Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
As the air's CO 2 concentration continues to rise, it is likely this dwarf apple species will exhibit significant increases in both photosynthesis and apple production. And if air temperatures also rise, photosynthetic rates will likely be even greater, due to the positive interaction between elevated CO 2 and temperature plus the large CO 2 -induced increase in the optimal temperature for photosynthesis in this species. Thus, apple yields should substantially increase in a future CO 2 -enriched environment, especially if air temperature rises a few degrees.
Perhaps 2012 will turn out to be worse than 1886, when the US was hit by seven hurricanes including two major hurricanes.
How not to measure temperature, part 93: the hottest weather station in the UK cited by the BBC has some interesting exposure
Others are even less likely. Bernie Sanders, age 73 is a self-described socialist. The interesting Jim Webb is out of sync with an increasingly Leftist party. Martin O'Malley couldn't get his lieutenant governor elected to succeed him in a 62 percent Obama state.
The previous record of 61 centimetres was set in April 1994, meteorologist Mikhail Leus told AFP.
Among the issues upon which the President can act to make a difference include:
Even today, amid the furor over global warming, no one is rushing out to verify that it does indeed threaten the Michigan jack pine. (But, happily, independent action by the government, the Audubon Society and private individuals has brought the Kirtland?s warbler back from the brink of extinction.)
The number of dodgy adjustments could be reduced from 49 to a mere 16.
There are just so many illogical steps and contradictions with the empirical data from that day as well as with some historical data on similar events and with the knowledge about the human nature that these conspiracy theorists commit so that I can't avoid thinking that they're just stupid. But there must be more to it it's some stupidity that is more likely to spread through the society. It may be the case that most of the JFK conspiracy believers haven't really tried to think about the sad day rationally and independently. They are just absorbing a mass delusion from their environment.
U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack must have been on vacation the day President Obama pledged in 2009 that "Science and the scientific process must inform and guide decisions" made by his administration and that "political officials should not suppress or alter scientific or technological findings and conclusions." Why else would Vilsack, last December, have disregarded his own department's scientific review and conclusion that a new, genetically engineered crop variety should be approved because it is safe for humans and the environment?
We will make it clear to the world that America is ready to lead , Obama said, in an apparent swipe at former president George W. Bushs reluctance to take control of international efforts to combat climate change.
In the real world, there has been a temperature rise of 0.3C in the last 35 years as measured by satellites. This is well short of what is predicted by global warming theory as practiced by the CSIRO, Bureau of Meteorology and others.
Our allegiance to the precautionary principle seems to have its limits, however. When two recent Ebola victims were offered a possible cure, the fact that the medicine was derived from a genetically engineered tobacco plant was of little import. Genetic engineering was used because it made possible the rapid production of the medicine, and tobacco plants are used because they are easy to manipulate. The two patients have been released from the hospital, and tests show that they are free of Ebola. Thanks to medicine from genetically engineered tobacco plants. Turns out Gaia has a sense of humor.
Now, of course, the drought is ended, the dams have refilled and the atmosphere hasn't warmed in 15 years. The hype has receded.
The National Academies Press has published "Frontiers in Decadal Climate Variability: Proceedings of a Workshop." The proceedings conclude scientists are still unable to determine the extent human activities or other natural factors dominate climate changes on decadal time scales. For instance, the Overview and Introduction states:
This goes to show that temperatures are more closely related to ENO than temperatures are related to CO2, let alone ENO is related to CO2. Hence the Hadley Centres making of some fairly safe bets, but changing them, not as new scientific evidence emerges, but according to what they expect theENO to do in the near future, or is already doing. Claims made by sceptics that the effects
So this is the trick people like this blogger use. They point to good science in #1 and partially in #2 to claim the whole chain of reasoning is "settled science," when in fact there are gaping holes in our knowledge of 3-4-5-6.
An interview with General David Petraeus. as a black man I cannot be racist " "Just had a visit from two uniformed officers. Reason? My firearms renewal, but more significantly this blog. It seems that my crappy little corner of the blogosphere has come to the attention of the police, and they don't like it." James Travers: Code Talker Comments are open for yours.
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CEI Response: FactCheck neglects to mention that the study it cites is based on only three years of data, from 2002 to 2005. This is strange, because FactCheck later argues, quoting a caveat in the study on Greenland's glaciers that we referenced in our ad, that "the 11-year-long data set developed here remains too brief to establish long-term trends." If 11 years is too brief to establish a long-term trend, then three years must be an even less adequate basis for trend analysis. Apparently, FactCheck wants people to be frightened by three years of data but not reassured by 11 years of data. This confirms our ad's basic point: in general, media coverage is biased in favor of climate alarmism.
The story was widely covered at the time and the result has been relied upon to marginalize criticism of the reliance of IPCC multiproxy studies on strip bark bulges or tree ring chronologies developed by CRU. Now it turns out that the much vaunted claim to have a ???validated?? no-dendro reconstruction for the past 1300 years was merely an illusion .
Accordingly, Paterson proposed $3.5 billion in cuts to the state's Medicaid programthe second-greatest burden on New York taxpayers, after K12 educationand sought to shift monies away from inpatient hospitals to less expensive outpatient clinics. Hospitals would have seen a revenue reduction of less than 2 percent.
Tim Hearn, chief executive of Imperial Oil Ltd., told the audience at a Peters & Co. energy conference in Toronto that the agreement would be disastrous for Canada. "There's absolutely no reason in this country why we can't have good environmental management and economic growth for the prosperity of all Canadians - my view is that Kyoto fails on both accounts," Mr. Hearn said. "It's somewhat incongruous to me that the federal government will end up going down a path that's going to shrink our economy, transfer wealth out of the country and reduce jobs."
At the opposite end of the nation in the iconic Kakadu Park creeping salinsation into the freshwater wetlands has occurred over the last 50 years. While the current cause is not likely to be attributable to climate change further rises in sea level and changes in rainfall pattern will increase and accelerate the trend. The parks paperbark vegetation is thickening up considerably a combination of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide, changed fire and rainfall regimes are all possibilities. If the system transforms into a salt environment the wetland flora and fauna will go replaced by mangroves. Some 60 species of water birds are also at stake. The debate about building a barrage to hold back the sea incursion and the salt is on in earnest.
Locusts first moved south last summer from their breeding grounds in North Africa towards West Africa, causing widespread problems last September. But over the summer a new wave of locusts hatched and vegetation disappeared in the semi-desert of the Sahel (Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Niger and Chad). With the end of the rainy season, the locusts are heading back north. After years of drought, this year's heavy rains (in some parts of the Sahel at least) have provided the perfect conditions for the locusts to breed.
If we are talking about halting and reversing this unbridled federal control, President-Elect Trump has promised to roll "progress" back and not a moment too soon, if we are to rejuvenate our economy.
Footprint is 2,880 MW/km2 To get 2,880 MW from wind, at same scale as the Centennial project and efficiency (0.72 MW/turbine) (2 MW/km2), it would require;
Now, if we leave out the extinctions by introduced predators, then out of the 207 bird and mammal extinctions there are only 9 extinctions in 500 years, three mammals and six birds. This means that other than extinctions from introduced predators the extinction rate is only 1.2 extinctions per MSY very low.
The revised and expanded paper is available here as an Adobe Acrobat PDF.
"Men have objectified women for ages," said founder Rainer Castillo. "We've flipped the game. Now women will objectify them." While Chubbies' culture is explicitly fratty (its official Instagram account announces, "Retro badasses, bacon, and occasionally shorts;" beer is a given) and is gleeful and boastful about the Chubster's supposed knee-weakening effect on women, the conversation, the language, and the culture are explicitly self-referentially male.
These are not the only data sets that point to unambiguous warming. Night time marine air temperatures (NMAT) measured on ships show warming. Also, a recent study analyzed the weather using only sea surface temperature and sea level pressure observations. The resulting temperatures over land produced a trend of +0.4 F/decade.
Cross-scale Interactions, Nonlinearities, and Forecasting Catastrophic Events
Dennis Byrne, Chicago Tribune , 26 July 2011
Pacific coral atolls are not being drowned by extra sea-level rise; rather, atoll shorelines are affected by direct weather and infrequent high tide events, ENSO sea level variations, and impacts of increasing human populations.
Re-location is fine (and easy; we only rent). For years, Ive been trying to find a way back into Texas where I started my illustrious career, via, its true, the nepotism of my Uncle Sam. I dont want to live in California, as gorgeous as that state is (I would like to keep at least some of the money given to me by my potential employer).
There's a complete misrepresentation of science's level of understanding of the reasons why this is happening:
Because of their pollution, lots of people, mostly poor people, are likely to die. They will die from floods, from diseases like dengue fever, and from starvation when their crops won't grow anymore.
To get a better sense of why these obstacles are so critical in blocking multilateral action, consider each of these in more detail.
Monckton's subsequent appearances on the Glenn Beck Fox News show and his many writings focused national attention and debate as no one else had.
Thanks for reproducing in your recent post my account of the lefts attacks on our scientists and donors. Its a story that isnt getting nearly enough attention in the blogosphere. Im disappointed, though, that you also reproduced, at length and even endorsed, the lies and distortions written about us by Suzanne Goldenberg. A simple call or email to me or Jim Lakely would have given us a chance to correct her many misstatements.
In any event, it is impossible to deny that this flatlining, whatever the cause may be, has huge implications for future projections of global temperatures. As such, this should be at the very centre of public debate.
If global climate warming change disruption is likely to wipe out such a prevalent coffee bean in a few decades, the previous few hundred years of warming should have left a mark on global coffee production... Right?
It was not I, but Schulte who had done the search, as I had said in my talk. It was not Google Scholar (most of whose sources are not peer-reviewed papers) but the ISI Web of Science database of peer-reviewed, learned journals that Schulte searched, as I had said in my talk. It was not the "containing all of the words" search option that Schulte had used, though that is the option Abraham used, but the "exact-phrase" option, which returned only 539 papers.
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In conclusion, claims of impending marine species extinctions driven by increases in the atmosphere??s CO2 concentration do not appear to be founded in empirical reality, based on the experimental findings we have analyzed above.
In the West itself, the current fixation of America on Central Asia and of Europe on the Middle East the closest thing to a "Western" geopolitical vision is based on two flawed premises. To put it crudely: Americans believe that Caspian Sea oil is the key to success in the Great Game; Europeans are convinced that the resolution of the Palestinian question holds the key to victory in the Long War.
First, as clearly documented on the Anthony Watts website, many of the observing sites are not at the same height above the ground (i.e. not at 1.5m or 2m). Thus, particularly for the minimum temperatures, which vary more with height near the ground, the height matters in patching all of the data together to create long term temperature trends. Even more significant is that the trend will be different if the measurements are at different heights. For example, if there has been overall long term warming in the lower atmosphere, the trends of the minimum temperature at 2m will be significantly larger than when it is measured at 4m (or other higher level). Including minimum temperature trends together will result in an overstatement of the actual warming.
Still, it is the geopolitical implications of this change that may well be the most important. There is not a one-to-one relationship between population and power. But numbers matter. Big nations, or big groups of nations acting in concert, can become major powers. China and India each have populations of more than a billion; their power and influence will almost surely increase in the decades to come. Europe will shrink and age, absolutely and relatively.
Global average temperature has been flat for a decade. But frightening myths about global warming continue.
Mere Moral Realism : Everything in conscience can be weakened by neglect and erased by culture . . . . [I[f mere moral realists are right, then although the problem of moral decline may begin in volition, it dwells in cognition: it may begin as a defect of will, but ends as a defect of knowledge. We may have started by neglecting what we knew, but we have now gone so far that we really dont know it any more. What is the result? That our contemporary ignorance of right and wrong is genuine. We really dont know the truth, but we are honestly searching for it trying to see on a foggy night doing the best that we can. In a sense, we are blameless for our deeds, for we dont know any better.
Modern warming is not preceded by or coincident with change in atmospheric circulation, suggesting that recent warming is not like the natural variability of the last few thousand years and that therefore is a consequence of anthropogenic forcing. This is an interesting argument though it must be realised that given our limited understanding of Antarctic climate and what has happened in the past, the logic of this case is suggestive, but by no means proof, of man's influence.
The oceans cover about 70% of the surface of the Earth. The surface air temperatures of the smaller land portion imitate and amplify the warming or cooling of the oceans. The hypothesis of greenhouse gas-dominated manmade global warming has one fundamental requirement. Greenhouse gases MUST warm the surface and subsurface temperatures of the global oceans. If they dontthat is, if the recent warming of the oceans can be shown to be naturalthen carbon dioxide and other manmade greenhouse gases lose their importance. Those anthropogenic greenhouse gases then become second or third tier causes of the warming of land surface air temperatures. Instead of being important, manmade greenhouse gases then become impotent.
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Tide gauge records are the primary source of sea level information over multi-decadal to century timescales. A critical issue in using this type of data to determine global climate-related contributions to sea level change concerns the vertical motion of the land upon which the gauges are grounded. Here we use observations from the Global Positioning System for the correction of this vertical land motion. As a result, the spatial coherence in the rates of sea level change during the 20th century is highlighted at the local and the regional scales, ultimately revealing a clearly distinct behavior between the northern and the southern hemispheres with values of 2.0mm/year and 1.1mm/year, respectively. Our findings challenge the widely accepted value of global sea level rise for the 20th century .
"While the financial markets and economists were impressed with the size and generosity of official support for Greece, there was much less confidence that private investors will take enough of a hit to make its debt sustainable in the medium term."
Failed Legislative Attempts with Even Dimmer Prospects Now
Observed Trend Less Than Climate Model Simulations
Planning Minister Brad Hazzard has accused farmers of an unusual game of simply trying to stop anything.
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Oskerheten about what really happens is still high, brewing final line: The Bottom Line Is that we really need to bring down CO2 levels in the atmosphere. The study is published in the latest utgvan of Geology.
Thats Part One. Parts Two through Five can be located at The Daily Bayonet , including the weekly Global Hottie.
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Sea ice news Volume 5, # 5 NSIDC: the expansion in Antarctic sea ice is confirmed http:// wp.me/p7y4l-tHR
Basically, they found that when their climate model is constrained by reality over the past 160 years, that the temperature projections for the end of the 21st century are reduced by about 33%. This is a result of a similar magnitude as determined by Santer et al.
A generally non-mathematical presentation of scientific concepts and theories to appeal to a broad range of readers
Perhaps the most important difference between the two graphs is the inclusion of a second set of data points in the Wheeler graph. These show the effects of raised temperatures on wheat maintained at elevated CO2 levels. As is plain to see, the effect of temperature seems to be more than compensated for by the enriched atmosphere. In other words the conditions we are alleged to be subject to in future are actually beneficial for wheat.
The plots of this figure are provided simply because they account for the totality of the data contained in our Ocean Acidification Database Tables ; and it can be seen from the plots that they all extend into the region we have labeled ???far, far beyond the realm of reality.?? Therefore, in Figure 10 below, we present only the portions of the plots that extend into and through the domain of what we have denominated ???the warped world of the IPCC.??
Abraham's approach is novel. He's saying not that I got one thing wrong but that I got just about everything wrong. And how plausible is that? A couple of pointers. First, it's now June 2010, and I spoke in October 2009, almost eight months ago. I've made a lot of speeches since. Why has it taken Abraham so long to cobble together his ramblings?
The "gap" stayed bridged-at least until Climategate when Saltzman's neat and tidy theory began to unravel. An unsuspecting world merely had to read the leaked emails to see how the Emperor's Climate Clothes were crudely stitched together by heady tribalism among opportunist cronies.
To understand the scale of the revision that had taken place compare the two graphs below. The one on the left is diagram 7c from page 202 of the 1990 IPCC report in which the Medieval Warm Period was portrayed as clearly warmer than the present. On the right is the Hockey Stick graph from the 2001 IPCC report in which the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age have all but disappeared and the recent climate history is dominated by a rapid temperature rise in the last 20th century.
Paatalo, M.-L. 1998. Factors influencing occurrence and impacts of fires in northern European forests. Silva Fennica 32: 185-202.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie responds to O'Keefe video:
The statement proposes that the contraction and convergence targets for Co2 emissions that all countries have accepted in principle (though not formally agreed on) should be on a per capita basis to encourage the adoption ofpopulation restraint policies. What this means in non-jargon terms is that when setting a nations Co2 emissions targets in any future treaty, these emissions should be the ceiling or maximum allowable amount if more people are subsequently born, the total emissions allowed for that nation cannot then increase. So, effectively, each individuals allowed emissions will therefore have to decrease to stay within the emissions target that the nation had previously agreed to.
WHAT DO YOU SUPPOSE HAPPENS WHEN SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES WARM IN RESPONSE TO STRONG EL NIO EVENTS BUT DONT COOL IN RESPONSE TO THE LA NIA EVENTS THAT FOLLOW THEM?
As people have moved near the coast they have built in harm's way.
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Here . Update : In a related post, Al Fin writes : Can you imagine? The rain forests keep losing the same 150 million ha of rainforest every ten years!...The clueless mainstream media continues to barrage a hapless public with disaster stories of rain forest devastation accompanied by catastrophic human-caused global warming.
CEI: Stuff president took credit for that he didn't do:
Now some believe that a newly installed Baltic 1 offshore windpark (see map) consisting of 21 2.3-MW turbinesmay be responsible, according to reports.
It is interesting to see the lower tropospheric warming minimum in the tropics
This foreign policy civics lesson is offered as background for a pair of
The results will be published in the journal Climatic Change and Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change .
You are New York City, for Gods sake, he said. Give it to us the right way or we wont believe you at all.
16) Why Would Bias in Climate Research be Important? I thought Scientists Just Follow the Data Where It Leads Them When researchers approach a problem, their pre-conceived notions often guide them. It?s not that the IPCC?s claim that humans cause global warming is somehow untenable or impossible, it?s that political and financial pressures have resulted in the IPCC almost totally ignoring alternative explanations for that warming.
Meanwhile, in contrast to these theoretical risks, GM foods are improving people's lives, especially in the developing world. Food is cheaper, meaning more people are adequately fed. Crops are 20 to 30 percent more productive, so less land is needed to feed more people. Pesticide use is diminishing, lessening damage to the environment. And if the bans on GM crops were not deterring some countries from planting it, Golden Rice, genetically engineered to contain vitamin A, could be reducing the one million deaths, and half a million cases of blindness, occurring in the developing world every year because of vitamin A deficiency.
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