Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
A prolonged governmental investigation in response to someone's speechwhether or not investigators nab their target in the endcan violate the First Amendment, courts have held. For example, a federal appeals court ruled in White v. Lee (2000) that lengthy, speech-chilling civil rights investigations by federal officials can violate the First Amendment even when they are eventually dropped. It found this principle so obvious that it denied officials qualified immunity for investigating citizens who spoke out against a minority housing project.
Parramatta is further inland than the Observatory Hill site and so the summers are warmer and the winters colder. But if there were data for Parramatta back to 1890 it would almost certainly show the same pattern as Observatory Hill. Indeed it was almost certainly hotter in Parramatta, in Western Sydney, in 1926 than anytime since.
The warming weve had in the last thirty years implies that at best, we could expect 1C from a doubling of CO 2 , but observations from eight natural experiments around the globe, and even on Mars and Venus suggest that 0.4C is the upper bound of climate sensitivity to any cause. In addition, if Miscolscki is right, and an increase in carbon dioxide leads to a decrease in water vapor, then the sensitivity due to CO 2 could be close to zero.
The first lawsuits against drug maker Merck alleging harm from the painkiller Vioxx are going forward.
See, for example, Institute for Energy Research, "Bakken Shale Fact Sheet," August 2012, http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Bakken-Fact-Sheet.pdf (accessed June 30, 2016), and Diana Furchtgott-Roth, "Government May Be Shut Down, But the Energy Industry Is Booming," Economics 21, October 4, 2013, http://www.economics21.org/html/government-may-be-shut-down-energy-industry-booming-608.html (accessed July 1, 2016).
The reform liberalism and realistic environmentalism contemplated in this effort won't sweep all before it, and, to extend the analogy offered above, the Counter-Reformation of the established interest groups will be ferocious. Part of what is going on here is a generational transition (Shellenberger and Nordhaus are in their 40s), and the fossils of the environmental movement the Al Gores and Carl Popes won't change their minds or their ways. And to be sure, even a modernizing liberalism will have many points of friction with conservatism. But this seems the most promising effort at self-criticism by our liberal cousins in a long time.
with most banks closed. Roosevelt got most of them open and running again. It
Fewer cosmic rays mean fewer clouds, more sunlight reaching the Earth, and a warmer planet. More cosmic rays mean more clouds, more reflected sunlight, and a cooler planet.
In her confirmation hearings this summer, Kagan appeared sympathetic to a broad definition of injury when it comes to standing for activists filing environmental lawsuits. In response to a question from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, she told the Judiciary Committee on June 29 that an injury sufficient for standing "can be of many different kinds. It can be economic injury, but it can also be a kind of injury that you get when the environment is degraded and you can't use the parks in the way you would have wanted to use the parks."
At the 59-minute mark, on whether storms are becoming more frequent and severe, von Storch says he doesnt think this is the case and that the disasters are more about the over-development of coastal areas.
However, as BBC informed on Thursday, the scientific gadgets, including radar device Sprite and salinity/thermometer SeaCat, keep on malfunctioning. The technology failed largely due to "unexpected" (by them) minus 70 C wind chill. At least, they can regularly drill the ice. :-)
It was also realized that the body temperature data on their website are completely fake . Click the first link of the previous sentence and be sure that Hadow's core temperature will be 33.25 C at the beginning, rising by pre-determined steps to 33.75 C or so. All the other temperatures on their page are pre-programmed, too - a method that is rather characteristic for the "global warming research".
This National Assessment is much closer to pseudoscience than it is to science. It is as explanatory as Sigmund Freud. It clearly believes that virtually everything in our society is tremendously dependent the surface temperature, and, because of that, we are headed towards certain and inescapable destruction, unless we take its advice and decarbonize our economy, pronto. Unfortunately, the Assessment can't quite tell us how to accomplish that, because no one knows how.
Kwok introduces his new study by noting that near the mid-point of the last decade, simulations of Arctic Ocean sea ice characteristics produced by the climate models included in the World Climate Research Programme's Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 3 (CMIP3) were far from what it might have been hoped they would be. Specifically, he writes that (1) "Zhang and Walsh (2006) noted that even though the CMIP3 models capture the negative trend in sea ice area, the inter-model scatter is large," that (2) "Stroeve et al . (2007) show that few models exhibit negative trends that are comparable to observations," and that (3) "Eisenman et al . (2007) conclude that the results of current CMIP3 models cannot be relied upon for credible projections of sea ice behavior."
Firstly, the real situation is that the shell, the portion of the atmosphere doing most of the radiating, is colder than the surface. This is a simple observational truth. Cooler things dont warm warmer things, as the second law of thermodynamics tells us, though they can slow the rate of cooling of the warmer thing.
Among other problems, many of the sediment records Loehle used in his analysis had chronologies that were determined by just a few radiocarbon dates distributed over the past two thousand years. The dating in these records is consequently uncertain by as much as four hundred years or so, precluding their use in reconstructing centennial
Rasheed Wallace gained notoriety during his 16-season NBA career for being a hot-headed power forward. If called for a foul (or, as was often the case with him, a technical foul) that he thought was undeserved, and the opposing team missed the ensuing free-throw attempts, Wallace would often holler, "ball don't lie," as if the basketball itself was pronouncing judgment on the ref's call.
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Washington, D.C., November 28, 2006Rachael Carson's Silent Spring advice actually killed birds? Trees cause more air pollution than cars? In a new book, ECO-FREAKS, author John Berlau shatters long-standing environmental myths with true, startling revelations.
The Chinese deserve our thanks for standing firm and refusing to join in the folly. Understanding that this was nothing but a plan to curtail economic growth, they told U.S. officials to come back and see them in fifty years.
1 Yes, it is. After the Supreme Court ruled in Massachusetts v EPA (2007) that greenhouse gases could be regulated under the Clean Air Act, Michigan Rep. John Dingell, who authored the Act, said that, ???This is not what was intended by the Congress.?? Moreover, the Congress considered but ultimately removed emissions requirements from a 1990 Clean Air Act update. Despite the absence of a Congressional mandate, Obama??s EPA is pressing ahead with greenhouse gas regulations. For many Senators-including 6 Democrats-this is an unacceptable power grab by the executive branch.
In contrast, the regulatory debate focuses on the merits of each specific regulation. There is no budget cap because most regulatory costs are off-budget and therefore largely ignored. Moreover, the absence of any cap means that neither the regulatory agency nor OIRA have any reason to consider whether the agency's mission might not better be addressed by tightening some regulations and loosening or eliminating others. Agencies fight for all regulations individually without regard to their cumulative effect.
be used in national and regional vulnerability and adaptation assessments.
Through deforestation is calculated nettofldet from vegetation together, to be positive and upgraded to 3045 Gtonnes. This nettoflde has gradually been changed from a klla to now be a snka for CO 2 with about 16 Gtons merupptag biosfren in the past decade.
These steep reductions have another drawback. If the U.S. adopts GHG controls that are more stringent than those of one or more other major economic powers, its efforts will be partially offset by emissions leakage. Leakage is the flight of GHG-intensive activities to other nations that impose no controls or controls that are laxer than those in the U.S. Leakage can occur either through increased imports or decreased exports. One recent study found that leakage would offset between 14 percent and 25 percent of the Obama cap-and-trade plan's U.S. GHG reduction. In effect, leakage will cancel out 14-25 percent of each tonne of GHG discharge avoided by domestic GHG limits. Because of this, the cost of avoiding a tonne of GHG emissions under a unilateral American program will be 16-33 percent greater than that reflected in the domestic abatement cost.
Nicola Scafetta has a paper suggesting that a model based on the movement of the planets (planetary orbital oscillations) better explains climate variation than the General Circulation Models used by the UN IPCC. On her web site, Jo Nova has a good presentation of the paper and a number of useful comments. The descriptive power of the model may be just a statistical artifact, but it may promote useful discussion.
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The very victory that moderate progressives view as legitimizing their approach, though, is seen as destructive by liberal progressives. This difference is encapsulated in how each side views welfare reform, the passage of which is widely viewed as securing Clinton's reelection. Moderate progressives are proud of that legislation, wishing that it had provided more economic support to single mothers but generally supportive of the fact that it helped move millions of people into work. Liberal progressives, though, believe that it did little or nothing to end poverty, and as such was a sell-out of the progressive commitment to the poor. The fact that the public demanded that the welfare-reform bill or something like it be passed weighs large in the calculus of the moderate progressives, but not at all in that of that liberal progressives.
During President G.W. Bush's first term, the Department of Energy conducted a three-year rulemaking to transform the 1605(b) program into a credit system before finally admitting it had no authority to do so. Ironically, some of today's most aggressive CPP advocates, such as NRDC and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, helped nail the legal case against the Bush initiative.
For four decades genetically modified organisms (GMO) have been vilified and caricatured as "Frankenfoods," the abominations of mad scientists meddling with nature and putting the human race at risk. Currently, over sixty bills have been introduced in over twenty states that will require food labels indicating if the product contains GMO. Globally, over sixty countries restrict or ban GMO outright, including eight E.U. nations and countries in Africa suffering from famine and malnutrition that could be alleviated by genetically modified crops.
Hundreds of thousands lose power in North Carolina
After Bali the UN Conference and the Impact on International Climate Change Policy
That's terrific - they have all the key inputs needed for setting up an early 19th century business. What is left unsaid is that Michigan has the highest unemployment rate in the country, driven by fussy and high cost unions and a crushing taxation and regulatory burden. The only message I take from the governor's talk is that if one is not in an alternative energy business, it's time to get out of Michigan, as the majority of businesses are about to face higher power costs and more taxes to support the governor's preferred industrial investment. Which, come to think of it, is a message most businesses have already internalized about Michigan, seeing as the population of its largest city has dropped by more than 50% over the last several decades.
The authors used sea ice concentration data retrieved from the scanning multichannel microwave radiometer on the Nimbus 7 satellite and the spatial sensor microwave/imager on several defense meteorological satellites to develop a quality-controlled history of Antarctic sea ice variability covering an entire 22-year solar cycle (1979-2002) that includes different states of the Antarctic Oscillation and several ENSO events, after which they evaluated total sea ice extent and area trends by means of linear least-squares regression. What was learned
Big changes in energy policy are in the works. Not just because Republicans want to destroy the president's "legacy," but because a wealthy country is better able to do things right. A growing economy needs energy that is efficient, effective and economicalwhich is why countries like China and India will not limit energy availability and why Republicans want to expand access in the U.S.
Patsy Montana swears she Didn't Know the Gun Was Loaded . She's very, very sorry, and she'll never, never do it again. The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Have you ever wondered, when you see an assertion along the lines of The Earth has warmed by 1.62 degrees over the last 100 years, how anyone could know that? The literature of global warming alarmism is littered with faux precision; the truth, as you might imagine, is that it is very difficult to get reliable data for the whole Earth over a period of decades if not centuries.
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Overall, there arent a lot of investment ideas here, just some trades. Gold is not yet in a confirmed bear market, just a probable bear trend, so a bit hard to short it with confidence (other than on a day trade basis or an hourly chart swing trade). Short Euro will likely work a bit longer, but will have political news driven changes of direction. Again very fast swing trades. Mostly the message is be in $US and keep the powder dry. Likely due to large international flows out of Euro land until they get their currency straightened out.
So it can be expected that in two or three hundred years all the Christian debate about allowing homosexuals as bishops, or in a Church at all could be seen as a giant waste of time , as puzzling as early-Church discussions of the existence of a soul in a womans body.
The ex-employee gave a fascinating insight into the workings of the institute. When Dr Pachauri, who is described on his personal website as an international statesman promoting climate change awareness, marked his birthday a few years ago, the staff were shown a homemade video of their bosss life story.
The good news is that once something is out there, people will counter with links to that without themselves worrying about the detail.
16f. The ability of global climate models to model precipitation values for the next 50 years
This is, in fact, a global trend as many developing nations such as India do the same thing. Nor will they suddenly shut down electricity production fifteen years from now.
One running total, the AA, is the Average of Monthly Averages. Each monthly value has the same weight. Doesnt matter if there is only one thermometer in that month, or 5000. This is somewhat overly influenced by the very early thermometers as they get to have a larger implact, being fewer of them. (Yet we are expecting the GAT codes to remove that effect so it DOES matter.)
Ikvll, p Restaurant the stop in Uppsala, starts a series Tuesday arrangement under the common title: Climate policy is a vrre hot n fossilanvndningen? to which Eje Collinder r of initiatives takers. I have received the assignment to begin with a fredragning: Carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere with ample space for queries and discussion.
Pope Francis' policies won't help the poor
"Yes, son. Now you appreciate the genius of Salon . Its readers were so gullible they'd just believe any old crap. So long as the underlying political message was correct, they really didn't care."
We have, of course, just moved back into the cold phase of the PDO, so, despite the quiet tornado season this year and last, could be looking at more tornadoes in the next few years.
The most comprehensive recent argumentation rejecting it is in S. F. Singer et al. (Climate Change Reconsidered. The Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, The Heartland Institute, Chicago, 2009), in I. Plimer (Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, The Missing Science, Connor Court Publishing, Australia, 2009), in R. M. Carter (Climate: The Counter Consensus, Stacey International, London, 2010), in the Czech scientist M. Kut lek (Racionln? o globln m oteplovn /Rationally about Global Warming/, Doko?n, Prague, 2008; and in his recently published Facts About Global Warming: Rational or Emotional Issue? Catena Verlag GmbH, Reiskirchen, September 2010), and in many other books, articles and studies.
Because yields are higher and they require lower inputs, biotech varieties conserve water and farmland and are more sustainable. They lessen the need for chemical pesticides and make possible more environment-friendly agronomic practices such as no-till farming, which causes less soil erosion and runoff and releases less carbon into the atmosphere. And genetically engineered grains are less susceptible to infestation by fungi and have lower levels of dangerous fungal toxins than organic grains. Farmers have found biotech crops to be so reliable and cost-effective that plant genetic engineering has been the most rapidly adopted agriculture technology in history, expanding worldwide from just 4.2 million acres in 1996 to over 330 million acres in 2010.
But be of good cheer. The carbon dioxide emissions allegedly responsible for Al Gores planetary emergency are helping tomatoes beef up. The Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change maintains a database on field and laboratory experiments measuring plant growth response to CO2-enriched environments. Heres the link for data on tomatoes.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Iain Murray on the history and status of mine safety in the United States.
Between the Earths surface and the outer edge of the atmosphere we have the atmosphere with its clouds and aerosols, which determine how much solar radiation eventually reaches the surface of the Earth. Since 1983 the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Program (ISCCP) has been measuring global cloud coverage. One spectacular result was the decrease in global cloud cover between1987 2000, from 69% to 64%, i.e. precisely during the period of warming that triggered the CO2 hypothesis.
The measured response of the energy fluxes at the top of the atmosphere to the changes of the sea surface temperature is still significantly larger than claimed by the IPCC and the climate sensitivity ends up being 0.7 ??C. In fact, their 99-percent confidence interval is 0.5 - 1.3 ??C. Imagine: they are 99 percent certain that the climate sensitivity can't exceed 1.3 ??C. This is, of course, qualitatively incompatible with the IPCC whose lower bound is 2 ??C.
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the second philanthropy Northropmentioned in 2008 as a partner in the concerted effort to stop tar sands oildevelopment , contributed far more.
Sea level does not just rise and fall relative to a dipstick of stable coast. Earth movement can also have an effect, so we have to try to separate local effects from global (eustatic) effects. The sea level of the last interglacial( about 120,000 years ago) is generally around 2 m a.s.l. in Australia, but is raised to 26 m at Mount Gambier and lies below sea level at Adelaide indicating tectonic movement both up and down.
I also find the narrator saying Fake actors were used annoying. IFF it was a put up job, then they were REAL Actors, not fake actors Real actors making a fake persona. Then toward the end he goes into a Manchurian Candidate hypnosis and shooters bit.
The model-observations comparisons serve as updates to two of my favorite posts: Satellite-Era Sea Surface Temperature Versus IPCC Hindcast/Projections Part 1 and Part 2 . Refer to those posts for the discussions of the monumental differences between the models and observations. They are also presented in my first book If the IPCC was Selling Manmade Global Warming as a Product, Would the FTC Stop their Deceptive Ads? , in Section 8. A few model-data comparisons were also provided in my new book Who Turned on the Heat? The Unsuspected Global Warming Culprit, El Nio-Southern Oscillation . More on that later.
There is growing evidence that worldwide temperatures were higher than at present during the mid-Holocene (especially 5 000-6 000 BP), at least in summer, though carbon dioxide levels appear to have been quite similar to those of the pre-industrial era at this time (Section 1 i Thus parts were a few degrees warmer in July during the mid- Holocene than in recent decades (Yoshino and Urushibara, 1978, Webb ct al 1987, Huntley and Prentice, 1988, Zhang and Wang 1990) Parts of Australasia and Chile were also warmer. The late tenth to early thirteenth centuries (about AD 950-1250) appear to have been exceptionally warm in western Europe, Iceland and Greenland (Alexandre 1987, Lamb, 1988) This period is known as the Medieval Climatic Optimum China was, however, cold at this time (mainly in winter) but South Japan was warm (Yoshino, 1978) This period of widespread warmth is notable in that there is no evidence that it was accompanied by an increase of greenhouse gases
Here are two powerful, positive ideas to mitigating carbon emissions and averting expected damages from climate change that embrace the goal of climate protection, but utilize methods that are compatible with basic conservative policy principles.
FACT: Rahmstorfs sea level projection is an extreme outlier, way out of the mainstream.
The sceptics, on the other hand, are fairly obviously quite correct when they say that the high sensitivities postulated by the alarmists do not fit with the measured temperature record of the 20 th and 21 st century.
China Buys Hummer - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online This should make all the right people angry: The world's biggest polluter now owns the poster child of irresponsible automobiles. Exit question: Will China bring down the production costs so far that the average middle-class Joe can afford his own tank? William Hunt -- Control and Loss of Freedom: Ultimate Goal of the Global Warming Lobby Oregon is following hard in Californias footsteps. Businesses are failing and fleeing the state. Washington is not far behind. So, what happens when Congress shuts down the states that provide the resources for the state that no longer will produce their own? So long, Fido: Climate change could kill your pet, warns the RSPCA - Telegraph Climate change could kill pets, according to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), as warmer temperatures cause an increase in exotic diseases among cats and dogs.
As such, Sierra Club's new ad campaign may have it backwards: While there's scant evidence that suggests climate change (if it's happening) would increase the incidence of childhood asthma, much more robust evidence indicates that global warming (if it does exist) would lower the number of asthma attacks suffered by children by reducing the severity and duration of winter temperatures.
This is, so far, really the best estimate we could get from geological records, in line with previous models of how long an ultra-high carbon dioxide event could last before the carbon dioxide in the air would get drawn back into the oceans and sediments, Killingsworth said.
This is not to say that hurricanes like super storm Sandy or tornadoes have not occurred, but it is to say that there have been far fewer. These weather events affecting the United States have been in decline: That is the reality.