Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
The paper, written in Chinese, says that there is also a "significant correlation" between solar activity over the past century and an increase in Earth's surface temperatures over the same period. The correlation between solar activity and water temperature is even higher than the correlation between solar activity and land temperature.
Narrator: Like heat-related mortality, air pollution levels have fallen as cities have warmed. U.S. air quality should keep improving regardless of climate change.
Simon, Julian L. "Disappearing Species, Deforestation and Data," Rational Readings on Environmental Concerns. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992. (ed. Lehr, Jay H.)
November to April snow extent was the highest on record this year, and has increased sharply since CO2 hit Hansens global warming tipping point of 350 PPM.
It's not just me saying this. As the Chicago Tribune reported on May 18, in 2015 "electric bills are set to be about $130 more than they are now." It went on to say that prices have already significantly risen in the heartland. To quote this article again, "Prices were higher in northern Ohio and the Mid-Atlantic region, at $357 per megawatt and $167 per megawatt respectively."
Why did they overestimate ice loss from these glaciers by 50%? The impact of rock debris that covers certain glacier tongues (4) and protects them from solar radiation (and thus from melting) was not taken into account in the previous work. Moreover, their sampling was limited to longitudinal profiles along the center of a few glaciers, which geometrically led to overestimation of ice loss.
The substantial study, by Peter Lilley MP, is the most thorough analysis of the Stern Review so far undertaken. It takes the IPCCs view of the science of global warming as given, but points out that Sterns economic conclusions contradict the views of most of the worlds leading environmental economists and even the economic conclusions of the IPCC
implement it in prose. The political discourse on foreign policy wrestles with
In fact it isnt a slur to call the farming lobby virtually irrelevant in the coal seam gas extraction debate because they are. In Australia the Crown owns mineral rights, not landholders and regardless of whether farmers lease grazing rights on surveyed government roads they have no rights to lock gates or prevent access to holders of mineral claims.
This brings us to the topic of cap-and-trade, a form of energy rationing. There's money to be made in energy rationing -- OPEC proves it! The emission permits in a cap-and-trade program are like the oil production quota in OPEC, the only difference being that they're tradable. The cap makes the permits a valuable commodity, and Waxman-Markey in the early years would distribute about 85% of all permits free of charge to various industries and interest groups.
11) Is Rising CO2 the Cause of Recent Warming? While this is theoretically possible, I think it is more likely that the warming is mostly natural. At the very least, we have no way of determining what proportion is natural versus human-caused.
27 EPA, New Source Review: Report to the President, p. 11.
And making flood insurance a federal program was a stroke of genius. That way homeowners didn't apply for it. Because you get federal government services whether you want federal government services or notInternal Revenue Service, for instance.
Hes taken the leash off the EPA to wreak havoc on industries with massively expensive, and entirely unnecessary new regulations.
As of Saturday afternoon, 31,800 customers remained without power. Duke Energy estimated that some customers in the Triad may not get their lights back until Wednesday.
record for a 100-yard dash and then flame out before ever reaching the finish line.
Hansen Forecasts 30 Degrees Warming At The Poles
a foreign country's experience: http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/pdf/Calzada%20EPW%20Testimony%...
Joe reports the shocking news that it is hot in Arizona in the summer.
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Yesterday on Saskatoon radio's John Gormley Live , Finance MInister Ralph Goodale responded in a grave, lowered voice when a caller challenged him on the just-announced assistance to the Darfur region of Sudan. She accused him of buying the vote of independant MP David Kilgour, who has been publicly demanding action in the Sudan as his price for supporting the government. Goodale told listeners that there had been a year of planning leading up to the announcement that 100 troops and another $170 million in aide were going to the Sudan. Indeed, this had been a top priority of the Liberal government for months and any suggestion that the package had been hastily arranged to secure David Kilgour's vote was ridiculous - "Clearly this plan for Darfour was not devised in the last week or two." Reuters ;
Latif saysthat half of the 0.8C of global warming weve seen since 1850 is due to natural causes.Marotzke says that ocean cycles stopped the warming over the last 12 years.
That is politics in a nutshell. Because how else are the politicians going to stay politically powerful? Or get politically powerful? Or, for that matter, get a job?
"These harmful regulations are going to drive blacks into government dependency," said Borelli, who is an African American. "By harming the fossil fuel industry, you're harming hard-working Americans."
Obama's turnout pitch to Latinos: Get out there and punish your "enemies":
Temperatures above the "pre-industrial era" in the last 450,000 years. Note that even the limit of 2.0 ??C was probably breached 8,135 years ago and 128,357 years ago, among other periods.
There were no significant steps taken toward a new global waming treaty at the April meeting in the Bonn Maritim Hotel of two ad hoc working groups of the UNFCCC parties. The official purpose of the conference was for the industrialized nations to negotiate additional obligations on the carbon dioxide reductions and their long-term co-operation with poorer countries. Two thousand delegates met in the conference centre's elegant halls. NGOs demonstrated on a pile of broken glass in the hotel's driveway as their way admonish conference participants over their recent fiasco in Copenhagen and to try launch a new run towards a Kyoto type agreement on carbon reduction.
Track between Govett and Evans Lookouts, December 9, 2007
Unfortunately, the total surface heat and water fluxes are not well observed. Normally, they are inferred from observations of other fields, such as surface temperature and winds. Consequently, the uncertainty in the observational estimate is large of the order of tens of watts per square metre for the heat flux, even in the zonal mean.
Junk Science: Climate Activists' Credibility Gap
As I mentioned earlier, I was a student at ASU in 1974 the year they had eighteen days in a row over 110 degrees .
Aus: Farmers shocked at minister's slur
At a May 6 hearing, Senator John McCain (R-Az.) vowed to seek a second vote before the end of this Congress on his bill to cap greenhouse gas emissions. McCain is the chief co-sponsor along with Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) of the Climate Stewardship Act, S. 139, which would create the infrastructure necessary to ration hydrocarbon energy.
Perhaps Idsos final conclusion should make all those who fear that global warming and increased CO2 is adding to the demise of the planet that everything is going to be OK: he claimed it is far more likely that CO2 proliferation will increase regional biodiversity and will contribute to the expansion and proliferation of animal habitats.
But skiers can enjoy the snowfall. In the Carpathians, snow does not stop almost daily. The slopes of the tourist complex Bukovel are covered by 10 -cm layer of snow. If this continues, management is optimistic and hopes this years ski season will start in the middle of November.
as individual rivalry. Says Dr. Maestripieri: "I am a Monkey-Man,
But anyone who looks at the data (shown in Figure 1) will see that no matter which caused the other, the changes in temperature from ice-age cold to interglacial warmth are about 10C while the change in CO 2 is about 100ppm. Since the late 1800s, the temperature has warmed a bit less than 1C , while the CO 2 concentration has increased by a bit less than 100ppm. In other words, the natural, historical relationship between CO 2 and temperature is about 10 times weaker than that observed over the past 100 or so years. Thus, there is no way that the temperature rise from the Little Ice Age to the present can be the cause of an atmospheric CO 2 increase of nearly 100ppmthe reasonable expectation would be about 10ppm. This line of reasoning is off by an order of magnitude.
U.S. Climate Data Reveals Past Global Warming Far Exceeds Modern Temperature Change
They balked at reducing carbon dioxide by using such methods as reforestation ("carbon sinks") and trading of emission credits between nations. Those methods would have made meeting the targets more affordable for countries such as the United States, Australia, Canada and Japan, but would have little effect on Europe, which had already rigged the rules in its favor. More important, carbon pulled out of the air through the natural action of trees has the same effect, scientifically, as carbon emissions never entering the air in the first place.
