Michaelyya/contrarian-claims huggingface dataset:
When the territorial integrity of one of its members is threatened by an attack, NATO cannot afford to lose. It would sacrifice its credibility as an alliance. . . . But in stabilization operations the existence of NATO is not threatened. Here NATO can afford to fail without losing its credibility as an alliance. . . . There are, thus, fundamental differences between collective defense credibility and stabilization credibility. To lump them together or to blur the distinction between the two, shows a lack of understanding for the very nature of such interventions. The consequences of getting stuck in hopeless operations as well as holding NATO's authority and standing hostage to fortune is doubly dangerous. The UN, the institution with the widest experience in post-conflict stabilization to date, has never made these operations a test for its credibility. NATO needs to do likewise.3
In stark contrast to the unified Democratic position, the Republican field largely defies easy classification even after significant scrutiny. John McCain, who has long endorsed carbon emission trading, continues to do so, though at a less aggressive level than the Democratic candidates. Two other RepublicansMitt Romney and Mike Huckabeehave expressed general support for the idea of capping carbon emissions, but have not spelled out any method by which they'd achieve such a cap. Rudy Giuliani might also fit into this category, as he has expressed admiration for the Arnold Schwarzenneger approach to environmental policy (which prominently features carbon emission trading) though Giuliani has focused more on conducting another space race, this time focused on developing alternative (presumably lower-carbon) forms of energy.
Indeed, Spencer's satellite data, which measures the average temperature of the lowest few miles of the atmosphere, showed no significant global warming trend for more than 21 years before an incredibly powerful El Nino warming event hit late last year.
ONE : Most of the angular momentum of the solar system is held by the giant outer planets, and their collective motions drive the Sun??s irregular orbit about the centre-of-mass of the system. Variable torque applied to the Sun (an inertial effect) is the principal driver of solar-magnetic outflow, and this modulates the incidence of cloud-inducing cosmic rays penetrating the heliosphere ??? and reaching Earth. Cosmogenic isotopes preserved in sediments, cave-deposits, and ice-cores, provide a proxy for the variable intensity of past cosmic bombardment. Solar magnetic activity has been stronger since the 1940s than for ten thousand years. The timing of changes in solar activity can be calculated from planetary motions; and this is the basis of: Theodor Landscheidt 2003, ???New Little Ice Age instead of global warming???, Energy & Environment v.14 no.2&3, pp.327-50.
Senator Menendez, Senator Corker, Members of the Committee:
Martinez et al . report that the warmed plants showed "good photochemical performance and photosynthetic adjustment under warming conditions," which led to "higher growth and biomass production than control plants," likely due to "adjustments in both the photosynthetic thermal optimum and the photosynthetic rates at the growth temperature," a combination that they say "may be a constructive adjustment," citing the supportive studies of Zhang and Dang (2013) and Way and Yamori (2014). And they also report that the S. capitata plants they studied "increased their chlorophyll content and antioxidative enzyme activity."
These findings are but another common example of an important aspect of earth's climate and how it operates: it oscillates back and forth between centennial-scale intervals of relative cold and warmth with a full-period temporal mean of approximately 1500 years (see Climate Oscillations (Millennial Variability) in our Subject Index). Viewed in this light, the development of the Current Warm Period over the past century or so is readily recognized to be nothing more than the most recent - and expected - manifestation of this natural cycling of earth's climate; and this knowledge suggests that our current relative warmth is likely not a response to the historical increase in the atmosphere's CO 2 concentration. It is a totally independent phenomenon. Reviewed 22 August 2007
This is the "scientific consensus" that wants to force the rich world into paying countless trillions of dollars, countless millions of lost jobs, unimaginable loss of modern comforts to solve a problem that can be "proven" to exist only by the use of forgeries, fraud, and lies!
Global Warming Survey Draws Skepticism, Ho-Hum Response
Nearby Rottnest Island is the site of famous studies of sea level variation over the past few thousand years, including some sea levels a few metres higher than present.
