Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Radiation calculaions in global numerical weather prediction (NWP) and climate models are usually performed in 3-hourly time intervals in order to reduce the computational cost. This treatment can lead to an incorrect Global Horizontal Irradiance (GHI) at the Earth's surface, which could be one of the error sources in modelled convection and precipitation. In order to improve the simulation of the diurnal cycle of GHI at the surface a fast scheme has been developed in this study and it can be used to determine the GHI at the Earth's surface more frequently with affordable costs. The scheme is divided into components for clear-sky and cloudy-sky conditions. The clear-sky component has been described in part I. The cloudy-sky component is introduced in this paper. The scheme has been tested using observations obtained from three Atmospheric Radiation Measurements (ARM) stations established by the U. S. Department of Energy. The results show that a half hourly mean relative error of GHI under all-sky conditions is less than 7\%. An important application of the scheme is in global climate models. The radiation sampling error due to infrequent radiation calculations is investigated using the this scheme and ARM observations. It is found that these errors are very large, exceeding 800 W m -2 at many non-radiation time steps due to ignoring the effects of clouds. Use of the current scheme can reduce these errors to less than 50 W m -2
The health of the giant sequoia forests seems to require those frequent, low-intensity fires, Swetnam said. He added that as the climate warms, carefully reintroducing low-intensity fires at frequencies similar to those of the Medieval Warm Period may be crucial for the survival of those magnificent forests, such as those in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
Liberals since the 1920s have claimed to be guided by the laws of science. But often it was crackpot science, like the eugenics movement that sought forced sterilizations.
Bill Clinton's Shifting Policy on Climate Change
Who'd hire a politician? I know, people hire politicians all the time. But name me a politician you'd hire for his or her abilities rather than connections. Name me a politician you'd hire even to mow your lawn.
And to do that, the paper suggests, equally dramatic shifts in political power may be needed. "Is the global governance structure, still dominated by national sovereignty, capable of responding with the coherence and speed needed?" it asks. "Or do we need to push the "reset' button and rethink global governance to meet the 50-50-50 Challenge?"
"In the 19th century, laborers from China helped build railroads spanning California and linking the U.S. coasts. In the 21st century, the Chinese may be back not for backbreaking labor, but with financial and technological muscle. "
Gore explained that the actual point of Kyoto was to demonstrate that international support could be mustered for action on the environmentquite an expensive political exercise.
Andrew Simms thinks global warming is exactly like the financial meltdown , but then he also thinks we have only 71 months to save the planet. Hes wrong we only have 11 and a bit , or 4.5 billion of us do.
The Laurie Hawn campaign has filed a complaint with the Commissioner of Elections, asking that he review the 2004 final voters roll and determine if any of these fraudulent voters cast ballots in that election. The campaign has also asked him to prosecute anyone who voted more than once - in Edmonton Centre and again in another riding. Our campaign has also requested that voters be required to complete a voter declaration and undertake the elector's oath when voters registered at fraudulent addresses attempt to cast ballots in this election. The Laurie Hawn campaign takes voter fraud very seriously. Any individual who intends to vote illegally in Edmonton Centre should be aware that our campaign will be carefully monitoring the election, and will pursue any violation with Elections Canada to the fullest extent possible.
But just as Obama's plans to transform energy and education have failed, so too has his effort to transform health care. Surveys show the American people remain opposed to the program despite years of propaganda and billions of dollars in subsidies. Millions of people still refuse to buy insurance.
Recently, the subject of using only one set of measurements to perform a hypothesis test arose. As many are aware, I prefer to average over instruments. But, Im willing to consider each set individually. So, today I did that.
The lure is potential future gains from emissions credits that only become "real" if Kyoto is implemented (those credits could have a current value if securitized with an appropriate risk factor), as promised by the Credit for Voluntary Early Action Act soon to be introduced by Sens. Chafee, Mack and Lieberman.
