Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Barack Obama "must" push through climate laws ahead of this year's crucial Copenhagen summit, warns Co2-hysteric Danish minister Connie Hedegaard Todd Stern, the state department's lead climate negotiator, agreed that the prospects for a successful outcome at Copenhagen would be improved if the US could pass climate legislation in advance. ... But Stern told Congress, that America would not meet the short-term target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 25 to 40% by 2020. " I don't think it's necessary, and I do know it's not possible ," he said. More complete insanity from the Obama administration Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is trying to sell commodity groups on the idea of replacing traditional farm programs with so-called green payments or carbon credits . The groups arent buying it. ... Speaking to the NAWG, Vilsack said direct payments initially were supposed to transition growers away from government payments, but have taken on a life of their own. If direct payments have a limited future, I suggest you think about using climate change to take care of this. Payments would be easier to explain to the man on the street if they were being received for helping the climate . Noting tension in the farm community over direct payments, he said farmers need to come together or they will pick you apart.
According to a new poll , just 42 percent of Germans are worried about global warming, down substantially from 62 percent in 2006. The decline is attributed to the Climategate scandal.
"The Sierra Club's "forward on climate' rally is really a "blackout rally,'" said Alex Epstein, Founder of the Center for Industrial Progress and "we're sending in the "Light Brigade' to debunk false claims, open people's eyes and underline the importance of energy to our economic recovery."
A Week of Dire Predictions: Climate Change Conference in Melbourne
The report was issued just as the U.S. House of Representatives was to begin consideration of the Waxman-Markey energy bill, which, according to Inside Trade (subscription required), will include a Ways and Means Manager's Amendment with provisions for carbon border adjustments to address competitive and so-called leakage issues.
I don't want to overexpose him so I will only add his name to this article if he tells me to do so. He wrote:
Joe Blogs at readmorejoe but also writes essays at American Thinker and now at the Front Page Magazine site by David Horowitz.
"The rise in digital music-sales is scant compensation. People tend to buy tracks, not albums, from sites like Apple's iTunes. They can obtain their favourite music much more cheaply than they could in the CD era. And even digital sales are now stalling. In Japan, mobile and online single-track sales rose only a shade during 2009. So far this year Americans have bought 841m digital tracks, mostly from Apple's iTunes, according to Nielsen Soundscandown from 847m at this point last year. Apple now offers plenty of other opportunities to spend money, from iPads to more than 250,000 apps. Music executives believe the company is cannibalising the musical part of its own business."
The solar industry is jubilant over President Obama's Clean Power Plan, released in its final form on Monday, August 3. The same day, however, some other news reminded the public of what happens when government policy mandates and incentivizes a favored energy source: Taxpayer dollars are gobbled up and investors lose out.
Although this is seedy and unlawful at any time, it also goes in the "bad timing" file, especially for the Obama Administration and the UN.
Certainly, changes will be made in the way we achieve our personal mobility.
"At the practical level, through the U.N. system we have all kinds of expertise and capacities, even if not adequate resources, to actually do something," the paper notes.
Yes, Osama bin Laden supports the Kyoto Protocol. And that's supposed to be a recommendation?
"We are hostage to a planetary scandal over climate change a war machine whose aim is to keep us in fear," he writes.
Increased production has also enabled companies to export more gasoline, kerosene, jet fuel, lubricants, and other finished products, since refined product exports were never prohibited. Indeed, U.S. refining capacity is at record levels.
In contrast, consider the performance by Mr Obama. The American leader has spent much of his term trying to reassure allies and security partners that faith in America and American leadership is justified.
Washington Post and CBS receiving money from Obamacare slush fund:
China's Assertive BehaviorPart One: On "Core Interests"
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With a newly released poll showing an overwhelming majority of voters including Democrats oppose the investigation, the coalition of attorneys general pressed on, urging a federal court in Texas to uphold a subpoena filed by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey against Exxon Mobil.
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.
I hope it is OK if I think that you are just one of millions of people on both sides with equally irrational and biased attitudes to all these questions, so these three paragraphs represent all the time I will dedicate to your blog post.
"We are so proud that millions of people plan to show their appreciation for human achievement by doing things like eating diner, watching television, going to the movies, and brushing their teeth. Never before has a new holiday caught on so quickly."
"ActiveX Filtering in the IE9 Release Candidate gives you greater control over how Web pages run on your PC. With ActiveX Filtering, you can turn off ActiveX controls for all Web sites and then turn them back on selectively as you see fit. While ActiveX controls like Adobe Flash are important for Web experiences today for videos and more, some consumers may want to limit how they run for security, performance, or other reasons."
