Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
EPA asserts "NSR does result in significant environmental and public health benefits," but admits "there is no tracking by any government agency of the reductions in emissions that sources make due to the NSR program."14 The largest documented reductions in emissions attributable to the program come from requiring BACT and LAER technology on new natural gas-fired electric generating units. With regard to existing sources, foregone emission reductions from new investments and modifications discouraged by NSR (discussed in detail below) may offset whatever reductions the program requires.
Environmentalists in rich countries excoriate coal as an evil. At this very moment, Greenpeace-niks are assembling a giant model of the earth in rural Poland, as a focal point for opposition to the expansion of coal in Poland and the world.
Not "world government," wildly unpopular among knuckle-draggers in America, but a rebranded alternative, more nuanced and sophisticated, would creep in on little cat feet before the Neanderthals knew what was up.
"Besides, if global warming is settled science, like gravity or the Earth not being flat, why isn't the agreement 100 percent?" Spencer asked. "And since when is science settled by a survey or a poll? The hallmark of a good scientific theory is its ability to make good predictions."
"No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change" declared President Obama in his most recent state of the union address last January. Environmental activists applauded, but they are not satisfied. Despite the Obama Administration's executive initiatives, including aggressive new limits on carbon emissions from power plants, there is widespread agreement in the climate action lobby that governments everywhere are not doing enough.
The challenges faced by most of the emerging economies today are similar. Their domestic sources are often inadequate to meet their growing demand for energy. And developing domestic sources involves huge capital investment. Like other emerging economies, India needs adequate supplies of energy at affordable prices to meet the demand of its rapidly growing economy. Hydrocarbons will continue to be our major source of energy for quite sometime in the future. Most of our requirement of hydrocarbons is met through imports. In India, the demand over the next 10 years will increase by over 40 percent whereas the increase in the supply from the maturing oil-fields is expected to be around 12 per cent. The Indian Government is therefore encouraging national oil companies to pursue equity oil and gas opportunities overseas. India currently has 400 million people who lack access to electricity ( PDF ).
During the last ice age, the East Coast got pushed upwards by a huge mass of ice depressing the interior of Canada and raising the surrounding regions. Now that the ice has melted in Canada, the East Coast is sinking back to its original elevation. The apparent rise in sea level has nothing to do with global warming. If it were global, we would see the effect on the Pacific Coast as well and we dont.
none of our work is propaganda. More than 100 academics and 150 elected officials participate in our research and education programs.
Going through the NSR permitting process can cost more than $1 million and add a year or more to the time needed to preview proposed plant modifications.3 Installing BACT or LAER technology can cost tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars for a single plant. A typical turbine efficiency improvement project at a power plant that would cost less than $1 million for a 250 MW unit and generate additional revenues of $21.5 million (present value) would cost an additional $68.4 million (capital cost only) if subject to the BACT or LAER requirements imposed by NSR, making such projects financial losers.4
* IPCC computer climate models have thus far not been able to predict warming or other climate changes accurately for even short, 10-year periods. It is therefore highly unlikely that they can do so for 100 years in the future. Therefore, they should not be used as the basis for energy and economic policies.
Computer model predictions of 1.4-4.5 C global warming per CO2 doubling have remained unchanged for 36 years: yet the IPCCs medium-term global warming predictions made 25 years ago have proven exaggerated by a factor of two. Would it not have been appropriate at least to mention the models continuing exaggerations?
doctrine of counterinsurgency aims to gain enough of local citizens' trust that they will help find rebel fighters and build governance structures,
Unfortunately market forces were not favorable to Mr. Pickens, and in December 2010 he announced that he is getting out of the wind power business . What does he plan to do with his $2 billion worth of idle wind turbines? He is trying to sell them to Canada , because of Canadian law that mandates consumers to buy more renewable electricity regardless of cost.
Wherever I served in the world, I have never avoided the contact with the local populaces both contacts related to my healthcare services or simple conversations sparked by random encounters with the people or mutual visits. That's why I never depended exclusively on the NATO-related information sources but I could also analyze and evaluate the situation from all conceivable perspectives. On the former Yugoslav territory, I had the extra advantage of having quickly mastered the local language at a level that has allowed me basic communication. All these events (and others) have allowed me to understand (and convince myself about) the meaninglessness and the monstrosity of the NATO and especially the U.S. actions in the context of many artificially ignited conflicts whose goal was to destabilize all the countries that didn't want to be satisfied with the roles of obedient puppets and vassals of the U.S. Unfortunately, I was becoming a component in this machinery myself.
Let's not kid ourselves: Someone will want to turn the planet's minerals into energy until every last bit of coal and oil is gone.
The four fast-track projects in jeopardy of losing stimulus funds due to eagle issues would alone generate about 416 megawatts of clean energy, enough to power roughly a half million U.S. homes during peak usage.
