Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Synopsis: Oceans provide a negative feedback (automatic global air conditioning) to compensate for higher temperatures. Source here . "Higher temperatures are known to increase emissions of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) from the worlds oceans, which increases the albedo of marine stratus clouds, which has a cooling effect."
U.S. Energy Information Administration, "How Much Natural Gas Does the United States Have, and How Long Will it Last?" November 18, 2015, http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=58&t;=8 (accessed July 6, 2016).
Parker mentions three possible driving forces for the seventeenth century collapse: volcanoes, El Nios, and the sun. Theres no cycle in the volcanoes, however, and the El Nios are too short rarely lasting more than a year or two. That leaves the sun, and the powerful influences it has on Earths temperature and climate.
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Special Projects Counsel Hans Bader on attorneys general who think of themselves as above the law.
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"The findings of this year's Index may surprise many environmental activists," said Dr. Steven F. Hayward, senior fellow at PRI, F. K. Weyerhaeuser fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and author of the Index of Leading Environmental Indicators. "The environment is perhaps the most successful public policy story of the last 30 years and the good news is getting noticed by the public."
The intolerance, of course, stems from the realization on the part of those behind the ?global warming? scam that it is entirely false. It is always liars who have to shout loudest in the hope of temporarily prevailing over the truth.
For Manne, planetary atmospheric dynamics are so blindingly clear that only un reasonable citizens could question it. And if there is no easier question, then it follows that those who get this question wrong are not just unreasonable but quite possibly, brain dead. Mannes writing is thick with insults, but thin on reasons.
Researchers such as Ms Bug lack basic human honesty. And allowing this ideological garbage to be presented as research is a classical case of PC run amok. Shame on you, Scientific American and others.
There is a perception that the climate change story selects record breaking events to suit its argument and ignores the cold extremes.
Apparently there was less ice in the Eastern Arctic in 1935 than there was during the all-time-record-lowest-Armageddon-we-are-all-doomed-irreversible-tipping-point summer of 2007.
So we should disregard the lessons from past data on hail in China, extreme precipitation events in Hawaii, floods in southern Germany, or the historical occurences of other extreme weather, and instead turn to climate model projections for guidance? We can only hope that he is kidding.
I live in Brisbane on high ground. Brisbane is flooding and up to 20,000 properties will be under water by tomorrow. Our major dam is at 190% capacity and they had to release 600,000 megalitres yesterday to just keep it at that. 75% of Queensland has been declared a flood disaster area and that is roughly half a million square kilometres. This is not a disaster anywhere near the order of magnitude of the Boxing Day tsunami or the Haiti earthquake. However people have died and more bodies will be found when search and rescue can find them. They have been swept away.
It must be said that such an assessment is premature. Eventually lowering tariffs on around 95 per cent of Australian exports to China seems like a big deal. But whether Australian businesses can negotiate the raft of regulatory and other ad hoc barriers periodically placed in front of foreign firms remains to be seen.
G lobal warming alarmists nevertheless claim that nearly all climate scientists believe dangerous global warming will occur. This is a strange claim in view of the fact more than 30,000 American scientists signed the Oregon Petition stating that there is no basis for dangerous man-made global warming forecasts, and no convincing evidence that carbon dioxide is dangerously warming the planet or disrupting its climate.
However, despite being asked to consider the difference between a flat Earth and a round Earth both of these men have told me in personal correspondence that they simply want to choose to believe that carbon dioxide has some forcing via the greenhouse effect, to quote. They said they WANT this.
A 2014 report by the Pacific Research Institute found black households in Ohio would spend an extra $408 every year in higher energy costs because of the EPA's plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro became a United States bash-fest. This year's "Earth Summit Plus-5" meeting at the United Nations in New York continued that tradition. Britain Prime Minister Tony Blair, in a clear reference to the U.S., stated, "The biggest responsibility falls on those countries with the biggest emissions . . .
Energy touches every aspect of their lives, from providing a daily sense of comfort to powering the global economy. Therefore, having an energy platform that provides choices at competitive prices will only enhance the well-being of families and businesses across the country.
However the results of the investigation conducted at the end of 2008 reveal that vast majority of the Earth scientists surveyed agree that in the past 200-plus years, mean global temperatures have been rising and that human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures.
On June 10, the Senate will debate and vote on S.J.Res.26, a resolution of disapproval sponsored by Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska to stop EPA from 'enacting' controversial global warming policies through the regulatory back door.
Gore, Albert. Earth in the Balance. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992.
Major international organizations made the switch to resilience from disaster management some years ago. CARE , Plan, Red Cross, Practical Action, Oxfam, Christian Aid, Action Aid and WWF all have climate smart frameworks, and all are active in Bangladesh.