The whole RMA folklore was introduced to NATO right at the time when, in Iraq and Afghanistan, its limits were becoming too obvious to ignore. The Pentagon is today trying to find a better balance between Network-Centric Warfare (NCW) and Culture-Centric Warfare (CCW), and one would hope that ACT will quickly NATO-ize the lessons learned in theater.
While 1199 has done well by its membersboosting their pay, benefits, and job securityit imposes diffuse costs on the public. The union's vested interest in elevated levels of government health-care spending has had negative policy consequences over the years, particularly with respect to Medicaid, which supports, on average, one-third of the annual revenues at the five largest medical centers in New York City, all of which employ 1199 members. (Another third, on average, comes from Medicare.) According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, New York State spent $54 billion on Medicaid in 2013, more than one-third of the state budget and the second-highest amount among the states (after California, which has nearly twice as many people).
These data do, however, explain why pro-choice deep-blue-state GOP governors act the way they do. The states they govern have much higher concentrations of Post-Modern voters than do the rest of the country. These governors' brand of pro-wealth-creation, pro-redistributive-economics politics is precisely what these voters want. The governors' failure to enact the sort of economic policies favored by libertarians was not a betrayal of their followers; it was a faithful implementation of their constituents' beliefs.
(B) The inaccuracies of the eighth document are documented in the attached memo, titled An Analysis of the Forged Heartland Climate Strategy Memo, which was posted on The Heartland Institutes Web site on February 27. I am not aware of any different authentic documents that match your description.
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reasonable and which is uncooperative. Therein lie some answers to Mann's question about a new Obamian relationship with the rest of the world. The
responses from Ray Bradley, Caspar Amman and others.
And if the calf is still rejected then she will go off into the woods with the calf, and leave it there. She will prevent it from returning to the herd, and it will die.
Hillary Clinton is incredibly lucky the Park Doctrine doesn't apply to her. Just imagine FBI Director James Comey's dilemma if he couldn't use the "no intent to violate the law" excuse. In fact, countless government officials including Ms. McCarthy and IRS Commissioner John Koskinen are blessed beyond measure that standards they routinely use against American citizens don't apply to them. In fact, very few laws or regulations apply to the lawmakers and regulators who concoct and impose them.
You just can't make it up . Hella-cool (though optional) economic analysis here .
Some features of ACESA reflect valid insights. For example, the draft bill is certainly right to place a new stress on adaptation and on advancing technology. My statement will also offer a few suggestions about how these efforts might be made more cost-effective.
Since she expressed her gun hysterics in 1992, murder and violent crime rates in the US are down 40%. Reality is just too confusing for progressives.
California Teacher Encourages Political Activism by Elementary School Students
In my book , I talk about several other eastern slope thunderstorm road closures and landslides, such as the 1998 and 2012 events on the Yakima Canyon road (SR 821).
Tabular bookkeeping models for carbon accounting from land-use change were the best approach at the time they were developed, said Dr. Nancy Harris, lead author of the Winrock study. But the emergence of earth observing satellites combined with an international policy focus on reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries has pushed the scientific community to adopt more transparent methods and increasingly spatial approaches to carbon accounting.
By Easterbrook & Pielke & Darwall, Real Clear Books, Aug 9, 2015
Singapore has pursued a similar strategy but has also front-loaded compensation. THis combination allows it to spend less on primary education than almost any other OECD and yet still be able to attract strong candidates into the teaching profession. In addition, because Singapore and South Korea need fewer teachers, they are also in a position to be more selective about who becomes a teacher. This, in turn, increases the status of teaching, making the profession even more attractive.
Such are the brute facts of population decline. Why it has happened, what the consequences of it will be, and what we can do to arrest it make up the remaining bulk of Last's book. The most general cause of population decline is modernity itself; birthrates started declining in the nineteenth century when industrialization and technological advances began to accelerate. Better nutrition, sanitation, and health care, for example, have reduced infant mortality in America from about 300 babies dying out of 1,000 live births in 1850, to about six today. More babies surviving lessened the need for multiple pregnancies, which in turn reduced family size.
Boasting an old tin ceiling and thick limestone walls, Der Lindenbaum is located in one of the towns original buildings. The prices are reasonable, the portions are large, and the service is outstanding. (Actually, the service is almost instantaneous.) And the food? Ahhh. I had never had jager schnitzel before, and it was absolutely scrumptious.
For America's sugar beet growers, whose crop accounts for about half of the refined sugar consumed in the United States, the outcome was far worse. In August 2010, Judge Jeffrey White revoked the USDA's approval of Roundup Ready sugar beets on similar grounds. Although Judge White permitted Roundup Ready beets then in the ground to be grown to maturity and harvested, his decision has sown monumental confusion because an estimated 95 percent of the sugar beets currently grown in the United States are of the Roundup Ready variety. With such intense demand for the genetically engineered variety, sugar beet breeders have cut back substantially on their production of conventional seeds, meaning that beet growers cannot easily switch back to conventional varieties because supplies of seed are inadequate. The commodity price of sugar shot up by 55 percent between August and November 2010, largely as a result of the court's decision.
Senior Research Fellow, Energy Economics and Climate ChangeCenter for Data Analysis
Dark matter direct search: CDMS suggests a light WIMP
First, as with any insurance matter, they will ask for a loss run or loss history. Ask your current or previous broker for it. If you don't have any history, don't worry. Unlike with say, getting a loan, getting workers comp. insurance can actually go more smoothly without any history (history only seems to be able to hurt you, not help you much).
Book Review of The Neglected Sun : Buy This Book, Our Future May Depend On It
I think these folks do a good job of covering the story, and with the proper balance when looking at the likely outcomes:
Nine Month American Recovery Watch Remains On High Alert
On Monday, May 2, Climate Hustle comes to select cinemas nationwide for an exclusive one-night event!
Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) spoke on the importance of basing decisions of this magnitude on real science and not rushing into any agreement.
Could McCain survive in a political climate seemingly designed for his demise (a weak economy, coupled with the eight-year itch to install a new party in the White House)?
It's time to demote our climate masters to our humble servants. Experts testify. Free people evaluate and decide.
Cities simply cannot afford to close their eyes and hope for the best, Bloomberg said, as he and Clinton unveiled the project during a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in Manhattan.
The presidents Clean Power Plan is worse than you think
Closing down the shuttle isn't a way to save money: President Obama actually wants NASA's funding to go up. But he's also canceling the follow-up Constellation program for returning to the moon and turning NASA into a program for Muslim outreach and monitoring climate change.
Vodafone, along with its Kenyan subsidiary, Safaricom, developed m-pesa, a mobile payment and value storage system to be used on its phones. Transactions are capped at about $500, but crucially can be person-to-person, acting as digitized cash. Introduced in 2007, it had 9 million users 40 percent of Kenya's population just two years later. By 2013, 17 million Kenyans were using it, with transactions valued at over $24 billion over half of Kenya's GDP.
But Romney's campaign says he can't reconsider global warming because he's already flip-flopped on too much else ? including abortion and government-run health care. Democrats such as DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz are having a field day accusing Romney of being a chameleon who has to "debate with himself on where he is on any issue."
Rather than one guess being applicable to all measurements, I ended up needing four different groups each with a different guessed deflation. A good guess (i.e. one that worked) for the majority of balls (7) was 0.38 psi an interesting number that Ill discuss in the post. A good guess for two balls was zero deflation. But for ball #7, it was necessary to assume that it had been inflated by approximately 0.5 psiin the washroom. One ball was lower than the others (0.76 psi) and remains hard to explain. The Wells Report reasonably drew attention to variability, but did not address the details of actual variability other than arm-waving and did not actually show that erratic washroom deflation was a plausible explanation for observed variability.
The slowdown in growth, however, goes back further than a couple of years. The mainstream rise of skepticism can be traced as far back as the economic crisis of 1973-1974. That was when the golden years of the postwar economic boom gave way to sluggish growth. It was also when skeptic texts such as the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth and E.F. Schumacher's Small is Beautiful became international bestsellers. Although America returned to growth after the 1970s recession, the pace of expansion afterward was much slower than the 1950s and 1960s.
No. 99 - New Source Review: An Evaluation of EPA's Reform Recommendations
Allen Oberg, chairman of the wheat boards board of directors, said the unseeded land and low production forecast have put Prairie farmers in a dire situation.
On June 15, 15 Republican state attorneys general wrote a letter to the so-called "AGs United for Clean Power" on the letter head of Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange.The opening of the letter:Several state Attorneys General recently held a press conference under the banner of "AGs United for Clean Power." The media event highlighted an investigation into "whether fossil fuel companies misled investors and the public on the impact of climate change on their businesses." We think this effort by our colleagues to police the global warming debate through the power of the subpoena is a grave mistake.We all understand the need for a healthy environment, but we represent a wide range of viewpoints regarding the extent to which man contributes to climate change and the costs and benefits of any proposed fix. Nevertheless, we agree on at least one thing this is not a question for the courts. Using law enforcement authority to resolve a public policy debate undermines the trust invested in our offices and threatens free speech.We are concerned that our colleagues' investigation undermines the trust the people have invested in Attorneys General to investigate fraud. Investigatory subpoenas were issued to at least one company and one non-profit believed to have made statements minimizing the risks of climate change. At the press conference, one of our colleagues noted that "e are pursuing this as we would any other fraud matter." We routinely investigate fraud, and have done so with many of the states present at the press conference. But this investigation is far from routine. We are unaware of any fraud case combining the following three characteristics: 1) the investigation targets a particular type of market participant; 2) the Attorneys General identify themselves with the competitors of their investigative targets; and 3) the investigation implicates an ongoing public policy debate.Read the rest at the link above.
Both Kyoto and LOST purport to regulate Parties' land-based pollution, and as such also provides a vehicle for far-reaching unconstitutional regulatory regimes. Unlike Kyoto, however, LOST has a Tribunal, one which made clear in an early ruling that it will decide its own scope and jurisdiction for Parties subject to its authority, ad hoc. This Tribunal would have authority over Americans and their economy, and would be unaccountable under our laws or limited by our Constitution.
Correlated Discount Rates and Economic Growth Rates
The USDA announced one week later that the genetically engineered sugar beets would be "partially deregulated" even though the EIS had not yet been completed. In an attempt to comply with the court order barring complete re-approval, the USDA issued four pages of mandatory, quite draconian limitations and conditions that will at least make it possible for some growers to plant the variety in 2011. Nevertheless, as a result of all this dithering, the uncertainty in the entire regulatory process will discourage breeders from developing and farmers from cultivating not only genetically engineered sugar beets, but other genetically engineered crops as well.
on Wednesday, July 27th, 2011 at 1:42 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.
"My new op-ed in Monday's Wall Street Journal with Mercer law professor David Oedel, ObamaCare and the General Welfare Clause, explains why the new Medicaid mandates imposed on the states suffer from the same General Welfare Clause problem as did the Cornhusker Kickback:"
Today we filed a federal lawsuit to block nanosilver, a potent antimicrobial pesticide, from market access. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has conditionally registered nanosilver for use in textiles including such things as clothing, baby blankets, and pillow cases.
3/27/2008: I uploaded a figure about beta error. The figure is supplied by reader martin ringo.
This article will focus on workers comp. from the employers point of view (most state web sites are useless to employers - they have reams of detail for workers on how to file claims or complaints, but nothing to help employers learn how it all works).
David Archer: The Global Carbon Cycle. Princeton University Press 2010 ISBN: 978-0-691-14413-9
Australias antarctic runway melting | Sun City News
Jay Richards frequently writes for the Enterprise Blog and is a contributing editor of THE AMERICAN.
settings for those debates, but not the only ones. The broader public square
the office to discuss their 100-day strategies should they win. Back in June
We must escape the Environmental Insane Asylum in which they want us to live.
After cap-and-trade was thoroughly rejected by the American people and defeated in a Democrat controlled congress, President Obama promised that he wouldn't give up in his efforts to stop coal development. He also said "Cap-and-trade was just one way of skinning the cat. It was a means, not an end. I'm going to be looking for other means to address this problem."
Similarly, many local assets around the world remain in common ownership in reality, owned by no one. Initiatives such as India's privatization of forest resources seek to address this problem by enabling the titling of assets by indigenous peoples, who can then tap into those resources for access to credit to open up new opportunities. Estimates suggest that similar initiatives could be extended to 900 million plots of land across the developing world.
Baos research is funded by the National Science Foundation and by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Good morning. My name is Jonathan Adler. I direct the Environmental Program here at CEI. And as both Senator Craig mentioned and Fred Smith mentioned, there is a lot of discussion about the planet. And we are going to be hearing a little bit more about that this afternoon. But we also thought it would be useful at the beginning of the day to try and give everybody an idea of where the science is and where it isn't in terms of climate change.
NYC Councilman Leroy Comrie Proposes Bill Banning "Happy Meals':
That "the Voting Rights Act of 1965, codified and updated in 1973, be repealed and not reauthorized."
usually an approach that is designed to fit the particulars of the times and the
"If you want to know who is getting the big bucks for climate change research one needs look no farther than our own government. Your government will spend in the neighborhood of 4 billion dollars this year to study climate change. And that?s just this year! You only need to look at the American Association for the Advancement of Science?s 2011 budget request to get the answers. Go down to chapter 15, Climate Change in the FY 2011 Budget. Here you will find out how much money is going to be spent in just one year to save you from climate change. The numbers are staggering. In 2011 your government will spend $10.6 million dollars a day to study, combat and educate people about climate change."