Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Temme et al . conclude that in terms of carbon gain and whole-plant growth rate, responses to low CO 2 are, in fact, somewhat more extreme than responses to high CO 2 , the latter of which gradually diminish in magnitude as the air's CO 2 concentration rises higher and higher. Reviewed 19 February 2014
With their agricultural lands inundated for months, many households in the area also use a floating bed of compacted water hyacinths to grow vegetables, locally known as baira. These floating gardens fall and rise with the water level and can allow households to grow vegetables for consumption when the flood waters are high. Researchers from BCAS have devised ways to improve the design of such bairas to make them lighter and stay afloat for longer periods of time.
Of course, as we move forward with more EPA GHG rulemaking, it matters critically who the President is. But even if Mitt Romney is elected President, he will find it very difficult to eliminate EPA GHG regulation completely. To do so, he would have to pull the endangerment finding, which would be difficult to accomplish both legally and politically. However, the discretion that the CAA gives EPA to fashion GHG regulations, while dangerous in the wrong hands, also presents an opportunity to an EPA Administrator who wishes to have a moderate approach to GHG regulation.
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increasing net primary productivity in natural and managed woodlands that may
The Western-inspired international legal order is today under assault at the UN; at the same time, an obsolete Law of Armed Conflict is preventing the West from defending itself on the ground. As a military organization, NATO should today articulate a "Counter-Lawfare" doctrine for the sake of intellectual interoperability. As a security organization, NATO should not wait until it has become a full-fledged UN of Democracies to start elaborating a New Law of Armed Conflict adapted to the realities of post-modern warfare.38 Last but not least, the Alliance should take strategic communication more seriously and make better use of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (information) and the NATO Defense College (education).
But in that case, since all of the coal on the planet seems to be conventional coal, if we convert coal to oil, are we making conventional oil or unconventional oil? Presumably it would matter whether we converted coal to oil horizontally or vertically ...
The scientific community responded in a way that can only be described as disgraceful. In professional literature, it was complained he had no standing because he was not an earth scientist. His publisher, Cambridge University Press, was attacked with cries that the editor should be fired, and that all right-thinking scientists should shun the press. The past president of the AAAS wondered aloud how Cambridge could have ever ???published a book that so clearly could never have passed peer review.?? (But of course, the manuscript did pass peer review by three earth scientists on both sides of the Atlantic, and all recommended publication.)
Mann: Many climate scientists myself included think that a single decade is too brief to accurately measure global warming and that the IPCC was unduly influenced by this one, short-term number.
2. During the 20th century, a global warming of between 0.4C and 0.7C occurred, at a maximum rate, in the early decades of the century, of about 1.7C/century. In comparison, our best regional climate records show that over the last 10,000 years natural climate cycling has resulted in temperature highs up to at least 1C warmer than today, at rates of warming up to 2.5C/century.
As politicians from around the world prepare to meet in Paris for the latest round of climate talks, their focus should be on spreading the fracking revolution worldwide. Their goal should not be making energy more expensive. Instead, it should be making cleaner energy cheaper.
For moderate progressives, then, the very impatience and lofty ambitions that animate liberal progressives were seen to be the causes of Republican and conservative victory. Moderate progressives like Bill Clinton believed that voters would choose conservative Republicans if they were not offered a Democratic alternative that sought to modernize Roosevelt's legacy for modern times. By pledging to "end welfare as we know it" and support the people who "work hard and play by the rules," Clinton sought to place that alternative before Americans. He did, and he won.
> >> decisio-making .. I disagree. Even though there are large
By Doug MacEachern, Arizona Republic, Aug 7, 2015
Question: What are the quantitative uncertainties introduced from each step of the homogenization adjustment? Do they vary geographically?
The Skeptical Science kidz are up to their usual paid-propaganda tactics with a new post claiming that a much bigger graph is needed to show the0.09C global ocean warming over the past 55 years . Apparently, they think making a graph larger will create a bigger impact from the tiny hundredths-of-a-degree world ocean warming since 1957 , rather than adjusting the axis scale.
However climate scientists are insisting we are in the middle of the heaviest global warming maybe ever, and that the temperature will rise with at least 2-4 degrees towards the year 2100.
I am sure it's hard for you to hear these words, but there is something you can do to help. Why not sit your dad down and have a good talk to him. Tell him you want him to stop helping the big companies that are spoiling the future for you and all the other kids at school. Tell him that the family would rather have less money if he had a different job, one you could be proud of.
The Czech president, a vocal skeptic of global warming, said the United Nations should also keep out of science, including climate change. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has made fighting climate change one of his top priorities
It may seem, to some, that Australia has addressed the bushfire bureau-political chain well (especially the hats, medals, helicopters and sympathy), yet there is ongoing dispute over the best way to actually prevent destructive bushfires. Some, including most farmers and volunteer bushfire fighters, with practical bushfire experience, are in favour of simplification, by returning to something like traditional Aboriginal management, where the bush was deliberately lit at short intervals, in a mosaic pattern, so keeping fuels low, and fires mild, even in summer. Local knowledge is essential for this approach. Those in white shirts should play a supporting, not directing role. In other words, lets make fire our friend, and use fire to fight fire.
Ive been using it for a while and it looks both reliable and secure. Do NOT forget your password or you are hosed. If just using it for malware thwarts, you can use something trivial for the password (like your name, or name the file with the password Decrypt with Forgleware for example). Likely to prevent mechanical attacks, but a poor idea if a person gets on the box. I like using things like, for example, StarWars characters, but thats just me ;-) It means I have a limited set to search if I forget.
Ormisher said Fisker has delivered between 250 and 300 Fisker Karmas in the United States, and the company is nearing approval to sell the cars in Europe.
OK heres the bottom line. When Wppelmann et al. factored their measurements of land motion into the estimate of sea-level rise, they determined a global value of 1.31 0.30 mm per year compared to the 1.80.5 mm per year value given by the IPCC for the recent half century. We understand that the IPCC acknowledges a low-end value of 1.3 mm per year in their estimate, but another way to look at this article is that Wppelmann et al. just reduced observed sea-level rise by 27%! Perhaps the IPCC should reconsider whether they still have high confidence that the rate of sea level rise has in fact increased from the 19th to the 20th century.
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"This is the true U.N. agenda unmasked in this draft report," he said. Morano now runs the ClimateDepot blog, which also reported on the draft document.
Court won't put aside Facebook settlement:
CEI has been involved in the global warming debate for many years. Despite President Clinton's assertion, there is no scientific consensus on global warming. Mr. Smith and CEI work to educate the American people about the truth about global warming.
Barack Obama, in contrast, has built a top-and-bottom coalition academics and gentry liberals, blacks and Hispanics, with funding and organizational backing from taxpayer-funded public-sector unions. In 2008 Obama carried those with incomes under $50,000 and over $200,000, and lost those in between.
What is worse is that these doom mongers are so often found to be wrong and yet keep on going with their apocalyptic forecasts, rather like crazed American televangelists who predict that the Antichrist will come next Tuesday or that God will purge the land of homosexuals and then keep on making their bizarre pronouncements long after the date they said the world would end.
The three Israeli researchers write that "to the best of our knowledge, this is the first study of the reproductive responses of CAM plants to CO 2 enrichment," and they state that their experiments demonstrate "the vast potential of possible increases in the yields of CAM crops under CO 2 enrichment." Reference
The German Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel is, in accordance with New Technology, willing to increase to Stockholm from talking with Stefan Lfven. He wants to remind that Swedish Vattenfall has a responsibility for the German arbetstillfllen and stable power generation. It comes naturally coal power in Germany, which stands for 45 percent of German energifrsrjning. Sigmar Gabriel says that it makes to wind electricity generation from coal and krnkraft simultaneously.
3. CFLs can't be used with most dimmers or timers, and they don't fit in many fixtures. I've got several of those Y-shaped ceiling sockets that hold three 60-watt bulbs, but if I replace all three bulbs in a socket with CFLs, I can't fit the glass cover back on. (According to one customer service rep at Westinghouse, you shouldn't mix CFLs with incandescents in the same socket, so forget about inter-bulb harmony.)
This again illustrates the very limited value of using a global averaged surface temperature linear trend as the primary climate metric to determine the consequences of human- and natural-climate change, even if we could accurately diagnose such a quantity.
Interestingly, over the period of time that climate alarmists claim has exhibited the most extreme global warming of the past two millennia, and in spite of the fact that they have historically claimed such warming should be most evident in earth's polar regions, and that it should lead to a decrease in polar sea ice extent, just the opposite has occurred in the Southern Ocean about Antarctica.?? What is doubling damaging to their dogma is the fact that Southern Ocean sea ice extent is extremely sensitive to warming , decreasing from a 24-year-average maximum monthly value of 18.23 x 10 6 km 2 in September to a similarly-calculated minimum monthly value of 2.98 x 10 6 km 2 in February, which represents the disappearance of nearly 84% of each year's maximum sea ice cover.?? Given a little more seasonal warmth, it would disappear altogether each February.?? But it doesn't.?? It continues to slowly but surely grow in the mean. Reviewed 11 May 2005
Analysts also challenged the belief that exports would somehow damage the fledgling alternative vehicle market. "he small price increases that would result from allowing exports would have at most a marginal impact on the use of natural gas as fuel for cars and trucks," Levi wrote. "Blocking exports wouldn't push natural gas into automobilesit would mostly keep it in the ground, because there would be less incentive to extract it."
How simple, deep, and useful. More seriously, first of all, this statement doesn't accurately express the conservation law which also says that destroying the energy into nothing is impossible. Second of all, the contrived language above tells us nothing about the validity of the energy conservation law. Third of all, the law is exactly valid whenever the background or the effective laws of physics are time-translational symmetric; however, the law is violated in cosmology which helpfully allowed cosmic inflation to create the whole visible Universe out of (almost) nothing.
Heclaims that there is no dispute about CO2 trapping heat. But thats just a diversion from the real issue: CO2 sensitivity and feedbacks. Of course CO2 is a greenhouse gas. But the question is: How much warming will a doubling of CO2 lead to? Not much, or a lot? Thats what is beinghotly debated. A number of recent peer-reviewed studies and data are showing that the warming indeed will be small.
Our research has shown that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has no impact on global temperatures, or the climate.
It makes a large difference if you ask Americans to pay for a policy. Instead, Waxman-Markey will set up a marketplace for trading a new commoditycarbon creditson Wall Street while attempting to ensure that the proceeds and profits are fully redistributed, like an income tax with a 100 percent refund. The EPA's newest analysis also omits the impacts that higher energy rates engendered by Waxman-Markey will have on the economy in terms of reduced economic growth and likely job losses. Of course, the proceeds of freely allocated allowances will not be redistributed evenly, and many will not even flow to consumers, as the EPA analysis makes clear in findings that the advocates of Waxman-Markey have chosen not to advertise:
In August, New York Governor George Pataki announced a $17 million aid package to four private companies to develop wind farms in various parts of the state. But, according to Glenn Schleede, president of Energy Market & Policy Analysis, New Yorkers should be wary of the environmental claims of wind power.
It is suffocatingly warm, you can hardly breath. I was completely drenched in sweat after just 3 minutes. It is simply incomprehensible that the technical design of the ventilation system at the SeeCampus even got approved.
If low sunspot activity coincides with volcanic activity, shouldnt even more volcanic activity have occurred during the Maunder Minimum than during the Dalton Minimum?
For each Conspiracy Theory point, there is a Rational Alternative. Take the coroner who is, er, quirky. Evidence of bad acting? Or just that folks who spend their lives getting a medical degree so they can then cut up dead bodies all day are, well, a little Quirky (or even more than a little) Were the web pages with creation dates same day due to friends doing what they knew how to do as soon as they heard (rather than shadowy actions of non-grieving non-parents), and were web pages set up the day before, perhaps just a mis-set clock on the server, or even just an artifact of another time zone? (Unlikely since they are so close to GMT, so much of the world is running later, not earlier).
Despite my inconspicuous consumption, I have an enormous carbon footprint. Indeed my carbon footprint is so big that it rivals that of a mega-consumer like Leonardo de Caprio, or even a super-mega consumer like Al Gore.
A critical ingredient for reducing vulnerability and enhancing resilience is empowerment of marginalized groups and the associated access to resources.
Bratton isn't alone in that opinion. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Police Foundation, Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police, Major Cities Chiefs' Association, and other law enforcement groups oppose or are extremely critical of having local police enforce immigration laws for the same reason.
"Today we revised our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Security Overview. We're in the process of emailing every user to let you know about these changes. These updates are meant to make all our policies clearer and more transparent to you."
Smart meters are digital devices that measure electricity usage in homes and business and wirelessly transmit that information to the utility for billing.
Instead, representatives at the Durban conference reportedly are still trying to figure out how and whether to extend the Kyoto protocol, whose emission requirements expire next year. Some industrial nations want a new agreement that would ask more of developing countries.
The authors also noted that the proportion of corals that bleached in the summer declined over the period of study, while the proportion of young juveniles increased, suggesting a "recovery" of the corals and that their "symbionts may be adapting to the stress."
Predictions of changes in other aspects of climate, such as precipitation and sea-level rise, are even more uncertain than the projections of global temperature.
Hrmed opens me the trees from all sorts of climate discussions.
To date, in what Norby and Iversen describe as "the longest observation period for N dynamics in a non-expanding deciduous forest exposed to elevated CO 2 ," there is no indication of nitrogen limiting, or even beginning to limit, the ability of atmospheric CO 2 enrichment to enhance tree productivity. Reference
Charles Krauthammer crossed a line. He declared the American Left totalitarian. He is correct. Totalitarianism is written into the Left's DNA. Krauthammer wrote about a left-wing petition "bearing more than 110,000 signatures delivered to the Post demanding a ban on any article questioning global warming." He concluded: "I was gratified by the show of intolerance because it perfectly illustrated my argument that the Left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation -- no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse any and all opposition. The proper word for that attitude is totalitarian" Here is some of what the Left has done in the last week or two.
"Atlantis' last flight is a sad day for those who believe in America's greatness and a happy day for those who welcome America's decline." Arthur Herman
Could Climate Science Survive a Legal Cross Examination?
Although it has been confirmed that the smoke is not harmful, we are very much part of the local community and have been as equally affected as nearby residents. It is clearly within everyones interest to ensure that the fire is put out as quickly as possible, said Paul MacLaurin, Wavins manufacturing director.
A growing body of scientists have joined Gerlich and Tscheuschner in exposing the "accepted science" underlying the greenhouse effect. Here are a few of their more damning statements:
Thus, though it is no part of their motivating intention to improve the conditions of life of others, in their own self-interest each individual must devote his efforts to serving the wants of those others as a means to achieving his own ends. And, thus, while it is no part of the individuals intention, the cumulative effect for society, Adam Smith argued, was that those goods most valued by others in society were the ones produced and offered on the market.
If ratified and implemented, the Kyoto Protocol would inaugurate an era of international eco-energy planning. Under UN auspices, industrial nations would cooperate to "decarbonize" their economies. Kyoto itself would have little effect on atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gases alleged to cause global warming. But supporters hope Kyoto will be the first of many agreements restricting mankind's use of fossil energy.
Even when a warming activist confirms the truth of what Plimer says, the Lateline reporter hears it as a denial. And what Plimer actually deduces from the drop since 1998 is also true that this is not consistent with the alarmists predictions or theory that the ever-increasing amounts of carbon dioxide emitted by man is causing ever-increasing warming.
The American Association of Physicians and Surgeons Journal announces publication of an article condemning the EPA junk science on air pollution, imagine that.
By Sonal Patel, Power Mag, Aug 12, 2015
From the BBC 2003: Britain swelters in record heat
Their analysis proved prescient. Bill Clinton, campaigning as a New Democrat, captured the White House in 1992. And Republicans finally broke through and won a majority in the House in 1994.
Cheap energy powers economies. Natural gas is more than just energy, it??s also a feedstock to all sorts of important chemical production, from nitrogen fertilizer to plastics. Pierre Gosselin has a couple relevant posts at his No Tricks Zone. 500,000 New US Jobs By 2025 Thanks To Affordable Shale Gas ??? US Gas 75% Cheaper Than In Europe notes some of the industries moving back to the US or starting from scratch thanks to cheap natural gas. It??s quite a counterpoint to his lament about companies leaving Germany and that Chemicals Industry Bosses And Labor Union Send Angela Merkel Warning Letter Over Skyrocketing Energy Prices .
Epidemiological studies are corrupted by uncontrollable "confounding factors" and thus cannot reliably identify causes and effects, or attribute all the asserted deaths to particulates. How can you separate PM2.5 particles emitted by vehicles, power plants and factories from particles due to volcanoes, forest fires, construction projects, dust storms or pollen or from cigarettes that rapidly send 1000 times more tiny particles into lungs than what EPA says is lethal if they come from other sources? It can't be done.
Texas, of course, may be an outlier. But the Maine Republican Party adopted a platform that called for the abolition of the Federal Reserve, called global warming a myth, and demanded an investigation of "collusion between government and industry" in perpetrating that myth. It also called for resistance to "efforts to create a one world government." And the Benton County, Ark., Republican Party said in its newsletter, "The 2nd Amendment means nothing unless those in power believe you would have no problem simply walking up and shooting them if they got too far out of line and stopped responding as representatives."
Never let a good crisis go to waste could have been written for Bob Brown. No depths are too low for the Greens leader, exposing his party as a bunch of hysterical ecotards, more concerned with using the Queensland floods to push their extremist environmental agenda than for the suffering of so many people as a result of this tragedy. Fortunately, he has been criticised for his comments by all sides:
Next up: the North American leaders meeting in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Sunday and Monday. This was the fifth in a series of annual meetings proposed by former U. S. president George W. Bush as part of his Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America initiative, the SPP.
I'm dreaming of a white...climate change protest. As you might have seen on the Drudge Report, a demonstration in support of cap-and-trade legislation in Annapolis ended up covered in chilly snow yesterday. Where's your global warming, now?
There are multiple factors that affect both regional and global temperatures, but the most important source of long-term temperature change is solar activity. Using data from the Norwegian Sea and multiple solar proxies, the peer-reviewed research by Sejrup et al. confirms a robust and synchronous correlation between solar activity and temperatures.
NCAR had modeled on the theory that aerosols were the cause, but not the Sun, which again, I found odd, since the only major source of radiation that can only affect the opening and closings and sizes of the Earths ozones IS the Sun.