Carbon dioxide emissions fell by 13% in the past five years, because of new energy-saving technologies and a doubling in the take-up of renewable energy, the report compiled by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) for the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) said .
Darbah et al . report they recorded "an increase of 140% and 70% for 2006 and 2007, respectively, in the total number of trees that produced male flowers under elevated CO 2 and an increase of 260% in 2006 and 100% in 2007, respectively, in the quantity of male flowers produced under elevated CO 2 ." What it means
Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., reached agreement in the Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee on reauthorization of the education bill passed in 2001 as No Child Left Behind. Murray showed similar skill in reaching a bipartisan budget agreement with Paul Ryan, then House Budget Chairman, in 2013.
After 300 years of global warming, during nearly all of which we could not on any view have influenced the climate to a measurable degree, it is scarcely surprising that recent decades will be warmer than earlier decades. That is what one would expect. If one has been climbing up a steep hill for a long time, one should not be surprised to find oneself higher up at the end of the climb than at the beginning.
Risbey et al. (2014), like numerous other papers, are basically attempting to blame a shift in ENSO dominance (from a dominance of El Nio events to a dominance of La Nia events) for the recent slowdown in the warming of surface temperatures. Unlike others, they acknowledge that ENSO would also have contributed to the warming from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s, a period when El Nios dominated.
Justifying his job: Statement by Andrew Steer, Special Envoy for Climate Change, World Bank Group on new Report by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program
Kent Holsinger, a Colorado-based attorney specializing in ESA issues, told me: "As radical groups continue to push their agendas, other parts of the country are now beginning to feel the threat that westerners have long suffered. The House moved significant, but targeted, legislative measures just recently. Perhaps the Senate might follow suit?" Maybe we can encourage them.
Nature has celebrated one year of Climategate with a softy-softy smoochie-smoochie approach, accepting the most faint of excuses by Jones as if they were the final answers to any of the still-open questions about what has happened (just look at how much stuff is popping up in the Comments section of that article). I guess this is just the norm at the moment, with climate journalists indistinguishable from mindless bots , sheepish claques claiming to stand for strong democracy , and actively if unwittingly misleading their readers by providing half of the news .
Democrats are taking comfort from the fact that much of the anger and disappointment people feel is aimed at Republicans. It should be scant comfort. To be sure, a recent ABC-Washington Post poll showed Republicans at 32 percent approval and 63 percent disapproval. But Democrats are not exactly exempt from public disgust; the same survey showed only 36 percent approval for them, with 58 percent disapproval. If Democrats think they can count on the unhappiness with President Bush and the residue of repugnance with the performance in Washington when the Republicans controlled all the levers of power, they are delusional. There is clearly a broader public anger about the performance of most institutions, but especially those in Washington, and it could very, very easily turn into a broader and deeper reaction against the status quo and all incumbents.
I will be travelling to #Ukraine next week to meet with the interim Government. #cdnpoli Stephen Harper (@pmharper) March 14, 2014
Having studied Climategate it is not difficult to work out how this amazing and welcome press release actually got published instead of being censored or trivialised, as so many other inconvenient anti-AGW scientific papers and observations have been.
From Robert Kennedy to Nicholas Sarkozy, opinion makers have called for measurements of prosperity and well-being other than GDP. With increasing concerns about inequality, environmental degradation, and the financial crisis, the pressure for new measurement is growing. The Legatum Prosperity Index provides an important beginning.
note: photoshopped image above was removed after being exposed as fake. see also here and here .A real photo of polar bears. Polar bear populations up 400% .
Apparently sensing the need for a reformer with political credibility, Abbas selected Salam Fayyad as his prime minister. Fayyad is a mild-mannered academic with a doctorate in economics from the University of Texas and a career spent mostly with the World Bank, and then as the IMF's representative in Jerusalem. He has worked to reform the security structure on the West Bank during his three years in Ramallah, to work with the Israelis on the reduction of checkpoints, roadblocks, and security barriers, and to persuade the occupying power to unblock millions of dollars in tax revenues collected on goods traversing the bordersefforts that have all drawn laudable international coverage.
NASA just posted their July 2012 global temperature dataset - the hysterical global warming claims made in July don't comport with what looks more like global cooling
The German Greens advocate massive state intervention and deep interference in ourprivate lives with the aim of squashing individual liberty and independence. The Greens in Berlin, for example, aim to require all do-it-yourself home improvement projects to be subjected to state permitting. This, they say, would ensure cheap and affordable housing. Installing hardwood floors or other similar improvements only serve to make living quarters more luxurious, and thus less affordable to poorer people.
Great power conflicts often begin when a once stronger country believes it is losing its relative position to a rival. This is a more accurate description of Japan's attitude toward China than of the U.S. attitude toward China. In addition to this perceived change in power position is the emotional aspect. These two countries harbor great reservoirs of mutual resentment and hatred, which may not drive their disputes but certainly makes them worse.
Energy-efficiency standards can only be explained by special interest politics. The proposed washing-machine standard, and the process that has created many others like it, is supported by a coalition of DOE bureaucrats and federally-funded advocacy groups who make their living from the efficiency game. Ironically, the process of creating an appliance efficiency standard is itself a marvel of inefficiency, requiring 34 discrete bureaucratic steps unfolding over the span of several years. New standards for window air-conditioners and refrigerators (their third) were recently finalized and standards for fluorescent lamps, water heaters and central air-conditioners as well as clothes washers are nearing completion. This exercise keeps a lot of Washington paper pushers permanently employed.
Figure 1: Vclav Klaus in Texas two weeks ago. Members of the U.S. Congress committees led by John Dingell (Dem) and Barbara Boxer (Dem) - OK, let's admit that the particular lawmakers are GOP members, to make the sentence more diverse - have decided to ask a European leader about her or his views on the climate change, before the hearings with Al Gore tomorrow. They chose Vclav Klaus. Incidentally, DPA (the German Press Agency) has included the term " global-warming denier " into its official vocabulary. Well, many of us will have to wear it proudly until the global-warming regime collapses later this year in the Second Velvet Revolution. ;-) See Environmentalism is the new communism The full answers of Klaus to their five questions are here: Written response to the House committee members ( backup ) Czech translation Update Video of Klaus' talk at CATO
This issue is important to the ???greenhouse?? debate and arguments over the causes of ???global warming?? because the ~1976 PDO shift to more positive anomalies can be seen clearly as a warming jump in many long term temperature data. A warming jump that looks unlikely to be caused by small steady increases in the trace gas, atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Originally conceived in 2004 by WWF Australia with the help of an ad agency, Earth Hour launched in 2007 to raise awareness of the dire consequences of global warming. But a lot has happened since then. As the Earth failed to get any warmer, global warming morphed into climate change, and the Kyoto Protocol went the way of the Dodo, Earth Hour's messaging subtly started to shift. Try as I might poking around the leopards, turtles, and even Spider-Man celebrities trying to save the planet, I couldn't find the words "climate change" anywhere on the WWF's Earth Hour website. Poof gone.
Oil production at Prudhoe Bay has not harmed the caribou herd or led to significant environmental harm. Advances in oil production technology mean that pumping oil in ANWR will pose even fewer environmental risks. The legislation passed by the House and Senate limits disturbances to the ground to 2,000 acres in the 19 million acre refuge.
