Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
This wasn't necessarily the clearest or most explicit presentation of the reason and one could do better. Be sure that the conclusions won't change. The quantum fields at space-like separations commute with each other. And this vanishing commutator (or anticommutator in the case of pairs of fermionic operators) is a necessary condition for the independent evolution of fields at space-like separations. This absence of an "action at a distance" is required by the special theory of relativity because if such superluminal influences existed, they would be equivalent by switching to a different reference frame to actions affecting the past. That would break causality and allow us logically contradictory "closed time-like curves" in a Minkowski spacetime. (One could find a way to kill your grandfather before he had his first sex with your grandmother, you know the story.)
that we must atone for our sins, by paying more for every bit of energy we use
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Heritage analyzed two of the three models used by the IWGthe DICE model and the FUND model. The proprietor of the third model, PAGE, insists on the right of co-authorship for any publication using his model. Because this insistence seriously compromises the independence of evaluating the model, Heritage did not do so. This also raises a question as to the propriety of basing costly federal regulation, at least in part, on a model that cannot be rigorously and independently evaluated.
A modern 1 MW (not 1 MWh) wind turbine does not require only ???roughly $1 million?? to install. Overnight implementation costs are over twice this amount according to the EIA .
In its draft form, this post was titled Why Do Proponents of Manmade Global Warming Continue to Misinform the Public about the Roles El Nio and La Nia Play in the Warming of the Global Oceans? The answers pretty obvious once you understand the roles El Nio and La Nia play.
""No ice was left on earth. Antarctica was the best place for mammals to live, and the rest of the world would not sustain human life," he said. Sir David warned that if the world did not curb its burning of fossil fuels "we will reach that level by the end of the century'."
"The Will County Board voted Thursday to hire former state Rep. Brent Hassert to lobby the Legislature for a "quick take" bill."
The Second Elephant in the Room : The IPCC ignores the second, larger elephant in the room. Over 33 years of satellite data that are compiled by two independent groups and separately supported by four sets of balloon data. These temperature data are comprehensive globally, except at the poles. They show a pronounced warming over the northern part of the Northern Hemisphere, little or no warming over the Tropics or the Southern Hemisphere and a cooling around Antarctica. The global warming models are inconsistent with these data. For some reason, one-third global warming does not sound compelling.
The high costs of GHG abatement are a major source of the difficulty in reaching consensus on GHG control. New technology can lower these costs. Fostering the relevant kinds of innovation, therefore, should be a top priority. Implementing a modest carbon tax or, perhaps, a hybrid cap-and-trade system, would be an important step toward this goal. A price on GHG discharges would encourage the private sector to develop new lower-cost ways of curbing GHG emissions.
Big Oil execs hit back on tax proposal:
Remember that unprecedented Greenland ice sheet surface melt that was allegedly caused by global warming? Nevermind
3. Houston vs. California. More building permits for single-family homes have been issued since 2011 in the Houston metro area (102,040) than in the entire state of California over that period (101,629), see chart above.
Based on data from the National Climatic Data Center.
You may see that some things haven't changed but most technical details have become obsolete after these short four years. For example, no one talks about the increasing strength and frequency of tropical storms - because it has evidently not been taking place since 2006.
The problem is very real, and soon the poor in Africa and elsewhere are going to be hit severely according to this Washington Post story USAID is looking at reducing the amount of food it can distribute, and dropping some recipient nations altogether.
Observations of upper tropospheric water vapor over the last 3-4 decades from the National Centers of Environmental Prediction/National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCEP/NCAR) reanalysis data and the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) data show that upper tropospheric water vapor appears to undergo a small decrease while Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) undergoes a small increase. This is the opposite of what has been programmed into the GCMs due to water vapor feedback.
Repeal the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). By requiring fuel blenders to use biofuels regardless of the cost, the RFS has made most Americans worse off through higher food and fuel expenses. The higher costs paid by American families benefit a select group of special interests that produce renewable fuels. Tinkering around the edges will not fix this unworkable policy. Moreover, the federal government should not mandate which type of fuel drivers use in the first place. Congress should repeal the RFS.
These water shortages are not caused by the population quadrupling. No way. They are really caused by fossil fuel induced AGW causing drought. No politician in Australia would seriously propose building anything as radical as a new dam. Instead, we are building a huge sea water filtration which might provide 10% of Sydneys fresh water needs if required. The recent torrential rain has reduced the urgency of the plant but population is still growing and it might get dry again at some time in the future.
One of the two newly disclosed drafts of the June 6 letter also contains disparaging allusions by its author to some of the respected climate scientists who criticized Holdren's statement. That draft's text claims the criticism included "attacks by a few of the usual suspects from the climate-change contrarian/confusionist community." In response, a comment to the draft from Rutgers' Jennifer Francis suggested characterizing them as the "disinformation" community. (See pg. 4 of the draft, found at pg. 17 of the 24 released pages.)
The mentality of assuming that other peoples bad behaviour is our fault is one of the most suicidal tendencies that is currently in fashion in the West. From our comfy middle class enclaves, it is easy to forget that in the real world, the struggle for power and resources is as red in tooth and claw as it ever was.
Such votes may seem like inside-the-Beltway baseball, but they're also a window into a party's soul. Conservatives will argue that the GOP needs to return to its traditional conservative roots on matters like illegal immigration, the various aspects of which (border security, amnesty, national ID) divide the party. Moderates tend to avoid such wedge issues and instead stress outreach and expanding the loyal Republican base; in Florida, for example, Crist and Greer have embarked on get-out-the-vote efforts targeting Latinos.
The decade with the most record monthly maximum temperatures, was the 1930s. Ten months set their all time record below 350 ppm CO2.
Read here and here . Left/liberal/progressive/Democrat oriented groups just can't leave the proven scientific process and methodologies alone. They literally have to "buy" their "science" by financially contributing to scientists who will then likely perform the left's advocacy work as "independent" scientists, gratis. The Pew Environmental Group is one of the Big Green organizations that lays out the dollars on PhDs to hopefully enhance the desired activist "science" outcome.
This notion was the central feature of the 1997 ByrdHagel Resolution, which unanimously passed the Senate, establishing conditions for the U.S. becoming a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol and remains the primary reason why the U.S. never ratified that treaty.
Hill-Carrboro school district is considering making 61 the lowest grade
I would have thought the CO2 enhanced warming would have been further along by now. Maybe the graphs are inverted?
The data, analyzed by Robert Balling, director of the Office of Climatology at Arizona State University, shows rising temperatures from 1878 to 1950 and then cooling until the 1980s. The last decade, says Balling, "has been dominated by high temperatures. The total record shows a warming trend of 0.71 degrees C."
On June 12, David Karoly stated of the then recently disappeared Gergis et al:
This they did by integrating into a wildfire modeling scheme information about millennial-scale changes in wildfire activity reconstructed from analyses of charred particles found in the sediments of eleven small lakes located in the transition zone between the boreal mixed-wood forests and the dense needleaf forests of eastern boreal Canada. And what did they find?
In May 2012, I did a quick calculation incorporating more recent Hantemirov data, showing that the resulting modern portion was remarkably similar (TM-climate science) to the green chronology of my September 2009 and had an almost identical discrepancy to the Briffa et al superstick. For reasons that remain unclear, Hantemirov objected to the calculation (see comments within post) and, once again, Real Climate screeched in fury.
Yeah, And isnt the development well back from the watercourse and arent there platypuses in the Yarra as far downstream as the suburb of Heidelberg in Melbourne.
Floods are occurring in the western and southern Cape as I write this email. This is the region that FIFTEEN scientists predicted would become warmer and drier as a result of global warming, (Midgley et al 2005).
Funding Flows for Climate Change Research and Related Activities
Part of that history is Oslo, too, which for a fleeting moment seemed to suggest that sanity had at last prevailed. But despite Arafat's glitter in Gaza, and vigorous handshakes on the White House lawn, Oslo dodged the tough issues, leaving them to be adjudicated in so-called "final-status talks." Progress under Oslo fell hostage to traumatic events: the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the debut of Hamas suicide bombers in Jerusalem. Before long, Oslo had receded from memory, becoming part of the history that oppresses rather than liberates this region. Final-status talks at Camp David and Taba had broken down, and the parties had resumed an activity at which both were exceedingly proficient: killing each other.
The 1910-1940 warming was nearly identical to the 1975-2000 warming. Blaming the 1975-2000 warming on CO2 isnt going to fly. It was due primarily to the PDO shift in the mid-1970s.
"Policy makers are working behind the scenes to come up with a way to let states declare bankruptcy and get out from under crushing debts, including the pensions they have promised to retired public workers."
As reported in The Heartland Institute's Environment & Climate News, "European governments, once at the vanguard of renewable energy mandates, appear to be having second thoughts about their reliance on giant wind farms " There has been a sharp drop in such projects with installations plunging 90% in Denmark, 75% in Italy, and 84% in Spain.
Vilsack insisted at the time that the planting restrictions were necessary to help biotech and organic crops coexist more peacefully. But such unprecedented restrictions ignore the realities of seed production and give short shrift to the needs of conventional farmers. It seems that the secretary of agriculture needs a cram course in plant biology and genetics, as well as in the USDA's own regulations.
The Daily Signal reports on the subpoena sent to CEI by Attorney General Claude Walker as part of the intimidation campaign to silence the debate on climate change.
To all appearances, then, GHG control requires action on a global scale, and most of what we know about efforts to restrict open access property rights tells us that a strong global GHG control pact will be an especially difficult challenge. Yet climate change is a threat, even if assessing its severity and timing remains difficult. U.S. climate policy can do no better than to make the best of the options that are actually available, even if they fall far short of offering final solutions.
Senator Reid may believe that compelling and subsidizing increased renewable energy use, while undermining and even outlawing conventional energy, is the way to economic growth and energy independence. In reality, this reckless scheme could easily cause the collapse of our energy grid, job creation, economy and living standards, just as it is already doing in Europe.
Higgins? campaign reminds me of a banner at a climate-change demo a few years ago which said ?trees don?t rape?. The message here is the same: nature is pure, innocent, helpless, while man is repugnant, exploiting, violent. That is, every man who is not already a diehard green, that apparently enlightened kind of individual who assumes he has the right to tell the rest of us that we need to venerate nature, or else.
thinks the ?right? answer is more like our detrended results in the
18. Does the threat of major climate change justify drastic reductions in CO2 emissions by the United States and other nations?
The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.
Detailed rumor: gluon+b goes to b+Higgs: MSSM with large beta
"I've long thought that man-made carbon-dioxide emissions will raise global temperatures, but that this effect will not be amplified much by feedbacks from extra water vapor and clouds, so the world will probably be only a bit more than one degree Celsius warmer in 2100 than today."
Note: You may be thinking that there might actually be a physical explanation for the monstrously excessive response of the HADMAT2-ERSST.v4 difference to the solar cycle data. Keep in mind, though, that the response to volcanic aerosols is solar relatedinasmuch as the volcanic aerosols limit the amount of solar radiation reaching the surface of the oceans. You can argue all you want about whatever it is you want to argue about, but unless you can support those claims with data-based analysis or studies, all youre providing is conjecture. We get enough model-based conjecture from the climate science communitywe dont need any more.
In the 20th century, a similar transition from a period of primarily bilateral trade to global export competition occurred in wheat and later in steel, and the United States and Canada clashed as they became rivals for overseas markets. Today's calm could become the calm before a storm that neither country wants. Better to initiate a dialogue on natural gas now. U.S. midterm elections in 2014, a Canadian federal election in 2015, and the next U.S. presidential election in 2016 are all looming on the political horizon and each contest, in its own way, will complicate the environment for improving bilateral cooperation on energy and the environment.
Despite corruption and bureaucracy, strong markets have grown up in developing countries. Kenya is a case in point. It leapfrogged the Western world's development process for mobile communications technology. Kenyans went from having few telephones to virtually everyone having a mobile phone without needing the stage of landline infrastructure in between. A similar process is now taking place in personal finance.
The poll showed, for example, that Guardian/Independent readers are no more likely to have taken any specific energy saving actions than tabloid readers, and are actually less likely to have insulated their homes.
Due to these factors, we will temporarily cease to offer tomatoes on your sandwhich. As soon as the tomato crop returns to normal we will add them back to your sandwiches.
>> >things since my return from Washington, but am slowly getting
The White House has previously withstood furious diplomatic lobbying from fellow G-8 members, notably in 2005 at the summit in Gleneagles, Scotland. Despite pressure from summit host Tony Blair, the U.S. maintained its position that energy poverty is not an answer to any of the world's problems, and that economic growth and technological adaptation are humanity's best strategy for dealing with any environmental challenges.
G lobally, each day, there are around four million hooks in the worlds oceans fishing for tuna and swordfish.
Canada's Emission Reduction Program Has Failed Miserably, Total Loss Of Govt Funds; CO2 Up 35% Since Kyoto
But with the New Year its time for a new approach: its time industry leaders took the high moral ground for once and confronted the issue of the barrages that have destroyed the River Murrays estuary.
Never mind the record low attained in Northern Ireland this weekend. I can't remember a time when so much snow has lain so thickly on the ground, and we haven't even reached Christmas. And this is the third tough winter in a row. Is it really true that no one saw this coming?
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Nasas Oceans Melting Greenland study will deploy 200 robot probes to measure the full extent of Arctic climate change
With this the greetings and invitation not to trust too partisan opinions emerged very clearly as, for example, The administration Bush actually tried to drive certain reports sullambiente to promote the use of fossil fuels and make the situation seem less severe than real so without unnecessary catastrophism and right that the country of the sun and wind to think and acquire soon an energy system with a strong presence of renewable energy, just so we can meet the energy challenges of the future.
Residents in Sheffield and other parts of South Yorkshire can smell it due to the weather conditions that we had last night, which have encouraged it to spread.
This is evident in his most recent letter in which he outlines "Everything You Need to Know About Global Warming in 5 Minutes." It contains the standard doomster litany about climate change. The costs of doing nothing include "probable political destabilization from droughts, famine, mass migrations, and even war."
A recent paper in the journal Nature concluded that species extinction caused by habitat loss is happening less than half as fast as usually estimated. The normal method for calculating rates of extinction assumes that doomed species merely cling temporarily to a shrunken patch of habitat, on their way to disappearing (an idea called "extinction debt"). Apparently, this isn't the case: Although a larger patch of habitat has more species in it, shrinking a patch does not lead to a proportional rate of species loss.
Many coupled general circulation models (GCMs) of the atmosphere tend to underpredict the presence of subtropical marine stratocumulus clouds and fail to predict the seasonal cycle of such clouds. These deficiencies are important because marine stratocumulus clouds have a major impact on sea surface temperatures below them; and they thereby impact many subsidiary phenomena with far-reaching climatic consequences. What was done
Then in 2010, Kerry and fellow Senator Joe Lieberman co-sponsored a failed attempt to pass a cap-and-trade end-run called the "American Power Act." A more appropriate description, however, would have been "American power grab" since, in reality, it had little to do with developing our nation's vast domestic fossil energy resources. Rather, it emphasized ways to mitigate the alleged effects of carbon-based energy upon climate and expand government bureaucracy by creating at least 60 expensive new agencies and projects.
According to the radiative-convective equilibrium concept, the equation for determining global average surface temperature of the planet is
The "forgotten man" theme arises from the ideological sleight of hand at the core of the New Deal. The phrase originated with the supposed "Social Darwinist" William Graham Sumner, who had in mind the taxpayer who was the forgotten third party when politicians dreamt up schemes of social improvement that depended on the forgotten man to provide the means. The New Deal turned this on its head through its portrayal of the "forgotten man" as the little guy left behind in the collapse of economic growth. Instead of being the productive citizen best left alone by government, the forgotten man of the New Deal was the lowly citizen whose salvation depended on government.
It is described on the institutes website as a major sponsor and was joint second in Teris Environmental Excellence Award in 2008.
In the following three graphs, were comparing data for the evolution of the 2014/15 El Nio so far (through month-to-date August 2014) with the data for the evolutions of the 1982/83 and 1997/98 El Nios. The Warm Water Volume data are the top graphs and the depth-averaged temperature data are the bottom graphs. As youll see, the curves of two datasets are similar.
I'm not sure to which "pediatricians" Stonyfield refers, but both the American Academy of Pediatrics and American Medical Association have deemed milk from rbST-treated cows to be safe.
Read here . It is common knowledge that global temperatures have not increased over the last 15 years despite massive new amounts of human CO2 emissions. And it is well known that the IPCC climate "experts" have been massively befuddled by this.
Meanwhile, correspondent Black tries to convince us that the majority of Himalayan glaciers are growing. Late last year, says Black, the Kathmandu-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (Icimod) released data showing that across 10 regularly studied glaciers, the rate of ice loss had doubled since the 1980s.
1.	"We need a broad social movement supporting climate protection." No, we don't need that. Climate is the statistical median of weather parameters of 30 years. Nobody can protect statistic medians.
Suddenly we are also seeingstudies showing that warming wont be so bad after all, and that CO2 climate sensitivity is much lower than first thought. The policy-making pressure coming from the threat of climate change is disappearing rapidly.
7. How did the environmentalists make New Orleans more susceptible to flooding?
Figure 3. Projected global temperature rise from the IPCC?s business-as-usual (A1B) scenario (black curve) and the Kerry-Lieberman emissions scenario as applied to the U.S. (red curve), the OECD90 countries (magenta curve), and the entire world (blue curve).
This year is likely to be the ninth warmest on record, with global temperatures in 2012 cooler than the average for the past decade
Chapter 6, by Roger A. SedjoForests: Conflicting Signals
Just last year experts at the International Energy Agency proposed a target for China"s carbon emissions to peak in 2020 before declining if the world were to be saved from devastating climate change. Too late now.
Can you spell out what your expertise is in this area which makes you a suitable witness for the US Congress?
The warming effect of 4,500 ppm was pretty small, too. The total warming is approximately proportional to the logarithm of the relative concentration increase. You know, the warming doesn't start to accelerate when the concentrations grow (an obvious myth that some people want to be promoted among the gullible laymen): quite on the contrary, the warming effect of one CO2 molecule slows down as the concentration increases.
Like hydro-power, wind power is limited, with few suitable sites, and every wind turbine slows the wind, thus reducing the wind energy available to any downwind turbines. It is renewable but it is not unlimited.
Stanley Young provides statistics showing air quality standards are not improving public health. Young notes air quality has not been a significant health risk since before the Environmental Protection Agency issued its first set of clean air regulations in the 1970s.