temperatures, she said.",0_0
"It's said that the Senate won't ratify, so don't worry. Indeed, before the conference the Senate voted unanimously that developing countries must sign on if the treaty is to be acceptable. But 130 countries did not do so, and, together, they are expected to cause over half the global emissions within a few years. In seeking peace with the environmentalists, then, the Clinton administration yielded to extremism, and after Kyoto it was difficult to find any politician on the record as supporting the treaty. It has the beneficial effect of reconstituting the old Reagan anticommunist coalition, including libertarians, labor rank and file, and conservatives of both neo and paleo stripe. Even Dick Gephardt refused to endorse the treaty as it stands. It's ""a work in progress,"" he said.",0_0
"supposed to arrive inoh, some time around 2055. In other words, we are not",0_0
"A new paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres finds Arctic sea ice concentrations at the low of each summer are related to absorption of sunlight by cloud cover at the top of the atmosphere in early summer, a phenomenon "" not represented in most of current climate models.""",5_1
"CEI: On refinancing, once again Mr. President, it's not the sequester that scares wise investors. It's the schemes from you and other politicians (including Republicans) that treat investors as ""the forgotten man."" Losses to investors, including 401(k)s from similar refinancing proposals have been estimated to be $13 billion to $15 billion. This could eat away any stimulus from the extra money borrowers have due to lower interest payments, the stimulus that Obama and supporters of his plan are banking on.",0_0
"These and other diseases thrive in various climates warm as well as cool. What has made the difference is the level of economic development that provides access to modern medicine, higher living standards, and other means to prevent the spread of illness.34",0_0
"The Democratic Partys leading and prohibitively favored frontrunner candidate for the presidential nomination said she wants to change the First Amendment in order to further empower the political class to regulate the quantity, content and timing of political speech about the political class and so far as I can tell theres not a ripple of commentary about this on the stagnant waters of the American journalistic community.",0_0
"Southern Co., one of the country's largest energy companies, has given $100,000 to the PIC, company spokesman Tim Leljedal tells me. What value do Southern Co.'s shareholders get from this expenditure? ""This is really about supporting the celebration of the presidency,"" Leljedal said.",0_0
"The effect is harmless (to the contrary, CO2-increases and slight global warming are beneficial for man and thus desirable) and show that the overly alarmist prognoses for future climate developments as fully inappropriate.",3_3
"Reader-friendly multimedia package covers the crucial but enigmatic role of clouds on climate change, and how scientists are defining that role",0_0
election-year books about President Obama's national security record thus far. James Mann and David Sanger are among the most sure-handed journalists on that particular beat. In their accounts of,0_0
"It's a classic and often effective political argument, pitting Big Gas against the poor, or in Dow's view, Big Gas against poor Big Chemical. It's classic populism, which has guaranteed that their position would make the rounds of activist web sites. All it lacks is evidence.",0_0
What we have now is a soft boot administrative state fascism/statism/socialist America and Europe.,0_0
"Also, IPCC has no rules for data archiving and sharing. This resulted in Phil Jones not making his raw temperature data available, even when critics asked for this data via FOI requests. IPCC nevertheless uses these data as one of the basic pillars in their global warming edifice.",5_2
"Well, the Earth does not emit this flux of energy. That is way too high of value. If you converted that value into total energy emitted per second over the entire globe, it would be more energy than actually comes in. The known and measured value for the flux output from the Earth is 240 W/m2.",0_0
"The ISO-NE??s New England Wind Integration Study (NEWIS), published in December 2010 made clear that many favorable sites for wind development are remote from New England??s load centers and that development of these distant sites would require significant transmission development. According to NEWIS, developing 20% wind in New England would require 4,095 miles of new lines at an estimated cost of between $11 and $15 billion. Regulatory agencies have had full knowledge of the transmission constraints and costs since 2010 and yet you have made no attempt to address this issue through policy changes or course corrections. In 2013, the public is only now becoming aware that deployment of utility-scale wind generation is stressing the region??s grid, and making the management of generation sources more difficult.",4_4
"The collapse of A123 ""as well as the January bankruptcy of another electric-car-battery maker, Ener1, the recipient of a $118 million DOE grant ""provides yet another example of the Obama administration's costly and unsuccessful backing of the electric-car business.",4_2
"Downplaying the facts, EPA used the situation to stir concerns about the safety of natural gas development. The same is true of the agencys involvement in last months rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline",5_2
"Few people realize that by the geologic definition, the Earth is presently in an ice age that began 2.6 million years ago , because by the geologic definition there are ice caps on the North and South poles. Many much warmer periods in the past had no ice caps on either pole for millions of years, alligators were thriving in the Arctic , and Antarctica had the climate of the tropics today .",2_1
"?Recently, you may have noticed that global warming has been getting some attention in the news.?",0_0
"Countless other evaluations by scientific bodies worldwide over more than two decades have concluded that there is no scientific justification for regulating genetically engineered crops any differently from conventional ones. Nevertheless, U.S. regulatory agencies, including the USDA, Environmental Protection Agency, and Food and Drug Administration, have implemented costly and wholly unnecessary regulatory policies that subject only biotech crops to years of government-monitored pre-commercial testing and approval requirements.",0_0
"In a short space I won't have time to cover more than a representative selection of Abraham's errors. Let's begin, though, with the question of sources.",0_0
"India: Only six states submit action plan on climate change: Panigrahi Ahmedabad: Only six states so far have submitted the state action plan on climate change to the Centre, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Climate Change said here on Saturday. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had urged all the states to submit a state action plan on climate change, detailing on how they are going to tackle this sensitive issue in all the sectors. ... ""The states have failed to submit the action plan on climate change including Gujarat even after of expiry of two subsequent deadlines of December 31, 2009 and March 31 this year,"" Panigrahi said. List of Indian states India is a Union of 28 States and 7 Union Territories.",0_0
"One thing that helps explain some of this behavior is that there is a very strong social cost in academia to challenging global warming, so that even when findings in certain studies seem to undercut key pieces of the argument, the researches always add something like but of course this does not refute the basic theory of global warming at the end of the paper. In universities, being identified as having criticized catastrophic man-made global warming theory is sort of like standing up in a Harvard faculty meeting and announcing that one is a devout Baptist and a Sarah Palin supporter. So on the flip side, publicly declaring for climate catastrophe is a badge of honor and sophistication.",5_2
"Nalley, Richard. ""Is it Too Late for the Rainforests?,"" Science Digest, April, 1986, pp. 56-85.",0_0
Some CAGW proponents argument against the recent stall in the global warming trends with this graph called ???escalator??. Source: www.skepticalscience.com,1_4
"(Chicago, Ill. - April 16, 2008) On Thursday, April 17, two senior staff members from The Heartland Institute will lead a legislative seminar in Minnesota on the science behind climate change at the invitation of Gopher State law makers.James Taylor, managing editor of Environment & Climate News and senior fellow for environment policy, and Trevor Martin, vice president and head of government affairs, will lead the presentation at 7 p.m. at Elk River High School's Little Auditorium.The two Heartland executives were invited by the sponsors of the event, Sen. Mike Jungbauer and Rep. Sondra Erickson. Additional legislators from the suburban St. Paul area also are encouraging constituents to attend the free seminar.James and Trevor will screen Al Gore's documentary ""An Inconvenient Truth"" and Martin Durkin's powerful rebuttal ""The Great Global Warming Swindle"" for attendees.James, author of the book ""What Climate Scientists Think about Global Warming,",0_0
"In a few brief hours, we are told, the snowy superfortresses will be above us again, bomb bays bulging with blizzard. It may be that in the next hours and days we have to step up our de-icing, our gritting and our shovelling. So 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
"Across the event 93.9 million years ago, a major biological extinction in the marine realm has already been documented. Also associated with this event are high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which are linked to elevated ocean and atmospheric temperatures. Associated consequences include likely enhanced global rainfall and weathering of the continents, which further shifted the chemistry of the ocean.",0_0
"The object of the Author in the following pages has been to collect the most remarkable instances of those moral epidemics which have been excited, sometimes by one cause and sometimes by another, and to show how easily the masses have been led astray, and how imitative and gregarious men are, even in their infatuations and crimes.",0_0
"Today, in the leading Czech newspaper, MF DNES, Pavel Pral compared the Czechs and other nations when it comes to nuclear energy:",0_0
12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.,0_0
"Moreover, as Galston points out, the New Deal doesn't provide a precedent for",0_0
"Nonetheless, Codevilla argues that the aristocracy can be toppled through political means. His expectation is that the Republican Party will be transformed into one that represents the interests of the productive class or will be replaced by such a party, in order to get their votes:",0_0
"Utility MACT has an unprecedented price tag EPA puts the cost of their rule at nearly $10 billion a year, while other sources project it will cost even more, making it the second most expensive rule in the Agency's history. This is second only to global warming cap and trade, which would be $300-400 billion tax increase. Can you believe it? This tax increase would cost the average family that pays federal income taxes over $3,000 each year. Now Utility MACT would tax each family over and the above cap-and-trade tax. Further, the rule will shutter 20 percent of America's coal-fired power capacity; this will inevitably result in higher electricity prices for every American.",4_1
Driessen opened the discussion by talking about the enormous impact of the growing regulatory burden from Washington with regulations now eating up one-sixth of the entire U.S. economy.,0_0
"Baliunas: Yes, from about the 1930s, the 1940s, the sun's magnetism waned a little bit and has since picked up a little bit.",0_0
"That is, unless the rest of the world?primarily the developing nations?decide to play along.",0_0
Glassman: How much warming have we actually seen in the last 100 years?,0_0
"Removed data would appear to have a role in the homogenisation process. But is it material? Chart 3 graphs five year moving averages of raw data anomalies, split between the raw data removed and retained in GISS H, along with the average for the 26 stations.",0_0
"So why the delay? The NRC says the Department of Energy """"has not met certain land and water rights requirements' and that other environmental and regulatory hurdles remain.""",0_0
"Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio . Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Tuesday night vintage music show, here are Thomas ""Fats"" Waller and the boys performing When I'm Alone (1929, 3:30). Nota Bene: Here are the 3 rd quarter SDA Commenter Statistics . Today's Ve / n = +0.07 Decima: 6.20 6.20 EKOS: 4.80 4.27 Nanos: 6.20 6.93 Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.",0_0
"A cap-and-trade policy increases the price of energy-intensive goods and services, such as transportation, food, and medical care. The majority of this price increase is ultimately passed on to consumers.",0_0
"The last of the trend graphs on a zonal-mean basis is for the Indian Ocean, Figure 6. The models, basically, show way too much warming at most latitudes.",0_0
"While repeal is unlikely, this may be the time to introduce legislation that would reform the ESA to curtail litigation from wildlife advocates and give states more authoritytwo ideas that were brought forth in the report.",0_0
"At present, the polar bear is one of the best managed of the large arctic mammals. If all the arctic nations continue to abide by the terms and intent of the Polar Bear Agreement, the future of polar bears is secure.",3_2
This broad geological region has been the focus of debate concerning the cause of what climate experts perceive as unnatural amounts of oceanic and continental glacial retreat due to man-made global warming. So how does the Svalbard Island Chain fit into this picture?,0_0
He further states that A much misunderstood phenomena is global climate change. He discusses the complexity of climate change which has not been properly communicated to politicians.,0_0
"Then Gore trotted out one of his favorite phrases, ???Global Warming Pollution??. This is his phrase for the naturally-occurring trace gas CO2, that is essential to all life on Earth. For good measure, he said that Methane might double the warming effect of CO2. No, Al, baby, it would make hardly any difference at all: there??s too little of it about, and it doesn??t survive very long in the atmosphere.",3_3
"An updated list of at least29323638394151526364 65 66 excuses forthe 18-26 year statistically significant 'pause' in global warming , including recent scientific papers, media quotes, blogs, and related debunkings:",1_4
UK Met Office data shows no warming for 16 years,1_4
"Zhao and Runnings analysis showed that since 2000, high-latitude northern hemisphere ecosystems have continued to benefit from warmer temperatures and a longer growing season. But that effect was offset by warming-associated drought that limited growth in the southern hemisphere, resulting in a net global loss of land productivity.",0_0
"Tobacco commission reforms needed, Baliles says:",0_0
Figure 1 Bathymetry of Lake Michigan (Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory),0_0
Matt Ridley exposes how environmentalists take the moral low ground and defend the rich against the poor,0_0
"18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;",0_0
"The Cooler Heads Coalition sponsored a science briefing on June 19 for congressional staff and media. The event featured climatologists Dr. Roy Spencer of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Dr. John Christy of the University of Alabama, Huntsville.",0_0
"The answer: 15 one-thousandths of a degree. Yes, you read that correctly. The effect would be too small even to be measured, let alone to affect sea levels and cyclones and all the rest. That number, by the way, is not some screwy calculation from the back of an envelope. It comes from the Environmental Protection Agency's own climate model, not that the EPA has ever admitted this publicly, obviously because it is embarrassing. That is why the EPA's benefit/cost ""analysis"" of its Clean Power Plan and the other components of its climate policy assumes a deeply dubious array of ""co-benefits"" in the form of particulate reductions and other impacts that are simply invented out of whole cloth or that already are counted as justifications for other regulatory policies. Without such machinations, the Climate Action Plan would collapse as a regulatory framework, because it is all cost and no benefit. Literally.",4_2
Eighty-eight percent of the NOAA tide gauges show sea level rise rates lower than 3.1 mm/year. This applies for both currentlyactivetidegaugesand defunct ones. Almost all of the tide gauges which show 3.1 mm/year are in subduction zones.,1_6
"Postel, Sandra. ""Global View of a Tropical Disaster,"" American Forests, November/December, 1988, pp. 25-30.",0_0
"Johnston is the Robert G. Fuller, Jr. Professor of Law, and Director of the Program on Law, Environment and Economy of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. His 79 page essay, Global Warming Advocacy Science: A Cross Examination, published by the Institute of Law and Economics, examines a broad range of evidence both for and against the conclusions drawn by the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).",0_0
"Of course he??s not fooling anyone who knows what he actually said. Add that lack of warming does have to do with the state of global warming, and most knowledgeable people will grant Trenberth the benefit of the doubt, but should they? Ignorant people will be fooled, and Trenberth has a habit of misleading the ignorant.",5_2
New study finds neither HFCS nor table sugar increases liver fat under real world conditions,0_0
Projected trend over land: 0.4 F/decade,0_0
"To fill in the huge gaps, those compiling the records have resorted to computerised infilling or homogenising, whereby the higher temperatures recorded by the remaining stations are projected out to vast surrounding areas (Giss allows single stations to give a reading covering 1.6 million square miles). This alone contributed to the sharp temperature rise shown in the years after 1990.",5_1
Concession projectsin which private firms temporarily retain management rights to publically-owned projectsare currently the most common form of private-public transportation projects.,0_0
"Cuba banned Michael Moore 's 2007 documentary , Sicko , because it painted such a ""mythically"" favourable picture of Cuba's healthcare system that the authorities feared it could lead to a ""popular backlash"", according to US diplomats in Havana.",0_0
Dems Thank Chinless Man For Selling Out His Party,0_0
"Participants in the Human Achievement Hour celebration recognize the necessity of protecting the individual from government coercion, so that we may continue improving our lives and the world around us. Join us on March 31, 2012, from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. wherever you are by not shutting off your lights. You can also join our party by visiting our website,www.cei.org/hah, where we will live-stream our in-house CEI Human Achievement Hour celebration.",0_0
"With health care ""repealed,' GOP turns to climate change:",0_0
"Let me be crystal clear, and speak directly to Hansen and other global warming alarmists. Any one of you who pushes for more expensive energy is hurting and impoverishing and killing the poor today . Whether through taxes or cap-and-trade or renewable subsidies or blocking drilling or any other way, increasing energy costs represent a highly regressive tax of the worst kind. And there is no escape at the bottom end, quite the opposite. The poorer you are, the harder it bites.",4_1
"The graphic below comes via our friends at skepticalscience, assuring us that while 97% of ""climate scientists think that global warming is ""significantly' due to human activity,"" a shocking 72% of news coverage does not reflect this ""consensus"" and similarly 74% of the public are not convinced.",0_0
"What energy policies might the Republicans want to ""sink their teeth into""?",0_0
"Regardless, for the next 20-25 years, humanity will likely be in another cooling period, caused by the suns reduced energy output and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. We are about 150 years into the modern warming. Since the shortest of these warm periods during the Halocene was 350 years, and they generally last 350 to 800 years, it is unlikely that we will enter another Little Ice Age for a couple more centuries.",1_2
"Even today,calling anthropogenic global warminga??fact?????meaning conclusively demonstrated ???would still be an exaggeration.",5_1
"U.N. Floats Global ""Climate Court' to Enforce Emissions Rules",0_0
"In the words of the author, ""the similarity between solar irradiation changes and climate indicate a solar influence on the Scandinavian and Greenland climates."" In addition, the author concludes that ""the frequency and magnitude of changes in climate during the Holocene do not support the opinion that the climatic change of the last 100 years is unique."" In fact, he bluntly states that ""there is no evidence of a human influence so far.""",2_1
black hole physics: black holes with all the discrete charges must remember them which requires them to be heavier than the bound above,0_0
ONE of the numerous propaganda artifices deployed by the now-retreating climate-extremist movement has been the careful avoidance of any debate with anyone on the skeptical side of the case who happens to know anything about climate science or economics.,5_2
"In the Brave New World of energy control, they may be doing just that in the future, by remote control via their smart meter gizmo, in your house.",0_0
Figure 12 presents the Hovmollers of wind stress anomaliesjust a different perspective. Note how there were more positive wind stress anomalies in the western equatorial Pacific in 1982 than there have been so far this year.,0_0
"I wouldnt fit in well with (standard) pharmaceutical companies. The work that they do is constrained and restricted by the dictates of various bureaucracies, and necessarily they are not interested in the kind of statistics I preach.",0_0
"In the concluding paragraph of their report, Kathilankal et al . declare that ""in a scenario of atmospheric warming and increased atmospheric CO 2 levels, S. alterniflora will likely respond positively to both changes,"" and they suggest that these responses ""will result in increased S. alterniflora productivity,"" which, we would add, should be good news for western Atlantic intertidal marshes and the many beneficial services that smooth cordgrass provides to those ecosystems.",3_3
"Elevated CO 2 enhanced annual average rates of net photosynthesis by 39% and increased stem diameters by 14% and 3% at low and high ozone concentrations, respectively. In addition, elevated CO 2 increased bud lengths at the end of the second growing season by 17%. This phenomenon led to a transitory stimulation of elongation and growth of terminal buds the following spring (+38%), but only in CO 2 -enriched units receiving low ozone concentrations. What it means",3_3
"General Motors Responds, Defends Climate Realist Bob Lutz - The Seminal :: Independent Media and Politics Increased energy efficiency and reduced petroleum use are desirable for a lot of reasons. There is no reason a three-dimensional human being (like Bob Lutz) cant be skeptical about global warming orthodoxy and still be wildly passionate about more efficient vehicles. Which he is, by the way. As for GM policy, it is set by a board of directors and a senior leadership group, not by one individual. And you might be surprised to find that dissenting voices are welcome within GM. In fact, they are encouraged .",0_0
"Geoff Jenkins from the UK's Met Office says it is wrong to ""jump to conclusions"" about global warming in this case. ""We have to be careful about ascribing all these changes to global warming, because the Earth is a very variable system already. We do get these events from year to year - they are unusual, but not unprecedented. The weather at any particular point at any particular time is determined in our latitudes by the jet stream, and it just happens that at the moment the jet stream is in a very unusual position.""",0_0
"While the D.C. federal appeals court ruled against the firm on the merits of its challenge, it found that the plaintiffs had more than satisfied requirements for standing. Judge Judith Rogers appointed to the court by President Clinton wrote in the majority opinion that because the ""constitutional challenges to the Act are collateral to the Act's administrative review scheme, the exhaustion doctrine does not apply, and we hold that the district court had subject matter jurisdiction over the complaint.""",0_0
"What Heidi means by this is that October temperatures have been flat for the past fourteen years, and that there is no evidence of recent global warming.",1_4
"With Moazami-Goudarzi and Colman determining that S. minor and S. cylindricus ???were able to tolerate a broad range of pH from pH 5.0 to 9.5,?? as well as the broad range of salinities they investigated, it would appear that even the worst nightmare of the world??s climate alarmists would not be a great impediment to the continued wellbeing of these two green marine algae, even without the positive influence of evolutionary forces that would likely come into play over the timespan involved in the seawater transformations envisioned by Caldeira and Wickett.",3_2
"If the ACC has evidence about imaginary global warming and links to increased flooding, the IPCC doesnt appear to know about it:",1_7
"Peter S on October 4, 2013 at 3:45 pm",0_0
"Rowling's forceful and categorical defense is a welcome reminder that freedom of expression still has many prominent defenders. Here at CEI, we are in the midst of our own dispute over politically disfavored opinions, specifically our work on climate change policy. As many readers know, we have been the subject of legal proceedings by government officials seeking to silence and intimidate us. We will continue to defend ourselves vigorously, and are more resolved than ever to produce the best policy analysis on the science, economics, and politics related to the climate debate.",0_0
"Excellent analysis, Keith. Yes, the PSD monster is a big part of this story, which most media coverage has missed. It will spring to life the moment EPA finalizes the new GHG/Fuel Economy standards by making carbon dioxide a Clean Air Act-regulated ""air pollutant."" In addition, the endangerment finding that underpins the standards will substantively satisfy the test, in Section 108 of the Act, that initiates a NAAQS rulemaking. The Center for Biological Diversity and many other warmists argue that NAAQS for CO2 should be set at 350 parts per million. Even outright de-industrialization of the United States probably would not suffice to attain such a standard.",0_0
"Elizabeth (Beth) Whelan, the late founder and president of The American Council on Science and Health (ACSH), was a shining light of sound science, full of passion and courage in the face of fanaticism and scorn, determined to tell the truth against all odds.",0_0
"""The fundamental objective of the Clean Power Plan,"" according to Solar Industry Magazine, ""is the phasing out of coal-fired power plants in favor of low- or zero-emission sources "" It does this through three ""building blocks,"" one of which is: ""increase electricity generation from non-emitting renewable sources, such as solar and wind.""",0_0
"In general plant growth and consequently the amount of carbon plants store increased in the Northern Hemisphere and decreased in the Southern Hemisphere. The difference, say Zhou and Running, is water. Three things limit plant growth: light, water, and temperature. In the Northern Hemisphere, warmer temperatures and a longer growing season allowed plants to grow more. But in the Southern Hemisphere, drought dominated the decade. Higher temperatures dried plants and soil, generally slowing growth. The attached graphs illustrate the direct relationship between drought and the amount of carbon plants absorbed between 2000 and 2009.",0_0
"/s/ Dr. Harrison (Jack) Schmitt JSC, Astronaut Apollo 17, 10 years",0_0
"But Kim Carstensen, leader of the global climate initiative at environment group WWF, said the 8% target represented virtually no advance from the 6% cut that Japan had pledged, under the Kyoto Protocol, to achieve by 2012.",4_2
"But let's step back and look at the long term. The plan soon to be in place was proposed by Kennedy as he neared his endand he gave a wonderful parting gift to the American people. Kennedy provided a balanced and reasonable way to clean up the crazy quilt and often dysfunctional processes we use to fill vacancies temporarily in the Senate while maintaining the continuity of our government. The 17th Amendment that provided direct election for Senators also left it up to states to decide if governors could make temporary appointments to Senate seats. Most states allow appointments until the next general election, which can mean a full two years for the non-elected Senator. A handful of states block any appointments and require special elections no matter the circumstances of the vacancy.",0_0
"Well, just like in psychiatric asylums, kindergartens, Cuban government offices, and all other places on Earth, there is apparently a lot of simpletons in the U.S. Congress, too.",0_0
"download large image (700 KB, JPEG) acquired January 1, 2000 December 31, 2009",0_0
"He also says that the correct explanation of some suicidal behavior of bees involves the genes' desire to spread themselves (even if the genes are located in the queen, a different individual from the kamikaze bee). Human altruism may be predominantly explained by the individual desires to spread their broader kin with similar genes (regardless of more noble explanations that are sometimes being offered); so whenever the individual humans aren't the right ""unit"" that enters natural selection, the more correct unit is actually a smaller one (gene) and not a larger one (society).",0_0
"My big fear is that Republicans will panic and provide Obama-Waxman-Markey bipartisan cover for cap-and-trade. Republicans need to clear their minds and realize that, with a modicum of courage and discipline, they can turn this threat into an opportunity. Although intended as a legislative hammer, it more nearly resembles a political suicide note.",0_0
"First of all, Sefcik et al . write that ""N deposition may alleviate some photosynthetic acclimation to long-term CO 2 enrichment in N-limited understory seedlings."" Second, and most importantly - as well as very bluntly but absolutely correctly stated - they say that ""increasing CO 2 and N deposition from fossil fuel combustion can directly impact seedling physiology and survivorship,"" quite obviously for the better. Reviewed 11 April 2007",3_3
"Joel Schwartz masterfully debunked Heat Advisory in two columns published in National Review. In the first column (September 14, 2007), Joel showed that NRDC used 1996 emissions to ""predict"" ozone levels in the 2050s and 2080s, even though ""actual emissions of ozone-forming pollutants are already more than 25% lower than they were in 1996 and will drop another 70%-80% in just the next 20 years, based on already-adopted and implemented federal requirements.""",0_0
"A prolonged governmental investigation in response to someone's speechwhether or not investigators nab their target in the endcan violate the First Amendment, courts have held. For example, a federal appeals court ruled in White v. Lee (2000) that lengthy, speech-chilling civil rights investigations by federal officials can violate the First Amendment even when they are eventually dropped. It found this principle so obvious that it denied officials qualified immunity for investigating citizens who spoke out against a minority housing project.",0_0
"Parramatta is further inland than the Observatory Hill site and so the summers are warmer and the winters colder. But if there were data for Parramatta back to 1890 it would almost certainly show the same pattern as Observatory Hill. Indeed it was almost certainly hotter in Parramatta, in Western Sydney, in 1926 than anytime since.",2_1
"The warming weve had in the last thirty years implies that at best, we could expect 1C from a doubling of CO 2 , but observations from eight natural experiments around the globe, and even on Mars and Venus suggest that 0.4C is the upper bound of climate sensitivity to any cause. In addition, if Miscolscki is right, and an increase in carbon dioxide leads to a decrease in water vapor, then the sensitivity due to CO 2 could be close to zero.",3_1
The first lawsuits against drug maker Merck alleging harm from the painkiller Vioxx are going forward.,0_0
"See, for example, Institute for Energy Research, ""Bakken Shale Fact Sheet,"" August 2012, http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Bakken-Fact-Sheet.pdf (accessed June 30, 2016), and Diana Furchtgott-Roth, ""Government May Be Shut Down, But the Energy Industry Is Booming,"" Economics 21, October 4, 2013, http://www.economics21.org/html/government-may-be-shut-down-energy-industry-booming-608.html (accessed July 1, 2016).",0_0
"The reform liberalism and realistic environmentalism contemplated in this effort won't sweep all before it, and, to extend the analogy offered above, the Counter-Reformation of the established interest groups will be ferocious. Part of what is going on here is a generational transition (Shellenberger and Nordhaus are in their 40s), and the fossils of the environmental movement the Al Gores and Carl Popes won't change their minds or their ways. And to be sure, even a modernizing liberalism will have many points of friction with conservatism. But this seems the most promising effort at self-criticism by our liberal cousins in a long time.",0_0
with most banks closed. Roosevelt got most of them open and running again. It,0_0
"Fewer cosmic rays mean fewer clouds, more sunlight reaching the Earth, and a warmer planet. More cosmic rays mean more clouds, more reflected sunlight, and a cooler planet.",2_1
"In her confirmation hearings this summer, Kagan appeared sympathetic to a broad definition of injury when it comes to standing for activists filing environmental lawsuits. In response to a question from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, she told the Judiciary Committee on June 29 that an injury sufficient for standing ""can be of many different kinds. It can be economic injury, but it can also be a kind of injury that you get when the environment is degraded and you can't use the parks in the way you would have wanted to use the parks.""",0_0
"At the 59-minute mark, on whether storms are becoming more frequent and severe, von Storch says he doesnt think this is the case and that the disasters are more about the over-development of coastal areas.",1_7
"However, as BBC informed on Thursday, the scientific gadgets, including radar device Sprite and salinity/thermometer SeaCat, keep on malfunctioning. The technology failed largely due to ""unexpected"" (by them) minus 70 C wind chill. At least, they can regularly drill the ice. :-)",0_0
"It was also realized that the body temperature data on their website are completely fake . Click the first link of the previous sentence and be sure that Hadow's core temperature will be 33.25 C at the beginning, rising by pre-determined steps to 33.75 C or so. All the other temperatures on their page are pre-programmed, too - a method that is rather characteristic for the ""global warming research"".",0_0
"This National Assessment is much closer to pseudoscience than it is to science. It is as explanatory as Sigmund Freud. It clearly believes that virtually everything in our society is tremendously dependent the surface temperature, and, because of that, we are headed towards certain and inescapable destruction, unless we take its advice and decarbonize our economy, pronto. Unfortunately, the Assessment can't quite tell us how to accomplish that, because no one knows how.",0_0
"Kwok introduces his new study by noting that near the mid-point of the last decade, simulations of Arctic Ocean sea ice characteristics produced by the climate models included in the World Climate Research Programme's Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 3 (CMIP3) were far from what it might have been hoped they would be. Specifically, he writes that (1) ""Zhang and Walsh (2006) noted that even though the CMIP3 models capture the negative trend in sea ice area, the inter-model scatter is large,"" that (2) ""Stroeve et al . (2007) show that few models exhibit negative trends that are comparable to observations,"" and that (3) ""Eisenman et al . (2007) conclude that the results of current CMIP3 models cannot be relied upon for credible projections of sea ice behavior.""",5_1
"Firstly, the real situation is that the shell, the portion of the atmosphere doing most of the radiating, is colder than the surface. This is a simple observational truth. Cooler things dont warm warmer things, as the second law of thermodynamics tells us, though they can slow the rate of cooling of the warmer thing.",2_3
"Among other problems, many of the sediment records Loehle used in his analysis had chronologies that were determined by just a few radiocarbon dates distributed over the past two thousand years. The dating in these records is consequently uncertain by as much as four hundred years or so, precluding their use in reconstructing centennial",5_1
"Rasheed Wallace gained notoriety during his 16-season NBA career for being a hot-headed power forward. If called for a foul (or, as was often the case with him, a technical foul) that he thought was undeserved, and the opposing team missed the ensuing free-throw attempts, Wallace would often holler, ""ball don't lie,"" as if the basketball itself was pronouncing judgment on the ref's call.",0_0
Read the entire piece on National Review Online,0_0
"Washington, D.C., November 28, 2006Rachael Carson's Silent Spring advice actually killed birds? Trees cause more air pollution than cars? In a new book, ECO-FREAKS, author John Berlau shatters long-standing environmental myths with true, startling revelations.",0_0
"The Chinese deserve our thanks for standing firm and refusing to join in the folly. Understanding that this was nothing but a plan to curtail economic growth, they told U.S. officials to come back and see them in fifty years.",0_0
"1 Yes, it is. After the Supreme Court ruled in Massachusetts v EPA (2007) that greenhouse gases could be regulated under the Clean Air Act, Michigan Rep. John Dingell, who authored the Act, said that, ???This is not what was intended by the Congress.?? Moreover, the Congress considered but ultimately removed emissions requirements from a 1990 Clean Air Act update. Despite the absence of a Congressional mandate, Obama??s EPA is pressing ahead with greenhouse gas regulations. For many Senators-including 6 Democrats-this is an unacceptable power grab by the executive branch.",4_1
"In contrast, the regulatory debate focuses on the merits of each specific regulation. There is no budget cap because most regulatory costs are off-budget and therefore largely ignored. Moreover, the absence of any cap means that neither the regulatory agency nor OIRA have any reason to consider whether the agency's mission might not better be addressed by tightening some regulations and loosening or eliminating others. Agencies fight for all regulations individually without regard to their cumulative effect.",0_0
be used in national and regional vulnerability and adaptation assessments.,0_0
"Through deforestation is calculated nettofldet from vegetation together, to be positive and upgraded to 3045 Gtonnes. This nettoflde has gradually been changed from a klla to now be a snka for CO 2 with about 16 Gtons merupptag biosfren in the past decade.",0_0
"These steep reductions have another drawback. If the U.S. adopts GHG controls that are more stringent than those of one or more other major economic powers, its efforts will be partially offset by emissions leakage. Leakage is the flight of GHG-intensive activities to other nations that impose no controls or controls that are laxer than those in the U.S. Leakage can occur either through increased imports or decreased exports. One recent study found that leakage would offset between 14 percent and 25 percent of the Obama cap-and-trade plan's U.S. GHG reduction. In effect, leakage will cancel out 14-25 percent of each tonne of GHG discharge avoided by domestic GHG limits. Because of this, the cost of avoiding a tonne of GHG emissions under a unilateral American program will be 16-33 percent greater than that reflected in the domestic abatement cost.",0_0
"Nicola Scafetta has a paper suggesting that a model based on the movement of the planets (planetary orbital oscillations) better explains climate variation than the General Circulation Models used by the UN IPCC. On her web site, Jo Nova has a good presentation of the paper and a number of useful comments. The descriptive power of the model may be just a statistical artifact, but it may promote useful discussion.",2_1
LOUISIANA 9th cheapest electricity; $100 million in payroll,0_0
"The very victory that moderate progressives view as legitimizing their approach, though, is seen as destructive by liberal progressives. This difference is encapsulated in how each side views welfare reform, the passage of which is widely viewed as securing Clinton's reelection. Moderate progressives are proud of that legislation, wishing that it had provided more economic support to single mothers but generally supportive of the fact that it helped move millions of people into work. Liberal progressives, though, believe that it did little or nothing to end poverty, and as such was a sell-out of the progressive commitment to the poor. The fact that the public demanded that the welfare-reform bill or something like it be passed weighs large in the calculus of the moderate progressives, but not at all in that of that liberal progressives.",0_0
"During President G.W. Bush's first term, the Department of Energy conducted a three-year rulemaking to transform the 1605(b) program into a credit system before finally admitting it had no authority to do so. Ironically, some of today's most aggressive CPP advocates, such as NRDC and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, helped nail the legal case against the Bush initiative.",0_0
"For four decades genetically modified organisms (GMO) have been vilified and caricatured as ""Frankenfoods,"" the abominations of mad scientists meddling with nature and putting the human race at risk. Currently, over sixty bills have been introduced in over twenty states that will require food labels indicating if the product contains GMO. Globally, over sixty countries restrict or ban GMO outright, including eight E.U. nations and countries in Africa suffering from famine and malnutrition that could be alleviated by genetically modified crops.",0_0
Hundreds of thousands lose power in North Carolina,0_0
After Bali the UN Conference and the Impact on International Climate Change Policy,0_0
"That's terrific - they have all the key inputs needed for setting up an early 19th century business. What is left unsaid is that Michigan has the highest unemployment rate in the country, driven by fussy and high cost unions and a crushing taxation and regulatory burden. The only message I take from the governor's talk is that if one is not in an alternative energy business, it's time to get out of Michigan, as the majority of businesses are about to face higher power costs and more taxes to support the governor's preferred industrial investment. Which, come to think of it, is a message most businesses have already internalized about Michigan, seeing as the population of its largest city has dropped by more than 50% over the last several decades.",0_0
"The authors used sea ice concentration data retrieved from the scanning multichannel microwave radiometer on the Nimbus 7 satellite and the spatial sensor microwave/imager on several defense meteorological satellites to develop a quality-controlled history of Antarctic sea ice variability covering an entire 22-year solar cycle (1979-2002) that includes different states of the Antarctic Oscillation and several ENSO events, after which they evaluated total sea ice extent and area trends by means of linear least-squares regression. What was learned",0_0
"Big changes in energy policy are in the works. Not just because Republicans want to destroy the president's ""legacy,"" but because a wealthy country is better able to do things right. A growing economy needs energy that is efficient, effective and economicalwhich is why countries like China and India will not limit energy availability and why Republicans want to expand access in the U.S.",4_5
"Patsy Montana swears she Didn't Know the Gun Was Loaded . She's very, very sorry, and she'll never, never do it again. The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.",0_0
"Have you ever wondered, when you see an assertion along the lines of The Earth has warmed by 1.62 degrees over the last 100 years, how anyone could know that? The literature of global warming alarmism is littered with faux precision; the truth, as you might imagine, is that it is very difficult to get reliable data for the whole Earth over a period of decades if not centuries.",5_1
"Date-Time	Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 03:24:41 UTC",0_0
"Overall, there arent a lot of investment ideas here, just some trades. Gold is not yet in a confirmed bear market, just a probable bear trend, so a bit hard to short it with confidence (other than on a day trade basis or an hourly chart swing trade). Short Euro will likely work a bit longer, but will have political news driven changes of direction. Again very fast swing trades. Mostly the message is be in $US and keep the powder dry. Likely due to large international flows out of Euro land until they get their currency straightened out.",0_0
"So it can be expected that in two or three hundred years all the Christian debate about allowing homosexuals as bishops, or in a Church at all could be seen as a giant waste of time , as puzzling as early-Church discussions of the existence of a soul in a womans body.",0_0
"The ex-employee gave a fascinating insight into the workings of the institute. When Dr Pachauri, who is described on his personal website as an international statesman promoting climate change awareness, marked his birthday a few years ago, the staff were shown a homemade video of their bosss life story.",0_0
"The good news is that once something is out there, people will counter with links to that without themselves worrying about the detail.",0_0
16f. The ability of global climate models to model precipitation values for the next 50 years,0_0
"This is, in fact, a global trend as many developing nations such as India do the same thing. Nor will they suddenly shut down electricity production fifteen years from now.",0_0
"One running total, the AA, is the Average of Monthly Averages. Each monthly value has the same weight. Doesnt matter if there is only one thermometer in that month, or 5000. This is somewhat overly influenced by the very early thermometers as they get to have a larger implact, being fewer of them. (Yet we are expecting the GAT codes to remove that effect so it DOES matter.)",5_1
"Ikvll, p Restaurant the stop in Uppsala, starts a series Tuesday arrangement under the common title: Climate policy is a vrre hot n fossilanvndningen? to which Eje Collinder r of initiatives takers. I have received the assignment to begin with a fredragning: Carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere with ample space for queries and discussion.",0_0
Pope Francis' policies won't help the poor,0_0
"""Yes, son. Now you appreciate the genius of Salon . Its readers were so gullible they'd just believe any old crap. So long as the underlying political message was correct, they really didn't care.""",0_0
"We have, of course, just moved back into the cold phase of the PDO, so, despite the quiet tornado season this year and last, could be looking at more tornadoes in the next few years.",0_0
"The most comprehensive recent argumentation rejecting it is in S. F. Singer et al. (Climate Change Reconsidered. The Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, The Heartland Institute, Chicago, 2009), in I. Plimer (Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, The Missing Science, Connor Court Publishing, Australia, 2009), in R. M. Carter (Climate: The Counter Consensus, Stacey International, London, 2010), in the Czech scientist M. Kut lek (Racionln? o globln m oteplovn /Rationally about Global Warming/, Doko?n, Prague, 2008; and in his recently published Facts About Global Warming: Rational or Emotional Issue? Catena Verlag GmbH, Reiskirchen, September 2010), and in many other books, articles and studies.",0_0
"Because yields are higher and they require lower inputs, biotech varieties conserve water and farmland and are more sustainable. They lessen the need for chemical pesticides and make possible more environment-friendly agronomic practices such as no-till farming, which causes less soil erosion and runoff and releases less carbon into the atmosphere. And genetically engineered grains are less susceptible to infestation by fungi and have lower levels of dangerous fungal toxins than organic grains. Farmers have found biotech crops to be so reliable and cost-effective that plant genetic engineering has been the most rapidly adopted agriculture technology in history, expanding worldwide from just 4.2 million acres in 1996 to over 330 million acres in 2010.",0_0
But be of good cheer. The carbon dioxide emissions allegedly responsible for Al Gores planetary emergency are helping tomatoes beef up. The Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change maintains a database on field and laboratory experiments measuring plant growth response to CO2-enriched environments. Heres the link for data on tomatoes.,3_3
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on the history and status of mine safety in the United States.,0_0
"Between the Earths surface and the outer edge of the atmosphere we have the atmosphere with its clouds and aerosols, which determine how much solar radiation eventually reaches the surface of the Earth. Since 1983 the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Program (ISCCP) has been measuring global cloud coverage. One spectacular result was the decrease in global cloud cover between1987 2000, from 69% to 64%, i.e. precisely during the period of warming that triggered the CO2 hypothesis.",2_1
"The measured response of the energy fluxes at the top of the atmosphere to the changes of the sea surface temperature is still significantly larger than claimed by the IPCC and the climate sensitivity ends up being 0.7 ??C. In fact, their 99-percent confidence interval is 0.5 - 1.3 ??C. Imagine: they are 99 percent certain that the climate sensitivity can't exceed 1.3 ??C. This is, of course, qualitatively incompatible with the IPCC whose lower bound is 2 ??C.",3_1
"The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the second philanthropy Northropmentioned in 2008 as a partner in the concerted effort to stop tar sands oildevelopment , contributed far more.",0_0
"Sea level does not just rise and fall relative to a dipstick of stable coast. Earth movement can also have an effect, so we have to try to separate local effects from global (eustatic) effects. The sea level of the last interglacial( about 120,000 years ago) is generally around 2 m a.s.l. in Australia, but is raised to 26 m at Mount Gambier and lies below sea level at Adelaide indicating tectonic movement both up and down.",0_0
"I also find the narrator saying Fake actors were used annoying. IFF it was a put up job, then they were REAL Actors, not fake actors Real actors making a fake persona. Then toward the end he goes into a Manchurian Candidate hypnosis and shooters bit.",0_0
"The model-observations comparisons serve as updates to two of my favorite posts: Satellite-Era Sea Surface Temperature Versus IPCC Hindcast/Projections Part 1 and Part 2 . Refer to those posts for the discussions of the monumental differences between the models and observations. They are also presented in my first book If the IPCC was Selling Manmade Global Warming as a Product, Would the FTC Stop their Deceptive Ads? , in Section 8. A few model-data comparisons were also provided in my new book Who Turned on the Heat? The Unsuspected Global Warming Culprit, El Nio-Southern Oscillation . More on that later.",5_1
"There is growing evidence that worldwide temperatures were higher than at present during the mid-Holocene (especially 5 000-6 000 BP), at least in summer, though carbon dioxide levels appear to have been quite similar to those of the pre-industrial era at this time (Section 1 i Thus parts were a few degrees warmer in July during the mid- Holocene than in recent decades (Yoshino and Urushibara, 1978, Webb ct al 1987, Huntley and Prentice, 1988, Zhang and Wang 1990) Parts of Australasia and Chile were also warmer. The late tenth to early thirteenth centuries (about AD 950-1250) appear to have been exceptionally warm in western Europe, Iceland and Greenland (Alexandre 1987, Lamb, 1988) This period is known as the Medieval Climatic Optimum China was, however, cold at this time (mainly in winter) but South Japan was warm (Yoshino, 1978) This period of widespread warmth is notable in that there is no evidence that it was accompanied by an increase of greenhouse gases",2_1
"Here are two powerful, positive ideas to mitigating carbon emissions and averting expected damages from climate change that embrace the goal of climate protection, but utilize methods that are compatible with basic conservative policy principles.",0_0
"FACT: Rahmstorfs sea level projection is an extreme outlier, way out of the mainstream.",1_6
"The sceptics, on the other hand, are fairly obviously quite correct when they say that the high sensitivities postulated by the alarmists do not fit with the measured temperature record of the 20 th and 21 st century.",3_1
"China Buys Hummer - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online This should make all the right people angry: The world's biggest polluter now owns the poster child of irresponsible automobiles. Exit question: Will China bring down the production costs so far that the average middle-class Joe can afford his own tank? William Hunt -- Control and Loss of Freedom: Ultimate Goal of the Global Warming Lobby Oregon is following hard in Californias footsteps. Businesses are failing and fleeing the state. Washington is not far behind. So, what happens when Congress shuts down the states that provide the resources for the state that no longer will produce their own? So long, Fido: Climate change could kill your pet, warns the RSPCA - Telegraph Climate change could kill pets, according to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), as warmer temperatures cause an increase in exotic diseases among cats and dogs.",0_0
"As such, Sierra Club's new ad campaign may have it backwards: While there's scant evidence that suggests climate change (if it's happening) would increase the incidence of childhood asthma, much more robust evidence indicates that global warming (if it does exist) would lower the number of asthma attacks suffered by children by reducing the severity and duration of winter temperatures.",0_0
"This is, so far, really the best estimate we could get from geological records, in line with previous models of how long an ultra-high carbon dioxide event could last before the carbon dioxide in the air would get drawn back into the oceans and sediments, Killingsworth said.",0_0
"This is not to say that hurricanes like super storm Sandy or tornadoes have not occurred, but it is to say that there have been far fewer. These weather events affecting the United States have been in decline: That is the reality.",1_7
"As the CO 2 content of the air continues to rise, it is likely that regenerating forest communities of beech and spruce will exhibit enhanced fine root production and ectomycorrhizal fungal growth, regardless of soil nutritional characteristics. However, with additional soil nitrogen, these growth increases will likely become even more robust, allowing greater nutrient acquisition and transfer from the fungal symbionts to their host seedlings. Thus, in a future CO 2 -enriched world, these forest communities will likely sequester much greater amounts of atmospheric carbon belowground in fine root and ectomycorrhizal biomass.",3_3
"While that descent has been underway for a long time, it has accelerated its pace in recent years. We noted four years ago the dysfunction of the Republican Party, arguing that its obstructionism, anti-intellectualism, and attacks on American institutions were making responsible governance impossible. The rise of Trump completes the script, confirming our thesis in explicit fashion.",0_0
"Bob Carter is a member of a small group of Australian scientists (although he was born in the UK and mostly educated in New Zealand) who, having attained a distinguished position in their disciplines (he is a paleo-climatologist), were willing to put their reputations on the line by speaking out against the most extraordinary fraud in the history of Western science: the fantasy that by controlling anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide, mankind can control global temperatures; a miraculous global thermostat.",5_2
"But that is not to say we will move to full, unadulterated gridlock. We can forget about big-time action on the long-term debt problem, immigration, climate change, education reform. But there are other issues, both on a smaller scale and a bit below the radar of Tea Party activists, where we might well see legislation. It starts with trade, where the combination of broad Republican support, business backing, indifference from the Tea Party right and divisions among Democrats, make it a winning issue for the new G.O.P. majority. It may or may not include tax reform, some ideas to tackle long-term unemployment, even infrastructure.",0_0
"This finding, as they astutely state, ""may question the common belief that frequency and severity of such events closely relates to climate mean states,"" which conclusion essentially rebuffs the well-worn climate-alarmist claim that global warming will lead to more frequent and severe floods and droughts. The odds are that if global warming didn't do so over the past thousand or more years, it likely won't do so in the future.",1_7
"As Lee describes it, ""relative sea level has risen over the second half of the 20th century,"" and ""so have Holderness cliff recession rates, from around 1.2 m/year in the early 1950s to around 1.5 m/year by 2000."" However , as he continues, ""there has been no significant acceleration in the rate of global sea-level rise since 1990 and no rapid increase in the recession rate."" Thus, he states that ""predictions of 20-year recession distances made in the early 1990s that took account of the RSLR advice from MAFF (1991) are likely to have overestimated the risk to cliff-top property and the benefits of coast protection.""",1_6
"The statement Tamino seems to dispute is a statement of observed fact. The observed fact is that trend lines (Im assuming the author meant 2001-current as this decade) show that there has been cooling. This is not the same as saying that global warming has stopped, nor is it a statement that says this could be one of those aberrations that occur with fluctuating data. It says that, given the observed data, the trends are negative.",1_4
"Killing people with concern? Biofuels led to nearly 200,000 deaths (est) in 2010.",0_0
"At the same time, as already discussed, many factors constrain the level of the price on GHG emissions. The price should, therefore, be a modest one, and it should replace regulatory mandates, not supplement them. In order to keep the proper focus on the global nature of the climate problem, the price should be linked to GHG prices in China and India. At least in the early years, the U.S. price may have to slightly exceed those in China and India, which are likely to be zero, but the gap should be small and, in order to avoid creating perverse incentives for other nations, it should not be permitted to increase.",0_0
"Someone asked the Warden about inbreeding, and the lack of predators. He said that there wasa curious custom that the herd invariably followed. The Warden said that the herd has one King Bull at any one time. And whenever a calf is born, when it is about a week old, the calf is brought to be introduced to the King Bull himself. He sniffs and licks the calf and checks it out. Usually it is accepted by the King Bull into the herd.",0_0
Strike four : 30 years ago ice was at its maximum for the century due to the ice age scare. Walt Meier at NSIDC has specifically warned not to use 1981 as typical.,0_0
"Even if there were 1 billion people on this planet who would support the global warming hysteria, it would be a fringe group of lunatics. But one billion is still a huge number. This guy must be completely ignorant about what is possible in the real world and what is not possible. A billion of distinct visitors is more than almost any server in the world gets visited by in a year. And I am comparing Myneni's dull website with some of the most important internet services of the world that bring their users lots of useful information and interactions.",5_2
3. Jamaica - Agreement Regarding a Debt-for-Nature Swap to Prepay or Cancel Certain Debt Owed by the Government of Jamaica to the Government of the United States,0_0
"NSW Councils (e.g. Gosford, quoting the best international scientists including CSIRO and ANU) in 1995 was advising residents with water front properties that by 2015 (20 years-time) sea levels would rise by 6 metres. This is 300mm per year. Error to date is 17,647%",0_0
"Obamacare Not Only Raising My Rates, But Making The Process Much Harder",0_0
"It may be said that something like a Team B approach to climate change has already been done, in the form of the National Research Council's 2001 report, ""Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions."" This is the report whose finding that ""the recent changes observed over the last several decades are likely mostly due to human activities"" was widely reported in the media, though the rest of the same sentence was not: ""but we cannot rule out that some significant part of these changes is also a reflection of natural variability."" In other words, the degree of uncertainty is still very large, a point the NRC report made more emphatically deep in its main text: ""Without an understanding of the sources and degree of uncertainty, decision makers could fail to define the best ways to deal with the serious issue of global warming.""",0_0
1Marlo Lewis (mlewis@cei.org) is Vice President for Policy and Coalitions at CEI. He attended the COP-4 meeting in Buenos Aires.,0_0
"Government efforts to reduce demand have limits as well. Past federal fuel economy standards for cars and trucks have failed to deliver the predicted declines in energy use. Setting stringent new standards would only hurt consumers by forcing them into smaller, less safe vehicles. And, feasible alternatives to petroleum-powered cars and trucks are still at least a decade away, despite many years of federally funded research.",0_0
Barry George was convicted and later freed over the murder of TV personality Jill Dando. Sean Hogdson was free today for the murder of Teresa De Simone in 1979.,0_0
"It is becoming abundantly clear that, while the summer of 2012/13 was extremely hot across Australia, summers in earlier years were even hotter.",2_1
"New Delhi: The Indian government has asked the country's airlines to refrain from submitting carbon emissions data to the European Union (EU) for a new tax that will become applicable from 1 January for flights to Europe, hardening its stand further against the imposition of the levy.",0_0
* Atmospheric satellite temperature trend over oceans (RSS MSU-LT) = 0.2 F/decade,0_0
"Glaciers, develop when snowfall survives summer melt and layers accumulate. Gradually snow changes to ice from heat and pressure of additional layers. This creates two larger layers divided by the firn-ice transition. On top is the brittle layer where cracks (crevasses) form and below the plastic layer where ice flows and annual layers blend and are deformed. In an understatement Wikipedia says,",0_0
"ClimateGate is serious. When prominent climate scientists fudge results, refuse FOIA requests, take steps to restrict publication of dissident views, etc., it's serious business, especially when their global temperature records were used by policymakers to call for a transformation of modern economies.",5_2
lThey recognise the global warming pause first reported by The Mail on Sunday last year is real and concede that their computer models did not predict it. But they cannot explain why world average temperatures have not shown any statistically significant increase since 1997.,1_4
"Finally, the reduction in the alkalinity of ocean water attendant upon increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide is the subject of much speculation, but little systematic evidence (see chapter 10 here) thus far. Perhaps disaster looms; and perhaps an associated buffering effect of increasing carbonate sediments will make ""ocean acidification"" a minor issue. No one knows, and for Ms. Macfarlane to suggest that there exists some sort of ""scientific consensus"" on this question is simply dishonest.",0_0
"One of the points of contention between the citizens and the EPA over the disposal plan is lack of suitable emissions factors or estimates from burning. Emissions factors for open burning is likely not to exist. Emissions studies seem to have been limited to firing projectiles and crew exposure, especially in closed compartments (M109 Howitzer). The major worry was carbon monoxide. This is not as muck of a problem with open burning or burning in an incinerator since that can be done with excess oxygen.",0_0
"Finally, claims of impending biodiversity losses are now becoming fashionable again as the global warming scare wanes. A decade ago, I estimated high-yield farming had saved about 7 million square miles of wildlands from being plowed for more low-yield crops, about the land area of South America. Stanford University recently concluded high-yield farming has saved 6.6 million square miles of wildlife, about the land area of Russia. By far the biggest thing we can do to save biodiversity is to double the yields on the existing croplandusing inputs Kjorven would forbid.",0_0
"This restatement is particularly hard to justify as direct inspection of the temperature measurement points reveals growing urban heat biases, which should imply, if anything, adjustments up in the past and/or down in the present, exactly opposite of the GISS work. I have written a number of letters and inquiries asking the GISS what systematic bias they are finding/assuming that biased measurements upwards in rural times but downwards in urban times, but I have never gotten a response, nor seen one anywhere online.",5_1
"Petitioners appealed to the Supremes, who,on April 2, 2007, by 5-4, overturned the appellate courts decision.TheCourtheldthat GHGsare air pollutants within the meaning of the CAA, and gave EPA threeoptions: (1) issue a findingthat GHG-related air pollution may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare, (2) issue a findingof no endangerment, or (3) provide a reasonable explanation whythe agencycannot or will not exercise its discretion tomake such a determination.",0_0
The 2014/15 El Nio Part 13 More Mixed Signals,0_0
"In a study of cyclic behaviour of the Sun, Russian scientists now predict 100 years of cooling.",1_2
"The Earth's atmosphere is approximately 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, 0.9% Argon, 0.04% Carbon Dioxide, and the rest is water vapor and trace gases in very small amounts. They interact to provide an environment in which life, animal and vegetable, exists on Earth.",0_0
"I do not know if climate change is a real problem. Ive heard many convincing arguments from both sides of the debate, however I cannot help but feel weary about a movement which claims we will face the apocalypse if we dont abandon our prosperity and liberty, especially when we have seen that the people making these predictions can and do make mistakes like the rest of us. Of course we should listen to the scientists on both sides, but we should also remember that they are no more infallible than the Pope is.",0_0
"Using statistical methods that separates direct and indirect effects, the researchers were able to discern how higher water temperature combined with ocean acidification affects not just individual species but also interactions between species in the ecosystem.",0_0
"Contents-wise this is an excellent book It is written with great honesty and courage, attacking many of the sacred tenets of weather modification and of climatic doomsday predictions. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics",0_0
"The essential point here is that America has, as President Obama said last week, established itself as the global leader in cutting carbon dioxide emissions. And that leadership is due to hydraulic fracturing and other technologies that have made clean-burning natural gas cheaper.",0_0
"It would be a huge sin for Ms Bug to admit that there could be a bug in her explanation and to consider this more sensible explanation at all, wouldn't it?",0_0
230 years (230-250)deVries cycle with +/- 0.30C,0_0
"Well, except for the fact that landfalling hurricanes are at an all-time low.",1_7
"Environmentalists believe that greenhouse emissions will cause global warming. The most important such gas is carbon dioxideproduced by burning oil, coal, and natural gas. The U.S. delegation went to Kyoto pledging to cut these emissions to 1990 levels, but we soon yielded to environmental fanaticism by accepting an even stricter standard. (Al Gore and the U.S. press called this ""flexibility,"" showing how important control of the rhetoric really is.) Now we are committed to reducing gases to 7 percent below 1990 levels by the year 2012. Developing countries wisely did not sign on. If complied with immediately, the treaty would plunge the United States into a depression. Its drastic curbs on energy useperhaps reducing it by as much as one-thirdwould throw millions of people out of work. The real goal of the treaty is to give the federal government an excuse to raise taxes and to set stricter appliance and auto efficiency standards.",4_1
"By the way, I was shocked to see a new complex system of web pages at BarackObama.COM, Obama's personal website. It includes the full (black) list of ""deniers"" in the U.S. Congress. Each of them try e.g. this page on Jim Inhofe starts by a few preposterous proclamations such as ""asthma in Oklahoma is caused by carbon dioxide"" and continues with lots of buttons by which the visitors may flood the lawmaker's inbox and Twitter account with tons of hostile, obnoxious spam.",0_0
"where H.is the heat content of the land-ocean-atmosphere system. Equation (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 lambda is the climate feedback parameter , 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
Global temperatures have largely plateaued during the past 15 years as natural variability including oceans absorbing more heat and volcanic activity have acted to stall warming at the planet??s surface.,1_4
"""Hawaii has held out longer than almost every other state when it comes to gambling expansion, but that resistance may soon be coming to an end. Hawaii lawmakers are planning on discussing gambling expansion after several years of failed attempts.""",0_0
"We can discuss the need for more action on climate change. But in doing so, we must also recognize that the U.S. has been leading the world in reducing its carbon dioxide emissions. Between 2005 and 2013, according to the BP numbers, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions fell by 8.7 percent. For comparison, emissions in Germany, which has spent about $100 billion on subsidies for renewables, have fallen by 4.6 percent. But the numbers in absolute terms are even starker. Since 2005, U.S. emissions have fallen by 563 million tons. That's 17 times the reduction seen in Germany, where emissions have fallen by 40 million tons since 2005.",0_0
"Writing in The Hill, Richard O. Faulk, an attorney and senior director for Energy Natural Resources and the Environment for the Law and Economics Center at George Mason University, noted that ""The EPA's argument confidently hinges on convincing the courts that the Clean Air Act doesn't mean what it says. By its plain language, the bill prohibits the EPA from regulating the power plants from which these emissions derive. Moreover, coal plants are already addressed under an entirely different section of the bill than the one EPA insists justifies its powers.""",0_0
Could this be an innocent mistake? Does NRDC not know that laws and regulations already on the books have cut emissions since 1996 and will keep on doing so for decades to come? No way.,0_0
"Figure 4-42 presents the same data as Figure 4-41. The two graphs are the same, but the notes are different. Ive highlighted the evolutions of the 1997/98 and 2002/03 El Nio events in maroon in Figure 4-42 to show that the El Nio events do grow during the normal seasonal upswing in NINO3.4 sea surface temperatures. Ive also highlighted in green the initial decreases in sea surface temperatures that correspond to the decrease in Western Equatorial Pacific sea surface temperatures. Additionally, Ive repeated those highlighted periods in Figure 4-43 for the period of January 2004 to May 2012 to show the evolutions and decays of the 2004/05, 2006/07 and 2009/10 El Nio events. In both illustrations, Ive also highlighted in pink the secondary, but major, decays in the sea surface temperatures that align with the normal seasonal portion of the major drop in annual average NINO3.4 sea surface temperatures.",0_0
"A second effort pertains to infrastructure. Again, these are efforts that should be taken both domestically and, as infrastructure is built in developing countries, internationally as well. Another government action that leads people to live in harm's way is the failure to build and price infrastructure so that it is both sustainable, and resilient to change. Governments build highways, but without a pricing mechanism, no revenue stream is created to allow, for example, for the highway to be elevated if local flooding becomes a problem. There is also no price signal relayed to the users of the highway that reflects the climatic risk that their transportation system faces. The same is true of fresh-water, wastewater, electricity, and other infrastructure.",0_0
"Contact: John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., jddmdjd@web-access.net or Jane M. Orient, M.D., (520) 323-3110, janeorientmd@gmail.com",0_0
"FURTHER READING: DeLong recently wrote ""Opening a Can of Worms: Government and Climate Change Data."" He also discussed the failure of Congress and the administration to encourage biotech investment in ""Bleeding Biotech,"" and ""The Coming of the Fourth American Republic"" after America's special interest state decays. Kenneth Green dissects Climategate in ""The Meaning of Motley CRU"" and responds to Sen. John Kerry's climate claims in testimony before the Senate.",0_0
Global warming activists have been giddy in their hyping of the satellite era record low Arctic sea ice extent while ignoring the satellite record sea ice expansion in the Antarctic.,1_1
"The Green movement of course needs scientific authority to sustain it. This is provided by Hans Schellnhubers WBGU, which in English stands for: Scientific Council of the German Government for Global Transformation . Global transformation by Germans?",0_0
"But the climate science community has allowed itself to be used on this issue, and as a result, politicians, activists, and the media have successfully portrayed the biased science as settled.",5_2
"First is a statement in Hansen et al. (2011) The Earths Energy Imbalance and Implications . James Hansen, as youll recall, is the former (retired) director of GISS. In that paper, they discussed a problem with the satellite-measured energy imbalance at the top of the atmosphere and how the climate science community worked around it (my boldface):",0_0
"Schwartz contends that climate model predictions of CO 2 -induced global warming ""are limited at present by uncertainty in radiative forcing of climate change over the industrial period, which is dominated by uncertainty in forcing by aerosols,"" and that if this situation is not improved, ""it is likely that in another 20 years it will still not be possible to specify the climate sensitivity with uncertainty range appreciably narrower than it is at present."" Indeed, he states that ""the need for reducing the uncertainty from its present estimated value by at least a factor of 3 and perhaps a factor of 10 or more seems inescapable if the uncertainty in climate sensitivity is to be reduced to an extent where it becomes useful for formulating policy to deal with global change,"" which surely suggests that even the best climate models of the day are wholly inadequate for this purpose. Reference",5_1
"Einar Vikingur, ?Carbon and Our Climate?, Quadrant, May 2010, p. 79;www.climatesceptics.com.au/documents/egv-climate-carbon.pdf.",0_0
"In the bowels of the document is a provision calling for ""an international climate court of justice.""",0_0
Clearly the US annual temperatures over the last century have correlated far better with cycles in the sun and oceans than carbon dioxide. The correlation with carbon dioxide seems to have vanished or even reversed in the last decade.,2_1
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on what everyone should know about global warming.,0_0
"As DeGregori notes, in the United States today we have about the same amount of land under cultivation as we had in 1925, yet grain output is seven times greater, indicating technological advances increase sustainability.",0_0
"Coal production dropping by 60 percent and coal employment dropping by more than 40 percent by 2030,",0_0
"The NAS study, issued at the request of the Bush administration, details many dramatic-sounding scenarios by which the climate could be disrupted in the future. All of its scenarios, however, are dependent on controversial assumptions about the underlying science of global climate.",5_1
"Gore now claims ""increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with man-made global warming'",0_0
"I dearly hope that we have finally reached the beginning of the end for CTBS and that I will live to see it become history, unlike some of my friends in 2016. But one never knows.",0_0
"The EPA has been assuming that the Court decision requires them to regulate CO2. Up until the last few weeks, the White House apparently accepted what EPA was telling them. That has now changed. They are aware that the Court did not require EPA to regulate CO2, but instead to consider whether CO2 should be regulated under the Clean Air Act. It's late in the day, but President Bush may still get the advice he needs to make the right decision. He has stated clearly and correctly over and over again that the Kyoto Protocol would burden the U. S. economy with unacceptable costs. To then decide to regulate CO2 under the Clean Air Act would be lunatic. If the next president wants to regulate CO2 emissions, President Bush should not do his dirty work for him.",4_1
"The EIA has just completed a new report at the request of House Committee on Science that would change the starting date from 2005 to 2000 to see if that would have any effect on the cost of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. EIA looks at a range of scenarios from an increase of emissions of 24 percent over 1990 levels (1990+24%) to the minus 7 percent (1990-7%) as required under Kyoto. The study finds that an ""early start date reduces the carbon price in 2010 for each of the carbon reduction cases."" The 1990-7% case, for example, would see a reduction of the carbon price from $349 per metric ton to $310 per metric ton.",0_0
"But the anomaly vanished when the researchers considered a rival theory, which looks at the amount of solar energy reaching the Earth the same latitude during the summer months. Under this theory, sea levels could remain high for another two thousand years or so, even without greenhouse warming.",2_1
"Now this is quite a trick, because it involves comparing apples (proxy data) to oranges (instrumental data) and pretending that the composite forms a continuous record.",5_1
I would be keen to post a piece that outlined the potential upside of global warming. Any offers?,0_0
La Nina. Roll on the next El Nino!,0_0
"Phillips is alluding at the possibility that correlations between timeseries may arise just because a third factor is driving the trend in both timeseries. Is this possible in paleo-climatological applications? I think it is very well possible. For instance, a proxy indicator sensitive to rainfall, nutrients or other environmental factors may exhibit a trend that can be erroneously interpreted as an indication of temperature trend. A regression analysis between a proxy and temperature that oversees this possibility takes the risk of not properly estimating regression parameters. If the validation of the regression model is performed in periods where this trend is continued, a high, but perhaps spurious, validation skill is likely to be the answer, specially when using measures of skill that do not hedge against such risks.",0_0
"Today, this ""top pick"" has a 76.9% ""probability of bankruptcy."" And, it is our tax dollars that won't be paid back.",0_0
We dont really know how clouds are formed. Water vapour impacts the climate more than any other gas.,2_3
"Once corals die, they turn ""white"" and have a bleached appearance. But other studies have shown corals are more resilient then previously estimated. One 13-year study of coral reefs showed ""them spontaneously recovering,"" refuting the ""often doomsday forecasts about the worldwide decline of the colorful marine habitat."" Tom Frazer, professor of aquatic ecology at the University of Florida and part of the research team, told Reuters, ""People have said these systems don't have a chance. What we are saying is: 'Hey, this is evidence they do have a chance.'""",3_2
It announced that a fast spreading of the code has to be feared and has called on all users of Internet Explorer to use an alternative browser until the manufacturer has released a security update.,0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell on last year's climate pact with several Asian nations:,0_0
"on Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 at 3:38 am and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"So two points here: first, humans have a poor record of understanding risk in complex systems, full of interdependencies, feedback loops, and nonlinear responses. Perhaps humility and caution and consideration are warranted. Doing nothing about climate change, I would argue, is a one-way, all-or-nothing bet with huge potential downside. Second, NNT argues, one should give more weight to witnesses and opinions when they present the opposite of a conflict of interest. They should have skin in the game. NNT had little use for the engineer once he found out that guy was an industry consultant. Likewise, perhaps one should have little use for the climate change activists who don't live as if their actions are contributing to an existential, planetary crisis.",0_0
"The esteemed senators tried to hide this in an op-ed they wrote together for the San Francisco Chronicle on August 1 by saying that its cost would be ""no more than 0.01 percent"" of the gross national product. That sounds small, but it ignores how big the American economy is. The EIA put the annual cost of their measure at $106 billion. That is not exactly chump change.",0_0
"But this is not the job of the President, at least it has not been the job undertaken by great Presidents. Great Presidents lead the country; they listen to it, then they guide it in the direction leading to the accumulation of American power, greatness, influence and admiration. They explain what is required and why. They recognize the threats of an often cold, dark world and they convince the nation that excess caution and risk aversion are the pathways to decline. President Obama is making a short term political calculation designed to ensure a fundamental domestic remaking of the country at the cost of long term power and influence in the world. The only question is whether the American people will ultimately recognize this before the consequences are irreversible.",0_0
"Mike Hulme July 25, 2013 at 4:00 pm",0_0
"For those who want to gawk at the observations of the Southern Hemisphere heat content versus the models. Here is Fig 3 parts b, c, and d. Note how the observation lines almost all run entirely below the models.",5_1
"For example, we're told to change our wording used to describe the energy conservation law. Ms Marletto tells us about her wonderful new idea that clarifies what the conservation law is:",0_0
"/s/ Thomas (Tom) Wysmuller JSC, Meteorologist, 5 years",0_0
"Our planet warms and cools in predictable 200-year cycles corresponding to 200-year variations in the size and luminosity of the Sun, the scientists found. Previous global warmings ??? of which there have been many ??? have always been followed by deep cooling.",2_1
"Those interested in the forecasting method can download the computer model of forest growth, JABOWA, from website www.naturestudy.org and play around with it. The software is pretty easy to use, and you can grow your own forest, log it, test it against various global warming climate regimes, etc. It isn?t as sophisticated a computer game as you can get today, but it is ecologically realistic and is used in research around the world.",0_0
"Oil producers continue to lobby for the lifting of the ban, as the light crude now being produced in the U.S. is difficult for domestic refiners to process with current equipment. If Congress can increase drilling access to federal lands, even more crude will flood into refineries with limited capacity. Reports indicate exports will have little impact on pricing within the U.S.",0_0
"Should we take Kofi Annans word for it that Darfur was the worlds first climate change conflict? After all, it was Kofi Annans think tank, The Global Humanitarian Forum, which produced the 2008 report, The Anatomy of a Silent Crisis , in which Anan claimed Today, millions of people are already suffering because of climate change. This suffering included 302,000 deaths per year from malaria, diarrhoea and malnutrition attributed to climate change, claimed the report, out of 7,550,000 deaths from the same diseases. As has been pointed out on this blog ad nauseum , to emphasise the putative cause of 302,000 deaths climate change ignores the lower-order consequence of 25 times as many deaths: poverty. Annans callous moral calculus almost encourages us to believe that the 7 million mostly infant deaths are natural. Yet tackling poverty rather than climate change would have the effect of solving the problem of climate change, which now looks trivial.",0_0
"The alarmists have reported over and over again, the Earth is dramatically heating up. Look close at what date was picked as the baseline for comparing temperatures. It is 1850, the end of a 500 year decline in the Earths temperatures the Little Ice Age. Skeptics say that a one or two degree increase in the planets temperature is irrelevant if the basis of comparison is 500 year low temperature. To skeptics, currently we are just in another of many natural climate cycles. To alarmists, the sky is falling I mean heating all caused by mankinds pumping CO2 into the air.",2_1
"According to the scientists, global temperatures will fall another 0.15C by 2015, which corresponds to the climate of the early 1980s.",1_4
"moving, but was hampered by a cumbersome nomination and confirmation process",0_0
"This is one of those articles that, after your read it, your eyes are bugging out of your head.",0_0
"The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, 501(c)(3) educational organization and does not take institutional positions on any issues. The views expressed here are those of the author.",0_0
Spain facing compensation bill of billions over renewables cuts,0_0
"Anagnostopoulos, G. G., D. Koutsoyiannis, A. Christofides, A. Efstratiadis, and N. Mamassis, (2010). A comparison of local and aggregated climate model outputs with observed data, Hydrological Sciences Journal , 55: 7, 1094 1110",0_0
I don't expect these remaining emails to hold big surprises. Yet it's possible that the most important pieces are among them. Nobody on the planet has held the archive in plaintext since CG2.,0_0
"These findings are contradictory to the conclusions drawn by Emanuel and Webster et al. . They do not support the argument that global TC frequency, intensity and longevity have undergone increases in recent years. Utilizing global best track data, there has been no significant increasing trend in ACE and only a small increase (~10%) in Category 45 hurricanes over the past twenty years, despite an increase in the trend of warming sea surface temperatures during this time period.",1_7
Trailer for a radio programme on BBC Radio Wales this morning.,0_0
A broker who had decades of experience in health care (rather than being a former Obama campaign worker with a few hours of training) walked me through the options and how they worked.,0_0
There are doubtless members of Obama's own cabinet who have had less face time with him than Stephen Harper.,0_0
"Great. Even if a really tall human had a ladder over there, one that no one had noticed in 1963, what do you exactly want to achieve with this extra contrived assumption? There was no shot through the bodies that would be going in that direction. So what else than the complete stupidity or a form of religion that may be classified as a type of complete stupidity could be the reason that someone still believes the Badge Man Grass Knoll theory?",0_0
"IPCC Reports say little, but acknowledge lack of data and understanding. ?There are very limited direct measurements of actual evapotranspiration over global land areas. Over oceans, estimates of evaporation depend on bulk flux estimates that contain large errors.? The problem is this is the major mechanism of transferal of heat energy in the global system.",5_1
"Ever since I compelled the Daily Apparatchik to publish a letter from me correcting Monbiot's invincible ignorance of elementary planetary physics and undergrad math, Monbiot has seized every chance to have a go at me whenever one of his climate-extremist Comrades asserted that I'd gotten something wrong.",0_0
"In an important paper published in the first volume of the new Nature Geoscience journal, Ciais et al . (2008) analyzed national forest inventory data and timber harvest statistics of the EU-15 countries excluding Luxembourg, plus Norway and Switzerland, for the period AD 1950-2000. This work revealed that over this half-century interval, the net primary productivity (NPP) of Europe's forests rose by approximately 67%, while their biomass carbon stocks rose by approximately 75%. This build-up of forest carbon stocks, in the words of the thirteen researchers, ""appears to result from woody NPP exceeding losses by timber harvest and natural disturbances such as fire and wind throw,"" and they say their analyses suggest that 70-80% of the observed increase in NPP has likely been due to ""changes in climate and to the fertilizing effect of CO 2 ,"" which factors, ironically, are the twin evils of the world's climate alarmists.",3_3
"But in Cancun, there was a problem. Japan?s climate delegation steadfastly refused to renew its commitments, complaining that China, India, and the United States ? some of the world?s largest ?emitters? ? were not participating. ?It does not make sense to set a second commitment period,? Japanese Environment Vice-Minister Hideki Minamikawa told reporters. ? to Kyoto only represent 15 per cent of global emissions, but the countries who have signed up to the Copenhagen accord cause 80 per cent of emissions. We want a single binding treaty . We should jump ship to a more effective framework.? Canada, Russia, and some other governments were also opposed to renewal. But Third World governments on the climate dole, including the communist Chinese regime and other, smaller ones, demanded the renewal of Kyoto as a precondition for ?progress.? Climate delegations had reached an impasse ? or so it seemed.",4_2
"I bring this last issue up, not to come to any conclusion about Moscow or the validity of the adjustments, but to emphasize the fragmented and complex nature of most long-term temperature records. The fact that we can take a 100-year trend of the Moscow data doesn??t mean that there is any meaning in that trend. The effects of a ring of slow-growing trees around the site, and a city behind the trees, plus a station move, make any measurements of the long-term Moscow trend speculative at best.",5_1
"Rolling just about every U.N. mantra into one, the paper declares that ""nothing is more crucial to preventing run-away climate change than lifting billions out of poverty, protecting our planet and fostering long-term peace and prosperity for all.""",0_0
"I dont know about you, but when organizations with the sort of backing that the OPT has start referring to things like reducing the number of additional carbon emitters I find it quite sinister.",0_0
"And the good news reported by Pan et al. that the terrestrial carbon sink continues to expand, is also not particularly shocking. After all, we have known (and reported here at World Climate Report ) for some time that the percentage of anthropogenic CO2 emitted each year that actually stays in the atmosphere has remained pretty constant for several decades, despite ever-rising CO2 emissions from human activities. In order for that to be the case, the earths total (land + ocean) carbon sink must be expanding. And as we know that CO2 makes plants grow faster, better, stronger, more nutritious, more water use efficient, etc. , is seems only reasonable to expect that the terrestrial carbon sink in the worlds forest systems is expanding.",3_3
Finance Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) announces new efforts to repeal federal restrictions on gambling online.,0_0
"4) The rate of warming is not at all unusual or unprecedented during the 20th century , during the Holocene, and during prior, warmer interglacials.",2_1
"Throughout the six thousand years of recorded human government, there have been countless millions of lies told by public figures large and small. Some never get discovered and the lie passes down through history as recorded truth; others get discovered only too late, like Hitler's famous Big Lies which were very convincing until after he'd dragged all of Europe down into a Holocaust of destruction.",0_0
"5.5 C wheat, barley, rye, oats, flaxseed, lettuce, asparagus",0_0
"The global warming movements downward spiral accelerated in the past year after thousands of documents from climate researchers were leaked, revealing manipulation, suppression and possible fraudulent rigging of data to show the world approaching meltdown. In fact, its the global warming movement thats been melting down, as successive embarrassing disclosures revealed the so-called climate consensus to be built in part on non-peer-reviewed research and activist groups flawed assertions misrepresented as bona fide scientific studies.",5_2
"The IPCC was awarded Jointly, with Mr. Al Gore, the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and as part of this award the IPCC received an Amount of 885,000 CHF as its share of the award money.",0_0
"I have read and savoured every column you have published at Unleashed, and I have read the hateful comments that, even with an ABC moderator to vet them, still make it up on the site. The worst charge is that they simply do not take me seriously, which diminishes me in my humanity. I must confess that, after the latest round of abuse, I hugged my little cat and cried for an hour.",0_0
"Nicolas D. Loris, ""Department of Energy Budget Cuts: Time to End the Hidden Green Stimulus,"" Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2668, March 23, 2012, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/03/department-of-energy-budget-cuts-time-to-end-the-hidden-green-stimulus.",0_0
"If Congress would simply let real free markets work, instead of mandating pseudo markets, much of this crime and corruption would end. Instead, it perpetuates perverse incentives, perks, and money trains which promote what could be the Environmentalist-Industrialist-Governmentalist Complex's motto: ""We don't tolerate corruption. We insist on it."" Outright criminal activity is merely the tip of the iceberg.",0_0
idea of looking at the implications of climate change for what he termed,0_0
"All the models assume that the climate system normalises to an equilibrium state, the state modelled. As the natural processes of the climate system are non-linear and non-ergodic, small variations may result in large changes. There are negative and positive feedback loops. There is randomness in the system. As a result, the simple deterministic computer simulations on which all climate change projections are based will have little to do with the real world.",5_1
"According to NDTV, the German government has told the Great Unwashed that they should temporarily stop using Microsofts Internet Explorer following the discovery of a yet-to-be repaired bug in the web browser that the software maker said makes PCs vulnerable to attack by hackers.",0_0
"Ollier, C.D. 2010. Glaciers science and nonsense. Geoscientist , 20, 1621.",0_0
"To make their calculations orderly, demographers have typically worked on the assumption that the ""total fertility rate""the number of children born per womanwould eventually average out to 2.1. Why 2.1? At that rate the population stabilizes over time: a couple has two children, the parents eventually die, and their children ""replace"" them. (The 0.1 accounts for children who die before reaching the age of reproduction.)",0_0
"?Fitting of Global Temperature Change from 1850 to 2009 Using Random Walk Model,? Guangxi Sciences, Vol. 17, No. 2, May 2010, pp. 148-150.",0_0
"But Medicaid is one of the primary sources of funding for the hospitals employing workers from 1199SEIU, the powerful hospital and nursing-home employees' union. The union responded to Paterson's proposal with an ad blitz extraordinary in its cost$1 million per week, for a month of television and radio spotsand viciousness. One commercial featured a blind man in a wheelchair saying, ""Why are you doing this to me?"" Paterson, who is blind, retreated, opting instead for tax increases and deeper cuts to other programs. The episode illustrated how far 1199SEIU will go to protect its interests. The union enjoys a reputation as New York's most formidable organized interest, largely due to its success in thwarting almost every effort to discipline Medicaid's runaway expenditures.",0_0
"The False Claims Act was invoked because payments for drugs were made by the government, but in many instances those drugs were prescribed off-label (outside the indications approved by the FDA). Such off-label prescribing was encouraged by Daiichi through its sales representativesoften via the PODs. Because prescriptions for off-label uses are generally not eligible for reimbursement under applicable federal health care regulations, submission of such a claim constitutes a false claim under the Act.",0_0
"A mere 200 years ago, the vast majority of humans were poor, sick and malnourished. Life expectancy in 1810 was less than 40 years, and even royal families lived under sanitation, disease, and housing standards inferior to what American welfare families enjoy today. Then a veritable revolution occurred.",0_0
"Another vital component of 1199's extraordinary influence is its vaunted ground operation, including get-out-the-vote efforts that don't technically count as a campaign contribution. The union claims that 100,000 of its members in New York City are registered Democrats. That sum happens to be almost exactly the margin by which Bill de Blasio, 1199's preferred candidate, defeated his closest rival, Bill Thompson, for the Democratic nomination for mayor in 2013.",0_0
"Of course, even though the headline talks of ???climate change, and even though temperatures haven??t risen in more than 17 years, the article itself still wails about global warming.",1_4
"The bones of the crocodile, the hippopotamus and other tropical fauna in Pleistocene deposits beneath London show that previous interglacials have been warmer than the one we are currently experiencing. What we see is a general cooling trend from the end of the Pliocene to the present day on which is superimposed a wave pattern of steadily increasing amplitude. The interglacials are progressively cooling slightly but the glacials are cooling much more. The next glaciation will be colder than the last one.",2_1
"""On Tuesday, lead counsel Carlo Piana wrote on his blog that the Court of Milan has upheld its earlier decision to order Google to filter out libellous search suggestions. These are the suggestions that pop up in Google's search input bar, proposing what the user might be wanting to search for.""",0_0
"But even that 31GW of Renewable Energy production is not really as useful as one would wish, because of its intermittency and non-dispatchability.",4_4
65years (60-65)Ocean cycles with +/- 0.25C,0_0
> >> >- Ed Clay and Charlie Benson at ODI,0_0
"The core articles of faith of the Greens are the sanctity of ?nature?, and the depravity of mankind. Their hatred of mankind is revealed time and time again in their oft-expressed desire to see new plagues wipe out the greater part of the world?s peoples. The creation of more and more ?wilderness?, from which humans are barred, is a manifestation of this awful misanthropy, and the ultimate goal of this movement is an Earth which is no longer polluted by any human beings at all. It is an anti-theist movement with a deep hatred of its own kind, which it sees as depraved and incapable of redemption.",0_0
"Figure 1. Blue line shows the anomaly in total downwelling surface radiation, longwave plus shortwave, in the CERES dataset, March 2000 to September 2012. Red line shows the trend in the downwelling radiation, which is 0.01 W/m2 per decade. Gray area shows the 95% confidence interval of the trend. Black line shows the expected effect of the increase in CO2 over the period, calculated at 21 W/m2 per doubling. CO2 data are from NOAA. Trend of the expected CO2 change in total downwelling surface radiation is 1.6 W/m2 per decade. CO2 data from NOAA .",0_0
"Fourth, the Tailoring Rule and the future streamlined permitting procedures, even if upheld by courts, would do nothing to shield the U.S. economy from the compliance burdens and market impacts of a NAAQS rulemaking for CO2 and other GHGs. The next section explores this key issue.",4_1
"The continent has enough natural resources to bring peace, health, and prosperity to nearly everyone. And yet 90% of Africans still lack electricity and basic necessities, while corrupt leaders who could help transform our nations embezzle billions and leave parents and children starving and poor.",0_0
Dvali also argues that any charge that leads to no long-range force must only be conserved modulo,0_0
"But -18 degrees C is NOT the input! It is only the output. The input from the Sun is NOT freezing cold. Only the output of the Earth has a Wattage of 240 W/m2and an associated temperature of -18 degrees C. The solar input is actually really hot, maximizing at up to +121 degrees C: ouch hot!",0_0
"Now, lets consider the absolute values of the radiative imbalance shown in Figure 13. The model mean shows an average energy imbalance of 0.79 watts/m^2 for the base period of 1996-2015, and Earths energy imbalance (based on the model mean) was about 0.10 for the first 20 years of 1861-1880 (the pre-industrial values). So, based in the model mean, Earths energy imbalance has increased roughly 0.69 watts/m^2 since pre-industrial times. But the range of the modeled energy imbalance (based on the CMIP5-archived models with historic and RCP6.0 forcings) during the base period spans about 5 watts/m^2. Thats more than 7 times greater than the 0.69 watts/m^2 modeled increase. Can we presume that the climate science community has not bothered itself to assess whether that matters, too? Maybe theyve been avoiding it.",0_0
"Climate science must dremot be careful frmedla only those of forskarsamhllet real erknda facts and then comprehensively describe both hypotheses and mothypoteser about what may happen in the future. It is through the public democratic debate and decision-making processes that society from these doubtful utgngspunkter to come up with what who need gras, decision-making processes from not let itself be subject to the anti-democratic preaching Authorities.",0_0
"But in the case of the JFK assassination, there is simply no evidence that there were numerous shooters and/or that there was any organization or group of people who would want to increase the probability of the success by a backup plan or a spare shooter. In fact, it's very likely that if there had been several shooters, we would almost certainly learn about some traces the others have left. There aren't any.",0_0
"The response to this question was 75 specialists out of 77, so here we have our massive 97%.",0_0
"???Our modeling shows that natural climate cycles explain at least part of the ocean warming we??ve seen since the 1950s,?? said Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist in UAH??s Earth System Science Center and the new study??s lead author. ???But we also found that because the globe has had more frequent La Nia cooling events in the past ten or fifteen years, they are canceling out some of the effects of global warming.??",2_1
"A July 2014 e-mail from Judd Legum, an editor at ThinkProgress, to billionaire Democratic climate activist (and former coal-mine investor) Tom Steyer exposes the climate-change McCarthyism that the Left and its myriad allies in the liberal media use to discredit or silence anyone who doesn't adhere to the orthodoxy of the climate catastrophists.",5_2
"Marchionne has not only resurrected the gas-guzzling Viper (which was doomed in 2008), he has doubled down on making SUVs, a model scorned by Obama and his environmental base. The result is Chrysler returning to profitability not by selling tin cans (the 500, with profit margins of less than $1,000 a copy, disappointed in its first-year sales) but tens of thousands of Jeep Grand Cherokees with profit margins in the neighborhood of $3,000-5,000 per vehicle. That light-truck demand now employs three full shifts at Chryslers Jefferson North plant in Detroit. Those are blue-collar jobs. UAW jobs.",0_0
"It is only in the past 50 years that the continent has a first person instrumental record. Looking back a few hundred years further much important information about the climate of Antarctica has come from a network of recently available shallow firn cores. This data reveals that significant regional climate changes has taken place.Atmospheric temperatures have increased markedly over the Antarctic peninsula, as we shall see this is probably linked to nearby ocean warming and intensification of the circumpolar westerlies.",0_0
"As to the ""correlation"" between the industrial era and this increase in rise rate, well, the rate increase appears to begin around 1880, well before the rise in industrial emissions. It would not be before increases in land-use change that would contribute to erosion.",0_0
"What are the political consequences of this great change in the tide of affairs? In former times a king who persisted in ruinous policies was eventually forced to save his throne and the monarchy itself, by abandoning the adviser who was most identified with the policy, conducting a trial, and then executing the former favourite. Under such circumstances Charles I agreed to the execution of the Earl of Strafford, an act of which he repented at his own beheading.",0_0
"The UK government has unsurprisingly been trying to alarm us all with scares ranging from rising sea levels, floods and droughts to extinctions of species, higher insurance costs and tropical diseases. Would it be too much to expect that they check the facts first?",0_0
"These green dictators refuse to debate any of this.Indeed, they do not want anyone to talk about it.",0_0
"The data as suggested above are the Reynolds OI.v2 satellite-enhanced sea surface temperature anomalies, which are available through the NOAA NOMADS website here .",0_0
"""A war of words grew this week between China and Japanese rolling stock manufacturers, reigniting a battle over whether Chinese state-owned firms stole high-speed rail technology and are now attempting to market it themselves overseas.""",0_0
"When I speak of ""climate"" I am referring to data gathered not just about decades, but centuries of the Earth's cycles of warming and cooling. When I speak of ""weather"", the closest any of us get to it other than today's, are local predictions no longer than a few days' time at best. The weather is in a constant state of flux.",0_0
"Naturally, the forcible disconnection of actions from consequences has led to a series of catastrophes and misadventures bumbled intrusions in Iraq and Afghanistan while failing to bring Osama bin Laden to justice, a ghastly housing bubble and crash of financial markets followed by a nagging recession, horrifyingly irresponsible expansion of government debt, a grotesque comedy of errors as the federal government and a multinational megabusiness fail to plug an oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, children's academic achievement at a disastrously low level, entertainment and arts given over in great part to proselytizing for the aristocracy's pet political causes and character assassination of all who dare to question that agenda, and so on and on.",0_0
"What a gross travesty of the truth, and such appalling reporting, but these are the messages fed to acquiescent politicians who do not bother to check the facts, and criticise those who do. How low has science sunk, that scientists will dispense this sort of disinformation to promote their own agenda?",0_0
"""Part of that dirty work would involve liberating carbon dioxide from its label as pollution by the main stream media and carbon opportunists like Al Gore and large Wall Street investment firms. Part of the dirty work would be exposing hypocrites like film maker James Cameron and billionaire Ted Turner who want you to live with less to ?save the planet? while they live with more. Part of the dirty work would be exposing the truth about the benefits of more carbon dioxide in the air, its enhancement of agriculture and all living things and its miniscule role in changing the future climate of the world. Part of that dirty work would be telling the truth about where the real money in climate change is. Here?s the result of some dirty work for you.",0_0
The five following graphs illustrate the lack of global warming in US and Canada.,0_0
"Om Cancun: Lyckligtvis s kommer ingen att ta ngon strre notis om klimatmtet i Cancn i nsta vecka, dr en kraftigt reducerad grupp av delegater kommer att g igenom ritualen. Den illusoriska drmmen om att kunna bekmpa klimatfrndring r dd. Barak Obamas cap-and-trad-plan r dd. Chicagobrsen fr koldioxid r dd. Den europeiska unionens frmodade reduktion av kodioxidutslpp har avsljats som en jttelik bluff. ( Se t.ex. hr ) Allmnhetens intresse fr klimatfrndringar har rasat, och media har radikalt minskat sin bevakning av klimatfrgan.",0_0
"""These studies underscore the fact that efforts to try to pin claims of attribution of recent events to greenhouse gas emissions are empirically groundless, even if symbolically and emotionally satisfying. We are going to have to proceed into the future without knowing the influence of greenhouse gas emissions on extremes.""",0_0
first 100 days? It is very unlikely that any president will have the hugely,0_0
"""Beating up on oil companies has always been low-hanging fruit for politicians when gasoline prices are high. And as the country is headed into the summer driving season, gas prices are certain to go higher, giving Democrats the opportunity to play that card.""",0_0
"BBC , NBC News Blogs , more Google News (even later)",0_0
We're proud of Graham Beduze and the Cajun navy and marines.,0_0
"""A judge ruled this week that the Service Employees International Union improperly coerced workers caught in the middle of SEIU's high-stakes turf battle with a breakaway union in California, potentially invalidating a 2010 election involving 43,500 employees.""",0_0
Global warming isnt happening - temperatures have gone nowhere for 20 years. Yet we continue to spend billions fixing a non-existent problem.,1_4
"The title of the book, ?An Appeal to Reason?, is well-chosen and indicates what the book is about. Its subtitle, ?A Cool Look at Global Warming,? is equally important. I am really glad that the Czech translation comes out less than a year after the original publication. My book, ?Blue Planet in Green Shackles,? was launched one year before, but I say in all honesty that had it been the other way around, I would have gladly and extensively cited Nigel Lawson.",0_0
"""After months of negotiations, members of the 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers will be going on strike.""",0_0
"""Alarm over the prospect of the Earth warming is not warranted by the agreed science or economics of the issue. Global warming is happening and man is responsible for at least some of it. Yet this does not mean that global warming will cause enough damage to the Earth and humanity to require drastic cuts in energy use, a policy that would have damaging consequences of its own. Moreover, science cannot answer questions that are at heart economic or political.""",0_0
"The trees is open for our own lsares klimatmnen. And all that you are and we possibly forgotten away, or did not have time, to inform people about",0_0
"""Violeta Aylward, an agency nurse working for the NHS, was caught on camera turning off the ventilator keeping quadriplegic Jamie Merrett alive.""",0_0
Australias antarctic runway melting | Camden Haven Courier,0_0
"Speedy comments: Imagine what fun Brian and John would have had in the last few months if theyd been off the leash??? Maybe something like this, but only better...",0_0
California High Speed Rail Governor's Veto may be Illegal:,0_0
"Political observers debate the implications of the virtual world known as ""Second Life.""",0_0
Fig. 2. Re-analysis of the satellite-based feedback parameter estimates of Forster and Gregory (2006) showing that they are consistent with negative feedback rather than positive feedback (low climate sensitivity rather than high climate sensitivity).,3_1
"Similarly, the 1994 federal appeals court decision cited above (Pfizer v. Giles) found that the mere pendency of a lawsuit against a company for belonging to, and contributing to, a trade association contravened the First Amendment because the lawsuit chilled participation in and contributions to that association. Accordingly, it issued a writ of mandamus dismissing the suit.",0_0
"Do Russians hate their grandchildren, or have they been brainwashed by Rush Limbaugh?",0_0
"we discuss this climate metric. A subsection of the text, reproduced from that paper states,",0_0
Tony Blair is set to earn millions of pounds advising an American businessman on how to make money from tackling climate change.,0_0
"But developing countries, primarily India and China, have made it quite clear that they have no appetite to slow economic growth or curb use of conventional fuels to control emissions. For this reason, Canada, Japan, and Russia refused to sign onto a new agreement committing them to emissions reductions unless major developing country emitters were also included. Until and unless this issue is resolved, the U.S. would be foolish to consider unilateral restrictions on the U.S. economy that, in the end, would be merely symbolic without significant effect on global emissions reductions.",4_2
"We now know but sought to confirm whether all such records CEI seeks would be on Mrs. Clinton's private email server. After receiving no cooperation from the State Department on its key threshold request, CEI was forced to sue. CEI's first step was to seek documents relating to the email and record keeping and security practices of Secretary Clinton and her inner circle, including if they submitted the required attestation whether they possessed any work-related emails on non-official accounts or thumb drives.",0_0
"Methinks the good doctor needs to stop worrying which team he is on and look at the paper. Even more importantly than the infilling, proper characterization of autocorrelation powerfully affects the screening of Enzyte accredited series, as this post demonstrates .",0_0
"Yet for many of the officials in the Obama administration, the fatal flaw in the SPP is that it often emphasizes process over results. Twenty working groups of officials from the three governments met privately, often in telephone conference calls that frustrated calls for transparency, allowed various conspiracy mongers to claim that the SPP was a sinister plot by cynical elites, and distracted from the goals of the effort, forcing leaders to repeatedly counter public misperceptions.",0_0
"Civil rights lawyer and community organizer from Chicago plans to ""completely revamp how we use energy"" For us to say we are just going to completely revamp how we use energy in a way that deals with climate change , deals with national security and drives our economy, that's going to be my number one priority when I get into office , assuming, obviously, that we have done enough to just stabilize the immediate economic situation.",0_0
"Figure 17: The best and latest temperature picture. The current global warming trend started around 1670 to 1700, some 310 years ago. The current temperature is probably less than the medieval peakthe land thermometer data from 1850 to 1980 exaggerates temperature increases, though no one knows by how much. Sources: See text above.",2_1
"* Biofuels are better for the environment. Nonsense. We are already plowing an area bigger than Iowa to grow corn for ethanol millions of acres that could be food crops or wildlife habitat. The energy per acre is minuscule compared to what we get from oil and gas drilling, with or without fracking. To meet the latest biodiesel mandate of 1.3 billion gallons, producers will have to extract oil from 430 million bushels of soybeans converting countless more acres from food or habitat to energy.",0_0
"Such attempted reductions in other countries have proved incredibly expensive, while barely reducing emissions. But damn the stubbornly weak economy, says President Obama, full speed ahead!",0_0
"""Despite Newsom's opposition, the law may still end up on the books. The board passed it on an 8-3 vote Tuesday, the minimum needed to override a veto. An override vote has not been scheduled.""",0_0
"China's plans for its own orbiting space station in 2016 and a manned moon landing by 2025 are driven as much by a desire for strategic, even military leverage as by a thirst for science. Likewise, Russia understands that the path to regaining its superpower status points into space, which is why it continues to pour money into space ventures even as the rest of its economy stagnates.",0_0
"Compare their beliefs with those of Senator Paul. He proposes dramatically cutting major entitlement programs. He proposes eliminating foreign aid. He champions fossil-fuel production. He is, in the Pew typology, a typical Libertarian. He has little in common with the Post-Moderns he seeks to attract.",0_0
"These actions are necessitated by the constant push to prove their hypothesis. As Richard Lindzen said years ago, the consensus was reached before the research had even begun. From the beginning, evidence has constantly emerged, and almost all of it contradicts the assumptions made and reinforces a null hypothesis, which the IPCC never entertained. Instead, they create explanations that are later proved incorrect. Their claim of a positive feedback from water vapor in the climate sensitivity of CO2 problem is a good example.",5_1
"What I think is absurd, what I disagree with very strongly, is the idea that climate is predictable, that we can do things 100 years in advance knowing what's going to happen. That's just not that's just not the way it is.",0_0
"Sweden has invented a watering can that you pee in, then use to water your garden with . Why wasteful Swedes cant just step outside to pee on their plants without using a plastic can is unclear.",0_0
Junk science traditionally has been pretty much of an in-your-face phenomenon. Activist-generated scary headlines that are followed by a hysterical rush to adopt new laws and regulations is standard fare.,0_0
"Unfortunately, a distinguished ecologist called Jim Steele found fault with her conclusion: there had been more local extinctions in the southern part of the butterflys range due to urban development than in the north, so only the statistical averages moved north, not the butterflies. There was no correlated local change in temperature anyway, and the butterflies have since recovered throughout their range. When Steele asked Parmesan for her data, she refused . Parmesans paper continues to be cited as evidence of climate change. Steele meanwhile is derided as a denier. No wonder a highly sceptical ecologist I know is very reluctant to break cover.",3_2
A shiny new satellite suggests that a cooling period of up to 23 years could be coming.,1_2
George Stephanopholus An Impartial Newscaster For Over 20 Years,0_0
"when averaging over the entire contiguous U.S., there is no overall trend in flood magnitudes",1_7
"When news editors assigned stories on the climate back then it was usually spurred by press releases out of places like NCAR, NWS, NOAA, etc., which usually featured a talk, lecture, or findings that were sent to the media. Global warming, in the mid-to-late 1980s was not the AGW ideological era that it is today.",0_0
"In drawing general conclusions from their many diverse findings, the authors state that ""red maple typically germinates better and grows larger with increasing atmospheric CO 2 ."" They also state that ""genetic variation in CO 2 responses and the rapid increase in global CO 2 concentration suggest the potential for adaptive evolution of this species, which may further enhance productivity with CO 2 enrichment."" Or as they describe it in another place, ""this species may evolve in response to globally rising CO 2 so as to increase productivity above that experimentally observed today."" Consequently, the ongoing rise in the air's CO 2 content bodes well indeed for the future robustness of the planet's red maple trees.",3_3
"The Simple Moving Average stack is in a weave pattern. This often happens at decision or inflection points. After a rise, it often means a fall to come. Furthermore, that spike down today was not good. At this point Id be exiting any remaining gold trade positions (if I had any, but I sold mine some time ago).",0_0
"Climate Models: 100% right except for rain, drought, storms, humidity and everything else",0_0
"""The AFL-CIO, the New York Times reported, recently distributed an internal memo warning its members that in several states around the country, Republicans may pursue new laws with the goal of financially starving labor unions. This trend has public employee unions worrying that lawmakers will finally scale back the extent to which unions eat up state budgets.""",0_0
"The five scientists state that their results ""do not support the prediction that the response of grassland species to elevated CO 2 will be short-lived as the demand for nutrients increases,"" in clear contradiction of the claim of Luo and Reynolds, as well as the similar claims of others (see our Editorial of 10 December 2003 ); for as they reiterate in the concluding sentence of their paper, ""contrary to the belief that the response of grassland species to elevated CO 2 will be short-lived, stimulation of photosynthesis in T. repens remained after eight years of exposure to elevated CO 2 ."" References",3_3
"After years of testifying before administrative agencies and lobbying in legislatures with disappointing results, many climate activists see the courts as their last best hope. Over the past few years, lawsuits have been filed in almost every American state and in many foreign countries asserting that the judiciary has the authority and the responsibility to order the executive and legislative branches of government to take more aggressive actions to combat climate change.",0_0
Oil workers defy French govt demand to open depots:,0_0
"""The Kyoto Protocol is a death treaty, no matter how strange this seems, because its main purpose is to stifle economic growth and economic activity in countries that assumes obligations under this protocol."" Some reports suggested that Dr Illarionov even compared the treaty to Auschwitz. (Reuters, Interfax).",0_0
"Much of that green will be depend upon appeasing priorities of a billionaire and climate activist named Tom Steyer who has indicated willingness to earmark $100 million or more to help put or keep congressional candidates who support his priorities. Steyer threatened in an open letter that Obama better reject Keystone or else! It warned: ""Given that none of the chief arguments being put forth by supporters of the pipeline remain standing, NextGen Action is going to be working with our friends and allies who are opposed to the development of Keystone XL to intensify our efforts in communicating what is the right policy choice to your Administration.""",0_0
"""It would cost the British economy 50bn a year up to 2050 to meet the requirementsof the UK Climate Change Act. Local authorities should do absolutely nothing to tackle climate change. Your money could be put to far greater use.""",4_1
"Moreover, the history of flood events in Eastern Australia (particularly southern Queensland and Northern NSW) is inextricably linked to both La Nina occurrence and PDO/IPO phases.",1_7
"???The GAO report is just more evidence that the administration has no clue what drives a successful economy and job growth,?? said Paul Chesser, an associate fellow at the National Legal and Policy Center. ???President Obama tried to build this economic sector, but the buyers didn??t come. And now after the initial flurry, the green jobs?? are evaporating.?? more??",4_2
"These claims and demands are specious. For one thing, they ignore the way that ""organic"" is defined by the production standards of Vilsack's own department. The USDA's rules for organic production, which do bar the intentional use of genetically engineered crops, are based on process, not outcomes. In other words, as long as organic growers adhere to permissible practices and do not intentionally plant genetically engineered seeds, unintentional cross-pollination by genetically engineered plants (or for that matter, the drift of a prohibited pesticide onto their crops) does not cause those crops to lose their organic status.",0_0
27b. The potential that climate change might have some positive effects in other parts of the world,0_0
Canadians Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick were unable to replicate Manns results and Mann initially refused to provide them with all the input data. The saga is detailed in various publications** and a chapter in Aynsley Kellows book Science and public policy : The virtuous corruption of virtual environmental science,5_2
"Baliunas: When the sun's magnetism is strong, the sun's energy output is higher and the Earth is warmer. . . . We measured that carefully over the last 20 years with satellites from the Earth, and we measured it indirectly going back 400 years, 1,000 years, and 10,000 years.",2_1
The implication for TCR of the substantial revision in AR5 to aerosol forcing estimates,0_0
"What makes the endeavor risky is that ""prices gyrate and occasionally spike... not because oil is scarce, but because it's so abundant in places where good government is scarce.""",0_0
"Michael Mann, take note. One of the most ridiculous claims made by climate alarmists is that skeptics get huge gobs of oil coated money. For example, there is the recent claim:",5_2
"Geiger?s valuable book Climate Near the Ground published in 1950 was an important contribution to climate science that few know about, but that requires another column.",0_0
"Your house furnace runs at a few thousand degrees, and the insulation in your house helps to trap the air warmed up by the fire in the furnace. If your house is drafty or has poor insulation, the warm air escapes the inside of your house easily, exchanging itself with cool air from outside. If you have a well-sealed house with good insulation, the warm air stays inside your house for a longer time.",0_0
"Climate changes effects are accentuated in mountainous regions, and in the 20th century temperatures in Alpine Switzerland increased by twice the global average. Today Swiss glaciers are shrinking by nearly 33 feet (10 meters) a year, on average. Whats more, alpine communities are reporting more rain and stronger winds than in centuries past.",0_0
1.) Thwaites Glacier Melting: University of Texas researchers recently published an extensive study that proves geologically induced sub-glacial geothermal heat flow is melting this glacier from below.,2_1
"The degree of consensus also depends on the way the questions are phrased. For example, we can get 100% consensus if the question is Do you believe in climate change? We can get a near-100% consensus if the question is Do you believe that humans have some effect on the climate? This latter question also would include also local effects, like urbanization, clearing of forests, agriculture, etc.",0_0
"If we were fans of the alarm and extrapolated the latter trend, we would deal with 75 C of global cooling per century. That could indeed be a catastrophe. If we extrapolated the 0.28 C month-on-month cooling since December, the cooling would remove 336 C per century, dropping below 0 Kelvins before 2100. Entertainingly enough, January 2008 was also 0.27 C (anomaly-wise) colder than June 1988 when Hansen gave his infamous testimony before the U.S. Congress, predicting a dangerous warming in the following 20 years.",1_2
"Power grids require that demand for electricity exactly match supply in order to function. This is an enormous problem for wind and solar power since their output cannot be accurately predicted in advance or easily adjusted. Wind and solar can burn out the grid if they produce too much, or not enough, electricity, leading to brownouts or blackouts. Such damage has already occurred in Germany and in other grids that rely too much on solar and wind power like in California.",4_4
"Solomon wrote in the July 8 National Review Online, ""by virtue of his power at Wikipedia, Connolley, a ruthless enforcer of the doomsday consensus, may be the world's most influential person in the global warming debate after Al Gore. Connolley routinely uses his editorial clout to tear down scientists of great accomplishment such as Fred Singer, the first director of the U.S. National Weather Satellite Service and a scientist with dazzling achievements.""",0_0
"The Reynolds OI.v2 sea surface temperature anomalies through the NOAA NOMADS website are referenced to the base years of 1971-2000, even though the data only runs from November 1981 to February 2013. The same base years are used for the model outputs.",0_0
"Moreover, there is no guarantee of any benefit to the global climate should we adopt and meet the demands of a national or international carbon-cutting plan. Perhaps developed-world carbon reductions would lead to marginal reductions in temperature, but would they be worth the economic cost, particularly since developing nations' emissions will easily swamp any American reductions?",4_2
"""It wasn't pretty. I did well to get out when I did. The others weren't so lucky.""",0_0
"Commisioner Hedegaard posed this question: ""While some argue that the U.S. cannot afford climate and energy legislation, my question is: Can the U.S. afford not to have ambitious legislation that paves the way for a more energy-efficient future? We all know that we are in for a future where energy and resources will be still more expensive, and the companies and nations that are the most energy-efficient will prosper the most.""",0_0
"What is the historical context for the July heat wave over western Russia? During the period 1880-2009, the region??s monthly July surface temperatures have experienced several very warm years of about +3C departures (1931 , 1955, 1981, 1988, and 2002), and comparably cold Julys having about -3C departure (1950, 1957, 1968, 1976, and 1994). Warm Julys alternating with cold Julys describes the typical sequence of events over western Russia during the last 130 years, with little or no discernible trend in July temperatures since 1880. Yet, the July 2010 anomalies averaged over western Russia will exceed the warmest Julys on record, and such an extreme event demands an explanation.",1_7
"The President then made it worse by raising climate change as his primary issue in a public speech to students in Brisbane and demanding that Australia follow his lead in agreeing to a cap on emissions. By blindsiding Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott who wanted to focus on economic and security matters during Canberra's big moment on the world stage, President Obama insulted and disrespected his host and most loyal ally in the region.",0_0
"They are standing alone here, as ourselves and other independent forecasters are all predicting a colder-than-average winter.",0_0
"On January 1, 2005, Weaver became chief editor of Journal of Climate. On January 4, 2005, Mann, Rutherford, Wahl and Ammann submittedTesting the fidelity of methods used in proxy-based reconstructions of past climate ( pdf ),",0_0
"""On the face of it, the company's research on climate change and its previous public positions on climate policy not only fail to amount to fraud, they aren't even necessarily at odds. You might accept the reality of man-made global warming and still argue against strict new rules on emissionsif, for example, you believe that such restrictions would do more harm than good. . . . that position isn't indefensible, and certainly shouldn't be illegal.""",0_0
"On November 12, the Clinton Administration signed the Kyoto Protocol, in clear defiance of Byrd-Hagel. Simultaneously, and despite recent legislation prohibiting regulatory implementation of the non-ratified treaty, the Administration announced plans to launch new Kyoto-friendly federal energy procurement and transportation initiatives.",0_0
.attempting to correct the errors with existing adjustment methods artificially forces toward regional representativeness and cannot be expected to recover all of the trend information that would have been obtained locally from a well-sited station.,5_1
"The only ""tiny problem"" with this proclamation is that the atmosphere can't belong to Texas. Within a day, the winds ""export"" most of the air that was located above Texas to other states (or to the volume above the oceans).",0_0
"Eastern Russia is so freezing minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and counting that the traffic lights recently stopped working in the city of Yakutsk. But if it was CO2-caused global warming, Eastern Russia ought to be warmer.",1_3
"""Despite the multiple disturbance events,"" in the words of the six scientists, ""the coral community distribution and composition in 2006 on Saint-Leu Reef did not display major differences compared to 1973."" This pattern of recurrent recovery is truly remarkable, especially in light of the fact that ""in the wake of cyclone Firinga, Saint-Leu Reef phase-shifted and became algae-dominated for a period of five years,"" and even more amazing when one is informed that following an unnamed cyclone of 27 January 1948, no corals survived. What it means",3_2
"Figure 5 shows the modeled and observed trends in sea surface temperature anomalies for the Atlantic Ocean (longitudes 70W-20E) from Jan 1982 to February 2013. The models overestimate the warming in the South Atlantic and underestimate it North Atlantic, especially towards the high latitudes. In fact, the models show just about the same warming trends from 40S to 70Nthat is, the models show the Atlantic Ocean should have warmed at about 0.15 to 0.2 deg C/decade for the last 32+ years for the latitudes of 40S to 70Nwhile the observed trendschange greatly over those latitudes. Again, how can the climate scientists/modelers hope to create the warming patterns on adjoining land masses when they cant simulate the warming pattern of the Atlantic?",5_1
"Finally, I also have to note that perhaps this will have some significant impacts on the question of AGW Model validation. Changes in relative heating with altitude are part of their predictions, and here we have them driven by the sun. So how long until those models are updated and we can see what they predict project next? Somehow I think Im seeing a bit of a spanner in the works moment in the modelers future",5_1
"Executives and business groups said that the scheme had been poorly communicated and publicised, leaving many companies in the dark.",0_0
Here's Why the Freelancer Economy is on the Rise Fast Company,0_0
Senator Lindsey Graham Wants to Kill Waxman-Markey!?,0_0
"""EPA is low-balling implementation costs, misleading the American people on the Clean Power Plan's true costs,"" said Lewis. ""But despite all the costs and consequences, the plan's putative climate benefits are illusory the regulation should be withdrawn.""",4_1
"If the claims of a damaging influence on coral reefs were true, then the corals would have died millions of years ago.",3_2
The White House has recently issued a Technical Support Document on the Social Cost of Carbon . Excerpts from the Executive Summary:,0_0
"Magnitude 6.6 BONIN ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION",0_0
"Table 1 presents the observed and modeled linear trends for the sea surface temperature subsets presented in the post, for the period of November 1981 to February 2014. Ive also included the differences between the modeled and observed trends and the differences as a percentage of the observed trends. . Click on Table 1 for a full-sized version.",0_0
Spin Cycle: Carbon Dioxide Is NOT Carbon Pollution,0_0
"None of this Global Average stuff and homogenizing the world either. It has to be accurate on YOUR FARM, not 3 counties over. None of this 3 thermometers on the SoCal Beach and one at S.F. Airport like GHCN does for California either. You need to have lots of temperatures to make a fine grained product.",0_0
"There has been much discussion in recent days about the new decadal forecast of global temperatures, sneaked out by the UK Met Office on Christmas Eve, and which shows flatlining temperatures instead of the the rapidly increasing ones previously forecast.",1_4
So why not in the Cascades? Did those other eruptions somehow relieve the pressure in the Cascades?,0_0
click image to read full blog post,0_0
"""Homa Arjomand, who lives in Toronto and headed Canada's successful campaign of the International Campaign Against Sharia Court in Canada, says like Kanwar, she too once embraced the idea of multiculturalism . (...) ""'I thought how wonderful, but not anymore,' she declares. ""'I came here for Canadian values, not sharia values. I fled Iran on horseback because the values there threatened my very life. If people want to live under sharia or the way they lived back home, let them go back,' she said.",0_0
"Sarkozy's commission raised some methodological and substantive issues when it released its report September 14; it suggested that household income may be a better prosperity indicator than business production and that median incomes describe societal inequality better than mean averages. As it points out,",0_0
"The Commonwealth is not proceeding with such a restriction, nor do such restrictions apply to new coal-fired power stations in New South Wales or Queensland, he said.",0_0
"Renewable energy advocates have every right to argue for their preferred source of energy, but they are wrong to claim these sources of energy won't cost more or would even save consumers money ""because the wind and sun are free."" Renewable energy policies come at staggering costs and, as seen with Germany, those policies bring few if any measurable environmental benefits.",0_0
"""Jim Hard, former president of SEIU Local 1000 and the union's current vice president for organizing and representation, sent an e-mail to members on Tuesday that passionately argues for ratifying the local's tentative agreement with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.""",0_0
"If the satellite data are correct, then This Means That the July 2009 SSTS Reached a considerably higher record temperature than NOAA HAS CLAIMED. The discrepancy is huge in terms of climate measurements; The trend in the difference between the two datasets shown in the above figure is the same size as the anthropogenic global warming signal is expected by the IPCC.",0_0
"One side of this debate wants a debate, and the other will do anything to avoid it.",0_0
There is so much nonsense in here: the fact that the UK hasn't actually cut spending yet; the remoteness of a possibility of a catastrophic loss of welfare by 2050; the equating of spending cuts with nobbling the economy. But I'm not sure anyone is listening to the Huttons of this world any longer.,0_0
"The potential for climate modeling mischief and false scares from incorrect climate model scenarios is tremendous, says Colorado State University analyst Bill Gray , who has been studying and forecasting tropical cyclones for nearly 60 years. Among the reasons he cites for grossly deficient models are their unrealistic model input physics, the overly simplified and inadequate numerical techniques, and the fact that decadal and century-scale circulation changes in the deep oceans are very difficult to measure and are not yet well enough understood to be realistically included in the climate models.",5_1
"The fact that we have had similar, and worse, periods of weather 80+ years ago suggests that natural forces explain these events, and that there is no reason at all to play the climate change card .",2_1
"First there was the spectacular explosion of Orbital Sciences's Antares rocket last Thursday. Then came the crash of Virgin Galactic's rocket plane on Saturday, a major setback for hopes of commercial space travel at a time when NASA has all but handed over the field to the private sector.",0_0
"""Despite the fact that the carbon trading market, along with ?smart meter? programs, have been exposed as slush fund scams owned by the very globalists fearmongering about man-made climate change ? namely Al Gore and Maurice Strong ? designed to line the pockets of habitual con men who have been caught over and over again lying about the evidence behind global warming, states are now adopting their own version of the scheme so that the trick can be played on an unsuspecting public who still think that cap and trade hasn?t been implemented.""",5_2
If I manage to take me out on the top-100 list terstr to be seen.,0_0
"Have global temperatures warmed, cooled or flattened? If so, by how much, since when, and how can we know? I have posed these questions to two highly credentialed climate scientists who have different views on this topic. Texas State Climatologist Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon, a Regents Professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M; University, will present a view that global temperatures have seen an upward trend since the late 1970s. Former director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service and University of Virginia Professor Emeritus Dr. S. Fred Singer will present an argument that there is no convincing evidence of warming since that time.",0_0
"In this case, the issue is the benefit to the environmentof reduced emissions of carbon dioxide andlower fuelingcostsfrom a smaller passenger vehicle, versus the risk to the personal safety of you and your family.",0_0
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"What we are seeing in American politics today is a Jacksonian surge. It is not yet a revolution on the scale of Old Hickory's movement that transformed American politics for a generation. Such a revolution may not be possible in today's America, and in any case the current wave of Jacksonian activism and consciousness is still in an early and somewhat incoherent phase. In the past, moderate leaders on the center left and center right alike have found ways to capture Jacksonian energy. FDR was able to steal the demagogic energy of Huey Long; Richard Nixon marginalized George Wallace even as he responded to some of Wallace's concerns about bussing and crime. (He did not, however, give way to Wallace on the core issue of racial equality.)",0_0
"Yet even as the U.N. bosses talk of delivering billions from poverty, their main aim, the papers argue should be much, much larger: to limit and redirect the aspirations for a better life of rising middle classes around the world.",0_0
"For these governors, ""fiscal conservatism"" meant running a tight ship within the prevailing center-left consensus in their states. If they provide a model of a ""libertarian Republican"" future, their fiscal apostasy must be accounted for.",0_0
"My name is Craig Rucker. I am the executive director and co-founder of CFACT, The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a registered U.N. NGO. We've been focusing on issues of environment, development, energy and freedom for twenty-four years. I have now attended around a dozen U.N. Conferences in such places as Cairo, Istanbul, Buenos Aires, Bali, Cancun, and Kyoto. In light of recent events, I have never seen the stakes raised so high or the need for action so great. We are honored to co-sponsor this event.",0_0
"The NCDC data are regularly used by the National Weather Service to declare a given month or year as setting a record for warmth. Such pronouncements are typically made in support of the global warming alarmism agenda. Researchers who support the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) also regularly use the NASA/NCDC data, including researchers associated with the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia that is now at the center of the ""Climategate"" controversy.",5_2
"Limbaugh describes this group as ""the conformists; the people who will sacrifice their own identity; the people who will sacrifice who they really are in order to be accepted by people they think are their betters."" Like courtiers in an especially corrupt monarchy, prospective aristocrats today must flatter their rulers and humble themselves to prove their fealty. One can hardly think of a better example of this degrading process than President Clinton's notorious intern Monica Lewinsky.",0_0
"This figure we calculated may not seem particularly significant, says Esper. Our results suggest that the large-scale climate reconstruction shown by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) likely underestimate this long-term cooling trend over the past few millennia.",0_0
And we certainly need to look at how climate models attempt to answer those questions.,0_0
"Many of the proponents of man-made global warming are now claiming that climate change is worse than they predicted. According to an Oct. 18, 2011, Daily Climate article, global warming activists claim that the ""evidence builds that scientists underplay climate impacts,"" and ""if anything, global climate disruption is likely to be significantly worse than has been suggested.""But a forthcoming Climate Depot A-Z Climate Reality Check report on the failure of the science behind man-made global warming theory will shatter any such illusions that the climate is ""worse than we thought."" Recent scientific data and developments reveal that Mother Nature is playing a cruel joke on the promoters of man-made climate fears.",0_0
"Connie Hedegaard, the EU Commissioner for Climate Action Photo: AP",0_0
"Wind energy is also more expensive than almost all other electricity sourcesonly solar is higher. A new study from the Brookings Institute on the ""best path to a low-carbon future,"" assumes that CO2 emissions are causing climate change and therefore must be reduced. It analyzes the costs and benefits of the most common solutions. The study found: ""Adding up the net energy cost and the net capacity cost of the five low-carbon alternatives, far and away the most expensive is solar. It costs almost 19 cents more per KWH than power from the coal or gas plants that it displaces.""",4_4
"It's coming to a theater near you on Monday, May 2, for a special one-night engagement.",0_0
The proposed EPA plan will kill hundreds of thousands of jobs,0_0
"Isnt that all ENSO is? Isnt ENSO simply a natural, uncontrolled, variable source of heat to the global oceans and atmosphere? Global Land Plus Sea surface temperatures warmed from 1917 to 1944 and warmed again from 1976 to present, and they cooled slightly from 1944 to 1976. Using period-average NINO3.4 sea surface temperatures, we can see that El Nio events dominated the global warming periods, and La Nia events dominated the period between them when global temperatures cooled.",2_1
"Among other things, a chironomid-based July temperature reconstruction was one of the fruits of the ten scientists' labors. As indicated in the figure below, although there have been periods of both colder and warmer temperatures, there appears to be no long-term trend in the data. In addition, it is clear from the current temperature line (shown in red) that present temperatures are neither unusual, nor unordinary, within the context of the past 850 years. And, thus, this study provides yet one more example of empirical evidence that stands in opposition to model-based claims that modern temperatures have been rising in response to increasing atmospheric CO 2 concentrations.",2_1
1988 Hansen Model vs. 2009 UAH Lower Troposphere (13-month mvg. avg.),0_0
There is no other source of radiation that can effectively destroy the earths ozone layer. But what was curious (and unbelievable) is that there were obvious determined efforts (in the mid-to-late 1980s) to blame mankind for something it could not do on a planetary level and that is to change the climate.,0_0
"And they're doing drop houses, and they're extorting people and they're terrorizing the families."" The governor, who has become a national media figure since signing Senate Bill 1070 into law on April 23, went further on Friday, saying that the ""majority of the illegal trespassers that are coming (into) the state of Arizona are under the direction and control of organized drug cartels.""",0_0
"In fact, it is exactly because we have made our environment less ""natural"" that we have improved the lot of humankind. ""Natural"" means horrifying percentages of our children dying of infectious diseases and mothers dying in childbirth; lifespans of only 30 or 40 years for those who survive these earlier tribulationsyears lived in backbreaking toil merely to avoid starvation; and constant nagging pain from injuries and infections.",0_0
"It is spektakulrt. As jmfrelse's we've had an increase on the level in the 1900s, says Linderholm.",0_0
And the carbon price for the US is misrepresented by data from California alone.,0_0
"It seems that according the early draft, CO2 induced climate change is going to take a backseat to natural variability.",2_1
"Agreement signed at Niamey August 11, 2005; entered into force August 11, 2005.",0_0
Runaway methane is yet another climate superstition being preached by the worlds #1 rated scientist. There just isnt a lot of methane in the atmosphere. It is a reactive gas with a short residency time.,5_2
"The process of territorialization of the seas has been twofold: the ""enlarging"" of territorial waters from 12 miles to 200 miles, but also the ""deepening"" of territorialization. Twenty years ago, offshore wells were being drilled in just a few hundred feet of water; with ever-improving technology, prospecting then moved to deep water (i.e. beyond 1,300 feet) and more recently still to ""ultra-deep"" drilling under as much as 10,000 feet, with dramatic consequences for some countries like Brazil, who went from quasi-total dependence on foreign oil to quasi-total independence.",0_0
"It is this graph of the widening gap between the predicted and observed trends that will continue to demonstrate the absence of skill in the models that, until recently, the IPCC had relied upon.",5_1
"The paper reveals that the scale, scope, feasibility, cost, resources and other requirements of the decarbonisation agenda have never been tested against other calls on human and physical resources of the planet.",0_0
"In the Medieval Warm Period, from about AD 950 to 1250, when humanity started to thrive, they would probably say the porridge was ???just right??.",2_1
Marc Morano in the small Virginia town of Reston. The PR strategist unleashedthe climate deniers global campaign.,0_0
"Once again, Democrats refused to permit the Republicans' intended witness to testify. They knew Lord Christopher Monckton, former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, would rubbish Gore's Doomsday scenarios. So Gore was allowed to mislead Congress and promote his unfounded assertion that humanity faces ""an irreparably damaged planet,"" if we don't immediately slash fossil fuel use. He didn't face a single tough question over any of his false or misleading claims.",0_0
"So if their explanation is right, the bump near \(2\TeV\) will be growing it may already be growing now: the first Run II results will be announced on EPS-HEP in Vienna, a meeting that starts tomorrow (follow the conference website )! Only about 1 inverse femtobarn of \(13\TeV\) data has been accumulated in 2015 so far much less than 20-30/fb at \(8\TeV\) in 2012. And if the authors of the paper discussed here are right, one more thing is true. The decay channel \(Z\gamma\) of the new particle will soon be detected as well and it will be a smoking gun for low-scale string theory!",0_0
