Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
The problem is that there is no technology in existence which can extract enough energy to eliminate fossil fuel usage. Biofuel is a complete joke, solar isnt ready, nuclear fission works but we cant store the energy for cars. Geothermal works but is too limited in many areas and again none of this can be stored for use in cars. The technology doesnt exist yet. Lets assume Im right on this for the purpose of this post.
But the shock that I had experienced reverberated within me for a while. Because what I had been led to believe about Chernobyl was not merely wrong-it was astonishingly wrong. Lets review the data.
What I want to treat r instead of in March, published a GWPF report A sensitive matter by Nicholas Lewis and Marcel Crok, which extensively describes and criticizes the MTT and step IPCC taken from to avoid landing on clearly lower klimatknslighetsvrden, as new results justify (.lnk). GWPF is the English foundation with Benny Peiser as frestndare, and whose scientific rd Lennert Bengtsson a short time was a member before the bullying from obedient climate scientists forced him to avg.
MOOSE: What are you? Deaf as well as stupid? I said get over here.
I wasn't aware of the arrangement but warmly welcome their decision to support my project. For that end I opened a bitcoin address: 1HHQ36qbsgGZWLPmiUjYHxQUPJ6EQXVJFS.
Bless Diane Francis and whatever God granted her the ovaries lacking in the rest of Canadian media. Even our local radio talk hosts cut callers off when they try to bring his name into the debate, citing "conspiracy theories". They must not read the Wall Street Journal.
In tonight's amusement en route to the Tips, a scene from the 1964 Austrian film "Unsere tollen Tanten in der Sdsee", German actress/singer Trude Herr , in character as the zestful Aglaia Schultz, goes to energetic lengths to ensure that no one feels completely excluded from her Hula Twist . The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
This short note was inspired by Viscount Monckton writing on 13 th June on WUWT about the leveling of global temperatures since 1997 or so, and the increasing mismatch with a number of climate models.
CRUs 2006 regional chronology has been a longstanding interest at CA and was the topic of a partly successful, partly unsuccessful FOI request. In April 2012, I was successful in obtaining a list of sites used in the unreported 2006 regional chronology. On May 6, I reported the results of my emulation as shown below:
A crazed Islamofascist with amphetamine courage pounding in his veins loads a taxi with explosives, and hurtles into a clearly marked military convoy and the arms of 72 heavily recycled virgins. Allah Akbar. The CBC reports; Translation:
Wind companies estimate the eagle rules are holding up $68 billion in investment, and they complain that they are stalled because the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has yet to finalize permit requirements.
MICHAEL C. OSBORNE: "Michael Shellenberger to climate activists: It's not the end of the world"
on Thursday, November 17th, 2011 at 1:53 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.
Last April, I put up this post about an ambitious "Corridor of Hope" web page (with logo) on the Arkansas Game and Fish site. Without explanation, that page appears to have been removed recently. Here is the Google cache for the page as of 12/12/06.
Finally, pariah status is a bogeyman. President G.W. Bush proved it's possible to oppose a UN climate treatyin his case, the Kyoto Protocoland win re-election to a second term.
What is astonishing is climate scientists' obliviousness that the exact same concerns apply to policies to ration, tax or otherwise restrict access to fossil-fuel energy.
Climate Change Skeptics are Stooges for Big Oil
> >> copy in a few weeks time when we have finished the first draft.
Spain is a particularly cautionary tale. By failing to control the cost of guaranteed subsidies, the country has been saddled with ?126bn of obligations to renewable-energy investors.
None of the data was normally distributed (Table 1), hence none-parametric regression analyses was conducted to assesses how well the relationship between difference and time can be described using a monotonic function. It follows from figure 1, that the land-based GSTA datasets compared here follow the same general trend over time; increasing positive divergence with UAH, whereas the other satellite-based GSTA dataset (RSS) shows an opposite and even stronger trend.
It should be noted that the lead author is employed by the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) and all of the 20 additional authors are either employed by them or are recipients of substantial funding from them. It is incongruous in the extreme that all these employees and repeated recipients of generous GBRMPA funding, could, declare no conflict of interest when they are in fact assessing the benefits of their own work and that of the organisation which supports them.
Climate change policy presents investment risks, opportunities
Several observers have noted the hypocrisy of tens of thousands of politicians, bureaucrats, and environmental activists traveling from all parts of the globe to the World Summit on Sustainable Development, where they will huff and puff about the evils of emitting carbon dioxide. In response, summiteers have come up with a plan to offset the carbon emissions that will result from the conference.
vociferous opposition at home. That was the situation Obama's less "arrogant" approach was designed to change as a way of increasing America's power, not reducing it.
The World Health Organization confirms a new case of human-to-human transmission of the avian flu virus.
Dr Mllers work on infrasound, the low frequency sounds emitted by wind turbines, has frequently brought him into conflict with Denmarks wind industry, with representatives accusing him of misleading the public.
Section II challenges the legal basis of AB 1493 and ARB's regulatory proposal. "Maximum feasible" greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions cannot be achieved without mandatory engineering and design modifications to increase new-car fuel economy. However, the federal Energy and Conservation Act of 1975 prohibits States from adopting laws "related to" fuel economy.
Eleven years ago, in 2004, Crater Glacier already contained more ice than before the 1980 eruption, and was growing thicker at the rate of 15feet (5meters) per year.
Figure 2. Predictions from the IPCCs First Assessment Report compared with outturn since 1990 (RSS & UAH). The world has been warming at exactly half the predicted rate, and the trend falls wholly outwith the prediction interval (orange region).
On Tuesday evening, Competitive Enterprise Institute staff live-blogged President Barack Obama's 2013 State of the Union address. Experts on immigration, communications, banking and finance, energy and the environment, labor, consumer issues and more reacted in real time to the president's remarks.
If school choice is off the table, then I would be very supportive of a program to increase starting teacher pay, funded by larger class sizes and substantial reductions in useless administrators and assistant principals. Anyway, it is kind of an interesting study, though you may find the pdf file format really irritating to try to read. Lots of funny formatting.
Distances	335 km (210 miles) WNW of Chichi-shima, Bonin Islands, Japan
Since failures in climate science claims are on the rise, can we start naming climate prediction failures after scientists and activists? I can think of a few: The Hansen Hiatus , for example.
"Protesters blockaded Marseille's airport, Lady Gaga canceled concerts in Paris and rioting youths attacked police in Lyon on Thursday ahead of a tense Senate vote on raising the retirement age."
The authors grew five aspen ( Populus tremuloides ) clones with varying tolerance to ozone for three years in 30-m diameter FACE plots located in Wisconsin, USA, receiving atmospheric CO 2 concentrations of 360 and 560 ppm with and without exposure to elevated O 3 (1.5 times ambient ozone concentration) to study the interactive effects of these parameters on this deciduous tree species.
Note: 1 Method 3, that is taking the average of the 5 individual trends results in reject/reject for the IPCC 2C/century trend. However, as I noted, that is meaningless, as the uncertainty intervals only include the variation due to measurement uncertainty and fail to properly include weather.
No scientific evidence indicates these products have caused any harm and the settlements with As You Sow provide no benefit to public health or the environment but that is irrelevant. By simply pretending otherwise, courtesy of Proposition 65, As You Sow has made junk science a reality and turned a pretty profit by doing so. Public records show that Proposition 65 reaped As You Sow $324,708 in 2004 (about 45 percent of its revenue) and $872,739 in 2003 (79 percent of its revenue).
The film even quotes one of America's founding fathers as being worried about climate change. In the late 1700s, Thomas Jefferson wrote: "A change in our climate is taking place." Then, in 1817, The President of the UK Royal Society, Joseph Banks, addressed the melting polar ice. It's doubtful that either Jefferson's or Banks' concerns were the result of fossil fuel use.
Slsar our politicians and AP funds away our pension money on green (s) dreams?
The appeal of the late Stephen Sugar against the decision of the appeal court that the BBC is exempt from FOI has been unanimously rejected by the Supreme Court . The corporation is to remain beyond scrutiny.
The farmers association said the government had failed to deliver on its election commitment to protect land and water resources by quarantining some areas from mining, saying the draft plan pulled up short on delivery.
World Resources Institute. "Keep Tropical Forests Alive," Informational Pamphlet, Undated.
Life on Earth will look dramatically different by mid-century
Some of the organizers of ?Planet under Pressure? are founding their plea on the notion that we (as humanity) have entered the ?Anthropocene?: a new geological era in which humans- not natural conditions- are the main drivers of geological and meteorological processes. Citing a website devoted to this concept, Martin Rees of the Royal Society stated at the conference:
Knutti and Tomassini (2008) : This study used initial estimates of aerosol forcing totalling 1.3 W/m in 2000, in line with AR4 but far higher than the best estimate in AR5. Although it attempted to observationally-constrain these initial estimates, the studys use of only global temperature data makes it impossible to separate properly greenhouse gas and aerosol forcing, the evolution of which are very highly (negatively) correlated at a global scale. The resulting final estimates of aerosol forcing are still significantly stronger than the AR5 estimates, biasing up TCR estimation. The use of inappropriate uniform and expert priors for ECS in the Bayesian statistical analysis further biases TCR estimation.
the very real threat of the approaching and inevitable Ice Age, which will render large parts of the Northern Hemisphere uninhabitable, is being foolishly ignored.
Note that not only was 1998 demoted, but also many other years since 1975 ??? the start of Tamino??s ???modern warming period.?? By demoting 1998, they are now able to show a continuous warming trend from 1975 to the present ??? which RSS, UAH and Had Crut do not show.
James Kelly, who directed the nuclear engineering program at the University of Virginia for many years, says that fears about uranium mining are wildly overblown. "It's an aesthetic nightmare, but otherwise safe in terms of releasing any significant radioactivity or pollution," he told me. "It would be ugly to look at, but from the perspective of any hazard I wouldn't mind if they mined across the street from me."
The committee went to great lengths to defuse the money line from the Climategate e-mails i.e., "Mike's Nature trick to hide the decline." While explaining how "trick" could merely refer to a "clever device," the committee failed to even mention "hide the decline," a phrase referring to Mann's still-unexplained deletion of temperature data contradicting the climate alarmism hypothesis.
The big stink 93.9 million years ago blame CO2
But killing the Keystone pipeline will not stop tar sands development. The Canadian government is committed to production, and if shipments to refineries on the Gulf Coast are blocked, then the heavy crude will be diverted to Asia. With world demand for oil expected to continue to grow and prices to remain lofty, tar sands production will suffer no shortage of customers for years to come.
The Sierra Club is not only lying to its members, it is lying to all of us when it says: "Getting all of the energy we need without using fossil fuels is no longer a question of whether we canbut whether we will." We can't, we shouldn't, and we won't but we must wait until Obama is no longer in office and, as early as the 2014 midterm elections, we must rid our nation of his supporters in Congress.
One paper has been published in Nature, which has been critical of our satellite intercalibration. But, Nature has just accepted for publication, our rebuttal to that article which had several serious factual errors in it. I do want to point out that the satellite measurements do have independent validation, which the surface measurements don't. The other way you can measure deep-layer temperatures is with weather balloons and there is two other weather balloon datasets for global temperatures. One from the UK Met office; Jim Angle from NOAA - and you can see that they agree with the satellite temperature trend. So why there should be a difference in trend in the deep troposphere versus the surface, we don't know its something that the global climate models, GCMs don't produce and we are still trying to understand that, but I suspect it has something to do with water. And I will get back to that in a minute.
Professor Richard Tol, a long time advocate for carbon pricing and a leading world authority on estimating the damages of global warming, estimates the probability of achieving a global agreement at a UN climate conference He said in November 2012:
Predictions that the world would run out of food and resources turned out to be wrong. In the 1970s people were told global cooling was inevitable. Now it's global warming.
DR. SPENCER: I'm sorry four-hundredths of a degree C per decade. And probably this cooling from Pinatubo is a large portion of that cooling signal. It probably wouldn't have happened otherwise. Now I also put on here, the surface temperature measurements from thermometers. There are a few groups in the world that are doing monitoring of global temperatures with thermometers. Obviously, the temperature data over the ocean isn't very good. And there's different data sets. Here's climate prediction center for the land -- they have an upward trend since 1979 of fourteen-hundredths per decade. The IPCC, which is sort of the international official temperature trend, its data set is plus .13 C per decade. And then Jim Hansen at GIS has folded in NOAA's sea service temperatures data with his data. He gets about nine-hundredths warming per decade.
The author of the \(\pi=3.0\) paper rightfully remarked that the Santa Fe conference was "notable for the breadth of opinion and the span of credibility of its speakers." But those who know the first 100 digits of \(\pi\), much like your humble correspondent does, will probably figure out that Boslough's implicit opinion that the climate skeptics were sitting at a lower end of the credibility spectrum than himself is slightly upside down: it's rotated by \(\pi\) radians relatively to the truth and be sure it's more than \(3.0\) radians.
Complementary theories as to why this calculation works have been described previously 10 . The most significant theory appears to be: Fewer sunspots; reduced solar magnetic shielding; increased galactic cosmic rays penetrating the atmosphere; increased low-level clouds; lower average cloud altitude; higher average cloud temperature; increased cloud-to-space radiation; declining AGT.
Anyhow, it did not seem to matter to Wirths office, Hansen, or the growing careerists at NCAR and NOAA; because whomever was pushing man-made global warming on the United States, were also doing it at the international level too.
The Wall Street Journal today published a selection of the leaked emails and an editorial concluding that the emails "give every appearance of testifying to concerted and coordinated efforts by leading climatologists to fit the data to their conclusions while attempting to silence and discredit their critics."
If the observed warming over the last half century can anywhere be claimed to be unusual, it would have to be where it was greatest in the Arctic. Both satellite and surface station data show a warming of about two degrees Celsius since the 1970s. But the surface station data show that warming in context. Recent warming was very similar to the previous warming from 1900 to 1940, reaching virtually the same peak.
Two years ago, climate experts told us that the mild winter in the US was proof of global warming. Now they tell us that the US and Canada aretoo small to be important.
This weekend, I sent an email to Lord Monckton to thank him for his hard work and to inquire as to his injuries. Below is his kind response which I share with the American Thinker readers:
Almost every American will be injured in a car crash during his/her lifetime.
Sandy was merely the latest "confluence" (tropical storm, northeaster and full-moon high tide) to blast the New York-New Jersey area. It was never a matter of if, but only of when, such a storm would hit.
On the face of it, the observational study TCR estimates in Figure 2 offer reasonable support to the AR5 1.02.5C range, leaving aside the Tung et al. (2008) study, which uses a method that AR5 WGI discounts as unreliable. However, I have undertaken a critical analysis of all these TCR studies, here . I find serious fault with all the studies other than Gillett et al. (2013), Otto et al. (2013) and Schwartz (2012). Examples of the faults that I find with other studies are:
One question still remains open: Why didnt Rahmstorfs science-colleagues even lift a finger when the Foster & Rahmstorf 2011 paper appeared? Did it really have to take 2 years to discover that the simplistic methodical approach was incomplete? Other than scientific reasons, could other reasons be involved here?
But denying the existence of downwelling IR radiation from the sky (which is measured continuously at many sites around the world) is, in my opinion, a losing strategy.
I??ve pointed out before that Ammann and Wahl??s submission to GRL was rejected and was only taken out of the garbage can after they got the editor replaced. (Compare the silence on this to the hysteria about Soon and Baliunas at Climate Research.) It is disquieting in the extreme that a corporation, like the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, should issue a press release announcing the submission of an article and then not announce the rejection. That would be a breach of securities laws requiring ongoing full disclosure for Canadian mining promotions, but seemingly not in climate research. It??s amazing the number of references that were immediately made to the UCAR press release to the U.S. Congress. I formally complained to Richard Anthes, President of UCAR about their handling of the Ammann press release and got a very unsatisfactory reply, but that??s another story.
After a year of humiliating setbacks, United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-Moon and about 60 of his top lieutenants the top brass of the entire U.N. system spent their Labor Day weekend at a remote Austrian Alpine retreat, discussing ways to put their sprawling organization in charge of the world's agenda.
TodayisInternational Polar Bear Day 2015and environmentalists will be marking the occasion with petitions, calls to action and alarmist claims about the threat to the very existence of these iconic animals.
June of 1933 also had a heatwave, and Hartington, Nebraska was very hot. In fact it was so hot, that high temperatures during June 1933 averaged 9.2 degrees warmer than June 2012 .
July 14-16, Seattle. NOAA co-hosting with Univ. of Washington
Climate is driven by the sun, as a recent NASA study has confirmed. Now the suns about to enter an extended period of cooling, of that the experts have little doubt.
Politico's Morning Energy reports on the subpoena sent to CEI by an attorney general in an attempt to silence the debate on climate change.
Of course my high opinion of Monckton is well known.
???There have now been several major ice core surveys, and everyone of them says the same thing. CO2 clearly does not cause temperature changes, it follows temperature changes.??
The claim comes in three flavors, overlapping and intentionally muddled to prevent teasing apart fact from propaganda. First there's the claim that climate change is worsening air quality and leading to problems like asthma. Thus, the president speaks of "doctors and nurses and parents who see patients and kids grappling with the health impacts."
Global cooling started 2 million years ago write that down!
First of all, nearly all crop plants grow bigger and better - and produce greater yields - when exposed to higher-than-current atmospheric CO2 concentrations; and they use water more efficiently in doing so. The former of these facts can readily be verified by a perusal of the data we have archived within the Plant Growth Database of our website, while the latter phenomenon is profusely illustrated in the collection of Journal Reviews of papers demonstrating this fact that we have archived under the heading of Water Use Efficiency (Agricultural Species) in our Subject Index.
As for UK winters, the sort of drop envisaged would return temperatures to the bitter winters of the 1960s, the coldest period since the 19thC. It is inevitable that spring temperatures will also be similarly affected, with a disastrous impact on the length of the growing season.
What both of these views have in common is the belief that any statement can be given a precise, quantifiable probability. Frequentism does so by assuming that there always exists a class of eventswhich is to say, hard datato which you can compare the A before you. Subjective Bayesianism, as we have seen, can always pull probabilities for any A out of thin air. In every conceivable field, journal articles using these techniques multiply. It doesnt help that the many times probability estimates are offered in learned publications, they are written in dense mathematical script. Anything that looks so complicated must be right!
Since the petition was made public in April, the climate treatys backers have been in damage-control mode. The lawyer-filled Union of Concerned Scientists branded the petition as a deliberate attempt to deceive the scientific community with misinformation. The New York Times and St. Louis Post-Dispatch have published stories and editorials attacking Seitz and other petition signers.
The Obama administration has a new environment and energy policy advisor Nathaniel Keohane. Keohane was the chief economist at the Environmental Defence Fund, so its like asking the fox to mind the henhouse. Or business as usual under Obama, if you prefer.
"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."
"The coming year will be an important one for space weather as the Sun pulls out of a trough of low activity and heads into a long-awaited and possibly destructive period of turbulence."
German Utility blames renewables for2.7bn loss