Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
The media, of course, ate it up. In part, that was a healthy sign that there was nothing really important to report. But beyond their amusement value, these campaigns had some very real objectives: raising the federal government's fuel-economy standards, encouraging congressional legislation, and sticking some new voodoo pins into the demonized doll of automobility.
Interestingly, however, the BBC recently did a report detailing concerns that we may be entering another Little Ice Age. As the sun remains conveniently out of the equation of global warming proponents, this is a rather eye-popping development.
Marine life, including that part that fixes CO 2 as the carbonate in limestones such as coral reefs, evolved on an Earth with CO 2 levels many times higher than those of today, as reported by Berner and Kothaval. It may be true to say that todays marine life is getting by in a CO 2 -deprived environment.
Weiss et al . report that " H. undatus plants enriched with CO 2 demonstrated 52%, 22%, 18% and 175% increases, relative to plants measured in ambient CO 2 , in total daily net CO 2 uptake, shoot elongation, shoot dry mass, and number of reproductive buds, respectively," while corresponding responses for S. megalanthus were 129%, 73%, 68% and 233%. In addition, they found there was a slight (7%) increase in the fruit fresh mass of H. undatus and a much greater 63% increase in the fruit fresh mass of S. megalanthus , due to the extra 620 ppm of CO 2 enrichment of the air in which the plants had been grown. What it means
After reading Who Turned on the Heat? you should have a better understanding of El Nio and La NiaANDyou should understand why global surface temperatures warm during multidecadal periods when El Nio events are stronger, occur more often and endure longer than La Nia events. The most recent period with ENSO conditions weighted toward the El Nio phase started in the late 1970s, and its no coincidence that global surface temperatures have warmed since then. Also not by coincidence, La Nia events dominated ENSO, but just a little bit, from the mid-1940s to the late-1970s, and global surface temperatures cooled slightly. Why did surface temperatures warm from the late 1910s to the mid-1940s? Yup, ENSO was skewed toward El Nio during that period, too.
The authors looked at 750 years worth of the local ice core, especially the oxygen isotope. They claim to have found a very strong correlation between the concentration of this isotope (i.e. temperature) on one side and the known solar activity in the epoch 1250-1850. Their data seem to be precise enough to determine the lag, about 10-30 years. It takes some time for the climate to respond to the solar changes.
Sadly, the page with the current conditions (click the "body temperature" link above) tells us that today in the morning, Ann Daniels spent several hours by "sitting at" and pre-heating a dead battery from the previous day instead of the correct, fresh one. ;-) On the positive side, she could finally throw away her sledging jacket for some time, one of the 15 or so pieces of clothes she wears.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio . Tonight, for your delectation, here are Bunny Berigan , Fats Waller , and Tommy Dorsey performing Honeysuckle Rose (1937, 3:19, audio). Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
This is just wrong on any number of levels. The lamest part of this, beyond the sheer wrongheadedness of it, is it strikes me as a sign that these religious groups are unsure of their own teachings and moral standing. I will never be confused with a religious expert, but I would think that religious groups would be fighting for abstinence as a positive moral principal. Trying to deny vaccinations in order to make sexual intercourse incrementally more dangerous and threatening strikes me as a sign that the religious groups have given up on moral teaching and are now relying on bald scare tactics.
These are the relevant graphs from McIntyre showing what the newly available data demonstrates.
UPDATE: In the original graph posted at The Breakthrough Institute I showed ten-year growth rates for the Maddison dataset rather than the annual values as stated in the graph title. The annual values are shown below. There are no implications for the analysis -- the data is the same. Sorry for the error.
driving up the price of everything else," he says. "Youre taking corn
17. A toned-down version of the IPCC's press release is available at http://www.ipcc.ch/press/pr08122003.htm.
Finally, trade regulations can and will be used to twist the arms of Third World countries and get them to join in the next round of the treaty, late in 1998. Countries will be lured with foreign aid bribes and threatened with trade sanctions if they decline to go along with the American position. And remember, all this will happen with little or no public scrutiny.
The effects of the stalled jet stream across Europe and the US have been catastrophic.
"Counselling is the key thing as people have lost everything -- children, family, shelter... which is why the UN will launch these appeals," she said after visiting Sri Lanka's southern region of Galle.
Because this correlation is studied in a quantum theory, we should really call it "entanglement", not just "correlation", but it's really meant to be exactly the same thing. Quantum mechanics is a different theory than classical physics so it says different things about the correlations of different quantities, and how correlations between some properties may co-exist with correlations in others and how strong these correlations may be. However, at the end, the interpretation is still the same: entanglement is a correlation between properties of two parts of a larger system.
Van Haren et al . conclude their report by declaring that "it is important that we improve our understanding of circulation changes, in particular related to the cause of the apparent mismatch between observed and modeled circulation trends over the past century," citing Haarsma et al . (2013); for if the models don't improve in this regard, neither will their precipitation predictions improve. References
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Center for Entrepreneurship Director John Berlau on how CEI is challenging a major element of the federal government's finance rules:
When George W. Bush made his first trip to Europe as President in June, the anti-Bush U.S media, the anti-U.S European socialists, and the anti-growth green parties were all lying in wait to grab headlines at his expense. They zeroed in on Bush's withdrawal from further negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol, also known as the Global Warming Treaty.
Examining the occurrence of drought in southern California since 1900 is also illuminating.
Some climate scientists, such as Professor Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, last week dismissed the significance of the plateau, saying that 15 or 16 years is too short a period from which to draw conclusions.
And similarly, if you take Case 2 which is making a larger adjustment, the reported p-values in the neighborhood of .2, a little bit above .2. Again, if you do the analysis without imposing an equal variances assumption, you get a p-value thats below ten percent. So its statistically significant at the ten percent level, not at the five percent level. The other important point in thinking about statistical significance is that its not a black or white line at .05. And theres no direct way that you can connect .05 certainly to a legal standard for preponderance of evidence. So its not that if you are .04, its more likely than not, and if you are .06, its less likely than not. We have to be clear about that. So for all of those reasons, I think that first finding is without foundation.
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) bluntly summed up the effects of EPA's "clean power" rules. "A lot of people on the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum are going to die," he said.
Democrats have had their own battles. The radical populist William Jennings Bryan won control (and lost the White House three times) around the turn of the century. But the victory of the establishment with Woodrow Wilson ushered in an era of relative calm. However, a Democratic Party built on two disparate wingsSouthern rural conservatives determined to maintain segregation, Northern urban liberals determined to deploy and maintain the New Dealhad an uneasy alliance that enabled the party to keep a hammerlock on Congress for decades but began to unravel in the 1960s with the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts.
The U.S. consumes around 1.2 billion tons of coal a year; our coal reserves add up to centuries of coal use all of which the White House and the EPA is seeking to deny to all Americans.
Germany has hardly beenimmune to the insanity. Its 130 billion in renewable energy investment will theoretically postpone global warming a whole 23 hours, read here . At that rate it would cost the world $4,745,000,000,000,000.00 (4.745 quadrillion) to delay global warming 100 years, provided the dubious theory were true. Thats a million dollars for every family on the planet (if I didnt lose or gain any zeros in that big number calculation).
The most troublesome issue and one that could still undermine even the limited ambition envisioned for Cancun was whether industrial countries would agree to further emissions cuts as spelled out in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
However, the first part of my thesis is easily proved; Ill prove the second part below.
Hear my prayer. (h/t Iowa Jim)
We now address three additional reasons why the conventional anthropogenic CO2 warming theory is flawed due to incorrect assumptions regarding the energy budget. In contrast, the mass/gravity/pressure alternative greenhouse theory is entirely compatible with Earth's energy budget, physical laws, and observations.
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Onward to superstorms. Roy Spencer had said there has been no increase in superstorms, which happen every year. Sandy was unusual only in that it happened over a built-up area. Nuccitelli cites Kerry Emanuels paper of 2005 showing an increase in hurricane strength over previous decades.
Understanding Conservative Religious Resistance to Climate Science guest post by David Gushee
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B. There is an implicit assumption (not stated, granted, but not caveated either) that the proxy recons are historical records equivalent to the instrument period (thus allowing the point (1) examination). If the proxies are contaminated by CO2 or cherry-picked then that affects the results. Same issue with the instrumental record (if it is inaccurate)?????in particular, the instrumental record is based on ground stations, not on satellite or balloon measurements. That might be fine. But it should be noted.
CEI Expert Available for Comment: Adjunct Analyst Steven Milloy on the junk science behind the move to ban inhalers.
In Australia, Abbott did not run on the platform of 1996-2007 Liberal Prime Minister John Howard. He called for an expensive parental leave program to encourage childbearing, for example.
"The Keystone pipeline is crucial to the global carbon budget," that is, an effort to limit the use of fossil fuels to an amount that would yield a global temperature increase of no more than 2 C.
The number of advanced solar plants required would be 710 billion watts required/112 million watts per Arizona solar plant or 6339 plants to power all of the US cars on solar power. At 7.7kilometers per plant times 6339 we get 48,812 square kilometers of power plant in Arizona.
Federal land, resource and environmental agencies have unleashed tsunamis of regulations in recent years, and President Obama is poised to issue many more before January 20. The total cost of complying with federal rules was about $1 trillion annually in 2006. It has since doubled, raising the federal reporting and compliance burden to $6,000 per person per year, through late-2016.