"That Real Climate (RC)should feelspecial solicitude for the Hockey Stick is no accident, comrade. Two of the five principals at RC ??? Michael Mann and Raymond Bradley ??? were among the three researchers (Mann, Bradley, andMalcolm Hughes) who authored the Hockey Stick.",5_2
"I cant see anything objectionable in this sentence. I did indeed do the stated calculation (see here .) The calculation involving the Hantemirov data was not the same calculation as the emulation of CRUs regional chronology that Id calculated about 10 days earlier (see here ) on May 6, 2012. Although Schmidt whinged about the May 6 regional calculation, nowhere is it mentioned in my actual post. Indeed, I havent yet commented on the handling of the regional chronology in Briffa et al 2006, though this is an interesting topic that I intend to cover and will discuss briefly in todays post.",0_0
the world and a number of op-ed pieces appeared. Some were awful. Most have had,0_0
that impacts produces risk that needs careful and urgent attention.,0_0
"???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
"Creator creature, Father son, Life life,",0_0
"Oracle is setting up the bunting for its JavaOne 2012 conference in San Francisco, just as researchers from the Polish insecurity outfit Security Explorations found another critical hole in the companys Java software.",0_0
"THE story of Americas shale-gas revolution offers hope in hard times. The ground was laid in the late 1990s, when a now-fabled Texan oilman, George Mitchell, developed an affordable way to extract natural gas locked up in shale rock and other geological formations. It involves blasting them with water, sand and chemicalsa technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Americas shale-gas industry has since drilled 20,000 wells, created hundreds of thousands of jobs, directly and indirectly, and provided lots of cheap gas. This is a huge advantage to American industry and a relief to those who fret about American energy security.",4_5
Australias antarctic runway melting | Southern Weekly,0_0
"If an era as warm or warmer than today did indeed exist 500 to 1,000 years ago, before man had invented the CO2-emitting internal combustion engine, then it weakens their claim that any warming occurring now is due to human activity. The reality of such a period is a strong sign that climate change is both natural and cyclical, not moved by mans modern habits.",2_1
"""Policy makers need to catch up with the industry,"" Harold York, an analyst of the refining sector at Woods Mackenzie, said. He projects that easing the crude oil restrictions ""would lead to $70 billion in investment spending in the U.S. oil sector and further economic stimulus.""",0_0
"I think the urban-related warming should be smaller than this, but I can?t",0_0
"By Benjamin Zycher, AEI, Aug 5, 2015",0_0
"India and China talk the Al Gore talk of climate Armageddon and the necessity for urgent action -- yet their emissions keep going up and they refuse to adopt emission caps or carbon taxes. The world's two most populous countries with the biggest ""emerging"" economies act on the premise that global warming policies are more dangerous than global warming itself. It's time for their words to match their deeds, as I explain today on MasterResource.Org.",4_2
"The Journal is the official, peer-reviewed publication of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), a national organization representing physicians in all specialties, founded in 1943 to preserve private medicine and the patient-physician relationship.",0_0
have a national health insurance program. We don't have toxic waste clogging the,0_0
"Freeman Dyson has followed the same path as myself, going from true believer in 1979 to skeptic in 2015.",5_1
"The key part of the equation is the number right before x. Thats whats called the slope of the function. The slope is 0.0048 C per year. This works out to about half-a-degree (0.5 C) Celsius per century . For reference purposes , the IPCC forecasted 1.8 to 4.0 C per century over the next 100 years, depending on their various socioeconomic scenarios. Heres the real kicker... The IPCC forecasted 0.6 C of warming over the next century in a scenario in which CO2 remains at the same level as it was in 2000. This is reminiscent of Hansons failed 1988 model . The IPCC forecast more warming in a steady-state CO2 world than has actually occurred since 1997.",5_1
"NATO military planners and civilian policymakers continue to think in terms of nation-states and regional ""areas of operation,"" whereas, as the navy community knows full well, maritime threats are more often than not nonstate and transregional in nature. But terrorist networks are genuinely transnational: the Sri Lankan LTTE not only owned and operated a fleet of ten ocean-going freighters flying Panamian, Honduran, and Liberian flags, it also hijacked commercial vessels carrying weapons to reroute them to the Tamil Tigers. In 1994, the LTTE shipped 50 metric tons of TNT on board one of its own freighters operated by a front company from a Ukrainian Black Sea port via the Turkish Straits to Sri Lanka.",0_0
"Tissue and Lewis continue saying that ""glacial plants were severely carbon limited over a very long time period, until atmospheric CO2 began rising during the glacial-interglacial transition."" In fact, they indicate that ""controlled environment studies with modern plants grown in glacial CO2"" have shown ""significant carbon limitations on plant physiology even when other resources were generally not limiting ,"" citing Dippery et al. (1995) and Tissue et al. (1995). So in spite of anything one could have done to enhance their productivity (other than supply them with more CO2), glacial-age plants simply could not produce the bounty that today's plants do. In fact, they were fortunate to merely survive.",3_3
"In a book I recommend to everyone, ""Climate for the Layman"" by Anthony Bright-Paul, he draws on the best well-known science about the Earth noting that ""Since there is no such thing as a temperature of the whole Earth all talk of global warming is simply illogical, ill thought out, and needs to be discarded for the sake of clarity. The globe is warming and cooling in different locations concurrently every minute of the day and night.""",2_1
His playing days may be over but Pfannenstiel's passion for environmental issues is now taking his career into even more unpredictable directions.,0_0
"It sure doesnt look like the dominance of La Nia events during the hiatus period has caused any ocean heat uptake in the Pacific over the past 11 years. Subsurface ocean warming occurred only in the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Now, consider that manmade greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide are said to be well mixed, meaning they are pretty well evenly distributed around the globe. Its difficult to imagine how a well-mixed greenhouse gas like manmade carbon dioxide caused the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans to warm to depths of 2000 meters, while having no impact on the North Atlantic or the largest ocean basin on this planet, the Pacific.",2_3
Making the ignorance and arrogance of the Administration all the more absurd are the repeated claims that the plan will save the consumers money as if major urban black-outs can be labeled as money saving opportunities. See links under The Administrations New Plan and The Administrations New Plan Independent Analysis.,0_0
"on Friday, March 30th, 2012 at 6:20 am and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"To distract the industry with more CAFE would hamper that effort, further reduce occupant protection and accomplish nothing of substance.",0_0
But that isnt what the IPCC is saying. A single sentence on page 4 of the Summary for Policymakers puts the IPCCs conclusions in a different perspective:,0_0
Obama's Green Car Program Under Scrutiny Watch Video,0_0
Australian target set at 26% reduction by 2030 billions spent to reduce global CO2 emissions by 0.01%,4_2
"Because of this failure and the fact that the IPCC Mean Annual Global Temperature anomaly has not changed for the past 17 years, they have decided to treat it on a decadal basis instead, as follows:",1_4
There has been little or no sea level rise in Vancouver over the last century.,1_6
Bizarre Huffington Post Claim: We all need to come out on Climate Change,0_0
STILL A LOT OF UNKNOWNS CONCERNING DECADAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY,0_0
"Since when was the ability to manage the agenda of the G-20 (go ahead, try and name its members) a litmus test of strength? Yet here we see another almost incredible disconnect between reality and Obama-world. Russia, which is indeed setting the agenda in the Middle East and in Eastern Europe, is doing so without breaking a sweat because Obama has chosen not to push back. Why not? Because apparently pushing back requires war with Russia, rather than the myriad other options available to America's chief executive, including arming Ukrainian soldiers or inflicting more financial pain on Moscow. Straw men play an enormous role in the president's universe.",0_0
Global Warming Causes Extreme Legislative Fury,0_0
"?If we take all the science that we know relating to how the Sun emits heat and light and how that heat and light powers our climate system, and we look at the climate system globally, the difference that it makes even going back into Maunder Minimum conditions is very small.",0_0
"Of course, realizing these benefits requires producing more, ending the export ban, and building more pipelines, natural gas liquefaction plants, and shipping facilities. That can and should be expedited.",0_0
"Figure 6. The remarkable non-linearity of global temperature change since 1890, showing the two periods of global warming that coincided remarkably with the two positive phases of the naturally-occurring Pacific Decadal Oscillation over the period.",2_1
"It is safe to say that the overall impact of such polls has been minimal, compared to the political consequences of UN-IPCC (Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change) reports that led to (mostly failed) attempts at international action, like the Kyoto Protocol (1997-2012). One should mention here the Oregon Petition against Kyoto, signed by some 31,000 (mostly US) scientists and engineersnearly 10,000 with advanced degrees. More important perhaps, in July 1997 the US Senate passed the Byrd-Hagel Resolution against a Kyoto-like treaty by unanimous votewhich probably dissuaded the Clinton-Gore White House from ever submitting Kyoto for Senate ratification.",0_0
"Some numbers are needed now: By definition 10,000 ppm is 1%, therefore 100 % equals 1million parts per million( 110+6) . Another way to put it is if there are 1 million soldiers in the army and only one has a gun ,he better have a lot of bullets if he is going to defend the country. The atmosphere is supposed to contain 400 ppm (round Number) therefore a concentration of 100% CO2 is 2500 time that of what is in the atmosphere. If the effect exists it should be much easier to measure and demonstrate that back radiation Is causing a heating effect on the earth.",2_3
"These results are extraordinarily significant because they show that the global net effect of climatic warming on the productivity of terrestrial vegetation need not be positive as was documented for the 1980s and 1990s, said Diane Wickland, of NASA Headquarters and manager of NASAs Terrestrial Ecology research program.",0_0
"As Newt Gingrich and others have pointed out, Republican candidates need to find policy approaches that embrace environmental values but that secure those values with policy approaches compatible with fiscal responsibility, limited government, free markets, and personal responsibility. Two such policy options are a greenhouse gas mitigation agenda incorporating revenue-neutral, carbon-centered tax reform, and a deregulatory adaptation agenda of eliminating the insurance subsidies that have, and will continue to encourage people to live in areas that are most susceptible to small changes in the climate.",0_0
"Auto makers are upset about this development because now they must mount a lobbying effort against higher CAFE standards when they are making efforts to appear green (Wall Street Journal, July 16, 1999).",0_0
"Welcome to 2008: Across the country, Democrats are talking again about health care. From New Jersey to Minnesota to Colorado, they are proposing an aggressive agenda that promises to insure more Americans by employing mandates and price controls.",0_0
"Counter to the alarmist claims that AGW is causing the California drought, Obama's National Climate Assessment Report shows precipitation has increased throughout over 90% of California relative to the 1901-1960 mean. In addition, less than 5% of the contiguous US shows and increase in drought and most regions show either an increase in precipitation or no change compared to the 1901-1960 mean.",1_7
Many thanks to Luke Walker for alerting me to the story of Goyders Line.,0_0
White House uses Twitter to bully critics:,0_0
"The finding could help explain the slowdown in temperature rises this century that climate sceptics have seized on as evidence climate change has stopped, even though 14 of the 15 hottest years on record have happened since 2000.",1_4
"But a strange thing happened in 2006 the lake level stopped declining and instead started increasing rapidly. As you can see in the table below from lakepowell.water-data.com, since 2005 the lake elevation has increased by more than 60 feet above the 2005 low of 3562 ft. As of January 29, at 3622 ft. the lake is within three feet of the January 29 average of 3625 feet elevation. The volume of water in the lake has increased by 65% in the last five years to 4.5 trillion gallons. (At movie theater prices for bottled water, that could almost erase the US National Debt.)",0_0
"The Earth had passed through warming and cooling cycles for billions of years before humans even existed, yet we are told that the generation of carbon dioxide through the use of machinery in manufacturing, transportation or any other use is causing the build-up of ""greenhouse gases"" in the atmosphere. We are told to give up the use of coal, oil and natural gas. That is a definition of insanity!",0_0
[ERROR UPDATE: The headings (NH and SH) were switched in the two blocks of text in the center of the post. I have fixed them.,0_0
"If you tag one with a satellite tag in Monterey bay, it will shoot straight across to Indonesia, Professor Crowder explained.",0_0
"I haven't done a study of the levels each year, but if my memory serves me correctly these levels were higher than most previous years....something confirmed by an air quality scientist at Puget Sound Clean Air Agency. Why?",0_0
"Another notable aspect of these negotiations in recent years has been their insulation from reality. It has often seemed that the negotiators have been determined to produce another piece of paper without taking any notice of whether the commitments made in previous pieces of paper are being fulfilled or even paid any attention. At Bali, I think, a glimmer of reality made its way into the negotiations. This is a most welcome change and will lead to further positive changes in the negotiations if pursued. Therefore, before discussing the specific outcomes in Bali, the roles of the United States and other key countries, and what I believe should be the goals for future climate policies, I would like to discuss some of the realities that provide the backdrop to Bali and all future negotiations on a post-Kyoto global warming treaty.",0_0
"No, I don't believe that is necessarily true. While many global warming crisis skeptics and limited government advocates continue to be terribly disappointed that the Court has declined to review either the Endangerment Rule or subsequent Tailpipe Rule, the case could still rekindle public and policymaker support for legislative action to rein in the agency and contain fallout from Mass v. EPA.",0_0
A climate criminal eagerly anticipates something which they say is catastrophic,0_0
"Three different TSI measurement composites (since 1980) provide diffrences in absolute scale, temporal structure, solar minimum levels, long-term trends.",0_0
Christie Pulls New Jersey Out of Climate Pact,0_0
"How Wikipedia's green doctor rewrote 5,428 climate articles",0_0
"YouTube - Undue Panic Over Global Warming FoxBusinessNetwork May 28, 2010 Bjorn Lomborg, author of ""The Skeptical Environmentalist"", argues we need to be smart about global warming and not rush into making policies out of panic and fear.",0_0
"""Without a fundamental transformation of the development model and substantial adjustment of the industrial structure, China will find it impossible to achieve the 2020 emissions reduction goal,"" said the Chinese Academy of Sciences study.",0_0
"on repairing a financial system that was in much worse shape than ours is today,",0_0
"Is that conflicted picture ""pablum""? Whatever value judgment one puts on it, it is the reality of climate change science today. And given the persistence of these vast uncertainties in the science, the most counterproductive approach to the problem we could take is to ignore or even disguise those uncertainties. The challenge, in fact, is to embrace that uncertaintyto accept it, and find ways to craft policy despite itnot to deny it. Yet the one thing that advocates, politicians, and the media abhor is uncertainty and complexity. Until all sides in the climate change debate can agree on some basic factswhat is known, what is not known, and what needs to be known to draw meaningful conclusionswe can have little hope of reaching greater consensus on the thorny policy issues.",0_0
"Practical Action has built multipurpose flood shelters in the north that lend full-scale protection to livestock and people, and have had huge successes growing pumpkins on sandbars; the United Nations Development Programme is trialing disaster-proof villages, ringed entirely by dykes, with houses mounted on concrete legs. Environmental challenges also drive great innovation in national NGOs. Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha has built a fleet of floating, solar-powered schools. Another outfit sails along the coast offering hospital services.",0_0
"And Morano is the mastermind behind it all, Die Zeit wants its readers to believe.",0_0
"The Board voted 6-2 in favor of amending the standards to, as the Charleston Daily Mail reports, ""allow students to use scientific models to form their own conclusions on the debated topic.""",0_0
"A new report, ""Climate Change Energy Power and National Power"" by three retired U.S. Navy admirals reviews the Obama administration's 2010 ""National Security Strategy"" has just been published by the Heartland Institute. The authors warn that ""The U.S. government is defaulting on its responsibility to develop and execute a credible national energy policy. This failure is suppressing the nation's economy and reducing the U.S. influence in world affairs."" Administration demands that the Navy and other elements of our military use biofuels rather than traditional sources of energy put it at risk to defend the nation.",0_0
The Pinatubo eruption threw more sunlight-reflecting aerosols into the stratosphere since the Krakatoa outburst in 1883. Its millions of tonnes of sulphur dioxide reduced incident sunlight and had a maximum of 0.4 deg C cooling effect on global temperatures and an influence that lasted for several years.,0_0
"Klimamanifest video, Part 1 of 10. In 2009 Schellnhuber claimed that the Himalayan melt by 2035 was very easy to calculate.",0_0
"Former NASA scientist Dr. Roy Spencer says that climate models used by government agencies to create policies ?have failed miserably.? Spencer analyzed 90 climate models against surface temperature and satellite temperature data, and found that more than 95 percent of the models ?have over-forecast the warming trend since 1979, whether we use their own surface temperature dataset (HadCRUT4), or our satellite dataset of lower tropospheric temperatures (UAH).?",5_1
"Clinton's proposal had cunningly undermined Beijing's leadership over the developing bloc of countries. In anger, Chinese officials responded that such demands were an insult to China and would be a violation of Chinese sovereignty and national interests. Wen had been outflanked and was angry, even leaving the conference centre and subsequently snubbing Obama in a couple of previously planned bilateral and multinational meetings involving the US president.",0_0
"Inauguration money is of particular interest because the committee can use the money however it pleases. If Obama's PIC has money left over, it can use that money for grassroots political activity supporting Obama's agenda or nearly anything.",0_0
"The USA may be doing better than the EuroZone, but were more of a Not Dead Yet! than a growing well.",0_0
"Climate Optimum (CO), at 8 to 5 ka. Following the CO, temperatures cool to a minimum of 0.5 K colder than the present at around 2 ka. The record implies that the medieval period around 1000 A.D. was 1 K warmer than present in Greenland. Get copy here",2_1
"Jones said temperature records may fractionally underestimate warming because of gaps in measurements in the Arctic for 1961-90, the benchmark years for judging change, and problems in verifying ocean temperatures. The world is probably a little warmer than we are measuring, he said. Read more here of Jones spinning more tales.",5_2
"By giving them access to proper investment capital and affordable financial institutions, microfinance providers help small- and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries to grow. Often, these businesses are so small that they can neither afford the interest rates on bank loans nor come up with the capital they need on the their own. When implemented correctly, microfinance loans empower their customers to invest, grow, and be productive, all of which contribute to diminishing poverty within communities.",0_0
"It is true that Syria suffered a drought in 2007-8, which can clearly be seen in the chart. And no doubt the internal displacement that is attributed to this drought changed conditions that would be significant later on. But is it enough to say that climate change was a factor in the conflict which developed several years later? It doesnt seem to account for the political changes seen in Egypt. Nor in Tunisia.",0_0
majority of Iran's enriched uranium from the country in exchange for civilian nuclear fuel.,0_0
"/s/ Larry Bell JSC, Mgr. Crew Systems Div., Engineering Directorate, 32 years",0_0
"This suggests a second threshold question: when did the United States last experience per-capita CO2 emissions of only 2.4 tons? From the limited historical data available, it appears that this was about 1875. In 1875, the nation's GDP (in 2008 dollars) was $147 billion, per-capita income (in 2008 dollars) was $3,300, and the population was only 45 million. (It is possible that per-capita CO2 emissions were never this low even before the advent of widespread fossil fuel use, as wood burning by Americans in the nineteenth century may have produced more than 2.4 tons of CO2 per capita. Much depends on the emissions coefficient for wood burning and how, since wood is biomass rather than a fossil fuel, regrowth of forestland is credited in carbon accounting. In 1875, twice as much energy was generated from burning wood than fossil fuels.)",0_0
"There is an obvious sense of panic in the rhetoric of climatecampaigners right now. This panic arises not simply from the fact thatthe global economic crisis is derailing expensive climate action plans,but from the deeper problem that the scientific case for catastrophicglobal warming is slowly unraveling.",5_1
"The Carboniferous Period and the Ordovician Period were the only geological periods during the Paleozoic Era when global temperatures were as low as they are today. To the consternation of global warming proponents, the Late Ordovician Period was also an Ice Age while at the same time CO2 concentrations then were nearly 12 times higher than today-- 4400 ppm. According to greenhouse theory, Earth should have been exceedingly hot. Instead, global temperatures were no warmer than today. Clearly, other factors besides atmospheric carbon influence earth temperatures and global warming.",2_3
"In addition, this instrument, a spectral radiometer at DOE's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility located on the southern Great Plains in Oklahoma, allowed the team to calculate what the brightness would be if the day sported a cloudless, blue sky. The spectral measurements taken by the radiometer can be converted into the amount and properties of aerosols. Then aerosol properties can be used to calculate clear blue sky brightness.",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Risk & Environmental Policy Angela Logomasini on the fight between public health officials and environmental activists over West Nile prevention:,0_0
"Figure 2 presents the weekly sea surface temperature anomalies off the New England coast, starting with the week centered on Wednesday January 3, 1990 and ending with the week of January 30, 2013. The base years for anomalies are the standard climatology of 1971-2000 from the NOAA NOMADS website. The horizontal red line represents the most recent weekly value of +0.55 deg C. Sure does look like its been warmer many times over the past 2+ decades.",0_0
"What is really going on, says the BBC, is that the jet stream, which determines the rate of progress of weather systems, is in an unusual position and is pushing the weather systems out of their normal paths. ""Instead of moving eastwards across the north Atlantic, picking up relatively little water because of the low temperatures at those latitudes, the system crossed into Europe at a lower point, carrying far more moisture as a result.""",0_0
The EU's Emissions Trading System: Trouble in Paradise,0_0
"Were stuck in our own experiment, the Australasian Antarctic Expedition said in a statement. We came to Antarctica to study how one of the biggest icebergs in the world has altered the system by trapping ice. We are now ourselves trapped by ice surrounding our ship.",1_1
"TOM BROKAW, anchor: NBC NEWS IN DEPTH tonight, does it seem its been warmer than usual where you live? Well, its not your imagination. Scientists have figured out ways to trace climate changes over hundreds of years now, and their findings are out tonight. The world, in fact, is getting warmer. Our IN DEPTH report now from NBCs chief science correspondent Robert Bazell: ROBERT BAZELL reporting: Terrible storms, floods, heat waves: Is something unnatural really happening to our weather? The answer is yes. The study out today examines detailed records of the earths climate for 600 years.",0_0
"Temperatures have certainly increased since 1779, and the 30-Year trend shows a small uptick in the last decade or so, as we might have expected. But the interesting thing is that the really significant increase occurred in the late 19thC and early 20thC.",2_1
"Obama's looming skein of regulations is being promoted just one week after BP issued its latest Statistical Review of World Energy, which provides yet more proof of two indisputable facts: Even without more regulations from the White House or the EPA, the U.S. continues to lead the world in reducing carbon-dioxide emissions. And while the U.S. may be cutting its coal use (and, therefore, its carbon-dioxide emissions), the rest of the world continues to binge on coal.",0_0
"The difficulty with early period records is further illustrated by NIWAs Eleven-station Series. Although a representative sample would include at least six from the South Island, NIWA was unable to cobble together three until 1944 and had to wait until mid-1948 for a fourth. Then it was another six years until data from these was available for any two successive years.",0_0
"Compared to Singapore's 1.1 TFR, or Germany's 1.36, the U.S.'s 2.0 (an average of varying rates ranging from 1.93 to 2.18) looks pretty good. But, in Last analysis, the negative trends do not bode well for the future. The large numbers of Hispanic immigrants reached 50.5 million in 2010, compared to 22.3 million in 1990, a doubling of their population in 20 years. Hispanic women are outpacing the U.S. fertility rate with their 2.35 TFR. But that number represents a decline from 2.96 in 1990, plunging nearly 10 percent just between 2007 and 2009.",0_0
"The data become relatively sparse prior to 1600, and are subject to uncertainties related to spatial completeness and interpretation making the results somewhat equivocal, e.g., less than 90 percent confidence. Achieving greater certainty as to the magnitude of climate variations before that time will require more extensive data and analysis.",5_1
"The Obama administration estimates six lobster boats and 20 other fishing vessels still operate in the newly-protected area. Officials will allow recreational fishing to continue, but commercial fishing and seabed mining will be banned.",0_0
"In a region where the sway and cunning of both are closely watched and compared, it has been a good week for the Chinese leader and a poor one for the American.",0_0
Al Gore's latest outlandish outburst,0_0
"On Error Resume Next Shock Mode = (IsObject (CreateObject (""ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.10""))) // ->",0_0
"Not enough to support the puppies more docile and loving: For best results, you have to really kill all the other puppies",0_0
"A meta-analysis of the effects of elevated CO2 on 17 variables from 110 published studies reveals that elevated CO2 promoted root morphological development, root system expansion and carbon input to soils, implying that the sensitive responses of root morphology and function to elevated CO2 would increase long-term belowground carbon sequestration?? Read More",3_3
"Bangladesh Center for Advanced Studies (BCAS) and the Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB), two organizations active in the area, use this womens collective to begin helping villages respond to the challenges associated with floods. With financial support from Norwegian Church Aid, these two organizations had identified 17 of the villages poorest households and decided to raise the foundational platform, or plinth, of their houses by four feet to protect them from the flood waters. A few other households, after seeing the benefits of such raised plinths, in turn made their own investments to raise the plinths of their houses.",0_0
"Among the CFACT activities was a press conference promoted as ?an opportunity for journalists to balance their coverage of COP16 by listening to all points of view.? Very few reporters, however, bothered to show up ? let alone balance their coverage. The event included talks from several ?skeptical? experts including Lord Christopher Monckton, the chief policy adviser to the Science and Public Policy Institute and science-policy advisor for Margaret Thatcher when she was British Prime Minister. ?I think the world is in danger of throwing away its democracy, prosperity and freedom if it carelessly accepts what seems to me unresolved science and economics,? he told the press conference. ?To try to stop this problem by cutting carbon is like King Canute trying to stop the tide .?",0_0
Arctic Sea ice extent 30% or greater (DMI),1_1
"Brian Slattery, Bryan Riley, and Nicolas D. Loris, ""Sink the Jones Act: Restoring America's Competitive Advantage in Maritime-Related Industries,"" Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2886, May 22, 2014, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/05/sink-the-jones-act-restoring-americas-competitive-advantage-in-maritime-related-industries.",0_0
"Minerals Council of Australia deputy chief Brendan Pearson accused Senator Brown of rank opportunism, unworthy of a serious political leader.",0_0
"I received a degree from the Military Medical Academy and I became a professional army physician with a diploma from the Charles University in Prague, I am a reserve lieutenant colonel of the Czech army, and during my tenure, I have spent years in some of the highest chairs of the army's medical services, always in positions listed in tables with the track of becoming a colonel.",0_0
"37 Ivo Daalder and James Goldgeier, ""Global NATO,"" Foreign Affairs (September/October 2005). On the issue of Global NATO, see also Jose-Maria Aznar, NATO: An Alliance for Freedom, 2005; Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, ""Global NATO?"" Clingendael Institute (October 2004). for a Russian/CSTO reaction, Mikhail Kokyeyev, ""Russia-Nato Relations: Between the Past and the Future,"" Russia in Global Affairs (April/June 2007).",0_0
"32 EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, ""Enforcement Alert,"" January 1999, cited in Corporate Environmental Enforcement Council, supra note 17, p. 18.",0_0
Uncertainty allows for the possibility of disaster. Something must be done even though that something might make things worse.,0_0
In the case of Goulburn recording has changed to the Airport I can not find any old daily data at this BoM site. There is monthly data for Goulburn going back to 1860 but presumably the daily data has not been entered to disk not that the public are allowed to see anyway.,0_0
"We start with the looming off-year elections, the unexpected lack of tropical storms and a cash for kids scandal in Pennsylvania. We finish with the fall of a spam king and the swine that didn't squeal. >>Support CEI Like what you read?",0_0
"It also said the panel had purposely emphasised the negative impacts of climate change and made ""substantive findings"" based on little proof.",5_2
"It is clear that we're not on track in the battle against climate change. Despite ongoing efforts to cut back greenhouse gases, we are still on a path for a temperature rise much greater than the 2C maximum that nations set for themselves in Cancun last year.",0_0
"2013 sixth-hottest year, confirms long-term warming: UN U.S. Dec/Jan Temperatures 3rd Coldest in 30 Years",0_0
"Today's conservatives have a rendezvous with destiny. The peculiar political challenge of our timerepairing our nation's finances and avoiding national bankruptcyrequires us to reform our welfare state. This forces us to confront the tensions outlined above, and to do so in a way that reassures rather than frightens the vast American middle that has turned to us now in response to the last two years. If we seize this opportunity and act with principle and prudence, we truly can say we have met our challenge. In so doing, we truly will have ""preserved for our children this, the last best hope for man on earth.""",0_0
"And of course, the press loved this take, for now everything was right again in the world of global warming doom-and-gloom. For example, Reuters reporter Patricia Reaney wrote:",5_2
"The talk at the Energy Institute went reasonably well, although numbers were apparently down considerably on normal because the invitations had been sent out rather late in the day. I also suffered from some technical problems, which meant that I had to speak without notes. I think, however, that I gained as much in fluency as I lost in completeness, so this was not the end of the day. One disappointment was that (from the tenor of the questions at least) most of the audience were probably already on the right side of the debate, so I'm not sure how many were persuaded by my words. Nevertheless, having not spoken in public for the best part of twenty years, I was quite pleased with the way the whole thing went.",0_0
"The Cancun talks seek to produce decisions on establishing a ""green fund"" to help poorer nations rein in greenhouse gases and to adapt their economies and infrastructure to a changing climate; an agreement making it easier for developing nations to obtain patented green technology from advanced nations; and pinning down more elements of a system for compensating developing countries for protecting their forests.",0_0
"A paper published today in Climate of the Past finds another non-hockey-stick in Romania, with temperatures higher for hundreds of years during the mid-Holocene Climate Optimum, Roman Warm Period, and Medieval Warm Period in comparison to the end of the record in the mid-20th century.",2_1
"As the air's CO 2 concentration continues to increase, it will likely boost rates of net photosynthesis in nearly all plant species, including white clover and perennial ryegrass. These increases in photosynthesis, in turn, will likely lead to greater root production and enhanced exudation of organic compounds belowground into the soil rhizosphere, which should stimulate the growth and productivity of microbial organisms living there. The present study demonstrated that this reasoning is indeed correct: greater microbial populations existed under CO 2 -enriched plots of white clover and perennial ryegrass than under ambiently-grown plots. Consequently, one would expect earth's plants to increase their productivity even more with greater microbial populations existing beneath them, as bacterial microbes often help to make certain soil nutrients more available to plants.",3_3
"Finding #1: ""The model fails to simulate the asymmetry of the wintertime circulation anomalies over the WNP between El Nio and La Nia."" Finding #2: ""The simulated anomalous cyclone over the WNP (WNPAC) associated with La Nia is generally symmetric about the WNPAC associated with El Nio, rather than shifted westward as that in the observation."" Finding #3: ""Simulated La Nia events decay much faster than observed."" Finding #4: ""Owing to biases in the mean state, the precipitation anomalies over East Asia, especially those of the Meiyu rain belt, are much weaker than that in the observation."" What it means",5_1
One way to do this is by injecting fine sulfur particles or other reflective aerosols into the upper atmosphere to reflect incoming radiation. Another way is to spray clouds with salt water to increase their reflectance.,0_0
the results obtained from this study suggest that the tropical ocean does indeed influence the atmospheric patterns over Europe and the Mediterranean.,0_0
"Homeopathy is based on the principles of like-cures-like and ultra-dilutions. The first says substances that can cause symptoms can be used in diluted form to treat the same symptom in an illness, and the second says the more dilute a substance is, the more potent it is.",0_0
"Please explain why sea levels during the last interglacial were 31 feet higher than the present, and Greenland 8 degrees C warmer than the present, without anthropogenic forcing. What evidence suggests the current interglacial is any different? http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/08/new-paper-finds-sea-levels-rose.html",2_1
"Now the UK Met Office is saying that such slowing for a decade or so has been seen in the past in observations and is simulated in climate models, where they are temporary events. There are no decade-long pauses in projected global surface temperatures in Figure 2, for scenarios A2, A1B or B2. Global surface temperatures are, however, responding similarly to the Constant Composition Commitment, which according to the IPCC means greenhouse gas concentrations are fixed at year 2000 levels. Yet greenhouse gas concentrations continue to climb.",1_4
> >> >>analytical frameworks used in damage estimations.,0_0
"The president's speech seems to imply that ""energy efficiency"" is somehow free. That is, that it's easy to achieve reductions in energy use without causing a reduction in the benefits from energy use. Were that the case, one wonders why market forces do not lead to such outcomes themselves. In reality, energy efficiency requires the substitution of capital, or the acceptance of less safety and comfort, or other adjustments, the net virtues of which government officials and experts simply are not in the best positions to evaluate. There is also the ""rebound"" effect: if vehicles and appliances use less energy per unit of output, a natural market response is to use more of them and to use them more intensively. The net result: far less energy savings than usually are asserted, and thus a lower economic return to the investments made in efficiency.",0_0
the 11 Patriots footballs measured by the officials at halftime did not all start the game at or near the same pressure,0_0
"Third, why rush? Kyoto apologists warn that we must take action now, lest the buildup of greenhouse gases wreak irreversible havoc on nature s delicate balances. Yet precisely because carbon dioxide emissions may linger in the atmosphere for a century or longer, it makes no practical difference in the long run whether carbon withdrawal policies are implemented now or a decade or more from now. Indeed, according to climate modeler Thomas Wigley, delaying action until 2020 would yield only 0.2oC additional warming in the year 2100.16 That s too small a difference to affect any discernible human or environmental interest.",4_2
"Speaking of fuel poverty, nowhere are people living in more substandard conditions than Africa plagued by malaria and inadequate medical care, most don't have indoor plumbing and even fewer have electricity. Shellenberger and Nordhous accuse the environmental movement of offering ""the global poor not what they wantcheap electricitybut more of what they don't want, namely intermittent and expensive power"" which ""offers the poor no path to the kinds of high-energy lifestyles Western environmentalists take for granted.""",4_5
"AGs Accuse White House, Public Interest Group of ""Sweetheart Suit""",0_0
"Last week was good for environmentalists, and perhaps even for the environment. President Obama doubled down on his effort to increase the likelihood of the success of the 2015 UN climate change conference in Paris, claiming the U.S. has ""a special responsibility to lead. That's what great nations do."" He took the occasion of the UN meetings in New York to put the heat on China, the world's largest polluter, to match the steps the U.S. is taking to reduce its CO2 emissions. The president is relying on executive orders to by-pass Congress and put in place stricter control of power plant emissions. He must believe that if he has the power to order such reductions without consulting Congress, surely the leaders of the somewhat less democratic Chinese regime can rely on similar fiats. He also believes that if the world's two largest emitters agree on a program to reduce these greenhouse gasses, the third, fourth, and fifth largest polluters will sign on to that program.",0_0
"As time progresses and paleoclimatic studies increase in both number and sophistication, ever more evidence is accumulating for the global reality of the solar-induced millennial-scale oscillation of climate that pervades both glacial and interglacial periods alike. In this specific instance, Desprat et al . report that ""a millennial-scale climatic cyclicity over the last 3000 years is detected for the first time in NW Iberia paralleling global climatic changes recorded in North Atlantic marine records (Bond et al ., 1997; Bianchi and McCave, 1999; Chapman and Shackelton, 2000)."" The establishment of the Modern Warm Period over the course of the past century is consequently seen to be nothing more than the most recent manifestation of this ever-recurring phenomenon and, hence, is likely totally unrelated to the concurrent historical increase in the air's CO 2 content. References",2_1
ROCKEFELLER AND SNOWE DEMAND THAT EXXON MOBIL END FUNDING OF CAMPAIGN THAT DENIES GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE,0_0
One might conclude that a lot of different and contradicting assumptions go into the simulations of Earths climate. There certainly is little agreement among modeling groups about how sunlight impacted the energy imbalance in the past or might impact it in the future.,0_0
"This is on par with the official opening video for the COP15 meeting in Copenhagen -- full of nightmare visions of a child caught in a global-warming-produced catastrophe - producing earthquakes, no less. (It's very well-produced, of course.)",0_0
"Mann's testimony was a mixture of ad hominem attacks, appeals to authority, and irrelevant points. He claimed that his critics had no professional expertise in paleoclimatology and didn't know what they were talking about. He did not attempt to refute the numerous paleoclimatological studies which Soon et al's article reviews. The preponderance of these studies suggest that the few data sets that Mann chose to show that global temperatures were steady from 1000 to 1900 are unusually unresponsive to temperature changes and must be considered outliers.",0_0
"According to the Los Angeles Times (April 2, 2002), ""The bill, AB 1058, by first-term Assemblywoman Fran Pavely (D-Agoura Hills), would require the state Air Resources Board to adopt regulations by 2005 that would reduce tailpipe emissions of carbon dioxide from passenger cars and light trucks and other noncommercial motor vehicles.",0_0
Sulla Denuncia Contro George W Bush Per Crimini Di Guerra,0_0
"In subsequent months, however, 140 countries declared their endorsement of the accord, and 85 of them made specific pledges for reducing carbon emissions, or at least limited their growth, by 2020.",0_0
"Despite being treated like 17th century ""witches,"" many scientists are reexamining the evidence and reversing their positionseven calling their previous views: ""quite a big mistake.""",0_0
"Re-read the first part of Kerrys explanation. Kerry is saying that even ifthe Democratic leadership does not hold avoteon cap-and-trade before the November elections,fearing the wrath of the electorate,the greenhouse gangmight stillenact cap-and-tradeafter the elections, when voters could no longer hold them accountable.",0_0
"The abuses and intolerance are becoming broader, deeper, more frightening by the day: from Christendom to Islam and Climate Orthodoxy; from universities to the Congress, Vatican, EU and United Nations.",0_0
The Hill reported today that President Obama has not wavered in his commitment to reducing carbon dioxide levels and fighting man-made climate change:,0_0
"In 2010, Foley wrote an essay Becoming a Climate Pragmatist . Foley is a very interesting voice on climate change.",0_0
Severe weather is likely today and tomorrow with moderate risks both days.,0_0
"Any layman can learn and understand these principles - from which it is clear thatthere is no such thing as man-made Global Warming there never has been and nevercan be. Far from ""greenhouse gases"" leading to Global Warming, precisely theopposite is true without these gases we would all be fried to a cinder!",2_3
"Can anyone believe that a temperature effect by 2100 measured in ten-thousandths of a degree, or sea-level effects measured in thousandths of a centimeter, could yield over $100 billion in net economic benefits? How is that possible?",4_2
First Cooler Heads Lecture On Global Warming,0_0
REALITY IS DIFFERENT THAN THE HYPOTHESES/SUPPOSITIONS/ASSUMPTIONS,0_0
"A significant and rapid temperature increase was observed at all Greenland stations between 1920 and 1930. The average annual temperature rose between 2 and 4C in less than ten years. Since the change in anthropogenic production of greenhouses gases at that time was considerably lower than today, this rapid temperature increase suggests a large natural variability of the regional climate.",2_1
"""I hear you loud and clear, Barack Obama. You don't represent the country that I grew up with. And your values is not going to save us. We're going to take this country back for the Lord. We're going to try to take this country back for conservatism. And we're not going to allow minorities to run roughshod over what you people believe in!"" Arkansas state Sen. Jason Rapert, at a tea-party rally.",0_0
"Faced with the embarrassing fact that sea level is not rising nearly as much as alarmist computer models predict, the University of Colorado?s NASA-funded Sea Level Research Group has announced it will begin adding a scientifically unjustified 0.3 millimeters per year to its Global Mean Sea Level Time Series.",1_6
"For those reasons, the natural selection doesn't apply to groups and cultures literally. It's just another interpretation of the single history that doesn't bring any new insights or predictive power.",0_0
"With a current of warm, moist air coming towards us, our temps have been above normal and with the humidity our low temps have been WAY above normal. Water vapor is very active in the infrared--in fact water vapor is the most important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. Such gases tend to warm us up at night--- they intercept the infrared radiation leaving the earth and reemit some back down to the surface, thus lessening cooling. There is a reason deserts are cool at night--not much moisture.",2_3
"On January 7, 2005, Weaver asked Keith Briffa, one of the coauthors of Rutherford, Mann et al 2005, to act as a peer reviewer for Mann, Rutherford et al 2005. Because of his IPCC commitments, Briffa declined (suggesting Wigley), but neither Weaver nor Briffa seemed the least bit concerned about any potential impropriety arising from Briffa acting as a buddy peer reviewer.",5_2
New industry research finds that side air bags significantly reduce driver deaths in SUV collisions.,0_0
Daniel Yergin explains why technology continues to thwart doomsayers who claim the world will run out of oil,4_5
Joe Bast Introduces Debate Team and Defines Debate Rules,0_0
"Columnist Timothy Carney warns that the massive bail-outs now flowing out of Washington will give the incoming Obama administration an opportunity to impose a regulatory agenda that otherwise would be impossible to promote. It's not so much that the government will be doing anything different than it has been doing under both Republicans and Democrats. Rather, Washington will be doing a lot more of it. Writes Carney:",0_0
"We (unlike Al Gore) believe that the planetary emergency is not about the 5 billion people who are consuming oil, natural gas, and coal. It is about the 1.5 billion who do not have access to modern forms of energy and live in abject poverty.",4_5
"As can be seen, over the first 15-period, prior to 1998, there was a strong warming trend (+1.4 degrees per century). As a result, the experts said human CO2 was the cause. They then emphatically predicted that this warming trend would continue and even accelerate. But it didn't - instead it decelerated.",1_4
"Now, in a gesture that perfectly captures the fractious spirit of a polarised nation, comes the inevitable backlash: a political attack advert entitled ""James Cameron ? Hypocrite"".",0_0
Will the Presidents Clean Power Plan save consumers money?,0_0
"This is just a single link: in a list of ATLAS' notes, the last one is",0_0
"Tonight's tips music features the most famous guitar riff in rock 'n' roll history, and a sound that was to become a musical template in the decades to follow: Here's Chuck Berry - who'll be 87 next month - playing and singing on the original recording of Johnny B. Goode . The comments thread is open, as always, for your Reader Tips.",0_0
"Commenting on the proposed carbon pollution standards for new power plants, Bonner R.Cohen, PhD, a CFACT Senior Policy Analyst, laid out the reasons why MATS has no basis whatever in science.",0_0
"Putting the president's fortune in Congress's hands not only makes for poor politics, it runs counter to the Framers' plans for the office. They saw Congress, not the presidency, as the main threat to the people's liberties. In a democracy, James Madison wrote in The Federalist, ""the legislative authority, necessarily, predominates"" because it has access to the ""pockets of the people."" He warned that ""it is against the enterprising ambition"" of Congress ""that the people ought to indulge all their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions.""",0_0
"Other concerns include increased stress on water supplies and rising corn prices as a result of increased demand for the crop, which is fermented to produce biofuel.",0_0
"A 2007 Newsweek cover story on climate change skeptics reported, ""In April 1998, a dozen people from the denial machineincluding the Marshall Institute, Fred Singer's group, and Exxonmet at the American Petroleum Institute's Washington headquarters. They proposed a $5 million campaign, according to a leaked eight-page memo, to convince the public that the science of global warming is riddled with controversy and uncertainty.""",0_0
"In effect, EPA could insert itself (or your State environmental agency) into most local planning and zoning processes. I will write more about this in the future. It terrifies me.",0_0
"6. Perceptions of ""dumping"" untested food on unsuspecting Africans. We've ""dumped"" millions of tons of these ""untested"" crops on willing consumers all over the Western Hemispherebut only after they were tested for toxicity, digestibility, protein levels, pollen dispersal, genetic stability, and many other characteristics. Not even a sneeze has been triggered.",0_0
lambda 0.04 0.09C per W/m2,0_0
Ethanol production is killing real people for no reason at all.,0_0
"So the B Climate cannot support trees, but Koppen uses a sub-classification letter to separate regions that support grasses BS (for steppe grasslands) from no vegetation at all, BW. A third letter separates h (hot) or k (cold). A desert is hot or cold defined by the lack of vegetation, not temperature.",0_0
"In relation to the recent posts falsifying CAGW on the basis of Planck's quantum theory , this essay by geophysicist Norm Kalmanovitch explains why The Effect of a Doubling of the Concentration of CO2 in the Atmosphere as Depicted by Quantum Physics",2_3
"In the simplest form of classification there are nine major climate zones (Figure 1). Zones 1, 3, 7 and 9 are singular with similar weather conditions all year influenced by one major control mechanism. The others, 2, 4, 5, and 6 are mixed weather conditions because they?re under different control mechanisms as the seasons change.",0_0
The Conservative Review reports on the subpoena CEI recieved as part of the Attorneys General's campaign to silence those who disagree with them on climate change.,0_0
"Miranda Devine covers the ugly t weets that brought on the defamation suit from the Editor Chris Mitchell. Shes nailed it: the journalists have become activists. And theyre so far from being journalists, theyre actually proud of their partisan activism.",0_0
"A new reanalysis by two NASA scientists of the three standard ice-monitoring techniques slashes the estimated loss from East Antarctica, challenging the large, headline-grabbing losses reported lately for the continent as a whole.",1_1
More than a dozen environmental groups that oppose hydrofracking sent a letter to Martens urging him not to approve the alternative technique without adequate environmental review.,0_0
Former Harvard physicist Dr. Lubos Motl: NASAs Gavin Schmidt knew about this fact. That didnt prevent them from pushing virtually all mainstream media to publish the lie in the very title that NASA was declaring 2014 the warmest year.,0_0
From the January 1 st issue of Vegetarian Times:,0_0
"Having said all that, my second reaction to Massachusetts , which I still have today, is that it is like being back in 1970, when Congress first enacted the CAA, all over again. Reflecting the mentality of that time (and the significant pollution problems this country had), the 1970 CAA mandated clean air in five years. It didnt happen, because the goal was unrealistic. What followed since 1970 has been a long hard continuing fight to balance the desire for clean air and the need to maintain the economy. There have been countless EPA rulemakings over the decades since 1970, most of which were appealed, many of which were upheld, and some of which were not.",0_0
"At the same time it's apparent that the United States needs more high-skill immigrantsjob creators rather than job seekers. The death of Steve Jobs (whose father, it turns out, was an immigrant) reminds us that highly talented individuals can be huge national assets.",0_0
"There is an increasing body of papers in the scientific literature, such as Lindzen & Choi (2009), or Pinker et al. (2005), that state or imply that temperature feedbacks additional radiative forcings that occur merely because the initial warming, however caused, has occurred are either zero or net-negative, exercising a countervailing cooling effect. The feedback that is most obviously wrong in the UN's analysis is the cloud-albedo feedback. As more clouds form, particularly at low altitudes where clouds tend to be optically dense, more sunlight is reflected harmlessly straight back into space without causing any warming here in the atmosphere. It is easy to demonstrate that this primary (and cooling) radiative effect of clouds is more important than the secondary (and warming) effect you mention namely, the retention of heat in the atmosphere by the blanket of clouds.",5_1
"Its entire Washington DC office, barring one staffer, decamped, taking Heartlands biggest project, involving the insurance industry, with them.",0_0
"There was another 6.x in Indonesia a while back that Id not bothered to post about, but probably worth a mention here as its nearby.",0_0
"Ahem. I think Mr. Kerry might have gone off-script with those remarks, but I'm glad he did. It was a refreshing bit of honesty because the United States could indeed cut its emissions by 100 percent and make virtually no dent in global-warming levels. According to climate experts Paul Knappenberger and Patrick Michaels, the climate regulations the Obama administration are imposing on the energy sector will reduce warming by 2100 by 0.018 degrees Celsius.",4_2
"The El Chichon eruption is interesting because one of the strongest El Nino events, some say the strongest ever, occurred just after it. These two events had an interesting interplay for it seems that the global temperature rise induced by the warm water of the El Nino was offset by the cooling effect of the stratospheric aerosols from El Chichon. It is interesting to speculate what might had happened if El Chichon had not gone off. Would the 1982 El Nino have been as dramatic as the 1998 one? And would it have left in its wake elevated global temperatures, as 1998 seems to have done? What would have been the impact on environmental thinking, and on James Hansens global warming warning in 1988?",0_0
2. Kevin Trenberth is a meteorologist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research.,0_0
"An ever-green climate lie says: Sea levels are rising fast and will soon drown a city near you. We need money from rich countries to cope. Leaders in the Pacific nations should monitor the tide gauges which surround the Pacific Ocean from US west coast, Canada, Alaska, Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii. They show no unusual rising in sea levels. Land and sea levels are always changing, totally oblivious to trace gases in the atmosphere. There are marine fossils in the Himalayas and the Andes, and ancient cities now lie beneath the oceans.",1_6
"Some sentences betray the postmodern intellectual atmosphere of the environment in which Pinker works (Edward O. Wilson is one of the fellow Harvard authors whose ideas Pinker argues against). For example, the group selection theory is ""nice because it is non-reductionist and ecumenical"", Pinker reproduces a theme heard in his environment. Needless to say, reductionism is considered by many as a major ""villain"" that partially drives the group selection advocates to their conclusions. Pinker makes a convincing case that it's the individual (in a species) or the individual gene that is always a player in the game of selection and the society or context may always be treated as a type of an environment.",0_0
"The UN IPCC had to correct a report from the year 2007. The report had exaggerated the melting of the Himalayan glaciers, and even claimed that they could disappear completely by 2035.",5_2
Going the extra mile to seek an agreeable solution actually helps gain the upper,0_0
"On March 31st at 8:30pm people around the world will shut off their lights for one hour as a symbolic gesture that they want ""something"" done about climate change. During that same hour many other people around the world will keep their lights on in appreciation of human ingenuity and in defiance of the philosophy that paints humans as a blight on the planet.",0_0
"The graphs are below. Frankly, even after the tampering, the warming rate is nothing like what it should have been if any of the IPCCs predictions had been true. My guess is that once theyve got their world government in Paris theyll stop tampering leave the temperature records alone.",5_2
"Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:05:24 -0500",0_0
"And here??s another give- away that Bachelard is a PR writer disguised as a journalist (though he may not know it himself) ??? the questions he asks the skeptics. They are fair questions, but I??ll bet that Bachelard has never asked a believer of the theory the same thing. Do correct me if I??m wrong, but try on these questions below ??? imagine a journalist asking these of Greg Combet, or Julia Gillard, Ross Garnaut or Tim Flannery?",5_2
"In other words, the fact that this bear was so thin suggests other issues in effect (sickness, old age, injury), such as likely befell Ian Stirlings polar bear that died of climate change in the same general area in 2013. None of those possible factors are mentioned in this academic paper: it only states the animal was a large adult male.",3_2
"Why the man-made global warming climate models are a ""fudge,"" according to Hansen himself",5_1
Elena Kagan's War on Small Business,0_0
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He is not alone in noting that the non-peer-reviewed study appeared to be rushed for release conveniently in advance of UN Climate Change Conference held in Paris last December.,0_0
"Astonishingly, Nature refused to publish the correction. It was published elsewhere, and backed up by the Wegman Report , an independent committee of statistical experts.",0_0
"The research team is currently looking at La Nia, the cooling of the surface waters in the Eastern and Central Pacific.",0_0
"The key problem is gathering accurate data on historical emissions from individual installations in major emitting countries to project the costs of regulation, to draft regulatory controls, and to determine compliance targets. Local parties have far more information than do central government regulators. They also have incentives to manipulate the data in order to gain greater transfer payments or exemptions, more emission permits (if cap-and-trade is used), or demonstrate compliance.",4_2
"Many factors contribute to variability in Earth's climate on a range of timescales, from seasons to decades. Natural climate variability arises from two different sources: (1) internal variability from interactions among components of the climate system, for example, between the ocean and the atmosphere, and (2) natural external forcings, such as variations in the amount of radiation from the Sun. External forcings on the climate system also arise from some human activities, such as the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and aerosols. The climate that we experience is a combination of all of these factors.",0_0
Where are we left in this debate? From this agnostics viewpoint some broad conclusions can be drawn.,0_0
"Moreover, it's not true that the fossil fuel-driven climate change theory predicts that the temperatures start to rise as soon as someone declares the industrial age to have started. Instead, the global mean temperature should be correlated with the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. These two quantities seem correlated in the last 100 years or so but the bulk of the correlation is explained by the fact that both quantities saw some overall rise during that time ??? much like thousands of completely different quantities that are surely not causally connected to the temperature rise.",2_3
Has any mainstream media news outlet checked the veracity of those accusations of corruption?,0_0
"Response: EPAs GHG Permitting Guidance (March 2011) says: a permitting authority retains the discretion to conduct a broader BACT analysis and to consider changes in the primary fuel in Step 1 of the analysis. Thus, EPA never ruled out the possibility that a permitting agency could require that an applicant consider natural gas, or other cleaner fuels, when proposing a coal-fired EGU.",0_0
"Approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, bringing oil from Canada to U.S. refineries near the Gulf of Mexico, would create jobs, both for constructing the pipeline and for refining the oil. America would be able to import more oil from friendly Canada, rather than unfriendly Venezuela. In addition, states need to approve more pipelines, a safer method of transporting energy than road or rail. It is imperative that we streamline the project approval process, which now can stretch to over four years.",0_0
"The facts of population decline are dramatic. Women must average a total fertility rate (TFR) of 2.1 children apiece for populations to remain stable. But across the developed world, and increasingly everywhere else, fertility is quickly declining below this number: ""All First World countries are already below the 2.1 line,"" Last writes, and the rates of decline among Third World countries ""are, in most cases, even steeper than in the First World.""",0_0
"The peaks on that chart ought to match cold times, and the valleys warm times. In 1710-20 it was relatively warm in Sweden. It then got very cold into the late 1700s and early 1800s. We gradually warmed out of that period, hitting a peak warmth just about the bottom of that dip in the darker bottom bars in 1930s. Cooled into about the mid 1970s, and then warmed to the present, with the hottest being at 1998, just about at that other bottom in the darker bottom lines where it is almost white to the 2000 mark. Now were headed back up the next set of rising lines in that bottom dark series.",2_1
"The average of those sites , plotted in Figure 5, is based on many ring-width series, each one being 500 years or longer, without individual growth surges or suppressions and from ""strip-bark"" five-needle upper forest border pines of great age. Such record is not a reliable temperature proxy for the last 150 years as it shows an increasing trend in about 1850 that has been attributed to atmospheric CO2 fertilization",5_1
"Healso said that you may well enter a decade or two of coolingrelative to the presenttemperature level , however he did not indicate when any two decadesof cooling would happen or whether the second decadeafter the nextdecade will also be cooling. Read here and here .",1_2
"In America, we treasure our sense of fair play. When a group refuses to play by the rules, Americans get upset, we get a bit as we say ornery. I've grown up with the notion of the ornery American. Now I know that we are not alone. I'd like to take a moment to introduce you to the ornery Dane and the ornery Brit. I'd like to call your attention to regular people who take their obligations of citizenship so seriously that when confronted with the global warming mountain of propaganda, they didn't just ignore, complain and be complacent, they took action. I speak of course of Jens Rodrup of Denmark and Graham Capper of the United Kingdom who along with David Rolla Rouse and the Reverend Philip Foster are the founders of Climate Sense and of our gathering today. Thank you gentlemen for your hard work and dedication, you created something fresh and new that could not be more timely.",0_0
"/s/ Walter Cunningham JSC, Astronaut, Apollo 7, 8 years",0_0
"Climate change is the subject of a complex debate in which, increasingly, experts disagree with each other. Nearly all of them believe in man-made global warming, but theyre not sure how bad the problem is or how to tackle it. Meanwhile, the sceptics are no longer dominated by scientifically illiterate amateurs. Many of them believe in anthropogenic global warming, though they dont think its happening today.",5_1
Other social science theories proved unreliable in practice. Keynesian economics crashed and burned in the stagflation of the 1980s.,0_0
"In reality, of course, these academics simply can't abide having anyone disagree with them. So away with the skeptics. Make them disappear.",0_0
"Hillary Clinton called out climate change deniers at a clean energy conference in Las Vegas Thursday evening, but revealed little new about what her own energy policy platform might look like if she decides to run for president.",0_0
"International agreements, such as the Kyoto Protocol, ""are based on a general understanding of some causes and characteristics of global change,"" says the report's preface. ""However, there remain many scientific uncertainties about important aspects of climate change"" (BNA Daily Environment Report, October 19, 1999).",5_1
"evidence either of any change to date, or of a significant change in the",0_0
"Growing. Not melting. In Norway, many maritime glaciers were able to gain mass, Zemp concedes. (???Able to gain mass means growing.) In North America, Zemp also concedes, some positive values were reported from the North Cascade Mountains and the Juneau Ice Field. (???Displaying positive values means growing.) Remember, were still coming out of the last ice age. Ice is supposed to melt as we come out of an ice age. The ice has been melting for 11,000 years. Why should today be any different? Im guessing that most Canadians and Northern Europeans are very happy that the ice has been melting.",1_1
How to visualize behavior tracking cookies with a Firefox add-on:,0_0
Plants of Today (and Even More So of Tomorrow): Free at Last!,0_0
"were acutely aware that they had supermajorities they had not possessed since 1980. With the increase of the partisan use of the filibuster, a phenomenon not widely seen until the Clinton years, they felt they would not have this degree of power again in the near future. Many argued that the window for bold action was narrow, and it could not be let to close without fulfilling liberal-progressive dreams.",0_0
The Consequences of Nighttime Warming for Winter Wheat Yields (13 January 2015),0_0
"???our results confirm that the direct biochemical impact of the rapid increase in Ca over the last 30 years on terrestrial vegetation is an influential and observable land surface process.?? Or to put it more directly, the greening of the Earth continues, courtesy of the ongoing rise in the air??s CO2 content.",3_3
"The non-medical example involves bridgethe card game, not a structure over water.Bridge is to cards as chess is to board games. To play bridge well, one must be able to draw inferences from both the bidding and the play of your partner and your opponents. You have to formulate a plan in order to make or defeat a contract and you may have to modify this plan as the play of the cards unfolds. There are many close decisions to be made during the course of a hand and using ones judgment as to the best alternatives is crucial. No two hands are exactly the same and this is why devotees of the game find it so fascinating.",0_0
"Warmist Brad Johnson tries to make the pending East Coast blizzard about the ocean ""warming Fails",0_0
"Now compare these figures with those in AR4 and AR5.Our new best observational ECS estimate of 1.75C is more than 40% lower than both the best estimate in AR4 of 3C and the 3.2C average of GCMs used in AR5. At least as importantly, the top of the likely range for ECS of 3.0C is a third lower than that given in AR5 (4.5C) even after making it much more conservative than is implied by averaging the ranges for each of the observational estimates.",3_1
"Wind turbines and solar panels, although pleasing to Mr. Obama's green environmental base, are produced increasingly abroad, and particularly in China, so mandating their use creates more jobs offshore. But building nuclear plants will be union jobs here at home.",0_0
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"Dr. Lning has not been very impressed by the IPCC climate models (97% of them have markedly overestimated the projected warming) andI asked him if he thought the models were getting better with time as we keep hearing that they are being fine-tuned. Dr. Lning doesnt believe so. They continue to overestimate CO2 and volcanoes and seriously underestimate solar and ocean cycles . On CO2 climate sensitivity, he thinks a doubling will lead to a temperature increase of only 1.0 to 1.5C.",5_1
"Furthermore, perhaps it isnt a reasonable expectation that if you live in a flood zone on a sand bar, someone ELSE is responsible for your rescue and restoration inside days after a hurricane. Perhaps YOU ought to be letting people know that when they make stupid decisions on where to build, it isnt someone ELSE who is responsible to fix it, and pronto too.",0_0
2008 / Feb / 29 at 11:20:00,0_0
"It does not take long to estimate that the capital cost of Mr Huhne?s new energy policy could well be more than 300 billion over 10 years, or 30 billion a year. Since the total wholesale cost of the electricity we used last year was only around 19 billion, this alone would be well on the way to tripling our bills by 2020.",0_0
"This assessment is legally accurate but ultimately unpersuasive. The Byrd-Hagel resolution, which requires emission limits for developing countries, expresses the ""sense"" of the Senate. That sense could change, just as foreign aid bribes or the prospect of selling emission credits may induce other developing countries to make ""voluntary commitments."" Moreover, several major corporations, including General Motors, Monsanto, and American Electric Power, have joined the global warming bandwagon, preaching the virtues of emissions reduction. If corporate America waffles, can the U.S. Senate be far behind?",0_0
"as Gavin wrote, than the fractional contribution to the current radiative imbalance is weighted towards the more recent forcings. Since CO2 has been rising since 1750, at least part of the radiative forcing of CO2 has equilibrated. Thus the claim that CO2 is 50% (or about 30% as estimated on Climate Science based on the 2007 IPCC figure SPM.2; see ) is an overstatement of its actual current radiative forcing.",2_3
Australias antarctic runway melting | Myall Coast Nota,0_0
"Now, before I go any further, I acknowledge that I am using three tuned parameters. The parameters are lambda , the climate sensitivity; tau , the time constant; and c , the variable that controls the fatness of the tail of the exponential decay.",0_0
"decline? To what extent is this issue now generally considered urgent, or even",0_0
"The models are extremely oversimplified, he said. They dont represent the clouds in detail at all. They simply use a fudge factor to represent the clouds.",5_1
"Johnston concludes by calling for a change in climate science practices and funding. Since one of the major sources of disagreement between scientists lies in the use of different datasets, he recommends that ""public funding for climate science should be concentrated on the development of better, standardized observational datasets that achieve close to universal acceptance as valid and reliable."" On the other hand, the continued development of ""fine-grained climate models,"" in the absence reliable data, only perpetuates ""faith-based climate policy"" (77-79).",5_1
"What's interesting is that there are those arguing that the fight should be called off before a punch is even thrown. The winner will have to take on The Status Quo, and cap-and-traders want to go into that fight unblemished. Since they're the only ones with a chance, the argument goes, the Pigou Clubbers should toss in the towel now.",0_0
"Evangelicals Who Jumped on the ""Global Warming"" Bandwagon Looking Silly",0_0
There are 'Twice as Many' British Muslims Fighting for ISIS Than in UK Armed Forces.,0_0
"... leaving me in the strangest condition imaginable, with the boat wandering off course, my jaw hanging down to my umbilicus, a pulse rate well into the triple digits, adrenalin-shocked, awed beyond words, smelling like the dumpster behind a cheap fish restaurant, blasted by the natural beauty I had just witnessed, and uncertain whether I was going to vomit or not, but tending toward the former.",0_0
"There seems little doubt that the Arctic will be in for another cold period during the next 30 years or so, and that, as Judith Curry indicates, we will see a long term recovery of Arctic ice extent.",1_2
"If the pace of CO2 reduction from 2005 to 2015 continues into 2030, CO2 emissions could be around 1,300 million metric tons -- a 45 percent reduction from 2005 and substantially lower than the goals of the Clean Power Plan.",0_0
"Well Jeff, maybe because its perhaps, patently wrong?",0_0
"Finally it is hard to understand Sackurs claim, No longer does thick ice protect their shoreline . In 2012 the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported ice extent in the Bering Sea was much greater than average, reaching the second-highest levels for January in the satellite record. NASAs Earth Observatory wrote, For most of the winter of 20112012, the Bering Sea has been choking with sea ice NSIDC data indicate that ice extent in the Bering Sea for most of this winter has been between 20 to 30 percent above the 1979 to 2000 average. February 2012 had the highest ice extent for the area since satellite records started. And in 2013 Bering Sea ice was again above normal as seen in National Snow and Ice Data Center picture.",1_1
"Any one of these measures would have defined a Congress. To push all of them simultaneously, plus a major financial-regulation bill to address what was argued to be the causes of the financial crisis, proved to be too much. Nevertheless, time after time, when political warning signals went up, the administration and the congressional leadership pushed forward.",0_0
"EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson says we face grave threats to human health, welfare and justice. She's absolutely right. However, the dangers are not due to factory or power plant emissions, or supposed effects of ""dangerous manmade global warming.""",0_0
"A political advocacy coalition this week started a statewide advertising campaign warning North Dakotan Senators Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad against voting for the ""Dirty Air Act."" The radio spot insinuates that the Senate is considering legislation that would ""gut"" the Clean Air Act, but this is untrue. In fact, there is a growing bipartisan effort in Congress to restore the Clean Air Act to its original meaning.",0_0
Gore: The US West and the Southeast are experiencing prolonged severe droughts. Truth: America also endured the Dust Bowl and a 25-year drought that forced Anasazi Indians to abandon their villages.,1_7
"Both of these scenarios: (1) the lack of significant warming, or (2) rapid warming, could happen with a climate system that warms exactly the same amount in the next 100 years (that is, has the same climate sensitivity). The difference is the timing of natural warming and cooling events, which can last two or three decades.",0_0
"There are still large gaps in our understanding of the causes of global warming, according to a new study by the National Research Council, Global Environmental Change: Research Pathways for the Next Decade. The 600-page report argues that more research money is needed for global climate observations systems.",0_0
The European Emissions Trading Scheme -15 September 2010 http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/emissions trading scheme.html,0_0
"By comparing small RNA molecules (microRNAs) in sperm from the obese mice as compared to the control mice, researchers deduced that changes in these molecules might be partly responsible for the transmission of these conditions from father to offspring.",0_0
"I keeps with if (1), in essence, even if I could not express myself in The question of knsligheten. Whether the models are referred to describe not yet been observed klimattillstnd fr nrvarande all can be validated tillfredsstllande, I think is questionable.",0_0
"The CPP, plus the many other regulationssuch as those coming on ozone and methanehave many lawmakers concerned about the EPA's impact on grid reliability and the economy. President Obama is not likely to sign any legislation designed to rein in his personal priorities, but Republicans can make changes in EPA appropriations.",0_0
"Five years later we are up to almost 400 ppm, and Antarctic sea ice hassteadilyincreased to record levels.",1_1
"Was there a Medieval Warm Period? YES , according to data published by 1018 individual scientists from 586 research institutions in 44 different countries and counting! This issues Medieval Warm Period Record comes from Victoria Lower Glacier , Ross Sea Region of Antarctica. To access the entire Medieval Warm Period Projects database, click here .",2_1
"Ice extent loss has dropped off dramatically in the last few days, as seen in the DMI graph above and the JAXA graph below.",1_1
"In the third school, where I find myself, reside the lukewarmers those who argue that carbon dioxide indeed is warming surface temperatures, but that its effect is modest and that we are inadvertently adapting. Our mantra: Its not the heat, its the sensitivity. In other words, most climate projections assume that surface temperature is overly sensitive to forcing from carbon dioxide. Our bible consists of observed temperature trends as CO2 increased in the last several decades.",3_1
"Funding wind energy with subsidies does not give us energy independence. There are several technical reasons for this. For instance, consider the fact that in every wind turbine there is something like 4000 pounds of rare earth elements. China produces 95% percent of these rare earth elements, so the more turbines we buy, the more dependent we are on the China. That is not energy independence. Furthermore, the extreme reliance on rare earth elements is not considered sustainable either (which is another green mantra).",4_4
"Czech Republic Although it is May, the weather is more like in February.",0_0
"Hansens GISS shows just how poor Hansens 1988 forecasts were. The GISS trend line since 1960 is overlaid in red on Hansens 1988 forecast graph ( Fig.3 .) The green dot is the GISS reading for April, 2010. Scenario C assumed that CO2 would remain fixed at 368 ppm.",5_1
"They are preparing to be air lifted out by a helicopter from the Chinese ice breaker Snow Dragon which can lift passengers with a hoist, or land nearby on the ice. Passengers have been using shovels to create a makeshift landing pad.",0_0
"At a presentation in Silicon Valley in 2007, Giuliani met with Schwarzenegger on the subject of climate change, and afterward expressed general agreement with Schwarzenegger's approach, saying, """"I generally agree with Gov. Schwarzenegger,"" he said. ""He's a good friend and a progressive leader."" See ""100% in president race, Giuliani tells tech group: Ex-N.Y. mayor lauds Schwarzenegger in Silicon Valley Talk,"" San Francisco Chronicle, February 13, 2007. Available at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/13/GIULIANI.TMP.",0_0
"Abundant supply is also supporting demand for coal. The traded volumes of coal will increase by a further 20 percent by 2020, Dickson said, including supply of lower grade coal from Indonesia, Australia and South Africa.",0_0
"As the CO 2 content of the air rises, it is likely that calcareous grasslands will increase the amount of soil moisture they contain. With greater soil moisture contents, it is likely that microbial activities will increase in such soils, including those that mineralize inorganic nutrients making them available for plant usage. Thus, this chain of events should further stimulate plant growth in these ecosystems by enhancing the growth response resulting from the aerial fertilization effect of increasing atmospheric CO 2 concentrations.",3_3
verlagrat at this nettoflde is an extensive natural exchange of CO 2 between both atmosphere and ocean p 60 Gtonnes / r and between the atmosphere and landbiosfren p 120 Gtonnes / r (photosynthesis and respiration). Another is the natural kolflde lngsamma transport to the sea (on a time scale of millions of years) via frvittring of rocks and vergng to calcium carbonate. This carbon tervnder to the atmosphere through volcanism.,0_0
"In neighboring Connecticut, the General Assembly has passed a climate bill discussed in the March 31 issue. The bill would require greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced by using Kyoto-like measures. Just as in Romney's new plan, the Connecticut bill would reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2010 and 10 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. The bill is currently awaiting the Governor's signature for approval (Associated Press, May 5).",0_0
Why Hasn?t The Earth Warmed In Nearly 15 Years?,1_4
"There is really nothing else that can be said about these matters and that is both true and fundamental. These concepts require one to think a bit and to be smart enough but all these conceptual insights are compact and once you learn these principles, you know them. The amount of stuff one may learn about the meaning of information in physics is finite. It is limited. Once you learn it, and you should learn it before you get your undergraduate degree, you know everything about it. Extra babbling about the information is guaranteed to be meaningless or vacuous. Or untrue. Or some combination of these adjectives.",0_0
"The flood of emails coming from the University of East Anglia, the admitted errors regarding the Himalayan Glaciers, as well as the nakedly political agendas of some of those allegedly giving impartial scientific advice have degraded the image of the IPCC as the unchallengeable body of scientific experts on global warming.",5_2
"""Global Warming Caused Space Shuttle Columbia to Fall Apart""",0_0
Australia should cease all cooperation with the IPCC and no Govt funded scientist or organization should participate.,0_0
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele told The Age recent satellite observations showed extensive melting in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.,0_0
"Sadly, Germanys leading climate scientistsare far more preoccupied with transforming society and spreading panic among the population then doing science. Spreading panic is a favourite practice of Stefan Rahmstorf who, like his director Hans Schellnhuber, is a scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Research (PIK).",5_2
Lilley calls on the government to cease basing its climate change policy on the flawed Stern Review and commission a new independent cost benefit study of alternative strategies.,0_0
"This is very interesting, because I was discussing this very issue with Ed Hawkins and Doug McNeall on Twittter last month. Ed pointed me to AR4 on the subject ;",0_0
"Bernie McCune holds degrees in both engineering and biology and has worked with both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. ""Hansen admitted there is still some question,"" McCune said. ""But, his presentation was mostly political and didn't prove that CO2 is the problem; it didn't show that humans had anything to do with it.""",2_3
"united GOP opposition in the House, while figuring out ways to compromise to",0_0
A very significant correlation (Rz 0.57 to 0.80) is found in the 22 yr solar Hale cycle band (1632 years ) with lags from zero to four years between latitudinal averages air surface temperature and Rz. Therefore it seems that the 22 yr magnetic field solar cycle might have a higher effect on Earths climate than solar variations related to the 11-yr sunspot cycle.,2_1
"For example, public schools of all levels are now classified at the national level in terms of success to various examinations by their students; a kind of dellEducazione Serie A, with the winners awarded officially and last in line punished, up to the maximum ignominy of seeing a Dean replaced because considered incapable. An idea maybe good, except that the same schools are then forced, according to Another initiative, to receive the highest number of disabled people possible. What should be done then, that Dean? Worry about bringing their School to head the rankings, or make sure that all students, including those with disabilities, are followed and helped as best we can? Unfortunately there any coordination between the various policies, and the ministry guidelines are conflicting if not changing with the season.",0_0
"Many Manhattans of new ice forming in open water between the older floes, in the Arctic right now.",1_1
Spencer also explained why climate models tend to over-predict how much warming will occur as greenhouse gas emissions rise. Spencer argues a warming bias is built into the models themselves.,5_1
The entire thrust of the show is that rainfall in ..the south-western corner of Western Australia.. dropped ~15% in the 1970s and a scientist is quoted linking this to changes in Antarctic ice cores. The scientist Dr Tas van Ommen,0_0
"Meanwhile, culled from this curling blog is a rather wonderful snippet about curling in Lochmaben that tells us so much about modern Britain without even trying:",0_0
"The birds are renowned for their flying range, traveling miles to hunt down a jack rabbit. The latest population estimate in 2004 placed the number at about 80,000 in North America. But biologists say the birds have been declining, partly because they were getting killed by wind turbine blades.",0_0
"The biases in the AOGCM forcings are generally largest at the surface level. For five out of seven surface shortwave forcings and four out of seven surface longwave forcings, differences between the mean AOGCM and LBL calculations are statistically significant. In addition, the largest biases in the shortwave and longwave forcings from all seven experiments occur at the surface layer.The reasonable accuracy of AOGCM forcings at TOM and the significant biases at the surface together imply that the effects of increased WMGHGs on the radiative convergence of the atmosphere are not accurately simulated.? .",5_1
"But when the model predictions are tested against the latest high-quality data from our best instruments, they are seen to have comprehensively failed.",5_1
"Absurd, you say? Yes, but the fault lies not in my analysis, but in the premises adopted by the majority in Mass v. EPA . The majority interpreted CAA Sec. 302(g) to mean that anything emitted into the ambient air is by definition an air pollutant and, thus, potentially subject to EPA regulation. But on that reading, even pollution-free, absolutely-clean air is an air pollutant, if it is emitted. That is absurd.Nonetheless,that formalistic definition of air pollutant, whereby a thing can be a pollutant even if it does not pollute the air,was the lynchpin of the majoritys (and petitioners) argument. (For more detail on this,see pp. 5-7 of my comment on the ANPR.)",0_0
Thats an increase of about 3 million barrels produced in the United States every single day. And the U.S. EIA predicts that U.S. production will continue to expand to approximately 9.5 million barrels per day by the end of next year.,4_5
The president claims he's imposing all of this hardship on American families and our economy in the name of a greater good. He says we need to wean ourselves off fossil fuels to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The president ignores the fact that the U.S. is not the dominant global emitter of CO2.,4_2
policy review. One administration official shared with Sanger the assessment he'd given the president: The Pentagon went along with the deadline believing they,0_0
"animals are cooler than theirs)."" His answer (and it applies to far more fields than science) is",0_0
"Update of Background Studies in the Search for the Higgs Boson in the Diphoton Channel with the ATLAS Detector at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV and it was released yesterday. Click at the images to see that after 94 inverse picobarns, there is absolutely no excess of diphoton events at 115 GeV.",0_0
"Finally at the 8:40 mark of the video, Schellnhuber is taped in an interview saying:",0_0
"8. Quotation of the Day, is from Alston Chase (quoted by Michael Crichton in the appendix of his book about global warming ""State of Fear""):",0_0
"The magnitude of the radiative warming impetus typically predicted to occur in response to a doubling of the air's CO 2 content - which is still a future event (and probably quite distant at that) - is about 4 Wm -2 . Hence, it can be appreciated that over the majority of the planet's surface, the radiative cooling influence of atmospheric aerosols (many of which are produced by anthropogenic activities) prevails, suggesting a probable net anthropogenic-induced climatic signal that must be very close to zero and nowhere near capable of producing what climate alarmists refer to as the unprecedented warming of the 20th century. We thus conclude that the surface temperature record on which they rely, i.e., the infamous ""hockey stick"" reconstruction, is either bogus or that the warming, if real, is due to something quite different from anthropogenic forcing.",2_3
BBC Confirms That Polar Melt Has Almost No Effect On Sea Level,0_0
"As for other potential explanations for these observations, Jimenez and Cortes note conspecific corals ""have shown differences in susceptibility to bleach, mortality rates and recovery capabilities (Brown, 1997; Hoegh-Guldberg, 1999; Marshall and Baird, 2000; Fitt et al ., 2001; Glynn et al ., 2001),"" which may ""reflect corals' adaptation to local conditions, different warming intensities at each locality, thermal acclimation, and presence of several clades of symbionts."" In fact, they state moderate warming events ""may positively affect coral reef communities,"" noting ""increases in growth rates, reproductive activity and recruitment pulses have been observed after some El Nio episodes (Glynn et al ., 1991, 1994; Feingold, 1995; Guzman and Cortes, 2001; Vargas-Angel et al ., 2001; Jimenez and Cortes, 2003b).""",3_2
"Wrong on both counts. Where a scientific issue is involved, the best way to approach the formulation of public policy is not to base it on a contrived consensus of self-interested parties, nor to ""ask the UN"", but to pay attention to the facts and keep an open mind.",0_0
In the next few months there is an opportunity for some farm organisations to stop behaving as turkeys and instead bite the hand that has fed them so generously over the last year. It would involve calling the bluff of the Commonwealth Government over the Murray Darling water plan.,0_0
"First, it assumes a fundamentally chaotic, unstable climate system in which a tiny change (in this case, CO 2 rising from 27 to 54 thousandths of a percent of the atmosphere) will set off a positive feedback loop that leads inevitably to catastrophe. If that were the case, we would expect to see many examples of just that in geologic history. We dont.",5_1
"But unlikely as it may seem at the moment, the final irony is that if we keep our heads, the aftermath of this disaster may give us a clear view of how a new generation of nuclear power might be possible. As of press time it is still difficult to know exactly what is happening at the reactors, as contradictory and tentative information pours forth on an hourly basis. It will be weeks or months before we have an accurate understanding of what has occurred. The Department of Energy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the private-sector Nuclear Energy Institute were reluctant to comment all week because of the fast-moving situation.",0_0
"Palestine needs leaders who understand governance, would help constituents comprehend how free institutions work, and would be prepared to declare their land ready for statehood.",0_0
"The AGs based their investigations on a series of articles published by Inside Climate News, the Los Angeles Times and other news outlets that reported the company had covered up findings by Exxon's own scientists that showed manmade climate change was warming the Earth and creating risks for the company. The company adamantly denies the charges, and is asking several courts to level injunctions against the AGs for violating the company's rights under the Constitution.",0_0
"Kersebaum et al . report that the FACE experiment ""showed two important results: increased CO 2 (i) enhanced crop growth for all investigated species and (ii) decreased evapotranspiration rate of the canopies resulting in higher soil moisture content (Weigel et al ., 2006)."" As a result, they found that ""without consideration of the CO 2 effect, mostly negative impacts on crop yields were simulated,"" but that ""considering the CO 2 effect compensated the negative trend in most cases and turned yield effects to a positive impact."" What it means",3_3
"A significant and accelerated post- Little Ice Age glacial retreat was observed in the first and second decades of the 20th century; but by 1952, the region's glaciers had experienced between 75 to 100% of their net 20th century retreat. During the next 50 years, the recession of over half of the glaciers stopped, and many tidewater glaciers actually began to advance. These glacial stabilizations and advances were attributed by the authors to observed increases in precipitation and/or decreases in temperature. In the four decades since 1961, for example, weather stations at Novaya Zemlya show summer temperatures to have been 0.3 to 0.5C colder than those of the prior 40 years, while winter temperatures have been between 2.3 to 2.8C colder than they were over the prior 40-year period. Such observations, the authors say, are ""counter to warming of the Eurasian Arctic predicted for the twenty-first century by climate models, particularly for the winter season.""",1_1
"So fierce is their righteous indignation at those who commit environmental heresy that it's blinded them to the fact that their proposal clearly infringes on the free-speech rights of others. And what irony: If anyone should be fostering a free exchange of ideas, it's those who work at our nation's universities. Instead, they're leading the charge against debate.",0_0
Well I have my own article on where the heck is global warming? We are asking that here in Boulder where we have broken records the past two days for the coldest days on record. The fact is that we cant account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we cant. The data published in the August 2009 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.,1_3
"""We are determined to take the bold and transformative steps needed to shift the world onto a resilient and sustainable path.""",0_0
"In the concluding sentence of their paper's abstract, dos Santos et al . say their results show that ""an increased CO 2 concentration can reduce the severity of Ceratocystis wilt and stimulate the growth of Eucalyptus clonal plantlets."" And it does it all ... at one and the same time. Reference",3_3
Predicts solar cycle 24 will be less active than cycle 23,0_0
Troy is forecast to be 22 degrees cooler today than it was on the same day in 1926. Experts tell us that this dramatic reduction in temperature since 1926 is due to man-made global warming.,1_3
"Brandeis disinvited Ayan Hirsi Ali , because her views on womens rights might offend some Muslim men. Scripps revoked its invitation to conservative political analyst George Will , who later observed:",0_0
"Lning: Next Weltwoche refers Stocker to the natural cycles, which fit well with the 20th centurys overall pattern. The Little Ice Age also was characterized by low solar activity.",2_1
"If Mr. Wigley's right, then using sources that emit no particulates, like nuclear and natural gas, will not make a major difference in averting near-term changes in the climate caused by carbon dioxide. But then ""and here's the part that most media outlets failed to discuss when reporting on the Wigley study ""widespread use of renewables such as wind and solar won't help much, either.",0_0
The major claim of a doubling of fish on protected reefs appears to rest on a single example .,0_0
"An article in the Wall Street Journal (October 19, 1999) discusses the change in corporate America's global warming stance. The article notes that ""some of the nation's biggest companies are starting to count greenhouse gases and change business practices to achieve real cuts in emissions."" Moreover, ""many of them are finding the exercise is green in more ways than one: Reducing global warming can lead to energy-cost savings.""",0_0
"Now, I suppose that this is vaguely reasonable. At least it is in the right direction, reducing the apparent warming. I say vaguely reasonable because this adjustment is supposed to take care of UHI, the Urban Heat Island effect. As most everyone has experienced driving into any city, the city is usually warmer than the surrounding countryside. UHI is the result of increasing population, with the accompanying changes around the temperature station. More buildings, more roads, more cars, more parking lots, all of these raise the temperature, forming a heat island around the city. The larger the population of the city, the greater the UHI.",5_1
"Only some of them look at the people. Only with them the debate about the intergenerational discrimination and solidarity and about the proper size of discount rates used in any intertemporal analysis comes into consideration, only here can the economists make use of some of their concepts. The unjustifiably low rate of discount used by the environmentalists (notably in the Stern Review) was for me the original motivation to enter the discussion.",0_0
I is assured that both MAXIMUM and Pehr can and want to get further views.,0_0
"In a previous Nature publication on amphibian extinction, Pounds et al. (1999) argued that warming was decreasing the frequency of mist, and that caused the species loss. They stated that it was a result of an increase in the elevation of the condensation level of local clouds. This would result in an increase in the daily temperature range (the opposite of what was documented in the recent manuscript) and is more likely to be associated with a decrease, rather than an increase, in total cloudiness. The current Pounds et al. (2006) explanation is seemingly in opposition to this initial explanation.",5_1
DOE sends a litigation hold notice regarding CRU to employees asking to preserve documents,0_0
"Stewart (2015) created a model that only included 1) area of talus and 2) summer mean temperature as the determinants of local pika extinctions. Assuming that model represents reality, they then argued that according to projected warming from CO2 driven models, pika will become increasingly extirpated from 39% to 88% of these historical sites.",0_0
I was educated in the Midwest in Catholic Schoolshow Heartland can you get? I grew up in the Midwest and cannot comprehend the naivet of midwest people or their misplaced ideas about how to deal with violent and hostile ideologies.,0_0
"Natural influences, including solar irradiance variations, alter Earths surface temperature, atmosphere and ozone",0_0
"Of course, they might have mentioned that the eruption of Pinatubo in 1991 meant that temperatures in that decade were depressed. GISS have estimated that global temperatures were lower by as much as 0.25C for up to 5 years as a result. This means that about half of the 0.21C warming was simply the rebound from Pinatubo, and nothing to do with greenhouse gases. One wonders why they did not mention this fact.",2_1
"Epsteins group preferred to use a set of high sensitivity concentration-responses that were developed by researchers (Schwartz et al., 2008) who are closely associated with Epsteins Center for Health and the Global Environment. The NRC report chose instead to rely on a set of concentration-response curves which showed a much more muted mortality response to air pollutant levels (Pope et al., 2002). The difference is about three-fold, with the Schwartz et al. response curves producing much higher premature mortality than the Pope et al. curves.",0_0
"Those who pointed this out, including yours truly, were labeled ""denialists."" Yet the IPCC itself finally admitted the ""pause"" in its latest report.",1_4
"That admission came in a new paper by prominent warmists in the peer-reviewed journal Climate Dynamics. They not only conceded that average global surface temperatures stopped warming a full 15 years ago, but that this ""pause"" could extend into the 2030s.",1_4
"For reasons that remain unclear, Hantemirov objected to the calculation (see comments within post) and, once again, Real Climate screeched in fury.",0_0
"Re AR5, I havent checked to see who the solar authors are or what the ZOD has to say?",0_0
"Thus, despite working on regional chronology methodology for nearly two decades, CRU is intellectually no further ahead than when they started: arm-waving ad hockery. But thats a story for another day.",0_0
"Goulburn News, sport and weather | Goulburn Post",0_0
and I am busy answering regular phone calls from journalists trying to assess,0_0
NO CONSENSUS ON WHAT CREATED THE ASSUMED ENERGY IMBALANCE OR WHAT WILL CAUSE IT TO CHANGE IN THE FUTURE,0_0
"Once again, the natural variation of climate is shown in proxy records and closely follows variations in the solar cycle over the past 1000 years and more.",2_1
"An ex-conservative (small-C not a typo) hippie blogger mocks Fox News for highlighting failed global warming predictions from the past . Apparently when a scientist suggests something will happen in 10, 15 or 20 years and it doesnt its wrong to ask what went wrong. Read the link but dont bother leaving a comment youll be banned before you finish it.",0_0
I try falling asleep. We'll figure out something tomorrow.,0_0
"Stephan thinks its a fact that CO2 is to blame, but the only fact he provides is, as usual, the opinions of a committee.",0_0
"Sounds of people moving in apartment = break the door down, no warrant needed. This is just a joke, though I must also say the drug war has already gutted any number of Constitutional protections, so its not surprising to see yet another blow to liberty in the name of rounding up anyone who might be smoking a joint. (more here )",0_0
"Richter et al. (2009) obtained high-resolution (22-year average) planktonic foraminiferal Mg/Ca and stable oxygen isotope (18O) data from a pair of sediment cores retrieved from the northeast Atlantic Ocean's Feni Drift, Rockall Trough region (5539.02'N, 1359.10'W and 5539.10'N, 1359.13'W) from which they derived late Holocene (0-2.4 ka BP) sea surface temperatures (SSTs).",0_0
"One-dimensional simulations helped to explain the strong effect on cloud burn-off of BB and BC from other sources. They showed that when absorbing aerosols exist in clouds, instantaneous direct radiative forcing (DRF) and surface temperature change are anticorrelated because when absorbing aerosol burns off a cloud, the aerosol DRF decreases due to a decrease in optical focusing, yet surface temperature escalates rapidly due to the pouring in of sunlight to the surface. As such, particle burn-off of clouds may be a major underrecognized source of global warming .",0_0
"But the Earth Guardians still deliver outright falsehoods about fracking, by children to children, in public schools funded by taxpayer dollars. Perhaps this goes on because teachers and school administrators fail to recognize the potential harm, or are themselves devoted to promoting extreme environmentalist ideologies. Certainly they failed to exercise their responsibility and authority as educators to provide a balanced curriculum and avoid being used by groups with political agendas, to inculcate a new generation of Americans in perverse Hard Green dogmas that are harmful to wildlife, people and the environment.",0_0
"A much more straightforward and logical explanation is one that fits Plate Climatology Theory . The NASA observed western Pacific Ocean warming is due to increased heat flow from deep ocean volcanoes, hydrothermal vents, and heat emitting fault zonesnot man-made atmospheric global warming.",2_1
"Nigel Smith points out that ""a pattern of waxing and waning of forest cover is not unique to Amazonia. The forests of New England in the United States, for example, are more extensive now than they were during the time of the colonies. The oak forests of southern England, severely cut back in Roman times, had largely returned by the time Henry VIII assumed the throne, only to be felled again for iron smelting, building materials, and agriculture."" (Smith, p. 238-239)",0_0
"The California Air Resources Board (CARB), a subdivision of the California EPA, promulgated costly new rules, despite proof of major problems pointed out by Dunn and associates. It relied on an expert with falsified credentials; ignored contradictory evidence (even by its own experts); disregarded protests from taxpayers; used geographic gerrymandering and an invented methodological trick called conurbation; persecutes dissenters; and has serious conflicts of interest.",0_0
"Yes, that is correct. About half the reported warming in the USHCN data base, which is used for nearly all global warming studies and models, is from human-added fudge factors, guesstimates, and corrections.",5_1
"Note that workers comp is generally ""no fault"". This means that it does not matter if the worker was hurt because the employer had an unsafe workplace or if the employee was ridiculously careless -- most everyone gets compensated. AllBusiness.com has more detail :",0_0
"9 hours ago Australias antarctic runway melting. AUSTRALIAS $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a new air ...",0_0
One graph to illustrate the death of the global warming hoax,5_2
It is not unreasonable to give outsiders a look at the historical readings and the adjustments made by experts like Harry. How exactly were the readings converted into what the English scientists describe as quality controlled and homogenised data?,0_0
"As Antarctic ice extent breaks its all-maximum time record, we must not forget that the worlds greatest climatologist predicted peak ice loss, right at the spot where they have had peak ice gain.",1_1
"Broad population-based epidemiological evidence ""links"" short term PM2.5 exposures (hours or days) to cardiovascular and respiratory mortality, an EPA report claims. Long-term exposure (years or decades) has been ""linked"" to respiratory disease and cardiovascular and lung cancer mortality.",0_0
"Attention is often focussed on the late 20thC increase in CET, which is in turn linked to IPCC claims that this was when global warming began in earnest. This argument, of course, rather falls flat on its face with the rapid decline in CET since 2006.",1_4
"Were just hardworking scientists doing their best to address the impossible expectations of the policy makers? Well, many of them were. However, at the heart of the IPCC is a cadre of scientists whose careers have been made by the IPCC. These scientists have used the IPCC to jump the normal meritocracy process by which scientists achieve influence over the politics of science and policy. Not only has this brought some relatively unknown, inexperienced and possibly dubious people into positions of influence, but these people become vested in protecting the IPCC, which has become central to their own career and legitimizes playing power politics with their expertise.",5_2
"both ISCCP satellite data and NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data for at least the last 20 years suggesting that small fluctuations in solar activity may be linked to changes in the Earths atmosphere via a relationship between the GCR flux and cloud cover; such a connection may amplify small changes in solar activity. In addition, a GCR cloud relationship may also act in conjunction with other likely solar terrestrial relationships concerning variations in solar UV (Haigh, 1996) and total solar irradiance (Meehl et al., 2009). The climatic forcings resulting from such solar terrestrial links may have had a significant impact on climate prior to the onset of anthropogenic warming, accounting for the presence of solar cycle relationships detectable in palaeoclimatic records (e.g.,Bond et al., 2001; Neff et al., 2001; Mauas et al., 2008).",2_1
"Put another way, with the federal government now paying (with your money) the Detroit piper, Obama and congressional leaders get to call the tune. This provides a chance for a regulatory agenda that would never fly otherwise.",0_0
"First of all, the three researchers - all from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research located in Bremerhaven, Germany - report that ""four recent studies tested the effect of different CO 2 concentrations on the growth, biomass production and elemental composition of Trichodesmium (Barcelos e Ramos et al ., 2007; Hutchins et al ., 2007; Kranz et al ., 2009; Levitan et al ., 2007),"" and they say that these studies ""concordantly demonstrated higher growth and/or production rates under elevated pCO 2 , with a magnitude exceeding those CO 2 effects previously seen in other marine phytoplankton.""",3_3
"A recent report by the CPUC California Net Energy Metering (NEM) Draft Cost Effectiveness Evaluation (Sept. 26), reported that net-metered solar energy rooftop systems will shift $1.1 billion per year in extra costs onto other electric ratepayers by 2020. Net metering is where excess electricity from rooftop solar panels results in rolling electric meters backwards. Property owners receive a credit on their electricity bill for the excess electricity they generate.",4_4
"Something similar happened in 2001 when Bjorn Lomborg published The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World, which also argued that most environmental problems were overestimated and most global conditions were stable or improving. The favorable publicity Lomborg received even the New York Times wrote well of The Skeptical Environmentalist sent the environmental community into a rage, and the counterattack was swift. Scientific American devoted a special issue to a tag-team assault that it represented as ""science"" ""defending"" itself against Lomborg, as if Lomborg were the Vatican censuring Galileo. The tacit premise of the attacks on Lomborg seemed to be that environmental optimism is ""beyond the pale of respectable discourse,"" as The Economist put it.",0_0
"De Witte et al . report that ""the oldest genets of D. octopetala , S. herbacea and V. uliginosum were found to be at least 500, 450 and 1400 years old, respectively,"" but they say that ""the largest C. curvula genet had an estimated minimum age of c. 4100 years and a maximum age of c. 5000 years, although 84.8% of the genets in this species were <200 years old.""",0_0
"The most surprising thing to me about this is the wide disparity in the amount, trend, and overall shape of the different forcings. Even the effects of the volcanic eruptions (sharp downwards excursions in the forcings ), which I expected to be similar between the models, have large variations between the models. Look at the rightmost eruption in each panel, Pinatubo in 1991. The GFDL-ESM2M model shows a very large volcanic effect from Pinatubo, over 3 W/m2. Compare that to the effect of Pinatubo in the ACCESS1-0 model, only about 1 W/m2.",5_1
El Nio and La Nia Basics: Introduction to the Pacific Trade Winds,0_0
"I disagree that my previous post was inaccurate. I summarized rather than putting in details, some of which are contained above.",0_0
"Carbon restriction policies, to have any effect on climate, would require that the most extreme projections of dangerous climate actually be correct, and would require massive reductions in the use of energy to be universally adopted. There is little question that such reductions would have negative impacts on income, development, the environment, and food availability and cost especially for the poor. This would clearly be immoral.",4_1
"Marlo, will overturning the Timing Rule have other legal consequences?",0_0
October 2008 Environment & Climate News: No Warming Crisis,0_0
"In the earlier period has by far the most deletions of data, hence the lack of closeness of fit between the average adjustment and average variance. After 1945, the consistent pattern of the average adjustment being slightly higher than the average variance is probably due to a light touch approach on adjustment corrections than due to other data deletions. The might be other reasons as well for the lack of fit, such as the impact of different length of data sets on the anomaly calculations.",0_0
Theres an article in farmonline.com discussing Goyders line and climate change:,0_0
"According to Taylor, the provinces of Ontario, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and New Brunswick support Alberta's stance on Kyoto, while Quebec, Manitoba and Prince Edward Island are opposed.",0_0
"The HR gr p tvrs against what example klimatkommissionren Hedegaard wants the city to come, nmligen new binding agreement from 2030 in the EU already next year. Surely we can sknja an underlying disagreement behind these statements?",0_0
"But it would be far better for Mr. Clinton's legacyand the world economyif no deal is reached. And, even if one is struck, the reception of Congress would be far chillier than the winds of Ottawa. Mr. Clinton is acting like a frantic lame duck on the environment. In these last days, he's already fenced off vast tracks of resources in the Pacific and the Northwest from development. His regulators at the Environmental Protection Agency, meanwhile, are issuing costly new orders to clean up PCBs from the Hudson River and sulfur from diesel fuelboth matters that a new administration with better research and less ideological fervor would certainly delay.",0_0
"The multi-model mean for the radiative imbalance at the top of the atmosphere is shown in the top graph (Cell a) of Figure 2. The graphs run from 1861 to 2100. The multi-model mean of the individual components (Incident Shortwave Radiation, Outgoing Shortwave Radiation and Outgoing Longwave Radiation) are also shown in the Cells b to d. Listed on each of the graphs is the average value for the period of 1996 to 2015. (Explanation for those years: The historic portions of the simulations run from 1861 to 2005, while the forecasts based on projected RCP6.0 forcings run from 2006 to 2100. So the period of 1996 to 2015 includes the last 10 years of hindcast and first 10 years of forecast. Theyll serve as our base years for anomalies in future graphs.) The values of the averages are close to those shown in Figure 1 from Trenberth et al. (2009).",0_0
Heres a real important fly in the ointment for modelers and I didnt know it. Humidity is not on the rise with carbon dioxide increases and small increments of warming since the Little Ice Age.,5_1
"Several recent papers have provided SLR numbers which need to be examined carefully in the context of present debate on global warmingand sea level rise. A paper by Holgate (2007, Geophysical Research Letters ) analyzed nine long and nearly continuous sea level records over one hundred years ( 1903-2003) and obtained a mean value of SLR as 1.74mm/yr, with higher values in the earlier part of the 20 th century compared to the latter part.",1_6
"A cynical and false propaganda campaign has been waged against nuclear energy in the U.S., mostly notably with the Hollywood film, ""The China Syndrome"" about a reactor meltdown. If you want to worry about radiation, worry about the Sun. It is a major source. Three incidents, Three Mile Island in 1979 and Chernobyl in 1986, added to the fears, but no one was harmed by the Three Mile Island event and Chernobyl was an avoidable accident.",0_0
"That conclusion is consistent with the data on average retail electricity prices reported by the EIA, as summarized in the following table:",0_0
Global warming: The Rosetta Stone of the anti-technology movement,0_0
"Pio XI Glacier, the largest glacier of the Patagonian ice field, has been advancing for years",1_1
"Despite these, and other harmful impactswhich include a loss of property values when wind turbines are installed in a neighborhoodand opposition from environmental groups and local fisherman, the Department of Energy has just approved a stimulus-funded $150 million loan guarantee for the controversial Cape Wind project planned to be built in the Nantucket Sound. Cape Wind, scheduled to begin construction in 2015, will be the first utility-scale wind facility in U.S. waters.",0_0
"A little further elementary math will show that the cost of abating 1 Fahrenheit degree of global warming by worldwide measures as spectacularly cost-ineffective as those of California will be close to $640 trillion rather more than the $454 trillion I had originally estimated, because I had been too generous with the value of the centennial-scale climate-sensitivity parameter.",4_1
"Off-topic: For her 60th anniversary of reign, Queen Elizabeth received a chunk of Antarctica and a new rendition of the royal anthem (the video above).",0_0
"Case Study 4. American Lung Association: ""Red Carriage""",0_0
"Fred Krupp, executive director of the Environmental Defense Fund, argued that early action would reduce carbon emissions while maintaining economic growth. Implementing Kyoto now, said Krupp, will reduce expected costs. Krupp argued that we must act now because ""nine more years of unchecked greenhouse gas emissions increases represents an ever increasing environmental risk.""",0_0
"Sources: Loehle 2007, Haung and Pollack 1997 , See co2science.org for all the other peer reviewed studies to go with every orange dot on the map. McIntyre & McKitrick 2003 and 2005 , and update , Mann et al 1998, Briffa 2006, read McIntyre at climateaudit.com, see ClimateGate, and Monckton What Hockey Stick (Science and Public Policy Institute paper)",0_0
Dr Pearman spoke first and focused on global warming from carbon dioxide as a policy driver. I was offended by the presentation.,0_0
A Keystone Copout vs. Capstone Climate Legacy Conundrum,0_0
"Theres likely to be less winter rainfall across much of the country too, with the bureau saying much of the continent only has a 30 to 45 per cent chance of exceeding average rainfall.",0_0
"The climate in the northern regions has never been milder since the last Ice Age than it was about 6000-7000 years ago. We still dont know whether the Arctic Ocean was completely ice free, but there was more open water in the area north of Greenland than there is today, says Astrid Lys, a geologist and researcher at the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU).",2_1
"/s/ Jack Knight JSC, Chief, Advanced Operations and Development Division, MOD, 40 years",0_0
"Segment 3 is the debunking of the many claims of impending climate catastrophes Al Gore's movie ""An Inconvenient Truth"".",0_0
"How could this be global warming, but 34 years ago, that was an Ice Age coming?",1_2
But it does appear that serious legislators of both parties are moving toward the kind of reform proposed last year by a bipartisan panel assembled by the Brookings Institution and Duke University's Kenan Institute.,0_0
"There have been three recent studies producing projections for tropical cyclone changes in the Australian region. Two suggest that there will be no significant change in tropical cyclone numbers off the east coast of Australia to the middle of the 21st century. The third study, based on the CSIRO simulations, shows a significant decrease in tropical cyclone numbers for the Australian region especially off the coastline of Western Australia. The simulations also show more long-lived eastern Australian tropical cyclones although one study showed a decrease in long-lived cyclones off the Western Australian coast.",1_7
There have been computerized bridge games available for about forty years. They have never been completely satisfactory from the standpoint of the serious player. Defensive play has always been particularly poor in these games. But what is most remarkable is that the quality of these computerized bridge games has not improved significantly over all this time. I dont think it ever will. The reason is that you cant computerize judgment.,0_0
"/s/ Dr. Phillip K. Chapman JSC, Scientist astronaut, 5 years",0_0
"In Wales, a third of all children live in low-income households, and a quarter of all households were in ""fuel poverty"" forced to spend at least 10% of their income on heating. Many parents had to choose between keeping their children warm and providing them with nourishing meals, welfare workers said. Many Welsh children couldn't sleep at night because of the cold, damaging their health and grades.",0_0
"But the onus is especially heavy on the majority. It is the majority, especially in the House, that has the power to shape debate and either to open up or shut down the process to ideas, amendments and involvement by rank-and-file Members in both parties. It is the majority that has to rise above the cheap shots, irresponsible motions to recommit and outrageous rhetoric, both to serve the larger interests of the House and to serve their own partisan interests in maintaining a majority.",0_0
<5131> Shukla/IGES:,0_0
"Thompson et al base their claim of a 1945 discontinuity in the Global SST dataset on the fact that, after they eliminated the effects of ENSO and COWL, there was no corresponding volcanic eruption to cause the drop in temperature. This assumes the volcano records and the SST records for the NINO regions are correct. It is difficult to imagine that an explosive volcanic eruption that would have lowered global temperatures 0.3 deg C could be missed, but can the same be said about ENSO events? Also, the methods used by Thompson et al (2008) to extract the ENSO signal from the global temperature record are similar to those in Thompson et al (2009), but as illustrated in Thompson et al (2009) High-Tech Wiggle Matching Helps Illustrate El Nino-Induced Step Changes , they left significant ENSO residuals in their adjusted data. With this in mind, I resorted to raw HADISST Global and NINO3.4 SST anomaly data and to raw CRUTEM3 Land Surface Temperature anomaly data for this post.",0_0
"Board directors quit, conference speakers cancelled at short-notice, and associates of long standing demanded Heartland remove their names from its website. The list of conference sponsors shrank by nearly half from 2010, and many of those listed sponsors are just websites operating on the rightwing fringe.",0_0
A clean power backlash in Oz as energy firms have had enough of damaging regulation and grandstanding.,0_0
Climate Craziness of the Week: sea life must swim faster to survive climate change,0_0
"Arhenius estimated that a doubling of CO2 would cause a temperature rise of 5 degrees Celsius, recent values from IPCC place this value (the Climate sensitivity) at between 1.5 and 4.5 degrees.",3_1
""" greenhouse critics like Arizona's own, Dr. Robert Balling ""should continue to be heard, but they should not counterbalance the overwhelming consensus of scientific opinion.""",0_0
"The failure of Kyoto's mandatory targets and timetables is nowhere more apparent, yet nowhere less acknowledged, than in the European Union. In Spain, to take the most extreme example, emissions have increased 53%, closely tracking economic growth of just over 50%. For comparison, the U. S. economy has grown roughly 3% for every 1% increase in emissions. Moreover, population growth has equaled emissions growth in the U. S., so that per capita U. S. emissions have remained steady since 1980.",0_0
"Although logic may seem to point to a particular solution, we must beware of the paths of false logic. Also, there may be ethical objections to some seemingly logical solutions. For example bulldozing all native vegetation might abolish bushfire, but would not be a good idea from many other points of view. Even aesthetics come into the picture. Many urban Australians, of recent migrant descent, see blackened ground as ugly, but Aborigines see it as beautiful, and describe it as cleaned up. Although bushfire is no doubt ugly to victims, flames do have a certain beauty, especially when mild and not threatening. Many of us like a campfire. Ontology is always useful, to distinguish between what is real, and what is imaginary.",0_0
"Here we see what looks like a clear effect of increasing UHI, due to city growth as well as airport growth. This station has been moved nearly as much, but more importantly its been located in an area that doesn??t have pockets of micro-climate.",5_1
"Recently, the University of Delaware took a stand to protect free speech for scientists when it refused to grant Mr. Grijalva's request for information about funding for its scientists. The university stated that it ""chooses not to act in a manner that is inconsistent with its governing principles and contractual commitments.""",0_0
"Local copepod diversity, especially in extra-tropical regions, is likely to increase with climate change as their large-scale distributions respond to climate warming.",0_0
"Over 40 groups and individuals have filed petitions with South Dakota's Public Utility Commission to broaden the approval process to matters that were not considered in 2010. Those groups include the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Boettcher Organics and the Sierra Club, as well as a number of independent individuals. The goal of most groups is to stall South Dakota's approval of Keystone XL.",0_0
Jones says that UK climate organisations are coordinating themselves to resist FoI. They got advice from the Information Commissioner ( 1219239172 ),5_2
Gingrich formally announced he was running for president in 2012 on Wednesday.,0_0
"The bill's stress on adaptation, and on the science needed to unleash action in this area, is commendable. Geoengineering may greatly extend the capacity to adapt to climate change. Research into its potential and its possible risks should be part of a well-designed effort on adaptation.",0_0
"The reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S is largely a result of a poor economy, a rise in the use (and affordable availability) of natural gas, and on-going improvements of the U.S. energy efficiency that were begun long before the Obama Administration.",4_2
"Your criticism merely inverts the simplistic assumption it objects to. While those who prosecuted the War on Terror and later action in the region cant be held to account for the actions of ISIS, they can be held to account for creating the power vacuum and chaos that allowed them to take control of territory Not to mention backing with guns and money the very religious movements that turned out to be terrorists, as was predicted as early as the 1980s.",0_0
Gore Win a Sad Day for Nobel Legacy,0_0
"The activists are heading to Brazil with an extensive wish list that attacks liberal democracy and free markets. They want to ""transform"" world society regulating and rolling back developed world prosperity restricting progress and making poverty and disease permanent fixtures in the developing world and, ironically, harming nature in the process. They also want a tax on financial transactions worldwide, to provide permanent funding and power for the unelected, unaccountable United Nations.",0_0
"These statements might fit well on a formal logic exam, but they are not real arguments, and they only encourage more of the overheated rhetoric that prevents a serious debate on climate change.",0_0
"I would be remiss is my review of the climate stories of 2011 if I failed to mention the release of another round of Climategate emails. The so-called Climategate 2.0 emails further many of the storylines that ran throughout the original Climategate releases back in November 2009?rampant gatekeeping, data hoarding, and general misbehavior.",5_2
Give it time. Being sceptical will soon be the new cool.,0_0
"Note:Erikson and Lazarus assume that an additional 830,000 bpd would increase CO2e emissions by110 million metric tons, not 181 million, as in Chip??s calculation.So inErikson and Lazarus??s worst case, the KXL wouldcontribute about0.006Cof warming by century??s end. If the recent papers on climate sensitivity are correct, the KXL maximum theoretical contribution to global warming is even more miniscule.",4_2
Russian Science Director Refutes Warming Claims,0_0
"Another major sponsor, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, won the Corporate Social Responsibility Award in 2004.",0_0
"This is a preliminary report. Sea surface temperature data for the weekcentered on WednesdayFebruary 6, 2013 will not be available until Monday February 11. Ill be happy to update this post then.",0_0
Glassman: What you're saying is that solar activity is causing global warming?,0_0
"GISP Greenland Ice Core Data shows that it has been warmer than today for almost all of the past 10,000 years.",2_1
Australias antarctic runway melting | Great Lakes Advocate,0_0
> >> loss). I would treat all such estimates very skeptically. We,0_0
"fact that the Atmosphere Ocean General Circulation Models are not able to explain the post-1970 temperature increase by natural forcing was interpreted as proof that it was caused by humans. It is more logical to admit that the models are not yet good enough to capture natural climate variability (how much or how little do we understand aerosol and clouds, and ocean circulation?), even though we can all agree that part of the observed post-1970 warming is due to the increase of atmospheric CO2",5_1
"Australia also did not receive its much-wanted concessions for exports of soft commodities such as wheat, rice and sugar, while Chinese state-owned enterprises did not receive an exemption from scrutiny by Australia's watchful Foreign Investment Review Board for investments of A$1.08 billion (S$1.22 billion) or below.",0_0
"Writing to a Soviet magazine in 1987, a Russian reader called what he saw around him a ""radical break in consciousness."" We know that he was right because Russia's is the first great revolution whose course was charted in public opinion polls almost from the beginning. Already at the end of 1989, the first representative national public opinion survey found overwhelming support for competitive elections and the legalization of parties other than the Soviet Communist Party after four generations under a one-party dictatorship and with independent parties still illegal. By mid-1990, more than half those surveyed in a Russian region agreed that ""a healthy economy"" was more likely if ""the government allows individuals to do as they wish."" Six months later, an all-Russia poll found 56 percent supporting a rapid or gradual transition to a market economy. Another year passed, and the share of the pro-market respondents increased to 64 percent.",0_0
"Access to capital and credit enable new markets to spring up where none existed before. Entrepreneurial activity is unleashed. Consider one of Prahalad's case studies of Nirmal, a small Indian firm that sold detergent products designed for rural village uses, such as in rivers. The products came in small packages at low prices suitable for Indian villagers' daily cash flow. The company soon found itself with a market share equal to that of consumer-goods giant Unilever's Indian subsidiary. Unilever responded by introducing similar products, thereby growing this new market. In the process, more environmentally friendly products were invented and sold, too.",0_0
?Forecasts like this are never simple but the data system is really useful and has made successful forecasts for other parts of the world.?,0_0
"More than 7,000 homes in the Williams Lake area lost power due to the heavy snowfall, said BC Hydro community relations co-ordinator Dave Mosure.",0_0
"Additionally, in the post here , we presented and discussed how the NCAR CCSM4 climate model was not capable of simulating the observed warming pattern of the Pacific Ocean for the past 31 years. See Figure 10, which presents modeled and observed sea surface temperature trends for the Pacific Ocean since November 1981 on a latitudinal (zonal means) basis. The fact that those models can occasionally produce decade-land hiatus periods is, therefore, immaterial.",5_1
"Newt Gingrich, ""We Can Have Green Conservatism, and We Should,"" Human Events, April 23, 2007. Available at http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.26036/pub detail.asp.",0_0
It is becoming increasingly clear that absorption of heat in deep oceans is part of the explanation.,0_0
The influence of CO2 is so small that it's at a noise level.,2_3
"The IPCC then presents a series of similar graphs on page 930 in their Figure 10.21, and continues with their misrepresentation of climate model capabilities. On page 927, under the heading of 10.9.2 Whole Climate System, they write (my boldface), again using the emerging anthropogenic and natural signals and alternative hypothesis of just natural variations:",5_2
"Fenton Communications is the infamous, left-wing public relations group that orchestrated actress Meryl Streep, CBS' 60 Minutes and the Natural Resources Defense Council to bring about the entirely bogus 1989 scare involving the apple-ripening chemical Alar.",0_0
"Postscript: As Kriegeskorte observed, the specific impact of an erroneous method on a practical data set is hard to predict. In our case, it does not mean that a given reconstruction is necessarily an ???artifact?? of red noise, since a biased procedure will produce a Stick from an actual Stick signal. (If the ???signal?? is a Stick, the biased procedure will typically enhance the Stick.) The problem is that a biased method can produce a Stick from red noise as well and therefore not much significance can be placed to a Stick obtained from a flawed method.",5_1
"We are meeting one month before the Climate Change Copenhagen Summit and several weeks before the U.S. Senate hearing regarding the cap-and-trade scheme. For these reasons, today??s meeting can??t be an academic conference, even though the topic still needs academic discussion. There is no consensus ??? neither in science, nor in economic analysis or politics.",5_1
"At the 5:40 mark, BR television on 3 June 2012 asks how the gross Himalaya error found its way into the IPCC report. The answer is delivered by Professor Hans von Storch at the 6:05 mark:",0_0
If you are curious you will probably enjoy and learn much from a new 81-page report by Craig D. Idso on global warming and coral reefs .,0_0
"How to get most countries to participate is the $64,000 question that no one can really answer. It may simply require waiting for some of them to get rich enough to be willing to spend their own money on this problem.",0_0
"There are many solid data indicators that are illuminating, publicly available, and standardized across countries. And these data can help us broaden measures of well-being far beyond GDP.",0_0
"on Thursday, June 27th, 2013 at 5:05 am and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Next, Nuccitelli attacks Roy Spencer for having said it was entirely possible that summer sea-ice melt was no worse now than it had been in the 1920s and 1930s, when explorers had reported unprecedented warming and loss of sea ice in the Arctic.",0_0
"We shouldn't be completely surprised by his defense of population control. This has long been part of his left-wing environmentalist agenda. As Myron Ebell, the Competitive Enterprise Institute's director of global warming and international environmental policy, told Mr. Bastasch, ""Gore's eco-imperialism is uncomfortably close to the original racist goals of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, who advocated population control in order to control the number of black and brown people in the world.""",0_0
"The prophecies of doom have led to enormous misallocations of resources and done untold psychological damage. With a bright, promising world before them, many children now fear the future. Today scant scientific evidence but new",0_0
"ownership of a powerful symbol can give rise to demagoguery and self-delusion. President Bush overplayed the national defense card in pursuit of an ideological vision that backfired with terrible consequences in Iraq. In turn, a scientific-technological elite unchecked by healthy skepticism and political pluralism may well indulge in its own excesses. Cults of expertise helped bring us the Vietnam War and the current economic meltdown. Uncritical belief in and promotion of the redemptive power of scientific and technological advance is implicated in some of the most difficult challenges facing humans today. In science, Democrats appear to have discovered a surprisingly potent political weapon. Let us hope they wield it with wisdom and humility.",0_0
"Nelson : The station at the Vicarage 1907-1919 was very much sheltered, practically under a hedge overgrown by large trees, so readings were taken over by the Cawthron Institute. These were not very good at first but were approved in 1928, before the station moved out to Appleby in 1931.",0_0
Thousands of climate scientists in a variety of discrete disciplines have been exploring the issue for decades. They have reached a consensual conclusion whose existence is easily demonstrated.,0_0
There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very probably likely to be primarily responsible for the global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution.,5_1
"When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty good: CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the old ice core data, no other suspects.",0_0
"The revelation came shortly after Friends of the Earth revealed that new figures showed that UK carbon emissions soared during 2003. The environmental organization issued a press release February 26 claiming, ""Approximately 4.5 million tonnes of carbon (MtC) more were emitted from burning fossil fuels last year than in 2002. To put this in context, the renewables obligation, which will deliver 10 per cent of UK electricity from renewable sources by 2010, is predicted to save only 2.5 MtC per annum. The UK Government's entire climate change programme, published in 2000, is intended to deliver a reduction of 18 MtC. This would equal a 19 percent cut in 1990 carbon dioxide emission levels by 2010.",0_0
"So if you are an outside observer here, not sure who to believe, whats the dead give away clue?",0_0
"It seems that for decades European politiciansand more recently many of their partners from all over the worldhave tried to orient their decisions on a guideline they perceived as expressing a scientific view, while scientistswho did introduce the 2 target into the climate debatetreat that guideline as a political issue.",0_0
"Landsea's frustration is not an isolated experience. MIT physicist Richard Lindzen, another past IPCC author who is not participating in the fourth report, has written: ""My experiences over the past 16 years have led me to the discouraging conclusion that we are dealing with the almost insoluble interaction of an iron triangle with an iron rice bowl."" (Lindzen's ""iron triangle"" consists of activists misusing science to get the attention of the news media and politicians; the ""iron rice bowl"" is the parallel phenomenon where scientists exploit the activists' alarm to increase research funding and attention for the issue.) And Dr. John Zillman, one of Australia's leading climate scientists, is another ex-IPCC participant who believes the IPCC has become ""cast more in the model of supporting than informing policy development.""",5_2
"The EU has set great store by its Emissions Trading Scheme, which it thinks will help meet the targets. Unfortunately, again under the terms of the Protocol, such schemes become inapplicable if the first period targets are breached. The EU violators will be forced to make real, deep cuts in emissions rather than relying on buying hot air credits from elsewhere.",0_0
"In short, Congress has imposed a law that costs you more at the pump, has scant geopolitical value, and is worse for air quality and carbon-dioxide emissions than gasoline. And that's the truth.",0_0
Labour Minister Margaret Beckett freslog from five years ago to Climatedeniers would frbjudas to use the internet. Criticism of the official climate science would be outlawed in the same way as possession of child pornography.,0_0
"They knew about Solyndrawhich took over five hundred million dollars and then folded. Thanks in large part to my expos, many now know about Abengoa and the Solana solar projectwhich took billions of taxpayer dollars and is now functioning and producing electricity but does so by breaking immigration and labor laws, giving foreigners hiring preference, and stiffing American suppliers.",0_0
"President Obama has derided U.S, energy use: ""The U.S. uses far more electricity than its North American neighbors combined,"" but the U.S. also does more with our energy. Comparing the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and energy consumption numbers for the U.S. and Canada, for example, both use a similar volume of energy but the U.S. has substantially higher GDP. A study of global energy consumption versus GDP found: ""energy is so intrinsically linked to GDP that energy policy more or less dictates how our economy performs.""",0_0
The case for very low discount rates (declining discount rates) is derived from Martin Weitzman's 1998 article on discounting the far-distant future,0_0
"Well, it was not quite as bad as Beijing during the winter, but air quality really degraded around the Northwest last night as massive amounts of fireworks were deployed.",0_0
"The five researchers report that the chemistry of the sediments employed in their study ""created a microhabitat that supported the growth and development of a benthic foraminiferal community even at highly elevated p CO 2 ,"" such that the ""growth and mortality of living A. aomoriensis were unaffected.""",3_2
"[UPDATE: The underlying claim of these two papers is that although there have been no large eruptionsin the 21st century, it is the weaker eruptionsthat are causing the plateau in temperature. These are eruptionswith a volcanic explosivity index (VEI) of four. Some commenters below still think that the eruptions of VEI fourare significant. The Santer document shows the effect of some of the VEI 4 eruptions on the stratospheric aerosol optical depth (SAOD), which is their main indication of volcanic change. The study says:",1_4
JC note: I made an attempt to keep this review Gleick-free and Mann-free.,0_0
This seemingly innocent move of a few hundred meters at the same elevation from one responsible scientific observation location to another resulted in a measurement discontinuity estimated by KNMI as approximately 1 deg C. Hans Erren has a similar estimate. Both estimates are obtained by comparing the De Bilt series over this period with nearby stations e.g. Uccle which did not move at this time a strategy similar to that of the USHCN Station Adjustment Program.,0_0
"Johanna 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
"A new study in the September 2002 issue of the Journal of Climate takes another look at the discrepancy in temperature trends between the surface, measured by ground-based thermometers, and the atmosphere (more specifically the troposphere), measured by satellite-borne instruments, and concludes that we don't know why there is a discrepancy.",5_1
"""His freedom to speak protects my freedom to call him a bigot,"" Rowling continued. ""His freedom guarantees mine. Unless we take that absolute position, without caveats or apologies, we have set foot upon a road with only one destination. If you seek the removal of freedoms from an opponent simply on the grounds that they have offended you, you have crossed a line to stand alongside tyrants who imprison, torture and kill on exactly the same justification.""",0_0
"From a historical perspective, an atmospheric CO2 concentration of 400 ppm is actually almost scraping the bottom of the barrel. Over the Earths history, atmospheric CO2 concentrations have ranged from 180 ppm to 7000 ppm, see Figure 1 below. On that scale we are in fact today barely above the Earths record lows.",2_3
"So, Kyoto seems destined to expire. Happily, the geoengineering approach is emerging as a substitute for or supplement to carbon reduction.",0_0
CEI FOIA Reveals Clinton Email Security NDA,0_0
"""Walker's subpoenas are a flagrant violation of the First Amendment, and the clear conclusion to draw following his withdrawal of the ExxonMobil subpoena is that these subpoenas were a baseless fishing expedition from the beginning,"" said CEI President Kent Lassman in a statement.",0_0
"Yet another essay in the same book says that in regard to making use of the rainforest, development is a ""manifest destiny"" of modern times and that ""the idea of progress is deeply rooted in Western thought and has been widely incorporated in the beliefs of many in Third World We must create alternatives to the worldview of the economist."" (Lessons, p.172)",0_0
"If the instrumentalization of Islam constitutes the geographical axis of China's grand strategy, the functional axis is or ought to be of equal interest to NATO, since it consists in the artful combination of space power, sea power, and soft power.",0_0
"By Jo Nova, Her Blog, Aug 14, 2015",0_0
"Globally, poverty remains the leading cause of preventable disease and premature death. A key factor hindering poverty eradication, as well as a major source of indoor air pollution, which kills an estimated 3.5 million people per year, is energy poverty. Even today, more than one billion people have no access to electricity and billions more have too little energy to support development.",0_0
"Some of the damage done by last year's budget deal has been rectified. Congress has recalled $25 million from the nearly $200 million that was allocated last year. If it truly wants to prevent taxpayers from being forced to subsidize the agenda of international Green pressure groups, it will stop funding the GEF altogether.",0_0
"Obama: ""We produce more natural gas than ever before and nearly everyone's energy bill is lower because of it.""",0_0
"Fourthly, the backgrounder claims that global warming is causing both droughts and floods. Regardless of whether this is the case, deaths from droughts have declined by 99.9% since the 1920s, and 99% from floods since the 1930s. In fact, since the 1920s, average annual deaths from all extreme weather events have dropped by 95 percent while annual death rates, which factor in population growth, have been reduced by 99 percent.",1_7
"The Age reported the GG as passionate about the climate change issue. He listed a raft of alternative energy options to be explored with interestingly nuclear power being one of those options. Setting the tone for the conference the GG said As a concerned layman, I would suggest the Australian public, to become fully energised on global warming, needs to have a general idea on the answers to the following questions:",0_0
"That's not just a problem facing contemporary Democrats. It has historic roots. The Democratic Party has always been a collection of out-people, who are seen by themselves and others as not typically American. In the 19th century, that meant white Southerners and Catholic immigrants. Today, it means the Obama core groups.",0_0
warrants a closer examination than the partisan debates give it.,0_0
"Pachauri has said IPCC reports are written by the world?s top scientists when, in fact, many of those involved are 20-something grad students, green activists, and people appointed with an eye to filling ?diversity? quotas.",5_2
"Meanwhile, thanks to Obama, we have to rely on the Russians just to get our people to the ISS.",0_0
"Explanation: The hotspot in the models is due to a thickening of the water vapor blanket during global warming, as more water evaporates and the blanket of warm moist air displaces cold dry air above. This thickening causes 2/3 of the warming in the models. But in reality there is no hotspot, so the models exaggerate temperature increases by at least a factor of 3.",2_3
Methane has long been a target of the green lobby because it is viewed as an especially potent contributor to global warming. Yet the EPAs own research shows methane emissions from drilling have been declining rapidly.,0_0
Fox News reports on emails CEI found in their FOIA lawsuit against George Mason University professors that reveals their petition to the government to prosecute climate change skeptics.,0_0
"When paleoclimatologists met in 1972 to discuss how and when the present warm climate would end, termination seemed imminent and it was expected that rapid cooling would lead to the coming ice age.",1_2
"Where Ts is surface temperature (C), Tgb is earths grey body temperature which I treat just as a constant as given in the paper (154.3C), and Ps is surface pressure of around 100,000 pascals.",0_0
"Climate divisions werent in use then, so the circa 1934 is likely a straight up average of available stations at ""press time""",0_0
Were really through the looking glass now. And the good old ABC gleefully publishes this kind of stuff.,0_0
"Table 5-9 from the NRC report, Hidden Costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production and Use .",0_0
"Mr. Porritt remarked that, while economic growth has been faster in the UK than any other European country, ""this is accompanied by much greater inequality in income, and a long-hours, high-pressure employment culture more characteristic of American society."" The report calls on the UK government ""to use taxation to affect the price of energy and fuel and calls for ministers to adopt more ""joined up"" thinking over the next five to 10 years."" (Daily Telegraph, Apr. 14)",0_0
"Recent extreme weather cannot be blamed on global warming, because there has not been any global warming to speak of. It is as simple as that.",1_7
"One of the greatest achievements of the postmodern mind is the theory that one can control the weather with taxes. Yes, I know! It sounds so crazy that you just want it to work. I recall weather control schemes like cloud seeding, and of course there are more elaborate ideas in Star Trek, but controlling weather with public policy and virtuethere are no words. Imagine the cure for cancer being increased library fines! The true accomplishment was not their baloney storm (BS), but the level of cultural fervor that has been aroused through it, leading to titanic global power plays that have kept this zombie theory animated for a decade or two after it should have collapsed under its own weight.",0_0
"But for those bugged by nitpicking flexings of government muscle, the most irritating provision may well be the bill's banning of incandescent bulbs.",0_0
Its also nice to see that Conspiracy Theorist can apply to a person of color too. ;-),0_0
"The latest warming trend, which appears to have ended in 1998, is the result of the end of the Little Ice Age, which extended from roughly the 16th century to the 19th. During that period, Muir Glacier in Alaska filled Glacier Bay. In fact, when the first Russian explorers arrived in Alaska in the 1740s, there was no Glacier Bay just a wall of ice where the entrance would be.",2_1
Mark Boslough is ironically employed as a scientist in New Mexico. His most significant contribution to the mankind occurred in 1998 when he spread a fake article claiming that the Alabama school board redefined \(\pi\) to be equal to the Biblical value \(3.0\).,0_0
