Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
A significant and rapid temperature increase was observed at all Greenland stations between 1920 and 1930. The average annual temperature rose between 2 and 4C in less than ten years. Since the change in anthropogenic production of greenhouses gases at that time was considerably lower than today, this rapid temperature increase suggests a large natural variability of the regional climate.
"I hear you loud and clear, Barack Obama. You don't represent the country that I grew up with. And your values is not going to save us. We're going to take this country back for the Lord. We're going to try to take this country back for conservatism. And we're not going to allow minorities to run roughshod over what you people believe in!" Arkansas state Sen. Jason Rapert, at a tea-party rally.
Faced with the embarrassing fact that sea level is not rising nearly as much as alarmist computer models predict, the University of Colorado?s NASA-funded Sea Level Research Group has announced it will begin adding a scientifically unjustified 0.3 millimeters per year to its Global Mean Sea Level Time Series.
For those reasons, the natural selection doesn't apply to groups and cultures literally. It's just another interpretation of the single history that doesn't bring any new insights or predictive power.
With a current of warm, moist air coming towards us, our temps have been above normal and with the humidity our low temps have been WAY above normal. Water vapor is very active in the infrared--in fact water vapor is the most important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. Such gases tend to warm us up at night--- they intercept the infrared radiation leaving the earth and reemit some back down to the surface, thus lessening cooling. There is a reason deserts are cool at night--not much moisture.
On January 7, 2005, Weaver asked Keith Briffa, one of the coauthors of Rutherford, Mann et al 2005, to act as a peer reviewer for Mann, Rutherford et al 2005. Because of his IPCC commitments, Briffa declined (suggesting Wigley), but neither Weaver nor Briffa seemed the least bit concerned about any potential impropriety arising from Briffa acting as a buddy peer reviewer.
New industry research finds that side air bags significantly reduce driver deaths in SUV collisions.
Daniel Yergin explains why technology continues to thwart doomsayers who claim the world will run out of oil
Joe Bast Introduces Debate Team and Defines Debate Rules
Columnist Timothy Carney warns that the massive bail-outs now flowing out of Washington will give the incoming Obama administration an opportunity to impose a regulatory agenda that otherwise would be impossible to promote. It's not so much that the government will be doing anything different than it has been doing under both Republicans and Democrats. Rather, Washington will be doing a lot more of it. Writes Carney:
We (unlike Al Gore) believe that the planetary emergency is not about the 5 billion people who are consuming oil, natural gas, and coal. It is about the 1.5 billion who do not have access to modern forms of energy and live in abject poverty.
As can be seen, over the first 15-period, prior to 1998, there was a strong warming trend (+1.4 degrees per century). As a result, the experts said human CO2 was the cause. They then emphatically predicted that this warming trend would continue and even accelerate. But it didn't - instead it decelerated.
Now, in a gesture that perfectly captures the fractious spirit of a polarised nation, comes the inevitable backlash: a political attack advert entitled "James Cameron ? Hypocrite".
Will the Presidents Clean Power Plan save consumers money?
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Tonight's tips music features the most famous guitar riff in rock 'n' roll history, and a sound that was to become a musical template in the decades to follow: Here's Chuck Berry - who'll be 87 next month - playing and singing on the original recording of Johnny B. Goode . The comments thread is open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Commenting on the proposed carbon pollution standards for new power plants, Bonner R.Cohen, PhD, a CFACT Senior Policy Analyst, laid out the reasons why MATS has no basis whatever in science.
Putting the president's fortune in Congress's hands not only makes for poor politics, it runs counter to the Framers' plans for the office. They saw Congress, not the presidency, as the main threat to the people's liberties. In a democracy, James Madison wrote in The Federalist, "the legislative authority, necessarily, predominates" because it has access to the "pockets of the people." He warned that "it is against the enterprising ambition" of Congress "that the people ought to indulge all their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions."
Other concerns include increased stress on water supplies and rising corn prices as a result of increased demand for the crop, which is fermented to produce biofuel.
A 2007 Newsweek cover story on climate change skeptics reported, "In April 1998, a dozen people from the denial machineincluding the Marshall Institute, Fred Singer's group, and Exxonmet at the American Petroleum Institute's Washington headquarters. They proposed a $5 million campaign, according to a leaked eight-page memo, to convince the public that the science of global warming is riddled with controversy and uncertainty."
In effect, EPA could insert itself (or your State environmental agency) into most local planning and zoning processes. I will write more about this in the future. It terrifies me.
6. Perceptions of "dumping" untested food on unsuspecting Africans. We've "dumped" millions of tons of these "untested" crops on willing consumers all over the Western Hemispherebut only after they were tested for toxicity, digestibility, protein levels, pollen dispersal, genetic stability, and many other characteristics. Not even a sneeze has been triggered.
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Ethanol production is killing real people for no reason at all.
So the B Climate cannot support trees, but Koppen uses a sub-classification letter to separate regions that support grasses BS (for steppe grasslands) from no vegetation at all, BW. A third letter separates h (hot) or k (cold). A desert is hot or cold defined by the lack of vegetation, not temperature.
In relation to the recent posts falsifying CAGW on the basis of Planck's quantum theory , this essay by geophysicist Norm Kalmanovitch explains why The Effect of a Doubling of the Concentration of CO2 in the Atmosphere as Depicted by Quantum Physics
In the simplest form of classification there are nine major climate zones (Figure 1). Zones 1, 3, 7 and 9 are singular with similar weather conditions all year influenced by one major control mechanism. The others, 2, 4, 5, and 6 are mixed weather conditions because they?re under different control mechanisms as the seasons change.
The Conservative Review reports on the subpoena CEI recieved as part of the Attorneys General's campaign to silence those who disagree with them on climate change.
Miranda Devine covers the ugly t weets that brought on the defamation suit from the Editor Chris Mitchell. Shes nailed it: the journalists have become activists. And theyre so far from being journalists, theyre actually proud of their partisan activism.
A new reanalysis by two NASA scientists of the three standard ice-monitoring techniques slashes the estimated loss from East Antarctica, challenging the large, headline-grabbing losses reported lately for the continent as a whole.
More than a dozen environmental groups that oppose hydrofracking sent a letter to Martens urging him not to approve the alternative technique without adequate environmental review.
Former Harvard physicist Dr. Lubos Motl: NASAs Gavin Schmidt knew about this fact. That didnt prevent them from pushing virtually all mainstream media to publish the lie in the very title that NASA was declaring 2014 the warmest year.
From the January 1 st issue of Vegetarian Times:
Having said all that, my second reaction to Massachusetts , which I still have today, is that it is like being back in 1970, when Congress first enacted the CAA, all over again. Reflecting the mentality of that time (and the significant pollution problems this country had), the 1970 CAA mandated clean air in five years. It didnt happen, because the goal was unrealistic. What followed since 1970 has been a long hard continuing fight to balance the desire for clean air and the need to maintain the economy. There have been countless EPA rulemakings over the decades since 1970, most of which were appealed, many of which were upheld, and some of which were not.
At the same time it's apparent that the United States needs more high-skill immigrantsjob creators rather than job seekers. The death of Steve Jobs (whose father, it turns out, was an immigrant) reminds us that highly talented individuals can be huge national assets.
There is an increasing body of papers in the scientific literature, such as Lindzen & Choi (2009), or Pinker et al. (2005), that state or imply that temperature feedbacks additional radiative forcings that occur merely because the initial warming, however caused, has occurred are either zero or net-negative, exercising a countervailing cooling effect. The feedback that is most obviously wrong in the UN's analysis is the cloud-albedo feedback. As more clouds form, particularly at low altitudes where clouds tend to be optically dense, more sunlight is reflected harmlessly straight back into space without causing any warming here in the atmosphere. It is easy to demonstrate that this primary (and cooling) radiative effect of clouds is more important than the secondary (and warming) effect you mention namely, the retention of heat in the atmosphere by the blanket of clouds.
Its entire Washington DC office, barring one staffer, decamped, taking Heartlands biggest project, involving the insurance industry, with them.
There was another 6.x in Indonesia a while back that Id not bothered to post about, but probably worth a mention here as its nearby.
Ahem. I think Mr. Kerry might have gone off-script with those remarks, but I'm glad he did. It was a refreshing bit of honesty because the United States could indeed cut its emissions by 100 percent and make virtually no dent in global-warming levels. According to climate experts Paul Knappenberger and Patrick Michaels, the climate regulations the Obama administration are imposing on the energy sector will reduce warming by 2100 by 0.018 degrees Celsius.
The El Chichon eruption is interesting because one of the strongest El Nino events, some say the strongest ever, occurred just after it. These two events had an interesting interplay for it seems that the global temperature rise induced by the warm water of the El Nino was offset by the cooling effect of the stratospheric aerosols from El Chichon. It is interesting to speculate what might had happened if El Chichon had not gone off. Would the 1982 El Nino have been as dramatic as the 1998 one? And would it have left in its wake elevated global temperatures, as 1998 seems to have done? What would have been the impact on environmental thinking, and on James Hansens global warming warning in 1988?
2. Kevin Trenberth is a meteorologist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
An ever-green climate lie says: Sea levels are rising fast and will soon drown a city near you. We need money from rich countries to cope. Leaders in the Pacific nations should monitor the tide gauges which surround the Pacific Ocean from US west coast, Canada, Alaska, Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii. They show no unusual rising in sea levels. Land and sea levels are always changing, totally oblivious to trace gases in the atmosphere. There are marine fossils in the Himalayas and the Andes, and ancient cities now lie beneath the oceans.
Some sentences betray the postmodern intellectual atmosphere of the environment in which Pinker works (Edward O. Wilson is one of the fellow Harvard authors whose ideas Pinker argues against). For example, the group selection theory is "nice because it is non-reductionist and ecumenical", Pinker reproduces a theme heard in his environment. Needless to say, reductionism is considered by many as a major "villain" that partially drives the group selection advocates to their conclusions. Pinker makes a convincing case that it's the individual (in a species) or the individual gene that is always a player in the game of selection and the society or context may always be treated as a type of an environment.
The UN IPCC had to correct a report from the year 2007. The report had exaggerated the melting of the Himalayan glaciers, and even claimed that they could disappear completely by 2035.
Going the extra mile to seek an agreeable solution actually helps gain the upper
On March 31st at 8:30pm people around the world will shut off their lights for one hour as a symbolic gesture that they want "something" done about climate change. During that same hour many other people around the world will keep their lights on in appreciation of human ingenuity and in defiance of the philosophy that paints humans as a blight on the planet.
The graphs are below. Frankly, even after the tampering, the warming rate is nothing like what it should have been if any of the IPCCs predictions had been true. My guess is that once theyve got their world government in Paris theyll stop tampering leave the temperature records alone.
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And here??s another give- away that Bachelard is a PR writer disguised as a journalist (though he may not know it himself) ??? the questions he asks the skeptics. They are fair questions, but I??ll bet that Bachelard has never asked a believer of the theory the same thing. Do correct me if I??m wrong, but try on these questions below ??? imagine a journalist asking these of Greg Combet, or Julia Gillard, Ross Garnaut or Tim Flannery?
In other words, the fact that this bear was so thin suggests other issues in effect (sickness, old age, injury), such as likely befell Ian Stirlings polar bear that died of climate change in the same general area in 2013. None of those possible factors are mentioned in this academic paper: it only states the animal was a large adult male.
Why the man-made global warming climate models are a "fudge," according to Hansen himself
Elena Kagan's War on Small Business
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He is not alone in noting that the non-peer-reviewed study appeared to be rushed for release conveniently in advance of UN Climate Change Conference held in Paris last December.
Astonishingly, Nature refused to publish the correction. It was published elsewhere, and backed up by the Wegman Report , an independent committee of statistical experts.
The research team is currently looking at La Nia, the cooling of the surface waters in the Eastern and Central Pacific.
The key problem is gathering accurate data on historical emissions from individual installations in major emitting countries to project the costs of regulation, to draft regulatory controls, and to determine compliance targets. Local parties have far more information than do central government regulators. They also have incentives to manipulate the data in order to gain greater transfer payments or exemptions, more emission permits (if cap-and-trade is used), or demonstrate compliance.
Many factors contribute to variability in Earth's climate on a range of timescales, from seasons to decades. Natural climate variability arises from two different sources: (1) internal variability from interactions among components of the climate system, for example, between the ocean and the atmosphere, and (2) natural external forcings, such as variations in the amount of radiation from the Sun. External forcings on the climate system also arise from some human activities, such as the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and aerosols. The climate that we experience is a combination of all of these factors.
Where are we left in this debate? From this agnostics viewpoint some broad conclusions can be drawn.
Moreover, it's not true that the fossil fuel-driven climate change theory predicts that the temperatures start to rise as soon as someone declares the industrial age to have started. Instead, the global mean temperature should be correlated with the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. These two quantities seem correlated in the last 100 years or so but the bulk of the correlation is explained by the fact that both quantities saw some overall rise during that time ??? much like thousands of completely different quantities that are surely not causally connected to the temperature rise.
Has any mainstream media news outlet checked the veracity of those accusations of corruption?
Response: EPAs GHG Permitting Guidance (March 2011) says: a permitting authority retains the discretion to conduct a broader BACT analysis and to consider changes in the primary fuel in Step 1 of the analysis. Thus, EPA never ruled out the possibility that a permitting agency could require that an applicant consider natural gas, or other cleaner fuels, when proposing a coal-fired EGU.
Approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, bringing oil from Canada to U.S. refineries near the Gulf of Mexico, would create jobs, both for constructing the pipeline and for refining the oil. America would be able to import more oil from friendly Canada, rather than unfriendly Venezuela. In addition, states need to approve more pipelines, a safer method of transporting energy than road or rail. It is imperative that we streamline the project approval process, which now can stretch to over four years.
The facts of population decline are dramatic. Women must average a total fertility rate (TFR) of 2.1 children apiece for populations to remain stable. But across the developed world, and increasingly everywhere else, fertility is quickly declining below this number: "All First World countries are already below the 2.1 line," Last writes, and the rates of decline among Third World countries "are, in most cases, even steeper than in the First World."
The peaks on that chart ought to match cold times, and the valleys warm times. In 1710-20 it was relatively warm in Sweden. It then got very cold into the late 1700s and early 1800s. We gradually warmed out of that period, hitting a peak warmth just about the bottom of that dip in the darker bottom bars in 1930s. Cooled into about the mid 1970s, and then warmed to the present, with the hottest being at 1998, just about at that other bottom in the darker bottom lines where it is almost white to the 2000 mark. Now were headed back up the next set of rising lines in that bottom dark series.
The average of those sites , plotted in Figure 5, is based on many ring-width series, each one being 500 years or longer, without individual growth surges or suppressions and from "strip-bark" five-needle upper forest border pines of great age. Such record is not a reliable temperature proxy for the last 150 years as it shows an increasing trend in about 1850 that has been attributed to atmospheric CO2 fertilization
Healso said that you may well enter a decade or two of coolingrelative to the presenttemperature level , however he did not indicate when any two decadesof cooling would happen or whether the second decadeafter the nextdecade will also be cooling. Read here and here .
In America, we treasure our sense of fair play. When a group refuses to play by the rules, Americans get upset, we get a bit as we say ornery. I've grown up with the notion of the ornery American. Now I know that we are not alone. I'd like to take a moment to introduce you to the ornery Dane and the ornery Brit. I'd like to call your attention to regular people who take their obligations of citizenship so seriously that when confronted with the global warming mountain of propaganda, they didn't just ignore, complain and be complacent, they took action. I speak of course of Jens Rodrup of Denmark and Graham Capper of the United Kingdom who along with David Rolla Rouse and the Reverend Philip Foster are the founders of Climate Sense and of our gathering today. Thank you gentlemen for your hard work and dedication, you created something fresh and new that could not be more timely.
/s/ Walter Cunningham JSC, Astronaut, Apollo 7, 8 years
Climate change is the subject of a complex debate in which, increasingly, experts disagree with each other. Nearly all of them believe in man-made global warming, but theyre not sure how bad the problem is or how to tackle it. Meanwhile, the sceptics are no longer dominated by scientifically illiterate amateurs. Many of them believe in anthropogenic global warming, though they dont think its happening today.
Other social science theories proved unreliable in practice. Keynesian economics crashed and burned in the stagflation of the 1980s.
In reality, of course, these academics simply can't abide having anyone disagree with them. So away with the skeptics. Make them disappear.
Hillary Clinton called out climate change deniers at a clean energy conference in Las Vegas Thursday evening, but revealed little new about what her own energy policy platform might look like if she decides to run for president.
International agreements, such as the Kyoto Protocol, "are based on a general understanding of some causes and characteristics of global change," says the report's preface. "However, there remain many scientific uncertainties about important aspects of climate change" (BNA Daily Environment Report, October 19, 1999).
evidence either of any change to date, or of a significant change in the
Growing. Not melting. In Norway, many maritime glaciers were able to gain mass, Zemp concedes. (???Able to gain mass means growing.) In North America, Zemp also concedes, some positive values were reported from the North Cascade Mountains and the Juneau Ice Field. (???Displaying positive values means growing.) Remember, were still coming out of the last ice age. Ice is supposed to melt as we come out of an ice age. The ice has been melting for 11,000 years. Why should today be any different? Im guessing that most Canadians and Northern Europeans are very happy that the ice has been melting.
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were acutely aware that they had supermajorities they had not possessed since 1980. With the increase of the partisan use of the filibuster, a phenomenon not widely seen until the Clinton years, they felt they would not have this degree of power again in the near future. Many argued that the window for bold action was narrow, and it could not be let to close without fulfilling liberal-progressive dreams.
The Consequences of Nighttime Warming for Winter Wheat Yields (13 January 2015)
???our results confirm that the direct biochemical impact of the rapid increase in Ca over the last 30 years on terrestrial vegetation is an influential and observable land surface process.?? Or to put it more directly, the greening of the Earth continues, courtesy of the ongoing rise in the air??s CO2 content.
The non-medical example involves bridgethe card game, not a structure over water.Bridge is to cards as chess is to board games. To play bridge well, one must be able to draw inferences from both the bidding and the play of your partner and your opponents. You have to formulate a plan in order to make or defeat a contract and you may have to modify this plan as the play of the cards unfolds. There are many close decisions to be made during the course of a hand and using ones judgment as to the best alternatives is crucial. No two hands are exactly the same and this is why devotees of the game find it so fascinating.
Warmist Brad Johnson tries to make the pending East Coast blizzard about the ocean "warming Fails