Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Congressman Grijalva and Senators Markey, Boxer and Whitehouse sent letters to universities, think tanks and companies, demanding detailed information on skeptics funding and activities in an attempt to destroy their funding, reputations and careers, while advancing crony climate alarm science . Equally intolerable, Democrats and the White House are blocking efforts to ensure that environmental regulations are based on honest, unbiased, transparent, replicable science that accurately reflects real-world evidence.
Contrary to speculation that tropical forests could be devastated under these conditions, forest diversity increased rapidly during this warming event. New plant species evolved much faster than old species became extinct. Pollen from the passionflower plant family and the chocolate family, among others, were found for the first time.
Finally, the above-mentioned "Your baby doesn't want it either" ad states that "pediatricians recommend milk that doesn't come from cows treated with synthetic bovine growth hormone."
In the future, 1199's power is most likely to be checked from three sources. First would be further closings of redundant hospitals, which would reduce 1199's ranks and resources. Second, some future governor might apply Cuomo's general model of labor relations to 1199. Cuomo's continuing support for 1199 is at odds with his otherwise antagonistic relations with public unions and amicable relations with private unions; 1199 is a government union in all but name. Other governors, such as Chris Christie in New Jersey and Gina Raimondo in Rhode Island, have successfully split private unions and public unions.
Yet as we have seen time and time again, with the exception of a -0.05C cooling applied for UHI (which is woefully under-represented) all ???adjustments, improvements, and fiddlings?? to data applied by NCDC and other organizations always seem to result in an increased warming trend.
But, guidance isnt entirely lacking on the climate front. There is still a general lack of evidence that shows a statistically significant relationship between anthropogenic climate change and weather-related damage (estimates of past, present, and future damages are grossly dominated by demographic changes rather than climate changes). And the rise in global temperature is poking along at a rather less-than-anticipated rate (which could mean that future rates of model-projected temperature increase are on the high side). Together, this suggests that we ought be giving a bit more credence to the left side of the Table (i.e. relatively low damages from global warming) than to the right side (i.e., higher damages).
Gore Lied has a video you should see , wherein a certain Mr. Gore is, well, skewered.
In one of the most obvious, architects, city planners, mayors and governors alike thought nothing of placing generators in the basements of hospitals and skyscrapers built in areas that are barely above sea level. Past storms have brought surges12 to 18 feet high onto Long Island, and studies have warned that a category 3 direct hit could put much of New York City and its key infrastructure under 30 feet of water. Sandy's 9-foot surges (plus five feet of high tide) flooded those basements, rendering generators useless, and leaving buildings cold and dark. Perhaps if Mayor Bloomberg had worried less about 32-oz sodas and seas that are rising a mere foot per century, he could have devoted more time to critical issues.
Obama takes over another large swath of ocean and fisherman are LIVID
This diminution effect is probably the reason there was no runaway greenhouse warming caused by CO2 in earlier eons when CO2 levels were known to be at levels of several thousands ppm v . The following simplifying diagram shows the logarithmic diminution effect using tranches of 100ppm v up to 1000ppm v and the significance of differing CO2 concentrations on the biosphere:
For a more succinct discussion, see my TCS column here: http://www.techcentralstation.com/040805B.html.
My way is physics, the Stefan Boltzmann Law of radiation intensity from all matterproportional to its temperature and emissivity.
In the IPCC view, says Page, the planet was cooler during Roman times and the medieval warm spell. Overall the temperature is headed up perhaps wildly up, according to the famous/infamous hockey stick graph.
And the ANE magazine brings some examples of planned reorganization at the VW Group whose very goal seems to be to make kodas less successful. If that were true, it would be really insane from any commercial viewpoint.
Then along came an announcement by Mr Watts last Sunday that he had documented, and had ready for publication, the proof that the U.S. temperature record had been diddled. In particular his new analysis demonstrated that the reported 1979-2008 U.S. temperature trends are spuriously doubled, with 92% of that over-estimation resulting from erroneous NOAA adjustments of well-sited stations upward . What Mr Hammer was explaining three years earlier, and for a longer period.
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But warmth and sunshine was close at hand-- you just needed to gain about 1000 ft.
Attending a speech by S. Fred Singer in Helsinki, Finland, Robert Reinstein, former chief State Department negotiator on the climate treaty under the Bush administration, confirmed that the Policymakers Summary of the IPCC report did not reflect the views of the scientists but was negotiated by international delegations. "Because of this," he stated, "the summary must be considered purely a political document, not a scientific one."
AEI Public Opinion Study: Polls on the environment, energy, global warming, and nuclear power
In the end, the most rational thing for the country to do on GHGs is for Congress to enact legislation that gets EPA out of the GHG regulatory business entirely. Peter Glaser
After some time, the homeowner would decide to hire an independent, non-governmental agency with no obvious indications of a bias and no manifest links to the strange clique of nuts that were being sent to his house so far (and with no links to the companies that produce the new wiring). And it just happens that this new agency would determine that there can't be any big fire caused by wiring in the bulk of the building and there is only one wrong power outlet in the kitchen that should be replaced for $40, besides a $10 fuse in the living room.
This week scientists from around the world leapt to the defence of the IPCC, insisting that despite the errors, which they describe as minor, the majority of the science presented in the IPCC report is sound and its conclusions are unaffected.
MR. ADLER: All right. We are getting ready to start back up again. If you folks could please take your seats.
Getting the message out to the wider world is what we do here at WUWT, happy to help.
Reuters took the hyperbole a leap further by claiming that the East Coast study shows sea levels from Cape Hatteras to Cape Cod are rising at a faster pace than anywhere on Earth. This assertion appears to be completely fabricated. The study compares global average sea-level accelerations to those on the coastlines of the continental U.S. and southernmost portion of Canada. It says nothing about any other specific locations, and an email to one of the studys authors confirms that the study does not make comparisons to anywhere on earth.
we found the effect is pretty big in the areas we analyzed.
And even if all those adjustments were right, the warming trend would still be significantly lower than was projected by the collection of climate models cited in the most recent U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
Whatever happened to the romance between the environmental lobby and natural gas?
"The Clean Air Act (CAA) provides distinct grants of authority to administer specific programs for specific purposes. It authorizes EPA to administer a national ambient air quality standards program, a hazardous air pollutant program, a stratospheric ozone prevention program, and so on. Nowhere, however, does it mention carbon dioxide or climate change prevention, except for one mention in the context of non-regulatory provisions. Moreover, the one provision mentioning carbon dioxide explicitly admonishes EPA not to infer authority for carbon dioxide pollution control requirements."
Money for Nothing - Growers Push for Carbon Cash Harvest - GLG News Agricultural production is a significant net source of carbon emissions. Reducing planted acreage in the name of climate change may further tighten food supplies and keep prices high. Climate Change Capital cuts staff in U.S., Britain | Markets | Markets News | Reuters LONDON, March 26 (Reuters) - Clean energy project investment manager Climate Change Capital said on Thursday it was reducing the headcount at its offices in the U.S. and Britain.
Guest essay by Clyde Spencer, WUWT, Aug 11, 2015
John Berlau, director of CEI's Center for Investors & Entrepreneurs and a leading advocate for relaxing mark to market rules, said "it is heartening that on this issue, Republicans and Democrats worked together to push for this common-sense free-market reform that will do much to get our economy going and could save taxpayers billions in avoiding the need for bailouts." The stock market rallied in response to the news.
America's Deadliest Natural Disaster 114 Years Ago Today
The Canadian government has announced that it will ratify the Kyoto Protocol, but will seek credit for reductions that aren't allowed under the pact. Under Kyoto, Canada must reduce its emissions to six percent below 1990 levels, meaning that it must eliminate about 240 megatons of greenhouse gas emissions per year.
Before a measurement, the state vector or the density matrix describe the state of your subjective knowledge about the physical system. Whether you call it "information" or not is up to you. But whatever you do, the meaning of the density matrix in particular is the same as the meaning of its classical counterpart, namely the probability distribution on the phase space . It's straightforward to see that the probability distribution on the classical phase space is what one may get out of the density matrix in the classical, \(\hbar\to 0\) limit, assuming that we plan to measure the observables that are coordinates on the phase space. (In the classical limit, it doesn't matter much what we plan to measure because the commutators of the observables we care about go to zero: they are proportional to \(\hbar\).)
The period since has been the quietest on record for US hurricanes, with no major (category 3-5) hurricanes.
Link to the report: Extreme weather and resilience of the global food system
Soon after the widespread blackouts of 2003, the Electric Reliability Organization was established, and it recently issued its first report. That report makes for grim reading because the nation's electric power infrastructure is on the brink of collapse.
And despite claims that global warming is now heating this land like never before, Victorias highest recorded temperature is still the 50.7C measured in Mildura 103 years ago.
A rctic sea ice poised to undergo record decline in mid-Augus t
It's well known that if man-made global warming is happening, it's happening slowly, he says, and it's probably stronger during the winter months.
"Politicians, business leaders, urban planners and academics converged on New York City Monday for a two-day symposium on the state of efforts to upgrade America's train infrastructure and make high-speed rail a reality."
The max and min of net adjustments are consistent with Euan Mearns graph safrica deltaT when flipped upside down and made back to front. It shows a difficulty of comparing adjusted, where all the data is shifted. For instance the maximum figures are dominated by Windhoek, which I looked at a couple of weeks ago . Between the raw data and the GISS Homogenised there was a 3.6 o C uniform increase. There were a number of other lesser differences that I have listed in note 3. Chart 5 shows the impact of adjusting the adjustments is on both the range of the adjustments and the pattern of the average adjustments.
Impressive though the panel was as a whole, it really was rather shabby for the scientists who surely know better to have sat there in silence while Ms. Macfarlane peddled her snake oil about a "scientific consensus." Are they worried about being excluded from the right cocktail parties? If so, that is a display of moral cowardice unworthy of serious intellectuals.
At some point, the climate became cooler and the actual trees were snapped at the stump level, then buried in the glacier's ice for centuries. Finally, the stumps were revealed as the climate returned to warmer temperatures in the rebound from the Little Ice Age.
Vice President Wayne Crews talks about where the writers of the "Pledge" should go from here.
In most fields of science, people would be laughed out of the room for making adjustments to the data which consistently support the authors well known bias. Nevertheless, we see this going on at USHCN and GISS. The effect of these adjustments is that the data is rotated counter-clockwise, as seen in video below for Laurel, Mississippi.
Whether or not the exclusion of reduced costs of existing plants are intentional, these lower costs must be considered when estimating costs of electrical power when government forces power plants to shut-down, as called for in the Administrations CCP. Though not discussed in the study, equally important are the inclusion of the costs of maintaining existing, reliable power plants or, if new capacity is added, the cost of constructing reliable power plants to serve as necessary back-up, if major sources of electricity are to come from unreliable solar and wind.
Above all, though, the Environmental Protection Agency's reason for being, for wanting to steadily expand its budget and personnel, for seeking to regulate our farms, factories, homes and energy supplies, for trying to drive entire industries into bankruptcy is its assertion that humans are causing catastrophic climate change, thereby endangering human health and welfare. The claims do not withstand scrutiny.
Where A1 is the area of ice less than one metre, A2 is the area of ice less than two metres, etc. The 2010/2008 volume ratio came out to 1.24, which means there has been approximately a 25% increase in volume over the last two years. The average thickness has increased from about 2.0 metres to 2.5 metres. That means an extra 20 inches of ice will have to melt this summer. So far, this seems unlikely with the cold Arctic temperatures over the last couple of weeks.
Rather than using an enormously complex global circulation model (or 22) to come up with a figure for climate sensitivity, Sherwood Idso does calculations from eight completely different natural experiments which all arrive at similar figures. In short, he reviewed 20 years of work to arrive at a prediction that if CO2 is doubled we will get 0.4C of warming at most , and even he admitted, it might be an overestimate. Basically by the time CO2 levels double, he says we ought expect 0 ??? 0.4C of warming, after feedbacks are taken into account. Idso started off assuming that the feedbacks were largely positive, but repeatedly found that they were negative.
Global warming is a tragedy of the commons, carbon emissions are a negative externality, and reducing CO2 in the atmosphere is a global public good. These types of problems have been well-studied by economists, and solutions to them are known. Unfortunately, these solutions require a sovereign power to enact them, and in this world there is no global power to enforce economically optimal solutions, no benevolent dictator, no organ of international government capable of superceding national sovereignty and its attendant self-interest. The international system is not cooperative ? it is best defined as anarchic and follows the Thucydidean maxim: the strong do as they can the weak suffer as they must.
Heartland Amicus Curiae Response Brief in Support of Deseret Power Electric Cooperative
In the prior chart, much of around 7000 to 8000 years ago was particularly warm, more so than now. Such was part of the Holocene Climate Optimum. Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory remarks (bolding added):
If you look at the third graph, you see that there was no warming on the Southern Hemisphere in the last 25 years even though the "global warming theory" and the corresponding models are predicting even faster rise of the tropospheric temperatures than for the surface temperatures. The decadal trend is quantitatively around 0.05 degrees which is noise whose sign can change almost instantly.
The shift is therefore 60, 61 (most likely), or 62 days which is 5,6 or 7 modulo 7. For 1963-2013, the case 62 i.e. 7 occurred. So even the same day of the week isn't too shocking the day of the week is almost as likely to agree as it is to disagree after 50 years. These two paragraphs were preemptively included to fight another conspiracy theory about the day of the week. ;-)
Ninety degree days in the US midwest occur less than half as often now as they did eightyyears ago, with 2014 being the coolest summer on record. In 1934, hot days were eighteen times more common than this year. CO2 was 310 PPM at the time.
Aim and Purpose of the Fund: The aim and purpose of the Fund is to build capacity in the understanding and management of Climate Change in Developing Countries, through Providing opportunities for young scientists from Developing Countries to under take studies That would not otherwise be possible without the the intervention of the Fund.
As importantly, this approach is also undesirable for tackling climate change. An alternative approach would involve developing technology to address what should be seen as a practical problem rather than a moral issue: investing in the large-scale use of less carbon-intensive forms of energy such as renewables and nuclear; adapting through such measures as building higher sea walls; and high technology solutions, perhaps including developing machines that suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
2. The US Weather Bureau wrote a 1922 article describing drastic Arctic warming and ice loss. In that article, the author wrote that waters aroundSpitzbergenwarmed 12C over just a few years and that ships were able to sail in open waters north of 81N. This agrees with theGISSrecord, which would seem to imply that the Arctic can and does experience significant warming unrelated to CO2. Do you believe that what we are seeing now is different from that event, and why?
"I like Leonardo DiCaprio as an actor. He seems like a great guy to have a beer with, but there is much he is not hearing from his conversations with Obama," Lewis told The Daily Signal. "He thinks only climate change is a threat, but isn't thinking about the threat of climate policy. To say we are going to bear any burden, pay any price, he doesn't realize the cure can be worse than the disease."
As an oceanographer, Id been around the world, once or twice, and I was rather convinced that I knew the factors that influenced the Earths climate. The oceans, by virtue of their enormous density and heat-storage capacity, are the dominant influence on our climate. It is the heat budget and the energy that flows into and out of the oceans that basically determines the mean temperature of the global atmosphere. These interactions, plus evaporation, are quite capable of cancelling the slight effect of man-produced CO 2 .
PepsiCo India, which received first prize in 2009 for its business response to Aids, pays Teri for a project studying water quality in a local community.
I asked Nancy Lamb, Dow's chief spokesperson, to arrange an interview with Blitz or any Dow executive to explain the background on AEA or a host of other puzzling contradictions: Dow's ties to Markey, its ownership of an LNG export facility whose benefits it extols, what appears to be the abandonment of its commitment to limiting global warming and its apparent inside/outside maneuvering on a range of issuesbut she said Dow declined.
To avert administrative disaster and a political firestorm, the EPA adopted its June 2010 Tailoring Rule which exempts all but the largest greenhouse emitters from PSD and Title V permitting. It does so by revising the "major" source applicability thresholds from 100-250 tons per year to 75,000-100,000 tons per year. In other words, to avoid a debacle of its own making, the agency effectively rewrote the statute.
"Then, from the center of the glowing ring of fairies, Magi Lune spoke. `Since the beginning of time, we have been the guardians of the forest. But we have grown lazy. We have forgotten the magic of nature.'" Dialogue from children's movie: "Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest"
This need arises since even state-of-the-art weather and climate models cannot resolve all necessary processes and scales. Stochastic parameterizations have been shownto provide more skillful weather forecasts than traditional ensemble prediction methods, at least on timescaleswhere verification data exists. In addition, they have been shown to reduce longstanding climate biases, whichplay an important role especially for climate and climate change predictions.
But it is also possible that the vegetation which will be able to grow when the ground thaws will absorb the carbon dioxide. We still know very little about this. With the knowledge we have today we cannot say for sure whether the thawing tundra will absorb or produce more greenhouse gases in the future, says Margareta Johansson.
SM: I think you'll have a hard time arguing against Alan Greenspan's record. One of the reasons we've had such spectacular growth over the last decade has been really a spectacular monetary policy. Now, there've been some errors in the last year or so that have caused too much tightening of the economy. But, for the most part, when it comes to monetary policy, you can't beat price stability. We want a policy where the dollar is as good as gold and is the world currency, and that's what's happened under Greenspan's regime. I would have to give him very high marks, although I like his record a lot more than I like his rhetoric.
At the very least, how can Pederson, with a straight face, accuse Murphy of lack of ethics, thereby slandering Murphy's journalistic reputation, when Murphy is simply basing his opinion on scientific data? In other words, at least in my opinion, Pederson slandered Murphy and owes him an apology.
This time, Mann relies on the unpublished Mann et al 2006. I presume that this will be published in Hockey Team house organ Journal of Climate.
The federal probe was closed in February, but USADA announced in June it had evidence Armstrong used banned substances and methods and encouraged their use by teammates. The agency also said it had blood tests from 2009 and 2010 that were fully consistent with blood doping.
Santorum has the benefit of never supporting emission-pinching programs, a distinction that some GOP operatives say is a valuable comparison among todays conservative electorate.
Reality is, as a Congressional Research Service report makes clear, while oil production has increased 61% on state and private lands, it has decreased 6% on federal land where the Administration has authority. Additionally, the report points out, applications to drill on federal lands take nearly twice as long to process under the Obama Administration than they did previously.
Walker's full, non-redacted subpoena reveals that the AGs intend to cast a wide net. Walker is demanding that ExxonMobil provide all climate-related documents and communications between the company and more than 100 universities, think tanks, and academics, over a 40-year period. Each named person or entityand any other contrarian who may have temporarily escaped the AGs' attentionnow faces the risk of having to fund a legal defense for having defied the "consensus." How could that prospect not have a chilling effect on speech and association?* The investigation called for by the RICO20 would do so as well.