"Let me assume that the reader has some basic traces of morality so he or she understands why science can't be controlled by the same ideology or the same motivation. So let's talk about the ""criticism"" that the ""contrarians"" don't have a unified ""consensus science"" to replace the LFCSes' ""consensus science"". What are those things in which the ""contrarians"" disagree with each other?",0_0
Sachs again offers no actual evidence in support of his assertions.,0_0
"The question for citizens and their elected representatives is whether even today's models are accurate enough to guide public policy making. Seeking an informed discussion of this topic, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, on behalf of the Cooler Heads Coalition, invited climatologists Robert Davis of the University of Virginia and David Legates of Louisiana State University to address an audience of congressional staff, journalists, and other interested persons.",0_0
"Right now, the solar cycle is in a valley--the deepest of the past century. In 2008 and 2009, the sun setmodern agerecords for low sunspot counts, weak solar wind, and low solar irradiance. The sun has gone more than two years without a significant solar flare. Take a look at the widget above right - zero sunspots-for far longer than thenext solar cycle had been predicted tostart. Might this be part of the reason for the ""travesty"" (quotinga climategate email ) of global cooling over the past decade?",2_1
"However, Monaghan et al. note that there is evidence of conflicting trends in ice sheet thickness across Antarctica: the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has been thinning over the past decade, while the East Antarctic Ice Sheet became thicker over the period 1992 through 2003 (Davis et al. 2005). Previous work attributed the thickening of the East Ice Sheet to an increase in snowfall accumulation across that portion of the continent, following the logic of a warmer atmosphere and therefore greater moisture capacity. The thinning of the West Ice Sheet, however, is not well explained. As it turns out, Monaghan and his colleagues do not think that the thickening of the East Ice Sheet is well explained either!",1_1
142. Plaintiff?s wrongful interference with Defendant Steyn?s constitutionally protected rights of free speech and public expression and his engagement and use of the courts as an instrument of the government to carry out that wrongful interference violates the First Amendment and constitutes a constitutional tort for which Defendant Steyn is entitled to be compensated.,0_0
"Car Emissions, one of the largest contributors to air pollution, will be reduced by more than 80 percent over the next 25 years, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. According to an April PRI Harris Interactive poll, 74 percent of respondents revealed their belief that cars are less polluting now than they were 25 years ago.",0_0
"Check, I agreeover the long term and slowly, just as greenhouse gas theory holds. But the atmosphere is not continuing to warm right now.",1_4
Those observations ran counter to the Obama EPA's crash efforts to regulate CO2 and other greenhouse gasses through a public health and welfare Endangerment Finding under the Clean Air Act premised upon climate change mitigation.,0_0
"12 See, e.g., Tilman Ludke, Jihad Made in Germany: Ottoman and German Propaganda and Intelligence Operations during the First World War, 2006; Selcuk Esenbel, ""Japan's Global Claim to Asia and the World of Islam: Transnational Nationalism and World Power, 1900-1945,"" American Historical Review (October 2004). Alexander Bennigsen, Soviet Strategy and Islam, 1989; Rachel Bronson, Thicker than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia, 2006.",0_0
"1. Met Office 2009 Forecast: Trend To Milder Winters To Continue, Snow And Frost Becoming Less Of A Feature",0_0
"It has been thought that an increase in carbon dioxide will lead to global warming. While carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been increasing over the past 100 years, there is no evidence that it is causing an increase in global temperatures.",2_3
"In light of the fact that Quinn and Ponte indicate that ???over the last century, the rate of sea level rise has been only 1.7 0.5 mm/year, based on tide gauge reconstructions (Church and White, 2006),?? it seems a bit strange that one would ever question that result on the basis of a GRACE-derived assessment, with its many and potentially very large ???errors and biases.?? In addition, as Ramillien et al . (2006) have noted, ???the GRACE data time series is still very short,?? and results obtained from it ???must be considered as preliminary since we cannot exclude that apparent trends only reflect inter-annual fluctuations.?? And as Quinn and Ponte also add, ???non-ocean signals, such as in the Indian Ocean due to the 2004 Sumatran-Andean earthquake, and near Greenland and West Antarctica due to land signal leakage, can also corrupt the ocean trend estimates.??",5_1
"A Wall Street Journal editorial on March 30 asserted that It is not about environmental and regulatory hurdles. It is about a deal that Nevada Senator Harry Reid, the former Senate Majority Leader, cut with President Obama to keep Yucca Mountain from ever opening for use. In return, Reid blocked nearly all amendments to legislation to shield Obama from having to veto bills. He virtually nullified the Senate as a functioning element of our government.",0_0
"cost of $985,000/job to install solar panels at the Denver Federal Center. (Project #41)",0_0
"In return, organisations might complain publicly just a bit about government. But mostly these organisations keep sending their representatives off to meetings and their leaders happily sit down with Ministers who feed them soothing words.",0_0
For Washington we could clearly make either a warming or a cooling trend by simply choosing where we put the thermometers.,0_0
"By Rick Moran, American Thinker, Aug 5, 2015",0_0
"One good way is to look just at ocean surface temperature trends. That's 70% of the Earth's surface, with no urban heat islands! According to the Hadley Centre, this increased warming amounts to +0.2 F/decade. So yes, it's still rising, but not as much. What does that mean for the trends just over land? It indicates that that increasing land temperatures must be larger and according to the University of East Anglia, that trend is +0.5 F/decade. Since most of us live on land, we experience the land surface temperature trend.",0_0
Washington sea level data. Click image to start animation in new window.,0_0
"This elephant has had to be ignored at all costs. What, the globe isnt warming from manmade CO2 as fast as we predicted? Then it must be manmade aerosols cooling things off. Or the warming is causing the deep ocean to heat up by hundredths or thousandths of a degree. Any reason except reduced climate sensitivity, because low climate sensitivity might mean we really dont have to worry about global warming after all.",3_1
"""The biosphere is changing, and changing rapidly,"" according to Fung. And ""currently,"" she notes, ""it is a sink for a quarter of the anthropogenic CO 2 emissions."" But will it continue? Only time will tell. But as things stand today, she remarks that ""surely, the biosphere must be enjoying the warming.""",3_2
"Global warming is occurring for the 1,001st time in the human history and for the 1,000,001st time in the history of the planet. In the same way, we are witnessing the 1,001st global cooling in the human history and the 1,000,001st global cooling in the Earth's history. I consider the global warming theory to be a proposition arising from the human pride, i.e. the assertion that the mankind is capable of causing dramatic oscillations of the temperature on the Earth by its greenhouse gas emissions.",2_1
Severe and damaging tornadoes are mainly a U. S. phenomena. The U. S. is the Tornado Capital of the World and has more tornadoes annually than any country on the globe. Two notable outbreaks include: Super Tornado Outbreak of 1974 (315 deaths) and the Tri State Tornado of 1925 (695 deaths).,0_0
"So the deleted line the environmentalists focused on, ""climate change has global consequences for human health and the environment,"" was both meaningless and dangerous. It is on one level a simple truismclimate change does change other things. However, when the clear implication is that the consequences are negative (tell that to the Amazon rainforest, where vegetation has grown abundantly over the last decade) or that the change is mostly human-induced, then it should be replaced with a clearer statement of the state of the science. That is what the administration did when it noted that ""the complexities...make it a scientific challenge to document change, diagnose its causes and develop useful projections .""",0_0
"The New Left was characterized as much by its impatience as by its lofty ambitions. Its advocates saw the non-attainment of their goals as a moral crime. As such, those who stood in the way of those goals were not merely adversaries, they were enemies: selfish, unlettered, in need of enlightenment. This sentiment is the source of the arrogant condescension that many Americans and most conservatives have felt all too frequently is a defining feature of today's Left.",0_0
"According to the BGS, potential UK offshore reserves of shale gas could exceed one thousand Tcf; about five to ten times the figure for onshore. Even if, as some conservative observers maintain, only 10 to 20 percent is ultimately recoverable, that would propel the UK to become entirely self-sufficient in shale-sourced gas for decades to come, ending the dependency on imported Russian, Norwegian and Qatari gas which currently account for around 70 percent of the UKs needs. The impact that could have on the UK economy and soaring domestic energy prices cannot be overstated.",4_5
"The adjustments immediately after 1945 are expected to be as large as those made to the pre-war data (~0.3 C), and smaller adjustments are likely to be required in SSTs through at least the mid-1960s, by which time the observing fleet was relatively diverse and less susceptible to changes in the data supply from a single country of origin.",0_0
"What makes the Foster and Rahmstorf work particularly encouraging for lukewarmers is that the authors find that for periods of 30 years or so, the removal of natural variability makes little difference on the magnitude of the observed trend in the lower atmosphere.",0_0
"The message of Carbon Morality?The power industry has lost its moral stature, and American society is on the verge of doing something awful to it.",0_0
11. Botswana - Agreement Concerning the Establishment of a Tropical Forest Conservation Fund and a Tropical Forest Conservation Board,0_0
"His third tenet is to strengthen and enforce the international order. He is absolutely correct when he asserts that respecting international law is not a sign of weakness, but he is absolutely wrong in implying that a failure to sign the United Nations Convention on Law of the Seas somehow emboldens China in the South China Sea. There are good reasons for the United States to sign the treaty, but they are irrelevant to China's actions in the here and now. His reference to climate change as a ""creeping"" national security threat (which would necessarily require collective action to address) dramatically overstates the case, unless one sees a three hundred year horizon as somehow appropriate for national security policy-making.",0_0
"With the world still recovering from the 2008 recession, and Europe possibly on the brink of another globally-destabilizing recession, there is not much appetite for a new Kyoto Protocol. Japan, Canada , and Russia will not sign. Europe will not sign unless America and China also sign, which is highly unlikely.",0_0
"In the episode, clouds of smug from ""Toyonda Pious"" sales in South Park, George Clooney's acceptance speech at the 78th Academy Awards, and San Francisco's pretensions as a progressive city all coverge, creating a ""perfect smug storm"" that threatens to destroy everything in its path. The citizens of South Park scrap their hybrids just in time to avoid annihilation, although thousands of homes are destroyed. However, it is too late to save San Francisco, which ""disappears up its own @!*hole.""",0_0
The 'Green Jobs' Fallacy of Al Gore,0_0
"When I asked Deke Arndt of NOAA how they calculated the temperatures for 1934, he seemed as confused as me!",0_0
"But there's one major problem: while President Obama poses in front of pipelines in Oklahoma, pretending to be a friend of oil and natural gas, he has given marching orders to his administration to do everything possible to end hydraulic fracturing. Remember, as I mentioned earlier, Armendariz was the one who was caught on tape admitting the EPA's ""general philosophy"" is to ""crucify"" and ""make examples"" of oil and gas companies, specifically targeting hydraulic fracturing.",0_0
"The point being that despite large increases in outflow, the lake level has been rapidly recovering. This could be due to only one explanation lots and lots of snow in the Rocky Mountains during the last five years.",0_0
"How much of this improvement can be attributed to the NSR program? Obviously not emission reductions or air quality improvements prior to 1977 or for continuing trends that began before NSR was adopted. Factors that may be more important than regulation include electrification and other technological changes, a shift of economic activity from manufacturing to service industries, rising wealth, social and demographic changes, and political decisions whose unintended consequences include emission reductions.",0_0
"Environmentalists are fighting to defeat Washington state ballot initiative 732 (I-732), which imposes a $25 per metric ton of carbon dioxide tax on fossil fuels consumed in Washington. If the voters approve the initiative, Washington would become the first state in the nation to impose a tax on carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels.",0_0
"""Clinton repeatedly called Kyoto a ""work in progress,' and not ready to submit for Senate consideration until it included ""meaningful participation by key developing countries,' notably China and India, but also South Korea, Brazil, and Mexico,"" said Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis. ""Those countries still reject mandatory energy use restrictions, so the treaty still remains unworthy of submission to the Senate, according to Clinton's own criteria. That rejection, of course, is an admirable move by the developing nations which have chosen not to subject their citizens to a future of poverty and stagnation.""",0_0
"Washington, D.C. will be one of those cities, but as Bastasch reported, ""Environmentalists and liberal groups are urging Obama to use the speech to reaffirm his commitment to fighting global warming. ""President Obama should rank the battle against climate change as one of his top priorities in his State of the Union speech next week', said Center for Clean Air Policy president Ned Heime.""",0_0
He has boasted that his organization is utterly transparent ? but an InterAcademy Council committee that took a close look at the IPCC last year concluded otherwise ? before recommending that Pachauri should step down.,0_0
Increased Atlantic hurricane landfalls from a new form of El Nino?,0_0
"Summers is correct that FDRs pre-war New Deal economic strategy failed, but he is incorrect that world war boosted the economy. As Higgs shows in his book, the private sector did not recover until after the war. The war period wasjust another government manipulated period wheresome statistics may have looked good because young men were coerced into fighting and dying for the state.",0_0
"The Australian APEC Study Center and The Frontiers of Freedom Institute will be holding an international conference, ""Countdown to Kyoto,"" in Canberra, Australia, August 19-21.",0_0
"Helen Chivers, Met Office forecaster, insisted the temperature map takes into account the influence of climate factors such as El Nino and La Nina ? five-yearly climatic patterns that affect the weather ? but admits this is only a ?start point? for a seasonal forecast. She said: ?The map shows probabilities of temperatures in months ahead compared to average temperatures over a 30-year period.",0_0
"And a quick aside: there is no such thing as a ???global temperature??, knowing as fact that such a conjuredup parameter is based on just a few thousand weather stations spread across a tiny portion of the earths29% land, with none at the Poles, none in the oceans and some stations being treated as giving thetemperature of entire countries?! It is a truly meaningless parameter and the ???amount of warming?? hasrecently been expressed as being in the hundredths of one degree Celsius ??? you couldn??t make this up ifyou wanted to.Plus, the earth stations have been proven to have been tampered with so that coolingtrends have been fabricated into warming trends.",5_1
"By all accounts, NRDC's political contributions have paid off in the form of access at the highest levels of executive environmental policymaking. Many NRDC officials were tapped by Obama to serve as political appointees at the EPA. At the Department of Energy, NRDC helps craft efficiency standards through direct ""negotiated rulemakings"" with the government. Most strikingly, the New York Times reported that three NRDC lobbyists wrote the ""blueprint"" for President Obama's marquee climate policy, the Clean Power Plan.",0_0
"He confirmed that the firm gave Teri $9.5?million (6.1?million) between 2006 and 2009 for planting 8,000 hectares of jatropha, a type of bush, as part of a bio-diesel research project.",0_0
Featured Podcast: Jay Lehr: Make America Healthy Again with Exercise and Global Warming!,0_0
"""Now, you are going to listen to the insane, irrational, and creepy things I have to say. If you don't like them, and if you disagree with me, I am going to kill you. Only then can you be free and happy because I will kill you to save you, as you will just die anyway"".",0_0
Figure 5: Heat content south of the polar Atlantic until June 2014 (Diagram from Climate Explorer),0_0
American Products. American Power. (new website on petroleum's consumer bounty),0_0
"But averages deceive, Gholz says, and this study shows that rates of change are at times greater in the oceans than on landand as complex as the currents themselves.",0_0
"Its lengthy, but gives the view of a person who was there on the ground, covering climate science and global warming in the late 1980s years before the AGW mania took off.",0_0
"4. Global temperatures appear to be rising, irrespective of any human influence, as Earth continues to emerge from the Little Ice Age. If the temperature increase during the past 130 years reflects recovery from the Little Ice Age, it is not unreasonable to expect the temperature to rise another 2 to 2.5 degrees Celsius to a level comparable to that of the Medieval Warm Period about 800 years ago. The Holocene Epoch, as a whole, has been a remarkably stable period with few extremes of either rising or falling temperatures, as were common during Pleistocene glacial and interglacial periods. Nevertheless, the Holocene has been, and still is, a time of fluctuating climate.",2_1
"How did CEI respond? CEI decided to fight this attack. We objected to the attorney general's offensive and unlawful action as being aimed at silencing CEI and intimidating its supporters. Using DC's anti-SLAPP law, which protects the public's right to engage in advocacy on issues of public interest from attacks by abusive legal actions, we asked the District of Columbia Superior Court to permanently dismiss Attorney General Walker's subpoena action, so that it could not be refiled, and to require him to reimburse CEI's expenses.",0_0
"???Just at the beginning of the new solar grand minimum, ultimately proving that solar radiations drive the climate,?? Guimaraes points out.",2_1
I am a conservationist. I believe in wise stewardship in harvesting and conserving natural resources and in good management of the beauty of the landscape.,0_0
"As Rockefeller University researcher Jesse Ausubel points out, it would take one thousand square miles of prime Iowa farmland to produce as much electricity from biomass as from a single nuclear power plant. And cellulosic ethanol is not the solution. In May 2006, John Deutch, a chemistry professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, concluded that producing enough ethanol from switch grass to displace 1 million barrels of oil per day would require that 25 million acres of landabout thirty-nine thousand square milesbe planted in switch grass. That is an area about the size of Kentucky. He concluded that we can produce ethanol from cellulosic biomass sufficient to displace 1-2 million barrels of oil per day in the next couple of decades, but not much more than that. Even cellulosic ethanol cannot provide enough liquid fuel for us to be able to stop importing foreign oil and being dependent on foreign governments.",0_0
"On this blog, over the last couple of months, I have presented a pretty clear set of facts showing that, with the possible exception of some rural border regions beset by drug gangs, the vast majority of Arizona has experienced rapidly falling crime rates, in fact crime rates falling much faster than in the rest of the country. The crime rates of even our key border towns has remained flat.",0_0
"The simple solution: stop burning food for fuel, drill for more oil, work on alternate energy system that actually might work, like thorium based nuclear power.",4_5
"Hao et al . additionally found that the concentrations of a number of beneficial oils in the soybean seeds were increased by an average of 2.8% in response to the 135-ppm increase in the air's CO 2 concentration. However, they also discovered that the total protein concentration in the seeds was reduced by 3.3% in the CO 2 -enriched treatment. But because of the much greater CO 2 -induced increase in the soybean seed yields , or biomass production per unit of cultivated land, they report that the total ""protein and oil yield per unit ground area increased by 24.5% and 32.0%, respectively.""",3_3
"Theaveragefor all 194 stations (including ones which are now defunct) is higher at 0.8 mm/year. This indicates that sea level rise rates are slowing this century, and are much lower than the wildly bogus claims of 3.1 mm from the University of Colorado and elsewhere.",1_6
"Last week, scientists from the United States Commerce Departments National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that a study of temperature readings for the contiguous 48 states over the last century showed there had been no significant change in average temperature over that period. Dr. (Phil) Jones said in a telephone interview today that his own results for the 48 states agreed with those findings.",1_4
"Former Vice President Al Gore was at his peak when the film ""An Inconvenient Truth"" made its initial Hollywood splash. Faith in man-made global warming had never been more widespread, with liberal academics and media subjecting to ridicule any who dared question the ""settled science."" Only a fool could deny that elevated carbon-dioxide levels had melted ice caps and stranded polar bears on rapidly diminishing ice floes.",0_0
"Guinness officials could not be reached for immediate verification of the record, as they are currently on assignment investigating a claim for ""Worlds Biggest Asshole"".",0_0
"Peiser reported back that there had been no Wikipedia change. Solomon tried again, and again the correction disappeared.",0_0
Alpine Flora Dynamics in a Warming World (15 Mar 2011) Alpine flora appears to be more adaptive and responsive to climate change than generally believed ... Read More,3_2
"Another $10 million of Australian taxpayer dollars that could be far better spent on schools and hospitals is heading down the gurgler in pointless research into the enormous health risks of changing weather patterns, reports The Canberra Times :",0_0
"""Rather than fight the addition of games resembling slot machines in video lottery establishments across the state, the organization representing casinos in Deadwood may explore ways to expand and enhance their own games, the group's president said Wednesday.""",0_0
Image by Dianna Ingram / Bergman Group,0_0
"Third, Soon testified that, ""There is no convincing evidence from each of the individual climate proxies to suggest that higher temperatures occurred in the 20th century than in the Medieval Warm Period. Nor is there any convincing evidence to suggest that either the rate of increase or the duration of warming during the 20th century were greater than in the Medieval Warm Period.""",2_1
"The shower of particles produced when Earth's atmosphere is struck by ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (the most energetic particles known in the universe). Source: Simon Swordy/University of Chicago, NASA",0_0
"Variations in surface air temperature estimated from a variety of sources including temperature-sensitive tree growth, indices and written records and accounts of various kinds, largely from western Europe and eastern North America. Of note is a possible protracted global warming through the Medieval period, when surface temperatures may have averaged about 0.3 deg C warmer than the AD1900 reference. It was followed by a longer period of much colder conditions, loosely termed the Little Ice Age, when the estimated global mean temperature may have fallen about 0.5 deg C below the reference norm, reflecting global temperatures almost 1 deg C lower than the values attained during the middle of the current century, modified from J.T. Houghton et al, 1990.",2_1
"However much power is lost, whether 81 gigawatts or something else, the electric grid is highly local. Even subtracting a small plant could have much larger effects for regions, such as blackouts. The older and less efficient coal plants that are slated for closure are often the crucial nodes that connect the hubs and spokes of the grid. If these ""sensitive"" interconnections are taken out, as the memo puts it, the power system becomes less stable, harder to manage and may not be able to meet peak-load demand or withstand unexpected disturbances.",4_5
"I doubt that the warming effect is more than trivial, because it appears to be overwhelmed by other forces so often that there is no good correlation anywhere with co2 and temperature.",2_3
"The issue here is not where you stand on any one of these particular issues, but who gets to decide them.",0_0
Computer models are not reliable because garbage in yields garbage out. Facts are often cherry-picked and can be tweaked to create the results that the computer modeler is looking for.,5_1
Lutz Pfannenstiel is a German player who was at one time a goalkeeper at the club. He is now a football talent scout.,0_0
Global Warming Brings An Avalanche Of Bitter Cold Winter Forecasts,1_3
He should consider himself the lucky one. There was no steaming hot pie on offer to the hundreds of rail passengers stuck on trains overnight and abandoned on railway platforms as virtually the entire rail system into Kent and Sussex shut down.,0_0
"This Senate has limited itself to two hearings on LOST, both heavily stacked in favor of treaty proponents, with even Republican Senators, like Bob Corker (Tenn.) most loudly proclaiming an open mind and desire to learn only to dismiss opponents as they sought to answer his queries. This may be a more even platform than the U.S. will receive should the Senate ratify, but was unseemly nonetheless.",0_0
"Hirsch, K., Kafka, V. and Todd, B. 2004. Using forest management techniques to alter forest fuels and reduce wildfire size: an exploratory analysis. In: Engstrom, R.T., Galley, K.E.M. and de Groot, W.J. (Eds.). Fire in Temperate, Boreal, and Montane Ecosystems. Tall Timber Research Station. Tallahassee, Florida, USA, pp. 175-184.",0_0
"18.	""Use of fiscal incentives for climate policies "" No, such policies are not socially responsible. Under such a system, single individuals will be able to enrich themselves at the expense of common wealth.",0_0
"In 2009 Guy Wppelmann et al examined what effects vertical land movement had on the sea level data from tide gauges and published their results in the Geophysical Research Letters . The scientists evaluated globally 227 stations whose elevation was monitored by GPS. 160 of these stations were located at a distance maximum 15 km from the coast. By measuring the vertical movement of the tide gauges, they were able to apply a correction. From this they calculated a mean global sea level rise of 1.61 mm/year over the last century. Figure 1 shows that sea level rise has remained constant since 1940 no acceleration over the last 70 years!",1_6
Below this is understory of trees that usually don't grow higher than 15 feet or so along with young canopy trees and shrubs. Many have large leaves that may help absorb light in dim understory.,0_0
"A scientific consensus should be based on scientific evidence. But a consensus is not itself the evidence. And with really well-established scientific theories, you never hear about consensus. No one talks about the consensus that the planets orbit the sun, that the hydrogen molecule is lighter than the oxygen molecule, that salt is sodium chloride, that light travels about 186,000 miles per second in a vacuum, that bacteria sometimes cause illness, or that blood carries oxygen to our organs. The very fact that we hear so much about a consensus on catastrophic, human-induced climate change is perhaps enough by itself to justify suspicion.",0_0
"And in a broader vindication of democracy and capitalism, it is interesting that chavista nations in Latin America do very poorly in the Prosperity Index; Venezuela (seventy-fourth), Ecuador (seventy-first), and Bolivia (seventy-third) are ranked far lower than the more open democracies of Chile (thirty-sixth), Argentina (thirty-eighth), and Brazil (forty-first).",0_0
"The reason for transportation's relative technological stagnation, compared with communication, is diminishing returns, which have blunted our ability to squeeze more out of technology. The fuel needed to fly at supersonic speeds is prohibitively expensive, as the Concorde proved. It has been said that if the car had experienced the sort of cost reductions that computing has found through Moore's Law-which says that the density of transistors on a chip doubles every two years-it would travel to the moon and back on a teaspoon of gasoline.",0_0
Yes - I want to see all my MP's restaurant receipts No - I don't want to see all my MP's restaurant receipts I want my MP's to pay for their own damned restaurant meals. pollcode.com free polls Related from the CTF: Reveal MP expenses.,0_0
"The IPCC claims the entire forcing if atmospheric CO2 doubles is only 3.7 watts/m^2. Thus, by starting with a TSI radiation level too high by more than double the IPCCs own 3.7 watts/m^2, every fundamental heat balance calculation after that statement is invalid and misleading. (Yes, 1370 watts/m^2 is the reference TSI used in the EEBB class notes, but that TSI value was already 3 years out-of-date when written.)",5_1
"Many factors played vital roles in this phenomenal advancement. However, as Julian Simon, Indur Goklany, Alex Epstein, and the authors of this article have documented, driving all this progress were fossil fuels that provided the energy for improvements in industry, transportation, housing, healthcare, and environmental quality, and for huge declines in climate-related deaths due to storms, droughts, heat, and cold. Modern civilization is undeniably high energy and 85% of the world's energy today is still coal, oil, and natural gas. These fuels support $70 trillion per year in global gross domestic product, to power virtually everything we make, grow, ship, drive, eat, and do. The rest of the world deserves nothing less.",4_5
"PSOne final thought. IF we assume that the change in CO2 is due to the temperature change, as my five arguments support, this would indicate that the degassing from temperature changes is far from sufficient to cause the recent rise in CO2. I hold that the recent rise in CO2 is anthropogenic, but others have claimed that it is not from the burning of fossil fuels, that it is (at least in significant part) due to the temperature change.",2_3
"Moreover, unhealthy US emissions plunged nearly 90% since 1970, even as coal use for electricity generation increased 170% and the newest coal-fired power plants reduce pollution by almost this amount, using ""supercritical"" technologies, while also reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 20% or more, according the EPA and US Energy Information Administration reports.",0_0
"Expecting the worst from its perspective, Dow held crisis meetings during the late summer, eventually concocting a response plan that included a web presence and an extensive social media campaign. On September 12, Dow purchased the website America's Energy Advantage, which is now registered privately. It created Facebook and Twitter accounts in September and began posting in Facebook on October 12 and sent its first Tweet on October 18.",0_0
"1) The oceans contain many orders of magnitude more energy than the atmosphere, are insulated from space by it, and emit energy into it via the latent heat of evaporation, radiation, convection and conduction . Changes in sea surface temperature (SST) precede related changes in lower tropospheric temperature (LT) by 3-6 months. Conversely, the oceans are opaque to the radiation emitted by the atmosphere and mechanisms for transferring energy via back radiation, convection or conduction down into its bulk from the atmosphere are extremely limited. In summary, the oceans drive the atmospheric temperature.",2_1
Vad IPCC t nker g ra med pengarna,0_0
"Heritage analysis shows that lifting needless and duplicative restrictions on energy production will increase employment by an average of 700,000 jobs through 2035. Along with the jobs comes $3.7 trillion in additional gross domestic product (GDP) that translates to an additional $40,000 of income per family of four by 2035.",0_0
"President Obama seems to get this, sort of: ""Indeed, our failure to act responsibly at the federal level will only open the door to irresponsibility by others. And that includes, for example, the recent efforts in Arizona.""",0_0
But their hot streak may soon run into some trouble. Why? Because they have provoked the most powerful special interest in congressional history: farmers. These are the same folks who once convinced Congress to pay them to grow nothing. Now they are holding hostage legislation to fight so-called climate change.,0_0
"The sea surface temperature anomalies for the East Pacific Ocean (90S-90N, 180-80W) have not warmed in 30 years, Figure 11. That of course contradicts climate models, which show the East Pacific sea surface temperature anomalies should have warmed more than 0.4 deg C over that period if they were warmed by greenhouse gases.",5_1
"The weather bureau is also indicating a warmer winter for much of the country, but says its not yet related to the possible El Nio.",0_0
"Delingpole says a man called Crispin Tickell invented global warming . And no, he didnt make that moniker up. Its fairly understandable that being named Crispin Tickell might make a lad a mad enough to want to wreck the world. Just ask his brother Roland (I did make that part up).",0_0
Writer Susan Sontag at a 1982 town hall rally for the Polish Solidarity movement. The shocked liberal audience nearly booed her off the stage.,0_0
You cant make this stuff up. There is yet another USHCN cheat going on with the raw data which I just discovered.,5_1
"For more than half a century, that countdown sequence has signaled the start of another daring plunge into the unknown what we've come to know as ""The Right Stuff.""",0_0
"And so Roosevelt executed a conspicuous public pivot. In the summer of 1940just a week before the Republican convention!he fired his Secretary of War and Secretary of the Navy and replaced them with two Republicans: Henry Stimson (who had served as secretary of state under Herbert Hoover) and Frank Knox (the Republican nominee for vice-president in 1936). He began closing down liberal domestic programs like the famed Civilian Conservation Corps and reining in conspicuous liberal appointees like his trust-busting assistant attorney general Thurman Arnold. Roosevelt won in 1940, largely because (as he later explained) he had replaced ""Dr. New Deal"" with ""Dr. Win the War.""",0_0
Insightful commentary by Keith Hennessey on Obama's fuel economy rules,0_0
the expectations for added regional climate in-formation and skill achievable from initialized decadal predictions;,0_0
"Many renowned scientists have criticized the computer models used by the global warming alarming industry, pointing out, for example, that the models omit many of the most important factors in our planet's complex climate system: clouds, water vapor, volcanoes, ocean circulation, solar activity, and more.",5_1
"""The East Coast stink bug epidemic has prompted the Environmental Protection Agency today to issue an emergency ruling allowing farms of apples, cherries, pears, and peaches to use two lethal insecticides. But it may be too late, since the stink bug has been seen on fruit in Virginia.""",0_0
Stolen Heartland Documents: DeSmog Keeps BlowingBy Marlo Lewis,0_0
"Quoting once again the words of Gabay et al ., ""these findings indicate that octocorals may possess certain protective mechanisms against rising levels of p CO 2 ,"" and in this regard they suggest that ""their fleshy tissues act as a barrier, maintaining a stable internal environment and avoiding the adverse effects of the ambient elevated p CO 2 ,"" in line with the similar thinking of Rodolfo-Metalpa et al . (2011), while noting that ""this suggestion is further supported by our finding that the ultrastructural features of O. macroscipulata sclerites are not affected by increased ambient seawater acidity."" And so it is that they ultimately conclude that ""octocorals might be able to acclimate and withstand rising levels of ocean acidification, even under conditions that are far beyond what is expected to occur by the end of the present century (pH 7.9)."" References",3_2
"First sin, then treason, and finally, reckless idiocy.",0_0
"Under the current program, those who wish to buy power from wind turbines pay a $4.30 per month premium for three years. Due to the lack of significant participation, the program is currently losing about $12,000 per month.",0_0
"Crank of the Week July 18, 2014 Tom Steyer",0_0
"As a result, the North Atlantic experiences alternating decades long (20 to 30 year periods or even longer) of above normal or below normal hurricane seasons. NOAA research shows that the tropical multi-decadal signal is causing the increased Atlantic hurricane activity since 1995, and is not related to greenhouse warming.",1_7
"""As if from a parallel universe where everything is reversed,"" Lassman continued, ""Walker claims that CEI's motions in response to overreaching and abusive action initiated by his office are a waste of his time and resources.""",0_0
"Most important, it would have been very useful to examine explicitly the rest of the panel's inherent belief that the federal science bureaucracy is not an interest group, as noted earlier. Rush Holt's faith in this was very clear, as he argued that the scientific community enhanced the quality and scientific integrity of the Iran nuclear negotiations, an amazing example of trees/forest myopia. Does Holt believe that Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz would have contradicted Secretary of State John Kerry or President Obama or would have resigned had the evidence called for it? Holt argued also that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) should have been allowed to study ""gun violence,"" as if gun crime and defensive uses of guns are communicable diseases. Does he not understand that CDC wanted to examine this topic precisely so that they could politicize it?",0_0
"Anti-Glacier Prayer ""Worked Too Well""Vatican Approves New Ritual",0_0
"Now, youd think that you could just use the Stefan-Boltzmann equation to figure out how many more upwelling watts would be represented by a global surface temperature rise of 3C. Even that number was a surprise to me 16.8 watts per square metre.",0_0
"Prior to Hansen et al tampering with the temperature record, 1970 was about the same temperature as 1900. The graph below was generated by the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.",5_2
The Pueblo Leader Google News Archive Search,0_0
"Their overarching message has been that this doesnt touch the science, that the basic premise that human beings are altering the climate in dangerous ways remains unchallenged. I dont know whether to laugh or cry when I hear this argument. What it conveniently ignores is that weve been told for years that the reason we should believe in human-caused climate change is because an elaborate and reliable IPCC process had examined matters and pronounced it a genuine and pressing problem. . . Weve been urged to believe in the end result because the IPCCs process is itself trustworthy.",5_2
"Jim Lakely, Heartlands communications director, takes Daniel Souweine of the TV meteorologist hassling group Fabricate Forecast the Facts to task in this piece on the Heartland blog:",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis on the impact of this move:,0_0
"So how much of the change in climate is due to us and how much is natural? Nobody knows. No body, not even an international body of climate scientists. There are some guesses, mainly in the form of forecasts that say temperatures will rise dramatically. But those models predictions have, so far, been wrong in the sense that they say we should have been hotter than we have been.",5_1
Obama willingness to get specific in SOTU on long term fiscal challenges in doubt:,0_0
"The negative feedbacks from evaporation & convection of water vapor, clouds, and precipitation illustrate how the climate is self-regulating, independent of CO2.",3_1
"So not only is Heartland not down a net $1 million, Heartland is not even at a net zero after spinning off its dedicated insurance projects. Were up in funds, overall. Heartland has already doubled the number of individual donors since Peter Gleicks Fakegate scandal, and we expect that number to continue to rise steeply throughout 2012.",0_0
"Climategate, of course, casts serious doubt on much of the underlying data, as well. Those with a taste for dark humor will enjoy the reference in the EPA's response to comments (p.12) to ""the clear, transparent, and open procedures of the IPCC, CCSP, USGCRP, and NRC.""",5_2
"After losing the Washington state governor's race four years ago by the closest margin of any gubernatorial contest in U.S. history133 votes out of 2.8 million castRepublican Dino Rossi wasn't taking any chances in last fall's rematch. He avoided his party's national convention, so as to better position himself as a nonpartisan; when it came to putting his name on the ballot, Rossi forsook his party's name altogether. His descriptor: ""prefers GOP party"" (GOP, of course, being shorthand for Grand Old Party, a phrase that local pollsters found only one in five Washington state voters fully understood).",0_0
"In all of Denmark, there are only a few of dozen limousines for hire. So more than 1,000 of the gas-guzzling, carbon-belching behemoths have been driven to Copenhagen from Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and France. Since, at most, 140 heads of state and heads of government will attend the week-long conference, the bulk of these land yachts are being delivered for use by United Nations officials, the heads of environmental organizations and celebrities. All these people preach environmental sustainability for others, yet do not practice it themselves.",5_2
"A group of children (run by adults who aren't ashamed of using children as shields, of course) has filed a lawsuit claiming that the atmosphere is a ""public trust"". What could a stupid district court judge do with it?",0_0
"The Daily Signal discusses Leonardo DiCaprio and President Obama's convorsation on climate change at ""South by South Lawn"" with Marlo Lewis.",0_0
"On the other side are the bad guysthose oil, car and utility companies that produce or use fossil fuels, their defenders in Congress and ""pro-business groups"" such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Cooler Heads Coalition.",0_0
"The other case is perhaps even moreegregious, and comes from Indiana , where the state Supreme Court decided that citizens must defer to agents of the state, even when those agents are violating the law. In particular, if a cop wants to enter your house for no reason at all without a warrant, you can't resist.",0_0
"The last statementwhich is the same now as it was then, is arguably the most important. Despite a record (or near record, depending on who you ask ) high for global temperatures in 2010, the general rate of warming over the past decade and half (going on two decades) is generally less than it was expected to be .",5_1
Kemp Column Distributed by Copley News Service,0_0
H/t Matt here at Briggs' blog and James Evans on BishopHill here,0_0
"""Estimates of human populations in Amazonia around A.D. 1500 range from one to almost seven million substantial parts of Amazonia must have been cleared at some time of contact to support several million people."" This has been backed up as ""pioneer highways and accompanying settlements have exposed numerous black earth sites with pottery on a wide variety of soil types suggesting that sizeable and sedentary populations once occupied `pristine' upland forests.""",0_0
"So, why wasn't the greenhouse gas theory and CO2 not an issue for leading climate researchers in the 1970's? Well, there is plenty of evidence to show that scientists appreciated that CO 2 is limited in effect to a single band of thermal radiation from the Earth centred on the 14.77wavelength resonant with the vibration along the length of the CO 2 molecule. That provides the dipole moment necessary for interaction with electromagnetic radiation. At very low atmospheric concentrations of CO 2 a large percentage of the available energy radiated by the Earth in this 14.77band is already affected leaving very little energy for increased CO 2 concentrations to affect. This is basic physics and was why the American Meteorological Society (AMS) wrote in 1951 that this was the reason why the GHE hypothesis was not given any credence by mainstream science.",2_3
People saw their homes and possessions washed away.,0_0
"He is right to say that the proposed policy is a mess, incoherent, full of contradiction, and likely to fail. He is right that investors are being put off, and were never very confidfent in the first place. But it was ever thus with the UKs renewable energy policies, and it is unlikely to change while policy-makers labour under the misapprehension that you can simply set targets and make promises to reward investment, and LO! Britain will have a wonderful new energy grid. While this belief persists, expensive failure will follow expensive failure. Its not the detail of the policy which is the problem, it is policies of this kind. What Gardiner forgets is reality.",4_1
"What this means, is that if the modeled temperatures were also stripped of their natural variability, then the 95% range of uncertainty (the yellow area depicted in Fig. 2) would contract inwards towards the model mean (green line). The net effect of which would be to make the observed trends (red and blue lines in Fig. 2) over the past 30 years or so lie even closer to (if not completely outside of) the lower bound of the 95% confidence range from the model simulations. Such a result further weakens our confidence in the models and further strengthens our confidence that future warming may well proceed at a modest rate, somewhat similar to that characteristic of the last three decades.",5_1
"Here . Excerpt: The climate is not highly sensitive to CO2 warming because water vapour is a damper against the warming effect of CO2. That is why history is full of Ice Ages - where other effects, such as increased reflection from the ice cover, do provide positive feedback - while we do not hear about Heat Ages. The Medieval Warm Period, for example, is known for being benignly warm - not dangerously hot. We live on a benign planet - except when it occasionally gets damned cold.",3_1
"For example, when estimating methane emissions, they assumed all methane from certain stages of the fracking process was simply discharged, or vented, into the atmosphere with no attempt to control emissions. This is a poor assumption, however, because oil and gas operators use special equipment to capture methane and volatile organic compounds during the drilling and completion process to limit methane emissions.",0_0
in their discussion on solar RF since the Maunder Minimum are very dependent on,0_0
"Pondering the difficulties involved in cutting back on energy use led us to an offshoot of the energy literature pertaining to indirect energy usethat is, the energy embedded in virtually everything we buy. An example of this is the manufacturing and sale of a simple cotton t-shirt. Energy is required to grow and harvest the cotton; transport it to a factory; make, package, and transport the chemicals used to bleach, dye, or condition the cotton; run the machines on which the t-shirt is processed; create packaging materials; ship the t-shirt to the store; and keep the heat and lights on in the store. This is distinct from direct energy consumption, like using gasoline to run our cars, oil to heat our houses, or electricity to keep our televisions on.",0_0
"In this hyper-partisan environment, it is good to know that a majority of Senators can still agree on an issue. When such a rare moment happens, the rest of us should pay attention, as it is probably something very important.",0_0
"American Products. American Power. highlights these important facts and challenges Washington to open the doors to economic growth by encouraging the production of our vast domestic energy resources and ensuring that the regulatory system adopts reasonable, thoughtful approaches that better balance costs and benefits.",0_0
"Judge Amit Mehta granted legal discovery in a case brought by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, an NGO that seeks to advance the principles of limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty.",0_0
The issue as to the size of the externalities boils down to three main considerations:,0_0
"Swiftly, Australia's equally-hated climate bureaucrats swung into action. They began writing to farmers who had paid good money for their land and had been working hard to make a living from it. They said roughly this: ""Your land has been designated as a carbon sink in the name of Saving The Planet. You must stop farming your land at once. You will not be allowed to make your living from it. Because it is now worth nothing, you will not be able to sell it. You will not be paid any compensation. Good afternoon.""",0_0
"Frankly, given the known historical level of volcanism, globally,. that fact that when it all dramatically slowed in the 1900s, we got somewhat warmer really ought not to surprise anyone. My expectation is simply that we will return to more historical average levels. What where those? Enough to have tropical and Pacific islands depicted with smoking volcanoes more often than not. Enough to have a Year without a summer in 1816-17. Yeah, not a common event; but not the sort of thing to be gone for a century and just call that the new normal.",2_1
Key points: CEI's Comments on Clean Power Plan (CPP),0_0
of predicting the climate over the last decade (they said it would get warmer;,0_0
"In northeastern Germany, March is the coldest since at least 130 years ago. In Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg and Berlin, the DWD average temperatures measured up to almost minus two degrees, which lie very close to the previous March-cold record from 1883. In the last four days of the month will determine whether there is even a record. It would then be the coldest March since records began 1881st",1_3
Changing The Engine Of The Global Economy ? The Next UN Strategy 20 July 2010,0_0
Yours truly: Please give me one piece of evidence in support of your assertion that dangerous climate effects already are visible. Just one.,0_0
The Securities and Exchange Commission announces a new system for using fines to reimburse investors in companies that violate financial regulations.,0_0
"The rainforest provides a virtual pantry of goods commonly used including canes and fibers like bamboo, rattan, and jute (for rope, twine and burlap), fruits and veggies like avocados, bananas, mangos, papaya, passion fruit, and pineapple, spices and flavors including allspice, pepper, nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla, paprika, cloves, and ginger, oils like camphor, coconut, sandalwood, and palm, medicines like curare, ipecac, and quinine, and a host of other things like Brazil nuts, cashews, and tea. (NWF Educator's Guide, P.17)",0_0
"Note that at longer times t, a fat-tailed decay function gives the same result as a standard exponential decay function with a longer time constant. For example, in Figure 1 at t equal to 12 months, a standard exponential decay with a time constant tau of 6.2 months (black line) gives the same result as the fat-tailed decay (golden line).",0_0
"Waxman-Markey is a bundle of contradictions. It seeks to make carbon energy more expensive but does not ask consumers to pay higher energy pricesat least for the first decade of its operation. Hence, Waxman-Markey allocates 85 percent of the emission rights it creates to existing emitters (coal-fired power plants, electric utilities, and manufacturers) for free, rather than auctioning the emissions permits, as President Obama and environmentalists have long advocated. It seeks a first in economic history: rationing without scarcity or price inflation. Thus, Waxman-Markey allows generous ""offsets"" so that carbon-based energy does not, in fact, become scarce. The bill does, however, contain a multitude of new regulations, product-efficiency mandates, and spending programs that will require extensive managerial attention from both the public and private sectors, though to much less effect than promised.",4_1
"Tony Earley, CEO of DTE Energy, which owns Detroit Edison, said in a speech earlier this year, ""When I in 2002, my comments about nuclear energy were brief and pretty discouraging. I predicted that while most nuclear power plants would have their licenses renewed, no new nuclear power plants would be built in the U.S. to accommodate growing demand. Today, I'm here to tell you that I was dead wrong. ... DTE Energy has start ed work on preparing a license application for a new nuclear plant."" Earley cautioned, however, that the company still hasn't decided whether it will actually build the project, but rather is just ""preserving our option"" by starting the still ""long and complex"" licensing process now.",0_0
"Climate change, contrary to what greens argue, exemplifies why more growth is needed. Let us assume for a moment that the mainstream scientific view is right, and man-made climate change presents a severe threat. Although the likes of Al Gore prefer to avoid the word, their approach to climate change centers on rationing. They want us to modify our behavior and change our lifestyles to help tackle the problem of global warming. In other words, although they are coy about saying it explicitly, they want us to consume less.",0_0
Climategate: CATOs Pat Michaels and Center for American Progress Dan Weiss on Fox News,0_0
"The dynamics of the energy markets changed notably as shale-oil production came onstream at a market-moving scale in 2013-2014. With this new source meeting more of world energy demand, particularly in the US, energy users were no longer as dependent on OPEC and other oil producers. In the process, they also became less vulnerable to geopolitical concerns.",0_0
"Like the OPT report, this study does not recommend any coercive measures or legislation. Its looking at the potential for reducing carbon emissions by reducing the number of emitters. These are scientific papers: legislation is not their remit. Whats worrying is this new trend towards discussing children in terms of their emissions. Its the tacit and unspoken way that the equation of humans/gas is taken as somehow acceptable in modern society because of the supposed threat of global warming.",0_0
"""In the never-ending political showdown between business and labor, there certainly is no shortage of business associations and labor unions doing their part to keep their respective sides competitive.""",0_0
A review by SPPI and CO2 Science finds theCO2-fertilization induced percentage increase in plant productivity was nearly always greater under water-stressed conditions than it was when plants were well-watered.,3_3
"Wind power harms the environment. Because of the large area of land needed to collect low-density wind energy, wind power requires more land-clearing, needs more transmission lines, kills more wildlife, lights more bushfires and uglifies more landscape per unit of electricity than conventional power. The subsonic whine of the turbines drives neighbours batty and devalues local properties.",4_4
"Gore: Global warming is increasing the number of wildfires in US forests. Truth: Fires continue to threaten habitats, wildlife and homes because insects are killing trees and environmentalist legal actions prevent foresters from managing dense stands of brush and thin, diseased and dead trees.",0_0
"The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists informs that it has nudged the hands on its ""Doomsday Clock"" two minutes closer to midnight: ""It is now 3 minutes to midnight."" What's the big worry? Nuclear weapons nukes are being modernized rather than dismantled and ""unchecked"" climate change are the baddies here. It must be a disappointing moment for the group. Back in 2010, the Bulletin moved the Clock's hands back a minute, likely placing a bet on the new American president who just promised to ""work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat and roll back the specter of a warming planet.""",0_0
"1) Since 1980, temperatures had fallen in the Antarctic by 0.87C, nearly as much as the rise of 1.01C in the Arctic (to August 2012).",1_1
"Whether there is a link between asthma and global warming, Malia herself hasn't really experienced much. The high school junior was born in 1998, when temperatures spiked. By some measurements, the world hasn't warmed significantly since then.",1_4
"Obviously the planet??s temperature (red line) hasn??t increased nearly as much as they forecast. After the temperature peak in 1998 (a strong El Nino year), the temperature appears to have leveled off. The temperature is only shown here to the beginning of 2010: in 2010 (another strong El Nino year) it peaked at the 0.6 degree line (cooler than in 1998), and as of March 2011 is plunging below the 0.4 degree line.",1_4
"There are presently 28 wind farms operating on public lands, which make up about 13 percent of the U.S. land surface, although records show that more than 800 have been proposed in recent decades.",0_0
"from White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in November: ""Never let a serious",0_0
"Thompson's colleague, Kurt Schrader (D-Oregon) went even further saying the agency is morphing into a hybrid of the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. ""The original mission of the Forest Service has been lost,"" he told a congressional hearing, according to Greenwire. ""The law requires species diversity, not viability.""",0_0
"U.S. emissions Are declining: U.S. greenhouse gas emissions are declining both in absolute terms and as a percent of total global emissions. The major sources of new greenhouse gas emissions are from emerging markets including China, India and Brazil. These countries show no inclination to reduce their emissions, because they want to reach the wealth levels of the West. It will not help global temperatures if America cuts back and other countries do not. When alternative energy incentives were put in place, it was thought that other countries would join us in cutting back.",4_2
"Germany?s renewable energy levy, which subsidises green energy production, rose from ?14bn to ?20bn in just one year as a result of the fierce expansion of wind and solar power projects. Since the introduction of the levy in 2000, the electricity bill of German consumers has doubled.",0_0
"S. Fred Singer, former director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service and University of Virginia professor emeritus commented about these sorry circumstances in the foreword of my book, stating in part:",0_0
"The real laugher, however, the place where you can see the gears stripping, involves the conventions about fracturing the rocks to allow more oil to come out, what we call fracking. The fracturing technology was developed about forty years ago, and has been used ever since, mostly for secondary recovery. And for all those decades the oil coming from the fractured rocks has been conventional oil. But now people have learned to drill wells horizontally and fracture them and now suddenly after forty years of fracturing the rock, which gave conventional oil when it was done from vertical wells, fracking now only delivers unconventional oil simply because the drill hole goes horizontally instead of vertically does this make any sense to anyone?",0_0
"1) The carbon taxers/limiters have lost. Carbon-dioxide emissions have been the environmental issue of the past decade. Over that time period, Al Gore became a world-renowned figure for his documentary, ""An Inconvenient Truth,"" for which he won an Oscar. In 2007, he, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), collected a Nobel Peace Prize for ""informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change."" That same year, the IPCC released its fourth assessment report, which declared 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 emissions."" (Emphasis in original.)",0_0
"The new news for me was the admission that the warming rate from 1979-present is in no way unprecedented. This is important as the lead argument (beyond black box the models say so justifications) for blaming anthropogenic factors for recent warming is that the rate of warming was somehow unprecedented. However, Jones admits (as all rational skeptics have said for some time) that the warming rate from 1979 to today is really no different than we have measured in other periods decidedly unaffected by CO2.",2_1
"It is a well-documented fact that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases the efficiency of plant growth. As we burn fossil fuels and increase the trace levels of atmospheric CO2, our agriculture flourishes and produces more food with less water. (See The Many Benefits of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment, Drs. Craig and Sherwood Idso, 2011, Vales Lake Publishing, LLC. )",3_3
U.S. federal policy on research misconduct defines plagiarism as follows:,0_0
"On June 26, wind energy proponentsincluding pages of signatories who benefit financially from the tax creditsent a letter to the top Congressional leaders urging them to ""support the immediate passage of the Expiring Provisions Improvement Reform and Efficiency (EXPIRE) Act.""",0_0
This is well illustrated by their failure to properly consider the null hypothesis that global temperatures will not rise appreciably because of CO2emissions from industrial activity.,5_2
"Throughout the past 420 millennia, comprising four interglacial periods, the Vostok record of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is imprinted with, and fully characterized by, the physics of the solubility of CO2 in water, along with the lag in the deep ocean circulation. Notwithstanding that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, atmospheric carbon dioxide has neither caused nor amplified global temperature increases.",2_3
"Food prices are going up. Since the green revolution in the 1940s-1960s food prices have been going down, but now they are on an upward trend. There are two reasons for this, the first is grain-based ethanol and the second is that prosperity is catching up with more people in India and China.",0_0
"So what's a non-scientist citizen, without the time to study the scientific details, to do? How is the ordinary citizen to distinguish, as Andrew Coyne puts it, ""between genuine authority and mere received wisdom? Conversely, how do we tell crankish imperviousness to evidence from legitimate skepticism?"" Are we obligated to trust whatever we're told is based on a scientific consensus unless we can study the science ourselves? When can you doubt a consensus? When should you doubt it?",0_0
Climate Astrology: Blizzard blamed on global warming?! Is there any weather event that is inconsistent with global warming? Climate Depot Round up,0_0
"No, nearly every other nation has concluded it was a massive and very expensive fraud. That is why the forthcoming UN conference is going to implode. Policy makers are trying to extricate themselves from the useless solar and wind projects to which billions were committed. As soon as Obama is out of office and the Environmental Protection Agency is scaled back to its original 1970 objectives we can begin to attend to the rebuilding of the nations economy.",5_2
"Climate models only have validity if they are verified, but as Vincent Gray pointed out originally and more recently this has never been done with IPCC models. Verification involves the ability to replicate past climate conditions. Tweaking the model until it approximates those conditions is not verification. The conundrum is that without data you cannot create an accurate model or verify it; maybe a classic scientific Catch 22?",5_1
"Tell him that you know he will feel much happier inside if he is doing something to make Australia and the world a better place, instead of going to work every day to make it a worse one.",0_0
"In a post titled: ""How Obama's Clean Power Plan will fuel the solar industry's rapid growth,"" Forbes.com contributor Lyndsey Gilpin quotes Shayle Kann, senior vice president of GTM Research: ""It could be a major catalyst for solar nationwide."" Gilpin points out: ""Apart from the Solar Investment Tax Credit, the federal tax credit for solar, the Clean Power Plan is the first national policy for renewable energy.""",0_0
"The Energy Department's conclusions echo numerous comprehensive independent studies from across the ideological spectrum, including progressive analyses by the Hamilton Project led by Michael Levi, senior fellow and energy expert at the Council on Foreign Relations and research directed by Charles Ebinger at the Brookings Institution . This is a rare instance in which liberals and conservatives as well as industry and thoughtful environmentalists mostly agree.",0_0
"One thing that is fairly predictable, and sometimes devastating in Russia this year, tragic is flooding. Right now an emergency in many parts of Northern Europe. Local flooding is fairly possible to predict, and risk areas ought to be rather easy to identify by now. As every year, take precautions, and think twice before building that dream house on that extraordinarily cheap piece of land on the river bank.",0_0
"IPCC report downplays economic impacts of climate change, reviewer says",0_0
"The press release states that IPCC has created an ever-broader informed consensus, which is true. This consensus is created by having experts sift through solid research and write up summaries based on personal judgment.",5_1
"I'm not entirely comfortable sending the password around unsolicited, but haven't got better ideas at the moment. If you feel this makes you seemingly ""complicit"" in a way you don't like, don't take action.",0_0
"Bill McKibben of 350.org, which organized the recent Washington, D.C. rally against the pipeline (CFACT was there!) called Keystone XL ""the most important issue for the environmental movement in a very long time."" What about ""the oil will be developed with or without the pipeline' does McKibben fail to understand? Reality denial syndrome seems to take a severe toll on these enviro's ability to process and comprehend hard facts in the real world. They should probably stick to computer modeling.",0_0
"By Staff Writers, GAO, Aug 4, 2015",0_0
"The rest of the article is equally superficial. For example, there is lots of discussion of Arrhenius, but no mention of feedbacks. Does Robbins really not see that the difference between disaster and decades - centuries even - of gentle, beneficial warming is the feedbacks? What is gained by shouting ""Arrhenius"" at the top of your voice.",3_1
"If you've paid any attention to the global warming debate, you've heard of James Hansen.",0_0
"Russia's relation to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and its expectations, are of an altogether different nature. On the surface, to be sure, China and Russia appear to be the two main pillars of the SCO. Economically and militarily, the two countries' relation is, for the time being at least, one of genuine complementarity. But while the SCO constitutes the core of China's Islamic strategy, it is for Russia a tactical option to both manage the rise of China in Eurasia and to gain leverage over the West.15",0_0
"Then they impose their preferences, their personal preferences based on their ideology or worsesocial and political pressures.",0_0
"Meanwhile there 'who expects to be able to dance on the grave of that other prime minister, a famous historical figure still living and increasingly painted satanic traits, Margaret Thatcher. And really there is' a link between the two.",0_0
So droughts in North America are coincident with solar insolation minima. We already know of the cause and effect relationship between solar cycle minima and East African rainfall. West African drought has been found to be linked to Atlantic sea surface temperatures 2 .,2_1
"A paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews finds that sea surface temperatures of the NE Atlantic have cooledapproximately 3 C over the past 2,400 years from 400 B.C. to 2000 A.D. The authors findthat the peak temperature of the Medieval Warm Period was approximately 2.2C greater than the peak temperature of the late 20th century, and that the peak temperature of the Roman Warm Period was about 2.7C greater than that of the late 20th century. As stated by The NIPCC Report , ""the fact that the warmest portions of the Roman and Medieval Warm Periods in the vicinity of the northeast Atlantic were so much warmer than the warmest portion of the Current Warm Period - and at times when the air's CO2 content was so much less than it is currently - strongly suggests that the atmosphere's CO2 concentration had little to no impact on the late-Holocene climatic history of that part of the planet.""",2_1
"I want to end with a frutsgelse as from the tminstone few of those who are reading it to have an opportunity to see whether it struck me nes me to g 50 years ahead in time. It will d both laugh for the climate hysteria over a few decades around the turn of the millennium rdde in the rich over the world, and one will have realized that the most important thing that happened during the first half century of the 2000s was that the women were able to shake off a mansfrtryck as the mst live for thousands of years.",0_0
"Just as bad, in the view of the President and his allies, Jacksonians don't have much respect for the educated and the credentialed. Like William F. Buckley, they would rather be governed by the first 100 names in the phonebook than by the Harvard faculty. They loathe the interfering busybodies of the progressive state, believe that government (except for the police and the military) is a necessary evil, think most ""experts"" and university professors are no smarter or wiser than other people, and feel only contempt for the gender theorists and the social justice warriors of the contemporary classroom.",0_0
Their legs are good for a whole lot more than merely providing the raw materials for a delicious dish at a ritzy restaurant,0_0
"Ukraine Meanwhile, Ukraine is at risk of undoing the Orange Revolution. The party of Viktor Commie Yanukovich has received 33 percent of votes while Viktor Western Yushchenko's party has only received 13 percent or so. Fortunately, the former ally of Yushchenko and the former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, who is also a blogger (with a few blog secretaries), received 22 percent of votes and is ready to re-unify the orange coalition. Their union has broken after different attitudes to some corruption charges.",0_0
"Dan Kish, senior vice president of the Institute for Energy Research, responded to the revelation saying: ""In his testimony under oath, Beale, perhaps unwittingly, has laid bare the administration's end goal. The President's policies are not about carbon, they are not about coal, and they are not even about energy and the environment. They are about fundamentally altering the DNA of the capitalist system. These policies are not about energy, but power.""",0_0
"S. Fred Singer: First, there would be very little public interest in funding climate science, were it not for an assertion by alarmists in the political and environmental communities that a human-caused (""anthropogenic"") global warming crisis exists, which can be mostly attributed to carbon-dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels to generate energy.",5_2
"The 2007 Atlantic Hurricane season did not meet the hyperactive expectations of the storm pontificators. This is good news, just like it was last year. With the breathless media coverage prior to the 2006 and 2007 seasons predicting a catastrophic swarm of hurricanes potentially enhanced by global warming a la Katrina, there is currently plenty of twisting in the wind to explain away the hyperbolic projections. The predominant refrain mentions something about ???being lucky?? and having ???escaped?? the storms, and ???just wait for next year??.",1_7
"E&E; Legal recently released documents obtained through FOIA from various state attorneys general offices that show communications among instrumental players in coordinating the March 29, 2016 press conference on combatting climate change. The emails allegedly show ""The offices of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D), and other politically-aligned AGs, secretly team up with anti-fossil fuel activists in their investigations against groups whose political speech challenged the global warming policy agenda.""",0_0
Doctors brace for possible big Medicare pay cuts:,0_0
"Typical of the Obama approach, this pragmatism will place results ahead of market ideology and process concerns. It will also begin by making clear to the public in all three countries what it is that their governments are attempting to do, issue by issue.",0_0
"Jack Ward Thomas, President Clinton's forest service chief, noted a few years ago that court battles have tied the agency in a ""Gordian knot"" creating a ""vicious cycle of increasing costs, time delays, and inability to carry out management actions."" As a result, most national forests are a tinder box of old-growth trees ravaged by disease and insects.",0_0
Introduction and Summary Prudent Investing in Regulation to Mitigate Climate Change Participation by All Major Greenhouse Gas-Emitting Nations in Climate Regulation U.S. Interests and Global Climate Regulation The Elements of Sound Regulatory Design for Climate Policy Assessing and Correcting the Kyoto Protocol's Flaws U.S. Leadership in Reconstruction Conclusion,0_0
"Ever since the 1999 intervention in Kosovo, NATO has been eager to prove that it stands for more than ""No Action, Talk Only."" But the adoption by the Alliance of the Marge Simpson doctrine (""Are we gonna just stand there like the French, or are we gonna do something?"") has proved to be no substitute for a new strategic concept. Kosovo itself, waged in no small part to maintain the credibility of the Alliance, ended up paradoxically weakening NATO's credibility and the mutual bad blood afterwards constituted the single most important underlying reason of the 2003 near-death experience over Iraq.",0_0
"October 23, 2012 AUSTRALIAS $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a new air link to the frozen continent.",0_0
"Al Gore and his NASA scientific advisor James Hansen predicted sea levels would rise six metres by 2050 in 1988, a metre each decade (62 years-time), with the Florida Keys being one metre under water by the year 2000.. This is 96.8mm per year. Error to date is 5,693%",0_0
"Another lie claims that there is a consensus among climate scientists that a known man-made global warming crisis exists. Official statements to the contrary presented by more than 650 international climate-related experts who presented contrary official testimony recorded in a 2008 U.S. Senate minority report suggest otherwise. So do petitions signed by more than 30,000 scientists that have challenged IPCC's 1995 procedures and report representations. Those circumstances prompted Dr. Frederick Seitz, former president of the U.S. Academy of Sciences, the American Physical Society, and Rockefeller University to write in The Wall Street Journal: ""I have never witnessed a more disturbing corruption of the peer review process than events that led to this IPCC report.""",5_2
"President Obama has pledged to take every possible action to safely develop this energy. Mitt Romney calls the domestic gas a godsend. Energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens, an early natural gas booster, contends its obvious that Washington should enact policies to encourage natural gas production and use throughout the economy.",4_5
"Peter Ferrara, Investor's Business Daily",0_0
"IN the past collusive lawsuits and the problem of Chevron jurisprudence have been a focus of JunkScience postings along with the problems of junk science and issues of scientific evidentiary admissibility. All of these abuses of judicial power violate the constitution when they allow judges to become law makers and givers, rather than deciding cases by applying the law made.",0_0
"Now this isn't meant to be an indictment of the scientific process. I just want to point out that scientists are people too. And while the most objective people I've ever met are scientists, for the most part, people that speak out on the issue of global warming have greater motivations than just searching for how things work.",0_0
Then in 2010 Sierra Club decided to end its relationship with Chesapeake Energy.,0_0
"Just received a heads up that CTV news will be airing a whistleblower segment tonight, involving a government reclocation contract. Correction- it airs on Thursday, May 12.",0_0
"At Pugh's website, a commenter ( Steve Goddard , unrelated to GISS) says the following: lewis,",0_0
"A paper published last month in the journal Climate Dynamics finds that ""The Antarctic sea ice extent (SIE) shows an increased trend during 19792009 , with a trend rate of 1.36 0.43% per decade. Ensemble empirical mode decomposition analysis shows that the rate of the increased trend has been accelerating in the past decade. """,1_1
He has taken up several lucrative posts since leaving office three years ago. He has a 1 million deal to advise the ruling royal family of Kuwait and has been paid a 4.6 million advance for his memoirs.,0_0
"Like many true-believers, he is insufficiently trained in logic to know that absence of correlation between two datasets necessarily indicates absence of causation between them. The sharp fluctuations in global temperature in phase with the 60-year cycles of the ocean oscillations are not correlated with the monotonic changes in CO2 concentration.",2_1
"And then there is the temperature ""hiatus."" Despite increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, there has been virtually no temperature increase since roughly 2002, despite the predictions of the climate models. No one knows why; the science is not settled, nor can it ever be, by definition.",1_4
"That failure on his part to check with me when he could not find the sources of my data was clearly deliberate. He didn't want to give me any advance notice that he was planning to launch a widely-disseminated attack on me, because otherwise I might have pointed out his errors to him in advance, and that would have made it a great deal more difficult for him to get away with publishing them.",0_0
"I personally believe that disclosure of any relevant content of the material is justified in the public interest, given the billions of pounds of public money spent on the climate scare maintained since the start of the Climategate email chain. Early in that chain, Michael Manns paleoclimatology work, including the infamous Hockey Stick used to scare policy makers into great expense on the publics behalf, is described as crap by other scientists who nonetheless did not speak up in public to allay the fears of impending climate doom it engendered. This is just one example of why the public has a right to know what went on behind the scenes at the heart of the Climate Research Unit and within the IPCC process.",5_2
"Guest Post by Bob Tisdale, WUWT, Aug 12, 2015",0_0
Senior Statistician and Research ProgrammerCenter for Data Analysis,0_0
"Leading climate analysts are designing a set of new policy scenarios that will be used to frame future climate policy analyses. This new exercise seeks to improve the realism of the scenarios used in climate policy analysis. In recent decades, rational choice institutionalism (RCI) has increasingly influenced several social sciences. A systematic effort to apply findings and concepts borrowed from RCI studies would offer three types of benefits to this scenario exercise. First, it would increase internal consistency within each of the projected scenarios. Second, it would enhance the realism of the entire suite of scenarios. Third, it would illuminate a range of factors, trends, and causal pathways than might otherwise be considered. These gains could be exploited best by engaging some leading RCI scholars in the scenario building process.",0_0
"A SNR ratio of 1 appears to be exactly the same as the VZ erik167 network that Ive experimented on. In any of these pseudoproxy neworks if youre adding equal amounts of white noise you can usually get your signal back using simple averages. From the above networks, they calculated RE, r2 and CE results:",0_0
"There were many in the established science community that embraced the Big Bang thinking that this disproved the existence of God, or at least Biblical prophesies. It is not an endorsement of Creationism to state the obvious. We live in the Milky Way Galaxy with between 200 and 400 billion other stars, many capable of having life supporting planets. Our galaxy is just one of at least 80 billion similar galaxies.",0_0
"In the assessment of global warming (and global cooling), this research further shows that unless the role of near surfacevapor trends are included, a quantitatively erroneous assessment will necessarily result. Thus, when a media report or scientific paper claims thata certain increase (or decrease) in temperatures have occurred over a period of years, this cannot by itself, be used to say this is warming or cooling (in terms of heat), unless the changes in water vapor concentrations are simultaneously assessed so that moist enthalpy changes are computed.",5_1
"Bjorn Lomborg is another high-profile climate sceptic who changed his mind after reviewing the evidence. He now believes climate change is real, but that it wont be the calamity predicted by some.",0_0
when a contentious issue comes up and takes the lead on walking out,0_0
Distinguishing the Roles of Natural and Anthropogenically Forced Decadal Climate Variability: Implications for Prediction,0_0
"Dr Pachauri has repeatedly denied any conflict of interest between his work for the IPCC and his work for Teri. In a recent letter to The Sunday Telegraph, he said there was no question of either himself, the IPCC or Teri being influenced by associations with organisations.",0_0
"""The Court did not rule, though, on whether states could use state public nuisance laws to regulate such emissions in court. The Second Circuit was directed to consider this issue on remand.""",0_0
"In 2011, Texas A&Ms Andrew Dessler announced that Texas was going to be hot and dry for the rest of the century based on a single data point.",5_2
"After heavy rain during the night, we rolled south from Edinburgh in sporadic showers through the land of the giant bird shredders I stopped to look at them. Id not been up close to one in a decade or so, and like my daughter, oh, my how theyve grown in that time.",0_0
"This is the key difference between politics and free enterprise. If politics were a product, it would have no customers. And yet, somehow, we end up spending a quarter of our gross domestic product on political goods and services that wouldn't get a single bid if they were for sale on E-bay.",0_0
"Al Gore certainly looks like a man who is running for President in An Inconvenient Truth, a shamelessly propagandistic documentary that has all the artistry and subtlety of a campaign ad.",0_0
"""Though CSR was labeled by free-market icon Milton Friedman as a ""subversive doctrine,' much of the business community has embraced it, arguing that it is simply ""good for our business.' Opponents of CSR have naturally argued the contrary, emphasizing the economic costs of following such a ""misguided virtue' as CSR. But little attention has been paid to the actual arguments made by advocates of CSR within the business community. This is a shame, because a closer analysis of the ""business case for CSR"" shows that it is, indeed, based on a set of assumptions that undermine the legitimacy of the free-enterprise system.""",0_0
From Arizona State University where I really don??t think they understand that warmer winters aren??t necessarily a product of ???climate change?? but are mostly weather pattern and ocean cycle pattern driven. Then there??s the recent study about waste heat where the researchers found:,2_1
"Llasat et al .'s work revealed ""an increase of flood events for the periods 1580-1620, 1760-1800 and 1830-1870,"" and they report that ""these periods are coherent with chronologies of maximum advance in several alpine glaciers."" In addition, we calculate from their tabulated data that for the aggregate of the three river basins noted above, the mean number of what Llasat et al . call catastrophic floods per century for the 14th through 19th centuries was 3.55 0.22, while the corresponding number for the 20th century was only 1.33 0.33. What it means",1_7
"LNG exports could at most cost on average about $4 a month adding ""as much as $50 to the annual electric bills for the poorest American households by the end of the decade,"" Levi write. ""But the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program could help shield the most vulnerable as long as its financing is protected.""",0_0
They make a big deal out of the rifle being left in the car and the coroner (prior to doing any autopsies) saying the shooting was done with a rifle. Maybe its just hard to tell in the field and the guy guessed wrong when on camera.,0_0
"The satellite measurements show no temperature change between 1979 and 1997, but is then followed by a large sharp peak in 1998 because of the El Nino ocean event of that year, and since 2001 has shown a modest warm spell.",1_4
The bankruptcy of battery maker A123 reflects poorly on Obama's efforts to pick winners and losers.,0_0
AUSTRALIAN CLIMATE EXPERT CONDEMNS UN CLIMATE ALARM,5_2
"Unlike in politics or painting, when it comes to climate change, the opinions of laypersons are not relevant.",0_0
"Ordinarily, a presidential election might have sorted out matters, with the nominee taking the GOP on a newly defined course. But McCain's emergence only underscored the problem. On any given day during fall 2008, McCain could be found appealing to conservatives on taxes, terrorism, and the Supreme Court. Or he might be playing up his ""maverick"" credentials as a nonconservative (some would say, non-Republican) on global warming, Guantnamo, campaign finance, and federal judicial appointments, to name but four issues. How confusing was the McCain brand? Throughout the campaign, the candidate said his political idols were Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. One of them raised the tax rate to 90 percent, and the other lowered it to 28 percent. That's like a Democrat saying he simultaneously worships at the temples of Jesse Jackson and Scoop Jackson.",0_0
"Southeast Alaska is having their coldest summer on record, after their snowiest winter on record so MSNBC blames a landslide there on global warming.",5_2
Other examples of this step change in a metric occurring at a data redefinition or change in measurement technique can be found in,0_0
"""The nearly $300 billion (over five-years) Farm Bill simply paid off every special interest. Farmers got their direct payments, their counter-cyclical payments, their price support loan amounts, their disaster funds, etc. Some producers who weren't subsidized before the fruit, vegetable, and nut producers got some gobs of R&D; money that opens the door to future subsidies. The bill includes what was lauded as the ""first-ever livestock title,"" another group that wasn't subsidized before.""",0_0
EPA's AGW Regs cost Jobs,4_1
"Even polar bears are thriving so far, though this is mainly because of the cessation of hunting. None the less, its worth noting that the three years with the lowest polar bear cub survival in the western Hudson Bay (1974, 1984 and 1992) were the years when the sea ice was too thick for ringed seals to appear in good numbers in spring. Bears need broken ice.",3_2
"Americans for Prosperity had booked a meeting-room in a canal-side hotel, with a live satellite link-up to well-attended chapter meetings all over the United States. As their President was speaking, the Hitler-Jugend, part of a very large, lavishly-funded delegation of jack-trainered, eco-Fascist goons probably paid for by taxpayers somewhere, leapt up to the podium and began a zombie-like, keening chant.",0_0
subject: RE: The Climatic Variability and Climate Change Initiative for Africa,0_0
"At the rate the global oceans have warmed to 2000 meters during the ARGO era, Figure 8, no one should really be too concerned about the warming of those oceans, especially when the data suggests it warmed via natural processes.",2_1
"Is the IPCC Logically Challenged? Writing in American Thinker, SEPP Chairman Fred Singer recaps the major failures in science and in logic that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) employed in its five scientific Assessment Reports (AR) from 1990 to 2013. The scientific failures in the first three reports, such as Mr. Manns Hockeystick, have been clearly discredited.",5_1
"Youd need many times the energy of all fossil fuels ever burnt and those still in the ground to melt that giant ice cube. Still, Mother Nature did it without much fanfare and here comes the kicker without any change in the atmospheric CO2 (carbon dioxide) level up front. That alone should tell you how mistaken the CO2-doomsayers are. Carbon dioxide in air is not a factor for climate.",2_1
"CEI's Ryan Radia criticized New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and his groundless antitrust case again Intel. Radia accuses Cuomo of ""using his authority to make headlines at consumers' expense,"" and "" innovation in the computer chip market."" Read the full news release here.>>Wayne Crews and Ryan Radia's analysis of the lawsuit is cited in articles in Reuters, PC World, PC Mag, and PC Advisor. Crews' complete analysis is available on Openmarket.org >>CEI Decries Sen. Boxer's Disregard in Passing Cap-and-Trade Bill Through Committee",0_0
One Response to The Royal Society: From Science to Fiction,0_0
Vincent Vernuccio's op-ed in The TennesseanStoking Fears About No More Tears,0_0
"In their latest drive-by piece Die Zeit takes dead aim at Marc Morano , the Heartland Institute, the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE), Fritz Vahrenholtand other communicators of the skeptic message, and contrasts them to an innocent,tormented Michael Mann. Die Zeits message is clear: If you challenge climate science, thenyoull be portrayed as aggressors by Germanys mainstream media.",0_0
The scientists included in the Climategate emails from the University of East Anglia Include:,0_0
assess regional benefits as well as dangers associated with the varying scenarios of future climate,0_0
"In the past, the mainstream press essentially ignored the anti-science temperature record fabrications, but no longer .",5_1
"Gavin Schmidt who is involved in compiling the temperature record kept by NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies, a record which has repeatedly been found to have exaggerated and overstated recent warming.",5_1
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #192,0_0
"Chapter 3, by Robert C. Balling, Jr.Global Warming: Messy Models, Decent Data, and Pointless Policy",0_0
"The petition is short, simple, science-fiction-scale ambitious, and looks like it was written by a child from a kindergarten:",0_0
"Since, in the words of the authors, ""atmospheric greenhouse forcing should cause roughly synchronous global temperature changes,"" their observations of ""asynchronous coupling of Arctic and Antarctic temperatures as deduced from the Greenland and Antarctic ice-core records"" would suggest that variations in the planet's thermohaline circulatory system have been the major force for hemispheric climate change on millennial and shorter time scales, as opposed to changes in atmospheric greenhouse gases. Hence, the world still awaits evidence that changes in the CO 2 concentration of the atmosphere of the degree experienced over the past century or so have any influence at all on the climate of the earth or any parts of it.",2_3
"in the U.S. there has been little temperature change in the past 50 years , the time of rapidly increasing greenhouse gases in fact, there was a slight cooling throughout much of the country (Figure 2)",1_4
"The year 2001 could have been an eye-opener but the West, too traumatized by the Islamist attack on America, failed to notice an equally important, if less spectacular, development: the creation by China of a coalition, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, including Russia and Central Asia as members, Iran as a silent partner, and India and Pakistan as observers. It took another five years for Western foreign policy experts to realize that this emerging SCO was, for all practical purposes, an OPEC with nukes, which had the potential to develop, over time, into a full-fledged ""NATO of the East.""",0_0
"They do not think it proper to commit these utterances to writing, although in all other matters and in their public and private accounts they make use of Greek characters. I believe that they have adopted the practice for two reasons- that they do not wish the rule to become common property, nor those who learn the rule to rely on writing and so neglect the cultivation of memory; and, in fact, it does usually happen that the assistance of writing tends to relax the diligence of the student and the action of memoryThey also lecture on the stars in their motion, the magnitude of the Earth and its divisions, on natural history, on the power and government of God; and instruct the youth in these subjects (see De Ballo Gallico, VII, 15, 16.).",0_0
"Anyway, back to the Antarctic. There are reports that the ice sheet is shrinking at a faster rate, based on research led by Eric Rignot, of the Radar Science and Engineering Section at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Dr. Rignot attributed the shrinkage in the ice sheet to an upwelling of warm waters along the Antarctic coast, which is causing some glaciers to flow more rapidly into the ocean. Of course, this must be due to global warming, which must be caused by man. Meanwhile, mid-summer in the Southern Hemisphere Ice extent remains well (one million square kilometers) above the 28 year average and an impressive 3 million square kilometers above last year at this time!",1_1
"Researchers Maozheng Zhou and Steven Running published the work in Science on August 20, 2010. They used data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Terra satellite to monitor plant growth and calculate the total amount of carbon plants store as they grow, a value called net primary productivity. Their results are illustrated in this image, which shows the change in the amount of carbon consumed by plants between 2000 and 2009. Green areas show where plants grew more (and consumed more carbon), and brown areas show where they grew less. The deeper the color, the stronger the trend.",0_0
"I'm struggling to say something polite about this. By way of an illustration, can you imagine the reaction if a scientist reported in the safety literature that there was a critical flaw in the design of a nuclear power station, but told policymakers that everything was fine? Do the committee really think it's fine to hide important information from policymakers so long as you report it in the literature? Astonishing.",0_0
The past week has been insane. Among the things on my plate:,0_0
"Research shows that swaths of Australias Great Barrier Reef, damaged by the 1998 El Nio, have fully recovered, rebounding strong and healthy. So many questions arise. Do El Nios act to promote species diversity, seed corals to other locations, recharge the water chemistry, reduce overpopulation, etc.?",3_2
"Its that time of year again when we see headlines about 2007 being the m th warmest year on record over the past n years whether we are talking about the United States or the world as a whole. Reporters breathlessly reveal that the trend in temperatures is alarming and completely unprecedented over the eons of earth history. The buildup of greenhouse gases is immediately blamed, and we are all left to believe that the rising temperatures can only be explained by human emissions. Rarely does anyone seem to question the quality of the temperature data, and yet, articles appear regularly in the scientific literature showing that the near-surface air temperature measurements are fraught with errors, gaps, and any number of inhomogeneities.",5_1
"To paraphrase Mandy Rice Davies , They would, wouldnt they. To demonstrate to yourself that the ABC is completely biased, in particular on climate change, all you need to do is go to the ABC web site here , get yourself a stiff drink (because believe me, youll need it) and watch the debate that followed the screening of the film The Great Global Warming Swindle. The audience was partisan and biased, just as alleged by Senator Eric Abetz:",5_2
Big errors are introduced because readings taken from the cooling-water intake tubes of various ships record measure temperatures at different ocean depths. Varying amounts of conduction from different vessel infrastructures and daily sun conditions skew temperatures as well.,5_1
"While 350.org, Sierra Club and other groups were protesting Keystone, domestic firms were building new pipelines to handle the surge in crude production. Since 2010, the U.S. has added about 12,000 miles of new oil pipelines. That's more than 10 times the length of the contested section of Keystone XL, which was to span 875 miles.",0_0
"1. Geoff Sharp Are Uranus & amp; Neptune resposible for Solar grand minima and solar cycle modulation March 2010, at http://landscheid.auditblogs.com",0_0
"(BNA Daily Environment Report, June 27, 1997)",0_0
"Third, they will ask for your total payroll, usually in dollars, by state, for each of these job class codes. Most will take your word for it up front, but will audit you and your payroll records sometime during the year to ensure that the premiums are calculated on the right total. Some insurance companies, as well as most state run programs like in Washington state, will require monthly or quarterly payroll reporting. When you set up your payroll with a company like ADP or Paychex, you should make sure you set up your departments so you can get the workers comp data you will need.",0_0
"John Maynard Keynes once noted that ""Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist."" To whatever degree that is true, economists build upon the intellectual foundations that they find, and it sometimes is the case that too little reworking is undertaken. That is decidedly the case with the conventional analysis of externalities, and it is my hope that the ongoing debate at AEI over carbon taxes might engender a reconsideration of assumptions both standard and too facile.",0_0
"Children and stupid adults, you will really have to become the world dictators and establish the world government before it will make sense to talk about the ""public trust doctrine applied to the atmosphere"". Be sure that once the threat that you want to overtake the world will become credible, you will become desirable targets of assassinations.",0_0
"The new Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Gina McCarthy, ahead of a trip to China, told a liberal advocacy group in Washington that she has devoted her life to protecting the environment: ""And I really see no greater issue and no more urgent threat to public health than climate change.""",0_0
Alaska is going to be the next Florida by the end of the century .,0_0
Global Warming Blamed For Fall of Roman Empire AND Medieval Plague,0_0
<3111> Watson/UEA:,0_0
"Fortunately, McKibben is wrong. Acting on his arguments against fracking would actually cause the United States to increase greatly its output of carbon dioxide, which would be the opposite of what environmentalists say they want.",0_0
"Ha ha! I know, Ben. Its. the paunches I cant get over!",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Special Projects Counsel Hans Bader on why foreign aid is not an effective replacement for economic development:,0_0
"Until last month, when the lies of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were revealed to the world by an anonymous hacker. Not since Aladdin has a thief saved his country; and this data thief may actually save the world from the proverbial fate worse than death. For the stolen data, now posted on public whistle-blowing websites throughout the Internet, reveals all the truths that climate-change ""deniers"" have been shouting upon deaf ears.",5_2
"So, in other words, this chart is totally bogus. There is an essentially flat trend up to the 1998 switch in data definition and an essentially flat trend after 1998. There is a step-change upwards in 1998 due to the data redefinition. This makes this chart useless unless your purpose is to fool generally ignorant people that there is an upwards trend, and then it is very useful. It is not, however, good science.",0_0
"Unless ACESA causes other nations to adopt GHG limits, it is focused on what is, in fact, the much smaller and shrinking part of the total problem. Effective GHG control depends far more on inducing controls abroad than it does on imposing them at home. When all greenhouse gases are considered and all sources, including land use changes, are counted, the U.S. is contributing only about 15 percent (and falling) of global GHG emissions. The other 85 percent is beyond the control of the U.S. government.",0_0
"While the model mean of the outgoing shortwave radiation increases at a rate of about +0.08 watts/m^2/decade from 1861 to 2005, some models show a sizeable increase and others show little to no trend. Only one model shows a decline during the hindcast, and its trend is relatively flat at about -0.01 watts/m^2/decade. The model with the fastest increase from 1861-2005 has a trend of about +0.16 watts/m^2/decade. In other words, theres about a 0.17 watts/m^2/decade spread in the trends of hindcast outgoing shortwave radiation.",0_0
"In the second post in this series , we showed that the ocean heat content for the entire eastern tropical Pacific (24S-24N, 180-80W), for the depths of 0-700 meters, was cooler before the start of the current El Nio than it was in before the start of 1997 El Nio. (See the graph here .)",0_0
"The Super Outbreak of April 3-4, 1974 spawned 148 confirmed tornadoes across eastern North America and resulted in the second highest death toll (319) in the United States. Not only did it produce an exceptional number of tornadoes, but it was also an inordinately intense outbreak producing dozens of large, long-track tornadoes, including 7 F5 and 23 F4 tornadoes. More significant tornadoes occurred within 24 hours than any other week in the tornado record.",0_0
"Eme et al. exposed two species of tropical fish to significantly warmer water. Both species easily survived the hotter waters, indicating that tropical fish have a high toleration for temperature variation.",3_2
"Yes, it's the date of another major failed end of the world ;-)",0_0
"If we don't discuss the commutator but the separate (time-ordered) product, as seen in the Feynman propagator, it tells us about a correlation. How does it work? The point is that \[",0_0
I would say before this decade ends because what is GOING to happen is the global temperature trend is going to be in a definitive down turn due to prolonged minimum solar conditions and the associated secondary effects.,1_2
"And, as for wet summers, none have been remotely as wet as the summer of 1912. Citizens of Norwich may well have heard about the disastrous floods of that year, when an incredible seven inches of rain fell in one day.",1_7
Recent EPA interpretations have extended NSR to physical and operational changes that neither Congress nor EPA itself in past rulings intended to be subject to NSR's permitting requirements.,0_0
"The UK MET Office has released its updated long term averages for the 1980-2010 period. This contains some interesting items which well be analysing and commenting on. Of particular note are increases in rainfall, sunshine hours, and of course, temperature (0.52C compared to the 1961-1991 average). Notably, although these increases are predicated on the trend in warming observed globally over land, the trace gas carbon dioxide doesnt get a mention. Natural variation does get a mention, Mike Kendon says:",2_1
"Via Tom Nelson , this guy is certainly a fine example of enlightened scientific discourse:",0_0
Note my graphic of Perth dam catchment rain steady over 35 years.,0_0
"estimate that the proposed standards would result in net economic benefits exceeding $100 billion, making this a highly beneficial rule.",0_0
"It came as no surprise, then, that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told reporters this week, ""One reason why we have the fires in California is global warming.""",0_0
Unreal. SEIU Local 25 and 12 Other Unions Receive Obamcare Waivers:,0_0
"Fen skating, once a popular sport on the fields of East Anglia, now takes place on indoor artificial rinks. Malcolm Robinson, of the Fenland Indoor Speed Skating Club in Peterborough, says they have not skated outside since 1997. ""As a boy, I can remember being on ice most winters. Now it's few and far between,"" he said.",0_0
his campaign promises (closing Guantanamo) and the biggest priority of the,0_0
"The main result is the best estimate based on the multi-model ensemble is found inconsistent with observations at a significance of 5%. So, this test says we should treat the hypothesis that the best estimate of the trend based on averaging over models matches observations as false .",5_1
"Big honking climate science puzzle here - FORTRAN geek needed, apply within. Please - If you do not have the skills/background to contribute to the linked discussion, don't clutter their work with off-topic junk. Use this one for general comments. But I do encourage you read the thread, as something very curious happens ...",0_0
"HEM's Macroeconomic Activity Module uses the IHS Global Insight model, which is used by government agencies and Fortune 500 organizations to forecast the effects of economic events and policy changes on notable economic indicators. The methodologies, assumptions, conclusions, and opinions in this Backgrounder are entirely the work of CDA statisticians and economists, and have not been endorsed by, and do not necessarily reflect the view of, the owners of the IHS Global Insight model.",0_0
"Debate. It's the hallmark of an open society. We may hold different points of view on a certain topic, but we can express those views freely, without fear of repercussions.",0_0
"(I usually say that tankeverfringens problem now is locked because there is something better way to verfra their thoughts to others n the Bertta about them, sr can just call it as you want verfra their thoughts to. Dremot we frmodligen never To be able to read the thoughts of others.)",0_0
"This provides ???ever more real-world evidence for the fact that there is nothing unusual, unnatural or unprecedented about the Earths current level of warmth,?? says meteorologist Anthony Watts.",2_1
"We have kept the Transport for London road network open throughout all this. We have about 90,000 tons of grit in stock, and the gritters were out all night to deal with this morning's rush. And yet we have to face the reality of the position across the country.",0_0
"The EU also is quietly rolling back its renewable agenda, which EU leaders now recognise has been raising energy prices across the Continent. At their summit in Brussels in May, leaders indicated that they intended to prioritise the issue of affordable energy over cutting greenhouse gas emissions.",0_0
"I think that even Mann sympathizers should not accept this response. The claim that ???upside down?? data was used may be ???bizarre??, but it??s also true. You can see that the data was used upside down by comparing Mann??s own graph with the orientation of the original article, as we did last year. In the case of the Tiljander proxies, Tiljander asserted that ???a definite sign could be a priori reasoned on physical grounds?? ??? the only problem is that their sign was opposite to the one used by Mann.",5_1
"While risk-based insurance rates and increased environmental protection sound good in principle, they aren't always practical in the short term. Simply deregulating insurance rates tomorrow would force some people -- particularly senior citizens on fixed incomes -- to sell their houses at a loss. Coastal open space is good, but it's not fair to ask homeowners' to give up their houses to make more room for bird sanctuaries.",0_0
"TWTW has not confirmed the claim using independent sources. Assuming 113 tons to 1 acre-foot, and 1 tonne equals 2,240 lbs, not 2,000 lbs, this amount converts to 91,870 acre-feet of fresh water per day or 113,275 megaliters per day. See link under Other News That May Be of Interest.",0_0
"Since most research has found that a dollar spent on mitigation returns somewhere between $3 and $7 in long-term savings, investing in making properties more storm resistant will also save taxpayer money while facilitating a switch to risk-based insurance rates. The insurance-rate shift -- not the programs -- are most important.",0_0
"Elevated CO 2 enhanced crop nitrogen uptake by 2, 15 and 23% in the low, medium and high nitrogen treatments, respectively. With greater amounts of nitrogen uptake, CO 2 -enriched plants had more raw materials available to support enhanced biomass production, which led to total dry mass enhancements of 38-45%. Atmospheric CO 2 enrichment also positively impacted final grain yields, which were 2, 15 and 23% greater in the low, medium and high nitrogen treatments, respectively. What it means",3_3
"This was a rather startling thing to say, especially as his own programme did not conclude that the warmists are right and the sceptics wrong. In fact he appeared to be saying he would give up his freedom just in case the warmists are right.",0_0
"Of course, if natural multidecadal ocean oscillations can explain the 'pause,' why can't they also explain much of the cause of global warming during the 80's-90's? The authors also describe a potential mechanism that could be the natural driver of multidecadal ocean oscillations, finding ""robust negative correlation between the AMOC and North Atlantic deep-ocean density with density lagging the AMOC by 5 to 11 yr in most models. While this would in principle allow for a self-sustained oscillatory behavior of the coupled AMOCdeep-ocean system."" In addition, many other papers have described solar and lunar tidal forcing of ocean oscillations as well.",2_1
I very much welcome the strong position taken by Briffa and coauthors against the use of radially deformed tree ring data.,0_0
A REPORT warning of increasing heatwaves across western Sydney fails to account for wide variations in temperatures recorded in different parts of the city and over time.,1_7
Robert Bryce writing in today's WSJ:,0_0
"FURTHER READING: Zycher also writes ""The Fact-free Opposition to Keystone XL,"" ""The Efficiency of a Carbon Tax: Broadly Accepted and Broadly Wrong,"" and ""The Climate Change Climate Keeps Changing, but the Carbon Tax Is Eternal."" Kenneth P. Green asks ""Can Obama Punt Keystone into 2016?"" Vaclav Smil presents ""Obama's Indefensible Pipeline Punt.""",0_0
#1 Global warming is based on computer models of the atmosphere projecting temperatures out a hundred or more of years. Computer models are used to predict the daily weather as well. Can you tell us what your temperature at your home will be next month on the first Monday within 10 degreesCelcius Would you bet even one paycheck on it? How about the average for the week? Maybe but maybe not.,5_1
"See, for instance, Andrew Restuccia, ""Obama: Nation Can't Drill its Way out of Soaring Gas Prices,"" The Hill, May 6, 2011, http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/159705-obama-more-drilling-is-not-the-solution (accessed June 17, 2016).",0_0
"If the common man needed more proof that normal news organs are intentionally hiding front-page events, this is it. Last week my family went to dinner at a local pizza joint, and I took the opportunity to bring them up-to-date regarding Climategate. From the next table over came a cry from one diner to their partner on overhearing my remarks, ""See, I told you it was true there's somebody else talking about it right over there!"" Throughout the country and the world, the same thing is happening on the subway, in restaurants, in the office as the truth is passed from one to another, with proof supplied instantly online, despite even the best efforts of Google.",0_0
"3) Haven?t Global Temperatures Risen Before? Yes. In the longer term, say hundreds to thousands of years, there is considerable indirect, proxy evidence (not from thermometers) of both warming and cooling. Since humankind can?t be responsible for these early events, this is evidence that nature can cause warming and cooling. If that is the case, it then opens up the possibility that some (or most) of the warming in the last 50 years has been natural, too. While many geologists like to point to much larger temperature changes are believed to have occurred over millions of years, I am unconvinced that this tells us anything of use for understanding how humans might influence climate on time scales of 10 to 100 years.",2_1
"Further, atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, currently demonised, have in the past been many time higher while Earth was actually cooler than it is now.",2_1
"Mike Haseler, the study's author, explains: ""rising GDP is an indication of a prosperous economy""which is why economic commentators cite GDP number when they say: ""President Barack Obama may become the first president since Herbert Hoover not to serve during a year in which the growth in real GDP was at least 3 percent. Yet, in the name of climate change, through government policy, many countries are trying to discourage energy use by forcing costs up. Haseler states: ""They are cutting energy use as the economy of Europe collapses because European industry can no longer compete with countries where energy prices are not artificially raised by senseless ""green' policies.""",4_1
"Calling oil from horizontal wells unconventional is crucial for the peak oil folks, however, because if the oil from fracking were classified as conventional oil, the peak oil claims and the peak gas claims would sink of their own weight ...",0_0
"You know what the huge hideous rule says. Biofuel processes must produce 20 percent less CO2 than gasoline . TWENTY PERCENT LESS, are you listening to me!!! Guess what the reaction of a Minnesota democrat was to this hideous and burdensome requirement, (which adds giant cost to fuels).",4_1
"All along the public was told the reason for rising temperatures was a result of the increase in global carbon emissions. Yet carbon emissions continue to rise, while temperatures do not.",2_3
"""The top 400 charities showed donations declined by 11 percent last year- the worst decline in 20 years.""Sandy Levinson's Challenge:",0_0
Results of a study published this week in the journal Science show how fast animal and plant populations would need to move to keep up with recent climate change effects in the ocean and on land.,0_0
"This study seems to confirm what physicians, registered dietitians and healthcare associations such as the American Medical Association have been saying for decades, said Dr. Mark Haub, Associate Professor in the Department of Nutrition at Kansas State University. Not only is it safe to consume caloric sweeteners at recommended levels, it is important for consumers to understand that high fructose corn syrup and table sugar have the same amount of calories and studies like this indicate your body metabolizes them about the same.",0_0
"Through this initiative, labor and management set out to pursue more government funds for themselves as an explicit policy objective. As Kenneth Raske, the head of GNYHA, put it, ""government the key to all our problems."" Under Rivera's leadership, 1199 shifted its political efforts into overdrive. "" the existing culture of giving to political candidates and ramp it up to a whole new level,"" explained Jennifer Cunningham, a top Rivera lieutenant. Cunningham attributed the union's political success to ""the ability to mobilize voters around a public policy issue, sophistication of materials, and frankly, a boatload of cash.""",0_0
"Bellingen News, sport and weather | The Bellingen Shire Courier Sun",0_0
RCC Australia assumed coordination of the incident and issued a broadcast to icebreaking vessels in the area.,0_0
"Thermometers show a 60 year cycle US summer cooling and heating. Ten years of sharp cooling, followed by 50 years of gradual warming.The graph below shows two sharp cooling periods from 1895 to 1905, and again from 1950 to 1960. It also shows two warming periods from 1910 to 1950, and from 1960 to 2010.",2_1
"9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;",0_0
The AFL-CIO Sasses President Obama on Twitter:,0_0
"After 350 years, and amid a changing climate, Alpine pilgrims warm up to ice.",0_0
". . . Apparently, increased total CO2 column amount is coupled with decreasing H2O column amount. As the result of the opposing trends in the two most important GHGs, in Fig. 2 the red curve shows no trend in the TIOD. In the last 61 years, the infrared absorbing capability of the atmosphere has not been changed; therefore, the greenhouse effect can not be the cause of the global warming.",2_3
"To put this figure in perspective, the single continent of North America currently has more recoverable oil than the entire world has used since Edwin Drake drilled the first commercial oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania, in the mid-1800s. Much of the oil in the United States is concentrated in the Bakken Formation in Montana and North Dakota, but also occurs in many other areas of the country including Alaska, California, Oklahoma, and Texas. The resources in North America could continue to meet current energy demands across the country for well over the next 200 years.",4_5
"Many of your greatest engineers, scientists, and astronauts agree that Dr. Hansen has overstepped his bounds with his advocacy, as I repost below. Anthony",0_0
"I suggest Congress and government agencies lead by example and adopt this rule of no air conditioning immediately. In fact, I'm sure it must be somewhere in Speaker Pelosi's Greening the Capitol initiative. Questions should be asked on the floor as to why they're running the AC this week.",0_0
4) No advanced nation or group from such a nation has a right to sanctimoniously demand that people from developing nations forgo their hopes for a better standard of living.,0_0
"As the CO 2 content of the air continues to rise, nutrient poor grasslands of Switzerland will likely exhibit increased biomass both above- and belowground. Although additional phosphorus fertilization would likely increase the absolute magnitude of this response, biomass should significantly increase on a percentage basis nonetheless. Because nitrogen-fixing legumes displayed a competitive growth advantage over other plant types in these simulated grasslands, it may appear that they will flourish at the expense of other species in natural grassland communities as the CO 2 content of the air increases. However, with time, a portion of the additional nitrogen fixed by legumes should become available to neighboring species, which will likely utilize it to their own advantage, thereby preserving the species diversity of the grassland ecosystem.",3_3
In the same year the US passed a bill prohibiting the Overseas Private Investment Corporation a federal agency responsible for underwriting American companies that invest in developing countries from investing in energy projects that involve fossil fuels.,0_0
CEI: We live in the most prosperous country in the most prosperous time in the history of the world. Is being able to worry one of the luxuries we enjoy as a result?,0_0
"The team looked for signs of CO 2 fertilization in arid areas, Donohue said, because ""satellites are very good at detecting changes in total leaf cover, and it is in warm, dry environments that the CO 2 effect is expected to most influence leaf cover."" Leaf cover is the clue, he added, because ""a leaf can extract more carbon from the air during photosynthesis, or lose less water to the air during photosynthesis, or both, due to elevated CO 2 ."" That is the CO 2 fertilization effect.",3_3
Trenberth et al. (2014) Earths Energy Imbalance is one of a series of papers that present and discuss the imbalance in Earths energy budget. They begin their introduction with:,0_0
Has the recent warming period lasted longer than the early period? No doubt about it. Is that any reason to be concerned? No. The mid-to-late 20 th Century cooling period lasted for 46 years. Who cares?,2_1
"Alexander said she has always maintained that by definition, more vulnerable households are not able to respond as effectively to a natural disaster as those households whose livelihoods are more secure, that is, their capacity for response is influenced by their weakened ability to guard against risk.",0_0
"We can see above that Alaska and Siberia were plenty warm in January, 1926. We can also see below that the current Arctic warming is most pronounced during winter. The belief that recent Arctic warming is somehow different than the 1920s warming does not seem to have a very sound basis.",2_1
"As for average summertime maximum temperature in Missouri's third climate division since 1896: the correlation is one toward cooling, not warming, during the summer. That applies for the rest of the state as well.",1_4
"Concerning these benefits, atmospheric CO 2 is the building block of plant life. It is used by earths plants in the process of photosynthesis to construct their tissues and grow. And as has been conclusively demonstrated in numerous scientific studies, the more CO 2 we put into the air, the better plants grow. Among other findings, they produce greater amounts of biomass, become more efficient at using water, and are better able to cope with environmental stresses such as pollution and high temperatures.",3_3
"In early 2013, a Heritage paper looked at the economic impacts of a carbon tax that was included as a side case in the EIA's Annual Energy Outlook 2012. That analysis noted the following impacts of a $25 per ton tax on carbon dioxide:",0_0
increased government funding of energy-related technology research and development,0_0
"???While the consequences of the various impact mechanisms could have made the surface ocean more acidic, our results do not point to enough ocean acidification to cause global extinctions. Out of several factors we considered in our model simulation, only one (sulphuric acid) could have made the surface ocean severely corrosive to calcite, but even then the amounts of sulphur required are unfeasibly large.",3_2
sped up and slowed suggests the glaciers have been melting all along. And thats correct. The epoch we are now in is called an interglacial. And what happens during interglacials? Glaciers melt. That??s precisely what they??ve been doing since the last ice age ended many millennia ago. The author of the NYT article even acknowledges that in the opening of the next paragraph:,2_1
"A related issue is the question whether the shooters or the originators of the plots must be famous people. The conspiracy theorists generally believe that the answer has to be Yes. But it's another fact that there are many more ordinary people even ordinary people with some access to guns who might want to kill a politician. If it is possible to get to a reasonable floor of a building, they may just give a try.",0_0
"""Non-falsifiable Hypothesis': AGW ""looks like its own self-contained and self-referential lunatic asylum finding positive proof of climate change in every weather surprise'",5_2
"The main stumbling block that has kept this vision from becoming a reality can be summarized in a word: JUDGMENT. Good medical practice is a time intensive, hands on, one-on-one business where judgment is often the critical factor that is supplied by the physician. Good judgment comes from a combination of knowledge and experience. And, as wonderful as computers have been in many areas of our lives, no one has ever been able to successfully program judgment. Two examples come to mind that illustrate this realityone from the medical field and one non-medical.",0_0
And that very low number by many studies is exaggerated. Several groups have concluded that due to heavy processing burden corn biofuel produces more CO2 than gasoline.,4_4
Meteorologist Aaron Reynolds said some areas will receive up to two feet (61 cm) of snow and in some areas even three feet (91 cm) of snow.,1_3
22. How convinced are you that climate change poses a very serious and dangerous threat to humanity?,0_0
"The study also warns that technologies that offer only modest reductions in greenhouse gases, like natural gas and carbon capture and storage, cant substantially reduce climate risk in the next 100 years.",4_4
"Japan's Environment Ministry is encouraging its citizens to go to bed an hour earlier at night, and get up an hour earlier in the morning.",0_0
"The Climategate Emails reveal something else, too: the enlistment of the most widely read source of information in the world Wikipedia in the wholesale rewriting of this history.",0_0
"Additionally, the IPCC claims that only the rise in anthropogenic greenhouse gases can explain the warming over the past 30 years. Satellite-based sea surface temperature disagrees with the IPCCs claims. Most, if not all, of the rise in global sea surface temperature is shown to be the result of a natural process called the El Nio-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO. This is discussed in detail in If the IPCC was Selling Manmade Global Warming as a Product, Would the FTC Stop their deceptive Ads? , which is available in pdf and Kindle editions. A copy of the introduction, table of contents, and closing in pdf form can be found here .",2_1
"AMSA News (@AMSA News) December 25, 2013",0_0
"The climate alarmists, says Carlin, have now been making their apocalyptic predictions for almost thirty years and it is now possible to compare their predictions with actual physical observations. Suffice to say all the predictions of a significantly higher temperaturethe warminghave been wrong.",5_2
"Trial lawyers and pressure groups cannot get this authority soon enough, given that this means LOST governs, for example, how much coal we can burn -- it has even already been used to block construction of a planned nuclear power plant in Europe, which only emits water vapor. As such it represents attainment of the environmentalists' long-sought goal of inserting the global judiciary into our energy supply mix.",0_0
"And, the government scientist who sounded the alarm that Al Gore picked up on is in trouble for ???making up?? much of the issue from siting 3 drowned polar bears then extrapolating a population decline from that single observation:",5_1
"All of the environmental kvetching about ""not getting our message out"" and being outgunned by the relatively tiny climate skeptic community is a museum quality example of Winston Churchill's definition of a fanatic as someone who can't change their mind and won't change the subject. Of course, one thing the failure of the climate campaign means is full employment for the climate campaigners, which is mighty nice for people like EDF's Krupp (2009 compensation: $496,000). One disgruntled liberal philanthropist recently confided to me that if the leaders of the big green groups were subject to any reasonable standard of accountability, they'd all be fired.",0_0
He went on to explain how Europe would bear the brunt of the change he believes is afoot.,0_0
"Bloomfield Hills, MI Weather Forecast from Weather Underground",0_0
"Even if Congress legislates carbon taxes, nothing suggests that EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will refrain from imposing EPA's anti-hydrocarbon rules on top of them or that the White House and Senate will reject any new U.N. treaty. There is no hint that the Interior Department will cease using the Endangered Species Act and other laws to shut down oil and gas drilling while ignoring the growing slaughter of eagles and whooping cranes by wind turbines. The Energy and Defense departments, the EPA and Congress are unlikely to stop spending more in borrowed funds to subsidize corn ethanol and Navy biofuel schemes.",0_0
Many Americans are already smoking the equivalent of a pack a day.,0_0
Green shows the 56%increase in Arctic sea ice extent since the same date in 2012. Red shows ice loss,1_1
"A paper published today in the journal Climate of the Past used radiocarbon dating to determine the age of trees uncovered in 2003 by retreat of a major glacier located in Southern Patagonia. The authors conclude that the glacier was smaller than the present during the Medieval Warming Period, and that the trees were covered by advance of the glacier during the Little Ice Age from 460 to 250 years ago.",2_1
Pachauri's Dirty Memoir: So Hot It's Radioactive?,0_0
"The average sea level rise rate for all 157 NOAA tide gauges active this century, is just below 0.7 mm/year.",0_0
"Moreover, the information has always meant the same thing ""in"" classical physics or quantum mechanics. Information is independent. The concept of information exists independently of particular theories in physics. However, particular theories in physics differ in what they say about the form that information can take and how the information about the past that we already know is linked to the information about the future that we may only predict.",0_0
"NCDC says that this past summer was the hottest in US history, but the raw data shows that afternoon temperatures were 18th hottest since 1895, and that temperatures have been declining since the 1920s. The summer of 1936 had maximum temperatures almost two degrees warmer than the summer of 2012. The ten hottest summers all came with CO2 below 350 PPM.",2_1
"66. Critics of CRU have suggested that Professor Jones's use of the words ""hide the decline"" is evidence that he was part of a conspiracy to hide evidence that did not fit his view that recent global warming is predominantly caused by human activity. That he has published papersincluding a paper in Naturedealing with this aspect of the science clearly refutes this allegation. In our view, it was shorthand for the practice of discarding data known to be erroneous. We expect that this is a matter the Scientific Appraisal Panel will address.",5_2
"By Paul Homewood Before anybody gets carried away with claims of record rainfall that we keep hearing about in the UK, lets consider the facts. In the UK as a whole , January was only tie 17th wettest month since 1910, with 183.8mm. Relatively speaking, last month was wetter in England & Wales, but even there it was only the 16th wettest month, on the England & Wales Series , dating back to 1766 . Last month recorded 184.6mm, well short of the wettest month on record, October 1903, which had 218.1mm. The table below lists the wettest months on the England & Wales series.",1_7
"Proponents of anthropogenic global warming, including bloggers and climate scientists, have done a wonderful job of convincing the public that there are three basic components to the warming of global sea surface temperatures. They include:",0_0
The oceans are outgassing CO2 due to the slight warming trend since the end of the Mini Ice Age (c. 1850's). The exact cause of this trend IS NOT known and remains the subject of much scientific debate! There is evidence that there is a gap of many centuries between planet-wide temperature swings and atmospheric CO2 concentrations.,2_3
This isn't the place for a treatise on climate change science and health impacts. But even a cursory survey of the research literature should make everyone queasy about using the claim of human-induced climate change as the pretext for forcing a drastic reorganization of human economies.,0_0
"We must demand debate on every aspect of climate and energy issues and honesty, transparency, and accountability in all regulatory processes. There is no room for fraud and deceit.",0_0
Gina McCarthys Responses to Sen. Vitters Questions Part I: Bait-and-Fuel-Switch*,0_0
Santa Barbara Rejects Global Warming 'Blue Line',0_0
"Sedjo leads us to at least part of the solution when he affirms, ""countries that have achieved economic development almost always had an early period in which forestlands were rapidly converted to productive agricultural lands. Thus conversion is not necessarily undesirable. Forested areas provided the agricultural land that allowed the development of Europe and North America In summary, economic development promotes forest stability through well-defined and recognized property rights, the enforcement of property rights, the absence of government subsidies to encourage land clearing, and high levels and growth rates of agricultural productivity.",0_0
Director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's climate programs,0_0
"About the deal with China, Inhofe said: ""This deal is a non-binding charade. The American people spoke against the President's climate policies in this last election. They want affordable energy and more economic opportunity, both which are being diminished by overbearing EPA mandates. As we enter a new Congress, I will do everything in my power to rein in and shed light on the EPA's unchecked regulations.""",0_0
"10 C maize (including sweet corn), sorghum, rice, soybeans, tomato, Black cutworm, European Corn Borer, standard baseline for insect and mite pests of woody plants",0_0
"Can??t Cook see what happened about 240,000 years ago? Temperatures were warmer than today. Did humans cause that period of ???global warming???",2_1
"""Hide the lies"" generated lawsuits between climate science ""believers"" (what kind of real science requires belief?) and skeptics of ""dangerous man-made planetary warming"" along with ridiculous conspiracy theories such as ""Big Oil hired evil hackers in a plot to discredit angelic climate scientists.""",0_0
Here is a temperature reconstructon from the famous Vostock Ice core.,0_0
And now for the 2nd question: Does the massive cold air outbreak blanketing much of the U.S. disprove global warming?,1_3
"In the 1970s, EPA Administrator Russell Train tried this dodge, claiming that EPA did not have to set NAAQS for lead emissions, because he had no plan to produce a criteria document for lead. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Trains interpretation,finding that it would make EPAs mandatory duties under the NAAQS program discretionary at the will of the Administrator.In other words, it wouldgut the NAAQS program.",0_0
"Global warming has been described as the greatest threat facing mankind, but the policies designed to address global warming actually pose a much greater threat. The international and domestic policies to ration carbon-based energy would doand are doing little to slow carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, but would have enormous costs. These costs would fall most heavily on poor people, not only in the United States, but also in the world's poorest nations. The correct approach is not energy rationing, but rather long-term technological transformation and building resiliency in developing societies by increasing their wealth.",4_1
"More pertinently,observes the Institute for Energy Research ,per unit of energy produced, subsidies for renewable energy vastly exceed those for fossil fuels. In the electric sector, for example,???solar is being subsidized by over 1200 times more than coal and oil and natural gas electricity production, and wind is being subsidized over 80 times more than the more conventional fossil fuels on a unit of production basis.??",4_2
"Why is Water Vapour, the Most Important Greenhouse Gas, Ignored?",2_3
"Interestingly, the final draft of AR5 WG1 dropped the statement in the second draft that TCR had a most likely value near 1.8C, in line with CMIP5 models, and marginally reduced the likely range from 1.22.6C to 1.02.5C, at the same time as making the above claim.",0_0
"In a century, it is possible (even likely) that some of the very precepts of physics could change, yielding who knows what outcomes. Circa 1910 we saw the dawn of the modern physics of relativity, quantum and nuclear energy that defined a century's modern physical science. The notion that we're at the end of new science has been laid to rest by the utter failure of science to explain so much that is fundamental about the universe we inhabit. For heaven's sake, we not only cannot yet explain something as ubiquitous as gravity; we don't even know what the basic constituents of matter are, nor how much and what kind of fundamental energies exist. Scientists have conjured up the undefined and totally opaque ideas of both ""dark matter"" and ""dark energy"" to explain the inconvenient energized expansion of the universe.",0_0
"""The story was headlined, ""Sea levels rising twice as fast as predicted.' The first sentence did not agree with the headline: ""Sea levels are predicted to rise twice as fast as was forecast by the United Nations only two years ago ' That is, the soothsayers have read their chicken entrails again and decided that their previous divinations were not dire enough. This has nothing to do with actual sea level rise. For the past several years, sea level rise has been below the average rate of the twentieth century, which in total was about seven inches.""",1_6
Read the full article at New York Post.,0_0
Reality Check: Winter Of 2009/10 Coldest Winter For Over 30 Years,1_3
"""Four. . . three . . . two . . . one. We have ignition . . . and lift-off.""",0_0
"But, no, thats not accepted since, you know, house insulation works by conduction, not by radiation. Sigh.",0_0
The Obama administration is willing to take this risk. Is North Dakota's Senate delegation willing to join him?,0_0
Its only hopeful message is that it's not too late to implement Kyoto-style climate policies!,0_0
"On February 20, Secretary of State John Kerry gave his first speech, as Secretary, at the University of Virginia where he offered a glimpse of how he sees tackling climate change as part of his jobas is ""reducing nuclear threat,"" ""fighting corruption in Nigeria,"" and breaking ""the cycle of poverty, poor nutrition and hunger.""",0_0
"Lower and Middle Tropospheric temperatures show slow warming overlaid with the El Nio/La Nia Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle, including four comparatively large El Nio events. Tropospheric temperatures appear to have flattened since the large El Nio in 1998 and offer no indication that Earth is experiencing rapid or extreme warming.",1_4
"The Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, which produced one of the models used in the Assessment, acknowledged at the time it was selected that its model's data were not useful for the purpose the administration is using it. Specifically, Hadley stated this on its website, ""In areas where coasts and mountains have significant effect on weather , scenarios based on global models will fail to capture the regional detail needed for vulnerability assessments at a national level."" Regardless, this model is used to project specific, but scientifically unsupportable, U.S. climate impacts, which are incorporated in both reports.",5_1
James notes an item questioning how this could happen;,0_0
Related developments in the colonies... from Ottawa gas bar to Pirate King . What a country!,0_0
"The single most dominant theme in Sino-U.S. relations of the past year or more has been the emergence of a more ""assertive China."" This article assesses whether, to what extent, and in what manner Beijing is becoming more assertive in several major areas of relevance to the United States. These are: first, in defining and promoting the concept of ""core interests""; second, with regard to U.S. political and military behavior along China's maritime periphery; third, concerning a variety of economic, trade, and finance issues, from so-called indigenous innovation to global standards regarding reserve currencies; and fourth, with regard to several issues related to international security, from counter-proliferation to climate change.",0_0
"If you've been living without an internet connection, here's a quick overview of l'affaire Climategate. On November 17, someone posted to the internet a vast archive of materials that had been hacked or leaked from the CRU, including numerous emails, documents, computer code, and data. While all of the information has not been verified as 100% correct, none of the people cited have denied that the documents are legitimate, and some outside entities engaged in the e-mail exchanges have confirmed that they are genuine.",0_0
"In short, Professor Davis's data do not buttress the case for alarm but rather call it into question.",0_0
Animation 3 is an update of the cross sections of temperature anomalies at depth along the equator.,0_0
"John Christy emphasized that all of the 100+ climate models have over-predicted warming in the tropical troposphere, by at least a factor of 2, and this was supposed to be the most obvious manifestation of global warming as predicted by climate models.",5_1
"The videos centre around interviews between David Whitehouse, and Jennifer Francis and Roger Pielke Jr.",0_0
"In fact, much of the SUVs' recent popularity stems from CAFE itself. CAFE's restrictions took their greatest toll on large cars and station wagons. As economist Paul Godek pointed out in a study published last fall, light trucks were the only real alternative for consumers concerned about safety and seating capacity. In effect, he concludes, most of the weight forced off the passenger car fleet by CAFE has reappeared in the light truck fleet.",0_0
"Almost seven years have passed since Florida was hit by a hurricane, the longest such period on record. Florida averages almost one hurricane per year. During the 1870s, Florida was hit by 12 hurricanes.",1_7
"Hans von Storch, Armineh Barkhordarian, Klaus Hasselmann and Eduardo Zorita (2013) Can climate models explain the recent stagnation in global warming? Academia",0_0
"18 April 2015 ??? Eleven inches (25 cm) of snow had fallen on mid-mountain by 9 a.m., said Aspen Skiing Co. spokesman Jeff Hanle. The snow continued for at least 90 minutes after that.",1_3
"Sizewell B has a capacity of 1.2GW, and the new Hinkley Point C (still awaiting for EU authorisation for subsidies) will have 3.2GW.",0_0
"Bill O'Reilly's nightly show on the Fox News Channel is viewed by at least 3.5 million people every night. So it was a treat to see Heartland Senior Fellow Horace Cooper as the program's first guest Wednesday night! O'Reilly asked Cooper to talk about violence in America's urban black communities, and why the policies of the left have done nothing to stop it. WATCH IT HERE",0_0
"CO2 warming I am convinced that theoretically rising CO2 should lead to higher temperatures, but I have yet to see ANY evidence proving this theoretical connection (but see below).",2_3
"Although the film conveniently ignores the fact that Cameron pays to off-set his personal carbon emissions, its aggressive tone will concern many of Hollywood's liberal elite, who preach green living while driving Porsches and clocking up the air miles in first class. In its first two days, the attack ad clocked-up 120,000 views on YouTube.",0_0
"As Arrhenius predicted, both carbon dioxide levels and temperatures increased from 19001999. However, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased much more quickly than he expected, but the Earth hasn't warmed as much as he thought it would. (Graphs by Robert Simmon, based on data from NOAA and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies)",2_3
It seems you are unaware that the IR absorbtion of CO2 in the atmosphere is constrained to only two narrow bands with almost all being in the 15 micron band. These bands are so near to saturation that they only increase their absorbtion by band broadening.,2_3
"The Younger Dryas Impact proponents would be well-served by promoting an exploration of the SCB as a starting point while looking for other anomalies further north in the deeper Chippewa Basin and in other Great Lakes. If a smoking gun does exist for their theory, it probably lies under these waters.",0_0
"President Barack Obama has announced his intention to apply California's fuel efficiency regulation to all 50 states. You might think that the Constitution reserves such lawmaking to Congress. After all, there is a robust interstate trade in automobiles and in 2007 Congress revised the Department of Transportation's Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards to require cars and trucks sold in America to become 40 percent more fuel efficient by 2020.",0_0
Guess it makes sense to avoid the penalties and the bad publicitykinda like the government doctoring the economic reports and the news to get a better spin. Right?,0_0
Is it possible penalizing hospitals for return admissions would just encourage them to dump the difficult cases that are bound to bounce back?,0_0
"There are many casualties in this sad story of greed and hubris. The big victim is the scientific method. This was pointed out in great detail by John P Costella of the Virginia-based Science and Public Policy Institute. Science is based on three fundamental pillars. The first is fallibility. The fact that you can be wrong, and if so proven by experimental input, any hypothesis can beindeed, must becorrected.",0_0
"Add to all of this a 40-year old statute that makes it virtually impossible for American companies to export crude oil, and it will be a long while before America becomes what it might become the world's largest exporter of LNG, and a major exporter of crude oil. Good news for America's petrochemical industry, for Americans who use gas-fired electricity and heat their homes with natural gas, and for Vladimir Putin.",0_0
"This means, of course, that instead of the increase of 16.8 W/m2 in downwelling radiation that we calculated above, we need 25% more downwelling radiation to account for the parasitic losses from the surface. (As I said, the true percentage of parasitic losses would be more than that, likely much more, but well use a quarter for purposes of conservative estimation.)",0_0
"All the while, the Obama administration is crippling Americas future economic growth with these regulations while our economic competitors forge ahead at making energy prices predictable, cheap and attractive for doing business.",4_1
Another deception is that Cook just made up the Lindzen graph. It does not represent any prediction ever made by Lindzen. Cook made the bogus graph by simply removing CO2 from Hansens temperature model. Naturally this produced a flat line since Hansens failed model is programmed to only respond to CO2.,5_2
projected regional climate change based on models that do not even describe and,5_1
Mastering the Problem of Environmental Quality: an interview with Dr. S. Fred Singer,0_0
"If you graph the intensity or number of hurricanes; the temperature fluctuations; the total number of extreme temperature events; or many other things that depend on non-uniformity and non-constancy of the quantities describing the atmosphere, you will see that theres been no significant global trend in either of them during the last 100 years or so.",1_7
"Among the findings: In a large cohort of patients hospitalized with CAD, almost half have admission LDL levels <100 mg/dL. More than half the patients have admission HDL levels <40 mg/dL, whereas <10% have HDL=60 mg/dL.""",0_0
"At that rate, it would take 667 years and cost $100 trillion to hypothetically avert just 1 degree Centigrade of global warming.",0_0
"First they told us that Arctic ice volume had collapsed. Then they told us that the remaining multi-year ice had cracked and failed . Then they told us that an unprecedented hole had opened up in the Arctic ice, and that it would all be gone this summer. Then they told us that Arctic ice was in freefall .",0_0
"Date: Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:32 PM",0_0
"In a speech at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser President Bill Clinton explained the continuing conflict between U.S. and Canadian commercial fisherman. He said, ""I can tell you, one of my big problems with our best partner in the world, Canada, is that our salmon fisherman are fighting all the time . . . You know why? Because all the salmon are moving north, so there are more in Alaska and fewer in Canada, because of climate change."" Apparently the White House got this idea from a paper written by David Welch of the Pacific Biological Station. But Welch claims the paper said no such thing. ""It's not global warming that's causing these fish to be intercepted. It's fisherman who catch a whole bunch of Canadian fish at the same time they catch U.S. fish"" (Anchorage Daily News, June 19, 1998).",0_0
"Number of the Week: 926,900 tonnes. A report from China asserts the State Oceanic Administration said China has built a total of 112 seawater desalination plants by the end of 2014, producing 926,900 tonnes of fresh water per day. In north China, desalted water is mainly used for water-intensive industries including electricity and steel in Tianjin, Hebei and Shandong, while in south China, desalted water is mainly for civilian needs covering the provinces of Zhejiang, Fujian and Hainan.",0_0
"The Golden Age myth historically arose when more complex urban civilizations developed that increased the distance between people and nature. The Golden Age is that earlier existence before cities, agriculture, and technology, a time idealized as simpler and more fulfilling, closer to a maternal nature that is ""untouched by the hoe and unwounded by the plow,"" as the Roman poet Ovid put ita time when nature ""herself gave all things,"" wrote Ovid. In the Golden Age, there was no crime or sickness, no war or competition for wealth, no oppressive social or political institutions.",0_0
"Two long comments that deserve greater visibility, the blog Calabria Solar Thermodynamics",0_0
SteveFs essay takes no account of the most substantial medium-term natural cycle that seems to influence global temperatures: the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. The cycles of that great Oscillation tend to exercise a warming influence for about 30 years followed by a cooling influence for about 30 years. This cyclical influence is visible throughout the HadCRUt4 global temperature record since 1850.,2_1
"Another Climate Alarmist Scientist Prediction Proven Wrong - Instead of Crop Failures, They Thrive With More CO2 & Warming",3_3
This paper is mostly about the trends if you put in the Roman (300 AD) and Medieval (1100 AD). Naturally the trend is up since the Little Ice Age that ended in the late 18th century. Remember why Valley Forge was so damn cold.,2_1
"At the same time, I want to say a big thank you to Ingemar, Jonny and Peter of you keeps the flag up there!",0_0
"The original standards forced students to only consider ""rises"" in temperature. The amended standards substitute ""changes"" and permits students to consider ""natural forces"" as well as human activity when they study the climate.",0_0
"Initially funded with grants totaling $225 million from ExxonMobil, General Electric, Schlumberger and E.ON, the energy project will be completely administered by Stanford University. The selection of Franklin M. Orr Jr., dean of Stanford?s School of Earth Sciences, to head the new project guarantees that it will be independent.",0_0
"much of the fact that, because it can spread by skin contact, condoms",0_0
"The desert will be scarred well beyond a human life span, and no amount of mitigation will repair it, according to scores of federal and state environmental reviews.",0_0
"Finally, there's the question of whether CFLs really do reduce the use of electricity. Back in 1987, the small town of Traer, Iowa, handed out 18,000 fluorescents to its residents, in a free giveaway aimed at cutting power consumption. How did that work out?",0_0
Claims that sea level rise is accelerating are shown to be misleading.,1_6
"""The full IPCC report, most of which is written by scientists about specific scientific topics in their areas of expertise, is an admirable description of research activities in climate science. It is not, however, directed at policy. The SPM is, of course, but it is also a very different document. It represents a consensus of government representatives, rather than of scientists. As a consequence, the SPM has a strong tendency to disguise uncertainty, and conjures up some scary scenarios for which there is no evidence.",5_2
"Carbon math 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. It is time to end the delusions and start thinking realistically about what can and will be done.",0_0
"NSIDC needed something negative to say about Arctic ice, and if they waited another week they couldnt have said it. Those areas of low concentration ice are now high concentration ice.",1_1
