Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis writes an open letter to Sen. Feinstein:"Like the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court global warming case (Massachusetts v. EPA, April 2, 2007), you apparently want EPA to issue a finding, under Section 202 of the Clean Air Act (CAA), that carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions endanger public health and welfarethe prerequisite for EPA to establish first-ever CO 2 emission standards for new cars and trucks. We believe an endangerment finding would have disastrous consequences for the economy, environmental protection, and the political process."
frequency of temperatures above a certain limit (eg 30C) as the whole pdf
internationally well known newspaper SPIEGEL got the information about these
As such, CEI also seeks records shedding light on the revolutionary decision to proceed in replacing a treaty with an even more stringent agreement which somehow isn't a treaty -- one which now contains a "Climate Justice Tribunal" and which by its own terms will renew and tighten every five years, unlike Kyoto which had one five-year compliance period.
In the week prior to the administration signing what should constitute an international climate treaty, one think tank, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, was subpoenaed for casting doubt on the agreement's associated science of climate catastrophe.
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No wonder it is consistently a high temperature record breaker! On that day August 10 2003, it was warmer than Heathrow Airport where the temperature earlier registered 37.9C (100.2F).
In addition to building a giant government funded telescope during a depression, the dear doctor also very much coveted a Nobel Prize. The problem was that at that time, astronomy was not considered a branch of any science that could receive the award. It is hard to speak out against your signature science and simultaneously promote that science as worthy of the worlds highest honor. Hubble was prevented from speaking against the Big Bang due to his vested interest in Palomar and HIS potential Nobel Prize. He was to be given the award in 1953, but a sudden heart attack and untimely death prevented that.
It has now been seven years since a major hurricane hit the US, the longest period since the Civil War and seven years since our friends started blaming every single weather event on global warming.
Our scientific method and traditions of free speech and open debate are under assault as never before, by intolerant inquisitors in our media, universities, government agencies, and even Congress and the Vatican.
Something like 90% of all the radiation from the ground is already stopped leaving 40 left available for additional IR active gases. Lets take a wild guess (based on seeing spectra) that CO2 is active in 10% of all IR bands. That suggests massive increases in CO2 might cause an addition 4 increase in captured radiation. Lets assume this were to happen and this is called catastrophic doomsday alarmists were right sceptics are deniers warming .
Summer is rapidly winding down in Antarctica, and the continent is surrounded by record sea ice.
Now fading out is not an option. The Republicans with such an open goal left by the Democrats will be setting their phasors to kill and start gunning for it.
This is not true. There are over 6 million Americans alive today who experienced summers as long and hot, with great periods of extreme heat in the mid-1930s, when the Palmer Drought Index was the same as current periods, and tens of millions more who saw the mid-70s, when drought conditions were almost as high. Drought is a cyclical event that is experienced throughout large sections of the United States and has done so since pre-historical times.
Two dozen public policy groups (including CEI) co-sign a letter to House Resources Committee Chairman Richard Pombo (R-CA) supporting reform of the Endangered Species Act.
Average results are those obtained by applying Cochrane-Orcutt to the averaged temperature as my standard for determining the trend. The 95 uncertainty intervals are also calculated using Cochrane-Orcutt; I assume the uncertainty in the mean is t-distributed. (These give very slightly larger uncertainty intervals than the corrected OLS. So, it reduces the rate at which I reject the IPCC trends.)
Misleading and incorrect conclusions about income distribution are used to support political demands for increased tax rates on high incomes to redistribute more to others. That's bad advice. The long history of U.S. growth shows that the middle class gains when their productivity increases. And that depends on investment, so reduced tax rates enhance productivity growth by increasing investment. And higher taxes on the groups that save and invest lower investment and productivity.
"Putting People First," which had a full agenda for at least four years, if not
Coincidentally, a Conservative MP described global warming in the following terms today:
Yet, there were approximately 125,000 people who turned out for the People's Climate March in New York City. Why aren't there even more people marching against the poor economy and unemployment, since those are the biggest concerns?
And that's why I can't and I don't want to wear my medals from the NATO operations anymore because they have been given to me by a criminal organization led by the U.S. As long as the U.S. and similar countries will be leading NATO, there is no room for these medals on the left side of my uniform.
Under the bottom line: sea level risehas been pretty much constant over the last 80 years. Using the same rate, sea level can be projected to rise only 20 30 cm by the year 2100.
I like to explain the preference for natural-gas backups this way. Suppose you are going to cook a hamburger. You can cook it over charcoal or natural gas/propane. To use charcoal, you mound up the charcoal in the grill, soak it in lighter fluid, and toss in a match. You then wait 30 minutes for the coals to get nice and hot. Once hot, you put on your burger and cook it for 5 to 8 minutes. You remove your burger and leave the coals to die downwhich could take several hours. On natural gas/propane, you simply turn it on and light the grill. After giving it 5 minutes to heat up, you toss on your burger. When your burger is cooked, you turn off the grill, and it is cool in minutes.
Climate change and other weather related events do, however, present unique challenges that will require us to think in innovative ways. Often project and community-driven approaches like the interventions I mention above are critical to understanding local needs, keeping communities central to decision and planning processes. Yet, they alone are not able to address the greater landscape of environmental services that might be needed to contend with such challenges. For example, drainage issues, often one of the major causes of water logging in delta regions like Gopalgunj, cant be solved by a narrow focus on communities and may need us to look at regional scales and subnational, national or sometimes even international processes. Similarly, local community-based approaches will also need to address other system-wide activities like access to markets, seasonal migration as an income diversifying source, and trade that could be important resilience-building activities .
The motion is unlikely to have practical consequences, however, because under Italian law the government may or may not take into account the message it received from the Senate. When asked about its opinion on the motion, the government said it had no opinion, so majority senators were left free to vote according to their own judgment. Regrettably, Environmental Minister Stefania Prestigiacomo didn't participate the debate in the Senate: that gave a chance to Sen. Roberto Della Seta, who spoke on behalf of the Democratic Party and voted against the motion, to blame the executive's behavior.
Met Office, March 2009: Mean temperatures over the UK were 1.1 C below the 1971-2000 average during December, 0.5 C below average during January and 0.2 C above average during February. The UK mean temperature for the winter was 3.2 C, which is 0.5 C below average, making it the coldest winter since 1996/97 (also 3.2 C).
Spanish Utility blames renewables for 2.0bn loss
Fast forward to the past two years, and we can see that this tension within the Democratic party is a factor in every major decision the administration and the congressional leadership has made. From the start, President Obama, with the enthusiastic backing of liberal progressives, declared that his would be a transformative presidency. This meant that his agenda would largely be that of the liberal progressives: health-care reform with a major emphasis on near-universal coverage, cap-and-trade, a large economic stimulus focused more on government projects than on tax relief, a consumer-protection agency to regulate financial instruments. Truly, this crisis would not be allowed to go to waste: Forty years of wandering in the political wilderness would finally be over.
Jerry North told me just last week that he is more convinced than ever that the warming is at the very bottom of the IPCC range, which some top climate economists say makes CO2 a positive externality, not a negative one. We have peer-reviewed articles on how feedback effects are not the big amplifiers that the models (must) assume.
However since the year 2000 a change has occurred: the CET record shows a marked reduction from its high levels loosing all the gains that it has made since 1850, even though at the same time CO2 levels have escalated further to ~400ppm v .
At a November 13 breakfast presentation on "the unconventional oil and gas revolution," Senior Director, Energy Insight IHS, Chris Hansen said: "I expect to see action on the Keystone pipeline within the next few months." While it is widely believed that Keystone would be an easy win in the Republican-controlled congress, the November 4 results are already making a difference.
After pouring over years of mainstream literature, Johnston discovered numerous scientific uncertainties "which are rarely if ever even mentioned in the climate change law and policy literature" (8-9):
There did not seem to be any other signs of a pre-revolutionary crisis either, including the other traditionally assigned cause of state failure external pressure. On the contrary, the previous decade was correctly judged to amount "to the realization of all major Soviet military and diplomatic desiderata," as American historian and diplomat Stephen Sestanovich has written. Of course, Afghanistan increasingly looked like a long war, but for a 5-million-strong Soviet military force the losses there were negligible. Indeed, though the enormous financial burden of maintaining an empire was to become a major issue in the post-1987 debates, the cost of the Afghan war itself was hardly crushing: Estimated at $4 billion to $5 billion in 1985, it was an insignificant portion of the Soviet GDP.
Comment: This is a distinction without a difference. No commercial coal plants with carbon capture and storage exist, and noneis being built without substantial taxpayer support . The levelized cost of new coal plants already exceeds that of new NGCC plants, and todays CCS technologies would add around 80% to the cost of electricity for a new pulverized coal (PC) plant, and around 35% to the cost of electricity for a new advanced gasification-based (IGCC) plant, according to the EPA (77 FR 22415). Since building an NGCC plant is far cheaper than building a coal plant with CCS, the proposed 1,000 lbs CO2/MWh standard is a de-facto requirement to fuel switch from coal to gas. Offering an alternative no one will choose because it is prohibitively costly does not make fuel switching optional.
The High Net Costs of the Draft Bill's GHG Reductions
Due to the intermittent nature of wind power, traditional power plants have to adjust production in an extremely short time frame to balance the power grid. This "cycling" is inefficient and bad for the environment. Emissions offset by the installation of wind turbines appear to be surpassed by emissions from the need to cycle.
As the CO 2 concentration of the air continues to rise, it is likely that this invasive mite, which negatively affects more than 150 crop species, will exhibit reduced reproductive success and subsequent colonization of bean foliage. If these results are typical of the mite's relationship with other agricultural plants, it is conceivable that yields of many crops will increase dramatically due to CO 2 -induced increases in plant growth and yield and concomitant decreases in damage caused by Tetranychus urticae .
In a closing statement Casey reiterated, The global warming of the past decades was caused by the Sun. It is now over. It will not return based upon the SSRCs research, for at least thirty years. It will then return only because the Suns repeating cycles of activity are scheduled to pick up again at that time. We should not waste another minute, another penny in controlling something that simply does not exist, namely man made climate change and global warming. It is essential for the welfare of all Americans if not the world, that in light of these new and startling changes in the Earths temperature and the profound changes in the Sun, that the next administration initiate a top-down review and redirection of climate change policy as soon as President Obama takes office.
Indeed, over the last two decades, 1199 has perfected a brand of politics that allows the union to get most or all of what it wants from New York governorseither by entering into mutually beneficial alliances or by organizing to quash reform plans that might be adverse to its members. George Pataki entered the governor's mansion in 1995 with bold plans for health-care reform, which focused on getting control of Medicaid costs.
On Monday, Matt Lauer of Today interviewed Joe Arpaio, the Maricopa County, Ariz., sheriff who's made a national name for himself cracking down on illegal immigration. Lauer noted that Arizona's new immigration bill has the support of 70 percent of Arizonans. "But get this," Lauer added, "53 percent of those same people said they worry it could lead to civil-rights violations."
The Mega Millions lottery last month with its whopping $656 million prize captured the intense interest of Americans across the country. Estimates suggest that as many as 100 million people participated. No matter that the odds of winning the jackpot were known to be much less than being struck by lightning twice. Investing a few bucks (or in the case of Washington Wizards forward Chris Singleton, ten thousand) for the chance to become a centa-millionaire was irresistible for nearly half of the adult population of the country.
Gore can't entirely be blamed for failing to turn into a live wireat 58, the man is what he is. So the fault mainly lies with the filmmakers. Director Davis Guggenheim, who has mostly worked on television series such as "24" and "ER," follows Gore as the former Vice President goes on a world tour with his multimedia presentation on global warming. The lecture, which Gore calls "the slide show," takes up the majority of the movie's running time, lightened only by occasional portraiture segments that fail to reveal much about the man at the film's center.
Replication (47) The committee almost sound like they are singing from the CRU hymnsheet here. Replication is not necessary because there are other groups reaching the same answer.
Here are some posts at Daily Caller by Herring on the Omaha Tri Faith insanity:
Interestingly on the sixth page of this document , the Bureau both makes the point that 2013 was the hottest year on record for Queensland, while conceding that the period 2002-2013 shows short-term cooling.
Also, by the way, global hurricane activity, measured in total energy (Accumulated Cyclone Energy), is actually at a low not encountered since the 1970s . In fact, the U.S. is currently experiencing the longest absence of severe landfall hurricanes in over a century. Wilma, the last Category 3 or stronger storm, occurred more than seven years ago.
A new documentary features warmists and hippies fearlessly acting like spoiled brats. Among the feats celebrated on film climbing the UK parliament buildings and hanging about outside power stations. Actual fearless feats like anti-oil protests in Riyadh are next week, or something.
The closest USHCN station to Washington is at Lincoln, Virginia. Since the mid-1990s, the thermometers say that Lincoln has cooled about three degrees (blue below) while USHCN carefully adjusts the temperatures in the opposite direction. Note that the adjusted (red) trend is up by two degrees since the mid-1990s.
The event, according to the Wall Street Journal, set "in motion a process to curb the impact of global warming." The International Business Times said it was "the latest in a series of steps to transform the global accord into an actual tool for combating greenhouse gas emissions and boosting the use of cleaner energy." Newsweek reported: "The leaders accepted the science of climate change and agreed to work together to do something about it."
John: Home entertainment room Brian. A lot of houses have them these days.
Ebell pointed to EPA whistleblower Alan Carlin, a longtime economist for the agency, who discovered this firsthand in 2009 when a report he co-authored questioned the science behind then-proposed global warming regulations under the Clean Air Act.
Assuming that the Levitus record of global oceanic heat content increase is anywhere near accurate, what might it tell us about climate sensitivity; e.g., how much global warming we might expect from increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations? As we will see, the oceans have not warmed nearly as much as would be expected if the climate system really is as sensitive as the IPCC claims.
scientists simply dont have time (and the audience typically doesnt have the interest) to lay out all the evidence, the arguments and counterarguments, in full detail. Isnt it legitimate, then, to simply note that almost all the experts have been convinced of a given point?
Wind production does not follow demandit follows the wind. When wind production is high, demand is frequently low.
Lets start with an analysis of how the UKs electricity was supplied last year.
swollen majorities that Franklin D. Roosevelt had from the beginning, the sense
"The implication that I personally, or the club has taken Ms Dhalla's side is totally false"
a reduction in, their charitable deductions to channel money away from charities
Whether or not EPA has a policy in place won't matter until the agency is transparent about the data behind its science and decisions, said Myron Ebell, director of energy and global warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
The period from January 2001 to May 2013 is now 149-months long. Refer to the following graph of running 149-month trends from January 1880 to May 2013, using the NCDC global temperature anomaly product. The last data point in the graph is the linear trend (in deg C per decade) from January 2001 to the current month. It is slightly negative. That, of course, indicates global surface temperatures have not warmed during the most recent 149-month period. Working back in time, the data point immediately before the last one represents the linear trend for the 149-month period of December 2000 to April 2013, and the data point before it shows the trend in deg C per decade for November 2000 to March 2013, and so on.
"The sacred cod." On March 17th, 1784, Mr. John Rowe of Boston arose from his seat in the Hall of Representatives at the Old State House, and offered the following motion: "That leave might be given to hang up the representation of a cod fish in the room where the House sit, as a memorial of the importance of the Cod-Fishery to the welfare of the Commonwealth ."
Green alarmist Ticky Fullerton on Lateline Business rings the lepers bell before interviewing warming sceptic Professor Ian Plimer:
Keep in mind that the longitudes of 120E-80W stretch 160 deg, almost halfway around the globe. For a reminder of width of the equatorial Pacific, see the protractor-based illustration here .
RSL reflects the actual sea levels, as measured by tide gauges, while the ASL takes out the effect of sinking land. As can be seen, apart from the anomaly at Cambridge, the other stations show ASL of 1.41mm/yr or less, about 5 inches/century. This is a far cry from the headline figures shown for Baltimore of 12 inches/century.
Social pessimism stands in the way of tackling the real challenges facing humanity. Growth skepticism has become a barrier to rediscovering the potential of human progress.
Excess Canadian crude oil produced from oil sands is expanding at a rate of one million barrels a day every five years. The more that's produced, the less of a market there will be for oil from Venezuela and some other OPEC member countries with similar-quality oil, requiring them to either curtail production or lower prices. Even if oil prices rise in the medium term, we expect 2020 prices to be no more than $85 per barrel, compared with today's prevailing global price of $125.
The four Australian researchers report that "significant genotype by environment interactions for both stressors at gastrulation indicated the presence of heritable variation in thermal tolerance and the ability of embryos to respond to changing environments." And they say that "positive genetic correlations for gastrulation indicated that genotypes that did well at lower pH also did well in higher temperatures." What it means
So we have to get better, a lot better, at de-carbonizing our energy. As the Ecomodernist Manifesto correctly notes, " rising energy consumption is tightly correlated with rising incomes and improving living standards. For that reason, any conflict between climate mitigation and the continuing development process through which billions of people around the world are achieving modern living standards will continue to be resolved resoundingly in favor of the latter."
past changes provides the context for our scenarios of future greenhouse gas
Well, with oil-for-food finally buried, we knew they'd be on the prowl for new bodies.
The George C. Marshall Institute believes that public discussion of human-made global warming as a world encompassing problem may be a clear example of multiple "detail solutions" being proposed before a sound scientific definition of the problem, or even a recognition of the problem's existeence, has been established. Accordingly, the Institute has compiled a list of the questions commonly posed about global warming. The Institute, using well founded knowledge of the present state of the art, has composed a response to these questions that summarizes today's knowledge and assesses the task ahead to provide an answer. It is the Institute's hope that this effort will help the United States determine how best to acquire a valid scientific foundation that can then support sound public policy.
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WARNING #1: Do NOT watch this video if you wish to avoid portrayals of extreme violence, genocide, child murders, demonic practice and terrorism all in the name of environmentalism.
No evidence exists for this claim. The mass-bleaching events of recent decades have coincided with surface water warming resulting from periods of extended calm associated with strong El Nio events. This impedes normal evaporative cooling as well as wave driven mixing. There is no evidence of any increase in the frequency or strength of El Nio events, and climate models project increased wind speeds from warming, not more calms. The report further states:
Finally, regarding the billboard, after 15 years of being the target of vicious ad hominem attacks, we decided to punch back instead of stand back. Our billboard was factual: The Unabomber was motivated by concern over man-made global warming to do the terrible crimes he committed. He still believes in global warming. We simply put his picture on a billboard, pointed out the inconvenient truth, and asked, do you?