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The most recent climate change documents of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations Body of scientists) project increasing frequency of extreme weather events like droughts/floods, heat waves, escalating sea level rise etc. as the earth's surface continues to warm due to increasing concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) resulting from world-wide human activity.This article summarises the present state of the global warming and climate change science and concludes that for India as a whole, climate change impacts in future would be minimal and can be sustained with suitable adaptation strategy. The article further suggests (as an adaptation strategy) more efforts to be directed towards development of operationally useful technique for seasonal prediction of monsoon rainfall which is the most important climate event for the country as a whole.
"The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) launched a new television ad Thursday blasting Nevada Republican Sharron Angle."
These leaders also thought that an attack on climate change and, more broadly, evidence-based policy analysis would fuel suspicion and demonization of not just liberal politicians but the broader liberal establishment. The conspiracy theories and over-the-top attacks on Obama and Democrats repeated regularly on cable TV news shows, talk radio, blogs, and social media were not created or directly condoned by GOP establishment leaders although they were repeated by rank-and-file lawmakers.
The result of that push has, it seems, been an increase in fossil fuels.?? For the latest on this, see Corned grief: biofuels may increase CO2 at Watts Up With That?
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He said its hard to indicate if a single weather event is linked to climate change because of the variability of weather.
The domestic coal industry has already taken a beating. The advent of cheap natural gas, which is itself creating thousands of new jobs, is one of the culprits. Another is the Obama administration. Even as Obama's EPA quietly develops new regulations on hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") that will impede the natural gas boom, it wants to further appease environmentalists by delivering a coup de grace to domestic coal use. It is a silly idea that will ultimately have no environmental benefit, but it is sure to drive up electricity costs.
This is the situation today in Northwest as well as in Northeast and Southeast Greenland. All other animals in Greenland, in the sea as well as on land, are affected by the same climatical fluctuations, which are reflected in a regular shift between Arctic and Atlantic conditions (or Continental and Atlantic) over a period of 56 to 66 years; they are more marked every second time the period culminates. The climatic situation of today, with intense movements in the drift ice in summer, is very similar to that 110-120 years ago. For the polar bear, especially in East Greenland, that means unstable living conditions, more roaming, and probably greater loss of animals by drowning in scattered drift ice off South Greenland.
The second thing Democrats should do is to accept the possibility of defeat on the floor as something short of a disaster. The biggest failing of the GOP in the 109th was an unwillingness to lose no matter what. Of course, you don't want to lose, and can't afford to lose on some basic important issues and priorities. But in other cases, amendments can be constructive or no great disaster (and in some cases, amendments the majority doesn't like can be allowed to pass and jettisoned in conference).
The following sections explain why: carbon pricing cannot succeed unless it is global; and global carbon pricing is unlikely to be achieved.
Frigid temperatures are blasting the northeast and in the Rockaway section of Queens one of the areas worst hit by Superstorm Sandy some 8,200 homes and businesses remain without power and many also living without heat are improvising, often dangerously, to stay warm.
It also became apparent that there was always a local ?reason? for the
Why now? New leadership enables a reboot of the Clean Energy Dialogue: Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy have recently won U.S. Senate confirmation, and Canada's new Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq joins Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver, who has been in his position since 2011 and is the veteran in this foursome.
This week Monbiot decided to have yet another go at me, and ? like the Fascist he is ? he decided that he would have some fun at the expense of my own disability, Graves? Disease, which causes the eyes to protrude markedly. He took pleasure in repeating another hack?s description of me as ?swivel-eyed?. Heil Hitler, George.
Excess GHG emissions are an example of a fairly common kind of market failure, a failure often called the "tragedy of the commons". It can arise when property rights allow open access to a valuable resource. Instances include open access to grazing land or fishing grounds or to oil and gas reservoirs. Open access can cause under-investment in the resource and too much consumption of it.
Because Earths atmosphere also reacts much like the ionization trail effect seen in the Wilson cloud chamber, scientists such as Svensmark have postulated that galactic cosmic rays can affect the earth by causing changes in weather and possibly long term climate. Moving at close to the speed of light, these nuclear fragments smash into air molecules hard enough to knock electrons loose. This well-documented process creates negatively and positively charged ions.
Smith, Nigel J.H. "Human Induced Landscape Changes in Amazonia," Global Land Use Change: A Perspective from the Columbian Encounter. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 1995.
With the GangesBrahmaputra delta sinking, the race is on to protect millions of people from future flooding. Quirin Schirmeier
As for thawing permafrost, Alaskan villages have been sinking into permafrost for 70 years, and the United States army has been struggling to "keep the frozen north frozen" as seen in this news item from 1946. And in 1927, an Arctic trip was ruined by "extreme heat, fires, and melting permafrost" according to The Examiner newspaper . For more newspaper clippings showing that melting permafrost has been worrisome as far back as 1880, check out this resources page maintained by Steven Goddard.
UKIP is a party that wants the UK to leave the EU and is rapidly growing both within the UK and Scotland. As Mike put it, he joined UKIP because, "European Union diktats are the route cause of this ridiculous energy policy. The only way to end this policy is to end these EU diktats. UKIP is not only the only party to have consistently opposed the senseless global warming inspired energy policy destroying the British and Scottish landscape with these bird mincers, but they are also the only party working to end this tyranny of the Euro Diktats for good."
Figure 4: Extrapolating the 1000-year and 230-year cycles 700 years into the future.
But of course who can reasonably claim that the American economy or public health is better off since the Obama regulatory machine gun started firing? Moreover, we have far more than enough regulation to ensure the safety of the public health and our economy needs far less regulation in order to return to growth.
In Die Zeits view, there is no doubt that humans are causing the climate change, and that it will be catastrophic. The science and data are clear andthe consensus is greater than ever. As far as Die Zeit is concerned, the scientific debate has long been over a survey of 928 papers from 1993 to 2003 says so, they write. Whats left now is a struggle between the good warmists and the evil industry-paid deniers who are maliciously spreading doubt. There are no real skeptic climate scientists left.In the perception of Die Zeit, its nowa struggle between David (honest climate scientists who are only doing their jobs) and Goliath (Morano leading an army of industry-funded PR mercenaries). Tragically, David is losing, Die Zeit frets.
For many folks in the lowlands of western Washington and Oregon, the day was dismal, dark, foggy, and cold. Here is an example, taken at 4 PM at the top of my building at the UW in Seattle.
First, lets settle something. The world has warmed since 1850. While there always is an error bar on nearly every statement about nature, I think there is little point in questioning this past warming. There is ice core data that suggests that the little ice age, which ended some time in the very early 19th century, was perhaps the coldest period, or one of the two or three coldest periods, in the last 5000 years (ie in nearly the entire span of human civilization). Temperatures are inevitably warming from this low point.(*1)
The other area of contention involves the human costs of particulate emissions (or its precursors) from the burning of coal for electricity. While the levels of emissions of this type of air pollution have been greatly reduced in the U.S., nevertheless, some level of emissions continue.
By John Hinderaker, Power Line, Aug 12, 2015
Put me in charge of food stamps. I'd get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho's, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job . Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I'd do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and piercings. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get tats and piercings, then get a job . Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks? You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your "home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your own place.
Looking back in 1981, the world had just barely started warming, despite years of rising CO2 levels.
The E&E; report projects: "Among the topics Inhofe would likely zero in on: EPA's rules to clamp down on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, a controversial EPA proposal to clarify the scope of the Clean Water Act, and the science underpinning federal environmental rules. EPA management could also be the topic of some oversight hearings." Wheeler added: "I think his climate work will probably be focused more on the EPA regulation."
The fact that carbon emissions are going up inexorably in spite of many projects across the globe already raises a simple question What are we getting for our money?
WELTWOCHE: The IPCC consensus is that man-made greenhouse gas CO2 leads to a warming of the climate. But this relationship is observed only over the last 150 years.
Image depicting the heating and cooling trends over and around Antarctica (1982-2003). Blue indicates cooling trends and red indicates warming trends.From NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.Data provided by Larry Stock.
And with a low-end temperature rise comes along low-end impacts. Seemingly good news for all!
Lewis said poverty, not climate change, is the largest cause of preventable illnesses and premature death. And, he said, fossil fuels have provided more energy and more food by making agriculture more efficient.
Now the fun part. Here is the predicted rainfall for the 24h ending tomorrow (Sunday) at 4 PM PST. Wow...heavy precipitation in the mountains (as much as 2-5 inches) but a very strong rain shadow from Seattle westward over the Kitsap. Only a few hundredths of an inch in some places.
The inconvenient Heartland facts that tear asunder the Democrat lies and the climate change hoax :
The National Journal states: Republicans "want nothing less than to send money to poor countries to fight climate change."
We also discussed the scenarios in which our civilization would be completely destroyed, much like the civization of the dinosaurs. The main question was whether any traces would be left for the future civilizations composed of robots or new kinds of birds. :-)
If we want to keep oil (and coal) in the ground, we need to make other forms of energy cheaper. That means nurturing technologies such as natural gas extraction. It also means promoting another technology that environmentalists love to hate: nuclear energy.
In summary, the WWF report Worlds Top 10 Rivers at Risk which is making news today, is about 20 years out of date at least with respect to the Murray River. Indeed while numbers of native fish have on average, probably declined since European settlement, with a crash in Murray Cod populations in the early 1960s, there is evidence to suggest numbers of native fish, including the Murray Cod, are now on the increase while invasive species are on the decline. So the WWF has got it all the wrong way around. Then again, they are perhaps more interested in hand-waving than river ecology.
Thanks to President Obama, we have lost another six years on the Yucca Mountain project. That fits with his refusal to permit the Keystone XL pipeline. No energy project that might actually benefit America will ever see his signature.
And for more priceless clicking fun, youll have to leave here, and transport yourself to The Daily Bayonet for Part 2 through 5 . Dont miss Part 5, theres a beautiful global hottie waiting for you.
If a particular measure is inconsistent with one of the core provisions of the GATT (e.g. Articles I, III or XI), it could still be justified under Article XX. Article XX lays out a number of specific instances in which WTO members may be exempted from GATT rules. Two exceptions are of particular relevance to the protection of the environment: paragraphs (b) and (g) of Article XX. According to these two paragraphs, WTO members may adopt policy measures that are inconsistent with GATT disciplines, but necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health (paragraph (b)), or relating to the conservation of exhaustible natural resources (paragraph (g)).
The average temperature for first 27 days of January at Indianapolis is20.4 F (-6.44 C) degrees?? the coldest for January since 1985.
The 2006 legislation underpinning the do-not-call list appears to be a hucksters dream. The process of investigating complaints and meting out penalties is dawdling along at such a leisurely pace that its hardly a deterrent to flouting the rules.
As reported by CNS News in January, "The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has released the final two volumes of a five-volume safety report that concludes that Nevada's Yucca Mountain meets all of its technical and safety requirements for the disposal of highly radioactive nuclear waste." Five volumes!
It seems crazy that one of the Patriot balls was actually a Colt ball, but the extra pressure in ball #7 requires an explanation. The idea of McNally inflating ball #7 in the washroom seems even crazier.
Under the scheme, any company or public sector organisation that consumes more than 6,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of energy a year meaning a power bill of about 500,000 must register its energy use by the end of next month. From April, firms will need to buy permits for each tonne of carbon dioxide emitted. For those using 6,000MWh, that could mean 38,000.
Dr. Hoerling contended that Dr. Hansens new paper confuses drought, caused primarily by a lack of rainfall, with heat waves.
Its a bumper edition this week, so a well padded seat and extra-large beverage is recommended.
Scientists warn us that climate change could accelerate beyond our control, threatening our survival and everything we love. We call on you to keep global temperature rise under the unacceptably dangerous level of 2 degrees C, by phasing out carbon pollution to zero. To achieve this, you must urgently forge realistic global, national and local agreements, to rapidly shift our societies and economies to 100% clean energy by 2050. Do this fairly, with support to the most vulnerable among us. Our world is worth saving and now is our moment to act. But to change everything, we need everyone. Join us.
"The petroleum geologist response is not too surprising, but the meteorologists' is very interesting," he said. "Most members of the public think meteorologists know climate, but most of them actually study very short-term phenomenon."
22 57 Fed. Reg. 32314, 32327 (July 21, 1992).
Now throw in the transcendental issue. On Sept. 11, 2001, United Flight 93 was headed for the Capitol Dome; if it had not crashed in Pennsylvania, it would have struck at around the same time as the plane that hit the Pentagon. The House was in session doing morning business; the devastation could easily have killed or incapacitated more than half the Members. With no ability to replace them until special elections months in the future, and with the Constitution explicitly requiring half the Members to do any official business, the result would have been no Congress, and the equivalent of martial law, at the most dangerous time in modern memory.
CHURCHVILLE, VAOn the 10th birthday of the UN's Millennium Development Goals, officials are lamenting that the world has made little progress in meeting them. No one should be surprised.
AMSA is now coordinating the response to a ship beset by ice about 1500nm south of Hobart. http://t.co/P4zO9RUMth http://t.co/S5ST1wgwbN
Via the FOIA request, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has learned that the Department of Energy specifically the office headed by Al Gore's company's former CEO, Cathy Zoi turned to George Soros' Center for American Progress and other wind industry lobbyists to help push Obama's wind energy proposals.
What works, say environmental pollsters and researchers, is focusing on popular solutions. Climate advocates often do this, arguing that solar and wind can reduce emissions while strengthening the economy. But when renewable energy technologies are offered as solutions to the exclusion of other low-carbon alternatives, they polarize rather than unite. One recent study, published by Yale Law School's Cultural Cognition Project, found that conservatives become less skeptical about global warming if they first read articles suggesting nuclear energy or geoengineering as solutions. Another study, in the journal Nature Climate Change in 2012, concluded that "communication should focus on how mitigation efforts can promote a better society" rather than "on the reality of climate change and averting its risks."
* SNOW ACCUMULATIONS?? 6 TO 12 INCHES OF SNOW POSSIBLE?? WITH 10TO 14 INCHES IN HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE EASTERN CATSKILLS?? BERKSHIRES AND SOUTHERN GREEN MOUNTAINS.
The European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), launched with much fanfare in 2005, is the world's first and only major mandatory global emissions trading scheme. Designed to combat climate change, it currently regulates more than 10,000 installations in the EU's energy and industrial sectors, which together are responsible for close to half of its carbon dioxide emissions and some 40 percent of the continent's total greenhouse gas emissions.
basically angling for the largest and longest operation he could get.
At ambient temperatures, the approximate 60% increase in the air's CO 2 concentration significantly increased latewood density by 27% and maximum wood density by 11%, while in the elevated-temperature treatment it significantly increased latewood density by 25% and maximum wood density by 15%. These changes led to mean overall CO 2 -induced wood density increases of 2.8% in the ambient-temperature treatment and 5.6% in the elevated-temperature treatment. What it means
It will not be an easy task. However the IPCC chooses to deal with the problem the repercussions are unpleasant. They might try to explain away the warming hiatus in some way: the in-vogue explanation is that the heat that should have been in the atmosphere has escaped, undetected, to the deep oceans. Evidence to support this idea is, however, scant at best, and going down this route is going to involve the IPCC admitting that there is much about the climate system that is not yet understood. This will be a hard act to carry off while simultaneously claiming that they are certain that mankind caused most of the recent warming.
CEI has attempted to impose a sort of "etiquette of freedom" and "chivalry of common sense" upon government. CEI debunked the genetically altered food scare. There's only one thing that's scary about foodnot having enough of it, as the hungry half of the world can tell you.
Federal judge rules political favoritism lawsuit against DOE can proceed
the number of copies isn't what measures the success ; instead, we often talk about one society in its own category and its size, wealth, or longevity etc. matters; the statistical aspect is absent
In the meantime, the natural gas boom has led to cleaner power and greater energy independence. Thats why my Administration will keep cutting red tape and speeding up new oil and gas permits. But I also want to work with this Congress to encourage the research and technology that helps natural gas burn even cleaner and protects our air and water.
The U.S. State Department released its draft report on the proposed pipeline (Full report here) concluding that the pipeline will have little impact on the climate or the environment, but building it will create a jobs bonanza.
Debunking every IPCC climate prophesy of war, pestilence, famine, drought, impacts in one line
Science has never established the cause of that 1910 to 1940 warming. If the early century warming happened without CO2, how do we know that the late century warming was caused by CO2? Various attempts have been made to explain the early century warming, for example by a change in the suns output, but the embarrassing truth is that the early century warming remains unexplained. As long as the cause of the early century warming is unexplained it is not reasonable to try to blame the late century warming exclusively or mostly on CO2.
(4) For all the hype about the bleaching events on the GBR, most of the reef did not bleach and almost all that did bleach has almost fully recovered.
Why would any sane families or nations consign their fates to such insane, perverse arrangements? The arrangements are being imposed on them, through force, fabrication and fraud.
Obama's Attorney General Says She's Considered Using An Old Law To Silence Global Warming Critics
A set of pro forma "investigations" claim to have exonerated PSU's Mann. The internal PSU inquiry with no impartial truth-seekers involved was not going to harm their grant-getting cash cow Mann; instead, it whitewashed the evidence to ensure the preferred conclusion. Professional science groups that relied upon public funding for their financial survival fell in line behind a huge Tom Sawyer campaign of "exoneration." There was no exoneration.
America Can't Afford to Be Lost in Space
Geologist: IPCC Confuses Prognoses With Facts 15-Year Climate Development No Longer Agrees With IPCC Models
Almost everyone will agree that Mr Myneni is a loon if he really expects to collect one billion of signatures. But similar loons have actually begun to influence the economic and other policies of advanced nations in the world. They have no clue about anything but they are already (mis)directing billions of dollars. Instead, they should be hermetically confined in safe rooms of psychiatric asylums.
Then, in arguably the greatest bureaucratic overreach of all time, upon claiming that carbon dioxide is a pollutant subject to regulation under its Clean Air Act, the EPA declared war on emissions from stationary sources on the premise that it causes unhealthy climate change. Try to explain that to your begonias and those rain forests that depend upon the stuff.
AUSTRALIAN diplomats have been accused of helping turn UN climate talks in Poland into groundhog day by failing to support a proposal that rich countries look to the advice of climate scientists when setting greenhouse targets.
Experts say that the Arctic will be ice-free in seven months.