Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
But Clinton s drift to the middle ended abruptly in 2008: as the primary campaign wore on, and a frontrunner emerged to her left, Hillary herself banked left and embraced more and more government activism. By the spring, she was championeing a series of hard-edged proposals that would leave Washington setting the price of pharmaceuticals; dictating to insurance companies what products they can sell, to whom, and at what profit; capping the amount Americans pay for health care based on their income; forcing them to buy insurance even if they don t feel it necessary (i.e., mandates); and hiking taxes to pay for it all.
The IPCC's first report on predicted surface temperatures was off by 500%. It's fifth report was off by 300% when compared to real-world data.
In a statement released on Wednesday, the group admitted "poorly substantiated estimates." More specifically, it appears to have been based on a news story in the New Scientist, a popular science journal, published in 1999. That story, in turn, was based on a short telephone interview with Syed Hasnain, a little-known Indian scientist in Delhi. And Hasnain has since admitted his assertion "speculation" unsupported by any formal research.
Despite the expenditure of over $50 billion to find evidence that man-induced greenhouse gasses are the primary cause of the current warming, not one piece of empirical evidence in support of this theory has been found.
An apples to apples comparison, shows that the summer of 1936 had five times as many record maximums as the summer of 2012.
The faint grey dashed lines represent the 1?? spread of the model-mean projections. In principle, this spread represents the structural uncertainty arising from l lack of understanding of the physics. In truth, it??s actually something of a bastard value because some models only have 1 run. So,the spread may include a large contribution from ???weather??, which is a random sort of uncertainty??. (That said, this sort of 1?? spread was shown in figure 10.4 in the AR4.)
On the same day the President was lying about warming, eight inches of snow fell in Rize, Turkey. It has fallen as well in South Africa, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia while closer to home snow fell on several cities in Idaho with cold freezes extending into Oregon. In June!
Gooding et al . report that "the relative growth (change in wet mass/initial wet mass) of juvenile P. ochraceus increased linearly with temperature from 5C to 21C," and that it also responded positively to atmospheric CO 2 enrichment. More specifically, they state that "relative to control treatments, high CO 2 alone increased relative growth by 67% over 10 weeks, while a 3C increase in temperature alone increased relative growth by 110%." They also state that increased CO 2 "had a positive but non-significant effect on sea star feeding rates, suggesting CO 2 may be acting directly at the physiological level to increase growth rates." Last of all, their data show that the percentage of calcified mass in the sea stars dropped from approximately 12% to 11% in response to atmospheric CO 2 enrichment at 12C, but that it did not decline further in response to a subsequent 3C warming at either ambient or elevated CO 2 . What it means
In blasting Republicans for delaying passage of the small-business bill, Obama proclaimed, "Small businesses are the engine of job growth, and measures to cut their taxes and make lending available should not be held hostage to partisan tactics." Yet in preparing legal briefs for the Obama administration, Kagan effectively argued that small businesses that object to a particular law or regulation as unconstitutional should be held hostage to the administrative-review process of the agency responsible for enforcing that law or regulation. According to Kagan, "regulated firms" should have no standing to bring a constitutional claim to federal courts until they "exhaust" every remedy at the regulatory agency.
By how much, measured in thousandths of degrees Celsius, will the Earths temperature be reduced through the carbon tax?
Now comes a new spat, with Japanese officials and media suggesting Chinas latest air-pollution crisis may be spreading across the East China Sea into Japan The Japanese reports drew some harsh response from China. One critic was quoted as saying: After the earthquake, Japan switched from nuclear power to coal fired power, and has been incinerating their waste. This has greatly affected Chinas environment, so one cannot criticize only China. The pollution needs to be reduced, but we cannot ignore climate change and neighboring countries.
Here's a poll. The only reason I didn't use JS-Kit polls for quite some time was that I forgot that I had to reset admin access after some time and it didn't work without it.
All these forces created a massive backlash against the Republican Party leadership. From the beginning stages of the presidential nomination process for 2016, 60 to 70 percent of Republicans in polls opted for insurgent or outsider candidates, with 20 percent or less for insiders and establishment figures. In the end, the only two viable contenders were Ted Cruz, whose calling card was calling his own leader, Mitch McConnell, a liar on the Senate floor and Donald Trump.
Energy officials Monday touted a deal to recover money loaned to a less well-known firm, Beacon Power, which currently operates a 20-megawatt flywheel storage plant in Stephentown, N.Y. The company was the second recipient of Energy Department funds to file for bankruptcy. Under a deal announced today, taxpayers are expected to recover $28.7 million of the $39.5 million in federal funds that had been loaned to the struggling firm.
"As a former research chemist now teaching middle-school science, I am concerned about the scientific ignorance underlying much of what now passes for environmental education. That is the reason I am pleased to recommend Facts, Not Fear, a concise and easy-to-use alternative resource."
