Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Hansen an accident-prone academic who has been something of an international scientific laughing-stock ever since he wrote an article in a UK scandal-sheet last year that sea level might rise 246 feet was not fired by NASA for saying, in effect, that the growing body of scientists who do not agree with his ill-founded, apocalyptic rodomontade should be killed.
It is stunning that they parallel CO2 with a blanket, when anybody with a basic grasp of physics knows that the effect of a blanket, and indeed an actual greenhouse, is to block CONVECTION, which is a major process of cooling.
My sister, Elizabeth, publishes a newspaper in the vicinity of Yellowstone and theyve got a very comprehensive piece on he caldera. In fact, my sisters nickname is Caldera Girl. So she really knows her Calderas.
More to the point, I can?t help but suspect that these calls for sacrifice are, like the Gaia hypothesis, quasi-religious in nature, and at times plainly religious.
The 1990 IPCC Report contains an explanation as to why they knew the effect of greenhouse gases on climate: "measurements from ice cores going back 160,000 years shows the earths temperature closely parallels the amount of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere (see Figure 2). Although we do not know the details of cause and eect, calculations indicate that changes in these greenhouse gases were part, but not all, of the large (5-7 C) global temperature swings between ice ages and interglacial periods."
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That is since 1940 Canberra Airport data started in 1939 I can not find daily data from the Canberra city area before that can anybody help ?
Q - Do you agree that according to the global temperature record used by the IPCC, the rates of global warming from 1860-1880, 1910-1940 and 1975-1998 were identical?
Why are polar bears populations higher today than in 1960 and Inuit children now in more danger from the bears than are the bears from climate change?
Had I read everything I had on Podesta, I couldn't have started with: "This is an exciting time to be alive!" I couldn't have been my usual, positive, cheerleading self.
The participants at Bonn issued their call as a clutch of post-Copenhagen financial hassles have left UN climate officials frustrated. Numerous states are accused of backtracking on their pledge to raise US$30 billion for poorer nations by 2012, particularly European states who have been forced to make swingeing domestic budget cuts. The economist panel also noted that loopholes in the Kyoto Protocol climate treaty risk wiping out emissions-reductions pledges by as much as 10 percent utilizing "flexible clauses" in the Protocol.
The basis for the Engangerment Finding is contained in the EPA's Technical Support Document for Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act (TSD). The TSD does not describe any new, independent research carried out by the EPA (because they did not undertake any), but instead largely summarizes the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Not only did the 3.1 inches of snow in Omaha break the previous May record of 2.0 inches from 1945, but also marked the city??s first measurable snow in 46 years.
Furthermore, as of January 1, 2012, many foreign airlines are enraged at being forced to pay a new carbon-offsetting tax when entering EU airspace. The Chinese and Indian governments are both refusing to let their national airlines pay this tax to the EU, and other nations are set to join this boycott.
In other words, "quite different model physics" of convection are used in high-resolution models to simulate clouds vs. the over-simplified physics of convection utilized by low-resolution global general circulation models (GCMs). The IPCC uses GCMs to create its global warming projections, and thus it is not reassuring that the primary heat transfer mechanism in the troposphere - convection - is oversimplified in these models .
Easterling and Parmesans paper had also reported, Examination of drought over the 20th century in the United States shows considerable variability, the droughts of the 1930s and 1950s dominating any long-term trend. Recent investigation of longer term U.S. Great Plains drought variability over the past 2000 years with the use of paleo-climatic data suggests that no droughts as intense as those of the 1930s have occurred since the 1700s. However, before the 16th century some droughts appear to have occurred that were of greater spatial and temporal intensity than any of the 20th-century U.S. droughts. 8
But the UN's official verdict that the Medieval Warm Period had not existed did not erase the countless schoolbooks, encyclopedias, and other scholarly sources that claimed it had. Rewriting those would take decades, time that the band members didn't have if they were to save the globe from warming.
Almost enough to get me to shut off the electricity here completely. Almost.
With activists and politicians continuing to push draconian energy control schemes even with no net increase in temperature over the past decade, it is ever more important for the public to understand the myths being presented as facts.
University Begins Reporting All P2P Users to the Police:
A period of high global temperatures near the beginning of the last millennium closely matches the warming witnessed, about one degree Fahrenheit, during the 20th century, according to a new study in the March 22 issue of Science.
Northern Hemisphere CO2 levels undoubtedly continued to climb monotonically on an annual scale over the period 1982 2006 and we can reasonably presume was accompanied by no significant attendant global warming since about 2000.
The eastern slopes of the Cascades is a very beautiful and bountiful place (fragrant pine forests, apples, wind power and more), but it also has its vulnerabilities, including intense thunderstorms, powerful downslope winds, and lightning-induced wildfires.
Of note is that the adjustments in the early 1890s and around 1930 is about three times the size of the change in trend. This might be partly due to zero net adjustments in 1903 and partly due to the small downward adjustments in post 2000.
Ethanol and Fresh Water Consumption. What may surprise many people is how much fresh water it takes to produce ethanol. In December 2006, scientists at Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico issued a report, Energy Demands on Water Resources, explaining that virtually all forms of energy production consume a lot of water. Petroleum refining, for example, consumes 1-2.5 gallons of water per gallon of refined product. Colorado scientists Kreider and Curtiss estimate that refining a gallon of corn ethanol today requires thirty-five gallons of water. But that is only the beginning. Kreider and Curtiss estimate that three times as much water is needed to grow the corn that yields a gallon of ethanol. That brings the tally to 140 gallons of water per gallon of corn ethanol produced. If their calculation is correct, the 5.4 million gallons of corn ethanol used in America in 2006 required the use of 760 million gallons of fresh water.
ulse-like variation in local SST conditions and high SST (>1.0C) anomalies in the Midriff do not equate to global warming. In fact, the data provided by Velarde et al. contradict the press release.
Hypocrisy Alert: Dont do as I do, do as I say, and thats especially true of the IPCC which wants us all to dismantle our economies in order to save the planet. Except those edicts dont apply to the IPCC head himself, old Pachy, as he clocks up half a million air miles in 19 months:
Western Forests Recovering from Mountain Pine Beetle Infestation
We must ensure that regulatory agencies and their advisory councils become more honest and transparent; represent a broader spectrum of expertise, viewpoints, and interests than they do now; fully assess evidence for and against alleged "dangerous man-made climate change"; and carefully evaluate the impacts of regulatory actions on jobs, living standards, health, and welfare.
Sadly though for Joe, even Greenland has turned exceptionally cold this month. No place left for alarmists to hide.
The United Mine Workers of America has estimated that the rule will result in 187,000 direct and indirect job losses in the utility, rail, and coal industries in 2020 and cumulative wage and benefit losses from these sectors of $208 billion between 2015 and 2035. The EPA rules hitting industry in rapid succession create uncertaintyand, as we've seen with Obamacareuncertainty thwarts investment and hiring. The same industries that will be taking the regulatory hit from the CPP, are expecting additional impacts from the follow-on rules that are yet to be promulgated. No wonder the economy is sluggish and the jobs picture is bleak.
Due to a decline in solar activity and other factors, the Earth is cooling and has been since 1998. And a peer-reviewed study published in April by Nature predicts the world will continue cooling at least through 2015.
15d. Current state of scientific knowledge allow for a reasonable assessment of the effects of sea ice
Response: That is a reasonable interpretation, and EPA continues to believe that its BACT guidance is reasonable for the specific purposes for which the guidance is intended.
Figure 4 shows a clear relationship between GDP and electrical power consumption. If less electricity is generated, the cost of electricity will go up (due to the economic law of supply and demand), less will be used, and GDP will go down. The converse is, of course, more desirable: more power and reducing the cost, will result in a higher GDP. High priced wind and solar is not the answer. Let the market decide how to generate more power efficiently.
But then about a week after that study was released Professor Muller was forced to acknowledge that this BEST (Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project) data might also indicate that temperatures have not rise for about 13 years .
Second, there is fuel-supply risk. The nation barely has enough current sources of fuel to continue to supply the 104 plants already in operation. It's unlikely that banks will offer 20- or 30-year debt to a new nuke project without a corresponding secure supply of fuel.
Our own reasons for concluding that climate sensitivity is low are set out in some detail in Monckton of Brenchley et al. (2015) Why models run hot (Science Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 60(1), January: go to scibull.com , click on Most Read Articles and ours is the all-time no. 1). Further testing of the simple climate-sensitivity model therein presented by comparing its hindcasts based on IPCC estimates of net anthropogenic radiative forcings from 1750-1950, 1750-1980 and 1750-2012 with observed temperature change over these three periods, carried out for a follow-up paper currently under review by the journal, show the models predictions as very close to observation on all three timescales. Our simple model, using a choice of parameters that reflects the underlying physics better than those of the more complex models, predicts that the equilibrium response to a doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentration will be 1.0 K per CO2 doubling,
California's ability to slow growth in electricity demand is not due to interventions such as its Demand Side Management programs. California is not an appropriate model for other states or for the nation.
If I am frail and debilitated, and prone to problemsand I get hospitalized and the hospital is going to be dinged for a re-hospitalizationis it possible I will receive inappropriate care or be refused readmission?
Though the sunspots are affecting the radiation received from the sun, they are not the only thing affecting our climate. Much closer to home, there are thousands of volcanos and volcanic vents spewing volcanic ash and gases into the atmosphere.
NSW Councils (e.g. Gosford, quoting the best international scientists including CSIRO and ANU) in 2011 was advising residents with water front properties that by 2100 (89 years-time) sea levels would rise by 90cm. This is 10.1mm per year. Error to date is 595%%
Patriotism: Working-class voters are highly patriotic. They love their country openly in ways that often seem odd and embarrassing to the educated class. They are likelier to express open support of and deference to the military (while simultaneously recognizing that "big military" is wasteful); their children volunteer for the military in much greater numbers than those of any other class. This is partly economiclearning a trade in the military is a better opportunity for them than for people who think they can graduate from collegebut it is also genuinely patriotic.
Figure 2. Top panel regional chronology as shown in CA post, May 6, 2012; bottom panel- regional chronology shown in Briffa et al 2013 GU1 (yamal raw).
The bottom line remains Ed Hawkins figure that compares climate model simulations for regions where the surface observations exist. This is the appropriate way to compare climate models to surface observations, and the outstanding issue is that the climate models and observations disagree.
NRG Energy's David Crane: Energy Moralism Miscontrued
The SPPI has also kept on hand a 37-page 2009 publication edited by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R.-Utah, and titled "UN Climate Scientists Speak Out on Global Warming." It's full of blunt quotes from respected scientists suggesting that global warming is a power grab racket.
At low nitrogen, elevated CO 2 stimulated nodule numbers and nodule dry mass in nodulated soybeans by approximately 80 and 70%, respectively, while having no effect on these parameters at high nitrogen supply. In addition, it increased total plant dry mass by approximately 40 and 80% in nodulated soybeans grown at low and high nitrogen supply, respectively, while non-nodulated plants exhibited no CO 2 -induced growth response at low nitrogen but an approximate 60% growth enhancement at high nitrogen supply. What it means
For the long run, we need more power. The state should move quickly to shorten the licensing procedures for new power plants. Environmental regulations should be reviewed to ensure that they are not unduly slowing the construction of new facilities. Although we would all prefer to avoid a power plant in our backyard, such facilities must be located somewhere, inevitably in someone's backyard. Last November, the city of San Jose initially turned down a proposed power plant in Silicon Valley. Under mounting pressure, the city has reversed its original decision and the plant will be constructed. Local politicians seem to have finally realized that unless more power is found, Silicon Valley may find itself a silicon desert.
But as the new year comes in, so has the cold. At times like this I dream of global warming! Please, please, please drive away the cold.
I find it hard to equate the vast new supplies coming on line from shale gas deposits with the prices hikes we are seeing.
Its been a frequent debating point from climate sceptics. Recent cold winters in Britain and Europe, they often say, undermine the case that the world is growing warmer. Scientists have tended to reply that that is to mix up the short-term effects of weather in a particular region with long term climate change, and that the cold winters therefore are of little significance.
William Connolley (Stoat) has a good post on Grijalvi inquisition
This statement is entirely *false*, and it is so on several levels (including use of poor terminology such as sorted to mean screened). Not only is it false, it shows a phenomenal lack of attention to the most basic of facts, as presented by Mann et al in their 2008 paper in PNAS, both in the main paper and in the supplemental material. To wit:
Limousine liberals? Number of government-owned limos has soared under Obama:
Dow's AEA appears so desperate to make its case that it's taken to exaggerating its support among high profile energy experts, who are almost universally supportive of expanding LNG exports. It lists Daniel Yergin, vice chairman of HIS, which now owns the firm he co-founded, Cambridge Energy Research Associates. In fact, Yergin recently wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal in support of LNG exports. "How can America, having asked Japan to reduce Iranian oil imports, turn around and prohibit the export of surplus natural gas to this key ally?" he wrote.
EPA is also giving billions of taxpayer dollars to activist groups, to advance its agenda and dominate our media and hearings with false or misleading information about the costs and benefits of its programs.
Northrops presentation promised funding from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation in the amount of $7 million per year. Named in the presentation were 12 participating environmental pressure groups, including theNatural Resources Defense Council, Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund and the Sierra Club.
The problem alarmists have is that it is very, very difficult to reconcile past warming to high-sensitivity forecasts. It takes a lot of mathematical contortions, from time-delays to cooling aerosols to ignoring ocean cycles and natural recovery from the little ice age to make the numbers reconcile. Halving the actual historic warming by attributing the other half to measurement biases makes it even, uh, more impossible to reconcile high sensitivity models to actual history.
Its a rant so feel free to say what you want, Im wrong a lot.
For convenience I reproduces entire inlgget below. Dessvrre makes it unable to comment on Roy Spencer's blog, so we might have a little discussion hr in stllet.
Do you feel like you have been hiding your secret climate fear?
"There has been none in the past," he said, "and there is no reason to fear any in the future. Efforts to prove the theory that carbon dioxide is a significant 'greenhouse' gas and pollutant causing significant warming or weather effects have failed."
Zou collected the plant material at low tide in February along the coast of Chinas Nanao Island (if you can point to Nanao Island on a map, you are in a very small minority of Americans). The plants were reestablished in their new home in aquariums with near ambient (360 ppm) and elevated (700 ppm) CO2 levels. The plants were measured regularly to establish the biomass and relative growth rate. A seen in Figure 1, the relative growth rate of the plants was 50% higher when grown in the water with elevated CO2 concentrations. The author notes that prolonged exposure to the elevated levels of CO2 in seawater increased the growth rate of H. fusiforme . The findings were viewed as similar to what others had found when they conducted various experiments on elevated CO2 and seaweed.
Today I found a very interesting inlgg p Dr. Roy Spencer's blog. It's about sea temperature on the occasion of the recent El Nino-related heat.
However, none of these new designs can benefit the real world without a path to regulatory approval, and today's regulations are tailored for traditional reactors, making it almost impossible to commercialize new ones.
According to a document deposited at the Geneva-based U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in advance of a planned meeting next month, China now the worlds largest source of greenhouse gases insists that the U.S. and other developed countries endure most of the economic pain of carbon emission cutbacks, and need to make significantly more sacrifices in the months ahead.
Republicans attacked science and egged on conspiracy theories
The (Aus) weather bureau says the El Nio weather pattern could make a comeback this year.
???There is no question that natural causes, such as changes in energy from the sun, natural cycles and volcanoes, continue to affect temperature today. Human activity has also increased the amounts of tiny, light-scattering particles within the atmosphere. But despite years of intensive observations of the Earth system, no one has been able to propose a credible alternative mechanism that can explain the present-day warming without heat-trapping gases produced by human activities.??
What recent research says about fraud, errors, and other dismaying academic problems
One wonders if Mann didn??t apply his ??? special Mannomatic math ???, as he did to his ???hockey stick?? to the Box and Colgan (2010) reconstructed data to get the large divergence between accumulation and loss we see in Mann and Rahmstorf??s Figure 6.
Longer records show strong evidence for a drought that appears to have been more severe in some areas of central North America than anything we have experienced in the 20th century, including the 1930s drought. Tree-ring records from around North America document episodes of severe drought during the last half of the 16th century. Drought is reconstructed as far east as Jamestown, Virginia, where tree rings reflect several extended periods of drought that coincided with the disappearance of the Roanoke Colonists, and difficult times for the Jamestown colony. These droughts were extremely severe and lasted for three to six years, a long time for such severe drought conditions to persist in this region of North America.
He was bragging today that New York has lowered its carbon footprint. Keeping the electricity off in Rockaway is a crime. Mygrandmotherlived there for 70 years until two weeks before Sandy hit.
Satellite Data Show Clouds Have Cooling Impact
Walter Starcks response is entitled, The Great Barrier Reef and the prophets of doom: Even the more extreme model projections only depict tropical oceanic warming still well within the limits that thriving reefs tolerate. Dr Walter Starck has a PhD in marine science including post graduate training and professional experience in fisheries biology. He is the editor and publisher of Golden Dolphin, a quarterly publication on CD focusing on diving, underwater photography and the ocean world.
The US Senate's "Gang on Eight" are pictured during a news briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 18, 2013.
Climate activists seem to embrace faith and ideologyand are no longer interested in facts.
The 2013 forest fire count has been the smallest on record, with half of normal burn acreage .
In a typical "cap and trade" regime, allowable emissions and the initial distribution of credits among emitters are politically determined, making it unlikely either will be based on sound science. If emission credits are not given true protection as property rights, then businesses can be expected to hesitate to risk investing in them, and choose instead to bank what credits they have and make trades only internally, among units belonging to the company.36
Roy Spencer, from the University of Alabama, discovered the error just a few days ago which according to meteorologist Anthony Watts, accounts for 24% of the 0.74 deg C global warming claimed for 1905-2005.
Detroit 3 automakers hope to reduce health care costs in next UAW contract:
A.A. Boretti, an Australian scientist who has studied satellite radar altimeter data covering the past 20 years, discovered that the average rate of sea level rise is just under 3.2 mm a year. That rate would cause a sea levels rise of just under 32 cm (12 inches)by the year 2100, not the 100 cm that is currently being advocated.
Antarctica: Something like 80-85% of the worlds ice is in Antarctica. And no one really thinks it is melting or going to melt. In fact, if you look at the marks on the IPCC chart above for the contribution of Antarctic ice to ocean levels, it has a net negative impact, which means the IPCC actually expects the Antarctic ice sheet to grow, not melt.
OK, what is a constructor? You study the paper and you find out that it is a meaningless word that may represent anything and that may be inserted into any sentence for pompous fools to look even "smarter". Instead of saying that X does Y, you must say that X is a constructor that is prohibited to do things different than Y. It isn't really quite the same thing and the whole expansion of the sentence is bringing you nothing of value but you don't care. I can't resist to compare these awkward sentences to yet another quote by Feynman who was reading some "smart" texts by participants of an interdisciplinary conference.