"On October 27, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal issued a precedent-setting cease and desist order which forbids Jessica Beaumont from posting certain Bible verses on the Internet. If this 21-year old woman posts the wrong Bible quotation online - even if it is on an American website - she could face up to 5 years in prison.",0_0
Who denies that CO2 lags temperature in the ice core data by as much as 800 years and hence isa product of climate change not a cause?,2_3
4) Boris Johnson: Why Did Met Office Get It Wrong Yet Again?,0_0
"Julian Simon notes that ""recent scientific and technical advances especially seed banks and genetic engineering have diminished the importance of maintaining species in their natural habitat."" (Scarcity, p.43)",0_0
"/s/ Dr. Donald M. Curry JSC, Mgr. Shuttle Leading Edge, Thermal Protection Sys., Engr. Dir., 44 years",0_0
UPDATE: Lucia and JunkPschology in comments confirm that these six papers listed would not have made Cooks list. So in only half an hour of random analysis I can easily turn up major papers by skeptics that fall outside Cooks primitive keyword hunt. How many others miss too?,5_1
"Many people think CEI was founded on the principles of classical liberalism. But Fred Smith started CEI in 1984, about the same time the Clintons were putting their political careers into high gear. And I like to think that CEI is really founded on the Clinton Principles:",0_0
"The researchers conclude that the recent estimates of 40 p.p.m.v. CO 2 per degree Celsius can be excluded with 95% confidence, suggesting significantly less amplification of current warming.",3_1
"The academic freedom issue is murkier. Academic freedom, as per the Wikipedia:",0_0
"The reports forecast of a drier future could come to pass, but the track record of Australian climate scientists for predicting rainfall even one season ahead is dismal. The Bureau incorrectly forecast below average rainfall for spring this year for the upper Murray catchments just before the region was flooded. Last year the forecast for a hot and dry summer resulted in drought breaking rains across the upper Murray Darling Basin.",5_1
"If we continue to follow Sterns advice, the principal losers, apart from British taxpayers and businesses, would be developing countries who cannot raise living standards without massively increasing their use of fossil fuels and will therefore be responsible for most of the growth of carbon emissions, Lilley argues.",4_5
"It is impossible from Solomon et al.'s analysis to know what went on prior to 1980, so, for lack of any other guidance, I'll assume that no changes took place (or, that the net change was zero) from 1950 to 1980. I'll then back the 15% warming influence from stratospheric water vapor changes since 1980 out of the ""corrected"" data in Figure 2. The warming I am left with is shown in Figure 3.",0_0
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) Americans strongly oppose U.S. intervention in Syrias civil war and believe Washington should stay out of the conflict even if reports that Syrias government used deadly chemicals to attack civilians are confirmed, a Reuters/Ipsos poll says.",0_0
"Nature blogs just told us about an APS conference that took place in Denver, Colorado on Saturday (well, it continues through Tuesday):",0_0
Excerpt from Shaviv: ???We find that at least 66% of the variance in the paleotemperature trend could be attributed to CRF variations likely due to solar system passages through the spiral arms of the galaxy.??,2_1
"""Over Pakistan, the weather pattern is just staying with the monsoon, and the monsoon is bringing drenching rains,"" weatherzone.com.au meteorologist Josh Fisher said.",0_0
"Sorry, Steve Running, Wildfires Are Decreasing with Global Warming",1_7
"* The bucket method has been used since earliest times. The samples come from near the surface (about 1 meter), and temperatures are recorded manually. They should show a pronounced max after noon due to direct solar heating.",0_0
2007 / Dec / 07 at 08:47:41,0_0
"The bill, sponsored by Oklahoma Republican Tom Coburn, would have eliminated ethanol blender subsidies while striking the import tariff on foreign ethanol (typically cheaper Brazilian ethanol derived from sugarcane). It failed 59-40, falling 20 votes short of cloture, but a closer look reveals that the defeat had as much to do with inside-the-beltway maneuvering as it did with fundamental untouchability of ethanol subsidies.",0_0
Many thanks for your paper and congratulations for reviving the global warming.,0_0
"Ayers is a Ed professor at the U of Illinois, has a friend in the White House, and is famous for saying guilty as hell free as a bird, America is a great country.",0_0
"WUWT; After I showed the original press release contained not one mention of global warming or climate change, one of our readers decided to ask the researcher about this statement attributed to to Jessica Morgan in that Business Insider story...",0_0
"And that is the whole issue. What price are we supposed to pay to revolutionize the way the industrial world makes energy and what temperature benefit will result? This climate commissioner of Australia has no answer as to what the temperature drop would be. I strongly suspect he has no idea what the cost will be to achieve the temperature drop either. It took 200 years to achieve the amount of energy production we have in the world today. You can bet it will take trillions of dollars to re-engineer it into something else. Even if such a thing were possible there is no guarantee it would have any significant effect on earth's average temperature. According to the Australian climate commissioner the end result, whatever that might be, would take up to one thousand years to take effect.",0_0
"I used RegEm, as provided by dr Steig with the data as he also provided it to make the following graphs. There are a pile of them because I dont have the actual implementation code and I havent verified which version (if any of these) he used yet but here it goes. I think youll find some interesting detail.",0_0
"Personally, I have felt the need to break loose of the shackles of loyalty to colleagues and institutions if it comes at the expense of integrity in science and professional conduct. I envy Richard Muller who comes at the issue of climate science without the baggage associated with loyalty to colleagues or institutions in the climate field; rather his colleagues are a very elite group of physicists. Mullers approach of securing private funding and publishing his papers first on the internet has allowed him to avoid the schackles that I rather uncomfortably had to break away from. Private funding, the internet, and the emergence of scientists from outside the traditional community (not just Mullers team but also Steve McIntyre, Nic Lewis etc.) bodes well for improving the integrity of climate science in the 21st century and diminishing the effectiveness of the consensus police.",5_2
"How rapid and extensive has the phenomenon been? According to the authors of this study, ?vegetation in the upland tundra east of the Mackenzie Delta has changed dramatically in the last three decades with relative increases in tall shrub cover and alder density of 68.1 and 35%, respectively? Read More",0_0
"Here is another excellent example of a false problem that allows the mandarins to have a free run. Its early re hospitalization. So an old and debilitated person returns and is hospitalized within 30 days of the previous hospitalization and the insurance companies, or even the medicare and medicaid people refuse to pay for the care. Is it possible that penalizing by refusal of payment, the hospital, would ignore the fact that chronically ill people tend to be frequent flyers?",0_0
"Most alarming of all, however, was a succession of scientific studies showing that, far from helping to cut global CO2 emissions, biofuel production could often give off much more CO2 than it saved not least by disturbing huge quantities of CO2 locked in the soil which, according to the University of Minnesota, could release 17 to 420 times more CO2 than would be saved by the biofuels. A study by Cornell University showed that, thanks to the high-energy inputs needed to make biofuels from farm crops in everything from machinery and fertilisers to the intensive use of irrigation they took 29 percent more energy to produce than was generated by the biofuel itself.",4_4
"CFACT heads to Rio+20 to expose UN ""sustainability"" ploy",0_0
"The fact that growing numbers of people, on their own, have turned to CFLs doesn't count for much; for our esteemed congressional representatives, the burning question is: Why hasn't everyone? Why is the CFL market share only 6 percent here, compared to 80 percent in Japan?",0_0
"This state of affairs is much the same as what has typically been found on land for birds, butterflies, and several other terrestrial lifeforms, as their ranges expand and overlap in response to global warming.",0_0
Australias antarctic runway melting | Merredin-Wheatbelt Mercury,0_0
This study is of interest since it shows a new perspective on thelarge uncertainty thatremains in climate prediction.It also highlights how poorly the ocean uptake of heat is simulated in the models.,5_1
"Because large droplets in clouds scatter sunlight almost uniformly across the spectrum, the clouds themselves can't be the reason why different wavelengths contribute differently to the net cloud effect. Compared to cloud droplets, aerosols are more than 100 times smaller and scatter wavelengths differently. These results suggest that aerosols which not only cause haziness but contribute to cloud formation as well are responsible for the wavelength differences, something researchers need to be aware of as they study clouds in the sky.",0_0
Strike one : No one measuring ice extent or area shows a decline since 2007.,1_1
"Modellers have failed to cut their central estimate of global warming in line with a new, lower feedback estimate from the IPCC. They still predict 3.3 oC of warming per CO2 doubling, when on this ground alone they should only be predicting 2.2 oCabout half from direct warming and half from amplifying feedbacks.",3_1
"Or is this number good for NWF? In its Educator's Guide, a sidebar column said 51 million acres of tropical forest is lost each year (equal to 140,000 acres per day, 5,800 per hour, 96 per minute, and 1.6 per second).",0_0
"""Although not an accurate demonstration of the physics of climate change, the experiment we have considered and related ones are valuable examples of the dangers of unintentional bias in science , the value of at least a rough quantitativeprediction of the expected effect, the importance of considering alternative explanations, and the need for carefully designed experimental controls .""",5_1
"With a little goading by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scientists, in 2005 newspaper headlines linked the busy hurricane season and the strength of the hurricanes to human-caused climate change. Where are the headlines now?",0_0
Incredible amounts increasing yearly and wasted on every bigger and more expensive computers to run models. Careerists who cannot forecast seasonal weather were making things up (and began to alter weather data on purpose) while spending lavishly on computers pushing the AGW ideology all at the publics great expense.,5_1
"But OSTP changed its view in its final response, which labeled Holdren's statement as his ""personal opinion."" Perhaps it realized the weakness of Holdren's argument that global warming causes winter cold. It refused to correct Holdren's statement, invoking the personal opinion exception in the federal Information Quality Act in its June 6 letter. The agency repeated this claim when it denied CEI's appeal of that decision, in an August 4 letter from its general counsel Rachael Leonard.",0_0
"But that approach lost out to the computer-modeling approach favored by climate scientists. And that approach was flawed from the beginning, Dyson said.",0_0
"Now that President Obama has won re-election, these two excellent books will be",0_0
"Weve reported on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) on several occasions, the last time here . Could it be that the AMOC acts as a decisive internal component of variability for Arctic ice melt? Lets carry out a short plausibility check: The impact of the AMOC can be especially well depicted by the course of the heat content of the upper 700 meters of water in the area of the North Atlantic between 45N 60N and 60W 10W.",0_0
"By C. Idso, S. Idso, R. Carter, S. Singer Lead authors, NIPCC, 2014",0_0
"We raised the water temperature in miniature ecosystems containing eelgrass meadows, while simultaneously bubbling with carbon-dioxide. This allowed us to simulate a future climate scenario, characterized by both warmer waters and ocean acidification, explains researcher Christian Alsterberg.",0_0
"To put it another way: in July of last year, at least 7/8th (87%) of the warming was due to natural processes, and the truth surely was well over 90%. It is funny that Dr. Hansen and others exaggerating the effects of human emissions don't say it this way. The correct way.",2_1
"""South Korea's liberal opposition, bolstered by the under-40s and power of social media, could spring a surprise win in this week's parliamentary elections despite opinion polls that show it tied with the ruling conservatives.""",0_0
"Given this information how on earth can climatologists claim that the multi-year irregularities in the data are caused by human activities? Putting it the other way round, how can they distinguish between natural variability that has been observed since biblical times, and the superimposed human-related consequences? I have undertaken diligent studies of long hydro-climatological data series for the past 30 years. If present, trends related to human activities are undetectable while the solar signal is very clear.",2_1
"I doubt that Garth would be too comfortable being described as an ?insider,? even though the public would surely view him as one. Garth is first and foremost a scientist and scientific thinking requires one to step outside convention, conformity, and consensus in order to discover things that have been missed previously. Why would he want to be party to any insider?s party line? Treading only well-worn paths is not the way to discovery and new learning. Although scientists do have their orthodoxies, those bucking orthodoxy are normally given some grudging respect, even if sometimes too little too late. The greatest, most revered figures in the history of science often faced enormous odds against the very orthodoxy they overturned to become famous.",0_0
"Messrs. Bowen and Coles, who last year formed a company called Virginia Uranium, are asking the state to determine whether mining uranium really is a hazard and, if not, to lift the ban. But they've run into a brick wall of environmental activists who raise the specter of nuclear contamination and who are determined to prevent scientific studies of the issue.",0_0
"Serious studies from prominent organizations, e.g., the Harvard School of Public Health, show that that loss of protection results in a substantial number of fatalities.",0_0
Since the output from GCM models is in W/m^2 a second fabricated parameter was required to convert flux to temperature; another conversion that has no possible physical relationship that can be validated by data. This parameter called climate sensitivity was simply the value that converted the output energy flux to temperature that best fit the temperature data back to 1960 in Hansens 1988 paper.,5_1
"Gov. Kaine supports allowing the National Academy of Sciences to determine whether mining could be done safely. So does virtually every elected official in heavily Republican Pittsylvania County. Earlier this year the narrowly Democratic state Senate voted 34-6 to authorize the study. But the measure was killed in committee in the House under pressure from environmental groups. If it was allowed to come up for a vote in the full House, which is controlled by Republicans, opponents concede it would have passed.",0_0
"According to the program, our purpose is to think long-term about dealing with climate change, which I'll do in a moment.",0_0
"So how do the EPA, IPCC, Michael Mann, Al Gore and other Climate Armageddonites deal with all these inconvenient truths, questions and skeptical researchers?",0_0
"When the data consistently conflict with their hypothesis, reputable scientists revise the hypothesis. Five-alarm climate scientists desperately seek new shells, and new excuses.",5_1
"As the UK experiences its coldest March in 50 years and braces for a white Easter weekend at the same time there are critical shortages of natural gas, Christopher Booker expresses his frustration with the UK's energy policy in The (UK) Telegraph:",0_0
"Hurricanes were supposed to get bigger and more frequent, instead we??ve had an unbroken 7 years long drought for major Cat3-5 hurricanes , and Sandy wasn??t even a hurricane when it made landfall . The last Category 3 or stronger storm to make landfall was Hurricane Wilma making landfall onOctober 24, 2005. The more than seven years (2568 days as of today ??? ref here ) since then is the longest such span in over a century.",1_7
"The Clinton Administration's economic analysis, which claims that the cost of reducing emissions 31 percent by 2008-2012 will be negligible, relies on the estimated availability of emission credits from Russia. Under the Kyoto Protocol Russia must reduce emissions to 1990 levels by the target date. As a result of its economic collapse, Russia is expected to have excess emission credits to sell in 2008. A new Russian government study, however, estimates that Russia will have between 273 million to 546 million metric tons of carbon equivalent in allowances for the years 2008-2012 which is much lower than previous estimates. Moreover, Russia may decide to bank credits to be applied to emissions reduction targets beyond 2012 that may emerge from the Kyoto Protocol, which could mean higher compliance costs in the U.S. (BNA Daily Environment Report, June 12, 1998).",0_0
"Although this paper confirmed the findings of a massive amount of previous research that the Medieval Warming generated higher temperatures than the current warming, the IPCC instead conferred star status to the statistically-tortured 'hockey stick' graph, which showed the previous warming to be less than the current era, and then was subsequently found to be without credible merit - a statistical travesty.",5_1
"In the 19th century, British Prime Ministers used to say there were lies, damned lies, and statistics. In the 21st century, we may say there are frauds, serious frauds, and IPCC Assessment Reports. Recall, for instance, the notorious graph in the Fourth Assessment Report that falsely indicated that the rate of global warming is accelerating and we are to blame. Using the same statistical dodge, one can show that a sine-wave has a rising trend.",5_2
"For example, the metabolism of many crustaceans that live in eelgrass meadows increases when the water temperature rises. This in turn means they need to eat more algae and may consequently graze it more efficiently. At the same time, the growth of benthic microalgae on the sediment surface in the eelgrass meadows will be more vigorous.",0_0
"Murphy's view fits very well with what Phil Jones, the former head of East Anglia University's Climatic Research Unit, said in one of his ""Climategate"" emails (July 5, 2005):",0_0
"What a remarkably intricate world we live in, where a bunch of cows figures out how to keep a small genetically interbred herd strong in the absence of predators. Astonishing.",0_0
G stinl gg av Lennart Bengtsson,0_0
"They threaten our most basic rights and freedoms, our political and scientific processes and ultimately our continued innovation and invention, energy reliability and affordability, job creation and economic growth, and modern living standards, health and welfare.",0_0
"""Officials at the Treasury Department's Office of Financial Stability contracted with a small consulting firm that has given nearly $25,000 to Democratic candidates since 2005 (and no money to Republicans) to hire ""Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Analysts to support the Disclosure Services, Privacy and Treasury Records."" The firm is currently advertising a job opening for a FOIA analyst with experience in the ""Use of FOIA/PA exemptions to withhold information from release to the public"" (emphasis mine, and if that link goes down, The Examiner has kept a copy for its records).""",0_0
"Clearly, back then, they thought that Everybody ought to have a henge!",0_0
"Then I discovered something in Google Earth called Panoramio, which had a whole collection of tourist submitted shots around the observatories.",0_0
But he said the Upper Midwest region is getting wetter. Researchers found there is more water vapor in the atmosphere now compared to decades ago.,0_0
"Farm Subsidies, Media Ownership and Global Warming",0_0
"It was presented as fact. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, led by India's very own RK Pachauri, even announced a consensus on it. The world was heating up and humans were to blame. A pack of lies, it turns out.",0_0
"Yet this remains a hard sell to a public more concerned about terrorism than about climate change. So the administration has gone so far as to try and link the two issues, making the absurd claim that climate change is a matter of national security.",0_0
"Likelihood refers to a probabilistic assessment of some well defined outcome having occurred or occurring in the future, and may be based on quantitative analysis or an elicitation of expert views. When authors evaluate the likelihood of certain outcomes, the associated meanings are:",0_0
"But when it comes to climate change they insist that ?Big Oil? is pouring billions and billions of dollars into skeptic?s bank accounts. They are not. I have not received one dime of money from any oil company nor do I know anyone who has. But the claim is, Big Oil is essentially employing skeptics to do their dirty work for them. If it were true part of that dirty work would be defending the right to use fossil fuels to power the world today and tomorrow despite the UN?s assertion that the developed world has expropriated the future from the developing nations because they ?used up all the carbon space in the air.?",0_0
"Mix into the mix a very dry spring, not enough warm days, and you have a well insulated pile of, er, crap. And a very large one at that. Ice cubes on a kitchen counter will melt quickly if left apart. Put those same ice cubes in a bag and then on the counter and you have a much different story. For all the science behind the snow farms, check out this companion piece at WBZ-Boston.",0_0
"And even if we did have confidence in the SCC numbers, the policies evolving around the SCC seem quite convoluted and who knows how they would even play out at achieving the larger policy objectives.",0_0
"Best of all, Washington's biggest business government is transformed. In 1978, 50 years after air conditioning was installed in Congress, New York Times columnist Russell Baker noted that, pre-A.C., Congress was forced to adjourn to avoid Washington's torturous summers, and ""the nation enjoyed a respite from the promulgation of more laws, the depredations of lobbyists, the hatching of new schemes for Federal expansion and, of course, the cost of maintaining a government running at full blast.""",0_0
The new paper acknowledges its lineage from earlier work from Greenpeace and thank James Hansen for comments. Epstein et al. also state: The genesis for this paper was a ConferenceThe True Costs of Coal: Building a Healthy Energy Future that was supported by the Energy Foundation and the Rockefeller Family Fund.,0_0
"A paper published today in the International Journal of Climatology finds "" that the atmospheric pressure in the early instrumental period was not significantly different to that of the present day."" Climate models , however, predict a 'human fingerprint' of decreased Arctic atmospheric pressures due to alleged warming from increased greenhouse gases. Once again , the climate models fly in the face of real-world contradictory observations.",5_1
"This area has been very geologically active in the late 1990s and early 2000. There have been numerous sub-ocean volcanic eruptions, nearby land based volcanic eruptions, and major deep ocean fault movements during this time period. This timing matches well with increase in mid ocean depth (100-300 meters) western Pacific Ocean seawater temperature increases as mapped by NASA in the 2000-2015 time period.",0_0
These states have good reason to be concerned. Let's take a look at how Utility MACT will impact some of the most coal dependent states.,0_0
White House and are ready to choose key White House personnel and set a White,0_0
The UNFCCC predetermined the results of the IPCC work by directing them to study only human causes of climate change. The IPCC then narrowed the focus to human produced CO2 as the cause of warming. They directed their efforts to proving rather than disproving their hypothesis. Central to this objective was the need to have atmospheric CO2 levels rise constantly because of a constant rise in human production of CO2.,5_2
"More rational people, like Bob Tisdale, take the long term view and point out that sea surface temperature anomalies along Sandys track havent warmed in 70+ years , while Roger Pielke points out that there is no recent trend in US Hurricane Intensity from 1900-2012 ?? ???the last five years have been the ??? lowest period of landfalling hurricane intensity of any five-year period dating all the way back to 1900.?? Sandy apparently wasn??t an unprecedented record storm surge either ( Tropical Cyclone Mahina, Bathurst Bay, Australia in 1899, was). There have been plenty of worse storms.",1_7
"In late September, Antarctic sea ice hit an all-time high, reaching the highest levelsince modern data-recording began. Chart source: National Snow and Ice Data Center.",1_1
So heres my challenge for NOAA. Prove me wrong. Prove that the USHCN station analysis is not giving the true picture. Show how you come to the conclusions you do and prove that they are correct.,0_0
"The Bing Link cracked it for me. It was obvious looking at the shadows that the weather station, transmitter and radar tower were sat on a level depression protected on three sides by banking ie they had their own micro climate.",0_0
"Their report is hundreds of pages long because they are very smart people. But if you want to save some time, you can get an idea of what is really happening by looking at the following three images. Click on each image to put it in animation mode in its own window. There is oneanimation for each ofthe coasts of California, Oregon and Washington state.",0_0
Actually I like lobsters best when theyve been immersed in very hot water.,0_0
"But ethanol also has its detractors, who claim that it has the potential to do great economic, ecologic, and gastronomic harm while doing little good. Before examining the implications of the use of ethanol as fuel, let us review some of the basics of ethanol: what it is and where it comes from.",0_0
"On the ""bro"" side of the spectrum, the increasing exposure of the manly hairy thigh has become something of a commercial and cultural phenomenon. With a tag line of ""Radical Shorts For Men"" and a ""Sky's out, thighs out"" official mentality (and unofficial mottojust google the phrase), Chubbiesa line of short shorts aimed at menhave conquered the male clothing market. In the second three months of 2012, sales of Chubbies shorts skyrocketed 600 percent. The success of the mid-thigh, elastic-waisted shorts since then continues, and has spawned a type of virtual fraternity: the ""ChubsterNation,"" with its own phraseology and set of facts to live by. (Its influence has also moved upwards, with couturiers this summer attempting to make the male ""short suit"" an office staple.)",0_0
"Seriously, has there even been a more transparent ""heads I win, tails you lose"" argument than saying that unusually cool weather is evidence of global warming?",5_2
"""Did you get a raise last year? Seventy-four percent of White House staffers did, according a Gawker analysis of the White House's annual salary reports to Congress. Probably for the great job they're doing with the economy.""",0_0
"28 Lezlek Buszynski, SEATO: The Failure of an Alliance Strategy, 1984. see also Ronald D. Asmus, ""NATO and Global Partners: Views from the Outside,"" Riga Papers (November 2006).",0_0
"But they fail to recognize that there may be a volcanic heat source as well such as the volcanic mountain range comprising much ofthe Antarctic Peninsula, including volcanoes such as the Seal Nunataksaround the Larsen Ice shelf and under theRoss Ice Shelf here .",2_1
"Team Obama is the government arm of the environmental extremist lobby. It's time to replace it with a Romney team that understands, encourages and enables sensible, responsible North American energy and economic development.",0_0
"With respect to the linkage between higher sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and hurricane activity, the pair notes that Given the increase of intense hurricane landfalls during the later half of the Little Ice Age, tropical SSTs as warm as at present are apparently not a requisite condition for increased intense hurricane activity. In addition, the Caribbean experienced a relatively active interval of intense hurricanes for more than a millennium when local SSTs were on average cooler than modern. They found that hurricane activity over the past 5,000 years has been modulated by the El Nio / La Nia cycle and the strength of the West African monsoon, not by the sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic and certainly not by global temperatures.",1_7
"Barely two months after the inauguration ceremony for Germanys first pilot offshore wind farm, Alpha Ventus in the North Sea, all six of the newly installed wind turbines were completely idle, due to gearbox damage. Two turbines must be replaced entirely; the other four repaired.",4_4
"Climate Common Sense: Ocean Acidification ? - The Sea is Alkaline You Dumbos! Now Blind Freddie can see that with a pH of 8.1 ,a natural pH variation of 1.1 and a pH change of only .1 in the last century the sea will never turn acid and that the change attributed to AGW is negligible compared to the natural variation and all the wee sea beasties will not be dissolved in an acid bath of mankind's making!",3_2
"A new paper published in Earth System Dynamics finds the earth's water cycle is 31% more sensitive to solar-induced warming than to 'greenhouse' warming. As the paper notes, current climate models incorrectly assume the hydrologic cycle is equally sensitive to solar and greenhouse forcing. Thus, this is yet another means by which climate models dismiss the role of the Sun in climate change.",5_1
Efforts to link dangerous impacts of extreme weather events to human-caused warming are misleading and unsupported by evidence.,1_7
"Last month German whippersnapper meteorologist Dominik Jung, a warmist, predicted here the fourth consecutive bitter winter would grip Central Europe this winter and could strain the energy supply. Looks like well need to burn more coal, and not less.",0_0
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"The Center for Global Development calculates that $10 billion invested in renewable energy technology in sub-Saharan Africa could give 20-27 million people access to basic electricity, whereas the same sum spent on gas-fired generation would supply 90 million.",0_0
The most widely used metric of global warmingglobal surface temperaturesindicates that the rate of global warming has slowed drastically and that the duration of the halt in global warming is unusual during a period when global surface temperatures are allegedly being warmed from the hypothetical impacts of manmade greenhouse gases.,1_4
"Obama believes the president should lead a revolution in society, the economy, and the political system, but defer on national security and foreign policy to the other branches of government. This upends the Framers' vision of the presidency.",0_0
"Keith Kloor has a good article at YaleClimateMediaForum, entitled Science Journalism Under Fire . Some excerpts:",0_0
"""So is there any weather pattern that would disprove global warming?'",0_0
3.) EPA claims climate models are reliable. Climate models failed to predict that global warming would stop and greatly exaggerate the warming over the past 30 plus years.,5_1
"Washington, DC, May 25, 1999 The Environmental Protection Agency continues to peddle unfounded fears about global warming and sea level rise even though there is no evidence to support such scares, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute. This week the EPA is sponsoring conferences in Miami and Marathon, Florida to discuss the impacts of global warming on Southern Florida and the Florida Keys, and to discuss solutions to the alleged problem.",5_2
But the Las Vegas Sun gets one of those five things wrong.,0_0
"?The net effect of these anomalous winds is a cooling in the 2012 global average surface air temperature of 0.1?0.2 degree Celsius, which can account for much of the hiatus in surface warming observed since 2001,? wrote Australian researcher led by Matthew England of the University of New South Wales.",0_0
"The results may disappoint my fellow solar enthusiasts because it suggests that only 13% of our electric energy will come from solar. Distributed solar enthusiasts (who favor photovoltaic solar panels on rooftops) will be further disappointed because half of that 13% will come from water-sucking centralized concentrated solar thermal power plants, many located in desert ecosystems, leaving only about 6% for solar panels on rooftops, of which many will probably not be on rooftops but in centralized power plants, probably displacing ecosystems or crops.",4_4
"Under Bush's proposal, companies that begin to comply with Kyoto before it is ratified would be awarded credits that they could sell or use to offset future regulatory obligations. In the absence of a regulatory cap on carbon emissions, the credits are worthless. Only if Kyoto or a similar regulatory program were enacted would the credits yield dividends. ""Credit-holders thus acquire cash incentives to support Kyoto, or lobby for its domestic equivalent,"" says Lewis.",0_0
"In his book, Climate Change: A Natural Hazard, William Kininmonth, former head of Australia?s 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.? It?s one of many errors made to achieve a result; actions that are the opposite of even poor science.",5_1
"Ha! So using the IPCCs misleading shifting of time scales, one could also say that the linear warming trend over the first 50 years of the twentieth century is nearly twice that for the whole century, too!",2_1
"Batemans Bay News, sport and weather | Bay Post",0_0
"What you do is check things for yourself. Anything in a scientific journal should be checked. Anyone publishing in a journal should expect ones work to be checked. If it cannot be checked because it is not transparent or reproducible, then the author and the journal are at fault. If it is not reproducible because of unique circumstances, like cost or duration, it may be necessary to go with the word of the authors tentatively, but it is definitely degraded in terms of scientific merit if so. The truth of science is found in type I discussion, not type III. It is the ultimate democracy.",0_0
"Comparing the 100-millionTitaniccomplex newly built in Belfast with the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the travel writer Simon Calder has commented, There is a great shipbuilding heritage, it is a divided city, but the Guggenheim is great on the outside but rubbish on the inside unlike theTitanicbuilding.",0_0
"The good news for Mr. Zhang, and indeed for all those who believe emissions-reductions are essential, was the unveiling of a study contending that if carbon emissions are taxed, and the proceeds used to reduce growth-stifling income taxes, we can have both lower emissions and higher growth rates, a position this writer has long taken, even though not among the true believers in climate change. But neither I, nor anyone else for that matter, can be certain the believers are wrong. So, nodding in their direction, if it includes a pro-growth adjustment to the tax code, would be worth putting on the table in Paris. And, in fact, pursuing it here in America now as a way of helping the U.S. economy while leading others down the path of environmental virtue. That's what the leadership required of a great nation is all about.",0_0
"Those who have the luxury of abundant and reliable food can afford to decry the economic expansion that is the developing world's best hope of mitigating the myriad problems afflicting their people. It is criminal for rich Westerners to agitate for policies that keep the benefits of biotechnology from those desperate for its boons, and to pass the costs of their idealism onto those least able to suffer the consequences.",0_0
"In the meantime, the $100 billion pledge to the same fund should be reached by $10 billion increments, starting from a $40 billion floor this year;",0_0
A tropical disease rages in a decidedly untropical place Texas. Both science and politics play roles.,0_0
"""The U.S. economy remains dependent on OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) at a time when development of burgeoning natural fossil fuel resources could move the nation toward strategic energy independence.""",0_0
"IPCC: ""Our bad! Global warming not about to melt Himalayas.",0_0
Occasional BH commenter Tamsin Edwards - a climatologist at the University of Bristol - has started her own blog. About time too!,0_0
"With the faulty flux-averaged inputs, Sunlight is imagined to be freezing cold at only -18 degrees C. This isnt strong enough to do anything melt ice, sustain life, heat the beach, etc etc.",0_0
"In Spain, every renewable energy job the government's climate alarmist policies created was offset by two jobs lost in other sectors of the economy that were punished by soaring electricity prices. The demise of a Spanish economy so committed to wind and solar power finally caused reasonable people to reevaluate why these decisions had been made, and the renewable subsidies were slashed, just as they have been in Germany.",4_1
Australias antarctic runway melting | Goondiwindi Argus,0_0
"The new Made in America technology is already changing energy, economic and political landscapes in Europe, and will soon do so across the globe. It is a technologically possible and economically affordable solution that generates bountiful jobs and revenues as opposed to pixie dust solutions that require perpetual subsidies and address speculative problems. Offshore and ANWR drilling could do likewise.",0_0
"A new paper provides more evidence for the reality of the Little Ice Age in the Southern Hemisphere, as well as its increased storminess compared to that of the Medieval and Current Warm Periods",0_0
"So years later, the measurement data for key studies used in both canonical multiproxy studies and illustrated in AR4 Box 6.4 Figure 1 (along, remarkably, with Manns PC1), remains unarchived, with Briffa resolutely stonewalling efforts to have him archive the data.",5_2
"The European Union is leading the charge for verification. Their motive is clear and self-serving. The EU announced last October they are committed to hacking their carbon emissions by a whopping 40 percent by 2030. They've gone all in on climate zaniness, and because EU officials know their carbon reduction policies will likely hike energy prices, kill jobs and stunt economic growth they want to make darn sure others are also intent on slashing and burning their own standards of living as well.",4_1
""" Valley Morning Star in Harlingen, TX, dismantled a months-old pay wall after its traffic collapsed by some 40%."" Proving yet again that Marshall McLuhan was an idiot. The medium is not the message. The message is the message.",0_0
"Why should you be interested? The hypothesis of manmade global warming depends on manmade greenhouse gases being the cause of the recent warming. But the 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. Scroll back up to the discussion of the East Pacific versus the Rest of the World. Ive searched sea surface temperature records for more than 4 years, and I can find no evidence of an anthropogenic greenhouse gas signal. That is, the warming of the global oceans has been caused by Mother Nature, not anthropogenic greenhouse gases.",2_1
"Given the assumptions I have made above, (and with of course no fossil fuels), we would be looking at this scenario.",0_0
"If policymakers were told that this is not so, that ability to reproduce past temperatures indicates only that a particular pairing of assumptions about climate sensitivity and aerosol forcing allowed the reproduction of past temperatures, then the logical question would be: which model gets the correct pairing of sensitivity and aerosol forcing? In answer to this, climate modelers would have to say that they do not know , and the best that could be done would be to use all the models (this is called the ensemble approach). But of course it is possible that all the models were very badly wrong in what they assumed about sensitivity.",5_1
"The ?social cost of carbon? has lately been a flashpoint in wider political and lobbying battles over White House?s climate change policy, especially planned Environmental Protection Agency carbon standards for power plants.",0_0
"By Timothy Cama, The Hill, Aug 9, 2015",0_0
"Indeed, the Soviet Union in 1985 possessed much of the same natural and human resources that it had 10 years before. Certainly, the standard of living was much lower than in most of Eastern Europe, let alone the West. Shortages, food rationing, long lines in stores, and acute poverty were endemic. But the Soviet Union had known far greater calamities and coped without sacrificing an iota of the state's grip on society and economy, much less surrendering it.",0_0
"The most widely used metric of global warming global surface temperatures the metric most often used in predictions of future gloom and doom, indicates that the rate of global warming has slowed drastically and that the duration of the hiatus in global warming is unusual during a period when global surface temperatures are allegedly being warmed from the hypothetical impacts of manmade greenhouse gases.",1_4
"The National Park Service is seeking an energetic professional individual to serve as the Cultural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Coordinator. The position is located in Washington, DC and provides cultural resource management assistance to park units, and provides leadership and guidance to stakeholders in the cultural resource management and historic preservation communities nationwide on issues relating to climate change. Candidates interested in this position should have an indepth knowledge of climate change science either as a consumer or generator of climate change data and models to support decisions in cultural resource management and adaptation.",0_0
"For far too long, federally-funded global warming research has been a tool of alarmist ideologues bent on convincing policy makers that human-induced climate change requires drastic government intervention, whatever the status of the science itself. Through misleading summaries of technical studies and omission of conflicting evidence, previous studies have been intentionally crafted to support the alarmist position.",5_2
"Many countries in the Third World are also experiencing the effects of climate change. In Africa, Lake Chad is now a twentieth of the size it was in the 1950s, leaving millions potentially without water. The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu is planning the evacuation of its entire population as sea levels continue to rise.",0_0
"Shock, Shock ... the Climate Catastrophe Lobby is Telling Fibs",0_0
"Most of what we know of global warming comes from computer models, which are only as good as the scientists who design them and the data they are fed. One model, for volcanoes, is now shown to be pretty much junk :",5_1
Science journalism is getting smacked around a lot this week. The hits are coming from all directions.,0_0
"It seems to be in Gothenburg as it happens things, in all cases, what applies climate. Jimmy Fredriksson wrote a krnika entitled The party has been hijacked by Expressen on May 31 this year. Krnikan about the anniversary celebration that keeps p to frberedas as the town fills 400 is about nine years (2021).",0_0
Reduce Australian CO2 emissions and provide low cost power by building new coal plants!,4_5
"""President Obama's cap-and-trade proposal to ration energy that is now being considered by the Congress would be an enormous new indirect tax on consumers,"" said Myron Ebell, Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy for the Competitive Enterprise Institute. ""If enacted, Obama's energy tax would be the biggest tax increase in history.""",4_1
"Regarding storms, studiesfind no long-term increase in the strength and frequency of land-falling hurricanes globally over the past 50-70 years and no trend in Atlantic tropical cyclone behavior over the past 370 years .",1_7
"13 S. Baliunas and W. Soon, Are variations in the length of the activity cycle related to changes in brightness in solar-type stars? Astrophysical Journal 450, 896 (1995). The reason Northern Hemisphere land temperatures are plotted instead of global temperatures is that the Northern Hemisphere record extends back further than the global. Where the two records overlap, there is good agreement.",0_0
"What Postma proposes (if implemented correctly) might make sense for Mars, with a large diurnal cycle and pole-to-equator gradient, with local thermodynamic balances in a column. However, the fact that equation 12.1 doesa good job of simulating the actual surface temperature of Mars (which has an optically thin atmosphere)implies that added complexity is not necessary.",0_0
"8. Whether increased CO2 levels cause significant warming or not, the increased CO2 levels themselves will result in considerable increases in the growth rate of plants, including our food crops and forests.",3_3
"The evidence for this corruption is everywhere, but it does not mean that all of the science is bad. Climate scientists like to claim the emails represent a small problem in a local group of people. The global warming isnt proven wrong they say. They contend that we still have disasters looming and we need to address them. Its true that climate science wasnt proven wrong, but it was proven corrupt. The very fact that climatologists sit in groups and insist/believe they have full agreement of their peers demonstrates, not the quality of understanding the science, but rather the quality of the penetrations of politics into an uncertain and VERY YOUNG science.",5_2
"Now, I know that Curry doesn?t want to win against Mann. She doesn?t want to set the precedent that thin-skinned scientists can run around bullying their critics. So she should sue with the goal of making a settlement: that she will drop Curry vs. Mann?if he drops Mann vs. Steyn. It?s a kind of mutually assured destruction for censorship.",0_0
"(Initially I was thinking about larger birds, but then I remembered a film of geese flying above I think it was the Himalayas so that doesnt look very helpful as even today some of our larger birds fly well above 3200m. The bigger problem may be take-off!).",0_0
"8. They simply can not model what they do not know. ANY computer model can only tell you things in the domain of your present understanding. If your understanding is broken, so is your model. They know that CO2 is causal (despite the data) and that is what they model, ergo what they find. The truth is that we really dont know how weather and climate work completely, so any model can at best be used to show places to do more research, not to make policy. They dont predict, they inform of our ignorance.",5_1
So what's science about? Acting the morally self-assured superhero or establishing theories by challenging them to see if they withstand scrutiny?,0_0
"Was the division between conventional and unconventional oil devised to cover up the failure of the peak oilers? No way. The distinction is useful in a variety of ways for analyzing the world of oil sources. I think that the concept was simply appropriated by the peak oilers because it was very useful to them, since it totally obscured the failure of their peak oil predictions. To me, oil is oil is oil, and if you claim the world will run out of oil, you cant later say that you have redefined things, and that the oil that proves your prediction wrong is some other special kind of oil that doesnt count as oil but walks like oil and quacks like oil ...",0_0
"In former times, the job of official climate witch-hunting had been one of the German Ministry of Environment, which even went so far as to identify, target and attack skeptic US and German scientists and journalists all because they held non-alarmist views on climate change. Fortunately that activity turned out to be somewhat embarrassing, and thus the activist Ministry thought that it was best to end it.",5_2
More and more senators appear to be favouring a delay in the passing of the ETS legislation. The latest to go public is Family First senator Steve Fielding:,0_0
"Take the recently concluded Syria negotiations. As thousands died, and millions fled, as hatreds festered, jihadi groups metastasized and populations radicalized, the United States and Russia edged toward an agreement that would lead to a cease fire. After fevered speculation that the long sought agreement would be signed at the G-20 meeting in China ended in disappointment, John Kerry flew to Geneva and came back with something.",0_0
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"Human beings exploit the environment. This isn't a bad thingit is how we survive and thrive. We don't have claws or fur. We don't live in trees or burrow underground, and really, who would want to? The way that humans have evolved from shivering in a dark caves to curling up in a heated home, under a down blanket, with music, lights, and indoor plumbing, is by analyzing our environment and altering it in ways that improve our lives. It's the human way.",0_0
"Last warns, ""Our population profile is so dependent on Hispanic fertility that if this group continues falling toward the national averageand everything about American history suggests that it willthen our 1.93 fertility rate will take a nosedive."" The United States should not count on a population surge via Mexico, where 60 percent of the Hispanic immigrants into this country come from. Mexico's fertility rate has fallen from 6.72 in 1970 to 2.07 in 2009, a trend that points to further decline. In addition, labor shortages in Latin America will likely lead to diminished emigration.",0_0
"Currently, arguments against renewable energy are based on the accurate claim they are too inefficient to become widespread. The technology behind solar and wind power are just not where they need to be to justify widespread use.",4_4
"A short two weeks laterI wrotea post about record cold in the US in 2014, and find out that the US has shrunk down to 1/2 of 1 percent of the Earths Surface",1_3
"""Gore was right and Monckton wrong about sea level""",0_0
"Both governmental and environmental groups have generally been hostile to adaptation-based responses to climate change, as they view such approaches as surrender, an acceptance of the idea that GHG emissions will continue, that the climate will change, and that people will come to believe they can adapt. They fear that a focus on adapting to climate change would detract from a focus on mitigating emissions.",0_0
Here is a graphic of Murray Darling Basin rainfall note the sharp increase in the 1940s what caused that ?,0_0
Here are different start dates that survey coordinators could have used and the resultant temperature trends to the present:,0_0
"The basis of most of the IPCC comin 300 euron Casino Euron bonuksen, nautit varmasti eraista netin parhaista hetkista kasinopeleja pelaillen. conclusions on anthropogenic causes and on projections of climatic change is the assumption of low level of CO2 in the pre-industrial atmosphere. This assumption, based on glaciological studies, is false.",0_0
"""Gosh, Daddy, it sounds like you made a really important contribution to raising awareness of Climate Change!""",0_0
"Jan vejnar, a professor of economics at University of Michigan and a U.S. citizen, decided that he wants to be the next Czech president who will be elected by the Parliament in February 2008. Vclav Klaus remains the likely winner but with the support of the Czech Social Democratic Party and the Green Party, vejnar becomes a serious contender. Jan vejnar vs Lubo Motl : a Google fight I have nothing against him personally but I find it somewhat strange for a person who has no idea about the life in the Czech Republic to become its president. He has lived in the U.S. since 1970 or so.",0_0
VILLAGER #3: B--... 'cause they're made of wood...?,0_0
"Note that they do not say that the regression is necessarily contaminated by nonsense predictors, merely that it is susceptible. As youll see below, Mann, in one of his usual debating tricks, shifts from one to the other, in replying to this. In their running text, they go on to say:",0_0
"Clearly, the pattern in which stations are being opened and closed is not this self-evident so most of the change cancels out. But 3 ??C is a lot. If 1/5 of this worst-estimate error isn't canceled, you may cancel the whole 20th century ""global warming"". More realistically, if the real effect from this shift within rectangles is 1/10 of the maximum, you will reduce the 20th century warming to 1/2 of its reported value.",5_1
"In what appears to be a major concerted effort, several Green activist organizations have released reports warning about the dangers of global warming, and the media are reporting them with the same seriousness they would peer-reviewed scientific papers. Greenpeace (see below) has released a report that claims that coral reefs could disappear in the next 100 years.",0_0
Consider other recent research that ought to give our arm-chair climatologists in Congress pause.,0_0
"Dr Mayor added: Our results highlight a potentially positive effect of global warming it may increase the number of healthy copepods in our seas, which is good news for the larvae of fish such as cod and herring, and ultimately fishermen.",3_2
"The endangerment decision has a number of serious flaws. The agency decided to rely on existing reports, primarily that of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). As the EPA's Alan Carlin and climate analyst and skeptic Pat Michaels document, this creates a problem, because the scientific work on which the last IPCC report rests is now more than three years old, and in the intervening period several significant research reports have appeared that cast serious doubt on its conclusions.",5_1
"If I take the average annual increment from 1958-1981 and increase it by 1.5% per year until 2008, I get 385.35 ppmv. The Mauna Loa Observatory's value for 2008 is 385.57 ppmv.",0_0
Biases Driving Biases in CMIP5 Models of Earth's Major Monsoons (14 January 2015),5_1
11a. Data availability for climate change analysis is currently adequate or inadequate,0_0
"If the Alliance survived a debacle of the magnitude of Suez in 1956, it can withstand anything. The main danger for NATO therefore is not military failure or even a Suez-like temporary political meltdown, but something more insidious. Over time, what an ill-conceived globalization of NATO could lead to is the transformation of the tactical coalition that the Shanghai Cooperation Organization currently is into a strategic ""NATO of the East"" while at the same time perverting the Atlantic Alliance into, so to speak, a ""SEATO of the West"" namely, a make-believe alliance with no viable strategy (because a conventional military configuration is irrelevant when the threats are of the asymmetric variety) and no coherent policy (because the interests of the global members are simply too heterogeneous to ever converge.)",0_0
"Flashback 2011: Gore now claims ""increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with man-made global warming' But Gore never warned of looming ""heavy snowfalls' in his 2006 film The man who ""created' the Internet finds his website (and his science) not up to the task Climate Depot's Rebuttal",0_0
"The US administration has made clear it will not sign up to a Kyoto-style deal, with stringent emission reduction targets, but will consider new and cleaner technologies. Although no major proposals for action are expected, nor any new money to develop clean technologies.",0_0
"The downbeat attitude was further reinforced with the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s. It was widely understood that this represented the death of socialism's traditional conceptions. Less commonly appreciated was the general acceptance that no form of improved society is possible. The ""end of history"" proclaimed at the time was really the end, at least for the time being, of the idea of progress.",0_0
"Arroyo: Carol, some groups say the 2013 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, that they failed to recognize this pause in global warming. Is that an issue? Do they have a point? Theres been this sort of 18 year pause where, you dont, its not warming up? (See: Global warming pause expands to new record length': No warming for 18 years 5 months )",1_4
"Since the discovery and generation of energy with coal, oil, and natural gas, generations have lived lives not only different from all who preceded them, but better in so many ways, not the least of which is extended life expectancy. Nations with energy are places where people live longer, healthier lives. They are also wealthier nations where the energy translates into industry, jobs, transportation, and all the other attributes of modern life.",4_5
"It is instructive to note that over the past century and a half of ever-increasing fossil fuel utilization and atmospheric CO 2 buildup , the frequency of the most intense category of hurricanes in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico has been lower than it was over the prior five millennia , which speaks volumes about the climate-alarmist claim that continued anthropogenic CO 2 emissions will lead to more frequent super cyclones and hurricanes.",1_7
"Families will face sleep deprivation, greater stress and depression, and more drug and alcohol abuse, spousal and child abuse, and 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 afford to heat their homes properly.",0_0
"""In one of the most politically charged judicial elections since Rose Bird lost her seat in California, Wisconsin voters marched to the polls and delivered a dead heat. Fewer than 600 votes separate incumbent Justice David Prosser and his labor-backed opponent, JoAnne Kloppenburg, with Prosser barely in front. Almost 1.5 million voters cast ballots in this race, not far from the 2.1 million who voted in November's Senate race, an indication of the stakes involved in this election:""",0_0
"There was a cooling scare in the early 1970s at the end of the last cooling phase. The current global warming alarm is based on the last warming oscillation, from 1975 to 2001. The IPCC predictions simply extrapolated the last warming as if it would last forever, a textbook case of alarmism. However the last warming period ended after the usual thirty years or so, and the global temperature is now definitely tracking below the IPCC predictions.",1_4
"For starters, UN Rio+20 Conference threatens people, prosperity, and nature too.",0_0
"9) Are Humans Responsible for the CO2 Rise? While there are short-term (year-to-year) fluctuations in the atmospheric CO2 concentration due to natural causes, especially El Nino and La Nina, I currently believe that most of the long-term increase is probably due to our use of fossil fuels. But from what I can tell, the supposed ?proof? of humans being the source of increasing CO2 ? a change in the atmospheric concentration of the carbon isotope C13 ? would also be consistent with a natural, biological source. The current atmospheric CO2 level is about 390 parts per million by volume, up from a pre-industrial level estimated to be around 270 ppm?maybe less. CO2 levels can be much higher in cities, and in buildings with people in them.",0_0
Video: Heartland Event Featuring Cedric Keith A Discussion About Libertarian Ecology,0_0
"The study , by scientist Leif Kullman, analyzed 455 radiocarbon-dated mega-fossils in the Scandes mountains and found that tree lines for different species of trees were higher during the Roman and Medieval times than they are today. Not only that, but the temperatures were higher as well.",2_1
"We have this extra term ""qubit"" or ""quantum bit"" to describe a unit of information in quantum mechanics. Does it prove that the information means something completely different in quantum physics? Well, yes and no. To have the information \(n\) qubits means to describe the physical system as a vector in a \(2^n\)-dimensional complex linear Hilbert space \(\HH\). Or a density matrix in the corresponding space of density matrices pretty much in \(\HH\otimes \HH\). But you must understand that this state vector isn't classical information yet. It's just an auxiliary tool to predict information to predict information that you may call classical.",0_0
"Since the President and President-elect start spending quality Oval Office time together today, and since the incoming admistration's advisors can't settle on either pushing a ""Big Bang"" agenda or something more incremental, we at CEI are more than happy to help. While they're busy trying to lower expectations for a 100-Day agenda, we prefer to raise them--but in the direction of freedom rather than yet more central planning from Washington.",0_0
"Power markets are too volatile and carbon prices too low to drive investment in expensive, capital-intensive renewables, nuclear power and carbon capture and storage, and help Britain meet binding national CO2 targets.",0_0
"Im game. Since this is a game, Im not going to provide a lot of caveats for my method.",0_0
"Back then, meteorologist Anthony Watts was busy documenting evidence of problems with the official temperature record in the US because of poor placement of weather stations and Ross McKitrick was attempting to calculate just how artificially elevated temperatures might be as a consequence.",5_1
FakeGate: Just Another Day at Team GreenChris Horner's post in The American Spectator Blogs,0_0
"RIVERSIDE, Calif. Oxygen in the atmosphere and ocean rose dramatically about 600 million years ago, coinciding with the first proliferation of animal life. Since then, numerous short lived biotic events typically marked by significant climatic perturbations took place when oxygen concentrations in the ocean dipped episodically.",0_0
"Would a straight shooterconcoct anything as weirdly convoluted as this rule? The Clean Air Act defines performance standard as a standard for emissions of air pollutants which reflects the degree of emission limitation achievable through the application of the best system of emission reduction which . . . the Administrator determines has been adequately demonstrated. The EPA picked 1,000 lbs CO2/MWh as the standard because that is a typical emissions rate of new NGCC power plants. But NGCC is a type of power plant, not a system of emission reduction.Gas turbines have been adequately demonstrated only as power sources not as emission reduction systems for coal boil ers. To my knowledge, the EPA has neverbeforeselected a performance standard such that one type of facility can comply only by being something other than what it is .",0_0
"Curtis Brainard of the Columbia Journalism Review observed: I?d say that most journalists didn?t learn anything from the ?ClimateGate? and IPCC-errors ?pseudo scandals??those events only served to confuse editors and reporters.? He was less confused about motives behind the reporting of those events, stating, ?The New York Times had a great front-page story about climate denial being an ?article of faith? for the Tea Party, which made it clear that the group?s climate politics are not synchronous with climate science.?",0_0
"Two countries Brazil and Indonesia produced the highest emissions between 2000 and 2005, and accounted for 55 percent of total emissions from tropical deforestation. Nearly 40 percent of all forest loss in the study region was concentrated in the dry tropics, but accounted for only 17 percent of total carbon emissions, reflecting low carbon stocks in these forests compared to tropical moist forests.",0_0
Australias antarctic runway melting | Gloucester Advocate,0_0
"The other report is Reproduction and the Carbon Legacies of Individuals byPaul A. Murtaugha and Michael G. Schlax, published in the journal, Global Environmental Change .",0_0
Solvable - This nation is lucky that the problem is solvable. We already have technology available so we don't have to burn 10 times more fossil fuel. The life we enjoy comes from us. To solve the problem it will take courage to try solutions based on the free market.,0_0
Such claims have become popular among academic sophisticates.,0_0
scientists are putting the growth acceleration down to rising temperatures and the extended growing season. Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and nitrogen are other factors contributing to the faster growth.??,3_3
"These several observations help to demonstrate the worldwide nature of the millennial-scale oscillation of climate that alternately brings the planet century-scale warm and cold periods independently of any variations in atmospheric CO 2 concentration , which suggests there is no need to invoke the historical rise in the air's CO 2 content as the cause of the Little Ice Age-to-Current Warm Period transition, as it is likely nothing more than the natural continuation of this age-old cycle of climate. Reviewed 16 July 2008",2_1
"Specifically addressing the Keystone pipeline, Podesta has said: ""I think he should not approve it. I'm of the view that you just can't meet the standard now that Obama set out: Does it or does it not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution? What are the net effects? And I think a fair review of that would say the net effects are big and they're negative.""",0_0
"My interim conclusion is that while it might be the case than some very hot days might have a negative impact on drought stressed crops, this may be more than offset by the beneficient aspects of generally increased sunshine hours and longer growing seasons, not to mention extra co2, which is known to reduce drought stress and increase grain and fruit size. We would be able to make better assessments if sunshine hours figures were available for the specific locations in France where the data was gathered.",3_3
"New rock fracturing technology available starting in 2008 has caused a recent boom in Bakken production. By the end of 2010 oil production rates had reached 458,000 barrels (72,800m 3 ) per day outstripping the capacity to ship oil out of the Bakken. The production technology gain has led a veteran industry insider to declare that the USGS estimates are too low.",4_5
"So the Government is using Peter Spencer's land as a ""carbon sink"". Peter Spencer is not using his land at all. He is not allowed to. And he can't sell it. The governments of New South Wales and of the Australian Commonwealth have exercised eminent domain over his property, making it in all but name theirs and not his. And they have not compensated him, on just terms or on any terms.",0_0
A long-awaited United Nations report on global warming predicts rising global temperatures over the next century.,0_0
"8.	""The fight against climate change is the central touchstone for a solidary global society "" No, nobody can fight solar activity.",0_0
"Unfortunately for the prognosticators, an official El Nino didn't occur although the waters in the tropical Pacific were slightly above normal. Perhaps, we should have called it El Tepid.",0_0
"It sure looks to me like no net heat gain in Australian Vineyards. Nice cyclical rolling motion, though. Bit o warm in 2001, then a gentle fall off back to a lower normal range. 2004 ought to be a nice vintage for German Style whites Id expect the 2001 vintage to have been picked early for the reds, lest they be thin. But a properly harvested Australian Red from 2001 could be quite nice, especially the lighter styles. If the same pattern held for New Zealand, they might well have gotten enough heat to make some reds with rich body. (Often, New Zealand is not hot enough to make a sturdy red. They make wonderful wines, but a lighter style. Ill have to look up a 2001 N.Z. red and see how it is..)",0_0
The IPCCs 4.8 C-by-2100 prediction is four times the observed real-world warming trend since we might in theory have begun influencing it in 1950.,5_1
"The former prime minister will be paid at least 700,000 a year to act as a ?strategic adviser? to Khosla Ventures, a venture capitalist firm founded by Indian billionaire Vinod Khosla.",0_0
"At a Jan. 6 meeting of the South Dakota Public Utility Commission, regulators allowed the re-approval process to continue. But in a December meeting, the opponents were granted ""party status"" in the approval process, meaning they can cross-examine witnesses and request documents from TransCanada. Sure enough, on Jan. 6, Dakota Rural Action requested documents from the commission.",0_0
"Morgan argued that Kyoto's ""most severe impact would be on consumers, not producers of energy. ecause more than 80 percent of greenhouse gas emissions come from the consumption of energy rather than its production."" Morgan also warned, ""Since EnCana operates in many countries in the world, we have greater flexibility than non-international companies to move our investment programs if growth is constrained here in Canada.""",0_0
"Neither of them asked what kind of scientific consensus it was if, say, Freeman Dyson of the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies declined to join it. Isnt the overwhelming scientific consensus really just a consensus between climate scientists, and therefore no more impressive than the undoubted fact that one hundred percent of gymnasium attendants believe that regular exercise is vital to longevity?",5_1
"What a total waste of time. Famiglietti mouthed off to Envronmental Science and Technology last August and replaced Saiers as editor in charge of our file. He then took the comments by Ritson and by A&W; (already rejected by Saiers) out of the garbage can, told us that the Ritson comment was accepted, then he rejected the Ritson comment after he saw our reply. Likewise with Ammann and Wahl. Needless to say, Famiglietti did not say that the Little Whopper was rejected because it withheld adverse results or misrepresented our work, but merely because ""the key points of the debate are already out there"" ??? which was the same (perhaps polite) reason that Saiers gave in the first place last May.",5_2
Bove found also most large outbreaks and major tornadoes occur in cold (La Nina) or neutral (La Nada) years. He refers to the analyses by Grazulis in 1991.,1_7
"In the absence of any explanation of the substitution , there is reason to be concerned about the reasons for using one series rather than the other",0_0
"Perhaps the ""leaders,"" in signing their names, have ""accepted the science,"" but read what individuals have to say in the comment portion of any of the aforementioned news stories and you'll see that there is still a great deal of debate regarding global warmingor was it global cooling, or maybe we should just call it climate change. Whatever it is, the alarmists say is urgent.",5_1
"That episode is apt because of the central role trust plays and because of the role puzzle solvers play in uncovering that the do-gooder aliens cannot be trusted. Serving, of course, has now taken on new meanings, as in you got served or pwned. With the release of the news that Mann successfully instructed Wahl to delete emails, its clear that Mann got served or pwned by Wahl; but more importantly, he got served or assisted by Dr. Pell, Dr. Scaroni, Dr Brune, and Dr. Foley. Who are they? They are the Penn State team who served Dr. Mann by purporting to exonerate him in the Penn State inquiry, despite Mann??s own non-responsive response to a key question being on its face evasive, and begging followup questions. Regardless, Mann??s non-answer did not even purport to support their conclusion about his actions. In short, they covered for him.",5_2
Here we show compelling evidence for a growing trend in the ferocity of strong tornadoes across the United States.,0_0
The dendrochronological data from this recent sampling have not yet been published and it is the prerogative of the Ekaterinburg laboratory to publish the first dendroclimatological analysis of the data that they have spent many years and extensive effort in collecting and processing. ...,0_0
"It's spin of course, although perhaps not quite as blatant as we are used to from Fiona Fox et al. As one might expect there's a lot of emphasis on natural variability and not a lot on why the observations are on the cusp of falling out of the uncertainty bands. Lots of ""our understanding is getting better"" and not a lot of ""nobody has a clue what's going on"".",0_0
5) UK Government Begins To Shift Freeze Blame Onto Science Community,0_0
United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali Hijacked by European Liberals,0_0
"Recall that CO2 was more or less steady at 280 ppm before starting its sharp climb 150 years ago. Yet, the smoothed temperature curves over a range of almost 2C and the annual measurements range over 6C! This completely contradicts the old storyline that climate had been more or less stable before man started emitting CO2. Clearly an array of powerful natural factors are at play here.",2_1
"The unexpected development of cycle 24 emphasizes the need for a better way to model future solar activity. In this article, we analyze the accumulation of spotless days during individual cycles from 17982010. The analysis shows that spotless days do not disappear abruptly in the transition toward an active Sun. A comparison with past cycles indicates that the ongoing accumulation of spotless days is comparable to that of cycle 5 near the Dalton minimum and to that of cycles 12, 14, and 15. It also suggests that the ongoing cycle has as much as 208 spotless days left, from July 2010, before it reaches the next solar maximum. The last spotless day is predicted to be in December 2012, with an uncertainty of 11 months. This trend may serve as input to the solar dynamo theories.",0_0
"Business leaders criticised the CRC which was created by Labour but implemented by the Coalition as ""complex and bureaucratic"". One accused ministers of swinging ""a big hammer"" at companies and questioned whether it would have any environmental benefits.",0_0
"In 1988, in a move that marked a shift to the politicization of forecasts, Congress asked the Environmental Protection Agency to report on the potential effects of global warming. Computer forecasting became much more complex; output from the huge climate models became input into ecological models. My projection for the little warbler was part of that work. The attempt was to be more realistic, but the result was that forecasts became more difficult to verify and also more alarming, thus drawing more and more public attention.",5_1
"Take the current (!) financial crisis as an example. Many of the banks and brokerages failed to both define the events that are now happening, and they extent of the cost of those events. How much will it cost to clean it up? Nobody knows. This is the proper answer. We might be able to bound itmore than half a billion, sayand that might be the best anybody can say (except that I have been asked to pay for it).",0_0
"Agreements 5, 6, and 7 are bilateral agreements to cooperate on a program (GLOBE) to promote primary- and secondary-school science and education on the environment. The program was created by an inter-agency agreement among the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization (NOAA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1998. The program is to be funded up to $2 million annually from the budgets of the participating agencies.",0_0
Such an attitude shows how removed from reality the deep green mentality has become.,0_0
"The limited success of such energy conservation campaigns reveals an unpleasant reality for fans of energy frugality: it is hard for consumers to change their direct energy use radically or quickly. Houses and cars are expensive, depreciating, long-lasting assets. Household energy efficiency modifications can be costly, unsightly, inconvenient, or all of the above. Patchwork changes may not even deliver energy benefits. For instance, installing double-paned windows in an old, poorly insulated house might result in little or no energy savings. In recent decades, the square footage of new houses has expanded. Many Americans clearly value having more space but may not be able to afford to make these larger homes more energy efficient.",0_0
"By hiding the true cost of wind energy, the PTC makes the Presidents carbon agenda appear less costly than it actually is. Wind energy is one of the most expensive sources of electricity: power from new wind resources is nearly four times more expensive than from existing nuclear and nearly three times more expensive than from existing coal. Perhaps the most significant thing this Congress can do to protect ratepayers and taxpayers from the damage of the Presidents carbon regulation is preventing another extension of the wind PTC.",4_4
"The NAS has come under fire for its lobbying practices. See: NAS Pres. Ralph Cicerone Turns Science Org. into political advocacy group: $6 million NAS study is used to lobby for global warming bill & Cicerone??s Shame: NAS Urges Carbon Tax, Becomes Advocacy Group ??? ???political appointees heading politicized scientific institutions that are virtually 100% dependent on gov??t funding?? MIT??s Richard Lindzen harshly rebuked NAS president Cicerone in his Congressional testimony in November 2010. Lindzen testified: ???Cicerone is saying that regardless of evidence the answer is predetermined. If government wants carbon control, that is the answer that the Academies will provide.??",5_2
"Those millions and billions already struggling with malnutrition, sickness, violence, illiteracy, etc. don't have that luxury. The price of ""climate protection"" with its cumulative and collateral effects is bound to destroy and debilitate in great numbers, for decades and generations.",4_1
"Australias antarctic runway melting. AUSTRALIAS $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a new air link to .",0_0
"5. Pachauri said that Arctic temperatures would rise twice as fast as global temperatures over the next 100 years. However, he failed to point out that the Arctic was actually 1-2 Celsius degrees warmer than the present in the 1930s and early 1940s. It has become substantially cooler than it was then.",2_1
"public education on the risk of global warming and implementation of sound solutions, conservation of natural resources, protection of health as affected by the environment, meaningful implementation and enforcement of the nations environmental laws, and public participation in national environmental policy debates.",0_0
"But, if you assume the Trenberthian global-average value of 330 W/m2 for downwelling sky radiation, the soil cools from 80 to about 67 deg. F, a much more realistic value:",0_0
"The next step in message development is coordination at both the state and the academic level. Historically, Republicans have taken advantage of think tanks as policy repositoriesa relationship, some will argue, that frayed during the Bush years. Perhaps the shrunken Republican minority on Capitol Hill will prompt a renewal of those ties. Fifteen years ago, Republicans in Congress worked with Republican governors to showcase government reforms at the state level, such as welfare reform in Wisconsin and criminal justice reform in California. Governors, it turned out, knew what they were doing. From 1990 to 1995, the number of Republican governors nationwide grew from a minority of eighteen to a majority of thirty. But after a net loss of one more governorship in the November election, the number of Republican governors is down to twenty-one, its lowest in nearly two decadesthe shallow end of an ideas pool.",0_0
"The evidence does not support the anthropogenic claims of the warmers, but, in fact the evidence makes their modeling and theories problematic and wrong. Imagine that?",5_1
"The two Australian researchers report that ""the observed global decrease in diurnal temperature range over the period of 1951-2005 resulting from the relatively larger increase in minimum temperatures than maximum temperatures is not captured in historical experiments of CMIP5 participating models."" In light of this finding, Lewis and Karoly conclude that ""ubiquitous model deficiencies in cloud cover and land surface processes that impact the accurate simulation of regional minimum or maximum temperature changes"" are likely responsible for the models' inability to simulate the real-world DTR observations.",5_1
"Ref: Letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, dated 3-26-12, regarding a request for NASA to refrain from making unsubstantiated claims that human produced CO2 is having a catastrophic impact on climate change.",0_0
"What ethanol is likely to do is lead to sharply higher food prices as less land is used to raise low-profit foods and more is used to raise high-profit biofuel crops. It is likely to increase local air pollution, water pollution, and, ironically, greenhouse gas emissions.",0_0
"On the basis of what PCF have written, a global cooling scientific consensus did exist in the 1970s, if only for a few years.",5_1
Keystone XL And Two Other Things That Won't Happen In 2015,0_0
"The senators noted in their letter to Mr. Clinton that his own undersecretary of state, Frank Loy, had said at the collapse of talks in the Netherlands: ""Nations can only negotiate abroad what they believe they can ratify at home. The United States is not in the business of signing-up to agreements it knows it cannot fulfill. We don't make promises we can't keep.""",0_0
"In one of the tragedies of Sophocles, the woman Antigone seeks to give her dead brother a proper burial, but is forbidden by the king because her brother was an enemy of the state. She replies to the tyrant that there is another law higher than the states, and that she will follow it because of its divine authority. Not even the king may require anyone to violate it. Moreover, it requires not only forbearance from evil but active pursuit of the good: in this case, doing the honors for her brother.",0_0
Involves both direct (surface heating) and indirect (stratospheric influence) components,0_0
"10. Obama can't afford to hand a major campaign issue to his Republican opponent. Earlier this month, Obama backed down on a proposed rules that would have dramatically tightened standards on ground-level ozone. He will approve the Keystone pipeline. Doing otherwise will hurt his chances of staying in the White House for another four years. And while he knows that some environmentalists won't be happy, he also knows that few, if any, of them will abandon him for a candidate like Rick Perry.",0_0
"While it's easy to make light of such nonsense, no one should take these people lightly. They mean business. Using climate change as the pretext, they are determined to put an end to the way we have traditionally chosen the homes, where we raise our families.",4_1
"Indeed, the ""experts"" have been unable to scientifically explain why there has been a 'hiatus' or 'pause' in global warning, let alone the cooling trends experienced in various parts of the world. That doesn't mean the scientists are not speculating as hard as possible as to why - so far, they have conjured up 7 reasons they never mentioned prior to the global warming going AWOL.",1_4
202-331-2282 / boberwetter@cei.org,0_0
"Meanwhile, Congress and EPA are pouring tens of millions of taxpayer dollars into Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiatives, to help RGGI director Jonathan Schrag persuade states to implement increasingly restrictive fossil fuel, emission and renewable energy mandates, regardless of what Congress does and pay for his new $2.2-million loft in Manhattan.",0_0
Wisconsin's Misguided Greenhouse Gas Efforts,0_0
"So I thought Id look at the CERES dataset, and see what it has to say. I started with the surface temperature question. CERES contains a calculated surface dataset that covers twelve years. But in the process, I got surprised by the results of a calculation that for some reason Id never done before. You know how the IPCC says that if the CO2 doubles, the earth will warm up by 3C? Here was the question that somehow Id never asked myself how many watts/m2 will the surface downwelling radiation (longwave + shortwave) have to increase by, if the surface temperature rises by 3C?",0_0
"Welcome to the fascinating world of EPA benefit/cost analysis. Before this truck rule and the other components of the Obama climate policy were promulgated, the administration conducted an ""analysis"" of the ""social cost of carbon"" (SCC), in order to generate an estimate of the marginal externality cost of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). The problems with that analysis are legion, but the central ones are the use of global (rather than national) benefits to drive the benefit/cost comparison; the failure to apply a 7 percent discount rate to the streams of benefits and costs, despite clear direction from the Office of Management and Budget; and most important the use of ozone and particulate reductions as ""co-benefits"" of climate policies. The administration's estimate is about $36 per ton in 2015 ($31 per ton in 2010).",0_0
"(2)In Lindzen and Choi, 2009, what was said was Thus, the small OLR feedback from ERBE might represent the absence of any OLR feedback; it might also result from the cancellation of a possible positive water vapor feedback due to increased water vapor in the upper troposphere and a possible negative iris cloud feedback involving reduced upper level cirrus clouds",3_1
"The magazine article, which was written by Mark Bowen , a climber and author of two books on climate change, appeared in Climbing magazine in 2002. It quoted anecdotal evidence from climbers of retreating glaciers and the loss of ice from climbs since the 1970s.",0_0
"Indeed, he not only junked the Space Shuttle, he also cut NASA's planetary sciences budget by one-fifth, and pulled funding from the proposed Constellation program for returning to the moon. More notoriously, he expanded NASA's priorities to include Muslim outreach and monitoring ""climate change.""",0_0
"Day Laborers in LA, Nuclear Power and Corporate Finance",0_0
"Murphy's column noted that temperatures in Ontario had been cool in July 2009 and he wondered why nobody had bothered to issue a global cooling alert; if the temperatures had been unusually warm, wouldn't that have been blamed on global warming? Murphy wrote:",0_0
"Where is the empirical evidence for warming greater than 1.2 degrees? No one can name and explain a single paper that shows long term positive feedback that amplifies the warming, as the climate alarmists assert.",3_1
NASA orders a review of climate data after an independent researcher discovers that 1934 not 1998 as previously believed was the hottest year on record in the U.S.,0_0
"Because thermometer based measurements of the climate are only about 150 years old (and are quite spotty for much of that time), when scientists set out to construct long-term estimates of temperature trends, they use what are called ""proxies,"" such as tree-ring measurements that ostensibly reveal the temperatures that the tree experienced as it grew.",5_1
"Has it got warmer since pre-1800 levels? This really depends on the time period referred to. Do they mean the Little Ice Age, when disastrously cold temperatures caused massive loss of life and untold hardship? Of course temperatures are now warmer than that desperate period in climate history. Is that what they would wish to regard as normal?",2_1
"An article in Nature by Benjamin Santer bolstered that argument showing a correspondence between temperature and the presence of sulfates (sulfates reflect heat, cooling the planet). The study began in 1962 and ended in 1987. The problem with Santer's model is that it only assumed a change in the amount of warming radiation of 1.25 watts. The correct number is 2.5 watts, which when plugged into Santer's model produced more warming than models that have already been abandoned. Furthermore, when the data is run from 1958 to 1995 the correspondence disappears.",5_1
<4470> Norwegian Meteorological Institute:,0_0
"Commercial shipping will be possible from North America to Russia or Asia over the North Pole by the middle of the century, thanks to climate change, a new study says.",0_0
"By P Gosselin, No Tricks Zone, Aug 8, 2015",0_0
"In those parts of the world where there has been some recession of mountain glaciers, such as the Alps, researchers are finding long-lost medieval forests, mountain passes and even an entire silver mine. Besides, the retreat of the mountain glaciers began in many places in 1880, long before we could have had any influence.",2_1
Virgin Islands AG Withdraws DC Subpoena of CEI,0_0
"A NASA study suggests changing winds and currents in the Indian Ocean during the 1990s contributed to the observed warming of the ocean during that period. The findings, published in a recent issue of Geophysical Research Letters, have potential implications for long- term regional climate variability.",2_1
"Over at HuffPo, the founder of DeSmogBlog tries to divert attention from the collapsing ""consensus"" on global warming by saying that it's all the fault of a decades-long ""climate confusion campaign"" waged by, among others, the Competitive Enterprise Institute. While it is nice of him to give us the credit for the good sense of the American people, his Scooby Doo-style ""if it wasn't for those meddling kids"" argument actually represents the real attempt to muddy the waters.",5_1
"The United Kingdom (UK) joined the governments of the Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, and Poland to lobby the European Union (EU) to delay tougher emission rules for coal-fired power stations. The Financial Times reports a letter from UK environment minister Thrse Coffey warned the EU environment commissioner the ""uncertain global economic climate"" means new pollution regulations should not impose ""a disproportionate financial cost or technical burden on industry.""",0_0
"Dr. Nigel Smith concludes this area by noting, ""In spite of popular belief that the Amazon forest is being totally destroyed, the scale of the region and the concentrated nature of many of the development thrusts have prevented any major ecological catastrophe thus far."" (Smith, ""Global Land Use Change,"" p.240)",0_0
WASHINGTON The Global Climate and Energy Project announced last month by Stanford University is a welcome collaboration between academia and the private sector that holds the promise of shedding much-needed light on the debate on global warming.,0_0
"This Malthusian nightmare never came close to occurring. To the contrary, world per-capita food production has increased by about one-third over the last generation, with further substantial increases expected. More significant, however, is that the population bomb turned out to be a wet firecracker. Long-range world population growth projections fall year-by-year as fertility rates are plummeting in rich and poor nations alike, such that even the UN Population Agency now thinks it likely that world population will peak about mid-century and then may begin to decline rapidly by the end of the century. The most pressing social problem a century from now may well be the consequences of falling populationa prospect that was unthinkable just twenty years ago.",0_0
"Black and brown carbon particles increase atmospheric warming in three ways. First, they enter the minuscule water droplets that form clouds. At night, thats not an issue. But during the day, sunlight scatters around within clouds, bathing them in luminescence.",0_0
"The desire to stuff complex social, political and economic phenomena into the terms of an encompassing ecological narrative overwhelms people who struggle to make sense of the world, and those who resist simpler or inconvenient explanations. And of course, those who would like to elevate themselves and the industries who finance operations like Business Green. The green story allows people selling renewable generators to appear to be saviours and planet-savers, not merely brokers of hardware. In the same way, presenting the War on Terror as a battle of civilisations as latter day Churchills against their Islamic Hitler counterparts was a hollow morality play.",0_0
"Right, but it is A-OK if all taxpayers, including those who will never see a baseball game, are taxed to pay for the new stadium.",0_0
"To reverse these trends, liberal progressives knew they had to control the Democratic party, and to do that they had to nominate and elect one of their own to the presidency. Thus was born the now endemic battles between the progressives and the old guard (unions and party bosses in the '80s, the DLC in the '90s and '00s) in Democratic nomination contests. The liberal progressive candidate would win educated votersthe ""wine set,"" as Ron Brownstein has labeled themwhile the moderate progressive candidate would win the middle and working classesBrownstein's ""beer set."" Since beer drinkers have always outnumbered wine drinkers in Democratic primaries, the candidates who excited the most progressive elements always lostuntil Barack Obama broke the mold in 2008 by attracting African-American ""beer drinkers"" into the progressive camp.",0_0
"Backing this idea up is Robert Schneider of the World Bank, who said deforestation rates increased as a demographic transition spread into the rain forest, but ""since 1989, the demographic transition has decreased dramatically and so has the rate of deforestation."" (The Dartmouth Review, ""Bungle in the Jungle,"" Eric Hagen)",0_0
"With rain wetting the soil over the past day and then being hit by a deluge that certainly was well over an inch in an hour, there were mudslides and debris flows over portions of the north Cascades, including a section of State Route 20. That road was covered with mud, rocks, and trees--in some places as deep as 25 feet. WSDOT has closed the SR 20 from mile markers 147 to 157. Take a look at some of the amazing photos provided by WSDOT personnel. You got to appreciate the folks at WSDOT, having to deal with massive slides like this and collapsing bridges on I5.",0_0
"budget, puts it, when your house is on fire, you don't water the lawn.",0_0
From the prior post: Single graph demonstrates man-made CO2 is not the driver of global warming,2_3
"Unfortunately at the Schwarzheide SeeCampus school in Niederlausitz, the climate systemin the school building doesnt work like the architectural models thought it would. According to the Lausitzer Rundschau:",0_0
Stratford Mountain Club spokesman Rob Needs said it was the most significant snow to fall at such low levels and so early in the winter season for several decades.,1_3
"El Nio, of course, is not a hurricane, nor is it becoming more frequent or more violent. The last one began in 1997, five years before the current El Nio, which began this year. That's the average interval between El Nios. Moreover, the current El Nio is significantly less powerful than the one in 1997. Nor are hurricanes becoming more frequent or more intense.",0_0
"Fan DaiDu et al looked at proxies (microfossils, sedimentary organic layers, storm deposits, tree rings, stalagmites and corals) and found there was no simple linear relationship between typhoons and temperature over the Holocene period. Basically, it??s about La Nina??s rather than degrees C. More hurricanes and typhoons occur in China, and Central and North America during La Nina years. Even though it was warmer 8000 years ago, the storms weren??t worse.",1_7
In the last part of their definition of global warming the Yale/George Mason pollsters say that ?the world?s climate may change as a result? of temperature rise.,0_0
"Professor Lance Enderbee has published graphs of mean temperatures from 27 rural recording stations in Australia for 100 years from 1890 to 1990. The trend is horizontal, with mean temperature in 1990 below that for 1880. This has occurred during the century of the motor car, two world wars, and massive growth of coal burning for steel production and power generation. Rising carbon dioxide levels have had no effect on temperatures.",2_3
"Other models work from the bottom up, using a mechanism that centers around the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Solar energy added during the peak of a solar cycle causes more water to evaporate from the ocean's surface. Through a long chain of changes in atmospheric and oceanic circulation, this results in fewer clouds forming in the subtropics. Fewer clouds mean more solar energy reaches the ocean, resulting in a positive feedback loop that amplifies the Sun's climate impact.",2_1
"Question 1 (for Pederson): Karl Popper has written: ""A theory that is not refutable by any conceivable event is not scientific."" What empirical evidence would it take for you to consider the anthropogenic warming hypothesis to be refuted?",0_0
Marden Henge is the largest henge in Britain enclosing 14 hectares (Avebury encloses 11.5 and Durrington Walls encloses 12).,0_0
"Spencer's report covers a wide swath of climate science topics from the factors behind global warming, to how scientists make adjustments to climate data, to the ""97 percent"" consensus figure often cited by politicians and environmentalists.",5_1
"Senator Lieberman, on the other hand, seems to misunderstand the relationship between industrial activity and temperature. In Senate hearings earlier this year, Sen. Conrad Burns (R., Mt.) said in his statement that, ""Last year, the Washington Post reported that we had emissions decreased last year . One of the reasons was a 4.4 percent reduction in manufacturing output."" In his testimony that followed, Sen. Lieberman stated, ""Global warming is real. 2002, the second warmest year in record, slightly cooler than the record warm year of 1998 but, as Sen. Burns indicated, for reasons that we're not happy about because manufacturing is down."" Can Sen. Lieberman really believe that 2002 was only cooler than 1998 because there was a recession? Even the most extreme greenhouse theorist wouldn't argue that carbon emissions immediately affect the temperature.",0_0
"This finding comes less than a week after another astonishing revelation published in the prestigious journal Nature, which reports that Antarctica's harsh desert valleys long considered a bellwether for global climate change have grown noticeably cooler since 1986. Indeed, air temperature readings taken continuously over the region indicate a significant cooling of over 1 degree Fahrenheit and this defies a worldwide land-based warming trend spanning the past 100 years.",1_1
"The three researchers conclude that ""at the Russian sites studied, the impact of twentieth century warming has not yet compensated fully for the mortality and range constriction caused by the cold temperatures of the Little Ice Age,"" and they note that ""these results are similar to observations in some other northern treeline regions such as uplands in eastern Quebec and interior Labrador where Picea mariana (P. Mill.) B.S.P. and Picea glauca (Moench) Voss trees remain below their pre-Little Ice Age limits despite recent warming (Gamache and Payette,2005; Payette, 2007),"" which warming has likely not yet equaled that of the MWP in either magnitude or duration or possibly even both. References",2_1
"Nashville, Tennessee arrived from google.com on GORE LIED Al Gore lied about anthropogenic global warming by searching for onion al gore supreme court .",0_0
"Yet the evidence to the contrary was there all along. Back in 2005 I and others reviewed the entire hurricane record, which goes back over a century, and found no increase of any kind. Yes, we sometimes get bad storms but no more frequently now than in the past. The advocates simply ignored that evidence then repeated their false claims after Hurricane Sandy last year.",1_7
"Their storyline is so predictive that then may tell you that the new coupling constant is \(g a\approx 0.36\), too.",0_0
"All throughout the debate there is talk of the Global Average Temperature. But at its core, that very concept is broken. An average of temperatures is a bogus concept.",5_1
"on Saturday, January 8th, 2011 at 3:27 am and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
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Global Warming - Frog Decline Link Is Disproven,0_0
"Case Study 2. Environment Ohio: ""Ohio's Steve Stivers Votes to Gut the Clean Air Act""",0_0
"For some time, I have been joining the ""alerts"" that it's plausible that the dark matter particle could be discovered very soon and it could be great.",0_0
"Indeed, the planning rule's language is an open invitation to regulatory mischief and litigation. For example, Forest Service bureaucrats are supposed to use the ""best available science"" in making their determinations. But the term ""best available science"" is left conveniently undefined. Similarly, forests are to be managed according to the ""resilience to climate change,"" but neither ""resilience"" nor ""climate change"" is defined or explained.",0_0
"I wrote this article at the request of a leading opinion journal in Australia, where I shall be on a speaking tour for three weeks from mid-January.",0_0
"While Americans grapple with the Obamacare debacle and 90 million are officially unemployed according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there is another threat to our future as environmental groups like the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth continue their assault on the provision of electrical energy, the lifeblood of the nation?s economy and our ability to function at home and on the job.",0_0
"Instead of economically harmful global warming policies, development agencies should concentrate their considerable institutional knowledge on advancing pro-growth policies, like trade liberalization. Today, free trade needs an influential booster such as the World Bank. Energy intensive export industries in developing countries are threatened by carbon taxes imposed by rich countries, under the pretext of fighting climate change. Retaliatory tariffs would be likely, which could easily escalate into a global trade war.",4_2
"That's because local officials and the USEPA didn't do their jobs didn't monitor or fix failing, corroded lead water pipes. Repairing Flint's system, and addressing water and sewer problems in other cities, will cost billions of dollars. If we are forced to spend tens or hundreds of billions on exaggerated, fabricated or imaginary risks, there will be little left to resolve our remaining real health problems.",0_0
"Well, science says something different. All these weather events ??? much like the Earth and the Solar System ??? have been around for 4.6 billion years. Up to noisy fluctuations and some potentially understandable, mild, regular, persistent climate cycles, not necessarily periodic ones, nothing has detectably changed about the frequency or probabilistic distributions of these events in the last several thousands of years. If we improve the theory by the glaciation cycles, nothing has changed for one million of years.",1_7
"...which does at least make it clear how the climate change is being used to push a political agenda. They need to spin a threat of climate change in order to move the politicians in the desired direction. Shame about the impact on the reputation of science, but that has long since ceased to be a concern of Royal Society.",5_2
"So the planet has got a little warmer in the last 200 years, and grapes are ripening a little earlier. Just as it got colder before the Little Ice Age and, no doubt, grapes ripened a little later. Its called climate and its what the planet does.",2_1
National Academy Of Sciences Study Shows Worlds Love Affair With Stepping Stone To Prosperity Growing!,0_0
"As living entities, corals are not only acted upon by the various elements of their environment, they also react or respond to them. And when changes in environmental factors pose a challenge to their continued existence, they sometimes take major defensive or adaptive actions.",0_0
"HAYDEN: Onlyoh never mind. Look, Im late to see my mother. She expects me. You know if I dont show or call, she worries.",0_0
A DfID spokesman described Teri as a globally respected institution.,0_0
"on Saturday, July 17th, 2010 at 3:41 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Virtually all the projections of future climate change in AR5 are based on the mean and range of outcomes simulated by this latest CMIP5 generation of climate models (AOGCMs). Changes in other variables largely scale with changes in global surface temperature. The key determinant of the range and mean level of projected increases in global temperature over the rest of this century is the transient climate response (TCR) exhibited by each CMIP5 model, and their mean TCR. Model equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) values, although important for other purposes, provide little information regarding surface warming to the last quarter of this century beyond that given by TCR values.",0_0
"I try really hard not to try to guess at what motivates folks I disagree with by assuming they are driven by something dark and evil, but how else in this case can one describe opinions like this so contrary to facts as anything other than prejudice against a particular ethnic group?",0_0
"Consider the change in cell phone technology and prices over the past 20 years. When the director of Wall Street wanted to emphasize Gordon Gecko?s power and wealth, he portrayed him holding a brick-size cell phone.",0_0
Everything you think you know about the collapse of the Soviet Union is wrong,0_0
"And they create some thorny issues for policy makers that will need to be addressed. Most importantly, energy analysts must cease utilizing a far-too-simple assumption that efficiency gains yield direct and linear reductions in energy use. The complex and varied economic phenomena known collectively as ""rebound effects"" mean that we cannot expect that improving the energy efficiency of steel production by 30 percent, for example, will yield a simple and direct 30 percent reduction in the energy consumed by the steel sector, let alone the economy as whole. Just as economists expect that gains in labor productivity will contribute to greater employment overall, not less, gains in energy productivity (aka energy efficiency) are not likely to be taken up simply as direct reductions in energy demand overall. Have a look and feel free to come back here to discuss.",4_2
"Robert Wood on May 30, 2008 at 1:35 pm",0_0
"We in the West have reached a level where we can sit in the dark for an hour, fully confident that the lights will come back on when we flick the switch, but there are many places around the world where that is not the case. In some countries it is Earth Hour every hour.",0_0
"And by loudly denouncing all bad thingswar, poverty, famine, and cigarette advertising aimed at teensthe Chicken Littles are also playing the moral bully. They're saying:",0_0
"The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has estimated the potential savings from a nationwide 25% renewable electricity standard, a goal included in the Waxman-Markey energy bill that narrowly passed the House last year. Best-case scenario: about 306 million tons less CO2 by 2030. Given that the agency expects annual U.S. carbon emissions to be about 6.2 billion tons in 2030, that expected reduction will only equal about 4.9% of emissions nationwide. That??s not much when you consider that the Obama administration wants to cut CO2 emissions 80% by 2050.",4_2
"Obama has not done so, because he is unwilling to let Waxman-Markey succeed or fail on its own merits. He wants the prospect of regulatory chaos to herd Republicans into the cap-and-trade corral. But Republicans can turn this weapon against those brandishing it just by refusing to share responsibility for policies they oppose.",0_0
policy address at the Wilson Center to pledge a shift of forces and focus away,0_0
"From the not-at-all-funny-department, two Gore employees have been sentenced to hard labor in North Korea. Al might go do something about that . From the OK-I-cant-help-myself-department, prisoner exchange? Please ?",0_0
"BP jumped into renewables and the company's moniker underwent an evolution from British Petroleum to BP, then to Beyond Petroleum. Between 2000 and 2005, BP invested $500 million into solar power and $30 million on wind and has invested more than $4 billion in alternative energy in the US since 2005. At the time, according to the Wall Street Journal, BP turned a profit on its solar business but not on wind. In 2005, Browne ""decided that the energy giant should enter unknown territories of wind, solar and hydrogen power,"" which began a ""re-branding"" designed to ""capture public affection"" by positioning ""themselves as environmentally friendly enterprises.""",0_0
"If the results obtained by Collins et al . for the freshwater Chlamydomonas reinhardtii are typical of what to expect of marine microalgae - which Field et al . suggest may provide nearly half of the primary production of the planet - the totality of earth's plant life may well provide a significant brake upon the rate at which the air's CO 2 content may increase in the future, as well as the ultimate level to which it may rise. A rough indication of just how powerful this phenomenon may be is provided by Collins et al ., when they note that ""mathematical simulations have estimated that pre-industrial levels of CO 2 would have been as high as 460 ppm"" without the operation of the well-known ""biological pump"" (Sarmiento and Toggweiler, 1984), by which dying phytoplankton sink carbon into deep ocean sediments, ""whereas pre-industrial atmospheric CO 2 levels were around 280 ppm (Etheridge et al ., 1996),"" or 180 ppm less. References",3_1
"Users can then log in to the secure web portal, where they use a password they create.",0_0
"Cronyism and boondoggles in an energy bill is nothing new in the U.S. Congress. But this week, senators of both parties are taking the process to new lows in amendments they are offering to the pending S.2012the Energy Policy Modernization Act.",0_0
Strong Storms of the Little Ice Age on the Southern Coast of Brazil (8 April 2015),0_0
"better to spot attacks by rivals or leopards), is less attentive to",0_0
"It turns out that, contrary to popular belief, Greenland ice sheet flow might not be accelerated by increased melting after all, says Shepherd, who was not involved in the research or peer review of the paper.",1_1
USA Growing Degree Day Deviation 41 F Map,0_0
IPCC Zero Order Draft files found and put back online,0_0
"The authors argue, however, that since ""it is quite clear that human activity is raising global concentrations of carbon dioxide,"" and that ""virtually no one is suggesting that we can emit as much carbon dioxide as we want into the atmosphere without adverse consequences,"" we must do something. Policies should include four key features: CO2 reductions should be cost effective, companies adversely effected by restrictions should be compensated, there should be domestic and international consensus for the policy, and there should be a mechanism to ensure that a core group of countries continue to carry out emission reductions even if others reject compliance.",0_0
"It's hard to disagree with Mr. Hamm's assessment that Barack Obama has the energy story in America wrong. The government floods green energya niche market that supplies 2.5% of our energy needswith billions of dollars of subsidies a year. ""Wind isn't commercially feasible with natural gas prices below $6"" per thousand cubic feet, notes Mr. Hamm. Right now its price is below $4. This may explain the administration's hostility to the fossil-fuel renaissance.",4_4
""" Please try to use your own words to make sure the panel considers each comment individually.""",0_0
"I said that global warming is the fact that the world has warmed somewhat, perhaps one degree F, in the past 150 years. The cause of the warming is mostly natural forces, since mankind has not placed much CO2 in the air until the past four decades.",2_1
Some big-name players are playing games with people's lives and livelihoods.,0_0
"Neither CBS nor ABC have included a skeptical scientist in their news shows within the past 1,300 days, but both networks included alarmists within the past 160 days ??? CBS as recently as 22 days ago. When the networks did include other viewpoints, the experts were dismissed as out of the scientific mainstream or backed by oil and coal companies.",5_2
"With this in mind, I started playing with the data. I was utterly surprised to learn that in order to recover their average ""global"" temperature, I needed to mix about 37% of their southern hemisphere temperature with 63% of their northern hemisphere temperature. In other words, their ""global"" temperature is highly distorted towards the Northern hemisphere! It is therefore no surprise that once they do find a northern hemisphere temperature lag, also their global temperature exhibits a similar lag, but it is not a global temperature by any means!",5_1
"Not a climate scientist himself, Chu had faith in the validity of Al Gores position on global warming, and even said just prior to becoming energy secretary: Coal is my worst nightmare theres enough carbon in the ground to really cook us. Such unscientific and biased comments should have immediately eliminated Chu from consideration for a Cabinet position.""",5_2
"His circumstances were quite different than the others I mentioned. He came out of the authoritarian environment of Soviet times, only to find it showing up all over again, intruding into his work on climate. Of course he knew exactly what he was dealing with. He once told me that freedom made him realize that his previous life ""was like living upside down.""",0_0
"There is strong evidence to suggest that the temperature increase observed on the Peninsula has nothing to do with global warming, but is due to changing wind patterns. We can speculate on the cause of such changes, but essentially we are looking at natural variation which is likely to have happened in previous eras. (For more, see here .)",2_1
Baker et al . (2004) found notches on Rottnest Island marking former high sea levels. Calcareous organisms left deposits within a narrow range that could be carbon dated. The higher notch at about 1.8 m is about 3600 yr BP.,0_0
"Thats our take, because its the only one that seems internally consistent. But, if somehow we are wrong (a rare event), then greenhouse warming is over, as the sensitivity of the earths temperature to carbon dioxide has been grossly overestimated. Believe us, wed like to hope the latter is correct, but we have to call things in the most logical fashion.",3_1
A study from the National Academy of Sciences on the health effects of radiation raises alarm about even extremely low exposure levels.,0_0
About 26 in there is a comment about spectral radiance changes and that the models may have a wrong sign on solar forcing variation.,5_1
"Even our simple 1D model produced a higher climate sensitivity consistent with IPCC claims if we assumed all climate change was due to the same forcings they assume. The IPCC??s climate models are too sensitive (produce too much warming in response to increasing CO2) because they have basically assumed virtually all previous warming was due to increasing CO2, not due to Nature.",3_1
"The day after the election, the Friends of the Earth, wasting no time, sent out a dramatic fundraising pitch, opening with: ""The election's overthe planet lost."" (You may not have even known that the planet was on your local ballot, but apparently it was.)",0_0
"Lets contrast this with the hysteria over the Pakistani floods and Russian heatwave in 2010, which, because it occurred in Summer and was therefore related to heat, was immediately linked to climate change:",5_2
"Alarmists also claim current Arctic sea ice changes are ""unprecedented"" while ignoring proxy data indicating Arctic sea ice was much less than present-day during the Holocene Climate Optimum ~6,000 years ago , Arctic temperatures were warmer than the present multiple times over past 1357 years , the Medieval Warming Period in the Arctic was warmer than the present , Alaskan glaciers are about the same size as during the Medieval Warm Period , etc., etc.",2_1
"A team led by University of Maine scientists has reported finding a potential link between changes in solar activity and the Earths climate. In a paper due to be published in an upcoming volume of the Annals of Glaciology, Paul Mayewski, director of UMaines Climate Change Institute, and 11 colleagues from China, Australia and UMaine describe evidence from ice cores pointing to an association between the waxing and waning of zonal wind strength around Antarctica and a chemical signal of changes in the suns output.",2_1
"A quote from an IPCC insider: As far as I can tell, there is no data quality assurance associated with what the IPCC is doing.",5_2
IPCC Third Assessment Report Climate Change 2001 Complete online versions | GRID-Arendal Publications Other,0_0
"My daughter, her husband and their little baby managed to get out of the city ahead of the flood on Sunday, driving 14 hours into Texas with the few belongings they could stuff into their car. They have no idea what has become of their house and their possessions, not to mention their friends, their pets, their jobs, their way of life.",0_0
"\rho {AB}(\vec x A, \vec x B) \neq \rho A (\vec x A) \cdot \rho B(\vec x B).",0_0
"/s/ Bernard J. Rosenbaum JSC, Chief Engineer, Propulsion and Power Division, Engr. Dir., 48 years",0_0
"Yet, they would never substantially reduce the climate sensitivity of their models to produce less warming, as seen in nature. In other words, if warming hasn?t materialized, then we must have faith that it will eventually appear ? because the climate system must be really sensitive?",3_1
"Nicolas D. Loris, ""Free Markets Supply Affordable Energy and a Clean Environment,"" Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2966, October 31, 2014, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/10/free-markets-supply-affordable-energy-and-a-clean-environment.",0_0
"December 2, 2009: "" CLIMATE CHANGE 'FRAUD' , by John Ingham , The Daily Express , London, England. ""In a controversial talk just days before the start of a climate summit attended by world leaders in Copenhagen, Prof Plimer said Governments were treating the public like fools and using climate change to increase taxes."" ""The Climate Research Unit also admitted getting rid of much of its raw climate data, which means other scientists cannot check the subsequent research. Last night the head of the CRU, Professor Phil Jones, said he would stand down while an independent review took place."" Read whole piece. Professor Plimer will present at the Copenhagen Climate Challenge Conference on Tuesday, December 8, 2009 to be held at the Danish Writers Union, Dansk Forfatterforening Strandgade 6, 1401 Kbenhavn K (Copenhagen, Demmark).",5_2
"CAFE is one of those failed government programs that has had some very unpleasant, unintended consequences. By indirection, it has limited consumer choice, on average, to vehicles that are lighter and smaller than would otherwise be the case. Laws of physics demonstrate that that reduces the protection provided to the occupants.",0_0
"The conclusion of tree ring reconstruction of climate for the past 1000 years is that we are now in the hottest period in modern history, ever.",0_0
"There are, of course, arguments against what has been presented in this post. Those failed arguments have been addressed and shown to be wrong, using data. Ive done this repeatedly over the past three years. Ive included them in Section7 of my book. Refer to the Updated Free Preview .",0_0
"September 9, 2011: ""Ready for climate change"", letter to the editor published in The Australian by ICSC Chief Science Advisor, Professor Bob Carter , PhD, Adjunct Research Fellow at James Cook University, Queensland, Australia.",0_0
"Now a major humanitarian organization, Red Cross International, has jumped on the bandwagon. A new report by the Red Cross argues that global warming will increase major disasters, and that the Red Cross will need more money to pay for it. The report claims that there will be more droughts and that ""marginal areas"" will become ""uninhabitable"" in 20 years. It also says that the ""one in 50 year hurricane may return one in ten years."" Disappearing mountain glaciers will cause rivers to dry up and there will be changes in disease patterns affecting millions (The Electricity Daily, July 2, 1999).",0_0
"While it is fashionable to claim there is over-allocation in the Murray Darling Basin the reality is that when water is scarce during drought, government limits the amount of water for agriculture.",0_0
"So Briffa and Melvin clearly understood at the time that I had not promoted or advocated Scenario A (or Scenario B or Polar Urals for that matter), but had raised valid questions and that it was important to examine inhomogeneity using the sort of sensitivity analyses that I had carried out.",0_0
"And Rep. Maurice D. Hinchey (D-N.Y.) vowed to force the White House to accept delivery of a new presidential helicopter Obama says he doesn't need and doesn't want. The helicopter program, which cost $835 million this year, supports 800 jobs in Hinchey's district. ""I do think there's a good chance we can save it,"" he said.",0_0
Why would Obama even bring this subject up? It would have made no sense for McCain to accuse him of being a Christian to gain political advantage.,0_0
"The Sierra Club, however, criticized Obama saying ""As long as his administration keeps throwing lifelines to old sources of energy like oil and gas, we won't be able to lead the world on clean energy solutions like wind and solar."" They called for an ""end to oil and gas fracking on public lands."" What they are not saying is that the Obama Administration has virtually put an end to any exploration and extraction of energy sources on public lands. And you can forget about the massive reserves estimated to exist off-shore of our coasts.",0_0
"Think about what Curry vs. Mann would accomplish. As Curry admits, ""I have at least as good a case against Michael Mann for defamation as he has against Steyn."" So this would put Mann is a bind: if he wins against Steyn, he establishes a precedent for his own loss to Curry. If no one can criticize him under the Bill Murray rule?""Back off, man, I'm a scientist""?then he can't criticize others.",0_0
"Since we have already experienced 0.6 deg. C in the last 100 years, it would also mean that most of our current global warmth is natural, not anthropogenic.",2_1
"""And what it shows is his horrible and gross political miscalculations,"" he added. ""In 2007 and 2008, he actually believed that not only was global warming going to be a, quote, winning issue but he actually believed the Republican base was going to accept this. Those are two horrible miscalculations.""",0_0
Thanks to E Stephens and John the 1 st for this link,0_0
"Let me stress I am not denying the (global warming) phenomenon has occurred. The world has warmed since 1680, the nadir of a cool period called the Little Ice Age (LIA) that has generally continued to the present. These climate changes are well within natural variability and explained quite easily by changes in the sun. But there is nothing unusual going on.",2_1
"If one additionally entertains the possibility that there is still considerable warming still in the pipeline left from increasing CO 2 , as NASAs Jim Hansen claims, then the need for some natural cooling mechanism to offset it and thus produce no net warming becomes even stronger. Either that, or the climate system is so insensitive to increasing CO 2 that there is essentially no warming left in the pipeline to be realized. (The less sensitive the climate system, the faster it reaches equilibrium when forced with a radiative imbalance.)",3_1
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"It is precisely the job of a Court of Appeals to resist irrational momentum and offend sensibilities if that is what needs to be done to ensure that agency decisions are not arbitrary. Under normal rules of administrative review, it would not be possible for a court to overlook such a fundamental omission by an agency as the failure to consider this information. It is also permissible for the EPA to consider it, because, as even the Supreme Court conceded, the agency is allowed to revisit the endangerment finding on carbon dioxide if the science so dictates. So perhaps when the decision reaches it again, as it surely will, the Court will see the light.",0_0
I come down stalwartly on the side freedom of speech and media access to information.,0_0
"Turnabout is fair play, and just as the Clinton Administrationpunted theICTA petition to Bush, so the Bush Administrationpunted EPAs Mass v. EPA response to Obama. But whereas Clintons EPA simply ducked the ICTA petition, Bushs EPA in July 2008 published an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR)exploringnumerous options and issuesconnected with potentialGHG regulation under the CAA.",0_0
"e) Finally, it is clear not so much fossil material on Earth that you can not even get a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (this output has been about 600 ppm) a hjningsniv, somav many hvdas correspond to a temperaturhjning p about 1 degree, apart from the effect avallt soot that would come out from the mngdmssigt dominant deposits of coal.",0_0
"Lamar Smith, a Republican, represents Texas?s 21st District in the U.S. House and is chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.",0_0
"Write this down. Global warming started 20,000 years ago.",0_0
"An inconvenient question: ""If climate change is a planetary emergency, why take nuclear and natural gas off the table?'",0_0
"There is one further problem. If we really do put down 58GW of offshore wind capacity, what happens to the surplus output when the wind blows and demand is low? Nuclear cannot be switched on and off, and certainly any contracts signed will not allow that. This basically means that the bulk of wind output will not be required for long periods.",4_4
"Thousands remained without power Friday night (March 7, 2014) in the northern part of Durham after a winter storm wreaked havoc",0_0
"Obviously, the price tag for renewables is extremely high, compared to hydrocarbons. The additional costs can be justified either by imminent fossil fuel scarcity (the ""oil peak""), which would send petroleum and coal prices through the roof, or by the threat of man-made global warming. But on closer inspection neither argument is tenable.",4_4
Figure 7: Sea level development around the Tarawa atoll based on tide gauges. There is no detectable rise. Diagram source: Donner (2012) .,1_6
"All that blue indicates that, yes, July was, as Murphy said, colder than normal in the northern and eastern parts of the United States, in some cases record cold. Granted, the planet won't be uniformly warm (or cold), but record cold? In July? At a time when the planet is supposed to be not only warming, but experiencing (according to IPCC president Rajendra Pachauri) ""accelerated"" warming? (See Christopher Monckton's article debunking this claim.)",1_3
The climate segment of Mr. Obamas speech concludeswith a theological flourish:,0_0
"Had NSIDC begun their graph in 1971, it would be clear that Arctic sea ice is cyclical, not the fake linear trend they are scamming people with.",5_2
"Practically all opponents of the EPA?s new rules are taking the same tack. They seem to think that they can thwart the so-called ?war on coal? while accepting the main reason for the regulations, the highly debatable premise that we can control Earth?s climate merely by adjusting our carbon-dioxide emissions.",0_0
"DMI Fairly reliable indication to be out with red on top. Also note that ADX, the black line, is picking up strength. Direction of the trade is to the downside, and accelerating.",0_0
"However, the report is also expected to say that the UK is on track to meet its self-imposed goal of reducing CO2 emissions to 20 percent below that of 1990 levels. The question is how the UK could possibly achieve that goal since it is not on target to even meet the goals of the Kyoto global warming treaty, which would reduce CO2 emissions to 12.5 percent below 1990 levels.",0_0
"What is needed is a fundamentally different approach to the federal role in energyone that emphasizes sustained energy R&D; on basic and early applied researchparticularly in higher-risk, higher-reward, longer-term technologies that are too early for angel or venture capital funding. The federal government has a long and fairly distinguished track record in basic science and engineering R&D;, including the development of the Internet on which you are reading these words. We need a lot more of thatand a lot less corn ethanol.",0_0
"In April, the Parliament in Strasbourg voted against artificially propping up the price of Emission Trading System carbon permit prices following the collapse of energy demand in connection with the Continents economic crisis. While the low price of carbon allowances is great for energy customers, you can be assured that it is viewed very differently by so-called renewable energy and carbon credit trading promoters who depend upon higher-than-market fossil fuel prices to stay in business. The Parliaments veto reflects encouraging recognition that unwarranted, economy-ravaging carbon rationing is a feverish folly.",0_0
"In a recent research paper (Loehle, 2008), I show that if this linear model is mis-specified (i.e., a linear growth response is assumed but in reality the growth response is non-linear), even a model that appears to work well during the training (or calibration) periodthe time during which both temperature and tree rings are availablemay fail miserably during the reconstruction periodthe time in the past when only tree rings or available, that is, prior to direct temperature measurements.",5_1
"An increasing trend in Arctic temperatures about twice that of the global average temperature.16 Over the past fifty years, the Arctic should have warmed by 1 C or more.",0_0
"(B) Proponents claim always win, no matter what happens, and are always ready to change the cards on the table (mp3: 14m15s). One way to do rather common in environments AGW: today, the planet warms or cools, the comments will still compatible with the theory dellAGW.",0_0
Let me say it again: the question is not whether temperatures have risen or whether mankind has affected the climate. Temperatures have always risen and fallen and mankind has always affected the climate. The question is whether we have a problem on our hands. The poor performance of the climate models suggests that the problem is much less than we have been led to believe.,5_1
"By clearly understanding how threats to our sovereignty arise, by making them politically important, and by holding our elected officials accountable, we can defend our sovereignty vigorously. But there is no time to waste.",0_0
"Democrats have a weak field in part because of their poor showing in recent statewide elections. And there's another problem. The geographically clustered Obama coalition blacks, Hispanics (in some states), gentry liberals tends to elect officeholders with little incentive to compile records that would make them competitive in target states and capable of winning crossover votes.",0_0
"Where there are a large number of data points, it does not materially affect the larger picture, but does remove some of the extreme anomalies from the data set. But where there is very little data available the impact is much larger. That is particularly the case prior to 1910. But after 1910, any data deletions pale into insignificance next to the adjustments.",0_0
"The cumulative effect is that families have even less money to buy food, pay the rent or mortgage, repair the car or house, save for college and retirement, take a vacation and keep people comfortable (and alive) on frigid winter nights and sweltering summer afternoons. Workers lose jobs. Health and welfare, family relationships, future prospects and psychological well-being plummet. Because they spend the highest proportion of their incomes on energy, poor and minority families suffer disproportionately.",0_0
"WIth regards to climate science, I am arguing that the focus needs to move away from a focus on projections of carbon dioxide-controlled climate and towards examining the more complex dynamics (external and internal) at play that determine both global and regional climate.",0_0
"""The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 created a powerful quasi-private agency to oversee the auditing of American business, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). The PCAOB is responsible for a mountain of red tape, and its broad interpretation of Sarbanes-Oxley's rules on what constitutes a company's ""internal controls"" is costing the U.S. economy billions of dollars every year.""",0_0
"The model in Figure 3 predicts global cooling until 2030. This result is also supported by shifts in PDO that occurred at the end of the last century, which is expected to result in global cooling until about 2030 .",1_2
"So we have an entity that checks off all the boxes for regulatory capture. It's got lots of money. It influences politics. And then it's granted access to literally write policy. Of course, some commentators will claim: ""But NRDC is selflessly lobbying to achieve environmental protection, which is always a great thing, right?"" Wrong.",0_0
"So, is it reasonable to assume these feedback loops? First, none have really been proven empirically, which does not of course necessarily make them wrong. . In our daily lives, we generally deal with negative feedback: inertia, wind resistance, friction are all negative feedback processes. If one knew nothing else, and had to guess if a natural process was governed by negative or positive feedback, Occams razor would say bet on negative. Also, we will observe in the next section that when the models with these feedbacks were first run against history, they produced far more warming than we have actually seen (remember the analysis we started this section with post-industrial warming implies 1-1.5 degrees sensitivity, not four).",3_1
An honest government and honest candidates would inform the public about these truths and lead open discussions of what might be done. The fact that no candidate mentions that governments have promised more healthcare and pension spending than we can pay for tells us a great deal about the state of truth in government and among the candidates for the presidency.,0_0
"Growing evidence for the linkage between solar variability and frequency of blocking in the Northeast Atlantic has also been provided by meteorological studies. Modern observations show strong solar modulation of the blocking frequency and positioning during the 11-year solar cycles for the past 50 years, impacting substantially on UK winter temperatures 22,23",2_1
"Outright denial can cloud the movements effort to portray itself as a credible underdog in a scientific debate, some attendees said. And while many people here declined to criticize Heartlands decision to buy a billboard that compared climate advocates to Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, they also emphasized that their ideas have little chance of being advanced through outrageous attacks.",0_0
"Looks like I'm pulling an all-nighter. My belinda is having puppies. Open thread, reader tips, Halloween-themed names suitable for Schnauzers. 11 am Update Just got home from the vet clinic - a few hundred dollars poorer, but 5 new healthy puppies richer. By 3 am it was apparent that things weren't going as expected, and sure enough, one little prankster was preventing everyone's escape by turning himself sideways and into a pretzel. Surgical intervention was required. I haven't settled on names but ""Houdini"" has been scratched off the list.",0_0
"Remember the number 1.85. It is the lodestar of a new demography that will lead us to a different world. It should change the way we think about economics, geopolitics, the environment, cultureand about ourselves.",0_0
"As for the implications of these several findings, Stoks et al . say they suggest that ""besides genetic changes, also phenotypic plasticity and evolution of plasticity likely will contribute to observed phenotypic changes under global warming in aquatic invertebrates,"" which further suggests that freshwater invertebrates should be able to weather whatever challenges (in the form of changes) earth's climate may thrust upon them.",3_2
"We are already 12 years into the 30 from 2000 to 2030. As you can see from the above animated plots, there appears to have been a distinct lack of accelerationin the last 100 years or so. Roughly speaking, the sea level along the coast of California is rising at about 2 mm/year. So it looks like there will be a netrisesurpassing the National Research Councils lower limit of 4 cm in 30 years. On the other hand, it would require an extraordinary, nearly impossible acceleration to get to 15 cm, justhalf the NRCs upper estimate of 30 cm, by 2030. But you can still pray to Gaia for a miracle.",1_6
"As long as the EPA continues to rely on assumptions about industry activity that are not, in fact, based on actual industry activity, their estimates for methane emissions will remain wrong. The fact that those assumptions result in inflated emissions estimates makes the agencys conscious decision not to adjust its methods even more troubling.",5_2
"In other words, over the next five years, their models forecast that global surfaces may be a little warmer or a little cooler than 2014, as much as 0.2 deg C warmer or as much as 0.08 deg C cooler. That narrows it down.",5_1
"These calamities included predicting a ?BBQ summer? before the 2009 washout and then claiming there was only a one in seven chance of a chilly winter last year before the coldest few months for 31 years. And the new figures, which show a 60 per cent to 80 per cent chance of warmer-than-average temperatures this winter, were ridiculed last night by independent forecasters. The latest data comes in the form of a December to February temperature map on the Met Office?s website.",0_0
"In the press, the hottest topic throughout the summit was the Kyoto Protocol. The 1997 agreement expires in 2012. Currently, it is the main mechanism used by the warmists internationally to limit emissions and raise money. It basically forces developed countries, accounting for less than one-fourth of total global emissions, to cut back on releasing carbon dioxide through the Clean Development Mechanism. The money raised by selling ?carbon credits? is used to finance ?green? projects in poorer countries.",0_0
"Weather Channel Founder Says Hurricane Matthew Is ""Nature Not Mankind'",0_0
2001: The IPCC concludes that todays temperatures are warmer than in 1300 years. How it reached this conclusion is under criminal investigation.,5_2
"Repeal the Jones Act. Enacted nearly a century ago, the Jones Act mandates that any goods shipped by water between two points in the United States must be transported on a U.S.-built, U.S.-flagged vessel with a crew that is at least 75 percent American. By preventing foreign competition, the Jones Act significantly increases domestic maritime shipping prices to the benefit of the American shipping industry, driving up costs for American businesses and consumers.",0_0
"""Some 24 environmental groups signed statements largely supporting the aims of solar developers. National environmental groups joined BrightSource and other solar companies in a letter sent Dec. 14 to the White House, asking the president to continue a federal renewable-energy subsidy.",0_0
"From Paul Driessen: ""In response to pleas for more energy, to meet basic human needs and lift people out of poverty, many politicians and activists continue to insist that ""dangerous global warming"" concerns must override even these human interests. Now comes this incredible bombshell from Australia's top climate change commissioner:",0_0
So we have two possible candidates for the station that made the red dot. Both have potential placement issues. It makes you wonder how many more of the dots in the HPRCC map have issue like this. I only spotted this one because it was such a large singular anomaly. I??ll check with HPRCC on Monday to see if they can identify the dot??s data origin for me. In the meantime I need help from our readers and volunteers.,5_1
U.S. energy policy: satisfy the Green lobby!,0_0
"Norman Myers himself says ""Unfortunately, we live in a world without sufficient scientists, funding, and above all, time to undertake a conclusive check."" And in 1989 he wrote, ""Regrettably, we have no way of knowing the actual current rate of extinction in tropical forests, nor can we even make an accurate guess."" (Scarcity, pp. 77 and 40)",0_0
"Downstairs, next to the jellyfish tanks, a rhyming video told how the jellyfish population was exploding in the wild because they thrive in warmer waters. In the main room, a staff member pointed to a rare blue lobster, saying that some lobsters have been scuttling out of Massachusetts and settling in cooler climes to the north.",0_0
"As candidate and president, on eight separate occasions Barack Obama instructed Americans to ""think about what's happening in countries like Spain Germany"" if they wanted to know what successful ""green jobs"" policies look like, and if they wanted to know what we should expect here in the U.S. from his agenda.",0_0
"Climate change policy is a major focus of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Indeed, we have been active in the global warming debate ever since the issue first gained national prominence in the late 1980s. Former CEI environmental studies director Kent Jeffreys published a major monograph on the issue, titled ""Why Worry About Global Warming,"" in February 1991. In 1992, along with the late Dixie Lee Ray, CEI President Fred Smith attended the 1992 Rio Conference as an observer and commentator. Our aim was to give intellectual aid and comfort to greenhouse skeptics in the U.S. and other delegations. Needless to say, CEI s efforts to dissuade the Bush Administration from signing the Framework Convention on Climate Change were less than spectacularly successful. But we remain hopeful that cooler heads will yet prevail in this round.",0_0
"However, as the actual empirical evidence through November 2011 reveals, it is highly unlikely that either of these ""scientists"" could find his own ass with his hands. Even using Santer's own preferred 17-year analysis span (chart on left), it is clear that global warming is insignificant and likely moving towards a cooling phase.",1_2
"Outside of Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand also performed well. Had they ranked higher in the area of health, countries in these regions would have finished even higher. The United States comes in at ninth place and is the top ranked country of over 50 million people. Japan (sixteenth) and Hong Kong (eighteenth) make up the rest of the top twenty.",0_0
"President Barack Obama delivers remarks at a Democratic National Committee event in Austin, Texas March 11, 2016. Reuters",0_0
"More recently, there is the warm period known as the Holocene Optimum (from 3,000 to 8,000 years ago) and shown in ice core temperatures from Greenland (Figure 4). On the right is the rapid emergence from the Ice Age 10,500 years ago with current temperatures on the left. This record shows you can argue it was warmer than today for most of the last 10,000 years. It shows temperatures up to 3C warmer than at present, and a measure of the range of variability in relatively short time periods. You can also argue that the world has cooled from the peak of warming approximately 3,000 years ago.",2_1
"For instance, substituting the ECS of Otto et al. for the outdated Roe and Baker distribution, used in the 2013 TSD, causes the SCC for 2020 to drop 41 percent with the DICE model and over 60 percent with the FUND model. There were similar reductions on the SCC for other years as well.",0_0
"Empirical evidence does not lend much support to the notion that climate is headed precipitately toward more extreme heat and drought. The drought of 1999 covered a smaller area than the 1988 drought, when the Mississippi almost dried up. And 1988 was a temporary inconvenience as compared with repeated droughts during the 1930s Dust Bowl that caused an exodus from the prairies, as chronicled in Steinbecks Grapes of Wrath .",1_7
"In another blow to the alarmist fallacy that the current warming period is 'unprecedented' or 'unusual,' a paper published today in the journal Climate of the Past finds that winter temperatures in China warmed at a rate almost three times faster over the 100 year period from 1862 to 1961 than over the 100 years from 1901 to 2000 . Furthermore, the reconstructed temperature anomaly at the beginning of the study period in 1736 was the about the same as in 2007.",2_1
"In the latest report from GWPF, David Whitehouse has examined the 21st century temperature standstill and the history of attempts to, ahem, deny its existence.",1_4
"SM: Well, Ralph Nader changed policy, back in the 1960s and '70s. So it would be quite an accomplishment if I could achieve that.",0_0
"Mike Hulme1, Ruth Doherty1, Todd Ngara2, Mark New1 and David Lister1",0_0
"In recent comments about Yamal, Gavin Schmidt claimed that he had been misrepresented in my recent post , but, all too characteristically, did not quote the supposed misrepresentation. Or even say explicitly who had made the supposed misrepresentation, though the link to the CA thread implied that I had been responsible.",0_0
"Pachauri's position is also becoming increasingly untenable with demands for his resignation becoming louder by the day. In an interview to Open, Pat Michaels of the Cato Institute, a noted US think-tank, who has followed the debate for years, says, ""Dr Pachauri should resign because he has a consistent record of mixing his political views with climate science, because of his intolerance of legitimate scientific views that he does not agree with, because of his disparagement of India's glacier scientists as practising ""voodoo science', and because of his incomprehension of the serious nature of what was in the East Anglia emails.""",5_2
CEI has joined several other groups in urging Congress to update U.S. privacy laws.,0_0
January 1974 : Brisbane Recieved 34 Inches Of Rain Almost 300% Of What It Received This year,0_0
"On May 7, 2003, the House International Relations Committee will mark up the FY 2004 State Department authorization bill. The Committee will consider an amendment, introduced by Rep. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), that, if enacted, would effectively overturn S. Res. 98, the Byrd-Hagel resolution. Menendez's amendment, a ""Sense of Congress"" resolution on global climate change, reflects the Kyoto vision of an impending greenhouse apocalypse, advocates Kyoto-style energy rationing, both as a matter of national policy and international law. CEI teams up with the Center for Science and Public Policy to offer critical comments on the amendment's scientific and economic claims and assumptions.",0_0
"CFACT is an international public policy organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. which promotes market and technological solutions to issues of environment and development.",0_0
"Vice President Al Gore recently held a press conference in which he implied a connection between manmade global warming and more frequent and more intense El Nio events. The history of El Nio, however, shows no such correlation. An article in Nature (May 28, 1998) reviews El Nio's past and finds that several El Nio events ""that occurred before 1880 had effects at least as intense and wide-ranging as those associated with the current event."" This is true for the events that occurred in 1396, 1685-88, 1789-93 and 1877-79, all of which occurred before the buildup of manmade greenhouse gases and when temperatures were much cooler than they are now.",0_0
"While climate change concerns are voiced most strongly among the young, Liberal Democrat voters and Guardian/Independent readers, these attitudes are not translated into personal action.",0_0
"Read here . Agriculture prospers in warm conditions and crops respond fantastically to more atmospheric CO2. More CO2 feeds more people and reduces hunger, unless they use the food to fuel more cars - dumb.",3_3
"The signers are: Fred Smith and Myron Ebell, CEI; Paul Weyrich, Coalitions for America; Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform; former Senator Malcolm Wallop, Frontiers of Freedom; David Keene, American Conservative Union; Paul Gessing, National Taxpayers Union; James Backlin, Christian Coalition; Amy Ridenour, National Center for Public Policy Research; Darrell McKigney, Small Business Survival Committee; Richard Lessner, American Renewal; Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center; Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach; Steve Milloy, Citizens for the Integrity of Science; Ron Pearson, Council for America; Kevin Kearns, U.S. Business and Industry Council; Dennis Avery, Hudson Institute; Jim Boulet, Jr., English First; and Joan Hueter, American Council for Immigration Reform.",0_0
> >> Annual mean temperature in Central England during 1999,0_0
North American snow extent as reported by Rutgers University,0_0
"As of Wednesday, Jan. 13, the area has experienced 12 consecutive days of below freezing temperatures ??? a new record.",1_3
say global warming will not pose a serious threat to them or their way of life,0_0
All of the desires and efforts to reduce carbon emissions are up against this very inconvenient truth: World Coal Consumption to Surpass Oil by 2020 Due to Rising Demand in China and India . Excerpts from the Reuters article:,0_0
"""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
"The grim reality is that the EPA wants states to do their dirty work for them. By submitting a plan, states will become complicit in the agency's plan to shut down affordable, reliable power generation, destroy jobs and livelihoods, and plunge minority families deeper into poverty, hardship and ill health.",0_0
"> >> may be best divided into 3-4 regional studies, drawing upon",0_0
"3 But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,",0_0
"To be fair, Gore is more invigorated here than he ever seemed to be on the campaign trail. Yet Guggenheim presses too hard to present a ""loose"" Gore, making sure to include the self-deprecating one-liner he uses to open his presentation: ""I used to be the next President of the United States."" Watching Gore crack a joke is like watching your average football player swing a golf club. Sure, he can do it, but it's not an especially pretty sight.",0_0
Laframboise attributes these appointments to UN diversity goals. I suspect that the UNs objective is to obtain buy in from the developing countries for the UNFCCC policies.,0_0
Soviet Union (Ukraine and Volga regions) 1921-1922- to 5 million perish from drought,0_0
"the current commitments, even with some strengthening, are little different",0_0
"Economic Productivity and Competitiveness top priorities for the Obama administration and the Harper government, can be boosted by natural gas abundance. Even as prices remain affordable, natural gas utilities in both countries are leaders in promoting energy efficiency for consumers, lowering the input cost of energy and making a range of outputs from the private sector less expensive to produce and lowering energy bills so that consumers have more to spend elsewhere. The best of these ideas are worth sharing. One especially promising development is an array of new technologies enabling natural gas to become a transportation fuel for cars, trucks, rail and marine transport transportation accounts for roughly 25 per cent of U.S. and Canadian energy consumption according to the Energy Information Agency, and lower costs for transportation fuels will help improve competitiveness in logistics while reducing GHG emissions (compared to petroleum based fuels).",0_0
"CEI has fought the good fight. CEI fought the Safety Nazis at the Department of Transportation. If mandatory airbags increase safety in cars, how come those mandatory airbags, the Kennedys, are such dangerous drivers? CEI fought to stop the ban on pressure-treated woodmy children would thank CEI, but they've been knocked speechless by a rotten swing set.",0_0
"It means that something like Lindzen's adaptive iris effect must take place. Now, Lindzen's iris effect is just one possible mechanism how it can occur and I can't promise you that this is exactly what happens. But I think that much more general principles of physics make it extremely likely that the main result - namely that clouds and other things provide us with a negative feedback - is true.",3_1
"Carbon capture and sequestration, he said, was unlikely to be competitive unless natural gas prices increased by 100 to 150 percent and the construction of nuclear plants was ruled out.",4_4
1. Met Office July 2010: Climate Change Gradually But Steadily Reducing Probability Of Severe Winters In The UK,0_0
"At this, the officers announced they were coming in, and they broke down the door. They found Hollis King smoking marijuana, and put him under arrest. They also found powder cocaine. King was convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to 11 years in prison.",0_0
"As discussed and illustrated in this post, there are two naturally occurring, coupled ocean-atmosphere processes that the models obviously fail to simulate properly:",5_1
Cord Blomquist (cblomquist@cei.org) is Senior Communications Director at CEI.,0_0
"To overcome those failings, the sea surface temperatures in climate models have to be forced by greenhouse gases to create very high warming trends in the tropics, where observations show little warming. Now consider that the Pacific Ocean stretches almost halfway around the globe at the equator and youll understand themagnitude of those failings.",5_1
