Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
And the fabricated documents (which Dr. Mann apparently still thinks is factual) which lead to the sort of misinformation Dr. Mann uses, are here: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/02/global-warming-alarmists-resort-to-hoax.php
Inhofe disputed this, saying that while the Supreme Court said the EPA had the discretion to "decide whether greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare," it did not authorize draconian regulations based on flawed science, regulations that would impose an economy-crushing hidden tax on businesses, energy producers and American consumers.
Chinese Famine of 1928-1930-Over 3 million perish in northwest China
QUOTE OF THE WEEK - NY Top Court Upholds Lap Dance Tax
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Last's informative and crisply argued book strives to let "hope have the last word." Yet his documentation of our self-absorbed commitment to our own pleasure and comfort, both of which child-bearing interferes with, and our indifference to the world that will come after us, suggests that for "a deeply unserious people," as Last calls us, change will not come until the costly wages of our selfishness become manifest.
We are being told atmospheric carbon dioxide levels leapt, so why didnt it get unbearably hot?
"Cuba has set income tax rates at 25 to 50 percent for its soon to be expanded private sector, with the biggest earners paying the most taxes, according to official decrees published on Monday."
Pretty much says it all: Sweden may have to import garbage
Memo to believers of global catastrophe: Here??s a strategic tip ??? run, flee, hide, and avoid the Hot Spot argument at all costs. (You can??t win). Either the hot spot is missing because the models exaggerate wildly, or the hot spot is there but we can??t see it because the world hasn??t warmed as much as those thermometers-near-carparks are claiming it has.
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Oh, my. Only American troglodytes and neanderthals are supposed to question whether the planet is hurtling towards climate disaster. Surely the Aussies can't be having any doubts. Al Gore, call your office!
The winners are states with high power costs or with significant inexpensive hydroelectric resources that would be unaffected by GHG policies. The losers are states with low power costs driven by disproportionate use of cheap, coal-fired power. By driving power costs up in the latter group of states, the GHG policies would reduce the competitive disadvantages of the former group.
2. Hinderaker, J. June 9, 2012. Is the United States Actually Getting Warmer? http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/06/is-the-united-states-actually-getting-warmer.php
The hockey team could have stayed with the temperature according to tree rings but they did not. For this small region of temperature, forty degrees or so, they used conventional thermometry but for the other thousand years or so they used ring separation. That is, they chose to replace the inconvenient later tree data with more suitable data from other sources. The trouble is that the uptick in the twentieth century, the stubby blade of the hockey stick, is the crucial result! So it might be argued, and is by deniers, that to use tree rings up to the year 1960 and then switch to normal thermometry is asking for trouble especially if you dont make it clear that this is what you have done, which is a fair description of the actions of Manns team.
Australian, New Zealand Armed forces equivalent of Poppy Day. Remembrance Sunday.
Citigroup's "Energy 2020" report says the U.S. petroleum industry could add "as many as 3.6 million jobs by 2020 and increase the U.S. gross domestic product by as much as 3 percent," while also generating billions of dollars in lease bonuses, rents, royalties and taxes for local, state and federal governments.
"Last summer, two American researchers took a more careful look. Armed with 210 overhead photographs of the Amazon region taken by Landsat satellites, they compared images from 1978 and 1988, painstakingly entered into a computer every tiny forest clearing, road, and power-line right of way. They found the average rate of rainforest loss was 3.7 million acres per year, or about one-fifth the widely accepted number."
Since the earliest days of climate policy development, the world's focus has been on the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions rather than adaptation. In fact, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has always discussed the idea of adaptation to climate change as a second- or third-best policy responsesomething to be done only after every possible effort has been made to reduce GHG emissions.
Fortunately, while globalista academics, their handmaidens in the political commentariat, leftist think tanks, and non-governmental organizations were hard at work, others, in the late '90s, were awakening to the consequences of all that buzz. Sometimes derided as "new sovereigntists" by the multilateralist chorus, these analysts and practitioners began examining both the precepts and the implications of the global-governance agenda.
4 Fourth, satellites have measured the outgoing radiation from the earth and found that the earth gives off more heat when the surface is warmer, and less heat in months when the earths surface is cooler. Who could have guessed? But the climate models say the opposite, that the Earth gives off less heat when the surface is warmer, because they trap heat too aggressively (positive feedback). Again, the climate models are violently at odds with reality.
''Imagine, if you will, someone who read only the Reader's Digest between 1950 and 1970, and someone in the same period who read only The Nation or The New Statesman. Which reader would have been better informed about the realities of Communism? The answer, I think, should give us pause. Can it be that our enemies were right?''
Other complicating factors are easier to assess and guard against. They found that the embankments that protect the land from the river and sea had also robbed it of fresh supplies of sediment: during the five decades of its existence, the polder had sunk by a full metre relative to the land outside the embankments because it was not being replenished. On top of that, Goodbred found, local shrimp farmers had drilled holes into the dikes to pipe salt water from coastal rivers into their hatcheries, weakening the barriers.
It gives us little pleasure to say we foresaw that the Republican Party was on a destructive course that could lead to such a situation.
The purpose of this paper is to describe existing methodologies to separate decadal natural variability from anthropogenically forced variability, the degree to which those efforts have succeeded, and the ways in which the methods are limited or challenged by existing data. Note that the separation of decadal natural variability from anthropogenically forced variability goes beyond what has already been accomplished in previous studies that focused primarily on the detection of a long-term anthropogenic signal (Hegerl et al. 2007b) because on decadal time scales anthropogenic effects may be nonmonotonic, regionally dependent, and/or convolved with natural variability.
Final Tab for Pelosi's Speakership: $5.34 Trillion in New Debt Or $3.66 Billion Per Day:
ScienceWorldReport Climate Change: Seabirds are Abandoning Ancestral Nesting Grounds in California .
This figure depicts the central Greenland surface temperature reconstruction produced by the six scientists; and as best as can be determined from this representation, the peak temperature of the latter part of the Medieval Warm Period - which actually began some time prior to the start of their record, as demonstrated by the work of Dansgaard et al . (1975), Jennings and Weiner (1996), Johnsen et al . (2001) and Vinther et al . (2010) - was approximately 0.33C greater than the peak temperature of the Current Warm Period, and about 1.67C greater than the temperature of the last decades of the 20th century.
"Giving the HPV vaccine to young women could be potentially harmful,
The institute said there was a need for a wider public debate as the controversial method of extracting gas from shale rock, commonly known as fracking, has generally relied on a solution of potentially toxic chemicals to break up rock and release the gas.
Research and ruling classes benefit, while poor, minority and blue-collar families suffer and Africans are told they must be content with wind and solar energy because, as President Obama put it, "if everybody has got a car" and air conditioning and a big house, "the planet will boil over."
Obama seeks new air pollution limits for landfills
In other words, the assumptions that underpin the economic analyses used to justify carbon pricing are appropriate for a theoretical modelling exercise but unrealistic, impracticable and highly unlikely to be achieved in the real world. Some key assumptions that underpin the analyses are:
Marcott, Shakun, Clark and Mix did not use the published dates for ocean cores, instead substituting their own dates. The validity of Marcott-Shakun re-dating will be discussed below, but first, to show that the re-dating ???matters?? (TM-climate science), here is a graph showing reconstructions using alkenones (31 of 73 proxies) in Marcott style, comparing the results with published dates (red) to results with Marcott-Shakun dates (black). As you see, there is a persistent decline in the alkenone reconstruction in the 20th century using published dates, but a 20th century increase using Marcott-Shakun dates. (It is taking all my will power not to make an obvious comment at this point.)
The most cited potential reason for this unexpected inconvenience is that the oceans have been taking up the extra heat and replacing it with cooler water from the ocean depths. In that scenario, the natural ocean surface-cooling mechanism now in progress (if it exists) will eventually go back to normal, and surface warming will return with a vengeance. Just you wait and see.
The BEST report said: Numerically, our best estimate for the global temperature of 2014 puts it slightly above (by 0.01C) that of the next warmest year (2010) but by much less than the margin of uncertainty. (italics added) Therefore it is impossible to conclude from our analysis which of 2014, 2010, or 2005 was actually the warmest year. the Earths average temperature for the past decade has changed very little.
Glacial ice packs advance and recede according to precipitation and havent lost any ice due to warming anywhere on the globe. We have been told for years of the sea rising and flooding shallow areas of the globe.
Why nuclear energy is Obama's Nixon-to-China opportunity
3 EPA, Fact Sheet: New Source Review Report and Improvements, p.4
So for James Murray did Global Warming decide Boko Haram to kidnap and rape 200 school girls and machine gun thousands more .Or did Global Warming decide ISIS to behead and burn people to death in metal cages live on the internet.Bit of an extreme reaction to a drought.
U. S. President Barack Obama is said by White House insiders to be suffering from a bad case of "summit fatigue."
The adrenaline rush of the Nobel is likely to prove evanescent, however, and will probably turn out to be the high water mark of climate hysteria. Increasingly, climate catastrophe is coming more and more to resemble the hysteria over the "population bomb" of the late 1960s and early 1970s. In those days, Paul Ehrlich was a frequent guest on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, and there were government commissions launched here and abroad to ponder whether we needed an aggressive anti-natalist policy. The effort to develop a population policy in the U.S. collapsed quickly and quietly when someone pointed out that any anti-natalist policy would disproportionately affect racial and ethnic minorities. Oops.