The proposed EPA plan will seriously threaten America's electric reliability
Efforts to control Leviathan have evolved slowly throughout our history. As the disciplining effects of controls in the tax and spending area have improved, there has been a natural tendency by regulators to select the least disciplined instrument of regulation. For that reason, regulations have become the preferred tool of special interests and those who believe the public interest is best advanced by expanding political interference in the economy. It is time to begin to subject regulations to the same type of controls to which expenditures have long been exposed. That does not mean that OIRA should presume to "know" what regulations are best, but, rather, that OIRA should ensure that the information provided on the costs of regulation (and benefits to the extent these continue to be requested) are reasonably honest and defensible. That goal is ambiguous enoughOIRA should reject all speculative arguments (the various gimmicks discussed in the latter part of the report) based on theoretical deviations from a "perfect market." OIRA should examine whether an agency has considered the possibility that existing regulations might have created the problems that the new regulation supposedly "solves" and instead call for reducing the scope and scale of government interference in the economy.
Alas, given the desperation to announce a "deal", Obama backed down. The so-called "Copenhagen accord" merely compels developing nations to self-report their emissions every two years and allow outside scrutiny of the data. China is off the hook for the moment, but whether this is enough to satisfy the US Congress when deciding whether to approve any future binding agreement is another matter.
New York Wind Farms a Bad Decision
Even greenies have become so outraged by this ridiculous racket that the Environmental Investigation Agency has described it as the "biggest environment scandal in history". Two weeks ago the UN announced that it is suspending payments to five Chinese firms pending an investigation, with a view to a major reform of the system. Last week the EU'c climate change supremo, Connie Hedegaard, said she would be asking her officials to prepare a proposal whereby these particular CFC payments might be halted after 2013.
Guess the five millions were well spent so far. At least the garlic growers and distributors will think so.
we as an NGO working on climate policy need such a document pretty soon for the
When natural disaster strikes it is up to those who can to lend a helping hand.
No President has any control over weather events. To FOE, however, this is a call for "critical environmental justice."
AUSTRALIAS $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a new air link to the frozen continent. Related Sea ice ...
There are several reasons growth skepticism has come to the fore recently. Rather than being seen in isolation, it is important to examine how these factors interact to explain the rise of an aversion to prosperity.
Figure 2. Observed global temperature history, 1950-2009 (black). "Corrected" global temperature history (following to Thompson et al., 2008) (red line).
Asked whether they understand the issue of global warming only 17 percent said they understand the issue "very well." Another 52 percent said they understand if "fairly well" while the remainder of those polled said "not very well" or "not at all."
In this post I look at two reports which that show a worrying new trend towards the dehumanization of people by referring to children as simply carbon emitters and quite openly arguing that fewer emitters would mean lower emissions at less cost.
"When I try to imagine how the future world might look a century from now, I start by trying to conceptualize how people a century ago might have attempted to envision our world today. We have available now some important technologies, like computers or airplanes, that were essentially unimaginable 100 years ago. Maybe a now unimaginable "photon-based technology' will replace today's electronic technology and deliver such prodigious rates of technological progress with a clean environment that historians then will look back on the previous 100 years and smile at the modest projections of even the growth optimists at the close of the twentieth century. Or, who knows, maybe a century from now people will feel crowded and polluted and very disappointed in a pace of technological change that failed to maintain the productivity growth of the "golden age' of the industrial revolution during the earlier two centuries from 1800 to 2000."
Jim wrote It is interesting to note the tents in the pro-AGW camp .
Updated: Both map and list above updated with more current information from here.
On April 10th, Stephen Beaulieu was arrested for having broken into the home of my former Harvard colleague, the 2005 physics Nobel prize winner Roy Glauber (84). He did it in March: Boston Herald , Google News .
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has been a lonely voice in the wilderness of worry, reminding us that our highly populous, highly capitalist, high-tech, and high-energy-use modern world is, in fact, a good world.
