Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
the reliance of the multi-decadal climate predictions to provide accurate forecasts is further shown to be unjustified, since all of the important climate processes are not included accurately in the models, as acknowledged by Tom Karl.
???THE Australian Workers Union has called for the aluminium industry to be exempted from the renewable energy target, a move that will increase pressure on Labor to negotiate a bipartisan deal with the Coalition on changes to the scheme. AWU national secretary Scott McDine warned that the RET maintained in its current form would lead to thousands of jobs shifting overseas with no environmental gain.??
Current cosmology indicates that the total amount of dark matter may be five times the amount of normal matter. As reported by Freeman Dyson on the New York Review of Books, the LHC is expected to find that dark matter is composed of the supersymmetrical equivalents of ordinary matter.
Concerning the most interesting time span of 10,000 years Holocene: We were able to identify 13 CIO events out of 24, which, according to impact mechanism dynamics, must send Holocene temperatures steeply down after each impact event. As the Earth orbital line oscillates, temperature recoveries follow after each cold temperature peak. The striking feature of this recovery pattern consists of a higher solar energy yield and higher GISP2 temperatures compared to the temperature level given for the date of any impact. We demonstrate this important feature in detail, because it remains left out in present GCMs, another modeling deficiency and obvious cause for GCM model-data mismatches.
Just off the right of the previous image, north side of the river is another power station. Top of image here is the electricity output site.
People are just being blinded by what they rightly see as a positive goal (helping millions of people) if they fail to see that the President issuing licenses to not be prosecuted for certaincrimes is a huge new precedent. Proprietorial discretion is supposed to be used to avoid patent unfairness in certain cases (e.g. the situation in Colorado with conflicting state and Federal laws on marijuana). It is not meant to be a veto power for the President over any law on the books. But I can tell you one thing -- it is going to be seen by future Presidents as just this. Presidents and parties change, and for those of you swearing this is a totally legal, normal, fully-precedented action, be aware that the next time 5 million wavers are issued, it may well be for a law you DO want enforced. Then what?
Ivan Osorio: No mention of guest worker programs re: immigration.
Dr. Yan said: This new paper adds further material to the substantial body of real-world proxy evidence establishing that todays global temperature is within natural ranges of past changes. Dr. Soon added: The UNs climate panel should never have trusted the claim that the medieval warm period was mainly a European phenomenon. It was clearly warm in South China Sea too.
The environmental movement isnt going to stop at putting coal out of business.
I dont want to blame them, but typically the working group reports are managed by the co-chairs. Of course, the chair is there to facilitate things, but we have substantial amounts of delegation, Dr Pachauri said.
Examiner columnist Ron Arnold is Executive Vice President of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise. Portions of this article originally appeared in the Washington Examiner and are used by permission.
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The New York Times reports on Wal-Mart's funding of research groups.
The US depends on cheap fossil fuels to survive.
Sheppard et al . write that "given that examples of reefs without local impacts are rare, these results illustrate the importance of reference sites such as this that lack local, direct effects," and as we have long contended, Sheppard et al .'s findings indicate that earth's corals are much better equipped to successfully rebound from thermal-induced coral bleaching events when they are not exposed to the direct deleterious localized effects of humanity, which make it much more difficult for corals to successfully recover from periodic exposure to dangerously high temperatures. Hence, it would seem to us that if we want to preserve earth's corals in the face of possible further global warming -- about which we can really do nothing -- our focus should be on trying to reduce the many deleterious local effects of humanity on coral reef environments, about which we can do something ... but only if we really put our minds, mouths and money to it. Reviewed 1 October 2008
Personally I think in the short term the sensible source for most of our power is gas. With some encouragement for conventional North Sea gas producers and with shale gas development coming on almost everywhere, gas will remain cheap and plentiful for years. Gas-fired power stations are cheap and quick to build.
President Obama likes to brag about the increased U.S. production of oil and gas. In his post-election press conference he stated: "Our dependence on foreign oil is down." While the statement is true, it falsely implies that he had something to do with that fact.
koda A-Plus, an SUV in preparation, formerly known as Snowman or Polar. A bigger brother of koda Yeti.
"A Cost/Benefit Analysis of Reducing the Number of Additional Carbon Emitters"
Disclaimer : I discourage all crackpots who routinely read "Not Even Wrong" and who have visited this weblog unintentionally to stop reading because the large numbers below could make them really sick.
Consider Hamas's victory in the Gaza and West Bank elections of 2006, and the subsequent takeover of Gaza by the terrorist group. Rather than produce a general collapse of moderate Palestinian camps, the PA instead reacted in a mature fashion, concluding that its own failure to deliver the promised peace had been the source of many of its political problems and recognizing the benefits of cooperating with Israel. The resulting payoff came quickly: even during the high-intensity Israeli incursion into Gaza and the emotions it spawned, the West Bank remained calm, a tribute to the new security arrangements.
Bear in mind that the representation of clouds in climate models (and of the water vapour which is intimately involved with cloud formation) is such as to amplify the forecast warming from increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide on average over most of the models by a factor of about 3. In other words, two-thirds of the forecast rise in temperature derives from this particular model characteristic. Despite what the models are telling us and perhaps because it is models that are telling us no scientist close to the problem and in his right mind, when asked the specific question, would say that he is 95% sure that the effect of clouds is to amplify rather than to reduce the warming effect of increasing carbon dioxide. If he is not sure that clouds amplify global warming, he cannot be sure that most of the global warming is a result of increasing carbon dioxide.
A cap-and-trade scheme is a lobbyist's dream. For those of you unacquainted with how these boondoggles work, it goes something like this: (1) regulators assign an emissions quota to tens of thousands of individual industrial suppliers and users of energy (because emissions are synonymous with conventional energy use, an emissions "cap" is the same as energy rationing); (2) these businesses then purchase the right to emit their allotment in the form of permits disbursed by a government-run auction; (3) these businesses are allowed to trade permits among themselves (ie, a company that exceeds its emissions quota can buy permits from a company that emitted less than its quota); and (4) the government spends revenue raised in the auction of emissions permits-as much as $300 billion a year, according to the Congressional Budget Office-on green technologies and mitigation of the cap-and-trade's adverse economic impact.
makes Members of Congress tick, knows the key leaders intimately, knows the
"We have temporarily delayed work at the plant based on ongoing discussions with the DOE regarding funding for the Project Nina program," the company's statement said. "As a result, we have laid off 26 people."
The report provides information on the state of our National water resources, major policy announcements and trading activity for the 2007-08 irrigation season, and provides some analysis on how these factors impacted the water market throughout the season.
Dr Idso is clearly no believer in Gaia or Medea, but rather an empiricist with a knack for explaining the complex in plain English.
In brief,the CPP is a plan to cartelize state energy policiesalong the product lines ofCalifornia??s Global Warming Solutions Act and the Northeast States?? Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).Households and businesses would no longer be able tovote with their feet againstprogressive?? (Blue State) energypolicies, removing an important check ??? a shrinking tax base ???onregulatory excess.Politicians still advocating pro-growth (Red State) energy policieswithin an EPA-administered policy cartelwouldbe marginalized and look quixotic.
The divergence in the Mann/Lamb graphs (Figure 16) at this point is due to the considerable differences in the interpretation of the extent and warmth and extent of the MWP (outside our period of study) and the cold and extent of the LIA.
The film suggests that evidence from ice cores proves that rising CO2 causes temperature increases over 650,000 years. The Court found that the film was misleading: over that period the rises in CO2 lagged behind the temperature rises by 800-2000 years.
"In scenario B the growth of the annual increment of CO2 is is reduced from 1.5%/yr today to 1%/yr in 1990, 0.5%/yr in 2000 and 0 in 2010; thus after 2010 is constant, 1.9 ppmv/yr."
Even the richest of private companies blush at the prospect of buying Gulfstream V jets, the absolute top of the line in business jet luxury. Except, of course, for the ridiculously oversized Boeing Business Jet, of which Congress appears to be buying 3 (the BBJ is the business version of the 737). I am sure there is one, but I can't think of a single Fortune 500 company, and I have worked for and with a lot of them and flown on their jets, that has even one BBJ.
Further, everyone has heard for years that middle class incomes have stalled. Is it true? A recent study by economists at the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank shows that changes in the median wage are pulled down by the retirement of older workers and their replacement by less experienced younger workers. That study removes much of the issue. Expect it to be ignored. The San Francisco Reserve Bank also found that 69 percent of households surveyed in 2015 said they were "living comfortably." That's an increase from the 62 percent found in 2013. That doesn't support the widespread claim of system failure. Expect that to be ignored also.
The climate scare has only lasted as long as it has because the truth that the models have failed and the world has scarcely warmed has been artfully hidden. Let it be hidden no longer.
Washington, D.C., October 12, 2007The announcement this morning of Al Gore as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is an unfortunate and misguided move by the Nobel committee, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The Prize was shared with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
When will that day come? When will politicians and activists who say their care about the world's poor stop worrying about global warming, pesticides and GMO crops and start helping us get the energy, food, medical facilities, technology, jobs, and economic growth we need to improve our lives?
A climate criminal vehemently objects to an El Nino on the left side of the graph, but excitedly reports the possibility of one on the right side of the graph.
The bark of an environmental activist group is often far worse than its bite. Many businesses have steeled themselves against junk science-fueled activists and have prevailed. The public is not likely to stop buying iPods, for example, because As You Sow arbitrarily disapproves of Apple's recycling efforts.
1. Some people hate the light that CFLs give off. Lots of people, in fact; not just the ones in that New Yorker cartoon.
Model Overestimates: As posted by Judith Curry, in its Opinion & Comment section Nature Climate Change published a paper by three members of the climate establishment comparing observed surface warming with the results of 117 model runs of 37 models. The periods cover the last 20 years and the last 15 years. The authors write that for the 20 year period the models over-estimated decadal surface warming by more than 2 times and that for the 15 year period the models over-estimated decadal surface warming by more than 4 times. They state: uch an inconsistency is only expected to occur by chance once in 500 years, if 20-year periods are considered statistically independent.
Even some environmental groups are now opposed to biofuels. "Corn ethanol is extremely dirty," says Michal Rosenoer, biofuels manager for Friends of the Earth. "It leads to more climate pollution than conventional gasoline, and it causes deforestation as well as agricultural runoff that pollutes our water."
A public release on all this will be made here in the near future. Whatever the decision of PNAS, it would be better made sooner than later.
No Consensus: Earth's Top of Atmosphere Energy Imbalance in CMIP5-Archived (IPCC AR5) Climate Models
Conclusions: solar power is uneconomic. Government mandates and subsidies hide the true cost of renewable energy but these additional costs must be carried by others.
Returns periodically in vogue the never dormant required to bring US President George W Bush even before an International Tribunal to answer various charges of war crimes, dallinvenzione evidence against Saddam Hussein in the series of abuses against prisoners of American soldiers, in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay, hinted of torture to extract information and confessions from suspected terrorists.
With a Jew-hating theocracy to vote for; There are a lot of illusions out there about how the exercise of power will moderate the Muslim Brotherhood and similar groups. To some degree, Morsi's record in office shows a pragmatic willingness to maintain a treaty he deeply loathes with the "sons of apes and pigs." But we would do better to think of this as caution rather than moderation. If a real opportunity presented itself to destroy the Jewish state, there can be little doubt that Morsi and the members of his movement would think it their duty to act.
An interesting feature of the models is that almost all show greater year-to-year variability than observations (Fig. 1.) The average model annual variance (detrended) of anomalies is 60 percent greater than that of the observational datasets. This is a clue that suggests the models atmospheres are more sensitive to forcing than is the real climate system, so that an increase in greenhouse forcing in models will lead to a greater temperature response than experienced by the actual climate system. But saying the climate models are too sensitive only identifies another symptom of the issue, not the cause.
And what does the officially hottest station in the UK at Gravesend look like?
After evaluating the successes and failures of the Kyoto Protocol in light of those elements, the authors propose a series of U.S. initiatives at the international and domestic levels, with the aim of engaging the United States and major developing country emitters such as China in the global greenhouse gas regulatory effort and correcting the remaining defects in the design of the Kyoto Protocol. Although several alternatives to the current Kyoto Protocol regime have been proposed, Stewart and Weiner argue that the best approach for surmounting the current global climate policy impasse is a new strategy that would lead, sooner or later, to simultaneous accession by the United States and China (and other major developing country emitters) to a modified and improved version of the Kyoto Protocol agreement.
Jennifer Marohasy: Ocean Acidification: Photographs from Bob Halstead and a Note from Floor Anthoni The shallows near Dobu Island off Papua and New Guinea have active underwater fumaroles pumping out virtually pure CO2. The sea grass is extraordinarily lush and healthy and there is very healthy coral reef a few metres away.
"Divine Intervention": Drilling Boom Revives Hope for Natural Gas, Prices Fall By 42% in Two Months
To summarize: He is arguing that a hockey stick emerges as an artifact of the method used for screening proxies to include in a reconstruction (with specific reference of course, to *Mike Manns* reconstructions). The cause of this artifact production is supposed by him to be due to the fact that: The series are scaled and/or eliminated according to their best match to measured temperature which has an upslope. The result of this sorting is a preferential selection of noise in the calibration range that matches the upslope, whereas the pre-calibration time has both temperature and unsorted noise.
The EPA's agenda: Undermine capitalism and America
Australias antarctic runway melting | Riverina Leader
The author presents a table with estimates of costs of electrical generation by type, based on estimates from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).
President Dwight Eisenhower's 1961 Farewell Address includes one of the most quoted phrases in political rhetoric. He warned "against the acquisition of influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial-complex, whose growing influence could have "grave implications the very structure of our society." Ike's warning remains relevant today, but much less heeded has been the speech's second warning. Ike noted that the government's need for ever more advanced defense technologies would mean a growing reliance on science and scientific advisors, noting:
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis, Jr. on the flawed assumptions behind Gore's views on climate change.
John Thune: The tall, handsome South Dakota senator wins most any telegenics contest. If he wants to run in 2012, he has plenty of time to explain why he was the only member of his state's delegation to vote for the $700 billion Wall Street "rescue" package.
recognizing that the Colts balls were measured sometime in here (indicating).They are measured at a relatively flat partof the curve (indicating). And if you sample from a
7 hours ago Australias antarctic runway melting. AUSTRALIAS $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a new air ...
IPCC cites robust source: green activist organisation WWF.
To sum up my todays simple message: empirical data are important; scientific discoveries are important; the disclosure of malpractices in the IPCC and other bastions of the GWD are important; but we have to take part in the undergoing ideological battle. The subtitle of my five years old book was What is Endangered: Climate or Freedom? There is no doubt that it is all about freedom. We should keep that in mind.
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However, observations show that outgoing longwave infrared radiation has increased over the past 62 years, not decreased as predicted by AGW theory:
He frklarade to Energiewende described as a failure abroad and that if Germany closes its coal plants now they liberated issue certificates to migrate to other countries.
We skeptics are not afraid of anything the Big Scare Campaign Team can say, because weve got the evidenc e that they dont (see my debate with Dr Glikson) . We dont ask that anyone censor the anti-science team. (Yes, let the Hamiltons and Flannerys speak, but please dont use my tax dollars to support their stone age reasoning.)
The Obama administration's criticisms drafted in often personal terms distilled to two main points, which we now know were politicized, lobbyist-assisted complaints. These were:
Over the past three days, the overheated Arctic has been gaining sea ice at a rate of one Manhattan area every 30 seconds. Green below shows the three day gain in ice.
But the media was not on board. Most journalists are ignorant of climate and weather science. I was fortunate in that I was not, so my editors passed on to me the great amount of work and I was busy enough as it was a police reporter as it was! Since my beat included covering the climate science community in the heart of it in Colorado, I was well-attuned to how events were shaping up by 1989.
It's in 1996 that this story gets very curious. At that time Mann needed help to "defend" his Ph.D work in a documented but unexplained controversy at Yale. Inexplicably, this "controversy' was peremptorily swept aside and between 1996-98 Mann was named as the Alexander Hollaender Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Fellow (DOE).
Unfortunately, state and federal officials have employed this highly effective fire killer only sporadically. The results are predictable, as recounted above.
It is possible to look at this cycle and see a modulation that might be the 2300 year cycle. If the 2300 year cycle is indeed connected to a cycle of alignments of the 4 gas giant planets, then there needs to be some explanation of why there should be a 208 year cycle because the shorter gas giant cycle should average 171 years with a possible 179 year component. There is a cycle of that period of 171.0 years but its amplitude is not very high.
Activists with President Obama's campaign are trying to dampen criticism from environmentalists who say global warming has been given short shrift in the 2012 presidential race.
Lets start with the Western Equatorial Pacific (5S-5N, 120E-155W), Figure 5. The warm water volume and depth-averaged temperature data show the Western Equatorial Pacific had slightly less warm water or was slightly cooler this year than during the opening months of 1997. But 2014 had more warm water or was warmer than 1982. The warm water volume and temperature to depth in the west dropped as the Kelvin wave carried some water east, but it has since rebounded.
Never forget, never forget, and I think its very important for Democrats especially to remember this, that if Hitler had not come along, Franklin Roosevelt would have left office in 1941 with an unemployment rate in excess of 15 percent and an economic recovery strategy that had basically failed.
As everyone knows, the weather is becoming more extreme with increasing numbers of blizzards, hurricanes, droughts and other calamities caused by global warming, right? Well, while the media tends to hype these severe weather events as unusual and increasing in frequency, a new study by the Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project reveals otherwise. As reported in the Wall Street Journal, this project, which involved sophisticated supercomputers, created a dataset of global atmospheric conditions dating back to 1891. And what did they find? Well, contrary to what global warming proponents have been saying, they found absolutely no evidence of more extreme weather patterns occurring over that entire period.
The graph was plainly labeled "UAH", which as a mere Bible-College lecturer in fluid mechanics might not know, but anyone with any real knowledge of climate science would of course know is the University of Alabama at Huntsville, one of only two organizations producing regularly-published satellite-based global temperature records.
Of course, downwelling IR from the sky is going on 24-7-365, acting to keep daytime temperatures warmer than they would otherwise be, too.
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Aug 11, 2015
Juliet Eilperin offers up this thumbsucker in Tuesday's Washington Post about how environmentalists are "are engaged in their most profound bout of soul-searching in more than a decade." Doesn't look like they are searching very far, for the answers they have come up with sound drearily familiar. Unlike some media analyses, you can't blame Eilperin for the wispy character of this story: she has to go with the material she's got.