Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Dr. Richard Lindzen writes to me with news of this significant new paper saying It has taken almost 2 years to get this out. . Part of that problem appears to be hostile reviewers in earlier submissions to JGR, something weve seen recently with other skeptical papers, such as ODonnells rebuttal to Steig et al (Antarctica is warming) where Steig himself inappropriately served as a reviewer, and a hostile one at that. Hostile reviewers aside, the paper will now be published in an upcoming issue of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences and I am honored to be able to be able to present it
The onslaught of regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will hurt consumers directly through higher energy costs and indirectly through higher prices for goods and services. Like cap and trade, the result is higher unemployment and less economic output.
In the end, the exploitation of anti-government sentiment by Republican leaders, and the active efforts on their part to make all government look corrupt and illegitimate, reached its logical conclusion. The Republican political establishment looked no less corrupt, weak, and illegitimate than the Democratic one, and the appeal of a rank outsider became greater.
Government bureaucrat-scientists and their expert "global warming" climate models, based on levels of atmospheric CO2, continue to prove an astounding incompetence - billions of taxpayer monies wasted on failed computer simulations that can't predict global temperatures
There's just one small problem. According to the prestigious International Energy Agency, world energy demand is expected to grow by 65 percent between 1995 and 2020, and fossil fuels are expected to meet 95 percent of that additional demand. During the initial 2008-2012 Kyoto compliance period and beyond, fossil energy will become more important to the wealth of nations, not less. Kyoto conflicts with one of the broadest and deepest trends in the global economy.
Tommaso Dorigo argues that this rumor above could actually be different from his rumor, and moreover he has rumored my rumor before - one month ago .
Dr Pachauris father studied for a doctorate in educational psychology at the University of London while his mother, according to Dr Pachauris home page, educated and provided her son with the high standards that have enabled him to cope with his ever-increasing workload.
All this and more is going onbecause of a vast, unaccountable,century-by-century change, in climate. In his study at Bedford College in London, Britains distinguished geographer, ProfessorGordon Manley, is worrying aboutit.
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 25 (Reuters) Czech President Vaclav Klaus on Saturday criticized U.N. calls for increased "global governance" of the world's economy, saying the world body should leave that role to national governments.
As the Romans used to say falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus, which means false in one thing, false in everything. Do we know that everything is false? Absolutely not ... but given egregious oddities like this one, we have absolutely no reason to believe that they are true either.
The idea is to beef up the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), which critics say lacks muscle for dealing with the world's worsening environmental crisis.
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The new EPA rule will impose large new costs for little benefit. In 2013 methane emissions counted for about 9% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Of that 9% about 3% are subject to the new rule, which would cut them in half. A Cato Institute study notes that even if the U.S. ceased all carbon emissions now and forever, the effect would be to reduce the rise in temperatures by the end of the century by 0.10 degrees Celcius. The methane rules contribution would be a mere 0.002 degrees Celsius.
Before my most recent visit to the region last June, my own instincts would have mirrored those of my colleagues in the media. I covered Israel for ABC News in 198486 and had returned to the area on writing assignments three times between 2002 and 2007. Like many other journalists, I had a sense of hopelessness produced by my experiences in the region. After all, this conflict has survived war, peace negotiations, terrorist assaults on civilians, an authorized suicide-bombing campaign, presidential arm-twisting, even proximity talks. So it was with no great optimism that I undertook another journey.
Here are three more things that won't happen in 2015.
Gillett et al. (2013) : This study uses temperature observations over 18512010 and a detection-and-attribution regression method to scale AOGCM TCR values. The individual CMIP5 model regression-based observationally-constrained TCRs shown in a figure in the Gillett et al. (2013) study imply a best (median ) estimate for TCR of 1.4C, with a 595% range of 0.82.0C. That compares with a range of 0.92.3C given in the study based on a single regression incorporating all models at once, which it is unclear is as suitable a method.
Theres at least one big potential problem with that theory. Although atmospheric CO2 levels have risen, global temperatures have been flat for going on the past 17 years.
Kate Sinding, a lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council, said propane fracking to extract natural gas did not exist at the time of the 1992 statement, which refers only to propane being pumped into underground storage.
Agreement signed at Washington September 18, 2008; entered into force September 18, 2008. With annex.
As the CO 2 content of the air increases, fast-growing native annual species, such as the five studied in this paper, will likely respond positively by increasing their photosynthetic rates and total biomass, regardless of any concomitant rise in air temperature.
Judge: NYT reporter need not identify sources:
What a surprise! Numberwatch , the site listing a total of more than 480 things caused by global warming, doesnt have this new entry:
Free-market watchers might be surprised to find social-welfare and high-tax states at the top of the Prosperity Index. This indeed raises more questions than it answers.