"Robert Schneider of the World Bank says, ""What we're seeing is that people are figuring out what you can and cannot do as far as what crops you can grow, what crops you can grow in which soils, where you can put crops when you have to put in pasture, and which fertilizers can be used successfully."" (Dartmouth Review, p.8)",0_0
"?The US has the cleanest, most heavily regulated drilling and mining facilities on earth, right?? Tabitha asked.",0_0
You cannot blame him. His degree and training is in railroad engineering. You read it right. This man was educated to make railroads from point A to point B.,0_0
Germans forced to waste electricity to prevent Green energy meltdown,0_0
"The administrations proposed CO 2 emission limits for existing power plants pose the biggest risk to consumer welfare and the economy. Like it or not, coal still provides the largest share of U.S. electric power . At best, CO 2 emission limits make electricity more costly. At worst, they can destroy coal as an economically-viable electricity fuel and force coal power plants to shut down.",4_1
"The IPCC selects lead authors from the pool of those nominated by individual governments. Over time, many governments nominated only authors who were aligned with stated policy. Indeed, the selections for the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report represented a disturbing homogeneity of thought regarding humans and climate.",5_2
"Mauskar said, ""In 2000-01, India was spending 0.63% of its GDP on climate change adaptation and mitigation which has now risen to 2.17%. So we can say that Nicholas Stern's argument (that climate change action does not hurt economy much) is perhaps not true.""",0_0
U.S. Main stream media duped on global warming polls,0_0
"There are powerful countries that remain single-party states, with their entire government apparatus controlled by a small political elitebut the Republicans are going to lose the House this fall.",0_0
"The only consolation at the moment is that global temperatures have failed to rise for more than a decade now, and have turned sharply downward in the past 18 months.",1_4
"Making matters worse, dense conifer canopies intercept rain and snow, with 30% lost to evaporation instead of soaking into the ground or flowing into rivers. When a little rain fell on the Bozeman fire on Aug. 31, the Forest Service reported that it was caught in the tree tops and quickly evaporated. An estimate by Wesleyan University's Helen Poulos and James Workman for California's Sierra Nevada Mountain Range puts the annual water loss due to evaporation at more than five trillion gallons. That is enough to supply Los Angeles for 26 years.",0_0
Australias antarctic runway melting | Western Herald,0_0
"The coordinated effort to privatize federal lands has included the ""Sagebrush Revolution"" of the 1970s, the ""Wise Use Movement"" of the 80s and 90s, and the more recent ""free-market environmentalism"" that consists of a network of corporations and conservative foundations and think tanks intent on gaining control of what was intended to belong collectively to ""We the People"".",0_0
"Reducing emissions through a permitting process requires bureaucracies to inspect facilities and enforce compliance, resulting in high costs, delays, litigation, political interference, and unintended consequences. Extensive empirical research of such programs has found they typically cost between four and six times as much as the least-costly means of reducing emissions by the same amount.35",4_2
"""After the weird ""future' award to President Obama of the Nobel Peace Prize, another Nobel committee has made a brilliant choice awarding the Economics prize to Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson. Their work follows the lead of Ronald Coase (himself a Nobel prize winner years ago), which showed that the institutions of liberty are far richer than the atomistic market concepts of buying and selling.""",0_0
"The authors note that ""the section of Antarctica drained by Pine Island Glacier and the fast flowing glacier itself have been the subject of much speculation and discussion, but they have received relatively little quantitative examination."" The present work does much to alleviate this deficiency and suggests there is no reason for undue concern about the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet .",1_1
The East Pacific sea surface temperature data represents about 33% of the surface area of the global oceansthats a chunk of waterwhile the Rest-of-the-World data makes up the other 67%.,0_0
In my view this comment exemplifies a problematic attitude not only in climate science but in the social sciences as well. The good cause which allegedly motivates much of the research puts the researcher in a special position. It allows them to dispense with essential standards of professional conduct. It is perhaps not remarkable that we see a leading figure in the philosophy of science defend questionable practices which have been modelled (not by accident I suppose) after the famous climategate affair.,5_2
Colleges are Obama's next takeover target,0_0
"Perhaps you watched the Earth Day news coverage of the ""historic"" ceremonial signing of the Paris Climate Agreement during which representatives from 175 countries walked up to the stage in the General Assembly hall at the United Nations headquarters in New York, sat down behind a desk on the podium, and added their signatures to the book. ""In the name of the United States of America,"" Secretary of State John Kerry signed his name with his young granddaughter on his lap.",0_0
"Last Friday, the EPA decreed the amount of ethanol that retailers must blend into their gasoline. For 2015, it will be about 14 billion gallons. That decree provides an opportunity to ask a simple question: How have ethanol producers been able to garner a federal mandate that requires motorists to buy their low-heat-content, hydrophilic, motor-fuel moonshine?",0_0
"""From its mountains you may dig silver, iron, coal, copper, quicksilver, zinc and tin; from the sands of its tributaries you may wash gold, diamonds and precious stones; from its forests you may gather drugs of virtues the most rare, spices of aroma the most exquisite, gums and resins of the most useful properties, dyes of hues the most brilliant, with cabinet and building woods of finest polish and most enduring texture. Its climate is everlasting summer, and its harvests perennial."" Matthew Maury, Amazon booster, 1850's",0_0
"Eagle Takes? The US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that the Department of the Interior violated federal laws when it created a final regulation in 2009 allowing wind energy and some other companies to obtain 30-year permits to kill protected Bald and Golden Eagles without prosecution by the federal government. Among other issues, the Fish and Wildlife Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The violation of NEPA was cited by US District Court in Louisiana for ruling against a barrier system that was designed to protect New Orleans from flooding by Hurricanes such as Katrina. Expect a long fight against the ruling by the wind industry and its promoters in Washington. See link under Alternative, Green (Clean) Solar and Wind",0_0
"Is there a consensus in the climate modeling community on the validity of regional climate prediction by dynamical downscaling? A large number of dynamical downscaling efforts are underway worldwide. This is not necessarily because it is meaningful to do it, but simply because it is possible to do it. It is not without precedent that quite deficient climate models are used by large communities simply because it is convenient to use them . It is self-evident that if a coarse resolution IPCC model does not correctly capture the large-scale mean and transient response, a high-resolution regional model, forced by the lateral boundary conditions from the coarse model, can not improve the response . Considering the important role of multi-scale interactions and feedbacks in the climate system, it is essential that the IPCC-class global models themselves be run at sufficiently high resolution.",5_1
"Matt and Janet Thompson are now down to simultaneous opposing injunctions and writs. Theyve launched several against the DEC in WA, and against the constitutionality of the EPA regulations (wait til you hear how obscenely silly the fine print is on those laws). The NAB (or receiver) immediately returned fire and issued one against them. The Thompsons have got no legal aid, so theyve been doing almost all of the research themselves. This is what it comes down too. We have to stand up for ourselves.",0_0
"The initial reports in 1986 claimed 2,000 dead, and an unknown number of future deaths and deformities occurring in a wide swath extending from Sweden to the Black Sea. As the years passed, the size of the disaster increased; by 2000, the BBC and New York Times estimated 15,000-30,000 dead, and so on",0_0
"Regardless of those inconvenient ""global warming"" facts, the NASA climate research unit and James Hansen continue to embarrass the entire science community with their hysteria, hyperbole and serial fabrications. And July's commentary about heat waves and ""global warming"" is a painful reminder of the embarrassing Bozo-science that NASA can produce.",5_1
Capital Rivals: U.S. Chamber of Commerce vs. SEIU:,0_0
"I know you have other things you need to do, but if the government keeps growing, when will any of us be less busy?",0_0
"Annex I countries are mostly developed countries, covering the United States, Britain, Australia, Canada and much of Europe including countries that are struggling financially such as Greece and Portugal.",0_0
As James Murray believes that there we be further regional and international conflict because of Global Warming then whats his opinion on further defense spending and the stomach for further foreign Military Intervention.In the name of preventing Climate Change this time.,0_0
The models are broken. They are based on flawed assumptions about water vapor.,5_1
A climate criminal ignores the fact that models have massively over-predicted warming,5_1
"Moghaddam et al . report that the daily two-hour 400-ppm increase in the controlled environment chambers' atmospheric CO 2 concentration led to a 193% increase in C. asiatica leaf biomass, a 264% increase in plant water use efficiency, as well as a 171% increase in leaf total flavonoid content.",3_3
"Instead of insults, these legislators should be lauded for trying to save the American economy. Even the EPA admits that regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act is ""absurd."" To avoid having to shackle the entire economy, the EPA wants to increase the threshold for the regulation of greenhouse gas ""pollution"" under the Act. Otherwise, the EPA argues, it will be forced to regulate almost everything, which would be, the EPA concedes, ""absurd.""",0_0
"42) Trenberth's 'missing heat' really is missing and is not ""supported by the data itself"" in the ""real ocean"": ""it is not clear to me, actually, that an accelerated warming of some...layer of the ocean ... is robustly supported by the data itself. Until we clear up whether there has been some kind of accelerated warming at depth in the real ocean, I think these results serve as interesting hypotheses about why the rate of surface warming has slowed-down, but we still lack a definitive answer on this topic.""",5_1
"I agree, and would add that they have provided NO demonstration of skillful regional and local predictionsof changes in climate statistics from that in the historical and paleorecord.",0_0
"The warming vs cooling depends on the place (as well as the month, as I mentioned) and the warming places only have a 2-to-1 majority while the cooling places are a sizable minority. Of course, if you calculate the change of the global mean temperature, you get a positive sign - you had to get one of the signs because the exact zero result is infinitely unlikely. But the actual change of the global mean temperature in the last 77 years (in average) is so tiny that the place-dependent noise still safely beats the ""global warming trend"", yielding an ambiguous sign of the temperature trend that depends on the place.",1_4
"The estimates from the scientific community range from 4.0 to 5.6 million square kilometers, with 8 of the contributors suggesting a September minimum below 5.0 million square kilometers, 3 contributors suggesting a minimum of 5.0 million square kilometers, and 5 contributors suggesting a September minimum above 5.0 million square kilometers. Two contributors forecast a September minimum below that of 2007 at 4.0 million square kilometers and 3 contributors suggest a return to the long term downward linear trend for September sea ice loss (5.5 to 5.6 million square kilometers). None of the contributors indicate a return to the climatological sea ice extent of 6.7 million square kilometers.",0_0
"U.S. PIRG, part of a web of groups associated with fearmonger extraordinaire, Ralph Nader, has also released a report repeating the tired litany of disasters supposedly linked to global warming. The claims by these groups are based on pure speculation, however. They are not supported by the scientific literature (www.igc.apc.org/pirg/uspirg).",5_2
"What we do not hear from them , from any one of them, is the slightest indication of puzzlement over how or why so suddenly, in this age of the greatest emergency our planet has ever facedglobal warmingthings have gotten cool. Not a furrowed brow among the lot over the consideration that, contrary to the visions of Al Gore and David Suzuki or NASA's own anti-global warming Nostradamus, James Hansen, the great trend line of an ever-warming world is being contradicted nightly in their own forecasts.",0_0
"Ball #7 in the above solution to the inverse problem has an estimated inflation of 0.5 psi.The reverse engineered (inverse) inflation of 0.5 psi is, by another coincidence, is thedifference in pregame pressure between Patriot and Colt balls. Indeed, this prompted the guess. Could it be possible thatone of the Colt balls ended up among the Patriot balls? When I looked back,it turned out that there was contemporary evidence of such a possibility. A news story shortly after the game reports an interview with DQwell Jackson, a Colt cornerback who intercepted a Brady pass in the second quarter. Jackson said that the Patriots were using a Colt football late in the first half:",0_0
Get real 642-374 question for real success. No need to go through dozen of books. Just download 70-291 study pack and pass your RH202 in single attempt.,0_0
"Kaufmann?s team looked into how sulfate uncertainty impacted its results and decided that it was relatively minor. However, we can?t find any independent test showing that the geographic ?fingerprint? of a dramatic recent increase in sulfate cooling is actually being observed. More on this in a minute.",0_0
"Climate Audit's graph show's the data from the ten chosen samples (from ca. 1800 on) in red recreating the infamous discredited ""hockey stick"" temperature trend. Climate Audit shows a larger data set of living trees in black without Briffa's samples. Proponents of global warming theory are up in arms, yet have no good answer for the simple question, why did the researchers refuse to share their data? A response from Professor Briffa failed to explain why he kept the data secret. Transparency does not frighten those with nothing to hide.",5_2
"Monbiot, a fourteenth-rate zoologist who knows nothing of climate science, had attacked me in a characteristically vicious, ignorant 1800-word rant for having failed to understand the fundamental equation of radiative transfer, of which he had never even heard until he read about it in a major article I had published in the London Sunday Telegraph. He may be forgiven for not understanding it: the UN?s climate panel does not understand it either, and is very careful not even to mention it once in the 1000 pages of its 2001 climate assessment report or in the 1500 pages of the 2007 report.",0_0
"Today's Links: October 24, 2012",0_0
"In January 2001, Bushs EPAissued a request for comment on the ICTA petition. In late August 2003,EPAGeneral Counsel Robert Fabricant issued a memorandum concluding that the CAA does not authorize GHG regulation.Two weeks later,EPA published its denial of the ICTA petition in the Federal Register .",0_0
"At least ten Fatah militias were unable to hold their own in Gaza when pressed by the more disciplined Hamas, and given that weakness Israel has a legitimate skepticism about security issues that will have to be addressed before it considers a final accord with the Palestinians. Nor will security alone fully satisfy the Israelis. Palestine needs leaders who understand the art of governance and how to make government work, who would help constituents comprehend the workings of free institutions, and who would be prepared to declare their land ready for statehood. In Israel's view, there can be no more Gazas, no new Islamic threats, no tolerance for those urging destruction of the Jewish state or the Jewish people.",0_0
"Here's how it really is: Is Vladimir Putin succeeding? Well, opines Obama, the Russian president is ""not completely stupid."" According to him, Putin ""understands that Russia's overall position in the world is significantly diminished. And the fact that he invades Crimea or is trying to prop up Assad doesn't suddenly make him a player. You don't see him in any of these meetings out here helping to shape the agenda. For that matter, there's not a meeting where the Russians set the agenda around any of the issues that are important.""",0_0
Hybrid Cars' Miles Per Gallon Falls Short,0_0
"Hantemirovs intemperate criticism was immediately seized upon by commenters at Real Climate on the then Yamal thread, first by Steve Metzler here and then by Phil Clarke here . Over the next week or so, RC commenters, abetted by Real Climate moderator Eric Steig, used Hantemirovs criticism to launched one tirade after another against me: see page 4 and page 5 . Comments included the following:",0_0
"Another potential contributor is a wooly-minded romantic environmentalism that seems to have infected scientists as much as anyone else. This also comes through in Nature""s profile:",0_0
"written by Andy Neitzke. Andy is one of the coolest bigshots among recent graduates, and because he is also a clear expositor (recall, for example, his and Cumrun's review of topological strings), you should try to look at his comments.",0_0
"Solyndra, the Obama administrations mascot solar company thatburned through $535 million of the taxpayers money before going broke, isnot the only failure in the Presidents green investment portfolio.The Institute for Energy Researchprovides information on eightother stimulosers that also failed, laid off workers, or have a bleak financial outlook.",0_0
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"The War on Terror was or at least I claim it was incautious, for precisely as many observed at the time and many more since, there was no clear basis for the interventions and no clear objective. Bush and Blair of course didnt write ISISs manifestos and mission statements, but they were in many senses the authors of their opportunity. That is the consequence of regime change, and the consequence of hollowing out of a government of the element you want rid of, and trying to impose institutions and principles from without over the chaos.",0_0
A study of sea sediment cores in the Chukchi Sea shelf in the Arctic Ocean concluded that `during the middle Holocene the August sea surface temperature fluctuated by 5C and was 3-7C warmer than it is today.,2_1
"The authors found that juniper trees recovered better from the effects of drought in the 1994-1998 period, when the average CO 2 concentration of the air was 343 ppm, than in the 1896-1930 period, when the average CO 2 concentration of the air was 300 ppm, noting that ""greater recovery following drought in the late period is consistent with the expected ameliorating influences of atmospheric CO 2 under stressful conditions,"" which they attributed to a CO 2 -induced increase in tree water use efficiency in the late period and for which they cited much corroborative information. What it means",3_3
"For quite some time, I?ve harbored the suspicion that both the popular science and the political activity that create and sustain the belief in Global Warmingism are informed by a retrogressively pagan mindset. No matter what the weather is like, it always turns out to be exactly the kind of weather we should expect if human activity were causing global temperatures to rise. Jared Olar, Echo Pilot, 17 December 2010",0_0
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"In the words of the scientists who conducted the research, ""the fact that the temperature sensitivity of gross primary productivity is larger than that of ecosystem respiration suggests that global warming could lead to increased carbon sequestration in boreal ecosystems."" References",3_3
"As the late David Bradford of Princeton University (one of the leading lights in tax reform who will be much missed) told Time Magazine in 2003, a consumption tax ""approach yields enormous simplification of the rules related to capital gains, interest deductions, and treatment of complex financial transactions. It appalls me that all this brilliant talent is going into the design of ways of gaming our tax system."" In short, waste of human capital is as important as waste of capital investment.",0_0
"The mistake that climate science makes is to equate the output temperature with the input temperature, which is the same thing as equating the output flux to the input flux in a rather naive attempt to conserve energy. But this goes about it the wrong way we need to conserve energy first, and let the flux be whatever they actually are in real-time to correspond with that energy. It is wrong to start at the output flux and work backwards by equating that with the input flux, in order to conserve energy. This conserves energy but it does not conserve physics because physics depends on real-time flux, and in real-time the input flux is not the same as the output flux . The input flux only occurs over half of the area that the output flux comes from, and hence is much more dense and hence much more warm.",0_0
"But let's forgive Mr Chu this mistake - his field was laser optics, not the phase transitions of water. And incidentally, the ice age will eventually return. In a few dozens of thousands of years, there will be another one and the natural contribution to the dropping temperature will be over 5 C. Why doesn't Steven Chu and others care about the people in the year 22008 who will be threatened by a new ice age? It's not as convenient for their goals as their worries aboutt the people who live in 2108, is it?",0_0
"CFACT Europe Challenges Environmentalist Orthodoxy with ""Eco-Nihilism: A Critique of Political Ecology""",0_0
"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.",0_0
"Apparently, many in Washington and elsewhere, particularly those in the Administration, remain ignorant of the critical role CO2 has in life on the planet and the enormous benefits that enhanced atmospheric carbon dioxide is providing to plant life, to the environment, and to humanity. One is tempted to ask: are those who declare that carbon is a pollutant of a different, carbon-free life form?",3_3
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Regulatory Policy Analyst Isaac Post on the ideological background of the CSR movement:,0_0
"It is implausible to expect that small changes in the concentration of any minor atmospheric constituent such as carbon dioxide, can significantly influence that radiative equilibrium.",2_3
President Obama says that the climate is collapsing and that he is going to rescue the human race by fixing it.,0_0
"* Renewable fuels will prevent oil depletion and reduce imports. Baloney. U.S. oil and natural gas were declining and imports rising for decades, because environmentalists and politicians blocked leasing and drilling. The very people decrying the situation were causing it. They wanted to justify a non-hydrocarbon future that would give them greater control over our economy and living standards and build a power base that tied them and votes to farmers and companies that benefitted from this Washington-mandated industry and wealth transfers from taxpayers and consumers to the new political power brokers.",0_0
"Some commentators have been very quick to seize on one more example of perceived Team iniquity. That I had been publicly seeking this data for a long time and that Briffa had withheld the data not just from me (but also from D??Arrigo et al, for example) lent an unsavory aspect to CRU??s conduct, fresh after widespread unfavorable publicity for CRU??s withholding of temperature data (by Briffa??s long-time colleague and mentor, Phil Jones.)",5_2
"its government. Four years before ordering the Navy seal mission to take out bin Laden, President Obama basically said how he would",0_0
The bounce back in the extent of sea ice in the Arctic this summer was reflected also in the volume of ice.,1_1
"But it will also include food and grocery manufacturers, alcohol companies and healthcare providers, to name a few.",0_0
The means more then normal north to south contrast and moisture aplenty to help feed spring severe weather activity. Normally La Nina springs have more severe weather activity as have posted earlier.,0_0
"In an article intended to raise pubic consciousness about the threat of global warming, environmental writer Bill McKibben mentioned reports that, in northern Russia, ""venomous snakes had appeared for the first time..,"" well, venomous snakes will certainly get people's attention.",0_0
"Cavuto asked why, instead of getting oil from Libyas Moammar Gadhafi and other Middle East countries, America doesnt drill for more oil domestically. Morano replied, The Congressional Research Service just did a study of natural gas, coal, and oil. We have more than the entire world, we have more than China, Canada, and Saudi Arabia combined, but 83 percentof our lands are inaccessible for oil drilling. And we have the Interior Department held in contempt of court for not allowing more permitting out in the Gulf Coast.",4_5
"He does not consider that the pieces upon the chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it.",0_0
"The congressional hearings also revealed that EDF might possibly profit from early action credits. David Ridenour told the congressmen at the hearing that EDF, which helped write the Chafee early action bill, may be trying to position itself as a third party verifier of emissions reductions. He cited a report by the NonProfit Accountability Project, Crony Environmentalism, in which EDF is accused of a conflict of interest in supporting the Chafee bill.",0_0
"While this is quite similar to my previous result, there is one major difference. The trends fit better. The difference in the trends in my previous results is just barely visible. But when I use a fat-tailed exponential decay function, the difference in trend can no longer be seen. The trend in the NH is about three times as large as the trend in the SH (0.3C vs 0.1C per decade). Despite that, using solely the variations in net sunshine we are able to replicate each hemisphere exactly.",0_0
"The UK's HadCRUT global temperature dataset indicates a global cooling trend of -0.2C/century over last 15 years, plus May 2012 was slightly cooler - the global warming science facts, per the IPCC's own gold-standard",1_4
The planet will fall apart if a bunch of hysterical nitwits cant seize control of the government.,0_0
"The only more prolific snow-producers this deep into March occurred March 28-29, 1942 (11.5 inches), and March 27-28, 1891 (12 inches).",1_3
A TRF reader who may be described as an achieved physicist and whose name can be found if you study the recent comments carefully has brought us some amazing details about the Higgs rumor at the Tevatron.,0_0
"Recently, we heard assertions from some reliable people that 2014 was the hottest year on record. News anchors and reporters dutifully, and without their usual skepticism, conveyed the news as fact. The Associated Press reported that 2014 was the hottest year, citing NOAA and NASA data, but was later forced to clarify its story, conceding that it did not include the caveat that other recent years had average temperatures that were almost as high and they all fall within a margin of error that lessens the certainty that any one of the years was the hottest. NOAA and NASA also quietly had to concede that 2014 was probably not the warmest year, but I would venture to guess that very few people noticed the update.",0_0
I read that the 3 soldiers were taken to a US military hospital in Germany. Thank you America.,0_0
"Bottom line: It really looks that the third runway has significantly warmed summer temperatures at the airport. Thus, one must be really careful in assuming that any warming there is the result of some kind of greenhouse gas influence.",5_1
"Lomborg?s new book argues that, ?Investing $100bn annually would mean that we could essentially resolve the climate change problem by the end of this century,? The trouble is there is no climate change problem. This investment proposal by Lomborg is precisely the type of misdirection of funding because of bad science, which is the main theme of his more famous book.",0_0
"to senior professors, who reply with short ones after a delay; the",0_0
"Bypassing scientific controversy, As You Sow pretends as if no debate exists in targeting business prey that would rather quietly and, ultimately, futilely appease the group than risk attack.",0_0
"Educators who turn schools into indoctrination centers have been going all out to propagandize a whole generation with Al Gore??s movie, ???An Inconvenient Truth??- which has in fact carried a message that has been very convenient for Al Gore financially, producing millions of dollars from his ???green?? activities.",5_2
"Yet the global warming alarmism and especially the public policy measures connected with it have been triumphally marching on. Even the recent worldwide financial and economic crisis and the enormous confusion, fear, as well as indebtedness it created did not stop this victorious ?long march.?",5_2
Greens Whining as G-8 Climate Deal Remains Uncertain,0_0
"If so, the Court will compound the growing tar-baby effect of the climate change issue, in which every institution that touches it gets de-legitimized, including the EPA, the presidency, the scientific community, the mainstream media, and the Supreme Court itself. It will also devastate the U.S. economy, but hey, let's just sing a few choruses of Tom Lehrer: ""Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department!""",0_0
"Ethanol has been a critically important chemical for a very long time. In fact, it has been used for eight thousand years or sogoing back to the Paleolithic eraand some research suggests that Stone Age people recognized the value of a good tipple. As commentator George Will recently pointed out, some have even argued that ethanol, in the form of beer and wine, was an evolutionary driver in helping humanity transcend its original hunter-gatherer lifestyle and begin living in denser population clusters.",0_0
"Its the longest tree-ring fire history in the world, and its from this amazing place with these amazing trees. said lead author Thomas W. Swetnam of the UA. This is an epic collection of tree rings.",0_0
"Many believe that America has only a small fraction of the world's oil resources and that supplies will soon be exhausted. In fact, America has an abundance of energy resources. Though not all reserves are recoverable with today's technology, recent estimates project that the United States has over five times as much oil as Saudi Arabia. In fact, when American, Canadian, and Mexican reserves are combined, North American oil reserves total nearly 1.8 trillion barrels of recoverable oil.",4_5
good faith and pushed down the price of Iranian energy as well as the,0_0
"The author writes that ""in the context of global climate change, urban warming can bias results obtained for background monitoring, as many of the observatories that have been in operation for a long time are located in cities."" Nevertheless, and in spite of this fact, Fujibe notes that the IPCC (2007) has suggested that ""the globally averaged temperature trend is hardly affected by urbanization."" What was done",5_1
"However, because the operator is linear, any linear superposition of these states has to have be an eigenstate with the same eigenvalue \(E=0\) as both of them share. However,\[",0_0
"Settled science update: Climate models make 'very large' errors in determining solar radiation at Earth's surface, 'ignore the effect of clouds'",5_1
"Pielke Sr., Roger A., 2008: A Broader View of the Role of Humans in the Climate System is Required In the Assessment of Costs and Benefits of Effective Climate Policy . Written Testimony for the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality of the Committee on Energy and Commerce Hearing Climate Change: Costs of Inaction Honorable Rick Boucher, Chairman. June 26, 2008, Washington, DC., 52 pp. .",0_0
Cubans bundled up against a record low temperature in Havana on Friday.,0_0
"Dr. Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is one of the world's experts on the sources of climate change. Baliunas argues that natural variations in the sun's energy closely correlate with known changes in Earth temperatures over the centuries. Baliunas believes such natural variations account for nearly all of the global warming trend of the 20th century, while human impact has been at most ""tiny."" James Glassman, American Enterprise Institute fellow, long-time host of the late, lamented Techno-Politics, and publisher of the Website TechCentralStation, recently interviewed Baliunas. We reprint a brief edited excerpt here. To see the full interview go to www.techcentralstation.com.",2_1
"The Winrock team, which included scientists from Applied GeoSolutions, NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory and University of Maryland, combined the best available spatially consistent datasets on gross forest loss and forest carbon stocks to track emissions from deforestation in millions of individual map pixels. Their methods focus on carbon losses to the atmosphere and do not include regrowth, which sequesters carbon from the atmosphere. The resulting gross emissions estimate of 0.81 billion metric tons of carbon emitted per year, with a statistically derived 90 percent prediction interval of 0.57-1.22 billion metric tons, is approximately one third of previously published estimates and represents just 10 percent of total global anthropogenic carbon emissions over the time period analyzed. The findings are published in the journal Science.",0_0
"Cranes pedigree is a lot better than minedegrees from Princeton and Harvard Law and lots of business experience. With all that going for him, it may not surprise you that Crane has a philosophical bent to go with his industry smarts. The currentissue of Energy Biz summarizes some of hisrecent thoughts in an article with the deeptitle, Carbon Morality: The Nearsidedness of Incumbency .",0_0
"Before the new Congress is sworn in, we already hear a lot of talk about lifting the ban on oil exports that was put into place in response to the 1970s Arab oil embargo. Reuters reports: Senator Murkowski ""has fought to relax the ban all year by issuing a series of papers detailing how such exports have been allowed in the past, holding a private meeting on the subject with Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, and hinting that 2015 could be the time to introduce ban-ending legislation.""",0_0
15c. Current state of scientific knowledge allow for a reasonable assessment of the effects of land surface processes,0_0
"Climate Realists announce that new satellite data from Japanese scientists show carbon dioxide is emitted mostly by the third world, with much less coming from industry in the west. For those asleep in the back, thats the reverse of our previous understanding (so its a confusing result). On the map, pink is where emissions are occurring, green is where absorption is occurring.",4_2
"ENSO is a natural phenomenon , but may change under a changing climate and is interesting to watch over the long term.",0_0
25a. Potential for catastrophe from climate change for the country in which you live in the next ten years (very low to very high).,0_0
"Here . Excerpts: But after years of gentle coaxing by his wife, Cambria Gordon, a writer and environmental activist, he has officially gone green. ... My wife Cambria is a longtime global-warming activist who wrote a book with Laurie David called ""The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming."" ... To be honest, there are skeptics on the writing staff who aren't embracing this challenge with the same vigor as me. I respect all points of view among our writers. We do argue a lot at lunchtime.",0_0
"In a world without air conditioning, a warmer, more flexible, more relaxed workplace helps make summer a time to slow down again. Three-digit temperatures prompt siestas. Code-orange days mean offices are closed. Shorter summer business hours and month-long closings common in pre-air-conditioned America return.",0_0
"It is also something more significant. Each bag of tea represented the donation of somebody who wanted to make a statement as part of the tea-party project. What that means is that over 1 million Americans are sick and tired of being treated like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama's ATM.",0_0
"This would ordinarily be bad news for landowners, industries and anyone else who might run afoul of the EPA's re-empowered enforcement units. However, the ANPR may be evidence of overreach. Virtually everyone who has looked at the EPA's plans warn of regulatory overload, with the requirements for enforcement far outweighing the abilities of a normal government department. Traditional environmental enforcement could play second fiddle to the new greenhouse gas enforcement.",0_0
Mann called himself a reluctant and accidental public figure in the debate over climate change.,0_0
"And to drive the point home, Figure 4 is a graph of the January sea surface temperatures (not anomalies) for the New England coastal waters from 1854 to 2013. Sea surface temperatures were much warmer during the 1930s and 40s.",0_0
It looks like the $210 million-dollar-funded agenda is hard up for cash!,0_0
IPCC Climate Model Scientists Badly Botch The Science Of Sea Levels - Honest Error(s)?,5_1
"""RealClimate: the insulated web site, where insulated researchers post insulated content""",0_0
"While the dominant Czech utility, EZ, has scaled down some of the communist plans, it remained the most ambitious nuclear company in Europe. In the following 20 years, it should be building new nuclear power plants somewhere at every moment - including new units in Temeln (CZ), Dukovany (CZ), and Cernavoda (RO).",0_0
"I agree with your comments. Like you, I believe that 95% of CRU is obtained from GHCN, with a very few non-GHCN sources, of which Austria is one (Norway, Sweden, Denmark are others.) Like you, I believe that they do relatively trivial manipulations of GHCN data. AS Ive said elsewhere, that is my best guess as to the secret that they dont want exposed and the only commercial interest that they are protecting.",5_2
"Sierra Club President Michael Brune said that President Obama, ""can either lead our country to a clean energy future or he can approve a pipeline that will bring the dirtiest oil on the planet through the US, and for the next decades we will know that the Keystone XL was approved under Obama""",0_0
"Not illustrated: At least one of the modeling groups appears to include a Solar Cycle 24 of lower amplitude, and then repeat Solar Cycles 22, 23 and 24 into the future.",0_0
"Model = mle2(method.lik, start = list(b= fm$coef),data=list(y=x,t=Year));",0_0
"Sea power. A hundred years after Theodore Roosevelt sent his Great While Fleet around the world to signal the emergence of a new great power, China is rediscovering the writings of Admiral Mahan on the importance of sea power in history and dreaming of a Great White Fleet of its own. Against the backdrop of an ever-shrinking U.S. Navy (more on that later), China is transforming itself as a maritime superpower at such high speed that Western analysts estimate it could become the world's leading naval power by 2020.",0_0
Secret Walmart Survey Shows Inflation Already Here:,0_0
"Beevers 2011 paper tried to counter those findings by arguing there was a nearly five-fold increase in the rate of local extinctions and an 11-fold increase in the rate of upslope range retraction during the last ten years. But Beever had badly manipulated his data. Surveying his 25 sites, he too had found 10 examples where pikas now inhabited lower elevations than previously documented. But he decided not to use those observations in his calculations. He, the editors and peer-reviewers unapologetically published his biased calculations to create his 11-fold increase in the rate of upslope range retraction . Beever defended this statistical blasphemy by arguing pikas had likely always lived at those lower elevations, but had escaped detection by earlier observers (the equivalent of climate science infilling). Perhaps. It was possible. But by eliminating all new observations of pikas at warmer, lower elevations, he guaranteed their statistical upslope retreat.",0_0
"And despite common claims that the ???science is settled?? when it comes to global warming, we are still learning more and more about the earth complex climate systemand the more we learn, the less responsive it seems that the earths average temperature is to human carbon dioxide emissions.",5_1
"Sowing the stratosphere with particles to reflect the Sun and cool the planet is possible with current technology and would cost a fraction of the bill from climate change or reducing emissions by fossil fuels, they argue.",4_2
"Passive microwave measurements are missing vast areas of ice, because an early winter storm broke the ice up into chunks which the satellites are unable to detect. Alarmists are going hysterical, based ongarbagedata.",5_1
"It is abundantly clear from Stambaugh et al .'s findings that there is nothing unusual, unnatural or unprecedented about any 20th or 21st century droughts that may have occurred throughout the agricultural heartland of the United States. It is also clear that the much greater droughts of the past millennium occurred during periods of both relative cold and relative warmth , as well as the transitions between them . Thus, to testify that ""droughts are becoming longer and more intense,"" and to imply that they are doing so because of global warming, is to be doubly disingenuous .",1_7
Another Record-Breaking Federal Register? Federal Regulations Surge in 2011,0_0
"CO2 is a colorless gas? Not if you have a NASA supercomputer to model it. From CBS News, NASA video brings carbon dioxide pollution to life in vivid, swirling colors",0_0
"I should point out that we didnt follow the sound advice for purchasing a puppy, such as seeing the puppys parents, using a Kennel Club registered breeder, and not taking a puppy that is under 8 weeks old. However, he was cute and we loved him already. My wife wanted to call him Diesel, but our daughter Michelle wanted to name Lucky after the dog in the cartoon film 101 Dalmatians. Michelle won and our new puppy was duly named Lucky.",0_0
The global temperature has been rising at a steady trend rate of 0.5C per century since the end of the little ice age in the 1700s (when the Thames River would freeze over every winter). On top of the trend are oscillations that last about thirty years in each direction:,2_1
Professor Bellamy says that climate change has always happened but doubts man-made climate change.It is total poppycock.,2_1
Ms Shelton won't mind if you click,0_0
"So, how's that stimulus spending going for ya? Still, spin springs eternal... Miami Herald; - ""What appeared to be bad news for the economy -- another increase in the unemployment rate -- was tempered by a drop in new job losses."" Charlotte Observer ""Despite 9.7% jobless rate, numbers show rays of hope"" . You see, it's all about the upbeat view! While the increased competition for ever-scarcer jobs may sound like bad news to job seekers, some economists say that having more people return to the job hunt could be a good sign. The fact that labor force participation is rising often signals that consumers are taking a more upbeat view of the labor market and are finally looking for jobs, said John Ryding, chief economist at RDQ Economics. The last link is from June, but I went searching for it after hearing it repeated by a different porcine makeup artist on radio yesterday.",0_0
"The idea that politics was the motive only developed because the CRU and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had made global warming a purely political issue. Besides, why has motive got anything to do with request for scientific data and process, especially when funded by taxes and used to create potentially devastating policies?",5_2
Reporters also pressed NOAA climatologists about the severe cold weather currently hitting most of the U.S. and how much longer Americans could expect to freeze. The main question: is this caused by global warming?,1_3
"All across the planet, the historical increase in the atmospheres CO2 concentration has stimulated vegetative productivity, reads a portion of the 1,063-page report, called Climate Change Reconsidered II: Biological Impacts. This observed stimulation, or greening of the Earth, has occurred in spite of many real and imagined assaults on Earths vegetation, including fires, disease, pest outbreaks, deforestation and climatic change.",3_3
"Get this. First, there has been no recent global warming in the common meaning of the term, for world average temperature has cooled for the last ten years. Furthermore, since 1940 the earth has warmed for nineteen years and cooled for forty-nine, the overall result being that global average temperature is now about the same as it was in 1940.",1_4
"""While it purports to be non-partisan, non-ideological expositions of climate science and moral common-sense, An Inconvenient Truth, in both its versions, is actually a colorfully illustrated lawyer's brief for global warming alarmism and energy rationing. The only facts and studies Gore considers are those convenient to his scare-them-green agenda. And in numerous instances, he distorts the evidence he cites.""",5_2
"It was raining in Anchorage in December, 2002 which happens about once every ten years according to the National Weather Service.",0_0
Thanks to the staff at the Mercia Veterinary Surgery for attending to Luckys medical needs over the past 12 years.,0_0
"Second, Mr. Drevermandid not base that statement on a thousand years of drought records preserved in tree rings, or on other proxies, or on any observations at all. It was simply a mathematical estimate of what is called a ???return period?? based on a probability distribution, not a scientific statement of historical fact. Here is a link (PDF) to how it was calculated.",5_1
"Moreover, according to these same computer models, global temperatures should now be increasing at a significant rate as much as 0.3 C per decade. But this rate is higher than the recent observed trends measured by satellites, balloons, and surface instruments which suggests that the computer simulations are exaggerating the effect of the increases in CO2.",5_1
"Many Obama staffers and policies have come from CAP. The DC says: ""In 2010, Podesta wrote the foreword for a CAP report on how the President could use his executive authority to advance a progressive agenda, including actions to unilaterally force the U.S. economy to become greener."" CAP and the name Podesta have come up repeatedly in the Green-energy Crony-corruption Scandal that I've covered extensively with Christine Lakatos.",0_0
"In the second part of the talk, the weakness of gravity was explained by the fact that you must walk before you run. In the case that you don't know what it means, it means that near the Planck scale, the strength of the QCD coupling constant changes very slowly, and it only starts to run quickly when the coupling constant is of order one, which is near the QCD scale, which is where the proton mass has to be found.",0_0
"DISSERTATIONDEFENSE Samantha Stevenson November 14, 2011 at 9:00am LOCATION: CIRES Auditorium",0_0
"But watch the pea under the thimble: the completely defective Korttajarvi sediment chronologies are used in the comparandum series. Yes, the anthropogenically disturbed sediments have a HS pattern, but so what? Surely no one can seriously argue that this presents valid evidence on the modern-medieval differential (whichever way it goes.)",5_1
"This is an alternative to something that does not yet exist: a post-2012 agreement. (The current European Union negotiating posture, demanding even deeper rationing despite failure on the first go-round, ensures that such an agreement never will exist.)",0_0
"So here's the central question: Is Curry a heroic whistle-blower, speaking the truth when others can't or won't? Or has she gone off the scientific deep end, hurling baseless charges at a group of scientists who are doing their best to understand the complexities of Earth's climate? Let us know what you think.",0_0
"Hurricanes have not increased in the U.S. in frequency, intensity or normalized damage since at least 1900, Pielke added. The same holds for tropical cyclones globally since at least 1970.",1_7
"They still have snow on the ground on June 26, with only a few weeks left inthe melt season.",1_3
The President could finally veto the Keystone XL pipeline a key objective of the climate alarm movement.,5_2
"(on the other hand: with 480+ consequences to choose from, perhaps it can be said that AGW is true no matter what. As the saying goes, not even the astrologer can guess it wrong all of the time)",0_0
"The progressive aristocracy is every bit as morally reprehensible as the worst of those of the past, for it relies on the existence of an underclass that will provide sufficient votes to keep it in power and motivate the productive class to work hard lest they fall into this unfortunate group. That helps explain why the progressive aristocracy has stood idly by while the schools in the nation's inner cities have deteriorated so badly and thus doomed a large swath of the population to poverty and dependence on the government. This inculcation of ignorance appears to be a matter of truly stupendous cynicism.",0_0
"Its a canard of climate science that increasing atmospheric CO 2 from 390PPM to 780PPM will raise the earths surface temperature by about 1C (expanded to 3C by positive feedbacks). From my way of thinking, the only thing CO 2 can do is increase coupling to spaceit certainly cant store or trap energy or increase the earths peak or 24-hour average temperature.",2_3
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellows Marlo Lewis and Iain Murray on Hurricane Katrina and current global warming science:,0_0
About one-half of Blunder is a non-technical description of our new peer reviewed and soon-to-be-published research which supports the opinion that a majority of Americans already hold: that warming in recent decades is mostly due to a natural cycle in the climate system ??? not to an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning.,2_1
Piketty and maybe Piereson dont see the negative effect of big gov and central planning.,0_0
Gore friend and aged hippie David Suzuki demonizes travel in order to make you think twice about leaving the house. Some scary facts:,0_0
"First, whether or not an insurance policy makes sense partly depends on the price of the premium. It is possible to spend too much on insurance. A homeowner s policy so expensive that it effectively prevents the insured from purchasing health insurance, replacing the faulty brakes in his car, making safety improvements in his home, or saving for his retirement is probably a bad investment. The Administration assures us that the premium payments associated with the Kyoto Protocol will be relatively small, but, as noted, several respected private sector analysts disagree.",0_0
"How well do the CMIP3 and CMIP5 models perform in this regard? In spite of ???the remarkable improvements of GCMs over the past years, it is still a challenge to simulate volcanic impacts for all GCMs???? Read More",5_1
"In the meanwhile, lets wait fora few confirmatory experiments",0_0
"11. Committee on the Science of Climate Change of the National Research Council, Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2001).",0_0
One of the most serious limitations of the global climate models is the failure to validate one:,5_1
"Analysis of trends and of aggregated time series on climatic (30-year) scale does not indicate consistent trends worldwide. Despite common perception, in general, the detected trends are more negative (less intense floods in most recent years) than positive. Similarly, Svensson et al. (2005) and Di Baldassarre et al. (2010) did not find systematical change neither in flood increasing or decreasing numbers nor change in flood magnitudes in their analysis.",1_7
"James Delingpole takes a swipe at the Economist's coverage of global warming, saying some nice things about the Hockey Stick Illusion in passing.",5_1
"The above is an extract from the article,' The Fraud of the AGHE Part 18: Conserving Wattage does not Conserve Physics Rant FreeVersion' on Joe Postma's blog, climateofsophistry.com",0_0
You showed a graph of the tenor of atmospheric carbon dioxide against time at Hawaii. You drew a trend line through it. That wiggly line showed something else: it showed that carbon dioxide tenor follows temperature on an annual basis. Carbon dioxide is the dependant variable not temperature. That is the short term observation. The long term observation comes from the ice cores where carbon dioxide again follows temperature.,2_3
"As to responding to these inconvenient climate realities, or debating them with the thousands of scientists who reject the dangerous manmade climate change tautology, she responds: The time for arguing about climate change has passed. The vast majority of scientists agree that our climate is changing.",5_1
"We have constructed four different chronologies to illustrate some of the issues associated with chronology sampling error and bias, and to compare these between a single-site chronology and a chronology developed from a much larger region.",0_0
Filtering\redacting personally sensitive emails doesn't require special expertise.,0_0
"He has never doubted the role of CO2, but has rightly questioned the cost-benefit analysis of the proposed solutions. Phillips then describes Alan Jones as frothing to David Karoly. Whether you agree with Jones or not, Phillips would never describe a consensus climate scientist as frothing, a highly inappropriate term to use. But it just helps to paint the picture of deniers as being deluded and crazy.",0_0
"choosing a chief of staff who can actually run the place, and who understands",0_0
?It will be interesting to see how predictions by the government-funded Met Office compare with independent forecasters.?,0_0
"Well, DUH. If they had forced the model with a water vapor change, it would have done the same thing. Or a cloud change. But they had already assumed water vapor and clouds cannot be climate drivers.",5_1
"""AT&T; announced today that it was cutting the price of data access for prepaid customers -- those who don't sign contracts but instead pay as they go -- to $5 for 10MB of data access on select smartphones, a major cut from the previous $5 for 1MB. But press reports haven't done their math: The costs are 50 times what so-called postpaid customers -- those who sign a contract and get a bill each month -- are charged. An AT&T; GoPhone customer pays $500 per gigabyte of data usage, whereas a postpaid Android or iPhone user pays $10 per gigabyte.""",0_0
E-mail Documentation Of The Successful Attempt By Thomas Karl Director Of the U.S. National Climate Data Center To Suppress Biases and Uncertainties In the Assessment Surface TemperatureTrends,0_0
"The three researchers' data indicate that relative to the plants grown at 300 ppm CO 2 , those grown at 400, 500 and 600 ppm produced approximately 200, 275 and 390% more aboveground biomass, respectively, as best we can determine from their bar graphs. In addition, they report that ""reproductively, increasing CO 2 from 300 to 600 ppm increased the number of capsules, capsule weight and latex production by 3.6, 3.0 and 3.7 times, respectively, on a per plant basis,"" with the ultimate result that ""all alkaloids increased significantly on a per plant basis."" What it means",3_3
"Gore: The Arctic is warming at an unprecedented rate. Truth: The Arctic region warms and cools dramatically every few decades, due to shifting currents and winds. Arctic ice also melted significantly during the 1930s; it is now back to seasonally normal levels.",1_1
"With all these variables in play, choosing a winner will be as much a game of luck as of skill. Based on what weve seen, it seems probable that it will come from the middle of the pack between 2008 and 2009.",0_0
"Professor Hajo Eicken is one of the leading experts. On a speaking visit to Utah, he said recent losses are especially dramatic.",0_0
"Broadly speaking, the IPCC expects this centurys warming to be equivalent to that from a doubling of CO2 concentration. In that event, 1 C is indeed all the warming we should expect from a CO2 doubling. And is that going to be a problem?",3_1
"Across the pond, more than 100 Conservative Members of Parliament urged Prime Minister, David Cameron, to block further expansion of onshore wind. Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, called England's onshore wind farms a ""blight,"" and while Minister of State at the Department for Energy and Climate Change (now the prime minister's senior parliamentary advisor) John Hayes said: ""We can no longer have wind turbines imposed on communities. It seems extraordinary to have allowed them to be peppered around the country without due regard for the interests of the local community and their best wishes.""",0_0
OMB Draft Report to Congress on the Costs and Benefits of Federal Regulation,0_0
"But the significant point about these temperature trends is that there was a step change, but that since then temperatures have stopped increasing. There is no evidence to suggest that temperatures will increase in future years, and, until we understand better the reasons for the step change, there is a possibility that temperatures will fall back in the future.",1_4
"The environmentalists, moreover, very often forget to mention that even their hypothetical relationship is not linear (or exponential), but logarithmic and that ? and now I quote from the IPCC 2001 Report ? ?each incremental amount of extra carbon dioxide exerts a lesser heating effect.? It is not a statement of a global warming denier. It is a statement of the IPCC.",5_2
"Like most climatologists, Hayhoe accepts the broad scientific consensus that the climate is changing and that humanitys combustion of fossil fuels is the main reason for it",0_0
"Known as the C40 Risk Assessment Framework, the climate risk project, as Bloomberg referred to it, would develop a consistent set of measures by which cities could assess their risk of a natural disaster, including hurricanes and floods.",0_0
"I wrote this North Idaho weather review on a chilly, snow-covered Saturday morning, Dec. 21, the first official day of the winter season.",1_3
"La Framboise, D. 2011. The Delinquent Teenager who was mistaken for a World Top Climate Expert . Ivy Avenue Press. pp. 235",0_0
"All of this explains why Charlie Brown thinks Lucy will help him kick the football, but fails to explain why Lucy likes to pull it away.",0_0
"Just six days into his presidency, Barry is already making bizarre decisions based on flakey science and a complete misunderstanding of the issues of climate change. And just for luck, theres another D Word Alert. As reported in The Age today:",0_0
"But, writes HVS, the r nd just scientific knowledge, the knowledge that is in dispute, which is sjlva svrigheten hr and create VRT dilemma. He continues:",0_0
"What makes this discovery particularly noteworthy is that we mapped out a landscape of bioessential elements in the ocean that was far more perturbed than we expected, and the impacts on life were big, said Timothy W. Lyons , a professor of biogeochemistry at UCR, Owenss former advisor and the principal investigator on the research project.",0_0
"Finally, it amplifies yet again what is obvious to most of us: the fact that the climate is changing and that human CO2 emissions are causing it is now unassailable by conventional scientific means, forcing some of those who cannot accept this discomforting fact to seek refuge in the ethical twilight of internet warfare.",0_0
Myron Ebell (mebell@cei.org) is Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy at CEI.,0_0
"NOAA accomplished this by primarily lowering temperatures prior to 1950 (note the red tips at bottom, left of the blue dotted line). After 1950, global temperatures were primarily adjusted up (note the red tips at the top, to the right of the blue dotted curve).",5_1
"The scientists say that Non-periodic processes like a warming through the monotonic increase of CO2 in the atmosphere could cause at most 0.1C to 0.2C warming for a doubling of the CO2 content, as it is expected for 2100. This positive forcing will be overwhelmed by the stronger negative forcing of natural cycles. They conclude that the global temperature will drop until 2100 to a value corresponding to the little ice age of 1870. Read more here . Below is a graph of historical temperatures and temperature predictions.",1_2
"But we also know from the best polls with robust samples of Massachusetts voters and physicians, conducted by Bob Blendon's group at the Harvard School of Public Health, that support for the law has been extraordinarily high. Two years after implementation, 69 percent of residents supported the law, with 77 percent supporting subsidized coverage and 58 percent supporting the individual mandate. Even more striking, in a New England Journal of Medicine study released just a few weeks ago, 70 percent of practicing physicians, with little difference between primary care docs and specialists, supported the program, with just 7 percent saying they wanted the law repealed.",0_0
"The problem with liberals isnt so much that they are ignorant, it is that they know so many things that arent so.",0_0
"Even when additional reduction measures are implemented against black carbon, or soot, which is released when fossil fuels are burned, they do little to slow down global warming in a 2 degrees scenario. This is because if the global temperature rise is limited to 2 degrees, CO2 reduction measures would have to be taken, which would in turn cut the most important soot emissions.",4_2
"Dunn discusses using Federal Rules of Evidence regarding admissibility of scientific studies to challenge EPA policy. Courts tend to defer too much to agency discretion, Dunn writes. There is no law that Congress has passed that permits agencies to use and promote junk science.",0_0
"Thousands of fires have already torched millions of acres, amid yet another dangerous and costly fire season. It happens every year, and has for centuries. But now, the Department of the Interior misinforms us, ""climate change is making it worse. Wildfire seasons are now hotter, drier and longer than in the past."" Sure they are. Wanna buy a bridge?",1_7
"The World's Leading Climate Scientists, in Their Own Words",0_0
"NSF Releases Online, Multimedia Package Titled, Clouds: The Wild Card of Climate Change",0_0
"For the record, I did the sum in front of him. The atmospheric concentration of CO2 today is about 388 parts per million by volume. However, we are adding just 2 ppmv a year to the air. So the warming we cause each year, even if one believes the UNs wild exaggerations of CO2s warming effect, is just 4.7 times the natural logarithm of the proportionate increase in CO2 concentration from 388 to 390 ppmv.",2_3
"The following figure is one that Ive used for looking at various time series, shown here for the UAH tropical T2LT series.",0_0
"policy, both portray the administration as recalculating American leverage and",0_0
Woodpecker could alter California logging laws:,0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Eli Lehrer puts the subprime mortgage shakeup into historical perspective:,0_0
"Some 1199 lobbying efforts have also been financed by voluntary contributions from members and, in the late 1990s, ""excess"" employer-pension contributions (see sidebar). Anyone who doubts the union's lobbying might should consider its success in squaring off against the most formidable organized interests. In 1999, for example, when lobbying Albany to hike cigarette taxes to fund a Medicaid expansion, 1199 and GNYHA spent 14 times as much as the Philip Morris Corporation, which opposed the increase. The union prevailed.",0_0
Comments from Associated Owners and Developers Submitted to EPA Regarding the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Greenhouse Gases Under the Clean Air Act,0_0
"21 The methodology was not applied to utilities because a 1990 court decision (Wisconsin Electric Power Co. v. Reilly) held it would substantially change the legal meaning of a ""major modification"" and therefore had to go through the rulemaking process before being changed. EPA interprets the court's ruling narrowly, asserting it still can use ""actual-to-potential"" when regulating nonutility emitters. The switch to ""actual-to-potential"" for nonutility emitters has never gone through formal rulemaking procedures.",0_0
this means we will need to resubmit the manuscript to peer review once again...,0_0
"Lacher calls the conjecture about the rainforest on the verge of disappearing ""unwarranted speculation."" He further talks about how ""ill-conceived deceived development schemes"" attracted poor people to try and settle in the rainforest, that they were ""encouraged to move in,"" but that they were not adequately backed up with technology transfer, etc. (Phone interview, 11/96)",0_0
"For example, LOST's Preamble asserts that we aspire to ""realization of a just and equitable international economic order which takes into account the interests and needs of mankind as a whole and, in particular, the special interests and needs of developing countries, whether coastal or land-locked."" You should prepare to respect that language, as the Senate seems unaware that at urging of none other than the U.S., the Preamble to the WTO agreement's nod to ""sustainable development"" was soon elevated to an enforceable right.",0_0
"All in all I heard Joe Bastardi forecast here December global temps to drop to about +0.15 to 0.20 above the normal. I say expect a similar drop for January, meaning well be in negative territory. Same goes for February. There just seems to be lots of cold out there.",1_3
"Overall, U.S. online stations have dropped from a peak of 1,850 in 1963 to a low of 136 as of 2007. In his blog, Smith wittily observed that the Thermometer Langoliers have eaten 9/10 of the thermometers in the USA including all the cold ones in California. But he was deadly serious after comparing current to previous versions of USHCN data and discovering that this selection bias creates a +0.6C warming in U.S. temperature history.",5_1
"We now turn to external effects that might explain the existence of a global warming pause; the principal ones are volcanism and solar activity. The problem here is one of balancing; the amount of cooling by volcanism, for example, has to be just right to offset the warming from CO2 during the entire duration of the pause. It is difficult to picture why exactly this might be happening; the probabilities seem rather small. Still, the burden is on the proponents to demonstrate various kinds of evidence in support of such an explanation.",1_4
"A Reprieve From Climate Doom forthcoming report points lowers estimates on global warming Sept 13, 2013 in the Wall Street Journal by Matt Ridley",0_0
"New paper unexpectedly finds diverging trends in global temperature & radiative imbalance from greenhouse gases Paper finds a decrease of IR radiation from greenhouse gases over past 14 years, contradicts expected increase",1_4
"""The admissions will be seized on by sceptics as fresh evidence that there are serious flaws """,0_0
Information on Cases against EPA and FWS and on Deadline Suits on EPA Rulemaking,0_0
"In times of global warming, people may ask whats causing allthe cold and snow? Accuweathers Brent Anderson has the answer:",0_0
"Met Office, 25 September 2008: The Met Office forecast for the coming winter suggests it is, once again, likely to be milder than average. It is also likely that the coming winter will be drier than last year.",0_0
"To many folks who have, for years, been fed a constant course of the-world-is-heating-up-faster-than-ever-before-and-you-are-the-cause, 9 to 12 years of no warming at all seems to indicate that something is amiss with this mantra.",1_4
"""Organic"" Is The Latin Word For ""Grown In Pig Shit""",0_0
France opposes binding targets on renewable energy use.,0_0
"But no such accusations are made against the protectionists who question the benefits of free trade among nations, deny the manifest evidence of its success, or challenge its status as a human right. Such people are in fact standing athwart 250 years of economics, and an overwhelming consensus of living economists. These protectionists are denying the enormous gains in standards of living and human freedom that are the direct result of free global trade. Question the global warming consensus and you're something between a fool and a Nazi. But question free trade? Ah that's different. That's politically correct.Read more here from Donald Luskin's article ""A Convenient (and Excellent) Truth. The benefits of free trade are settled science. (Although that won't stop the deniers.)",0_0
"""Google Inc. is close to settling a U.S. criminal investigation into allegations it made hundreds of millions of dollars by accepting ads from online pharmacies that break U.S. laws, according to people familiar with the matter. """,0_0
"Read here . From the ""experts"" that predicted more hurricanes back in 2005, a group of hurricane modelers create a new model that concludes there will be less hurricanes (about 33% less) in the Atlantic basin, but the number of intense storms will increase by 81% due to CO2-caused global warming. One would hope that these continuous attempts to predict future hurricane activity and intensity would improve, but this new hurricane simulator seems to have some very fundamental problems:",5_1
"In other words, not just genuine ecological risks but virtually any impact that can be imagined may constitute a cognizable harm under NEPA if a sympathetic judge agrees. Thus, if agencies fail to address some tangential, inconsequential issue, they can be tripped up by a litigant who alleges that the environmental review was incomplete or that the conclusions were inadequately documented. Both kinds of allegations have lately plagued USDA approvals of genetically engineered crops, with hugely disruptive effects.",0_0
"Granted, he will use this non-binding pact in an attempt to strong-arm other countries to commit to targets when the issue is discussed in Paris next year. But such false idealism does not stand America in good stead.",0_0
"J. Scott Armstrong is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, editor of ""Principles of Forecasting"" (Springer, 2001), a founder of the International Journal of Forecasting and the Journal of Forecasting, author of ""Long-Range Forecasting"" (Wiley-Interscience, 1985), and founder of ForecastingPrinciples.com.",0_0
"Two hundred years ago, Napoleon Bonaparte, who knew a thing or two about epochal change, remarked: ""When China awakens, the world will tremble."" China is awakening, all right, and promoting worldwide authoritarianism all the more successfully that the spectacle of Western democracies lately has not been exactly edifying. If the Chinese promotion of ""Asian values"" has a global, rather than regional, historical significance, it is because Confucius today speaks with a very strong German accent: that of Carl Schmitt. While Western pundits were enrolling Kojve for their musing on the ""end of history,"" the Chinese were translating nine books by Schmitt to philosophically buttress their return in history. The future of liberal authoritarianism has never looked brighter.39",0_0
and all those working in AR5 would be to delete all emails at the end of the,0_0
"If increasing emissions of CO2 in the 20th century have anything to do with monsoons, why did they peak in the 1880's and 1920's and decrease since then?",1_7
New global warming legislation contains subsidies for ethanol production.,0_0
"I have predicted the death of global warming several times, but like a Hollywood zombie global warming is kept alive by its massive propaganda machine and useful idiots in the media.",5_2
Update: TV News on TV Prima (May 2nd) showed that our pro-radar mini-tumulus with the U.S. flag has survived at least for one day: go to 10:25. The U.S. flag and the stone man is on the left side at 11:30 and it appears in detail at 11:56. ;-),0_0
"SM: I actually think it's kind of a miracle that we, as a movement, have done as well on this issue as we have. It's astounding that we have 60-70 percent support for getting rid of this tax, considering the fact that only the top two or three percent of Americans pay it. But Americans have a fundamental understanding that this tax is unfair and un-American.",0_0
"EPA whitewashed the toxic flashflood it caused in Colorado. But it says particulate matter smaller than 10 microns (PM10) is risky and worries incessantly about 2.5-micron particles. (A human hair is 50-70 microns; dust, pollen and mold are around 10; combustion exhaust particles are 2.5 microns or smaller.)",0_0
"(C) The science presented as a series of solutions, not simply as an accumulation of knowledge (mp3: 19m45s). Who he believes nellAGWers seems unable to distinguish between research and civic engagement: for example, lIPCC politically active, so as to win a Nobel Prize for Peace.",0_0
"Well the answer is definitely not from direct observations. As accurately expressed by biologist Garret Hardin in a quote from Julian Simon, ""it is unknowable how many species are being extinguished."" (Scarcity, p.132)",0_0
"The grid operators were forced to shut down conventional power plants after green energy produced too much electricity, nearly frying the grid, according to a Tuesday report. Media outlet Quartz attempted to spin the near disaster as a huge triumph, lauding the fact green energy briefly provided 87 percent of Germany's power.",4_4
"Climate scientists sometimes (GISS yes, NOAA no) attempt to correct measurements in urban areas for this effect, but this can be chancy since the correction factors need to change over time, and no one really knows exactly how large the factors need to be. Some argue that the land-based temperature set is biased too high, and some of the global warming shown is in fact a result of the UHI effect.",5_1
"""We don't really have wolves in Europe any more, but they are still an important part of our culture and everyone knows what they look like,"" he said.",0_0
Senate EPW Republicans take a stand for academic freedom,0_0
"This might all be harmless fun if it just stayed in peoples minds. But governments are already taking steps to deal with this alleged threat to civilisation, steps which already damage the least well off more than any other.",0_0
"As Professor of Geophysics, Saltzman served Yale University with distinction from 1968 until his death in 2001. Michael E. Mann's position in the highly politicized sphere of climatology has since grown to be just as significant-but far more controversial. But we may have stumbled upon a sinister connection between the two researchers.",0_0
"To borrow a phrase from Administrator Spalding, to choose latter will be painful, ""painful every step of the way"" for their constituents. I hope they make the right choice. With that Mr. President, I yield the floor.",0_0
"While tidal power may be predictably intermittent, wind power is even more problematical. Recent EU directives have stipulated that some 40% of electricity should be powered from renewable resources by 2020. If this were to be predominantly produced from wind turbines, as is likely, then we would need some 30 gigawatts (gw) of wind generating capacity. To put that figure in perspective, the UK currently has about 0.5 gw of wind capacity. However, that is not the full story, for UK wind turbines are only currently delivering about 25% of installed capacity, due to wind fluctuations and maintenance issues. That means we actually need some 120 gw of installed wind generation capacity to cover just 40% of total UK electrical demand. If the turbines being constructed average 2 mw rated capacity, then we shall need some 60,000 wind turbines to be installed over the next twelve years. And where shall we erect all those? Certainly Not In My Back Yard.",4_4
"Monte Solberg: Warming talk cools All of this should be good news, and yet not everyone is happy. For some reason, many climate change warriors seem disappointed that things aren't quite as bad as they thought. If so, they probably won't want to hear about the Arctic ice cap either.",0_0
"When scientists make claims opposite the data, you know that they are criminals not real scientists.",5_2
"The conclusion seems inescapable. The U.S. can have little impact on when China and India become willing to bear the costs required to control GHG discharges. This limit on America's options reflects a basic reality: Conditions are not yet ripe for forging an effective global accord on GHG controls. To understand why this might be so, we might want to consider the economic roots of the GHG control issue.",0_0
"As ever, a warning about the current el Nio. It is becoming ever more likely that the temperature increase that usually accompanies an el Nio will begin to shorten the Pause somewhat, just in time for the Paris climate summit, though a subsequent La Nia would be likely to bring about a resumption and perhaps even a lengthening of the Pause.",1_4
"Ive recently published my e-book (pdf) about the phenomena called El Nio and La Nia. Its titled Who Turned on the Heat? with the subtitle The Unsuspected Global Warming Culprit, El Nio Southern Oscillation . It is intended for persons (with or without technical backgrounds) interested in learning about El Nio and La Nia events and in understanding the natural causes of the warming of our global oceans for the past 31 years. Because land surface air temperatures simply exaggerate the natural warming of the global oceans over annual and multidecadal time periods, the vast majority of the warming taking place on land is natural as well. The book is the product of years of research of the satellite-era sea surface temperature data thats available to the public via the internet. It presents how the data accounts for its warmingand there are no indications the warming was caused by manmade greenhouse gases. None at all.",2_1
Had Epstein et al. factored in a lower value of life and smaller climate damage estimates (more in line with recent observations) and their low end could drop to about $50 billion per year.,0_0
"One of those found guilty of attempting to bribe UN program officials overseeing the Oil-for-Food program was Tongsun Park, a South Korean businessman who had sublet office space from Maurice Strong. Coincidentally, it seems, Park also invested nearly $1 million paid from his Jordanian bank account in Strong's family business one which later went bankrupt.",0_0
"OK, so if I understand correctly, the climate changes in line with cosmic rays. Cosmic rays change in line with the sun's output. But the changes in output are insufficient to explain the changes in climate, so the deduction is that these changes must be amplified in some way - in other words that there is a direct and an indirect effect of TSI on climate. One possibility is that the indirect effect is that variations in solar output affect the number of cosmic rays' reaching earth which affects cloud formation. However, the paragraph above implies that it is possible that it could be something else too.",2_1
"This is a key fundamental issue. If the models cannot skillfully predict CHANGES in the statistics of weather patterns, they add no value for the impacts community beyond what is available from the historical record, the recent paleo-record and worst case sequence of real world observed events. Thus, we should not be giving multi-decadal climate model climate change statistics to the impacts community and claim they have any skill.",5_1
"James V. DeLong is vice president and senior analyst of the Convergence Law Institute, LLC, and special counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Kamlet Reichert, LLP. He also served as research director of the Administrative Conference of the United States and as a senior analyst in the Office of Program Evaluation in the U.S. Bureau of the Budget.",0_0
"Even though there is this hiatus in this surface average temperature, were still getting record heat waves, were still getting harsh bush fires it shows we shouldnt take any comfort from this plateau in global average temperatures.",1_4
"But what about the strongest tornadoes, the EF-4s and EF- 5s? If Elsners theory is correct, surely we should be seeing an increasing frequency of these?",0_0
"NSR mandates that regulated emitters adopt specific technological solutions ""regardless of ambient air quality and are therefore structurally divorced, to a large extent, from benefits.""34 The recurring problem at the heart of the case studies cited above is that costs apparently (sometimes obviously) exceed benefits, yet there is no easy way in the framework of NSR to reconcile the dilemma. But if costs and benefits are not weighed, we cannot hope to get the ""most bang"" for every ""buck"" invested in environmental protection.",0_0
"Then, faced with the passage of the Affordable Care Act, Republicans declined to offer alternatives or technical ""corrections"" as an older generation of Republicans would have and instead voted dozens of times simply to repeal the law. And in the Senate, the threat of filibuster, once reserved for a handful of highly charged large issues, exploded into a regular tool of mass obstruction.",0_0
"Schwarzenegger wants to achieve by 2020 more than twice the percentage reduction in GHGs that EIA evaluated for 2025. Marginal costs increase with each increment of GHG reduction. California also has relatively low per-capita GHG emissions compared to the national average, due largely to a mild climate and virtually no use of coal for electricity. As a result, the state's unit GHG reduction costs will likely be greater than the national average. Thus, even getting the state's GHG emissions down to 1990 levels is likely to cost at least several billion dollars per year, or several hundred dollars per year for each California household. Achieving the Governor's 2050 goal is simply a pipe dream (or nightmare, as the case may be). While reducing GHG emissions to 1990s levels would impose hardship, attempting to reduce GHGs 80 percent below 1990 levels would amount to destroying California in order to purport to save it.",4_1
Reject 2.0 C/century to confidence of 95%? (=5%),0_0
"Had that tactical ploy established itself as a governing political philosophy for the eight years of the Bush presidency, it might have been the logical successor to previous incarnations of Republican thought during the past 150 years: the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the party's antislavery roots of the 1850s; turn-of-the-century antitariff and pro-growth economics; and the triad of lower taxes, anticommunism, and restrained federalism that defined the GOP of the second half of the twentieth century.",0_0
"What it achieves, instead, is the solidification of our beliefs that these AGW cultists are not just mentally ill, but a danger to themselves and others.",0_0
"So, in what universe does a cold winter, a cool summer, cold lake water, and an unusually cold fall air mass result from global warming ?",1_3
Guest Post: Ian Plimer Renewables in NSW produce 0.0% of all electricity generated,0_0
"Activist tries to superglue himself to Gordon Brown | Mail Online Dan Glass, of the climate change pressure group Plane Stupid, today tried to superglue himself to the Prime Minister at a Downing Street reception.",0_0
"In a recent article, Dr. Craig Idso, the founder and former president of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, a coeditor of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, and James M. Taylor, a senior fellow of The Heartland Institute and the managing editor of Environmental & Climate News, a monthly publication, examined how Global Warming Alarmism Denies Sound Science.",5_2
This includes effects from the Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) as well as Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) rules.,0_0
This paper discusses the point that one can't define either observable so everything is consistent.,0_0
"sounds persuasive, yet it is precisely what the older tradition, the natural law tradition, denies. We do know better; we are not doing the best we can. The problem of moral decline is volitional, not cognitive; it has little to do with knowledge. By and large we do know right from wrong, but wish we didnt. We only make believe we are searching for truth-so that we can do wrong, condone wrong, or suppress our remorse for having done wrong in the past.",0_0
"The oddity here is two-fold: what happened around 1977 or so, and what happened around 2002 or so? From 1977 on, after twenty years with no significant land or sea temperature change, both land and sea temperatures start to rise. In addition, the land temperature rises much more rapidly than the SST. Then around 1998, SSTs start to level off, and they peak in 2002 and start to fall. The land temperatures start falling shortly thereafter. Why, on all counts?",1_4
"Sure, there are some time delay issues, probably 10-15 years, as well as some potential anthropogenic cooling from aerosols, but none of this closes these tremendous gaps. Even with an exaggerated temperature history, only the no feedback 1C per century case is really validated by history. And, if one assumes the actual warming is less than 0.6C, and only a part of that is from anthropogenic CO2, then the actual warming forecast justified is one of negative feedback, showing less than 1C per century warming from manmade CO2 which is EXACTLY the case that most skeptics make.",3_1
"Kenneth Anderson is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law. He is also a professor of international law at the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, DC.",0_0
"Recent extreme-weather events cannot be blamed on global warming, because there has not been any global warming to speak of. It is as simple as that.",1_7
"There is an estimated 6 billion barrels of shale oil in the area, which stretches across Scotland and includes Glasgow and Edinburgh, slightly more than the central estimate of 4.4 billion barrels in the Weald Basin in southern England.",4_5
There is no ??? radiative heat trapping ?? as the net heat flow is nil between surface and air. And air does not ??? warm the surface?? !,2_3
"CEI President Kent Lassman blasted Walker on Monday, saying in a prepared statement that the attorney general believes he is ""above the law.""",0_0
"""Executives at NPR affiliate stations across the United States have begun publicly voicing discontent in the aftermath of the network's dismissal of news analyst Juan Williams, with several station managers openly questioning the actions and judgment of NPR President and CEO Vivian Schiller.""",0_0
"The developers claims, parroted by the Greens, about the amount of CO2 emissions that the wind farm will save are entirely without foundation, as are their claims that the wind farm will help to meet the UKs CO2 emissions targets laid down by our unelected masters in Brussels. The array, like all wind farms, will actually increase our CO2 emissions.",4_4
"Noting that ""the photosynthesis of the majority of the species examined was not saturated at the current levels of DIC in the ocean and responded to an increase in CO 2 ,"" Koch et al . conclude that seagrasses and many marine macroalgae have the potential to respond positively, in terms of photosynthesis and growth, under elevated ocean CO 2 and OA. Reviewed 15 May 2013",3_3
Slappt och olagligt av Olle H ggstr m,0_0
Thirteen Thousand Years of Storminess in the Northeastern United States,0_0
"""To avoid having the Senate vote on her nomination (as the Constitution's Appointments Clause clearly requires for such presidential appointees), which might result in her nomination being defeated, the administration has formally appointed her not to be Director of the Bureau (the position she will in fact be exercising), but rather to two other White House and Treasury Department positions that did not historically require Senate confirmation positions from which she will informally control the Bureau. In essence, President Obama is circumventing constitutional checks and balances, as Yale Law Professor Bruce Ackerman, a staunch liberal, notes today in The Wall Street Journal.""",0_0
"What Murray says is wrong in every respect. The deaths in the sea are not at all in line with security analysts predictions else they would have counselled against the interventions. As IPCC AR5 report makes clear, urgent action could well be a conflict risk factor in the same way that incautiously bombing other countries creates the risk of further conflict. The people struggling to reach Europe are escaping brutal regimes and conflict, not bad weather. And the international tension already exists, was caused by regional conflict and external intervention.",0_0
"Over the past 50+ years, North Atlantic OHC anomalies rose at a rate that almost tripled the rise in global OHC anomalies. Refer to Figure 5. I discussed and illustrated the natural factors that impact the long-term North Atlantic OHC anomaly trends in the post North Atlantic Ocean Heat Content (0-700 Meters) Is Governed By Natural Variables . These natural variables include ENSO, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), and Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). Unfortunately, the NODC OHC data only extends back to 1955. It is therefore impossible to determine how much of the excessive rise in the North Atlantic is related to AMOC.",2_1
The Met Office makes an amazing discovery right before Cancun. What a stroke of good fortune for the occupants of this planet.,0_0
"The email's proclamation, once again, exposes the environmentalists' agenda: ""President Obama hasn't always done the right thing for the environment. He should have denied the Keystone Pipeline years ago, he should be rolling back unchecked fracking, and he should have taken stronger action on climate both at home and in international negotiations.""",0_0
"That the earths terrestrial CO2 uptake has been growing is evidenced in the remarkable enhancement of global vegetation during the past 20 years, as reported by in a recent paper by Ramakrishna Nemani and colleagues. Nemani et al. report that this growth enhancement results from a combination of two major influencesthe increased fertilization effect from rising concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide and the patterns of change in the earths climate during the study period.",3_3
"For example, top selling German daily Bild did not even bother to feature the MPIs Arctic meltdown press conference. Instead Bild featured a story on how clouds have been getting lower and that a negative feedback seems to be in play and is acting to cool the planet.",3_1
The Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific has remained blocked by pack-ice all year. More than 20 yachts that had planned to sail it have been left ice-bound and a cruise ship attempting the route was forced to turn back.,1_1
"The climate models stored in the CMIP5 archive are supposed to be simulations of Earths climate, but the simulated sea surface temperatures of the models used by the IPCC for their 5 th Assessment Report are definitely not of this planet. 70% of the Earth is covered by oceans, seas and lakes. Because the models show no skill at being able to simulate the rates of warming and cooling of the surfaces of the global oceans over the past 32+ years, and because the models show no skill at being able to reproduce the spatial patterns of that warming and cooling, all of which drive temperature and precipitation patterns on land, then any and all projections of future climate are based on modeled worlds that have no similarity to the real world. In other words,climate modelprojections are meaningless.",5_1
"When the territorial integrity of one of its members is threatened by an attack, NATO cannot afford to lose. It would sacrifice its credibility as an alliance. . . . But in stabilization operations the existence of NATO is not threatened. Here NATO can afford to fail without losing its credibility as an alliance. . . . There are, thus, fundamental differences between collective defense credibility and stabilization credibility. To lump them together or to blur the distinction between the two, shows a lack of understanding for the very nature of such interventions. The consequences of getting stuck in hopeless operations as well as holding NATO's authority and standing hostage to fortune is doubly dangerous. The UN, the institution with the widest experience in post-conflict stabilization to date, has never made these operations a test for its credibility. NATO needs to do likewise.3",0_0
"In stark contrast to the unified Democratic position, the Republican field largely defies easy classification even after significant scrutiny. John McCain, who has long endorsed carbon emission trading, continues to do so, though at a less aggressive level than the Democratic candidates. Two other RepublicansMitt Romney and Mike Huckabeehave expressed general support for the idea of capping carbon emissions, but have not spelled out any method by which they'd achieve such a cap. Rudy Giuliani might also fit into this category, as he has expressed admiration for the Arnold Schwarzenneger approach to environmental policy (which prominently features carbon emission trading) though Giuliani has focused more on conducting another space race, this time focused on developing alternative (presumably lower-carbon) forms of energy.",0_0
"Indeed, Spencer's satellite data, which measures the average temperature of the lowest few miles of the atmosphere, showed no significant global warming trend for more than 21 years before an incredibly powerful El Nino warming event hit late last year.",1_4
"ONE : Most of the angular momentum of the solar system is held by the giant outer planets, and their collective motions drive the Sun??s irregular orbit about the centre-of-mass of the system. Variable torque applied to the Sun (an inertial effect) is the principal driver of solar-magnetic outflow, and this modulates the incidence of cloud-inducing cosmic rays penetrating the heliosphere ??? and reaching Earth. Cosmogenic isotopes preserved in sediments, cave-deposits, and ice-cores, provide a proxy for the variable intensity of past cosmic bombardment. Solar magnetic activity has been stronger since the 1940s than for ten thousand years. The timing of changes in solar activity can be calculated from planetary motions; and this is the basis of: Theodor Landscheidt 2003, ???New Little Ice Age instead of global warming???, Energy & Environment v.14 no.2&3, pp.327-50.",2_1
"Senator Menendez, Senator Corker, Members of the Committee:",0_0
"Martinez et al . report that the warmed plants showed ""good photochemical performance and photosynthetic adjustment under warming conditions,"" which led to ""higher growth and biomass production than control plants,"" likely due to ""adjustments in both the photosynthetic thermal optimum and the photosynthetic rates at the growth temperature,"" a combination that they say ""may be a constructive adjustment,"" citing the supportive studies of Zhang and Dang (2013) and Way and Yamori (2014). And they also report that the S. capitata plants they studied ""increased their chlorophyll content and antioxidative enzyme activity.""",3_2
"These findings are but another common example of an important aspect of earth's climate and how it operates: it oscillates back and forth between centennial-scale intervals of relative cold and warmth with a full-period temporal mean of approximately 1500 years (see Climate Oscillations (Millennial Variability) in our Subject Index). Viewed in this light, the development of the Current Warm Period over the past century or so is readily recognized to be nothing more than the most recent - and expected - manifestation of this natural cycling of earth's climate; and this knowledge suggests that our current relative warmth is likely not a response to the historical increase in the atmosphere's CO 2 concentration. It is a totally independent phenomenon. Reviewed 22 August 2007",2_1
"This is the ""scientific consensus"" that wants to force the rich world into paying countless trillions of dollars, countless millions of lost jobs, unimaginable loss of modern comforts to solve a problem that can be ""proven"" to exist only by the use of forgeries, fraud, and lies!",0_0
"Global Warming Survey Draws Skepticism, Ho-Hum Response",0_0
"Nearby Rottnest Island is the site of famous studies of sea level variation over the past few thousand years, including some sea levels a few metres higher than present.",0_0
"Carbon dioxide emissions fell by 13% in the past five years, because of new energy-saving technologies and a doubling in the take-up of renewable energy, the report compiled by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) for the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) said .",0_0
"Darbah et al . report they recorded ""an increase of 140% and 70% for 2006 and 2007, respectively, in the total number of trees that produced male flowers under elevated CO 2 and an increase of 260% in 2006 and 100% in 2007, respectively, in the quantity of male flowers produced under elevated CO 2 ."" What it means",3_3
"Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., reached agreement in the Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee on reauthorization of the education bill passed in 2001 as No Child Left Behind. Murray showed similar skill in reaching a bipartisan budget agreement with Paul Ryan, then House Budget Chairman, in 2013.",0_0
"After 300 years of global warming, during nearly all of which we could not on any view have influenced the climate to a measurable degree, it is scarcely surprising that recent decades will be warmer than earlier decades. That is what one would expect. If one has been climbing up a steep hill for a long time, one should not be surprised to find oneself higher up at the end of the climb than at the beginning.",2_1
"Risbey et al. (2014), like numerous other papers, are basically attempting to blame a shift in ENSO dominance (from a dominance of El Nio events to a dominance of La Nia events) for the recent slowdown in the warming of surface temperatures. Unlike others, they acknowledge that ENSO would also have contributed to the warming from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s, a period when El Nios dominated.",2_1
"Justifying his job: Statement by Andrew Steer, Special Envoy for Climate Change, World Bank Group on new Report by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program",0_0
"Kent Holsinger, a Colorado-based attorney specializing in ESA issues, told me: ""As radical groups continue to push their agendas, other parts of the country are now beginning to feel the threat that westerners have long suffered. The House moved significant, but targeted, legislative measures just recently. Perhaps the Senate might follow suit?"" Maybe we can encourage them.",0_0
"Nature has celebrated one year of Climategate with a softy-softy smoochie-smoochie approach, accepting the most faint of excuses by Jones as if they were the final answers to any of the still-open questions about what has happened (just look at how much stuff is popping up in the Comments section of that article). I guess this is just the norm at the moment, with climate journalists indistinguishable from mindless bots , sheepish claques claiming to stand for strong democracy , and actively if unwittingly misleading their readers by providing half of the news .",0_0
"Democrats are taking comfort from the fact that much of the anger and disappointment people feel is aimed at Republicans. It should be scant comfort. To be sure, a recent ABC-Washington Post poll showed Republicans at 32 percent approval and 63 percent disapproval. But Democrats are not exactly exempt from public disgust; the same survey showed only 36 percent approval for them, with 58 percent disapproval. If Democrats think they can count on the unhappiness with President Bush and the residue of repugnance with the performance in Washington when the Republicans controlled all the levers of power, they are delusional. There is clearly a broader public anger about the performance of most institutions, but especially those in Washington, and it could very, very easily turn into a broader and deeper reaction against the status quo and all incumbents.",0_0
"I will be travelling to #Ukraine next week to meet with the interim Government. #cdnpoli Stephen Harper (@pmharper) March 14, 2014",0_0
"Having studied Climategate it is not difficult to work out how this amazing and welcome press release actually got published instead of being censored or trivialised, as so many other inconvenient anti-AGW scientific papers and observations have been.",5_2
"From Robert Kennedy to Nicholas Sarkozy, opinion makers have called for measurements of prosperity and well-being other than GDP. With increasing concerns about inequality, environmental degradation, and the financial crisis, the pressure for new measurement is growing. The Legatum Prosperity Index provides an important beginning.",0_0
note: photoshopped image above was removed after being exposed as fake. see also here and here .A real photo of polar bears. Polar bear populations up 400% .,3_2
"Apparently sensing the need for a reformer with political credibility, Abbas selected Salam Fayyad as his prime minister. Fayyad is a mild-mannered academic with a doctorate in economics from the University of Texas and a career spent mostly with the World Bank, and then as the IMF's representative in Jerusalem. He has worked to reform the security structure on the West Bank during his three years in Ramallah, to work with the Israelis on the reduction of checkpoints, roadblocks, and security barriers, and to persuade the occupying power to unblock millions of dollars in tax revenues collected on goods traversing the bordersefforts that have all drawn laudable international coverage.",0_0
NASA just posted their July 2012 global temperature dataset - the hysterical global warming claims made in July don't comport with what looks more like global cooling,1_2
"The German Greens advocate massive state intervention and deep interference in ourprivate lives with the aim of squashing individual liberty and independence. The Greens in Berlin, for example, aim to require all do-it-yourself home improvement projects to be subjected to state permitting. This, they say, would ensure cheap and affordable housing. Installing hardwood floors or other similar improvements only serve to make living quarters more luxurious, and thus less affordable to poorer people.",0_0
"Great power conflicts often begin when a once stronger country believes it is losing its relative position to a rival. This is a more accurate description of Japan's attitude toward China than of the U.S. attitude toward China. In addition to this perceived change in power position is the emotional aspect. These two countries harbor great reservoirs of mutual resentment and hatred, which may not drive their disputes but certainly makes them worse.",0_0
"Energy-efficiency standards can only be explained by special interest politics. The proposed washing-machine standard, and the process that has created many others like it, is supported by a coalition of DOE bureaucrats and federally-funded advocacy groups who make their living from the efficiency game. Ironically, the process of creating an appliance efficiency standard is itself a marvel of inefficiency, requiring 34 discrete bureaucratic steps unfolding over the span of several years. New standards for window air-conditioners and refrigerators (their third) were recently finalized and standards for fluorescent lamps, water heaters and central air-conditioners as well as clothes washers are nearing completion. This exercise keeps a lot of Washington paper pushers permanently employed.",0_0
"Figure 1: Vclav Klaus in Texas two weeks ago. Members of the U.S. Congress committees led by John Dingell (Dem) and Barbara Boxer (Dem) - OK, let's admit that the particular lawmakers are GOP members, to make the sentence more diverse - have decided to ask a European leader about her or his views on the climate change, before the hearings with Al Gore tomorrow. They chose Vclav Klaus. Incidentally, DPA (the German Press Agency) has included the term "" global-warming denier "" into its official vocabulary. Well, many of us will have to wear it proudly until the global-warming regime collapses later this year in the Second Velvet Revolution. ;-) See Environmentalism is the new communism The full answers of Klaus to their five questions are here: Written response to the House committee members ( backup ) Czech translation Update Video of Klaus' talk at CATO",5_2
"This issue is important to the ???greenhouse?? debate and arguments over the causes of ???global warming?? because the ~1976 PDO shift to more positive anomalies can be seen clearly as a warming jump in many long term temperature data. A warming jump that looks unlikely to be caused by small steady increases in the trace gas, atmospheric carbon dioxide.",2_1
"Originally conceived in 2004 by WWF Australia with the help of an ad agency, Earth Hour launched in 2007 to raise awareness of the dire consequences of global warming. But a lot has happened since then. As the Earth failed to get any warmer, global warming morphed into climate change, and the Kyoto Protocol went the way of the Dodo, Earth Hour's messaging subtly started to shift. Try as I might poking around the leopards, turtles, and even Spider-Man celebrities trying to save the planet, I couldn't find the words ""climate change"" anywhere on the WWF's Earth Hour website. Poof gone.",0_0
"Oil production at Prudhoe Bay has not harmed the caribou herd or led to significant environmental harm. Advances in oil production technology mean that pumping oil in ANWR will pose even fewer environmental risks. The legislation passed by the House and Senate limits disturbances to the ground to 2,000 acres in the 19 million acre refuge.",0_0
The standard jaded view of the effect of politics on foreign policy bemoans its,0_0
Figure 1 at their site shows winter temperatures at the Hahnenkamm station at Kitzbhel (1790 m). Clearly the trend here is dramatic cooling (7.5C per century) taking place over the last 20 years! Moreover 8 of the coldest winters occurred in the last 11 years alone.,1_2
revising the timeline rather than sticking to the agreed plan. This despite the,0_0
"In this edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Phelim McAleer, writer and director of the documentary FrackNation, joins Research Fellow Isaac Orr to discuss hydraulic fracturing, Russia's role in funding anti-fracking groups in the United States and abroad, and McAleer's close encounter with Dakota Access Pipeline protesters. LISTEN TO MORE",0_0
"Now, in a new report, United Nations demographers have bowed to reality and changed this standard 2.1 assumption. For the last five years they have been examining one of the most momentous trends in world history: the startling decline in fertility rates over the last several decades. In the United Nations' most recent population report, the fertility rate is assumed to be 1.85, not 2.1. This will lead, later in this century, to global population decline.",0_0
"A big part of the problem is a lack of understanding of how the deltas behaviour differs from one place to another. Embankments might work to some extent to protect the capital, Dhaka; but as Polder 32 demonstrates, they do not always do their job elsewhere",0_0
"Costly informationor information that is not available at any pricecan exacerbate the problem posed by thin net benefits. Continuing uncertainties about the impacts of climate change clearly discourage agreement on GHG controls. Not only do large uncertainties persist about the global costs and benefits of GHG controls; even more doubt obtains on a nation-by-nation basis. These uncertainties impede action, and they are likely to do so for as long as they remain at their currently high level. The progress of climate science may over time dispel these uncertainties, but, so far, the process has been a slow one.",0_0
"He concludes: When we consider past records, recorded variability, causational processes involved and the last centurys data, our best estimate of possible future sea-level changes is +10 +/- 10cm in a century, or, maybe, even +5 +/- 15cm. See also Morner (1995); INQUA (2000).",1_6
"Also on the NOAA website is a handy gadget that lets users calculate for themselves temperatures and trends over the past 115 years in the continental United States (my thanks to C3 Headlines for bringing this website to my attention). You just put in the date you want to begin, any time from 1895 on, the date you want to end, and a month or the annual average. The U.S. has the world's best climate records, so the temperatures in the U.S. will mirror, reasonably well, temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere and almost certainly the planet as well.",0_0
"Also, his administration seems to disdain the thought of doing what's needed to construct the new generation of nuke plants he called for last evening. The most galling evidence is the handling of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste repository, construction of which was approved by bipartisan majorities in Congress in 2002. The Obama administration is starving the Yucca Mountain project of funding, and has hinted at sabotaging the license-application process that's already underway before the independent scientific assessors at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Legions of scientists have exhaustively studied Yucca Mountain for three decades. They overwhelmingly conclude it to be a safe, secure location to house the nation's spent nuclear fuel. There is probably no better example of a true scientific consensus on any major political issue.",0_0
"Taxes paid by companies and employees will dwindle. Instead of paying taxes, newly jobless workers will collect unemployment and welfare benefits from shrinking government coffers. Charities will have much less money, even if deductions for donations remain in the U.S. tax code.",0_0
"The five scientists also note that ""the ocean will change over coming decades more gradually than in laboratory experiments."" And, therefore, they suggest that changing ocean conditions may result in the production of more resistant invertebrate larvae, through phenotypic buffering and natural selection . In addition, they write that ""acclimatization of urchins and oysters to moderately elevated p CO 2 can result in trans-life cycle enhancement of larval and juvenile tolerance of reduced pH in some species,"" citing the studies of Parker et al . (2012) and Dupont et al . (2014). And they similarly note that ""trans-generational phenotypic resilience to increased temperature has also been shown for sea urchins,"" citing O'Connor and Mulley (1977) and Johnson and Babcock (1994).",3_2
"Other problems with the ice cores include meltwater moving through the ice; Bacteria in the ice releasing gases even in 500,000-year-old ice at great depth; and contamination and losses during drilling and core recovery process. Jaworowsk i wrote,",0_0
"This essay also illustrates that there are eminently qualified meteorologists of international stature, such as Dr. Raghavan, who are not asked to present their perspectives on climate issues. The article that he wrote, unfortunately, will not have wide dissemination. We need, however, to involve more of the climate science community of the caliber of Dr. Raghavan into the discussion of the science and policy issues, in order to assure a balanced presentation of climate science, which, has been seriously lacking up to the present.",0_0
7. What does the record of past climates show about the relationship between changes in atmospheric CO2 levels and changes in global temperature?,0_0
"Convective systems are associated with surface faults and fractures that penetrate deep into the earth (1-2 miles) and tap reservoirs of super-heated water, thereby transmitting this heated water back to the surface. Their effect can melt glaciers (seeHagafellsjkull Glacier Iceland photo above), form hot springs, and induce rapid increases in continental glacial velocities.",0_0
Once again the Australian media spins normal climate variations as something caused by IPCC climate change.,0_0
Appendix:Letter to Houston Chronicle ( December 11 ) in Response to Climategate Op-Ed,0_0
"Another area where Republicans could bring a positive, market-friendly agenda to the climate change debate involves adaptation, a subject treated like an unwanted step-child by Democrats and others fixated on a Kyoto-style approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.",0_0
EPA's Missed Deadlines Causing Widespread Dysfunction,0_0
"The 2006 average temperatures of 32.5 C in Marble bar , Australia, was the coolest annual temperature in 92 years of records, beating 33.5 C in 1978 by a whole Celsius degree and being 3 Celsius degrees below the average!",1_3
"CONTIGUOUS US WINTER TEMPERATURES, 1998-2011 per NCDC",0_0
"Many policy makers and environmental activists assert that the rest of the country can simply replicate California's demand-side management (DSM) programs, which consist of an assortment of subsidy programs to retrofit buildings and subsidize energy-using equipment. California supposedly shows that we can have it alla growing population and economy and lower overall energy consumption and emissions. Adopt the ""California model"" nationwide, they claim, and America will become so much more energy efficient that we will not need new electrical capacity for decades. This will give us time to develop a non-carbon energy system. Many states are set to follow the California model, and several key lawmakers are pushing Congress to enact similar interventions at the federal level.",0_0
UPDATE: 9:55 AM PDT 8/8/12 A graph of Palmer Drought Severity Index -vs- GISTEMP data has been added from Dr. Michaels. Looks like another GISS miss.,0_0
"And an extra bonus from the ""weather is not climate"" department January 29, 2010 at 39.9 degrees was ten degrees below normal and the second coldest on record.",1_3
"willing to act unilaterally in a targeted, get-in-and-get-out fashion, that avoids, at all costs, the kind",0_0
"But for those who might argue that these data show us entering a long-term period of decline in global sea level, Willis cautions that sea level drops such as this one cannot last, and over the long-run, the trend remains solidly up. Water flows downhill, and the extra rain will eventually find its way back to the sea. When it does, global sea level will rise again.",1_6
"But even Democrats reportedly chafed at some of the practical impediments to holding Gore's extravaganza on the West Lawn. An all-day concert drawing huge crowds on the grounds of the Capitol, as opposed to a three-hour symphony performance there at night, could have posed formidable security challenges for those guarding the Capitol building. Plus, in the holiday concerts, the Mall is utilized to pick up the overflow in the crowds from the West Lawn. But, in this case, of course, the Mall would be hosting its own events and would be unable to absorb as much of the overflow.",0_0
+ Corrections: High(+0:20 +1.50) Low(+0:20 -1.00),0_0
40-50: School and doctor appointments,0_0
role in nato's Operation Unified Protector in Libya substantially reduced the cost to the U.S.,0_0
Renouncing Islam in the Sudan carries the death penalty. I don't know what the consequences are for painting over a concrete stain bearing the image of the Virgin Mary .,0_0
needs to be assessed indicates they hadnt bothered to do it by thenand likely still havent.,0_0
"It is better to focus on the ever-widening discrepancy between predicted and observed warming rates. The IPCCs forthcoming Fifth Assessment Report backcasts the interval of 34 models global warming projections to 2005, since when the world should have been warming at a rate equivalent to 2.33 C/century. Instead, it has been cooling at a rate equivalent to a statistically-insignificant 0.87 C/century:",1_4
"The shorter political time horizon (the next election) is likely to yield too little attention to the adverse long-run effects of policy choices in this context, a carbon tax that is too high. The gerrymandering process (""wasting"" the votes of the political opposition) is likely to result in less two-party competition in districts than otherwise would be the case, and thus a reduction in political accountability (although the effect in a House of Representatives or a Congress acting collectively is less clear). Both of those conditions are likely to yield a carbon tax higher than that ""set to reflect the spillover costs of carbon emissions,"" and the same is true for interest-group competition for the revenues.",0_0
"But even when included, and through a statistical trick, weighting it many times more than other proxies, the composite series ???rolls over?? (a down tick in temperatures) after 1980 requiring the deletion (???hide the decline??) of the data past that point. See the discussion by Steve McIntyre here and the video by Prof. Richard Muller here . Also, see the updated (2009) Sheep Mountain data here . For a less technical review, see here .",5_1
"Peter J. Fontaine, Mann?s attorney, told The Yale Forum in an e-mail that he believes the press groups are ?flat wrong? in taking the side of what he called an ?industry shill? in this case:",0_0
"While the energy bill that passed Congress in July did not include exploration in ANWR, a provision to do that is being included in the budget reconciliation bill, which will be finalized this fall.",0_0
"But like I said, they havent even come close to proving, or even suggesting, that this drought had anything to do with global warming.",1_7
"One of the foremost authorities on polar bears, Canadian biologist, Dr. Mitchell Taylor, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. He said : Of the 13 populations of polar bears in Canada, 11 are stable or increasing in number. They are not going extinct, or even appear to be affected at present.",3_2
Is there a competition on to see who can be the most revolting climate change activist at the moment?,0_0
"Of course, some believe that CO2 forcings do not even exist (although I'm not one of them). Here I am simply trying to determine what might be concluded about climate sensitivity if we assume Hansen's forcings and the OHC increases are correct. As we will see, the large difference between forcing (0.8) and radiative imbalance (0.2) implies an insensitive climate system.",0_0
"CFACT is not alone in opposing the Obama Administration's attack on the provision of energy. Six unions are petitioning the Senate to hold hearings on the EPA coal plant rules. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and five other unions have sent a letter to top senators on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The United Mine Workers, Boilermakers, and Utility Workers said that the proposed rules would result in the closing of 56 gigawatts of coal-fired generation and the loss of approximately 250,000 jobs. These unions have been pushing back against the Obama administration for years at this point.",0_0
"Q: You said you were going to tell us why the IPCC estimates of warming have been revised downwards. But I guess you didn't have time to. You showed the graph that they have changed since 1990, but you didn't mention why. And, I just wanted to I was just looking at the IPCC report and it says clearly that there is two main reasons: one, is that models now consider aerosols , before they didn't. So if you tell the model that there will be less sunlight, then of course it produces more cooling and aerosols weren't understood well enough in 1990 to include in that report - so that is one reason that the results are lower. The other reason is that they have chosen a different scenario for future CO2 emissions, so with less CO2 it will not be as warm. Isn't' that why the estimates are lower now?",0_0
"That is one critical questionhow much warming can we expect from a given level of emissions? Equally critical, and perhaps equally difficult, is predicting what global emissions will be over the course of the next century or more, given the vast range of dubious assumptions that have to be made about levels of economic growth, technological development, and so forth, in every country of the world, over very long time periods. Again, however, we can test the accuracy of predictions by comparing them to actual emissions today. When the NRC examined the track record of the International Panel on Climate Change in this regard, it found little reason to trust the panel's accuracy:",5_1
"Objection #2: The Atmosphere, which is cooler than the Earth Surface, cannot warm the Earth Surface.",2_3
My review was classified ?unsignificant? even I inquired several times. Now the,0_0
"Indias move to stabilize its power grid by asking wind farms to accurately predict their output a day in advance or face fines will deepen the slowdown in Asias second-biggest wind market, Tata Power Co. (TPWR) said.",0_0
"In the morning, sadly, our time with the Clan Ridley was over. I cant thank them enough for their hospitality, which was of the best kindeffortless despite the effort, generous despite the cost, and without apparent limit.",0_0
"I got to thinking about the exponential decay function that I had used to calculate the lag in warming and cooling. When the incoming radiation increases or decreases, it takes a while for the earth to warm up or to cool down. In my calculations shown in my previous post, this lag was represented by a gradual exponential decay.",0_0
"It is hard to fathom why some of the redacted information, which would reveal nothing sensitive about government policymaking, was withheld. The federal government must have spent thousands of dollars' worth of attorney time unsuccessfully fighting to keep it from being disclosed. For example, a January 7 at 9:17 p.m. email from White House staffer Nathaniel Lubin to several White House and OSTP staffers redacted as privileged the number ""836431812"" in the URL https://vimeo.com/83643182. This seems too trivial to warrant spending government employee time redacting it, especially from a communication about a video that allegedly just expressed the ""personal opinion"" of an agency official.",0_0
Its very plain to see that the observed global surface temperatures have not risen as fast as predicted by climate model simulations in recent years.,5_1
Wasnt it just this last June that NASAs Gavin Schmidt from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in coordination with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that after adjusting historical worldwide temperature data there has not been a global warming pause? So which NASA group are we to believe? Has there been a warming pause or not? Has the heat energy from man-made CO2 warmed air been somehow transported into a limited portion of the deep Pacific Ocean or not?,0_0
h/t John Droz (graph) and Willie (news),0_0
Galston and Kamarck surely understand that Republicans aren't in as bad shape as Democrats were in 1989. Then Democrats had lost the presidential popular vote in the last six elections by an average of 10 percent. The corresponding figure for Republicans today is 4 percent.,0_0
"131.At the other end of the spectrum, Plaintiff and his Counsel have issued demands that have no basis in law, as they well know ? including the preposterous assertion, in response to a parody video by ?Minnesotans for Global Warming?, that ?Professor Mann?s likeness? is protected from parody and satire?There is a smell to the hockey stick that, in Lady Macbeth?s words, ?all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten? ? nor all the investigations. And so Dr Mann has determined to sue it into respectability.",0_0
"National Geographic, a respected scientific magazine global warming propaganda pamphlet, says that global warming will kill monkeys , by causing indigestion. Whatever, add imminent monkey doom to the list.",5_2
"""Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg scored a major victory on Monday, when a U.S. appeals court ruled that the Winklevoss twins could not appeal their previous settlement with Facebook over claims that Zuckerberg had stolen their idea for a similar site. But the victory may prove to be short-lived.""",0_0
"The pledges in the Copenhagen Accord are purely voluntary, and are insufficient to meet the goal scientists have set to limit the average global temperature to 2 degrees Celsius (3.8 Fahrenheit) above what it was before the industrial age began.",0_0
"""Despite some diplomatic language about the agreement not replacing the Kyoto Protocol, this new approach to managing greenhouse gas emissions by some of the world's largest energy-consuming nations clearly rejects Kyoto's inflexible, economically destructive approach. Whatever the challenges future climate change may bring, a focus on new technologies and robust economic growth will always be our best strategy.""",0_0
"Settled Science: Global Warming To Bring Colder/Warmer Winters ""It seems that every time we get some snow, another ""scientist' is wheeled out to explain that, no matter how cold it gets, it is all down to global warming But let's, for one moment, remind ourselves of some of the ""scientists' who have said the exact opposite'",0_0
"When data from the satellites used by Santer are compared to data sets from radiosondes and NOAA/UAH satellites, Christy shows the 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.",5_1
"Further, if India and China don't also sign up to cut their carbon emissions-and they did not embrace Kyoto-these proposed dramatic cuts in American carbon emissions alone would not solve the problems of climate change.",4_2
"During his visit to America, Pope Francis has placed the responsibility for global warming on mankind and called for countries to reduce greenhouse gas production.",0_0
"The second Yale/George Mason survey, ?Climate Change in the American mind ? Americans? Global Warming Beliefs and Attitudes in September 2012?, is even worse.",0_0
"The Cap-and-Trade Kids argue that, whatever the economic merits, their approach is the only one with a political chance. But why? Carbon taxes have certainly been seen as a political third rail, at least since President Bill Clinton dropped a proposed BTU tax in 1993. People don't want to have to pay more for energy. But how does cap-and-trade overcome this critique? If it's going to rein in eagerness to pollute, it will have to raise the cost of pollution. It may be possible to win support by pretending this won't happen, but it's worth thinking hard about whether such deception is a sound basis for creating a major long-term policy.",0_0
References finding either no acceleration or a deceleration of sea level rise during the 20th and 21st centuries:,1_6
"A Reuters report titled: ""Heat waves pushes Texas power grid into red zone,"" stated: ""Texas has the most wind power in the country, but the wind does not blow during the summer."" Just a few months earlier, Texas ice storms forced rolling blackouts for hours because electric supplies dropped below demand."" All of these reports are before the projected closure of an additional 75 megawatts of coal-fueled electricity generation due to the new regulations. If McCarthy was serious when, prior to the release of the proposed regulations, she stated: ""Nothing we do can threaten reliability,"" she'd withdraw this plan, as it will do just that.",0_0
"There seems to be an awful lot of misinformation about UKIP. And believe me, if the discourses were true, I would certainly not be a member. Weve had a few problematic characters: Godfrey Bloom and David Silvester being those that Oxford students will probably be the most familiar with. But our goals are far too important for us to be deterred by such people.",0_0
"Bill Nye thinks it's ""very bad news' gas is cheap",0_0
"I was hoping to avoid debate on the science, but what you say is actually incorrect. Positive feedbacks dont necessarily lead to run away effects if the strength of the feedback changes, or other effects become more significant leading to an equilibrium being reached.",3_1
We cant run offrhetoricalbullshit. The real world doesnt work that way.,0_0
That??s an annual figure. And the plan seems to be even more subsidies. (I thought the plan was to make renewables competitive?),4_4
"The position with EF-5s is less clear, with a slightly increasing trend. However, this trend has been heavily influenced by the single year of 2011.",0_0
"(click on image to enlarge) Note: The Greenland ice core data ends in early 20th century; the pink arrow and dot have been added to indicate the ""consensus"" temperature increase through 2009 since the LIA end mid-19th century. Additional historical temperature charts. Climate history postings. Modern temperature charts.",0_0
"When the time came to start preparing the drawdown in detail, however, US",0_0
"In the study, Webster, along with Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Chair Judy Curry and research scientist Hye-Mi Kim used satellite data along with historical tropical storm records and climate models.",0_0
"??? If the new reconstruction of Southern Hemisphere temperature is accurate, then estimates of climate sensitivity the response of global temperature change to a given amount of external radiative forcing may be lower than those calculated based solely on Northern Hemisphere reconstructions 10 .",3_1
"5. Loss of Arctic sea ice, particularly multiyear ice: As Dr. Meier would agree, the satellite record of Arctic ice is quite short, much shorter than the long-term changes in Arctic temperatures. The Arctic was as warm or warmer in the 1930s, and many records from that time attest to greatly reduced ice conditions. Both the Polyakov and the NORDKLIM records show the time around 1979 as being about the bottom of the Arctic temperature swing, so reducing Arctic sea ice is to be expected since 1979. In addition, I was surprised that Dr. Meier did not mention the last three years, which have seen both increasing Arctic sea ice and increasing multiyear sea ice.",1_1
"If you are in the wealthiest 40% or so, here is what it will take to save your Social Security benefits: New taxes. These taxes will either be additional payroll taxes or additional income taxes. If they are payroll taxes, my guess is that the main tax increase will be eliminating the top cap on earnings subject to the tax; in other words, most of the new payroll taxes will be on the highest earners. If the new taxes are income taxes, then rest assured that they will be on the top 40% of earners, since it is the top 40% who pay virtually all of the income taxes in this country today.",0_0
"So, here?s a list of basic climate change questions, and brief answers based upon what I know today. I might update them as I receive suggestions and comments. I will also be adding links to other sources, and some visual aids, as appropriate.",0_0
"S.J.Res.26 would overturn the legal force and effect of EPA's endangerment finding, a December 2009 rulemaking in which the agency concluded that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare. The endangerment finding is both trigger and precedent for sweeping policy changes Congress never approved. America could end up with a bundle of greenhouse gas regulations more costly and intrusive than any climate bill or treaty the Senate has declined to pass or ratify, yet without the people's representatives ever voting on it.",0_0
"In light of their several findings, Crook and Foster conclude - in the Conclusions section of their paper - that ""understanding reasons for the low Northern Hemisphere extra-tropical climate change feedback for both land and sea in the current generation of climate models should be a priority,"" which clearly indicates that we are not yet at the point where the output of the studied models can be given much credence when it comes to surface albedo feedback. Reviewed 16 July 2014",5_1
"Climate ""skepticism"" is not a morally defensible position . The debate is over, and its been over for quite some time, especially on this blog.",0_0
"Nice circular logic. They build a model which assumes that warming is caused by man-made CO2, then use the model as proof that the assumed warming is caused by man-made CO2.",5_1
"Food. Food consumption consists primarily of groceries and restaurant meals. Of these, the latter are the larger component of indirect energy consumption, accounting for roughly 12.5 percent of all indirect energy consumption and nearly 53 percent within the food category (see table 3). Table 4 shows how much energy infuses specific types of food. The items requiring the greatest energy to produce are grain mill products (19.4 percent), meat products (15.3 percent), and preserved fruits and vegetables (14 percent).",0_0
"Morano excerpts: ""United Nations climate scientists have admitted that the models used to make these predictions of 50 to 100 years don't account for half the variability in nature, in other words the scientists can juice or tune the models to pretty much say anything they want to. The current climate reality is failing to alarm, it's not alarming according to satellite data we're at 18 and a half years without any change in global temperature.",5_1
"Previous alerts include 3 posts on the Omaha situation and the participation of Warren Buffetts very rich daughter, whos pushing her weight around and has already intimidated the mayor into being quite on this insane idea.",0_0
"When I talk to people about the insidious reach of big government one example Ive been using lately is that of The Netherlands. In the name of carbon-pollution the government of the Netherlands wants to have a GPS in every car in order to charge people for their CO2 emissions. Each GPS will track where and when every car moves, radio the data in and an audit office will calculate CO2 emissions based on kilometers driven and the car model. They will also know exactly where people go and how long they stay there for, 24 hours a day.",0_0
German Analysis: 97 Percent Consensus Does Not Exist Demands To End Debate Are Way Off Sides,5_1
"I lived out West for a decade, back in the 1970s, and saw wildfires and dozens of burned-over forests. I hiked, camped, and skied during extra wet and ultra dry years. During a flight from Denver to Seattle, I watched multiple fires rage across tens of thousands of acres in four states.",0_0
THE SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD HAVE WARMED,0_0
"In other words, there are many government functions that are unappealing to one extent or another. That is not in itself an argument against them. The Patriot Act was uglyand necessary.",0_0
"The confidential statement, which was not meant to be distributed, is based on a 2010 evaluation of homeopathy by the British House of Commons science and technology committee, which declared it was no more efficacious than a placebo.",0_0
2000 worked on the Bush v. Gore case and the Florida recount. Stuart Levey is also a bureaucratic innovator who,0_0
ENERGY - Are Denmark's Renewable Energy Goals Wishful Thinking?,0_0
"???Hydroponic growers use co2 in their operations,?? says reader John the 1st. ???There are several great videos on you tube demonstrating it. Plant yield, root structure ??? everything ??? is improved.??",3_3
"And you know, her prediction was pretty extraordinary. The homeowner could easily find out that there are only 4 fires per 1000 existing houses per year (in Texas). Only 16.6 percent of these fires are caused by wiring - a similar percentage as fires caused by heating equipment (15.8 percent), cooking (11.4 percent), more than smoking (5.5 percent), children playing with fire (4.5 percent) but much less than fires caused by arson (25.5 percent). A future fire is very unlikely, it is very unlikely to be caused by wiring, and the expected damages are smaller than $20,000, anyway. So unless the homeowner can easily afford it, a $20,000 fee is a clear waste of money.",0_0
I?m sure you agree?the Mann/Jones GRL paper was truly pathetic and should,0_0
"In May 2013, Paul Driessen, a senior policy advisor for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), noted that the EPA, since Obama's inauguration in 2009, had generated 1,920 new regulations. ""The EPA's actions are forcing us to expend vast financial, human, and technological resources to achieve minimal or even zero health benefits.""",0_0
"You see, the alarmists have been telling us for decades that rapidly accelerating global warming was imminent and unavoidable. The problem for the alarmists is the warming that has occurred has been modest and decelerating. In fact, it has ground to a complete halt for more than a decade.",1_4
"Refer to my post Guilyardi et al (2009) Understanding El Nio in Ocean-Atmosphere General Circulation Models: progress and challenges , which introduces that paper. That paper was discussed in much more detail in Chapter 5.8 Scientific Studies of the IPCCs Climate Models Reveal How Poorly the Models Simulate ENSO Processes of my book Who Turned on the Heat?",5_1
"I know the heading sounds odd, but its true. If we look at data on a global basis, we can only see that the global dataset has warmedwe cant see if there are obvious reasons for the warming. To eliminate that problem, well simply divide the data into two portions. Well call these regions the East Pacific (90S-90N, 180-80W) and the Rest of the World (90S-90N, 80W-180) to simplify the discussion. These areas are shown in Figure 4. They stretch from the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica to the Arctic Ocean surrounding the North Pole.",0_0
Oil prices fall to early summer levels.,0_0
Energy Imbalance and Ocean Heat Storage: No Proof of AGW,0_0
"Read here . Climate alarmists and the IPCC have been aggressively trying to convince national policymakers and the public that dangerous climate change is affecting modern lives and it's due to human CO2 emissions. Unfortunately for the alarmists, the real world empirical evidence seems to always run counter to their assertions.",5_2
Is this because the UK wholesale market is very different? Where can I find a graph of UK wholesale prices? Is some other factor other than supply and demand involved?,0_0
"CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on how ""new media"" makes old arguments about ownership obsolete:",0_0
"The models have been tuned to base their predictions almost exclusively on Mans influence. Also, the models handling of temperature feedbacks may have led to an undue tripling of the global warming rate via the use of a system-gain equation borrowed from electronic circuitry an equation that has no place in the climate (Monckton of Brenchley et al., 2015, Science Bulletin 60(1): www.scibull.com ).",5_1
could ultimately get it extended. The official recalled the president,0_0
Giorgio Tomassetti/Flickr/Creative Commons,0_0
"Without directly saying so, the issue posed by Eduardo here, in a Mannian context, is whether the calibrated relationship between the North American PC1 (bristlecones) and the NH temperature PC1, which has a positive correlation even though there is negligible correlation to gridcell temperature, is simply a result of two trends increased temperature and CO2 or other fertilization, or whether it is a bona fide relationship.",0_0
"Some media have reported the results of a ""research"" by Amy Bug. Phys Org, Scientific American, and - sadly - even Physics World have equipped their articles with dramatic and suggestive headlines:",0_0
"by itself shows how far we have yet to go to accuratelt predict precipitation. There is no way the regional models can correct for the deficiencies in the physics and dynamics of the global model results since its temperature, wind and moisture fields feed into the regional models. There is also no way the regional multi-decadal temperature forecasts can be correct if the precipitation and clouds are not properly modeled.",5_1
"How strong will this reversal be? I predict that Republicans will gain between 55 and 72 seats in the House; my best estimate is 64. That will give the GOP 243 seats, its highest total since the election of 1946 and the second highest since the Great Depression. No living Democrat has served in a House of Representatives with as few Democrats as will inhabit that body come January.",0_0
Protect students' rights to all the facts about the climate,0_0
"""In June the Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission made payment on more than 45,000 Phase I flue-cured and burley quota owner and producer claims totaling over $19 million dollars.""",0_0
"The New York Times released information that compromised US national security , but won??t publish the CRU documents . Agenda, much?",5_2
or I will write something ? it depends on whether and what we get from Japan.,0_0
"The higher one goes in the government food chain the less interest in accountability. IPCC stands for ?Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?, which in the opinion of some makes it accountable solely to itself. How anyone can justify resisting disclosure of information paid for by taxpayers is a mystery, yet the recent ?Climategate 2? disclosures and related leaks have been strongly resented in some quarters as evidenced by attempts to ?Unring the Bell?.",0_0
"scenarios draw upon some of the most recent climate modelling work, we identify",0_0
"Be that as it may, when these PR experts (who presumably would be happy to have university departments, science journals, and government agencies pay them for their services) say that scientists must do a better job of communicating with the public, what they really mean is that scientists must do a better job of scaring people.",0_0
"I don't envy them the taskbut I remember a British politician a decade ago marveling about the governmental impact of the global warming fear: ""My constituents are actually demanding that I raise their taxes!""",0_0
"Scientifically unsupportable and misleading statements prompted an October 2007 ruling in Londons High Court that An Inconvenient Truth can be shown in secondary schools only if accompanied by guidance notes for teachers to balance Gores one-sided views. Following extensive evidentiary review, the judge cited nine specific errors. Included are unwarranted global warming claims predicting a 20 foot sea level rise, flooding of low-lying inhabited Pacific Atolls, and a likely shift in Gulf Stream currents; and attributions of the disappearance of Mt Kilimanjaro snow, drying up of Lake Chad, Hurricane Katrina, drowning polar bears, and coral reef destruction due to human causes.",5_2
"Then too, the governments of China and India may lack the popular support that they would need to be able to bear the political costs of GHG controls. Their governments have often gone to great lengths to hold energy prices below world levels. To now drive domestic energy prices above world market levels would be a daring political gamble.",0_0
"So let me describe the weather on election day and predict who will win the presidential election. Hey...if we can forecast a rare storm like Sandy, an election should be child's play.",0_0
The 2014/15 El Nio Part 4 Early Evolution Comparison with Other Satellite-Era El Nios,0_0
"But you might well be getting this result by massaging the factors that are programmed in until you get a reasonably good fit, but without those factors necessarily being the right ones if you are missing some ingredients.",0_0
"More importantly, to borrow a favorite Obama phrase, let me make one thing perfectly clear. There is no dangerous manmade climate change, now or on the horizon. There is no evidence that methane or carbon dioxide emissions have replaced the complex, powerful, interconnected natural forces that have driven warming, cooling, climate and weather fluctuations throughout Earth and human history. There is no evidence that recent extreme weather events are more frequent or severe than over the previous 100 years.",2_3
"The Journal notes another motivation for the change in corporate behavior. ""Many U.S. multinationals trying to keep pace with Europe's faster approach simply don't want to be on the extreme end of the political spectrum, especially if they want a seat at the table where regulations are being crafted. Some hope to forestall or dilute legislation by reducing emission voluntarily.""",0_0
"?That?s the result that they get when you premeditate your science,? said Dr. Tim Ball, former professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg. ?When you set out to establish a certain scientific outcome and you program your computers to do that, you shouldn?t be surprised if that?s the result you get. The problem is what they?re getting out of their computers is not fitting with what?s actually happening. Of course, that?s been the problem with the IPCC all along.?",5_1
"???Some other experts said however the idea of a hiatus was still valid, since warming had probably slowed this century if compared to fast rates in the 1980s and 1990s.",1_4
"There is significant uncertainty, not only in solar reconstructions, but in the interpretation of satellite measurements since 1980. There is a 6 W m-2 discrepancy in the baseline measurements across different satellite systems, plus significant differences in trends since 1980. There is 5 W m-2 discrepancy in the reconstructions in the first few decades of the 20th century. For reference, the 20th century CO2 forcing is 1.7 W m-2.",0_0
"1. 1880 isn??t long in geological terms. Most climate cycles are far far longer than that, and we know that this current warming trend started in the mid 1700?? s or early 1800?? s. Glaciers have been melting and sea levels have been rising since long before General Motors Holden was even dreamt of. We don??t know what caused the warming trend 200 years ago to start, so we don??t know if that factor has stopped. If we look back 5000 years, these temperatures are not records.",2_1
"From the Industrial Revolution to 1950, atmospheric carbon-dioxide concentrations rose by about 15 percent. Today, the increase is up to 41 percent, making long periods without warming either 1) increasingly unlikely, or 2) the natural result of simply overestimating how sensitive surface temperature is to carbon dioxide. My money is on the latter.",3_1
This diagram is a representation of real-time reality and the physics that drives the climate on the Earth:,0_0
"The State Department has found that the pipeline will have minimal impact on the surrounding environment and no significant effect on the climate. Recent expert testimony before the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology confirms this finding. In fact, even if the pipeline is approved and is used at maximum capacity, the resulting increase in carbon dioxide emissions would be a mere 12 one-thousandths of 1 percent (0.0012 percent). There is scant scientific or environmental justification for refusing to approve the pipeline, a project that the State Department has also found would generate more than 40,000 U.S. jobs.",0_0
"By Staff Writers, Washington DC (SPX), Aug 10, 2015",0_0
"Common core is a fraudulent collectivist statist educational program for all the states, sponsored by elites and the state.",0_0
"Robert Tracinski has a post entitled Free Speech for Mann, but not for thee. Excerpts:",0_0
"Environmental activists encourage cities to celebrate ""Earth Hour"" by turning off lights for an hour on March 28th.",0_0
"There are three main characteristics of the tropical rainforests. First, is lush vegetation with dense, closed forests and high canopies that allow little light to reach the ground. Second is rich flora and several endemic species. Third is stratification. (""Environmental Gore,"" Evaristo de Miranda, p.154)",0_0
"As even EPA admits , applying the Act literally (i.e. lawfully, statutorily) to CO2 leads to absurd results . For example, EPA and its state counterparts would have to process an estimated 41,000 pre-construction permits annually (instead of 280) and 6.1 million operating permits annually (instead of 14,700). Such workloads vastly exceed agencies administrative resources. Ever-growing backlogs would paralyze environmental enforcement, block new construction, and thrust millions of firms into legal limbo.",4_2
Oil at $30 Is No Problem for Some Bakken Drillers Cutting Costs,0_0
> >> are *very* poorly substantiated (e.g. you cite -10% to -2.2%,0_0
"Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 01:24:41 PM at epicenter",0_0
"But, with Podesta's return to the White House as an advisor specializing in energy policy, I must admit my optimism was misplaced. I've been wrong. And, I hate to be wrong.",0_0
"Not coincidentally, the conclave of bureaucrats also saw in ""global governance"" a greater role for themselves.",0_0
"It?s the old, old thought process of: ?Bad things are happening and we don?t know why. How can we stop these things? How do we control what we don?t understand? We must be to blame. We must do something, anything, to make amends.?",0_0
"""Christine Lewis said she was just being honest with the nurse at Colorado's Aurora Medical Center when she showed her the festering bites on her arms just before she was to have a spinal injection for her back pain.""",0_0
"""The latest Gallup poll reveals that Americans think one of the most important problems facing the country is high gas prices. Only the war in Iraq was rated the top problem by more of the 1007 adults surveyed August 7-10. But the news hasn't reached the U. S. Senate yet. While Americans struggle to pay higher gas prices, the Senate left for its August recess after refusing to take votes on two outstanding bills passed by the House of Representatives that would significantly increase domestic oil and natural gas production.""",0_0
Policy Peril Segment 2: Air Pollution,0_0
"Shlaes rids us of the temptation of thinking that Hoover, had he contrived reelection in 1932, might have avoided the macroeconomic mistakes FDR made. Instead of letting markets correct, Hoover raised taxes, signed the disastrous Smoot-Hawley tariff, and inveighed against short-sellers and other ostensible market manipulators. Shlaes is not the first to observe that Hoover and FDR represented, in political scientist Gordon Lloyd's phrase, ""the two faces of liberalism,"" but she offers rich detail to the comparison. Both men lacked confidence in markets, and Hoover's interventions between the Crash in 1929 and FDR's accession in 1933 paved the way for the New Deal: ""From 1929 to 1940, from Hoover to Roosevelt, government intervention helped to make the Depression Great.""",0_0
"Climate changers usually warn about Arctic ice, which has been receding over the last few decades, but rarely address the overall growth of ice inAntarctica.",1_1
"As talks resume next month to forge legislation to act as a successor to the failed Kyoto Protocol, CEI looks forward to OSTP ceasing this unlawful activity and providing prompt access to the requested records so the taxpayer can know what they, and the IPCC, are up to.",0_0
"At the time, ratings firm Fitch posted the following: ""Fitch will closely monitor management's response to the current market turmoil and the company's access to capital markets in the coming days for any further deterioration in the credit profile.""",0_0
"These represent jobs and orders for equipment that are not occurring in the United States, along with the failure to utilize nuclear energy to provide the growing need for electricity here. The same environmental organizations opposing construction here are the same ones supporting the Environmental Protection Agency's attack on coal-fired electrical plants. The irony is, of course, that nuclear plants do not produce carbon dioxide emissions that the Greens blame for the non-existent ""global warming"", not called ""climate change.""",0_0
"Lower resolution ice core data extending back to the last interglacial from both Antarctica and Greenland show temperatures were higher than the present ~8,000 years ago and much higher than the present ~130,000 years ago:",2_1
7. Ethiopia - Agreement for Cooperating in the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program,0_0
Justice Department Prepares Subpoeneas In News Corp. Inquiry:,0_0
Regulators reform federal accounting rules in an effort to revive banks and other financial institutions.,0_0
"As regards coral bleaching, in the words of Wall et al ., ""the present results clearly support a null effect for high pCO 2 ."" Or as they state in the final sentence of their paper's abstract, ""short-term exposure to 81.5 Pa pCO 2 , alone and in combination with elevated temperature, does not cause or affect coral bleaching."" Reviewed 7 May 2014",3_2
A GOVERNMENT-RUN research body has found in an extensive study of corals spanning more than 1000km of Australias coastline that the past 110 years of ocean warming has been good for their growth.,3_2
"Freelance science writer Ed Yong echoes this sentiment at hisDiscovermagazine blog: If the paper was rubbish, if the peer reviewers missed something, if the scientist lied, if the press release is distorted, its still our fault for producing something that is inaccurate or that fails to root out these problems.",0_0
"The union's rhetoric and muscle have crowded out political life in the city as effectively as Medicaid spending has choked off competing governmental priorities in the state budget. The lack of any real opposition to the so-called progressive movement in New York City has created a bizarre dynamic wherein elected officials often speak and act out against ""the system""which they control. (See ""Playing at Protest,"" Spring 2015.) In similar fashion, 1199 continues to promote itself as the radical advocate for society's underdogs, even as it revels in its status as the most-favored special interest.",0_0
"The Swiss online NZZ has a commentary written by Social Sciences Prof. Ulrike Ackermann, Director of the John Stuart Mill Institute for Liberty Research in Heidelberg, read here (in German).Its no secret that the German Greens have been on the rise and that their movement has spearheaded the drive against the use of fossil fuels and atomic power in Germany and Europe. Ackermann writes: For the Greens, nature is good, humans are bad and thus must be always kept under the watchful eye of a powerful, better-knowing state. This means more central (by amateurs) planning, equalization and social uniformity.",0_0
"Overwarm While there is much that can be discussed from these results, we wonder simply why the models overwarm the troposphere compared with observations by such large amounts (on average) during a period when we have the best understanding of the processes that cause the temperature to change. During a period when the mid-troposphere warmed by +0.06 C/decade, why does the model average simulate a warming of +0.26 C/decade?",5_1
"By Emily Underwood, Science Insider, Aug 7, 2015",0_0
"The central lie is that we are experiencing a known human-caused climate crisis, a claim based on speculative theories, contrived data and totally unproven modeling predictions. And the evidence? Much is revealed by politically corrupted processes and agenda-driven report conclusions rendered by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which are trumpeted in the media as authoritative gospel.",5_2
"By Alan Carlin, Carlin Economics and Science, Aug 13, 2015",0_0
"Climategate 3.0: Climategater to World Bank Economic damage estimates from global warming should be ""treated very skeptically'; ""Our methodology is so flaky'",0_0
"Ummm. I thought windmills were all about generating electricity, not using it. So why put torches on it that run all night ? Want to bet the lighting power is coming from coal? While the turbine probably generates more power than it uses most nights, it sure seems odd.",0_0
"Public firms are already required to list in the ""risk factors"" of their annual report both the risks of climate change and the threat of related legislation and regulation if it will impact the company's bottom line. In 2010, the SEC issued disclosure guidance stating that climate risks must be discloses when they could have a ""material"" effect on earnings.",0_0
"Your daily reminder on why commas matter... pic.twitter.com/eYOwsueCBS Mandy Jenkins (@mjenkins) March 21, 2014",0_0
"The only way we could have defaulted would have been if Obama chose to default, which would have led to his immediate impeachment. The White House assumes that Americans are complete idiots, which appears to be true for about 45% of the population as well as the Republican leadership in Congress.",0_0
Quote of the Week: I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people. Isaac Newton,0_0
"""the UK's National Lottery will no longer pay winners who purchased their lottery tickets over the internet from abroad. The current rules allow for players to buy tickets while overseas using their internet accounts at the National Lottery's website, but this will all change in a couple of months.""",0_0
"25 Edward Luttwak, The Political Uses of Seapower, 1975; Ken Booth, Law, Force and Diplomacy at Sea, 1977, and, Navies and Foreign Policy, 1978; James Cable, Gunboat Diplomacy, 19191989, 1998, and Norman Friedman, Seapower as Strategy: Navies and National Interests, 2001.",0_0
So it looks a bit less like nothing there and a bit more like on a fault in the approach to the volcano rise line. Those lateral cracks we see near spreading zones.,0_0
"Connecticut is experiencing its coldest February in recorded history . So is Michigan . So is Toronto . Cleveland and Chicago are experiencing their second coldestFebruary in recorded history. Frigid and record cold temperatures are being set from Key West to International Falls . At the same time, blizzard after blizzard is burying much of the nation with record winter snow totals, with winter snowfall records beings set from Boston to Denver .",1_3
"Rather the ""proofs"" employ a rejection of reason, and are based on the scientific method of philosophy, where the fundamental three parts of the scientific method of natural sciences do not apply.",0_0
"The graph shows very little change in either global temperature or atmospheric carbon dioxide level since 1850. That's because we plotted the ranges on scales that better suit planetary history as opposed to the global warming lobby's fascination with dramatized illustrations of relatively small temperature change over short time periods. Temperatures are plotted in degrees Kelvin, the absolute temperature scale, and carbon dioxide levels are plotted in terms of their historical range, which has been more than an order of magnitude greater than current levels.",0_0
"The decline in polluting emissions, despite increases in urban summer air temperatures, is quite dramatic, as Joel illustrates in the figures below.",0_0
"Carbon Taxes, Energy Costs, and Economic Activity",0_0
"And theres the rub. Whereas onlylarge industrial facilities have a potential to emit 250 TPY ofair contaminants such as sulfur dioxide or particulate matter,an immense number and variety ofentitiesoffice buildings,hotels, big box stores, enclosed malls,small manufacturing firms, even commercial kitchenshave apotential to emit250 TPY of CO 2 . A U.S. Chamber of Commerce study estimates that 1.2 million previously unregulatedbuildings and facilitiesactually emit 250 TPY of CO 2 .All would be vulnerable to new PSD regulation, controls, paperwork, and penalties.",0_0
"""The climate science is sound and last winter was the second warmest globally despite the bad weather experienced here in the UK,"" said Watkinson, also a professional fellow of the University of East Anglia.",0_0
"Much of this oil, known as tight oil or shale oil had not been accessible with conventional extraction techniques. Improvements in technologies, primarily horizontal drilling and fracking, now enable producers to extract the oil and gas from these tight formations.",4_5
"9. Juckes et al failed to provide any statistical references for the results in their Appendix 1, nor any proof of the claimed optimality (or a reference of the fact). They assert a noise model, but do not show that they carried out any tests to demonstrate that the noise model in Appendix 1 was applicable to the actual proxy network. Inspection of the residuals in the individual series strongly indicates that the noise model of their Appendix 1 is not valid ??? see http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=938",5_1
"In a recent article, Dr. Craig Idso, the founder and former president of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, a coeditor of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, and James M. Taylor, a senior fellow of The Heartland Institute and the managing editor of Environmental & Climate News, a monthly publication, examined how ""Global Warming Alarmism Denies Sound Science.""",5_2
"Among the seventy-three distinguished speakers were two global climate believers: 1) Tam Hunt, J.D. who owns and runs Community Renewable Solutions LLC and is also a lecturer in Climate Change Law and Policy at UC Santa Barbara's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management (a graduate-level program), and 2) A. Scott Denning, PhD, a professor at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, a joint project of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Colorado State University.",0_0
Research & Commentary: Requiring Legislative Approval for Carbon Dioxide Regulations,0_0
"Fact 1. A mild warming of about 0.5 degrees Celsius (well within previous natural temperature variations) occurred between 1979 and 1998, and has been followed by slight global cooling over the past 10 years. Ergo, dangerous global warming is not occurring.",1_4
"His deeds also struck a balance between advancing freedom and respecting stability. Rasher conservatives often criticized him for failing to do more to reduce the size of government, but he understood, having been a supporter of FDR himself, how much the safety net meant economically and spiritually to the working and middle classes. He knew that his task was to plant the tree of liberty in the garden of Roosevelt. As he said in 1964, ""time now for the soft sell to prove our radicalism was an optical illusion.""",0_0
"There is a good chance that there will be more sea ice on Earth on January 1, than ever measured before on that date.",1_1
"2. Uncertainties. The uncertaintiesin their Figure S2 (A) (shaded dark and light pink in Figure 1 above) are constant over time. In other words, they say that their method is as good at predicting the sea level two thousand years ago as it is today ?? seems doubtful.",5_1
"Indeed, the specific pattern of Patriot pressure variability, when examined in detail, in my opinion, argues against washroom deflation and towards a quite different explanation of the quite unusual actual pattern of variability.",0_0
"Global sea ice area has been above normal most of the year, and is averaging above normal in 2013.",1_1
"Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are down roughly 40 percent from 1970 levels, and have also returned to Great Depression levels.",0_0
"Should we triple-check the worlds temperature records, just to make sure that the few tenths of a degree change that has everyone in a tizzy arent, in fact, the result of errors?",0_0
"It should be clear to everyone from the results obtained by Allan et al . that the number of extreme storms impacting the British Isles over the last eight decades of the 20th century were not in any way related to the global warming of that period, which climate alarmists claim was unprecedented over the prior millennium or more. Reference",1_7
"""The use of a GPS device to track your whereabouts is not an invasion of privacy in New Jersey, a state appellate court panel ruled today.""",0_0
"Some 50 million acres of U.S. crop and habitat land (equal to Wyoming) have been turned into corn-for-ethanol farms, biofuel plantations, and wind and solar installations. American forests are being converted to fuel for British power plants. Towering turbines butcher birds and bats, while Big Wind is exempted from endangered species rules that would cost fossil fuel companies billions in fines and send their execs to jail for such carnage. (But if you're saving the planet, what's a few million birds and bats a year?)",0_0
"He has not, a private citizen. Indeed, he spent eight years at the top of Superpower. What hope could there be then to see him tried, convicted or even?",0_0
"The report comes at a time when numerous polls demonstrate that climate change is a very low priority for most Americans. A Wall Street Journal/NBC poll in January found that ""climate change"" ranked last on a list of 15 issues when people were asked which ones the administration should make its priorities.",0_0
"The biggest factor, though, in America's success in cutting emissions has been the shale gale. A tsunami of natural-gas production has been unleashed in recent years thanks to continuing improvements in extended-reach horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Domestic natural-gas production was up 4.7 percent last year, to a record 65.7 billion cubic feet per day. That increase in production has led to cheaper natural gas, and that cheap gas is displacing coal at the power plant. (Increasingly, it's also displacing oil as motor fuel, but that's another story.)",4_5
"The other implication of Dr. Meier??s statement is that a warmer, ice free Arctic occurred when CO2 levels were less than 290 ppm. This implies that there is no long term correlation between CO2 and Arctic temperatures.",2_3
"S. A. Gabriel, A. S. Kydes, and P. Whitman, ""The National Energy Modeling System: A Large-Scale Energy-Economic Equilibrium Model,"" Operations Research, No. 49 (2001), pp. 1425.",0_0
"First, lets get rid of the 1998 red herring. The implication is that you can only get this slowdown by picking 1998 as the start year. The reality is that temperatures have been flat since 2001, which was a neutral ENSO year, and therefore comparable to this year. The Wood For Trees graph below shows this well.",1_4
Today??s Washington Times has a commentary on the flawed science and the famous ???hockey stick?? graph used by the the Gorebot and the IPCC:,5_1
"Whether short or long-term, the state-of-the-art empirical satellite evidence is not only obvious, it is both climate and statistically significant: CO2 emissions have not had a significant influence (warming or cooling) on atmospheric temperatures. For objective science, this means that the CO2-centric anthropogenic global warming hypothesis is essentially invalidated, as it is currently understood . (1) Study . Scientists involved: Ben D. Santer, C. Mears, C. Doutriaux, P. Caldwell, P. J. Gleckler, Tim M. L. Wigley, Susan Solomon, N. P. Gillett, D. Ivanova, Tom R. Karl, J. R. Lanzante, G. A. Meehl, P. A. Stott, K. E. Taylor, P. W. Thorne, M. F. Wehner, F. J. Wentz",2_3
"And Duranty may be needed to maintain this fiction as the Sydney Morning Herald reports today,",0_0
"""You see, Dr. Hansen of NASA GISS, has been using his position to protest the use of coal in America. That's certainly his right. But, since his concern is global CO2 produced by coal, is he really being effective by protesting here? It seems that he should think locally, but act globally. Have a look at this graph and see if you think he's making any difference in the places coal is being used the most:""",0_0
"""Media Matters, the liberal activist group that wages a rhetorical war against Fox News Channel and others in the conservative press, will announce on Wednesday the receipt of a $1 million donation from the philanthropist George Soros.""",0_0
"Climate Change: Front and Center. Climate change came roaring back into the news this week when the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee unveiled its legislation on the subject, and the Environmental Protection Agency announced a rule to require big greenhouse gas emitters to install new pollution-control technology in new or modified facilities. In Newsweek, columnist George Will praised Kenneth P. Green and Steven F. Hayward""s latest Energy and Environment Outlook in which they argue that the House climate-change bill, Waxman-Markey, is an ""exercise in unreality."" While the outlook for legislation this year is unclear, Green and Hayward are tracking developments closely.",0_0
"So it should come as no surprise that some corporations love Waxman-Markey. Indeed, the corporate coalition known as the United States Climate Action Partnership (US CAP) outlined the main features of the Waxman-Markey bill months before it was introduced in a January 2009 report titled A Blueprint for Legislative Action. US CAP members don't worry that Waxman-Markey might destroy millions of jobs and trillions of dollars in cumulative GDP. They expect to get a bigger piece of a smaller pie.",0_0
"two of the doctrine's leading exponents, General David Petraeus and General Stanley McChrystal, were",0_0
"NOAAS TOP GLOBAL WEATHER, WATER AND CLIMATE EVENTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY",0_0
You simply say that the task of creating energy from nothing is impossible.,0_0
"He has been wandering around in the swamp of atmospheric feedbacks, positive or negative, proclaiming it is all too complicated and controversial. Like esteemed MIT Professor Richard Lindzen and other meteorologists, he is trapped in his feedback swamp and cant get out.",0_0
"""Light Brigade' to debunk ""forward on climate' D.C. rally",0_0
"Americas chemical companies use ethane, a natural gas liquid derived from shale gas, as a feedstock in numerous applications. Its relatively low price gives U.S. manufacturers an advantage over many competitors around the world that rely on naphtha, a more expensive, oil-based feedstock. Growth in domestic shale gas production is helping to reduce U.S. natural gas prices and create a more stable supply of natural gas and ethane.",4_5
"New Zealands Climate Science Coalition has issued a press release detailing the end of the Kiwi-gate affair. The outcome is that data published in 2009 by New Zealands National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) entitled Are we feeling warmer yet has been abandoned and replaced with real, unadjusted data that shows a picture that warmists dont want you to see: NIWA makes the huge admission that New Zealand has experienced hardly any warming during the last half-century. For all their talk about warming, for all their rushed invention of the Eleven-Station Series to prove warming, this new series shows that no warming has occurred here since about 1960. Almost all the warming took place from 1940-60, when the IPCC says that the effect of CO2 concentrations was trivial. Indeed, global temperatures were falling during that period.",1_4
"But BAT also demands a lot more in seeking to set the relevant inputs, for now everyone has bad incentives. More specifically, a regulated utility will downgrade the expected benefits of technological improvements while talking up the costs of implementation. Environmental activists, with none of their own dollars on the line, have the exact opposite incentive. No court can easily work its way through the BAT minefield, but they still must review, at a great cost in time and money, a wide range of necessary EPA decisions under the CAA.",0_0
"""In the 1,461 days that Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) served as speaker of the House, the national debt increased by a total of $5.343 trillion ($5,343,452,800,321.37) or $3.66 billion per day ($3.657,394,113.84), according to official debt numbers published by the U.S. Treasury.""",0_0
"They then go on in figure 6 to show how these different projections affect the average mass of CO2 for which the ancestor is responsible. The potential for reducing carbon emissions by reducing the number of future genetic units was remarkable. Whereas increasing a cars fuel efficiency from 20mpg to 30mpg saved only 148 metric tons of Co2 emissions over an individuals lifetime, reducing the number of children by one on a constant-emission scenario gave a lifetime saving of Co2 emissions of 9,441 metric tons!",0_0
"Here, we will look more closely at New Zealand and the rest of the Pacific Ocean. In particular, taking New Zealand out of the whole record leads to even greater temperature stability in the Islands. If the half of the planet that is the Pacific Basin is not warming, it can hardly be Global nor Warming. When we look more closely at New Zealand, we find more thermometer changes. Global Warming is an artifact of thermometer change (both modification history and location) over time.",5_1
Back to the buoys in Monterey harbor. A flight of pelicans,0_0
"Most major environmental improvements occur as older, inefficient plants and machinery with high air pollutant emissions are replaced with new, more efficient, and more environmentally benign plants and machines. NSR, like other end-of-the-pipe environmental mandates, slows the replacement process by grandfathering existing facilities (which increases their asset value) and raising the price of new construction. In light of the progress being made to improve air quality prior to 1970, it is plausible NSR has done more to slow than to speed up progress toward greater efficiency and less emissions.",0_0
"The latest science suggests the equilibrium climate sensitivity probably lies between 1.5C and 2.5C (with an average value of 2.0C), while the climate models used by the IPCC have climate sensitivities which range from 2.1C to 4.7C with an average value of 3.2C.",3_1
"Richard Nixon launched the shuttle program in 1972, but the president whose name will always be associated with it is Ronald Reagan.",0_0
"The question originally posed, of course, was whether the increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide is associated with more or more-severe landfalling hurricanes. To answer this question, we plotted storms against atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.",0_0
Facts That Don't Fit the News Media's Anti-Gun Narrative,0_0
"Do global warming policies save human lives? A Stunning new report found the exact opposite. The report, entitled ???Global Warming Policies Might Be Bad for Your Health,?? was produced by leading researcher Dr. Indur Goklany and found that issues of poverty like malnutrition and unsafe water have a global impact of death and disease 70 times larger than that of theoretical climate change. As a result, climate policies which retard economic growth would increase global poverty and its terrible effects. Since policies to replace fossil fuels with biofuels already caused 200,000 additional deaths in 2010 alone, the world must think carefully before embarking on these costly and even deadly global warming policies.",4_1
"I have already written extensively about what happens to the 2009 Vermeer and Rahmstrof model ( Global Sea Level Linked to Global Temperature, PNAS, 2009 ) when the outdated sea level data they usedis replaced by a newer versionfrom the very same people who provided them with the data. Itwas not good for Rahmstrofs theme of catastrophic sea level rise.",5_1
"Why, I wonder start the linear increase in 1980? Obviously the temperature starts rising then, but why not start the straight line in 1970? The answer is that the temperature is flat between 1970 and 1980. It seems illogical to take notice of flat data at the start of a dataset but totally ignore it at the end!",5_1
"Like the urchins occupying Wall Street, Rosenthal chides Americans who prefer bigger cars and bigger homes. We value personal freedom, are suspicious of scientists, and tend to distrust the kind of sweeping government intervention required to confront rising greenhouse gas emissions.",0_0
"We can ignore the first one. Command-and-control is economist short-hand for any system that relies on central planning. Bureaucrats and cabinet ministers decide on targets, e.g. as of next Tuesday 15% of all gasoline must be made from ethanol. That's the ""command"" part. The next is the ""control"" part, in which an enforcement agency goes out to harangue, harass and punish private firms and citizens until they are in compliance.",0_0
"It seems probable that 2010 will be in terms of global annual average temperature statistically identical to the annual temperatures of the past decade. Some eminent climatologists, such as Professor Phil Jones of the University of East Anglias Climatic Research Unit, suggest the global annual average temperatures havent changed for the past 15 years. We are reaching the point where the temperature standstill is becoming the major feature of the recent global warm period that began in 1980. In brief, the global temperature has remained constant for longer than it has increased. Perhaps this should not be surprising as in the seven decades since 1940 the world has gotten warmer in only two of them, and if one considers each decade individually the increase in temperature in each has barely been statistically significant. Only when the warming in the 1980s is added to that of the first half of the 1990s does the change exceed the noise in the system.",1_4
"German households will pay a renewables surcharge of ?7.2bn this year alone. In addition, consumers will be affected by indirect costs because industry, trade and commerce pass on their rising energy costs in product prices. And because green energy subsidies are guaranteed for 20 years, the costs threaten to rise exorbitantly as more schemes are being agreed. Energy bills are going through the roof, fuel poverty is rising and renewable energy policies face a growing public backlash. What is more, governments are increasingly concerned about the threat to Europe?s industrial base.",4_1
"""Sex that doesn't produce people is deviate."" Montana state Rep. Dave Hagstrom.",0_0
"Burger and Cubasch (2005) attempt to bolster their claims based on a reference to claims by ""McIntyre and McKitrick (2005b)"", published in a social science journal Energy and Environment that is not even in the ISI database. McIntyre and McKitrick made essentially the same claim in a 2005 GRL article. Huybers (2005), in a comment on that article, demonstrated that McIntyre and McKitricks unusually high claimed thresholds for significant were purely an artifact of an error in their time series standardization. Huybers (2005), after correcting the mistake by McIntyre and McKitrick, verified the original RE significance thresholds indicated by Mann et al (1998). It is extremely surprising that Burger and Cubasch appear unaware of all of this.",0_0
"These positions reflect adherence to the shaky hypothesis of catastrophic manmade global warming and unsupportable claims that the oil sands contribute disproportionately to a looming climate Armageddon. However, Alberta environment office show that greenhouse gas emissions from oil sands plummeted 38% between 1990 and 2009, and are now 5% of Canadas total GHG emissions and equal to or lower than CO2/GHG emissions from petroleum operations in Nigeria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.",5_1
"And you know what? They're welcome to hold that point of view. My question is, if these academics are so certain they have the truth on their side, why are they so concerned about the views of dissenters? Oh, the dissenters slow progress in addressing the problem, the academics reply:",0_0
"So far, summer 2012 has been thequieteston record for both tornadoes and hurricanes in the US. We also have the fewest forest fires since at least 2003 .",1_7
"Now heres the interesting thing about this station, it has a trifecta of siting issues, and not just from the air conditioner and brick building. Look at the location located by Tim Channon:",0_0
"19 EPA, New Source Review: Report to the President, p. 11.",0_0
"Heres the thing the computer models that predicted something more accelerated than what has actually happened since 1998 are the same ones predicting disaster in the long run. If they were wrong about the past 15 years, it is a good sign they are wrong about the long run, too.",5_1
"So forgetting all this, and taking the reports analytics at face value, it is concluded that the FULL COST of coal makes wind, solar, and other forms of nonfossil fuel power generation economically competitive. As such, the study calls for phasing out coal and phasing in cleanly powered smart grids using place-appropriate alternative energy sources.",0_0
"Would anyone care? You can see that there are warm places on the Earth, too: Sahara, Brazil, India, etc. But there are many other issues we should remember. First, the warming near the equator is going to be slower (the warming near the poles is amplified by the ice-albedo feedback effect). Second, the latitude is not the only coordinate that can compensate for the temperature changes. Altitude matters, too. The lapse rate is over 6 C per kilometer, so if you move yourself into the hills, the maximum centennial warming may be fully eliminated, too.",0_0
"Yeatman: Not so-warmer but richer (i.e., no economy crushing climate policies) is better for humans than poorer but cooler. Global warming policies are worse than global warming! For the sake of our children, we must do nothing on climate change.",0_0
"I thought the climate was gentle when atmospheric CO2 concentration was below 300 ppm steady, unvariable and associated with few weather extremes. Thats what fraudster warmist climatologists tried to have us believe with an assortment a various hockey stick charts.",5_2
"Britain is already experiencing yet another bitterly cold and snowy winter, the latest in an continuing series of arctic winters which have made a mockery of alarmists predictions that global warming would mean mild winters and no snow in Britain (we all remember the headline about snow in Britain being a thing of the past).",1_3
"There has been a sharp decline over the past year in the percentage of Americans who say there is solid evidence that global temperatures are rising, that it is a very serious problem, and that it is caused by human activity. All these trends reflect growing scientific uncertainty about the causes and consequences of climate change.A national survey conducted Sept. 30-Oct. 4 by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, a left-leaning group, finds that 57% think there is solid evidence that the average temperature on earth has been getting warmer over the past few decades, down from 71% in April 2008. Over the same period, there has been a comparable decline in the proportion of Americans who say global temperatures are rising as a result of human activity, such as burning fossil fuels. Just 36% say that currently, down from 47% last year.Full story at the The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.",0_0
"The justification that is always given for these adjustments is that they must be right because the global average of the GISS adjusted dataset (roughly) matches theGHCN adjusted dataset, which (roughly) matches the CRU adjusted dataset.",0_0
Dr Emerson yesterday became the first minister in the Rudd Government to cast doubt on the assertion that scientific evidence was conclusive for a catastrophic meltdown of the polar icecaps if global warming was not curtailed.,0_0
"Finally, we've also plotted a new graph of global temperature data -- from the UK's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research -- against atmospheric carbon dioxide data -- from Mauna Loa, Hawaii, the longest continuous record of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations available in the world.",0_0
"""Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano apologized on Tuesday to residents near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and the global community after Japan raised the severity rating of its nuclear crisis to the highest level of 7. Despite the changed assessment that puts it on a par with the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe, Edano told reporters, """"Unlike in the case of Chernobyl, we have not seen cases of direct damage to health because of the accident.'""""",0_0
26 Sep 2012 11:47 | by Nick Farrell in Rome,0_0
"White House Climate Advisor Daniel P. Schrag told the New York Times: ""Everybody is waiting for action, the one thing the President really needs to do now is to begin the process of shutting down the conventional coal plants. Politically, the White House is hesitant to say they're having a war on coal. On the other hand, a war on coal is exactly what's needed.""",0_0
"The panel, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore, now faces the inconvenient truth that it relied on scientists who violated scientific process. In one email, the Climate Research Unit's director, Phil Jones, wrote Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University, promising to spike studies that cast doubt on the relationship between human activity and global warming. ""I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report,"" he said. He pledged to ""keep them out somehoweven if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!""",5_2
These statements merely express uncertainty over climate change and climate policy. Anyone who believes these statements constitute fraud lacks common sense and an understanding of the applicable legal standards.,0_0
"Mr Boehlert, like most politicians, obviously doesnt read the documents that are presented to him in any depth, but is quite content with the headline statements. The findings of the National Academy of Sciences are the subject of another paper .",5_2
"Kevin D. Dayaratna, PhD, is Senior Statistician and Research Programmer in the Center for Data Analysis, of the Institute for Economic Freedom and Opportunity, at The Heritage Foundation. David W. Kreutzer, PhD, is Senior Research Fellow for Energy Economics and Climate Change in the Center for Data Analysis. Nicolas D. Loris is Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow in Energy and Environmental Policy in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, of the Institute for Economic Freedom and Opportunity.",0_0
"Even neglecting radiosonde data, which has recorded little or no warming, and using the untested new satellite data set, Santer et al. find models still predict 170 percent more warming than was actually recorded by the data sets they use.",5_1
"The exact same thing is going on with the climate. It is governed by a variety of emergent climate phenomena such as thunderstorms, the El Nino/La Nina warm water pump, and the PDO. And as a result, the change in global temperature is totally decoupled from the changes in forcings. This is why it is so hard to find traces of e.g. solar and volcano forcings in the temperature record. We know that both of those change the forcings but the temperatures do not change correspondingly.",2_1
Non-Co2 causes of weather and weather related effects (e.g the sun or anthropocentric contributions like soot) are downplayed or ignored in the most recent IPCC report,5_2
I gave up on Judith Curry a while ago. I don?t know what she think?s she?s,0_0
"Sharp Corp. plans to end production and sales of solar cells and modules in the U.S. and Europe by March as part of a restructuring, Kyodo News said. Osaka-based Sharp plans to cut more than 10,000 jobs, or about 18 percent of its workforce, and is in talks to sell plants as it tries to return to profit, two people with knowledge of the proposal said yesterday. Bloomberg, 27 September 2012 ( http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-27/sharp-to-end-solar-panel-business-in-u-s-europe-kyodo-says.html )",0_0
CFACT also asked readers to submit comments to the Board and large numbers did. Sources close to the West Virginia Board report that CFACT readers submitted thoughtful and persuasive comments that made a significant impact on the proceedings.,0_0
"Scientists agree that a future drop is likely at some point if global warming proceeds as expected. But they differ on how much snowpack has decreased, whether any of that was due to man-made climate change and how far and fast its likely to drop in coming years.",5_1
"Deja vu tells me I might have done this once before, but I?m too lazy to go back and see. So, I?ll start over from scratch. (Insert smiley)",0_0
"In fact, there are three complementary strategies to search for the dark matter particle and there are good reasons to expect that they could provide us with some powerful evidence in favor of a specific dark matter particle rather soon: the direct production at the collider (LHC), the analyses of cosmic rays and radiation by space telescopes (AMS etc.), and the direct search experiments (germanium etc. in the abandoned mines).",0_0
"Figure 12. Coral seems to be A-OK with CO2 levels of 1,000 ppmv. This might explain how they thrived in the Mesozoic Era.",3_2
"There has been very little change in May ice extent over the last 30 years. If current linear trends continue, it will be at least 400 years before we have an ice free Arctic in May.",1_1
"The final thing I learned from this study is that creatures in the ocean live happily in a wide range of alkalinities, from a high of over 8.0 down to almost neutral. As a result, the idea that a slight change in alkalinity will somehow knock the ocean dead doesn??t make any sense. By geological standards, the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is currently quite low. It has been several times higher in the past, with the inevitable changes in the oceanic pH ?? and despite that, the life in the ocean continued to flourish.",3_2
"But in the past month, a ""blocking event"" has brought the jet stream to a halt, keeping weather patterns stationery over certain countries.",0_0
"Homes in and near the forests become ashes, chimneys, and memories. Residents die in their homes or trying to flee the infernos. Firefighters perish trying to extinguish them.",0_0
"""Well I don't know whether you've ever seen the South Park episode about Lemmiwinks the gerbil and Mister Slave. But basically they all re-enacted that journey on an epic scale. None of them ever came back.""",0_0
"""we are becoming more confident of mid-range figures."" why not 'mid-range or lower?",0_0
"Severe storms, floods, and agricultural losses may cost a great deal of money, but such extreme weather events and their resulting costs are dramatically declining as the Earth modestly warms. 20 Accordingly, EDFs asserted economic costs are actually economic benefits.",1_7
"As you can see, only in the driest desert on earth will increasing CO 2 increase the back radiation. Water vapor is by far the strongest greenhouse gas, but it is nearly saturated at 10% humidity. At 10% humidity and above, no amount of CO 2 does anything. Most of the humidity on earth is in that area on the right where doubling CO 2 will do nothing to increase the long-wave radiation from the sky. Yet another CAGW fail.",2_3
"they had no knowledge of these activities, Levey would show them the detailed",0_0
"33 P. Reiter, From Shakespeare to Defoe: Malaria in England in the Little Ice Age, Emerging Infectious Diseases 6, in press (2000).",0_0
One of the most interesting and telling aspects of President Obama's disingenuous attempt to rebrand himself as a supporter of fossil fuels is that he never mentions coal. He doesn't even pretend.,0_0
"Barry R. Bickmore, an associate professor of geological sciences at Brigham Young University, Utah, was the most recent to quote it in an op ed in the Deseret News of November 25 th 2010, entitled Global warming consensus matters, where he attacks Utah Senator Orin Hatch for challenging consensus claims.",0_0
"Schmidt says that these efforts are a little misguided. He argues that it is difficult to attribute success or failure to any particular parameter because the inherent unpredictability of weather and climate is built into both the Earth system and the models. It doesn't suggest any solutions, he says.",5_1
SEIU Spent 200k in One Week Attacking Republicans:,0_0
"By steadfastly adhering to the false idea that solar input is freezing cold at -18 degrees C, and never questioning it, and never thinking about the real-time physics, they are forced to invent on paper a mechanism where something cold heats itself up with its own energy. Reality simply doesnt do this and we all know that. The input to the Earth is not -180C with the greenhouse effect amplifying it to +15 degrees C. The input to the Earth is +30 degrees C as a linear average, and this average is composed of a maximum of +121 degrees C, and the related flux input has enough strength to deposit an enormous amount of trapped energy in the latent heat of liquid and vaporous water, which the -180C input simply cant do. -18 degrees C input doesnt conserve the physicsnot without making up the greenhouse effect to make up the difference to what the Sun actually does with its real-time flux.",0_0
"Brian Valentine, an engineer with the U.S. Department of Energy and scientific reviewer and consultant to the departments Office of Science for DOE National Laboratory-directed programs in computing, chemical, and climate science, argued, If about 100 million years of discernable and unequivocal Earthly climate evidence has demonstrated that the climate sensitivity to the doubling of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere cannot be any higher than the value of this quantity described by Monckton et al., then how much more evidence to we need?",3_1
President Obama and the Iron Law of Climate Change,0_0
"Incorporating natural gas into the Clean Energy Dialogue with Canada fits with the president's approach, and could contribute to his energy and environmental legacy. It would be a positive counterpoint to the increasing acrimony surrounding the Keystone XL pipeline.",0_0
60 Plus AssociationSmall Business Survival Committee,0_0
"December 29, 2011: A Record Year for Regulation",0_0
Renewable Energy: Lobbys Report More Fog Than Light,0_0
"~Vice President Al GoreGannett News ServiceMarch 23, 1999, talking aboutEarth in the Balance",0_0
"The first overarching question, of course, is what is meant by the global average surface temperature?? The National Research Council Report provides a definition as",0_0
We Can't Say For Sure That The 1929 Flood Was Caused By The Prohibition,0_0
"A new HadSST3 version has been recently published. It starts the process of unwinding Folland??s erroneous Pearl Harbour bucket adjustment, an adjustment that has been embedded in HadSST for nearly 20 years.",5_1
"Theres no conspiracy among editors, but theres not much courage either. No one wants to be pilloried among their peers so the threat of being called a denier , or a right wing extremist is enough to keep most editors in line. Bullying works at least in the short run. And this article by The Australian reveals how effective it is.",0_0
African Climate Change: 1900-2100,0_0
"The UK Telegraph also recently reported on a cooling planet, quoting climate scientist Professor Anastasios Tsonis of the University of Wisconsin: We are already in a cooling trend , which I think will continue for the next 15 years at least. There is no doubt the warming of the 1980s and 1990s has stopped .",1_2
"By contrast, $26 billion taken from taxpayers and given to wind, solar and biofuel energy projects via Department of Energy subsidies and loan guarantees since 2009 created only 2,298 permanent jobs, at a cost of $11.45 million per job, the Institute for Energy Research calculates, using DOE data.",0_0
"The green Left continues to push the claim that the reason there's been no major action to cut carbon dioxide emissions is that some evil cabal quarterbacked by climate ""denialists"" who have a ""hostility to science"" has been blocking change. (By the way, that's exactly what New York Times columnist Paul Krugman claimed on June 9.)",0_0
"That data show four glacial coolings each followed by an interglacial warming with atmospheric CO2 concentrations near their highest during the warmings and near their lowest during the coolings. In all cases, however, the temperature changes precede the CO2 changes by about 500 ??? 1,000 years. Each glacial cooling and interglacial warming cycle has a period of about 100,000 years, which corresponds to the periodic changes in the Earth??s elliptical orbit about the sun. Those increases and decreases in atmospheric CO2 occurred long before any significant human emission of CO2. And furthermore, the fact that they were preceded by the temperature changes means that the temperature changes are causing the CO2 changes and not the reverse. As oceans warm, they emit CO2, and as they cool they absorb it. Bubbles of CO2 are emitted from cold soda as it is poured into a warm glass, and soda is produced by dissolving CO2 into cold water.",2_3
"Canaries and coal mines. The Arctic and the Antarctic. We will inevitably have to suffer the hysteria of the warmenistas if Arctic ice falls to a new low this summer, which looks possible. Of course, it tells us nothing about the attribution of the ice loss, which could be contributed to by a thousand other things as well as anthropogenic warming.",5_2
"When it comes to Halloween these days, it seems that parents scare more easily than their children. For the past 15 years, I have checked the news as Halloween approaches. It is always full of warnings from health and safety officialdom that parents should check their children's collected candy for signs of tampering with nefarious intent. Here are just three examples I found with a 30 second Google search today. It's just as much hogwash as it was when I started.",0_0
"The other significant coincidence that happened about this same time was that DuPont, a major CFC manufacturer, was poised to lose its patent on one of the most widely-used CFCs. Three Canadian investors who owned 25% of the company led the campaign to ban CFCs. DuPont initially fought the CFC phase out, but the company finally acquiesced when it had secured a patent on a CFC substitute. After all, billions of dollars were at stake.",0_0
"The Met Office, using data generated by a 33million supercomputer, claims Britain can stop worrying about a big freeze this year because we could be in for a milder winter than in past years.",0_0
"The sea surface temperature anomalies for the NINO3.4 region in the eastern equatorial Pacific (5S-5N, 170E-120E) are a commonly used index for the strength, frequency and duration of El Nio and La Nina events. We keep an eye on the sea surface temperatures there because El Nio and La Nia events are the primary cause of the yearly variations in global sea surface temperatures AND the primary cause of the long-term warming of global sea surface temperatures over the past 30 years. See the discussion of the East Pacific versus the Rest-of-the-World that follows.",2_1
"In the October 2 document, Shukla argues that a RICO investigation would target only ""corporations and organizations,"" not ""individuals"":",0_0
"""The climate policies in the current draft energy bill would put the U.S. on a slippery slope to energy rationing if enacted,"" said CEI director of global warming policy Myron Ebell. ""It looks more like a campaign document from Senators Kerry or Lieberman than the sensible policies we expect from Senator Domenici and other Senate conservatives.""",4_1
"The U.S. State Department has decided not to renominate Robert T. Watson for the chairmanship of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, according to a story in the New York Times (April 2, 2002).",0_0
"Mr. McGartland blasted yet another email: ""With the endangerment finding nearly final, you need to move on to other issues and subjects. I don't want you to spend any additional EPA time on climate change. No papers, no research etc, at least until we see what EPA is going to do with Climate."" Ideology? Nope, not here. Just us science folk. Honest.",0_0
"U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama wave during the inaugural parade from the U.S. Capitol to the White House in Washington, January 21, 2013.",0_0
"So of the predicted warming up to 6 degrees centigrade this century predicted by the most extreme alarmists, Al Gores little video had a flawed experiment to justify the insignificant first 20%, and a trust the computer models for the alarming bit.",5_1
Climate modelers choose parameter sets with offsetting errors in order to successfully hindcast the 20 th century air temperature. That means any correspondence between hindcast temperatures and observed temperatures is tendentious ??? the correspondence is deliberately built-in.,5_1
"As of last week, the sea surface temperature anomalies in the NINO4 and NINO1+2 regions were still elevated, while the NINO3 and NINO3.4 regions have dropped out of El Nio conditions, where El Nio conditions are defined as sea surface temperature anomalies equal to or greater than +0.5 deg C.",0_0
"Presently, the EU ETS is completing its Second Trading Period, which started in 2008 and lasts until December 2012; emission credits are given out for a sequence of several years at once. But the bloom is fading from the rose. In 2009, the European Commission called on the Obama administration to join with Europe in establishing a joint mandatory transatlantic carbon trading scheme based on the EU ETS system. But the proposal went nowhere, as the Obama administration's cap-and-trade emissions legislation was stymied in the U.S. Congress. There is no support for this type of environmental and energy legislation in the U.S. Congress among most Republicans, and little among Democrats. Similarly, recent international discussions between the major economic powers have resulted in little tangible progress on climate change policy.",0_0
"If they can't, perhaps, as when the Whig Party hit a dead end, a new force will emerge to replace or challenge the Republican Party. But anyone expecting a quick or clean resolution of this turmoil will be sorely disappointed.",0_0
"/s/ Thomas L. (Tom) Moser Hdq. Dep. Assoc. Admin. & Director, Space Station Program, 28 years",0_0
EPA Narrowly Keeps Global Warming Authority in Close Senate Vote,0_0
"The study goes on to say that black carbon effectively causes global warming too because it heats water droplets, melts clouds and ice, and reduces the thickness of cloud cover.",0_0
"DOE Report Highlights Triumph, Trouble for Wind Power Sector",0_0
"All possible were it not for the political wars that afflict the energy industry. Keep in mind the peculiarly American background to all energy-policy decisions, including those with important geopolitical aspects. The president of the United States and his Secretary of State believe that climate change, to quote Secretary Kerry, ""is the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction."" More fearsome than Iran's nukes might be or North Korea's nukes are; more fearsome than Assad's chemical weapons; and certainly more fearsome than the 845,000 Russian troops at the ready should Russians living in what Putin calls his ""near abroad"" be attacked by a mob egged on by imported Russian agitators.",0_0
There is also a writeup on this new paper at Livescience titled Cold Water Thrown on Antarctic Warming Predictions,5_1
"Under the CPP, everything business owners, workers, families and communities strived for their entire lives will be at risk. Millions of workers will lose their jobs, leaving more families destitute and welfare dependent, their sense of self-worth destroyed. Many will have to choose between buying food and gasoline, paying the rent or mortgage, going to the doctor, giving to their church, or saving for retirement.",4_1
"Another point I would like to note is the heavy weighting of Peninsula and open-ocean stations. Steigs reconstruction relied on a total of 5 stations in West Antarctica, 4 of which are located on the eastern and southern edges of the continent at the Ross Ice Shelf. The resolution of West Antarctic trends based on the ground stations alone is rather poor.",5_1
"The global warming doomsday writers claim the ice sheets are melting catastrophically, and will cause a sudden rise in sea level of many metres. This ignores the mechanism of glacier flow which is by creep: glaciers are not melting from the surface down, nor are they sliding down an inclined plane lubricated by meltwater.",1_1
"Environmentalists and left-leaning politicians need oil, coal and natural gas prices to be high in order to make green energy projects seem more economic than they actually are. Often governments do this by imposing taxes on fossil fuels or carbon dioxide emissions.",0_0
Five or six years ago it was consensus that greenhouse gas reductions of three percent annually were not realistic. But then emissions rose like never before and suddenly the IPCC claims that six percent is doable. Precisely in a phase when CO2 emissions are rising liker never before the optimism is suddenly growing that drastic savings are possible. All this just to keep the 2C story alive.,5_2
Repeating: The exercise is to project the data to the end of time period 23.,0_0
"A hoax is a deceptive act intended to hoodwink people through deliberate misinformation, including factual omissions. My book is about the latter. (And by the way, it can be ordered through primary vendors, and is currently being featured on ""new releases"" tables at 200 major Barnes and Noble stores.)",0_0
"I think that is particularly unproductive, and its reaching the stage where the farmers are becoming, through their association, almost irrelevant to the process, Mr Hazzard told ABC Radio.",0_0
"But I didnt know just HOW warm, since our satellite data Extend back to only 2002. So, I decided to download the NOAA SST data from their website WHICH DO NOT include the AMSR-E measurements to do a more quantitative comparison. (The NOAA oceanic data They record there seem to be based upon the UK Climatic Research Unit data, but I could not tell Whether Those are indeed the Data That were the basis for NOAA's record high temperature announcement).",0_0
"Cooperation is part of the deceit of taqia, dawa and kitman with the intent of destroying the other when an advantage is achieved. Muslims are constitutionally fanatically intolerant and xenophobic, and consider infidels haram (unclean and forbidden), so how do you cooperate with something you intend to destroy orsubjugate. The Koran has no place for other religions. The Koran is the sourcebookand it is not subject to modification in the eyes of observant Muslims.",0_0
"Recent high European temperatures (about 5 F higher than the normal long run trend) definitely caused glaciers to recede. But last winter also delivered an increase in the number of atmospheric high pressure systems over the Alps, which caused a significant drop in snow flurries; consequently glaciers were not replenished.",0_0
"Other European countries planning to invest in America due to low energy prices include Austrian steelmaker Voestalpine VLPNY -0.41% (an iron-ore processing plant in Texas), South Africa-bases Sasol SSL -1.09% (a natural gas to diesel conversion plant in Louisiana) and France's Vallourec VLOWY -0.56% (steel production in Ohio).",0_0
"For starters, President Obama did not ""try to pass a cap-and-trade law."" In fact, the ""cap-and-trade"" in question never made it out of the democrat party caucus in the Senate. More to the point, the President effectively killed the effort by punting on a meeting about the measure with Senate democrat leadership. Also, while it's true that opposition to the bill was bipartisan, there was never a filibuster. Again, the bill never made it out of the democrat Senate caucus, due to intra-party opposition. Republicans didn't have to lift a finger. So Chait's history is totally wrong (again).",0_0
"And so they didn't, making CT the mother of all baloney storms (CTBS) extending back decades before 2016. But the shenanigans of 2016 has made clear that something ugly has been done to us in science by people trapped in a political plane, incapable of comprehending that science is orthogonal to it.",0_0
"And yet the EPA and White House regulatory agenda, regulatory onslaught and horse-blinder definition of health, welfare and justice ignore these realities and ensure that this unconscionable situation will only get worse. In fact, the only welfare EPA's rules will ensure is the expansion of our welfare rolls, unemployment lines and already record-setting food stamp programs.",0_0
"Last January another study concluded that the pipeline would have minimal impact on climate not because there's no scientific evidence that any pipeline would but rather because the Canadian oil sands will be developed anyway. (Isn't it remarkable that an expensive study was needed to figure that out?) Even if the pipeline isn't built, Canada certainly won't leave those resources in the ground. Instead, they will be sent to an energy-eager China.",0_0
"Wealth of the surrounding society tends to draw the major brushstrokes of a newborn's future life. It makes a huge difference whether humanity uses its assets to achieve progress, or whether it strives to stop and reverse it, essentially sacrificing the less fortunate to the climate gods.",0_0
"But at a time when it most indications from that our children and grandchildren will f an even better life than what we had (it is of course is why it frutsps that half of the children who are born in Sweden today will f experience their hundrarsdag) s vdrar Jeremiahs morning air. The strange thing is nmligen that very thing that has given us the opportunity to produce food so that it can rcka to all, nmligen a warmer earth and Increased carbon dioxide levels utmlas as a threat.",0_0
"A new study reveals that ?understanding the dynamical and thermodynamical mechanisms that drive the tropical atmosphere is required both to alleviate OAGCM errors and to describe the full extent of the atmosphere?s role in tropical variability, such as ENSO? Read More",0_0
The Science story shows that when a bandwagon climate scientist like Andreas Schmittner is telling you that the dangers from rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are expected to be less than predicted you can be sure the game is up for global warming alarmism.,1_6
"From our comparison between satellite observations and GCM simulations of the planetary albedo, we find that models and measurements differ in many respects. GCM-derived albedos are almost consistently higher than the values observed by satellites. For the period with global ERBE data (February 1985May 1989), the modelled global mean albedo is on average 0.009 above the measured global mean. This corresponds to a difference in radiative flux of almost 3 Wm-2. The mean level of global mean albedo according to CERES (March 2000 December 2003) is an additional ca. 0.012 below the ERBE mean, corresponding to an additional flux difference of ca. 4 Wm-2.",0_0
"A highly successful trip from the Indian and American point of view, this does not mean that all policy disagreements in the relationship have disappeared. Differing views on relations with Pakistan, India's policy on Iran, climate change and protectionism still remain.",0_0
"AGs' motives questioned as Exxon climate change ""fraud' probe recalls tobacco windfall",0_0
Teri brought him to worldwide attention and he was a lead author with the IPCC before becoming chairman in 2002.,0_0
"But the draft document, one of many floating around the conference, gives a glimpse into the long-term vision some nations hold for the creation of an international legal framework on climate change.",0_0
"They found that temperatures between 1630 and 1840 cooled, then warming in the Arctic began just after the end of the Little Ice Age and 30 years before the start of the Industrial Age.",2_1
Congressional leaders and the White House support stricter mileage requirements for new cars.,0_0
The Little Ice Age (LIA) showed that the present warming trend began prior to the major impact of the Industrial Revolution. Significant production of CO2 by humans began only after World War II.,2_3
"In the oceans, major climate warming and cooling and pH (ocean pH about 8.1) changes are a fact of life, whether it is over a few years as in an El Nio, over decades as in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation or the North Atlantic Oscillation, or over a few hours as a burst of upwelling (pH about 7.59-7.8) appears or a storm brings acidic rainwater (pH about 4-6) into an estuary.",2_1
"Tackling nearly 100% of todays malaria problem would cost just one-sixtieth of the price of the Kyoto Protocol. Put another way, for each person saved from malaria by cutting CO2 emissions, direct malaria policies could have saved 36,000. Of course, carbon cuts are not designed only to tackle malaria. But, for every problem that global warming will exacerbate hurricanes, hunger, flooding we could achieve tremendously more through cheaper, direct policies today.",4_2
"Jane Jamison is publisher of the conservative news/commentary blog, UNCOVERAGE.net.",0_0
"Right now we are near the solar minimum, but neutron counts are still increasing. The current science says that if we had passed solar minimum, neutron counts should be decreasing.",0_0
"Implementing EPA's regulatory agenda will inflict severe economic dislocations and send shock waves through America's factories, farmlands and families. Far from improving our health and welfare they will make our economy, unemployment, living standards, health and welfare even worse.",0_0
"A different recommendation comes from overseas. British parliamentarian Douglas Carswell, in a Telegraph blogpost, interprets the Sept. 8 victory of Tony Abbott and his center-right Liberal party in Australia as a vote for full-throated conservatism.",0_0
"""Green slime"" doesn't just describe algae-based biofuels. It also describes the entire D.C.-mandated biofuel system. About the only thing really Green about it is the billions of dollars taken from taxpayers and consumers, and funneled to politicians, who dole the cash out to friendly constituents, who then return some of it as campaign contributions, to get the pols reelected, to perpetuate the gravy train.",0_0
Many parts of Mann's books draw on his close and perceptive reading of President Obama's key policy speeches (an interesting contrast with Sanger's critique that Obama has lacked a consistent message). One theme he discerns is,0_0
"This last applies to the sun (and the wind), the ultimate source of ???renewable?? energy. The vast majority of sunlight does not provide usable energy given any known technology . True, through photovoltaic conversion, a solar panel in most places can generate an electrical current of some magnitude. But who cares? A hurricane produces many h-bombs worth of mechanical energy???does that make it an energy resource? Not if it can??t be harnessed in a manner that provides the cheap, reliable power that we can use to meet our present and future needs. In the vast majority of cases, solar conversion technology can??t, the energy collected is too dilute and intermittent to be a useful source of large-scale energy.",4_4
"During the debate, Lord Whitty, former environment minister under the Labor government, claimed 95 percent of scientists were in agreement that man was responsible for a coming climatic cataclysm. Lord Monckton, representing climate realists, asked him to provide a reference backing up the claim. The audience jeered Lord Whitty for having none beyond, ""Everyone knows it's true.""",0_0
"An article on Tech Central Station quoted Gray last year as saying that, while some groups and individuals say that hurricane activity lately ""may be in some way related to the effects of increased man-made greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, there is no reasonable scientific way that such an interpretation can be made.""",0_0
"Why did he do it? His answer was both angry and anguished: ""Climate science has already directed where humanity puts its capability, innovation, mental and material ""might' . The price of ""climate protection' with its cumulative and collateral effects is bound to destroy and debilitate in great numbers, for decades and generations,"" he wrote. ""We can't pour trillions in this massive hole-digging-and-filling-up endeavor and pretend it's not away from something and someone else.""",0_0
The Heartlander: September-October 2009 (executive summary),0_0
"We are left questioning the realism of a RCP 8.5 scenario. Is there any likelihood of the atmospheric CO2 reaching about 1120 ppm by 2100? IPCC has raised a straw man scenario to give a dangerous global temperature rise of about 3C early in the 22 nd century knowing full well that such a concentration has an extremely low probability of being achieved. But, of course, this is not explained to the politicians and policymakers. They are told of the dangerous outcome if the RCP8.5 is followed without being told of the low probability of it occurring.",5_2
"Early Global Warming coincided with a slight increase in CO2 emissions, while Global Cooling was paralleled by a dramatic increase in CO2 emissions from 4.0 Gt/yr in 1942 to 20.0 Gt/yr in 1975.",2_3
"The world is no warmer today than it was in 1998, we cant have people thinking that global warming has stopped. Below is an easy to understand flow diagram on how to deal with global warming skeptics in a cooling world",0_0
"the screeching at RC in response to my Hantemirov post occurred in comments (see page 4 on) to their Yamal post of May 11, which chronologically was screeching in fury at my post of May 6 about regional reconstructions.",0_0
"Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, June 12th 2009",0_0
"Marshall's observation explains much about Obama's first year. By associating himself so closely with congressional Democrats, Obama became responsible for their every misstep. Their reckless overspending and earmarks became his. Their corrupt deal to buy Senator Ben Nelson's support for nationalized health care became his sordid bargain. Their command-and-control approach to global warming, which will set nationwide limits on energy use and industrial production, became his socialist program.",0_0
"By 1879, however, naturalist John Muir discovered that the ice had retreated more than 30 miles forming an actual bay. By 1916, the Grand Pacific Glacier the main glacier credited with carving the bay had melted back 60 miles to the head of what is now Tarr Inlet.",0_0
"""The grotesque mishandling of Britain's energy policy by the politicians of all parties, as they chase their childish chimeras of CO2-induced global warming and windmills, has been arguably the greatest act of political irresponsibility in our history.",0_0
"With more and longer lateral roots in a future CO 2 -enriched atmosphere, tomato plants (and likely other plants as well) should be better equipped to take up both major and micro nutrients from the soils in which they grow, making them both bigger and better and more apt to produce larger and more nutritious fruit ... and more of it .",3_3
"Company biologists spent weeks amid the scrub and Joshua trees studying two pairs of eagles to see if they would be harmed by turbines for the 74 megawatt wind farm enough to supply more than 75,000 homes yearly. BLM biologist LaPre, who also studied the situation, did not think an avian protection plan was needed but was overruled by other BLM and wildlife officials.",0_0
Three Signs the EPA/Army Corps Water Rule is a Disaster,0_0
"First, the 400,000 years reconstruction shows huge spikes in temperature, the low point nearest to the zero year on the first graph is the last major ice age 12000 years ago. But it was 9C colder than now or 16 Fahrenheit on average. Think about that, 16 degrees colder all summer long than average, an 80 degree F day today was normally 64. What else we can see is that it went on for a hundred thousand years. A hundred thousand years of 64 degree weather!!!! In the summer! I grew up in Michigan, the weather there is very cold in the winter, typically running 20 degrees F with 0 degrees fairly often. A 16 degree drop on average is unimaginable. Of course Michigan was under a mile thick glacier 15000 years ago.",0_0
"Reality: There are three things wrong with this statement. First, the stable period referred to is called the Holocene. The Holocene has already lasted 10,000 years, during which time (i) a long term cooling of 1-2 deg. C has occurred; and (ii) regular temperature oscillations of about 1 deg. C have occurred on multidecadal and centennial time scales, the last of which occurred during the 20th century.",2_1
"Chump, however, is the word that comes to mind when one looks closer at that op-ed. At one point the learned authors say, ""According to a United Nations' study, every ton of greenhouse gas emitted into the atmosphere costs each American up to $160and we are emitting billions of tons each year."" When you're saying things like that, it helps to do the math to see if the statement passes the laugh test. This one doesn't. The United States produces well over five billion tons of CO2 alone every year. At $160 per ton, this means that the total cost is $800,000,000,000 each year, which is more than the gross domestic product of every state except California. To say the least, this seems unlikely. And this is the charitable interpretation of what they said. It could be read as implying that greenhouse-gas emissions cost each American that sumall 280 million of us.",0_0
"By Marcelo Rochabrun, Pro Publica, Aug 11, 2015",0_0
We dont have to look far for the cause of the variation in temperature between November and March. Its the El Nino Southern Oscillation. Is there any agreement as to the cause of this phenomenon? No. Can we rule it out as a possible cause of climate change? Obviously not.,2_1
"Its popular among those who want to cut off debate to call skeptics deniers, in large part because it evokes the term holocaust denier and therefore marginalizes criticism of catastrophic man-made global warming theory.",5_2
"Both Carter and Clinton were nominated when Democrats feared that more openly liberal candidates were unelectable. But over the last 20 years, when Democrats have won the popular vote in five of six presidential elections, Democratic primary voters have come to insist on liberal purity.",0_0
"The background is that here in the land of OZ, on our ABC (public funded TV, ie arm of big-government) there is a duo called John Clark and Bryan Dawe who do a weekly prime-time spot. Their pattern is to pretend to be a politician or two and bat questions back and forward. At the bottom of this post is a Youtube video of them on Climate Change from two years ago. You can see an archive of them here. Deadpan is the usual delivery.",0_0
The GAO report confirms suspicions that the administration is less interested in the costs of reducing emissions controls than in acquiring the controls themselves.,0_0
"During his closing remarks at the Heartland Institutes Seventh International Conference on Climate Change, Heartland President Joseph Bast revealed that the group has no plans to hold another conference and is struggling to pay its staff following the defections of corporate sponsors in the wake of the disastrous Unabomber billboard campaign and Deniergate document dump .",0_0
"Yesterday, Labour Party leader, Ed Miliband, chastised his counterpart, Conservative Party leader David Cameron, as the BBC reports",0_0
Apparently it never occurs to them that the warming they were so concerned about is simply part of earths background (and perfectly normal) climate cycles. And the cold now is not proof of warming but simply a result in phase change in one or more of earths cycles.,2_1
"Most outrageous of all, though, was how ill-prepared the region was for another major storm and how many political decisions had virtually ensured that any repeat of the 1893, 1938, 1944 and other storms would bring devastation far worse than would likely have occurred in the absence of those decisions.",0_0
"But that commitment to transparency has been flouted throughout the government, especially in Holder's own Justice Department. In March 2014, the Associated Press reported that ""more often than ever, the administration censored government files or outright denied access to them last year under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act ."" Similarly, The Wall Street Journal concluded that this is ""the least transparent administration."" The situation has continued to worsen in 2014 and 2015, according to the Associated Press.",0_0
Joe Bastardi Discusses The Record August Weather Turnaround,0_0
"Clare News, sport and weather | Northern Argus",0_0
"February, 1936 : Montana Was 26 Degrees Below Normal",0_0
"2. ""We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,"" wrote Washington University biologist Barry Commoner in the Earth Day issue of the scholarly journal Environment.",0_0
"Most of the time, the three bodies are not located at a line at all. Instead, they're vertices of a triangle. The Sun acts like a light bulb that can make an otherwise dark Moon look bright. If this light bulb is located somewhere on the left side from the Moon (imagine that you are looking at the Moon from the Earth), the left half of the moon will be illuminated and the right side will remain dark; the Moon will look like a ""C"". If the Sun is on the right side, the left half will remain dark while the right side is illuminated and the Sun will look like a ""D"".",0_0
A group of Democratic attorneys general have suffered another blow in their bid to find oil-giant Exxon Mobil guilty of fraud in a highly-politicized climate change investigation.,0_0
"Groups including the Sierra Club, Washington Environmental Council, and Climate Solutions are fighting the proposal because, rather than using the revenues generated by the tax to fund programs they support, the initiative aims to be revenue-neutral, cutting tax rates and ending the Business and Occupation tax for manufacturers.",0_0
GE's CEO Jeffrey Immelt wants the U.S. government to set a long-term price for carbon so the U.S. can compete with China in the green energy market.,0_0
"As I mentioned earlier, carbon taxes will not be in lieu of regulations and standards, they will be on top of . I have never heard a single environmentalist or regulator offer to rescind vehicle fuel economy standards, appliance standards, renewable fuel standards, or anything else in place of a carbon tax.",0_0
"""They're arriving at airports across the country. Some complain they are invasive and an assault on our privacy. But are body scanners at security checkpoints dangerous?""",0_0
"Myron Ebell, Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy mebell@cei.org",0_0
"In depressing testimony to how far America has strayed from its Constitution and founding principles, we have reached the point where congressmen can lavish key supporters with tax dollars and in return get votes, campaign contributions, rallies and volunteers on our campuses and be assured of vicious retribution against the families of anyone rash enough to run against them.",0_0
"It seems depending on who you talk to, climate sensitivity is either underestimated or overestimated. In this case, a model suggests forcing is underestimated. One thing is clear, science does not yet know for certain what the true climate sensitivity to CO2 forcings is.",5_1
"It's like these commercials were directed by Susan Traversy, they're so crazy.",0_0
Climate Change Analyst jobs are not expected to see much growth beyond their current levels in the next decade.,0_0
"I never used the name of the club in signing my name. Therefore, I must be understood that I did it in my own way to help a friend. Besides, the letter was well written and there seem nothing is unpleasant for me to extend a little help.",0_0
"The El Nio years are isolated in Figures 8 and 9. Using the El Nio years as defined by Nuccitelli, Figure 8, it could be argued that the warming rate of global surface temperatures slowed in recent years but its for a short time period, but with the NOAA method, the warming rate of El Nio years have definitely slowed, Figure 9.",1_4
Everything in the Working Group II report depends entirely on Working Group I.,0_0
Related: Fed Custody Holdings Record Decline Fuels Russia Speculation (It's probably nothing).,0_0
"Piereson, in addition to being naive to say that Piketty was not a committed socialist, also seems to have a problem, not realizing that capitalism, unfettered by government overreach is not what we have at the presentwe have an administrative state that picks winners and losers and influences prices and borrowing and interest rates and so much more.",0_0
"Did the midterm elections break the polarized fever in Washington? Will we now have an era of cooperation, legislation and compromise, with, as soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said, a return to the regular order in the Senate of bipartisan committee action, open amendments on the floor and a broken logjam of accumulated bills awaiting action for the past few years? In a word: No.",0_0
"If it were not for the charismatic and diligent leadership of one man, America and the rest of the industrialized world might not have understood the expense and the socialistic aspects of the proposed Copenhagen treaty until it was way too late. Let us send a ""heart"" out to the Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, otherwise known as Lord Christopher Monckton of the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI), for his tireless efforts in the past two months.Monckton and the scholars at SPPI, have been critics of the theory of ""anthropogenic global warming"" for years. As Copenhagen's treaty summit drew nearer, Monckton went public in an unprecedented way. A YouTube video of him speaking October 14, 2009 in Minnesota was ""viral"" within days. It has been viewed more than 2.5 million times.",0_0
"Can they find protection in the shade of beachfront mangroves? In a word, yes. This ""previously undocumented refuge for corals provides evidence for adaptation of coastal organisms and ecosystem transition due to recent climate change,"" and that is great news for these valuable marine organisms",0_0
"The devil, as they say is in the details. In each of the steps there is some leeway for, shall we say, intervention. The early criticisms of Mann et al.??s analyses were confined to relatively minor points about the presence of autocorrelated errors, linear specification, etc. But a funny thing happened on the way to Copenhagen: a couple of Canadian researchers, McIntyre and McKitrick , found that when they ran simulations of ???red noise?? random principal components data into Mann??s reconstruction model, 99% of the time it produced the same hockey stick pattern . They attributed this to Mann??s method / time frame for selecting of principal components.",5_1
"In summation, with the passage of time, more and more evidence is accumulating that suggests the impacts of ocean acidification on echinoderms may not be as bad as many initially thought. Indeed, for many echinoderm species, the impacts will likely be minimal, if not altogether positive.",3_2
"The critics of the atmospheric greenhouse effect have been relentless in their attacks. They continue to blast holes in the theory, whose roots go back to the traditional works of Fourier (1824), Tyndall (1861), and Arrhenius (1896).",0_0
"""It's almost like he can't admit he made a mistake,"" Morano told FoxNews.com. ""He needs to say it was a brain fart, at the very least.""",0_0
Yet temperature data from thousands of stations of vastly lower quality around the world used without adjustment to prove global warming are bound to carry far more errors that we know little or nothing about. And the adjustments at Cobar alone are as large as the claimed rate of global warming over decades.,5_1
"Worth far more mockery is a much older TV appearance. Viewer warning, the clip below features unedited hippies in a commune-type environment listening to a younger Suzuki talking, well, balls.",0_0
"This dynamic is familiar from our tax code, coupling high rates with myriads of exemptions, privileges and special rules for favored industries and activities.",0_0
"Spotting Talent. Last July, in its series on talented young economists under 40, The American profiled Esther Duflo, an up-and-coming economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She told The American that her research goal is to determine ""on the most micro level, how people make decisions, and how poverty changes the way people make decisions."" Others are recognizing her promise. She was recently named one of twenty-four MacArthur Fellows by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and will receive a $500,000 grant from the foundation.",0_0
"Fortunately, science provides a procedure for resolving concerns about possible bias: replication. This eliminates the need to speculate because it requires full disclosure of data and procedures. It allows researchers to assess, for example, whether unexplained revisions in the data might consistently favor one hypothesis, as has been shown, for example, in research supporting forecasts of global warming.",0_0
"already mentioned: Thornborough Henges, Knowlton Circles, Stanton Drew stone circles, Arbor Low;",0_0
"The Motion Picture Association of America has come out against net neutrality sort of. In its filing with the FCC late last week, the MPAA reminded the commission of the importance of content companies in driving new infrastructure technologies, and claims that protecting these content companies (i.e. forcing ISPs to filter out file-sharers) is vital for the future health of the internet. >>Liberty Week PodcastEpisode 67: Cash for Kids in Court",0_0
Learn more:Saving the planet: How climate breakthroughs are made,0_0
"Just to be absolutely clear on what the CDC and other government bodies are funding here through HHS: this isnt documentary or factual television were talking about, but inserting references to global warming into fictional TV shows and movies.",5_2
"EPA's terrible performance is important for a number of reasons. First and foremost, by ignoring its mandatory responsibilities under the Clean Air Act, the agency frees up resources to pursue discretionary regulationsnamely, climate rules. That is, the agency is free lancing. This raises serious questions whether the EPA is faithfully executing the Clean Air Act, as is required by the Constitution.",0_0
"President Clinton stated that for the U.S. to do its part, ""we must first convince the American people that the climate change problem is real and imminent."" He promised to ""personally . . . take a role . . . so that our people understand why we must act."" He repeated the Administration's position that the industrialized nations must sign the treaty with binding emissions reductions and establish an international trading system for emission allowances.",0_0
"Although critics may well dispute Castles and Henderson's work (the IPCC itself is reviewing it now), at the very least it vividly demonstrates the difficulty of making reliable, long-term projections about such complex matters, and the degree to which outcomes are driven by the assumptions that are used to construct complex forecasting models.",0_0
"The paper's findings were, however, inconclusive, as the predicted range of heat waves for 2080-2099 overlapped with the modeled range for the current climate. In other words, the paper found that the number of heat waves might decrease in 80 years' time. Moreover, the models also relied on the discredited SRES scenarios referred to above.",0_0
> >> a more usable risk assessment framework. Such a framework,0_0
"To meet its Kyoto targets, Canada would have to reduce its energy emissions by 28 percent below the levels that would otherwise be reached in 2010. This would mean raising gasoline prices by 24 cents a liter and doubling natural gas prices. This could also hurt Canadian industry's ability to compete in international markets, since they are already a comparatively high-cost producer (Financial Times, October 26, 1999).",0_0
"That governments at all levels should ""ignore any plea for money to fund global climate change or ""climate justice' initiatives.""",0_0
"Al Gore and the climate crowd couldn't wait to exploit the situation by blaming it on global warming. They know no shame and think we are blind to the facts. Professor Roger Pielke, Jr. dispelled that nonsense by rolling out the data.",0_0
Consider some of the statements posted on climatedepot.com from scientists who question the honesty of those producing climate change evidence.,5_2
"And temperatures at the North Pole (fastest warming place on Earth) are also running cold, after the coldest summer on record.",1_3
Then we have the discovery of the shale gas resources all around the planet. Even Israel finally has some domestic energy resources. How unconventional is that? Australia just announced a huge find. China has massive gas resources. A preliminary assessment says including shale gas we have enough gas for the next couple of hundred years.,4_5
"There are attempts in the paper to link the supposed increase in tornado intensity to climate change. Elsner goes further in an earlier presentation , saying",0_0
"Despite its oft-quoted ""likely mostly"" conclusion mentioned earlier, the NRC was also quite clear in expressing the extent of the uncertainty remaining in the science when it comes to assessing the influence of humans on the climate.",0_0
"Domestic oil has the advantage of flowing free of foreign tyrants and turmoil, but the supply is currently limited to 42 percent of the nation's needs. Allowing production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and other new U.S. sites would only dent, but not substantially reduce, our dependence on foreign crude.",0_0
"But even rich nations will be more serious about getting the job done if they can do it cheaply. Virtually every economic study suggests that there could be substantial savings to designing a market-based program for greenhouse gases, similar to the U.S. allowance-trading to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions, which gives business flexibility in meeting prescribed targets.",0_0
"Monbiot made the mistake of pretending that he understood the fundamental equation of radiative transfer, of which he had plainly not previously heard.",0_0
Not one of these operations will survive if forced to use costly and unreliable wind or solar power.,0_0
"On the specific issue of whether the planned chronology of Briffa et al 2013 would differ from the 2006 regional chronology, Schmidt and I could not have been more in agreement.",0_0
"Snowfall was also expected elsewhere in the Inland Empire above 8,000 fee t, the weather service stated. Heavy precipitation was expected in the San Jacinto Mountains east of Hemet.",0_0
"You didn't need a Cray computer to figure that this was nonsense, that temperatures would have to more or less instantly soar to incredible heights and stay there for this to happen. (As it turns out, 18 degrees Centigrade.) But people wrote it, read it, and believed it. You'd think a magazine with the name Technology Review would know better, yet its latest issue declares: ""The Himalayan glaciers that feed rivers in India, China, and other Asian countries could be gone in 25 years.""",0_0
"Barack Obama doesn't much like his nation's traditional allies. Europe gets the back of his hand. Saudi Arabia is dealt the same. He (or one of his inner circle) retells the tale of him confronting Jordanian King Abdullah for bad mouthing the president. And then there's Benjamin Netanyahu, for whom Obama reserves special contempt. The Bibi anecdote Obama chooses to share with Goldberg is unintentionally revealing, a story about interrupting the Israeli prime minister to explain that he knows perfectly well what the dynamics of the Middle East are. Well, OK. But does every discussion with Obama need to end with ""I'm the president of the United States""? Apparently, yes.",0_0
John Coleman appears in Climate Hustle. He has his very own copy on disc. Do you?,0_0
"Mann sees Barack Obama as a president confronted with ""the legacies of the two Georges."" He would inherit not only the problems left by his predecessor (Iraq,",0_0
"If one looked only at these characteristics, one could easily believe the libertarian-Republican fable. But the two groups are very different when it comes to current politics. Post-Moderns overwhelmingly like Obama and the Democrats; Libertarians don't like him, and vote Republican. The reason is that Post-Moderns agree with the modern Democratic party on a range of matters well beyond social issues.",0_0
Also note that the excess ice is located at the exact places where Hansen predicted peak sea ice loss.,1_1
"The authors simply taken a set of gases (including carbon dioxide) and ascribed an effect: climate forcing. They do not demonstrate a mechanism, or even shown a correlation, between levels of anthropogenic carbon dioxide and global warming.",2_3
"The Piedmont Environmental Council is one of the leading opponents. It warns of the ""enormous quantities of radioactive waste"" produced by uranium mining.",0_0
"In the words of Grenchik et al ., ""this study shows that there is capacity for thermal acclimation during development, with individuals reared from an early age at some temperatures able to modify their physiology to maintain RMRs at near present-day levels,"" with the result that this developmental thermal acclimation ""may assist coral reef fish to cope with increases in water temperature without a substantial loss to performance."" Reference",3_2
"The ANPR also suggests thatan endangerment finding under CAA Sec. 202need not set a precedent forNAAQS regulation of GHGs, because CAA Sec. 108 lists threefactors triggering a NAAQS rulemaking, one of which is that the agency plans to produce an analysis known as an air quality criteria document. Thus, the ANPR opines, all EPA needs to do to avoid setting NAAQS for GHGs is simply not plan to do the requisite analysis.",0_0
"The result could be a reversal of the weather patterns experienced last year. The northwestern United States could experience an abnormally cold and wet winter, while the South, which was cold and wet last winter, will be hotter and drier. And although the Peruvian fishing industry will profit from the turnaround, the eastern coast of the United States can expect a resurgence in hurricane activity which was nonexistent last year (The Washington Post, June 19, 1998).",0_0
"This means that even if Congress votes to construct the Keystone XL pipeline, and miraculously overrides President Obama's threatened veto, the pipeline may not be initiated in 2015.",0_0
"Martin Hoerling of NOAA on Sandy: ???As to underlying causes, neither the frequency of tropical or extratropical cyclones over N. Atlantic are projected to appreciably change due to climate change?? ??? U.S. Govt Scientist Hoerling: ???Nor have there been indications of a change in their statistical behavior over this region in recent decades??",1_7
"The previous, zeroth Iranian astronaut was Buzz Mustaffa (video).",0_0
"None of these dynamics (save perhaps the state of scientific understanding) are going to change, and I'm against waste, so, I'd argue that it's time to look past mitigation, and explore what adaptation to climate change means.",0_0
"That is exactly the method used, with a base period of 18601879, by the energy budget study Otto et al. (2013), of which I was a co-author. That study used estimates of radiative forcing that are approximately consistent with estimates from Chapters 7 and 8 of AR5, but since AR5 had not at that time been published the forcings were actually diagnosed from CMIP5 models, with an adjustment being made to reflect satellite-observation-derived estimates of aerosol forcing. However, in a blog-published study, here , I did use the same method but with forcing estimates (satellite-based for aerosols) taken from the second draft of AR5. That study estimated only ECS, based on changes between 18711880 and 20022011, but a TCR estimate of 1.30C is readily derived from information in it.",0_0
"As wealthy homeowners and businesses owners install solar panels on their homes and commercial buildings, low-income families, living in rented apartments, have to foot skyrocketing electric bills. Many can no longer afford to pay, so the utilities are cutting off their power.",4_1
"There is no human activity whatsoever that does not generate CO2, and no plant can grow without a generous supply of CO2 in the atmosphere. More than any other substance on earth, production of CO2 measures human prosperity and plant growth.",3_3
"An agreement merely among the nations represented in Ottawa obviously doesn't involve all nations, and not even such major polluters such as India and China. Those developing countries would exempted from the Kyoto Protocol. The apparent U.S. position at The Hague was weak enough, and any further would damage the U.S. economy, perhaps even send it into recession.",0_0
"The teams report, Multi-Millennial Fire History of the Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park, California, USA, was published in the electronic journal Fire Ecology in February. A complete list of authors and funding sources is at the bottom of this story.",0_0
"Treaty advocates claim that this provision is merely hortatory. Yet Lawrence Kogan of the Institute for Trade, Standards, and Sustainable Development warns that several provisions create a potential cause of action and could ``be used to commence litigation against the U.S.'' LOST already has generated a suit by Ireland against Great Britain over domestic-source pollution.",0_0
"For years, climate-change activists have argued by anecdote to make their case. Gore, in his famous slide shows, ties human-caused global warming to increasing hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought and the spread of mosquitoes, pine beetles and disease. It's not that Gore is wrong about these things. The problem is that his storm stories have conditioned people to expect an endless worldwide heat wave, when in fact the changes so far are subtle.",5_2
Documents: White House was all-hands-on-deck as Solyndra collapse neared,0_0
"A closely similar rate of rise in global temperature occurred from 1910 to 1940, pre-dating current high CO2 emissions",2_1
So let me declare now that in no way would I want to upset those who have worked for years in the climate Skeptic cause. However we have to admit that we have made scarcely a dent on the public mind on the public conception.,0_0
"There are other climate establishments in this world, and they havent come to the same conclusions about what causes global warming.",5_1
"1. Hammer, M. June 27, 2009. Does the US Temperature Record Support Global Warming? http://jennifermarohasy.com/2009/06/how-the-us-temperature-record-is-adjusted/",0_0
"Recently WUWT published my comparison of several different land-based and satellite-based global surface temperature anomaly (GSTA) datasets (1, and data sets descriptions and references therein). However, my analysis was critiqued for not using the same baseline period for each data set. Namely, HadCRUT4 refers to the official WMO period 1961-1990, while NCDC and GISS instead use the periods 1901-2000 and 1951-1980, respectively, which results in higher positive temperature anomalies for these two estimates. In addition, UAH references to 1981-2010 while RSS output is calculated relative to a 19791998 average.",0_0
"Only 8 out of around 180 countries have capital cities above this 3200m height, so most of the densest populated areas today would still be habitable with a 30% lower air pressure.",0_0
Man City-Newcastle 4-1 2-0,0_0
"#TheyAreAllBreitbart More available from the Seattle Times. Related: Jeff McMorris, a caucus organizer, said turnout appeared to be ""at least double"" numbers in the 2008 presidential caucus, when an estimated 12,000 attended statewide. Also, that damnable CPC strikes again (from the same article):",0_0
"In todays post, Im going to show the Deflategate data from a new perspective. Rather than arguing about whether thePatriots used the Logo gauge, Ive assumed, for the sake of argument, the NFLs conclusion that the Non-Logo gauge was used, but gone further (as they ought to have done). Ive guessed the amount of deflation that would be required to yield the observations. And, instead of only considering the overall average, I plotted each data point and how the guessed deflation would reconcile each data point.",0_0
"Thanks, as always, to editor David Steinberg at Pajamas.",0_0
And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ?statistically significant? warming.,1_4
"A nuclear complex generating 2,880 MW would thus have a comparable cost allowance of; $4.5833 million/MW x 2,880 MW = $13,199.99 million",0_0
"Berlau: What scares off investors are not sequesters, but government takeovers of auto companies that shaft bondholders to favor the UAW.. http://spectator.org/archives/2010/11/18/whats-good-for-gm-is-now-terri",0_0
"Given these limitations on mitigating carbon emissions, it is important to study how to adapt to climate change. There are myriad possibilities for adaptation, including the obvious, like building dikes in low-lying areas, and planting heat-tolerant crops and trees in cities. Some adaptation will occur naturally. For example, economic incentives will induce people who are setting up new households, businesses and farms to move to areas that are less severely harmed by warming temperatures.",4_2
"With infrared measurements taken since 1980, it is clear the planet is warming. What is remarkable is that this has occurred without any contribution from automobile traffic, energy power plants or any other activity of man. How do we know this? Because the planet we are talking about isn't Earth, but Neptune. Yes, that's right, according to recently published studies by Colorado's Space Science Institute, Neptune has been getting brighter from 1980 to 2004, and infrared measurements confirm the planet is heating up. Since a similar warming has also occurred on Mars, and solar activity is presumed the culprit, it appears these new findings present yet another new twist to this hot topic of global warming!",2_1
"This graph below from Bishop Hill shows that it isnt just one paper, but several now that show lower climate sensitivity to a doubling of CO2.",3_1
"Trucost, a group that advises investors on corporate environmental and social risk, estimates the average price increase for airline tickets will be 2 per cent and will continue to increase as the cost of reducing emissions rises. This will most affect low-income passengers, who tend to be more price sensitive. (The Observer, Mar. 24, Edie, Mar. 24.)",0_0
"The mainstream media, which has tolerated and even promoted people who call global warming skeptics Nazis and traitors and called for the death penalty for skeptics, now pretends to be outraged by this billboard. We took it down immediately and admitted that it was in poor taste and a mistake, but they continue to promote madmen on the other side of the issue including Michael Mann and Bill McKibben, and hypocritically pound on us for our ethical lapse. This is fake indignation, being staged by ideological extremists as part of the ongoing attack on us and our donors. It is not sincere, it is not accurate, and it is not ethical.",5_2
"The Meteorological Agency, which has been keeping statistics on typhoons since 1951, said the lowest number 16 was in 1998. The average per year between 1971 and 2000 was 26.7, while the most on record is 39 in 1967.",1_7
"34 On PSI, see Mark J. Valencia: The Proliferation Security Initiative: Making Waves in Asia, 2005. On NATO, see Ian Thomas, The Promise of Alliance: NATO and the Political Imagination, 1997, and Istvan Szent-Miklozy, The Atlantic Union Movement: Its Significance in World Politics, 1965.",0_0
"Things can change quickly. 1950 was the second most active hurricane season on record, and the first hurricane didn??t form until August 12.",1_7
Wildfire spreads across 280 square miles of Montana.,0_0
"Such an approach is unwelcome from an economic and political perspective. Making people poorer and imposing austerity is undesirable. It also does not generally work since ordinary people, quite naturally, resist cuts in their living standards. Such an approach will only likely be successful if imposed through authoritarian means.",0_0
Full Time Career/Career Conditional,0_0
"Scaremongering stories of increased frequency or intensity of hurricanes from CAGW are without observational basis. In addition, climate models project decreased frequency and intensity of hurricanes in the future, due to a decrease in temperature gradients between the tropics and poles.",1_7
Figure from paper cited later. If the top trace is correct that is a superb match between insolation (P) and proxy. A lot of reading follows.,0_0
"But string theory may also be around the corner in the case of some stringy braneworld models, particularly the intersecting braneworlds. In these braneworlds, which are very concrete stringy realizations of the ""old large dimensions"" paradigm, the Standard Model fields live on stacks of branes, they have the form of open strings whose basic duty is to stay attached to a D-brane. Some string modes (particles) live near the intersections of the D-brane stacks because one of their endpoint is attached to one stack and the other to the other stack and the strings always want to be stringy short, not to carry insanely high energy.",0_0
"Benefit/cost analysis: It sounds so scientific, so rational, so impartial. So sound as a tool with which to resolve conflicting assertions about the wisdom of regulatory proposals. So divorced from partisanship or ideological influence.",0_0
"One note of caution. Concerns about global climate change are particularly complex as they touch on climate science, economics, societal response to climate change, and other issues. In order to prepare a guide that is accessible to a general audience, some simplification is inevitable. For this reason, references to the technical literature have been provided in the endnotes for those interested in further study.",0_0
"9 Dec 2011 Australias jet runway in Antarctica is being little used for a second ... risk of melt water damage, which played havoc with the ice runway last ...",0_0
"""An expert at the World Health Organization says time is running out for German investigators to find the source of the world's deadliest E. coli outbreak.""",0_0
"Once again (see our Editorial of 11 Dec 2002 ), in spite of all the hype about recent dramatic warming in the permafrost regions of Alaska, real-world data demonstrate - at least for Barrow - that it is no warmer there now than it was half a century ago , and the area's permafrost is in no more danger of being wiped out today that it was in the days of our grandparents . Furthermore, the authors note that degradation of permafrost does not proceed as rapidly as many climate alarmists would have one believe. As they describe it, ""degradation of permafrost is a slow process,"" and ""if recent trends continue, it will take several centuries to millennia for permafrost in the present discontinuous zone to disappear completely in the areas where it is actively warming and thawing.""",1_1
Learn more:One of us is a conservative. One of us is a liberal. Here's a counterterror approach we can both agree on,0_0
"In November 2014, Abengoa bonds were ""hammered on accounting concerns,"" Reuters reported. It added: ""The company has so many different buckets of debt and management has cleverly used this to report reductions in reported net leverage.""",0_0
"I knde me as a frmmande fgel in this context is of course completely natural but after VRT calls on the scene revealed that among the audience there was one other representative from the municipality and county that gave me std's, we talked not only from the DVA rose. The headline from year's conference was Allas wind and it might give some indication of how much power lggs down from politicians and industry to the words frska sknmla wind power. The FSL as voluntary and unpaid grsrotsrrelse can give wind power a match is beundransvrt, d industry and the state has a cadre of heltidsanstllda lobbyists that drives the expansion of wind power from Ystad to Haparanda. But just as in nature is often the one who frsvarar their home a srskild strength. That people can become a Detractors to count number a few large vermakt want genomfra what is bst for us all, history has shown examples of FRR.",0_0
** Ive had limited access to the internet and so apologies to those who I have not returned emails. The sitution should improve with my new dialup connection.,0_0
Tobacco Settlement Dollars Go Up In Smoke in Latest Government Scam:,0_0
"1 The term ""greenhouse effect,"" coined nearly two centuries ago, is scientifically inaccurate. A greenhouse stays warm because the closed windows prevent the inside air from cooling by circulation; the glass does not absorb outgoing infrared radiation.",0_0
"How can this be right, when the median model TCR is 40% higher than an observationally-based best estimate of 1.3C, and almost half the models have TCRs 50% or more above that? Moreover, the fact that effective model TCRs for warming to 20812100 are the 10%20% higher than their nominal TCRs means that over half the models project future warming on the RCP8.5 scenario that is over 50% higher than what an observational TCR estimate of 1.3C implies.",5_1
Lets see .. Evil dictator has WMDs and gases his own people . Is Obama so lacking in imagination that he has to recycle Bushs story from eleven years ago?,0_0
"The UNs Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released its first major global warming manifesto since 2007. Once again, the IPCC makes dramatic predictions of future warming and catastrophic consequences due to manmade carbon dioxide emissions. Typically, these predictions are reported as proven findings that have the same status as the readings of a thermometer.",5_2
"This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.",1_4
"Last year, destruction of CFCs accounted for more than half the CDM credits issued, in a market that will eventually, it is estimated, be worth $17 billion. Of the 1,390 CDM projects so far approved, less than 1 per cent accounts for 36 per cent of the total value.",0_0
Will the Real Global Average Temperature Trend Please Rise?,0_0
"So some people analyzed this theory in some more detail, using the state-of-the-art computer techniques. No clear signs of a human or glasses or anything like that were found. More devastatingly, the person had to be one meter tall if he were exactly there; or he was several meters tall and flying 5 meters above the Earth's surface at a much more distant place.",0_0
"""The Republicans control the House of Representatives and are bracing for a long battle over the President's health care proposal. In the spirit of bipartisanship and sanity, I propose that the first thing on the chopping block should be an ineffective organization that wastes money, violates our rights, and encourages us to make decisions that imperil our safety. I'm talking about the Transportation Security Administration.""",0_0
"I have to put forward the capital into a risky project, the most risky project Ill ever invest in. My shareholders will demand a high return. The state should not have to pay for that. It is much better to put capital support at this stage in that technology.",0_0
"Then there were many signs pointing to the possibility that the Earth may be headed for another ice age ( The New York Times , August 14, 1975), moving toward extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciations ( Science , December 10, 1976) and facing continued rapid cooling of the Earth ( Global Ecology , 1971) and the approach of a full-blown 10,000-year ice age ( Science , March 1, 1975).",1_2
"Science education is in a general decline. Students are taught that science is based on evidence, and yet all they are presented are inaccurate models.",0_0
"Politicians and decades of political environmentalism have a lot to answer for, said Ms. Adali. The man-made climate theoryis still supported by a mighty European Union bureaucracy and a green network addicted to public funds. Even now, the Green Climate Fund through which millions of taxpayers money will still be disbursed is threatening the lives and the economy of people worldwide.",4_1
The Cuban Institute of Meteorology reported that last Friday morning (Feb 20) the temperature fell to one degree Celsius (33.8 o F) in the town of Union Reyes in western Matanzas province.,0_0
"The scrap says: Youtube Sandy Hook Shooting Exposed and is supposed to be about a half hour per verbal guidance. So I go off to pick some random youtube that looks close and hope its the one they mean About now Im also wondering why Ive turned down this small winding dark street just because the spouse said someone not in the car once turned down a street near here and wanted my opinion of small dark winding streets Didnt I have somewhere I was supposed to be going? How many levels removed ought one just blow off? Like an Erds Number , or perhaps more accurately like an Erds-Bacon number , ought one have a point where they say Your Chiefio-number is too large, to far removed; your request is outside acceptance bands. Does having a Spousal Number automatically over ride that? Even if the Spousal-Number is 2 or 3? Can a friend of a friend of the spouse get priority and send you down that winding dark road? How about a friend of a friend of a friend of the spouse?",0_0
Solar activity is now back to where it was a century ago (Shouldnt TSI also not be?) Note: Shapiro et al. (2o11) find major increase relative to 100 years ago (~5 W m-2),0_0
"In 1913, the father of global warming said that Earth would warm 8-9C and that the climate of Alaska would be like Maine",0_0
"Particulate matter doesn't just make you sick; it is directly related ""to dying sooner than you should,"" former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson testified to Congress. ""If we could reduce particulate matter to levels that are healthy,"" it would be like ""finding a cure for cancer"" saving up to 570,000 lives a year.",0_0
"Perhaps given the chance to avert public eyes from his lackluster results with containing the deteriorating situation in Syria, nuclear talks with Iran, and the Middle East peace process, Secretary of State Kerry has chosen to flaunt his lack of scientific understanding as a needed diversion.",0_0
"Yet, scientific evidence shows that weather would be less extreme in a warmer world. Peer-reviewed studies on droughts, floods, hurricanes and storms show that 20th Century occurrences have been of equal or lesser severity than similar events in past centuries, when Earth??s climate was in the cooler period of the Little Ice Age. The bulk of science shows that today??s climate is not more volatile as alarmists claim.",1_7
"To the west, recent acceleration of Greenlands Jacobshaven Glacier is almost certainly related to geologically induced heat flow. This glacier was actually growing and not accelerating quickly, when recently and quite suddenly it began melting from below and speeding down a long linear, and purported here, a fault-bounded valley.",0_0
"In 2012, global coal use increased by the equivalent of 2 million barrels of oil per day. That was more than three times the growth of non-hydro renewables (solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal), which were up by 600,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.",0_0
"No, to the contrary. Over the long term the number of deadly tornadoes has even dropped dramatically. However, we have to expect that more people will be hit by tornadoes in the future. Not because there are more storms, but because the population is growing and suburbs and cities are expanding. In any case, 2011 is an unusually violent tornado year and itis just a fluke.",1_7
"Bishop Hill asks , Does the committee really think its fine to hide important information from policymakers so long as you report it in the literature?",0_0
"The charge against The Australian is summed up by Clive Hamilton, who has accused the newspaper under the leadership of Mitchell of running a virulently anti-greenhouse line, allowing the news pages to become a parody of dispassionate journalism, verballing scientists and attacking science in pursuit of a larger ideological battle.",0_0
"""This request for documents, indeed the statute authorizing it, put academics on notice that they must do their work openly, honestly, and using the traditional approach of the observer who is indifferent to the outcome of the experiment. That is in grave doubt in the instant case. It is troubling how saying so is considered unacceptable, amid escalating name-calling against an attorney general who is operating under a unanimously enacted law, which plainly applies, about which no one previously complained.""",0_0
"""Internet giant Google says more than 244,000 Germans have asked that their homes be made unrecognizable in its Street View program, scheduled to launch in Germany next month.""",0_0
"The lame duck session and 111th Congress finally ended, without the White House getting key items on its wish list. So now, the Environmental Protection Agency and Interior Department intend to impose costly, job-killing, economy-strangling new rules for power plants and refineries, and implement more land-grabs that will lock up additional millions of acres and more billions of dollars of American energy.",0_0
"The problem is that this graph does not appear to be correct. Other data sources show Arctic ice having made a nice recovery this summer. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center data shows 2008 ice nearly identical to 2002, 2005 and 2006. Maps of Arctic ice extent are readily available from several sources, including the University of Illinois, which keeps a daily archive for the last 30 years. A comparison of these maps (derived from NSIDC data) below shows that Arctic ice extent was 30 per cent greater on August 11, 2008 than it was on the August 12, 2007. (2008 is a leap year, so the dates are offset by one.)",1_1
"The reason he made that prediction is because the ice was very thin that summer. No one made any predictions like that this year, because the ice is much thicker. That is why I think PIOMAS is completely FOS. They claim that the ice is half as thick as 2008.",1_1
"Gore has garnered widespread media attention both for his book on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, and its film adaptation. Since their respective releases, however, many critics have noted factual inaccuracies, exaggerations and misleading statements throughout both versions. Earlier this week, a judge in the United Kingdom went so far as to bar the film from being shown in government schools in that country unless a disclaimer message was also presented.",0_0
"Gilles nod to the iconic muscle-car is a slap in the face of President Barack Obama, who recruited Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne to come to Detroit as a missionary teaching the savages how to make proper, fuel-sipping Euro-econoboxes. Indeed, one of the key benchmarks that Marchionne had to meet to assume ownership of the Rochester Hills-based automaker was to bring a 40 MPG car stateside.",0_0
"Why do advocates of the dangerous warming hypothesis resort to ad hominem attacks? Is it to protect science? If so, it is misguided. Progress in science depends heavily on research by skeptics.",5_2
Characteristic bleaching scars and isotope temperature records from coral cores commonly show evidence of past bleaching events going back thousands of years. There is no evidence for a recent increase in frequency and/or severity of bleaching events and nothing to link extended periods of calm winds with global warming.,3_2
U.N. climate talks aren't going anywhere.,0_0
"Environmentalists in both countries have kept natural gas out of the Clean Energy Dialogues because many are ambivalent about hydrofracturing technology, and some feel that as a fossil fuel, natural gas use shouldn't be encouraged. That was the prevailing view in the Obama campaign in 2008, and proved influential when this initiative was launched.",0_0
"OK, so what does this tell us? Well, we can do something interesting with this chart. We have actually moved part-way to the right on this chart, as CO2 today is now at 385ppm, up from the pre-industrial 280ppm. As you can see, I have drawn this on the chart below. We have also seen some temperature increase from CO2, though no one really knows what the increase due to CO2 has been vs. the increase due to the sun or other factors. But the number really cant be much higher than 0.6C, which is about the total warming we have recorded in the last century, and may more likely be closer to 0.3C. I have drawn these two values on the chart below as well.",5_1
How many times can official science be wrong before governments stop acting on the claim that human CO2 is causing climate change? The latest example is the claim that atmospheric CO2 levels are higher and show the largest one year increase on record .,5_1
"Many have already written the obituaryfor the Kerry-Lieberman bill and other cap-and-trade legislation in the current Congress. In todays Politico , however, columnist Darren Samuelsohn quotes Sen. John Kerrysrejection of that assessment:No, its not dead because were going to have a lame duck session and we have weeks ahead of us.",0_0
"Climate models have been programmed to show global warming and all of its manifestations in response to rising energy imbalance values. But modeling groups go through very different gyrations (by manipulating clouds?) with the two computer-calculated components of the Earths energy budget at the top of the atmosphere in order to achieve that warmingwhich indicates there is no consensus on how Earths atmosphere and oceans have responded in the past, are responding now, and will respond in the future to manmade greenhouse gases. No consensus whatsoever.",5_1
"""Most egregious of all,"" Joel comments, ""the NRDC report was authored by prominent university and government climate and public health scientists."" These seemingly non-political researchers (Joel names names) lent ""the color of their scientific credentials and government and university affiliations"" to NRDC's effort to mislead the public.",0_0
A year later he co-authored another Greenpeace publication titled New Zealand Energy Revolution: How to Prevent Climate Chaos. It features a foreword by (and photograph of) Pachauri.,0_0
"That's what Robert Samuelson, noted economic journalist and Newsweek Pundit, called global warming in the July 9 Washington Post. In an article that looked an awful lot like an op-ed the post printed two weeks earlier. Samuelson did what we've been doing at WCR for years now: He led with the science, scored with a barrage of uncertaintles, and got a TKO with the political improbability of large reductions in greenhouse emission.",0_0
"(He also noted) that U.S. floods have not increased in frequency or intensitysince 1950 and economic losses from floods have dropped by 75 percent as a percentage of GDP since 1940. Tornado frequency, intensity, and normalized damages have also not increased since 1950, and Pielke even notes that there is some evidence that this has declined.",1_7
"Little Ice Age May Return Soon, Russian Scientists Say",1_2
Bryan Walsh: Why West Nile Virus Is a Self-Inflicted Wound,0_0
"Climate warming continues, but its taking a break. The reasons for that, among others, are the temporary weak solar irradiance and phenomena such as La Nia.",1_4
"In addition to the Russian crew of 22, the expedition team consists of 18 professional scientists from Australia and New Zealand, and 22 volunteer science assistants. They are members of the public, ranging in age from their 20s to their 70s. They paid to join the scientific adventure",0_0
"The results of this study clearly show, contrary to the predictions of some - such as Butzer (1980), for example - that a northward migration of climatic zones in central North America does not appear to be occurring. The authors say that ""this suggests a lack of evidence for any systematic wintertime warming in the central United States that might be anticipated under a global-warming scenario."" They also note that the same holds true for the summer-sensitive Dfa/Dfb climate boundary (where Dfa climates have distinctly warmer summers than Dfb climates), as demonstrated by Mitchell and Kienholz (1997) in a similar study based on July mean temperatures in the north-central and northeastern United States. These studies thus make an even stronger case than we make for the non-existence of global warming, as we only claim it has not warmed since 1930 (see our Editorial of 1 July 2000 ). References",1_4
"What will be interesting to see, is what political bribes will be distributed under the table this time. In Copenhagen, the Danes, desperate to fulfil their mission as hosts, during the meeting broke of with Dalai Lama, to appease the Chinese. Will the Mexicans round up the usual suspects in the drug cartels, or increase control over the northern border, to make the US happy? And what will the Chinese do, in order to make sure everyone is happy with their common denominators? May I humbly suggest releasing some dissidents and improving civil liberties.",0_0
"Sadly, Emerson embarrasses himself and will once day blush at his timidity by still hiding behind this deceitful evasion:",0_0
"Tonight on the Senate floor, Senator Inhofe urged his colleagues to join him in the effort to stop President Obama's war on fossil fuels and affordable energy. In the next two weeks, the Senate will vote on a resolution by Senator Inhofe that requires a simple majority of those voting and present; this resolution would overturn the Obama EPA's Utility MACT rule, which is specifically designed to shut down coal plants across the country. It would send EPA back to the drawing board to craft a rule that balances environmental protection and economic growth, instead of killing coal in American electricity generation.",0_0
"Global Warming Scandal Makes Scientific Progress More Difficult, Experts Say",0_0
"Obama's Words on Carbon Dioxide, Drilling Contradict His Actions",0_0
"However, John Cook, the cartoonist turned warming fanatic who runs the misleadingly-named Skeptical Science website, has just posted a piece by his still more fanatical sidekick, Dana Nuccitelli, attacking Roy Spencers recent verbatim interview with the Catholic Online website .",0_0
"For those new to this discussion, the Earth is said to have an Energy Budget . Trenberth et al. (2009) Earths Global Energy Budget provided a reasonably easy-to-understand discussion of the factors that impact that budget at the top of the atmosphere. My Figure 1 is Figure 1 from Trenberth et al. (2009). Focus your attention on the values of the three components at the top of the atmosphere. Those factors balance. That is, the energy from the sun (incoming solar radiation, a.k.a. Incident Shortwave Radiation) is equal to the sum of the sunlight reflected back to space (reflected solar radiation, a.k.a. Outgoing Shortwave Radiation) and the infrared radiation the Earth emits to space (Outgoing Longwave Radiation). The hypothesis of human-induced global warming says that manmade greenhouse gases cause an imbalance in that budget.",0_0
"Nor has the looting been restricted to property and purse. Some have seized the chance to blame climate change and push the alarmist agenda. They are what might aptly be described as climate looters. To their credit, the majority of proponents of global warming have not attempted to claim the floods as due to human induced climate change. However, for a few it seems the temptation was too great to resist and, as might now be expected, the media have afforded them prominent coverage. Also not unexpectedly, the ABC has been prominent in propagating this blatant alarmist opportunism.",5_2
"Silly me, I thought the point of worrying about sea level rise was the concern about sea-rising compared to the beaches, what??s the point of building a levee to keep out the water if the beaches are rising as well?",1_6
Soylent Green Jr has linked to an article at Grist with news that seem rather incredible.,0_0
"There are no good ways to die, but death by the West Nile virus is worse than most. The tropical disease begins in birds, which pass it on to mosquitoes that then go on to infect human beings with a bite. Most people who contract West Nile dont experience any symptoms at all, but about 1 in 5 suffer fever, headaches and body aches, usually lasting a week or so. A far less lucky 1 in 150 experience high fever, tremors, convulsions, paralysis and coma. Some especially the immunocompromised and the elderly die.",0_0
This reversal of attitude in climate change policies is already evident in the response to the President's newly announced pact with China to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and his promised $3 billion contribution to a UN climate fund designed to help poor counties deal with potential impacts of climate change.,0_0
"The wind production tax credit has expired and should not be renewed retroactively. The credit was worth 2.3 cents per kilowatt hour and generally applies for 10 years. The credit should be ended because energy produced by windmills is more expensive than energy generated by natural gas, and so using wind energy raises people's utility bills. The Energy Department calculates that energy produced by wind is 30% more expensive than energy produced by a natural gas plant.",4_4
"The FOIA request was not entirely complied with, and CEI just filed an appeal over documents still being withheld. In addition to withholding many internal communications, the administration is withholding communications with these lobbyists and other related communications, claiming they constitute ""inter-agency memoranda."" This implies that, according to the DoE, wind industry lobbyists and Soros's Center for American Progress are for legal purposes extensions of the government.",0_0
"Their citation here is a bit wonky, as the citation seems to be to our E&E article, whereas the topic was discussed in our GRL article and our Reply to Huybers (not cited here, although perhaps intended in McIntyre and McKitrick 2005c, not listed in the references). In our article, we tried to show that spurious RE statistics could be expected to arise under Mannian methods, adding these example to the traditional ones. However, these red noise examples were not intended as a universal inventory of all possible situations merely an example and a highly pertinent example.",0_0
"It is not necessary to enter into intense and technical debate over economic methodology to get to the heart of what is problematic about Waxman-Markey. The EPA's latest analysis of the bill offers a range of estimates similar to the CBO's. The EPA offers multiple scenarios of how Waxman-Markey might play out because the agency acknowledges that ""uncertainties could significantly affect results""; depending on which scenario one selects, the cost in 2020 will be between $84 and $105 per household per year, but rising to as much as $1,000 per household by 2050. Here is a puzzle: when the EPA scored the Lieberman-Warner cap-and-trade billwhich also sought an 80 percent reduction in GHG emissions by 2050last year, the agency reported much higher estimates for what on the surface looks identical to Waxman-Markey.",0_0
"Arctic sea ice is disappearing in summer much faster than scientists expected. That?s not just evidence of climate change; the ice itself is changing the climate, and it may be affecting weather as far away as Utah.",0_0
"NASA used to be an international symbol of American strength and know-how. Instead, Obama has turned it into a national joke and after Thursday's rocket failure, a national embarrassment.",0_0
"The record provides evidence for substantial warmth during Roman and Medieval times, larger in extent and longer in duration than 20th century warmth.",2_1
Climate Change and Public Policy: European and American Approaches to Kyoto,0_0
"I wouldnt write off solar variability as a cause yet Roy. Judy Curry and Peter Webster both say you were right to model the ocean down to 1000m despite what Pierrehumbert said. This means extra solar energy gets stored in the ocean on a multi-decadal timescale, because the energy stratifies in layers and cant escape upwards while the sun is more than averagely active. The sunspot number has on average risen since the little ice age.",2_1
"It is not a crime to disagree with the administration or any member of your local, state or federal government. However, a group of state attorneys general, calling themselves ""AGs United for Clean Power,"" has made it its mission to silence debate on a critical issue of the day by violating the free speech rights of CEI and more than 100 other organizations and private individuals.",0_0
"How does this affect you? All Americans should be able to advocate in support of causes they believe in. Regardless of your position on climate change, this assault on free speech is profoundly unjust. Worse, a dangerous precedent is being set. The message from these lawless government officials is: if you disagree with the government's agenda, they can use their authority to silence you. So if the actions of this coalition of attorneys general stand, whether the issue is vaccines, GMOs, stem cell research, or any politically-charged topic, you could find a government official coming after you as well.",0_0
"The great problem with climate change is that it no longer seems like a scientific theory, but more like a 21 st century version of the pre-Reformation Catholic Church, complete with evangelists, tithes, indulgences and bizarre superstitions.",5_2
Its time to reject dishonest feel-good campaigns for ethanol like this:,0_0
1973 Shock News : Columbia University Warned That We Were Going To Freeze To Death,0_0
USPS puts significant blame on shift to online communication for $8.5 billion loss:,0_0
"Chu claims that there is a 50% probability ""of disastrous social, economic and political risks"" in a few decades. The catastrophe is supposed to be caused by the greenhouse effect that will heat the planet up by 5 C.",0_0
We were not told that taking a single month (or even a decade) out of context is not how grown-up scientists evaluate temperature trends; nor that the NCDC temperature record has been repeatedly tampered with so as to suppress warming in the early 20 th century and enhance it over recent decades. The effect is artificially to bump up the otherwise negligible warming rate by more than the puny March 2015 record temperature:,5_1
"Yes, the technologies behind the shuttle program are outdated, and yes, it has cost us money, some $200 billion over the last four decades. Still, Atlantis' last flight is a sad day for those who believe in America's greatness and a happy day for those who welcome America's decline.",0_0
"Trends are included in the graphs. Besides that what do the graphs show? Well to me they show that setting the regpar value, or truncated total least squares truncation parameter (regpar) to a value greater than 1 results in a flat or negative trend which is more consistent with John Christys work. With only 3 pcs for an entire continent as in the first 3 graphs and allowing the regpar to be a value other than 1 doesnt hurt the overall appearance but the trend is lost. The same thing happens with 4 pcs or even 10 pcs. A regpar value of 1 makes it work.",0_0
SIMON SANTOW (ABC World Today): Sixty per cent of the 235 catchments are rated poor to moderate most are declining. ( source ),0_0
"That new data will be considered in the IPCCs next assessment report regarded by governments and scientific groups as the worlds pre-eminent scientific document on climate change and should lead to an increase in predictions of sea-level rises, Professor van Ypersele said.",0_0
"Yet none of this unsettles the rush to kill debate. The Los Angeles Times has even announced that it will no longer print letters to the editor questioning man-made global warming. Had the Times been printing before Columbus, perhaps it would have banned letters saying the Earth was round.",0_0
"So if you use I.E. you are running wide open, and will be for a while Oh, and the fix is something suited for the Tech Savy to do but they wont be running I.E. anyway, IMHO.",0_0
"K = 3 corresponds to an OPTIONS.neigs value of 3. This means they want to define the temperatures of an entire continent by linear combinations of only 3 trends. You have to wonder why only 3. As far as I know, there are no references in the paper, SI or anywhere I could find to the actual value of OPTIONS.regpar.",0_0
"Looking at this from a wider angle, Senators might ponder what would have happened if Reps. Waxman and Markey, instead of introducing a cap-and-trade bill, had introduced legislation authorizing the EPA to do exactly what it is doing now regulate greenhouse gases through the Clean Air Act as it sees fit.Such abill almost certainly would have been dead on arrival. Under the leadership of Lisa Jackson and Gina McCarthy, the EPA has morphed into a Super Legislature, enactingclimate and fuel economy policiesCongress has not approved and would reject if introduced as legislation and put to a vote.The Senate cannot confirm McCarthy as EPA Administratorwithout rewarding the agencys regulatory overreach.",0_0
"An impact on an ice sheet does seem reasonable as the evidence from the ongoing investigation points at the impact occurring somewhere in north-central North America near what is now the Great Lakes. Unfortunately, there is no crater evident and the projected impact should have left some imprint on the earth, even if it was a cluster of meteorites or an airburst. Lets take the researchers at their word and look where the evidence points-the Great Lakes.",0_0
Climate Change Doubt Is Tea Party Article of Faith:,0_0
Here Sam provides a one page discussion by Christopher Monckton on the games that people play with climate numbers.,0_0
"Now, I feel the urge to mention that the cloud cover may vary because of nearly unpredictable complex phenomena in the atmosphere; and because of controllable external effects such as cosmic rays. Both of these categories of effects have to be studied carefully if we want to understand the changes in the energy flows and temperatures.",5_1
"To obtain a PSD permit,firms mustdocument their compliance withbest available control technology (BACT) standards.Even apart fromany technology investments needed to comply with BACT, the PSD permitting process is costly and time-consuming. In 2007, each permit on average cost $125,120 and 866 burden hours for a source to obtain, and $23,280 and 301 hours for EPA or a state agency to process, EPAestimates .No smallbusiness could operate subject to the PSD administrative burden.",0_0
"The False Allure of Group Selection , Pinker explains in quite some detail why he has a problem with the very concept and philosophy of group selection.",0_0
"3. We have shown that surface air water vapor changes over time must be accounted for in the assessment of long term surface air temperature trends ( see Pielke Sr., R.A., C. Davey, and J. Morgan, 2004: Assessing global warming with surface heat content and Davey,",0_0
"The ultimate conclusion of this study is that rising temperatures and elevated CO2 will be beneficial for dwarf bamboo that the pandas feed upon, as it will lead to the production of more equally-nutritious dwarf bamboo tissue?? Read More",3_3
"Graeme Pearman and Eigil Friis-Christensen, Mittagong, April 5, 2008",0_0
"As discussed, EPA considers emissions increases due to increased operation that could not be physically or legally accommodated during the representative baseline period but for the proposed physical or operational change, to result from the change.22",0_0
"The two researchers report that the various correlations they observed over the course of the Holocene ""suggest that the Holocene low-latitude precipitation variability to some degree was influenced by changes in the geomagnetic dipole moment."" In particular, they say that the general increase in precipitation observed over the past 1500 years in both speleothem records ""cannot be readily explained by changes in summer insolation or solar activity,"" but that it ""correlates very well with the rapid decrease in dipole moment observed during this period,"" which relationship is explained by the fact that ""a higher dipole moment leads to a lower cosmic ray flux, resulting in reduced cloud coverage and, ultimately, lower precipitation."" What it means",2_1
"Catarina Ostlund, a spokeswoman for the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, said officials have come concerns about importing garbage.",0_0
"A 2009 CSIRO report The Effect of Climate Change on Extreme Sea Levels in Port Phillip Bay for the Victorian government's Future Coasts Program is an example of its modelling. The model is based on temperature projections to 2100 of up to 6.4 o C. That comes from the most extreme scenario of the IPCC with unbelievable CO2 concentration of 1550 parts per million. Using up all known fossil fuel reserves would achieve only half this amount. The result was a projected sea-level rise for Port Phillip Bay by 2100 of 82cm. With the help of the Bureau of Meteorology, a further increase due to wind raised it to 98cm.",0_0
Ill show below some actual results from Mann et al 2005 to confirm the validity of this reply.,0_0
"Gee, its hot in Reno and Las Vegas and the L.A. Basin is warmer than inland. Wonder why thats where NOAA / NCDC choose to measure the temperatures for GHCN?",0_0
"Also associated with this event are high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which are linked to elevated ocean and atmospheric temperatures. Associated consequences include likely enhanced global rainfall and weathering of the continents, which further shifted the chemistry of the ocean.",0_0
But this years event had a sense of desperation. Speakers spoke about being victimised by warmists and alarmists scientists and politicians who accept that carbon dioxide emissions from industry are a main driver of climate change.,5_2
"But, let's face it, some of those believing in the serious nature of global warming have also been confusing the public. How many times have you seen global warming advocates crow about a single record warm year, heat wave, or a season with less ice in the arctic as clear proof of global warming? Quite often. But such transient or brief events could well be mainly the result of natural variability.",5_2
Then at the 8:56 mark Joe brings up the recent (some would call absurd) claim made that Antarctic sea ice is expanding to record high levels because of global warming. (With that kind of logic one could hypothesize that the snowball earth episodes occurred when the earth was a hot house). Bastardi:,1_1
"So the prediction that 2008 will be in the 10 ten warmest years has an overwhelming probability of being true regardless whether man-made global warming is significant or not, and regardless whether an increasing or cyclic climate holds. That is, no matter what, this prediction is probably true, and it is useless as its intent was to give indirect evidence that the increasing climate scenario holds and that the man-made component of global warming is significant. It does neither such thing. Presenting this prediction as news is a clever debating tactic, but it is misleading, because the alternatives are not presented, even though the forecast is just as much evidence for them.",2_1
"Even though the state gave ""snow-buried cities and towns in Massachusetts permission to dump snow into the ocean, due to emergency situations,"" Boston decided it had better not. Also in the man-made glacier were piles of uncollected garbage, trashcans, even fire hydrants. Experts think the snow pile will still be around, at least until August.",0_0
"In 1998, the Energy Information Administration released a report that estimated that complying with the Kyoto Protocol would cost the United States $64 billion per year. The study assumed that the U.S. would begin to comply with the protocol in 2005 and reach its target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2008 to 2012.",0_0
"How can anyone, Left or Right, not be chilled to the bone to hear a government official talk in such a manner about federal treatment of private companies and individuals? Incredibly, this man was in charge of enforcing environmental regulations in five states before the uproar over his repulsive comments forced him to resign.",0_0
100% Of The US Warming Trend Since 1930 Is Due To Data Tampering,5_2
"A Greenpeace spokesperson suggests that the only people concerned about the video in which kids are executed for insufficient eco enthusiasm are those with ulterior motives climate skeptics and think tanks funded by corporations. Read the full post here . This blog has relocated . You can sign up to receive an e-mail each time a new post is added under the ""Email subscription"" bar a little below the photo. NoFrakkingConsensus now has a Facebook page.",0_0
"Rather than keeping its distance from those whose careers have been associated with activism, the scientific establishment now honors, celebrates and promotes such people.",0_0
"And the Energy Policy Act of 2005 offers incentives and subsidies. These include ""standby' protection against the ""potentially crippling impact of construction and operational delays beyond the control of the plants' sponsors"" for 100 percent of delay costs for the first two new plants built and 50 percent of the cost for plants three through six. The Department of Energy is also offering an 80 percent loan guarantee for emissions-reducing projects, including nuclear projects that employ ""new or significantly improved technologies compared to commercial technologies in service in the U.S. today."" There is also a new eight-year tax incentive for new nuclear kilowatt production.",0_0
one about the value of a stable climate ? much better politics. the most,0_0
"Since then, countries like Canada and Russia have left the protocol, and others, like Japan, have declined to tighten the screws further on carbon emissions in a time of faltering economic growth.",0_0
"The Green Movement long ago convinced the First World of a huge global warming threat, which has failed to occur. Similarly, they have convinced Africa's educated elite that biotech seeds are a bigger threat to Africa's people and wild species than famine.",0_0
"/s/ Jack Barneburg, Jack JSC, Space Shuttle Structures, Engineering Directorate, 34 years",0_0
"""With the election barely two weeks away, the nation is focused on what will happen if (when?) control of Congress swings rightward. While some far-reaching elements of Barack Obama's agenda will face great perhaps impassible hurdles on Capitol Hill, that won't stop the administration from implementing them via regulation, the ultimate end-run around Congress.""",0_0
"We're in a severe recession, and each of his major proposals is going to",0_0
I then collected relevant information about the various models into an Info table (which is applied in the plot):,0_0
"Matt Melchiorre, Warren Brookes Fellow: Balanced approach? Your budget shows tax revenue increasing even faster than spending, following in Europe's failed path: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/338630/not-all-austerity-equal-matthew-melchiorre You don't favor any austerity for the government, only the private sector. That is not balance.",0_0
"Agees calculations suggest that it would be possible to remove 1 billion tonnes of CO2 per year this way, using the energy provided by 16 wind farms, each generating 1200 megawatts of electricity. Theres a lot of wind energy in the Antarctic, Agee says.",4_4
saying Japanese scientists had linked this to global warming. I am leaning,0_0
"He has graciously agreed to write a guest weblog for Climate Science, as well as also post on his own website ( madweather ). Dr. Maddoxs weblog is important since it provides another example of the lack of consideration by NOAA on the need for proper siting of instrumentation that is required to monitor weather and climate.",5_1
"Email 1897 : ???Do I understand it correctly ??? if he doesn??t pay the 10 we don??t have to respond? With the earlier FOI requests re David Holland, I wasted a part of a day deleting numerous emails and exchanges with almost all the skeptics. So I have virtually nothing. I even deleted the email that I inadvertently sent.??",5_2
It has been said many times that computer models can explain the global temperature for the last 30 years the period of the recent global warming spell. Even if that was true some years ago it is no longer. The fact that the pause is unexplained means that the last 30 years are not reproducible in a way that is satisfactory.,1_4
"I would imaging that site like this one would be a target, since we dont report what the government line on climate change is.",0_0
The most terrifying aspect of McKibben's piece is his biased selection of flawed supporting documentation and his disregard for the truth about fracking.,0_0
"""most believe they should be allowed to build whatever home they like""",0_0
"A will-reported Finland reactor complex being built by Areva had a budget of $3,300 million that is now 50% over budget at $4,950 million. However, even at $4,950 million this reactor facility has less than half the capitol cost of wind, on a per MW basis.",0_0
"Conclusion: Historical climate change, as represented by the Roman and Medieval unprecedented warming documented in central Asia, was a global phenomenon that modern climate change has yet to rival.",2_1
"What hes arguing here is that we each have an innate moral code, a code which displays a remarkable uniformity across distances of time and space. I know of no argument to effectively counter C.S. Lewis assertionsin Mere Christianity :",0_0
"Recall that Jeff Marque , an APS editor, wrote in their recent newsletter addressed to a small subgroup of the APS called ""Forum on Physics & Society"" an obvious truism, namely that a considerable fraction of the scientific community are climate skeptics. They opened a rare arena for scientific arguments about this issue.",5_1
"Many greenhouses working with a frhjd CO 2 concentration and the frefaller as an increase to 600-700 ppmv is favorable for most plants. Furthermore frefaller like the need for water, rather reducing n vats. In several areas the biomass cat markedly in recent decades, not least in Sweden No net accumulation in the Swedish forests amounts to about 40 Mt C / r per year which means that Sweden has hardly something nettoutslpp of carbon dioxide. Net accumulation on a global scale in the terrestrial biosfren estimated from nrvarande to 1.6 Gtonnes C / r",0_0
"""The decline of oil and gas will affect the world population more than climate change,"" one researcher said. Another expert said, ""Oil is a fabulous nonrenewable substance that underpinned the 20th-century miracle, but miracles rarely happen forever.""",0_0
"Britain's stance, for example, on emissions reductions has met with skepticism given the Labour's past distrust of environmentalists. The Green's relentless attacks against industrial growth has succeeded at the expense of Labour's base. Nature argues, however, that skepticism is unjustified. By linking climate change policies with energy conservation and increased public transportation, Labour can successfully commit Britain to aggressive targets.",0_0
"In addition, it will in effect make it impossible to replace the coal-fired power stations that will be forced to close in the next few years under an EU directive, while proposing a hidden subsidy to any new nuclear power stations.",0_0
"And yet despite all this evidence, comments Lynas, Lomborg somehow contrives to argue that it is cheaper to go on burning fossil fuels than to switch to clean energy to prevent runaway global warming. This feeds right into the agenda of profiteering multinationals like",0_0
"The Government wants its legislation passed in the Senate by June because it says it needs to give business certainty. But Senator Xenophon says that is too soon, but he has not backed delaying the vote until December either.",0_0
Solomon says such problems also afflict other outstanding U.S. scientists such as Richard Lindzen of MIT and malaria expert Dr. Paul Reiter of the Pasteur Institute in Paris.,0_0
job which requires me to translate my Christian belief about stewardship of,0_0
"It is really hard, especially in highly political settings, for any one individual to play the role of science arbiter or honest broker. This is due to the fact that there are often many views on what ""the science"" says (including uncertainties and areas of ignorance) or what the possible scope of action looks like. In addition, each of us has biases and idiosyncrasies which can make it difficult to see an issue from multiple perspectives. Even further, it is a rare policy issue where anyone knows everything of relevance.",5_1
"The economic potential of unleashing America's energy resources is tremendous. To achieve these gains, Congress and the next Administration should:",0_0
"The report also surveys how those few journalists who have looked at the issue have been reporting the standstill, with many far too ready to dismiss it or lacking a sense of journalistic inquiry, preferring to reports squabbles rather than the science.",0_0
"Oh noes, global warming causes grizzly attacks . Add it to The List.",0_0
"Note, too, that the American Lung Association suffers from a huge conflict of interest. The point of the ""Red Carriage"" ad campaign is to protect the EPA's authority to regulate under the Clean Air Act. Left unmentioned is the fact that the EPA is a major funder of the American Lung Association, having provided the charity more than $20 million over the last ten years. So the EPA pays the American Lung Association, which then lobbies against a bill that would lessen the EPA's power.",0_0
indications from models that there will be a greater frequency of heavy rain,0_0
"Sudan has rejected a Canadian plan to send military advisors to the troubled Darfur region, saying Ottawa had not consulted Khartoum on its plan, the Sudanese embassy said on Friday. Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin announced on Thursday a C$170 million ($136 million) aid package for Darfur, where thousands of people have been killed and two million displaced in a bloody civil war. Martin also said Canada would send up to 100 military experts to help a African Union force in the region. In a press release dated Thursday, the Sudanese embassy complained that Khartoum had not been consulted in advance about the plan. ""(We) would like to affirm that the unwavering position of the Sudanese government ... is categorically rejecting (sic) any deployment of non-African military personnel in the Darfur region.",0_0
MR. ADLER: We have about five minutes for questions. I would ask people if they can to use the mike.,0_0
"Chua et al . say they ""found no consistent effect of elevated pCO 2 on fertilization, development, survivorship or metamorphosis, neither alone nor in combination with temperature."" As for warming, they also say that it ""had no consistent effect on fertilization, survivorship or metamorphosis."" However, they observed that the two degrees of warming actually increased rates of development. And that is good news concerning the future of these organisms!",3_2
"The results of this study indicate a significant warming bias is likely present in borehole temperature reconstructions based solely on a purely conductive approach.?? Unless accounted for and removed, this bias can result in incorrect interpretations of 20th-century warming, which, as in the case of Tachlovice, need not be a manifestation of unprecedented global warming, but, in the words of Bodri and Cermak, merely ""a recovery to previous warmer conditions after a noted cold period."" Reference",5_1
"It?s far easier to play this out in reverse. Decide upon the desired conclusion and work backwards, concocting a hypothesis that somehow manages to use contradictory observations to bolster the foregone conclusion. This is the type of pretzel logic that global warming scientists use to convince us to, ?believe us, not your thermometer.?",0_0
Disastrous Computer Model Predictions: From Limits to Growth to Global Warming,5_1
"Im sorry, but that is exactly how climate science is done these days.",0_0
Good Day For Berbatov To Send Fergie A Thank You Note,0_0
"As their economies have deteriorated, Germany, Italy, Spain and other countries have pulled the plug on unsustainable wind and solar subsidies, eliminating thousands of ""green"" jobs and putting hundreds of ""clean energy"" companies on the verge of bankruptcy.",4_4
"Gordon has written the following to explain his main graph, which appears just below:",0_0
"on Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 at 5:14 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"J. K. Rowling made international headlines this week by defending free speech in an address to the PEN Literary Gala in New York. She referenced the much-discussed public petition that was circulated at the end of last year calling for Donald Trump to be banned from entering the UK over ""hate speech,"" arguing that someone like Trump should, if fact, have the right to say things she (and others) find bigoted or offensive:",0_0
"I actually enjoyed Manns presentation, because it reminded me a bit of being in a final exam in university, where the goal is to spot the errors, omissions, and misleading statements. Manns presentation was full of such things. For example, he showed a graph of Arctic ice decline, during a segment on the many threads of evidence that proves the globe is warming. His graph stopped at 2007, at the lowest point in the record. He did not explain that the graph was for summer minimum extent, which I think it must have been. That cherry-picked endpoint made the graph take a dramatic downward trend, and was most impressive. And, very misleading because the minimum extent has stabilized and slightly increased since then.",5_2
"Let us remind ourselves that the crude oil we recover from under our feet is neither foreign nor man-made, nor is it artificial. It is produced entirely by Mother Nature who occasionally spills it. Frequently spills it.",4_5
"The Bush Administration at first wasgung-ho to make anendangerment finding. In his 2006 State of the Union Address,President Bushdeclared that America is addicted to oil .He set a goal of reducing U.S. oil imports 20% in 10 years, and by executive order directedEPA and the Departments of Energy, Transportation, and Agricultureto developrules increasingfederalfuel economy and renewable fuel standards.No law on the books explicitly authorizes EPA to revise the existing standards.No problem, said Bushs advisors, an endangerment finding would give EPA CAA authority to implementthe Presidents 20-in-10 program. The endangerment finding and associated regulations would alsosatisfy EPAsobligationsto the Courta twofer!",0_0
The Yale/George Mason University polls commit all these mistakes.,0_0
"Extreme weather? The highest wind speed recorded at a low level site in England was 118mph, set in 1979 in Cornwall. Highest 24 hour rainfall? 279mm in Dorset, 1955. Highest 60 minute rainfall? 92mm, Berkshire in 1901. (The only record set in the last decade was the 2-day record for rainfall at Seathwaite.)",1_7
"North American oil reserves (U.S., Canadian, and Mexican) total nearly 1.8 trillion barrels of recoverable oil.",0_0
"Democrats, after supporting the trafficking bill in committee, started filibustering it in response to feminist groups' opposition to its limitation on federal funding of abortion even though such limits have been routinely passed for 39 years. When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., responded by holding up the confirmation vote on attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch, Democrats agreed to a meaningless tweak in the language and the bill passed.",0_0
"As papers continue to appear in the literature claiming that the climate models were right all along except that they were wrong, the widening of the divergence between excitable prediction and unalarming reality continues (Fig. 2).",5_1
"""We cannot invade Sudan"" . I'll allow the Monty Pythonesque absurdity of that disclaimer sink in for a moment...",0_0
US Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) and Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) wave to the crowd during a campaign rally in Orlando,0_0
"I?m also very happy that Nigel Lawson ? as one of the very few ? criticizes the new indulgences, otherwise known as emissions permits. Most people like the fact that trading emissions permits sounds market-friendly and that it?s not just an administrative restriction or command, but they?re mistaken. Nigel Lawson correctly says this ?trading? has nothing to do with the market. ?It is essentially a government-controlled administrative rationing system, in which the rations can subsequently be traded? (p. 74). Communism again. Indeed it is a market for the owners of rations and for the various middlemen; for them it presents ?a lucrative and ? hopefully ? growing business opportunity.? It?s, of course, a certain form of taxation, but because governments don?t like to raise taxes, they disguise the introduction of these new taxes by replacing them with this, seemingly market-like, method.",0_0
Thousands Still Cold And Struggling Months After Superstorm Sandy,0_0
Thoroughly debunks the claim that temperatures on the planet today are in any way historic or unprecedented.,0_0
"The Game. ""The game is communicating climate change; the rules will help us win it,"" says an astounding, horrifying UK government-funded booklet leaked by Mr. FOIA titled, ""The Rules of the Game: Evidence base for the Climate Change Communications Strategy."" Written by the UK public relations firm Futerra for six UK agencies including The Carbon Trust for use by ethics and public relations tone-deaf scientists, ""The Rules"" teaches sophisticated behavior change tactics, including: ""Climate change must be ""front of mind' before persuasion works"" ""Link climate change mitigation to positive desires/aspirations"" ""Beware the impacts of cognitive dissonance"" and ""Use emotions and visuals"" (e.g., scare people with the Hockey Stick Graph). It treats the public like gullible idiots who can be frightened and manipulated by seemingly trustworthy scientists to believe in AGW. For a long time, it worked.",5_2
The physical basis of their tampering appears to be the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. The correlation between tampering and atmospheric CO2 is almost perfect.,5_2
"Breitbart took a lot of unwarranted fake-news criticism toward the end of 2016. Contrary to that criticism, Breitbart supplies the biblical minimum ten righteous journalists so that Journalism could be spared divine destruction. For them, helmets were not just a fashion statement in 2016. Thank you for your brave efforts, which have my admiration.",0_0
"Empirical evidence does not lend much support to the notion that climate is headed precipitately toward more extreme heat and drought. The drought of 1999 covered a smaller area than the 1988 drought, when the Mississippi almost dried up. And 1988 was a temporary inconvenience as compared with repeated droughts during the 1930s Dust Bowl that caused an exodus from the prairies, as chronicled in Steinbecks Grapes of Wrath..",1_7
"Humans have been adapting to the climatethe weathersince they emerged as homo sapiens about 195,000 years ago.",0_0
"And as a result, instead of having to explain a missing warming of 1.6 0.15 = 1.45 W/m2 per decade, we now have to add the 0.34 W/m2 to the missing warming, and that gets us up to 1.8 W/m2 in missing warming. So rather than explaining things, overall the IPCC explanation just makes things worse ...",0_0
"1962 was the harshest winter on record in the UK, and was due to lack of CO2 and global cooling. A lot of parallels are being made for this winter, with some speculating that it may be as severe as the 1962 event.",1_3
"Harvard University investigated and sanctioned Professor Marc Hauser for grossly exaggerating his primate research results. Yet, his actions pale by comparison to what Phil Jones, Michael Mann and other Climategate researchers engaged in. Hauser's grants were a drop in the bucket compared to the climate cabal's. And he was not advocating massive, expensive, punitive changes in our lives, liberties, and energy and economic systems. Will other institutions match Harvard's demand for integrity?",5_2
"Also, Giualiani has pointed out, these things may be understood if you think about Obama's childhood. Barack Obama Sr came from a Muslim environment in Kenya. But the most influential mentor during Obama's childhood was Frank Marshall Davis, a top pundit in the Communist Party of the USA. As Giuliani correctly said elsewhere, these communist influences on Barack Obama were stronger than the traditional influences from the black community.",0_0
"And a few days ago, for example, the initiative of Marco Pannella to try to present to the US Congress documented the lies and irresponsibility of the president to impose not already the fall of Saddam and democracy for lIraq, but his war against the truth and laws of their country.",0_0
"It is not just the majority of Senators who have concerns about the EPA's proposed rule. A diverse and growing coalition, including the Exotic Wildlife Association, the Foundry Association of Michigan, California Cotton Growers Association, Texas Aggregates and Concrete Association, The Fertilizer Institute, Georgia Railroad Association, Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation, electric utilities and co-ops, and city and state Chambers of Commerce from coast-to-coast, has sprung up in opposition to the plan. Yet most people are unaware of the potential impacts or of the pending deadline for public comment.",0_0
"The point does not require comparisons between fact and counter-factual speculation, nor moral relativism. The consequences of effecting regime change are well understood.",0_0
But while the diplomatic success traces to the Obamian style of U.S.,0_0
"In 2008, Lewis Pugh tried to kayak to the North Pole from Spitzbergen. He made it about two miles before giving up, after he discovered that the ice-free North Pole was just NSIDC propaganda.",1_1
"The historical record for U.S. landfalling hurricanes since about 1900 is pretty robust, and storm surge can be estimated fairly reliably using models in locations and periods where storm surge observations were lacking. Tide guage measurements at a limited number of locations (where it is impossible to separate out hurricane induced surges from other causes) are a very poor proxy for hurricane activity. Erroneous inferences from the tide guage measurements combined with dubious applications of climate models produces a faux storm surge hockey stick.",5_1
"A well-educated friend of mine, a climate-change skeptic, once told me that he didnt believe anything coming out of the big computer models that scientists use to reason about the complex nonlinear feedbacks driving the Earths climate system. He has a point: Researchers are doing the best they can in the midst of great complication and uncertainty.",5_1
"Now, you may be expecting me to argue that there is a lot of sea water and the net effect of trace CO2 in the atmosphere would not affect the pH much, especially since seawater starts pretty alkaline. And I probably could argue this, but there is a better argument and I am embarrassed that I never saw it before.",3_2
"Cialdini, R.B. (1993): Influence: the psychology of persuasion, 2nd. rev. ed. William Morrow & Co., Inc., New York, 320 pp.",0_0
"Now, with the Pacific cooling again, temperatures are starting down again. None of this has anything to do with atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. This particular combination of entirely natural ocean conditions is producing a change in the in the entire global weather system. While some who are unfamiliar with ocean influences attribute the Texas drought to global warming, the reality is exactly opposite. It's due to cooling of the Pacific that is causing a mid-level moisture drop. It actually directly contradicts the theory that so-called anthropogenic global warming is leading to drier conditions around the globe.",0_0
"Big-Gas loves wind turbines. Wind farms are fickle and coal power can??t ramp up and down quickly to fill in the gaps, but the more expensive gas can. No wonder Shell are lobbying actively against coal, and for wind.",4_4
"Dr. Roy W. Spencer is Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama Huntsville. He was formerly a Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA. He co-developed the original satellite method for precise monitoring of global temperatures from Earth-orbiting satellites. He has provided congressional testimony on the subject of global warming. He recently wrote, The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World's Top Climate Scientists. In 2008 he wrote The NY Times bestseller, Climate Confusion.",0_0
"CFACT's team will feature Marc Morano, creator of CFACT's award-winning ClimateDepot.com, Lord Christopher Monckton, and CFACT president David Rothbard, executive director Craig Rucker, senior policy advisor Paul Driessen and our hard-working staff. Bios and photos are available at CFACT.tv.",0_0
Above: Danish Meteorological Institute Mean Temperature above 80N,0_0
"Dr. Kharuk describes the tree on the right as living under the tyranny of colder climates of the past. It grew slowly: its form is twisted, its needles are sparse, the diameter is small, and it is not very tall. The younger tree has grown, he says, under the freedom of recent, milder climates. It is shooting up tall, straight, and full. It grows a relatively large amount each year, which results in a larger trunk diameter. (Photograph by Jon Ranson.)",3_2
"Sanger describes the policy review as focusing on the question of ""what it would take to reverse the momentum in Afghanistan and",0_0
"So far this year there have been 1,651 record daily minimum temperatures recorded at all 862 US HCN stations continuously active since 1930, compared to 1,394 record maximums.",1_3
"Watson said such claims should be based on hard evidence. Any such projection should be based on peer-reviewed literature from computer modelling of how agricultural yields would respond to climate change. I can see no such data supporting the IPCC report, he said.",5_1
"As professors Gerlich and Tscheuschner have pointed out in their research paper, ""Falsification of the Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within the Frame of Physics"":",0_0
"But the Medieval Warm Period was not so great for some humans in our own time the same small band that believes the planet has now entered an unprecedented and dangerous warm period. As we now know from the Climategate Emails, this band saw the Medieval Warm Period as an enormous obstacle in their mission of spreading the word about global warming. If temperatures were warmer 1,000 years ago than today, the Climategate Emails explain in detail, their message that we now live in the warmest of all possible times would be undermined. As put by one band member, a Briton named Folland at the Hadley Centre, a Medieval Warm Period ""dilutes the message rather significantly.""",5_2
"""The last time many Californians thought about high-speed rail was in the voting booth. On that day, Nov. 4, 2008, more than 6 million of us voted to tell the state to get going, to build high-speed rail in California. """,0_0
BOM method finds more heatwaves in Antarctica than Marble Bar,0_0
"But, of course, you think, were talking about radiation: what about long-term consequences? Unfortunately here the media reports are even less accurate.",0_0
Harrison Schmidt was the last man to walk on the moon and the first denier in this letter to the editor of the Brigham Young University student newspaper.,0_0
"People across the world ""are being battered by surging food prices that are dragging more people into poverty, fueling political tensions and forcing some to give up eating meat, fruit and even tomatoes,"" reports the Associated Press. High food prices are partly the result of ""demand for crops to use in biofuels"" like ethanol, which the government subsidizes.",4_1
"We found that previous estimates of historical temperatures during the Roman era and the Middle Ages were too low, says Doctor Jan Esper of the Johannes Gutenberg-Universitt Mainz, one of the scientists leading the study. Such findings are also significant with regard to climate policy.",0_0
"A new article in the Economist responds to the recent article in The New Republic , discussing the policy implications of the pause.",1_4
"Its another unusually cold winter striking the continent. Last year, hundreds froze to death. The same occurred in the winter of 2010.",1_3
We are asked to believe that humans are drastically changing the earths climate by burning fossil fuels. The problem with their theory is very simple: It is NOT true.,2_3
"As the CO 2 content of the atmosphere increases, perennial ryegrass will likely respond by exhibiting enhanced rates of photosynthesis and biomass production, even in nitrogen-poor soils, as has been empirically demonstrated by Hartwig et al ., (2002). Over the long haul, in fact, low-nitrogen soils should see much greater CO 2 -induced productivity increases than high-nitrogen soils. Reference",3_3
Congress should not move quickly to pass comprehensive climate change legislation,0_0
It was only in the late 1890s that there are greater than five stations of raw data. The first year there are more data points left in than removed is 1909 (5 against 4).,0_0
"Abraham knew this, because I had said so in my talk. But he also knew that practically no one watching his 83-minute presentation would go to the lengths of looking up what I had actually said. He knew he could get away with a flagrant and deliberate misrepresentation provided that at all points he was careful never to consult me while planning and circulating his attack.",0_0
"""Our parents love Facts, Not Fear! It is a parent-friendly resource offering practical tips for providing children with a common-sense approach to understanding and appreciating our environment.""",0_0
"These concerns may be part of the reason Democrats on the Hill backed off as soon as practical questions about the event were being raised. Unlike Inhofe, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY, merely refused to let Reid's bill on Gore's concerts clear the Senate with ""unanimous consent."" According to The Hill, McConell wasn't necessarily opposed to hosting the concert at the Capitol, but ""wanted more time for his side to look at the resolution."" Reid soon backed off, and Gore announced that the concert would be in New Jersey. The fact that Reid and Gore didn't push harder suggests that they may never have wanted an actual concert on the Capitol grounds, but merely an issue to beat-up Republicans with.",0_0
"Read here . Since the Climategate revelations, the IPCC has literally become the laughingstock of the science community. And more recently, they soiled their reputation even further by pre-announcing what they plan to tell policymakers in 2014. (Objective science? Fuh'get about it!)",5_2
But I personally don't expect Hadow to care about the safety of the airplanes much: he has already been evacuated from the North Pole in late May of 2003. Airplanes sometimes sink near the North Pole in May - and sometimes all the people are saved.,0_0
"So the assertion that A (the earths surface) gets hotter by thermally exciting B (IR-reactive gases) is a meaningless statement. Since the 2nd law prohibits this, ""radiative forcing"" by IR-reactive gases is entirely a product of imagination, a complete reversal of cause and effect.",2_3
"Hes like a delinquent schoolboy whos left a trail of destruction behind, culminating in burning down the school. And then hes all defiant, like: What? What did I do wrong?",0_0
"The particular shame here is that if any issue could use more reasoned debate and less propaganda, it is the environmental one. An Inconvenient Truth not only makes the wrong argumentthat Al Gore can save the universebut does so poorly. I didn't stick around for all of the end credits, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the final line read: ""Paid for by Citizens for Al Gore.""",0_0
"??? ExxonMobil CEO mocks renewable energy in shareholder speech ,?? the headline of Adam Lerner??s May 27th Politico article read. Lerner??s piecebegan: ???The CEO of one of the worlds largest oil companies downplayed the effects of climate change at his companys annual meeting Wednesday, telling shareholders his firm hadnt invested in renewable energy because ???We choose not to lose money on purpose.'??",4_4
"Gas Rich Britain? The UK Geological Survey released a study of northern England that indicates that the Bowland shale basin may contain the largest amount of shale gas in the world, up to 1300 trillion cubic feet. Of course much more exploration is necessary to determine how much is economically recoverable. The discovery will cause great consternation among the no fossil fuels politicians. Please see links under Oil and Natural Gas the Future or the Past?",4_5
Die Zeit calls Morano the most aggressive member of a well-paid mercenary group who is leading a fight that is fueled by hundreds of millions of dollars. Zeit writes:,0_0
"The timing of Chesapeake's Sierra Club funding is highly suspicious. From 2005-2007, Chesapeake Energy was the principal funder of an infamous anti-coal print ad campaign. The ads were all variations on a single theme: close-ups of coal-smeared faces next to the tagline ""Face It: Coal Is Filthy."" The most controversial of the ads depicted a young waifish girl with blue eyes. Chesapeake pulled the plug on the campaign in 2007, but only after Members of Congress from coal-heavy states objected to the gas industry's use of pseudo-public service announcements to try to win market share from the coal industry.",0_0
"The irony of this episode is that it was not the scandalous cover-up the media portrayed it as; it was a tragedy of lost opportunity. Faced with a rich occasion to develop an honest dialogue about the complexities of the science and challenging economics of climate change, the White House chose silence. This administration, already subject to frequent partisan (and even some bipartisan) criticism on every aspect of its climate change policies, needs to articulate as clearly and as frequently as possible its understanding of this issuewhat we know, what we do not know, where the latest research is taking us, and how the president sees the issue.",0_0
"Though the complex models say there is 0.6 C manmade warming in the pipeline even if we stop emitting greenhouse gases, the simple model confirmed by almost two decades without any significant global warming shows there is no committed but unrealized manmade warming still to come.",1_4
Mega-merger of the week; the Alliance for Climate Protection and The Climate Project were rolled into one entity . Both are Gore-founded propaganda mills designed to keep the climate hoax front and center while Big Al rakes in the cash. Al touted an article by Alliance for Climate Protection CEO Maggie Fox:,5_2
"The Obama Administration and like-minded Green zealots have said repeatedly that they are waging a ""war on coal,"" intend to bankrupt coal-based power plants, and delay or block oil, natural gas and nuclear projects while fast-tracking and subsidizing ethanol, wind and solar programs",0_0
"The United Nations divides the world into two groups, less developed countries and more developed countries. The most surprising news comes from the poorer countries. In the late 1960's, these countries had an average fertility rate of 6.0 children per woman. Today it is 2.9and still falling. Huge and continuing declines have been seen in countries like Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Turkey and (of great importance to the United States) Mexico.",0_0
"But those 2,500 scientists hardly represented a consensus. First, they only helped assemble the 95 U.N. report on global warming; they didnt pass judgment on it. And few of those 2,500 scientists actually worked on the one part of the report that linked human activity to global warming -the executive summary. In fact, many of those same scientists are skeptics.",0_0
Another billion plus down the drain. I guess it wasnt sustainable.,0_0
"Having read extensively on Podesta and his policies, if I was giving the speech today, I'd have to start with: ""Be afraid. Be very afraid.""",0_0
"The head of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, Yvo de Boer, has admitted that the principle behind the Kyoto Protocol is ""illogical."" He noted that the idea that developed countries must tackle their own emissions expensively while developing nations continue to emit without restriction did not make sense and that it would be cheaper for the world if developed nations paid developing nations not to emit on their behalf.",0_0
"US long-term energy security may hang in the balance. Most economists believe that a healthy export market would also serve to stabilize domestic prices and supply. With natural gas so cheap and plentiful, and with margins so thin or even nonexistent, most companies are losing money even as supplies increase. Consequently, few companies are exploring for new reserves. That's led to concerns that volatile, downward-sloping prices could abort the natural gas boom that experts say currently delivers a $100 billion yearly jolt to the American economy. Exports, the reports contend, rather than slowing the benefits of the boom, could actually increase them and put the natural gas market, in the US and worldwide, on a more sustainable footing.",0_0
"For the foreseeable future, people will be wealthierand their well-being higherthan is the case for present generations both in the developed and developing worlds and with or without climate change. The well-being of future inhabitants in todays developing world would exceed that of the inhabitants of todays developed world under all but the poorest scenario. Future generations should, moreover, have greater access to human capital and technology to address whatever problems they might face, including climate change. Hence the argument that we should shift resources from dealing with the real and urgent problems confronting present generations to solving potential problems of tomorrows wealthier and better positioned generations is unpersuasive at best and verging on immoral at worst.",4_2
"Hundreds of articles this week in the press about the melting Arctic, where sea ice has melted from 9.5 million km^2 up to 10.5 million km^2 since the start of the year.",1_1
"""We seriously underestimated the difficulty of getting reductions and overestimated the payoff from new technologies,"" said a senior official working on climate change. Nevertheless, last month the Canadian federal budget allocated $1 billion more to support new environmental technologies. Ottawa is also offering the one ton challenge, in which it calls on individual Canadians to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by one ton. (Toronto Star, April 5 and 6).",0_0
"Whether is consistent with the change that would be expected in response to human activities is dependent upon what assumptions one makes about the time history of atmospheric concentrations of the various forcing agents, particularly aerosols.",0_0
"(2) Substitution of ""actual-to-future potential"" for ""actual-to-future-actual"" in the rules for measuring changes in emissions",0_0
"The media lapped up the hysteria nonetheless, and gave it meaning. What has emerged are unsatisfied eco-activists, disgruntled at the failure of the worlds politicians to achieve a legally binding framework to reduce green house gases in the atmosphere. These responses tell us more than Bali itself.",5_2
"Of course, even if the U.S. stopped emitting CO2 today, we would avoid about 27 ppm CO2 atmospheric accumulation by 2100 i.e., hardly anything in a world with a CO2 level of 500 ppm or more.",4_2
"Alternative Energys Alternate Reality Creating a green energy economy may be the most daunting central planning task ever attempted. It entails nothing less than the reengineering of our entire energy infrastructure. And, like all central planning schemes, it is based on a roadmap that eschews real-world experience and sound economics in favor of utopian ideology driven by political connections.",0_0
"The business lobby, hoping to fend off potentially sweeping emission limits, wants the US EPA to hold a Scopes-like hearing on the evidence that climate change is man-made. Read more here .",0_0
"Behind this rhetoric is the assumption that the tide of immigration, legal and illegal, is continuing at a record pace and that illegals are here to stay. But the evidence is that migration from Mexico has slowed to a trickle and the Census Bureau tells us the number of illegals has declined.",0_0
"This paper provides a simple analytic approach for measuring the burden of carbon pricing that does not require sophisticated and numerically intensive economic models but which is not limited to restrictive assumptions of forward shifting of carbon prices. We also show how to adjust for the capital income bias contained in the Consumer Expenditure Survey, a bias towards regressivity in carbon pricing due to underreporting of capital income in higher income deciles in the Survey.",0_0
"We should have listened. Bering Sea ice has been normal or above normal, and at record levels for the last two years.",1_1
"Recently, I was asked to weigh in on the climate change debate and offer my views on the subject. Unfortunately, since my quote didnt fit into the predetermined outcome, it was manipulated to fit the liberal narrative that conservatives are anti-environment and anti-science. The MDJ columnist conveniently omitted several key points within my statement, presenting a false narrative that furthered his agenda. If were going to present the facts, lets present the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.",5_2
"Economic Fundamentalsa growing, sound economy that provides opportunities for wealth creation",0_0
"Another spuriously precise claim trotted out is that The temperature of the planet has already increased about 1.5 degrees since 1850. This is a change from the usual one about the 20th century. The thing that is journalistically dodgy here is that any figure can be picked out of a hat depending on the start and finish dates. If you pick the years 1940 and 1975, for example, the IPCC itself allows there was a slight cooling trend, which explains why in the seventies the science journalists were being paid to worry about global cooling. On the other hand, the warming claimed for the full 150 year period mainly took place in just thirty years, between 1910 and 1940. The reality is that there is no global record of temperatures worth the name, certainly not prior to arrival of satellites, and even now temperature statistics are much contested and with good reason.",5_1
Quebec Polar Bears Threatened By Missing Ice,0_0
"This analysis finds that natural gas used as wind back-up in place of baseload or intermediate gas (in the absence of wind) results in approximately the same gas burn and an increase in related emissions, including CO2. Extrapolating from this example to the whole, the working hypothesis is that intermittent wind (and solar) are not effective CO2 mitigation strategies because of inefficiencies introduced by fast-ramping (inefficient) operation of gas turbines for firming otherwise intermittent and thus non-usable power.",4_4
"There is evidence of clustering, with a relative absence of extreme wet months before 1900, and again in the 1970s. But there is no evidence of anything unusual occurring in recent years, nor that extreme wet months are becoming more common or extreme.",1_7
Malkin has been an effective polemicist on the issue. Ms. Crossin is a Hoosier Mother committed to stopping the Big Brother project.,0_0
"OK, Im thinking, maybe I need to track back the neat graph they have of lightning strikes and see if there is a way to use lightning strike counts to show that the PDO swap matters more than CO2? then I stumble onto this other article about the snow falling in Czech Republic.",0_0
"H. Sterling Burnett, Climate Change Weekly",0_0
Leading Newspaper Calls for 50 cents per Gallon Federal Gas Tax,0_0
"There's an internet fight going on about how to limit emissions of greenhouse gases. In Corner #1, we have the Cap-and-Trade Kids, advocating limits on the amount of gases emitted. In Corner #2, we have the Pigou Clubbers, arguing for a carbon tax. Backing cap-and-trade are President Obama, Senator McCain (during the campaign), the European Union, and much of the rest of the world. Backing the carbon tax are Andrew Sullivan and a bunch of economists, nominally led by Harvard's Greg Mankiw. This seems a little lopsided.",0_0
"* Ethanol creates jobs. Yes, spending billions in taxes that could otherwise pay for other government or private programs and billions in extra consumer costs for energy and food does prop up biofuel programs, until companies go bankrupt anyway. As to ""Green"" jobs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics defines ""Green jobs"" as any that make a company ""more environmentally friendly"" and elsewhere includes bus drivers piloting natural gas, biofuel, or hybrid vehicles. The Solar Energy Society includes accountants, lawyers, and landscapers involved even part time with making or installing solar panels. Even burger flippers could be Green job, if they sell a meal to a truck driver who's hauling corn to an ethanol plant.",0_0
"Furthermore, HadCRUT4 shows absolutely no global warming since late 2000...",0_0
"Rising sea levels threaten every coastline. More powerful storms and floods threaten every continent. More frequent drought and crop failures breed hunger and conflict in places where hunger and conflict already thrive. On shrinking islands, families are already being forced to flee their homes as climate refugees. (Barack Obama)",0_0
"""Authorities say it will likely be some time before new legislation regulating video gambling in Illinois is implemented, since a major lawsuit was filed challenging numerous aspects of the law, said State Sen. Tim Bivins, R-Dixon.""",0_0
"To facilitate comparison with OLS methods, I also used the arima function with order (0,0,0) to reproduce OLS results (double-checking that this surmise was correct). The following calculates the maximum likelihood slope:",0_0
"Australia is not caught up in this rare phenomenon, as the southern hemisphere has a separate jet stream based around the south pole, Mr Fisher said.",0_0
"From the start IPCC computer model predictions were wrong so they switched to projections and scenarios but were still wrong. I put these findings with other problems to conclude that the only place in the world where a CO 2 increase precedes and causes a temperature increase is in global climate models. IPCC models are programmed so a CO 2 increase causes a temperature increase despite the evidence. In a classic circular argument, the IPCC then argue that their models prove CO 2 increase causes temperature increase. Here is a summary by Friends of Science member Norm Kalmanovitch of the problems and avoidance mechanisms using climate models.",5_1
People who say things like that shouldvolunteerto live there. The entire summer was below normal temperatures in the high Arctic (as it has been for the last dozen years) and parts of Alaska and Siberia had one of their coldest winters and summers on record.,0_0
"A very good article on the drawbacks of lgenergilampor we find in Aftonbladet. It is two students, Jonas Bckstrm and Ida Strandkvist, BDA from Lule Technical University, which uppmrksammat that focusing on carbon makes to other environmental problems remains in the background.",0_0
Struggle Inside the White House to Redefine American Power. Viking. 416,0_0
Green Jobs Myths at the White House Summit,0_0
"Yes, you read that right. The head of the IPCC said that reporting scientific results from an experiment was irresponsible. It is a wonderful quote to cite, because it exposes at a stroke the political agenda of Bolin and the IPCC, where the risk of derailing the pre-conceived plan to regulate CO2 is deemed irresponsible.",5_2
"It is good news that the authors recognise that there has been no global temperature increase since 1998. Even after the standstill appears time and again in peer-reviewed scientific studies, many commentators still deny its reality. We live in the warmest decade since thermometer records began about 150 years ago, but it hasnt gotten any warmer for at least a decade.",1_4
"For instance, a kettle with a power supply can serve as a constructor that can perform the task of heating water.",0_0
"""As states grapple with increasingly squeezed budgets, one simmering battle -- trying to collect sales taxes from retailing behemoth Amazon (AMZN) -- has heated up considerably over the past year. The jury's still out on how much money states like Rhode Island and North Carolina (which is thick in litigation with Amazon over this very issue) will get from online sales-tax initiatives. But Texas has issued its own bill to Amazon -- to the tune of $269 million.""",0_0
Ill acknowledge here that the problem cannot simply be fixed by ending all ethanol production and diverting the grains to food supply. We need more food to be produced for a growing world. Im sure that some farmers will be planting more grains to take advantage of the high prices but this will only be effective if the ethanol industry is prevented from gobbling up much needed food for a very inefficient fuel.,0_0
The Senate approves major farm legislation with a veto-proof majority.,0_0
"I never understood that definition. How could I use a shovel to turn over the earth for my garden, for example? Every kilo of iron ore that is mined to make my shovel is a kilo of iron ore that is forever unavailable to future generations to meet their own needs. Its unavoidable. Which means that we will run out of iron, and thus any use of iron is ultimately unsustainable. My shovel use is depriving my great-grandchildren of shovels.",0_0
"The corrected temperature record for the contiguous US is shown above (Hansen 2008). After correction, the highest temperature ever recorded in the US since 1880 was in 1934. There is no steady rise as predicted by greenhouse gas theory, but evidence of periodic oscillation of about 70 years, with a previous peak around 1933. Plotted below is the behavior of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (Mantua 2007) over the same period, showing the same periodic behavior. For a current graph of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), see the widget on the right side above.",2_1
"Reducing the risk of potential global environmental disaster requires the development of a clear and ambitious roadmap for institutional change and effective sustainability governance within the next decade, comparable in scale and importance to the reform of international governance that followed World War II, they wrote. Comment: the ???potential?? risk is based solely on admittedly flawed computer models",5_1
"2. A team of independent auditors, bloggers and scientists went through the BOM High Quality dataset and found significant errors, omissions and inexplicable adjustments, read more here http://joannenova.com.au/2012/06/threat-of-anao-audit-means-australias-bom-throws-out-temperature-set-starts-again-gets-same-results/",5_1
"Thus the ruling class is by no means a meritocracy. On the contrary, what is required is conformity, and it is enforced without pity. Campus political correctness codes can thus be understood as a way of instilling in future leaders an awareness of the detailed code of manners they will have to follow if they wish to succeed in life and a stern warning to those who would disobey. After graduation, hate speech laws and the like continue to enforce the code.",0_0
"Once moderate Democrats realize how the extortion strategy could backfire, many may jump off the cap-and-trade bandwagon. Some may even support separate legislation to preclude greenhouse gas regulation under PSD, NAAQS, etc.",0_0
"8 hours ago Australias antarctic runway melting. AUSTRALIAS $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a new air ...",0_0
"And the process that has been seen by the Tevatron according to our detailed rumor - the "" associated production of SUSY Higgs and b's"" - only appears is tan(beta) is large. So you not only find two Higgses but you also find that one of them is more important than the other - a feature that only becomes natural in supersymmetric models.",0_0
"Nordhaus explains that the assumptions used for the cost-benefit analyses, which are used to justify global carbon pricing, are theoretical; arguably, they are unrealistic for the real world. He says, p. 68 :",0_0
"Katharine talks specifically about trees flowering earlier , so can we identify any seasonal changes? Lubbock lies in Division 1, in Texas, so lets look at the winter temperatures from NCDC for there.",0_0
"From the time the ""Freon phase out"" began, virtually hundreds of millions of refrigeration systems worldwide had to be replaced. This included automobiles, homes, businesses, and food and medical refrigerators. The systems still functioned, but they could not be economically recharged with CFCs (does this sound familiar?). This enormous cost continues to be silently passed on to consumers. It is important to recognize that the alternatives to CFCs are many orders of magnitude more expensive than CFCs themselves. This is roughly analogous to comparing the cost per kwh of electricity produced by coal versus solar or wind.",0_0
* Nighttime marine air temperature (NMAT) trend (Hadley Center) = 0.2 F/decade,0_0
"Ironically, however, the global governance advocates focus less on countries like Iran, Cuba, and North Korea than on the United States. There is a reason for this skewed focus. The United States is the main threat to global governance, with its antiquated attachment to its Constitution rather than to multilateral human rights treaties and institutions. Fonte explains the philosophical development of this antagonism toward the United States (and others holding similar views elsewhere), and poses his own alternative, which he labels ""Philadelphian sovereignty,"" in contrast to the more familiar term, ""Westphalian sovereignty.""",0_0
"The mainstream media, which used to encourage the renewables push enthusiastically, is beginning to sober up too. With more and more cracks beginning to appear, many newspapers are returning to their proper role as the fourth estate, exposing the pitfalls of Europe?s green-energy gamble and opening their pages for thorough analysis and debate. Today, European media is full of news and commentary about the problems of an ill-conceived strategy that is becoming increasingly shaky and divisive.",0_0
"Im thinking, Maybe not. Yet, this sort of unethical practice goes on all the time. According to physician/activist Roy Poses, MD, there were at least four significant settlements of such cases during the last half of 2014 alone. And, by January 9th of our new year, another high profile case has already been settled. Officially, it is known as U.S. ex rel. Fragoules v. Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. , Civil Action No. 10-10420 (D. Mass.).",0_0
"Gotta love the climate spinmeisters at work, it even extends to the signs folks, those are not WEATHER WARNINGS as the sign claims.",0_0
"Hans Bader, senior attorney at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told The Washington Times there is no better proof that Obama is failing in his vow to run the most transparent government in American history than the fact that three judges have ordered discovery against his administration.",0_0
(i) Scholars who have studied with the support of the fund can be expected to providesprofessional a lifetime of returns to the community.,0_0
"The sad thing about the intellectual left is that not only does Manne not understand how to do the maths, the sums, and the physics of the climate, but hes not much good at the human insights into the process of climate research either. Indeed the irony, given the Churchs history of friction with science, is that Archbishop George Pell has a much better grip on both.",0_0
Here is why. Below I have enumerated the 60 factually correct statements in Roy Spencers interview. There are no factually incorrect statements.,0_0
"During the summer driving season, refiners face the dual challenge of meeting higher demand while producing fuel that meets the tougher warm weather regulations designed to combat smog. Assuming the cost of crude remains high over the next few months, this summer could be a record-breaker for gas prices.",0_0
suspected us of doing and what the nonpublished diagram from NCAR showing,0_0
"Yet the data file attached to a paper Nuccitelli co-authored last year marked only 64 papers out of 11,944 or just 0.5% as stating they believed the human influence on climate is not relatively small, in that they agree with the IPCC that more than half of the global warming since 1950 was manmade. Nuccitelli knew there was no consensus.",5_1
"So even though evidence shows the vested interests are 3500 times larger on the believer side, and a $176 billion dollar market hangs for its very life on the truth (or not) of the great climate scare, Manne thinks he was beaten by big money. And that kind of thinking is why the intellectuals keep coming up with potty ideas.",0_0
"Conclusion #4: Enforcement of EPA's reinterpretation of NSR has discouraged modifications that, had they been allowed to proceed, would have been economically and/or environmentally beneficial and would not have increased emissions.",0_0
"Still, maybe this is just the ABCs refreshingly hard-hitting style, applied to all who preach on global warming. So lets see if Rajendra Pachauri , head of the IPCC, is similarly introduced on Lateline as a mining engineer and economist, not a climatologist who by definition works closely with green groups and warming believers:",5_2
Yet Another Round of Rockefeller-Snowe objection,0_0
"Hopefully lArcheologo understand that this is a gross exaggeration, also because the idol to Twilight keeps saying that tries to make a mark in history. Can now hope for a miracle, that makes you fall in love again the British population and its Prime Minister, or perhaps more likely in prestigious international assignment, perhaps as President of the European Commission in Brussels: after all, a place that you could confare, view of the importance of the ability to charm the public and stakeholders, and the relatively minimal practical consequences of the decisions of the President.",0_0
"""Congress can't ignore the facts. More pollution means more childhood asthma attacks tell Washington: Don't weaken the Clean Air Act.""",0_0
"""A leadership transition would mark a seismic shift in the tone of the EPA Committee,"" states the E&E; report. The switch will mean, according to Frank O'Connell, president of the environmental group Clean Air Watch, that instead of serving as a ""shield for the executive branch"" the committee could turn into ""a battering ram against the executive branch.""",0_0
That this assumed amplification is present in the models but not in reality explains why the models consistently overestimate recent warming.,5_1
Anthony Weiner Ethics Investigation Called for by Nancy Pelosi:,0_0
Reductions in summer heat are even more dramatic. Hot summer days were much more common prior to 1960.,1_7
"debacle of Afghani President Hamid Karzai's stolen election and a simmering internal debate over the administration's strategy with some favoring a counterinsurgency campaign to stabilize the country,",0_0
"The Philadelphia sea level graph shows no acceleration since 1900, destroying their own claim that sea level rise rates have doubled since 1992. And anyone with an IQ higher than a turnip would recognize that sea level cant rise long term at different rates in different places. The steady Northeast US trend is due to subsidence caused byglacial rebound in Canada. As Canada rises, the Northeast US sinks like a teeter totter.",1_6
"it was being used for illicit or improper activities North Korean counterfeiting, for example, or Iran's nuclear and missile programs. When bankers claimed, as they often did, that",0_0
Im in the process of preparing a post about the apparent 2013 climate shift in the Pacific and its impacts on global sea surface temperatures.,0_0
"One problem is that he will be using the RegEM method, which provides no",0_0
"Energy is the lifeblood of our nation's economy, jobs, living standards and civil rights progress. Anything that affects energy availability, reliability and price affects every aspect of our lives. These federal diktats put bureaucrats and activists in charge of our entire economy seriously impairing our health and welfare.",0_0
"I was reminded of this in coming across a little sidelight to Mann vs. Steyn, the defamation lawsuit filed by scientist-turned-activist Michael Mann in an attempt to suppress the speech of global warming skeptics, starting with conservative writer Mark Steyn.",0_0
"From this post: The controversial head of the Oregon Climate Service -- stripped of the ""state climatologist"" title last year by Gov. Ted Kulongoski -- announced today that he will retire effective May 1. In February 2007, Kulongoski asked the president of Oregon State University to stop George Taylor from calling himself the state climatologist because of Taylor's skeptical stance on global warming . Note that Oregon is another state that is being ""helped"" by alarmist advocacy group Center for Climate Strategies .",5_2
"Usually, in scientific disputes, there is more than one claim at issue. With global warming, there's the claim that our planet, on average, is getting warmer. There's also the claim that human emissions are the main cause of it, that it's going to be catastrophic, and that we have to transform civilization to deal with it. These are all different assertions with different bases of evidence. Evidence for warming, for instance, isn't evidence for the cause of that warming. All the polar bears could drown, the glaciers melt, the sea levels rise 20 feet, Newfoundland become a popular place to tan, and that wouldn't tell us a thing about what caused the warming. This is a matter of logic, not scientific evidence. The effect is not the same as the cause.",0_0
"Every day we fail to take action, we export green jobs and our technological advantage to China. While some deniers claim there are no green jobs, just last week The New York Times pointed to this story :",0_0
"Forty-four percent (44%) of U.S. voters now say long-term planetary trends are the cause of global warming, compared to 41% who blame it on human activity.",0_0
"Larry Bell: Thank you both for contributing your thoughts and rationale in this exchange. Unfortunately, due to length, let's close this part of the discussion here recognizing that these will certainly not be the last words in this discussion. For now, we can leave those to reader commentaries. I can only urge and hope that responders continue the spirit of mutually respectful civility and substantive dialog that the two of you have exhibited.",0_0
"Here it was I who had the advantage: before writing the article in the Telegraph I had spent three months tracking the equation down, because though it converts changes in the flow of radiation at a planetary surface to changes in temperature, and is therefore essential to discovering how much warming a given increase in CO2 concentration will deliver the IPCC's 2001 and 2007 climate assessment reports do not mention it once.",0_0
"The assertion came at a Wednesday hearing before the House subcommittee on energy and power on the ""Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011."" The measure is designed to reassert the authority of Congress to levy taxes on the American people and direct public policy ? powers that are being usurped by the unelected bureaucrats at the Environmental Protection Agency.",0_0
"Heres a clue: the world has been in a warming trend since 1680, the depth of the Little Ice Age. It has warmed steadily since then, at half a degree per century. Within the trend there is a pattern of 25 ??? 30 years of warming followed by 25 ??? 30 years of mild cooling. We just finished a warming period that started in 1975, so chances are well have mild cooling for the next couple of decades. But there were no SUVs in 1680. Human emissions of CO2 were miniscule before 1850, nearly all come after WWII, and a quarter since 1998. Yet the warming trend was as strong in the 1700s and 1800s as it was in the 1900s.",2_1
"?Academics must feel comfortable sharing research,? the Post?s board wrote then, ?disagreeing with colleagues and proposing conclusions ? not all of which will be correct ? without fear that those who dislike their findings will conduct invasive fishing expeditions in search of a pretext to discredit them.?",0_0
"The reader shouts, Enough with the Marxist rhetoric! But those ideas are not exclusively Marxian dialectics. They are, in fact, an admixture of Marxist and progressive nonsensethe writings of Lenin, Trotsky, and John Dewey, the progressive philosopher, academic, and father of modern education in the US. 1",0_0
"Fig. 1 shows the temperature data from one surface dataset (from the U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration) and one satellite dataset of observations from the lower atmosphere (from the University of Alabama in Huntsville). There are other data compilations besides these two, but they are somewhat similar and the differences are not what I am interested in discussing here (although it is by no means an uninteresting topic).",0_0
"on Friday, April 2nd, 2010 at 4:19 am and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 12.1 km (7.5 miles); depth fixed by location program,0_0
"There seems to be little robust evidence either of any change to date, or of a significant change in the future.",0_0
Former Vibe editor and current author Dave Bry wondered publicly in a Saturday editorial for The Guardian whether or not it is moral to birth a child in a world that could supposedly become uninhabitable within the next few decades.,0_0
"The problem is that it is I who have the microphone. I understands that it irritates you, but Mr. tillfllet to vederlgga your arguments tnker I do not let g ifrn me, frklarade Gabriel.",0_0
"In ECO-FREAKS, the author shows how environmentalism has put us all in danger: The banning of DDT has made more people sick; the banning of asbestos has allowed more buildings to catch fire; and exaggerations about global warming jeopardize automobile safety. Environmentalists also played a role in the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina by blocking the federal government's plans to build giant floodgates on Lake Pontchartrain. Berlau urges policymakers to abandon such destructive policies and embrace a practical conservation ethic, one that would better protect public health and wildlife.",0_0
"Four weedy C 3 plants , common to European grasslands, were grown from seed to senescence in glasshouses receiving atmospheric CO 2 concentrations of 350 and 550 ppm. In addition, these annual species ( Cardamine hirsute , Spergula arvensis , Senecio vulgaris , and Poa annua ) were grown at full light and reduced light (67% of full light) levels, to determine the interactive effects of elevated CO 2 and light on their vegetative and reproductive success. What was learned",0_0
Below is the outline for our previous edition of our Agenda for Congress (This Liberal Congress Went to Market? A Bi-Partisan Agenda for Congress),0_0
The map below is the 1971 National Geographic ice map which is nearly identical to the current state of the Arctic.,1_1
"Wood used to be society's primary energy source; it's now shrunk to a few percent of the total pie, yet we consume more total wood now. Coal's trajectory was the same; used to dominate (1910) as two-thirds of the world's energy but its share has declined since, though total coal use is up. Oil's share of world energy peaked in 1973; still total consumption has since risen as economies expanded. New energy sources and techniques to sustain and propel society don't displace old ones in absolute terms, just relative ones. Likely some combination of solar and nuclear will take the next slot in this long line, expanding choices, but not replacing what came before. After that, in a century? Dark energy? Who knows.",0_0
"Gratefully, though ideologically aligned with them, he attempted to appease and didn't take the extreme level of action Friends of the Earth would have liked.",0_0
"The reasons for the changes in the GOP were many, and the Democrats were affected by some of the same forces. Both parties were reshaped by political developments in the 1960s the counterculture, the Vietnam War, Barry Goldwater's candidacy, the Voting Rights Act, and the racial realignment of the South.",0_0
"Meanwhile, the McKinsey Global Initiative has come out with version 2 of its ""we can save the world very cheaply"" report, which is available if you register and give them your email address via the links here. The fiendish consultants have disabled the ability to cut their charts out, so you'll have to get a copy for yourself, but their Exhibit 1 shows that all the ""affordable"" options are to do with energy efficiency, not grand new green energy projects, which are much more expensive and require aggressive carbon pricing (and this needs to be born in mind as well). Furthermore, these are truly global initiatives - something has has to be done everywhere, around the world - as Exhibit 4 makes clear. Something we can do quite affordably may be a different kettle of fish heads for the developing world. If you can't afford an incandescent lightbulb, you can't afford an LED lamp, whatever the CO2 abatement potential is. I hope to provide a full response to the McKinsey paper soon.",0_0
"Obviously, EPA's air quality standards and dire warnings about soot are totally out of whack with reality.",0_0
"From Dave Mastio, deputy editorial page editor of the Washington Times :",0_0
"What has been revealed, so far, is a not uncommon occurrence in contemporary science: an ?epistemic community? intervening in peer review and publication processed to further its own interests and beliefs. From my experience, this involves ensuring the continued funding of a research agenda that has become closely identified with a cause and has attracted much government support because of its policy relevance. In this case this involved considerable support for and collaboration with the IPCC and Hadley Centre.",0_0
"Now I would like to take a moment to go into detail about why Utility MACT would be so devastating. Just to put this rule in perspective, even Democrat Representative John Dingell, author of the Clean Air Act amendments, said Utility MACT is ""unparalleled in its size and scope"" and it ""presents a set of new regulations with possible wide-reaching impacts on the way our country generates and consumes electricity.""",0_0
Behavior of World's Glaciers Fails to Prove Global Warming Theory,0_0
"That is what I mean by fighting on marshy ground, by fighting on the same ground as the Warmists. No wonder they stand their ground it is as if the Skeptics are fundamentally in agreement with them, only differing in scale.",0_0
"""Now that the House of Representatives has voted to repeal the health care law, Republicans say they're likely to move soon to another target a rewrite of the Clean Air Act so that it can't be used to fight climate change.""",0_0
"But the judge added a stinging rider: ""It is an extremely disheartening and sad occasion that a person whose life and resources have been placed into rural property for the purposes of conducting a grazing and farming business has been required to resort to this action.""",0_0
"Marvel goes on to assert that the pause in warming can be explained by a massive increase in ocean heat content. Well, all right, I suppose this is a plausible theory. But it is also a very new oneand only one of 52 different theories offered to explain the hiatus.",1_4
"Thus, much of the threat to our sovereignty comes not in traditional national security areas, but on policies heretofore considered entirely domestic in nature.",0_0
"on Friday, August 20th, 2010 at 1:30 am and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"climate variation. As a result, Soon urges caution in concluding that human action has caused global warming.",2_1
The Climate Science Isnt Settled Written by Richard S. Lindzen,5_1
"Behind the point-scoring lies an important political battle. Proposition 23 seeks to suspend AB 23, California's tough greenhouse-reduction law, until unemployment in the state drops below 5.5 per cent for four consecutive quarters, a figure that is virtually unobtainable. It was somewhat cynically financed by Tesoro and Valero, two oil companies based in Texas.",0_0
"The transition, dubbed the Energiewende, has so far added more than 100 billion euros ($134 billion) to the power bills of households, shop owners and small factories as renewable energy met a record 25 percent of demand last year. RWE AG, the nations biggest power producer, last year reported its first loss since 1949 as utility margins are getting squeezed because laws give green power priority to the grids.",4_1
The Milwaukee Sentinel Google News Archive Search,0_0
"Peterson last week told the Hill newspaper that he has lined up 45 members of the House Democratic Caucus to oppose the Waxman-Markey Clean Energy and Security Act, a major climate change mitigation bill that Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to bring to the floor for a vote by July 4. If Peterson is not bluffing -- and he'd have to have the world's best poker face to pull that one off -- then he has the votes to kill the bill.",0_0
"33 Corporate Environmental Enforcement Council, supra note 17, p. 22.",0_0
"Strike five : During September when the minimum occurs, the Arctic receives almost no sunlight.",0_0
"30 Gal Luft and Anne Korin, ""Terrorism Goes to Sea,"" Foreign Affairs (November/December 2004); John Temple Swing, ""What Future for the Oceans,"" Foreign Affairs (September/October 2003); Michael Greenberg, Maritime Terrorism: Risk and Liability, RAND, 2006; Michael Richardson, A Time-Bomb for Global Trade: Maritime-Related Terrorism in an Age of WMD, 2004; ""Maritime Terrorism: A New Challenge for NATO,"" Energy Security (January 24, 2005); Daniel Yergin, ""Ensuring Energy Security,"" Foreign Affairs (March/April 2006).",0_0
Maybe God has got a sense of humour? says Lyn. Climate change investigators stuck in ice in Antarctica in High Summer !! Then the Chinese ice-breaker rescuing them also gets stuck in ice !!?,1_1
aspects of observed regional climate change related to diurnal temperature range,0_0
"Beevers data had similarly suggested higher temperatures were killing pika, but his analysis excluded data from nearby populations thriving at warmer and lower elevations just 93 miles away from 71% of Beevers extinct sites. At Lava Beds pika were flourishing at an average elevation 900 feet lower than the average elevation of three nearby extinct sites. Temperatures at Lava Beds also averaged an additional 3.6F higher, and precipitation was 24% less. But Beever analyzed those sites separately. Likewise Stewart was clearly more interested in a connection to global warming. In his introduction he speculated, climate change forces range contractions, species may effectively be pushed off the tops of mountains by warming climate . He also referenced Parmesans bad climate science connection for support. To create a link to global warming, Stewart needed to use average summer temperature as the other model variable.",0_0
"Of equal importance here are the magnitudes of the actual trends of the surface and troposphere. The average global surface trend for 90 model simulations for 1979-2012 (Climate Model Intercomparison Project 5 or CMIP-5 used for IPCC AR5) is +0.232 C/decade. The average of the observations is +0.157 C/decade. Therefore models, on average, depict the last 34 years as warming about 1.5 times what actually occurred. Santer et al. 2012 (for 1979-2011 model output) noted that a subset of CMIP-5 models produce warming in LT that is 1.9 times observed, and for a deeper layer of the atmosphere (mid-troposphere, surface to about 18 km) the models warm the air 2.5 times that of observations. These are significant differences, implying the climate sensitivity of models is too high.",5_1
"(Bonn) CFACT will hold a press conference at the UN conference on climate change at Hotel Maritim, Bonn, Wednesday, June 5th at 11:30 AM in room Haydn.",0_0
"4:07 when the snow is snowing everywhere to us. It's time for the annual deja vu. It was snowing in Pilsen. Yesterday and today. The volume was negligible in front of my windows. But friends and family members in other parts of Pilsen (and especially elsewhere in Central Europe) reported intense snow. The temperature stays near 0 ??C, the freezing point.",1_3
"Andrew J. Dowdy Tropical cyclone (TC) observations are used to examine changes in the TC climatology of the Australian region. The ability to investigate long-term changes in TC numbers improves when the ElNio-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is considered. Removing variability in TC numbers associated with ENSO shows a significant decreasing trend in TC numbers at the 9398% confidence level. Additionally, there is some indication of a temporal change in the relationship between ENSO and TC numbers, with ENSO accounting for about 3550% of the variance in TC numbers during the first half of the study period, but only 10% during the second half.",1_7
"As for the amount of deforestation in relation to total forest area, Thomas Lovejoy, then of the World Wildlife Fund, offered a low projection of 50% deforestation between 1980 and 2000 in Latin America and a high of 67%. The source for this was a set of satellite photos taken in 1978 and reported in the Washington Post to show that ""as much as one-tenth of the Brazilian Amazon has been razed."" But according to Fulbright scholar and ecologist Robert Buschbacher working in Brazil, the Landsat photos ""concluded that 1.55 percent of the Brazilian portion of the Amazon has been deforested."" ""On the basis of this and other evidence, Buschbacher says, `Because of a relatively low percentage of forest clearing and the remarkable capacity of the forest to recover its structure the threat of turning the Amazon into a wasteland is exaggerated.'",0_0
"Climate prediction not only has the problem of nonlinearity in dynamical systems, but also shares with the analysis of typical real complex systems the equally great trouble associated with the presence of a huge panoply of variables, subsystems, and possible feedbacks in play. I remember Rol Madden commenting, back in the 90s when I used to visit NCAR, that it would be a sheer accident if numerical experiments with GCMs were to give credible quantitative representations of the real climate, presumably including future effects of increasing GHG concentrations.",5_1
"Differences in nomenclature notwithstanding, Codevilla's article is particularly useful in its lengthy descriptions of the two parties to the conflict, for they are more than just political movements and are in fact separate cultures. The culture of the progressive aristocracy is devoted to statism, whereas the productive class tends to hold classical liberal values.",0_0
to be a warm bias when the nighttime boundary layer has a reduction of long wave cooling at night.,0_0
"Other scientists suspected Pounds correlations with climate change were simply due to a lack of statistical rigor. In a 2008 paper, Evaluating the links between climate, disease spread, and amphibian declines the researchers demonstrated just how easy it is to generate meaningless statistical correlations. In response to Pounds link to global warming they wrote, Numerous other variables, including regional banana and beer production, were better predictors of these extinctions . Almost all of our findings were opposite to the predictions of the chytrid-thermal-optimum hypothesis. 18",3_2
"Maybe. If the Court overturns the Rule, several other EPA rules compelling States to include greenhouse gases in their permitting programs would become unenforceable or vulnerable to legal challenges. The decision might then create momentum for other litigation to roll back the EPA's takeover of State environmental programs.",0_0
"James Annan, formerly a strong defender of Michael Manns infamously flawed alarmist hockey stick graph and an expert on climate sensitivity to CO 2 and other influences, recently concluded in his blog that IPCC is increasingly acting in a wholly unscientific manner. He referred to a list of scientists polled as largely constituting the self-same people responsible for the bogus analyses criticized over the years, and which even if they were valid then, are certainly outdated now.",5_2
"The resulting energyused all across the economybecomes less expensive. Cheaper energy lowers the cost of doing business, making American companies more competitive and enabling them to invest and expand.",0_0
"Every major climate organization endorsed the ice age scare, including NCAR, CRU, NAS, NASA as did the CIA.",5_1
Clean Power Plan vs. Reliability: A False Dilemma for States:,0_0
"But today there is war and economic recession, oil prices have collapsed, and Ford and other companies closed their operations and left. Some 80% of the people again have no jobs. Their families are again impoverished and starving.",0_0
"If thinking backward or forward a century seems a stretch for tech forecasting--it is a long time, although to repeat, this is the time-frame engaged by serious climate-related policy wonks--how about 50 years? Fewer years ago than even that, many of us of a certain boomer age were still using slide rules. A representative list of world and energy-changing inventions centered around 1960 would include the first video tape recorder, integrated circuit, laser, light emitting diode, the first communications satellite, and the ARPANET (mother of the Internet). Who forecast their impacts?",0_0
"As well as pumping much as 600 million tonnes more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the carbon credits scheme has been abused by countries like Russia and the Ukraine which have used them as a money making scam.",4_1
Carbon taxes are bad for the economy as economic analysis by both the Heritage Foundation and the U.S. Energy Information Administration have projected.,4_1
"The authors bring up the concept of missing heat used in efforts to explain the failure of the globe to warm. Following a suggestion of Hans von Starch, they assert the heat was not missing, because it did not exist. They point out that the difference in surface temperatures from 1998 to 2012 northern Eurasia and from those in 1980 to 1997. The authors suggest that the strong decline in temperatures is the result of declining ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun, which can vary by 10%. UV radiation is unlike the full spectrum of solar radiation (mostly visible light) which varies little. See link under Science: Is the Sun Rising? and the study by Ermolli et al. that is linked therein.",1_4
The conclusion of Ms Bug and her journalistic collaborators is that the male students are sexist pigs who should be vaginized.,0_0
"His reasoning is the fallacy known (for a couple of thousand years) as Argument from Authority. The single point that makes science different from a religion is that in science, opinions are always trumped by evidence. There are no high Priests. Manne thinks evidence means studies of the consensus of how many scientists vote Yes. The entire philosophy of science is that evidence comes from things like thermometers, satellites and weather-balloons, not from internet surveys.",5_2
"Yet he fails to admit that the reports for instance, an often-quoted report from 1922 about the unprecedented Arctic warming and loss of sea ice observed by meteorologists support what Roy Spencer says and are inconsistent with the largely speculative results in the various papers suggesting sea ice extent scarcely changed until it began to decline in the 1970s.",0_0
Education Minister slams universities elitist view Australias $46m Antarctic airstrip melts Asian banks fill the funding gap Overcrowded prisons festering ...,0_0
"Hence, it is necessary for climatologists like Pederson to assert, at least to the public, that warming has occurred after 1998 and, more recently, that it is actually ""accelerating."" Without warming in the 21st century, ""global warming"" hasn't reached the crucial 30-year milestone. But if for Pederson there is no statistically significant cooling over the past decade, there was also no statistically significant warming in the late 20th century, either. Warmists like Pederson cannot admit this fact because it utterly destroys their case.",1_4
"Since we are free to choose from an infinite bag, all of our models are suspect and should not be trusted until they have proven their worth by skillfully predicting data that has not yet been seen . None of the models in the AP study have done so. Even stronger, since they said temperatures were higher when they were in fact lower, they must predict higher temperatures in the coming years, a forecast which few are making.",5_1
"Ow et al. say the results of their study ""demonstrated that tropical seagrasses can increase their photosynthetic rates, adjust photosynthetic performance and increase growth rates in response to CO 2 enrichment"" (see figure below), and that this ""ability of marine macro-autotrophs to utilize the greater CO 2 availability suggests that they will thrive under future scenarios of climate change,"" further citing Koch et al. (2013) in this regard and adding that still-earlier ""observations of high seagrass abundance at CO 2 seep sites indicate seagrass productivity might continually benefit from pCO 2 enrichment over the long term,"" citing Fabricius et al. (2011).",3_3
"Atmospheric satellite temp. differences, 1979-1997 (MSU-LT)= approx. zero",0_0
"Climatologist: ???There has been a downward trend in strong (F3) to violent (F5) tornadoes in U.S. since 1950s?? ??? ???Warming causes fewer strong tornadoes, not more??",1_7
"clivere on October 8, 2013 at 8:03 pm",0_0
"In a last-minute twist, the King County Republican Party warned Saturday morning of robo-calls to voters falsely claiming that the caucuses had been delayed a week.",0_0
"The calendar may say it's spring, but a major winter-like snow storm is wreaking havoc on the lives of Americans from the Rockies to the Upper Plains. Thirteen states are either under a storm watch or warning.",1_3
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"It means the destruction of individual responsibility, and thus the individual.",0_0
"They even made a video. Meh. Does anyone actually think the World Meteorological Organization, which is at the forefront of misrepresenting its members' collective views , would succumb to such foolishness? Would anyone actually sign this petition to change the naming system to make a political point?",5_2
"Personal attacks are common in any dispute simply because we're human. It's easier to insult than to the follow the thread of an argument. And just because someone makes an ad hominem argument, it doesn't mean that their conclusion is wrong. But when the personal attacks are the first out of the gate, and when they seem to be growing in intensity and frequency, don your skeptic's cap and look more closely at the evidence.",0_0
the middle of the cloud of published series and explaining the reasons behind,0_0
"England has just experienced its coldest Spring since 1891 , according to the Central England Temperature Series. Capetown recorded it??s earliest June snowfall in years .",1_3
1) Carbon dioxide levels probably will increase for decades to come as the result of population and economic growth.,0_0
In yesterday?s article Pachauri dismissed concerns that a lead author of a recent IPCC report is a Greenpeace activist:,5_2
"The skeptics note that first, there are still political risks. Nobody wants to be the first to invest in a new nuke. While streamlining the regulatory process for new plant siting and operating may work in theory, financiers want to see it work in real life before they make an investment. They're not quite sure, for example, how the loan guarantees will really work. Beyond Washington, state and local political risks loom, perhaps even larger than federal political risks. Several states, including Illinois, periodically ""appear on the verge of passing legislation"" to reregulate power rates to residential users and thus curtail the power industry's ability, in a deregulated environment, to pass capital costs through to end users, another conference attendee noted.",0_0
"Aerosols: Many atmospheric aerosols are liquid droplets containing dissolved sea salt from sea spray, sulfuric acid (H2SO4), organic molecules from trees and plants, and other compounds. Over agricultural and urban areas, dust and soot are common aerosols Soot particles emanate from incomplete combustion of fuels such coal, wood, oil, jet fuel, and kerosene. Soot consists chiefly of amorphous carbon and tar like substances that cause it to adhere to surfaces. Both liquid and solid aerosols help clouds develop by encouraging the condensation of water vapor, which does not occur readily without an original seed particle of some sort in the air.",0_0
"Later, Dr Pachauri would unilaterally drop Tata from the title and now, according to sources, Tata, one of Indias largest conglomerates, wants little to do with him.",0_0
"This is particularly interesting in light of where GHCN has concentrated the Global Thermometers. They are largely moved to airports in valleys or near the coastline. (Folks dont build major airports on the tops of mountains its hard to get 10,000 feet of straight and level on a mountain top, and the cities are typically down in the valleys.)",0_0
"Though if the AMA did come out as ??? Doctors for the Planet ?? raging against carbon, I look forward to John Cook??s announcement that their opinion is irrelevant because they have no expertise in climate science.",5_2
"The protesters are hoping that President Obama will block the $7 billion pipeline. Their rationale: The pipeline will result in major increases in carbon-dioxide emissions, and therefore it must be stopped or catastrophic climate change will ensue. Protest as they might, a State Department report found that the pipeline will not have a major environmental impact.",0_0
"Jersey News Outlet Cries ""Global Warming' as Blizzard Approaches",0_0
TABLE Indicative Marginal Global Damages from Current GHG Emissions ($/Ton CO 2 -eq),0_0
"Silence Begets SuspicionWhatever the reasons, one fact is indisputable: the Bush administration did silence itself by publishing its report on the state of the environment without including any discussion of global climate change data, trends, science, technology, policies, or goals. (Instead, the report covered just one global environmental issue, stratospheric ozone depletion.) Largely unnoticed by critics, however, is the fact that the censorship cut two ways. While the White House stopped EPA from publishing references to studies such as the 2001 NRC report, EPA also prevented the White House from discussing work such as a recent report by Sally Baliunas and Willie Soon that provides credible evidence that recent warming is not as unusual as environmental activists claim.",0_0
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"Eighty years ago this summer, more than 80% of the US was experiencing drought, and about half the country was in extreme drought.",1_7
"In 1992, former Vice President Al Gore reassured his listeners, ""Only an insignificant fraction of scientists deny the global warming crisis. The time for debate is over. The science is settled."" In the real 1992, however, Gallup ""reported that 53% of scientists actively involved in global climate research did not believe global warming had occurred; 30% weren't sure; and only 17% believed global warming had begun. Even a Greenpeace poll showed 47% of climatologists didn't think a runaway greenhouse effect was imminent; only 36% thought it possible and a mere 13% thought it probable."" Seventeen years later, in 2009, Gore apparently determined that he needed to revise his own revisionist history, asserting that the scientific debate over human-induced climate change had raged until as late as 1999, but now there was true consensus. Of course, 2009 is when Climategate broke, reminding us that what had smelled funny before might indeed be a little rotten.",0_0
Organic yogurt king and Stonyfield Farm CEO Gary Hirshberg may have thought that he avoided the buzzsaw this week by ducking a TV appearance with me. Guess I'll just have to go on without him.,0_0
"A final observation. If Judge Kavanaugh is wrong and PSD applies to all regulated air pollutants, not just NAAQS-regulated pollutants, then absurd results arise not from the EPA?s misreading of the statute but from Massachusetts v. EPA, which authorized the EPA to regulate GHGs. If so, however, then the permitting nightmare that EPA seeks to ?tailor? away by acting as a super legislature and rewriting clear statutory language is itself evidence that the Court misread the CAA.",0_0
"The UN just released its summary report on how we should all expect extreme heat in the future. Well forget all that.Its all nonsense coming from unrealistic models that do not even take the cycles of the sun (source of 99.9% of the Earths surface heat) and cycles of the oceans (which cover 70+% of the Earths surface) into account. Garbage in, garbage out. Simple as that.",5_1
"Rebuttal: Global Warming To Bring Colder/Warmer Winters ? Analysis by Paul Homewood ? ""It seems that every time we get some snow, another ?scientist? is wheeled out to explain that, no matter how cold it gets, it is all down to global warming'",0_0
Los Angeles lawmakers require home improvement stores to construct shelters for day laborers who wait for work in their parking lots.,0_0
3. ECONOMICS Cuban dictator Fidel Castro announces plans to resign the presidency.,0_0
"Guest essay by Rud Istvan, WUWT, Aug 9, 2015",0_0
"Pelosis Interesting View On Energy : Apparently Ms. Pelosis new script is still being reworked, but its a telling mistake. Not only is natural gas every bit as much a fossil fuel as oil or coal. More to the point, these concentrated organic compounds found beneath the earths surface must be extracted by . . . drilling. And sometimes even drilling offshore, on the Outer Continental Shelf. But more drilling is what Ms. Pelosi had refused to allow just a few days ago.",5_2
"The worlds major scientific journals agree that since 2001 the global average temperature has been constant. We live in a warm decade and the world is reacting to that warmth but, contrary to predictions, the world isnt getting any warmer at the moment, Dr David Whitehouse, the GWPFsscience editor, said.",1_4
Be sure to notice the sea level rise rate centered above each graph. Keep in mind that a 30 cm sea level rise in 30 years requires an average of 10 mm per year.,0_0
"On this basis, two different research groups have independently done their own merging and intercalibration of the data from various satellites which have been in orbit at various times since 1979:",0_0
"Inconvenient weather fact: Frequency of violent tornadoes like the one in Oklahoma has been declining, not increasing",1_7
"Election 2012: GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney has a new, not-so-welcome friend: Al Gore, who extolled the candidate's promise to fight hard against global warming. Does Gore think Romney can't win?",0_0
"Agreement signed at San Jose September 13, 2007; entered into force September 13, 2007. With schedules. And agreement amending the agreement. Signed at San Jose September 25 and 27, 2007; entered into force September 27, 2007.",0_0
On August 24 the BOM predicted that spring would be hot across the north. Instead it was cold everywhere except in the west of WA.,0_0
From the latest NIPCC Report Field scale influence of CO2 on the world's major crops,0_0
"Few Americans would disagree. But after their usual pontificating, the Democrats once again proved that, if they didn't have double standards, they would have no standards.",0_0
12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;,0_0
"Possibly one Republican candidate will call in the next debate for ending US funding of the IPCC, now shown to be actively working (with the Obama White House) to subvert US law. Enough is enough is enough. Possibly Governor Romney could defend Holdren and the IPCC.",0_0
"Its certainly true that carbon dioxide is good for vegetation, Dyson said. About 15 percent of agricultural yields are due to CO-2 we put in the atmosphere. From that point of view, its a real plus to burn coal and oil.",3_3
"But these are highly respected outfits: the Manhattan Institute, the Mercatus Center, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Reason Foundation, etc.",0_0
"The election of Barack Obama has not brought comfort and confidence to the ranks of climate campaigners. To the contrary, there is an obvious sense of panic in the rhetoric of climate campaigners right now. This panic arises not simply from the fact that the global economic crisis is derailing expensive climate action plans, but from the deeper problem that the scientific case for catastrophic global warming is slowly unraveling. After two decades of steadily increasing global temperatures from the late 1970s to the late-1990swhich on the surface seemed to validate the basic claim of the global warming theorythere has been no warming for the last decade. This was unexpected and is starting to falsify the predictions of nearly every computer climate model. The climate campaigners are engaged in complicated contortions to explain away this inconvenient truth, but a few more years of flat or slightly declining global temperatures and the entire issue might turn turtle.",1_4
"If CO2 is a powerful greenhouse gas, we would have seen a great warming trend in Indonesian temperature history. We havent. Recent temperatures, according to the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, have been scarcely warmer than they were 70 to 100 years ago. Instead of a strong warming trend, the Indonesian data are dominated by year-to-year changes and natural oscillations every 50 to 100 years.",2_1
"Europe also drills for oil, onshore and off its coasts, especially in the North Sea.",0_0
If Rudd thinks we can set an example for the rest of the world with a cap-and-trade system on greenhouse gas emissions the ETS all it would do is push up the cost of living in Australia and the rest of the world will laugh .,4_1
"Looking at the data by decade, it's apparent that the anomalously quiet 1920s were followed by surging landfalling hurricane frequency in the 1930s and 1940s. But after the 1940s, the remainder of the 20th century was rather quiet.",0_0
"Almost overriding all of these are the ridiculous population predictions, particularly in Paul Ehrlich?s book The Population Bomb. One quote is enough to show the insanity of the claims. ?The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate.? Amazingly, despite the inaccuracies Ehrlich and his co-author John Holdren continue to have influence.",0_0
"Undaunted by reality, all the evidence, and millions of temperature records in the year 2000 Dr. Hansen and Tom Karl at NOAA adjusted the US temperature record to make it look like Hansens already adjusted global temperature record. Theypromoted1998 from fifth hottest to hottest by adding nearly half a degree on to 1998 and lowering the temperatures of 1921, 1934 and 1942.",5_1
"As shown in the figure belowfrom Levitus et al 2012, they claim that the uncertainty range of the observations(thevertical lines on the red line)narrows to very small levels in recent years.",0_0
"For example, on February 6, 2012 at a press conference in Berlin, Dr Sebastian Lning and Professor Fritz Vahrenholt unveiled their newly published book Die kalte Sonne . In attendance at the press conference was a journalist from Die Zeit, who, never having read the book, immediately attacked the two authors and their message. The good news that there was lots of science emerging showing no coming climate catastrophe was just too upsetting for him to handle. Just think about that.",0_0
"There is a weird logic to the sort of inflated rhetoric we've seen from Ambassador Rice and others in the Obama Administration. The conceptual corollary of treating ""soft power"" as one's national security tool of first resort is that broad swathes of economic, cultural, and political life suddenly become appropriate subjects for analysis through the prism of ""national security."" But how easy do we wish it to be to assign our security bureaucracy responsibilities with regard to whatever issue is next offered as a ""national security"" challenge hitherto ignored by stick-in-the-mud traditionalists like me who apparently just don't understand the real challenges America faces? We should be careful of mission creep grounded in such totalistic understandings, and for reasons that go beyond poor prioritization of scarce resources. The risk of deeper impropriety lurks in these shadows.",0_0
"So despite the fact that renewable subsidies are only a sixth of the fossil subsidies, per unit of energy they are seven times as large as the fossil subsidies.",4_4
"""Studies conducted to date have made uniformly bleak predictions for the survival of tropical forest lizards around the globe our data show that four similar species, occurring in the same geographic region, differ markedly in their vulnerabilities to climate warming,"" the authors of the study write in the learned journal Global Change Biology . ""Moreover, none appear to be on the brink of extinction. Considering that these populations occur over extremely small geographic ranges, it is possible that many tropical forest lizards, which range over much wider areas, may have even greater opportunity to escape warming.""",3_2
"The draft bill that is the subject of this hearing, The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACESA), is an ambitious attempt to meet the very real challenges posed by rising amounts of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere. Some of the draft bill's goals are unquestionably valid. With climate change, solutions will take time, and hurried action can lead to costly errors. The subcommittee and its members are, therefore, to be commended for their efforts to explore the discussion draft's complex implications.",0_0
So our James is gearing with anticipation for the coming Climate Wars well good for him.,0_0
"McKibben claims hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as ""fracking,"" is responsible for releasing massive quantities of methane into the atmosphere. He argues fracking could release methane in sufficient quantities that humans' use of natural gas could lead to more intense global warming than our use of coal.",0_0
"Drought deepens worries about food supplies, prices",0_0
"One sponsor is Silicon Valley's Zoe Lofgren, ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee's immigration subcommittee. Another, who apparently copied much of Lofgren's bill, is Idaho freshman Republican Raul Labrador.",0_0
"""The ruling class demonizes any questioning of its demands,"" says Boston University professor emeritus Angelo Codevilla.""The pretexts differ"" from issue to issue,"" he notes. ""But the reality is the same: Bow or be persecuted. Consequently, if we wish to remain who we are in the face of threats and declamations meant to force us to honor intellectual and moral falsehoods, we have no alternative but clearly and loudly to distinguish between true and false, and fully make the case for what we believe to be right.""",0_0
"4. CO2 COOLS, NOT WARMS, THE ATMOSPHERE. This one is a little more subtle because the net effect of greenhouse gases is to cool the upper atmosphere, and warm the lower atmosphere, compared to if no greenhouse gases were present. Since any IR absorber is also an IR emitter, a CO2 molecule can both cool and warm, because it both absorbs and emits IR photons.",2_3
"Even a relatively small town, like Aberdeen, WA seems to have lots of firework smoke, with levels getting well into the unhealthy range (about 90).",0_0
"As illustrated in the two earlier posts that use these same datasets (see here and here ), the Multi-Model Mean of the CMIP3 coupled ocean-atmosphere climate models do not hindcast and project the Sea Surface Temperature anomalies in any ocean basin, when the data is presented on times-series basis and on a zonal mean (latitude-based) basis. (The model mean of the West Pacific subset may look good on a time-series basis , but not on a zonal mean basis .)",5_1
"Claims that weather forecasts are reasonably accurate up to 48 hours are based on measured results for fair weather. Results for severe weather, which are really what is important for people, are very poor. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has a worse record for both. Every prediction/projection since their first Report in 1990 has been wrong, with claims for more severe weather part of that failure. They fail because of fundamental errors in assumptions and mechanics.",5_1
"That is all the more true this year. Every day since Sept. 11, we have been subjected to scare stories and tales of imminent terror. But since that fateful day, very few have died. Three unfortunate people have died in the anthrax scare that has gripped the nation. Far more have died in car accidents -- some of which may have happened after people took the decision to drive rather than fly.",0_0
The data show that the global temperature was 0.21 C (about 0.38 F) below the 20-year average for July. This followed on from a June temperature about 0.02 C below the average. Only 3 months in the last 41 had been below this norm.,0_0
A digression into the Y2K bug opens up an unncessary can of worms.,0_0
"Equally fundamental and essential, policies and rules that affect our livelihoods, living standards and liberties must be based on honesty, accountability, evenhanded application, and verifiable evidence.",0_0
"She schlepped that tutu and that tiara for the whole 13.1, walking only at a couple of the last water stops. This event was 95% women, and attracts a LOT of folks who really don't run the whole thing, so it was a great place for her to begin. It's also pretty laid back, as there are actually character photo ops every mile, though we skipped those. I have not seen our time, but we probably did about 2:45. That's 20 minutes worse than my time five years ago -- it would be nice to say I was holding back to stay with my daughter but in fact she pulled me through the last mile. Muscles and cardio were fine but the knees and ankles really can't take it any more. But I proudly wore this bad boy all day.",0_0
"With respect to our papers, the press repeated innuendos that Mr. Soon received funds from Southern Co. He did not, which is a matter of public record. Other than salaries from our employers, Mr. Soon, co-author Kesten Green and I received no money for our two papers at issue. Interestingly, it is our impression that our employers believe in the ""dangerous man-made global warming hypothesis.""",0_0
"One natural factor in climate change may be variations in the brightness of the sun, over decades to centuries, that are in step with changes in the sun's magnetism, which has a period of roughly 11 years and is known as the sunspot cycle. Brightness changes have only been recorded over two decades of satellite observations. If brightness changes were to continue to occur over decades to centuries, they might cause terrestrial temperature change.",2_1
"Yet, the White House keeps pushing the Green-energy narrative and, on July 3, 2014, ""The Energy Department Just Announced $4 Billion For Projects That Fight Global Warming,"" as the headline reads at ThinkProgress.org.",0_0
the cost-benefit calculus was altered by the darkness. Dr. Maestripieri then offers a fascinating analysis of the,0_0
"Hopefully, the lessons learned about the labyrinthine rules of protests in D.C.there are dozens of agencies that govern public spaces in this cityallow for an even bigger protest to occur soon. I heard whispers of 5 million bags making their way to D.C. in the near future.",0_0
Looking Up for Answers: What Weather Balloons Tell Us About Greenhouse Warming,0_0
"Coal-fired power plants in China, India, and other developing countries do emit large quantities of real pollution: sulfates, nitrous oxides, mercury, and soot that can cause respiratory problems and death. However, modern pollution control systems could and eventually will eliminate most of that.",0_0
"in order to establish whether or not such a relationship exists, measurements of short-timescale solar events, individual cosmic ray events, and spatially correlated cloud parameters could be of great significance. Here we propose such a comparison using observations from a pair of radio telescopes arrays,the Long Wavelength Array (LWA) and the Eight-meter-wavelength Transient Array (ETA). These low-frequency radio arrays have a unique ability to simultaneously conduct solar, ionospheric and cosmic rays observations and are thus ideal for such a comparison.",0_0
"A discovery made by this research is the insight that neither ice ages nor the interglacials have seen any longer ""peaceful"" period without changes - at least not in the last 800,000 years. Even the interannual variations were substantial. The Greenland data even point to 10-degree inter-annual variations of the air temperature.",2_1
"It also totally ignores the evidence of the 1950s and 1970s, which clearly points to a decrease in stronger tornadoes over the longer term , not an increase.",0_0
"Extensive surveys by the US Forest Service contradict the NWFs cry that warming is forcing pika upslope, and with no place left to go face extinction. As discussed here , 19% of the currently known pika populations in California and Nevada are at lower elevations than ever documented by any study, including benchmark studies during the cooler early 1900s. Further north in the Columbia River Gorge, another independent researcher also found pika at much lower elevations, surviving at temperatures much higher than their models had predicted.",3_2
"I grew up in a place where being stupid was your right, but only you would be responsible for it or pay for it. We had stupid, but it was contained in small patches. Now we have shared stupid and organizational stupid and even systemic governmental stupid. The ability of Stupid to cause general havoc has never been stronger. And the result shows.",0_0
"Skeptics warned Tuesday the rule will kill domestic coal use, increase energy prices and force businesses to move abroad.",4_1
"There are evironmental commodities markets developing internationally in order to combat climate change, slow biodiviersity decline, carbon dioxide emissions, and other problems. Incentives are needed for producers and consumers so as to make better use of natural resources. This approach allows flexibility in the system and provides signals to producers and consumers alike. The problem is that tracking or monitoring these emerging markets is difficult. Thus, the author contends that, ""by handling vast amounts of in- formation efficiently, information systems permit accurate tracking of emissions and allowance accounting to ensure compliance. Furthermore, Internet access to regulatory in- formation increases the transparency and accountability of market-based environmental management.""",0_0
"""The result of the routine media practice of quoting conflicting ""sides,'"" wrote Corbett and Durfee, is ""giving equal weight to fringe and nonscientists as much as scientists even though the majority of evidence or opinion may fall clearly to one side.""",0_0
"As the Stanford project explores better ways to utilize proven and economical energy sources like petroleum, coal and nuclear power, and develops ways to realize the promise of hydrogen, magnetic fusion, geothermal energy, the wind, the sun and biomass, we ought to be guided by five tenets:",0_0
"He is not advocating ""no action,"" he's advocating reasonable, time-tested responses to what look like manageable risks;",0_0
"A point often made is that until the warming of the last few decades, major changes in temperature were preceded by or coincident with changes in atmospheric circulation. For example, consider the climate change event commencing 1700 and ending by about 1850, during which circulation and temperature acted synchronously in both polar regions. The cooling is coincident with an increase in the frequency of El Nino events, and with an increase in solar energy output.",0_0
"I also didnt hook a salmon, in fact Ellie was the only one to get a bite, but ask me if I care ... I was out in the sun and the wind, on a lovely stretch of a river with boon companions, and the chance to learn a new kind of fishing was just a bonus. Whats not to like?",0_0
"The Past, Present and Future Of The El Nio/Southern Oscillation A Dissertation Defense By Samantha Stevenson",0_0
Figure 2) April 2015 Pacific Ocean Shallow Sea Surface (SST) temperature map. Anomalously warmed areas are shown in dark red and orange. Regional shallow sea surface current flow of the Pacific Ocean is from west to east. The location of the anomalously warm temperatures is a small deep ocean area east of New Guinea and is marked as the Heat Point Source on the map.,0_0
I assume he is referring to the fact that Arctic ice extent is the highest at the end of July since 2006.,1_1
Eco-warriors are losing the public relations battle on global warming -- and it's driving them batty.,0_0
This was accomplished by throwing out global-coverage satellite-sensed sea surface measurements taken since the late 1970s the best data available and upwardly adjusting spotty and unreliable hit-and-miss temperature readings taken from ocean-going vessels which present well-recognized problems.,5_1
"Glacier is ice, ice is water, water is life, intoned priest Toni Wenger, before beseeching God to stop the glaciers high above them from melting.",5_2
"Technology Innovation the centerpiece of the Clean Energy Dialogue from the beginning is occurring at a fast pace as low prices encourage the use of gas for commercial, residential, industrial applications as well as power generation. Researchers in both countries could learn from one another in areas such as natural gas use to smooth the peaks and troughs of renewable energy production, to meet distributed energy needs and for integrated community energy systems, and for new industrial growth as North American manufacturing rebounds.",0_0
"As the temperature of the ocean surface rises in response to increases in diurnal and seasonal forcing factors, concentrations of DMS and its oxidation products (MSA and nss-SO 4 2- ) rise dramatically, inducing a negative feedback that tends to counter the impetus for warming. Hence, there is every reason to believe that the same negative feedback phenomenon operates in the case of long-term warming that could arise as a result of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations, and that it could substantially mute their combined climatic impact.",3_1
"It will be seen that there were far more large volcanic eruptions towards the end of the nineteenth century, and at the beginning of the twentieth century than at any time since. It appears, from the study of early temperature records that this period was unusually cool; and it seems probable that the high level of volcanic activity contributed to. this coolness. It would seem inappropriate to select this exceptionally cool period as a datum line by which to evaluate the possible existence of global warming by the greenhouse effect. Recently the behaviour of the atmosphere following the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 has been adduced as evidence for the lack of global warming, but it seems to have been forgotten that the beginning region of the global temperature records used to evaluate supposed global warming included eruptions such as those of Krakatoa (1883) and several others.",2_1
CEI: Is the aim of the Club to elect pro-growth candidates or to push the Republican Party in a more growth-oriented direction?,0_0
Guess the chances of Rudd getting this through now in June are about zero.,0_0
"List of 10:10 Global partners, including SONY: HERE and HERE and primarily HERE",0_0
"First off, about a year after the IPCC released its AR4 report (from which the EPA took its statement), David Thompson and colleagues published a paper in Nature magazine titled ""A large discontinuity in the mid-twentieth century in observed global-mean surface temperature."" In it, they documented how a change in observing practices before and after World War II produced a cold bias in the sea surface temperatures that were incorporated into the compilations of global average temperatures (see here and here for more details). Thompson et al. were unable to correct this bias (so it remains in the extant ""observed"" global temperature histories) but suggested that:",0_0
"An endless parade of people described as ""urban experts, "" warned that whatever plans were adopted at Quito would be pointless unless they were accompanied by comprehensive monitoring. But what would be the criteria by which a city's performance could be evaluated? Not to worry, said Michael Cohen of the New School in New York , his graduate students had developed the criteria that would assess cities' compliance with the UN's plans to ensure that urban areas take the lead in combating climate change.",0_0
would you agree that there is no convincing evidence for kilimanjaro glacier,0_0
"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
Discovery Channel. Climate Changes Linked to Fall of Roman Empire .,0_0
"The circuitous nature of this reasoning to save the people one had to save perestroika, but perestroika could be saved only if it was capable of changing man ""from within"" did not seem to trouble anyone. Those who thought out loud about these matters seemed to assume that the country's salvation through perestroika and the extrication of its people from the spiritual morass were tightly perhaps, inextricably interwoven, and left it at that. What mattered was reclaiming the people to citizenship from ""serfdom"" and ""slavery."" ""Enough!"" declared Boris Vasiliev, the author of a popular novella of the period about World War II, which was made into an equally well-received film. ""Enough lies, enough servility, enough cowardice. Let's remember, finally, that we are all citizens. Proud citizens of a proud nation!""",0_0
"A paper published today in Geophysical Research Letters finds coral reefs are thriving in ""naturally acidified"" waters in Palau, one of the top diving destinations in the world. According to the authors, ""we report the existence of highly diverse, coral-dominated reef communities under chronically low pH and aragonite saturation state...where acidification levels approach those projected for the western tropical Pacific open ocean by 2100. Nevertheless, coral diversity, cover and calcification rates are maintained across this natural acidification gradient.""",3_2
Alabama AG to keep enforcing gambling laws:,0_0
"Kerry described those who do not accept that human activity causes global warming as shoddy scientists and extreme ideologues, and said big companies and special interests should not be allowed to hijack the climate debate.Climate change can now be considered another weapon of mass destruction, perhaps the worlds most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.",0_0
"But since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming. As Lord Keynes famously said, ""When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?""",2_3
"In other words, it is the natural reality of extinction events and species evolution that has led to the ultimate enrichment of ecosystems and biodiversity with niches and opportunities for new species.",3_2
"Richard Ebeling, a leading scholar in the Smithian tradition, penned this two-part look-back at Adam Smith, which MasterResource reposts this July 4th week.",0_0
"However, to borrow a phrase from Clinton, it depends on what the meaning of ???used?? is. These upper treeline chronologies were clearly canvassed and assessed in the attempt to reconstruct upper treeline temperature. They were disregarded ??? but they were touched in the collective search process of the dendro community and became part of the sampling program. In my opinion, the situation is parallel to Jacoby??s ???few good men??: Jacoby said that he used the 10 most ???temperature-sensitive?? chronologies out of 36 and discarded the rest because they didn??t provide a story. These yellow-cedar chronologies were part of a collective search process and were even cited by Wilson and Luckman. It??s entirely relevant to show that these yellow-cedar chronologies did not have HS-shape as part of a survey of upper treeline populations.",5_1
Excellent Research Paper by Katsafados et al. on Regional Climate Forcings and Teleconnections Across Thousands of Kilometers,0_0
"Monckton then shows a graph for 1880 1990 of CO2 and temperature mismatch, pointing out that there is not a good correlation.",2_3
"JC comment: unfortunately the same is not true of climate modelers. They only receive useful feedback on decadal time scales, but even with this feedback, they dont seem to see the need for recalibration. The following seems to explain why.",5_1
"Several nations, including Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom, have announced their hopes of bringing U.S. climate policy closer to that of the European Union. The Competitive Enterprise Institute urges the President and his advisors to resist this pressure and reject the limits on energy use embodied in international agreements like the Kyoto Protocol.",0_0
"Something significant happened in the atmosphere, Killingsworth said. This kind of an atmospheric shift in carbon dioxide is not observed during any other period of Earths history. And now we have sedimentary rock evidence for how long this ultra-high carbon dioxide period lasted.",0_0
"You might suppose EPA would explain the legal authority for a policy change potentially affecting hundreds of companies' bottom lines. Yet neither the final CPP, the CEIP fact sheet, nor EPA's proposed federal implementation plan discusses the CEIP's statutory basis.",0_0
"on Friday, June 10th, 2011 at 5:06 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"The computer told us these declines should be measurable even in the year we made the forecast. We suggested that measurements of jack pine growth be started to verify the forecasts and to see whether the potential effects of global warming on the diversity of life were actually occurring. People could have started going to southern Michigan to check out our forecasts 16 years ago. Nobody did. I tried to get funding to do this, but no government agency or private foundation was interested.",0_0
> >> of use to decision-makers. But this does not undermine your,0_0
"Meanwhile, here in the actual world, Arctic sea ice continues to track 2006 the year with the highest summer minimum of the past decade.",1_1
"Personally, I prefer business to politics, so I live in business-friendly New Hampshire. But my wife and I spend part of each year in Washington, D.C. And we do this on purpose. We don't want the kids growing up thinking the world is sane.",0_0
"A paper published today in The Holocene reconstructs temperatures in Ontario, Canada over the past ~9,200 years and finds temperatures correlated to reconstructed solar activity on decadal and millennial time scales. According to the authors, ""The results also indicate the presence of millennial-scale cycles possibly comparable with the globally recognized Bond cycles that have been correlated to fluctuations in solar irradiance."" The IPCC claims small variations in solar activity cannot account for climate change, but this paper and many other peer-reviewed publications show that solar activity can be amplified by a variety of mechanisms to cause climate change.",2_1
"Above all, these highly qualified people experts in their own spheres look at the published data and trust their own analysis, so their views match the available data. They agree that the climate warmed over the 20th century (this has been measured), that CO2 levels are increasing (this too has been measured) and that CO2 is a warming gas (it helps trap heat in the atmosphere and the effects can be measured). Beyond this, the survey found that 98% of respondents believe that the climate varies naturally and that increasing CO2 levels wont cause catastrophic warming.",5_1
New Japan-China Air Tensions: Smog,0_0
"SM: I think there's part truth and part untruth to what George Gilder says. He, like me, is mostly interested in growing the economy. I think his point is that the burden of government is really the total government divided by total private sector economy. If you want to lower that burden, you can do one of two things--either shrink government or grow the private economy. George Gilder's preference is to grow the economy. I describe that as growing the denominator. In fact, in the last six or seven years the size of the federal enterprise as a share of the economy has actually shrunk, and the reason it's shrunk is because the economy has done so well, and government hasn't kept up with it.",0_0
"In the year 1900, the entire city of Galveston,Texaswasdestroyedby a hurricane, which killed nearly 10,000 people.",1_7
Ive eliminated the graphs of the long-term running trends (see sample here from the March 2015 update). Ive been presenting them for a few years and I cant recall one comment about them. I replaced them with a model-data comparison which shows the growing difference between model simulations of global surface temperatures and data.,5_1
Carbon monoxide (CO) emissions are roughly 20 percent lower than 1970 levels.,0_0
"?I?ve done a number of studies that show at the very most it might buy you about five years before you reach a certain global average temperature level. But that?s not to say, on a more regional basis there aren?t changes to the patterns of our weather that we?ll have to get used to.?",0_0
"Gary L. Stone, vice president of engineering at Five States Energy Capital, says Democrats' energy and climate platform is like a wish list for those waging a war on fossil fuels.",0_0
"According to the review, the vast majority of the offset credits went into the European Unions flagship Emissions Trading Scheme. The authors estimate these may have undermined EU emissions reduction targets by 400 million tonnes of CO2, worth over $2bn at current market prices.",4_2
"Ryan Maue sent this map over, showing anomalies for the winter relative to the dates of the satellite era. It makes it clear why Joe Romm is now only interested in temperatures in Western Greenland.",0_0
The Narrawong teacher will make a presentation for international educators and policy makers at the Greening Education Conference to be held in south-west Germany next week.,0_0
More detail on the Southern Hemisphere's exceptionally cold winter,1_3
"The government urges us to reduce our energy usage so that we may indulge ourselves in other ways, but we have a higher motive for reducing waste (1 Timothy 6.17-19). Although I have yet to see any evidence that climate change is a sign of Christ's imminent return, human pollution is clearly another of the birth pangs of creation, as it eagerly awaits being delivered from the bondage of corruption (Romans. 19-22).",0_0
Another Green Energy Company Stumbles: Fisker Announces Layoffs,4_2
"The case studies should focus on developing national institutions, such as those needed for monitoring emissions, enforcing nations' obligations, facilitating international trading of permits and resolving disputes. Such national institutions will be crucial to carrying out novel, low-cost approaches.",0_0
"Lets put it this way, I will be very surprised if the Republican dont already have the ammunition to ensure there arent criminal prosecutions started against climate extremists before the US presidential election.",0_0
"/s/ Dr. Donald Bogard JSC, Principal Investigator, Science Directorate, 41 years",0_0
Since when is valuing personal freedoms...or questioning sweeping government intervention anything other than a deeply embedded American tradition and a very good idea under any circumstance?,0_0
"GT is safe njda with his little PR stunt, but are they aware that the flesh stands for more than 18 percent of global koldioxidutslppen and medium Svensson klimatpverkan depends to 25 percent on our eating habits?",0_0
"The IPCC, you will recall, is Al Gore's co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and the host over the years of numerous scandals involving fudged and twisted climate data, research plagiarized from student theses, popular magazine articles, and green-group press releases, and, of course, the infamous Climategate emails which showed coordinated efforts to ""hide the decline"" in temperature data. This is not just one more scandal, however. This is much bigger.",5_2
the first 100 yards can be very misleading. A runner could stumble badly coming,0_0
"One way to indoctrinate children on living green is to teach them in a green passive school that requires little energy consumption. This is what they are attempting in East German Schwarzheide, as reported at the online Lausitzer Rundschau daily .",0_0
"With a model that conserves energy as well as physics, and allows the flux be the actual real-time values they have to be in reality, the greenhouse effect is no longer required to make the atmosphere heat itself up some more without being an actual energy source.",0_0
"The southeastern province of Hakkari was also struck by cold weather, with snow reaching a depth of 20 centimeters and 15 village roads closed due to heavy snowfall.",1_3
"The Administration's cost estimate assumes, first of all, that the European Union and the G-77 plus China developing country bloc will accept unrestricted trading among industrial (Annex B) countries, even though Article 17 of the Protocol states that emission trading shall be ""supplemental"" to ""domestic actions"" undertaken to reduce emissions.",0_0
Kevin Trenbirth the author of the now discredited paper of 1997 updated in 2008 pretending to show that there is a dangerous accumulation of heat energy in the atmosphere.,5_2
"Politicians have different motives. They experience all kinds of monetary pressures, group pressures and rewards for decision making. The pressures and rewards are so great that when listening to a politician, we non-braindead know that the words we hear are an expression of their individual pressures more than a belief in their truth.",0_0
"Two-meter sea level rise unstoppable | Manila Bulletin OXFORD, England (Reuters) A rise of at least two meters in the world's sea levels is now almost unstoppable, experts told a climate conference at Oxford University on Tuesday. ""The crux of the sea level issue is that it starts very slowly but once it gets going it is practically unstoppable,"" said Stefan Rahmstorf, a scientist at Germany's Potsdam Institute and a widely recognized sea level expert. ... ""Once the ice is on the move, it's like a tipping point which reinforces itself,"" said Wageningen University's Pier Vellinga, citing various research. ""Even if you reduce all the emissions in the world once this has started it may be unstoppable. I conclude that beyond 2 degrees global average temperature rise, the probability of the Greenland ice sheet disintegrating is 50 percent or more.""",0_0
Cap & Trade Realities for CO2 Emissions,0_0
"Morano: 'If you look at time scales of 50-100 years for (extreme weather).First off, on hurricanes we are at historic record lows, the longest we have gone without a majorhurricanestrike, category 3 or larger -- 9 years now -- the period longest since 1900.Big Tornadoes are down. Floods,droughts, all of these factors are either on no trends or declining trends.",1_7
"After the film's debut, public's awareness about global warming increased and the ""green"" movement surged. Since then, many corporations have gotten on board the Global Warming Band Wagon to exploit and profit from what has now become (falsely) an indisputable fact to many Americans: The Earth is dangerously warming and man is to blame. Climate alarmists warn that unless drastic steps are taken to curb global warming, Mother Earth will suffer grave consequences 100 or so years into the future. This despite a recent article that reports how tens of thousands of scientists have declared that human-driven global climate change is a hoax.",5_2
The seasonal warming of the cold tongue in the early part of the calendar year (JanuaryApril) favors the initial growth of an event.,0_0
how the senior one takes the chair with the back to the wall (the,0_0
"This might be a new year but some traditions are too good not to continue. After watching the Christmas classic Planet Terror over the holidays, either Rose McGowan or Marley Shelton had to make the cut. But since we took a week off, why not both? Genius!",0_0
"Crank of the Week January 23, 2015 Barack Obama",0_0
"The spatial patterns of the warming of the ocean surfaces dictate the spatial patterns of warming of the surface air temperatures over land, and those sea surface temperature spatial patterns contribute to the precipitation patterns on the continents. Because the climate models cannot simulate the spatial patterns of the warming of sea surface temperatures, one wonders how the modelers expect to properly simulate the warming of land surface air temperatures or the precipitation that occurs there.",5_1
"The heat wave, while largely predictable on short, weather-driven timescales, appears not to be the product of long-term climate changes. Instead, as discussed by Dole et al. (Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L06702, doi:10.1029/2010GL046582, 2011. See Highlight 4, above), the heat wave falls within the realm of natural variability.",1_7
"According to the website of the proud window and door supplier, Wiegand , the 3-storey 23 million school was built in 15 months and was dedicated during a party-like ceremony in February 2011 by Brandenburg State Minister President Platzeck, and State Council member Heinze accepted the Certificate from the Passive Building Institute.",0_0
The pause in warming may have been affected by volcanic eruptions that increased aerosols and particulate that increased upper atmospheric reflectance. AGW will continue after this. Is this an explanation for a pause that many warmists deny is happening? The pause may be caused in part by 17 small volcanic eruptions that occurred since 1999. Experts from Lawrence Livermore Labs said this want taken into account when predictions were made. I wonder what else was overlooked when predictions were made.,1_4
"Around the world there are five official weather data-bases, about 14 weather satellites (some say there are 88 of them!), 73 climate computer models, at least 30 research groups and thousands of academics receiving grants and attending never-ending climate conferences. Much of this torrent of public money is now focussed on trying to torture a climate confession out of one normally un-noticed and totally innocent trace gas in the atmosphere carbon dioxide.",2_3
Report: Obama's oil company tax proposal would jeopardize thousands of jobs:,0_0
"John Berlau is Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship. Previously, he was the 2004-2005 Warren Brookes Fellow. He has written for many publications, recently serving as an investigative writer on the staff of Insight magazine. The National Press Club awarded him its 2002 Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism for his series of stories in Insight about the conflicts of interest of now-former IRS commissioner Charles Rossotti. He is a former Washington correspondent for the newspaper Investor's Business Daily. He has also written for Reader's Digest, USA TODAY, USA Weekend, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, Reason, The New Republic, National Review, and The Weekly Standard, and RAZOR.He graduated from the University of Missouri in 1994, with a double-major in journalism and economics. He was a media fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.",0_0
"Last August Vice President Al Gore told a captive audience of science students at the National Geographic Society that ""global warming is real and we should act together now so that in the future our families will not have to suffer more extreme weather of all kinds."" The VP linked his statement with a presentation of arctic ice core samples that some analysts believe indicate an historical correlation between rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and the warming-cooling cycle of the earth.",0_0
"Mawson Found Similar Ice Conditions, But Did Not Get Stuck",0_0
"While this uncertainty seems generally acknowledged in the solar community and by Judith Lean (who has been the main solar person involved in the IPCC), I have to say Im concerned that the CMIP climate model experiments for the IPCC uses only one solar reconstruction.",0_0
"As for combined Arctic and Antarctic ice, there is always a natural balancing act going between the two. There has been a lot of recent media attention directed to overall melting conditions in the northern ice cap region which is attributed to global warming. The cause is that the Atlantic Ocean has been in its multi-decadal warming phase. Meanwhile, the southern ice cap has increased to record levels.",0_0
"5. Always bear in mind that technology will continue to surprise us. I doubt that the expression fracking was widely known, let alone used five years ago.",0_0
President Obamas second inaugural speech featured climate change more prominently than didhis first inaugural address. As Greenwire (subscription required)observed:,0_0
"However their asymmetrical categorization of a 74year baseline period vs. three 11year climate change periods is highly problematic. If their intent was to determine the timing of any significant shifts, their analysis should have compared equal decade-long periods. Instead because their technique averaged the most extreme southern latitudes, the baseline would easily be dominated by the earliest 20 th century observations. Any range retractions that happened later during the baseline period would not be statistically detected until the 1975-1986 climate change period. Any editor or peer reviewer should have required a correction, knowing their asymmetrical categorization could cause such misleading results.",5_1
"Present true stories of workers and families whose jobs and businesses have been threatened or destroyed by EPA and other government policies, programs and diktats; how these citizens have fought back; and their victories over energy, environmental and economic totalitarianism.",4_1
"Dr Pachauris trips would have produced 121.1 tons of carbon dioxide , according to calculations by ClimateCare, a carbon offset provider.",0_0
"In his RMS article , Kevin Trenberth also conveniently overlooked the fact that the discussions about the warming hiatus are now for a time period of about 16 years, not 10 yearsever since David Roses DailyMail article titled Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released and here is the chart to prove it . In my response to Trenberths article , I updated David Roses graph , noting that surface temperatures in April 2013 were basically the same as they were in June 1997. Well use June 1997 as the start month for the running 16-year trends. The period is now 192-months long. The following graph is similar to the one above, except that its presenting running trends for 192-month periods.",1_4
The committee again excluded from consideration any document or point of view that might incriminate Mann's conduct.,0_0
"A new paper published in Environmental Research Letters finds that climate models exaggerate the upper end of projected global warming because the models are "" inconsistent with past warming ."" The paper adds to many other recent peer-reviewed studies demonstrating that IPCC projections of global warming are exaggerated.",5_1
"When you get to this link, click on the graph again to make it even bigger: http://www.vukcevic.co.uk/GrandMinima.gif",0_0
"It was 58 degrees today in Pecos, Texas. On this date in 1972 (peak year of the ice age scare) it was 100 degrees.",1_3
"Hansens remarks were prompted in response to comments made by Joe Oliver who is a conservative politician and the Canadian Minister of Natural Resources. Speaking at the Center for Strategic Studies last week, Oliver heaped opprobrium on the scientist. In his speech he declared , It does not advance the debate when people make exaggerated comments that are not rooted in the facts. And should know that.",0_0
"The CDM system itself, however, will still be in place, and we will all contribute through its chief source of revenue, the EU's $100-billion-a-year Emissions Trade Scheme (which we pay for in various ways, not least through our electricity bills). We here in Britain also have the special privilege of knowing, as I reported in February, that we are now chipping in 60 million to buy additional CDM credits through our taxes ? so that the politicians and civil servants in government offices can keep warm by continuing to pump out emissions much as before.",0_0
Bombshell conclusion new peer reviewed analysis: worldwide-temperature increase has not produced acceleration of global sea level over the past 100years,1_6
Bushfire predictions in 2070 are nonsense on stilts. Models cant predict rainfall,5_1
Evidence for sun-climate link reported by UMaine scientists,0_0
Indoctrination Alert as the ABC reports that the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority is targeting children in its latest effort to protect the reef.,5_2
"In 1990, the IPCCs central estimate of near-term warming was higher by two-thirds than it is today. Then it was 2.8 C/century equivalent. Now it is just 1.7 C equivalent and, as Fig. 3 shows, even that is proving to be a substantial exaggeration.",3_1
"Or, at least, I think that's the objective. Another way to put is the Audi folks want to have their cake and eat it. They want to be both green and independent of green.",0_0
"According to the British Met Office , the 2007 Arctic ice-melt was an anomaly unrelated to climate change. The article says, Modeling of Arctic sea ice by the Met Office Hadley Centre climate model shows that ice invariably recovers from extreme events, and that the long-term trend of reduction is robustwith the first ice-free summer expected to occur between 2060 and 2080. It is unlikely that the Arctic will experience ice-free summers by 2020.",1_1
With quite a bit of action North of New Zealand.,0_0
"When Corker subsequently praised Trump's disastrous press conference in Scotland as ""one of his better events"" this was the press conference that mainly showcased Trump's golf resort, and in which Trump praised the UK's vote in favor of Brexit in strongly pro-Europe Scotland, after earlier demonstrating he did not even know what Brexit was the cave-in was complete.",0_0
"Thanks Marlo. This ultimately puts the ball in the ""court"" of informed voters who will determine who those representatives are, and will expose them to some true human-caused heat.",0_0
"What Dr Hubble meant was that with four times the light gathering power and four times the distance of past light sources, the anticipated light speed would exceed half the speed of light. At that point it would easy to discredit Big Bang and develop another model. That never happened for a multitude of reasons, some to do with Dr Hubble.",0_0
"And although certain aspects of the program are specifically directed at NAAQS pollutants, see, e.g., id. 7473(b)(4), the program as a whole plainly has a more expansive scope. For instance, covered sources are required to (1) install the best available control technology for ?each pollutant subject to regulation under ,? id. 7475(a)(4) (emphasis added), and (2) demonstrate that they will not cause or contribute to ?any . . . applicable emission standard? under the Act, id. 7475(a)(3) (emphasis added).",0_0
"Once we had the total energy embodied in each consumption item, we were able to translate this into dollar terms by obtaining the total expenditure for each consumption item from the National Income and Product Accounts tables for 2006. The direct energy expenditures were then calculated by summing up total expenditures on electricity, gas, water, fuel oil, coal, gasoline, and oil. The rest were classified as indirect energy expenditures.",0_0
Question: What photographic documentation is available for the global network of surface temperature sites used to construct the long term global surface temperature analyses?,0_0
"From Bankers.asn.au - Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics 5206. National Income, Expenditure and Product. June Quarter 2003: Axiss Australia Guest post by Viv Forbes",0_0
"Humans keep adding large amounts of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, among them carbon dioxide (CO2), the most important man-made greenhouse gas. Over the past 250 years, human activities such as fossil fuel burning have raised the atmospheric CO2 concentration by more than 40% over its preindustrial level of 280 ppm (parts per million). In May 2013, the CO2 concentration in Earths atmosphere surpassed a milestone of 400 ppm for the first time in human history, a level that many scientists consider dangerous territory in terms of its impact on Earths climate.",2_3
"Are these uncertainty intervals adequate? Not entirely. After all, I neglected autocorrelation in the residuals, non linearity and all sorts of things. Autocorrelation in the residuals is 5%. I set it to zero, but it may be real. If it is, then I should have added that possibility to computation of my uncertainty intervals. Also, maybe the trend is non-linear, or maybe something important changed after the final data point.",0_0
Anyone vaguely familiar with this issue knows that Murray Darling Basin Authority boss Craig Knowles and Water Minister Tony Burke and even Opposition leader Tony Abbot and Opposition water spokesman Barnaby Joyce dont want the issue of the barrages or the Lower Lakes raised in polite discussion.,0_0
"How 1199SEIU, New York's ultra-powerful hospital and nursing home employees' union, took over the Empire State.",0_0
"There are many historical accounts of this approach, for example the early German explorer Ludwig Leichardt described frequent mild bushfires in New South Wales in the 1840s, lit by Aborigines. He pointed out that such fires, although widespread and common, were not a threat to humans. I suspect there were few big hats and medals in those days. Early European farmers imitated Aboriginal burning, to keep themselves safe. More recent bushfires in New South Wales, often in long unburnt areas such as National Parks, have been unmistakeably menacing, due to heavier fuel. In 2013 bushfires in NSW caused two deaths, and the loss of 248 houses. The cost was put at $94 million.",0_0
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strategy says that trying engagement first can ultimately yield more pressure.,0_0
"Since then, there have been just two more instances in which the price of wind power in Denmark turned negative for a significant period of time because of excess wind, according to the national grid company, Energinet.dk.",0_0
What is the origin of the false beliefconstantly repeatedthat almost all scientists agree about global warming?,5_1
"There is no evidence, Mr Miliband, Lord Stern and others, that our floods and storms are related to climate change",1_7
"According to Chris Horner, counsel to the Cooler Heads Coalition, ""The Clean Air Act never specifically mentions global warming gases except to say that they can't be regulated."" And Rep. David McIntosh, chairman of the Subcommitte on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources and Regulatory Affairs, has said, ""EPA has somehow missed the obvious. The Clean Air Act is a carefully structured statute with specific titles that establish specific regulatory programs to accomplish specific objectives .The Clean Air Act is not a regulatory blank check.""",0_0
"Second, Eli has not commented on the discrepancy between GISS and GHCN adjustments and the KNMI results. So while the additional reference is interesting and further documents the points that I made above, it does not contradict them. Eli has simply thrown up a diversion as though it were an academic comment.",0_0
"one hand, one can say that there is someone frtjnst on scientific parameters change value every 6 r. the other hand, one can frvnas over these 35 years with psttt framgngsrik research, nor has meant that oskerhetsmarginalerna shrunk. I remember that it was this table that either Nir Shaviv or Roy Spencer summarized in a bar graph, which he described as his life's most monotonous. Among AGW critics vckte there is a certain attention to the AR5 researched oskerheten compared to AR4 by snka the lower border from ECS.",0_0
"He even offered to represent the health departments archenemy, possibly for less than his usual rate. He said if a soda company would like to call me so we can do a commercial, Ill sing and dance for them and I wont charge an arm and a leg.",0_0
"So this morning, we requested all relevant records under FOIA, including all records sitting on that server, as they all were provided to US government employees for official purposes. This was filed with OSTP run by controversial ""science czar"" and, we now know, former Mitt Romney ""climate"" adviser John Holdren. The taxpayer deserves to know about this coordinated effort between Holdren's OSTP and the UN.",0_0
British Government to Admit Imposing CO2 Limits Not Most Effective Way to Deal with Climate Change,0_0
This sounds to good to be true but it may be true. I still think it's very unlikely but these smart authors obviously think it's a totally sensible scenario. It's hard to figure out whether they really impartially believe that these low-scale intersecting braneworlds are likely; or their belief mostly boils down to a wishful thinking.,0_0
"None of this would have mattered if the liberal progressives had been right about the reasons they have lost in the past. If Americans genuinely wanted quick implementation of liberal-progressive economic measures, then there would have been no electoral retribution to fear. Indeed, this was the argument many liberal progressives made when the decision was made to go forward with the health-care bill.",0_0
"40 George Weigel, The Final Revolution: The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism, 2003; Dore Gold, Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism, 2004",0_0
Good news for reefs: How corals could survive a warming planet. Corals evolved with CO2 levels 18X higher than present,3_2
"But forcing the city's inhabitants into a certain lifestyle is not a future that gteborgarna has chosen. The party has been hijacked, like Jimmy!",0_0
"But as we suggested earlier in the year , the incautious statements issued by Met Office scientists looked less like the work of scientific enquiry, and more like post-hoc speculation about which way the weather would turn.",5_2
"This means, among other things, that the more urgently the United States wants to negotiate for something like a cease fire in Syria, the more the Russians enjoy withholding it for weeks and months and even years. Our very eagerness to negotiate incentivizes the Kremlin to tease, to stall, to hold the glittering prize just beyond reach, making us beg for it. Dance, Kerry, dance!",0_0
"Much environmental regulation tests that same line between bona fide efforts to regulate health and safety and unprincipled efforts to use environmental laws to restrict competition. Perhaps the most notorious illustration of this practice in the air pollution area was the clean air/dirty coal provisions of Section 111 of the 1977 Amendments to the Clean Air Act, which vastly increased the cost of getting clean air by shifting the competitive balance between low-sulfur western coal and high-sulfur eastern coal.",0_0
UPDATE: Shub Niggurath suggests that no peer reviewed science references existed in first and second order IPCC drafts:,5_2
"To change the politics of the day, scientific evidence is not enough. Graphs and statistics are pointless; the lack of warming, or any other predicted calamity is insufficient.",1_4
"Wholesale power and carbon markets have failed to find a clearing price for low-carbon power generation, recalling a comment by British economist Nick Stern in 2006 that climate change was the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen.",0_0
"President Kennedy's America of early 1960 was still a world of rotary dial phoning, vinyl LPs, AM radio music, and the early days of color TV (tube of course). It was world in which no one forecast the GPS or iPhone. Most of what happened wasn't forecast; not least by government agencies and their NGO pilot fish. And most of what was forecast didn't happen, like the Jetsons' flying cars, colonies on the moon and under the seas, to name a few. Four decades ago, experts surveyed by U.S. News & World Report--as part of a future look at America in AD 2000--forecast the demise of the internal combustion engine. There are almost a billion more such on the road today than then.",0_0
U.S. Senate Rejects Lieberman-Warner Cap-and-Trade Bill,0_0
"For the 79 countries included in their analysis, Ihm et al . report that ""vascular plant species richness showed large variability, ranging from 377 to 51,220 species per country, or 0.0003 to 0.2896 species per km 2 ."" In addition, they found that ""variability declined while richness gradually increased as one moved from Arctic to Equator regions."" Based on this relationship, and noting that ""over the past 100 years, the global average temperature has increased by approximately 0.5C,"" their derived relationship indicated that this 100-year elevation in air temperature was associated with a species richness increase of 0.8%. And when they ""estimated the effect of higher temperatures,"" such as those predicted for the future, they found that ""a 1 or 2C rise in global warming produced an increase in species richness of 1.6 or 3.2%."" What it means",3_2
"This lack of progress is not new. There never has been sustained multilateral action on GHG controls. The US did not ratify the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, which was drawn up during the COP 3 meetings. The Protocol called for developed countries to reduce emissions by at least 5% of 1990 levels by 2008-2012.Less-developed countries were exempted at the time. Since 1997, however, total emissions have grown, primarily from exempted developing countries, especially China and India.",0_0
"NASA says carbon emissions could cause 30+ year megadroughts. They also said that the California drought was part of natural cycles. What about all the noise we heard about the current drought caused by climate change? From NASA, NASA Study Finds Carbon Emissions Could Dramatically Increase Risk of U.S. Megadroughts",1_7
"The Financial Times reports that China has reassumed its position as the top manufacturing country, measured as proportion of global output.",0_0
It is possible that the current $9 per barrel difference between U.S. and global oil prices could shrink slightly if some oil is exported. Barclays Bank says eliminating the export ban could add $10 billion a year to overall national gasoline costs.,0_0
"Last week I took a trip to the Texas Hill Country. (Yes, Texas really does have hills. Not like the Rocky Mountains, certainly, but hills nevertheless.)",0_0
"Wind power is too variable and too unpredictable to provide a serious alternative to fossil fuels, a new study by the Scientific Alliance and the Adam Smith Institute has confirmed. The researchers concluded that, although it is true that the wind is always blowing somewhere, the base line is only around 2 percent of capacity, assuming a network capacity of 10GW.",4_4
"And this adds more armour to the observation that environmentalism is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Recalling Sens maxim, the anti-democratic tendency of environmentalists the view that democracy isnt equal to the problem of climate change, and so institutions must be constructed above democratic control would replicate the configuration of power that allowed tyrants and their indifference to their populations needs to reign.",0_0
"The car bomb is appropriately getting a lot of attention. But so are two other recent events that will force Congress to consider or reconsider its agenda this year: the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the Arizona law targeting immigrants. Conventional wisdom has had it that there was little chance of a climate change bill getting enacted this year and no chance of an immigration bill. Conventional wisdom may still be right, but both issues have been complicated by these events, and both need at least a renewed focus, and a wider focus, by Congress.",0_0
"How can you be on board with the science. Do you not understand that the whole AGW theory is based upon a planetary climate positive feedback . If such a thing actually existed, then this planet would be either roasting, or frigid; and it would have arrived at that state within a few million years. This planet has been pretty good, except when it got cold during ice ages, for about 4.5 billion years.",3_1
"A family of four losing more than $1,000 of income per year,",0_0
"The two researchers determined that ???the tropical oceanic warming pattern is poorly represented in the coupled simulations,?? and they say that their analysis ???points to model error rather than unpredictable climate noise as a major cause of this discrepancy with respect to the observed trends.?? And because of this problem, they found that ??? the patterns of recent climate trends over North America, Greenland, Europe, and North Africa are generally not well captured by state-of-the-art coupled atmosphere-ocean models with prescribed observed radiative forcing changes.??",5_1
"The social engineer views the members of society as mere pawns on a great chess board of society, to be moved about with little thought or consideration that each of those pawns is a living, thinking, valuing and planning individual, who would much prefer to make his own decisions concerning how he will live and act.",0_0
"The ice core data show, the authors write, that when solar radiation increases, more calcium is deposited at Siple Dome and at one of the ITASE field sites. The additional calcium may reflect an increase in wind strength in mid-latitude regions around Antarctica, they add, especially over the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Calcium in West Antarctic ice cores is thought to derive mainly from dust in Australia, Africa and South America and from sea salt in the southern ocean.",0_0
The 1980 value for the greenhouse effect is 35.56C and the value for 2010 is 0.14C lower at 35.42C. This demonstrates that the 70.9% increase in global CO2 emissions since 1980 did not in any way enhance the greenhouse effect as has been falsely claimed since 1988 when this global warming debacle first began.,2_3
"Now where is the error? Where is the error both in logic and in Physics? I believe that what Bob Carter said to me was fundamentally correct that is to say that all molecules radiate every which way including downwards, but he omitted",0_0
"27 Flynt Leverett and Pierre Noel, ""The New Axis of Oil,"" National Interest (Summer 2006).",0_0
"There will be negligible leakage (of emissions between countries, between industries and between emissions sources)",0_0
"Now assume you got an outrageously good deal on the solar panels and only had to pay $100/m that would cost $200,000,000,000 for the panels and maybe that much again for the installation and power lines.",4_4
"Three ships with icebreaking capability have responded, including the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) vessel Aurora Australis, and are now en route to the area.",0_0
"The rollout will see the introduction of new equipment into customer premises, including:",0_0
Raise the family-of-four energy bill by more than $500 per year (not counting the cost of gasoline);,0_0
"You can hardly fault them. They have their priorities set exactly straight the single biggest threat to their shaky supremacy is the danger that a few large media outlets would start to run photos of Anthony Watts Surface Stations project, or do a serious documentary with Steve McIntyre.",0_0
"Obama foreign policy, they approach the subject from opposite sides of the",0_0
"Washington, D.C., June 6, 2007This week, leaders of the world's wealthiest nations meet in Germany to discuss a wide range of international development issues, with a particular focus on global warming.",0_0
"The results of this study confirm the results of another paper we have reviewed, demonstrating that the Little Ice Age was widespread and significant in this region of the world (see The Little Ice Age in the Caribbean ). New information in this study also refutes the climate alarmist claim that warmer temperatures produce more extreme weather. Quite to the contrary, the results of this study demonstrate that precipitation was more variable during the cold period of the Little Ice Age than it was both before or afterwards.",1_7
"Exploring these options will require a new, broader focus for climate policy analysis. To achieve this wider view, the lessons of political economy must become central to the study of climate policy. An initial step toward this goal would be to encourage a systematic exchange of views between the climate modeling community and leading scholars in the traditions of political economy and institutional economics. . . .",0_0
"I try to answer as many enquiries as I can from people who want to discuss ???global warming??. I wrote this letter in reply to a ???global warming?? fanatic who, it is not unfair to say, had never actually thought about the superstition to which he subscribes. Perhaps this letter will make him think a little more and believe a little less.",5_2
"At the time, the Senate was deliberating on legislation that would revoke the EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gases, which the Agency had only (unilaterally) asserted for the first time months before. Obviously, telling the EPA it couldn't seize this new power hardly constituted a ""roll back"" of the existing Clean Air Act, because Congress never intended the Act to be used to enforce global warming policies on the American people. Congress's intent isn't a question for psychological speculation; it's documented in actual House and Senate votes. Attempts to add provisions to the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 that would have allowed the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions were defeated in the Senate. A similar attempt in the House went nowhere. In short, MoveOn.org's ad was flatly dishonest about the policy at issue.",0_0
"Now for the two outlier balls one of which is too warm and one of which is too cold. The only way of reconciling ball #7 (upper ellipse) is to assume that it had been inflated. I tried a guess of 0.5 psi inflation and, under this assumption, the implied temperature (pressure) fit nicely in the corridor in the right panel. For the cold outlier, I guess 0.76 psi deflation and, under this assumption, it too fit into the corridor.",0_0
Wasnt global warming supposed to be about settled science? It sure looks political when you look at the list above.,0_0
"(The Mertonska standards HVS talking about are discussed in the report, good research. Vetenskapsrdets Report Series 1: 2011 on page 16.)",0_0
"The global warming trend since 1990, when the IPCC wrote its first report, is equivalent to 1.4 C per century half of what the IPCC had then predicted.",5_1
"So EPA has tried to justify its job and economy-killing climate change and coal eradication rules by claiming they will bring huge ""ancillary"" health benefits. Those claims too are pure hogwash.",0_0
"One final comment. From this study, it appears that the number of reliable tidal gauge sites, with reasonably long and complete records, is on the decline. Is too much reliance being put on satellites? Maybe. But when sea level rise is such an important and controversial topic, I find it both astonishing and rather sad that this is being allowed to happen.",5_1
"As Hamilton wrote, the presidency was to be the one part of government that could respond with ""decision, activity, secrecy, and dispatch"" to unforeseen crises, especially war. Borrowing liberally from John Locke, Hamilton argued in The Federalist that the central function of the executive was to be a branch of the government always in being, one that could respond swiftly to emergencies. War would make the most demands on the presidency. ""Of all the cares or concerns of government,"" Hamilton wrote, ""the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a single hand.""",0_0
Given these observed changes it is important to consider what has not changed in the past 50 years:,0_0
"In the 1990s, some foreign policy analysts called on the United States to adopt a policy known as ""offshore balancing."" Succinctly put, ""offshore balancing is predicated on the assumption that attempting to maintain U.S. hegemony is self-defeating because it will provoke other states to combine in opposition to the United States, and result in a futile depletion of the United States' relative power, thereby leaving it worse off than if it accommodated multipolarity.""31 Whether such an offshore balancing is still possible or desirable for the U.S. in a post-9/11 environment is highly debatable. But a maritime globalization of NATO could become, for the Alliance itself, the continuation of ""offshore balancing"" by other means. Its main merit would be to constitute a hedging strategy of sorts against the SCO.",0_0
"on Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 at 8:54 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"For small changes in climate associated with tenths of a degree, there is no need for any external cause. The earth is never exactly in equilibrium. The motions of the massive oceans where heat is moved between deep layers and the surface provides variability on time scales from years to centuries. Recent work (Tsonis et al, 2007), suggests that this variability is enough to account for all climate change since the 19th Century.",2_1
"He also gave you some extremely misleading information. While it is true that Greenland temperatures rose 4C from 1990 to 2006, the long term trend since the 1920s is downwards, as well as the short term trend since 2006. He cherry picked the twenty year period very carefully, as twenty years ago was the coldest period inGreenlandshistory. Had he picked almost any other start date, there would be no warming trend.",1_1
"78) A proper analysis of ice core records from the past 650,000 years demonstrates that temperature increases have come before, and not resulted from, increases in CO2 by hundreds of years.",2_3
"Last week, the U.N.?s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, reported it was 95 percent certain that climate change was the result of human activity, specifically the burning of fossil fuels that emit ?greenhouse gases.?",0_0
"Solar explains perhaps 10% of it, but the volcanoes push it the other way so why cant I find the two watts per square metre of expected CO2 warming in the CERES dataset?",0_0
"The myths and urban legends of disastrous, catastrophic global warming that IPCC ""scientists"" perpetuate have become less believable as global warming has literally disappeared - unfortunately, most of these green, CO2-jihadist climate scientists still pursue empirical malfeasance by purposefully misleading policymakers and the public with even more temperature fabrications",5_2
"But that admonition has been largely ignored and the politics of personal destruction continues. Lest anyone think that this conclusion is exaggeration, consider for a moment what some climate change advocates have asserted.",0_0
"I would love to teach at a school where the students actually want to learn and are not there just to Get a degree. In my fantasy, these kids matriculate already knowing how to write and are not unfamiliar with multiplication and division of two-digit numbers. And since this is my hallucination, I envision the college shares my desires and puts knowledge (and not diversity, etc.) first. Sigh.",0_0
Fig 14.2 Temperature (top). CO2 (bottom) from Vostok ice-core overlaid showing temperature drops after the peak whereas CO2 does not.,2_3
"According to a new paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, ???The global mean sea level for the period January 1900 to December 2006 is estimated to rise at a rate of 1.56 0.25 mm/yr which is reasonably consistent with earlier estimates, but we do not find significant acceleration.?? As noted by The Hockey Shtick , the 1.56 mm/yr non-accelerating rate of sea level rise would result in sea levels 6 inches higher than the present in 100 years.",1_6
"Unfortunately, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) wrote a letter to the anti-coal zealots recently announcing that they would direct the Capitol power plant to switch over to run entirely on natural gas. This will increase the cost of the electricity and heat used by the Congress substantially, but the only people for whom this represents an added burden are taxpayers.",0_0
"One of the things emerging from several lines is that the IPCC has not paid enough attention to natural variability, on several time scales, he says, especially El Nios and La Nias, the Pacific Ocean phenomena that are not yet captured by climate models, and the longer term Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) which have cycle lengths of about 60 years.",2_1
"Common Core got off to a fast start as most states adopted it in exchange for federal money under Obama's Race to the Top program. But then groups including The Heartland Institute revealed the true origins, content, and intent of Common Core and support for the standards began to evaporate. One by one, states withdrew from the consortia created to administer the Common Core-linked tests.",0_0
"This indicates that claim 5 is clearly wrong . While sea level will rise a small amount, and has so since the start of the Holocene period, the rise is now only 10 to 15 cm per century, and is not significantly related to the recent recovery from the little ice age, including the present period of warming.",1_6
"1980, 90s and 2000s obsession with global warming of around 0.2C/decade (as inflated on the graph) with predictions of fireball earth, plagues of frogs etc.",5_2
"This attempt to punish opposition to climate-change regulations is shocking. The First Amendment protects such opposition, including corporate lobbying. Under the Supreme Court's Noerr-Pennington doctrine, lobbying is protected even if it reflects a bad motive, or makes false claims.",0_0
"""No, I'm serious. They're not here."" Then a minute later, ""Dad, I found a rubber patch. They must have caught fire.""",0_0
"Instead of flattering tree huggers, it?s time we stopped all this nature-worshipping and added some real fuel to the climate-change debate.",0_0
"The recent lack of warming does deserve discussion. As several have shown, including me in blog posts such as this, the short-term variations in the trend are mainly due to variations in El Nio and volcanic eruptions. The last two years have seen the key El Nio region running cool, and as has almost always happened in similar situations in the past, the globe has run cool too.",0_0
"I attended the conclave of 180 nations at The Hague, and it was obvious that Europeans were more interested in trying to gain an economic advantage over the United States and in scoring points for Uncle Sam-bashing with their ""green"" constituents than in meeting, in a sensible way, the still uncertain threat of global warming.",0_0
"""A female jail guard's strip search of a male inmate was a ""humiliating event"" that violated his rights, a divided federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Wednesday.""",0_0
"Baliunas: Yes, it correlates almost exactly with the temperature on Earth. The sun is as magnetically active as it's been in our direct telescope records of the sun since the days of Galileo. So the magnetism of the sun has been rising gradually, and it was especially sharp early in the 20th century, coincident with this rise in temperature on the Earth.",2_1
"After breakfast I try putting on several pairs of socks and tying sleeping bag covers around my ankles. But the nylon is paper-thin, and my feet freeze in a second.",0_0
"What follows is the Arctic part of Prof. Fritz Vahrenholtsand Frank Bosses recently posted article: The sun August 2014, the internal variability of the climate and the latest on Arctic ice . Time permitting, I will do the translation ofthe solar part a little later.",0_0
"A decline in diurnal temperature range results in reduced human mortality in Guangzhou, China Read More",0_0
"In the classic movie The Outlaw Josey Wales , a carpet-bagging snake oil salesman claimed his product cures cramps, wounds, hangovers, and just about everything. Clint Eastwood, playing Josey Wales, then spit a mouthful of dark brown tobacco juice on the snake oil salesmans bright white jacket and asked, How is it with stains?",0_0
"Thus, Floridians who want to remain living near the coast have to do more to make their homes hurricane resistant. Current building codes specify tough standards that help newer homes survive, but about 70 percent of homes don't meet them.",0_0
that case if we supplied the information in this case. So I would suggest that,0_0
"The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit, and is often so enamored with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it.",0_0
"It has also emerged that Teris biggest single sponsor, BP India, which has provided 6?million, paid for dinner and drinks at an event publicising Dr Pachauris debut novel. A BP spokesman said it was entirely legitimate to fund the dinner, the company having enjoyed a long association with Dr Pachauri.",0_0
"In light of the importance of SCC to U.S. climate/energy policy, it seems that much more attention needs to be paid to this issue.",0_0
"The other challenge was politicians' growing need to contain health-care spendingespecially for Medicaid. Rivera recognized that politics, more than collective bargaining, offered the means to pursue his members' interests. This meant forging alliances with hospital management and the state Republican Party.",0_0
"During the week of July 8 through July 14, 1913, high temperatures averaged 129 degrees at Greenland Ranch, California. On July 10 the temperature reached 134 degrees.",1_7
Paperback AvailablePaperback DIM: 6'' x 9''Paperback ISBN: 0844741868Paperback Pages: 160Paperback Price: $20.00Buy the Book,0_0
"Had a comment by Ken McMurtrie about something unrelated (Amish and vaccinations) that led me to SOTT.net. Id not heard of it before, and it looks interesting, so I poke around. Right off the bat ran into two very interesting article. One on the recent weather in Hawaii. They have had massive lightning strikes. Rather than make a me too posting out of it, its worth reading here:",0_0
"Rumours like this always have to be handled with care. Even if they are true at the time they circulate, there's no guarantee they will stay true. Rumours circulated before the 2004 State of the Union that the president would announce a new space mission to Marsbut at the last moment, the administration abandoned the idea.",0_0
"NOTE: Calvin Beisner, Ph. D., is National Spokesman, Cornwall Alliance for Environmental Stewardship, and a CFACT advisor.",0_0
"There were some of the pronouncements made in the media, particularly to the Associated Press by Dr. Michael Mann, that marry that paper with global warming, even though no such claim was made in the press release about the scientific paper itself.",5_2
"Like with temperature and sea level data, government climate scientists are tampering with data to make it appear that the past was colder, had lower sea level, and had more sea ice. Perhaps Hansen has been consulting with JAXA.",5_2
We cant know (for certain or otherwise) which is different from any of the other 21 st century data points that are reported as within 100ths of a degree of one another. The values can only be calculated to an accuracy of +/- 0.1C,5_1
"Most recent summers have had temperatures below normal north of 80N, and the water in that region is getting colder. This has combined with a large reduction in ice transport through the Fram Strait in recent years.",1_1
"Another study finds evidence of the climate during the Middle Ages being warmer than now, this time in Tibet.",2_1
"I also recognize as unscientific the creation of and adoration for Mr. Gores movie An Inconvenient Truth . This film, produced by Laurie David (ex-wife of Seinfeld creator Larry David), is filled with facts well-known to be (and acknowledged as such even by scientists employed in the making of the movie) hyperbolic at best and often out-and-out lies. That this is documentary created by a D student in earth science and a Hollywood leftist whose greatest prior accomplishment was marrying a very funny man is the educational tool being used to promote hysteria speaks volumes about how little there is to be truthfully said. The fact that those who continue to promote this propaganda effort, fully aware of the half-truths and out-right lies, makes clear that science (i.e. truth) is not, to them, sacrosanct. When scientists recognize that they cannot use the science to prove their science then, well, its probably not science.",5_2
"3.While human addition of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), to the atmosphere may slightly raise atmospheric temperatures, observational studies indicate that the climate system responds more in ways that suppress than in ways that amplify CO 2 s effect on temperature, implying a relatively small and benign rather than large and dangerous warming effect.",3_1
That is what I believe all of us who are concerned about climate change need to doin addition to all the other necessary political and practical actions.,0_0
"As for foolishness number 3, well, nothing better than having Singh write a web article about global warming showing zero-to-nothing knowledge of the topic beyond a quick reading of the IPCC and an insane trusting of Skeptical Science.",5_2
"The next day, Gore again took a shot at the opponents who he said denied him the use of Washington's famous Mall - the area surrounding the Smithsonian Institution museums between the Capitol and the Washington Monument - and the press again largely parroted his claim. In his speech at National Museum of the American Indian last Saturday, which the Paris-based wire service AFP called ""a thinly veiled hit on members of President George W. Bush's Republican party,"" Gore declared, ""Some who don't understand what is now at stake tried to stop this event on the Mall.""",0_0
"Average global temperature is a crude measure of the climate of the planet; it is more important to know how different regions will be affected by changes in seasonal temperature averages and ranges, precipitation, wind patterns, the distribution of different plant and animal species, and other climate-related phenomena. But computer models are no more capable of telling us about regional climate change than they are of predicting globally averaged climate change. One example comes from the comparison of the results of eighteen computer simulations of the warmer and wetter conditions that prevailed in Northern Africa around 6,000 years ago. The average of modeled precipitation is too low by a factor of two to three to sustain the lush vegetation known to have been present.22 Until the computer models, and the physical aspects of the climate coded in them, improve substantially, regional projections remain highly speculative.",5_1
"Complete licensing for Yucca Mountain. Any sustainable, long-term solution for nuclear waste management requires geologic storage. Taxpayers and electricity rate payers have spent more than $15 billion on the Yucca Mountain site, and no technical or scientific evidence has yet disqualified it as a viable option. The next Administration should direct the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to complete its review of the permit application and transition to a more market-based approach.",0_0
"There are many who would have us act unilaterally, who claim we will gain some sort of ?competitive edge? over China and the rest of the world by pursuing national policies of innovation or economic re-engineering. Through the magic of innovation, we will improve our economy, gain power relative to the rest of the world, and save the environment all in one stroke. This is nonsense.",0_0
Hans von Storch is a professor of meteorology at the University of Hamburg and Head of the Institute for Coastal Research. He is a vlknd voice in international climate science society. He believes that we can expect a global uppvrmning p due researched vxthusgashalter in the atmosphere but the risks of this verdrivs of certain circles. His prospects located close to the Swedish klimatprofessorns Lennart Bengtsson which framgr of another blogginlgg (in German) on climate blog Klimazwiebel. This blogginlgg reproduces an interview with HVS Dr. interviewer including frgar his Adjustment to the LBS term manifestations (the discussion in the interview gllde also GWPF but the part I do not take up HR):,0_0
"He described CTBS as ""surreal"" and saw it as a postmodern rejection of the enlightenment. It was from him that I first heard the term ""climate realist"" to describe the few scientists and educated laymen who publicly stood against CTBS. He also first brought up the notion of ""noble cause corruption"" to help explain it. After the battles over the infamous ""hockey stick,"" he once exclaimed, ""Thank God for the Royal Canadian Mounted Sceptics!"" (He wouldn't have spelled skeptics with a ""k"".)",0_0
"And that's the political rub. Even as support for shale gas extraction grows among more enlightened environmentalists, Dow's AEA along with anti-shale gas congressmen, mostly Democrats, appear determined to abort the natural gas revolution any way they can.",0_0
"If peers demanded a newspaper stop covering studies that argue economic growth is going to fall short of the consensus, they would get short shrift. We can't criticise Russia or Turkey for shutting down newspapers if we censor scientific doubters. Free speech matters.",0_0
"On the contrary, the opposite seems to be the case, with the highest summer temperatures in recent years well below those recorded in the first half of the 20thC, and even before.",1_4
"18. Kenneth Watt warned about a pending Ice Age in a speech. ""The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years,"" he declared. ""If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.""",0_0
"""Fourth, and most important, CAFE kills. Design modification and materials substitution can make cars lighter and safer, but doing so costs money and it is not easy to do both simultaneously. The easiest way to improve mileage is to cut vehicle weight, but reducing the amount of metal surrounding drivers and passengers leaves them more vulnerable in an accident. In 2002, the National Academy of Sciences reported that CAFE kills an extra 1,300 to 2,600 people a year.""",0_0
Google Earth aerial view - click for larger image,0_0
"They were uttered by Transport secretary Philip Hammond himself, who just a fortnight later is already being forced to eat humble pie.",0_0
"Lee and Robyn Terry released a statement saying they were pleased with the decision and ""impressed"" by the district's handling of the case.",0_0
The standard assumption about the superior efficiency of a carbon tax relative to bans and energy consumption standards is deeply problematic for both scientific and political reasons.,0_0
"A recent BBC News article notes that, while wind turbines are typically permitted for up to 25 years, developers anticipate upgrading or replacing them after as few as 10 years in many locations. A new Scottish Natural Heritage report says, by 2034, the industry will need to recycle or dispose of some 225,000 metric tons of turbine rotor blade material per year. This means 225,000 metric tons of new rotor blades will have to be manufactured, using materials extracted from the Earth via mining, drilling and other processes that use energy and generate mountains of waste.",4_1
"Well, I personally view this story as an entertaining one. By the way, I am also missing my historical signet of the royal city of Pilsen from 1307 which I received years ago... (Update September 2010: We found it!) Some other Nobel prize winners explain that they use a facsimile of the Nobel Prize medal (with brass) while others sent Glauber condolences. :-)",0_0
"Volkswagen should focus on profits, not kindergarten pissing contests of brands",0_0
Can NV Energy shut off my air conditioner via the smart meter??,0_0
"British Met Office has since John Houghton's time utveckats a political activist group, who delivered the message that Blair and New Labour wanted to hear. New Labour behvde AGW from its totalitra political projects, for creating a new blank and hip mnniska. Meteorologists and climate scientists delivered the message that politicians efterfrgade. They became belnade with rivers of money, gigantic computers, fine academic awards and titles of nobility.",0_0
Virginia gets $45 million for high-speed rail:,0_0
"The recent strong La Nia (cool, wet) and high SOI conditions contributing to flooding in Australia has shown Nicholls statistical analysis is correct. Despite comments by prominent AGW scientists like David Karoly, Ian Lowe and Tim Flannery these are entirely natural conditions; the flood records for Queensland show that in the past, before AGW began, there were bigger and regular floods. As Professor Stewart Franks notes natural variability is creating the weather not AGW.",1_7
"UPDATE: Just to put all this nonsense in perspective, the policy is due to reduce Australias emissions by 160 million tonnes of CO2 by 2020. Sounds impressive right? Well, Chinas emissions rose in just one year by 750 million tonnes, nearly five times Australias planned reduction by 2020 in just one year. Climate Madness.",4_2
"An interagency working group (IWG) produced a technical support document (TSD) in 2013 setting out a schedule of SCC values by year and by the discount rate used in the present-value calculations. The IWG used three integrated assessment models (IAMs) to estimate the SCC values for each year. Though interesting theoretical exercises, the information needed to flesh out the IAMs does not exist. As a result the arbitrary values are inserted to paper over the missing critical information generating useless output from technically sophisticated models. Others have noted these fatal problems with the IAMs.",0_0
"That argument is specious. As Peter Orszag, now director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, explained in congressional testimony last year when he was head of the Congressional Budget Office: ""Under a cap-and-trade program, firms would not ultimately bear most of the costs of the allowances, but instead would pass them along to their customers in the form of higher prices. Such price increases would stem from the restriction on emissions and would occur regardless of whether the government sold emission allowances or gave them away. Indeed, the price increases would be essential to the success of a cap-and-trade program .""",0_0
"""At one time, $5 per gallon gas seemed like a far-fetched idea, but that is no longer the case.""",0_0
"""Another very important improvement is to guarantee an equitable distribution of the atmospheric space taking into account climate debt, and to take into account also an equitable distribution of the remaining budget in relation to the population of developed and developing countries.""",0_0
GCM Predictions of North India Winter Precipitation for Its Crops,0_0
"Confronted with such objections, greenhouse advocates emphasize precautionary considerations and compare the Kyoto Protocol to an insurance policy. Yes, my home will probably never be vandalized, consumed by fire, or destroyed by an earthquake or a flood. Nonetheless, I would be foolish not to purchase homeowners insurance. Similarly, Kyoto supporters argue, I am foolish if I am unwilling to invest in energy rationing policies that might possibly help avert a disaster of planetary proportions. There are two main flaws in this line of argument.",0_0
"The derived 20 year trend in sea ice extent from the monthly deviations is 11.18 4.19 x 10 3 km 2 yr -1 or 0.98 0.37% (decade) -1 for the entire Antarctic sea ice cover, which is significantly positive.",1_1
"While we have a healthy skepticism toward the pharmaceutical industry, former Obama adviser Ezekiel Emanuels attack in the New York Times on Big Pharma for not selling cancer drugs because they cant make any money is long on accusation but short on facts:",0_0
"Release: ""Light Brigade' to debunk Sunday's ""forward on climate' D.C. rally",0_0
America's Detroit Future: Obama's politics and policies promise nothing less.,0_0
"Throughout the period of pod filling, the mean photosynthetic rate of plants growing in ambient-CO 2 but elevated-SO 2 air was 17.2% lower than the mean rate of plants growing in ambient-CO 2 and SO 2 -free air, while the mean photosynthetic rate of plants growing in CO 2 -enriched but SO 2 -free air was 25.1% higher than the mean rate of plants growing in ambient-CO 2 and SO 2 -free air. Most important of all, the mean photosynthetic rate of plants growing in CO 2 -enriched and elevated-SO 2 air was 33.4% greater than the mean rate of plants growing in ambient-CO 2 and SO 2 -free air. Hence, enriching the air with CO 2 more than compensated for the negative effects of elevated SO 2 on photosynthesis rates of soybeans in this study. What it means",3_3
They ignore hundreds of thousands of weather balloon results that show the climate models overestimate future warming by at least 300%.,5_1
"I disagree with liberals on most issues, but I do believe that many of them care deeply about people. So they should be alarmed when environmental leaders put the welfare of animals and plants ahead of people.",0_0
"Figure 1. Conventional oil leaking out of the ground near McKittrick, CA.",0_0
"But according to the FSHP, the only way a Cuban can get access to the hospital is through a bribe or contacts inside the hospital administration. ""Cubans are reportedly very resentful that the best hospital in Havana is 'off-limits' to them,"" the memo reveals.",0_0
Marine ecologist Larry Crowder from Duke University in the US is reported at BBC News Online claiming that leatherback turtles face extinction within 30 years if there are not dramatic changes to fishing practices.,0_0
"Having endured hundreds such diasters, the villagerswith the help of local Jesuitsorganized the pilgrimage, to be held annually on July 31: the Catholic feast day dedicated to the Jesuits founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola.",0_0
"The new study indicates that thats quite wrong, with the current warming less serious than the Romans and others since have seen and the overall trend actually down by a noticeable 0.3C per millennium.",0_0
"Dan Lashof, director of NRDC's Climate Center, tried to rebut Joel's critique. He did not challenge Joel's central points--emissions are already well below 1996 levels, current policies ensure emissions will continue to drop, and, therefore, air quality predictions assuming that 1996 emissions will persist into the 2050s and beyond are completely unrealistic. Instead, Lashof argued that Heat Advisory presents ""projections,"" not ""predictions,"" and that the researchers had to use emissions data from an actual year, such as 1996, because ""there are no reliable estimates of precursor emissions extending to the mid-21st Century."" Moreover, holding emission levels constant is the only way to isolate the effect of global warming on ozone concentrations.",0_0
"There is another way to address the potential problem: geoengineering. It would be less disruptive of business activity, less threatening to employment, and it promises to be relatively inexpensive.",0_0
"""A 2006 law effectively blocks all types of Internet gambling by Americans, largely to prevent a rise in gambling addiction that online betting can easily lead to. Strong attempts to overturn the law have so far failed. Now a bill in Congress aims to open a crack in that wall. It would legalize only one type: online poker.""",0_0
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"After Andy Strominger explained his profound consternation by the fact that we had not been able to analyze the civilization of native Americans who lived in Northern America as recently as 800 years ago, Frank Wilczek hypothesized that no future historian would be able to learn that on Monday, March 13th, 2005 AD, Frank Wilczek was sitting at the end of the table in Eliot House, Harvard University, next to Bert Halperin on his left side (followed by your humble correspondent) and David Elmer on his right side, and they were discussing ancient Greek music and history.",0_0
"The bottom line is that claims that these pH changes are unprecedented, fast or unnatural are overstating things dramatically. Typical estuarine environments have an inflow from rivers (with a lower pH) that fluctuates wildly, so do areas with upwelling, and even the pH in kelp forests varies dynamically.",3_2
"Parameters	NST=330, Nph=362, Dmin=409.7 km, Rmss=1.26 sec, Gp= 14,",0_0
"Dear Robert, No, you werent defeated by a wall of money. You lost, despite your wall of money.",0_0
"As farmers and others speaking for the hundreds of millions of people who will benefit from this technology attempt to mount a defense, we cannot depend upon science and reason to win the argument. The people who understand the science are often absent or ineffective when they do speak up. Reason fails miserably in reaching those whose faith system has focused all of their discomfort with change and technology on the breeding of seeds.",0_0
"Next Mr Weyler tells us Precipitation has increased in eastern Americas, northern Europe, and Asia. So what? Natural variability will cause more rainfall in some places and less in others. Overall, as even the IPCC admits both in its 2012 report on extreme weather and in its 2013 Fifth Assessment Report, there is no evidence yet that precipitation patterns or quantities are being affected by global warming which is not really a surprise given that there has hardly been any. We are not told that the worlds oldest national annual rainfall record, the Met Offices England and Wales series, shows that the annual rainfall trend has increased by just 2 inches in a quarter of a millennium, which is well within natural variability:",1_7
"Those who disagree with him are not merely mistaken, they are malevolent, unworthy even of persuasion through honest debate. Instead, ""denialists"" deserve only to have their homes razed.",0_0
"The proposals range from encouraging the construction of ""green"" schools and buildings to developing a trading market for emissions within Massachusetts. Additionally, the state will implement a greenhouse gas inventory in order to track greenhouse gas emissions.",0_0
"We can compare the charcoal and tree-ring fire records. It confirms that the charcoal is a good indicator of past fires, Swetnam said.",0_0
"The easiest way for car makers to meet ever-rising CAFE standards has been through continued car downsizing. As the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration itself noted, ""weight reduction is probably the most powerful technique for improving fuel economy. . . . Each 10 percent reduction in weight improves the fuel economy of a new vehicle design by approximately 8 percent."" The result was a CAFE-driven downsizing of approximately 500 pounds per car.",0_0
"According to Bill McKibben in an op-ed in The Washington Post, the biggest news of the year is that Jim Hansen has spoken. According to Hansen, who has risen in recent years from astronomer to wizard and now to high priest of a doomsday cult, the safe level for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can be no more than 350 parts per million. So since it's now 380 or 390 ppm, we're already doomed and can stop worrying about it.",5_2
"In June 2007, two Colorado scientists, Jan F. Kreider, an engineering professor at the University of Colorado, and Peter S. Curtiss, a Boulder-based engineering consultant, determined that carbon dioxide emissions from corn-based ethanol are worse than those of conventional gasoline and diesel fuel. They concluded that carbon emissions in the life-cycle sense are about 50 percent higher for ethanols than for traditional fossil fuels; such fuels are not the answer to global warmingthey make it worse.",0_0
Maine high court overrules state PUC approval of huge wind energy deal,0_0
"Most of the Left wants to measure access to health care by the percentage of people who have health insurance,implyingthat those without insurance have no access to care. But in fact the uninsured in the US have access to better health care than most other people in the world.",0_0
"Pielke goes on to deconstruct the study, but just compare the two bolded statements. First, that there is not sufficiently extensive and accurate observational data to test a hypothesis. BUT, then we will create a model, and this model is validated against this same observational data. Then the model is used to draw all kinds of conclusions about the problem being studied.",5_1
"""Well, son. I voyaged up to the Arctic Circle in a nice big boat with a bunch of installation artists, mime practitioners, YouTube cat short specialists and climate scientists on an all-expenses trip to make a documentary called The Earth Is Weeping: Feel Her Pain. My contribution was a Concerto for Gamelan and Nose Flute entitled Swan Song Of The Melting Polar Bear.""",0_0
"Part of the resistance to a clean break comes from trade diplomats and some political leaders who recoil at the supposed stigma of presiding over the first failed trade round since GATT was established after World War II. This is understandable but in the end misguided. For those who care about the future of the multilateral trading system and the institution of the WTO, nothing could be worse than a continuation of the debilitating stalemate, combined with increasingly feckless calls by world leaders at every summit gathering for negotiators to settle their differences and wrap up the round. The lack of ""political will"" starts right at the top of the political ladder.",0_0
"Why should you be interested? As noted in the post, the sea surface temperature records indicate El Nio and La Nia events are responsible for the warming of global sea surface temperature anomalies over the past 30 years, not manmade greenhouse gases. Ive searched sea surface temperature records for more than 4 years, and Ive searched ocean heat content records for more than 3 years, and I can find no evidence of an anthropogenic greenhouse gas signal. That is, the data indicates the warming of the global oceans has been caused by Mother Nature, not anthropogenic greenhouse gases.",2_1
"The IRS repeatedly abused its power in targeting conservative groups. But then Lois Lerner's emails mysteriously disappeared, she took the Fifth and retired with full pension, ""two employees on the night shift"" deleted the email backup tapes (with no repercussions) and Mr. Koskinen steadfastly refuses to cooperate with congressional investigators. No Park Doctrine for any of them.",0_0
"cap and dividend, in which the proceeds of auctioning pollution permits are rebated to taxpayers",0_0
"Initially, they might start addressing the unprecedented warming that took place during the 1930s well before the large human CO2 emissions. The fact that the 1930s had a much larger impact on U.S. temperatures than either 1990s or the 2000s should be of interest; also very germane to the modern ""unprecedented"" warming deception foisted on them by climate scientists more interested in fame and fortune. (click on image to enlarge)",2_1
"How can natural variations, of which there are plenty, be distinguished from purported man-made ones?",0_0
The best data we have on such Halloween sadism is compiled each year by University of Delaware professor Joel Best. His conclusion is simple:,0_0
"Yet only a year ago, Mr. Obama's 2010 Budget contained no mention of nuclear power. Nor did the 1,400-page American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 - cost: $820 billion over the next decade - sponsored by liberal Democrats Henry Waxman and Ed Markey, which passed the House last June.",0_0
"Over at BNA Energy and Environment Blog, Dean Scott has an interview with Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA). At one point, the discussion turned to a 2009 cap-and-trade bill co-authored by then-Rep. Markey and the formidable Rep. Henry Waxman. According to Scott:",0_0
After reviewing the scientific literature the reports concludes that the standstill is an empirical fact and a reality that challenges current climate models. During the time that the Earths global temperature has remained static the atmospheric composition of carbon dioxide has increased from 370 to 390 ppm.,1_4
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) plans to control your home appliances when youre not there.,0_0
"""The real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand. It is much easier for a scientist to sit in an air-conditioned building and run computer models, than to put on winter clothes and measure what is really happening outside in the swamps and the clouds. That is why the climate model experts end up believing in their own models.""",5_1
A dispute over the status of a small species of mouse threatens development across large parts of Colorado and Wyoming.,0_0
"In Canada, Action Plan 2000 earmarked $210 million in government funding to promote technologies that reduced greenhouse gas emissions in industry and transportation and gave $125 million to cities to encourage use of such technologies. Another $100 million went to promote foreign demand for these Canadian solutions. Despite these efforts, Canada's greenhouse gas emissions in 2002 were the highest ever. This puts Canada well off the mark of reducing emissions by 5.2 per cent from 1990 levels as called for in the Kyoto Protocol.",4_2
From that we can make a simple time-dependent model to calculate the change in temperature throughout the night. This simple spreadsheet model Ive provided here will allow you to change assumed parameters to see how to get a realistic temperature decline over 12 nighttime hours. What you will find is that the temperature falls to unrealistically cold levels unless you assume a large downwelling energy flux from the sky into the soil (also adjustable in the model).,0_0
"All of this says, we have no idea how much carbon dioxide nature is adding to the atmosphere. The models used to justify the war on carbon start with dream-time forecasts of world economic activity. These figures drive forecasts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which are linked to assumptions and complex formula in a big black box that spits out forecasts of global temperature for a century ahead. No one but an Australian Climate Commissioner could take any notice of these forecasts.",5_1
"Our analyses of ice cores from the ice sheet in Antarctica shows that the concentration of CO 2 in the atmosphere follows the rise in Antarctic temperatures very closely and is staggered by a few hundred years at most, ??? Sune Olander Rasmussen",2_3
"The American Energy Alliance (AEA) and the Institute for Energy Research (IER) have created a new platform, American Products. American Power. to educate the nation about the critical role that energy plays for our economy and in our daily lives.",0_0
"The scenarios in which coffee beans *might* be threatened, forecasted 1.8 to 4.0 C of warming in the 21st century based on business as usual carbon emissions. The actual warming since 1998 has been less than the scenario in which atmospheric CO2 levels stopped rising at the beginning of this century.",0_0
"Public education is biting us back. Schoolteachers cant be trusted with children, having been indoctrinated in John Dewey socialism and worse. They certainly cant teach because they are too busy with political correctness and socialist/post modernist/relativist brainwashing.",0_0
"To illustrate the point further, at any given time, some parts of earth are actually in cooling trends while others are in warming trends. By averaging temperature anomalies across the globe, the IPCC and consensus science has concluded that there is an overall positive warming trend. The following is a simple example of how easily anomaly data can report not only a misleading result, but worse, in some cases it can report a result the OPPOSITE of what is happening from an energy balance perspective. To illustrate, lets take four different temperatures and consider their value when converted to w/m2 as calculated by Stefan-Boltzmann Law:",5_1
"The Politics, If Not The Science, Is Settled At The EPA. Alan Carlin, Global Warming And Trouble",0_0
"is a non-pollutant, and is necessary for life on earth. Concentrations of the others are negligible compared with their Threshold Limit Value . Methyl mercury can be dangerous in high concentrations, but volcanoes are responsible for half of all mercury emissions. Eruptions usually result in a 4-6x increase in atmospheric mercury.",3_3
"As much of the northern hemisphere last week froze under the snows of the fourth unusually cold winter in a row, our ministers, led by David Cameron and Chris Huhne, the Climate Change Secretary, laid out a blueprint that promises to inflict on Britain a social and economic catastrophe unique in the world. They chose this moment to announce what Mr Huhne called ?a seismic shift? in Britain?s energy policy, the purpose of which, according to Mr Cameron, is to replace our ?clapped-out? electricity supplies by making Britain ?the greenest economy in the world?.",0_0
"When a president of the United States starts talking about wood chips and switch grass, you know that a substance has reached front and center in the national discourse. Both of our current presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama, support ethanol as well, though McCain's support for ethanol seems to have been an epiphany on the eve of the Republican primary in Iowa and the corn belt.",0_0
"Today, we are facing rising carbon dioxide contents in the atmosphere through human activities, and the amount of oxygen in the ocean may drop correspondingly in the face of rising seawater temperatures, Lyons said. Oxygen is less soluble in warmer water, and there are already suggestions of such decreases. In the face of these concerns, our findings from the warm, oxygen-poor ancient ocean may be a warning shot about yet another possible perturbation to marine ecology in the future.",0_0
"Also collaborating on the project as a co-investigator is Dr. Susan Stonich, professor of anthropology and environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.",0_0
willing to make billion-and trillion-dollar decisions for adaptation to the,0_0
"Re-examining Schmidts complaint: Schmidt argued that it would be unfair to take a statement that he had made on May 11, 2012 pointing out that Briffa et als results would be different from what McIntyre had put up (on May 6 2012 ) (as the figure below demonstrates), and then using a calculation made on May 15 2012 to claim I was wrong .",0_0
"Paeth et al 2006 Improving Seasonal Forecasting in the Low Latitudes,",0_0
"The corpus of climate legislation was already cooling before Snowmageddon. The cold wind that buried its chances this year didn't come off the snow burying Washington: It came off horrific unemployment reports, lackluster economic growth, massive Tea Party rallies and vicious town hall meetings. After the breakdown in Copenhagen, the explosion of ""Climategate"" and the election of Scott Brown, the Democrats' rapid pivot to focus on jobs was inevitable.",0_0
"In conclusion, as ever more relevant evidence is acquired, the case for an equivalent or warmer-than-present Medieval Warm Period grows ever stronger, continually weakening the climate-alarmist claim that the planet's current warmth can only be explained by including the warming they believe to have been produced by the increasing concentrations of atmospheric CO2 and other greenhouse gases that were experienced over the course of the 20th century, all of which gases' concentrations were much reduced back at the time of the equal or greater warmth of the Medieval Warm Period.""",2_1
"Please join me in support for poor, beleaguered gas station owners, the victims of unconscionable price gouging by ruthless consumers who are taking advantage of market conditions to reduce their demand for gasoline, riving down the price by nearly $2 per gallon over the last four months. Fortunately, governments are swinging into action. Georgia governor Sonny Perdue issued this statement :",0_0
"The plan will result in higher electricity costs for businesses and families, lost jobs, lower incomes, higher poverty rates, reduced living standards, and diminished health and welfare, our exhaustive recent study found. This damage will be inflicted at the national level and in all 50 states. The CPP will impact all low-income groups, but hit America's 128 million Blacks and Hispanics especially hard.",4_1
"Norman G. Loeb, John M. Lyman, Gregory C. Johnson, Richard P. Allan, David R. Doelling, TakmengWong, Brian J. Soden & Graeme L. Stephens, 2012:",0_0
North Pole temperatures in 2013 have fallen below freezing way in advance of where they normally do this year. This is the coldest ever recorded by the Danish Meteorological Institute since they started looking at this in the late 1950s.,1_3
"While Grantham might be correct about some harder-edged libertarian places, he paints with an overly broad brush. The libertarian think tank of which I am a part, for example, has published several papers calling for government policies to address climate change, including investing more in geo-engineering research. And while there's difference of opinion among the scholars on some specifics, one paper even recommends a tax on carbon to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.",0_0
"Point out this blog on the situation in Rosarno, written by Peppe Caridi. I do not agree on all the details but the conclusion and extraordinary in its center lantico problem of Calabria:",0_0
"As NIPCC explains , if we are going to use models to overhaul our economies we would hope they do better at predictions than being low or absent in skill, yet thats exactly what Kiktev et al found when they compared five GCMs with observations:",5_1
"And it will soon become apparent that the converse is not true either - even with insurance, in a top-down rules-driven government-controlledhealth care system, one may not have access to health care. For example, one of my employees was complaining that she was having trouble with workers comp getting care for her injury. This is a follow-up email Ireceivedtoday from my insurance agent (redacted only for privacy issues):",0_0
Seems like the Professor joins a growing list of senior academics who have fallen foul of their local political correctness crowd. How many other cases of perhaps lesser mortals could be going unreported?,0_0
"A good example of this is equating climate skeptics to pedophiles , something else Lewandowsky was involved in (via an ABC radio show, but he didn??t actually make the claim, the announcer did) but note that he??s made the claims about HIV and AIDS here, even before his latest paper was published . Predetermined conclusion anyone?",5_2
The fact that the warmest portions of the Roman and Medieval Warm Periods in the vicinity of the northeast Atlantic were so much warmer than the warmest portion of the Current Warm Period - and at times when the air's CO2 content was so much less than it is currently - strongly suggests that the atmosphere's CO2 concentration had little to no impact on the late-Holocene climatic history of that part of the planet.,2_1
"seasonal and annual temperatures for the entire CET seriesshow unprecedented warmth during the 1990s, but earlier decades such as the 1730s and 1820s are comparable.",0_0
"Energy Bill Requires Scientific Fact, Not Courage",0_0
"Columnist Tim Carney notes that BP, responsible for the massive oil spill, is ""a close friend of big government whenever it serves the company's bottom line."" It lobbied for President Obama's $800 billion stimulus package, the ""cap-and-trade"" global-warming bills backed by Obama, and ""the Wall Street bailout"" that Obama voted for. ""BP has more Democratic lobbyists than Republicans."" Obama is the biggest recipient of campaign cash from BP executives.",0_0
"""The Earth is not ""unusually"" warm. It is the application of the predictive equation that is faulty. The ability of common substances to store heat makes a mockery of blackbody estimates. The belief that radiating trace gases explain why earth's surface temperature deviates from a simple mathematical formula is based on deeply erroneous assumptions about theoretical vs. real bodies.""",0_0
"Antarctica set a new record for ice extent in 2014, and continues to set records for how much ice covers the oceans surrounding this southern hemisphere continent as 2015 progresses.",1_1
"Sadly for the US, most experts dont expect a new reactor to be operating there before late 2016 or early 2017. Many experts see the future of nuclear power in smaller, modular reactors being developed around the world. Unfortunately, the US Department of Energy continues to drag its feet on certifying new reactor designs, sending American nuclear entrepreneurs offshore to China and elsewhere. If the Obama administration is really serious about green energy and getting the US off of fossil fuels, they need to clear the bureaucratic logjam that is keeping the nuclear renaissance from spreading to America.",4_5
"Power infrastructure provider Alstom estimated that across Asia close to half of the 600 gigawatt of new power generators to be built over the next five years will be coal-fired, Giles Dickson, a vice president at the company said.",0_0
"Now be clear here, the greenhouse effect is premised upon a -18C solar input being amplified to +15 degrees C by the atmosphere trapping or back-radiating heat. None of this is correct because 1) the solar input is not -18 degrees C, 2) reality doesnt function like this in any case heat cant amplify its own temperature.",0_0
"Mark Pollock on September 1, 2008 at 6:33 am",0_0
"Robock Seeks Audience with Christie, Invited to Debate Global Warming",0_0
"Attachment1.pdf is, as already noted, simply a statement of the policy of PNAS. The actual letter concerning our submission is Attachment2.pdf. This attachment begins with what we regard as a libelous description of our choice of reviewers. Will Happer, though a physicist, was in charge of research at DOE including pioneering climate research. Moreover, he has, in fact, published professionally on atmospheric turbulence. He is also a member of the NAS. M.-D. Chou and I have not collaborated in over 5 years, and Chou had absolutely nothing to do with the present manuscript. There then followed a list of other reviewers that we felt were all inappropriate.",0_0
"Alarm, Alarm. Lets increase the growth of data. Or, to speak like Honecker (leader of former communist regime East Germany): Always higher, never lower! And if its not possible to increase the current data, then lets just reduce the data of the past. Just like some climate scientists also want to reduce the temperature of the hottest year since instrumental measurements began, namely 1998, just so that this decade can once again appear to be on the rise. Or just like Michael Mann tried with his infamous hockey stick but failed.",5_2
?Over 2.5 billion people live on less than $2 a day.?,0_0
"Glenda Kwek, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 August 2010",0_0
"In fact, polar bears have likely survived past ice-free periods in the Arctic. Scientists recently found there's no evidence of marine life extinctions in the Arctic in the past 1.5 million years, despite the Arctic going through periods of prolonged periods with no summer ice cover.",3_2
"Can anybody see any 100 year events in the last 5 years? Or any increase in extreme rainfall patterns? Good, because I cant either.",1_7
"In fact, the temperature of planet today is almost the same as it was when satellites first started measuring it in 1979. No one under the age of 32 has experienced global warming. Some of us predate that and remember the heavy frosts of the nineteen seventies. Those frosts are returning, and worse. Solar activity is weakening, and will remain weak for another 22 years.",1_4
"Never too early to worry about water? :: Peter Foster ...it's a sign of the grim times for our planet when pre-schoolers are worrying about something as basic as water, a commodity which my generation never even thought about at his age. When I look at my kids like my son and wonder what kind of place the world will be when they are my age - about 2050 - I find myself wondering if me and my family shouldn't just open the balcony doors of my 16th floor apartment and do the planet a favour by jumping out.",0_0
"For the scenario with lower -than-typically-assumed increases in CO 2 emissions and air temperature, the NEP of the globe increased from a positive (carbon-sequestering) value of 0.8 Pg C yr -1 in 1990 to 1.3 Pg C yr -1 in 2100, for a rate increase of 62% over the 110-year period. For typically -assumed increases in CO 2 and temperature, corresponding NEP values were 0.8 and 2.6 Pg C yr -1 , yielding a rate increase of 225%. And for higher -than-typically-assumed increases in CO 2 and temperature, NEP values of 0.8 and 3.4 Pg C yr -1 were obtained, for a rate increase of 325%. What it means",3_3
"These papers all report anomalously increased OLR associated with tropical surface warming. Models, by contrast, fail to show such an increase. Presumably that is why it is referred to as anomalous. One can (though the authors dont) infer a negative feedback factor from the observations, and it is at the high end of what LCH estimate. Moreover, the anomaly is associated with reduced upper level cirrus. However, the same papers insist that what they see is not the Iris Effect, but rather the result of a change in the large scale circulation. However, there is something seriously wrong with this attribution.",5_1
"Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, said before the Copenhagen summit in 2009 that we have 50 days to save the world. Copenhagen was of course a complete flop and yet we are all still here, although his government is no longer with us. Similar predictions of impending doom have come and gone.",0_0
"Will reduced solar activity counteract global warming in the coming decades? That is what outgoing Germanelectric utility executive Fritz Vahrenholt claims in a new book.In an interview with SPIEGEL, hearguesthat the official United Nations forecasts on the severity of climate change are overstated and supported by weak science.",0_0
And that lead commenter Caz to make the discovery of the photo:,0_0
"""Net neutrality proposals are driving a wedge between service providers like AT&T; and content providers like Google. Strange, is it not? Their interests are actually closely aligned. If AT&T; upgrades its network, Google benefits from the increased bandwidth. If Google improves its products, AT&T; benefits from increased demand for broadband. Net neutrality proposals give companies the incentive to seek rents at each other's expense when they could be benefitting from each other's innovations instead. This must be music to the ears of lobbyists, but how sad for consumers.""",0_0
>A Discontinuity In 1945 Or A Missing ENSO Event?,0_0
"The meeting hopes to restore credibility to the talks after the last summit in Copenhagen a year ago, which failed to agree on any binding measures to rein in emissions of global-warming gases. A nonbinding political document, the Copenhagen Accord, outlined important compromises among key players, including the United States and China, but its adoption was blocked by a handful of dissident nations.",0_0
"A funny thing happened this week. Humanity did a low-orbit bypass of a totalitarian world government, and pulled away, but only a few noticed the near miss.",0_0
"SUV owners have perfectly good reasons for their vehicle choices. Even Consumer Reports praises their ""roomy interiors, commanding view of the road, and go-anywhere ability."" The fact that NHTSA has trained its sights on SUVs hasn't kept its administrator, Ricardo Martinez, out of one. He puts his family in a Ford Explorer, though he declares that he bought it for safety, to distinguish himself from ""some teenager"" trying ""to be cool."" Too bad his regulatory approach doesn't do much for other people's safety.",0_0
"Here is a discussion about how to stop common core, from the heartland, at the grass roots, Ms. Crossin.",0_0
"As Webster et al . describe it, ""the interval in our record from AD 750 to 1150 was the most prolonged dry phase in our 3300-year record,"" which period of time can be seen from the Interactive Map and Time Domain Plot of our Medieval Warm Period (MWP) Project to correspond well with the MWP's mean time of occurrence around the globe, which period, in their words, ""coincided with the collapse of the Maya civilization."" More specifically, they say their data depict ""a series of droughts centered at about AD 780, 910, 1074, and 1139,"" with ""successive droughts increasing in severity."" What it means",2_1
'24' Executive Producer Howard Gordon Turns Green,0_0
"What follows is a response by John Christy, who has been producing these datasets with me for the last 20 years: (Roy W. Spencer)",0_0
"Neither Ms Wheeler, and worse, nor Ms Morris appear to have been curious enough to verify what they were writing about, and especially concerning such a boggling example. Please publish a correction as soon and as prominently as possible, otherwise your readers will find themselves severely mislead by a demonstrated falsehood.",0_0
Prof Curry said: I suspect that the portion of the decline in the sea ice attributable to natural variability could be even larger than half.,2_1
"Fracking fluids are 99.5% water and sand, combined with chemicals that keep sand particles suspended in the liquid, fight bacterial growth, and improve gas flow and production. Most additives used today are vegetable oils and common, biodegradable chemicals found in cheese, beer, canned fish, dairy desserts, shampoo, and other food and cosmetic products. Steadily improving technologies, techniques and regulations will further reduce environmental risks.",0_0
2. But isn't global warming threatening public health by causing a resurgence of diseases like malaria?,0_0
"As illustrated in the Evans et al graph below, coastal upwelling can oversaturate the surface waters to 1000 matm, 2.5 times above atmospheric pCO 2 (represented by dashed horizontal line). Within weeks the biological response sequesters and exports that carbon so that concentrations of surface water CO 2 fall as low as 200 matm; a concentration that would still be under-saturated relative to the Little Ice Ages atmosphere. Relative to these rapid seasonal changes in pH, fears that marine organisms cannot adapt quickly enough to the relatively slower changes wrought by anthropogenic CO 2 seem overblown.",3_2
"All of this snow has propelled southeast Michigan into the top of the seasonal snowfall records. ???In fact, this winter puts 6 of the last 14 years into the top 20 snowiest winters on record .??",1_3
"This year is set to be the coolest since 2000, according to a preliminary estimate of global average temperature that is due to be released next week by the Met Office. The global average for 2008 should come in close to 14.3C, which is 0.14C below the average temperature for 2001-07.",1_3
"The Yen has largely gone flat, though with a slight residual drop. The general message here is that the dollar is rising, the Euro is having issues (but we already knew that) and the precious metals are not cutting it. It looks like folks are moving into the US dollar. Perhaps out of European banks?",0_0
"After the fourth year of atmospheric CO 2 enrichment, a detailed analysis indicated that elevated CO 2 reduced needle stomatal density by an average of 7.4%. In contrast, elevated CO 2 increased needle thickness, mesophyll tissue area, and total cross-sectional area by averages by 6.4, 5.7, and 10.4%, respectively. In addition, atmospheric CO 2 enrichment increased the average relative area occupied by phloem cells by 4.4%.",3_3
"So far, it would appear that the impact of whatever global warming may have occurred over the past few decades -- even in the supposedly more sensitive higher latitudes of the planet -- has been both mild and mixed. Reviewed 18 November 2009",0_0
Australias antarctic runway melting | Northern Midlands News,0_0
"I looked at St-Onge and repeated my frequent prediction that Keystone would not be approved under the Obama Administration. I stated: ""We know that Obama doesn't care about Republicans. We know he doesn't care about the oil-and-gas industry. We may even question whether or not he cares about America. But he does care about his baseand, of his base, there are only two groups who care about the Keystone pipeline."" I asked the audience who those two groups were. They rightly asserted: ""environmentalists"" and ""unions.""",0_0
"Proponents of carbon pricing argue it is the least cost way to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Their argument is based on assumptions that are appropriate for a theoretical exercise but unlikely to be achieved in practice, let alone sustained for the time the policies would need to operate (i.e. centuries). Significantly, little research has been done to investigate the probability that carbon pricing can be implemented and deliver the projected benefits in the real world.",0_0
"I'm in Whitefish, Montana, this week, where hundreds of trees are just a few inches in diameter, packed in clusters of a half dozen or more, inches from one another perfect kindling for vicious wildfires. Over time, most will get crowded out and die, leaving just a few hardy specimens to grow into hefty 50- to 100-foot beauties assuming they are not engulfed in a super-heated inferno first.",0_0
One recent survey suggested that 53 per cent of executives had not even heard of the CRC and did not know whether their firm was affected.,0_0
"Indeed, the paper continues, Their contribution to global mitigation efforts is far greater than that by developed countries.",0_0
"Environmentalists have complained about Mr. Modi?s decision. They say rising atmospheric carbon dioxide will cause droughts, melt Himalayan ice, and poison lakes and waterways in the Indian subcontinent.",0_0
"CO2 in the atmosphere has some warming effect on Earths climate, but undisputed science shows that each additional CO2 molecule we emit has less warming effect than all its predecessors already in the air.",2_3
"""Two mainstream news organizations are receiving hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars from Obamacare's Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP) a $5 billion grant program that's doling out cash to companies, states and labor unions in what the Obama administration considers an effort to pay for health insurance for early retirees. The Washington Post Company raked in $573,217 in taxpayer subsidies and CBS Corporation secured $722,388 worth of Americans' money.""",0_0
"Over the 55 years from 1958-2012, climate models not only significantly over-predict warming in the tropical troposphere, but they represent it in a fundamentally different way than is observed.",5_1
"For summer months, the century scale trend is slightly down. But there is still no large century scale trend in drought.",1_7
UK Businesses Face Wave Of Green Taxes,0_0
"Thomas A. Hemphill is associate professor of strategy, innovation, and public policy at the University of Michigan-Flint's School of Management.",0_0
The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 13 January 1939,0_0
"It was clear from our visit to Goalbari that diversifying the ways people could make a living when the area is under water was fundamental to their long-term adaptation. Developing ways for students to go to school and to keep schools open even during floods seemed equally important. Improving access to services for these communities, like drinking water, health facilities and other types of income generating activities were critical to improving peoples resilience to these weather related challenges.",0_0
Rather this middle class guilt than not being allowed to hold political leaders and governments to account for their actions.,0_0
"My shared composure of this exchange is that the IPCC bokfring an seekers hurricane frequency and intensity is doubly incorrect. For the first does not have hurricanes kat significant, and for the second there is no scientific bowl for them to ka is why the average global temperature rises 0.6 C Fr Secondly, I go a supplement. A ndvndig preserve of a hurricane should uppst r frekomsten of hot and humid air. This is however not a tillrcklig frutsttning, without the need to also convection driven by the temperature differences in inlgget I nmnde.",0_0
"The last thing we should be doing now, in our state of ignorance about the warming problem and institutional responses, is to rush into an unworkable worldwide policy. That is why we should focus on the quiet work of learning how to build institutions that can effectively address the problem, and not on public grandstanding.",0_0
"And by the way, Rush Limbaugh first suggesting that environmentalists sabotaged the oil rig to block any more drilling and then saying that nature would take care of the cleanup by itself demands another Congressional action: a joint resolution demanding that Limbaugh fulfill his public promise to move to Costa Rica if the health care bill were enacted into law.",0_0
"El Nino is a naturally occurring warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean and tends to warm the planet. Satellite temperatures are extremely sensitive to El Ninos (and La Nina cooling events), so mid-tropospheric readings spiked in early 2016.",0_0
"Fredericksburg, a touristy town of slightly more than 10,000, lies in the heart of the Hill Country. It was founded in 1846 by German immigrants and to this day remains true to its German roots. Many businesses still carry their German names, including some great German restaurants. My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed one of those restaurants Der Lindenbaum which was recommended by one of my readers.",0_0
"Voters have decisively rejected Proposition 1A, which would have raised taxes to cover spending. The Governator will therefore have to become the Terminator again if he wants to avoid the state going bankrupt.",0_0
"Ive done a quick read of Dessler (2011). I have the same problem with Desslers paper that I had with S&B; and LC. These analyses dont really tell us anything about cloud feedback, although they are interpreted as doing so. The simple energy balance model upon which equation (1) is useful (at best) only for black box thermodynamics only analyses of the climate system. Cloud feedback is frequency dependent, and the key issue S&B; are trying to address is the role of natural internal variability in modulating clouds, which in turn modulates the radiative balance and surface temperature; it is in this sense that they then refer to clouds as a forcing. This inconsistency arises from trying to use the black box energy balance feedback model to make inferences about the impact of internal dynamical variations on clouds and the energy balance.",5_1
"What has struck me in doing this analysis is that looking at individual surface temperature stations becomes nonsensical, as they are grid reference points. Thus comparing the station moves for Reykjavik with the adjustments will not achieve anything. The implications of this insight will have to wait upon another day.",0_0
"When one cuts through EPAs propaganda, the health benefits the Agency touts are virtually nonexistent. In reality, Utility MACT is designed to kill coal. As EPA admits, this extension of Obamas cap-and-trade agenda will cost American families up to $11 billion in electricity rate increases (over 11 percent increase, on average), and destroy up to 1.4 million jobs. Workers recently laid off in Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia are feeling the devastating impacts of this rule. Sadly, these lost jobs are a part of President Obamas wider war on coal as well as fossil fuels, which he admitted was his goal on the campaign trail in 2008 when he said, if somebody wants to build a coal-fired plant they can. Its just that it will bankrupt them and under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.",4_1
"Golden eagles are the latest roadblock to establishing wind farms on federally owned land, already an expensive process plagued by years of bureaucratic delay. The projects also have been untracked by other wildlife issues, a sluggish economy and objections by defense and aviation authorities that wind turbines interfere with the country's aged radar system.",0_0
"the scientists religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.",0_0
"Follow Michael on Facebook and TwitterWeather Channel Founder Says Hurricane Matthew Is ""Nature Not Mankind'",0_0
"""Reducing farm animals' wind by adding garlic to feed could substantially reduce greenhouse emissions, according to research by West Wales' scientists featured by Euronews.",0_0
"Speaking on his appointment Mike Haseler said: ""I want to thank everyone in the Sceptic community who has helped me particularly the members of the Scottish Climate and Energy Forum, Andrew Montford who through his blog has inspired everyone in Scotland, Anthony Watts and his team whose quality and quantity of coverage on Climate, Energy and Science in general is a jewel of the internet and everyone else in the Sceptic community. But one person stands out: I often felt that Lord Christopher Monckton really deserved to be called 'the Scottish Sceptic' and I look forward to working closer with him in UKIP""",0_0
We know from the governments national greenhouse and energy reporting scheme data that lists our highest emitting companies that the tax will include energy companies.,0_0
"Two Years In, Obama Says Full Recovery Will ""Take Us Several Years"":",0_0
"Many of the Obama administration's actions directly attack these core beliefs. Working-class Americans crave economic security, but they see an administration that talks more about health care and climate change than about jobs. The current recession exacerbates their natural fear of downward mobility, but they see an administration seemingly incapable of providing the very thing they want most from a center-left government. In the Henry Louis Gates and Ground Zero mosque controversies, liberal progressives saw an articulate leader defending individual rights; working-class voters saw someone who questioned the police, perhaps the bedrock institution that provides public order, and showed an insufficient degree of patriotism.",0_0
Global Warming Not Happening Global Cooling Is Real And Now,1_2
We are headed towards a Little Ice Age ?? and the current climate propaganda is pointing us in the wrong direction.,1_2
Al Gore's Plan to Bring Back Dust Bowls,0_0
"""At the same time it's apparent that the United States needs more high-skill immigrantsjob creators rather than job seekers.""Michael Barone",0_0
"(And yes, I do think the Texas Hill Country would be a good place to live as we head into the coming ice age. In fact, I loved it.)",0_0
The latest satellite data on Arctic sea ice extent suggests that there is now a normal amount of sea ice in the Arctic normal is defined as about average for the period 1979 2007.,1_1
"We are not only more, we mr also better. Since more than 20 rs have barnafdandet leveled out, so that the only reason that the world's population still vats is that medellivslngden vats and because medellivslngden usually considered to be one of the best mtten on living standards, we manage this output has been noted that mnniskorna mr better and better . It is more like svlter today n from a hundred years ago is true, but it is also true that the poverty rate declines.",0_0
"In an open joint letter released today, representatives from 18 conservative, free market, consumer, and taxpayer organizations explain that allowing the federal government to institutionalize the assumptions of global warming alarmism with more officials, reports, and committees will only create the institutional framework and political incentives for the kind of energy rationing called for by the Kyoto Protocol. President Bush has publicly disavowed the global warming treaty and Kyoto-style policies and stressed the damaging economic impact such a path would inflict on the United States with no offsetting benefits.",4_1
Compare the model predictions to the weather balloon measurements below. The graphs are not remotely the same. The models are wrong. The Hot Spot is missing. The net effect of the warming due to man-made CO 2 has been exaggerated.,5_1
"In the Year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty, more than two decades will have elapsed without so much as a suspicion of warmer weather throughout the Empire.",1_4
That does not mean that passage of any bill by Congress will result in a surge of popular support. Health care costs are going to rise over the next several years no matter what.,0_0
"Because water vapor and clouds are responsible for 6585 percent of the radiative properties of the troposphere, I should have asked Ms. Macfarlane whether water vapor also is a ""pollutant""; that discussion would have been amusing. Ocean evaporation certainly is a natural process, but so are volcanic eruptions, and no one denies that the massive amounts of particulates and toxins emitted by volcanoes are pollutants. In contrast to ""carbon"" or ""carbon pollution,"" the phrase ""greenhouse gases"" has the virtue of scientific accuracy without, again, assuming the answer to the underlying policy question.",0_0
Scuba divers know that reef creatures already experience acidic conditions near CO2 vents in the ocean floor. These vents bubble CO2 gas amidst coral reefs and grassy ocean pastures in millions of locations. Fish and reefs appear to be doing quite well near these CO2 vents.,3_2
Rainfall events like the type weve seen in Queensland are becoming more likely as the earth warms.,0_0
"Behavior Of The US Government Is ""Fully Consistent"" With That Of The Soviet Union",0_0
"The data revealed both long- and short-term temperature fluctuations; and it was noted that during warm periods the temperature was ""about 2C warmer than at present."" Furthermore, the temperature fluctuations were found to be ""closely related"" to changes in solar irradiation. What it means",2_1
"There was a big conference in Melbourne this week titled Greenhouse 2005: Action on Climate Change . I didnt see much coverage in the national media but The Age ran a feature every day on the perils of climate change to coincide with the event, click here , here and here (and there was more!).",0_0
"Washington, May 4, 2011 ? Andrew Steer, Special Envoy for Climate Change, World Bank Group today issued the following statement on the new report by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program, the scientific arm of the eight-nation Arctic Council.",0_0
"This is a questionable path. Even as, naturally, growth and hardship can be linked to environmental factors, it's not the same thing as to say that environmental factors should be regarded as exclusive data in their own right. Further, changing the calculation methods is difficult for several reasons. You need an international consensus, otherwise comparisons will be meaningless. GDP figures are used to calculate changes over time. If you mess with it, you will have to somehow compensate against historical figures.",0_0
"Is this the best solution? Certainly, tropical rainforests are a valuable ecological entity. ""They provide erosion and flood control, timber and forest products, medicines, wood fuel, outdoor `laboratories' for scientific research, and of course, a habitat for millions of plant and animal species. When developing these areas, it is important to formulate a biodiversity strategy with rational rules "" (Dartmouth Review, p.8) But that does not mean all-out preservation is the only answer.",0_0
"In 1980, science writer Ron Bailey points out, the U.S. government thought we might have as many as 1,000 nuclear reactors up and running in the United States by now, instead of the 104 aging plants we do have. Our nuclearphobia led us to build hundreds of coal- and gas-fired power plants instead.",0_0
Using the near surface air temperature changes as the climate metric to assess T raises the research questions listed below:,0_0
"Last is Figure 4. It compares the modeled and observed temperature differences between the sea surface temperatures and marine air temperatures, where the marine air temperatures are subtracted from the sea surface temperatures. The observed temperature difference (SST Minus MAT) averages about 2.9 deg C, and the difference has been increasing. But the modeled difference averages about 1.25 deg C and has been decreasing.",5_1
"11.""Mann et al., 2005"". The rev. tries to disprove our conclusions citing Mann et al., 2005. That study nicely demonstrates a successful reconstruction of a simulated climate history from sufficiently many pseudoproxies (104, representing the AD 1780 network), which obviously cannot contain any nonsense predictors and which has never been questioned by us. Our focus was on the AD 1400 network with 22 real proxies.",0_0
"Obama officials are already trying to hide behind Mass v. EPA, claiming 'the Court made us do it.' This excuse won't wash. President Obama can protect consumers, jobs, and the economy from EPA regulatory excess any time he wants just by introducing stand-alone legislation to exclude carbon dioxide from regulation under PSD, NAAQS, etc.",0_0
"Heres the simplest interpretation a small cadre of well paid scientists make ambitious, inept climate models that billions of dollars of decisions relies on.",5_1
"Also, occupants of two larger, heavier cars crashing together have more protection than they would have in two smaller, lighter cars in the same type of crash.",0_0
"the cute part automatically. Calvin and Hobbes is widely considered the best comic ever, but the few times it featured the parents doing the main action, it",0_0
"A prior paper also published by lead author Justin Sheffield examined the period from 1950-2000 and found, "" Globally, the mid-1950s showed the highest drought activity and the mid-1970s to mid-1980s the lowest activity.""",1_7
With regards to the planetary energy balance equation 12.1:,0_0
Fact-free he began and fact-free he remains.,0_0
"In the abstract the IPCC deserves it due. There has never been a large public policy issue as dependent on thorough science as climate change. The effort to get to the bottom of climate change is perhaps the largest scientific inquiry in human history. It requires the coordination of thousands of specialists, the development of whole new scientific techniques, and the refinement of elaborate computer models that need weeks to run on the most powerful supercomputers. Even discounting for the inherent weaknesses of computer models for any subject, this kind of sustained effort is likely to generate valuable and practical knowledge in the fullness of time. Producing coherent reports at regular intervals that combine all this work is an extraordinary feat.",0_0
Harumph. So weve got a downtrend. We take a flat step up on dropping to a single thermometer. Then a final rise in the end. But whats in that rise? A large quantity of missing data:,5_1
"Climate science defies this concept by consistently adjusting older temperatures downwards and recent temperatures upwards. The assumption is almost always that older temperatures are defective because they were too high, and newer temperatures are the opposite.",5_1
"How did the attorney general respond? In an apparent attempt to avoid being subject to the anti-SLAPP law, Attorney General Walker withdrew only the D.C. subpoena, leaving the original U.S. Virgin Islands subpoena active. He also made it clear that he might reinstate the D.C. subpoena at any point in the future if he wanted to. In short, he can continue his intimidation campaign against us and others who oppose his policy views. The withdrawal only strengthens our claim that the subpoena was illegal from the start. Because of the looming threat of the existing U.S. Virgin Islands subpoena, we have continued to push for relief under the Anti-SLAPP Act. On June 28, we will have our first day in court.",0_0
All this and hippie-mocking goodness galore in your July 4th weekend roundupalooza.,0_0
"Many defense technologies satellites, rockets and ballistic missiles, sophisticated guidance systems and delivery vehicles as well as remote computer command and control overlap with space technologies (it's not for nothing that the government agency overseeing the ULA launch is the Air Force). Indeed, many defense technologies grew out of the space program itself.",0_0
"Kultti et al. has just been published in Holocene, showing higher medieval treeelines in northern Finland (27 deg E). This is consistent with the more northerly distribution of oak in medieval Finland reported in Hulden discussed here and adds to the growing inventory of articles both demonstrating higher medieval treelines and using this to estimate MWP temperatures locally higher than at present, some of which I??ve posted about from time to time Medieval Category . These ???local?? results from treelines are not limited to the north Atlantic and Greenland, but extend to the Sierra Nevadas (117 W), Sweden, Finland, Polar Urals (65 E) and a Siberian transect (90-100E). I??ll add a comment on Chinese proxies of this type. Kultti et al. also consider information from other proxies and report similar results for all proxies EXCEPT the tree ring width chronology of Helama et al . Here are some extended quotes.",2_1
"An alternative is theoretical analysis from first principles. This is something which in my own small limited way I am trying to do, as are others. Another way is to recognise that nature works by rigid adherence to natural law and is thus repeatable. This means that we can look back through the historical record for similar situations. If we can find such situations then the response that occurred then is a good indicator of what might happen in our immediate future. This was exactly the basis for the original carbon dioxide driven global warming claims. Vostock Ice core data showed carbon dioxide levels and temperature rising and falling together. Cause and effect was claimed, proof that rising carbon dioxide caused temperatures to increase. Since then, more accurate dating has shown temperature rises or falls 800 years before carbon dioxide responds. This negates the original claims since it shows that rising temperature causes rising carbon dioxide not vice versa.",2_3
"Iain Murray: The President's pushing of trade agreements is in many ways welcome, as protectionism now would be a disaster for America. However, it is telling that he calls neither of the transoceanic agreements a Free Trade agreement. That's because they won't be. They will be so weighed down with agreed restrictions and regulations designed to protect special interests and national champions that the vast and undoubted benefits of genuine free trade will not accrue to all Americans and other trading partners. That is a hugely wasted opportunity.",0_0
"At some point Dr. Mann crossed the line from scientist solely in pursuit of truth to activist with a book to sell. The books title is illuminating: The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines. Activists go to war, scientists do not. Through Twitter, he links to liberal websites touting President Obamas electoral prospects as evidence of his perceived persecution. And in one of the Climategate II emails he wrote he gave up on another scientist because she was not firmly committed enough to the cause. But Dr. Manns cause, whether it be selling books, preserving his professional reputation, or obtaining more government funding, is not purely science. And the Virginia Supreme Court shouldnt make us just trust him.",5_2
"The close correspondence between the Sphagnum ?? 13 C values of Sharma et al . and the lake level data of Baedke and Thompson bears strong witness to the reality of the millennial-scale oscillation of earth's climate that has brought the world alternating multi-century periods of relative cold and warmth, which in the Great Lakes region of North America are closely associated with concomitant relative wet and dry conditions, respectively.?? It is our belief that this climatic oscillation is also responsible for the development of the Modern Warm Period, which would have occurred when it did even if man had never appeared on the scene. Reference",2_1
"More importantly, we haven't gotten the massive warming so long predicted by the computer models. If James Hansen had been correct in his 1988 predictions to congress, the planet would already some 2 degrees warmer today than it is. Nor did the computer models predict the Pacific Ocean's 2008 cold phase shift which is likely to cool the planet for the next 30 years. Let's wait for the current La Nina to fade and see what sort of ""warming"" we face.",5_1
"By Daren Bakst, American Thinker, Aug 11, 2015",0_0
"It says the amount by which climate scientists multiply the direct warming from, say, CO2 to allow for temperature feedbacks changes to the climate because it has warmed that make it warm still further is equal to the reciprocal of 1 minus a third of the sum of all the feedbacks.",0_0
"Mary Grabar, PhD English U of Georgia, makes the connection with the Terrorist, now pedagogue promoting common core and other socialist programs in the schools, Bill Ayers who was a terrorist with the weathermen but then got a respectable academic job like so many of the creepy anarachists.",0_0
"Keep in mind that the model mean, according to the IPCC, represents the anthropogenically forced component of the climate models during the period of 1981 to 2011. Unfortunately for the models and the IPCC, there is no evidence of anthropogenic forcing in the East Pacific Sea Surface Temperature data (90S-90N, 180-80W), Figure 20, or in the Sea Surface Temperature data for the Rest Of The World (90S-90N-80W-180), Figure 21.",5_1
"The global warmistsmostly drawn from the leftmay or may not be right about global warming. As they say in their recent bull on Climate Assessment, Climate change, once considered an issue for the distant future, has moved firmly into the present. Well, maybe so, but there is still little we can do to alleviate global warming. America is, mostly for economic reasons, meeting the goals of the Kyoto Protocol without actually having signed the treaty. In fact, we were the first major industrialized nation to do so back in 2012. The problem of global warming resides not with us but with other nations. Led by China, the poorer countries of the world are paying no attention to the Kyoto nonsense, and one should not expect them to. Why should a poor country impede its growing standard of living for the grandiose and highly speculative goal of climate control?",4_2
"In E&E News today Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is profiled , and he says this: ""What if I took something you agree with, that this country had a lot of resources that need to be explored and extracted, and every barrel of oil that we can find off South Carolina with South Carolinas permission, and natural gas deposits, make us more energy independent? he added. What if you married those two things up? And took some of the revenue from oil and gas exploration and put it toward reducing our carbon dependency? I think thats a deal that a lot of people would go for. You dont have to be a true believer of drilling offshore or that climate change is real. Youve just got to be willing to give and take."" Can we ""reduce our carbon dependency"" via extracting ""every barrel of oil that we can find""? Does this make sense?",0_0
"African dust plays a key role in cloud formation, hurricanes and other global climate phenomena but models cant characterize it well.",5_1
"CEOs across the economy are feeling the squeeze of higher power prices, and these prices likely will rise even more if the U.S. government enacts a law to control domestic greenhouse gas emissions. However, high power prices and a push toward power sources that release fewer such emissions mean opportunity for one sector of the economy:nuclear power. But so far, despite perhaps the best environment ever in which to finance deals of all kinds, investment banks, private equity firms, shareholders and other sources of capital aren't interested. The risks of investing in new nuclear power projects, expected to cost as much as $5 billion each, outweigh the potential rewards.",0_0
"The most prominent cycles that can be detected in the global surface temperature records have periods of about 9.1 year, 10-11 years, about 20 year and about 60 years. The 9.1 year cycle appears to be linked to a Soli/Lunar tidal cycles, as I also show in the paper, while the other three cycles appear to be solar/planetary cycles ultimately related to the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. Other cycles, at all time scales, are present but ignored in the present paper.",2_1
"2. Determining what the connection is between Arctic sea ice loss and mid-latitude weather, and the consequential regional effects;",0_0
"And Figure 13 presents the Hovmollers of sea surface temperature anomalies. Unfortunately, the Hovmoller of sea surface temperature anomalies is delayed a few weeksthus the purplish line in 2014. But as weve seen in the comparison graphs in Figure 2, the sea surface temperature anomalies of the NINO3.4 region in 2014 are well behind those of 1982, and the sea surface temperature anomalies this year in the NINO1+2 region are in line with those in 1982. As youll note in the Hovmoller for this year, it didnt take long for the La Nia conditions in the eastern equatorial Pacific to disappear. The El Nio conditions also disappeared as quickly.",0_0
"Escalation of violence is a two-way street. Why is the homeowner, the innocent party, the one who is made legally responsible for such escalation? Why isn't it the agent of the state who is responsible for any such escalation? And while a homeowner may have plenty of opportunities to protest illegal entry after the fact (though this isdebatablein real life) I would argue that the police officer had plenty of opportunities before the fact to get a freaking warrant.",0_0
"For the past 5 years (60 months), there is a statistically significant global cooling in all datasets.",1_4
"The net effect of the joint cooling and warming adjustments appears to be two-fold in support of the UN/IPCC political science political ""science"" agenda.",5_2
"And, over the last decade, lavishly supported by federal tax policy and handouts guided to it by the powerful Massachusetts Congressional delegation led by Markey, Dow expanded its ""green"" product line. It began turning out advanced insulation products, diesel engine filters and lithium-ion batteries.",0_0
"So what does this mean for the IPCC? The IPCC derives its authority from the UN, which can certainly proceed without financial support from the U.S., should the U.S. Senate actually vote in support of the House resolution. However, this would open the door for other countries to delegitimize the IPCC by withdrawing funding or proceeding with their own assessments. The current framing of the climate change problem and its solution by the UNFCCC/IPCC as irreducibly global is arguably outdated and too narrow.",0_0
"All that rain and all those unseeded acres are having a severe effect on production, White said.",0_0
"They found that it took just two generations of tropical damsel fish, common on the Great Barrier Reef, to adapt when they were reared from birth in tanks of warm water.",3_2
"White House Plans to Push Global Warming Policy, GOP Vows Fight:",0_0
"In many ways, this guy is my favorite. No video embeds, no technical details. Just he looks at it and rants that the folks are just looking way too plastic. Wonder how many pasty white folks of means neighborhoods hes been in? ;-)",0_0
"Without more power, Silicon Valley may find itself a silicon desert.",0_0
"Biomass burning kills 250,000 people a year",0_0
EL NIO EVOLUTION COMPARISONS FOR NINO REGION SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES,0_0
"Most critically, EPA does not apply its judgment to the core scientific issueclimate sensitivity. If climate sensitivity is low, as investigations by Dr. Richard Linden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Dr. William Gray (Colorado State University), and Dr. Roy Spencer (University of Alabama Huntsville) suggest, then 21st century warming is likely to be below the low-end (1.8 C) IPCC ""best estimate,"" and endangerment of public health and welfare is not ""reasonably anticipated.""",0_0
"But we needn't look only at the coal numbers. Last year, according to the BP report, global oil use grew by about 900,000 barrels per day and natural-gas use by about 700,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. Thus, in one year, global hydrocarbon consumption increased by about 3.6 million barrels of oil equivalent per day. Let's compare that to the contribution of all global wind energy, which provided roughly 2.9 million barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2013, and all global solar, which contributed about 600,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.",0_0
"Intrigued by old naval guns, I asked how hed gotten them, and he said hed found them in the Crimea. I asked How does one do that? Did you wander around the Crimea going I say, you wouldnt happen to have seen one of Lord Nelsons cannons, would you, he seems to have mislaid it .",0_0
Motes andbeams come to mind fromLuke 6:41-42 :,0_0
"In the context of the furor surrounding the 9/11 commission, S. Fred Singer, President of the Science and Environmental Policy Project and Emeritus Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Virginia, pointed out in a letter to the Wall Street Journal (Apr. 13) that the Clinton-Gore administration did not regard terrorism as important as the global warming issue.",0_0
"Always more to come, Ive been doing some science in the spaces in between the places, and I have until Monday to write it up life goes on.",0_0
"Describing it as policy based evidence, Peter Lilley argues the government can no longer rely on it to justify expenditure of many billions of pounds and calls for a return return instead to evidence based policies.",0_0
Heartland Institute Submits Comments to EPA Over Coal-Plant Emission Rules,0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Christopher Horner on why UVA should respect Cuccinelli's requests for documents.,0_0
"Increased Number Think Global Warming Is ""Exaggerated""",0_0
"Plus, according to Florida State University??s Ryan Maue, Accumulated Cyclone Energy has hit a 30 year low . The Global Warming linkage simply isn??t there.",1_7
"For those who havent seen it, heres a link to US weatherman John Colemans magisterial demolition of the Great AGW Scam. I particularly recommend part 4 because thats the one with all the meat. It shows how temperature readings have been manipulated at the two key climate data centres in the United States the NASA Goddard Science and Space Institute at Columbia University in New York and the NOAA National Climate Data Center in Ashville, North Carolina. (Hat tip: Platosays )",5_2
"the present version of the series may change as soon as new results come available from the efforts of KNMI to homogenize the temperature series of De Bilt on a daily base, taking into account weather-dependent corrections.",0_0
"While it's not clear whether litmus test politics explains the continued criticism of LNG imports by the troika of Markey, Waxman and Wyden, it explains some of it. Why else would Markey remain so belligerent about expanding natural gas exploration when his own state actually imports almost half of its natural gas suppliesnot from the Marcellus Shale formation in Pennsylvania, which is experiencing an export boom, but from Yemen.",0_0
"Segment 1 covers the basic issue of the bad science behind the global warming frenzy. We explain the hypothesis of your carbon footprint, the result of the co2 that enters the atmosphere as a result of burning of fossil fuels to support your lifestyle. We show how that theory has failed to verify and proven wrong.",0_0
"In sum, most of the contributors to the RegBlog series on regulatory capture overlooked the fact that ideological special interests, no less than industry, are capable of unduly influencing administrative agencies. Though there's no empirical data, I'd bet that policy groups now are more likely to capture agencies than industry. Regarding this intuition, it is perhaps telling that I couldn't find one example of regulatory capture by industry in any of the posts of the series.",0_0
The buyer of the first Nissan Leaf did it for the planet his image,0_0
"To state the obvious: Briggs is a petty bourgeois pedant and moralist a parasitic excrescence . Even a cursory review of his moral effluvia shows him chewing the rags of absolutist ethics and eternal truths, revealing him as nothing more than a vulgar philistine spewing ideas that colonize the masses and ignore the only end that needs no justification: the liberation of mankind.",0_0
"With the average price for 1kWh of electricity in the UK at around 11 pence, this wind turbine is predicted to save its owner just 55 to 154 per year giving a pay back period of 45 to 125 years!",4_4
"The results of this study indicate that, at least for the crop investigated, the positive effects of atmospheric CO 2 enrichment on flower and biomass production are greater at more realistic or natural values of UV-B radiation than what are characteristic of many greenhouses. The authors thus say their results ""clearly indicate the importance of using UV-B transmittant greenhouses or open-top chambers when conducting CO 2 studies."" If this is not done, their work suggests the results obtained may not depict the true magnitude of biological benefits to be received from atmospheric CO 2 enrichment.",3_3
"You??ve no doubt heard that global warming will make life harder for some species. But have you also heard that rising temperatures may actually benefit others? Well believe it or not such may be the case, as seen for example by mountain lizards in France and butterflies in England. According to an article in World Climate Report, researchers in France discovered that, as temperatures have increased modestly in recent years, so too has the size and fertility of that nation??s mountain lizards. A similar finding regarding butterflies has also been observed, as scientists in England discovered that the richness of British butterfly species has actually increased as temperatures have warmed. Apparently some species, like some humans, like it hot.",3_2
"""For the most part, the problems stem from the fact that merely transferring management fails to shift risk to the appropriate parties. Feasibility studies and traffic forecasts are often overly optimistic, and political factorssuch as opposition to tolls out of principle, changing regulatory frameworks, and cronyism and a lack of competition in procurement and contractingexacerbate the risk-sharing problems.""",0_0
"Thompson et al (2009) Identifying signatures of natural climate variability in time series of global-mean surface temperature: Methodology and Insights reinforces the 1945 discontinuity and provide advanced notice of the Hadley Centres intent. They write, THE SST DATA CORRECTED FOR INSTRUMENT CHANGES IN THE MID 20TH CENTURY ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME AVAILABLE IN 2009, and it will be interesting to see how the corrections affect the time history of global-mean temperatures, particularly in the middle part of the century.",0_0
"These and other renewable energy programs may have originated for the best of intentions. However, the assumptions underlying those intentions are questionable, at best, and many are rooted in anti-hydrocarbon worldviews and Club of Rome strategies that raised the specter of ""looming disasters"" like resource depletion and catastrophic manmade global warming, in which the ""real enemy"" is ""humanity itself."" They also underscore how hard it is to alter policies and programs once they have been launched by Washington politicians, creating armies of special interests, lobbyists and campaign contributors.",0_0
"Like the recurrence to computer models in Limits to Growth, Speth recurs to Paul Ehrlich's famous mathematical formula as a device to explain the certainty of our environmental doom: I=PAT, where I represents the adverse human impact on the Earth, with P standing for population, A for affluence, and T for technology. The endurance of this simplistic formula is an indicator of the isolation of so-called ""mainstream"" environmentalists, as it has been thoroughly controverted countless times over the last two decades. Speth and others who employ I=PAT seem unaware of these critiques or perhaps feel it is unnecessary to reckon with them. Rather than engage contrary points of view seriously, all three books employ the argument of authority and cite the 1992 ""World Scientists' Warning to Humanity"" report, signed by 1,600 scientists, including 102 Nobel laureates, so it must be true:",0_0
"He's right of course. For the zillionth time, weather and climate are two entirely different things. A hot year with a drought doesn't prove the globe is heating up, much less than the alleged heating up is man-made. But the greens make such claims time and again. It's no more valid for other to say a cold, snowy winter shows the opposite. That's just the point Milbank goes on to make:",0_0
"These American heroes the astronauts that took to space and the scientists and engineers that put them there are simply stating their concern over NASAs extreme advocacy for an unproven theory, said Leighton Steward. Theres a concern that if it turns out that CO2 is not a major cause of climate change, NASA will have put the reputation of NASA, NASAs current and former employees, and even the very reputation of science itself at risk of public ridicule and distrust.",0_0
"And as the report also makes clear, the big change in the energy mix has been the rise of gas:",0_0
"By Andrew Montford, Bishop Hill, Aug 12, 2015",0_0
Washington Take Note: The Era of Great Power Politics Is Far from Over in Asia,0_0
"2. U.S. oil production is rising, but we will still need to import oil, and lots of it. Thanks to the shale revolution, domestic oil production could rise by as much as 2 million barrels per day over the next few years. That's great news. But that increased production will not cover all of America's needs. The more oil we can get from North America, the better.",4_5
"In fact, Brian Groombridge who edited the most recent edition of the IUCN's Red List of Threatened Animals points out that ""around 75 percent of recorded extinctions have occurred on islands; almost all bird and mollusc extinctions have been on islands very few extinctions have been recorded in continental tropical forest habitat where mass extinction events have been predicted to be underway."" (Stephen Edwards, ""The True State of the Planet,"" p.218)",0_0
"However, that??s just evidence in support of my hypothesis that the clouds (and other emergent phenomena) act to minimize changes in temperature. It says nothing about whether there is a solar signal there or not. To determine that, I calculated the periodogram for the average cloud percentages shown in Figure 4.",3_1
"Even though I am virtually certain we shall lose on McCain-Lieberman, they are",0_0
"The next day, I got the chance to go salmon fishing with Matt Ridley and my gorgeous ex-fiance. We went to a stretch of the River Coquet, heres Matt and Ellie on the river.",0_0
SDA Late Nite Radio ~ Special Edition,0_0
"Xinhua, the state-owned news agency often used by the government to deliver blunter messages, was more direct.",0_0
"Flawed articles have raised false alarms over the safety of genetically modified (GM) plants, and such reports are then splashed across the popular press. Poor scientific papers published by trustworthy journals have helped spread the propaganda of antitechnology activists.",0_0
Update : Julio noticed I lost the final point in Rogers data set when I cut and pasted his series of numbers. I updated my image to show the uptick. Heres the link to the first image.,0_0
How deniers work What accusations has he raised? Here's an excerpt:,0_0
Olle Hggstrm comes out that climate scientists focusing on uppvrmningspausen,0_0
The FDA may soon make it impossible to obtain over-the-counter asthma inhalers.,0_0
"One hundred years ago, the average Westerner had an annual income equivalent to $4,000. A man could only work somewhere he could walk to; a woman spent much of her life performing back-breaking domestic labor. Medical science, while advancing, was still almost medieval in its practical application.",0_0
"Looking at the list, it would seem that so such person is to be found among the eminent individuals who make up the Deutsche Bank's Climate Advisory Board: all appear as people who are (to quote a nice phrase from Clive Crook) 'precommitted to the urgency of the climate cause'. A more representative Board, spanning a wider range of opinions. might have taken more trouble to ensure that any published work issued under its auspices would measure up to professional standards.",5_2
"During the last six months, CEI has held an all day conference, a half-day Hill briefing, and has published scores of op-eds and letters regarding global warming. CEI is a member of the Cooler Heads Coalition, a group dedicated to spreading the truth about the uncertainty surrounding global warming. In addition, Mr. Smith and others at CEI have made numerous appearances on TV and radio to discuss this issue.",0_0
Open Access Property Rights and GHG Emissions,0_0
"All responsible citizens are environmentalists, but that is no reason to yield to mass delusion. more",0_0
"""Material previously appeared here in which a guest blogger made an allegation that Mr. Richard Warman had posted a bigoted attack on the internet against Senator Anne Cools. I have no evidence that this is true and I retract it and apologize to Mr. Warman for it without reservation."" -- Kate McMillan",0_0
"The economic impacts outline above (and discussed further below) include only the excess burden. At least in the Heritage analysis, the tax revenue is rebated immediately and directly to taxpayers. What remains is the damage done to the economy.",0_0
"The studys results are compelling because this is the first study of its kind to test the effects of HFCS and sucrose on liver fat levels in humans using real world conditions, said Dr. Rippe, who received a grant from the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) to conduct the study. Previous studies that sought to find a link between caloric sweeteners and diseases such as type 2 diabetes and liver disease often subjected individuals to unrealistically high levels of fructose or had subjects consume fructose independent of glucose, which is just not how fructose is consumed in our daily diet. Using real world conditions, we find that HFCS and other caloric sweeteners do not appear to increase liver fat or contribute to insulin resistance.",0_0
"Inspired by the Brexit decision of the British people to withdraw from the grasp of the EU bureaucracy, CLEXIT (Climate Exit), a new international organization, has formed to encourage countries' leaders not to ratify the Paris climate agreement. The secretary of CLEXIT, Viv Forbes, said enforcement of the Paris climate treaty would be a global tragedy, heralding the end of low-cost fossil fuel use for transportation and electricity in developed countries while denying developing countries ""the benefits of reliable low-cost hydrocarbon energy, compelling them to rely on biomass heating and costly weather-dependent and unreliable power supplies, thus prolonging and increasing their dependency on international handouts.""",0_0
"Ji et al present a methodology to analyse global (excluding Antarctica) spatiotemporal patterns of temperature change, using mean monthly temperatures obtained from the updated Climate Research Unit (CRU) high-resolution gridded climate database. Their analysis fails to take into account several key characteristics of the CRU database, seriously compromising the conclusions regarding the spatiotemporal patterns of global warming during the twentieth century.",5_1
"Schneiderman justified his investigation with the platitude that the First Amendment ""does not give you the right to commit fraud."" But courts have struck down laws against ""lies"" in the political arena. As the Washington state supreme court noted in Rickert v. State Pub. Disclosure Commission (2007), our forefathers ""did not trust any government to separate the true from the false for us"" in the realm of politics.",0_0
Weve already mentioned a few reasons why it does matter. And what matters even more is that there is,0_0
Environmentalists (or mainstream Americans) wont suddenly vote Republican because theres a carbon tax. They wont accept the development of Canadas oil sands because there is a carbon tax. They wont suddenly accept Keystone XL because there is a carbon tax.,0_0
The only role of this posting is to inform you and the search engines about the new website of,0_0
"How did it come to this? Just two years ago, all things seemed possible for Democrats. In possession of congressional majorities larger than any since 1980, led by a seemingly historic figure who had just won a larger share of the popular vote than any non-incumbent Democrat since FDR in 1932, Democrats forecast an American political sky that would remain endlessly blue. Today, Democrats are headed for a reversal of fortune of proportions not seen since the landslide elections of 1946 and 1948.",0_0
"Whether its sea ice data, accumulated cyclone energy, the last two brutal German winters, ocean cycles, satellite data, etc., Rahmstorf refuses to believe the data no matter what. The climates after us.",5_2
There is considerable evidence that the People's Climate March wasn't as much about climate as it was an excuse for those who want a different political system. If you really believe that capitalism is destroying the Earth and hurting people or even if you don't really believe it then environmentalism becomes a really good excuse to dump capitalism.,5_2
The plot in Showed yesterday Agreed With The NOAA announcement That July 2009 was unusually warmNOAA Claims it was even a new record for July based upon Their 100+ year record of global SSTS.,0_0
"Thats very obvious. We showed the sea surface temperatures for the global oceans have warmed in Figure 2. If the East Pacific data hasnt warmed in 30 years, then the warming has to have come from someplace and logically thats going to be in the sea surface temperature data for the area were calling the Rest-of-the-World. We can see this in a graph that compares East Pacific and Rest-of-the-World sea surface temperature anomalies, Figure 6.",0_0
"By Mohamed A. El-Erian, Project Syndicate, Aug 14, 2015",0_0
""" ...all models contain large errors in precipitation simulations, both in terms of mean fields and their annual cycle, as well as their characteristics: the intensity, frequency, and duration of precipitation...""",5_1
"As of this writing (January 9), it looks like the coldest temperatures in the Lower 48 are yet to come, as the coldest airmass over northwest Canada finds its way down into the central and eastern U.S. starting around next Wednesday (January 14) or so. Gee, where is global warming when you really need it?",1_3
"""'Socialismo o muerte' (""socialism or death') may be the choice that Fidel Castro has imposed upon Cuba's population for decades, but many Cubans are responding, ""Neither.' As The Washington Post reports, Cubans all over the island are resorting to thriving ""black market' enterprisea lot of which would be legal just about anywhere else, with the exception of, say, North Korea.""",0_0
"Your best bet is to look at the process that produced, maintains, and communicates the ostensible consensus. I don't know of any exhaustive list of signs of suspicion, but, using climate change as a test study, I propose this checklist as a rough-and-ready list of signs for when to consider doubting a scientific ""consensus,"" whatever the subject. One of these signs may be enough to give pause. If they start to pile up, then it's wise to be suspicious.",0_0
The last sentence is one of the best quotes Ive found on global warming from a serious site. Why? you ask. Because the entire melting of the last 3 decades indicates the total global sea ice loss is only .. 4%.,1_1
This is only one example by which climate activists can confuse the publicand often even themselvesinto believing that there is a consensus on DAGW. Look at two typical recent headlines:,0_0
"jamspid on April 26, 2015 at 11:52 pm",0_0
"This is an outlook I call ""growth skepticism."" Typically, it professes support for growth in principle but often undermines it in practice. It represents an indirect attack on prosperity rather than a full-frontal assault. It essentially says, ""I support growth, but "" with emphasis on the ""but."" To most people, this position is far more convincing than the outright rejection favored by deep greens, supporters of voluntary simplicity, and advocates of steady state economics.",0_0
"The union spends less locally on lobbying and electioneering, reflecting in part New York City's tighter campaign-finance regulations and the fact that most major health-care policy decisions are made in Albany. Still, 1199 ranks as the top donor in each of the last three citywide election cycles. It has made good use of the new campaign-finance latitude afforded by Citizens Unitedwhich struck down restrictions on political spending by corporations and unionsand related high court decisions, devoting about $440,000 to ""independent expenditures"" in addition to the $150,000 it gave directly to candidates. Last year, the union donated $250,000 to ""Campaign for One New York,"" Mayor de Blasio's ""dark-money"" fund that's now bankrolling much of his ""Progressive Contract with America.""",0_0
"Dueling Claims About How Global Warming Affects Winters: ""The IPCC says global warming makes winter mild with less snow' ""Milder winter temps will decrease heavy snowstorms' ""Settled science also tells us global warming makes winter cold and snowy in the US Climatologist Dr. Roy Spencer Mocks Gore: OMG! ANOTHER GLOBAL WARMING SNOWSTORM!! ""Gore has caused the spread of more pseudo-scientific incompetence on the subject of global warming than any climate scientist could possibly have ever accomplished No serious climate researcher ? including the ones I disagree with ? believes global warming can cause colder weather. Unless they have become delusional as a result of some sort of mental illness'",5_2
"This new theory contends that variations in the suns energy pulses is clearly the primary driver of earths climate, however another heretofore under-appreciated force contributes greatly to modifying earths climate.",2_1
"John Walsh, The Independent, 19 January 2010: Some climatologists hint that the Office's problem is political; its computer model of future weather behaviour habitually feeds in government-backed assumptions about climate change that aren't borne out by the facts. To the Met Office, the weather's always warmer than it really is, because it's expecting it to be, because it expects climate change to wreak its stealthy havoc. If it really has had its thumb on the scales for the last decade, I'm afraid it deserves to be shown the door.",0_0
"So you should understand that as long as Czechs approach this ""problem"" rationally, they are going to prefer warming over cooling and they are certainly not going to pay a lot of money just for a chance to avoid some warming - even if it were a few degrees. Instead, they are paying millions of dollars for their vacations in much warmer countries (by 15 C). If you look at the map, you will understand that the same thing holds for the bulk of North America and Eurasia.",0_0
"That exploration and production must go beyond state and private lands, though. Opening more federal onshore and offshore lands to leasing and drilling is essential and would magnify these benefits many times over. These resources belong to all Americans, not only to those who oppose fossil fuel use.",0_0
"Toyota Recall 2010: Avalon, Lexus Among 1.53 Million Recalled Cars:",0_0
Could a carbon tax work in the real world?,0_0
"Open letter to Al Gore about Global Warming, this in light of House Democrats refusing to allow a debate of the issue with scientists who say it is BS",5_2
"military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, and the Sanger book details President Obama's effort to avert a rush to war.",0_0
"The pipeline, as Marc Morano who publishes CFACT's Climate Depot news and information service recently reported, will carry ""ethical oil"" from Canada, decreasing dependence on ""conflict oil"" from dictatorships.",0_0
"An earlier report on climategate from the House of Commons assumed that a subsequent probe by a panel under Lord Oxburgh, a former academic and chairman of Shell, would deal with the science. The Oxburgh report, though, sought to show only that the science was not fraudulent or systematically flawed, not that it was actually reliable. And nor did Sir Muir, with this third report, think judging the science was his job.",0_0
"to convince everyone that SS is an insurance program, not a welfare",0_0
"These claims will be investigated by several competing experiments in the near future. XENON1T is an upgraded XENON experiment before the upgrade, the XENON folks were staunch members of the ""dark matter is not seen"" axis. However, very soon, a new and so far neutral player could enter the war: LUX in South Dakota ; see also LUX news .",0_0
"Take environmental writer Steve Zwick. Writing for Forbes.com, Zwick has called on so-called ""climate deniers"" to be treated like virtual war criminals: ""We know who the active denialists are--not the people who buy the lies, mind you, but the people who create the lies,"" he writes. ""Let's start keeping track of them now, and when the famines come, let's make them pay. Let's let their houses burn until the innocent are rescued. Let's swap their safe land for submerged islands. Let's force them to bear the cost of rising food prices. They broke the climate. Why should the rest of us have to pay for it?""",0_0
"uncertainty and be honest. Phil, hopefully we can find time to discuss these",0_0
"When asked by McIntyre to provide examples of such activities, instead of responding, Karoly retreats to the cosseted environment of Un-Skeptical Pseudo-Science to resume his victimhood, protesting in the comments:",5_2
"Man alive, if this isn't the absolute zenith of mental illness in the Left, we sure hope never live to actually see THAT.",0_0
"However, things get worse for the global warming idea. Problem is that 2010 in the very end of the shown period is in fact a ratherwarmEl Nino year. And still, the trends 2002-2010are just?? flat. Even now after the warm 2010. As if the global warming idea just barely holds on in the months just after a warm 2010.",1_4
"On May 6, 2014 USGCRP released its National Climate Assessment. The report contains 8 regional reports and one for the 48 . The regional report for the Southeast U.S. projects a major general warming of about 10 F for the region even though The lack of mid-20th century warming in the Southeast is not simulated by the models. However, 21st century simulations of temperature indicate that future warming will be much larger than the observed values for the 20th century. There is no logically reason for this assertion ant the inconsistency between data and models.",5_1
"Over the past 25 years, there has been no net change in Northern Hemisphere snow cover. The amount of snow in autumn and winter has increased, while spring and summer snow cover has decreased. Note that there has been a large increase in peak snow cover, but no change in the minimum.",1_1
Myneni's dull website is getting hundreds of hits a day. How could it possibly collect one billion signatures? Drudgereport.com hasn't seen a billion of distinct visitors. No website with any content produced by an individual has ever seen a billion of visitors.,0_0
"For this reason, I also agree with Steven Mosher, an independent climate skeptic (with experience in graduate studies in literature and management in 3D graphics companies) who has also co-authored a book about Climategate . In a guest blog post,",0_0
"""On the contrary, this is the time for international organizations, including the United Nations, to reduce their expenditures, make their administrations thinner, and leave the solutions to the governments of member states,"" he said.",0_0
"Four years ago, other countries dominated the clean energy market and the jobs that came with it. Weve begun to change that. Last year, wind energy added nearly half of all new power capacity in America. So lets generate even more. Solar energy gets cheaper by the year so lets drive costs down even further. As long as countries like China keep going all-in on clean energy, so must we.",0_0
"Abstract: Consumption of all the worlds fossil fuels at any credible rate will not achieve a doubling of the current CO2 level and will increase world temperature by barely one-half degree Celsius. The achievable level of atmospheric CO2 is proportional to its release rate because its dilution by exchange with the land and ocean takes time. An instantaneous release is the worst case and if the entire worlds CO2 from fossil fuels were so released (impossible, of course) it represents an extreme upper bound to the CO2 level. And even that would achieve an increase of less than 3 degrees Celsius. Most significant, however, is the strong evidence that feedback from increased CO2 is negative.",3_1
"By reference to the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics, skeptics argue that the Earths actual heat transfer occurs not just by radiation alone, a minor player, but also by conduction (contact) and convection (fluid movement). The atmosphere gives off excess heat mainly by conduction and convection because:",2_3
"""Where is the beef?"" the ladies would surely ask in this case, too. If you try to find any content inside these texts, you will inevitably fail. There is no content. It's just a stupid game with words and a couple of mathematical symbols.",0_0
"He stole her shoe with that grab, and probably to this day keeps it in a bell jar by his bed.",0_0
Update on Fight Against EPA's Regional Haze Power Grab,0_0
"As can be seen from the aerial video above, shot right after the tornado moved through just south of Mayflower, Arkansas, on Sunday evening, the devastation was wide spread (video credit: Brian Emfinger). As tragic as this event was, and as selfless and heroic as the efforts of Arkansans to help their fellow citizens has been, there are still a number of lowlifes who cannot help but use this disaster to further their own agenda. I am, of course, referring to the human scum who waited less than a day to proclaim global warming as the cause of this tragedy. Let me set the record straight: Tornadoes have not increased in frequency, intensity or normalized damage",1_7
"In my mind, we have to accept that it is great if we can reduce the release of CO2 because we are using up a resource the earth will be short of in the future, but we are in error if we claims a global warming caused by CO2.",2_3
"Given the positive trends in air quality, the much larger role played by other air quality regulations, and the failure of NSR to significantly reduce net emissions from existing sources, one might ask: Is NSR for existing sources even necessary any longer? We'll return to this question after discussing current NSR policy and its negative effects on businesses, workers, consumers, and the environment.",0_0
New results from a Baylor University study show that different behaviors and strategies lead some families to cope better and emerge stronger after a weather-related event.,0_0
I thought the essay important to give perspective. Modern Americans are remarkably uninformed about history and the current political environment devotes a lot of heat and noise to race. Politically driven junk intellectual inquiry poisons the society. It helps to know the truth.,0_0
"And the climate models seem to get the warming rate of sea surface temperatures just about right for the smallest portion of the global oceans, the extratropical Northern Hemisphere (24N-90N). See Figure 9. The extratropical oceans of the Northern Hemisphere cover only about 21% of the surface of the global oceans (about 15% of the surface of the Earth).",0_0
"The next morning, in the Conference Centre, I was accosted by a couple of dozen of the Sturmabteilung and Schutz Staffel wannabes, bleating about how upset they were that my comments about their Hitlerian, Fascist tactics had been broadcast right round the world.",0_0
"Laccadives Islands (India): ""the locals are quite aware of the fact that sea level is not at all in a rising mode today, rather that new land has been added, leaving previous shore to become overgrown and invaded by terrestrial plant climbers (just as in the Maldives).""",1_6
"Score one for both science and humor when Milbank asserts ""As a scientific proposition, claiming that heavy snow in the mid-Atlantic debunks global warming theory is about as valid as claiming that the existence of John Edwards debunks the theory of evolution.""",0_0
"In its Annual Energy Outlook, the federal government's Energy Information Administration (EIA) makes projections of energy production, consumption, and prices. The reference case assumes midpoint projections for energy resources and assumes that regulations follow their legislative timelines. As part of its sensitivity analysis, the EIA also produces two side cases where energy resources are assumed to be (a) 50 percent higher and (b) 50 percent lower than the reference case. Though these side cases are not intended to model policy changes, the High Resource Case offers a glimpse of what might be.",0_0
It's Time to Help People Escape Obamacare,0_0
Inside the Lawsuit That Could Ground Deadly CIA Predator Drones:,0_0
"Tim Magazine is convinced that global warming is going to kill us all. In 1974, they were sure that global cooling was going to kill us all.",0_0
"There was worse still in the programme, with one scientist effectively saying that democracy might need to be suspended in order for governments to successfully prevent a climate catastrophe.",0_0
His explanation doesnt work. Last winter showed the same weather pattern yet sea ice extent was the highest in years and had the latest peak on record.,1_1
"Marlo Lewis, a Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, writing on Fox News, identified the political agenda of the climate report ""designed to scare people and build political support for unpopular policies such as carbon taxes, cap-and-trade, and EPA regulatory mandates."" Item by item, he noted the inaccuracies put forth by the report.",0_0
"trend error 0.05 0.04 0.11 0.08, C / decade (95% confidence interval)",0_0
"Similarly, pollen and charcoal evidence recorded two other large droughts: one that occurred some 5,000 to 5,500 years ago and another that occurred around 3,000 years ago.",1_7
"And its not just the Sierra Club. The same day their invitation arrived, Friends of the Earth emailed to say The Pacific Northwest is currently engulfed in a struggle over the dirty future of coal and coal exports in the U.S. If the biggest coal companies in the world have their way, we could have 140 million tons of coal barreling through Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon each year. Thats up to 60 trains per day in some of our neighborhoods and more than 1,000ships a yearthrough our sensitive waterways! Can you say fear-mongering? Lies about coal? And a total ignorance of the value to the economy of its use and export?",5_2
"Blair, too, insisted that the Hamas problem would solve itself under the right circumstances. ""I think to deal with Hamas you must create a strong momentum toward progress on the West Bank,"" he said in our telephone interview. ""You must provide Hamas a choice: either get on board the train or the train leaves without them. Hamas's strength works in inverse relationship to the progress of the peace process. I am absolutely sure of this.""",0_0
"A study by British public relations consultancy CCGroup analysed 138 articles about renewables published during July last year in the five most widely circulated British national newspapers: The Sun, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, which enjoy a combined daily circulation of about 6.5 million.",0_0
"However, the Bonn meeting broke up with a repeat performance of the disarray and recriminations between the rich and poor, developed and developing nations that marked the Copenhagen summit. Many observers believe there's zero chance of brokering a meaningful climate deal at November's global summit in Cancun, Mexico.",0_0
"Professor Carter's ovial Aussie persona will be sorely missed, but his insights and legacy will live on.",0_0
A version of this article first appeared in Forbes Online (2/24/14).,0_0
State's efforts in renewable power. The idea that windmills will rescue,0_0
"was +0.57 deg C above the 1961-90 average, the warmest year yet recorded",0_0
Mr. Cuomo then described his selection of penalizing tools he can use against any utility companies that are overly sluggish in this job.,0_0
"In any given second, this energy,1.22 x 1017Joules, falls on one-side of the planet the day-side hemisphere. So, now that we know the total energy falling on the Earth in one second, and we now also know where the energy falls in one second, we can convert the energy value into the units of the Stefan-Boltzmann equation, which are Joules per second per square meter. Therefore if we take the total energy and divide it by the surface area of a hemisphere of the Earth, you get an (linear) average of 480 Joules per second per square meter, or 480 W/m2. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann equation which equates flux to temperature, this is a temperature of +30 degrees C, which is very nice and warm and will melt ice into water on the day-side, etc. It is a reasonable number.",0_0
"Unfortunately, too many politicians continue to use the storm to advance agendas, deflect blame for incompetence and mistakes, and obfuscate and magnify future risks from building and development projects that they have designed, promoted, permitted and profited from.",0_0
"Now, to the issue at hand: what is the best response to climate variability, both domestically, and internationally?",0_0
"In Senate testimony during the summer of 1988, a NASA scientist testified that his GISS climate model's predicted temperatures will accelerate to much higher levels if the world's governments did nothing about reducing CO2 emissions. In reality, as the temperature data above shows, actual temperatures in 2009 were about the same as in 1988, some twenty years later.",1_4
"Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday reiterated her assertion that the majority of illegal immigrants are coming to the United States for reasons other than work, saying most are committing crimes and being used as drug mules by the cartels.",0_0
"In contrast, short-sighted policies aimed at achieving U.S. energy independence can jeopardize U.S. economic and energy security. By restricting trade or picking winners and losers, government hinders investment and innovation.",4_2
"Also, for those who don?t know, we?ve heard that Dr. Mann?s legal bills are being paid by the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, where we?ve been told there are some deep green pockets contributing, so he isn?t facing bankruptcy, at least not yet.",0_0
"Friends of Science are concerned about fair reporting on climate change in the media, in light of reports the British Broadcasting Corporation reportedly spent some 20,000 over six years fighting off a Freedom of Information request about a 2006 climate change conference for executives, as reported in the Daily Telegraph of the UK Jan. 12, 2014 and several British newspapers.",5_2
"But why stop there? In British India they used to have natives called punkah wallahs, who would pull on ropes that swung a large ceiling fan. Adopting the punkah would massively increase employment!",0_0
"The nearest USHCN station to Lubbock is Crosbyton, a mere 33 miles away. The annual mean temperature record is below.",0_0
Now it does not give a likeliest value and admits it is likely it may be as little as 1.5C so giving the world many more decades to work out how to reduce carbon emissions before temperatures rise to dangerous levels.,3_1
"""This is a panicked attempt by global warming activists to cover over a scandal the fact that millions of taxpayer dollars are being diverted to address climate change concerns based on unsound data,"" says Christopher C. Horner, an attorney and senior fellow at CEI.",5_1
The paper can also be found together with his chapter in ESEF's previous book on Global Warming.,0_0
"Then this guy goes all geek-wonky and finds a page on Google put up 3 days prior to the event. A United Way page. One wonders if United Way creates a blank page from time to time and then filled them in if an event happens? An interesting date dis-connect, but the frame can be built prior to populating it. Then goes on into the wrong kid on the lap image.",0_0
"Roy Spencer, Senior Scientist for Climate Studies, NASA.",0_0
"The IPCC alleges 1 Wm-2 increase in radiative forcing causes a 3C/3.7 Wm-2 or .81C increase in surface temperature, but if evaporative cooling from water vapor offsets this by 66% or 0.54C according to Dr. Caliera's paper, only a 0.27C residual warming would remain. Therefore, climate sensitivity to a doubling of CO2 levels after evaporative cooling from water vapor would only be ~.33*3C = 1C, i.e. not of concern and likelybeneficial.",3_1
"The IPCC and CCSP assessments, as well as the science statements completed by the AGU, AMS and NRC, are completed by a small subset of climate scientists who are often the same individuals. This oligarchy has prevented science of the climate system to be properly communicated to policymakers (e.g., see, see and see).",5_2
Victory of the Denialists! says Robert Manne in The Monthly as his Gods of Science fail,0_0
The other thing you can see is that higher degrees of freedom in regparm create a huge step in the data prior to he AWS stations implementation Figure 9 and especially Figrue 6 (three from the end) demonstrate this.,0_0
"the entire world's governments, via the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change , agree that 2C is the safe limit.""",0_0
"The report alleges that the Environmental Resource Trust, an arm of the EDF, is positioning itself to run a greenhouse reduction pool. An ERT memo acquired by NPAP states, ""a proposal had been made both to EEI (Edison Electric Institute) and the White House to provide early reduction credits for those companies that participate in a greenhouse gas reduction pool. The GHG reduction pool would: provide the government with a legal entity responsible for monitoring, tracking and reporting upon member companies emissions performance; enforce members' GHG commitments; operate a GHG reduction trading system.""",0_0
"Food prices will rise even further if the global warming legislation backed by President Obama passes, since it expands ethanol subsidies that reward big corporations for turning food into fuel. Ethanol subsidies damage the environment by wiping out forests, polluting water supplies, and eroding the soil. By converting food into fuel, they cause famines and food riots in the world's poorest countries. That fuels Islamic extremism in Afghanistan and the Middle East.",4_1
"(d) The campaign against our directors and donors being conducted by Forecast the Facts, 350.org, and Greenpeace not by anonymous individuals as you strangely suggest in fact is unprecedented because it could not have occurred had not Peter Gleick stolen and revealed our donor list. But we are obviously well on our way to building a new and much larger donor base that is Greenpeace proof.",0_0
"At last some evidence that important climate data may have been hidden has emerged from the hacked University of East Anglia email furore. Together with last weeks condemnation by the Information Commissioner of failures to comply with Freedom of Information legislation, it appears to put the position of Prof Phil Jones, the head of its Climatic Research Unit (CRU), at even greater risk. If confirmed and upheld by the official inquiry now being conducted into the affair, Prof Jones who has stepped down while it is carried out will surely decide to go.",5_2
"14 April 2010 13:57 Fox replies: ""Hi Brian - well he specifically mentioned a leaflet published in 1999 by WMO which used a graph without any of the caveats that used. But to be fair he also cited NGOs and the media as being amongst those who take CRU's work and struggle to include the caveats ... he was specifically asked if governments have mis-used it and he ducked the question""",5_2
"In the video in the last post, there was reference to the evidence given by Science Minister, David Willetts some days ago, which apparently again touched on the Climategate affair, and once again at the prompting of questions from Graham Stringer.",0_0
"So how can todays disasters, even if less physically powerful than previous ones, have such staggering financial costs? One reason: There are more people and more wealth in harms way. Partly this is due to local land-use policies, partly to incentives such as government-subsidized insurance, but mostly to the simple fact that people like being on the coast and near rivers.",0_0
a two-by-four to understand that little can be accomplished without working with,0_0
The models say that business as usual will lead to A1-type scenarios (turn Earth into Venus and wipe out coffee). The models say that drastic cuts in carbon emissions are required to stay in the B2-type scenario range.,0_0
"There are significant flaws with many studies on glaciers, the most significant being a selection bias in those projects that are funded. For the past decade the EU has mainly funded studies that discover receding glaciers, deliberately not studying whether glaciers are receding. Given the number of glaciers in the world, one will always find some, even perhaps a majority, that are receding. But given the inherent selection bias it doesn't prove a great deal when the media talk up studies showing receding glaciers. If one wanted to study Scandinavian glacier expansion, funding by EU Governments would not be so forthcoming. This problem sheds doubt on, and unfairly undermines, well-conducted studies (probably including those done by Drs Collins and Harrison), since one is uncertain what is being omitted in research in Europe.",5_1
"Bger and Cubasch report a very high RE statistic for the ""nonsense"" relationship betwen the number of reporting gridcells and NH temperature.",0_0
"The IAC and Hauser precedents should serve as a warning to climate colluders and manipulators. They are also increasing pressure on IPCC Chairman Pachauri to abdicate his throne, and be replaced by a respected climate expert who can bring a degree of integrity to this politicized organization.",5_2
"It is crazy how lies about this chemical have made mothers willing to let their children die, rather than spray it on their homes. Malaria has killed millions of people in Uganda and is still the number-one killer disease in Africa. Over 1,000 babies and mothers die every day from this disease. We protect the environment from imaginary problems and die from environmental diseases.",0_0
"Later in the section on EPA, Mann??s lawyers went well outside the bounds of acceptablebelligerence, making an accusation that CEI and National Review counsel had made a ???deliberate attempt to hide information?? from the Court (page 24). The ???information?? that the defendants had allegedly attempted to hide was the ???existence of the EPA inquiry?? and that his ???inquiry?? had been requested by CEI. Once again, Mann??s lawyers reproduced the extended EPA Myths versus Facts quotation about ???temperature data and trends?? that they had cited in the Statement of Claim, this time claiming that this quotation demonstrated that EPA had ???categorically rejected the fraud allegations?? against Mann:",5_2
"From this point of view, the major achievement from the motion by Senators D'Al, Possa and others is to remind the government and the Italian public in general that there are still people that raise rational arguments before they endorse costly policies. Implicit in the motion and explicit in D'Al and Possa's thinking is a concern for the lack of a democratic debate on the EU energy and climate package. In fact the Italian Parliament, as well as other Parliaments of the EU member states, never had a chance to discuss the consequences of such a wide-ranging, costly, questionable policy. If the Italian Senate's vote may help to raise the awareness of the dangers not just for the European economy, but also for the democratic process in the European Union, it will strike a much more ambitious goal than cutting emissions by a few percentage points.",0_0
"4. Actual-to-Future-Actual Methodology. The actual-to-future-potential emissions test would be replaced with the previously used (and still used for utilities) actual-to-future-actual test, which is a more realistic calculation of future emissions. Only emission increases caused by a given modification would be considered. The baseline for calculating current actual emissions would be the highest consecutive 24-month period within the immediately preceding 10 years.",0_0
"Weather Forecast Barrow, AK | Barrow Weather | Wunderground",0_0
"Centuries ago, it was noticed that when there are few sunspots, magnetic storms, the Earth got colder. Thus, climate change is not an unusual event, but rather a reflection of the well-known cycles of warmth or cold that theplanet has passed through for billions of years.",2_1
"Speaking at Georgetown University on June 25, 2013 President Barack Obama outlined his second term vision for combating climate change and promoting clean energy production and trade. In that speech, he mentioned Canada once, in acknowledgement of the Keystone pipeline controversy.",0_0
"Obviously, things will calm down a bit once the excitement over the police raid drops away, but for now we can enjoy the moment of fame notoriety infamy. Infamy! infamy! theyve all got it infamy! :)",0_0
"Pocklington noted that Broecker assumes first a 50% increase in precipitation and also that Central Asia and North America (where river flow into the North Atlantic originates) will get wetter. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), however, projects only a 5%-10% precipitation increase and predicts that the above regions will get drier. Pocklington cautioned that ""we really don't know enough about deep ocean circulation to express these ideas as certainties.""",0_0
"On January 1, emissions from airplanes come under control in the European Trading System, the EU's over-arching greenhouse gas control scheme. Since not much can be done to reduce airplane greenhouse gas emissions, that basically means airlines will be taxed on whatever they emit. And it wouldn't only be European airlines that were taxed, it would, in theory, be any airline that flies to or from the EU. That's not sitting too well with non-EU countries, including the United States.",0_0
"It's troubling that a FOIA lawsuit came up empty ""no such correspondence in our files"" when the old 1995 document was requested from the U.S. State Department late last year. This raises a certain ironic question: If I have a copy of your document, how come you don't?""",0_0
Munich-Chelsea 2-2 (penalties decide) (May 19),0_0
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Arctic summers ice-free by 2013,0_0
"Whether it is long or short-term, Hansen/NASA models are no better than a Ouija board as a tool to predict global temperatures. This massive failure by Hansen et al can also be seen in his model's prediction of ocean heat content and sea level rise.",5_1
Canadian Oil Sands: More Oil Than Saudi Arabia?,0_0
"Yet as the Clean Energy Dialogue completes its second action plan agenda in 2014, it is time for the third action plan to include natural gas as a spur to policy cooperation between Washington and Ottawa on several pressing issues.",0_0
"Chris Turney, the leader of the expedition, is a professor of climate change at the University of New South Wales, says CFact. He rounded up a few dozen pals, chartered a Russian ship, and set off on a taxpayer funded junket to Antarctica.",0_0
"As the CO 2 content of the air rises, it is likely that loblolly pine, which is an economically important timber species, will respond by increasing its photosynthesis and growth. The consequences of these phenomena are far-reaching, as indicated by the authors statement that ""projected increases in the atmospheric content of CO 2 may result in increased wood production without a loss in structural strength in loblolly pine."" Furthermore, it is conceivable that loblolly pine can even increase its structural integrity by increasing its wood density, if the observed trends for this parameter persist through its juvenile growth phase.",3_3
Leading Expert Lacks A Basic Understanding Of His Profession,0_0
"The pumps enable 6,000 litres of water per minute to be pumped on to the flames and to reduce the potential for more wood chips to set alight.",0_0
message that the Government can give on climate change to help them tell their,0_0
"As the air's CO 2 content continues to rise, it will likely allow these wheat cultivars and others to experience less stress and growth reductions as a consequence of SO 2 pollution. Indeed, the current study demonstrates that CO 2 -induced increases in photosynthesis will only be partially offset by elevated SO 2 concentrations, which should allow greater wheat yields to be produced in the future. In addition, since SO 2 -induced reductions in plant water-use efficiency were essentially eliminated by concurrent exposure to elevated CO 2 , these cultivars should be able to grow better in areas with limited water availability or in areas close to industrial complexes emitting large quantities of SO 2 . Also, wheat plants growing in SO 2 -polluted air should not suffer as large reductions in foliar protein content in a future high-CO 2 world as they do currently.",3_3
Plant Growth Database (6 April 2015),0_0
"Update - Harry Potter and the The Christopher Little Literary Agency : the plot thickens... Update 2 - "" I was just interviewed by a camera crew, and will apparently be on the CBS Evening News tonight. Given the history of this very blog, I hereby pause for a moment to soak in the irony. Today's events tell me two things: One, CBS doesn't have Google. Two, this must be the slowest news day in the history of the planet, and possibly the universe.""",0_0
"I have followed Pielke's work for years. In 2007, while editing Energy Tribune, I published an interview with his father, Roger Pielke Sr., who is also a climate scientist. In 2009, I published an interview with the younger Pielke on the same subject. I find both of them to be careful observers and thoughtful writers. Last year, I reviewed one of Roger Jr.'s books for The Weekly Standard.",0_0
"This is not the first record-breaking cold snap in recent years. North America hit record lows in 2012 along with record snow falls , and record blizzards and ice storms in 2011 . Before that, 2010 saw record low freezes as well.In fact, according to the UN own data, the planet has been in a global cooling cycle for the last 16 years.",1_3
"Zichal, 36, ?? trying to sway those with even greater ties to the GOP ?? recently told an audience of officials from the oil and gas industry, Congress, and states that oil and gas companies are ???incredibly important to our domestic energy portfolio.?? And she said during an API conference on hydraulic fracturing that the administration ???probably could have been doing a lot more outreach from the beginning.??",4_5
"Any allegedly scientific document that needs this kind of legal disclaimer is clearly not science. Australian government ministers (and their advisers) claim that their decisions are based on a scientific consensus, yet they only use the advice of IPCC and CSIRO. But both these organisations deny making predictions, and refuse to be responsible for their computer projections. Computers cannot take responsibility, so presumably it is the government, through lack of due diligence, that is responsible for the expensive and ineffective actions it is now implementing to combat the alleged human-induced dangerous global warming or climate change. The argument can be extended to local governments that may be impoverishing citizens by their lack of due diligence and imposing extravagant policies based on a very partial view of the available evidence.",0_0
The Saviour's cry proclaims salvation's dawn.,0_0
"How do your reconcile your confidence in the model skill when the hindcast multi-decadal regional climate predictions are so poor, as i reported in my post",5_1
"The Post then asked ""political and environmental experts whether the record snowstorms buried climate change legislation this year."" Here are some excerpts:",0_0
"Donald Rapp notes that the subtitle of the book was Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about El Nio and La Nia Thats the title of the post that introduces Who Turned on the Heat? The subtitle is actually The Unsuspected Global Warming Culprit, El Nio-Southern Oscillation.",2_1
"And even if cap-and-trade does what is intended, the reduction in CO2 emissions as a fraction of global CO2 emissions will moderate future warming by, at most, around one tenth of a degree C by late in this century. That is probably not even measurable.",4_2
Dark and wet...like a mudflat on two sides of the station as seen in the Bing aerial view.,0_0
China slows its runaway high-speed rail expansion:,0_0
"Climate models are unable to skillfully model clouds and thus albedo, and use a rough assumption of a 30% global average albedo. If we decrease albedo by 1% from 0.30 to 0.29, the greenhouse equation predicts an increase in surface temperature from 288.433 K to 289.457 K, an increase of 1.024 C warming, mathematically verifying what Dr. Roy Spencer writes in his book ,",5_1
James Taylor to Keynote Colorado Emerging Issues Forum,0_0
"They were built as the primary fulcrum structures within sprawling open air universities. At these ancient schools the brightest and the best of gifted children were taught the astronomical and navigational arts. The concept of a horizontal-top henge wall was for creating an artificial horizon, similar to what one would see from a ship on the vast featureless oceans. Students situated within the henge, primarily at its centre, could become very familiar with the star, planet, sun and moon rise and set positions or cycles, by using the top of the henge embankments as the target region for 360-degree observation onto the ever moving and changing stellar display. This is consistent with what Julius Caesar said concerning the great schools of Britain run by the Druids of his time.",0_0
"With sufficient supplies of the first two key ingredients, depending on its location on earth, any kind of tree will grow at a rate determined by its ability to absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and convert the suns radiation via the photosynthesis process to wood. The higher the level of CO2 in the air, the faster it will grow.",3_3
"If the model projections for the last two decades are compared to the temperature trends of the lower atmosphere as measured by satellites and balloons, then the model projections must be lowered by an even larger factor.",5_1
"This article is part of the Special Issue on ""A Framework for the Development of New Socio-economic Scenarios for Climate Change Research"" edited by Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Robert Lempert, and Anthony Janetos.",0_0
"I started bringing up the idea that we are doing something new to the planet, that the burden of evidence is on those who disturb natural systems, that Mother Nature knows more than he will ever know, not the other way around. But it was like talking to a defense lawyer sophistry, and absence of convergence to truth.",0_0
"A novel aspect of the approach is that it uses decision analysis as a framework for characterizing the climate future, and consequently, climate projections, in terms of their position relative to decision thresholds. In doing so, it uses stochastic analysis for risk identification and uses GCM projections for risk estimation , assigning probabilities to hazards, thus linking the two methods.",0_0
"view of 21st-century realities. He wants to know whether they could ""bring about a new American relationship with the world, one that was less",0_0
John: Only the feds Brian. Though I hear the New South Wales guys reckon it could be a good idea as well. Kevin might stick around to run a garage sale and hand over the keys. The best thing we can do for the country Brian.,0_0
The Economic Effects of Freeing Up America's Resources,0_0
"Yet while the administration took the correct steps in suggesting changes to the report, it did not respond well to the communications challenge. Part of the reason why the environmental lobby was able to shout so loudly is that the administration did not issue a comprehensive science-based defense of its actions. The White House could do that by ordering agencies to cease dissemination of discredited reports and listing the reasons they are not a sound basis for policy decisions. The administration should state clearly that tackling junk science is not censoring science, but championing it.",0_0
"Unfortunately, of course, the wind does not always blow. Even based on average demand of 52GW , we would need 30GW of back up capacity for when there is no, or little, wind output. If we need back up during winter peak demand, we would be looking at double this figure.",4_4
"Learn more:President Obama's Clean Power Plan: All cost, no benefit",0_0
"With that prelude, 12-year-old Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and his 9-year-old brother Itzcuauhtli launched into an anti-fracking rap song for Evergreen Middle School students whose teacher had invited them to travel 40 miles from their home in ""the People's Republic of Boulder,"" Colorado. The song was well rehearsed, spirited, clever and no doubt assisted by their mother, the founder and executive director of Earth Guardians, and maybe even by Boulder's former mayor, an EG advisor.",0_0
"It is as if, after trying to eliminate all roads in order to protect wildlife, the Obama administration suddenly defended the idea because it would reduce motorcycle deaths. Well yes, eliminating all roads might reduce motorcycle deaths. But we already have motorcycle safety policies. And if we were really concerned, we could ban motorcycles. It's no way to sell a destroy-all-roads policy.",0_0
"Carlin emphasizes that responsible policies must be based upon reproducible and verifiable scientific methods and realistic cost-benefit analyses. As he notes, ""The problem with the current EPA structure is that it is overly responsive to political pressure from the party/president in power or from public fads rather than to careful science and economics.""",0_0
"Of course, is a sdan development p good and evil. Overfishing of the seas is a major concern, and even on land has space for other living beings diminished. It is however VRT to name that as more and more people live in towns s has space for other beings not fallen fully as much as one might have feared.",0_0
"The reductions in coal generation, ascendancy of gas, influx of renewables, expansion of CHP and other distributed power forms, adoption of demand-side efficiency technologies, rise of dispatchable demand response, and deployment of advanced vehicles are all contributing to the decline in carbon emissions from the energy sector (including transport), which peaked in 2007 at 6.02Gt and have dropped by an estimated 13% since.",0_0
"Johannessen and colleagues analysed satellite data on the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2003. They found an increase of 6.4 0.2 centimetres per year in the vast interior areas above 1500 metres, in contrast to previous reports of high-elevation balance. Below 1500 metres, the elevation-change rate is -2.0 0.9 cm/year.",1_1
"They point back to their 1989 manifesto, ""The Politics of Evasion: Democrats and the Presidency."" Democrats suffered, they argued, from mistaken beliefs that they could win the presidency by some combination of liberal orthodoxy and mobilizing core constituencies.",0_0
"Einsteins theory did state that the universe could not be static, that it must be expanding or contracting. It is very doubtful that he could accept the outer limits of this possible expansion to be approaching the velocity of light. If you do accept the expanding Big Bang theory, then you must also recognize that the distant light indicates the possible position at the distant time of that lights origin. Light with its position distorted by half the speed of light, would have then originated at half the projected distance. All projections from data that is this distorted should be viewed as very suspect.",0_0
Peter Berkowitz tackles Bush Derangement Syndrome for the WSJ;,0_0
"Secondly, it misunderstands the nature of public goods problems, in which players benefit by avoiding the costs of providing the good rather than leaping headlong into them. When we offer to reduce our carbon emissions, pay for green research, or otherwise make some sacrifice for the global environment, we are merely generating a benefit for the rest of the world to free-ride off of, bearing the weight of having three men do the work of two so that others will not have to make the same effort.",0_0
"Further to this, I fail to see why people are so closed-minded towards a party that: led on preventing disastrous intervention in Syria and is now calling for the government to accept Syrian refugees, that wants no tax on minimum wage, that doesnt believe we should be burdening students with enormous debts. And sure, our 2010 manifesto was drivel, but when its written by an ex-Conservative (who has now defected back), what can we expect? UKIP are a libertarian, common sense party. Some polls have us at double the figure the Liberal Democrats are polling nationally, and over the coming years the party will continue going from strength to strength.",0_0
"Isakson's amendment, backed strongly by the real estate lobby, would add to taxpayer risk by requiring the FHA to insure loans with a higher debt-to-income ratio based on ""estimated energy savings."" It would also allow ""estimated energy savings"" to be added to the appraisal of the home, creating bigger loans for taxpayers to subsidize.",0_0
"The NOAA Administrator, in making the appointmentof Tom Karl, has apparently notlearned that the climate science community has a broader view of the issues and less confidence in the skill of the multi-decadal global and regional climate predictions than she does. Byselecting Tom Karl, she has assuredthat this narrow viewpoint will be perpetuated within the new National Climate Service.",0_0
"Mrner and Parker conclude that the Fremantle tide gauge is likely to include a local subsidence factor of about 1.4 mm/year so there is not much left for sea level rise. They claim virtually stable conditions over the last 60 years and full stability over the last 14 years, implying there are no traces of any present day acceleration.",1_6
"Siegel, Jeremy J., The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Stock Market, 2nd ed., Library of Economics and Liberty, http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/StockMarket.html (accessed February 26, 2014).",0_0
"According to Goklany's careful empirical analysis, had the Clean Air Act of 1970 not been adopted and emission trends from 1950 to 1970 been allowed to continue through 1990, ""NOx emissions would have been 60 percent higher than ""actual' 1990 emissions; more importantly, PM-10 emissions would have been lower and SO2 emissions would have been only 5 percent higher.""9 Even this gives the CCA too much credit, Goklany concludes, since ""if anything, the underlying forces driving those improvements -- greater knowledge, greater wealth, and less economic dependence upon traditional polluting sectors -- were only gathering strength.""10",0_0
"In light of these several findings, it can readily be understood that the host of intractable problems associated with large-scale bioenergy production will in all likelihood prevent their full potential from ever being realized. Strong competing interests for finite land and water resources simply will not allow it to happen. And humanity thus needs to realize that we can't ride a hobbled bioenergy horse into the future and expect to prosper.",4_4
"Truth n 16 The trace gases absorb the radiation from the surface and radiate at the temperature of the air, which is at some height, most of the time slightly lower that of the surface. The trace-gases cannot ??? heat the surface ???, according to the second principle of thermodynamics which prohibits heat transfer from a cooler body to a warmer body.",2_3