Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
"In summary," Lugo states, "strong evidence can be assembled to document the resiliency of the functional attributes of some types of tropical ecosystems (including their ability to maintain species richness) We cannot tell the needy of the tropical world that they must cease and desist in their struggle for survival to prevent a catastrophe who dimensions, consequences, or mitigating conditions we cannot define with any certainty I know of no technical reason why sensible land management in tropical areas cannot lead to the success that is usually associated with temperate zones ." (Lugo, p.68)
President Obama said in his inaugural address that if the U.S. leads in reducing emissions, the rest of the world would follow in America's footsteps. The statements and actions of other countries over the past four years reveal that there is no nascent consensus for effective international action that could be catalyzed by unilateral U.S. action. Instead, the U.S. should demonstrate real leadership by:
Recently, Dr. James Hansen of NASA GISS gave his 20 year anniversary speech before congress, in which he was restating the urgency of the global warming crisis we now face. Warnings of tipping points, and a call for putting energy executives on trial for crimes against humanity and nature were parts of that speech.
Some 2 billion people in poor nations in Asia, Latin America and Africa live on less than $2 a day, and those nations will house most of the additional 1.3 billion people arriving by 2020. So it is obvious that we desperately should be expanding, not constricting, the world?s economy and energy supplies. Global warming may or may not be an impending crisis. The contribution of human activity to climate change may or may not be a significant factor. Before we pare back economic growth in Europe, Japan, the Pacific Rim nations and the United States, and thus curtail the export hopes of emerging nations, we need to make judgments based on real science. Lumping together the conflicting worst-case-scenario computer simulations cited in the report by the UN Panel on Climate Change does not constitute science. Rather it seems to be based more on ideological wishful thinking.
CEI Comments on OMB's Draft Report to Congress on the Costs and Benefits of Federal Regulations
"These findings might seem to contradict the general notion of aerosol particles as cooling agents in the global climate system ," concluded the Nature news article summing up the study.
The U.S. government accepts NASA?s plan and begins negotiations to bring other nations on board for what is viewed as humanity?s most important project ever. The president immediately creates the Bureau of Asteroid Deflection to demonstrate America?s commitment to solving the problem. The massive cost will be covered by increased taxes on corporations. Public, academic and media support is overwhelming, and the bureau opens shop with aerospace companies bidding for multibillion-dollar government contracts.
On the campaign trail in 2012, President Obama marveled at the natural gas boom occurring in the United States, and called for a balanced approach to the development of the natural gas sector that included attention to good regulation and environmental impacts.
Australian Climate Madness: Hilarious! Penny Wong fails to name a single supporter of the ETS That's because there aren't any , clearly... We're saved: Oasis, Coldplay And Nine Inch Nails For Roskilde - Xfm The theme for this year's festival is "Green Footsteps", which will focus on climate change - deposits gathered from empty bottles picked up at the site will be donated to charity projects in Bangladesh and India. The festival takes place between July 2 and 5 and takes place just outside Copenhagen. Breaking: CO2 allegedly causing Yellowstone grizzly population to only expand 4 to 5 percent per year BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) Hunters are killing grizzly bears in record numbers around Yellowstone National Park and researchers say the once-endangered predator is expanding across the region . Bears are being seen and killed in places where they were absent for decades . Researchers suspect climate change is wiping out one of the bear's food sources and they worry the trend will continue as the animals roam farther in search of food. Yellowstone's 600 grizzlies were removed from the endangered species list in 2007 , following a recovery program that cost more than $20 million. If the death rate stays high for a second consecutive year, that would trigger a review of the bear's endangered status. ... Schwartz and other biologists who study grizzlies insist the population in the 15,000-square-mile Yellowstone region of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming remains strong for now, growing on average 4 to 5 percent a year. Yet they acknowledge climate change could prove the wild card that puts that growth in check. An epidemic of beetles in Yellowstone's high country has laid waste to tens of thousands of acres of whitebark pine trees, which have seeds that some grizzlies rely on as a dietary staple.
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If that happens, Mr. Bush's choice would be clear: Rip it up. Yes, the threat of global climate change is serious and bears close scrutiny. If the United States believes that warming warrants action, we can take steps ourselves. We don't need to sign an agreement that Mr. Chirac calls a grand step toward "global governance." Do it right. Go it alone.
But the hyping of every possible scare that comes down the road such as melting glaciers, shearing polar ice sheets, flowers blooming earlier than usual, animals migrating north, hurricanes, European heat waves, northeastern U.S. cold snaps, and so on is backfiring on environmentalists, and the issue is losing steam. The annual Gallup Poll on the environment last spring found declining public interest in global warming. "Last year at this time," the firm's Lydia Saad wrote, "Gallup reported that global warming was "a bit of a yawn' to most Americans. Today, one might say the public is practically dozing . . . Global warming ranks near the bottom of the list of specific environmental issues for which Gallup measured public concern." Unable to persuade the public, environmentalists are increasingly looking for ways to file lawsuits to stop climate change.
FYI, to stay ahead of storms, get alerts even ahead of the NWS, and to track storms and get ETAs to your location, try this program that uses free data:
Washington, D.C., November 16, 2004On the occasion of yet another congressional hearing featuring alarmist predictions of future climate disaster, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has released a study on the state of the global warming debate. Today Senate Commerce Committee chairman John McCain (R-AZ) will hold a hearing on the misleading and unbalanced Arctic Climate Impact Assessment report. CEI's study, Launching the Counter-Offensive: A Sensible Sense of Congress Resolution on Climate Change, by Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis, Jr., refutes many of the faulty assumptions from the Impact Assessment and similar climate studies.
Theres an interesting paper by Mike Hulme which discusses and rejects this kind of approach: Reducing the future to climate: a story of climate determinism and reductionism:
Using the regional curve standardization technique applied to ring-width measurements from both living trees and relict wood, the authors developed a 1052-year summer (June-August) temperature proxy from high-elevation Alpine environments in Switzerland and the western Austrian Alps (between 4628' to 4700'N and 749' to 1130'E). What was learned
There's only one thing to do. I will wrap my legs in the two sleeping bags. Stupidly, I have forgotten duct tape, the camper's cure-all. I could have strapped the bags to my thighs. Now I'll have to hold them up as I walk. As we pack, we discover the pot of water that was boiling not long ago is now frozen solid.
We compared the evolution of the 2014/15 El Nio to the 1982/83 and 1997/98 El Nios in a number of posts in this series, back when this El Nio was being compared to those two strong events. We dont see those comparisons as often, but people may still expect to see the comparisons in my posts, so Ive updated those graphs. And since weve been watching the downwelling (warm) Kelvin wave as it makes its way east along the equator in the Pacific, also included in this post are evolution comparisons using warm water volume anomalies and depth-averaged temperature anomalies from the NOAA TAO project website.
state: "Wind, water, waste, workforce and wood."
Gomez Robledo said the side issues of funding, technology and forestry "are almost ripe," and negotiators will work on disputed details over the next five days.
example, referring to the J. Cimate paper (which should be finally accepted
All this while AGW ideologists reaped untold profits convincing populations that carbon (the very stuff we are made of) is bad and so we all have to pay for carbon to a global mafia.
The Plan promotes increased renewable generation as a way to reduce GHG emissions. Under the Plan, the President has set a goal to double renewable generation by 2020. In furtherance of this goal, the Department of the Interior is directed to permit 10 gigawatts of renewable generation on federal lands by 2020. The Plan also designates Red Rock Hydroelectric Plant on the Des Moines River in Iowa as the first-ever hydropower project to participate in the Infrastructure Permitting Dashboard for high priority projects. The Department of Defense is committed under the Plan to deploy 3 gigawatts of renewable energy on military installations by 2025. Federal agencies will set a new goal of 100 megawatts of installed renewable capacity across the federally subsidized housing by 2020. According to the Plan, the federal government will consume 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020 ? more than double the current goal of 7.5 percent. And the United States will work with international trading partners towards global free trade in clean energy technologies.
n 2010, President Obama, temporarily enjoying swollen Democratic majorities in both houses, tried to pass a cap-and-trade law that would bring the U.S. into compliance with the reductions it had pledged in Copenhagen. A handful of Democrats from fossil-fuel states joined with nearly every Republican to filibuster it.
Just to prove theres no pleasing some people: Coalition opposes fracking technique that uses propane to extract natural gas
every effort has been made to use data that are either rural and/or where
deLange, W.P. and Carter, R.M. 2014. Sea-Level Change: Living with uncertainty . Global Warming Policy Foundation, Report 15.
The progressive civil war has played out in the ensuing post-Obamacare policy and political debates as well. Moderate progressives argued for a sole preoccupation with the economy, jobs, and controlling the deficit. Polls showed that this is what independents, who still had a personal regard for President Obama, wanted addressed. Liberal progressives instead insisted on measures that would energize the despondent base. Immigration reform would attract Latinos, addressing student-loan defaults would energize the young, cap-and-trade would energize environmentalists, and so on.
He fumes at strangers who call him a traitor for agreeing to manufacture in Zhuzhou, China, a new solar panel production device that his company developed in the United States.
As a result, across the entire equatorial Pacific, Figure 7, warm water volume is lower and depth-averaged temperatures are less in 2014 than they were in 1997. Then again, theyre higher than they were in 1982. For this year, the warm water initially increased across the entire equatorial Pacific, as warm water from off the equator circulated to the equator. Then the warm water decreased as it evaporated or was redistributed from the equator.
Measuring and Reducing Americans' Indirect Energy Use
Yet, no journalists ever bothered to follow up and ask Schellnhuber why he had peddled such an absurd prognosis back in 2009. In an interview with Spiegel on October 6, 2010, Schellnhuber acts like he had never made the ridiculous Himalayan 2035melting prediction. In the Spiegel interview (7:10 mark) he is quoted (highlighted in yellow):
These attachments are part of the present package. Attachment1.pdf is simply a statement of PNAS procedure. Note that members of the NAS are permitted to communicate up to 4 papers per year. The members are responsible for obtaining two reviews of their own papers and to report the reviews and their responses to the reviews. Note, as well, that rejection of such contributions by the Board of PNAS is a rare event, involving approximately 2% of all contributions.
Obamas Clean Power Plan: Solar Companies Win, Taxpayers Lose
Simply put, there is nothing true in MoveOn.org's advertisement "The Air We Breathe."
CEI's General Counsel Sam Kazman said, "The subpoena of Exxon by Massachusetts AG Maura Healey is part of the same AG campaign to silence global warming dissenters in which Virgin Islands AG Claude Walker is participating. As that order indicates, and as CEI has long contended, there are strong indications that this campaign has nothing to do with law enforcement, but rather is a bad faith attempt to push a political agenda."
In general,a passive building typically has very low air infiltration from outside and is heavily insulated to ensure low thermal heat loss. Indeed heating requirements can be as low as 15 kwh per square meter of occupancy space per year. In the wintertime air intake is heated, and in the summertime the building uses the cool night air along with lots of shading for cooling. These types ofbuildings, at least in north Germany,are not equipped with air conditioning.
If PM2.5 is lethal and there is no safe threshold, shouldn't EPA officials, its researchers and their institutions be prosecuted for deliberately misleading volunteers and conning them into breathing the poisons? Shouldn't they be prosecuted for experimenting on children, in direct violation of EPA's own rules banning such experiments and for deleting evidence describing those tests?
Population pressures were and remain a genuine environmental concern, but it gradually became clear that Ehrlich and other alarmists had way overestimated the problem, and it looks very different today. (Indeed, the great social problem of the end of this century may be population that is falling too rapidly.) And while Ehrlich is still peddling the same Malthusian gloom, he never turns up on the Tonight Show any more; in fact, he doesn't even make it on Hardball or Countdown with Krazy Keith.
Total emissions of air pollutants tracked by EPA are forecast to fall by 22 percent between 1997 and 2015, assuming no new air quality regulations, thanks to reductions in tailpipe emissions for most types of vehicles (already down 96 percent or more since 1978) and cleaner fuels.12
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EPA has determined that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare.
What makes this volta face all the moreunexpected is that BACT standards, which apply to individual facilities on a case-by-case basis, are generally more stringent than NSPS, which set minimum emission control standards forcategories of industrialsources. In regulatory parlance, NSPS providethefloor for BACT determinations. If the EPA would not useBACT to require fuel switching,then it would seem unreasonable even paranoid to suspect the EPA of planning to useNSPS for that purpose.
Milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms
New Film Shows Hans Schellnhuber Claiming "Himalayan 2035 Glacier Melt Was "Very Easy To Calculate"
One company testified that it elected not to replace spray nozzles in a process dryer, even though it determined significant energy savings could result, because EPA would not consider the new Teflon-coated nozzles to be equivalent parts, and consequently the project would trigger NSR. The new nozzles would have resolved the need to repeatedly replace existing equipment and may have provided a safer and more reliable operating environment for workers.
I asked Christopher C. Horner, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and attorney in the ATI v. UVa/Mann lawsuit for his take on the leaker's message. He told me, "Whatever prompted "Mr. FOIA,' I take it as a statement that, so far, the courts have failed us, as have our political institutions and he has concluded that those in the public who have resisted the climate industry agenda should now have a chance to review these taxpayer-financed records, which are the subject of a remarkable campaign to subvert transparency laws."
UPDATE 10/2: Mislabeled graph fixed at the bottom of this post. Thanks to Mark Bahner in the comments!
McCarthy and the Air Offices misleading statements about fuel switching discredited critics who claimed the EPA waswaging a war on coal and would, if left to its own devices, ban new coal generation. The fiction thatgreenhouse gas emission standards are unrelated to fuel economy standards gavethe EPA legal covertogin up a regulatory nightmare for auto makers the prospect of a market-balkanizing, state-by-state, fuel-economy patchwork just so the White House, in hush-hush negotiations, could demand auto industry support for the administrations motor vehicle mandates as the price for averting thedreaded patchwork.This is a complicated tale , which I will discuss in Part 2 of this series.
For comparison, I just looked at San Francisco Craigslist. It shows 1,000 new listings in the last three days. Detroit shows only 800.
The report specifically debunks two myths propagated by ACESA proponents. One is that there would be virtually no cost to consumers because (a) utilities would receive lots of free emission allowances, avoiding costs they would otherwise pass on to ratepayers, and (b) revenues from auctioned allowances would be returned as dividends to low-income households.
Armed Troops Burn Down Homes, Kill Children To Evict Ugandans In Name Of Global Warming
CMIP5 Models Fail to Reproduce Post-1950 Indian Monsoon Trend (6 April 2015)
Last night BBC Four aired a documentary which took a look at climate change sceptics and in particular one of the movements most prominent poster boys, Lord Christopher Monckton, 3 rd Viscount of Brenchley.
Validation Of A Climate Model Is Mandatory: The Invaluable work of Dr. Vincent Gray
People phoned at home are easy prey to cultural intimidation. The immediate thought is likely to be that the pollster has your number and, who knows, might even call your boss if you say the "wrong" thing. (Pollsters assure us that they do not know the identities of those phoned, but of course when you are dragged away from dinner by a caller from the New York Times you don't think about that.) As a result of this intimidationsuddenly someone wants to know what you think of global emissions and greenhouse gasespeople are alert for cues as to the "right" answer and are only too happy to provide it.
Figures from energy firm BP showed earlier this year that Chinese emissions will steamroll through the Paris-based IEA's 2020 peak target next year, nearly a decade early, with no sign of slowing down.
For example, in March 2001, he rejected the Kyoto Protocol on climate change as "fatally flawed." For nearly four years, Europeans have acted as if Mr. Bush didn't believe what he said, or that they could apply enough moral suasion to change his mind. Won't happen. A smarter policy would have been to find a new approach to mitigating the possibility of global warmingone with a sounder scientific basis and a lower economic cost. Bribing Russia to join Kyoto is not going to sway George Bush one inch.
Thats where we are now with GHGs. We are going to get more or less GHG regulation over time depending on who is in the White House and whether the particular GHG regulations that EPA issues are legally defensible. Thus, each regulation is going to have to be attacked (or defended) on the merits. My own view is that EPAs latest GHG proposal, for new source performance standards for coal-based electric generation, is not legally defensible and will be overturned in Court. But there will be many more GHG regulations to come, and we are in for another long, hard rule-by-rule slog under the CAA, in this case to shape the timing and stringency of GHG regulation in this country.
Like this guy, who is making up statistics about things he knows nothing about.
PS: Let me request that if you disagree with something Ive said, QUOTE MY WORDS. Im happy to either defend, or to admit to the errors in, what I have said. But I cant and wont defend your interpretation of what I said. If you quote my words, it makes all of the communication much clearer.
Gone was Obamas roundabout reference to climate change through the specter of a warming planet from four years ago. This time, the president put the issue front and center.
"In its most extreme form, this phenomenon has involved calls for scientific versions of the Nuremberg Trials (from a writer at the environmental magazine Grist) and the equation of "climate change denial' with Holocaust denial. Others have branded as criminal those who question restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions."
First, to clear the air, conspiracies exist everywhere, so at least Im guilty as charged. People collude though, for a common goal as part of our normal social structure. We are stronger in groups than individually a basic fact which has led us to organize most everything we human demons do. When our views align, we work together toward our goal, often with unspoken intent to demonstrate what we believe is right. If you dont agree with this basic point, consider that political parties are a conspiracy by definition, as are businesses, militaries, police forces, religions etc. Fortunately, theres nothing wrong with most conspiracies.
The more developed countries, in contrast, have seen their fertility rates fall from low to unsustainable. Every developed nation is now below replacement level. In the early 1960's, Europe's fertility rate was 2.6. Today the rate is 1.4, and has been sinking for half a century. In Japan the rate is 1.3.
Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, for example, was developed by private industry, funded by private investors and tested on private lands. It did not have to depend on taxpayer subsidies, approval by federal bureaucrats, or access to shale deposits on federal lands.
World leaders pledge to spend an additional $1 trillion to stimulate the global economy.
In an interview in Nature published Wednesday, White House science adviser John Holdren also predicted Obama's climate policies would survive under a Trump presidency, claiming "all" of those policies are "enthusiastically pursued by career civil servants and not just political appointees." Holdren also emphasized there is now "a huge amount of global momentum behind" the Paris treaty and the United States "would become a pariah if we backed out."
Now, to report that 15,000-30,000 people have died, when the actual number is 56, represents a big error. Lets try to get some idea of how big. Suppose we line up all the victims in a row. If 56 people are each represented by one foot of space, then 56 feet is roughly the distance from me to the fourth row of the auditorium. Fifteen thousand people is three miles away. It seems difficult to make a mistake of that scale.
During this review process, they should suspend and defund implementation of regulations and programs that raise serious questions about honesty and validity. Rules and programs ultimately found to be based on junk science, doctored data, collusion, or concocted evidence should be terminated and agency personnel who have engaged in deceptive or fraudulent practices should be penalized or fired.
Technology: The Bush administration should re-examine the role of the Federal Communications Commission and its control over rapidly developing technologies, so that all consumers can benefit from expanded choice.
Little Reach Sewage Treatment plant, run by Thames Water. Photo looking west, can see the edge of the power station.