Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
In November 2004, a few days after the U.S. presidential election, President Vladimir Putin signed a bill confirming Russia's commitment to the Kyoto Protocol, insuring the climate change treaty would come into force early this year.
Mother Nature doesn't seem to care much about our puny energy productionbut to the humans who must live here, the real science behind global warming matters a very great deal.
Shocker. George Soros Dumps $1 Million Into Media Matters Sinkhole:
How nice it must be to have convenient scapegoats like "dangerous manmade global warming" and insurance companies today's equivalent of the witches whom our predecessors blamed for storms, droughts, crop failures, disease and destruction. It's time to use the witches' brooms to clean house.
As you can see, the error in the trends, although small, is statistically different from zero in both cases. However, when I use the fat-tailed exponential decay function, I get the following results.
Testimony of John R. Christy Addressing NOAA's recent temperature claims
In general, a vegetarian diet is more energy efficient than a nonvegetarian one, which is something that environmental groups regularly highlight. Overall, however, we found that meat consumption is only responsible for slightly more indirect energy use than fruit and vegetable consumption, and there are wide variations in how many calories it takes to produce different meats. This suggests that while growing vegetables in your backyard is certainly more energy efficient than buying beef, cutting out meat entirely may not be the most painless way for Americans to meaningfully reduce their energy consumption.
(ii) The intention would be to fund scholarships from income from the fund (both investment income and additional donations), rather than from the Nobel Prize Capital, So THAT the fund would be perpetual.
A report on the flood disaster and climate change will be undertaken by an expert on the federal governments multi-party committee which is investigating ways to price carbon.
Entire communities could sink into poverty. Bread winners lucky enough to find work will be forced to take multiple jobs, commute longer distances, and suffer severe sleep deprivation. Families will have to cope with more stress, depression, drug and alcohol abuse, spousal and child abuse. Nutrition and medical care will suffer. More people will have strokes and heart attacks.
It certainly is NUTS to the average taxpayer who is funding this through their utility bill, in fact it is the height of absolute lunacy)
In recent years, however, there's been a trend toward both political correctness and trendiness. Remember that the International Atomic Energy Agency and Jimmy Carter were recent Nobel Laureates.
Though the remarks have generated a good deal of media coverage, there is no inherent contradiction between these two views.
Jacksonian America is many things; well organized isn't one of them. Jacksonians are found in both political parties; most are habitually indifferent to national politics, seeing all politicians as equally corrupt, equally useless. Other than the NRA, there are not many national organizations organized around the promotion of a Jacksonian agenda. In the world of think tanks and elite media, the Jacksonian voice is seldom heard and never heeded.
boondoggle": fully 20 per cent of the U.S. corn crop went into creating
Finally we reach the last lookout. The sun is dazzling, the view breathtaking. I can't help but love it.
In a way, that really is what they were marching against. Mostly. Let me explain.
Oh well. Frdrjningen located at the current situation entirely in the deep sea.
The petition, and Robinson's support for DDT in combating the malaria pandemic, drew anger and outrage from the political Left, climate chaos industry and "mainstream media," giving him his first brush with the politics of personal destruction. But it did not prepare him for the lengths and depths his opponents would go to "discourage" his political activities.
But when the Supreme Court saved FDR from this folly by ruling it unconstitutional, FDR veered farther left, with punitive tax measures that deterred capital formation and investment, and prosecutions of the rich (especially Samuel Insull and Andrew Mellon) that were purely political. The result of these and other ill-conceived measures was a needlessly prolonged Great Depression.
Also the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector from Luke 18:10-14 could not be clearer:
"God's word is true. I've come to understand that. All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the big-bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell. It's lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior." U.S. Rep. (and M.D.) Paul Broun of Georgia.
MOOSE: Always a mamas boy. But youre not gettin outta here until you have it. Now. Do you have it . Yes or no?
1997 A year in which the accepted "truth" about climate change began to melt away. Prophets of doom foretold of a greenhouse world of increasing heat, disease, flooding, and unpredictability. Science argued otherwise, seeing a reduction in severe cold, a longer healthier life span, and a more begnign climate. In this, our third annual States of the Climate Report, we examine perceptions of risk and related realities.
Rothbard was immediately followed by executive director Craig Rucker who discussed the state of climate policy in the United States and the why it is in Poland's national interest to join with those around the globe standing up to the Greens and the UN. Both talks received enthusiastic applause and extensive media coverage. Over a dozen news outlets, including Polish National Television, France 24, India national newspaper The Hindu, and the Associated Press, were on hand to report.
In the \(d=4\) case, we may see that this Green-Schwarz mechanism makes the previously anomalous \(U(1) a\) gauge boson massive and the "Stckelberg" mass is just an order of magnitude or so lower than the string scale (which they therefore assume to be \(M s\approx 20\TeV\)). This is normally viewed as an extremely high energy scale which is why these possibilities don't enter the conventional quantum field theoretical models.
It's not surprising that instead of taking credit for the dire results of this coal-killing agenda in an election year, the Obama administration is claiming that lower natural gas prices are the reason utilities are switching from coal to natural gas.
The skeptic website klimamanifest-von-heiligenroth.de/ last week posted a freshly produced video (in German) that puts the spotlight on the director of the ultra-alarmist Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber.
525 km (325 miles) S of Hachijo-jima, Izu Islands, Japan
How reassuring that must have seemed in July. I suggest they send their opinion pollsters back and ask the public again now, preferably starting with cold and angry rail passengers. Bizarrely, given that one of the authors employed to write the report was Chris Green, former chief executive of Virgin Railways, it hardly mentions railways or airports.
In the second of his National Review columns (September 26, 2007), Joel rips these lame excuses to shreds. He cites several statements in Heat Advisory and the accompanying press release in which NRDC clearly presents its findings as predictions of what will happen in a warming world.
Lets clarify whats been presented during the discussion of the Rest-of-the-World sea surface temperature data:
From my late aunt, Rose Kazman. During World War II her grueling stay in Soviet labor camps saved her from an even worse fate at the hands of the Nazis, but she never lost sight of the true nature of her hosts.
Nothing screams planet-in-peril crisis like interpretive dance. Its a little known fact that every major crisis in history has needed a slideshow, $300 million in advertising, an opera and dance before it was taken seriously, right? Oh, well, nevermind, this is Crisis 2.0 and it needs dance , because the planet is doomed and its your fault.
The initial cost of installing the system, for one. That typical 2.5kW system costs around 12,500 to install. So you won't see any return on your investment for 12 years.
Washington, D.C., March 27, 2006Tomorrow the British government will issue a new report on climate change in the United Kingdom, which is expected to refuse once again to impose carbon dioxide emissions limits on British industry. It is a reflection of the reality that the Competitive Enterprise Institute has long pointed to in the United States and abroad.
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.
The Freedom of Information Act allows citizens to demand to see the official correspondence of government employees (George Mason University is public.) Horner works at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a think tank that is skeptical that global warming is a serious problem.
Even those uninhibited by past failure understand how tough the road will be. But there are more grounds for optimism than for despair, more thoughtful participants than ever before, more on both sides committed to making things work rather than pointing fingers at their colleagues, and thuseven in a time when it has become suspectmore hope.
president win in a landslide, or by a narrow margin; did he have any coat-tails;
What will not be resolved at Cancun is the core dispute in the climate talks: fixing legally binding targets for nations to reduce greenhouse gases emitted by industry, vehicles and agriculture.
The Times added, "Illarionov on Thursday accused the EU of putting "unprecedented pressure' on Russia to ratify the treaty and embrace the ideology of what he called "Kyotism.' " Attempts to pressure Russia into taking a decision can only be seen as an attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of the Russian Federation,' he said."
President Bush's EPA resisted listing carbon dioxide as an air pollutant on two grounds. The first was definitional. "Air pollution" is not defined in the statute, but under normal rules of construction it must mean something, and absent any other guidance the logical source of wisdom is a dictionary, which defines "pollute" as meaning "to make . . . impure or unclean." So a pollutant must be something that is not only emitted, but something that renders the air impure, which can hardly be said of carbon dioxide. Justice Antonin Scalia's dissent commented: "It follows that everything airborne, from Frisbees to flatulence, qualifies as an "air pollutant.' This reading of the statute defies common sense." Marlo Lewis of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) observes that any other interpretation also makes the "precursor" sentence redundant, because if everything emitted is an air pollutant, then precursors would be pollutants automatically. The Court brushed aside this perfectly conventional (and correct) argument from statutory interpretation, finding the statute "unambiguous" in its meaning that anything emitted is a pollutant. Since the EPA had already said that carbon dioxide contributes to climate change, which endangers public health and welfare, it had no choice but to put it on the regulatory agenda.
Jerry Cutler, one of the world's top experts on the health benefits of low-level radiation, writes about radiation's ability to reduce cancer risk. Cutler examines the history of misinformation concerning the purported dangers of low-level radiation exposure and reviews the copious research showing the benefits of such radiation in certain courses of medical treatment.
SM: There's been really two Alan Greenspans. There's the pre-1999 Green-span: up to that point I wanted to give him a Nobel Prize in economics. I think, in the last two years, his star has faded somewhat. On the other hand, I think that some of my good supply-side friends have maybe been a bit too tough on him. Remember, the errors in monetary policy that we are talking about today are trivial compared to the errors in the 1970s. I mean, people are saying, are we 25 or 50 basis points too high or low, do we have slight price inflation? I mean, hell, when I graduated from college, we had a 13.5 percent inflation rate. Nobody in their right mind would invest for the long term with inflation rates that high. Hopefully we've learned our lesson and we are not going to return to the dysfunctional monetary policies we had in place in the late 1960's and throughout the 1970's.
That the Texas Legislature should "ignore, oppose, refuse, and nullify" federal laws it doesn't like.
"Well, this is getting interesting. Last week, we noted that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, alone among the other G8 leaders, questioned today's copyright laws, suggesting that they did not fit with the times, and pointed out that these century-old laws don't seem to fit with today's internet. Glyn Moody now points us to the news that Medvedev appears to be going even further than just condemning today's copyright laws. He's now looking to adjust Russia's copyright laws in the other direction:"
Clouds: The Wild Card of Climate Change features:
Thanks to the grace of God, I have made a full recovery and feel fantastic at my new weight. Cycling up hills is incredibly easy now.
The tinier specks, EPA asserts, "can get deep into your lungs, and some may even get into your bloodstream." Eliminating all such particles in our air is absolutely essential to human health, longevity and well-being, the agency insists. There is no threshold below which there is no risk, its advisors say.
In any event, seems like the lawyers stand to be substantially enriched.
Congressman James Sensenbrenner wrote to Ms. Zoi two days later, asking five specific questions about how and by whose instruction this NREL paper was produced. On January 6, 2010, Zoi wrote back with a one-paragraph reply which either failed or refused to provide answers to any of the queries.
The Kyoto conference achieved an anti-American outcome and was designed to do so. The treaty provides that the United States will experience hardships that other industrial countries will avoid. The United Nations provided the institutional framework for this outcome, but notice that we deliberately used the United Nations, not the other way around. American officials realized that if they were to do what the enviros wantget the price of gasoline up to $3 a gallon and reduce energy use by one-third, among other thingsthis could more easily be attained in a U.N. forum than by the Democratic Party. If we are to be loaded down with tax increases, better that anonymous foreign bureaucrats take the blame than the Clinton White House.
From the Oval Office point of view, bad as the results of the current policy were, there were no better alternatives. But the pressure to "do something" was continuous. Both within and beyond the administration, the criticism was devastating, and the consciences of many administration officials were increasingly burdened by the lack of American response. Given the immovable object of the President's refusal to escalate, and the irresistible force of criticism, the administration sought to ease the pressure through two approaches. First, it would try to buy off humanitarian critics by making statements of disapproval about the Assad government's tactics. Second, it would seek to work with Russia for a cease fire that would stop, or at least significantly slow, the bloodshed, while creating a framework for a political negotiation leading to a stable Syria in the future.
Spencer, "Blue Ribbon Commission on Nuclear Waste: Missing Opportunity for Lasting Reform."
We recently replaced our audio system with a Bluetooth one. When my daughter asked how it worked, the best I could offer was its magic. For most of us, it does not matter that we do not know how our smartphone works. We know what it is supposed to do. We know when it does not work. We know how to read online reviews. We rely on experts, but we know how to tell a reliable one from a charlatan.
The likeliest explanation for all this is that OSTP's Polar Vortex video was originally produced and posted not as the personal opinion of the agency's director, but as an agency project. OSTP sought, and succeeded, in getting widespread news coverage for the film. But once its inaccuracy became clear, the agency invoked the personal opinion excuse as a way of avoiding accountability, and it did its best to maintain that fa ade even if it meant going through time-consuming and expensive litigation.
"Nothing ends here," Reagan assured a heartbroken nation that night. "Our hopes and our journeys continue."
If an industry becomes obsolete, there is no preventing the shedding of jobs as the market transitions to a new good or service. That is not what?s happening here. What?s happening here is the targeting of a bedrock American industry by a President who thinks he?s saving mother Earth.
The Wells Report reported that the standard deviation of Patriot pressure measurements was 0.40 psi (11 balls), as compared to 0.144 psi (4 balls) for the Colt balls, but were unable to find that this difference was statistically significant because the small number of Colt balls meant that standard tests had little power.
The weekly Reynolds OI.v2 data for Figures 1 and 2 are available through the NOAA NOMADS webpage here .
Clooney, Google, UN Team Up to Watch Sudan Border:
Im not clear on what an orbital subtraction point might be, and dont have time to chase it down right now, but thought maybe someone could enlighten (or maybe I can entice Sparks into an expanded bit of text here).
Bao and LSU graduate students Bryan Killingsworth and Justin Hayles, together with Chuanming Zhou, a colleague at Chinese Academy of Sciences, had an article published on Feb. 5 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , or PNAS , that provides new clues on the duration of what was a significant change in atmospheric conditions following the Marinoan glaciation.
