Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
relatively more nitrous oxide and other potent greenhouse gases than does gasoline. In contrast, the greenhouse gases released during the conventional gasoline fuel cycle contain relatively more of the less potent type, namely, carbon dioxide.
The CPP has the potential to prematurely shutter hundreds of coal-fueled power plants when viable option exists for the plants' replacement. This winter, Massachusetts is experiencing a 37% increase in electricity rates over last year because plants closed without sufficient infrastructure for their replacement.
The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th Century.
This finding contradicts an earlier study by Mann, et al. that appeared in Geophysical Research Letters in 1999. That study combined tree ring data and the instrumental temperature record and "shows an almost linear temperature decrease from the year 1000 to the late 19th century, followed by a dramatic and unprecedented temperature increase to the present time," according to Esper, et al. That study served as the basis for claims in the Third Assessment Report of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that the current warming is greater than at any other time in the last 1000 years.
MP: What is there to possibly like about biofuels like "demon ethanol" (unless of course, you're a rent-seeking corn farmer)? It ruins car engines, it's an inferior and costly fuel, it's bad for the environment, it's a political boondoggle, it stresses water supplies, it increases malnutrition in vulnerable populations, and it raises taxes, gas and food prices.
Russia Re-Emerges as a Great Power in the Middle East
According to the DMI plot it is running higher than 2012 and 2007. WE still have more than a month to go and storms and winds can compact the ice and push it out of the arctic so no promises can be made. The oceans play a role in temperatures in the US and arctic and explain the recent demise and suggest the ice will recover in the not too distant future.
Both sides in the climate debate have made active use of opinion polls. In 1990, when I started to become seriously involved in climate-change arguments and incorporated the SEPP (Science & Environmental Policy Project), I decided to poll the experts. Having limited funds, and before the advent of widespread e-mail, I polled the officers of the listed technical committees of the American Meteorological Societya sample of less than 100. I figured those must be the experts.
The Pontryagin class is a complexified even Chern class within a cohomology whose degree is a multiple of four. Needless to say, I don't really understand these matters well. The people for whom it's their cup of tea must think about many things in terms of vector bundles. It's probably great for them and it allows them to see and calculate many interesting things but despite a course by GM, I just couldn't learn to use those things. I need to translate bundles to some fields with some properties or physical conditions, otherwise I don't really understand them. In some sense, I feel that mathematics and not physics must be the "mother tongue" for those folks even though many of them are stellar theoretical physicists, too.
Climate Depot's Marc Morano on One America News Network's "Tipping Point with host Liz Wheeler. Broadcast October 27, 2015.
Path Is Sought for States to Escape Debt Burdens:
43 EPA, New Source Review: Report to the President, pp. 31-32.
And this wasn't your everyday increase. Oil reserves skyrocketed in Canada by 35 times their original amount. This is quite remarkable, since the massive jump in reserves, from about 5 billion barrels in 2000 to 180 billion barrels several years later, could provide the U.S. oil for decades to come.
Better to look at the correct graph before making ridiculous comments. Sea level has risen 15 metres during the last 8,000 years. Over the last eight years it has hardly risen at all.
President Obama called for "hope and change" when he first ran for office. We can only hope that a new Congress and President will bring about the change we need to shut down the EPA and return control over the nation's environment to its 50 sovereign states.
When called out for his lying, look how he responded. No apology or regret, he simply shifts to a different mindless attack. These are the peoplewho are currently running this country.
Northern US winters are far worse than even record-setters in Britain. Why would anyone want to impose costly and nightmarish energy and environmental policies on American families, rich or poor?
Projected global trend: 0.3 F/decade
II. Multi-decadal oscillations plus trend hypothesis: 20th century climate variability/change is explained by the large multidecadal oscillations (e.g NAO, PDO, AMO) with a superimposed trend of external forcing (AGW warming). The implications for temperature change in the 21st century is relatively constant temperatures for the next several decades, or possible cooling associated with solar. Challenges: separating forced from unforced changes in the observed time series, lack of predictability of the multidecadal oscillations.
