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As discussions about climate change continue, one critical factor about this phenomenon has remained largely unknown to the public: the important but enigmatic role of clouds in climate change. The role of clouds is important because at any given time about 70 percent of the Earth is covered by clouds. The role of clouds is enigmatic because clouds can exert opposing forces: Some types of clouds help cool the Earth and some types of clouds help warm it. Which effectwillwin outas our climate continues to change? So far, no one is certain.
Its very hard to overlook the fact that, over the past decade, climate models are simulating way too much warming and are diverging rapidly from reality.
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3. Keep the record in front of you. Temperatures have plateaued, albeit at a high level, despite vast increases in emissions.
In short, the country would be better served if NSR were changed to clarify and make more certain the scope of the routine maintenance exclusion and the method used to measure future emissions. Even better would be a move away from the costly and often counterproductive style of end-of-the-pipe regulation represented by NSR.
But this explanation goes only so far. The anger, disappointment, and disgust that the voters will shower on the Obama administration and the Democratic congressional leadership is unusually deep. The electorate is reacting at a much more visceral level.
Further, to the extent that some illegal immigrants just trying to support their families are "ensnared" by drug cartels (whatever that means) it is because of their immigration status. Make them legal residents of the country, and no one has any particular leverage over them.
Don't bring a drone to a anti-aircraft missile fight; Photos provided by the animal rights group show the multicopter smoking on the ground, with its lithium polymer battery supply smoldering. Another photo shows the drones video camera smashed. The drone, dubbed Angel, was a Cinestar 8 octocopter estimated at $4,000. This wasnt the first time SHARK has been shot out of the sky. This is the fourth drone that the group has lost while investigating pigeon shootings. One drone landed on club property, and is the subject of an ongoing lawsuit. h/t Punch My Ticket
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Every revolution is a surprise. Still, the latest Russian Revolution must be counted among the greatest of surprises. In the years leading up to 1991, virtually no Western expert, scholar, official, or politician foresaw the impending collapse of the Soviet Union, and with it one-party dictatorship, the state-owned economy, and the Kremlin's control over its domestic and Eastern European empires. Neither, with one exception, did Soviet dissidents nor, judging by their memoirs, future revolutionaries themselves. When Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party in March 1985, none of his contemporaries anticipated a revolutionary crisis. Although there were disagreements over the size and depth of the Soviet system's problems, no one thought them to be life-threatening, at least not anytime soon.
MOOSE: Whadda ya mean, it isnt right. I told you. That should be enough for you.
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So much for land use. As far as our GHG emissions are concerned, there is evidence that they increase the temperature a little. But the warming effect of carbon dioxide is a reducing one, meaning that as its level increases, more and more CO2 is required to produce a unit of warming. More and more CO2 will not warm the planet more and more, but less and less.
By 7:30 the group had swollen to around a hundredtoo many to fit inside the chapel of Maria Heimsuchung, or Mary of the Visitation, so a makeshift altar was erected outside.
After one year of atmospheric CO 2 enrichment, the growth rate of dominant canopy pine trees was about 24% greater than that of trees grown in ambient CO 2 , in spite of the likelihood of soil nutrient limitations and a severe summer drought (rainfall in August 1997 was about 90% below the 50-year average). In addition, atmospheric CO 2 enrichment increased the biomass of canopy pines by about 14%. However, elevated CO 2 had no significant impact on the growth rate or biomass of the four most abundant understorey species (loblolly pine, sweetgum, winged elm and red maple) located within the study plots. What it means
The Great Pause may well come to an end by this winter. An el Nio event is underway and would normally peak during the northern-hemisphere winter. There is too little information to say how much temporary warming it will cause, though. The temperature spikes of the 1998, 2007, and 2010 el Nios are evident in Figs. 1-4.
In crash tests released Tuesday, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that drivers of 2009 versions of the Smart fortwo, Honda Fit and Toyota Yaris could face significant leg and head injuries in severe front-end crashes with larger, mid-size vehicles.
NASA has released its latest sea ice report . These are tough times for climate alarmists. The truth is: Theres a lot more sea ice out there this year than they ever imagined .
The larger point is that the scientists on the panel are bright and honest with one blatant exception but they are not adept at thinking through the implications of political incentives. If science is to affect policymaking, an inherently political undertaking, research conducted or funded by government cannot be separated from politics. That is an eternal truth with respect to which the question "How can objective science be used to inform policymaking?" is blind.
