Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Canada benefits as China attempts to squeeze the rare-earth minerals supply . No doubt greens will soon be slamming the rare earth mines as hard as the oil sands, until they figure out that rare earths are needed to make every wind turbine and electric car.
Nicolas D. Loris is Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies and Brett D. Schaefer is Jay Kingham Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, a division of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, at The Heritage Foundation
regional land cover changes and changing dust and biomass aerosol loadings.
Underlying those short-term variations are a long-term trend whose cause is known and whose existence is supported by all the available global analyses.
These dismissals of 1970s-era hysteria from some figures in the environmental establishment are an indication that eco-pessimism is slowly passing out of fashion or is at least maturing from free-floating apocalypticism toward more specific focus on discrete global issues such as species extinction and climate change. The trajectory of Paul Ehrlich himself offers some encouragement on this score. The Population Bomb sold millions of copies in the late 1960s and early 1970s, was assigned reading in many college courses, and landed Ehrlich as a frequent guest on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Subsequently in the 1970s, Ehrlich published more bestsellers with first-line trade publishers such as Simon & Schuster.
Last October, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Action Aid petitioned the EPA to review the so-called renewable fuel standard that mandates that 13.8 billion gallons of corn ethanol be blended into the gasoline supply next year. The free-market think tank and global hunger charity argued that the EPA's technical regulations implementing the mandate did not meet "basic standards of quality."
We find a similar pattern in the UK. The Met Office offer the following list of extreme rainfall events. The heavy rain at Seathwaite in 2009 stands out, but all the other events date to 1975 and earlier.
Read here and here . Map source here . A peer-reviewed study utilizing high resolution data from a peat bog sediment core, analyzes 6,000 years worth of a temperature proxy. The researchers determined that both Roman and Medieval Periods experienced temperatures that were significantly higher than those of the current period. (click on image to enalrge)
And exporting coal, and increasing exports of coal, is almost equivalent to being a drug dealer to the world .
Finally, this Framework recognizes that, as we expand manufacturing in the United States, the tax code should encourage doing so in way that is sustainable and that puts the United States in the lead in manufacturing the clean energy technologies of the future. This will create jobs here at home and can also have important spillover benefits. Moving toward a clean energy economy will reduce air and water pollution and enhance our national security by reducing dependence on oil. Cleaner energy will play a crucial role in slowing global climate change, meeting the Presidents goal of producing 80 percent of our nations electricity from clean sources by 2035
Working at the Duke Forest FACE site in Orange County, North Carolina (USA), where eight 30-meter-diameter plots of loblolly pine ( Pinus taeda L.) trees were enriched with an extra 200 ppm of CO 2 from 1996 to 2010, while four similar plots were maintained under then-current ambient-air conditions, Phillips et al . measured root-induced changes in soil C dynamics of trees exposed to CO 2 and nitrogen enrichment by combining stable isotope analyses, molecular characterizations of soil organic matter, and microbial assays.
Almost all measures of the cost of electricity only assess building new plantsuntil now. Using data from the Energy Information Administration and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, we offer useful comparison between existing plants and new plants.
Ldecke and his colleagues agree with Dr. Michaels assertion that the projected increase in the earths temperature from CO2 is getting smaller and smaller.
Why should you be interested? Sea surface temperature records indicate El Nio and La Nia events are responsible for the warming of global sea surface temperature anomalies over the past 30 years, not manmade greenhouse gases. Ive searched sea surface temperature records for more than 4 years, and Ive searched ocean heat content records for more than 3 years, and I can find no evidence of an anthropogenic greenhouse gas signal. That is, the data indicates the warming of the global oceans has been caused by Mother Nature, not anthropogenic greenhouse gases.
The Financial Post brought attention to the problem back in January in this article : "...the sharp rise in raw food prices in the past year will
EPA's recommendations are justified by the facts and ought to be implemented as quickly as possible.
"The mortgage mess just keeps getting messier. Last week, Bank of America announced that it had performed a "thorough review" of its processes, found nothing amiss and would soon restart 102,000 pending foreclosures. On Sunday, the bank acknowledged that it had in fact found errors in its filings, and would resume foreclosures only in a deliberate manner as new and corrected paperwork was submitted to the courts."
Although I agree that GHGs are important in the 19th/20th century (especially
In April 2012, we created a major stir in the political world with a long piece in the Washington Post Sunday Outlook section called, "Let's Just Say It: The Republicans Are the Problem." It was adapted from our book published days later, It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism, and this was our money quote:
The new energy bill, signed by President Bush this past Wednesday, is noted for its huge hike in auto fuel economy standards and in ethanol mandates and subsidies. The former will kill people, by causing cars to be downsized and less crashworthy; the latter will waste huge sums of money.
What begets such total climate madness? Seriously, its completely, utterly, totally, mind-bogglingly beyond comprehension.
Reprinted with permission from Foundation for Economic Education, http://www.fee.org
Cap-and-trade attacks went both ways for Romney in New Hampshire primary
The village sticks out on a thin raised finger of land surrounded by water, close to the Modhumoti river. Located on the intertidal floodplains of south-central Bangladesh in Gopalganj district, its facing a three-pronged attack from water-logging, floods and saltwater intrusion.
9 hours ago AUSTRALIAs $46 Million Antarctic Airstrip Is Melting, Leaving The Government Scrambling To Find A New Air Link To The Frozen Continent.
Carter and de Lange conclude that policy guidelines should include (1) abandoning lets stop global sea-level rise policies; (2) Recognising local or regional nature of coastal hazard; and (3) flexible and adaptive planning controls.
Unfortunately, facts like these have not stopped peak oil diehards and anti-hydrocarbon activists in and out of the Obama administration. They have become master fear mongers and propagandists, advancing their "just say no" opposition to North American fossil fuel energy and using lawsuits, lobbying, fabrications and demonstrations to block drilling, fracking, the Keystone XL pipeline, coal mining and burning, and countless other projects, while promoting subsidies, favoritism, and exemptions from environmental laws for wind, solar and biofuel programs.
These numbers are not perfect, and they come from observations that are definitely not perfect. For example, there are concerns about urban heat islands and about siting issues, concerns which I share and have helped publicize. So these trends need to be double-checked and confirmed in some way.
Krugman on Waxman-Markey's Cost: We Hope His Readers Can't Multiply
Nor was America the catalyzing force. The "Reagan Doctrine" of resisting and, if possible, reversing the Soviet Union's advances in the Third World did put considerable pressure on the perimeter of the empire, in places like Afghanistan, Angola, Nicaragua, and Ethiopia. Yet Soviet difficulties there, too, were far from fatal.
Once again, and from the part of the world - high northern latitudes - where CO 2 -induced warming is predicted to be particularly dramatic, real-world data reveal no net warming over the last 117 years. As we are wont to say in our USHCN Temperature Record of the Week feature: "Not much global warming here!"
This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory.
While the CPP appears to be about forcing the power sector into reducing CO2 emissions, there are spillover impacts of higher electricity rates on overall economic activityespecially energy-intensive industries such as steel, manufacturing, and chemicals. America's abundance of affordable, reliable energy provides businesses with a critical operating advantage in today's intensely competitive global economy. The EPA's proposal will reduce America's advantage, as it's acknowledged that the proposed regulations will raise electricity rates in the contiguous U.S. by 5.9% to 6.5% in 2020.
M.K. Muthoo, leader of a FAO/UNDP Project Team, wrote in 1978, "Brazil has abundant natural forest. It holds that world's biggest tropical forest reserve, in the Amazon, which can be continuously used and improved at the same time, but has hardly been tapped." (Rational Readings, Simon, pp.745-746).
New proposal from NASA JPL admits to spurious errors in current satellite based sea level and ice altimetry, calls for new space platform to fix the problem.
Oh, and designing a bigger rocket that someday, we're told, could take astronauts and robot ships to asteroids and Mars. Right: We'll see Obama embrace the flat tax first. There's ideology at work here.
1) Wind, solar and biofuel energy are not renewable, eco-friendly, reliable, affordable or sustainable.
Climate Change Hoax: Key U.S Congressman Caught Spreading Democrat Lies & Rumors - Same Old, Same Old
When it comes to climate change, ad hominems are all but ubiquitous. They are even smuggled into the way the debate is described. The common label "denier" is one example. Without actually making the argument, this label is supposed to call to mind the assertion of the "great climate scientist" Ellen Goodman: "I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers."
The highest recent rate of warming based on its linear trend occurred during the 157-month period that ended about 2004, but warming trends have dropped drastically since then. There was a similar drop in the 1940s, and as youll recall, global surface temperatures remained relatively flat from the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s. Also note that the early-1970s was the last time there had been a 157-month period without global warmingbefore recently.
Read here . IPCC scientists still claim that the Medieval Warming was limited to the northern European region despite all the evidence otherwise . Adding to that 'otherwise,' researchers documented a confirmed Medieval warming and associated dry precipitation levels within the Panama region, near the Equator. "The authors conclude that "the correspondence between warm medieval temperatures and dry hydrologic anomalies in Panama supports a large-scale Medieval Climatic Anomaly that may have been global in extent, and involved atmospheric circulation reorganizations that are linked to ENSO.".....noting that such reorganizations of earth's climate system are not dependent on rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations to trigger them, and, therefore, that the development of the Modern Warm Period likely was largely unrelated to the concomitant increase in the air's CO2 concentration"
In other words: The 21st century climate catastrophe is not taking place.
Figure 1. Observed global temperature history, 1950-2009 (data source: Hadley Center).
A look at the range of public opinion surveys on Congress in recent days, weeks and months can't leave anybody happy. The most recent Associated Press-Ipsos survey showed a 25 percent approval rating, coupled with a staggering 70 percent disapprovala 45 percent gap in the wrong direction. The most recent NBC-Wall Street Journal survey showed 19 percent approval and 68 percent disapproval, for a 49 percent gap.
system to reduce greenhouse gases, for effectively abolishing the secret ballot
In fact, the opposite relationship applies at all time scales. Temperature change precedes carbon dioxide change by about 5 months during the annual seasonal cycle, and by about 700-1000 years during ice age climatic cycling. Hypothesis fails.
Canadians are already among the biggest contributors to UN aid funds, including more than $300 million to the World Food Program, and almost $70 million to run the UN itself. Canada is also one of the few nations to pony up on its climate commitments at Copenhagen after Environment Minister Jim Prentice announced the country was committing $400 million (US$382 million) around 4 percent of the pledge of industrialized nations combined to make good on Canada's climate aid pledge.
On Wednesdays broadcast of MSNBCs Morning Joe, the Center for American Progress Christie Hefner said that Chicagos sky-high murder rate could be blamed at least in part on climate change.
1. All the species of coral that occur in the Great Barrier Reef also grow in Papua New Guinea where the waters are 2 degrees warmer.
If now, and one can calculate this very easily, in the next 30, 40 years, with 2C of warming this will with certainty happen, um, when these large glaciers disappear for the most part, these rivers will dry up in the summertime. And in winter, this is the other side of the story, the precipitation will fall as rain in the valley; that means the floods will be far more dramatic, no?
???Such causality assertions require a validated theory that higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations cause increases in GAST. Lacking such a validated theory, the EPA??s conclusions cannot stand. In science, credible empirical data always trump theory.??
My latest Mind and Matter column for the Wall Street Journal is on how the future turns out:
The most widely used metric of global warmingglobal surface temperaturesindicates that the rate of global warming has slowed drastically and that the duration of the hiatus in global warming is unusual during a period when global surface temperatures are allegedly being warmed from the hypothetical impacts of manmade greenhouse gases.
For quite some time, this idea of wisely developing the natural resources of a nation and improving the lives of it people was the common thinking of the day. But that was 1961. This is 1997. And instead of looking to a place like the rainforest to see how man and nature can work together for the benefit of both, the Green view of today is to put an iron gate around the rainforest with a big "Keep Out" sign clearly posted.
Green taxes could force one in four into fuel poverty One in four households will be driven into fuel poverty if the Government pursues controversial green energy targets, ministers have been warned.Radical policy change may be necessary to protect millions of struggling families from biggest household price shock since the 1970s, according to City analysts. (Daily Mail)
Care must be taken when using HadISST1 for studies of observed climatic variability, particularly in some data sparse regions, because of the limitations of the interpolation techniques, although it has been done successfully...
entirely predictable to primatologists. He observes two university colleagues in a coffee shop and notes
Monsanto posts profit in 2Q on corn seed gains:
THREE senior Japanese scientists separately engaged in climate-change research have strongly questioned the validity of the man-made global-warming model that underpins the drive by the UN and most developed-nation governments to curb greenhouse gas emissions."I believe the anthropogenic (man-made) effect for climate change is still only one of the hypotheses to explain the variability of climate," Kanya Kusano told The Weekend Australian.It could take 10 to 20 years more research to prove or disprove the theory of anthropogenic climate change, said Dr Kusano, a research group leader with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science's Earth Simulator project.
September 1, 2016 | Backgrounder on Energy and Environment
By Tony Heller Real Science, Aug 14, 2015
The report offers a framework for prioritizing climate change research given the many uncertainties that exist. Specifically, the report recommends that research in the following areas be given the highest priority:
Whatever happened to global warming? How freezing temperatures are starting to shatter climate change theory.
Not that climate modelers are unaware of the problems with their creations. Numerous papers have been published that detail problems predicting ice cover, precipitation and temperature correctly. This is due to inadequate modeling of the ENSO, aerosols and the bane of climate modelers, cloud cover. Apologists for climate modeling will claim that the models are still correct, just not as accurate or as detailed as they might be. Can a model that is only partially correct be trusted? Quoting again from Roy Spencer??s recent blog post :
Elevated from a comment Theodore White says: March 8, 2012 at 5:04 pm
Similarly, climate alarmists are now scrambling to find new shelter from the stress coming from a public that increasingly realizes their doom-and-gloom predictions of climate chaos are based on shoddy data, faulty computer models, and perhaps outright deception. The alarmist scientists have put themselves in a climate cataclysm box, and are desperate to protect their reputations, predictions, and funding.
UN "95% certainty" of manmade global warming challenged
As the concentration of CO 2 in the air rises, photosynthetic acclimation, which effectively reduces the amount of rubisco in leaves (which is often present in excess amounts), may occur to a greater extent in plants growing at high soil nitrogen, rather than at low soil nitrogen, as greater amounts of rubisco are generally present under higher soil nitrogen regimes. In either case, the mobilization of nitrogen from excess rubisco can supply needed nitrogen to plant sink tissues to allow for their continued growth and development. In all cases, therefore, atmospheric CO 2 enrichment enhances the use efficiency of nitrogen and enables plants to grow more productively in soils regardless of their fertility.
...the problem causing these breakdowns is so simple. In cold weather, the pipe that takes waste water from the back of the condensing boiler-which isnt there in a normal boiler-freezes solid, shutting down the system and in many cases causing permanent damage. But this problem is just one of many that have plagued this boiler design since they became popular in the Nineties. Many plumbers consider them to be little more than a multi-billion-pound con-trick.
In March 2012, consulting firm Ecosystem Marketplace released a report on the evolution of the voluntary carbon offset market since 1997. The report, "Bringing It Home: Taking Stock of Government Engagement with the Voluntary Carbon Market," was sponsored by the International Emissions Trading Association, International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance, and the Carbon Markets and Investors Association. It found that more than 20 national and sub-national governments had mandatory or voluntary domestic carbon market exchanges. However, in 2011, only 11 percent of credits granted were then voluntarily traded worldwideleaving most of the credits untraded, the report found.
We received an email taking issue with some of my comments and observations on the Camp Minden, LA, artillery propellant disposal. This is a good expample of how confusing and messy a Superfund cleanup can get. The writer wished to remain anonymous, so Ive copied the meat of his response below:
Plant Growth Database (8 January 2015)
IPCC overblows Bangladesh doomsday forecasts in 2007 4AR.
And, I didn't include any warming from things such as urbanization, land-use change, site changes, or other natural variabilitywhich have been by some studies to have a detectable (warming) impact.
The "abuse" of the First Amendment here is by state attorneys general acting like a scientific Inquisition to silence what they believe is the wrong view in this vigorous, unsettled scientific debate.
When told that the first three allegations against Dr. Mann were dismissed at the inquiry stage Dr. Lindzen's response was: "It's thoroughly amazing. I mean these issues that he explicitly stated in the e-mails. I'm wondering what's going on?' The Investigatory Committee members did not respond to Dr. Lindzen's statement. Instead, Dr. Lindzen's attention was directed to the fourth allegation, and it was explained to him that this is the allegation which the Investigatory Committee is charged to address
From the Civil War to World War II, it was generally assumed that neither Southerners nor Catholics were viable presidential candidates. No Democratic nominee from 1864 to 1944 resided in a state that had slavery in 1860. The only Catholic nominee, the talented Al Smith, lost much of the Democratic base. The only Democrats elected president then were Protestant governors of New York and New Jersey.
SUV critics argue, to use Consumer Reports' words, that "most people who buy an SUV don't need one." But what one person doesn't need is largely a matter of another person's opinion. In the early 1800s the Duke of Wellington complained that the new railroads would "only encourage the common people to move about needlessly." Today the elitist view is that the masses still move about needlessly, only now they're doing it with four-wheel drive.
"Gasoline prices haven't gotten much attention amid all the other bad economic news for Democrats heading into a final week of campaigning, but the price per gallon has climbed nearly 15 cents since Labor Day - a surprising jump, given that prices usually plummet before an election."
The costs of ACESA's proposed GHG emission reductions would probably exceed their benefits. The draft bill's many regulatory mandates are, at best, entirely redundant to its cap-and-trade provisions. In other cases they are likely to add costs without adding to the bill's social benefits. Further, the cap-and-trade program is designed to cut emissions deeper and faster than appears to be optimal.
Serious - Less than 10 percent of fossil fuel has been burnt. Should we burn the other 90 percent? Economists predict that should 10 times more fossil fuel be burnt, there would be a 25 percent reduction in the size of our economy (GPD) by 2100.
During the last 10,000 years the climate has remained relatively warm and stable, allowing humans to advance and prosper. But even during this generally warm period the temperature has fluctuated significantly. The climate was warmer than it is today about 6,500 years ago, during the Holocene Climate Optimum. There is evidence that roughly 1,000 years ago regions of the earth again were substantially warmer than they are today, during the period called the Medieval Climate Optimum. By the 14th century, a cold period called the Little Ice Age had begun. The warming begun in the late 19th and early 20th centuries seems to be a natural recovery from the Little Ice Age.11
This is quite remarkable, because the average of all NOAA tide gauges is less than one third of that, at 1.01 mm/year. Eighty four percent of the tide gauges show lower rates than 3.3 mm/year. The median value is only 1.28 mm/year.
a simple climate model to link these two analyses. We present a range of four
MOOSE: See what I mean, Spunky? A little friendly pressure and Socrates here starts in with remarks which cannot be construed as necessary or objective. Ad hominem all the way.