The standard jaded view of the effect of politics on foreign policy bemoans its
Figure 1 at their site shows winter temperatures at the Hahnenkamm station at Kitzbhel (1790 m). Clearly the trend here is dramatic cooling (7.5C per century) taking place over the last 20 years! Moreover 8 of the coldest winters occurred in the last 11 years alone.
revising the timeline rather than sticking to the agreed plan. This despite the
In this edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Phelim McAleer, writer and director of the documentary FrackNation, joins Research Fellow Isaac Orr to discuss hydraulic fracturing, Russia's role in funding anti-fracking groups in the United States and abroad, and McAleer's close encounter with Dakota Access Pipeline protesters. LISTEN TO MORE
Now, in a new report, United Nations demographers have bowed to reality and changed this standard 2.1 assumption. For the last five years they have been examining one of the most momentous trends in world history: the startling decline in fertility rates over the last several decades. In the United Nations' most recent population report, the fertility rate is assumed to be 1.85, not 2.1. This will lead, later in this century, to global population decline.
A big part of the problem is a lack of understanding of how the deltas behaviour differs from one place to another. Embankments might work to some extent to protect the capital, Dhaka; but as Polder 32 demonstrates, they do not always do their job elsewhere
Costly informationor information that is not available at any pricecan exacerbate the problem posed by thin net benefits. Continuing uncertainties about the impacts of climate change clearly discourage agreement on GHG controls. Not only do large uncertainties persist about the global costs and benefits of GHG controls; even more doubt obtains on a nation-by-nation basis. These uncertainties impede action, and they are likely to do so for as long as they remain at their currently high level. The progress of climate science may over time dispel these uncertainties, but, so far, the process has been a slow one.
He concludes: When we consider past records, recorded variability, causational processes involved and the last centurys data, our best estimate of possible future sea-level changes is +10 +/- 10cm in a century, or, maybe, even +5 +/- 15cm. See also Morner (1995); INQUA (2000).
Also on the NOAA website is a handy gadget that lets users calculate for themselves temperatures and trends over the past 115 years in the continental United States (my thanks to C3 Headlines for bringing this website to my attention). You just put in the date you want to begin, any time from 1895 on, the date you want to end, and a month or the annual average. The U.S. has the world's best climate records, so the temperatures in the U.S. will mirror, reasonably well, temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere and almost certainly the planet as well.
Also, his administration seems to disdain the thought of doing what's needed to construct the new generation of nuke plants he called for last evening. The most galling evidence is the handling of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste repository, construction of which was approved by bipartisan majorities in Congress in 2002. The Obama administration is starving the Yucca Mountain project of funding, and has hinted at sabotaging the license-application process that's already underway before the independent scientific assessors at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Legions of scientists have exhaustively studied Yucca Mountain for three decades. They overwhelmingly conclude it to be a safe, secure location to house the nation's spent nuclear fuel. There is probably no better example of a true scientific consensus on any major political issue.
Taxes paid by companies and employees will dwindle. Instead of paying taxes, newly jobless workers will collect unemployment and welfare benefits from shrinking government coffers. Charities will have much less money, even if deductions for donations remain in the U.S. tax code.
The five scientists also note that "the ocean will change over coming decades more gradually than in laboratory experiments." And, therefore, they suggest that changing ocean conditions may result in the production of more resistant invertebrate larvae, through phenotypic buffering and natural selection . In addition, they write that "acclimatization of urchins and oysters to moderately elevated p CO 2 can result in trans-life cycle enhancement of larval and juvenile tolerance of reduced pH in some species," citing the studies of Parker et al . (2012) and Dupont et al . (2014). And they similarly note that "trans-generational phenotypic resilience to increased temperature has also been shown for sea urchins," citing O'Connor and Mulley (1977) and Johnson and Babcock (1994).
Other problems with the ice cores include meltwater moving through the ice; Bacteria in the ice releasing gases even in 500,000-year-old ice at great depth; and contamination and losses during drilling and core recovery process. Jaworowsk i wrote,
This essay also illustrates that there are eminently qualified meteorologists of international stature, such as Dr. Raghavan, who are not asked to present their perspectives on climate issues. The article that he wrote, unfortunately, will not have wide dissemination. We need, however, to involve more of the climate science community of the caliber of Dr. Raghavan into the discussion of the science and policy issues, in order to assure a balanced presentation of climate science, which, has been seriously lacking up to the present.