In their simulations, Exponent observed that the difference in measurements between extremes of dry and wet balls was relatively small as follows:
Corrected versions will continue to be used in Millard's sixth-grade language arts curriculum, he wrote.
Several commenters retaught the scientific principle of "least significant digits." Climateers concoct 'temperature reconstructions' from bacteria fossils, ice samples, and tree rings. Translation: They're guessing. We don't know historical temperatures on a calibrated temperature scale. If you measure five samples to the nearest 5 degrees Celsius and five samples to within 0.1 degree, your conclusions can only be calculated to the nearest 5 degrees. Precise measurements are reduced to the level of the least precise data in the mix. When alarmists extrapolate from bacteria fossils or tree rings, their calculations cannot be precise.
"Propaganda Mill Marches On': "These unusually harsh winters usually are the result of heating somewhere else, most likely in areas of the world that are already hot'
Abuses are rampant throughout federal, state and local governments, as news accounts constantly attest. Incompetence, fraud and public trust violations just in the environmental arena are mind-numbing.
But to the PR experts cited by Marshall, "doublespeak" means that the world's scientists, journalists, and government agencies do not all speak about climate change with one voice.
"The Obama administration will require mortgage companies to extend more generous mortgage relief to help certain unemployed borrowers from losing their homes to foreclosure."
"The next generation of entrepreneurs will be focusing on climate change adaptation products, and in a world where billions of people face these challenges, there is a huge marketand enormous payofffor those who succeed."
Predicted historical low is -2.1m, high is 8.4m, range is 10.6m.
"In trying to overcome criticism of earlier attempts to gauge the view of earth scientists on global warming and the human impact factor, Doran and Kendall Zimmerman sought the opinion of the most complete list of earth scientists they could find, contacting more than 10,200 experts around the world listed in the 2007 edition of the American Geological Institute's Directory of Geoscience Departments.
What about renewable energy as an alternative? Consider these EU costs for various sources of electricity in cents per kilowatt-hour: nuclear 4, coal 4, natural gas 5, onshore wind 13, biomass 16 solar 56!
The murder took place on Friday, just like today. For generic two years, the probability is 1/7 that a given day occurs on the same day of the week. However, for a 50-year gap, the probability is approximately 1/3 because each of the 50 years shifts the day of the week by 1 plus 11-13 (mostly 12) from leap years (it may be just 11 because about 3/8 of the 50-year intervals include a non-leap year like 1900).
Hubbard Glacier has been advancing into Disenchantment Bay for more than 100 years, according to NASA??s Earth Observatory. In addition to its forward movement, the glacier has been thickening as well.
(I would have posted this earlier, but I didnt hear about it until today. For some reason, the national media doesnt seem to have noticed this.)
In other words, the model mean represents the central tendency of how the climate science community thinks the oceans should have warmed if they were warmed by manmade greenhouse gases, and, in the real world, the oceans only warmed at half that rate for the past 32+ years. Or to phrase it a little differently, in the models, the warming of the surface of the oceans is forced by manmade greenhouse gases, but in the real world, the ocean surfaces are obviously not as sensitive to manmade greenhouse gases as the climate science community assumes.
The record snow burying Boston this winter remains within the bounds of natural weather variability. It is weather, not climate, and neither proves, nor disproves the theory of global warming.
Renewable fuels that cost so much in land and fuel use, cant be piped, eat up space and money to pander to enviro agendas and feed the the maw of the Ag people making this bad excuse for a fuel that competes in the market for food for people.
International Law Expert Defines Ideal United States-United Nations Relationship Living with the UN: American Responsibilities and International Order
GWPF summary of the full DM report: Myth Of Arctic Meltdown: Satellite Images Show Ice Cap Thicker And Growing Back .
on Friday, January 8th, 2010 at 11:12 am and is filed under News.
Technically recoverable energy resources on these onshore and offshore lands total 1,194 billion barrels of oil and 2,150 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, Institute for Energy Research analyst Daniel Simmons noted in congressional testimony . At $100 per barrel of oil and $4 per thousand cubic feet of gas, those resources are worth $128 trillion ! Developing them could generate some $150 billion in bonuses, rents and royalties over the next ten years alone plus billions more in local, state and federal tax revenues, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Using those CBO numbers, an IER study concluded:
Despite a consumption of 90 million barrels of oil per day, the world needs more coal than ever, about 8,000 million tons per year. Most of that is used for electric power, the rest mainly for heating. Obviously, with estimated reserves many multiples of that annual consumption, the world is not going to run out of coal tomorrow. In the long run though, I think nuclear power is the way to go for electricity generation.
Hes also co-author of the IPCC reports based on his readings.
The authors would like to thank AEI research assistant Abigail Haddad for her assistance with editing, fact-checking, and calculation validation.
That the U.S. withdraw from the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, and the World Bank.
Group selection as a theory is something that is designed to support collectivist ideologies and collectivist political regimes. They exist on both sides of the political spectrum; it just seems fair to say that the extreme left-wing ones are much more widespread than their right-wing counterparts today. Nevertheless, Pinker mentions fascism as something that should be the best organization of a society if the group selection theory were right.
4. If empirical evidence indicates that the rate of sea level rise is decreasing, how does the IPCC claim that there definitively is a strong correlation between sea level rise and CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere? Doesnt the science tend to indicate that there is a lack of correlation?
Two years later, Copenhagen became the epicenter of a world-wide media frenzy as some 5,000 journalists, along with some 100 world leaders and scores of celebrities, descended on the Danish capital to witness what was billed as the best opportunity to impose a global tax or limit on carbon dioxide.
If you thought the current talk of enforced compliance with energy reduction mandates and soaring electricity prices was oppressive, you aint seen nothing yet. Especially if you live within the European Union. According to the bureaucrats in charge of EU Climate Change Policy science tells us that we have to reduce emissions of Co2 not by 20, 40, or even 60% but by a ludicrous 80-95%. Or else:
Its criteria obviously don't include a concern for accuracy or truth, or Gore wouldn't have been a co-recipient of the Prize.
Skeptics have well-justified suspicions that the official climate data keepers were ???cooking the books?? to lend whatever support they could to the highest estimates of carbon sensitivity. Around the year 2000, US Mean Temperature data was ???adjusted?? down by 0.1 to 0.2C for years prior to the 1970??s, and upwards by 0.2 to 0.3C for years after the 1970??s, increasing supposed warming by 0.3 to 0.5C.
In one section, the document calls for developed countries to help poorer countries with "finance, technology and capacity building" so they can "adapt to and mitigate climate change" while helping eliminate poverty. Another section provides that developing countries should receive an amount of money equal to the amount "developed countries spend on defense, security and warfare."
They are the four independent scientists who together advised Senator Steve Fielding during his discussions with Climate Minister Penny Wong over her proposed emissions trading bill in 2009.
Discounting is the tool used to make the comparisons and the correct rate is critical. Office of Management and Budget guidance stipulates that cost-benefit analysis should use discount rates of three and seven percent.
> >> is about +1.6 deg C above the 1961-90 average
In his paper The NIWA Seven-station Temperature Series , Dr B. Mullan notes that 238 stations currently report temperatures to NIWA, but prior to the 1930s, a lot fewer observations are available.
* Americans support prioritizing energy development (47 percent) over protecting the environment (44 percent). This is a change from previous years, when more people prioritized the environment.
The Legates piece must have been sent to loads of environment correspondents across
/s/ Enoch Jones JSC, Mgr. SE&I, Shuttle Program Office, 26 years
It is a tragedy that an alleged American nightmare of overconsumption has replaced the earlier dream of a more prosperous world. Such social pessimism stands in the way of tackling the real challenges facing humanity. That is why growth skepticism is so important to understand and challenge. It is a barrier to rediscovering the potential of human progress.
Temperature, after holding near freezing, now appears headed sharply downward.
Contrary to Schneiderman's claims of fraud, Exxon did not engage in any deception about the health risks of its products when used by consumers (the way that asbestos makers were accused of doing), or in other forms of unprotected speech. Nor did it deny basic science. What angers Schneiderman most may be that Exxon pointed out that climate-change proposals have costs, and that these costs may hamper their political viability.
Much has changed in the last century, but in all cases the key to freeing us from these strictures has been widespread, affordable energy. A permanent flow of electricity has powered an explosion in wealth that has enabled millions to livelong Uniting lives free from Crushing hardship. The condition of life is no longer nasty, brutish and short.
California's GHG intensity is about half the national average. See California's greenhouse gas inventory here: http://www.energy.ca.gov/reports/600-02-001F/2002-09-14 600-02-001F.PDF.
Nor do I agree that CRUs response demonstrated that the observations about crossdating reported in the comment were erroneous. The calculations are what they are and yielded the results that I reported. In any event, it is common ground between us that the 11th century portion of the Briffa et al 1995 chronology did not meet quality control standards for number of cores (which implies, in my opinion, that this portion of the chronology should not have been used in Jones et al 1998, of which Briffa was a coauthor. Nor, for that matter, does the 11th century portion of the recommended Polar Urals version of Briffa et al 2013 which supports the argument against Briffas decision to use an inadequate version of the Polar Urals data, rather than the comprehensive Shiyatov dataset.
Delegate authority to states for environmental review and permitting of energy projects on federal lands within their borders. The sheer size and diversity of the federal estate and the resources above and below ground are too much for distant federal bureaucracies and an overextended federal budget to manage effectively. Allowing states to regulate the energy resources on federal lands means more efficient and accountable management and frees federal resources for more pressing issues. States share the cost of maintaining federal lands and have the regulatory structures to manage federal lands within their boundaries. Short of returning land ownership to private individuals, the federal government should transfer the responsibility to the states, which would benefit from the energy sources and technologies, including renewable sources that face onerously long permitting time frames.
2. The wind-energy industry is lobbying to extend a production tax creditthe 2.2 cent-per-kilowatt-hour subsidy that has fueled the turbine-building craze over the past few years. Last year the subsidy was extended for one year, at a cost to taxpayers of $12 billion. Another one-year extension will cost an additional $6.1 billion, according to a recent estimate by the congressional Joint Tax Committee.
In honor of this celebration, on this week's RealClear Radio Hour, I interview Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist, who recounts the long, flawed history of pessimistic predictions that have been debunked time and again by humanity's forward march of progress. Also joining me on the show is Marian Tupy, editor of HumanProgress.org, who reminds us that even as Western nations have been doing the utmost to stamp out economic growth, developing countries have been on a tear catching up. Income inequality, this season's rallying cry for redistributionist demagogues, is decreasing globally as billions climb their way out of extreme poverty.
Extreme Heat: The number of 100 degree days may ???turn out to be the lowest in about 100 years of records??
Ethanol and Water Pollution. In Water Implications of Biofuels Production in the United States, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) points out that if the United States continues to expand corn-based ethanol production without new environmental protection policies, "the increase in harm to water quality could be considerable." Corn, according to the NAS, requires more fertilizers and pesticides than other food or biofuel crops. Pesticide contamination is highest in the corn belt, and nitrogen fertilizer runoff from corn already has the highest agricultural impact on the Mississippi River. In short, more corn raised for ethanol means more fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides in waterways; more low-oxygen "dead zones" from fertilizer runoff; and more local shortages in water for drinking and irrigation.
on Tuesday, December 10th, 2013 at 4:14 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.
Climate fraudsters keep telling the press that Greenland is melting down. With satellite technology, you can see that they are lying. There is a strip about 60 miles wide on the northern and western edges of the ice sheet where significant melting is occurring. The rest of the ice sheet shows very little signs of melt.
Read More: The climate drown in climate policy, Susanna Birgersson, DN 2014-03-06.
Next is canopy layer at 65 to 100 feet formed by flat-crowned trees that offer near-continuous cover over the forest. Catch most of the sun's rays, allowing only 2 to 5 percent to slip through to forest floor.
The ice is spreading out and the extent is increasing, exactly as it did in years past.
3. But DDT was once nicknamed "Double Death Twice" in the popular press. What happened to people exposed to higher than normal amounts of DDT?
I can't stand pompous fools, people who are completely dumb but who like to pretend how wonderfully smart they are. So it is not hard for you to guess that I was rather upset when I was forced to read a new preprint by David Deutsch and Chiara Marletto and the associated hype in Scientific American:
It is not just the winter, either. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data show the United States has been cooling for the past decade . Nor is it just the United States defying alarmist predictions. Global temperature data show no global warming since the late 1990s and very little global warming for the past 45 years.
The villagers have a solution. Stop air pollution and give us financial help to survive this, they say. It resonates with UN climate negotiations: stop damaging, pay for the damage.
A sampling of the international norms on which this duty of care is based includes "fairness," the "precautionary principle," "sustainability," the "principle of a high protection level," and the "prevention principle" (whatever any of those mean). "With due regard for all the above," write the Dutch judges, "the answer to the question whether or not the State is exercising due care with its current climate policy depends on whether according to objective standards the reduction measures taken by the State to prevent hazardous climate change for man and the environment are sufficient."
The tragic deaths in the Mediterranean are precisely in line with the predictions of climate security analysts, without urgent action they could herald an era of mass migration and international tension
The doom and gloom started right away. Another introductory speech, this one by host-country President Felipe Calderon, painted an approaching dire apocalypse. ?If we don?t act to prevent climate change, the cost will be much higher to reverse its effects,? claimed ?His Excellency? Calderon (the UN really refers to distinguished delegates like that). ?Approximately five to 10 percent of world GDP would have to be dedicated to alleviate the devastating changes.? Even worse: ?The disasters caused by climate change are threatening the survival of human beings,? Calderon opined. He cited a hurricane, a fire, and a drought ? phenomena that have plagued mankind for thousands of years prior to the invention of SUVs ? as evidence of his claims and the need for massive wealth redistribution and a global carbon regime. It?s for ?the children,? of course, he concluded.