"The UK is not willing to take the steps that liberal environmental groups are demanding because otherwise British jobs will be lost and the economy will suffer," says Iain Murray, senior fellow in international policy at CEI and a native Brit.
So the federal government's assessment of the state of our environment contains no information about an issue on which it spends $4.5 billion annuallyand which we have, for more than a decade, considered a "common concern of humankind," as the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change put it.
Edwards said there is little more that can be done to prepare for such a rare weather event.
Tom Crowley, a key member of Mann's global warming hockey team, showed crass disregard for the lying and hiding: "I am not convinced that the "truth' is always worth reaching, if it is at the cost of damaged personal relationships." It's more important to keep the career back-scratching team happy.
New Evidence Our Record Warm March was Not from Global Warming
But doesn't that mean a future administration could unilaterally pull out of the Paris agreement? A Republican administration could pull out of the agreement by undoing Obama's regulatory agenda, but that could be complicated in the courts.
Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites, the UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Wiltshire, England.
Still, there appears to be no groundswell of Israeli public opinion against the two-state solution. The implications of an Israeli state seeking to control an Arab population several times its size is not lost on Palestinian observers. For example, Jarbawi, the minister of planning, asks, "Do I have to advise the Israelis, "Take the two-state solution, because in twenty years, you'll be a minority and have to oppress us like apartheid, and in one hundred years you won't exist'?" Even some Israelisdiplomat Shimon Stein among themacknowledge that more could be done to move the process along: "The demographic issue is like climate changeno one wants to pay today for what may or may not happen twenty years from now."
My main criticism of the article is that the BoM relies on Melbourne CBD rain data to back up their regional conclusions regarding ???climate change?? and drought, while the rainfall history is in fact affected by the growing urban heat island.
Environmentalists Defend Property Values Against Global Warming "Art'
So, depending on wind direction that day, combined with the low tide, the station may have picked up some heated air from the mud flats. Unfortunately the station does not record wind data. Given the nearby stations (such as London City ) show a shift of wind direction to northerly after about 5PM local time on that date, it is quite possible though:
Put it this way. Climate forecasts, of the type relied upon by the IPCCand over governmental entities, stink. They are no good. They have beenpromising ever increasing temperatures for decades, but the observationshave been more or less steady. This must meanit is inescapable that something is very badly wrong with thetheory behind the models. What?
The idea of pursuing Kyoto II by means of an executive agreement or a domestic emissions trading scheme by means of the budget reconciliation process has stirred up significant resistance among members of Congress who still take seriously the separation of powers and the prerogatives of the legislative branch. (Jimmy Carter also floated the idea of adopting the SALT II arms control treaty of 1979 by executive agreement instead of a formal treaty, but was quickly slapped down by members of his own party.) Already the White House is backtracking on both ideas, though we should not suppose them to be completely abandoned.
Overall the SPPI report makes for a fascinating (although quite technical) read. I recommend it to anyone who wants to get into the nitty-gitty details of how marine organisms from corals, to phytoplankton, to fish respond to changes in the oceans chemistry as a result from atmospheric CO2 enrichment. By the end, after turning page after page full of examples from the scientific literature that seem to run counter to the ocean-acidification-is-most-certainly-going to-be-bad mantra, you really begin to wonder whether ocean acidification is any more than much ado about nothing.
Given the Medicaid squeeze on the state budget, Pataki's successor, Eliot Spitzer, tried to turn the tables on 1199 after he took office in 2007. Unlike Pataki, Spitzer rejected the concept of Medicaid as a union jobs program. At a breakfast meeting attended by hospital and labor leaders, Spitzer delivered a hard-hitting presentation that branded 1199 and GNYHA "guardians of the status quo." In response to a proposal by the governor to impose cuts on hospitals and nursing homes, 1199 ran a multimillion-dollar ad campaign that sank Spitzer's approval rating. Union ally Joseph Bruno, in control of the Republican Senate, staked out a position to the left of the governor; in the end, only a quarter of Spitzer's proposed cuts went into effect.
In fact, the spike in temperatures caused by the Great el Nio of 1998 is almost entirely offset in the linear-trend calculation by two factors: the not dissimilar spike of the 2010 el Nio, and the sheer length of the Great Pause itself.
To avoid any ambiguity, in the Introduction to Elsners paper, he equates tornado intensity with wind speed.
I rate a paragraph in Moranos article and report, which he fortunately accompanied with the disclaimer Note: Curry is not included in the count of dissenting scientists in this report.
What do you think? Dare we hope for that fund allocation is made regardless of whether the researcher ifrga stdjer or ifrgastter IPCC's message?
emissions scenarios prepared for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes
10. Since CO2 is incapable of causing climatic warming by itself (CO2 makes up only 0.038% of the atmosphere and accounts for only a few percent of the greenhouse gas effect), is there evidence of concomitant increase in water vapor (which causes more than 90% of the greenhouse gas effect)?
But this argument essentially says that Hillary Clinton should have won the presidency. The whole point of liberal progressivism is to rid the Democratic party of what it views as temporizing and lack of principle. Barack Obama won his nomination with that faction's support; Nancy Pelosi was elevated to the speakership with their favor. To ignore the liberal progressives' ideals in difficult times would break faith with them, guaranteeing their eternal enmity and earning the president a probable primary challenge.
ER=EPR means that ER, an Einstein-Rosen bridge (a non-traversable wormhole), may always be interpreted as EPR (an acronym chosen for the quantum entanglement, after Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen, to make it sound funny), and vice versa. However, you could object that one can't define a Yes/No observable that would measure the "existence of the entanglement". However, one may define an observable for "is there a wormhole", you could argue, so there is a contradiction.
Whatever the reason, all of us should be grateful that Mr. Obama is supporting nuclear power, a less-expensive means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and one that already provides 20% of America 's electricity.
The science was idiotic, but Arrhenius saw global warming as a good thing. Fast forward 100 years, and the New York Times ups Arrhenius stupidity by a huge margin.
The blink comparator above shows the changes in UNISYS SST anomalies over the past week. Areas that are less than +/- 1C are marked as white.
?The analysis revealed a number of trends in the reporting of renewable energy news,? the study found. ?First and foremost, the temperature of the media?s sentiment toward the renewables industry is cold. More than 51 per cent of the 138 articles analysed were either negative or very negative toward the industry.?
The Vaclav Klaus lecture yesterday was excellent - a very unpolitician-like politician, I thought, quietly spoken and with a complete lack of histrionics. This made him a very persuasive speaker I thought, and I would recommend you read what he has to say if you haven't already.
There are frsts several reasons for this, but one of them is that the EU's climate and energiml has received politicians to make very costly and destructive decisions on energy production. The focus on so-called frnyelsebara energikllor ssom wind and solar power is driving up prices, and both consumer and manufacturing ends up in big svrigheter. The focus on the f down koldioxidutslppen transport frdyrar both the manufacturing of cars and of sjlva transport. Additionally threaten a large-scale trade war, including China behind the corner.
I sat in silence a moment, absorbing the complex simplicity of what she was asking.
What if the Global Warming ?Pause? was ?Fast Forward? Instead?
The four Italian researchers write that "the multi-model ensemble mean and most individual models exhibit a wet bias with respect to CRU and GPCC observations in both regions and for all seasons," which is about as all-encompassing a negative finding as one could imagine. Yet they also report that "the models differ greatly in the seasonal climatology of precipitation which they reproduce in the HKK." And so it is that they are forced to conclude that "no single model (or group of models) emerges as that providing the best results for all the statistics considered."
Fracking Chemicals Linked to Cancer, According to New Report
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Youre probably asking yourself why you should spend $8.00 for a book written by an independent climate researcher. There arent many independent researchers investigating El Nio-Southern Oscillation or its long-term impacts on global surface temperatures. In fact, if you were to perform a Google image search of NINO3.4 sea surface temperature anomalies, the vast majority of the graphs and images are from my blog posts or cross posts of them. Try it. Cut and paste NINO3.4 sea surface temperature anomalies into Google. Click over to images and start counting the number of times you see Bob Tisdale.
"But when leaders neither criticized nor condemned the assertions, it gave them more legitimacy with voters."
As a result, at higher CO2 concentrations, plants can better cope under conditions of drought, thereby vastly improving their productivity and growth as opposed to conditions experienced under lower CO2.
British filmmaker Martin Durkin presents a groundbreaking new documentary on climate change titled "The Great Global Warming Swindle."
Giving up on growth also means surrendering to problems that could be solved. For instance, the "demographic problem" populations aging in the Westmay be solved with strong economic growth. A more productive society, where each employed person produces more, can afford to maintain a larger number of dependents.
Relativism : Things arent worse; theyre just different. This would be the fall back position for all those with an allergy to any kind of duty.
Whatever the reason for the divergence, it would seem to suggest that the practice of grafting the thermometer record onto a proxy temperature record as I believe was done in the case of the hockey stick is dubious to say the least.
Does anyone else find it disturbing to see legislators and environmentalists working hand-in-hand like this?
"Climate change" trumps property rights? A troubling precedent.
And why not? Well, put simply, the equation shows that at the temperatures prevailing on Earth you need a very large increase in radiative flux to achieve a pathetically small increase in temperature. That's not the sort of thing the climate-extremists want known, so they carefully don't mention it, which is one reason why puir wee Moonbat hadn't heard of it.
Full text (note this is an unsigned draft) here and reprinted below the fold.
Global Warming and Tropical Cyclones of the Western North Pacific (5 Apr 2011) In spite of a remarkable warming, the authors of this study determined that the frequency of TC against the background of global warming has decreased with time ... Read More
The Northern Ireland Assemblys Enterprise, Trade and Investment Committee has been briefed by the Fermanagh Fracking Awareness Network on shale gas exploration. Further meetings with prospective developer Tamboran Resources are expected in the coming weeks.
I'm not sure how much overturning the rule would help the economy, but it certainly would not hurt! It would avert regulatory burdens that hinder job creation and make U.S. firms less competitive. It would avoid at least some higher energy and production costs that regulated entities would pass on to consumers.
Well, I could go on. And on and on. And on and on and on. Just about every one of the 115 slides presented by Abraham in his shoddy little piece of lavishly-funded venom contains serious, serial, material errors, exaggerations, or downright lies. All I have been able to do here is to give you some flavor of how unscientific, inaccurate, and deliberately mendacious Abraham's video is.
Laurie Hawn, Conservative Candidate in Edmonton Centre, has filed a complaint with the Commissioner of Elections Canada after massive voter list irregularities were uncovered by his campaign. For some time, there have been rumors of election irregularities in Edmonton Centre. At an all candidates meeting with Elections Canada on January 4, 2006, it was revealed that two buildings had been struck from the electoral rolls because they were not residences. In reality, these buildings were both mailbox stores. Several days later, the Laurie Hawn campaign identified a third non-residence building which sells mail boxes and reported it to Elections Canada.
While the pivotal states of this strategy appear to be Pakistan, Iran, and (more recently) Saudi Arabia, the geopolitical situation of Iran puts it in a class by itself, as the most precious proxy in China's "indirect approach" against American primacy. It is therefore no surprise to learn that China is using Iran as a conduit for the delivery of arms to both Iraqi and Afghan insurgents, and providing Iran itself the kind of small boats needed to conduct attacks against commercial shipping or the U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf.13
Chicago school bans homemade lunches, the latest in national food fight:
SciAm: Effective World Government Will Be Needed to Stave Off Climate Catastrophe
Now, according to GISS the homogeneity adjustments are designed to adjust the urban stations like Anchorage so that they more closely match the rural stations like Matanuska. Imagine my surprise when I calculated the homogeneity adjustment to Matanuska, shown in Figure 3.
Camille came days after the first Moon landing, and history was largely lost in the euphoria.
The sun is almost completely blank, meteorologist Paul Dorian notes . Virtually no sunspots darken the blinding yellow orb. The main driver of all weather and climate has gone quiet again during what is likely to be the weakest sunspot cycle in more than a century. Not since February 1906 has there been a solar cycle with fewer sunspots.
Unfortunately, the anti-science of climate science will continue since it appears to be prerequisite of research funding - in simple words, scientists are forced to support the consensus green political agenda in order to survive and thrive.
In 1974, the consensus agreed that global cooling was the new normal, and thatmuchmoney was needed to study it. 97% of scientists understood that global cooling causedextremeweather.
A paper published today in Nature finds "Australian tropical cyclone activity lower than at any time over the past 5501,500 years" and "we show, on the basis of a new tropical cyclone activity index (CAI), that the present low levels of storm activity on the mid west and northeast coasts of Australia are unprecedented over the past 550 to 1,500 years." "Other studies project a decrease in the frequency of tropical cyclones towards the end of the twenty-first century in the southwest Pacific, southern Indian and Australian regions. Our results, although based on a limited record, suggest that this may be occurring much earlier than expected."
150 Economists Back US Republicans in Debt Fight:
In some American and European quarters, this globalization of NATO has led some observers to assert rather boldly that "NATO's next move must be to open its membership to any democratic state in the world that is willing and able to contribute to the fulfillment of NATO's new responsibilities."37 But to add four or five global partners is one thing, to add the 88 countries recognized as democracies by Freedom House is quite another. The necessary, if not sufficient, condition for turning NATO into a UN of democracies would be to change the flawed images of the UN and NATO that European publics currently have. That said, this long-term scenario of NATO as a UN of democracies cannot be ruled out given the ongoing deconstruction of the Tower of Babble by China and the OIC.
Sir, Nullius in Verba, the motto of the Royal Society, is usually translated as on the word of no one. That is a fine motto, the message being that knowledge about the material universe should be based on appeals to experimental evidence rather than authority
For well over a decade, the George C. Marshall Institute has been addressing the studies, the speculation on hazards, the many efforts to predict, and the theories supporting fear of human-made global climate change.
Lewis finds that in recent years neither the global temperature nor ocean heat uptake have changed very much, while CO 2 concentrations have continued to rise. Therefore, the climate sensitivity must be lower.