Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
"Rushed through Congress after the Enron and WorldCom scandals, Sarb-Ox ended up imposing many mandates that greatly encumber honest entrepreneurs. Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus recently told IBD that his company could not have gone public as a four-store firm "in today's legal and regulatory climate.' This means that Home Depot's early investors would also have lost out if Sarb-Ox had been in place."
US coal-fired power plants emit less than 0.5% of all the mercury that enters Earth's atmosphere every year from Asian power plants, forest fires, volcanoes, subsea vents and geysers. EPA nonetheless claims its rules will magically bring benefits like an imperceptible 0.00209-point improvement in IQ scores!
Excerpt: Thanks to new evidence that Dr. Kukla only recently published, he now knows that global warming always precedes an ice age. That makes the current period of global warming a mere blip that constitutes additional indication of the ice age to come.
It will, however, give Gore one more excuse to fly across Europe in his private jet on one junket after another, emitting copious amounts of greenhouse gases while delivering sanctimonious harangues about climate change.
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The maps below show how many more weather stations are feeding Australia??s temperature record from 1930 to 2010, with scant recording possible of the interior where most of the January 2013 heatwave occurred.
Results of a new study indicate a "need for better process representations and representation of natural spatial heterogeneity due to local environment (topography, vegetation and soil properties) in Earth system models to generate a realistic variation of regional scale AL thickness, which could reduce the existing uncertainty in predicting permafrost carbon-climate feedbacks"
The next figure shows compares core counts in the Vaganov and Briffa 2009 networks. The Vaganov network has 400-500 cores over most of the 20th century. In contrast, the living tree portion of the Yamal network in Briffa (2000) and Briffa et al 2008 had only 17 cores (10 in 1990; 5 in 1995). The somewhat expanded Limited Hangout network of Briffa 2009 still contained only 11-12% of the number of cores of the Vaganov network and thus falls far short os using ???all?? the data. (It didn??t even use the Polar Urals data.)
So do I think IPCC scientists are policy advocates? They seem mainly concerned with preserving the importance of the IPCC, which has become central to their professional success, funding, and influence. Most dont understand the policy process or the policy specifics; they view the policy as part an parcel of the IPCC dogma that must be protected and preserved at all cost, else their success, funding and influence will be in jeopardy.
Let's consider an alternate investment in gas turbine electric generation, and assume it and the wind turbines are displacing coal-fired power. Per Kw-H, gas turbines are going to, even including the fuel, produce power for a fourth or less the cost of wind with these relatively small turbines. And gas is plentiful and most of it comes from the gold old USofA (or at least North America).
Mr. Berry was a struggling young actor several years ago when he accepted $500 to pose for some photographs in a Manhattan studio, he recalled in a telephone interview from his home in Los Angeles on Saturday. He had not given those pictures much thought until Friday night, when a friend alerted him that his image minus one leg was all over the Internet.
Each participant received a special set of "Talking Points for 2014" on climate and energy issues, and many were introduced to CFACT and its programs as a prime resource in this arena.
Basically, at this point in time, the conclusion is largely dictated by the storyteller.
The solid blue line shows the estimated probability of success of each round of the UN climate conferences since 1995.
Elizabeth Kolbert of The New Yorker agreed with both Brainard and Harris: ?The obvious lesson of faux scandals like ?ClimateGate? is that they tend to be created by groups or individuals with their own agendas, and journalists ought to be very wary about covering them.?
Geologic reconstruction of past climate (see figure below) shows a sharp DROP of 10C during the late Ordovician of the Paleozoic (~488 to 444 million years ago) while atmospheric CO levels INCREASED from ~4100 ppm to 4500 ppm. This climate change reflected the onset of one of the coldest Ice Eras in Earth's climate history and demonstrates conclusively that there is no causative relationship between atmospheric CO and global average temperature. This non-relationship is clear over the past 600 million years during which Earth has experienced four Ice Eras of varying intensity and duration, among which is included the current Ice Era which began about 60 million years ago.
???Using gas exchange theory, we predict that the 14% increase in atmospheric CO 2 (19822010) led to a 5 to 10% increase in green foliage cover in warm, arid environments. Satellite observations, analysed to remove the effect of variations in rainfall, show that cover across these environments has increased by 11%.??
In the past couple of years a new wave of predominately UK climate scientists and sceptics have found a way to "take the heat out of climate change". We have open lines of civil and respectful dialogue - "tea with the enemy" - and believe we have made tangible achievements in improving public trust in climate scientists and evidence. In contrast, climate conversations in countries such as the USA and Australia continue to either be polarised, with aggressive name-calling and defensive entrenchment of views, or else pointless from the point of view of the above, by preaching only to the converted.
Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), appears to be on a media tour intended to rehabilitate both his own reputation and that of the organization he leads.
The International Business Times (IBT) reports: "The proposed regulations to combat climate change will likely spur an exponential amount of additional solar deployment."
In urban areas alone, more than 360 million people, most in developing countries, live in low elevation coastal zones that are threatened by rising sea levels and storm surges.
That's right; no conspiracy, no paid hackers, no Big Oil. The Republicans didn't plot this. USA politics is alien to me, neither am I from the UK. There is life outside the Anglo-American sphere.
Copenhagen, a $30 billion dollar success?
I would like to mention three late, great individuals who inspired CEI: Warren Brookes, in whose honor we instituted our Warren Brookes Journalism Fellowship; Julian Simon, memorialized in our Julian Simon Prize; and Aaron Wildavsky, the inspiration for CEI's value-based communications project. Had we not been able to stand on the shoulders of these giants, we'd have accomplished much less. Their work continues to inspire us, and we hope that our work provides a fitting memorial to them.
There are several favorite lines of defense when trying to rationalize away the record Antarctic ice.
???By the end of this 21st Century, a big cool down may occur that could ultimately lead to expanding glaciers worldwide, even in the mid-latitudes. We could possibly see even a new Great Ice Age. Based on long-term climatic data, these major ice ages have recurred about every 11,500 years. Well, you guessed it. The last extensive ice age was approximately 11,500 years ago, so we may be due.??
Other large companies could be asked to follow suit when the policy is reviewed in 2015, the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, is expected to announce at the opening of the Rio+20 conference on sustainability in Brazil.
According Jinlun Zhang, University of Washington's possible to explain the mystery by pointing p winds around Antarctica has increased in strength in recent years. Although the oceans vrms up's can form more ice, he says, because the stronger winds tend to push together the ice so that it becomes thicker. And thicker ice verlever better avsmltningen during the southern hemisphere's summer season. He has at least managed to construct a model that gives the result.
So when we have a written account from someone as notable as Julius Ceasar, I just dont see the need to go making up a bunch of stuff about religious rites and crossing sacred rivers into the afterlife and other clap trap.
While the government has a terrible record of accurately and effectively employing biometric information to check workplace immigration status, Secure Communities is relatively uncontroversial in that it seeks to remove only criminal undocumented immigrants. The program, part of the Obama administration's increase in immigration enforcement, funnels more resources into enforcing immigration laws but also prioritizes dangerous criminals over those suspected of non-violent civil offenses.
Uncertainty Identified in GCMs With Respect to Predicting Global Albedos
The more that groups such as the American Enterprise Institute, CEI, or the Chamber of Commerce talk about the hideous costs of its policy prescriptions, the happier it makes the devotees of this cult. Their view is that we have sinned against the Earth, and the extent of the suffering we must now undergo shows the magnitude of that sin.
Fox News extensively cited CFACT's Marc Morano, editor of Climate Depot:
The New York Times states: "Mr. Podesta's main task will be to give the Environmental Protection Agency the support it needs to devise new rules controlling greenhouse gases from new and existing power plants." And, "He will further elevate the issue of climate change." The New Yorker Magazine's coverage of the Podesta position agrees: "Podesta's climate-change portfolio will therefore be limited largely to overseeing the implementation of EPA regulations."
Mr. Mann??s chart was both a scientific and political sensation. It contradicted a body of scientific work suggesting a warm period early in the second millennium, followed by a "Little Ice Age" starting in the 14th century. It also provided some visually arresting scientific support for the contention that fossil-fuel emissions were the cause of higher temperatures. Little wonder, then, that Mr. Mann??s hockey stick appears five times in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change??s landmark 2001 report on global warming, which paved the way to this week??s global ratification???sans the U.S., Australia and China???of the Kyoto Protocol?? .
32 Milan Vego, "Russia and the Return of Geopolitics," Joint Forces Quarterly 45 (2007).
The change is revealed in a study released on Monday by IHS Global Insight, a US-based economics consultancy, which estimates that China last year accounted for 19.8 per cent of world manufacturing output, fractionally ahead of the US with 19.4 per cent. That said the US remains far more productive:
And in #6, nobody knows the answer, but a few serious looks at the problem have shown that aggressive CO2 abatement programs could have catastrophic effects on world poverty. Which is ironic, since the best correlation with severe weather death rates in the world is not CO2 level but wealth and poverty reduction. No matter how many storms there are, as poverty has declined in a certain region, so have severe weather deaths, even while CO2 has been increasing. So one could easily argue that CO2 abatement programs will increase rather than decrease severe weather deaths
The dwindling number of readers of the New York Times were treated Wednesday to a column by Thomas Friedman extolling China's "one-party autocracy," which, he told us, "is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people." China's leaders, he reported, are "boosting gasoline prices" and "overtaking us in electric cars, solar power, energy efficiency, batteries, nuclear power and wind power." All, of course, in the cause of reducing carbon emissions, which so many luminaries assure us are bound to produce global warming and environmental catastrophe.
You see that the average annual temperature ranges from -50 C to +30 C, depending on the location. That's about 80 C of temperature difference between the poles and the equator. Indeed, the idea that the world has a constant or uniform temperature is a wrong intuition forced upon you by your fancy air-conditioning system. ;-)
We would reject the multi-model mean trend as too warm relative to the observed trend if we based our judgement on trends computed starting in 2001, 2002. For these cases, the observed trend falls below the lower 95% confidence interval for the multi-model mean.
Maurice Strong certainly no common run-of-the-mill billionaire has an extremely interesting and active background. Early-on he and his wife, Hanne, an occultist, established a global headquarters in San Luis Valley, Colorado, for the New Age movement called "Baca." after a mystic informed them it "would become the center for a new planetary order which would evolve from the economic collapse and environmental catastrophes that would sweep the globe in the years to come."
The next morning, on the way to the airport again at 6AM, the windmill was still there, just like it was before. My driver (Anthony#2 of Team Anthony) gladly pulled over to allow me to get this shot as dawn crept in. I was incredulous that the shot hadnt changed.
Kevin of course being Trenberth himself. Now the believer crowd will see it as a cheap shot but Trenberth deserves this when he is centrally involved in an editors resignation. He may be correctly involved, but he has been caught over the line of reason in the past. The point here is, that for a senior editor to resign over an issue of disagreement indicates what is likely a huge amount of behind the scenes pressure on the editors to prevent publication. Even if the paper is truly horribly flawed, a resignation!!??? Come on. Why not wait for the retractions and publish those?
Moreover, our recent climate has been more stable than the chaotic little ice ages. Iraq has not had a three-century drought recently. The Volga River Valley has not been too flooded to farm for 700 years, as happened after 600 BC. British logbooks show the Little Ice Age featured more than twice as many major hurricanes making landfall in the Caribbean, compared to the twentieth century.
Trying to prevent skeptics from seeing the raw data was always a questionable strategy, scientifically. Now it looks like dubious public relations, too.
But the G8 statements on carbon emissions have been eclipsed by discussions of the global food crisis and biofuels, and the supposed causal connection between the two. The G8 pledge to ensure that biofuel policies are compatible with food security comes in the wake of the leaked World Bank report that the push for biofuels accounts for 75% of the food crisis by competing with food crops for agricultural land. Suddenly, it seems, all the worlds problems are less about oil than they are about ethanol.
Freezing temperatures ruled Switzerland on Sunday night (Feb 10). In many places in Graubnden the thermometer dropped far below zero. The mercury plunged to -29.4 degrees in Buffalora SRF Meteo, to -27.3 in Samedan, and -20.4 degrees in Davos.
Heartland Institute conference attendees try for a subtler skepticism, but group's leader sometimes strays off message
Instead fr to let kra out activists took Sigmar tillfllet opportunity and lxade them up in half an hour far impromptu speech addressed directly to the two activists.
"There's a finite number of species within any community type," Kangas says. "As you continue to move out, the numbers level off." So further increase in area does not produce concomitant increase in diversity, and as a result, habitats on upper, flatter part of curve can be reduced without substantial immediate species loss. (Science, p.738)
Elevated CO 2 reduced evapotranspiration by 7% in ecosystems established upon acidic soils; but it did not significantly affect ecosystem evapotranspiration rates on calcareous soils. Nonetheless, elevated CO 2 increased water-use efficiency (new leaf biomass produced per unit of water consumed by the ecosystem) on both soil types. Indeed, in the low soil nitrogen regime, atmospheric CO 2 enrichment increased ecosystem water-use efficiency by approximately 19%, regardless of soil type; while in the high soil nitrogen regime, it increased water-use efficiency by 14 and 25% on the acidic and calcareous soils, respectively. What it means
Some flood-control efforts might exacerbate the problems. UK geographers John Pethick at Newcastle University and Julian Orford at Queens University Belfast reported last year that water levels at some spots in the most vulnerable southwest are much higher than expected. They concluded that embankments along hundreds of tidal channels, some of which reach hundreds of kilometres inland, have vastly reduced the area of land covered by water at high tide. Because the water is less able to spread out, it shoots farther inland where it can. The result is a huge increase in tidal range in less-protected areas. Tide-gauge records from three locations in the southwest suggest a mean rate of relative sea-level rise of about 5 millimetres per year over the past 30 years, but some local spots have experienced an average annual high-water-level increase of 1520 millimetres.
Competitive Enterprise Institute subpoenaed in global warming 'fraud' investigation
Man-made global warming was fabricated around the year 2000 by people with no morals who were willing to tamper with data in exchange for funding.
According to wire reports, temperatures reached their lowest point in 30 years , reaching to -2C in the capital, Riyadh, and to -6C in mountainous regions blanketed by snow. At least 10 people have died in the country as a weather system driven South from Siberia sent temperatures plummeting .Below are some pictures of snow from that region.
in a rather interesting fashion. Changes have been made to the data resulting in an increase in the rate of reported sea level rise by nearly a millimeter per year.
Tony Blair is resisting demands from the environmental pressure groups and, err, the Conservative Party to impose annual targets on greenhouse gas emissions for the quite sensible reasons that this will be disastrous for British industry. The other party speaking sense on the issue is the UK Independence Party, which is now the closest thing the land of Margaret Thatcher has to a libertarian party.
Contrary to the contention of the IPCC, real-world data from Argentina and the United States, as well as many other countries (see Temperature ( Variability ) in our Subject Index), demonstrate that global warming is generally accompanied by a decrease in temperature extremes, which for agriculture is a positive development. References
"We are very close to a Palestinian state, so we cannot fail again. If we get two rockets every day at Ben Gurion, we are done."
To see why Steven Chu is psychiatrically impaired, let us look at his new talk about the ... electrical wiring . After a small fire in your house, a woman comes to your house and tells you that you have to pay $20,000 to get a new wiring, otherwise your house will burn in a few years at the 50% confidence level. Related: Veteran psychiatrist finds out that all left-wing people are mentally ill Chu's opinion is that it would be foolish to "look for" an expert who says that the new wiring is not necessary. Clearly, you must trust the woman and her first friend who says the same thing, he says: you have to pay $20,000. In the same way, the United States of America (and perhaps other countries as well) must immediately sacrifice a part of the national economy, too, in order to avoid the burning house - a planet, in this case - in a few years.
The report reveals that there were no actual temperatures left in the computer database when NASA/NCDC proclaimed 2005 as "the warmest year on record." The NCDC deleted actual temperatures at thousands of locations throughout the world as it changed to a system of global grid points, each of which is determined by averaging the temperatures of two or more adjacent weather observation stations. So the NCDC grid map contains only averaged, not real, temperatures, giving rise to significant doubt that the result is a valid representation of Earth temperatures.
An overlooked study suggests that evidence from the Great Barrier Reef in Australia points to corals being strengthened, not weakened, by rising temperatures.
My friend Alan Carlin's long-awaited book, Environmentalism Gone Mad (published by Stairway Press), discusses "How a Sierra Club Activist and Senior EPA Analyst Discovered a Radical Green Energy Fantasy."
Those IPCC reports serve as the primary basis for EPAs regulatory actions under the Clean Air Actas are the presidents statements that his administrations policies are based upon the overwhelming judgment of science. Asserting in his State of the Union Address that global warming played a role in fueling deadly and destructive storms like Hurricane Sandy, President Obama said: We must do more to combat climate changeIts true that no single event makes a trend. But the fact is, the 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15. Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and floods all are now more frequent and intense.
Po-Chedley S. and Fu Q. (2012) Discrepancies in tropical upper tropospheric warming between atmospheric circulation models and satellites, Environ. Res. Lett. 7 044018 (http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/7/4/044018)
Another pet peeve of mine is when people on the warming side tell me not to listen to the skeptics as they have no peer reviewed papers and they have vested financial interests and then in the same breath they tell me about something they learned at an Al Gore presentation.
The result of falling emissions has been a general improvement in air quality in nearly all major urban areas of the country. Between 1987-1992 and 1994-1999, for example, the number of "bad air days" (when air quality failed to meet federal standards) fell 82 percent in Newark, 54 percent in Los Angeles, 78 percent in Chicago, and 69 percent in Milwaukee.13
As of today, it has been a record 118 months since the last major hurricane struck the continental United States, according to records kept by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administrations (NOAA) Hurricane Research Division , which list all hurricanes to strike the U.S. mainland going back to 1851
The new paper is intended to bring out some key lessons from the realities of successful technology changes in the recent past as they bear on the global challenge of climate change.
This cooler era of approximately four centuries followed after the Medieval Warm Period of the first part of the last millennium. This warm period was in the pre-industrial age, which is for us and our argumentation absolutely crucial. It makes the CO2induced temperature increase of the current warm period difficult to defend.
If someone of you wondered what the IPCC tnker gray with the prize money they received when they and Al Gore received the Nobel Peace Prize hr is the answer. Directly from the IPCC and their Use of funds from the Nobel Peace Prize.
Once we chose a policy, the application process online was quick and easy
Romney's experience in private equity is not to be discounted; time and again he took broken companies and fixed them. And there's no question Romney would be a far better president than Barack Obama.
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Figure 4 shows the real global temperature development of the past 1000 years and its theoretical continuation over the next 700 years. This is not a forecast, but rather it is the extended possible course of the over all temperature trend, which over the mid-term in the next 100 years could see a drop of approx. 0.3C and a 2C drop in global temperature in 350 years which would mean conditions just like those seen in the Little Ice Age from 1450 to 1700.In about 1000 years the 1000-year cycle will again take on its warm phase and temperatures like those of today can be expected.