Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
It s worth noting that the sharpest point of contention between Clinton and Obama in their now-finished race " whether people should be forced to buy health insurance " amounted to a lovers quarrel: Obama favors the idea for children, while Clinton champions it for adults, too. Even that distinction is fuzzy, though, since Obama has suggested before that he d endorse a mandate for adults eventually, should too many remain uninsured after his first term.
Belief in public order: Working-class voters rely more on the public order to provide a structure in their lives than do upper-class voters. They can't afford private security services or retreat to homes with large yards far from unruly elements. They live closer together and in closer contact with crime. Accordingly, they place a high premium on effective police and fire services and greatly respect policemen and firemen.
Date-Time	Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 09:01:06 UTC
Are E30-optimized vehicles commercially viable? The proposed Tier 3 rule provides no data on either the consumer cost of such vehicles or the fuel economy gains. Even if the lifetime fuel savings outweigh the increase in vehicle cost, that is not usually the decisive factor for most consumers, otherwise hybrid sales would be largerthan 4% of the vehicle market.
criminals in a blackout, anonymous reviewers, in the book's words,
With a r 2 of 0.00 between monthly CO2 and temperatures values, the UK climate records also confirm the legitimate dismissal of the argument that CO2 acts as a "control knob" - some type of global temperature thermostat that UN elite bureaucrats and national politicians thought they could just dial for a desired climate.
6. J. W. Zillman, Bulletin of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society 16, no. 85 (2003).
From Dan Hopey's article in The Toledo Blade:
The three researchers conclude their report by speculating that elevated atmospheric CO 2 was effective for the survival and rooting of the majority of the cutting branches "because of its promoting photosynthetic activity in plants and possible synthesis of root promoting factors." Whatever the reason, their observations certainly suggest that atmospheric CO 2 enrichment might well figure prominently in propagating commercially-important woody plants in the not-too-distant future. Reviewed 22 July 2009
Winter storms throughout southern Scandinavia were more frequent and intense during the multi-century Dark Ages Cold Period and Little Ice Age than they were during the Roman Warm Period, Medieval Warm Period and Modern Warm Period, providing strong evidence to refute the climate-alarmist contention that storminess tends to increase during periods of greater warmth. Actually, just the opposite is generally found to be true, not only here but in most other parts of the world, as may be readily appreciated by reviewing the materials we have posted in our Subject Index under the general heading of Weather Extremes (Storms) .
While we have known for some time, including through the work of Anthony Watts , that many weather stations are poorly maintained and positioned in wrong places including next to air conditioning outlets on bitumen the recent GISS saga indicates how subjective the system of compilation can be. Indeed it appears that when Australia sends data in late, rather than wait, the team in New York might be inclined to best guess based on last months pattern and climatology.
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I suggest this is what really happened: the polar bear biologists working in Svalbard earlier this year knew this bear was going to die back in April when they captured him they simply waited, with a photographer on hand, until he died. It was an orchestrated photo-op ?? How is it possible that this bear was healthy in April but dead by starvation less than 3 months later? Why was he even on land in April? Why was global warming photographer Ashley Cooper in Svalbard for 12 days in July, fortuitously available to take the bears picture?
The IPCC does not have a convincing or confident explanation for this hiatus in warming.
Restructure socialized insurance and risk mitigation for energy projects. Several government programs offer liability insurance schemes for specific industries. Proponents usually argue that these programs support industries that are vital to the national interest, but are so high-risk that they would be unprofitable without subsidies. Two examples are the $75 million liability cap for offshore oil and gas operations and the PriceAnderson Act of 1957, which provides a liability regime for the nuclear industry that extends through 2025. The free-market solution is generally to eliminate these subsidies, but given the broken tort system and increasingly onerous federal regulation, these subsidies often offset government-created risks. Any discussion of ending liability insurance subsidies should include proposals to ease the regulatory burden on the affected industry.
There are ominous signs that the Earths weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.
But what about the climate? Did it lower temperatures? Nope. Did it make any difference to global action on climate? Double Nope. Did anybody, except the twits in the Gillard government, take any notice whatsoever of the fact that New Zealand had stitched up its economy like a kipper? Nope, nope and thrice nope.
How else could this sentence lead a recent article on global warming? ?Scientists now believe that global warming is to blame for extreme cold snaps in North America during the winter months.? I suppose by this logic excessive rainfall causes droughts.
Today is the 30th 40th* anniversary of the most expensive flubbed line in history. "One small step for A man, one giant leap for mankind."
"This is a global problem," stated McGinty. "This job gets much more difficult if China and the rest of the developing nations do not become part of the solution." To make them part of the solution the administration has promised $1 billion in foreign aid.
In 2011, winter drought in eastern Chinas wheat-growing region had significant implications beyond the countrys borders. Potential crop failure due to drought led China to buy wheat on the international market and contributed to a doubling of global wheat prices; the resultant price spikes had a serious economic impact in Egypt, the worlds largest wheat importer, where bread prices tripled. Egypts geography and population combine to create a dependency on imported wheat and a subsequent exposure to external commodity factors. Bread is the staple of the Egyptian diet, and for decades bread subsidies have been used to maintain social stability.
"Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn (D) continues to pick up key endorsements in the special election race for former Rep. Jane Harman's (D-Calif.) seat."
In the meantime, global average sea surface temperatures have reportedly increased at about 3.5 times this rate, about 0.6 deg. C, based upon the HadSST2 data.
The fact that people try to escape conflict and persecution needs no explanation. One only needs to see footage from any war to see precisely that refugees are one of the most predictable consequence of war. The cause for this that Murray chooses to emphasise is is weak, theoretical and highly contestable. Murray claims that this is precisely the kind of extreme event climate security analysts from the Pentagon to the MoD to the worlds top insurance firms expect to see happen more often and with more intensity. But this is owed to the increasing tendency to attempt to frame complex social and political phenomena in natural terms, not because of any developments in rational or scientific attempts to understand the world.
Anyone who would like to join the Light Brigade and enlighten the Mall on February 17th can sign up at industrialprogress.net/lightbrigade.
In addition, the platform supports the Paris Agreement, an international agreement adopted by 195 countries that aims to keep global temperature increases to "well below" two degrees Celsius.
i) We need to know whether the Modern Warm Period has peaked or not. It seems that the recent peak late 20 th Century has passed but at a level of temperature lower than seen during the Mediaeval Warm Period. Greenland is not yet as habitable as when the Vikings first colonised it. Furthermore it is not yet 1000 years since the peak of the Mediaeval Warm Period which lasted from about 950 to 1250 AD
RSI At the start of November RSI had a peak, but it was a lower peak than the near 80 from August. Lower Highs is a downtrend.
The two researchers say their results imply that "current climate models cannot reliably predict changes in tropical precipitation extremes," noting that "inaccurate simulation of the upward velocities may explain not only the intermodal scatter in changes in tropical precipitation extremes but also the inability of models to reproduce observed interannual variability." References
2005 may go down in the record books as the warmest year on the global record. What a perfect backdrop for the international Greenhouse 2005 conference held in Melbourne over the last week. 350 delegates from science, industry and government attended for a review of climate change science, likely impacts and strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The conference saw the whos who of climate change in Australia pouring over the facts and figures and making impassioned speeches on future needs.
* Atmospheric satellite temperature trend over land (RSS MSU-LT) = 0.3 F/decade
Who Turned on the Heat? The Unsuspected Global Warming Culprit, El Nio-Southern Oscillation is intended for color versions of Kindle. It is a data-supported, not a computer model-dependent, presentation of how the Earth warmed naturally over the past 30 years. This is not some theory. This is how the satellite-based sea surface temperature and ocean heat content data accounts for the recent warming of the global oceans. Keep in mind, the oceans cover 70% of this planet. The publicly available sea surface temperature records for the global oceans contradict the assumption that manmade greenhouse gases are responsible for most of the warming over the past 30 years. Thats the time period the computer models employed as marketing tools by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) say only anthropogenic greenhouse gases could have caused the warming.
Floods : Prof. Pielke Jr. : 'Are US Floods Increasing? The Answer is Still No' -- 'A new paper out today shows flooding has not increased in U.S. over records of 85 to 127 years'
The Global Economic Recession and Montana's Energy Future
We report on a sediment record from a small lake within the subarctic wetland complex Stordalen in northernmost Sweden covering the last 1000 years. Variations in the content of minerogenic material are found to follow reconstructed variations in the activity of the Sun between the 13th and 18th centuries. Periods of low solar activity are associated with minima in minerogenic material and vice versa. A comparison between the sunspot cycle and a long instrumental series of summer precipitation further reveals a link between the 11 yr solar cycle and summer precipitation variability since around 1960. Solar minima are in this period associated with minima in summer precipitation, whereas the amount of summer precipitation increases during periods with higher solar activity. Our results suggest that the climate responds to both the 11 yr solar cycle and to long-term changes in solar activity and in particular solar minima, causing dry conditions with resulting decreased runoff.
Additionally, having now actually lived with the presence of industrial wind turbines, people no longer want them "imposed on their communities." On April 4, the Falmouth, MA, Board of Selectmen and the Falmouth Finance Committee held a joint meeting and unanimously stood by the selectmen's prior vote to remove the town's wind turbines. Residents say: "they're suffering headaches, dizziness and sleep deprivation and often seek to escape the property where they've lived for more than 20 years."
With this morning's Freedom of Information Act request, the explaining they have to do must begin by providing the taxpayer certain records regarding including but not limited to user names and passwords for a backchannel "cloud' established to hide IPCC deliberations from FOIA, thereby also seeking to undermine the Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978.
The authors of this study conclude that the coccolithophorid they studied ???could adapt to ocean acidification with enhanced assimilations of carbon and nitrogen,?? becoming even more productive than it is now, which is yet another positive finding of the often feared consequence of Earth??s rising atmospheric CO 2 concentration?? Read More
The answer and, as I shall show, it is the right one is that his deliberately dishonest personal attack on my integrity and reputation is an ingenious fiction, he knows it, and he has therefore had to go to some elaborate and time-consuming lengths to conceal the steps he has taken to hide the truth and make this nonsense look plausible.
"While the details of the debt ceiling deal remain fuzzy, this much is clear: Barack Obama may be president, but the Tea Party is now running Washington. How did this happen? Simple; this is what American politics looks like when there's no left-wing movement and no war."
Recall that she mentioned polar ice, sea levels, storms, and ocean acidification. With respect to polar ice, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reports that the Arctic and Antarctic sea ice extents now do not differ from their respective 19812010 averages as a matter of statistical significance. (The 20152016 Arctic data are near the bottom of the statistical confidence interval, while the 20152016 Antarctic data are near the 19812010 average.)
This class of cosmic ray detector is more sensitive in the approximate 500 Mev to 4 GeV portion of the cosmic ray spectrum than are cosmic ray muon detectors. The portion of the cosmic ray spectrum that reaches the Earths atmosphere is controlled by the geomagnetic cutoff which varies from a minimum (theoretically zero) at the magnetic poles to a vertical cosmic ray cutoff of about 15 GV (ranging from 13 to 17) in the equatorial regions. (Note: GV is a unit of magnetic rigidity. Magnetic rigidity is a particles momentum per unit charge. It is the relevant quantity for characterizing a cosmic rays ability to penetrate Earths magnetic field.).
In 2006, an article appeared in Science magazine reconstructing the temperature of the Northern Hemisphere back to 800 AD based on 14 smoothed and normalized temperature proxies (e.g., tree ring records). Osborn and Briffa proclaimed at the time that the 20th century is the most anomalous interval in the entire analysis period, with highly significant occurrences of positive anomalies and positive extremes in the proxy records. Obviously, concluding that the Northern Hemisphere has entered a period of unprecedented warmth is sure to make the news, and indeed, Osborn and Briffas work was carried in papers throughout the world and was loudly trumpeted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) that publishes the journal Science .
9% Support For Barack W Bush
Most people probably remember from high-school biology that ethanol is a chemical made when yeast breaks down sugar molecules in a process called fermentation. Ethanol has two carbon atoms, six hydrogen atoms, and one oxygen atom. There are various kinds of alcohol, but ethanol is the one found in your beer, wine, and spirits. It is also combustible, which is well known to anyone who has set brandy on fire while cookingthink Cherries Jubilee.
What I noticed about Sen. Wirth and Hansen back in the late 1980s, is that there was a obvious concerted effort within the emergence of baby boomer management and personnel into climate science on the federal level; that they were pushing ideology as policy. This was a prepatory assault that was planned out.
More importantly, down to a pH of 7.2 (10 times more acidic), no measurable effect was found and no loss of biodiversity. Thus a doubling (pH=7.9) or quadrupling (pH=7.6) of CO 2 concentrations in the atmosphere is not going to have any measurable effect on marine life.
National monument designations come with severe land- and, in this case, sea-use restrictions. For over four hundred years, the area targeted by green activists and the Obama administration has been one of the richest fishing grounds in North America.. The region's fishermen fear that the monument could spell the end of their industry and they suspect that this is the ultimate goal of environmentalists, in and out of government.
Yet, even *after* Haiyan, the Accumulated Cyclone Energy of all cyclones in the Western North Pacific is below normal (99%, http://models.weatherbell.com/tropical.php ). The global ACE is at 74%.
Recognizing that "employment" is one of the primary drivers of global warming, California has been among the first to act. And things are turning around! Green jobs compose less than one percent of Californias economy. Thats right, less than one percent. From 1995 to 2008, California added only 42,000 new green jobs. At that rate of growth, it would take 89 years for green jobs to replace all of the other jobs California has lost in the current economic downturn. The project is being watched closely in Washington, where by all indications , the California example is set to go nationwide.
Some greens argue that rural parts of Africa may be able to eschew giant power grids and leapfrog into off-grid solar-powered electricity, a bit like Kenya has with mobile banking. But that costs more and it wont power factories. The continent needs both, and those who advocate no support for coal are effectively saying that the adoption of renewable energy is more important than alleviating African poverty.
it's because when a new male baboon joins a troop, it's traditional
The Wall Street Journal ran a story on March 9, In Study, Past Decade Ranks Among Hottest . It was about a study published in a recent issue of the Journal Science claiming that a one degree temperature variation resulted in 2000-2009 being one of the warmest since modern record-keeping began. Their claim is that the planet will be warmer in 2100 than it has been for 11,300 years. Thats about the amount of time since the end of the last ice age and the beginning of the Holocene, an epoch of warm weather that gave rise to civilizationabout 5,000 years ago. The length of the periods between ice ages is about 11,500 years. Another ice age will kick in any day now.
In conclusion, we stand by our request that corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risk of climate change be investigated to determine if they knowingly deceived the public about climate science. And we wish to be clear that we are not suggesting that scientists or bloggers should be investigated for expressing their beliefs.
Firstly, the assumption that solar activity peaked in 1960 and declined since is false, since it is necessary to determine the accumulated solar energy over multiple solar cycles, which is the accumulated departure from the average number of sunspots over the entire period, which I call the "sunspot integral." The sunspot integral is plotted in blue and shows remarkable correction with global temperatures plotted in red below. Correlating sunspot and temperature data with and without CO2, we find the sunspot integral explains 95% of temperature change over the past 400 years, and that CO2 had no significant influence (also here ).
Even those who agree with Gore's environmental philosophy, which the picture lays out in exhausting detail, would have to admit that An Inconvenient Truth fails in many of the same ways Gore failed as a Presidential candidate. The picture is tedious, impersonal, dare I say stiff. Staunch environmentalistsor even those of us who are looking for engaging, informative dialogue on the global-warming debateshould be dismayed that
A historical movie from that day, 15 minutes. Death at 6:01.
But was the "evidence" for global warming intentionally and illegally concocted? By their persistence in hiding their data we may think so, as far as Mann and Weaver are concerned; while Dr Ball's latest sensational book,'' The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science ;' detailing the Climategate shenanigans, is a 'must read' as to culpability. But only a full criminal investigation will be determinative of all that. The question now is, will the U.S. and Canadian governmental authorities have the stomach to delve deeper?
... simply put, you can't (from 2006): Mankind has had less effect on global warming than previously supposed, a United Nations report on climate change will claim next year. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there can be little doubt that humans are responsible for warming the planet, but the organisation has reduced its overall estimate of this effect by 25 per cent. The IPCC has been forced to halve its predictions for sea-level rise by 2100, one of the key threats from climate change. It says improved data have reduced the upper estimate from 34 in to 17 in. Commentary and Vitriol @ Cjunk
The results showed that, without small algae-eating crustaceans in the eelgrass meadows, climate change could pose a much greater threat to their survival.
Others presented their research suggesting the primary cause is external to the earth. One suggestion is that the primary cause may be the sun alone. Still others suggested the primary cause is high energy cosmic rays, modulated by the sun, hitting the atmosphere and creating changes in cloud cover.
New Hampshire Town passes 3 mile Property Value Guarantee
There shouldn?t be someone else at UEA with different views [from "recent
When we wrote It's Even Worse Than It Looks, many former Republican officeholders understood we were not attacking the Republican Party as partisans but trying to save it from itself. We took no comfort from calling out the GOP. We well recognize that our polity will not function as it is supposed to without two strong and vibrant parties whose goal is to solve societal problems within the rubric of our constitutional system.
"Turning control of the Internet over to an agency staffed by UN bureaucrats would a disastrous mistake. Imagine a world where the rules for what's permissible to say and do online are written by diplomats appointed by Robert Mugabe, Fidel Castro and the Chinese Communist party."
This dovetails nicely with our own Al Gore/AIT Index which is currently -.594 degrees Fahrenheit as of the end of July, 2008, i.e. the globally averaged satellite-based temperature has dropped .594 degrees Fahrenheit since An Inconvenient Truth was released January 24, 2006.
Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps calls for an investigation into the National Security Agency's database of telephone records.
At one point, I asked Ms. Macfarlane about the evidence on the recent temperature record, that is, the climate sensitivity of the atmosphere. She obviously knows nothing about it, but Rush Holt (the AAAS CEO), playing to the audience, jumped in with the snarky comment that it is "either big or huge." That is not what the peer-reviewed literature tells us, and even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has adjusted its estimate downward. Does Holt not know this? Or was he simply talking out of a hat?