"But what's wrong with clean air and fresh water?" the reporter asked.
Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming
Confused? So am I. Why push for a Clean Power Plan if we are already two-thirds of the way there and headed -- without federal intervention -- lower than the ultimate goal of the plan?
"Next year I will be in the Amazon and will live in the treetops for a week.
Why the U.S. burns 40% of its corn, despite a global food shortage
The scientists explained that the increased cloudiness not only contributes to a reduction of evaporation, but also more effective plant photosynthesis. In turn, the Earth will grow more plant life, thereby reducing the amount of carbon dioxide within the atmosphere. These carbon sinks, particularly "long-lived, woody plants like trees", change habitats, ecosystems, biodiversity, and the flows of greenhouse gases, the scientists claimed.
Back in the U.S., the American Wind Energy Association the lobby for "Big Wind" in Washington, D.C., which includes a few Spanish wind giants also attacked the publication of the Spanish paper.
Governor: Utilities Could Lose License if Electricity Isnt Quickly Restored
McCain Vows Another Vote on Energy Rationing Bill
Whoops! Don't want our friends at the NEA to see that! Most of the study turns on McKinsey's finding that teacher quality drives student results, way ahead of any other factor, from class size to socioeconomic background:
India Planning Big Increase In Coal Power
the next sentence, where Schneider said, "I hope that means being
2. After a very strong El Nio event, there can be a huge amount of leftover warm water that remains on the surface. There is also a huge volume of leftover warm water thats below the surface, and it rises to the surface with time.
I had an interest in tracking down the Kelburn station, just to see how good it is. I was able to find it on Google Earth as an aerial view which you can see below. I was unsuccessful in my first attempts at finding a photograph to document the measurement environment of the Kelburn station. I picked up the hunt again a few days later, and found it hiding in plain site. Thank goodness for tourists.
Further, he engages in the breathless confusion or conflation of "he real 'inconvenient truth' about climate change is that some people are losing their rights and freedoms because of the actions of othersin either the quality of the air they breathe, the geography they hold dear (, the insurance costs they bear or the future environment of the children they love". Leave for now the tiresome invocation of children in these debates to distract from substantive discussion, and the obvious use of "climate change" by insurance companies to raise rates, including on equally faulty models as those used to project climate calamity. In truth, "climate change"involving non-pollutant greenhouse gases water vapor, carbon dioxide and methaneis simply not an issue about "air quality". If the matter is so serious, then it deserves attention to the facts. Speaking of facts, one also senses a bit of the abused-Republican syndrome in the unacceptable "The fact is, I'm a conservative and a conservationist -- and that's okay." Please, enough of the Poor Man's Shuffle on these matters; wealthier is healthier, and the pro-growth agenda has proven to be better for the planet than statism.
""Tabletop' undid my undid," wrote Solomon in his Amazon blog, "claiming I could not speak for Peiser. Why can "Tabletop' speak for Peiser but not I, who have his permission?"
That basically applies to all EPA rule making, though in this case the EPA was supposed to answer in 90 days. But last Thursday the agency took another 90-day extension, the third so far. "We would like to assure you that we are working diligently to provide you with a substantive response," the EPA claimed.
The objective of our study presented here is to assess the scientific consensus on climate change through an unbiased survey of a large and broad group of Earth scientists.
2) A lot of folks are so completely alienated by the present government that they are quite willing to entertain the notion of an entirely staged mass-murder for effect.
Prague Monitor : a review of his text The nuclear boom has quite a tradition. Before the Velvet Revolution, the communists had extremely ambitious plans for new nuclear power plants in
I hesitated to say before "11th Hour" actually opened how mind-numbingly dull it was for fear that I would ruin it for those interested in the subject of global warming. But at Cannes, when the film by Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen was shown to journalists, nearly the entire room fell asleep. A Russian filmmaker told us afterward that she was the only person in the room who was awake at one point.
