Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
This brings me to the second main pointthe fixation with the Kyoto Protocol, or what I call, to borrow Churchill's phrase about the disarmament chatter of the 1930s, the prolonged and solemn farce of the Kyoto process. The original Kyoto Protocol of 1998 is set to expire in another few years, and the global climate campaign is desperately wedded to the goal of crafting Kyoto II at climactic negotiations in Copenhagen at the end of this yeartalks which it is widely expected President Obama will attend. The first Kyoto Protocol of 1998, which even a President Al Gore would not have attempted to implement in the United States had he become president in 2000, has generated the greatest mass hypocrisy since the Kellogg-Briand Pact promised to end warfare back in 1928. I have little doubt that in 10 or 20 years we are going to look back on Kyoto process as the climate policy equivalent of wage and price controls to fight inflation in the 1970s. The Kyoto approach has utterly failed to achieve its first stage goals; European claims to have complied with Kyoto depend on some bookkeeping gimmicks that would have embarrassed Enron.
Electronics/computer shoppers, for example, are steered toward IBM and Sony products, rather than Apple's, since the latter fared abysmally in ClimateCounts' survey of the so-called "carbon footprints" of 56 consumer products companies.
According to the EPA's own analysis, the Utility MACT serves to protect America's population of pregnant, subsistence fisherwomen, who eat 300 pounds of self-caught fish reeled in exclusively from the most polluted bodies of water. The EPA notably failed to identify a single member of this supposed population. Rather, their existence is assumed. EPA states that, "we think that they are reasonable and that fishing populations with these attributes are likely to exist and be active to some extent."
This news is given here in preview for Italy: Mariano Rajoy, Popular candidate (right) in the elections in Spain on March 9, said during the televised debates with Prime Minister Zapatero of having unamica imagined a girl even called
In February 2008, researcher Timothy Searchinger and colleagues calculated that
High-speed rail forum looks at future:
In the end, all it takes is one ignorant President to set progress back for decades. In this case it was President Jimmy Carter for not allowing reprocessing of nuclear waste, a standard practice in France where only one-fifth of spent fuel requires storage. In the 1980s there were three U.S. corporations leading the way on the introduction and use of nuclear energy to produce electrical power; General Electric, Westinghouse Electric, and Babcock & Wilcox. Today only Babcock-Wilcox continues as a fully owned American company.
Every side in the political debate has a natural tendency to appeal to freedom of speech when they feel threatened?but to ignore (or initiate) threats to the free speech of the other side. My favorite example is from the early 1990s, when the Yeltsin government dispossessed Russia's Communist Party of the vast holdings it had amassed in the decades when it controlled the state. The Communist Party screamed in protest, denouncing the supposed attack on its "property rights and freedom of speech." Which was pretty rich, considering that the Communists had just spent 70 years ruthlessly stamping out everyone else's property rights and freedom of speech.
Bob and I corresponded frequently. We even had a long Skype conversation the weekend before he died. We were discussing a project to get people to actually see with their own eyes the Trubi Marls successions at Capo Rosello on the south coast of Sicily, where one sees ancient climate change clearly in the rocks. Well, that plan won't happen now, but perhaps one day I will make my way there in Bob's memory.
Die Zeit holds Morano responsiblefor single-handedly spreading skepticism worldwide. Morano appears in Americas living rooms; a stocky figure in the mid forties, donning a suit and tie. He has a friendly smile that fools you .
Eco-purists want no cutting, no thinning no using fire retardants in "sensitive" areas because the chemicals might get into streams that will be boiled away by conflagrations. They prevent homeowners from clearing brush around their homes, because it might provide cover or habitat for endangered species and other critters that will get incinerated or lose their forage, prey, and habitats in the next blaze. They rarely alter their policies during drought years.
has 3 x 39-meter blades, with tips moving at speeds up to 256kms/hr Footprint of Wind vs. Nuclear is 1,440:1 Bruce Power proposal for AB and eluded to for SK is, for example;
Mr Fisher said the Rossby waves spinning wind currents that give the jet stream its wavy form by pushing it north and south are responsible for the stalled jet stream.
They want to "unify classical physics and quantum mechanics" and the concepts of information in them. But this is complete nonsense. The frameworks can't be unified because they contradict one another. More clearly, quantum mechanics is right in Nature around us while classical physics is wrong. Classical physics is a limit of quantum mechanics classical physics is approximately valid in some extreme enough situations accurately described by quantum mechanics but not the other way around. One should never try to unify a thing that is right with a thing that is wrong. It's like pouring gasoline on the fire and I won't even tell you which of these two elements is right and which of them is wrong.
So what does available evidence show? And where do environmentalists begin to get their numbers? Well U.S. News and World Report (12/13/93) explains that while the figure of 40 million acres per year "has taken on a life of its own," it is being "cited and recited without reference to its origins. Yet almost half the estimated total comes from a very rough estimate made by a Brazilian scientist who used sensors on a U.S. weather satellite to count the number of fires burning in the Amazon at one time in 1988 . He estimated the size of each, The resulting number was into the widely cited report by the World Resources Institute that helped fuel the alarm over vanishing tropical forests; was cited by Gore and other administration officials last spring in announcing support for the Biodiversity Treaty.
Global Warming Profiteer Prophet Al Gore had a busy week. The Goreacle brushed off an inconvenient snub when his usual playmates asked him not to come to their party , and used the opportunity to blog to the masses.
Whats scarier: junk science or central planning?
Given my emails, I don't think I explained my first point in this post on Social Security very well:
"We think we need public policy that's based in facts, rather than facts that are based on a public agenda," Colorado State University professor Scott Denning said.
Who are these security analysts? Are they the same analysts Ed Miliband consulted when he determined that UK intervention was a feasible plan, or perhaps the ones that devised the plan? Were they the same analysts that compiled and sexed-up the Dodgy Dossier that made the case for invading Iraq? Are these the same security analysts that didnt anticipate the emergence of ISIS/ISIL? Are they the same analysts that presided over a decade and half of interventions across the world that have left thousands of young soldiers dead or seriously wounded, and killed hundreds of thousands of people that had nothing at all to do with terrorism, or fundamental interpretations of religion, and cost hundreds of $billions, if not $trillions?
As Congress moves forward with these proposals, the policy experts of the Competitive Enterprise Institute will be watching and tracking their progress. For analysis on the costs and implications of this new legislation, contact CEI in the days and weeks ahead.
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Sadly, his book on climate data, Towards a New Climate Description: Analysis of Forcing and Response Time Series from Tartu University Press, finally came out just before he passed.
"The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im) is a government agency that loans money or guarantees private loans to foreign buyers of U.S. goods. Ex-Im is known as "Boeing's Bank,' and for good reason. Between 1998 and 2004, it issued loans and long-term guarantees for US$53-billion of U.S. exports. Just under US$28-billion of those deals were Boeing sales. Ex-Im exists not just primarily, but mostly, to subsidize Boeing's overseas aircraft sales."
"It's difficult to say that there's a benchmark for China which they should not exceed, because there are all kinds of issues, equity principles, on what you allocate for China," den Elzen said.
"Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been a boon for developers and organizations that need large-scale code-crunching power but can't or won't shell out for the server racks. Unfortunately, those cheap, on-tap computing capabilities are an irresistible temptation to bad guys who can, for example, use EC2 to smash passwords in mere minutes for a handful of change."
Some significant developments in various lawsuits involving Michael Mann
Federal government officials think your clothes washer is contributing to global warmingand they are going to do something about it.
Heath: See Molly, thats why I dont like to get involved with things like Earth Day. Everyone is so judgmental, trying to tell all the other trees how to live. Just let me live my life as nature intended.
1. From a New York Times crossword puzzle buff here : Ooo...! 'n hey agin! Look at 30D (Like an ivory-billed woodpecker), RARE -- Extinct is not rare and the Lord God bird (Compephilus principalis) has not been proven to be rare (as in hens teeth, well maybe!) but more likely extinct (as in T-Rex); however, as the article states Who knows? I personally can't tell a parakeet from a vulture . 2. More discussion of plumage abnormalities is on a Birdforum thread here . A Tim Allwood post on the "wariness" hypothesis is here . 3. A Flickr photo group called "Campephilus Woodpeckers" is here .
The team also compared charcoal deposits in boggy meadows within the groves to the tree-ring fire history. The chronology of charcoal deposits closely matches the tree-ring chronology of fire scars.
They make a lot of hay out of discrepancies that could just be folks making errors. Like saying someone was in the front of a police car that might have been the back, or the usual confusion at the start of an event where the facts are never correct (in my personal experience with the news).
revenues coming in to match the huge spending ahead? Can he find majorities that
Seems that the Internet Explorer Browser has a hole in it allowing folks to take over your computer. Why am I not surprised?
SM: The objective is to try to elect more free-market tax-cutting candidates to congress. We believe that thanks to groups like the Cato Institute, CEI, and the Heritage Foundation, the intellectual war is largely being won by our side. We have all the strong intellectual arguments on our side. The question is, and I think Fred Smith is the one who is famous for saying it, if we're so smart, why aren't we winning? The answer is because the left plays the game of politics a lot better than we do. We're trying to use some of the very tactics the left has used very effectively to elect people like Hillary Clinton and Barbara Boxer to Congress, but to use those tactics and fundraising mechanisms to elect good free-market people like Phil Gramm and Ron Paul. So, what we do is make recommendations on outstanding candidates to our members, and they decide if they wish to support them. And if they do, they send those checks to us. We use what is called the Emily's List model of bundling contributions for candidates who want to cut taxes and slash government.
UK Changes Rules about Gambling Online from Abroad:
But major mining and exploration including coal seam gas proposals will not be banned in areas set aside as prime agricultural land.
includes journals, op-ed pages, the blogosphere, Twitter any arena where contrasting viewpoints contend with each other. For foreign policy's prosaic side, the scene of the action is the governmental apparatus that the
"Where are you from," Gaia asked, "Indonesia? How did you arrive at the conference today?" "We flew in a plane," the Indonesian delegate replied. "That plane emitted carbon," Gaia explained, "you didn't breathe on board did you? More carbon!"
The clip might be enough to derail Gingrich's political comeback, says Marc Morano, a former aide to Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), who believes climate change is a political tool to advance Democratic interests.
TRENDING: Aide fired over Florida debate foul:
Matthew Bunkers, a science and operations officer at the National Weather Service in Rapid City, said these types of devastating blizzards happen about once per decade, though the estimate is only based on 122 years of data.
* Using floating surface buoys only = 0.3 F/decade
Some Economics of Climate Change: A Response to The Stern Review
As Eisenhower observed in a less well remembered threat in that speech: "The prospect of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of scientific-technological elite."
Two parts of the controversy over calculating PTE are the choice of a base year and the expected future utilization of capacity. Many plants run at less than full capacity and maintain their emissions below caps put in place by other programs (e.g., caps on SOx under the Title IV acid rain program and caps on other pollutants under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards Program) in order to have the flexibility to increase or alter production on short notice without having to go through the permitting process. If emissions in a year of historically low utilization are used as the base for determining whether future emissions are significant, then more modifications become subject to NSR.
Both install very easily on Windows Both work very well. I like both, but for different reasons. Opera has a nice buffer feature thats a great help on slow links (turbo Opera). Firefox just feels right Though for some of them you may need to find and turn on some particular menu bars.
Regulatory agencies face far weaker restraints. Indeed, once the organic legislation empowering the regulatory agency is enacted, it faces few further checks. Before promulgating any specific regulation, it will, of course, have to jump through various procedural hoops, but there will be no effective check on the costs it can impose on the U.S. economy. OIRA now requires many agencies to demonstrate that the costs and benefits of each regulation have been calculated. Most regulatory agencies soon find out, however, how to employ creative accounting to ensure high B/C ratios. And when they find even this weak criteria difficult, they note that they deal with areas where markets are either weak or non-existent (in many cases because the regulatory agencies have preempted the emergence of private risk management arrangements) and advance various non-use values to justify their programs. Regulators have to be very stupid to actually be disciplined.
EPA Region V, for example, recently challenged an Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) decision concerning turbine blade replacement at a utility. The Indiana agency concluded the change fell under the routine maintenance and replacement exclusion, but EPA launched its own inquiry and determined the change was a "major modification" subject to NSR. EPA then asked the IDEM to withdraw its ruling, even though it had been issued nearly two years (20 months) earlier.33
The ad tries to work both sides of the street. It attempts to appeal to those who believe SUVs are destroying the planet -- and those who resent eco-elitists and busybodies telling them how to live.
BACTstandards apply to individual sources on a case-by-case basis. They generally are more stringent and by law may not be less stringent than Clean Air Act new source performance standards (NSPS), which the EPA establishes for categories of industrial sources. In other words, NSPS are the floor or minimum emission control standards for BACT determinations. Is that correct?
EPAsleaked presentation reveals that the agencywill propose an endangerment finding on April 30.There will be a 60-day comment period. Unlike all previous endangerment findings,EPA will not concurrently propose new regulations, but defer the latter to a future rulemaking or rulemakings.
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Real-World CO2-Induced Growth Enhancements of Oak and Pine Trees in Missouri, USA
Interestingly, McClure wrote in his July 2006 Seattle P-I blog about skeptic Pat Michaels, quoting CNN's Peter Dykstra:
"When organisms challenged by climate change respond by adapting, they evolve," Stewart Brand, the president of the Long Now Foundation and co-founder of the Revive and Restore project, wrote in an essay published at Aeon.
Tenafly Little League Calls for Mandatory Fingerprinting Of All Volunteers:
"The scale of impacts that we are facing, collectively across the desert, is phenomenal," said Dennis Schramm, former superintendent at neighboring Mojave National Preserve. "The reality of the Ivanpah project is that what it will look like on the ground is worse than any of the analyses predicted."
I love the convenience of having my photos online and share-able,and especially having them backed up automatically as I take them,but the problem is that all the major sites seem to have a dream of being the last internet site standing, and want to keep all your photos in their little universe. Shutterfly, Facebook, Google, Flickr -- they tend to only allow sharing within their little universe (though I am hoping for good things from Google peeling photos out of Google Plus).
We have no issue with private, voluntary conservation efforts. Individuals, whether alone or in a group, are welcome to turn off their lights, whether they think they are reducing emissions or simply want to save money. However, no one should have the right to use government coercion to force others to sit in the dark. Cleaner, advanced technologies are built upon "dirtier" technologies. All of the innovations we enjoy todayfrom sliced bread to buildings to computersstand on the shoulders of technologies that came before. The more government interferes with individuals' ability to utilize natural resources and experiment with new technologies, the more expensive and more difficult it is to advance.
Craig D. Idso received his B.S. in Geography from Arizona State University, his M.S. in Agronomy from the University of Nebraska Lincoln, and his Ph.D. in Geography from Arizona State University. Dr. Idso has published scientific articles on issues related to data quality, the growing season, the seasonal cycle of atmospheric CO2, world food supplies, coral reefs, and urban CO2 concentrations, the latter of which he investigated via a National Science Foundation grant as a faculty researcher in the Office of Climatology at Arizona State University. In addition, he has lectured in Meteorology at Arizona State University, and in Physical Geography at Mesa and Chandler-Gilbert Community Colleges.
H. Sterling Burnett, Climate Change Weekly
Climate researcher Tim Osborn is next door, struggling with a familiar problem. My inbox is full and I need to delete some e-mails. Then, with a thin smile: But Im not allowed to now, am I?
Holding a difficult path between the peril of the sea-fog
As highlighted in High Level Climate Finance, 17 February 2011 http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/high level climate finance.html with additional relevant commentary in
Smart meters 101: Five things you need to know
Now, Ive caught a lot of salmon in my day, but its all been commercial trolling and commercial net fishing. Once I was in the airport leaving Alaska and I got to talking with a guy carrying some rods. I asked how the fishing had been. He said it was great, hed caught 18 silver salmon. How did you do?, he asked. Almost shamefacedly, I admitted that during the season Id caught about 120 tonnes of silver salmon. So it was a first for me to try my hand at casting a fly for salmon in a river. Matt and a local guide did their best to school me in the arcane art, and Im proud to say that at no time during my rather alarming experiments did I actually hook either a tree, the guide, or my ear.
And if me using a steel shovel to dig in my own garden is not sustainable ... then what is sustainable? I mean, where are the peak iron zealots when we need them?
Farmers and environmentalists are upset at the OFarrell governments draft regional land use plan, which classified one million hectares of the New England North West and 400,000 hectares of the Upper Hunter as high-value agricultural land.
In South Sudan, most people still practice primitive subsistence farming. A UN Development Program report says 90% of the land in South Sudan is suitable for agriculture, but less than 5% of it is cultivated. This is because oil was the primary source of income for the country, the economy has collapsed, and few farmers have modern equipment, fertilizers, or seeds to make any profits.
Id also like to note another feature of these test. Let us supposed, the true underlying tendency turns out to be 1 C/century. How will these hypothesis test look over time?
Press Release 4/22/2011 2:25 PM EDT Source: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Khosla said that ?with Tony's advice and influence we will create opportunities for entrepreneurs and innovators to devise practical solutions that can solve today's most pressing problems."
About 90 percent of the scientists agreed with the first question and 82 percent the second.
Smoke can seen seen six miles (9.7km) away in Barnsley and smelled from Sheffield, 17 miles (27km) away.
Katy McGinty, who chairs the Council on Environmental Quality, affirmed the Administration's stance on Kyoto, "We need legally binding emissions standards," asserting that "voluntary is not sufficient."
Despite the libelous attacks, Robinson garnered a very respectable 44% of the vote and promptly announced that he would run for DeFazio's seat again in 2012. If the soft-spoken father of six thought DeFazio's campaign had been in the sewers, what happened next beggared belief. Now the targets became Robinson's three youngest children.
parents say the change would coddle failing students....
Bobby Jindal: The Louisiana governor and McCain veepstakes contender denies any interest in higher office, yet he set media tongues wagging by traveling to Iowa just three weeks after the presidential election.
"Many state legislators want to use the money to promote public health, not higher education."
OK, sometimes Im in an article, and there is a link, and the site has a list of article, and I wander
Case Study 1. MoveOn.org: "The Air We Breathe"
And this number also seems to be good for the National Wildlife Federation, which in a pamphlet co-produced with the World Wildlife Fund called "Tropical Forests: A Resource for the Future" said "Tropical deforestation is occurring at the rate of more than 50 acres per minute. An area the size of New York state is destroyed each year. This rate is high enough to ensure that many countries will be entirely stripped of primary forest within the next decade."