Professor Jonathan Ashmore, Chair of the Judges said: Lynas gives us a compelling and gripping view of how climate change could affect our world. It presents a series of scientifically plausible, worst case scenarios without tipping into hysteria. Six degrees is not just a great read, written in an original way, but also provides a good overview of the latest science on this highly topical issue. This is a book that will stimulate debate and that will, Lynas hopes, move us to action in the hope that this is a disaster movie that never happens. Everyone should read this book.
In fact, the movie's very concept comes across as a forced attempt at a political statement. It's the first time director Roland Emmerich, whose previous hits include Godzilla, Independence Day, and The Patriot, has delved into a moribund genre: the disaster movie. Remember The Towering Inferno, Earthquake, The Poseidon Adventure, and the myriad Airport movies?
As a position paper intended for their first group session put it, in the customary glutinous prose of the organization's internal documents: "the U.N. should be able to take the lead in setting the global agenda, engage effectively with other multinational and regional organizations as well as civil society and non-state stakeholders, and transform itself into a tool to help implement the globally agreed objectives."
Society seems hell-bent on encouraging the tribalization of itself and the nation. Women blame men for the world's ills, and make masculinity impossible. They huddle together, and the worst aspects of their femininity are exacerbated the closer they do sowhy else do even highly educated female lawyers, doctors, and other professionals commonly refer to their female friends as bitches and whores? If only to get away from the screechiness and the bitchiness, men retreat either into the man-cave of the perpetual fraternity, or beyond even that, into the cave of spornosexuality.
Early explorers to Brazil and Zaire were probably the first to use the word "jungle" because as they traveled through on boats, riverbanks were tangled with vegetation and they thought the interior was probably that way too. But the edges have thicker plant growth because of extra light. Interior is made of trees, shrubs, vines, ferns and other plants "growing to form a complex system of layers." (NWF Educator's Guide)
MOOSE: When I say get over here, it means get over here. You savvy?
Gosh, hidden climate change may threaten eelgrass meadows
But smoke from open fires choked cities, forests were stripped of trees, most of the crops went to feed draft animals, and streets were littered with horse manure. For many people, life was nasty, brutish and short.Then the steam engine was developed, and later the internal combustion engine, electricity and refrigeration came along.
In 1938, just a few years shy of an ice axe to the forehead, Trotsky wrote his polemic, Their Morals or Ours , to differentiate the morals of Stalinism from those of what Trotsky alternatively termed Leninism and Bolshevism. In his pamphlet, Trotsky claimed that the ultimate endthe end that needs no justificationis the liberation of mankind. In other words, any intermediate endany end that serves as a means to another endis justified if it leads to increasing the power of man over nature and to the abolition of the power of man over man. 2 True Marxist thought.
In inline comments (see here and here ), Osborn re-iterated their false assertion that I had advocated these chronology versions.
on the benefits, campaign to keep taxes down, and start saving on your
No. Smith said the company cant determine individual appliance usage, only overall household usage.
BEDEMIR: Quiet, quiet. Quiet! There are ways of telling whether she is a witch.
At the NATO summit in Riga in November 2006, a little-noticed transatlantic revolution of sorts finally occurred when the Atlantic Alliance acknowledged that it would have to "go global" in order to remain relevant. Divided, America and Europe will fall; united, they can retain the lead. But all manners of "going global" are not equal, and the coming globalization of NATO is as much full of promises as it is fraught with perils.
Although Cyclone Aila brought much suffering to the people, it helped to rescue the land a little. During the two years in which the dikes were broken, the polder rebounded with tens of centimetres of sediment deposited by daily tides. The mud caused havoc in the short term by flooding peoples floors and gardens, but offers the possibility of long-term sustainability for delta ground.
The only way around that is higher costs. YOU can pay a lot more in every single bill, keeping staff ready and on call, keeping extra spare parts paid for in inventory, waiting for the once ever 50 year event. OR, you can accept that in this kind of expected and not exceptional, but infrequent, event; it will take a long time to rebuild a broken system.
However, the term "air pollutant" is used in other parts of the Clean Air Act, most notably in the programs on prevention of significant deterioration and air quality standards. In these contexts, listing carbon dioxide is a disaster because the programs cover not just a few automakers but millions of businesses of every sort, and in many cases the agency does not have the discretion to decline to do stupid things. As CEI's Lewis puts it:
James Murray you just turned Climate Change Blame into a useful weapon for exercising personal hatred.So James dont play into it.
It is here, according to HVS ,. frbisett to trovrdigheten from the social process called science is reduced. It vrsta is that this applies allmnhetens faith in the objective analysis of facts and probabilities in frga that frutse samhlleliga impact (of global warming, I guess HVS mean).
Eastern Equatorial Pacific (5S-5N, 155W-80W)
The plan to move the EU ETS system to other large, developing countries, and then to a global carbon trading market system by 2020, is only marginally closer to fruition than when the EU ETS was first established in 2005.