Update - Edmonton Journal article "mix-up fixed, official says". Mixup?
Treating lipid numbers and cholesterol may be the foundation of one of the largest religions in the western world.
Does Environment Ohio's allegation hold true? Is Rep. Stivers' vote against the Utility MACT akin to poisoning babies? Not by a long shot.
Companies that fail to register their energy use by next month will be hit with fines that could reach 45,000 under the little-known rules. Those that do participate in the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) initiative by declaring their energy use will face charges for every ton of greenhouse gas they produce. These payments are expected to average 38,000 a year for medium-sized firms, and could reach 100,000 for larger organisations. James Kirkup, Harry Wallop and Louise Gray, The Daily Telegraph, 11 August 2010
It is only since humans learned to harness carbon energy that we have been able to generate sufficient surpluses to support art, culture, academia, bureaucracy and big cities.
the maximum differential observed between the dryand wet footballs tested under the same conditions was only approximately 0.3 psig.
This is the sixth time in the last seven years there has been an oversupply of carbon offset allowances.
Over the last few weeks, Heartland has lost at least $825,000 in expected funds for 2012, or more than 35% of the funds its planned to raise from corporate donors, according to the campaign group Forecast the Facts , which is pushing companies to boycott the organisation.
or, a wind farm over 4.6 kms wide, stretching from Regina to Prince Albert (or 1 km wide from Regina Victoria, BC)
There's a lot of chatter about the fact that GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt is backing off his obsession with green technology and climate change. In a speech at MIT recently he said:
The Hill discusses GOP efforts to dismantle the Paris climate agreement with Myron Ebell.
We request that NASA refrain from including unproven and unsupported remarks in its future releases and websites on this subject.
Anyway, about that silly 97%: from the conclusion (first paragraphs put there by me):
We spun around, and aaaah, dear heavens, it wasnt a breaking wave at all, although a wave was breaking, instead it was my old friend Missus Fishbreath breaking the surface just behind the boat, and breaking my heart with the slow-moving stillness of her majestic beauty, a great gray whale dancing her way three thousand miles from the tropics to Alaska. As we turned and gaped, we were looking her right in the eye, and then she rolled our way and opened her blowhole so close to the boat we could almost look down it, it was as big as a dinner plate, we were close, close enough to count the barnacles clinging to her hull, she was the very picture of natural wildness and glorious beauty and unimaginable power, my heart leapt to see it ... and she blew out a great cloud of gagging mist, a noxious enveloping adherent miasma reeking of the million vanished piscatorial souls of her most recent months meals, a clogging, thick effluvium that enveloped the boat and then drifted away to leeward as the lovely lady disappeared beneath the waves ...
New Zealand emits just 0.11% of global emissions. Im going to write it BIG so people can see it:
In July 1997, CEI held a full-day conference on the economic and political implications of climate change policy. Later that year we published The Costs of Kyoto: Climate Change Policy and Its Implications, a book based on the papers written for that conference. We also produced a conference highlights video with the same title. In addition, CEI conducted a congressional staff briefing, published nearly a score of op-eds and columns, and participated in numerous media interviews, press conferences, and educational symposia on global warming.
With the Governor calling for such a radical reorganization of Californians' lives, we need to ask what problem Schwarzenegger and his environmentalist allies are trying to solve. The Governor's executive order claims human-caused climate change threatens to increase California's air pollution, reduce its water supplies, increase heat-related mortality, infectious diseases and asthma, harm the state's agricultural industry, and flood the state's 1,100 miles of coastline.
And what of the big ruckus with The Status Quo? Australian cap-and-traders just postponed their fight. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd gave a number of reasons, including the need for business certainty (a plus for a carbon tax, by the way) and the impact of the global financial crisis. Does it make any sense to raise taxes, implicitly or explicitly, in the midst of a recession?