There has been increasing evidence in recent years that global warming is linked with solar activity. In 2009, Professor Henrik Svensmark from the Danish National Space Centre, said that the last time the Earth experienced unusually high temperatures, in the later Medieval period, there had also been an increase in solar activity. When this activity dropped, it led to the "little ice age" of the seventeenth century.
Even the IPCC admits in the fine print that the models dont work. Water vapor in the tropics is the most important feedback, yet the models get it wrong. See Chapter Nine Evaluation of Climate Models:
Warning over cheap alcohol: Youngsters can get drunk for half the cost of a chocolate bar:
DOE wind power 2014 report finds it's dropping dramatically in cost ArsTechnica
About 1,600 companies listed on the London Stock Exchange, including some of the biggest corporate names in the world such as BP, Tesco and Tate & Lyle, will have to publish their emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses blamed for climate change from April next year.
According to a graph published on the NASA Earth Observatory site , Arctic temperatures were warmer in 1930's than at the end of the 20th century. In addition, the graph shows the Arctic warmed ~1.6C over the 19 year period from ~1918-1937 at a rate of 0.84C/decade, 75% faster than the 0.48C/decade from 1980-2000. Thus, alarmist claims that recent Arctic warming is unprecedented or accelerating are bogus.
The five-judge majority notes that 42 USC 7479 defines major source as a facility with the potential to emit 250 tons per year of ?any air pollutant? (emphasis added). But Congress did not employ that language in the provision at issue in the case, CAA 165 ? the provision specifying what facilities must do to obtain a PSD permit.*
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Rainforest Action Network. "Rates of Rainforest Loss." Fact Sheet #4B, San Francisco, 1995.
Even older students are vulnerable to being spoon-fed incorrect information. And student voters who are reluctant or too disinterested to seek truthful information can have a profound impact on U.S. elections and national policy.
By 2035, cumulative job losses resulting from the rule will total 7 million for blacks and 12 million for Hispanics. Most of these losses will occur in localities where blacks and Hispanics are most heavily concentrated. The rule will especially harm residents of seven states with the highest concentrations of blacks and Hispanics: Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New York and Texas.
Met Office, 1 March 2010: Provisional figures from the Met Office show that the UK winter has been the coldest since 1978/79. The mean UK temperature was 1.5 C, the lowest since 1978/79 when it was 1.2 C.
The frequency of failures to replace open access property rights is suggestive. Open access arrangements are notoriously prone to wasteful overuse. If they remain in place, the transaction costs of changing the property rights regime must be quite high relative to the value of the resource.
To turn water back into hydrogen fuel again, you have to unburn it--you have to pump energy back into the water, usually in the form of electricity. The greens know this but hope that the electricity will be solar. Perhaps someday, but anyone who does the numbers knows that it won't be anytime soon-solar isn't close to cost-competitive yet, and the panels require ridiculous amounts of real estate. Coal-fired or gas-fired electricity won't do either--that would defeat the whole carbon-reduction objective. Nuclear power plants could be used, but if there's one element that most greens hate even more than carbon, it's uranium.
Another problem lies in the nearly-infinite malleability of "national security" arguments. If childhood obesity is now a problem affecting our "national security," what is not? Can any socio-economic ill not be defined in some way as to suggest at least some distant impact upon our national security? Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and thus the most senior military officer in the United States, recently declared that "our national debt is our biggest security threat." That may well be true on some level and I find it in equal parts amusing, fascinating, and horrifying that he seems to be suggesting that President Obama's deficit-fueled socio-economic dirigisme has become a threat to America but surely this sort of fashionably expansive "national security" analysis overreaches because there is essentially nothing it cannot encompass.
The emails also describe how the band plotted to rewrite history as well as science, particularly by eliminating the Medieval Warm Period, a 400 year period that began around 1000 AD.
As you can see from the graph below global sea ice extent is nearly on average since 1979 according to satellite measurement. Arctic sea ice is slightly below average and Antarctic sea ice is above average. The total sea ice extent shows no obvious influence from global warming.
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What is going on is that science is no longer what we thought it was. It is now a tool in the hands of socialists, and the smart money is flowing into the pockets of ?scientists? who will serve their agenda. Follow the money. Whilst traditional physics and chemistry departments are closing in British universities, and there is a shortage of science teachers, there is an abundance of cash being poured into departments that will serve socialist ends, and no shortage of acolytes desirous to use this as a route to power.
Stale Antarctic melting ice story from last summer suddenly goes viral on Fairfax media all over Australia
Not in Kansas anymore? EPA's pessimistic wheat forecasts
Climategate: A Scandal that Won't Go Away
The gainfully offended Richard Warman makes an appearance, as might be expected.
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is designed to catch CO2 from gas and coal-fired power stations before it is released into the atmosphere. The CO2 is liquefied and poured into disused oil wells in the North Sea via existing pipelines.
Newsweek s 1975 cover story The Cooling World breathlessly reported that, after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earth??s climate seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists are almost unanimous that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century, it intoned, and the resulting famines could be catastrophic.
In some instances these standards may have no effect on emissions. The cap might, by itself, motivate the actions needed to meet the standard. In that case, the standard merely wastes regulatory and compliance costs on purely redundant regulatory mandates.
Why does the bank foresee population decline? It can see that people are moving from peasant farms to urban jobs. Kids once earned their keep by weeding fields and herding goats. In the cities, they are an expensive ego investment. Meanwhile, their parents will increasingly earn retirement benefits instead of moving in with their adult children.
Entrepreneurship and Innovationan environment friendly to new enterprises and the commercialization of new ideas
He'll Run America Like They Run Their Party
The following quotations present what Mr. FOIA said in an explanation note:
I have sent the first author a copy of our 2012 paper and hope they will move to the complete adoption of the bottom-up, resource-based perspective.
1992, I was part of a small panel on "Good Morning America," interacting with
So the newcomers to global warming would see that the climate models perform pretty poorly at simulating past global warming. The global temperature anomaly in 2005 from one model is about 1.17 deg C higher than that of another. In other words, theres a 1.17 deg C spread in the change in simulated global surface temperatures from pre-industrial times to 2005, which is greater than the 1.0 deg C observed rise shown in Kevin Cowtans graph (my Figure 1).
This years ice on the Hudson Bay is not only doubling and tripling previous years, but quadrupling some years as well,says reader Ralph Fato. Rapid Ice increase in the past week.
Take, for example, his attempts to dismiss two of the many recent scandals to have befallen the seemingly accident-prone climate-science establishment:
The results of their analysis suggest, as Sears et al . describe it, that well-known relationships in biophysical ecology show that "no two organisms experience the same climate in the same way," and that "changing climates do not always impact organisms negatively." Hence, they conclude that "when coupled with thermoregulatory behavior, variation in topographic features can mask the acute effect of climate change in many cases," which renders the climate envelope approach to assessing species responses to climate change rather useless, if not even deceptive. Reference
Studies show they turned out fine, and the experiences of some folks makes me wonder if exposure to DDT actually prolongs your life. Joseph Jacobs was a chemist directing the effort to mass-produce DDT to protect World War II soldiers from insect-borne disease. In the rush to get the first shipment out the door, a valve that Jacobs happened to be standing under was accidentally opened, and Jacobs was soon covered with hot DDT. Jacobs did indeed die more than 60 years later at the tender young age of 88. He would go on to build a top engineering firm, write books, and have a family. But he always considered his role in the early production of DDT as one of his greatest accomplishments. The story is same for others, including one man who is still alive at 97.
In emerging economies where people do not have access to clean water, adequate food or medical care, the difference is even starker. Using renewables instead of fossil fuels will slow growth, resulting in a higher mortality rate and a lower life expectancy.
Defenders are making ludicrous and contradictory claims to explain what is happening. They said they were 90+ percent certain warming since 1950 was due to human CO2 with natural causes of little or no consequence. Now theyre saying the lack of warming of the last 17 years is because of natural variability and decreasing solar activity.
Heres the full image from Panoramio, the Stevenson Screen is clearly visible. Thank you J. Baines, wherever you are.
The article begins with an account of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's visit to the Bush ranch for a meeting with the "cowboy president." President Bush's plans to take Blair on a tour of the ranch were ruined by severe thunderstorms and golf-ball-sized hail. The article fingers global warming as the culprit. "But that possibility apparently seemed as remote to Bush as the likelihood that the storm was a sign from God," it said.
Despite launching the plan, Romney, a Republican, said that he remained personally agnostic about global warming, which led to attacks from environmental groups for deviating from the party line (Boston Globe, May 7).
Now that the government is out of the business of measuring inputs, it will no longer have to make independent judgments about the "best available technology" (BAT) for pollution, which typically "is a case-by-case determination of an emission limit and/or control technique which, taking into account environmental, energy, and economic considerations, represents the maximum emission control achievable by any new or modified source of air pollution." No one knows how to make these determinations, which require deciding whether a reduction of 90 percent pollution at a cost of $1 million is preferable under the law to a reduction of 99 percent of pollution at the cost of $10 million, when the net profits before regulation are $5 million.