She also indicated that the episode would showcase the potential for oil drilling in Alaskas Article National Wildlife Refuge. Youll also see us hunting at the edge of ANWR, Palin promised, where you can see the uninhabited lands that warehouse billions of barrels of American energy supplies underground just waiting for the political will to allow responsible resource development.
?It is a great honor to have been appointed to this new role? said Steer. ?Climate change is a major threat to poverty reduction, and a central development challenge for our generation. I look forward to working with external partners and colleagues at the World Bank to help advance international progress on low carbon and climate resilient development, and to deepen that Bank's capacity as a cutting edge contributor.?
Second, the federal government should seek to identify and reduce barriers to the development and deployment of alternative technologies. Whatever the economic merits of the Cape Wind project, it is ridiculous that it could take over a decade for a project such as this to go through the state and federal permitting processes. This sort of regulatory environment discourages private investment in these technologies.
If Abraham had had the courtesy to check either with me or by looking up Mr. Schulte's paper on the Web of Science database, to which his Bible College subscribes, he would have found that Mr. Schulte used this phrase because Naomi Oreskes, a science historian, had previously used the same phrase in researching climate papers up to the end of 2003. Schulte had carried her research forward to mid-February 2007, and his paper had been published in 2008.
Finally, "The Kerry plan will establish the Energy Security and Conservation Trust Fund to invest in the hydrogen economy and other promising technologies, with clear targets for increasing the number of hydrogen powered cars and trucks on the nation's roads . Because of the importance of coal to our energy mix, the Kerry Administration will actively support technologies that separate and sequester CO2 when extracting the energy from coal."
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"Even relatively transparent forms of Western aid, such as anti-AIDS assistance, have sometimes backfired, resulting in increased child death rates and harm to countries' health-care systems through brain-drain from critical primary care areas. Foreign aid also has distorting macroeconomic effects even on the few countries that make good use of it, like Uganda, where it resulted in increased inflation and interest rates, harm to its export industry from changes in exchange rates, and other economic problems. In many African countries, aid agencies siphon off so much of the country's scarce skilled manpower that industrial development cannot take off."
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His Holiness, the Green Pope (Al Gore) predicted that the Arctic see would be ice-free this year . The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) also gives a lot of attention to the unprecedented melting of the North Pole.
As readers here know, the claims of statistical significance in the global temperature records are based on an assumption that the Earth's temperature can be approximated by the AR1 statistical model, an assumption that can apparently be readily shown to be incorrect. As Doug Keenan points out in an email, Slingo's final claim - that the overwhelming majority of leading climate scientists agree that the Earth is definitely warming - is 'technically true, but irrelevant if none of those scientists knows how to determine whether such warming is significant'.
We believe the Canadian public and government decision-makers need and deserve to hear the whole story concerning this very complex issue. It was only 30 years ago that many of todays global-warming alarmists were telling us that the world was in the midst of a global-cooling catastrophe. But the science continued to evolve, and still does, even though so many choose to ignore it when it does not fit with predetermined political agendas.
Suzanne Goldenberg enjoys (if that's the right word) a certain reputation among BH readers and her latest offering will do nothing but enhance (if that 's the right word) her position in our estimation.
Professor Bengtssons resignation shows that the alleged consensus on dangerous global warming involves suppressing dissent by academic bullying. He emphasises that there is no consensus about how fast and how far greenhouse warming will go, let alone what can be done in response.
Someone who (of course) responded with full indignation was Lorentz Tovatt (Super Million blog). He seems to have misunderstood how much difference our choices really can do.
Aid agencies should also consider forgone economic development. The U.N. and the World Bank want to redistribute trillions of dollars to create new "green" energy infrastructure, whereas in the free market these scarce resources would be allocated to create wealth. In a globalized world, inefficiencies of this magnitude lower all boats.
As table 1 shows, the largest components of indirect energy consumption are health care (27.5 percent) and food (23.7 percent), which together comprise about half of total indirect energy consumption. This is confirmation of similar findings published in the economic literature. Transportation by vehicles that consumers do not fuel directly (such as air travel, taxis, and buses) and transportation-related consumption (auto parts, motor oil, and vehicle parts) represent 12 percent of total indirect energy consumption. Activities using the least amount of indirect energy include beauty care, religion, and education.
PENNSYLVANIA 52% of electricity; 5th in coal use
These distinguished senators believe there is a "third way" between pro-Kyoto and anti-Kyoto forces. For the global warming crowd, advance credits for emissions reductions might help abate "greenhouse gas" production while Kyoto is pending; for businesses, credits could reduce long-term compliance costs under a Kyoto-like arrangement, and squeeze tangible value from abatement steps already planned.
Most of all and here is the second point of agreement the center-right victories in Australia and in Norway two days later owe much to the unpopularity of center-left government policies.
the Afghan side, President Karzai announced that by 2014 his government would no longer need nato.
16d. The ability of global climate models to model temperature values for the next 50 years
As I said to Andy Revkin (and he published on his blog), the additional decade of temperature data from 2000 onwards (even the AR4 estimates typically ignored the post-2000 years) can only work to reduce estimates of sensitivity, and that??s before we even consider the reduction in estimates of negative aerosol forcing, and additional forcing from black carbon (the latter being very new, is not included in any calculations AIUI). It??s increasingly difficult to reconcile a high climate sensitivity (say over 4C) with the observational evidence for the planetary energy balance over the industrial era.
But it gets worse! On top of GHCN adjustments, GISS have substantially INCREASED the warming trend at Reykjavik for UHI, instead of REDUCING it. The Iceland Met confirm there have been no station changes etc that would justify this. But when I challenged Reto Ruedy, he was unable to explain it either.
In dagslget is unclear what will be pieces of the text to be produced in Cancn, Mexico, in December and nobody knows what will happen with the current agreement, the Kyoto Protocol, that progressively in 2012
We will continue to create and tell new stories about climate change and mobilise these stories in support of our projects.
Briffa and Osborn 1999 contain a number of sensible caveats about the Mann and other reconstructions, raising caution about the role of bristlecones ( the ???amplitude series relating to the first principal component of a group of high-elevation tree-ring chronologies in the western United States??) in the Mann reconstruction and readers are referred to the original here .
* What does this mean? For two-thirds of the questions asked, scientific opinion is DEEPLY DIVIDED, and in half of those cases, most scientists DISAGREE with positions that are at the foundation of the alarmist case. There is certainly NO CONSENSUS on the science behind the global warming scare.
Less Carbon, Higher Prices: How Californias Climate Policies Affect Lower-Income Residents
The Israelis and the majority Fatah wing of the PLO now share a vital interest in the containment of Hamas.
Europe, and especially Germany, is threatened by an industry exodus due to its higher energy costs that have been created by its move to increase Green energy. Germany's pharmaceutical and chemical giant Bayer is already making significant investment in its Chinese manufacturing operations, with expansion also taking place in Brazil and India. If industry continues to leave the U.S., the CPP will have the opposite effect. Emissions will increase as companies move to countries with lower labor costs, cheaper energy, and lax environmental policies. An additional unintended consequence will be more jobs lost in manufacturing.
Even eliminating carbon dioxide emissions entirely and assuming the highest sensitivity of world temperature to carbon dioxide levels (which happens to be the sensitivity that is furthest from that in recent research) would project a temperature moderation of less than 0.2 degree centigrade. Of course, eliminating CO2 emissions entirely, if possible, would have much higher costs than even those of the $25 carbon tax modeled by the EIA or the Boxer-Sanders tax modeled by Heritage.
Which is why today's Russia appears once again to be inching toward another perestroika moment. Although the market reforms of the 1990s and today's oil prices have combined to produce historically unprecedented prosperity for millions, the brazen corruption of the ruling elite, new-style censorship, and open disdain for public opinion have spawned alienation and cynicism that are beginning to reach (if not indeed surpass) the level of the early 1980s.
The climate police would do more for their cause if they spent more time persuading the public on the merits of climate risks and policy. Their resort to abusive government power suggests that they think they have a weak case.
Richard Keen at the University of Colorado was the first to notice the changes. On December 5, he published this report comparing his own research into the climate of Alaska with the official version of the UN Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). He found no evidence of warming in Alaska over the past three decades, and no substantial difference in average temperature between 1935-1944 and the present time. Overall he found a warming trend of 0.69 Kelvin per century over the span of the twentieth century???while the GHCN dataset projects a warming trend of 2.83 K/century. (The Kelvin is the International System equivalent of a Celsius degree.)
When the models have been tested by looking backwards and trying to reproduce past climate which we know, they fail miserably. The observed 20th-century temperature increase was 0.6 C. However, the UN climate models predict a 20th-century increase of 1.6 C to 3.75C more than 2.5 to 6.3 times the observed rate of change.
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"President Obama, hip person that he is, will hold a town hall today in which he'll answer questions to him submitted on Twitter with an #AskObama hashtag. Obviously, the Republicans have been having some fun with this. Speaker of the House John Boehner asked Obama, "With 9.1% unemployment & 'shovel ready' jobs a bust, will you admit the 'stimulus' was a mistake?" Okay."
The expedition is being led by Chris Turney, climate scientist, who has set up a carbon refining company called Carbonscape which has developed technology to fix carbon from the atmosphere and make a host of green bi-products, helping reduce greenhouse gas levels. The purpose of the expedition is to discover and communicate the environmental changes taking place in the south.
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The authors note that "the longevity and persistence of clonal plant populations are believed to enhance community stability and ecosystem resilience to climate change," citing Steinger et al . (1996), Grabherr and Nagy (2003), and Guisan and Thuiller (2005), while adding that "stability and resilience are thought to be high in arctic and alpine ecosystems, where more than 50% of the plant species are able to reproduce clonally (Korner, 2003)." Thus, "to better understand their ecology, as well as their persistence through past climatic oscillations and their potential resistance to future climate change," de Witte et al . say they "chose to investigate diversity, structure and age in arctic-alpine clonal plant populations."
Greens Want Funds to Offset Summit Greenhouse Emissions
Since the Earth hit 350 ppm, temperatures in Dublin have been falling faster than four degrees per century.
The Obama Administration has been implementing an anti-energy agenda since coming to Washington. From day one, Obama and his ???dream ???green?? team?? have worked to increase the cost of traditional energy to reduce usage and try to make uneconomic consumer-rejected energy (wind, solar, ethanol, electric vehicles) more economic.
In a joint press conference NOAA and NASA have just released data for the global surface temperature for 2013. In summary they both show that the pause in global surface temperature that began in 1997, according to some estimates, continues. Statistically speaking there has been no trend in global temperatures over this period. Given that the IPCC estimates that the average decadal increase in global surface temperature is 0.2 deg C, the world is now 0.3 deg C cooler than it should have been. ???David Whitehouse, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 21 January 2014
They published 2 papers on the subject in the journal European Geophysical Union (EGU) , . According to the 2 scientists, climate is often cyclic. The first study appeared in February 2013 and it examined six of the longest existing thermometer data seriesrecorded in Europe, as well asone dataset from an Antarctic ice core and another from a data series extracted from stalagmites. The datasets were covered the period of 1757 2010.
We need to be dealing with the debt, and jobs and energy security. Instead we got four more years of a messiah complex from someone who has no understanding of energy or business or America.
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Antarctic sea ice extent at the end of July was the highest on record for that day, growing to 18.077 million sq km. The previous record of 17.783 was set in 2010, whilst the 1981-2010 average was 16.869.
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Meanwhile, gallant scientists have passed away in 2016.
I encourage you to help stop it by spreading the word about the famine threat.
Google is now part of "Alphabet," Sundar Pichai steps up as CEO, Updated ArsTechnica "This is no mere rebranding. As Page writes, "Alphabet Inc. will replace Google Inc. as the publicly-traded entity and all shares of Google will automatically convert into the same number of shares of Alphabet, with all of the same rights. Google will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet. Our two classes of shares will continue to trade on Nasdaq as GOOGL and GOOG.'"
Today in her column, The Wall Street Journal's Kimberley Strassel explains the Obama EPA's censoring of an internal study that questioned the scientific foundation for the administration's climate change policies. The report, written by Alan Carlin, a senior analyst at the EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics, was released last week by CEI last week.
This claim, by the way, is already falling apart. As Steven McIntyre explains, one of the examples Mann cites is a British panel that did not actually investigate Mann?its focus was on the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, the epicenter of "Climategate"?and in its announcement of its results criticized Mann's methods as "inappropriate" and his results as "exaggerated." At the time, Mann felt so exonerated that he sent harassing e-mails to the scientist who made that remark, demanding a retraction and an apology. Mann then went on to tell the BBC that such a retraction was forthcoming. It wasn't. All of which tells you a great deal about Professor Mann's credibility.
Don Easterbrook, writing on Watts Up With That , shows a graph of a Greenland ice core derived temperatures for the last 10,000 years, which shows that the majority of that period was warmer than today (2010 ranks about 9000th):
We need to keep a close eye on this dangerous situation.
The company collapsed at the end of August 2011 and filed for bankruptcy in early September. The Hill has reported previously on the administration decision not to attempt a last-ditch financial rescue.
High-speed rail dead, development project continues: