Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
The NAS has come under fire for its lobbying practices. See: NAS Pres. Ralph Cicerone Turns Science Org. into political advocacy group: $6 million NAS study is used to lobby for global warming bill & Cicerone??s Shame: NAS Urges Carbon Tax, Becomes Advocacy Group ??? ???political appointees heading politicized scientific institutions that are virtually 100% dependent on gov??t funding?? MIT??s Richard Lindzen harshly rebuked NAS president Cicerone in his Congressional testimony in November 2010. Lindzen testified: ???Cicerone is saying that regardless of evidence the answer is predetermined. If government wants carbon control, that is the answer that the Academies will provide.??
Those millions and billions already struggling with malnutrition, sickness, violence, illiteracy, etc. don't have that luxury. The price of "climate protection" with its cumulative and collateral effects is bound to destroy and debilitate in great numbers, for decades and generations.
Australias antarctic runway melting. AUSTRALIAS $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a new air link to .
5. Pachauri said that Arctic temperatures would rise twice as fast as global temperatures over the next 100 years. However, he failed to point out that the Arctic was actually 1-2 Celsius degrees warmer than the present in the 1930s and early 1940s. It has become substantially cooler than it was then.
public education on the risk of global warming and implementation of sound solutions, conservation of natural resources, protection of health as affected by the environment, meaningful implementation and enforcement of the nations environmental laws, and public participation in national environmental policy debates.
But, if you assume the Trenberthian global-average value of 330 W/m2 for downwelling sky radiation, the soil cools from 80 to about 67 deg. F, a much more realistic value:
The next step in message development is coordination at both the state and the academic level. Historically, Republicans have taken advantage of think tanks as policy repositoriesa relationship, some will argue, that frayed during the Bush years. Perhaps the shrunken Republican minority on Capitol Hill will prompt a renewal of those ties. Fifteen years ago, Republicans in Congress worked with Republican governors to showcase government reforms at the state level, such as welfare reform in Wisconsin and criminal justice reform in California. Governors, it turned out, knew what they were doing. From 1990 to 1995, the number of Republican governors nationwide grew from a minority of eighteen to a majority of thirty. But after a net loss of one more governorship in the November election, the number of Republican governors is down to twenty-one, its lowest in nearly two decadesthe shallow end of an ideas pool.
The evidence does not support the anthropogenic claims of the warmers, but, in fact the evidence makes their modeling and theories problematic and wrong. Imagine that?
The two Australian researchers report that "the observed global decrease in diurnal temperature range over the period of 1951-2005 resulting from the relatively larger increase in minimum temperatures than maximum temperatures is not captured in historical experiments of CMIP5 participating models." In light of this finding, Lewis and Karoly conclude that "ubiquitous model deficiencies in cloud cover and land surface processes that impact the accurate simulation of regional minimum or maximum temperature changes" are likely responsible for the models' inability to simulate the real-world DTR observations.
Ref: Letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, dated 3-26-12, regarding a request for NASA to refrain from making unsubstantiated claims that human produced CO2 is having a catastrophic impact on climate change.
What ethanol is likely to do is lead to sharply higher food prices as less land is used to raise low-profit foods and more is used to raise high-profit biofuel crops. It is likely to increase local air pollution, water pollution, and, ironically, greenhouse gas emissions.
On the basis of what PCF have written, a global cooling scientific consensus did exist in the 1970s, if only for a few years.
Keystone XL And Two Other Things That Won't Happen In 2015
The senators noted in their letter to Mr. Clinton that his own undersecretary of state, Frank Loy, had said at the collapse of talks in the Netherlands: "Nations can only negotiate abroad what they believe they can ratify at home. The United States is not in the business of signing-up to agreements it knows it cannot fulfill. We don't make promises we can't keep."
In one of the tragedies of Sophocles, the woman Antigone seeks to give her dead brother a proper burial, but is forbidden by the king because her brother was an enemy of the state. She replies to the tyrant that there is another law higher than the states, and that she will follow it because of its divine authority. Not even the king may require anyone to violate it. Moreover, it requires not only forbearance from evil but active pursuit of the good: in this case, doing the honors for her brother.
Involves both direct (surface heating) and indirect (stratospheric influence) components
10. Obama can't afford to hand a major campaign issue to his Republican opponent. Earlier this month, Obama backed down on a proposed rules that would have dramatically tightened standards on ground-level ozone. He will approve the Keystone pipeline. Doing otherwise will hurt his chances of staying in the White House for another four years. And while he knows that some environmentalists won't be happy, he also knows that few, if any, of them will abandon him for a candidate like Rick Perry.
While it's easy to make light of such nonsense, no one should take these people lightly. They mean business. Using climate change as the pretext, they are determined to put an end to the way we have traditionally chosen the homes, where we raise our families.
Indeed, the "experts" have been unable to scientifically explain why there has been a 'hiatus' or 'pause' in global warning, let alone the cooling trends experienced in various parts of the world. That doesn't mean the scientists are not speculating as hard as possible as to why - so far, they have conjured up 7 reasons they never mentioned prior to the global warming going AWOL.
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Meanwhile, Congress and EPA are pouring tens of millions of taxpayer dollars into Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiatives, to help RGGI director Jonathan Schrag persuade states to implement increasingly restrictive fossil fuel, emission and renewable energy mandates, regardless of what Congress does and pay for his new $2.2-million loft in Manhattan.
Wisconsin's Misguided Greenhouse Gas Efforts
So I thought Id look at the CERES dataset, and see what it has to say. I started with the surface temperature question. CERES contains a calculated surface dataset that covers twelve years. But in the process, I got surprised by the results of a calculation that for some reason Id never done before. You know how the IPCC says that if the CO2 doubles, the earth will warm up by 3C? Here was the question that somehow Id never asked myself how many watts/m2 will the surface downwelling radiation (longwave + shortwave) have to increase by, if the surface temperature rises by 3C?
Welcome to the fascinating world of EPA benefit/cost analysis. Before this truck rule and the other components of the Obama climate policy were promulgated, the administration conducted an "analysis" of the "social cost of carbon" (SCC), in order to generate an estimate of the marginal externality cost of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). The problems with that analysis are legion, but the central ones are the use of global (rather than national) benefits to drive the benefit/cost comparison; the failure to apply a 7 percent discount rate to the streams of benefits and costs, despite clear direction from the Office of Management and Budget; and most important the use of ozone and particulate reductions as "co-benefits" of climate policies. The administration's estimate is about $36 per ton in 2015 ($31 per ton in 2010).
(2)In Lindzen and Choi, 2009, what was said was Thus, the small OLR feedback from ERBE might represent the absence of any OLR feedback; it might also result from the cancellation of a possible positive water vapor feedback due to increased water vapor in the upper troposphere and a possible negative iris cloud feedback involving reduced upper level cirrus clouds
The magazine article, which was written by Mark Bowen , a climber and author of two books on climate change, appeared in Climbing magazine in 2002. It quoted anecdotal evidence from climbers of retreating glaciers and the loss of ice from climbs since the 1970s.
Indeed, he not only junked the Space Shuttle, he also cut NASA's planetary sciences budget by one-fifth, and pulled funding from the proposed Constellation program for returning to the moon. More notoriously, he expanded NASA's priorities to include Muslim outreach and monitoring "climate change."
Day Laborers in LA, Nuclear Power and Corporate Finance
Murphy's column noted that temperatures in Ontario had been cool in July 2009 and he wondered why nobody had bothered to issue a global cooling alert; if the temperatures had been unusually warm, wouldn't that have been blamed on global warming? Murphy wrote:
Where is the empirical evidence for warming greater than 1.2 degrees? No one can name and explain a single paper that shows long term positive feedback that amplifies the warming, as the climate alarmists assert.
