Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, says the Democrats' platform could end up constricting the U.S. economy.
Slowly, we are starting to make an impression on politicians responsible for the kangaroo courts. It's great to see some plain talk from a cabinet minister actually responsible for a provincial human rights commission. Here's Alberta cabinet minister Lindsay Blackett: It wasn't about hurt feelings. The reason a lot of human rights commissions are disrespected across the country is because they've forgotten that. We want the commission to be a quasi-judicial body that has some teeth, that has some credibility but doesn't operate like a kangaroo court. Bravo, Mr. Blackett. This is a step in the right direction, and by a man who is in a position to make a difference. Personally, I'd go further and abolish the commissions altogether, but reigning them in is a great step in the right direction.
Ideally the government should not have to support nuclear power with federal loan guarantees. Nuclear power is relatively inexpensive to generate once a plant is built, but construction of these plants entails a substantial up-front capital cost, possibly $8 billion each. Generating private investment is difficult due to the possibility of lawsuits and regulatory delays. Instead of providing loan guarantees, Mr. Obama could have aided the nuclear power industry through protection from lawsuits.
When pieces of the Aletsch fell into Lake Mrjelenwhich lies between the two glaciersthe lake overflowed. Three hundred and fifty-three million cubic feet (10 million cubic metres) of water rushed down the valley below, inundating settlements, damaging property, and killing villagers. Extremely poor until the late 19th century, the locals had few options but to rebuild.
To that I would add many of those serving in conservative think tanks, foundations, advocacy groups, publications, and websites. They provide the intellectual cover for Republicans eager to flatter their way into what they fancy will be real membership in the aristocracy. Thus Limbaugh rightly observes, "Our battle is as much with those in the Republican Party who defend statism as with the radicals in the Democrat Party."
Without comprehensive seismic mapping and exploration, an accurate estimate of the recoverable natural resources that are currently locked up on federal lands and the continental shelf is unlikely. However, the combination of a rational regulatory environment with open access would likely put a 50 percent increase within reach.
In November, the public will give a cold shoulder to a bunch of intellectually frozen hypocrites who demand economic sacrifice to solve a problem that voters don't see or feel. At least for a while, the left will have to think up a new way to dictate a lifestyle for the rest of us. Maybe now the science can continue without the clumsy overreaching of the movement's priestly class.
Click below to see text of the first 12 pages of Google searches for australian antarctic airstrip melting. Google was still finding the story in obscure hamlets and villages after the 12 pages. See if you can spot your town. I have never seen anything like this.
The car as we know it will be replaced, just as the car replaced the horse. But the horse was not replaced by central government planning or command and control regulation. Its replacement was the result of the ingenuity of talented inventors and the skill of good managers.
SM: I wish I could figure out Warren Buffett. I call these people, like Warren Buffet, who made all this money, who want high taxes and the death tax retained "Billionaire Bozos." I just wish Warren Buffet understood the capitalist system better because he sure has made a lot of money off of it.
A second major breakthrough occurred as the PA, recognizing that it had provided its people with few of the benefits of good governance, concluded that reform was necessary. Today, a visitor traveling in the West Bank sees evidence of progress: a growing economy, a coherent scheme of security, and a leadership that talks seriously about such things as planning, education, and economic development. Palestinians of considerable abilitySalam Fayyad, Ali Jarbawi, and Hazem Attallah, to name a feware at work developing the infrastructure of statehood.
First of all, as the first commenter says, the owner would be puzzled why a structural engineer has such strong opinions about electrical wiring. ;-) Second of all, a sane person would try to determine - regardless of the "sign" of the expert's testimony - whether the structural engineer's opinion was trustworthy and based on objective expertise or whether it was driven by some other interests, for example the profit for his or her company. Related: A fresh interview with Steven Chu about the Day After Tomorrow (in reality), how he wants things to be bad (but not awful) - talk about a wishful thinking, and why architects should paint roofs white so that air-conditioning may be reduced (much like the intensity of light bulbs) and the Earth is cooled down - wow! ;-) Thanks to Willie Soon. Also, a sane person would pretty quickly discard the first recommendation because it came from a woman, as Chu proudly told us. Only about 15% of structural engineers are women and 70% of those got to the field because of affirmative action (before this movement began to be intense 15 years ago, there were about 5% of women in that field), so there is clearly something suspicious going on here, if the first catastrophic testimony comes from such an unexpected source.
"Its roughly the size of half a football pitch and about 20m high. It will take some time to put out," he said.
Climatic Research Unit, Hubert Lamb Building, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK
Not since he fought with Nicholas Biddle over the future of the Bank of the United States has Andrew Jackson been this controversial or this central in American political life. Jacksonian populism, the sense of honor-driven egalitarianism and fiery nationalism that drove American politics for many years, has never been hated and reviled as often as it is today, and many American academics and intellectuals (to say nothing of Hollywood icons) are close to demanding that Jacksonian sentiment be redefined as a hate crime.
"The Daily Caller has learned the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) never had the authority to issue waivers from Obamacare's annual limit requirements. "
But I am able to find enough courage to unambiguously say that in the new cold war and related matters, I am on the side of the current president Russia, a man whom I deeply respect for the detached view, restraint, and balance with which he is responding to the provocations by the West, and for his matter-of-fact, transparent reactions to all the accusations and lies surrounding all the recent events.
The USDA finished its draft EIS for alfalfa in 2009 and, by December 2010, it had jumped through the hoops necessary to re-approve the crop. But in spite of the conclusion of the environmental review that the genetically engineered alfalfa was substantially equivalent to other varieties and posed no problems for regulators, farmers, or consumers, Secretary Vilsack proposed reapproving the product only on the condition that it not be planted within five miles of non-genetically engineered seed crops, solely to help make production a little easier for organic farmers. That restriction would have made an estimated 20 percent of the nation's alfalfa production, and nearly half in western states such as California and Oregon that are significant alfalfa producers, off-limits to the Roundup Ready variety.
This is right out of the Washington politician play book. When told you are doing something wrong, just deny it. Say you did the opposite of whatever it was you did and then try to change the topic or discredit whoever offered the criticism.
Efforts to add an amendment on climate change to the Senate energy bill are dealt a setback.
Under the NEPA statute, every agency may establish a set of "Categorical Exclusions" that exempt whole classes or types of activities from the EIS obligation. These may include routine or repetitive actions that, based on past experience, do not have significant impacts on natural, cultural, recreational, historic, or other resources; and also those that do not otherwise, either individually or cumulatively, have any significant environmental impacts. Because they fall into those categories, most small-scale field trials of genetically engineered plants have been categorically excluded by the USDA.
On Friday through Sunday, the region was covered by a moist, relatively unstable air mass that brought strong thunderstorm activity and lots of lightning. The proximate cause was an upper level low that was slowly moving up the coast, resulting in southeasterly flow in the lower atmosphere (see 500 hPa map, roughly 18,000 ft, for Saturday at 5 PM below).
While some advocates like to make grand, sweeping statements about rainforest loss and put in big numbers that make it sound catastrophic, Roger Sedjo and Marion Clawson, writing for Resources for the Future, dug into the available evidence and said, "Information about the tropical moist forests is relatively scant. What information we do have comes from anecdotal evidence provided by isolated investigations at single times and places than from systematic studies conducted over large areas and lengths of time A hard look at the available data supports the view that some regions are experiencing rapid deforestation. However, the view that this is a pervasive phenomenon on a global level is questionable." (Rational Readings, Julian Simon, p. 745)
We Conservatives pledge our allegiance to the third zone: Natural Law , i.e., we humans do know better, but if we cant be bothered with standards, moral decline ensues, and can do so at an alarming rate.Making grand proclamations about thesanctity of the individual tojustifysmoking dopeisnot only an evasion of truth, itruns the risk of actually destroying you, and theshriller your protestations, the harder your own conscience condemns you.
Recently, the so-called "greenhouse effect" has itself come under increasing attack by a phalanx of scientific experts, including Dr. Gerhard Gerlich and Dr. Ralf D. Tscheuschner, professor Nasif Nahle, applied mathematician Claes Johnson, former radio-chemist Alan Siddons, analytical chemist Hans Schreuder, combustion research scientist Martin Hertzberg, and engineer Heinz Thieme.
As is routine, DfID is undertaking a full institutional assessment of Teri as part of our due diligence process.
He worked hard to stop bamstercare cooperation in the Nebraska Hospital and political community, to warn of the misanthropic nature of socialized medicine, to expose the Corps of Engineers for their destructive, man-made flood of the Missouri River Valley in the spring of 2011.
15 There is still no book-length study of the SCO. For short introductions, see Ariel Cohen, "The Dragon Looks West: China and the SCO," Heritage Foundation (September 7, 2006), and Eugene Rumer, "China, Russia, and the Balance of Power in Central Asia," Strategic Forum, National Defense University (November 2006).
He was not referring to the 40 MPG Fiat 500, but the fire-breathing, 640-hp, 8.4-liter SRT Viper.
The study then proceeds to assign the total carbon emissions of a female alive today under different fertility constraints
Policy Experts Available for Analysis of Majority Proposals
"On the campaign trail, Republicans have adopted the Environmental Protection Agency as a favorite symbol of the White House's regulatory overreach. And behind the scenes in Washington, GOP staffers and K Street lobbyists who say they've been dissed by the EPA administrator are looking forward to getting some revenge."
Right now, someone nearby is buying organic bean sprouts. It may be the last thing he ever does. Last weeks E. coli outbreak in Germany potentially traced to an organic farm was more deadly than the largest nuclear disaster of the last quarter-century.
I've been watching my site meter this evening with puzzlement. There are an unusually high number of hits coming in on the "We Wait" post below. High for this site, at least - over 100 an hour. I checked to see if it had been Instalanched, I've checked Technorati. No clues. I had linked it to a Wizbang page, where it shares space with many, many other trackbacks, and it was trackbacked by only two sites. One of them Backcountry Conservative . Jeff Quinton mentions the traffic the link is generating - out of curiousity I clicked his site meter. He's had 29,475 visitors in the past hour . Wow. update - Check the trackbacks. A lot of people are having tsunamis. Glenn Reynolds had 200,000 page views yesterday. another update - the dead tree folks are hearing from them, too. And Jeff Jarvis weighs in. Wizbang has been hosting the video, and providing links to other sites that are doing the same. (The original Arab site was pulled down) - he's reporting " 237,000 visitors today, and the day is only half over". If anyone has hosting space that can help share the load, he's asking for help. Some of these bloggers are going to get hit with very high hosting fees this month.
"It's a broad challenge to us as a country," said Nathanael Greene, renewable energy policy director at the National Resources Defense Council. "How do we rapidly deploy the renewable energy technologies and transmission infrastructures to stave off catastrophic climate change and local and regional air pollution that comes with burning fossil fuels? Even the best sited projects have impacts on the landscape."
In Living with the UN, Anderson argues that tension between the US and the UN is primarily due to their conflicting roles in global politics. He contends that the world does not share a vision of what global governance looks like or what role the UN and the US should play on a global scale. He also points out that, since the first days of the Obama administration, the president has attempted to define the US-UN relationship by using generic catchphrases such as "engagement" and "multilateralism." Yet, Anderson argues, after four years in office, both Americans and non-Americans are still unclear on how these terms translate into policy.
Klimatprofessorn Hans von Storch varnar f r klimatvetenskapens kris
Bumped .....Update: this just came across the Canadian Press wire. (No link yet). "Dhalla issued her own brief statement in response: "I appreciate Ms. Villanueva's clarification; however she is not speaking on behalf of all the Brampton Filipino Seniors Club. Many members of the Filipino Seniors Club and community have expressed their support in letters, phone calls and emails.'' Where SDA leads, the mainstream is sure to follow! (Original post follows below.) May 7: Filipino Seniors in Support of Dhalla Maybe not. To whom it concern: My name is Aurora G. Villanueva, a member of the Brampton Filipino Seniors Club. I wanted to clarify my position in relation to the statement made by Ms Dhalla during the inquiry. The letter she presented in the inquiry that was signed by me, but not written by me.. It was prepared by the office of Ms Dhalla.
The only project approved is the Spring Valley wind farm in Nevada where the nearest eagle nest was over four miles away. Gina Jones, BLM's project leader, said the company agreed to extensive mitigation, such as putting "anti-perch" devices on transmission poles within two miles of the wind farm.
Source: EPA, Emission Trends, http://www.epa.gov/airtrends/aqtrends.html#comparison
The enviros say they want to save the planet. But what about the people that live on the planet now?
Now that we know the price of our sinful energy consumption, all we have to do is write a check (or donate online!) to the Carbon Capital Fund, and they'll immediately put that money into planting lots of more trees on Forest Service land to act as a carbon sink. Well, that and, um, other stuff:
As Dr. Ray Stantz (Dan Ackroyd) noted in Ghostbusters, "You don't know what it's like out there. I've worked in the private sector. They expect results!"
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NOTE: This article first appeared in Investor's Business Daily.
The second argument of the EPA under President Bush was that the administrator had the discretion to decline to exercise the required "judgment," and it should do so because the whole area of climate change is so complexscientifically, economically, internationally, legally, and in every other waythat listing carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act is just not a good idea.
I asked Markey's press spokesman, Eben Burnham-Snyder, to name even one position on LNG exports that Markey modified after the series of studies by the EIA, Ebinger, Levi and now the DOE, but he refused. "Go read Mr. Markey's letter to DOE," was the best he could muster.
Calling for a moratorium on U.N. climate change conferences that emphasize financial transfers and reinforce the flawed, ineffective Kyoto methodology of differentiated responsibilities.
Seeing these UNocrats perched at the table, whispering to each other, back-slapping, shaking hands, they seemed like a periodic reunion of old cynical Mafia chieftains or mercenaries who run into each other in different hot spots, as they move from one slaughter to another, "How are you? Haven't seen you since Bosnia . . .." As the hours wore on, however, and I nervously doodled in my note pad, shifted in my chair, looked at my watch, and thought about all the real work I had to do that evening, I decided that, no, labeling them mafiosos or mercenaries was much too kind. They seemed more to be the progeny resulting from a mating between a mad oracle and a giant carrion-eater. They were akin to some sort of ancient mythical Greco-Roman-Aztec-Wes Craven-Egyptian-bird-god that demands constant sacrifice and feeding, and speaks in riddles which only it can solve. Yes, I decided, the UNocrats are great hideous vultures, roused from their caves in the European Alps and in the cement canyons and peaks of Manhattan by the stench of death in the Turd World. They leisurely take flight toward the smell of death; circle, and then swoop down, screeching UNintelligble nonsense. They arrive and immediately force others, e.g., the American tax payer, to build them new exclusive nests in the midst of poverty, and make themselves fat on the flesh of the dead. My friends, allow The Diplomad to present to you The High Priest Vulture Elite (HPVE). These genuinely repulsive, arrogant creatures survive only because the world's rich countries, the non-Turd World, allow them, too. We in the First World find it politically impossible to reveal their pronouncements as the cant they are. For many in Europe and among the New York Times crowd, helping maintain these mad vultures substitutes for genuine action, "The UN is on the job!" In addition, for many senior bureaucrats and minor politicians, there is always the hope that if they play the game right, they, too, can join the High Priest Vulture Elite: We see the ranks of the HPVE full of Scandinavians and leftist Americans, and the occasional pompous Euro-Brazilian, all of whom parlayed mediocre domestic careers of lip-biting humanitarian symbolism into well-paying tax-free sinecures in the HPVE.
Bernanke Asset Purchase Risk Unleashing 1970s Inflation Genie:
Leonardo DiCaprio's eco-doomfest The 11th Hour has bombed at the box office:
Atlantic hurricane lull continues Still a lot of unknowns concerning decadal climate variability Groups fight carbon tax in Washington State, no money for them Australian group launches "Clexit' push Inland waters carbon dioxide emissions underestimated
"OpenDNS released statistics about which websites were commonly blocked and which websites users were frequently given access to in 2010. The report additionally details the companies online scammers targeted in 2010, as well as where the majority of phishing websites were hosted."
The big question is over health care. In recent times it has tended to invent effective but expensive new procedures-medical jet packs, though more useful-such as surgery, scanning and radiotherapy. But some think it might be on the brink of finding cheaper therapies through regenerative medicine and genome sequencing. The latter's cost is down by 99% in about a decade, far faster than Moore's Law.
The Yale Climate Media forum has a very good post titled Strange bedfellows and fear of broad impacts of Mann/UVa court ruling. Excerpts:
The president's speech seems to imply that "energy efficiency' somehow is free.
Just like these 7 letters are the most frequent letters in English texts, entangled states and linear operators are virtually omnipresent in quantum mechanics and anything and everything linked to it. If you haven't learned E,T,A,I,N,O,S, then you are illiterate. If you feel uncertain about the existence of entanglement or linearity of all operators, you are illiterate in quantum mechanics. If you are waiting for a kettle or for Sherlock Holmes to reduce E,T,A,I,N,O,S or entanglement or linearity of operators to something that you already know, e.g. how to make poops, then you are a baby who has a long way to go before you learn the basic things. This conclusion is addressed to Mr Deutsch and Ms Marletto, too. She is attractive and he is... sorry, I can't think of a positive adjective now..., but they are totally deluded about modern physics.
In all of its health-care policy advocacy, 1199 has held to the position that what's good for union members is good for the public. As one issue of its monthly newsletter put it, "Saving our hospitals isn't just about jobs, but also about healthcare for the people." But while making health-care jobs some of the most stable and secure in New York, 1199's advocacy efforts helped create and perpetuate an overly expensive and inefficient health-care system.
Australian and U.S. Feds Working Together to Investigate Online Gambling:
Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.) said he would oppose "any cuts" in agriculture subsidies because "farmers and farm families depend on this federal assistance."
On September 3rd, The Wall Street Journal published a commentary by Edward P. Lazear titled "The Climate Change Agenda Needs to Adapt to Reality: Limiting carbon emissions won't work. Better to begin adjusting to a warming world."
If youve ever tried to buy insurance on your own, he said, I promise you this is a lot easier.
Producing enough ethanol from switch grass to displace 1 million barrels of oil per day would require that 25 million acres of land be planted in switch grass. That is an area about the size of Kentucky.
Avebury, about 20 miles (32 km) N. of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire;
The survey, conducted among researchers listed in the American Geological Institutes Directory of Geoscience Departments*, found that climatologists who are active in research showed the strongest consensus on the causes of global warming, with 97 percent agreeing humans play a role .
In all, the report reminds us that there are many solid data indicators, some collected since the nineteenth century in industrialized nations, that are illuminating, publicly available, and standardized across countries. And these data can help us broaden measures of well-being far beyond GDPsomething the Legatum Institute's Prosperity Index actually does (more on that in a moment).
OK, here is my question : Do the folks in this article understand incentives and simply ignore them, or are they truly ignorant ?
Guardian: UK carbon capture project close to collapse
Weve brought this seal herd back from 1.8 million in the 1970s to 5.5 million in 2004