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To this list, SEPP would add that the IPCC and its parent organization, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), have failed make it explicitly clear in every publication that their mission is not to understand all the influences on climate change, but purely the human one, thus ignoring major natural influences on climate change.
The Clinton Administration has argued that an international emission trading system would significantly reduce the cost of complying with the Kyoto Protocol. It justifies this claim by pointing to the U.S. acid rain program, which it credits with using emission trading to reduce the cost of lowering the SO2 emissions. A new policy brief by the Competitive Enterprise Institute argues that the acid rain program is not as successful as advertised and does not support the contention that emission trading will reduce the costs of emissions reductions.
In my opinion, it is wishful thinking to think that sufficiently sophisticated reverse engineering could have identified the low replication of the Briffa data set. I don??t rely on this point. Maybe someone can demonstrate that reverse engineering was possible in the case at hand and that, with a little more insight and better reverse engineering, I (and others) could have figured out the poor Briffa replication. If so, so be it. Without the actual Briffa data set, I wasn??t able to figure out that Briffa had used the Hantemirov corridor data set for RCS standardization. Nor was anyone else, including any of the authors who used the poorly replicated Briffa data in important multiproxy reconstructions apparently without inquiring into its replication.
One dimension of American exceptionalism is the claim that its foreign policy is
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Scholar Doug Bandow enumerates the flaws with the federal government's fuel economy rules:
I am sure 99.57% of my non-Christian readers will never believe this, but
Mother Earth has an excellent thermostat system. Even if somehow average humidity should increase to 50% and CO2 goes to 1000 ppm, only about 2 Watts/m2 will be added. This is unlikely in the extreme, and would add a small fraction of a degree to warming. No one would notice.
Photosynthesis and canopy greenness are maintained for longer in elevated CO2. This is because a CO2 rich atmosphere allows the tree to generate carbon rich compounds that are known to prolong the life of leaves. These compounds may have a positive effect for carbon balance and stress tolerance but may also have a negative effect on the control of dormancy.
Global warming was also supposed to be killing frogs. But again, new studies indicate that the frogs are being killed by a natural pathogen, the chytrid fungus, and that its spread has been accelerated by the natural weather pattern known as El Nio, and not by some anomalous global warming.
In addition, the IWG ignored guidance from OMB regarding appropriate discount rates and did not use the most up to date equilibrium climate sensitivity distributions.
The intolerant Left is "killing free speech," says liberal commentator Kirsten Powers. It is committed to tolerance, pluralism and reasoned debate only for itself, and only to advance its agenda. Otherwise, it applies "authoritarian demands for intellectual conformity," and relentlessly vilifies and tries to silence anyone who speaks up, asks inconvenient questions or challenges the "progressive" worldview.
As far as that goes, I admit Im not a scientist, though I suspect neither are you, and neither are most of the people who participate in this debate on either side. Still, even us lowly citizens can know a few things. For instance, we can know that the climate on this planet has changed wildly over the course of its existence. Its had tropical periods and icy periods and everything in between, and the vast majority of all of that came before the Industrial Age. In fact, human beings have only been industrialized for a tiny fraction of human history, and weve been driving cars for an even tinier fraction. We can know, therefore, that temperatures and weather conditions have swung dramatically from one side of the spectrum to the other and back again, and, from a historical perspective, when comparing 200 years of industrialization to the 4 billion years the Earths been around, almost all of the warming and cooling happened before any factory was ever built.
How different it was four years ago. Shortly after Obama's first inauguration, he and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper launched a bilateral Clean Energy Dialogue to promote technology innovation, policy cooperation, and lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in North America. Since then, we've seen two action plans and several announcements from the lead government agencies the U.S. Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Environment Canada and Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) and the lead officials in all four have been changed by cabinet shuffle or resignation.
Time to Unlock America's Vast Oil and Gas Resources
This finding, quoted verbatim, was one of the most critical findings of the Wells Report.
There is also fear of the unknown. As one veteran trade policy analyst queried: "If the WTO talks go into hibernation, there is no telling when, or if, they will wake up." True: but keeping talks alive with no prospect of success will wreak further incalculable damage on the WTO; and in any case, given the realities of the U.S. election cycle, serious negotiations after December will be off the table until well into 2013 or beyond. Whether at some distant time there are ongoing vestigial negotiations or not, new actors and new issues will have moved to center stage, requiring a wholesale recalibration of priorities and tradeoffs.
The third robbery involves Summary claims that computer models are scientifically sound. Media focus on temperature projections invariably putting the highest increase in the headlines. These projections are predetermined, and always wrong. The Science Report explains why they cannot be correct. Here are 17 quotes from Chapter 8 of the 2007 Science Report.
The atmosphere has not been warming for over 18 years even though atmospheric CO2 content has been increasing.