Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
As politicians, consumers, and manufacturers fret over the price of oil, there's good news on the energy front: Natural gas production is booming from "huge shale beds found throughout North America," reports The New York Times. The improving technology of underground horizontal drilling and fracturing has opened up trillions of cubic feet of gas that had formerly been thought unobtainable. And natural gas can also be used to run automobiles (after about $2,000 in conversion costs). These and other alternative methods of lowering fuel prices could dramatically reshape not only energy policy but the global economy.
With winds like that, expect to see complete devastation as it makes landfall. That of course will be hyped into an AGW caused storm, just like Katrina. Al Gore and Bill McKibben are already testing lies language on Twitter. Bear in mind that we have a very short historical record of Typhoon strength, and any claims that this is the strongest storm ever need to be qualified with that fact. Nobody has any credible record of typhoon strength back more than a few decades.
Klaus said that was a "mistaken assumption" and it was impossible to prevent future crises through regulatory interventions and similar actions by governments.
Clearly, observed temperature trends are predicting a future temp that resembles the IPCC projection if CO2 was held constant - the actual trends are multiple times below the "runaway" and "accelerating" global warming that Obama and the IPCC still push.
* Confidence in climate models based on their ability to causally relate 20th century temperature trends to trends in CO2 may well be misplaced, because such models do not agree on the sensitivity of global climate to increases in CO2 and are able to explain 20th century temperature trends only by making arbitrary and widely varying assumptions about the net cooling impact of atmospheric aerosols;
The Czech media began to discuss an increasingly urgent issue recently raised by the prestigious Automotive News Europe magazine (ANE): the VW-owned Czech subsidiary, koda, is doing much better than the other brands in the corporation.
Elsners conclusions seem to be heavily influenced by the EF-5 tornadoes in 2011.
Christopher Horner, Senior Fellow, Environmental Policy
Global demand for oil is rising, as is its global price, as energy-hungry economies such as China, India and Brazil scour the earth for oil they know will be the energy of the present for some time to come.
<4923> Stott/MetO:
CEI: Now that you're in the business of electoral politics, what do you make of John McCain's vote against the tax cut?
While science can inform policymakers, it can't determine policy. Policymakers must do cost/benefit analysis, taking into account tradeoffs, such as balancing risks from climate change against those from poverty, and as Hans von Storch points out, "judgments of the value of costs versus benefits is a highly subjective, value-laden calculation."
But one source from a major advocacy group said Wednesday that another option is for the Senate to pass a pared back energy measure now and then go to conference during a lame-duck session with the House-passed climate bill that includes greenhouse gas limits across multiple sectors of the economy. At that point, the source said, anything is possible.
Global Government: The Third Ring in the Climate Change Circus
Environmental organizations are the enemies of energy in America and worldwide. Without its provision third world nations cannot develop and the ability to provide the energy America needs is put in jeopardy.
So when governments subsidise generation of energy, such as wind, wave and tidal so that the producer gets far more than the actual price of energy, as determined by the free market for energy, what this added cost represents is a higher energy usage in producing that energy source than economic energy sources.
Recouping cost of wind turbine may take more than a lifetime (Consumer Reports confirms micro-wind diseconomies)
Congress should respect Mississippi's "right to develop" vis- -vis the rest of the country. Mississippi's per capita income is just below $25,000, which is almost $9,000 less than the average American. That's 49th in the nation.
Those who are interested in mathematical aspects of string theory and the newest twists and turns in topological string theory in particular should look at the KITP weblogs , especially
John Cook, of Skeptical Science fame, has an article in The Age, in which he is very rude about Bob Carter :
It was the lowest temperature ever recorded in Cuba during the entire month of February.
Download the very readable 4.2Mb paper ???Testing an astronomically-based decadal-scale empirical harmonic climate model versus the IPCC (2007) general circulation climate models??
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Windows users rejoice the .wwf document format that just wont print is now available for use on PC.
A second figure in the article (our Figure 2) caught our eye as well showing the drought reconstructions along a transect from New Mexico to Alberta. We have examined all six reconstructions, and we cannot find anything unusual going on in terms of drought frequency, duration, or variability. Every reconstruction shows that droughts in the past were every bit as severe as anything seen over the most recent 100 years. In many cases, the trend of the past 100 years is toward a moister regime, not the drier regime promised by the global warming advocates.
Early arrival of spring is a sure sign of global warming.
The good news is the tax credits, which were included in the 2009 stimulus bill with support from President Barack Obama, only apply to the first 200,000 electric vehicles sold by each manufacturer.
The weekly round-up will not be published today, due to a laptop that will. not. boot.
Climate Depot, with the AGW of: are strongly disliked Marc Morano, has a very interesting genomgng of many so-called Tipping points as it warned from the clean. Fr apparently British Met Office just gone out with NNU a warning. We have 10 years on us to change VRT behavior, or else.
19. Is there a clear policy on climate change and CO2 emissions which makes sense based on our current knowledge?
Unfortunately for them, front loaders remain unpopular with consumers. Today, they comprise less than 5 percent of the American market, and, despite heavy green hype over the last several years, DOE estimates that sales will increase only slightly. So, if most people don't want front-loading washing machines, what can Washington do, mandate them?
And weve already seen the future of this in the U.S., which recently raised the social cost of carbon (SCC) estimate from $22/ton to $36/ton, which would have to be, almost certainly, the basis by which the initial tax rate would be set. The SCC was originally set at $21/ton in 2010, and its up to $36/ton only 3 years later a 67% increase.
By Andrew Montford, Bishop Hill, Aug 10, 2015
early statements because I expressed my opinion in several talks, mainly in
It's a BBC news story, so it can't be stupid
No wonder LOST supporters discourage full disclosure. Bernard Oxman of the University of Miami acknowledged that the text ``is amply endowed with indeterminate principles, mind-numbing cross-references, institutional redundancies, exasperating opacity and inelegant drafting.''
"Be assured, ye faithful CBC masses, that there is no similarity whatsoever between this misguided and disoriented Taliban, that, but for the tragic coincidence that internationally revered Canadian Peacebringers crossed its path, would have detonated harmlessly in an explosion of chick peas and goat meat - and those brave militants who struggle heroically to evict Bush's fascist agents of BIG OIL from the Sacred Land Of Saddam."
Idso pointed out that there is a huge body of literature on the biological impacts of rising temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels that the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ignores. He emphatically stated that atmospheric CO2 is not a pollutant. In fact, increased levels of CO2 reduce the negative effects of a number of plant stresses including: high salinity, low light, high and low temperatures, insufficient water, air pollution, and protects against herbivores i.e. being eaten by animals and insects.
Hantemirovs objection to my calculation was expressed in a threaded comment ) to my May 15, 2012, in which Hantemirov complained very angrily about my post as follows:
So let's examine just how false and misleading are the ad campaigns produced by MoveOn.org, the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Environment Ohio, and the American Lung Association. Each advertisement equates abused children (including toddlers smoking, babies coughing, and even an infant being fed a spoonful of poison) with a vote to rein in the Environmental Protection Agency. And each ad also lacks a factual foundation.
But even here in the U.S., which is Tornado Central for the world, 99 out of 100 thunderstorms do NOT produce tornadoes. Why is this?
You may recall that CAIR was implicated in funding and supporting terrorist organizations, but it is stupid to think that Islamists are peaceful people. Islam is about conquest, then and now.
Fortunately, I'd had major plumbing problems at my home that morning. I am not happy that I had to leave two plumbers in my house when I headed off to speak at the Keystone meeting, but dealing with the problems prevented me from reading the pages of research I'd printed out on John Podesta and his views on the Keystone pipeline. I read them later in the day, on the plane on the way to join my family for Christmas.
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That average rates of environmental change in the oceans and on land are similar is not such a surprise, says Henry Gholz, program director in NSFs Division of Environmental Biology.
If radiative transfer is the only process occurring in a planetary atmosphere, the surface temperatures of the planets would be determined solely by the net radiation at the top of the atmosphere. Thus, the equatorial regions would be warmest and the poles would be extremely cold. Whereas this is the case on Mars and to a lesser extent on Earth, other planets such as Venus and all of the Jovian planets have little or no equator-to-pole temperature gradients at the surface or deep in their interiors.
China has become the worlds top manufacturing country by output, returning the country to the position it occupied in the early 19th century and ending the USs 110-year run as the largest goods producer.
Across on the Queensland coast the Bellenden Kerr range is an ecological island a refuge of a species assemblage from a cooler and moister Australia of 20 million years ago. A two degree rise would see the wet tropics ecosystem start to disappear with animals needing move upslope to beat the heat. With a 3.5 degree rise 65 species unique to the area would vanish into extinction. If you live at or reach the top of the mountain there is nowhere to go. These is debate about past warm periods but these may have been wetter than today so providing some relief. Can animals genetically adapt to their new environments? Unfortunately it appears that breeding cycles are too long. Some species dont even breed every year and only have a few offspring. The other combinative effect is a change in the cloud forest with the cloud base rising each year. This may not affect water supply to the forest but also affect the water supplies in the Cairns regions.
Double Standard: Warmist climate scientist fails to disclose conflict of interest funds from green billionaire
A check of the underlying geological explanation for the formation of the SCB is classical geological speculation with no real data. The belief is that easily eroded Devonian shale overlay a more resistant Silurian dolomite (the same or a similar formation to the one that forms Niagara Falls). The glacial front scooped out this almost circular feature by differentially eroding the shale while in doing so leaving behind steep escarpment walls into the basin and a shallow plateau just to the north. The story seems somewhat weak to me and, as far as I can tell, no samples of what lies beneath have ever been obtained from the SCB. I really feel it would be a wonderful idea to find out just what happened to form the SCB.
The science literature is always alive and well, and we are fairly certain you have not seen this classic in many places before visiting us at World Climate Report . The elephant seal ( Mirounga leonina ) has an interesting story to tell us about the Hockey Stick and the global temperatures over the past few thousand years. In a recent article in the very prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of scientists from the United States, United Kingdom, and Italy reveal an amazing discovery that further challenges the shape of the hockey stick.
Professor Richard Ebeling is a leading authority on Austrian School economics and the freedom philosophy. He currently teaches at Northwood University in Midland, Michigan. This essay was originally published at EpicTimes .
The board points out that the only factor that humans can affect is the composition of the atmosphere. But the Earth has always been affected by the amount of energy coming from the sun that reaches the planet. And for several million years changes in the Earths orbit called Milankovitch cycles have caused cycles of global warming and cooling. Were humans changing the composition of the atmosphere millions of years ago?
So, what next for the trougher? How long will his greencrap (TM David Cameron) interests sustain him? His portfolio has been looking a little grubby snce he leaned too far over the pigswill and fell in. Something of a toxic asset to any greenco still hoping to secure govt subsidy I would have thought.
As a RC myself, it is not yet clear to me if the Vatican takes that view, or restricts the sin to the actual sexual intercourse between consenting adults of the same gender. Officially, they say thelatter is true. However, this would clearly contradict Matthew 5:27-28 :
According to the researchers, the importance of their study is elevated by the large amount of previous work on the same interval and thus the extensive availability of supporting data and samples. Yet despite all this past research, the team was able to make a fundamental discovery about the global conditions in the ancient ocean and their impacts on life.
Read More: Talks between climate Professors John Christy and Kerry Emanuel. Pehr Bjrnbom, Climate Enlightenment 2014-04-11.
Warmists propose that colder Northern Hemisphere winters since 1988 are due to global warming
Move Polar thermometers onto airports, often military bases, and they warm up. Add a bunch of thermometers at tropical airports and you measure an increasing average of temperatures.
In short, Congress never authorized the crediting scheme EPA now plans to implement. The CEIP makes the final CPP unlawful in a whole new way.
Sedjo, Roger. "Forests: Conflicting Signals," The True State of the Planet. New York: The Free Press (Division of Simon and Schuster, Inc.), 1995. (ed. Bailey, Ronald)
This combination of factors reflects the view that while prosperity necessarily implies wealth, genuine prosperity is based on more than money alone for individual citizens and for individual countries. It also reflects an understanding that a growing economy is necessary, but not sufficient, for national prosperity and that without additional factorssuch as accountable governments, healthy citizens, strong social capital, and respect for civil and political libertiesa nation cannot achieve sustainable prosperity. See table 2 for the top ten countries by subindex.
28 out of 44 chapters (two-thirds) included at least one individual affiliated with the WWF
In their guidance establishing what could be considered Best Available Control Technology (BACT) for regulating GHGs in the permitting process, EPA stated that fuel-switching from coal to natural gas would not and could not be considered BACT: Since NSPS are traditionally interpreted to set the BACT floor for permitting purposes, how can a NSPS that eliminates the ability to construct new coal units without the implementation of commercially infeasible carbon capture and storage (CCS) be consistent with EPAs previous guidance?
For those wanting a closer look at the more recent wiggles and trends, the second graph starts in 1998, which was the start year used by von Storch et al (2013) Can climate models explain the recent stagnation in global warming? They, of course, found that the CMIP3 (IPCC AR4) and CMIP5 (IPCC AR5) models could NOT explain the recent slowdown in warming.
Except for the fact that every climatologist knows the earths temperature varies by 3 degrees C. From the ice core data it happens quite often. (Our current warming is 0.4. )
Mammoth Mountain - Long Valley Super Volcano
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Statistics Division. Coffee bean data downloaded on Feb. 27, 2013.
As you can see from the data, the low tide was about 1.08 meter at 5:15PM local time.
Current weather extremes across the Prairies are because of the cooling since 2000. The researchers are going to Chile, Argentina and Colombia. Why? These regions simply experience the same patterns associated with the Southern Hemisphere version of the Polar Front.
There was also loss of livestock and similar levels of snowfall, Bunkers said.
Suppose a company wasnt happy with their financial reports, so they subtracted money from past earnings and added them to present earnings. What would happen to the people in charge?
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Assume that human greenhouse-gas emissions are causing dangerous changes in the Earth's climate. What should we do about it? Public debate on climate change has focused almost solely on requiring large reductions in fossil-fuel energy consumption. Enter the journal Nature with a new feature article on another potential means of dealing with climate change.
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The research showing the effects of carbon on marine organisms was published in the journal Geology in 2009. The study, led by Ries and co-authored with Anne L. Cohen and Daniel C. McCorkle, and found that crabs, lobsters and shrimp grew bigger more rapidly as carbon pollution increased. Chesapeake blue crabs grew nearly four times faster in high-carbon tanks than in low-carbon tanks.
According to aerial surveys released by the Government of Nunavat this month, their numbers are at least 66% higher than expected. This region, which straddles Nunavat and Manitoba, is critical because its considered to be a bellwether for how well polar bears are faring elsewhere in the Arctic.
The pressure on David Cameron to row back on subsidies for the sector, which are among the most generous in the world, has increased as austerity bites. Last year the number of fuel poor households, those where more than 10% of income goes on energy bills, was revealed to have hit 5.5m in 2009. The increase came after the average annual household bill hit 1,345, caused by high gas prices and green subsidies.
But as the authors point out, this will only happen if the government allows leasing, drilling, and production on federal lands and does not restrict oil and gas exploration on state and private lands.
Of course, not everbody sees it that way. In a recent letter urging Senators to vote against the Murkowski resolution, former EPA Administrator Russell Train contends that Congress did intend for EPA to regulate greenhouse gases through the Clean Air Act. His argument may be summarized as follows:
He was asked about survival of corals in the warm Eocene. He said that corals would not go extinct in a warmer world, but suggested that they would survive as individuals and not form attractive reefs.
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As I showed in a recent report for the Manhattan Institute, the Renewable Fuel Standard now imposes about $10 billion annually in additional fuel costs on motorists over and above what they would have paid for gasoline alone. Since 1982, when measured on an energy-equivalent basis (ethanol contains two-thirds as much heat energy as gasoline does), ethanol has always been more expensive than gasoline.
For now, the Great Game at sea affects the Pacific more than the Atlantic, and as such has not directly affected NATO. But it certainly affects NATO's new global partners (Australia and Japan, Korea and New Zealand), who all happen to be maritime powers in the Pacific, and this is something that NATO will have to factor in when deciding the nature of its relationship with non-Atlantic powers. Global partnerships will have to be a two-way street, or there will be no global partnership.
Let me re-state my view on these temperature series again: personally I have no doubt that temperatures are warmer today than in the 19th century. Are they warmer than the 11th century? I dont know. Is it warmer now than the 1930s? Probably, but the size of the difference seems to depend to an alarming extent on adjustments. Thats not to say that the adjustments are wrong, but, if one is going to rely on specific estimates of the difference, one needs to understand the nitty-gritty of the adjustments that underpin the conclusion and why the adjustments are so different between KNMI, GISS and GHCN.
Speaking to an audience of government officials, business leaders and NGOs in Jakarta, the Nobel laureate cited devastating floods in Australia and Pakistan and last years drought in Russia as evidence that unchecked global warming threatened famine, poverty and wide-scale destruction
Campaigns of misleading and harmful innuendo stifle science. Proposals that governments should require "full disclosure" would, if implemented, simply feed those who wish to suppress research that challenges their beliefs. As we know from experimental studies (e.g., see the recent book "More Than You Wanted to Know"), mandatory disclosures are harmful. They are also inconsistent with the First Amendment.
Hyperbole aside, Hansen cannot credibly claim to have been censored on global warming. He first sounded the climate alarm in 1988 congressional testimony and has since been quite outspoken on the topic. He gives more speeches than the agency's head, according to NASA.
Facts : It has been 9 years since the last Category 3 hurricane (Wilma, 2005). Thats the longest periodby farin records that extend back to 1900. There have been no hurricanes during the Obama administration (Sandy was not technically a hurricane when it came onshore).
The authors also refer to sodium data from Siple Dome ice cores that have been reported by Karl Kreutz, director of UMaines stable isotope laboratory. Changes in sodium appear to be associated with air pressure changes over the South Pacific.
Our ability to forecast future system dynamics is severely constrained unless we can account for spatial nonlinearities, threshold behavior, and cascading effects . Even then, skillful predictions may not be possible .although we can identify vulnerabilities of systems to thresholds. Research will need to adopt approaches that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries to address system dynamics. Collaborative efforts among ecosystem ecologists and atmospheric scientists have made considerable progress in explaining broad-scale patterns and dynamics in the Earth System ., and human behaviors are increasingly being recognized by ecologists as integral to explaining system dynamics..More intensive cross-disciplinary studies that identify the pervasive role of cross-scale interactions are essential to understanding and forecasting changes in the various components of the Earth System. Our framework represents an initial step in seeking generalities among disciplines.