7. What does the record of past climates show about the relationship between changes in atmospheric CO2 levels and changes in global temperature?
Convective systems are associated with surface faults and fractures that penetrate deep into the earth (1-2 miles) and tap reservoirs of super-heated water, thereby transmitting this heated water back to the surface. Their effect can melt glaciers (seeHagafellsjkull Glacier Iceland photo above), form hot springs, and induce rapid increases in continental glacial velocities.
Once again the Australian media spins normal climate variations as something caused by IPCC climate change.
Appendix:Letter to Houston Chronicle ( December 11 ) in Response to Climategate Op-Ed
Another area where Republicans could bring a positive, market-friendly agenda to the climate change debate involves adaptation, a subject treated like an unwanted step-child by Democrats and others fixated on a Kyoto-style approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
EPA's Missed Deadlines Causing Widespread Dysfunction
The 2006 average temperatures of 32.5 C in Marble bar , Australia, was the coolest annual temperature in 92 years of records, beating 33.5 C in 1978 by a whole Celsius degree and being 3 Celsius degrees below the average!
CONTIGUOUS US WINTER TEMPERATURES, 1998-2011 per NCDC
Many policy makers and environmental activists assert that the rest of the country can simply replicate California's demand-side management (DSM) programs, which consist of an assortment of subsidy programs to retrofit buildings and subsidize energy-using equipment. California supposedly shows that we can have it alla growing population and economy and lower overall energy consumption and emissions. Adopt the "California model" nationwide, they claim, and America will become so much more energy efficient that we will not need new electrical capacity for decades. This will give us time to develop a non-carbon energy system. Many states are set to follow the California model, and several key lawmakers are pushing Congress to enact similar interventions at the federal level.
UPDATE: 9:55 AM PDT 8/8/12 A graph of Palmer Drought Severity Index -vs- GISTEMP data has been added from Dr. Michaels. Looks like another GISS miss.
And an extra bonus from the "weather is not climate" department January 29, 2010 at 39.9 degrees was ten degrees below normal and the second coldest on record.
willing to act unilaterally in a targeted, get-in-and-get-out fashion, that avoids, at all costs, the kind
But for those who might argue that these data show us entering a long-term period of decline in global sea level, Willis cautions that sea level drops such as this one cannot last, and over the long-run, the trend remains solidly up. Water flows downhill, and the extra rain will eventually find its way back to the sea. When it does, global sea level will rise again.
But even Democrats reportedly chafed at some of the practical impediments to holding Gore's extravaganza on the West Lawn. An all-day concert drawing huge crowds on the grounds of the Capitol, as opposed to a three-hour symphony performance there at night, could have posed formidable security challenges for those guarding the Capitol building. Plus, in the holiday concerts, the Mall is utilized to pick up the overflow in the crowds from the West Lawn. But, in this case, of course, the Mall would be hosting its own events and would be unable to absorb as much of the overflow.
+ Corrections: High(+0:20 +1.50) Low(+0:20 -1.00)
40-50: School and doctor appointments
role in nato's Operation Unified Protector in Libya substantially reduced the cost to the U.S.
Renouncing Islam in the Sudan carries the death penalty. I don't know what the consequences are for painting over a concrete stain bearing the image of the Virgin Mary .
needs to be assessed indicates they hadnt bothered to do it by thenand likely still havent.
It is better to focus on the ever-widening discrepancy between predicted and observed warming rates. The IPCCs forthcoming Fifth Assessment Report backcasts the interval of 34 models global warming projections to 2005, since when the world should have been warming at a rate equivalent to 2.33 C/century. Instead, it has been cooling at a rate equivalent to a statistically-insignificant 0.87 C/century: