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If the Court upholds the Timing Rule it will have lots of explaining to do. The Timing Rule is what triggers the "absurd results" and "administrative impossibility" that the EPA attempts to "tailor" away by playing lawmaker and amending the Clean Air Act's Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) pre-construction and Title V operating permits programs. If the Court upholds the Rule, it will have to explain how the Clean Air Act can be the statutory scheme Congress intended to regulate greenhouse gases its conclusion in Mass. v. EPA and yet lead to extreme measures and absurd results when used for that purpose. Logically, the Court has to choose between Mass. v. EPA and the Timing Rule, unless it wants to take ownership of the bizarre notion that the Clean Air Act was wired from the start to self-destruct four decades later.
The top panel shows my emulation of the Mann NH and SH iHAD (land-ocean) reconstructions using the AD800 network (no splicing), together with the Mannian iHad instrumental (I haen??t parsed the relationship of this to HAD and am just using it as is). In the panel below that, I did the same thing using all proxies except the Tiljander sediments. As you see, there is a profound difference particularly in the SH, where the 20th century is not in the slightest anomalous according to this information. Another odd point in the bottom panel version is that the NH 11th century which is believed to be one of the ???warm?? centers of the MWP emerges, together with the late 17th century LIA, as one of the coldest times of the millennium ??? something that doesn??t make a whole lot of sense, even for MWP opponents. At present, I don??t know which proxies are leading to this result.
I stopped watching commercial network news in the '80s, but still had PBS' MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and its trademark two-side analysis of major news. Gradually after 2002, the lack of global warming skeptic scientists offering rebuttal to their IPCC guests began bothering me, so I wrote and asked about it, starting in 2007. I also started writing to the Media Research Center this year, asking them to include PBS when they criticized broadcast news outlets' lack of balance in global warming stories. Long story short, the PBS Ombudsman answered on 12/17 (here, 2/3rds down the page at the headline "Hot About Warming"), and Tim Graham at MRC's NewsBusters also wrote a nice 12/21 analysis of PBS' response.
I have reached my own conclusion a long time ago and I insist it is the right conclusion.
The total amount of CO2 humans have added to the atmosphere in the last 100 years has upset the radiative energy budget of the Earth by only 1%. How the climate system responds to that small ?poke? is very uncertain. The IPCC says there will be strong warming, with cloud changes making the warming worse. I claim there will be weak warming, with cloud changes acting to reduce the influence of that 1% change. The difference between these two outcomes is whether cloud feedbacks are positive (the IPCC view), or negative (the view I and a minority of others have).
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New Jersey's attorney general Zulima Farber is finally out of a job. She was appointed by New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine despite having two highly-publicized bench warrants out for her arrest for her driving. Now she has finally been forced to resign after abusing her position to cancel a traffic ticket issued to her paramour, himself a serial ethics violator and tax cheat who had been repeatedly disciplined for taking advantage of the clients of his law firm.
???Water Vapor accounts for the largest percentage of the greenhouse effect, between 36% and 66% for clear sky conditions and between 66% and 85% when including clouds.??
The two sceptics highlighted the ongoing hiatus in global warming, which has seen temperatures around the world remain basically the same for more than 15 years, following noticeable warming in the 1980s and early 1990s.
As the so called pause in global warming continues, space scientists may be giving climate scientists some pause for thought.
The inhuman acts are pretty much isomorphic to what the Nazis did in the Czech lands in 1942 after the blonde beast of Prague, Reinhard Heydrich, also known as the Hangman, was rightfully executed in the Czech capital by the Czechoslovak government in London. His Nazi colleagues started a wave of terror in which two villages, Lidice and Leky, were flattened.
A paper published today in The Holocene reconstructs Mediterranean climate over the past 10,000 years and finds evidence for a Sun-climate connection including a ~900 year cycle. According to the authors, "The ~900 yr periodicity has counterparts in numerous North Atlantic and Northern Hemisphere palaeoclimate records, and in solar irradiance proxies (14C and 10Be), and may relate to a Sunclimate connection during the early Holocene." The paper also finds a link to the North Atlantic Oscillation, which in turn has been linked to solar activity . The paper adds to hundreds of other peer-reviewed publications demonstrating that tiny changes in solar activity can account for climate and temperature changes on Earth.
But climate change sceptics do not claim there has been recent global warming. They claim there has been a levelling off, or fall in temperatures, over the last 10 years since the 1998 El Nino-driven peak.
They then quote an opinion poll commissioned by councils which found ?57 per cent agree that Britain rarely sees weather events as severe as those of 2009/10 and that it would be inappropriate to spend more money preparing?.
Moderate progressives argued that Brown's election was a wake-up call. Pointing to many polls showing that Americans did not want the health-care bill to pass and that independents were growing more concerned about the deficit and moving against the Democrats, men such as Mark Penn and Doug Schoen argued that electoral disaster loomed unless the administration changed course. They pointed to the landslide of 1994 as an example of what could happen if the Speaker and the president persisted. In essence, moderate progressive argued that the Democrats lost in 1994 by trying to be three steps ahead of public opinion instead of one.
Ideas drawn from the works of Douglass North and those of other political economists suggest that institutions limit the extent to which efficient policies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are likely to be adopted. Most analyses of the costs of making steep GHG emission cuts conflict with these realities. Problems arise at both the international level and within nations.
We believe the claims by NASA and GISS, that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated.
KIEV, Feb 9 (Reuters) A fierce cold spell has killed most of the winter barley and winter rapeseed crops and seriously damaged wheat in Ukraines eastern and southern regions, while threatening winter crops and slowing exports in Russia.
Which takes us to Dr. Hansen's presentations in Santa Feprimarily attended by sycophants carrying copies of his book: Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity. However, four scientists also attendeda meteorologist, a physicist, a biologist, and a geologist.
It has been severely criticised for deliberately and grossly exaggerating and distorting the issues and I understand that the recently published Summary for Policymakers by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) contradicts a number of Mr. Gores major contentions. This, in contrast, has had virtually no publicity and no
The UKs renewable energy sector has attacked Government plans to change the rules governing the Climate Change Levy a measure which was originally designed to promote the generation of clean energy. RenewableUK, the trade association representing the wind, wave and tidal energy industries, strongly criticised the Chancellors announcement in his budget speech that he is retrospectively removing the exemption for green energy. This measure is due to come into effect on the 1st of August and according to the REA such snap changes undermine confidence in the UK from the finance community, as well as making renewables less attractive compared to fossil fuel generation. -- Click Green, 8 July 2015
The fading of global warming from the political agenda is a mostly American phenomenon, wrote Rosenthal, apparently unaware that the European Union is about to collapse because several of its member nations are so deeply in debt that makes the U.S. look like a paragon of prudent fiscal policy. Rosenthal appears to be unaware of the rapid political changes occurring across the northern tier of African nations called the Maghreb and elsewhere throughout the Middle East.
Moreover, these studies are generally supported by studies conducted by government agencies. Mary Novak, Senior Vice President of WEFA Energy Services, evaluated five different government assessments of the costs of the Kyoto Protocol at a conference sponsored by the American Council for Capital Formation on October 13.
Because the models fail to properly simulate those naturally occurring processes, they have to double the observed rate of warming of the surfaces of the global oceans in order to properly simulate the warming rate of land surface air temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere and to melt Arctic sea ice.
Weve been swamped by bad economic news and you dont have to look at our survey results alone to see that the interest and focus on climate change has dissipated somewhat , said Yuen Pau Woo, co-author of the report.
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Given that the climate debate is about minuscule fractions of a degree, that measurement uncertainty is too large for comfort. It is one reason why we are able to say that over the past couple of decades the measured global warming is statistically indistinguishable from zero.
Proposing policies related to alternative fuels and other factors related to climate change.
"In the peer-reviewed literature, they've tried to explain away this lull," said Morano. "In the proceedings of the National Academy of Science a year or two ago they had a study blaming Chinese coal use for the lack of global warming. So, in an ironic twist, global warming proponents are now claiming that that coal use is saving us from dangerous global warming."
In reality, however, there is no such widespread assumption. Rather, there is a widespread body of knowledge that there is, in fact, a remarkable "CO 2 -induced stimulation of tropical tree growth," much of which body of knowledge may be found in our website's Subject Index, under the heading of Trees (Types - Tropical) . There, one may read individual reviews of 29 such publications, which together cite a total of 72 pertinent scientific papers. And one may also peruse a brief Summary - based on all but the two most recent such reviews - which concludes as follows.
As goes California, so goes the nation. Nowhere is this adage truer than in environmental policy, thanks to Democrats' eagerness to impose the Golden State's radical eco-agenda on all Americans. Yet it is exactly such policies that have helped lead California to financial ruin.
The dire economic and social effects of plummeting birthrates remind us that marriage and childbirth are not just private lifestyle choices. A country with fewer children becomes, on average, increasingly older. Cities and towns begin to empty, while the cost of caring for retirees and elderly sick people skyrockets. Old people spend less and invest less, shrinking capital pools for the new businesses that create new jobs. Entrepreneurs do not come from among the aged: countries with a higher median age have a lower percentage of entrepreneurs.
Stomata readings are higher with greater variability as Jaworowski and Beck assert.
Presumably somebody added the line and in doing so provided a general range for the MWP and the LIA. By eyeball the MWP covers A.D. 950 to 1350, and the LIA from A.D. 1350 to 1900. This does not match with the numbers in the text, particularly for the LIA with numbers attributed to Grove of 150 to 450 years ago or A.D. 1540 to 1840. There are a few interesting comments that needed correction for the politically motivated 2001 IPCC Report. In referring to the MWP, they note,
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Moreover, Abdussamatovs analysis of sun activity data has led him to conclude that the Earth is entering a prolonged cooling phase, because sunspot activity is currently in a phase regarded as a minimum.
Many advocates have begun crying for more government investment in alternative energy sources. Others push for "energy independence" to supposedly avoid the high costs of oil, not to mention its alleged environmental effects. If these goals are not met, some predict major world wars will be fought over dwindling petroleum resources.
/s/ Dr. James Visentine JSC Materials Branch, Engineering Directorate, 30 years
When it comes to thinking about mitigating climate change, scientists such as Andreae, Caldeira, and many others are checking their scientific faculties at the door and unwittingly smuggling in their ideological policy preferences under the guise of dispassionate scientific analysis and authority.
value in probing for compromise even if nothing materializes because it shapes
The temperature rise of 0.6C during the 1975-1998 period, which has triggered all the current climate hysteria, was of the same magnitude as the previous increase that occurred in the 1910 to 1940 period, which in turn had nothing to do with CO2 because back then the concentration in the atmosphere rose by only some 10 ppm (from 297 to 308 ppm). Also the temperature increase of 1.5C over the last 150 to 250 years is also nothing out of the ordinary or dangerous, as we are often told in the media. Instead it is only the natural recovery from the Little Ice Age (LIA) that had gripped the planet from 1400 to 1750. The LIA not only led to the Thames River and Baltic Seafreezing over, but resulted in severe hunger in Europe and caused a mass migration to America.
Obama, by contrast, has operated the presidency in his first year in exactly the opposite direction. He wants the executive to be a domestic strongman who can speedily dismiss opposition to his health care and economic ambitions. His decisions to try KSM in federal court and to place the Christmas bomber in FBI custody represent an unprecedented effort to leave critical wartime decisionshere, final decisions on the disposition of enemy combatantsup to the other branches.
Examining the Chinese effort to develop an electric vehicle market offers a window into the countrys economics and politics as it confronts these three challenges, write Henry Lee , senior lecturer in public policy and Jaidah Family Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program at Harvard Kennedy School, and his coauthors, Sabrina Howell and Adam Heal, both research associates at the Kennedy School, in Leapfrogging or Stalling Out? Electric Vehicles in China .
Figure 2 illustrates the global SST anomalies from January 1935 to December 1974 for three datasets: HADISST, ERSST.v2 , and ERSST.v3b . The data has been smoothed with a 13-month filter to remove the rough edges. Note how the discontinuity now appears to be a gradual decrease from late 1944 to late 1946. Scaled NINO3.4 SST anomalies have also been provided for comparison. All three global SST datasets appear as if theyre responding to an El Nino event when none exists in the NINO3.4 SST anomaly data. Also note that there is also little agreement between NINO3.4 SST anomalies and the global SST datasets between 1943 and 1950, while global SST anomalies do appear to respond to NINO3.4 SST anomalies at other times.
There also are thorny and unresolved questions of how payments of hundreds of billions of dollars from citizens of developed countries would be distributed among the populations of developing ones without creating enormous opportunities for corruption on the part of politicians and bureaucrats of recipient countries. Moreover, there is the question of timing, determining when developing countries join developed ones in cutting back their emissions and bear the costs of GHG controls. Finally, any agreement of course will be sensitive to macro economic conditions. If some countries fall into recession their populations and leaders will have little appetite for implementing or continuing costly GHG regulations. But if those countries do not adhere to any international agreement, GHG targets can only be met by stricter controls and higher costs in those countries that do comply.
If you were to hear there was significant planetary warming which is causing a melting of the polar ice caps, you might think you were hearing about global warming. And of course, you would be right just not about earth, but rather Mars instead. This according to the Heartland Institute, which reports how recent NASA findings confirm that for the past three Martian summers, deposits of frozen CO2 from the Martian south pole have shrunk, indicating a significant planetary warming underway. Scientists attribute this Martian warming not to any manmade emissions, but to possible increases in the sun's solar output, which may mean as much as thirty percent of any warming that has occurred on earth could be attributable to this natural cause.
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Its a simple question: What is the temperature of the earth? But for those who live here it has no simple answer, nor ever will haveonly approximations. For it not only depends on where you put the thermometer, but also, apparently, on who interprets it. For if you own the dataset, you can reduce older temperatures and increase recent ones, just as NASA has been doing, and give the impression of greater warming. Naughty, naughty. more
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The survey by the University of Michigan and Muhlenberg College says 62 percent of those asked in December think the Earth is getting warmer. Thats up from 55 percent in the spring of that year and 58 percent in December 2010. Its the highest proportion in two years.
Which begs the question: How could it have been warm enough to grow giant trees 1,000 years ago in an area now covered in ice? We dont know why it was so warm 1,000 years agoclimate scientists dont like to talk about it because they cant explain it ??? but for some reason they are sure that your SUV is causing current warmth.
It's surprising that Vongehr, a trained physicist whom I know from TASI-99 in Colorado (but I don't really remember him well), decided to argue against reductionism but I have already reduced this surprising attitude to Vongehr's Maoism (which brought us another piece of evidence in favor of reductionism).
This video link here is an animation of how the windpark was constructed. The video shows how huge mono-piles with a wall thickness of 100 mm are pounded into the seabed . That certainly cannot be very pleasant for any marine wildlife nearby, and certainly represents a major disturbance of habitat.
Back in the 1970s, when the elites were convinced that overpopulation would destroy the Earth, the Chinese acted as only a one-party autocracy or totalitarian state could: It limited women to one child. The result was that millions of female fetuses were aborted so that China now has about 120 males to every 100 femalesa potentially destabilizing imbalanceand a slow-growing population that means China will get old before most of its people grow rich.
Anger at being disrespected: This is the flip side of their pride. Working-class voters are very cognizant of their status in American life. They rarely occupy executive positions in their jobs and are consumers rather than producers of ideas. They feel keenly this relative lack of control over important features of their lives, and resent being ordered about as if they were merely pawns in someone else's grand plan. They particularly dislike having their lives belittled as unsophisticated or inferior to the lives of educated or wealthy folk.
Speaking about books on this topic, I?d like to mention another original Czech publication which just recently came out and which unfortunately ? for reasons I cannot understand ? went almost unnoticed. I?m referring to a book by Miroslav Kut lek, professor at the Czech Technical University in Prague, called ?Rationally about Global Warming? (Doko?n Publishers, Prague, 2008), which, as the title itself suggests, takes similar views, but at a more technical level.
The feds prefer front-loading washing machines. Government studies conclude that these horizontal axis designs like the machines in Laundromats consume less energy and reduced energy use means reduced carbon dioxide emissions.
Elevated CO 2 stimulated rates of net photosynthesis by about 60% in the well-watered seedlings. Under drought conditions, however, the relative photosynthetic stimulation increased to as much as 180%, leading to CO 2 -induced increases in seedling dry mass of 33 and 31% for well-watered and water-stressed seedlings, respectively. The larger percentage enhancement of net photosynthesis in the water-stressed seedlings essentially ameliorated the negative effect of water stress on growth. In addition, elevated CO 2 increased whole-plant water-use efficiency by 51 and 63% in the well-watered and water-stressed seedlings, respectively. This enhancement resulted solely from the CO 2 -induced increases in photosynthesis, and not from reductions in stomatal conductance or total water use. What it means
December 2010 is "almost certain" to be the coldest since records began in 1910, according to the Met Office. ?The Independent, 18 December 2010
Recently, a college in Vermont found several students had repeated the same error on exam papers. The misinformation was traced to Wikipedia, and the college outlawed the site for its students' use.
as an Illinois state senator is also interesting as a preview of his
Now a one in 20 years rainout is NOT a freak event. Its a 1 in 20 unusual but normal event. What is odd is having a 1 in 20 freak rain event in what is supposed to be a Drought Of Historic Proportions Thus my complaint about the Palmer Drought Index when used with buggered temperature data.
Some politicians in Washington say adding more carbon dioxide to the air is closing the window at the top of the atmosphere and allowing less heat to escape to space. The answer as to whether this is true or not is not going to come from looking at how much the earth has warmed up in the last 150 years. This planet has warmed and cooled so many times in the past that the current temperature trend is just a repeat of what has happened many, many times before. There are simply too many natural temperature cycles caused by too many forces of nature that will mask any underlying forcing mechanism. Thankfully there is a new way to find an answer. With the advent of the satellite era in the 1960s a revolutionary method of how to evaluate our possible impact on climate was born.
Also, note that I have not even addressed any natural sources of warming. If Mother Nature was also involved in the ocean warming during 1955-2010, then this would imply an even LOWER climate sensitivity than I have estimated here.
The Colorado part of that article has the same end point: giant storms in Colorado are not increasing or decreasing; out in the Rockies it??s all el Nio. More at:
Denying those men, women, and especially children the ability to improve their lives based on some professed concern about unborn generations doesnt sit well with me at all. The obvious response from their side is Easy for you to say, you made it already. Which is true. The West got wealthy by means which sustainable development wants to deny to the worlds poor.