Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Its sad when claims made in a press release are not supported by the conclusions of the paper its advertising, even sadder when data supplied as part of a scientific study contradict that press release.
After GISS??s embarrasing error with replicating September temperatures in the October analysis, the NASA GISTEMP website was down for awhile today (at least for me).
A Professor of Climate Change at Adelaide University thinks we should halve Australias domestic ruminant numbers within two years.
So how can we explain the difference between NOAAs figures and the evidence from the USHCN stations?
The rest, some 220.000, are encrypted for various reasons. We are not planning
Kerry's Kyoto, Cap-and-Trade and Climate Confusion
More likely, the tilt has deeper causes. It's not just Hollywoodthe arts have never been a hotbed of free-market economics. (Just try saying "Gingrich" at a community theater cast party.) One explanation may lay in the nature of the field and those drawn to it. Acting is a profession where emotion and feeling are at a premium. The cold, hard deductive logic that may appeal to engineers just doesn't go as far.
Letter to the Editor by Harrison Schmitt, Craig Idso, David R. Legates, Art Robinson, Noah Robinson, Willie Soon
Head of the Russian WWF climate program: 60-year ocean cycle is expected to make in the next two decades for cooling
The IPCC controlled results of rising atmospheric levels with data from warming advocate Charles Keelings, and later his son Rogers, measurements at Mauna Loa. There is fascinating, but disturbing correspondence on this issue between Ernst Georg Beck and Roger Keeling. Beck had to be dismissed because his work showed that 19th century levels of atmospheric CO2 were much higher than used by the IPCC and created by Guy Callendar and Tom Wigley. The IPCC controlled the annual increase in human production of CO2 by producing it themselves.
New limits on carbon dioxide emissions in California could slow down industrial production.
The following plot shows that the positive phase of the PDO, which predominated roughly from the late 1970s up until just a few years ago, was also a period of depressed strong tornado activity in the U.S. Conversely, more strong tornadoes seem to be associated with the negative phase of the PDO.
Mike Huckabee: The darling of the GOP's "theo-con" faction now hosts a weekly show on Fox. As Reagan showed via his radio commentaries in the years leading up to the 1980 election: Beware a charming man with access to an open mike.
Second, their claim that Alaska has ???warmed by 4 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit?? is not true. The largest trend to 2009 in the Alaska temperatures is 1954-2009, which is 3.24 degrees.
It's also true that just because UFOlogists have entirely failed to produce ET, it doesn't necessarily mean that extraterrestrial aliens aren't among us. After all, how can you absolutely prove a negative? But until the alien-abduction brigade can bring a crashed flying saucer, decaying alien corpse, or working ray-gun to a press conference for all to see, we aren't going to reorganize our entire global economy to meet the impending threat of an invasion from Mars.
When asked an open-ended question about why they thought the Earth was warming, one-quarter of those surveyed pointed to temperatures they experience and another quarter cited other weather changes. One in 7 mentioned melting glaciers and sea ice, and 1 in 8 noted media coverage. Only 8 percent mentioned scientific research
Even if you thought that the only moral approach is to preserve the 2008 temperatures in every corner of the world forever, an assumption that Mike Griffin of NASA would call arrogant, your prejudices won't matter. What's much more important is that people in Russia are certainly going to think rationally about these issues. They "okay" various fashionable comments about the climate regulation today because it doesn't cost them anything and it's better for them to please zealots in other countries.
Exposed: Anti-Meat Crusaders Spread Myths, Distortions
in Medieval times. It would be much nicer to show the version driven by Be10
This is a refinement of the previous possibility. I put this forward because of the obvious daily change in climate sensitivity in the tropics, with the sensitivity dropping as the day progresses and the temperature increases. Sincethat variation in the climate sensitivity occurs daily over about a third of the planet, the part of the planet where the energy enters the system, it is not unreasonable to think that the global climate sensitivity should be a function of temperature. (Note that even here the sensitivity is unlikely to be a linear function of temperature, as the natural situation contains clear thresholds at which the climate sensitivity changes rapidly.)
DETROIT In the race to claim ever-higher fuel-economy numbers and keep up with government regulations, automakers are rolling out hybrids and electric cars aplenty at this weeks Detroit auto show.
The cure for the pandemic spread of summits and global confabs will involve serious triage, and meetings that fail to produce change will be the first to be eliminated. Canada has historically used bilateral meetings, regional organizations, and global forums to enhance the reach of its policies.
This year, the recent 12 Month period temperature is -12,6 F cooler than for example 1931 . And if we compare with 1990 it is ??? 13,8 F cooler .
$223,675 to make use of a broad-based multistakeholder group (i.e. the West Oakland Toxic Reduction Collaborative) to assess conditions, develop solutions and support and leverage their implementation as related to environmental and public health burdens from air and other toxics.
Hence, Mr. Obama is turning his attention not to creating just any job, but to creating jobs for union members. Making a virtue of necessity, he is taking energy policy in a direction that unions, centrists, and conservatives have advocated, for good reasons, and one that some environmentalist allies of the Democratic Party have resisted. What used to be a coalition between blue-collar union workers and green environmentalists is splitting, with the greens losing ground.
Administration's Plan to Advance Climate Science
The chart also shows that observed temperatures, rather than climbing ever upward, are where they were 15 years ago.
Given that climate change has been going on for millions of years, mitigating it is going to be a very tall order. Besides, consider that all of that mitigation, even if it could be accomplished, might bring about conditions that are a whole lot worse. For example, what if that 17-year-long global warming pause we have been experiencing turned cold again as occurred during the Little Ice Age between about 1400-1859AD, certainly not my idea of an improvement. Remember hearing about Washingtons troops freezing at Valley Forge in 1777-78, and Napoleons bitterly cold retreat from Russia in 1812? No, give me some of that good ol global warming any day!
Scientists have been basing their global warming predictions on the assumption that the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will accelerate. Now they have discovered that the growth rate has declined by about 25 percent since 1980, which throws a kink into their projections. This has occurred even though CO2 emissions continue to increase.
Hurricane Mitch, November 1998. One of the strongest late season hurricanes on record formed in the western Carribean in October 1998. Although the system eventually weakened before landfall, its slow passage westward over the mountainous regions of Central America unleashed precipitation amounts estimated as high as 75 inches. The resulting floods devastated the entire infrastructure of Honduras and also severely impacted other countries in the area. The final estimated death toll was 11,000, the greatest loss of life from a tropical system in the western hemisphere since 1780.
In early January, EPA proposed the Carbon Pollution Standard , a regulation that would effectively ban the construction of new coal-fired power plants by requiring them to install a technology, known as carbon capture and sequestration, that isnt yet market ready. As Ive explained here , the Clean Air Act stipulates that EPA cannot require a technology that is not adequately demonstrated. This is key distinction; courts will strike down the rule if carbon capture and sequestration is not commercially viable.
" Eme et al. conclude , in their words, that "terapon and mullet demonstrate exceptional tolerance to high temperatures," and they say "it seems likely that shallow-water sea surface temperatures would have to be much higher to adversely affect these and other shallow water marine fishes...they write that "despite diverse independent origins across taxa, fishes may share a common suite of physiological adaptations allowing them to survive periodic exposure to high environmental temperature ..."and that "exceptional thermal tolerance may be common throughout the biodiverse shallow waters of the Indo-Pacific." Thus, in the final analysis, they conclude that "tropical marine fishes inhabiting fringing nursery environments may have the upper thermal tolerance necessary to endure substantial increases in sea temperatures."
The northern hemisphere jet stream, a fast-moving high-altitude air current, circles the earth from west to east.
In 2015, unchecked climate change, global nuclear weapons modernizations, and outsized nuclear weapons arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity, and world leaders have failed to act with the speed or on the scale required to protect citizens from potential catastrophe. These failures of political leadership endanger every person on Earth. In 2015, with the Clock hand moved forward to three minutes to midnight, the board feels compelled to add, with a sense of great urgency: "The probability of global catastrophe is very high, and the actions needed to reduce the risks of disaster must be taken very soon.
The incidence and severity of extreme weather has not increased. There is little evidence that dangerous weather-related events will occur more often in the future. The U.N.s own Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says in its Special Report on Extreme Weather (2012) that there is an absence of an attributable climate change signal in trends in extreme weather losses to date. The funds currently dedicated to trying to stop extreme weather should therefore be diverted to strengthening our infrastructure so as to be able to withstand these inevitable, natural events, and to helping communities rebuild after natural catastrophes such as tropical storm Sandy.
The CPP Is Unlawful. EPA's Carbon Pollution Standards Rule the legal prerequisite for the CPP is itself unlawful because it establishes a new source performance standard for coal power plants that can be met only through a system of emission reduction carbon capture and storage that is not "adequately demonstrated."
What's more, "the wave's continued evolution portends a reversal of this trend of declining sea ice."
2 The IPCC was apparently warned of the lack of basis for the claims prior to publication of AR4, however the warnings were rejected. I need someone to provide a citation for this.
Davis's second tactical bequest was his discovery that the most effective way to win over hospital management was via government bailout. The turning point at Montefiore came when city government offered to raise the subsidy it had been providing for ward patients from $16 a day to $20. Similar deals were struck during subsequent organizing campaigns. A game emerged, in which 1199 would push management to the brink of a strike, and then city or state government would swoop in with an 11th-hour offer of funds to secure "labor peace."
The latest data has been added to the Aviso site, and sea level is dropping through the floor. Europes Envisat satellite has been collecting data since 2004, and now shows that sea level is the lowest it has been since they started collecting data.
The Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) from Australias Bureau of Meteorology is another widely used reference for the strength, frequency and duration of El Nio and La Nia events. We discussed the Southern Oscillation Index in Part 8 of this series . It is derived from the sea level pressures of Tahiti and Darwin, Australia, and as such it reflects the wind patterns off the equator in the southern tropical Pacific. With the Southern Oscillation Index, El Nio events are strong negative values and La Nias are strong positive values, which is the reverse of what we see with sea surface temperatures. The July 2014 Southern Oscillation Index value is -3.0, which is still well within ENSO-neutral conditions. The BOM threshold for El Nio conditions is an SOI value of -8.0, so theres a long way to go. Figure 8 presents a time-series graph of the SOI data.
However, the reason behind the current pause in rising temperatures remains a mystery, and there are said to be more than 30 theories attempting to decipher what caused this stability.
A nice post by Lucia on why the data matters and why the ridiculous RC response page is a good start yet completely inadequate to fix the problems.
Despite being co-sponsored by Solidarity, the Left-leaning Polish union and political party which fought so courageously for independence from Soviet domination during the Cold War, the conference attracted attention from the radical Left. These global warming extremists pelted the building with red dye making the building appear as if it was dripping with blood. The Polish attendees took this in stride as they've seen this kind of thing before, so no one seemed particularly alarmed or distracted just amused. Clearly this was another sign of the growing desperation on the warming left as their cause continues to lose credibility with the public each day.
Can we find another year with similar ice distribution as 2010? I can see Russian ice in my Windows. Note in the graph below that 2010 is very similar to 2006. 2006 had the highest minimum (and smallest maximum) in the DMI record. Like 2010, the ice was compressed and thick in 2006. Conclusion : Should we expect a nice recovery this summer due to the thicker ice? You bet ya.
Firearm Legislation and Firearm-Related Fatalities in the United States
Expect Pelosi to cave and permit the farm lobby to write an amendment to the bill that forces the EPA to exclude indirect emissions from its calculations. That would saddle American consumers with a climate bill to raise their utility bills and more ethanol to inflate the price of food and fuel.
George Monbiot is angry that people live in houses with more rooms than they need . Except him, because lefty journalists living alone in 4-bedroom farmhouses are more equal than you.
7 hours ago AUSTRALIAS $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a new air link to the frozen continent.
HEM is identical to the EIA's NEMS with the exception of the Commercial Demand Module. The Commercial Demand Module makes projections regarding commercial floor-space data of pertinent commercial buildings. Other than HEM not having this module, HEM is identical to NEMS.
The idea, of course, is to save America the world from dreaded climate change by switching away from "dirty" plant-fertilizing CO2 emissions to clean, renewable "alternatives."
This policy has been restated by EPA in letters and proposed rules several times since.23 The matter of "aggregation" has also come up repeatedly. EPA attempts to combine separate projects and claim the aggregate effect on emissions is sufficient to trigger NSR. When industries protest, EPA alleges regulated emitters split projects for the purpose of evading NSR. Once again, the result of EPA's latest interpretation is to make more modifications subject to NSR.
The online Salzburg Austria ORF site here writes: Despite climate change, winters in the Salzburg mountains over the past 30 years have not gotten warmer, rather they have gotten colder .
Yet the models on which climate alarmists rely for their catastrophic scenarios do not agree on the effects of global temperature rise on the Gulf Stream. Researchers R. Bleck and S. Sun, writing in the journal Global and Planetary Change, tell how they revisited their model of the "meridional overturning circulation' (MOC). "In view of evidence presented in IPCC (2001)," the researchers "had expected the Atlantic MOC to weaken in response to a doubling of atmospheric CO2." They found that "the Atlantic overturning stream function appears to be stable," concluding that, "It is insensitive to global warming resulting from gradual CO2 doubling."
One part of the discussion of peak oil that has always bothered me is the division of oil into conventional oil and unconventional oil. Heres why I think that division makes no sense with regards to peak oil.
Julian Morris is vice president of research at Reason Foundation.
Congressman says #Weinergate cybersecurity investigation vital in order to "ensure our national security':
"It's a different activity to put all of them together and reconstruct the climate of North America as a whole," said Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. It takes a lot of collaboration. A tree ring specialist, for instance, knows the strengths and weaknesses of their natural archive, while a climate modeler can piece it all together into simulations that incorporate interactions of the oceans, atmosphere, land surface, ice, vegetation, and water cycles so that it all makes sense.
3.	The energy policies of the federal government must be vigorously protested because they are disastrous to the economy.
I would like to single out two Breitbart luminaries for special kudos. First, I mention Milo Yiannopoulous particularly because he has boldly stood up to the most sophomoric outbursts in public forums this year. Having endured such things personally (to a lesser extent), entertaining as they are, I know it takes considerable nerve: kudos! And, Milo, if you are interested in the vulgar details of feminist fluid mechanics, give me a call.
Simply put, the GCM models are completely incapable of attributing forcing to CO 2 and completely incapable attributing forcing to global temperature. The entire climate change issue has been fabricated on the basis of these models through the introduction of a CO 2 forcing parameter that has no physical basis and was fraudulently created for the sole purpose of relating CO 2 emissions to global temperature when no such relationship possibly existed.
Conclusion: Extreme climate change as represented by significant global cooling and global warming periods over the past 2,000 years, is a natural phenomenon. Thus, modern global warming that took place over the late 20th century is not " unprecedented ."
It's a live chat! Today we will be discussing the viability of electric and natural gas-powered vehicles as potential replacements for petroleum Except they're not. They're screening out the skeptical comments. (Update - session is now ended.)
Europeans sign Warsaw Declaration: want no part of UN climate treaty
The most obvious way for warming to be caused naturally is for small, natural fluctuations in the circulation patterns of the atmosphere and ocean to result in a 1% or 2% decrease in global cloud cover. Clouds are the Earth??s sunshade, and if cloud cover changes for any reason, you have global warming ??? or global cooling.
In what is probably the silliest comment on climate since a Ukip councillor blamed floods on gay marriage, a green journalist opined of the refugees dying in the Mediterranean: This is what climate crisis looks like . . . We know there is evidence that the violence triggered by the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 were in part fuelled by protests over soaring food prices.
Turtles will eat the bait and get caught on the hooks, or simply get entangled in the lines.
Using the methods employed by Nuccitelli, Ive identified the 15 strongest positive anomalies and classified them as El Nios in Figure 5, and Ive done the same with La Nias. According to the Nuccitelli ENSO Index, the threshold for El Nios is +0.45, while the threshold for La Nias is -0.32. The Nuccitelli ENSO Index makes it easier to qualify as a La Nia than El Nio. What nonsense!! Another was way to look at it, the Nuccitelli index shows that ENSO was skewed toward El Nio conditions during the period he chose to examine. Why didnt Nuccitelli present that at SkepticalScience?
Possibly turned off by Steyer's murky past as a financial beneficiary of Big Coal, those liberal billionaires Tom was hoping to suck up to have proven reluctant when asked to donate to his political slush fund. The world's stubborn ongoing failure to show any sign of global warming since 1997 might also be playing a part in Steyer's failure to launch. There is an old joke that goes, he was so ugly as a baby we had to tie a pork chop around his neck to get the dog to play with him. It seems that Saint Tom's $50 million pork chop isn't enticing enough to win him any money donating new friends from among the left coast intelligentsia. So, for proving that money and political correctness can't buy love or respect among progressive eco-wackos, this Crank of the Week is for you: Tom Steyer.
"The world is on a trajectory to raise the mean global temperature by at least 3 degrees C by the end of the century."
The Mercury-News of San Jose, California advocates nation standards for recycling the used electronics and computer components known as "e-waste."
HAYDEN: You should be nice to Moose, mister. He doesnt take disagreement well.
Will that make any difference legislatively? Probably not.In the House, Republicans opposed to cap-and-trade, EPA regulation of greenhouse gases (GHGs), and carbon taxes are still in charge.
The climate change mafia, led by Dr Rajendra K Pachauri, chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), almost pulled off the heist of the century through fraudulent data and suppression of procedure. All the while, they were cornering millions of dollars in research grants that heaped one convenient untruth upon another. And as if the money wasn't enough, the Nobel Committee decided they should have the coveted Peace Prize.
Social Benefits of Carbon: We are receiving more reports that enhanced atmospheric carbon dioxide is promoting greening of deserts, tree growth using less water, and flowering in the Tropics. The report on flowering in the Tropics suggests the cause is a slight increase in warming of the Tropics. But as reported by Roy Spencer and John Christy, the atmospheric warming over the Tropics is not statistically significant, and, based on experiments, it is more plausible to attribute the increased flowering to enhanced atmospheric carbon dioxide. Please see links under Social Benefits of Carbon.
Study results appear online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences .
The scariest parts of the planetary emergency narrative ocean circulation shutdown triggering a new ice age, ice sheet disintegration raising sea levels 20 feet, malaria epidemics in industrialized countries, runaway warming from melting frozen methane deposits are implausible and not supported by scientific research.
The observed sea-surface temperature (SST) variations and proxy climate records in theSouthern Ocean (50S-70S) suggest the existence of pronounced global scale centennialvariations, with the most recent maxima around the mid-1870s and mid-1970s. In one climatemodel, these long time scale variations originate from the slow accumulation of North AtlanticDeep Water in the Weddell Sea at mid-depth, which destabilizes the water column from belowand eventually stimulates deep convection there. The accumulation of heat during the quiescentregime and its subsequent release to the atmosphere during the convective regime acts as arecharge oscillator in that model.