Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
5. Chart of the Day V Wages by Race and Gender (above). The data displayed above on weekly earnings for full-time workers in 2014 by race and gender are from the Women in the Labor Force: A Databook that was released last month by the BLS. Since reports like this from the BLS contain detailed data for both male and female workers (with approximately equal coverage), wouldn't it be more accurate for this report to be titled Men and Women in the Labor Force? Putting that snarky question aside, here are a few interesting observations:
De Bilt metadata is discussed here which includes some interesting pictures (see also pictures at other Dutch sites). In the late 19th century, the station was at Utrecht, not De Bilt, moving in 1898 from Utrecht to the De Bilt pagoda hut, shown in the picture (top left below). In 1950, the station was moved again, this time several hundred meters away (see bottom left map from Hans Erren) and re-located in a Stevenson hut (see top right picture this is the figure from Eli Rabett.) In 1993, an electric sensor replaced the thermometer. The adjustments are shown in bottom right and are discussed below the pictures.
Better air-quality report bad news for green fundraising.
Second, the United States needs to adopt the same positive approach rather than continuing to insist that no second round of mandatory emissions reductions can be agreed unless China, India, and the other major developing nations also agree to some level of mandatory reductions. I think that Senator John Kerry was correct when, as reported by the Associated Press, he remarked in Bali that the United States Senate would probably never ratify a deal that didn't require America's growing economic rivals to make comparable sacrifices. A recent study produced by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for the Department of Energy demonstrates conclusively that pursuing emissions reductions in the U. S. without requiring reductions by the major developing economies would in fact be pointless. That is because emissions growth in the developing economies is going to swamp proposed reductions in the developed economies.
US CAP member PG&E; pulled out of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce last week citing "irreconcilable differences" over climate change policy. Today's Bloomberg.Com reports that US CAP member Exelon has announced it will not renew its membership in the Chamber, and that US CAP member Duke Energy will not renew its membership in the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM).
Olavi K rner also passed in March. He was a patient soft-spoken even-tempered scientist from the Estonian Astrophysical Observatory near Tartu, whom I greatly respected.
AccuWeather.com: Global Warming News, Science, Myths, Articles Scientists from the University of Quebec at Montreal looked at pollen within the sediment ice cores dating back almost a million years and they indicate that Greenland was much greener than it is today with several warm periods over the million-year span.
if CO2 plays this role it is surprising that climatic proxies indicate that Antarctica seems to have warmed prior to the Northern Hemisphere, yet glacial cycles follow in phase with Northern insolation
Observed global average temperatures (GAT) are, in fact, below IPCCs 2007 Assessment Reports lowestand most confidenttemperature predictions . The new view in the leaked AR5 shows a complete reversal of the AR4 view, which still touted catastrophic, anthropogenic global warming.
I first used the R scripts provided by CA to download the data at CA for the aws and surface data. I placed them side by side with the 63 AWS data sets on the left and the surface stations on the right being careful to align the data by time. Then I used R and excel to process the graphs into the correct sized and oriented matricies for RegEm as shown on the internet.
PRINCETON, NJ -- Although a majority of Americans believe the seriousness of global warming is either correctly portrayed in the news or underestimated, a record-high 41% now say it is exaggerated. This represents the highest level of public skepticism about mainstream reporting on global warming seen in more than a decade of Gallup polling on the subject.
Dr. Held discusses the difference between Arctic temperatures and sea ice (receding) and Antarctic temperatures and sea ice (advancing). He believes that the Arctic and Antarctic are very different and will not behave the same. But, none of the models show Antarctic ice advancing, which is what is happening. He claims that the sea ice thickness is very thin and that it is mostly wind-blown ice. Unfortunately observations do not support this assertion.
Since the nighttime temperatures are rising three times as fast as the daytime temperatures (Karl et al., 1993), it implies a non-climatic signal in the nighttime data equal to about one half of the total warming. It implies the reported global warming of 0.6 C in the twentieth century should be reduced to about 0.3 C.
Hollywood likes to remake classic movies from a generation ago, like Planet of the Apes, The Manchurian Candidate, and The Ladykillers. Why, it might be asked, has there never beenand never will there bea remake of Soylent Green? For readers who have forgotten or not seen the movie, Soylent Green was the 1973 sci-fi/horror film starring Charlton Heston that featured an overpopulated, food-short world of the early-twenty-first century where organized cannibalism had become necessary. But Soylent Green today is clearly too ridiculous even for Roland Emmerich, the moving force behind the remakes of War of the Worlds (Independence Day) and Godzilla, as well as this year's eco-disaster flick, The Day after Tomorrow.
Sorry, I dont find that convincing in the slightest. All three have been shown to have errors. All that shows is that their errors roughly match, which is meaningless. We need to throw all of these adjusted datasets in the trash can and start over.
Recent events suggest that we should listen more attentively to the Europeans.
I started to develop my own method to explore this utterly strange world, Bao said. Now, it seems that our LSU group is the one offering the strongest supporting evidence for a Snowball Earth back 635 million years ago. I certainly did not see this coming. The finding we published in 2008 demonstrates, again, that new scientific breakthroughs are often brought in by outsiders.
over the next 8 years a third of our coal-fired capacity, two-thirds of our oil-fired capacity, and nearly three-quarters of our nuclear capacity will be closed down either through age or the impact of the European Large Combustion Plant Directive. Absent a massive and immediate programme of building new power stations, with concrete being poured in the next two years, we will be in serious danger of the lights going out.,
As an amusing postscript: After the event, having interrupted me at least twice, and figuratively telling me to shut up by refusing to engage on the relevant empirical question, Ms. Macfarlane then accused me of being "rude." And so it is clear that a "rude" individual is anyone who challenges her assumptions. Wow again.
JJN, Nickle, was higher at the top and is now lower at the bottom. It is a more volatile, so faster to react, ticker. It may well move to positive trend first, and watching for it to cross over JJC copper might be an interesting indicator.
The Sea Surface Temperature anomalies of the East Pacific Ocean, or approximately 33% of the surface area of the global oceans, have shown little to no long-term warming since 1982 based on the linear trend. And between upward shifts, the Sea Surface Temperature anomalies for the rest of the world (67% of the global ocean surface area) remain relatively flat. As discussed in my book, anthropogenic forcings are said to be responsible for most of the rise in global surface temperatures over this period, but the Sea Surface Temperature anomaly graphs of those two areas prompt a two-part question: Since 1982, what anthropogenic global warming processes would overlook the Sea Surface Temperatures of 33% of the global oceans and have an impact on the other 67% but only during the months of the significant El Nio events of 1986/87/88, 1997/98 and 2009/10?
That's a lose-lose-lose for everyone except for the special interests and their influential backers in Congress.
It used to be that warm winters and cool summers proved global warming. Now it is the other way around.
The IPCC scientists and global warming alarmists predicted that increasing CO2 emissions would lead to a catastrophic permafrost tipping point, unleashing gigatons of methane gas - they were wrong
The Australian National Universitys Dr Will Steffen warned of surprises in the climate system where abrupt climate change may occur in just a few years. Such surprises appear to already exist in the paleo-climate records.
Eco-Imperialism On the international level, the Bush Administration has made overtures to help those in developing countries secure better lives. This was done ostensibly in Afghanistan and Iraq with their liberation, providing relief to the victims of the tsunami in Asia, as well as the ongoing commitment to tackle the scourge of AIDS in Africa. While these efforts are indeed noble and likely to gain us favor (maybe over time) with many in the developing world, it would also be worthwhile for the President to examine environmental policies as a means to bolster U.S. international standing.
Wilkins runway construction and maintenance Australian Antarctic ...
And then I do not see how leugenetica can ever have applications not monstrous in the human
Stott and Forest (2007) : This TCR estimate is based on the analysis in Stott et al. (2006), an AR4 study from which all four of the unlabelled grey dashed-line PDFs in Figure 10.20a are sourced. It used a detection-and-attribution regression method applied to 20th century temperature observations to scale TCR values, and 20th century warming attributable to greenhouse gases, for three AOGCMs. Gillett et al. (2012) found that just using 20th century data for this purpose biased TCR estimation up by almost 40% compared with when 18512010 data was used. Moreover, the 20th century greenhouse gas forcing increase used in Stott and Forest (2007) to derive TCR (from the Stott et al. (2006) attributable warming estimate) is 11% below that per AR5, biasing up its TCR estimation by a further 12%.
Wednesday Marc Morano, founder of CFACT's Climate Depot, released a 321 page report listing over 1,000 scientists who dissent over man-made global warming which Morano termed a "consensus buster."
Sea level appears to have risen about 8 inches since 1880. Have people moved? Have storm surges been more damaging? We saw with Sandy that timing is importantthe storm hit at high tide and that didnt help. But was it made even worse by the sea level rise due to global warming?
Although only the bottom of his face is shown in the ads, Mr. Berry said he was immediately concerned about the effect this depiction could have on his career as an actor.
To put things into even starker perspective, consider that from August 1954 through August 1955, the East Coast saw three different storms make landfall Carol, Hazel and Diane that in 2012 each would have caused about twice as much damage as Sandy.
A group of Geesthacht coastal researchers, together with engineers from the University of Siegen, has recently carried out an analysis of the rise in sea levels in the German Bight. All reliable water level measurements were evaluated for the first time, in order to determine how the mean sea level of the German Bight has changed. According to this evaluation, the sea level rose by approx. 20 centimetres in the last century, in recent times higher than in the years around 1960. However, similarly high increases in levels also occurred in the first half of the 20th century. They are, therefore, not unusual .
I guess they should have asked about their chances for snow in the nation??s 4th-largest city on December 4th . Of course this is not evidence that discredits global warming trends. After all, it??s only a local event, and localized phenomena are only capable of proving global warming , not disproving it.
I know plenty of people who havent been to church much but know their good lipid numbers and bad lipid numbers and such.
There is little to indicate any upturn in global manufacturing, and global inflation vs deflation fears look more or less in balance (thus the precious metals being flat / down).
Lilleys study demonstrates that the benefits of curbing emissions now and henceforth will not be five times the cost of action, as Stern claims. It is achieved by verbal virtuosity combined with statistical sophistry. In fact, even on Sterns figures, the cumulative costs of reducing greenhouse gases will exceed the benefits until beyond 2100, Lilley points out.
A member of the UK parliament, MP Peter Lilley, has written a scathing rebuttal study to the 2006 Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change which has been used a a basis for UK government to move forward with climate policy. The number of errors and distortions he has uncovered is quite extraordinary and brings the validity of the Stern report into serious question, if not outright falsifying it. Anthony
Ever since the litigation began, and since the Obama Administration took office in January, it was generally assumed around Washington that the threat of regulating greenhouse gases through the Clean Air Act was a purely political tactic to put pressure on Congress to pass a more comprehensive but flexible approach to GHG emissions such as emissions trading. But with the prospects of an emissions trading bill fading, it is suddenly becoming more likely that the Obama Administration will use Clean Air Act regulations as a fallback position, and Congress may acquiesce because it will excuse them of the responsibility for the high cost and chaos it may generate.
Not all gases in the atmosphere absorb outgoing infrared radiation. Nitrogen and oxygen, which make up most of the earth's atmosphere, have no blocking effect. The gases that absorb the infrared radiation and create the greenhouse effect are mainly water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. Water vapor and water in clouds absorb nearly 90% of the infrared radiation, while carbon dioxide, methane, and the other minor greenhouse gases together absorb little more than 10% of the infrared radiation.
The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, October 30, 2006; available online at: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ + www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/stern review report.htm
Salby's paper is due to be published soon, and I have yet to see his charts, so I am certainly not endorsing his view here. Till now I had thought the attribution of CO2 increases to fossil fuel emissions was a firmly settled aspect of climate science. But I once thought that about the hockey stick graph and the attribution of climate change to CO2 levels in the Vostok core, too. So I am prepared to consider Salby's case open-mindedly. The biggest obstacle he has to overcome is to explain why CO2 levels are so much higher today than in other warm periods, such as the Holocene Optimum and the previous interglacials.
Canadians remember our brave soldiers who have died every November 11th. Americans remember their fallen on the last Monday of May, in what they call Memorial Day . A year ago at this time I was fortunate enough to be over in Hawaii. I made a point of driving up to the magnificent and sacred Punchbowl National Cemetery to witness the events first hand. Here's a video I put together to commemorate that solemn day:
rmit program. Thus, when EPA's Tailpipe Rule took effect on January 2, 2011, "major" greenhouse emitters became subject to PSD and Title V regulation. This leads straight to the extreme and counter-intuitive measures the Court assumed would not occur. Here's why.
Just the opposite is demanded in the dead of winter when there is no sun and when the wind dies down. During the week, energy demand soars and their is often not enough supply to meet the demand. And because many power companies are finding it unprofitable to run conventional systems part-time, many are simply mothballing such plants completely, thus making supply even rarer. As a result, the risk of blackouts is becoming a real increasing threat in Germany with each coming winter.
Two recent climate science papers deal a savage blow to the climate alarmists' dogma that human caused greenhouse gas emissions will result in dangerous climate change. One paper suggests that the projected warming was not masked by sulfate aerosols, and the second paper argues that less of the recent warming was due to a human influence than posited. Combined the two papers provide further evidence the climate models the U.N. and the U.S. rely upon are deeply flawed.
And, Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner Philip Moeller said: "The country is undergoing an unprecedented energy shift in a very short time frame." And added: "Grid operators in the Midwest are struggling to gauge whether they will have sufficient capacity to handle peak weather during the next 5 years." While these comments are about the 2014 severe cold, Texas experienced a similar scare in 2011, when a protracted heat wave resulted in razor-thin reserve electric capacity margins.
To provide an even greater margin of protection, farmers wishing to plant Roundup Ready alfalfa had even volunteered to implement their own planting restrictions that would put the onus on commodity growers to extend buffer zones up to a mile from non-genetically engineered seed breeders. Predictably, the organic industry rejected that offer, preferring restrictions that would essentially ban biotech crops from huge swathes of American cropland. Ronnie Cummins, director of the Organic Consumers Association, said "there can be no such thing as coexistence" with genetic engineering.
Despite the fact that so little of the stimulus has yet been spent, House leadership already wants more. This week, powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Michigan Representative Sandy Levin (D) is pushing a bill that would extend Stimulus green energy tax incentives, to the tune of $20 billion. So it seems that temporary was also a sham.
But when a womans kids are hungry, she wont see the logic of not feeding them to avoid compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.. She wont understand that logic at all.
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This Friday, Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) demonstrated exactly this contempt for the most basic fact of the market when he responded to a CEI press release that opposed a bill to reduce immigration. Mehlman scoffs at the notion that "without massive infusions of foreign STEM workers our most vital industries would wither and die." We never argued such a thing rather, we argued new foreign workers would expand (almost by definition) America's industries, increasing Americans' wealth.
But wait! Just when you thought life couldn't get more dangerous, and thank the lord for EPA, the agency changed its rules and health advisories though not its regulations for permissible particulate levels.
???Since (today??s) temperatures aren??t higher than earlier temperatures, it doesn??t look like ???global warming,'?? Christy said, ???but more like a problem we still wrestle with: unpredictable natural variability.?? Christy said no one knows what causes these natural shifts in climate.
Listen to environmentalists speak about the rainforest and you get the idea that it is an ancient and natural paradise, untouched and unspoiled by human hands until recent times. The first point in a "visions of the rainforest" essay in a Sierra Club book flatly states, "The rainforests are fragile, nonrenewable resources." (Lessons, p.7)
Environment Magazine: "Back When it Snowed': "Losing Winter: As Climate Change Takes Hold, Our Coldest Season is the first Casualty'
For many years, environmental activists have pushed for bans, moratoria, or other restrictions on hydraulic fracturing (fracking), alleging the process is a threat to public health and the environment. But in recent months, increasing numbers of environmentalists have distanced themselves from the ban fracking agenda. Many have even embraced shale gas on environmental grounds, revealing how extreme and marginalized the campaign to restrict hydraulic fracturing has become.
"All new therapies carry risks, and sometimes those risks cannot be discovered until after clinical testing. If we set a goal of zero unexpected risks, then the only way to meet that goal is through zero new therapies. As the results of this latest survey indicate, from a public health standpoint that could well be the riskiest approach of all."
This year's wildfire season may end up being even quieter than 2013. On the same day Running's claim was quoted in the Billings Gazette article, the Washington Times reported only 38,000 wildfires have occurred so far this year. The 2014 wildfire season will almost certainly be one of the three quietest since 1984, and may well end up quietest of them all.
No crisis should go to waste, an eternal truth highlighted in bold by a purported climate change apocalypse that is now the target of actions newly proposed by President Obama. This so-called "crisis" will flood not various coastlines, but instead the front pages, replacing other, less flattering political headlines for the administration.
IPCC Warning on Climate Risk: Worst is Yet to Come
First, the actual story seems so straightforward that I wouldn't normally spend much time with it. The best movie of the incident was captured by the amateur Abraham Zapruder. There were probably exactly 3 shots and The Zapruder film shows everything you need:
We are constantly told about the risks of what climate change might bring in the distant future. In response, governments have adopted a series of policy measures that have been largely ineffective but have brought with them a bewildering array of unintended consequences.
My warning to you is that research that is politically motivated always lands where it wants to land.
GLOBE International has just issued a report on climate change legislation around the world. Rather dull stuff.
Dr. Sally Satel summarizes ACSH's efforts to provide sound science on the effects of tobacco smoking in the face of corporations' efforts to disguise its horrendous impacts.
Central Europeans right now are scratching their heads, wondering how on Earth they are still shoveling snow past Easter. March in Germany, according to the German Weather Service DWD , was the 6th coldest since measurements began in 1881. Britain has just seen its coldest March in 100 years. In fact over the last few winters hundreds of cold and snowfall records have been shattered.
According to IPCC models, if everyone in Wyoming traded in their pickup truck for a hybrid, it would slow global warming by about 0.00000001 degrees.
So, it is now almost certain we will see this scam blow up in the run up to US presidential election with a massacre of the Democrats and any other climate extremists caught into the crossfire will just be collateral damage!
MOOSE: Dont give me any of that fallacy malarkey. You just do what I tell you and youll get through this.
41 Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brothers eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
The industry has every incentive to capture methane emissions because its also a valuable energy source that can be used to produce electricity and heat. The more methane that drillers capture, the better the return on their investment. The industry has already unleashed an array of technologies to prevent leakage from drilling, transportation and processing, and innovation is improving those tools.