Again, there almost certainly is a warming trend since 1850, and some of that trend is probably due to manmade CO2, but sensitivities in most forecasts that get attention in the media are way too high. A tenth of a degree C per decade over the next 100 years from manmade CO2 seems a reasonable planning number.
In the end, the Committee basically took the UEA scientists? word for it, giving them the benefit of the doubt, and saying that the scientists were blameless. Even this committee, however, did find that ?The leaked emails appear to show a culture of non-disclosure at CRU and instances where information may have been deleted to avoid disclosure, particularly to climate change skeptics.? Finding an anti-scientific culture at CRU and also that the CRU?s Director?s reputation remained intact, as the Inquiry did, is political doublespeak of the highest order. Its finding should be viewed in that light.
Alzheimers data dispute gets even more tangled
Many exaggerated early claims about the dangers of climate change have now been debunked. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has explicitly abandoned previous claims that malaria will likely get worse, that the Gulf Stream will stop flowing, the Greenland or West Antarctic Ice sheet will disintegrate, a sudden methane release from the Arctic is likely, the monsoon will collapse or long-term droughts will become more likely.
4. Some CFLs can't be used in totally enclosed fixtures or in base-up recessed downlights. They can also interfere with radios and televisions.
"The diversion of food crops to biofuel production was a significant factor contributing to global food prices rocketing by 83% in the last year, and causing violent conflicts in Haiti and other parts of the world," reports African Energy News. "Food riots have also taken place in Egypt, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Mauritania, Madagascar and the Philippines in the past month" (and in Pakistan and Mexico, too).
Moore and White do not mince words when describing the Marxist political philosophy, which they say has caused a great deal of damage to middle-income and poor people around the world when applied to energy policy.
Africa is still battling "transitional periods," from slavery and colonialism, to neocolonialism and eco-imperialism. Its wars, diseases, and suffering will never end until we stop having greedy leaders who only care about their families, cronies, and tribal members.
"The numbers are staggering. In 1970 one in 400 American adults was behind bars or on parole. As of 2008, the number was one in 100. Add in probation, and it's one in 31. The number of people behind bars for drug crimes has soared from 40,000 in 1980 to about half a million today. States today spend one of every 15 general fund dollars on maintaining their prisons. According to the King's College World Prison Population List (PDF), the U.S. is home to 5 percent of the world's population but nearly a fourth of its prisoners. Judging by these official numbers, America's incarceration rate leads the developed world by a large margin, although it's doubtful that authoritarian regimes such as China's are providing accurate data, especially about political prisoners. But among liberal democracies, the competition isn't even close: As of 2008, the U.S. incarceration rate was 756 per 100,000 people, compared to 288 for Latvia, 153 for England and Wales, 96 for France, and 63 for Denmark."
Scientific case for man-made global warming fears is dead
As the CO 2 content of the air continues to rise, it is likely that wheat plants will exhibit significant increases in photosynthesis and yield even under less than favorable growing conditions characterized by elevated atmospheric ozone concentrations and/or pathogenic infections by rust-causing organisms. Thus, it is likely that such detrimental environmental and biotic factors will not threaten world grain production in the years to come, as long as the air's CO 2 content is allowed to increase unhindered by mankind's misguided legislative attempts to stabilize the atmospheric concentration of this vital life-supporting gas.
Methane hydrates are the largest reserve of hydrocarbons in the planetary crust. The methane hydrates in sediment considered part of U.S. territory alone could supply U.S. natural gas needs for 1000 years. So far humanity has not devised a process to economically harvest this immense energy wealth. Todays DOE announcement may point the way to a new era in abundant energy to build out a bigger and better world economy. -- The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 3 May 2012
At the 0:50 mark Schellnhuber is shown in an exclusive interview on ZDF German public television on October 30, 2009, explaining the risks of the globes third ice cap : the Tibetan Plateau, whose summertime melt water feeds a number major Asian rivers that help support 2.5 billion people in the region. Schellnhuber at the 2:06 mark:
It is also unlocking oil wealth in the vast Bakken shale formation of Montana, North Dakota and Saskatchewan. Oil production there has already soared from 3,000 barrels a day five years ago to over 225,000 today. The US Energy Information Administration says it could reach 350,000 barrels a day by 2035; industry sources say it could top a million barrels by 2020. Related oilfield employment has soared from 5,000 to over 18,000 in the same five-year period, and could eventually reach 100,000 jobs. At $100 a barrel, even 350,000 barrels a day could mean $1.6 billion in annual royalties, from Bakken oil alone.
Another instance: Abraham said I had done a search because I was bored, and had found that between the beginning of 2004 and the beginning of 2007 just 539 papers containing the search phrase "global climate change" had been published, and that not one of them had provided any evidence for any catastrophic consequence of any anthropogenic warming anywhere. However, he had searched Google Scholar and had found 628,000 references, a few of which, he said, showed catastrophic consequences of "global warming".
Dunedin : Moved from Leith Valley to the Botanical Gardens in 1913. Dr Salinger noted that these sites have widely varying thermal properties a complex pattern of local microclimates even though the move may be small in distance the homogeneity of the record will be quite dramatically disturbed.
The ongoing rise in the air's CO 2 content would appear to have the capacity to totally thwart the adverse growth effects of any increase in air temperature it might possibly be causing, as we describe in detail in our major report The Specter of Species Extinction: Will Global Warming Decimate Earth's Biosphere? .
Six years later, after still more dysfunction and acrimony, those objections are much less resonant. The idea of encouraging voting to provide more muscle for the broad center of America should be more appealing; the counterargument that we should not be bribing people to vote, less so. The experience of countries like Australia shows that there is no real downside to having near-universal turnout. And the idea of using a carrot to enhance turnout and depress the role of ideological extremists, instead of a stick like a fine for not showing up at the polls, may be more attractive now than it was in 2006. Enhanced voting in primaries, for example, would probably lead over time to fewer bomb-throwers and more problem solvers in state legislatures and in Congress.
> >> think mean interannual variability (i.e., year-to-year). There is also
The report shows a planet that is awash in energy and also projects strong growth in new energy forms such as shale and oil sands (p. 20) which are thought to be abundant. On page 95 the report states (my emphasis):
Paul and Sue Biggs are members/supporters of the Border Collie Trust GB , a Registered Charity (1053585) which relies on public support to assist Border Collies in the UK.
On the other hand, recall that Trenberth et al. (2014) gave us an approximate range for the energy imbalance of 0.5 to 1.0 watts/m^2. There are 5 models that produce an energy imbalance greater than 1.2 watts/m^2 for the base period of 1996-2015. If theyre right, then theres even more heat than is presently unaccounted for. Theyll have to call out more search parties to look for all of that missing heat.
Theres something about the greenhouse effect /sky radiation / downwelling infrared / back radiation issue that keeps drawing me back to the subject.
Climate dynamics of clouds: Could changes in cloud distribution or optical properties contribute to the global surface temperature hiatus? How do cloud patterns (and TOA and surface radiative fluxes) change with shifts in in atmospheric circulation and teleconnection regimes (e.g. AO, NAO, PDO)? How do feedbacks between clouds, surface temperature, and atmospheric thermodynamics/circulations interact with global warming and the atmospheric circulation and teleconnection regimes?
If we equate the energy coming in from the Sun to that leaving from the Earth, in the proper units of energy which is Joules, then 1.22 x 1017Joules comes in and 1.22 x 1017 Joules goes out. There is no problem here.
As far as I can tell, the only sentences that have any connection to Schmidts complaint are the following:
Unfortunately, self-righteousness is much more than that: it is a tragedy and a scandal .
Figure 1 and Figure 2 show that to a high degree of certainty, and apart from year-to-year temperature variability, the entire trend in global air temperatures since 1880 can be explained by a linear trend plus an oscillation.
The agency is still actively considering a wide range of comments on this issue, and any final decision will reflect careful consideration of the issue.
Athumani Juma doesn??t believe it. A guide who??s been hiking the mountain for the past seven years, he laughed when he was asked about the likelihood that Kilimanjaro??s snowcap would disappear soon. The glaciers, he claimed, no longer are shrinking, but growing.
So the two sides of ER=EPR agree that the "topological" property of the physical system (entanglement or wormholeness) can't be associated with a well-defined linear operator.
to prepare for his presidency. He got the White House structure and staff in
associated revenue. The other recent dynamic has been the threat of an Israeli
The world's great religions long ago ended the practice of offering absolution in exchange for cash. In the global warming age, however, large emitters of carbon, such as former Vice President Al Gore (whose 20 room eight bathroom mansion in Nashville consumes as much power as twenty average Americans) claim to use "offsets." Gore and the global warming elite have advocated purchasing carbon offsets which allow them to continue their rich lifestyles guilt free. They are also willing to sell these offsets to the rest of us.
All gases in the atmosphere have an effect on global climate, usually a moderating one, reducing the intense heat of the midday sun and reducing the rate of cooling at night. But only in theoretical climate models does carbon dioxide drive global warming ??? real evidence contradicts them.
So Ben why dont you directly ask James Murray through Email or Twitter ask him his opinions on The Iraq Invasion or Western backed regime change in Libya or Egypt or North Africa.
13. Earths climate has always been changing and cycles of heating and cooling have been a standard feature of earth history for as long as geological and historical records exist. To suggest that man is suddenly causing every extreme weather event is unjustified scare mongering and not based on any factual evidence.
The sun supplies the energy to warm the earth. The atmosphere, which is mostly transparent to the incoming sunlight, absorbs outgoing reflected or internal thermal radiation to keep the earth warmer than it would be otherwise.
The third pillar of science is peer group assessment. This allows for validation of your thesis by fellow scientists and is usually done in confidence. However, the entire process was set aside by the IPCC while preparing the report. Thus, it has zero scientific value.
Additionally, when methane cannot be captured and put in a pipeline destined for market, it is burned, or flared, at the wellhead, producing carbon dioxide and water. Pretending these technologies do not exist and that these mitigation procedures are not widely practiced is a dishonest depiction of methane emissions. Recent scientific studies have found much lower methane emissions than were reported by McKibben.
Until 1985, the published CO2 readings from the air bubbles in the pre-industrial ice ranged from 160 to about 700 ppmv, and occasionally even up to 2,450 ppmv. After 1985, high readings disappeared from the publications.
The different hemispheric records in the mid-twentieth century have never been convincingly explained. The most likely explanation is atmospheric aerosolsHowever, there are no aerosol measurements to confirm that interpretation. If there were adequate understanding of the relation between fossil fuel burning and aerosol properties it would be possible to infer the aerosol properties in the past century. But such understanding requires global measurements of aerosols with sufficient detail to define their properties and their effect on clouds, a task that remains elusive
In December 2012, I had begun a series of posts about El Nio-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). This post starts the return to them.
Other Deep Ocean Geological Heat Sources have been substantiated. Deep ocean geologically induced heating is proven to have occurred beneath the Arctic and Antarctic Ocean Ice Caps. NASA and NOAA scientists are what might be termed atmospherically biased. They force fit all data into an atmospheric context. Its what they know and what they were taught. Deep ocean geological forces are not well understood and almost completely unmonitored. Lack of geological data and an abundance of atmospheric data lend itself to narrow focused solution thinking. The NASA and NOAA scientists are very bright and dedicated folks, just biased. See also: Update On Geothermal Heat And Arctic Ocean Sea Ice Melt , West Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting From Geothermal Heat, Not Global Warming , Antarctic Volcano Mount Erebus Wakes Up .
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Barton told me: "You'll note that Senator Schumer still seems to think that subsidies for wind energy (electricity) will somehow "reduce foreign imports,' and then references increasing "efficiency' in response to a letter about inefficient, unreliable wind?" She's picked up on one of my favorite soapboxes: we could cover every available acre with wind turbines and solar panels and it would do nothing to "reduce our dependence on foreign oil" or increase America's energy independence. Wind and solar produce electricity and, through our coal, natural gas, and uranium supplies, we are already electricity independent. We import oil to fuel our transportation fleet.
That is why Labour will have a world leading commitment in government to take all of the carbon out of our energy by 2030.
U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions are falling largely because of a huge drop in coal consumption, which was down a whopping 11.9 percent in 2012. Domestic coal use is plummeting for several reasons. Among them are increasing regulatory burdens, on everything from coal mining to coal-ash management, and the Obama administration's threat of new regulations specifically on carbon-dioxide emissions. (Slow economic growth has also been a factor.)
Figure 3: The 230-year cycle over the last 165 years has been superimposed by a 65-year cycle as well as by other effects like the irregular ENSO events and large volcanic eruptions.
Ill have more on the tomatoes and cold story coming up, a story about Mexico Anthony
More on the Sun | Climate Skeptic I wouldnt say that I am a total sun hawk, meaning that I believe the sun and natural trends are 100% to blame for global warming. I dont think it unreasonable to posit that once all the natural effects are unwound, man-made CO2 may be contributing a 0.5-1.0C a century trend (note this is far below alarmist forecasts). But the sun almost had to be an important fact in late 20th century warming. Previously, I have shown this chart of sunspot activity over the last century, demonstrating a much higher level of solar activity in the second half than the first (the 10.8 year moving average was selected as the average length of a 20th century sunspot cycle).
To set up a new governance for IPCC, in order to turn it into a truly scientific body, rather than a mostly political one;
The real let-down was the media's obsession with the mythology that scientists had somehow made up global warming by cooking the data. Anyone who took the time to review the emails or the glacial records knows that assertion is patently false.
15. Will global warming produce more violent storms?
2. If people are concerned about the adverse impacts of extreme weather events, reducing CO2 emissions are not going to have any impact on policy relevant time scales, even if you accept the IPCC analyses. Resources expended on energy policy are in direct conflict with reducing vulnerability to extreme events.
Elegant. Simple. But what would Coase make of the idea? Mankiw's other writings suggests he assumes prohibitively high transaction costs for a property-rights solution to climate change. Imagine assigning global atmospheric property rights and trying to calculate gain and loss. Seems sort of silly. Maybe the Coase theorem doesn't apply in this case.
As a note, I have never deleted a comment on this site (except for obvious spam), despite many that disagree strongly with my position.
Temeln, launched 10 years ago, remains Europe's newest nuclear power plant!
This one, the guy is all about folks looking way too happy and fake about the whole thing. Does seem odd that so many folks were filmed and they didnt have folks losing it. Starting about 2:30 in to it we have the Two Smiling Parents talking about their dead daughter, but you can get the words. Some folks DO have a wake attitude, celebrate the life, not mourn the death. But I dont think I could be that collected that quick (and Im pretty darned collected) At 10:30 for a bit we have the cry faced person doing sniffs, but sniffs are from tears being dumped into the nose. (There is a little duct in the lower eyelid to drain tears to the nose.) Yet there are no tears perhaps higher resolution might show them? Yet not even a glitter of reflected light.
Australias antarctic runway melting | Tennant & District Times
"Breast cancer fundraising bracelets that proclaim "I (heart) boobies!" are not lewd or vulgar and can't be banned by public school officials who find them offensive, a federal judge in Pennsylvania said Tuesday in a preliminary ruling."