Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Some natural scientists say that bushfire history is anecdote; or mythology; that little is known about Aboriginal burning; or even that such burning is impossible; and that frequent, mild fires destroy biodiversity (however that slippery word may be defined). They say that history is unreliable, and only natural science can lead to the truth about bushfire. I suspect that the philosopher Robin G. Collingwood might have strongly disagreed with that view, since he saw history as an essential part of human understanding. Scientists should be aware that there is a history of science.
Anyone who has taken historical geology, a freshman course, knows that the temperatures and sea levels have fluctuated drastically hundreds of times in the Earth??s history. We are just in another cycle. Just as we have day/night, winter/summer, why would anyone presume that we do not have longer cycles of fluctuation to deal with also?
1) CCS, or Carbon Capture & Storage, will not be available by 2030 in any commercially viable sense. We cannot know this for certain one way or the other. However, it is clearly not sensible to base the countrys energy strategy on unproven technology.
In the concluding paragraph of their paper, Li et al . write that the dwarf bamboo plants could adjust their "physiology and morphology to enable the capture of more light, to increase water use efficiency and improve nutritional conditions." However, they also indicate that elevated temperature had just the opposite effects on water use efficiency and nutritional traits of leaves. But in the end , they report that "the combination of elevated CO 2 and elevated temperature showed no significant interaction effect on the nutritional traits of leaves." And, therefore, their ultimate conclusion was that if and when "the dwarf bamboo confronts warmer climate for a long term, elevated CO 2 will be beneficial," as it will lead to the production of more equally-nutritious dwarf bamboo tissue.
For this particular plant, as well as many other species that have been similarly tested (see Growth Response to Very High CO 2 Concentrations in our Subject Index), several-fold increases in the air's CO 2 concentration pose no problem at all to their growth and development. In fact, the more CO 2 there is in the air, the more biomass the tested plants have typically produced. Reviewed 28 June 2006
Mayewski founded the International Transantarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE) and is the co-author of The Ice Chronicles: The Quest to Understand Global Climate Change, published in 2002 with Frank White. The United States ITASE office is located at UMaine. Antarctic locations used in the paper include: Law Dome, a 4,576-foot high ice mound located about 68 miles from the coast facing the Indian Ocean and the site of an Australian research station; Siple Dome, a 2,000-foot high ice covered mound located between two ice streams that flow out of the Transantarctic Mountains into the Ross ice shelf, and the site of a U.S. research station; and two ITASE field sites west of Siple Dome where ice cores were collected during field surveys in 2000 and 2001.
(3) A substantial increase in food prices especially for very poor people in many parts of the world
The Readfearn reasoning amounts to saying that Newman is either wrong because he is an old white guy (let??s be ageist, sexist and rascist eh?), or he is wrong because he cited Roy Spencer who is wrong because he??s a Christian. Thus and verily, ergo, ergot and a truffle too, climate sensitivity on Planet Earth is 3.3 degrees C.
Richard Harris from NPR believed that ClimateGate reporting ?was not a product of journalism, but activism?crafted by people with a desired objective.?
All the while, at the behest of environmental groups, Commonwealth and State governments, whether Coalition or Labour, have continued in the past decade or two to enact regulation and legislation that undermines food production.
The Bush administration is working with Democrats, reliable multinationalists such as Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), and apparently newcomers looking to make a name such as Corker to push LOST thru to the floor. It currently waits approval by the Foreign Relations Committee. Further hearings, as Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) is likely to request, would put the lie to such assurances, and reveal that "hortatory" language is found not in mandatory Articles but, say, the "Preamble". So they are being resisted.
Hybrid sales waned as gasoline prices ebbed in 2011, declining to 2.2 percent of the market from 2.4 percent a year earlier, according to the research firm LMC Automotive. Meanwhile, sales of the Nissan Leaf electric car and the Chevrolet Volt plug-in each fell short of expectations.
Two organizations emerged in short succession from the 1941 Atlantic Charter: the United Nations in 1945 and, when the UN proved ineffective in a Cold War context, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949. For the next 50 years, NATO's role in waging and winning the Cold War was as central as that of the UN was marginal.
The following now-familiar plot of ocean heat content change for the surface 700 meter depth layer is the result of a layer average temperature increase of about 0.17 deg. C over the 55 year record:
I find the author to be right on target when he remarks that ?if the UK wishes to back its leadership claim in the global climate change debate, its target should be in terms not of greenhouse gas production, but of greenhouse gas consumption? (p. 57). With this, the author says that it?s no great achievement to outsource all industrial production to China, import the majority of things British people consume from China, and then criticize China for having excessive CO2 emissions.
Within 3/4 of a mile from the shores of Cape Vincent there already is an operational 86 turbine wind power plant on Wolfe Island, Canada. The Wolfe Island post construction bat mortality report determined that an estimated 1720 bats are killed per turbine per year. Cape Vincent can expect the same numbers because of similar habitat and shared species with Wolfe Island.
So they turn to changes in orbital forcings, cloud effects, or other, unidentified feedbacks. Liu et al. also consider other, less probable forcings, casting about for a good reason for the models to be so wrong. In the end they return to Earth's orbit and those pesky feedbacks.
Since Al Gores climate movie An Inconvenient Truth was launched in January 2005, global cooling has occurred at the equivalent of 10F (5.5C) per century. If this rapid cooling were to continue, the Earth would be in an Ice Age by 2100.
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better to buy if of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage.
In my previous role as an investment manager, we also used computers to predict probability of profits and losses. Just as these models failed to predict the global financial meltdown we are currently experiencing, the carbonistas computer generated models have not been able to predict or explain the climate we have experienced over the past decade or so.
He described how an energy boom in places like Texas, Oklahoma, and North Dakota is revitalizing growth in those areas, but how environmental extremists and the Obama administration are pursuing policies to de-develop the U.S. and eventually eliminate all fossil-fuel use.
Khim et al . (2002) likewise analyzed a sediment core removed from the eastern Bransfield Basin just off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, including grain size, total organic carbon content, magnetic susceptibility, biogenic silica content, 210 Pb geochronology, and radiocarbon ( 14 C) age, all of which data clearly depicted, in their words, the presence of the ???Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm period, together with preceding climatic events of similar intensity and duration.??
How Large Has The Global Warming Impact Been On The Amazon For The Last 7 Decades? Try Zilch Versus Idiotic Predictions
Radiation only moves 10 meters before being absorbed by CO2. Moving heat around is not increasing it. The planet is cooled by radiation which goes around greenhouse gases. It doesn't matter what the wavelength is; the heat leaves at a variety of wavelengths until the amount of heat leaving equals the amount entering, where it stabilizes-an effect called equilibrium.
Rogelj et al. (2012) : This study does not actually provide an observationally-based estimate for TCR. It explicitly sets out to generate a PDF for ECS that simply reflects the AR4 likely range and best estimate; in fact it reflects a slightly higher range. Moreover, the paper and its Supplementary Information do not even mention estimation of TCR or provide any estimated PDF for TCR.
In some cases this has made for lively, provocative cinema, as when Morgan Spurlock subjected himself to a McDonald's-only diet for the fast-food expose Super Size Me. But mostly the trend has transformed documentaries into hectoring screeds, the defining example being Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. The brainwashing style of An Inconvenient Truth, though, makes Moore look like a sober, impartial journalist.
Smaller cars, however, are less crashworthy than similarly equipped large cars in practically every type of accident. According to a 1989 Harvard- Brookings study, CAFE-induced downsizing has increased car occupant fatalities by between 14% and 27%; that translates to between 2,000 and 4,000 extra deaths a year.
Today I present a clear example of the use of the National Academy of Sciences to promote a particular set of policy actions, where climate science,as percievedby the authors of the PNAS,is used as the reasoning.
How African poverty is considered to be less of an issue than alleged dangerous climate change, shows which planet Mr. Juniper inhabits. In any event, "the discussions on climate change have gone very well," said Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, referring to talks held in the absence of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair who had temporarily traveled to London for police briefings. And as he returned last night security has been stepped up in Gleneagles and across Scotland after Thursday's blasts. But the London bomb attacks will not damage the chances of leaders reaching agreements at the G8 summit, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has said.
Suppose the outcome of applying a sophisticated probability algorithm gave us the estimate of 0.72 for equation #3. Does writing this number more precisely help if you suppose you are the doctor who has to prescribe either D or P? Assume that no cheating took place in the old trial, then drug D is better if the patient in front of you is like the patients from the old trial. What is the probability she is so (given the information from the old trial)?
The glacial-interglacial temperature data from the past 400,000 years shows each of the previous four interglacials significantly warmer than at present. In fact, a careful analysis of the ice cores from East Antarctica, published as a letter in Nature, shows that maximum temperatures from previous interglacials were at least 6C/10F warmer than present-day temperatures, with CO2 values then about 280 PPM, and todays values near 400 PPM. Leaving one to ask: if CO2 is such a strong cause of warming, why is it so cold today?
29 This is the position EPA argued in its enforcement action against the Tennessee Valley Authority in September 2000.
Fourth, California's high residential property prices tilt the housing market towards smaller homes and apartments and encourage more people to live in the same household.
Paul Homewood assisted me in re-analyzing the data by showing how to adjust a GSTA data set to the same baseline/reference period, for which I am very thankful. In addition, it needs to be restated here that this is not an exercise to determine which dataset is better than the other, it is merely assessing how (well) each compare and if there are temporal trends in the difference between each data set.
So now the greens want to emphasize getting back to the "grassroots," which, the story explains, means principally lobbying against new power plants before state public utility commissions. Of course, the last time EDF embarked on a "grassroots" program, they got caught "astroturfing"they paid people to phone elected officials. (By the way, can EDF please settle on what they want to be called? For a while, they dropped the "F', and went by just "ED." But as the Sourcewatch.com entry on EDF explains: "Environmental Defense Fund was recently known as "Environmental Defense' or "ED' before changing its name back to its original name, EDF, when the new acronym ED became synonymous with a medical condition." Apparently the marketing geniuses at EDF didn't contemplate the ignominious face plant of the AYDS Diet Plan back in the early 1980s. Where is Evelyn Waugh when you need him?)
The most prominent of these are the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO).
The models attempt to simulate a three-dimensional atmosphere, but there is virtually no data above the surface. The modelers think we are foolish enough to believe the argument that more layers in the model will solve the problem, but it doesn??t matter if you have no data.
In any given second, the Earth absorbs 1.22 x 1017Joules of light energy from the Sun. This is calculated with the Stefan-Boltzmann equation for the Sun, factored for the distance to the Earth and the Earths cross-sectional area, and its albedo.
The authors write that "climate change is likely to produce more extreme precipitation events," citing Allan and Soden (2008); and they say that "for the Mediterranean basin, several studies indicate a possible amplification of precipitation extremes associated with a decrease of precipitation totals (Gao et al ., 2006; Giorgi and Lionello, 2008)," which "could lead to an increased probability of occurrence of events inducing both floods and droughts (Gao et al ., 2006)." So what has happened in this regard over the past half-century, in response to the supposedly unprecedented global warming that climate alarmists contend has occurred as a result of steadily rising anthropogenic CO 2 emissions?
NOAA data shows that major (category 3-5) hurricanes hit the US about half as often as they did eighty years ago. They used to hit the US about once per year, but now hit about once every other year. The last one to hit the US was hurricane Wilma in 2005.
However, Pederson refused to answer the second part of my question on Jones's comment about possible cooling.
CEI convinced the Bush Administration not to declare carbon dioxide a pollutant. We could all breath a bit easier after that.
So with this historical peak in climate heating CO2 air pollution, why have not actual earth temperatures risen accordingly?
I'm still in the process of reading your articles about corals and CO2, but I long ago understood that the record of paleoclimate history demonstrates that very high atmospheric CO2 and temperature levels have occured in the past and it did not result in coral extinctions.
Here's a reality check: During the same decade that Mr. Gore and the IPCC dominated the environmental debate, global carbon-dioxide emissions rose by 28.5%.
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CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Energy Policy Myron Ebell on the costs of Sen. Bingaman's latest greenhouse gas proposal:
Finance & Investment: Much of Bush's agenda, from Social Security reform to continued economic recovery, hinges on a vibrant stock market in which entrepreneurs having access to capital. This is threatened by regulations and laws like Sarbanes-Oxley.
Vikings farmed southern Greenland 900 years ago during the Medieval Warm Period, but the climate is much too cold now to support farming.
Perhaps President Obama can have a vision that imparts wisdom and he reverses his job-killing and nation humbling energy policies. In the future President Obama can truly say, "yes, we did."
. Weitzman argues that when there is uncertainty about future discount rates, the lowest discount rate is the appropriate rate for "the far-distant future." In practice this has led to the case for using declining discount rates (DDRs). That is, the farther in the future a cost is incurred or a benefit is received the lower should be the discount rate.
The Administration's upside-down approach to job creation isn't limited to the Green Jobs mirage. In his opening remarks at the jobs summit, Obama once again hailed Cash for Clunkers as a success the Administration should build on for future job creation. The program was a "success" inasmuch as the government successfully got consumers to accept $3 billion in free money. It was not a cost-effective economic growth or job creation measure - in fact, Edmunds.com estimates that it cost taxpayers $24,000 for every new car sale generated.
There will be a need for a trial, in this case a Royal Commission with terms of reference which will allow it to bring to light the full story of how this once respected organisation betrayed the principles on which it was founded by Ian Clunies Ross in the 1940s and 1950s. As his book demonstrates, Bob Carter will be an invaluable witness at this Royal Commission.
(c) Concerning Heartlands financial health, weve raised more money since the Fakegate incident than in the previous 11 months, and are on track to double our income this year. Weve doubled the number of current donors since February. With only one exception so far, the donors weve lost either didnt give in 2011 (or even in 2010) or have agreed to fund spin-off organizations we are creating, such as the R Street Institute, so the result is no net loss of our effectiveness, and actually an increase.
By the time of the 2006 NATO Riga summit, two eminent Americans argued in no uncertain terms in favor of a re-invention of the Alliance: "It is time to stop pretending that everything is fine in Brussels and Mons. NATO will never generate the political impetus and leadership to reinvent itself unless we face that truth and openly debate what this Alliance can and should become. . . . NATO leaders have thus far demonstrated neither the vision nor the political will to reinvent the Alliance."4
ps Am I suggesting Christian Churches should stop talking about their beliefs? No, I am saying Christian Churches should concentrate on the souls theyve been gifted with, rather than pontificate about the ones they are currently refuting to accept. The commandment to love ones neighbour as oneself carries no conditions.
It is highly entertaining to see people who have never even worked in, much less have run, a real business (including Obama, Clinton, and about everyone else on the DNC rostrum) express the hubris that only they know what the right industrial investment plan for the US is and that only they know how to build a major new industry. In particular, we saw last night the repetition of Obama's ridiculous made-up 5 million jobs number that I critiqued in depth several days ago .
?We certainly don?t want them strolling about the entire countryside. We want them to save land for nature by living closely .?
Spain cuts debt issuance plans in 2011:
What can you do? If you want to end dependency on oil from tyrants, want to see America and Canada prosper, want a clean environment without the propaganda and want to create a job for your unemployed neighbor at a great wage, speak up now!
Experts Reject Notion that Global Warming Is Causing More Floods
Southern Co. is the biggest beneficiary of Obama's push for loan guarantees for nuclear power plants, with an $8.3 billion guarantee in the works for a new Georgia plant.
Perception about climate change and weather patterns played a key role in determining whether a household prepares adequately for a harsh weather event. For instance, 57 percent of households believed that storms today are more intense than they were five to 10 years ago, the household is more likely to prepare when weather forecasters predict threatening weather.
Avoid Energy and Global Warming Policies that Pose Greater Risks than Global Warming
Among the environmental quality improvements highlighted in the Index are the following:
Prominent Warmists Urge Allies to Support Nuclear Power
So Republicans would do well to listen to advice even from unlikely political quarters and from the far corners of the earth. Two articles in the past week warrant attention, even though they seem to propose opposite courses.
Air quality should improve today, although I suspect there will be some more fireworks tonight, which will keep the levels above background.
Limits on U.S. Influence on Global GHG Control
The panel also noted another example of Schatten putting his name to a paper where he seemed to have little or no input. In a Hwang paper on the cloning of a dog, Schattens only contribution as co-author was to suggest that a professional photographer take the dogs picture, the panel said. Independent tests indicate Hwangs claims to have cloned a dog are true.
Sometimes people read, sometimes they listen to the radio.
They note: "As has been acknowledged by numerous scientists, the engine intake data are clearly contaminated by heat conduction from the structure, and as such, never intended for scientific use."
record than his recent predecessors on getting sub-Cabinet officials in office,
Changes in Diurnal Temperature Range and Human Mortality (10 Jul 2013)
Until you kick off a trade war. As the New Year approaches, one of Europe's more controversial greenhouse gas control policies is causing a serious case of heartburn in diplomatic circles.
Signers included 25 climate or atmospheric scientists, 23 geologists, 51 engineers, 74 physicists, and 12 economists.
So we have a model that is not very sensitive to carbon dioxide, and which appears to reproduce past temperature history. But if Stevens' aerosol estimate is correct, then it's still too sensitive.
health insurance, forced unionization, higher taxes on high earnershave the
But here's what NASA/GISS shows on their websit e for the public as the global temperature anomalies 1881-2009:
Climategate Whitewashers Squirm Like Maggots on Bishop Hill's Pin
Rather than worrying about our great-grandchildren, we should instead be worrying about our brothers and sisters. The lesson of the ERO report is that we must take measures now to ensure the power keeps flowing.
Good post from Victor Venema:Stop all harassment of all scientists now
(Revised Feb. 10, 2010. My conclusion was rushed, because I wanted to leave the office before the snowstorm suspended bus service from D.C.-area metro stops. Revisions below are in italics.)
Dear Editor: The lead editorial in the June 14 Washington Post contains several misguided statements, but the one that made me re-read a few times says, "What Congress should do is find the courage to put a price on carbon and then let the market determine how best to limit emissions."Courage has nothing to do with it. Sound science and economics--both in short supply in the debate over climate change--should dictate what Congress does or doesn't do. The Post's recommendation is the worse sort of top-down regulation masquerading as a "market" solution. Markets can determine what is worth achieving at what price, not simply attaining goals determined by politicians.Jim Eiden (jeiden@heartland.org) is legislative specialist on environment and energy issues for The Heartland Institute.
The request for removal indicates that the M6 powder has been removed from its aluminum storage containers (one tube for each round fired) and placed in tote sacks and paper containers destroying lot integrity and identification. The propellent is now in 97 bunkers stored wall-to-wall and ceiling-to-ceiling. There is no place can handle 15 million pounds of powder and other explosives. It cant be reprocessed. And, oh yes, the Army says this powder is losing stability and needs to be done away with by August.