I have been following the proposed collision theory for the onset of the Younger Dryas for a number of years with considerable interest as it explains so much in a relatively straightforward fashion, if true. The academic response to the hypothesis has been, predictably, harsh and unforgiving with accusations flying back and forth as to procedures and interpretations. I did, however, enjoy one researchers claim that he could not reproduce the results reported in one peer-reviewed paper on the evidence for an impact. The impact researchers countered with the valid observation that the scornful researcher did not bother to use the same time-consuming methods they employed to extract extremely small microtectite spherules and nanodiamonds from sediments.
Tropical rainforests are found within the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, in a belt that girdles the earth. Location is between 23 1/2 degrees north and 23 1/2 south of the equator. They grow through the heart of South America, Africa, Northern Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, to name a few. (Lessons of the Rainforest, Donald Perry, p.26)
Still, if you have 12,500 to spare for the long term, the scheme looks attractive. The industry regulator Ofgem warned last week that bills could rise by 25% over the next ten years and having your own power source could help protect you from these rises. (I think a diesel generator may be a better option).
A new poll among 3,146 earth scientists found that 90 percent believe global warming is real, while 82 percent agree that human activity been a significant factor in changing mean global temperatures.
Tuesday the U.S. Government's Global Change Research Program released its latest "National Assessment" report on climate change impacts in the United States.
"A second person denied transplant coverage by Arizona under a state budget cut has died, with this death "most likely" resulting from the coverage reduction, a hospital spokeswoman said Wednesday."Economics:
The main reason, though, is that to acknowledge cooling over the past decade is to admit that the AGW hypothesis is wrong. Why? Jones provides a clue when he says that while the planet isn't warming and is actually cooling, it hasn't warmed or cooled for enough years to be "statistically significant."
Since the mid-2000s, about 9,000 megawatts of proposed wind projects were delayed or derailed because of radar issues, according to AWEA, the industry's trade group. Defense officials say they are trying to work out issues with companies and even posted an online map so companies can see if their proposals are close to radar systems.
At one time, citizens could count on their officials and candidates to either tell the truth or say nothing. Not any more. Clinton has a long record of neglecting truth. Trump seems not to care about the veracity of his statements. And the media is so much on one side that it mainly looks at the Trump gaffes and does its best to ignore Clinton's. And most serious of all, it allows the Obama administration to tell the public lies like Americans can keep their health insurance or that global warming is a coming disaster.
Saying that humans cause climate change is like saying alcohol causes babies. Sure, you might get some more, but it rather misses the point.
Not only have these disasters not occurred but the world has more food per capita, less disease and larger and cheaper energy reserves every decade.
Let us be clear about what that would mean. The electric power supply will be interrupted when it cannot meet demand. Lights will go out Offices wlll cease to function. People wlll freeze or swelter. Elderly people will die. If sustained, this situation will severely damage the economy. Jobs will be lost. Health will suffer. The poor will get poorer. Flows of money from America to the developing world will shrink.
The problem with NCARs interpretation on the ozone fluctuations were that some, like Hanson, took an immediate ideological tone to explain the ozone shifts not once mentioning the Sun or the Interplanetary Magnetic Field effect on Earths ozone layers. For some reason, there was a resistance to even mentioning the Suns effects on earth by these new climate scientists getting jobs at the science agencies. It was odd I thought.
A well-rooted scientific consensus, like a mature oak, usually needs time to emerge. Scientists around the world have to do research, publish articles, read about other research, repeat experiments (where possible), have open debates, make their data and methods available, evaluate arguments, look at the trends, and so forth, before they eventually come to agreement. When scientists rush to declare a consensus, particularly when they claim a consensus that has yet to form, this should give any reasonable person pause.
Tomorrow is the exhaustively-named House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming's hearing on high gas prices. According to Chairman Ed Markey, it would seem that the problem with high gas prices is the percentage of oil and gas that U.S. suppliers import from abroad. In the world of gas price demagoguery, of course, importing petroluem products from countries that produce them cheaper than we can isn't international commerce, it's "dependence of foreign sources of energy," which makes it sound as though we were fueling Crystal River with plutonium smuggled out of Pakistan.
Automakers who manufacture the small cars said the tests simulated a high-speed crash that rarely happens on the road. They also said the tests rehashed past insurance industry arguments against tougher fuel efficiency requirements. The institute has raised questions about whether stricter gas mileage rules, which are being developed by the government, might lead to smaller, lighter vehicles that could be less safe.
CEI Response: Davis found a net ice balance increase of 1.4cm/yr over his entire region of coverage (ROC). The East Antarctic Ice Sheet is gaining at a rate of 1.8cm/yr (over the period 1992-2003) and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is thinning at a rate of 0.9 cm/yr. He writes: "For the ROC, the 5:1 ratio in East versus West Antarctic area coverage causes slight thickening overall at a rate of 1.4 +/- 0.3 cm/yr." Thus, it is a fair assessment to say that overall, Davis found that the portion of Antarctica in his ROC has been gaining ice. Indeed, the title of Davis's article states that, "Snowfall-Driven Growth in East Antarctic Ice Sheet Mitigates Recent Sea-Level Rise." We think this is good news, but the general public seldom (or never) hears it.
News release, "U.S. Chemical Investment Linked to Shale Gas Reaches $100 Billion," American Chemistry Council, February 20, 2014, https://www.americanchemistry.com/Media/PressReleasesTranscripts/ACC-news-releases/US-Chemical-Investment-Linked-to-Shale-Gas-Reaches-100-Billion.html (accessed July 7, 2016).
Then an even higher temperature was recorded in Kent, making today the hottest day since records began about 130 years ago in 1875.
In addition, on PNAS Authors must acknowledge all funding sources supporting the work . There appears to be no such disclosure in this study.
"Most BLM projects are being held up as a result of this," said John Anderson, director of siting policy at the American Wind Energy Association. "It's definitely a mixed message and an example of one hand not knowing what the other hand is doing."
Showing that academics can cost the country more than they return, ANUs Geoff Cary posits that there is an 80% consensus (an unmeasured, meaningless statistic) that there will be more fires in Australia 60 years from now.
Ezra Levant; Calgarys Muslim mayor, Naheed Nenshi, has been held up as a symbol of the citys tolerance. Which is ironic, given his own anti-Christian bigotry in return. Last week, Nenshi ordered city police, backed up with a ridiculously large contingent of private security, to arrest a Christian pastor and five of his congregants who had the temerity to lead a Christmas service in the public atrium of Calgarys City Hall. Artur Pawlowski, lead pastor of Calgarys Street Church, had foolishly taken the mayor at his word when he described city hall as the citys living room, open to all. What Pawlowski didnt understand is that Nenshi didnt mean Christians. Nenshi meant his own co-religionists no, not Muslims, but the leftist activists who had comprised the Occupy Calgary protests for two months with Nenshis blessing. h/t Neil.
LaFramboise further found that one third of the literature reviewed and cited by the IPCC in its 2007 report wascontrary to IPCC chief publicist Ragendra Pachauris pronouncementsnot even peer-reviewed, and in many cases included citations of promotional literature devised and distributed by environmental activist organizations.
However, a belligerent Pachauri has told the Times of India he has "shed any inhibitions or feelings of cowardice. I believe this is now my opportunity to go out and do what I think is right. In the second term I may be a little more uncomfortable for people than I was in the first."
Megadroughts lasting a century or two are known to have occurred in what is now California over the last 3,500 years. Droughts of similar severity have also been implicated in the downfall of the empire of the Maya in Central America a millennium ago; the Akkadian empire (the worlds first) in Mesopotamia 4,200 years ago (that drought lasted 300 years) and several pre-Inca cultures in South America.
The Climate Change Doctrine is Part of Environmentalism, Not of Science
"This settlement shows that EPA is committed to upholding standards to protect public health, enforce the law and protect clean air," said Administrator Gina McCarthy. But it's just a "partial settlement," a "first step" in holding VW accountable for breaching "the public's trust," added DOJ Deputy AG Sally Yates.
Recognizing the brazen nature of their mandate, the Dutch judges take pains to explain why they believe they are not violating the separation of powers as it exists under Dutch law. "The task of providing legal protection from government authorities, such as the State, preeminently belongs to the domain of a judge." "With this order," they proclaim, "the court has not entered the domain of politics."
Gwen Ingram, an artist and yoga instructor, is one of many Oklahomans who have protested Keystone XL in recent weeks. The proposed project has become a poster child in the climate change debate, and Ingram said she does see a potential connection between climate change and the latest string of tornadoes to rip through her state, which boasts a long history of fossil fuel production and transport.
The title makes you instantly skeptical because sea ice isnt at its lowest even in the last two years. Of course we then have to wonder how they determined sea ice levels back 800 years.
Had these scientists found an increase in the total number of tropical cyclones in the Southern Hemisphere, they would need to hire press agents to handle the global coverage. Their work would be front page news all over the world, Time and Newsweek would be all over the story, and thousands of web pages would trumpet the results. However, they found no trends, or even downward trends, in total tropical cyclone frequency over a huge area of the planet coverage at World Climate Report is about all they can expect.
Health-care costs are soaring. Since 2000, insurance premiums have more than doubled " hitting working Americans right in the pocketbook. Median family income has dropped by a thousand dollars a year every year since the beginning of the decade. As David Frum notes in his book, Comeback, employing a typical, median worker jumped from $19.85 per hour in 2000 to $25.67 in 2006. That s a raise of more than $5 per hour, or 25%. Yet the average worker saw none of the money. Every dime " and then some " was gobbled up by the rising cost of employer-provided heath insurance. . . .
Greg Mankiw points to this Larry Summers comment on the Charlie Rose Show:
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United States, as a global power, has developed for its dealings with the rest
Before the abysmal British summers of 2007 and 2008, a series of hot summers lead to the inevitable speculation that the UK would, in the near future, have a summer climate like that of the Mediterranean. If only! This in turn fuelled speculation that the water supply shortages that the country experienced would also become a more permanent feature of British life. This has always baffled us Editors, one of whom remembers a radio program broadcast a few years ago, about the drought. What was especially baffling was that the Editor in question had, as the program began, run some water from a tap, into a kettle, to make a cup of tea, and had just walked home over a bridge crossing a river, which seemed to have burst its banks into a field. What kind of drought is happening while rivers are bursting their banks, and taps are flowing?
How delusional is the OIC today? So delusional that, at its May 2007 summit, the 56 foreign ministers agreed that the "greatest form of terrorism" in the world today is Islamophobia! The same OIC is the main force behind the election of Iran as vice-chairman of the Disarmament Commission, the presence of representatives of the worst dictatorship on the planet in the UN Human Rights Committee, not to mention the attempt, following the Danish cartoon affair, to make the UN recognize "blasphemy" as a crime.
Utility MACT: Electricity Prices will "Necessarily Skyrocket"; Jobs will be lost
The trends in the neutron count over the lastfew solar cycles strengthens the forecast of coming cooling made from projectingthe PDO and Millennial cycle temperature trends.The decline in solar activity from 1990 (Cycle 22) to the present (Cycle 24) is obvious.
But equally importantly, the comments they are making about things like quantum information are just totally wrong.
Inhofe Opening Statement Regarding Gore Testimony
In order to obtain a TCR estimate that is as independent of global climate models as possible, one should scale the aerosol component of the AR5 total forcing estimates to match the AR5 recent satellite-observation-derived mean of 0.78 W/m 2 . Putting this all together gives F = 2.03 W/m 2 and T = 0.71, which, since AR5 uses F 2xCO2 = 3.71 W/m, gives a best estimate of 1.30C for TCR. The best estimate for TCR would be 1.36C without scaling aerosol forcing to match the satellite-observation derived mean.
Kavanaugh cites several provisions that clearly link PSD permitting to NAAQS pollutants: