Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
As for why the Florida Keys corals have fared so well, when climate alarmists claim "we're on the eve of destruction," Helmle et al . write that the answer could be that "massive reef-building corals are not as susceptible to declines in ?? arag as demonstrated by laboratory experiments; local processes, such as high seasonal variation in ?? arag in the Florida Keys, may be temporarily enabling these corals to maintain their historical rates of calcification; the role of ?? arag in controlling calcification is masked amidst considerable natural inter-annual variability; or the actual in situ reef-site carbonate chemistry is decoupled from the oceanic values, which could occur as a result of shifts in benthic community metabolism, mineral buffering and/or coastal biogeochemical processes."
The previous record was 58.8 inches that fell before, during and after the Blizzard of 1978. However, this time, that record was set in 17 days, not 30.'
Investigations by state governments of a company's donations and its positions on climate-change legislation are legally baseless, because any sanctions imposed on Exxon for them would obviously run afoul of the First Amendment (as newspapers like The Washington Post and USA Today have noted). As the Post's Robert Samuelson noted, Exxon is being targeted for "expressing its opinions."
These are important scientific questions which have either been poorly, or not at all, examined in climate assessments such as the IPCC and CCSP reports. Clearly, we need to move beyond such assessments that are written by individuals who are mostly evaluating their own research. Policymakers are poorly served by this inbred assessment framework by the scientific community.
Ms. Macfarlane: Polar ice, sea levels, storms, ocean acidification. I am not going to get into a discussion on this issue because there is a scientific consensus.
How to deal with a Global Warming skeptic in a cooling world
Eighty percent of world trade travels by sea, and 60 percent of the world's oil is shipped by about 4,000 tankers: "Were terrorist pirates to hijack a large bulk carrier or oil tanker, sail it into one of the chokepoints, and scuttle it to block the sea-lane, the consequences for the world economy would be severe: a spike in oil prices, an increase in the cost of shipping due to the need to use alternate routes, congestion in sea-lanes and ports, more expensive maritime insurance, and probable environmental disaster. Worse yet would be several such attacks happening simultaneously in multiple locations worldwide."30
Unsettled Science: Effects of clouds on climate still unknown
In the past, America becoming more like California might have been a good thing. If the President still believes that, he hasn't been paying attention.
In short, most AOGCMs do not simulate the spatial or intra-seasonal variation of monsoon precipitation accurately.
As usual, though, none of these shallow bloggers makes any attempt actually to verify whether what poor Abraham is saying actually has the slightest contact with reality.
Dana Joel Gattuso's op-ed in The Washington Times
With a few weeksof growth still to occur, the Arctic has blown away the previous record for ice gain this winter. This is only the third winter in history when more than 10 million km of new ice has formed.
Meanwhile the Gulf of Mexico has warmed above normal due to the southeast ridge the last 6 weeks.
On his international missions, Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), called for radical action to stave off environmental disaster.
Even without the scandal, the very idea of scientific consensus should give us pause. "Consensus," according to Merriam-Webster, means both "general agreement" and "group solidarity in sentiment and belief." That pretty much sums up the dilemma. We want to know whether a scientific consensus is based on solid evidence and sound reasoning, or social pressure and groupthink.
3) Snow: Why Britain Has Been Brought To A Standstill Again Daily Express, 3 December 2010
CLEVELAND, Feb. 16 (A.A.P.) Dr. William S. Carlson, an Arctic expert, said to-night that the Polar icecaps were melting at an astonishing and unexplained rate and were threatening to swamp seaports by raising the ocean level s.
The two-year-old Darfur conflict, stemming from the fallout of a peace deal to end the country's decades-old civil war, has driven about two million people from their villages to live in camps and killed 300,000 others.
In the oceans, there is a buffering reaction between the sea floor basalts and sea water (see below). Sea water has a local and regional variation in pH (pH 7.8 to 8.3). It should be noted that pH is a log scale and that if we are to create acid oceans, then there is not enough CO2 in fossil fuels to create oceanic acidity because most of the planets CO2 is locked up in rocks.
What strikes me is not that leftism does not work, but that when it is indulged and doesnt work, its beneficiaries scream at the unfairness of it allin the fashion that a theorist who claimed 2 plus 2 equals 5 blames the construct of mathematics because his equation is not true.
This sentiment did not trickle down to the EPA, which is less concerned with feeding the world than feeding the ethanol lobby and buying Farm Belt electoral votes. The EPA will now rule on the hunger issue post-election.
"The Supreme Court's ruling today in the American Electric Power case dealt a major blow to efforts by states to use the courts to force industry, under the federal common law of public nuisance, to limit its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The court reversed the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which had ruled litigation could go forward even though the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is in the midst of imposing emission limits.
Murry Salbys paradox and the destructive elements of the climate debate
In light of their findings, as well as those of other scientists studying the subject, Mayfield et al . say "there is now a growing body of evidence to support the notion that corals inhabiting more thermally unstable habitats outperform conspecifics from reefs characterized by more stable temperatures when exposed to elevated temperatures," citing Coles (1975), Castillo and Helmuth (2005) and Oliver and Palumbi (2011). And they report that "in other systems, provocative gene expression changes, such as the constitutive up-regulation of genes involved in thermotolerance (e.g., hsps; Heath et al ., 1993; Feder, 1996), underlie the capacity for organisms to inhabit high and/or variable temperature environments," such as has more recently been documented in corals by Barshis et al . (2013).
"Online gamblers in Australia have been visiting the three big online poker sites that the U.S. Feds seized last month for years. Poker stars, Full Tilt and Absolute Poker are no strangers to gamblers down under even though Australian authorities have had their own version of UIGEA law longer than the US has. The Interactive Gambling Act in Australia prohibits the "provision of an interactive gambling service to the citizens of Australia. But it is estimated that unregulated online casinos pull in over $1 Billion a year from hundreds of thousands of online punters and gamblers in OZ."
I must disagree. As jamspid pointed out, what on earth have Boko Haram or ISIS got to do with Bush and Blair? I doubt that most of their members have ever heard of Bush and Blair, or their doctrine. Indeed, Im not aware of what that doctrine is supposed to be. And note, a doctrine is a set of beliefs or principles quite separate from action.
Im exhausted so Im going to bed, I hope the wording is intelligible.
Is the Obama Administration Trying to Expand Federal Collective Bargaining?By Ivan Osorio
Apparently the heat of combustion of wood has changed, most likely accompanied by the a change in the weight of ducks.
Well gosh, Walsh does gorebull warbling, again. Arent we all surprised
Introduced on February 9th, 2009 the bill was subtitled, "An Act to ensure Canada assumes its responsibilities in preventing dangerous climate change." This was, of course, before Climate-gate, before Glacier-gate, before the Canadian IPCC Citizens Audit showed that fully 1/3 of the IPCC 4th Assessment Report's references were not peer-reviewed, and before the Copenhagen Climate Conference failed amid statements like the one from the head of the G77 Group, Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping, who said, " asks Africa to sign a suicide pact, an incineration pact in order to maintain the economic dominance of a few countries. It is a solution based on values, the very same values in our opinion that funnelled six million people in Europe into furnaces."
Not primarily. Laws and polices, influenced by environmentalists, are actually moving the "wild lands" closer to us. Since the "50s, only 26 percent of former farmland has been urbanized. Much of the rest has become new forest land in a phenomenon called reforestation. The share of forested land increased from 50 percent to 86 percent in New Hampshire.
Chapter 4, by Stephen MooreThe Coming Age of Abundance
Apparently that seemed to be a bit of an expansionary stretch even for EPA. And then what did they do?
Figure 2 & 3 show the latest territorial distribution of emissions, and the change over the last ten years.While emissions in the US and EU have fallen by around 8% and 14% respectively, they have sharply increased not only in China and India, but also in the Rest of the World.
What would the effect of the temperature changes be, both negative AND positive. Undoubtedly some things would be worse, while others, like longer growing seasons, would be better
The Obama administration lied to change a major foreign policy issue. Other lies are about less important but not unimportant issues. The French economist Thomas Piketty claimed that capitalism squeezes the middle and lower classes to favor the rich. Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century and other studies that followed supported that argument by relying on deceptive dataspecifically, income before taxes and transfers. Critics pointed out that the case is much weaker if income after taxes and transfers is used, as it should be. That's much closer to the receipts that people have. And the differences are large. Transfers that are not part of income before taxes amount to more than $1 billion annually. The top 20 percent of taxpayers paid 84 percent of all income taxes in recent years. And the derided top 1 percent paid 23.5 percent of the income tax.
At the same time, the paleoclimate data revealed average ocean temperatures that were only about 0.7 degrees Celsius, or 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit, above those of today.
is an important one. the IPCC curve needs to be improved according to
Even on a frozen planet, H2O would be much more abundant than CO2, and H2O also absorbs a much wider spectrum of LW radiation.
Well then, can we not assume that if the 22-year cycles have an impact, also the 78-year, 210-year, and 1000-year solar activitycycles must have a significantcorrelation with the earths climate too? Already there are dozens of proxy records showing that this is precisely the case.
Climate Change, February 2014, Volume 122, Issue 3, pp 447-458
The Reynolds OI.v2 sea surface temperature data presented in this post is available through the NOAA NOMADS website , or through the KNMI Climate Explorer .
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Technology Analyst Peter Suderman on regulation of social networking websites:
What is interesting is that the primary reason for this is not skepticism on global warming per se, even though many recognize that there are more things in heaven and earth than in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. What drove a growing number of people, and not just in the center-right coalition, to become dubious about the EU road to climate serfdom is the acknowledgment that the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and the other political tools aimed at cutting emissions would produce negligible environmental benefits, if any. However, they would have a significant cost for the Italian economy, and even more concerning they entail a major restructuring of the EU structure, with the creation of an ad hoc bureaucracy that has a vested interest in keeping the alarms on, instead of promoting a fair assessment of costs and benefits of the proposed policies.
"But this jet stream is also bringing dry air from eastern Africa right up into Russia and this continuous heatwave is allowing the wildfires to build."
Liu et al . report that "overall, the total Antarctic sea ice extent (the cumulative area of grid boxes covering at least 15% ice concentrations) has shown an increasing trend (~4,801 km 2 /yr)." In addition, they find that "the total Antarctic sea ice area (the cumulative area of the ocean actually covered by at least 15% ice concentrations) has increased significantly by ~13,295 km 2 /yr, exceeding the 95% confidence level," noting that "the upward trends in the total ice extent and area are robust for different cutoffs of 15, 20, and 30% ice concentrations (used to define the ice extent and area)." What it means
Under the Data Quality Act, material which is considered "influential scientific information"--in other words, is likely to influence public policy or private sector decisions--is also subject to the scrutiny of scientific validation. The National Assessment on Climate Change (2000) and EPA's Climate Action Report 2002 base their analyses of the potential impacts of climate change on two computer models that are incapable of providing reliable predictions. Efforts to validate these two models actually exposed them as less capable at predicting climate impacts than a table of random numbers. The law prohibits this.
Nonetheless, although it's true that the treaty won't be ratified any time soon, it can be kept on hold in the Oval Office. A number of other treaties are likewise waiting in the West Wing: the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the Law of the Sea Convention, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the Basel Convention on Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes. Clinton could start implementing Kyoto surreptitiously. He could use the Clean Air Actparticulate matter/ozone standards promulgated by the EPA last year. Other regulations can be brought into play, requiring sharp increases in fuel efficiency for automobiles. Appliance standards can be ratcheted upward. The alternative energy subsidies doled out at the time of the 1970s energy crisis will be back with us. Five billion dollars in tax breaks and subsidies are planned to promote solar power, electric cars, wind power, and so on.
There are too many coincidences here that a sane homeowner wouldn't expect if the "experts" were real independent experts who were giving him a pure professional analysis.
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When I started to do this, I focused on American voters. But I soon realized that working-class voters exhibit similar traits in other countries as well. Ask an American working-class voter why he supports Democrats, and he or she is likely to say it's because Democrats support "the little guy." Reading about English voters in Claire Berlinski's biography of Margaret Thatcher, There Is No Alternative, I found the exact same phrase used by English miners to describe their support for Labour. When I found the same phrase being used by Australian working-class voters to describe their attraction to the Australian Labour Party, I decided I needed to learn more.
June 20, 2014. Princeton, New Jersey. Recently climate scientists here at the ???Center for the Study of Earth and Moon?? have discovered a dramatic warming effect on the Earth??s climate, which is likely to be caused by the orbit of the moon around the earth. It is estimated that up to 18% of the warming of the earth??s atmosphere and oceans observed in recent years, could be caused by moon and its power for reflecting heat-causing photons upon the earth and creating the tides.
The system will be operating below the marginal capacity needed to ensure supply rellability at all times. In other words, in peak periods like heat waves, there won't be enough electricity to go around. Blackouts will inevitably result
The press release is about the Velarde et al. (2015) paper Warm oceanographic anomalies and fishing pressure drive seabird nesting north . The abstract reads:
3. In the first half of the sample period from 1954 to 1983, there were nine years when there were more than 60 violent tornadoes, and the annual average was 52 during that period. In contrast, in the second half of the sample from 1984 to 2012 there were only two years when there were more than 60 violent tornadoes, and the annual average was only 37.6.
Rex Murphy slandered for stating a fact: the planet is cooling
The other day in the Herald , Mr Chris Barton took up the topic of global warming in an article headed Climate debate adrift on rising tide of lunacy .
(4) The return of a nuclear industry that will prosper on State guarantees and produce large amounts of radioactive garbage nobody has found as yet a good way to dispose of
That "all adult citizens should have the legal right to conscientiously choose which vaccines are administered to themselves, or their minor children, without penalty for refusing a vaccine.
Note alsothat the proposed 1,000 lb CO2/MWhperformance standardis substantially similar to the NSPS proposed in section 116 the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill , which would require a 50% reduction in CO2 emissions from new coal plants permitted before Jan. 2020. The Waxman-Markey legislation narrowly passed in the House but companion legislation died in the Senate. The Carbon Pollution Rule sure looks like an attempt to end-run the legislative process and enact a policy Congress has rejected .
fuel needs. "So its not making us energy independent at all, and its
With respect to the simulations of the 20 th Century, it appears the modelers did change some forcings during the mid-20 th Century flat temperature period, in an effort to force the models to show more of a decrease in temperature between 1944 and 1976. Yet the models still have difficulties simulating the rates at which global surface temperatures warmed and cooled since 1901. Compared to the weighted average of HADSST3 and CruTem4 data (used to approximate HadCRUT4 global surface temperature data), the models are still only able to simulate the rate at which global surface temperatures rose during the late 20 th Century warming period of 1976 to 2006. They still cannot simulate the rates at which global surface temperatures warmed and cooled before 1976.
* Polls show strong support for building the Keystone pipeline. In March 2012, 57 percent told Gallup the U.S. government should approve the building of the pipeline, while 29 percent thought the government shouldn't.
Anyway, can the IPCC do not hvda that we have never before seen a s rapid tempera Turkish accession. NNU an argument that falls.
On the other hand, it didn't stop him from being a jerk of a sort, either. In 1936, he warned the Soviet officials that the mathematics community was full of counter-revolutionaries in the so-called Luzin affair. People were losing jobs. He was not only an aggressive commie, he was a sort of fascist, too. During mathematical conferences, he would scream that a pro-Israel Jewish scientist named Nathan Jacobson was a mediocre mathematician and racist because he was a Zionist. Another, even better Jewish mathematician, Grigory Margulis, won the Fields medal but couldn't get the permission to leave the USSR after Pontryagin painted him as a dirty Jew, too.
I may be wrong, but in my opinion, the averaging over multiple data sets is better than relying on only one.
Davis' tactics were honed further under Dennis Rivera, who led 1199 from 1989 to 2007. Rivera grew up middle-class in Puerto Rico and moved to New York in 1977; his first job on the mainland was as an organizer for 1199. Upon being elected union president, Rivera faced two challenges. Davis's long-delayed retirement in 1982 had led to bitter factionalism among his successors. Rivera projected a calm, optimistic outlook that appealed strongly to members, and he sought to swell 1199's ranks by enlisting a variety of local unions to join it.
It's a contentious issue, to say the least. JunkScience.com has tried to slice through a little of the overblown rhetoric to see what, if any, cold, hard facts are available.
Today, Lysenko synonymous with fraud, but in Stalin's Russia his ideas became law. They reveal a scientific environment distorted by ideology, in which the ideas were literally a matter of life or death. Risked the gulag, those who disagreed with Lysenko, but this has perhaps irreparably damaged the ability of the Soviet Union to fight and win the Cold War.
I would also remind you that Germany has repeatedly cited the country alone holds 54% of the entire PV market WORLD, and in Germany they have half of the solar radiation that we have in Italy, converge with me then that the development technology of photovoltaics and still in its infancy (a apnnello today can convert only 14% -16% dellenergeia solar picks), and only by insisting on this button will come in panels with efficiencies that make absolutely no use any fossil fuel.
Bao says that he had been interested in this most intriguing episode of Earths history since Paul Hoffman, Dan Schrag and colleagues revived the Snowball Earth hypothesis in 1998.
In a Times magazine interview, on December 14, 1936, titled Science: Shift on Shift, Dr Hubble makes his opposition clear. One reason that he was not more forceful was because he was begging the government for funding of the Mount Palomar telescope. Public interest was necessary during the tight depression era federal budgets to complete this project.
The Washington Post published a blog in January making a case for cold weather during global warming.
Lying by political leaders is what we expect from totalitarians. Free societies require truth and honesty.
The vast majority of this warmingis near the Earths surface, and is due to H2O molecules, rather than CO2. Forecastsoflarge amounts ofCO2 warming, are not based on any legitimate science.
The current CAFE standard of 27.5 mpg was responsible for between 2,700 and 4,700 deaths in 1996.
The dumbest global warming story below claimed a 1000 year storm surge as proof of sea level rise and global warming. We already established that sea level isnt rising there, but there is another problem.
At this point in the solar cycle the sun should be a hive of activity, popping off flares and dotted with sunspots.
A whole chapter of Pachauri gems, here is one: I am not going to rest easy until I have articulated in every possible form the need to bring about major structural changes in economic growth and development. Thats the real issue. Climate change is just a part of it.
Above all, opponents should spotlight how Kyoto endangers poor countries. To begin with, the U.S. is the single largest market for developing country products. Any Kyoto-induced economic downturn here would wipe out billions of dollars in developing country revenues. If the U.S. economy catches a cold, developing countries will catch pneumonia.
So what are the implications for the Northwest if a strong El Nino is in place next winter?
IPCC AR5 climate model simulations are using the reconstruction from Wang, Lean, Sheeley (2005). Other recent estimates of long term solar variability: Kirova et al. 2011, Shapiro et al. 2011 .
Don't Like the Weather? Don't Blame it on Global Warming
That position follows legal actions against ExxonMobil by attorneys general from California, Massachusetts, New York, and the Virgin Islands which demand that the company turn over decades of correspondence with a lengthy fishing trip listing of other suspected climate crisis skeptics.
a Special Issue on climate change impacts in Africa and would appear early next
The EPA graph shows 2012as the hottest, when in fact it wasnt even in the top ten. They show 1936 at 50%, when in fact it was 75%.