Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Hong Kong and Singapore finish far lower in the prosperity rankings than they do in the more economically based indices of the Wall Street Journal/Heritage Foundation or of the Cato Institute/Fraser Institute, which tend to rank them first and second. But in a less severe version of the problem for China above, these countries lack personal freedom and democracy and, as a result, finish eighteenth and twenty-third, respectively, in the Prosperity Index. With due respect to the more economically weighted indices, and given that economic growth is of prime concern to developing nations in particular, weighting the more measurably definitive economic subindices more heavily is a useful experiment and one that is arguably justifiable from a policy perspective. As an experiment, double weighting the two direct economic indicators in the Prosperity Index does make a difference for some countries' performance. For instance, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom would all rise one place in the rankings, and the United States would move up two, but the biggest movers would be China (up fourteen places) and Russia (up eleven).
New paper discovers a 'major source' of alkalinity that might protect reefs from 'acidification'
The per capita GDP growth rates for the reference scenarios listed by the IWG ranged from 1.58 percent to 2.03 percent per year with an average of 1.8 percent per year. On the other hand the Maddison Project estimates per capita GDP levels for the U.S. that grew only 1.56 percent per year from 1800 to 2000. Over those same two centuries the real compounded annual rate of return in U.S. stock markets has been a "remarkably stable" 6.8 percent per year. It would be reasonable to assign an even higher projected rate of return on capital in an environment where growth is projected to be in excess of 1.56 percent.
Over the last several years, I have worried that the FourthAmendmentis rapidly heading in the same direction. This week has been a bad week.
In other words, you can get any number you wantfrom a negligible $1 per ton to a huge $100/ton of carbon-equivalent greenhouse gas emissions.
Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, we now know that the assertion was correct. The Obama administration produced this denunciation at the behest of, and with the active participation of, the wind energy's lobby.
Things have apparently gotten a little bit more interesting in CDMS. Now, those eight silicon detectors have seen three events. But it's not just the number of events that is somewhat higher now. The late 2009 events could have been interpreted as background rather easily. The three new 2013 events are claimed to be substantially further from the background appearance.
The Chinese icebreaker trying to reach a Russian-flagged expedition vessel trapped for the past four days in frozen Antarctic ice is now also now stuck in the ice,says CNN News.
Steve Milloy publishes JunkScience.com and is the author of "Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them" (Regnery 2009).
What I like about this flow direction is that Sequim is way wetter than Seattle. What I don't like is that there will be a lot of warm rain falling on the limited snow in the Cascade. Stevens Pass opened for limited skiing today, with a 17 inch base. Baker opened as well. Bring old skis.
As already discussed, for GHG controls to yield net benefits at all, they must be fairly moderate. In that case, the total benefits of controls, although positive, are also modest. In this regard, GHG controls contrast sharply with the control of ozone-depleting chemicals. With the latter, optimal controls yielded quite large net benefits. The much smaller net gain available from GHG control restricts the range of options for deal making.
The snowfall came as a major test of patience for Muscovites, who have endured an unusually long and cold winter.
The Associated Press: SAfrica: PRETORIA, South Africa South Africa says it and other developing countries won't consider the next round of climate change talks successful unless rich nations pay up. ... Alf Wills, a top South African environmental official, summed up the position: "No money, no deal." South Africa, more industrialized than most on the continent, is Africa's main carbon emitter. California: Frost damage hampers peach crop Peaches - The 2009 California Freestone peach crop forecast is 350 thousand tons, down 5% from the June forecast, and 19% below the 2008 crop . Bearing acres are estimated at 28.0 thousand. California experienced an adequate number of chilling hours, thus benefiting the Freestone crop. Freezing temperatures hit California in early March, which resulted in frost damage in some areas. Frost damage, along with a decrease in the bearing acres, have resulted in a forecasted lower production for the 2009 crop. How is America going to end? We could be crushed by a climate strongman. - By Josh Levin - Slate Magazine Even if America sells its soul to keep everyone else out, the country will have to contract. The Great Plains could turn into a Sahara-style wasteland. Cities like New Orleans and Miamiand maybe Boston and New Yorkcould be abandoned once recurrent storms and rising sea levels render them too expensive to save. ... ...As more people pack into a smaller space, scarce resources will become scarcer. Those who stick it out in the inhospitable hinterlands could become a new generation of pioneers, heroes and innovators who work to once again make this territory hospitable for the masses. Or these die-hard localists could become impoverished and estranged from Americasurvivalist guerrillas who fight and scrounge for whatever they can get.
Empirical evidence suggests it is dynamic, rather than (or as well) as thermodynamic
Turning to another facet of energy policy that the greens oppose, Mr. Obama even said that "we're going to have to make some tough decisions about opening up new offshore areas for oil and gas development," implying that the country can expect an announcement along those lines soon. Domestic oil and gas development are another sector of well-paying jobs for blue collar workers that cannot be outsourced to Canada, Mexico, or China.
Lobsters could provide a warning sign regarding the effects of climate change in the ocean, according to a scientist.
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.
Carbon Prices, Elizabeth Warren, and the Pledge to America
Lawrence Solomon: Anglosphere leads on global warming
It is a proven technique. It is behind the expression I am sure you have heard that something is above politics or too important to be left to the politicians, with politicians themselves sometimes being the worst culprits of all in advocating that decisions they should make are in fact determined by others. Politicians who bemoan the loss of respect for their calling should remember that every time they allow themselves to be browbeaten by the alleged views of experts they contribute further to that loss of respect.
German Analysis: "Current Warm Period Is No Anthropogenic Product" Major Natural Cycles Show No Signs Of Warming!
55. Comments about climate change made by environmental activist groups are generally? (from very inaccurate to very accurate)
But the deeper we dig the more we uproot our so-called tree-ring expert. In Mann's lavish 13,465-word online rsum the word "tree' appears only 6 times. By comparison the word "ocean' appears 37 times. Even his doctoral dissertation makes not one reference to trees-its all about oceans. Clearly, our Michael is not a Mann enamored by tree ring research.
You cant promote yourself and your work in the media and them claim my critics turned me into a public figure.
These steps will be opposed by President Obama, many Democrats,and members of the climate crisis and renewable energy complex.
The question that Im wondering about: do we know that mid-Holocene warmth was only in summer and only in the northern hemisphere, and, if so, how do we know it? Im not going to consider high-latitude NH evidence, as that does not appear to be in issue. At some point I might re-visit the question of whether we know that it was only in summer, but for now, Im going to focus on the topics and the SH. A recent survey of NH northern sites from 0-180W (Kaufman et al 2004) and results would be similar for 0-180E stated:
CSM: Halt the Gold Rush to Corn Fuel
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?It works like this. Environmental and consumer advocacy groups file a lawsuit claiming that the federal government has failed to meet a deadline or has not satisfied some regulatory requirement. The agency can then either choose to defend itself against the lawsuit or settle it. Often times, it settles by putting in place a ?court-ordered? regulation desired by the advocacy group, thus circumventing the proper rulemaking channels and basic transparency and accountability standards.?
Now you will understand why I have already initiated the process of having Abraham hauled up before whatever academic panel his Bible College can muster, to answer disciplinary charges of wilful academic dishonesty amounting to gross professional misconduct unbecoming a member of his profession.
GlobalDatas senior power analyst Sowmyavadhana Srinivasan said Indias electricity demand was being driven by its increasing population and industrialization, improved standard of living, and strong economic growth.
Kjorven Goal #2: "Convert at least 40 percent of agricultural lands to ecologically sustainable production, with minimized use of agro-chemicals, and expanded use of techniques that reduce soil erosion and run-off and that maintain high levels of biodiversity."
Moreover, the best estimate the IPCC gives in AR5 for total aerosol forcing is not fully based on observations. It is an expert judgement based on a composite of estimates derived from simulations by global climate models and from satellite observations. The nine satellite-observation-derived aerosol forcing estimates featured in Figure 7.19 of AR5 WGI range from 0.09 W/m 2 to 0.95 W/m 2 , with a mean of 0.65 W/m 2 . Of these, six satellite studies with a mean best estimate of 0.78 W/m 2 were taken into account in deciding on the 0.9 W/m 2 AR5 composite best estimate of total aerosol forcing.
"Why are many European carmakers now planning to build electric vehicles? Because many European cities are widely expected to ban high-emissions vehicles from their city cores over the next decade--perhaps even vehicles with any emissions at all."
That gave a handy excuse to environmental groups and climate change deniers to dredge up the video ad (above) that Gingrich recorded for Al Gore's climate action campaign in 2008. As if the Gore connection were not damaging enough, in Tea Party eyes, Gingrich shares a sofa with the former Speaker Nancy Pelosi.. . .Now Climate Depot, the website run by a former aide to the arch-denier, Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, is trying to force Gingrich to issue a public apology.
Ceding that power to unelected global authorities would be a hard sell even if the science was sound (which it isn't). Buying into that power transfer in exchange for a vague promise of fmancial relief doesn't make sense for any.American business.
virus that causes most cases of cervical cancer . . . . o prevent
Daily crop heat units are calculated from these min and max temperatures. There are separate calculations for day and night. The daytime relationship uses 10 C (50 F) as the base temperature and 30 C (86 F) as the optimum because warm-season crops do not develop when daytime temperatures fall below 10 C and they develop fastest at about 30 C. The nighttime relationship uses 4.4 C (40 F) as the base temperature and does not specify an optimum temperature because nighttime minimum temperatures very seldom exceed 25 C in Ontario. The nighttime relationship is a straight line on the graph (Figure 1),while the daytime relationship is a curve that records greater crop heat units at 30 C than at higher or lower temperatures. Daily crop heat units are calculated by using the average of the two daily values from the equations given in Figure 1 or they can be read from the matrix in Appendix I.
The new monument is only located 130 miles off the New England coast, and it's been a commercial fishing hotspot for decades. Fishing companies actually supported increased marine life protections, but just wanted it deep enough so they could still fish there.
in the same way, its reputation was at risk. It might be publicly exposed. In
Tesla's electric cars and the solar panels produced by his other company, Solar City, are part of a necessary transformation away from fossil fuels and to renewable energy.
That's only the beginning. While previously touting natural gas as a lower emission bridge fuel to renewables, Sierra Club's "Beyond Dirty Fuels" campaign leader Lena Moffitt told S&P; Global Market Intelligence: "We are doing everything we can to bring the same expertise that we brought to taking down the coal industry and coal-fired power in this country to taking on gas in the same way."
With no fossil fuels to fall back on, the 58GW required to fill the gap could only logically come from offshore wind. This would mean a 15-fold increase in offshore wind capacity from current levels.
In awkward juxtaposition, Als beloved Grist issued a correction for an article on West Virginia. And then another one, because Grist doesnt know where West Virginia is , but it can tell you what to think about the climate.
So, yes, the outlook for adequately modeling clouds and cloud processes, after all these years of trying, must still be characterized as cloudy .
Influence of Elevated CO2 on Rubisco Content in Leaves of Wheat
ABCs MARGOT ONEILL: The research stakes are high. Antarctica is one of the great engines driving the worlds oceans, winds and weather, especially in Australia. But theres ominous signs of climate change.
Theres some interesting information of the six month trend of neutrons being detected globally that I want to bring to discussion, but first I thought that a primer on cosmic rays, neutrons, and their interaction with the atmosphere might be helpful to the many layman readers here. Anthony
As it happens, economist Greg Mankiw again makes the case, via his New York Times column last weekend, that a Pigovian carbon tax is the most economically efficient way certainly as compared to government mandates for the US reduce to climate-altering carbon emissions. Mankiw:
The risk of violent tornadoes appears to be increasing. The tornadoes in Oklahoma City on May 31 and the 2011 tornadoes in Joplin, Mo., and Tuscaloosa, Ala., suggest that tornadoes may be getting stronger.
Ive run my own version of ground truthing on the CERES surface data by comparing it to the surface temperature data I was using previously. Differences were small overall, and both sets shows the same small details and fluctuations.
ICAO is working on a market-based systemif ICAO can bring this forward for adoption, we are willing to adapt our legislation, Delbeke said in an interview in Florence.
So unusual is this attempt to actually meet us in argument, and so venomously ad-hominem are Abraham's artful puerilities, that climate-extremist bloggers everywhere have circulated them and praised them to the warming skies.
New article about klimatknslighet pvisar inconsistencies in UN climate report
"Tell me what Salon says about the polar bear scene."
Flashback: Top Democrats Warn Low Snow Levels Prove Global Warming (Video) "Watch Democrats Jay Inslee, Barbara Boxer, Amy Klobuchar, Robert Byrd and Dianne Feinstein express deep concern and alarm during years when winters were mild and snow was light, contending that global warming was the cause.'
Pitting the interests of academic freedom against transparency, media access, and freedom of information, a high-profile case before the Virginia Supreme Court involving climate scientist Michael Mann is expected to be decided over the next few weeks.
Finally we come to nonsense variables argument made by Burger and Cubasch. Their basic argument here appears to be that CFR methods such as those used by Mann et al (1998), Rutherford et al (2005) and dozens of other groups of climate and paleoclimate researchers, are somehow prone to statistical overfitting in the presence of trends, which leads to the calibration of false relationships between predictors and predictand. So their above claim can be restated as follows: calibration using CFR methods such as Rutherford et al (2005) and multiproxy networks with the attributes (e.g. spatial locations and signal-vs-noise characteristics) similar to those of the proxy network used by Rutherford et al (2005) will produce unreliable reconstructions if the calibration period includes a substantial trend. They believe that such conditions will necessarily lead to the selection of nonsense predictors in reconstructing past variations from the available predictor network.
Over land, near-surface? air temperatures are those commonly measured about 1.5 to 2.0 meters above the ground level at official weather stations, at sites run for a variety of scientific purposes, and by volunteer (cooperative?) observers . These stations often experience relocations, changes in instrumentation and/or exposure (including changes in nearby thermally emitting structures), effects of land-use changes (e.g., urbanization), and changing observing practices, all of which can introduce biases into their long-term records. These changes are often undocumented.
The author of a chapter on climate change is Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech whose work focuses on assessing the impact of climate change and communicating it to broader audiences, including those traditionally dubious of global warming, like Christian colleges.
After milking the situation for all it is worth, and negotiating the over-eager Americans into a set of damaging concessions, the Russians gave the Obama Administration the deal it so obviously and desperately wants. But will they keep it? Having tortured, teased and humiliated the Americans for months over the framing of the deal, will they now shift to a strategy of torturing, teasing and humiliating the Americans over its implementation?
These are silly games - initiated by Chu - because we are not talking about any specific house so you can't be sure whether Chu or humble correspondent are correctly estimating the risk. (By looking at the statistics above, you can see that Chu's prediction is extremely unlikely to be accurate.) In the case of the global climate, the subject is more well-defined and something is actually known about the issue.
2. Loss of traditional landrace seed varieties. Landrace seeds are already being maintained in seed banks worldwidepermitting higher yields on scarce prime cropland.
"They seem to be bigger and more intense," said Ingram of the local tornadoes."
??an unusually rapid decline. It?s a very active research topic at the present time, but we do think there is a mechanism in place where we should expect more cold winters when solar activity is low.?
At the heart of the paper, Solar Forcing of the Polar Atmosphere, are calcium, nitrate and sodium data from ice cores collected in four Antarctic locations and comparisons of those data to South Pole ice core isotope data for beryllium-10, an indicator of solar activity. The authors also point to data from Greenland and the Canadian Yukon that suggest similar relationships between solar activity and the atmosphere in the northern hemisphere. They focus on years since 1400 when the Earth entered a roughly 500-year period known as the Little Ice Age.
How are other natural effects, such as the sun, changing the climate and global temperatures, and how large are these effects compared to mans.
"The government is offering 1,000 a year tax-free for 25 years in return for an initial investment of 12,500. It works like this. From 1 April any household generating its own energy will be rewarded with tax-free payments ? even if that household uses all the energy it generates.
1) There are some rather strange loose ends here. Things that dont fit. Why is another matter, and might be innocent. (Or might be manufactured; so that whole fact checking / vetting thing would need to be done.)
Whether petitioners win or lose, the review should occasion debate not only about the specific legal issues in the case, but also about the larger constitutional issue of whether an administrative agency should be dictating national policy on a legislatively unsettled issue like climate change. The Court would not even be hearing this case if we had an accountable regulatory system in which the people's representatives, not non-elected bureaucrats or activist judges appointed for life, make policy decisions.
I shan?t be waiting with bated breath for publication of the latest review into our fair weather transport system. Government reports have a habit of arriving at far more reliable intervals than the buses and trains. We have already two Department for Transport (DfT) reports in as many years on the failure to cope with the past two winters.
The author takes up the theme of the dangers of undermining democracy by empowering transnational (UN and EU) governance in his forthcoming book Energy and Climate Wars: How naive politicians, green ideologues and media elites are undermining the truth about energy and climate.
2. SCIENCE Food prices rise around the world, making advanced genetically modified crops increasingly attractive.
Global warning was portrayed by some as a liberal hoax. Mann said scientists were subjected to intimidation and modern day McCarthyism by powerful politicians.
Before making any comment on this variety of scepticism, I should declare an interest. Over the past decade, I have participated in many conferences and symposia that explored the link between faith and the environment, in places ranging from Brazil to Greenland to New Orleans. So Im familiar with most of the standard arguments in this area. There are many different points on the spectrum. As well as green-minded people of faith, there are greens who hate religion, arguing that the anthropocentric bias of the Christian West has made humanity indifferent to other living things; and there are religious people, including some evangelicals, who scorn environmentalism as neo-paganism.
Irradiance increase from 1986 to 1996 solar minimum claimed to produce 20-30% of recent global warming . . . but increase in ACRIM composite could be instrumental
Morano on dire studies leading up to UN Summit: "Its political lobbying disguised as science'
The facts say otherwise. As the film FrackNation and numerous articles and reports have documented, there has never been a confirmed case of groundwater contamination due to fracking, despite numerous investigations by state agencies and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. There is no evidence of air or people being poisoned, and companies continue to improve their technologies, to reduce methane leakage and employ more biodegradable and "kitchen cabinet" chemicals.
In other words, more than half of this groupheart patients with diagnosed diseasemet the current LDL and HDL guidelines.
The NINO3.4 region captures the western portion of the cold tongue, so the annual cycle in NINO3.4 sea surface temperatures shown in Figure 4.40 above confirms the seasonal warming of the cold tongue region in the early part of the year.