"Tesla, in turn, would pay Toyota $42 million for the shuttered Fremont, California, assembly plant that had previously build Toyota Corollas (and Pontiac Vibes) in a partnership with General Motors that was dissolved following GM's 2009 bankruptcy."
When it comes to health and environmental issues, As You Sow whose slogan is "Planting Seeds for Social Change" is clever. It doesn't mire itself in time-consuming debate about whether scientific data indicate that particular consumer products may be harmful to health or the environment, or whether product benefits are outweighed by whatever risks they may entail.
The global warming hysteria movement has waxed and is now waning. It will soon recede as a threat to our liberties and prosperity.
Morano, who runs the anti-climate blog Climate Depot, says conservative voters' views against global warming have solidified in the last two years. Unlike other Republican candidates, like former Govs. Tim Pawlenty (Minn.) and Mitt Romney (Mass.), Gingrich is "defiant" about his past climate indiscretions, Morano says.
Could Amazon's bulk-email service spawn spam and malware?:
The IPCC model (first graphic below), and all other greenhouse effect models such as this one fromHarvard (second graphic),
But overall, Donna Laframboise is to be congratulated for writing an important book. Read it, it costs only $4.99 on Kindle.
Yet, from the perspective of natural rights or indeed common sense some modern court rulings have turned the element of standing upside down. Activists such as environmentalists can get standing to challenge a policy with the most trivial of injuries. On the other hand, small-business owners who suffer very definite injuries from laws and regulations that harm their livelihoods typically face an uphill battle in getting their day in court.
Bob Jarrett, of the BHF-BSSA Group, a trade body that represents thousands of independent shops, said ministers had not done enough to explain or justify the CRC. "We've only come across this in the last few weeks, and yet the deadline is at the end of next month. The Department for Energy has not given this nearly enough publicity," he said.
Chinese Famine of 1936-5 million Chinese die in what is called the New Famine
Virginia has recognized the negative unintended effects of government failure in other areas. The attorney general is courageously leading the charge against Obamacare and the global warming establishment, for example. Here too the commonwealth should avoid actions that could hamper the positive relations needed between the law enforcement and the immigrant community.
Toxic spill from Colorado mine creeps through US southwest
"I advise friends of energy abundance, economic growth, and limited government to hang tough. Team Obama has got to know that EPA cannot control the regulatory cascade once it starts, that the results could be economically devastating, and that they won't be able to blame G.W. Bush. If they open Pandora's Box, there will be political hell to pay, and they know it. When the greenhouse gang invoke the specter of regulation if we don't support their cap-and-trade program, we should say: "First you take that gun away from our head, and then we'll discuss the merits of your bill."
This is the classic closed question, in that it implies mean global temperatures are being changed and someone must be responsible.
The result is an infrastructure that will soon be unable to meet the demands of the American economy. Policy makers must act now to re-empower America.
Much of the climate community still views with deep suspicion or outright hostility. Geoengineering, many say, is a way to feed society's addiction to fossil fuels. "It's like a junkie figuring out new ways of stealing from his children,' says Meinrat Andreae, an atmospheric scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany.
As the story approaches the end of the 1930s, Shlaes's most interesting subtext comes to the fore: the evolution of FDR's 1940 challenger Wendell Willkie. In the early chapters Willkie is seen as a nave utility executive with reformist sympathies who thought he could cut deals with FDR, only to be bitterly disappointed when he was ground up along with the rest of the malefactors of great wealth. He couldn't say he wasn't warned. Insull told Willkie in 1934: "Mr. Willkie, when you are older you will know more."
Prison Planet and the New York Times bring a heartbreaking story:
And why, once having obtained a reply, would they post it on Alenes blog, as happened with the above exchange?
Many environmental experts believe UNEP is too underpowered for dealing with a crisis that now ranges from climate change and ozone depletion to overfishing, pollution and deforestation.
Palestine is latest GOP offensive in climate change wars