Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
"The first glimpses I got behind the scenes did little to garner my trust in the state of climate science on the contrary," Mr. FOIA continued. "I found myself in front of a choice that just might have a global impact." Reveal what he had discovered, or keep it to himself and let the lies continue?
The worldwide network neutron monitors that have since been established gather data that have shown there is a correlation between periodic solar activity and the earthly neutron count. For example:
As the clean energy scam collapses around the world, our Great Leader plans a comeback.
Just because a bunch of noisy, self-interested academics and politicians say that we're destroying the world does not mean that we should give up everything that modern technology has given us without abundant proof. For years now, Al Gore has been pointing to his fellow Nobel-prize winners, the IPC, as the last word in scientific proof. Today those selfsame "authorities" stand revealed instead as charlatans of no more scientific standing than Doctor Cure-all and his Magic Elixir.
The numbers tell the story. Since 2006, the U.S. has added 3.6 million barrels per day of new oil production. That's roughly equal to the combined output of two Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries: Kuwait and Ecuador. That surge in crude production has driven global oil prices down from more than $100 per barrel in 2014 to about $45 per barrel today.
Climate chaos is likewise the foundation for endless, punitive government policies and regulations intended to keep oil, gas and coal "in the ground." Crony politicians pass laws and unelected bureaucrats impose rules that transfer taxpayer and consumer wealth, decide which companies, industries and workers win or lose, and control people's lives, livelihoods, liberties and living standards.
He was not surprised, however, by the near-unanimous agreement by climatologists.'
Climate scientists hold new year's sing-along trapped in Antarctic ice
But new environmental problems emerged. Smoke pollution from burning cheap dirty coal in millions of open fires, old boilers and smelters produced massive smog problems in cities like London and Pittsburgh.The solution was improved technology, sensible pollution-control laws and the supply of coal gas and coal-powered electricity to the cities.
There was never any prospect that the United States was going to agree to a treaty whose emissions reductions would have assured the acceleration of the relocation of American manufacturing industry overseasthis is why even the most green and liberal members of the U.S. Senate voted (by a margin of 95-0) for the Byrd-Hagel resolution in 1997 demanding that President Clinton not agree to a climate treaty that did not include developing nations such as China, India, Mexico, South Korea and Brazil in its emissions caps. But that is exactly the treaty that Al Gore brought back from Kyoto. And as of this moment it appears that Kyoto II will have virtually the same defect, though we can expect some fancy footwork in Copenhagen in December to try to dress up or disguise this fact.
Is there any hope of limiting carbon emissions to 30-50 gigatons in 2030, as many climatologists have called for, with substantial reductions thereafter? Some countries, notably Denmark and Sweden, have significantly reduced emissions. Can the U.S. do the same?
In Hollywood, there's no business like show business. Inside the Beltway, there's no show like the business of sound-bite showboating. In the president's speech there appears the phrase "carbon pollution" no fewer than 30 times. In the Orwellian language of the environmental left, "carbon pollution" is carbon dioxide a natural substance that is not toxic to humans at many times greater than current ambient concentrations and that protects plants from various environmental stresses. It is unlike any other effluent regulated by the EPA for which less is better. Too little carbon dioxide would make life difficult, and in the extreme case, the Earth uninhabitable. That obviously will not be the result of the president's proposals if implemented. But the large expansion of government power and centralized planning authority inherent in the proposals is not an end to be pursued.
This is just one instance I've found where environmentalists blame some man-made threat for a problem largely caused by their own misguided policies. The primary cause of the malaria resurgence is the ban of DDT, which was demonized by Rachel Carson's influential Silent Spring yet remains the most effective insecticide for use to control malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them
Let's begin with the facts: During the past three decades, storms have become more destructive throughout Florida for one simple reason -- the state's population has grown. Indeed, it has tripled over 40 years. As people have moved near the coast they have both built in harm's way and destroyed the coastal wetlands that provide a natural buffer against hurricane-caused storm surge.
If you cant measure a risk, you cant manage it, Bloomberg added, warning that a damaging storm like Sandy could happen again.
In describing the differences between their work and Mann's, Chapman et al. use surprisingly strong language for a scientific paper. They describe three of Mann's conclusions as "misleading," and his end-point analysis as "erroneous" and "just bad science."
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released an interesting (if somewhat dry and lengthy) report, World Energy Outlook Special Report 2016; Energy and Air Pollution. I recently discussed the report on an every-other-Monday debate I participate in on CBC's flagship business program The Exchange. As I mentioned in that discussion, I welcome this report, as it directs the world's attention to what I believe, and have always believed, is a huge source of human suffering and environmental degradation.Conventional air pollution (soot, acidic chemicals, ozone) on the scale seen in developing countries causes massive suffering, sickness and death.Fixing that should be a global priority.Yet we have, in recent years, been so focused on climate change impacts in the distant future, that we have lost focus on the reality that conventional pollution is killing millions of people today. According to the IEA, 6.5 million premature deaths every year are attributable to air pollution. The new IEA report makes it fairly clear that where we really need to focus, especially in developing countries, is on conventional pollutants: particulate matter, ozone-forming chemicals and acidic gases such as Sulphur dioxide, with greenhouse-gas reductions being seen as a co-benefit.Another welcome aspect of this report is that it seems pragmatic, shying away from revolutionary "all renewables" language, and simply talking about moving to energy production that is less polluting, which realistically speaking involves natural gas, nuclear and hydro power. It also involves some very low-hanging fruit such as installing catalytic converters in vehicles, installing bag-houses and scrubbers on power plants, and switching from coal to natural gas, hydro and nuclear power generation.The report also emphasizes the importance of universal electricity access, and universal access to clean cooking fuels, which are crucial elements of human and environmental protection and empowerment.Of course, as with all things, one has to balance many factors, including the economic. As the IEA report notes, we know how to control conventional air pollution, but it's not without costs. And given that poverty is also a major cause of morbidity and mortality (probably the largest cause). So, phasing in air protections without breaking the economic engines of development is important.And there are always things to quibble about in a report like this. It's fair to ask how mortality is estimated, how benefit-cost analysis is done, when developed countries (like Canada) hit diminishing returns on additional air pollution measures, and all that. But pollution levels are so high in countries like China and India, one doesn't really have to ask whether reducing the pollution levels they experience is worth its costit most likely is.Still, warts and all, it's great to see at least some of our environmental debate return to what is probably the world's greatest environmental challenge: getting clean air to the billions who suffer without it. The IEA is to be complimented on its timely new report, and its restoring conventional air pollution control to its proper place in international policy.
As a contributor to the IPCC's 2007 report, I share the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. Yet I and many of my peers in the British House of Lords - through our hereditary element the most independent-minded of lawmakers - profoundly disagree on fundamental scientific grounds with both the IPCC and my co-laureate's alarmist movie An Inconvenient Truth, which won this year's Oscar for Best Sci-Fi Comedy Horror.
Because science is, or is supposed to be, self-correcting (a thesis is put forth, tested, and ultimately revised on the basis of new data), any misinformation conveyed to the scientific community distorts the entire process. Journals should be more meticulous about requesting reviews of research articles only from bona fide experts who do not have a known bias toward the subject; currently, many journals fail to exercise such due diligence. After qualified, unbiased reviewers have evaluated an article, they should be encouraged to ask probing, detailed questions, and the authors of the submitted article should be required to answer them satisfactorily before a paper is accepted.
Theres no doubt that for us to take on climate change in a serious way would involve making some tough political choices, and you know, understandably, I think the American people right now have been so focused and will continue to be focused on our economy and jobs and growth that, you know, if the message is somehow were going to ignore jobs and growth simply to address climate change, I dont think anybodys going to go for that. I wont go for that. If, on the other hand, we can shape an agenda that says we can create jobs, advance growth and make a serious dent in climate change and be an international leader, I think thats something that the American people would support.
SPPI was on this story nearly three years ago. We notified the publisher of the error. It was admitted to, and we were told it would be corrected. Still waiting.
No amount of nimble administration can make up for the sheer unreality of the Waxman-Markey GHG emissions reduction targets. The text of Waxman-Markey endorses the target of holding global CO2 levels to no more than 450 parts per million (ppm)up from about 385 ppm today and rising at present trends to more than 700 ppm by 2100 if nothing is done. To grasp how extraordinary this target is, consider this analysis the International Energy Agency offered in its World Energy Outlook Summary for 2008, released last fall in Paris:
Litalia, or better greens A. Pecoraro Scanio, who despite being a small representation of the Italian, blackmailing the government instead chose the expensive solar, that will take us out of the market dellenergia and from any industrial competition.
During the winter of 1977, it was snowing in Florida and warm and raining in Alaska.
A report published by CBN News noted that, "The last time the sun was this quiet, North America and Europe suffered through a weather event from the 1600s to the 1800s known as "Little Ice Age' when the Thames River in London regularly froze solid, and North America saw terrible winters. Crops failed and people starved."
Newest Research Proves IPCC Climate Models Wrong: Global Warming Does Not Cause Increased Disaster Losses
Washington Times: Global Warming's weak links
The CFC ban was a perfect pilot for the anthropogenic global warming fraud. It established all the characters: the eco-left NGOs, the environmental "scientists" (both real and self-proclaimed), and big industry poised to make huge profits and political control over human choices and behavior. It had buy-ins by governments all over the planet. It was based on an unproven (and probably unprovable) hypothesis. Many industries stood to gain at the expense of consumers. To this day, research continues to be funded to study CFCs in the atmosphere. Most significantly, the "ozone hole" hasn't changed appreciably. It remains stable as if we ever really knew what "stable" was.
Knowing how giant sequoia trees responded to a 500-year warm spell in the past is important because scientists predict that climate change will probably subject the trees to such a warm, dry environment again, said Swetnam, a UA professor of dendrochronology and director of UAs Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research .
Winter here to stay as snow falls across the country Telegraph
Global warming, the heating of the atmosphere by increased amounts of industrial gases, is now accepted as a reality by the international community. Average temperatures in Britain were nearly 0.6 C higher in the Nineties than in 1960-90, and it is estimated that they will increase by 0.2C every decade over the coming century. Eight of the 10 hottest years on record occurred in the Nineties.
The project was funded through a $235,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The sun passes over the equator twice during the year, at the March and September equinoxes. As shown above in Figure 4-40, the sea surface temperatures in the western equatorial Pacific reach their maximums a few months later in May and November. The warm water is basically following the sun, with a lag, as it progresses between hemispheres. As Xiao and Mechoso (2008) describe, and to put it into terms of the data weve presented, the El Nio ebbs as the warm water passes from the western equatorial Pacific into the Southern Hemisphere.
So what causes this type of wind shear? It occurs in advance of low pressure areas that form along the boundary between warm and cool air masses. So, anything that increases the frequency of these conditions could lead to more tornadoes.
Yes, says JoNova, lets please look at whos funding who in the climate zoo .
The Clinton Administration claims that the development of energy efficient technologies is the solution to the global warming problem. It also claims that the technologies necessary to meet the targets set under the Kyoto Protocol are already available and just need to be put into use.
1. Discovering the specific mechanisms driving decadal variability, in the Pacific and all other the ocean basins, these mechanisms are still unknown or only poorly understood;
About $90 billion of those taxpayer funded giveaways went to green energy, which is about as trendy a cause as there is right now. Today, on the thirtieth of June, almost a year and half after the stimulus passed, the Department of Energy has awarded a scant 15% of its green energy stimulus funds. So much for timely.
With Southern Europe-Greece, Italy, Spain--facing economic collapse, and unemployment persistently high in America, there is no appetite for another costly round of greenhouse gas reductions at the UN climate change conference in Durban. For those concerned about global warming and climate change, it's time to look at simpler solutions provided by geoengineering.
The five researchers investigated clonal diversity, as well as the size structure and longevity of genets (a group of genetically identical individuals), in populations of four arctic-alpine plants ( Carex curvula , Dryas octopetala , Salix herbacea and Vaccinium uliginosum ), in order to evaluate "their persistence under past climatic oscillations." This they did by determining the size and number of genets via an analysis of amplified fragment length polymorphisms and a standardized sampling design in several European arctic-alpine populations, where these species dominate the vegetation, while "genet age was estimated by dividing the size by the annual horizontal size increment from in situ growth measurements."
CERES Data: The top-of atmosphere CERES data is measured by the satellites. On the other hand, the CERES surface data is calculated from the TOA CERES data, plus data from the MODIS and GOES satellites. The calculated surface data is energy balanced, meaning that the surface flows sum up to the TOA flows.
NIWA issued a response statement regarding the charges leveled by The NZ Climate Science Coalition here:
Further, the report concludes that with the pipeline's proposed mitigation measures in place, construction and operation will have no meaningful effect on the U.S. environment, or endangered species
I see no basis for any complaint on Osborns part that I had insufficiently acknowledged their concern about root collar inhomogeneity. However, root collar inhomogeneity is hardly the end of the story as inhomogeneity in Briffas population is pervasive. The purlasi sc subpopulation appears as inhomogeneous as the root collar samples, but Briffa seem obtusely unaware of the problem. And while Briffa et al have reported one incident of inhomogeneity, their statistical tools for detecting inhomogeneity are hopelessly inadequate a serious disappointment given that theyve been working on this issue for over a decade. I observed (continuing my original criticism):
Regulatory reform does not mean a world without regulations. Instead, the next Administration should address pressing fundamental problems in the current regulatory state. Too many regulations are written on the premise that any amount of risk is too much. Regulatory agencies commonly underestimate or ignore costs, exaggerate environmental benefits, and push constitutional boundaries. Agencies increase the stringency of existing regulations that produce minimal if any environmental benefits. Agencies also use the regulatory process to micromanage customer choices, from the energy efficiency of microwaves to fuel efficiency mandates.
Muller crunched a bunch of numbers to do with global temperatures andannouncedin theNew York Timesthat he is a converted sceptic. It was this opinion piece in arguably the worlds most influential paper that set tongues wagging about climate change all over again.
Oh noes, global warming has changed the flavor of tea . However it tastes, it cannot be worse than Earl Grey.
The GEF is a program under the World Bank that was created to pacify environmentalist critics of World Bank spending. The green fund shields the World Bank from such criticisms by paying for energy and land use restrictions in poor countries. Some of its projects implement the Kyoto Protocol, while others implement another U.N. treaty on "biological diversity" that the Senate has not ratified.
His supervisor added: "I can only see one impact of your comments given where we are in the process, and that would be a very negative impact on our office."
Now, I don't know about you, but I'm not sure that it is reasonable to get on one's high horse complaining about somebody who prefers to look at, you know, actual data rather than the outpourings of a mathematical model.
Snow as the first week of April drew a close was still extensive across Canada and Asia. It remains well above the normal as it did the entire winter.
Now the experiment is unraveling, having barely begun. As the parade of government-subsidized failures like Solyndra, Stirling Energy, SpectraWatt, Evergreen Solar, Beacon Power, and others mount, now is a good time to look at how all the pieces of the alternative energy puzzle are supposed to fit togetherand what happens when they dont.
What the researchers found was that the observed temperature trends calculated from periods ranging from 10 to 32 years all lie below the average trend of the same length projected by a large family of climate models (Fig. 2). Each climate model includes some representation of some of the processes which lead to ?natural? (random) variability (processes such as El Nio/La Nia, volcanic eruptions, solar variability?note that not all models include all of these processes throughout the entire 1979-2010 period of study). As the time period over which the temperature trend is calculated increases, the impact of natural variability on the magnitude (and even the sign) of the trend decreases as the short-term temperature deviations caused by random variability tend to cancel out.
California sea level data. Click image to start animation in a new window.
(10) When it is being used to justify dramatic political or economic policies.
Lets start by looking at NOAA s graph of stronger EF3+ tornadoes.
Current understanding assumes that climate response to solar radiative forcing is thermodynamic
Nuccitelli gets a bruising by the factual hand of Monckton
Louisiana has lost considerable coastal marshland as a result of human intervention. Flood control dams and levees prevent swollen rivers from picking up silt, and dredging to keep the coastal waterways open move the silt from its natural place, leading to erosion of the coastal shallows. According to this Tulane.edu paper:
But heres the problem. As Fig. 1 shows, until World War II, Anchorage was a very sleepy village of a few thousand. Since then the population has skyrocketed. But the homogeneity adjustment does not match this in any sense. The homogeneity adjustment is a straight line (albeit one with steps ...why steps? ... but I digress). The adjustment starts way back in 1926 ... why would the 1926 Anchorage temperature need any adjustment at all? And how does this adjust for UHI?
Although the oceans have experienced less warming overall, plants and animals need to move as quickly in the sea as they do on land to keep up with their preferred environments.
It should be noted that a 50 percent increase in resource availability is not a "pie-in-the-sky" fantasy. U.S. petroleum production in 2015 was about 50 percent higher than the projection the EIA made for 2015 in 2008. Natural gas production in 2015 was about 40 percent higher than the EIA's 2008 projection. The comparative pessimism on the part of the EIA was largely due to not fully appreciating the impacts of smart drilling technology and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) at that time.
Look, folks, the ugly truth is that the world is awash with fossil fuels. To start with, The largest single concentration of fossil energy on the planet is the Powder River coal formation in the Northern US. The world has several hundred years worth of coal. The Canadians have huge amounts of oil of course it too is called unconventional oil, because it alone is enough to blow the peak oil claims out of the water. Plus now we have the tight oil, oil in the rocks that is, of course, unconventional.
The small-business protections proposed in the Tailoring Rule are temporary, legally dubious, and incomplete. Even if courts uphold the Tailoring Rule, despite its flouting of clear statutory language, it will not avert the most absurd result of the Court's misreading of the CAA: regulation of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) program.
But what if this dynasty is built on a foundation of errors, miscalculations, and exaggerations or worse: on manipulation, fabrication, and fraud? The house of cards would tumble down, the catechism of climate cataclysm would go the way of other vanished religions, and the power and money train would derail.
"We humans are creating the conditions for our own extinction as a species," Pachirat told his students Dec. 30, shortly before the last day of class. He also stated that meat eaters contribute to global warming, because eating animals shows that "we are living in a period of more suffering than the world has ever known."
America is a fracking cornucopia of crude oil, independent of the rapacious OPEC cartel. And has an inexhaustible supply of natural gas, putting us in a position to become a major exporter able to use its gas reserves as a geopolitical weapon. Take that, King Abdullah and Vladimir Putin. Too good to be true? You bet.