NASA orders a review of climate data after an independent researcher discovers that 1934 not 1998 as previously believed was the hottest year on record in the U.S.
Because thermometer based measurements of the climate are only about 150 years old (and are quite spotty for much of that time), when scientists set out to construct long-term estimates of temperature trends, they use what are called "proxies," such as tree-ring measurements that ostensibly reveal the temperatures that the tree experienced as it grew.
Has it got warmer since pre-1800 levels? This really depends on the time period referred to. Do they mean the Little Ice Age, when disastrously cold temperatures caused massive loss of life and untold hardship? Of course temperatures are now warmer than that desperate period in climate history. Is that what they would wish to regard as normal?
An article in Nature by Benjamin Santer bolstered that argument showing a correspondence between temperature and the presence of sulfates (sulfates reflect heat, cooling the planet). The study began in 1962 and ended in 1987. The problem with Santer's model is that it only assumed a change in the amount of warming radiation of 1.25 watts. The correct number is 2.5 watts, which when plugged into Santer's model produced more warming than models that have already been abandoned. Furthermore, when the data is run from 1958 to 1995 the correspondence disappears.
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Commercial shipping will be possible from North America to Russia or Asia over the North Pole by the middle of the century, thanks to climate change, a new study says.
By P Gosselin, No Tricks Zone, Aug 8, 2015
In those parts of the world where there has been some recession of mountain glaciers, such as the Alps, researchers are finding long-lost medieval forests, mountain passes and even an entire silver mine. Besides, the retreat of the mountain glaciers began in many places in 1880, long before we could have had any influence.
Virgin Islands AG Withdraws DC Subpoena of CEI
A NASA study suggests changing winds and currents in the Indian Ocean during the 1990s contributed to the observed warming of the ocean during that period. The findings, published in a recent issue of Geophysical Research Letters, have potential implications for long- term regional climate variability.
Over at HuffPo, the founder of DeSmogBlog tries to divert attention from the collapsing "consensus" on global warming by saying that it's all the fault of a decades-long "climate confusion campaign" waged by, among others, the Competitive Enterprise Institute. While it is nice of him to give us the credit for the good sense of the American people, his Scooby Doo-style "if it wasn't for those meddling kids" argument actually represents the real attempt to muddy the waters.
The United Kingdom (UK) joined the governments of the Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, and Poland to lobby the European Union (EU) to delay tougher emission rules for coal-fired power stations. The Financial Times reports a letter from UK environment minister Thrse Coffey warned the EU environment commissioner the "uncertain global economic climate" means new pollution regulations should not impose "a disproportionate financial cost or technical burden on industry."
Dr. Nigel Smith concludes this area by noting, "In spite of popular belief that the Amazon forest is being totally destroyed, the scale of the region and the concentrated nature of many of the development thrusts have prevented any major ecological catastrophe thus far." (Smith, "Global Land Use Change," p.240)
WASHINGTON The Global Climate and Energy Project announced last month by Stanford University is a welcome collaboration between academia and the private sector that holds the promise of shedding much-needed light on the debate on global warming.
This Malthusian nightmare never came close to occurring. To the contrary, world per-capita food production has increased by about one-third over the last generation, with further substantial increases expected. More significant, however, is that the population bomb turned out to be a wet firecracker. Long-range world population growth projections fall year-by-year as fertility rates are plummeting in rich and poor nations alike, such that even the UN Population Agency now thinks it likely that world population will peak about mid-century and then may begin to decline rapidly by the end of the century. The most pressing social problem a century from now may well be the consequences of falling populationa prospect that was unthinkable just twenty years ago.
Black and brown carbon particles increase atmospheric warming in three ways. First, they enter the minuscule water droplets that form clouds. At night, thats not an issue. But during the day, sunlight scatters around within clouds, bathing them in luminescence.
The desire to stuff complex social, political and economic phenomena into the terms of an encompassing ecological narrative overwhelms people who struggle to make sense of the world, and those who resist simpler or inconvenient explanations. And of course, those who would like to elevate themselves and the industries who finance operations like Business Green. The green story allows people selling renewable generators to appear to be saviours and planet-savers, not merely brokers of hardware. In the same way, presenting the War on Terror as a battle of civilisations as latter day Churchills against their Islamic Hitler counterparts was a hollow morality play.
Right, but it is A-OK if all taxpayers, including those who will never see a baseball game, are taxed to pay for the new stadium.
To reverse these trends, liberal progressives knew they had to control the Democratic party, and to do that they had to nominate and elect one of their own to the presidency. Thus was born the now endemic battles between the progressives and the old guard (unions and party bosses in the '80s, the DLC in the '90s and '00s) in Democratic nomination contests. The liberal progressive candidate would win educated votersthe "wine set," as Ron Brownstein has labeled themwhile the moderate progressive candidate would win the middle and working classesBrownstein's "beer set." Since beer drinkers have always outnumbered wine drinkers in Democratic primaries, the candidates who excited the most progressive elements always lostuntil Barack Obama broke the mold in 2008 by attracting African-American "beer drinkers" into the progressive camp.
Backing this idea up is Robert Schneider of the World Bank, who said deforestation rates increased as a demographic transition spread into the rain forest, but "since 1989, the demographic transition has decreased dramatically and so has the rate of deforestation." (The Dartmouth Review, "Bungle in the Jungle," Eric Hagen)
With rain wetting the soil over the past day and then being hit by a deluge that certainly was well over an inch in an hour, there were mudslides and debris flows over portions of the north Cascades, including a section of State Route 20. That road was covered with mud, rocks, and trees--in some places as deep as 25 feet. WSDOT has closed the SR 20 from mile markers 147 to 157. Take a look at some of the amazing photos provided by WSDOT personnel. You got to appreciate the folks at WSDOT, having to deal with massive slides like this and collapsing bridges on I5.
budget, puts it, when your house is on fire, you don't water the lawn.
From the prior post: Single graph demonstrates man-made CO2 is not the driver of global warming
Unfortunately at the Schwarzheide SeeCampus school in Niederlausitz, the climate systemin the school building doesnt work like the architectural models thought it would. According to the Lausitzer Rundschau:
Stratford Mountain Club spokesman Rob Needs said it was the most significant snow to fall at such low levels and so early in the winter season for several decades.
El Nio, of course, is not a hurricane, nor is it becoming more frequent or more violent. The last one began in 1997, five years before the current El Nio, which began this year. That's the average interval between El Nios. Moreover, the current El Nio is significantly less powerful than the one in 1997. Nor are hurricanes becoming more frequent or more intense.
Fan DaiDu et al looked at proxies (microfossils, sedimentary organic layers, storm deposits, tree rings, stalagmites and corals) and found there was no simple linear relationship between typhoons and temperature over the Holocene period. Basically, it??s about La Nina??s rather than degrees C. More hurricanes and typhoons occur in China, and Central and North America during La Nina years. Even though it was warmer 8000 years ago, the storms weren??t worse.
In the last part of their definition of global warming the Yale/George Mason pollsters say that ?the world?s climate may change as a result? of temperature rise.
Professor Lance Enderbee has published graphs of mean temperatures from 27 rural recording stations in Australia for 100 years from 1890 to 1990. The trend is horizontal, with mean temperature in 1990 below that for 1880. This has occurred during the century of the motor car, two world wars, and massive growth of coal burning for steel production and power generation. Rising carbon dioxide levels have had no effect on temperatures.
Other models work from the bottom up, using a mechanism that centers around the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Solar energy added during the peak of a solar cycle causes more water to evaporate from the ocean's surface. Through a long chain of changes in atmospheric and oceanic circulation, this results in fewer clouds forming in the subtropics. Fewer clouds mean more solar energy reaches the ocean, resulting in a positive feedback loop that amplifies the Sun's climate impact.
Question 1 (for Pederson): Karl Popper has written: "A theory that is not refutable by any conceivable event is not scientific." What empirical evidence would it take for you to consider the anthropogenic warming hypothesis to be refuted?
Marden Henge is the largest henge in Britain enclosing 14 hectares (Avebury encloses 11.5 and Durrington Walls encloses 12).
Spencer's report covers a wide swath of climate science topics from the factors behind global warming, to how scientists make adjustments to climate data, to the "97 percent" consensus figure often cited by politicians and environmentalists.
Senator Lieberman, on the other hand, seems to misunderstand the relationship between industrial activity and temperature. In Senate hearings earlier this year, Sen. Conrad Burns (R., Mt.) said in his statement that, "Last year, the Washington Post reported that we had emissions decreased last year . One of the reasons was a 4.4 percent reduction in manufacturing output." In his testimony that followed, Sen. Lieberman stated, "Global warming is real. 2002, the second warmest year in record, slightly cooler than the record warm year of 1998 but, as Sen. Burns indicated, for reasons that we're not happy about because manufacturing is down." Can Sen. Lieberman really believe that 2002 was only cooler than 1998 because there was a recession? Even the most extreme greenhouse theorist wouldn't argue that carbon emissions immediately affect the temperature.
This finding comes less than a week after another astonishing revelation published in the prestigious journal Nature, which reports that Antarctica's harsh desert valleys long considered a bellwether for global climate change have grown noticeably cooler since 1986. Indeed, air temperature readings taken continuously over the region indicate a significant cooling of over 1 degree Fahrenheit and this defies a worldwide land-based warming trend spanning the past 100 years.
The three researchers conclude that "at the Russian sites studied, the impact of twentieth century warming has not yet compensated fully for the mortality and range constriction caused by the cold temperatures of the Little Ice Age," and they note that "these results are similar to observations in some other northern treeline regions such as uplands in eastern Quebec and interior Labrador where Picea mariana (P. Mill.) B.S.P. and Picea glauca (Moench) Voss trees remain below their pre-Little Ice Age limits despite recent warming (Gamache and Payette,2005; Payette, 2007)," which warming has likely not yet equaled that of the MWP in either magnitude or duration or possibly even both. References
Nashville, Tennessee arrived from google.com on GORE LIED Al Gore lied about anthropogenic global warming by searching for onion al gore supreme court .
Yet the evidence to the contrary was there all along. Back in 2005 I and others reviewed the entire hurricane record, which goes back over a century, and found no increase of any kind. Yes, we sometimes get bad storms but no more frequently now than in the past. The advocates simply ignored that evidence then repeated their false claims after Hurricane Sandy last year.
Their storyline is so predictive that then may tell you that the new coupling constant is \(g a\approx 0.36\), too.
All throughout the debate there is talk of the Global Average Temperature. But at its core, that very concept is broken. An average of temperatures is a bogus concept.
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Global Warming - Frog Decline Link Is Disproven
Case Study 2. Environment Ohio: "Ohio's Steve Stivers Votes to Gut the Clean Air Act"
For some time, I have been joining the "alerts" that it's plausible that the dark matter particle could be discovered very soon and it could be great.
Indeed, the planning rule's language is an open invitation to regulatory mischief and litigation. For example, Forest Service bureaucrats are supposed to use the "best available science" in making their determinations. But the term "best available science" is left conveniently undefined. Similarly, forests are to be managed according to the "resilience to climate change," but neither "resilience" nor "climate change" is defined or explained.
I wrote this article at the request of a leading opinion journal in Australia, where I shall be on a speaking tour for three weeks from mid-January.
While Americans grapple with the Obamacare debacle and 90 million are officially unemployed according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there is another threat to our future as environmental groups like the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth continue their assault on the provision of electrical energy, the lifeblood of the nation?s economy and our ability to function at home and on the job.