This week was a true roller coaster ride with Arctic Sea Ice. It is best summed up by looking at the JAXA graph for extent, shown below:
Now the EPA's "observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century" has dropped from 0.702 C down to 0.486 Cand about 31% of increase from anthropogenic GHGs is gone.
My main results are: Looking at the data 12 possible ways, I get 9 results that say reject the IPCC best estimate to a confidence of 95%.
Four years ago, Republicans were riding high. The Bush re-election was the first since 1936 in which both the incumbent president won and his party gained seats in both houses of Congress. Republicans had also done well in 2002winning back control of the Senate. It was the first time since 1934 that a president's party had gained seats in both the Senate and the House midway into the president's first term.
In early January, Mark D. Green, the editor of Energy Tomorrow, a project of the American Petroleum Institute, examined the reality of our vast energy sources. Keep in mind that every product we purchase is dependent in some way on oil. "Every day 143 U.S. refineries convert an average of 15 million barrels of crude oil" that provide power for our vast transportation needs and thousands of other uses. Oil is the basis for the creation of plastic. Try to imagine living without anything that does not utilize plastic in some fashion.
The ongoing rise in the airs CO2 content is causing a great greening of the Earth, the report adds. There is little or no risk of increasing food insecurity due to global warming or risingatmospheric CO2 levels.
Via Instapundit "The University of East Anglias Climategate inquiries were not sufficiently transparent and failed to properly investigate some key issues, the Commons Science and Technology Committee has concluded.
While the excitement from solar proponents is palpable, it is surprising how shameless they are about sucking the government teat while bemoaning the low price of natural gaswhich Solar Industry Magazine calls "a fly in the ointment" and "inconvenient." It blames "new technologies for oil and gas extraction" (no wonder they keep trying to kill hydraulic fracturing). Gilpin states: "in all its 1,560 pages, the Clean Power Plan doesn't directly address the actual deployment of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. It does, however, give states and utilities an incentive to create and enhance mechanisms that will increase deployment of solar." (Italics added)
Global Warming: Melting Down the Facts About this Overheated Myth
"This fifth generation of Soviet leaders was more confident of the regime's resilience. Gorbachev and his group appeared to believe that what was right was also politically manageable."
Allan Sherman sincerely doubts that the world could do without his Good Advice . The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
I often point out that the one-percenters already give back much more than they get. And we all (including Occupy Wall Street-ers) happily make that happen when we voluntarily exchange our money for iPhones, TVs, cars, microwaves, etc. Even our health insurance. We kick in a few extra percent for those entrepreneurs, risk-takers, and experts-in-their-field as our way of saying, "thanks for all the cool stuff, and for our kids actually living to be teenagers!"
The Pew poll broke down the electorate into component groups based on respondents' demographics and political attitudes. Two of the eight voting groups they identified help to explain why libertarians often think there is an easily reachable new constituency for limited government. These two groups were called Post-Moderns and Libertarians. Libertarians make up 10 percent of registered voters, while Post-Moderns make up 14 percent.
Markey's immediate response to the DOE studyreiterating stale, year-old talking points illustrates what can happen when politicians put ideological priorities ahead of independent science and economic analysis.
The blaze is reminiscent of an earlier fire at the yard at the end of April, which took five days to put out.
High-Speed Rail: The Wrong Road for America:
After being nominated , Whitman was asked: Global warming, what is your thought on what the state of science is and what can be done to address it? She responded: Still somewhat uncertain. Clearly theres a hole in the ozone, that has been identified. But I saw a study the other day that showed that it was closing. Its not as clear, the cause and effect, as we would like it to be.
A comprehensive environmental review by USDA scientists had concluded that a genetically engineered alfalfa variety was substantially equivalent to other conventional varieties and posed no genuine risks. Vilsack chose to ignore those findings and pandered to the organic food lobby by announcing that the Agriculture Department might forbid farmers to plant the alfalfa variety on huge swaths of American cropland.
When I passed by, one called out: "That's Marita Noon! She supports the oil-and-gas industry! She doesn't believe in climate change!" Basking in my newfound celebrity, I turned, smiled, and waved as if I was greeting adoring fansand entered the building.
In the last month, the Arctic Oscillation Index (AO) has gone strongly negative. You can see that it headed to its negative peak right about the time the Copenhagen Climate Conference started, so it is no wonder that they ironically experienced cold and snow there. It is also a setup for the record snow and cold Canada and the USA has seen recently.
The time has come to question the IPCC's status as the near-monopoly source of information and advice for its member governments. It is probably futile to propose reform of the present IPCC process. Like most bureaucracies, it has too much momentum and its institutional interests are too strong for anyone realistically to suppose that it can assimilate more diverse points of view, even if more scientists and economists were keen to join up. The rectitude and credibility of the IPCC could be best improved not through reform, but through competition. The model for how climate science might be improved perhaps can be found in the field of intelligence in the 1970s.
I f we'd had a warming due to CO2, this should appear as a deviation from the simple harmonic model since 1950.There are no signs of any additional heating due to CO2 as IPCC claims in their reports also CO2 effects of climate models for the IPCC based are exaggerated.The net effect of CO2 is thus so modest that it can not be seen in this data.
When capital is sufficiently available, would-be entrepreneurs at the bottom of the pyramid have demonstrated a willingness to launch new ventures and invest in their futures that is, to embrace free-market capitalism to the benefit of all concerned.
Ice and snow are white, and reflect sunlight very effectively, Jacobson said. But because carbon is dark it absorbs sunlight, causing snow and ice to melt at accelerated rates. That exposes dark soil and dark seas. And again, because those surfaces are dark, they absorb even more thermal energy from the sunlight, establishing an ongoing amplification process.
So, in todays post, Ill explain my results. But first, I will explain why I prefer to use merged data when comparing IPCC projections to data.
Obama Admin Hides Official IPCC Correspondence from FOIA Using Former Romney Adviser John Holdren
At a World Economic Forum in Davos, Vclav Klaus observed that all the participants of the meeting took man-made global warming for granted and convinced of its dangerous consequences. "Politicians fully subscribe to the idea that the Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change (IPCC) publications represent "the" climate science. We know that is not true and that there is no scientific discipline of climate science ", said Klaus.
The word "rainforest" was coined in 1898 by a German botanist to describe forests that grow in constantly wet conditions, with an average annual rainfall of 80 inches per year or more. There are differing kinds of rainforest including "flooded mangrove forests along the salty coastline of SE Asian islands, high-altitude cloud forests of S. American, temperate rain forests of the U.S. Pacific Northwest," and the "tropical rain forests that form large pockets of green along the earth's equator" the major focus of this paper. Tropical "rainforests grow in more than 50 countries but about half of the total is in just three: Brazil with 33%, and Zaire and Indonesia with 10% each," and 57% of total is in Latin America. (National Wildlife Federation Educator's Guide)
The IPCCs remit is to provide an authoritative assessment of scientific evidence on climate change.
100,000 terminally ill "do not get proper palliative care':
Often focused on century-long trends, most climate models failed to predict that the temperature rise would slow, starting around 2 000. Scientists are now intent on figuring out the causes and determining whether the respite will be brief or a more lasting phenomenon.
Our analysis shows that fewer extremely hot days were recorded over the past five years at both Observatory Hill and Parramatta than in the preceding five years of observation or the five years before that.
An intriguing alternative has been floated by Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.): a national nonprofit plan, not run by the government but with funding seeded by the federal government, available where private plans don't cut the mustard.
McCarthy and the Post apparently neglected to notice that no UN category 3-5 hurricanes have struck the U.S. coast since October 2005, setting a more than century-long record lull since 1900. In fact, NOAA and even the UN's alarmist Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported that there have been no increases in the severity or frequency of droughts, floods, thunderstorms, or tornadoes in decades.
Of course this is not the first time scientists have been caught leaving out inconvenient data tending to disconfirm their pre-conceived conclusion humans are causing dangerous climate change.
Internal EPA Document May Foreshadow Tax and Regulatory Actions
Europe Adds Headache to Blair's Post-Election Hangover
Organizations that receive government funding for climate research are surprisingly reluctant to have any public scrutiny or input. For example, the University of Virginia, Penn State and the University of East Anglia are using the courts to block disclosure of information relating to work paid for by taxpayers. These organizations and many like them scorn sunshine laws, Freedom of Information Acts (FoIA) as well as the concept of accountabiliy. This strategy is working for the most part, backed up as it is by a string of disgraceful ?Investigations?.
The world?s governing elites, however, no longer care about poverty. Climate change is their new focus.
So, how many years does it take for a climatologist to accept that climate change, as opposed to weather fluctuation, has occurred (is "statistically significant")? The generally accepted time is 30 years. How long has the planet been warming? From the mid-1970s to no later than 1998. That's 23 years of warming, followed by 12 years of non-warming (so far). In other words, this warming that we're told is so "unequivocal" and "settled" and "certain" has not passed the crucial 30-year mark. The warming of 1975-1998 is therefore not "statistically significant."
Phony Science Begets Phony Public Policy
Not only is Mr. Weaver an IPCC insider. He has also, over the years, generated his own volume of climate advocacy that often seemed to have crossed that dangerous line between hype and science.
SCOTUS review of EPA's "Timing Rule" could deflate regulatory overreach
The White House on 21st September released a Presidential Memorandum on Climate Change and National Security. Section 1 states its purpose: "This memorandum establishes a framework and directs Federal departments and agencies to perform certain functions to ensure that climate change-related impacts are fully considered in the development of national security doctrine, policies, and plans."
This study demonstrates the ability of certain corals to cope with the environmental stresses of sub-aerial exposure, including high substrate and air temperatures and solar irradiance. The authors noted that "tissue retraction in this species results in marked paling of color which has previously been interpreted as a bleaching response." Hence, it is possible that some reports of coral bleaching, particularly those based solely on satellite reflectance measurements, may not be real bleaching events.
Its a knockout in the latest thriller in Manila where the President has axed his Office of the Presidential Adviser on Global Warning and Climate Change. Were saved, apparently.
"Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor continues to hear cases in U.S. appeals courts, while also playing a role in public policy issues. Her critics say she should do one or the other, but not both."
The whole theory rests on the ???coincidence?? of a CO2 dip of 7ppm in 1610 with the depth of the Little Ice Age, er, apparently 180 or so years later (according to their graph). Greenhouses gases can absorb infra red at the speed of light, and they drive the climate, we just don??t see the correlation, right? Yeah, baby.
Spending fifty cents on a fancy bottle of soda water "guaranteed to cure all ills" is one thing. Spending more than our entire national economy on chasing an ephemera well, that's the sort of malfeasance of which impeachment charges are made. Before this scandal broke, a majority of Americans wanted no part of the "cap-and-trade" bill. And now?
Since at least the 1840s when sunspot cycles were discovered, scientists have proposed that solar variability could affect the climate, but direct evidence of that relationship and understanding of a mechanism have been lacking.
As illustrated and discussed in If the IPCC was Selling Manmade Global Warming as a Product, Would the FTC Stop their deceptive Ads? , the IPCCs climate models cannot simulate the rates at which surface temperatures warmed and cooled since 1901 on a global basis, so their failings on a zonal-mean basis as discussed in this post come as no surprise.
Nor is Hansen part of the hallowed scientific "consensus" on global warming. He's much more apocalyptic. He still predicts faster and much greater sea-level rises, ice-sheet meltings and species extinctions than the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
But this is not to say that we may not raise other obstaclessome even in the name of doing something about climate change. For instance, a new study by Indur Goklany (2011) concluded that in 2010 alone the biofuels policies of the developed world caused 192,000 excess deaths in the developing world, from malnutrition and poverty exacerbated by resulting increases in food pricesa seemingly worse outcome than that posed by the problem that such policies were trying to address in the first place.
I wonder how sea life manages to outrun El Nio and La Nia ENSO events without being cooked in place? These have far greater temperature variability in shorter time spans than climate change.
Additionally, our estimates of climate sensitivity using our SCM and the four instrumental temperature records range from about 1.5 C to 2.0 C. These are on the low end of the estimates in the IPCCs Fourth Assessment Report. So, while we find that most of the observed warming is due to human emissions of LLGHGs, future warming based on these estimations will grow more slowly compared to that under the IPCCs likely range of climate sensitivity, from 2.0 C to 4.5 C. This makes it more likely that mitigation of human emissions will be able to hold the global temperature increase since pre-industrial time below 2 C, as agreed by the Confer- ence of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Cancun.
In short, most of the forcing predicted by the IPCC is either an exaggeration or has already resulted in whatever temperature change it was going to cause. There is little global warming in the pipeline as a result of our past and present sins of emission.
(A) They proclaim the results and declare success before an experiment is completed (at 12m10s, the mp3 file above). In AGW, just look to the countless documents that take lAGW same as established truth, although the debate itself on the attribution of observed changes still very open.
Prof. Lindzen critiques climate model calculations. We are expected to swoon over the fact that climate models, which are run on supercomputers, are state-of-the-art achievements in science. But ???state-of-the-art?? does not always mean accurate, or even useful, if the art is still in its infancy.
Fire at R Plevin & Sons, Crow Edge on Wednesday
On Thursday, the Met Office launched its new report on global warming, UK Climate Predictions 2009 otherwise known as UKCP09 . This is based on the output of Hadley Centre climate models that predict temperature increases of up to 6C with wetter winters, dryer summers, more heatwaves, rising sea levels, more floods and all the other catastrophes that one would expect from similar exercises in alarmism.
Bottom Line: The statistical evidence on violent tornadoes, although frequently ignored by the media, politicians, and others claiming a link between violent weather and climate change, suggests that the frequency of violent tornadoes like the recent one in Moore, Oklahoma, has been declining over time, not increasing.
The first report comes from the London School of Economics, and was sponsored by the neo-Malthusian organization, the Optimum Population Trust (OPT, patron: Sir David Attenborough).
Ball also rejects the contention that climate change brings on more extreme weather events, not just higher temperatures. He said hurricane season was very quiet this year and tornadoes were down as well. He chalked up record high and low temperatures to the jet stream shifting from a west-east flow to more of a north-south line.