Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Now there is a single website that collects dozens of articles, including scholarly research, on how Wikipedia, the "free encyclopedia," is actually the fake encyclopedia. Wikipedia is the first place millions of people go to learn about organizations and individuals they hear about in the news or online, but the profiles posted there are biased, unreliable, and often libelous. The Heartland Institute's Wikipedia profile contains many lies and errors, but we are not alone: thousands of profiles have been similarly hacked by leftist activists. READ MORE
Successful geoengineering would permit the Earth's population to make far smaller reductions in carbon use and still achieve a retarding effect on global warming, but at a lower cost to economic activity.
China is emerging as a maritime superpower as quickly as America itself (not to mention the UK) is declining as a naval power, to the point where China could become the leading naval power by 2020. The Russian Navy, which until now was a pale shadow of Gorshkov's navy (since 1991, the number of submarines has declined from 317 to 61 and of surface ships from 967 to 186) has announced plans to build a class of four new aircraft carriers in 201314, with initial service to begin in 201732. One would do well to remember that it took hardly more than a decade during the Cold War for Russia, the quintessential land power, to develop a formidable navy. In 20 years, we could realistically see a China/Russia-led SCO that is hegemonic not only on land but at sea. As counterintuitive as it may be at first, NATO would be wise to consider the possibility of making maritime cooperation the centerpiece of NATO-Russia security cooperation.
It seems that Stonyfield would almost have consumers believe that conventional yogurt makers actually add these substances to their products.
By Staff Writers, Press Association, Aug 13, 2015
Enormous and expensive policy changes have been based on the flawed work of these scientists. Yet there is apparently to be no investigation, blame, suspension or withdrawal of papers, just a gentle bureaucratic fattening of the organisation with new full-time posts.
I do not agree that this was merely a ???slight mis-statement in a single sentence?? as the same argument had been made in their March 1 submission to Muir Russell, a submission which did not include accompanying ???copious?? information evidencing the error to the Muir Russell panel as a ???slight mis-statement??. It also speaks poorly that CRU would make a ???mis-statement?? to Muir Russell on an issue so central to Climategate.
So when Boko Haram and ISIS and all the other genocidal scum bags are finally brought to justice on trial in the Hague for War Crimes and Crime Against Humanity their defense lawyers can call James Murray as an expert witness and he can give the new Johnny Cochran Rumpole of the Bailey Perry Mason sorry your Honour but it was Climate Change defense that made me decide to slaughter thousands of innocent people and blame it on a routine drought.
not worth a whole lot, especially when the benchmarks are FDR and LBJ. The
For one thing, wind turbines and solar panels, which only produce energy if massively subsidized by the state, drive up electricity prices, which kills off manufacturing jobs.
Whats worse is, in the ice core data (top graph) there are 4 distinct up slopes and 5 peaks. Most of the time we are in a deep temperature valley. Most of the time we are much colder!! Not just a bit but a whole lot colder. And not just colder than the last hundred years but colder than the last 10000.
For these reasons, despite an exuberant global investment climate and forgiving discount rates on nearly all types of capital projects, "you can't cash-flow a nuclear plant because the concept of risk over a period of time is too high.... If we're not seeing expansion of nuclear investment in this environment, with the political desire and the economic capital that are so available right now, then one has to wonder when we're ever going to see it," said one attendee at the Manhattan Institute conference.
Despite the lack of practical consequences at EU and UN levels, the motion still makes a lot of political sense, especially if it is considered that last year a similar motion was also passed, calling for a more balanced approach to the scientific aspects and uncertainties of climate change. With the exception of the Czech Republic's President, Vaclav Klaus, this is probably the only case of a relevant institution in a European member State that challenges the "consensus" on climate policies. Obviously, this is also an important signal about the high discontent of Italian businesses about a package of EU directives that they believe, with good reason, are punitive towards the Italian economy.
But in a carbon market, most market participants actually benefit from fraud . The sellers of carbon credits benefit when they sell fraudulent credits, because they are making money for nothing. The buyers of carbon credits benefit from a market flooded with fraudulent carbon credits, because the oversupply caused by fraudulent credits helps to keep prices down. Corrupt officials benefit financially, when they receive bribes to ignore the fraud. The only people who are disadvantaged by carbon fraud, are investors who tried to follow the rules, to produce ???genuine?? carbon credits, and politicians and activists who naively expected the carbon market to deliver emissions reductions.
The data include long time period duration (in excess of 30 years) tide gauge station records covering the Hawaiian Islands, Alaska and the Pacific, Gulf Coast and Atlantic coastline regions of the U.S. as well as many other global wide coastal locations. This latest NOAA data shows unchanging linear trends in the rate of sea level rise worldwide with many of these records including 100 year and longer measurement duration periods.
The Sun's Impact On Earth's Temperature Goes Far Beyond TSI New Paper Shows
In truth, the only thing some GOP lawmakers objected to was an unusual last-minute effort to hold the concert on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol, after its organizers discovered that Mall had already been booked for other events. Use of the Mall had been denied to Gore and his colleagues for one reason: they failed to apply for the proper permits before other parties had. And one of the groups "blocking" Live Earth's use of the Mall happened to be the Smithsonian Institution itself.
But these tactics are not new. Paul Ehrlichs population bomb of the 1960s predicted food riots in the United States and around the world. Today, obesity is a bigger problem.
missing long-term declining trends/signals, which were removed (by
Murray also has the number of environmentalists who demand higher automobile fuel efficiency mandates. These government standards have meant smaller, lighter, less crashworthy vehicles. "The tradeoff the liberal environmentalists demand is actually safety for gas mileage. In other words, blood for oil."
Only this week Lord Lawson's Global Warming Policy Foundation claimed that the Met Office's computer model for predicting climate change was flawed.
At a recent New Hampshire town hall meeting, Romney "stuck to the position he has held for many years ? that he believes the world is getting warmer and that humans are contributing to it," said the Washington Post.
After a Year of Setbacks, U.N. Looks to Take Charge of World's Agenda
The same is true for natural gas. In 1944, the United states had 147 trillion cubic feet of natural gas reserves, and yet had produced 1,041 trillion cubic feet between 1945 and 20107 times the amount of reserves available in 1944. In this case, however, the U.S. oil and gas industry was able to double the 1944 natural gas reserve level with 318 trillion cubic feet in reserves in 2010.
In 1999, NASA showed that the four hottest years in US history were 1934, 1921, 1931 and 1953, and that the US was much hotter in the 1930s.
Astrophysicist, Joe Postma - in his momentous paper The Absence of a Measurable Greenhouse Effect - goes on to prove that by treating Earth as a sphere so that night and day exist we can suddenly explain with standard physics how daytime gives us the +30 degrees C worth of added GHE temperature; on average over half of the Earth (reaching a theoretical maximum of up to +121 degrees C under the solar-noon if it was not for the cooling power of the atmosphere).
In the 1930s, Franklin Roosevelt asked his administration to undertake a vast exploratory study of future technologies. A group of researchers eventually produced a voluminous report with fascinating insights. There was only one little glitch: the document did not foresee television, plastics, jet planes, organ transplants, laser technology, or even ballpoint pens.
These are not choices by officials actually elected by real people, the only legitimate basis for the state's monopoly of coercive power. We are not considering here authoritarian or less-developed countries where free expression and representative government are absent or inadequate. One could argue in such cases that international norm setting might provide standards or models from which emerging free governments could pick and choose. (Of course, one could also argue that the United States provides a perfectly acceptable model all on its own, which emerging democracies can emulate or not, without any need for America to "multilateralize" its uniqueness.)
Atmospheric satellite temperature trend (RSS MSU-LT) = 0.2 F/decade
There seems to be much excitment about the discovery of lots and lots of playtpuses at Maleny, 100 odd kms north of Brisbane, where some locals have been trying to stop the building of a Woolies for many, many months.
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale, WUWT, Aug 10, 2015
Gov't tax panel agrees to end tax break for stock investments:
Fertilizer runoff does not just pollute local waters; it creates other far-reaching environmental problems. Each summer, the loading of nitrogen fertilizers from the Mississippi via the corn belt hits the Gulf of Mexico, creating a large dead zonea region of oxygen-deprived waters unable to support sea life that extends for more than ten thousand square kilometers. The same phenomenon occurs in the Chesapeake Bay, in some summers affecting most of the waters in the mainstern bay. A recent study by researchers at the University of British Columbia shows that if the United States were to meet its proposed ethanol production goals15-36 billion gallons of corn and cellulosic ethanol by 2022nitrogen flows to the Gulf of Mexico would increase by 10-34 percent.
Mr Fisher said "heat sources such as surface heating and cooling can have an affect on these blocking events".
Wednesday CFACT brought COP16 delegates and press to tour a local village without electricity to show the impacts of energy poverty. CFACT is installing electric light in the village school for the first time.
making America more energy independent has inverted an equation that
By hyper-regulating carbon dioxide, soot, mercury, "cross-state air pollution" from sources hundreds of miles away, and other air and water emissions, EPA intends to force numerous coal-fired power plants to shut down years before their productive life is over; sharply reduce emissions from cars, factories, refineries and other facilities, regardless of the costs; and block the construction of new coal-fired power plants, because none will be able to slash their carbon dioxide emissions to half of what average coal-fired plants now emit, without employing expensive (and nonexistent) CO2 capture and storage technologies.
Uprooting State's Crop Bullies Would Benefit S.D. County
A visit to IceAgeNow.info yielded headlines of news stories last week that included "Record ColdMillions of Americans hit by Propane Shortage"; "Ice and Snow Closed Texas highways This Morning"; "Ice-cover Shuts Down Work on New Hudson River Bridge" and so you understand this is a global phenomenon "KashmirHeaviest January Snowfall in a Decade";"Heavy Snowfall Sweeps Eastern Turkey"; "RomaniaHeavy Snowfall and Blizzard"; and "Bangkok Suffers Coldest Night in Three DecadesDeath Roll Mounts."
Clearly, erosion is a problem here, yet the authors of the paper fail to give it any credence. Of course the fossil record will show sea level rise!
The report's authors sagely explain that no one statistical "holy grail" can quantify everything meaningful in a single number. They believe a range of new variables should be included in measuring a nation's progress, and they want to broaden indicators to include social capital, education, governance, and health. To this end, the report discusses how existing statistics could be used. So far so good.
But Gorethodoxy demands blind obedience by its votaries. Discussing the potential benefits of global warming is strictly verboten.
5) Vicious personal attacks continue on scientists, businessmen, politicians and others who disagree publicly with the catechism of climate cataclysm. Alarmist pressure groups and Democrat members of Congress are out to destroy the studies, funding, reputations and careers of all who dare challenge climate disaster tautologies. At President Obama's behest, even disaster aid agencies are piling on.
Smith and D'Aleo are both interviewed as part of a report on this study on the television special, "Global Warming: The Other Side," which will air at 9 PM on January 14 on KUSI-TV, channel 9/51, San Diego, California. The detailed report is available at http://icecap.us/images/uploads/NOAAroleinclimategate.pdf.
A NAAQS is an allowable pollution concentration standard. It determines how many parts per million(or billion) of a targeted pollutant are permissible in the ambient air. Petitioners in Mass v. EPA asserted that current GHG levels already harm public health and welfare. Similarly, a spate of endangerment petitions filed since Mass v. EPA (to regulate GHG emissions from aircraft, marine vessels, off-road engines, etc.) assert that GHG emissions already harm public health and welfare. These allegations raise an obvious policy questionwhat kinds of measures would be required to lower GHG concentrations below current levels?
Texas Sends Amazon a $269 Million Sales Tax Bill:
It will be impossible to meet the consumer demands of a contemporary society without a reliable source of energy like nuclear. Other countries have already acknowledged this. There are 65 reactors under construction around the world (far safer and more advanced than the 30-year-old technology at Fukushima Daiichi), but none in the U.S.
The scientists noted that the largest recent period of Antarctic warming occurred during the 1990s as the result of a particularly lengthy and strong set of El Nio conditions in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Many other decades, including pre-industrial times such as the 1830s, also showed marked temperature spikes, according to the latest report.
The evidence from AR5 best estimates of forcing, combined with that in solid observational studies cited in AR5, points to a best (median) estimate for TCR of 1.3C if the AR5 aerosol forcing best estimate is scaled to match the satellite-observation-derived best estimate thereof, or 1.4C if not (giving a somewhat less observationally-based TCR estimate). We can compare this with model TCRs. The distribution of CMIP5 model TCRs is shown in Figure 3 below, with a maximally observationally-based TCR estimate of 1.3C for comparison.
As the CO 2 content of the air continues to rise, tropical rainforests will likely increase their photosynthetic capacity. This phenomenon may apply a significant "biological brake" on the rising CO 2 content of the atmosphere, as tropical rainforests are among the most productive ecosystems on earth, and a large stimulation of their photosynthetic capacity should result in the removal of tremendous amounts of carbon from the atmosphere. Reviewed 15 October 1998
1. .. We suggest that the new observational likely range from (ECS) would be 1.25-3.0 C, with a best estimate p 1.75 o C.
Carter's ultimate policy recommendation was that climate hazards are overwhelmingly natural problems, and should be dealt with by preparing for them in advance, and adapting to them when they occur.
The Lord Monckton Foundation?s monthly Global Warming Projection Index number for March 2014 is 0.14 C . That is how much the IPCC?s latest central projection of global warming over the 9 years 2 months January 2005 to February 2014 has overshot the observed temperature trend.
Senators Demand that the World's Largest Oil Maker Make Public Its History of Funding Climate Change "Skeptics"
As the CO 2 content of the air rises, it is likely that mango biodiversity will be maintained, as there were no obvious differences in the responses of these two ecotypes to atmospheric CO 2 enrichment. In addition, these cultivars will likely increase their overall size, biomass, and yield as more and more CO 2 enters the air from mankind's activities. Although the instantaneous doubling of the atmospheric CO 2 content in this experiment reduced concentrations of leaf mineral elements, the authors stated that "given the slow rate at which global atmospheric CO 2 concentration is increasing, it is possible that plants will adapt to elevated ambient CO 2 concentrations over time with respect to mineral nutrition," as did sour orange trees after 85 months of exposure to elevated CO 2 (Penuelas et al ., 1997). Reference
No surprise here. Just more inconvenient results for CO2 broken-record dogmatists.
Thus, the drop in annual GDP growth that was so insignificant in Krugman??s mind, when it came to measuring the economic costs of aggressive carbon legislation, is just shy of the drop in annualized GDP growth matching up with the environmental benefits of such legislation, in the worst case scenario. But when we realize that Krugman??s estimate of 2% GDP loss by 2050 is much lower than what the IPCC itself says (as I document in the earlier posts linked above), the answer is a no brainer: The benefits of fighting climate change do not exceed the costs, even using the IPCC??s own models.
"The Bingaman bill is like the misleading sales pitches used car salesmen once used. They get you to buy because the first month's payment is only $49. But the next month you notice that all the other payments are $499."
There is no getting around it. The models are wrong. The energy balance is so central that none of their other predictions can be relied on.
Hybrid cars are not living up to their advertised gas mileage, claimed a recent article from wired.com (May 11).
4) Boris Johnson: Why Did Met Office Get It Wrong Yet Again? The Daily Telegraph, 20 December 2010
Is the Earth warming? Data does suggest the Earth is warming as we come out of the Little Ice Age.
Anyone that giggles at 70s British comedy will know that Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor ran a skit show called The Goodies in the 1970s. If you dont know the series but have ever chortled at Monty Python, chances are youll enjoy some of the Goodies too.
A new briefing paper published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation concludes that the most recent (September 2014) floods in the Kashmir region of India-Pakistan border which killed several dozen of people are a recurring feature of the Indian Monsoon and not linked to climate change.
Those reefs have actually been able to take advantage of the warmer conditions, said Janice Lough, a senior AIMS research scientist and one of the studys authors.
Chinese Famine of 1907-Over 24 million perish from starvation
Since the change point in 2007, September 21 Arctic ice (15% concentration) extent has been expanding at a linear rate of 247,875 km / year. Using the standard climate science metric, that is a gain of 4,201 Manhattans per year.
As adopted, Agenda 21 was described as a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment. That includes hundreds of specific goals and strategies that national and local governments are encouraged to adopt. And that translates into restrictive zoning policies that are aimed at deterring suburban growth. Ultimately, they suppress housing supply and drive up home prices, in turn imposing unnecessary costs, especially on middle- and lower-income households. These policies contributed to and aggravate the real estate bubble by putting inflationary pressures on housing prices.
Then, after studying the ad more closely, I said: Oh my gosh, they even gave me crutches. Come on, people.
"Even if every American citizen biked to work, carpooled to school, used only solar panels to power their homes, if we each planted a dozen trees, if we somehow eliminated all of our domestic greenhouse gas emissions, guess what? That still wouldn't be enough to offset the carbon pollution coming from the rest of the world. If all the industrial nations went down to zero emissions it wouldn't be enough, not when more than 65 percent of the world's carbon pollution comes from the developing world."
Tides, in turn, made at least $8.6 million in grants to 44 different organizations, each time specifically mentioning its tar sands campaign. Funds went to Greenpeace, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club, Forest Ethics, the Rainforest Action Network and dozens of others. Fully $2.2 million of that total went to Michael MarxsCorporate Ethics International.
Yet I was surprised at how different the situation seemed. And although I returned well versed in the reasons to be skeptical of an agreement, I part company with colleagues who believe that the face-to-face talks will settle nothing.
Some days we are told that CO2 is making the weather cold. Other days we are told that CO2 is making the weather warm. Without some actual evidence that the Earth is heating by a dangerous amount, James Whites statement is pointless.
By Mari N. Jensen, UA College of Science March 17, 2010
EPA's Clean Power Plan (CPP), which imposes carbon dioxide (CO2) emission rate targets and tonnage caps on state electric power sectors, is unlawful in at least half a dozen ways.
The European Union's top climate official says the EU is pursuing the right renewable energy policieseven if the scientists are wrong about the cause of global warming! Why?
Amici believe that no scientists have devised an empirically validated theory proving that higher atmospheric CO2 levels will lead to higher GAST. Moreover, if the causal link between higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations and higher GAST is broken by invalidating each of EPAs three lines of evidence, then EPAs assertions that higher CO2 concentrations also cause sea-level increases and more frequent and severe storms, floods, and droughts are also disproved. Such causality assertions require a validated theory that higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations cause increases in GAST. Lacking such a validated theory, EPAs conclusions cannot stand. In science, credible empirical data always trumps proposed theories, even if those theories are claimed to (or actually do) represent the current consensus.
What are the models missing? Obsessed with radiation from greenhouse forcings and questionable temperature feedbacks, they ignore or poorly parameterize many important climate processes and undervalue the net cooling effect of the following events:
This video is like the crazy fan mail that singers get, that's supposed to be all lovey-dovey and romantic (to the stalker), but reads like very well-thought out death threats to the entertainer. In the late 80s, our friend Abbey was a teen singer in northeast and central Ohio, doing the mall circuit, belting out covers to old songs as well as her dance hit "Pancake Emporium" it was the 80s, she was trying to be New Wave don't ask.
About 70 percent of cumulative emissions since the industrial revolution were emitted from developed countries, which are believed to be the reason behind todays global climate change, according to the latest assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
last couple of years. I'm not "harrumphing" about sex comedy in the