Hammering away at perceptions that nation-states cannot adequately meet global challenges, but the U.N. can, is a major theme of the position papers, which were assembled by a variety of U.N. think tanks, task forces and institutions, including the United Nations Development Program, and the U.N.'s Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
First, laboratory tests prove that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. But that observation tells us nothing about how much the global temperature changes if extra carbon enters the real, complicated atmosphere. Every emitted carbon atom raises the global temperature, but the missing hotspot shows that the effect is negligible.
Scientistsalso say that global warming causes record sea ice around Antarctica
Kevin Trenberth says that one needs exactly seventeen years, and not just ten years, when the global warming is absent to disprove the theory of man-made global warming. This absolute and seemingly authoritative statement misses the fact that there are no sharp numbers here at all. First of all, the humans surely have a nonzero effect on the temperatures. The previous sentence would be valid even if the human contribution to the temperature changes were 1,000 times smaller than the largest natural driver. So we can never prove that the human effect is "exactly zero" because this is clearly an invalid statement.
Until the temperatures begin to or the IPCC revises its projections, weather watchers will continue to point out that it is difficult to reconcile trends of -1.5C/century with projections of 2C/century projected to apply right now .
Of course, in order for the risk-takers to try a new business enterprise (most of which fail), they have to have some hope they will get rewarded if they succeed. That's why you can't just keep taxing the rich more and more. For every rich person, there were ten or more who failed at meeting the needs of society on a grand scale.
IPA remained the top style sold by independent craft brewers, and continues to grow faster than the overall craft category.
50,000 North Americans die annually in car crashes.
question of how the climate will change in many decades time.
A rogue nuclear missile on Paris or Berlin is decidedly more unlikely in the next five years than the hijacking and sinking of a couple of supertankers in the Strait of Gibraltar or the Bosphorus. The latter, in particular, is less than a mile wide in some areas, and 10 percent of the 50,000 ships that pass through it each year are tankers carrying Russian and Caspian oil.
Worldwide, there were at least 90 major volcanic eruptions in 1660 alone, according climatologist Cliff Harris and meteorologist Randy Mann.
After a recent victory in a FOIA lawsuit, Horner and CEI v. GMU, a Richmond court allowed the Competitive Enterprise Institute to release records on Friday that showed George Mason University's Ed Maibach and Jagadish Shukla, both taxpayer-funded instructors, organized a campaign calling for prosecution of those who disagree with their views on climate policy.
But in protecting children from an unproven threat, parents may not just be taking some of the fun out of childhood but also raising children in an atmosphere of paranoia, which cannot be good for them.
Question 5 (for Peter Calamai or Lucinda Chodan): There has never been, to my knowledge, a full-dress debate on any of the major Canadian television networks on the question of global warming, in part, I gather, because AGW supporters do not want to give the skeptics "credibility." If the AGW hypothesis is as "certain" as its supporters believe, why not have such a debate, or a series of them, and crush the skeptics once and for all?
Comments on the Menendez Climate Amendment from CEI and the Center for Science and Public Policy
In the speech Michael Crichton claims that the BBC and New York Times reported 15,000-30,000 dead from Chernobyl when the actual number was 56. Crichton claims:
Satellite observations reveal a greening of the globe over recent decades. The role in this greening of the CO2 fertilization effectthe enhancement of photosynthesis due to rising CO2 levelsis yet to be established. The direct CO2 effect on vegetation should be most clearly expressed in warm, arid environments where water is the dominant limit to vegetation growth. Using gas exchange theory, we predict that the 14% increase in atmospheric CO2 (19822010) led to a 5 to 10% increase in green foliage cover in warm, arid environments. Satellite observations, analyzed to remove the effect of variations in precipitation, show that cover across these environments has increased by 11%. Our results confirm that the anticipated CO2 fertilization effect is occurring alongside ongoing anthropogenic perturbations to the carbon cycle and that the fertilization effect is now a significant land surface process.
On climate change, is Gov. John Hickenlooper ripping a page directly from President Obama's authoritarian playbook?
butdo, at least,recognize the need to move beyond just the GCM runs. Theywrite
Now, you say, this is the LA Times, so surely they would blame all this on global warming? And, of course, you would be right.
Dr. Cindy Parker of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health said: "I'm a physician, why am I here for a rally for an environmental bill? It's not an environmental bill, that's why. It's a health bill. This is the biggest threat to our health of anything going on right now, and anything we expect this century. We have to pass this bill for our health and for the health of everybody in the world and our children and their children."
What is now the relevant rate constants? The first fr transportation between the atmosphere and the deep ocean is given actually directly by bomb test curve (and several other estimates, including by Bertil Bolin, already in the 1950s), which decays pi order of 10 years. Let us assume attden occurs PCA 5 r and rate constant in the example nedand can sttas to 0.2 / s.
Ethanol and Air Pollution. Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claims a net decrease in greenhouse gas emissions from using ethanol, they recognize that ethanol use is a problem for conventional air pollutants. Ethanol use, according to the EPA, will increase the emission of chemicals that lead to the production of ozone, one of the nation's most challenging local air pollutants.
Speedy in comments on this site has done a better than excellent job of satirizing the satirists, so Im reposting one of his comments here for those who missed it.
Such modelling underpins the last three propositions, too. Whether warming is going to be dangerous or beneficial for humanity and where it might occur, and what effects any warming would have on rainfall, or storms, or anything else, depend on the outcome of the models. Since the IPCC itself says that the current level of scientific understanding of some of the variables in the climate models is low or very low, it is not clear why we should take especial interest in what the models say. They do not predict, incidentally, but produce scenarios or projections, on an ifthen basis. Scary ones usually make it to the media, which like scary stories. But we have had an awful lot of them in the last few years, and people have begun to hear Matilda crying Fire. (For those younger than me, Matilda is the subject of one of Hilaire Bellocs Cautionary Tales , all worth reading.)
Swapping income today for greater income in the future is investment. The logic underpinning a carbon tax is the same. Lower GDP today will provide even greater benefits in the future. Because there are many investment opportunities that can swap current income for even greater future benefits it is necessary to compare alternative investments to investments in moderating global warming. In the jargon of Econ 101, "what is the opportunity cost" of such an investmentwhat is the alternative investment of the same magnitude that would provide the greatest alternative future benefit?
periods of active Earth Tectonics and Volcanism can be correlated to periods of active climate change and climate-related events. To describe this new theory, the term Plate Climatology is proposed. In general increased tectonic activity, either locally or globally, equates to more faulting and volcanic activity primarily along tectonic plate boundaries / rift systems. Increased tectonic activity leads to more heat and fluid release from these active geological features into both the oceans and atmosphere. Altered heat and fluid input equates to climate change. This effect has been largely hidden from scientific investigation because the primary heat and fluid release is from two under-explored / under-monitored regions; deep oceans and sub-glacial polar ice caps.
In the past, local governments and the legislature have blithely hit up taxpayers to pay for new sports stadiums for local teams. You may think you have it bad in your city with 4 major sports teams, but we have 4 major sports teams PLUS about seven or eight baseball spring training stadiums.
Shub identifies the source of the ?rigor and honesty? quote as a post from Skeptical Science.
voters lost due to precipitation significantly benefits the Republican
*if the paleo proxy reconstruction can miss these considerable perturbation downwards, some doubt is thereby introduced as to whether they would catch other similar perturbations in the opposite direction most notably during the so called medieval warm period.
We welcome the acknowledgement by the Panel that the Urban Heat Island effect on surface temperatures records in and around large cities is important but poorly understood. We also welcome the admission that the IPCC ignored the expressions of uncertainty in CRU papers.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering. In fiscal year (FY) 2011, its budget is about $6.9 billion. NSF funds reach all 50 states through grants to nearly 2,000 universities and institutions. Each year, NSF receives over 45,000 competitive requests for funding, and makes over 11,500 new funding awards. NSF also awards over $400 million in professional and service contracts yearly.
How to interpret expert judgment assessments of 21st century sea-level rise
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Counsel Hans Bader on the effects of ethanol subsidies.
Russia provides substantial natural gas, oil, and coal to Europe that gives it leverage in the Ukraine Crises due to Europe's fear of energy supply cutoff. The European Union has assisted in its servitude by resisting natural gas production by fracking and shutting down and curtailing future use of nuclear power plants.
3) The only significant temperature increase is in the Tidewater Division, and here of course, we only have one sample, the town of Hopewell. So just how robust is the Hopewell temperature record?
10 Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
8. Sweden - Agreement for Cooperation in Environmental Protection in Defense Matters
I also want to demonstrate my disapproval of the attitude of the Czech government and other competent institutions when it comes to the misinformation campaigns and the intentional information embargo on key events that are relevant for the current geopolitical and military situation in the world. In this context, I also blame all the responsible organs for the total inactivity in their task to prevent a global conflict (especially) between the U.S. and Russia on the European territory.
The science of anthropogenic global warming is settled, and has been for decades.Just not the way the AGW alarmists would have you believe. Increased amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere cannot be the cause of global warming, if global warming even exists.
The trick, according to RC, is to splice onto the end of a temperature reconstruction, built on proxy data going back several centuries, the data from instrumental records starting in 1960 and 1981.