Amherst Island (Ontario) group files wind energy lawsuit
administration's policy. The speech not only warns against invading Iraq as "dumb" and "rash," but draws a contrast with Afghanistan and the need to keep pursuing Osama Bin
"Rather than new federal regulations, he should be encouraging more natural gas development and approving Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export licenses," states Kathleen Sgamma, Vice President of Government & Public Affairs for the Western Energy Alliance. "By exporting LNG, not only would America benefit from huge job growth, but we would be providing a low-carbon solution to other nations and helping them to likewise reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Germany and Japan have increased their use of coal because they lack access to affordable natural gas, and their carbon emissions have risen. By stubbornly repressing exports, the President is standing in the way of a global solution to a global problem."
So what's the legal solution to this dilemma if the Court is not going to disavow its opinion that Congress authorized the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases?
In his blog article he starts by claiming that the stagnant temperature of the last 15 years: is nothing unusual: Also during the 20th century there were periods of stagnation, and even cooling. Even climate models show such behaviour also for the future. So they do not contradict the long-term global temperatures .
He also said that there is always a temperature spike with the dispersal of El Nio that releases an enormous amount of energy into the atmosphere. It happened in 1983 (though moderated by the eruption of El Chichon) and again in 1988. The 1988 temperatures and the comment by James Hansen of the Goddard Space Flight Center to Congress that "we can state with about 99 percent confidence that current temperatures represent a real warming trend rather than a chance fluctuation over the 30-year period" started the global warming scare.
It is hard to see how the EU countries can possibly meet any second period targets. This reality is starting to permeate the veil of rhetoric in some countries. In Spain, for instance, the newspaper La Gazeta de los Negocios reported on May 5, "Given the circumstances, the Environment Minister, Cristina Narbona, had no alternative and recognized yesterday that the conditions where Spain stands in order to fulfill the mandates derived from Kyoto 'could not be worse'. However she promised that the Spanish government will continue working with the aim of reducing the cost of that bill." This is a clear indication that at least one government has realized that Kyoto brings a severe economic cost with it, contrary to the protestations of the European Commission and Kyoto boosters around the world.
The trauma caused by two planes crashing into the Twin Towers has made us forget that al Qaeda and its associates have a maritime strategy more sophisticated than blowing up the USS Cole. Before his arrest, the man responsible for the Cole attack himself had undertaken preparation to attack shipping in the Mediterranean with a four pronged-strategy: "ramming, blowing up medium-size ships near other vessels or at ports, attacking large vessels such as supertankers from the air by using explosive laden small aircraft, and attacking vessels with underwater demolition teams using limpet mines or with suicide bombers. During his interrogation, Nashiri revealed that if warships became too difficult to approach, tourist ships could be targeted. The cruise ship industry, which in the U.S. alone carries nearly seven million passengers every year, is facing this new threat."29
Who knows? Maybe even Sarah Jessica Parker will someday come around. Even if her relatives do lose their government aid.
Poll: German Concern about Global Warming Plummets
4.7 ENSO Events Run in Synch with the Annual Seasonal Cycle
The actual data indicate that the B2-type scenario is the worst case possibility if we keep business as usual.
In fact, the actual temperature development has been slipping into the extreme lower parts of the predictions range. Then, couple that with NASAs claim of low sunspot numbers for several decades to come, and youll know what to expect in the future.
The world has experienced a number of ice ages. Those were times when large parts of the North American and Eurasian continents were covered by a thick layer of ice, mostly one to two miles high. All that ice melted and began to disappear 20,000 years ago. By about 5,000 years ago, the ice was mostly gone and, since then, we are enjoying an interglacial period. Such interglacial periods of global warming (also known as climate change) had nothing to do with changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels. If there is any credible correlation at all, it shows the rise of CO2 levels lagging the rise in temperatures by 1,000 years or so.
As with the regressivity issue, if you try to fix that with wealth transfers via the tax, you just exacerbate the economic damage, and undermine the entire enterprise.
ARKANSAS 40% of electricity; $70 million in annual payroll
Morning is incredibly cold. If I take my mittens off, my hands are instantly numb. I have to watch them as I build a fire to boil water for oatmeal and hot chocolate.
Ross Clark, Daily Express, 3 December 2010: ONE of the first tasks for the team conducting the Department for Transport?s ?urgent review? into the inability of our transport system to cope with snow and ice will be to interview the cocky public figure who assured breakfast TV viewers last month that ?I am pretty confident we will be OK? at keeping Britain moving this winter. They were uttered by Transport secretary Philip Hammond himself, who just a fortnight later is already being forced to eat humble pie If you want a laugh I recommend reading theResilience Of England?s Transport Systems In Winter, an interim report by the DfT published last July. It is shockingly complacent. Rather than look for solutions to snow-induced gridlock the authors seem intent on avoiding the issue. The Met Office assured them ?the effect of climate change is to gradually but steadily reduce the probability of severe winters in the UK?.
Calabria adds that the amendment's vague standards for what is "energy efficient" will also lead to inflated housing appraisals, which were a factor in the housing bust. And there is no need to boost appraisals for energy-efficient homes, he says, because "if indeed energy savings actually increased the value of the homes, that would be reflected in the price." Calabria concludes, "Not only does this proposal weaken FHA standards, and expose the taxpayer to greater risk, it takes us further down the path of an already politicized housing policy, where instead of relying on market prices, values are dictated by Soviet-style bureaucratic guesswork."
Oral argument in Michael Mann's libel case against Nat'l Review, Mark Steyn, and CEI, Rand Simberg postponed until June.
He also believed that humanity's impact on earth is much worse than the ice age and even a comet's hitting on the planet. Without science and carbon dioxide, ancient people could live for 40 to 50 thousands of years, but current human being cannot make it any more. You could have guessed one culprit: it's global warming (and carbon dioxide), of course, However, the other villain is science itself. Good job, Mr Fenner.
Lets start with tomatoes. A recent article in Pedosphere was produced by eight scientists from China and New Zealand. They grew tomato plants hydroponically in near ambient CO2 concentrations (near 350 ppm) and in elevated concentrations (near 800 ppm). Wang et al. reported in their abstract Compared with the control, CO2 enrichment significantly increased the dry matter of both shoot and root, the ratio of root to shoot, total root length, root surface area, root diameter, root volume, and root tip numbers, which are important for forming a strong root system. The elevated CO2 treatment also significantly improved root hair development and elongation, thus enhancing nutrient uptake. Obviously, elevated CO2 definitely makes tomato plants bigger and stronger, and we hope the First Lady is thrilled at these results.
They failed despite opening their meeting with (I kid you not) religious rites invoking the supernatural assistance of an ancient Mayan jaguar goddess.
Last week, London's Daily Express featured a story titled: "Blackout Britain: EU environmental directive puts millions at risk of power cuts"which concluded with the following: "We are facing disaster on energy prices. The dynamic has changed, but the thinking hasn't."
In reality, Utility MACT will harm the public by increasing unemployment, a well-established risk factor for elevated illness and mortality rates. In addition to influences on mental disorder, suicide and alcoholism, unemployment is also a risk factor in cardiovascular disease and overall decreases in life expectancy. Further, higher electricity bills act like a regressive tax, hurting the poor and elderly the most by diverting funds from living expenses such as food, rent and medical care to pay for more expensive electricity. To be sure, those who won't feel any of this economic pain are President Obama's Hollywood elites.
Policy makers, elected and otherwise, like to suppose the far future can be forecast with such precision that we should today engage concrete expenditures and policies to make that clear future happen sooner. Permit me to paraphrase Mark Twain's famously irreverent observation about Congressmen: Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a forecaster. But then I repeat myself.
"The environmentalists consistently claim these are pristine areas, despite that there's been fishing there for 40 years," Borden said. "Just set the boundaries deep enough so the fishing can continue."
Most of the warming took place in the northern extra-tropics at latitudes between 25N and 90N. This is consistent with the expectations one would have with the effects of greenhouse gases. However, lets take a look at the temperature series of the northern hemisphere extra-tropic region. Here we also see a pause since about the year 2000.
First, there is an amendment from Sen Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), a former real estate agent, which would loosen credit standards for "green" homes backed by taxpayers through the Federal Housing Administration. The FHA, created during Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal in 1934 to help low- and middle-income borrowers obtain housing, now benefits many affluent borrowers as well by insuring from default mortgages up to a limit of about $625,000.
The President's proposed Climate Change Technology Initiative (CCTI) would provide $2.7 billion in new R&D; spending and $3.6 billion in tax credits to promote products and technologies deemed to be climate friendly. "The CCTI is transparently intended to alter business and consumer behavior in accordance with the treaty's emission reduction objectives," said Lewis.
?cos the temperature data may have a non-temperature signal in it!
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Despite the benefits of inexpensive energy, many otherwise reasonable people say that we should continue to invest in expensive green energy in order to become more self-sufficient, clean the air, and stave off global warming.
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This trend has led some to conclude that the Sun has played a significant role in modern climate change. However, a discrepancy between two parallel series of sunspot number counts has been a contentious issue among scientists for some time.