Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
For alfalfa, the Association of Official Seed Certifying Agencies, which sets standards for the purity of nearly all seed crops, requires buffer zones of just 165 feet in order to maintain the genetic integrity of certified seed and 900 feet for so-called foundation seed, where genetic standards are most exacting. That is sufficient to prevent nearly all cross-pollination but, of course, no amount of isolation would be perfect.
JC message to Marcia McNutt : You have an important and influential position as Chief Editor of Science . You also have the power to damage Science and science through your activism and advocacy of climate change policy, particularly your declaration in a Science editorial that the time for debate has ended .
Pipelines have been used to transport natural gas and oil, including from Canada to the U.S., for three-quarters of a century. Two-and-a-half million miles of pipelines crisscross America, carrying crude oil, petroleum products, and natural gas to businesses and consumers.
When the public cares deeply about something, as they do about the environment, they often give answers that are designed to keep the pressure on legislators. That doesn't mean they are paying close attention to debates in Washington. The public rarely gives specific legislative advice about complex environmental policy debates.
We took the more scientific approach of using physics, not curve-fitting. But when the climate campaigners demanded that we should verify our models skill by hindcasts, we ran four tests of our model one against predictions by the UNs climate panel in 1990 and three against recent data. All four times, our model accurately hindcast real-world warming.
I repeat, for the sake of clarity that the entire carrier tnkt as an illustration of the chemical kinetic principles and uppfrande, with koldioxidomsttningens kontroversersom background association.
As I noted earlier, Taminos post is simply a distraction from my post 17-Year And 30-Year Trends In Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies: The Differences Between Observed And IPCC AR4 Climate Models , which showed the divergence between the trends of the IPCC AR4 model mean for global Sea Surface Temperatures and the observed Sea Surface Temperature trends.
In January, de Blasio appointed John Adler director of the Mayor's Office of Pensions and Investments and chief pension investment advisor. Adler spent 23 years with SEIU, as an 1199 organizer and later as a retirement- and pension-policy official. His appointment likely stemmed from his 1199 connectionsit couldn't have owed to his financial wizardry: the union's pension fund recently showed up on the federal government's watch list of endangered multiemployer funds.
At the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, virtually all of the world's countries signed the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), establishing the basic blueprint for global collective action to mange the threat of the greenhouse effect.
State and federal courts already make it difficult to challenge specific regulatory actions, citing the "exhaustion doctrine" that plaintiffs must seek every possible administrative remedy at the agency before they can get judicial review. But this typically hasn't applied to constitutional challenges to provisions of the statutes that created or gave power to the agency in question. As the California Supreme Court has remarked, "It would be heroic indeed to compel a party to appear before an administrative body to challenge its very existence and to expect a dispassionate hearing before its preponderantly lay membership on the constitutionality of the statute establishing its status and functions."
So by pure counting, it is simply much more likely that the shooter is someone who isn't famous at all. Famous people are just too rare. Moreover, they are more visible. So I would think that a famous man probably has a smaller chance to organize something that remains completely secret than an ordinary man.
Zemp, M., Hoelzle, M. and Haeberli, W. 2009. Six decades of glacier mass-balance observations: A review of the worldwide monitoring network. Annals of Glaciology 50 : 101-111.
Over the years, McIntyre has advanced a number of other criticisms of our tree-ring work in northwestern Eurasia. We note here that these too are also wrong.: 1) the original Polar Urals chronology was not wrongly cross-dated as claimed in a 2005 submission to Nature by McIntyre and McKitrick. When we demonstrated this in our response, Nature decided to publish neither their comment nor our response. It is worth noting that this rejection, nor any acknowledgement of his erroneous conclusions, were ever mentioned by McIntyre on his blog.
Findings: There is a mixture of results depending on site location. Perth has more heatwaves since 1956, than before then. Adelaide has the opposite, with many more heatwaves before 1950, than after 1950.
According to the 9NEWS Weather Team, the front will cause temperatures to drop 15 to 30 degrees through the weekend.
The PTC extension: More taxpayer dollars for green energy?
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on the message the assembled leaders are sending:
Whether a subsidized company goes bankrupt or becomes a huge success, special treatment that benefits one subset of the economy is a waste of taxpayer dollars. The government has repeatedly demonstrated its ineptitude as an investor, losing billions of dollars in bad bets such as the now defunct solar manufacturer Solyndra and battery manufacturer A123 Systems. Yet even if a project receives government investment and remains profitable, attributing that company's success to the federal government's investment is a mistake. In these instances, the taxpayer dollars have offset private-sector investments that would have been made without the government's help, and the program is nothing more than corporate welfare.
Calculation of GDP is, not only among laymen like myself, but also among skilled economists, regarded as a tricky tool indeed. Still, it' very useful, also for the general public, in trying to grasp all sorts of economic facts and development.
They say, Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plan and animal environments of the Earth.
Abdussamatov concluded Earth is no longer threatened by the catastrophic global warming forecast by some scientists, since warming passed its peak in 1998-2005.
Poor Climate Science Article In The Economist On Glaciers - - By Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. ...Thus, despite the high expectation of quality articles from the Economist, with respect to the topic area of climate change, they are clearly biased and misleading in their coverage. (Via Marc Morano)
A string of bankruptcies among German solar panel producers has led many to question the wisdom of Germanys renewable energy policies.
The problem would seem to be the methodologies engendered in treatment for a mix of urban and rural locations; that the adjustment protocol appears to accent to a warming effect rather than eliminate it. This, if correct, leaves serious doubt for whether the rate of increase in temperature found from the adjusted data is due to natural warming trends or warming because of another reason, such as erroneous consideration of the effects of urban warming.
GREENS leader Bob Brown is facing mounting condemnation after calling on coal companies to foot the bill for the Queensland flood recovery.
I was invited as a critical voice to participate in a conversation about wind power and aesthetics along with Matilda Afzelius, environmental lawyer p Stena Renewable, Karin Hammarlund, geographer p SLU and Aase Berg, poet and critic in the newspaper Expressen. Moderator: Fredrik Sjberg, writers and biologist.
The government has promised up to 1bn for companies willing to develop the first successful commercial-scale CCS pilot, and was approached by several interested parties when it launched the scheme in 2007.
These changes are indicative that sunshine durations, rather than increased greenhouse gases, were the "control knob" which decreased maximum temperatures and decreased daily temperature ranges throughout China, and opposite of the predictions of AGW theory and climate models.
As an exercise, I located digital versions of the data used in the original Yule (1926) article Church of England marriages and mortality per 1000. I fitted the relationship in a calibration period and ended up with an RE statistic of 0.97.
The study's preliminary findings are similar to those from a study that Alberta's provincial government conducted last year, said Taylor. That study found that the cost of Kyoto to the Canadian economy would be about two to four percent of GDP, or about $20 to $40 billion per year. The alternative plan is designed to help persuade the federal government not to ratify the Kyoto protocol and to give it another acceptable option.
INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE EL NIO AND LA NIA AND THEIR LONG-TERM EFFECTS ON GLOBAL SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES?
Of the finished desalination plants, 63.35 percent are for industrial purposes, and the rest are for household water use
This cross-section of a giant sequoia tree shows some of the tree-rings and fire scars. The numbers indicate the year that a particular ring was laid down by the tree. (Credit: Tom Swetnam)
Note: Box, et al in 2009 claim to have found from 1-1.5C of warming since around 1900 when this chart leaves off. It is very, very , very dangerous to splice data sets together, but one probably has to add a degree or so to the tail of the chart to bring it up to date, putting current warming about at the Medieval level but below earlier Holocene temperatures.
Clean coal, which is designed to reduce emissions of sulphur, nitrogen and mercury, is still in the nascent stage in India. Last year, according to PEI, coal accounted for 160 GW of capacity, so an extra 103 GW over the next decade would increase this by 64%.
It is as if these people are mere weather voyeurs, only looking when it fits their purpose and only at the area it does. Look at this
On April 2, Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) introduced a bill to address the supposed problem of "cyberbullying," H.R. 1966. Under this bill, bloggers would face up to two years in prison if they "harass" public figures by criticizing them in a "severe, repeated, and hostile" manner, and thereby cause them "substantial emotional distress." Many constitutional scholars, including UCLA's Eugene Volokh, have objected to the bill on constitutional grounds.
The approval process for the Keystone XL pipeline has been delayed by Republicans playing political games, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew says.
Yet Nuccitelli, in a fine illustration of that blind faith that TH Huxley denounced in 1860 as the one unpardonable sin, asserts that We absolutely do know that the planet is currently warming.
The heroes in LOTR resist Boromir's blandishments. Guided by Gandalf's wisdom and Frodo's courage, they defeat Sauron by taking the less obvious, but ultimately more successful, course. Conservative Republicans looking for political heroism and success would be well served by following their example and ignoring Paul's pyrite.
The theory is, of course, that if you are well prepared you will suffer less. In many ways Bangladesh is better adapted than even the US, he says. Take Hurricane Katrina. Thats a technologically advanced and rich country watching the thing coming but not being able to protect its own citizens particularly the poorer citizens.
Claude Shannon developed some theory of classical information based on logarithms that is useful especially whenever one is quantifying how many bits may be transmitted through one communication channel or another. Ask Shannon in the comment section if you want to know details. ;-) Do we have corresponding things for a Universe governed by a quantum mechanical theory? You bet. After all, our world is a quantum world so if Shannon's classical theory of information works, we must have an explanation for that. And we have one, of course. Shannon's information is linked to the entropy and this logarithm-based formula has a completely natural quantum counterpart, the so-called von Neumann entropy.\[
Climategate: Caught Green-Handed! Written by Christopher Monckton
Edward Kennedy's Gift to the Senateand the Country
INLAND WATERS CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS UNDERESTIMATED
"Oil prices have surged in the last few days and are now less than a dollar from where they were when President Obama made the controversial decision to tap the nation's strategic reserve last Thursday."
I present asthma and air pollution trends for California in slide 10 of the following presentation: http://www.joelschwartz.com/pdfs/AWMA Bakersfield 4 05.pdf.
CEI: Let us throw a couple of names at you, and quickly tell us your thoughts. Let's start with Paul Ehrlich.
We don't have to imagine that scenario, of course. It happened in Copenhagen, in December. Now, none of this disproves the hypothesis of catastrophic, human induced climate change. But it does describe an atmosphere that would be highly conducive to misrepresentation. And at the very least, when policy consequences, which claim to be based on science, are so profound, the evidence ought to be rock solid. "Extraordinary claims," the late Carl Sagan often said, "require extraordinary evidence." When the megaphones of consensus insist that there's no time, that we have to move, MOVE, MOVE!, you have a right to be suspicious.
A COLD FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL USHER COOLER TEMPERATURES AND PRECIPITATION INTO THE AREA LATE TUES THROUGH WEDS. SNOW LEVELS WILL BE LOWERING WHILE SNOW DEVELOPS IN THE MOUNTAINS BY LATE TUES AFTERNOON. SNOW LEVELS WILL CONTINUE TO LOWER TO ABOUT 4000 FEET WEDS MORNING WITH ACCUMULATING SNOW OVER HIGHER TERRAIN.
Postscript: If Brewer is in fact correct, then there is a dead easy solution for the illegal immigration problem -- legalize drugs. She and I both agree that the worst criminal elements of illegal immigrants would be much less of a problem without the illegal drug trade. The only difference is that I think that segment makes up less than 1% of the population of illegal immigrants, and she thinks its everyone.
Nonetheless, some still argue the Clean Power Plan is needed, perhaps on philosophical or moral grounds. But if the goal is actual reductions in CO2 emissions, the road to green is not always a federal highway.
Example: Imagine that a warming after decades is accompanied by 10% more trees surviving in an area and eventually demands their ???place in the sun??. By measuring tree rings for an individual tree you are not measuring the overall tree growth of the area. And measuring 10.000 trees does not change anything as all trees would have the same problem. Measuring tree pollen or isotopes etc in sediment cores avoids these problems and it makes me wonder how come so much energy has been used for tree ring analyses.
Additional severe weather postings. Multiple severe weather charts. Other peer-reviewed postings.
And this brings us back to Murray, who doesnt understand how or why anyone could object to his article and its headline.
Significantly, in December 2012, the Met Office produced a new and totally different forecast, which totally overturned their earlier ones. This effectively predicts no increase in global temperatures for the next five years.
Even if that were reduced to zero, the planet wouldnt give a sh*t.
Cohen argues that the EPA's ozone/particulate standard was a "regulatory scheme that would also allow it to control emissions of greenhouse gases, even without Senate ratification of the global warming treaty." This is right in line with other actions by the administration and the EPA. Cohen reminds us of an internal EPA document, titled Climate Change Action Plan that "contained no fewer than 39 different taxes and fees on energy the administration could impose under existing statutes, without having to get Congressional approval." And the administration continues to try and bypass the Senate ratification in its attempts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
You will see that the first part only of the graph is shown. The object of the exercise is to use the information content of the shown data, to calculate projections of each of the series out to 23 time spans . The correct answer, as derived from experiment, is known. It is with the WUWT team.
New research published in Environmental Research Letters indicates the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by inland waters could be significantly higher than previously believed or assumed in climate models.
One of you asked about the snow in the mountains...well, the snowpack has recovered quite nicely the last week or so...take a look at the map. Southern and central Cascades..western slopes and crest..are now above normal. The northern Cascades and Okanogan have gotten some...but still are about 25-35% below normal. We had a cold winter and the spring is no better. Look at the temps at Sea Tac versus climo...generally below normal temps. In fact, of the last 100 days, approximately 75 have been below normal. So the complaints I have heard are well founded. I really hope we don't repeat last spring, which according to my Barbeque index, was the coldest since 1918! Two cold springs in a row will not only be bad for my vegetable garden, but would really be a downer. Good for water supply and late season skiing though.
But there is another more vexing dilemma facing the IPCC. Since publication of the AR4, nature has thrown the IPCC a curveball there has been no significant increase in global average surface temperature for the past 15+ years.
"The company said it would spend less than it previously expected on medical costs as a percent of revenue, helping boost its 2011 profit projection, which was tempered by planned investments in its Medicare business. Shares rose 5.5 percent in premarket trading."
" In the ongoing global warming debate there is often a significant difference between the perception of what is going on with the Earths climate when compared to what is actually going on. There is no greater example of this than the summer temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere...A recent study is probably the highest resolution reconstruction using temperature and precipitation records from the region and then correlating to tree-ring data to create a high resolution reconstruction of the summer temperatures for North-Central China...it is clear that the peak of the modern warming cycle for the summer months took place 70-80 years ago. It should be noted that the United States set the all time temperature record for 50% of the states back in the 1930s."
Comparing the 204-month and 360-month hindcastand projected Sea Surface Temperature anomaly trends of the coupled climate models used in the IPCC AR4to the trends of the observed Sea Surface Temperature anomalies is yet another way to show the models have shown no skill at replicating and projecting past and present variations in Sea Surface Temperature on multidecadal bases. Why should we believe they have any value as a means of projecting future climate?
In other words, researchers have yet to find evidence of more-extreme weather patterns over the period, contrary to what the models predict. ???There??s no data-driven answer yet to the question of how human activity has affected extreme weather,?? adds Roger Pielke Jr., another University of Colorado climate researcher.
Another thing they try to do is tamper with the temperature datasets to for example prove there is no pause. That is frankly ridiculous! The pause is the discrepancy between what was predicted and what occurred. And because it is a prediction it can only be based on the datasets available at the time. They can fabricate whatever new datasets they like which they in their crazy minds believe prove the predicted warming occurred, but the predictions were that the datasets available at the time would show warming. None of the datasets which were predicted to warm have shown even the lowest predicted warming (e.g. IPCC 2001).
WSP Environment & Energy, a consultancy firm, estimated that a total of 7,500 businesses would miss the deadline.
The electricity generated by the speakers was felt by the 700-plus individuals who registered to attend the conference. As examples of the caliber of distinguished guest speaker, I've arbitrarily chosen those that I came in contact at the conference and whose names are known to many: Howard Hayden, PhD; Christopher C. Horner, J.D.; Paul C. "Chip" Knappenberger; Jay H. Lehr, PhD; Ben Lieberman; Richard Lindzen, PhD; Stephen Mcintyre; Patrick J. Michaels, PhD; Lord Christopher Monckton; Ian Plimer, PhD; S. Fred Singer, PhD; Roy W. Spencer, PhD; and James M. Taylor, J.S. To view the names of all speakers and conference events go to: http://www.heartland.org/events/2010Chicgo/program.html
Since all routes of the international financial system run through the U.S., for
None of the issues addressed in the Obama budget was in any way a cause of
Nevertheless, should a blogger with a particularly point-of-view accidentally select a temperature record that happens to be the outlier that gives the result that blogger is known to prefer, using that particular one data set fosters suspicions of cherry picking.
"As we become increasingly dependent on computers to manage our lives and businesses, our money and privacy become less and less secure. But now, Cornell researchers offer a way to build security into computer systems from the start, by incorporating security in the language used to write the programs."
Submitting well-researched public comments had no effect on EPA policy or attitude, he writes. EPA continued to make absurd claims that this or that air pollution regulation would save lives.
The authors determined that growth at elevated CO 2 reduces the amount of rubisco required to maintain enhanced rates of photosynthesis, and that this phenomenon occurs as an indirect consequence of elevated CO 2 reducing leaf nitrogen content, and not as a direct effect of CO 2 on leaf photosynthetic components. Furthermore, the amount of excess rubisco declined with decreasing nitrogen supply regardless of CO 2 concentration. What it means
He is the ultimateDemocrat couldnt care less about actual people, or doing his job. What a total jackass Michael Bloomberg is. He can always blame it on Bush.
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Limiting Open Access Property Rights Is Difficult
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Not only has the intensity of hurricanes fallen, but, as George H. Taylor, the state climatologist of Oregon has pointed out, so has the frequency of hailstorms in the U.S. (see Changnon and Changnon) and cyclones throughout the world (Gulev, et al.).
Fracking, a process in which pressurized liquid is used to break up hydrocarbons deep within the earth to gather natural gas, may bring jobs and boost economies in states like North Dakota and elsewhere, but the environmental effects (which include lowering air quality and groundwater contamination) which can ultimately affect human health are worrisome.
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If those reefs are surviving low aragonite and low pH conditions then that is definitely cause for optimism about the worlds tropical coral reefs and would be an exciting scientific breakthrough. the pH is low there due to the CO2 bubbling, then thats really important, and somebody should go and have a look, because that would refute what weve found We need to go out there and measure the chemistry of the water Id love to check that out. If there are a lot of bubbles coming up, and theres hard coral there, then its likely that my study is flawed.
Not so in environmental policy. Experts make predictions of the future that are hard to verify. Indeed, public policy advice is full of self-defeating prophesies. Bad things will happen if we dont change our ways. We often act on such information, and thus deny ourselves the opportunity to check whether the prediction was accurate. We trust the expert, take her word as gospel.