Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
But the Bell Rocket Belt now gathers dust in the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum. Its exceedingly short flight time, 20 seconds, was both impractical and unsafe. Unlike airplanes, jet packs cannot land gracefully when the power fails. Soon even the comic-book heroes of the future had begun to do without jet packs.Several jet packs were indeed under development by the late 1950s. One of them, called the Jump Belt, used compressed nitrogen. Another, the Aerojet, used compressed hydrogen peroxide. A few years later, Bell Aerospace's Rocket Belt, also using hydrogen peroxide, seemed the most promising and briefly took James Bond off the ground in "Thunderball."
?Cancun has done its job,? claimed UN climate boss Christiana Figueres in a statement at the summit?s conclusion. ?The beacon of hope has been reignited and faith in the multilateral climate change process to deliver results has been restored.? She said the Cancun Agreements represented a ?new beginning,? not the end. ?It is not what is ultimately required, but it is the essential foundation on which to build greater, collective ambition,? she said.
Details concerning the two-day, closed-door sessions in the comfortable village of Alpbach were closely guarded. Nonetheless, position papers for the meeting obtained by Fox News indicate that the topics included:
If you read the news stories surrounding a recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Boston University?s Robert Kaufmann and three colleagues, you?d say yes, indeed. It?s China?s fault. By dramatically increasing their combustion of coal, they have increased the concentration of fine particles in the atmosphere called sulphate aerosols, which reflect away solar radiation, countering the warming that should be occurring from increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Then there is the sad case of Peter Gleick, a once-respected environmental scientist who heads the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in California. Gleick disgraced himself and his cause when he confessed to stealing confidential documents from the Heartland Institute back in February in an effort to discredit the conservative think tank. What had Heartland done to deserve such treatment? It had given a platform to ideas considered anathema to Gleick and the global warming community.
Unfair might be misrepresenting my earlier post (criticizing McIntyres never-ending accusations of misconduct and his ultimately futile attempts to use FOIA/EIR to get hold of unpublished work) as a criticism of any specific analysis, despite the opening line being Steve McIntyre is free to do any analysis he wants on any data he can find and not mentioning his results at all.
Thistwo-part seriesconsiders the probability of success of carbon pricing and an alternative approach. Part 1, Why carbon pricing will not succeed , is an edited extract from my submission to the Australian Senate inquiry into repeal of the carbon tax legislation ( Submission No 2; Mr Peter Lang ). Part 1 explains why carbon pricing cannot succeed unless it is global, and global carbon pricing is unlikely to be achieved, let alone sustained for the time until the job is done (centuries).
Gaia has offered the rest of us a chance to download her carbon indulgences.
This ignores the fact that Democrats didn't move immigration bills when they had control of the House and a supermajority in the Senate. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi thought global warming and health care were more important.
Coffman, Michael, S. "The Philosophy, Politics and Science of Biological Diversity," Bangor, Maine: Environmental Perspectives Inc., 1994.
Two things are noteworthy. First, EPA plans to find that air pollution related to GHG emissions endanger both health and welfare. This is a departure from the ANPR,in which EPA tried to make a case forfinding endangerment only in relation to public welfare.
TheAlliance for Wise Energy Decisions(AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy &environmental policies. Our basic position is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science. Its all spelled out at WiseEnergy.org , which is a wealth of energy and environmental resources.
Journalism Fellow Lene Johansen on how attitudes about GM foods are changing: "Increased prosperity in India and China is good, but now we have to follow up with an increase in food production. Molecular plant breeding techniques will create that increase. Europe cannot opt out of the international river of grains to go it alone, it's time to get with the program. Greg Conko and Ron Bailey have prophesized that it's just a matter of time before China and India figure out that molecular plant breeding will save the day and that these two countries will ignore Europe's insistence that this technique should not be used. This is happening now. "
As the moist air approached the eastern slopes Washington Cascades it was forced to rise and instability was released, producing lots of thunderstorms, some with intense rain and much lightning. A particularly, intense thunderstorm cell passed across the North Cascades between 8 and 10 PM Saturday, here is a radar image for 8:49 PM Saturday. Red indicates very heavy rain.
The teenager, the mother, the husband, the actress, the Congressman, the Olympian, the football star-all the many people who said simply, Im gay, changed the world. Their world, and our world. By making their issue personal, and taking one small brave step, they moved hearts and minds that may never have opened and changed in any other way.
Its tax returns indicate expenditures of more than $17.5 million targeted at tar sands oil development, including more than $15.4 million to the left-wing Tides Foundation and the affiliated Tides Canada Foundation. At the time,Tides was led by progressive millionaire Drummond Pike, and by ACORN co-founder and AFL-CIO organizer Wade Rathke.
Increased fat levels in the liver and muscle tissue have also shown to contribute to insulin resistance, a key factor in the development of type 2 diabetes.
To see why the Higgs-bottom associated production is natural with large tan(beta), check the 2000 report of the Tevatron Higgs working group (I know two co-authors in person and know that they're at the top) where the Higgs-bottom associated production is mentioned in the last sentence of the abstract - and throughout the paper, especially on pages 29-31 (32-34 of 187 in the PDF file). A large tan(beta) is useful to enhance the cross sections - that go as tan^2(beta) - which is why the Fermilab physicists chose this process as one of their favorite places to look (because there's a bigger chance to see something).
Read More: Talks between climate Professors John Christy and Kerry Emanuel, Part 2. Pehr Bjrnbom, Climate Enlightenment 2014-06-06.
Wormhole and Entanglement (Non-)Detection in the ER=EPR Correspondence
I would encourage all of you to stuff that junk mail directly into the recycle basket.
Writing in Wattsupwiththat, Willis Eschenbach provides us with a map of the North Carolina sites from 1733 juxtaposed with a satellite photo from 1990. Notice the radical difference between the two.
Earth 500 million people are expected to watch The Day After Tomorrow. We
The backlash against Obamacare will soon lead to the adoption of consumer-driven health care reforms such as tax credits, enhanced health savings accounts, interstate insurance markets, and malpractice insurance reforms. It's entirely likely these reforms would not have been proposed or embraced were it not for Obamacare and its disastrous consequences.
Before I comment on Bger and Cubasch, Im going to quote from Eduardo Zoritas posted review in which he cites discussions of "spurious regression" from Phillips 1998 and Granger and Newbold 1974 (previously discussed on this blog). "Spurious" in this context is not merely a term of disapproval e.g. Manns generic use of the term "spurious criticism", but a technical term to refer to high statistical values for unrelated series. Zorita provides a length quote from Phillips as follows:
But if the Russian economy (and other economies) were at stake - and the only threat that would be averted by the "fight against climate change" were a few degrees of warming by 2108 which Russia badly needs, anyway - be sure that they won't join Steven Chu's stupid game. They will happily allow their economy to strengthen as the economies plagued by Steven Chu and his peers would weaken.
"A New York Times reporter need not testify in court about who gave him details on a top-secret CIA program targeting Iran, a federal judge has ruled."
Summarizing the reverse engineering: one can arrive at observed pressures under Non-Logo pregame initialization if one assumes that two balls were left alone, seven balls were deflated by 0.38 psi, one ball deflated by 0.76 psi and one ball inflated by 0.5 psi. These are not the only solutions to the inverse problem, but they give a yardstick.
Drax Group Plc, the utility converting the biggest U.K. coal station to burning wood pellets, plunged to its lowest ever after the government said clean power will have to start paying a climate-change tax. The stock tumbled 28 percent in London to the lowest since it started trading in 2005. Shares of Infinis Energy Plc, a Northampton-based developer of clean power listed in London, also slumped 8 percent to the lowest since November 2013. --Louise Downing, Bloomberg, 8 July 2015
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As the index shows, it is tragic that most of the poorest countries in the world have some of the worst business environments. If the laws and norms of a country do not support entrepreneurial activity, growth will not occur. A broader measure of a business environment includes governance, which is the most important indicator of a prosperous society. Very few countries can be considered prosperous without having at least a reasonable score in the Prosperity Index on this variable.
Nominations closed today for the Nobel Peace Prize, which is supposed to be awarded to a person who "shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind." It seems to be that the 1970 recipient Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution -- credited with saving a billion people from starvation -- is a prime example of the type of person to whom the prize should be awarded.
If you click the links to the originals you can not only click through to any given area or quake, but by clicking on the little blue diamonds you can rotate the globe to different points of view. Its kind of fun
John Kerry voted against carbon restrictions before he voted for them. After all, he was among those who unanimously passed a 1997 Byrd Hagel resolution against the Kyoto treaty. Along with then-President Bill Clinton who recognized the peril of submitting it for Senate ratification, Kerry knew better than to publicly support a politically unsavory treaty which the bill asserted "would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States."
As anyone knows who has watched television pharmaceutical ads, all medications have side effects, ranging from dry mouth to suicidal thoughts or actions to increased risk of cancer, heart attack, stroke, and death. Only quacks and snake oil salesmen advertise risk-free remedies. Yet climate physicians like the RICO 20 talk as if governments can wage regulatory warfare on humanity's most affordable and reliable energy sources, and no one could possibly get hurt. That's fraud. Like their professed devotion to freedom of speech.
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The audacity of this leap has often been missed, but it merits real scrutiny. Does the United States conduct any other negotiation in this way? Did Congress, for example, as a prelude to the Uruguay or Doha Rounds, drop all U.S. tariffs and farm subsidies to zero? Did the U.S. win the withdrawal of Soviet conventional forces from Europe by first pulling its own troops out of Germany? Why, then, would we consider taking the functional equivalent of these steps in the area of GHG control? Or, to pose the same question in another way, how would ACESA's GHG reductions differ from the just-mentioned bargaining moves in trade or arms control?
away from feeding livestock, and sure enough, here in the States, the
Newsmax reports on a judge granting CEI discovery in their Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against a White House science policy office.
"Via the Blaze, the logical conclusion to weeks of Democratic demagoguery aimed at the Supremes' decision in the Citizens United case, which of course made it safe for swarthy foreigners to buy the election this year by donating to the Chamber of Commerce or something. This is almost too stupid to dignify with a response, but content is content."
Interestingly and sadly enough, a primus stove explosion made him legally blind at the age of 14. That didn't prevent him from becoming a top mathematician.
There appears to be no funding for geoengineering research in President Obama's 2012 budget, and calls to the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy were not returned.
Some bits much harder to dismiss. The shooters mom being both a teacher at the school and not a teacher. The out of place girl on the Presidential lap. The odd way the crime scene is managed. One I noticed is a surprising lack of colored cars in the lot. A heck of a lot of white, gray, dark. Not so much yellow, red (other than fire / ambulance), green, purple, etc. Now maybe a lot of them are the undercover cops and such who rushed to the scene, but there still ought to be more color. Unless the people there are very different from Californians. We have far fewer standard sedans in dull municipal colors.
Not much more I can say, except to offer my thanks to all of the WUWT readers who have been so supportive, offering advice and information and encouragement and stories and support. I wish that I could have taken up on everyones invitations for food and drink and lodging. My apologies that I did not have time to respond to everyones invitations, comments and ideas, but I definitely read them all, and followed many of them. Heres the team, enjoying the UK to the max on a sunny day in a secret, undisclosed location:
And the rules governing emissions trading aren't even agreed on they're still under separate negotiation.
This suit led, last night, to the production of a document to CEI that reveals that then-Secretary Clinton signed an NDA that laid out criminal penalties for "any unauthorized disclosure" of classified information. This disclosure goes beyond the "climate" issue, of course, but is of far broader interest. The document is excerpted below and can be found in full here.
Certainly, there were plenty of structural reasons economic, political, social why the Soviet Union should have collapsed as it did, yet they fail to explain fully how it happened when it happened. How, that is, between 1985 and 1989, in the absence of sharply worsening economic, political, demographic, and other structural conditions, did the state and its economic system suddenly begin to be seen as shameful, illegitimate, and intolerable by enough men and women to become doomed?
The 2014/15 El Nio Part 8 The Southern Oscillation Indices
5. "Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born," wrote Paul Ehrlich in a 1969 essay titled "Eco-Catastrophe! "By some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s."
Stonyfield Farm's organic yogurt has long been marketed through dubious efforts to scare consumers away from conventional (i.e., not marketed as "organic") yogurt.
It probably feels too good to give up. When Ted Turner says, "If I had to predict the way things are going, I'd say the chances are about 50/50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years," but then cuts back on environmental grant making because his stock portfolio swoons, does anyone in the environmental community have the courage to point out that Turner is making a mockery of environmental concern?
AWED Energy & Environmental Newsletter: March 24, 2014
We've done it before. Ronald Reagan in 1964 said "We represent the forgotten Americanthat simple soul who goes to work, bucks for a raise, takes out insurance, pays for his kids' schooling, contributes to his church and charity, and knows there just "ain't no such thing as a free lunch.'" He knew that to attract the working- and middle-class voter, "that simple soul," conservatives need to express what they already believe, that the simple soul has value as a creature made in God's image.
The indulgence is signed, Mother Earth, goddess du jour.
I was alerted to a new paper by Faisal Hossain that has adopted part of the bottom-up perspective with respect that we hae proposed in our article
By Amy Gahran, Energy Biz, Jul 16, 2015
People living near the fire have been asked to keep windows and doors closed.
Picture by Anthony Watts. Shift/click to zoom in in another window.
"Anti-business Democrats are using their supposed concern for the environment as a tool to end the use of fossil fuels and capitalism," said Stone.
One Stonyfield ad, for example, reads: "Synthetic Bovine Growth Hormone. Your baby doesn't want it. We're pretty sure cows don't either."
"The U.S. Supreme Court refused to block Texas from executing a Mexican citizen despite a White House-backed appeal that claimed the case could affect other foreigners arrested in the U.S. and Americans in legal trouble abroad."
What this means is that upsizing the car fleet may well be the most important step we could take toward improving safety. But upsizing, of course, is what CAFE currently restricts.
The graph has time on the X-axis. For this exercise, the interval does not matter except to note that data are equally spaced in time. The Y-axis has a dimensionless model score and is integral. It can increment by 0, 2 or 4 units at a time (like no change= 0, some change =2 units, much change = 4 units.) The dark dots are the arithmetic average of each time slice.
CEI Today: Internet sales tax, Exxon-Mobil's carbon tax, and the anti-immigration sentiment
I admired Joe and appreciated his insightful investigative writing on the topics mentioned above, but now he is involved with a much more ominous thing, he is working with Dr. Mark Christian on preventing the efforts of CAIR and other muslim terrorist front groups from creating a terrible idea called the Tri-Faith initiative in Omaha, a plan to build a church/synagogue/mosque complex for improving interfaith comity on a now defunct Jewish Golf Course site.
Kavanaugh acknowledges that the EPA?s broad interpretation of PSD as applying to ?any? air pollutant is plausible. But, he contends, the EPA should have adopted the ?narrower and more sensible interpretation? limiting PSD to NAAQS air pollutants. By opting for the broader interpretation, the EPA then had to try to deal with the absurd ramifications and rewrite clear statutory language. ?This is a very strange way to interpret a statute.? He explains:
That's why my Resolution to stop Utility MACT is so crucial. Contrary to what my critics are saying, this resolution does not prevent EPA from regulating mercury under the Clean Air Act it simply requires EPA to go back to the drawing board to craft a rule in which utilities can actually comply; a rule that does not threaten to end the coal in American electricity generation but helps utilities reduce emissions without having to shut their doors.
you shine, the less crime primates commit. Once everybody can see
Part Two: Hippies, Warmists & Scaremongers
Southern has also received more than half a billion in federal grants under Obama, including hundreds of millions in stimulus funding. This includes money for "smart grid" technology and "carbon capture" aimed at addressing global warming. Some of this taxpayer-funded profit is now flowing into Obama's coffers.
We can only speculate as to actual harm to the patients involved, who very likely would have received drugs that were less effective than those that would have been FDA-approved for the particular indication. In the meantime, the Feds, the attorneys, and Fragoules all get compensated for their trouble. Fragoules will walk away with more than $6 million.
A Trojan Horse, green or otherwise, is a good description of LOST. The U.N. has proclaimed that LOST is not ``a static instrument, but rather a dynamic and evolving body of law that must be vigorously safeguarded and its implementation aggressively advanced.''
"The Government indicated it could back down if companies could prove it got the figures wrong. A spokesman at the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra) admitted: "This is a very complex programme. But the targets are flexible.'
If CAFE had been a privately produced product, it would long ago have been recalled as defective and its producer, NHTSA, jailed for the coverup. But because CAFE is a product of Washington rather than Detroit, it remains in place; worse yet, it threatens to expand in the face of the SUV "threat."
Compare that with the one year and 45 days it took to build the Empire State Building or the five years it took to build the Hoover Dam in the depths of the Great Depression. In the first half of the last century, Americans knew how to get things done, but the rise of environmentalism in the latter half, starting around the 1970s, has increased the cost and time of any construction anywhere in the U.S. In the case of Yucca Mountain it has raised issues about nuclear waste that is currently stored is less secure conditions.
For example, a short drive up to a hilltop (1170 feet) in Bellevue brought sun and ethereal views of the cloud layer below (pictures courtesy of Peter Banda, taken around 4 PM):
GAO recommended that the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy define geoengineering and set clear research priorities. Research is needed to identify and avoid unintended consequences. Researchers should be empowered with funding to figure out what geoengineering can and cannot do.
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Pollution The Great Smog of London, December 1952. Stagnant air due to an inversion combined with industrial and residential emissions to create an air pollution episode without parallel in this century. 4,000 deaths were attributed to the poisonous air with 4,000 additional fatalities due to related causes.
I thought I?d play around with some randomly generated time-series and see if I
If science is to affect policymaking, an inherently political undertaking, research conducted or funded by government cannot be separated from politics.
And in rare moment of sanity, it appears that Australia is being blamed for taking a sensible approach, at least in comparison to other countries. The Age can hardly conceal its disappointment: